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LADY KATE NOTES WHERE THE PAPERS ARE KEPT
host light the baronet up the winding, niched stairway; then Kate's eyes brimmed with sudden tears. ' ' It is not easy — being a highwayman, ' ' she said.
Thru the night Kate lay on the bed freely clad in her man's garb and watched the candle throw weird shadows on the walls and rafters. The Lord Chief Justice would be there, in his gruesome black cap ; her father, dear, tired, defeated ; James II, menacing, tyrannical; Harry Richmond, winsome, genial, somehow lovable.
And on the morrow, before the night had quite given way, Kate crept past Sir Harry's door, encouraged by the sleep signals unmistakable to the ear, and out to the stables where his horse and accoutrements were awaiting him. The hostler was sleeping, also unmistakably, and Kate crept past him with her woman's quiet. She slipped the pistol from the holster marked H. R. and disencumbered it of its bullets; then swiftly slipped from the stable again, closing the heavy door. She drew a deep, exultant breath, then rapped smartly with her gauntleted hand. The hostler, sleep-dazed, yawning, pro
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verbially solicitous, appeared to view, and Master Carthew nodded goodmorrow briskly and unconcernedly.
"My horse," he commanded, "and say to Sir Harry Richmond that Master Carthew was restless and could sleep but ill, and will ride slowly on." The coin slipped against the paved court, and the straight, comely youth passed out onto the open road. For anything less than a warrant for her father's life Lady Kate would have followed her woman's will and turned her steed toward Clanronald Castle, but one cannot own a heart when a life is on the turn, and tender lips and wooing eyes have no place in the stifling of a death-warrant. The sun was spilling over the rim of the world's edge when Kate guided her horse behind a segregated clump of trees and waited the passing horseman. He came down the road briskly, head flung back, face lifted to the sun, and he did not flinch when Master Carthew emerged from the roadside and fronted him with his pistol. It was over in an instant. The first impact gave Kate a glancing cut on her