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such as you are born to do great things i could no more speak and look like you than i could fly like an eagle if so be and it so being that you must speak to the king you have no more to do than to speak and look at the governor just as you do to me to turn him round your finger that is just what i hope and think uncle therefore to morrow if it please you i will go to him myself and meanwhile i will strengthen myself by much prayer a girl who gets to her knees as often as you do said her uncle cannot but prosper accordingly they both set off for the next morning and as they approached the town they could hear the ringing ah said joyfully what cheerful a noble purpose sounds they seem to welcome me i always so love the sound of bells if the door keeper had not been a friend of s it is likely he might not have admitted them as it was however their names were carried in to de just as he was the king s condition to a noble gentleman named de and lightly observing what a ridiculous visit he had received the previous day from a who had come several miles to tell him of a girl who could save france as i live here he is again exclaimed de � and with the girl in his hand let us hear what she has to say by all means said de and and his niece were shown in s apparel was neat and clean but extremely humble she still wore the red which was beginning to be rather nobly won and a coarse red hood and cape of her mother s covered her head and shoulders because of the of the season de resting both hands on the of his sword and sitting a little behind the governor never once took his eyes off her so said de looking at her you are the girl that is to save france step forward did so and so did now then let s hear all about it my lord � interposed silence fellow said de you had your say yesterday fall back a little if you speak again without being spoken to i shall desire you to withdraw s colour heightened a little but she remained calm and silent now then said de fixing his eyes on her a � a noble purpose beau said she steadily i am a young girl of i come to you in the name of the lord to tell you that the is to take heart and hold out for that by mid lent he shall certainly be delivered the kingdom is not his but the lord s and it is the lord s pleasure that he should hold it for him she crossed her arms on her bosom and ceased � said de with a little after a short silence that is your message is it is there any more the will surely be crowned and i shall see him at � ho pretty well i think aside to de who replied neither by word look nor smile then turning again to � who gave you this message her eyes sank a little and she said faltering nobly won it l n way � the michael hum that s fine � any else there were two fair ladies with him oh indeed what were these fair ladies like they were like � like fair ladies ha just so they stood upon the ground i suppose like other fair ladies or were they up in the clouds did they frighten you do you mean the first time aye j de ce � ha so i should think did you tell the priest � no nor your parents � yes � what did they say of it they held me in great a noble purpose ho � i think they showed their sense what is your employment i keep sheep and in the winter when the sheep are i spin how old are you eighteen speak up look me in the face she did you think yourself a modest girl � sir will you not let me help the king as these simple words burst from her lips de gave a great sigh and shifted his position though he continued to look intently at her the expression of his face entirely changed instead of merely curiosity and it sympathy respect and affection it was quite otherwise with de however nobly won i think said he throwing himself back in his chair this is as a piece of nonsense as ever i heard you have been dreaming over your sheep and your spinning it bears much less the impress of a saint than of the devil why did not you tell your cure of it at the time go go you are an idle girl if not a bad one beau � began silence i say i will hear no more nonsense leave me took her reluctant hand and led her away dreadfully alarmed at the governor s displeasure oh said he as soon as they were in the street did not i tell you it would never do see how terrible is a great man s frown be at ease uncle said calmly his frown cannot hurt us rough words io a noble purpose break no bones and though he may seem a great man to us may be he is a very little one in the eyes of the king i am no ways and fear him less now i have seen him than i did before i shall go to him again to morrow to morrow aye and day by day till i gain my will of him child child this is mere madness how am i to come here with thee day after day

bare of him when he was alive in land as that ho couldn t and shouldn t leave it known and put them in danger p it s them thai writes fifty hands and that s not like you m writes but one ware and the gallows he the candle at me again smoking my face and hair and for an instant blinding me and his powerful back as he replaced the light on the table i had thought a prayer and had been with joe and and before he turned towards there was a dear a pi t ble and the opposite wall within space he now backwards and forwards hie great strength to sit upon hint than ever before as did this with his hands hanging loose and heavy at a sides and with bis eyes at me i had no of hope left wild as my inward hurry was and the force of the pictures that rushed by me stead of thoughts i could yet cl early understand that he had resolved that i was within a few moments surely out of all human knowledge he never have told me what he had told of a sudden he stopped took the cork out of his and tossed it away light as it was i heard fall like a he swallowed slowly i the bottle by little and little and now he looked at no e the last few drops of liquor he poured to the palm of his hand and licked up then with sudden hurry of violence and swearing horribly threw the bottle from him and stooped and i w in his hand a stone with a long heavy the resolution i had made did not desert me for uttering one vain word of appeal to him i out with all my might and with all r might it was only ray head and my legs that i aid move but to that i struggled with all tho ce until then unknown that was me in i same instant i d shouts saw figures i a gleam of light dash in at the door heard voices tumult and saw from a struggle of in as if it were tumbling water clear the table ot ji and by oat into the after a blank i found that i was lying on tlie floor in the same place witli my bead on i one s knee my were the ladder ag the w� ll when i came to myself � had opened a before my mind saw it � and thus aa i consciousness i knew that i was in the ea had lost it too at first to look a certain who supported me i was lying looking at ladder when there came between me and it a i the face of s boy i think he s all right said s boy voice but ain t he just pale though at these words the face of him who looked over into mine and i saw my to be � good said gently be too eager and our old comrade i cried as ha bent over me what he is going to assist c and be calm the allusion made me spring up though i again from the pain in my arm the time h gone by has iti what flight is ta i how long have i been here for i had a b and strong that i had been the long time � a day and night � two days and n the time has not gone by it is still r v nd you have all to morrow tuesday to rest said but you t help groaning my ear what hurt have you got can you stand said i i can walk i have do hurt in this throbbing arm tliey laid it bare and did what they could it wits violently swollen and and scarcely endure to have it touched but they tore up their hand to make and carefully replaced it in the until we could get to the town and ob wn some to put it in a little we had shut the door of the dark and empty and were passing through the on our way back s boy � s overgrown young man now � went before us with a lantern was the light i had seen come in at the door but the moon a good two hours higher than when i had last seen the sky and the night though rainy waa lighter the white of the passing from us as we went by and as i had thought a prayer before i thought a now to tell me how he had come to my rescue � � which at first he had refused to do but had insisted on my remaining quiet � � � i learnt tliat i had in my hurry dropped the letter open in our chambers where be coming home to bring with bim whom he had met in the street on his way to me found it very soon after i was gone its made him and the move so a� a a ij g between it and ive w � great expectations i for him his uneasiness instead of m after a quarter of an hour s consideration he set i i after a quarter of an s consideration he set the coach office with who volunteered company to make inquiry when the next down finding that the afternoon s coach and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive ai as obstacles came in his way he resolved to follow i k post chaise so he and arrived at the fully there to find me or tidings l me but finding neither went on to miss where tbey lost me they went back to ti hotel doubtless at about the time when i was the local version of my own

in which the embers of a feeling kindled for the moment i descended � as i might have known i should but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship � into a doll a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour to be dropped and taken up and with as the humour took him when he grew weary i grew weary as his fancy died out would no more have tried to strengthen any power i had than i would have married him on his being forced to take me for his wife we fell away from one another without a word perhaps you saw it and were not sorry since then i have been a mere piece of furniture between you both having no eyes no ears no feelings no moan moan for what you made him not for your love i tell you that the time was when i loved him better than you ever did she stood with her bright angry eyes the wide stare and the set face and softened no more when the moaning was repeated than if the face had been a picture miss said i if you can be so as not to feel for this afflicted mother who feels for me she sharply retorted she has sown this let her moan for the harvest that she to day and if his faults i began faults she cried bursting into passionate tears who dares him he had a soul worth millions of the friends to whom he stooped no one can have loved him better no one can hold him in dearer remembrance than i i replied i meant to say if you have no compassion for his mother or if his faults � you have been bitter on them it s false she cried tearing her black hair i loved him � cannot i went on be banished from your remembrance in such an hour look at that figure even as one you have never seen before and render it some help all this time the figure was unchanged and looked motionless rigid staring moaning in the same dumb way from time to time with the same helpless motion of the head but giving no other sign of life miss suddenly down before it and began to the dress a curse upon you she said looking round at me with a mingled expression of rage and grief it was in an evil hour that you ever came here a curse upon you go after passing out of the room i hurried back to ring the bell the sooner to alarm the servants she had then taken the figure in her arms and still upon her knees was weeping over it kissing it calling to of david it rocking it to and fro upon her bosom like a child and trying every tender means to rouse the senses no longer afraid of leaving her i noiselessly turned back again and alarmed the house as i went out later in the day i returned and we laid him in his mother s room she was just the same they told me miss never left her doctors were in attendance many things had been tried but she lay like a statue except for the low sound now and then i went through the dreary house and darkened the windows the windows of the chamber where he lay i darkened last i lifted up the leaden hand and held it to my heart and all the world seemed death and silence broken only by his mother s moaning chapter the one thing more i had to do before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions it was to conceal what had occurred from those who were going away and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance in this no time was to be lost i took mr aside that same night and confided to him the task of standing between mr and intelligence of the late catastrophe he undertook to do so and to any newspaper through which it might without such precautions reach him if it to him sir said mr striking himself on the breast it shall first pass through this body mr i must observe in his of himself to a new state of society had acquired a bold air not absolutely lawless but and prompt one might have supposed him a child of the wilderness long accustomed to live out of the of and about to return to his native he had provided himself among other things with a complete suit of oil skin and a straw hat with a very low crown pitched or on the outside in this rough clothing with a common s under his arm and a shrewd trick of casting up his eye at the sky as looking out for dirty weather he was far more after his manner than mr his whole family if i may so express it were cleared for action i found mrs in the and most of made fast under the chin and in a shawl which tied her up as i had been tied up when my aunt first received me like a bundle and was secured behind at the waist in a strong knot miss i found made snug for stormy weather in the same manner with nothing superfluous about her master was hardly visible in a the personal history and experience shirt and the suit of i ever saw and the children were done up like preserved in both mr and his eldest son wore their sleeves loosely turned back at the wrists as being ready to lend a hand in any direction and to tumble up or sing out � heave � on the shortest notice thus and i found them at nightfall assembled on the wooden steps at that time known as stairs watching the departure of a boat with some of

stopped and stood facing his house and so standing continued his talk we went three nights in succession it was plain that there was a charm about the performance that was apart from the mere interest which to it was presently that this charm lay in the s sincerity he was not lying he believed what he was saying to him his statements were facts and whenever he enlarged a statement the became a fact too he put his heart into his extravagant narrative just as a poet puts his heart into a heroic fiction and his earnestness criticism � it as far as he himself was concerned nobody believed his narrative but all believed that he believed it he made his without flourish without emphasis and so casually that often one failed to notice that a change had been made he spoke recollections of of arc of the governor of the first eight simply as the governor of he spoke of him the second night as his uncle the governor of the third night he was his father he did not seem to know that he was making these extraordinary changes they dropped from his lips in a quite natural and way by his first night s the governor merely attached him to the maid s military escort in a general and way the second night his uncle the governor sent him with the maid as lieutenant of her rear guard the third night his father the governor put the whole maid and all in his especial charge the first night the governor spoke of him as a youth without name or but destined to achieve both the second night his uncle the governor spoke of him as the latest and of the and noblest of the twelve of the third night he spoke of him as the of the whole dozen in three nights he promoted the count of from a acquaintance to and then brother in law at the king s audience everything grew in the same way first the four silver trumpets were twelve then thirty five finally ninety six and by that time he had thrown in so many drums and that he had to the hall from five hundred feet to nine hundred to accommodate them under his hand the people present multiplied in the same large way the first two nights he contented himself with mark twain merely describing and the chief incident of the audience but the third night he added illustration to description he the in his own high chair to represent the sham king then he told how the court watched the maid with intense interest and suppressed merriment expecting to see her by the deception and get herself swept permanently out of credit by the storm of scornful laughter which would follow he worked this scene up till he got his house in a burning fever of excitement and anticipation then came his climax turning to the he said but mark you what she did she gazed upon that sham s villain face as i now gaze upon yours � this being her noble and simple attitude just as i stand now � then turned she � thus � to me and stretching her arm out � so � and pointing with her finger she said in that firm calm tone which she was used to use in directing the conduct of a battle pluck me this false from the throne i forward as i do now took him by the collar and lifted him out and held him aloft � thus � as if he had been but a child the house rose shouting stamping and with their and went fairly mad over this magnificent exhibition of and there was not the shadow of a laugh though the spectacle of the limp but proud hanging there in the air like a held by the of its neck was a thing that had nothing of solemnity about it then i set him down upon his feet � thus � being minded to get him by a better hold and heave him is recollections op op arc out of the window but she bid me forbear so by that r he escaped with his life then she turned her about and viewed the throng with those eyes of hers which are the dear shining windows whence her immortal wisdom out upon the world its and coming at the of truth that is hid within them and presently they fell upon a young man modestly clothed and him she proclaimed for what he truly was saying i am thy servant � thou art the king then all were astonished and a great shout went up the whole six thousand joining in it so that the walls rocked with the volume and the tumult of it he made a fine and picturesque thing of the march out from the audience the glories of it to the last limit of the then he took from his finger and held up a brass nut from a bolt head which the head at the castle had given him that morning and made his conclusion � thus then the king dismissed the maid most graciously � as indeed was her desert � and turning to me said take tliis ring son of the and command me with it in day of need and look you said he touching my temple preserve this brain has use for it and look well to its also for i foresee that it will be with a one day i took the ring and knelt and his hand saying where glory calls there will i be found where danger and death are that is my native air when france and the throne need help � well i say s mark twain ing for i am not of the talking sort � let my deeds speak for me it is all i

by congenial souls till their health is and their spirits broken by discontent how then can the great art of pleasing be such a necessary study it is only useful to a mistress the wife and serious mother should only consider her power to please as the polish of her virtues and the affection of her husband as one of the comforts that render her task less difficult and her life happier but whether she be loved or neglected her first wish should be to make herself respectable and not to rely for all her happiness on a being subject to like with herself the worthy dr fell into a similar error i respect his heart but entirely of his celebrated to his daughters he them to cultivate a fondness for dress because a fondness for dress he is natural to them i am unable to comprehend what either he or mean when they frequently use this indefinite term if they told us that in a pre state the soul was fond of dress and brought this inclination with it into a new body i should listen to them with a half smile as i often do when i hear a about innate elegance but if he only meant to say that the exercise of the faculties will produce this fondness i deny it it is not natural but arises like false ambition in men from a love of power dr goes much further he actually and an innocent girl to give the lie to her feelings and not dance with spirit when of heart would make her feet eloquent without making her gestures in the name of truth and common sense why should not one by mary woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another or in other words that she has a sound constitution and why to damp innocent vivacity is she darkly to be told that men will draw conclusions which she little thinks of let the draw what he pleases but i hope that no sensible mother will restrain the natural frankness of youth by such out of the abundance of the heart the mouth and a wiser than solomon hath said that the heart should be made clean and not trivial ceremonies observed which it is not very difficult to with scrupulous when vice in the heart women ought to endeavor to their heart but can they do so when their make them entirely dependent on their senses for employment and amusement when no noble pursuit sets them above the little of the day or them to the wild emotions that a reed over which every passing breeze has power to gain the affections of a virtuous man is affection necessary nature has given woman a weaker frame than man but to her husband s must a wife who by the exercise of her mind and body whilst she was the duties of a daughter wife and mother has allowed her constitution to retain its natural strength and her nerves a healthy tone � is she i say to condescend to u e art and a sickly delicacy in order to secure her husband s affection weakness may excite tenderness and gratify the pride of man but the caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that for and deserves to be respected fondness is a poor substitute for friendship in a i grant that all these arts are necessary the must have his or he will sink into but have women so little ambition as to be satisfied with such a condition can they dream life away in the lap of pleasure or the languor of weariness rather than assert their claim to pursue reasonable pleasures and render themselves conspicuous by the virtues which mankind surely she has not an immortal soul who can life away merely employed to adorn her person that she may amuse the languid hours and soften the cares of a fellow creature who is willing to be by her smiles and tricks when the serious business of life is over by x x mary besides the woman who her body and exercises her mind will by managing her family and various virtues become the friend and not the humble dependent of her husband and if she by possessing such substantial qualities merit his regard she will not find it necessary to conceal her affection nor to pretend to an unnatural coldness of constitution to excite her husband s passions in fact if we to history we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex nature � or to speak with strict propriety god � has made all things right but man has sought him out many inventions to mar the work i now allude to that part of dr s where he a wife never to let her husband know the extent of her sensibility or affection precaution and as ineffectual as absurd love from its very nature must be to seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher s stone or the grand and the discovery would be equally useless or rather to mankind the most holy band of society is friendship it has been well said by a shrewd that rare as true love is true friendship is still by i i george edward a volume of verse entitled the north shore watch and other poems was printed in for private circulation it was recognized by those who chanced to see it as work of exceptional merit the which named the book was felt to be one of the most artistic and beautiful composed by an american the high spiritual quality of the song was as marked as its dignity of and depth of feeling there were noble in the little collection � the two on for example

board at my house and so i would tell him if i could see him it is not fit that he should be living about at his own charge now at lodging and s heart thanked her for such kindness towards edward though she could not forbear smiling at the form of it if he would only have done as well by himself said john as all his friends were disposed to do by him he might now haye been in his proper situation and have wanted for nothing but as it is it must be out of any body s power to assist him and there is one thing more preparing against him which must be worse than all q and � his mother has with a very kind d spirit to settle t estate upon robert immediately whidi might have been edward s on proper conditions i left her this morning with her lawyer talking over the business well said mrs that is ha revenge body has a way of own but i don t think mine would be to make one son independent because another had me got up and walked about the room can any thing be more to the spirit of a man continued john than to see his younger brother in possession of an estate which might have been his own t poor edward i i feel for him sincerely a few minutes more spent in the same kind of concluded his visit and with repeated assurances to his sisters that he really believed there was no material danger in s and that they need not therefore be very uneasy about it he went away leaving the three ladies unanimous in their sentiments on die present occasion as at least as it regarded mrs s conduct the and edward s s indignation burst forth as soon as he quitted the room and as her vehemence made reserve impossible in and unnecessary in mrs they all joined in a very spirited upon the party chapter mrs was very warm in her praise of edward s conduct but only and understood its true merit only knew how little he had had to tempt him to be and how small was the consolation beyond the consciousness of doing right that could remain to him in the loss of friends and fortune in his integrity and forgave all his in compassion for his punishment but though confidence between them was by this public discovery restored to its proper state it was not a subject on which either of them were fond of jt sense and dwelling when alone avoided it upon principle as tending to fix still more upon her thoughts by the too too positive assurances of that belief of s continued affection for herself which she rather wished to do away and s courage soon failed her in to converse upon a topic which always left her more dissatisfied with herself than ever by the comparison it necessarily produced between s conduct and her own she felt all the force of that comparison but not as her sister had hoped to urge her to exertion now she felt it with all the pain of continual self reproach regretted most bitterly that she had never exerted herself before but it brought only the torture of without the hope of her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible and therefore it only her more nothing new was heard by them for a day or two afterwards of in street or s buildings but though so much of the matter was known to them already that mrs might have had enough to do in spreading that knowledge without seeking after more she had resolved from the first to pay a visit of comfort and to her cousins as soon as she could and nothing but the of more visitors than usual had prevented her going to them within that time the third day succeeding their knowledge of the particulars was so fine so a sunday as to draw many to gardens though it was only the second week in march mrs and were of the number but who knew that the were again in town and had a constant dread of meeting them chose rather to stay at home than venture into so public a place an intimate acquaintance of mrs joined them soon after they entered the gardens and was not sorry that by her continuing with them and engaging all mrs s conversation she was herself left to quiet reflection she saw nothing of the rs nothing of edward and for some time nothing of any body who could by any chance whether grave or gay be interesting to her q t saw and but at last she found with some by miss who though looking rather shy e great mi in meeting them and on receiving encouragement from the particular kindness of mrs left her own party for a short time to join theirs mrs immediately whispered to � get it all out of her my dear she wiu tell you any thing if you ask you see i cannot leave mrs it was lucky however for mrs s curiosity and s too that she would tell any thing without being asked for nothing would otherwise have been learnt u am so glad to meet you said miss taking her by the arm � wanted to see you of all things in the world and then lowering her voice i suppose mrs has heard all about it not at all i believe with you that is a good thing and lady is i cannot po e it possible that she should i am monstrous of it good gracious i have had such a time of it i never saw in such a rage in my life she vowed at first she would never trim me up a new bonnet nor do

rising ground to the right he reached a ridge whereon a large and thick grew beyond this for some distance the wood was more open and the course which must pursue to reach the point if he came to night was visible a long way forward for some time there was no sign of him or of anybody then there shaped itself a spot out of the dim mid distance between the masses of on either hand and it enlarged and tim could hear the brushing of feet over the of sour grass the airy gait revealed even before his exact outline could be seen tim turned about and ran down the opposite side of the hill till he was again at the head of his own garden it was the work of a few moments to drag out the man trap very gently � that the plate might not be disturbed sufficiently to throw it � to a space between a pair of young oaks which rooted in grew apart upward forming a v shaped opening between and being backed up by bushes left this as the only course for a foot passenger in it he laid the trap with the same gentleness of handling locked the chain round one of the trees and finally slid back the guard which was placed to keep the gin from accidentally catching the arms of him who set it or to use the local and better word toiled it having completed these arrangements tim sprang through the adjoining hedge of his father s garden ran down the path and softly entered the the obedient to his order sake had gone to bed and aa soon aa he had bolted the door tim and licked off his boots at the foot of the stairs and retired likewise without lighting a candle his object seemed to be to as soon as possible before however he had completed the operation a long cry without � penetrating bat indescribable what s said sake starting ap in bed sounds as if somebody had caught a hare in his gin oh no said she it was not a hare louder do ee get to sleep said tim how be you going to wake at half past three she lay down and was tim stealthily opened the window and listened above the low produced by the of the various species of trees around the premises he could hear the of a chain from the spot whereon he had set the man trap but further human sound there was none tim was puzzled in the haste of his project he had not calculated upon a cry but if one why not more he soon ceased to essay an answer for was dead to him already in a dozen hours he would be out of its for life on his way to the he closed the window and lay down the hour which had brought these movements of tim to birth had been elsewhere awaiting in her father s house the minute of her appointment with her husband grace on many things should she inform her father before going out that the of herself and was not so complete as he had imagined and deemed desirable for her happiness if she did so she must in some measure become the of her husband and she was not prepared to go so far as for him he kept her in a mood of considerate gravity he certainly had changed he had at his worst times always been gentle in his manner towards her could it be that she might make of him a true and worthy husband yet she had married him there was no getting over that and th� ought she any longer to keep him at a distance his deference to her whim on the question of his and when as her lawful husband he might show a little independence was a trait in his character as unexpected as it was engaging if she had been his and he her he could not have exhibited a more sensitive care to avoid upon her against her will impelled by a remembrance she took down a prayer book j and turned to the marriage service reading it slowly through she became quite appalled at her recent off handed ness when she what awfully solemn she had made him at those steps not so very ago she became lost in long on how far a person s conscience might be bound by vows made without at the time a full recognition of their force that particular sentence beginning whom god hath joined together was a for a of strong sentiment be wondered whether god really did join them before she had done the time of her engagement drew near and she went out of the house almost at the moment that tim retired to his own the position of things at that critical juncture was briefly as follows two hundred yards to the right of the upper end of s garden was still advancing having now nearly reached the summit of the wood clothed ridge the path being the actual one which further on passed between the two young oaks thus far it was according to tim s conjecture but about two hundred yards to the left or rather less was arising a condition which he had not divined the of grace as from the upper corner of her father s garden with the view of meeting tim s intended victim between husband and wife was the trap silent open ready s walk that night had been cheerful for he was convinced that the slow and gentle method he had adopted was promising success the very restraint that he was obliged to exercise upon himself so as not to kill the delicate bud of returning confidence fed his flame he walked the so more rapidly than grace that if they continued ad �

for me to guard this as with religious care it was all that i had left myself and it was a treasure if i once shook the foundations of the sacred confidence and usage in virtue of which it was given to me it was lost and could never be recovered i set this steadily before myself the better i loved her the more it me never to forget it i walked through the streets and once more seeing my old adversary the butcher � now a with his staff hanging up in the shop � went down to look at the place where i had fought him and there the personal history and experience on miss shepherd and the eldest miss and all the idle loves and and of that time nothing seemed to have survived that time but and she ever a star above me was brighter and higher when i returned mr had come home from a garden he had a couple of miles or so out of the town where he now employed himself almost every day i found him as my aunt had described him we sat down to dinner with some half dozen little girls and he seemed but the shadow of his handsome picture on the wall the tranquillity and peace belonging of old to that quiet ground in my memory pervaded it again when dinner was done mr taking no wine and i desiring none we went up stairs where and her little charges sang and played and worked after tea the children left us and we three sat together talking of the by gone days my part in them said mr shaking his white head has much matter for regret � for deep regret and deep you well know but i would not it if it w ere in my power i could readily believe that looking at the face beside him i should with it he pursued such patience and devotion such fidelity such a child s love as i must not forget no even to forget myself i understand you sir i softly said i hold it � i have always held it � in veneration but no one knows not even you he returned how much she has done how much she has undergone how hard she has dear she had put her hand on his arm to stop him and was very very pale well well he said with a sigh as i then saw some trial she had borne or was yet to bear in with what my aunt had told me well i have never told you of her mother has any one never sir it s not much � though it was much to er she married me in opposition to her father s wish and he her she prayed him to forgive her before my came into this world he was a very hard man and her mother had long been dead he her he broke her heart leaned upon his shoulder and stole her arm about his neck she had an aft and gentle heart he said and it was broken i knew its tender nature very well no one could if i did not she loved me dearly but was never happy she was always laboring in secret under this distress and being delicate and downcast at the time of his last � for it was not the first by many � away and died she left me two weeks old and the grey hair that you recollect me with when you first came he kissed on her cheek my love for my dear child was a love but my mind was all then i say no more of that i am not speaking of myself but of her mother and of her if i give you any clue to what i am or to what i have been you will it i know what of david is i need not say i have always read of her poor mother s story in her character and so i tell it you to night when we three are again together after such great changes i have told it all his bowed head and her angel face and filial duty derived a more pathetic meaning from it than they had had before if i had wanted anything by which to mark this night of our i should have found it in this rose up from her father s side before long and going softly to her piano played some of the old airs to which we had often listened in that place have you any intention of going away again asked me as i was standing by what does my sister say to that i hope not then i have no such intention i think you ought not trot wood since you ask me she said mildly your growing reputation and success your power of doing good and if could spare my brother with her eyes upon me perhaps the time could not what i am you have made me you should know best made you yes my dear girl i said bending over her i tried to tell you when we met to day something that has been in my thoughts since died you remember when you came down to me in our little room � pointing upward oh she returned her eyes filled with tears so loving so confiding and so young can i ever forget as you were then my sister i have often thought since you have ever been to me ever pointing upward ever leading me to something better ever directing me to higher things she only shook her head through her tears i saw the same sad quiet smile and i am so grateful to you for it so bound to you that there is no name for the affection of my heart i want you to

in such a driving the to which he attached himself turned over and over in the and and it was only by holding on at times and waiting and at other times shifting his rapidly that he was able to get his head and s to the surface at intervals sufficiently near together to keep the breath in them but the air was mostly water the house of what with flying spray and rain that poured along at right angles to the perpendicular it was ten miles across the to the farther ring of sand here tossing m tree trunks of and of houses killed nine out of ten of the miserable beings who survived the passage of the half drowned exhausted they were hurled into this mad mortar of the elements and battered into flesh but was fortunate his chance was the one in ten it fell to him by the of fate he emerged upon the sand bleeding from a score of wounds s left arm was broken the fingers of her right hand were crushed and cheek and forehead were laid open to the bone he clutched a tree that yet stood and clung on holding the girl and sobbing for air while the waters of the washed by knee high and at times waist high at three in the morning the the house of of the broke by five no more than a stiff breeze was blowing and by six it was dead calm and the sun was shining the sea had gone down on the yet restless edge of the saw the broken bodies of those that had failed in the landing undoubtedly and were among them he went along the beach examining them and came upon his wife lying half in and half out of the water he sat down and wept making harsh animal noises after the manner of primitive grief then she stirred uneasily and groaned he looked more closely not only was she alive but she was she was merely sleeping hers also had been the one chance in ten of the twelve hundred alive the night before but three hundred remained the missionary and a made the the was with not a house nor a hut was standing in the whole not two stones remained one upon another one in fifty the house of of the palms still stood and they were while on not one of them remained a single nut there was no fresh water the shallow wells that caught the surface of the rain were filled with salt out of the a few soaked bags of flour were recovered the cut the hearts out of the fallen trees and ate them here and there they crawled into tiny made by out the sand and covering over with fragments of metal the missionary made a crude still but he could not water for three hundred persons by the end of the second day taking a bath in the discovered that his thirst was somewhat relieved he cried out the news and thereupon three hundred men women and children could have been seen standing up to their necks in the and trying to drink water in through their skins their dead floated about them or were stepped upon where they still lay upon the bottom on the third day the people the house of buried their dead and sat down to wait for the rescue in the meantime torn from her family by the had been swept away on an adventure of her own to a rough plank that wounded and bruised her and that filled her body with she was thrown clear over the and carried away to sea here under the amazing of mountains of water she lost her plank she was an old woman nearly sixty but she was and she had never been out of sight of the sea in her life swimming in the darkness fighting for air she was struck a heavy blow on the shoulder by a on the instant her plan was formed and she seized the nut in the next hour she captured seven more tied together they formed a that preserved her life while at the same time it threatened to pound her to a she was a fat woman and she bruised easily but she had had experience the house of of and while she prayed to her god for protection from she waited for the wind to break but at three o clock she was in such a stupor that she did not know nor did she know at six o clock when the dead calm settled down she was shocked into consciousness when she was thrown upon the sand she dug in with raw and bleeding hands and feet and against the until she was beyond the reach of the waves she knew where she was this land could be no other than the tiny of it had no no one lived upon it was fifteen miles away she could not see but she knew that it lay to the south the days went by and she lived on the that had kept her afloat they supplied her with drinking water and with food but she did not drink all she wanted nor eat all she wanted rescue was she saw the smoke of the rescue on the horizon but what steamer the house of could be expected to come to lonely from the first she was tormented the sea persisted in flinging them upon her bit of sand and she persisted until her strength failed in thrusting them back into the sea where the tore at them and devoured them when her strength failed the bodies her beach with ghastly horror and she withdrew from them as far as she could which was not far by the tenth day her last was gone and she was from thirst she dragged herself along the sand looking

be controlled by a pin probably is still en voyage is visiting friends as is madame herself a sudden distrust the black dress was too mature that it constituted an admission of departing youth invaded the reflection in the oval mirror once more caused her discomfort tell charles that i am no longer acquainted with m if he to call he is to be refused set her but whether in anger towards her discarded lover or the black dress she would have found it difficult to declare again uncertainty held her suspicion of circumstance and in a degree of herself the lad s maid just impertinent in manner had risen to her feet there she said it will be secure for to night if madame will exercise a moderate degree of caution and avoid abrupt movements charles says that inquired very after madame he appeared dejected and in weak health he was agitated on meeting charles he trembled a little more and he would have wept it would be well perhaps that madame should give charles her orders regarding herself s progress you should not have made me wear this gown broke out it is it is hideous i want to change it impossible madame is already a little late and there is nothing wrong with the costume madame looks magnificent also her wardrobe is at present limited the evening dresses barely suffice for a stay of a week and it is not possible for me to a new one under ten days thereupon an opening of doors and voice from the announcing � dinner is served my lady sir richard is in the and swept forward somewhat stormy and in her dusky garments passing out through the high narrow doorway she turned her head charles under no circumstance � none understand � am i at home to very good my lady and as he closed the double doors the man servant looked at the lady s maid his tongue in his cheek but on the journey through the noble of rooms s spirits revived somewhat her fair head her warm glancing jewels her graceful and measured movements as given back by many tall renewed her self confidence she too must be fond of her own image by the way that unknown rival to the dream of whose approval richard had consecrated these splendid � witness the of looking glasses � and then the prospect of this d dinner the interest of her host s powerful and personality provoked her interest to the point not only of remembrance of the ill timed advent of her ex lover but of something as closely akin to self forgetfulness as was possible to her self nature she grew hotly anxious to obtain to charm � if it might be to the whole field of richard s attention and imagination a small round table showed as an island of tender light in the of the vast room and richard sitting at it awaiting her coming appeared more nearly related to the richard of and of five years ago than he had done during the interview of the morning in any case she took him more for granted while he if still inscrutable and proved an eminently agreeable companion ready of conversation very much at his ease very much a cultivated man of the world � a little excessively so she thought � in his of the personal note and this at once sir richard and her to intellectual if this was what he wanted well he should have it if he elected to talk of travel of ancient and alien of modem literature and art she could meet him more than half way her intelligence ran from subject to subject from point to point she struck out daring indulged in ingenious her mind charmed by her own eloquence her body comforted by costly and delicate nor did she fail to listen also knowing how very dear to every man is the sound of his own voice or omit to offer refined flattery of quick agreement and laughter it was late when she rose from the table at last i have had a delightful dinner she said absolutely delightful and now i will no longer on your time or good nature richard you have your own occupations no doubt so with thanks for shelter and generous entertainment we part for to night she held out her hand smiling but with an admirable effect of discretion all all intimacy kept in check by self respect and well bred dignity madame de was enchanted with the reserve of her own let it be understood that she was the least the least the most of guests richard took her outstretched hand for the p with courtesy and a momentary � so she fancied � contracted his face you are very welcome he said if it is warm let us breakfast in the to morrow twelve � does that suit you good night upon the writing table in the found a long and impassioned from paul perusal of it did not minister to peaceful sleep in the small hours she left her bed threw a silk dressing gown about her drew aside the heavy blue purple window curtain and looked out the sky was clear and and its lines of innumerable lights lay outstretched below in the south east between the two a blood red fire marked the summit of while in the dimly seen garden immediately beneath � the paved of which showed curiously pale asserting themselves against the darkness of the flower and otherwise impenetrable shadows of the and grove � a living creature moved black slow of pace strange of at first took it for some strayed animal it alarmed her exciting her to wildest conjectures as to iti and purpose wandering in the grounds of the villa s progress thus then as it passed beyond the dusky shade of the trees she recognised it richard

as he climbed he sank down on my ledge bleeding at the mouth it was about this time that the upper seemed to empty themselves nearly all the folk not yet smoked out up the cliff at the same time this was the saving of many the fire people could not shoot arrows fast enough they filled the air with arrows and scores of the stricken folk came tumbling down but still there were a few who reached the top and got away the impulse of flight was now stronger in me than curiosity the arrows had ceased flying the last of the folk seemed gone though there may have been a few still hiding before adam w in the upper the swift one and i started to make a scramble for the at sight of us a great cry went up from the fire people this was not caused by me but by the swift one they were chattering excitedly and pointing her out to one another they did not try to shoot her not an arrow was discharged they began calling softly and i stopped and looked down she was afraid and and urged me on so we went up over the top and plunged into the trees this event has often caused me to wonder and if she were really of their kind she must have been lost from them at a time when she was too young to remember else would she not have been afraid of them on the other hand it may well have been that she was their kind she had never been before adam lost from them that she had been born in the wild forest far from their haunts her father maybe a fire man her mother maybe one of my own kind one of the folk but who shall say these things are beyond me and the swift one knew no more about them than did i we lived through a day of terror most of the fled toward the swamp and took refuge in the forest in that neighborhood and all day hunting parties of the fire people ranged the forest killing us wherever they found us it must have been a deliberately executed plan increasing beyond the limits of their own territory they had decided on making a conquest of ours sorry the conquest we had no chance against them it was slaughter slaughter for they spared none killing old and young the land of our presence it was like the end of the world to us we fled to the trees as a last refuge only to be surrounded and killed family by family we saw much of this during that day and besides before adam i wanted to see the swift one and i never remained long in one tree and so escaped being surrounded but there seemed no place to go the fire men were everywhere bent on their task of every way we turned we encountered them and because of this we saw much of their i did not see what became of my mother but i did see the shot down out of the old home tree and i am afraid that at the sight i did a bit of joyous before i leave this portion of my narrative i must tell of red eye he was caught with his wife in a tree down by the swamp the swift one and i stopped long enough in our flight to see the fire men were too intent upon their work to notice us and we were well by the thicket in which we crouched fully a score of the hunters were under the tree arrows into it they always picked up their arrows when they fell back to earth i could not see red eye but i could hear him howling from somewhere in the tree q before adam after a short interval his howling grew muffled he must have crawled into a hollow in the trunk but his wife did not win this shelter an arrow brought her to the ground she was severely hurt for she made no effort to get away she crouched in a way over her baby which clung tightly to her and made pleading signs and sounds to the fire men they gathered about her and laughed at her � even as ear and i had laughed at the old tree man and even as we had him with twigs and sticks so did the fire men with red eye s wife they her with the ends of their bows and her in the ribs but she was poor fun she would not fight nor for that matter would she get she continued to over her baby and to plead one of the fire men stepped close to her in his hand was a club she saw and understood but she made only the pleading sounds until the blow fell red eye in the hollow of the trunk was safe from their arrows they stood together and for a while then one of them climbed before adam into the tree what happened up there i could not tell but i heard him yell and saw the excitement of those that remained beneath after several minutes his body down to the ground he did not move they looked at him and raised his head but it fell back when they let go red eye had accounted for himself they were very angry there was an opening into the trunk close to the ground they gathered wood and grass and built a fire the swift one and i our arms around each other waited and watched in the thicket sometimes they threw upon the fire green branches with many leaves whereupon the smoke became very thick we saw them suddenly back from the tree they were not quick enough red eye s flying body landed in the midst of

of pens a copious ii y of ink and a goodly show of writing and paper for there was very comfortable in having plenty of i would then take a sheet of paper and write the top of it in a neat hand the heading j of s debts with s inn and the � � very carefully added would also take a t of paper and across it with similar of s debts of us would then refer to a confused heap of i at his side which had thrown into drawers into holes in pockets half burnt in lighting can for weeks into the looking and other � i the sound of our pens going refreshed i that i sometimes found it ii to distinguish between this pro i and paying the money in point of character the two things seemed about � al we had written a little while i would ask h how ho got on probably would have scratching his head in a most manner at of his figures they are mounting up � i npon my life tbey ai e ui � be � i would retort � p y ii pen great look the in thi look into your stare them out of so i would only they are t of countenance however my manner would ha effect and would fall to work again a time he would give up once more on the plea t had not got e or s or s case might be then estimate it estimate it in and put it down what a fellow of you my would reply with admiration really your bu powers are very remarkable i thought so too i established with these occasions the reputation of a first rate n business � prompt decisive energetic clear headed when i had got all my upon my list i compared with the bill it o� my self approval when i an was quite a luxurious sensation when i had no to make i folded all my bills up uniformly each on the back and tied the whole ii bundle then i did the same for ha who modestly said he had not my and felt that i had brought his a il for him my business habits had one other bright which i called leaving a margin for supposing s debts to be one hundred and four pounds four and two iii � i a and put them do at to be four times as much i and put at seven d the opinion of the wisdom of this same gin but i am bound to acknowledge that on i deem it to have been an expensive device we always ran into new debt immediately to the extent of the in and in the sense and it imparted got pretty far on another margin there was a calm a rest a virtuous hush on these of our affairs that gave for the time an admirable opinion of myself by my exertions my method and s i would sit with bundle my own on the table before me among the and feel like a bank of some sort rather than individual ive shut our outer door on these solemn i in order that wo might not be interrupted i fallen into my serene state one evening when we d a letter di through the in the said door fall on the ground it s for you said � going out and coming back with it and i there is nothing the matter this was in heavy black seal and border letter was signed co and its were that i was an honoured sir and they begged to inform me that mrs j departed this life on monday last at twenty past six iu the evening and that my attendance requested at the on monday as o ia the a chapter vi it was the time that a grave had open my road of life and the gap it made in the ground was the fig are of my i chair hy the kitchen fire haunted me night and that the place possibly he without her my mind seemed to whereas she had seldom or never been in my thou of late i had now the strangest ideas that she coming towards me in the street or that s presently knock at the door in my rooms which she had never been at all associated there at once the of death and a perpetual i of the sound of hi i voice or the turn of face or figure as if she were still alive and had b often there whatever my might have been scarcely have recalled my sister with much bat i suppose there is a shock of regret which exist without much tenderness under its and perhaps to make up for the want i feeling i was seized with a violent indignation the from whom she had suffered so much i felt that on sufficient proof i could have pursued or any one else to the last having written to joe to offer consolation i assure him that i should come to the funeral i the days in the curious state of r have glanced at i went down early iu the e and alighted at the in good time to to the h fine summer s v t the time when i waa a little creature ray sister did not spare me vividly returned but � with a upon them that even the e of for now the very i ith of the beans and whispered to my heart the day must come when it would he well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine be softened as they ht of me at last i came sight of the house and saw and co had put in a execution and taken two absurd persons exhibiting a done up in a �

earning bread except by my fiddle i returned to and there followed the show for close on two years playing in front of the with your education sir that was wrong what could i do my lord i am well educated it is true but i have not a friend in the world and without help i could not procure a situation your school fellows � your masters at my lord i did not wish to apply to them for charity replied proudly i should have been forced to tell them my story and your may guess how painful that would have been to me no my lord i earned my bread honestly by my and a month ago thinking had probably returned i left at and took my way to london three weeks later i came to and knows the rest of my story it is a strange story � a very remarkable tale said who was again on his feet pacing the study and you have no means whereby to discover whence your father came only this paper with the name and the date of his birth i may add that from what i know of my own age the date is wrong by a give it to me sir it seemed to that while his host examined the paper dr watched him somewhat anxiously and appeared to be relieved when it was returned without comment what do you think of the story doctor asked abruptly the dwarf s chamber i agree with your that it is a remarkable tale answered it may prove to be still more remarkable for all we know muttered thoughtfully he resumed his walk while wondering what would be the termination of this strange interview waited to be addressed twice or thrice paused beside him and then walked to the other end of the room considering as was evident from his thoughtful expression what would be the wisest course to take under the circumstances you are well educated you say mr he demanded abruptly i think i may say so my lord replied the youth modestly what is your opinion he is educated my lord as i have had the opportunity of observing within the last three weeks a good classical scholar well read in english with the french tongue and literature and fairly good in he writes a good hand clear and my lord well mr he added turning to the expectant youth you say you have no friend in the world not one � save and i presume you are not averse to earning a decent i should be thankful to do so my lord well mr i have taken a great fancy to you said you have told a straightforward and direct story and you to be a lad of good moral principles now i require a secretary would you be willing to undertake the duties if they are not beyond me my lord i should be c the dwarf s chamber honoured replied hardly his good fortune oh a lad of your parts will find them easy mr i shall treat you as one of the family and introduce you to my grand daughter miss you must see about clothes and such like things to morrow i shall speak of your wages and duties and of course mr from this moment you are free to go where you will i need not request your silence on a certain subject i shall not open my mouth on it my lord good i see that i can rely on your discretion but do not neglect my poor sister mr she has few pleasures poor little soul and your music is a great delight to her now good night sir to morrow we will speak further of these matters good night again i am delighted at having made your acquaintance with this kindly speech shook heartily by the hand and forthwith left the apartment overcome by the thought of his good fortune looked after his retiring benefactor with eyes and at length turned towards dr who was watching him keenly doctor he said in a trembling voice you do not know what such kindness means to a vagabond like me i hope i may in some measure repay such for generosity i am sure you will my dear lad replied patting him kindly on the shoulder from what i have seen of you no one better deserves good fortune it lies in your own hands to make or mar see that you make a good use of it i trust i shall exclaimed fervently but why is lord so kind to a stranger dr looked oddly at him and replied with great conviction qualified by a certain reserve my dear mr as i said before lord the dwarf s chamber is one who never acts without a reason depend upon it he has an excellent motive for making you his secretary and in treating you as one of the family now go and sleep on your good luck chapter x observant of the unaccountable results of circumstance of the capricious of existence the with a certain grim irony such by the figure of a woman poised on a wheel to the of the sex they ascribed the apparently selection of particular human beings to be raised or independent of merit or justice by the ever revolving wheel they indicated the constant change which renders life an eternal succession of surprises nay further to the of finding a reason for such they blinded the eyes of the woman with a here we have the of caprice temperament helpless blindness position and these rule the world of mankind by such speculations did seek to account for the extraordinary change in his fortunes for in no logical way could he come to any reasonable conclusion he had arrived at a tramp nameless through the indulgence of an curiosity he had narrowly escaped death by drowning

cannot say that it was you a at the empty you however as you are so industrious i simply say it would be a thousand to take you from it an hush i nick i love industry in my heart and i always encourage it so work away it s not often you spend your time so tm afraid if you weren t at that you d be worse employed bill have said the you wouldn t go to lay more weight on a falling man you know you t disgrace your character by such a piece of as keeping an gentleman advanced in years at such an and job as this generosity s your top virtue bill not but that have many other excellent ones as well as that among which as you say yourself i reckon industry but still it is in generosity you shine come bill bright and release me the terms you you re above terms william a generous fellow like you never thinks of terms good bye old gentleman i said bill very coolly til drop in to see you once a month � no no bill you � a � a � you excellent worthy delightful fellow not so fast not so fast come name your terms you � my dear bill name your terms seven years more i agree but and the same supply of cash as before down on the nail here very good very good you re rather simple bill soft i must confess well no matter i shall yet turn the � a � hem you are an exceedingly simple fellow bill still there will come a day my dear bill � there wiu � do you you another word and i double the terms william � is latin for a seven years more of grace and the same measure of the needful that i got before ay or no � d g the � c f grace bill ay ay ay i there the accept the terms o blood i the rascal � of grace i bill i well now drop the hammer and vanish says but what would you think to take this while yon stay and me a eh why in such a hurry he added seeing that satan withdrew in double quick time f he shouted come back you forgot something i and when the old gentleman looked behind him shook the hammer at him on which he vanished altogether now got into his old courses and what shows the kind of people the world is made of he also took up with his old company when they saw that he had the money once more and was it about him in all directions they immediately began to find excuses for his former extravagance say what you will said one s a spirited fellow and like a prince he s as hospitable a in his own house or out of it os ever lived said another � his only is observed a third that he is if any thing too generous and doesn t know the value of money his fault s on the right side however he has the in him said a fourth keeps a capital table prime and a standing welcome for his friends why said a fifth if he doesn t enjoy his money while he lives he won t when he s dead so more power to him and a wider to his purse indeed the very persons who were themselves at his expense despised him at heart they knew very well however how to take him on the weak side praise his generosity and he would do anything call him a man of spirit and you might him to his face sometimes he w ould toss a purse of guineas to this another to that a third to a bully and a fourth to some broken down � an h and all to convince them that he was a sterling friend a man of and liberality but never was he known to help a virtuous and struggling family � to assist the widow or the or to do any other act that was truly useful it is to be supposed the reason of this was that as he spent it as most of the world do in the service of the devil by whose aid he got it he was prevented om turning it to a good account between you and me dear reader there are more persons acting after bill s fashion in the same world than you dream about when his money was out again his friends served him the same game once more no sooner did his poverty become plain than the began to be troubled with small fits of modesty such as an to come to his place when there was no longer anything to be got there a kind of virgin prevented them from speaking to him w hen they saw him getting out on the side of his clothes of them would turn away firom him in the prettiest and most delicate manner when they thought he wanted to borrow money firom them � all for fear of putting him to the blush by asking it others again when they saw him coming towards their houses about dinner hour would become so confused from mere gratitude as to think themselves in another place and their servants seized as it were with the same feeling would tell bill that their masters were not at home at length after travelling the same as before bill was forced to himself a last remedy to the in other words he found that there is r all nothing in this world that a man can rely on so firmly and surely as his own industry bill however wanted the organ of common sense for his experience � and it was sharp enough to leave an impression � ran ofi

shouldn t wonder if you were right mr being now on the eve of casting off the pecuniary that have so long him said mrs and of a new career in a country where there is sufficient range for his abilities � which in my opinion is exceedingly important mr s abilities peculiarly requiring space � it seems to me that my family should the occasion by coming r ard what i could wish to see would be a meeting between mr and my family at a entertainment to be given at my family s where mr s health and prosperity being proposed by some leading member of my family mr might have an opportunity of developing his views my dear said mr with some heat it may be better for me to state distinctly at once that if i were to develop my views to that assembled group they would possibly be found of an offensive nature my impression being that your family are in the impertinent and in detail said mrs shaking her head no have never understood them and they have never understood you mr they have never understood you said his wife they may be incapable of it if so that is their misfortune i can pity their misfortune i am extremely sorry my dear said mr to have been betrayed into any expressions that might even have the appearance of being strong expressions all i would say is that i can go abroad without your family coming forward to favor me � in short with a parting of their cold shoulders and that upon the whole i would rather leave england with such as i possess than derive any of it from that quarter at the same time my dear if they should condescend to reply to your communications � which our joint experience renders most improbable � far be it from me to be a barrier to your wishes the matter being thus settled mr gave mrs his arm and glancing at the heap of books and papers tying before on the table said they would leave us to ourselves which they did my dear said leaning back in his chair when they were gone and looking at me with an affection that made his eyes red and his hair all kinds of shapes i don t make any excuse for troubling you with business because i know you are deeply interested in it and it may divert your thoughts my dear boy i hope you are not worn out i am quite myself said i after a pause we have more cause to think of my aunt than of any one you know how much she has done surely surely answered who can forget it of david but even that is not all said i during the last fortnight some new trouble has vexed her and she has been in and out of london every day several times she has gone out early and been absent until evening last night with this journey before her it was almost midnight before she came home you know what her consideration for others is she will not tell me what has happened to distress her my aunt very pale and with deep lines in her face sat immovable until i had finished when some stray tears found their way to her cheeks and she put her hand on mine it s nothing trot it s nothing there will be no more of it you shall know by and by now my dear let us attend to these affairs i must do mr the justice to say began that although he would appear not to have worked to any good account for himself he is a most man when he works for other people i never saw such a fellow if he always goes on in the same way he must be about two hundred years old at present the heat into which he has been continually putting himself and the distracted and impetuous manner in which be has been day and night among papers and books to say nothing of the immense number of letters he has written me between this house and mr s and often across the table when he has been sitting opposite and might much more easily have spoken is quite extraordinary letters cried my aunt i believe he dreams in letters there s mr dick too said has been doing wonders as soon as he was released from overlooking whom he kept in such charge as i never saw exceeded he began to devote himself to mr and really his anxiety to be of use in the we have been making and his real usefulness in and and and carrying have been quite to us dick is a very remarkable man exclaimed my aunt and i always said he was trot you know it i am happy to say miss pursued at once with great delicacy and with great that in your absence mr has considerably improved of the that had fastened upon him for so long a time and of the dreadful apprehensions under which he had lived he is hardly the same person at times even his power of his memory and attention on particular points of business has recovered itself very much and he has been able to assist us in making some things clear that we should have found very difficult indeed if not hopeless without him but what i have to do is to come to results which are short enough not to gossip on all the hopeful circumstances i have observed or i shall never have done his natural manner and agreeable simplicity made it transparent that he said this to put us in good heart and to enable to hear her father mentioned with greater confidence but it was not the less pleasant for that now let me see said looking among the papers

innocent victim even if could be apprehended in any part of the world to which he had fled and brought to england for trial miss would have to go into court and swear to his conduct this was clearly out of the question also discovered by suggestions that the father would have anything happen rather than give his child in marriage to a wretch of that description then came the idea of finding a husband for her of a suitable position in life and its gradual by the half man who was in his distress so much clay in the hands of the how the husband was found mr gray did not need to be told became mrs gray and what seemed like a new chance for happiness in her wrecked life was given her the history of a crime but she said her lips trembling had not been married to you a week before that man s hateful attentions were renewed he managed to meet me when others were not present and to pour his awful suggestions in my ears we would be quite safe now he told me i had your name think of that to protect me i felt the strong influence of the other days drawing at my brain but the thought of you and the confidence you had placed in me me to resist and besides there was the life for which i must keep myself pure he never ceased to persist he came to he sent me letters which he knew i dared not show he went to hiding from you and tried to make me see him he was in when was born yes one of my nurses accepted his she brought me a bunch of roses from him which i made her throw into the as soon as i saw his card she told me he had walked up and down an adjacent street all night and that she had sent messages to him every half hour telling of my condition no doubt he had paid her handsomely i was helpless to stop his conduct my tongue was tied i had told one story and i dared not begin with a new one we came back to london and you left me for that long stay in america do you remember i think you will never forget the night before you sailed i had seen him that day and he had said with a smile of confidence that after you were gone i could no longer refuse him up to that time you had treated me with only the ordinary kindness of a friend i was love gone astray frightened to have you go for i felt that without your love to guard me his wicked influence would be more than i could resist you came in to say coolly that you were about to get ready for your departure and i fell fainting to the floor that evening i heard you walking about your room making your preparations my blood mounted to my head if you left me like that i knew what the result might be at last i heard your voice and i went into your room you thought me a dreadful creature one who ought to be ashamed of her actions but i was desperate you saved me from a fate that would have been worse than death i parted from you the next morning strong in the belief that no man could shake my and i was right your steamer could hardly have sailed from when my came for the second time he began to try the of threats he said my father s in america were in danger and that he had it in his power to make or him he had a representative in who would obey his slightest suggestion and if i still held out he intended to destroy our fortune i did not believe he had the power to do this but if i had it would have altered nothing in my behavior i was only careful not to offend him for i feared to provoke his anger whether he prayed or cursed it was the same to me now i would sooner have thrown myself into a den of wild beasts than into his arms my husband held my entire love and esteem and my heart went out to him in the first blooming of that passionate flower i had come so late to know r ik of a crime my mother s death and my father s did not move the pity of this madman when i needed the greatest consideration he forgot everything but himself he told me one day that he could save a million to us if i gave the word by a mere signal over the cable i did not even trust myself to answer him when you returned he kept away for a short time but soon after we came to he began to dog my steps here he wrote me that he cared nothing for his reputation his profession his friends or his family he wanted nothing in the world but me unless i submitted to him he would tell you all coupled with that were not even founded on fact then came letters alluding to your interest in the property he could stop your that if he were to tell what he knew for the first time i began to feel alarmed at his power he had proved that his regarding my father s fortune were correct ones were you to lose yours also mr s claim was put in and then mr wrote that if i asked him to do so he would prove that claim false in a mad hope to move by an appeal to his manhood i made the visit he had long prayed for to his hotel i could have committed no greater error instead of changing his attitude

who had succeeded my husband in the and who had come in for the title probably some distant cousin whom i had never seen or heard of and should never meet in this world well well i had thought once that i was a too i was a now in nothing but my legal name and those whom i had known and those with whom i had had communication were all dead and gone i never told the princess of that last discovery she fancied dear sweet woman that she was that i was getting over my great sorrow she fancied that i was in a measure forgetting my sorrows or if not forgetting them that i was at least contented in my new life how was she to know that i was wont night after night night after night to sit in my beautiful spacious rooms going back over the past in a cage wandering round and round like a bird in a cage crying like s i can t get out i can t get out and yet knowing in my own mind that i had nowhere to go nobody to whom i could fly that if i broke away from the bond of her kindness i had no refuge no plans no hope was ever any poor girl so utterly desolate before i think not somehow in spite of all the love and care which the princess upon me the stately magnificence and serenity of the life at seemed to me i had been used to plenty of like all other indians of position but the troops of and at oppressed me there was so much pomp so much ceremony about everything that we did if we went for a drive our way led us among who seemed to exist only for the purpose of giving age to their lady it was wonderful to me that the princess was aa her daughter had been so remarkably simple in her personal tastes and manners for she seemed and indeed was a veritable not by her own will bat according to the manners and customs of the people over whom she ruled owing to the princess s very deep and my own we were naturally extremely quiet in our life indeed we lived so far as society was concerned in almost total to me it was a life of heaven knows i had do desire for but there were times when i would have liked to have seen people who did not when i would have rejoiced in stiff knees and straight backs it was the princess s natural atmosphere this atmosphere of homage to me it was and yet what could i do she clung to me desperate the strange story of life affection and she said to me one day you are tired of place don t like oh yea i replied not speaking oat of sheer pity for the hunger in her sweet eyes but it is a life that i am not quite used to princess it is a life to which i have not yet grown accustomed i think if i might have a saddle horse and ride every day that i should feel more like myself i have ridden all my life i wonder would it be possible for me to get a riding habit anywhere near here my dear child we will send to for a tailor at once oh but that would be such a trouble pray don t think of it i said choking down the but wish with s self sense of my own base ingratitude but the hint had been good enough for her within a week a tailor arrived from and i was measured and fitted for several riding habits each as would be suitable for almost any temperature tou should have spoken before said the princess when i half reproached her with me too much the horses are there doing nothing what is one more or less or a riding habit or two if will make you happier it is a very simple matter i have spoken to them in the stables and i find that there are two english horses broken to carry a lady they are at your disposal from moment so i found a new distraction in my life and for a few weeks i was vastly thereby but even horse exercise did not fill the awful want and gap in my life no i rode here and there through the lovely scenery over the great estate into the neighbouring is a cage towns followed by a groom and sometimes i even to go by but i was not the better for it i was for my old life for those i had los yearning for my freedom the freedom that would have been no me to me yoa will be more happy when comes home said the princess one day to me i had not i that i was looking a little dismal or shall i say a uttle more dismal than i know that i was feeling more dejected and more lonely and forsaken than i had ever felt in all my life before yon will be better when comes he will not be long now the princess went oa i heard from him his morning while yoa were oat he sails from cape town to day i had no especial interest in this of whom she spoke bo oft and of whom she had such great hopes yon see i had known anything of foreign races all the men that i had known in india had been englishmen of the same class soldiers and high officials and the men whom i had seen in and did not commend themselves to me by comparison with those to whom i had been i had an idea that prince be like all the others that i had seen with his hair standing ap

rising and going to her oh watching jane s movements you arc a dear soul it is easy enough getting the money to him i heard this morning that mr is going on to the south he starts this afternoon i shall not mind walking to his house though it is four miles from h re i a tale shall go end i charge him to the money it will ba such a re i and comfort to my her there to be in s eagerness to serve her brother in her newly awakened tenderness for him that jane s for she paused in the midst of counting the money turned round and fixed a look upon her cousin without to notice any thing peculiar in her expression said advancing towards her do be dear jane it is a great way to mr a am afraid i shall be late jane had finished counting the money twenty is it dear p said hastily and with a flutter of joy it there are five dollars more she continued looking at a single bill jane had laid aside let me have that too dear it will not be too much for david i cannot replied jane that is all i have in the world and that i owe to mrs la jane what matter is that you can have as much money as you want of and besides you need not be afraid of losing it i shall soon be of age and then i shall pay you for mo ther can t keep my portion from me one day after that then i will have a cottage says we can have no idea in this country how beautiful a cottage is d la from do dearest let me have the other five said jane disgusted with s and levity and the note in a l� � n tale drawer i have given all i possess in the world and yoa must be contented with if saw that she should obtain no more she hastily kissed jane and after saying good bye my dear go to mother s and stay till i come she flew out of the house that her false had won so much from her cousin at a short distance from mrs s she joined her lover according to a previous arrangement between them had procured a chaise from a neighbouring which was principally devoted to the of its worthy proprietor and the bis joys to and from the en sundays and lecture days but was occasionally hired out to oblige such persons as might stand in deed of such an accommodation and could to pay what was consistent for it � done said the dancing philosopher to his horse after and turning to her he pressed one of her hands to his lips saying � adding as he it la nature pointed out the road leading to the dwelling of a justice of the peace a few miles beyond the line which the state of from that of new they arrived at this temple of and of petty about eleven in the morning the justice was at work on his farm a messenger was soon despatched for him with whom he returned in about thirty x i i and tale seemed as many to oar anxious said le but in i it � a very the took aside and inquired whether there were any objections to the on the part of the lady s friends objections said it is the most to every body you cannot on being further confessed tl t they came from and being asked why they were not married at the place of the lady s residence he said that some without may wait but for and me it is impossible being examined apart in hke manner declared that her intended husband s impatience nd her own dislike to the formality of a had led them to avoid the usual mode and forms of marriage the justice who derived the chief profits of his office from matches and who had made these inquiries more because it was a common custom than from any scruples of conscience or sense of official duty was perfectly satisfied and after requiring from the bridegroom the usual promise to love and cherish and from the bride to love cherish and obey pronounced them man and wife and recorded the marriage in a book containing a record of similar official acts and of divers suits and the proceedings therein a new e i tbe bride and bridegroom immediately out for the north river to there for new york these things do manage themselves better in france said les qui se i the marriages you make here � are as solemn la � as to bury le a pair if de little god was paint here would make him work as de justice eh said be after a pause a son without some there should not be some de some of de elegant arts et les you would not be mon � you would not be madame was so occupied with the change in her condition and the prospect before her that she did not observe tbe direction in which they were travelling and by mistake they took the road leading back through a iii the mountain towards a village in the vicinity of the one they had left as they ascended the top of a hill their began to his ears at the distant sound of a drum and which the soon perceived to be part of the pride pomp and circumstance of a training tbe village tavern was in full view and within a short distance and the company was performing some marching a little beyond an election of captain had just taken place and the of the citizen � had fallen upon a popular favourite who a n� w � tale had taken his station as commanding officer

information that she considered the patient decidedly worse she would cheer him up by relating how dull and low spirited miss was because foolishly talked about nothing else but him and family matters when she had made thoroughly comfortable witli these and other remarks she would discourse at length on the duties she had performed that day and sometimes be moved to tears in wondering how if anything were to happen to herself the family would ever get on without her at � other times when came home at night he be accompanied by mr frank who was by the brothers to inquire how was that evening on such occasions and they were of very frequent occurrence mrs deemed it of particular importance that she should have her wits about her for from certain signs and tokens which had her attention she suspected that mr frank interested as his were in came quite as much to see as to inquire after her the more especially as the brothers were in constant communication with the medical man came backwards and forwards very frequently themselves and received a report from every morning these were proud times for mrs never was anybody half so discreet and sage as she or half so mysterious withal and never were there such cunning and such designs as she brought to bear upon mr frank with the view of whether her suspicions were well founded and if so of him into taking her into his confidence and throwing himself upon her consideration extensive was the heavy and light which mrs brought into play for the of these great schemes various and opposite the means which she employed to bring the end she had in view at one time she was all vol ii t life and adventures op cordiality and at another all and now she would seem to open her whole heart to her unhappy victim the next time they met she would receive him the most distant � ind reserve as if a new light had broken in upon her and his intentions she had resolved to check them in the bud as if she felt it her duty to act with firmness and at once and for ever to hopes which never could be at other times when was not there to and was upstairs busily tending her sick friend the worthy lady would throw out dark hints of an intention to send her daughter to france for three or four years or to scotland improvement of her health by her late or to america on a visit or anywhere that threatened a long and tedious separation nay she even went so far as to hint at an attachment entertained for her daughter by the son of an old neighbour of theirs one a young gentleman who might have been at that time four years old or and to represent it indeed as almost a settled thing between the families � only waiting for her daughter s final decision to come off with the sanction of the church and to the happiness and content oi all parties it was in the full pride and glory of having sprung this last mine one night with extraordinary success that mrs took the opportunity of being left alone with her son before retiring to rest to him on the subject which so occupied her thoughts not doubting that they could have but one opinion respecting it to this end she approached the question with divers and appropriate remarks touching the general of mr frank you are quite right mother said quite right he is a fine fellow good looking too said mrs decidedly good looking answered what may you call his nose now my dear pursued mrs wishing to interest in the subject to the utmost call it repeated ah returned his mother what style of � what order of architecture if one may say so i am not learned in noses do vou call it a or a upon my word mother said laughing as well as i remember i should call it a kind of or mixed nose but i have no very strong recollection on the if it will afford you any gratification i u observe it more closely and let you i wish you would my dear said mrs with an earnest look very weu returned i will returned to the perusal of the book he had been reading when the dialogue had gone thus far mrs after stopping a little for consideration resumed he is very much attached to you my dear said as he closed his book that he was glad to hear it and observed that his mother seemed deep in their new friend s confidence already hem said mrs i don t know about that my dear but i think it is very necessary that somebody should be in his confidence � highly necessary elated by a look of curiosity from her son and the consciousness of possessing a great secret all to herself mrs went on with great animation am sure my dear how you can have failed to notice it is to mo quite extraordinary though i don t know why i should say that either because of course as far as it goes and to a certain extent there is a great deal in this sort of thing especially in this early stage which however clear it may be to females can scarcely be expected to be so evident to men i don t say that i have any particular penetration in such matters i may have those about me should know best about that and perhaps do know upon that point i shall express no opinion � it wouldn t become me to do so � it s quite out of the question � quite the candles put his hands in his pockets and leaning back in his chair assumed a look of patient suffering

him as an angry wind comes rising in the night the stranger was beneath his outraged roof three steps take him to his chamber door one blow would beat it in might do murder before you know it had said how could it be mu er if he gave the villain time to with him hand to hand he was the younger man it was an ill timed thought bad for the dark mood of his mind it was an angry him lo some act should ihe cheerful house a haunted place which lonely travellers would to pass by night and where timid would see shadows struggling in the ruined windows when the moan was dim and hear wild noises in the stormy he was younger man yes yes some lover who hail won the heart tiiat he had never touched some lover of her early choice of whom she bad thought and dreamed for whom she had and when he had fancied her happy by side oh agony to think of it she had been above stairs with the baby getting it a he sat on the hearth she came close beside him his knowledge � in the turning of the rack of his great i he lost ail other sounds � and put her little stool at his feel r only knew it when he felt her hand upon lu j own and saw looking up into his face with wonder no it was his first impression and he w� s fain to look at her lo set it right no not with wonder with an eager and inquiring look but not with at it was and serious then it changed li dreadful of of bis thoughts j then then w nothing but her clasped hands on her brow aod r h and hair though the power of had hi to at that moment he bad too much of its r in breast to have turned one feather s weight of it but he not bear to see her crouching down up w seat where he had often looked upon her with love a id i innocent and gay and when she rose and left him he felt it a relief to have the vacant place him rather than ber so cherished presence this in itself f anguish than all reminding him bow te h wm the hood of his w� a not on the hearth the more he felt this and the more he knew he could have letter borne to see her lying dead before him with heir little child upon her breast the higher and the stronger rose lis wrath against his enemy he looked about him for a there was a gun hanging on the wall he took it down and a pace or two towards the door of the stranger s he knew the gun was loaded some shadowy idea that just to shoot this like a wild beast seized him and in his mind until it grew into a monstrous demon in possession of him casting out all thoughts and set up its empire phrase is wrong not casting out his thoughts t them changing them into to ive him on turning water into blood love into hate into blind ferocity her image t still pleading to his tenderness and mercy with never left his mind but staying there it urged him to door raised the weapon to his shoulder fitted and finger to the and cried kill him in his bed reversed the gun to beat the stock upon the door he already id it in the air some indistinct design was in his thoughts calling out to him to fly for god s sake by the window � suddenly the struggling fire illuminated the whole with a glow of light and the on the hearth to no sound he could have heard no human voice not even s could so have moved and softened him the � � in which she had told him her love for this same ere once more spoken her trembling earnest manner t the moment was again before him her pleasant oh hat a voice it was for making household music at the fireside the of an honest man thrilled through and through his better an awoke it into life and action he from the door like a man walking in his awakened from a frightful dream and put the gun aside clasping his hands before his face he then sat down again the fire and found relief in tears the on the hearth came out into the room and stood in fairy shape before him i love it said the fairy voice repeating what he well remembered for the many times i have heard it and the many thoughts its harmless music has given me � she said so cried the true this has been a happy home john and i love the for its sake it has been heaven knows returned the she made it happy always until now so gracefully sweet tempered so domestic joyful busy light hearted said the voice � otherwise i never could have loved her as i did returned the the voice him said do the repeated as i did but not firmly his faltering tongue resisted his control and would speak in its own way for itself and him the figure in an attitude of raised its hand and said upon your own hearth � the hearth she has interposed the the hearth she has how often � blessed and brightened said the the hearth which but for her were only a few stones and bricks and rusty bars but which has been through her the altar of your home on which you have nightly sacrificed some petty passion selfishness or care and offered up the on the hearth of a tranquil mind a trusting nature and an overflowing heart so that the smoke from this poor

i could scarce hold my watch i turned to the in an agony of anxiety for he was sitting calm and quiet as an how gladly my heart beat when i saw first a dozen heads and shoulders then fifty then five hundred and more ascend to the and as well they might after such a excursion and then j bed began in earnest on the helped to pull in the full of the but fatigued climbed over the boats sides and saw their fish distinct leaps by the in charge of the boat net to have brought up fifty u seventy as the last o the divers came over the boats sides the he hundred who had quietly waited their turn rose up and with their and stones plunged had before as rapidly and as silently the for are exceedingly � the is a piece of granite shaped and weighing about ten pounds through one end of it a double cord of is love of length tu reach the bottom easily one end of it being secured to the boat when about to plunge in the his right foot on the stone and between ti it ss a the w to his d� � and on at the bottom the stone is cast away and np hy the so as to be dear of the net rope this rope is and the the of the net between the of his left foot � for the natives use toes as as we do our and when on the bank below the net in his left band himself flat on his ce and sweeps the rapidly into his big with his right hand when he has secured sufficient fish ho gives his comrades above the signal by the ro iq thi v immediately commence it in to give himself an ip the lays hold of the for i w � or two r liis h above liis i n l � l id the from the of the id sh ch tm cr had stationed in � � i li i h the world and there or the of the fleet he muttered a short or charm his arms in us but at intervals he descended to something from a nut shell doubtless to aid him in his during one of his and about one hour e we were suddenly startled by hearing a shrieking and howling in one of the distant boats � by a and loud cries the i the onr boat w� immediately pulled to the scene of commotion and there enough one of those monsters of the deep had t een at w � k a poor was being pulled into the boat and bleeding the water all around being deeply tinged with blood one leg was nearly severed from his body and the pain had caused him to � away the alarm went rapidly round from boat to boat uie divers left the water and it was soon evident that there would be no more fishing on that day so effectually did the accident that mass of people that all with one accord sat gazing at each other neither speaking nor moving after a time some of the boats without orders began to leave the fishing ground and were soon followed by the rest making way to the the was too well acquainted with native prejudice to any on this diversion he however sent for the old who attended the summons the utmost ef in reply to the question how he dared to permit a to injure a in the employ of the british government he said there were some spirits adverse to the powers he possessed and that during the brief time of his taking a little refreshment one of those had broken his charm and the jaws of the i all was now vain � no fish notes of travellers and although the sea breeze was still lazily behind the fleet pushed the their oars for a few miles an hour later the breeze came up from the � at first � then steadily up went the great spider li and the wide winged sails and the boats slipped noiselessly our approach to the shore was by a gun thousands were again on the beach awaiting our coming and anxious to hear of our success as we drew near a long wild shout rent the air then a pause no reply was given from the boats the spirits of all were depressed by the not so much sympathy with the poor sufferer as n a feeling that the accident at so early a stage was a bad omen the whole of the fleet reached the shore a party of and cleared an open space between them and the crowd on the beach so as to allow the of t ie boats which was at once commenced the were divided cm the sandy shore into four equal parts three of which went to the government or the as the case might be the remaining was shared amongst the the divers the and the boat owner the divers receiving twice as much as the and the owner rather more than the divers the were carried up in baskets to large called where were kept until sold by on the following day the native shares of the were disposed of in a similar way though sometimes they were retained by their owners on their own account and the pearls in them sold afterwards i did not go off to the next day s being desirous of witnessing the the boats l w the world here and there oh die having woven a spell of extra which it was said would astonish the marine monsters and secure their jaws as effectually as if by locks the were carried on with an to frenzy the were offered in lots of one thousand taken from the some fine looking fellows

blind comprehended that s nature was not identical with hers and she feared the same in their loves as in their tastes yet so powerful was the charm which attracted her to that she felt a deep joy in thinking that he was about to become the guest of his master and the constant companion of her labors during the first days of his in the house of the old painter did not quit the he had begun a new sketch but he painted with difficulty � his nature over his feeble will he passed hours in looking at in replying to the words of the young girl by gestures of love he could find no other expressions for he had nothing in his soul she happy in seeing him conversed gaily in accents full of and vivacity she spoke art tenderness happiness she painted with more sentiment and enthusiasm love seemed to her powers whilst it had those of the young man did a direct and burning word of love escape from if it struck the heart of it did not draw forth a feeling expressed by a tender and respectful word the lips of the young man moved but it i i van april was a kiss that they would he inclined towards the young girl as if to embrace her loving yet fearful she then fled her heart was sad and humble and she wept saying he does not love me the old painter remarked with grief the strife of these two opposite natures which were at while seeking to approach each other he would have separated them forever but love by a strange called them t the house of david van was a calm a holy retreat where virtue secured peace and the arts that enthusiasm which and virtue the fortune which the old man had by his talent afforded him an honorable maintenance but no splendor none of that luxury which seeks to produce a fine outward effect at the expense of happiness and inward tranquillity david van s daughters were married he had no one but adopted child his dear and sometimes he thought in s good hours that he should be happy to unite them and die surrounded by their cares this dream was dissipated each day he who had caused it seemed to seek to destroy it the hospitality of the old painter seemed to he found at david s house a plentiful table but the strong to which he was accustomed and which him never appeared there at evening some distinguished men of the city some illustrious travellers some prince passing through came to visit the great painter they conversed they became interested in some question of art and never to turn the conversation did they have recourse to play that other bad passion all powerful in the soul of by s beauty on which he hung each day he resisted during several weeks the call of his habits but he could not conquer them be had no resolution he had finished a second picture it was not a like the first it was a work in which the hfe was wanting one evening he took away this picture and did not appear at supper feared some misfortune for him and wept his old master foresaw some fault and remained sad and silent it grew late they waited in vain for he did not come take courage my noble child said her master leaving van her this man is unworthy of thee and these words which struck her heart tortured her all the night she would have rejected an affection so deep and but she felt mastered by it and not being able to it she abandoned the attempt the following day david van went out to attend the french who had summoned him entered the deserted pale and life seemed to her sad and weary she recalled to mind sadly the time when she saw the days flow on for her so lightly and joyfully she stopped before the picture which she had finished the preceding evening it was a crown of orange flowers and white roses a crown destined for the daughter of madame de la for m de who was to marry the prince de although at war with their country louis xiv protected the dutch artists and had ordered this picture from van whose fame had reached even the court of france the young girl had done it with love for in tracing under her brush this virgin she thought involuntarily on the day when one similar should her pure brow upon an urn of chased gold had draped one of those magnificent of lace whose shadows also adorned a likeness of the bride her brush had given all the delicacy of the rich design of this precious fabric and upon this ornament she had gracefully placed the modest flowers which completed its each orange bud each rose in the crown had been to a long and precious labor her heart was bound up in this work she could not bear to part with it but the french claimed it a few days and it would be lost to her she wished to make a copy but her strength failed the tumultuous feelings which her soul disturbed the calmness requisite for those exquisite works of art she was still contemplating this crown which she had made under s eye and thinking on him when the door of the was suddenly thrown open he rushed towards her his hair in disorder his features bearing the stamp of despair dear he cried you alone can save me from and i come to you with confidence i have van april been separated from you one day from you my guardian angel and my evil life has me body and soul i have played i have lost i played upon honor and i should be abused trampled under foot if i

oh i ah yes he said directing his gaze upon the tree tops in the park i quite accept m you tell me i don t want to from your friend s merits � poor mean sort of thing to from any man s friend s merits young fellow the little i have seen of him � reminds me of my poor friend his father i liked his father but you see my dear boy there is � well there s no denying it there is � and quite � of course papa we all know what you mean lady interposed with a certain and it must be owned i have never pretended there was not something one had to get accustomed to but really you forget all about it almost immediately � does � one can see that � don t they if you had met sir richard everywhere as we have this season you would how very very soon that is quite forgotten is it though said lord somewhat his face had returned to a sadly condition yes i assure you nobody thinks of it after just the first little shock don t you know � this from lady i think one feels it is not quite nice to dwell on a thing of that kind her sister in again it ought to be ignored � from a girl the speaker had enjoyed a reputation for great refinement of mind i t it to being more than not nice echoed lady i think it is positively wrong for nobody can sir richard tell what accident may not happen to any of us at any moment and so i am not at all sure that it is not actually to make a thing like that into a serious objection you know papa there must be people in some families just as there is consumption or insanity or under breeding or mr softly murmured it becomes evident my dear father you must not expect too much of sons or i of brothers in law think of old lord � i mean the great of the present man of course � of his temper lady proceeded r of comment it amounted almost to and yet lady would certainly have married him there never was any question about it would she though bad old man never did approve of of course she would mrs who always has been devoted to her told me so did she though said lord but the marriage was broken off my dear he made this remark triumphantly feeling it showed great oh dear no indeed it wasn t his daughter replied lord behaved in the most outrageous manner at the last moment he never proposed to her at all and then it came out that for years he had been living with one of the still room maids cried lady turning scarlet had he though the old scoundrel papa cried lady so he was my dear very bad old man very amusing old man too though and overcome by certain reminiscences lord chuckled a little his second daughter thereupon arranged the folds of her with bent head � it is very clear papa and have been together to day she thought s influence over papa is always it s too extraordinary the subjects men joke about and call amusing when they get together a pause followed a brief of during which mr looked at his three companions fancies herself shocked he said to himself and my father fancies himself wicked and fancies herself a chosen vessel strong delusion is upon them all the only a slip cup and lip question is whose delusion is the strongest and who will first renew the ah the chosen vessel i thought as much you see papa one really must be practical lady b an in clear emphatic tones we all know how you have spoiled she and have always been your but even you must admit that s wretched extravagance has you and helped to all your other children and you must also admit notwithstanding your partiality for that � i want to see i want to hear from herself that she � broke out lord his kindly heart over this lamb of his large flock but the eldest of the said flock interposed sternly no no she cried pray papa not yet is quite contented and reasonable � i believe she is out just now too and while you are in this state of yourself it would be the greatest mistake for you to see her it would only disturb and upset her � wouldn t it and the lady thus appealed to assented it is true that when she arrived at the great house in gate that morning she had found little lady with her pretty baby face sadly by tears but she had put that down to the of the situation all young ladies of refined mind cried under kindred circumstances had she not herself wept for the better part of a week before finally deciding to accept george moreover a point of jealousy undoubtedly pricked lady in this connection she was far from being a cruel woman but comparing her own modest material advantages in marriage with the handsome ones offered to her little sister she could not be wholly sorry that the latter s rose was not entirely without thorns that the flower in question should have been as well as so very fine and large would surely have on injustice to herself this thought had perhaps unconsciously influenced her when on the of a refined indifference to sir richard s in her heart of hearts she was disposed perhaps to hail rather than the fact of that same for did it not tend to her lot and that of her little sister and the otherwise humiliating of their respective therefore she lady s speech by saying immediately � yes indeed papa it would only

lead to something clever on his part to play a trick and make some one or other look foolish was held the most pointed form of wit throughout the back regions of the and served as a constant substitute for theatrical entertainment what the farce wanted in costume or make up it gained in the reality of the mortification which excited the general laughter and lo here was the offensive the cool and superior christian caught comparatively helpless with his head hanging on his shoulder and one coat tail hanging out heavily below the elbow of the rustic eat it was this coat tail which served as a suggestion to mr scales s genius putting his finger up in warning to mrs cherry and saying hush � be quiet � i see a fine bit of fun � he took a knife from his pocket stepped behind the unconscious christian and quickly cut off the coat tail scales knew nothing of the errand to the and as he noticed that there was something in the pocket thought it was probably a large cigar case so much the better � he had no time to pause he threw the coat tail as far as he could and noticed that it fell among the elms under which they the radical had been walking then to mrs cherry he hurried away with her to the more open part of the park not daring to in laughter until it was safe from the chance of waking the and then the vision of the graceful well appointed mr christian who sneered at scales about his get up having to walk back to the house with only one tail to his coat was a source of so much enjoyment to the butler that the fair cherry began to be quite jealous of the jo e still she admitted that it really was funny and pledged herself to secrecy mr scales explained to her that christian would try to creep in unobserved but that this must be made impossible and he requested her to imagine th� figure this fellow would cut when every body was asking what had happened christian where s your coat tail would become a proverb at the where jokes kept remarkably well without the aid of salt and mr christian s comb would be cut so that it would take a long time to grow again exit scales laughing and presenting a fine example of dramatic irony to any one in the secret of fate when christian awoke he was shocked to find himself in the twilight he started up shook himself missed something and soon became aware what it was he missed h did not doubt that he had been robbed and he at once foresaw that the consequences would be highly unpleasant in no way could the cause of the accident be so represented to mr philip as to prevent him from his hitherto in a new and light and though mr christian did not regard his present position as brilliant he did not see his way to any thing better a man nearly fifty who is not always quite well is seldom hopeful he is aware that this is a world in which merit is often overlooked with the idea of robbery in full possession of his mind to peer about and search in the even if it had occurred to him would have seemed a preposterous waste of time and energy he knew it was likely that mr s pocket book had important and valuable contents and that he should his by his announcement of the unfortunate fact he hastened back to the house relieved by the obscurity from that mortification of his vanity on w hich the butler had counted indeed to scales himself the affair had already begun to appear less thoroughly than he had anticipated for he observed that christian s non appearance before dinner had caused mr some consternation and he gathered that the had been sent on a commission to the my uncle must have detained him for some reason or other he heard mr philip say but is odd if he were less about or had ever seemed to drink too much l should be uneasy altogether the affair was not taking the turn mr scales had intended at last when dinner had been removed and the butler s chief duties were at an end it was understood that christian had entered without his coat tail looking serious and even agitated that he had asked leave at once to speak to mr and that he was even then in with the gentlemen in the scales was in alarm it must have been some property of mr s that had the pocket he took a lantern got a groom to accompany him with another lantern and with the utmost practicable speed reached the fatal spot in the park lie searched under the elms � he was certain that the pocket had fallen there � and he found the pocket but he found it empty and in spite of farther search did not find the contents though he had at first consoled himself with thinking that they had fallen out and would be lying not far off he returned with the and the coat tail and a most uncomfortable consciousness in that great seat of a butler s emotion the stomach he had no sooner re entered than he was met by mrs cherry pale and anxious who drew him say that if he didn t tell every thing she would that the were to be sent for that there had been no the end of bank notes and letters and things in mr s pocket book which christian was carrying in that very pocket scales had cut off that the was sent for the was coming and they should all be hanged mr scales s own intellect was any thing but clear as to

it was only when he came on something that belonged the to her that he felt a sudden renewal of the old feeling the strange impulse that drew him to her voice but drove him from her hand so that even now at sight of anything she had touched his heart contracted painfully it happened seldom nowadays her little presents one by one had disappeared from his room and her letters kept from some vanity in the possession of such treasures seldom came beneath his hand her letters will be of special value � her letters why he must have hundreds of them � enough to fill a volume sometimes it used to seem to him that they came with every post � he used to avoid looking in his letter box when he came home to his rooms � but her writing seemed to spring out at him as he put his key in the door he stood up and strolled into the other room lounging away from the window had joined himself to a languidly group of men to whom in phrases as halting as though they struggled to define an ultimate idea he was the cursed nuisance of living in a hole with such a damned climate that one had to get out of it by february with the difficulty of there being no place to take one s to in winter but that other played out hole the from the outskirts of this group wandered to another where a voice as different as possible from s organ another circle of languid listeners come and hear talk about his patent the sion � one of the men sang out in a tone of mock resignation turned to the confident of his smile give it another six months and it u be talking about itself he declared it s pretty nearly articulate now can it say else inquired s smile broad you be glad to say papa to it year from now he it be able to support you in look just let me explain to you � moved away the men at the � all but those who were in it � were tired of s patent and none more so than whose knowledge of its merits made it loom large in the d catalogue of lost the tions between the two men had always been friendly and s urgent offers to take him in on tiie ground floor had of late s sense of his own inability to meet good half way some of the men who had paused to listen were already in evening clothes others on their way home to dress and with an accustomed of humiliation said to himself that h he lingered them it was in the miserable hope that one of the might ask him to dine miss had told him that she was to go to the opera that evening her rich aunt and if he should have the luck to pick up a din i the ner invitation he might join her there without extra he moved about the room lingering here and there in a affectation of interest but though the men greeted him pleasantly no one asked him to dine doubtless they were all engaged these men who could afford to pay tor their dinners who did not have to hunt for as a beggar for a crust in an ash barrel but no � as left the circle about the table an admiring youth called out stop and dine turned on him the crude countenance that looked like the wrong side of a more finished face sorry i can t i m in for a banquet threw himself into an arm chair why go home in the rain to dress it was folly to take a cab to the opera it was worse folly to go there at all his perpetual meetings with were as unfair to the girl as they were to himself since he could n t marry her it was time to stand aside and give a better man the chance � and his thought admitted the that in the terms of the phrase might stand for s the n t te dined alone and walked home to his rooms in the rain as he turned into fifth avenue he caught the wet gleam of es on their way to the and he took the first side street in a moment of irritation against the petty that every impulse it was ridiculous to give up the opera not because one might possibly be bored there but because one must pay for the experiment in his sitting room the of the had the on a photograph of placed in the silver frame just where as memory reminded him margaret s picture had long in its stead miss s features cruelly justified the she had the kind of beauty that comes of a happy accord of face and spirit it is not given to many to have the lips and eyes of their mood and some women go through life behind a mask expressing only their anxiety about the butcher s bill or their inability to see a joke with miss face and mind had the same high serious she looked like a justice by some grave painter and it seemed to that her most attribute or that at least to which her conduct gave most consistent expression was a kind of passionate � the feminine that the is so much than a reasoned circumstances had combined to develop this instinct into a conscious habit she had seen more than most girls of the shabby side of life of the perpetual tendency of want to the noblest attitude poverty and misfortune had her childhood and she had none of the pretty about life that are supposed to be the crowning grace of this very which gave her a touching made s situation more difficult than

truth � that small book against the life of l h that s a book i m very fond of � the life of said mrs he found out all about that woman at as pretended to live without eating stuff and nonsense mrs had become a reader of religious books since mr a advent and as she was in the habit of her perusal to the purely portions which bore a very small proportion to the whole she could make rapid progress through a large number of volumes on taking up the biography of a preacher she immediately l to the end to see what disease he died of and if his legs swelled as her own occasionally did she felt a stronger interest in any earlier facts in the history of the divine � whether he had ever fallen off a stage coach er he had married more than one wife and in general any adventures or recorded of him previous to the epoch of his she then glanced over the letters and and wherever there was a of the river of life and of exclamation she turned over to the next page but any passage in which she saw such promising as small pony or boots and shoes at once arrested her it is half past six now said miss looking at her watch as the servant appeared with the tea tray i suppose the are come back by this time if mr had not so kindly promised to call and let us know i should hardly rest without walking to to know what answer they have brought back it is a great privilege for us mr living at mrs s for he is often able to take us on his way backwards and forwards into the town i wonder if there s another man scenes of life in the world who has been brought up as mr tr an has that would choose to live in those small close rooms on the common among heaps of dirty cottages for the sake of being near the poor people said mrs i m he hurts his health by it he looks to me far from strong ah said miss i understand he is of a highly respectable family indeed in i heard him myself speak of his father s carriage � quite incidentally you know � and tells me what very fine handkerchiefs he uses my eyes are not good enough to see such things but i know what breeding is as well as most people and it is easy to see that mr is quite u to use a french expression i should like to tell him better nor use fine i this place where there s such washing it s a shame to be seen said mrs he em tore to pieces good lawn d be far better i saw what a color his linen looked at the last sunday mary s making him a black silk case to hold his bands but i told her she d more need wash em for him o mother said with solemn severity pray don t think of pocket handkerchiefs and linen when we are talking of such a man and at this moment too when he is perhaps having to bear a heavy blow we don t know but wickedness may have and mr may have to forbid the lecture there have been quite as mysterious and satan is evidently putting forth all his strength to resist the entrance of the gospel into church you spoke a truer word than that my dear said mrs who accepted all religious phrases but was in her interpretation for if old harry appeared in a human form it s that it was all through him as we got cheated oat o s making out as the title was n t good such lawyer s as if paying good money was n t title enough to anything if your father as is dead and gone had been worthy to know it but he have a fall some day will mark my words ah out of his carriage you mean said miss who in the movement occasioned by the clearing of the table had lost the first part of mrs s speech it certainly is alarming to see him driving home from his galloping horse like a madman my brother has often said he expected thursday evening to be called in to set some of s bones but i suppose he may drop that expectation now for we are given to understand from good authority that he has forbidden his wife to call my brother in again either to herself or her mother he no doctor shall attend his family i have reason to believe that pilgrim was called in to mrs s mother the other day poor mrs she s glad to do anything for the sake of peace said mrs bat it s no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution what trouble that poor woman has to bear in her old age said mary to see her daughter leading such a life an only daughter too that she on yes indeed said miss we of course know more about it than most people my brother having attended the family so many years for my part i never thought well of the marriage and i endeavored to my brother when mrs asked him to give away at the wedding if you will take my advice richard i said you will have nothing to do with that marriage and he has seen the justice of my opinion since mrs s r� p� was against the at first bat she always spoiled and i fear too she was won over by a foolish pride in having her daughter marry a professional man i fear it was so no one bat myself i think foresaw the

contracted for he called upon miss two or three times a week went to ride with her in the park accompanied her with her father and madame to the theatre and acted generally as an engaged young man should act except that his personal relations with her never passed beyond the cordiality to be found among very good friends he reached his wedding day without ever having offered to kiss her but there seemed nothing remarkable to him in that she was not the sort of woman one and miss giddy the spring entirely passed away and the watering place season was at its height was a favorite resort of the and for several years he had retained the same of rooms at the grand union this year was with him there part of the time though the new mansion on fifth avenue was visited by her nearly every week for one reason and another her days were in fact about equally divided between the two places as of she did exactly as she pleased when she her maid and were always with her and she also had to some extent the services of a new of the family a young man who bought the tickets and saw that the carriage was ready and did the sort of things for her that the did for her father the name of this young man was strange was not yet by any means well her doctor said so and her appearance confirmed his opinion she was apt to grow faint in unexpected places and then it was convenient to have a strong youth at hand who could support her with his arm more than once carried her bodily up the front steps of her house when the arrival was at night for by daylight she would rather have endured the slow support of the than been seen in this she was a girl of tender heart unwilling that any one should suffer on her account time and again she said to or is stronger than you i think you had best let him help me and the young man was so gentle so careful so willing that they all agreed with her that it was best to let him bear the heavy loads it was a rather peculiar from the hiss marriage bench of a wood to this situation but in america these things happen frequently had noticed the youth at his work during the years when her father s house was being built and had grown to fancy him after the last nail was driven she spoke to mr about him they were talking in relation to her illness and the need of some person of the other sex to accompany and whenever she had offered to try to find a suitable young man and had said he would in the newspapers the announcement in such a way that would not know for whose service they were required it was then that seemed possessed with a sudden thought and mentioned the name of the carpenter mr said at first that he knew the young man very well but doubted his capacity for the position but when she brought to his mind th had displayed his politeness and above all his supreme quality of the ceased to object and said he would take pleasure in speaking to him the fact that miss had set her mind upon the youth was quite enough for him and his pretended hesitation was only to make her feel that she had convinced him unwillingly most people if you ever thought of it like to believe they have shown the best of an argument appeared as stolid as ever when the went to him with his offer how much was he to receive that was the first question he asked and it gave evidence of being the only one he cared to this being settled on a liberal basis there was no more to be said he had as assist in the care of a lady as anything else so long as he was well paid for it it would be a change and he could return to his trade at any time the only person who did not like the new of the carpenter was charles he had been rather intimate with the strange family father and son and had passed a good many evenings at their residence still in the flat where we first found them there is always something different in the position of a personal servant from that of a or clerk with all his liberal ideas charles could not help wishing his friend had not accepted a place which in his opinion lowered him he was as as ever after entered upon his new occupation but all intimacy ceased between them try as he might he could not feel toward the as he had toward the independent as for he did not mind this did he mind anything he attended to his new duties which were light enough took his wages and closed his mouth when miss had need of him he was always at her service when she had none he went his way or remained in his own room working on a piece of wood that he kept for practice his taste in carving was undoubtedly good and his liking for tools was the only pronounced trait he evinced it was not the idea of that his daughter s marriage should be postponed while he wanted to make the time agreeable to her he knew very well that there were many slips between the cup and the lip he learned through that mr s was due to a request of s and that while in no haste himself ob he was willing to leave the matter entirely to her as he had agreed seeing that the pressure must therefore be brought entirely upon his daughter he began as gently as

dear you will have something sir knows all about the will that will not decide said abruptly surely dear sir says you are to have two thousand a year and the house at what i have will depend on what i accept said you and my uncle must not attempt to cross me and persuade me about this i will do everything i can do to make you happy but in anything about my husband i must not bo interfered with is eight hundred a year enough for you mamma more than enough dear you must not think of giving me so much mrs paused a little and then said do you know who is to have the estates and the rest of the money yes said waving her hand in dismissal of the subject i know everything it is all perfectly right and i wish never to have it mentioned the mother was silent looked away and rose book viii � fruit and seed to fetch a fan screen with a slight flush on her delicate cheeks wondering imagining she did not like to meet her daughter s eyes and sat down again under a sad what wretchedness her child had perhaps gone through which yet must remain as it always had been locked away from their mutual speech but was watching her mother with that new which experience had given her and in tender at her own she said come and sit nearer to me mamma and don t be unhappy mrs did as she was told but bit her lips in the vain attempt to hinder tears leaned towards her and said i mean to be very wise i do really and good � oh so good to you dear old sweet mamma you won t know me only you must not cry the resolve that had in her mind was that she would ask whether she ought to accept any of her husband s money � whether she might accept what would enable her to provide for her mother the poor thing felt strong enough to do anything that would give her a higher place in s mind an invitation that sir pressed on her with daniel kind was that she and mrs should go straight with him to park lane and make his house their abode as long as mourning and other details needed attending to in london town he insisted was just then the most retired of places and he proposed to exert himself at once in getting all articles belonging to away from the house in square no proposal could have suited her better than this of staying a little while in park lane it would be easy for her there to have an interview with if she only knew how to get a letter into his hands asking him to come to her during the journey sir having understood that she was acquainted with the purport of her husband s wiu ventured to talk before her and to her about her future arrangements referring here and there to mildly agreeable prospects as matters of course and otherwise shedding a cheerfulness over her position it seemed to him really the more graceful course for a widow to recover her spirits on finding that her husband had not dealt as handsomely by her as he might have done it was the s fault if he all her grief at his departure by giving a reason for it so that she might be supposed to look sad not because he had left her but book viii � and because he had left her poor the having his doubly by the favourable wind on his own fortunes and by compassion for had become quite in his behaviour to her called her my dear and in mentioning to mr with its various advantages and spoke of what we might do to make the best of that property sat by in pale silence while sir with his face turned towards mrs or mr that mrs might perhaps prefer letting to there during any part of the year in which case he thought that it might be on capital terms to one of the fellows engaged with the coal sir had seen enough of the place to know that it was as comfortable and picturesque a box as any man need desire providing his desires were within a coal area shouldn t mind about the myself said the with that which belongs to the mood nothing is more healthy and if one s business lay there would be a paradise it makes quite a feature in history of the county with the little tower and the fine piece of water � the prettiest print in the book daniel der a more important place than i suppose said mr much said the i was there with my poor brother � it is more than a quarter of a century ago but i remember it very well the rooms may not be larger but the grounds are on a different scale our poor dear is empty after all said mrs when it came to the point mr declared off and there has been no one to take it since i might as well have accepted lord s kind offer that i should remain in it another year rent free for i should have kept the place and warmed i hope you have got something snug instead said sir a little too snug said mr smiling at his sister in law you are rather thick upon the ground had turned with a changed glance when her mother spoke of being empty this conversation passed during one of the long unaccountable pauses often experienced in foreign trains at some country station there was a dreamy sunny stillness over the fields stretching to the boundary of and to the talk within the carriage seemed book � fruit and seed only to make the larger

alive he human face spoke to no human thing food was in to him he growled like a animal he hated all things for days and n he his rage at the universe for weeks months he never made a sound in the black si eating his very soul he was a man and a as fearful a thing of fear as ever in the visions of a brain and then one night he escaped the it was impossible but nevertheless the cell was ei the sleeping lad half in half out of it lay the body of a dead two other dead guards marked his trail the prison to the outer walls and he had with his hands to avoid noise he was armed with the weapons of the slain � a live that fled through the hills by the organized might of society a heavy � rice of gold was upon his head farmers him with shot guns his blood might pay off or send a son to college public spirited took down their and went out after him w pack of followed the way of his g feet and the hounds of the law the paid animals of society with and telegraph and special train clung to his trail night and day sometimes they came upon him and men faced m like heroes or through wire to the delight of the reading he account at the breakfast table it was after such that the dead and wounded were � to the towns and their places by men a for the man hunt and then jim hall disappeared the on the lost trail n remote valleys were held up by armed men and to identify themselves while the remains f jim hall were discovered on a dozen by greedy for blood money white in the meantime the newspapers were vista not so much with interest as i anxiety the women were afraid judge s and laughed but not with reason f was in his last days on the bench that jim hall stood before him and received sentence and in before all men jim hall had that the day would come when he would on the judge that him for once jim hall was right he was inn of the crime for which he was it case in the of thieves and police of reading jim hall was being to p for a crime he had not committed because o two prior convictions against him judge posed upon him a sentence of fifty years judge scott did hot know all things and he not know that he was party to a police that the evidence was and that hall was of the crime charged and hall on the other hand did not know that j scott was merely ignorant jim hall believed the judge knew all about it and was hand in with the police in the of the injustice so it was when the doom of fifty of living death was uttered by judge scott that hall all things in the society that mil him rose up and raged in the until the sleeping i by half a dozen of his blue enemies co him judge scott was the in the arch of and upon judge scott he emptied the f his wrath and hurled the threats of his revenge yet � o come then jim hall went to his living death and escaped of all this white knew nothing but between and the master s wife there existed a secret each night after vista had gone to she arose and let in white to sleep in the dig hall now white was not a house dog nor vas he permitted to sleep in the house so each early she slipped down and let him out the family was awake on one such night while all the house slept white awoke and lay very quietly and very quietly le the air and read the message it bore of a strange god s presence and to his ears came sounds of he strange god s movements white burst into lo furious it was not his way the strange walked softly but more softly walked white for he had no clothes to rub against the flesh f his body he followed silently in the wild he lad hunted live meat that was infinitely timid and le knew the advantage of surprise the strange god paused at the foot of the great staircase and listened and white was as dead jo without movement was he as he watched and white waited up that staircase the way led to the low master and to the love master s dearest white but waited the strange g foot lifted he was beginning the ascent then it was that white struck he gave in warning with no anticipated his own into the air he lifted his body in the spring that landed him on the strange god s back white clung his fore to the man s shoulders at the same time burying his into the back ot th neck he clung on for a moment long td drag the god over backward together they to the floor white leaped clear and as the man struggled to rise was in again with the vista awoke in alarm the noise from downstairs was as that of a score of there were revolver shots a man s voice screamed once in horror and anguish there was a great and growling and over all arose a and crashing of furniture and glass but almost as quickly as it had arisen the commotion died away the struggle had not lasted more than three minutes the frightened household clustered at the top of the from below as from out an abyss of blackness came up a sound as of air through water sometimes this became almost a but the sleeping wolf this too quickly died down and ceased then

of any had it been all the evening since about seven how is it then that the woman who came into by the naval treaty the room about nine left no traces with her muddy boots i am glad you raise the point it occurred to me at the time the are in the habit of taking their boots at the s office and putting on list slippers that is very clear there were no marks then though the night was a wet one the chain of events is certainly one of extraordinary interest what did you do next we examined the room also there was no possibility of a secret door and the windows are quite thirty feet from the ground both of them were fastened on the inside the carpet prevents any possibility of a trap door and the ceiling is of the ordinary white washed kind i will pledge my life that whoever stole my papers could only have come through the door how about the fireplace they use none there is a stove the hangs from the wire just to the right of my desk whoever rang it must have come right up by r of to the desk to do it but why should any criminal wish to ring the bell it is a most mystery certainly the incident was unusual what were your next steps you examined the room i presume to see if the intruder had left any traces � any end or dropped glove or or other trifle there was nothing of the sort no smell well we never thought of that ah a scent of tobacco would have been worth a great deal to us in such an investigation i never smoke myself so i think i should have observed it if there had been any smell of there was absolutely no due of any kind the only fact was that the s wife � mrs was the had hurried out of the place he could give no explanation save that it was about the time when the woman always went home the policeman and i agreed that our best by the naval treaty plan would be to seize the woman before she could get rid of the papers that she had them the alarm had reached scotland yard by this time and mr the came round at once and took up the case with a great deal of energy we hired a and in half an hour we were at the address which had been given to us a young woman opened the door who proved to be mrs s eldest daughter her mother had not come back yet and we were shown into the front room to wait about ten minutes later a knock came at the door and here we made the one serious mistake for which i blame myself instead of opening the door ourselves we allowed the girl to do so we heard her say mother there are two men in the house waiting to see you and an instant afterwards we heard the of feet rushing down the passage flung open the door and we both ran into the back room or kitchen but the woman had got there before us she stared at us with defiant eyes by t of and then suddenly me an expression of absolute astonishment came over her face � why if it isn t mr of the office she cried come come who did you think we were when you ran away from us asked my companion i thought you were the said she � we ve had some trouble with a � that s not quite good enough answered we have reason to believe that you have taken a paper of importance from the foreign office and that you ran in here to dispose of it you must come back with us to scotland yard to be searched � it was in vain that she protested and resisted a four was brought and we all three drove back in it we had first made an examination of the kitchen and especially of the kitchen fire to see whether she might have made away with the papers during the instant that she was alone there were no signs however of any ashes or scraps by the naval treaty l l when we reached scotland yard she was handed over at once to the female i waited in an agony of suspense until she came back with her report there were no signs of the papers then for the first time the horror of my situation came in its full force upon me hitherto i had been acting and action had thought i had been so confident of the treaty at once that i had not dared to think of what would be the consequence if i failed to do so but now there was nothing more to be done and i had leisure to realize my position it was horrible there would tell you that i was a nervous sensitive boy at school it is my nature i thought of my uncle and of his in the cabinet of the shame which i had brought upon him upon myself upon connected with me what though i was the victim of an extraordinary accident no allowance is made for accidents where interests are at stake i was ruined hopelessly ruined i don t know what i did i fancy i must have made a scene i have a of ii by of dim recollection of a group of officials who crowded round me endeavouring to soothe me one of them drove down with me to and saw me into the train i believe that he would have come all the way had it not been that dr who lives near me was going down by that very train the doctor most kindly took charge of me and it was well

whether mr walter had that evening gone over to the tory side of the house by accident i cannot say � � � � � � � � � w j f ta � � � l f i i mr chapter ix the liberal party � late mr henry hunt � mr thomas � lord mr robert mr colonel mr i begin with mr because he was the first of those i am about to name that ceased to be a member of the house of his career was short it only extended to two it commenced at a time it mi t naturally have been least expected and closed when it t have been expected to begin he was chosen by the of re parliament was when reform was carried into he was not re elected by them nor chosen by any other he was altogether a singular man it is no easy matter to give a estimate of his character he had something of the ci ce of mr and a good deal of his irritable temper bat in intellect or information he could not be for a moment compared with the member for mr hunt was not a man of much mind he was for with any great question he never took an original view of any subject and was altogether incapable of close and ingenious he held certain principles of the most kind and at his fingers ends most of the principal which other persons had urged in their when these were so were liis means of his principles his style was not good it was rough and what he in was ready wit he had few e in this respect all parties in the house not even the most themselves hard to cough him down whenever he attempted to speak it was on occasions that he generally gave the most striking proofs of his wit nothing could him the greater the uproar his to speak caused in the house the more did he enjoy it that was to him a luxury of the most exquisite kind the fact was he had been formed for scenes of confusion and had all his life long been accustomed to them at the meetings of his os hence ihey came to him quite in many or his there great one honourable member on one when mr hunt was speaking in his to cough him down mt hunt cured the of his cough by one sentence which delivered aa it waa with infinite dramatic created universal laughter mr hunt put his nd into hie pocket tumbling about for a n seconds said with the utmost imaginable coolness hat he s extremely sorry to find that he had not a few in i for the benefit of the honourable member who to be so distressed with the cough but he could assure be would provide some for him by next night never doctor more effectually not only did mr hunt s i from that moment t rid of his cough but it never at least while mr hunt waa speaking was aa bed as his it h no graceful his gesture was awkward and his voice was r and the bad effect produced by the latter vas by a strongly marked provincial accent in bodily he was tall and his at any rate it appeared so but this my have been partly owing in a in dress � � � � � � � j j large he had a double s ir witli a fresh healthy glow and though sixty years of age n speaking bad not the slightest or three years after he ceased to regular in his attendance on hie o doubt thai at his time of life his the active nature of his previous � bits that circumstance hastened his days f thomas member far and now of council m india could boast of a brilliant if f not very long career he was one of those who at once raised to the first rank in the hie maiden speech the house and called the highest compliments to the speaker from men of all es he was careful to preserve the he had thus and suddenly won he was a man of shrewd mind knew that if he spoke the probability was he not so well and that consequently could more likely means of lowering him from the which had raised himself than frequently he died i l vi member as h va duties i have n of frame and t e elevated j ad h m the house lu be was quite ht be no for met king have seen him attempt it� only however when forced to it by the he held on but in ever such instance he himself very indifferently me never made three or four speeches in the course of a � sometimes not bo many � end these were on questions some great principle of ot justice and which deep and attention at the time his speeches were most studied and to memory exactly as he delivered them he bestowed a world of labour on their preparation and certainly never was labour bestowed lo more purpose in every sentence you saw the man of genius � the profound � the deep � the close and powerful you scarcely knew which most to admire � the beauty of his ideas or of the language in which they were clothed his was his matter was strongly with the spirit of what for want of a better ex h would call the poetry of philosophy he was in this respect the same man in the house as he was when such articles tbe as bis on the genius and writings of he was an excellent speaker withal � not e or vehement carrying you away as it were by force but yoa taking you a willing captive if i may so speak by

he made no protest against it it s a sight better than he said and if it comes easier to you fellows i ve no objection ain t bad there s a kind of swing to it and you can t get it very far wrong the other s a good name spoiled and it s a name i ve a fancy for saving for her i gave it to her � i ll save it for her and it shall be a thing between us two call her if you like so it fell out that mr s oriental sealed her fate and gradually by a natural process was abandoned for even tom using it upon all ordinary occasions having in this manner begun life a day rarely passed in which she did not spend an hour or so in the post office each afternoon during the first few months of her existence tom brought her forth attired in all her and it was not long before the day came when he began to cherish the fancy that she knew when the time for her visit was near and enjoyed it when it came she looks as if he did he said to she wouldn t go to sleep yesterday after i came into the room and i ll swear i saw her eyes following me as i walked about and when i carried her in after she was dressed she turned her head over her shoulder to look round her and smiled when she had done it and found nothing was missing oh she knows well enough when she gets in there the fancy was a wonderfully pleasant one to him and when as time went on she developed a bright baby habit of noticing all about her and expressing her pleasure in divers soft little sounds he was a happier man than he had ever thought to be his greatest pleasure was the certain in connection with the de claim knowledge that she had first noticed himself � that her first greeting had been given to him that her first conscious caress had been his she was a loving little creature showing her affection earlier than most children do before she could sit upright she recognised his in and out and when he took her in his arms to walk to and fro with her as was his habit at night she dropped her tiny head upon his shoulders with a soft yielding to his tenderness which never failed to the of his heart there s something in her face he used to say to himself something that s not in every child s face it s a look about her eyes and mouth that seems to tell a man that she understands him � whether his spirits are up or down but his spirits were not often down in those days the rooms at the back no longer wore an air of loneliness and the evenings never hung heavily on his hands in the course of a few months he sent to for a high chair and tried the experiment of his small companion up in it at his side when he ate his supper it was an experiment which succeeded very well and filled him with triumph from her place in the kitchen could hear during every meal the sound of conversation of the most animated description tom s big kind voice rambling cheerily and replied to by the soft and murmuring of the child he was never tired of her never willing to give her up what i might have given to others if they d cared for it was his thought i give to her and she knows it it seemed too that she did know it that from her first gleaming of consciousness she had turned to him as her friend her protector and her best beloved when she in connection with the de claim heard his footsteps she turned in s arms or in her cradle to look for him and when she saw his face her whole little body towards him one afternoon when she was about eight months old he left her at the usual time who was working had spread a big red shawl upon the floor and seated her upon it and when tom went out of the room she sat still playing in the quiet way peculiar to her with the gay fringe she gave him a long earnest look as he crossed the threshold a look which he remembered afterwards as having been more thoughtful than usual and which must have represented a large amount of serious speculation mingled with desire tom went into the store and proceeded to the performance of his usual duty of entertaining his customers he was in a jovial mood and having a larger number of visitors than ordinarily was kept employed in settling the political problems of the day and of all public difficulties what s most wanted at the head of things he proclaimed is a man that s capable of himself mis if you choose that job can cut it off for you a man who ain t afraid of work help yourself jim lord where d this post office be if some men had to engineer it � a man who would stand at things and loaf instead of taking right hold for heaven s sake bill don t hurry ll give you the tea as soon as he s cut off his wife s dress that s the kind of men we want in office now � in every kind of office � in every kind of office if there s one thing no use for on god s green earth it s a man with no energy just kick that box over here so i get my feet on it in connection with the de claim he was sitting near the door which connected

to the group and a rich prospect of and meadow land with luxuriant hedges and richly ornamented with wood lay spread out below them this is delightful � thoroughly delightful said mr the skin of whose expressive countenance was rapidly off with exposure to the sun so it is so it is old fellow replied come a glass of punch with great pleasure said mr and the tion of his countenance after drinking it bore testimony to the sincerity of the reply good said mr his lips very good ril take another cool very cool come gentlemen continued mr still retaining his hold upon the jar a toast our friends at the toast was drunk with loud ru tell you what i shall do to get up my shooting again said mr who was eating bread and ham with a pocket knife fu put a stuffed on the top of a post and practise at it beginning at a short distance and it by degrees i understand it s capital practice i know a sir said mr as did that and begun at two but he never tried it on ag in for he the bird right clean away at the first fire and nobody ever seed a feather on him sam said mr the club � sir replied mr have the goodness to reserve your anecdotes till they are called for � sir here mr winked the eye which was not concealed by the beer can he was raising to his lips with such that the two boys went into spontaneous and even the long man condescended to smile well that certainly is most capital cold punch said mr looking earnestly at the stone bottle and the day is extremely warm and � my dear friend a glass of punch with the greatest delight replied mr and having drank that glass mr took another just to see whether there was any orange in the punch because orange always with him and finding that there was not mr took another glass to the health of their absent friend and then felt himself called upon to propose another in honor of the punch unknown this constant succession of glasses produced considerable effect upon mr his countenance beamed with the most sunny smiles laughter played around his lips and good merriment in his eye yielding by degrees to the influence of the exciting liquid rendered more so by the heat mr expressed a strong desire to recollect a song which he had heard in his infancy and the attempt proving sought to his memory with more glasses of punch which appeared to have quite a contrary effect for from forgetting the words of the song he began to forget how to articulate any words at au and finally papers of after rising to his legs to address the company in an eloquent speech he fell into the and fast asleep simultaneously the basket having been and it being found perfectly impossible to awaken mr from his some discussion took place whether it would be better for mr to wheel his master back again or to leave him where he was until they should all be ready to return the latter course was at length decided on and as their further expedition was not to exceed an hour s duration and as mr begged very hard to be one of the party it was determined to leave mr asleep in the and to call for him on their return so away they went leaving mr most comfortably in the shade that mr would have continued to in the shade until his friends came back or in thereof until the shades of evening had fallen on the landscape there appears no reasonable cause to doubt always supposing that he had been suffered to remain there in peace but he was not suffered to remain there in peace and this is what prevented him captain was a little fierce man in a stiff black and blue who when he did condescend to walk about his property did it in company with a thick stick with a brass and a gardener and sub gardener with meek faces to whom the not the stick captain gave his orders with all due grandeur and ferocity for captain s wife s sister had married a and the captain s house was a villa and his land grounds and it was all very high and mighty and great mr had not been asleep half an hour when the club followed by the two came along as fast as his size and importance would let him and when he came near the oak tree captain paused and drew a long breath and looked at the prospect as if he thought the prospect ought to be highly gratified at having him to take notice of it and then he struck the ground emphatically his stick and summoned the head gardener hunt said captain yes sir said the gardener roll this place to morrow morning � do you hear hunt yes su and take care that you me this place in good order � do you hear hunt yes sir and remind me to have a board done about and spring guns and all that sort of thing to keep the common people out do you hear hunt do you hear ni not forget it sir i beg your pardon sir said the other man with his hand to his hat well what s the matter with said captain i beg your pardon sir � but i think there have been here to day ha said the captain around him yes sir � they have been dining here i think sir why confound their audacity so they have said captain as the and fragments that were strewn upon the grass met his eye they have actually been devouring their food here i wish i had the papers of here said the captain the

pathway of its least and most individual property it is the same throughout the whole of nature a phenomenon originated anywhere is carried round the universe by a through its by a plant through its by an through its sensibility by a muscle through its specific by a common nerve through its sensitive or quality by an nerve through its capacity for sight and so forth an nerve indeed when subjected to the action of fire or is but it is by no means as an nerve that it is so affected it is as a given compound of such and such elements that it is burned so long as it is an nerve properly so called and to the extent in which it is an nerve and no other in existence it only sees fire or else flashes fire in such circumstances it follows therefore from all these considerations that if there were two mouths for example in one every taste perceived at one of them would be handed over as such to the other always supposing for the present that there were nothing to set bounds to the practical working of the law of sympathetic sensation there is a very significant thing connected with this conception of a man with two mouths deserving to be indicated and remembered with more than ordinary care the half written page is before my eye of white light rush from all its surface except where the black ink has fallen to the outside of my an image of the manuscript is painted on that expanded sheet of nerve and the writing is seen we know not how all that can be said in the matter according to the of after thought is this that such an image on the of a healthy eye is invariably followed by the perception of the thing that is but since the nerve and since the brain are essential to a healthy eye it is perhaps not easy to resist the supposition that the image of the is to somewhere that it meets the mind hence the theory of sensation so long cherished with some by the scotch and hence also the and other forms of which the doctrine of into as soon as the scientific public would suffer the play of hamlet to be performed before them without the prince for our own part we are clearly of opinion that if the matter is to be considered from this external point of view at all the the of is very good so long as it is confined to sensations and remembered sensations including of course whatever may accompany pure emotions and ideas the word however must always be understood to be no more than an sign upon these conditions and from this point of view it is not only but correct to assert that the perception of any object over against the eye is produced in so far as the physical of the process is concerned by a movement begun at the external surface of the and from without when on the other hand i remember or conceive of the paper i have over with mv pen the movement essential to the conception of the writing is not begun at the outside of the but somewhere else no matter where and it is from within the written page of memory is the reverse of that of perception that is in respect it is more speaking than that which is under the very eye in fever and activity or insanity of the organ the feeble image from within in the act of memory becomes so forcible as to the nature of an immediate image and there is developed the phenomenon of illusion with these subjects however we have nothing to do at present except in so far as the following queer consideration is concerned if the indulgent reader will bring our two headed monster before his mind s eye again ho will at once observe that the movement corresponding with the taste of anything begun at one of its mouths and from without will be carried from within to the other it will reach the secondary like the memory of a taste shadowy and ghost like always supposing that not to be so sensitive as to convert the remembrance of a sensation into a illusion iii the individuality of man as an animal shape is produced and sustained by those overflowing currents of of which he is the subject he is isolated from and within that world of external appearances of which he is the centre to the truth of appearance if not according to the truth of reality by sensation but it is not by the sensations produced in him by stars or sea and land or heat and cold or flowers and fragrance or the persons of friends and lovers were there no other sensations than these he could not them from his animal self they would all be parts the of of and the whole of nature were his body on that supposition it is his sensation of himself by his sensation of his sensations that he is out from the rest of nature and walks abroad as the of animals est iv not all sensations are perceived it is more exact to say that not all causes or usual of perceptible sensation are actually felt as sensations that is perceived one sensation so to speak another one is to another sensations are of one another then the perceiving mind can bend its attention in only one direction at one and the same time absorbed in the contemplation of a problem is deaf to the of a successful siege blind to his in flames and he might have died under the sword of the soldier who surprised him in study without a pang it is on these two accounts that sensation is limited m fact and man is v the last observation is vastly

bright dreams had vanished a step behind him quicker than his own made him aware that some one was following him and presently a voice called his name it was mr who had put himself to unusual exertion and required some seconds to recover his breath before he could speak further i want you to come over to my hotel and have a little talk with me he said has interested me in you immensely i believe as he says that you have the making of a distinguished author and i want to arrange a plan by which you can carry out his scheme mr stared doubtfully at his companion what scheme he said briefly why of to you that knowledge of the world which will enable you to draw truthful portraits you have the art he says the talent the capacity whatever you choose to call it all you lack is experience given that you would make a reputation second to none what can be than that you should acquire the thing you need without delay the thing i need repeated was my too bold mr laughed delightfully yes he explained what you need is a friend able to interest you to begin with pardon me if i say i may be described by that phrase come to my hotel a little while and let us talk it over it was not an opportunity to be refused in s depressed condition and the two men walked together to the house where mr at that time made his home chapter ii was my tory too bold y well your letter has come said mr as he entered the parlor of his pleasant residence situated about twenty miles from the limits of new york city open it as quick as you can and learn your fate his daughter started from her seat near the window where she had been spending the previous hour in speculations regarding the very that was now placed in her hands she was a handsome girl neither nor with eyes of gray and hair of that color that call red she took the envelope that her father gave her and though she wanted intensely to know the contents she hesitated to open it read it smiled mr let us tear a black whether we have an in our house who is destined to become famous but this remark made miss less willing than before to open the letter in her father s presence she slowly left the room without answering and did not break the seal of her communication till she was in the seclusion of her chamber and it was quite a while even then before she summoned the necessary courage some days previous she had sent a to the great house of the writing had taken up the best of her time for a year she had high hopes that it was destined to lay the foundation of an artistic success her plot was novel not to say startling it was entirely out of the conventional order it would be certain to arouse talk and provoke comment if it got into print and to make sure that it would get into print she had persuaded her father to write a little note which she enclosed with the saying that he would pay a cash if the firm demanded it to them against possible loss with this note in her mind miss had felt little doubt that her story would be accepted and printed she only wondered how warmly they would praise her work it was not enough to have them print it she wanted something to justify her in saying to her father there you see i was not wrong after all in thinking i could have a literary career r at last the was removed and the girl s astonished eyes lit upon this cold dry statement was my story too regret to be obliged to decline with thanks the of miss m and request to be informed what disposition she desires made of the same felt a ringing in her ears her hands grew a dull pain pressed on her forehead she felt a a sinking at the heart was it possible she had read aright rejected in this cruel way without even a reference to her father s offer it was and girl like she burst into a of weeping how could she ever face her father the sacrifices she had made came back to her sacrifices of which she had thought little at the time but which now seemed gigantic there had been nights when she had not gone to bed till three other nights when she had been too full of her subject to sleep and had risen in the small hours to finish some particularly interesting chapter twelve hundred pages there were in all note size in her large round almost masculine hand and this time was all lost she had mistaken her the greatest house in the country had decided against her gradually she dried her eyes it would do no good to weep she read the answer that had come in the mail a dozen times why could not the firm have sent her a reason an excuse that meant something she wanted to know wherein her fault lay it might be possible to correct it perhaps the state of business was to blame the more she thought the more determined she grew to t a black investigate this strange affair and within an hour she had her street clothes and started without saying anything to the rest of the household of her intention for the office of in the city she knew that each large concern had one or more readers on whose judgment they relied in such matters she therefore paused only long enough at the counting room to get directed to mr her knock on the critic s door brought forth a loud come

he hurried with his burden and rushing into the kitchen and calling upon the company there assembled to make way for god s sake deposited it on a chair before the fire the company who rose in on the s entrance did as people usually do under such circumstances everybody called for his or her favourite remedy which nobody brought each cried for more air at the same time what air there was by closing round the object of sympathy and body else the old shop didn t what it never appeared to occur to them might be done by themselves the landlady however who possessed more readiness and activity than any of them and who had withal a quicker perception of the merits of the case soon came running in with a little hot brandy and water followed by her servant girl carrying smelling and such other which being duly administered recovered the child so � as to enable her to thank them in a faint voice and to extend her hand to the poor who stood with an anxious face hard by without suffering her to another word or so much as to stir a finger any more die women straightway carried her off to bed and having covered her up warm bathed her cold feet and wrapped them in flannel they despatched a messenger for the doctor the doctor who was a red gentleman with a great of dangling below a waistcoat of black satin with speed and taking his seat by the bedside of poor drew out his watch and felt her pulse then he looked at her tongue then he felt her pulse again and while he did so he eyed the half emptied wine glass as if in profound abstraction i should give r said the doctor at length a tea every now and then of hot brandy and water why that s exactly what we ve done sir said the delighted landlady i should also observed the doctor who had passed the foot bath on the stairs i should also said the doctor in the voice of an put her feet in hot water and wrap them up in flannel i should likewise said the doctor with increased solemnity give her something light for supper � the wing of a fowl now � why goodness gracious me sir it s cooking at the kitchen fire this instant cried the landlady and so indeed it was for the had ordered it to be put down and it was on so well that the doctor might have smelt it if he had tried � perhaps he did you may then said the doctor rising gravely give her a glass of hot port wine if she likes wine � and a toast sir suggested landlady ay said the doctor in the o� v tm thi old shop and � of but be to make it of bread if yoa ma am which and the doctor departed the house in admiration of that whidi so with own he was a shrewd doctor ii and knew what people s were there appears some reason to he did while her was preparing the child into a refreshing sleep from whidi they were obliged to rouse her when it was ready as she evinced ex on learning that her grandfather was below stairs and was greatly troubled at the thought of their being he took supper with her finding her still on head they made him up a bed in an inner room to whidi he presently retired the key of this chamber happened by good fortune to be on that side of the door which was in room she turned it on him when the landlady had and crept to bed again with a thankful h the sat for a long time smoking his pipe hj the kitchen fire which was now deserted thinking a very happy face on the fortunate chance which had him to the child s assistance and as well as in his simple way he could the inquisitive of the landlady who had a great curiosity to lie made acquainted with every particular of s life and the poor was so open hearted and so in the most ordinary cunning or deceit that she could not have failed to succeed in the first five minutes hot that he happened to be with what she wished to know and so he told her the landlady by no means with this assurance which she considered an ingenious of the question rejoined that he had his reasons of course heaven forbid that she should wish to into the of her customers which indeed were no business of hers who had so many of her own she had merely asked a civil question and to be sure she knew it would meet with a civil answer she was quite satisfied � quite she had rather perhaps that he would have said at once that he didn t choose to be because that would have been plain and intelligible however she had no right to be offended of course he waa tl v v ai ad a the old shop right to say what he pleased nobody could dispute tha for a moment oh dear no i assure you my good lady said the mild that i have told you the plain truth � as i hope to be saved i have told you the truth why then i do believe you are in earnest rejoined the landlady with ready good humour and i m very sorry i you but curiosity you know is the curse of our z and that s the ct the landlord scratched his head as if he thought the curse sometimes involved the other sex likewise but he was prevented from making any remark to that effect if he had it in contemplation to do so by the s you should question me for half

struck me that such marked pointed less to indifference than to some conclusion she had arrived at in her mind about me � and now i knew what that conclusion was it was good of you to give me this little time all to myself i said why surely she said for are we not friends and indeed it was that cold in the friendliness in her manner to me which i had found impossible to break down no i said quietly real friends do not believe bad things about one another what has been � has been she said coldly and proudly your very of anything out of the way in your relations with brings home violently to me the contrast between you english and our american men yes � and wrong is wrong � but it need not be made brutal i retorted the date on that letter was by � she is little enough i broke off savagely and love is a word we brutes of men soil daily in taking between our lips � but i have not written one line to her � i have not said one word of what we called love to her since i came from america � and at that moment the door opened and came in she must have seen by s and my disorder how unfortunate yet was it not most fortunate her appearance was and when after some conversation we left together she declared almost with tears that she could kick herself for coming at so mat d a moment you could not have served either of us a better turn i said i have no patience with you paul cried reproachfully you love � and at queen anne s she you � she supplies exactly the right for your secretly violent nature � i wonder if it can be that old affair of yours with that the latter so exploits she added her brows but is too proud a woman to be jealous � will you hail that for me no i should say jealousy is as absolutely wanting in the american woman as her sense of humour � both are so entirely with her dignity i said don t sneer flashed as she drove away and yet i said to myself as i turned into st james s park and threw an upward glance to s if she had not been jealous then pray what else and i knew now what only lately i had guessed how blinding sweet parts of could be how glorious she could be in love chapter xxiv they who forgive most shall be most forgiven s ill said a day or two after our visit to queen anne s he deserves to be i said he she said almost below her breath and indeed seldom as i saw him he seemed to change rapidly before my very eyes but he came into the drawing room oftener than formerly as if to assert himself and one day had the to ask why never called now and had laughed � there was such frank carelessness about her laugh it showed such entire from s influence or control that i saw him colour under it as from a visible slap in the face and it struck me that his punishment had begun that to know himself what he now was in her eyes inflicted the most wound on his vanity he had ever received in his life it was as if with the falling of the shield of i they who forgive most s belief in him a shield he had interposed between him and a world that affected to be blind as long as she was the man s vitality had been and a sharp attack of developing latent as we knew later had done the rest then who was nothing if not unexpected startled me and if he is going to be ill she said let her nurse him she has had all the best of his life well let her have the pieces then broke out into passionate weeping i shall take him away directly she said did not wish me to be absent from her ball and wanted me to see the last of her or we should have gone sooner he is quite willing � and again the tears poured down i wish she said i had never known � been forced to know i mean it was a big down to him � and it has done no good � it either turns a man into a in his own house or � or � breaks him up � the middle way of making him a better man is not for me � i am too myself � or for � he is too old to change it was true � i knew that nothing had mattered so long as his hearth was kept warm for him and his wife was his wife � it is curious how sensitive these men who all the home are to a breath of desertion the the manner of a servant even and on the rare occasions when i saw him his and his illness were equally apparent she turned away from me and stood at a window looking out on nothing and i am out most of the day and most nights enjoying myself � generous heart wanting to share her pleasures even with what had wronged her never could remember her injuries oh she almost whispered i could forgive it all � all � but for my lost baby � sometimes i long to steal one of my p � if there were any child of my own blood or s that i could adopt i would do but there is not i remained silent not looking at her for my eyes would have told too much an idea had been in my mind ever since told me his

the chapel before nay he both head and foot to the time as if he had wish it and he could ascend at once to heaven was a victory this was a moment of ig � hero was the christian soldier rattling n his chariot to the sound of the t and hen the service was over he shook hands with y of his friends as ho could exclaiming oh blessed day has this been to me i what a time indeed it is good to be tried truly of comfort were opened to my soul on y more abundantly than i dared to hope for el my privileges more strongly and more of w man within me � i am sustained and com and feel that it was good for me to be here m this day � i did not hope for this but it w graciously granted to me notwithstanding h good how heavenly a thing it is to be called up to suffer especially when we are able to do so in i and obedience may he be praised for all amen v now my dear friend who will say after all tl that the stage is the great school for actors who e saw on the boards of a theatre a more finished p than that of solomon m it so ha pens that i am acquainted with the whole and consequently can fully appreciate talents in the mean time i am paying a business to m to morrow that i may h an opportunity of a nearer inspection into his cl he is said to be an able deep and man � cowardly but tr but plausible and without the slight remorse of conscience to restrain him from accomplishment of any purpose no matter and yet the cure for all this in eyes of his own party is his boundless loyalty his thorough no wonder the should be no longer useful or respected when si supported only by such as m and his class the irish agent � at a little after ten i waited upon this agent to the castle property and found him in his office looking over an account ok with his son he has a bad face � black heavy oyer hanging eye brows and an upper lip that and gets pale when engaged even in earnest � his forehead is low but broad and indicating the minor of intellect together with great and cunning altogether he has the head and face of a for purposes which you shall know hereafter i declined presenting lord s letter of introduction which i calculated would put the fellow on his guard it more prudent to introduce myself as a anxious if i could do so conveniently to settle somewhere in the neighbourhood the son s was towards me when i entered and until he had finished the account at which he had been engaged which he did by a good deal of and he did not deem it worth while to look about him even at the entrance of a stranger having heard me express my intention of looking for a residence in the vicinity he did me the honour f one of the most i ever saw he is tall fellow above six feet his shoulders are narrow ut round as the curve of a pot � his neck is at least vol ii o m eighteen inches in length on the top of which i a head somewhat of a three shape country s wig block only not so looking his nose is short and turned up a li the top � his is awful but then it is himself for his eyes instead of looking around as such eyes do appear to keep a jealous and vi watch on each other across his nose � his chin is and retreating and from his wide mouth buck teeth that lie together pair of upon a dog heavens t beautiful girl � as it is said every where is and until now correct conduct and � should admit such i as this into her apartment i night too i after having stared at me for with a great deal of cunning and a great deal oi in his countenance he again began to pore blank pages of his book as if he had been wo out some difficult calculation and said the father after we had been ch for some time have you seen anything in the i that you think would suit you i am too much of a stranger sir i re to be able to answer in the affirmative � but i a the country and the scenery both of which i the irish agent immediate neighbourhood axe extremely beautiful and they are so he and the country is a fine one certainly ay said only for these cursed as he spoke he looked at me very significantly and drew three of his yellow fingers across his chin but added nothing more this by the way he did half a dozen times and on mentioning the circumstance it has been suggested to me that it must have been the sign by which one makes himself known to another the i replied do not enter into any objection of mine against a residence in the neighbourhood but as you mr m as agent of fine property must be well acquainted with the state and circumstances of the country you would confer a favour by me as a stranger to form correct impressions of the place and people then said he m the first place allow me to ask what are your politics as an englishman which i perceive you are by your accent � i take it for panted that you are a i am a certainly i replied and a of england one m ay but that s not enough said that won t do my good sir

in love with me you would never have asked me to marry you you would have considered the obstacles i am very much in love with you he vehemently his feelings getting the better of his pride for once however badly i may have expressed myself i am very much in love with you i have been for days was it because you felt obliged to ask me to marry you she inquired the delicate touch of spirit in her tone and words fired him to fresh admiration strange to say it suggested to him possibilities he had not suspected hitherto he drew nearer to her don t be too severe on me he said � quite humbly considering all things and he stretched out his hand as if to take hers but she drew it back smiling ever so do you think i don t know what the a obstacles are she said i will tell you my affection was strong enough to sweep them away he said or i should not be here she smiled slightly again i know all about them as well as you do she said i rather laughed at them at first but i don t now i suppose i m impressed by their seriousness as aunt says suppose they are pretty serious � to you nothing would be so serious to me as that you should let them interfere with my happiness he answered thrown back upon himself and bewildered by her logical manner let us forget them i was a fool to speak as i did won t you answer my question she paused a second and then answered � you didn t expect to ask me to marry you she said and i didn t expect you to � but now � he broke in impatiently now � i wish you hadn t done it � � you wish � somebody else you don t want m� she said you want somebody � somebody who would respect you very much and obey i m not used to obeying people do you mean also that you would not respect me he inquired bitterly oh she replied you haven t respected me much i excuse me � he began in his manner you didn t respect me enough to think me worth marrying she said i was not the kind of girl you would have chosen of your own will you are treating me i he cried you were going to give me a great deal i suppose � looking at it in your way she went on but if i exactly what you wanted i had something to give too i m young enough to have a good many years to live and i should have to live them with you if i married you that s something you know he rose from his seat pale with wrath and wounded feeling a does this mean that you refuse me he demanded that your answer is no she rose too � not not confused neither pale nor flushed he had never seen her prettier more charming or more natural it would have been no even if there hadn t been any obstacle she answered then he said i need say no more i see that i have � myself in vain and it is rather bitter i must confess it wasn t my fault she remarked he stepped back with a haughty wave of the hand that she should pass out of the before him she did so but just as she reached the entrance she turned and stood for a second framed in by the swinging vines and their blossoms there s another reason why it should be no she said i suppose i may as well tell you of it i m engaged to somebody � ul chapter xxvi jack thb first person they saw thej reached the lawn was mr who had to present himself and was talking to mr and miss i ll go to them said aunt will wonder where i have been but before they reached the group they were by lord and had the pleasure of his charge and watching her with some rather sharp pangs as she was borne off to the what is tho matter with mr exclaimed miss pray look at him he been talking to miss in one of the put in and i d a them a few minutes ago and they were so absorbed that they did not see us there k no knowing what has happened mrs in stem reproof of such but the next moment she exchanged a glance with miss do you think � she suggested is it possible � it really looks very like it said miss though it is scarcely to be see how pale and angry he looks mrs glanced toward him and then a slight smile illuminated her countenance how furious she remarked cheerfully how furious lady will be i naturally it was not very long before the attention of numerous other ladies was directed to mr francis it was observed that he took no share in the that he did not regain his natural air of indifference to his surroundings � that he did not approach until au was and she was on the point jack s s of going home what he said to her then no one heard i am to london to morrow good by she answered holding out her hand to him then she added quickly in an under tone you t to think badly of me you won t after a while as they drove homeward she was rather silent and miss remarked it i am afraid you are tired she said it is a pity that martin should come and find you tired oh i m not tired i was only � thinking it has been a queer day a queer day my dear ejaculated miss

frequently not her own and as for the tom boy players and of the era i do not consider them women at all � they are merely the unnatural of a new sex which will be neither male nor female my dear tempest i hate women so would you if you knew as much about them as i do they have made me what i am and they keep me so they are to be much then � i observed � you do them credit i do he answered slowly � in more wa rs than one a faint smile was on his face and his eyes brightened with that curious jewel like gleam i had noticed several times before believe me i shall never contest with you such a slight gift as woman s love it is not worth fighting for and of women that reminds me � i have promised to take you to the earl of s box at the to night � he is a poor peer very and somewhat the sorrows of satan heavily with port wine but his daughter lady is one of the of england she was presented last season and created quite d will you come i am quite at your disposition � i said glad of any excuse to escape the of my own company and to be in that of whose talk even if its satire me occasionally always fascinated my mind and remained in my memory � what time shall we meet go and dress now and join me at dinner � he answered and we ll drive together to the theatre afterwards the play is on the usual theme which has lately become popular with stage � the of a fallen lady and the exhibition of her as an example of something pure and good to the astonished eyes of the innocent as a play it is not worth seeing � but perhaps lady is he smiled again as he stood facing me � the light flames of the fire had died down to a dull uniform red � we were almost in darkness and i pressed the small button near the that the room with electric light his extraordinary beauty then struck me afresh as something altogether singular and half don t you find that people look at you very often as you pass i asked him suddenly and he laughed not at all why should they every man is so intent on his own aims and thinks so much of his own personality that he would scarcely forget his if the very devil himself were behind him women look at me sometimes with the affected and like interest usually exhibited by the frail sex for a man i cannot blame them i answered my gaze still resting on his stately figure and fine head with as much admiration as i might have felt for a noble picture or statue � what of this lady we are to meet to night � how does she regard you lady has never seen me � he replied � and i the sorrows of satan have only seen her at a distance it is chiefly for the purpose of an introduction to her that the earl has asked us to his box this evening ha ha matrimony in view i exclaimed � yes � i believe lady is for sale � he answered with the coldness that occasionally distinguished him and made his handsome features look like an impenetrable mask of but up to the present the bids have not been sufficiently high and i shall not purchase i have told you already tempest i hate women seriously most seriously women have always done me harm � they have me in my progress and why i specially them is that they have been gifted with an enormous power for doing good and that they let this power run to waste and will not use it their deliberate enjoyment and choice of the repulsive vulgar and commonplace side of life me they are much less sensitive than men and infinitely more heartless they are the mothers of the human race and the faults of the race are chiefly due to them that is another reason for my hatred do you want the human race to be perfect i asked astonished � because if you do you will find that impossible he stood for a moment apparently lost in thought everything in the universe is perfect � he said except that curious piece of work � man have you never thought out any reasons why he should be the one flaw � the one creature in a creation no i have not � i replied � i take things as i find them so do i � and he turned away and as i find them so they find me au dinner in an hour s time remember the door opened and closed � he was gone i remained alone for a little thinking what a strange disposition was his the sorrows of satan � what a curious mixture of philosophy sentiment and satire seemed to run like the veins of a leaf through the temperament of this brilliant semi mysterious personage who had by mere chance become my greatest friend we had now been more or less together for nearly a month and i was no closer to the secret of his actual nature than i had been at first yet i admired him more than ever � without his society i felt life would be deprived of half its charm for though attracted as human will be by the glare of my glittering millions numbers of so called friends now surrounded me there was not one among them who so my every mood and with whom i had so much close sympathy as this man � this half cruel half kind companion of my days who at times seemed to

he finds who doubts man asked miss abbey u a skill in what he finds perhaps said his evil head miss abbey her brow at him as he darkly at her if you re out upon the river pretty nigh every tide and if you want to find a man or woman in the river you ll greatly help your luck miss abbey by knocking a man or woman on the head and em in gracious was the involuntary exclamation of miss soil mind you returned the other stretching forward over the half door to throw his words into the bar for his voice was as if the head of his boat s were down his throat i say so miss abbey and mind you i ll follow him up miss abbey and mind you bring him to book at last if its twenty year hence i will who s he to be favoured along of his daughter ain t i got a daughter of my own with that flourish and seeming to have talked himself rather more drunk and much more ferocious than he had begun by being mr took up his pint pot and off to the was not there but a pretty strong muster of miss pupils were who exhibited when occasion required the greatest on the clock s striking ten and miss abbey s appearing at the door and addressing a certain person in a faded scarlet jacket with george jones your time s up i told your wife you should be punctual jones rose gave the company good night and retired at half past ten on miss abbey s looking in again and saying william bob and you are all due bob and with similar took their leave and greater wonder than these when a bottle person in a glazed hat had after some considerable hesitation ordered another glass of gin and water of the attendant and when miss abbey instead of sending it appeared in person saying captain you have had as much as will do you good not only did the captain feebly rub his knees and contemplate the fire without offering a word of protest but the rest of the company murmured ay ay captain miss abbey s right you be guided by miss abbey captain nor was miss abbey s vigilance in by this submission but rather sharpened for looking round on the faces of her school and two other young persons in need of she thus bestowed it tom it s time for a young fellow who s going to be married next month to be at home and asleep and you needn t him mr jack for i know your work begins early tomorrow and i say the same to you so come good night vol i b mutual friend like good lads upon which the blushing looked to and the blushing looked to on the question who should rise first and finally both rose together and went out on the broad grin followed by miss abbey in whose presence the company did not take the liberty of grinning likewise in such an establishment tne white pot boy with his shirt sleeves arranged in a tight roll on each bare shoulder was a mere hint of the possibility of physical force thrown out as a matter of state and form exactly at the closing hour all the guests who were left filed out in the best order miss abbey standing at the half door of the bar to hold a ceremony of review and dismissal all wished miss abbey good night and miss abbey wished to all except the pot boy looking on then had the conviction borne in upon his soul that the man was outcast and from the six jolly fellowship you bob said miss abbey to this pot boy run round to s and tell his daughter that i want to speak to her with swiftness bob departed and returned following him arrived as one of the two female of the fellowship arranged on the snug little table by the bar fire miss s supper of hot and potatoes come in and sit ye down girl said miss abbey can you eat a bit no thank you miss i have had my supper i have had mine too i think said miss abbey pushing away the dish and more than enough of it i am put out i am very sorry for it miss then why in the name of goodness miss abbey sharply do you do it do it miss there there don t look astonished ought to have begun with a word of explanation but it s my way to make short at things you bob there put the chain upon the door and get ye down to your supper with an alacrity that seemed no less to the met than to the supper met bob obeyed and his boots were heard descending towards the bed of the river then began miss how often have i held out to you the opportunity of getting clear of your father and doing well very often miss very often and i might as well have spoken to the iron of the strongest sea going steamer that passes the fellowship no miss pleaded because that would not be thankful and i am i vow and declare i am half ashamed of myself for taking such our mutual an interest in yon said miss abbey for i don t believe i should do it if you were not good looking why ain t you ugly merely answered this difficult question with an glance however you ain t resumed miss so it s no use going into that i must take you as i find you which indeed is what i ve done and you mean to say you are still obstinate not obstinate miss i hope firm i suppose you call it then yes miss fixed like never was

too often not in proportion their desert but accord ing to their effect on the convenience of their em mrs was under a strong impulse and she proceeded in that most delicate of all operations � reform mary she said i perceive that you are getting uneasy like all the girls mary was suffering from and loss of spirits the almost certain consequence of top close a confinement to a employment she burst into tears don t be troubled mary i did not mean to reproach you resumed mrs servants are always they shall like some other work better than that they are doing � it s the old story each one is eager to lay down his particular burden and glad enough to take if i live and let live up i was not the least offended if you had seriously proposed going away i should to be sure have thought you very absurd and ungrateful � indeed indeed mrs i am not but what surely you do not in earnest mean to leave me � i must ma am the doctor says i am getting a liver complaint nd i can never be cured if i don t take to some stirring work mary how absurd you have been to some goose of a doctor it is a great deal harder to do stirring work as you call it than to sit at your needle i will speak to doctor smith about you you know i have always told you that you might have our own physician free of expense thank you ma am but i am sure my own doctor is right he says he will not impose medicine on me it will only make the matter and i feel what he says to be true and you really mean to leave me t i must mrs well you must do as you think fit but i doubt if you find a better place mary was silent her tears stiu flowed there was something like a in mrs s words and still more in her manner which repressed the expression of the gratitude mary deeply felt for all the and kindness she had received at mrs s hand and the lady left her with the conviction that as she soon after said to a friend mary was just like all other servant girls let say what she will they are an ungrateful pack mr and i have made mary presents upon presents i have never counted her lost days and i have never spoken a harsh word to her and now she is going away when she knows how important she is to me just because some absurd doctor has put it into her head that sewing don t agree with her if mrs had understood the first principles of and she was perfectly capable of them and if she had felt the duties of her station and applied these principles to the persons cast upon her care mary would not have lost her health and they might have con to the end of their lives to live together with benefit instead of parting with smothered reproaches on the one side for and smothered gratitude on the other for the of virtues that after all were merely virtues of constitution after one or two other attempts at re form mrs to her old mode of ing with the current and letting things take their own way convinced she said there was no use in trying to have matters too perfect our conclusion is that old in families as in states are not of sudden ot e � y and live chapter ix said you know you have the dishes to do to day it s my sunday out but i did not have my sunday out last sunday you know mrs � that was not my fault nor was it mine said who had the strongest motive for maintaining her rights wanted to go out and mrs said if i would stay and amuse the children i should go home to day and had well earned the performance of the promise for mrs said she had never known the children so quiet � she and mr had got their sunday s nap without once hearing them the secret of this was that finding it sorely against her conscience to pass the sacred day in picking up and dressing had kept the children still and most happy too by telling them sunday stories she had heard from h r mother left the kitchen for a few moments and presently the bell rung twice the summons for � i am sorry to disappoint you said mrs but i entirely forgot it was s sunday out can t i set the dishes aside ma am and wash them when i come home no nothing puts out so much as that � you know we must mind our p s and q s with don t look so dismal child � it s waiting till to morrow j will think it s for ever waiting till tomorrow oh that little broken back brother you told me about � never mind i ll give you some of the children s old to carry to him tomorrow he is not fond of mrs ar ey he can t play with them � well books then � picture books s face brightened she had often thought how happy it would make to possess a few of the books the children were tossing about the nursery thank you mrs she said nothing would please so much it will make the time seem shorter when i am away and half consoled and but half she returned to the kitchen where greeted her with you ll find miss lee you ll never get the upper hands of me so you may as well give up first as last telling about burnt or trying to keep me at

resumed his discourse where had i got on to sir to driving the pile said mr the pile twas so as i was saying was driving the pile in this manner as i might say here mr held his walking stick with his left hand and struck a blow with great force on the of the stick with his right john was the pile so as i might say here he gave the stick a slight shake and looked firmly in the various eyes around to see that before proceeding further his listeners well grasped the subject at that a pair of blue eyes stage well when had struck some half dozen blows more upon the pile a stopped for a second or two john thinking he had done striking put his hand upon the top o the pile to en a pull and see if a were firm in the ground mr spread his hand over the top of the stick completely covering it with his palm well so to speak hadn t to stop striking and when john had put his hand upon the pile the � � oh dreadful said the was already coming down you see sir just caught sight of his hand but couldn t stop the blow in time down came the upon poor john smith s hand and en to a dear me dear me poor fellow said the with an like the groans of the wounded in a performance of the battle of john smith the master cried hurriedly ay no other and a better hearted man god a mighty never made is he so much hurt i have heard said mr not noticing that he has a son in london a very promising young fellow oh how he must be hurt repeated a couldn t hurt very little well sir t ye and ye sir and you miss i m sure mr had been making motions of and by the time this farewell remark came from his lips he was just outside the door of the room he along the hall stayed more than a minute endeavouring to close the door properly and then was lost to their hearing had meanwhile turned and said to the please excuse me this evening i must leave john smith is my father a pair of blue eyes the did not comprehend at first what did you say he inquired john smith is my father said deliberately a tinge of rose from mr s neck and came round over his face the lines of his features became more firmly defined and his lips seemed to get thinner it was evident that a series of little circumstances hitherto were now fitting themselves together and forming a picture in mr s mind in such a manner as to render useless further explanation on s part indeed the said in a voice dry and without this being a word which depends entirely upon its tone for its meaning mr s was equivalent to no expression at all i have to go now said with an agitated bearing and a movement as if he scarcely knew whether he ought to run off or stay longer on my return sir will you kindly grant me a few minutes private conversation certainly though it does not seem possible that there can be anything of the nature of private business between us mr put on his straw hat crossed the drawing room into which the moonlight was shining and stepped out of the french window into the it required no further effort to perceive what indeed reasoning might have foretold as the natural colour of a mind whose pleasures were taken amid good dinners and reminiscences that mr s prejudices were too strong for his generosity and that s moments as his friend and equal were numbered or had even now ceased moved forward as if he would follow the then as if he would not and in absolute per a pair of blue eyes whither to turn himself went awkwardly to the door followed behind him before he had two yards from the unity and ann the came home from their visit to the village have you heard anything about john smith the accident is not so bad as was reported is it said oh no the doctor says it is only a bad thought so i cried gladly he says that although believes he did not check the as it came down he must have done so without knowing it � checked it very considerably too for the full blow would have knocked his hand abroad and in reality it is only made black like how thankful lam said the perplexed unity looked at him with her mouth rather than with her eyes that will do unity said and the two maids passed on do you forgive me said with a faint smile no man is fair in love and he took her fingers lightly in his own with her head thrown sideways in the attitude she looked a tender reproach at his doubt and pressed his hand returned the pressure then hastily went off to his father s cottage by the wall of park what have you to say to this inquired her father coming up immediately had retired with feminine quickness she grasped at any straw that would enable her to plead his cause he had told me of it she faltered so that it is not a discovery in spite of him he was just coming in to tell you coming to tell why hadn t he already told i object as much if not more to his conceal a pair of blue eyes ment of this than i do to the fact itself it looks very much like his making a fool of me and of you too you and he have been about together and corresponding together in a way i don t at all

and left him to his rest in the s ancient bed chapter if joseph the and of had happened to be at home when his father s guest presented himself before the door � that is if it had not chanced to be one of the half dozen days in the whole year on which he was at liberty to absent himself for as many hours without question or reproach � he would have contrived by hook or to to the very bottom of mr s mystery and to come at his purpose with as much certainty as though he had been his confidential adviser in that fortunate case the would have had quick warning of the ills that threatened them and the aid of various and wise suggestions to boot for all joe s readiness of thought and action and au his sympathies and good wishes were in favour of the young people and were in devotion to their cause whether this disposition arose out of his old in favour of the young lady whose history had surrounded her in his mind almost from his cradle with circumstances of unusual interest or from his attachment towards the yoimg gentleman into whose confidence he had through his and alacrity and the rendering of important services as a spy and messenger almost glided whether they had their origin in either of these sources or in the habit natural to youth or in the constant and worrying of his venerable parent or in any hidden little love affair of his own which gave him of a fellow feeling in the matter it is needless to inquire � especially as joe was out of the way and had no opportunity on that particular occasion of to his sentiments either on one side or the other it was in fact the twenty fifth of march which as most people know to their cost is and b been time out of mind one of those unpleasant termed quarter days on this twenty fifth of march it was john s pride to in hard cash his with a certain and in the city of london to give into whose hands a canvas bag containing its exact amount and not a penny more or less was the end and object of a for joe so surely as the year and day came round this journey was performed upon an old grey mare concerning whom john had an indistinct set of ideas hovering about him to the effect that she could win a plate or cup if she tried she never had tried and probably never would now being some fourteen or fifteen years of age short in wind long in body and rather the worse for wear in respect of her mane and tail notwithstanding these slight defects john perfectly in the animal and when she was brought to the door by actually retired into the bar and there in a secret grove of laughed with pride there s a bit of said john when he had recovered enough self command to appear at the door again there s a comely there s high there s bone there was bone enough beyond all doubt and so seemed to think as he sat sideways in the saddle lazily doubled up with his chin nearly touching his knees and heedless of the dangling and loose bridle rein sauntered up and down on the little green before the door mind you take good care of her sir said john appealing from insensible person to his son and heir who now appeared equipped and ready don t you ride hard i should be puzzled to do that i think father joe replied casting a look at the animal none of your impudence sir if you please retorted old john what would you ride sir a wild ass or would be too tame for you wouldn t he eh sir you d like to ride a roaring lion wouldn t you sir eh sir hold your tongue sir when mr will in his differences with his son had exhausted all the questions that occurred to him and joe had said nothing at all in answer he generally wound up by bidding him hold his tongue and what does the boy mean added mr after he had stared at him for little time in a species of by his hat to such an extent are you a going to kill the sir no said joe i m not now your mind at ease father with a air too said mr surveying mm from top to toe with a fire eating drinking sort of way with him and what do you mean by pulling up the and eh sir it s only a little said joe there s no harm in that i hope you re a boy of business you are sir said mr to go supposing that care for i don t suppose anything of the kind returned joe let them keep their red noses for bottles and these are going to mr s house and do you suppose he minds such things as demanded john i don t know and to say the truth i don t care said joe come father give me the money and in the name of patience let me go there it is sir john and take care of it and mind you don t make too much haste back but give the mare a long rest � do you mind ay i mind returned joe she u need it heaven knows and don t you score up too much at the black lion said john mind that too then why don t you let me have some money of my own retorted joe why don t you father what do you send me into london for giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the black lion which you re to pay

to pour light on the band of light and splendor and to and to them and us while the world and to all eternity the first speaks to the my light is on thy countenance my word is on thy tongue me thou thou me thou est me thou me thou what thou that i say and thy acts are my acts and i speak by thy tongue and thou to me though mortals imagine that thou to them i am never out of thy heart and i am contained in nothing but in thy heart and i am nearer unto thee than thou art unto thy soul me in the name of o i will call thee aloft and make thee my companion the lower world is not thy place many times daily thou from thy body and unto me now thou art not satisfied with coming unto me from time to time and longest to abide continually nigh unto i too am not satisfied with thy absence although thou art with me and i with thee still thou and i desire that thou be still with me therefore will i release thee from thy body and make thee sit in my company the heavens the first time that i was called to the world above die heavens and stars said unto me o we have bound up our in the service of and never withdrawn from it because he is worthy of praise and we are filled with astonishment how mankind can so wide from the commands of god whatever is on earth is the resemblance and shadow of something that is in the sphere while that thing in good condition it is well also with its shadow when that thing far from its shadow life to a distance again that july light is the shadow of something more than itself and so on up to me who am the light of lights look therefore to who the shadow to fall morals purity is of two kinds real and formal the real in not binding the heart to evil and the formal in away what appears evil to the view true self knowledge is knowledge of god life is affected by two evils lust and anger restrain them within the proper mean till man can attain this self control he cannot become a celestial the perfect unity in and in unity the roads tending to god are more in number than the of created beings op writing the spider said wherein the superior excellence of man the sage said men understand and charms and magic arts animals do not the spider answered animals exceed men in these respects if thou not that crawling things and insects build and square houses without wood or brick behold my work how without loom i fine cloth replied man can write and express his thoughts on paper which animals cannot the spider said animals do not transfer the secrets of from a living heart to a lifeless body hung down his head from shame spring with what a still air the spring comes stealing up the way like some young maiden fair too modest for the light of day ben ben bt hunt ben may his tribe increase awoke one night from a deep dream of peace and saw within the moonlight in the room making it rich and like a lily in bloom an angel writing in a book of gold exceeding peace had made ben bold and to the presence in the room he said what thou the vision raised its head and with a look made all of sweet accord answered the names of those who love the lord and is mine one said nay not so replied the angel spoke more low but still and said i pray thee then write me as one who loves his fellow men the angel wrote and vanished the next night he came again with a great light and showed their names whom love of god had and lo ben s name led all the rest the song of birds in spring they breathe the feeling of thy happy soul intricate spring i too active for a word they come from regions distant as the pole thou art their � of the bird the earth the earth by william e mt highway is air mj are the sleepless stars and men mj giant arms my arms and free from i rest forever on my way rolling around the happy sun my children love the sunny day but noon and night to me are one my heart hath like their own i am their mother and my veins though built of the enduring stone thrill as do theirs with pains the forests and the mountains high the foaming ocean and its springs the plains � o pleasant company my voice through all your rings ye are so cheerful in your minds content to smile content to share my being in your silence finds the echo of my ain no leaf may fall no roll no drop of water lose the road the issues of the general soul are in their round abode social tendencies social tendencies � ths iv m humane how a sound is this heard along the shore unlike either the last of a recent storm or the swell of a coming gale its indications be read by experience in irregular intervals the new waves curl crisp and over the shell strewn beach with an unusual although no fresh breeze is sensible above the surface of the waters the oldest time worn echo the sound and even their inmost recesses seem sensible of the of some event which may destroy their venerable forms forever and them to common earth it is as the apprehension of an earthquake against which no contrivance can prevail and which no skill can the ancient they who seem to be as as the waters stand mute

replied miss mary let us now reason about the the small hole will only let through a quarter part as much water as the large one with the same pressure and of course there must be four times as much pressure to make the same quantity of water pass yes said and so the water must rise four times as high believe so said miss mary that is if four times the height of water would make exactly four times the pressure and i believe it would now i think the water cannot rise four times as high without going over the top of the board and of course you cannot with this dam get a pressure sufficient to carry all the water through that opening it is running over interrupted james j see it is running over it was beginning to run over a little here and there along the edge of the board a� water james said had careful when he put the board down to make the upper edge as nearly level as he could get it and then when he came up from his work the first night after it had been made he stopped a moment to look at it to see if the water was running over it equally he found by the running of the water that one end of the board was a little higher than the other and he drove it down a little with his axe and then the water glided over the edge of the board in one regular sheet of equal thickness from end to end and now therefore when the water began to run over it began in various places all along the edge of the board at the same time the jet from the small hole was away with very considerable force carrying off a large portion of the water but not the whole i wish said that my dam was a little higher and then perhaps the water would rise high enough to force it all through the small hole couldn t you put another board on said miss mary o yes said jumping up and clap blowing his hands we will james we will if you will wait here miss mary for ii james and i will go up immediately and ge board miss mary promised to wait and so and james set off towards the house they however took the measure of the length so that the board should fit to its place when they got up to the house they found a board very easily but they had some difficulty in it off neither nor james being much accustomed to the use of the saw worked upon it for a time and when he was tired he gave the saw to james however they got it off at length and then they took it one boy at each end and carried it down to the dam then they placed it very carefully upon the top of the other board pressing it down hard upon it and letting it lean back against the which had driven in aad which were long enough to support this additional board as well as the one first put down the whole operation seemed to succeed perfectly the new board was not so wide as the er it was not more than five or six water inches wide while the other was nearly a foot still they thought it would be wide enough it will raise the water half a foot said and that will put a great deal more pressure on but they found that the two boards did t ot fit together very well and some water escaped through the crack between them endeavored to drive the upper board down closer to the lower one by striking the upper edge of it with a sort of club which he picked up upon the bank he did in this way make the of the boards somewhat closer but still some water would find its way through however notwithstanding this they soon found that the water was slowly rising up the side of the upper board and of course as the depth increased the pressure increased too and the jet of water from the hole which was near the bottom of it was thrown out with greater and greater force they all thought that probably before the water got as high as to the top of the upper board the pressure would be great enough to force it out as fast from the hole as it can in from blowing the brook above and it is very possible thai it might have been so had not the progress of the experiment been interrupted in a manner the dam and this was the way they were standing together near the bank looking at the jet of water which was away beautifully to a considerable distance down the stream when james who had been looking down into the water said suddenly � o see that little stick sailing round and round looked down where james pointed and saw a small stick slowly revolving in the water in the comer near one end of the dam close in by the bank both and miss mary watched it for several minutes wondering what could make it move in that curious way the stick faster and faster and presently there seemed to be a small depression in the water and a little leaf which was floating near began to move round in the same way it is a little said miss mary yes said what a beautiful little n what makes it miss mary i don t know said miss mary i i have often seen such little in the water though not generally in such still water as this it grows bigger said it was indeed growing a little bigger the depression in the centre became deeper and the little sticks and

a closer student than the rest of them he did not like any better than she him was he trying a game of mischief with some purpose that was not apparent on the surface out of it all emerged sure of but on jl black thing he must use his eyes if loved she could not hide it successfully from him now that he had this clue the girl s novel was selling fairly well had made a bargain with that was very favorable it gave him an excuse to talk with the as much as he pleased and he used his advantage he brought her the comments of the press not that they amounted to anything for it was evident that most of the critics had merely through the pages he came to tell her the latest things that had said what proportion of cloth and paper covers were being ordered and the other gossip of the house and now he talked about the work that was engaged on and grew enthusiastic declaring that the young man would yet make a place for himself beside the and struck him as caring much more for news of her own production than that of the young man who had been represented as the object of her adoration if she was half as fond of as intimated she was certainly successful in concealing her sentiments from the shrewd observer the result of a fortnight s investigation convinced that the negro had made a complete mistake and all the that had arisen were allowed to into thin air and fly away another two weeks passed and still remained with the an inquiry of produced the answer that he thought of remaining in america till spring the girl tried to act as if it made not the slightest consequence to her whether he went or stayed but she did not succeed mr knew that she wished most heartily for the time when the negro would take his departure she was bound up in her father and was worrying him to death from whatever cause she wanted the tie between him and this black man broken and hated every day that stood between them and his hour of sailing was almost as uneasy as over the delay he had given her the money she asked for though no allusion to its purpose had been made she still had it somewhere unless she had given it to the one for whom it was intended when she took the from his hand she rose on her and kissed him with the most affectionate of gestures it was the second occasion on which he had been permitted to touch her lips and he appreciated it fully he realized from her action how deeply she felt his kindness in providing her with the funds that were to relieve her father of an that was his very life you don t find much use for our black yet i see said as he laid down the latest page of the slowly building novel i had hoped you would penetrate the secret of his power over your heroine s father by this time no i cannot understand it at all replied and if you with your superior quickness of perception have found nothing i don t see how you could expect me to you have greater opportunities said with a black a smile that was not quite natural you have the ear of the fair miss remember he explained in reply to the inquiring look that was raised to him ah but she knows nothing either exclaimed i am sure of that mr was silent for some moments well if you cannot find the true cause he said you will have to invent a one your novel cannot stand still forever imagine something a crime for instance of which this black fellow is a murder that he peeped in at a and saw how would that do turned pale you know he said that you are talking of on the contrary nothing is impossible responded the other impatiently college professors delicate ladies children not yet in their have committed why not this handsome gentleman in the wool business or if you won t have murder and i agree that blood is rather tiresome it has been so much bring a woman into the case let us have a a wronged virgin and that sort of thing the color did not return to the young man s cheek which is still more incredible in the present case he said do you think could do evil to a woman look in his face once and dismiss within tne let us hate a its a desperate expression crossed the countenance of the elder man you must agree that he has done something v he cried he wouldn t allow a to annoy him like this for fun would he he wouldn t wear that look and let his child grow thin with just as a matter of amusement to this could not a suitable answer he felt the force of the suggestions but he would not associate crime with the gentleman who was the object of these suspicions he simply could not think of anything in connection with s father and it seemed almost as bad to invent an for the character in his novel whose photograph he had thus far taken from mr was surprised a month after this to have mr stop her in the and speak with a new why don t that cursed start for europe he asked she glanced around her with a frightened look she feared ears that should not might hear them but she rallied as she reflected that was miles away in fact in the city with her father he is going soon she replied but why do you allude to him by that harsh term i thought you rather liked him i do he answered

your mother could not offer a word of for her daughter it was an in lord i will take all your reproaches meekly for i feel i deserve them yet could you know how i have suffered perhaps even those might be spared exclaimed tears pouring down her do you ind sincerely desire our the earl bending upon her a searching look ill should i be here my lord think you i would else listen to your reproaches exclaimed she her eyes flashing through her tears but i have small hope of obtaining your forgiveness � k you would truly obtain it tell me all your heart if our engagement is to be anew there must be no between us for it would indeed be mockery to say to you now i forgive that which in my wife i would not a moment i must know more of this ir with colonel are you willing to grant me this explanation asked the earl gravely paused she raised her eyes timidly to lord s ce he was standing by her side and she saw that in its expression which showed her he would admit no longer of trifling there was an indescribable something which cast its spell over her spirit whenever she conversed with him perhaps the charm lay in the simple truthful decision of his tone and manner she felt the warm blood in her cheek yet she hastened to reply for with all her faults hers was not one of those natures who dare offend and yet when fully convicted of injustice shrink from healing the wound occasioned by its rash i will give you this explanation or any other you choose to she in a low unsteady voice then answer me how far on my arrival here were you with colonel were his ad limited only to paying you marked attention or had he presumed to breathe the word love into the ear of my wife � ah that i should add also perhaps with her s brow never perhaps before had she experienced a moment so exquisitely painful colonel never spoke to me on that � that subject � and she paused never until this morning and then he owned the fact of his engagement but the error has been all on my side blame me alone my lord i acknowledge myself guilty yes continued she passionately i will not seek to it my conduct when first we met was not such i to my shame as to induce him to believe i was no longer free i what more do you require to know much � everything is it to this fact � this unexpected revelation of colonel s trifling that i am indebted for your wish for r asked the earl coldly do you deem mo so no lord even when under the though rebuke contained in your letter after that unfortunate evening i still as miss will bear me witness firmly resolved to my engagement to you i rejoined vehemently you astonish me i indeed i should have it difficult to divine such an intent and your reception likewise of the man whom you intended to make your husband was unique of its kind i replied the earl in accents slightly lord mine was a misery which then almost me of the powers of reason i feared you i i knew my conduct had been so long as the engagement between us in the highest degree try if you can consider me during that evening not responsible for my actions i saw your contempt but ah it did not exceed that i afterwards felt for my own deed v nay not contempt replied the earl in tones i lamented that you thought it necessary to in so a path and lacked sufficient to open your heart to me to whom your confidence is due believe me had you done so tho miserable anxiety of the last few days would have been spared you now tell me what was the purport of your journey to meet colonel this morning to ascertain the fact of his engagement i could not rest until i knew whether i had been deceived � with i replied and smiling bitterly and how did you reply to the confession of his attachment how by imploring him to proceed forthwith to which he promised on his honor to do to morrow i knew no other way of making to miss have i now finished my humiliating lord asked she hiding her face in her hands lord mused for some time sat motionless � silent in the bitterness of her spirit presently he seated himself by her on the couch and removed the cold trembling fingers which clasped her brow let me look in your eyes i have one more question to ask you said he gently his tones went to her heart so that she even forgot her awe she raised her tearful eyes and faintly smiled an eloquent and illustrious father of the church has said � � nothing is sweeter than tearful eyes for this is the noblest we have and the most truthful and the own and therefore we are so bowed as though we saw the spirit itself and this same d to be felt too by lord i will forgive you all the past if you will now answer me truly and deceit on this point could but upon us additional misery and have you given your to colonel forgive me if my question pains you but there must not � there shall not be reserve between us on this matter i added he quickly as she hurriedly drew her hand from his grasp how thankful did now feel that she could answer in the negative whatever delusion i might once have cherished has vanished it was a delusion and is consequently dissipated forever replied she earnestly � are you sure you read your own heart aright

her mark to a confession it was believed that not even the rack could ever make her do that so all laughed again and kept it up for three days saying the sow has six times and made six of it recollections op op arc and the palace walls got a new � a carrying a discarded rack home on its shoulder and weeping in its wake many rewards were offered for the capture of these painters but nobody applied even the english guard feigned blindness and would not see the artists at work the bishop s anger was very high now he could not reconcile himself to the idea of giving up the torture it was the idea he had invented yet and he would not cast it by so he called in some of his on the twelfth and urged the torture again but it was a failure with some s speech had wrought an effect others feared she might die under torture others did not believe that any of suffering could make her put her mark to a lying confession there were fourteen men present including the bishop eleven of them dead against the torture and stood their in spite of s abuse two with the bishop and insisted upon the torture these two were and the orator � the man whom had to read his book � thomas de the renowned and master of eloquence age has taught me charity of speech but it fails me when i think of those three names � chapter xvii another ten days wait the great i of that treasury of all valuable knowledge and all wisdom the university of paris were still weighing and considering and discussing the twelve lies i had but little to do these ten days so i spent them mainly in walks about the town with but there was no pleasure in them our spirits being so with cares and the outlook for growing so steadily darker and darker all the time and then we naturally contrasted our circumstances with hers this freedom and sunshine with her dark ness and chains our with her lonely estate our of one sort and another with her in all she was used to liberty but now she had none she was an out of door creature by nature and habit but now she was shut up day and night in a steel cage like an animal she was used to the light but now she was always in a gloom where all objects about her were dim and she was used to the thousand various sounds which are the cheer and music of a busy life but now she heard only the monotonous of the pacing his watch she had been fond of talking with her mates but now there was no one to talk to she had had an easy laugh but it was gone now ti recollections of of arc she had been bom for and and busy work and all manner of joyous but here were only and leaden hours and weary and brooding stillness and thoughts that travel day and night and night and day and round in the same circle and wear the brain and break the heart with weariness it was death in life yes death in life that is what it must have been and there was another hard thing about it all a young girl in trouble needs the soothing solace and support and sympathy of persons of her own sex and the delicate offices and gentle which only these can furnish yet in all these months of gloomy in her never saw the face of a girl or a woman think how her heart would have leaped to see such a face consider if you would realize how great of arc was remember that it was out of such a place and such that she came week after week and month after month and confronted the master of single handed and baffled their schemes defeated their plans detected and avoided their traps and broke their lines their and on the field after every engagement steadfast always true to her faith and her torture the stake and answering threats of eternal death and the pains of hell with a simple let come what may here i take my stand and will abide yes if you would realize how great was the soul how the wisdom and how the q mark twain intellect of of arc you must study her there where she fought out that long fight all alone � and not merely against the brains and deepest learning of but against the the meanest and the hardest hearts to be found in any land pagan or christian she was great in battle � we all know that great in foresight great in loyalty and patriotism great in persuading discontented chiefs and conflicting interests and passions great in the ability to discover merit and genius wherever it lay hidden great in picturesque and eloquent speech great in the gift of firing the hearts of hopeless men with noble the gift of turning into heroes slaves and into that march to death with songs upon their lips but all these are they keep hand and heart and brain up to their work there is the joy of achievement the inspiration of stir and movement the applause which success the soul is overflowing with life and energy the faculties are at white heat weariness despondency these do not exist yes of arc was great always great everywhere but she was greatest in the trials there she rose above the and of our nature and accomplished and and hopeless conditions all that her splendid of moral and intellectual forces could have accomplished if they had been by the mighty helps of hope and cheer and light the presence of friendly faces and a fair and equal fight with the great world looking on

they are of it women � the women of ambition artistic � act anyhow all the time they lie like anything they never show their true colors � or very rarely if you want to know the truth you must see through their pretty petty back to the actual conditions behind them which are and driving them very few if any have a real grasp on what i call life they have no understanding of and no love for philosophy they do not care for the of and knowledge � book knowledge the � well let the men have that your average woman cares most � almost entirely � for the and the of her own little world is her life going right is she getting along is her skin smooth is her face still pretty are there any wrinkles are there any gray hairs in sight what can she do to win one man how can she make herself impressive to all men are her feet small are her hands pretty which are the really nice places in the world to visit do men like this trait in women or that what is the latest thing in dress in in hats in shoes how can she keep herself and span these are all leading questions with her � strong deep vital painful let the men have knowledge fame force � that is their business the real man her man should have some one of these things if she is really going to love him very much lo a at forty i am talking about the semi artistic woman with ambition as for her she to these poetical details and they make her life poor little frail things � fighting with every weapon at their command to buy and maintain the courtesy of the world truly i pity women i pity the strongest most ambitious woman i ever saw and by the same token i pity the poor helpless hopeless and without an idea above a who never had and never will have a look in on anything i know � and there is not a beating feminine heart anywhere that will contradict me � that they are all struggling to buy this superior masculine strength against which they can lean to which they can fly in the hour of terror it is no answer to my statement no contradiction of it to say that the strongest men the sympathy of the tenderest women these are facts and my statement is true i am dealing with women now not men when i come to men i will tell you all about them our modern stage world gives the ideal outlet for all that is most worth while in the youth and art of the female sex it matters not that it is you cannot that of any individual case until afterward at any rate to me and so far as women are concerned it is distinguished brilliant appropriate important i am always interested in a well recommended woman of the stage what did we talk about � miss e and i the stage a little some and dramatic critics that we had casually known her interest in books and the fact that she had posed frequently for those interesting which display a beautiful young woman showing her teeth or holding aloft a cake of soap or a cream she had done some of this work in the past � and had been well paid for it because she was takes me in hand ii beautiful and she showed me one of her pictures in a current magazine a set of i found that my very able patron was doing everything that should be done to make the trip comfortable without show or fuss many have this or gift sometimes i think it is a natural trait of the english � of their superior classes anyhow they go about so they make fine and i have always been told that english direction and english are thorough is this true or is it not at this writing i do not know not only were all our chairs on deck here in a row but our chairs at table had already been arranged for � four seats at the captain s table it seems that from previous voyages on this ship knew the captain he also knew the of the company in england no doubt he knew the chief steward anyhow he knew the man who sold us our tickets he knew the head waiter at the � he had seen him or been served by him somewhere in europe he knew some of the of the of old wherever he went i found he was always finding somebody whom he knew i like to get in tow of such a man as and see him the seas i like to see what he thinks is important in this case there happens to be a certain intellectual and spiritual he likes some of the things that i like he with my point of view hence so far at least we have got along admirably i speak for the present only i would not answer for my moods or change of emotions at any time well here were the two side by side both arrayed and with them in a third chair the short stout red haired mr g i observed the personality of miss x here a at forty was some one who on sight at a glance attracted me far more significantly than ever miss e could i cannot tell you why exactly in a way miss e appeared at moments and from certain points of view � delicacy refinement sweetness of mood � the more attractive of the two but miss x with her face her dainty little chin her narrow eyes drew me quite like a i liked a certain snap and vigor which shot from her eyes and which

ah mr and mr sat together in the temple this evening however they were not together in the place of business of the eminent but in another dismal set of chambers it on the same second floor ou whose like black outer door appeared the legend mb mb � offices appearances indicated that this establishment was a very recent institution the white letters of the inscription were extremely white and extremely strong to the sense of smell the of ous mutual the tables and was like lady s a little too blooming to be believed ix and the carpets and seemed to rush at the behold s in the of their patterns but the to tone down both the still life and the human life that has much to do it would soon get the better of all that said on one side of the fire i fed tolerably comfortable i hope the may do the same � why shouldn t he r asked light wood from the other side of the fire to be sure pursued reflecting he is not in the secret of our so perhaps he may be in an easy frame of we shall pay him said shall we really returned surprised you don t say so i mean to pay for my part said in a slightly injured tone i mean to pay him too retorted but then i mean so much that i � that i don t mean so much that i only mean and shall always only mean and nothing more my dear it s the same thing lying back in his easy chair watched him lying back in his easy chair as he stretched out his legs on the hearth and said with the amused look that could awaken in him without seeming to try or care � anyhow your have increased the bill the virtues i exclaimed raising his eyes to the this very complete little of ours said in which will ever be cooked my dear dear returned his end lazily lifting his head a little to look at how often have i pointed out to you that its moral influence is the important thing its moral influence m this fellow laughing � do me the said getting out of his chair with gravity to come and inspect that feature of our establishment which yon with that taking up a candle he conducted his into the fourth of the set of chambers � a little narrow room � which was very completely and neatly fitted as a kitchen see said flour barrel rolling pin box shelf of brown board coffee mill furnished with and jack a � kettle an of dish covers the moral influence of these objects in forming the domestic virtues may have an im influence upon me not upon you for you are a hopeless case upon me in i have an idea that i feel the domestic virtues forming bo me the favour to step into my m you see and set of solid mahogany pigeon holes � mutual one for every letter of the to what use do i them i a bill � say from jones i it neatly at the and i put it into pigeon hole j it s the next to a receipt and is quite as to me and very much wish sitting on his bed with the air of a philosopher a that my example might induce you to habits of and method and by means of the moral influences with which i surrounded you to encourage the formation of the domestic laughed again with his usual of how can you be so ridiculous and what an absurd fellow you are but when his laugh was out there was something serious if not anxious in his despite that assumption of and indifference had become his second nature he was attached to his friend he had founded himself upon wh n they were yet boys at school and at this hour liim no less admired him no less loved him no less than in those days said he if i could find you in earnest for a minute i would try to say an earnest word to you an earnest word repeated the moral influences are beginning to work say on well i will returned the other though you are not earnest yet in this desire for earnestness with the air of one who was meditating deeply i trace the happy influences of the little flour barrel and the coffee mill resumed the light interruption and a hand upon s as he stood before him seated on his bed you are something from me looked at him but said nothing ml past summer you have been something from me before we entered on our you were as bent upon it as i have seen you upon anything since we first rowed together but you cared very little for it when it came often found it a tie and a drag upon you and were constantly away now it was well enough half a dozen times a dozen times times to say to me in your own odd manner which i know so well and like so much that your were precautions against our one another but of after a short while i began to know that they covered something i don t ask what it is as you have not told me but the is sa say is it not i give you my word of honor returned after a serious pause of a few moments that i don t know � don t know upon my soul don t know i know less about myself than about most people in the world and i don t know you have some design in your mind i don t think i have at any rate you have some subject interest there which used not to be there u mutual i

to believe j but if are w not to believe a in this nothing which it contains is more true known then that the nose of the a x size boldly from his c like a mountain of being with and other precious stones � the f of a l ii g of good fellows which jolly all who t heartily at the now t york s it bright and early in the tbe ood washed his was leaning r railing of the contemplating it in the e below just at this moment the king in all his splendour from behind one of the s of the did dart one of moat full the nose of tbe the reflection of which shot straightway ty into the water and killed a mighty beside the vessel this huge ti labour hoisted on board a to all the crew being accounted of ir excepting about the wound where it and this on my was the that ever was eaten in these by lis miracle came to be made known and that he tasted of the unknown s may well be supposed exceedingly he gave the name of stout in the neighbourhood � nd it to be called s nose ever since tliat am i wandering � by the to accompany the good peter on l e i shall never make an end for never wai so with marvellous nor a bounding with beauties worthy of recorded even now i have it on the ny pen to relate how his crew were most on on shore above tbe by y devils and e flat lock projected into the river � and called the to this very no � it becomes thee thus in thy historic ct that while dwelling with the fond of fairy scenes ed to thee by the if thy youth aud the charms of a i treating of the f boat a letter was written some time after um is in the river plenty of wliich at do not make use of but h tales the simple ear of i recollect tm art trifling with which should be devoted to not time � time � with l e before thee � k i thy weary task lest the last sands t ov hast thy history of the i � t lis then commit the � his to the protection of t st who i ha a � o t will prosper t we await his at the great chap iv ike army thai � together with peter ike and general md peter e touching ui great while thus the peter was sail up the shores of the ha all the little its bon a and oc wa at th city of new i t le ent of antiquity the s is particular i am enabled to record the itself ip the square in front of j the green the centre then pitched the tent of tl b of the who the k lis the guards of the these were by the ml such they displayed as a mn t of the oi � and the industry � origin of the was likewise the great seal of the bo an in on right hand might be seen tlie of that michael who loi d it over air regions of ancient and the lands away i even unto the mountains and was ij of his standard was hy bis squire van consist a huge upon a sea green field the j of his favourite metropolis w he brought to the camp a stout force of i armed being each clad in ten pair of breeches by broad with pipes twisted in their these were the men who in the mud the of being of the race of genuine were to have sprung from at � little distance was the tribe of warriors from the neighbourhood of grate these by the and the van hard as their names they fellows clad in broad skirted of hat coloured cloth called thunder and lightning and bore as a standard three in a flame coloured field b il by was the tent of the men of battle firom the borders of the ig and the of a sour aspect by reason that ob which abound in these parts they the first of that honourable order of called fly and if did likewise introduce the far step in double trouble they were besides what is related in tbe ms i have found of this la another manuscript which � � ds or tbe michael a subject b by deed purchased island n b the mt michael had what the dutch called a at shore opposite new york and his in urn w d van a person of the same iu and a urge farm at and is a ck f w firom the tribe of indians that inhabited wa s at present they are the oc mountains tie the winding bay named from the of its shores i his has since been bv the vulgar into the and the basin which our infant navy op by the fearless and a jolly band of � who � brave on shells but from pursuing this minute � which p on to describe the warriors of and hawk and and sundry well known in history and song for now does the of martial music alarm the people of i sounding afar from beyond the walls of the city but alarm was in a little time for of a vast cloud of dust they recognised the coloured breeches and splendid leg c glaring in the and ham if at the head of a formidable army be along the banks of the and excellent but writer of the breaks out a brave and glorious c the forces as they through the principal gate a the city that stood by tlie head of wall first of all came the van who ih pleasant borders

all the and in such case made and provided this he assured them would at once the enemy from the face of the country and he pledged his as a governor that within two months after it was published not one stone should remain ou another in any of the towns which they had the council remained for some time silent after he had finished whether struck dumb with admiration at the brilliancy of his project or put to sleep by the length of his the history of the times doth not mention suffice to say they at length gave a general of acquiescence the was immediately despatched with due ceremony having the g seal of the province which was about the size of a attached to it by a broad red governor having thus his indignation felt greatly relieved the council cue � put on his cocked hat and small clothes and mounting a tall raw trotted out to his country seat which was situated in a sweet swamp now called dutch street but more commonly known by the name of dog s misery here like the good he from the of taking lessons m government not the but from the honoured wife of his bosom who was one of that peculiar kind of females sent earth a little before the flood as a punishment for the of mankind and commonly known by the of knowing women in fact my duty as an historian me to make known a circumstance which was a i secret at t e tune was not a of t scandal at more than half ihe tea tables of new dam but like many other great secrets has out in the of years and this was that the eat the though one of the most potent little men that ever breathed yet submitted at to a species of neither laid down iu nor in it partook of the nature of a pure tyranny and is familiarly mad an absolute sway which though exceedingly common in these modem days was very rare among the if we may judge from the made about the domestic economy of honest which is the only ancient case on record the threat however off all the and of his particular friends who are ever ready to joke with a man on sore of the kind by that it was a government of bis own election to which he submitted through choice adding at the same time a which he had found in an ancient author that he who would to govern should first learn too chap ii ft are recorded the sage of a ruler of the art of fighting by � how that the van came to he at fort was a more comprehensive a more or what is still better a more economical measure devised this of the by an likewise so humane so gentle and pacific there were ten to one in favour of its succeeding hat there was one chance to ten that it would not as the ill natured would have it that single carried the day the was perfect in all its parts well constructed well written well sealed and well all that was wanting to its effect was that the should stand in awe of it bet provoking to relate they treated it m v ft it to n and u be tint ob jf j it to rack it the bad of these tint of all both m and at le the that and that he had waited m a state of the direct of wishes his in die man and more in their aad the colony of dose i the skirts of fort they the fair of the red within the of their high the patches of were a continual eye to the garrison of van upon beholding the of his measure the like many a worthy of laid the blame not to the d i c in e but the quantity ia i ed j aad resolved to double the � the year less that the fc year of his reign he against � � of heavier metal than the former j ii thundering long sentences not one word ii ma under five this in was a kind of bill forbidding and all commerce between any and every of tiie and the said fortified post of fort and ordering and all i loyal and well beloved to furnish them with w supplies of gin or sour j to b m of pacing horses pork apple br apple or oo but to starve aud face of if york another pause of a ensued during which the last received the same attention and the same fate as the first at the end of which term the gallant van despatched his annual messenger with his customary of complaints and entreaties whether the regular interval of a year intervening between the arrival of van was occasioned by the regularity of his movements or by the immense distance at which he was from the seat of government is a matter of uncertainty some have ascribed it to the of his who as i have before noticed were chosen the shortest and of his garrison as least likely to be worn out on the road j and who being y little men generally travelled fifteen miles a day and then laid by a whole week � to rest all however are matters of conjecture and rather think it � ay be ascribed to the of this worthy and which has ever influenced all its public not to do things in a hurry the gallant van iu his represented that several years had now elapsed since first application to his late the renowned w van during which interval his garrison had been reduced nearly one eighth by the death of two of his most and soldiers who had over eaten themselves on some fat salmon caught m the

foot on the premises again said solomon i ve got land of my own and property of my own to will away if s a poor tale how luck goes in the world said it never answers to have a bit of spirit in you you d better be a dog in the but those above ground might learn a lesson one fool s will is enough in a family there s more ways than one of being a fool said solomon i q shan t leave my money to be poured down the sink and i shan t leave it to om i like that were such and not turned with sticking the name on em solomon addressed these remarks in a loud aside to mrs as he rose to accompany her brother felt himself capable of much more wit than this but he reflected that there was no use in offending the new proprietor of stone court until you were certain that he was quite without intentions of hospitality towards wit men whose name he was about to bear mr in fact appeared to trouble himself little about any out showed a notable change of manner walking up to mr and putting business questions with much coolness he had a high voice and a vile accent whom he no longer moved to thought him the lowest monster he had ever seen but was feeling rather sick the waited for an opportunity of en mr in conversation there was no how many pairs of legs the new proprietor mi ht require for and profits were more to be on than also the as a second cousin was enough to feel curiosity mr after his one outburst had remained proudly silent though too much with unpleasant feelings to think of moving till he observed that his wife gone to fi s side and was crying silently while she held her darling s hand he rose immediately and turning his back on the company while he said to her in an � don t give way don t make a fool of yourself my dear before these people he added in his usual loud voice � go and order the i have no time to waste mary had ben re this been getting ready to go home with her father she met in the hall and now for the time had the courage to look at him he had that withered sort of which will sometimes come on young faces and his hand was very cold when she shook it mary too was agitated she was conscious that without will of her own she had perhaps made a great difference to s lot good bye she said with affectionate sadness be brave i do believe you are better without the money what was the good of it to mr s all very fine said what is a fellow to do must go into the church now he knew that this would vex mary well then she must tell him what else he could do and i thought i should be able to pay your father at once ana make everything right and you have not even a hundred pounds left you what shall you do now mary take another situation of course as soon as i can get one my father has enough to do to keep the rest without me good bye in a very short time stone court was cleared of w and other long accustomed visitors another stranger book iv � love problems had ht to settle in the neighbourhood of but in the case of mr there was more discontent with immediate visible consequences than speculation as to the effect which his presence might have in the future no soul was prophetic enough to have any as to what might appear on the trail of and here lam naturally led to reflect on the means of a low subject historical are remarkably in this way the chief objection to them is that the may lack space or what in often the same thing may not be able to think of them with any degree of though he may have a philosophical confidence that if known they would be it seems an easier and shorter wa to dignity to observe that � since there never was a true story which could not be told in where you might put a monkey for a and vice � whatever has been or is to be bv me about low people may be by being considered a so that if any bad habits and ugly consequences are brought into view the reader may have the relief of them as not more than and may feel himself in company with persons of some style thus while i tell the truth about my reader s imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords and the petty sums which any of high standing would be sorry to retire upon may be to the level of high commercial transactions by the addition of as to any provincial history in which the agents are all of high moral rank that must be of a date long to the first bill and peter you perceive was dead and buried some months before lord came into office chapter tis strange to see the of these men these great spirits that should be wise � � � � � � � for the nature of great spirits to love to be where they may be most eminent they of themselves so above us in conceit with whom they do frequent imagine how we wonder and all tiiat they do or say which makes them strive to make our admiration more which they suppose they cannot less they give of their extreme and highest thoughts � daniel tragedy o mb went home from the reading of the will with his point of view considerably changed in relation

mount saint there was at the same date a second large its name if it ever had one lost for me both of these have perished leaving not a stick and scarce a memory behind them tide after tide of hopeful have thus flowed and about the mountain coming and going now by solitary d g l rf in the story of a mine now with a rush last in order of time came reared the big mill in the valley founded the town which is now represented by s pierced all these and shafts and and in turn declined and died away our noisy years seem moments in the wake of the eternal silence as to the success of in its time of being two reports were current according to the first six hundred thousand dollars were taken out of that great upright that still hung open above us on crazy then the ledge pinched out and there followed in quest of the remainder a great drifting and in all directions and a great consequent of dollars jt the until all parties being sick of the expense the mine was deserted and the town according to the second version told me with much secrecy of manner the whole affair mine mill and town were parts of one majestic there had never come any silver out of any portion of the mine there was no silver to come at midnight trains of pack horses might have been observed winding by tracks about the shoulder of the mountain they came from far away from or laden with silver in old cigar boxes they discharged their load at in the hour of sleep and before the morning they were gone again with their mysterious drivers to their unknown source � df in the story of a mine in this way twenty thousand pounds worth of silver was in under cover of night in these old cigar boxes mixed with down to the mill crushed and refined and despatched to the city as the proper product of the mine stock if it can cover such expenses must be a profitable business in san i give these two as i got them but i place little reliance on either my belief in history having been greatly shaken for it chanced that i had come to dwell in at a critical hour great events in its history were about to happen � did happen as i am led to believe nay and it will be seen that i played a part in that d i r tke tion myself and yet from first to last i never had a glimmer of an idea what was going on and even now after full reflection profess myself at sea that there was some obscure of the cigar box order and that i in the character of a wooden set pen to paper in the interest of somebody so much and no more is certain then under my immediate sway belonged to one whom i will call a mr i only knew him through the medium of local gossip now as a momentous now as a to point an and again and much more probably as an ordinary christian gentleman like you or me who had opened a mine and worked it for a while t in the story of a mine with better and worse fortune so through a window pane you may see the by shoot up into a backed giant or into a pot dwarf to at least the mine belonged but the notice by which he held it would run out upon the th of june � or rather as i suppose it had run out already and the month of grace would upon that day after which any american citizen might post a notice of his own and make his this with a sort of quiet told me at an early period of our acquaintance there was no silver of course the mine was n t worth nothing mr but there was a deal of old iron and wood around and to gain d i r � of this old wood and iron and get a right to the water proposed if i had no objections to jump the claim of course i had no objection but i was filled with wonder if all he wanted was the wood and iron what in the name of fortune was to prevent him taking them his right there was none to dispute he might lay hands on all to morrow as the had laid hands upon our knives and besides was this mass of heavy plant worth if it was why had not the owners it away if it was would they not preserve their title to these even after they had lost their title to the mine and if df in the of a mine it were not what the better was nothing would grow at there was even no wood to cut beyond a sense o� property there was nothing to be gained lastly was it at all that would forget what remembered the days of grace were not yet over any fine morning he might appear paper in hand and enter for another year on his inheritance however it was none of my business all seemed legal or all was one to me on the morning of the th mrs appeared with the milk as usual in her sun bonnet the time would be out on tuesday she reminded us and bade me be in readiness to play my part though i had no idea what it ic the was to be and suppose came we asked she received the idea with derision laughing aloud with all her fine teeth he could not find the mine to save his life it appeared without to guide him last year when he came they heard him up and down the road a and a

all my pain and misery was plainly caused by just a lack or as thia had i these things all be well without them � well i was very miserable i was ready to accept if by that i could get what i wanted while not ready to admit that all people were as deserving as i by ai the sad state of the poor was a constant with me bat near always i was the greatest and poorest and most deserving of all thia view tended to the of my work a of imagination and force still any limited as i was at that time has a i � ig road to go even in that moat imaginative of all the literary the possessor of notions sa i then held is certainly from anything important he passes beyond them yet the or i have described appears to reign in too often it is a condition of many minds of the better sort and is retained in its worst form by experience it is knocked out of them or they are utterly in the process bat it cannot be got over with mine was a sad case one of the things which this point of view did for me was to give my writing at that time a and melancholy torn which not go in any newspaper of today i hope i me to paint the ideal as not only entirely probable before life be what it � the as yon see i so twist and the most commonplace scenes as to make one think that i was writing of paradise indeed i my imagination to away a about me at and only the good sense of tlie or the indifference of a practical minded public the paper from appearing on one occasion for instance i went to report a of quality that was at the and was with a love scene which was a part of it that i was entirely blinded to all the faults of construction the remainder of the play showed and wrote it np in the moat glowing colors and the copy reader was too weary that ni t or too to capture it the next day some of the other newspaper men in the office noticed it and commented on it to me or to saying it was high and that the play itself was which was but did that core met not a bit i was for a day or two by it bnt not for long seeing other rs of the same and with much sweet love in them i as before a little later a negro singer a yoimg woman of considerable ability who was being as the black was to appear in st the of the that was presenting her called my attention by letter to her ability and by means of and notices of her work published elsewhere had endeavored to impress me i read these notices in the glowing phrases of the press agent and went forth on this to cover this myself to make it all the i invited and with him proceeded to the where we were assigned a box as it turned out or as i chanced to see or feel it the woman was a sweet and impressive singer engaging and agreed with me that she sing we listened to the of a dozen pieces including such old as and the bye and then i being greatly moved returned to the office and wrote an account that was fairly m� � with the which i was there i did not attempt to her art � i not knowing nothing of even the of plunged at once into that wider realm which a book about the of nature itself what is so as the which the human voice is capable of i wrote in part especially when that is itself a of the things in nature here we hare a young black it is fresh from the woods and of her native country yet blessed by some strange chance with that thing a voice and all that we hold to he most lovely the of the waters the radiance of the moonlight the of sweet sunlight storm the voices and echoes of nature all are found here thrilling over lips which represent in their but a few of the which and skill would seem to require yes one may sit and in hearing miss sing entertain all these things because of them she is a compound youthful suggestive of the sweetness of nature itself to understand the significance of such a statement in st louis one have to look into the social and political conditions of the people who dwelt there to a certain extent they were southern in temperament representing the anti negro spirit which prevailed for so many years after the war again they were fairly illuminated where waa that a bit of such as this was sound it might get by but when it is remembered that thia was and written about a s ro a race more or less alien to their sympathy would it not naturally fall hard ears and appear somewhat ridiculous f a negro the compound of the elements in nature t and in their paper by chance it went through having come to lo upon most of my stuff as the of some ge who could do about as he pleased neither nor the editor in chief saw it perhaps or if they did they gave it no attention music the and the arts being of small import here but depend upon it the of the various rival papers that were being at by the globe saw it and knowing the of our editor in to of his own paper at once set to work to make some a book about thing oat of it and of all the in the middle west by reason of his

that the young eyes looking out on life were so clear perhaps out of my own heart she said perhaps out of the village perhaps out of my book of and that is why i think my mother s lot needs no over she went away in the full tide of her e a l happiness it is for ourselves we may grieve not her and you say you knew her very well she went on gently but have been before she married father for he did not seem to know your name when your mother wrote to him had the afternoon grown suddenly colder the shivering note of a willow filled up the moment of silence before he turned to her and said so you have known my name all along i think you must be major she said and wondered to see how haggard he had gone all at once for during the past minutes he had seemed to grow younger and i am glad you have come home to your mother she added softly for she said you were her only son and she a widow yes she is happy now he said as one whose thoughts were not in his words we are going to settle down together in the country next month i was always a bad correspondent and she thought that you must be dead said sighing but it was poor frank who died what on earth is the link between him and me said the soldier a flush of something that looked like anger rising to his brow everywhere i am received for him taken for a dull echo of him � a that bears some resemblance to the dead hero i m positively sick of hearing myself called and being clapped on the shoulder every time i venture to go to my club by some man who vows he used to know me imder another name but was there any resemblance between you said sitting erect and understanding job s mistake better there was the likeness that may exist between two e fair men of exactly the same height and build he said carelessly though i never saw it myself men dropped like flies in those days and looked less at each other s faces than at the enemy but our resemblance was a matter of common remark in the regiment then the circumstances of our joining were almost identical both had sold out of the guards both had applied for leave of service in the war at the same time and both for the same reason though they alone knew it � a bad of some years standing so for the short time we fought together we were friends and when one died the other must needs be received as his friend s ghost � it was the commonplace order of our looks that did it i suppose added major still with that impatient flush on his brow but how men in their senses can pretend to recognise in middle age one out of a pair of yellow haired boys i can t imagine there never wa an uncommon in either of our faces there are hundreds like us to be met with in the streets any day � are there said a little coldly at this of frank � i have always heard very differently but i see that you never really liked him or knew how to value him � did i not he said with a queer smile � yet we were friends enough to have no secrets from each other save one and that concerned a woman and on the eve of battle we exchanged he paused abruptly and said no more frank was not a lad when he died said he was nearly twenty seven � six years older than perhaps you were old r � though you need not be so very glad of that now she added looking round at him with s a little touch of spite that even an angel indulge in if you her favourite saint but he only smiled and she laughed so that peace was ly mail restored them though her next question it pray said she were both your for one and the same person she was looking at him earnestly as though by his reply she might � nd the key to an that puzzled ner why do you ask that he said his eyes steady though his colour changed because job told me once that frank loved my mother she said resting her cheek on one hand and looking at him thoughtfully but she loved father best and of course she married him did you love her too and is that why you speak of her so tenderly and love so you know i love you child he said turning to her swiftly god bless you for saying that � yes i did love her and i lost her only to find her once more � and once more � to lose her no not lost she said i will love you for my mother s sake and my own and you will forgive father if he wronged you it was but he had started up she sat alone on her green throne and he was standing below in the green hollow gazing straight before him as if through the he saw some thing approach good bye uttle one � little child v he said turning to her suddenly as she stood half longing half fearing to descend and she saw in his eyes the look the tears that she had surprised in them once before only one thing could ever bring me back � your being in trouble which please god you never shall be x good bye she said gently asking no questions as some children and women god knows and vex a man s soul even while he loves them but when he

forming an escort to and the prisoners who had been captured with him their progress was by the crowd that thronged upon their amongst whom were some who scarcely attempted to conceal their sympathy with the prisoners and who by signs if not by words cheered them with the hope of from their present of recognition were exchanged with and significant gestures made which he was at no loss to comprehend the press increased as they drew near the door of the town house and in the disorder incident to the introduction of the prisoners into the building more than one of the in the late found an occasion to assure the master of the by a brief hint of their readiness to co operate in seizing the and his crew were conducted into the presence of the by who leaving the guard in the hall or passage way that separated the court room from that occupied by the council ranged the prisoners within the apartment on either side of the door which being left open exposed to view the who were thus in a position to do their duty in case any should render their interference necessary whilst the crowd at the same time itself into the hall with such as to leave but little space for the occupation of the guard had lost none of the that his after his surrender on the day previous he was somewhat paler owing to the wound upon his brow by ic rob of the bowl was now bound up with a of black silk that in some degree the sickly aspect of his complexion still the fire of his spirit sparkled in his eye and a sullen as he looked in the face rested on his features a slight but guarded expression of surprise flashed across his countenance when his glance encountered bob of the bowl he was unaware of the presence of the in the port nor had he up to this moment ever entertained a suspicion that bob had deserted him the escape of the secretary he alone to the carelessness of the the failure of the to meet him at the he set down to accident and and her presence now in the harbor to a cause altogether with any conjecture of treachery in the even the old man s presence before the council he attributed to force and believed him to be like himself a prisoner in this conviction he now found himself before the chief authorities of the province he was of course and as all eyes were turned upon him he stood with folded arms his cloth cap dangling from his hand gazing in silent defiance upon the assembly he meditated no purpose of defence to the charges which he expected to hear the facts of his late outrage admitted none and the presence of the secretary assured him that the crime he had attempted to on all soul s eve had been in all its and with such full of the actors in it as to render useless all attempt even at the gesture of the his confident port and look even of scorn provoked an instant emotion of resentment in the as well as of the greater number of those who surrounded him he said dost thou approach us with this front to brave our authority m the province does no sense by ic rob of bo w� of crime thy brow that here in the presence of those whom thou hast most wronged thou thy face without a blush i richard you came hither as all men thought a peaceful and found the friendship of the port accorded to you without or question again and again you left us and returned and the ever gave you hearty welcome to their homes how brief a span is it since we saw you breaking bread and sharing the wine cup with this aged father whose daughter villain thou to carry off by force in the dead hour of the night hast thou not against the life of the secretary thou not murder the bloody and man thou not like a coward strike at the gray hairs of this venerable man when thou upon him in his sleep no replied the leader in a voice loud and angry by the presence of the chief of the province and by his he lies who says i struck at the i though by st may claim no favor at my hands � favor at thy hands exclaimed the who could not sit quiet whilst the spoke � a boy who to play at man s game with men � a boy to me thus i pray you master interposed the mildly do not interfere i struck not at the repeated i look to match my sword with men not spent with age when others would have beaten this old man to the ground i saved him i not against the secretary s life he continued answering the which the had at random heaped upon him i the as a hound that had been set to track my path i carried away this old man s daughter because i loved her are you answered lord t by ic bob of the bowl impudent returned the with an of speech altogether dost thou beard us with the confession of thy crimes have the laws of the province no terrors for thee i never acknowledged your s laws retorted the seaman scornfully i have lived above them � coming when i would and going when it pleased me by st your hath but a sorry set of you might do well to teach the better half of the to remember that charles claims to be lord and master of this province � they seem to have forgotten it you think i am my lord i have but one master here � old rob of the my fellow prisoner � we

be to tes ef i had de money to travel back to i d go an try to hunt up he was seated upon the steps of a government building one afternoon discussing his favourite subject with some of his coloured friends he had been unusually eloquent and had worked himself up to a when he suddenly ceased speaking and stared straight across the street to the opposite side of the pavement in such that he forgot to close his mouth he was gazing at an elderly gentleman with a hook nose and the dashing hat of the broad brim which was regarded as being almost as much an of the south as the blue flag itself uncle got up and across the street he in connection with the de claim had become unconsciously with excitement his old black face worked and his hands he was so far out of breath when he reached the stranger s side that he could scarcely make himself heard as pulling his hat off he cried the stranger did not hear him distinctly and waved him off evidently taking him for a beggar i ve nothing for you uncle he said with good nature uncle found some of his breath though not enough to steady his voice but his was almost passionate he said i ain t on y if i might speak a few words to you his shrewd on the name was effective the elderly gentleman turned and looked at him in surprised questioning how do you know me he said this is the first time i have been in washington � and i ve not been here an hour i you in county ev you i was er de war i was de time you � you an judge de passed shots bout ate flag what do you want said dr somewhat these were days when stories of the flag were generally avoided called it the rebel flag had had the discretion to avoid this mistake he in connection with the de claim was wild with anxious excitement suddenly here had appeared a man who could give all the evidence desired if he would do so he had left immediately on the close of the war and had not been heard of he might like so many be passing on to some unknown point and remain in the city only between trains there was no time to find any better qualified person than himself to attend to this matter it must be attended to upon the spot and at this moment uncle knew all the of the situation no one could have known them better but a sort of courage grew out of his desperation he aid may i take de liberty of walking you an you a question i mustn t keep you i beg you to me i kin talk an walk at de same time dr was an person and s imploring old countenance was not without its pathos he was so evidently by his emotions what is it all about he stood uncovered and spoke fast the hand holding his hat was shaking as also was his voice i m but a man he said it ain t for myself i se on ye it s wasn t time to go fer de that could talk it like it be i had to push my self in fear you d be gone an we d set eyes on you walk along by me said the doctor what about the de i thought they were all dead all but thomas and s to de claim has you done bout de claim in connection with the de claim no the doctor answered i have been in too far out west whereupon plunged into the story of the mines and the difficulties which had presented themselves in the pathway of the and the necessity for the production of testimony which would the charge of the detail was not very clear but it had the effect of carrying dr back to certain good old days in before his beloved south had been laid low and he had been driven far to live among strangers an alien for that reason he found himself moved by the recital and listened to it to its end but what has this to do with me he asked what do you want of me when i seed you uncle explained it all come back to me in a how you an de judge pass shots bout flag how you him to a dinner party an was a ate officer � an a ate flag hung up over de table an de judge when he seed it he p int blank to set down to de table an it ended in you goin out in de an shots yes damn it all cried dr but melted the next moment the poor old fellow is dead he said an he died in disgrace and without friends yes uncle protested eagerly without a single friend an all lone of � all lone an it was he was so strong for de union � an now de ment won t let his have his money s to prove him � when he changed shots with his friend he wouldn t set under de ate flag a grim smile in dr s face in connection with the de claim what he said do you want me to explain to the government that the old would have blown my brains out if he could said uncle with shrewd gravity things is different days an de ment don t call gen as was called in de he looked up under the broad brim of his companion s hat with impassioned appealing i member one thing he said you was a southern gen and when a enemy s dead a southern gen don t cherish no harm him an you straight from an you

the and grew like little islands and confused the eye the gap besides was more d d g i it the ow usually long it was a place where any stranger might come readily to mischief and dick him with something like a pang of the lad whom he had bo imperfectly directed as for himself one look backward to where the wind mill sails were turning black i the blue of heaven � one look forward to the high ground of forest and he was sufficiently directed and held straight on the water washing to his horse e knees as safe as on a highway half way across and when he had already sighted the path rising high and dry upon the farther side he was aware of a great on his right and saw a grey horse sank to its belly in the mud and still struggling instantly as though it had divined the neighbourhood of help the poor beast began to most it rolled meanwhile a eye insane with terror and as it in the a g clouds of insects rose and about it in the air i thought dick can the poor lad have perished there is his horse for certain � a brave grey i nay comrade if thou to me i will do man can to help thee shalt not lie there to drown by inches and he made ready his and put a quarrel through the creature s head dick rode on after this act of rugged mercy somewhat in spirit and looking closely about him for any sign of bis less happy in the way i le is the i would i had dared to tell him further he thought for i fear he has in the and just aa he was so a voice cried upon hie name from the side and looking over his shoulder he saw the lad s face peering from a of are ye there he said in ye lay so close among the that i had passed you by i saw your horse and put him from his agony which by my t an ye had been a more merciful rider ye had done yourself but come forth out of your hiding here be none to trouble you nay good boy i have do arms nor skill to use them if i had replied the other stepping forth upon the pathway why call me boy cried dick y are not i the elder of us twain good master said the other forgive me i have none the least intention to offend rather i would in every way your gentleness and favour for i am now worse than ever having lost my way my cloak and my poor horse to have a riding rod and spurs and never a horse to sit upon and before all he added looking upon his clothes � before all to be so tut i cried dick would ye mind a blood of wound or dust of � that s a man s t s thk black nay then i like him better plain observed the lad but how shall i do good richard help me with good counsel if i come not safe to i am undone nay said dick i will give more than counsel take my horse and i will run awhile and when i am weary we shall change t ain that so riding and running both may go the so the change was made and they went forward as briskly as they on the dick with his hand upon the other s knee how call ye your name asked dick call me john replied the lad and what make ye to dick continued i seek from a man that would me was the answer the good of is a strong pillar to the weak and how came ye with sir daniel r f pursued dick nay cried the other by the abuse of force he hath taken me by violence from my own place dressed me in these weeds ridden with me till my heart was sick me till i could v wept and when certain of my friends pursued thinking to have me back me in the rear to stand their shot i i was even in the right foot and walk but nay there shall come a day between ns he shall smart for all i t in the ye shoot at the moon with a gun said dick tie a knight and hath a hand of iron an he i had made or with your flight it would go sore with me ay poor boy returned the other y are hu ward i know it by the same token so am i or ao he or else he hath bought my marriage � i not rightly which but it ia some handle to me by boy again said dick nay then shall i call you girl good richard asked never a girl for me returned dick i do the crew of them ye speak said the other ye think more of them than ye pretend not i said dick stoutly they come not in my mind a plague of them say give me to hunt and to fight and to feast and to live with jolly i never heard of a maid yet that was for any service save one only and she poor was burned for a witch and the wearing of men s in spite of nature master crossed himself with and appeared to pray what make ye dick inquired i pray for her spirit answered the other with a somewhat troubled voice for a witch s spirit dick cried but pray for the black her an ye list she was the best in europe was this of old the ran from her he said as if she had been nay he was a brave well but good master richard resumed an

phenomena of the ice joy of and his mother along in the and channels sometimes the ice expanded to a considerable breadth where the water had flowed smoothly and slowly and at others the stream was contracted between rocks or tumbled down in the water itself concealed behind monstrous and or massive or rounded and of anchor ice there was no end to the brilliant colors and fantastic forms of the honey and the net work and the needles and the stars which was continually finding and there were horses and soldiers and and giants with ponderous clubs and just ready to ascend into the air then was never tired of gazing at the curious effect of the water and down over a rock or along a stony bottom as seen through its icy covering in a word was in an ecstasy his mother too though more quiet and in her enjoyment was equally pleased she walked happily along admiring the wonders which had discovered and pointed out she had in fact a source of deeper and purer joy than his in the reflection which she was continually making my father made them all when any of the peculiar beauties or wonders of nature are presented to the eye on the sabbath perhaps they more frequently tend to draw away the mind from god than toward him but there are some seasons or perhaps some states of mind when the effect is the reverse and the mind seems to perceive by a direct moral vision the glories and the loveliness of divinity in every enchantment around the soul seems to gratitude and filial love and every sight and sound comes with associations of unspeakable tenderness and peace and joy s mother was at this time in such a state of mind and she moved leisurely along � for now that they had taken a shorter road there was ample time � rambling around her path through the woods s conversation like a and all the aspects of nature beaming with an expression of the sweetest peace and happiness upon her soul she mused in silence her heart with happy confidence in the presence and communion of the with a smile of gladness and peace over every feature and her eyes half filled with tears at length they left the bed of the brook and turned off into a horse path through the woods which they thought would bring them out near the school house the path had not been broken out so that it aided them only by affording an passage through the trees and they walked along upon the snow far above the surface of the ground and now said his mother when they entered upon this secluded path and the thicket of trees and bushes on each side seemed to shut out every thing that might attention now come and walk quietly by me i want to talk with you came with a leap and a bound took hold of his mother s hand and hanging by it began crosses on the snow with a long slender rod he held in his hand throw away your stick and walk along quietly i want to talk with you i ll hide it under this log mother said the boy to the side of the road and concealing his and then i can get it when we come back said she as he came to her side again i have been thinking lately about god more than i used to do i have been thinking how kind he has been to us and how ungrateful we have been to him and after this i am going to do differently walked along without making any reply one thing i am going to do is to read the bible and pray to god with you every night and morning or the s mother new plans and shall you make the prayer mother v said with an in which were combined an expression of solemnity and of surprise yes god will help me i wish you were old enough and had the heart to do it i might read the bible mother said he thoughtfully yes so you can and that will be an excellent plan for us here darted off to the side of the road and took up a smooth stick which lay upon the snow it was part of a dead and branch which the wind had broken off from a tree above he ran back with it using it for a walking cane and saying when are you going to begin mother to night and besides said she i am going to do differently by you i don t think i have done quite right by you why mother said in a tone of great surprise marching along at the same time with a very martial air striking his stick into the snow at every step by way of keeping time i am sure i think you have been very kind to me yes i am afraid ive you too much here dropped his mother s hand and stopped she looked round and saw that his eye was fixed upon an object at a little distance in the wood and he was drawing back his stick to throw it in an instant the stick flew end over end through the air and struck the bottom of a stump just in the edge of the wood and at the same moment two snow birds flew away from the top of it oh mother said he a little more there were two of them mother did you see yes i saw them but you ought not to throw at the is somewhat surprised his mother s resolutions birds it is sabbath day besides i want you to hear me well mother i will said and began again to walk with forced decorum by her side i have let you have your

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of you tell this lady how i died and he pointed to and say i thought that she would wish it she shall be told said the officer again and saved too if i can do it hold mrs then till i am out of this i ll leave my coat to cover her a sailor obeyed and with difficulty robert free his hand very deliberately he pressed to his breast and kissed her on the forehead then how robert came ashore let her gently slide on to the bottom of the boat next he off his overcoat and slowly rolled himself over the into the sea now he said pull mrs in with some difficulty it was done and he saw her and her child sink into the place that he had left god bless you you are a brave man said i shall remember you if i live a hundred years but no one else said anything perhaps they were all too much ashamed even then i have only done my duty answered from the water how far is it to the shore about three miles shouted but keep on that plank or you will never live through the good bye good bye answered robert then the boat passed away from him and soon vanished on the misty face of the deep resting on the plank which had saved the life of mrs robert looked about him and listened now and again he heard a faint choking scream uttered by some drowning wretch and a few hundred yards away caught sight of a black object which he thought might be a boat if so he reflected that it must be full moreover he could not overtake it no his only chance was to make for the shore he was a strong and happily the water was as warm as milk there seemed to be no reason why he should not reach it supported as he was by a if the would leave him alone which they might as there was plenty for them to feed on the direction he knew well enough for now in the great silence of the sea he could hear the boom of the mighty breaking on the beach ah those i he remembered how that very afternoon and he had watched them through his field glass up against the cruel walls of rock and wondered that when the ocean was so calm they had still such power now should he live to reach them he was doomed to match himself against that power well the sooner he did so the sooner it would be over one way or the other this was in his favour the tide had turned and was flowing indeed he had little to do but to rest upon his plank which he placed beneath his breast and himself with his feet even thus he made good progress nearly a mile an hour perhaps he could have gone faster had he but he was saving his strength it was a strange journey upon that silent sea beneath those silent stars and strange thoughts came into robert s soul he wondered whether would and what how robert came ashore she would say perhaps however she was dead and he would meet her presently he wondered if he were doomed to die and whether this sacrifice of his would be allowed to for his past errors he hoped so and put up a petition to that effect for himself and for and for all the poor people who had gone before hurled from their pleasure into the halls of death so he floated on while the boom of the grew ever nearer by his wild fitful thoughts till at length what he took to be a appeared quite close to him and in the of the moment he gave up wondering it proved to be only a piece of wood but later on a real did come for he saw its back fin however this cruel creature was either or timid for when he upon the water and shouted it went away to return no more now at length robert entered upon the deep hill and valley swell which preceded the field of the suddenly he shot down a smooth slope and without effort of his own found himself borne up an opposing steep from the crest of which he had a view of white lines of foam and beyond them of a dim and rocky shore at one spot a little to his right the foam seemed thinner and the line of cliff to be broken as though here there was a for this then he his plank taking the swell which by good fortune the set of the tide enabled him to do without any great exertion the valleys grew deeper and the tops of the opposing were with foam he had entered the and the struggle for life began before him they rushed solemn and mighty viewed from some safe place even the sight of these is terrible as any who have watched them from this coast or from that of the island of can bear witness what their aspect was to this man supported by a single plank may therefore be imagined seen as he saw them in the mysterious moonlight and in utter yet his spirit rose to meet the dread emergency if he were to die he would die fighting he had grown cold and tired but now the chill and weariness left him he felt warm and strong from the crest of one of the high he thought he saw that about half a mile away from him a uttle river ran down the centre of the and for the mouth of this river he laid his course at first all went well he was borne up the seas he down the seas in a of white foam presently the rise and fall grew and

he perceived that since he was making love to every woman possible was no longer bis one pure star and he wondered whether she had ever been anything more to him than a woman and if had spoken to him were other people talking about him he suspiciously the men at the club that noon it seemed to hun that they were uneasy they had been talking about him then he was angry he became he not only defended but even made fun of the y m c a was rather brief in his answers afterward was not angry he was afraid he did not go to the next lunch of the club but hid in a cheap and while he a ham and egg and coffee from a cup on the arm of his chair he worried four days later when the bunch were having one of parties drove them to the which bad been laid out on the river after a the streets bad frozen in smooth ice down those wide endless streets the wind rattled between the rows of wooden houses n on � j v m ud tbe district seemed a frontier town even with id chains on all four was afraid of and when he came to tbe slide of a bill he crawled down both on round a comer came a less cautious car it it almost r ed them with its rear in relief at their escape tbe � ob baby and waved their bands to the agitated other driver then saw laboriously tip bill staring at tbe he was sure that bim and saw kiss him as she you re such a good at lunch next day he with out last ni with n brother and some friends of bis what driving s glass thou t i saw you up the avenue hill no i wasn t � i didn t see you said hastily rather perhaps two days afterward took to at tbe hotel she who had seemed well content to wait for him at her flat had b to hint with melancholy smiles that be must think but little of ber if be never introduced her to his friends if be was unwilling to be seen with h� at the he thought of taking her to the ladies of the but that was too dangerous he have to ber and oh le mi t and � he on tbe she was unusually smart all in small black hat short black coat loose and swinging and austere hi black velvet frock at a time when most street were like evening gowns she was too smart every one in tbe gold and oak of the was staring at her as followed her to a table b� hoped that the bead waiter would give th� u a discreet place behind a but were stationed on aisle seemed not to notice her admirers she smiled at vith a lavish c isn t this what a pet looking had difficulty in bang lavish in return for two tables away he saw all the meal watched then watched being watched and tried to ke s gaiety i felt like a to day she ti q led i love the don t you it s so live and yet so � so refined he made talk about the the the food the people he recognized in the all but there did not seem to be anything else to talk of he smiled at her fluttering he agreed with her that was so hard to get along with young such a hay kid really just no good at all but he himself bad nothing to say he considered telling her his about but � oh it was too much work to go into the whole thing and explain about and everything he was relieved when he put on a he was cheerful in the familiar of his office at four o clock called on him was agitated but began in a friendly way how s the boy say some of us are getting a we d kind of like to have you come in on fine short you know during the war we had the the and walking and just the plain dead to rights and so did we for quite a while after the war but folks forget about the and that these a chance to begin working again especially a lot of these parlor well it s up to the folks that do a little sound thinking to make a conscious to keep these fellows some back east has ft called the good citizens league just that pose of the chamber of commerce and the l and so on do a fine work in keeping the decent pet in the saddle but they re devoted to so many other causes that tb can t attend to this one problem properly but the good citizens league the g c l they stick ri t to it oh the g c l has to have some other purposes � here in i think it ought to support the park extension project and the city planning � and then too it should have a social a being made up of the best people � have dances and so on as one of the best ways it can put the on is to apply this social business to folks big so you can t reach em otherwise then if that don t work the g c l can finally send a little around to inform folks that get too that th got to to decent standards and quit shooting off mouths so free don t it sound like the organization could do a great work we ve already got some of the strongest men in town and of course we want yon in how about it was uncomfortable he felt a back to all the standards he had so vaguely

village was the most terrible the master of mystery none found more evil spirits than he none visited his victims with more frightful even had he found once a devil within the body of a three months babe � a most obstinate devil which could only be driven out when the babe had lain for a week on thorns and the body was thrown into the sea after that but the waves tossed it back again and again as a curse upon the village nor did it finally go away till two strong men were out at low tide and drowned and had sent for this no ton better had it been if their own were for he had ever a way and he had been known to drive forth two devils from a man who afterward seven healthy children but no ton they shuddered with dire at thought of him and each one felt himself the centre of eyes and looked upon his fellows � each one and all save and was a whose evil end was destined with a his could not shake i he laughed devils and no ton � than whom no greater devil can be found in land thou fool even now he with witch the master of mystery and so beware thy tongue lest evil befall thee and thy days be short in the land i so spoke la otherwise the and laughed scornfully i am unused to fear of the dark i am a strong man as my father before me and my head is clear nor you nor i have seen with our eyes the unseen evil things � but hath la made answer and likewise no ton this we know how dost thou know son of a fool thundered the blood darkening his thick bull neck by the word of their mouths � even so a is only a man may not his words be crooked even as thine and mine i and once more and this for thy and thy devils i and this and this and snapping his fingers to right and left strode through the on who made and way for him a good and strong hunter but an evil man said one yet does he flourish another wherefore be thou evil and flourish the master of mystery retorted over his shoulder and were all evil there would be no need for you children afraid of the dark and when no ton arrived on the afternoon tide s defiant laugh was nor did he forbear to make a joke when the tripped on the sand in the landing no ton looked at him and without greeting stalked straight through their midst to the house of of the meeting with none of the might know for they clustered reverently in the distance and spoke in whispers while the masters of mystery were together greeting o no ton wavering from doubt of his reception he was a giant in stature and above little whose thin voice floated upward like the faint far of a greeting no ton he returned the day is fair with thy coming yet it would seem no ton hesitated yea yea the little put in impatiently that i have fallen on ill days else would i not stand in gratitude to you in that you do my work it me friend the master of mystery nay i am made glad no ton but will i give thee half of that which be given me not so good no ton murmured with a wave of the hand it is i who am thy slave and my days shall be filled with desire to thee as i � as thou now me that being so it is then a bad business these blankets of the woman the big in his quest and smiled a wan gray smile for he was used to reading men and all men seemed very small to him ever hast thou dealt in strong medicine he said doubtless the evil will be briefly known to thee ay briefly known when i set eyes upon him again no ton hesitated have there been from other places he asked shook his head behold is this not a most excellent he held up the foot covering of and hide and his visitor examined it with secret interest it did come to me by a close driven bargain the master of mystery no ton nodded attentively i got it from the man la he is a remarkable man and often have i thought so no ton ventured impatiently often have i thought concluded his voice falling as he came to a full pause it is a fair day and thy medicine be strong no ton no ton s face brightened thou art a great man a of i go now i shall remember thee always and the man la as you say is a remarkable man smiled yet more wan and gray closed the door on the heels of his departing visitor and barred and double barred it was mending his when no ton came down the beach and he broke from his work only long enough to load his rifle and place it near him the noted the action and called out let all the people come together on this spot it is the word of no ton devil and driver of devils he had been minded to them at s house but it was necessary that all should be present and he was doubtful of s obedience the master of mystery and did not wish trouble was a good man to let alone his judgment ran and withal a bad one for the health of any let the woman be brought no ton commanded glaring about the circle and sending up and down the of those he looked upon forward head bent and gaze averted where be thy blankets i but stretched them up in the

more and that of many � was seven or eight years after the restoration of the in the term of service was permanently reduced to four years xvi english bound themselves to serve a term of years fairly hoping to better their condition in america and men in domestic or other trouble would sell themselves for a term of service in the plunging into the abyss and trusting to luck to come up in better plight in a new world husbands their wives lost their identity in the transport ship and wives from husbands were swallowed up in the flood children and were welcomed by the and prison pursued by hue and cry were quickly safe on board in those days of slow communication of every sort were as utterly lost to their old lives in america as they could have been had they to the moon it was an age of soldiers sailors pupils children and now and then even wives were thought the better for one ought hardly to be surprised therefore at the numerous and cruel of english servants women as well as men who were naked with rods and washed chap vi fate of the of civilization chap vi s journal with the punishment continuing sometimes at intervals for hours or being renewed day after day there were also in use by masters and and other such devil s devices the food allowed was sometimes a scant diet of indian meal the sick servant was neglected lest the doctor s charge should exceed the value of his remaining service and one master in required a servant sick of a mortal disease to dig his own grave in advance in order to save the other men s time in virginia the secret burial of servants and the of christian white servants naked without the consent of a justice great numbers fled away from the of bondage taking the risk of cruel and an extension of their terms if captured during the existence of new dutch servants broke away to new england or while english servants from both directions made their way to the dutch territory with new england the dutch had at one time a treaty for the return of those who carried their under their feet to get away on to seize a and make off to a neighboring colony and represent themselves as and to fly to the indians were favorite devices of so great was the number of that inferior persons were always liable to arrest on suspicion north was filled with from virginia in a dangerous conspiracy of servants land and labor in the early colonies was discovered in virginia and a general fear of the class among whom were many desperate characters probably prompted much of the severe treatment inflicted on the found that servants led astray the and young the before starting at considerable cost to their servants a corrupt element they even sent back two boys who had shown vicious on but the large proportion of out to servants during the first years of the colonies shows how slight was the effect of the process even in the colonies where the element was shut out many of the servants were obtained from dangerous classes such as sturdy beggars and other idle and persons they could eat till they sweat and work till they in the quaint words of a in new england it was probably from those who had been servants that the sea fitting out in the colonies found the james when short of hands lay off the virginia coast and captured transport ships many of the and servants in them preferring to risk a in on the grand account to in bondage in some instances the criminal rose and the crew taking the ship into some out of the way harbor and escaping the degradation of the women servants was a continual source of evil laws were made to correct their and other laws chap vi the of civilization chap vi � state papers to prevent these christians from with the heathen in all the colonies there were those brought as servants even as who rose to wealth through industry and two virtues on which a new land pays high some founded families that attained to honor and influence xvii the severity of english laws occasioned of all kinds for saxon people prefer to reform an abuse by rather than by direct the old provision for benefit of clergy was stretched to an absurd the need for men in the colonies offered a new opportunity for merciful of the death penalty in cases of minor it became common to pardon thieves on condition of their accepting a seven years term of service in the colonies and the english state paper office has many curious for this as early as a horse thief that he much prefers service in virginia to hanging at a later period a husband is found on behalf of his wife condemned to death for stealing three that she might be transported to any plantation after the restoration it was that at their discretion might send loose and persons to the colonies and at intervals a hundred or so of birds were taken in a close lighter from to wool land and labor in the early colonies where they were put aboard ship for america was the chief of the trade here even the small and sometimes the had in the colonies therefore naturally took the lead in the servant trade and most of the great of the city became involved in when in a man was on trial for some small crime the petty officers would persuade him to beg for in order to escape being hanged these were then assigned to the mayor and each of the in turn who sold them to the and grew rich from the spoils of the poor and the desperate in the most scene in history the

tone shaking his head meanwhile as who should say let no man contradict me for i won t believe him that john was in amazing force to and fit to tackle a chief justice the stranger suffered a short pause to and then asked abruptly what do you mean more than you think for friend returned john perhaps there s more meaning in them words than you suspect perhaps there is said the strange man but what the devil do you speak in such mysteries for you teu me first that a man is not alive nor yet dead � then that he s not dead in a common sort of way � then that you mean a great deal more than i think for to tell you the truth you may do that easily for so far as i can make out you mean nothing wh so you mean i ask again that returned the landlord a little brought down from his dignity by the stranger s is a story and has been any time these four and twenty years that story is solomon s story it belongs to the house d nobody but solomon has ever told it under this roof or ever shall � that s more the man glanced at the parish clerk whose air of consciousness and importance plainly him to be the person referred to and observing that he had taken his pipe from his after a very to keep it alight and was evidently about to tell his story without further gathered his large coat about him and shrinking further back was almost lost in the gloom of the spacious chimney comer except when the flame struggling from under a great weight almost it for the time shot upward with a strong and sudden glare and his figure for a moment seemed afterwards to cast it into deeper obscurity than before by this flickering light which made the old room with its heavy and look as if it were built of � the wind roaring and howling without now rattling the latch and creaking the hinges of the stout door and now driving at the as though it would beat it in � by this light and under circumstances so solomon began his tale it was mr mr s elder here he came to a dead stop and made so long a pause that even john grew impatient and asked why he did not proceed said solomon dropping his voice and appealing to the post office keeper what day of the month is this the nineteenth of march said the clerk bending forward the nineteenth of march that s very stranger in a low voice they all and solomon went on it was mr mr s elder brother that twenty two years ago was the owner of the which as joe has said � t you remember it joe for a boy like you can t do that but because you have often heard me say so � was then a much larger and better place and a much more valuable property than it is now his lady was lately dead and he was left with one child � the miss you have been inquiring about � who was then scarcely a year old although the speaker addressed himself to the man who had shown so much curiosity about this same family and made a pause here as if expecting some exclamation of surprise or encouragement the latter made no remark nor gave any indication that he d or was in what was said solomon therefore a� ed to his old companions whose noses were brightly by the deep red glow firom the of their pipes assured by long experience of their attention and resolved to show his sense of such behaviour mr said solomon turning his back upon the strange man left this place when his lady died feeling it like and went up to london where he stopped some months but that place as lonely as this � as i suppose and have always heard say � he suddenly came back again with his little girl to the bringing with him besides that day only two women servants and his steward and a gardener mr stopped to take a at his pipe which was going out and then proceeded � at first in a tone occasioned by keen enjoyment of the tobacco and strong at lie pipe and with increasing distinctness � bringing with him two women servants and his steward and a gardener the rest stopped behind up in london and were to follow next day it happened that that night an old gentleman who lived at row and had long been poorly deceased and an order came to me at half after twelve o clock at night to go and toll the there was a movement in the little group of listeners sufficiently of the strong any one of them would have felt to have turned out at such a time upon such an errand the felt and ood it and pursued his theme accordingly it w� i a dreary thing especially as the grave was laid up in his bed from long working in a damp soil and sitting down to take his dinner on cold and i was consequently under obligations to go alone for it was too late to hope to get any companion however i wasn t unprepared for it as the old gentleman had often made it a request that the bell should be as soon as possible after the breath was out of his body and he had been expected to go for some days i put as good a face upon it as i could and myself up for it was mortal cold started out with a lighted lantern in one hand and the key of the church in the other at this point of the narrative the dress of the strange

it was an enormous price for those other animals � a price which naturally seems incredible to you it was the war you see it worked two ways it made meat dear and prisoners cheap well here were these poor being carried off what could we do very little of a permanent sort but we did what we could we sent a messenger flying to and we and the french guards halted the procession for a � to gain time you see a big lost his temper and swore a great oath that none should stop him he would go and would take his prisoner with him but we blocked him off and he saw that he was mistaken about going � he couldn t do it he by of arc exploded into the and then and his prisoner from his back stood him up all bound and helpless then drew his knife and said to us with a light of sarcastic triumph in his eye i may not carry him away you say � yet he is mine none will dispute it since i may not convey him hence this property of mine there is another way yes i can kill him not even the among you will question that right ah you had not thought of that � that poor starved fellow begged us with his piteous eyes to save him then spoke and said he had a wife and little children at home think how it wrung our but what could we do the was within his right we could only beg and plead for the prisoner which we did and the enjoyed it he stayed his hand to hear more of it and laugh at it that stung then the dwarf said young let me him for when a matter requiring persuasion is to the fore i have indeed a gift in that sort as any will tell you that know me well you smile and that is punishment for my vanity and fairly earned i grant it you still if i may toy a little just a little � saying which he stepped to the and began a fair soft speech all of goodly and gentle tenor and in the midst he mentioned the maid and was going on to say how she out of her good by of arc heart would prize and praise this compassionate deed which he was about to � it was as far as he got the burst into his smooth with an insult at of arc we sprang forward but the dwarf his face all livid brushed us aside and said in a most grave and earnest way � � i your patience am not i her guard of honor this is my affair and saying this he suddenly shot his right hand out and the great by the throat and so held him upright on his feet you have insulted the maid he said � and the maid is france the tongue that does that a long one heard the muffled of bones the s eyes began to from their and stare with a leaden at the color deepened in his face and became an purple his hands hung down limp his body with a shiver every muscle relaxed its and ceased from its function the dwarf took away his hand and the column of sank to the ground we struck the bonds from the prisoner and told him he was free his crawling changed to frantic joy in a moment and his ghastly fear to a childish rage he flew at that dead corpse and kicked it in its face danced upon it crammed mud into its mouth laughing cursing and by of arc forth and like a drunken it was a thing to be expected makes few saints many of the laughed others were indifferent none was surprised but presently in his mad the freed man within reach of the waiting file and another promptly slipped a knife through his neck and down he went with a his brilliant blood ten feet as straight and bright as a ray of light there was a great burst of jolly laughter all around from friend and foe alike and thus closed one of the incidents of my military life and now came and deeply troubled she considered the claim of the garrison then said you have right upon your side it is plain it was a careless word to put in the treaty and covers too much but ye may not take these poor men away they are french and i will not have it the king shall them every one wait till i send you word from him and hurt no hair of their heads for i tell you i who speak that that would cost you very dear that settled it the prisoners were safe for one while anyway then she rode back eagerly and required that thing of the king and listen to no and no excuses so the king told her to have her way and she rode straight back and bought the free in his name and let them go by chapter it was here that we saw again the grand master of the king s household in whose castle was guest when she at in those first days of her coming out of her own country she made him of now by the king s permission and now we marched again surrendered to us and there by in a talk being asked if she had no fears for the future said yes one � treachery who could believe it who could dream it and yet in a sense it was prophecy truly man is a pitiful animal we marched marched kept on marching and at last on the i th of july we came in sight of our goal and saw the great cathedral towers of rise out of the distance after

to tin of w m a now bu i a mil wm vou � u is sat n t a mr d of � to bo or ur h h relates to the of to the in the sod to ur lo do m not � that of mr r king of was to look with on mr and as to some of but tie to the made in which hid formed what is called a state h� the good old way ot aud so training up their for the exercise and of our besides be there not that kind of there that the formation of a on the question of in the new he said we no act of u has been hi by the ta aa ar going of bi wa t� p m an act would u soon as i ot go look it � � t dog i br and tbat bo my may go to u � � from t ih wm i b than the ocean � l� la tb that im aad that admitted into n� � � mar be taken from � � � in reply i am extremely to beer the that be of line to tbe and k is witb that it i urn a lor toe of and now fro rate ai i do owe it m owe it to truth i owe n to en to no of it had not south er north of thai coming aa i di shall ma to for tbe � or north of or and too our upon tbe � aa am tor that the of ke in of and new ui � loi doing to lu u the of those o oa allowing the tor king are my � ir and and lean not bow a � are known hu opinion ih mm and bare no i � and h and how my � � june ot my my hu been greater than it was when i ur i forward aa a and i now not for of it at all bat lo it ai no compromise at all what r lee at � b of south said ia i u the i whole ef la more than b a and � at shall be ta aad br operation ot laws already a net them � o� hat is there la the et a here � that � right to go there lam r ih they i w j g from it is to be bade that shan so ttie engrossed the of the for nearly two months � march b � mr from the on reported the following ills � a tor ou of into � a bill to got of and new and for other these were read and passed to a second reading april ii � mr that bell do lie oa the lost s ss april is � the of clay s resolutions mill colonel that the orders be postponed and that tbe now proceed to consider tbe bill s for the admission of the state of mr clay that do lie on the table carried for a compromise u for a without compromise i tbe now look up bell s u � book when mr moved that they lie on the table lost mr next moved that thej be so as not to connect or mix up the admission of with any other question lost various of the idea were down generally by large on motion of mr of miss it was now that the by bell on the february together with the submitted on the th of by be referred to a select of thirteen pro that the does not deem it necessary and therefore to express in any opinion or to give any instruction either general or for the of the said april � the proceeded to elect by such select committee which was composed as follows mr henry of ey of n t of pa of downs of la ben of king of of of n of mass of of q bright of ind may � mr clay from said reported at length the views and of the report being as follows the admission of any new state or states formed out of to be postponed until they shall hereafter themselves to be received into the union when it will be the duly of fairly and to execute the compact with by admitting such new state or the admission forthwith of into the union with boundaries which she has proposed the establishment of the for new and all the territory recently acquired by the states firom not contained in the boundaries of the combination of these two last � in the same bill the establishment of the western and northern boundaries of and the firom her of all new with the grant to of a equivalent and the section for that purpose to be in the bill admitting and establishing gk for and new more effectual of law to secure the prompt delivery of persons bound to service or labor in me c te under the laws thereof who escape into another state and fi om slavery but under a heavy penalty the trade in the of the proceeded to debate from day to day the provisions of the principal bill thus reported commonly termed the june � mr soul of moved that all south of be cut off from and formed into a territory entitled south and that said territory shall when ready able and to become a and deserving to be be admitted with or slavery as the people thereof shall and make known through constitution this was rejected all july � the discussion was interrupted by the death of president succeeded to the and william r king of was chosen president of the pro july the bill was reported to the and so as to substitute that shall make no

glance to see a t courtesy from elizabeth herself this though late and r and was yet better nothing and her spirits improved after talking however of the weather and bath and the their conversation began to flag and so little was said at last that she was expecting him to go every moment but he did not he seemed in no hurry to leave her and presently with renewed spirit with a little smile a little glow he said � i have hardly seen you our day at i am afraid you must have suffered from the shock and the more from its not overpowering you at the time she assured him that she had not it was a frightful hour said he a frightful day and he passed his hand across his eyes as if e remembrance were still too painful but in a moment half smiling again added the day has produced some effects however � has had some consequences which must be considered as the very reverse of frightful when you had the presence of mind to suggest that would be the person to fetch a surgeon you could have little idea of his being eventually one of those most concerned in her recovery certainly i could have none but it appears � i should hope it would be a very happy match there are on both good principles good temper persuasion yes said he looking not exactly forward but there i think ends the resemblance with all my soul i wish them happy and rejoice over every circumstance in favour of it they have no difficulties to contend with at home no opposition no caprice no the are like themselves most and kindly only anxious with true parental hearts to promote their daughter s comfort all this is much very much in favour of their happiness more than perhaps he stopped a sudden recollection seemed to occur and to give him some taste of that emotion which was anne s cheeks and fixing her eyes on the ground after clearing his throat however he proceeded � i confess that i do think there is a too great a and in a point no less essential than mind i regard as a very amiable sweet tempered girl and not deficient in understanding but is something more he is a clever man a reading man and i confess that i do consider his himself to her with some surprise had it been the effect of gratitude had he learnt to love her because he believed her to be preferring him it would have been another thing but i have no reason to suppose it so it seems on the contrary to have been a perfectly spontaneous feeling on his side and this surprises me a man like him in his situation with a heart pierced wounded almost broken was a very superior creature and his attachment to her was indeed attachment a man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman he ought not � he does not either from the consciousness however that his friend had recovered or from some other consciousness he went no farther and anne who in spite of the agitated voice in which the latter part had been uttered and in spite of all the various noises of the room the almost ceaseless of the door and ceaseless of persons walking through had distinguished every word was struck gratified confused and beginning to breathe very quick and feel a hundred things in a moment it was for her to enter on such a subject and yet after a pauses persuasion feeling tlie necessity of speaking and having not the smallest wish for a total change she only so far as to say � you were a good while at i think f about a fortnight i could not leave it till s doing well was quite ascertained i had been too deeply concerned in the mischief to be soon at peace it had been my doing � solely mine she would not have been obstinate if i had not been weak the country round is very fine i walked and rode a great deal and the more i saw the more i found to admire i should very much like to see again said anne indeed i should not have supposed that you could have found any thing in to inspire such a feeling the horror and distress you were ed in � the stretch of mind the wear of spirits i i should have thought your last impressions of must have been strong disgust the last few hours were certainly very painful replied anne but when pain is over the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure one does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has been all nothing but suffering � which was by no means the case at we were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours and previously there had been a great deal of enjoyment so much novelty and beauty i have travelled so little that every fresh place would be interesting to me � but there is real beauty at and in short with a faint blush at some recollections altogether my impressions of the place are very agreeable as she ceased the entrance door opened again and the very party appeared for whom they were waiting lady lady was the rejoicing sound nd with all the eagerness with anxious elegance sir walter and his two ladies stepped forward to meet her lady and miss escorted by mr and colonel who had happened to arrive nearly at the same instant advanced into the room the others joined them and it was a group in which anne found herself also necessarily included she was divided from captain their interesting almost too interesting conversation ok must be broken up for a time

for this mere of a wretched old uncle whose very name he wished to forget the boy s christian name even was an and an irony for it implied hereditary force and brilliancy to which he plainly would never attain the consolation of real was always left him certainly but he could not help groaning to himself why s lady cannot a son be one s own and somebody else s likewise the was shortly afterwards in the neighborhood of and met him and eyed his noble countenance the next day when was in his study somebody knocked at the door who s there i ll thee you young say only a poor commonplace his father why didn t you have a voice like the i saw yesterday he continued as the lad came in why haven t you his looks and a way of commanding as if you d done it for centuries � hey why how can you expect it father when not related to him i then you ought to be growled his father as the paused the surgeon the colonel the historian the spark and others exclaimed that such subtle and instructive studies as this now that was so much in demand were precisely the tales they desired as members of a scientific club and begged the master to tell another curious mental delusion the shook his head and feared he was not genteel enough to tell another story with a a op noble sufficiently moral tone to it to suit the club he would prefer to leave the next to a better man the colonel had fallen into reflection true it was he observed that the more dreamy and impulsive nature of woman within her fancies which often started her on strange tracks only to abandon them in sharp at the of her common sense � sometimes with ludicrous events which had caused a lady s action to set in a particular direction might continue to enforce the same line of conduct while she like a would start on a sudden in a contrary course and end where she began the vice president laughed and applauded the colonel adding that there surely a story somewhere behind that sentiment if he were not much mistaken the colonel fixed his face to a good narrative pose and went on without further dame the seventh s by the colonel it was in the time of the great civil war � if i should not rather as a loyal subject call it with the great rebellion it was i say at that unhappy period of our history that towards the autumn of a particular year the parliament forces sat down before castle with over seven thousand foot and four pieces of cannon the castle as we all know was in that century owned and occupied by one of the of and for his assistance by a certain noble who commanded the king s troops in these parts the said earl as well as the young lord his eldest son were away from home just now raising forces for the king elsewhere but there were present in the castle when the arrived before it the son s fair wife lady and her servants together with some friends and near relatives of her husband a group of noble and the defence was so good and well considered that they anticipated no great danger the forces were also commanded by a noble lord � for the nobility were by no means at this stage of the war all on the king s side � and it had been observed during his approach in the night time and in the morning when the took place that he appeared sad and much depressed the truth was that by a strange of destiny it had come to pass that the he was set to reduce was the home of his own sister whom he had tenderly loved during her and whom he loved now in spite of the which had resulted from with her husband s family he believed too that notwithstanding this cruel division she still was sincerely attached to him his hesitation to point his at the walls was inexplicable to those who were strangers to his family history he remained in the field on the north side of the castle called by his name to this day because of his there till it occurred to him to send a messenger to his sister with a letter in which he earnestly requested her as she valued her life to steal out of the place by the little gate to the south and make away in that direction to the residence of some friends shortly after he saw to his great surprise coming from the front of the castle walls a lady on horseback with a single attendant she rode lady straight forward into the field and up the slope to where his army and tents were spread it was not till she got quite near that he discerned her to be his sister and much was he alarmed that she should have run such risk as to sally out in the face of his forces without knowledge of their proceedings when at any moment their first discharge might have burst forth to her own destruction in such exposure she dismounted before she was quite close to him and he saw that her familiar face though pale was not at all tearful as it would have been in their younger days indeed if the particulars as handed down are to be believed he was in a more tearful state than she in his anxiety about her he called her into his tent out of the gaze of those around for though many of the soldiers were honest and serious minded men he could not bear that she who had been his dear companion in childhood should be exposed to curious observation in this her

but as who had not yet recovered from her uncle s protest though it was four and twenty hours of age offered her company the two sisters stepped together into one of the under mr s window and with the in attendance were taken in high state to mrs s lodging in truth their state was rather too high for the lodging which was as complained fearfully out of the way and which took them through a of narrow streets of water which the same lady as mere little the house on a little desert island looked as if it had broken away from somewhere else and had floated by chance into its present in company with a vine almost as much in want of training as the poor wretches who were lying under its leaves the features of the surrounding picture were a church with and about it which had been under repair so long that the means of repair looked a hundred years old and had themselves fallen into decay a quantity of washed linen spread to dry in the sun a number of houses at odds with one another and out of the perpendicular like rotten pre cut into fantastic shapes and full of and a feverish bewilderment of windows with their blinds all hanging and something and dirty dangling out of most of them on the first floor of the house was a bank � a surprising experience for any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a british city � where two spare clerks like dried in green velvet caps adorned with golden stood bearded behind a small counter in a small room containing no other visible objects than an empty iron safe with the door open a of water and a of of roses but who on lawful by merely dipping their hands out of sight could produce of five pieces below the bank was a of three or four rooms with barred windows which had the appearance of a jail for criminal rats above the bank was mrs s residence notwithstanding that its walls were as if missionary maps were bursting out of them to impart knowledge notwithstanding that its weird furniture was faded and and that the prevailing of water and an ebb tide on a shore was very strong the place was better within than it promised the door was opened by a smiling man like a � a temporary servant � who ushered them into the room where mrs go wan sat with the announcement that two beautiful english ladies were come to sec the mistress mrs who was engaged in put her work aside in a covered basket and rose a little hurriedly miss was excessively courteous to her and said the usual with the skill of a papa was extremely sorry proceeded to be engaged to day he is so much engaged here our acquaintance being so large and particularly requested me to bring his card for mr that i may be sure to myself of a commission which he impressed upon me at least a dozen times allow me to relieve my conscience by placing it on the table at once which she did with ease we have been said charmed to understand that you know the we hope it may be another means of bringing us together they are friends said mrs of mr s family i have not yet had the pleasure of a personal introduction to mrs but i suppose i shall be presented to her at rome little indeed returned with an of her own superiority i think you ll like her you know her very well why you see said with a frank action of her pretty shoulders in london one knows we met her on our way here and to say the truth papa was at first rather cross with her for taking one of the rooms that our people had ordered for us however of course that soon blew over and we were all good friends again although the visit had as yet given little no opportunity of conversing with mrs there was a silent understanding between them which did as well she looked at mrs with keen and interest the sound of her voice was thrilling to her nothing that was near her or about her or at all concerned her escaped little she was quicker to perceive the slightest matter here than in any other case � but one you have been quite well she now said since that night quite my dear and you oh i am always well said little timidly i � yes thank you there was no reason for her faltering and breaking off other than that mrs had touched her hand in speaking to her and their looks had met something thoughtfully apprehensive in the large soft eyes had checked little in an instant you don t know that you are a favorite of my husband s and that i am almost bound to be jealous of you said mrs little blushing shook her head he will tell you if he tells you what he tells me that you are and quicker of resource than any one he ever saw he speaks far too well of me said little i doubt that but i don t at all doubt that i must tell him you are here i should never be forgiven if i were to let you � and miss � go without doing so may i you can excuse the disorder and discomfort of a painter s the inquiries were addressed to miss who graciously replied that she would be beyond anything interested and enchanted mrs went to a door looked in beyond it and came back do henry the favor to come in said she i knew he would be pleased the first object that confronted little entering first was of paris in a great cloak and

open road bordered by thin trees all sloping away from the south west and the scene bore a strange resemblance to certain bits of dutch landscape which have been on the world s eye by and his school having explained to her that the wedding was put oflf and that she had come to stay one of s first acts was carefully to pack up the and case her wedding present from the baron the conditions of the gift were and she wished it to go back instantly perhaps in the of her bosom there a greater satisfaction with the reason for returning the present than she would have felt just then with a reason for keeping it the romantic adventures of a to send the article was difficult in the evening she wrapped herself up searched and found a veil that had been used by her grandmother in past years for of bees buried her face in it and forth with a heart till she drew near the of her god the baron she ventured only to the back door where she handed in the parcel addressed to him and quickly came away now it seems that during the day the baron had been unable to learn the result of his attempt to return in time for the event he had interrupted wishing for obvious reasons to avoid direct inquiry by messenger and being too to go far himself he could learn no particulars he was sitting in thought after a lonely dinner when the parcel failure was brought in the footman whose had been excited by the mode of its arrival peeped through the after closing the door to learn what the packet meant directly the baron had opened it he thrust out his feet vehemently from his chair and began cursing his conduct in bringing about such a disaster for the return of the not only no wedding that day but none to morrow or at any time i have done that innocent woman a great wrong he murmured deprived her of perhaps her opportunity of becoming mistress of a happy home x a considerable period of followed among all concerned nothing tended to the obscurity which veiled the life of the baron the position he occupied in the minds of the country folk around was one which combined the of a character with the deeds of a modem gentleman to this day whoever takes the trouble to go z the romantic adventures op a down to in lower and make inquiries will find existing there almost a superstitious feeling for the moody melancholy stranger who resided in the lodge some forty years ago whence he came whither he was going were alike unknown it was said that his mother had been an english lady of noble family who had married a foreigner not unheard of in circles where men pile up the heaps of strange achieved gold � that he had bom and educated in england taken abroad and so on but the facts of a life in such cases are of little account beside the aspect of a life and hence though doubtless the years of his existence contained their share of and homely the curtain which all this was never lifted to gratify such a theatre of spectators as those at therein lay his charm his life was a of which the central strokes only were drawn with any distinctness the away to a blank he might have been said to that solitary bird the the still lonely stream was his frequent haunt on its banks he would stand for hours with his rod looking into the water beholding the inhabitants with the eye of a philosopher and seeming to say bite or don t bite � it s all the same to me he was often mistaken for a ghost by children and for a willow by men when on their way home in the dusk they saw him motionless by some bank of the decline of day why did he come to fish near that was never explained as far as was he had no relatives near the fishing there was not good the society was decidedly meagre that he had committed some folly or hasty act that he had been accused of some crime thus rendering his seclusion from the world desirable for a while very well with his frequent melancholy but such as he was there he lived well sup the romantic adventures op a plied with fishing tackle and tenant of a furnished house just suited to the of such an eccentric being as he s father having privately ascertained that she was living with her grandmother and getting into no harm refrained from communicating with her in the hope of seeing her at his door it had of become known about that at the last moment refused to wed by herself from the house jim was pitied yet not pitied much for it was said that he ought not to have been so eager for a woman who had shown no anxiety for him and where was jim himself it must not be supposed that that had all this while withdrawn from mortal eye to tear his hair in silent indignation and despair he had in truth merely retired up the between the downs to his and the ancient above it and there after his first hours of natural he quietly waited for from the possibly but no arrived and then he meditated anew on the absorbing problem of her and how to set about another campaign for her conquest notwithstanding his late disastrous failure why had he failed to what was her strange conduct owing that was the thing which puzzled him he had made no advance in the riddle when one morning a stranger appeared on the down above him looking as if he had lost his way the man had a good deal of black

giving to the room that air of life which the habitation of a hunter and which so distinctly the dwellings of our frontier population amongst other articles of household use was a large that was placed near the door and beside it stood the dame who had first the visitors she was a woman who could scarcely be said to have reached the middle period of life although her wan and somewhat haggard features and a surly discontented expression of face might well induce an observer to attribute more years to her worldly account than she had actually seen the presence of a rough and cradle and some five or six children the majority of whom might be below three feet in stature served in some degree to explain the care worn and countenance of the hostess when butler and his companion were ushered by into her presence she gave them no other welcome than a slight nod of the head and continued to her task at the wheel with in another corner of the room sat a smart looking young girl who at this moment was employed in wool she was a horse shoe robinson just upon womanhood with a round active and graceful figure which was adorned with that zealous attention to neatness and becoming ornament which in every station of life to a certain extent those of the sex who are gifted with beauty her cheek had the rich bloom of high health a full round blue eye seemed habitually to laugh with pleasure and the same trick of a happy temperament had stamped its mark upon the lines of her mouth her was altogether different from that of the mistress of the house she from her work immediately upon the entrance of the strangers with a modest and silent reserve and then proceeded to gather up the rolls of wool at her feet and to dispose of them in a chest near at hand having done this she left the apartment not without casting sundry glances towards the guests another member of the family was an aged female she had perhaps seen her winter her frame seemed to be hovering on the verge of dissolution a hollow cheek a sunken moist eye and a tremulous motion of the head the melancholy period of and it was apparent at a glance that this unfortunate being had far both her capacity for enjoyment and the sympathy of her kindred she now sat in a low elbow chair with her head almost in contact with her knees upon the stone hearth bending over a small fire of which had been kindled as well for the purpose of preparing the evening meal as for the comfort of the ancient dame herself � the of nightfall rendering this additional warmth by no means unpleasant the silently smoked a short pipe unmoved by anything that occurred in the apartment and apparently engrossed with the trivial care of directing the smoke as she puffed it from her lips into a current that should take it up the chimney michael who acted as landlord in the casual absence of had no other with the family than that of being joint owner with the lord of this wild domain of a small saw mill in the vicinity the particular of which was his especial province he was therefore at particular seasons of the year an in at the and sufficiently in authority to assume a partial direction in the affairs of the house horse shoe robinson p this man now replaced his rifle upon the appropriate � u r receive it and then offered butler and robinson chairs as he saw to the mistress of the family � ft here s horse shoe robinson mrs and this other man � i think they call mr butler they ve come for a night s lodging i believe will be right glad to see them you are not often visited with travellers in this part of the country said butler addressing the matron as he drew his chair near to the fire to dry his clothes we have of them such as they are replied the woman and it s a dangerous thing when there s so many helpless women at home to be opening the door to all sorts of persons you at least run no risk in offering shelter to us this evening returned butler we are strangers to the quarrel that in your district people puts on so many said the woman that there s no knowing them you have a fine troop of boys and girls continued butler patting the head of one of the boys who had summoned courage to approach him after various shy of his person your settlement will require before long there is more children than is needful replied the hostess they are troublesome but poor people generally have the luck that way does your husband ever serve with the army madam asked butler the woman stopped spinning for a moment and turning her face towards butler with a muttered how does that matter concern you pardon me replied butler i was recommended to mr as a friend and supposed i might approach his house without suspicion is a fool said the wife who is never content but when he has other people thrusting their into his mess s a wiser man than his wife interrupted robinson and takes good care that no man his spoon into horse shoe his mess without paying for it you know and me knows each other of old mrs and devil a ha penny did ever lose by good manners yet and who are you to talk horse shoe robinson exclaimed the ill favored dame who are you to talk of if he knows you he knows no good of you i m sure i warrant you have come here on honest business now � you and your friend what do you do

my tumbling off the coach i was nearly smothered by their falling asleep and completely me up they squeezed me so hard sometimes that i could not help crying out oh if you please � which they didn t like at all because it woke them opposite me was an elderly lady in a great fur cloak who looked in the dark more like a than a lady she was wrapped up to such a degree this lady had a basket with her and she hadn t known what to do with it for a long time until she found that on account of my legs being short it could go underneath me it cramped and hurt me so that it made me perfectly miserable but if i moved in the least and made a glass that was in the basket rattle against something else as it was sure to do she gave me the with her foot and said come don t you your bones are young enough i m sure at last the sun rose and then my companions seemed to sleep easier the difficulties under which they had all night and which had found utterance in the most terrific and are not to be conceived as the sun got higher then sleep became lighter and so they gradually one by one awoke i recollect being very much surprised by the everybody made then of not having been to sleep at all and by the uncommon indignation with which every one the charge i labor under the same kind of astonishment to this day having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess i cannot imagine why is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach what an amazing place london was to me when i saw it in the distance and how i believed all the adventures of all my favorite heroes to be constantly and re there and how i vaguely made it out op david in my own mind to be fuller of wonders and wickedness than all the cities of the earth i need not stop here to relate we approached it by degrees and got in due time to the inn in the district for which we were bound i forget whether it was the blue bull or the blue but i know it was the blue something and that its likeness was painted up on the back of the coach the guard s eye lighted on me as he was getting down and he said at the office door is there anybody here for a in the name of from to be left till called for nobody answered try if you please sir said i looking helplessly down is there anybody here for a in the name of from but to the name of to be left till called for said the guard come is there anybody no there was nobody i looked anxiously around but the made no impression on any of the if i except a man in with one eye who suggested that they had better put a brass collar round my neck and tie me up in the stable a ladder was brought and i got down after the lady who was like a not daring to stir until her basket was removed the coach was clear of passengers by that time the luggage was very soon cleared out the horses had been taken out before the luggage and now the coach itself was wheeled and backed off by some out of the way still nobody appeared to claim the dusty from more solitary than who had nobody to look at him and see that he was solitary i went into the office and by invitation of the clerk on duty passed behind the counter and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage here as i sat looking at the and books and the smell of stables ever since associated with that morning a procession of most tremendous considerations began to march through my mind supposing nobody should ever fetch me how long would they consent to keep me there would they keep me long enough to spend seven shillings should i sleep at night in one of those wooden with the other luggage and wash myself at the pump in the yard in the morning or should i be turned out every night and expected to come again to be left till called for when the office opened next day supposing there was no mistake in the case and mr had devised this plan to get rid of me what should i do if they allowed me to remain there until my seven shillings were spent i couldn t hope to remain there when i began to starve that would obviously be inconvenient and unpleasant to the customers besides on the blue whatever it was the risk of funeral expenses if i started off at once and tried to walk back home how could i ever find my way how could i ever hope to walk so far how could i make sure of any one but even if i got back if i found out the nearest proper authorities and offered myself to go for a soldier or a sailor i was such a little fellow that it was most likely they wouldn t take me in these thoughts and a hundred other such thoughts turned me burning hot and made me giddy with apprehension and dismay i was in the height of my fever the personal history and experience when a man entered and whispered to the clerk who presently me off the scale and pushed me over to mm as if i were weighed bought delivered and paid for as i went out of the office hand in hand with this new acquaintance i stole a

has received his appointment on board the captain john commanded by the and wiu therefore be obliged to be in town on wednesday and though i have every disposition in the world to accompany him on that day i cannot go on the uncertainty of the being at home as i should not have a place to go to in case they were from home i wrote to miss p on friday and hoped to receive an answer from her this morning which would have rendered everything smooth and easy and would have enabled us to leave this place tomorrow as frank on first receiving his appointment intended to do he remains till wednesday merely to me i have written to her again to day and desired her to answer it by return of poet on tuesday therefore i shall positively know whether they can receive me on wednesday letters of jane if they cannot has been so good aa to promise to take me to on the monday following which was the day before fixed on if that suits them better if i have no answer at all on tuesday i must suppose mary is not at home and must wait till i do hear as after having invited lier to go to with me it will not quite do to go home and say no more about it my father will be so good as to fetch home his prodigal daughter from town i hope he wishes mc to walk the enter at the temple or mount guard at st james it will hardly be in frank s power to take me home � nay it certainly will not i shall write again as soon as i get to what dreadful hot weather we have i it keeps letters of jane q coming into again the time of taking place ia ao very uncertain that i should be waiting for dead shoes i had once determined to go with frank to morrow and take my chance c but they me from so a step as i really think on consideration it would have been for if the were not at i inevitably fall a sacrifice to the arts of some fat woman who would make me drunk with small beer is brought to bed of a boy � both doing very well i shall leave you to guess what mary i mean adieu with best love to all your agreeable don t let the go on any account before i return unless miss p is of the party how ill i have written i i ix gin to myself yours ever j the is a new just launched at frank is much pleased with the prospect of having captain under his command letters of jane the next division of letters those written in o in january the first is written from evidently fu st journey to from where mr and mrs george had been their con edward in liis new abode probably for the first time since he could not have been for more than a year ami there is a account of the loss and recovery of jane s writing and dressing boxes which appear to have had a narrow escape from a voyage to west from this and tiie following letters it would that mrs was in delicate health and ap letters of jane au the affords and fills her letters with such gossip about things and people as would be likely to interest her sister most of the people to whom she will be identified by reference to the chapters of this book and of others there is nothing more to ye said that they were country neighbours of various stations in life to whom no particular interest as far as jane is concerned the were brothers who occupied a fine old house and a large farm in which belonged to the knight family until mr e knight son of k sold it to the duke of and the late duke sold it in to mr an attempt to restore it failed and eventually a new house was built some fifty yards from the old one but although the latter was turned into stables its appearance in front at least was not injured and there is a charming view of it across the lawn fix m the drawing room of the new house previous to its sale to the present owner the family had occupied the house for more than years but not being irish tenants i suppose they got no compensation for � y � i i l � � � j � � m letters of jane john bond was mr s m his farming operations there is an anecdote relating to this worthy which may as well be told here mr used to join mr in buying twenty or ty sheep and that all might be fair it was their custom to open the pen and the first half of tlie sheep which ran out were counted as belonging to the going down to the fold on one occasion after this process had been gone through mr remarked one sheep among liis lot larger and finer than the rest john he observed to bond who was with him i think we have had the best of the luck with mr to day in getting that sheep maybe not so much in the luck as you think air responded the faithful john i ace d her the letters of jane long but at all events this proves that it was no hasty production but one which had been well considered and submitted to the judgment of others long before it was given to tlie public jane changed the name of another novel also between composition and publication sense and sensibility having been at first entitled and in the same letter there is an observation about mrs knight s giving up the estate to

going to live with the tree people all of which is neither here nor there the swift one was different from any of the females of the and i had a liking for from the first her and gentleness attracted me she was never rough and she never fought she always ran away and right here may be noted the significance of the of her she was a better than ear or i when we played we could never catch her except by accident while she could catch us at will she was before adam remarkably swift in all her movements and she had a genius for judging distances that was equalled only by her daring excessively timid in all other matters she was without fear when it came to climbing or running through the trees and ear and i were awkward and and cowardly in comparison she was an orphan we never saw her with any one and there was no telling how long she had lived alone in the world she must have learned early in her helpless childhood that safety lay only in flight she was very wise and very discreet it became a sort of game with ear and me to try to find where she lived it was certain that she had a tree shelter somewhere and not very far away but trail her as we would we could never find it she was willing enough to join with us at play in the day time but the secret of her she guarded chapter xi it must be remembered that the description i have just given of the swift one is not the description that would have been given by big tooth my other self of my dreams my it is by the medium of my dreams that i the modem man look through the eyes of big tooth and see and so it is with much that i of the events of that far oflf time there is a about my impressions that is too to inflict upon my readers i shall merely pause here in my narrative to indicate this this mixing of personality it is i the modem who look back across the centuries and weigh and the emotions and motives of big tooth my other self he did not bother to weigh and he was simplicity itself he just lived events without ever pondering why he lived them in his particular and often way before adam as i my real self grew older i entered more and more into the substance of my dreams one may dream and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming and if the dream be bad comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream this is a common experience with all of us and so it was that i the modem often entered into my dreaming and in the consequent strange personality was both actor and spectator and right often have i the modem been and vexed by the foolishness and general all round stupidity of myself the primitive and one thing more before i end this have you ever dreamed that you dreamed dogs dream horses dream all animals dream in big tooth s day the dreamed and when the dreams were bad they howled in their sleep now i the modem have lain down with big tooth and dreamed his dreams this is getting almost beyond the grip of the intellect i know but i do know that i have before adam done this thing and let me tell you that the flying and crawling dreams of big tooth were as vivid to him as the falling through space dream is to you for big tooth also had an other self and when he slept that other self dreamed back into the past back to the winged and the clash and the of and beyond that to the like life of the tiny and far still to the of the sea i cannot i dare not say more it is all too vague and complicated and awful i can only hint of those vast and terrific through which i have peered at the of life not upward from the to man but upward from the worm and now to return to my tale i big tooth knew not the swift one as a creature of i before adam finer and bodily with eyes and a bridge to her nose and nostrils that made toward beauty i her only as the mild eyed young female who made soft sounds and did not fight i liked to play with her i knew not why to seek food in her company and to go bird with her and i must confess she taught me things about tree climbing she was very wise very strong and no clinging skirts her movements it was about this time that a slight arose on the part of ear he got into the habit of wandering oflf in the direction of the tree where my mother lived he had taken a liking to my vicious sister and the had come to him also there were several other young people of the couples that lived in the neighborhood and ear played with these young people i could never get the swift one to join with them whenever i visited them she dropped behind and disappeared i remember once making a strong effort to persuade her but before adam she cast backward anxious glances then retreated calling to me from a tree so it was that i did not make a practice of accompanying ear when he went to visit his new friends the swift one and i were good comrades but try as i would i could never find her undoubtedly had nothing happened we would have soon for our liking was mutual but the something did happen one morning the swift one not

knowledge of them which possessed by the public me from entering into any criticism of their peculiar or occasional defects nor do i think it either necessary or desirable to introduce from novels which are so well known and appreciated by the great body of tlie readers of fiction there are however some few remarks which occur to me which may not be out of place when we are considering the life and character of the gifted of these works and the circumstances under which they were written my first observation then is to the effect that in all her books the heroes are decidedly inferior to the their characters less vigorously drawn and themselves less interesting to the reader there they are because every heroine requires a hero but in every case it is she and not he who is the prominent figure in the play v f on t the s let us take the six novels into view bide and prejudice us sense and edward abbey henry park � mr and captain then look at the six to match � she is sometimes spoken of in the novel as and it is noticeable in our letters that jane constantly calls her price and anne � how much more we seem to know and to with the women than the men throughout is really the only one for whom i feel much regard he was certainly a fault of jane os t to his from such a connection and when he found himself by the of elizabeth he got rid of his pride with a rapidity as as that with which the lady dismissed her prejudice i think that we are told more of than of most of jane s other heroes and the gradual alteration of elizabeth s opinion of him as his character becomes better understood and consequently better appreciated by her is told and worked out in the most admirable manner the gentleman s disposition was not one which made him likely to be the victim of a hasty attachment and we watch with interest the struggle which goes on in his mind before he allows his growing love for elizabeth to conquer his objections to her family when this result has been accomplished the lady is still perfectly unaware of the conquest which she has achieved and his declaration to her at the where is on a visit to her friend takes her entirely by surprise this is a very good scene in itself and marks an epoch in the hero s life for her of his advances has a marvellous effect upon him to the very great improvement of his character lie novels her decision in a manner which would have made it difficult for an writer to bring the two together again except hj some strange and method jane it all in a most natural manner some words of regarding his two greatest � the of her sister s lover and the supposed wrongs of � induce him to write a long letter of explanation which the change in the lady s heart and from tliat moment only appears during the rest of the story in the most amiable light i reject altogether the idea that the beauties of had any effect in elizabeth to her refusal and the sole doubt which remains upon my mind is the extent to which gratitude s letters of jane t edward scarcely much respect whatever excuse there may be for his conduct he in such a manner as to induce to believe him attached to herself whilst all the time he was engaged to another woman for if this had not been the case the discovery of the engagement would not have filled the sensible heroine with such astonishment and dismay his engagement was a boyish from which a man of any strength of character would have freed himself as soon as he found how much he had mistaken his own feelings and how he and the lady were to each other whilst there something ludicrous in the rapidity with which the very moment that his fool of a brother has conveniently taken her off his h he off to to make her happy by the assurance that he had really been all the while false to the lady whom he had still proposed to marry and had loved her and her alone although perfectly prepared to sacrifice her to his absurd engagement his readiness moreover to become a clergyman because was found for him does not add to the of his character but jane s picture of a clergyman is oh t the novels generally that of a second sou enters the profession in order to hold a family living an idea not unnatural in the daughter of one who was himself tiie possessor of one of those our two next heroes and are to be in this of the former indeed we know very little a ball room acquaintance at bath whose father being deceived as to s position and fortune lier to and courts her on his son s behalf until he out the mistake we really know nothing more of this hero than that lie a certain amount of amiable good sense in his conversations with and a creditable degree of in refusing to give her up at hie father s command or to root letters of jane oh t his superiority to the other members of his family and general good conduct throughout the story him to our respect if not to something more we cannot help feeling sorry that he did not show a little more in the matter of the but are pleased at liis readiness to give price at a time when he was not the least in love with her the full credit which she deserved for her conduct upon that trying occasion he may be blamed for having been attracted by the of miss when

any time if you send for me i will come to see you with pleasure she just touched my hand again and smiled yon are veiy good she said under her breath as i rose from my chair you are very good come and see me again nurse went out of the room with me as she closed the door behind her i turned and asked her a question will she live through the night do you think oh yes replied she may live for weeks she has a wonderful store of strength behind all that exhaustion she will rally presently she does that every day that is the worst part of her complaint she might have lived for months or dragged on even for years if it had not been for this fever poor it is that which is her life out at the as i passed down the corridor i saw the princess the strange of ht life who was in her and on the look out for me i afraid to stay in the room with my daughter she said drawing me to the window he cause every a person who is breathing the air to her that is why i slipped away when i had taken yon in tell me what you think of her i think she looks ill madame i yes yes more than ill i shall not have my child with me long i am quite prepared for it i have expected it feared it dreaded it for months past hut it has been very near during these past few days it comes nearer with every moment she was pleased to see you she continued with a great effort at cheerfulness she seemed to be so she begged me to go and see her again you will send for me madame at any time that i can be of the smallest pleasure or distraction to her you are remaining in she said i am remaining for the present because i leaving and the doctor fears for my taking a journey while my health is so bad as it is just now i don t think that i shall get the fever i don t feel like it ah one never knows it would be better to get away i cannot go of course i could not move my daughter in her present condition that is out of the question but you � your tie here is broken you have yourself and your husband to think of my dear friend she went on laying her slim hand upon my shoulder with a gesture of affection such as only the shadow of grief ever in those who have but just learned to know each other for his sake you ought to get away not for a few days i said drawing a deep breath l z i c from i am not fit to take a journey and is not fit to do so either i have to think of her a little some indians do think of the natives yon know though the majority do not some treat the natives as if they were dirt under their feet and as if their lives were worth nothing but this poor soul clung to my little child with a devotion which any devotion which i have ever seen i cannot drag her off on a journey until she somewhat recovered from her exhaustion and grief i shall remain here for the present i ended people who have been used to living in india do not run away like scared from the mere chance of so i remained on and every day sometimes twice nurse would come round and fetch me to pay a visit to the young princess sometimes i would stay half an hour beside her not talking much but just sitting there at others she would be tired in ten minutes and one day she said to me mrs ha do you as a matter of fact i did sing not very much not to pride myself upon it � for i had never had the advantage or chance of receiving really good training � but i had a pleasant little pipe and i sang or i had been used to sing to please myself and those who loved me having found out so much she insisted on my singing to her she was passionately fond of music and the landlord of the hotel des who would i think have given his head to make the ladies happy or comfortable brought in a little piano from his wife s and put it in the large and airy apartment into which princess s bed was moved every morning through the folding doors from her sleeping chamber the of ht ufe after the coming of the piano i used to spend hours there during the course of the day going over all the that i had ever known not attempting to sing bat just over the airs which were her f and mine and sometimes the princess herself would come and sit listening and once or twice she come into the corridor with me and told me with tear laden eyes that never never should she he able to make me any adequate return for what i had been able to do for her but i cannot help being anxious and uneasy you she ended you ought to be away from this it is not right of you to stay here the risk is too great i shall not go away just at present i replied quietly the doctor thinks that i am better where i am and i have written to my physician in london sir who his opinion i am taking great care of myself i carry a perfect of and here touching the bosom of my dress and i am taking and all sorts of and i don t think you need me

is extraordinary he said to himself how a desire of immortality these a desire of immortality he said fearing he had been guilty of a if i could have the whole window to myself i would give you fifty pounds your reverence the priest had no idea she had saved as much money as that the have been very good to me your reverence and i d like to put up the window in the new church better than in the old church but i ve got no money my good woman to build the church ah won t your reverence go to america and get the money aren t all our own people over there and always giving money for churches i the priest spoke to her about statues and suggested that perhaps a statue would be a more permanent gift but the old woman knew that stained glass could be secured from by means of wire do you know it will require three or four thousand pounds to build a new church if i go to america and do my best to get the money how much will you help me with does your reverence mean for the window no i was thinking of the church itself and said that she would give him five pounds to help to build the church and fifty pounds for her window and she added if the best and paint costs a little more i would be sorry to see the church short well you say you will give five pounds � towards the church now let ns think how much money i could get in this parish he had a taste for gossip and she began by telling him she had met on the road and had told her that there had been great dancing last night but there was no said the priest i only know your reverence what told me there had been great dancing last night the supper was ordered at michael s and the cars were ordered and they went to and back but michael would not dare to serve supper to people who weren t married said the priest the supper had been ordered and they would have to pay for it whether they ate it or not there was a pig s head and the cake cost eighteen shillings and it was never mind the food said the priest tell me what happened said that after coming back from michael said is this the wedding party i and that ned jumped off the car and said to be sure ain t i the wedded man and they had half a barrel of never mind the drink said the priest what then there was dancing first and fighting after pat and peter m were both there you know pat plays the and he asked peter to sing and peter can t sing a bit and he was laughed at so he a bit of stick and hit pat on the head and hit him badly too i hear the doctor had to be sent for that is always the end of their dancing and drinking said the priest and what happened then what happened after that they went home yes your reverence they went home mary went with her own people i suppose and ned went back to his home i don t know your reverence what they did well what else did tell you she had just left her brother and mary and they were going towards the peak that is what told me when i met her on the road mary wouldn t go to live with a man to whom she was not married but you told me that said she had just left mary and her brother yes they were just coming out of the cabin said she passed them on the road out of whose cabin said the priest out of ned s cabin i know it must have been out of ned s cabin because she said she met them at the cross roads he questioned the old woman but she grew less and less explicit i don t like to think this of mary but after so much dancing drinking it is impossible to say what t have happened i suppose they forgot your reverence didn t marry them forgot said the priest a sin has been committed and through my fault they will come to your reverence to morrow when they are feeling a little better the priest did not answer and said am i to take away my money or will your reverence keep it for the window the church is tumbling down and before it is built up you want me to put up statues i d like a window better i ve got other things to think of now your reverence is very busy if i had known it i wouldn t have come disturbing you but i ll take my money with me yes take your money he said oo home quietly and say nothing about what you have told me i must think over what is best to be done hurried away gathering her shawl about her and this great strong man who had taken pat by the collar and could have thrown him out of the fell on his knees and prayed that ood might forgive him the and anger that had caused him to refuse to marry ned and mary oh my god oh my god he said thou that it was not for myself that i wanted the money it was to build up thine own house he remembered that his uncle had warned him again and again against the sin of anger he had thought lightly of his uncle s counsels and he had not practised the virtue of humility which as st said was the virtue to seek in this treacherous world oh my god give me strength

show he put confidence in me and desired me not to show them to anybody sealed them up with his own seal and obliged me by an oath not to discover them to anybody and i did not till he discovered em himself he was to settle so much in stock on me urged in his defence that his sole object was to deceive his and that he intended to destroy all the notes after his marriage but it had been proved that the prisoner had asked one john to change first one and then twenty of the notes but which that person was unable to do besides had his sole object been to miss bliss with his wealth he would most probably have more if not all the notes to her keeping he was found guilty and passed the day that had been fixed for his wedding as a condemned criminal on the th may richard william was executed at by his side on the same gallows there was another � william a military officer who had a draught on an army agent named and the offence with the first of bank of england notes the gallows may seem hard measure to have out to when it is considered that none of his notes were and no person suffered by his fraud not one of the forty eight notes except the twelve delivered to miss bliss had i � i � l l i � n i bank note i i been out of his possession indeed the imitation most hare been very executed and detection would have instantly jl followed any attempt to pass the there was no endeavor to copy the style of on a real bank note that as left to the and as sheet passed through the press twice the words added at the second for the governor and company of the bank of england could have fallen into their proper place on any one of the sheets only by a miracle but what would have made the clear to even superficial observer was the singular of the second n in the word england the criticism on s note of a bank clerk examined on the trial was � there is some resemblance to be sure but this note that upon which the prisoner was tried is numbered thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty and we never reach so high a number besides there was no water mark in the paper the note of which a appeared in our number and dated so early as has a regular design in the texture of the paper showing that the is as old as the bank notes themselves was greatly but despite the of the and the insignificant consequences which followed it the crime was considered of too dangerous a character not to be marked from its very novelty with punishment hanging created at that time no remorse in the public mind and it was thought necessary to set up as a warning to all future bank note the crime was too dangerous not to be marked with the bad was by no means uncommon in the most important documents at that period the days of the week in the by books of the bank of itself are in a variety of ways ii � � � � � � � � � � � � bank note � from other crimes not less in the magnitude of the spoil it may obtain and of the injury it than in the attending its accomplishment the common thief finds a limit to his in the of his which is generally confined to such property as he can carry about his person the raises and obstacles to his if the amount he seeks to obtain is so considerable as to awaken close vigilance or inquiry to carry their projects to any very profitable extent these are reduced to the necessity of acting in concert and thus infinitely increasing the risks of detection but the need have no � he is with no and suspicious property � he needs no to assist his the skill of his own individual right hand can command thousands � often with the certainty of not being detected and oftener with such rapidity as to enable him to the pursuit of justice it was a long time before s rude attempt was improved upon but in the same year another department of the crime was commenced with perfect success namely an ingenious alteration for purposes of real bank notes a few months after s execution one of the northern was stopped and robbed by a several bank notes were in the spoil and the robber setting up with these as a gentleman went boldly to the post office ordered a chaise and four rattled away down the road and changed a note at every change of horses the robbery was of course soon made known and the numbers and dates of the stolen notes were advertised as having been stopped at the bank to the genius of a this offered but a small obstacle and the gentleman thief changed all the fig bank note f � i i i he could find into s these notes passed our j i enough hut on reaching the bank the alteration was j detected and the last was refused payment as that person had given a consideration for the note he brought an action for the recovery of the amount and at the trial it was ruled by the lord chief justice that any person paying a valuable consideration for a bank note to bearer in a fair course of business has an understood right to receive the money of the bank it took a quarter of a century to bring the art of bank notes to perfection in this was nearly attained by an ingenious gentleman named a watch maker from the matrimonial village of green having

the call a tide which generally a continual which is more favorable than any thing to the formation of sand banks considered in their general connection the of a continent should be looked upon as the product of a series of currents and with each other the final result of which is to transport in the direction of the flood the materials which the waves and agents have detached from the coast this is striking on the coast of the united states the deposit form at first only a narrow line on the coast of this line on the of the virginia and new it becomes wider on the coast of and finally the of its development in the grand bank of this process is of the highest importance in the economy of nature if we consider that the banks thus formed by tm currents are the principal seats of animal life in the ocean it is upon the banks which border the coast of the united states that the most extensive are carried on particularly the st george s and banks a new theory of ihe effect of the because these are ttie of of animals and which serve for the food of fishes whilst the great depths of the ocean at a short distance from the banks are almost deserts the tides are not less important from the manner in which they influence river hitherto the formation of such as those of the the le the and other rivers has been attributed too exclusively to the great quantities of mud which these rivers transport it seems to be forgotten that other rivers such as the the de la the and others are not less muddy and yet instead of forming at their mouths they empty into wide mr on the contrary shows that are in an to the tides so that they exist only where the tides are feeble or whilst we find wherever the tides are considerable take for example the rivers of the eastern coast of the united states and most of the rivers of europe which empty into the atlantic ocean and this is perfectly natural the tide on entering a river during the flood and keeps back the water of the stream so that when the ebb begins the water in escaping forms a current strong enough to off to sea the principal part of the materials held suspended in the river water mr remarks on this point tiiat where bars exist in such they are generally composed of brought by the tide ana not of in connection with mr we have endeavoured to apply the above results to the study of the of former and we think it is easy to show on a of the united states that the same laws which now the of sand banks have been in operation during the and the of these forming so many parallel following the great of the the in europe as well as in america merit a special attention in this respect no doubt during the the plains of northern germany as well as a great part of and on this continent the coast of the united states from to canada formed a series of banks and like the banks of in our day whilst the plains of the west between the and the mountains formed a vast bay ho v to the of in which the sea deposited the fine sand and clay of the as it now m the of the sand and mud that border the coast of the results of the above may be up thus � st the form and distribution of banks and of in general are in a great measure dependent on tides they ought to be found everywhere where the current is sufficiently to permit the materials held in to be deposited the finer and lighter materials must therefore be deposited in the calmer places nd the formation of banks b indispensable to tiie maintenance of life since they constitute the moat favorable for marine animals d the formation of at the mouths of rivers is in an to the force of the tide th the of the most recent being in all respects like the of our we must hint that they were formed under the operation of the same laws th the form and extent of so far as they are composed of are thus dependent on laws tiiat b on the attraction which the moon and the sun exert and in all time have exerted on the liquid part of our planet vi � cheap by corresponding secretary of the cheap boston b nothing which so surely makes a man write self down an ass as hb vanity it b just so with nations and the american people are often led by indulgence in this weakness to make themselves in the eyes of intelligent foreigners you are the most free and nation upon the earth say the and the amen and straightway go and vote such into place and power to the theory our government being composed i of the people tc ken from among the citizens r arm has no to do any or to support institution which is hostile to the interests of the people but to the fact it does do such things these is the of a most unnecessary and oppressive tax won knowledge and among men is w means of an odious of the business of conveying letters to this our enlightened people and even think their post office privilege is a great boon while a neighbouring nation has for years been in the enjoyment of a system compared to which ours is like a of the dark ages any one who can see an inch into has only to examine our present system of arrangements its and and to compare it with one that is perfectly in order to feel assured that in a few years

i looked at the coat i had a strange sensation i was sure that i had once worn that coat it was my wedding � long in the skirts � which had told me years and years before she had given away to the jew beggar she had ever seen the figure in my fancy � the features lost their antique grandeur and the restless eye ceased to be sublime from immortal and became only lively with mean cunning the apparition was fearfully grotesque but the driving ship and the mysterious company gradually restored its tragic interest i stopped and leaned against the side and heard the rippling water that i could not see and flitting through the mist with anxious speed the figure held its way what was he flying what conscience with sting pricked this victim on he came again nearer and nearer to me in his walk i with disgust this time no less than terror but he seemed resolved to speak and finally each time as he passed me he asked single questions as a ship which fires whenever it can bring a gun to bear can you tell me to what port we are bound no i replied but how came you to take passage without inquiry to me it makes little difference nor do i care he answered when he next came near enough i have already been there where asked i wherever we are going he replied i have been there a great many times and oh i am very tired of it but why are you here at all then and why don t you stop there was a singular mixture of a hundred conflicting emotions in his face as i spoke the representative grandeur of a race which he sometimes showed in his look faded into a glance of hopeless and despair his eyes looked at me curiously his chest heaved and there was clearly a struggle in his mind between some lofty and mean desire at times i saw only the austere suffering of ages in his features and again i could see nothing but the second hand black hat above them he rubbed his forehead with his hand he glanced over his shoulder as if calculating whether he had time to speak to me and then as a splendid defiance flashed from his piercing eyes so that i know how milton s satan looked he said bitterly and with hopeless sorrow that no mortal voice ever knew before i cannot stop my woe is infinite like my sin � and he passed into the mist but in a few moments he reappeared i could now see only the hat which sank more and more over his face until it covered it entirely and i heard a voice which seemed to be quarrelling with itself for saying what it was compelled to say so that the words were even more appalling than what it had said before old old i gazed at the disappearing figure in speechless amazement and was still looking when i was tapped upon the shoulder and turning round saw a german cavalry officer with a heavy and a in his hand most extraordinary man your friend yonder said the officer i don t remember to have seen him in turkey and yet i recognize upon his feet the boots that i wore in the great russian cavalry charge where i rode down five hundred and thirty seven hundred at a moderate by the mere force of my rush and taking the seven walls of at one clean flying leap rode straight into the and dropping the bridle cut the s throat with my bridle hand kissed the other to the ladies of the and was back again within our lines and taking a glass of wine with the hereditary grand duke before he knew that i had mounted oddly enough your old friend is now sporting the identical boots i wore on that occasion the cavalry officer coolly curled his with his fingers i looked at him in silence speaking of boots he resumed i don t remember to have told you of that little incident of the princess of the s diamonds it was slight but curious i was dining one day with the emperor of the who always had a cover laid for me at his table when he said in great perplexity baron my boy i am in straits the of has just sent me word that he has presented me with two thousand pearl of and i don t know how to get them over the duties are so heavy nothing easier replied i i ll bring them in my boots nonsense said the emperor of the nonsense yourself replied i for the of the always gives me my joke and so after dinner i went over to the thing was easily enough done i ordered a hundred thousand pairs of boots or so filled them with pearls said at the custom house that they were part of my private wardrobe and i had left the blocks in to keep them stretched for i was particular about my the officers bowed and said that their own feet were tender upon which i remarked that i wished their were and so in the manner possible the were bowed out of and the emperor of the gave me three thousand of them as my share it was no trouble it was only ordering the boots and whistling to the infernal of to hang for their pay i could reply nothing to my new acquaintance but i his stories to tell to and at length summoned courage to ask him why he had taken passage pure fun answered he nothing else under the sun you see it happened in this way i was sitting quietly and swinging in a of on the very summit of that mountain when suddenly feeling a little warm i took

later on effectual as i before that the he at first met with will p hu ruin l your be lo be hi of conduct which of others is most lo u � i m acting in this will certainly afford room rise on our part and expose his parties lo hazard c we be so happy at lo cut one of off though it should not four or six hundred men it would the add m of be happiest effects i on the th september a division of the array of s and a body of light i colonel together strong marched out to an advanced post next day general putting himself t the right wing of the british line which the and light under rat i and col man with some ind an and advanced american left wing m mc intervening woods do great extent while major and pi hi he great road and meadows by the river side i some of the parties fell in with those of british and with great boldness commenced the attack about i general supported his men with t ie which and repeatedly in course of tin action from half until about half p i i o i the raged with at about it became general both armies e other in the most and exertion i to secure of the day a continual fire was on i side for three hours without each party occupied the ground in dispute and was alternately from it the st and british suffered considerably by i close and fire throughout the latter being reduced from i fi both m of two � i ma � tb � a aa t iv i vol i p � of ne a it mi nt of men it left la less than x t or j i th� on american s and with of the d ind d new i and d york th th loth and the the colonel h greatly itself of thi new regiment a most active brave led on his men close to the enemy witli great l he gave to fire good effects plan he had a the action at s hill and on this occasion he had the of u repetition of hem hi severe conflict with the lay it wait ed by a in attack and defence such as had do parallel during the war and closed without any of position in the armies officers of the army in all the engagements in which they had been in i they never knew so long and so hot a fire general ne relating the ac count of the battle of tn im state of the i the following testimony to tin conduct on both sides the action which ensued on the tb of september my a of the of my and i must in truth acknowledge a very share of in the army of the enemy the loss of british on this occasion was upwards of in killed wounded and prisoners the american loss to killed ul wounded and missing in officers included after the action general under the necessity of not only for powder but all the and other lead that could be procured for making bullets also fell short the army was never for more than three s at a time and on the day of action was entirely destitute tlie supply not ing till the at this period general gates s force amounted to about men general who had been detached for t ic of bring ing up the collecting front the north parts ol new england not having joined the british army next their right and extended their left to the brow of die heights so as to cover the meadows through which the and where their and hospital were placed general gates meantime was in left by covered with strong from the september to the ih october the were so close to each other that not pa without firing and sometimes attacks upon the british advanced no party t c sent out from s camp without strong covering gates adopted the policy of the enemy by constant and on joined b a with about followed by te i ct tm � vi � � � � thus lo d his opponent w ih il i� a ax � � capture o the � m of being relieved strong force from the army mt york but the intended � bj sion in h� favor was delayed in of the i of from europe their arrival might ha altered the complexion of in general but just had ordered otherwise in the extreme in front a and tried army under commander � in rear a country with passes ca of y by men who had it to their power to pose to � and every avenue cut off for there remained but the ft hope of the expected co operation being undertaken in time to feet his to hold out as long a it the only and with this view the british was under of placing hu army oo reduced ance it the of october and still no intelligence h received of sir henry s advance the stock of pi in camp fast and no supply could be consequence of the arrangements of hit therefore to hazard a general action and i made a demonstration on the left of the american li view not only to attempt forcing a passage should it be to advance or of it for the convenience of retreat but also to cover a of the army it was from the guard of the camp n the heights wh left to and that on the and plain near the river to general himself and moved early in morning with a column of i o men m the right supported i two and six the i driven in by colonel s and the li fell back upon the

the course of his against other men on the discovery that to get through life with ease and credit he had but to hold his tongue keep the bald part of his head well polished and leave his hair alone had had just cunning enough to seize the idea and stick to it it was said that his being town agent to lord was not to his having the least business capacity but to his looking so that nobody could suppose the property wed or under such a man also that for similar reasons he now got more money out of his own wretched than anybody with a less and less shining crown could possibly have done in a word it was represented called to mind alone in the parlor that many people select their models much as the painters just now mentioned select theirs and that whereas in the academy some evil old of a will be found all the cardinal virtues on account of his or his chin or his legs thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the more observant students of nature so in the great social exhibition are often accepted in of the internal character calling these things to mind and mr in a row with them arthur leaned this day to the opinion without quite deciding on it that the last of the was the drifting little with the one idea of keeping the bald part of his head highly polished and that much as an ship in the thames river may sometimes be seen heavily driving with the tide on stern first in its own way and in the way of everything else though making a great show of when all of a sudden a little steam will bear down upon it take it in tow and bustle off with it the had been taken in tow by the and was now following in the wake of that dingy little craft the return of mr with his daughter put an end to these meditations s eyes no sooner fell upon the object of his old passion than it shivered and broke to pieces most men will be found sufficiently true to themselves to be true to an old idea it is no proof of an mind but exactly the opposite when the idea will not bear close comparison with the reality and the contrast is a fatal shock to it such was s case in his youth he had loved this woman and had heaped upon her all the locked up wealth of his affection and imagination that wealth had been in his desert home like robinson s money with no one lying idle in the dark to until he poured it out for her ever since that memorable time though he had until the night of his arrival as completely dismissed her from any association with his present or future as if she had been dead which she might easily have been for anything he knew he had kept the old fancy of the past unchanged in its old sacred place and now after all the last of the coolly walked into the parlor saying in effect be good enough to throw it down and dance upon it this is always tall had grown to be very broad too and short of breath but that was not much whom he had left a lily had become a but that was not much who had seemed in all she said and thought was and silly that was much who had been spoiled and long ago was determined to be spoiled and now that was a fatal blow this is i am sure tossing her head with a of her girlish manner such as a might have presented at her own funeral if she had lived and died in classical antiquity i am ashamed to see mr i am a mere fright i know he ll find me fearfully changed i am actually an old woman it s shocking to be so found out it s really shocking he assured her that she was just what he had expected and that time had not stood still with himself oh but with a gentleman it s so different and really you look so well that you have no right to say anything of the kind as to me you know � oh cried with a little scream i am dreadful the apparently not yet understanding his own part in the drama under representation glowed with vacant serenity but if we talk of not having changed said who whatever she said never once came to a full stop look at papa is not papa precisely what he was when you went away isn t it cruel and unnatural of papa to be such a reproach to his own child if we go on in little this way much longer people who don t know us will begin to suppose that i am papa s that must be a long time hence arthur considered oh mr you of creatures said i perceive already you have not lost your old way of paying compliments your old way when you used to pretend to be so struck you know � at least i don t mean that i � oh i don t know what i mean here and gave him one of her old glances the as if he now began to perceive that his part in the piece was to get off the stage as soon as might be rose and went to the door by which had worked out that by name he received an answer from some little dock beyond and was out of sight directly you mustn t think of going yet said � arthur had looked at his hat being in a ludicrous dismay and not knowing what to do you could never be so unkind as to think of going

the occasional absence of general with much positive cheerfulness it was in his presence that felt the smallest fatigue from her journey and even then even in moments of languor or restraint a sense of general happiness abbey and she could think of her friends in bath without one wish of being with them the night was the wind had been rising at intervals the whole and by the time the party broke up it blew and rained as she crossed the hall listened to the tempest with sensations of awe and when she heard it rage round a corner of the ancient building and close with sudden fury a distant door felt for the first time that she was really in an abbey yes these were characteristic sounds they brought to her recollection a countless variety of dreadful situations and horrid scenes which such buildings had witnessed and such storms ushered in and most did she rejoice in the happier circumstances attending her entrance within walls so solemn she had nothing to dread from midnight or drunken henry had been only iii jest in what he had told her that morning in a house so furnished and so guarded she could have nothing to explore or to suffer and might go to her bedroom as securely as if it had been her own chamber at thus her mind as she proceeded upstairs she was enabled on perceiving that miss slept two doors from her to enter room with a tolerably stout heart and her spirits were assisted by the cheerful blaze of a how much better is this said she as she walked to the how much better to find a fire ready lit than to have to wait shivering in the cold till all the r are in bed as so man poor girls have been obliged to do and then to have a faithful old servant one by c� in with a how glad i am that is what it is if it had been like some other places i do not know that in such a night as this i could have answered for my courage but now to be sure there is nothing to alarm one she looked round the room the window curtains seemed in motion it could be nothing but the violence chapters from of the wind penetrating through the divisions of the s and she stepped boldly forward carelessly humming a tune to assure herself of its being so l behind each curtain saw nothing on either low window seat to scare her and on placing a hand against the felt the strongest conviction of the wind s force a glance at the old chest as she turned away from this examination was not without its use she scorned the fears of an idle fancy and began with the most happy ence to prepare herself for bed she should take her time she should not hunt herself she did not care if she were the last person up in the house but she would not make up her fire that would seem cowardly as if she wished for the protection of light after she were in bed the fire therefore died and having spent the best part of an hour in her arrangements was to think of stepping into bed when on giving a glance round the ix om she was struck by the ai of a high old fashioned black cabinet which though in a situation conspicuous enough had never caught her notice before s words his description of the cabinet which was to e her at st rushed across her and though there could be nothing really in it there was something u it was certainly a very remarkable coincidence she took her candle and looked at the cabinet it was not absolutely and gold but it was � black and yellow of the kind and as held her candle the yellow had much the effect of gold the key was in the door and she bad a strange oo i into it not however with the smallest expectation of finding anything but it was so very odd after what henry had said in short she could not sleep till she had examined it so placing the candle with great caution on a chair she seized the key with a very tremulous hand and tried to turn it but it her utmost strength abbey alarmed but not she tried it another way a bolt flew and she believed herself successful but how strangely mysterious � the door was still immovable she paused a moment in breathless wonder the wind roared down the chimney the rain beat in torrents against the windows and everything seemed to speak the of her situation to retire to bed however on such a point would be vain since sleep must be impossible with the consciousness of a cabinet so mysteriously closed in immediate vicinity again therefore she applied herself to the key and after moving it in every possible way for some with the determined of hope s last effort the door suddenly yielded to her hand her heart leaped with exultation at such a victory and having thrown open each folding door the second being secured only by of less wonderful construction than the lock � though in that her e e could not discern anything unusual � a double range of small drawers appeared in view with some larger drawers above and below them and in the centre a small door closed also with a lock and ke secured in all probability a of importance s heart beat quick but her courage did not fail her with a cheek flushed by hope and an eye straining with her fingers grasped the handle of a drawer and drew it forth it was entirely with less alarm and greater eagerness she seized a second a third a fourth � each was equally empty not one

it affords to bound freely the elastic air the pure clear on a day when the birds sing and the blue sky stretches over a smiling joyous landscape but there is also to the heart depressed by worldly anxiety and care an excitement in the quick which � something which the blood and the languid energies something in the murmurs of the fresh breeze that whispers of hope and of a time when he who created so fair and mysterious a world for the enjoyment of his fallen creatures shall at length render all within man as harmonious shall bind up the wounds of the broken in spirit and make the waste places of the heart glad with abundant consolation and so it was with though we fear most of her friends would exclaim that at any rate she did not feel troubled at but rather in her but if such was their thought they decidedly wronged her for no high girl could act directly counter to the advice and known wishes of her dearest friends however right she might conceive herself to be without being conscious of a very profound and uncomfortable feeling of sadness lurking in the hidden recesses of her spirit and did feel very miserable as she mounted her horse and tears glittered in her beautiful eyes which she had great difficulty in but as tlie air her and fluttered amid the folds of her veil the sensation on they sped now on the soft yielding turf then on the crisp gravel but neither miss nor her father seem inclined to enter into the animated dialogue going forwards between sir and felt a spell hang heavily her usual lively spirits � perhaps it might bo the remembrance of the kind mother at home over her wilful the hedges spread and displayed all the wild of a brilliant june morning here and there huge bushes of white and pink dog roses shot forth vigorous branches the stems of the thorn and drooping showers of pink blossoms and foliage on the bank beneath the sun ere they arrived in sight of the ruins had well nigh dried up every of water and everything looked fresh and glowing that even lord was brought to that weather more for the thorough enjoyment of a ride could not be desired though he refused to extend his concession to the unlucky or to in which he were foolish things in this at all times and in all seasons and perhaps he was right well we are but i do not at present any of her s preparations said lord aa they wound along the narrow bridle path down to the ruins her knows better than to choose so exposed a site as any you can now see the luncheon i suppose will be spread in the hollow behind the abbey sheltered by the of elm trees or in what will please you better papa as you are so very inclined this morning in queen mary s chamber replied queen mary s i growled lord in tones half half amused and there stands the fair waving her handkerchief to us exclaimed sir hi horse to s side and directing her attention to miss who stood with several ladies high above gazing down from a ruined window surrounded by a large party of gentlemen see miss yonder also sits lady on a camp stool with a under her feet looking as chill and miserable as if she were doing penance i i see she is talking to colonel mad mad i she positively must be crazy an old woman to be betrayed into such absurdity i said lord bursting into a fit of laughter as lady with colonel s assistance and hoisted a pale rose colored at this moment a couple of came forward to lead away the horses and after a slight lord reluctantly dismounted and giving his arm to his daughter proceeded to the spot where lady sat she arose as they approached but carefully avoided beyond the borders of the mat how do you do i am sure i need not put that question to you miss for i never remember seeing you look better sir i am delighted to see you � you will find my son yonder exclaimed lady pointing with the delicate ivory handle of her he and frank are engaged deciding a bet whether the at the last were as wide as the abbey moat gk mr it is really very kind of you all to come this damp morning damp enough and i fear you find the wind rather keen lady for you look very pinched and chill said lord bowing coldly to colonel � do i now really if could just trouble you mr bald to step to the carriage and fetch my large daughters in these days lord are not sufficiently thoughtful for their parents comfort and there is yonder who never dreams it possible i can be worse for all this miss � but a few steps from her irritable was talking to the colonel and did not at first hear colonel continued lady in days you positively would have been for as you always contrive to attract and a young lady s attention i was going to inquire miss after the health of the earl of lord is perfectly well i believe lady replied with heightened color his s time must be very precious now i know before my darling s marriage mr was wholly occupied with his correspondence and in to his man of business all may be de rose during the courtship to the young bride elect you know my dear lord as she is supposed to be ignorant of these various little but to us parents all the of pin money c mar in no small degree the pleasing excitement of a wedding said lady complacently colored and colonel and the gentlemen around could not repress a smile for

say that he was resolved to disappoint us did you hear him say you cur that he was going to have the cleared off when no doubt the whole place will be if you haven t the spirit of a mouse to defend your rights i have let me go after him as in his he was making a strong struggle for it mr deemed it expedient to lift him throw him and fall with him well knowing that once down ha would not be up again easily with his wooden leg so they both rolled on the floor and as they did so mr shut the gate t b friend chapter vii the friendly move takes up a strong position the friendly sat upright on the floor panting and one another after mr had the gate and gone away in the weak eyes of and in every dust colored hair in his shock of hair there was a marked distrust of and an to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion in the hard face of and in his stiff figure he looked like a german wooden toy there was expressed a which had no in it both were flushed and by the late and in coming to the ground had received a humming knock on the back of his devoted head which caused him still to rub it with an air of having been highly � but � astonished each was silent for some time leaving it to the other to begin brother said at length breaking the silence you were right and i was wrong i forgot myself mr cocked his shock of hair as thinking mr had remembered himself in respect of appearing without any disguise but comrade pursued it was never your lot to know miss elizabeth master george aunt jane nor uncle our mutual friend mr admitted that he had never known those distinguished and added in effect that he had never so much as desired the honor of their acquaintance don t say that comrade i retorted no don t say that because without having known them you never can fully know what it is to be to frenzy by the sight of the these words as if they reflected great credit on himself mr impelled himself with his hands toward a chair in a corner of the room and there after a variety of awkward attained a perpendicular position mr also rose comrade said take a seat comrade what a speaking countenance is yours mr involuntarily smoothed his countenance and looked at his hand as if to see whether any of its speaking properties came off for clearly do i know mark you pursued pointing his words with his forefinger clearly do i know what question your expressive features puts to me what question said the question returned with a sort of joyful i didn t mention sooner that i had found something says your speaking countenance to me � why didn t you communicate that when i first came in this evening why did you keep it back till you thought mr had come to look for the article your speaking countenance said puts it than language now you can t read in my face what answer i give mutual ill no i can t said i knew it and why not returned with the same joyful because i lay no claims to a speaking countenance because i am well aware of my all men are not gifted alike but i can answer in words and in what words these i wanted to give you a delightful sap � � having thus and the word surprise mr shook his friend and brother by both hands and then clapped him on both knees like an affectionate patron who entreated him not to mention so small a service as that which it had been his happy privilege to render your speaking countenance said being answered to its satisfaction only asks then what have you found v why i hear it say tlie words i well retorted after waiting in vain if you hear it say the words why don t you answer it hear me out i said im a going to hear me out i man and brother partner in feelings equally with and actions i have found a where � hear me out said he tried to reserve whatever he could and whenever disclosure was forced upon him broke into a radiant of hear me out on a certain day sir � when said n � no returned shaking his head at once thoughtfully and no sir i that s not your expressive countenance which asks that mutual friend question that s your voice merely your voice to proceed on a certain day sir i happened to be walking in the yard � taking my lonely round � for in the words of a friend of my own family the author of well arranged as a deserted as you will remember mr by the moon when stars it will occur to you before i mention it proclaim night s cheerless noon on tower fort or ground the walks his lonely round the walks � under those circumstances sir i happened to be walking in the yard early one and happened to have an iron rod in my band with which i have been sometimes accustomed to the monotony of a literary life when i struck it against an object not necessary to trouble you by � it is necessary what object demanded in a tone � hear me out i said the pump � when i struck it against the pump and found not only that the top was loose and opened with a lid but that something in it rattled that something comrade i discovered to be a small flat cash box shall i say it was light there were papers in it said there your expressive countenance speaks

and admire drove to drink in the old days i loved it i it drowned all the of your and teaching � it sent the to my cheeks aim made me wild why the very time dan me i was drunk and so was he a sickening shock ran s he at her as she lay back on her cushions a of indolent beauty with her lovely skin clear eyes and rose red lips and he at her � and his voice almost failed him well that s me that s you i know he said in low tense accents of strong pain � would it were ru f you i for god s sake do not speak to me of dan � you forget no � i remember she answered slowly � i remember a dan killed your wife but � i killed dan you you killed dan every of colour fled from his face and he sprang up amazed and she however did not move from her position how tragic you look i she said � i believe you think i am an escaped not quite when i say i killed dan i mean that it was my car that ran over him nobody knows it of course � it was pure accident he was lying in the middle of a high road in � drunk as usual i suppose my husband and i were � we were racing at night against time in order to reach a house where the tragedy of a quiet life car i made the stop � and i got out and went to see what mischief we had done then i saw dan he was quite dead i had never seen a dead man before � and well it was not a pleasant sight but i recognised dan at once and he would have been glad if he had known stood staring at her bewildered by the calm entirely matter of fact way in which she had related the whole incident had her car crushed a or a worm she could not have spoken more indifferently than she did of the horrid end of her first lover glad i he echoed glad if he had known that it was i � i and her voice rang out silver clear as a note of triumph music � that it was i who had driven over him and crushed him to death i that it was i who looked down at his bleeding face and rested my foot upon it he would have been glad and proud he would have wished no better end i poor parson you seem quite frightened i suppose you do not know in the life you lead that a even a brute man such as dan was � may a woman as he would never god i every hair of my head every inch of my body was gold and honey to dan gold and honey � life and death i did not care for him � no not a i that is why he cared so much for me i he made me drink with him because he knew that drink would do with me what he never could do with me himself why � and she lifted her head from the cushions and drew her slim throat upwards with a swan like gesture of pride and defiance � do you even think that if i had not been drunk i would have given myself to dan he was speechless who could find reply to such a question what man seeing her and hearing her wild words could utter of regret pity or reproach all the ordinary things of life seemed to his mind � drink only � drink the black death of the nation loomed before him like a wide spreading cloud of in which all honest efforts for the of humanity were absorbed into mere and and he stood stricken by the o holy orders i i utter of it � the despair of it she rose nd went to him laying both her hands in a half way upon his � arm not at me uke that � she said quite gently seem so sorry � and there is no need to be there is to pity me for his heart thrilled with a sudden agony nothing to pity yoa he � oh if i had been told the truth i might have saved you her lovely eyes opened widely upon him in something of amusement then she shook her head impossible i never wanted to be saved � she said i don t understand the process i was never a girl that any parson could teach though i used to come to your sunday class and listen to your kind talk just as i would have listened to a play you were always so good � you are so good � and i m ever so much for you than you ought to be for me because you see your goodness has brought you a lot of misfortune and my if it is has brought me nothing but luck and � i ve never forgotten you � i ve always thought of that day when i met you in the pouring rain and when you trusted me � actually trusted me to keep dan from the drink � and told me you hoped i would be the best girl in the village do you remember there was a mist before his eyes as they met hers i remember he answered simply it was so strange she went to be trusted in that way i laughed at you for it but i liked you all the same you seemed such a child in your faith and in your wish to believe good of everybody the best girl in the village now think for a moment mr suppose i had been the best girl what sort

with reproaches for broken promises and then when her appetite failed she used to live on and cakes and such as s doctor told her god has written laws in our and if we break them we pay for it but how do you manage � your cheeks are as as roses i began with an excellent tion and knowing the value of health watched over it she made me follow her new york doctor s rules about washing myself washing yourself i should like to know if everybody don t wash themselves i am sure sally baker and jane mills too were neat so they were but few even of neat people know the importance of daily bathing the whole person and rubbing it with a coarse doth that s what i call ton may call it what you please but x believe that and my clothes the bed and the house and room ha e kept my cheeks as you say fresh as roses never lets me sit more than two hours at a time at my needle she all me to do a or run of an errand she will not let me one day rain or shine without exercise in the open air neither cold wet nor hurts me as to my that s natural to me but has helped to that up too by taking care that i don t get at by my customers she never t� ould let me make a promise that i was not sure of performing i often get my work done beforehand and i take to fit and please and somehow i our folks are easy to please and smiles smiles you know � if they are pleased i and and then it s such a heart comfort to keep the family together now father is getting old and feeble after all i guess said her with ominous of the lips you ll not always be so maybe not but i don t believe in trouble it may c without � they say it s a bad sign to feel too well i don t believe in signs you may � they say everybody believes after it comes to pass bo you mean any thing in particular asked struck more by her companion s tone than her words if you do pray speak out have you seen f tc poor rich is she in yes her mother s husband is dead and thej have come back here to live and they say the old man left the widow a fortune and is dressed as if it was all in fine and a down to her feet and a black bead bag and every thing though yon know she did not scruple to say she hated the old man while he was alive i am sorry she so she was always fond of outside show but i remember harry used to say that was natural she was so handsome don t you think it strange that some people can be so taken up with beauty t oh i don t know i like to lo at every thing that is beautiful but should you think that such a person as harry would put beauty before every thing � i don t think he does replied keeping her eyes to her work and slightly blushing well i don t know whether it is the beauty or the fortune but it must be one or the other or both � for i am sure in other respects yon are far enough before and everybody thought harry was paying attention to you before he left harry was always like a brother to and me replied her voice a little tremulous like a brother to he might have been but he was more like something else to you and everybody thought so and everybody don t know every thing rejoined her eyes still to her work and her heart throbbing so that it seemed to her her companion must hear it well now continued the gossip may be candid and own if yo should hear that harry was going to marry should not you feel as if he had deceived you r no replied now speaking firmly and looking her companion full in the face if all the world and thought harry paid me particular attention � and if i sometimes had thought to too and if he to morrow i should think we were all mistaken and harry true hearted well be put to the trial for as good as owned to me her expectations but i am sorry for your disappointment for you can t but say tis a disappointment said nothing and her proceeded it s nothing new nor strange them that has not any interest must expect to be and i have often heard that when young men get to new york all they think of is making money and getting a wife that will make a show with it and you say yourself that harry thought a beauty made no reply and having succeeded in making her uncomfortable began to feel very much so herself from the effect of s quiet dignity and much to s satisfaction she cut short her visit and disappeared when interest is sense property poor rich man entered a few after she found su an work had dropped on the floor and she was leaning her head on the chair and sobbing this was a strange sight for let the clouds be ever so heavy there was a of blue sky where was inquiries and explanations followed s heart was turned inside out not a thought feeling prostrate hope or piercing regret was concealed from who though in a more subdued manner was scarcely less grieved than when they could talk calmly about it said come what will i never shall blame harry in the least you know how many times he has said

upon his brain and in the midst of the darkness even the darkness ceased but the pocket fired again and again until the revolver was empty then he tossed it from him and breathing heavily sat down on the dead man s legs the was sobbing and struggling for breath he panted a on my trail an me do the work an then me in the back he was half crying from anger and exhaustion he peered at the face of the dead man it was sprinkled with loose dirt and gravel and it was difficult to distinguish the features never laid eyes on him before the concluded his scrutiny just a common an ordinary thief damn him an he shot me in the back he shot me in the back he opened his shirt and felt himself front and back on his left side went clean through and no harm done he cried bet he aimed all right all right but he drew the gun over when he pulled i all gold the � the i but i fixed m oh i fixed m his fingers were the bullet hole in his side and a shade of regret passed over his face it s goin to be n hell he said an it s up to me to get mended an get out o here he crawled out of the hole and went down the hill to his camp half an hour later he returned leading his pack horse his open shirt disclosed the rude with which he had dressed his wound he was slow and awkward with his movements but that did not prevent his using the arm the of the pack rope under the dead man s shoulders enabled him to heave the body out of the hole then he set to work gathering up his gold he worked steadily for several hours pausing often to rest his shoulder and to exclaim he shot me in the back the he shot me in the back when his treasure was quite cleaned up and wrapped securely into a number of blanket covered he made an estimate of its value hundred pounds or i m a all gold he concluded say two hundred in an dirt � that leaves two hundred pounds of gold bill wake up two hundred pounds of gold forty thousand dollars an it s � all he scratched his head and his fingers into an they along it for several inches it was a through his where the second bullet had he walked angrily over to the dead man you would would you he you would eh well i fixed you good an plenty an i ll give you decent burial too that s more n you d have done for me he dragged the body to the edge of the hole and it in it struck the bottom with a dull crash on its side the face twisted up to the light the peered down at it an you shot me in the back he said with pick and he filled the hole then he loaded the gold on his horse it was too great a load for the animal and when he had gained his camp he transferred part of it to his saddle horse i all gold even so he was compelled to abandon a portion of his � pick and and gold pan extra food and cooking and divers odds and ends the sun was at the when the man forced the horses at the screen of vines and to climb the huge the animals were compelled to and struggle blindly through the tangled mass of vegetation once the saddle horse fell heavily and the man removed the pack to get the animal on its feet after it started on its way again the man thrust his head out from among the leaves and peered up at the the he said and disappeared there was a and tearing of vines and boughs the trees back and forth marking the passage of the animals through the midst of them there was a of steel shod hoofs on stone and now and again an oath or a sharp cry of command then the voice of the man was raised in song � tu n around an tu n yo face them sweet hills of grace d rs of sin yo am all gold look about an look fling yo sin pack on d yo will meet d lord in d the song grew faint and fainter and through the silence crept back the spirit of the place the stream once more and whispered the hum of the mountain bees rose down through the perfume air fluttered the snowy s of the the drifted in and out among the trees and over all blazed the quiet sunshine only remained the marks in the meadow and the torn to mark the boisterous trail of the life that had broken the peace of the place and passed on � w y j y right to know the girl said i her voice was firm with determination there was no hint of pleading in it yet it was the determination that is reached through a long period of pleading but in her case it had been pleading not of speech but of personality her lips had been ever mute but her face and eyes and the very attitude of her soul had been for a long time eloquent with questioning this the man had known but he had never answered and now she was demanding by the spoken word that he answer it is my right the girl repeated i know it he answered desperately and help she waited in the silence which followed her eyes fixed upon the light that down through the lofty boughs and bathed the great in mellow warmth this light subdued and colored seemed almost a from the trunks themselves so strongly

his the reckless way almost all these people drove their the of supposing that these could carry on a government as much as six months if they ever did have a chance to try out their theories and the crazy way in which jumped from subject to subject had once beheld as a thin man with spectacles mournful drawn out face and stiff hair now she noted that his jaw was square that his long hands moved quickly and were in a refined manner and that his trusting eyes indicated that he had led a clean life she began to call him ray and to in of his and every time or about him at the jolly seventeen on a sunday afternoon of late autumn they walked down to lake ray said that he would like to see the ocean it must be a grand sight it must be much than a lake even a great big lake had seen it she stated modestly she had seen it on a summer trip to cape have you been clear to cape i knew you d but i never realized you d been that made taller and younger by his interest she poured out x h my yes it was a trip so many points of interest through � historical there s where we turned back the and s home at cambridge and cape � just everything � and and sand and everything main street she wished that she had a little cane to carry he broke off a willow branch my you re strong she said � no not very i wish there was a y m c a here so i could take up regular exercise i used to think i could do pretty good if i had a chance i m sure you could you re unusually for a large man oh no not so very but i wish we had a y m it would be to have lectures and everything and i d like to take a class in improving the memory � i believe a fellow ought to go on himself and improving his mind even if he is in business don t you � i guess i m kind of fresh to you i ve been calling you ray for weeks he wondered why she sounded he helped her down the bank to the edge of the lake but dropped her hand abruptly and as they sat on a willow log and he her sleeve he delicately moved over and murmured oh excuse me � accident she stared at the mud chilly water the floating gray you look so thoughtful he said she threw out her hands i am will you kindly tell me what s the use of � anything oh don t mind me fm a moody old hen tell me about your plan for getting a in the bon ton i do think you re right harry and that mean old ought to give you one he the old unhappy wars in which he had been and the yet gone his righteous ways by the cruel kings why if i ve told em once i ve told em a dozen times to get in a side line of for wear and of course here they go and let a cheap like beat them to it and the trade right off em and then harry said � you know how harry is maybe he don t mean to be but he s such a sore head he gave her a hand to rise if you don t mind i think a fellow is awful if a lady goes on a walk with him and she can t trust him and he tries to with her and all i m sure you re highly she snapped and she sprang up without his aid then smiling excessively don t you think fails to appreciate dr s m ray habitually asked her about his window the of the new shoes the best music for the entertainment at the eastern star and he was recognized as a professional authority on the town called about his own clothes she persuaded him not to wear the small bow ties which made him look like an sunday school once she burst out ray i could shake do you know you re too i k you always appreciate people too much you fuss over when she has some crazy theory that we all ought to turn or live on and nuts or something and you listen when harry tries to show off and talk about and and things you know lots better than he does look folks in the eye glare at em talk deep you re the man in town if you only knew it you he could not believe it he kept coming back to her for confirmation he practised and talking deep but he hinted to that when he had tried to harry in the eye harry had inquired what s the matter with you got a pain but afterward harry had asked about in a manner which ray felt was somehow different from his former they were sitting on the yellow satin in die boarding house parlor as ray that he simply wouldn t stand it many more years if harry didn t give him a his hand touched s shoulders x h excuse he pleaded it s an right i think i must be running iq to my room headache she said briefly iv ray and she had stopped in at s for a hot on their way home from the that march evening q do you know that i may not be here next year what do you mean with her fragile narrow nails she smoothed the glass which formed the top of the round table at which they sat she peeped through the glass at the perfume boxes of black main street and gold

demon was working his will and cold and weariness were his soon she felt nothing but a supreme immediate longing that off all � the longing to lie down and sleep she had arrived at a spot where her footsteps were no longer checked by a and she had wandered unable to distinguish any objects notwithstanding the whiteness around her and the growing she sank down against a straggling bush an easy pillow enough and the bed of snow too was soft she did not feel that the bed was cold and did not heed whether the child would wake and cry for her but her arms had not yet relaxed their instinctive clutch and the little one on as gently as if it had been rocked in a lace trimmed cradle but the complete came at last the fingers lost their the arms then the little head fell away firom the bosom and the blue eyes opened wide on the cold at first there was a little cry of and an to regain the arm and bosom but s ear was deaf and the pillow seemed to be slipping away backward suddenly as the child rolled downward on its mother s knees all wet with snow its were caught by a bright glancing on the white ground and with the ready transition of infancy it was absorbed in watching the bright living running towards it yet never arriving that bright living thing must be caught and in an instant the child had on ail and held oat one little hand to catch the gleam bat the gleam would not caught in that way and now the head was held up to see where the cunning gleam came from it came from a very bright place and the little one ing on its legs through the snow the old shawl in which it was wrapped trailing behind it and the queer little bonnet dangling at its back on to the open door of s cottage and right up to the warm hearth where there was a bright fire of logs and sticks which hi thoroughly warmed the old sack s great coat spread out on the bricks to dry the little one accustomed to be left to itself for long hours without notice from its mother down on the sack and spread its tiny hands towards the in perfect contentment and making many to the cheerful fire like a new beginning to find itself comfortable but the warmth had a and the little golden head sank down on the old sack and the blue eyes were veiled by their delicate parent but where was while this strange visitor had to his hearth he was in the but he did not see the child during the last few weeks since he had lost his money he bad contracted the habit of opening his door and looking out from time to time as if he thought that his money might be ow coming back to him or that some trace some news of it might be mysteriously on the road and be caught by the listening ear or the straining eye it was chiefly at night when he was not occupied with his loom that he fell into this repetition of an act for which he could have assigned no definite purpose and which can hardly be understood except by those who have undergone a bewildering separation from a loved object in the evening twilight and later whenever the night was not dark si looked out on that narrow prospect round the stone listening and gazing not hope but with mere yearning and this morning he had been told by some of his neighbors that it was new year s eve and that he must sit up and hear the old year rung out and the new rung in because that was good luck and might bring his money back again this was only a friendly way of with the half crazy of a but it had perhaps helped to throw into a more than usually excited state since the of twilight he had opened his door again and again only to shut it immediately at seeing all distance veiled by the falling snow but the last time he opened it the snow had ceased and the clouds were parting here and there he stood and listened and gazed for a long � there was really something on the road coming towards him then but he caught no sign of it and the stillness and the wide snow seemed to narrow his solitude and touched his yearning with the chill of despair he went in again and put his right hand on the latch of the door to close it � but he did not close it he was arrested as he had been already since his loss by the invisible of and stood like a image with wide but eyes holding open his door powerless to resist either the good or evil that might enter there when s sensibility returned he continued the action which had been arrested and closed his door unaware of the chasm in his consciousness unaware of any change except that the light had grown dim and that he was chilled and faint he thought he had been too long standing at the door and looking out turning towards the hearth where the two logs had fallen apart and sent forth only a red uncertain glimmer he seated himself on his fireside chair and was stooping to push his logs together when to his vision it seemed as if there were gold on the floor in front of the hearth gold � his own gold � brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away he felt his heart begin to beat violently and for a few moments he was unable to stretch out his hand and grasp the restored treasure the heap of

old house they live with us now they said i of david mr and his mother he sleeps in your old room said looking up into my face i wish i had the ordering of his dreams said i he wouldn t sleep there long � i keep my own little room said where i used to learn my lessons how the time goes you remember the little room that opens from the drawing room remember when i saw you for the first time coming out at the door with your quaint little basket of keys hanging at your side it is just the same said smiling i am glad you think of it so pleasantly we were very happy we were indeed said i i keep that room to myself still but i cannot always desert mrs you know and so said quietly i feel obliged to bear her company when i might prefer to be alone but i have no other reason to complain of her if she me sometimes by her praises of her son it is only natural in a mother he is a very good son to her i looked at when she said these words without in her any consciousness of s design her mild but earnest eyes met mine with their own beautiful frankness and there was no change in her gentle face � tiie chief evil of their presence in the house said is that i cannot be as near papa as i could wish � being so much between us � and cannot watch over him if that is not too bold a thing to say as closely as i would but if any fraud or treachery is against him i hope that simple love and truth will be stronger in the end i hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world a certain bright smile which i never saw on any other face died away even while i thought how good it was and how it had once been to me and she asked me with a quick change of expression we were drawing very near my street if i knew how the reverse in my aunt s circumstances had been brought about on my replying no she had not told me yet became thoughtful and i fancied i felt her arm tremble in mine we found my aunt alone in a state of some excitement a difference of opinion had arisen between herself and mrs on an abstract question the propriety of chambers being inhabited by the sex and my aunt utterly indifferent to on the part of mrs had cut the dispute short by informing that lady that she smelt of my brandy and that she would trouble her to walk out both of these expressions mrs considered and had expressed her intention of bringing before a british � meaning it was supposed the of our national liberties my aunt however having had time to cool while was out showing mr dick the soldiers at the horse guards � and being besides greatly pleased to see � rather herself on the affair than otherwise and received us with good humour when laid her bonnet on the table and sat down beside her i could not but think looking on her mild eyes and her radiant forehead how natural it the personal history and experience seemed to have her there how although she was so young and inexperienced my aunt confided in her how strong she was indeed in simple love and truth we began to talk about my aunt s losses and i told them what i ha tried to do that morning which was trot said my aunt but well meant you are a generous boy � i suppose i young man now � and i am proud of you my dear so far so good now trot and let us look the case of in the face and see how it stands i observed turn pale as she looked very attentively at my aunt my aunt patting her cat looked very attentively at said my aunt who had always kept her money matters to herself � i don t mean your sister trot my dear but myself � had a certain property it don t matter how enough to live on more for she had saved a little and added to it her property for some time and then by the advice of her man of business laid it out on landed security that did very well and returned very good interest till was paid off i am talking of as if she was a man of war well then had to look about her for a new she thought she was wiser now than her man of business who was not such a good man of business by this time as he used to be � � i am alluding to your father � and she took it into her head to lay it out for herself so she took her pigs said my aunt to a foreign market and a very bad market it turned out to be first she lost in the way and then she lost in the way � fishing up treasure or some such tom nonsense explained my aunt rubbing her nose and then she lost in the way again and last of all to set the thing entirely to rights she lost in the way i don t know what the bank shares were worth for a little while said my aunt cent per cent was the lowest of it i believe but the bank was at the other end of the world and tumbled into space for what i know anyhow it fell to pieces and never will and never can pay sixpence and s were all there and there s an end of them least said

i had not done so in bad manners but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job job said the long legged young man to move a box i answered box said the long legged young man i told him mine which was down that street there and which i wanted him to take to the coach office for sixpence the personal history and experience done with you for a said the long legged young man and directly got upon his cart which was nothing but a large wooden tray on wheels and rattled away at such a rate that it was as much as i could do to keep pace with the donkey there was a defiant manner about this young man and particularly about the way in which he straw as he spoke to me that i did not much like as the bargain was made however i took him up stairs to the room i was leaving and we brought the box down and put it on his cart now i was to put the direction card on there lest any of my landlord s family should what i was doing and detain me so i said to the young man that i would be glad if he would stop for a minute when he came to the dead wall of the king s bench prison the words were no sooner out of ray mouth than he rattled away as if he my box the cart and the donkey were all equally mad and i was quite out of breath with running and calling after him when i caught him at the place appointed being much flushed and excited i tumbled my half guinea out of my pocket in the card out i put it in my mouth for safety and though my hands trembled a good deal had just tied the card on very much to my satisfaction when i felt myself violently under the chin by the long legged young man and saw my half guinea fly out of my mouth into his hand said the young man seizing me by my jacket collar w ith a frightful grin this is a case is it you re a going to bolt are you come to the you young come to the you give me my money back if you please said i very much frightened and leave me alone come to the said the young man you shall prove it to the give me my box and money will you i cried bursting into tears the young man still come to the and was dragging me against the donkey in a manner as if there were any between that animal and a magistrate when he changed his mind jumped into the cart sat upon my box and exclaiming that he would drive to the straight rattled away harder than ever i ran after him as fast as i could but i had no breath to call out with and should not have dared to call out now if i had i narrowly escaped being run over twenty times at least in half a mile now i lost him now i saw him now i lost him now i was cut at with a whip now shouted at now down in the mud now up again now running into somebody s arms now headlong at a post at length confused by fright and heat and doubting whether half london might not by this time be turning out for my apprehension i left the young man to go where he would with my box and money and panting and crying but never stopping faced about for which i had understood was on the taking very little more out of the world towards the retreat of my aunt miss than i had brought into if on the night when mv arrival gave her so much j y m j j y r yo e y t y s y t e of david i xiii the of my resolution for anything i know i may have had some wild idea of running all the way to when i gave up the pursuit of the young man with the donkey cart and started for my scattered senses were soon collected as to that point if i had for i came to a stop in the at a terrace with a piece of water before it and a great foolish image in the middle blowing a dry shell here i sat down on a quite spent and exhausted with the efforts i had already made and with hardly breath enough to cry for the loss of my box and it was by this time dark i heard the strike ten as i sat resting � but it was a summer night fortunately and fine weather when i had recovered my breath and had got rid of a stifling sensation in my throat i rose up and went on in the midst of my distress i had no notion of going back i doubt if i should have had any though there had been a snow drift in the but my standing possessed of only three in the world and i am sure i wonder how came to be left in my pocket on a day night troubled me none the less because i went on i began to picture to myself as a scrap of newspaper intelligence my being found dead in a day or two under some hedge and i on miserably though as fast as i could until i happened to pass a little shop where it was written up that ladies and gentlemen s were bought and that the best price was given for rags bones and kitchen stuff the master of this shop was sitting at the door in his shirt sleeves smoking and as there were a great many coats and pairs of

a single rope no two ropes were of the same length while the difference in length between any two was at least that of a dog s body every rope was brought to a ring at the front end of the the itself was w being a bark with forward end to keep it from under the snow this construction enabled the weight of the and load to be distributed over the largest snow surface for the snow was crystal powder and very soft observing the same principle of distribution of weight the dogs at the ends of their ropes fan fashion from the nose of the so that no dog trod in another s footsteps there was another virtue in the the ropes of varying length prevented the dogs attacking from the rear those that ran in front of them a dog to attack another it would have to turn upon one at a shorter rope in which ease it would find itself face to face with the dog attacked and also it would find itself facing the whip of the driven but the most peculiar virtue of all lay in the fact that the dog that strove to attack one in front of him must pull the white and that the faster the the faster could the dog attacked away thus the dog behind could never catch up with the in front the faster he ran the faster ran the one he was after and the faster ran all the dogs incidentally the went faster and thus by cunning did man increase his mastery over the beasts ah resembled his father much of whose gray wisdom he possessed in the past he had observed lip lip s persecution of white but at that time lip was another man s dog and had never dared more than to shy an occasional stone at him but now lip lip was his dog and he proceeded to his vengeance on him by putting him at the end of the longest rope this made lip lip the leader and was apparently an honor but in reality it took away from him all honor and instead of being bully and master of the pack he now found himself hated and persecuted by tlie pack because he ran at the end of the longest rope the dogs had always the view of him running away before them all that they saw of him was his tail and hind legs � a view far less ferocious and than his mane and gleaming also dogs being so constituted in their mental ways the sight of him away gave desire to run after him and a feeling that he ran away from them the the the started the team took after lip in a chase that extended the day a l first be had been prone to turn upon his jealous of his dignity and but at such times would throw the h of the whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on lip lip might face the pack but he could not face that whip and all that was left him to do was to keep his long rope and his ahead of the teeth of his mates but a still greater cunning in the recesses of the indian mind to give point to pursuit of the leader favored him over the other dogs these aroused in them jealousy and hatred in their presence would give him meat and would give it to him only this was to them they would rage around just outside the wing distance of the whip while lip lip devoured the meat and hit protected him and when there was no meat to give would keep the team at a distance and make believe to give meat to lip lip white took kindly to the work he had travelled a greater distance than the other dogs ii the yielding of himself to the rule of the gods and he had learned more thoroughly the of opposing their wilt in addition the persecution he had suffered from the pack had made the pack less to him white in the scheme of and man more he had not learned to be dependent on his kind for companion ship besides was well nigh forgotten and the chief outlet of expression that remained to him was in the he the gods he had accepted as masters so he worked hard learned and was obedient and ed his toil these are essential traits of the wolf and the wild dog they have become and these traits white possessed in unusual measure a companionship did exist between white and the other dogs but it was one of warfare and enmity he had never learned to play with them he knew only how to fight and light with them he did returning to them a hundred fold the and they had given him in the days when lip was leader of the pack but lip lip was no longer leader � except when he fled away before his mates at the end of his rope the bounding along behind in camp he kept close to or gray or he did not dare venture away from the gods for now the of all dog were against him and he tasted to the the persecution that had been white s with the overthrow of lip lip white could have become leader of the pack but he was too and solitary for that he the his team mates otherwise he ignored them they got out of his way w hen he came along nor did the of them ever dare to rob him of his meat on the contrary they devoured their own meat hurriedly for fear that he would take it away from them white knew the law well to the weak and obey ike strong he ate his share of meat as rapidly as

if the professor could say that amidst the general wreck in which he sat like another he had little to learn in the gentle art of self tion but there was nothing to gain by him then good bye said and held out his hand good bye she said without offering to take it or look at and after a miserable pause he left the study but before he had reached the front door he heard a and of behind him and felt her light hand on his arm ah no she said clinging to him i can t let you go like this i didn t by ic let us kiss and part mean all the things i said just now i do believe in you at least i ll try hard to and i shall always always love you i shan t care � very much � even if you forget me so long as you are happy only don t be too happy think of me sometimes i shall not be too happy he said as he held her close to his heart and kissed her drawn mouth and flushed cheeks and i shall think of you and you won t fall in love with your princess entreated at the end of her promise if i am ever provided with one he replied i shall her � for not being you but don t let us lose heart darling there must be some way of talking that old idiot out of this nonsense and bringing him round to common sense i m not going to give in just yet these were brave words � but as they both felt the situation had little enough to warrant them and after one last long embrace they parted and he was no sooner on the steps than he felt himself caught up as before and borne through the air with breathless speed till he was set down he could not have well said how in a chair in his own sitting room at square well he said looking at the who was by ic the brass bottle standing opposite with a smile of intolerable complacency i suppose you feel satisfied with yourself over this business it hath indeed been brought to a favourable conclusion said well hath the poet written i don t think i can stand any more elegant this afternoon interrupted let us come to business you seem he went on with a strong effort to keep himself in hand to have formed some plan for marrying me to a king s daughter may i ask you for full particulars no honour and advancement can be in excess of thy deserts answered the very kind of you to say but you are probably unaware that as society is constituted at the present time the objections to such an alliance would be quite for me said the few obstacles are but speak thy mind freely i will said to begin with no european princess of the blood royal would entertain the idea for a moment and if she did she would her rank and cease to be a princess and i should probably be imprisoned in a fortress for or something dismiss thy fears for i do not propose to unite thee to any princess that is born of mortals the bride i intend for thee is a the by ic let its kiss and part i el daughter of my the of the blue oh is she though said i m exceedingly obliged but whatever may be the lady s attractions her nose the with enthusiasm is like unto the keen edge of a polished sword her hair jewels and her cheeks are ruddy as wine she hath heavy and when she aside she to shame the wild cows my good excellent friend said by no means impressed by this catalogue of charms one doesn t marry to wild cows when she with a gait continued as though he had not been interrupted the willow branch itself green with envy personally said a doesn t strike me as particularly it s quite a matter of taste do you happen to have seen this lately my eyes have not been refreshed by her manifold beauties since i was enclosed by � whose name be accursed � in the ss bottle of which thou why dost thou ask merely because it occurred to me that after very nearly three thousand years your charming may � well to put it as mildly as possible not have q by ic the brass bottle altogether escaped the usual effects of time i she must be getting on you know silly bearded one said the in rebuke art thou then ignorant that we of the are not as mortals that we should feel the of age forgive me if i m personal said but surely your own hair and beard might be described as rather to grey not from age said this from long confinement i see said like the prisoner of well assuming that the lady in question is still in the bloom of early youth i see one fatal difficulty to becoming her doubtless said the thou art referring to the son of the son of no i wasn t said because you see i don t remember having ever heard of him however he s another fatal difficulty that makes two of them surely i have spoken of him to thee as my foe it is true that he is a powerful and who hath long persecuted the with hateful attentions yet it may be possible by good fortune to overthrow him then i gather that any for s hand would be looked upon as a rival by the amiable by ic let us kiss and part far is he from being of an amiable disposition answered the simply and he would be so transported by rage and jealousy that he

he kept his eyes and his ears wide open ready to seize upon the desired opportunity to carry out his great resolution the season most favorable for shooting had arrived and was in expectation that colonel would order the preparations to be made for his annual excursion either to the rivers above or the lakes below in search of game upon this event was based his hope of making his escape the smiling month of may was ushered in with by watch and wait or its pleasant days and about a fortnight after his had the satisfaction of hearing the subject the excursion was a matter of considerable importance for the was generally absent two or three weeks during which time he and his party lived on board of the large sail boat as there were no guests at the people wondered who were to be the colonel s companions we will leave on wednesday said the to his son are you going alone father certainly not you may go with me for one and you may take with you and shall go to do the heavy work who else there is room enough in the cabin for four there is no one else to go so we shall have the more room ourselves replied the as he walked away master announced to and that they were to attend the party and both expressed their satisfaction at the privilege accorded to them by the young they were directed to put the which was the name of the boat in good order for the trip she had to be thoroughly washed and dried that she might be in readiness to receive her stores on the following day which was tuesday and they hastened off to perform their task the was about twenty five feet long she was very broad on the beam and drew but very little water for a boat of her size she was provided with a centre board and worked admirably on the wind she had been built expressly for the shallow waters of the lower lakes she was and could carry a heavy press of sail which the light winds of these inland lakes rendered necessary the cabin was twelve feet long and nine feet wide at the part and contained four the trunk which was elevated about fifteen inches above the deck afforded a height of about five feet beneath the which extended beneath the main deck answered for beds by night and by day the standing room or open space the cabin was eight feet long with seats on three by watch and wait or sides forward of the cabin there was a four feet long in which the fuel and used for cooking were kept under the cabin table and under the and seats in the standing room � were a plenty of for the reception of provisions and other articles required on board we are thus particular in describing the because and his friends were destined to make their home on board of her for some time they might have found many a worse dwelling place on shore for the boat had ample for them the cabin was fitted and furnished and there was every thing on board which could be needed to make them comfortable while and were cleaning the the former boldly announced his purpose to run away and invited his friend to make one of the party dis go for sure roared displaying his wealth of and dropping his brush with amazement at the magnificence of the idea hush you will tell every one on the place by the young no i won t tell no one ob it s de be careful then and don t speak so loud but where you demanded i m going into the swamp and shall stay there till master thinks we are all dead then i m going to run down to the sea and get on board of some vessel that will carry us to the free states this prospect was rather too much for the simple comprehension of the negro boy and he only rolled the of his eyes in mute astonishment i ve studied it all out and i know where to go and how to get there yes you knows ting and i ll you to de end ob de world � s de added and lily will go with tis lily yes now keep your mouth shut and don t look any different from what you always do � yes when you to go to morrow night every thing will be put on by watch and wait oe board ready for the colonel to start early the next morning just as soon as all the in the house have gone to bed we will meet here and go on board den i shall be a free yes if we get off and the plan works well but you must be very careful you kin trust dis you knows you kin i do or i should not have made you my companion his friend very in the duties he was to discharge in connection with the he had every confidence in s discretion and knew that he would rather die than betray him the was carefully cleaned and left to dry in the bright sunshine of a clear day the next morning the steward of the plantation laid out the stores which were to go on board and as their was a nice matter was charged with this duty he was assisted by s boat crew who conveyed the articles on board and before sunset the boat was by the young ready for lier every was filled with meat vegetables fruits cakes � with every thing which could contribute to the comfort or luxury of the there were two barrels of water in the standing room and the choice pieces of the and his son were in the cabin

jew but at some inadequate hotel in or i moved from her seat her fair brows with what do you mean i thought you could steer anywhere even in the strongest wind his smile became more bland so i can � on most occasions � he replied � but there are exceptions to every rule � and to night � is one of those exceptions but be not discouraged dear lady all is well we are or have been travelling across the she uttered a little involuntary cry the r i think so i imagine so take care for she suddenly leaned her head over the edge of the car and peered down into the dark dome of space i can see nothing she said drawing back her head quickly � it is all whirling darkness i even mere chaos replied � the land is there � but to us it might as well not be there for we see nothing of it even so is the earth to h her the tragedy of a quiet life where the sunshine stayed longest thousands of blew asunder their transparent and swayed to and fro among the green grass like fairy dancers it in a of colour this golden opening of the year was when fine weather came with it the s happiest time � for his pretty wife sparkled into new animation with the brightness of nature and both she and little inseparable companions were always about the grounds together enjoying her small son s games at ball and humming top with as much zest as though she were herself a child often and often when writing his sermon richard would lay down his pen and watch them from his window and smile as the sound of their gay laughter reached him in the seclusion of his study � and he would silently thank god for their beloved and beautiful lives he had of late as has been said resigned himself to the general of and to the adopted towards him by his and if ever the of ambition or discontent stirred within him he made swift attack upon them and drove them back into their i have nothing to wish for he would say to himself with emphasis � nothing to regret � nothing t desire i am content indeed i am more than content � i am happy he impressed this fact often and often upon who persisted in considering limited as a outlook but whenever he thus touched on the subject the little priest smiled and shrugged his shoulders if anything was to be done with the people i would say with you that to be here is happiness � he declared � but see you all the saints and angels and could not move them to so much as one bit of the cause and the need of religion no i i will tell you one thing and i say the same for myself as for you if in the middle of holy mass there was news brought to my congregation that a was on fire every one would run holy orders � out of the yes think you then they can believe in god they would leave his service for a burning but see again if they were all beer at s expense and some one came to them with the same they would not o no j not till they had finished the beer t and smiled rather � would it be the same else in london paris or new york eveiy man has his own special which he seeks to protect above all things my dear friend my unfortunate experience is that most men will leave god for anything that immediately and materially concerns their present selves is no worse than other places in this regard wherever i went i should find no better you would find many more agreeable to live with � returned � and you might be able to speak to people who at least would comprehend shook his head any one comprehend he asked wistfully � would you swear that any one has ever comprehended the glory of the unseen that glory which all our churches feebly try to � a glory you and i ce but cannot put into words he spoke with emotion looked at him you should have been a my excellent friend he said with a genial smile � you should have lived long ago in the ages of faith in one of the quiet grey where the beautiful permit the sunlight and moonlight to scatter through their arches bright glimpses of heaven � you should have had visions and dreamed dreams like st of � and you would have embraced the divine infant and seen the holy yes � you should have been a or another a pale flush crept up to the s brows no � i have nothing of a in me � he said � the tragedy of a quiet life am quite a commonplace man � just an ordinary country parson � are hundreds of us living our lives in little out of the way moss grown english villages like in old gardens we crawl along in accustomed and sleep in the warm sun � while out in the dusty high roads of the world our divine master is being tried condemned and in shame a second time and we do nothing � nothing his voice shook � his hand trembled he was profoundly moved my good richard said gently � i believe you are truly a faithful lover of our lord i believe you would sacrifice your very life for him � even in these days even in these days i would � answered � but i am not found worthy many a time they to this kind of intimate and serious conversation and foimd in the exchange of each other s thoughts and a singularly comforting sympathy soon learned

was the work of some one who became a member of the church before the war and who collected the relics of the acts and sayings of reported by the introducing some traditions which he found elsewhere and filling up from his own invention his aim was probably to do honor to and the common cause to strengthen the church under the trying circumstances of the times and to be the author of a work which should be generally acceptable to his brethren that such a man should not always to strict truth seems quite consistent with human nature since in the subsequent times and in the christian church we find pious men and sincere allowing themselves to countenance palpable � p the second gospel is ascribed to mark the companion of peter for its we have the testimony of of see the recent literature on the subject of the language and author of the first gospel in der in n t � an the origin of y and others but these authorities do not decide that peter or knew what mark wrote he copied from in part and adds other historical details but these relics of reality with some matter he to have had access to one of the channels of original information not very far from its source but he is often unconscious of the nature of what be records for he saw things through the medium of his time and place and not in their original light he has lost sight of the semi political bearing of the scheme the kingdom of god with the spread of the gospel to soften the severe that appears in into a shape more fitting for readers he attempts to by repeating the amazement of the of his miracles the great numbers attracted by him the confession of the devils and the greater part of the most eloquent and in he becomes a kind of on the first gospel and we see that an intimate friend of peter some of the most striking passages of the miraculous birth and temptation of christ peter s casting himself into the sea the promise of the keys and the miracle of the fish with money in its mouth he also the dream of s wife as well as the other five dreams of the of the saints and the earthquake it is difficult to avoid concluding that he omitted these things because he did not believe them he found that they were not by peter or by any traditions of and determined that his work should not be with so much total and pure ornamental fiction it is impossible to regard mark s of these passages otherwise than as a condemnation of in later times when the means of the truth of each story had diminished and the whole four came to be believed in a mass as resting upon the same authority divine inspiration these same questionable passages have been favorite ones with christians as proving most strikingly the miraculous character of � p see i compare iii with x vi with id he of which related chiefly to the origin of christianity taken by itself the second is less intelligible than the first gospel but with that and it not only throws light on the attempt of but marks the grade in the under which his afterwards viewed him made use of both his but has many stories and of his own which he selected from popular tradition or previous writers he sometimes with and mark but sometimes from them for in his time they were not received with the same deference as now his order is confused and probably in some instances he did not know the meaning of what he repeated he does not and to suit his own times the he � the visits of to and mary the scenes at the temple the appearance of the angels to the and of to the two at � indicate a more refined imagination than the tales of joseph and the angel and the the which he adds � the lost sheep the prodigal son the good and the rich man � are equal to any in the but we find also in him the and doctrines of the more does not say he had his facts from to take all the three together � it appears that they were written a considerable time after the events they relate it is probable though not certain that the writers learned some parts from or but it is uncertain which the parts are and it is probable they are largely mingled with second hand and traditions there is strong probability that the portions of the three histories contain a tolerably correct outline of the chief events of christ s life but some errors might find their way into all three by the mistakes or inventions of the first writers or the traditions on which they all depended so in the three after making every allowance for probable veritable and fiction � there still seems to remain so much of reality that the attempt of to assume the his public preaching in and and his might be considered from the testimony of these three alone as facts deserving a place in history which on the origin of is strongly supported by other writings and subsequent events � the fourth gospel he thinks was written about a c this is of a very different character christ s are long without the kingdom of heaven is nearly lost sight of the fall of never alluded to several new subjects are introduced the of the in christ his coming down from heaven and the promise of the or holy spirit mr thinks it probable that john did not put the detached parts of the book together himself and adds that it is difficult to determine whether the or did not add the last chapter and improve upon