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DECISIONocoifpanilever assume, a,spiee of the geniality ion you. I sheelel get no thanks if 1 did.
if you de not mean to aot fair toni mune by
her, my advice to you is to draw back while
there istime; tor if you thoroughly effendi:tem
you lead better face the enenues you have
in the world, than stead your chance with
her. She would never mind. killing herself,
or you, or half mac zeta like you, U she once
fairly made up her mind, so do as you
P113117oserib"ury's answer to this was a laugh,
a broad opea laugh ; he said nothing, and
there the convereation dropped, sa,ve thet.
Mr.. Spade mace muttered in an nndertone
"A pretty pair they will, mace."
No opposition, therefore, being forthoom-
kg, the kvera ware duly marned, in a dis•
trict at the east of Lennon ; in the parish of
Weat Ham, indeed.. IsTeither of the oonbraob-
ing lived there, se a little further
roisleseription was necessary, bet, as Mrs
Rodbury said, 'nfeer'l what ekes it aignify 1"
indeed, to have hesitAted then would have
been, on the gentleman'aparti, in truth, stride,
leg at a gnat after swallewing a full-grown
camel.
(To ne coneeenere)
CHAPTER L
cetting March wied, driving before le a
email rain, which a little extre sharpness
would Itteve converted. into hell or Steen
wept; Bewley Street pretty elear of pawn.
gem end furnished, e good excuse, if one w ere
ought, for two men, who walked On the
more sheltered bide et the road, seeking re-
fuge in the Beerley Arum a tavern which
mooed at an angle nest where the wind and
rain were eoldest. Tete was not a " swell"
hotel, or, Weed, high.elasa piece at Ale
Byerley Street woe a how street, and "tbe
Arme, it waa meetly eellee, was a low
home ; but a geed fire was beaming in its
itelehlie mom, end, eteve for one man, who sat
moodily in a corner, with folded arms and
tied esteem the friends had the place to
themselves., They were friends., or read been
ao until lately, and partnere in busirkees ; but
<livers matters had arreen, whiela need not
here be detailed„ music% much irritation
with many trupleawoat argumente between'
Messrs Serle aud 0;:tereon, the two persona
Ad whom we have been speaking, and some of
thia tutpleneantnese was Still fermenting in
guarded tones, grew a e e
some personal remarks* which were
deficient in ebeerieg and soothing
Mein were exthanged. It WAS evident
at businew tranwedoes, anct especielly
el flume, wore at the heee of all thie
dispute, which increased in acerbity, meal
()memo exclaimed "1 won't Imo it,
,Taek 1—snd that la all about it, ray me elite
and. rit go. I will go cheap. As for all the
eseoek, hem, van, and. everything, I don't
wept them, Oive rue a fifty pound trete
and you saelt keep the lot, Caly let ne
foVe a liettleMent non,"
" It la very well to talk like that, Steeve,"
z awned the other; "and I dente; say / will
net eettle with yeti on your owe berme; bet
what, would yen have eeid if I had chuekod
bbs afeeir up as euddetely thin and left
yen to a Ad. a partner where yell could V
"I ieeve you with all the beat of it, don't
retorted 0;tersee, "Whet is 4fty
rparlie to the velem of the thiega I am glee
e up! Yon w find pertner SOCM emu*
r' ape etu bane got oao ready. I don't
a Itleelier man than Jeek Specie for
ledge,"
4 w a eeed deal better than ellen
Steave; eetel Spec, who wee the elder of
tbe pine " Yen went te euerrel ; but we
can pert witeeut that. ne not knew
where ze Zed a man ; I wish I did. Mem
eche will allele en the heti:wee, end een nut
eenee reseey—altleauela it Is not much
r he met with QVci'y ey, I veeuld
.deioe to beer of oue.
d yen I 'exelaimeti the third rerun
preee Tee feterruptieu *rattled both the
Qthers, vale weh uttered an aegry el teala
eters ; Otter% u Zenon beg this with an oeth,
"Yon bad better mind ever owe buelaree,
Are." eeld Seeelo; "eucl leeve owe alette."
`-- I am attending to my owe beeinees, and
7. nena. whet fray," continued. the atreuger.
44 have not lieteried purpeeely ; but it was
elcancesible to avoid healing e our arguments.
,4 want eemetbiug to de, Yone trade, with
itagoiog abeat the coantry, will mit moll—
" We ehouid. want tome =toy Beat," in-
rrupted Sperie, eyeing the thebby slovenly
togure el the speaker, a your% man of some.
"Trhatl diteolute appeareme, With UR great
avour..
unierstend thee wen enough," reture.
odnent nther. "1 can find some. I can pay
a coop -nit se this moment, and find the rest
, if neer terms are moderate. Do not
be set eg Ames me on =omit of my ionize,
You may heve known before to -day °there
who wne under a cloud and glad to be one
qt the woe ; that is my case."
'Bich of his hearers gave is, sardonic laugh,
and Ottoman said "Most of our pals have
• lasettlekt thee at atintte tirne or another—it
es litde in my way at present. But if you
smelly mean business,. we don't care about
the cloudeand new is your chance."
Anatiimated couversation followed; tbe
t farm two men appearing in muoh better
e.trimeper, prelinainariea were tolerably well
whjuseed at once.
Tee Wizens In ethich the partners had
been engaged was merely the travelling in
the western provinces with a large an,
fitten op for the seta of goods; attending
fairs and raises, and doing a little betting at
/some of the latter meetings, where they
were known.
Always on the repare, you under-
stand," explained Mr. Sparle ; Mr Ottereon
omphaaising this with an Oath. or two, as
nteemed his custom.
look at first ; but I do now. You can take
Ihite round to the -place, and 1 will go on to
my new people. We shall part geed friends,
juin after all."
Terneps we shall," retorted Spade ; but
I did not care much how it is. I an glad
we are going to part, m you have turned
but nasty.—Now, Ur Rodbury, if you are
ready, I will take you round, to our peace."
The stranger rose. He was a tall, well
enough. built young fellow, and nob bed -
looking, while he wore his shelaby COEkt with
a different air from that of either of the bur-
ly tellowe in hia eompany ; yet, for ail that,
there was a sometuirig, a slovenly dissolute
something in his very look, his every move-
ment, whiola told of a wuted, if net a bad
oareee.
T1218 his new pert= had early noted;
but his owo experience had made him far
from fasticlious in suole mattera, and so,
without further delay, he set off with Mr.
Rodbary in the direction of his stable and
depot; Otterson parting company, having,
as he declared with aeffi :tient emphasis,
something on inind which suited his book a
great deal better..
It. was now dark, or40 nearly dark that the
street lamps were lighted, and mod of the
sleep windows were lighted up also. In a
yard at the beck of a elnebby terrace near
the water side, Frank Bedlam, was solemn a
big strorg home, a large wagon or caravan,A very remarkable freak of nature exiats
end a colieetien of gooes. on thalami of Mr, J.H.Varter, con. S. lot 20,
"The thinge are worth Mere than you are Township of Tecomeeth, County of Lincoln,
Roble to pay," tonn Sped() ; "and as a met- Band /lead P,O. Oa Sundey, April leth, a
ter of feet, I am givieg yell tile lot. It la caw helotiging to hdr. Carter gave birth to
only the goodwill and. the training you are two lambs and a calf. Ile is a reeptrteble
min for.—Now, emus on; you ahall hear farmer wise would not under any mown.
semethIng alma me, and I will show you former, and e was a fellew gem' mouge fraud en the public, and the Mug has bean
, ammo be guilty of an attempt to pelm off a,
my reedits," lin took hie POW friend to a
gay bustling pubo home (doe° by, where he woo,
still to say nothing about this to Ws nOW Seen by mores of hit neighbow, The :Alden-
eeemed to be Well Itticreln. Ilere the lend dant eircumetancea were each vie to leeve no
Ries and Matty, the two yew women, meadow of doubt on ills mind as to correet.
lord teedeed to his reepectability met to hio were ienneeny geedneeeing, in. what, per.
eolveriey, avowleg thee Jai& Simian eimple nesa a the etetement. The lembe eee to all
recite af head was good te him, dee land- dealer they reoembled their brother Join, appear ewe perfect, but lareer than ordluery,
Their attrection was rather of the ellowy The oelf, a male, is elm perfeet, The OX•
lord, for fifty or a harodred pound* any "barmaid" aryl°, It wee tree: but they were
Y. attractive, humid doubt, At first, Rod. pression in the feels of the teethe hue a ?wet.
"Now, I have 'dealt atreiglat with you," iarity, while eonaiderable hair is mixed
iniuta up mri spviie ; odiiiii 1 eiliiii expect bury treated them with but alightattention, atueeg the emelt both in the fleece and on
o he Os streight In return.. Where le much of the trifilog civility be did ahow tee legs, Mr, °erten has greedy rerused an
you t
this friend armee, .4 „ilea Q., you have being bestowed open the younger.
never rude or ohurinili ; m face, to each of
34ii wail offer of if600 for the dam and family. Mr. Ed.
your money! thvsa 9irie be seemed, a cavalier of 14! Jmel,yleatotor:rgoenntaigenirigeuntravfoorbeOenutaIriboitanored.
Redhury intimated that he was ready
et ateeee em ereeegemente at cuee, kircediegi and Intleales his emduat Piclaca So far as nuown there hi no parallel owe
14 tha; bo "U1C/ wake an iiPPI4t he graduelly grew more corivereational with
ith Spark for the Peet des, tie eon.
would. do.—Yee, thee would her, while she vedoubtedly looked forward
Bird and. Snake.
°1• -"'"):on till mit °lie" to rouelltegWeleugs"nruldie4dissil4gtYre4ar dee441$ aorsieb3. The iieereieryeilee et smith melee fob
uppeee? ' conriened Redleury.
get re ceehed, I dereeey V Wily Wire, was alwaya at her smartest e„„e rata wee nu.iirda aud ay= limits.
when be came, and never failed to exore iipet is e'speciaili feneet swam ee nee:
id the other ; "and I ehall not
a thulu° 5'5143. not tr°0513 bendf to please and entertain him. whisk are its service3 thee the wbite settlere
During oree of their visite to Ireusloo,
levy a 11=17 6ue eel auy on h kni
Oveilicti urlts-150.3 for lit oven A exPcre Spade broke luta a denunciation e w a el Ono
petit of gown in ellange, till I ImOW a 13 °I the uli' lot these bird% Ito mune Secretare WaS
# , #
all eight; $ 4, if it dill not turn out all
rieht, it would be 4 ,C,4;1 deal were for lee
then for rue"
"1 int„eht ineve posed -whet your newer
woald be," mid Reamer viith a smile. "1
will tulle my chence as to there beleg nry
tbirg wrong adth what I shall pay you."
" Am I to ga with you to your tTritni 7." could take a public for lite wife, A she was
coked Spade. "I ought to know"— disposed any day of the week, and. any
" Well, you will not know 1" interrupted week in the year, without peetiog hie hand
Badbury. "Aly money will he all the re Ita eery men's packet but bie own. To any
femme 1 ellen give. I have trusted yea "no" to Will Stekerly 1"
with ten pounde reedlly enough; not geed. Sparle Was unfeignedly exespereted, end
ulght." hold forth, at greet lexagbe on the enormity
With tide abrupt farewell he loft his corn- si his sist4es easullus. The explosion pro.
pauion, and went quickly off, glowing round bebly did him good, for he worried o.bIe to
once or twice, to =eke sere he Was not fol. teerat:dtetehaenndMetyteaeir tnr lreeuPiehMair hPiabloeavritYrialogteerr:
el There Was nct dauger of thin how. But the-4164one web sea impreesioernolted-
er ; for, as he dieeppeared, Mr. Spark bury. Ile Wati more reamed than untied,
uttered : "This ia A different beginning in and Appeortd to be meditating upon smile
a cheap-jeok busineoa from any an I ever problem ot di-film:V,
saw before. I wonder what my new pal b Smirk had by this time grown aeotatomed
been up to! Bub Jaok Spsrlo never was a to the omeisional exhibition of these moods
pp, and never will be." . in his partner, " who had as much learning
Rodhury hurried on his errand, which, and convolution as a laWyer or a paraon,
ed him a long way and to a very different but was tornethinr so cranky and silent that
part of Lyndon, until finally he atopped at a
bowie in a largo and respectable street in you could never quite tell where to have
him. Bat a sharper fellow in the business
tbe Weat .End, a house at which few persona you would isever with to me "—thus ran Mr.
of his aspeob wore likely to call. Spark% opinion.
The servant who opened the door to Itod. He was a little surpthed, on returning
bury demurred, naturally enougb, at admit. home ono evening, after a day ;meat in tbe
ting elicit a person to hie master's presence; purchase of goods and. go forth, to find Rod -
but when the latter heerd that A rough. bury at his house before him. This was
looking M711 wished to deliver a mango to only reroarkable from the latter having said
Mr. Aahwell from a gentleman, the domes" nothing of ranch au intention. Mr, Spark
tio was ordered to show him in. was atill further surprised by his partner
"You say you have a message for me.," rising, coming towards him as be entered
began the master of the house; but cheek. the room, and then shaking him heeatily by
ing himself, he told the footman not to the hand. Ho opened his lips te ask the
wait ; and the latter, wbo had hesitated at meaning of this; but a rush a aaingled
leaving such a theracter alone with his Ines- feelings and recollections—vague the mo-
te; dieappeared. meat before, but grown suddenly to °envie-
" Why, Cyrus I What, in tbe name of all tia,,_stayed him.
that is horrible have you been doing with Then. ere he could recover himeelf, Rod.
yourself 1—and why do you come here now bury exclaimed: "Let na have no secreey
in such a guiee ?" exclaimed Mr. Aehwell,
with a total change of tone. "Sit down, ha such a matter, Sperle r Your sister has
promised to marry me, and I give the notice Ne Onred the Gen.
and tell me all about it." at the registrar's toanorrow."
"No, Harbert; I must not atay long to. "Yes, ib ho true, J4cir," said his abater in
night ; nor will I now tell you much of what answer to his inquiring look. "I know 1
I am doing," returned Rodbury. "What offended you about Stakerly ;I hope I please
I have done, you know ; and in wbab danger you now
I am, you know too. I always caleula,ted "Well, I wish you luck," said Spark at
on your friendship'— last. "I know you will take care to please
"You may, to the last!" interrupted Ash. yourself at any rate, whatever yam choose to
well. do. ,,Well, I shall not attempb to interfere.
" Yee ; I know it. Even as if you had I hope you will be happy—that is all.—I
been as great a rogue and fool as I am, a should like a little talk with you, however,
combination in your ease happily imPeesi- Mr. Redbury, and"---
ble," continued his visitor, and 1 had " I expected you would gay 0.3 much,"
been—what you are, you might, I believe, interposed the other, who had smiled mini -
have relied on me. I need two hundred cally at the doubtful, lukewarm benediction
pounds, in two cheques. With this I see pronounced by hie future brother-in-law.—
ray way to biding myself, and leading a "So,Rose," he continued, "1 must go and
coarse vulgar sort of life, but one without talk business with 5 our brother, as I told
any particular harm in it. I can have it, I
hope ?" you I should have to do."
"1 cannot see that it has anything to do
" Irstantly ; and I only wish I could with you, Jack," said the girl, whose height.
findthe means of helping you to some- ene.d colour gave evidence of a temper easii
thing batter than you describe," replied ly aroused. "I am my own mistress."
his friend. I should like to attach one "You are," returned her brother; " and
condition to this help, to which you try to be so over every one who comes near
are heartily welcome. I would whin you to you. I shall not interfere very much, you
let me know, sometimes where you are, or, may lay long odds. Let us go round to the
at enemata, how you are faring. I shall not i Fox and Goose e iweishell be quiet there,
press you further; I will leave all to your. and can say all we have to say in a few min-
utes."
"Thank you, Herbert," returned the His partner complied so far as to leave
other. "Perhaps I will do so. You will with him, but preferred to enter on such
smile if I tell you I am going into business businese as was in hand without going to the
with this money ; and you would smile or hostel indicated.
shudder—I don't know which— if you could Sparlo asked him rievered questions, of a
see nay partner. That reminds me that I character so searching as to do laia shrewd -
should like you to make the cheque payable mess great credit, and was answered with
to a number, and sign it with initials. The more or less candour.
London and'W,estminster will cash it, if you
adviee them."
Without another word, Mr Ashwell drew
a cheque-book from a drawer near to his
hand, and in a couple of minutes the require
ad slips were handed to Rodbury ; then, with
a brief clamp of the hand, the strangely im-
ported pair parted.
. . ' • • .
A PECULIAR TR &CERT.
I }It:teener, I wittiest give you a hint, EtB0
„.,
So Mr. Jack alwat neabete.ined, ef nines. iet a trump, and I will go through.
aity, the lead in the bluffness, and Redburn fire and Waters danger or death, for a enover and bis Sweetbeeet Kiterrhemsaves
tied muse enough to see that this should be man ehe likes ; and elle likes yon. Bat On a Runway Car.
so ; yet, respite of this there was some-
thing about thejtmior in'the firm which in.
fieeneed and almost controlled hie partner.
Spade felt that his eolleaeue had nob much
in conanion with their mann associates, and
he conk' net fail to notice that the craftiest
of these "forg,ht shy " of Rodbury; um' did
the mast swaggerien ventore on any of the
prantigal jokee with bim which were much in
favor with the °leen
en consequence, perhaps, of this, Sparle
uncomelously treated Rodbury soneewhet
differently from the manaer in which he had
dealt with 0 ttereon, and with others before
the latter. He could hardly be eaid to
like his new partner better them he had
liked bia old ones r in fact, it was
with him a frequently recurring question,
studied over his pipe and his glass, as to
whether he really liked this queer ohap at
an. Neverthelese, as said, he eould not help
treating him in a different atyle from hie
predecessors, and amongst other tillage, he
took him to his house, not to his eelace of
business, but to his own home, where were
found anch family ties as he owned. These
were two sisters—a girl of nineteen, and one
of two or three years younger.
fiveiand.thirty, ' said Searle, in
hie introduction ; "so they look up to me
as a olcl man," he amid, "as a old men
bat it is hardly necessary to reproduee afl
his oddities of speech, ot which this is one
of the moat striking examples. "There was
ten of us," he went. on ; "but aU the rest
died Of in two or three yeare ; sei did the
mother, ely governor died long before."
Jack Spade tied been a fellow good monglo
to be the main support al hie mother and
Olsten during the declining health et the
A STRAITGB FAXELIY.
A Cow wivea Wirth to Wiro numbs and
*Calle
Rue, in any Case, On hi4 reeerliag Vielts on reeerd,
re;1"11414°°e" °I W411491 tIte4 abaur4 ways' I zuggeeted by the eact that the large feathera
and uttor want of buseneee like Ipreeectiog from the apex of its heed enegeet
of marriage front Bill Stakorly. "BiliSteln tbetnclier betrin'ideelirQistAgtewIth "ver44 PeE3 Tle'alelubt.oetlYllowt2 etv117tieruelitIlietylu)(34e.tocr 11'4:341111:r
Bau furnished tha °melon for ON wade, qnUI
ea it appeared that alto bad refused an effor
erly, you know 1" he repeated, with an. Tele about four feet in height and ita liewle. then nor tette at the ralirose1 eteition Was
pbael4 ; na man as avimia um canvas, and like hill lei a formidande weapon, -capabto o e any grange mit observed in their couduet.
They took the 9:20 p. m. train from Not-
tingham, and teemed then in the heppieet
ankles. Sarno thrie latewhen mar Trent
etetionitlois platierm porter on gain to CO1-
lect their ticketo, found them dead in their
wirriage. Day had, been alone there, so
there wee no witneso of what had. happened
in the last half hour of their life.
The inqueetthowed that the reong people
had been ?beanbaj for their death for many
days, Mrs. Clara 7fillierrim at whose house
14164 Burford had atcppear testified that
2feron b4sl1c4 tnernmegnently duriem the
fortnight peamaing. Fetaffteseemed devoted
to the other. lila, Blatant etonished litirs.
Williams one day by manifceting Intel= in.
tereat in a sensatiomal novel whicla dawribed
how a lover had pelsoned bia sweetheert by
ricalutdIng something in. her oolfee. The girl
"it would be nice to die with reet- lover,
It wade be nice to. die in oeolo ether's
arenilar.a"WflUam toldhor not to thin's of Bluth
things, belt the girl only langhods Some-
time afterward the noung woman remarked,
"How limey lin' ould be if they were to
find us dead in a railway carriage; only we
should nein the beat of.the fun. We ahould
like to hear what they would any when they
opened the door."
ellale was no extraordinary restatement that
lira. Williams regarded it only as a. joke.
The girl was in the- habit of talking flip:
penny shout serious things. She once celled
attention to hor dreenopen ab the bosom and
aaid : "How nice ib would be for a ballet to
go in here." Mrs. Williams could remember
only one conversation. between Peron and
.Mess Burford in willah she hem -di them speek
as if they had been disowning rinicide. At
that time the girl was -Bitting beside her lov-
3r and he said:
"I would die for you, Line welad you
die for me ?"
"Yee, I would," she replied, and kiseed
him on the cheek.
On the Sunday before 'Oak Miss Burford
showed Mrs. Williams a pistol. She mid it
b,.longed to Feron, who was down stairs.
Robert Feron was a native of Bruesels
who had migratet1 to Ragland and become
conneeted with a large mosefaetueing hoose
in Derby as a fereign correspondent,. He
was young and good. looking. Among the
acquaintances lee made in the Eoglish town
was e young enamel, Lillie Burford. She
was an acuene, and bad beeo etaying at the
house of wine relatives near Derby while
awaiting a new engogernene on the stage.
The relatione between Mr. Fermi and MIAs
Burford !weenie intimate, and one Seturday
evening not many days no he called upon
her, and they went away together en the
Midland Beltway. Thet was the last seen
of them alive by their frieede, for late that
night they were found. with hulleta in their
beads. Eecli was lying on the floor a the rail.
way car, wlth blood in pools surrounding
them, and a eilver-plated pistol, sin barrels,
four undiaoharged, en tee mat,
Neither the man nor the woman Was
more than twenty years old, There was no
evidence of their heving quarrelled, and the
railway efficere, the Comer, reed all others
wire saw dae boding were puzzled, to kuotv
what might have been the game of the
tragedy. By degrees le was discevered, and
when all the eirceonstances became nnown
to ehe ettidente of crime it Was agreed
among them that this double murder must
be ranksd among the more notable offencen
of this degree which have occurred in Eng-
land. It was on the part of each person
ease of deliberate death, if either arse bed
been IMAM it 'WM lellenttY only ripen the
single reel** of cloth. But there dew not
appear any evIdence that either the lover
or Isis mistress had lost reaeon even to this
extent, All their 40tiella up to the time /1
their being left alone ha the railreed carriage
were' ratioeal and natural.
On the fiethreley evening wheel Vero,
aull-
od to take tbe girl away- he came in a cab,
She appeared as if the load been expectieg
him, was droned in pretty gum, and Was
*mime. The °illy miaow Ming in her be
balder warred bedew her lover aertved.
She bad be0a with wale 0119 ill the home
and <meetly rereerked t
"I moat leave you now And go and put on
HOMO dealt clothe's, for lam going to be.
fore the evoniog le over."
But Mies Berford Said tide witheat excita.
moot, and the nevem who heard it thought
it a eene trutil nexe day when the
ey Wa4 faIdiletl. Fermi brought the gwl
urcle of Blew, and they sat red talked
for e, few ininutee and then left tegether in
cede Tu driver took them to the Central,
tiett d the Mitliend Beiletey at Derby at
fieee) p, m. They appeared on the platform
jut as any ether ardent pair of lovera might
have appeared ad had 1101174 refreshment
the dialog:more. il'eren bought two
claw tieleete to Nottineham a-pn rots=
Whop, they Arrived there they Wok
lieve she will kW herself with me, I know
thab it la very sad to die at the age of 1i;
wee is awe le years mid eix months. How-
ever, I do not regret in 1 will do it in a
railway °Krieg°. See luta really the inten-
tion to commit eukide as well, for she can.,
not live without me ; she bee a true love for
me, However, you. know what girls. are ;
she might be weak end feeble at the lase
moment. Therefore, •dear Fritz, 1m very
careful, and remember sometimee your old
friend, Rome.. Eigeea for you, for your
mother, end brothern Will you undersand,
my letter z J ia impoesible to de leetter
just now.
The Coronerie jury decided that the lovi
era had carried Oat their plane fully; that
the girl was wilfully murdered by Feron,
and that he ha4 kilted himself while tem-
porarily ineane.
If the young man was in earnest—thus
-proceeded Mr. Sparle—and liked to do
ibusinees sharp, he could go and Bee the horse
And van at once, and see people, too, who
would satisfy kim that all was correct.
He could then pay his fifty pounds it
lie liked; but he was not a -coming in
for any such money, although &Bevil Otter -
son, who has a misty temper—I dean mind
aiming so afore him—may pretend he is
*willing to go out for that. ()alp that a
-second party we necessary, nobody should
,actine.in at all. As it was, the parry would
have to put down n econd fifty, or perhaps
O little .more, according to valuation, for
ilia share ; and even thew would not iaclude
the betrina, for which separate funds must
'be provided. This is a brief summary of
-the lengthy explanation by his late part.
mew
The stranger gave some proof of hie
business -like intentions by exhibiting a
a couple of five -pound notes. "These are
,all I have," he said; "and I know too well
that no more can be got where they came
from." His tone 'changed as he said this,
-perhaps involunterily ; but hia hearers, who
were among the most cunning of their
class, each glanced sharply at him, and
each felt added confidence, from that mom-
ent, that he did "mean businees".
The stranger went on: "I have a friend
who -will help me at once, as far as your
price goo ; and if I join, I will do my best
_ler you in the work.
"Viiat is your name ?" demanded Spark.
wilitneme, what are we to call you? I can
itell-well enough that whatever you give us
-will not be right; bat we shall not argue
'about that. Names don't count for much
with as, and all our agreements are by word
of mouth."
A curious smile, apparently in spite of
Wiimself, had moved the lips of the young
,man while Mr Spark was apeaking. "I
=Aber like your free and easy style," /COMM.
ced the stranger, after a brief pause. Your This was the commencement of the part. his ooznpanion, "you are not going to marry
Immo, 1 learn, is Speak ; mime will be Frank nership between Jack Spark, so well know, Rose under a fele name, are you?"
Rodbury. Here are the ten pound. Intel and, it must in fairness be added, so gener- "Yeti know, I am quite sure," returned
en it is, I mu ready to go on with the bush ally liked on the weatern road, and Frank Rodbury coolly, "that oath a marriage is
mess to night. I will see what you have to Rodbnry. The latter soon proved to be of perfectly legal if the wife did nob know her
eoffer; and. I am quite sure my friend will great use in many ways, especially in bet- husband had assumed a name. I do not
inot mind a call from me at any hour. Will ting, at which he was quicker, cooler, and fancy you will enlighten Rose; so your els-
Tou go on "broader" in his work than Jack Sparle, will call herself and really be Mrs Rod.
"You had better do it, Jack," said Otter- shrewd as the latter undoubtedly was. But bury."
eon, interposing. "I can See tbin noting fel- the new partner never became so popular "Well," mid Spark after a long pause,
low meene 'viten SaYs#1 414 net bbsWs as the old one; he never possessed, and "1 suppose you are right. 1 than nob p1it 40 feet high.
aplittiog the head ole. terse snake at a gurgle
blow. As snakes do r et williugly submit to.
the operation, long and' exciting /IOW deem
Miro plaee before the bird, cleavee its pp
parent% head. Parher ailunro 44.W oue of
therm tionteete, and (re:scribes it in bin
" Husitaria Amalie."
stalking apringbek he discovered
aeoretary bird fightine wielt a snake seven or
eight feet long, called* by the Beers "ring.
keul," from the white ring or stripe recondite
neck. It is an %Alva serpeae, endowed with
he power of spitting lee veaom six feet er
more.
For several minutes the sotivity of the
belligerents diepleyed !moil in feints and
blows. The bird then withdrew and utter-
ed a prolonged harah note. In a moment it
was joined by another scoretary bird. Both
birde then attacked the analee which, being
tumble to face both ways at the Dame time,
reoeived fremmeit blows frotroita assailants'
strong wham.
Ono blow stupefied the Bluth% , Instantly
ono bird mimed the serpent 1104T the neck
and the other further back, and bow) it,
wriggling, etrugeling, aloft a hundred Yeerds
and then dropped it. With Wloeed wings,
the birds demended so rapid1y! as to reach
tbe ground as aeon as tho snake. Qaick as
theniebt a bird truck the :serpent a blow up-
on the head whioh killed ib.
As is generally the case, the lilies, having
corquered, began disputing as to the booty.
The dispute led to a fight, during which the
hunter, who wanted the snake as a specimen,
slipped in and teok the booty. He convey-
ed the ringkaal to his wagon, where it con-
tinued to distil clear poison fer an hour,
A gentleman went to the stanip-Window
of the Poet efftoe in a neighboring eity and
palled for 100 one -cent stamps, tendering in
payment lein one -cent pieces, " These are
not legeistender in any such amounts,"
growled the stamp clerk. "I refuse to ac-
cept theme' "You do, eh -i' answered the,
Boots and Shoe.
It is part of a French wornan's religiou
that she obeli he well gloved ad. welt shod,
The same instinct, peehapi s not so firmly
„grounded, preveils among selfireepecting
women of other races.
There is hopeless untidiness in ragged and
aolled gloves, and equal or worse slovenli-
ness in shabby boots. Both boete and Blip-
pers this season seem to beve reached per-
fection in the Material need, the shape and
finish. The clumsy ehoee worn by English
women are proverbial, as well as their lack
of taste which prompts them to don velth
silk and velvet their heavienb and moat 111.
favoured walking shoes.
THAR'S ViAS sEE 0 l4BEEP MElANGE
exlept in abOell for full drone The common
eerwe, with Re broad sale and IOW heel, are
3;1.1 Ia deraand bv dreea reformere and
thou) who leAutowarde dresa reform without
advocetin extremea. Thew, however,
are not comforteble to all feet, and, there-
fore, the pointed tee and the Spanish arcla,
with the medium heel, edit has many
wearero. Ereneh heels are out of place,
except in the esexiage or in the nonse, and
they ought to be tabooed utterly weeny
-
where, The woman who goofs tettering
about on them Fla a heavy penalty
ultimately, about a* grecefut in tog move.
menta ea a Cbluese dame of Id& rank.
Low dwell will be worn thie summer with i
bleak how for the street, alemat to the ex-
clusion of everytlaingelse. There is one thing
to be advised alwayte and that is as much
elegernee in quality and melee as one's fancy
and, purse Inv dietetes, hut a einitPleneUS
ahoe or /dipper, witn the eeception of tennis
ahom for out of doom'le vulgar alwaye.'
Withwereen of good Mete the low Aimee
were in the ateeet will be those that button
with lour of five buttons:. Tan -colored,
zneghogany and ether pronenneed cetera will
be donned only by peraonewho are indiffer-
ent to being coneidered loud. For the
hones, there aro etnne very beautiful styles
in coulee leather to be worn witla rainbow.
colored templet:re, patent leather, with exit
tiled entiteue silver booklet:, French kid
nthroldered in gold, steel, or jet Wed,.
The greatest latitude is allowed wben 'ugh
41:pf ere are restricted to fall deem end th
thaw:mg mem.
,ta new fancy in beets ia ono with the
vamp of French hid, the uppers of 4C2O calf
—artiue quelity of leather reeembling un.
firmed Ind, Them have medeuri heelie the
Speoleh ere*, and patent leather tip.° The
exteuelon sole la stilneverin but appears to
ho lasing fayor. Many of the dealers say
that they are required to Mach the yellow
stitohing helot a they can *ell them, long
vamp are nreferred, a hated welt, and a
atreight edged button fly and top, !naked
of the -old scolloped edge.
It may be mid, incidentally, Wiser there is
a goon deal ot delusion about Jibing made to
order. It is a plewient extraveganas to
ineuy women, but unleas the- foot is of a
peculiar oleo and drupe thou se goad and
quite aseevell fitting may be benght at any
isrst.elass dealers at oncethird leas, 40 perfect
has the- art oE shoemaking bedome. lileary-
body who has ouperiroented with it knows
teat the moat expert shoe.maiser, like the
experianoed dress -maker, "alienate it" ozee
in awhile, and eepensive shoes are sent; home
that can not be worn at all or are a- aource
of tort -two as long as they last
gentleman. "Well, give me one stamp," eekee two women, went doom to the room
wherd he was, and Feron took the revolver
and held it close to Miss Burford's face. She
did not tremble at all, and said she was not
afraid, for he knew how touse the weapon.
All this testimony went to show that the
young lovers had contemplated taking their
lives. Letters found on F'eron's body ex-
plained further their action. One of them
was addressed to George Fenn, Brussels.
It read : •
at the same time shoving out a cent. Thee.
stamp was forthcoming. " Now give me ra.
stamp." Begob it. Another stamp."
"Now another." " See here," said tbe
clerk, "how many stamp do you want '2
Yoe are keeping twenty pimple waiting."
'Oz I always keep within the kw," re-
sponded the gentleman. "Another stamp,
please. Cents aro not legal tender in large
amounts. Another stamp." And he shov-
ed out bis cents and purchased stamps, one
at a time, till he gob his hundred. But
the clerk was cured. Cents are legal tender
at his window in barrel lota.—Washington
Post.
"Now, look here," continued Mr. Sparle
eh the cleat) of hi a questioning, "your name
is not Rodbury, is it? Be straightforward
and any 'yes' or no.' " •
"It is not," answered the other decisive-
ly '• "bat it is the only name by which
intend to call myseif in tattoo, and the only
name by which you will know me."
" Why—but—confound it 1" exclaimed
There has been a great increase in the de-
mand for candy in .England, owing to. Amer -
loan importations, Caramels and two hum
dred other kinds of American candies are in
growing demand. Scotland is a very large
consumer ot one particular candy, called
"Slim Jim."
The great tun designed to hold champagne
in the Paris Exposition and now being drag-
ged along the roads toward its destination
by twelve yokes of oxen reetels the history
of the tun of Heildelberg. The first was be-
gun in 1343, and was made to contain twenty-
one pipes. Another, begun in1589 and finish-
ed in three years had zz diameter of 18 feet
and held 128 koglish hogheads. A third was
made to hold 606 hogsheads, in 1664, and
was destroyed by the Fsenoh four years later.
The one evhioh at meant is mouldering
to the Alhambra one of the most magnificent P. S. ou were wrong
away and, according to Longfellow, is "next COMnin. ROVERT.
ruins of the middle ages, " was begun in in not writing me lately ; this would have
afforded me so much pleasure.
1751, and wart cepa,ble of holding 283,000 Another was dirookd to Fritz Pette,
bottles. For nearly twenty years it was kept Brussels. It said:
steadily replenished. At every vintage t MY DEAR : My good old fellow, I
grape growers used to meet and dance on its 1113a going to lee laurkd in the earth without
bis (abs Intoxicating?:
In 2*Few York state, twenty thousand
persons have aigned a petition•to the legisla-
ture taking that eider 'mew be legally declared
intoxicating. Evidently.thennwah to bring
this venerable beverage into disrepute and.
to make it a partner in whatever fate may
be in store for limier, beer and wine. The
intoxicating property of cider has, never
been submitmd to as sharp . inquiry as tbat
of lager beer ; but if the point vrere submit,.
ted to a eery of experienced farmers the
decision would probably be. that hard:eider
will intoxicate, and thab, nob only will it
prodnee all tiro stages of inebriety, but it is
capable of exercising a disastrous effecb on
the temper, the sourneas of this. ungenied
tippleseeining to get into the blood,, and to
neutralize any sweetness natural to. the dis-
position. The adoption of such a rule of
law as the petitionera request would lead
to some interesting commercial results.
Thireigh the sale of fermented cider would
be put under impediments which might lead
to ha termination, there. might be an einem
inginerease in the sale of certain kindred
jumes. Cider is a medium lignid coursing
between vinegar and the unfermented juice
of the apple, popularly !mown as "sweet
elder." The consumption of "sweet cider"
and of vinegar would doabtless undergo
a great apparent increase, if the prayer of
these 20,000 good people were heard.
MY DEAR GEORGE.:: I WritO you to -day
for the last time, as I am going to commit
suicide this evening. I have had enough of
life. and am quite eatIsfied to die. Besides, Among dwarfs of exceptional talent mou-
e pretty girl is going to kill herself with me,. tioned ir eiatory,, one of the most prominent
so it will be all the better. It is uselein to is Joseph Bornula3ki, a Russian by birth,
give you the reason of our suicide; it is who was known throughout Feirope as " Jou.
sufficient to know that she loves me. She jou," He was of an exceedingly amiable
has the same intention to die, and we have disposition and unusually well educated.
decided to kill Sureelves. This is the way It was this'dwaef who made the celebrated
that we are going to kill ourselves; we are retort to Maria Therese,,Empress of Austria..
going by rail to lnottlegha.m, half an hour While he was visiting Vienna, the Emprina
by train from Derby. We will enjoy our- lifted him up. on her lap and asked him whin
mines during the evening • then we will take he thought the moat wonderful might he had
train, andon the way back 1 will point troy seen in hie travels, whereupon the little
wavolver at the temple of my mistress and courtier replied : "The strangest sight is
then shoot her; then I will kill myself by that I see at the present moment," 'And
firing on my temple. She has asked me that what is that?" inquired the Empress. "To
this shall be done, because she cannot see so little a man on the lap of so great a
handle the revolver. Now I have only to woman." After marrying a young lady of
assure you that this way is the best; there ordinary size, Joujou settled down in lafe,
is no better way than to love an honest and became the head of quite a large family.
yoong girl, and to be loved by her, Oh, if He wrote and published a beek descriptive
I wore to begin again 1 Mimes to all at of his life and travels. and lived untilthe re,
eome. B,eceive two last ones from your markable age of 98 yearn
During the laet century several noted
dwarfs were on exhibition in various parts
of Europe. Quite a sensation WU created in
Londou by day couple known as Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Skinner, who were each but 2
feet in height. Their carriage, which was
about the size of a baby's, was drawn by
shaking hands with you for the lasb time two dogs, and their coachman was a email
boy dressed in purple and yellow livery,
I have had no luck, because you knew what
I had before going to Brussels. you will k They had no less than fourteen children'
be the only one in Brussels who knows y none of whom were unusually small.
mord. I have nob told my father. I love -----
an actress, and she loves me also. I shall Censure is the tax a man pans for beieft
m
commit stelae toinorrow evening, be. emiuent.
A Diniinative Comfier.
bop. It was 21feet high and 36 feet in its
longest diameter. The biggest vats, how-
ever, have never figured in history. In one
English brewery there is a cask said to be
capable of holding twice as much as the tun
of Heidelberg, It is 36 feet in diameter and
e