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CLOSE QUARTERS
OR, THE tIOUSE IN TUB
RUE BARBETTE
CHAPTER I.--(Coni/d)
'His lordship knitted his brows
and smoked at silence, At last he
found utterance.
• "Thet's a geed idea of yours. Ji
ipakes things easier, Well, Rest of
all. Edith and. I became engaged,
Edith is the daughter of the late
• Adm`ral Talbot.; She and Jack, her
brother, live N\ ith their track, Gen-
eral Sir Hubert Fitzjames, at 118,
Ulster Gardens. Tack is in the
Foreign Office; he is just like Edith,
awfully clever ,and that eort ef
thing, an Assistant secretary1 tenik
they eall him. Now were getting
on, aren't we?"
'That's all right. About a month
ago eachap tures up from Cu
etaxxtinopie, a kied of special Envoy
from the Salters, and he exmlaias to
the Foreige Ortiee* that he hes in
is posseseion a let of -unont di:t-
,flatands of terrific iIue including
-aine as big as a duck's egg, to \thief;
no figures would give a price. Do
you follow nicer
‘.13404 word.''
"Goes?, Well—I an't tell you
'why, because 1 don't know, and I
eotild riot understand it if I aid—,
4-wre wee some political import-
ance attached to the gems, and
the Sultan raped our Foreign Of-
fiee into it. So the Foreign Office
_placed Jaek in eharge of the bust -
mss. He fixed up the Envoy in
the house at Albert Gate, got a
lot of diamond eutters, and anta
ehinery for ?dm, gsts;e him into the
charge of all the smart policemen'
:in London; and what do you thiuk
is the upshot'?"
"What?"
"The ,Envoy, hre two secretaries,
and a confidential servant were
a hansom rapidly brought Brett to
the residence of Sir Hubert Fite-
jarnes.
A stately footman took Reggie's
card ased its aecompanying letter,
placed them on a salver with a
graceful turn of his wrist, which
oddly suggested a similar tura in
his nose, and said:
"Miss Talbot is not at home, sir."
"Yes, she is," answered Brett,
paying the driver of the hansom.
The footman deigned to exhibit
aetonishment. Here was a gentle-
man—one ebviously accustomed to
the manners of. Society.—who de-
clined to- aecept the courteous die -
claimer ef aa unexpected visit.
"Miss Talbot is not receiving viei-
tots," he explabseci,
"Exactly. Take that eard and
the letter to Miss, Talbot and bring
no the ttlieWer,"
jeames ws io mateli for his an-
tagonist. Ile silently showed the
way into a receationroom and dis-
appeared. A. minute later he an-
nounced, with much deference, that
Miss Talbot would see Mr. Brett
in the library, and he conducted
trii$ mysterious visitor upstair,s•
On rejoining Buttons in the hall
he solemnly observed :
"Thatte a swell eop who is with
the naissus—shiaing topper. button-
hole, buckskin gloves, patent lea-
thers, all complete. Footmen ain't
in it with the force, nowadays."
Jeames expanded his magnificent
waistcoat with a heavy sigh over
tide philosophical dietare, the poig-
naney ef which was enhanced by
his knowledge that the upper house-
maid had taken to conversing ;with
tt mounted policeman in the- Park
during her afternoons off.
The apartment in which Brett
murdered the night before last, the 1 found himself gave ready indica-
were stolen, and Taels tions of the character of its tenants,
has vanished—absolutely gone clean
inte space, not a sign of him to be
found anywhere.. Yesterday Edith
Cends for ;me, cries for half au
hour, tells me I'm the best fellow
that ever lived, and then I'm jig-
gered if se didn't wind up by say-
ing that she eouldn't marry me.
The earl of Fairhohne was now
worked up to fever heat. Ile would
not ealre •down for an appreciable
period, so Brett resolved to try the
effect af curiosity.
He wrote a, telegram to Lord
Northallerton
"Very sorry, bat 1 cannot leave
town at present. Please ask me
Jater. Will explain reason for post-
ponement when we meet."
He had touched the dominant
note in mankind.
"Surely!" cried the earl, "you
bave not already sledded upter a
course of action ?"
"Not exactly. 1gm wiring to
postpone a shooting fixture."
"What a beastly shame!" ex-
claimed the other, in whom the
• sporting instinct was at once
aroused, "I'm awfully sorry my
affair's should interefere with your
arrangements in this way." -
"Not a bit," cried J3rett. "I make
if a sacred* rale of my life to put
pleasure before business. I mean,'"
he explained,' as a look of bewil-
derment crossed his hearer's face,'
"that this quest of ours preinises
to be, the most remarkable affair I
have ever been engaged in. that
• pleases me.. Pleasant -shooting is a
serious business, governed by the
callendai and arranged by the
head -keeper."
An electric bell summoned Smith.
The barrister handed him the tele-
gram and a, sovereign.
"Read that :message," he said.
"Pender over it. -Send it, and give
the change.of the sovereign to Mrs.
Smith's brother; with my compli-
ments and regrets."
• CHAPTER II.
Thee he turned to Lord Fair -
"Just one • question," he said;
"before I send you off to, bed. No,
you must not protest. I want you
to meet me here this evening at
ei-en, with your brain clear and
• your nerves regtored by a good,
Sound -sleep.. We will dine, here or
'elsewhere, „and act subsequently.
But at this moment 1-a.at you to
'know the name of the person most
'readilt- accessible who Can tell me
about11 Mr Talbot's connection
with the Sultan's agent."
`.`His sister. undoubtedly. Where
ienn.I' findher ?
Ga.talens. I will drive
The barrister smiled. 'You aro
going to bed, I tell you Give me
a few lines of latioductioll to alis
Talbot:"
The'earl's face ,h "t1 brightened at
e, prespact of meeting his fiancee
er the favorable conditions. ofs
e ts; presence. But he. yielded
race, and promPt '
sebrief noe e4a,
a
Tod's —Rajasthan" jostled a, vol-
ume of the Badminton Library on
the bookshelves, a copy of the Alla-
haired Pieneer lay beide the Field
and the Times on the table, and
many varieties of horns made tro-
phies with quaint weapons on the
walls.
A complete edition of Ruskin, and
some exquisite prints of Rossetti's
hest known works, supplied a dif-
ferent net of emblems whilst the
room generally showed signs' of
daily occupatioa.
."An Anglo-Indian uncle, artistic
niece," was the barrister's rapid
comment, but further analysis was
prevented by the entrance of Miss
Edith Talbot.
The surprise of the pair was mu -
Brett expected to see a "young,
pretty and clever girl, vain enough
to believe she had brains, and suf-
ficiently well endowed with that
rare commodity to be able to twist
the good-natured Earl of Fairholme
round her little finger.
Young, not more than twenty—
unquestionably beautiful, with the
graceful contour and delicacy bale
a,need features of a portrait by
Romney—Edith Talbot bore few of
the marks that pass current as the
outward and visble signs of a mod-
ern woman of Society. That she
should be eelf-nosSessed and dress-
ed in perfect. taste were as obvious
adjuncts of her character as that
each phase of her clear thought
should reflect itself in a singularly
mobile face.
To sucha woman pretence wan
impossible, the polite tic`ions of
fashionable life impossible. Bisett
readiry understood why the _Earl
of Fairholme had fallen in io•Ye
with this fair creature. Tic had
simply bent rn worship before a
goddess of his own creed. -
To the girl, Brett was cciu3117
revelation. , , •
• Fairhohne's introductory T-ote
described the barrister as "the
smartest criminal lawyer in London
--one whose aid would be invaln-
able." She expected' to .meet a
sharp -featured, wizened, elderly
man, with '';-';olIct-rimmed eve -glasses.,
a queer yoice and a nasty habit of
as ung unexi e ques
In place of this commonplace per-
sonality, she encountered a hand-
some, well-groomed gentleman —
one, who won confidence by his in-
tellectual facie and detained it by
invisibly -establishing asocial
. ortu tely , there is eb in
Britain‘an aristocracy wAelein goo(
birth is sYrionYIPolis with,. good
brectli -g---a- freemasonry whose
pass -a ,rds cannot be simulated,
'loe its membership bought.
Brett' react the wonder in the
girl's ayes, and inistenec to
-
ex-
pinin-
'Tito Eaal of ll'airholme, said
Brett, "thought I might be of some
service in the matter -of your bro-
ther's tango isappeata ice, Miss
Ta),bot . am in oi.. a professipnal de -
hut my friends are good
to believe that I am ..very
,iessful m tinrave li.ng raYster,
afeheyons the 1eu of,Sentiand-
aye, heard s,oinet
„ a tests „
O'
tilis,
te
siut
all the facts that is known to you
personally t"
"My uncle, General Fitzjames,
has just gone to Scotland Yard,"
she began tinthily.
"Quite eo. *Perhaps you prefel
to await his return ?"
"Oh, no, I do not mean that.
But it is so hard:te know how best
to act. Uncle expects the police to
accomplish impossilsilities. Be says
that they should long since have
found out what has become of Jack.
Perhaps they may reset my inter -
f '
"My interference, to be exact,"
said Reggie, with the pleasant smile
that had faseinated so many we,-
Mell, Even Edith Talbot was not
wholly proof agaiest its magic.
"I personally have little faith in
them," she confessed.
"I have none."
"Well, I will do as you advise."
"Then I recommend you to take
me into your confidence. I know
Scotland Yard and its methods. We
do net follow the same path."
"I believe in you and trust you,"
said the girl.
So ingeuuous was the look from,
the Jarge, deep eyes which accom-
panied this declaration of confi-
dence, that many men would hive
pronouneed Miss Talbot to an
experienced flirt, Brett knew bet-
ter, He simply bowed his aeknow-
testate:Its,
"What is it that you want to
know?' ,she eoutinued, "We mire
selees are no better informed than
the newspapers as to what has actu-
ally happene,d, save that four men
have been killed as the result of a
earefully pleneed robbery. As for
my brethers-----"
She paused and strove hard to
force baek her tears.
"Your brother has simply vanish-
ed, Mies Talbot. If the eritninals
did net ecreipie to leave four dead
men behind, they would not, draw
the line at a fifth. The clear infers
enee is that your brother is alive,
but ander reetraint,"
"I can see that it is possible he
was alive until some thne after the
tragedy at Albert Gate. Bute—bat
—what connection ean Jack ha.ve
with the theft of diamonds worth
miUion? These people ased him
as their tool In some Dimmer. Why
should they spare him when success
had crowued their efforts'?"
"We are conversinriddles.
Will
re. rddles.
. •
Will you explain?"
"You know tliat my brother is an
assistant Under-Secretary in ethe
Foreign Office?" "Yes.".
"Well, early September his
chief placed him in charge of a
special undertaking. a The Sultan
had decided to have a large num-
ber of rough diamonds cut and pol-
ished by the best Turopean experts.
They were all magnificent gems,
exceedingly valuable it seems, be-
ing rare both in size arid purity;
but one of thern was larger than any
known diamond. Jack told me it
was quite as big este good-sized
hen's egg. Both it and the others,
he said, had the appearance of
lumps of alum; but the experts said
that the smaller stones were worth
more than a million sterling, whilst
the price of the large one could
not be fixed. No one but an Em-
peror or Sultan would buy. it. His
Excellency Mehemet Ali Pasha was
the especial envoy charged with
this mission, and he brought cre-
dentials to the Foreign Office ask-
ing for facilities to be given for its
execution. He and the two secre-
te -ries who accompanied him have
been killed." ,
"Yes'?" said Brett, whose eyes
were lied on the heaathrug. -
"Jack Was given the especial duty
of looking after .Mehernet Ali and
his 'companions during, their resi-
dence in London. It was his busi-
ness' to afferel:them every. assist-
ance in his power, to procure them
police protection, obtain fer, them
the best . advice attainable'in the
diamond trade, and generally place
at their disposal all the resources
which the British Government it-
self conic! command if it undertook
'such a, curious task. He had been
with them ebout a month—not
hourly eng,aged: you understand, as
once the prelinsin'ary arraegements
were made, he had little further
trouble—but he used to call there
even- morning and afternoon to see
if he could render any assistance.
Matteis had progressed so favor-
ably until the day before yester-
day, that in another month he
hoped to see the last of Re
was always saying that he would
be glad when the business was end-
ed, as he dill not like -to be offici
n -
ally connected with. the fate of a
few little bits of stone that hap-
pened to be so immensely vain -
(To loe cont'nued.)
'THEORIES IN HITE trr
- •
ExPeaillielits Being DIade Wift Six.
ty-Three Varieties.
There is a touch suggestiv 01
and
Oina-srixKtbya.s,.c:3-0-aninflicitnintga
lie ivdela:ieetfietso
hreei
wheat, but in the quiet heart, of ag-
ricultural Essex, England, there
has been proeeeding with silent,in-
tee sity throughtint the p r e.senk"sum-
mer' a.singulailetembat, says ,the
London Stantitili; h t' eare s
Lo rtval theoriese
r„1,4 ficld,s,
sae` weapen is a, -Ilea
Messrs, John K. King and Sons, the
Essex seed growers. The Meetic-
lien theory of cross breeeing has re-
cently heea making great headway
among agriculturists as well as
stock Jeerers, and this season
Messrs. King have been growing ex-
perimentally two new varieties of
wheat produced on the Mencleilaa
system by Professor 13iffin, of Cam-
- bridge, one of Menders foremost
disciples in England. Bat Messrs,
King believe themeeldee in the sys-
tem of pedigree eleetion• d nof
in-
tercrossing and side by side :With
Professor 13iffin's new varieties is
growing a new one ef their own,
produced by selection over a 'num-
ber of years, Professor Biffin's
wheats were Red Joss and Burgoy-
ne, and certainly In this particular
eoil and lustier the peculiar climatic
conditions of the summer their ap-
pearance was not a kind to shake
Messers King's belief in the older
systems, which was represented by
Snowdrop, a new white -chaffed red
wheat with a good eloee head. The
Mendelian s,a.rieties are smaller in
lhe ear, shorter in straw, and grew
less -closely together, while they are
said also not to remain true to type.
Messrs, Kings hold it to be a clear
triumph for pedigree selection; but,
oa the other hand, of several' agri-
cultural experts with 'whom:sane of
our representativee went ever the
ground, those adhering to Profes-
sor Eiffio of Cambridge are not dis-
turbed. In two oe three of the var-
ions trials the Mendelian wheats
certainly get the worst of it, but
the Cambridge men point out that
many factors enter into the consid-
eratioa, that on another soil and in
another kind el weather the re-
state may be altogether different,
and that the rival wheats are After
all not yet harvested and weighed
against each other. Another ex-
cellent wheat among the 63 trial
growths cm the same ground is a
new selection from Squareheads
Master winch has not yet received a
name.
Those of the unsophisticated to
whom tvhcat is wheat merely would
have been struck by the sight of
these sixty-three varietiee, growing
in strips side by sde, of all colors,
from greenish white to deep old gold
and orange red, square -headed
wheat and Jong -eared wheat, bealal-
ed svhcat and plain wheat, wheat
from France, Flanders, Egypt, from
all over England. The constant
search for new and betted varieties
which goes on throughout the coun-
try is slowly making wheat better
and better, but the chief reasonsfor
the activity in experimental grow-
ing is that all varieties tend to de-
generate after a few years, and
need to be regenerated again by
special selection. One attempt
which the Mendelians are now mak-
ing is being closely watched by
farmers. English wheat usually
fetchee, a few shillings less per
quarter in Mark lane than wheat
from California; and certain kinds
from Canada. The reason is that
theso foreign wheats are "strong-
er," that is, rise better in the loaf,
-than English wheats, The explana-
tion is believed to lie in the differ-
ence of climate, but the secret is not
yet definitely known, and. the
Mendelians are now trying to breed
a new English variety, which shall
equal Californian wheat in strength.
SCIENTIFIC DRY -FARMING.
That dry -farming methods, when
properly followed-, are successful
has jiist been demonstrated by
Professor Briggs, Kearney and
Shantz, .of the Department of 'Ag-
riculture,. who in behalf of the de-
partment, have completed an in-
vestigation of the dry farm in
Idaho, U. S. Professor Briggs, be-
fore leaving this city, stated that
in all of -the travels of the commit-
tee it has not seen either irrigated
or, hon -irrigated farming which
produced better results than were
to be found' on the dry farms here,
in the face.of the fact that the year
has been one of severe drought.
The Woodsmansee and Webster
Farm of 5,000 acres is producing 2 -
400 acres of Turkey red wheat, that
will average not less than 40 bush-
els when threshed. This result is
obtained under dry -farming tillage
fnethods and the tise of 30 pounds
of seed to the acre.
Mr. C. H. Woodsmansee of Rex-
bitrg, Idaho, has been invited to
address The Sixth In
Dry -Farming Congress to be held
in Colorado Springs October 10 to
20, explaining his methods of til-
lage and business, utilized on his
big ranch. Mr. Woodtransee is said
to be one of the most tixactlig farm
operators in the West, and is able
to tin' at the close of each to
to
a fraction of a, cent. the, Cost" ot
ploughing, harvesting and handling
, I
In the, vicinity ef Idaho Falls
Government mei), found 50,003 acres
of dry land grown grain that uiIl
run , from 20 to 50 bushels to the
acre. In addition ttr's the val-
ley is now -harvesting 150,000 acres
of „diversified dry -farmed crops, all
of which are pro tic ng heal,tht . The
valley of
y a]. teatlYdry-farmed bland
u
asabout :lD0Ae
,c10p,O
acres r
what is known as sunamer tillage or
,Which will -Fuelciet,lthis
agr j.pu turf:. F
e part e
ives
LETTERS OF
A SRN IN THE MAKING
TO HIS DAD
-Dy REX McCVOY
[Mr. -.McEvoy will write for
this paper a s.)ries of letters
from the west. 'They will
appear from time to tine un-
do the qbove liea(lino• and
will givo a ptare of tile
great Cailtdian, west from
tile standpoint of a young
Ontario man going out there
to make Iiisway. fillese
et-
ters shottld be fill' of -inte,est
for every Ootario
No. 2.
YI DalazaDd
.. 711201.:,91-bl'ut
I didn't remember it when 1 got off the
train here...and almost the nrot person
r ran into waa BiU Dod,son, wbo used
'keep store oven at the corners, He% b6''111
OM here three years PLOW, and Ile hue
4 Dna „lipase en on et the best etreetS
In town and drives au automobile. Ito
took me in it up to hia house to dinner
and asiccd about all the folks round
e,0'uiviareatypretty
hewoeuastcoanterzatetwthinet.er, Ile
has 4
My hist letter was fres= lIcron, Bay,
atter Our Arst glimpse of bake Superior.
That same night, before it got dark, we
stopped at auesesh to take en coal. The
0. P. It. has an itiatnenSe coaling -Plane
bore perekiedk by the side. Of the line on
the steep slope of a hill. While we were
waiting there we could See a large Warn*
er lying at the wharf below tts. The teal
wtaars ahb:IvII:doutirphe:o9tfo iitv611:°eIadulanpre:artft
buckets. whicb were hoisted by cables
wersi etaintling on a track on 4 loft7
trestle. As soon as the cars were full
they were run oft down the traen to a
peehet or hopper, wiler4 they wer4,1 anio-
n tanttek:lelYve:uallttsiletitliUg, Tiontealeall It"? te01, ICI al
are put to be loaded, TIMSe rare «re
scut east to supply the engines of the
. P. 11., an the long run through placco
where coal is not obtainable.
After leaving Jackflalt we passed round,
a vaost remarkable herSeolatte Wbere the
track looped right round the bay on a
bank ' bnilt up it long, way abase die
water. While going round the curve
eratid ere the engine and the first sia
ears et our tram from roy. window. itt
antristlr thougbt tit° °Mast° betintg° to
ethe
That night r waked about one o'cloen
and found, that the train was stenalne
atm, I raised the blind at my window
—that a one advantage ot having a
lower berth -and looked out of the win.
dow. Two giant buildings of a grey
color towered up right outside my win-
dow, and. I recognized thew at once from
pietures as the grain elevators of Fort
William. They are .tremendous build-
ings and they sreminded me from the
outlines that 1, could see dimi3.• against
the night by, of the pictures of Notre
Dame cathedral in Montreal. Our barn
wouldn't, be knee high to a grasshopper
beside one of those elevators. They ere
enormous. They were the first thing to
remind me that we were getting pretty
near the West and its great wheat fields,
and you may be sure I was pretty in-
terested. 1 just gazed at them till we
started off 'again, which was not long,
aud the last I saw of Fort William was
O great black rugged. hill standing out
against the sky with electric lights
twinkling in the town beneath it. 1 um
told that this mountain was thought
by the Indians to be is sleeping giant.
Well. he will sure be a surprised giant
if he ever wakes up and sees Fort, Win
limn and Port Arthur at his feet. for
they must be pretty busy places from
what I could see from the windowand
they say that , their development has
practically all been in the last ten years.
1 woke up at Dryden, where the On-
tario Government has an experimental
farm, so you Can judge that there must
Ise some quantity of good agricultural
land ih this end of the Province. It is
in a good lumbering district, too, and
the large piles of lumber in a wood yard
near the station are the most prominent
itshinagsbrtkok byeais.deetit:efrreumtooth, ethtartaisne.emTlis etroe
countryt uIr n;a son. t ruorquunai dtae. d ar e botady offerbrbierekask ff ao ar t t bye
ye
eight o'clock by my watch. I thought
I would have breakfast in the dining
car for a change,- but I found that I
was an hour too early, as at Fort Wil-
liam the watches of westhound travel-
• lers must all be put back an hour. It
is the nearest thing to living your life
..over again that can be imagined.
.
would rather not live it over again just
before meals, and I decided not to wait.
so got -my own breakfast out of the
N7rhlt:boe init:12:0. li) up in 'lest:rope'
a
We stoPped at 1Conora, which used t
be called Rat Portage, 'in tbe morning
It's quite a town, with substantial i -trick
buildings. It bus a large briefs Itain
way Y, l‘l. 0, .A. bnilding, close to the:
station, The pla.ce is right close to gee-
watiu. and, both are en the Lake of the
Wood4. There are lots of isateas in she
lake, and there are Pretty houses On titent,
bait hidden by tho trees. A shoo/ tea..
he who was in, oar car says that
,
tweaty-ene Freachreen were massacred
by the Indians on this lake by tile ffiount
Indtan6 tn. 1755. An eNp ming pasty dis-
covered the bones of the victims in 1907.t
look at eu. the pretty, quiet take
t).0"o-duayd,on't think of Indians and ralPing
whn yo '
I saw the ShOPS the GAVeraMellt is
building for the transcontinental rail,
way at Transeena, not six miles out et
Wioniaeg„. Ther are tretactoloo,5 sitimA
--everything seems to be on a big &Cale
out nere-and quite a, town has grown
,
lu9pi thel: °fiat: Sfrit (t le x s Europeant4ne:3°'. WiXelatgot
putto1 teacherVfoot asi1 sad
It: de: t hnthea°tt
present site of Winnipeg was a Freneb.,,,
bre:rare: 1170 an0a,ovie ad rpse 0- Lapel : . A reuTreherne:d r Yslip,,,yy ir, 1:11baaont 4 la tembr ,e,s ,
Iplane looks to be going ahead at a great
rate. Ctiding te going on in every di -
1 t'euejull:na..447dd tosOtalheQsegr‘elriehbualiirdeiralya iairriee
Portage and Main streets, The Bank of
Montreal certainty thinks Omit the' West
is going to have lots Of money, for thea
re putting up 4 fine building that 1
san, right in the aeert et tar, area, and
is te have et vault about -4 inindred
feet enintre, the floor Of winch will he
eightY feet below the street, That NvRI
lurid a considerable aeieurit et itneneY
and valuables,
You meet all sorts en the
Streets of Winnipeg. Yon eisa tell, what
a ralited population there Is when the
Word "Office" at the r,rnigro, 'en bureau
has to be written in eight Is qage 1
t091; u Copy of it. Ilere it i
sli:11.FsTorA OFFICEK.oNTort.
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RING GEORGE A CRICKETER,
As a "Middy" He Ueed to Indulge
the Gams and aubsaquintly
Played In a Match
There Is only one occasion reoordef
In which the /ate King took part in ti
formal match, namely, when in 1.361
hc assisted I ?Angell to defeat the/
Gentlemen of,Norfolk at Sandringhamt
and 'wan bowled by the first ball lid
received.
Early In the 'sixties, when tho pro;
fessional cricketer attached to Bton
College was the well-gnown Carat
bridgeshire player, I', Bell, he was not
Infrequently summoned to Virindsot
Castle to howl to the Prince Of Wale
and the other young arid Royal memt
hers of the household. But, alas! lit
'has to be recorded that on his return
from one or these expeditions he inade
the direful announcement that ha
"couldn't make a job of *am at all,"
King George, as well as his brother;
the late Duke of Clarence, took an eel
tive interest in the game. His Maiea'
ty, indeed, who as a "middy" used to
indulge in the game on the deck of the
Bacchante, at the conclusion of one
day's racing at Goodwood some years
ago played in a match in Goodwood
Park that was get up between the
guests at Goodwood House. The team
included His Majesty and an eleven
captained by M. Cannon, the -famous
jockey. The former is credited witb
having possessed one of the most'ex
pensive bats'in existence, the blade
being of walnut and the bat being
mounted in silver. A peculiarity with
regard to the King's favorite bat, .by
the way, lies in the fact that high up
on the blade on, either side of the
splice appear the famous three fea-
thers that form the crest of the Prince
of Wales.
Queen Victoria witnessed more than
one cricket match, but never one that
may with accuracy be described as a
first-class fixture. On August 3rd,
:1866, she, together with the Prince and
Princess of "Wales and other members
of the Royal Family, 'witnessed a very
close game at Osborne between the
Royal Household at Osborne and the
'officers and men of the Royal yacht,
which was won by the former by the
narrow margin of twelve runs. The
match was particularly interesting for
the reason that the late Prince Leo-
pold undertook the duties of scorer,
,n-hilst, figuring on the side of the
sailors we find the late Duke of Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha, one line of the neon -
sheet reading:—
tha Duke of Edinburgh, b
Ilea'd, 10; c Cole, b Archer, 2.
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