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CHAPTER XL Baby Christabel was drowned. Of that feet there could be no shadow of doubt in the minds of those who had loved her, although the aulien stream which had swallowed her lovely form refused to give it bask. Perchance the toreleis had taken her for their playfellow, and transformed her mort- al beauty into something rich and strange. e Anyhow, the men that dragged the river -bed did not bring up the golden hair, or the sad drowned e es that once danced with joyous life. And if any- thing oould add: to Constance Sinolair's grief it wain this last drop of bitterness —the knowledge that her child would never rest in hallowed ground, that there was no quiet grave on which to lay her aching head and feel nearer her darling, no spot of earth to which she could press her lips and fanoy she could be heard by the little one lying in her pure shroud below, asleep on Mother Earth's calm breast. No, her little one was driven by winds and waves, and had no resting- plaoe under the weary Stars, Melanie Duport, when she recovered from the horror of that tine dreadful day, told her story clearly enough. It was the sante story she had told the peasant woman whose husband rescued her. Baby Christabel was playing on the rampart, Melanie holding her se- curely, as she believed, when the little one, attracted by the flight of a but- terfly, made a sudden spring—alasl ma- dame knew not how strong and active the dear angel was, and now difficult it was to bold her sometimes—and slip- ped out of Melanie's arms on to the rampart, and from the rampart—which, was very lose just there, as madame might have observed—on to the grass, and rolled and rolled down to tbe riv- er. It was all quick as thought; one moment and that panel's white frock was floating on the stream. Melanie tore down, she knew not how; it was as if Heaven had given her wings in that moment. The wh to frock was still floating. Melanie plunged into the river;i but whatherlife at ah t was � such a time f—a noth'ng. Alas! she tried to grasp the froi•k, but the stream swept it from her; an instant, and Ona saw it no more. She bit herself eink- ing, and tben she . fainted. She knew nothing till she woke in the cottage where madame found her. hlelanie was a heroine in a small way after this sad event. The vi;legers thought her a wonderful young per- son. son. %ler master rewarded her hand- somely, and premised to retain her in service tilt she should choose to marry. Har mistress was as grateful as despair can be for any service. The light ot Constance Sinciair's Iife had gone. Her one source of joy was turned to a fountain of bitterness. A dull and blank despair took eoesession of her. She did not succumb utterly to her grief. She struggled against it bravely, and she would accept no one's compassion or sympathy. One of her married sisters, a comfortable matron with helf a dozen healthy children in her nursery, offered to come and stay with Mr-,. Sinclair; but this kindly offer was refused aim;st uncivilly. "What goad t•outd you do me?" ask- ed Con tance. If you spoke to me of my darling I shoubi hate you, yet I should always be thinking of her. Do you suppose you could comfort me by telling about your herd of children, or by repeating little bits of Seripture, such as people quote in letters of con- dolence? No; there is no such thing as comfort fur my grief. I like to sit alone and think of my pet, and be wretched in my own way. Don't be angry with me, dear, for writing so savagely. I sometimes !feel as if I hated every one in the world, but hap- py mothers most of all.' Gilt'ert Sinclair endured the loss of his little girl wi' h a certain amount of philosophy. In the first place she was not a Loy, and had offended him ab initio by that demerit. She had been a pretty little darling, no doubt, and he had had his moments of fondness for her; but his wife's idolatry of the child was an offense that had ranked deep. He had been jealous of his infant daughter. He put on mourning, and expressed himself deeply afflicted, but his burden didnot press heavily. A toy would come, per- haps, by and by, and make amends for this present loss, ant Constance would beg_n her baby worship again. Mr. Sinclair did not know that for orae hearts there is no !beginning gain. Martha Briggs recovered health and "strength, but her grief for the loat baby was very genuine and unmistake- able. Constance offered to keep her in her service, but this favor Martha de- clined with tears. "No, ma'am, it's best for both that we should part. I should remind you of"—here a burst of sobs supplied the missing name—"and you'd remind me. I'll go home. I'm more grateful than words can say for all your goodness; but, oh, I hate myself so for being ill. I never, never shall forgive myself— never." So Martha went back to Davenant in her mistress's train, and there parted with her to return to the paternal roof, whioh was not very far off. It was not so with Melanie. She only ,clung to her mistress more devotedly after the loss of the baby. If her doar lady would but let her remain with her as her own maid, she would be beyond measure happy. Was not hair -dressing the art in which she most delighted, and millinery the natural bent of her mind? Gilbert said the girl had acted nobly, and ought to be retained in his wife's service; so Constance, whose Abi- gail bigail had lately left her to better her- self by marriage with an aspiring but ler, consented to keep Melanie as her personal attendant.: !She did this, be- lieving with Gilbert that the girl de- served reconepense; but Melanie's pre - sense was 'foil of ;painful associations, and _kept the bitter memory of her lost child polities-Willy'beford her. t apgtance'- went back to Davenant, =et life' flowed on in its slow and sul- len ocurse aiimehow without Baby Chris- %fxbe'1. The two dooms that had been :nurseries—two of the prettiest rooms in the big old house, with Frenob *win- dows indows and a wide balcony, with a flight of steps Isading down to the quaintest old garden, shut in from the rest of the grounds by a- holly hedge—now be - THE 1IXETER TIME S 1 came temples dedicated to the lost, In these rooms Constance spent all the time she could call her own. But the business of life still went on, and there was a great deal of time she could not call her own. G ibert, having dismiss- ed the memory: of his lost child to the limbofun peasant ecoil ec ions re- sented phis wife's brooding grief s a personal injury, and was determined to give that s,h n sorrow no ndui3e n ce , When the hunting season was at its best, and pheasant -shooting made one of the attractions cf Davenant, Mr. Sin- clair determined to fill his house with lids own particular set—horsy men— men who gave their minds to guns and dogs , and rarely opened their mouthsthe ,for speech to relate an anecdote about. 'ma. accomplished setter, or "liver -color - ' of mine, you know," or to ' dilate upon the noble behavior of "that central fthe L n as er of ni ne•' in yes- terday's battue--men nho eevale,' th"ir nights and days to billiards, and whose conversation was of breaks and flukes, pockets and cannons. "You'd I etter ask some women, Con- stance, " said Gilbert, one Sunday morn- ing in November, as they sat at their tete-a•tete breakfast, the wife reading :hebudget of letters, t a s 'th ha h sb d n u n 'the "Field" propped up in front of his coffee -cup and the "Sporting Gazette" at his elbow,. '•I've f m comio,g next week, andgot yoatulot migoht feel :yourself de trop in a masculine party." "Have you asked people, Gillert, so soon?" said Constanee. reproachfully. "I don't know what you earl soon- !, The pb'asants are as wild as they can be, and Lord Highover's hounds have teen out nearly a frit nth. You'd bet. ter ask some nice young women—the right sort, you know; no nonsense about thain." "I thought we should have spent this winter. quietly, Gilbert," said Con- stance, in a low voice, Iookuig down at her black dress with its deep folds of Drape; "just this one winter." "That's sheer sentimentality," ex- claimed Gilbert, giving the "Field" an :impatient twist as he folded it to get ' at his favorite column,"What good would it do yt'tt or Me to shut our- selves up in this dismal old house like* ' a pair of supnnuaow? fidr it bring bask theerapoor ted little tldlsng`weoul've. Inst, or make ter happier In Paradtse7, tic, Constance. She's happy, 'ootli- ing• can touch her more,' as hillier.; or somebody says. lgad, I thins; the poor little darling is ro ho envied for having escaped all iha troat hublesest .a anda worries of tee;; for life bad book; you can't hedge everything. Don't cry, Constance. That long face of yours is enough to send a fellow into an unt' I e - mt rev . y e Let us lot g ar. a of Pleasant people round us, and make the must of this lilacs sviile it's ours. We mayn't have it always." This sinister remark fell upon an un - he d` e ing ear. Conetln^e a:ucTalr s thoughts had wandered. far away from that oak -paneled I.rrakfastt-r,,om. They had gone back to the sunny hili-si'le the grassy rampart, the swift and fatal rivesfats.•, the bright landscape which had stamped itself upon her memory indel- Ohre In the one agonized moment, in which she had dieined her darling's "Gilhert, I really ate not fit to re ceivs people,'" she said, after a silence of sf'me minutes,sluring who h Mr. Sin- ' olair h•ld aznuseii h'inself byeundry ad- venturous dips of his fork, like an old Jewish priest's dive into the sacred seething -pot, into the crockery ease of a.perigord pie. "If you have set your heart upon having your friends this winter you had better let me go away, to Hastings or somewhere. It would be pleasanter for you to be free from the sight of my unhappiness.•' Yes, and for you to find consolation elsewhere, no doubt. You would pretty sliheroon find a consoler if I gave you your pp "Girlbe"rtl" "Oh, don't think to frigh' en me with -your indignant looks. I have not for- gztten the scene in this room when y'ni heard of your old lover's sup- posed death. Sir Cyprian Davenant is .n London, in high feather too, 1 1 understand; for some ancient rela- tion of his has been obliging enough oto die and leave him another fortune. ' A pity you didn't wait a little longer, isn't it ? A pity your father should have been in such a hurry to make his last matrimonial bargain." "Gilbert 1" cried Constance, passion- arely, "what have I ever done that you should dare to talk to me like this : How have I ever failed in my duty to you?" "Shall I tell you? I won't say that, .having accepted me for your husband, you ought to have Ioved me. That would be asking too much. The ethics of the nineteenth century don't soar so high as that. But you might have pre- tended to care for me just a little. It would have been only civil, and it would have made the wheels of life go smooth- er for both of us," "I am not capable of pretending, Gilbert," answered Constance, gravely. " If you would only be a little more considerate, and give me credit for be- ing. what I am, your true and dutiful wife, I might give you as much affec- tion as the most exacting husband could desire. I would, Gilbert," she cried, in a voice choked by sobs, "foe the sake of our dead child." "Don't humbug," said Gilbert, sulk- ily. " We ought to understand each other by this time. As for running away from this house, or any other house of mine, to mope in solitude, or to find consolation among old friends, please comprehend that if you leave my house once you leave it forever. I shall expect to see you at the head of my table. I shall expect you to surround yourself with pretty women. I shall expect you to be a wife that a fellow may hll proud my best to oblige g you, Gilbert ; but perhaps I might have been a better wife if you had let me take life my own way." From that time Constance Sinclair put aside all outward token of her grief. Sbe wrote to the gayest and most pleas- ure -loving of her acquaintances—young married wom n w e hese chief delight was to dress more expensively than their dearest friends, and to be seen at three parties on the same evening, and a few who were still spinsters, from no fault or foolishness of their own, since they had negleoted neither pains nor art in the endeavor to secure an eligible part- ner for the dance of life. To these Con- stance wrote her letters of invitation, and the first sentence in each letter was sufficient to insure an acceptance. "Dearest Ida,—My husband is fill- ing the house with men for the hunt- ing season. Do come and save me from being bored to death by their, sport- ing talk. Be .sure to bring your hunt- ing habit, Gilbert can give you agood mount, eta., eta. Whereupon dearest Ida, twisting about the little note, medttatively re- marked to her bet bosom -friend and confidante, "Odd that they should ask people so soon after the death of Mrs. Sinolair's baby -drowned too—it was in all the papers. Davenant is a sweet house to stay at, quite liberty hall. Yet, .1 think I shalt go, and if there are plenty of people T can finish out my ball dresses in the evenings." Before another Sunday came Daven- ant was full of people, the attics noisy wsith strange lady's -maids, the stables and harness -rooms full of life and bus - tie, not au empty stall or an unoccu- peed loose box in the long range of buildings, the billiard -room and smok- ing -room resonant with. masculine laughter, unknown dogs preyading the out -buildings and ohalned up in every available corner, Constance Sinclair had put away her comber robes of crape and cashmere, and mether friends ' mends with we lcomin smiles, radiant in black silk ands lace herraceful figure set off by the lat- est Parisian fashion, which, being the newest was, of course, infinitely the hest. 'I thought she would have been in deeper mournintod said one of Mrs. S m- elair's dearest irtends to another dur- ing a whispered chat in a dusky cor- ner at afternoon tea. " The men were so noisy with their haw-haw talk, one could say what one liked," remarked Mrs. Millamount afterward to Lady Loveall. "Looks ratter heartless, doesn't it? —an only child too. She might at least wear paramatta instead of that black silk—not even a mourning silk. I sup.. pose that black net trimmed with jet she wore last night was from, Worth." "My dear, you. couldn't n't have look- ed at itprrry. Worth wouldn't have made her such a thing if she had gone down on her knees to him. The sleeve wan positively antediluvian. Nice house. isn't it ?--everythingood style. What niamdetes all these Clanyardes have. " Ia it true that site was engaged to Sir Cyprian Davenant' avenant ?" "They say so. How sorry she must be I He has Just come into quite a heap of money. Some old man down in the Lincolnshire fens left it him—quite a cbaraoter, I believe. Never spent any- thing except on black loiter books, and Sotheby's. Alt, Mr. Wyatt, how d'ye do ?" as the solicitor newly arrived that those have been sold for a fortune at afternoon, threaded his way toward the gueet corner ; do come and sit here. lou always knew everything. Is it true fleet At t Sir Cyprian Davenant has otiose into a fortune'?" " Nothing can be more true, unless it is that rs. Millamount looks young- er "and lovelier every season." You horrid. flatterer. You are worse than a French milliner. And .a it true that Mrs. Sinolair and Sir Cy Fid barer a engagair ed? But no, it would You are a friend of theyfamabout that. As a friend of the family I am bound to inform you that rumor is false on that point. There was no en- gagement." Really. now?" "But Sir Cyprian was madly in love with Miss Clanyarde." " And she --- " he--" I was not in the Iady's confidence ; . f bet I believe that it wan only my mend s poverty winch. prevented thew marriage." " How horridly mercenary!" cried :tfrs. Millamount, who came of an an- cient Irish family, proud as Lucifer and poor andhadbeensar sacrificed lx in the blossom los. f u her days,pikeIP i ea - .a, to raise the wind—not to Diana, but to a rich stock -broker. Perhaps as that was a long time ago she may have forgotten how much more Plutus had had to do with her marriage than Cup- id. CHAPTER XII. - Cyprian Davenant had inherited a fortune. Common rumor had not great- ly exaggerated the amount of his wealth, though there was the usual ills - position to expatiate upon the truth. Needy men looked at him with envy as he went in and out of his club, or sat in a quiet corner reading the last "Quarterly " or "Edinburgh," and al- most wondered that he was so well able to contain his spirits, and was not tempted to perform a savage dance of the Choctaw character, or to give ex- pression to his rapture in a war -whoop. " Hang it all, you know," remarked an impeounious younger son, " it ag- gravatea a fellow to see Davenant take things so quietly. He doesn't -even Look cheerful. He doesn't invite the confi- dence of his necessitous friends. Such a knight of the rueful countenance would hardly stand a pony. And he won't play whist, or touch a billiard cue— quite an unapproachable beast." A man can not be lucky be all things. Sir Cyprian had set his Ida upon a cast, and the fortune of the• game had been against hila, The inheritance of this unexpected wealth seemed to be almost a useless and trivial stroke of fate. What could it avail him now? It could not give him Constance Clanyarde, or even restore the good old house in which his father and mother had lived and died. Time had set a gulf between him and happiness, and the fortune that came too late seemed rather the stroke of some mocking and ironical Fate than the gift of a benevolent destiny. He cliamves ae baccharmedk from Aflife, ricaescapilike ang manallmanwho - ner of perils, from the gripe of marsh fever to the jaws of crocodiles; while men who had valued existence a great deal more than he had done had suc- cumbed and left their bones to bleach upon the sands of the Gold Coast, or to rot in a stagnant swamp. Cyprian Davenant had returned to find the girl he loved the Wife of the man he most disliked. He heard. or her marriage more in sorrow than in anger. He had not expected to find her free. His knowledge of Lord Clanyarde's charac- ter had assured him that his lordship's beautiful daughter would be made to marry well. No fair Circassian, reared by admiring and expectant relatives in the seclusion of her Caucasian home, fattened upon milk and almonds to the standard of Oriental beauty, and in due course to be carried to the slave -mar- ket, had ever been brought up with a more specifie intention than that which had ruled Lord Clanyarde in the edu- cation of his daughters, They had all done well. He spent very little of his time at Marchbrook, nowadays, bis wife having died shortly after Constance's marriage, but dwadled away life agree- ably at his daughters' winter houses outf e theseason, s as n at clubs, i his obs . a the season, and felt that his mission had been accom lished. No father had ever done more for his children, and they had cost him very little. What a comfort to have been blessed with lovely mar- riageable daughters, instead of lubber- ly sons, squatting on a father's shoul- ders like the old man of the mountain, thought Lord Clanyarde, when. he had leisure to reflect upon his lot. (To be Continued.) LONG SILENT HARPS. Several Egyptian harpshave been re- covered 'from tombs. In some ' the. strings are intact, and give forth dis- tinct sounds ' after a silence of 3,000 years. i— FINEST LEMON ORCHARDS. • The finest lesion orchards in the worl(' are those in Sicily, where an acre o1 lemons is worth £800, )(WS IN 8URG O LWORKS THE PHOTOGRAPHY OP BROKEN BONES AT A LONDON HOSPITAL. Long Exposure for a Fat Stan—Slight Movements of the Subjects Not Fatal to Good. Results to the Roentgen Process —Scones While the Pictures aro Taken. It may be said at once that the new photography will never become a pop- ular hobby because the apparatus ie too expensive, but there is some danger of Prof. Roentgen's discovery being rank- ed in popular estimation with palmis' try, magic lantern entertainments, and sleight-of-hand performances, says the Loudon Daily News, There is more than One establishment a ablishm est al y er read wh e one has only to pay a fee ranging from sixpence to a guinea to have any part of his or her skeleton " photographed." Bat the X rays deserves a better fate than this. From time to time frag- mentary accounts of sporadic experi- ments xpertments at London hospitals have been published, but at Eing's College Hos- pital, the home of the all -conquering antiseptic surgery, the new photography bas for some time been used as an aux- iliary in clinical work. By special per - Mission of the Warden, the Rev. N. Bromley, a representative was enabled to spend several hours in the hospital at a time when he was fortunate to find the Surgical Registrar actively en- gaged with bis apparatus, and some ace count of what he saw will doubtless be read with interest. Since it became known that the X rays were utilized at Icing's the num- ber of persons who have called with needles and other foreign bodies in hands and feet is remarkable. Nothing, of course, can be easier than to secure a negative showing the shadow of-say— aeed e ' n 1 In the extrainities. An expos- ure df ONE hUINUTE sufflcee for the hand, and of three min- utes for the foot. In a simple case it is not even necessary to take a photo- graph—a loon at the hand by means of the cryptoscope answers every purpose. But if it be thought advisable to take a photograph, the developing only re- quires a very short time. In the bath the ordinary photograph of the part first appears, then the too, too solid flesh disappears, Pears and ultimately beneath h one'sa e t g z the bones or foreign bodies stand out in strong white relief. With a photograph beside him the surgeon operates with the zninimum expenditure of time and with the least possible use of the knife. The value of the inven- tion bas been illustrated in the case, inter alia, of a dislocated thumb, the negative showing that had the thumb been longer neglected it would have become useless. To the ignorant the unknown is al- ways terrible, and too mere process of photographing, with the glowing grelp glans and the flying electric sparks, 'its too much for one female patient in er representative's presence, and she s)b- bed and shook as though about to un- dergo a manor operation; and it was only with difficulty and the exercise of patience that she could be induced to place her needle ridden hand in the pro- per position. But, as has been said, dealing_ with bands or feet is comparatively simple, It is the more complex cases that are the more interesting. One ot these, at whish our representatives " assisted," was that of an old man with a painful hip. Ile had met with an accident, and was convinced that he was suffering from dislocation improperly treated. The surgeon at once diagnosed the com- plaint as what is commonly called rheu- matic gout, but - to satisfy the sufferer the joint was photographed. Laid on his back on a couch, with the plate un- derneath the affected part, it called for little or no effort to stay still in one position, for 20 minutes. That length of exposure w;£s deemed necessary, as the subject was a big man. and the X rays had to penetrate a considerable thickness of flesh. It may be remark- ed in passing that one of the difficul- ties of tbe process is to know THE EXACT AMOUNT" of exposure required. If the plate be exposed too long, the rays go through bones and all, and the result is chaos and old night. In the case under re- view, precisely the right exposure was allowed and an excellent negative ob- tained, which conclusively corroborated the diagnosis. Nothing remained for the sufferer, therefore, but to possess his soul in patience, and to grin and bear his pain; but he had, at any rate, the slight consolation of knowing ten min- utes after the photograph had been taken that there was no ground for his previous fears. This and other consul- tations took place in a room, which serves the double purpose of studio and dark room. but while our representa- tive remained at the hospital a number of cases were taken in the wards. The whole apparatus, which consists of the all-important Crooke's tube (of the type specially designed by Mr. Her- bert Jackson of King's College), and a vise in which to hold it, the accumulat- or, the induction coil, and the plates weigh under 2 cwt., and is wheeled to the bedside on an India rubber -tired trolley, everything being got ready in a few seconds. The process causes very little disturbance in the wards. The noise of the coil, with its hammer beat- ing and miniature thunder, is inconsid- erable, and the whole operation evi- dently affords an agreeable break to the monotony of ward life. The first case in the wards was that of a boy who had just come in to the hospital with a swollen knee. Some months previous- ly upper the u er p art of hs femurihad wired for been ununited fracture. His leg was, therefore, photographed twice on whole plates, and the negatives on being joined showed the whole limb from thigh to shin, wires and all. The little ,fellow was told to keep his leg still, and for that reason was unable to control violent involuntary twitch - Jugs, so it was necessary, to rest a hand on his leg. However, slight twitchin s or similar movements do not material- ly interfere with the result of the new photography, and hence' its superiority to the old, which those who have had their counterfeit presentments taken what time their heads were fixed in a " rest will appreciate. The next case was that of a woman with a NEEDLE IN HER FOOT, and such nurses ashad not hitherto seen the process clustered round the bedside, The patient suffered ` from the last infirutity of noble minds, but from no other sensation, and she was evidently an object of envy in the minds of all the other patients in the ward who had not from the X ray's point of view interesting complaints, The apparatus was con- 1 veyed by lift to another floor, where some difficulty was caused as the pat- ient possessed, in Mr. James Russell Lowell's words: " the pectoral propor- tions of a Juno," or shall we say au amount of adipose tissue that only an operatic soprano could rival? But with twenty minutes exposure a triumphant photograph of the whole of the shoul- der joint was obtained. One more pat- ient was visited, a man suffering from the results of an accident, recently re- ported d 1 nail the a er . It � r as now s 1? P thought desirable to see what pro- gress he was making. The plate in its box (the whole being under one inch in thickness) was adroitly placed under the patient's thigh ,without in the slightest moving the injured parts, and the photograph was taken through int and a l' s P all. The importance of be- ing able to report progress or other- wise through splints must be obvious. The only' drawback in such cases is the rectathe nus killing splint. metal then, ia sample of what our representative was privileged to see. Lord Salisbury's hand, with its tend- ency to gout, shown at the soiree of the Royal Society, was interesting, but that pales beside a photograph of a hip or elbow joint after operation. To those ra t !gn n of anatomy the photographs h s token at tbeso h hospital not be h ital would interesting as. say, the photograph of the Contents of a purse in ones pock- et, or of a foot taken through a fash- ionable boot; but to students the for- mer having an abiding value. So the vocal gymnastics: of a prima donna may rove more attractive to the ground- ings (not necessarily to the gods) that the strains of "Goetterdamerung,'" The influence of the X-rays on the surgery of the future is at present inestim- able. SLANG OP LONDON THIEVES. Their Strange Lingo as Shown From the Statement of a Prison Bird. Unique in English literature, if pub- lished would be the collection of curl- ous words, phrases and messages that a Load= prison chaplain has gathered in the course of bit many years' ser- vice is the great penal institutions of that city. Some of them fell from the lips of convicts, others were copied from the walls of prison cells, and a few were intercepted notes from those who were "doing time" to their friends without the walls. Here, for instance, in his exaot words, is a hardened con- vict's account of his recent exploits. It q ,. i as rich a cc ime of"thieves s p n La- tin" as has been the. light for many a day." I was jogging down a blooming alum," he told the chaplain, "in the Chapel, when I Hutted a reeler, who was sporting a red slang. I broke off his ferry, and boned the clock, whish was ared one, but I was spotted by a copper, who claimed inc. I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. The week after I was chucked up, I did a snatch near St. PaiI's, was collars:i, lugged, and got this tit: of seven stretch.' In ordinary English this means that the speaker met a drunken man who wore a gold watch. Be broke the chain and pos- sessed himself of the. timepiece, but was apprehended by a policeman, taken be- fore a magistrate end sen' smell to six months' imprisonment. 'the week fol- lowing his release he, again attempted highway rol;bery, and this time teas condemned to seven years penal ser- vitude. Of the queer phrases and words that the edu ated Co knee, us.s, the list is enuless. phare was one lady who complained to the chaplain that she had a "propertation" of the heart; another "i elified" ssith drink, "did it on the impulse of the m.mink,' and an- other was "doing tune" for the theft of an "asthsma-Das ser." Here is a letter Lull of epistolary charm, that was found Ina cell at New- gate:— Deere Jim I was in quod dem four- teen days, when I heard you were lag- ged. 1. blakked Polly's peep:ars, who called me name,. She is as fuddltd.and hit me fust, when I kolered her nut and give her a fine slugging and her mug was all over blud, when the spite- ful thing bit me she did, and hulked fight, when we were both taken by the Kopper, and the reek only gave me fourteen days, an.I der got twenty-one for hitten me fust and Leen fuddled, cheer up., I am sorry you are Jag- ged and Ijmwon't pal with nobody wile yohr .n qurd. Good by jim from you tru. luv Sailly." 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CHAPTER XL Baby Christabel was drowned. Of that feet there could be no shadow of doubt in the minds of those who had loved her, although the aulien stream which had swallowed her lovely form refused to give it bask. Perchance the toreleis had taken her for their playfellow, and transformed her mort- al beauty into something rich and strange. e Anyhow, the men that dragged the river -bed did not bring up the golden hair, or the sad drowned e es that once danced with joyous life. And if any- thing oould add: to Constance Sinolair's grief it wain this last drop of bitterness —the knowledge that her child would never rest in hallowed ground, that there was no quiet grave on which to lay her aching head and feel nearer her darling, no spot of earth to which she could press her lips and fanoy she could be heard by the little one lying in her pure shroud below, asleep on Mother Earth's calm breast. No, her little one was driven by winds and waves, and had no resting- plaoe under the weary Stars, Melanie Duport, when she recovered from the horror of that tine dreadful day, told her story clearly enough. It was the sante story she had told the peasant woman whose husband rescued her. Baby Christabel was playing on the rampart, Melanie holding her se- curely, as she believed, when the little one, attracted by the flight of a but- terfly, made a sudden spring—alasl ma- dame knew not how strong and active the dear angel was, and now difficult it was to bold her sometimes—and slip- ped out of Melanie's arms on to the rampart, and from the rampart—which, was very lose just there, as madame might have observed—on to the grass, and rolled and rolled down to tbe riv- er. It was all quick as thought; one moment and that panel's white frock was floating on the stream. Melanie tore down, she knew not how; it was as if Heaven had given her wings in that moment. The wh to frock was still floating. Melanie plunged into the river;i but whatherlife at ah t was � such a time f—a noth'ng. Alas! she tried to grasp the froi•k, but the stream swept it from her; an instant, and Ona saw it no more. She bit herself eink- ing, and tben she . fainted. She knew nothing till she woke in the cottage where madame found her. hlelanie was a heroine in a small way after this sad event. The vi;legers thought her a wonderful young per- son. son. %ler master rewarded her hand- somely, and premised to retain her in service tilt she should choose to marry. Har mistress was as grateful as despair can be for any service. The light ot Constance Sinciair's Iife had gone. Her one source of joy was turned to a fountain of bitterness. A dull and blank despair took eoesession of her. She did not succumb utterly to her grief. She struggled against it bravely, and she would accept no one's compassion or sympathy. One of her married sisters, a comfortable matron with helf a dozen healthy children in her nursery, offered to come and stay with Mr-,. Sinclair; but this kindly offer was refused aim;st uncivilly. "What goad t•outd you do me?" ask- ed Con tance. If you spoke to me of my darling I shoubi hate you, yet I should always be thinking of her. Do you suppose you could comfort me by telling about your herd of children, or by repeating little bits of Seripture, such as people quote in letters of con- dolence? No; there is no such thing as comfort fur my grief. I like to sit alone and think of my pet, and be wretched in my own way. Don't be angry with me, dear, for writing so savagely. I sometimes !feel as if I hated every one in the world, but hap- py mothers most of all.' Gilt'ert Sinclair endured the loss of his little girl wi' h a certain amount of philosophy. In the first place she was not a Loy, and had offended him ab initio by that demerit. She had been a pretty little darling, no doubt, and he had had his moments of fondness for her; but his wife's idolatry of the child was an offense that had ranked deep. He had been jealous of his infant daughter. He put on mourning, and expressed himself deeply afflicted, but his burden didnot press heavily. A toy would come, per- haps, by and by, and make amends for this present loss, ant Constance would beg_n her baby worship again. Mr. Sinclair did not know that for orae hearts there is no !beginning gain. Martha Briggs recovered health and "strength, but her grief for the loat baby was very genuine and unmistake- able. Constance offered to keep her in her service, but this favor Martha de- clined with tears. "No, ma'am, it's best for both that we should part. I should remind you of"—here a burst of sobs supplied the missing name—"and you'd remind me. I'll go home. I'm more grateful than words can say for all your goodness; but, oh, I hate myself so for being ill. I never, never shall forgive myself— never." So Martha went back to Davenant in her mistress's train, and there parted with her to return to the paternal roof, whioh was not very far off. It was not so with Melanie. She only ,clung to her mistress more devotedly after the loss of the baby. If her doar lady would but let her remain with her as her own maid, she would be beyond measure happy. Was not hair -dressing the art in which she most delighted, and millinery the natural bent of her mind? Gilbert said the girl had acted nobly, and ought to be retained in his wife's service; so Constance, whose Abi- gail bigail had lately left her to better her- self by marriage with an aspiring but ler, consented to keep Melanie as her personal attendant.: !She did this, be- lieving with Gilbert that the girl de- served reconepense; but Melanie's pre - sense was 'foil of ;painful associations, and _kept the bitter memory of her lost child polities-Willy'beford her. t apgtance'- went back to Davenant, =et life' flowed on in its slow and sul- len ocurse aiimehow without Baby Chris- %fxbe'1. The two dooms that had been :nurseries—two of the prettiest rooms in the big old house, with Frenob *win- dows indows and a wide balcony, with a flight of steps Isading down to the quaintest old garden, shut in from the rest of the grounds by a- holly hedge—now be - THE 1IXETER TIME S 1 came temples dedicated to the lost, In these rooms Constance spent all the time she could call her own. But the business of life still went on, and there was a great deal of time she could not call her own. G ibert, having dismiss- ed the memory: of his lost child to the limbofun peasant ecoil ec ions re- sented phis wife's brooding grief s a personal injury, and was determined to give that s,h n sorrow no ndui3e n ce , When the hunting season was at its best, and pheasant -shooting made one of the attractions cf Davenant, Mr. Sin- clair determined to fill his house with lids own particular set—horsy men— men who gave their minds to guns and dogs , and rarely opened their mouthsthe ,for speech to relate an anecdote about. 'ma. accomplished setter, or "liver -color - ' of mine, you know," or to ' dilate upon the noble behavior of "that central fthe L n as er of ni ne•' in yes- terday's battue--men nho eevale,' th"ir nights and days to billiards, and whose conversation was of breaks and flukes, pockets and cannons. "You'd I etter ask some women, Con- stance, " said Gilbert, one Sunday morn- ing in November, as they sat at their tete-a•tete breakfast, the wife reading :hebudget of letters, t a s 'th ha h sb d n u n 'the "Field" propped up in front of his coffee -cup and the "Sporting Gazette" at his elbow,. '•I've f m comio,g next week, andgot yoatulot migoht feel :yourself de trop in a masculine party." "Have you asked people, Gillert, so soon?" said Constanee. reproachfully. "I don't know what you earl soon- !, The pb'asants are as wild as they can be, and Lord Highover's hounds have teen out nearly a frit nth. You'd bet. ter ask some nice young women—the right sort, you know; no nonsense about thain." "I thought we should have spent this winter. quietly, Gilbert," said Con- stance, in a low voice, Iookuig down at her black dress with its deep folds of Drape; "just this one winter." "That's sheer sentimentality," ex- claimed Gilbert, giving the "Field" an :impatient twist as he folded it to get ' at his favorite column,"What good would it do yt'tt or Me to shut our- selves up in this dismal old house like* ' a pair of supnnuaow? fidr it bring bask theerapoor ted little tldlsng`weoul've. Inst, or make ter happier In Paradtse7, tic, Constance. She's happy, 'ootli- ing• can touch her more,' as hillier.; or somebody says. lgad, I thins; the poor little darling is ro ho envied for having escaped all iha troat hublesest .a anda worries of tee;; for life bad book; you can't hedge everything. Don't cry, Constance. That long face of yours is enough to send a fellow into an unt' I e - mt rev . y e Let us lot g ar. a of Pleasant people round us, and make the must of this lilacs sviile it's ours. We mayn't have it always." This sinister remark fell upon an un - he d` e ing ear. Conetln^e a:ucTalr s thoughts had wandered. far away from that oak -paneled I.rrakfastt-r,,om. They had gone back to the sunny hili-si'le the grassy rampart, the swift and fatal rivesfats.•, the bright landscape which had stamped itself upon her memory indel- Ohre In the one agonized moment, in which she had dieined her darling's "Gilhert, I really ate not fit to re ceivs people,'" she said, after a silence of sf'me minutes,sluring who h Mr. Sin- ' olair h•ld aznuseii h'inself byeundry ad- venturous dips of his fork, like an old Jewish priest's dive into the sacred seething -pot, into the crockery ease of a.perigord pie. "If you have set your heart upon having your friends this winter you had better let me go away, to Hastings or somewhere. It would be pleasanter for you to be free from the sight of my unhappiness.•' Yes, and for you to find consolation elsewhere, no doubt. You would pretty sliheroon find a consoler if I gave you your pp "Girlbe"rtl" "Oh, don't think to frigh' en me with -your indignant looks. I have not for- gztten the scene in this room when y'ni heard of your old lover's sup- posed death. Sir Cyprian Davenant is .n London, in high feather too, 1 1 understand; for some ancient rela- tion of his has been obliging enough oto die and leave him another fortune. ' A pity you didn't wait a little longer, isn't it ? A pity your father should have been in such a hurry to make his last matrimonial bargain." "Gilbert 1" cried Constance, passion- arely, "what have I ever done that you should dare to talk to me like this : How have I ever failed in my duty to you?" "Shall I tell you? I won't say that, .having accepted me for your husband, you ought to have Ioved me. That would be asking too much. The ethics of the nineteenth century don't soar so high as that. But you might have pre- tended to care for me just a little. It would have been only civil, and it would have made the wheels of life go smooth- er for both of us," "I am not capable of pretending, Gilbert," answered Constance, gravely. " If you would only be a little more considerate, and give me credit for be- ing. what I am, your true and dutiful wife, I might give you as much affec- tion as the most exacting husband could desire. I would, Gilbert," she cried, in a voice choked by sobs, "foe the sake of our dead child." "Don't humbug," said Gilbert, sulk- ily. " We ought to understand each other by this time. As for running away from this house, or any other house of mine, to mope in solitude, or to find consolation among old friends, please comprehend that if you leave my house once you leave it forever. I shall expect to see you at the head of my table. I shall expect you to surround yourself with pretty women. I shall expect you to be a wife that a fellow may hll proud my best to oblige g you, Gilbert ; but perhaps I might have been a better wife if you had let me take life my own way." From that time Constance Sinclair put aside all outward token of her grief. Sbe wrote to the gayest and most pleas- ure -loving of her acquaintances—young married wom n w e hese chief delight was to dress more expensively than their dearest friends, and to be seen at three parties on the same evening, and a few who were still spinsters, from no fault or foolishness of their own, since they had negleoted neither pains nor art in the endeavor to secure an eligible part- ner for the dance of life. To these Con- stance wrote her letters of invitation, and the first sentence in each letter was sufficient to insure an acceptance. "Dearest Ida,—My husband is fill- ing the house with men for the hunt- ing season. Do come and save me from being bored to death by their, sport- ing talk. Be .sure to bring your hunt- ing habit, Gilbert can give you agood mount, eta., eta. Whereupon dearest Ida, twisting about the little note, medttatively re- marked to her bet bosom -friend and confidante, "Odd that they should ask people so soon after the death of Mrs. Sinolair's baby -drowned too—it was in all the papers. Davenant is a sweet house to stay at, quite liberty hall. Yet, .1 think I shalt go, and if there are plenty of people T can finish out my ball dresses in the evenings." Before another Sunday came Daven- ant was full of people, the attics noisy wsith strange lady's -maids, the stables and harness -rooms full of life and bus - tie, not au empty stall or an unoccu- peed loose box in the long range of buildings, the billiard -room and smok- ing -room resonant with. masculine laughter, unknown dogs preyading the out -buildings and ohalned up in every available corner, Constance Sinclair had put away her comber robes of crape and cashmere, and mether friends ' mends with we lcomin smiles, radiant in black silk ands lace herraceful figure set off by the lat- est Parisian fashion, which, being the newest was, of course, infinitely the hest. 'I thought she would have been in deeper mournintod said one of Mrs. S m- elair's dearest irtends to another dur- ing a whispered chat in a dusky cor- ner at afternoon tea. " The men were so noisy with their haw-haw talk, one could say what one liked," remarked Mrs. Millamount afterward to Lady Loveall. "Looks ratter heartless, doesn't it? —an only child too. She might at least wear paramatta instead of that black silk—not even a mourning silk. I sup.. pose that black net trimmed with jet she wore last night was from, Worth." "My dear, you. couldn't n't have look- ed at itprrry. Worth wouldn't have made her such a thing if she had gone down on her knees to him. The sleeve wan positively antediluvian. Nice house. isn't it ?--everythingood style. What niamdetes all these Clanyardes have. " Ia it true that site was engaged to Sir Cyprian Davenant' avenant ?" "They say so. How sorry she must be I He has Just come into quite a heap of money. Some old man down in the Lincolnshire fens left it him—quite a cbaraoter, I believe. Never spent any- thing except on black loiter books, and Sotheby's. Alt, Mr. Wyatt, how d'ye do ?" as the solicitor newly arrived that those have been sold for a fortune at afternoon, threaded his way toward the gueet corner ; do come and sit here. lou always knew everything. Is it true fleet At t Sir Cyprian Davenant has otiose into a fortune'?" " Nothing can be more true, unless it is that rs. Millamount looks young- er "and lovelier every season." You horrid. flatterer. You are worse than a French milliner. And .a it true that Mrs. Sinolair and Sir Cy Fid barer a engagair ed? But no, it would You are a friend of theyfamabout that. As a friend of the family I am bound to inform you that rumor is false on that point. There was no en- gagement." Really. now?" "But Sir Cyprian was madly in love with Miss Clanyarde." " And she --- " he--" I was not in the Iady's confidence ; . f bet I believe that it wan only my mend s poverty winch. prevented thew marriage." " How horridly mercenary!" cried :tfrs. Millamount, who came of an an- cient Irish family, proud as Lucifer and poor andhadbeensar sacrificed lx in the blossom los. f u her days,pikeIP i ea - .a, to raise the wind—not to Diana, but to a rich stock -broker. Perhaps as that was a long time ago she may have forgotten how much more Plutus had had to do with her marriage than Cup- id. CHAPTER XII. - Cyprian Davenant had inherited a fortune. Common rumor had not great- ly exaggerated the amount of his wealth, though there was the usual ills - position to expatiate upon the truth. Needy men looked at him with envy as he went in and out of his club, or sat in a quiet corner reading the last "Quarterly " or "Edinburgh," and al- most wondered that he was so well able to contain his spirits, and was not tempted to perform a savage dance of the Choctaw character, or to give ex- pression to his rapture in a war -whoop. " Hang it all, you know," remarked an impeounious younger son, " it ag- gravatea a fellow to see Davenant take things so quietly. He doesn't -even Look cheerful. He doesn't invite the confi- dence of his necessitous friends. Such a knight of the rueful countenance would hardly stand a pony. And he won't play whist, or touch a billiard cue— quite an unapproachable beast." A man can not be lucky be all things. Sir Cyprian had set his Ida upon a cast, and the fortune of the• game had been against hila, The inheritance of this unexpected wealth seemed to be almost a useless and trivial stroke of fate. What could it avail him now? It could not give him Constance Clanyarde, or even restore the good old house in which his father and mother had lived and died. Time had set a gulf between him and happiness, and the fortune that came too late seemed rather the stroke of some mocking and ironical Fate than the gift of a benevolent destiny. He cliamves ae baccharmedk from Aflife, ricaescapilike ang manallmanwho - ner of perils, from the gripe of marsh fever to the jaws of crocodiles; while men who had valued existence a great deal more than he had done had suc- cumbed and left their bones to bleach upon the sands of the Gold Coast, or to rot in a stagnant swamp. Cyprian Davenant had returned to find the girl he loved the Wife of the man he most disliked. He heard. or her marriage more in sorrow than in anger. He had not expected to find her free. His knowledge of Lord Clanyarde's charac- ter had assured him that his lordship's beautiful daughter would be made to marry well. No fair Circassian, reared by admiring and expectant relatives in the seclusion of her Caucasian home, fattened upon milk and almonds to the standard of Oriental beauty, and in due course to be carried to the slave -mar- ket, had ever been brought up with a more specifie intention than that which had ruled Lord Clanyarde in the edu- cation of his daughters, They had all done well. He spent very little of his time at Marchbrook, nowadays, bis wife having died shortly after Constance's marriage, but dwadled away life agree- ably at his daughters' winter houses outf e theseason, s as n at clubs, i his obs . a the season, and felt that his mission had been accom lished. No father had ever done more for his children, and they had cost him very little. What a comfort to have been blessed with lovely mar- riageable daughters, instead of lubber- ly sons, squatting on a father's shoul- ders like the old man of the mountain, thought Lord Clanyarde, when. he had leisure to reflect upon his lot. (To be Continued.) LONG SILENT HARPS. Several Egyptian harpshave been re- covered 'from tombs. In some ' the. strings are intact, and give forth dis- tinct sounds ' after a silence of 3,000 years. i— FINEST LEMON ORCHARDS. • The finest lesion orchards in the worl(' are those in Sicily, where an acre o1 lemons is worth £800, )(WS IN 8URG O LWORKS THE PHOTOGRAPHY OP BROKEN BONES AT A LONDON HOSPITAL. Long Exposure for a Fat Stan—Slight Movements of the Subjects Not Fatal to Good. Results to the Roentgen Process —Scones While the Pictures aro Taken. It may be said at once that the new photography will never become a pop- ular hobby because the apparatus ie too expensive, but there is some danger of Prof. Roentgen's discovery being rank- ed in popular estimation with palmis' try, magic lantern entertainments, and sleight-of-hand performances, says the Loudon Daily News, There is more than One establishment a ablishm est al y er read wh e one has only to pay a fee ranging from sixpence to a guinea to have any part of his or her skeleton " photographed." Bat the X rays deserves a better fate than this. From time to time frag- mentary accounts of sporadic experi- ments xpertments at London hospitals have been published, but at Eing's College Hos- pital, the home of the all -conquering antiseptic surgery, the new photography bas for some time been used as an aux- iliary in clinical work. By special per - Mission of the Warden, the Rev. N. Bromley, a representative was enabled to spend several hours in the hospital at a time when he was fortunate to find the Surgical Registrar actively en- gaged with bis apparatus, and some ace count of what he saw will doubtless be read with interest. Since it became known that the X rays were utilized at Icing's the num- ber of persons who have called with needles and other foreign bodies in hands and feet is remarkable. Nothing, of course, can be easier than to secure a negative showing the shadow of-say— aeed e ' n 1 In the extrainities. An expos- ure df ONE hUINUTE sufflcee for the hand, and of three min- utes for the foot. In a simple case it is not even necessary to take a photo- graph—a loon at the hand by means of the cryptoscope answers every purpose. But if it be thought advisable to take a photograph, the developing only re- quires a very short time. In the bath the ordinary photograph of the part first appears, then the too, too solid flesh disappears, Pears and ultimately beneath h one'sa e t g z the bones or foreign bodies stand out in strong white relief. With a photograph beside him the surgeon operates with the zninimum expenditure of time and with the least possible use of the knife. The value of the inven- tion bas been illustrated in the case, inter alia, of a dislocated thumb, the negative showing that had the thumb been longer neglected it would have become useless. To the ignorant the unknown is al- ways terrible, and too mere process of photographing, with the glowing grelp glans and the flying electric sparks, 'its too much for one female patient in er representative's presence, and she s)b- bed and shook as though about to un- dergo a manor operation; and it was only with difficulty and the exercise of patience that she could be induced to place her needle ridden hand in the pro- per position. But, as has been said, dealing_ with bands or feet is comparatively simple, It is the more complex cases that are the more interesting. One ot these, at whish our representatives " assisted," was that of an old man with a painful hip. Ile had met with an accident, and was convinced that he was suffering from dislocation improperly treated. The surgeon at once diagnosed the com- plaint as what is commonly called rheu- matic gout, but - to satisfy the sufferer the joint was photographed. Laid on his back on a couch, with the plate un- derneath the affected part, it called for little or no effort to stay still in one position, for 20 minutes. That length of exposure w;£s deemed necessary, as the subject was a big man. and the X rays had to penetrate a considerable thickness of flesh. It may be remark- ed in passing that one of the difficul- ties of tbe process is to know THE EXACT AMOUNT" of exposure required. If the plate be exposed too long, the rays go through bones and all, and the result is chaos and old night. In the case under re- view, precisely the right exposure was allowed and an excellent negative ob- tained, which conclusively corroborated the diagnosis. Nothing remained for the sufferer, therefore, but to possess his soul in patience, and to grin and bear his pain; but he had, at any rate, the slight consolation of knowing ten min- utes after the photograph had been taken that there was no ground for his previous fears. This and other consul- tations took place in a room, which serves the double purpose of studio and dark room. but while our representa- tive remained at the hospital a number of cases were taken in the wards. The whole apparatus, which consists of the all-important Crooke's tube (of the type specially designed by Mr. Her- bert Jackson of King's College), and a vise in which to hold it, the accumulat- or, the induction coil, and the plates weigh under 2 cwt., and is wheeled to the bedside on an India rubber -tired trolley, everything being got ready in a few seconds. The process causes very little disturbance in the wards. The noise of the coil, with its hammer beat- ing and miniature thunder, is inconsid- erable, and the whole operation evi- dently affords an agreeable break to the monotony of ward life. The first case in the wards was that of a boy who had just come in to the hospital with a swollen knee. Some months previous- ly upper the u er p art of hs femurihad wired for been ununited fracture. His leg was, therefore, photographed twice on whole plates, and the negatives on being joined showed the whole limb from thigh to shin, wires and all. The little ,fellow was told to keep his leg still, and for that reason was unable to control violent involuntary twitch - Jugs, so it was necessary, to rest a hand on his leg. However, slight twitchin s or similar movements do not material- ly interfere with the result of the new photography, and hence' its superiority to the old, which those who have had their counterfeit presentments taken what time their heads were fixed in a " rest will appreciate. The next case was that of a woman with a NEEDLE IN HER FOOT, and such nurses ashad not hitherto seen the process clustered round the bedside, The patient suffered ` from the last infirutity of noble minds, but from no other sensation, and she was evidently an object of envy in the minds of all the other patients in the ward who had not from the X ray's point of view interesting complaints, The apparatus was con- 1 veyed by lift to another floor, where some difficulty was caused as the pat- ient possessed, in Mr. James Russell Lowell's words: " the pectoral propor- tions of a Juno," or shall we say au amount of adipose tissue that only an operatic soprano could rival? But with twenty minutes exposure a triumphant photograph of the whole of the shoul- der joint was obtained. One more pat- ient was visited, a man suffering from the results of an accident, recently re- ported d 1 nail the a er . It � r as now s 1? P thought desirable to see what pro- gress he was making. The plate in its box (the whole being under one inch in thickness) was adroitly placed under the patient's thigh ,without in the slightest moving the injured parts, and the photograph was taken through int and a l' s P all. The importance of be- ing able to report progress or other- wise through splints must be obvious. The only' drawback in such cases is the rectathe nus killing splint. metal then, ia sample of what our representative was privileged to see. Lord Salisbury's hand, with its tend- ency to gout, shown at the soiree of the Royal Society, was interesting, but that pales beside a photograph of a hip or elbow joint after operation. To those ra t !gn n of anatomy the photographs h s token at tbeso h hospital not be h ital would interesting as. say, the photograph of the Contents of a purse in ones pock- et, or of a foot taken through a fash- ionable boot; but to students the for- mer having an abiding value. So the vocal gymnastics: of a prima donna may rove more attractive to the ground- ings (not necessarily to the gods) that the strains of "Goetterdamerung,'" The influence of the X-rays on the surgery of the future is at present inestim- able. SLANG OP LONDON THIEVES. Their Strange Lingo as Shown From the Statement of a Prison Bird. Unique in English literature, if pub- lished would be the collection of curl- ous words, phrases and messages that a Load= prison chaplain has gathered in the course of bit many years' ser- vice is the great penal institutions of that city. Some of them fell from the lips of convicts, others were copied from the walls of prison cells, and a few were intercepted notes from those who were "doing time" to their friends without the walls. Here, for instance, in his exaot words, is a hardened con- vict's account of his recent exploits. It q ,. i as rich a cc ime of"thieves s p n La- tin" as has been the. light for many a day." I was jogging down a blooming alum," he told the chaplain, "in the Chapel, when I Hutted a reeler, who was sporting a red slang. I broke off his ferry, and boned the clock, whish was ared one, but I was spotted by a copper, who claimed inc. I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. The week after I was chucked up, I did a snatch near St. PaiI's, was collars:i, lugged, and got this tit: of seven stretch.' In ordinary English this means that the speaker met a drunken man who wore a gold watch. Be broke the chain and pos- sessed himself of the. timepiece, but was apprehended by a policeman, taken be- fore a magistrate end sen' smell to six months' imprisonment. 'the week fol- lowing his release he, again attempted highway rol;bery, and this time teas condemned to seven years penal ser- vitude. Of the queer phrases and words that the edu ated Co knee, us.s, the list is enuless. phare was one lady who complained to the chaplain that she had a "propertation" of the heart; another "i elified" ssith drink, "did it on the impulse of the m.mink,' and an- other was "doing tune" for the theft of an "asthsma-Das ser." Here is a letter Lull of epistolary charm, that was found Ina cell at New- gate:— Deere Jim I was in quod dem four- teen days, when I heard you were lag- ged. 1. blakked Polly's peep:ars, who called me name,. She is as fuddltd.and hit me fust, when I kolered her nut and give her a fine slugging and her mug was all over blud, when the spite- ful thing bit me she did, and hulked fight, when we were both taken by the Kopper, and the reek only gave me fourteen days, an.I der got twenty-one for hitten me fust and Leen fuddled, cheer up., I am sorry you are Jag- ged and Ijmwon't pal with nobody wile yohr .n qurd. Good by jim from you tru. luv Sailly." A more elegant. epistle is another one which was addressed to a prisoner, in- forming of the death of his mo- :er "I have the pleasure to inform you," it runs, "that your mother-in-law has snuffed it. She met wi.h an accident and was conveyed to the Landon hos- pital, where she remained weeping and grinding her teeth for seven long weeks. I have offered up a prayer for her, and I hope you will do the same, which you no doubt will. She was afterward taken to her last resting place." A GORGEOUS ROOM. The throne -room of the Sultan, at Constantinople, is a gorgeous sight. The gilding is unequalled by any other building in Europe, and from the ceil- ing hangs a suberb Venetian chande- lier, the 200 lights of which make a gleam like that of a veritable sun. At each of the four corners of the room tall candelabra in Baccarat glass are placed, and the throne is a huge seat covered with red velvet and having arms and back of pure gold, When Baby was sick, wo gave her Clattot'ia. 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