The Brussels Post, 1891-1-23, Page 2THE ELEVATION OF MM. TIM.
BURY,
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ir.3. Story Of Manifed Deetilly.
nal WILLIAM IMYSPALH,
It is never worth while to waist() time in
rellectieg upon what might have lumpened
if we hod done tide, or what tremendous
conaeguences 'Intuit have followed if we had
ilone that, for Blowiest trivial circumstances
are eonstantly altering the whole course of
ourliVes. It wes the sudden death of a re-
spected and lamented Doricou iti Ommecti-
-cut, for instance, combined with the eevere
illnem of e young gentleman in New -York,
• that changed plain Mrs, Thobury into Lady
McCurrie. Yet neither of these peon
had ever seen Mrs. Thobory, and neither
knew of her existence.
When the Deacon died lie must perforce
be buried, and the Rev. Howard Titus, his
pastor, felt it a privilege as well eta a duty
to make a long prayerwith uncovered heed,
before the Deacon was laicl in the tomb,
"That exposure mist the worthy clergyman a
fit of illness front which he could not fully
recover, the physioians said, without apenel•
ing a few weeks in a warm climate. Hence
the name of the Rev. Itoward Titus on the
passenger list of the steamship Amazon,
aboutto sail for the Winward Islands, as
well as those ot Mrs. Titus and two young
Tituses.
"I don't know how I shall ever menage
with these children," Mrs. Titus had said.
"1 shall most likely be seasick , and. we can-
not think of taking nurse along. If only
Mrs. Timbury were going with us this
-thee." •
" Possibly we might induce her to go,"
the clerical parent had replied. "At any
rate, it will do no harm to write and ask
her."
This was the ffistcoonecting link between
-the death of the Connecticut Deacon and
the elevation of Mrs. Thnhury. Two years
before, that lady had accompanied the Titus
family on a journey to the Holy Land, and
her qualities as a, good sailor and te useful
.bond with the children were understood and
appreciated.
The miniaterial letter from Connecticut
was delivered to Mrs. Millbury at the din-
ner table in the fashionable boarding house
in New -York in which she.lived.
"Dear me I" she exclahned, upon reading
it, "this letter has put me in such a flutter t
shall hardly be able to finish my dinner,
Mrs. De Antoine. Such e =prise! Do
you know'I have to start right off next
Thursdayfor the Windward Islands. My
-friends the Tituses are going with the child-
ren, and of course I shalt go along. Where
are the Windward Islands, Mr, St. Gene-
odeve ? Somewhere in. the Smith Pacific
Mr. Si. Genevieve explained their loca-
tion and of course asked as many questions
as int Timbury desired he should.
" Oh, I must go," the excited lady went
on. "Von know I've traveled with the
Tituses before, in Europe, Asia, and Africa,
and I couldn't think of letting thetn go
alone. But it's so sudden ; only three days
to make my preparations! Well, that's
longer notice than I had when we went from
Gibraltar to Algiers ; and we were a week
n Constantinople without our trunks."
The entire population of the boarding
: house having thus been skillfully informed
of her intended journey, lairs. 'Timbury be-
gan to make preparations. There was no
time to order new oostuines, but vest num-
bers of old ones were inspected. There was
one dress in particular that she had taken
pains to wear at least once in each country
she visited, which was capable of bewilder-
ing transformatione by the pinning on of
new trimmings, the drawing in or letting
not of mysterious strings. This dress must
go, as a matter of course, and a dozen others
and a fancy store of rubbers, water -proofs,
laces, ribbons, and ornameets. The jewels
there was no question about—and they
were valuable jewels, gathered in various
parts of the world, diamonds and rubies,
cat's eyes, sapphires, pearls, and emeralds.
When Mrs. Timbury, in the earlier stages
of her toilet, looked in the mirror to admire
the set of a gown or the peculiar sparkle of
O ring, she saw pretty much the same faded
little woman of sixty or thereabout who had
been left a disconsolate widow liveyears be-
fore, with wrinkles to match the thin gray
lair, with complexion to match the wrink-
lersamd with crows' feet around the eyesthat
matched all the rest except the teeth, which
were too brilliantly white and even to match
anything but a set of porcelain saucers.
After an hour's struggle with art, however,
Mrs. Timbury invariably saw in her glass
the reflection of a plump and buxom little
widow, not a day past forty•five, with a
wealth of coal -black hair, aremarkably clear
complexion, and the faintest shadow of a
rose in Fetch cheek, sometimes stealing coyly
upward toward the temples.
Ten years earlier Mrs. Timbury had been
content to pass for the quiet little middle-
aged woman she was, the faithful wile of
an unassuming physician in a small town,
with no nares beyond herown threshold, no
greater ambition than a decent Sunday gown
and a black bonnet. But &change came over
her life when the regretted Timbury was
called to his fathers. Among other papers of
importanee he left a life insurance policy,
and Mrs. Timbury found herself a wealthy
widow—wealthy, at least, compared with
anything she had known before. She soon
-developed a taste for travel, for fine clothes,
for jewels, and for life—and in five years
she came to be the dashing and somewhat
giddy person we find her in the New.
York hoarding house. For the consum-
mate skill with which she wiped out at least
fifteen years of her life, in reforming her ap•
pearance, she is entitled to our admiration
But in the reformation of her manners she
met with a misfortune. Here she used such
terrible pressure that not fifteen years only
did ahe annihilate, but fifty, and appeared
thenceforth with all thebbashingand gushing
shyness of a maid of eixteeo.
Before the ship drew away from her wharf
Mac Rev. Mr. Titus WaS remolded of ;some
little traits in Mrs. Timbury's character
which he had not particularly admired on
Mao former occasion, but which with the
paesing years he had forgotten. Prominent
amosig these traits was a tendency to fusat-
nese, which Made Mra. Timbury perpetually
'uneasy, and was not, soothing to her comma -
lone. When her trunks were so clearly in
their proper places id at else could exhibit no
further anxiety about them else diseovered
that her stateroom was oil the wrong side of
the ship, where she would have the morning
nun in her eyes. A change being made, the
new ono was too neer a hatchway, and was
consequently noiey. When at length she
'was settled to her matisfacition she found an
excatoe for worriment about her probable
seat at table.
"the Captain ifi Oa a dear, jolly -looking
old Sootehman, 1 do hope they'll put us at
hits table. He ought to have us next to him,
• you being a elergyrnan arid briOging letters
of introduotiOn to him. I shall be Very muoh
dietippointed ff vie are not at least at his
table.
The cleegysnan's mind WaEl far rethoved
from such vanities of life, but he attended
,gallaeo to the tranke tted the atateroom
and dld not worn', for be WAS One of the
wise men who know that nine -tenths of the
to:Wile/it of thie world exist only in the mind,
Mrs. Thuhury's desires were gratified
witsio she first Went to the table, Thera were
only paasougers enough to till one, aud, at
its head, of coulee, sat the Captain, Ou hit
right, in the soot of honor, Bat Mrs. Tim -
bury ; on his left, Mrs. Titus Tbe clergy.-
op mite him the
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little Clercs, and Wore). eerettariee and
aides de veiny.
But there was one drawbael; to the happi-
ness of having this diatInguithed party 011
beard, Sir Herbert ond Lady Clare meat;
of course, have the nate of honor at the
tale, and Mos. Thithery must, for a time re-
linquish her vontege ground at the taptain'a
ide.However, the Caplitio Seated the (JON
Mal»VaS next 1115 wife, and,
minor at his right hand, and, thus put hurt
yoeug gentleman from Now ork, whose directly beside .111;•a. Millbury, with Lady
severe illness aud consequentjourney formed Clare and Mrs Titus oppoeite, and young
the second connecting link in the elevation Mr. (Mak moved clown one seat
of Mrs, Timbury.
"Don't let Inc crowd you, Ceptain," was
Mrs, Timbuoyas (list roulade, as she tried to
push a little further away the chair that WaS
bolted to the deek. "You have had work to
do, and we passengers must make way for
you. Can you promise be smooth water all
the way, Captain?"
" Smooth water 1' echoed the bluff and
goodmatured Captain in a voice that might
have been intuited to reach a man at the
masthead, " Lord bless you, Ma'am, PH
promise you any kind of a voyage you want,
Smooth woter or roegh, fair Will& Or foul,
Pll promise anything; I always do."
" What an aceommodeting Captain!"
Mrs. Timbury laughed, looking slyly at
Mrs. Titus, with just the suspicion of a
wink. "13ut I always have good luck with
my Captains. I never travelle(1 with ono yet
but gave me a pleasant voyage, and I'm sure
you're nob going to be the first exception."
"1 can't just say about that," retorted
Mac Captain, with a knowing smile to Mr.
Titus ; "bat somehow the ladies all seem to
like my ship pretty well—all, you under-
stand, hut two or three I've offooded, be-
cause I always make the purser give that
seat you have to the handsomest lady on
hoard, end they can't all at it."
"Oh, Captain 1" Mrs. Timbery simpered.
"ton sailors ere always so bola. But Pll
t
They were a pleaaantiamily, the Glares—
sociable and gled to meet etrengera after
two or tbree yeers of Antigua. Mrs Mill-
bury managed his Excellency handsomely,
and compelled so many table attentions
that the Cep tain solemnly expostulated with
her in private end left, her believing him
desperately jealous But it was with Lady
Clare, after tat, that Mrs Timhury was
most succeesful, She spent hours with low
on deck and =Medal) armfuls of finery and
cases of jewels for her inspection. Lady
Clare was graciousness personified. odmi d
everything, and was apparently infiduated
wit's hoe new acquaintance.
Young air. Quick made unkind remarks
about the Why some Americans run after
titles, Inff Mrs. Thnbary treated them with
the contempt they deserved.
Tit the Wirral of a day or two the Amazon
remitted the island of Dominica, where she
was to lie for twenty-four hours. The Do•
miniciaus, knowing their Governor tb be on
board, visited the ship in considerable mum
bore, and among them opine Id; Lordship
the Bishop to .pay his respects. Theft was
an attraction m this title thatitirs. Timbury
could not reaist, and, Se she readily ob-
tained an introduction through Lady Clare,
she made snoli a determined effort that dur•
mg his stay on board she had his Lordship
by heralds) almost constantly.
give you this big bunch of raisinS forhe
Young Mr. Quick, having a letter of in -
pretty compliment." troduction to one of the principal merchant
When the first dinner was over, Mrs. ' in Reseals the capital of Dominica, went on
she e to present it, tool Mrs. Timbury
watelied bis departure with pleasure, and
weuld have been well satisfied if he had not
returned. She could not, of coarse, foresee
that his lauding on the wild island of Do-
minica could have ay bearing on her own
affairs, but the foot is that if klr. Qnick had
not gone ashore at Rossenu Mvs, Timbury
probably would not at this moment be Lady
McCurvie,
The Dominican merchant was delighted
to receive Mr. Quick, and would not hear of
his returning to the steamer that night.
Strangers are scaroe in Dominica, and- the
young New -Yorker was escorted up the
steep hill to a largo stone house and install-
ed in a big, breezy room withthree windows,
He did not know, ho could not have known,
that thalate occupant of that room was Sit'
John Winellman McCurrie, the future hus-
band of thadashing Mrs. Timbury.
Sir John Windham McCurrie, Chief Jus-
tice of the \ indward Islands, had been
caned to Dominica to transact some busi-
ness, had been entertained in that very
house, and had ocoupied that very room.
On going away lie had left some relics of his
visit—torn scraps of paper on the table, mid
on one pith° window sills four or five large
envelopes, not such as ordinarypeople use,
nu
but yellow ones of usual size and bril-
liancy, with the words printed acroas the
top in boldblaok letters, "On Tier Majesty's
Service."
Sitting by the Window to finish a cigar
before retiring, Mr. Quick mechanically
picked op one of these envelopes. They
were different from anything he had seen
and their official ohmmeter was apparent.
Being a young man of a facetious trim of
mind, it instantly dawned upon him that
they might be made to serve a good
purpose in some practical joke. and he
gathered them up and put them in his
pocket,
Thnitury had, in her own opioion, made a
decided conquest of the Captain, mid the
Captain was equally confident Olathe had
met a great many elderly ladies like 11 vs.
Timbuty, anti that a vast &menet of anniSe-
ment might always be had out of theni.olt.
O dull voyage.
By the end of the second day Mrs. Tim -
bevy heel been Invited to visit the bridge
whenever she felt int:lined, and to make
free usa of the Captain's charts and glasses.
And the Captain; when not. engaged, had
spent so much of his time on deck with the
Titus party, smoking his pipe and spinning
sea yarns, as to lead that blushing lady to
ask of Mrs. Titus :
"Yon don't think there's anything im-
proper in the Captain showing me so many
atteutiona, do you? 1 shouldo't like any of
the otherpeople Ito notice it."
Mrs. Titus had so often received powerful
nudges of the elbow from the Captain when
he was saying pretty things to Mrs. Tim -
bury that at this question she found it hard
to refrain from laugbing, but she replied that
she thought, it very kind in the Captain,
arid that he was an exceedingly pleasant
man.
"Because," Mrs. Timbury coot:toned. I
wouldn't for worlds have anybody think we
were in earnest; it's all done in fun, you
know,"
It soon became evident to all the passen-
gers thet Ctt1 L Long was "guying" Mrs.
Timbury at a dreadful rate, but he was an
old hand at such affairs, and did it all so
neatly ansi with such perfect good humor
that the further he went the mote delighted
Mrs. Timbury became The invalid young
gentleman, Mr. Quick, on several occasions
tried his skill in these little table jokes, but
with such indifferent success that Mrs. Tim -
bury regarded him as a forward and ill-bred
young man, and a violent animosity sprang
up between them. Mr. Quick's gibes were
not, in fact, nearly so pointed as some of the
Captain's, but there was a difference in their
positions.
lu the six cloys of trackless water between
New -York and St. Kitt's Mrs Timbury's
innocent young heart was in a continual
flutter. Capt. Long Was so pleasant end so
kind. On one occasion, when, on account of
roogh water, Mrs. Timbury found it con-
venient to remain in her berth, the Captain
went to him room, and, totally disregarding
the bits of feminine apparel that ley on the
floor and hung against the walls, shoved
the half -open door until he could get his
head in, and made kind inquiries after her
health. '
At Antigua, which was the second stop,
news came out to the ship that the Governor,
Sir Herbert Pitz -Dalrymple Clare, K. 0.11,
0, was to be a passenger in the Amazon to
Barbadoes.
"They're been shaking them up again,
Capt. Long explained to Mrs 'Ilmbury.
"You see they have a Governor at Trini-
dad, with abig salary ; another alt Barbadoes,
with a smaller salary; and another here at
Antigua, with a salary smaller atiff. Well,
the lugh jam pandrum at Trinidad dies, or
gets promoted' for incompetency, and the
Barbadoes Governor is sent down to take
Isis place. Then this high jinks at Antigua
is sent to be Governor of Barbadoes. Be is
going down with us, and they are going to
bring Min out in their little steamboat, at 3
&Mack.
This intelligence threw Mrs, Timbury
into a fever otexpectancy. She spent some
hours in her cabin unpacking and trying on
dresses, polishing rings, and making herself
in every way as attractive and captivating
as possible—for if there was anything m
the world she really doted upon, it was a
title.
Early iu the afternoon tho little steam
boot came out with his Excellency's lug-
gage. It was contained in trunks, black.
leather trunks, for the most part. The
Governors' houses in the 'vVest Indies are
all completely furnished, so when a Gov-
ernor moves he has only to pack his trunks
mid go, But English trunks are small, and
to hold the personal belongings of a Geyer -
nor and his family es surprising number of
them are required. Watching tho transfer
of the luggage, Mrs. Timbury made an bro
portal -it discovery and hastened to impart it
to the Captain.
"1 don't believe he's been a 'Sir' very
long," She Said in a oonfidential tone when
else had dragged the Captain to the rail.
"Do you see bow Ids trunks are marked?"
"Hose's that?" the Captain asked.
"Well, you see his mime is painted on
each trunk in white letters. On every one
the '1I, 3, D Clare 'le worn sod marred as
if it had been done a long time, but the
'Sir' before the name is new and bright, as
if done recently."
Oh, that's just one of his freaks," the
Captain replied. "He has ths 'Sir' made
brighter, so that everybody can tee it.
Why he (Sons of the greatest noblemen in
England. He's the Clare taho took a fleet
over to Calais and routed the whole French
Army with 200 horse guards. He only
comets out hero for a greatfavor tie the
Queen, bemuse they're a little short of Gov.
ernors."
Whatever Capt. Lotig said Was gospel to
Mrs. Mirnbtry, and this; Made her more anx-
ious thish over to make the acquabitanee of
his Excellenty. At 'knell ho arrived, and
With him Lody Clam arid 00 assortment of
It is to be observed biers that if Sir John
Windham MeCurrie, C. J,, had not been so
careless as to leave his official envelopes
lying about, the present Lady 141o0urrie
would still be plainMrs. Timbury.
When on the next day but one the Areas
zon reached Barbadoes, Lady Clare and
airs Timbury parted with great effusion.
and Capt. Long and Mr. Quick watched
them from the bridge aud unfeelingly crack-
ed jokes at their expense, Lady Clare
promised that if she ever reached New -
York her chief pleasure should be inflicting
Mrs Timbury, and Mrs Timbury declared
that her affection should be shown on the
return voyage by her driving through the
Government House grounds. They parted
in silence, with strong probabilities of nev er
meeting again in this world.
At Port of Spain, where the steamer lay
four days, fato threw Mr. Quick and the
Titus party together in the same hotel, the
quaint but comfortable Hotel de France,
fronting on the public square, where vul-
tures aid coolies aro constantly at roost,and
Mao animosity betweenthe youngillesv-York'
er and Mrs. Tiinbury hod time to expand
and ripen. The children being too small
to enjoy sightseeing, they were usually left
under the care of a servant, and Mr. Quick
made the convenient fourth person in their
excursions, to share the comfort and the ex-
pense of a carriage. When they drove out to
the coolie settlement and Mn Quick admired
O peculiarly picturesque shanty, Mrs. Tim -
bury saw in it nothing but a hovel fit for
pigs. When Mrs. Timbury went into ecs-
tacies over the foliage of the botanical gard-
ens, Mr. Quiok was sure there were far bot•
ter corners in Central Park. Besides, Mr.
Quick spoke unkindly of the Clara, and
made suggestive remarks about Capt. Long.
So, when the atay in Trinidad came to an
end he and Mrs Timbury were as bitter en-
emies as a young man mid an elderly lady
could well he.
It is the custom for passengers to make
this Windward Island trip down and back
in the same steamer, the whole voyage
occupying ono calendar month. But Mr.
Titus had become so infatuated with the
French island of Martinique, where he ate
turtle steaks in the odd little Hotel des
Rains, in St. Pierre, that he determined to
stop off there on the homeward voyage and
wait for the next steamer,
'Mrs. Thnbury looked impatiently for-
ward to the next landing at Barbadoes, on
the return trip, where she fully intended to
call upon Lady Clare—not knowing, of
course, of the island ceremoolals that lock
Government House doors to the public on
all but certain stated occasions, It Was on
the 24th day of December that the Amazon
sailed away from Port of Spain, cutting
grandly through the smooth watere of the
Golf of Paria, and sweeping graciefully
through the narrow Dragon's Mouth, with
Trinidad on one hand and Venezuela oe the
other, and both within pistol Shot. And it
was afternoon of the next day, Chrietinas
Day, that the dropped her anchor in the
roadstead before Bridgetown, 13erbadoes-
The requirements of trade, however, .haVe
no regard for the outdoing of (moiety. When
Mrs. Timbury may tho Captain's gig lower.
ed, the boat that had been gallantly pet ai
her disposal at nearly every port, and whet
the Captain Saw hos gorgeously arrayed,
waiting for an invitation to go ashore, h,
dashedher hopes by holding up a warning
hand.
"Bo careful, Mee. Timbury 1" bo
We hove to make St. Luck; to -night,...
can stay Imre ooly one hour. You eon bare-
ly go Itahene and come hook, but there is no
time for 5 drive. Thiole how 1 should fool
if v3ti were to be left 1"
There was no help Mi. ; the vieit to
Lady Clare must, be abandoned. Mts. Tim -
bury carea nothing about landing again in
Bridgetown, where an egg dropped on the
curbateee would wok Mull in opo minute,
lout oven lier smiles could not, iiiduce the
Captain to remain longer.
'11 yeall wait till I change my coat,
Captain, I think I'll go ashore with you,"
said Mr, Quick, elated at Mrs. Tinthury'e
ti isoonifitu re.
" Harry up, then, young man," the Cap•
tain replied.
Mr, Qmiek hastened to his roam, and
threw elf his coat—the coat in whose inside
poeket were the officiel envelopes—and put
on another, The other was better, but
helLvite'IS.
"ipretty warm 1" thought Mr, Quick ;
=battened the second coat, and hesitated.
He pulled off the heavy coat, replaced
the first, (the one with the envelopes, tools
hisplace in the boat, and Was rowed ashore.
"I'll stroll around the dock, here, Cap-
tain, while you're settling your business,"
Mn Quick said, and the Captain disap-
Pealre.d.
NrQuick [strolled, bnt deliberately, for
the sun was blistering, and he strolled nat-
urally toword the shade, which led him up
the one short block Gut lies between the
landing place and the principal business
street of Bridgetown. Something induced
him to put his hand in the pocket where the
envelopes were, and the instant he felt them
Ito was seized with an inspiration.
Mr. Quick no longer strolled, but hasten-
ed, notwithetandiog the climate. Two
doors around the first comer he found a
stationer's store, where he bought a sheet of
paper and a square envelope. Scouring the
use of. pen and ink, lie haetily wrote this
note, imitating as well as he could a lady's
hand
" Duly Clnro's compliments to 'Airs. Pimbury
requesting ttiepica,ure of her company
.At Dinner,
On Thursday, 1,, 1010–,
ttieesi°.11'
Governmen'
This note he folded mid put in the white
envelope, addressed to Mrs. Winibury. Then
he drew mit one of the large official envel-
opes, "On Her ;Majesty's Service' " inclosed
the note in that and addressed itin a hold
hand to
" Mrs. Timbm•y, pesseoger on S. S. Amazon."
" Capital !" baexclitimed to himself. "I
send this out to the ship, and sot the old
lady wild. She gets iia few minutes before
we sail, so she can't go, of course, azid
there's no harm done. We won't hear the
last of this invitation till the end of the
voyage, anti I'll let the Captain into the
joke r
lt was an easy matter to engage one of
the colored boatmen at the landing place to
carry the letter to the ship, and the official
envelope, whose sacred character Mr. Quick
explained to him, lent speed to his oars.
But the Captain did not return, Mr.
Quibk left word with the ship's boatmen
that he Was going to the " icehouse," a
favorite Barbadoes institution where ice
cream and cold fluids are dispensed. When
he came out the boat was still at the dock.
He wandered up and down the street, and
still no sign of the Captain. Ho looked in
the shop windows, killing time; in every
way he could, and at length walked down to
the company's office. They had been ashore
by this time considerably more than an
hour, but the Captain was still busily en-
gaged with the agent, and could not, he
thought, start for half an hour longer.
Meanwhile the negro boatman on Ger
Majesty's service" marled the letter faith-
fully to the ship, and it was put into the
hands of Mrs. Timbury. To say that there
was commotion on board would be to put it
rolal 11 ri.1Y. Mrs. Timbury became almost dello,
" Is there any one waiting for an an-
pslivieora.?" she asked the steward -who handed
her the packet.
"No, Ma'am ; no one," the steward re-
.
" Oh ;1 thought perhaps there was a Ines.
senger from the Governor."
She pot the missive in her pocket and
took it out again. Road it and reread it.
Fondly read over and over the magic words,
" On Her Majesty's Service." Blushed,
laughed, almost cried for joy.
" It is just this way wherever I go," she
said to Mrs. Titus, as she put the invitation
in her hands. "1 don't know why it is,
but all the nice people seem to take a fancy
to me. But what in the world am I to do
It would be very rude to decline the invi-
tation, after Lady Clare has been so very
kind ; and if I accept it I shall lose the
ship."
"There might be another ship going up
to afartinique in a few days," Mrs. Titus
replied. "11 there should be, you could come
along in that. It would be too bad to lose
such a chance."
So thought Mrs. Timbury, and she in-
stantly made inquiries and learned that a
French steamer would leave Barbadoes for
Martithque the next day or the day follow-
ing. This settled the question for better or
for worse, and Mrs. Timbury decided to ac-
cept the invitation. Through her blandish-
ments the firat officer was easily induced
to lower another boat and ten minutes later,
(for it was now rt 4 o'olook,) after tearful
adieus with the Ituses, big and little, and
with a hastily-paoked saohel at her feet,
Mrs. Timbury set out for the shore. The
tide by this time had turned, and her boat
landed muoh further down the harbor than
the point where the Captain's boat lay.
It is worthy of remark, an prattallti that
hasi the tide nob turned at precisely the
proper hour, and hed Mrs. Timbury on.
countered the Captain and. Mr. Quiok, her
letters would not now, in all human proba-
bility, be addressed to Lady MeCurrio.
There is nob the least danger of any white
person landing upon the do& at Barbadoes
without attracting sufficient attention ; and
Mrs. Timbury was instantly surrounded by;
O mob of drivers of decayed coaches end
hangers -oil after sixpences, each of whom
gave her the best advice possible under tho
circumstances. The gleam of sense still left
flickering in her bosom induced her to go
first to the Bridgetown Hotel and secure
accommodations ; and thoro she had barely
time to give a finishing touch to the toilet
that WM already made, end to (mond a
minute in smiling admiration before the
;necked mirror,
When Capt. Long and Mr. Quick return-
ed to the Amazon, alter fully two houra
speot on shore, tho young man had it on the
end of Ids tongue (several tiines to toll the
Captain of the harmless little plot of which
Mrs Timbory was to be the victim ; but
when be considered how notch time had
elapsed and reflected that it was barely pos.
Bibles that the lady might have gone ashore
end tremble mime'lio wisely 11014 his peace.
The absence of Mrs Timbitry from the
leak gave hint some anxiety, but svhen, the
'hip again tinder way, hen seat was vacant
St dinner, the Captain (saved hint any
;nether susponao by ;taking in his bluff way,
" Where'a my friend Mre, Timbury?"
Thee it all came oat ; how Mrs, Timbury
rmsived mi invitation to dint; at Nov-
eri unlit House t how she Mel gone aalsore
in luietei boa how the would follow to Mar-
tinique two dye lame to rejoin the et's,
piety at St. Pierre.
Thankful then Wee Mr, Quiek that he had
not revealed his herniless joke to the Cep-
lio meld nothing, of ;muse ; but
reflected to slush an extent (het ite seemly
know whether he had roast turkey or salt
fish for his Christmas dinner. There would
be scone at Government House ; of that he
had no doul itt The forgery would he dis-
covered. Mrs. Tlinbury would follow up
Mao ;ship with blood in bee eye, tool, (hor•
rors I) she might catch it, Was it forgery,
he wondered, to write a fraudulent dinner
invitation 1 And wits there any ;mocha pen-
ulty Inc using ono of bloom official wwelopes
for private busincm ? The paper might give
e oleo and the stationer deacrthe him; the
bentinan could eesily be found, end he would
indentily him, Mrs Thnbury, be felt sure,
would not rest until alio discovered the
guilty person. There WaS no safety for hint
till the allip passed St. Kitt's and Was again
upon the breed Atlantis
Mrs. Timbury drove out to Government
House in the finest coach the hotel could
supply. It wanted ten minutes to 11 when
she entered the gates—the proper time pre-
cisely, Her Card Wee Sent to Lady Clare,
and two minutes litter she and that lady
were in each other's arms.
I um so glad to see you again," was Ledy
Clare's greeting, 'and I must take you
right up stairs to lay aside your bonnet, for
(mid its so fortunate) you are exactly iii
tone to eat Ohvistmas dinner with us instead
of on the ship. We dine at 5, and we must
not keep the gentlemen waiting—just two
or three oflicial friends of Sir Herbert's: Sir
Johu MaCurrie, and Lord Edward Paget,
and the Hon. Mr. Harriogton. You and 'I
will be the only ladies, for we are not
sufficiently settled yet to attempt a State
dinner,
lit the plenitude of her innocence Mrs.
Timbury had stumbled upou pleasant past-
ures, Mr. Quick was mistaken in his opin-
ion of the reception she would meet in Gov-
ernment House. People who spend half
their lives in studying and prim:tieing tlie
customs of polite society are not likely to
treat a ViSitOr rudely, and even if Mrs.
Timbury had not been a weleoine guest she
would not have been permitted to know it.
Mr. Qefels, however, we must henceforth
regard aS a failure—a dismal, irreparable
failure. He had sent his enemy to .eat a
Christmas dinner in the Bashadoes Govern-
ment House, Witli a lord aVOSS the table
and a Chief Justice by her side. He had
brought Moller as much -pleasure as he had
hoped to bring discomfiture. And above
all he had, in the character ot relentless
Fate, introduced bee to Sir John Windham
MoCurrie.
Sir John, C. J., was one of those colonial
gentlemen whose self-esteematones for the
absence of a great monk other qualities,
But ho was a mon of affairs, foe although the
salary of a Chief Justice in the Windward
Islands is only S1800, the honor is worth
loge amount ; and he owned, besides, a
profitable sugar plantation and lived in a
big house out of town, where a dozen color-
ed ladies tool gelitlemau flew to gratifyhis
slightest wish. He was chiefly distinguish-
ed in appearance by a broad red sash worn
around Ins waist so constantly that rumor
bad it he also slept in it—and, indeed, in
13arbadoes there 11110 blanket so coinfortable
as a strip of mosquito netting.
It was much in Mrs. Timbury'sfavor that
sho was slightly awed by the multiplicity of
titles surrounding her at dinner. That sub-
dued her girlish spirits somewhat and made
her much more attractive. So attractive
was she and so winning that Sir John
hilaCturie was smitten and took great pains
to make himself agreeable to her. He felt
this to be et piece of presuinption on his
part, for he was almost sixty, and gouty at
times, and this lovely young widow, who
seemed scarce past forty, and who had Seen
so much of the world and mingled in the best
society in many lands, might, he was afraid,
look upon him rather as a father than a lover.
" It is the most beautiful island I have
seen in the West Indies," she declared •,
and any one who has been in Barbadoes will
know how her inclination warped het..judg-
ment. "1 was going on to Martinique in the
steamer to -morrow or next day, but now
that I have aeen a little of this island I can-
not think of leaving it under a week or two."
"Ansi where are yon staying on the isl-
and, Mrs. Timbury ? Not in the hot city, I
trust?" Sir John affectionately inquired.
"In the Bridgetown Hotel for the pre-
sent," Mrs. Timbury replied.
Oh, that would never do, Sir John declar-
ed. There was a large hotel a mile or two
ont'of town, a favorite Winter resort; she
must allow him, if she would, to send his
sister to her next day to see to her more
comfortable accommodation, Mrs. Millbury
shyly protested„ but at length consented.
One single indiscretion Mrs. Timbury
committed while in Government House, and
for her to escape with a single one was 00 110.
common that it is worthy of note. She
found occasion to say to Lady Clare before
taking leave:
"I hope Sir John's attentions to me at
dinner were not too marked? You know'1
an such estranger here that I cannot be too
careful."
Lady Clara smilingly assured her that Sir
John was a man of high standing in Barba,
does, and that attentions from him must be
considered a great honor.
A friend of .Lady Clare, a frequent visitor
Government House, specially under the
proteotion of the sister of the Chief Justice,
Timbury's path in Barbadoese was
strewn with roses. The Governor's car-
riage was often ito front of the big new ho.
tel ; but Sir John could not permit her to
go sightseeing except in hot own oototh,
driven by his own liveried darky.
It was diming this period of ecstatic joy
that Mrs. Millbury wrote to Mrs. Titus in
Martinique, saying that never before had
she so felt the need of a matronly fi•iond
and counselor, Sir John's attentions, she
sold,were too marked to be overlooked ; and
she was in daily—nay, bourly—dread of
committing SOMO act, in the innocence of
het heart, that might seem improper in the
eyes of the Barbadians. She had, she con -
tinned, replenished hor wardrobe in the
Bridgetown stores, and her stay on the is-
land might be indefinitely extended, for
Lady Olese positively would not hear of
her departure. On the whole, ahe was en-
joying herself, and Sir John was ono of the
moat courtly gentlemen she had ever met,
8ix weelca after tilm date of this letter
Mrs Millbury took her new trunks and be-
came openly an inmate of Sir John Wind-
hain MeCorrie's 1101.180i but the Barbadian
801106 of propriety leas not shocked, for the
former Mrs, 'Millbury was then Lady Mc -
Currie.
The particulars of tide interesting court-
ship °mild not fail to be entertaining., but
they have no pled() in this narrative, for the
Otto of Mrs. Timbury vas settled beyond
cavil when young Mr Quick invited her to
eat Christmas dinner with Lady Clare. If
Iso could see her in her neW postition
tress of Sir John's establishment, her maids
timidly asking "Will my Lady have this 1"
Will my Lady be pleased to lurteh to.day 1"
the good old Connecticut Dolmen would feel
that he had not lived(hor died) in vain,
JAN 23, 1891
•
WHAT AA ThIBIAN OAA.STAND.
'rim Nereid Treatment Used WSW a Mar
Presets loco man.
To show whet an Indian eau stand when h
has to, I 011(3' tell of au incideot which ha .
poned during the winter 1 wee with them, To
ward evening on 10513 cold wiu ter day,whott
it was slum% just a li We and drifting it
grout deal, au Italian eelliC to the log hous
witn tt leg half full of whisky and with
rifle, I imagine that the jug bad bow
tirely full tel whisky when he started,an
Mao time he got to the holm he was itt rot
a jolly mind Won. Thejug and the rifle we
taken away from' him, and lie was ordure(
to got to lila wigwam as quiets as be could
before darkoess came on, Ho loft, end
was euppoesed to have' gone to the camp, but
early next 1110ining his squaw tippeored ab
the house and said he had not coma homo
Nutt night, and as the night was cold she
had been anxious ebout him, Then the
search for the lost Indian begam
Ho was found 10 0110 of the sheds near the
bern under a heap of drifted snow, end the
ehanoesare that the snow that was above him
haft helped to save his life, The searchers
for the Indian had gone itt different diree-
tions'and it was illf4 OW/1 6C11111117 WhO, with
true Indian instiuot, had tracked him out,
and she was alone when the found him.
Apparently the Indian was a frozen corpse.
She tmnbled him out of the !MOW bank
and pulled off his blankets( and dragged him
down to the oreek, where a deep hole was
cut in the ice for the purpose of watering
the cattle. Laying the Indian out on the
snow, she took the pan that was beside the
hole and, filling it repeatedly, dashed pail-
ful lifter pailful of ice water over the body
of the Indian. By the time the other
unsuccessful searchers bad returned she had
her old inan thawed out and seated by the
fire wrapped up in blankets. There is no
question that if he had been foond by the
others, and hied been token in the Mouse
frozen as he was, Ile would have died.
Thoonvenienoe of Being V siy Rioh.
To hove a 00Inpetence 1E1 to have enough ;
to have wealth is to have a surplus. A com-
parative minority at one social extreme are
engaged itt a bitter struggle to secure com-
petence ; another minority at the other ex-
treme are engaged in guile ea bitter a strag-
gle to secure a surplus. Is the prospective
prise worth the struggle ? Is wealth better
than competence ° If so, why?
Competence has comforts, wealth has lux-
uries ; and uomfewts aro better than luxur-
ies, What is the difference ; Comfort Is
pleasure with profit, loxiwy in profitless
pleasure. A comfortable meld gives pleasure
ih the eating, and erptips the eater with
health for his work. A. luxurious meal gives
present enjoyment, but impuira digestion an ;1
enervates the body, Comfortable clothing
keeps us warm, luxurious clothing makes us
delicate. A comfortable home is the nursery
of manly life; a luxurious home is its wave.
Nor are we to imagine that wealth ministers
in beauty to the oyo what mere competence
denies, The most beautiful homes are
neither the wealthiest nor the most luxur-
ious. (liven great taste and sinall purse :
result, the He me Beautiful. Given great
purse and small taste : result, the House
Ugly. lItindreds of contrasted homes in the
Units el States attest this truth.
Do we say, then, that we wish wealth for
our children, not for ourselves ? We de-
ceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
"Groat expectations '• are it dangerous
legacy. To expect something for nothing is
a demoralizing expectation, even though
one expects it from his own father. Andrew
Carnegie, shrewd observer of life, declares
that the worst use a man can make of his
wealth is to leave it to his sons. Some rich
men do teach their childeen solf-relianoe and
industry ; but they teach with difficulty and
at disadvantage What the ohildron of leas
wealthy parents learn by intuition and
neceasary circumstance, Only hardness can
make a hero, and hardness which comes in-
vited into common homes is barred out of
luxurious ones. The sons of kings are mrely
kingly. Tbe cradle that rocks a Moses is
made of rushes and daubed with clay. If
he had epent his babyhood in palace hall
and not in mother's hut, his °area might
have been different.
But men of wealth, we imagine, are free
front care. (inc moderate incomes are de-
pendent on our daily exertions, and there is
always a possibility that sickness or disaster
may deprive us of our work, and so of our
competence : the millionaire is independent.
On the contrary, no man is more dependent
titan he. To keep money safely is more dif-
ficult than to make it ; as any ono may see
who will compare the census of men making
et comfortable Income, with that of men losing
by an unlucky speculation or an unlooked-
for disaster the accumulations of a lifetime.
It is hard so to clip wealth's wings as to in-
sure his not flying away. In such a crisis as
that of the last few weeks the inen of compet-
ence have slept soundly ; the men With re-
served and surplused wealth have been rest-
less at night and haggard by day. Every
man of wealth carries other men upon MS
shoulders. Whether be will or no, bsis truet-
ed for others. His ruin means ruin to them.
Bis failure means closing the factory and
throwing thousands of breadwinners out of
employment, or a dropping of railroad stocks
and bankruptcy to hundreds of small inves-
tors, One might prefer the place of General
Grant to that of the private, but not because
the private has cares and the General is ex-
empt.
But if we only had money we could do so
much good with it. Yes I It ia always tho
men who have not money who think that
they Ootild do great good with it if they had
it. But it regoires more art to bestow
money wisely than to acquire it. "Let any
one," said a millionaire to us recently —and
one who is acting DS trustee of his own fort -
tine in a very wise and wide -reaching brine-
volence—" lot any one attempbto give away
5100,000 a year and do good, not harm, in
the giving, and he will find he has under-
taken a task of much greeter (Moldy tltan
the making of $100,000 a year." The truth
is so patent and so appalling to man of for-
tune that the men who make great fortunes
rarefy administer them, The money is paid
over to Boards of Trustees made hp,
not of millionaires, but of inen of compels.
once, who thus enjoy the luxury of giving
without the labor of acquiring.
We inaintain, then, the inconvenience of
being very rich ; and if any of ous read -
ere can put in brief compass the counterbal-
encing advantages of being a millionaire,
we shall be pleaeod to give them ail oppor-
tuniV to present the other side, Most peo-
ple holieee in the other side, bub we hove
yet to see a reasonable ground for that belief
intelligently and judicially stated.—Chris-
Sian Union.
Frank Uncles, of Auburn, N.V.., has
broken the world's mord at jumping the
rope, making 2,000 skip without a break in
14 minutes and 30 seconds, The best ine-
vious mord, 1,527 skims, was tnade by li L.
Sweeney, of Newport, It T,
The Russian Minister of Justice has issued
a private eircular to the judges and Imperial
procurators, notifying there not to permit
Hebrews to be enrolled ars barristers, aud
that those already pradising must receive
notice of expulsion.