HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-10-21, Page 2'HE BRUSSELS POST,
OCT. 21, 1892,
BEYOND REGAL
CIIAPT1:li V,
Metes IN VIE n111 ler Rent%
Aro ye a•ccmin', matey?" anted the
burglar, in a hoarse whisper, pausing after
a couple of heavy= ,tride, forward,
I made no reply,
Tragic affrays a roue common in the papers
that one reads of this man being h ilhol of
that one badly maimed almost with indif-
ference t but to hear the shot feed width
you know may have put a man to death
within a few hundred p tee) is auot her thio g.
I could not move, could not speak, for the
sickening nppro)teneinn of what was going
on behind hi the place 1 had but Met now
escaped from.
" Well, stay where y'arc," growled my
companion, taking my silence i, bad part,
and he plunged on with a verse.
Lang after lie was gone out of hearing, I
stood there, expecting some sound -nue the t
shot, a cry, et whletle, the approaching foot.
steps of Hookey or the police -anything to
take the place of that void in which 1 seem-
ed to exist; yet I heard nothing bet the
throbbing of the blood in my veins, and Lhe
occaaionnl pat of a drop falling upon n dead
leaf.
I found myself at the palings of the park
without knowing how I got there. I trust
have turned about and gone up the hill
mechanically. In the sante 011cons0iOUS Wny
I made my way across Wimbledon and so
• down into Putney. There I noticed that it
was a quarter to sip: by the clock of the
post office. It must have been eight when
I got to the house where I lodged in Old
Street Road.
Illy landlady met me on limeades, a can.
diem her hand, for the for; here was bleak.
and the daricness.reater than at Richmond
in the middle of the night.
"Oh, you're Porte home, are you ?" said
the woman, Lloclting the passage, "What's
gone of your hat?"
I put my hand to my head and iliseover-
ed that I was hatless. I did not notice it
before.
n•, t
"Aud what fn the wield l l arc you been n-
4 1
(loin' to yourself? You're tilt of a tress of
mud front end to side."
''I must have fallen down," I said, pas•
sing her, and going towards lay roam.
"0h, well, look here, young asa," she
called after ire, "if you can afford to go out
a-sprecin' all slight you can just mutate to
pay me what's any dues." She',rake off to
exclaim, ns 1 went lip the next flight of
stairs, and the light of her Lamp fell open
my feet, "Well, 1 never; if you ain't got on
goloshes. Look here, taster-"
But 1 had reached any room, and shutting
the door, I lost the ret. Still, as I went
about to find matchee and fight only hung, 1
beard her talking to the lodgers below iu a
high voice that was meant for my ear.
1 sank down on a emir before the lamp
that cast a dim glimmer on the grimy table,
I wanted to concentrate any tlemehts, to
form some clear and distinct ;'lea of what
should bo done in the tree; e; to which wa-
ters lind come. That ie what I road been
vainly attempting to achieve as I plodded
homeward. It seemed as if the fog had got
into my mind and blurred all idene in douse
obscurity. As 1 sat down something in my
pocket chinked against the chait. It Was
the pursegiven me by Debit Even that had
gone out of my mind. Now, as I held it in
my band, the soft, cool kid reminded me
of her tench. Would these gentle fingers
ever clasp my hand again? I asked myself
my heart sinking with a dint foreboding
that we had parted for ever, that the course
I sought to find must lead me far from Iter.
It is in losing a treasure that one realizes
all its value. That's the way of the world
-to mourn for those a little timely consid-
eration would have kept.
"She never reproached ane," I said to
myself, still tenderly caressing the purse ;
"never murmured against the hard fate to
which her folly and love have brought her.
How soft and low her voice wee 1 How
bravely she hoped on when I was sunk hi
cowardly despair 1 Oh, what I have lost !
If I could but recall those last few hours -
only the last minute -that I might leave
her at least the hope of better things ! Whet
has she to hope for? Whitt signs of tender-
ness or manly strength have I given hor?"
In this strain I continued to indulge my re-
morse for some time, and then, with a
llea.vy sigh, I eulntnoneil all my reaointion'
to settle practically what it was Iliad to do.
The better feeling that had come into my 1
heart when I found myself a adaptive had not
left Inc when I found myself once more
free. No; I would make areat etlort. I I
would do what was right. I cling to that j
idea as the one chance of redeeming myself !
and retrieving the past. Ono tiring was I
clear; I must no longer burden her with my
misfortunes. I would go away and leave
her in pence. I opened the purse and pour-
ed out the contents on the table. There ;
was quite a lot of gold. 1 spend it out on
the table. The board, dark before, was
luminous now with the glitter of it. I feast-
ed my eyes on it, saying to myself that not
a farthing sltoild be misspent; all should be
employed to the good cud she haul in view
when she pressed me to accept it. Oh, it
should come back to her with rich interest I I
At that moment the door was buret open I
rudely, anti my landlady cause in with her 1
invariable " Look ]tare, young man 1" Ilut'
there ole stopped, for her eyes fell on the
gold. She carne up to the table iu silence 1
and rested her knuckles on it, looking down
at the money, her mouth open, anis her eyyes'
round with wonder. There she stood, her
lips firmly closed, and, bending her brow,
looked straight at mt.
" Are von n miser or --or what ?" she ask. !
ed, in a maw tone.
What does it matter to you what I amt" .
•
-L!e
Ha was to jobbing turner in the Certain
Road. name ns what you are a carver ; ami
what with the cutting trade and strikes,
and n drop Of drink, and a gal, and ono
thing 00.1 ;mallet', he gent wrong, ong, I was
hard on him, and that mule hint worse,"
She unlet oli', her thick lips trembling;
then swallowing her hitter retlt etions, she
pursued„ ":1n'i so yotlu', eau, if this
fs the first time---n.nd 1 do think it
la, for you ain't given to eweurin' and
driulun', and ,lo behave yourself nitre like a
your legit Ilam a cal.inct inaker, mostly -
and sl) nu you're that dune by hunger you
can't stand it no longer, 1'11 let yea off yonr
runt, and maybe I'll find a few six peeves to
get e oar tools out of pawl, mud help you on
bit till you get a bit of a job, Pelt don't
you touch a penny of that money. IUs the
devil'. wae and can du you nn good.
, ( "it's tut angel's gift toed will make tauten
I of me," mud 1, springing up. "And let
me gel out of yottr debt i o begin with "
She looked at me steadily and then at the
money, I could see by the hardening of
1 her face that she still doubtedlnne ; but LIo
bad tiutee weighed in my favor, and she at
length took np the novelehgu and gave me
the change, For all that she couldn't leave
the room without protest.
"Mind," Fate she, "if 1 find you've been
deceiving me 1'11 be the first to round on
you."
I gathered up the money and put it in my
pocket. Then 1 found an old cap, and
went nut with a feverish eagerness to le
Working some practical progress, though yet
with no definite object. At the pawn•
broker's in Shoreditch I redeemed. my tools
and the ohl onicketing suit I had brought
with me to London; then I turned into
j n coffee slop and to: Iteartiht•,
It was tat 11 night to Inc. Pete gam flared
from the 1, atheist against the greasy wall.
1 Beyond the windows, where the steam de-
i srrilied the smears of yesterday's cleaning,
all was black. A boy coming in with n
; Latch of /topers trader his arm was the 001y
sign that another day was conte. Then my
heart beat quickly as I thought that those
', papers told of last night's tragedy -of my
escape. When the waitrwc laid one of them
1 on the table before me I scarcely dared to
npeu it, It was m surprise not to see a 11 d
headline harking the now !milder and bung•
Itry ; a etill granter when I failed to dis-
tover ra .bugle line referring to it anywhere.
1 eagerly got another anti another paper,
searching then through now with the hope
cf not finding chat 1 sought. Not a word 1
1'l'hen that shot I heard had not taken ef•
fact -no murder had been done, and the
mere escape of an unmerciful gang of burg-
lars had Leen thought of insufficient in-
terest. to form a paragraph. Well, that
was somethin„
I The fug Was clearing ori' when I went out,
and the sun shining by the time I got back
to my lodghtes. It was one of Haase sudden
ebauges that sometimes occur in November.
I washed end changed my elntees, looking
like another nen for it ; mien I shouldered
my tool Lag and went out, feeling that I
alight not return. itIy leedlndy was stand•
ing at her parlor door as I passed through
the passage, She shook her head, but said
nothing. It struck me she suspected I had
put on tide suit as a disguise. But it was
a strange one, if my end was to escape
notice. People stared to see a cricketer
with an artisan's tool bag on his shoulder.
The costume in itself was sufficiently out of
• keeping with the time of year ; but it was
• warm end dry ; that was all I cared about.
1 had taken a panel carved in high relief
to an ea t, dealer in Cheapside. He proal).
ed to put itis the window and sell it if he
could. 'Platt was months before ; since then
I had gone week after week past the shop
,without going in -the sight of my work iu
the window was sufficiently discouraging,
I Thither I bent my steps now -for the last
time, 1 expected.
There was a scaffolding in Moorgate
Street, and n poster upon it ought my eye;jit advertised a eheapline of packets to New
York I read it through, and went on, with
a presentiment that I should conte hack to
road it again, When I carne to the shop
in Cheapside I stopped dead short before
ithe window, and could hardly breathe for
1 the bonnding of my heart. ley panel was
gone 1 For a element my head turned with
a delirious belief that my talent was at lost
recognised -that my panel was sold -that
others might Le ordered -that, after all, I
might not Incr.to go to Now York -What I
might still stay near hor, and achieve sue -
tees to the way she eloped for. And why
should I not. \Vas net the field no open
and an large in England as in America
Now I had a little money, could I not wait
and study anti work with hope and con-
fidence, proving to her from time to time
that I had tared over a new leaf and re.
covered my manhood ? These land matey
more wild speculations and hopes were
crowded into that one minute, and then
they died in an instant, making a dull void
in my heart asI crossed the threshold, and
caught sight of my panel upside down at
the back of the stop amongst empty picture
iron:es.
' We've given it a fair trial, and it's na
use, said tho shopkeeper; ' people don't
want that kind of thing. Now if you could
turn ant snnething hunno•oue hn the animal
line and get it reproduced in imitation terra'
" It matters a good bit to Inc. You
haven't paid ate for tt fortnight, find I've
Been you eating dry bread more like a diary
ed dog tbnan a Christian, Yeti ve be it riot•
ting thinner and more haggard and Sore
wild looking every day."
'rake wheat I owe gen," said I pushing
a 0 edict across the •table,
No, 1 Won't tomb it. neon! I know it's
hone it 7yc nor: hyo, 1't• m rte ed to 1: 1
03 117 uhf m np„(- r,1
Not hit ,. -. ,.!i,1 ;. 1 000 nr7 hens*, ted
I ain't , ,e int-, If Mat trouble ter
n tit) eliteiegee
" 1)) yen t Link I'm a thief?" 1 u,ke,1, We
1110,, 10,31 i hod in my veine ruldting lot.
tip into my l.c+.
"I lame you ale -that's more.." cried
she, taming her Voice a0 1 had raised trine,
and rel niintt floreone"4 for ihereenea4,
" 1)nn't trail Dat tint's London mod on ynnr
elovves ! Look at it y::ller 1 Oh, 300
don't r, nem, e t And them tpie;ilra
hoc .iii you c„oto by 1 hon when yen went
out, le `Ant { 2t +
! lua,ld,d, 11 ty.' Isley hungry look that,
had reel 4e5,n"n tae, j ,.,t as my holl,rl::s•
ME; h., 1 3�,.od,n,1 loo in 1110 (''y+s of the
colletsbt,
" len ,or: y 1 r: toe -you tan_:; h, smote nem,"
e ei :e n. I, t 1 re ltlesa
sad Kln her v l 1 'art i s la 1
tmai:or s,r(3 1 r I.' in' your heart
" 1 1 0 1, 1, Nom l y tr
a•tnyin,. I'n. ;fru: at son, 1103000 help m0 !
cotta, we ootid sell 'em by the gross,"
I shook my head, and said 1 would take
my panel lawny, and so I went out into the
crowded street,dant before an object(
je t1
of remark by having
ving a panel under one arta I
to balance the tool bag over the otherl
eboulder.
Invtin'1ively I wont Lack to the scalfold •
lo ST.gItte Street. I road the paster ,
through slowly. At the toot was the ad•
dress of London agents in Leadenhall Street. I
fhn4 eras close Ly. \\'hy ant tin them, 5
matte by Inc cendtng a telegram Progress
with their nesee on a level with the bop tf and e01550e areal' very well. but theirstreot
the ground giase with which the lower upon quiet, old-fashioned folks is startling
part of the partition was glaze;. 1 in the eXtreale. So yon know the major,
There were time tables hanging top
against the wall, I occupied myself 1l) t11 have ink Win once," I replied.
learning the times of the trains to Liver- "So have 1, nee, Lhate ale 1. mat hint
pool tilt the reply telegram was heeded in, lasO week et the Cedars ; 1 enpposa you mot
" Yon Can hare a berth," said the clerk ;hint there +ileo ?„
" but VOtt'll have to Ito aboard, with all " 1'he t'ednrs at I smile, es if I: d11 not
nut traps, by tea o'clock ta.ulorrow muni• quite understand.
tag,"I ,t Vett ; the Cedars at flan. 1 went
shall Imre plenty of time if 1 tithe the there to see an old frutul of yenta, and 0
last train to•nigho from St, Patients."Intik older friend of mite -hiss Thane.
Then 1 paid my money, and went mutt tiebe'l'haue," Ito vont 'need in explantttien,
with a feeling that I was going the right for 1 mill pretended mit to comprehend,
fend now. as mu
1'uu know that elle hleft me, d ie
Nearly opposite the agents' Woe all out• Ilivint with her father, who has come home
litter's shop, where there seemed to be a iuillio; atme front Lldln,"
everything an emigrant 1ligl11 Rini. 1 went) " No," I sold. It ens not a moment to
in there and bought what Was neOessm'y, bn pellet/11111S 1i1,0110 a fa/Se/mod.
vcitihebox to pack lay 0001s, 'Canal, and ' Vim have nal heard of Wiat? Well
everything in. At the man's suggeetiou, vett ski rpr ve oto. I thought every one must
I changed my ilsemels and canvas shoes for levo heard of it. To be sure, though, Lou.
one of the suits 1 had bought, makirg use don in a vase city-tt prodigious city. Ile
of a I1,-essing room that atljtlilletl the shop, carne home soon lifter you left end took us
1 looked np my chest and tool; the key, all by stmrpr:ie. Never gave los ally warning
with n gunrmntee from tine outfitter that 1 of Itis cooing. Between eott and ate, if he
should find it ahoard the steamer when I had not fotuul her so attractive and charm'
reauhotl Liverpool. Here was another step
made, and ltiy heart was the lighter for it;
and so I went out with something of my old
elasticity and buoyancy, Jltit thangh my
lands were unencumbered, and I Walt no
longer hi flannels, the passers by regarded
me with curiosity. It is seldom one sees a
man dressed completely in brand new clothes
from cap to boots ; t he only mot I know of
that are distinguished in this way aro ro-
leased convicts.
It was long since I had felt so easy at
heart-eo well pleased with myself. 10.000.
ed into a chop house and ate 0 good dinner
with real pleasure. By that tone it was two prised if he makes Hebo-1 mean Miss
o'clock. I knew of a stationer's shop in the Thane -his wife."
City Road where ono can sit clown and I raised my eyebrows and shrugged coy
write lettere ; and thither I bent my steps, shoulder's as if such n thing wore possible,
resolved to write a letter to my wife, As I and might very well happen, for pill eared.
walked along, my whale soul warm and But in my heart I felt tho smart of jealousy.
tender with love and regrets, 1 thought out " I am glad, also, to see that sign ot in -
all 1 would say that alight make me merit difference, lyyndham," continued the old
the forgiveness of past faults which I knew man ; " and now I will tell you why, arra.
well enough her gentle heart would. accord, Lonsdale would persist in upholding that
you were nttauhotl to our deer girl ; that is
another of the conclusions that ladies in. I myself, mud boat's crow. Tee Princess call -
variably make when they see two young act ma and said she would be toady to go
people together. Of course 1 knew. I said when I thought It time. The day was warm,
from the first that you euro ranch too
with south wind, and, tweeds. afternoon,
sensible to entertain a (nigh regard of that clouds began to rise. About fear o'clock I
called the Indians, and the Princess was
ready. I took the stern of the boat, turn.
ing Ont one of tie men, rather against her
will, es she requested ln0 to sit down. I
told her I wanted to manage the canoe my-
self. We soon got op to the ground, about
_50 yards above the fall of the Hero Rapid.
After anchoring, the Princess handed me
the fly -book, saying, " You know best what
fly is twist likely to kill," Not finding n
lug, lie would have gone away as he cane
and left Hobe still with .ns. Perhaps I
ought not to say this. However he was doe-
ligbtad with the clear girl, and has fnrnisb-
etl her with a house and surroundings
worthy of a princess. I wont to see her
]net week, as 1 tell you, end it was there I
;net Major Cleveden-a most delightful,
ntnittbls gentleman, as 1 daresay you have
found him."
" Yes," said I, with a deep earnestness
that struck him.
" lain glad you thin 1 so; for quite between
ourselves, I should. 1.ot be in the least sur -
and encourage her to hope for better things
in the future than she had reason to expect
from my late eondnce \\'rapt in these
thoughts I trudged Meekly along, tailing
no notice of the people 1 passed, mud jests,
ling more than one in my haste to get on,
On the pavement just outshdo rho North
" (lot your tiuketV' asked the guard.
I held it up, He nodded and blew his
wide the
"Thank Heaven," I murmured, "site's
sofo!"
"hold hard there I" called a voice In a
tone of tantho•ity, and at oho same mortem
the door arae burst Opel) au$ two mein pt•o•
eenled themselves, 1 thought I know the
look of one ; though he wore a ntortt[ng suit,
he had the uuluistalcttblo air or la constable,
eeThat's him," said he, looking tot mo.
"t'ome out, sharp said the other.
" What for?" 1 demanded.
" What for? -wiry, for murder; that's
what for."
('TO nn CONTISt'Ittt)
Princess Louise as a Salmon Angler-
" ram
ngler•"rttw cnt't.n it. (011 0 A l l.vit 11"illi lurid 1'
The;Fishing Greet to publishes the fellow.
Ing Imlay from )L•. John Mowat, a Seotoh-
ntan iti his seventy-sccowl year, who for
fifty -live years has been familiar with the
Canadian selmnot rivers, and for about 0
swore of rare a llshing ellice', of the Dentin.
inn. itdesorilies haw Princess Louise killed
salmon on the Rcstigouohu river in Can-
ada :-
upon reading in Shooting and Fishing of
the 38th July of the capture of a salows' In
the famous Prinoost) .Louise Pool in the
Rost i ro ache I
h t was roninded of the night,
o' rather evening, that 1 named it On the
occasion of the visit of tete ]Royal party to
the fiddle( grounds, the lessees, Messrs.
Pleating e. 13ry(lges, gave np the river for
the season. Jt was 111 good trine, fine water,
fish plentiful, and no rods allowed. I was
ordered to escort the party to and from tho
Indian House Pool, and fitted up Mr,
lerydges' famous ,barge, "Great Molar's
.,host." When on our way down the river,
Her Royal Inghress said to ala :-" I au
not yet tired of fishing, please stop the boat
where you think we call have some alert."
I did so at the mouth of Chain Rook Brook,
half a lnilo or an below the )col. Lord Lorne,
the Duke of Argyle, and his daughters and
aides left es thee, going down in their bark
canoes, leaving the Princess, Lady Alac-
Namara, Carpenter (detective), two Imdiens,
kind for a young lady whose station was
London terminus in Liverpool Street, Inconsiderably above your own. lLre. Lone -
nearly knocked a stout old gentleman efl' dale even went so far as to maintain that
thepavemenn, as Ito stood with his hands you and our dear lIebe-\lies Thane -lad
behind hint looking at 0 time bill. \Vith a formed a secret engagement, and that you
hurried apology I posited on, when he call- had gone to London to make a fortune
ed after Inc- in order to be in a poeitiou to marry
"Wyndham) W'yndhant! Iiia Wyntl- her. It was nonsense, of course ; but
hat 1" the worst of such nonsense is that you can
Then stopping to see who it was that
celled ate, I found myself face to fame with
my kind old friend, Mr. Lonsdale, tho
Vicar of-(?)
" Why, you'ro the very man, 01 all
others, I most want to see, " he said.
"Pon come np to London on your no0oant.
This is a providential meeting indeed ;
most provideethal ! "
"There's nothing wrong l"Isued, fol.
tering ; fora sudden foreboding of ill over-
came me.
I don't knew, my good fellow, " he re-
plied. "Let as go into the waiting room
of this station, tt•hete we may talk it over.
CHAPTER 111.
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As we hurried up the steps to the platform,
he told ale that he had been looking at the
hill to find when the next train left tot
liiohmond, and that there was not one for
half an hour. This gave definite shape to
my apprehensions, ' He onnld have no
ohjeut in going to Richmond on my ac-
count, unless Hobe lad sent for liim,"
thought I; and that call must have been
mndo with reforenee to what had token
place in the past night.
"However," lie added, pausing to got
breath nettle head of the stairs, now We
have stet by this happy accident, you may
be able to sev0 me that journey, and so 0n•
able me to returnto--by the next trtun,
and set blrs. Lousdale's mind at ease. We
never got a telegram before, and it quite up-
set us 1 assure you,"
We wont into the waiting room and rest.
cd ourselves in a quiet corner, and while I
waited in patient anxiety the old gentleman
explored his pockets one after the other,
talking all the while in a low voice.
"\Ve had just hoisted breakfast," he
said "when the despatch was hrotghtt to
us. Where can I have put it? It's a very
thin one. And the moment she saw it, ;Mrs.
Lonsdale said, ' Something's happened to
that poor young intim, I feel sure. Ladies,
you know, aro soprano to make conclusions
of that sort. Yon see Kit, we have not heard
a word about yon for ten menthe. Where
eau I have put it? ' Pooh, pooh, my dear,'
said I; 'the young fellow is making
his fo•tulte.' Ialwoys prodioted that,
\Vyndhant. 'He's got his hands full
of work, and hap no time to think
of ue. ' \Viten we are happy, we aro prone
to be a llttlecareless-o little neglectful ;
like children who Orr trent want of
thought. 1 meat have pat it in my other
pocket. ' \Vyndhnu, you. may depend up-
on it, is prueperuns ;1 I an esldnin wrong
in gauging character t mrd from the fleet
I tltaintaillerl that you were bnuntl to
Boomed. And here yon are, to verify my
words, in asuit of Clothes that hallo as if
you had just come out of the tailor's '
"That le it, " I brake in ; "thin buff on -
veto 10,
")ear me, so it is. I thought it was a with her hands or her hips. Slee shorted
seep thecae Now tell plc what you intik(); seeing me.
Of that, " I " \\'hat, y'atl'OO clit,ctlol 'ctrl Attain !" shit
I optimal the telegram in an lin:dant ; ht iin tt1, referring ll) my clouted, ".Look lire,
an thus:- Iyonng num, if you've deceive: ane about
" Front Major ('I i'erlett : Post Oleic., le at Money, if you Vt1 1 (00(dstolen ptnperty
Shore,litch.-Have you seen or heard of i ou 00 oto, IT round on you ; mind that. 1
ale \Vyudhaut? Slnatd be arrive in the ,s;id 1 Wt, Hid, and i trill,"
never got it out ot a lady's head, though
I've almost Inst my temper with Mrs. Lona -Petry• I Pub" ono of my own, a utirltiling-
dale upon this snbjece. And so, you sea, j sized Brown.First fish broke hold before
when the telegram came she would ineiat 1 anchor was raised ; second fish the same be -
upon it that it referred to some Unfortunatefete it came Co the gaff, and this seemed to
escapade you heti got into through yourat-
disappoint her very etch. I said as the
tachm°tt to Mies Phone -drawling hen sun lowered the fish would take hold bettor,
con-
clusions tram the telegram being sett by and just then we hada slight shower with
this major. Well, I shall now have the some wind and cooler. It was then about
pleasure of undeceiving {ter when I gat six o clock, and the Princess struck a fish
home ; apleasure not entirely self congra• which held, and was landed in eleven and a
Wintery, but a pleasure nrhsing from the half minutes, and weighed 14 lb, in
vindication of your character for common Weight. Next fieh was feel hooked behindsense and straightforwardness. And it is o 6t11 -cover, and teak twentytwo min•
also a pleasure to me to think that no un- otos. Whilst playing Iter fish she said to
happy engagement exists between you and Ina : "Don't be afraid to vale mo if I do
tate wealthy young lady, for though your 1100 handle them properly. I should have
clothes are new and respectable, they do 21110(1 sed T feared last one ha would
was only
not suggest that appearance which would gothrough
be necessary to compensate a wife for giving She rapid." I said, " Von hold very hard :
up such tremendous advantages of position your cttstcottld bear no more." Our next
and surroundings as bliss Thane 110w en- fish was a 26 -pounder, ani 1 ho fourth and
joys," last a 27 -pounder, which I gaffed out of the
He continued to stream on in this strain, canoe when within fifteen yards of the rapid,
but I ceased to take in morn than the mere at eight o'clock, R'e could have killed
tone of his monologue ; for out of the hum an
bet rho midges were pretty plenty,
and whirl of the traffic in the street below and concluded to quit.
the hoarse voices of the newsboys ditched On our way to the barge the Princess said
themselves in tones that struck anew terror to me :-"If you had been with me all the
into my mind, time I would have made a much larger
"Spesitul ! Speshnl ! Extry B eshul !" snore (about thirty), and if ever I conte
they cried. " Doan' burglary and murder again you must promise too with me." I
Ibis day." then told her that the pool had no name,
It now oconnred to me for the first time and asked her permission to call it the
that the events at Hahn lead takers place too
Princess Louise Pool, and so it was Hamad,
late fon peblioatiou in the moruiug papers, 110ust say that few anglers could handle tt
I could hear nothing but those cries outside fish with Her Highness. She used a heavy
now ; the vicar's voice was int an accom-
panying drone to my ear. arm (after the fish holt got his second ran
A bookstall was just oppostle the waiting over) would lift his head clear of the water.
room. Presently1 sow a boy hang up the
contents bill of au evening paper, and I Showers of Dust at Sea,
saw in large letters open it-" leering Bur- About the latitude of the Caen Verde
glary at Ilan !-Desperate Encounter-rl Islands on the Atlantic it is frequently the
1 olicemau Killed , Every instant I ex. experience of navigator's to observe showers
petted the vicar to catch sight of the sheet;0f red duet and other paradoxical matter,
but le still droned on, 0000 lied solely with The material of those dttst showershas often
Iris own opinions and reflections. Sttd- been examined microscopically, first by
deuly be stitrted one Ehrenberg., who gave it as Ills opinion that
"Bless my heart," said he ; " five min- etnttll narttcles carried aloft from all ooun-
utes to three. I shall lose my train, tries collect into a sort of 0 dust zone, high
He shook hands hurriedly, and we parted, over the locality named and that atmos•
to m3' intense sathsfaotiou, Iherele changes onuses it to fall in the so•
I slipped apelny into a boy's hand and called "showers," Thohe omenon has
book his paper,. There was a cunei; in my lately been the subject of much study.
bruin, One thing I reeogniscd-the major Hellman examined the books of 1106 ships
had sought me on sono pressing occasion that passed through the region in question
connected with the night's events. I meet during the years between 1854 and ' 71 and
sae him, and I should not bo likely to fund Professor Hankie, ti:o books of 9000 ships
him at my old lodgings. I knew not why, that have passed tlu•ough the " duet belt
but I folt that every one was look!ug nt me. since the last of the observations taken by
I dared not open the paper until I gat into Hellman. From data thus obtained the
South Street, where there were but few following facts have heed elicited. Most
people to watch me. of the dust falls occur in the zone of the
There was, all detailed in full, with the Atlanto lying between 0 degrees and 16 dmlarge ltoadlineI hail expected. A pol 10001011 gross North. South of 0 •degrees north
had 10et shot, The burglars had wailed they are extremely rare ani the farthest
in the dense fog. 1'hotolioo tree iu p00. 8011011 noted was tidegrees 50 minutes north,
session of information onl>ich Would prefab- nil degrees west. The two teethes() falls
ly load to the modem) cf tiro murderer. to the west were both in 38 degrees 5
'My lnudlndywas 'standing onher tlmshold minutes ; abent300miles from Cape Verde,
Dust falls often 000111' simultaneously et very
4it1'creltt points of the " Dunk le Meer" or
"Dark 80a," no Ehrenberg calla it. In one
cage shmultalootsdust showers wore Only
1.80 milee 01)800, Sometimes they continuo
for several 1103/0, ars wan the case in April,
1830, when duet fell oonstattly for ton clays
and 'ileitis, Hankie *aye that Oleic are
100,000 square miles of Ole Lastorn Mien ti0
which may receive dense dust shove's at
any time.
rile', urn title da Berth? TIm thing W01tl(1
he!iur.,lu'l then, Bettor that than wasting
any money iu dribblets en 0 forlorn hope.
For her mato I might to go. 'i'Imt eettled
it.
ters. 0f the slay, telegraph Lu me at 011e•:, " i law any one bl-ot, hero to see 1110 7" I
Address es ;demi- o:kol, Impel wetly.
The major to have t.1 .,..duel from " Ye', there has lit s left a letter for
b ss
Shorodti"muVic at iy ltd.: la ou to 1 v '. h ;not the sone r I get that tett of n,y
1 honed my way to the mid/ming agents in 1
reef l'nit'1 :street. 1 be elicit gaped 1 a:1 lite
hie;, to, 1, e -ed army unhappy won
t -t 1.. v., n'rne 11,10 that - oil,.le tau with the
ta•e:,i;onw c;lnpw•hnlslWa;rthe.
0t. 1n 111,I } m Nor.:0114t (bowel 0, Hein .
ettl et tint 110 , as l
' I wan' to too to Nnw•Yorlt," I la g ot, I
•' '%' hnlroknd, el,fog his month et
last,
' A,t eine as 1 call."
" (Otre of our steamer.) leave, Liverpool
ln•rnnn raw,"
""Phil will ren."
"lint I delta knew if there's a berth
lefI.
('ttn'l yeti find oaf.?"
"VCE, m half an hour, if yon like to pay
tura intro.'.
1110110 ehiltmn, end said Iwadi wait
for tie reply. leo sent a Inv in t.ho port
with n, 1rbutr41nl, and withdrew inn, 0,11
inner oiliest to tell itis fellow clerk)) of the
getter etlstnitten Who 00111 ed to tmtigrate,
Manning that way, 1 saw a row of beetle
1
ndptnnr, W plot nn, '1'1, , ..Olt, th.. 1, 11,r 1 i i 1 shell bo, I've
oy (Nei 10 my wife, \\'hy 0;,,s ,,, 611 ll) v 0 el n•rnL'e emeige, oral I ,inti leitet 10
lova 1n lilnl. 111r'? ill l:, tont•e."
Tappngthe Ground to Purpose,
London itduetrial eete'prises aro likely
"r an you troll me what it imeme, Pet 'Irr .:et us• e hetes Lula 1„.,, r,no;,cd, 1 in 1 he erste retire to devote more and more
tete." elr, temaleee, a.:) ire; 1 1 to i„,l).1 Fee it
0111), I'h• '.c -u; Lu: tun lima nu ,(.)11 i,`11 . 10 Ole tit to ntt welt Tho, two
5,1,11 tho '01,•r:r^rm iu 1 nu tee :•,:,. most tenths borings within Ole rrnrtln unli-
" I ant tt•piu„ 10 1101.1, '' t.;'' 1 1, vat:1,1y. •'Cat ttit Ihn 0,110 :ry at un e, If you 1110 :1100 Ilea lhitt whichanpplhes 1l'e 'eau'
"t\ a 0,0;71 0 00 runlet al met it by )any l,y'• /tee Ler -...-' (, " Latins of 'Praia/Ear '`+Clea •a and that, which
pot lieson and so 1 thou ;ht. it c-.-,1 to colic I /0,101C11 aofur:.1 er hn etitivo. A odd, wa0 lion iu the bode yard of 11eux's Brewery.
The delleulty in Ie overcome has been the
rmuparvltively high cost in nonsoquelee of
the greet width of rook to be traversed
tote111 the deep lying water 13 remelted, A
few yea's ego a „e001001am forsook rho urt-
colli hn paths of jeurunlism in older to Me
prove the world in tauot.licr Way by keeping
it, lintel chant. Ile oslnlllshrd e. stone
leundty in the Weet-le;nd of London, im-
ported 11p0rha1 cl:u.hinoy fr0ut the United
ta,tCM, sank his nett well, and nov wnahea
for n",te lni.nnhors of Clio aristorr+ttie world
that anyoneeiee in town. lits up<,•i•:li(3, fs
intro Water, and the Wvhiten5as til his linos
ie certainly unique in this eme kvriddel
C
it
r slut while his water rate is 1
> t wtltlug at
all.
ILL e1 1c and sce the inner Letteelf, i've erAnYlimt along th • Irr' t. 1..pron g in mud
Lara hl a font -wheel cab (•rtL. post tiller, t't',d the •lriver to t.., Me to tit, I'an't,a;+.
Shoraditr•h, Nn le not lhrrr j hitt 1 am As he ll) ue,115010.d I (taught ,a 311114e
ready to go and fin,l him at Riche -mild if it of my Imelletly : Ler lipr, l 'n;:lted up ; her
is expedheut or adviv,l l•." else as herd are freai, She shook her head int
1 saw ih tt :r,utolbit . 111111? he 40110 to pro- "to nanh emsly,
vett h)s ter ittft there 0 11h the telr,unon ani "Whet; a the next train tor Lhverponl?"
u+endless talk, 1011 11 rou1,1 hll fail to Imi:odu 1,01011' as 1 jnutped nut of the
O ,U',c 1,1,1'1'Ittn e's tall ion; ..lrpphn, cal.,
toy hare., not if soddenly Femme', ring g to loot " 1tee T1 1111113 111 nn aha main Hue now,
tat11, I said - f.rcl: sharp, meaty, 313
"\Vby,then mind Lethe 11;lot'1l,:v,den 1(ut.0.ytielt,.t:end Itut ;lung t1epk0L•
w ho gave ale 1 ion mesion fee 011 ever -11111.11. m,l
l• 701 11, The engine wan his,g ; the ours
tel.' were slamming t,h ; a hell tang. f embed
" t•., v
1 U,it nm nn that 1 ; sten n•. rt h] way through Aiu kanL of p• 1 r•
w \\l+1, waiting n
1 a y Y1• i .eat ail t
trifle to eal.ee NO 11111111 11111`IINIIII.'1n4 O see them friends of 1111 1 r. , e
ttu i t ng into n oar•
would have thought it to wtatter of lite anti hallo, I teas tin; lad or,
POETRY.
Crossing the Bar.
Suneet: end Firer' r,1
u rvenin • 01 n,
And ono ) Il for m0 t
:l e n c Chore be no moaning of the bar
W
lVlla•111 pint eta tm Nne,
IS :1; etteh n tlm:' ne ocean vnntna asleep,
\\•hemiliit. vhim'ti etvlfrom010the bocndlcss
deet,
Til Fns egndti hake,
Twiligln end evrnh,g bell,
And error I hat he dark 1
And may 1 ter; he no nachos, of favewell
Wien, I ueluu•f„
Par though from out oto' bourne of time and
Were
The flood may bear 1115 far,
1 holm totem lay Pilot Eden to rase
\vheni Melee crewed Ole btu'.
-•'Pc:Vnvso10,
Au Autumn Landsoape,
No wind there le MO either pipes or metope;
The flohteate void end 01111 ; L1(0 slay
Is eovo•ud n'llli 0 bnie•gr.t3' shoot
Of nlOWoW0,tncluttd 1 turd nt my feet
The river, rurllug stiffly hyo,
Whispers and tllmplee round its quiet gray
stones,
:long the chill green slopo that dips and
Mateo'
Thu rend runs rough and silent, lined
With plum -trete,. tutoty and bluo-gray,
And poplars pallid as the Flay',
In uuasscs spectral, undefined
Palo gvcon ivh stems half hid la dry groi' leaves.
And on beside the river's sober edgo
A long fresh field Iles Mule, Beyond
Low thickets grtty and reddish stand,
Stroked white) with birth.; and 110x0 at
hand.
Over a Itttde atoohernooth pond,
Hang multitudes of thin and wintering sedge.
Across a waste mrd eatery rise
A ploughman urges Ids dull team,
A stooped gray figure with prone brow
That plunges boneing to tdjoplough
With strung uneven steps, Tho stream
Rings and ro•oelloes with hie furious cries.
Soisetlnlee the lowing of n cow, long•drawn,
()nines From far oil old crows In strings
Pas on the upper silences.
A flock of small gray gold finches.
Flown down with silvery twittering.,
Rustle among Ole birch 0ou00 and are gone.
Thio day the sOasot eeoms like ono that hoods
With fixed ono end lifted hand
_111 moods the t yet )aro known on earth,
All motions that nhave fnin
te't birth,
'Ir ea I>shc may nde tend
Thu utmost Inward sense of all her (lcedv.
-Amonneon Laseat,tx, in I-larper's Magazine,
for October.
The Plower -Girl,
The sold wind nipping 5.t her feet,
She loiters In the busy street
Forlorn and lonely,
And proffers there with wistful eye
Pale b!ossouls m the passot's-Uy-
A flower -girl ottly.,
Yet never has her young lite known
The dolls nnd vallc>'s where have blown
'rho flowers she lingers.
She knows not or the charms that 011ng
About the woodland; ways, when Spring
On Summer Angers.
Her little toot has never pressed
'Otto dewdrop on the gamin's breast
At arra or morning:
Xor did oho ever yet behold
Tho genial autunm's fruitful gold,
The plata,: adorning.
The likes that 00,0 holds for sato
Are not. In Booth, so sirltly pale
As her young flute 1 -
A faro th"tspealteth eloquent
0f life in thrall of pnortith spent
Down sunless place;.
She roes not In the flowers she lolls
Young April twinkling en the foils
Or in the wild wood;
Hut w'O, 00 whom they spank of Spring,
May hero some bit, of sunshine bring
To cheer her childhood.
The Queen's lions.
Miss Francis Low describes the large'
collection of dolls dressed by Her Majesty
when a girl at 'Kensington Palace. The
article has been read and revised by the
11,teen, who sent, through Sir Henry Pon-
sonby, the following memorandum :-" Her
Majesty was very much devoted to dolls,
and indeed played with thein till she was
nearly 14 years old. Her favourites were
small dolls -small wooden dolls, which she
could 0000py herself with dressing, and
who had a house in which they could be
placed. None of Her Majesty's children
oared for dolls as she did; but then they
had girl companions, which she never lead.
Miss Victoria Conroy (afterwards Mrs.
Hammer) came to see her once a week, and
occasionally others played with her, but
with these exceptions she was left alone
with the companionship of her dolls."
In a postscript Sir Henry Ponsonby
adds : "Since writing the above I have
been informed that it is not correob
that 'none of Her Majesty's ohildren
oared for doll's,' as the four eldest Prin-
cesses were very fond of then." In a sub-
segment note Sir Henry adds.:-" The
Queen usually dressed the dolls from some
costumes she saw either in the theatre or
private life." There is, indeed (Miss Low
writes), ample evidence in the caro and at-
tention lavished upon tho dolls of the Ma
ntense importance with which tlioy were
regarded by their Itoyal little mistress ; and
an additional and interesting proof of this
is to be totnet hi what one might oall the
" doll's archives," These records are to bo
.found in an ordinary copy -book, now a little
yellow with years, on the inside cover of
which is written in a ohilcdisll, straggling,
but determined handwriting-" List of my
dolls." Then follows in delicate feminine
writing the name of the doll, by whoa it
was dressed, and the charmctor it represent-
ed, though this particular is sometimes
otnitted. \then the doll represents an
actress, tho date and name of the ballet are
also give], by means of wh!olt one is enabled
to dotonnino the date of the dressing,
which must have been between 1831 and
1833, whoa, Sir Henry says, " the dolls
weal 11,10101111 sway, Of tem i33 dolls pre-
served, the (,Neon herself dressed 110 fotvor
than ell, in a few of which elm was helped
by Baroness Loltzen, a fact that is scrap*,
Mealy recorded in tho book ; and they de-
serve to be 001(led clown to posterity as an
example of the p0Lienee and ingea pity and
exquisite handiwork of a twelve -year-old
princess.
How to Polish a Stove.
"Women generally work twine as barites
necessary over bl+tehtilig a stove," Said a lady
wham Wo found one day engaged in thtat
unroutantie nuolpetion, Into had on da pair
f gee leather gloves told was applying the
blael; lay, with tie round late of an ordinary
shoe.brush, which she sad was lighter and
therefore 1,0,111 more easily wielded than
the usual 001,ye•brush. The other side of the
brush elle used in polishing with light, oven
01.rokcs like an expert bootblack, ".I always
keep soft paper bags from the gr0eeries
tucked in this box mtiletl up near the stove
and every day I slip two or throe over my
gloved hand and give 10 a rah; the conse-
quence is that I only need nppiy polish Oreo a
week," Another little thine worth remem-
bering in regard to stove oloaninlg is to wipo
the dust from the 50i>V thoroughly bolero
you apply any polJnlh There le always It
tight acid a wrong way to doe, thing and the
wrong way doubles the task.
In waiting for richt rotations I;0 deo
1 wl t g don't
wait so long as to logo all your °terry,
i