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store suttedl to my minuets and. rancy,"
"By Jovel And what is its Craig? lint!
it was a queer notion of Mrs, Newburgh's
to Suppress it. I suppose you haven't heard
or sewn anything of Waring?"
NO or COMM not,"
Nor anyone ciao either! Can't
think
what', become of hits Some one dfd say
he was training a colt for the Derby. I
dare Bay he l3( glad enough now that you
have broke with hull,. Can't understand
why men marry)—must be an awful bore."
"I have no doubt he is obligedto me."
"And you are deucedly sorry you gave
, him the chance, eh?"
"You would not believe mo It I denied it,"
"Well, no, I would not, though you are
arum sort of a girl, Mona. I always
liked you, You say what you think, and
you held your own with that grandmother
of youre, who was as big a tyrant as I have
met. Yon are a fool, too, in ninny ways—
ready to cut your own throat fur an idea;
but there's something taking about you.
[ never thought St. John Lisle would lose
his heal as he did on your necouut. I had
a:1 I ter filen hire some ttme ago—asked
why le: no. Seen your m.areinge an.
nottsc-,.1.....c3.33 ! it in a postser(pt—„(nays
a ha. 1 ' vn d % art tulsh weakens,. Where
do y„u I iv,3, for J1 raven'., wn1n' We must
be aim '• ,or,,ing the far at.
"Do not vome any further, Bertie—you
will d!3r oh 1 dt:;ai,”
1o, I will not, bat you will, 11' it's afew
lath fare u; let me te.333tra rob, be-
fore we leave I:.e haunts of civilization be-
hind no."
"I thins: ten minutes more will bring us
to nor due iattiom bat to rept' year own
amiable candor, I would rather you did not
eche."
"Al, but I will. I am determined, to
see your lab',"
"Fell, I cannot prevent you, but I do
not want you," rejoined Mona.
Ln a few minutes they reached Mme.
Debrisay', abode, and on opening the door
that individual was discovered resting in
an arm -chair, beside a table set for tea.
Her bonnet lay on the door beside her, and
her thick and undeuiably disordered black
hair was uncovered.
"Tadd is Bertie L+'verard,". said Mona,
quietly; "Evelyn's brother."
"Vary pleased to see him, I'm sure," said
madame, rising bravely to face the intru-
der, a"a not deigning to pick up her bon-
net, "Your sister was ono of my most
charming pupils."
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"Oh, indeed!" returned •Everard. "I
should not have thought it."
"And you find your sweet cousin looking
well! I have done my best to take care of
her."
"My cousin?" elevating his eyebrows.
"Can you tell me the exact degree, Mona?
—lirst, second, twenty--3fth?"
fit "Oh! a enusiu removed to the vanishing
point of relationship. I have not the fatnt-
est wish to claim you, Butte."
"Really, Mona, my dear, that is not the
111 retort courteous."
"If you knew Mr. Everard better, dear
madame Debrisay, you would know that
he despises courtesy in himself and others."
"I only hate shams," said Berge, frankly.
"Let one offer you a cup of tea," said
time. Debrisay, rather scandalized.
"Thank you; I shall be glad of it, after
oar long, dusty walla. Really, it's not so
bad, now we have gothere," looking round
with visible examination. "Itis a better
room than mine in the Temple. Now, toll
me, how do yon manage to rub along?"
"Madame Debrisay and I have entered
into partnership; she takes the big pupils,
end I take the little ones,"
"By George! Does the squalling and
strumming pay for all thisP" waving his
tea -spoon comprehensively round,
"It does; but then you must remember it
is all in the fourprnce three farthiugsstyle
et expense," said \Imo. Debrisay.
"Gad, what heaps of money we waste!"
exclaimed Everard, putting down his cup.
"What sums my fattier gets thronohl I
suppose yon never go to parties or things
of that kind, so living out here is no con-
sequence. Why oto might live for half
nothing up here."
"There are no rooms to let in this house,
Butte,"
That is a pity. (food -morning, Mrs.
Debrisay; good-bye, Mona,"
"Happy to See you again," said Mme.
Debrisay. "You are really quite a charac-
ter."
i "What the deuce (foes sbo mean?" asked
Everard of himself, as he took up Itis neat -
3,' iy rolled umbrella, and opened the cloor,
a white Sime, Dobrlsay screamed after him
, to turn right and gm on to a large church
where the city omutbuses passed every ten
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1'hey had gleams of diversion too, for
Mnie. Debrisay had friends and acquaint'
811005 of )tsr own protOSSlon who often gave
Iter tickets for concerto, and orders for the
theatre. These were amusements of which
iltone had enjoyed 1111 little during her
resido1ce with Aar grandniothor, whose
fixed principle it was never to pay for
0f the sort. Titov were a source of
groat enjoyment, for Mona was peculiarly
alive to beauty and harmony, and bad
e', something of the dramatic glib herself.
l'. A very /tot July had driven away all
r. Mine. Debrisay's pupils, save two or three.
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and bout were pionning a course of needle -
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some small housekeeping errand8 as llfine.
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tug she bousc sa I , bitch -key, was sur
rattail to hens s semi of snarling nal
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which was epee. ti tag In quickly, she
beheld. Maw. Del»'teas, her cup slightly
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and Mona quickly snatched up the shawl.
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most wept lime. Debrisay. "I got it at a
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worth two hundrej'aeasgod as �Cflve !taItvei
new. 115(11 not live in the house with
such a brute/”
"I am sure, ma'am," said the landlady, .
coming in, "I am that sorry—I don't know
how to express It. I don't know what's in
the dog. He is always trying to rue up
here, as if he knew it worried you."
hove no doubt he does," returned
Mme. Debrisay, examining her lace.
"Look here! There's a tear for your here's
another! It's just ruined."
"1 think I can mend 1t, dear," said Mona,
sympathetically.
Now, Mrs. Pudditord," insisted Mme.
Debrlsay, impressively, to her landlady,
"I give you your choice—either that savage .
brute leaves the house, or S will. Be sure There is my card, but I Vlve ever so jar
you explain matters to Mr, Rigden this away."
night, and let me know the result. Either "Guid preserve usl—it's clean gene! My
he sends away his dog—or goes away with pocket has been picked!"
his dog—or Miss Craig and Igo, this day "Ohl that is dreadful! I hope you ]rad
week!" tragically. not much in it?"
"I will, ma'am!—I will/" sniffed the lit- ! "Too much to losel A bit of gold, half
tis landlady. "I foresee a heap of trouble. • a crown, and a saxpence. Now T canna
Mr. Rigdeu—he is that obstinate and nay for my drap o' speerits."
touchy!" "That is a mere tribe—I will pay for it."
The landlady retired, pressing the corner Going to the counter, she said—"This poor
of her duster to her eyes; while the yelps gentleman's purse has been taken, I must
of the dog were heard from below, where •Pay for what be hes had."
he was being tied up. I dare say it is an accident that may
The next day was stormy, with heavy happen to him again, 1f be finds kind
thunder -showers, and Mine. Debrisay Young ladies to pay for him," said the
would not hear of Mona taking a journey to buxom woman behind the desk amiling—
town in search of materials to repair tho "sixpence, please."
damage done by the delinquent Dandle. "Do yen feel equal to go home," said
Moreover. a council of war had to be held. Mona, who was beginning to feel a little
Mr. Rigdon yeas observed that morningashamed of her quixotic attentions to this
to draw his umbrella from the stand with elderly waif. "I will get you a cat if you
a degree of violence which upset all the like."
other umbrellas and sticks, and "banged" "Wait a bit. Where do you bide? I
the front door with a reeklessness width
was in itself a cases beth, Soon atter,
Mrs. Puddiford appeared with a rueful
countenance.
"Well'., I have spoken to Mr. Rigden.
Ile is noweys inclined to hear reason)"
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and get home."
Struggling to his feet, and seizing his
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0101 was 006 P4u111 mu I„ • gri tel none i "and I'll never forget ye, never. Could
-sedmoa 01000(8 1(0) ogm'anoln( pies „'esi4i you find mo a shut -up cawb? I canna bide
samurai Mao v gsa.1 104gaq pegtio,„ you things, wt. the driver stuck upbehind.”
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canteen= 1wig 'peg Sul os ,13(41481 ,ns Sag some haggling, with infinite difficulty and
smut I Stipa( Sano61m '001 o4 uap(oteeq tunny groans, he scrambled in, dropping
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3301011 nun ed!l sit os 83(0311 aq4 gad eta ! Mena, "I wonder if Madame Debrisay
„•0.S )30113(3-0S Kavas„ will scold me.”
muoyq 1 But Mme. Debrisaywas in aplaoid mood
40!:.03 „'043(4 I0 011343 II 031e1 put Sal. I when Mona reached home—for madame.
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seen paumgdn t(snoigdlua3uoo v sale most amazing," she observed; "though we
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a trip anywhere—not prudently; and you
cannot put by anything. At all events,
you have not reduced your own bit of
money 1mlch, that's a comfort; keep ,tight
hold of it, dear,"
Having heard her friend's summary; and
assisted. to :educe the sea 0f small account
books, scribbled scraps of paper, bills, and
receipts to, something like order, Mona re-
lated her adventure, and madame did not
scold,
"Well, it was funny! May be the old
gentleman is a millionaire in disguise; they
are generally queen'. May be your six-
pence will prove the sprat that caught a
vhale."
"You have too much imagination, Deb,"
quid Mona, laughing. "There wee noth-
ing of the millionaire about my old man.
) was too humble for a moneyed man.
want to pay ye what you've laid oot."
"Oh! never mind; it does not matter."
"Ye aro a Scotch lassie?"
"No, I never was in Scotland."
"Ail I thoeht ye were, from yer bonnie
reed bead."
Indeed!" said Mona, laughing.
"Weel, I'll no leave this till /know where
I'll find ye."
"There is my card then, but I live ever
so far away. Pray do not trouble about
me; I am very glad to have been of any use
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"A11! And now, what was your mother's
3(a(0e?"
"Newburgh.”
"Ay, just so. Your father's name wag
Sohn Craig, and he was a clerk in the
Western Bank of Scotland?”
"His name was John; but I know little
else about him, I remember faintly that
h0 was kind and loving,”
"Well, I knew him—knew him from his
babyhood. My name is Craig—Alexander
Craig, and I am your father's eldest broth-
er."
-"Indeed/' cried Mona, touched, nay,
even pleased, to meet anyone of her father's
blood. "Then you are my uncle—my own
uue10l"
"I ala that," he returned, earnestly. -
"Bnt, my dear sir," ejaculated Mme.
Debrisay—"forgive the caution of an old
woman of the world—can you supply some
proof that you are this dear child's nearest
relative?"
"You are right to be cautious, stem. I
have a letter from my niece's grandmoth-
er, written near fifteen years ago, offering
to take her and provide for her, if her
father's people would undertake never to
come nigh her or interfere with her. I
was a bachelor, and a busy man. I never
RIM/roved of my brother's 'marriage. Ile
took a wife from a class that despised his
own, so I just let the poor wean go. I
loved your father," he continued, looking
at Mona, "almost like a son. You have a
look of him, and a bonnie reed heid 1Jk_
ms. Xour mother was a• pretty, dark-
haired lassie; but I lost him when he mar-
ried, She was too fine for )3(e, and I lived
away from them. Here's your grand-
mother's letter." He took out a largo
pocket -book, from the recesses of which he
drew a letter, and, handing it to Mona, ob-
served—"It's not over ceevil. She is just
a13e of those aristocrats that think a' the
world's dirt but themselves,"
Mona took it, and read the short, sharp
statement of Mrs. Newburgh's ere(3uire-
ments, which was addressed to "Mr, Alex-
ander Craig."
"Itis indeed poor grannie's writing,"she
said, passing it to lime. Debrisay. "I am
glad to find you, uncle(" and the gave her
hand to her new-found relative,
"Thank you!" he exclaimed, holding it a
minute. "It was just the guidin' 0 Prov-
idence that Y brow ht you
yon on 1(40480030
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street to help mo, When Ilooked iny our
face I felt you were nae that strange. But
seller's your grandmithor?"
"/u her grave," said 14,0110 'sadly. "Slee
died Suddenly—in my amts."
"I hope 0111 yeas weel prepared! And
when was she celled?"
"She died hast November!"
"Ab, awed! she'll have fund oat by this
time that tle poor and lowly oe this warkl
are the elect of the text,"
".Mrs. Newburgh was a trim Christian
and a real lady," put in (Blah, DebetSay,
emphatically,
"77hey (liana always bang together, re•
turned their new acquaintance,
"Silo was very, very good to me," said
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"Any way, yott've had a wise -like up-
briuglllg. You are not ashamed of your
111010 Sandy, nougat he 1Di a plain bcdie?"
"Ashamed! Na, indeed."
"Now" --he railed it "noo"—"tell me
/tow ye cense to be here with ehia led(ly? I
thought the Ilon1rable Mrs. Newburgh"—
with 501110wbat sarcastic 1410es on "the
Honorable"—"was to leave you a Portia'."
"Alas! my dear sir, my dear young
friend's story bas been a real tragedy,"
be
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gan alma Debrisay, who proceeded, wit
suitable modulations of v
oice t3( "recite"
fte"
the title of Mrs. Newburgh's losses, and
Mona's consequent poverty—of the neces-
sity for her laboring in order to live, and
being reduced to her present position.
"Reduced, yo ca' it" he said, "It's no
'reducing' for an honest lassie to earn her
own bread, which 18 mair honorable than
the honer, of the peerage! So you live
here, my deariei Ah, there's a good drap
of Craig bluld in yea' veins, or you would
not have setup for yourself, like a wise
lassie. If yo enn keep a roof like this over
your /lead, you canna be doing so bad,"
•'Perhaps," said Mme. Debrisay, insinu-
atingly,"perhaps your uncle would stay
and share our modest midday repast. Wo
have but fl little cold mast, beef, a salad,
and 'mnICIettcaux/Lace s"erbcs,'but at least I
13 will avert the pangs of hunger."
"'Oast beef, did you say?" asked Mr.
('rail;, anxiously. "I canna digest boiled!
Dot you're v 01'r0. good, and I shall be happy
to juin you. I am vertu frail. I worked
hard a' my swath under a line man, Mr
Kenneth M,leeaehern of M1oe u'ld ru A
Leslie's, the great jute manufacturer.3. 11(
retired, but he just 1)11333(1 the (emi:di0ts
and went tot/ like a puff of win,/ I kept is
on, and saved a bit, and 1041 old master re '
membered ate In his will, so, as 1 11,00"
my health failing, and new Wren coming
into the firm, I thought 1 would rest ono
try to recover. I took a cottage ani a bit
farm awe' in the nest, but I got rheumatics
and grew worse, so I cam' 3(p to try a great
London doctor, and was recommended tt
yon place in Camden Town. The son 01
one of our clerks lodges there; but he is out
a' day, and I suspect a' the night, too. I
am just wearyia' o't; but I am not 1mh
cured yet. I wonder now if this place it
3111101I further from Harley street?"
"By 310 mwntiS, my dear sir!" cried Mme
Debrisay, "It is a shorter and a pleasanter
drive. I presume you aro eonsultina tit
famous Doctor Swatthem?"
"That's the man. He is awfu' costly."
"What matter! so long as you can vegeta
your precious health. I think you wool()
find this neighborhood more salubrious,
and in every way preferable."
Here Mme, Debrisay slipped quietly from
the room—to make some addition to din
ner, Mona did not doubt.
"Tell me," said Uncle Sandy—the hoarse
whisper in which he usually spoke Intensi-
fied—"tell me, what does she make you
pay her for living here?"
"She does not Maros me anything. 1
pay my share of our food and fire—that is
all."
"Alai and she is no of your blood?"
"No; I came to know her seven or eight
years ago, as I told you."
"Itis just wonderful!" he ejaculated,
and sat silent for some time, with a curt•
ous, half -satisfied, half -mocking smile in
bis face.
Then the prim figure of Jane appeared,
and she proceeded to lay the cloth.
The dinner was very successful. Uncle
Sandy was exceeding communicative as te
what he might and might not eat. At first
he said he would take nothing but cold
water to drink; then he fancied there was
a slight taste—he could not exactly define
what—in the water, and when he per.
caved. this, he had always been warned to
qualify the water with a drop of spirits.
He supposed they hadn't any whisky? No:
well he would do with a trifle of brandy,
"Tho next time I come to see ye," he said,
with an air of great generosity, "I'll bring
you a bottle of real good stuff—it's fat
wholesomer than brandy." Iie seemed te
enjoy his repast, and afterward made
many inquiries into Mine. Debrisay's his,
tory. He was also profoundly interested
in the prices current of all articles of coil
snmption in London. Thou, noticing the
piano, he begged his niece to sing /tint e
song. She complied. Before she was half
through it he stopped her by observing that
he had an uncommon ear for music, but
that it must be Scotch music, So Mons
change( her tune to "Oh! avert thou In tlic
could blast," which gave him greet de-
light. 11e nodded his herd and tipped the
carpet with his stilt in time to i he mask.,
and declared with feeble energy, that there
wore no songs like Scowls songs—no in-
telligeuee comparable to that of 140et )1191
—11.0 church system like that of 5 otlaud,
Then he looked at his watch, and said he
was sorry, but he must leave them; that it
was the only cheerful afternoon he hall
spent since ho came to London, and ex-
pressed his resolution to look fur lodgings
in their neighborhood.
"Pray, let me get you a cab," said Mona.
"You will be so very tired walking: ail the
way to the station a second time,"
"Hoot, toot! I ant stronger slime lately,
and money is not so plentiful as to let me
hire cabs everywhere Igo. New, naw! 1'11
just walk to the station. I have my ticket
to Gower street, and I will get outing from
that for ttppeuco. Good-bye, my lassie.
I'll no' forgetltow yo holpit your uncle.
Good-bye to you, mem. May be you'll help
me to find a respectable lodging. I can't
come again till the day after to -morrow,
for I have to see the doctor; but if it is any
way fine, I'll not fail you."
Mona went out to open the garden gate
for hire, and watched him hobbling clown
the road for a moment or two, and then
returned to Mme, Dobrlsay.
"What an extraordinary encounter!"
cried Mona, throytdug herself into a corner
of the sofa, and laughing unrestrainedly,
"I imagine Uncle Satidy is a character,
and I really am sorry for his i111tealtha and
l am afraid he will be rather
Above 11 he settles near ns e
, He seems to
have fascinated on
ear DOA.
you, T)
"Poor creature. I did feel for him, and
I think he is naturally a vorysuperior than
lint, 410110, 1te olntd, it's for your Sake 1
spoke, Noyv Providence has thrown him
in your way, I don't want you to lose yens
hold on hiu1. Roep him by you, dear, and
he will leave you all his money, No 0111
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