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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-4-11, Page 2eisevestemetwureezeme. ST, MARY OF THE ANGELS; 011ie MIS FIRST ANDPAST BY THOMAS A. JAN VIER. 1 ' I • • ta • out I CHAPTER V. Harwood seated Iffinseli on the stone from which Mary had jest rine, and es he began to opeak, he elowly rolled a cigarito M his brown fingers. Illoely leaned againet the bluff, and, balf turning away as he listened, looking out over the fringe of mesquite bushes and the great cautusonwered, sunny plain to the far mountains. "1 sesposcs yotell allow," ilarwood began, 'that when I caught you hugghe my wife that way, led a men' right 12 ehoot you without any tulle ebout it 1" Hardy half turned and nodded. It woes better, he decided, to let Harwood think what; he pleased than to eomplieffie nuttters by an explanatien that he neither would understand nor believe. 'Very good, thatet somas& we can be. gin with agreein' to. Well, its just th' truilthat I would 'a' shot you if I'd thought Mary Wlla worth it. But I don't. You've just heard. me sey what I think about her isle I needn't sey 't all over again. Tle short of it ia dust she's done inc nothin' but bad turns ever settee 1 married her, an' I'm miek of haviie ber a- round. She's not worth shoothe anybody for, an' that's just tie everlasthe truth. Now you strike me as Win' e peaty stiff B ort of a man, th' kind that's got sand an' is good t' tie to. I reckon me an' you ceuld matte a team, if only onet we could tie. things so's we'd pull together. That' what I'm after now. You've got eyes in your lead an' I guess --t' say nothiW of what s'pose Mary's told you -you've sized things up here at Santa Marin, pretty true. You got down pretty quick. I noticed, t' my little game about th' pump." Hardy started. "Yes, I seed you this mornin ern was -sharp, but you had a close cell, all the same. twos watchin'yon, an'llutel my gun allready an' I'd more 'n half a mind. t' let it gooff, too -but I didn't, Well, you struck on th at little Lustter 'nshort order, an'th'way you tronbled to 't showed you t' be one of th' widea,wke Idnd. That's th' kind I like -an' it's th' -kind that has a chance t make sotnethin' out vaf livin' here. I guess you credit me with too much hard sense t' think I'd stay M Santa Maria long just fee th' fun of running that infernal pinup Not much ! An' I'm not here for my health, neither. Now, I'm gain' ✓ talk right out t' you, man t' man -for tn way things stand between me an' you we've got t' have a fight or a settlement. Au' I just tell yoe now that if 't comes to a fight, all' you lay me out, you won't make nothbe byit. My Greaser friends know what I'm dein' an' are lookite out after me. If I'm hurt you'll never getout of here alive. There's , not so much sleepiness about this town as there seems te be. We gave you this chance 1' talk t' Mary -I knowed you both wanted it' an' uel take it fast enough -cause I allow- ed it 'eel scet of bring tlungs right clown t' th' hard pan, quick an' comfortable. An' so 't has, you zee. But there ain't a man in Santa Muria who ain't been listen& all day, au' who ain't listenin' right now, for tie sound of a gun gain' off. They'll know quick enought what it means if they bear it ; an' I tell you again, that if you should heppen t' hurt me you'd be as dead inside of ten min- ' utes as George Washington." Hardy WU not a nervous man, but a sh dder went over him as he thought of the eyes that had watched hint all that day from the closed, silenced houses ; of the alert peril that had beset him in the midst of what had seemed to him such slum- brous security. And this shudder went down into the inner fiber of his heart as he remembered the curious creeping thrill that had gone through hint as he stood.- ; covered, as he now knew, by Barwoodes revolver -beside the broken pipe. 13y the open danger that now menaced him I he was not seriously disturbed. Ile knew j about it, aml to a certain extent could guard against it. But there was some- thing eerie, devilish, iu the thought of ' this deadly malevolence which bad lurked beside him undiscovered in the very fullness and brilliance of (ley. Harwood chuckled. "I reckon you al- lowed you had a full hand, an .didn't Imppen le think we might have scee ex. try aces under tle table," he said. "Well, we had. An' we've got 'em there yet." .. "An' now you've truly sized up the game, I ean talk business. It's genuine busmen, too. You see, I'm at th head of what I call an importin' outfit. It's not exacely reglar in th' way it works; but it's' good for th' country, an' it pretty middlin' good. for our- selves. An' it's a sort of a moral nistitootion, too, 'cause it takes away th' temptation of atealin' from th' Greaser custom -house offi- tiers. &wee?" "You meanyou're smuggling ?" "Why, yes," Berwood answered, with it fine frankness, "it is called smuggliee some- times -but I think callin' it importin' sounds better. We're in tie cattle business, too; an' that's it very payin' branch of th' 0011 - cern. Ate in a general sort of way were on th' make all round. don't want to brag about royeelf, but it's only fair t' saythat for a liminess that hasn't been runnm' long we're dein' mos' uncommon well, I can't prove 't t' you from th' booke, 'cause we don't keep none ; but I can prove 't t' you from th' d.ollars-tlogn we've got stacked up in tle old church. I guess holrlin' all them dollars is about tle best use that church ever was put to. It's tle first time I've ever knowed a church t' be of real practical so - count ti anybody. Would you like t' take a, look at 'ren ?" Harpy turned around and looked at Bat -wood squarely. "What are you driv- ing at, any way 1" he asked. "Helene at I Can't you sec? I want you t' come into th' concern an' be a peed - mar." "Be a robber 1" Hardy burst out, I"' "Drive slow. Don't got mad about it," 'Harwood went on coolly. "Ciotti& mad's no way t' manage a business traneaction. Now, I'm talking horse-sonsta. You're th' sort of 1510,11 I've been lookin for, an' if yeti% ohip in you won't be sorry for 't, 'Tain't many folks I'd make th' offer to. Hut unlese I'm a geod way tip tle wrong tree, you've ,got L11' 11(11W0 0' rustle things, and ain't tit kind in a tight place t' go bank 011 your friends, Some of these Greesers are pretty good, bet, I never sgearely can tell when they won't dip up on ; an' I want somebody around who has mini an' can be depended on, You're thatkinde•ttle that's tle reason I want you, "Novv, that's my side. Your side is that lot you into alien -tete thing, whore there's money te be made quick, ffits of it. It's tt rattliie good chance for you. What do you say? Will you ante ?" . "I'll soe you and the business hanged first, Reedy anseverea promptly. "Don't be so sure about that. I haven% given you all the points yet. There aro :some more reasons why you'd better come in, an' tle biggest ono irs, now that I've talked in title fin and friendly way with you, I can t MAC. ,yolk 5 ) , didn't t' talk this wity mine I really had to ; but I guess you're sharo enough t' see that after wbat inc told you, either you vo got te come in, or 11,i0 got t' MO you as ti sort of starter fo that American gravi yard. we wee talkin about tdeltile ago. eu knew it little too ninth about our game ti e to be quiet healthy for you unloss mt ...110.; a hand your- self. Do pm ketch on 1" "I gueee I'd about as lief be shot now as have it done later by a, tile of 'Sleeken soldiers, to etty nothing of its being it good deal better than being hung by a sherrift if I happened to get cmghe ou the other side of the line," '"Iffiere'e somethhe in that," Harwood answered, in a tone ef serious thoughtful - MSS. "T10,111 11tL10 chancels sometimes mune in our business, an' we've got to take 0111. But what you ought t' look tet is that they're muffin' but chasten -an' this ether sheothe that I'm tallthe about is th' deadest sort of it dead stwo thing." "Well, then, bring it along -you've got my answer." Hardy. spoke with entire unconcern, and -with °bevels sincerity. knowed you had sand !" Boxwood said, in a tone of admiring approval, '.You're the man I want, It'll go agin my grain power- ful' t' put you in that graveyard -an that's everlasthe truth. If it's got t' be done, I'll do it, of course; hut I truly don't want M. Now, look here. Hardy, there's money for you in this deal, if you'll COMO in ; tue you know what'll happen 0' you if you stay out -now what do you say [1 111 chuck in Mary to hoot 1" Hardy faced around on Harwood sharply. "What do you mean 1" he asked, " Just pltunp tut' clear what I say. If you'd had as much of her as I've had, or if you d th' sense t' reason out from what I've told you about He way she's used me, how more ;n wathless she i$, you wouldn't want bor. But when it was a matter of wo. men I never known a man yet as wasn't a fool, an' 1 s'pose you're like ell th' rest. It's plain you tlo want her powerful. Well, if you'll make this deal with me you can have her. Tell me, is it a go now?" Hardy turned very pale, and leaned against the rook heavily. He was genuinely horrified He put Inc hand to his throat. Once or twice he. maths au effort to speak, TE BRUSSELS POST; APRIL 13, 1890. exasnemseseeete=estmeneezeieceevete.ememeeseeeeweeenutereeeveveerneaccueseetemteetemmeareemum-essece And then lie adeled, in English ; "But I guess thew won't be any rumpus ; Hardy Y You'd only get loft it you tried it en, you see," Hardy wee forced tUlltblaL L0 111111$011, as with Boxwood and the Alealde be ineunted the station pletform just t1H L110 Mill 01111111 LLI 10 11111L, that an eppeal for helptvould be worse than uselees. It would do him no good, anti it almost certainly tvould. result in the killing of every man in the freight crew. There was nothing to throw oft or to take on tit the atation, and in a oouple of minutes the train pulled out and ran slowly down the grade to the tank. For ts moment, as itstart- ell, Hardy thought breaking %way frmn Barwood's side, jumping no the 'engine and throwing the neve wide open-truning to Otto sudden }dart at fell speed to snap the coupling with the Male-eon:1 so taking the chances of getting off. Harwood seemed to understaud this thought, and cheeked it, "You'd better sed try any monkey tricks," he said quietly. "You'd only get hurt ; t' stay nothee of gratin' tle bum on tit' train in- to trouble. My Greasers are a fightite let, an' -won't stand my foolishness just now an' So the train moved away, mid Hardy watched it as it. slid along the mile, intioh as a man floating ou epee in mid -ocean woald watch a passing veseel that he could not hail without at omet bringing cleath to himself and to all on board. As lie rettlized the devilieh legenuity with which Elmwood laid hie plants, and per- ceived how completely, so far, he had been a puppet in Barwood's hands, tt chill went down into his heart, But the chill was only momentary. Instantly a healthy re- action of hot anger set in, and with it came renewed confidence in himself. fle was in a tight place -a very tight place, certainly ; but he hail been in tiglit placee a good many timee before, and always had managed to et himself ont of them. It would not be his fault if he did not down Boxwood and his gang of Greasers yet, Tho engine took in watee at the tank, and then, pulling vigorously, slowly ascended the long gt•ade. They watched it in silence until the train had shrunk to a mere speck and the puffing of the engine no longer could be hoard. "1 don't WEIlL you to think, Hardy, that I don't believe you're not going to play fair," 13arwootl said, as they turned about and faced este]) other, " but it'll save you from behe lonesome it my friend Don Pedro here an' one or ewo of th' boys sort of set around an' keep you compaty. I know you wouldn't do it on purpose, but if you was left by yourself you might kind of accidentally got t' foolin' but the words would not come. Although with that token h key you know in a way supported by the rock, his body swayed a little. At last, in a voice pitchedvery low, as though to give him more control over it, he said, slowly ; " You mean that you will get divorced, that wouldn't be just altogether wholesome; so it's safer for all hands that you sheet% have Of chance. Don Pedro is it very plea- sant gentleman, an' you'll find him ready t' tell you all about tit' business-goin' into tit' and that I --that I inay marry her ? fine points of t as I lusdn t time to. I'd bike "Well, I can't say that I'd. thought of t' stay an' keep you company myself, but I've quite such fancy fixin's as all that," Bar. got a good cleat t' do just now, an' can't. wood answered. "But it's a matter of no eN e've got quite it piece of work on hand for particelar diirrence t' me how you go about t' -night, that i'll tell you all about a little it I guess elet7 el like it that way; later -when you've made up your mind, as I she always did go in for style." And know you're goin' to, t' come into the eon - then he edded sharply, and with a tone of cern. Just you think about what Inc been suspicion in his coin "But we can't have tellinyou, an' about what Don Pedro will no foolin"round after such Fifth Avenue tell you too, about what a good business 't trinunin's as divorces now. To get a divorce is, an' don't you throw away tle best chance you'd have t' go t' States for 't, an' just for =kin' a big strike you've ever hacl offbe- at preseid that ain't by a gnat sighe what ed t' you. An' though I really don't like t' we're goin' t' do. Oh, come, Hardy, what's speak about it, don't forget what I was sayin' about that American grave -yard. ; an' don't th' mod of makin' All infernal fussy fool of yourself this W`aV ? Just tell me, will, or will You forget -hole ]iac'syootl came close to about Mary ; if you'll coine in she's yours." Hardy and lowered Ids voice --"what I said trade not nix throwhe Mary in for boot make you Hardy made no reply. barwood accepted Hai.ely's loathing for Harwood was intense, but he could. not afford to show it. If he re. his silence in good part, nodded pleasantly, and wallted off toward the town. The Al - fused this offer squarely he knew that be collo went with him, and at the ruined house would not live the day out, and with his they stopped for a few minutes in consults - death Mary's chance of escape would die, too. Whet little will power she ever had tion, Then the Alma& and two men return- ed and walked ffivey down the line of the possessed her husband long ago had crushed. out of her. Unless deliverance. came to her relh'ead: two more men came over and from outside herself -and he alone could joined Don Pedro at thestation, and the rest 0, straggled oft toward the town in 13arwood's bring it to her -she surely was lost. By great effort be steadied himself so that his' wake - voice should not betray his anger and die- Hardy walked into the station and seated gust. himself beside the table on which was the " Give me a little time to think," he telegraph instrument. Don Pedro followed said after hitti closely, and the two men placed ...Now that begins t' sound as if you themselves just outside the doort meant le talk sense," Bertvoorl answered. I "10 will be more commodious for the Se - "Yes, you can think things over a bit; nor if he will seat himself where he will have that's only fair. But you mustn't fool, the pleasure of the fresh air," said Don Pe - away much time an it, I'll give you till ten' dro, o'clook tenight t' make up your mind in. I " Thanks, Senor I am very well here," How% that do! If you settle t' come in, Hat•dy auswered. you'll tunlerstand then why I couldn't givej "13ut-the Senor will pterdon me? -but you longer. Ale if you don't come in- the Seuor's hand might inadvertently touoh well, if you donmi 't co e n, I don't think that the little machine. It is better for him tinderstandhe or DOL understandin"11 make here." • any partitelar difPronee to you." " Oh 1" said Hardy, " I comprehend," As Harwood gave this answer, in a tone and he moved his chair. that emphasized the sinister significance of " Ana since the Senor, who is among his words, the sound of a locomotive whistle friends, can have no use for it, I am sure VMS heard faintly. I that he will give me his pistol to take care "I may as well mention," Harwood added, of for him ?" "that I've got some of my Greasers in that Hardy was disposed to argue this requeet ; busted old adobe house olost by tie station. but, as he hesitated, the men in the door. I'm goin' up with you now t' meet th train, way moved forward into the room and ranged an' if you try t' come 't over us by givin' us upboside him. Under these circumstances away t' th' freight outfit, it'll be my onplea- argument was out of place. With ft very sant duty te start tit' shootin' right off, an bad grace he yielded. Don Pedro waved scoop in the train bands along with it- his hand politely, and declared in courteous which wouldn't be exaely a square deal for tones that be owed the Senor a the:mend them, for it's none of their funeral, any thanks. way. Ile was a red-faced, dirty, villainous- " We'd better be movin now. I don't looking dog, this Don Pedro, but his voice think you're likely t' try any monkey tricks was gentle and low, Ids language was con - with nie ; but I guess:1'11 let you walk ahead, spicuously elegant, and his manners were m- all th' same." bove reproach. In the event of his finding Hardy pulled himeelf together and walk- it necessary to commit a murder, he wag ed in front of Heywood through the bushes, quite the sort of man to apologize to his vie - and thence along the narrow Intl) to the Om in well-ohosen words, and with a certein break in the blufi, up which the path ascend. amount of sincerity. Being naturally a ell to the village. Having remitted the level loque,cious personage, he made several at - land above they walked together side by tempts to draw Hardy into conversation, I side to the station. The freight train was but his attempts were not, successful. in sight, half it mile down the line. " The Senor, no cloubb, has ninon upon I "Just t' show you that Ten not letifibe an' his mind," he ;said at last, "He wishes to ' that I really have the drop on you," Harwood meditate upon the torten o that we offer him, mid, pleasantly, as they passeil the partly Des is quite right, and I shall distueb him ruined house, "you may as well take a look no more. He will join me in :smoking ?' at my fiends here. They won't mind it- Hardy shook his head, "No ? Ah, then ha 9.11' /300iT1' 'eat '11 make you understand that 't will pardon Ille if I smoke alone." won't do you no good t' try 0' rope hi th Saying which, Don Pedro unrolled a boys on th' tritin," eiguri to, brushed way a part of the tobacco, ' The roof of tho adobe house had fallen re -rolled it firmly, lighted it with a double - in and part of the roux wall Ited crumbled headed match, and then settled himeell as down ; but the front and side welle re- comfortably as the eireunistauces of tho mined, and the heavy door still tvem in one would permit on tho net improvised place. Having whistled witty, Ilavwood from is nailekeg, tool apparently eve Iffin• pushed the door open'end, by to gesture, miff op wholly to the pure happiness of invited Hardy to look inside. Within the smoking, house fifteen or twenty men wore ettunling That Don Poriro's abstraction wise more or sitting. All wore revolvers, and a dozen apparent than reel was shown by the foot Winchester rifles stood in a row against the that he had been careful to seat himself wall, The Alealtle, who seemed to he in between Hardy and the telegraph instill - commend of these very irrregular foeces, ment And Hardy notiood also that when !stepped forward as Harwood opened the the mon outside lit their eigaritos-as they door. presently am, of coffin -the tlttdu ceremony "'Will the gentleman join us 2" he asked of unwrapping, rewrapping, and light. in Spanish. ing was parfOrined in turn, 110 L11111: "The gentleman seems well disosed," ono of them watched him con - Harwood answered ; but as yet Ito does not staidly, alert end with free luserle. They speak positively. I have the pleasure of all mined to think that e siugle touch ' showing libri those gentlemen, our friends, upon tho key of the telegraph would suf. in order to 00110100 him th to Mk assis. lice to give the alarm ; and they all tame from the Americans now coming on ovideetly had a wholesome roved for the train will not be wise, Yon, Senor Al- Hardy's strength and courage, end were eaffie, will oblige mo by acommenying ea to determined to nerd againet the posse. stand what te do shot el any tro;hie arise," AS ittlperOciVAI 110111 $31161^14 taloy rtuthod hint, the relying em.rent alt the border, that one Ameriean am whip three efeed- oans, canto inte his mind and he smiled grimly as he thought thee these three Modems certeinly were conducting them- solveit 11S though they beleived teat the saying wen true, But for the certainty that the sound of lemming would bring ell the men le the town about hie 010114, 110 would have given them a chance -un- armed though he was--te settle the met - tor by a practiced experiment ; and he rather flattered himself that the saying would be contirmod by the result, Prob. ably he was over -confident, for the blexi• cans were so keenly alive to his smallest movement that any denemstration of boa- tility on his part would have been nipped in the bud. Even when he put him hand in his poiket for his pipe, they all three - forgetting for the nunneffi that they had taken hie pistol front Iffin-svere on their feet in an instant and had hint covered with thole revolvers. Ho threw up bis bends prompt ly and explained his intentions, and with rather 10 KlleOpiFIl look they eat down ugain. But while lie could not help laugh - tag to himself, he perceived. that the odds against him were oven heavier tben he had Meets them to lee I. or the Inst, tune in his life he admitted thethought thee perhaps its heel got, hito a :serape that he email not got out of, 'Tardy smoked gloomily. The outlook, so far as he himself was concerned, did not greatly blade him. Ile had not foundlife se pletseaut that the near prospect of parting with it occasioned him regret. But the theught of what, the loss of his life would mean to elary tilled him with a keen misery. inc could see Ito hope for her at all. There was no one to help her, She could not help herself. Ile doubted OV011 if she had a, sufficient strength of purpose to seek in death thc ono desperate chance of escape left open to her. Union her husband :should be shot or hung -of whieh, of course, there was a fairly hopeful probability -her present wretched existence might drag 011 far years and years. Of course she woulel die of it, or be driven mad by it, at last ; svecaeureetereverrauseateneee, Latest From Europe „ F int. 1 wooer no HA 011 t or t be fog Upon ihe OBI iltGBD BY A WATERBPOUT, ----- s,s,stuvunta. , A favorit o Sea yil.111 ill tile ,i1.1V,'Illi0 it0okti MOVOlellt5 Of Boyalt-y- Uneasy Feeling in which were in t on'iied te instil...I, as wpil na England On the Newfoundland half of the tion --The Impoverished Sultan -He is Que°" kaat,".11.rue;.‘ytir'l':•sr.1,1'.iitleinitaif etill'.':01j1iligH.t•.• t,f a vessel ,wsli:Lluirtsi;iitte.rspout,, In width the snit) e•ele• et' being overwbolined only by Ow own . time ditatherge of a etunion bell into Oho The cut illustrating the yarn usually depleted the marine monster ali so in it Rage at Certain Remarks m Bnglish Papers, Thu Prince of Wales has been trented right royally in Berlin this week, and lie ieft, foe 'much larer then the vessel thet the Patel. Coburg last night, Hie lov lug ut•phow, Wil- multi Iliertilly have gone up the spout. Venels ere undoubtedly larger than they were then, and water spouts are ap- ounity smaller, and when 0/1 ell- liam, saw him off, told there wile much faro - well kiesing at the railway station, The Prince's mother, Queen \ ictoria, is at Aix , counter takee place the ehip need be none les BMus His oldest 11011, Albert Victor, is the worse for it, oven ifno semen intervenes. on the high seas, and lenglaneee Prime Min. At migrate, much was the experffinee of the 01111113 IV Slavonia, of the Hamburg linden ister is at this moment tipeediug ;Iundity. effieleftBrunshausen, on the Elbe, Frame on hie way to the Med iterraman whore :he took in her verge, under the search of health. command of rapt, Schmidt. She had There is au uneasy feeling hero that the only two passongens. The weather witstainally Newfoundland lol,ster queetien is likely to end 1110 full of mist whon she reached develop into a perticularly naety quarrel the outer Banks, MO tulles from New York between England end France. Nebody can shortly after sunrise 011 Sunday. The big co how an amicable euttlemem csm be vessel was heading even by north, when, reached. France is doggedly imistent mien at 7 o'clock, Second Mate Erichsen, who the rights scoured to lute by the timety of 111114 1/11 1.110 bridge, saw emerge through 1783 and upon her modern definition of the miet. on the starboard side of the ship, them. England le not at all enthumiastio at the distance of about is thou:sand feet, bout maintaining the opposite view, but A TOWERMI if mho yields it will create deep disaffee- which united sea and sky. The column tion, if not worse, in Newfoundland and In was some distance in front of the ehip lenglishomeaking Canada generally. 'starboard, and wan moving in a sou theasteely The Suttee's purse has boon painfully de direnticm, apparently at the rate of eight, pleted this week by the nectsesity f Q knots en hour home to the Italian Crown Prince, who, Although the Slavonia was running ge being young and fond of fun, requiree a good knots the column seemed likely to pass in dezd of entertaining. He has been in Con- front; of the steamship when thee. paths stantinople nearly a week, and uhmvs " crossed. Accordingly Ericheen did nee try to present inclination to out short his visit. alter the eourse of the Slavonia ; indeed, lie The Sultan has been much annoyed by would not have altoredit had ho known ship the furious dommciations of English Liberal and spout were sure to meet, fur he had en - newspapers of his alleged misgoverument of countered waterspouts before and wasn't. Armenia and fresh cruelties perpetrated by afraid of them. All he did -in feet all he his pashas in Crete. He talks of prohibitin had time to do -was to call Third Mete Lor- entzen, also an expert in wittereponts, who, being in addition a draughtsman, prepared to make the betwings of the waterspout which accompany this article. On rushed the Slavonia, heading westby north ; nearer cams tho waterapout, heading south by east It soon Immune evident that the spout could not got by before the Slavo- nia reached it, and it was now too late to slow np-incleed, a collision was manifestly unavoidable from the start, Lorentzen had scarcely reached the Midge when the watery Philistine was upon the Samson. It just - hit the steamer's bows on thestarboard side. A rushing noise accompanied the column, and the water foamed in its wake. Inunedi- ately above was a great black cloud from width eloutla less Week descended to form a funnel, or inverted cone. The middle of tho colanm WILS white, apparently because it metal:led snow. The column's narrowest diameter was ap- parently about twelve feet, while it was three times as broad at its base, which reprodueed, •n water and inverted, the cloud -formed fun- nel above, The whole column rotated with r, spiral motion. The waterspout, when it approached, took all the wind out of the fore staysail of the stetunship, which went mina, but du, schoon- mean still kept full, and presently the fore - staysail filled again. The Slavonia el took under the shock calmed by contact with the column of water, but, kept on her CoUr(40 none the WOrn1 ler the uollision. A few flakes ef snow on her prow were the only evidence of the collision after the pillar td water had passed off to port, While the vessel WI15 uninjured, the water- spout soon showed signe that it had the circulation within Ins dominions of all but what gtenclnig agony would be heeemn- European literature. He has heard, too, of til, in death or madness, she found her lease ! the establishment in London of a special cenunittee to keep the anti-Turkieh agita- Slowly the time wore away. The clay tion going, and. has ordered his embassador was nearly ended, and little puffs of cool to furnish a special report upon the prospects wind broke through the hot, dense air, of a Liberal Government attainin power. and brought with them a delectable re- freshment. Gradually these puffs gath- ered force and increased in frequency, becoming a strong, fresh breeze as the sun dropped down behind the moult - tains and twilight settled upon the moth. Hardy, who had eaten nothing since breakfast-thne, grew desperately hungry, and his Mexican guards sniffed longingly at the relishing smells which cisme deem to them ort the wind from the many out- door cookings going on about the town. But they showed no disposition to sur- render to the erevings of the flesh. Evi- dently they had their orders and mecint to obey them. As the twilight deepened into dusk they came closer to him. " Only a little while longer, Senor," Don Pedro said cheerfully, as this change was ma e. was firmly believed hero then that he behaved Hardy wondered whet was going to badly to his mother, and once a notion of happen at the end of the little while Ind ho t.his kind gets imbedded. in the 'British skull did not speak. The dead silence in which it is extremely difficult ever to get it out. again. Hence, everybody here is stoutly convinced that this young man will come to 110 good. Should the report indicate a periled) a early chaaage in Downing street, the Sultan will begin to think about reforms. The increasing ill humor between Smola and Bulgeria is beginning to attraot Europe- an attention, and there has been a half- hearted attempt to raise a war scare. The effort has had a di:es:waging reception, hut it may be repeated ,vith m better prospect of success toward ties end of April. Queen Natalie is again squabbling with the Servian Regents, and Milan threatens to visit Bel- grade to find ont what it all means. It is doubtless clue to the Anglo.Gormau controversy of two years ago over the treat- ment of Friederich and his wife by the 13er- lin Court party that. England 110W 91101VB 11111Ch more distrust of tho young lemperor than is entertained on the Continent. It they sat was broken only by the eltst- ter of the telegraph as from time to time it message went over the line. There was some. thing harrowing in this sound. It made help seem so near, while in reality holp was so hopelessly far away. The dispatches ping Ithrough were on company's service -train orders and the like, Hard • listened to them idly, repeating in his moo the worde as they were built up from the intermittent sounds. For a while there was silence, The room MIS quite dark now, save that for a little Rpm A correspondent iii Paris gives the follow - within each doorway there shone a faint, ing inciclmt ill 0011/1COGi011 with the la grippe hazy light from the stars. It must be eight epidemic :-During the recene opidemie of Welook, Hardy thought ; in two hours more influenza I have found cause to congratulate Harwood would demand his answer. inc was myself on the difference between ehe taste ready to give it. The moon would be rising and!preparation of the medicines wejused to be 'shout, tbet tints -the last moonrise that lie forced to take of yore and those that are got ever would see. It was odd to stop off short up for invalids nowadays. I contrast, with this way, right in the middle of one's life. amazement the nauseous draughts and pow - It, was like buying a through ticket to Chi- ders that used to make the misery of my cego and being fired off the train at A way- childhood whenever I was ill, with the deli - station :somewhere out on the plains. It eat° syrups, the cachets and capsules and did% seem like a fair deal. Here the noise tebletoids, that now make modicine-tak- of the telegraph broke in once more upon ing, if not actually pleasant, always it very his thoughts. An order was going through comfortable procese. There was amost comi- to the north -bound. passenger train that cal illustration of this fact afforded by the would pass Saute Maria between three and adventures of a burglar the other day out at four o'clock the following morning : Hois-Colonmes, which is one of those pretty "Side-track at Los Anuslitosfbr am down suburban towns that encircle Paris as with a -" then the ticking stopped, girdle of gems. X—, who is one of the Hardy listened. for the soma to begin minor ftnictionetries in the Ministry of Mar - again. Five minutes passed and still the ine, possesses a, charming villa in that town li patch was left unfinished. Five minutes wherein ho resides all the year round, going more, and only silence. At the end of fir. in to lus office early m the morning and re- turning just in time for his 7 o'clock dinner. teen minutes-tho time had seemed a full hour -he drew a Ion breath as the tenth of One day he had given permission to his the situation forced itself home on him ; they heel cut the wires I (am BE OUNTELDED.) the nation ; and you, fentlemon will und tr. bility of his tetting them by surprise. HE DRANK TEE MEDICINE. Curial's 'Danner In1Thi eh a French Burglar l'Vas Captured. House -Cleaning. Take one room at tim and have the work done quietly in the off clays in which there is neither washing nor ironing nor the usual deeming, 3ffigin at the attie end clean downward., 1, e. providing there be an attic. All city houses are not so supplemented. If not, then upon room or closet used for goner - al storage of trunks and incidentals. Spare not the purifying elements. Letevery cor- ner be laid bare ; stint not the kalsomine or chloride, There are times when brown soap end It sound scrubbing-brueli are better than sermons, and this 0000.Bi011 is one of them, eervante to go to E wecklulg, so the house was left unprotected clueing the whole day, One of the band which has been systemat- ically plundering the unguarded country seats of the Perisians in these suburban towns got wind of this fact, contrived to force an entrance into the ville and ran- sacked it at his leisure in every part. He got together quite rt mass of plunder, oon- sisting of forks, spoons, jewelry, some roulcanx of coin, it few valnable antique ininiatures, 'These he packed neatly bit a basket, and having finished his explore. Hone in the dining -room he decided upon taking some refreshment. Ho spied a bottle of appetizing aspect on the sideboard. The cork was drawn and a wineglase stood in- vitingly beside it. He miffed at the bottle, and concluded from the odor that it must contain ouracom So ho indulged its a glass - quite fel, and then went to mamma the drawing - Then, after the cleansing process is room, where he found severed erticles that complete,siee that no unpurged odds and ends &wails fancy. Returning to the dining - find lodgment ; overhanl ropositoeies for rags, paper, and putchea. room to place them in the basket, he took a second glass of limier, ancl before he had Half a deem Wall pockets or reticules, completed his arrangements 110 WES wind made of cretonne, drawn with colored tapes, for the with a sudden and irresistible fie of sloopi- ,will eimplify the business of caring He stretcherl himself ant ell the tffifa framents leach receptacle shotffil 1,, la- nees• RECEIVED TM:DEATHBLOW. As it sailed off to the southent t it parted in the middle, and tho cone of water which formed its base and the cone of cloud which formed its top began to grow smaller by do. grecs. The waterspout was slowly but mire- ly ceasing to be a, waterepout when it disap- peared from s'isW ill the inlay distance some fifteen minutes or more from the time it was sighted. Lite Slavonie's encounter with the wider - spout took place in latitude 450 22.' north and lougitude 52.0 35' west. , This is rather far north for waterspouts so early in the year, The waterspout crop is generally more plentiful when thunder and lightning are on top, which is inwarmerweather. The temperature of the air at the time of the en- cotuder was 870 54'. It had been cold during the night, hid grew warmer in the morning. The clouds winch overspread the firmament wore of the =maims pattern. Erichsen and Lorentzen have not only seen other waterspouts, but the first, when on a sailing vessel in the tropies, ran into the very middle of ono with no worse result than to deluge the deck of the ship with water as a heavy shower would have done. Discarding the tlorset. Miss Ellen Terry, Mrs Bernard Bone, and Miss Mary Anderson are all enrolled under the non -corset banner, and are among the most powerful even though silent advocates of the onus°. Miss Terry's little lithe runs across the stage or Miss Anderson's merry dance in " Winter's Tale" are moreconvine- ing arguments of the free grece of motion at- tained by discarding bones and steels thaw all the philosophical and physiological rearson- ing of an army of strong-minded, flathreasted reformers. A famous London specialist, Sir William feull, has evolved aline of argument which he finds effective, "Whet is the ,good," be remarked recently, "of ladies., Tiringing their daughters to me -fatigue, backache, loss of appetite, and, what they owe far more about, oomplexion--ell (Moto this eenselees Inside? Show them diagrams, blood -curdling pictures of their insides before and after: not to bit of good 1 But when I tell them plainly the prate:Mel ends of tighe th tos basket of plunder lacing on their complexions, rosy cheeks and efekmee beside him, end then the proprietor of the red noses --ah, then L110y1)10y It little hoed to. to lake a nap, wt. bolucl, every bit of string altd veetige of old soft linen should. be garnered ; brings uncle, and this trying season has villa found him on llia VOLLIV11 home 1000 111 it.,' taught housewives the efficacy of saving the evening. M. X—inunediately summon- All this agitation nhout corset, reform is. every scrap of material, , ad the pollee and the num was teken into entertaining but of little avail. Women. Hexing completed the gamut or store- austorly, but il; wee 10011,1imposeible to were foreordained to stiffer earl they wouldn't room, the offal from other epartments arouse him and ha was taken MT to the sta- really be at ease. Othello's occupation would: may find lodgment in their proper ropositenies. the ing liquor which ho had imbibed so freelY front them. Women nl'0 c tion-honse still sound aeleep. TM tempt- be gone if the clues wore rotilt ettlicleouw:Rvekeoyv. Take each fioor in its order after potion prepared at the ape- sex, but every one knows how a woman wilt (Meets aro overhauled cool arranged ; a room was a theory's for 14.X ---.-, who was suffering wrestle half it (ley with her kind about to at a time, gay ono ench wook, en that the from the influenza, and it contained, among halvahs counter, 11111 lip elevated naive with regular household routine be not interfered with. other ingredients, e largo proportion of opt- her hamlet ladoit with parcels, and danoe all Inight, in a corset so tight sho doesneebreathe tIf the carpets aro Warn and dinged, rip um. e down below its top chtep, while a man will he center breadths, and turn the outer edge I hustle out of his wise, vest, uolliw, and ens - toward the center ; and refresh with a border ponders before ho oan ming a dumb bell or ,•.t an suite. Then wipe with a cloth, wrung -- 4" Wool With Ono Exoeption, out of alum water • and frequently sweep no other day a seedy gentleman dropped whip a follow ludf 11% size. 5150;' a sprinkling of tea leaves, A froeh covering of cretonne will vermeil nosed aroma and finally laid his hands upon into a cheap (.I Ithing establishment. Re clingy chairs, and all Diatoms of elll'iAdn 11 coat and vett of loud color and cottrse Thug It DI, A little bitter and a little sweet - 000nomy is nuuesBary ono need not do with. texture. "frow much?" ho said laconically , A cross to carry and n, crown to meet, draperies avo so cheap that even when Thins it is ?het the world rolls on, out hangings at doors or windows. They "Drea (loners," Lilies of love and a winding shoot soften hard outlines txml tone down the glare , "Dot vas slump, ' of light, mid should harmonise with the ' mp, 050111fromnl, Dot va,s a "Three dollars." Thus it is that the world -runs on, general character of the furnishing, Woman's goot goat and vest," A little bliss and a little pain- gas/rated Wor/cl. 1 "Aro they wool?" 1lt ,:Ae ptiroprietoirillioirdtirtpoohdis,h,tsuicla. , , A shaft of romehine end mellower of ruin, , Time it is dud the worki runs on. omen he must have a vivid imapuation, button hole:O.-4)(104 Vetwle, If the rod sleigher thinks ho slei4ghs this mill fromd, cloy vas ill vool oxeept the Al.hiiiitiriasiltoirootrwhd4i4nighao bwroidelaalrt1);/:iiono;;, '