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The Huron Expositor, 1899-12-22, Page 6- •THE HURON tXPOSITOB DECEMBER 22, 1891i VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V. El., honor graduate of Ontario Veterinary College., All diseases of Domestic) animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and charges moderate . Veterinary Dentstry a specialty. , Office and residesme on Goderich street, one door East of Dr. Scott's officio, Seaforth. 111241 LEGAL JAMES L. KILLORAN, Barrieter, Soli° tor, Conveyancer and Notery !Subtle. Money to loan. Office over Pickard's Store Main Street, Seat nth. 1528 T M. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer, sej • Notary Public. Offices up stairs, over C. it% Fapet's bookstore, Main Street, Seaforth, Ontario. 1627 xi- G. CAMEP,ON, formerly of Cameron, Holt & 111. Cameron, 'Barrister and Solicitor, Goderich, Ontario. Office--diamilton street, opposite Colborne Betel. 1459 RS. HATS, Barrister, Solloitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. 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Y. • Mello the Doctor. He will send you his book on The Hair anti Scalp. Ask him any .ques- tion yon wish about your hair. You will receive a prompt answer free. Address, DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Masa. NEIL MACLEOD. A Tale of Literary Life' in Lon- . don.. BY DAVID LYALL. (Peblished by the Copp, Clark Company, Toronto.) CHAPTER VIII, • OF THE OLD SCHOOL. The church bells were ringing as Macleod slowly retraced his steps along Oxford street; but he wan in no mood for church. Already the Glen and all the -folk he had known and loved there, Angus Fraser among them, seemedeevery far away. He hid had a glimpse of !another world—a glimpse which had set hia pulees throbbing and sent the blood couaing through his veins. As he remembered Lady Edward's glorious beauty, the Witchery of her smile, ehe caressing sweetness of her voice, when she had bidden him come again—when and as often as he chose—he was conscious of nothing but a mad desire to live through it all again. • He was not a vain man, but she had conveyed to him a subtle flattery which intoxicated his serums. She had expressed herself as weary of the common herd of men, signifying in her very expression that she found in him something different' from all others. Neil Macleod had scant knowledge of women. The few he had known in his life, his own mother and Angus's, Katie Forbes, and the simple rnaidene of Kilravook, had in no way prepared him for that afternoon's experience. Therefore, there was nothing amazing in his present mental attitude to a man of hie temperament no other wa possible.. He felt ashe strolled idly alon that he did not know what to do with him self ; the thought of Angus in the ptilpit o Trinity church Wag nothing less than hate ful to him ; neither did he care to returent the solitude of else_house in Ruesell Square It was a fine, mild evening, the stars glim veering hopefully through the thin veil o 1 8 ing," interrupted g , " There ore ' I " Well, we 1, lad, f _ about that, on a Sa ,s. ping him witI uplift me why ye tre no •- Angus in his �wn p i Mon kind. I only about tosenter. he watchword of Mrs. Malool0 mated life was solid comfort. You felt its benig • influence on a winter day when yob ent red her hospitable door. She belonged to the older -fashioned sort, to whom a diningro m is always a comfort- able living room, and their Neil found her, as he expected, se ted in her capacious easy* chair with a book of Sabbath evening de. votions in her hand. She was quite elope, Many had advised her to engage a oompan- don, but Mrs. Malcolm was never lonely. She was a woman of resource, and had no dull or intolera le hour in the twenty- four._ She rose when t e door opened, her rich_ soft silk gown fall ng in ample folds about her tall, comman ing figure ; her strong, fine Scotch face ore a pleased look as she extended her han in welcome to hrcoun- tryman from the r north. "1 hardly expe ted ye so soon my man," was her greeting. "I heard iron Angus Fraser this week that ye were to come last night. And I wars thinking of.ye this very moment. Well, and hero ye are." She held his and a moment in her strong, soft white bands, and her keen eyes dwelt with a fine solicitude on his face. Her heart wacme to him as she looked for. his own. sake, and for the sake of one who was as her own d ughter. "But what for are ye not at the church, Neil, and this your first Sunday in London? Ye must make a good be inning, you know, and Angus will be mis ing you, I am sure." " Oh no, Angus won't. One more or less in such a crowd makes no difference," he answered, and there was evasion in his tone. "1 need not ask you how you are. I have never seen you Io4k better." •• 1 have nothi that's very °inter give me all the ne has happened since I left it three months ago." " A good deal fle happened to me, cer- tainly," Neil answered, glad to be released for a moment froth the searching keenness of her eyes. "1 siuppose Katie has told you everything 9 n I With the utter ince of her name, Neil be - ,and the afternoon vis - g to complain of, lad, . But sit ye down, and s of Kilravock. A lot came himself agai ion dimmed. " Yes ; I supp mostly everythin "And I have tho are some things .1 don't like, Neil. good arise from le uncertainty. I cannot help believ will help men and will be better wri London." "You are right with you, Mrs. see Katie has told me " the old lady answered. ght it all over. There like in the idea—some I I have seldom seen much ving a certainty for an ay be wrong, lad, but I ng tha the books that women to a nobler life ten in Jilravock than in so far, nd so far I agree Malcolin,'/ Neil replied readily enough. 'But there is side of the questien yoU have not thought of. How iii a man whohas seen nothing outside the green walls of a Highland glen to write with power of the stress and temptation of life as it is suffered by ,the folk who dwell in cities such as this ?" "But why sh uld he write of it?" queried -the old la y, with one of her lightn- ing glances. "Th re's plenty, God knows, that write about t mptation and sins, and nothing ern. There's room for books, Neil, that have nothing in them but pure thoughts, in whose ages ye can find the music of running a er and feel the clean, sweet sweep of th mountain wind. Let them grovel that ve'l . You have seen the Almighty in His hel habitation among His ain hills. Woe be you if ever ye forget that vision !" The young man s silent for a moment awed by the intens of the words. . In that moment of qui , deep feeling, the re- semblance between er and her brother, the old schoolmaater f Kilravock, was most marked. There as the same etberial glance, the same p ophetic expression --the uplifted look, whic bespoke a heart attun- ed only to the high t music. The baseness of his own desire treck Neil miserably. He had thought of orldly honor, worldly fame, before everyt ng ; but once more, so sensitive was he to he influence of each passing hour, his a , I swelled within him with a desirefor th :highest arid best, for: achievement only h ch would be a crown to.his spiritual life. "It may be posei e to preilerve such an ideal, even in Lond , Mrs. 1V1alcolm," he ventured to say. There are men who have done so." "Name them," a "1 read, or try to re d, the most feck of the new novels—God forgive me my waste the sharp response. ot precious time—ari but the prostitution wicked pand ring to human natur ." I find little in them f noble talents, anda he worst that is in "Come. co ne, that is surely too sweep - the mist. A passing omnibus rolling west ward tempted him, and he climbed to th top. Then he took 'a cigar, which. soothe him and brought him to his proper sense before he had sot to the Marble Arch. Th throng and stress of life in the streets stirre him ; and he felt that strange sympathy . sometimes tender, sometimes criticalnibu always wholly human, which is only know to those to whom the gift is given, and wh can intuitively read their fellow -men as a ordinary'n mortal reads the pages of an ope book. This keen and sometimes painfu quality, absolutely essential to the artist be he painter or poet, Macleod possessed in a very high degree, though he was BS ye only vaguely conscious of its transcenden power. Hitherto he had studied Nature cloee to her inmost heart ; the few types o humanity within his reach he had made his own, photograghing them with startling clearness on the pages of the book which to -morrow would set literacy London by the ears. But an intimate knowledge of the seething throng of life as it is found in cities he had yet to acquire. Something of its wierd attraction held him there and then, and gradually the vividness of the other picture faded from his mind. As they rolled on again along by the railings of Kensington Gardens, where the great branches of the trees stood out in naked beauty against the clear darkness of the sky, he suddenly remembered that he WS S veey near to Porchester Terraee, Bayswater, where abode Mrs. Malcolm, the aunt of Katie Forbes. She was the only eister of 1alcolm Forbes, and had married a • Strathyre man who had made his fortune in the eity. She had now been a widow for over ten years, but still clung to the com• fortable family house where she and her husband had spent so many happy years ; only leaving it for three or four mouths in Summer to visit the country house in Stratbyre, which the successful merchant had bought with the first -fruits of his suc- cess. She never went alone to Strathyre. • If she could find a poor clergyman, who was • unable to afford his wife and children a breath of country air; a Weary governess, whose pale, colorless life was marked by a continual self -repression ; or a city clerk, whose only knowledge of the green and quiet beauty of nature was gleaned from a London park --those were the people whom the good semi loved to ask as guests to Strathyre, and to whom she was never weary of showing the wonders of a High- land glen. For Mrs. Malcolm, Macleod had always entertained the highest respect and esteem, albeit he sometimes shrenk from her sharp tongue. A slight smile escaped him as he ascended the broad steps to the handsome pillared doorway, born of the contrast he could not help drawing between the houee he had left and the one he was Neil, rather hotly. We need not quarrel bath night too," stop. ed hand. "Now, tell at 'Trinity, hearing Ipit, a treat of no aim - lab I lived near enough to be somet4iing more than a half-day _hearer." "1 was out in the afternoon, Mrs. Mal- colm, and did not get back in time," ans- wered Neil, and pictured to himself how easily he could horrify and distress her if he liked. "Were you there in the morning ? I did not see you," she enact then, determined to be satisfied as to his spending of the Sab- bath day. I saw you, though ; I sat near the door," he replied. "And were you uplifted as I was ? It's a great work Angus Fraser. is doing in that place, Neil. I marvel that the Almighty shoulcl have given him such gifts and—so young—such grace to guide them." Neil sat still, saying nothing. This was the manner of speech common to Kilravock ; already it had an alien sound in his ears. "Katie tells me ye have comfortable rooma, in Russell Square beside Angus. When I first heard that you were coming, Neil, I thought of this big, einpty house, and how gladly I woiild give you your own corner in it. But I 'm an old woman, and ye are better where ou are." Neil's face slight' ' flushed. The rare The Beginning of . Heart Failure Thin, watery blood, and Weak, exhausted nerves the real cause—Dr. Chase's Nerve Peed the preventative. Persons subject to thin blood and nervous exhaustion may well tremble at the mention of heart failure, as they have in their system the beginnings which lead to weakness of the heart. The vitality of the heart is amazing oonsiderin the immense amount of pork it does, and so letn as it is supplied with pl nty of rich, red bl od plods on untiringly, te pilding its waste e the blood passes through. Qnce the blood gets tljhi and to nerves starved and exhausted the waste graduelly becomes more rapid than the restoring process and finally serne estvoits shock or over-e4ertion eAUSIIS the beating re sale and life departs eadaches, pains in the back and limbs, gleep- lessnejs, weaknesses aid irr?gulrIties of the lerisiaine organs, palpitation Of the heart lied I nervous disordees are $ re indkiationg of tkih, ' w'pals blood. Dr, Chase's Nerve IT od (orTnA new red sr. e blood, puts irk energy Into t LIMON, d stops the wasting process that would i1tinsta1j end in heart failure, Ifervous pristine ep er sridyal.; ip4s* rids gravest r dye AI al, weave trtlintLdelltiairatgNP;OU1S - One in Seven Dies of Consumption 'And Consumption Begins with a Cold :that CouldBeCuereeedd by Dr. Cheartin's Syxtp .oftin That one in every seven persons dies of consumption is proven by • governinent statistics, andwhen it is remembered ithat It is usually the young man and poring woman who succumb to the effects of this terribly' fatal disease, the ravages of icon- sumption are more fully ,realized. .! - Consumption always- begins with a ineg- lected cold, and how dreadful must be the misery of every mother whose dear one fall .pray to this monster as a result of mother's neglect to cure the cold. ' It is -rarely that consumption is :ever cured, but it can always be prevented by timely uie ef Dr.. 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"I'm glad Katie has committed himself to you. She only gave me a half -promise." "1 suppose you will not be seeking to marry for some time—at least, not in a hurry ?" "Not until my position is immured. It will all depend on the success of my book," " Well, if Ws a good book—and A egus says it is—I hope it will •succeed, lad, but not to your undoing, You know our pro- verb ; The fu' cup is ill to cairry." Neil smiled, the smile of superior wisdom. "My cup is not likely to be so full as all that, Mrs. Malcolm. I suppose Angus comes a good deal here? '1 "Not he—not half as Often as I wauld like," she answered. "But I do not press him, because he is a busy map and I would not be selfish." There was a silence, and then Neil leaned forward, with a most eager look on his face. "Mrs. Malcolm, I suppose ' Katie or Angus has told you about this 4nysterions money which is to be paid to me. •What do you think about it ?" "Some one wishes you well, laddie, and has your interest at heart." " I have thought sometimes, Mrs. Mal- colm, that perhaps it comes from my father." "It might be, Neil. Stranger things have happened," she answered* and the silence fell upon them again. "MIT. Malcolm, of late I have thought a great deal about it all—my mother, I mean. She died without telling md I anything. Does anybody, do you, know vvho my father was ?" The old lady's delicate cheek —flushed pink. "I do not know, Neil; and if you are` a wise lad, you will not be seeking to rake up that bitter past. That your mother died without sayieg a word shows that she had no wish,for you to know more. You would respect her silence, I am sure, for you were ever the best of sons to her ; she told me so herself." "Of course I will respect it, but I cannot help my thoughts; and though it is a little against a man to have no people, I must live it down." "That will be easy, Neil. The folk whose respect is worth winning will nevatr ask whose son you are. We you they will .look at. And you can renhember that God Himself will only require from you an ac- count of what He has, given not what He has withheld:" • "All the same," observed Neil, some- what diacontentedly, rising to hie feet, "I would like to know,' CHAPTER IX. V THE swim, , Next morning Neil was downstairs firet, and finding the Chronicle on the table, opened it out eagerly. He had hardly ex- pected to see the review of which Merrick had spoken, and was scarcely disappointed not to find it among the three er four , notices of new novels appearing on the liter- 1 ary page. But presently his heart' beat and his face foolishly flushed* as he caught, sight of his own name in an article under the flattering and suggestive heading, "A New Star." It was a most favourable and eulogistic notice, but one written by a discriminating hand. The very weak points of which Neil himself had been painfully conscious were unerringly spotted and unhesitatingly con- demned, but the writer evidently consider- ed "Mist of the Hills" a work of genius, and closed his notice with the words, " In these days of cheap sentiment' and tawdry workmanship, undoubtedly a book to be thankful for. ' I question if Neil Macleod ever tasted a sweeter moment than that. He was keenly sensitive to praise or blame, thirsty far encouragement, and sufficiently inexperienced to believe in the probity of the review. In litter life, when he had learned to value it at its true worth, and to know how very evil are the days on which the reviewer's calling has fallen, he often recalled that morning with envy and regret. But he never lived it again. His, eyes were still flashing, his face foolish fond as any girl's, wh n Angus came down fresh and hearty from( his cold plunge, and, with nothing Monday sh about him. His fine, constitution andsensible mode of life en- abled him to get through an enormous amount of work without evident strain. He gathered at once from Neil's kindling face what had heppened. "Let me see i," he cried, with all the old boyish impatience ; and with small ceretrony possesSed himself of the paper. " Well, this beats everything, old chap,"1 be cried excitedlts. "What a splendid bit. of writing. Is it Merrick's ?" " No, but he knows the man who did it. Isn't it stunning, Angus ? but too flattering by half." "Not it. You'll get plenty of the other kind yet. Why, there's half a dozen other papers that will write down the book simply because the Chronicle has written it up. But I'm glad it's teri! good, because there's a lot of folk in Loudon, Neil, influenced by a Chronicle review." " I suppose there are. What a fool I am, Angus. I'm as nervous as a kitten, and the very thoeght of breakfast chokes "Sit down to your porridge, man; the meat that the book has been written on, the meat that makes men," said Angus cheerily. "I'm eady for mine, anyhow.. Well, you surely nade a day of it -yester- day. I was dead tired when I got home, and though I went to bed soon after nine, I had a book wit me, intending to keep awake till you oa4ne in ; but I didn't, I sup- pose, for X never eard you."' " I got hack athalf-past ten; I spent 1 the evening at Mrs. Maloolm'it." "Oh, did you? I'm glad youi went there, I saw her in church this morning. She would be pleased to see you." "1 think she was." • "The rest of the day ou spentwith Merrick, I suppose ?" "Yes, up to seven o'clock. He took me to a party, Angus, at a very grand house in Bruton Street—Lady Edward Grattihain's. Flave you ever heard of her 2" "Yea. Her husband ils Goveroor of VAapggiT:884:.1 same. Have you ever. see her, e "Never; but I have met some people who know her. Did you see a Mise Law- rence there—Enid Lawrence ?" Neil started. "How odd ! No, I didn't see her, but I heard of her from Lady Edward's darighter, Have you met Miss Lawrence ?" "Yea, at.the MoKinnon's house. They are members of my church." e "It isn't a big world, after all," said Neil contemplatively. "Now I thought it would be all news to you, __and that you would never even have heard . of Lade/ Ed- waTitsim bound to say I have heard very . F' little to her credit, Neil ' • and I can'h help saying I'm sorry Merricktook you there. Lady Edward affects literary society, and hunts lions. But the best people 40 not frequent her house." .. Neil slightly winced. For the second time he was being openly warned egainst this beautiful woman who had made such an impression on him, and for the second time be inwardly resented it. "There ;were plenty of distinguished people there anyhow." , "Perhaps notorious would be the better word," said Angus, with more atrlimony than he usually permitted himself. ," The Mackinnons don't allow their daughtbra to visit Lady Edward', though they are seoond cousins, and Miss Lawrence is only in imate at the house for the sake of the ohildr n." "But all this prcives nothing," said Neil hotly, "and I never thought to hear mali- cious gossip from yogic lips, Angus." Angus smiled, bid said nothing ,for a moment. He gatlired that Neil had been much impressed bi, Lady Edwand, and he was not surprised,Fonly filled with regret because the miech ef was done. "You've come tq London to work, Neil, and it is the mo he and butterflies who hover about LadyEdward-'a brilliant flame. Her house iteno place for a poor, hard-work- ing chap who has his living to get and his name to make." "That's all very well, Angus, but all work and no play is bad, and a man must see life before he c&n depict it," said Neil, harping on a well -Worn theory. . "Life as lived by Lady Edward and her set is not worth depicting, though it has bean done to death,- Neil. But we are not going to quarrel about it, eck let's drop it. I'm going to give myself a holiday to -day in your honor. Where shall we go—out of town, or what ?" "Anything you like, Angus; but mind, I won't waste your time; I've sevoen it," said Neil, the gloom clearing from hie face, and the old affectionate gleam brigrening hiaegea. "Oh, 1'11 take care of that," said Angus laughingly. ".I worked double tides last week in view of this, so it's honestly' earn- ed. Shall we take a run to Brighton or to HamPton Court and Richmond? I'm in favor, of Brighton myself; well find the sun there, and I haven't, seen his face kir five days."ighton be it. When shall we start?"' "/ow. We have just time to catch the ten ve." . They vent a very happy day together, living old times over again and reached London without a shadow between them. Angus found a call to a sick -bed awaiting im, and a note left by hand for Neil, stood efore the clock on the mantelpiece. It Yeas feom Merrick, and asked him to look ound to his rooms after nine, if not other- wise engaged. "Ae you have to be out, I may as well o," Neil said, as they left the house to - ether. Neil was surprised when he (Ten- n Merrick's door to find the room full of men. 1 They were all smoking • consequent - y the atmosphere was so clouded that it as a moment before Mackie -A could dia. ern their faces. 1 "Come in Macleod," Merrick called out! eartily. "There are one or two fellows ere you'd like to meet—at least, they want o rneetyou. This is Warburton, to whom ou owe your first review," A stupid shyness laid hol o1 f Neil, and e entered sheepishly, w thout -a word. e felt innumerable eyes pon him, and nged to flee the place. eeing his nerv-' useless, they good-naturedly resumed their' terrupted talk, and Neil slipped gladly to a chair where he begarr to smoke des- erately. He WU able, however, to ob. ,erve closely. They were 114 literary men r journaliets, judging by their talk • two ces Neil. fancied he recognized' from ortraits he had seen in some of the illus. ated journals. The one belonged to a ery big man, of heavy figure, with a road, good-humored face, merry blue yes, and a quantity of reddish hair, carry - g the cachet of his Scottish birth in every ature., The other presented a sharp con- e.st—a tall, lean person, of willowy figure, Byronie cast of face and picturesque cks, worn affectedly. He had a woman - h face, and very long, slender whit hands, hich he flourished a good deal. He &p - eared to Macleod to be posing all the me, and he was puzzled to make him out. e had talkeden, good deal, and his very ice had a 'ring of insincerity. Macleod nceived an unaccountable dislike to him, hich was not dispelled as the evening ore on. r They Were talking of the vacant laureate- ip, which was then exercising the minds literary London. Neil soon gathered at it was a matter of moment to the long- ired gentleman, and that he was an au- ority on Laureates. " I'll tell you what, Mauleverer," said °trick, with incisive dryness • " there is ly one man fit for the post, and he'ahere. t's take a show of hande." Macleod started, and surveyed Maulever- with the deepest interest, Even in far lravock. he had been sufficiently abreast e literature of the day that he recognised m at once as one of the minor poets who d a certain vogue. " This is a countryman of yours, Mixe- d ": said Merrick, after the chaff follow- on, his remark had died down. "1 need rdlY introduce you to Lockhart." 1 lo in itt 8 fa tr in te tr a lo is ti 11 vo CO eh of th ha th on Le er Ki th hi ha leo ing ha The, big man rose, smiling amiably, and took Neirs hand in a capacious grasp. "I've wanted to meet you; you're going to be a great success. How many words can you write in a day ?" Neil looked rather bewildered as he re- turned Lockhart's grasp. The work he had done for love had never been counted by words, nor had he ever game* his daily out: put. "1 don't know ; I've never counted. You, see, I've spread the thing over a long time, and I fear I work rather slowly.' " You would in Kilravook. Merrick told me all about you before you came in. Do you think you've done a wise thing in cm- ing to London ?" "1 hope so." "I'd like to come myself for some smis, but I'm too fond of this sort of thi he said, indicating the company by a prehensive wave. "It would play the ea - g,” m- ery mischief with me, so I only tome when I want a diversion. Pm fearfully bu.sy, no business to be here now, but I had to Mn up to see White about syndicating a thing I have in hand Just now. Know White t I must put you on him, or yOu'll be fleeced AN EAW PROPOSITION Beaty and style without comfort is easily obtainable, comfort with- out appearance is equally simple. You never saw an ugly pair of "Slater Shoes," yet many of them cover comfortably most unlovely feet. The combination of these two comfort and beauty—are only to be had in the "Slater Shoe." . SEAk adk re of the p eyed the imp g plated there -machinery, a kinds ot Ma e in twelve shapes, on lasts modelled from .actual feet, all widths and sizes, leathers, styles and colors. Evety pair Goodyear welted, name and . price stamped on the sole. $3.60 AND $6.00. R. WILLIS, SOLE LOCAL AGENT FOR SEAFORTH. right and left. He's saved me a clear two thousand a year since I threw myeelf on his tender menden. I'll tell you what, Mac- leod, you Meet no end of folk that'll cry down the literary agent to you. Don't you mind them. . He's the man for my money, and for any man's. Take my advice and go to him now—novea the time. I'll go with' you if you like to -morrow morning. Where can I meet your , This long speech, delivered. in short, dis- connected sentences, and in is great hurry, was a trifle eonfusing to MaelpOd, but before he could sOy - a word, Lockhart went on again. "It's his percentage they grudge. I'll tall you whot ; you'll find them a scrubby lot. They , don't mind helping thetneelves up, and then trying to knock down the lad- der by which they've climbed. I believe in the literary, agent. It saves a mai all the nuisance ot writing his own letters and col- lecting his own accounts. It's degrading to have to hawk one'a wares about." "There's something in it," admitted NeiL "Bit I don't expect to be over. whelmed i; an, way. I'm in a very • small way of doi g.' Lockhart laughed his boyish, infeetious ,: laugh, and et his big hand fall with real 1 kindliness 11 - Macleod's shoulder. . "1 like that, after your first review. Just wait a bit. I'm off to Cyprus on Mon- day to get so back, six wee different tale, we Seetchine nobody in it that there is bigger income "Indeed," you work ver "Oh, bles , you, no. I dictate every word. Thetis another straight tip. Culti- tivate the -easiest method of production; it saves you in every way. Of course Borne of them talk tall, and affect to believe in in- spiration. All stuff, dear boy; it's only another name for hard work." "It's all so new to me," said Neil, unable to realize that he was actually in close and brotherly converse with one of the most popular writer's of the day. " Oh, of coerse, but you'll soon gee into the awim. Merrick's a good chaperon; but I don't like the women he knows. Have you met any writing women yet ?" ered Neil. "1 expect to see at the Nomadic •dinner on it's a ladies' night. I don't greatly impressed with them. There are not more than one or two worth any man's trouble to know. But I'll ,men- tion no flamers. Where are you staying I" Neil mentioned where his quarters 'were• . "So you're a chum of Fraser's," said Lockhart, With a glance of surprise. "1 used to know him well, but—but—well, to tell Ithe: truth, we sail in different boats and Fraser has a confounded lot of Highland pride and cheek, which really hind* his influence, if he Could be made to sae it. What'll that, Merrick? I thought I heard you mention Raine's name. What's the latest news?" 't I - "He's in London just now, seeking what you're going to Cyprus for," answered yer- rick, with an indolent smile. "1 heerd a bit about his 'book today; but keep -it dark. He's going to show up the Cowley' tethers and the nursing profession, and there's a bit slum life thrown in." (To be Continued.) __gene An Ingersoll Incident. The incident was related by a Bradford lady who requested that her name be not mentioned in connection with it. " It was in Pittsburg," she said, "1 be— hove in the Library Hall, where I first heard Colonel Ingersoll speak. There was a large audience gathered there, _among them being clergymen and the cream of professional life of the city. Colonel In- gersoll's speech was magnificent from an oratorical standpoint, but his speech on the bible and religion was blasphemous. I How- ever, his powers as an orator and as an actor made a deep impression on his hear- ers, and seemed to effect One /man in par- ticular, Rev. Mr. Alexander Clark, pastor e local colour; when I come s hence I expect to hear a Say, isn't it wonderful what are doing just now? There's ith us. I could take a, bet t a living author making a than I'm doing at present." aid Neil, with interest. "'But hard." No, ans some of the Thursday," "Oh yes; think you'll, b e imione• • of the Methodist church, which every one in Pittsburg new as the Old Home. " At the conclusion of the lecture Col. onel Ingersoll was backing from the s his peculiarly graceful manner, when v. Mr. Clark bounded to the forum and asked to be introduced to the speaker. This formality having been gone through, the minister and agneetio clasped hands, the minister with eagerne.ss, the agnostie with a grace peculiarly hie own. I well remember the pleasant, hearty, honest manner in which the great Ingersoll, grasped the hand of that good minister, whom fame as a Chrietian of the real kind was known throughout Pittsburg., "Mr. Clark, when he held Colonel In- gersoll's hand in his held it tightly while he lifted his eyes toward heaven and prayM in a fervent manner that God would dimes the wonderful talents of this man in another and better sphere. His prayer was not a long one, but it was from the heart and bid its effect upon Ingersoll. The great agate. tic looking the good Christian in the eyes,. thanked him most heartily for his kindnese, and solemnly added that Mr. Clark Wee the first Christian minister that had ever wished him godspeed. He then left the platform, and the audience slowly filed out of the building. "The sequel, though, shows Ingersoll ait he was. It brought out the great manhood of the agnostic. Rev. Alexander Clark went west. I am not sure to what state he emigrated, but I believe it was Missouri, and there he became ill. He was at a hotel and the Governor of the State, who hat known him many years, had him removed, to his home. Mr. Clark -grew worse ant was threatened with death. 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