The Sentinel, 1877-03-02, Page 2• ••5•-..t
IsativaRABLE AFTERNOON
".•Oh. sweet," she -said, " that afternoon;
The smile of God, on land and sea ;
And sweet through many a vanished June
. Caine back, like a -remembered tune,.
' The silence of -the shore to me!
Oh, sweet the mom.ent was! the scene!
The flashing of the shingles wet, •
The dent of clover and of bean, .
Warm fragrance of the fields that met .
The saitfteah breezes of the sea I t.
- The white sails' dropping out of sight
Were kindled into tawny flame, •
And all the moot 14 eteeped in:light
The way he came, the way he came'"
- „ •,
"Oh, ;sweet," he said. "the warm, wet reath
- or glittering sand! the tide that woke -
In tumult all along the beach.
• iretanade the very calm it broke
Blue was the heaven tbat o'er us bent:
Thesheep upon.a sunward slope
A quiet to the landscape lout; •
- And al things gave a widening scope
To thoughts.ef peace and calm content.
• - And all things seemed in league with hope
The way we went, the way we went!"
411•111110 - •
T OF THE QUESTIO
COMEDY.
BY 'w., D.• How-Er.“,s,
.-,..[coNcLITETn] .
LiSLI*. remains settle moments withoure-
•
lying, while slie looks . absently at him.
• Then with cold. . hauteur: "Thanks. i i It's
. quiteimpossible: My Mother *mild. never
"conseet. - - . . -. -. ' : • _ . . .-
.. 13LAKE :._ "The repni will- stand . enipty,-
thin; I meant to give it :up from the first-
-. Lae ion' as I found that you were not •pro -
1. vided. for, -but I hated to make a :display of
,
doing it it before all the people down.. there in
-the office. - I'll go. now and leave the key
_with the landlord, as I ought to hat done,:
•- '.without trortbling you. But -I, had. hardly
- .the chance of deing. so wheu we cams here.'
IzsiffE; withenthusiasin : " Qh,,Mr. Blake; '
-
do you you .really meat]: to give us your room
after- you'vebeen se odiously -Oh, it's too
bad.; Ws too bad!_..You musn't ; --no,you
shall not."
' -.MAKE ; "1 will leave the key on the table
• here. Geed night. . Or --4 Shall not see you
.'- in :the morning:, perhaps I had better say
_ -good-by." . - - .- - : . - ' -• ..-
*%.----.1
LESLIE:•
" Good -by 1 -In he meriting?"
• BLAKE:. "I'VE:. changed in . plans, and -I'M
-- going aWeYi-o-rebrrow. Good -by-." _
' LESLIE : "Going----Maintne will be Very
• Sorry to --,-Oh, Mr._ Bloke,. I hope YOU are not
- going. I) ecanse-77But -indeed-I want you ..to
believe"-- . ' • ' - : •
• BLAKE-, devoutly:- "1 believe it. Goad-
•_.,_ -by; 1" : He turns away to go, -and . Leslie,
•- Standing bewildered and irresolute, lets him ,
. leave _there's:MI ; _then she has Gene to the door
• After him, and eecoenters heernother..
M4§.'BELTANGRAm-: " Well, Leslie ' Are
• you ,qUite ready? We went to - look at..
aggie's room beforegoing down to tea': - It's
.small, but we shall Manage somehow, Come,!
- .
dear, -She's Waiting for me- at the 'head of
-
the stairs. . Why, Leslie 1". • _
Tiesumit, touching her handkerchief. teller.
- -eyes : -"-.1-Was a little -overwrought, mamma. -
1'tn tired:" . ! After a moment: :" Malaita,
Mr. Blake"-
MRS, ' BE1A...1'24411AM; with. o 'look at .her
daughter -: "-I Met him in the hall." '
- tiesTe.- "Yes, he-, has been :been here; and. I
' thought Ihad lost One of my ear -rings, and
of Course he found. it on the floor. .the instant
he- cattle in. And"--• - -
Muitaxv, surging into the room, and
going up to the -table : "Well, Marion; the
tea -What key is this?. ' What- in the world
-iie Leelie crying about .• „.
Le,sr,re., with suprertiediaregard of hereunt,
land, adamantine self-control: "Mr. Blake-
,liad."-conie"--ahe hands thekey,to•Mts:
.11inghem--" to offer you the key of his room-.
;He -asked me.to giveit"
Mis BEWNou;iisf. The, key - :-.of his
;teem - - - • -
TAzsi,-12. ..6.11e -.offers you his Jodie ;:helas
'always meant- to offer it";
Mis BF„..trINenAtc. -gravely -.: "Mr. Blake
had no right to know that we ,had no rooiri.-
-It is too great an obli-----kindneee. We can't
accept it Leslie. 1 hope you 'told him so
,
- my dear."
-ListaF. "Yes, :Minima._ But he said he -
!ices going to lodge at one of the farmhouses
:in theneighborhoed, and the room. would-be •
vacant ,if you didn't take it . I conldn't ,pre-
vent his leaving the key.' _ . ..,
MES. BELLINGHAiii. "That:is all very well.
But it doesn't alter the case; as far as_we are
_eonCerned. -It is Very geed of Mr. Blake,
- but after What- has oceurted, it's siniply
possible : We can't take it" ,
- 10s. MuRitAY. " Ocourred I Not -take
Of course We will take it, Marion t I Cer-
--.tainly am astonished. The man 'will get a -
intich'better bed at the farm-houie that he's
accustomed to. You talk.as if it were some
act of self-sacrifice , I've no doubt he's made
the Most... of it, and given it an effect_
- of heroism -or tried to. - But that you ,
-..:shonld fall in with his vulgar conception of
.the affair, Marion, and Leslie should- be
feeted to tears by magnanimity, is a little:too.
comical. One wo-uld think; really; that hei
had imperiled life And limb on our account '
All this sentiment about a room .on the third
itoor' Give -the key, to me; lsifarion." She
possesses herself of it from Mrs: Bellingliiin'S:
passive hand: "Leslie will wish to stay with
you, so as to be near her young friends. I
willocCupy this -vacant room !'
,
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-
--It
Under the shelter of -some pines near- a
•-lonely-bp-road, in the neighborhood of the
: Pinikwasiet- Hotel lit two tramps asleep.4-
: _One -of theta; having made his bect. of. the .
pine -boughs, has pillowed his head upon the s
bundle he -carries by day; the other is:
'stretched, face- downward, . on the thick
7 'brown carpet of pine -needles: The Sufi, which
-,strikee_through the thin screen of the trees
_ upon the bodies of thetwo men, is high in -
the heavens. The rattle of Wheels is heardf
,
•
from time tO time on the remote 'highivay s;
. the harsh clatter of a kingfisher, poising over
-
the Water, comes from the direction of the
- _river near at hand. A squirrel descends the
trunk of an oak near the pines under under which
- the Men lie; and at Sight of them stops, barks'
harshly, and then, as one of them stirs in Iiis
- sleep, whisks back into the top of the. oak:•.
It is the hixttiions tramp on the pine -boughs
-Wile stirs, and who alertly Opens- his eyes and.
-site up in his bed, as if the noisy squirrel had -
c
startled him from his sleep. . '.- -, - •
t-FriuriTaastP, Casting a:Malign lo at the
• top'of the oak: "If I had a fair she it you
- with -this -club, -ray fine fellow, I'd break you
:of -that trick of waking peoplebeforethe-boll -
,ringeinthe *or**, ':,p4r4ti*it,:er*krAii#4:
squirrel fer breakfast when they (1,t4totiv.-:r.,:,,
He takes his buinlie into .liiiilap,,aittr-tienin•••
.louslyinntying. ikTeVieale,-,a5nietlef heap of .
tatters ;-, fromthese he out a flask:::
:which he holds :against the light.- shakes at -
his ear;.ancl.hiVeete--,:npon. hielipe. - . :" Noy- a .
:drop :;• net k -squire ',smell, jeyen1- .- Idremtit
it". . He lies- 'deign' *Atha groan,and teineini
a . moment with -` his head--...pillowed .in his.
•Ihand. • _' Presently he reaches for. llieistiek,
•:and egaittrising VI .0 sitting posture, strikes .
his sleeping comrade .- agrees the shoulders.
. , - .- 4 •
' "Getup !"- .. ' ' -- . - - ' •
- SECOND TE,Ami - whe'speakeWith .--a slight
ibrogne,.,briskly:springs to his -feet,. and rubs
1.
his shoulder:- - ,`And-' What. - for, my strange• ,
bedfellewr: • . : -. : . - ...
7 _ leinaT.'_ TkA.Ifk.. " for.-'_ breakfast. 2 ': What..
de people generally' get nR for in the Morn,
ingr : - - -.- , : ' ., ' - • ', - .' 1 .... -
_ . : .. .
. SteoND- Taltitr. ." Upon me .sonik-IZ 'as
soon have had Wine in bed"- 1,'ve , a day i- of
. /
leisure before before mc And let Me say 'a' *Ord to
you, my ,friend; ,. the, next .time you -See a gen-
tleman dieamingof bue.of the ,moik elegant •
repasts - in • the World,' and - jest Waitmg,,
-foehiS,etew to cool, don't you intrude, Upon:
hint With. that little Stiek Of yours,- . I -doe't s-
-
care lat a -stroke or two in „spert,_ but .When I. ,.
think' .Of the ineel I'velpst, 1-could:find it in
Mr heart tle' break yourhead' for you, , you
Ugly. brute. , .-Have you get anythitig:. to eat
' therein your wardrobe r - '•.- . . . .. - ' ..
fitter Talimr "Not a etitmly.." -7
1 SecOi....ni TRAMP. "-Or to drink?"
FiitsT Tii-Oki.,-. i".Not a drop."
ISECONO TEAMP: "Or- t6-Sinoke:?"'.
;FIRST TILVIIE. "No". .. 1 .
. SECOND TRAMP.- , "Faith, you'reneat*: a
broken head than ever; my friend.-.: Wake it
: 'Mai out of a- dream of that eortr.
• . Treat ,ThAke.- "I've bad eneughof this. -
What do cio You- intend 40 dOr., . '.' ', ,:. :- -,1 . l'
• SECOD TeAstr..... "I'm going to assume the .
character of an *poster, and pretend at the .
neit. farm -house :that I -_ haven't: hod. Any
breakfast,' and haven't; any :money .to buy
... . - • i
- one,. It's a bareficed-deceit,-I. :know, -,bUt.."
.=--looking down at at his broken shoes and
tittered Clothes--" I., 'flatter 'Myself that I
'dress the part pretty Well: . To be sure, -06 .:
women are not as ready to listen as they were ..
once._ ' The tramping -trade-- is , '.overdone;
There's ' toe :Many in it -1' the ladies can't .
'
believe we're .all destitute; _ it :dow-t standlo-
teasen,”
' Finer ,TR.A., iwP-.. "-.rni tired - of the Whole:
thing." • ..' :', r- :..1, . . _ J
SEcoNiiTeAitr_ ." I don't like it. But there's
.
worse . thinge;:. 'There's ,work, for example.
.
By me soul, there's nothing disgusts me like.
these plecee. where they tell you :to go: out
and hoe potatoes: and yeurbreakfast will be
ready in, an hoar. :: I never could work :_With •
any more pleasure on an empty etothaeli than .
a -: full _ otte- - - And the. -peek .,devile always
think they've said -something se.7 fine'. 'when
they teillon that, and the joke's so stale !
I can tell thein.I'm not -A thing to be. got, rid
of so easy. _I'M not the lazy, dirty-vagabend .
I look; at all; -I'M the iueVitable- - reSultof
the. Conflict between labor and eapital_!. j'in f
- the legical.,-consequence of the corruptionli in '.
_high places. - :I read it on the bit of newspaper
they gave me round my. dinner ;-. Yesterday; ,
.- t Was Cold beef Of a- quality - you don't .6 ten.
, -
'fi. ireljA the cenntry.), ' - . - . : • : ...
. Ftnsr TRAMP, .aulletily t " Well; -I'm sick
of
'
- of the, whole thing.: - I'm goin,e. out _of...it..7,
SecOND .Temitr. -"And. ;what'll you do?•
Are Ye going to work -1"
FIRST -Titamt !. "To work?- ' NO. To
steal !" -,. - -- : - .... . :- • -'' 1 _
• -SteoND TiA,311. ." Faith, I don't eall. that
• . . - . . r.
going out of then. - '.It's quite, in the -;line.
of busineas. . You're no bad .-dab - at - a .hen;.
roast, now, as I knew tory well; and for any-.
little thing that -a- gentleman can shove under -
_his coat, whilethelady of the house has her
:be* turned _bettering- his lunch for`-hint1: I
.d-
..on't know the . mail I'd- eall master." - ...'-.'
FIRST TRAMP. :1--4, if 1 Pallid. get A. ma*: to
tell me the time of day by a' watch - I liked, -
.ra as liefknockhim over as look at hit:n:7'r..
SECOND TEA -PrP. _0,-. oh; if it's highway zieb.••
-_. ./
bery you Mean, partner,:I don't follow. you."- • FIRST TRiBus, . ".Whtle the difference fir •
r'SecesiD.TRAltr. • "Not much; if - you take
it
• t-
it one way, but legoodTdeal if yeu. take it "ail.:
other. ',It's the difference : between- petty
larceny and grand larceny; it's the difference
between :three months in the HoUse. 'of 0 -4:n. -
rection and three years in the. State's Prison,
, if :yen're..canght ; not to mention the., risk of
the ptofession.".
--FIRST -Tamir, •• "I'd' takethe risk if .1 saw :
my chance." He :lies i down with•_. hia . aime
crossed under his.:head,:and... stares into:the
pine.: His-conradeglaneee at him, and then-
.
moves stiffly Out frounthe shelter Of the trete.
'and, shading .hie eyes with: -one hand,- peers
down the road.
SkeeND TRAMP. "I 'didn't .kneW . but . 1. -
might see Your chance, partner, You wouldn't
like an old gentleinati With a.load of potatoes
to begin on, would ye ?.i-Thete'S. one jeet.gefie
• tip the cross -road. : - - And yonder goes an UM:,
• brelia4riender. . I'M afraid * we shan't t(tke.
any purses tesepeakof, in thiSneighborhood..
Whoosh! -wait a bit, here's somebody coming
this -Vey." - The first tramp is -.stiffieimitly.:
interested to it up. . .! ' '-`' Faith, '.. here's - your: .
chance at last; then, if You're in earnest,_ my ...
frieed;.. but it Stands six feet in its streltings, -
-and it carries -a . stick as well as ,a, -- watChi, i- I
Won't' ask a share of the philidei,-- Partner; '
I'verags .enough of nie' own without wanting;
to divide your property4ith the .gentleman
- comine". . He goes- back and 'lies' down at
the. foot of one of the trees, While the other,
whohasrisen from the pine -boughs; CO4ies.
cautiously forward; - after a_ glance .' at the -:
!approaching- wayfarer he flings eviay. his
'cudgel, And,. taking tt.-- pipe fiem:, his pocket„
r-
drops into a winging attitude. The Irishman
`grins.;---. In another inenient :Blake Oppeate-
J, -
from under the cover of .hia' woodsand, ad-- :
:iiances-Nvith long strides; striking .with. his -
7. Stiok. it the stones in the road as he -conies '
'on; in. anAbeenOniuded'fashion; , , ' • .
-Etust TRAlip,:-.."I say, - inister rf-• Blake
-
you give a pper fellow alittle tobacco for his
t ,niifigureobpl: : Sel iuktei!:. b: tramp,
ir 06760o-atr! 4 1:12 i- ofhAla;fr; v :,t' p: c f:, ngatk A: m Pi andvc. hand: :':a;loeii, ;1168,1111- 1 :' IIi'o. E ih. then
falls, , Fh4"True iiikaand himself 1 'gn: good,n, adf t e:- tIlf- r: a I to. n1... e- : gives
a . iii i ii ' ..:'i iti ': 0. 0- . 4. . ' i tii: you, 4' - - you t i -t I_ .. , hC*1.1 i al )i::- ! . ; , . I.1_ . .7tq :: .,1: irdeal4:1-:1t:1':110. i,
Of breakfast the bush." Blake-lookellOm.
. • 4 ._.,forward, _ ..
..happen to line* where you're going- to get:
1-. aiwsageoit*TRA71yen never --7": :- • '
. after fillitighie-Pipe..;-,,Bleke de,elineisit;;.With:
-to, his -64:Miracle the latter effete to return. it, -
' d; and Wilke . miiii-m. ,,,:.,, ,
LGod
I48 -411.1.-Y, 1-.41.aY ,
-I
Tia -11:P. "Thahic
Yoe] re-agentlemtin. -
Bij"-Ei• the . 11
goes out of sight
d ;
eat' 7ITAPPie*8 :andwalks: 'up to the two
Lair.ps, remain where lie left them Anill-
e-leeling in their Pockets fer .amatch.
o e flon-.01.1 me a gentleinanr.
RST .TRAP. " NOS,: I::did, mister. No
orerce in-tha4 t I hope • I .
..
iNe. • But WhY. did Yen do it?"
FinsT z"Well,--yon didn't ask Ins
why we didn't go to work; and you didn't
.
y. that Men Wholiadn't any Money touy
'Vast hadbitter not smoke and Yon:
g Ve, mit -thieltobaCcO.':--.Ill call :.any inan-.1a -
-.gentleMin that'll do that" • .
- - - •
,13$,Akx.. •Oh, that's -a gentlenian, -is it:
He turps to ger away; when til8
8 OT1d,tran1P:.detains hint.
Si COND: 6 6. Doesiyouehonor hak
mho' ha Ve- aBiaie
i•iita---,i-Ch about yot
take out his match -case and strikes a light.
"G d bless your honor. You're a rear gen-
12 /1 j •' ' 1
Thenthisirakee agentleman
t a doubt?" -, i', .
S ,- '-----. '1
toxn TRaier. "Sure it 'does that." i
-13 AKE.- `tIrin glad to have the '-thattier
s ttl d." He *elks on abseetly aubefoie,
and he tramps . stand staring a inoment-in
the lireetion:im Which he has gone.
w e cde hel)hTRAMP,le*SithtIngr atidb'estkTe.thtch-tehaehtirrit:
se f. it 'with his head on one arm for a quiet
81110 e: " T 'at's- a. queer genius... By _ my
_snuli I'd like to take the road in his company.
Sire I -think there isn't the woman- alike,
w u it be oetlief cold victuals and old clothes
w e -he put that handsome face of his in itt
.•. i . .. ' - -.-- - - ;
..4.;
the. itchen1 dew." - e -
• IV/ ENT Tr ' - looking -Iown the road: ki
'• wen et' if that fellow could- have .a.,-- drop, of
spiri abet':1 him ! • I easy, mister 1" callingg
after Blake. 1"Hello there, _I say '!" • .
. SE sND TliAMP. 4 6 'VS too late, my•wortliy„,
frien I. . Ite'l i -never hear you,; and it's -not
_likel
you,
he'd:0 Me .back-te fill your flask flaik fr
if he dice. A .gentleinaii Of his: characte .
I-
'd t nk tivi0 before he-gave.a troop whisky:
,Tob, deo's-atiOI her. -thing."". He takes out the
:half- aaper ofitobacco,and looks at the label
:on i `--Wh,ait. anextravagant deg--! It is
the at mit Cavendish; :Audrit.smells as niee
..aS .it mOkes..1. Thisinxury-ii*hat's. destroy-
_ •4. L•- i
.434,:t e ceeilltrY, '.-With the :present reckless
-..expe '-diture in All, 4.1aSses!-of 1 the population
air the prodigious inttex of ignorant and
l'd.egt :,ded. .forigners, there Mast be .a COIL-.
' Stall : -./11.C1TU!$F.1 Of '._ tramps.':', True: for yo
i Mr, I Newspaper. - . :"Twoulit, ave. been .a
act o - benTeto;ehce to take hi • watch' from
him, partiie-„lend he' never .0 yid.' tellhow
fait e was going .. to _ruin... . But .:you can't
al_ 'a iii befriend a, Man six feet high and as
wiry as.a eit..irr I...',He offer e to., put the tobacco
.
'into is,..-.pooket again, *hen. his .. comrade
'filo,tie ea up, and Makes a ,clutch at it.. •
• FT tgr TEA -311: . "1 want that:" -
i
'OND -TRA, E.- "Why, SO ye do !"
r ItSt TR:mu • • - ' ' It's thin:P." - ' * t.--- ..-
432-1D.T.a.A. ' : "I'm keepingit ''for- ye."
,
•
. YritsT TRA,MPI, "1 WI you the 'ilian gave it
to ,'". ,'- ,. II -, .. ', • ' . '' .--- . ' ..,
•- SEOND: Te.A*r., -"And.!he wouldn't take .
--it ro me.- .' Ah you.will - ye brute 9" - The,
. atbe.r seitee'the wrist of thehaud with which
the r.ishthari.. linids 00 . tobacco ; • they
wrcstjle together; -,When- WoMen'e voices are.
herd at gem " "-distance • down -.• the ips4. :1
‘... 11, oogh .!. - : PM_ ..coming.' .7.. The -first .
:tram -1istenS; ._ kneeling.. The Irishman
..,springs to .his feet and thrusts the - paper 4f
-tebee O into...hie Pocket, . and, .eoining:quickly
_ forte. id, looks doWn. the road. "Fortune •
favor; e` partner l'. --Here comes an- '
:other opportunity -three:. of theta; faith, and
'Prat ones at that!' ' Business -before pleat -
au+ I'll put off that beating again; ..it its
-, the Ater for keeping. Besidea, i it's inotthie.,
f
=.
thingi qtfarrell'u. gbefore -ladies." Be is about
-,to-..ercuoh .down -gain-atthe-fo t '-of'the-- 'tree
,..'as e -ore, when his•coinrede.-hastily .gathe#
t
Up1iL
k. biindle, r.a d.- rseizing _ hi . -.,e.y the ' grin: '
de hint bac..-ntO the•teick 't- behind- the
irees. Af Mi
-
pne-
r a _moment - or . two, ss
• - , .. - _ . _ . 7 - ' • • .
Belli: 'sham, Misa..?.. Wallace; ' and. . Miss
-rItblieltei caMet, Sauntering: slowly:, along the
r°• Lu LV-, i:Y-.i,delica' te. ' ly sniffing the 'ail.;-:.' '' F-
e,
- .4
fi., 0. Intl]. ;- .1-81nen:' the . pipe . of , an Irish-.
. .
man. '
.: ' 11.a. tai. • "Ne rer 1 . I. know, the flavor Of
ran tobacee,.. hanks to a Smoking brothel.
Oh, hat a lone yroad. !"- - ... ..-:-
.,.. ,, .
- L 1-X.-- "Thisloneliness is one of tlil
,
charnts :. of . the 1 Penkwasset: :neighborhood.-
; Whe. .-Yeu'rei: on e.out of .sight of the 'hotel :-
,„ iiia t , e picnic- wide You'd, think you were .
a tiicsalid mile _away from civilization. Not
ai
:
an Ptyserdpie-box' of - a torn pager colla'r .
, anywhere! The -scent of_ the tobacco, is all
--.
mi earcl,of intrnsien,,, - .
..• , :
AGTE; 8,rOr...'-y : •. . ' ,.er_...a s7 ._.....r. - . 8.0`.
' ' ' hi '' " P li p ' m . . BF •IP --
rwentithie Ne4y.,.Deoe'hesMekti- Leslie'?"
' ilE, coldly: '"How I_ should. -1. know, :
M gg e ?.. A, gentleman =would -hardlYarnok
'in ladies' company -strange ' ladies, '..., She -
i sinks:down upon a. log at .the- wayside,and-
i gazes ! leyory -abel'tit With an air Of fastidiousl
' critiettin'that. gradually changes to a. rapture .
Of a Miration. .,-"Well, .1". certainly.' think i
riho e i fascinating. . • It's wonderful! This
'
that, -ake it -grin. all, :I never sawanything
1 littleaoek itself, that brown 'Carpet 4
need1:
. - . -,._ _ _ .
i ,4.,:ander the., Pixies,- and that . heavy •
rfringe .Of •ferns there,r. behind those , trunks I;
land then those ghostly birches stretching up
1 ' and' ' away,. -' - .. ' .
. -- . yonder- . --- thousands of --• them,! -
i.' How+Alt.:and sliM and•.Stylish they are !And'.
,how , they do .march into the . distance! 'II =
-never SaW' such multitudes: And their lovely .
Olen sal Makes' them look Eter if One: saw then) ,
-by -Moonlight. .1. Oh; ' - oh! - HMV - perfectly --
.di : ne..! .1.- if one could only have their.Vhan--
to
7like., .prOCe4ien-, :-,painted ! ..But-.' Corht
1
himself cotildil'irpaint . them. . Oh; I ...liana
i-nialfel some sort Of imemorandum--I WOIA'.
IThave he preSutOtion_ to - call it .::ai,.: sketch" _
'She tAkes...a sketke,b.t.from niid- ,-
. _ , -
and lays,* on her -knee, and then under herarm,
_. .with_ her .
-pencil,tnerynnsiy-trades on the air. the lines df -
.t he. •••41iiitant birches. . . "Yes, r I.- must. . -I
never' shall see them.So:beautiful again. Just-
i
,jot 'd wn:a few1inekl_and.. wash in the back-
ground. -:-
when I.:get to theliotel---4. .- But girbi, .'
-. you Inuen't -stay._ -IGo:. on and get the . liotidis
and, rlthe • done by the time 'you're. beck. I• -
couldn't bear te have you -overiooking. me I;
• I've All the . 'sensitiveness of .-a _great artist. .
- I 1 ' -
06. $0:1 i" - Bil.tjdOte.- be. gone tee long..' She .
*gine Atimork at . her Sketoli; without look.'
ia t t-'h'e-n.- *I .- -_-.--=
•n 1 " 'm . so glaL-rlc', :-'f.iii, e'1Iw
you'dbiperfeetly.faecinated-With this vet
;
and.eIdidn't tell
you Abut. it. --.• I Wanted.
.
it to 1 ttrat.npon pm' - ..,,,, ,: :: - ,-.:
., .ti„.. -with 'allittle- imPatient surprise, as ..
.if:she hadttliolight they had gone:. -"Yes
-.yea- i . never ..inind.',... : You did Oldie.- .right'.....
'
Don't stay. long." She co
looking uri, now and 'then
her, but net glancing at
walk away from her som
Wallace_ comes back, .
Macro -1i' "What time
lie !"
LESLIE, *lerVOUSlY "
you' game -lime." Glanc'
" It's nine minutes past
minutes past nine." Sti
atler : "Be back soon."
.,-MaGate)i "Oh, it jag'
turns away with Miss R
they are quite Out of sigh
her feet and runs after th
• AlrAGout;‘alhio' de -
her : " What ? What I'
- • LESLIE, dreamily, as
place and Sits down:
happened to think ofi
eyes to a narrow line, an
birches. " There are so
in the Tapers. But of co
any in is out-otthe-wa
the cities." -
-
• " MAGGIE. "Any what,.
Lestaz,- remotely :--"T
MAGGIE,' _scornfully
Such a thingheard of in t
• LFSLte. " I.thought n"
absorbed in study of the
mOTenf of hesitation; t
down the To, a,43,` once More
to look back in admirati
devotion t� art, and the
the flickering light an
works diligently on, him
self, and pausing now an
the birches for Which -
times, and: gracefully
side, or stooping forwar
some effectithat she has
resumes her seat and
that won't do !"-vigoro
rubber on jcertain porti .
"How stupid 1" --Then
again; and throwing bac
.deeired distance on her $
more like i ! I -Still nobod
slavish fidelity. fidelity. Well!'
•tinuee_to sketela
t the scene before
icompanions, who
-=when Misi
paces; .
8 it, Leslie!'
. What a Start
g, at .her watch:
ten -4 niean' ten
T without - 'poking
,
far.?' Againsle
-
berts, but before
Leslie springs to
m. _ •
ting, back _toward
e returns to her
,nothing. I just
' She closes her
_looks -up at the,
any horrid stori
rse there can'tbe
-
place; so fir trein
lie
amps..
There never was
e whole resign.
, :She lagain-
irches • and 'after
it other two retreat
lingering a little
of her picturesque;
vanishing under
shadow. • Leah.
mg softly to her
then "to look 'at
bject she - rises 4
ding from side
to make. sure of
slightly glimpsed.
anew. ‘1
ly Plying her indiai
na . of the sketch.
beginning to draw -
_her head; for th4
etch: ."
c�uldaccuse itShe sings :-
ri 11.
ile
leactroofki:xledollici:171:k; }1
oarr • • • V
- •
" 7)1ilheltt 1-4O'rairi 121Cili
The bulbul sang tkrth
Ahl, why that hitt
-
'With thy tenderAur
" - With tha,t so6ietSrgi
The bird was _mute:- -
SloW winked the t
•
against the thorn,
le ?'
silent scorn.
• e2'.
," How perfectly
Bellingham., later ately applies pencil
-and. rubber-" How win d the -cootOiHI s
never get that right.' i
Whileshe continues to
the tramps steal -8_ .from' the*
covert. Apparently accordance''with
some preeoneerted plan,: herSiltherandliuge
down goes doli the 4. ad' in the directi011
taken by Leslie's friendr, and the Irishmaii
unobserved stations hi elf 'at her side, an
supports himself with oth -hands .Testin
upon the _Op Of his itte in in attitude
=
deferentialpatienee and insinuating gallai
try.' She ceases singing amdlOolts up.
-SECOND SEARIP. to.be interruptin
-yen niiss"4Leslie.stares at fac
in dumb and motimilese hoa - "would
ime of day, so .th
reakfaet preinet
tell a poor traveller the .
'he needn't be eating his
bri if he tialTens to ket 'y?"' •
'FIRST TRAMP from. station down the
, -
road, in a- loud; hoarse., dertene: "-Snatc
it out of her belt, you f' 1 Snatch it lie'
chilling back! Quick!' Leslie starts
: her 'feet.
.':SEcOND' 1 -TRAMP.
,
'.ses, lit188,
,
friend's impatient.",1S.
• ,-,:
thingiy
me examine your wa I give yemy
-
hptoLicernie ow:frmiiiii'td,ut3 7, r; stiloesefiliygou
-ened.' As She Shrink clutches.la1
-her watch.,11
LEsrlz in terror--stric n
! Dont!-Don' take miy. watch .
My father gave it to in. and he's dead I"
.SECOIM TRAMP. "The 'he'll never plias i
- -
My, dear. - 3Don't oblige me to use haniI.
measures with a lady. e ive it here, one&
. _
that's a dear."
'FIRST TRAMP. EU
00/11ing _i" the :Iris
the wrist, she utters on
another; to. which the o
spend; as they reappOar-
the road. 7
'MAGGIE: ,4"Lqslie,'. 14es
. ;LILLY, at Sight of Lea
thetramp : Oh; help, h
!" • . 1.
,MAG6IE, i"Murder r
Prturr-TA:11WIP, rushing t them to the aid
Of his fellow: "0* y. :hand over her
'month ! Step her noise, somehow! ,Chok
her !" He fspringi forWa and.' while the
Irishman stifles her Cries. "th .hisliands, the .
Other tears the watch -ch in„cloose from its
fastenings. They 'stidde y -release her, and
..a413(i'idleeorettl4stglitPlaIe:ranawooning'y t'twritSr-se,
who struggles With his.", salient backwar
into the .undergrowty-l- mice the crash �f
broken branches; with ries and curses,
makes itself heard. •Foll Wing this tumult
°eines the noise of -a_ruith Itreughthe ferns;
and then rapid footfalls; of flight and .pur
suit on the hard -road; tha : die .away in the
distance while Maggie and Lilly:- hang
oVer-r-Leslie;,strivingto 'M Out from her
*Coherent moans and la nts -what has hap-
,
pened.
-; hurry . He'
. • -
man seizes her: b
wild shriek after
• er young- girls re
der the trees dowxi
Le! What is it ?"
"e struggling with
somebody
M.Actere. Oh, Leali
was it De try. to ',hi
shall •go wild if you
the matter.
"Oh, it W
-.I should -never be °ban- a
endure it? That filthy -1i
Their loathsome rags; the
-Ukh ! .0h, I- shall dream
live! .-_ Why, why --04:1-
horrid place t"-
"Leslied
what, lictit it ;' _
• LtsLiti panting and: so
•
horrid cliegustmgmen
they told mete give them
begged. them not to takei
a little hideous Irish
running all Around, 'Me;
ther-was worse than he -
he told
him -oh, giris 3 -
he and.
one .-of his hands over
thought
thonght I shon41 It'alla
-,,but I wasn't goingtolet
my., wit* if -I could- he
struggling ;.1 and ali,at one
-and"-puttin4-her hand
-
it's gone,. -it's gen
- •
slie, Leslie, what
Do try to tell !
don't tell whatsi
•
h, eh, I feel as
hi! How, carr
:id on my -month 1
sickening faces
fit as long is I
r come to thig
lgood - Leslie,
"Oh, t t
Q11' ask mei- An
my Watch;- and A
- And One was
oh,.and. he keptl
d, oh/dear I: th
-oh yes I An.
Choke me. AncI
hen the other py
y month, -anal
couldn't breathe
the wretches hav4.
it;• -and 1 kep
they ran -away
her belt," Ohl
(Met 'Oh, papa
papa! The watch you ga-re me its gent I".
She 'Crouches .down upon the log, and leaning
-
et head upon her hands Against the trunk of
tree gives waytoher tears and sobs, While
the Others kneel beside her,in helpless die --
tress. Upon this scene of inarticulate deso-
lation Blake emerges hem the road down
which the steps were heard. His face is pale
and he advances with his right arm held be-
hind_ him while the left dupe something
-
-whichle extends as he speaks. 3 '
"Here is .your
watch' Ilia° Bell
-DisuE,. whirling swiftly round, And rising
to her feet :..".My watch? Oh, where ;did
youfindit .?" She springs towards him and
joyfully. seizing it -from his hand, scana it
eagerly, and then kisses itin rapture. "Safe,
safe, safe! Net hurt the least My precioua
gift! ,,Oh, how glad I 7A131, It's even, going
yet -t 'How did you get -it ? Where did you,
g-etit BLAKE, EE, wh'e-speaks with a -certain painful
effort while he moves slowly a backward
from her.: found it ---41 get In. from the
thief."
LESLIE, looking confusedly a -t- him; "Ho*.
-
did you know they had it?"
MAGGIE. " Oh; it Was you, Nit% Blake; who
came flying -past no, and .drove them awe
Did you have to _fight theM ?- Oh, ., did the
hurt you 1" ., "...I „,.
Les-ue. - " It was you ---Why how pale you i
_ . _ I ,
1QQ1E ! -- There's blood on your face! . Why,
wherewereyou"? How did it all happen
It was you that drove them away? You -
And I never thoughtof ypu ! ' And I only
thoughtaboutmyself-my watch! I never
can forgive myself." .. She lets fall the:watch
. from her -heedless grasp, and he mechanically
puts out the hand _Whieh he has been keeping
behind hum: she impetuously seizes" it itther
own and, suddenly shrinking, he subdues -the
0:ion that breaks from him to a sort of Rasp,
and reels to the place where Leslie has been e
sitting. _'- '
BrAk-e, panting: - "It's nothing;!floret--
lamor.- "Oltsee, Miss Belli nzhi)- they've
brokenhis wrist! .,
• (v' --
-
don't "-
-
. MAGGIE. - "Oh, dear, he's going to faint I
What shall we do if he dos? I didn't -know/
.,
„they eve.i.lainted'!" She Wrings her hands in
' deepair,_---while Leslie flings herself upon her
'knees at Blake's side. " Oughtn't we to
support Inm, somehow?'Oh, yes, do let's
euppert him,all of us !
LESLIE, periOn8i.Yt• "RuA, down to the
river as fast as you. can - and wet your hand-
kerchiefs to sprinkle file ,face with." She
passes her -arm round Blake's, and tenderly,
gathers hie brokenwrist into her right hand.
"One can eupport-him."
es . ........•
arieties of Canaries. -
The -common- canary is known throughout
the civilized world; -and is Jo -051111non as to
be cheap in all bird -stores.; but many Of the
-varieties are rare; and very expensive ; -these.;
varieties are mostly dultiVated in England,:
•
so nmeh -valued - as its elegant shape or -brilr
- - • - . -
however,' where the song ,of a canary is not
liant color. Chrmany_ is the great cent
wheneetheworld. is. supplied with zinging
.birds, And In Germany the business- of rolls:,
ing the birds and getting them ready to send
abroad is _chiefly carried on itt the villages.
among the Hartz :Mountains of Hanover.,
The people there are miner d and., cattlei
drovers, but, heingpeor;aimost everIfamiln:
de-votesitespare time to rearing canaries and
reaVing the little wooden cages in whichl•
they are carried to the ablaut railway sta
tion or seaport. The houses are small, but
.one coiner of the principal room is separated
from the rest by a light partition, and given
to • the birds for their own use, where; '
boxes, . and -gour--cfshells,-they
_their nests and hatch their eggs, secure from
_all harm. __When isov
all the young birds are taken to. Bremen or
Hamburg, to, be sent zicross the ocean to
England, America, or away _round to India
and. China. - These voyages are made only',
the 'winter, however, because it was fouu_
that in Slimmer traveling the birds lost the'
voices .and plumage; but that season is :BO
0014 and stonily that usually from a _Tiede
to a _halt of -the cargo perishes before reach-
ing our, shore. So many Thirds Are lent,
nevertheless, that probablYtnnty-Eve thou
sand came to New :York alive last year -from
Europe. - These are --distributed through
large number ofbird-shops. in the City, atitil
the deafening chorus.' Which is kept -up front,
dawn till dark by a hundred or two birds
singing at the top of their voices hi a single _
room added to the din of As ill:menagerie
-
Of other _ant ',ia,sotnet pris - -
one the firit-f e he ente
Who is This queen or Diamonds?
1 1 4
a ---,-charity. ban recently held in Newh4 -
- -York, there was a lady Who had on $200 000
*worth IA diamonclii-7yet:UebOdy ran- *WAY
With her. She lives in San Francisco, but 4
* - .
not even jealousy ventured the whisper that
'her diamonds were•CalifOrnia' n. Shewes, not
beatitiful,tosay trial%) but she was sparkling '
beyond compare. It was -diamonds on dia-
monds. ' On her head was -a -diamond coronet
a Queen might envy. -On her arms were not -.
only heavy 'diamond. bracelets, but AbOTO
- .
-either_elbew a diamond band. wide as your
three,fingers. About her Waist was A ,0184..._
. mond.belt, And from this - hung t a diamond
e - Imo- ket;
chatelaine. There seeMei really to be no -
place ti:44...more- diainonds else I believe he
would have added them.. ' it would not
. it all surprise me to -kali.- that her
was full -of diamond 'pins, So th ' in case -of-
the „usual tear she _might b p
properly cover the t daanage...
color :of her dress* or its imaterial, Ivcanno
say.- -To _quote • Master 'Brook's -quidgy o
-
1,,,fistreSi Ford, "She was too bright to look
against:" ',,. .
Y Ra4dkerchief.
• travelers
y r4e_ii',:PUtoa_ca-krrair/iGtaezde.tleaajiadtlkveisresoi-iiiellt
signs the -following reason for so
-steryis told which shows the 'value:of theee
articles in An -emergencY:, At a collision that
°Centred At Wolverton on the London and
Northwestern Railway,:a:ohort time age, . the
'red ial4p$ on the train-_wer6 -smashed- and
reridered'useless.. Th-e-l:Scotch express )1i7AS--‘,,
due(1 itt ar, leiliwd:4111oteutqueto-'taltst Lithe scene t 114
Urgently :heeded, Happily. somebody „gm- 4
:gentled a Ted pocket -handkerchief, -whit
beingiplaced over ---„a White light, -answered
• the desired purpose, and the expr
-=btOtgrein
htA0 a,ita,wstandstill t.aretrotpit eto reVent
ani