at its conclusion the ladies quitted their seats immediately while i remained a few minutes to listen to the beautiful sounds of the organ a descrip tion of music to which i have ever been attracted


as i was quitting the pew my eyes were attracted by a costly brooch which the young lady next to me must have dropped


i placed the jewel in my pocket and returned to mrs ocallagans to dine


next morning i saw the following announcement in the papers rewardlost between st jamess church and street a brooch set in gold and having a representation on the face of it of the battle of waterloo


any person finding the same and bringing it to miss at no street shall receive the reward


i lost no time in presenting myself at the house and returning the jewel but of course declining any sordid recompense


i was invited to step in and at my departure was welcomed to give a look in whenever convenient


i then hastened to the club saw captain and several others of the lot was introduced to mr enigma and finally i obtained the situation for which i was a candidate


i was now once started in the way of doing well and felt as much happiness and contented ness as usually falls to the lot of mortals


most of my leisure time i spent in visiting at rs in street and the more frequently i saw the more passionately i adored the eldest daughter my fair neighbour in the pew the loser of the locket eliza


thus things seemed to go on swimmingly until one evening when i presented myself at rs i was shewn by a servant into a parlour told to take a seat as mrs r had something to say to me


a chill struck through my frame


ah thought i what vain dream is this which i have permitted myself to indulge


me a poor young man just beginning life with no dependance but providence and my exertions to think to gain the hand and heart of this beautiful accomplish ed and wealthy young lady


now perhaps i shall be forbid the house and then


oh then


my happiness is for ever broken


the jolly looking dowager entered the next instant


i got up to meet her


sit down young gentleman said she ive a few straightfor ward questions to put to you


in the first place we should be all blind and deaf if we were not fully aware of the reasons which induce you to favour us so frequently with your visits


now who are you


what are you


where were you born


how old are you


and where did you come from


in as brief a space of time as possible i made the excellent lady acquainted with the leading facts of my birth and fortune and of all which had befell me


at the conclusion i sunk upon my knees and earnestly besought the continuance of her friendship frankly acknowledging the intense love and admiration which i entertained towards eliza


i entreated her to allow a con tinuation of my visits until the day might arrive when they might deem me worthy of her hand and affections


mrs r held out her hand to me and i covered it with kisses


it was late that night when i took my leave of eliza the first and only idol of my heart and of her mother and sisters with not only a permission but many kind invitations to repeat my visits whenever agreeable to me


and now my dear friend paul i have told you all my adventures so far as they are worthy of mention but one thing i had almost forgotten


mind and come here early in the morning for paul ive something worth all the rest to tell you


im going to wed eliza tomorrow


marie antoinette or the chevalier of the red house continued jrom colonial times july chapter xxxix


from that period the clerk of the minister of war attciidod his colleagues office within the palace of justice with great assiduity


madame durand extracted the scrolls from registers pre viously prepared which durand carefully copied


generally speaking after an hour of conversa tion or rather of contemplation lim husband and wifo were left alone whilst the chief clerk of fouquier tinville returned to the street du potit muse murmuring


sacre bleut how very pretty little madame durand is but what the devil can make her look so sad


then durand after carefully closing his books and having according to custom intimated to the gendarmes his intention to retire would also de part


during four days the above order of things continued


durand examined evi rything snd watched all movements withont appearing to no tice any


ho remarked that every evening at nine oclock a bnsket of provisions was brought by richard or his wife and deposited at the door of the chamber in which the queen was confined


the moment the registering clerk said aloud so as to be hoard by the gondarmes within citi zens i am going cither gilbert or duchesne took up the basket and carrjing it to the inner division of the chamber presented it to marie antoinette


daring three consecutive nights that durand remained longer at his postihan usual the basket also staid longer at the door because it was only when the gcudarme opened the door to bid adieu to the clerk that he took up tho basket of pro visions


in about a quarter of an hour after the intro ductiun of the full basket one of the gendarmes usually returned the empty one to tho same placo as the former one at the door


on the morning of the fourth day which was in the beginning of october durand orrather dixmer after the retirement of the chief clerk threw down his pen gazed around him anxiously and listened with the same attention as if his life had depended upon it


he then rose quickly from his seat and glided with a stealthy pace towards the door of the prison chamber


he raised the cloth which covered the basket and hastily buried a small silver case in the soft part of the loaf intended for the use of the prisoner


then he returned to his place pressing his brow and his heart pale nnd trembling with that overwhelming emotion which affects the most powerful organisation when a man has accom plished a great act for the realisation of which he has made many preparations and for the re sult of which ho has anxiously watched


genevive noticed him throughout but uttered not a word as it had been her custom since her husband had curried her away from maurice to allow hiin to speak first


this time however she broke silence first


is it to take place tonight asked she


notomorrow replied dixmer


and as she spoke ho aros a second time and having gazed keenly around him and listened at tentively ho closed his registers and approach ing the door he knocked


ha i whats that said gilbert


citizen said durand


i am going


very well said the gendarmes within the cell


good night


good night citizen gilbert


durand then heard the wrenching of the key and supposing the door was about to be opened he retired


irr the passage whieh led from the apartment of father richard to the court honran against a turnkey wearing a rough cap and brandishing an enormous bunch of keys


dixmer was alarmed


this brutal follow might perhaps question him examine him or even re cognise him


he pulled his hat over his eyes whilst gcnevievo threw over her head the hood of her black mantle


they were however deceived


o pardon me was all the turnkey said although he was the onlyono injured


dixmer started at the sound of that voice which was so soft and polished


but the turnkeywas no doubt in haste for he glided into the passage opened father richards door and disappeared


dixmer proceeded onwards dragging gcnevievo with bim


it is very strange said he when ho had reached the outside of the prison after the gate was closed behind him and when the fresh air had cooled his burning brow


oh i it is indeed very singular murmured genevive


had the incident occurred when the two were very intimate oach would have communicated to the other the cause of their mutual astonishment


but dixmer now confined his thoughts to his own breast contending against thom as an hallucina tion whilst genevive on turning the corner of tho pontauchange contented herself with cast ing a last look upon the sombre palace of justice where something resembling the phantom of a lost friend excited many bitter and sweet reflec tions


uoth reached the square la grve with out exchanging a single word


duiing this interval the gendarme gilbert had gone out and secured the basket of provisions destined for the queen


it contained fruit a cold fowl a bottle of white wine a decanter of water and half a loaf


gilbert raised the cloth and perceived the or dinary provisions which were prepared by citizen richard


good said he to his companion who sinco ho had ceased to smoke road all tho old alma nacks he could find thero is moro hero than she will consume and yet thore were not so many cooks employed in preparing this supper as she had when ho went to versailles for tho purpose of bringing her back to the tuileries


h


i ray god no answered duchesne philo sophically


j she bas now for her chief of the kitchen the cook in the corner


that must howe or seem very hard to her


ah i for all sho oats


gilbert shrugged his shoulders as if to mean ah i that is true indeed


then putting aside the screen ho said aloud citizen here is the suppir


the worthy man avoided saying ay supper so as not to appear too familiaras well as your supper so as not to seem too aristocratic for it was then customary to thee and thou the highest personages in france


i thank you sir replied the queen i am not hungry


eh i citizen responded gilbert with an emo tion which ho could not master it will never do to say always


i am not hungry


you must cat something


why should i do so asked tho queen in such a low tone that duohesne did not hear her although gilbert did


eh i citizen


even if it was only to do mo the favour exclaimed gilbert hurried on by that tenderness of sympathetic feeling which a long and sainted resignation had excited


the queen smiled sadly


in that case my friend merely to please you i will broak off a morsel of bread


she raised the oloth from the basket and took tho bread while gilbert watched her past the scroen with tears in his ejes


marie antoinette in fact broke tho bread but her fingers bad scarcely made their impres sions ere she felt the cold contact of the silver


she then at once conceived that the loaf must contain somethiug extraordinary and in spite of herself she started slightly and the blood rushed to her face giving a brilliant colour to her cheeki and animation to nor look


at the same moment and as if mechanically she glanced around her aud uttered a subdued exclamation


ah i pardon rae said gilbert quickly re tiring i am afraid citizen i have alarmed you


no no said the queen but it was sim paused not knowing what excuse to giro but the gendarme was gone remarking good good sup at your ease


it is sad to see a poor woman living like that without eating


tjiere when you havo eaton something try to ilcep without moaning as you do


by the faith of st gilbert i would rather you would complain or storm all day than sit and moan duriug the night


tho queen romained a moment motionless


she not only heard his icmarks but calculated his progressuc retirement when she was satis fied that he had seated himself beside his com panion she pulled out the silver case


thero was a billet within


sho unfolded it and read as follows madam


hold yoursolf in readiness tomorrow night at the same hour at which you received thi note because at the precise timo a woman will be in troduced to your majestys cell


this woman will exchange clothes with you when you will leave tho conciergerie on the aim of ono of your most devoted servants


do not distui b yourself about any noiso which may ariso in the nexti division nor pauso at cries or groans


let your whole attention be directed to a speedy exchange of the dress and mantle of the woman who is to take your place


what devotion murmured the queen


oh i god


thanks t


i am not then as they state an object of execration to all


she reperused the note and then the second paragraph only struck her forcibly


do not pause at cries or gro ins murmured she


that means they will strike down my two guardians poor men who have shown so much feeling towaids me


oh


never never


she then tore oft the white piece of the note and as she had neither pencil nor pen to answer her mysterious friend she took a pin and pricked the letters which compose the following words on tho paper neither can nor ought to accept the sacri fice of anothers life in exchange for my own


m a


she replaced the paper within the tnall silver case and buried it a second time in the bread


this operation was scarcely completed before it struck ten


and as the queen holding the bread still in her hand was sadly counting the slowly reverberating strokes of the clock she heard oil one of the panes of the window of her prisoncell which looked towards the womens ward a sharp scratching noiso such as a diamond might pro duce upon glass


this sound was followed by light cracks in tho glab frequently repeated and which the cough ing of a mans voico intentionally covered


shortly at the corner of one of the panes of glass a small slip of paper was pushed through and fell at the foot of the wall


the queen then heard a bunch of keys rat tling one against the other and retreating foot steps echoing on the pavement


she perceived a small corner hole in the glass through which tho paper had been pushed


doubtless it was a note and thero it lay on the ground


the queen fixed her eyes upon it still listening if any of her guardians approached


but she beard only the customary murmurs of their conversation which they had tacitly agreed to carry on in a low tone lest they might disturb her


she


then arose softly retaining her breath and picked up tho paper


a thin hard substance slid out of it as if from a scabbard and rung upon the brickfloor with a metallic sound


it was a fila of the most superior kinda toy rathpr than i tool ono ol thoso meei springs ith which the feeblest and most unaccustomed hand may in fifteen minutes cut through a thick bar of iron


the paper contained the following madam tomorrow night at halfpast nine a man will come and converse with the gendarmes who guard you during this time your majesty will saw through the third bar of the windowcounting from right to loft a quarter of an hour will suffice nfter which hold yourbelf in readiness to escape by tho window


this notice comes from one of your most devoted and most faithful subjects from him who has consecrated his life to your majestys sorvico and who will bo proud to sacrifice it in your majestys cause


oh i murmured the queen can this be some snare


but nono


it seems to mo that i know this handwriting


it is tho samo as that which we received at the temple


it is the handwriting of the chevalier of the red house


come then let us hope


god after all perhaps wills it that i should escape


the queen fell upon her knees and resorted to prnycr the great sovereign balm for the bleeding wounds of the weary prisoner


to be continued


a voyage from sydney to south australia and back again with mems social political agricultural moral and mining


chapter


v the supreme court is held ia a building which was once used for the purposes of a theatre


the drama failed and the everflourisbiag law entered upon and now occupies the pre mises


the court was not sitting at the time i was there but i had several opportunities of seeing and conversing with the judge of the province mr justice cooper who is a middle aged gentlemanlike man appears to be a very well read lawyer and with a mild and benig nant suavity of manner discharges his duties j so satisfactorily as to have secured for himself as general report gave it outthe universal confidence and respect of the public at large


he is at present overworked but a second judge has been sent for and will probably soon arrive in the colony from england


and now what about the people of ade laide


what are they like


why at the first glance they are very like the people of sydney


living in a latitude only a degree south of ourselves panama hats blouses white jackets and light tweeds are of course as common in the streets of adelaide as in those of our own town


for the rest the south australians are cordial and hearty in their manners and in their persons they generally run or perhaps more correctly speaking i should say they toddle fatter than we do


i from the first moment of my landing i was struck with tins prevailing stoutness and al though my companions when i mentioned the circumstance said they had not observed it yet


they were constantly afterwards remarking the same fact and recalling my attention to it a larger perctmtage of fat round happylooking men i never saw in any population so fat and round that we could not sometimes resist the feeling that many of them but for prejudice and the appearance of the thing would suffer much less hy lying down and rolling along the streets than they evidently doespecially in summer timein attempting to walk


the ladies are of course handsome elegant and attractive as our own countrywomen are else where and thats all we think it necessary to say about them not being disposed to run the j risk of marring this delicate part of the subject by our coarse handling


there are not so many showy private equi pages in the streets of adelaide as there are in sydney nor are there in the former town as yet any public carriages plying for hire except the chaisecarts before mentioned which run only between the port and the town a few of the more successful mining speculators have however lately burst upon the world in highly varnished vehicles and in commercial phrase i am inclined to think carriages are looking up among the good folk in general i had the good fortune to be there at the time of the holding of the yearly agricultural and horticultural show which was calculated to give a stranger a much more accurate idea of the productiveness of the south australian colony than weeks or perhaps even months of a mere desultory sojourn at any other time would enable him to acquire


this very in teresting exhibition was held in a long tent set up in the fark lands about a quarter of a mile out of the town and as early as eleven and twelve oclock in the morning great num bers of respectable and welldressed people of all classes were on the move as for pleasure


after twelve oclock most of the people seemed to have struck for a halfholiday and my eyes were every five or ten minutes gladdened by the sight of a whole agricultural family circle condensed somehow or other into the cart evidently in daily use on the farm whilst not a soul from the driver downwards seemed to bestow a single thought on the horse who be cause he did not protest audibly had the con fidence of the company as much as if he had been a locomotive steamengine


these cart loads of happy families were so like what i had frequently seen in the country parts of old england that few of the fine things in the pa vilion were calculated to afford a stranger half as much pleasure although they were well deserving of admiration as the reader will hereafter see


as our only business was to stare about us we were on the road to the show as early as any one and long before oclock pm we found ourselves melting for the day was very hot in a large crowd of respectablelooking people who were awaiting the time at which the rail was to be removed and the public admitted


there were numerous constables present to keep the peace which no one seemed inclined to break for out of the assembled four or five thousand persons who were on the ground during the day not a single policeoffice ftasfi rniittp


at one oclock the hamers are removed and the taking of the shlings commences the public are admitted one by one but so slowly as it appears to those who are being jammed into faintingfits behind that one almost thinks j that every man who is paying is perversely getting change for a sovereign or a onepound j note


this induces the wholesome advice from


those behind to those in front to get their shillings ready which elicits the discovery that there are amongst us several unhappy small boys who are not going into the show at all having only worked into the thickest part of the company and contributed to the crush from the natural taste which all boys have for a suffocating crowd


whereupon with out any ceremony and with some indignation in a few of the hottest and most suffering the boys are summarily pushed and hustled off towards the outskirts of the multitude in order to give a little room for those who are left


at length with time and patience we all get through the barrier and into the pavilion which is a spacious and handsome canvass structure after the style of the crown and anchor at greenwich fair


the first objects which temptingly solicit our attention are the different samples of grapes


there are twentyfour kinds of this fruit from mr george stevensons garden black and white hamburggrisly black red and white frontiniacdamascus muscadine c c c all of them very beautiful bunches the largest weighing his ozs


to mr steven son the judges had awarded the first prize and to mr a el davis who also had a very fine show of grapes the second


the display of wine grapes in almost every variety known in europe were set forth at a different table


mr ansteys exhibition of apples however we consider ourselves excellent judges of apples having visited in our schoolboy days a great number of orchards set us longing lik eve


j his hawthordon and cluster russets were very good no doubt and so probably were his golden harveys and bedfordshire foundlings but if those streaked ribston pippins and scar let nonpareils were not equal to any that ever distressed the virtue of a wandering school boy we will never trust our judgment in this fruit again


mr anstey deservedly obtained the first prize lor fruit generally of which there were beautiful samples of pineapples


pomegranate guava twenty variets of apples j one being a noblelooking seedling grown in j south australia four varieties of paars med i lars quinces peaches nectarines plums straw i berries mulberries and raspberries


the se cond prize for fruit was obtained by mr geo


stevenson


the other fruits and articles were so numerous that we can do no more than simply mention them


they weredried figs raisins jordan almonds magnificent bouquets of flowers vegetable seeds some very fine rhubarb cucumbers vegetable marrows salads carrots onions as large as spanish hops honey butter hams bacon cheese malt maize snuff wheat barley one parcel grown by a mr frame at mount barker weighing th lbs


to the bushel which took the first prize the second messrs stanford burleys weighing th lbs


per bushel


oats grown by a mr mott of watergate taking the first prize weighed per bushel th tbs and the second prize weighing lbs grown bymr shakes of nairne


the specimens of wines we had no opportunity of tasting and therefore we present what has been published in the south australian gazette about them from the pen of a writer who had evidently better means of judging than we had


winethe competitors for this important article were mr armstrong mr john baker and mr duffield


we rejoice to say that on the whole and making every allowance for the youth of the wine and the unavoidable in experience in its manufacture thc samples produced today gave the highest promise of the future excellence of the wines of south australia


we tasted all the samples and what pleased us most in doing so was that not one of them resembled in the slightest degree the wines of the cape of good hope


they were one and all wholly free from that earthy and inexpressibly disagreeable fustiness we use the term for want of one more de scriptivewhich is the peculiar characteristic of ali the wioes from that quarter


the wiaes made by mr aker and mr duffield ware sound and pleasantly flavoured and were quite equal to the same description of white wines exhibited by mr anstey


the frontignac pro duced by the lastnamed was a perfect wine of its class and in ali respects as good for a new wine as could be made in any district of france


to this wine the prize of s was awarded


mr anstey exhibited a red wine of last years vintage sound and of great body though of course requiring age to mellow it


we look upon the success of this last wine as of much greater importance than any other variety and we trust mr anstey will at the coming vintage direct more than usual care to its manufacture


bythebye we never meet with any criti cism of the last vintage of new south wales in any colonial paper in new south wales why is this


the show of wheat was very fine the grain being as large plump and heavy as any grown in an english county


the first prize s was awarded to mr frame the successful com petitor of the previous yearthe weight per bushel was th tbs and as the south australian gazette says was remarkable for its cleanness and regularity


the second prize zs was taken by messrs stanford and burley weight per bushel being th lbs


the judges considered this second sample to be the best wheat but it was not so clean as the first


tile articles which came more properly un der the head of manufactures were certainly not the least interesting part of the show


there was a lead pumpa very good one to look at and i was told also a good one to pumpmanufactured from colonial lead by mr chamberlain


for this he received a prize of two guineas


there were also a number of articles of brass foundery manufactured by mr pybus a brass forcepump a church bell the tone of which it was said could be heard a distance of four miles which i do not doubt for an atrocious boy who presided over this bell rang conviction into the ear of every i passerby who appeared to be particularly dis


i gusted with the noise


besides this there i were house and cattle bells alarm bells elegant i bronze scrapers for which mr pybus rejoiced i in a prize of five guineas


there was also a i very beautiful little steamengine of sixhorse power which was made by a mr wyatt and which drew a prise of five guineas


a very j nsat and nicelyfinished brass counterengine manufacturers messrs little and saint received


a prize of two guineas


a mr george bean seemed to have concentrated his genius upon the preparation of leather of which there were the following varieties horse bides of cordovan


seal skins


dog skins


kangaroo skins


calf skins boot legs boot tops sides of sole leather boar shield brown harness hog skin for saddles brown seal goat skin brown skin mats white skin mats dog skin in the hair


the judges highly approving of mr beans manufacture recommended that a prize of s should be awarded to him


basket osiers and straw plat were also exhi bited the former of which having been newly introduced by mr duffield secured a prize to that gentleman


the above is merely an abridgment from the south australian gazette of the ac count of the different fruits commodities and articles exhibited but having seen and exa mined the whole of them myself i can speak to the account being correct and not exag gerated


as many very sensible and prudent men have within my hearing expressed a suspicion that the south australians were going rather mad about their mines and were in a fair way to neglect in their favour the slowerless fas cinating but perhaps surermeans of securing j the prosperity of the community at large i have at the risk of being dull given in detail as above the large variety of indications of south australian industry and enterprise wit nessed by myself


from them it will be clearly seen that however sanguine our southern neighbours are about their wealth under the earthand that they are very sanguine indeed the reader will see from the account i shall give of themthey by no means neglect those other branches of industry which are not less indispensable for advancing small communities into great nations


erratum in chapter ivin


line from the end for and therefore creaking c read i creaked my boots as utile as possible as i evacuated the gallery in favour of the re porter and once more regained the open air and took to the town


cite iraji itolits


lve


at first sight ok the fish out of water


i


chapter iy


y


witliiniaivrliour ifrom the time of itsieavingrcambridge thecftach came


withins sight of


the village when paul be giniiiijgtb walie jto something indistinctly resembling con sciousness stretched out his arms as meniare apt to do aaer a heavy sleep and by so doing thrustopon the lid of the hoot and


brought his right ihand


into involuntary contact with the fat puffy ancle of anjimmence wonnn who was


seated next the coachman on thebox


now wheiherttherei hadibeen any


previous flirtation going on be tueerithesei twow not i cannot say but certain itis that the


cotpulentvdametao sooner felt the slight pressureiof pauls liandj than imagining that her conipanioirwasgiving liera significant touch withhis


ioot she


blandlysaidi


adone kicking then mr coacliman


v i


s


what does the woman mean


replied jehu who was a crusty cross jgrainedoldfellow


jwitlfarough thick voice that seemed to issue with difficulty from a throat clogged with cobwebs taint me


v


oh fie mr coachman


how can you


hi ieyourself


taint me i tell you why


youre mad i tiiink oil giil


ir i nragedf at this impeachment


ofther isanity and still more at jthemisparagingxepithet olclrthe good nwonian tossingherhcad back witha marjicomeupvsortofair vasjiist


about to exchange the language of rneakre nionstrance


forithatofrindignant reprobation when at that vcrymoment the


iialfawakenect paul nil at tempting to


ftretch out his cramped legs to their full extehtthrust forwardhisjiead which coming with the shock of a


batter i ngram agaiint the fat


dames calf she alarmed byt the concussion


gathered vher


clothes


tightly about


iherj and then locking dowiv


to i ascertain what couldbe the cause of suqu


tm


unaccountable assault and battery beheld peepi ilivpitlirpiiithebootarhuge strangelookingheadtor


something thafeborevthe semblance of a head tlie liair of which was clotted with mud and embellished with bits of dirtv straw


instantly she set up


a tremendous scream


stop the coach she saidv and let


me get down


heres a fero cious cbaboon or


bulldog or some such monster in the oot as


big


as at bullock oh lord


i shall be bit to


deathlet me get down j i say the creatures given mc one grip


already do pray mr coaclinian let me gctrr r ci befone shecould complete the sentencethe coach stop d to waterhorses at tlie village alehouse when the di iveyraarmed arid astonished at the womans cries hur ed dlwnvfemihisbox and thrusting his hand into the boot hs unlucky


forefinger came in contact with


pauls mouth


which being wide open from the effects of terror a lid stupefaction closed couvulbively on the coachmans ldgi andpearjy bit it off


t


roaring with rage and pain the sufferer with a vigorous jerk pulled out his finger and then calling to the ostler while at the same time he kept blowing and shaking the aggrieved joint halloo bill he exclaimed lend a hand here theres a d d bulldog has got into the boot and almost bit my finger off


but ill have the brute out and shoving in his whip on one side while the ostler shoved in his pitchfork on the other they unkennelled paul pimpernel esq student of st johns who came mid a shout from the passengers and the croud which had gathered about the coach among which last was our friend the pedlar who had not yet forgotten pauls cavalier im putations on his veracity


my eyes


heres a go


exclaimed the ostler dropping his pitchfork and staring widely at paul who stood bewildered by thecoacludoor so this is your bull dog tom


upon my life lies a rum un as ever i seed


ay ay i know the fellow said the pedlar wink ing with amazing significance at the group about him


run for a constable bill shouted the coachman ad dressing the ostler quick ive not a moment to loose then scowling grimley at paul he added youre a cute ladj arnt you now


but understand your game well enough


twas only last week i had my coach robbed at godmanchester by such another trick as yourn and most likely youre he as did it


but you wont get off a second time i promise you


the passengers especially the fat dame on the coach box whom surprise had bereft of speech overhearing this dialogue became on the instant wondrously sensitive on the score of their luggage


the outsides leaned over the roof to see that their different packages were safe and thelnsides poking their heads out of the windows bawled out to the driver to assure him that they should hold him responsible for every thing that was missing


among these last was a prim shrill old maid who addressed the coachman ivith prodigious gravity as follows halting de liberately between each word so as to make the deeper im pression mr coachman i have a small portmanteau


i t


n i i n m


t


i on uie rooi wicn xiie letters u printed on it orass nails remember c f also a blue bandbox tied with black tape observe black tape for im rather partiular i in these matters which dangles or should dangle for if the gentlemans a thief tliers no knowing from one of the liind seats outside


now will you do roe the favour mr coachman just to see if


this portmanteau you will know it by the brass nails and this blue bandbox are both of them quite safe for as i said before if the gen tlemans a thief


never fear maam alls safe replied the coachman cutting short the old maids prolixity and


keeping a sharp eye in conjunction with the pedlar on pauls slightest movement


but there was no need of such vigilance for the unfortunate students state of mind rendered him wholly incapable of flight or


assistance


he had just clearness of


perception enough to see that lie was in a predicta ment though how lie got into it or how he got out of it he had not the remotest idea


he had no recollection of anything that occurred since he quitted the


alehouse all he new was that within the last ten minute


he had been taken for a baboon a tjulldog and a thief he paul pimpernel esq student of st johns i


while absorbed in these humiliating reflections he i stood aghast and speechless by the coach door aloud shout announced the advent of the constable upon which the coachman after duly explaining matters to that im portant functionary consigned paul into his custody and drove off


while the officer seizing his unresisting victim by the collar and followed close by


the pedlar and a crowd of grinning men and boysj conducted him to the magistrates house


when the party reached the great mans dwelling they found him early as was the hour seated at breakfast over a cold


sirloin of beef like a true sportsman of the old school


lie was a man of middle age simple and good j natured inhispiivate capacity but as a magistrate arbitra


ry and intolerant


he was in fact one of the steeltrap and springgun school the terror of poachers whom lie considered the most atrocious of criminals and a stanch advocate for the stocks the blackhole and the carts tail well jenkins said


he to the constable another poacher i suppose


irather think so your worship replied the officer andtheri proceeded to tell his stoiy as


lie had heard it idrom the coacliman pointing it however with


many i kiibwing winks and lpregnant epithets as if he suspected j niuclr more criminality than lie had evidence to sub stantiatev ji i he as in ithemid t ofi his narrative when the clerk jehterediheifoom themagistrate immediately beckoned him toaseatbeside him amvin an undertone of voice sailpointing


topaul dird illlookingdog isnt he utheresithe gallowsan


his


facei asplain as a pikestaff


thenvraising hisvoicej viiarkeej prisoner lie continued iyoure hereoir suspicion of being a rogue and vagabond


ican you give ta good account of yourself


i painfully cohscioustihisdisgraceful position but


re solved


out no account rtot reveal his


name and place of abode so sensitive was lieto ridicule paul contented himself vith simply statingl that


however


appearances might be against him lie was a gentleman by birth fortuiif and


education iandfasrsuchji demanded his disi charge


l n i v gentleman forsooth rbplieil the justice bursting into a loud laugh yes yes ryou look like one with ithose bi ts of straw sticking about your head and breeches


whats your name


i particular reasons preventme from divulging it


fislther e any


one in the village that can speak to your character


i


at the instant paul thought of sojdiia but the idea no sooner suggested itself


than it was dismissed with con tempt


what


allow her the delicate the sensitive to


become acquainted with his humiliation trneverj


heijw would die a thousand deaths first


f


please your worship exclaimed the constable heres v a man waiting outside the door who says he can give inir


portant evidence against the prisoner with which words r lie stepped out and in a few minutes returned with the pedlar whose statement that he had met with the thief at daybreak at an alehouse where he deported himself in a most suspicious and ruffianly manner produced a vi sable


effect on the minds of both the magistrate and his clerk


stung to the quick by their manner paul addressing the justice said as you have no charge sir to make si against me except the very rediculous one which


i am v if wholly unable to explain that i was found in the boot of a


well fellow interrupted themagistrate


and is not that enough


v


fellow replied the prisoner indignantly


yes fellow


what should a man want in the boot of a v coach if lie did not mean to rob it


anything missing


jenkins


not as i knows of your worship replied the logical


constable excepting the coachmans finger being nearly


bitten off


while this brief dialogue was going forward paul


seemed lost in thought


at length advancing close up to


the magistrate he said if you will allow me sir to say a word to you in private i have no doubt i shall be able to convince you that i am not the sort of character you take me for when i presume i shall be at liberty to de part


this appeal and the manner in which it was delivered somewhat staggered the justice hut looking to his clerk on whose face he saw a smile of contempt and incredulity and then again at the prisoner whose exterior certainly militated strongly against him for he had lost his hat and was covered with straw and mud from lies to foot he re plied your proposal is plausible enough but it wont do forme


ill have no tampering with justice law is law so what you have to say say openly


tliesn all i say is this detain me but ten minutes v onger in this room and i will instantly enter an action against you for false imprisonment i will by god


and


pall lojked about him with all the stern dignity of in suited manhood


these words roused the magistrates fury who puttiug on his most imposing air of authority exclaimed once


more fellow i ask you will you tell me who you are and what you are


no i wont replied paul with the fierce resolution of a stag at bay


then ill soon find a way to make you explain here jenkins away with him to the stocks let him cool his heels there


for an hour or two when i dare say we shall be able to screw the truth out of him


to the stocks enquired paul doubting whether he had heard aright


ay to the stocks away with him ill not hear a ivord more my toast is getting cold all this time


and v nefdre the astounded prisoner could make any further re


nonstrance the constable seized hold of him by one arm tnd the pedlar by the other and by main force draped him from the august presence


paul stormed and kicked and bit and vowed ten thousand vengances against his persecutors but it was of no avail the officer was a


practised hand at dealing with refactory culprits and having thrust the student of st johns feet into the round holes of the stocks he wished him better lucknext time and accompanied by the chuckling pedlar left him i


to his meditations


chapter y


the stocks are without doubt an admirable albeit a novel place for abstract meditation for after the first quarter of an hour or so when the fever of curiosity has


abated and the village urchins have become tired of en amellingyour pensive visage with eggs and cabbages you have them usually all to yourself which is a great comfort to a man of a reflective turn of mind


moreover a classi cal halo surrounds them for they are associated with thev r memory of shakespeares kent and buttlers hudibrass


we must confess to a patriotic partiality for the stocks for we dote on every thing english and these are of as indegenous a growth as the gallows


when stepping en shore from a foreign clime what more gratifying to ones sense of national dignity than to see a brother briton in the stocks


such an ennobling spectacle is proof incpnji trovertible that one is at length at home among civilized beings whose higbminded legislators wisely imagine that thestocks are the


most efficient of schoolmasters


unfortunately however paul could not be persuaded to regard his position in this javouroble light


he was sul len vindictive desparate anything but philosophical


yesterday said he i was a gentleman and the com panion of a gentleman and


to day i am a rogue and vagabond destined possibly for the blackhole an hour


hence arid for a flogging before sunset


and why am i bi ought to this pass


because i look poor and dirty and have lost my hat


had i been dressed in


my colege cap and gown tolerant justice would have regardod the affair of the boot as a mere practical joke but the absence of i these certficates of respectability makes all the difference between


jest and earnest innocence and guilt


while thus brooding sullenly over his misfortunes and endeavouring but in vain to unravel tbe mstery of the boot paul chanced to cast his eyes along the road near i which at the edge of the village green the stocks were


situated and there moving leisiirly towardshim he beheld whom does the reader suppose


those very ladies from whom above all people in tlie world he was most anxious to conceal his situation


fain would lie have dropped


dead on the spot but the principle of vitality wastill strong in him so there he sat panicstruck like a man who has just read his bankers name in the gaze tte aiid with but one forlorn hope namely that sophia and hf j mo her might pass by the pkce of his imprisonment without detecting him


but alas his hope like the fools palace vvas built oil the sands for no sooner had the ladies approached to within a few yards of the stocks than sophia at once recognised the prisoner and starting back with astonishment exclaimed mr pimpernell


good heavens sir how came you in this situation paul groaned hung down his head and looked so ex quisitely asinine that despite their undoubted sympathy the ladies were compelled to turn away their faces which were absolutely convulsed with laughter


recovering themselves howaver with an effort


yet not


daring to venture a second glance at the captive they instantly went in search f the constable and mentioning who and what paul was that official accompanied them to the magistrates who shocked at the idea of having subjected a johnian to the ignominious confinement of the stocks and guess ing now for he was well acquainted with the tricks of the cantabs that the supposed vagabond had been made the victim of one of their rough jests came down in person together with his clerk to see to his emancipation and tender his apologies


but the captive turned a deaf ear to all explanation


he had been recognised by sophia lie had been exposed to public derision in the stocks and the man who had subjected him to such indignities was standing before him


these reflections raised his passions to a height bordering on frenzy and scarcely conscious of what he was about he cut short the magistrates apologies by a tremendous blow of his fist which compelled him to change the per pendicular for the horizontal attitude and then having performed the same kind office for the clerk he flew from the spot as if the speed of thought were in his limbs


the dozen or so of men and boys who happened to be looking on the dicksons from motives from delicacy had not returned to the spot no sooner saw these dignified functionaries bice the dust than they thought heaveiv and earth were coming together


high treason roared oue seize him


shouted another and presently off went dogs boys and men in full cry at pauls heels while the goodnatured justice who rose just in time to witness the chase burst into a he


rty laugh and with true professional gusto waved his hat and hark d on the pursures as if lie were cheering on his own foxli muds


wingfcd with rage paul soon distanced all his pursuers and after throwing them off the scent by doubling like a hare round one or two small hedgebound fields he slack ened his pace and finding not a soul within sight made the best


of his way into the cambridge highroad where he halted to rest himself behind a broad elm whence lie could see all that passed without being seen himself


at that moment had there been a horsepond near him he would unquestionably have plunged headlong into it so intolerable was liis sense of shame at having been detect ed by sophia airing himself in the stocks


but even this dreadful as it was was not his sole affliction


how was he to get back


to the


university


how pass down trumpington street at the hour it is most crowded iri tlie disgraceful pickle in which lie then was


he had clearly no alternative but f either to skulk about in jsolitude till nightfall or wait tillnsome returned chaise should come past when lie might bargain


with the driver to give him a lift and set him down in the most retired quarter of


parkers piece whence he might possibly siieak home undetected by the back way to his rooms


the last expedient seemed the most feasible and accordingly paul waited and waited looking out like a fox from behind his tree but no suitable vehicle made its appearance a wag gon indeed came by and soon afterwards a butchers cart hut the former was crammed full of goods and the latter of caves so had of course no room for another


at length afcer having waited halfanhour damp des perate and in a state akin to starvation a fierce uncloud ed sun the while shining down on his unprotected sconce j and bringing out in the britest relief all the varied dyes of his sniallcloths after waiting full halfanour in this hopeless plight paul observed a hearse rattling along the road towards him


what strange notions adversity puts into ones mind


how it quickens ones wit and calls forth all ones inventive faculties


our forlorn cantab no sooner cauglit sight of this godsend than a sudden most original thought flashed across his mind


what ifhe should bargain with the driver for a ride to cambridge


it was a strange application to make


but was it for him to be particular or fastidious he who had already travelled in the boot of a stagecoach and been clapped in the stocks for a vagabond


no he would boldly brave appear ances and run the hazard of being considered mad for anything was better than sitting alone and famished without


a hat under a scorching suii spotted like a brindled pard with mud and withnotthe slightest prospect of bettering his condition till nightfall


thus thinking paul approached the hearse which was by


this time r right opposite hinv and stopping the driver asked


himafhevvouldtakehimvas far a


a certain solitary spotwliiohvhemehtionedat the corner of parkers piece


the man as lie had anticipated started at him as if he htdbeenvajunatic utitickled bythe sight of a guinea which the


ingenious cantab


thrust into his hand allowed him to creep in when he iaid


himself down at fulllength and in this state was jolted to cambridge xnt


abouaiirhouri the hearse made a sudden halt where upon jaulv who overcome j with fatigue lud fallen fast asleep woke up in av hurry and imagining that lie lit d


reached the place of his destination


threw


wide the lial shutdboiyand sneaked out but


gracious heavens


wlnt was his horrorxat finding himself not


int tlie retired spot that he speculatedtoni but


in the very heart ofvthe pease market about astonoslirowfromhisoiviirobms


a crowd


instantly gathered about him


jenij said one little boy to another do look here


if tliere isnt a live corps just got out of a hearse


well i never


v i


xiid liep ljeencuripg his vig tooj with


straw i j ex claimed a lopsided chimneysweep


i twig his breeches


shouted a hoarse coalheaver staring after the flying cantab with visible wonder and admiration


regardless of these and similar flattering remarks which he encountered at every step of his progress paul rushed on with the strides and very much the aspect of an ogre and on reaching his rooms threw himeelf a sofa tore his hair smote his forehead and cursed and swore till his breath was wellnigh gone


when something sobered he proceeded to make his toilette after which lie rang his bell and casting a keen glance at his gyp who greatly to his comfort seemed ignorant of the little episode of the hearse ordered him to bring up some biscuits and stilton cheese


by the aid


of these and a few glasses of choice old port paul became in a short time tolerably composed though gloomy thoughts still pressed heavily on him es pecially when lie speculated on the probability of the story of the boot becoming circulated throughout his college and again when on casting his eyes towards his book shelves he remembered how many vexations his negleet of these old friends had cose him without leading to any desirable result


but i will neglect them longer he said i am in my element here


elsewhere i am like a fish out of water


and with these words he swallowed with a sigh a bumper to the memory of the lost sophia


thus the day woie on for paul was resolved on no account to attend the hall dinner or even stir from his rooms until he had re gained his usual equanimity when just as lie was putting the closing touch to his bottle his friend powis called in to wine with him according to appointment


our cantab no sooner saw him than guessing the reasoi of his visit he blushed and looked almost as foolish as when detected by the dicksons in the stocks


thinking however that as


ho had already given him his confidence herniahe as well tell him everyihing he seated his guest beside him and then after a little hesitation ind embarrassment recapitulated his marvellous adventures from the hour when he had quitted the par sonage


powis laughed heartily at the recital but when the speaker came to the episodes of the stocks and the hearse he was compelled to fall back in his seat and fairly have his roar out


at first paul felt seriously annoyed by this fierce cachiiinatory explo sion but finding that his wrath only increased his friends mirth he made an attempt to appear indifferent


capital joke that of the boot said he iiululgng in a smile worthy of mephistopheles


i dont wonder at it amusing you capital indeed


replied powis the best practical joke ever yet played off at fa abridge


how original the conception


how brilliant the exe cution


and then the stocks and the hearse


hah hah hah


pray dont be angry pimpernejl but upon my soul i cant help


ho ho ho


angry mr powis


i never was more diverted in my life never


i would have given words pimpernell to hve caught sight of your face when y m made y air exit from


confound my iice sir


what have you to do with it


and then


to have seen you squa sed without your hat in the stocks


oh lo d what a spectacle that must have been naml again powis fell buck in convulsions of laughter


for gods sake exeiimedpaul


ho tviireof this


a jokcs a joke but it may be carriel


too for


here fill yomglassahdr lets talk of som thing else saying vvhiiiii he puseed she bbtple towards his goes a id then turned the conversation into iidiffererit channel carefully however avoiding an v reference to the dixons whose names he did not once meutioiv during the whole timethat plwu remained with him


to be coxfrxced


maurice chesterfield


a talk op


the quarter deck


chapter ii


the last link is broken which bound me to thee


and now at the commencemenn t of a new chapter we mast tell our readers something about charles morris


he had formerly served in another frigate from which he had been transferred to the ariel


iiis history is soon told


he was an orphan or rather a foundling for he had been adopted by a kindhearted man and brought up till he was ten years of age


whose son he really was was n it known for the person who had brought him up had found him under a tree and of course was rather astonished at the same knowing that whatever might be the state of things ia foreign lands english trees do not generally bear such fruit


mr morris who was a brushmaker of the town of was taking a morning walk at tbe ime when he made die novel discovery


struck with the extraordinary beauty of the child and having so such stock of his ownhis stock in trade being limited to brusheshe thought it would be a good plan to adopt him as his own son


mrs morris who was a woman equally kindhearted with her husband and about three times his size for gentle reader charleys foster father was very small in stature scarcely so tall as a longhandled broommrs morris we say entered into her husbands views and charley was duly enrolled as son and heir of the brushmaker


but alas


this happy state of things could not last for ever and in due course of time mrs morris diedwent off


we forget what it was she died of for charley was only nine years old at the time but he perfectly remembered her kindness to him and never would hear either her or the brushmaker spoken of lightly or disrespectfully


w ell the loss of his wife so much distressed the husband that he somehow neglected his business and in the course of twelve months his affairs got embarrassed and he came to the conclusion that he waslnsolvent


one day he disappeared and was never heard of more except that all the neighbours persisted that the well in the neighbourhood which supplied them all with water had a very peculiar tabte as if there was a dead dog in it


whether the dead body of the unfortunate brushmaker was ever found is not recorded but it is certain that part of the coat he wore when last seen was fished up out of the well one day


this untoward event of course played the bear with poor charley who endeavoured for some time to get into a situation on shore and was three times nearly reduced to starvation and five times brought up before the magistrate charged with the appalling and soulstirring crime of being found destitute in the streels on all which five occasions his singular beauty saved him from that exemplary and severe punishment which it is do doubt such a vice deserves


we forgot to say that the creditors of the unfortunate brushmaker when they met consulted about charley and the resolution passed proposed by one very fat jollylooking oldgentleman and seconded by ibe whole meetihgj was to let him go to toe


workhouse or the d


these terms being to charleys mind synonymous he most ungratefully did not take the old gentlemans advice


we regret we cannot give our readers a brief abstract of this meeting of creditors which as we have always believednever having had f the luck to make one at such gatheringsare the most amiable and pleasant of all convivial assemblies aud beat out and out all the select vestry meetings in the world


charley we were going to say r having unsuccessfully tried to get some employment on land at length succeeded in obtaining one at sea as cabinboy to the monarch of the deep man of war


the way in which he got into this honorable and responsible situation was of itself singular for he concealed himself somewhere forward till the monarch was fairly at sea and then went and presented himself to the captain


here again his good looks stood his friend for the captain instead of being angry at the triick played on him took good eare of charley and never let him be punished for anything though by this time the little fellows mischievous disposition was beginning to develop itself pretty clearly


charley new on the whole was not unhappy but what was his surprise and gratitude when after two years he was promoted to the quarterdeck as midshipman here indeed be was in better prospect of independence than when heir to the brush manufactory especially when it turned out as it did


here then he dined from off the plate be lately washed but charley never presumed upon his promotion and with the exception of the tricks which it was not in his nature to leave off he conducted himself well and he was indeed soiry when he left the monarch to go into the ariel where we left him at the end of last chapter and where he was an universal favorite with every body except the first lieutenant mr cayman through whose agency as we have before seen he had obtained the nickname of the middy of the mast


it was now some months after the time of our first chapter and the frigate was going through the water slowly mr cayman was in a terrible bad humour and for some trick rather insolent we believe but history does not say what had sent little mori is up to tbe mast head where hebad iwen five hours


the weather was mbst outrageously cold and charley of course nelrly frozen he was shivering with the cold and began to think it wouldmakeanendofhim


bnt still mr cayman gloomily walked the quarterdeck regarding charley with an air of grim satisfaction


he was in reality a kindhearted man this cay man but unfortunately possessed of a nasty temper which seemed to delight in giving pain to others


but it was only appearance for no one would have been more sorry and grieved if anything had happened to charley than the first lieutenant


it seemed however as he turned round on the deck in bis walk that he discovered a lot of midshipmen among them maurice chesterfield in some little breach of discipline standing on the hammocks or something like that


he instantly sent them all aloft including of course maurice


tbis was the first time


maurice had ever been caught in any breach of discipline and he felt his pride severely wounded he looked at the first lieutenant with an expression of malice and even revenge in his eye and as lie went aloft vowed to himself he would no longer be friends with cayman but on the first opportunity repay him tho debt be owed him with interest


by and bye all the delinquents were called down and among them charley morris who was by this time so stiff with tbe cold that he could hardly nse his limbb but however he made an attempt to descend but he shivered and shook as if he had got the ague and by the time he was halfway down he somehow lost his hold and fell overboard


charley was a capital swimmer bnt now chilled with the cold he would certainly have perished had not chesterfield who had just descended and was for the first time aware of the btate charley was in assisted him


maurice after giving the first lieutenant a look that coze the blood in his veins and told him asplainly as looks could tell that he regarded him as themnrderer of charley plunged into the water and at great risk to them both succeeded in sup p f t m lalk asii


the boat was lowered to their rescue charley was instantly put to bed and next morning was in a burning fever


but that night when all the other officers were thought to be asleep the first lieutenant was alone on deck thinking with no pleasant feelings on tbe proceedings of the day


he could not help having an inward conviction that he was in some measure to blame for it was indeed a cruel and brutal thingto keep the poor lad up aloft so long insuch weather he was also grieved that the friendship between hun and maurice chesterfield should have been thus broken but on this account he did not blame himself so much


in the midst of his reveries he was startled and looking anxiously round saw within a short distance of bim maurice chesterfield his eyes glaring like a tigers at him


the noise that startled him aras the cocking of a pistol the next moment he heard the voice of maurice inja fierce whisper say


ton would have murdered charles maurice yon d


a report of a pistol instantly followed no wjnder that maurice almost in a state of madness should have been unsteady in his aim the bullet merely grazed the lieutenants should der and took off one of his epaulettes


cayman rushed on chesterfield and seized him calling aloud for assistance


maurice must have been nearly in a state of madness at the time for he shoooff the lieutenant dashing him down on the deck and it took threemarines to master him he of course was placed under arrestand heavily ironed


n


when the unfortunate young man came to himself and could reflect calmly uponwhat he had done


he immediately saw that he had blasted all his prospects m life for ever


even if he was acquitted by a courtmartial on the ground of temporary insanity it was evident he must leave the service


he reflected for a long i whibandhea eame to the conclusion that he witoldtnake thfe attempt to escape and would in some way or other amass money sufficient to repay the debt heowed to cayman


this allabsorbing thought preyed upon his mind and he felt he never could beeasy until the debt was payed


in the silence of the night he formed his pln and determine if he lived to carry it through to sacrifice his haughty pride hewotildstoop to anything but tbe loss of hishonor he would arn money like the lowest of the low but he would repay the debt to cayman


in about six weeks after the counjepcement of his confinement he was visited by charleymorris who did not learn the sad events that had happened tili after his perfect recovery


captain clenchy had severely reproached himself with having left so much of tbe command of his ship to lieutenant cayman and was sow much oftener on deck than before


bnt it was not merely the newsof the quarterdeck that was discussed by tliei two midshipmenthey had longer and deeper conferences which however were fortunately unobserved by any one


charley knew that chesterfields love to him had betrayed him into the crime be had committed and determined to hazard everythingto assist him


to be continued


mb


caudles breakfast talk


from ranch january


chapter vnshowing how caudle has drought home


a newfoundland doo in sisting that the poor animal cant add to the expense


oh no i know what the objection is mrs caudle


it isnt that the poor faithful animal will add to the butchers billnot a bit of it


no it is only because the creature is fond of me that you object to it


tis only because of its love for its masterand its well i can get somebody about tho house that does love methat you make an excuse of the expense


you can keep your ca nary birdthats rattling away all day like a whistle in hystericsand i nover complain of the expenso of that


you can keep your halfadozen goldfish too and do i ever murmur at what tbey cost


i think not


and yet when i bring home a doga fine fellow as high as the tableinstead of admiring the noble animal as any other wife would do you begin to talk about what it will eat


but thats like you mrs caudlo thats the rock weve always split upon


you never had any sympathynot an atom


true marriage ought to meit two hearts into one piece


oursim sorry to say ithave only been tacked together


there was indeed a woman but sainted darling why should i name her


repeat it if you thought of rae as you ought youd be delighted with the animal


a true vi iib would love oven a crocodile or a boa constrictor if her husband brought it home


but my wifes like no other womanuever was


you dont object to the doy if chain it up i think mrs caudlo you ought to know my principles a little better by this time


no madam liborty though its quite above the female intellect to un derstand its beautiful essencebut liberty i wouldnt deny oven to a dog


the poor beast shall have tho run of tho house all day and noble fellowsleep al my bed room door all night


ill have somebody near me that loves meim determined


what are you whimpering about


ie beast will kill your cut


f perhaps he may and what if he does


cats aro plenty enough i suppose


im sure theres more in my houso than catch mice i know that


not that isoo the noble fellow need kill her unless you choose


what do mean


mean i why lock her up in the cellar or cupboard or coalhole


he wont kill her if he cant get at her ill answer for him


eh


and yet i talk iflibeity


to bo suro i do


but theres your great defect again mrs caudle j youve no sympathynone or youd know what i mean directly


liberty for dogitis one thing liberty for cats is another


theres what i call a moral distinction i entirely


chapt


vin showing how caudle thought that bill settled a long time ago


if now i wero to lea o you mrs caudleif i wero to do what i really ought to do as a hus bandbreak up the establishment and go myself into chambers just giving you enough to five uponof course the worldthe world that never cuit judge between man and wife but always will poko its noso in between oin whenever they sepa ratethe world


ive no doubt would begin to abuse mo


whats the matter


f matter enough i think


im called out from ray breakfast too and this mrs caudle this little bit of paper put into my hand


what have you the face to ask mrs caudlo


what of it dont i know lowe it


why of course not i i could have laid my lifethat that bill was paid long ago i i could have sworn it i how was it to be paid


you askthat i why with money of course


but i never gave you the money


nonsense


i youre enough to drivo a a man mad mrs caudle


i must have given you the money of course i must


else whore can all tho money go to


when did i


y


ive it t


well if you aro not the most outrageous perplexing woman


when did i givo it indeed i


as if with what i have on my mind i can exactly re collect tho day and tho hour and the place when i gave you the money for that bill i who am always giving you money for bills


do you think im a calculating machine mrs caudleto re member everything and with what i havo in my head


all i know isand thats enough for any reasonable manall i know is i must have given you tho money


the bills been delivered a month ago the man told me and youre not the woman i know to let me remain quiet for a bill so long


no indeed for if theres anything in tho world that gives you pleasure it is continually coming to my pocket


and you must think ive a gold mine there to dip as you do inio it


thero you are crying again


i


thats the mean advantage you women always try to take of your husbands


what


you wish id common jeelings and you wish you were in your grave f of course


a man cant open his mouth cant make tho slightest remonstrance when a woman lets money matters go all wrong but ho wants feel ing


ha


hed better want a few feelings than want money


and im sure mrs caudle thats your opinion if you spotte the truth


and then again you must always be scratching your grave up betre mo


and only because i just speak about a bill


of course youve paid away the money for something elsesomo new gowns per i hapsand forgot it


however airs


caudle it is not worth quar relling aboutcertainly not


uesides i hato quarrelling


however this i luve to say as j im convinced that ive given you the money for the bill once im not going to payit a second time


you must save it out of something else


what are you to save it out oft anything eats l meat and canary sood ibut i dont pay twice


i the puesident steamerthe madrid gazette contains an announcement fruin the home office stating that the political chief of guipuscoa had communicated that some fishing boats of motrico had picked up a bottle which was floating in the sea with a paper inside which was sent to the alcalde of motrico and j of which the following fragments weye all that could bo made out


they aro supposed by the authorities to have been written by soirte one on board the president steamer and i therefore transmit them as given in the gazette


ship president


we are blocked up on tre and


we cant live much time


what time f kind friend will acquaint our we are dying of hunger i am fainting


hif


edinburgh weekly express jan


marie antoinette ob the chevalier op


the red house


continued from our last chapter vu


the beginning of may had now arriveda lovely day invigorated the lungs wearied with the cold mists of winter and the rays of the sun fell warm and vivifying on the dark walls of the temple


at the inner gate which separated them from the gardens the guards were smoking and laughing


in spite of the beautiful day and independent of the offer made to the prisoners to descend and walk in the gardens the three females refused


since the execution of her husband the queen obstinately kept her chamber so that she might not pass the door of the chamber which the king had occupied on the second story


when by chance she took an airing since the fatal st of january it was on the summit of the tower whose battlements were closed with lattices


the national guards on duty who were informed that the three women were permitted to go out vainly at tended during the whole day for the moment when this permission would be made available


about five ooluck a man descended and ap proached the serjeant of the guard


ah it is you father tison said the humorous ser j mint


yes it is me citizen


i bring you from you friend who is there maurice lindey the permission accorded hy the council to my daughter to pay a visit this evening to her mother


and you go out unnatural parent the mo ment that your daughter comes


ah i go out citizen serjeant much against my inclination


i hoped also to have seen the poor child and embraced her


i have not seen her these two months


but i must set out the service this accursed service com pels me


i must make my report to the com mune


a coach awaits me at the gate and two gensdarmes and that just at the very moment my poor sophie is coming


unfortunate father said the serjeant the patriots oer the fathers love prevails the dutys done although the purent wails


i say father tison if you find any old rhymes bring them to me i am rather short at present


and you serjennt when my daughter comes to see her poor mother who is dying to behold her


j ou will let her pass


the order is the rule and w hen she comes she shall pass


thanks brave thermopyle thanks said tison to the serjeant in whom the reader will recognise lorin


ah i my poor wife will soon be happy said he murmuring as he went out


do you know serjeant said one of the guards thattis lamentable to see a man of such a bronze visage the unpitiable guardian of the queen depart with a tear in his eye at the thought of his daughter visiting her mother


it makes one reflect


yet he does not reflect himself


this woman to whom he is so brutal has not seen her child duringthree months


he does not think of her hut of his own grievances


it is sad very sad yet unnecessary and lorin commenced humming a tune ile was engaged thus when all at once a great uproar was heard at the left of the post


it was a mingled noise of oaths menaces and weeping


what is that asked devaux


a childs voice


i think


in fact some little one whom they ore thrashing


will j ou sing said a rough husky voice j and the voice sang ns an example madame veto vowed one day the half of paris she would slay


no i said the child i will not sing that


wont j ou sing madame veto vowed one day


no


no no no


ah i you little beggar and the sound of a strap was heard amidst doleful cries


sacrebleu i cried lorin


it is that in famous simon beating little capet


several of theguards shrugged their shoulders


two or three attmipted to smile


devaux arose and retired saying truly fathers should never come here


suddenly a lower door opened and the royal ohild driven by his guardians scourge rushed into the court but some heavy substance sounded on the pavement and struck hi mon the leg


oh i exclaimd the child and he stumbled and fell on his knee


bring me my lastor if not the child arose and hung his head in burn of refusal


ah is it so


wait a little and you will see


and the cobbler came out of his lodge like a wild beast from its lair


hollo hollo


there cried lorin bend ing his brows


what ure you going to do master simon


chastise the little whelp


and why why


yes


because the little beggar will not sing like a good patriot nor work like a good citizen


well said lorin wat is that to you


did the nation confide him to you to teach lum to sing


oh so said simon astonished


i ask you citizen serjeant whatright you have to meddle meddle


i meddle with everything that concerns a man of feeling


it is unworthy of such aman who sees an infant beaten to suffer it


bah


the son of a tyrant


is a child who has not participated in the crimes of its fathera child who is not guilty and who consequently ought not to be punished


as for me


i tell you ho was given to me to do what i pleased with him


i will have him to sing the song of madame veto and he shall wretch madame veto is his mother


would you have your son forced to sing that you were of the rabble


me


ah cursed aristocrat of a serjeant


no insults


i am no capet i cannot be made to sing by force


i will cause you to be arrested


you


only make the attempt to arrest a thermopylite


i good good


let him laugh who has the best of it


capet take up my last and come and make that shoe or mille tonnerres


and i said lorin turning dreadfully pale and stepping forward his fists clenched and teeth fixed i tell you he shall not


i tell you he shall not make shoes do you hear me


ah


j ou have your great sabre there


i care no more for it than i do for you


draw it if you dare


ah massacre howled simon swollen with rage


at this moment two females entered the court j one of these held a paper in her hand she addressed herself to the sentinel


serjeant cried the sentinel tisons daughter wishes to see her mother


allow her to pass since the council order it said lorin who would not turn round an instant lest simon might beat the child


the sentinel llowed thetwo women to enter but they had scarcely ascended four steps of the gloomy blairs before they encountered maurice lindey who wis descending to the court


it being nearly nightfall the countenance could not he distinguished maurice arrested them


who are you


what do you want


i um sophie tison said one of the women


i have obtained permission to see my mother and i have come for that purpose


yes hut the permission waa only for you


i have brought my friend so that there might be two females together amongst so many soldiers


very good but your friend must not ascend


as you will citizen said sophie squeez ing her friends hand who pressing close to the wall seemed seized with surprise and alarm


citizens cried maurice raising his head and addressing the sentinels who were posted on each landing allow the citizen tison to pass


but her friend must not ascend she can wait on the stairs and you will see that she is respected


yes citizen


ascend said maurice


thetwo females passed him


as for maurice he sprang down the few remaining steps and rapidly entered the court


what is the matter


inquired he of the guards


who has created this noise


wo heard a child crying even in the antichamber of the prisoners


it was said simon who accustomed to the manners of the municipals believed he had in maurice a reinforcement it was this traitor aristocrat who prevented me from beating capet and he pointed to lorin


yes mon dieu i shall prevent it and if you call me aristocrat or traitor i shall pass my sahre through your body


a menace cried simon guard guard


i am the guard said lorin


do not call me for if i come to you i will exterminate you


help citizen municipal help


cried simon seriously menaced this time


the serjeant is right said the municipal coldly who had been summoned to simons aid


you dishonour the nation coward hy beat ing an infant


and why think you maurice does he beat him


because the child refuses to sing madame vetobecause the son will not insult the mother


wretch said maurice


you likewise


why i am surrounded with traitors


hal rogue said the municipal seizing simon by the neck and plucking his strap from him try ond prove that maurice lindey is a traitor and he soundly thrashed the cob blers shoulders


thank you sir said the child who had stoically regarded this scene but he will re venge himself on me


come capet come here child


if he beats you summon us to your aid and we will punish this executioner


come along come along little capet and enter your turret


j why do you who protect me call me capet


you know well that capet is not my name how not yonr name


you are i am louis charles de bourbon


capet is the name of one of my ancestors


i know the history of francemy father taught it me


and you would teach a child to make shoes said lorin whom a king has taught the history of france come come


dont be alarmed child said maurice i shall make my report of it


and i mine said simon and i will state that instead of one you have permitted two women to enter the tower


in fact two females left the keep at the moment maurice ran after them


well citizen have you seen your mother said he to the one nearest to him


sophie tison passed between the municipal and her friend


yes citizen many thanks


maurice wished to see the friend of the young woman or at least hear her voice but she was enveloped in her mantle and seemed determined not to utter a word


it seemed to him as if she trembled


the fear aroused maurices suspicions


he ascended the tower rapidly and on reaching the first chamber he saw through the glass door the queen conceal something in her pocket that seemed like a letter


oh ho said he have i been duped


he summoned his col leogue


citizen agrcola enter marie antoinettes chamber and do not lose sight of her


yes said the municipal


is there enter and without losing a moment or a second


th municipal obcjed cull the woman tison said he to a national guard


five minutes afterwards the woman tison arrived smiling


i have seen my daughter


where here in this antichamber


good


and your daughter did not ask to see the austrian


no she did not enter her room


whilst you were conversing with your daughter did any one come out of the prisoners chamber


how do i know


i was occupied with my daughter whom i have not seen these three months


recall yourself well


ah yes i believe i remember


what the young girl caine out


marie thrse


yes


and she spoke to your daughter


no did vour daughter give her anything


no did she lift anything from the ground


my daughter


no marie thrse


certainly she picked up a handkerchief


ah unfortunate exclaimed maurice and he sprang to the rope connected with a bell which he pulled violently


it was the alarm bell i chapter vnt


the two other municipal guards hastily as cended a detachment accompanied them


the doors were closed and two sentinels inter cepted the issue from each chamber


what is it you want said the queen to maurice when he entered


i was just going to bed when the citizen the queen pointed to agrcola rushed into the chamber without saying a word as to what he sought


madam said maurice bow ing it is not my colleague but myself who has any business with you


you sir inquired marie antoinette gazing at maurice whose mild conduct bud in spired her with confidence and what do you desire i wish you to hand me the letter which you concealed a short time ago


madame royal and madame elizabeth started


the queen tui ned exceedingly pale


you are deceived sir i concealed no thing


you lie austrian exclaimed agrcola


maurice quickly grasped his colleagues arm


patience my dear colleague said he permit me to address the citizen i am some thing more of a lawyer than you


go on then but mon dieu


do not be so tender


ith her


you oncealed a letter citizen said mau rice severely you must restore it to us


but what letter that which tisons daughter brought to you and which the citizen your daughter pointing to the princess picked up with her handkerchief


the three women looked at each other in amazement


sir said the queen this is more than tyranny and to women to women


do not prevaricate said maurice firmly


we are neithei judges nor executionerswe are guardians that is to say your cocitizens charged with your safeguard


in our hands reposes a trust to violate it is to betray i citizen i beg of you to return me the letter you have concealed


gentlemen said the queen haughtily if you are our guai dians search the place and deprive us o sleep as usual


god forbid that we should lay violent hands on females


i shall simply report to the commune and await its orders only you shall not retire to lied you may sleep in the arm chaii s and we shall watch you


if it is neces sary personal examination shall he resorted to


what is it to do asked tisons wife showing her ghastly head at the door


simply citizen that in lending your as sistance to treasonable practices you deprive yourself of seeing your daughter


seeing my daughter i


what do you mean citizen asked tisons wife who did not exactly understand why she should not see her daughter


i tell you your daughter has not come here to see you bnt to bring a letter to the citizen capet and she shall not return


in that case i shall never see her as we are forbidden to go out


this time you can blame no one but your self said maurice


oh i my fault i shouted the distracted mother what do jou mean by my fault


nothing has happened i can answer for that


oh i if i only believed something had occurred evil be unto you antoinette you should pay dearly for it


the exasperated woman shook her fist at the queen


threaten no one said maurice obtain hy mildness that which we seek


you are a woman and the citizen antoinette who is also a mother will pity you without doubt


to morrow your daughter will be arrested and im prisoned then if anything is discoveredand you know that when they wish they always dis covershe and her companion aro lost


tisons wife who hard maurice with in creasing terror turned towards the queen and looked at her wildly


you hear antoinettemy daughter you will destroy my daughter


the queen in turn seemed alarmed not from the menace which was sparkling in the eyes of her gaoler but from the despair legibly ex pressed


comemadame tison i wish to speak with i yu hal no cajolery cried maurices col league there are not too many here


morbleau speak before the municipals


let them alone agrenla said maurice in his ear provided liberty arrives it does not signify in whnt manner


you are right maurice but let us retire behind the glass door agri cola and if you believe me let us turn our backs


am sure that the person to whom we shall he thus condescending will not cause us to repent it


the queen heard these words which were in tended tor her


she threw a grateful look to wards maurice who carelessly turned his head and retired behind the door


agrcola fol lowed him


this woman as a queen said he is a great criminal but as a woman she is great and worthy


the commune do well to bruise crowns but misfortune refines


sacrebleu you speak well citizen maurice i like to hear you and your friend lorin


are those verses you were repeating


maurice smiled during this discourse the scene which maurice had foreseen took plceon theother side of the glass door


tlbons wife approached i the queen the latter said


i madam your despair affects me


i do net wish to deprive you of your child


this is too cruel but remember that in doing that which these men exact from you your daughter may be equally sacrificed


io what you havo ordeied exclaimed tisons wife do what they have ordired


butin tile first place consider the question at issue


what is the question asked tisons wife with increasing curiosity amounting almost to savage delirium


your daughter brought a ft iend with her


yes a workwoman like heisolf


she could notcomealoneonaccountof the soldiers


this friend gave to your daughter a note your daughter let it fallthrse in passing i picked it up


it is indeed a jiiost insignificant paper but evildisposed men may discover a meaning in it


did not the municipal say that when they wished they could always discover i something


what more


i well that is all


you wish me to give up the paper j do you wish me to sacrifice a friend without restoring your daughter do as they say cried the woman do as they say


but if this paper compromises your daughter do you understand me


my daugkter is like myself a good patriot cried the old scold


give me the paper antoinette give me the paper


there it is madam


i and the queen held out to the unfortunate creature a piece of paper which she joyously held above her head exclaiming


come citizens como i have got the paper


take it and restore my child


sister said madame elizabeth you sa crifice our friends


no sister answered the queen sadly i only saci ince ourselves the paper can com promise no one


maurice and his colleague on tisons wifes repeated calls made their appearance


she handed them the note they opeied and read


in the east lorient a friend watches over you


maurice no sooner cast his eyes on the paper than he started


the handwriting seemed familiar


oh lheexolaimedcanitbe genevives


no that is impossible


i must lie a fool


it resembles hers undoubtedly but what could genevive and the queen have in common


he turned round and perceived the queen watching him


as for tisons wife awaiting her fate she devoured maurice with her looks


you have done well said he and you addressing the queen have done a noble duty


in that case sir let my example influence you burn the paper and you will have done a chaiitable act


you are joking austrian said agrcola


burn a paper which will lead us perhaps to a covey of aristocrats


my faith no weare not such fools


do burn it said tisons wife it may compromise my daughter


i believe that and others likewise said agricola taking from maurice the paper which hecertainly would have destroyed if alone


in about ten minutes the note was laid before the members of the commune


it was instantly opened and commented upon in every possible way


a lorient in the east a friend watches over you


what the duce can that mean said one


par dieu answered a geographical scholar lorient


it is quite clear that lorient the name of a town is meant


lorient is situated in brittany between vannes and quimpa


morbleu


the town should lie burned if it is true that it affords a refuge for aristo crats who still watch over the austrian


it is more serious said another since lorient is a seaport and that communications might there be established with the english


i move said a fourth that a commis sion be sent to lorient and strict investigation made


the minority smiled at the motion which only inflamed the majority the more


it was decided that a commission be sent to lorient to watch over the aristocrats


maurice having been informed of this deci sion said inwardly i am very doubtful where this lorient may be but i am quite certain it is not in brittany


the next day the queen who as we have stated did not descend to the garden lest she should have to paw the chamber where her husband had been confined asked leave to ascend the tower and taking an airing with her daughter and madame elizabeth


the request was instantly granted but maurice ascended also behind her and re mained concealed by a kind of sentrybox at the head of the staircase where he awaited the re sult of the evenings letter


the queen at first walked about carelessly with her daughter and sister she then paused whilst her two companions continued their walk turned towards the east and looked attentively at a house at whose window appeared many individuals one of them held a white hander chief in his hand


maurice drew a small telescope from his pocket and whilst adjusting it the queen made a rapid movement as if to invite the curious to retire from the window


muurice had already remarked a mans head with fair hair pale countenance and whose salutation approached to humility


behind this young man who seemed from twentyfive to twentysix years of age a woman was half concealed


maurice turning the glass upon her believing he recog nised genevive started up and suddenly came into view


instantly the woman who also had a telescope in her hand drew back pulling the i young man with her


was it indeed genevive


had she recognised maurice i or had the curious couple retired only on the queens invi tation


maurice waited some time to ascertain if the young man and woman would appear again j but observng the window empty he recom mended the utmost vigilance to agricola and precipitately descended the staircase


ile con cealed himself at an angle of the street porte foin to watch the parties who might leave the house


it was however in vain no one left it


then unable to subdue the suspicion which was excited within him from the moment that the companion of tisons daughter had obsti nately remained silent and concealed he pro ceeded towards the old street st jacques where he arrived completely upset by the strangest doubts


when he entered genevive wab seated under an arbour of jasmines where she was in the habit of being served with breakfast


as usual she affectionately saluted maurice and requested him to take a cup of chocolate


dixmer who speedily arrived expressed the utmost satfation at seeing maurice at such an unexpected hour


before maurice had taken the cup of chocolate dixmer who was always enthusiastic in business invited the secretary of the rue lepellctier to make a tour of the workshop maurice consented


i have to inform you my dear maurice said dixmer taking his arm of the most im portant news


t political asked maurice who was always preoccupied with that idea


what my dear citizen do you suppose we occupy ourselves with nothing but politics


no no it is commercial intelligence thank god


my honorable friend morand who is you know a distinguished chemist has dis covered the secret of making red morocco colours unalterable


i am about to show this dye besides you will see morand at work


he is a true artist


maurice did not clearly understand how one could be an artist in colouring


he followed dixmer traversed the workshops and in a re tired room he saw the citizen morana deeply engaged


he wore his blue spectacles and working dress and was occupied in converting the dirty white of a sheepskin into red morocco


his hands and arms exposed under his sleeves which were buckled up were red to the very elbow


he nodded to maurice continuing at the same time his employment


well citizen morand what sholl we say that we shall gain one hundred thousand francs per annum by this process


i have not slept these eight days and the acids have affected my sight


maurice left dixmer with morand and re joined genevive murmuring it must be granted that the trade of muni cipal degrades the hero


after eight days ab sence from the temple one would take oneself for an aristocrat and denounce ourselves


good dixmer excellent morand i even sus pected them


genevive awaited maurice with a sweet smile so as to make him abandon even the shadow of those suspicions he had entertained


she was asshe always appearedmild amiable


the hours that maurice spent withgenevive were truly those in which he alone existed


the remainder of his time was passed in that fever which may be termed the fever of which separated paris into two battlefields and mnde existence a continual fight


it was necessary for him to leave genevive and return to the temple at midday


at the extremity of the street st avoye he met lorin returning from duty


he was in the rear


he leftthe rank and approached maurice whose countenance expressed that mild felicity which the sight of genevive always excited in his heart


ah said lorin cordially shaking hands


tis vain


tho languid eye and stifled sigh betray


tis easy to descry the sign of cupids sway


maurice searched for his whistle it was the only method he could employ to put a barrier in the way of his friends poetical predilections


lorin saw the movement and ran away laughing


apropos said lorin returning back seve ral paces you are still to be three days in the temple i recommend to your care the little capet


to be continued j


charles omalley tfe


ilrlsh dragoon


chauptilk xiv


eonxrisad dilik


no sooner had ioarrived ifibblin tyhan my first care waswto present


myself to dr mooney by whom i was received ira the most cordial manner


in factin my utter igno rance of such persons i had imagined a collegefellow to be a character necessarily severe arid unbending and as theunly two very great peo ple li had ever seenrin my life were the archbishop of tuam and the chief baron when on circuit pie tured to myself thatan university fellow was in allprobability a cros between the two auid feared hinmt accordingly


the doctor read over my uncles


letter attentively invited me to par


take of his breakfast artd then en t tered upon something like an account i of the life before me for which sir i harry boyle had however in some degree prepared me


youruncle i find wishes youtoi live in college perhaps it is better i too so that i must look out for i chambers for you


let mne see it


i will be rither dfficult just now to find them


here he fell bforsome moments ithto a musing fit aril nerely mnutteredd a few broken son tences as to be sure if other a chambers could be hadbut then abnd after all perhaps as he is young sbidesfrank will certainly be ex pelled before long and then he will hiavethen all to himself


i say omalley believe must quarter yoiu fori the present with a rather wild companion but asyour uncle says


youre a prudent fellovwhere be smiledvery much as if my uncle ad not said any such thingwhy yoti must only take the better care i bt yourself until we can make sotre better arrangement


my pupil frnk webber is at this moment


i in want of a chum as the phrase is hiilaist thre having only been do mesticated with him for as many weeks so that until wefind youna more quiet resting place you may take up your abode with him


i during breiakfast the doctor pro ceded to inform me that my des tined companion was a young man o excellent family and good fortune wrbo with very considerable talentsb apdacquiremeuts preferred a life cif rackety and careless dissipationto proipects of great success in public life which khisconnexion and family


mnight have secured for hi n that be had been originally etieredlii t oxford which he ws obliged to i lelive then tried cambridge frdtia


which he scaped xiuilfoio by being rusticatedthiat is having iri carred a seiiteuce of temnporary amisherinet atd lastly was endea viikg with what hehliimself be


i lievedto be a total reformnationto st aitible onto a degree inithesilerit sister


this is his third wear said the i doctor andhe is only a freshman baving lostevery exatmiination with abilities enough tosweep the uni versity of its prizes


but


come over and ill present you to him


i followed him down stairs across sthe court to an angle of the old square where upthe first floorleft to use the college direction stood the name of mr webber a large


no being conspicuously painted in hte middle of the door and not over it as isusually the custom


as we reahed the spot the observation of riycompaniorias were lost to me iln he tremendous noise and uproar hat resounded from within


it siemed as ifa number of people werefighting pretty much as a ban ditti in a melodrama do withcon eiderable more of


confusion than is requisite a fiddle and a french horn also lent their assistance to shouts and cries which to say tihe least wtree not exactly the aids to study i expected i such a place


three


times was the bell pulled with a vigour that threatened its dowtnfallwhen at last as the jingle of it rose abcve all other noises suid denly nall became hushed and still a nhomentary pause succeeded and the door was opened by a very res pcectableiocking scrvant who re cogmlling the doctor at once intro duced us into the apartmenat where smr webber was sitting l


a large and very handsomely fairnished oom where brussels car peting and softy cushioned sofas onltrastedstrangely with the meagre aibd comtortless chambers of the doctor sat a young mau at a small reakfast table


beside the fire


he was attired in a silk dressing gown andblack velvet slippers and sup ported his ftorehead uplon a hand of most ladylike whlitenes whose fin gers were absolutely covered witlh rings of great beauty and pride


his jongg salky trowzm hair fell in rich profusion upon the back of his neck sandover hs arm and the whole air aud attitue was oirewhich apainter might have copied


so intent was he upon the volume before him that he never raised his head at our ap


i proacb but continued to read aloud i totally unaware of our presence


dr mooney sir said the servant i ton dapaney bominos prosephe i crione agamemnon repeated the stur dent in an ecstasy and not paying i the slightest attention to the an


i nouncement


dr mooney sir repeated the ser vant in a louder tone while the doctor looked around on every side i for an explanation of the late uproar with a face of the most puzzled i astonishment


be dakiown para thina dolekoseion enkossaid mr webber finishing al cup ofcoffee at a draught


well webber hard at work i see


saidthe doctor


ah doctor i beg pardon


have i you been long here


said the most soft and insinuating voice while the speaker passed his taper fingersl across his brow as if to dissipate i the traces of deep thought


and i study


while thedoctor presented to me i my future companion i could per


i ceive n the restless and searching


i look i threw around that the fracas he had so lately heard was i still an unexplaiped verata qutest i in his riiind


maiy i offer you ia cup of coffee t mr omalley


said the youth with i an air of almost timid bashfulness


a the dctor


i know breakfasts at a i very early hour


i i say webber siiid the doctor i who could io longer restrain his


curiosity


what an awful row ia heard here as i came upto the door


i i thought bedlam was broke loose


vwhat could it have been


ah you heard it too sir said mr webber smiling most benignly


flezar it to besure i did


omal iey and i could not hear ourselves a talking with theuproar


t


yes indeed


it


is very provoking a but


then whatsto be done


one cant aomnplain under the circum atances


why what do you mean


said i mooniey anxiously


nothing sir nothing


ild much rather ydud