and many rode upon animals which had two legs and moved over the earth by putting one foot before the other and verily their heads were exceeding large and thick and they had hands like unto to the hands of a man and they carried a club which they called a ehillelali


then i asked a wayfarer what manner of things they were


and he answered saying these are the friends of him who is to be a ruler even his men of war and they ate called bogtrotters


g


but while he spake we came nigh to the place called the house of election and lo i was exceeding astonished


for there was gathered together a mighty assemblage of the tribes which speak the kilraorio dialect and each one talked more loud than his neighbour and lo there were many rows


and i saw a milesian and a kilmorite speaking together and while they conversed they made many gestures and spake exceeding loud and the kilmorite lifted up his hand and held it in front of the milesian and shut it in his face


and the milesian waxed exceeding wroth and raised his foot and smote the kilmorite in the rear


then there arose a great cry and some one cried a ring a ring and the milesian and the kilmorite threw off their upper garments and smote each other on the left side and on the right and neither of turned him away from the smiter


and lo the ruby coloured fluid began to issue from the nostrils of the milesian and it flowed over his face like unto the waves of the red sea and when he saw it he grew exceeding wroth and he roared like unto the tiger that cometh from the forest of lybia when lie entereth the city of mammon and devoureth men from the celestial city so that there is nothing of them left but the thing like unto the tail of swiue which lieliketh not


then the milesian took the ioe by the hair that groweth on his head and lie dragged him unto the place which is called chancery and he smote tjie kilmorite till his eyes grew exceeding black yea like the clouds that hang over the mount of manbat


and they both rolled the earth and in the mud till they were exceedingly dirty and they fought together on the ground


then the friends of the kilmorite and of the milesian waxed wroth and they cried we also will do battle and they smote one another with their hands and with stones and with staves


and when the battle waxed exceeding hot and the kilrnoritts had girded up their loins and were driving the milesians before them


a loud voice was heard crying the peelers the peelers and the kilmorites and the milesians were sore dismayed and fled turning neither to the right hand nor to the left


but they twain who began the battle were caught by the men clad in blue raiment even the peelers ere they could put on the garments they had cast aside


and straightway they took them to the kings prison and to pne of the judges of the land


and he fined them forty pieces of silver and said take them away and they vanished from my sight and i saw no more of them


so i turned nie again to the place from whence i came even to the house of election


and while i stood gazing thereon lo there camo on to the house top the giant whose face was of brass


and he looked on the multitude who were gathered below and they shouted out with an exceeding joud voice and the giant bowed his head


then behold he opened his month and lifted up his voice and spake


crying gather round lather round ye kilmorit and hearken to my voice ye people of many lands


for i am lie of whom the age sayeth verily he is a great ruler and he who hath a hundred eyes cries truly he is the coming man


if ye want houses and land and the good thlpgaf this world make me a lawgiver and verily ye shall have them


for i will astonish the weak nerves of the rich men and the landjobbers and they shall become ekeeeding poor


and i will drive forth them who squat upon the land and devour the fat thereof into the wilderness and ye tshau feed upon their flocks and upon their herds


and the horns with which they have exalted themselves will i pluck from their foreheads and they shall no longer ride in chariots or on horses


and ye shall have the wool with which they were clothed and with the fat from their flocks shall ye make new lightb


their mutton bhall be sold for nothing and the flesh of their beasts for a trifle less


and ye shall do no more work for man was not born to toil but ye shall eat and drink and make exceeding merry


and while he spake the multitude cried out will one voice hurrah hurrah hurrah which being interpreted meaneth it is good it is good it is exceeding good


then said they truly this is the man concerning whom the prophet spake saying put ye the right man in the right place


but as they spake i saw a man like unto a publican draw near to hini whose face was of brass and he held in


bis hand a glass vessel which lie gave to the giant saying moisten thy lips with the draught i give thee


for behold it is the dew that is gathered upou the mountains and is to thee even as mothers milk and it will warm the cockles of thy heart and thou shalt speak to them like unto a book


then he took the essel from the hand of the publican and said


let there be luck


and he lifted the vessel to his mouth and the joint of his little finger passed nigh to his nostrils


and i looked and jo the vessel was empty and the giant rubbed his hand down his breast saying verily verily it is good


then turned he again to the multitude and opened his mouth and spake saying


behold i will make gold as plentiful as stones and silver like unto the metal of him who was the son of adam


and no man shall seek coppers when he wanteth oliange for the laud will flow with mothers milk and money


and corn shall be plentiful as the dust of the earth aud a bushel ot wheat shall be sold for two pieces of silver


but when the kilmoritesjieard this they were exceeding sorrowful and cried nay with one accord


then said the giant behold i was wrong for corn shall become exceeding dear and grain will be fold for two talents of gold


and the multitude clapped their bands and i marvelled exceedingly


but the man of braes continued to lift up his voice and every thing they asked behold he promised


and the multitude cried out with one voice he is the man he is the man


then came there an officer to the housetop and stood beside the giant and he cried to the multitude


it is done it is done behold this giant is a ruler amongst you


and i return him to your hand


then the multitude clapped their hands and cried thebiggoh for ever the biggoli for ever then i knew the name of the giant and forgot it not


barnaby rudge


o chapter xxx


pondering on his unhappy lot joe sat and listened for a long time expecting every moment to hear their creaking footsteps on the stairs orto be greeted by his worthy father with a summons to capitulate unconditionally and deliver himself up straightway


but neither voice nor footstep came and though some distant echoes as of closing doors and people hrrying in and out of rooms resounding from time to time through the great passages and penetrating to his remote seclusion gave note of unusual com motion down stairs no nearer sound disturbed his place of retreat whikh seemed the quieter for these far off noises andwas as dull and full of gloom as any hermits cell


it came on darker and darker


the old fashioned furniture of the chamber which was a kind of hos pital for all the invalided moveables in the house grew indistinct and shadowy in its many shaoes chairs and tables which by day were as honest cripples as need be assumed a doubtful and myste rious character and one old leprous screen of faded india leather and gold binding which had kept out many a cold breath of air in days oflyore and shut in many a jolly face frowned on himowith aipectral aspect and stood at full height in its allotted corner like some gaunt ghost who waited to be questioned


a portrait opposite the windowa queer old grey eyed general in an oval frameseemed to wink and dose as the light decayed and at length when the rlast faint glimmering speck of day went out to shut its eyes in good earnest and fall sound asleep


there was such a bush and mystery about everything that joe could not help following its example and so went off into a slumber likewise and dreamed of dolly till the clock of chigwell church struck two


still nobody came


the distantnoises in the house had caased and out of doors all was quiet too save for the occasional barking of some deep moutnihed dog and the shaking of the branches by the night wind


he gazed mournfully out of win


cdow at each well known object as it lay sleeping in the dim light of the moon and creeping back to his former seat thought about the late uproar until with long thinking of it seemed to have occurred a month ago


thus between dozing and thinking and walking to the window and looking out the night wore away the grim old screen and the kin


dred chairs and tables began slowly to reveal them


selves in their accustomed forms the greyeyed general seemed to wink and yawn and rouse himself and at last he was broad awake again and very un comfortable and cold and haggard he looked in the dull grey light of


morning


the sun had begun to peep above the forest trees and already flung across the curling mist bright bars of gold when joe dropped from his window on the ground below a little bundle and his trusty stick


and prepared to descend himself


it was not a verydiflicult task for there were so many projections and gable ends in the way that they formed a series of clumsy steps with no greater obstacle than a jump of some few feet at last joe with his stick and bundle on his shoulder quickly stood on the firm earth and looked up at the old maypole it might be for the last time


he didit apostrophise it for he was no great scholar


he didnt curse it for hebad little ill will to give to anything on earth


he felt more affec stonate and kind to it than ever he had done in all his life before so said with all his heart god bless you i as a parting wish and turned away


he walked aong at a briskpace big with great thoughts of going for a soldier and dying in some foreign country where it was very hot and sandy andleaving god knows what unheardof wealth in pirize money to dolly who would be very much affected when she came to know of it and full of such youthful visions which were sometimes san guitieaand sometimes melancholy but always had her for their main point and centre pushed on vigo rously until the noise of london sounded in his ears and the black lion hove in sight


it was only eight oclock then and very much astonished the black lion was to see him come walking it with dust upon his feet at that early hour with no grey more to bear himcompany but as


he ordered breakfast to be got ready with all speed and on its being set before him gave india putable tokens of a hearty appetite the lion received him as usual with a hospitable welcome and treated him with those marks of distinction which as a regularcustomerand one within the freemasonry of the trade he had a right to claim


this lion or landlord for he was called boh man andbeast by reason of his having instructed the artist who painted his sign to convey into the features of the lordly brute whose effigy it


bore as near a counterpart of his own face as his skill could compass and devise was a gentleman almost as quick of apprehension and of almost as subtle a wit as the mighty john himself


but the difference between them lay in this that whereas mr willets extreme sagacity and acuteness were the efforts of unassisted nature the lion stood indebted in no small amount to beer of which he swigged such copious draughts that most of his faculties were utterly drowned and washed away except the one great faculty of sleep which he retained in sur


prising perfection


the creaking lion over the house door was therefore to say the truth rather a drowsy tame and feeble lion and as these social representatives of a savage class are usually of a conventional character being depicted for the most part in impossible attitudes and of unearthly colors he was frequently supposed by


the more ignorant and uninformed among the neighbours to be the veritable portrait of the host as he appearedon the occasion of some great funeral ceremony


or public mourning what noisy fellow is that in the next room said joewhen be had disposed of his breakfast ondhad washed and brushed ihimself


a reeruiting serjeant replied the lion


joe started involuntarily


herewas the very thing he had been dreaming of all the way along


and i wish baid the lion he was anywhere lse but here


the party make noise enough but they dont call for much


theres great cry there r


willet but very little wool


your father wouldnt like em i know


e perhaps not much under any circumstances per haps if ie could have known what was passing at that moment in joes mind ha would have liked them stillless


is he irecruiting for afor a fine regiment aid joe glancing at a little round mirror that hung f in the bar


h i believe he is replied the host


its much the same thing whatever regiment hes recruiting b for


im told there ant a deal of difference between i a fine man and andther one when theyre shot h through and through


i


theyre not all shot said joe t no the lion answered not all


those tl that aresupposlng its doieeasy are the best off in my oplniont


lahl retorted joe


but you dont care for p glory


i for what said slie lion


rglory


it no returdiedhie lion with supreme indif ti erenec


i donf youre right in that mir


willer wheni glory comes here and calls for i anythiong to drink darid changoes a guiea to pay for h it ill give it him


for nothing


its my belie sir k that the gloryis arms wouldat do a very strong business


these remarks were not at all comforting


joe walked out stopped at the door of the next room and listened


the serjeant was describing a military life


it was all drinking he said except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making


a battle was the finest thing in the world when your side won it and englishmen always did that


supposing you should be killed sir said a timid voice in one corner


well sir suppostng you it should be said the serjeant what then


your country loves you sir his majesty king george the third loves you your memory is honoured revered respected everybodys fond of you and grateful to you your names wrote down at full length in a book in the waroffice


damme gentlemen we must all die some time or another eh the voice coughed and said no more


rjoe walked into the room


a group of half a ti dozen fellows had gathered together in the taproom ti ind were listening with greedy ears


one of them c a carter in a smockfrock seemed wavering and disposed to enlist


the rest who were by oo means c disposed strongly urged him to do so according to a the custom of mankiand backed the serjeants ar guments oand grinned among tihemselves


i say g nothnlog boys said the serjeant whosats little sapart drinking his liquor


for lads of splrit e here he cast an eye on joe this is the time


i t dont want to inveigle you


the kings not come to fi that i hope


brisk young blood is what we want a not milk and water we wont take live men out of a six we want top sawyers we do


im not agolog c to tell tales out of school but dramme if every gentlemans son that carries arms in our corps


through being under a cloud and having little differences with his relations was counted up here his eye fell on joe again and so good naturedly that joe beckoned him out


he came directly youre a gentleman by g was his first remark as he slapped him on the back


yourea gentleman in disguise


so am i lets swear a friendship


joe didnt exactly do that but he shook hands with him and thanked him for his good opinion


you want to serve said his new friend


you shall you were made for it youre one of us by nature


whatll you take to drink


nothing just now replied joe smiling faintly


i havent quite made up my mind


a mettlesome fellow like you and not made up his mind i cried the serjeant


here let me give the bell a pull and youll make up your mind in half a minute i know


youre right so far answered joe for if you pull the bell here where im known therell be an end of my soldiering inclinations in no time


look in my face you see me do you i do replied theserjeant with an oath and a finer young fellow or one better qualified to serve his king and country i never set my he used an adjective in this place eyes on


thank you said joe i didnt ask you for want of a compliment but thank you all the same


do i look like a sneaking fellow or a liar


the serjeant rejoined with many choice assevera tions that he didnt and that if his the serjeants own father were to say hedid he would run the old gentlemanthrough the body cheerfully and consider it a meritorious action


joe expressedhis obligations and continued r you can trust me then and credit what i say


i believe i shall enlist into your regiment tonight


the reason i dont do so now is because i dont want until tonight to do what i cantrecal


where shall i find you this evening


his friend replied with some unwillingness and after much ineffectual entreaty having for its object the immediate settlement of the business that his quarters would be at the crooked billet in tower street where he would be found waking until mid night and sleeping until breakfasttime tonmorrow


and if i do come which its a million to one i shall


when will you take me out of london demanded joe


tomorrow morning at half after eight oclock replied the serjeant


youll go abroad a country where its all sunshine and plunder the finest clit niatein the world


to go abroad said joe shaking hands with him is the very thing i want


you may expect me


youre the kind of lad for us cried the serjeant holding joes hand in his in the excess of his admiration youre the boy to push your for tune i dont say it because i bear you any envy or would take away from the credit of the rise youll make but if had been bred and taught like you id have been a colonel by this time


tush man said joe im not so young as that


needs must when the devil drives and the devil that drives me is an empty pocket and an unhappy home


for the present goodbye


for king and country cried the serjeant fourishing his cap


for bread and meat cried joe snapping his fingers


and so they parted


he had very little money in his pocket to little indeed that after paying for his breakfast which he was too honest and perhaps too proud to score ip to his fathers charge he had but a penny left


he had courage notwithstanding to resist allthe affec


tionate importunities of the serjeant who waylaid him at the door with many protestations of eternal friendship and did in particular request that he would accept of only one shillingas a temporary accommodation


rejecting his offers both of cash and credit joe walked away with stick and bundle as before bent upon getting through the day as he best couldaid going down to the locksmiths in the dusk of the evening for it should go hard he had resolved but he would have a parting word with charming dolly varden


he went out by islington and so on to highgate and sat on many stones and gates but their was no voices in the bells to bid him turn


since the time of noble whittington fair flower of merchants bells have come to have less sympathy with humankind


they only ring for money and on state occasions


wanderers have increased in number ships leave the thames for distant regions carrying from stem to stern no othercargo the bells are silent they ring out no entreatiesor regrets they are used to it and have grown worldly


joe bought a roll and reduced his purse to the condition with a difference of that celebrated purse of fortunastus which whatever were its favoured owners necessities had one unvarying amount


in these real times when all the fairies are dead and buried there are still a great many purses which possess that quality


the sumtotal they contain is expressed in arithmetic by a circleand whether it be added to or multiplied by its own amount the result of the problem is more easily stated than any known in figures


evening drew on at last


with the desolate and solitary feeling of one who had no home or shelter and was alone utterly in the world for the first time he bent his steps towards the locksmiths house


he had delayed until now knowing that mrs varden sometimes went out alone or with miggs for her sole attendant to lectures in the evening and devoutly hloping that this might be one of her nights of moral culture


he had walked up and down before the house a the opposite side of the way two or three times when as he turned to it again he caught a glimpse ofa fluttering skirt at the door


it was dollys to whom else could it belong


no dress but hers had such a flow as that


he plucked up his spirits and followed it into the workshop of the golden key


his darkening the door caused her to look round


oh that face if it hadnt been for that thought joe i should never have walked into poor tom cobb


shes twenty times handsomer than ever


she might marry a lord he didnt saythis


he only thought it perhaps looked it also


dolly was glad to see him and was so sorry her father and mother were away from home


joe begged she wouldntmention it on any account


dolly hesitated to lead the way into the parlour for there it was nearly dark at the same time she hesitated to standltalking in the workshop which vwas yet light and open to the street


they had got by some means too before the little forge and o having her hand in his which he had no right to have for dolly only gavoet him to shake it was so like standing before some honiely altair being married that it was the most embarrassing state of things in the world


i have come said joe to say good byeito say good bye for i dont know how many years perhaps for ever


i am going abroad


now this was exactly what ieoshould not have said


hero he was talking like a gentleman at large who was free to come and go and roam about the world at hispleasuro when that gallantcoach maker had vowed but the night before that miss


i vaiden held him bound in adamantine chlains end had positively stated in so many words that she was killing himby inches and that in a fortnight more or thereabouts hie expected to make a decent end and leave the business to his mother


dolly released her hand and said


indeed l she remarked in the same breath that it was a fine night and in shortbetrayed no more emotion than the forge itself


i couldnt go


said joe without coming to t see you


i hadnt the heart to


i dolly was more sorry than she could tell that he should have taken so much trouble


it was such a long way and hie must have such a deal to do


aid how rea mr willet that dear old gentleman is this all you say cried joe


all


good gracious what did the man expect


sbhe was obliged to take her apron in her hand and run her eyes along the item from corner to corner to keep herself from laughing in his face not because his gaze confused hernot at all


joe had small experience in love affairs and had no notion how different young ladies are at different times he had expected to take dolly up again at the very point where he had left her after that deli


cious evening ride and was no more prepared for such an alteration than to see the sun and moon change places


he had buoyed himself up all day with an indistinct idea that she would certainly say dontt go or dont leave us or why do you go or why do you leave us or would give him some little encouragement of that sort he had even entertained the possibility of her bursting into tears of her throwing herself into his arms of her falling down in a fainting fit without previous word or sign but any approach to such a line of conduct as this ad been so far from his thoughts that he t could only look at her in silent wonder dolly in the mean while turned to the corners of her apron and measured the sides and smoothed out the wrinkles and was as silent as he


at last after a long pause joe said goodbye


good bye said dolly with as pleasant a smile as if he were going into the next stieet and were coming back to supper goodbye


come said joe putting out both his hands dolly dear dolly dont let us part like this


i love you dearlwsthall my heart and soul with as much truth and earnestness as ever man loved woman in this world do believe


i am a poor fellow as you knowpoorer now than ever for i have fled from home not being able to bear it any longer and must fight my own way without help


you are beautiful admired are loved by everybody are well off and happy and may you ever be so i heaven forbid i should ever make you otherwise but give mne a word of comfort


say something kind tome


i have no right to expect it of you i know but i ask it because i love you and shall treasure the slightestword from you through all my life


dolly dearest have you nothing to say to me no nothing


dolly was a coquette by nature and a spoilt child


she had no notion of being carried by storm in this way


the coachmaker would have been dissolved in tears and would have knelt down and called himself names and clasped his hands and bealt his breast and tugged wildly at his cravat and done all kinds of poetry


joe had no business to be going abroad


he had no right to be able to do it


if he was in adamantine chains he couldnt


i have said goodbye said dolly twice


take your arm away directly mr joseph or ill


call miggs


ill not reproach you answered joe its my fault


io doubt


i have thought sometimes that you didnt quite despise me but i was a fool to think so


every one must who has seen the life i have led you mostbf all


god bless you


he was gone actually gone dolly waited a little while thinking he would return peeped out at the door looked up the street and down as well as the increasing darkness vwould allow came in again waited a little longer went up stairs humming a tune bolted herself in laid her head down on her bed and cried as if her heart would break


and yet such natures are made up of so many contra


dictions that if joe willet had come back that night


next day next week next onth the odds are a hundred to one she would have treated him in the very same manner and have wept for it after wards with the very same distress


she had no sooner left the workshop than there cautiously peered out from behind the chimney of the forge a face which had already emerged from the same concealment twice or thrice unseen and which after satisfying itself that it was now alone was followed by a leg a shoulder and so on by degrees until the form of mr tappertit stood con


fessed with a brownpaper cap stuck negligently on one side of its head and its arms very much akimbo


have my ears deceived me said tile prentice or do i dream i am i to thank thee forttn or to cus theewhich


he gravely descended from his elevation took down his piece of lookingglass planted it against the wall upon the usual bench twisted his head round and looked closely at his legs


if theyre a dream said sim let sculptures have such wisions and chisel em out when they wake


this is reality


sleep has no such limbs as them


tremble willet and despair


shes mine


with these triumphant expressions he seized a hammer and dealt a heavy blow at a vice which in his minds eye represented the sconce or head of joseph willet


that done he burst into a peal of laughter which startled miss miggs even in her distant kitchen and dipping his head into a bowl of water had recourse to a jacktowel inside the closet door which served the double purpose of smothering his feelings and drying his face


joe disconsolate and down hearted but full of courage too on leaving the locksmiths house made the best of his way to the crooked billet and there inquired for his friend the seijeant who expecting no man less received him with open arms


in the course of five minutes after his arrival at that house of entertainment he was enrolled among the gallant defenders of his native land and within half an hour was regaled with a steaming supper of boiled tripe and onions prepared as his friend assured him more than once at the express command of his most sacred majesty the king


to this meal which tasted very savoury after his long fasting he did ample justice and when he had followedit up or down with a variety of loyal and patriotic toasts he was conducted to a straw mattress in a loft over the stable and locked in there for the night


the next morning he found that the obliging care of his martial friend had decorated his hat with sundry particoloured streamers which made a very lively appearance and in company with that officer and three other military gentlemen newly enrolledwho were under a cloud so dense that it only left three shoes a boot and a coat and a half visible among themrepaired to the river side


here they were joined by a corporal and four more heroes of whom two were drunk and daring and two sober and penitent but each of whom like joe had his dusty stick and bundle


the party em barked in a passageboat bound for gravesend whence they were to proceed on foot to chatham the wind was in therr favour and they soon left london behind them a mere dark mista giant phantom in the air


to be continued


irish puseyites and the church of scotlanda controversy has been carried on for the last two or three months in the pages of the irish ecclesiastical joutrnal the organ of the pu seyite party in ireland between the editor and the dean of achonry the author of letters on the tendency of the oxford tracts lately published by seeley


the dean maintains that the presbyterians are christians and that the church of scotland is a branch of the christiian church and as such to be re membered in ourprayers as coming within the pale of the catholic church as defined in the th canon that is the whole body of christian people dispersed throughout the whole world


against this latitudinarian heresy of the liberal dean the editor of thie irish ecclepiastical journal supported by the primate and a large proportion of the irish protestant clergy as well as by all the english puseyites enters his most solemn protest and two correspondents have now come to the aid of the learned doctor


one of these in the number for july asserts that church of en gland men cannot acknowledge thie presbyterian body as a church without a surrender of principle and a compromise of the truth nor until we are prepared to admit the same of the mahometans of turkey or of the worshippers of the lama in thibet


what will dr cooke of belfast think of this


or what will doctor chalmers say whoundertook a journey from edinburgh to london last year for the purpose of delivering a course of lectures


in support of church establishments and of the church of england as one of these and a sister church


the high church party are very glad to avail themselvs of tue assistance of the presbyterians when they want to carry on a crusade against national education con clliation towards roman catholics the gradt to maynooth or any other liberal and enlightened measure


for a time they makecommon cause with the samaritans or mongrel christians but no sooner is there a prospect of a tory government taking away all occasion for opposition to any liberal measure by granting a cessation of hostilities against cherished abuses in church and state and thereby giving a truce and quiet life to the defenders of corruption then the poor presbyterians are thrown overboard as no more christians than the mahometans or the worshippers of the grand lama


morning chronicle


chiildhoodtlo world of a ohilds imagination is the creation of a far holier spell than hath been over wrought by the pride of learning or the inspiration of poetic fancyr innocence that thiaketh no evil ignorance that apprehendeth none hope that hath experienced no blight love that suspecteth no guile


these are its ministering angelsthese wield a wand of power making this earth a paradisa


time hard rigid teacherl


i reality rough stern reality i world cold heart


less world i that ever your sad experience your sombro truths your gathering sneers should scare thosue gentle spirits from their holy temple


and wherewith do you replace them


with caution that repulseth confidence with doubt that repelleth love with reason


that dispelleth l illusion with fear that polseoneth enjoymenti na word with knowledge that fruit whloh as at the first tasting in eden is often dearly purchsed


geraldine


a tale of consginceb vol


ii chap


xx


smeoa the arrival of mrs kelsoc with her young ilady at burnleigh she had strictly adhered to the promise exacted ofther that she would not comment upon anything she might either see or hear until she should be invited to express her sentiments


during the first week geraldine had rejoiced at this precaution


when by the compressed lips and ex tended nostrils of her attendant she perceived the indwelling of no popery in all its tyrbulence


the following week the features were more at peace and thoughmrs


kelsoe still sighed yet on geral dines inquiry of i hope you are comfortable kelsoe th reply was


every body does their best maam to make me so and this indication of softened feelings encouraged geraldine after a jfew more days had passed to break through the reserve between herself and her faithful maid by inquiringwhether the catholic religion did not aippear to mrs kelsoe in a fairer point of view than when seen in the distance and the good woman highly pleased at this renewal of confidence imme diately responded with indeed miss carrington i cannot say but what itdues


to be sure some of the goings on are strange enough but mrs wat son and joseph have always a reason to give for everything and i must say i had no notion that the common catholics were so well instructed


suppose that just at first you were distressed to see so many sacred pictures and crucifixes about the house said geraldine


no maam i was cured of that very soon but no thanks to any one here in that respect


came to a right understanding on that point entirely aby my own good sense and reflection


indeed said geraldine smiling hbow was this p why miss carrington when i saw the figure of our saviour dying on thecross in may little room here i was startled but somehow when i came to bed at night i was pleased to have it there alone with mes and i thought to myself when my young lady put up the likeness of the dear honoured general in the tenants ball as a remembrance for us all we none of us thought it was breaking the commandment though it was his image and when we drank the generals healthand turned to his bust we all knew what we were about and so then i thought if i like to look at the likeness of my absent earthly master why should i not like to look at the likeness of rsy absent heavenly master p jthats how i reasoned maam


you reasoned very sensibly said geraldine should like to hear some more of your rea sonings


why i cant say


continued mrs kelsoe that i found out anything more quite by myselff but i have no objection now to their making the sign of the cross


have you not said geraldine really sur prised


how is this p


why maam to be sure the first two or three days it did put me in a fine flusterand at last i said dearme jseph says i if you are thankful to god for your meals cant you raise up your heart without


all that twisting and twirling of your fimgers p wheres the religion of all that dumb show p mrs kelsoe said he the early christians made that sign of the cross not only in remem brance of our blessed saviours dying for them and for us but alsoto show that they were christians n the midst of pagans and jews even though they died forit


well but i am as good a christian as yourself says i so you need not be flourishing away before me i should not make a martyr of you


but says he though i have no chance of dying for the cross i have a great chance of being laughed at for it and thats very difilcult to bear and a good exercise for aschristian


you know we are told not to be ashamed of the cross


dont trouble yourself to quote scripture to me said i for iknow the whole bible by heart and you ca tholics know nothing about it


i have got a bible said he


have you p said i wel


i wont betray you


betray me p says he wit mr conway gave it me


oh then said i its not the real bible


but joseph fetched it and sure enough


its the real whole bible


think of that maam


i can tell you besides this said geraldine that i still and shall ever retain my protestant ible with the consent of mr conway because it was my beloved mothers gift


but continue your histories for they greatly amuse me


do you find joseph the best informed amnong the servants p not better thanmrs watson maam


she is very cool and composed in her answers for she stover begins and then she is so kindhearted good soul


i she found me in a terrible way one night with crying and would havethe reason


so out it came that you miss carrington would soon be taught to dislike me and to thhik it your duty to believe that i should be dd and says i how can help myself p believe just whsat


i was told as a child and no more and no less can i ever believe for old people cant take to new thinga


bee says mrs watson your young lady will he tatught no sntisl thing for says lshe


you are no heretic mrs kelsee for mr conway says that the guilt pf heresy consists il an obstinate and wilful adherence to a religion that is false and this is very dihlercnt from you wise at all events are desirous to know tihe truth and i have no doubt would gldyembrace it if you hsad discovered it


then sid hsit


irotestaints very much misunderstood thsfeeling of camtholics towards them that ca tholics weers sorry for protestants but that they would not dare to condemn any one


all this is weodlerful is it not maam pso dullerent from ws inst i shave beret told j


but then there are many ttmgag till that put ime into such a rage i can scarcely wsalt to leave an explanatiomq


but lhisl does riot accord with the good sense on shwlch you pique yourself


repileie geraldine youshould ciert settlicient selfconstrol to listen fluit and condermes afterwtards ihl mnaam but thoac saints and relics aisd miracles how is it miss carrington that with your fine and expensive education my dear kelsoe interrupted geraldine laugh ing as she received her gloves and handker chief from the irascible tirewoman and hastened to obey the summons to dinner i am delighted to hear the result of your skirmishes with joseph and mrs watson but i resign youentirelyto them and have no doubt of your finding their explanations perfectly satisfactory


the dinner party was joined by the reverend mr grant who had been invited every day by lady winefride until his daughter whp was then absent should return to him


mr everard also had dropped in as a matter of course but it was not till the evening that mr conway could find an hours leisure from his arduous duties when he entered the drawing room at the cottage just in time to bear company wivth mr everard in the latters eighth cup of tea


the party were unani mous in their greeting of the benevolent and joyous pastor and the conversation took a lively and humorous turn which geraldinefelt most beneficial to her spirits


mr conway far from damping greatly contributed to the innocent mirth of the party and it was not until the conversation had insensibly taken a graver and deeper turn that he said to ladywinefride i have brought something in niy hand which i think will interest all your ladyships guests and which i know you will not object to seeing again


this is my yearly present from the baker at l to whom i formerly rendered some services


he is a jew and reminds me of his friendship by sending me every year before easter which is you know his passover a cake of unleavened bread


all were indeed interested and thepassover cake was carefully examined and passed from one to the other round the table


it reminds ine of the scotch oat cake said one it is so thin


geraldine took the unleavened bread in her turn and gazed on it with emotion mixed with awe


every particular


relating to that commemorative yet typcal feast of the passover was so familiar to her from her early study of bible history yet so far apart from all things present or personal that when she saw and touched this paschal bread she almost fancied herself standing at midnight staff in hand to partake in haste of the lamb without blemish and the bitter herbs while blood was sprinkled on the doorposts and lintel of the house in token of the lords passover


at length she remembered that mr grant had not closely examined the unleavened cake and as she gave it into his hands he gratified her by showing and expressing much of the same train of feeling which had been hers and con versed for some time with her on the institution of this feast which as he justly said though highly interesting in its commemoration was far more so in its typical character


yes said mr conway when we pass on to that last supper when the divine antitype took that paschal bread and brokeit we look on its very form and matter as consecrated by his adorable hands


do you mean said mr grant that you copy the matter and form of the passoverclke in your sacramental bread p i own that when some one said that it resembled the oat cake of scotland i was much more struck by its resemblance to the roman catholic host but i did not knoiv that you intenled this resemblance and therefore i did not mention it


yes we use the unleavened bread at the sacrifice of the mass replied mr conway although this is a circumstance of pure discipline which does not touch the essence of the eucharist


with respect to the form of the host we are guided by the beauti ful allusion to the eucharist in the apocalypse an allusion which can be understood only by the be lievers in a miraculous change in the bread


but yet said mr grant i have a fine en graving of the last supper from a catholic origi nal in which the bread is quite in a protestant form


yes replied mr conway copies of carlo dolces beautiful but ignorant painting are dis persed over england


but who expects accuracy from italian painters said mr everard with thseir chronological im possibilities and their inaccuracies of all kinds


carlo dolce has copied the peasants roll of the country which mistake has passed current with all those as ignorant as himself though not so ex cusably so for what could he know of the jewish passover and of the unleavened bread p


i must express my regret said the protestant curate to the catholic priest


for having misjudged you on this point


i thought with many others that your churbh had invented this peculiar form for the sacramental bread on purpose to give what shall i call it a more supernatural appearance to the eyes of the people that their senses might be the more easily deceived and the miracle of tran substantiation more easily credited


tell us mr conway from what part of the apocalypse you find directions for the peculiar form of the catholic host said geraldine


from the second chapter th verse replied mr conway whsere christ thtus promises to him thatovercomeths i will give thelsidden manna and i will give him a white counter in the protes tant version rendered stone and on the counter a new namewritten which no man knoweth butlie whso recelvetti it


you beinga clasisical scholar mr grant are of course sways that amongst the ancient greeks it was the custom to vote on public occasions with white or black pebbles gathered fromi the sea shore or banks of rivers and that in pro ceas of time and at the period of st jolirs vision


thsese stones were superseded by small circularpisces of wood or ivory like our modern counters upon which the natms of the candidate was inscribed now accordingto the doctrine of ouir church to the communicant is glven in the blessed eucharist the body and blood of jesus christ this is the hidden manna tinder the appearance of bread and wine


and lntihe sacramental host is he given a white counter and in the initials of the saviour of mankind stamped on every host is ise given that new name written which no man knoweth hut ha that recelvethi


this interpietation is full of meaning when the catholic faith on cliis awful question is cornsidered but if in the sacramene there were nothing but brsad hoa cbtqdj the chris tians hidden manna be therep if jesus christ be not truly imparted bow can that new name re main unknown to all save to hsim who receives in faith the living bread that comes down from heaven


this is very strikingisaid


geraldine i have never yet understood any protestant explanation of that passage this is perfectly comprehensible


i believe said mr grant that you take other passages of this revelations to guide or at any rats to authorize part of your worahip but is not this sisoionary and hazardous mr conway p catholic commentators replied mr conway suppose that this evangelist in his book of the apocalypse adapted this imagery with which lie represents his mystic revelations front the cre monies observed by the early christian church in i offering up the mass or eucharistic sacrifice of the i lamb of god jesus christ


therefore we follow the description he gives us in the opening of the eighth chapter in the service of our altars


and snother angel came and stood before the altar having a golden censer and there was given to him much incense that he should offer of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which is before the throne of god


and the smoke of the incense


with the prayers of the saints ascended up before god from the hand of the angel


you profess to follow scripture mr conway said mr grant and yet you daily offer up they sacrifice of the mass


now you will really oblige me by telling roe what interpretation your church can possibly give to the twentyseventh verse of the seventh chapter of the hebrews p the apostle after comparisons between the priesthood of aaron and that of imelchisedec continues thus speaking of christ our high priest for ever after the order of melchisedec who needeth notdaily as those i high priests to offer up sacrice first for his own sins and then for the peoples for this he did once when he offerered up himself


my good sir replied mr conway we truly t hold that the one sacrifice of himself once offered i cannot be repeated


christ can suffer no more


but the mystical immolation of the altar the un bloody sacrifice as prophesied by malachi in the first chapter and the eleventh verse rpust continue i to the end of time


for from the rising of the i sun even to the going down of the same my name i shall be great among the gentiles and in every a place incense shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering you will doubtless say that this pure offering means that of a contrite and grateful heart


but just recall the tenth verse of the thir teenth chapter of hebrews where stpaul says we have an altar whereof they


ihave


no right to eat


who serve the tabernacle


st paul in addressing the hebrews who never employed an altar but for sacrifice would not have used that term but to denote the christian sacrifice of the altarthe pure offer irg and this acceptation of the apostles ceaning has been shared by some of the brightest lights of the protestant church who have contended fromr this mention of the christian altar that the com memorative feast of the body and blood of jesus christ was asacrifice as well as a sacrament


and now in seeking to reconcile you to the literal meaning of the apostles words and to the real sacrifice let me freely admit the figurative meaning the spiritual sacrifice of a humble and contrite


i heart which god will not despise


t i hope said mr grant that you do not take my objections and inquiries arpiss for i do not mean them offensively


tell me then mr conway how you get over the eighteenth verse of the second t chapter of colossians let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worship


d ping of angels intruding intothose things which he bath not seen vainly puffed up by his own fleshly l mind and not holding the head from which all the t body by joints and bands having nourishment p ministered and knit together increaseth with the c increase of god


n as mr grant quoted these verses geraldine e turned with great interest to mr conway for they had appeared to her also to condemn the catholic h invocation of guardian angels and she had intended h to ask for their explanation in her next conference with her catholic instructor


your protestant version replied mr conway f renders it the worshipping of angels our o catholic version is the religioin of angels which c is more explanatory of the doctrine of those early heretics to which these verses apply


these heretics t were the followers of simon magus and menander v who believed that angels and demons were the makers and lords of this lower world and as such offered s sacrifice to them


they also believed the angels to a be the carriers of intelligence between man and the c almighty but with this vital difference between f their belief and that of catholics that these heretics set aside the mediation of christ who is the head j of angels and of men while no one praying in the t spirit of the catholic church ever begged his good t angels prayer to god through him but through t jesus christ our divine head


and now said mr grant i call on youmy dear sir to justify your church if you can for i making a distinction between mortal and venial sins c as if all sin were not hateful to god and deadly to s thesoul p how can there be such a thing as a small sin p


the very term is a contradiction


c so thought mr harley our new convert re plied mr conway before the fatal accident which befell his child that fine little boy who was drowned last year


till then i had never held any inter course with tihe parents but you must remember i a was then sent for


yes you were then sent for said mr grant and my pastoral services were declined


i remem i her thie circumstances well with all its painful con sequences


i


the messenger informed me continued mr conway of the death of the child but could not conjecture thre parents motive in sending for the c catholic priest instead of the protestant curate till j on toy arrival


mr hariey seized my arm and i dragging me to the room wirere lay the lifeless body of his chrild gasped out threse words tirere sir i there is my only clrild


i early taugirt him to know r iris gnd iris lreart was fult of piety and trutir but irehlas died in sin nsayi is hredamnedthrouglnout an endless eternity tp i felt inexpressnlly shocked


i could only en treat to be told tire details of this calamity


they were these the poor clrild hlnrd been tempted to take some sweetmeats and whsen charged withr thet fact denied it


not being isowever an hrabituale liar his blushres betrayed him and lris mothner greatly pained at hsisadding sin to sin sent hrim from hser presence telling inn thsat ar sire coruld no


longer trust or respect him ire must not approach hrer or hiris father the rest of thre day


tire boy was sent away more abashed tiran penitent and his poor mother saw hinm no more till iris spririt mad lied


he had wrandered into tire garden at a time


whnen


he i was usually occupied by iris lessons ttre gardener had tirerefore omitted thre usual precaution witir a ce servoir of deep water and before tire searelh began for the missing chilid lifewas extinct how dreadful i exclaimed thre listeners to tins tale of woe tire poor mother i oh tre poor mother i cried mr cornway suds a scene of hnesrirending anguisir i rarely witnessed tire chnild having been in rlisgrace anul dying before being forgiven tris resteri on iher tenirer heart


shre could not


pardos hreracif for i iraving been as shre throughst too severe but thers fathers was the deeper woo


thrank god


i i was r able to comfort bothr


after some conversatlonon tire necesasrily doubtfunl qrrstion of whsethrer thret poor chrlid irad repiented of iris twufoll guilt mr harley entreated me to give him an exact account of t tire cithrolic doctrlne on mortal and vernial sin for arid he tne protestant belief tirat my chikil is at once an angel in glory coupled witlr thre con i tradictury belief llrat tire smallest sin is danrnable throws my mind into inextricable confusion


i then told him that the catholl belief in a distinction between mortal and venial sins was founded on the written word of god where we are told that even the just man falls seven times a day and that men must give an account of every idle word that they speak


we also know that there is not an instant of our life in which it may not suddenly terminate without the possibility of our calling upon god for mercy


what then will become of the soul which is thus surprised


p we are shown by scripture that nothing defiled shall enter heaven and will then our just and merciful god make no distinction in guiltiness as rigid protestants maintain p will he condemn to the same eternal punishment the poor child who has died undei the guilt of a hoof excuse and the abandoned wretch who has murdered his father p to say that he will is so monstrous a doctrine in itself and so contrary to scripture which declares that god will render to every man dccording to his deeds that it ought to be universally ex ploded


scripture makes a distinction between the degrees of sin and so does the church and protes tants in attempting to be wiser lose themselves in endless contradiction and confusion


what means the distinction between the gnat and the camel between the mote and the beam but venial and mortal sin or in other words fauilts and crimes


amr


conway said lady winefride i am aware that our good friend mr grant has one more weighty thing on his mind about which he has attacked me once or twice


this is the omission by the catholic church of one of the command ments for the better furtherance of image worship


are not those the proper terms mr grant p why certainly laidy winefride since you challenge me to speak plainly i must say that to expunge the second commandment from the deca logue is such sacrilege that mypersonal respect for mr conway can alone induce me to listen to any palliatives or excuses for it


but suppose that in lieu of palliative or excuse said mr conway


i boldly deny the fact p but you cannot surely venture so far said mr grant


i know that you have still the ap p arance of ten commandments because you have divided tthe last to make up the number but you cannot account for the omission of the second com mandment


o are you a hebrew scholar mr grant p said mr conway


no sir i once knew a little of hebrew but of late years i have neglected that interesting study for those more applicable to my parish duties


but still you must be aware that in the original chapter of exodus there is no division into verses


nothing in fact to mark the line of distinction be tween the commands except the spirit and the sense


st jerome and st augustine made a different division


the former separated the command res pecting the worship due to god into two parts the latter conceived the concluding part of the injunction to ie as in the one relating to the sabbath an ex planation of the precedibg and to form but one commandment while in the command thou shalt not covet ie deemed that a distinction should be made between the wife and the more worldly goods


this division of the ten commandments by st augustine was adopted by the church and has continued to this day while protestants have preferred andrropted tire division of st jerome


for this preference we catholics reproach you not for we hold that the spirit of the commandments is of far more consequence than any line of demar cation


most true cried mr grant


i was not aware that our second commandment was incorporated with your first


but my good sir observed mr conway smiling pardon me for saying that when persons attack the honour and integrity of others they ought to be aware of every motive and of every fact


certainly said mr grant but sir i do judge by fact and not by hearsay


one of the little books of your school fell


into my hands and owing to this division of the commandments the second of them was actually omitted mr conway for the heads only of the commands were given in this way thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain


remembet thou keep holy the sabbath day honour thy father and thy mother and so on


yes said mr conway you have seen one of the infants catechisms in which everything is simplified and abridged


i will


now have the pleasure of sending you the standard catechism used throughout the elder classes of the catholic schools in which you will find every commandment at full length with the divisions of st augustine and when you receive this catechism mr grant perhaps you will reflect that this division was made by the very one among the ancient fathers whom your chrurchr drgights to claim and thrat this rule having been adopted several centuries before lisa church existed its members should pause before bhey attack this division as some new and crafty device of papists they sirould reflect thrat wirethrer st jerome or st augustine were correct thre diflerence is not oans of faith r thrat tire spirit of tire decalogure remains tire same and cells aloud to tire protestant thou shalt not bear false witness against thry neighbour


the constant mlsapprehrension of protestants said lady wvinefride excites ones continued pity and surprise


a very intelligent and weltinformed lady of ray acquiaintance accompanied me to mass a few sundays since and afterwards expressed hner great regret that ia tire nicene creed whicir is re tained word for word in hrer church we catirolics shotrid all have knelt at tite wrirds born of the virgin mary


i observed that she might hiave per ceived tire gremnier numirer prepare tokneel at tire previous sentence and was liriarnate of tire holy ghost and shrowed hrcr thre missal by whicir sire perceived tlrrt tire congregation irad moved at tire above words only that threy mlglht be all on their knces wlren throre were said which sire saw printed in capitals asia was madea man wirile any re maining doubt was removed by thit note r here all kneel to adore the ineflabie mystery of the in


cardrration


lbo be cosntintued


william a tale of south australian history


by a lady chapter iv


the emigrants were disappointed at not finding kangaroos and emus as abundant as they had been led to expect and the captains of the emigrant ships did not spare their jokes on the subject


now as the pioneers were very touchy upon all subjects con nected however remotely with the capabilities of the colony they determined among themselves to give a dinner to one of these gentlemen prior to his departure to consist altogether of the produce of the colony


the day being fixed six gentlemen met together a few evenings previous and arranged that each of them should sally forth the next morning with his gun and not return until he had killed something worth placing on the table but one of the party objected that he had no gun he had never thought of bringing one with him being so very nearsighted besides he was afraid of losing his way


but one of the gentlemen present de clared that the first objection was easily got over as he would lend him a gun


another hinted that he could wear his spectacles and a third suggested that he need not go out of sight of the tents as there was plenty of quail on the plain


his objections therefore being overruled he promised to go and do his best


but his heart instantly misgave him and he returned to his tent musing on the dangers he would pro bably meet with on the morrow


he might tread on a snakethe very thought made him shudder for he had the greatest horror of all reptiles but what was to be done


he could not present himself at the dinner table without contributing something but then there was sure to be a plumpudding for a share of which he would be willing to encounter some little risk


the thought of the pudding made him set to work and give his spectacles an extra polish


he then retired to bed as he intended to be up and ready to start by break of day


in ihe middle of the night he awoke and his eyes rested on a bright object on the floor near the leg of the table which was no great distance from his bed


he felt sure it was a centipede and was in the greatest state of alarm for he knew not how it was to be killed unless he got out of bed and this he felt afraid to do until he fancied he saw it move towards him when he jumped up slipped on his shoe and stamping on it crushed it to atoms


he returned to bed but dared not close bis eyes his imagination picturing centipedes and scorpions in every direction


at last to his great relief daylight made its appearance and he arose to prepare for his days work but the first thing he did was to stoop down to examine the reptile he had killed in the night when to his utter dismay he found instead of a centipede his spectacles shattered into a thousand pieces


he stood rooted to the spot until a servant bringing in the gun reminded him of the promise he had made the evening before and which he now saw no possibility of performing


he inquired if any one was stirring in the other tents


the man answered that the gentlemen had all gone shooting some hours back


he then in quired the time and found it was got fast on for noon


he then asked the man if he could shoot but he de clared he had never fired a gun


finding there was no alternative but to go himself he threw his shotbelt over his shoulder and snatching up his gun ran out of the tent in a state of mind bordering on distraction


the day of the dinner arrived and guests were all assembled when a very excellent assortment of colonial produce was placed on the table and each of the pio neers with the exception of the shortsighted gentleman had the pleasure of recognizing his contribution to the feast


this gentleman with illconcealed chagrin pic tured on his countenance then arose and politely demanded of the lady who had undertaken the arrange ment of the repast why the produce of his days labour had not been served up with the rest when a cover being removed from an immense dish exhibited to view two poor little fly catchers weighing together some thing less than halfanounce


this set the whole table in a roar


our unfortunate sportsman was not how ever in the least disconcerted but made a long speech very little of which was heard and we regret that we can only inform our readers that it commenced by as serting that it was much more difficult to shoot a small bird than a large one particularly without spectacles and terminated with a compliment to the ladies in the course of which he declared as a fact that there were as many females in the world as there were pounds of sugar annually imported into great britain


one of the ladies returned thanks and assured him that the smallest mite had been thankfully accepted


about three weeks after this dinner the government officers received orders to remove to the city but the order was more easily given than obeyed for there were only two bullock drays belonging to the government and they could not take more than one load each daily and it was not without great exertion and considerable delay that the removal was effected and the tents of the colonists erected on the park land where they again settled down for a time


on the same rise on which stands the present go vernment house but a short distance in its rear and looking towards the river stood a small cottage con structed of mud and rushes which was occupied by the governor and his family


it was of course designated by the title of government house and though pos sessing no pretensions to elegance and far from com fortable it contained under its roof as happy and united a family group as is ever likely to grace the more im posing structure which has superceded it


the governor was a kind jolly hospitable sailor his lady everything that was amiable and good and his three daughters young pretty and merry perfectly unaffected and always ready to promote fun


cards of invitation to a ball at government house were quickly issued and the colonists were delighted as they anticipated a pleasant evening nor were they disappointed for a happier party never met than on that night


all were amused many danced and some sang and sweetly too indeed one or two of the voices which were heard that night still bear away the palm for tone and culture from all who have since competed with them


the governor and the other gentlemen declared that they felt proud that their little colony could exhibit so large a share of talent and elegance


william was in raptures he had been introduced to the object of his facination stood by her side while she played and sang and had danced with her several times but his enjoy ment was not entirely without alloy for when he was in the midst of a most interesting teteatete he was rather roughly pushed on one side by a abort stout red faced gentleman who came to demand the fulfilment of a promise made by the lady to take a part with him in a song


this gentleman could readily sing a very good song when he had not taken too much peppermint but alas


peppermint and cold tongue produce strange effects in south australia


the song was commenced three times but failed although the lady sang her sweetest and the piano was played with great skill


he could not keep in tune and at last angry with himself and every one around he flourished his arm over his head and mut tering something to himself rushed out of the house


the ladies were surprised but the gentlemen laughed and a murmur ran through the room that the old gen tleman was rather peppermintish but would be all right in the morning and very sorry for the disturbance he had made


the next moment a lady commenced singing through the wood through the wood and in listening to this ballad the old gentleman was forgotten and the har mony of the evening was again restored


all now crowded to supper after partaking which and drinking the governors health and the pros perity of the colony they prepared to return home all having to walk with the exception of one lady who was drawn in a truck for the only carriage in the colony belonged to the governor


s chaltebr i


d aalyt clus nouma


the lain was dashing in torreirts q


yait thep win w pans and the viid sweeping in heavy and fitful geatsalong the dreary and deserted i tiweets aslaparty of three persons i sat over theirwine in thatstatelyold pile which once formed the resort of the irish members in college green ij dublin and went by the name of i alys club house


the clatter


of ailling tiles and chimneypotsthe jarring of the windowframes and owling of the storm without seem ed little to affect the spirits of those within as they drew closer td a lazhiig fire before which stood asi sminall table covered with the debris of adessert and an abundant supply of bottles whose characteristic length of neck indicated the rarest twries of rance and germany while the portly


magnum of claretthe wine par excellence of every irish gentleman of the daypassed rapidly freinharid to hand the conversation did not languish and many a deep andhearty laugh followed the stories hich everynow


and then were told assome reminiscence of early days wasrecalled orsome trait of a for hier companion remembered


oneof the party however was ap arently engrossed by other thoughts than those of mirth andmerriment around for in the midst of all he would turn suddenly from theothers hand devote himself to a number of scatteredsheets ofpaperupon which


e had written some lines but whose crossed and blot ted sentencesattest edhow littlesuccesshad waited upon his literary labours


his individual wvasashort plethowicloaking white fhii ed nian ofabou t li tywithadeep ioundivoice anda chuckling smoth er inglaugh which wheneverhe in diilged not only shook his own am ile person but generally created a ppetty earthquake on everyside of him


for the present i shall not stop to iprtichularise him more closely but when aladd thattbhe person inques tion was a well known memb her of the iish


house of commons whose a cuteunderst andingand practicalgood sefsewereveiled under an aflected ndwlldissembled habit ofblunder ing that did far smore for his party than the most violent and pointed attaiisolhis more accurate associates some ofmy readersmay anticipateme in pronouncing himto besir harry boyle usporhis left sata figure tle most uilikehimpossible hewas a tallthin bony man witha boltup


sight air and a moat saturnine ex pression his eyes were covered by a deep green shade which fell far over his face but failed to conceal a blue scar that crossed his cheek enped in the angle of his mouth and im parted to that feature when hbespoke an apparently abortive attempt to ex tend towards his eyebrow his upper lipwas covered with a grizzly and illtrimmed moustache which added much to the ferocity of his look while a thin and pointed beard on his chin gave an apparent length to the whole face that comlleted its rueful characterhis


dress was a singlebreasted tightlybuttoned frock in one buttonhole of which a red ribbon was fastened the decora tion of a foreign service which con ferred upon its wearer the title of count and though billy considine as he was familiarly called by his friends was a thorough irishman in all his feelings and affections yet he had no objection to the designation he


had gained in the austrian army


the count was certainly no beauty but somehow very few men of his day had a fancy for telling him so a deadlier hand and a steadier eye never covered his man in the phmenix and though he never had a seat in the house he was always regarded as one ofthe government party who more than once had damped the ardour of an opposition member by the very significant threat of set ting billy at him


the third figure of the group was a largepowerfully built and handsome man older than either of the others butnot betray ing n his voice and carriage any touch of time


he was attired in thegreen coat and buff vest which formed the livery of the club and in his tall ample forehead clear wellset eye and still handsome mouth bore evidence that no great flattery was necessary at the time which called godfrey omalley the handsomest man in ireland


upon my conscience said sir harry throwing downhis pen with an air of


illtemper i can make nothing of it have got into such an infernal habit of making bills that i cant write sense when i want it come come said omalley try again my dear fellov


if you cant ucceed imn sure billy and


i have no chance


what have you written


let us seesaid considine drawing the parerrtowards him and holding it to thbeight why what the devil is all this


youhave made him


drop down dead after dinner of a ling ering illness brought on by the de bate of yesterday


ohimpossible


ell read it yourself there it is andas if to make the thing less credible you talk of his bill for the better recovery of small debts


tim sure omalley your last o nleits were jnot employed in that manner


corie riow said sir harry cqll setallto rights with a postcript any one iwho questlonsthe tiaove statement is politely requested to


dallbnrr cmr


consiilin kildare street who will feel happy to afford him every satisfaction


upon


mr omalleys decease or pon miscellaneous matters


worse and worse said omal ley killing another


man will never persuade the world thati m dead


but well wake you ad have a glorious funeral


and if ariyn man doubt the statentientifll call him out said the count


a better still satid sirrhari


omalley has his action at law fort defamation


i see ill never get down to galway at this rate said omal ley andas the new electfion takles place on tuesdayweek time presses


there are more writs flying after me this instant than for all the government boroughs


and there will be fewer retitrns fear said sirharry


whoisthe chief creditor asked the countri


old stapleton the attorney in fleetstreet has ii st f the mornir gages


nothing to ibe idone ith him in this way said considine balancing the corkscrew lilke a hair trigger


no ch diie oi


f


i


may e agid sir arry eie might come totterms if lwere to all andsayryou are angious todclose accounts as your death has juist taken place


you know what i mean


i fetar so shold lie were you to say so


no no bovlejust try a plain straiglhrtforward paragraph abolut my death


wel haive it in sfalkners paper tomorrow on rfriday the funeral i can place amid with the blessing of god ill conme t toff qi


pttirdy atathbone in stime to canvass themarket i think it wouldnt be bad if your ghost were to appear to old timins the tanner in naas on your way down


you know he ar rested you once before


i prefer a nights sleep said


omalley but come finish the squib for the paper


c stay a little said sir harry musing it just strikes ene that if everthe matter gets out i may be in some coifounded scrape


who knows if it is not a breach of privi legeto report the death of a mem ber and to tell you truth i dread the sergeant and the speakers warrant with a very lively fear


why when did you make his acquaintance


said the count


is it possible you never heard of boyles committal


said qmal ley you surely must have been abroad at the time but its not too late to tell it yet


well its about two years since old townshend brought in his enlistment bill and the whole country was scoured for all our vo ters who were scattered here and there never anticipating another call of the house and supposing that the session was just over


among others up came our friend harry here and the night he ar rivedthey made him a monk of the sdrewv and very soon made him forgiet is senatorial dignitiess son the evening after his reach ing town the bill was brought in and at two in the morning the division took placea vote was of too much consequence not to look after it closelyand a castle messen ger


was in waiting in exchequer street who when the debate was closing put harry with three others into a coach and brought them down to the house


unfortunately how ever they mistook their friends voted against the bill and amid the loudest cheering of the opposition the government party were defeated


lhe rage of the ministers knew no bounds and looks of defiance and eevei threats were exchanged be tween the ministers and the desert ers


amid all this poor harry fell fast asleep anddreamed that he was once more in exchequerstreet pre isiding among the monks and mix ing another tumbler


at length he awoke and looked about himthe clerk was just at the instant reading out in his usual routine manner a clause of the new bill and the re mainder of the house wasindead silence


ha rry looked again around onqevery side wondering where was the hot water and what had become of the whiskey bottle and above all why thecompany were so extreme ly


dull and ungenial


at length with a half shake he roused up a little and giving a look of unequiv ocalcontempt on every side called out upon my soul youre pleasant companionsbut ill give you a chant to enliven you


so saying he cleared his throat with a couple of short coughs and strick up with the voice of a stentor the following verse of a popular ballad and they nibbled away both night and day like mice in aroundofgloster great rogues they were all loth great and small from flood to leslie foster


sgreat togues all


c ohorus boys


ilf he was not joined by the voices of hisftieifds ii the soing it wiras pro bably beciiuse such a roar of laugh ingr hever wias hecard since the walls were oodfed over


the vhole house rosein a mass and my friend harry was hurried oveir the beicheiesby the sergeantatarins arid left for three weeks in newgate to practice his melody


all true said sir harry and worseluck to them ifor not liking music but comc now willthis do


it is our melancholy


duty to announce the death of godfrey omalleyesq late member for tlfe county of galway which took place on friday evening at dalys club house


this esteemed gentlemans familyoneof the oldest i irejaind arid among whonmit was hereditary not to have any children here a burst of laughter from considine and omalley interrupted the reader who with the greatest difficulty could be persuaded that he was again btilling it the devilly iawiay with it said be ill never succeed


never mina said oimalley the firstpart will do admirably arid let is now turn ou attention to othermatters


a fresh magnum was called for and oiver its ibspiring contenits all the details of the funeral were


plan ned and as the clock struck four the party separated for the night well aisfiied vwitlithe ridsilt of their to be continuvbd


chapter xiv


winter on the manb


early in november tho weather hitherto mild and sunny as the indian summer of canada began to grow foggy moist and raw


tho horizon of the slack sea was blotted with mists and its surface changed from blue to cold grey while the sky was cither leaden or black with clouds


about daybreak on tho th a strong wind from the south drove before it a flood of rain i tlio tents swelling inward beneath tlio blasts left uo slant sufficient to repel tho water which was caught in tho hollowb and filtered through


i was awoke by it dripping on my face which i covered with my cloak and slept again


again i was awoke and this time more rudely


the wind had increased to a hurricane in which the canvass flapped and fluttered and tho tentpole quivered liko a vibrating harpstring


at the opening of the tent my servant appeared uttering some words which were blown away nnd never reached me till putting his head within he told me i mast got up adding that the tenti wore nearly all blown away


as ho spoke tho pegs that hold mine to the ground parted the canvass was driven against tho pole nnd tho wholo structure fell with a crash across ray bed


sitting up and grasping mv fluttering blankets i beheld such of my effects as had not weight enough to keep thorn stationary dispersed in tho air and born on the wings of the wind into a distant valley


half written letters clung for a moment in places to the muddy ground before pursuing their airy flight and garments of every description strewed the plain


mr servant was in full pursuit of a cocked hat which was whirled onward at a tremendous pace till its course was arrested by a low wall and on the muddy wheel of a cart mug a scarlet waist coat grievously bemired


all aonnd me were figures like my own of halfclad men eitting amid the rums of their beds and watching with intense interest the dispersion of their property while thoso tents which had continued to resist the gale fell over one after another liko inverted parachutes


horses turning their eoatterod toils to the blast leaned against it with slanting logs blinded by their clothing whioh retained by the surcingles was blown over their heads and all around wcro seen men struggling up with frequent losi of ground each holding same recovered article


whatever could be collected in this way was placed beneath the fallen tunts the edges of which were then loaded with heavy stones


in the distance other encampments were seen in similar plight and everywhere tlio rows of tents which bad dottod tho plain had disap peared


hard as it scorned to bo stript of shelter by the storm those who had passed the night in tho trenches had still greater reason


tocom slain


thero they had consoled themselves uring the watches of the wet gusty night by tlio promise of warmth and rest in the morning and hastening chilled and weary to their camp for tho comforting hot coffee and pleasant wellearned sleep officers and men found their temporary homes level as a row of persians worshipping the rising sun and tho space they had kept dry in the midst of mire became a puddle


no fires could be lit no breakfast warmod for the blast extinguished tho flame and scattered tho fool and all that could bo done was to gather the blankets out of the mud


and to try to raise again the fallen tents


but these were by no means the greatest sufferers


the hospital tents higher than tho rest were blown down leaving the patients exposed almost naked to the bitter wind and driving rain and the first efforts of the men in camp wcro directed to obtain some shelter for these unfortunates


tho wooden building already described as so comfortably housing the wounded french fell over fortu nately without seriously adding to the injuries of their occupants but i heard that a rus sian prisoner who lay wounded in another hospital was killed by its fall


iowards noon the storm began to abate though it btill blew violently till nest morn ing when the extent of damage sustained by the ships towards which many an anxious thought hail been cast was known


out hardships on shore were us nothing compared with tho state of those at sea who saw instant destruction in tho gale which bore towards them on tho ono side tho most terrific billows wbilo on tho other was a wall of perpendicular rooky cliff


to be continued j


the mysteries of sydney not by the author of the mysteries of paris or the mysteries of london but by one of ourselves


chapter xiv


the gaol


occupying a commanding position on the southern side of the metropolis stands the dar linghurst prison


its exterior presents all the chilling and forbidding character of these edi fices


high stone walls entirely surround it without break or aperture with the exception of one wide portal above which frowns the gal lows


at the time of our tale that portion of the interior which fronts the house of the gaoler or governor as he was more generally called formed a complete contrast to the horrors in its vicinity


green lawns trimly cut and close shaven were bordered with flowers of every hue and intersected by broad gravel walks rolled and kept in the most perfect order not a pebble was displaced their surface was smooth as a billiard table and shone with as bright a polish


it seemed as if the designer had intended by this specimen of landscape gardening to throw a veil over the deformity of the edifice and the sickening scenes which were enacted within its walls


mr castle dubbo the gaoler was a fac simile of this anomaly


his outward and inner man were antipodean to each other and like janus he was bifaced


here were two things of which he was really proud his ancestry and himself


descended from the earliest kingly race of ireland he would descant most glow ingly upon their high renown and the catalogue of their vartues which were at his fingers ends he would run most glibly over the otooles odonoughoes and brian borus and smack his lips with gusto while drinking bad luck to the saxon who had rolled the dark cloud over the sunlight of their fame


the genealogical tree of castle dubbo was rooted in gold each branch was silver and each leaf an emerald the top had already reached the heavens and nothing but a complete uprooting could stop its growth


cutting and pruning were useless so long as a twig re mained it would bloom and shoot again till time was no more


and while he castle dubbo lived extinction was impossible


lt was true that instead of sitting like his ancestors to re ceive the homage of ten million subjects he had to usher visitors into the presence of vice regality and bawl out their names at a dublin drawingroom but what of thatcharles st had been beheaded charles th was exiled louis phillippe shared the same fate and oconnell had been imprisoned great minds shone out more brilliantly from the foil of ad versity and castle dubbo as a gaoler eclipsed a vast number of his ancestral kingly cut throats in the same degree as his wellfurnished and comfortable apartments outshone the bar baric splendour of their wide halls and rush strewn floors open to all the winds of heaven


in his dress castle dubbo was the essence of finical elaborateness


his lacefrilled shirt was dazzlingly white and speckless his upper and lower integuments faultless and his cloth boots with their shiny patent leather tips unexcep tionable


the feet that condescended to be encased in them were large very large but the body which they had to bear was none of the lightest


it were absurd to fancy that the frame of an elephant could stand on the pedestals of a fairy


he loved scents and pomades and wherever he moved ambrosial vapours floated round him and completely overpowered the stench of tobacco with which some of the wretched ragamuffins under his care would foul the atmosphere despite the vigilance of their keepers


in fact castle dubbo was an original character a complete sui generis


his wife he was blessed with a spouse was also a character of the lookafternumberone spe cies and his children were characters also such as any very fond parents might be proud of


while castle dubbo was making his toilette for the day toby and lipey were pacing up and down the yard set apart for criminals committed for trial


though their conversation was car ried on in a low tone it was evident from the furtive glances which they occasionally took at the stone boundaries that their thoughts strayed considerably beyond them and that they were cal culating the possibility of an escape from their durance ill pound it right said lipey in a most confident manner to his companion who seemed more dubious upon the point they change the screwsman at night and arter a round or two the darkey toddlers go to slother


vy man they sleeps as sound as churches all the burstin and screwin in the vurld vouldnt vake em afore daybreak


yes but i heerd responded toby that the guynor vos agoin to have a flareup to night vith some o them debtor chaps vots in his kwarters them as tips up werry free with a lot of svell outsiders


so much the betteror cos you see ive got to help to vait on em and ven the gals is a playin on the pennny and the coves is a chant in vy i can slip the fastenins of your door and but theres a padlock on lipey


not at all they never troubles themselves about that


bless their innicent hearts theyd never believe that a chap was so owdacious as to go for to try to make a bolt out of this here werry strong jug


if sich a thing vos to be kommuni cated to em in a wision by their grandmothers ghost a standin at their bedside theyd never take it in


this interesting colloquy was cut short by the entrance of the visiting magistrate attended by the gaoler


after taking a slight glance at the place the former enquired whether everything was right and having received an answer in the affirmative he turned to the prisonors and asked if they had any complaints to make


yes your vurship said lipey stepping forward and smoothing his hair down at the same time giving a scrape with his left foot of the most respectful and expetssive kind i have von werry great von


you see your vurship ive led an unkimmin vicked life and this here place is a precious sight too good for me


never mind my man never mind well give you a turn at cockatoo island or the roads and perhaps youll find that hard enough


im werry fearful not your vurship ive been a dreadful sinner


but i know vell if you dont turn me out of here i shall contaminate the whole blessed lot of innocent individgeels vots obliged to consort vith me


they must take their chance about that my fine fellow


werry vell your vurship


now take no tice all you sufferin lamkins vot knows nuffin cried lipey turning round to his fellowpriso ners that if anything vos to appen ive give em proper varnin and the konsikences is on their own eds


pretty vagabond this muttered the visit ing justice as he turned away half smiling at the impudent boldness of lipey


having bestowed a cursory look at the other portions of the place he mounted his horse and rode off while castle dubbo proceeded to the chapel where a large number of the prisoners were engaged in making hats an employment by no means unprofitable


perched in the pulpit was a gentleman with a large ledger before him in which he was busily engaged entering the various sums to which the prisoners were en titled from the sale of their cabbagetree la bours and debiting them with the expense of the edible luxuries which they had received in ex change


bread cheese butter rump steaks and pork sausages formed the hulk while here and there little hieroglypical marks in the books gave notice that something out of the common way had rewarded their exertions


as castle dubbe entered the chapel the men made a sort of attempt at concealing the pipes which they had been smoking and ceased the singing talking and laughing with which they were soothing their very toilsome occupations


having glanced over the ledger and satisfied himself that the accounts were correct and given instructions to the clerk to select two of the men for the purpose of performing the office of musicians at the little soiree which he was about to give that evening he proceeded to the condemned cell in which a prisoner was con fined under sentence of death


the heavy lock turned with a harsh and grat ing sound the massive cell door slowly and heavily swung back on its creaking hinges and the gaoler and the victim of the law were face to face


what a contrast


trim sleek and smil ing full of life and its pleasures looking for ward to years of luxurious earthly enjoyment was the onepale haggard woebegone sur rounded by lifes miseries yet clinging to exis tence with convulsive tenacity hoping where hope had withdrawn every ray from the dark ness of despair battling with the legion of fiends conjured up by conscience howling writhing cursing but repenting notwhat room was there for repentance in a heart which struggled only to evade the grasp of death was the other


the unhappy man was seated on his iron pallet his clasped hands hanging down between his manacled limbs and swaying to and fro in the very restlessness of his agony


for a time he appeared unconscious of the presence of his visitor


his tortured imagination beholds as in a vision extending far as eye can reach an expanse of upturned faces scowling upon him in bitter exultation as he stands trembling beneath the black gibbet he hears the murmurs of deri sion and execration which greet him from that human ocean he grasps his neckhis respira tion quickensthe death straggle is upon him the creeping curdling tremor of expiring nature convulses his frame


he is rehearsing the last fatal scene and hangingin anticipation


my poor fellow whispered the gaoler in that conventional whine which is used by officials on such occasionsthe tone which affects sym pathy but does not convey ithow do you feel this morning


all clean and comfortable around you i see


is there any thing you desire


yes screamed the convict springing to his feet lifelife


give me life


shut me up in a cell for ever


deprive me of the sight of a human face


lash me


torture me


la


cerate me but let me live


your case replied castle dubbo consi derably startled by this burst of energy has received the fullest consideration and he dwelt upon the word as importantly as if he were the actual embodiment of her majestys privy council yes i repeat the fullest con sideration and all that can possibly be done for you shall be done i give you my word


l am innocent shrieked the felon in all the wild excitement of the hope inspired by the last words of the gaoler i am innocenttell them i am innocent and they will spare me


yes


yes i will hopeyou sir you will save me and the unhappy wretch threw himself before the keeper and clasped his knees grovelling to the very earth in supplication


oh yes hope for the best and in the mean time compose yourself my poor fellow returned dubbo retreating from the embrace of the con demned and drawing forth an elaborately bor dered white pockethandkerchief he passed it twice or thrice across that portion of his dress tainted by the touch of the murderer keep yourself quiet my man and all will go right i dare say


the victim sank back upon his straw and the gaoler turned away


the heavy door swung to the bolts creaked and the doomed one was left to solitude and his own thoughts


castle dubbo smoothed his slightly ruffled garments emitted a long sibillating sound as if dismissing some weighty matter from his thoughts and stalked with the air of a con queror towards his apartments to preside over the preparations for the gala of the evening


the mysteries of sydney


not by the author of the mysteries of paris or the mysteries of london but by one of ourselvespart ii chapter ii


the abduction


it has been observed that in the lives of the greatest criminals there is an extraordinary acutenessa profound calculation and a patient meditative energy which they employ upon the conception and execution of a crime which is positively startling


these abilities turned into a proper channel would have led them to world


ly honors and the esteem of mankind


but with a strange obliquity of vision they seem to have looked from the broad paths of right into some dark defile in which by the subtlest ingenuity and through the most besotting perils they may attain at last to the success of a fraud or the enjoyment of a vice


in crime once indulged there is a wonderful fascination and the fasci nation is not rarely great in proportion to the intellect of the criminal


there is says a mo dern writer of great power always hope of re form for a dull uneducated stolid man led by accident or temptation into guilt but when a man of great ability besots himself in the intoxi cation of dark and terrible excitementstakes impure delight in tortuous and slimy waysthe good angel abandons him for ever


these observations will apply with great force to the character of sharkey


he sprang from a good family and considerable pains had been bestowed upon his education


in his childhood he was noted for possessing a vigorous intellect and a shrewdness beyond his years but these natural powers he strangely perverted


in lieu of them he substituted cunning and fraud and he revelled in the idea of cheating a schoolfel low


the vices of the boy became more strongly marked in the man and were doubly dangerous from the subtle craft acquired by long practice and deep study of mankind


this enabled him to conceal his designs from the vic tim whom he was luring to destruction


cold and callous with no passion beyond the mere sensual he stood alone in the world and gloried in his isolation


even in gambling the wild ex citement the maddening fever of success and the deep despondency of loss were not his he calculated chances with such exactness that he almost seemed to defy chance and where all de pended upon himself it might be said so


it was only when compelled to employ other agency of minor power that his schemes were foiled


sharkey was no common man but an uncommon villain


seated at the breakfast table on the morning following the storm he listened to the plans which mrs naillit developed for securing the person of little annie gray


during the time that his companion was speaking he did not offer a single observation or comment to interrupt the thread of the narrative but when she had laid bare the whole scheme step by step and he had secured a perfect mastery of it he broke from his silence


there is one thing against the success of your proceedings said he and that by no means a triflethere are too many people in it


tim haggarty the cabman may be a necessary adjunct but your servant jemima what pos sible good can accrue by making her the pos sessor of the secret


how is it to be avoided enquired mrs naillit


she has been with me for years and to discharge her now would be to create suspici on


besides shes a dear good creature and has been so uniformly useful to me that i can scarcely think of parting with her


why not take her to england with us


for the reason i have named the reward gained is only equal to the risk we run it needs but two to share the spoil


if your wish were adopted once in the mother country jemima would have the game in her own hands and we should be compelled to purchase her secresy however high the rate


no carry this i will never consent to she must leave but it may be managed by stratagem


has she no rela tive


yes a mother living not many miles distant


let her go there for a few days in the meantime i will make the other arrangements about the vessel


now no words


carryre monstrance is useless you know my determina tions are not hastily formed and therefore they are irrevocable


well if it must be so i suppose it must said the lady reluctantly


it mustcome kiss me carry no pouting by this time you ought to know me


this is no childs play in which we are engaged i dont mean a pun but something in earnest


i leave you to manage this


now goodbye im off to the circular quay to secure our passage in the first ship tonight you may expect to see me again


meanwhile my girl let caution and firmness be your motto


having imprinted a parting kiss upon the lips of his mistress sharkey descended the stairs and emerged from the house by the back door


the dog fawned on him as he passed sharkey patted him on the head kindlyif kindness could be in himand mused a moment


it has been said that there is no human being so vile as not to possess some portion of the gentler influences of the spirit some oasis in the sterile desart of misanthropy


an unknown hand garlanded the tomb of nero in grateful recollection of a kindly perhaps a solitary act


if sharkey had a touch of feeling it was for the dog


he was a splendid animal of the bull and mastiff breed and had served his master in good stead


rattler said sharkey what will become you old fellow


the dog looked wistfully into his face as con scious of his meaning


we must find you another master


the dog gave a low growl


dn it i wont part with you if i pay an extra passage for you


the dog jumped upon him and licked his face and hands


sharkey hurried from the spot and wended his way towards the harbour


it was six days from the above before the ne cessary arrangements were made with the cap tain of the


a cabin was taken by sharkey for himself his wife and child the ne cessary forms were gone through and the vessel was advertised to sail in three days from that time


all that remained to be performed was the abduction of the child


jemima was away with her aged mother and mrs naillitt had had daily interviews with little annie gray


on the eventful morning mrs naillit might have been observed walking on the george street side of the haymarket


she sauntered along apparently engaged in no pursuit look ing occasionally into the shop windows as if scanning their contents but still keeping a watchful eye upon a cab which followed at a slow pace some thirty or forty yards distant from her