will you be so good as clear gentlemen aud make a little room for more


regardless of the captains cries they did not clear at all but stood there bolt upright and staring


two gentlemen connected with the watertoast gazette had come express u get the matter for an article on martin


they bad agreed to divide the labour


one of them took him below the waistcoat one above


each stood directly in front of his subject with his head a little on one side intent ou his de partment


if martin put one boot before the other the lower gentleman was down upon him he rubbed a pimple on bis nose and the upper gentle man booked it


he opened his mouth to speak and the same gentleman was on one kneejefore him looking in at hib teeth with the nice scrutiny of a dentist


amateurs in the physiognomical and phrenological sci encies roved about him with watchful eyes and itching fingers and sometimes one more dar ing than the rest made a mad grasp at the back of his head and vanished in the crowd they had him in all points of view in front in profile threequarter face and behind


those who were not professional or scientific audibly exchanged opinions on his looks


new lights shone in upon him in respect of his nose


contradictory rumours were abroad on the subject of his hair


and still the cap tains voice was heard so stifled by the con course that he seemed to speak from under neath a featherbed exclaiming gentlemen you that have been introduced to mr chuzzle wit mill you clear


even when they began to clear it was no better for then a stream of gentlemen every one with a lady on each arm exactly


like the chorus to the national anthem when royalty goes in state to the play came gliding in every new group fresher than the last and bent on staying to the latest moment


if they spoke to him which was not often they invari ably asked the same questions in the same tope with no more remorse or delicacy or consideration than if lie bad been a figure of stone purchased and paid for and set up there for their delight


even when in the slow course of time these died off it was as bad us ever if not worse for then the boys grew bold and came in as a class of themselves and did everything that the grownup people had done


uncouth stragglers top appeared men of a ghostly kind who being in didnt know how to get out again insomuch that one silent gentleman with glazed aud fishy pyes and only one button on his waistcoat which was ft very


large metal one and shone prodigiously got behind the door and stood there like a clock lone after every body else was gone


martin from pure fatigue and heat and worry ab if he could have fallen on the ground and willingly remained there if they would but have had the mercy to leave him alone


but as letters and messages threatening his bublic denouncement if he didnt see the sen ders poured in like hail and as more visitors came as he took his coffee by hiraiself and as mark with all his vigilence was unable to keep them from the door he resolved to go to bed not that he felt at all sure of bed being any protection but that he might not leave a forlorn hope untried


he had communicated this design to mark and was on the eve of escaping when the door was throwo open in a great hurry and tin elderly gentlemen entered bringing with him a lady who certainly could not be considered young that was matter of fact and probably could not be considered handsome but that was matter of opinion


she was very straight very tall and not at all flexible in face or figure


on her bead she wore a great straw bonnet with trimmings of the bo me in which she looked as if she had been thatched by an un skilful labourer nnd in her hand bhe held a most enormous fan


mr chuzzlewit i believe said the gen tleman


that is my name


sir said the gentleman im pressed for time


thank god


thought martin


i gn back toe my home sir pursued the gentleman by the return train which starts immediately


start is not a word you use in your country sir


oh yes it


is said martin


you air mistaken sir returned the gen tleman with great decision but we will not pursue the subject lebt it should awake your prejii dice


sir mrs hominy


martin bowed


to be continued


good advice i yam for the road dedicated to pilgrimsin the journey of life and written expressly for the moreton bay courier


concluded from the courier of oct


j chapter iv


i hassans foot trod again the beloved soil of his egerland and as scene after scene opened to his view which had been familiar and dear in child hoods happy days his eyes sparkled with wild ilelibt and the fleetest available means of transit seemed tardy and slow fr to his eager spirit minutes seemed hours hours days and days years


but at length that one spot of all earths sunny spots the brightesthat spot where first the eye behold the light and where the young spirit drank io lessons of wisdom from natures own teaching tes tlie place of hassans birth and early years lay fall before him no longer a dream or a fanoy lint a solid reality


twas changed indeed much nnedyetthsowe


the scattered dwellings liad become connected and uniform much of the forest where hasis was lost had disappeared and rainy a beautiful bridge now spanned the strevm t milmany an object of tasteful beauty adorned its tunis


but by the eyes of hiais and hassan they iroreull unseen and un heeled for to them the whole scene lay before them as left by the one more than twenty and by the other moro than thirty years before


husis could proceed no fur ther and hassan could not bo delayed


for there stretched away beyond the stream beskirted valej a dark blue line of mountain ranges to which his aillions eye is turned and toward which at fullest speed he spurs on iii folining sgod to a se cluded nook on the other side descending of that mountain rane had hassan withdraw n with his beloved hori in the vain attempt to avoid tho notice and to escape the power of his enrogid piince


but upon thosa mo intvintops tho black clouds loweied and seenud t interpose an ominous obstruction bdtween him mid the vision of bright ness bis fancy pictured and tho bare thought of disappointment his soul sickened to contemplate


tia oruil suspense which hi racked poor has sans mind for tho whole of two hours hasty rid ing was at length partially lemovcd


now from the summit he has gained he desciies with joy bright p itch of deeper greenand soon ho marks midst the evening sondes the curling smoke es


jiiiig from the ti ees which clustered around the pot whore he fixed his eatly abode


the earth seemed now rather te spin lound beneath him than he to piss over it which in a few moments bought him within sight of that very abode


yes there it lay full before him in all its calm sequestered lovliness the very same as upon the eve on which he was torn away except that the seedling palm their hands had planted had be come a tree and the pomegranate the vine and the fig wore laden with fruit


there is a stormcloud gathering its elementa of combustion and tho antecedents of its explosion are necessary to ha known


the fancy of the reader must therefore surpass the speed of hassan and ontering first that sylvan retreat lo


upon a couch reclining is the beautiful thora in beauty nutured


yet ejoice not for hassan for she kids in her hand the hand of another who de pitewme evident disparity of age is tenderly bo


wral


soft and tender are the words they treathe and their looks are those of love intense though some power unseen has casta shade of sombre sadness over their present joy for he who holds the hand of thora folds her to his loving breast and kisses away a falling tear


but thoras eyfe had caught a glimpse of what he saw not that well know


n form was not to bo mistaken tnis hvssax stood tinnfixed with horror at thot chambers entrance


thora uttered a piercing lirieki mid fell tq the ground and the voice of if issaii waiheard shouting aloud and as he drew from his ljiflt amdlytwjeiponniii either hand pre nvmpeyy iiu ujj but theweapoiisfellifromhis hands undischarg elfocthjorftiliad heaved aihunconsoiowsigh and in the car of passait that sigh had whispered govern your i lasstoxs


the dagger that gleamed in the hand ofthe vouth was returned to its gaping sheath and as both tendered their good ollices to thora there was a gleam of con mious life and an eager offort at hasty speech


two words alone were uttered and they by emo tion disjointed uushaxd son


and thora relapsed into tincoiiioiousness


the truth simultaneously flashed upon the mind of euch and both embraced each other as each ombraced the unconscious thora


there were many ighs of glalneis painfuland many tia of joy too groat but the only words that speat tho gratitude of their bursting hearts new on father on son


thoras first numents of c msciousness put hjsian in possession of the fat that that very day had his son become of age and at the very moment when he presented himself she was re hearsing to him tho oft told tale of their early love her brothers mysterious disappearance their own early and cruel separation and how engross ed by that sons filial solicitude and oooupied by the varied ready and ingenious methods lie pro noicd to render the remainder of her life bearable she bad huon unconscious of his presence


with the morning light carne hasis and thora and hasis and hissiin were restored to each other and to bliss


the mirvellous and interesting accounts which fach had to i elate had by turn absorbed the at tention and delighted tho listening ear of the others and cause


several vvooks to glide aw ay as though they had been moments


ou one of these interesting occasions our little party had withdrawn to a cool reoess in a sequestered grove and wife and son and brother were deeply ab sorbed in hussans wondrous story when they wore suddenly startled for hassan hastily spring ing to his feet exclaimed aloud oh serjabil pardon pardon mo and dashed from their midst


tlioy hud but a moment to gaze unjn each othor in mute astonishment when he as hastily return ed bursting open as he caine a sealed package and seizing an inner cover of written parohment ho road aloud


to my beloved son hassan


advice unaskro is often despised advice that costs little is liyhlly esteemed and soon for glen advice that is dearly rurchased is long itmembered and often practised


if from tho advice i gave thee thou hast experienced no ser vice here tion hast thy money lo


it is thine


if thou hast and would manifest thy gratitude oxpend the amount in objects of chati ty according to thy discretion and do thy best to prtss home upon the nttentiou ol all jonrnoyors the good advice i gave to theo


try into no mans busi nesskeep


the main roadgovern yoe pas sions farewell


senjabll sam slick oh horsesindeed a man who dont love a boss is no man at all


i dont think ho canbe religious


a ho makes aman humane and tenderhearted teaches him to feel for others to share his food ami to be unselfish to antici pate wants and supply thom to ha gentle and patient


then the los i improves him otherwise


he makes him rise early attend to moid hours and be cleanly


he softens and improves tho heart


whin there that over wont into a stablo of a morning und his crittur whinnered to him and plnvcd his ears baok and forward and turned his head affectionately to ililli mid lifted his fore feet and moved his tail and tried lill he could to express his delight and say morning te you muster und when ho wojit up to tho manger and pntted his neck and tho loving crittur rubbed his head against him in return that didnt think within himself well after all the boss is a noble iiltlir


i do love him


is it nothin to make a inau lovo at all


how many fellers gets more kicks than coppers in tlwir lifehavo no home nobody to love thom and nobody to love in whose hreast all the aflontions are pont np until they got unwholesome and want ventilation


is it nothing to such nu unfortunate critter to be modo stttbje help


why it elevates bim in the scale jf humanity


ho discovers at last that ho lins a head to think and a heart to feel


he is a new man


hosses warnt given to in doctor to ride steeple chases or run sices or brutify a man but to add now powers andjend new speed to him


he was destined for nobler uses


i s how to reduce russin foutressei


a ffiicetions friend suggests nsia chenpiode ol getting through the war the reduction of se ivastopol and cronstadt by citract


hex is of opinion that this wouldtcall forthun immense amount of mechanical genius


armed withtin heard of engines of destruction


a certain pe riod would of course require to be named during which tendors should bereceived and he calcu lates that the yankees being a brave and highly speculative people might be successful compet torsfor the work


the portland guardian and normanby general advertiser


published every monday wednesday friday


to protect our rightsnot to infringe upon those of others


wednesday november


adventures and observations in australia


by alister macalister gent chapter iii


preliminary notifications continued


on our arrival in liverpool we proceeded at once from the steamer tofind the swift


our object was easily accomplished under the conduct of a car man who carted my luggage


i did not at all like the appearance of the ship


she was an old clumsy uglylooking craft and if she was called the swift she assuredly did not promise to emulate the greyhound in speed


the first mate was busy in re ceiving cargo and having got my own little property on board i proceeded in search of the steward piloting my mother with no small difficulty along the deck which was lumbered with bales boxes and packages of all descriptions


we at last met that important functionary and i secured what i myself considered a tolerably snug berth


as i was examining with some interest my future sleeping box my mother who was peering curiously and fondly over my shoulder half whispered in a soft plaintive voice ah


alister this is not like your own nice little bed room at donald more castle nor a couch among the blooming heather on a smiling summers night


true mother i cheerfully replied but you must recollect that we are not in skye however i have no doubt whatever that i shall find my berth sufficiently comfortable


kind heart


she knew not that the time would come when the son on whom she so fondly doated would be greatly thankful for a much less inviting pillow on which to re pose his aching head


the steward a lively goodnatured fellow was pleased at the answer i gave my mother and prevented further remark on her part about the berth by saying thanks master for your sensible jaw


i always likes a man that speaks sense


that there berth now is one of the most trim and handy in the whole ship for if in some pitchy night we should go down in a hurry to davie jones locker you will be much more comfortable than if you were sewed up in a hammock and launched overboard under the fire of our skippers prayers who between ourselves only prays out of the book when it is necessary


my mother put some hasty and anxious questions about the ship


the steward did not appear to relish them but hitching up his trowsers and scratching his head he at last respectfully replied why madam i excuses your asking on account of your sweetheart or brother my mother was at this time scarcely thirtyeight and looked much younger than many ladies at thirtyit all comes of nature but them be foolish questions as nobody but a shark or freshwater dog would speak ill of his ship


mayhap you think because i am a steward i am no sailor but i was a sailor before i was a steward and may be a sailor again


as for this here old lady i have sailed with her five voyages she is as quiet and peaceable as a sleeping turtle and all the sailors loves her for a long trip because how


if she be not swift she is sure and when we anchors home we have a pretty show of yellow boys for shore sailing


this information of the stewards was sufficiently intelligible to my mother to afford her a lively satisfaction which tended greatly to alleviate her sorrow in parting with me


i may mention that this steward was the oddest i have ever met with in my life on board of any vessel


notwithstanding that he was deplorably ignorant on almost every subject i had full assurance before long that he had a natural talent for arithmetic and that in so far as figures were concerned he kept his accounts in the most satisfactory manner


as we had been told that the ship would not be ready to sail for some days we pro cured plain decent apartments in a private boarding house at no great distance from where she lay


my mother fatigued with travel and excitement retired early to rest and i was left alone to my own reflections


these were of a strangely mingled com plexion but hope as it commonly does at my then time of life strongly predomin ated


i thought of my father but with out any of that dislike and occasionally angry feeling which i had cherished towards him


indeed i found myself an ingenious apologist for his faults and brought prominently into view any dim intimations of a goodly kind which i had ever discovered in his character


l remembered that he was naturally proud that he was a disappointed man and that the habits which he had formed in edinburgh were ill fitted to prepare him for the right and proper discharge of those duties which devolved upon him in the lonely island of syke


i charitably concluded that he was as much to be pitied as blamed and when his present difficulties rushed vividly into my mind i inwardly prayed that i might be spared to relieve them


i thought of my motherof the heroic uncomplaining patience with which she had borne my fathers temper and conduct


i remembered that i had recently seen her weep but never had head her utter reproach and how unwear edly she had toiled to please him by endeavouring to anticipate his every wish


i thought of her devoted affection to my self and i solemnly vowed that if i lived and prospered though i could never repay her love i would strive to express my gratitude by my care to promote her happiness


i thought of many things besides till i became overpowered with a confusion of ideas and believed that i was back again in skye and strangely enough dancing with the surgeons pretty daughter


i had fallen asleep and when i awoke the fire was out the candles burned to the socket and the sun looking in at the window


i deemed it prudent to beat a hasty and quiet retreat and although day had dawned i undressed and went to bed


i suppose l had been more fatigued than refreshed by my late disturbed slumber as i soon fell into a heavy dose


from this i was at length aroused by my anxious mother who enquired earnestly into the state of my health


she told me that she had been frequently in my bed room but had hesitated to awaken me as i slept so soundly but that her fears had at last prevailed upon her to do so


and well they mightit was now halfpast twelve pm


the time passed gravely but pleasantly


we had long and interesting conversations together sometimes we read and at other times we walked out


and in our walks we contrived to see a good deal of liverpool and its neighbourhood


one night we were chatting as usual on all manner of subjects and my mother was in a particularly lively humour


i had just made some trifling remarks on a portrait we had seen the day before in a printship when she said in a playful manner but with a seriousness which the manner could not hide alister would you wish to have my likeness


i need not say that the suggestion called forth an urgent entreaty to be put in possession of so valuable a boon


she smiled sweetly at my eagerness and resumed well alister since you prize it so highly you shall have it on one condition


i declared that i was willing to consent not only to one but if she pleased to ten thousand conditions


you promise largely my dear boy she mildly replied but i am not so unreas onable as to exact ten thousand conditions compliance with one will fully content me i am willing to give you a miniature photograph likeness of my poor self in ex change for one of alister


what say you to my condition


i need not tell you that i do not require a picture to remind me of you in your absence but somehow i think if i had the miniature beside me i would not feel so lonely and might be able at times to persuade myself that you were actually present


sancho panza who had a favourable opinion of rest sincerely invoked a blessing on the man who invented sleep but not more sincerely than i invoked a blessing on the inventor of that expeditious and a wonderful process which put me in posses sion of the picture of my beloved mother


miniatures are of more use than many people imagine


my mothers gift was to me invaluableit was a godblessed gift


when far away from the original i have gazed upon that fair intelligent loving face for hours together


how often has it imparted firmness in seasons of temptation nerved me with patience in seasons of ad versity and inspired holy aspirations which soared far beyond this troubled evanescent probationary state


on the night previous to the sailing of the vessel i was sitting with my mother in our small parlour in the boardinghouse


she was perfectly composed but more pensive than she had been on any of the past days


i broke in upon a rather un comfortable silence by expressing the anxiety i felt for her safe arrival at home seeing she would be deprived of my pro tection


fear not for me my son she answered i feel in trying to discharge my maternal duty i am safe under ihe protection of heaven


the steamer which brought us here leaves for the clyde as you know tomorrow and the stewardess is kind and attentive and when i step on board the portree boat i shall not be among entire strangers


all my cares re late to you alister and yet i have had now and then a strong confidence that you will arrive safely at your distant destination


i trust i have not been presumptuous in en tertaining this expectation which has upheld me hitherto though i must confess it has occasionally wavered


but i have had and shall still have whatever may betide un shaken confidence in the goodness of that great and merciful


lord god who holds the waters in the hollow of his hand


yes


i have implicit confidence in this prayerbearing and prayeranswering god who if he does not always answer his people according to the letter of their re quests invariably answers them in the way that his infinite wisdom and love see to be most profitable for them


this firm belief has been the lamp of my life


it has illumined and cheered my path and guided and sustained my steps through thick darkness


she had never mentioned my father ex


cepting when i myself led the conversation to him and had more than once gently re buked me for not speaking of him in the most respectful manner


but now she voluntarily spoke of him with great deli cacy and feeling


alister she said


your father is my husband and it is in cumbent upon us always to be mindful of our near and dear relationship and of the duties which this relationship entails


i am quite conscious that i have myself fre quently failed in recognising these duties in anything like their full extent and im portance and perhaps had i been more di ligently faithful and affectionate i would have enjoyed greater peace of mind


and now my son you must allow me to say that i have been more grieved at certain things which you have said about your father than it is possible for you at present to conceive


you are neither a mere child nor a mere boy but a young man and those religious principles which we have so often considered together ought to have taught you better


you know that your father with all the advantages of ex tensive reading and information is a most unhappy man and even were he no rela tion of ours would be deserving of our deepest sympathy


need i beseech you then my son to remember him in your daily prayers and if god should prosper you to aid in the removal of his pecuniary embarrassments


what could i answer


to dispute with her would have been the height of cru elty


i readily promised to respect her wishes


when i had given the assurances required she continued you have done what i have expected my son


you have a weak mothers blessing but you have what is infinitely more precious the bless ing of your mothers gracious and all powerful god


though after your arrival in australia you must not expect any moneyassistance from your impoverished father there is no room to despair


he who hath said the silver and the gold are mine will prove himself a friend more than sufficient for all your wants


kneel my son


kneel


and let us commit ourselves and all that concerns us into his wakeful and kindly keeping


this sudden and pressing request was irresistible


and although i had not been accustomed to pray in the presence of my mother since i ceased to be a child i at once complied


when we rose from our knees she was evidently much gratified and seemed to have left the burden of her cares at the throne of grace


both her voice and coun tenace had assumed their wonted cheer fulness but our serious converse was not yet ended


alister she said i have a still more valuable gift to present you with than my own picture which you so highly esteem


indeed it is unspeakably the best gift which a mother can bestow upon her sonthe word of god and she pro duced a neatly bound pocketbible which she handed to me this book my son is the book of books other books may and many of them do contain useful know ledge but this book alone imparts that knowledge which makes wise unto salvation


you will love it as my gift of this i have no doubt but i hope and pray that you may love it supremely as a di vine revelation and that you may take it as the man of your counsel under every variety of circumstances


do this my son and though we may part tomorrow never more to meet on earth we shall meet aye


we shall meet in yonder bright world of stainless purity where christ is and where there is reserved for the lowliest of his be lieving and obedient people fullness of joy pleasures for evermore


our preparations for my sailing had been already made and we prolonged our con versation till a late hour much of it was serious but none of it could be called re ally sad


and those persons altogether mistake the nature of true religion who conclude that converse on the great and momentous matters which it contemplates must necessarily be gloomy and forbidding


so far is this from being true that the very reverse has been the experience of all who in every age have felt in any mea sure the spiritual power of the holy scriptures


at four oclock pm on the following day i had bade my mother a long and af fectionate farewell and the swift was be ing assisted by a small tug steamer beyond the mouth of the mersey


i find in my journal the following memoranda of this periodspent ten pensive but pleasant days in liverpool with my excellent mother wait ing the sailing of the swift


received from her at parting a miniature of herself and pocket bible


may the latter enable me to imitate the virtues of her whom the portrait so strikingly re presentsliverpool with the exception of a few magnificent public edifices is entirely built of brick and as inferior in appearance to glasgow as glasgow is to edinburgh which last place i visited by a cheap excursion train during the christmas holidays of my last session at college docks and shipping great attraction quay space fourteen miles in length gross revenue customs considerably upwards of three millions and a half sterling have surpassed those of london received its first charter of incorporation from edward i in in had only inhabitants and ships of the burthen of tons


vessels of all discriptions which entered the docks last year tonnage


dock duties


s present population about


since the above was written liverpool has steadily progressed in commerce and in the accu mulation of wealth and population


mtiemtoie the stoby of a feather


h bouflls rrnr


a story from punch chapter xxxix


i am taken from the theatre


a critics inkstand


death of mrs


gaptooth


continued from our lost


i mmainkd only a few nights in clives dressingroom and was again given to the mistress of the wardrobe


know not how it wascannot divine what persuasion was used by mr gauntwolf but one morning was consigned by the lady to his oare with strict injunctions of being speedily returned lest mr garrick should know it and in a few minutes after wards found myself in the rose tavern a hostelry much used by actors and their familiar and distant admirers


here too was the small hireling critic who sugared his ink or added gall to it according to the condescension flattery and liquor of j the parlies to be written up or crushed for ever


air


hugh j kelly was one of these biped insects of the press and sold what jie called fame or destruction to the trembling player


when entered j found him listening with an air of contemptuous patronage to the poor actor dims who wai picking certain cuttings from newspapersthe solace of his lifeout of an old leathern pocket book and endeavouring to read them to the london critic


these paragraphs were precious extracts from country journalsthe st hildas chronicle the penzance fly


ing fast the bulloeksmithy courier all of which with twenty others had declared in good honestfaced type that that ipirited actor davis would inevitably get to the top of the tree and very benevolently advising mr garrick to look to his laurels


sweet passing sweet to davis ere these promises


though he was in the autumn of lifean autumn witiiout fruitwith penury clinging to him like a garment that flat tering type would now and then cast a mild lustre about the past and he would feel he had not lived in vain


he had been praised and that wa something


gauntwolf how dye do v cried kelly turning abruptly from davis


your girl played in the inconstant divinely i looked lovely tooand so i have saidand in pretty strong terms i believe


stop till have written mother clive down nd then


wy dear sir cried gauntwolf seizing kelly hand and miling hideously


you make me indeed a happy father


a for other critics mr kelly i value them say what they will as so many gnats


but you sir i what you say should be written in letters of gold t now


as mr kelly was very often feed for what he wrote many of his words may really be said to have been registered in that precious material


yes yes i speak outi give em plain english


i ra just finishing here another bunch of nettles for mother clive


alister her cried the critic with a look of manly triumph


pon my ord now said gauntwolf with the compas sionate air of a hangman youll kill that poor womanyou will indeed


i know she hasnt slept since your last attack she shall never sleep again sir never


have said it nd the magnanimous kelly smote the table with his fist


oh what youve brought it at last have ye said the critic to the waiter ho appeared with a large replenished inkstand


now remember sir that i always have plenty of inka sea of it


when a mans thoughts ure pouring from him to be diving and diving for a drop ol inktis damnable


how you ever get your thoughts down


said the courteous gauntwolf i cant think they do seem to come upon ye in auch a flood


waiter a glass of brandy


may i be allowed the honour mr kellv t


thank ye responded the critic not at present


a fe too early and he addressed himself to his declared taskthat of cultivating nettles for the doomed mrs clive


in a few minutes


moody of drurylane entered the room


kelly looked up then immediately fixed his eyes upon the paper mr moody possibly from a certain roughness of manner that belonged to him not being among the stage favourites of the critic


moody bowing recognition to several in the room walked up to kelly and laying his hand upon the critics shoulder said one word yes or no


suddenly mr kelly looked serious


moody in the most leisurely manner took a newspaper from his pocket and pointing to a paragraph asked is this your work


never eat my words cried kelly rising and assuming a big look they aro mine


a foul low wicked calumny on mrs clive


now mr kelly and moody grasped a cane with a significance that attracted mr kellys eye you deny this private slander or beg leave to repeat cried the critic beginning to trem ble and hit eye still playing about the stick i beg leave to say that cannot eat my words


very well answered moody the stars forbid that i should force a gentleman against his taste


but i tell you this mr kelly and the actor raised his voice and his slick tooif you wont eat your ords you shall drink what your words are written inbefore this good company toodrink it to the health and long life of mrs clive or there isnt a bone in your skin that shant want a separate surgeon whatwhat sirwhat do you mean v stammered kelly


come ill be your cupbearer for once said moody pre senting the brimming inkstand to kelly you shall empty thisit cant hurt youfor though it may be poison to the peace of innocent women you live upon it


drink roared moody and striking his cane violently upon the ground he at the same time forced the inkstand between the angers of the slanderer


air


hugh kelly who dealt out life and death from his goosequillhe who could crush any man with the thunder stroke of his penlooked appealingly about the room


many familiar faces were there but in no one of them did he see the least promise of assistance


on the contrary there were not a few which indicated a mingled gratification and curiosity


and then the horrible moody stood and shook his cane


drink again roared the actor


mr moody said kelly you have injured me by a vile aspersion


you have been pleased to say that i live upon venomous ink


now sir to show to the world and to con found you with the truth i will prove that there is no poison in my inkprove it for my own satisfaction mind youby immediately drinking it saying this and shutting his eyes kelly emptied the inkstand filled so lately by his express order to the brim


some o the company laughed and others cried bravo at the feat


there said kelly pale in the face and shudderingno man i think would drink poison in that way


moody glanced at the cride with the deepest contempt and then burst into laughter


here he said to the waiter at the same time throwing a crown upon the table let mr kelly have some brandy to wash his mouth with and i hope after this hell keep it the cleaner for the future


moody then quitted the room and mr gauntwolf possibly not feel ing himself in a condition to sympathise with the inkstained critic caught me up and hastened to his lodgings


i soon dis covered the purpose for which bad been borrowed mr and airs


gauntwolf had been invited by their dear girl to a solemn upper at which his lordship had graciously promised to attend


mr gauntwolf wishing to do all honour to the cere mony had borro ed me among other finery from the theatre fat the purpose and in due season was taken to the festival the party was small but very hilarious


vthat however was my astonishment to find mrs gaptooth of the company


she evidently felt the honour conferred upon her for her manners were wonderfully precise and reserved nor do i think that the gauntwolfs had a full knowledge of the charac ter of the old gentlewoman distinguished by his lordships friendship


the party i say was very merry mr gaunt wolf kissed his dear child again and again and as often begged his lordship to take snuff with him out of that box which he should treasure to the last moment of his life


as the wine circulated mrs gaptooth became thawed and bughed and talked in such a manner that more than once mrs gauntwolf in the startled purity of her soul wondered who that woman could be


when however the old woman talked of fanny davis extolling her beauty to the skies at the same time cast


ing strange looks towards his lordship mrs gauntwolf was convinced that the creature was no friend to her dear childi


and the revelry went on


at length twelve oclock warned the party of bedtime


by this hour mrs gaptooth felt her heart ripened to mellowness with generous wine and mrs gauntwolf not wholly dead to its benevolent influence thought more charitably of the merry old lady


a coach was at the doorthe gauntwolfs could set mrs gaptooth downand the party rose for their homes


airs


gaptouth quitted the room for an inner apartment whenon bacchus be the mortal main i taking the wrong turning she fell down stairs


a piercing shriek rang through the house and lew indeed were the moments and the wretched sinful dying old womanfor death indeed was looking awfully from her eyeswas brought up stairs and laid upon a couch


a doctora doctor i cried gauntwolf


a parson groaned the woman with terrible energy am dyingi feel it here know it


dying i that such a wretch as i should ever die


send for mr lintleysend for his friend the parson be sure the parson


she then with difficulty gave the apothecarys address and a messenger was hastily despatched to him


in a brief time lintley came accompanied by inglewood


at once he perceived there was no hope the fall bad produced


mortal injury of the spine


i did not want your assistance but forgiveness said the woman and yours too sir


god bless you pray for me he cried to inglewood


you dont know how i worked to destroy that poor child


liiere were twenty witnesses ready at my hirebut curlwell would not be the villain to the last to wear away poor pattys life


forgive mebeg of her to forgive mc


and with these words the miserable creature to b concluded in our next


a chapter from the adven tures of cartouche


by r b peake


cartouche and company project a newspapertheir mode of raising the windthey acquire patronage celebrity and wealth all of which is rendered of no avail by giving way to a fashionable vice


the scheming hands of thibault au de and inigo were ever at work


they only made use of monsieur bavarde de tromperie when bold brains were not in requisition


he was an elegant volatile adjunct to the little fraternity but he talked too much to become of essential service in any desperate ad venture


let us not detract from his character he was by nature and art as accomplished a thief as either of his comrades though his genius was rather hampered by a peculiar fancy he had in his headnamely that he was the most handsome man in all paris and that to the fair sex he was perfectly irresistible


this indeed was his creed and foible not that his success with the ladies emanated so much from his personal appearance but that he possessed the art of flattering in an eminent degree and his subtlety en abled him under apparent esteem to conceal contempt since he ever flat tered on the supposition of the weak ness of the object of his flattery


my patrimony exclaimed the cavalier


is falsehood and he thought with an obscure poet o flattery


how soon thy smooth insinuating oil supples the toughest fool well with the measure that was now to be put in motion bavarde was not to be an immediate actor


cartouche had told his adventures over and over again to the infinite amusement of his companions the confession of the peccadilloes of madame de poquefouville when louis domi nique was compelled to officiate in lieu of fra jose made thibault au de roar with laughter but it was reserved for the penetration of inigo to hit on a method to turn this to advantage for the community


said inigo i know of a profitable speculation whereby we may gain money without the risk of running our necks in a halter


how desirable remarked thi bault


what can be the nature of the scheme


what think you my boys of starting a gazette said lnigo with an expression of glee on his coun tenance


thibault au de inquired what he meant by a gazette


gazetta in italian gaceta in spanish replied inigo


but ours must be conducted in a perfectly novel manner


hitherto my friends the newspapers have been mere papers of news


dull enough heaven knows for all the news is intercepted


we only hear of our victories of our glo rious triumphs but never of our la mentable reverses


the point i aim at is this not to care a solitary curse about politics which in the existing state of the government would only include us in a severe scrapefor it is arbitrary but let us open a battery against private character


the world his a plenitude of vices and follies which we may most virtuously attack andthe main pointif we do not attack we shall be manificently paid for our forbearance


but where and from whence are the necessary funds to spring to start the gazette said thibault au de


my occurred luck last night with the dice cleared away my last crown and our comrade cartouche cannot put his nose out of doors until his appearance is so completely altered that the ferrets of dargenson may not suck his blood


inigo whose caution was at least on a par with his invention was aware that their resources were not equal to a fortnights expenditure and that ruin must be the certain result unless some wealthy individual simpleton joined them but turning suddenly to car touche with a roguish leer he said do you think the old gentlewoman that you shrived when you were a clergyman would like her little in teresting history to be made public


louis dominique instantly saw the drift of this query


what madame poquefouville


she would stand a good round sum


an exposure of her sins and follies would kill her outright poor old cat


inigo remarked that it would be an affair of great delicacy to arrange and would require considerable address but he thought he could manage it it any one could


he therefore said that he should pop himself into the dili gence and make his way to agen and to the chateau cassemecasse the scene of cartouches clerical adventure


this was agreed to all parties having reliance on the cunning rascality of inigo


after he had started car touche and thibault au de laid their heads together to arrange the outline of the plan for the new publication which it was intended should be most admirably conducted and so little open to the charge of time serving slander lying and the grossest ribaldry and blasphemy


another point in the es tablishment of this journal was the ex tirmination of the gambling houses upholding the cause of virtue and annihilating the hells


this plan said thibault as it will cause every gambler and black sheep in paris to deem it a duty to become a subscriber will turn out a trump card for the property


and now continued thibault to invent a good title for the publication the whole success depends on a striking name


cartouche and his friends racked their brains for some time and wrote down several titlessuch as le furet de paris la guepe quotidienne le carbonado and othersnot one of which gave satisfaction to madame thibault au de who pronounced them to be milkandwater but presently turned round and said my love i have hit on it at lastthe new paper shall be called la coupegeorge


admirable exclaimed both the editors at once how superior are the ladies to us fellows in invention


before the return of inigo from the south an office had been hired a pros pectus sent forth to the public and to the various cafes and advertisements were solicited


now although this fence of yours is very pleasant said cartouche to thibault i cannot remain idlei shall therefore put my ingenuity to work to disguise myself thoroughly and boldly run all risk


at any rate wait until inigo comes back said thibault


louis dominique was fain to follow his advice and to proceed to alter his personal appearance


madame thi bault au de condescended to cut off all cartouches luxuriant hair with a dye principally composed of the juice of the outside skin of walnuts he accurately coloured his face neck and hands


with some black curly hair stuck on with gum he formed himself cheek whiskers and added to his eyebrows


mounting a blue velvet cap on his head he was completely transformed to the figure and appearance of one of those mulattoes who are frequently seen in old pictures bearing the coffee pot or tea kettle


a week had scarcely passed when inigo rejoiced the eyes of the con federates by his reappearance


well mon ami what success was eagerly demanded


without replying inigo took from a secret pocket two rouleaux each con taining fifty gold pieces and laid them on the table


the nucleus of our future fortune said thibault he then proceeded to relate that he had at first some difficulty in obtaining a strictly private interview with ma dame de poquefouville


that he found her excessively nervous


he entreated her not to be under the slightest alarm for he had journeyed from paris in order to do her the most essential servicea service connected with her honour character and peace of mind and the old lady implored him to relieve her anxiety at once and be explicit


he told her he fully intended to do so


he then stated that a very extraordinary story relating to her was likely to be made public by the instrumentality of a rascal who had some time before pre tended to be one fra jose a spanish confessor and that her adventures by her own confession were likely to be printed in a new gazette at paris madame de poquefouville was horror struck upon which inigo blandly told her that he thought that he possessed the power to hold back all the informa tion that had been gained though he was apprehensive it would cost a little hard cash


if it was only myself added inigo with his countenance beaming with be nevolence the affair could be easily arranged but there are others who are not so scrupulous and their slanderous tongues must be silenced


i have no doubt whatever that all they will say about you is slander but it would not look well in a newspaper which will be extensively circulated to find you ac cused of eloping from your homes after having robbed your affectionate father and then marrying a jew and then being detected smuggling tobacco across the frontier after having murdered an infant in swaddling clothes


i mean to say madame poquefouville that all these facts might seriously detract from your high respectability your acknow ledged character for piety charityin fine it might injure you in the opinion of the marchioness de cassemecasse who although she is deaf is not blind so my advice to you would be my dear madame to stifle at once this calumny in its infancy and purchase the silence of the infamous wretch who has thus betrayed your confidence


cartouche and thibault chuckled with delight at the profound tone of pompous gravity with which inigo had delivered his oration


he added that he found no further impediment with madame de poquefouville who in the midst of hys terical sobs acceded to his counsel


there are the proofs of the pudding added inigo and depend upon it i have caught an old goose who if she does not cackle will lay us a great number of golden eggs


inigo approved of the title of the proposed gazette and said that it would decidedly give people a notion of what they might expect


it was then ar ranged that they should take possession of their office on the following day and as cartouche was deemed to be sufficiently disguised that he should accompany them and commence busi ness in earnest


the placarded affiche was put forth that the new publication la coupe gorge would positively appear on a certain day


advertisements were ac cordingly sent for the announcement of the sale of quack medicines nostrums to procure health and vigour to worn out debauchees perfumery c


we must not omit to record one of the ad vertisements which put forth the un doubted fact that an empiric had acquired great reputation by a medi cine for the cure of the gout under the title of tincture of the moon of which some drops were to be administered every morning in a basin of broth


fortunately for the poor the gout was not a very common disorder with their class as the tincture of the moon was never adapted for any but the richest for the price of a bottle full not bigger than a small phial was fifty louis dors


the advertisement were to state that the operation of the medicine was insensible


so thought cartouche who received the advertisement and the money for its in sertion and he said there are thank heaven


as great thieves in the world as ourselves


the next advertisement that presented itself for la coupegorge was brought by an officer of monsieur dargenson lieutenant of police with a peremptory order that it should be printed in recon spicuous place and which was handed to the hero of these adventures and was worded as follows fifty louis dors reward


whereas there are sundry charges of robberies before the minister of police against louis dominique cartouche


the said louis dominique cartouche is conjectured to be concealed in paris


he is about five feet ten inches in height strongly built has hazel eyes pale complexion aquiline nose


when last seen was attired in a crimson velvet coat trimmed with gold lace and lined with light blue silk a black satin vest embroidered with large passionflowers crimson breeches flounced at the knees with lace grey silk stockings and ma rone clogs and shoes with ample ro settes he also wore an auburn peruke


whoever will give such information as may lead to the apprehension of the said louis dominique cartouche shall receive the above reward on application to mons


marc pierce dargenson lieutenantgeneral of police


it certainly did require the exertion of some presence of mind to meet so unlooked for an event without emotion but cartouche trusting to his complete disguise did not betray himself the only fear that crossed his mind was that his dear associates thibault au de or inigo or madame might like to earn the fifty pieces of gold at his expense


at any rate the officer of police went out of the coupegorge office no wiser than he came in and louis dominique did not regret his departure


the first number of the paper ap peared great care was taken by the three illustrious editors that no offence should be given to any officers of the government


all the smart and satirical strokes were aimed only at initials and as this was an experiment even these with one exception were fic titious


the annexed is the style of some of the paragraphs as fearless and unflinching advocates for the cause of virtue we warn the marquis de that his designs on the lovely mademoiselle q are under watchful eyes and that any fresh steps he may take in the affair will be in stantly and publicly exposed in la coupegorge it is quite true that the chevalier m swallowed a pair of false dice at the cafe p one night last week to escape detection


the chevalier will not be permitted to repeat this dexterous feat unnoticed


madame de p will perceive that we have kept our word with her


indeed we had a hundred reasons for doing so


the disastrous event which has oc curred in the family of vicomte de la h t must if necessary how ever disagreeable the details be fully explained to the whole fashionable world of paris through the medium of our impartial journal


at present we withhold the private information we have received from a quarter which renders impracticable for us to doubt its veracity


in reply to an unknown corres pendent we can confidently inform him that monsieur le due de does not wear armour under his clothes


we have a rod in pickle for baron b let him beware


we are a dog with three heads


we not only bark but bite


when these beautiful paragraphs had been arranged in manuscript cartouche with his accustomed hardihood and perhaps by way of testing the good faith of his accomplice wrote the fol lowing lines and requested their inser tion in la coupegorge


up to the present moment no intel ligence whatever has been obtained of one louis dominique cartouche for whose apprehension the minister of police has offered a reward on a charge of stealing diamonds the property of her majesty the queen of spainvide the advertisement describing his person c in front of our paper


thibault au de and inigo on reading this precious and impudent morceau laid their heads on the table screeching with laughter


cartouches paragraph was printed with the rest


the fickle parisian public ever open mouthed for novelty bought and read the papers of la coupegorge it made its way into the cafes and its very blackguardism caused it to become po pular


and now an addition arrived to its pages through the means of a myriad of anonymous correspondents who were willing to vent their private spleen and detail anecdotes and scandal merely to gratify their own malignant passions


the paper was crowded with lies


some unpleasant and painful truths undoubtedly appeared but it was at the expense of the seared feelings of those unfortunates against whom they were uttered


and now it was that the hellish vil


lains


who pandered thus to depraved taste prospered for a time for soon there appeared a source of profit far superior in value to the proceeds of the ordinary sale of la coupegorge


the carriage of the marquis de louvois drove up in front of the office of the popular new journal


thibault was attired fash ionably inigo wore the plain costume of a notary while cartouche for reasons of state continued his disguise


as they peered through the casement of the editorial apartment each of the worthies made up their minds not to be the least overwhelmed by the presence of a marquis


a remarkably well dressed person after waiting some time having expected somebody to come to the carriage door from the office stepped out


the rascals at first supposed this to be the marquis himself but it was only the maitre dhotel who brought his masters visiting ticket with a message that his lordship wished to see the editor of la coupegorge


what was to be done


etiquette had not certainly been enfringed and therefore one head of the firm must condescend to call on the marquis


after the departure of the maitre dhotel inigo being less known in the parisian metropolis that thibault au de undertook to go at noon of the fol lowing day


here is another golden goose for us said cartouche


inigo attired in his plain black suit was punctual to his appointment and arrived at the magnificent hotel of the marquis de louvois


in the entrance hall were a fat porter and two lacqueys in gorgeous liveries seated in three armchairs and all three fast asleep and snoring


inigo waited a short time and then took the great liberty to en


deavour to arouse the porter from his slumber who opened his heavy eyes but did not rise or speak


inigo with a consequential ahem said i have an appointment with monsieur le marquis the porter with some difficulty raised his fat arm pointed with his finger to the sleeping valet in the adjoining chair and resigned himself again to re pose


inigo now ventured to awake this second person who rubbed his eyes winked expectorated and stared


inigo repeated his errand no imi tating unconsciously the action of the porter pointed to lacquey no threw himself back in his armchair and went off once more to sleep


inigo was a patient man so he tried to awake this third sleepingpartner in the house but the footman was dream ing that he was winning a game of chance and as inigo shook him he ex claimed in a stifled voice sevens the main


go it again


nicks


youre diddled


give me the ivories


size ace


at length he was sufficiently aroused to discover that he was not at play and that inigo was in earnest for he had ignominiously pulled his nose to awake him


inigo here repeated his message when no led him into an antechamber wherein a couple of mincing pages amused their leisure by affecting the ges tures of their betters and talking of the opera moliere mademoiselle de scuderis last romance in sixteen volumes and the price of the hair powder


these gaily dressed fellows took as little notice of inigo as though he had been a dcrot teur


however after a time they thought proper to do him the honor to announce his name to the marquis


inigo entered and bowed profoundly


the marquis at the moment was engaged in blackening his eyebrows with a turkish preparation called kohl he then rouged his cheeks


and afterwards perfumed the lace ruffles at his wrists and knees


this done a valet took off the marquiss embrodiered slippers and substituted a pair of shoes a la mode with red heels and lined with white satin he also completed his masters dress in other respects and girded on him a sword the blade of which was of ash in order that its weight might not fatigue


the valet having quitted the room the marquis threw himself non chalamment into an arm chair took from a silver salver a pastille or two ap proached them delicately to his lips ate them opened his snuff box wherein were three qualities of the fragrant herb and regaled his nose coughed like a young lady at a wedding fanned him self with a white silk handkerchief shot with rose got up from his chair attitu dinized before a lofty mirror pirouetted on his heel and then turning to inigo said you are the editor of the new gazette


inigo bent his head


i believethat is to say i have been assuredthat you are excessively clever at rhyming that is writing poetry eh


your satires are indeed admire ble and i wish you to write me one of the most cutting that the imagina tion of maneh can conceive you shall be well paid for your trouble you understand me eh perfectly my lord replied inigo observing that the marquis de lauvois had pointed his gloved finger towards a purse on the table heavily laden with gold pieces and of which he intended to be accoucheur


you must know continued the marquis that the dukeeh


i mean a quondam friend of mine who shall for the time be namelessaffects to treat me with contempt on all occasions when we meet in society and has the auda city to contradict me before the women


this conduct is not to be borne there fore all i want is that you should utterly immolate him to my desire of vengeance destroyexterminate


destroy my lord said inigo with a dubious expression of countenance


with your penyour pen replied the noble patron


pardon me my lord said inigo who of course had his motives might i be so bold as to venture to suggest that the better method of arranging the affair would be to challenge him to single and deadly combat


the marquis gave another rather fe minine cough and intimated that the line of conduct proposed might be all very well for some secondrate gentle men of poictou or brittany but for a person of his quality nothing on the


face of the world could be more de cidedly vulgar besides my enemy is a very devil at the sword and would not scruple at the first pass to penetrate ah to shed the blood of the ancient house of louvois


oh that house whose members both male and female have rendered such extraordinary service to the state or rather to our sovereigns


remember too that the duke i mean my antagonist is the aggressor and that i am the injured party which of us therefore ought to be punished


you reason like a second solon my lord said inigo but i know not the duke or his character and how there fore can i abuse him to the extent of your wish


that shall be easily arranged an swered the second solon


but i am not even acquainted with his name remarked the editor of la coupegorge


no matter said the marquis de louvois


is he not my personal enemy


let my rage inspire you


think dream rave concoctdo all that poetry and fiction can achieve here are a hundred louis in part payment of that which i intend to give you if you succeed judge therefore of my liberality by my resentment


but i must have a name even if it is a fictitious one my lord said inigo


leave a blank for the after insertion of the name and do not be nice in your abuse replied the marquis and he pointed to the door intimating that inigo might take his departure


on returning to his accomplices inigo was pronounced to have made a very good haul


this success set the trio to work with spirit la coupegorge was the theme of all the coffeehouse idlers the receptacle of every species of slan der private character was demolished by any malicious wretch who chose to detract reputation anonymously and pay for the insertion of the rascally effusions


the funds of messrs thibault au de inigo and cartouche would have been ample if one little drawback had not existed the first two worthies were professed gamblers and they soon inn oculated cartouche with a love of play he well dressed but still with his west indian faceboldly accompanied his friends to the cirque gaming house a splendid establishment belonging to the counte de custine and thither car touche was introduced as a young native of mauritius of french parentage on the side of the father


this was readily credited as the island had recently been taken possession of by the french who called it the isle de france and it was a subject of general interest and conversation


cartouches difficulty in keeping up his assumed character rested on everlastingly having to tax his inven tion to reply to the questions put to him as to the produce natural history c of his birthplace but by being blessed with the faculty of lying most ingeniously he contrived to escape de tection


illgotten wealth never does any good the cash that was extorted from weak persons threatened with public exposure and that which was received from the malignant for blackening character and for libelling anybody and anything by the editors of la coupegorge was all lost nightly by the trio the members of which never contented with winning a little would always risk a great deal


if a hundred louis were in the common purse in the morning they were fever ishly dispersed at night


corioedited printed and published by the proprietor james harrison at his office yarrastreet north corio australia felix


lights and shadows of immigrant life


chapter v contents


the usurer his chief business and charac ter


mr merrythought at the handinhand build ing societys office interview with the chairman and secretary


merrythoughts character


inter views between him and mr hayes


publichouse speculation in melbourne


in a duskylooking parlor in one of the chief lanes of the city of melbourne sat a little quietlooking man dressed in black clothes and deeply engaged in poring over some parchments several bundles of which held together by red tape fastenings were lying on the table beside him


he was seated at one end of a long table covered with green baize rather the worse for wear and a portable writing desk rested on the table before him


the deeds and documents he was perusing did not bear that musty time stained appearance which many similar parchments in the old country present the majority were new and glossy engrossed not in the crabbed and often illegible handwriting to be found in old monuments but though some had an aged look it was from bad usage and the stains of tobacco that imparted to them an ancient ap


pearance and they were written in the round law hand of the day plentifully adorned with portentious words here and there in old english characters


they be spoke the documents of a recently settled country and the only wonder was how so many of the rights of property should find their way into the hands of one individual


the question is soon solved however when the reader is informed that the little man so busily engaged with spectacles on nose was the chairman of the handinhand building society the well known mr moneygrubb


with a natural talent for finance mr moneygrubb had contrived during his residence in the colony to amass a large amount of wealth chiefly if not solely through lend ing money in both large and small sums to needy persons who might be able to give the necessary free hold security for the accommodation


he had an in stinctive horror at anything like personal obligations the real soil the bricks and mortar were the only pledges he would accept of in return for his favors and then the covenant must be rigidly adhered to otherwise the fatal word foreclose was pro nounced and acted upon without delay


his whole appearance to the stranger was the beau ideal of plausibility


his countenance was healthy looking and betokened good living but his smile when he did smile oh such a smile not the cheerful con tented goodhumored smile of the hearty lover of his species but something unfathomable something one did not care for seeing a second time


he lived in a perfect atmosphere of finance everything he viewed in connection with those mystic characters sd that exercise such a potent influence in the colony


to the man of wealth he could be obsequious with those in difficulty he would coquette so long as anything was to be gained but on the poor man he looked with unutter able contempt as of less consequence than the worm on which he trod


the financial abilities and personal success of mr moneygrubb rendered him a suitable man to direct the affairs of the handinhand building society and the other directors were but too happy to have one so willing to take the principal trouble of the direction in his own hands


he was in fact the society and as chairman he direct


ed its affairs ably yet at the same time with such dex terity as to play into his own hands and add to his own accumulations through its medium


the unlimited confidence reposed in him by his brother directors ena bled him to do this and we shall presently see how he managed it


a low tap at the door of the room in which mr moneygrubb was so busy with his papers caused him to look up and call out come in


the manager of the society whose office was in the next room opened the door and introducing mr merrythought withdrew to his peculiar avocations leaving the two together to transact their own business


if it were possible to imagine one greater contrast than another it was that presented in the appearance of the two the little man in spectacles and the burly looking goodhumored happygolucky physiognomy of the stranger between moneygrubb and merry thought


the latter looked as though he could befriend all mankind if he only had the means the other but we forbear his character is sketched already


good morning mr moneygrubb said merry thought


i have called about a little bit of business i wish to transact with you


well and what is it you wish replied mr moneygrubb


the fact is moneygrubb i beg your pardon mr moneygrubb i mean hope no offence


i have got a little money saved and i am anxious to erect a public house which i think is about the best paying business here


but every kind of labor and material has got so confounded dear that though i have enough for build ing such a house in ordinary times i have not enough for the present


i want a few hundreds to help me on the security of the property and i thought if i be came a member of your society i might get what i wanted


true coldly replied moneygrubb the society does advance on the property of its members but we have so much advanced at the present moment i would require to take the subject into consideration before i could give you a definite answer


is the property to be built on freehold or leasehold land


oh freehold of course said mr merrythought dear as land is and it has got out of all character


i am not such a confounded fool as to erect a good house on leasehold ground


mr moneygrubbs eyes glistened with delight when he found the kind of customer he had got to deal with


he saw in the rollicking open heart of merrythought a victim who would soon be in his wiles and whose day dreams would soon be dissipated under the pressure of circumstances over which he could have no control


moneygrubb knew well the ultimate result of raising property subject to bonds and to borrow money at least in the majority of cases was the sure way to fall into the hands of the lender


call in a day or two said mr moneygrubb and i will let you know what the society will do


in the meantime there is no harm in your be coming a member and you can see the secretary who will give you a copy of the rules and regulations of the society very well replied merrythought i will do so and call at any time you choose to name


oh two or three days after this will do said moneygrubb and smiling one of his own peculiar and sinister smiles bowed mr merrythought out of the room


on entering the adjoining apartment used as an office merrythought found mr secretary cheatham at his desk and on his intimating to that bland looking personage that he intended to take at once a share in the society to begin with inquired how much he had to pay


only twentyfive pounds the amount of money paid in replied mr secretary cheatham


very well said merrythought give me a blank cheque and i will give you the money


now mr secretary cheatham knew very well that all payments by members or intending mem bers of the society must by the rules be paid at a general meeting which was held monthly for that purpose


in handing mr merrythought a copy of the rules which that unsuspecting gentlemen had quietly thrust into his pocket for future perusal the wiley secretary did not inform his victim of the circumstance with which of all others he ought to have made him acquainted


but on mr merrythought filling up and presenting to him a cheque for the re quired sum mr cheatham told him he would have the scrip so soon as he could get it prepared


all right responded merrythought


you can have it ready by the time i come back again


i sup pose i may now consider myself a member of the hand inhand building society


surely sir said mr secretary cheatham you are now of course a member of the handinhand building society


how far mr secretary cheathams promise and assurance to the simple minded merrythought were correct will be seen in the sequel


mr hayes had got acquainted with merrythought a short time previous to the period we have just alluded to through some business transactions which had brought the two in contact


hayes liked merrythought for his free and easy manners and kindhearted dispo sition at the same time he saw that he would be easily taken advantage of by the designing and heartless speculator or swindler


he looked upon him as far too easy for the mixed and very equivocal society with which he was surrounded and could easily foresee that poor merrythought would soon become a victim of one or other of those designing men who make fortunes by literally preying on the more unsuspecting disposition of the easyminded


merrythought unfortunately for himself had too favorable ideas of human nature he looked to the sunny side unmindful of the dark and lowering clouds and incipient storms to be found on the other


hayes had gone out of the office to have his midday refreshment when he met merrythought coming from his interview with the officials of the hand in hand building society


this latter gentleman greeted mr hayes in his usual kind and offhand manner and on hayes intimating to him the errand on which he was bound merrythought at once agreed to join him which would enable them to have a quiet chat toge ther


accordingly they went into a well known ordinary and ordered something for luncheon


well hayes said merrythought i have been to see that closefisted gentleman the chairman of the handinhand building society about getting some advances on loan to carry out my favorite speculation the publichouse concern i told you of


i can make little of him today he says he must consider of it for a day or two


i dare say he will dryly replied hayes


i dare say he will consider of it or rather of how he will best take you in thats his drift


come come hayes that is too bad now laugh ingly replied merrythought thats too bad the gentleman is a civil gentleman enough and looks to me as we used to say in england as if butter would not melt in his mouth


and then there is the secre tary a very civil and obliging gentleman too who in order to save me the trouble of attending the monthly meeting to pay for my share which i have taken in the society took my cheques and is to give me the proper scrip for it in a few days


indeed i found them very civil people altogether


i am very glad to hear it replied hayes but let me advise you to get the scrip us quickly as you can for i have heard some strange rumors about this handinhand building society


for your sake i hope they are not true


oh its all right never fear said merrythought the respectability of the chairman and directors is quite sufficient guarantee that i am in good hands


well i trust it may be so said hayes only get the scrip as promised and then you will be safe


they parted merrythought to pursue his arrange ments for the public house scheme and hayes to his ordinary duties


not many days however elapsed ere they met again


ah hayes how are you rattled out merry thought


i am glad to meet you again


i wish to tell you something


i find you were not wrong about that confounded rascal as he seems to be the secre tary of the hand in hand building society


i have been done thats clear


the fellow has been making free with the funds and has not accounted for the money i paid him and he has served some others the same way


on inquiry i find the directors do not con sider the society liable as the payments were made contrary to the rules which require all subscriptions to be paid at a public meeting


well i am sorry to hear this replied hayes


your account fully agrees with what i heard


it is a good thing the sum is not larger yet it is very annoying to lose it in such a way


there is one good thing said merrythought i will yet get the money i want


the chairman tells me the society are not in a position to let me have it from their funds but that he will accommodate me himself if i will give him a little advance of interest on the societys shares


was it not kind of money grubb very sarcastically ejaculated hayes


money grubb generally has an eye to the main chance


then you are again an unbeliever laughingly replied morrythought you dont suppose that though the secretary has taken me in that the chair man will do the same


i hope not said hayes but i would advise you to see that all is square before you give up the rights of your property


oh dont fear i am wide enough awake for that and the careless merrythought immediately changed the subject to that of some of the current events of the day


mr merrythought like many others at that time and even now saw a mine of wealth in a public house


he did not however care about keeping it himself


his object was to build the home procure the license for himself in the first in stance and then sell the business for a bonus and a heavy rent


the sums which were thus given about the time we now allude to were positively startling and it was apparently justified from the amount of business a good locality could command


when any of the gold diggers came to town which the more improvident of them did for a spree they were well supplied with money and they delighted in nothing more than to shout as it is termed in colonial parlance for all the hangerson to be found about the bars of the various hotels


this brought a large and profitable custom to the proprietors of these houses in a very legitimate way and though the poor fools who thus spent their money committed great folly yet the publican earned his share of it very fairly


but the folly of many did not rest in treating or shouting for people they knew nothing of many entrusted large sums to the publican desiring to be supplied with what they wanted till the whole was expended of which due notice was to be given that they might stop in their mad career and then they returned to the gold fields to toil for more funds in order to repeat the same game


the honest publican would deal faithfully by his customers but what a temptation to men not over scrupulous in what way they obtained money


the history of hotel keeping in melbourne could tell many a queer tale in reference to this subject and of the ruined health of stalwart men fits of delirium tremens the remorse at having squan dered hard won gains that might have rendered their owners comfortable for life or at least have furnished the means of carrying on some reputable line of busi ness


alas for poor human nature


rapidly did these structures rise in every quarter adorned in every possible way by which they might be rendered attractive large sums were thus expended at a period when labor and materials were at exorbitant rates


every corner allotment that could be obtained was eagerly sought after and fabulous prices paid for it whether freehold or leasehold


when opened attractions of various kinds were provided some had frequent balls others concerts while most had vocal or instrumental music provided in the bar during the whole day


a good harvest was reaped during the good times but when a re action took place and diggers had less money to spend the receipts fell off fearfully and many who had dreamed of fortunes being obtained in a short time found themselves if tenants unable to pay their heavy rents if proprietors involved with usurious interest for borrowed money and as a necessary consequence bankruptcy and ruin overtook a large proportion of them


the records of the insolvency court could reveal many a history and many a black scene con nected with australian hotel keeping


a reporters anecdote of mk macaulay


at the annual antislavery meeting i think of mr macaulay whose fame as a brilliant speaker at the union society at cambridge and a society of the same name in london had preceded him delivered the first of


those brilliant ovations with which the country ha beon since


dolightcd


at its close i told mr macaulay that from his rapid mode of speaking and from so much of tho merit tho speech being dependent on the accurate collocation of the words in which his many metaphors and figures were expressed it would bo only an act of justice to himself to furnish a report of the speech


at first ho hesitated and expressed some doubt whether he could furnish sufficiently ample notes for the purposo but said ho would think of it


oa my telling him if he thought proper to do so i should pay due attention to the notes provided he forwarded them to the morning chronicle oftic


by eight oclock


that evening


on coming to the office of the morning ohrtnicle at that hour i found a large packet con taining a verbatim report of the speech us spoken tho brilliant passages marked in pencil and tho wholo manuscript well thumbed over furnisliing manifest denotement that no speech in bitfields speaker was more laboriously and faithfully committed to a school boys memory than was his first essay in public elo quence committed to memory by the gteat historian of the age


mr justice therry


a railwat joimstsr in mexgil


that brief whistle that strong silent pull that gradual glide that monotonous rattle have nothing iu them here in the plains of bengal to distinguish them from tho aame sound and sensations bo often ex perienced amid the factories of lancashire the red cliffd and blue sounding waves of south devon tho vinebearing plains of prance tho rugged passes qf styria the tropical hills of havana or the wild jungle of western america


the train travels at n rate varying from to miles an hour


about every eight miles occurs a station withsomeuncouui name


we look out as we pasaone of these the long straight lino of iron rail still retains ha fa miliar look of civilisation but all its circumstances have jbeooin entirely oriental


the stuiou in n littlo while bungalow wilh green open doors its name hooguly is written in those throe cha racters which suggest at every turn to the most careless traveller tho strange fato of iudia the english plain businesalike capital letters look ing as if they were oousoious of belongmg tn


the conquering people the grcoeful persiiui curling from right to left cmbletnitc of the polifoncsa tha facile dexterity perhaps too of the intrigues and instability of central asiatics powerful enough to impress on a susceptible ppoplo a manner which makes every peasant in hiudostau moro or i a gentleman but unablo to cope with the plain honest force which is represented by tho roman capitals and lastly the mystical bengalee the vermicular of the province closely alliud to every voniucuinr tongue all over india which hero at the llooglily station is read by thousands while of the two conquering languages ouo id read by hundreds the other by units tho language of the contaere


mil lion jet containing in it the roots of inoib ihrn half tho words spoken by conquering english olofe akin tn the ancient sanscrit that source licvond wbich tha sream


of huruuu language has not yfit been traced


bu


the train moves on and so fur is


it is concerned the conquering english hits it all its own way


the ancient sanscrit is still represented


by every one of the dull objects which meet tho travellers ore


tho ungraceful palm m strangely associated in european minds with orient iil beasity the green melancholy plain the occasionnl glimpses of the yellow sluggish corpsebearing river theso are the witnesses to the ftict so strange yet so for gotten that where the english steam eujini


now travels there just one century ago the nawiib of bengal ns marching down on calcutta to perpe trate the black holo massacre tbat tragedy jiom which the angloiudian empire took iis birth


here centuries ago the hindoo walked and sat and smoked worshipping his god permanence ereu us ho walks and sits and smokes and worships the same god today


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mr attornrjgeneral hij to inform the jury that tue pri oner before them though yrung in yeire wr okl in the treasonable practices wtiicli olitimuil tbo forfeit of his life


tnnt this corres pondence with tln public enemy ivis not a corraa poudencc of today or ol yeslcrd iy or even of lai wmir or nf thi vour bfiforo


tint


t wi pnrhtm


i he prisonor had for longer tban thu buen il the haiiii of pissijg and ripassing between franca and england on secret busiai of whch he could give no honest account


that if it were it tho nature of traitorous wajo to thrive vhicb bippily i


never was tho ruul wikedaers arid guilt of his busits might havo remained unuisjcverca


thnt froviderca however had put it into the hart of a person who ws beyond feir and beyond re proach to ferret out tba ualure of the prisoners bobemes and struck wiih horror o disclose ihuin to his majestys chief sreury of swe nnl most honorablu privy council


that this patriot would be produced bcfoe them


that his posi tion and attitude were on the whole sublime


that he hid been the prisoner friend but at once in an auspicious and au evil hour detecting hi infamy had refcolvel to immolate the traitor he could to longer cherish in his bosom oa the sacred sillar of his country ihat if statues were decreed in britain as in an cient greece and rome to public benufaciors this fihsoiug citizen would assuredly hnve had one


that as they were not so deorord he probably would not have one


that virtue as liad been observed by the poets in many passagc which be well knew the jury would have word or word nt the tips of their tongues whereat the jurys coun tenances displayed a guilty consciousness thnt they knew nothing about the passages was in a rninuer contagious more especially the bright virtue known aa patriotism or love of country


that he lofty example of this immacuute and unim peachable witness for the crown to refer to whom however unworthily wbb an honor taftl cmmuni eated itpelf to the prisoners servant and had en gendered ii him a holy determination to examine his masters ttbledrawera and packets and secrete bis papers


thnt he hr attorneygeneral was prepared to hsar jsome disparagement attempted of this admirable servant hut that in a general war be preferred him to bis mr atloroeygene ras brothers and sister and honored him more than his mr attorneygenerals father bnd mother ihat he called with confidence on the jury to come and do likewise


that the evidence of these two witnesses coupled with the documents of their discovering that would be produced would bhow the prisoner to have been furnibhed with lists of his mjstyb forces and of their disposition and preparation both by pea and land and wonld leava no doubt that h had habi tually conveyed such information to


a hostile power


that theso lists coul i not be proved to bo in the prisoners handwriting bat that it was allthe game that indeed it was rather the better for the prosecution as showing the prisoner to be artful in his precautions


that the proof would go back fire years and would show the prisoner already en gaged in theae pernicious missions within a few weuks before the date of the very first action fought bntween the british troops and the ameri cans


that for these reasons the jury being a loyal jury is he knew they were and being a res ponsible jury as tluy knew they were must po sitively find the prisoner guilty and mike an end of him whether they liked it or not


that they never conld uy their heads upon their pillowb that they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows tbut they never could endure the notion of their chil dren laying their heads upon their pillows in short that there never more could be for them or theiib any laying of heads upon pillows at all un less the prisoners head was taken off


the head mr attorney general concluded by demanding of them in tho name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it and on the faith of his solemn abseverntion that he already considered the prisoner as gool as dead and gone


when the attorney general ceased a buzb arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue flies were swarming about the prisoner ia anticipation of wh it he wm soon to becoms


when it toned down again the unimpeachable patriot appeared ia the witness box


mr solicitorgeneral then followinp his leaders lea examined the patriot


joha bataad gentle man by name


the story of his pure soul was exactly what mr attorneygeneral had described it to be perhap if it had a fault a little too exactly


having released his noble bosom of its burden ho would have modestly withdrawn him eelf but that the wigged gentleman with the papers before him sitting not far from mr lorry begged to ask him a few qaestims


tne wigged geutle man sitting opposite fitill looked at the ciliog of the court


ilad he ever been a tpy himself


no he pcorned the bass insinuation


what did he live uponf his property


where wua his property


lie didnt precisely remember where it was


what was it


no business of any bodys


hud he inherited it t te he had


from whom


distant relation


very diitant rather


ever been in prison


certainly not


never in a debtors prison


didnt see what that had o do wth it


gome once again


never


yes


how nnny times


two or three times


not flve or six perhaps


of what profession t gentleman


erer been kicked


might have been


frequently


no fiver kicked down stairs


decidedly not once received a kiuk oa the top of a staircase and ml down ftaira of hb own aocord


kicked on thnt occasion for cheating at dice


something do that effect was ettid b tho intoxicated liar who committed the as sault but it was not true


swear it was not true


positively


ever livo by cheating at piny


ever live by play


not more than other gentlemen do ever borrow monoy of tha prisoner


yes ever pay him


no


vvus not this iulimaoy with the prisoner in reality a very slight one forced upon the prisoner in coaches inus und packets


sure he saw tho prisoner with thesa hstb


certain


knew no more about the lists


no had not procured them him self for instance


expect to get anything by his evidence


not in regular govern ment pay and employment to lay traps


oh dear no


or to do anything


swear to that


over and over again


no motives but motives of sheer ptriotism


none whatever


the virtuous servant roger cly swore lm way through the case at a great rate


he hid taken service with the prisoner in good faith and sim plicity four years ago


he had neked the pri soner aboard tha calais packet if ho wanted a handy fellow and the prisoner had engaged him


hehnd not asked the prisoner to take thehaady follow as an act of charity nevr thought of such a thing


he began to have sus picionf of the prisoner and to keep an eye upoa him soon afterwards


in arranging his clohes while travelling he had eeen similar list t to tbtse in the prisoners pockets over and over again


he had taken ihese lists from the drawer of the pri soners deelr


he had not put them there first


he had feea tha prisoner shnw these identical lists to french gentlemen in calai and eimilar liss to french gentlemen both at caliia and boulogne


he loved his country and couldnt bear it and had given information


he had never been suspected of stealing iv silver teapot he had deeo maligned respecting a muuard pot but it turned out to bo only a plated one


no had known the list wit ness eevou or eight years ihit wa


merely aoo i incidence


he didnt call it a particularly curious coincidence mt coincidences were curioti


neither did he call it n curious co iucidenco thit true patriotism wab hit only motive too


lie was a true briton and hoped there were many like him


th blueflies buzzed again and mr altorney gunoral caued mr jarvis lorry


mr jarvis lorry are you a clerk in tellsona bank


i am


on aoertain fridiy night in november one thousand seven hundred and seventylive did business ccoasion you to travel between london and dover by the mail v


it did


were there any other passengers in the mail p two


did they alight on the road in the oourae of the night


thoydid


mr lony look upon the prisoner


was he one of those two passengers v i cannot undertake to say that he wab doe


ha resemble either of those two pisaen gers p both wore so wrapped up and the night waa so daik and we were all eo reserved that i cannot undertake to say even that


mr lorry look again npon the prisoner


sap posing him wrapped up a those two passengers toiri ia fsprn nnulhinfr in hid


htillr anil multipi f render it unlikely that he vas one of them


no


you will not swenr mr lorry that he was not one xf them


no so at least you bay he may have been one of thor


p yes


exoept that i remojibr them both o invo bpn like myself timorous of highwaymen i aud the prisonfr ha not a timorous air


j


did you ever sie a counterfeit of timidiiy


mr lorry


i certainly have seen that


mr lorry look once more upon the prisoner


hare you seen him to your oertain knowledge before


i have


i was returning from franco a few days after w ird and at galai the prisoner came on board the packetship in which i returned and made the i voyage with me


i at what hour did he come on board


at a little after midnight


in the deid of the night


was he the ooly passenger who cutne on board at tbat untimely


hour t


i lie happened to be the only one i


never mind about happening mr lorry


he was the only pissenger who came oa board in tho deid of thu night


j he was


i were you travelling alone mr lorry or with


any companion


with two companions


a gentleman and lady


they are here i


they are here


hoi vou any onversslion wiih the prisonei hardl any


jhe weather was stcrmy and the pifsage long und rough aud hay oa a aofa almost from shore to shore


miss manette i


the youag lady to whom all oys had bscn turned before and were now turned ugaiu etjod up where she had it


her father roc with her an kept her hand drawn through ms arm


miss manette look npon he


prisoner to hi confroned with each piy and mch ear nest youth and beauty was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd


standing aa it were apirt with her on the edge of iiis grave not all the staring curiosity that looked on could for be moment nerve him to remain quite still


his hurried right hand par celled out the herba belore him into imaginary beds of flowers in a garden j and his efforts to control aad iteady his breathing thook the lips from which the oolor rushed to his heart


tho buzz of the great flies was loud again


miss manette have you seen the prisoner be fore


yes sir where


on board the paokeuhip just now referred to sir and on the samo occasion


you are the yourjg lady juat now referred to moat ubhappily i am the plaintive tone of her compassion merged into the les musical voice of the judge as ha said some what fiercely answer the questions put to you and make no remark upon them


mibb manette had you any conversation with the prisoner on the passage aciofis the channel


yes


sir


recalit


in the midst of a profound etillnes she faintly began wben the gondeman came on board


do you mean tho prisoner v inquired the judge knitting hia brows


yes my lord then say the prisoner


when the prisoner came on board ho noticed that my father turning her eyes lovingly to him as he stood beside her was much fatigued and in a very weak ntate of health


my father wan ro reduced that i was afraid to take him out of the air and i had made a bed for him on bo deck aenr the cabin steps and i sat oa the deck at hia side to take care of him


there were no other passengers that night but we four


tho prisoner was so good as to beg permission to advise me how i could shelter my father from the wind and weather better than i had done


i had not known how to do it well not understanding bow the wind would set when we were out of the harbor


he did it for me


he expressed great gentlenes and kind neat for my fathers state and i am euro he felt it


thit wus the manner of our beginning to epoak together


let me interrupt you for a moment


had he come on board alone


no how many were with himi two french gentlemen


had they conferred together


they had conferred together until he last mo tnont wben it was neosbsjry for the french gen tlemen to be landed ia their boat


had ady papers been handed about among them similar to these lists


some papers had been handed about among them but f dont know what papers


like these in shape and size


posibly but indeed i dont know although they stood whimpering very near to me becausa they eood at the top of the cabin steps to have tha light of the lamp that was hanging there hwaa u dull lamp and they spoke very low and i did not bonr what they said and saw only that they looked at papers


now to the prisoners conversation misa ma nette


the prisoner was as open in his con fidence with me which arose out of my helpless situation as he was kind aud good and useful to my father


i hope burst ing into teirs i may not repay liim by doiug him harm today


burning from the blueflies


mis


minotte if the nrisonor does not perfectly understand that you give the evidence vhioh it is your daty to give which you mu


pive and


which you cannot escape from giviug with groat unwillingness he is the only person preaent in that condition


please go on


he told me that be was travelling on business of a delicate end difficult nature which might get people into trouble and that he was there fore travelling under an assumed uome


he slid that this business had within a few days taken him to france and might at intervals take him backwards and forwards between france and england for a long time to oome


did he say anything about america mis manette


be particular


he tried to explain to me how that quarrel had arieen and he siid that so far ni be could judge it was a wrong and foolish one on englands part


hi arlded in a jesting way that perhaps george washington miftht gain almost aa grdit a name in history as george the third


but there was no harm in bia way of ayiig


this it waa said laughingly und to beguile tho time


aoy strongly marked expresion of face on tlw part of a chtet pctor in a sceao of great interest to whom many cyo are directed will be unconsci ously imitaied by the spectators


her forehead was painfully anxious and intent as sho gave tiiis evidence and in the pausas when she stopped for the judge to write down watched its cffot upou the counsel for and against


among tha lookers on there was the same esprefsioa in all quarters of the court insomuch that a great mtjority of ho loreheads there might hive been mirrors reflecting the witneb when the judge looked up from hia notea to glare at that tremendous heresy aboat george washington


mr attorney gsneral now signified to my lortf that he deemed it neceasnry aa a matter of pre caution anl form to call the young ladys father doctor manette


who ab oalled accordingly


doctor manelte look upon the prisoner haro you over teen him before


once


when hs called at my lodjingo in london


some three years or three years and


a half ago


can yoa identify him aa your follow pasetiger on board the packet or speak to hia couversavion with your daughter


sir i can do neither


is there any particular and special reason for your being unable to do either


ho answered in a low voice


there ia


fas it beea your misfortune to undergo a tang imprisonment without trial or even accusation in your native country doctor manette


he answered in a tone ihat went to every h eart a long imprisonment


were you newly released on the occasion in question


they tell me so


have you no remembrance of ihe occasion v none


my mind ia a blank from some tiba i cannot even say what time when i employed myself in my captivity in makiag hoes to frie time wlen i found myself living in london wiih my dear daughter here


she had become farriiiur to me when a graciou gad restored my fnculss but i am quite unable even to say how she had become familiar


i have no remembrance of the process


mr attorneygeneral sit down end the father and daughter sat down ogether


irish officers in the french army


malahon duke of magenta marshal of franwce barry captain citaft army of lyons unrry intendant militaire barry lieutenantcolonel th regiment barry poife drapeau lgth rejjiment obrien sub lieut st