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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1895)
0 j I, she Si."- A Si it's A t x rll4f1F.K IX.-l'ontlnoMl. And a!' the time, and underlying all there ha, been a stimulus others i.ttle The dreamed of. a sour, a secret incentive, lished a'1'' 'lu"' 'bought of bich had been , . . itiic ent to .m ite anew had energy for teginniiJJll(nil(.!t fatl;ul or ardor abated, newspai That spell hud been the thought of togelbeWcnden. new sir He it was who had persuaaed her to ."enter those new regions. It had been leR't to please him that she had agreed to it wi tread them, and to display to htm her con jUests and her tri ruphs was the tr prize she had coveted. She had pi tured his questioning her Is to this and tiiat. In her mind's eve due had behe!d him scanning her books, tier maps, her i ecords of one St. rt and another, l or his ear she had treasured up little histories of ditlieul ties encountered and victories ob tained, and bhe had fancied, poor little thing, in her innocent heart, that when the happy day of rneet.ng should come at lat, she" should find him as eager to hear as she to tell, and as ai- Ereeiative and attentive as she could e discursive and dramatic. He had not i een expos ted before the autumn following his departure. He had written - a hasty line, but sufficient under the circumstances during those first over-crowded days of mourning at his old home, and he had hinted at writing again, and had hoped to meet again some day, and had assured one and all that he could never feel grate ful enough for ah the kindness shown him at Inchmarew. For Mime t me after the note had been received another had t een ex pected; but on young Raymond s de parture, Mrs. Campbell had felt that she had probably for the present heard the last of his pleasant friend and guest, and that, considering all that had happened, it was hardly to be wondered at it it were so. "1 shrill ask him here for the twelfth next yi r, if you approve. ' Cecil had obsorv 1; an i th3 suggestion having been r- eived cordially, "the twelfth" had gi dually come to be considered in his ; oi-ng cousins mind as the point on wh jh to fix hope and expectancy. All iirough the long warm days of the Ui lowing June and July, it had been .. vision standing o ightly out to view, ana daily at last hau the blue eyes scanned the contents ot the post- I bag. and marked ever, envelope which j might be Cecil's, and mignt contain ! some words, something definite, some a lui. ion or reference even to that great ; meet'ng -1 ut in vain. J Cecil had come himself, and had nei. .er written nor spoken once about , Bellenden, j Perhaps Ceraldir.e s grandmother i haj a quicker vision than the little i maid ga e her credit for: it could , hardly ha e been sheer forgetfulness j wi : ;h caused her to let the whole first j eu. .ling ot her grandson s arrival pass : without a i ueation, considering what had once been agi eed u,.o;i: she almo.-t ; must have had some reason for waiting , tiil alter jerry bad none to bed to make her in uirie.s, btshe had done all this, ; and Cecil ha.ing been equally reti-j cent, the I.ttle girl l.ad thought hel-. lenden forgotten by everyone but her-1 self. j He had not 1 een so. Young Ray-1 moud had oeen somewhat sore on the ; sub.ect, to tell the tru.h. and had not cared to touch u, on it. He, as well as 1 his grandmother, hau set n more than ' either chose to tai.e noti e of: and al-: though at first Geraidine s open mani- ' est uevuon had luere.y amused the' one and nettied the other, they had i all ke felt that it was as well it should quietly pass oiT, more especially as it ; had not to any appearance been re- ! ciprocated. Boilenaen had n.ade a; tuss alout the little heiress when there : bad been nothing else lor him to do, . andthenbebad gone off. and never i given either her or her guardian an- j other thought: No wonder each of ; the two elders had silently understood ; the other's suppression of his name. The next morning, however, Cecil had casually let fall a piece of informa-; tion. i 'By the way, grandmamma," he had said, "you told me I might invite Bel- 1 lenden to shoot here Jerry's heart thumj ed up at the words if he should be our way," continued the speaker, hunting for something in his pocket. "I did drop him a line, and 1 have his answer somewhere about me," pulling uut two or three crumpled envelopes. , ' Af, here it is," and then he had read It aloud, and hael afterwards, uncon- ; seiously, as it were, tossod the scrap o er the table, and Jerry had read it for herself, j it had indeed been a disillusion. A few bold sentences a reference to "his pleasant remembrance of ln:.n-. marew and his charming visit there" "his best regards to Mrs. Campbell and bis little friend Gerald ine." And that wag all. His "little friend Geral dine! ' How her heart had swelled at the words: Bhe bad then only been his 'little friend Geraldine,' while he oh the moonlight night" on which Bhe had lain awake, sleepless and dream leas, thinking about him! Oh, the days wherein she had watched and waited, barkening, as it were, for, the faintest echoes of his approa hing footfall, the furthest away whisper ot his coming Scarcely, if ever, bad a single sun risen ana set without there having; been in the interim some association with him in her thouf hts, her efforts, or her wishes. And he bad not evea come this once! And h had not even cared to pretend that he bad meant to come! For Bel ls adan had written hastily, and had let the simple truth appear. Iachmarew had navar been la bis program, and be i ouer arraagamaata. Toe re i ao temptation to reconsider o uawMMii awaciosuy , aa prospect K-diauy tive and, accordingly, he ha I let them stauj. and had not a hen writing taken tne pains to put BLoUicr lace ui on the matter. All had been clearly conveyed, an 1 the very titer ne-s o." the co'n.iction tdat it ha.l Deen so. had kept the ch Id Woman from betraying herse f. .No noie in her voice, no tear in her eye, nothing ,ut a deep flush upon her cheek hail Oeen vis, ble tiju'lu-o. She had .-r diii ed her wound in si. iic-c. and had fell it throb and stin without a nioan. But for a time all the sunlight had died out of her cav-dreau s. and what h;iil U-!ore been full ol ever dee.ieuing interest, these pursu ts and occupa tions which had been growing ever more engrossing as the lio.r had seemed to uraw n.-ar when the harvest was to be re prd, a 1 of these had be come straightway almost loathsome. she had not been ill. She had ljen too hardy and too healthy for that. Bat she had drooped and t1aj.-s?ed, and at length font eyes had seen, and there had been change c air and siene, and the young girl had leen spirited about from pjace to place, un til the results of such delightful medi cine had been all that might have len expected. Miss Comnna had been a prince sol traveling companions, and the kindest and most judi lous o.r nurses. Jerry had not on'y teen shown this and that, and allowe i to oliow the t ent of her own ardent spirit in seeing the things she really cared for, and come what she really wished, but another sort of mach.nery had also been set a-gning. she had tasted something of the pleas ures of being rich, had been set on to by numbers of nice new things, Dew adornments for her own modest little chamber, anew carpet and writing table for the school room, books, draw ing materials, music. Miss Coronna had superintended the purchase of a va.t piece of gorgeous silk embroid ery, wherewith to beiruiie the winter evenings; and altogether mere had been a complete restoration to cheer fulness: and if the studies had not been resjmed presently with quite so much vivaci: at the very first, it had been, perhaps, still more satisfactory to tne preceptress to feel that now it had not been the mere novelty of the thing which had actuated the yo thful dis ciple, but that there bad spr..ng up a steady resolution to progress, not un mixed with a genuine lasle for some branches of knowledge. But t'ellenden had never been quite forgotten nor forgiven. "True, he had peer, from that time regarded in a different light, namely, as one who had slighted and deceived. It had been no longer to piease him that Geraluine hail straiDed her utmost in mental toil. That had gone by. But his image had siiU fitfully haunted her, and she bad not been able all at once to rid herself of it. He had, she had told herself, delib erately pro ised that which he had never intended to perform. In this, we may olwerve, Bellenden had been done injustice to: b ,t Jerry could hardly be expected to understand as much. vVith all her brightness and gaiety she was, as may have oeen seen, of a very tenacious, downright, and steadfast nature, and with her. us with otberB of her kind, to say, however lightly, "1 will' no this or that, im plied a promise, and a pro . ie to be sa redly kept. This is, perhaps, a lit tle hard upon the lacile. Belienuen, when he had said "1 will come again to Inchmarew," had cer tainly drea r ed o( nothing less than of imposing uponhimsell a solemn vow to do so. He had equally certainly meant to come, all winds being favorable, but to have known that the wordsas s; oken were sinning deepdown into the breast of the listener at his side, to be regis tered t ere at the end of time, would, indeed, have taken his breath away. He had now, in the eyes of his wor shiper, disgraced himself and her who had believed in him. He had broKen his pledge, and broken it in the easy fashion of one to who n a pledge is nothing Her idol had fallen with a crash into a thousand pieces. She4 would think of him no more. She would never breathe his name to human ear. The little casKel of treas ures, each of which spoke of him and conjured his presence up? She would fling them to the winds hven the most precious of all, the sketch of Inch marew from the Kincraig hignts-the pretty, dainty mart el of sill and beauty, set such infinite store by hith erto -H shoild go with t rest: and with ruthless, ) assioriate tubers it had first been torn in many pieces. And thus had ended the day-drearn, with an awakening sharp and bitter enough. But eveT that period had now gone by, and the peaceful routine of her im proved and altered life with all its new occupations and aspirations, had com pleted the cure which her own dawn ing womanly j ride and resolution had began. The next summer she had only oc casionally wondered at ti i es whether anything would heard of the recre ant or not? She bad scarcely known whether or no she had even wished him to come. If she had wished it, it had been with a new object in view, namelv, to malce it clear that Sir r red erick Bellenden, changed as he might have himself proved to be, should find an equal, if not a still greater change in the "little friend" trom whom he had parted two years before. His "little friend!" She had felt she could never forgive him that. Had he come after these two years, he would have been met by a tall and graceful girl, whose stately greeting would have repelled all tardy ad vances towards renewed intimacy- and ignored all reminiscences. He should have been held at arms' length, treat ed with dignified courtesy, and his presence, except in that of others, quietly avoided. All thrown away. He na i never come, and apparently Cecil bad never asked him. By the next spring, be bad ceased to be thought a out at all. For Geraldine was now, as we hai saii.on the brink of entering the great world, and although it would be doing her trusty guardian and grandmother Injustice to let it be supposed that she itjntem plated launching a lovely girl npoa a vortex of fashion and folly, or even upon an absorbing giboy round of society pleecurea, it must be borne In 1M that tat old ladv bad bar own j views about the matter, and ra quit? e ual to carrying theseout. .u had I no intention tnat her mountain lieirots 1 h"U u go without the experience h I deeine i suitab.e atid necary, a- weil as t tie pleasure i and p-'llnie- en oj I atile at her ige. llajip ly, Gerald no was not by nature one whom the glll ter and fume of fash enable lile as lUeiy to impre-s. otou'y was she of too sin ere and si.Pple a disjosition. b t o ued to grai.nv s early exatpp e. she la 1 iad ot later years the luesti m -.I'le advantage o !n holding in the person of her Selovel iristructrftss, tiu.nb it unobtr s.ve piety a ling upon tne daily life, a lesson ail invob ptarily learnt, and now her chie.test s fe guan . Miss t arunna wa- uow, as was not s trprining. fr end. counselor, and indispensable companion and accord ingly ou the May-day with which this eh .pter opens, whp so busy as Miss ( or uina about the all im, ortant a"air, aud the decking of tne air debmaute? Kvery one. high and low, indeed, wanted to have a linger in the pie. The n irse who had cherished her nestlinir through every stai'e o! child hood and girlhood gianuvs mad, who, intent on intr.icling and remem bering, yet blundered sa iy among m-w fashions and new lollies tueold h itler who ran oil I ke a hoy to the nur-ery-man's, iti terror lest the 1 oiluuets. the scarlet und cream one for the old lady, and the pure while for Geraldine sho Id not arrive before the hour ap pointed the lootman who ihinir open the hall-door lor monsieur, the hair dresser, to enter, ere that very tine personage could descend from his han som, bag in hand down to every housemaid and s ullerv-maid in lln establishment, who, abandoning their work for the noni e. giggled over the top of the stairs as eleven o clock ap preached. And then at the very last moment, what should have been the hist mo ment, camo the terrible discovery that Geraldine had no fan. The Ian of white plumes which should have matched those in her hair had been forgotten, and if Mi s Cor unna, all as she was, did not catch up a hat, and spin ro nd the corner like a whirlwind, returning with the sa t.e in less than no time, triumphant Then came such a displaying and spreading of trains, and showing o; accoutrements to the deliirbied house ho d, who could never look nor wonder, nor admire enough. Granny said they really sbo-ild lie late, and was almost incl ned to be a little put out, when it was proved that she was so completely wrong that they were among the very earliest on the line o; carriages. G anny was sure that in her day people ha i lieen wont to set ott earner, and ho, ed that there was no falling o'f in the attendance on Her Majesty's urawing-rooms: sho would have i een sorry, very sorry, to have witnessed any iminutionof their ancient splendor, and so on. The dear old lady was soon onsoled. That there was no falling off, and no curtailment, was obvious in a very short period, and she could then sit proudly up. and ga.e upon trie fair young face opposite with little thr lis o! foud emotion an I autici anon, such as from time to time brought the qu.et tear into e ther eye. G anny was looking beautiful her self. Her train of black satin, lined with some old, old brocade, rich and rust ling, such as the little Court dress maker had seldom seen or handled be fore, and which made her little eves twinkle now, was su h as s litod her state. y, queen-like presence: an 1 al though our gracious ijueen does forbid high necks and long sleeves on these occasions, granny had contrived so to befrill and beruitie hersel, that the poordearold wrinkles were cuite in visible beneath the soft folds, and were, indeed, as complete y out of eight as though they had never been. All her ancient diamonds and some ol Geraldine'g too, for . erry would wear none of them - looked brave in granny s silvery hair. Jerry had contented herself with a single row of milky pearls round her white throat, than which, indeed, nothing (O Id have looked more sot and tender, so tnat even granny had no: hai the h::art nor conscie n o to press the diamonds ba k upon her, even w ile she had hardly feit it fair to shine herself in borrowed splendor. But to be sure, Geraldine shone un aided. She looked such a frehh bright, radiant young thing in her simple white, with no adornments save the string of pearls, that, in the partial eyes so proudly lent upon her, it seemed there would not, could not be a fairer rosebud blown that day. TO HE CONTINUED. WooiU oft he .Northwest. At the inter-State exhibition of the northwest, now c! med, which was held at Tacoma, Wash, the finest wood shown is of the Douglas pine, othi r wise known as red lir rather course in gain, but exceedingly t iuh, and capable of bearing almost any strain. Both Knglish and French experts hare pronounced jt sujH-rior to any wood for ship building, bridges, and other strong work. It will bend or twist like iron, but no pressure can break it squarely as other woods breHk. When it parts it is in long, jagged rents. Other valu able woods are the red cedar, yellow, black, and bull pine, hemlock, spruce, oak, maple, and ash. The yellow pine is generally utility lumber, red cedar furnishes the best shingles in ths world, and western spruce is almost as good as oak for finishing purpose. A curly maple which grows in the Pacific coast states is exceptionally suited to cabinet work. There iwere several pieces of furniture at the fair made of this wood, three handsome boats and a piano. Then anil Now. A Father was com plaining recently of the way in which bis children destroyed their clothing. He said: "Why, when I was a boy I only had one suit of clothes, and I had to take care of it. I was only allowed one pair of shoes a year in those days." There was a pause, and then tha youngest boy spoke up said: "My, dad, you have a much bettat time of It now you are living with us." J. Coleman Drayton assures a New York paper that he "wsnts no publicity la his divorce case." He should have thought of that two years ago at loasfc. WHEN THE WOMEN VOTE A circular cinc in thr eoiirne of the inn il, A circular daititj aud white; T priu'vd in script and well gotten ;l, And nvrried in fashion jsjite: la enveloK wjuare and mount-rum. tix. Some function it H-ni.-i 1 denote; But when it wan read it proved but to t A brief invitation to vote. She sujilert-d it over and knitted lier brow . She never had lia i one liefoiv; Then studied the date for a minute or I w o. And thoujrtit of eritntements a FCre. And could she find time? she usled of her sel f- She'd a luncheon she kiieu for that day. And mi afternoon lea she'd oiinlit to at tend; The outlook was pleasant and Ky. The new iuvitution whk novel, of inurw, And tlist hud a chsrin of its ow n. Itut the jojs of a tea she had tasted oe f re. While those of the pofls were unknown. She wearily sighed, and she picked up ber m-u As one whom a problem Iwsets, And the cnttiaitn conimit'ee received th neit day Her daintily w ritten recrets. Tlostun Graphic. THREE BLACK BAGS. As I often suy to my wife, wheu she blames me for forgetting her little commissions. It's a queer thing. Is the mind, aud great is the force of habit. 1 never forget to do anything I'm In the hublt of doltiK. but as Tilly usual ly attends to the shopping herself I'm not lu the habit of calling at the butch er's or the grocer's on my way home from business, and therefore well, therefore, I don't call three times out of five that she tells me to. Don't I catch It? No; not overmuch, anyhow. For one thing, we haven't lx-en married very long, and Tilly agrees that It's only reasonable I should have time to learn to be more careful, aud, for another. If It wasn't for the hold a habit has on me, I doubt whether we should lie married yet, or nt least we shouldn't be living In our own house, with the furniture all bought at a large dlsiunt for cash. I am a clerk In the service of a firm of colliery and quarry owners at King ton, and every Saturday morning I go out to Westerby, a village some thirty miles off amoug the moors, to pay the quarryruen there their wages. It's an awkward sort of Journey. I have to start by the first train In tie morning, which leaves I.ingtou at 1, change at Drask, our junction with the main line, leave the main line again at Thurley, some ten miles further south, and do the rest of the distance lu the brake vau of a mineral train. The mouey (nearly UK) is-iunds, most ly silver) I always curry in a little black leather bag, one of those bags you see by scores every day, which may contain anything from a packet of sandwiches and a collar to a dynamite bomb, aud It's my habit when In the train to put my bag on the rack facing tne. I rarely keep It on the seat by my side, and I don't like to put It over my head. If It has to go there because the op posite rack Is full I am always uneasy about It. fancying I Khali forget when 1 get out. I never have forgottpn It yet, but one Saturday In Novemlwr, 1MU.3, 1 did something which might have been worse. I took the wrong bag when I left the train at Thurley. It happened in this way. Oil Friday night I went out with Tilly to a party, which broke up bo late that I had only just time to change my clothes and get a sort of apology for breakfast before catching my train. Consequently I slept all the way from I.lngton to Urask, and at Drask I stumbled, only half awake, Into the first third-class compartment I came to. Three of the corner seats were occu pied aud I took the fourth, though there was no room on the opjKisite rack for my bag. I couldn't put It ou the seat at my side; either, because the man op posite In the other corner had his logs up and I didn't care to disturb him. I ought, of course, to have kept It on my knees, but It was rather heavy and 1 was sleepy, so I Just slung It over my head, settled myself down and dropped off again almost before the train was clear of the station. I didn't wake up until we stopped at Thurley, and even then I funcy I should have Blept on If the two men at the far end of the compartment had not wanted to get out "What station Is this?" I asked, sit ting up and drawing my legs from across the door to let them puss. "Ot terford, I supiiose?" "No, Thurley," said one, and up I Jumped In a hurry, took my bag, as I thought, from the rack opposite me, and got down on to the platform just as the guard whistled the train away. "You ran It a bit fine that time, mis ter," remarked the man who had saved me from being carried past my desti nation. "I wonder If that other chap meant going on? ile was as fast asleep as you." "Oh, he's all right," said his compan ion. "He's booked for Ixndon. I beard him say so when he got In." I felt much refreshed when we ar rived at the quarries. After I had had a wash and done full Justice to a second breakfast at the "Miner's Arms ' I felt ready to face my morning's work of making up the men's pay sheets. Then, as I felt In my pocket for luv keys, mi memory began to entertain a vague suspicion that that ' bag was somehc unfamiliar to It However, my key fitted the lock, and as I turned It my suspicion vanished, but only to be replaced a moment later by an as tounding certainty. Instead of rUng upon tbe familiar brown paper packages of stiver and lit tle canvas bags of gold, my eyes were daasiad by a many-colored Irldeecenea, which shoot forth from the lnslds of that bag aa soon aa I opened It "I ''aiuoiiiU. by Jingo!" I cried us I started I ack a rim zed. I thought ll Ixtit to keep my dicoVtry to myself. The hug. I guessed, was probtib'v the property of a Jeweler's traveler a traveler !n a large way of busine.s. too. thought I, as I fieered Into it In the least eX-sed comer of the oflce and found if almost full of what, little ;u 1 knew alxiut precious stoi.es. 1 felt cer tain were valuable jew els. Kings, brooches, hnuvlets. loose stones, at least one necklmv. a gold watch and chain, some bank notes and a considerable sum of sovereigns were all mixed up together lu a chaotic com fusioii which seemed ut least incon sistent wilh their habits. 1 U-gim to doubt whether It was consistent with honest jsiKSesslon of, at all events, the contents of the bag on the part of .my late fellow passenger the man vt no was hooked for London, aud who ha i been asleep when I left the train :it i'LUil.y- N" doubt he was awake and also aware of his loss by this tir.:i What a state of mind ho must be in, too. Kut Just as I was trying to realize his state of mind a murmur of gruff voices and a shuttling of heavy feet In the yard outside reminded me that it was time to pay the men. Hurriedly mmmoning the foreman, and telling him that a mistake had been made in supplying me with money, I wept down Into the village, and, after some trouble, succeeded in collecting enough sliver and copper bi serve my purMse. Then, with that precious bag out of sight between my feet. I paid the meu. As soon as I had finished my task I returned, per mineral train, to Thurley, aud there I broke my Journey. On calmly review lug all the circumstance of the case In the seclusion fjt the brake vau I had decided that the police rath er than the railway authorities ought to be first Informed of my mistake, and the Inspector to whom I told my story agreed with me. "I am very glad you came straight to me," said he. turning the contents of the bag out on his desk. "If you can bold your tongue for a week or two It's Just possible we may catch the gentle man who put this nice little lot to gether." "You think they have been stolen, then?" I asked. "Think!" he repeated, smiling at my simplicity. "I know, my boy. And when and where, too; though, unfortu nately, not by whom. Kun your eye over this." "This" was a list of Jewels and other valuables missing from Krllngthorpo, Lord Yerbury's place, where, the In spector said, a well planned robliery had been carried out on the Thursday evening. "You seem to have nailed a lot," he went on; "but we may as well go through the articles seriatim." Wp did so, and found there was noth ing missing except the money I had taken to pay the men. "Now, look here, young man," he went on. eying me keenly, "I'm hot In charge of Ods case yetbut If you'll do as I tell you, I hope I may be In the course of a few days. There's a tidy reward offered for the recovery of the proierty, as yon see. That I take It you've earned already; but are you game to help me catch the man? There's a further reward for nabbing him, which, of course, I can't touch officially and don't particularly want My aim Is promotion. Do you under stand?" "I think so," said I; "and I am will ing to help you all I can. What do you want me to do?" "Nothing," he replied; "Just literally nothing, (io home. Keep a still tongue In your head and a sharp eye on the agony columns of the London papers, and wait till you hear from me. I'll take charge of these articles and give you a receipt for them, but don't be sur prised If you see them still advertised ' as missing." A few days later the Inspector set his trap. It took the shape of an advertise ment begging the gentlemau with whom "G. C." inadvei i!-ntly exchanged bags to communicate with O. C. at the address he would find In O. C.'s pocket book. Personally, I didn't think our fish would be foolish enough to rise to this bait but my friend, the Inspector, was more hopeful. "Luckily for us, Mr. Corner," said he, when I took advantage of my next visit to the quarries to call upon him, "there's always a sort of wary or twist in the mind of the habitual criminal which prevents him from believing In the honesty of other folks. Now, not a soul but you and I and the chief con stable knows those Jewels are as good as back on Lady Yerbury's dressing table, or w herever she's In the habit of leaving 'em lying about Therefore the hue and cry after them's not likely to die away yet awhile, and there'll lie a genuine ring about It which should per suade our unknown friend that you've got Vm and mean to convert 'em to your own use, as we say In the profes sion, but, being an amateur, don't know how to go about turning 'em Into more cash than the reward comes to, and that consequently, you are anxious to come to terms with him. See?" For a month Lady Yerbury's dia monds were sought In vain and for a month "O. C." continued to appeal to hts late fellow traveler, also In vain, but at tbe end of that time his patience was rewarded by tbe appearance of an advertisement, telling blm, if he really meant business, to write to "B. II." at a given address. Tbe letter I wrote at the dictation of Inspector Bland waa more cautious than Incriminating, but as It produced a reply which the Inspector deemed satisfactory It was followed by others less carefully worded, until at last It stood pledged to personally deliver, for the compensation of 2,000, ths stolen jewels to on Benjamin Hunt, whom I was to mat at a public house in Chll llngham. Now. 1 dont pretend to ba braver than the sverag mau of peaceful n sedoiiiiirv bald's, aud ''u 1 MW '!,at ..rt of s'leiii- the "SMcd I"k" a I U-gnn to wNh I had refused to b iv nny'liing to do with InsjH-ctor Bland's scheme. The little company of disreputable looking loafers hanging about the bar eyed nie curiously as euieieu,, mu ,.'i,.,n l o.ke.1 the landlord If Mr. Hurst wh In. one .f them raised a genen laugh offering t" carry my luggage up to him. No lark. Kill." said the landlo.-l sternly. "Mary, show the geutlcinan Mr. Hm-M's room " I found Mr. Il'irst a decidedly surly nsc;il. lie began by grumbling at the lrirdm ss of tie- b ii'giiin 1 "as driving with him. and swejirlug at h! Iu-k generally. Then, being perhaps ein tsildeiied by the conciliatory manner I thought it prudent to adopt, he tried io make belter terms, offering me first less, ami finally Insisting that be ought at h ast to 1 allowed to dedit.-t from my L'. the sum 1 had used to pay the men. Inspector I'.land had allowed me a quarter of an hour for negotiation. At the end of that time he proposed to make a raid uxm the house. "And mind." he hud said in Ills Jocu lar nay, "we don't find the property still In your hands, Mr. Coroner. It would be a pretty ki ttle of llsh if we I a I to pn.Mi tite you for unlawful pos session, wouldn't It?" In accordance with these Instruc tions I haggled with Mr. Hurst a Utile while and then nllowed him to have his way, whereuiion he, having satisfied himself that the bag which I restored to him still contained his ssiils. handed me l,Ii in what afterward turned out to be very creditable Imitations of Hank of F.ngland notes. "I suppose you don't waut no rrv ccipt ?" he grow led. "No, thank you," said I, "I think w may mutually dlsjiense with that for mality. Good morning." I turned to leave the room as I soki', but before I could unlock the door It was burst open from the outside, not, unfortunately for me, by the pollen, but by the man whom the landlord had called Kill, a powerful ruffian, who promptly knocked me down and knelt upon my chest "Quick, lien, get out of this," 'ih cried. "It's a plant No, no. The win dow, you fxil," he added, as Mr. Hurst, bag In hand, made for the door. "The police are In the bar already." As Mr. Hurst opened thp window he cursed me with much volubility and bitterness, and as soon as he was out side on the leads he did worse. "Stand clear, Kill," hp cried, and hU friend ols-yed him. I scrambled to rnr fept but Immediately dropped again with n bullet from Mr. Hurst's revol ver In my shoulder. I am not at all sorry that Mr. Hurst fired at me, as Inspector liland says It was much easier to convict him of at tempted murder than to prove he ac tually stole those jewelsnd the In- spector don dim, kk, wnetner lie would have got fifteen years If merely charged with receiving them. But I do wish he hadn't lilt mn. However, even the pain my wound still gives me It not without Its com pensation. It prevents mp from feel ing any twinges of conscience when I reflect that my furniture cost Mr. Hurst his liberty, for Iord Yerbury took It for granted that he was tho thief, and paid me the extra reward he had offered for his apprehension. Inspector Kland won the promotion he coveted, and Is now stationed at Llngton. His wedding present was characteristic. It was a black bag, with my Initials on either side In white letters als-mt six Inches long. All the Year Round. Confusina;. English verbs are often a source of great confusion and trouble to foreign ers who atempt to learn thp language. A writer in an educational Journal thus describes the trouble a Frenchman had with the verb " to break." "I begin to understand your language better," said my French friend. Mon sieur Dubois, to me; "but your verbs trouble me still; you mix them up so with prepositions." "I saw your friend, Mrs. Murkeson, Just now," he continued. "She says she intends to break down hpr Behind earlier than usual. Am I right there V "Break up the school she must have said." "(Jli, yes, I rememtjor; break school." up "Why does she do that?" I asked. "Because her health is broken Into.' "Broken down." "Broken down? Oh. ves. A tot In- deed, since fever has broken up In tho low "Broken out." "She thinks she will leave It for three or four weeks." "Will she leave hpr house alone?" "No; she Is afraid It will 1ms broken broken how do I say that?" "Broken into." "Certainly; It Is what I meant to say." "Is her son to be married soon?" "No, that engagement Is broken broken " "Broken off." "Ah, I had not heard that" "She Is very sorry about It Her son only broke the news down to her last week. Am I right there? I am so anxious to spesk English well." "He merely broke the news;' no nren osltlon this time." "It Is hard to understand. That youna man, her son, Is a fine yonni fella a breaker, I think." rl b?ker' 'If ' ,MT flM '-. Good-afternoon." 8o much for the verb "to break." Yet Hhe Clamor for atraa, "I am sure Jsck will ,., ,U, time." said one pretty girl to aaotheT a. they stood at the .tamP wtodow! trening. and yon se r p., - JVj! oeiivery stamp oa if 's - A 4