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A GOOD INVESTMENT.
A STORY OP THE
CHAPTER VII.
A little later it was in the early
days of May a steamboat stopped at
"Damariu's Landing,1' just after
dawn, to put on shore a messenger;
and the long hoped for pet and pride
of the family was received Into the
arms of his mother, father and sister.
The wonderful transformation
which youths, undergo, in a collegiate
course of learning and dissipation has
been a common theme for novelists,
though the plowboy-poet says they
only
'Gang In stlrks and come out asses;"
but hero was a change worthy, to be
contemplated. Four years before,
the subject of it had left Stone House
as much of a plowbo3r as Burns him
self, with only a good school educa
tion and only farm-house manners.
He returned, at the age of twenty
four, with everj aspect of a thorough
bred soldier, used to command, and
tutored in self-reliance and eelf-re-spect.
He had seen something, too,
of the Eocial world, and though
bo could not claim the polite
distinction of being a man of the
world, was yet very far from being
the boy of the form he was, when, at
the fall of Sumter, he buckled to his
side the first hword ho had everboheld
in his life. His face was decidedly
handsome, with large blue eyes, a
.Roman nse. a mouth whose well de
fined shape the full wavy beard ho
wore could not hide, dark chestnut
hair, and a complexion naturally fair.
Tall, full chested, well proportion
ed, and well jointed, he was of that
Northwestern pattern of man upon
which nature, working under free
conditions and on a Virginia! soil, has
modeled ten millions of people, who
sufficiently provo that the human race
need not degenerate in America.
Men of 6uch a type can never be
clownish, nor can any thin.g short of
positively bad bringing up render one
of them awkward. Having no idea
of eocial inequality amoug neighbors,
their manners are based on a sense of
justice, and like the maple and wal
nut trees of their forests, though
rough In bark, they are fine in grain,
and capable of receiving any degree
of polish.
When Bella, hearing of the arrival,
rose and dressed herself to go down
and do obeisance to her eaptoj, she
made her little toilet with some care;
for to say that she was indifferent to
the imprsesion she would make on
him were to say what has uever been
true of an3' female captive since Cleo
patra captivated Ciesar.
But, for all that, she hated him
persistently and on principle and
conceived her dutj to South Carolina
also required her to despise him and
his family for their low birth and in
ferior breeding, though her own supe
rior breeding taught her to keep this
last sentiment to herself. She was
glad he was come, for now she hoped
to be allowed to go directly to her
home, and yet dreaded the awkward
ness of meeting him ; and for that
reason did not make her appearance
until all the family were seated at
breakfast.
He rose, however, as soon as she
entered the room rose like a real
gantieman, as it struck her and went
and took her hand as if it were that of
an old friend, though he bad evident
difficulty to restrain a smile at her ex
cetsive dignity and reserve.
There was no going to school that
day for Polly, and one girl never went
without the other. But Bella could
bear no part in the family holiday, so
wandering into tho garden, and thro'
it into the old orchard on the river's
bank, where, seating herself on the
canoe-bench that has been named,
she flung off the sun-bonnet which
her head was becoming too hot to
bear, and remained moodilj' regard
ing the opposite Kentucky shore,
while her thoughts, following the di
rection of her eyes, went southward
too; but while her eyes lingered on
the great hill-side, where the opening
flowers of the redbud and dog-wood
flecked with pink and white the
young green surface of awakening
vegetation, her thoughts traveled far
beypnd, to the land where the ilex
and magnolia waited for no spring to
renew their evergreen robes, to the
land where violets and roses had
bloomed months before, and to her
home of long ago, made beautiful by
them all. Southward, southward she
looked for deliverance, and south
ward went her hopes, her praj'ers,
and complaints. Where was her fath
er that he came not for his child ? or
her brothers, that they came not for
their sister? And those in the house
heard her calling aloud the names of
her brothers, and hushed their con
versation to listen and sympathize.
The general asked his sister to go to
her friend; but Polly waited till her
outcry ceased to be audible for she
well knew how Bella should be
treated and then went and sat down
beside her, glided an arm around her
waist, laid the drooping head against
her owp, and so remained, saying not
a word.
Askiff, crossing from the Kentucky
shore, and wiioh the five-mile our
rent bad carried far down Btream, now
appeared near enough to where' the
GREAT REBELLION.
girls sat for the persons in It to be ob
served. The passenger who was. be
ing ferried over was a young man of
medium size, dressed in a Confederate
uniform, from which the gilt cord and
other insignia had been removed. His
hat was slouched and somewhat torn,
and his boots were of reddish cowhide,
Into the tops of which the pantaloons
were tucked.
As the boat touched land, thestran
ger, taking a small valise in his hand,
stepped-on Bhore, turned and looked
about, asked a few questions of the
boatman as the latter was rowing
away, and then began to ascend lhe
bank.
But he did not take the path which
would have led up to tho house : he
took a roud which, Hloping round into
a ravine that came to the river some
little distance, to the right of the
house, conducted by a wide circuit to
the avenue behind it, and in that way
to tho highway beyoud, the road in
question being the publio vj'O to the
ferry, of which Mr. Damarin was
proprietor.
He had not gone man3T steps, how
ever, when Bflla, who. had started to
her feet and been watching him with
increased agitation from the moment
he came near enough for her to dis
cern the color of his clothes, flew
down the pathway, and flung herself
on his breast, crying, "Brother!
brother! brother!" and, as if unable
to utter any other than that dear
word, continued to repeat it in every
possible Intonation of affection and
joy.
The brother, for such indeed he
was, as soon as he could disengage
himself so as to see her face, ex
claimed, with equal delight, and
greater surprise :
'Bella! My God! is it you, Bafe
and alive? My poor, sweet, dear lit
tle sister, alive and safe and here ?"
I knew you would come for me,
Charles," she said, with her arms
still about him, and her cheek pressed
to his shoulder. "I knew sonie. of
you would you, or Edward, or fath
er. Aud where are they? Where is
father? Have they killed him, as
they did mother?"
"You kngw of mother's death,
then? But yes," he added, evas
ively, "Ned Is well now. He was
badly hurt twice ; but he's well now."
"And father?" broke in Bella, im
petuously. He renewed his kisses, while think
ing on what he should say ; then re
sumed :
"Bella, my darling, you are a true
Caroliua girl, are you not? We of
the South, have got hardened in suf
fering and disaster, havo we not?
Tidings of death have been our dally
news for so long "
"When did he die?" said the girl,
as, drawing away from her brother,
she stood and regarded him with ap
parent calmness.
"Father soon followed mother,"
was the reply.
She remained for a few, moments
still as a statue, save for the violent
heaving of her bosom, as if expecting
a powerful will to master a powerful
emotion.
At length, flinging up her arms and
03'es, and exclaiming, hoarsely, "An
orphan!" she cast herself on the
ground, and clutched her fingers
deep into the sand. And there she
lay, breathing heavily, but without
uttering word or moan. Her brother
would have raised her up, but while
he stooped to do so, Polly, who had
remained aloof till she saw Bella fall,
and had tben swiftly but quietly ap
proached, laid a gentle, hand on his
arm, saying, as he turned toward her,
"Please, Sir, let her bo as she is; it's
the best way to do when she has such
a turn. We always leave her to her
self. You are her brother, Sir?"
"lam, miss; and may I ask how
my sister happened to find protection
where they know how to treat her so
kindly and considerately ?"
And while Bella lay with her facej
to the earth, Polly told, in simple
terms, the story the reader already
knows, and told it with such effect
that the listener, when it was done,
realized how happy a refuge the or
phan and exile had found far better
than he herself seemed to realize it.
"And we all love her," the farmer's
daughter continued ; "yes, Indeed,
every one of us ; aud now we shall be
so glad you have come, for she did
long for you so much. And you'll
take her back to Multiflora, to he,r
own beautiful, grand home she has
told me all about. I know it's ever
so much better than the one we have
been able to give her here. And she'll
be so happy with you all there; hut"
and here the sobs came "it will
break our hearts to part with her.
I'm sure it will mine."
And seating herself on the ground
by her friend, she, contrary to, her
own prescription, putbotharmsabout
her waist and raised her up. Bella
turned and stared at Polly as if she
had never known her. After a little
while, however, she appeared to come
to herself, and approaching her burn
ing lips to those of her comforter,
kissed gm, ; then looking in her
eyes, found there the best medicine
for her own tearless distress namely,
J love and sympathy and weeping ; and
seated on the shore they both wept to
gether. For many minutes Charles Johnson
walked back and forth on the shore
by tbe water's edge, with folded arms
and fixed look, as if in anxious con
sultation with himself. Suddenly he
stopped, as if he had decided, what
course to pursue, and, taking, his val
ise in his band, mounted by the path
to the top of the bank, and opening
the garden gate approached the house.
He was received at the door by Mr.
Damarin, to whom he made himself
known as Captain Johnston, of tbe
Confederate army, and who invited
him to enter the parlor, where be
was presented to Mrs. Damarin and
the geueral. Addressing himself
more particularly to Mrs. Damarin,
he proceeded to thank them all in the
most appropriate manner for their
gocdnesB to his sister.
"You have been a mother, madam,"
he concluded, "to an orphan girl to
a creature more needing protection
than the most helpless infant; you
havo filled the part of the protector
the most needed of all others; and
mnv Rnd A lmtfrHttr lilocc tnii fnrlfM'
He then explained that himself and
brother had just returned from the
only visit to their home they had been
able to make since the death of their
father in 1863.
"Your father is then no longer; liv
ing?" interrupted Mr. Damarin."
"No, Sir; he died not far from here,
as I will explain."
The young man then went on to
say that they had found the planta
tion in such a condition Its mills and
barns burued, and the house at Multi-
flora stripped of everything, even to
books and papers, and occupied by
about fifty of the late slaves that
nothing could be done to reclaim the
property without a considerable capi
tal, whereas they had none at all. He
had therefore come to the North to
search for tho proceeds of the cargo of
rice (which must have sold for more
than thirty thousand' dollars in gold),
and which he knew it was his fath
er's Intention to place In safe hands
somewhere outside of the Confedera
cy, to remain as a resource in case of
the very disaster that had occurred.
It was at the time when Morgan's
raid was being turned into a retreat
that Mr. Johnston had surprised his
son, who held command in the raid
ing forces, by joining them, and ask
ing permission to accompany, tbe
march, which he expected would es
oort him safely through the Federal
lines Qn, his way home.
From this down to the time of his
death, which took plac.o. on the day
following, tho exigencies of the move
ment had permitted little conversa
tion between him and them. He
was shot by a bush-whacker, and died
soon after, without recovering con
sciousness. No paper or memoran
dum had been found to give any clue
to the disposition made of the funds,
and the only filament of one they
possessed was tho surname merely of
a friend of their father with whom he
had sometimes corresponded. His
name was Richardson, and his resi
dence was then, or formerly, In Chi
cago ; he was a banker, they thought.
The captain's brother, Major Edwqrd
Johnston, had come with him as far
as the new oil fields in West Virginia,
where he had remained to look for
employment.
Mst appropriately to the story
would have come a request for Bella
to be permitted to remain where she
was until etp brother returned from
his errand of search; but this was
prevented by Mr. aud Mrs. Damarin
both speaking at once, and begging
she might be left with them, not
merely till then, but until such time
as a better home could be provided
for her elsewhere, to which he was
only too glad to consent.
"Where are the girls?" exclaimed
the general, rather abruptly. "Shall
we not go, captain, and look them
up?" Aud he led the way into the
garden, where, walking slowly, and
speaking in a low tone, he continued :
"I know very well how hard the for
tunes of war bearou gentlemenof the
Confederate service. You will need
money, perhaps, to make your jour
ney. How much shall I lend you?"
With some difficulty the Confeder
ate was made to accept fifty dollars,
acknowledging the favor in phrases
intended to' conceal how pressing was
his need, but in tones that quite suf
ficiently revealed it.
At the further gate of the garden
they were met by those whom they
Bought. Bella ran up to her. brother
with almost a smile and many kisses
and then entwining both her arms
round one of his, asked,
"And when shall we go back todear
old Multiflora? To-day? Rigbt now,
shall we not? Oh yes. yes ; this min
ute, this very minute!'
"Not immediately, my dear," was
the reply. "It Is important for us all
I should make a long journey first;
and should I happen to fail in the
business I go upon, it may be neces
sary for you to remain some little
time longer with your excellent
friends, to whom you already owe
mpre than your utmost gratitude can
ever repay. Mr. and Mrs. Damarin
have most kiqdly invited me to leave
you with them, and I have consent
ed." Bella, who had hardly waited for
him to be done, here burst forth :
"Leave me here in yon etone pris
on house, where I have borne a bitter
paptivity of nearly three years' dura
tionwhere I have been able to en
dure life only because of my daily
hope that you would oome, beneath
the triumphant banners of the South,
and reclaim me by force, as by force I
was captured where I never prayed
for your "coming without uttering a
curse longer than my prayer against
your enemies and mine? AnrjLuow
now that you come to me come to
your sister, with every badge of a sol
dier stripped from you.r coat, I think
the least you can do is to lead quickly
away the poor emancipated captive,
and not conspire with her enemies to
prolong her imprisonment "
"Bella! Bella!" interrupted her
brother, astonished and alarmed.
"Do you forget peace has been pro
claimed ?"
"Peace!" she replied. "There can
never be peace between us and them,
except the peace of deati. If they
will only exterminate us all, we wjll
promise to be quiet. Will you will
the men of the South consent to re
main under subjugation, not to tho
cowardly Yankees, but the more cow
ardly negroes, whom they have raised
up to Insult and degrade us more ef
fectually than they could do It them
selves? No! Southerners will not
submit! They will take to the
swamps and the mountains, with
arms'in their hands aud fight while
they live! Charles, if ever again you
would have me call j'ou brother, rally
to the fastnesses nature has made as
as refuges for desperate men, and then
raise anew the flag of the palmetto
and rattlesnake, and this time let the
ground they are painted on be black.
Raise that flag, and I will go with
you and carry it I will, so helpme
God!"
Her brother, who seemed to have
given up all thought of reasoning
with the infuriated wretch who, by
tbe waj lc.oked furiously beautiful
the while let her run on at will ; and
the two soldiers listened and looked,
the one with mingled admiration.
amusement and concern, the other
with feelings of a sadder shade.
When at length she paused from ex
haustion, the brother quiotly re
marked, "Such talk as this, geueral, may be
pleasant to indulge in as n parlor
amusement. Southern women have
been very fond of It, but Southern
men those who survive have had
enough of it. Bella!" he exolalmed,
as she was beginning afresh, "be
done! Not another word! I'm
ashamed of you ; you, a lady born,
the daughter of a South Carolina gen
tleman how thire you requite the
hospitality of this family, which you
have so long enjoyed, with such vile
nonsense, suchvulgar rants as this?"
As he said this he approached his
face to hers with a sever expression,
aud looked sternly in her eye, as if it
wore that of a wild beast he would
quell with a glance.
Bella quailed. Perhaps the emo
tions of the day had exhausted her
nervous power; or maybe the idea of
her language, which to her seemed
magnificent, being thought nonsensi
cal aud, what was worse, vulgar,
struck her with such astonishment as
to arrest (he flow Qf her wormwood
and gall; or else it was because she
had at length met her match, aud her
brother's terrible eye had done its
work. But she was cowed stood, si
lent; astonished and alarmed, per
haps, but certainly sulky, until, for
the second time since morning, that
sedative water of heaven called ears
descended to bless her.
"Brother," said Polly, approaching
the general, "don't mind the poor
thing's raving. She's half crazed
with her troubles ; she don't mean a
bit of what she says she don't in
deed. She gets over it right away,
and when she isn't angry you don't
know how good and sweet she is !"
The general smiled, aud merely re
marked aside to his sister,
"It's well the fits don't last long, or
she would be apt to die of them.''
But the present fit, in its sulky stage
at least, was not so quickly got ever,
it pasted a week or more. And
though she now permitted her apolo
gist to lead her into the.house, yet no
sooner had they entered it than she
broke away, flew to the chamber oc
cupied by them both, and turned tbe
key of the door against tho swiftly
pursuing Polly, as she did that of her
heart against all entreaties for admis
sion. And there she remained all
day, except when, at the rather per
emptory summons of Mrs. Damarin,
she appeared for a minute to bid her
brother a gloomy farewell as he was
about to go on board tbe Cincinnati
packet, which stopped at the landing
on its way down the river about the
middle of the afternoon.
At the twelve-o'clock dinner Cap
tain Johnston was not a little sur
prised, considering the evidence of
competence, if not wealth, he wit
nessed, to see the farm people make
their appearance, The general, too,
was surprised to find how much the
same circumstance annoyed himself.
But Robert Hagan was more affected
than either when a timid glance up
the table informed him Bella's seat
was vacant. He never dared look
that way more than once during a
meal, but the knowledge tliat she was
there was something to him how
much he could not reckon or imagine;
bt it was something.
CHAPTER VIII.
The further northward the ex-Confederate
traveled, the less respect was
accorded him. Throughout the South,
in Kentucky, and eyen in the lower
portions of the Northern Border
States, it is pqssibje for one with clean
person, good morals, and inoffensive
deportment to go in threadbare jeans
and battered hat and bootsapd yet
receive such tolerable degree of def
erence as will permit him to retain
hl3 own self-respeot. But when such
a one journeys into tho more civilized
regions of further North, and looks
for even the least consideration at the
bauds of the bureaucracy of boats,
trains and hotels, he will find that not
the front of jove, nor the grace of
D'Orsy, nor the air and port of a
crown prince, can avail to save him
from contempt. It woro terribly on
the spirit of the young Carolinian,
representing, as he did, a family
sprung from baronial Btock. and con
nected with the Alstons, Middletons.
Haynes, and Hugers accustomed to
contemn and not he contemned to
find himself taken by the elbow and
pushed about, addressed, and "snub
bed," not by any moans as if all men
were equal, but as if, on the other
hand, they were very unequal indeed,
and he one of the most incousiderable.
Ho was not philosophic enough to
find consolation In thethought that a
gentleman disguised by misfortune
can be discerned at first sight only by
such as are themselves gentlemen, or
connoisseurs of gentlemen aud ho
was galled to the very tissue of his
nerves, aud arrived at Chicago fum
ing with more hostility toward his
late enemies than he had felt even in
the heat of Warfare, and was half
sorry it was impracticable to follow
Bella's advice, and find refuge In Pe-
dee swamps or Appalachian gorges
for a vulgarity so brutal. Thus, wheu
he set out next morning in pursuit of
his father's correspondent, his con
dition was far from what should be
that of one who goeo about a difficult
s'arch. He was discouraged in ad
vance. From the City Directory he made a
list of the addresses of persons of the
name of Richardson, which, judging
from the. occupations affixed, might
include the address of the Mr. Rich
ardson be wanted to find; then set
out to call upon them in turn. Tbe
first on the list was a pork merchant,
a pleasant enough person, who receiv
ed him kindly, being used to deal
with hog-drove,rs, but who soon satis
fied him he could not be the object of
his search. The next visit! was to. an
old grizzly lawyer, lateiyv come to
Chicago, who in reply to one quesition
popped off a dozen, which explored
the case to the bottom, and then in a
few words sbowedj clearly that he
could not be the mau. Tho next was
a railroad secretary, who left his desk
and approached the person, who, from
the outside of the 6ffice railing, re
quested the favor of a few words with,
"Well, what's wanted?" and on the
busines8-being opened to him, return
ed again to his desk, saying as he went
"I know nothing of suoh a person ;
you will have to look further."
Another Richardson was evidently
too young; while another still, who
was absent from the city, was a
Scotchman, and very old, and there
fore could not be the person wanted.
And so th,e last name on the list was
reached, which was also that of the
Richardson whom some of the others
thought might be the depositary of
tho funds. He was a banker, which
circumstance, and that of his initials
sounding rather familiarly to John
ston's ear, led him to entertain some
thing liko hope. But each of the
three times he called at tho office of
the banker the latter was either ab
sent or too busy to be seen, and a
fourth attempt had to be deferred till
evening, and made at his residence.
As early as seven o'clock Johnston
was pulling the bell at the door of an
elegant mansion, such as bankers are
able to dwell in. Yes, Mr. Richard
son was at home, and the flunky
would learn if he could bo seen, if the
visitor would wait in the hall. Pres
ently a man, sixty years old, of heavy
aspect, with white hair butbjack eye
brows, came out of the pajrlor, and on
hearing the name of Captain John
ston, of the late Confederate army,
seemed rather surprised, though not
displeased, and conducted him into a
magnificent parlor, where ho asked
him q be seated.
"Well," remarked tho banker, as
they sat down, at the same time sur
veying the visitor from head to foot,
and smiling strangely, "Isuppose you
are pretty effectually used up down
South about these days?"
"Very much so," replied Johnston,
whom something in the other's man
ner repelled, and made bim resolve to
go cautiously about his inquiries.
"May I ask, Sir, if you ever corres
ponded with my father, Mr. James
Johuston, of Georgetown District,
South Carolina"?"
"Johnston? Johnston?" repeated
the banker. "When I was in tbe
pork-packing business I used to deal
with planters in all parts of the south,
and I think I do remember making
shipments to one of that name iu
South Carolina; but" lookingkeen
ly at his questioner "why do you
wanttokTfw?"
"Another question, Sir, if you
please ; did you ever meet my father
in person ?"
"Very likely I have; but why do
you ask?"
"Please permit me one single in
quiry further: did he call upon you
when he came to the North in 1863?"
"I don't think, niy friend, you will
make much further progress with me
until I know your reasons for putting
these questions."
This extreme caution made the
young man feel sure that he had at
last found the depositary of the rice
money, while at the same time that
depositary, from some motives, good
or bad, would be very slow to admit
himself suoh.
"I had supposed, Sir," said Johu
stou, so much agitated as he fel him
self nearing tbe hidden treasure he
could hardly command his utterance,
"that as the war was closed there
would no longer bo any occasion for
further secrecy concerning the tran
sactions between you and my father;
but, in order that you may be frank
with me, I will mention that my
father is no longer living, and that I,
as his repre3entative, am come to ask
you, if perfectly convenient, to gie
me a statement of the account he
kept with you. I allude more partic
ularly to the moneys ho placed in
your hands when he visited you in
1863."
"Hum !" grimly interjected the
banker, his covetous under-lip push
ing up and over-lapping tbe upper
one. "What did you sajf the amount
was ?"
"That, Sir," returned Johnston,
feeling the Importance of concealing
that he had, no proofs of the deposit,
"depends on tbe price of gold at that
time. I have not the memorandum
in my pooket at this moment, but
think the cargo must have sold for as
much as thirty thousand dollars in
specie ; must it not?"
"Thirty thousand In specie," was
repeated In tho same tone; aud a sus
picious nose moved downward to
meet the covetous lip. "Aud if your
father had placed that sum with me
do you know what I would have done
with it ?" Here tho eyes snapped out
sparks of fire. "I would have had It
confiscated before thesun went down !
Thirty thousand dollars is less than a
third of what your Southern gentle
men swindled me out of before they
rebelled. They were braye enough to
steal long before they found the cour
age to fight, and months before they
dared Area shot they repudiated their
honest debts. The swindling, scoun
drelly traitors ! And now you, have
done your worst, and been whipped,
cowed, and beggaredyou have the
impudence to come and demand pay
ment of debts which you pretend
Northern men owe you ! Y"es, with
your hands hardly washed qlean of
fthe blood of loyal men, aud the but
ternut rags still banging about you,
you aro traveling through the loyal
States on a collecting tour. If I had
my way, every mother's son of you
should hang for.a tractor, and every
horse, mule, cow, hog, sheep, and
chicken that runB over it should be
given to your slaves."
"So you deny the debt then?" in
terrupted his hearer, white as a sheet.
"Deny tho debt! Ha! ha! It so
happens there's no debt to deny in
the present case. No, no; if any
bluody traitor ever brought money to
Chicago, he gave it to some Copper
heads to keep, and not to John Rich
ardson, the rebel-hater."
The rebel-hater's visitor knocked
bim down, and rushed from the house.
"When does'the first train leave for
the south ?" inquired Johnston of the
clerk at the Sherman House.
"It is too late for tbe Cairo train,
but oue leaves for Cincinnati in twen
ty minutes. The omnibus is at the
door now."
if you please."
Aud he was soon speeding south
ward over the moon-lit prairie. Of
course all idea of further continuing
the search was abondoned abandon
ed abandoned in disgust and s.olf
contempt that he could ever havo
been fool enough to look for honesty,
or honor, or generosity to a fallen foe
from a race he had, always known to
be vile, though he had never person
ally known them at alL
He reached the steamboat landing
at Cincinnati next day too late for
any of the up-river packets except
one bound for Wheeling, on which he
embarked; being assured, by the clerk
he would be put off at Damariu's
Landing about nine o'clock the same
evening. His head was busy with
forming plana for the future, but as
yet he had decided on none of these,
and his mind was in condition to be
drifted away easily by any side cur
rent that might come.
Soon after the cabin lamps were lit,
a passenger approached bim with a
proposition to make up a game of eu
chre. "Onlj' for. amusement," said the
man ; "I never play in any other
way. Johnston accepted, though
quite aware that two or more of the
players would be professed gamblers ;
for he had acquired remarkable skill
at cards, and was not so wholly in
nocent of the various tricks of the
profession but that be could meet and
foil them. He won won repeatedly,
and pocketed considerable sums The
oxcitement obout the table was high,
for the company appreciated and en
joyed the "state of things. Thus,
when tho bell rung for Damarin's
Landing, and (he clerk informed
JobnBton of it, he was not disposed to
quit bis winning game, ard declined
to go on shore. Laje in the night he
rose from the cards several hundred
dollars richer than when he sat down.
In tbe morning his entlcer ap
proached him with a proposition to
be his confederate in a gambling ex
pedition to tbe oil regions of West
Virginia, where vast sums were be
ing lost and won by the in-gathering
adventurers from all quarters of the
land. Tbe captain's skill at cards
was such, he said, that if it were as
sociated with some of his own profes
sional experience and knowledge of
men, there would be no doubt of their
making "e, big thing," as he express
ad it. Johnston did not consent o
this disgrace fuLpxoposal, but ha did
nqt absolutely refuse, and- whentbalRavne Storms, and snow atorma.
two left the boat at Parkersburg they
stopped at the same hotel for the.
night, and the next day were seen
traveling together in the direction of
the new oil wells.
to be continued.
This btory is published by Messrs. Harper.
Jc Bros., N. Y., complete, and will bo sent by
them to any part of the United States, past
age prepaid, on receipt of fifty cents.
Somebo&vJii HyBed.
"I believe, Captain," Bald the doc
tor, "I never told you my adventure
with a woman at my boarding house,
when I wasattending the lectures."
"No, let's have it," replied a Bhort,
flabby, fat man, about fity,, with ner
vous temperament, and a very red
face.
"I boarded at a house in which
there were no females except the
landlady and an old colored cook "
The Captain, by way of requesting
him to go on, said, 'Well !"
"I often feltjthe want of female so
ciety, to Boften the severe labors of
deep study, and dispel the ennui to
which I was subject
"Well
"One evening, after listening to a
long lecture on physical anatomy,
and after dissecting a large uegro, fa
tigued in body and rnlnu, I went to
my lodgings "
"Well!"
" I weut Into the hall, took a large.,
lamp, and went directly into tho room
it being then after 1 o'olook "
"Well!"
"I placed the light on the table and
and commenced undresslug. I bad
hardly got my goaoff, when my at
tention was attracted to a frook aud a
quantity of petticoats lying on the
chair near the bed '""
"Well!"
'And a pair of beautiful small shoes
and stockings on the floor. Ofcourso
I thought it strauge, and VY.aabou;J; to
retire but then I thought as It was
my room, I had at least a right to
know who wasin my bed"'
"Exactly so," Bald, tho Captain, aud4
"Well!"
"So I took the light, went softly lp
tho bed, and with trembling 'hand,
drew aside the curtain. Heavens,
what a sight ! A young girl I sho'd'
say an angel of about eighteen, was
iu there asleep'
"Well!"
"As I gazed upon her, I thought I
had never witnebaed anything more
beautiful. From underneath a little
night-cap rivaling the snow in white
ness, fell a stray ringlet over a ne.qk
aud shoulders of alabaster "
"Well !" "said tbe excited, Captain.
"Never did I look upon a bust more
finely formed ; I took hold of the cov
erlid, and softly pulled It down"
"Well !""sald tle Captain, "make
haste!"
"She bad on a night-dress, button
ed up before; but softly I ppened, the
first two buttons "
"Well!"' said" the Captain, "how
now ?'
"And then, ye gods! what a Bight
to gaze upon a Hebe pshaw, words
fail. Just then"
" Well! said the Captain, "I am In.
suspense!"
"I thought I was'taklnsr a mean ad
vantage of her ; so I covered, her up,
seized my coat and boots, and went
and slept' In another room !"
"Jt'sa lie!" shouted the excited
Captain, jumping up and kicking
over his chair "It's a lie!"
Brant Geese.
Mr. Hapgood gives In Forest ard
Stream, an intereatingarticleon brant
geese, and concludes that they breed
in the open polar sea north of 82 de
grees. He quotes the observations of
many Arctic explorers to show that
they reach a high latitud.0 and are
peen moving on beyond even 82deg.
That when kept as decoys In consider
able numbers at Cupe Cod, they have
not been known to breed. That some
years there are no young birds, In
which case tbe season is supposed to
bo too short to sufficiently manure th6
young for tho long flight south, be
ginning in September. These geese,
are found in very great numbers, and
yet only one instance is mentioned ot
their eggs. TJiey appear to breed be
yond haunts of men, and have never,
been successfully domesticated.
Quick Work.
A certain earnest clergymen, one,
Sunday morning was exhorting those,
who had anxious and troubled con
sciences to be sure aud call on their,
pastor for guidance aud prayer. aid
he;
"To show you my brethren, the,
blessed results of these visits with
your pastor, I will state to you that
only yesterday a gentleman of wealth
called on me for counsel and instruc
tion ; and now, to-day, my friends
to-day he sits among us a happy,
husband and a father and a christian. 'I
A young lady in the audience whis
pered to a matron :
Wa'n't that pretty quick work?'
Mia
It is a Kansas reporter who say
that "Howard Giyndon" (Miss Red
den) "has two bright, soulful blua,
eyes that are soft as a gazelle's with
which she. seea." The idea of. a lady
with sua'h eyes as those putting them
to such a base use as seeing, is one a$
which the fastidious ml.nd may justly,
be shocked.
An Illinois man named Storms baa,
na.med his three sons Hale Storms, .
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