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Written for The Advertiser.
A Question.
"Churning to do!" I know It;
And I've only Jnst this much to say
I want to go out on the hlll-slde,
And live In that grove this ono day,
"Clothes to iron !" No matter.
For this once let me do as I please;
I've determined to write a letter
In the shade of those maple trees.
"Dinner to get!" Don't say It!
Let's eat bread and water to-day.
I wnnt, besides writing my letter.
To be sure of an hour for play.
"Idle for hours?" Yes, lazy ;
'TIs the very best word you oould find.
I would like to spend one day dreaming,
Without any work on niy mind.
One day of life for pleasure,
Is even that too much to ask?
Only one little hour of leisure.
Quite free from the thought of some task?
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CHAPTER XXXVI. (Continued.)
Diana Rookwood and old Daddy
Darknoll, comforted Sir Philip as
best they could, and in the depth of
their love made every allowance for
this creature, whose blood was their?.
'From whom did you first learn of
this second flight ?' asked Eockwocd
of the steward.
From Mrs. Prudence. It seems,
on its first discovery, tho doctor and
bis wife had departed in hot haste to
London, having, they thought, some
clue to the fugitives.'
I still maintain,' said Malyon,
"that there is no ground for all this
fear, and that to give way to anything
in the shape of panio" here he glanc
ed at Sir Philip 'would be to invite
suspicion, and bring ruin upon all.
'There was a time when we might
have placed matters so that we should
have been beyond all fear. Had that
coflin-lid never been removed, then
one would have suffered, as it was
but right she should suffer, for the
benefit of all.'
A woman, Diana Rockwood, spoke
tlit-te words; but there was no mis
taking their terrible significar.ee.
There was a fierce contempt in her
tone as she glanced around, looking
with antrry. scornful eves into the
troubled faces of her companions in
crime.
'Had you been guided by me, there
would have been no such danger as
menaces us now. If that girl should
recover her reason '
'Which would be little short of a
miracle,' said the doctor.
'Miracles have been worked before
now,' retortsd Diana. 'If. I say, bhe
recovers her reason, in what position
shall we then stand ? She must be
retaken at all hazards at every haz
ard.' All were agreed upon this point.
Malyon and Rock wood were prepared
to start for London at once.
'I,' continued Diana, 'will myeelf
go to Wiudlestraw, and learn from
Mrs. Prudence's own lips all that has
occurred. Ah!' she added, with a
sigh, 'we acted like fools from the
first, entrusting so many!'
'I have told you that I can answer
for the man Bradley,' said her. bus
band, as he satgloomily trimming his
finger-nails.
'And I can do the same by Mrs.
Prudence Catt,' put in Malyon. 'A
woman of eccentrio notions and hab
its, but her word, once pledged, per
fectly reliable.
'We've more to dread from the
weakness of the principals than the
treachery of the subordinates;' and
the lawyer, with the same gloom up
on his face, glanced at Sir Philip, who
was, in his restless, shiftless way,
pacing the room.
'If you mean me by any of your
confounded sneers, Rockwood,' he
burst out, savagely, 'why haven't you
the pluck to say so outright?'
I do mean you' and the lawyer
rose to hia feet. 'But for your proflig
acy and folly but for your cowardice
and '
'Come, come!' And the old stew
ard hurriedly interposed, 'For every
one's sake, let there be no quarreling.
Philip means well he always meant
well.'
'I'll not be bullied by any one,' said
the Baronet, blustering; especially
under my own roof.'
'Your roof!' laughed the lawyer.
'Why, but for my money when your
father turned you adrift, your roof
wonld have bsen th6 parish work
house. A dog-kennel, as regards
property of your own, wa3 then be
yond your reach !'
'It's a lie! You first lured me into
every Bort of extravagance, and then,
when a fellow was hard up and des
perate, furnished tho means for more
extravagance, but at what a price you
know! But for you, things might
have gone better with me must have
gone better: for, by Jove! they look
bad enough now.'
You ungrateful, ill-conditioned
cur! cried Rockwood, making a step
towards the Baronet, but pausing as
Malyon iaiu a nann upon nis arm.
'The terms were all too easy. To buy
a bracelet for some painted creature,
who laughed at you and despised you
as you clasped it on to pay some debt
of 'honor' to a billiard-sharping lord,
who patronized while he swindled
yon you would come grovelling at
my feet; nay, to gain an extra few
hundreds, would have fallen on your
knees and licked my boots had I per-
mitted It. You a gentleman I
WEHTWOBTH
White with rage, Sir Philip, but for
Darknoll and hia mother, would have
made a rush on the lawyer, who,
laughing in his jangling odd way,
snapped his fingers with contempt
unspeakable.
'Mathew,' this from his wife,
'are you mad ?'
'Keep your temper, Rookwood,'
said Malyon, his hand still firmly
grasping the lawyer's arm. 'No good
got by falling out.'
'No : but muoh harm may come of
it,' said Darknoll, who, at the very
gesture of menace on the part of Rock
wood, had thrown his deformed fig
ure in front of Philip, and now, his
blaok. bead-like eyes flashing bate,
stood scowling at the lawypr.
A knock outside the door
of the room, and, as by a stroke
of magic, all was changed.
Malyon withdrew his hand from
the lawyer's arm, and the lawyer
plunged his hands down in bis pook
ets and whistled. Sir Philip turned
sulkily to the window, and his moth
er subsided into a cbair.
A servant enters, delivers a paper,
and departs.
A telegram from Windle9traw
House from Mrs. Prudence, to Doc
tor Malyon.
Bad news! It needed but one
glance at Malyon's face to convince
his fellow conspirators of that.
No more thought of private quar
rels as they gathered round him.
There is no peacemaker like a gener
al dauger where unity alone is
strength.
'1 his was the telegram, cautious and
characteristic :
1 Doctor and Mrs. B. have taken the
bull by the horns. Their first visit in
London ivas to IMr. Evcrard Corbet.
I have packed up -my boxes. Do the
same.
The doctor's face grows white, the
paper is dropping from his hand,
when it is snatched by Rockwood.
All rend it atrain and again, and
consternation reigns iu Weutworth
Abbey.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
COMMOTION.
It had not taken long for Jane Mur
doch to make up her mind and decide
upon a plan of action.
While Doctor and Mrs. Balm were
taking their after-dinner nap; while
Mr. Joe Bradly was drinking out a
portion or tne money or which he
had so wrongfully possessed himself
at a beer-shop (there was no inn on
Windlestraw Downs), situated some
mile or so from the house (he had left
Mr?. Murdooh to look after cording
her boxe.1-) ; and while Mrs. Prudence
Catt was busy iu what the doctor call
ed his laboratory, sorting herbs and
compounding drugs a labor of love
with her the discharged nursesought
Gertrude Wentworth in her room.
It was one of a suite of rooms re
mote from the other patients, which
were kept now constantly locked, and
of which Mrs. Prudencealouehad the
keys. That is to say, it was her be
lief she alone possessed them, the
fact being that a duplicate set reposed
in the pocket of the vindictive mat
ron she had so thoroughly ousted out
of her former position.
It had been no difficulty for Mrs.
Murdoch- duriug one of her visits to
the neighboring town of Cinderviile,
to order these duplicates; and though
at the time it was without any defi
nite object, she had gone to the ex
pense in the hope tiiat a something
might turn up to euahle her to take a
revenge upon the odious little wo
man with the sharp, red eyes.
With one of those keys she opened
the room known to the establishment
as Miss Mary's. Gertrude was not
there, but as good fortune would have
it, was walking in the walled in gar
den, with which her room, as well as
the other rooms on this side commun
icated. This garden had a small door, lead
ing out on to the downs, of which the
matron had aiso a duplicate key.
Her power over tho poor gentle girl
was immense, and Gertrude rendered
a ready obedience to her command
that she should follow her.
Wrapping about her a large plaid
cloak, Jane Murdoch opened the side
door, and they set off together across
the downs.
A small cart, belonging to a friend
of hers, a neighboring blacksmith,
was in waiting with her boxes, to
take her down to the station.
The blacksmith's son, a balf-witted
youth of the true chawbacou class,
was to drive her. It mattered but lit
tle to him whom she brought if the
cart would hold them. He was to
drive her, and that was enough.
Jane had already got through the
ceremony a very brief one of leave
taking with her fellow-servants ; and
it being known that Bho was out of
favor, and leaving in disgrace, none
had thought it worth while to go be
yond the gates to say a second good
bye to her.
Ten minutes saw her at Windle
straw Station, where she took slugle
tickets for Gertrude and herself to
Cinderviile, a large, populous, manu
facturing town, in which she had re
lations, and from this pjace she dis
patched a note- to Dr. Balm, theu
having arranged a means of commun
ication with ber relatives, departed,
together with' Gertrude, by a oross-
uouuiryooacn to anotner ana more
distant town, and then off to London
direct.
Her'note to Doctor Balm was as fol-
lows :.
'Honored Sir and Doctor.'
'I make no coment upon the way
I have been treeted after so many
years of faithful servis. Providins
has put it in my power to do good to
others, which, atall time isasuficient
reward to me. Miss Mary is now
with me, and I havepappers and doc
uments to prove who she really is.
O, sir! O, Bir ! how could you lend
yourself to suoh black conspirings?
But truth is trnth, and I its humble
instrument. If you causes us to be
hue-and-oried, or by any other means
took, it will go hard witli you and
missis; we shall not be captivated
alone! The pappers I have posted'
(this was not true only a ruse on the
part of sly Mrs. Murdoch) 'to a most
olever lawyer, as will see right done,
and in this world right is all we ast.
If it co3t me all my wage, Miss Mary
shall havo right done. You are a bad
man, ana so is missis, to make so
much of that ferrut-eyed dwarft after
my faithful Bervis; but, as you will
find there is justis for all. With dooty
to madam, I am, honored sir and
doctor,
Your3 respectful, to command,
'Jane Murdoch.'
It requires no great amount of im
agination to conceive the effect of this
very ill-written letter upon the dootor
and his wife.
To use a vulgar but expressive
phrase, it was a crusher !
They kne.v Jyue Murdoch too wil'
to treat ber warning and her menace
lightly.
Thatshe had made some dlsoovery
they were sure. If it was what Mal
yon had often talked to them about in
his liquor..it would prove a ruinous
one to their employers, a fatal one for
them.
It was with the latter probability
they alone concerned themselves.
Long and earnest wa3 the consulta
tion that ensued.
We have before compared these peo
ple to two efts in an aquarium. We
may now compare them to a couple of
vipers, considering what and whom
to strike.
'Septimus,' saldhi3 wife impressive
ly and raising her pole green eyes to
the doctor's face, 'self-preservation is
the first law of nature.'
'True, true, Tiny ; very true! and,
as a man of prinoiple and a house
holder, I reverence the law wherever
find it. Shall we consult with Mrs.
Prudence a most valuable woman?'
'JYb'c-and.the little lady made the
neativerT5ost-vem'pn'atTc. 'For my
own part, I have already given the
matter ample consideration. We
must take measures strong measures
to protect ourselves I respeot the
world, and I hope I havea love for my
species; but when It becomes a ques
tion of self-defence, I regard the
world and my entire species as no
where!' 'My sentiments, little woman ! MT
sentiments to a comma!1 said the
doctor, who was, however, half out
of his senses with fright, and trem
bled in his varnish boots. 'It is, as
you put it, Popsy, a question of sell
ing or being sold.'
'And I say sell! and sell at once,
Seppy! To lose a moment is to lose
ourselves!' And tho doctor's wife
clenched a tiny fist, and smoteitdown
into the open palm of tho other hand
iu order to give additional force to her
words.
But Malyon? your brother Dav
id?' hesitated the doctor.
Must look after himself,' was the
firm reply. 'He shall be warned in
time leave that to me. He has wrig
gled himself clear ere now of a worse
mess than this. David's a elippery
eel, that it is hard to hold. He must
take his chance.'
'Quite so, my little dear, assented
the dootor, who at the bottom of his
mean soul cared not a jot what be
came of his respectable brother-in-law,
provided he was in safety him
self. 'We live in a world of chances
and ohanges, and David, like others,
must go with the stream.' After
which not very clear utterance, the
doctor continued to rub his plump
bands, and glance nervously at his
wife, whose guidance he was prepared
implicitly to follow.
Nor was he far wrong in his resolve.
'Tiny,' as he called her, was a woman
to develop, upon an-emergency, extra
ordinary firmness of character. Sho
rose with the occasion, and the occa
sion had never presented itself in so
threatening a form as now.
It was no secrti at Dripsey Bridge,
and therefore it was no secret to them
Balm and ills wife that a love-engagement
had existed between Ever
ard Corbett and Gertrude Wentworth.
It was also known to Mrs. Balm, dur
ing her last visit to London, that
Jane Murdoch's daughter, the too cel
ebrated Totty Fay, had in some case
of 'disputed engagement,' been rep
resented in Court by Ibat rising bar
rister, Mr. Corbett, who had brought
her through triumphantly.
It was one of those theatrical cases
whidh have eo curious- an Interest to
all classes of the public, and bad been
accordingly much talked about.
Now so Mrs. Balm reasoned it
was likely that Jane Murdoch, an ut
ter stranger to London, would, under
the circumstances, seek outlier daugh
ter, and that Everard Corbett would
be the pef30ts to whom she would ap
peal for Gertrude's protection. Such
was the 'little womau's' idea, and she
acted upon it.
The results will prove that she was
right.
To Everard Corbett, then, the
Balms determined to apply, and in
the race for betrayal come in at least
eecoadL .
Who knows, Pop3y dear,' said the
doctor, rubbing his hands, 'but it may
turn out a good thing for us after all ?'
In this hope, and with an eye to an
amnesty for past offences, this amia
ble and excellently well-suited couple
took their way to London.
Mrs. Prudence saw them leave with
her usual cold, respeotful impassibili
ty; and, on their part the doctor and
his wife felt that the clock-work-like
routine of the establishment would
not be disturbed in the least by their
absence.
A worthy creature, with no thought
beyond her dnties. It was a pleasure
to have eo trustworthy and good a
manageress as Mrs. Prudence.
While the philanthropists of Win
dlestrw were so congratulating them
selves as, in all the comfort of a first-
class carriage, they flew along tbe
iron road that led to London, there
was flying by them, on faster wings,
on those so silent-working but ever
speaking wires, a full description of
their two selves, directed to 'a friend'
of Mrs. Prudence in London, with in
structions to watch them wherever
they went, and communicate at once.
The fact being, that ou the depart
ure of the doctor and his wife, trust
worthy Mrs. Prudence" had driven
herseif over to Cinderviile (she was
too careful to have anything to do
with the Windlestraw Station), for
the sole purpose of forwarding this
message.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
POWDER BLUE MAKES A SAFE INVEST
MENT. The nature of the answer returned
to Mrs. Prudeuce's message has al
ready been conveyed to the reader
through Doctor Malyon.
Without any of that uncertainty of
movement which so often marks the
actions of nervous people when they
find themselves in a 'fix;' without
any fuss, in faot, but in an utterly
calm, orderly, and wholly colleoted
manner, the head matron of Windle
straw set leisurely to work to 'make
up her boxes.'
Her boxea being 'made up' to her
satisfaction, she proceeded to take
Powder Blue just a little into hercon
fidence. To do so, she invited him into her
private room, placed a bottle and glass
on the table, and bade him be seated.
Now, next to Matthew Rockwood,
Joa Bradley stood in mortal fear of
this diminutive, woman.,. . whose ac-J
quaintance he had mado years back
in the Warren.
Not but that, in her queer way, she
had shown him kindness nay, once
when tiie cholera was busy with the
Warren's foul and criminal popula
tion, it was to her skill and courage
he owed his life.
But gratitude was not one of Mr.
Bradley's weaknesses, and he had
long ago forgotten that fact.
Sufficient that beheld her in mortal
fear (there beeing a very prevalent
rumor in the Warren that the mum
mified little herbalist was of the witch
breed, and had secret dealings with
Satan). Bradley was never his lying,
blustering self in her presence; on the
contrary, he wa3 all humility, hold
ing himself ready to fetch and carry
at command.
She knew this, and knew how far
she could trust Bradley.
It was not far, perhaps; but, as far
as it went, the man had often proved
useful, and she intended to make use
of him on the present occasion.
Sit down, Mr. Bradley.
'Yes'm! but arter you is manners ;'
and, as usual, he knuckled his ill
looking forehead.
'Will you take a gla3s of this?' and
Mrs. Prudence indicated the bottle.
Mr. Bradley was always somewhat
suspicious of the herbalist's concoc
tions, and there was a tremor in his
tone as he asked, 'What is it V
'Rum.'
A pleased expression passed over
Mr. Bradley's sweet countenance, an
expression which deepened into a
grin, as the woman filled the glass to
tbe brim.
'I looks to-wards you, mem ! mean
in' respec's-;' and the spirit disappear
ed down his throat as if it had been
water. 'You knows my taste, that
you do, mem, to a nicety !' Then he
added, his eyes watching her with a
demure, not to eay sheepish look, as
she poured out a second glass, 'When
a man is real thirsty, there's nothink
like rum for a coolin' drink its more
softer and more mellerer -than bran
dy ; and as for gin, you must drink
such a lot of it afore you rightfully
feel that you are atastin' of onythink
You know, mem, what the doctor
ses?'
What doctor?'
'Doctor Malyings
'Ha! I was thinking of Doctor Balm,
and be has- more to do with water
than with rum Iu the way of busi
ness.' 'Nothing h'up with the doctor, I
'ope, mem?' at the same time glano
ing at her with a furtive quickness,
for he had caught something in Mrs.
Prudence's tone that alarmed him.
Has the gerl the young lady, been
found ?'
'Yes and by those, I imagine, who
have the best right to her.
Powder Blue gave a terrific bound
In his chair, uttered a prolonged
whistle, and then, as seeking to recov
er from the Bbock bis nervous system
had teceived, this time poured him
self nut a glas3 of rum. .
That'ull be bad for the guv'nor
for all the guv'nors. What does Mr.
Rockwaod think about it?'
'I don't know. I leave Windle
to
the necessary iuqui-
ries.'
Leave Windlestraw? When?'
And with a look of low, startled
cunning, he waited for her answer.
The answer was the one expected.
'I go at once!'
Powder Blue whistled again.
The womau went on quietly, her
keen eyes never leaving his face.
'That is to say, at dusk. I wish my
departure to appear as little like a
flight as possible a jaunt, in fact, to
a neighboring town, on business.'
Ah !' and Mr. Bradley rubbed his
chin reflectively ; 'but there's tho lug
gage?' Get it privately into the stables,
and run it down to the station in your
light cart. I can put the labels on
there as I choose. This must be done
and done well, Powder Blue; and
don't forget, if you come to trouble,
that it was I who gave you tbe office.'
Is the whole business bust up?
Mine s but poor brains alongside of
youru, Mrs. P., and I don't thiuk
when things is at the wust you'd
leave a h'extra workin' cove, who in
his time has struggled 'ard for a liv
in', to go to the wall, 'specially when
that wall's the wall of a prisin.
'You're right there, Bradley. You
ought to know me by this time. I
know you for one of tbe arrantest
scoundrels on earth !'
Oh'
'But I am a woman 'without preju
dices. Tbey are tbe only weeds the
airjof the Warren does not foster.
You must help get me out of this
swiftry, secretly.' (She took out her
watch.) 'The train I want to catch
starts at seven p. in., just one hour
from this.'
All right. But how about me?' he
asked, with a whine. 'Act up to your
noble words, missus, and don't let
one as you've known in h'earlier 'ap
pier days go to tbe wall.1
He seemed to like the words 'go to
the wall ;' and moved by his old,
crouching, animal instinct,-fell back
against the side of the room, and be
gan to shoulder it, his ruffian face ex
pressive of much alarm ; but it was
evident at the same time that he trust
ed in the 'good faith' of the woman.
I shall not desert you, because I
want you now, and shall want you
again. That address will tell you my
whereabouts in London. You had
better not leave immediately at my
he'els ; there is an early morning train
at 5 30. Go bv that.
'- 'A 2. . A "fc " . . W k. J A- . . . r
She drew fronrher pocket a leather
purse, or pouch (she clung to old
ways, did Mrs. Prudence), and count
ed out ten sovereigns, which she
pushed to him across the table.
Tbe fellow's eyes glistened at the
sight of the gold coin, and for a mo
ment they rested with an Indescriba
ble expression upon the bulky purse.
The expression had not escaped the
awfully sharp eyes of prudenoe Catt.
She thoroughly understood it and
she laughed.
None of that, Powder Blue; It
wouldn't pay you in any way. You
are just the very man to get into
trouble, and the very last to pull
yoursalf out of it. Besides, you forget
Mr. Rockwood ! Your only hope is
in us. There !' and she placed the
leather bag on the table 'am I to con
tinue to trust in you or not?'
Mr. Bradley's feelings; were deeply
hurt. He clasped his hands behind
his back (he had previously taken up
the ten sovereigns), and retired pre
cipitately from the table.
'Ob, mem ! it's cruel to be so 'ard on
a poor feller as is try in to see bis way
to do the best for hisself in a world as
is full or trouble. 'Taint in my natur
to fly agin my h'own interests, I as
sure you. No, not though there wa9
thirty pund in that beast of a bag ; and
at a rough guess, looking at it as it
lies on the table, I should say it con
tained more
'It does contain more,' she said.
And poor Powder Blue, the in
stincts of the Warren strong upon
him, gave a plaintive gasp as she re
turned the bag to her pocket,
I'll see to all you want,' he said,
briskly, with an air of cringing apolo
gy ; for it hnd required some minutes
for him to mnster hi3 feelings. 'Yon
can make allowances for a cove, Mrs.
Prudence?'
'Every allowance for you. What I
want is what no one can better man
age than yourself secrecy and silence.
The rest concerns yourself.'
And for which thoughtful kind
ness umble Shanks is returned to Mrs.
Prudence. And a kindness which
ha3 its value is never forgotten by
yours truly.' May I take another
glass of the soother?'
You may take the bottle if you
like.'
'Thank you, I will.'
He did so very promptly, conceal
ing it under the large flaps of his liv
ery coat.
'Keep yonr head clear for business.
T know it's a hard one, or I would
not truss you- with the liquor. I am
now going my rounds among the pa
tientsthe last one, she muttered to
herself.
'At seven I'll be aS the station. But
miosis, just a moment aforeyou go. Is
things really bust up with those two
h'amiable covies as keeps this 'ere
dropsical establishment?"
'I don't know I should think not.
I fancy they know how to look after
themselves, even at the sacrifice of
others. Now you've no time to lose,
nor have I, so obey orders.'
Bradley, privately hugging his bot
tle, knuckled his forehead with more
respect than ever as she left the room.
'What a woman she would be In the
straw
dock!' he murmured, admiringly.
'Them bamboozlers, the Q C.'s queer
cusses, as I call 'em- might jaw their
precious wigs off their 'eads afore they'
made much out of her.' ' ' ' '
The head matron of Windlestraw
House was well on her way to Lon- "
don, with an amount of luggage
which Powder Blue, an effloient judge
in such matters, had pronounced to
bevast,when thatgentleman, plung
ed in the deepest thought, sat brood1
ing over the lodge-fire.
Mr. Bradley was not what is called'
a companionable man ; he preferred5
to vegetate alone. What good things
he could command in this world he
very naturally taking his point of.'
view bestowed exclusively upon
himself.
'A man must love something ho'
would often say ; 'and to love a pers
on you should know him, and who
can a man know better than himself?
Besides,' he rcould add,, when in a
cynical meed, 'its the sort 'o love in
which you're sure to have no rivals.'
He sat alone in his gate-house, and
ruminated profoundly.
'I wouldn't cross thut old woman
no, not for any amount of swagj
She's viper all over ; there's pison In
her from foe to- top.knot,; and the"
more she's quiet and soft-spoken,, tho
morel wants to ewaporate. But I
owes something to my repitatlon. and .
a'n't a-goin to leave this 'onorabt
'ouse, as the M.P.'s say,b'empty 'an
ded. There's not a man in these parts
who has made a bigger ready-money
pile than old Balm. It was only last,
week he put up that new safe from
London in his bedroom. Newjron
safe ! Paten t-iudscribable-every thing
defying R'yalty Safe, never to be'
opened 'cept on the day o' judgment I
I think these could do it though.
He had opened a drawer, and now
took from it several curiously-fashioned
instruments, which with admi
ring eyes and almost tenderness of
touch, he laid out upon the table.
Carefully drawing the curtain of the
window, lie lighted a candle, and
proceeded with his inspection..
There they are, the beauties J
brace and bit, drill, file, and skilling
tons' (skeleton keys), 'all complete!
If a thing isn't to be done scientific
'taint worth the doin' at all ! Science
is what I goes In for when I do go to
work. A man without science is a-'
disgrace to the purfesslon.'
He took some pieces of oiled leath--er
from the same .drawer, andytiros.
ceeded"carefully to polish eaabonew
the queer-looking instruments, talkr
ing the while in an under-fcone to
himself. He ha3 put most of the plate there,
I know the genuine 'all mark, and
all right ! The h'electro is locked up
In the pantry, and there It may stop"
forme! The h'eleoCror yah ! WI
'ates such sneakin deception !' And
this virtuous admirer of the benefits
of science polished viciously at a pe
culiar ott of centrebit ho was hoid-
iug.
'There must bo" some of the- bsfads
too!' he continued meditatively.
He's been drawin' out of the bank
pretty heavy, In caseo' h'accidents, I
s'pose. Lor', lor ! what a world it Is I
If I was to be horned over agin, and
had my ch'ice, it should be in some
other planet, wherethere warn't no
temptations, and conssquenshily, no
perlice !'
lie continued bis rubbing for some1
time; then pronouncing everything
iu 'first rate'i condition, put the tools--into
a bag.
'Unless this wonderful safe as Pre
heard the doctor bragf-o much on Is
something as"Jwas'neyer heerd on af
ore, the job oughtn't to take me long,
I can get Into the room by climbin'
over the weraudah. It's altogether
too h'easy a crack for a man o my in
wentions.' He glanced at a sallow-faced Dutch
clock that was ticking sullenly in a.
corner.
'I shall 'ave more than time to pack
the swag, and take mossel of brekfustr
for next to a hempty 'ouse I 'ates a
h'empty stomach ; and then I starts
by the 5.30 as I promised the old 'un.r
So saying, he blew out the light, af
ter having first of all provided himself
with a dark lantern from hiseeeraing
ly inexhaustible drawer, opened the
door of the lodge, aud 6neaked off oa
his burglarious errand.
TO BE CONTINUED
Herndon's herd of tame buffalo cow&
on the South Platte, numbering:
twenty-two, have given birth since
"March 17th, to eighteen calves, not
one of which has died, or cavorts as
though it wanted to. Some of the
cheese and butter manufactured by
tho product of this herd, and put up
on the Sidney market, compares fa
vorably with tbe Orange and Genesee
couuty. New York, manufacture. A
stock dairyman from Peoria, III., Is in
Sidney and negotiated for a portion of
the herd to take home with him.
Jennie has strict ideas about eqnity
in little things. When she first heard
the story of the Savior's miracle In
feeding the multitude with the few
loaves and fisbes obtained from tho'
young lad's basket, she was awed in
to thoughtful and solemn amazement
Some time afterwards, in the midst of
a talk about other matters, she sud
denly paused and asked with speciat
concern. 4Did they give back the bask
et to that boy?'
Even if a boy is always wbistligg?
want to be an angel." it is Just as well
to keep the preservad pears on the top
shelf of the pantry
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