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The author of the present volume considers thai he may fairly perform the task by remarking that if the tales herein contained are not so* amusmg a!3 others he has written, they wiU perhaps be found to be quite as entertainingr, and possibly, in sdfcparticular^ more instructive. If they shall be received ^the jJubUc with the favor that was fo^nd by the preceding volumes, the author will have reason to congratulate himself that they have achieved success of a aoWwhat remarkable character. > , ' ■" ' ' ',^ ^- . ■ ■ ■ Max Aniun. ~\ Ma 'ij ^■im : 'm : \' ^.. V I'?, : / < ■ _ '% k^ ' 1 .1* •■*■< 11 ' /^ (/ V -Aife.i S30ffs«^r-w *£r i^f *fw'''-' / -, ^, y.i \- CONEBNTS. P /^ Major DViiwooDy's Lbo» The Fortunate Island, The Cny of Burlesque, AnOldivFooy, - \ C r 9 43 103 168 -I .% I.' > ■ '/ *fM 1 4 A ■?*»■ ^> ^' .^- .^i '"- ,-^ .» » "i ^ ' . • ^ I «• 4 / ■^7,'. ^EI^aH^C' ,/,•,/, *'"■ * t9 * ^ . ^ ' . N ^^^l-t ' t .;■" ^TjJT -^, ■*V 4^* :.^v />« s -^ //^i; / \ '"- :H^ 1 ■ « i > ■ '•?.'. ./' ■ "^ ^' .^ • ■'■i/ '/ ' ■ , ,..'-V. ^^i.,^ • ^ 1 i' 1 ' ■ • * # ^H ^» ■ .^,4t ' / u ( " ; #1. /. -It > J n: iMl^^sMtk^ », » ■»l. I, MAJOR J)UNWOODY'S LEG,, AND THB GREAT PO'^IlWATOMIE CLAIM. ift^Q m"^'*"^' °° ***« afternoon of the third dav of Tnl. 1868, Major Heflry G. DunwooHv nf^U^ a^ t?^ - ''^^' Pennsylvania Volu^teers!ThZtk^^%Vl*„^'»»' < erahon of h s wojrid. He beiraii t^thi^^^ ^^?° *" conrad- it wonld be to have to hon^J^t ''"'■''howverjrmobnvenieiit der of hi8 life^ aSd he coufdn'f S.l °°!,'*'9 ^"T* 'h" "»«'"- and what woild^be its fai h! '^ "ondenng where his leg wag and th-otif ^4' a^nnpte^nr "''' '<"^'' -"^ " ' ' 10 MAJOR DUNWOODY'S LEO. viy" Vsls- self " b*^ °^* complete control of my- lauffS- thA^L^/'^^'U^r^^ ^^'^^ ^*'" «aid the artist. inS^ 't if ?f * *^ ''^^ *»^^en and the sketch is whoUv un loured. I should not have mourned if it had been '■ - lou are too generous," replied the Maior- «« hnf t «,:ii **i It MAJOB DUNWDODT'S LEG; ^^ The Major looked at the hand for a moment It v^^ * SS^ "S^jiSv^f •iL,^'^"'»?>» «~ nSthe" .'SSn^- «jS^." »"* ■* ^ «" «"' »«"« you in «,y w.^ I ri,.m gr^tij " Mkjor Doawoody f Indeed 1" exdaimed jOu, artist m ahe nelL' '^"f.f *^^/ "P"«* the Major with not a little eager- v"Oh, yes," said the artist, with a briSht amilfl «« \r^ of the Dunwoody™ ^"S""- ' ''»'e cfte° l>e«rf her speak ^i weU^';^^,";' «^"- "I "^w your grandfether The conversation need not be ffiven itiilftf ml rnu^ .. . ^d how the loves and hates, and bargains aiid enteSTTd u*^ «ie mstoiy of Olanon County for a quarter of a centuty ^ A t l as t the Major -said, — ^ " P^S ^Kr^^'^ "^ ^ name yet- " *^ I'Widora MDu% is my name. My moth^,; jo|r faic *',*"^:?''t^ - ifXf ^J""* ' MAJOR DUN^OODT'S LEG. mwried Senator M'Du%. state senator. Poor father died many years ago, and we aw now Uving in Washington." ^ ^^ Studying art, I presume ?" asked the Major, glancing at the W ?«*'" ^PJ»ed Pandora; " I am an artist." BketSes ?" '***^'''"~~'*****' *~^ ^^' P^*^" ^ ^^« to for • anlw;^;'' ""'^ ^^''^f'^^V l^^'^i^g ; " I came here to study li^^i^^'i T''\'^^^ 'You seewhat SUe Mafl> '' ^^^"^ ^^'^^ '^*^'^' «^°d showipgthe'sl^SI *i,rJif* « a—ar-I should say that was a picture of—well of the ^bow of a stovepipe. Isn't it?" ' " You are not very complimentary," said Pandora '« I knnw It IS very raw and unfinished ; but it is at lei^ to liken W that Jbumau leg m the jar of alcohol over there." ' Wnw JJ' ^I r'^L^*? ^* »«' «> »* "J astonishing likeWsl How stupid I am To be sure. The very image of it "T ^ ^Come now, I know you don't think so 1 You are flattering whZn i^i'h^^n It is wonderful I But-why. bless my soul, what on earth do you want a picture of such a thing is that "What for?" ' • " I eipeot to 8eU it to the Government, imd to have it nl»«.,i ' «^B« ae other histoid piotore, in' "tS^ ttanVK -■ Y^-7^ not going topnt tWe leg in the pJctnre W ' '■ bo;:^^^'js:>^.n:;!ir^ how-wdi. but (^e w.. . . am jfrawing nil the p^^ lH> «.7 gW to «.T« yon oome to »e me." «id ^5. 14 K* •t ' f MAJOK DtJNWOODY'8 LEG. '- --Jj^JSnC'tl^ to aa so-an. Mrs. M'Dufly flkt upon the^fa^a^^^^ woman of distiignished^^L^ee In^T^^' ^^^ ^*« ^ lent, biit rounded rather ifiSTSTftn ' wl^\^™®' °o* ^^^r require, paving the o^^ ^7^^^ head^^a sS^ngly-de&iercWn L?^^^ tf ' ^'*^ * ^^^^ 8*»»Ped' and piercingWack li^^Ur^wt^tZ^^ "P' ^'^ "^^ili^e no^ with a sense drpow^T?.?*«.!^r^^ impressed the observer been such a^mat te^^j^nl/^^^JT^^ '"^'^^^ throne, she woWld have left w'jmr^^- \^ ^^"^ ^^ to a tory of nations.1 ^"^ '""^"^ distinctly upon the his- wo^lS; r W Sl^e was a «5rsgsawth4tkIorIW^vS^^^^^ She clearly foture of Pandora^ ^^^Xl2!if^^^ T \^"«^^ "P^^* ^^ " Pandora." sh^ said '' f to^?f ! aT^ P^^»«"? to her. oaU ^M . ^ saw. I trust you did not ask this man to " Yes. I did, moij ^'^Z'A^J'^'j^J'^^^^^^y^ of the ous land speonlatiol »„,?Tr j^j • ? "*'• """^ ^ery snspici- . when hacomes." ' """ *«»» •'"» with coolneJa ,, ||Whyr ; .1 : ilate him, my child ? tvi,t» ui ^»y«iuBiy. Very charming mi, ,ld wh«. L ^T l'^'' *fr- S"'* " a «™.gh Con^88 he Im te ri^*.?*" '"' Pottawatomie daim •do^ r '""'■"« 8^' I though:. tt4t w«rt hive 4n. if he *M ^^i^fot^^u^^^^^}'} . "* of poverty, fandora ? \ on talk most unreasonably." I mean what I say," said Pandora firmly. Very weU, Miss, we shall see," replied Mrs M'Dnffv ,n-a;«« and sweeping majestically from the rdpm ^' ""'^ J^ajor Dunwoody called upon that very Evening. He caUed again the next evening. He called frequenUy ujon foU^^ evenings; and althorigh Mrs. M'Duffy treated SwithTld^ ^8s which bordered upon disdain, the mSs infSuatbnl^ Pandora was so strong that he forgot Mrt^M'Lffy^ i^d^lf^ T^Sr' '^' '""'"^^'^^ gradousness of her daugl^^ *^ hes^tete^ to Jf '"T"r^ *^** ^^""^^^ loved hi^, hni he cLuw he c^uii^il P^*^*^^*l '"^^^^'^^ to ascertain the fact C ^S.d^ ^''if r {^^'^^^P^eti'^g Ws milrtune ^Td Z^ committed herself to him, and he was haunted by appXnsiJn ■'*.'^Z'f: « &r mow 1»»8 of loopmotiT He TOe^TX ''*^.?.'*^ '" 'ii^Z! when the Scmon began Tb^^^u^ l*"?* '^em tremtUoSdv when the Majort KddeTSv Srt't^'f J?S.»"?'»^ >•« S the head of the lady in fronV^f ..* 'P' '""'''®^ 'he bonn^ anon tfy the leg fell?™" STL^ ^T^"!" ?"* *•«"'•» ey^.^ fcok^ away vigo«»^" Th^lt\t"^°' "■" «*"• ^^i^ It and pnUed it down bv a 4«7<,? V ^*"'8 enmson, grasoed Wet looked at CX^ntmti^''% Th-^weawiTS^ to&int. ""ignation. Pandora eeemed ready «»e pew. Pandon. cou^d 4o?^l^jri??« »P0° the baTof 1? h^ *?^ *^«*^* ^«^^ into the ZT^^ulTi?. ^' ^' «««ed * wUd tatoo upon the wooTn trfc"t1on ^^^ fc.^ fl **^«*« *^at ' In an agony of moi-tilication SL J? -^ ^^* of them, tioii to leave tL buildlnr Th^ ^Al Ti ^^*^ '^' ^^^ Jowpertam the cause of the distS?^ ^ ^*? W^«^^ ^e Major hopped down tie atlt iS???' ^^""^ ^^^'^ »"». »^ - behind and &r6 iH con^liriV'' ^'^.'^iWe %%ini out banging. a,e pew-doors, a^dThaW tS.'"' ,V"^^°^ the'^sef ton tional and exciting maimer ^''^^''^ generally m a most sen». l^dora followed her lover at n -kU :,. ^' -• ^ porch of the church was ^Lf H ^^^ *staii«e. When'thii «"d to the sexton,-! ^•^'''^* ^'^^ ^»th shame and ra^/ 4, ■ ", H si -T; ""^r- MAJOB DjDNWOODy^B LEG. " Take it oflf I Unliaokle it ! Take it oflf quick I" The sexton brayely approached, fumbled about for a moment m search of the strap, tfnd an instant later the Major's unported leg lay upon the cirpet squirming about, kicking viciously, and ^^•^,}''^^ ^d thither Hke a wounded and desperate animal. Call a carriage," gasped the Major, as he leaned againstthe , W^ftill« ■ ^ The sexton dispatched a boy for a vehicle, and when it came he placed the Major withm, helped Pandora^ to a seat, and the party moved toward home. Pot a Uttle while neither the Major nor Pandora sfebke. The situation seemed too awfW for words. The silence was becom- ing embarrassing, when suddenly Pandora said.— " Poor man 1" i !! if^**i M« you wrxy for me ?" asked the Major eagerly; ^ Indeed I am. How you must have suflfered !" mortifi^ti^^*'^°" ^^^ ^**^ ™® for subjecting you io such ••But yoo ^uldn't help it. I would be. very unjust to blame you.' •' ^ •♦ A^nd you do not dislike me because I am so crippled ?" •^How could I ? You are a soldier. You lost your leg hon- orably, did you not ?" ^ *v?j "uu •• It was shot away at Gettysburg." 'You lost it to save my country, and you think I woiM not \lionor you fpr such a sacrifice ?" ^ vf " ••Youj kind words make me brave. If I might dare— *' u * »uch a hero as you may dare anything," she said. ^^M»7 1 daw to ask if,, while you honor me, youcan also love You may; and if you do, Iwill answer 'Yes.'" ' . V You are an angel I" exclamed the Major. «-i ®^f?^l*®®^M.*^/"^1f*®*'**" ^" » ^«»7 usuAl manner. whiiOi «H °t • ^ ^««f H Y^"" ^^ ""^^^ *«n^ed into the street upohwhich Pandora lived, she said,-;- - ™ V !! fSL °^ T"" f^ «»«'^' ^'he leg that was shot c^^!%. ^L^r'S i!^^«. °«* «> «^«<»h to givHifl suffeiw country the benefit of his skiU as a legislator, as to open ft^ ^. V'.;, «ttg ..M « I Achilles Smith entered ** • * tt;ubt'""ai^~li^.<^°*'^^'m keeping hi, feet apo, Mr. Smith sat down. ;; Wlb.«l,jp» We r «ked the G.„e»I. * ' "Mix one." V General, and ^id,#^ T^ ""^^ '^«*«<* ^oae to those of the .'.' X®"' ¥^ ^<*« **»^oW thimr work r ^" Oh. pretty weU I tolerable ITWi xl , ^ insider yonr case to mom)w a«5 r^°°»?**«« ^^ Promised i?ady to tell your story y^Zl Vf I™* ^^^ *<> be on hand, - Yes, I know it b^W^" ^""^ '* '^^^«^*' ^ '^^^koh r' ,/ Vei7 well. Nom.what is the ->^MBigL _ ^^ , .^ «M»lped7onr V^ "* ^- ® ^^HBi » IndlfiPWho " JumpiiigAntelope, a chief:'' ^^1^^ ;> •; Underwhat oircumstanoefl ?" • ^.^Iirasti^ing to convert him 1^ ^tMiii the Sc^ 'i&llf''^' ^'»°'*«»»**«t«e4in> fie couldn't „ ^ '* ■ -.:■-■■. ■■*,;>-.-■■;■■--'', ( •racco. Then he took your hair, did he?" "'^^ P'«g w lot M'^ '* "^ Z**^** *^^ ^^"^^ ^•^^ mu^ered me if I hai *♦ You «b«)M>«d the Bible when you ran r I jyg il x il! a« t th i nk m w y bo thai vMa^^iMwe. -JVrniit i ) wt> htifT^^^"^^^ *^« Committe^ol^^^^ iidiandtt^, Hy boy, don'i caU me a>orfiet if we d^^> — s For '): '^f ^'. '%-*^-,-, ,■> 98 MAJOR DUNWOODY'S LEG. ^-- . r.Z^^y" "' " ="" »' ~"'«"'»8 «'»« I> aftv," said Smith '1 What's that?" '•neM'Duffygirl. the'iyZi'^"' 'ny-eM at first, bat there is «.„ther man in "Who is he?" WmothVwU*!^ XhS^"". .f e's taken a fane, t^hun. «etof him aftepards, pS^Saliy/- """ '^'" »°d 't spread to the dovete5°i'tU"trGeo?g:'ChS^^ "her picture. Going t. to thr^^o;e2St fo^er'°aU**Sf; •J:,"/'''^"?' » ""U ^»rf««a« you mUid whariteUTou±^^'.?^'"."'f. **"»«»»• K^f model in^te^.^^l^S^-^^^^^^^^^^^ * .. Y "*® *^ ^®«^ certain of that." f-^**^ ner. oiple." * '""™ * ~"Pl« »f Generals-peace men fa,m prin- a^^ht that I idn't brmg out one-third more Wn I never had then I took in.*' ¥oii: that t^ok'T^lo'cSn^eT^^ W,s it yonr war record to pay for the weasel V!'^''*? '" ^*: ^ot enough business •Peyealwa^^^CXSlet-''"'" "" * "^^- -J*,^; -;t"* n^'K y,"«aid Smith MAJOR DUNWGODY'S LEG. 83 "Of course." . J^/.':?^T" *^ * ^*^ nominated I hired four hundred men Idmded them mto squads, fitted them out with rods and chains and theodohtes and ot^er surveying apparatus, and started them b31 over the district, pretending to run lines. A squad would burst mto a man's potato-patch and go to work The owner would rush out and say, ' What in thunder you feUows a-dom m that potato-patch T And they'd say, ' We> survev- I ing the route for old Belcher's raihroad.' Then the mxa would fly mto the house and teU his wife that Belcher was going to run a railroad through his property, and they'd go wild i!Sh joy. Jiill, I earned that district by fifteen hundred majority over a m^n who under other circumstances would have beaten me out of my boots." " That was genius, sir I nothing but pure genius." , !* I ^mk so ; genius for statesmanship ; not such statesman- fr^, ^\ xu? .^»^ I" *fa« played-out despotisms of Europe, but tne kind that is needed in a new country." • • I say. Belcher, how would it do for you and me to go around andcaUonoldMrs. M'Duffy? I've a notion to go." dated Ma^o^^°^' ^*^**^ ^® °*" ^®**^® *^^ °*^ °^ *^*' ^^*P^' Mrs. M'Duffy was at home when the General and Mr. Smith called, and she received them with much cordiality. I The conversation naturally turned at an early miment to the I jubject of Smith's claim. ♦•By the way, Mr. Smith," said Mrs. M'Duffy, "your claim rests, I think you said, upon the fact that you were scalped ? lOur head has not that appearance." "^i*l°®! 7*1" ^®®' madam, that in the lapse of years the wound has healed ; a ne^i^ scalp has gr^ually formed, so that now I appear Jo be merely bald. I have the original scalp at nome in my trunk. '^ !!ffi^__^fy interesting. Were you ever scalped. General ?" to los7th^ ™^^'* ^y^^^^^*8"^enib take scalps, uoT •• The General is an old Indian fighter," observed Achilles. i |^»8 not awareofthe fact,'' said Mrs. M'Duffy. "Youar© fcmihar thwefore with the plains. Did you ever visit the Pot- tawatomie R^rvation— Mr. Smith's prospective property ?" '.i t,mt \ , ■j.i's. K^-j-feri*^^^^^^^^ > *?^'»^f|'. at ♦• '^ ' if «n-w MAJOR DUNWOODrs LEft. ewtrfthSy'Mo'Si^'t"'' l>.nd«>m6,t t«ot of ground . S^l'?.^'"'*^ '^ «^« o- «. when you get it. do „„ not, Mr. BhaU bmd a house in^T^^ o? m^^* J"" *««»'«« I l»Te there. WeehamavanlmTf^i* i?."*''*'^' »«>d we wiU houJf«s;tt :::c'i:g^^frHi^'>» intend to buT iu o»^,^ r»'^*#i«s for warfrobo I— well r kind th.ra"'^S;rei^'t:s^ o^7h "^1?^ "^ *^^y^ ^oii vation to tun, green^th e^T °° ""* "'^ PottowatoW Beser! ^^..of the ™»«- Wcoij:-;XuTgi2.,'^ twice as thick as the tree and »h.h.jf' *^ ^^"^ "«»« than «eur. a friend of hers, «li^„t^ ji,^^^" "• *■ «>iiiiois° ening Washington's rigMir^ J' ^>'."l«' ■" fo«.short. wsbng upon a mountain uMn the !i^^!i ''"/'?' »Ppear tobe "etions of this kind requiTumi * "^^ "' '^» "^«- Co'- a-e ^-c r^ *^|. thou.«.d miles of?^^^'°^rr"S° # MAJOR DUNWOODY'S LEG. 85 Judge you know, has a daughter who professes to be an: "Jealousy ma'am! she^r jealousy. The Judge knows Wn more about art. anyhow, than a Coloido mule Wws aS tb« sidered system Now. my opinion. Mrs. M'DiSy is Iha Sd Michael-what's-his-name. over there in Rome 3ldn'* i^!5i^ candle to your daughter in the matter of ^v^ri^iT^tas""'*' * As the General was speaking, the door open^.^rpkndom entered She spoke politely, but coldly. toXSi 1^^ the^^han to bid him adiet^nd^Sk ^sSfr^t^ed'^^ It occurred to Achilles that if Mrs M'DnffW <>k/.ni^ u It gave hun some embarrassment. ^ ^ ""' **"* ^^M^'i:'^:^:^io^T'^'- '"-been*. '• Is the central figure completed yet ?" ahlil ?"''* ^'^^^^- ^ ^^ °«t M s^e about the l«r and I shaU make some studies before I paint it in " ^' ^ ^ whyno?omi^T9 *S^,4iffi««% with that portion of the figu« whUe he 18 cuttmg down a chen^-tree." '**^ True 1 true 1 That did not occur to me. What vou r«i.iw wa^t IS a good model. I think I could recommend one^' ^ ■' } ^^''% """^ **'«*^y' *hank you." ^^'^e"** one. M e ed I A plfts t or o f Pari^^r' * run « a •xk.tl ^^- It *- No ; a Feal on«^" . . *iA real one ?" ' ""'" ' '** Off" ' 'f'" "-"■''' "'K"'-^'' f ^■ ,._5J_ *1_ : :r.. ' if<«v/ ■ ■« »*rj ,' A%'. #'»,£' y^ -f a %1'l^,^.kv,/i^ --- 1 »• *■ ?,^£»n^i^&«; ■•■-"■'iv-''- •''^■^ MAJOR DUNWOODYS LEG -rather a queer offering ''Do you think so?" wila to eipSj"^^^ ?,f ^ <«,flattering' women, but if I heart instead of my leg" * ^^ I would offer her my " It would be dreadfol if th« lo^, i portion of you, wouldn't it?" ^ ^^appened not to want any «in I know ?•' ^"^^ "^^^r^^ke the investigation yourself. How "I iotY/ undertake it now T «ff^ ti^Beservatioi^ateo. Iloveyou pli?^ *^"^ ^^y'^"' I offer WUl you be my wife ?" ^ "' ^^^^^- Oh, howlloveyou i ;;^. Smith, it is impossible." ^ Jiu^tf^t'^lu'Trmt'ttT ^;'-Po-i^ie. Donotaay home upon the wide and b^uLlSr' ^-^^ «^«r dreamed of a iiome,two stories and an at^n f • 1 ^'^V^^ ' ^ «weet little Jers, where you can see e^MeenSw "^^^^ ^^*^ ^^ B^ut two hundred acres in potafoes l' e w/k'' * '*™^*»* ^^"«' ^^ere whew you can hunt the Cndin^l^ T'^^^'^ ^«»dow, and witiiout going off theeT^i^^nd^J'^^^'' *°^ *^^ prairie- hen gu-ls can be had for two d^lki^ a m^nrrj^' "^'^''^ ««^ant ever dreamed of such a homr?' *^ *°^ ^^^^ ? Have you "Never." praved and deoayimr East W t^ ™*"»'">« Inraries of the de- beef and b»ff3o tZues ' ZiJ^"''' "' "»» '«««« «Pon j«^ the Artesian weulS ^etetSeZ""" '^<>~-W».taC^ t«e by the front door the o^i ^^i."" "" "* '""eath the «rf together we «^ waM Z 2^" '7»»y-««ven mfle,? a«roB8 the 8«rf brush. Be m^e 'LfdT^.,fV">'aea.r,bbiti w;th ratjon. fom thenea».t?nAi" J-J"," <^'' "L* pantrr Wadungton. an/wgoSJwtCJ^vT'" K^^^ ^'""^^ «^ I wm guarantee that S^.rrut^ r^^ifae'Slli '-t; •*>»<' ' a queer offering MAJOB DUHWOODT'B LEG. 'f 27 lyou turn them out. Will vou Pan<1nwi9 n^ ii ., Ipromise? Oh, say that youC me?' ' ^'' ^'^' *^^ " Mr. Smith, I cannot. I am very Borry, but to tell the truth pUmly, I am engaged to anoflier geitlemai " ' "" I " To Dunwoody ?" " I did not mention his name, sir " "I refuse you; that is enough." ^" - Oh, very well Miss M'Duffy. i understand you I will bid you a very good evening. I hope you will not W o^a sion to regret your deoisiom" ^* "Certainly I shaU not I Good evening, sir I" As AohiUes passed out through the haU he encountered Maior I'll «^tlf/,°''''f ' ^""u J^PP^*^' mud-headed, military humbuir An ti J m' T -^u^^"" ^^^'^^ °**°y d»)^« older." ^ ^- ^ An then Mr. Smith went home to bed. i:'andofa greeted the Major with a joyful smile I h^L *' ^? ''t ' ewlwrned the Major, savagely ■■ I wiri. •• Trlr »?]??».' M- ?«»"".'"«» only one leg ?" '^ withmroane T^ L -^°^- Z'^"' ^ """l^ have. Vashed him wijn m, oane ISo he wantsio marry you. does he ?" " And t^f ^""'^'h.nks I ought to aooept him." «Bked ?he M^o^t fond^;;:'^ "^* "P y"" ""''*'» -»"^ ««' ?" ^»a^affiyTt;:^^trtt'oit^«t • iives a bill approppating my % to me.'*#^^*r "- "?^"^^ :''-t^; fAJOR DUNT^OODT'8 LEG. ^ How splendid f" • . , Ieg'4ft1n'les7dt!„Toff '''^- ^? ^' ' '»» »l't»in the .then, wbn'twe?" \ "«"«"• Well be married right off! I. 1^ doling let „s Msolte'^'-'^L/"* "'"^' '•"'»»»; " '• Oh'S-lT^^r- ™^" "-Tinner?.?"" '""' "^ ^^■ • ever^li ^T'^J!.? '^"»'«'- ^^^^ times more th.„ I e.n | a ^.s^^&mmtsi' ^:?r» -'■■'?* >■- J-e-i conversation need not befoMtol^ £. , ?*"* »' ""»"«>• The I to give the most in?Le ff^t'ae M •'''^i ,.^' •PJ«"«d talk of that kind is usuaUV nftw^,? Major and Pandora, but we wiU lower the cSSiSf ^^ *" ''"*'^« Parties ; So ablf'rlZt*:^?,; '^^^'"^i. With a.favor. Pablio Property, ..ZA„t™!^-"°*'**^ the Committee on f the Medie,/k nsZn* to MtrienrT^n" ""P""*"" ^^ Act specified the lee oonUi„^ ^ ir?"J7 '^^ Dunwoody." The property to »e rested""'"'"!* " ^^^it 180T. Case 26. ai the t<.?y1? ui^n'tele? iTefcnCT'''^^'""^ It with a provision that the boS^'th. I» N?* f^V^ ^ "°«"i and retained in the MuMnm B J .^ *,?.'»'*'* ^thdnfWn whi<£X5dbe direoLd to LTrT.^ ' committee of inquiry, orSennacherib doM|' t^e ^B^A^^f^^ more than I can MAJOR DUNWOODT'8 LEG. ag jspeoting the custom in Persia. Greece, Egypt, Rome. Carthage, a estane, and modern Europe. After a spirited deWe the^- Dlution was lost. But the General was not discouraged. He resOTited another resolution, that a special committee be di- ected to inquire whether the pereon mentioned in this bill was he same Major Dnnwoody who, in a fit of alcoholic frenzy, in dw" ^'''^*^^' Pennsylvania, in 1866. treed his aged grand- ither one ramy night, andcompeUed that venerable and rheu- atic person to roost upon a lofty branch until momingr >oted ""Z '' un^ ' fP^ ' ^*y« 1 (^^^^'^ Belcher). ^ hilf if*h^^^ ^-^Tfu ^"^ * ^^^ reading, and was adopted. I f ii ^»^^«o«*^ed the approval of the Senate and the Presi- lent. Major Dimwoody drove around to the Museum in high ;Jeee with Pandora., He carried in his pocket an empty pillow Him Jf*' w*Jf ^'5!^*?' ^ ^ l*^' *^°°^« **^« long-lost fra^enl J^XL^^t^y^^ ^^"°^ *^' j*°i^' *°^ presented We- ?v f!^;i, t ''^"u ^^« exceedingly polite, and at once led the ^r??i 1^ P *°® ^^®'® *^® treasure was kept. While he was unlocking the case Pandora could hardly re- ratchmg the janitor, she exclaimed,— .^ 'n^'l*. ^* f ««*f *• ,d«S ? I can hardly realize that we are eally go ng to get It I Mother will be so glad when George iVashmgton has his other leg on ?' ^ 'a wish I had my other one on." said the Major, pleasantly. abAn^^l \ Y-l ^ **^^ ^"* y°« can staid it up on the nP!^*1^**?'xP®^.^.^'^'* *^® huge jar containing the limb, and -ook it ,out of the spirits. - ' " I feel," said the Major, as he unfolded his pillow-case. " as if ^X"!.* °??^,'f y; disinterring one of my near relations." "So beautiful ! Isn't it ?"> said Pandora. ii^u^?^ suddenly scrutinized the leg closely. .Wliv>,hny— ^^ I ^otft^ ema etly u nder s tand^tef r— ,80 It IS. Why, Thunder and Mars (excuse mv agitation a^d^ra,) theTe must be somettiing wrong about twf I'' ' " Wrong, Henry ? How?" ^ oaUslo/' ' '**'*' "^'" "*^ *^^ ^*^***'- " '^ " ^^* *^«^ ^^ i:^ \ do t MAJOK DUNWOODT'S LEG. iV? ••' i. ao not know, dear a^^ f oration which-'" T- «»»« f^n» have pocdiarftie. of] •»V,MSgJ^"t^.'"" ""'J'«^ "'i-g in the ^cohol » ,o„g ^.sw; I won't," ^^^^^ - - -^^^^^ AboBt three week. It^Tl^. un"^''"^- •^< ^ .,,/,'. 'eg, and this oue ouJdn'ft have had IfAJOR DUNWOODT'8 LEG. ai ^ obtoined by bribing the charwoman, and proceeding to Case 1286, he removed the leg from Jar No 11, and pot it in another PecnharitieB ofl^e iXtr" ""' "^^'^'^^ '' "^*^ "^^ ''« «»** ^ »>-« « vn?" r^i/*''^^ '**^' chuckling. ' "Yon mntilftted ontcast, To'utrat tts 3'*'^ ""^^^^ ^° ^'°'^«^"'^*^^'^ ^ "-•" -^ When the Act had been signed by the President, the Major drove with Pandora to the Museum a second ti^Te. uJon reachmg Case 1286 he was for a moment struck dumb iJSh amazement. Presently he said—" coilr^^'ma^ r**"'"' "'^ dear, do you see ? It's the leg of a .fYe~e-e8,it8eemsto be, Henry. But perhkps mortifioa- 'tely certain thai, ^e. Pandora, this Jr«Hd an author- aloohol so long] The annals of n no record of 5'* you, because quickly as pos- .1.- -^ ; ■ • •'• -. ■ , too, do yon?" 't look at his 'gementasone kps my leg is Sure enough f II let me have 'ongress ^cafe- " You posi- to^waii" ni M.j*?, ' riiobbledio Jf York upon spending in early hour. tion or something has set in." "g is VOTv mysterious. I can't account for it." ' •• Une of your legs was not colored, was it, my love ?" Oh, no, of course not !" bette^T^^* ^^ ^*°^***' ^^" ***^ **^'®^ ^* °^®' *° preserve it !! V®' mi'T '. *^"**^ '^*'* aUowed in this institution." lou 11 take it anyhow ; won't you, Henry ?" miile !" ^^ ^**'' **^ "^^^^^^^^^e. Take the leg of a negro for '^ Well, but, Henry, I can paint it white in my picture." *i<,iJ^tL }' :?'^A^y^' y^^ know we won't care to have par. tacleii of fractured Africans scattered about our house. We can nave^no cherished memories associated with a leg like this." w V*?ri.^® '**'.* ' ^"* ^* ^®®°»« '»*^e^ hard that my Washing- hng^^ '^''''^^'''' ^.** **°" *^8 ** !«»«* * «»«"§» nnl^.^ ^? * "^H'*- ^^^« *'^~'°- He would have stood nppn a sdUtary leg for centuries rather than have robbed another man (» his membei;s." Pandora sfehed deep l y , and m ft d o^op her mind to try to l ie - wwi^; anrso they went down stairs, and drove aJay to state the case to Colonel Dabney. ; w»jr •» ^ The (^^ ftfter hearing th^ story , distinctly affirmi^^e opinion that ttiere had been foul pla/ The Majbt Jumped at omith, and their designs respecting Pandora. •f i; .l."^«-l *1. J 88 ) MAJOR DUNWOODY'8 LEG. ••"Never mind- J ,iriii ^ * x , ^ ' , •• Yot. .h.U have the Sn«t*H„*^? P'*""-" »•"« »he Colonel tr,"'"-*™^^^^^^^^^^ I'aW prodded th.t M.Jo, iJeneral Beloher m.^^^ i * «on to «.e biur"" "^^ » ""■« ""i «Ioq«en(^e,„h in oppo,i Epa^JnoSp'^o^Crut''' "■"■"*"• ^^^ Lard of ablewarfare?ni^ ??•,"' '" ««»roh of a-Zei? In»t i^T °' American militiaman, iho L^! T'^"^ ^«' *hi8 oS " barbarity fe) an «ged m5 infi^^t ^ '*''^^^ suspected., of fieS charged with hiSng^rhind A^'*"^'^'"' '"''^ ^h« had been to begin tbisghoulieip^X^^^^ «* Gettysburg" solemnly dedicated to Z uses of n?^'°^ ^''' ^**»« *ha* had befn> . He Would direct attention t6 ?L ' '°'^°^^° ^^"ot'y. cm^umstencesWrroundlnrthfs^^^^^^^^ and mysterious ^llZf^ ^^ ^*j«^ »»»woody that L blr' ^d'"itted even by ^^i ^'^^^ *^*'ded iim by senarii! a*^. "^^ L'^^' ^^o other sunnliS'r-M^^ had in^hisT^rdTreceinf f 1 ^^^^^««' T**** supplied to Major Dunwoody by the S "" ^^"^ ^^'^^^^^al ^^ and he was credibly idf6rm«5^ *u x ,^®''°°'«°*' makinff fi^. reared at a church i tti?cLSf l'^'- ^'^^'^^ had reinll^ which he performed sowe extS^i ^*''°^ * ^^^ch leg, wiS -*«.ib..Uow«,.ol.a^ ^ -4,|e^^^thM.ne.„ -V ■\:"' aid the ColoneJ. in eristenoe, no ided that Major take possesjsion stitution under eech in opposi- .. ever heard of „Io8t % honor- lopjlaft to seek recover mem- ibal was fairly ^^ing in aleo-f 1, Wellington, de had yet to active govern, erved for the ^ ,the suflFering this ohscore 3" of fiendish ho had been Gettysburg, hat had been- itry. mysterious fcted even by Two other ?ress. That rtificial legs laking five ; id recently * leg, with scandalotks, knd now he a seventh, tone naan ok well fot MAJOB DUNWOODY'8 LEG. 88 li!S« ?h? mJ^- *f S*"'^ ^ *^^ *'*»"°*'y *hat it was willing to nfle the Medical Museum in order to confer a« o^VrTi m«n ^fl'r^^^^i ^ '^''^' *^'«^ o'^i^ary men comfortfble When the General concluded his remarks CnlnnTn^ Ireph^and stated the facts of the caTpl^N ^^^^^ ^ The bill was passed by a handsome majority. ^^^•^- , CHAPTER IV. #•. AchZ S^iKr^ f *^' ?T'^ ?^^^^«''« A«* indemnifying ^ the House hy a majority Ttwo votes ' Th« 1?^'''^ ^T?^ By some means the information of the »<»««« «/ fk« u' mu ^ ® ®°*^® ^'^^^ '^ent upon the waroath / I H ■I- 84 MAJOR DUNWOODY'S LEo* New York onmiBnsea ^dnvonRtJ ^*^ P^^'^'^'^ed seryioe i^ «)uld hardly b^4rivenTa«r?h^^^^^ The Indians iJ«e armed with ?Jllf^*^?? ^*''»' '^^ atrew. and wahrantedto km it fchm a^S^' P%"^^' breeoh-loadi^ W furnished gratdtousIvST.^'? ^^ » °'^^- TheseTiS Government. The soSs werl arm«J ^T t^ » »>«'^«fi°«^ bmes, and with safcrerwhipr L u "^'^^ short-range car. savages who neyercIme^^nZn\w"* ** "^^^"^ in IghtiJTg have been. The IndSL oa^rfe?"" „'J^^^^^^ they wanted. The Juter^ fol If" ^^^"^ ^''^^ ''^^^ food lances and several wZlnp • ^*^ encumbered by amhiT ^ Just before the exnedinl t combatants were in for by bringing seme^ntte i^S^rcJll^*'!!**'*' G^^neral ^;aer, JJg Major DunwoodrdeSd^f ^ *^ *^^"^ the Commissary DepLtrnttt Th«T"P*°^^* ^ command^ tion and disgust. ^*"°'^'**- The Major wais wild with veia. W'pS^'^l^Vhl^^^;;^^ month ?•• """ *« were- to be married within Se " W«%' , '^^l'* ^ /» -/thing wrong r . . Department or&^ttm'plSrZ"' "V^^f"" the W„ Po tawatomie,. I start t3A:ow for Cil' ^ '«*'''"' t""! w^r„'Ser"aS"int^f^s?^^^^^^^ ' ^-^ '•f^' MAJOR DUNWOODips U va» \ - " Oh, that will be so nice I" " So nice that I am gone ?'' / "' Tlk^^^ ^°* oouldyoa thin)^ that I meant that?" «.me«t^'>' ' "" oolyje^t.^^. Tnd y,„ ^1, think of " Yes, oh yes • every moment of the day.' ^* And you love me very much T)' ** Indee4# indeed, I do !" " My darling I" "My dearest I" , S:'2$!^tn"'iSK?"«^ ^roM tl,^ Indi«, territory 1> the PoST^to^^^T*''' harder, and oarne wituS eight of the Indian rew-S Th™ mo^XX^d^^^^^^^ ^^^^^'^^^ *°d ere Me^ff^,''''^^^''^f^' °^«P* i^to the camp and Yn^tV^'^-i ^^f^ed Indiai^^ae never known to steal a N«w YorWmmbas horse, even >fl the dark. * ^'^'^ iDfe next day the four dismounted troonAra wom -.^i.^^^ • »eo.«.on of otoibfl. and ^ hor«. in ^oZ^S rf^! ■-:^?! KT SB MAJOR DUNWOODY'S LEG. camp in . vLfe/a feL S'-feZ^ .""^ ^'"r" " « sujTriw. When everythW T^'arr-S'Slt l""'^'? "!""» ■«ouI4T,e seen. -TKHiwa W ^^*''; '*»* »" Indian ■mtBdrew. Upontheir rSn ZtT' ^«?» one of aSKuied him. ' """^ '"°'«"' 1"™ »Pon the head 8ix^hoI^:^*hout«S't^d'^r°'ti;? ■""• "'•"^od for thirty.' strike a teUi^bloTCn wL^"'™^i''*' ""'^ '»»" *t uJt for a Hght, and the t^oM w»r. h.?f ; ^^^ything was ready While Ly were halK7forTtir^„lr««r' ^f '^^ W Gros Ventre Indian camei^ wtth rtf"* '°"J ""?'• »f™ndly tive PottawalomiM Ta^c^osIfAt b/°.T.^"'' *?"•'« *'«'■ 3afe from parsuit witMn^hrdomii.iLfof'tr^^^^^^^^ now ''"^:"^lf ^ j^«pp-»ji:*:fiht STf t^ffer ■ anra\au1oCot?brwr ■' ffJ"'" "-"Son matedby weU-WoVS pe™°nbri"f^'- ""? i? "*» «*. upon the route, destrorcd nri™^L. the flying Indians, whUe a million more, Ses kmSi^^nTrii'? ^ '"* ""''""" »' ^ ..m;,..n.. -..:-■. .^""^ Mmg and soalpmg a party of .ir--^- -^ Waghmgton iimI asked for Pandora He^df--^ °^ "* MAJOR DUNWOODY'S LEG »r "'nA??'^ devdTmg upon me, and I mnst perform ""' " I have here a dispatch to the Secretary of War BAvina tKaf be^^t"'"''"*' <'''• P'««f ''o-'t »y h«.w.8 slain I I c«,'t hi/l^hUr^"'^- '^"^'^ ''*^"^y '»'' '<"" l-" "fer leg «,d " ?Zii!r"5 '"/r""?* /""*>" ; 'hen she wept bitterly wiU ul mr wreci!" "' " """« ^'^ '"" »»' <" «<•"" »■» '• It is dreadful, too dreadful !" wi;'K^tret?:'„rh"im>"'*" ''"^•" "P- ">»- '"<► •'Not if they love him!" -^But surely you— you do not intend to dinff to such iu-« such a disintegrated ruin as he ?" ^ »--a— " I shall be true to him unto death " nope to have you consider my claims " ™>gnt "Neverl It can never be I" '? .«, v^^ . " Because I am about moving out on the Pottawatemifl ' nl . _."l8rnthe oflfer, sir!" ■ ^;^r >^':j;-.l:t::::t :.-:.; :.\'. V^^^ ■■»?! -^r-.' 88 I • %. MAJOK DUNWOODT'S LEG. " Yes, sir. I Mora it and von p„. . fill suflTermg of Mnjor Danw3v^r3S!' "VV^'- «•" ^««l- Enter Mrs. M'Duffy ^*°' '''''* '»»« would break. " ^ '•' Sf 5;.??' ""^Ti '*■•'" 'he matter r '•wht'hSx-'tdr/r «P»rt in geotioiM." ' ' "'"y- ""e man is falling ;;^dUiafenottheworstofif. ::|f^W«Si;-.'^^a!^»-«'^«ronn.ea,. o.e2rU,^^«ie^^^^^ No iegs »d oni, " Pandora m'do^ yoi^lS J* ?» """^nd ?" only one limb. H^w neTotgl"":??!-, M»"7» man with iningeyes. * ^**^' '''«'"■«• «»id Pandora, with brim- on w?:eK :S 'who hr^iwe'on fh« "iP'^.""^''' 'o » "»»» to come downstairs ! Why djn't ™ f^**"?".^' "''«' »•• "w" He IS intact, I believe wS th. ' " f™*'' "•■• Smith atonoe ? fiunay^eemitoKin^ b^ Vif''^'"' »' '^ soalp. Thfa pieoemeaL- . "•""tod by men who «ie more or 1«4^ ■ ; •* I would mfh^i. .1;* XI ^ >'^^ ' " ..« Ji .;> " I would rather die than-marrv fimi*». on ought to do it fJi^^rZ^T3: to * wuuia rauier die thaninarrv ftm.fi, ♦ ^ " ^ ■•Y;u. ought to doit f>,ryna- sake.,... , ."m^ '?''"'. ■*""»» «o you me«, r . v= ^ >» ,_ "hy, I oanM in to tell van »™i -li ii' ; s »<4i.^i>«.i.. « G«wr»l BeW,er-a Cri ^"^^•*»« I hare accepted probably. q«nd our samisi ^i. ""^ ''"?• "* »oXu upon the PottowrtJnSSvatio^^^ Pr-ipoctiTe country «," MAJOR DUNWGODY'8 LEO. w some uncertainty as to her danriiS tiJ« ^ ° * condition of g«e of humiliation wWch gTb^° ^Si^'P'l""*?" ^•• ■with the General. """ ""^ "«"» "ached m her cintract ap;«l"tment"°ar&>te1t pl t' ''?''» "•" P~9^i <" an in bark." ,.id m" m1)^^ to^^-S?" "'^'""^ 'J^"'**' clue tTthe ^t of the Wiement S^r^ *^ "S,"* ■»«"'* Eeservation, and he foUow JT^^IT ■*, *\* Pottawatomie of justice on the nart of th« o™.!»!_. x ° '"K''' » •'M'S to AohiUes Smith'nt w^aSS^Lri'-^Jl?"^ "»»»« scalped at^. He had me^:i°J?3*J.*^S™^';ad not been Jar^^uaw Xm he was Wto che'a^ToStXSrwt^S; ord'^r^tZftTe *y:t\^TZ^' ^^1^!'^'' -"« ^ eral Belcher's conduTerdLd si mlhl'S?' ^?""' ««*• ««"• that the politicians, fJCi^ th^Sfe''™ »' «"»- ' He was arrested and tried noon iX»L »f i T°'^ "" '"'»• committed. When on his wavT SriT^S. t"""^?'/"* '" custodian, took the fiirt ho«. 1,/^ . knocKed down his 8oath. .Iti-en^sJ^ha^rwent^LfVc'Tf "?* Kansas IS that the nnhannv l»,.j!Ji »i. ™"°p- -Ihe feehng in - experience its wttZJ^^Ls if ^° tT',r"- ^^ ''' •» 4 S»*i69i«rat~,.4 40 M^OR DUNWOODY'S EEG. yow leg with you?^ '"»y-Henrydear.howi8itjouhave y Yo» Imow, dear, I heard that you had loaf vnn,. «fk i I "d one of y,„r ^,. I cried .boJuf^ S" """^ ''"' .. JJJo gave you that information ?" ""oran. /♦ Oh, Henry, you don't know how glad I am 1" ^ I More osculatory exercise at this juncture; but we will nni «*^ J to consider it, satisfactory as it ap^ to he! ^^ '^1 ;; WeU. let me see. First of aU-yc^u know, Another ?" '; WeU, she is going to many Colonel Pabney." • " You don't say so ?" ; : ^^■*'^/* !! Z^V she«a« engaged to (5^en^ B^lclier. but-''^ •• Not old Belcher of Kansas ?" "Yes; but he proved a ras4>al, so she discarded him riie if| e n ga ge d t o C olonol Baby;.. X^l ^^^ Jl^ ' ■■ i'lV ^f^y splendid. By the way have you copied my off leg " Oh, yes ; lonjg ago." *. * ^ Then your picture is done ?" , ''^* * -H-ff .«:"'. >/ r^. convenient tb have! sammMmi '■'kSS?*'*^'"'! opied my o£f leg MAJOR DUNWOODY'S LEG. ' Yeg, Henry, dear, but— " • What! Isn't it satisfactory, after all ?" leve^.^t'it''^"""*' but Colonel Dabney says Congress wiU WbyHotr " Absolutely hopeless, is it ^", . / . MColonel Dabney says so." . ' ^-/ ••What will you da with it?" 7, •• r don't know, dear; what do you think ? / •• Coaldnit you alter it into something else ?" *• I *^o?Sbt of that. It occurred to me that maybe I miffht -urn It into tiie Execution of Mary Queen of Scotd and^X iJanadian Government to buy it." ® "*® '• Not a bad idea." . "Paint in different clothes, you know, on Washington and latchet will do as it is-do for the executioner's axe, you know " •• I see. It's a good notion." ■ ^ ^^°^' •• Mottier said sh^ thought I might make it a battle lietween Crusader and a Sdracen, but the.tree is in the wron^ wsTC >r a person supposed to be fighting." ^ position " Won't do at all, of course." ;• When General B^cher was here he said he beUeved that bv mting tiie grass red so as to represent fire, and makfng a mast ith ngging out of the tree, it might pass foi the Boy who g^ .n <^e Bunimg Deck-.Cas4bianca. But the CanadfaTGov^ nent would not care particularly about the Boy^o ^Tn' le Burning Detdc, wo^ld they, Henry?" ^ ^ ^^o stood pn *• I have a diiki idea they wouldn't.'' y I think I'll Istick to Mary Queen of Scots." •• And now about our weddini? ?" ^^rmreifcdy." • v.*^ ■^s U. V, tiie day."^ ••Will next Thursday do?" ; ' !! ^*«^We. So, next Thursday yo^ wiU be my darW wife ••And you will be my sweet. spWdid husband:" ^ (i pandora 1 ->. ♦.'■ 49* i t , *^*l»' ^ « "^^^ 1 ' -• ' : , '^ MAJ^Oil DUNWOODT'S LEG V . otter leg bobbed Xr^"' S t fc'"".^'! ""o^- »» G. »»»'Wdy!^dU,Tl,tl5^«' "'^.^. Miyor H^j /' ; ' '•: ■ -.fV- ■ ,t!*n*Mt, ;,^.;5S'i- ^V 1 .J ■J^':''' oesBwy jttst here. vliiph sat a lovely ^- Close to her I on i^e floor. His ested m a obmer.l JfB. Major Henry] v: V ^' m FOpiATE I^LiBl. V *S -v ' ''^-W'^" '---^-v^}-, * ' ,'^' -^^ « . '-.>. .<■.■■ , - . . ■ . .. » - ■J -f liv. ■ V . . t :/ ■'" p-\ THE FORTUNATE^ I SLA.-ND.. CHAPTER I. TBI ISLAKD. ■V ftZ r ^J"^ *^'P "Moraing Star," boDnd to Liveroool fi«)m New York, foundered at seaTthe officers, the e^w 32 Ji^M^^JatS!^,^;^^^^^ ML^t^^^t^^^^^^^^ lHew was tune enough, before the ship sank to inflatfl <:h«\ rabW oyhnders, and thus Professor fiX WeSrWd to sonp wfalljr v a tohedihfl me nearest ^ i^ at leasfeight hundred miles distant ; imd* 4S THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. although there were in th k« and water enough for seZjltys "Sfe Z" ^^' "^^ Provisions port could be made befow ti,?^8upSLf «^^^ ''"*" "»»* » There was, moreover, almost I !!£ • ? 1^°^^ *>« exhausted ^rS^^^f'^^^^yBhom^^n^'^l''^y that ttie boats wo^d The Professor, for his Dart ^«^? ^T^""^ «*«"»• otithve any stoni ; buThmlrr^lt^JJ^ ^^ ^^«^d It as an indication of partialTCit "'^^^.^^^ confidence in U/V^e^^^^^^^^^^^ of getting ashore chiefly a li""^ii°' '' *^»* ^eTmighttasonVb^T^^^^^ *^^^«^ ^«>«« a day or two, with a vessel of flleTni^l°\*« "»«!*• wiUiin them. ^°"*® ^''^a which would rescue iiift^uineeir^:C^nTthT^^^^ boats and the tern whieh was 6^^ Uted. If?^^*''' ^^ P^^^^ed a Ian! position of his boat Jaru^t^^^ TV" ""^^ ^ tbat ^e his raft under sail, ste^^ot^^'^,«f ' T^^ f«>fe««or, wi^ several hours, Matilda^^eanSlilT «?. ""^^^ °/ ^« *>o»ts for g^rnd exhausting IaC^^tht^^y"^» aW^Zli^^u^i t^etptaS'jPfr^ "P^«<^ «tortly appeared.. The Prof^sor wS^J^S. ^»* for some Season dis- missed it, but he concIuLXt ST^I f"?^'^^ ^^^^^ be , «teer about upon the couwe he hai k*1 ^!?* ?^*° ^^^W be to "•Uy lost sotte of itsfoW^ &v^ ?* P«fe«8or's fiuth in H over rt, drenching the ^fe«S™!^u*H^/ We waves wept ,>i^ li- THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. \>^'''. jif**- 47 ind although the sea continued rough, the raft rode the waves ^ore buoyantly .and easily. Producing some matches from his waterproof box the Professor lighted the kerosene-lamp in U^e CriiI!/^l\rV° ri"^*^" ^^««' ^^^^ thenMatiWa. with water from the barrel, beg*n to try to make so6ie coffee [The attempt seemed to promise to be successful, and while thA process was going on, the professor Ipoked about for the boats. They could not be seen. The Professor took out his g^^ss^aS swept the homon^ In vain; the boats had disappeared com p etely ; but the P^fes^r saw something else that Jtkacted his attention, and made hisiheart for a moment stop beating. L'w'£fi t?'*^""* ^u!*H^ °"*"'^^**' ^«* ^i«W^e ip a misty I sort ' .- " No, my child f t* • ^ Man-eatA™ ' '"P" ** shall not I k i- ■ ^oiLZ 0^ " ""'^"i-abited ae o^ ptuf rS^r" '" sewly-fonnadT^* **; "« ™»y hare aT»^^ * ' of recent " We m?»i .'**'"• ^ have looBed In ^» i"* '» e™miiie a nn bv ^ ^?^* *' "«« be eaten mT-k l^ '"'' ^ears.- Jft^•!»i.tltttr^n5:;'~■l^«" «««»Ple! i l«ve 4< ;80r. GOtll infi littl< '»°«1» to branch bSlhem as f to lead them on their way; now and then a browrro^bft iter eyemg them for a moment with quivering no^s be^ a ^ imck tattoo upon the ground with his hind^^s, then tW^^^^ * ti8 taU and whisked mto the shrubbery. Gray sauiLl? t^ShIT^''''^^^ef*^^ ti^s ^ look^the^:'! Zv^t^Z^uT'"'?'^^^^''''''^ kingfisher ceased his ompiaming while he plunged mto one of the pools of the rivu- [eka n demeifflMi-With4i.troui4fr4ttiitalou^^^ r^ "^ *°^ "^^gl^ hnlJTi *° «°chanting scene ; and Miss Baffin enjoyed it i^w! *t?«^ fii^d egpeoial pleasuro. in discovering that thi erbage, the treeal tiie rocks, and aU the other na^und obiecte ^^ precisely like those with which he had been^Ki n «»w 8a old m^ir* P'»«« from wS ^J?^?"»hment. f *»S8ed in ,S„r '^»* •»«»> fiOiiw feZ i*"* » We stonj «iould6w to M?? '?^ •**<«• loose MbTS- •?* poo'- He wd Mm.." , "^ P»^on, bat l think you ,^* T" '^"•intedl "^•mltno»na8F.t.. . /°" *■» °o' »wn«on yoaJ ■■Ah, indeed? 'Mr2Sr^.'''«H" ' > . I "BppoBe ?" "*■ vua M Fatliar AuaehB '"a J MB t hnm.it . . — __ ■'■' ■ ■ — ■- — - — • * J \,l «ome tKe ilF?^ ir-^ "?¥ " otose at hand v „ bflas "I AND. >, the pair came to [t poo], through whT ^Bnr&c#bnllera and broken hy rap Jaime aboyp/flP' ^o^JylaigeaSdgre! ^'^ yards awajr,fooi ear a voice saying ^^|f^<* •f^ i^S'^.'^H" THE FOBTUNATB ISLAND, »an», and even thJ Mtonishment. •voice came, thej ?© pool. He waJ ^reached from Jii toie, for his feel 'ca masses of hail »is salutation, he *hen he looked M ' «niUe, in whicl after a moment' , 5» ;stLt:'x^^jL* ^ »»"»" «"»« ™i„.bi, info™.. ent ; beside it was a rough bench, which was tte ob^^?^ e room. A crucifix, a candle, a skuU, an hoXu^ l^d^ * iw sjl^tensils were the only other articles tTblle^n Thflkmt brought forward the bench for his ^sitow to ^t ^_^ ten, procmring a cup, he offered eiLn^^/^^ The Professor, hugging one knee with interlocked fini,«r« lemed anxious to open a conversation '^^^^^i^ea bngers '' "S?"?' ^'''' ^""^ ^"^ ^ understand that you are a ck««. n; that istosay some sort ofa teacher oSi^y-^'^y- Rnta«?i^i.%^^r"' °'^""- I «" » recluse?' the 'rSfi"; -*"''" - ' P"^^""*' ^" «^^ «»« P-fe-Bor. glancing e^r "''^^''^ '^^ °"* ^^*^"y «^«»^ *o "^e." «plied the The gentlem«, does not understand yon, p.," said Mi«, ' iaffin. J \. '• Never Jnind, then ; we will not nresa it R..( i .u u i-i ery nrneh if yon wonld tell ns eomeCLn^S^is^^.S^*^!?* j^ggg^g^gg ^g^whichc^tyonnn^ W e ll, yon aw , I s a Uw l ftuiu tfew Vorfc «n A. <-.^t xv . Wlast month, with my daughter w^feSii. ''""?■*«* [o deliT„ a course of iLt J. iJ^E^^.*^ « "(Wjeinent "^es. in England. I m a prohss^l, ki^ i^ ^ ".1 '^'^T^ik s AmeTOM univertity Wh.- ■ , "r^^y^^^ ^* yon d^^^lf^nJ '•Yon sAe of XSfr ''''•"I "»•" ■ THE FORTUNATE ISLAND.. ^-^fi 55 We do not try to know mor^ W^^^rrlio fu ^®?^^*'''®^- natter of pride among us to^esl^e Z Tl?"^ f^^' " '^ ^ the ideas, tiie social state whSb oS fot fatht« K^^" r^"?"' were sundered from their nation •' ^^'^'^^^h^" had when they I •^^You live here pretty much as King Arthur and his subjects L;^ments?o^^^lT^:^^^ errants, our time." • ««-:*very«img just as it was in the old be^^oMed an opportunity to study O^ m^%J'lT. »st of th* worid men^i^/^otlhaTr k?™!^ ^^^"^Oie niMned ignoant; tot I oainot teU mT^^^'^1 '?>'« '^' [ " My friend," said the Professor witK » i„Ai ' * " the world has gone for. far aS of Bni^L"' fompassipn, hasiJmost forgotten thit tt^^ver ^J^'"l*^* ^* would hardly beUove me, at mv r^tL v^Tt SS*" V'"ne. Yon, me, if I should teU yoiof^^^L ;'?#',"" »"'i*"'«'a world. B.t_if I stay C I Jm tFT^^^'^^^ J- '"e pu "Wycinttmio from England?". . •States • Yon nlvrheK S"' , '" ~'9*^*<> t^-iirf right across rtoZtoL"SS&»Xn. T^'^ » '•^ miles." "lu JJ^ngiana^ aj^Ut three thousand you a fighting man?*^^' "^'i™*!** Henait. "Are :;f»ir„t'aS^^'-ir;rry.>'.^*-- ^ !.«.. .It is both .ntertalS.;:S3r Sj^??°?'««'° <* «»»«» orld. . But if I stay Kre T^U t^Tf^nKST *•' ""°K" " ""e feel as if I had bin 8^{ S™ m 1^^**° ^^ 8~dually. *1^-". r ^""'.oere as a mjssionary for that vjiy \ .--a.. '>;; if "■>'X4 :r!^"^''""""^' ■'■■ ••No clocks o^watihes?''' whi the machine- with well, said the Professor .«;* h ^v - > I per- (4 inte Wit in t (( saw "W( here <( stroj pow< level man Sir I J have feaso THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. 'r'-^pf^K/ «7 " No ; I did that with what we caU a match : like thig onp fn^hlV'^f ^° ^^'•'''^ ^^^^ catches fire wLny^^^^^^^^ bnd the Professor again ignited a match. ^ * L '• T!f *'°"^? ^*^® dreamed that such a thing could be "at blamied the recluse. •' You will be regarded by ?ur peonle ai he most marvellous magician that erer five^ ^ ^""^^^ *' I The Professor laughed, pfciil^P?"' '^*. ^""""^ •""'■'"K "-"idly »t Professor L;«S? '' "^ disoonrteoas If I should «k you another Lu S^t^t""'- ^ "''»" '"' «1»^ *« 8ive you .ny iuformation intendK"im^v^*h^"'tr'',""'°'^8 *•" spectacles, "are ' With ttr«™ tT ™ '^° !'«^?- ^ «»°°»' »«« well *ithQut theuu With them I have perfect vision. TiUy, make i memoM^nm s.W,"'obL;;^jSssB:ffi'„"^ "'"«'''"« about the castle we. ."P\^^-^y'^<'y'<^7.P»aierAmelm," said the Professor .er Su^l l^etS^l^II^'-^-- - "= powerful noble, mueh fea.«d in this ooZtoy.' ^ ' *"*' "^ Any femUy ?' inquired the Professor. , Ipv.!?;^ ?»» »e»"»P' soa.Sir Dinadan,.s bravea knight as ever m«ried feu^ &• %•>«!'«'»», "laughter, Ysoli Both a« T howweV thi ^ '" TjfaP l tAn a k l ov es Sir B l oob erii.. t o wh om fiiVRin^k^^ IL , T"J """ »ttner ner to be wedded, b ^^^J^J^f^^ngUkethisath^^^^^^ -% i..' ^ ■*' ■< ■k ^^^'kki^^^^j Ji 'i^ .... ^* *• '"6 same WA» W.VI. .. » . *^"»ppii ' ment?" ,,)"?' ''''' Then yo« h,ve , mon^^. ,'= v , : All „^^°;« ^o upon this ida^... ^ " Abd what is tJifl ni * him." *7^ " "" Soiferament. I nm^^. ""^«<>™ "m- paw,- ^^^^^^^^^^fei-oreaidtoawM- ** Pray «xoua« n,- i » ^ '^ And I ' '" lafik] I is no their "] Heni r^'^exouseniel Xfc- *^ r, ^ «troduce you to another of TeiJr^^" T^ pemit me I WM Of the practices of mo*^ The Hermit with a look of alarmf. was abont i6 ask for w ei- S?;2??£ ""^J^^ perfomance, when loud cries were hwLToS. .dirftte cave ^led with the frightened exdatoatiMSfrSm TtflSr^^r^f ""^ *^^>^^"» ftarted to their feet, just a. « rJ^^^ fwssed in a quaint but charming oo8t4e, rj* itp^ doorway m such haste that she dashed,pl5np ^«kSS le P^fessor, ^ caught her in his arms. ^ ^ ^^ For a m^iwj^t she was-startled at seeing two strangers in a ^J^^^ *^°"«^^* ^ "°"^^°^^ "^'^^ but the HemH ; but " Oh, Save me ! save me 1" -'CJeiPUinly I will," said the Professor, soothinclv as hisarin ^^^J'a^^ t;:i* *^^i^*^«*- '^WhatTL mat^ '^u*^?*'^'"*y^^*^*- Who is pursuing you r • 'nn^\^^ir''rJ?' P*'* displeased at the situation in which he ^sted, in what wjemed to him sweet confidence, upon his shoul Ci^T ^"^^ "^^^ ^^^^^'^ ^»^^ °^ °»^teWes8 beauty Even amid the intense excitement of the moment the reflection flwhS *J^?.?f^iJ*'! Professor's mind that he was a widoW and th^ ^^h^ always expressed a willingness to tr;^^.^^ Wthe mkiaen, and then teanng henelf awfy Sra toe it feMor m a manner which struek him ae being, to sav the LmT Sn*^"' """'T »» '■•"'" An,6lm and Laid, '^Yolhdte »tner, will save me. : ,^ ,v r *^ ^^^ /- A 1 1J"" ^'. *"y daughter ; 1 wfll try,*^ *wli^ the H^rn^ An^^to^^^tothe Professor he said, • •U irY^H/' ™^ n '!1^ §"°* **"» ** «•««•." said the damael. nartlv to tiM ;Seniut«,d partly to ftofewor BaiBn, "tomeetOeob^ «»ea«i, and it wab m« -J^"^ gracefully S„ ** *<>se, and over • :r«>»"l^ bidden behind u!-. ' """^ " ' ^""^ »' ■,8»y.Priert,X«htve^;'"''^ Baffin *' One momentl- sSd fi. ^''" "^^sted her?" *>««>. art I «n noTr^' '"f.oPP'-obrions wo^ h. ?*•' ^^ ><"> '*»yontoknowI°^«°"'« •» P« np wi'th «ch f 'i"" '"* /^ hold what r^"r 1 ^'-.'^ttf;;^'^^ , ^f «-rt ^ f-j rt,^'^' >^- ^m^^ THE FOBTDNATB ISLAND. iliw me to «y. SJ?th.t I^ to^h^'i^ h'J^W" offspring? -on don't wujt her to dmU, HhfiSrS u- ' *'"°'' '' " ' « lut it etrikesme that ck!^'^ Whafs-his-name, don't let her; ffentlv •• 8airf%hA P^Z T- " *** ^'^^^ ^o^^" daughter more !&hr$tter"lXrit7"''''« " "^ """•"'--<' ""^t tS Ww^^w'tSri"'""- ''^ fight yon," , aid the'-BTon. '"^^^S^t^li::^ -nth. and opened hi. seS. """ ""^"^ " "'^'^-'^ "f twe-'y feet thd looked. the matter oTSly" *« *■" "o* I""'*'- Let us t^' m^fe^d. SS rS ."rTrP^*^" *^ «"" >«> »»* felled him to tteS^hL if M^?""' *°* """W have P<-^herseH,^elSg^rwerth^'t^VSfe/r^^^^ what he haihZr di iShl ""' '"°""'»'»t »*«rtZ • >::*»«. Sir Baflu, r,. ""^'' " y»" wU] find ay •'^ ■•?*«.'' Wd the ts;, *^- ^? V^tlmt to the "T» ,1'1 ^^yaUriEi.^^ '"iterate." '^' "^ membs,; «»'r<«id i„dicfr.te^*»''.-i«h„Veut X^'f "'^ *,"i.S(,' m. £ /:' 4) ^ f «HE FORTUNiTE ISLANi). 6» his Jcaee jhe said : it iady ?" 7Wt"."7 led ■SBor CDtumed, ■• Y„. d«,. but b. «» „ot to go b»jo,a mr. er friends."' Baffin, I may be ffin. Penuitxne ^»¥w toits sp»ir«ifir sdrt of '» ^ai iind mjr •h an air of in. ^that to the ine aider my *>«>w of the hesitation, individual '^o^alaitn fther visitors airrived. ioh costume. One Ueoberis, had a tal pome countenance, i, jinted beard. Hia _ fess comely, and if his leans so intelligent. were young men. gaily dressed in ^hom the recluse gi«eted as Sir 'Tgure and an exceedingly ha*d- adoraed with « moustache Jnd [on, Sir Agravaine, was si^lKer was an index of his mini, by no .^|f^'"8P^?tedtothe Professor. who hope. Whilst I J ppop, the Baron wiU never relent." """« x ^ •' Nevef " ehimed in Sir AgMvaiiie. the p;:,CrT"||''"»^f •"^o" ''"^ t»y»«.r~k«i "Yes" ' "' "^ •■;■."■ ;K-;:;.^- ~> '■ ' "trb^T-S^" •"'T^ a»Brofe,eor, "Th^ii rimp^ fSJ »l-iS!? •^"".'^ *° ^'^•■V into bneiaeM^ BtSt i " P^Si ™v'5 "'"'"• "' '""'thing of that kind f » ^.' ThVp^4^"^1f?°* °!™ ™"''''" »»'* S" Bleoberis. .oS.^&^l."'*!" I fo'Kot. We m^t tLkof yo^n^^Kl tfv*"' ^""" ' °«*"' T thin k- l«iui U« li. '• Dp you pwpse," asked Sir A^T»infS1i=tett^e^; ' or toeaoh«,t bip> «, thatto trill oh^ hte^Sffi iS '"^ ,4*^'-. ..•<*l.i.. u , 1 break ff^^' ^«»&it to fi^., ' ^ ^**P^« off a *«^"-^ THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. ^^. .4 MisB Bafl^ laughed and endeavored to explain to him tha lodern methods of existence. .'' IgP^I.^^ c?«ld have believed such a thky^ from other lips " MdSirDmadan. "It is marvellous. Mt tell me. how da overs woo m your land ?" ' "" "Be^y, Sir Dinadan." repliea Miss Baffin, blushing "I bave had no experience worth speaking of in such matters' I kppose perhaps, they show a lady that they love her*^ then kvait until she can make up her mind." ' " I will wait, then, as long as you wish " "But," said Miss Baffin, shyly, although plainly she was eginnmg to feel a genuine interest in the prJceSL -fyo^ father and your Another may not think as .you do ind thJn^ shaU notwant to stay upon this island if I can get iway/' ' ^ ] My mother always consents to anything I wish and tbA fcr'^''^^''*°^PP"«^ ^hat she warns. And if you^: fattplVeTrrt:-"^"*'^' ^ ""^ ^° "^^^ ^^"' ^^«*^" Miss Baffin smiled. ..Sir Dinkdan was in earnest at anv rate. She.could norhelp thinking of the sensatirthat wo^J be created in Wingohocking if she should walk up the fasU^ able street of the town some afternoon with S^ S^ in W^ parti-colored dress of doublet an* stockings, TndaS^t? feath hLlhZdr.'^"^''^"'"^'^^ ^°^^: ^«"- hairVanSe'dltut forTvi!^«nif ^'''*?J!'' "^^^ protesting that he should love her and til S n''' f ^^ °^^'. ^^^ *«»i« ^ *he Hermit's oeU ;«d'^s^rffi\^r^^^^ fT^^entf h? '''"*^-v, ,^^^---g -^ herZa^rforl lew moments, he approached her, and while the other member* " of the compaiiy engaged in conversation, he said,-- "^^"^^"^ j^ft iJ f-i a tty>yoaar««ot~iaam«d-9" . ^ — ;; No, sir," replied Miss Baffin, with some indignation. What 1 exclwmed Miss Bai% becoming angry. , I love you. Will^you be minT?" said Sir A^ivaina fi.ll m m^^ toe an/tryiBg *o teke hThan^ ^^ ! ^: mi. 9? — Risinrw^ °*'^®** ^s ear with o ^ ••' MSt«/'""^«» leech r.l^ '^ "'e"'«ponthel [res' fliin I vie] Lis 8orl sive tion of it *.^^£^^- C^^*^ -*i?»"* ^ .ft m^edt to teach Sir Dinadan Attho earliest emwu'trm^trr ^mo^tkw ^ . our .i^Anaqan earliest opportunity ;to'8iiyoke. -."^i^®^?®*^^*^® castle, the Professor^s aWeirtio^w»s «b ttn wofr. nf ?****'' ^'•T^. ""^^ *'""'°«» '^ ""^ omamenta. ofTt« il^^ ? '^' °*?'^' '^'^^ presenting, from the very grandeur of its proportions, an impressive and not niipU««ng 4p»anMuwu ■■.v>''i °* • ■ C III t^'^^'^' ■'ki • ♦ ••^f. rr chase^Sir I)iJ^!r *^^' with av,nJ adorned wit}, i^,®®®*«d m " V^rv , Th!" '•'"«' ^«7 real t^ .. ^« '"* "«' " What l^pll'^^foi to CiiT?"!!? "«'. top." „„„«„...^ ^ me ' bai bef '] Bai the Jo, mel pla< 1 dru] toa trea THE POBTUNATE ISLAND. ^ b« ^^ S^' ^' ^''^''^'^ *^« ^^'^^t situation of mgs. J. nen lie looked very serious affain Tu;^ ^ No ; not exactly, but^" bne what we should do " . ^ "*° °^^^ ^^^^- "It is enough, sir, and fair damsel, that misforhin« v. ay, how is the noble Lady Bo« ?" "° "^ y""- ^^ *« " There.'Iaaid tt^Bfeon wavino hi. k.«j „ "^ ments. When U hWTirf'Sy we ^U som™!^"" tP"*"' banquet." "^"""y* '"" sommon you to our ;2''l'„Pr:2.'":'yL ?''•'* lTgy?P»?the beaoh, wUl be pu4d '•^J?!* y?",™^ «oon," said StBtoadan: i.^^ Ji"£!SS!!i'^?iM'™ Baffin entered JProome, and Baron witMrew^ith his son. ^ - ^Wf ^eit:^:jLSvrrtur:r^^^^^^ Jo give to her beantv a hAw.T^n.;^^ ^oT . ..„ !"^ ^?™.° oontrived , b«>anty ft.hftwiIdoring offcorbraii arf^H °°°*^^^^^- treatment. ^ ' ^ tt«^t^l«iss Baffin was readjs^ give her^' i i * ^ ' ^Z*" «P, 1ms l,r9 S/' "«^ Woi'e of 8iV R? 1^°^^ n^l it not r*^- ^^^^Wli^inshard' *'*^®"«-'' J ¥. *^onBBo^, *'*^® *"^* of. the KniirhH . ' I ■«^ J •^\^ i'^ [ /■ v , . ■ "'^i/,y^T'™'*«'4«riy *'"'^"*'- "Olid To« „„, ,., a.Tri.J. ^"aBy'M method "^ -- y ,Ml P«"«" fc".^-^** (I (< JOCCI Ti k/*^.' O:- ooni< , — v-MP TM ru g flrn i LiL i: — [thf] cour << 4^ 4"* ^4-; ^i' P?*«***Bgeinia. food, I he c< V T?^ THE POBTUNAIS ISLAND ^ lanoe Mttially lived and moved here am.M *u tey werd ^ common and prosv to tW ? ilf^^ ''^°««' ^^^^ mhomeinihe littie enclosw^htd fev th^^^^^ .rsity building at WingohoS ^ *^^ ^*"' «' *i»« ^ini- A experience Jlctud neJLu^^^^^^^ ff '^^^ he e flamped down ia his own iXS^ Ve^^J?'*"^^?'^^^*''^^ everted tQ the subject his mfimnL ^ ""Z^^^' *« ^is mind i^d distinctness jp*d anj S^esrit^rlt ^^^^ ised to come to breakfast- An A a. ki«« ^ Kown m which he landle, whieh wed to bTpCd before K^l"".*?,? "«»"^'>roken , It seemed to him that ul^!r™5 "^ *'""« "'««I- kthat with which he had been b?6nlhf ^ V?*" ""n-iition leemed if he had thought olTimoXl^ "**"' '"'"'<' ^"^■ he'C^r J5"^«t^*f.« tS» '^-i" "I»n large dishes. «d a moment latop lKS^w^Im .ffT ^"'* ?' "" >•<»» ihe arm of Mies Baffin. '^'"'" ""^ed slowly ,n, leaning upon l«sm'^r^„oteSfjJ,„^»;^-. e»P^^^^^^^ «o that " Angels, my ladv do not>oiS« ^'^^ ^^° ^^^^ed. the Professir. sSg """^ '°°'' '^*^ ?«'««« Piasters," said "^^^^^^^ -^^^ or woman,..replied oceur,5l^^|ffe jjf not complete ttie sen<^nce. Ifc demonSitim - m^^ * ^''^^^' be getting a little too fkS'^^?i^y^^y»'*i*»i*theB|rohe88V ''hfts fni^ • thiiig of tiie advelture^hich^bS^^^^^^ l^SI Wnr' T"" courteous as io t ^ iilmore^r iXm u!'^f^h^ /^^ ^^ ^^ WS;t^'St£^^^^ And a/while food, for he^a^^»±ie«^ the ■(^^'-^ food, for he was really huinirrv— he -"'-^d, to <»p^.,-^74^^^--^^ 1; » >ife. V liie Professor ftf A« ^^^^onotweJ Kiss R^i^^ ^««*reJ ^ sai^ «• T^ ^ t^angmg of , Tlie b„a^/>" said the B«on ■ " ^«« lif e the l^/i?''«»,,^f ft iaX^t^^^^ " te ^-8. tot^„7' "Vrht's ««t^''"W mother Zi* ' -.The B.^ '^"^'' «°ite to„ ^nh X!^ "*" fiofe..^^ - -> fvok [and [fam pito §;er« T a yg unti mai] won] Prof fligni THE FORTUNATE ISLAND '■■■■'I o^>» 78 Thd Professor went to his Arutt^manf o«\a ., .inging with him a XnowaST pi!°^ Presently returned, fe tSr^ tiie oraS. Prm fhe fann^tr^ '* "^"'^ *^« **We, Uno voice, ai-ging w^exq^j^^^^^ Lady Bors looked soared, Sir Dinadan n^otiT u^ ,* , " B most be magic," 8aid the Baron, at last • nn m„,« * - .,Ud h.de .a angeUo spirit i„ such .a'pTaJe'^l'J'ompel H :apta?e depict npl^' S^'.io^J^'^^''''^^^ ^' '^'"^^ le reflected for an in«V»„t .„j .u ? • ^''°° »•>« had done the place wherelhe m bsLrl h^ """^ "u"'' ""'""S o™' »<> to the door, hefcioked him into the bM lead ijigjiim i I>i8 appeaMd to reUeve Sir Binadan'8 feelm^s '"^l^ vo^rrr^Jlf tkVptn^r «f^^- ^o h^s and Lad, Bora iL «1,„ wTf^^ ' ""^•''y ""« ''"'« ""e iaron ■taUy in thT,^we™^:,Xf«»rTaZT'.'''^ '■""• "^ *^ pitch that the Baron ^Lhti i , ""^ "»'"' *■> s«eh «? %''i'^'«» '-^i^^-r "' ""'■^ '" '*^ ^^ a V J "mkTiJIurLl'I^T'g' '^ ^^ himse lf an^H^njK^^ main ftermanfotlv nnnn ffc!: • ? a ^, ^^ **^®y ^®re to re- would J^eToSj^aeTS i^^^^^^^^ /^ "*^***^ ^^^^they ^'ofeae^ksohel^^^^ and thJ «ignaSP^^^^*^'P**^*P|?°^^^*fa philosophical re! 'y '« X, n ■■> r, . -r xSS5 "..8tra,»ito,, ttl IJ? "^"ired, tf th!^? «;Sld mate .tie vicinity ofihf^r ^"^ ''em'<,.e„ . ' 4 *^' ilte * Thir ?.*"«« "««. ^ ^^'•'' ^ » point «L^''J!*»' with a ' j • . "' ^«" "«« delighted witK ;, ' ""* '"*"» i-- J THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. ^ formanoes; but the Professor's incenious Inn^««« n-eat deal of serious trouble. ^®"*''"^ i^mdness caused him a It seems that Misa Baffin one mnmiTi« k« ^ i. md finally he aipeale4iio Ysolt to fly with hftn S ^«^ K^* jxpected nothmg to coma of this appeS f^'he L^'f^u^' fshghtest conception of any method by which Y«.]f i/°* ^^ W her prison. He merely Xew it fn If ''''"^? ^ a wa^., as an expression of th^^te74 i?hS ^eS'' '"'* '^ But it suggested to the mihA nf Vn«u • ""^^''^on. and she. re^LdeS through the ?ipht fthTJT ^''^^'' Kould ke^ out of sight and Lvrhis^!lUnf* 1 ^/ BJfoberia would joi£ him in a few moment? Thf^^u^^f '^^^^^ «h» violently at this newslLutfoWy mSe Ws ±*n ^T ^** ^^ Obeying the orders U Ysolt hi went bfehinTlif "^^f**^ ipon the iron box con-Boning the ^ZLA battr' ""^^ ^^^ ^** cay^aratils. ® "*'^'^°'®^8*^r8 oattery andelectri- ^^^'s window was but twentv fe«f fm,^ t-u - ' wat^eTTnthe fosse. Directirbeneath ilZ^ surface of the chance, floated the life-raft o^f Proftstor k^^^ ^ost fortunate climbing upon the sill of the window hoisted ih/^^-^^ «^' saihn^ swiftly downard through thnirsKi^^fi^"'*'??*' *°d the raft. A single push upon the wlu . Z ^. %# ^^^^ "Pon sid^.of the. ditch, whereu^^^^^^^ further . by the warder or any one ili the castl^*^ ^^^f^perceived and'li^pineBS and love's sweet fn/wJl.^'^ 9^'"^ *» Pe»e» «ach^,tf the angry Baron's power ' '"'' *" ^^'"'^ ""o ''^tk^Z^:^^^^'^^^^^^^ As ysol. cameridinccar,>lflflBLor xu t '^^^ ^®^^^ sa* S<^J '•• ^b& Bhneka of iu ^® *od save h«w ^'^ «"^oetlieftrf „ I •^ •* once tL »^** onhappy YpaU ^ '^ ^''°«» «n awfoj f!^ "1 feasor R?*!.*'^^ ?w-on ranT/* v?^^* P??«trated StSV**®- . I *»• •> " .f*^°*ncal currfiii* k ''*® see— tpC^V^ Your ;\8«- BhobetiM rose »)f 1, . ?^^ "'"*' "^ «>• W «. What jron, Sij. iB7l . * «»ron ^^'i* «te»iiBH »•' fTMf ^'f- .^> THE POBTUNAtB ISLAND. * ^ houted the Baron, S^g to t^'p'o'Lfo" ?f *' '^' ^r'*: Uur d«vilif)h aHm ».«»« k xroiessor, '1 perceive that explain. The fact ie I—" ^ FammL AUow .me to I ii.^*?: '"f^»^ **^« B^fon, with an imptttient ireBtiire' *• n# ' with his head as qtuicWy as possible \" BeBture. *'0S^ r " Biit, my dear sir," conteinded the Professor as th* R«^«.- " ' retamers seized him, ♦•this is simnlv awf„i i m !? ^*T**" ^ no trial, no chance to tXy story f Tt^ Lif^'i^T'^'rr- •'^' mor J^X Sat" e "^"^ '" ---d the Bar.n. .rHave iio. Sir Bleobbris came forward. felIl®f«^"V ^®- T**' " *^»^' ^^ "a measure. Is mv ouarrei li^ " He means that you shall ficht him " aaiM air. n- j - and t^'"'! wlu-'Mj^" ^'e"^"- " W'^"". »<"'i*. ' handW^*"' "^ ''* '"^•'•" »•''»"'« B«on. '>tetnl^ , " Un. ,-;;| »>**«iSj : " * 'Jitu-f- psf;-- 'A tB l.t "^"t'Pa/'saK"'*^-" » ^ ^ ^'^ ^»ch obliged. about to have ao^u^f^.'^t^PPP^rtuuity l>af ^t^ome *' l'*"' ^ • M.fc:/.'^" "iP«d C';^' t^P^"-*"?? with thImT'- te "«»he»T«id Si. n.„...- '^^i^^ ^"»' •?'"' -Ui. •'^*»' -/■! r to Matilda; who niylaiice.^' said • '"Go and get o^ants. ° ' nauch obliged, fs, "surely you note this extra- ct? may as t^li to the customs se, with armor .as fdrtunfte. 'ces'of ancient m." ■■•^'•^ Qetohergi^e aa ridden uTy ^isa Baffin, J'underst^nd ^refusal? J rravaine bUU . Pi'ofessor to nd the Pro- Uusting the K»t Igst ■ • , Ilk. < '^iof , a^ he ,» i^''- ♦ i » '■' " " 'J ^M .. 'iiy.1 «s ,, THE PORTUNATE ISLAND. 79 ^^.yelli my child," said the Professor to Miss Baffin mak- her. 'FawwelH and the Professor tried to kiss her. but he hZet '°*^®^^ ^ '"J'^^S ^«' °o«« ^ith the visor of his kUled.^' ^ ^*'^ ^'^' ®*^°' ™P^"«' "if you should h^^ "No danger of that We, none at all. I am perfectly safe" IfeelexactJ^asif Iw^^ea cooking'-stove. to beLr^ but'y^^^ may depend^ upon my giving a good account of myself. And now dear, adieu ! Ho. there 1" exclaimed the Professor. • w^ih -Blin^rm^^^^^^^^^^^ *'^ *^^^^ ^'^'^ ---^,-*« ^- --d. fA^^^!^u""i?®*l^*^'''**^ ""^ ^^'^ muscular men Were requh-ed to Aount the Professor upon his horse. And whea he was faSy astnde with his lance in his hand, he felt as if he weigh^t least three thousand poun48. and the weapon seamed quite as tef »? the aib-bpom of the V Morning Star." : Thi^'wamor did his best to sit his horse gracefully ; but the m^serable^beast praiiced and curveted in such I very u/reasonable manner Jhat his spectacles were continukUy shaking loose and m his eflfor^.to fix them, and at the same time to hold hTs horse, of the spettoiS ' '^"^ "T "^-^ '"^^"''y '''' '' '^''' ■ ^i[I^i°a'^a»'8.own groom thenipok the bridle-rein, and lead- mg the horse quietly to the joulKg-ground put him in place directly opposite to Sir Bleoberi#, whose lance was in rest, and ^^iuVtf^ mtendeilo split the Professor through and tUugli at the hrst encounter. , ,.^ ^ ^^Itr^l^^r'"'' I^?^^^ Mt unoomfbrUly at^ disadvant^e in and oomBata of the olden4ime were perhaps not so interesting ^Ja "^^I^T^^^i ^''^^" ^^^ ^8« of practice ex^Z Suddenly the herald's trumpet soAnded a blast. 'The P*i32 Z I^^ °? -T*" ''••^^ ^^^^ P«»«d ^^^ '«i» hard whiletry. ing to fix his lance m its rest.* Thjiicafis^d the horse t^m^0 tT^^ ^1.^''''^' a^^^'^''^^^ *^« warrior's s^pectacles oamf^I and the horse dashed at" full spe^d to the sidTof the jouSi^^t .^und, bnnging the half^lihded Professors fance up S^m :^rAB. mtn w hi o\ tho i>4 l n lul k f a st V m^^%l ' ' >. '. .. ' . i . ». ., . ■''• '^ 4 '.' .. / ■^'1 86 f I -\ \ ^■ ^^^iolei^ce to tK« __ H . "jag at the nose. ^ *^** ^niatched iii« i.^ f ^^^ J aiioiUd bf iS^ i^aT**^^ **»* you And ,^ ij ^< .It THE FORTUNATE ISLANiy. '! ijf 9i' ktanfees. said the Professor. -I regret her loss very deeDlv put you see I know nothinfir of the country. I aSaS r bhould not discover her if I should go alone - ^ ^ ^ " I will go with you." said Sir Bleoberil; ' ^fllr " ^''«*-'*^'" ^^id tl»e Professor. "Give meo^our "We will keep your daughter in the castle as a hostaw " said Jthe Baton. •* When yon return with Ysnlf vn*, oi,-ii i^ ' x^ Ladv Tilly, and^ir ieoberis sTalThtlYsor ^*^^ ^*^' ^^"^ y •• I am profonndlrgrateful," replied Sir Bleiberis, bowing ' ' - My dear, 'said the Professor to Miss Baffin, - doTthe ar irangement suit you ?*' *'* "It suits me," muttered Sir Dinadany •• BatTlan^J!l'^^L^ T^ ^ ^' "A*'" replied Miss Baffin, gone." ^^ ;«^^y »»x»»* yo» every^moment while you «^ with a s^^**" "^^^^ *^^' *^ ^**" ^^''" «^^ Sir Bleoberis, Agravl^!' ^ P°"^^' ^^ ^. "^^'^ -^^^^ to try." insinuated Sir sai^^^^?"*^'"^ *^' *^^« BciM. p«.nt^with the task,'^ The ^tire party, with the except^ of Ik^ Amravainfl fhtt^ CHAPTS^ "IBB BB9Ctni«- #' t^rofessor Baffin politely Reclined to weai^ At fiMmmMmr Dmadap upon the journey. He packed a few th^s^H^tehd and putting Jus i^volver in his podiet, he bX i^iTto his daughter and the member of thVfiaiii's fanSlv !Ln^j«I the t1.o trotted briskly oat through the woods to the s^fy ^hich.mi by not fa^ fiom the^ ouw lo tne i^way, i ior, ao tkegimlii. H^M p rt^aii^b t&f ^?'«" '■' ^" I-ie Villain r'"""^^''««^A ^ - A • 'KL.J. 1 of 'he «,rif »«" did not tZlZ, «tr«"»«on '^''■™ ^^^■5. ss'ri"" ^x;'",-; ."•" ««» ■'t«S^' - THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. ^ ^ > gS The two KiiightB came together with a terriWe shook which lade the sparks fly ; but neither was unhorsed or injured, and^ be lances 01 both glanced aside. They turned, and made at each otiier agam. This time the lance of each pierced the armor of the o^er, so that neither 4ance could be withdraw^ lit really seemed as if the two knights would have to undress landto walk off, leaving their armor pinioned together. A mo- ment later the sti^nge Knight feU to the gro\md. and lay per- fectly still. The Professor ivQnt up to hm and taking his lance from^hishMid sothat Sir Bleoberis cold move, 'unjaced the linigJit 8 nelmet. Hewasdeiul. * TheProfesBOir was inexpressibly shocked, 'f Why,'> he'ex- ! claimed, '« the man is dead- ! Most homble, isnl; it ">'' '' Oh, no,'' ^d Sir Bleoberis, co<#^ "Juried to kill him," " You wanted to purder him r " Oh, yes, of course." - =,.^1.^ »^.«o «!'*<* you did,"; exclaimed the damsel with a sw^et Tfe, ^""^ *^? ^ thankyou ? And you, my dear preserver." 'Bless ipy soul, madain," exclaimed the Professor, " I had ' nothmg to do with^it. I consider it p<*fectly horrible," w?7l"?»*? ^? B^eobeps. the maiden said, f^ It was you who ^ W^tolr-*'" ""^ "'^^^^^ broughtyou . "Yes," s^id^^ir Bleoberiff, #mililig. ' y * thrin?.?' *V' *^^*^°^^ *l»e l«»dy, flinging ker arms around t^nif ^^ '^^Tif *"??• /I^^'a^.^ever repay yiu-never. never, excepting with a hfe of devQtidn." aJ^,^'^^^'^^-^^^^^ fedl warn". Disengaging himself as speedily as possible, he said-^ .^ ^. i va^l^^Sf1T/^*1*™' ^ *"* very glad you have beeni^scued-- Wh\ >^ J VS^^^IV^^ ^** *^« ^»g^* over there wap slam. • What, ftsked the Professor of Sir Bleoberis, - will ^Qp d^ "Lethimlie. He i6 df no turther use >' ^^- Raffil°®Ti^l^ ^^ anything So 8hockiB|," said. logger . T Mt -^"^ f^^ *^ ^® *<> dispose of thisi^y ?" ./*i7^P with you," excbimed tke damseTTlooking at the I?r«^M«r. u Let me teU y ou ■ m^ storv. llf^ , - l'th« dwighter If the l^n«e Sagramo?. That eagerly name is_ -«• IV ■ *?»> .*: 'i o^S-J^ofc^-*"^"..-. kind „/«,• a.^^^ ^ ' '^**- ** Well T ^ , '°*e«ve yon *« ;f"aui, LumonUf ^.tJ V *<>^ ^^^_^^ : , QQ«>^Hleeye ji^^ ^^ ^ THE Fortunate island. . ^ 85 and although the Pfofessor felt that there was no real necessity [that she should attempt to- preserve her equipoise by pressing I his shoulder strongly with her head, he 1-egarded the arrange- ^menttHthoUt any intense jndignatiotti. : He /ound that he could ride very comfortably with two in the saddle, but he felt that his attention could be given more eflfec-/ tively to the management of the horse if Bragwaine would stop tummg her eyesup to his in that distracting manner so fre- quently. They rode 4png in silence fdr awhile. Suddenly Bracwaine said : c -\. * ■> " ^' " Sir Baffin?" . - . • ^'Well; what?" - y .' ' •' ^' Are you married?" \ Professor Baffin hardly knew what answer he hacLbetter give. After hesitatjiig for a moment, he said : /^ "Ihayebfeen." ' ^ . " Then your wile i| dead ?" *- The Profes8<» could not lie. He had to say " Ye^ I"- "I am so glad," murmured Bragwaine. " Not that she is dead, but that you are free." Professor Baffin was afraid to ask why. He felt that matters were becoming serious. " And the reason is," continued Bragwaine, " that I have learned to love you better than I love any other one on earth I'' bhe said thir calmly, very modestly, and quite as if it were a matter ol course. - \" . The Professor in astonishment looked ^t Sir Bleoberis, who had heard Bragwaine's words. The Knight, nodded to him" pleasantly, and said, " I expected this.^' > thef r feeHn^ '* ^ '^^^^ *" ttn»8«al>i»ig for ladies to express 1 The somewhat bewildered Sir Baffiti then said, "WeUmy dear child, it is very kind indeed for you to regard me in that manner. I have done aothi|ig to deserve it." •• You are my rescuer, Mf benefactor, my he«i*s idol '" ^•Persons at my time of life." said the Plxifessor, blushing, have to be extremely careful. I wiU be a father to you of *«'™' Oh, owtaioly. von mar eoimt on wi« b^in^^ . f^^y^^ ^^ m i i It ■ ■ '/ "ItJhinJc^'L .. °^^ Perspiration *«• M *««• B™L1*"*'°8 'hem for th '■ ^'««'»ri8 ^«»' pWafaon of th^^''?'' "dded to/*er^,°Hoeoce,ofh ?„■'? '» '"J; ««Il.nt sir .!f/'*.*"'^er. Bo. »^ • *!*rt of thjjV , '?*««« -'^^' ,'^ ""^ , 1 »• '■'>••'"•■( ^'-'.'1 <' % ,^ i« ' / ^''r^„j~' .# -o " ■! ftiii--»*. 1 ■'''-^- '^ - ■■ • '■ "'M THE FORTUNATE ISLANl). 8T " I know 1*' replied the Prince. " You wiU perhaps eay you I are poor. It is nothing. T will make yoti rich. It is enough for me that she loves you, and that you return it.'K ' " J cannot sufficiently thank you for your kindhess," said the Professor, '• but really there is a — " '"If you are not noble, the King will cu^e that. He wants such brave men as you are in his service," s^d the t*rince. " I am a free-bom American citizen, a^d ^the equal of any ' man on earth," said the Professor proudly, '** but to t^Jl. you the honest truth, I — '' . " You are notahrfeady married?" inqCiired the Prince, some- what suspiciously. " I have been married ; niywife is dead,1»nd — " " Then, of course, yon can marry Bragwainei Sir Colgrev- ance,'»-8aid the Prince to one of his attendants, " ride over and tell the abbot that Bragwaine will» wish to be. married to-mor- row!" » . I , Z*^ " To-morrow !" shrieked the Pr(rfessor.! " I really must pro- test ; you are mueh^too sudden., .ffl^ve an important mission to fulfil, and I mijst attend to tha|%:st, '^nd at once." SirBleoberiS explained to'tbp Prince[ the nature of their Errand, and^told him thfe Professor's dai hostage until he should bring Ysolt bapk t<. '; We will delay the wedding, then," saii now, let us ride homeward. If ithadnoi been for the ' heart-rendiug ^„^^^ everybody regardisd him &g the ^ture husband of^' and for the extreme tenderness of that lad^l's behavJ [hter was held-aBli Baron Bors. the Prince. "And ) ^ manner in which irag^aine, •r toward him, the Professor would have enjpy^|ug«ly his sojo^ at the- court. King Brandegpre regarded ||im l^oih the first with high favor, and the spv^reigu's conduct of cours^ sufficed to^recom- mend the Professor to everybody else. The Prbsessor found the Kmg to be a man of rather large mind, and it was a, continual source of pleasure to the leaj'nedman-to unfold to tl?e King, who hstened with amazement and ||dmiration, thfe wobders pf mod- srn invention, science, and^^Rry. I" ' " With what mstruments thTSB^essor's ingenuity could con'-' iruct from q?e rud|^ateriailiC;6ana, he showed a number ypenmyntg. ohie^ electrlftai;^i«h «n affp^i^^ th? KiTig ^ ht(mtn«ai^ la^ to b^ exedated as » .V F ■ > „.n A. ■^ I .m 4- °aSw the lake. ^ ^ "■« "wdow of one ?fi''* «""'<' »«* hi. boa f »« «* '■y i^'-? to b^a'S;>L«SJ^ or to i.» "* "'" boat, tho v;_ -^ "T'n« to br«,., »ijji=*-^ °U Jesso»,<,. Storm ig4?"8»«fowe| to ^^^*^«iii5Hg^ o'^he ara Jable bait. '".°"® "aa out nf JT^' "P "" » hobe- . dozen men, t^dZ T^'^' "^'o^h^ctZ^"^*^"- Ce «» they „nderSl"''''»<' ■»''» the dii?^"^ ''»'' P^^^' i^ »to.a b^ ^th^'"»' "hen the pSwL""*" ^sh-on, » was launched unon iif , J"«PeUer 'screw T ? "°™Ploted. wig ^ It devolved upon Sir m u . • '^^ * ^'^ loitering :%■: •^%s ^vl.-i > \^ ' THB fOfittJNATB ISLAH0. ^ a^ mgnftl which should be given from a boat, beneath her window, and 'then to leap fearlessly into the water. The night chosen was to be the eife^the Professor's wedding- I day. The mpre Prince Sagraltoor op of Professor Baffin and his feats, the. more strongly did he atoiire him ; and in order to make provision against any accident which should deprive hi« daughter of marriage with so remarkable a man, the Prince commanded the wedding-day to be fixed positively, despite th« remctostrances ivhich the Professor offered sdmewhat timidly, in view of the extreme delicacy of the matter < Upon the night in question, the Professor, at the request of the King, who was very oirious to have an opportunity to learn torn practical experience the nature of the thing which the Professor called *• a lecture," undertook to deliver in the dining- room of the jralace the lecture upon Sociology, which he had prepared for his course in England, ^l The ro6m was packed, and the interest and curiosity at first manifested were intense ; but thp Professor, spoke for an hour and three-quarters, losing his place several times because of the wretched character of the lights, and when he had concluded, he was surprised to disoovpr that his - entire audience was sound * aslei&p. • \ At first he felt ratlier annoyed, but in an^nstant he perceived that chance had ai'ranged matters in an extremely favorable manner. ' , It was within precisely half an hour of the time when he was to be in Ibe boat under the window of Ysolt. Stepping softly from the platform, he went upon tiptoe from the room. Not a sleeper awoke. Hurrying from the palace to the shore, be found Sir Bleoberis sitting in the boat, and await- ing him with impatience. . The Professor entered the craft, and applying a lighted match to the wood beneath the boiler, he pushed the boat away from ih& shore. %n<^ waited u^til he could get steam enough to move with. ^,.: ., ■■..:■■,.... ■"" / ' '.. .■',';■ A few momexits sufficed for this, and then, opening the throttle- valve gently, the tiny steamer sailed swiftly over the bosom of the lake, through the intense darkness, until the wall of the cajtle, dark an d glo omy, loomed up directly ahea d. - A: liglii was ifainttf^buraii^B^ -Ifwdt's "dtim^ And the casement waji open. ni 'fi" .<* 9 ■ / ., i • •■ .A — ^ / * * • ■■1 -■( ^ / - •* ( , • >i ..... J, •t: ^ « ■ . # ' \ P f "' ■ff - 1 4» .JV«,;, . ■ • ' i ^^ ■1 & \ ■v '.H" IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. // ill ^ « >>^'S 1.0 IJ lt.25 •^ 11 2.8 ■ 50 3.2 us no lU U. 1111.6 6" ^V4 - m m ^ /. 1 A - . Sciences Corporation > 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14580 (716) 872-4503 ,\ iV •^ *V ^\ ' \ - < «. ♦;■ « ' ■ . ■ . « 1 ' . - "< . .vk> ♦ • T — ' S V - <^° ^^ ■ \ ' '^^0 * ^ ' % V / ^ ' t 4 1 • • *• f ^. ■ / t 1 1 1 ' - > - i- 3 . ^ h ■ * ' / i • 1 » \ \ ..- A:- ■* ■i ■ J, ■ - » i « • ^ . * . « » g ^^^< . » ^ ^ ■ - ^^ • « i ' f!S > \. % 1 ' "T. " ■i, • s .^A^ivf'^I^- :.-at-'^'Mk....^ ;.. ,,. . r. : ,J»&: : id:L^:__,^ ^ ■i' 90 A,th, ™^ ^'^^'^ATE ISLAND. ■ Md resteZ^i Bli^f>»' '«''% touched «,..♦' Jftf. "if the .no^2r?J°tT^»-" "id "Oh, my love ! 18 that jrou. darling?" "Yes. Wei^efe*^^^" It 18 important " -- • j x. » ^^'^ yo" quickly." ^'^*°*' «»»d the Professor, - that r. u much as i r^?^ »P -^^^^air," returned Ysbit «. j ,„ , " Women." said ^1.. i> , ^^i" hurry as " Yes " re r H fl^®*^®* ^" y^j Would ten mmute, »o« ^^^ .„ _ . " n might rninn... ,. . '"'**"•■«*?»**«« '■/f^;*' '•■/;-«->i / THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. 91 he said to the Professor : " She had no bundle with her when she was captured." The Professor, in silent desperation, banked his fires, threw open tl^e ftirnace-door, and began to wonderwhat kind of chance he would have in the event of a boiler explosion. Blowing off steam, under the existing circumstances, was simply out of the question. ' After a delay of considerable duration, Ysolt's voice Iras heard again : " Dearest!" '• What, love ?" asked Sir Bleoberis. ' " I am all ready now," said Ysolt. " So are we." '♦ How must I get down,?" " Climb through the window and jump. You will fall inta the water, but I shall catch you and place yon in the boat.'* • " But I shall get horridly wet !" " Of course ; but, darling, that can make no great difference, 80 that you escape." ■> . "And spoil my clothes, too !" "Yes, Ysolt, I know ; but—" " I cannot do it ; I -am afraid." And Ysolt began to cry. Wild despair filled the heart of Sir Blecberis. , » " I have a rope here," said the Professor ;^'' but howltrg yfe to get it up to her ?" « " Ysolt," said Bleoberis, " if I throw you the end of a rope, do you think you can catch it ?" "I will try." , Sir Bleoberis threw it. He threw it again. He threw it thir- teen times, and then Ysolt contrived to catch it. " What shall I do with it now ?" she asked. " Tie it fiftst tosomething ; to the bed, or anything," replied the Knight. " Now what shall I do ?" asked the maiden, when she had made the rope secure. " Slide right down into the boat," said the Professor. " It would ruin my hands," said Ysolt, moumfdlly. " Make the attempt, and hold on tightly," aaid Sir Bleoberis " We shall be caught if we stay here much longer," observed thfl Profei j or, with aniionft thnnghtB erf the boa^ i r. V #■■ 9i Ul ml T ow. 1 . -an^Au ""^^NATE ISLAND- . (iood-bve then f t . ?f «>« windows J , ° ?'"«'" seated hi^L»'°" "'thoat deSy " ^e side of th. "'.-"" Xeo" upon hi. ."rliitt over the wateM Oil- xjieQberis. with vlix "® °®'oe sounA*-* T®' **»« in- Ji»e Side of the hoT J/?l^ "0*°" i"« armllir^'^^^ ^^^rs. f '''' Then heJl° *,^^ ^^'ofessor aMPP'*^®^ *° «wim to Bieoberis'a foot touoEi^' ^^'^d to X^?^,^ ^^«^* lifted opened /iis thrott?« t 1 *^ *^® «^<*e the Pko^„ ^?*' a^d as Sr ^/ started tlhtjht:' '^^'^^ ^^-ttrt* t ^^^'^"^ ^ftwasnowdajlW A x. '^ ' *''*3' from the waU, '^i;g!'"!'..H perceived V.„,. .., "'""'""•"''W fWir, ^U? ,. ^-ifonet's boat conM T* • ^^M* . Sir Dagonet had n*w • , **°P '^ ^ead- a to ory. ^ rope and •room. The iurnace.door. 'J«»out4eJay. "»e Btone sUJ ;|one of Bis ' aer out and we anxiety. °«^ of the ^n the rope *0 the hike. Bmembered "^ off steam ^e, and in- oe waters. ^ swim to ffort lifted Id as Sir « steam, *iie wall. THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. 98 hot parsnit of that in which the maiden, the Knight, and the Professor fled away from him. By some means the" people of the town of Callion had had their attention drawn to the proceedings at the castle, and now the shore was lined with spectators who watched with eager interest the race between Sir Dagonet's boat and the wonderful craft which had neither oars nor sails, and which sent a long streamer of smoke from out itfil chimney. Pi'ofessor Baffin, positively determined not to wed the daugh- ter of Prince Sagramor, had prepared a stratagem. He had sent three horses to the side of the lake opposite to the town, and three or four miles distant from it, with the intention of landing there, and hurrying with Ysolt and Sir Bleoberis to the home of Baron Bors, without the knowledf e of the Prince. The daylight interfered to some extent with the promise of the plan, but P#bfes8or Baffin resolved to carry it out at any rate, taking what he considered to be the tolerably good chnncea of success. He turned the prow of his boat directly toward the town, making as if he would go thither. The pursuers followed fast, and ad the Professor perceived that he could easily outstrip them, he slowed his engine somewhat, permitting Bir^Dagonet to gain upon him. When he was witliln a few hundred yards of the shore, close enough indeed, for him to perceive that tLe Tiing, Prince Sagramor, Bragwatiqe, and all the attendants of the court were among those who watched the race with excited interest, the Professor suddenly turned his boat half around, and putting the engine at its highest s|>eed, ploughed swiftly toward thex)ppo8ite shore. ,/' A mighty shout went up from the onlookers. Manifestly the fugitives had the sympathy of the crowd. The oarsmen of Sir Dagonet worked right valiaritly to wih the chase, but the steamer gained constantly upon them ; and wheii her keel grated upon the sand, close hy where the. homes stood, the pursuers were at leicist a third of a mile behind. Sir Bleoberis sprang froni the boat and helped Ysolt to alight. The Professor stopp^ to make the fire more brisk, and to tie down the si^ety valve ; then hurrying after Sir Bleoberis and Ygolt, tiliejtoe mounted th e ir horses yd gatloped »^*y' • / ^ inew~ moSoenis they reached"ffie ttip drfBe'hill wKiSKy #. TT i* 94 M- %-:r:.^v'\- Kji--f THE FOBTUNATB IM^ND. 't'. CHAPTEB IV. , make s^ood speed fnr rT- ^^^^^essor Baffin .. xt, . ,^«im a mile or twoof t anybody was giving Thl *^S**°«' JPPearedtobea «on1^?T*P' Vdid S Sit 1^ • ^^^'^ ^n».»iidaIthoi«rh^"?ul>^n»en at wm« j-^*^*^^® ^^at was among tSyb^ ^^' ^^ ^° n»eans oe^!. fZ«*f ?«« btfWnd "' fc- . /i THE FORI^NATE ISLAND. 95 As the party oame within sighi pf the castle, they could hear the hoofs of tie horses of the pursuers, and soon their ears were assailed hy cries, demanding that they should stop. It was, in4eed, Prince Sagramor and his knights, who were following fasi. The Professor galloped more furiously than ever when he ase&tained the truth, and Sir Bleoberis and Yfiqlt kept pace with him. ^ >s^ Just as they reached the drawbridge, however, the^ were overtaken; and, as it was raised, they were compelled to sto-* and meet iiie Prince face to fafee. JChe Professor hurridly ciUe to the warder to lower t^e bridge^ ^o thaj; Ysolt could take refuge o iuv the castle. Then he turned, and determined to make 1^ best of the situation. The Prince was disposed to be conc^^- tory. • '•We cjime," he said, " to" escort you bacjt again. We have a gt»iBd of honor here fitting for any brid,egro€^." ♦•You are uncommonly kind," replied tl^e Professor, •♦ bujk the parade is rather unnecessary. I am not going back just a^t present." . . • „ -j •• I promised Bragwain^ that you would return with us," said the Prince, sternly. •• Well, you ought not to mak0 rash, promises," replied the Professor with firmnes^. •• You will go, of course ^ «• Of course I will not go.^ •' Bragwaine is waiting for you." ♦• That," said the Professor, ••is a matter of perfect indiflfer^ enoe to m^. / •• I will not be trifled witb, sir," said the Prince angrily. ♦• Nor will I," ^claimed the Professor. '♦ Let us understand one another. I do not wish to marry any one. 1 did not ask your daughter td marry me, and I have never consented to the union. I tell you now that I positively and absolutely refuse to be forced to marry^ her or any other woman. I will do as I please about it ; not as you please." ••Seiae him," slMiekedihe Prince to his attendants'. : •♦ Stand oflf," said the Professor, presenting his revolver. " I'll kill the man who approacheft^pie. I jhfkH put up with this fool- ishnesg no longer.' . \.;'-'- :■ . \„, ^ - r ''i OnroTibe kniglkS'^S"^Pp^nter"^H^"1^^i^»^li^ #1 M n • What does the on^e «r?''?l *J« »8«wer c|Z '* ' ^^efel^-^^^nnot!?^^;^^^^^^^ •;Ai^ J^ou satisfied ?» «.M .u ''''^' ^°^W agood , Tlie P&nce didnot Lfl'^ ^^ ^Professor. / took of some kin^ «*»wer, hnthe looted i.- v u hi * method by whiet the R^feT/hJ^i^S'^''^'' In a raging f^ ^.^ „ . ""^ unpowd upon "A • f ■ ■- ' ' i ■ THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. VT ••Thia," said the Professor, ••is probably the most asinine; proceeding np^ record. Because I won't marry Sagramor*^ daughter, Sagramor is going to fight wi^ aman who never sa#^ his daughter.'* . , . ,. The combat was not a long one. At the first shook botn knights were unhorsed ; but, drawing their swords, they rushed together and hacked at each other until the sparks flew in showers from their armor. The Barottxfought well, but presently the Prince's sword struck his shoulder wi^ a blow which carried the blade down through the steel plate, and caused the blood to spurt forth. The Baron fell to the^ earth; and Prince Sagramor, remembering the small number of his, attendants, aiid the probability that he might be assailed by the Baron's people, mounted his horse wid slowly trotted away without deigning to look at Professor Bafifin. They carried the Baron tenderly into tfie castle, and put him to bed. The wound was a terrible one, and the Professor perceived that the chances of Jiis recovery, under the rude medical treat- ment th^t could be, obtained, were not very favorable. After doing what he oould to help the sufferer, he witlg|rew firom the room, and left the Baron with Lady Bors and tMpedical prac-. titionierwho was ordinarily employed by the famuf . . Miss Baffin, with Sir Dinadan, awaited her father in the hall. This was the first opportunfty he had had to greet her. After some preliminary conversation, and after the Professor had ex- pressed to Sir Dinadan his regret that the Baron should have been injured, the Professor said : •• And now, Tilly, my love, how have you been employing |tpn^lf during my absence ?»• Miss Baffin blushed. ,,»,'> \Have you kept the journal regularly ?" asked the Professor^ "lot so very regularly," replied Misa Baffin. ^ L have a number of very interesting and extraordinary ja for you to record,** said the Professor. *• Has nothirijg; of a/remarkable character happened here during my absence ?" - /••Oh, yes," said Miss Baffin, u^e^^. ^.^ /'"Ihave learned to smoke," said Sir Dinadan. -^ " Indeed," said the Professor with a slight pang. "And how have yon smokedl" ^,,^_ .„ , . ^^, one." replied the K^^^^^^W^SS^eUrraFl^^ days. I think, perhape, I shall give up smoking.'* •%\ '^ -98 *». e^.^*''" ^»» '^'O" '<»™ the iri.„d.".^d Sir K„. Of improvement, anTJhe'^Zfn ^ ¥^ *<> "^ow any Birii* i»* W^oase wr&S'J^«^^J^3?h*hepei«eiy:S^^^ THE FORTUNATE ISLAND. 99 pradent, however, to' keep his opinion from the members of the ^Baron's family. Bat the Baron himself soon reached the same oonolusioja, and one day Lady Pors oame oat of his room to 'summon Sir Dinadan, Ysolt, Sir Bleoberis, who was now fomi- ally betrothed to Ysolt, and the Professor, t6 the Baron's bed- side. , The Baron said to them, in a feeble vdioe, that he, felt hii end approaching, and that he desired to give some instraotioss. and to say farewell to his family. Then he addressed himself first to Sir Dinadan, and ndit to Ysolt. When he had fiiyshed speaking to them he said to Lady Bors,— •• And now, Ettard, a final word to you. I am going away, and yoa will need another, friend, protector, com[(&nioo, has- . band. Have you ever thought of any one whom yoa should like other than me ?" _ ♦' Never, never, never," said Lady Bots, sobbing. •♦ Let me advise you, then. Who would be more likely .to fill my place in your heart acceptably than our good and wise and wonderfulfriend Sir Baffin ?" " Good gracious !" exclaimed the Professor with a start. ♦• Your son is to mirry his daughter ; and she will be happy to be here with him in the castle. Promise me that you wi|[ try to love him." «^fe ' *• Yes, I will try," Jyii Lady Bors, wiping her eyes and seem- \ing, upon the whole, rather more cheerful. " That," said the Baron, " does not altogether satisfy me. 1 place upon you iny comoiand that you shall m%rry him. Will you ioonsent to obey ?" / / ♦• I will consent to anything, so that your last hour may be happier," said Lady BjSra with an air of resignation. She was supported during the trial, perhaps, by the reflection that in dealing with lumbago Professor Baffin had no superior in the kingdom. ._ Father Ansehn was announced. " Withdraw, now, ' said the Baron to all of his femily bat Lady Bars. " I must speak withtheHeniiit/* I-^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ■ • ^ .. « Professor Baffin ehooimtered the Hermit at the door. The holy man stopped long enough to say that a huge rfiip had come near to th e short npon whi^ th e Professor had landed, "Anniini WM anohorel there. m6mmmjm,M9aiiaktaam^ f '"'fyf'C' •^"^^ THE JoRTUNATB INLAND. _ ; "«'^*« ISLAND. *»»Ve I been Ift*.« ~_i- _ . \ :, " •'^ ^iMip^'^^^'^W are ici^i^' " fl>v^i been long n^ ^3^^^,^^^ X ■r THE PO»TXTNATE ISLAND. 101. ♦•You have been very ilji for several days; aelirioua spine- times." ^ - y- < . . •♦ Is the captain going back ta^e Island ?" y_ •• Going back to the vhat, pa ?" .' ' . 1 '^< 1^ t^ Island. It must have seemed dreadfully heartless for us to leave the oastle while the Baron was dying." •• While the Baron was dying f What do you mean?", ^^ , '• Why, Baron Bors oonld not have liv^d much longer. I am ^ afraid'SjrDinadanwUl think hard of us." ^ # 'VI haven't th^ least idea what you are talking about. Poor, pa I your mind is beginning to wfuder again. Turn oycili^, ani^ WtogotoTjleep." - ;.; « >^- ?rofessor Baffin was silent for a moment. Then M said* — /" Tilly, do you mean to say you never heard of Barois Bors?*' - ♦' Never." ' - * ' ^ 7 ^ And that you were never engaged to Bir Dina^an ?'\ ^« Pa, how absurd ! Who are these people ?" ^' Were you not upon the inland with me, at the oastle ?" . " How could we have gone upon afi island, pa, when we were taken firom the 1^ by the ship?" " Tilly, n^^ud, when I get perfectly well I shall hav^ to tell yon <^f the' most extraordinary series o^^^^umstances that has oometmder my .observation 4unng the« whole course of jnjp exisltence 1" Then Professor Baflbi closed his eyes and fell urto a ^se» and Miss Baffin went up to tell the surgeon of the Bbip^l7ne get^ ting better/ f ..' ' * ^ \ . * .jt M ; THK EMO. Y jfi-?. ,!»' 1-W 1 -^ixr- - I. "^ •■' ■ J - ■■ t * ' c ' -X — ^ -* %^^^ * ^ I' if »#4 » ^ r . « n.i.. t > * " / Bd - A# T-> '"!-«,. .(h ,* VI %,■> ■4. ' ^HE CITr Of B VUESQVB '•^V •■*« - 'ttB COWDBlCKf) A ^ MMNG AUnST. *ildaur»hlT ton?!/™!" of »,p ewding- fei tt'e ^'/^ ?*"r^yimita«vf J"S1°'»P «od »nd a hidden oin. „„ " n»tiire. finf tfin ).;.."" ""' ™"8. u ;t ...^ItT .?'P*' npon oocanin.. «ii"5 .V* '<«» were hollow. «nd7wddffl »Sr'"'° "^ »•'»« S,f Z'?**"" the ends . « it e^^t^' W-" occasion, fiS^' (tm ^V"» '"f »" •» toiwh it fisS;!^ '"PWceptiWe holes t?.^. «»«• wWoh, Wlithe^,^" "•« iandBomelj de^»^ • . i«in pi.teri:s5i Ciui ^p°-*^ -^w^i2t:r'"'<^ ^ purpose for whi-i. *7*"°""« aesigna. bni: »i,mi '***f'»ed poiwe- !*»»«; tat hie e"'"*'." to ad^m^i^JSi^^eiW^lihr.?, uporM?*'cS:*!iii''»'^e«^».^rfiSior^<'«- *"'• ™">1' w«» to be loolraJ^ ^ »ad1iB,. <• V, ^"^ •* "a not nwd ; THE crrr of burlesque. 10» and iia Ha 'cabinets were jogs and bottles, which existed that they m^fht opntribntd to the jpleasture of the eye rather than to the pliBasore of the palate. The book-oases^ made with the best art of the workman, after the most approved designs, were fill- ed with richly-bonnd volnmes, into which Mr. Gowdrick had never cared to look since he bonght them by the cubic foot ; and which, in some instances, considered themes which wonld^oi have interested the buiker in j^ slightest degree, even if he had examined them, and had JWHi gifted with the capacity to comprehend them. Upon the mantel ticked a clock, ao fine that it had to be kept under glass, and which had never been known to indicate the time correctly dtiring twenty-foor consecutive hours. The' chairs and the sofos were made of material so costly that Mrs. Oow' drick had iheta draped continually in closely-fitting brown-linen covers, so that, in £aet, it was somewhat difficult to comprehend why the expensive apd delicate fabrics beneath should have been; - employed at all, seeing that they were perpeti|ally doomed to hide their loveliness. Mr. Gowdrick sat looking at the deceitful fire in front of him^ and as he mused he smoked an excellent ciear. His reverie was presently disturbed by the entrance of Mn. Gowdndi to tho room. Mrs. Gowdrick* was a woman in middle life, of rounded figure and pleasing face ; and she was clad, at this moment, in rich and tasteful dress. She held in her hand a bit of oanvaii - upon which she was working, in worsted, a pattern which was intended to convey to the observer the impression that it was of Japanese origin ;, but really it was as great a shun as Mr. Gow- drick's fires' ..v^.;'■/^W^:>,■...^. /:,..,>,- .-■ .:>..'':-\ .,.-■ '':■ iM,:v.,.r..,.vrt^^ Mrs. Gowdrick drew a chair near to that of her huiAMind. Her first act, when she had taken her seat, was to clap her hands vigorously t(^ether two or three times, in ineffsctual efforts to catch and crush a fluttering moth-fly. '^h^^k- This is a form of exercise that is very deaf I6'lhe femdie heart, but rarely is it productive of any practical results. Galoulated ilUX BQ'pu wtuv, n nm^'SBtrnr oe ^vBuiiinlev' tCUll loe^amouufc lA^^ force expended »nnnally by the sex upon the work of annihtlai' ing moth-flies would be siifficient to raise loUe pound two bun- dled thousand feet high, if any one cared to have a pound at such an devation ; while it is probable that the number of moth- ?g«^ •'->:'; 10* ■"■■-■....■ 'X ■ ■ '' ^»e».dear, whew is Leonie r iweutyWy^ toTi toJl Ci'"!"'"'*'^ »»" than d«jt ^l.» •'"""''" ""«"*• I^ome M an exceedingly pru- yew or two, every now »n?then°T^ 2 "^ ^.f™ '» '"o* « week, and tbm wooM be no h^™^ k 't^?"°« ttiimer every feiihion did not iSt W 1.HW ^*' '"'*?« "" *™"» « tbe Ihe top of W h^^ ^ *^' *» «"'«' ">• 1»W PUoe npon di«ppointajen. .t t£,lS:^'5Ttf'.o'"rke ^ '^^^ "'' the case of Leonie. *" woeption m "No." said Mrs. Oowdnok • ««ii1ia ;« k«^ • V ^^ that she has nerves, WX has to tflriT"''*"^ **" •^*»«^^ At the pio-nio in SeniM^ W «£f ! .1 * *"*° ®^«^ morning. - ^^^ *j,,, , _L ^ ^^^ you ittww di« ww in -^WliimbagofiMrthwe II \^ .' THE CITY OF BURLESQUE. lOtf I wish her, before I quit home, to have hereelf engaged to some one who is able to support her handsomely." ** How soon will it be necessary for yon to fly ?" asked Mrs. Cowdrick. " Before the end of next week, at the very latest. Matters are fost approaching a crisis at the bank. We might have pull- ed through after the &ilare of Snell and Adam, to whom, as one of the directors was a partner, we lent a large sum upon bogns^ collateral ; and I did not despair even when Pinyard, Moon and Company, with whom I had a silent interest.vwent under just after obtaining that last hundred thousand of^is ; but I heard to-day that J. P. Hunn and Co. are very much embarrassed, aiid as we have hypothecated some good collaterals deposited witii us by oQr best customers in order to keep Hunn on his legs, his failure will inevitably result in the exposure of the whole busi- ness. And how mUch, dear, is the bank short?" asked Mrs. Cow- drick, kindly. " A foil million and a quarter at the lowest estimate. W« can't tell exactly, because the accounts have been so much falsi- fied to hide the deficiency. But the capital has gone, and with it the bulk of the money belonging to the depositors ; and as I say, a yrhole lot of collateral securities, placed in our hands by some of the best men in town. It's a bad business 1 They will make it hot for us, J am afraid." <' But then, dear, you will save something from the wreck, ywisaidr' ■%'i^h.^~: ■ -. ' ^ -'^^ ^. -' ' . ■ ' *' Ohf 7«s t Finyard told me that he thought he and I would come out with two or throe hundred thousand apiece, if we can manage the creditors of his firm so that they will take twenty- five per cent, of theur claims in settlement. Thiit, however, is only a possibility." ,:'^^^ ^ , , •, , " If the crash is doming ffo toon,*' nud Mrs. Cowdrick, ^tn ii thoughtfrtl air, " there are aome little things that I should like ti» get at once." Wh»Htf« the y r^ i< Why yon know, Henrr, ^fruit a sealtkin saeqne for this winter, and I had thought ip>uying a pair of plain diamond earingi. Couldn't I get ttieffi, say to-morrow, and hate them chttgid, and then let th« dealers just oome in with the rest of your creditors when yon arrange a settlement?" '■/^ ^Miersf^'-'^^drtSte--- She- done, and w-,h\ '^,'? 'o '«" feC M.*^-,?" .'"«'«"«» •tely, with n f^i.^ ^^^i Cowdrick atrnh^Avr ^ P'»ced her of lJoWs L?hnrH^i^^« o' wBatkr? pj^^ ^y fondness " I want to aak m« •,??"»«»* m saence Mr n« ^ . , future." ^''V^^'^^^'^JXamnoUTiSgJJJ'*^^ You "^toiTeiy8omr"«.v,r *" '^* ^ ^J financial " Of conri^'. **;? ^«onw. .iwnry i3 -^ V'^*® yoa are." r««K.^ much much more bmveJviA „°°'<* ^ar the calanu'tTwfc. -! '*®'°fi^ good and •fluent CbL^"'^ "^^^^ that 2^3^' J^?,,!? tfS^* ^ ''"''^^•^^^to^ilieni.e.aid^ ;■ '4- o»- She was ^as wreathed I might have h drawing a kiek said— ©art to any i/t^' THE CITY OP BURLESQUE. 107 (« Yes, papa, there is." * <' I am glad to hear that ! W|io is it, darling ?" " Yon will not be angry with me, papa, it I tell you, will you ? I ^v« given my love to some one, and that some one is — is— Mr. Weems, the ;artist !" „ , ♦• What I" exAlaimed Mr. Cowdricjt, in a voice that indicated mingled surprise and indignation. "Not Julius Weems.^Uie painter?" *' You don't mean to say that you are engaged to be miurriecC. to that young man ?" said Mrs. Gowdrick, vehemently. •• Yes, I am engaged to him," said Leonie, putting her fore- head down upon tiie arm of her father's chair. " He proposed, to me on Tuesday, while you were at the opera." ., '* And you love him ?" asked Mr. Cowdriok. *• " Oh, yes," replied Leonie, " I love him ; of course I love hha or I never would have accepted him. But I don't mean to say, positively and finally, that I would refuse a better chance if it presented itself. Julius is the only person who seems likely to want me, and certainly he is a great deal better than no- bodv." . ■ \ '/Yes ; but, my dear child," observed Mr. Cowdriok, " a merff- husband is nothing. The circumstances of the husband are everything." " ;And Mr. Weems is poor as poverty,'' added Mrs. gowdrick. ••Oh, no, mamma, you are mistaken," said Leonie. •• Julius 18 in very comfortable circumstances. He has a very [rofitable ••He has, has he?" said Mr. Cowdriok. "WeU, leant imagine wher^ it o^n be. I never have seen any of his pic- •• Why, papa," rejoined Leonie with a slight laugh. •• Julius says you have two of his best works in your gaUery." ••I have," exclaimed Mr. Cowdrick, In astonishmtHi. **T think not. ' ' ■ ■ ',4^:»'T■v;|^Ji^^%/■'^.'':-^■ 'v; ,-,;;•; , ^iMie^^at^ any rate /' ,"' ' ^' - .; ,■ . . '' 'a., ■: . ' .^"^ "Which are they?" -•Why.the;Lefidyand the Sm* bf #rw^o. ailiW Bt. Lawrence,' by Titian." -oo » !*• Leonie, that is ridiculous," >»id Mr. Cowdriok, warmly. ** J?erfectiy i^bewfd/' remarked Mrs. Cowdriok. t A 1 ■ ^'•-^J|, ,f'-*S 'r '■*;^iisf^^ ■ M •^% 406 T&B ClJhr OP BURLESQUE. •i'p'^'-n^-wf^ tod ^n 4nd that there Wdw^™?"^ ': that they bring the be.t/ri'e «netooometohirS„f„™^T"'^ '»■•«'«*• He «nt fimahea. H^ii^ar^ -^VSiT^' ""'•'^» 'W^^"^ ^^uch^ftJCeX'ThXa^^^^ M/Wdriek. with a slight h.s Correggio .„d hie tTb^ ^^ ti'V^'T>' ^^ ?"«'»' gained from hie eoddeUy toml^ J!!m « °°?*"' «l>eerfnh,ee8, to-morrow-" in that^>L L^ reeolation to realise on them »%. He appeals ^^ "««""* "««d Mr. Weeme dtfe" , "■dpoeeiblySU^X^Jg^^ ^ '" »«en.rieiag young man, Cowdrick''^ ^^L'TnTan're^i"? «tonc., dear," .aid M how soon the wedding^?:;?: "Z^Z ^ "" """^ ^ Jt-eSWdrC^rl^- F ^^"/ThaY;%S P"ten„« that he was a ^ iiSSTol''^!'! '*f ''^ »»''« ^« est of your emotions with the so^d^^^.*" ''I'?' "l"" *>■« holi- l-™* «pon a paltTy pe^ei^V. "'^*'°"" ""«'»*«'° «>•» he was with '^orf:tL»iXJ!%^iri:^ ?f « 'o *"»!. Julius No more than I cai fo, his I" **" ''"" "? P»8» ?. CowiSjkr" ""!*'"'' «»»P«"»,yonr age, de«r M»i Mr,' tbifaq;^i^^.^«».j^7l^^^^ thedate of , me. "nder pretto^of "„rrfor a texf"'^.'''''^ ?" " '** the record, knghingl, ho n«^^l2S J' J'^'^e" I showed him •aid he should B^«h;« «!nS^!^ ^x '",. ^ "prised. He thre^" „ ;'^«*»»e apposed me to be .day over twenty -^''^^^t'^lr^:'lY,r\°' "■; «^ •«*« was " Wftii T -^i.* . wue, and theii he said ^1^ )7gkj^j li e.jgfl wm jw about i t^-^^^^^^-^--^^- yon are ui ^Sf^ot^f^y^ ?^T '**' y^°- however ; ^^ »«ror yourself. I wish yon would a«k. Mr. v-,r' ■4 THE CITY Q^ BURLESQUE. 109 He said I'Weems to call to see ^e to-morrow evening concer^ng the matter." / ,. , t " He will be here td-night, papa,' replied Leonie. he \?ould call to inate a formal proposal for my han " Very well ; that will do nicely. The sooner we/teach a dis tinct understaliding, the better." ^ . ,. „r Before mtoy moments had elapsed, Mr. Juhus y^eems was announced^ the servant, whereupon Mrs. Cowdrick and Leoair withdro^ When Mr. Weems entered the room, Mr. Cowdrick gree^d him poUtelyi but with dignified gravity. Mr. Weems Ml somewhat nervous. Mr. Cowdrick clearly perceived that he had reduced himself to a condition of piisery witfe a resolu-^ tion to obtain, if possible during this visit, the paternal blessing upon his proposed alliance with Leonie, The current theory is that the ipost difficult of the processes by which the state of marriage is approached, is the first declara- tion of affection to the object of it ; and it may be possible that most men, upon reviewing their conduct upon auch ocassions, are inclined to believe that they made fools of themselves. But, as a matter of fact, it is nearly certain that those who make a careful furvey of their experiences will be likdjy toadmit that the most trymg ordeal through which the lover is compelled to go is that of ascertaining what opinion of the matter is held by the father. of his sweetheart. IftMre is a reasonable certainty that the loved one will accept him, he is at least sure of the most acute and delicious sympathy when he summons up cour-^ age enough to take h^r little hand in his and to give voice to his P feelings ; and the difference of sex enables the performance to assume the most romantic aspect. But to lace a cold, practical man of the world with a lot of sentiment, and to plunge boldly ■ mto an explanation to him ot a fervid passion which he regards in the prosiest fashion possible, requires bravery of a very high order. Aqd the man who can approach such a task with per- fect self-possession, and positive command of his mental facul- ties and of his utterance, has a nervous system that ordinary t-^ men may tfivy*< , i* For a moment affcwf Mr. Weems seitted himself upon the otli«r side of the fire-place from Mr. Cowdrick, there was an •mbar- rassing silence. Then Mr. Cowdrick, to open the way for his visitor, remarked that it had been a very diwkgreeable day. ' \t \ >,• 110 H, TttB 0»t OP BUBMTSQUB. «<■ ^M^.'^}'- \ •eTM,/o7thini^>J^'?'- ""''<«"»>»<'% d«np and chilly to be aaid upon that particftlini«? ^?? *** ^« nothing,mot6 ascertain what men. who are in a ^£f ?* ""^'^^ ^ curbrt^ •bout. /all back uDon in «fl ^^^^ lor Boinethinir to talk sunshine duringffio? 1^"^^^^' |*«- .*$?- " at^t the other half. '®*^* **»« oiwemittmg rai© during '"'il'tSir" '■ - '"' «^- ^« '"aaealy. and with about her," continu1Sl^eU'"'» 7»>«.« > ?P«* to you the plmge and have it over " determination to meet "lodeedl" .• " Ye«, sir. In fabi Mi- ru-j ■ ■ eented;to become mtJ^iiCai^i. y"" daughter hae con- «»r„.^ „,*^. _..J: '^f^*-'! J.^'^lh^to obtainjf I,^, ~^ "^Si? t ■r^"" '^ri We it?"- --""•■•^"V' y»- ■ g^I^red & eaeh'r^l.^'tnolrntSM J --".o little My answer Would depend 8om«wS " V*? imow what— Bay. I have no objectfftoT^*!^;V"S|» ei"»m.tances. 1 iTy • •'rLr:^*"!^ your pSS" "^' *"" ^ •"«" "o"^ doW^ t&b^ao' m«:,l'^^^»yf» five thouaand " Who bought it?" ^ *° infrequent occuwenefi,'^ ^y ^^a^us^B church. It igin^t-,^. * ' ^^ |i^aence, of course."^* ^^^ m, I give you my secret , & , ^«8' ' said Mr. Cowdriok '• t a«. ^ -. i ^ie»dmuB'8 aad I ^ae one of four ^1^1^"/**"?^* •* fi<*- » ^ snbscnbers for that picture. THE CITY OF BUBLBSQXTB. Ill The bftUnoe of the amount we made k> by mortgaging the organ. Mr. Toniele, the incumbent, Baid it was indisputably genuine/'^;- ., .. _ / V i,_A Oh, well," said Mr. Weem . ^*if it looks like genuine one, and everybody thinks it is genuine, what difference is there ?" The people are every bit|w happy as if it were real. If one of my pictures sells better with the \Bme of some old chap who has been dead for two or three centuries tagged to iir" why shouldn'^ I let it go in that way ? It does not hurt him, and itlfelps me." <-.' . t. •_ ♦• From your point of view the theory is excellent ; but from mine, as the owner of a couple Qf old masters, it looks a little thin.** •• WeM, to be fair," said Mr. Weems, •• I acknowledge that I painted those you have, but I am willing to find you a market ■for them, to oblige you ; or I will sell you two or three more, if "you prefer it. I have just run off a fine Salvator Bosa, aud a Titian, as kini of 'pot-boilers,' and you can h^ve them for almost nothing if you want them.'' ' . :: •♦ Thank you, no," said Mr. Cowdriok. ♦' My interest m art ^ is gradually cooling off. And then, besides, if you are going to turn out pictures every time you want a suit of clothes, or a bo3fe|^ of cigars, it seems likely there will soon be a glut of old masteri^ - in the market." "But to comeback to the point, Mr. Cowdrick,". said Mr. Weems. ♦• What may I accept as your decision respecting my claim to your daughter's hand ?" ^ ♦♦ Have you ever had an affair of this kind before, Mr. Weems? Pardon me for asking. Is Leonie your first love ?" " Well, you know, every man does foolish things in his youth. I have been involved in one or two trifling matters of the wMrt. But I am a careful man, and to avoid any unpleasant dempa^ strations in the future, I have procured fwrmal decrees of divorce from eleven different girls ; all, in fact with whom I hav^ ever had any acquaintance that was at all sentimental. I obtained siitteflg«t fromihe 8 t at»^hidiw»r4tt-4^-^ 8 08t^,<)^^ dollaf fe apiece, and the remainder from Ji^, at a little higher rate*" • ** And you were never nuurrieMi any of the lilies ?" «'0h, no! merely knew them; took them out driving, or danced with them at balls. Some ol them are married to other % ff' ;5)meii are go que?r "^l •i°*'»r" ''^^^r certain whi.* lor it. Leonie'fl »,.,»•' ^" -^ '**ve tbe Jei>i»i *,^"^^ »" chances XourcQurse seemfli ■« me, X asaure ieonie ?" '"'■*'» 'W among yom mm« ! ^a^^* *^» Oh.wdl,",^.!,, ^ , '"P*" » divorce from decree., wW^IeJ»f»"\U»at rC^ iS?''"rI»«<>ldnt 7»«tty wordofCi'i"?'" "owt e.^e»il. fr"* Wank she Were to £f *''° ^O" """Id lote l.« v . ' ^ ^'<^^'TS '"""■« "'"poor; or« ''"■• U^^iL^T •??' "o^teiS'/ '"»"•, I^onie is very _ " Try lo suba[t'S*£rr"°''»»t ?" '*"*"'««»• What ^*^^^^r^'^^m'iT.,tr'^ ««.- Cher ".'j^de.'rSSS^^' J^ddi^g ™tfi^^d'\"' J^S^«- ""dt^- « would not l»^."i5,'f*<'»P»n»ibilit7 B™.!^* *»«"d. i.™^'"- Mr Wlt^..'?^ '^5 ohanc^f *"''" «" «i "And you are mme at last, darling I" said jfc. Weemg. a«he pushedius chair up dose to Leonie's and took her hand in his. In r^ly she nestled her head up against his shoulder, and her thoughts went out dreamily over the past. Old Mr. Baxter ■ft % 7-S ili THE CITY OF BU*tB§Q0B *nd her two othAr WmJ u- j , . *?«°»>n the same numner. jKL 1« ^a, ^*^ "^Pponded to tions. *'^- =»^"«^8 an endless rpuiif ofrepetiU "Did you know, darling tLrr^T °**]^ <^^ ^^^ ool^. wcent piotn^es ?'• * *^**' ^ P'** ^ow- face ii^ one of my ;;0h Juliua, Did your . . Bn^'^ ^^^« ^.* *o ->/WI length of St. Etrielber^ by ;;j«^^.V?<>^ likeness r " "Done? Why it wn« S i? °*^°eiflhad refused von?" f^mnd with^SJ air if cS;«in ^. ^**^*. *^'"°«* reproach- ^ ^y *? take their owrii?e^?'*'*r*»^'«^::«*t«rl|^ un, I know," replied lift. w^^JL . -r. ^iMo# I generally tiy ti beS !m mf^ ^^* Dreadful, i^Swbt >^ /• Could yo^ bJa/miaewT ^' °'''^?^- "'« a^utJiPP* ^o^ love Jould^ndZTpo^LT/sftA ^o^think **^fwfiP«ye^y?" . *^^"^r®"l?«>^e»:tekeir?, Bitter. ^r^S^^^C ^t"^ ^'' "^^^ ^th a renewed d« ?es, dlfin^tjoflttble, hni not - ™ ^^rp^r ffi e wh deTa sT h ^^^ ^C ^y 6bserva. modious mansion with all th« t^'.5 better chance in a com- water, and a boy to (^s™ tfl^^f 5 ^n^^iiences ; with 'gas ia like some othJr thbw S S?. ''t/^ ^"- ^k d«C' i« comfortable." A «^' "" ""' world~it thrives best ™S( f ■ f- ■<■ »*'"^! l'«*«' ^IJ^r-^'^ y ' ■ ^ ■■■ ^f^f^ THE oiTY OF BURLESQUE. tis lti° thought aboat our wedding, dear ?'» asked Leonie. U wego upoa our wedding^oumey.?^ Wouldn't it , lendidto take a^rip to Europe?" « T&e ftuggeation did not" seem to exoite any great amouniof enthusiasm in the heart of Mr. Weems. He said : ** It would H fery nice, but I am afraid it would be almost too expensive/ unless your pa— Did your piy say anything about it?" askedr" JoU^ with a faint expecfetion that Mr. Cowdrick may have intended to inclttde a handsome cheque among the presents. - «' No," replied Leonie; "he said nothing. Only I thought mayb^ you might wantlo go." ' _ " &6 I do, my love, but business is a trifle dull just now. I am i^aid we shall have to wait until the prevailing preju^oe against Rubens and St. Ethelherta blows over, as it were. I thought perhaps we might take a short trip to Boston and baA. How would that suit you?" .^ t ' ^ •« I wouid be satisfied with it, dear, of course," said Leonie. Mr. Weems heard her answer with the serene oonsoiousnew that he had' a pass for two over that particular route, and thif even upon a wedding journey there would be no need to be actOr ally riotous in the matter of hotel expenses. " And when we get home, and settle down, may I keep a par- rot, JuUus?*' . :,. . a . •« Well," replied Mr. Weems, ♦♦ the question is sudden and r«(^ewhat irrelevant, but I should think you might ; provided, of course^ you select one that has not been taught to use pro- fane language, and to imitate a sereeching wheelbarrow With too great accuracy." ', > " You are so kind ! Am, Julius?" "What, sweet?" ' ^ ' i. W •♦ If pi^ should die, oould dear mamma come to live wit» us?"- ■ - - " ■ . '^■; ':r: --■ :. - ■ ;--; . -^.^ ■•.,; ;-^- •* I'll tell you what, Leonie, suppoiste i^ postpone the eonna^ eration -a#i3 't'..;*..-5- ,<->-v^*,-, vvneneVer vou cftfi't * ' iiave a damaging effect n^l' ^x. '^^'"^ *'^®»* love-lettewi :«"^ they begi./ o'Sl^y^.T^' '*"""« ■**»"« ch«r, -. ho, > , ' S-«.thear,, if , couw s„„,y ehoo« ' Wifh -I "*^^* meaning ase "ram rtdormg the ttmainder of hS life ' ""'' • Wolntionlo I f ^f'-k'^^M f.- M* > f "K f^^^i^^ r. THB dlTT OF BUBLBSQtTE.; il7 '* ' Sweetheart ' is a name I always liked/' said Ltonie. ** Yon called me your 'rosebud,' in your last letter; but somehow it did not please me so much as 'sweetheart;' it was not so na- tural" " Twenty-five years is old for a rosebud," said Mr. Weems. absently. -^ " Yes," replied Leonie ; " and does it not seem odd, Juliui, that we who have been apart so long should now be united for- ever, and that we should go down the ourf ent of time together until the end ?" While she was speaking, the eleg^ant clock, from beneath its crystal covering, chimed out the hour of four, and the artist, consulting his watch, discovered that the correct time was pre- cisely ten mitiiliteB past eleven. He arose from his seat, and fondly embracing Leonie, he kissed her, and bade her good night. She went to the window, and as by the light of the street lamp, she saw him descending the steps in front of the house, dhe waved her hand toward him. Then turning, she preceded to the hall, and up the stairs to bed, murmuring to herself — •* Burn them 1 That would be insane I" A n .' * : CHAPTER U. ^K SAINT CADMUS S. — OHUSOH MATTERS OF IMPOBTANCS. — FATHKB KBUM AND VATHKB TUMIOLB. — A BIOTOtS sisBVICE. -— Mr. Gowdrick, although making no profession of a especial fondness for a religious life, wad cne of the pillars of St. Gad- mus's Church. He had been elected to a place in the vestry ; he held two pews ; he contributed upon occasion to the CKuroh fimd ; and Bev. Mr. Tunide, who was " an advatcdd Bitualist," found in Mr. Cowdrick an ardent supporter whenever he under- took to introduce innQvations in his method of conducting tiie JffirvinftB . r i«# It did not seem' important to Mr. Oowdrick that Mr. Tunide should always try to produce from the records of the early Ohufeh hti aa^rity for any new und jBuzpriaing ^raetioe thit 118 JL-- j|rt- ^e most money Zd T"^^ *^** «i? t,1.k ' "^^ioesTsf ^ them. ^' *°^ ^^0 were able to «oJ^^^PPew who \ 1* ttirew i^iS^t'.^^ father Tun.'... "^^elties, wanted P^a«y i8 green, ?nd Si '°^^^ ^«' tCnir^^S ^'^^ ^ couldn't '"•fc;« !: r ""■- --""^i^^- \'' THE CITY OP BUKLESQUE. jj^ meluy"^''^^''""' *^ ^' ^**«^ ^^'"^^ ^ture.'. said Leonie. "I ought to teU you also," continued Father Tnn.nl« ..♦»,. t . "Why, instead of making it of plain linen von «,oj« u v' :4ama8k, ^d you embroidej^ it ^Klk X«L ^jflA*- °^ but French red marking cotton or white^ miS JI^^'"*^ pressly prohibited by the rules Not^n?"^? '^^^'' ** ^^' stated'in plainer term^s thL^fs QtB^ Z„^^ '^'^ « that things should be done d^nUy and fn ^der .L'""'*"^ bound to heed his injunction." " '* *°^ ^® "* " Ah, Father Tunide, I am afraid I nfii^Wf «* d i as I do my ahnanac. • WiU^Xlieve7f«!5L ^'i^*?? *^ '"^^'^ he says /nything aboui pC lin^ra^d S^A^\^°^.^^ cotton? I plead guilty " ^^ "^ marking me;n''\YXate^StV:U^^^^ ^^^^-^ thin^. UnhappUyhe does Tt iuudet Lem'^thTth^r ought to have done so, is another question. ^ aSoHfl f^^ them .s more recent, but it is not I be d^spis^e^u'^n'tSil ^J^f " Of course not." to pin the fringe toTh; sS^STw u ,7^" t^*!^"""** perfect tbroogh enfferinff Ifeel thiTr .™ Hf^ 1" '^ °"^» tion,.nlesst^esedistresfingt:i^^^ JJt « temble." sa.d Leonie, with tender a^thy i« h^ . •'Bytheway,Mis»Oowdrick/^ia^^^^ — ^ - pleasanter themes. Cannot I enlist vonr mV^ . *• • . "™ ^ our church work 9 wTii ™ * ^ ^. °***'® ^^^^^ interest in ''lam not competent to teach, t fear." ^f¥e can give you a class of imIb or a <«Um ^f i« l»ef«. The bo,/ d«., which SSJd': ^m^ Vt Z s^,. '"<;. 130 THE OITT OF BUBLESQUE. Flock,' is, I fear, somewhat too unruly for yoii. Miss Bunner gave it up beoause the scholars would persist in pinching each other and quarreling during the lesson. They are so roi^h and boisterous that I think it will be better to get a male teacher to manage them. But you could take the girls' class, 'The Zeal- ous Workers,' and perhaps persuade the pupils to surrender their present indifference to everything that is being done in either the Sunday-school or the church." " I will consider the mattei*, and lef you have, my answer as speedily as possible," repliM Leonie. "Do, please, And I must speakr to your father again about my assistant. Father Erum. He is not in sympathy with me, and it would be better forbotii of us if he oonld be re- moved." ' ' y " It is so unfortunate," said Leonie. ^ '* I have told him repeatedly that his stole must always match the frontal of the color of the altar ; but ybu perhaps noticed ladst Sunday that he came in with a black stole, and, of course, .with a green frontal, all hope of a harmonious combination of colors was gone. It spoiled the entire service for me/' "For me, too," said Leonie. " Sometimes I think Erum is wilfully perverse and obstinate. Upon several recent occasions he has read the Bpistle upon the Gospel side, and the Gospel upon the Epistle side, and when I remonstrated with him a^r church, he was positively offensive. He said that if the people only listened to the Scripture and heeded it, he couldn't see why it made any difference whether he stood upon one side or the other, or balanced himself on top of the chancel rail. Scandalous, wasn't it ?" " Perfectly soandaloi^i." >'*)He seems to take pleasure in destroying the finest group- ings that I arrange in the chancel with him and the acolytes ; and when I proposed to introduce an orchestra, led by Professor Batterini, whom I could dress in a surplice, Erum had the inso- lence to say that he did not believe that there was any qse of trying to proaoh the Gospel to the poor with a brass band. The -xnsn seems iobrioBtlo all senBenfirever^oef (I Entirely lost," sai^ Iieonie. "And as ibr praying to the east, that he appears determined not to do. Of cMMUTBe^with the incorrect orientation of the answer as THE CITY OP BtJBLBSQUB. 121 church, we have only a ' supposititious east,' and Krum insists* that if I have a right to suppose the norUi-northwest, I think it', is, to he the east, he is equally entitled to suppose the south- west or due south to he east, and so he does as he pleases. When he said, the other day, that in his opinion more depended* upon the frame of mind in which the prayers were said, than upon the particular point of the compass towards which the supplications were presented, I did not answer him. Such % man is almost heyond the reach of argumeni" Mr. Cowdrick came in while FiCther Tunicle was speaking ;„ and whfen the good pastor had rehelirsed his grievances to the^ banker, Mr. Cowdijck said, — '' . ••Father Krum's conduct is subversive of good order and ot authority ; and if he is cJlowed to continue he will demoralize the entire congregation. He ought to remember what the Bible says about submitting reverently to one's pastors and spiritual masters. You are his pastor and spiritual master. Isaiah, isn't it, who says that ?" . w i. " The quotation, though somewhat inexact," replied Father Tunicle, ** is from the Catechism." " Well, anyhow, he ought to do as you want him to do. That is what we pay him for. And if he refuses to do it, he ought to be dismissed." " That." said Father Tunicle, " will be difficult to do while he has at least half of the vestrymen with him. I am sorry to say that his obstinacy is countenanced and approved by a num- ber of the lay officers of the church." ♦ " Then we miist use force !" exclaimed Mr. Cowdrick. '• If we men who put down our money to keep the church in opera- tion cannot be allowed to do as we please, we had better st6p contributing. The people who pay for spreading the glad tid- ings of the Gospel ought to be allowed to spread them in their own way." "Matters," said Father Tunicle, "are fast approaching a point whei% something will have to be done. Three times I have instructed Kmm to extend only three of his fingers when ^.^ i^^ wmcoa absolution^ bnt he coptim yBajto^ hold ou t h i s e i h_ tire hand, with ail his fingers wide open. The last time he did it I noticed that Mrs. Lindsay, who is one of our party, got up and left th« church in a rage/* . **0 ^t, h-tf III J 122 THE CITY OF BURLESQUE. : !i V "I saw liei- go out/' said Leonie. -That was the firRt Sn«^«w ffinl^afC'?. *?" "" ''"'P"' -'™' •»-"• Evfr-^W^t^ "If he does it again," said Mr. Cowdrick, •• I aifi in favnr nf shutting the cWoh door against him and Ws friends Per ^mptpiy action of «tome kind becomes a neceaSlVir^s wS After «ome further conversation relative to ecclesiastinftl a«^ ♦seen ar matters. Father Tunicle took his leave S went h„^« probing the dark recesses of his mind, S walk^ alna/' find some plan by whicb^ he might suc^ssLTy o^^^^^ resistance oflFered by the perverse Father Tr«m! ♦^ *t ^ . lization^f a fallen race ^^^^^ * **^*^ ^™» ^ ^^ e>«inge- « J «!m®1* ??i°^y "^^^^^e^ ^*8 ^"«^t »nd beautiful. Hie air W.1.1: ^""^ •\''"° ^2^^^ fr^°^ »|le^ skj tote^t from the r ^omes the worshipers who, howW willing to brave. ^^eeT ?' temfic storms sent to keep them from shopping exou^fons «nd parties, have not nerve enough upon sKftoTce a cloud no larger than a man's hand. ^""»y8 lo laoe a ou *^ ^'' '?°^ '^^*'' ''P^" devotional errands intent walked -along the footway near St, Cadmus's church at the hour^of morning prayer, perceived that something lof an unus^l and ^xciting nature was in pi^ogress in and abo'ut thW^pZl^othic edifice Thq many whose cui-iosity succeeded in ^^oomina their des«-e to be punctual in their Attendance at'^e Ztory paused to observe the proceedings. sanctuary, A crisis ha^ been reached in the quarrel between Father Tunicle and Father Rrum. As the letter, in response to stni another request that he would extend but three fingers in £" pronunciation of the absolution, bad positively, and ind^ with yehemence refused to extend less th^ four.^anddonlso iaras to indicate that, under serious provocation, he might even had resolved tha the time had^me for them to act. ^ w^i '!.l *®""*^1^ **''°«, ^'^ ^*''" «»^^ ^^^'^^r Tunicle ; - but the Ua ""^ J^^^'^ty™ 18 the seed of the Church ; and we must Mand^up boldly for truth and right, though we die for ii " And Hft, u pon th a t iovgly Sun d a ji muri^i iig, whw duirigmturT Herself seemed to be trying to express, with the glory of her junshme, ai^d witii the pure beauty of he^c aaui^e sky, her lenst f^<'"'ii'^"?, -"■•';■ i-Jr-i ./■v THE CITY OP BUBI^ESQUB. ^28 olthegoodnesaof her Creator, Father Tunicle and six of his vestrymen^ reinforced by a few earnest sympathizers, who were subsequently admitted through a side door by a faithful sexton, took possession of the church. When Father Krum arrived, the faithful sexton, keeping watch and ward at the aforesaid door, refused to let him in ; and-^ vhen the indignant clergyman demanded a reason for his ex- clusion, the functionary informed him that his reckless conduct in using four fingers and a thupib,instead'of the inferior number warranted by a strict r^ard for the usages of the primitive Church, had persuaded Father Tunicle and his partizans that, as a shepherd of the tiSieep, he was a lamentable and^smal, not to say dangerous, failure. Then Father Krum, in a frame of mind that contained no suggestion of Christain resignation, walked rapidly around to the front of the church, where he found a group of persons, members of the congregation, who were standing before a dose- barred door, behind which, in the vestibule, stood Father Tu- nicle and his adherents. While Father Krum, in the mildest tones that he could command, and with a proper desire not to produce any excitement^ explained the situation to the crowd, the six vestrymen who inclined to favor his views, in oj^sition to those of Father Tunicle, came up, one after the other. * They were taken completely by surprise, and felt they were at k disadvantage. But after some preliminary discussion they called Mr. Krum aside, and began to consider with him what should be done. Mr. Krum counselled a retreat. His voice was for peafee. He urged that a resort to violence at any time, but especially at such a time, would be shocking. But the vestrymen did not agree with him. Mf. Yetts declared that they had a right to enter the church, and that for officers of the church with authority co-equal with theirs to deny that right, was simply monstrous, and not to be endured. Mr. Palfrey, Mr. Green, and, the other vestrymen, expressed their full agree«^ ment with this preposition. , " But let us try peaceful means, ati any rate," said Mr. Knun. :^Llm ti knock at Jthftdoar^ He advanced and knocked. ♦' Who is it T said a voice from Within. •* It is Mr. Krum, six of the vestrymen, and a Uuisajprtion q# ihe congregation. We wish to enter." :-^^.^^..- .,'■">.' 184 TH£: orrr of burlesque. •• Can't do it," replied the voice, which was that of the sexton, •who had advanced to the front, and had been thrown out upon the picket ]ine in the vestibule. • • Where is Father Tuniole ?" asked Mr. Ernm. '* He has just begun the service, and has gotten as far as * dearly beloved brethren.' My orders'are t])at you can't get in until he says the apostolic benediction I" • ; "Ask one of the vestrymen to come to the wiildow for a moment, please," said Mr. Jfpkm. Plresentiy one of the front windows was raised to the height of two or three inches, and Mr. Oowdrick peered through the K^ netting that protected it. ^ •• What do you want ?" asked Mr. Cowdriok. £^* W6 wish to know," said Mr. Yetts, " why we a^ exohided IMi this church, and by whose authority ?*' . #You are excluded," said Mr. Gowdrick, "because 4e who pay the expenses are determined to run the church i|i our way. The door is shut by our authority ; by mine !" \ " Do you mean to say," asked Mr. Krum, with mud^ mild- ness, "that you intend to try to make this exclusion ^rma- nent?" \ " Of ^urse. We ' have possessioii and we intend to k lep it. Hurry up if you have anything to say ; I want to go in an I help swell the responses." " See h^re, Cowdriok," said Mr. Yetts, fiercely, " if youldon't t»pen-' that door, we will break it down. We're not go £« to stand any more of this nonsense." v / " You'd bettef not try it," replied Mr. Clowdridk. "I summon the police to protect us if you dpi*^ In response to this Mr. Yetts advant^ to the door and Ml it thtee or four ti^es, viciously. Th(^ crowd, which had jsw until it covered the pavement /ind filled the street, laughc this demonstration. Mr. Cowmrick, behind the window net laughed idso. Mr. Yetts, with crimson face, retired in tolc good order to consult with his friends. Father Emm lidi him toffiVgitup.. « ^- Give ii nfTTiS^iimaSrSF. Yetts. " 111 8faow'yOt»&^ give it up I" ^ ' 'J^hen he akd Mr. Green went round Uie comer for a lit q»a<|||l^and returned presently with a somewhat pondl ildow for a vrAfaen THE crnr op burlbbqub. 195 len beam. The four other vestrymen manned it, and aimed it Ikt the door. Bang! went the end against the portal, Hrhioh bravely withstood the shodc. The crowd oheerod, and a dozen boys, who regarded the performance with delighted interest, crowded up behind the assaolting coliomn, and b^ptrayed a desipB^ to give additional impetus to Mr. Yetts' battering ram. The Erom section of the vestry made another charge, strik- ing the door with terrible force, but stiU failing to effect a breach. At this^ moment one of Father Tunicle's acolytes emerged from the side-door and attempted to glide down tiie . street in search of a policeman. He was captor^ by one of the besieging force, and held as a prisoner. He brought the news that FaUier Tunide had stopped short in the servicft when the first blow was struck against the door, and that the entire gar- rison was now rallied i& the vestibule, where they were fortify- ing the portal with the baptismal font, the episcopal chair, spme^ Sunday-school benches, and a lectern. Mr. Erum remonstrated with Mr. Yetts, and entreated him not to proceed any further. He uiged that it was a dreadful thing for Chrisiian men to create such a disturbance upon tiae Sabbath-day. " I don't know about that I" replied Mr. Yetts, who was now wanii with wrath and with excitement. "When Peter did wrong didn't Paul ♦ withstand him to the face '?"^ " Yes; but, my dear Mr. Yetts, think of it ! St. Paul did not try to batter down the church door on a Sunday morning with a log of viFood \ You are going tgo^ far 1" "Times have changed sine^ then," said Mr. Yetts. "Paul probably never encountered precisely &uch an emergency. Once * more I" exclaimed Mr. Yetts to the assailants. " Give it to 'em hard this time 1^ / , , v Seizing the beam, the vestrymen and their friends advanced once more to the attack. Three times was the door smitten without effect, but when the fourth blow was struck it gave way and was flung wide open, revealing Father Tunide and his .Mends, standing amid admass of "v*>rt.'if7>ftd ftnd wrmrkftd fami- \ ture, pale with rage and dismay, and ready to defend with force the citadel which thus was exposed to the enemy. 1; The crowd sent up a shont of satiffiCaction, and the intrepid Yetts, with his five vestrymto, regarded th^ triumph with ex^ nltation. ^ 4 n :,,:.. ■"^^^y- What the "**^ *" »«HtE8QUE. . „ to press fo™,rtS^„"if .l!"'f ""t. tf 'hey had been n..^ •.. . CHAi>TEB UT. ^ Before another Sn«j-. i^ « ^ *- ^ ^^^ ^ mendd who |»wnptfy oaifa^ ■■•■>■■ iif-mii 'Smfi'f}'!;: 'Sfspp'*? ,1,., ^, _,. , . ,_i^,.., .,^,, ^ ^ THE CITY OF BURLESQUE. \i force: after folK^out^^^^^^ ^''^^ ' *"^ *« *^« d^*^««ve who had ju8t beeVXted n^n f"*«S"«^8: coroner. McSorley, work to dra* afl flfi • "P®° *^« Democratic ticket, went to borhood.^ • ""^ -''' *Bd creeks and ponds in theneigj^ Colon^ Hokgy. tlm condition oftte bLk boTth^ L^'*/"""*''. "I"'^ »' ""e i i i | j ipj;!iiVji i ]j|lji ' •mif •W 128 THE CITY OF ^RLBSQUB. \ about the matter than other people,' and they watched Cow- driek's house -so closely, and were so successfnl in establishing oo^^dential relations with the chambermaid, that they, were able to tell how often the doctor called to see Mrs. Gowdrick, what quantity of reinvigorating drugs she consumed, how her medicine agreed with her, and what she had every' day for fdjinner. A o^tkntry wherein a tyrant's power is used to shackle the press, and to tph it of freedom, of utterance, does not know how i ^ much it misses. ' ' / v The unioertainty in wkich the fate of Mr. Gowdrick was in- Tolved made it exceedingly difficult for Colonel Hoker to discuss the bank sensation in his editorial columns. If he^ could have felt sure that the unhappy fugitive had ideally slain himself, the course of the Colonel would have been clear ; for then^he could with safety have directed public attention to the peculiar atrocity of the transactions at the bank ; he could have held thS miser- able offender up before the public eye to point to hiuL as an awful ' example to others, and Specially the young, and he could have preached many eloqttent sermon^s upon the text, " Btf sure your , sins will find you out I" ' But while a chance remained that Cowdriok wa? still alive and might return, the Colonetknew that it wias the duty of persons upon whom it devolved to form public opinion through the in- 1^ iBtrumentahty of the press, to be careful. He had learned from > -extended observation that an absent offender -wljo, had been roughly used as a warning against pursuance of the paths of vice, sometimes comes back, and, after gaining possession ot powdr and riches, manifests a disposition to make things vkry '■■// uncomfortable for the e^nent jourkialists who have used him r as a basis for their denunciations of sin. And so the Colonel .'discussed the matter in the Crab only in a general way; lament- ing the loss to the stockholders ; expressing regret that " one of ' our most eminent citizens should be, for a time at least, under ^ .A-clfflid»"!and\irg ii: ^ thaitperin^M-the- disastei^^a^l^liffl! attributed to the spirit of wild speculation which seemed at tnnes to animate ei^tire communities, ratJber than to a deliberate pur- pose to inflict injury upon eonfiding and iimooent persons. Sha dtt^ity^^Ui^layed by Colonel Hoker in keeping the Crai In snoh a nice positoon that while ilr apparently conceded mnch If* J- I w ,9^?wj' ;,■", ^nf^^" '"'" -^pr ■^,if«|.,jf.- THE CITT OF BURLBfiQUB. 1» to public sentiment and the requirements of morality, it yet left A very wide margin for the contingency of Ck)wdrick s vindication And restorfktion to prosperity, was really marveUous. Bat the nicest ingenuity sometimes will not avail against ac- cident, or rather against that Fate which ordains catastrophe with ironical contemptldr human foresight. - The Colonel was compelled to leave town for a few days, and in order to make jie Cral» entirely safe, he penned two editorial articles, one .to^ used in the event of the discovery of Cow- drick's dead/iSdy during his absence, the other to be "»je'^* « Cowdrlck^ould return alive to fikce his accusers and hte fate. 'the fcmnlsr article ran in this wise:— ' j ,. ** The Way OF TfflB ^TBANSttBJJBsoB. "It has not often been our lot to present to our readers more striking proof than that which is found in our columns-tor^day of the fact that Satan makes hard bargains. It is now positively ascertained that Cowdrick the swindler, forger and thief, driven by desperation at the exposure of his awful crimes, and. let^us hope, for the sake of human nature, by the stings of a conscience which could not hearken with indifference to the cries of the widows and orphans reduced at one fell blow to beggary, took his own Ufe, and so ended a career of firime which honest men flhrink from contemplating. It is. peifhaps.ior the *>e3«i. J^o^v ever much we may regret that this wretched felon, burdened with guilt and shame, should have robbed the law of its right to punish, and should have gone into eternity unshnven. with the «uat of self-destruction added to the mountain of sms for which already he was required to give account. We shrink from dis- <5us8ion of the dreadful details of this shocking and siokenmg tragedy; but it will not have been enacted m vam if it shsM seem to warn those who are tempted, as this man was. to sur- ^ rftnAfir hflnest y at the deinMndjor greed, a^^ jf P^."^" iv!'S^fc dening thirBHor Sffli lo persuadriheiarW trample iuw^aus* theirobligations to society, to their fiunilies, and to those who had given them tiieir trust." ^ '; .^ -.^ V The second article pursued rather ft different line of thought. It WM to the following effect :^ — ___ ^ i. y •id ■#». I' I.' "•. /r v^i/J^ Cih m THE CttTY OP BURLESQUE. ♦* A Dbbiand fob Faib Pia?, P 'cTdS ]^'*\t*^ of pleasure in announcmg that Henry r. uowonck, ifiwq., the well-known banker, whose nam« »i«; been before the public for some daysW nTn^eS with imS?^ ^* ?*^ '° ^® enjoyment of exceUent health. It is Sfr f 1 *5»* '«».,«?mediate further examination into the SS^ir« i^' *'*''^ r" **' "^'^^ ^i«» *h« assistanJ^MrCow t horfoXvr^^ express the general wish when we sly thit we hope to have some of tke transactions that have eicitpH severest comment explained in such a manner L to vinSe ^I;J^^'t9r^^^^y^^m<^ion of wilful wrong doing.^^n nZlv^ ? -^'l ?^°^y '^ pending, and while Mr. CowdrickTs preparing his statement of the^ca^, it is only just to Wm io ask that there shall be a suspensi^ of public opinion. Hi^fomer high standing, hia services to this community, L obsctaritTb which the recent operations of the bank are branded and th« T^l:s^u2s:zr'^^'^'''^''if ^'^^^ aii,omb"7toml^ E« *L ^^^^'"^ T'^'''' ^^*" °^ pronounce a final verdict S^r^^^^^ ^^ '^^^ "«* «*y l^ow earnelSy we W utteked Inrt""'" 'T^' ^"^ ^'' ^"Wes with Ws ^e to,«te !S^'^^^i^'^ reputation as a faithful guardian of me trusts confided to hun, untarnished " «"«*»" ui %me^Ite^ preparation of these articles »ti:tle"0.«^^^^^^^ -^^tur. the right track until he should comrhftme B^ XT ""^^ S7« H«i^!^? ? *?u ^^"P' *o excite the contempt of its wl "^»ljo"n»a^8 put the Crab articles carefuUv awav in «™ i,'* '-■fe " THE Ciry OF BUBLBSQUB* I^ , 'V»"J'-"B^Tf'' HI The Colonel himself, upon discerning the catastrophe in a eopy of the paper which he picked up lit his hotel, expressed his feelings freely and vehjBmently by telegraph, and then he started home upon a &st express train for the purpose of explaining his , views more f ally and precisely. ■ The Crab itself alluded to the subject only so far as to suggest, that the stupidity of an associate editor w^ «M!countable for ther^ performance, and to hint that there was some reason for suspect- ing that bribery had been employed by tiie owners of rival pa- pers, in the vain hope to bring the Crabr the only really infjEdU^ ble journal published, into contempt. ^^^.-^-^ The eflforts of McSorley, the coroner, to dMnoustratethe cor- rectness of his theory of auicide were i^^atigable. The body not having been discovered in ajiy-^ the streams, McSorley began to search for it upon i£e land. The pursuit, however, was not profitabie, for no traces of Mr. Cowdri^ could be founds An ordinaiy coroner would have abandoned the hunt in despair ; but McBorley was no common man. He brought to the perfor- mance of the functions of his office an enthusiasm which never failed to kindle at the promise of a fee ; and as, in this case, he was thoroughly convinced that Cowdrick ought to have commit- ted suicide, he felt that for Cowdrick to have evaded his duty in the matter would have been to perpetrate a wanton outrage upon Coroner McSoriey. . w >.; • -* The following ^tract froioi the local reports in the Orah will explain the charaoter^f the coroner's ultimate effort : — " Yesterday a uuMber of large bones were discovered beneath an old stable on Twelfth Street, by some laborers. It was be- - lieved by most of the spectators that they were the bones of# horse. But Coroner McSorley, who was sent for, declared at once his belief that they were portions of the skeleton of one of our promiqent citizens, a banker, who has been missing for several days. This view was oontcisted by several of the persons present upoa the ground that the remains were absolutely flesho the accuracy of his view, pVchseedea' to arrange the bones upon the pavement in the form I of a man. He succeeded in the attempt to some extent, and,w^ about to summon his jury of inquest, when Dr. Watties came up. The doctor examined th« skeleton, and tben the following oonversation enaned between him and Coroner McSorley : — \ lA i' j^lWi~5 V'.-WS^X 183 ^8 dew thwuSf ^K* /^** y^'^ ^ave amn^ed Lih • JeoMwb or S in^fe* J:?« ««PP08e to iTSf^M* ' T'^^' " ' ^^^ur^and^^^^''''^ *^^ *«P o^ the h^. ' "^^ ^''^ trouble Nru^' *°** that is very likeiv *i.I . ■r»?« f3^- .^-^^r - "- iou. in «.e o'^:?""' '"^ «'-» elbows ^ one l^^.ri t2l^ .- pend upon if ■ "« ""' » Wment of a lower j.w-S de x<'«<'--^-'°.C"z?i:'it?rr •^•^ -o '-«.«.o,er. on the same plin. I used tn t"» °™''''' "^ '" ooostructed fom- molar &th in h^nUe ar/r'\'\ ^'"-^ »Ka1 Th.. «em.^to b, . .i^i^""^;, «»d two of them were plugged !.« shouldSCro^rto' b'e'^r'"'.*^'' ""KO-bone where never saw a man witt « i™ * ?** ^^'^ "ne, ^d vou? Y^ ' *' ^^ \ ■ " '?"'«"»"''' "» Ciiw! ?«" tKbjL^ tr' S:^^" ^ <•?»•*•■ Ih.;, „o time to dis irmg^ut thi fi«.rM,"S.i?^-',^^I.;«-.bout SXij* ," * ine evidence that wa. m„- u x.^^*^ *^ thejury V '• j ;»ried and enterSfni^^^^f^^.'he w,i^^^^^^ ^« «n d mn eh wa, mm^i JL ^ "■"n g h muoh of it wiw THE cm OF BURLESQUE. i9» and then they collected their fees and dispersed, with a grateM consciousness that they had fully discharged their duty to so- <5iety. But, of course, perfectly disinterested persons, persons who were not in the way of earning jury fees, were disposed to regard with incredulity the conclusions reached by the coroner and hia friends, and still it was for the community a vexed question-;^ What had become of Mr. Oowdrick ? The coroner's theory, however, was not entirely forgotten, be- cause Dr. Wattles sent to one ot jthe daily papers a communica- tion, in which he, expressed his opinion of the bones over which the inquest was held. This provoked from '* An Eminent Scientist," who had not seen the bones, a suggestion of the pos- sibilit;^ that ihey may have belonged to some mysterious crea- ture who was the missing linkjMtween man and the lower orders of mammalia. ' ."*" To this came a hot response from Father Tunicle,and several other clergymen, who proceeded to show the monstrous folly and wickedness of such a supposition, and who demonstrated that Science and Infidelity, no to say sheer Paganism, was pretty nearly o»e and tho^ame thing. The clerical utterances so excited\at least half-a-dozen other Eminent Scientists that the latter undertook to demonstrate, through the columns of the daily papers, that the bdok of Gen- esis was written by Jeremiah ; that life first visited tht^ planei in the shape of star dust, which, after developing into jelly-fish, gradually grew to ape form, and ultimately became man. They showed how all religion is priestcraft and superstition; they' traced all the creeds backward to myths built upon the opera- tions of Nature; they could hardly refrain from mirth at the notion of a Great First Clause ; and they positively refbsed to join with the multitude, for whom, however, ihey expressed deep compassion, in believing anything that they could not see» or feel, or analyze. i. / ir out of Cm tik Moflpr^ - It seemed a laige cyntroversy to m Teylj iirangeme^ of the unearffiM^ boiiM ;~1rit the oo]itrov«r>> Bialists manifestly regarded it as of the highest importance; although, whep it was ended, each believed pnecisely what hi had bidieved befiwe. At St. Cadmus's, the Oowdrick tritgedj had had, apon the >--s- i' 'i^ Jf? iis remarks Sm S. "^^'^^^ »*8oived In ^/^^''^^ *^a* iis J»« invitation; Mrs r^S? ???** *« the EJL ""^^^^ indii^tJy »c* %t the sennoB^ '®? ^''^ed velvet «IZ ^"" ^«to the^ ^^^r- THE OlTt OP BURLESQUE. -W SwS th« «lf ^*"^ con^ga^ion was directed to Mrs mssmm CHAPTER IV. Ore morning Mr. JuUas Waems sat in his stiidio a««..^t. *' Hang It," said Mh Weems to himself, as he nlaoflA «. AaU theni dnnng th« week, ie a little too* mUch. If the enti™ ^T f«««,n of arhete i, going to turn to painting old m«to I^^ "^J^dZr* H^, J" mterruptod by a light knooKSng SSTti.? TTQ"" Titi«i. and a BapUel with K «!««»» the wall, Mr. Weem. opened the door £id admitted^ .uiiii'r'^''*'" "** *'■•"'"''"■ "!>«•» know m., I {\i», j-^>; 186 TkE QTTY OF iuBLBSQUB. ;; JTo,- responded Mr. weems. My name is Gunn ; Benjamin P Gnhb "^ ' '^ sand or so ; I donri^member th« ^ T """"^^^ '*>' ^7 tlon- no difference.'' '^'"^'nber Uie exact amount. But it makes Jectingan5^^S^:^;e'^^^^^^ L'l^'th'atf "•^^«-'<^^- ceased. From what I know afthlZ -f »® '® actually de- and Orphans' Mutual Sr^^^^^^ ""^ *^« Wi/ows^ will fight the claim thr^A all «f« ^f P^' ^ «>«^«v« he Nearly all the companies do it " '^"''** .^*^** ^^ *»« rule. widowsothirfshew^UbegladtoS'*^"?^- '"''? °»*^«* <>^ «»at is go^e " of LemSJlA.'^ircr^^^^^^^^ t^ l^uit. Take the case ••N^.*' ('f^.ror example. You rememberit?" Efe dKXif^f JS l1SL;td^''"^ *K *»^ *« i-«re. at his office ; I dis urbed hir\t h '°***, *'' ^ ^»»*«d on him iiim when he came S W Le ^r*^? V f, ^'^ ^" ^^^ ^o^ 8ea.shorein summer- whenhL *?"^ •* I ^Wowed him to the Wha steam-tug r^e^hrii^s^^r^^ V°'-«^ '^ elose our circulars with his medidne/^^^ ^ ^- for four consecutive Sundays and^ «iil^ °®''*J^,^*°» ^ ^^oroh hiB prayer-book ; I rode ^4 h*m in ih!^ mo«Wity tables into went to funerals, and lectwS iLwi tV*"^" ^**^ ^^^ he doim to the oiBce ; fte^iVantZl "*?• / ^'^ »»i i.e w«,^tho j^«,e,tZ^L':^frw!!rt".ii^si'£„* rtV y^, • ^ • u'i%^ V THE CITY OF BUBLEfiQUE. ^if*!—,' '-fi. 187 anywhere. let0 physical wreck, with more diseases tiian most people ever heard of ; and they undertook to show that Gerlach had devoted the latter part of his life to organizing a scheme for foisting himself upon the company for the purpose of swindling it. That was five years ago. The case is pending in the courts yet, and the widow has already spent twenty per cent, more than the face of the policy.". ,^ " It was not a very profitable speculation, certainly." " No, sir ; it wasn't. I'll tell you what, Mr. VJ^eems, if fc man wants to realize on bis departed relatives, that is not the way toilp it. Anything is better than life insurance ; even Tom BeuaM'sway." ' "How was that ?^ " Why, Tom Bennet, you know, ip a friend of mine, who lives oat ill Arkansas. And one day, some years ago, a little ceme- tery m the town in which be' lived was sold out by the sheriff. Tommy was looking about for a site on which to build a house for himself, ai^, as this one happened to suit him, he bid on it, and got il at a very low fign^re. When he began to dig the cellar, Tom found that the folks who were interred in the place had been petrified, to a man. Every occupant turned to solid stone I Sq Tom, you know, being a practical kind of man, made up his mind to quarry ofttthe departed, and to utilize them for building material." i J - r ' \ 'i Bather unkind, wasn't it ?" ; " " Tom didn't appear to think so. And as the building m'ade _ ograaa^-how j^ab b c ddown Mr. gl ahegty^fo g V4oog-eill>aad-bad--^ Judge Paterson chipped off with a chisel into the handsomeft' hitching-post t£at you ever saw.": . v ••Horrible!" ; . . " Ywi Some of the McTurk family were put into the bow- .^.. ?« aim under «i.>J.-ii ^''» ^here CowHri/iT; ^ "I* PoIiM I J«»ne." ,,'"'" "»"eJlan«e from the ve«&« f^\ } h.v* I •' Why haven.. ,„ "^ ™" """y "wt h. left I r That', j„,^j^.. ,^,. . „ '"°'' ^ "«^«»«^" ..id m THE crrt ^i^T'--: ^:!.^' 0FBPRLB8QUE. £||t '^l7J^l:'^ i^'ij?^ Pl««i;;l W not »o,^ ^*Yeg,positiv0lyA ^1 ^v ^^^^h^mwytang from your hdhetjeLUnjivoa^ ?" t«|M^ii^«Wy «o^ mother 8 iww] .UK i^ s^.jfyi^i THE CrtT or BUBLEsgDB. , , " ^ma lunur »•» it. , And ahe pat her handkewhirfto her .piifl^^'Jlr"'- ^--' ««• "'-«. "nowthereis m;"3ut W?''*'''""' '•«'^''" th.tyoore^y„„a ^|^M;^g,:?-«^„^ Mt. '■^ie ^^?a\f* ''^?r *•* ^ ^o- Y»» '»<"' « too." »n^ijSf„trt J- ?C: r;,S4h'?if ^^'' -^ .. What do you mean by that, Julius ?'' ^ age to him- ortbfttVh« wl^^ k ^ 7**"*}^ miarepresent her ■ P?evio»s:„'4'eS:r4.Tit h.s'^ctMr Hr^f It i;'!^r5-Tt°ii" s^ri' "cft^'fT"';:* »"• » ««■"• ifas to know, wi hoot^kW in?™^^ *°i*™ '°«*™ »" "»«• ■' Th»t i. 4,1;.. j^ ^ information from toe." try4 to ojf t"sts ?:eSn'r;" "f"'^."'- *"-■•■ swrenSi. " It wm fceSf J fi i? ^ e»penenced a terrible ri should ha^e Cd^«m^„t :™ ifr ??{"''* ""'"*«'' "l"" ■ tends to am me W h.^ i ^ ,'P*- ^'*" » woman pre- thai I delibe;aSrLe.^ty"ot?'.. "^ '■"" ^"« *» i""*™*** " Well," said Mr. Weems, calmly. •• that ia tu»i.h«Tu. « « *u OTer phrases," "J" '^"K^ag® row we will not qu&n»l •midst of my eri^ I? i7n«.:r/ oaije ^bere.-m8ulted in tfie infamous r'^ * * "" '"'^*^^ «^' ^ « ^^ cowardly ! It is ?4h ♦• ii^ ^t~f/»^X/^f , f ""'dk^ { ' ■t** THE OITT OF BURLESQUE. in ^ *< I am sorry that jon take that view of it. ~ I did not intend to be disconrteousV I am sure. Pray pardon me if 1 was so. It is detuTp however, that, alter what lias passed, we can hardly sustain our former relation to each other." . ^ " I understand jovL sir," replied Leonie, scornfully ; '* I fully realize your meanmg^.\ You intended at the outset to break our engi^ement. Well, sir, it is broken. I am glad to break it. ^J[ regard you with scorn and contempt. Hereafter we shall be as strangers to each other." .. - "I submit to your decision," returned the artist. \^ Butr- but, of 6oui.se, you will return my letters ?*V ». Leonie l&ghed a wild and bitter laugh, and, gathering up her skirts as if ihfi feared contamination, she swept haughtily from* the room, without spealung another word. " l?hat is settled, at any ratel" said Mr. Weems, as he closed the door. "That is just what I wanted, I can't afford to marry poverty. But it' is a bad business about those letters of mine I I wonder if she intends to use them against me ?" And Mr. Weems, relighting his pipe, sat down in his easy-chair to make a mentfJ review of the situation. --. „ Mr. Weems was liot permitted to remain long in doubt re- spectitig the intentions of Miss Cowdrick. Upon the very next day he received from Messrs. Pullock and Shreek, attorneys, formal notice that Miss Leonie Cowdrick had authorized them to bring a suit against him for breach of promise of marriage, the claim lor pecuniary damages being laid at thirty thousand dollars. "<, Mr. Weems i^egarded the proceeding with not a little alarm ; but, upon consulting lus lawyer, Mr. Porter, "Snd de-\ tailing to him the conversation between the artist and Leonie at the time of the rupture, Mr, Weems was assured that he CQuld make an excellent defence upon the theory that the lady had broken the engagement; and he was strongly advised Ur permit\the case to go to trial. It did so right speed i ly ; for t he attorneys for t he plain tiff se- ^©^or it in earRljlace ugbn the list, apd^ey manlfegtsiii" •mm * t * J 1*1 ^A 1 I* i_l A * A 1 ' -i-.__ ^^^ vi*^ disposition to push the defendant in the most unmerciful manlier pe mad tted by me law. * # ' "^^icin the case was called for trial, Mr. Weems's lawW moved 4}r a postponement; and he pleaded, argued, fought, ana .^1 t* B^W vV-'^JT^''* Jnptfoaf as if tv. «^. . . " ■ be such eaJnecfcS;>« '^^"^'^ «ot imLnl" ?'• ^^^na wl^ fjmself rightlji^n^?^ * continuance it* ^^' Weems'7 w' ™"". with x^KrA-ij; \^ ::'■ •t tie conduct ofte^«i»«4^.:*^,^tv»^ i-": «» monVter -I • *™» *»• "Week Tf* •^' -~ -«. or m^- «*HBod. w £"•" 'wjeoE^'jinj jL "^TjaefiijijT" _ . ' <■'#"■«.'>■ ,.iS* ^--: > t''.^ R.^^:^pf,v5i»t-; THB Cimr.O» BUBrijSQDE. - M« .I««rrM^I^^"'°8'hl'',«*J* ~'^ oP^ed. "d took . «rt went to hrC^ *^ ''*' "^ •'«»«« Vl^dkerehief wJ''^^L5lyf,JL'Z^'L'rJr' '?1"'"<* o^'"' «™« between tie bwyeTwho aZriJ^ t-' *?? *'"« reorimin.tioM other to pieces. SZS^rth^^.hT'' <£"■*?, '°^ »«"««"• daring the reoeesee. and ^ZS^^J^/^ j^'?""? '"tooorae the injuries of the pa«t '•^'*"*° """y «> 'oigive and forget aU evidence, brft ^ereSti^^p^d .8?^*?."^ "o attention to the v remainier seeded to oonsiKe om^. if?'*""?f ' '"* '^» as the onlv miit«/>.n. „»!.!:■ • 9°*"«l8 between the conntel went over U> wbis^^Ht^'i^^Z'^^T^ **'• '«^*^" ■".^wo-Jd reach ZXZnZ^J^'"'^ "^ been amsted I see weU enoS n^^*^! '^"^P!?; «>' "« »" pxan, tool 0.nn looked MC^fe.'S'L^Ji.''"^ " ''""'•" ^"^ "'• grtting n^ »^s of fell*itS lni''\-*'°'!'r *? "■» *^rf 7^T*s^Snasrs.«^k^o^SS^?^¥^ I of his hand to his •iS)uth-jJkes whiS^Jw ■''' '"*^ "■« "^^ ^' /: **>■ 4 144 XM eiap^ Q^ mBmsqcm . /' fiur bat, heart-broken client simply a oondiaSS^f h!^i^^^ *!" ttX'itt Si^LSr--"'''- '^"»&it- ;^*f4 tieoorom of the Temnlo of wL kTk ,■ ■ ""'•''ng the Janghter. "^ "'* ""^ bursting into uproarious ■proseeutfor^s "aseni rf t^ .""t '''*.'?^»"y ^-» ""« to in,p„,e them "^irWie^thT wtn^r'iZl^^ loame, he would knock it an *«, -!/ i T • 7 , i'orters turn ^in_.h, ^^^ ofltkrto'l'^i SSttX' tteSi^ r t^r^^r^/p^*^* ^" "J&i'^in t^ H«d itmS^^rXr."^ '^"■^"^ ^- f»ter yjpit. It's sTSMn' i Then Mr. Shreek proceeded with hi, eramSStiorf. and Mr THE CITY OP BURLESQUE. •' 10 Porter laughed almost out loud two or three times, merely to show the jury that he regarded Mr. Shreek's remonsteanoejitii positive contempt. But it must be confessed that Mr. Porter s mirthfolness, in this instance* i»e«M»4i©Jl«*^h^ "^at^hen Mr. Porter's tuta came to address the jury, his sense of humor had become completely benumbed, while ttiaM)i Mr. Shreek had undergone really abnormal development ; for .Mr. Port^ could hardly attempt to plunge in^^ptf o^v «t to permit his unfettered imagination to take a little flight, without Mr. Shreek's humorous susceptibiUties being aroused m such a manner that th» closure of his mouth with his handkerch^ alone prevented hhnfrom offending the dignity of the Court. Mr. Porter's, appeal to the jury in behalf of his client was based upon his asseveration that this was the most intelligent jury that he had ever had "nd grief -^~tiono.tsss.te,r^t:i-^^--''^^^^^^ , / *" ^ mjsteiy of A 1^>1 '■7»-$-^ h r e fe ^hwr affection ^ottheatten- tefligniii^wo. Qen into coD- "^ by artful" "id would be ^ and no one lare laid for Jn expressed give a ver- that he had ffl With the Je most re- •7- In the •"ng more ^ iJad the iy of being ^J'as this *s he now ^^^y saga- t for jus- e second ^ian one the ca- bs of de- h and to the wise k as that »^ grief, lold the aot only get his ^ ribald 86 onl J Jnjfliy ch the r of a i ■ THB omr or burlesqub. |W i'.. lir woman's love ooold never h^pe to realize. He wonld only aay, m dismisBiQg thin most cGstiressiagr and humilattng portion of the BnlQeot, that he left the offender to the punishment of a jooBoienee which, hardened and seared though it waa^ still must ^ve^m store for him pangs of i»mor«e of which he, Mr. 8hi»ek. . tremWed to think: ^'' ^----^ ^.,- v^^,; ^fc>.-.:.-^^ The learned counsel for the plaintiff asked the gentlemen^ ttie jury to reviwfr with him the facts of the case, as presented to them b 3LM» jvidence. Ahrea dJJI knew something of the trustfuhiess and confi- dwice oOP^n's nature ; their experience within the sacred pnvaoy oi the domestic circle had taught them that when a wai- ^ man gav« her affection, she gave it wholly, never doubtinff, never suspecting, th^t the object of it might be unworthy to wear so priceless a jewel. Such a creature,— the peerless bei% off whom the poet had eloquently said, that Earth wasa Des^ Hiden was a Wild, Man was a Savage, until Woman smiled-^ was peculiarly exposed to the wiles of artful and unscrupulous men, who, urged by those Satanic impulses which appear in some men as unquestionable proof of the truthfulness of the Scriptural theory of demoniac possession, should attempt to gain the prize only to trample it ruthlessly in the dust. AiJf 1*^** instance the destroyer came to find a pure and beau- tiful love, with its tendrils ready to cling fondly to some dear ? f ^ J ?^ honeyed phrases, by whispered vows so soon to H falsified, by tender glances from eyes which revealed none of the desperate wickedness of the soul within, by all the arts and devices employed upon such occasions, the defendant had peife. 8uade« those tendrUs to cling to him, to entwine about him. Artless, unsoi^isticated, unlearned in the ways of the sinful world, the beautiftU plaintiff had listened and believed ; and for a few short weeks she was happy in the fond belief that this reptile who had crawled across the threshold of her«naiden>s heart wa^s a prince o^ men, an idol whom she might worship with n n H tint n( ^a ^y»atM>a. \ ■ , 1 But 8h# Was soon ijo be undeceived". Choosing the momeS when her natural defender was absent, when his coward's deed coaid be done without the infliction of condign punishment from him who loved this his only child fiur better than hui life, tha defendant, looffing at the holiest of tha emotions, despising the *' WackneM of the infe^ W?'™ more dearlv (L„ «!..''..'<' g»««d m evidence ; ^ Sh^ h °?1''"!?«»' ""iVih hS'bkn " Jotter, dated siuiplT " T^Li ** "■" ""option of the .W *^ ,^.oftaedeSant.'^lf:~»|;;a„d si^^/^^th a the "Bosebndl genlremen/'sajdHr. JULH)rs.'» reekiay'^ THJ5 CITT pF BUBI^SQUB; / « fi Observe," said Mr. Shreek, taking out still wiOther letter^ looked M if he felt that death at the stake wpjiJLd tte mere pas- time in (M^terison with ihili ^xperienoe^/ ^ r. |v : 1* We nf^eome," said Mr. Shreek, " to letter nninber three^ a doQument which reveals this moral monster in exQu^a more hideous lighV ^, , ; ■'■i.'/^^\^. i. ■^*yr av^ Precious OSTe" (great Iaughter)^*''HoW tan I ever thank you for the trouble you have taken to mak« me thos^ lovely slippers ? • They are t wo jHxes tod small for me" (laughter); ''but I can look at them and kisar th^* ("He was a tremendous kisser in his way^ you" observe," said |he learned counsel), "a nd think of you meantime. I ^^oiHd not cora^=tffBee^yott last cvernngrfin-i-^pCTT^^ I looked at yoM picture and kissed it '^ (laughter- " At it ^aiu, you seej" said Mr..Shr«ek) ; "and I read over your old letters. There is a knock at my:4oor now, and I must stop. But I will say, I k>ve you. Oh how I loye'f&ck I my life and my light. , • * '^ Fondly yout,4^ ^uuusi" ;. -^ 'f't^fS'^ ISO V" TBat ■• saM ,fc """^ '» P-^^'on's speech"- " And heartless. «i «eif ». ^. , ¥ .. ^ .7*.. : ^^'^^^celess," added *b« »« V / ®*^ "*® counsel , Sweetheart, though an the w "°^^- JhHnn " gj^" ^-W before tb«n."?S^"fa°gfa». and m^.' wlietti««„™ r'^- "«»t«wiU,»o;«„HP'»"">«w>»e ■??12! y , ^«b^t liioerated lieart diaU be made in vain. So far ae Mr ia,k«^pen« a< the be.t-for which sh* S**"^' *'"'■ ' wjw'for tt^'^JS***/:*?'^** J™* "''«^' •'id the court ffi. w K *° "J^ "•« woman, or the woman the mab? WeS^'to'^^ *! announcement that it wa, quite i.S?^„i. . 3Ir. Porter whisjijid to Mr. Weems that there 'w«'«»nt,j=i. mto^Wt a «eond tinie/and ^se'L'teTa "verftt ofVuiiriS! po««gdan««ee to tte amount of five thousand doHaf" '" ^ ^^oZ^-^mtST^- I^i^'^^fod her he«i B^^dT^ had antid, ^TrSu^S^i and Iw ihk^ no better pleased next monUw^ ''^r^^^ Hoker'8 (>r«6 and aU the other paper. «^TSJt M fsi ] 158 1 ! Tm re- oaUed."^ ' . Here Mr. Cowdriok, having constructed a stordy falsehoNod^ winked at his wife ; and Leonie said : " Well, papa, I don't know whether I atn quite willing to for-- give him, but I confess that J carei more -for Julius Utan for any other person." v; .■:>-■ '" ^/'' '■■^ ;■>■'•■■ J "We shall see what can be done,'' remarked 'Mr. Cowlick. " Aiid now you must excuse me. I have to go to meet mV ooun< sel to preparefor the trial ;" and Mr. Cowdriok withdbrew; The interview between Mr. Weems and Mr. Bei^jamin P. Gunn, to which Mr. Cowdrick alluded, was conducted upon a rather .different basis from that indicated by the banl^er in his conversation with Leonie. * Mr. Gunn, upon his entrance to the sttfdio of fhe artist^ began by expressing bin regret ai the issue of the/ breach of promise suit. / '* Yes, confound it," said Mr. Weems; " it iff har4, isn't i^ ? To think that that old faded flower of a giiA shoald be smart enough to get the better of me in such a manner t'; I "The damages are heavy too," said Gunn, thoughtfully; " and I uiiderstand that she is firmly resolved to compel you to pay Uie mcmey." '■*-*iia»-M •a^w^M^'Oi-ii^l •Xw>'morufi6au, i. > 31rGu„n, rising to go, ^ij^^ ^ »>wmoffitot8. Then .. " ** '^one of my businfisH t.i* At "give you the fkcts heo^Zif^^i^^TT ' ^ <>°^y «»«»« in to . my choice between payLg five tbon« l^^^/""' ^"* ^^ I had /• A quarter ofa iniUio^ r'/d.vi uv^ •at^ne^ meditating np^h^s^^ he I m^t have known that <^ld Cbwdrick »n«M^ . * ^****^ ^ ^as- self and soon get upon his Wa E T i3- *¥ ""^^ °^ him- was sent here to feel the ^y^TrIJfV''t ***** ^*° ^^unn MU notion to attempt <^!^I?r*^^^^^ «ndl have gjy^?^- I^ii write a letter to C^lrtk a^HT"* ^^^'^^^ i*' the clutches of the law I will setid it I^ k- ^ '^.*'® «^*« <>«* <>f ^hen Mr.. Wwema wmt to hiii i Imv V ....j * - • - - ^^*^**^~*^?^enttee the folla«% K'^. *HB crrr o* bublesque- *HeNRY p. COWDRICK, Esq. "Dear Sir,— I write to you with much diffidence and with deep nSfi"? f"!r ^ to the result concerning a matter in whicrmy hfp? p^ness IS senoushr involved. I need npt rehearse tlje facts co^ernX my unfortunate differences withXeonie; but I wish to say that iThSS b^^n foS^Jte^ ZTl"^^' " '"'■*' lovers' quarrel, which Kd favi been fo«:otten and forgiven a moment afterwards, should have caused h^nIriwJ"^p "'" of senseless anger, a breach ^hich, 1 fea "s nS^ irreparable. For my part, reflection upon my conduct in thebusiness SSl^ot'"aJtemn^'1^'L^r^^^^^^ W w. 1 ?P^ to hidejrom you, that my affection for yoSr daughter h^c s^kT' ? /itJ^Hr''^^ ^'""^T .^f '^^ o^^curr^nces of whS. I nave spoken. I love her now as fondly as I ever loved h^f- anrf hough It shQuld be ordained by fate that we sLu Sevr^eeT^aTn I shall cherish h^- image in my heart until my dying^ay^d I IS never cease to brLthe earnest petitions for herh^pSs' t "Believe m^ yours very truly, .--y "Julius. Weems." it to bring him to terms, if "That," said Mr. Weems, he really means business."' ^-'' Thw Mr Weems fold^ar the letter, directed it, and slipped it into h»s pocket fc^ a*^f the result of Mr. Cowdrick's trial It would be mjudi^ous to linger over the deUils of Mr, Cow. ^ck 8 trial, lest we should have a surfeit of legal proceedings. Pni I-rP^!?*lu° ^°^ ^^^ ^«^^°«^ ™« conducted with vi|>r «ud ability and the jury after remaining out for a very little whUe, found Itfr. Cowdrick guilty of ^und^y crimes and misde- feasors of a particularly infamous character. : ^' «^^s!^7r?^* ^'^ ^"'^ presented, a singularly afieotiPg i«^Sr^ * silenoe^tbat was painful in its intensity, the prosecut- ing attorney, hardly able to control his emotion, rose tcf move that sentence be passed upon the prisoner at the bar. In doinir «o, he took occasion 40 remark that the prosecution had no de- «re to crush to the earth the unfortunate gentleman whom it A^. ^l °omp«Hed. m the performance of a most unpleasant mJS^'riS JT*?? ^'^'«il>? W»>«°»1 of justice. The lesicm that J0roper^r~c ."i < t ;■•% ^'j-j 106 SV: € b\;. I plied to otiier men. ewieftmiK, *^ *u »" plett enough that he i^tUktlh^ ^' *>"* l«x»»« it wluoh other, wen, intereeted-entoSr^K- ? •»*«P™es ii ■uDmitted the whole mattter tn »k. j-™'''.*'«*«»n>»rks he «"e«t|, hoping th.tSHLrw*Sid'n"r of the Sirt! »»aiu. utterence; «,d w^lt Tart^^™*' «umto »" Droken voice to apeak ha a«M «i«> f '. "* *" able wjik . «.a.ient warmth in which t^'^*^L~'?" »<>' fioa l.ngnZ'of the hnman kindnese. thefrlL LT '"■l' »S»e"f(STaX^ ?"^"«r- J''««m4or a Uie flttmg and elooaent words iH' rf*** "»"" »*i lit«**o l»d been written,"- VeUwoe ^ mK;"' ■«" 'Poken ft tf ^^^'f""" to •eek^^ctveng^i^"'^!,'' T »'" "« «« " *"»" they reaUy were, were nf^^^\ ^" •*««"'• errors and he waa sore that thfT £ ""* ^^*^' "ot of theha»^.' hamiliatethi»ex«UiSt«l ^S?."'"^'' "•»« "ntoSie^l; career. h«i been an f^^fdS oft?; '"''• ""J^'o.^ lPP^9^-ii^nT:ifoH^^,r thecomin^, hfrfly «»J to yonr HZZr«^tJ»^ ^ ■ ^«'»»- " 1 need on^y "^ todoore^f'SnLrjSt* t?- «^ «"» »oid n?t but would bring de«.l,tion£""°uJ?^«>» estimable eju,^, Jearte of those wl.<^)tro^j"".\ Wty ,■« »«. »<^M hrMjMU7.r \\r '*■■ ,^ THE prnr OP bui^lbsqub. .■^e^si^-C' 'Mr. Gowdriokwill driok, I have bat a si. sentence as it is provi position, and your eooiety, and I have ful.^ gestion that yoar offences jrarpose that has not already been attained." Trustintt in the «£emency of the Court, the learned counsel sat down, whUe the iourt-rbom echoed the sobs of the spectators. rise. As you are aware, Mr. Cow- - > perform. I must impose the law. I remember your sooii iuot as a worthy memWi ^. the importance of the boL^ «♦ «/ «♦!. ' T :-— - 7x--* perpetrated largely for the beM< fit of others. I gives me, therefore, greftt pleasure to find in tiie statute a hmitatmi. which enables me to inflict a penalty less severe than, otherwise, I should have been compelled to inflict I impose upon you a fine of five hundred doUars. as provided iii the statute, you to-stand committed until the fine is paid " _A8^the judge pronounced the sentence, a great cheer went up. Mr. Cow^rok 8 counsel paid the fine at once, and Mr. Cowdrick, afl»r shaking hands with the lawyers and receiving the apdW of the proseytmg attorney for pushing him so hard, took Ws hat and waHed out of the court-room a free and happy man. ^ThenanewmrywascaUed to trj a book-keeper; who, be- cause his salarj/was insufficient for the support of his faiily. had. stolen three hundred dolkws from his^^ujloyer - The prosecuting attOTney was unable «raceive*inything Of II pathetic nature m the case, and whertlhe jury promptly brought ma verdict of guilty, thejudge. with a perfectly dry eye, sentenced the pnspner to incarceration at hard labor for ten ^Although the Goddess of Justice is blindfolded, she has soms* times a very disc^miQating sense of the relative importance of sinners who come to her for judgment. ' *- *-* ^ .» t 4 3r CHAPTEB VL .J-t not WBDDIMO. — THE END. ^ . * Onrof tiie first of Mr. Cowdjriok's ^ends who eaUed to «xar "'3 '* 1 .V m. 158 TMS CITf OF BUBLESQUE. - fU' >5«> ' »t™n r;i;^^r.„^».,>ijl the fXl pastor -a .e„,K. what yo,^ ?.S,"ruM l^*^"? tT'^'^''^ "> «^' 'h ", iSn rejoice that the Ji^noi^^Z^^"' *'"■ ^°" h^'^Cnd lou are verv lrm*i " „-v-j »; '^ . »en' 'o »« for oui g^d t'S^.J? "«"'* '""at these troubles are effioieat^orier^^^^att'te^^^^^^ ' "7«^httS^ :ffSfeht;^fowS'„fleotive.,. -Pos, , ■«e6tiIlVmeib«oiX''ve'S^''rf^''"'"Tumcle. ..you --..now. forYetteSiS-SXa-^rS iiow, is eS^emet*'^ow°Chu^I '"^'- S«P"lohre'8, which t„„ hinde. r ;L,';^rfle"»- JrV^^^^^^ "-^-ch to "I should think so ''T J M ^.^^^Sfehzation/' ^ ^ want to obtain a h?«e^„l„^t^' ^^ftinued Father Tu*,icle - T Ul parish to a notable eS.'' '^^«'<'««fe™rof the p^ ' ' z^mw^^ THE CVrx' OP BURLESQUE. m Another early caller npon Mr. Cowdrick was an agent of the Widows* and Orphans' jbife. Assurance Company, in which the banker held a policy. This gentleman representing a corporis* i tion Which a week before was preparing to take legal measures to cotitest Mrs. Cowdrick's claim, brought with him the Com» • pany*8 last annual statement, and a formidable array , of other dociiments, with an intent to persuade Mr. Ifbwdriek to have his life insured for an additional twenty thousand dollars. Upon^ the second day after Mr. Cowdrick's release, also, the . De Flukes sent to Mrs. Cowdrick an invitation to a kettle-drum, together with a note explaining that a former unfoi^unate recall of an invitationivtis due to the coUossal stupidity of a sefvant who had sinice been dismissed. This very considerate behavior on the part of the De Flukes had a favorable effect on Mrs. Cowdrick's spirits. 8he bright- ened up in a wonderful manner, and there seeded to be By&cy reason for believing that her load of sorrow was lifted at last. Colonel Hoker, writing in the Crab of the trial and its results, explained to his readers that the verdict was rather technical ^an Indicative of intentional wrong-doing, and he congratulated the community that one of its most enterprising and valtmble citizeps had succeeded in «sp.ftping from the toils of complicated financial transactions 4n which he hfi,d been enveloped by inju- dicioiiB friends. * Colonel Hoker wWs disposed to criticise with son^e degree of severity Coroner McSorley's absurd, not to say Wicked, perfor- 4,pance*with the unearthed bones ; but the violence of the indig- iotation with which he contemplated the phenomenal stupidity and the grasping avarice of the coroner, with respect to the re- mains in question, was greatly tempered by the consideration that Coroner McSorley's brother was sheriff of the county, with an advertising patronage estimated by good judges to amount to xipt less than fifty thovisand dollars a year. • ' ' .. • When Mr. Cowdrick recei\^d the note addressed ta him ligr Mr. Weems, he replied briefly, a,skingthe artist to callugon him r-hts-TOTidengi."; and" when ' Mr. Weems t «.noeived him with gravity, and wfth some degree of coolness. ,J " Mr. Weems," said the banker, " I sent for JOVl because •! jrished to discuss with yoit the matter referred to in your note. ;^ If y first impulse was to take nojiptioe o| the commauicationii. ■'>1>\ 140 THE CITY OF BU»LB8Qi7B. «» » wiH not eoDceal ^«^ w had embitterml m^ Z^ -^ *"** ^our treatment nf ».« ^ .Mstnl ^ you one© more into my itoUy * **" \W ■he will ^d if. THE Orrt OF fiURliESQUB. -r "^ Mr. Cowdriok extenddci %i8 haDd, and Mr. Weems shook it irarmly. ' ' • And now, Mr. Weems, " said Mr. Cowdriok, • ' there's another matter, of which I wish to speak. I refer to yowr art. Pardon me for asking yon, but although I shi^ mdce some provision for Leonie, you, of cours^ must do scmetf ing also. What is the condition of your art — m a financial sense, I mean ?" «:• Well, business is a little diAl just at this moment." " I thought 80. The proportion of old masters in tiie market to the purohasinff popuhition is too great. Can't you take up something else ?'' « Mr. Weems reflected for a, moment upon the painful la^ of opportunities to rob banks with impunity and profit, and then said,— '^.J r •• No ; I am afiraid not, J am. a painter and must live by painting." ^. - , ' "^ ••Just so; but why ^ 'not paint pictures that can be sold l*eadiiy?" # •♦ There is no money in landscapes, still-life, or figure-pieces, - unless a man. has genius. A painter of ordinary powers has no chance." ^r ••But why not imitate genius, jtlst as you imitatt the old fnasters ?" * •• How do you mearl ?'' * . ^ ** Genius is apt to be eccentric. If you make a show of eccentricity, most persons will accent that as a sure token of genius. Yon^ant to be odd, novel, jjfeculiar, altogether differ- ent ^m other people. . ••There may be something in that." ; * * • •• Paint a Venus with feet like a fishwolfian, and with a cast mher^e. Paint a Moses with % moustache and spectacleis. Daub off a jet-black night-scene, in which you can perceive nothing but absolute, impenetrable gloom,4nd label it • A Medita- tion upon Darkness ;' cover a canvas with blots of white paint, • ?i^'^^.?i^ ^y ^^f. bowsprit of a ship visible, a nd call it MiB^ Uoming in the Harbor;' Tliai is ^e way to ^V<£ criticism and discussion, to acquire notoriety, and to find pur- chasers." ' ^,» V jL^ ,• •• It's a ifood idea," replied Mr. Weems. *• 1 tm mtio|^obliffwl to you for it ; I will aceept it, and act upon it." H I, ,,•'* ■>»■ J. m #. ^HE CIIT OF Bip^BSQIJE. . OowS"^»^'*^'ort«o„ie before ,o„ go r„WM XiSoxiifi lift- ^ L » " ' * **'*B you , this touching scene^ih!? i,^'^ ^e^f-PosseMion so perferfl. a • /.« THE CITY OF BURLESQUE. Yl6t there are bonnets to be tritomed, f Aries to be matched, dresses to be made, underclothing to be stitched and finlled, pillow-cfises ' anA sheets to be made up, towels to be fringed and marke^ fur- /nitixr^ to be selected, crockery to be purchased, and a gclneral fitting-out to be undertaken. Mrs. Gowdrick soon had a doze||^- eeioipstresses employed, and every day she and Leonie, in a frame of exquisite happiness, made the round' of the shops, gathering huge heaps of. parcels. One single touch of alloy came to mitigate the intensity of their enjcfyment. The dia- mond merchant and the dealer in seal-skin sacquea. having learned from harsh experience the^ peril of Mrs. Oovirdrick's en- thusia^sm for nice thingii, imkindly insisted upon making t^eir contributions to Xieonie's outfit upon a basis of cash in hand .before delivery of the goods. But then we must not expect to hjivq absolutely pure joy in this world, ^ards for the wedding were sent out at onc6 to all of th^ . ' friends of the bride and groom, and of Mr. and Mrs. Gowdrick, Of course it can hardly be expected that \he union of two lovers should excite very tender sympathy among disinterested persons; but it is rathej melancholy to reflect that most of the indivi- ' duals who received cards from the Gowdricks did not accept the*-^ compliment with unmixed satisfaction. The first thought that ■' occurred to them upon . reading the invitation was that they would be comipelled to expend something for wedding presents, and many of them had a feeling, not clearly defined, but sti^ strong, that the marriage of Cowdrick's daughter was somehow a mean kiijd of an attempt on Go\)rdrick's part to ^||||y tribute upon them. ^ -^£1 ^''"f The presented, hbwev^,' loon b^n to tome in. ^ Father Tunicle Was heard from among, the first. He sent a«sweet little volume of his sermons (the litno^raphed discourse not being in>^ eluded among them).r The booll^lld be^ pubhshed at the coit. of a' few, of the reverend gentlem'iin's admirer^^hose expects- ^ , tions of the resulitjHrere rather disappMnted b^xhe sale of nQ*^ mo rctban t hirty - Wr copies i with i n tw o y eara. Father Tuniol^ setatlBi^ book to Leonie, with a touohii^ note, requesting hdr -f- Special Attention to the sermon upon Auricular Genfession, upon ; ' i^ page 76. Golonel Hoker, of the Crab, sent a handsome silver^ ' ', Slated te%-set, whose value to Leonie was not in any mapoer ecreased by the eiif'cumstauce, unknown to her^thst the Gou)i|el fe •enoagK to have m^S^Ar *'*%' %'lni 86 tpM hi. true feelioffs^I ^k * °°'* Jffien, completely usdess aJ* T '/°^* host 0/ ' ^nde and groom as so mf,^^ *" ,<^^ *hem aooo • genuiiMj expression o#fli2:*- yeqmres anyi At last when .^^ IW^ ^^q or esteem. ^ len all *!.« J.. . -^ ^™''^^ ^**®°^ had sent i |i.^he I a man ' -to live inlJ-r" "?*'•"'? 01 d I^^eetos's artist fr4di k^>^ Bsaion most the BBS or :^hen all the dre,ise7wlifi"*^:°^^*^.^°*^l fibntion, Mthe ''i.'^-( THE CITY OF BURIiESQUE. 19^ jEnppery and fiddle-faddle andrfrills arranged, the day of the wedding .came. It must he described of course, ^nt why should an un> practised hand attempt to tell of it, when thiere is, withiajeasy reach, the naniative written by the expert and ^Iterous fatdiion reporter of the Daily Crab / Far better would i\ be to. ttansfep bodily to these pages that faithful and complete d^cription; . (From the '* Daily Crab.") .A WEDDING IN HIGH LIFE, " St. Gadmus's Church, Perkiomen Square, yesterday waR me scene of one of the noost brilliant weddings^^f the season. For some weeks past the approaching event has been ap absorb- ing topic of conversation in fashionable circles, the loveliness of the bride-elect, the popularity of the fortunate groom, and the high social standing of all the interested parties having invested the matter with more than ordinary importance^ The bride was Mw6 Leonie CQwdrick, only daughter of the well-known ex- bemker and phiUnthropist,, Henyy G. Gowdrick, Esq., and her- aelf one of the leading belles pMoe bon ton. The groom was JiOlius Weems, Esq., the artj,st, t^maii whose skill as a wielder oi the brush, not les^ tlian his qualities of head and heart, have made him the idol of a large circle of \firiends. ♦• The wedding ceremony was anno^nced for half-past four in the afternoon ; and long before that\hour the streets in tibe- vicinity of St. ^dUfios's were thronged With equipages belonging to the elite of Our society. None were^ admitted to the church but those who were so happy as to possess cards ; the edifice » however, was densely thronged, with the exception of the pews which were reserved in the front for the immediate family and near relatives of the high contracting parties. ** The u3Jher8,^h6i (^|Mite^ with rare delicacy and discrimi- nation, wai|iliM^.JP4P^^^B|^homas, Arthur McGinn Dabney,, Q, G. i^amt, And Dani|LOifti|f— aU of them brother artist^ of t<^ e ggJj^'B, ^nd mgn W^H Mown in cultivated oirdeB. linrivAl of the bridaljaarty he diiioo#sed I^^de^d1lB mu^ J|r '* Among the dis^guished petaons whb graced the oooasioxi 'v^^^l^oii^ P^oBence, We noted ^i<^ ^ t" " iii«or.Gen. Bung, CptotaeFfelrowler3Sr^^ ©ev. ■,l M:^^ # . "T\S SftJ.-J,^ ^^fiij-in'' T ■ r '^ 1 166 ^^*v THE OITY OF BirftLESQUE V,T»^^ ' • -■■Tf^"? HonXWgf*^ ^^'^■'^-C^PtaiB Di«gas, Major Door,H , «™ot Baffles, Dr^B^.^f'n''? A '«'^' '' Govem^'mV &!'«"■ Senator Smoot SiS Po^?;"^'' Bear-Admirai M zzen U Sv"' Genera. C^nioXl^.^^'^^^^^^-^zn.^nZll^ko;' 'f ■Wi THE CITY OP BUELESQT^. V y Mrs. Cowdrick, the mother of the bride, appeared in a i-ecal 'toilette of black velvet and diamonds. ./'' \ : T> " '^r® ceremony wis read in a deeply impressive;, manner by Eev. Mr. Tunide, the bride being given away, of caurse by her fiftther. * ^ ^ '♦ Mrs. Cowdrick was so strongly affected by the conscious- ness that her , daughter was being taken from her, that at tM conclusion of the ceremony she displayed some slight hysterical symptoms, which for a moment threatened to create confusion She became .calmer, however, and was led out from the church by one of the ushers, weeping. ^^ " Professor peddle thetf began Mendelssohn's Wedding March and the. proud and happy groom, with his lovely wife upon his ^m, turned to lead the bridal party down the aisle. "We learn that a magnificent entertainment was given later in the day at the residence of Mr. Cowdrick, to his friends, and that the festivities were prolonged until a late hour. It is un4to- stood that the newly-married couple will mend their honevin^n at Saratoga." The re^rter was not admitted to the entertainiuent, and so there is, upon record no. description of it. ' But we might if we chose, safely guess at hot rooms, so crowded that motion was nearly impossible ; at absurd attempts to dance within narrow spaces ; ^t rows of wall-flowers along ihe sides of the rooms • at inane attempts at conversation between guests Vho were stramr- ers to each other; of groups of uncomfortable people tryingto ai^pe&r as if they felt very happy; of a supper- table loaded with neb viands for which well-dressed men scrambled as if they had ' Mn fasting for ifeeks ; of ices spilled upon costly di-esse^^ champagne glasses emptied upon fine coats ; and, finaljy^of depMiiing guests in the gentlemen; s dlressihg-rooms, sayinsrin- .^daome tilings to each other in sneering whispers of the man UPhose hospitality they had accepted, \^y^,}l^^ tiiesc tilings ; and perhaps if we could have iflMgiwa mtO thiyiouse at twa o'clnnk in- thti m orning Trhcn i^ last gitest ^^l^id farewell, we might have heard Mr. Cpwdrick 8ay,^|ld*«pi^^liim8elf weary and worn in an easy-chair — ^ ^yfe^* ^^tDk^goodnees, Lousia, Leonie is off of our hands at % J "^'^ ■ f ■ '%i k r-> I y' ♦■. y A'NdLlffoGVr "* iws if I could Mjlasp again the hand of one of those angelic ^Ten and hear a word from her sweet lips." ^ women. Neflv*iL*l!?«'^- f'^^ ^^ gathering moisture' frx,m his eyes. itX r"?^®!?,'^®'**' choosing not to disturb the reverie mt<^ "SialnS^!^- P^*^««°*lyEpl^i'^'o«e abruptly! .2^^ ^me,'^ NeUy dear, I guess it is time to go to bed. I must be my earjy to-morrow morning." •»• »w .. wilij* ^^^ ^^ y®" ^"** break&st, grandpa ?" hv JZ3m? ~''° '**'' y°"' y'*'' f^^W PM8. I shall breakfast by mys^mfore you are up, or else I shall breakfast down towtu I have i^huge cwgo of wheat in from Chicago, and I must^ range to have it shipped to I^iverpool. Th^ is one th^g th^t remains ^ n^ from the old time, and that is some of the W work of my youth ; but even that seems a little haiSi.iha^ °^ • ^®'<'0'"®»^ow;tobedl tobed! — »»«»u ** *kJ^M^^5^^*l"?^^^*'^' »°^lo°« after he had cjpilneat& the blaijets, Ephraim's thoughts wandered bacSand ba^l througi ihB spent years ; and, as the happiness he had knc^ ^Z ^^"^ ^^ '^;?fl ^^ ^" "^^^ ^^^«" drawn mow aS 2^® *®?*jiV*.', "^^^^^^ '^^^ "^d old mingled togetherm- ■to^e Wlaadd copfnaion in his brain and h^f^l ""^^'''^ "» n\ asleep. bin. I .;% , ^ , ^ , M stau dark, for the winter had just be-/ giin ; but he heard~or did he only dream that he heiiJd l-^^ C^ "^.^"^^^^^m steeple strike ««. He knew that iS ^Mt get up, for his business upon that day demanded early at* A : irgT I ■ipp^*- W"^/ .t VHh' M OW),3Sf0Ol. ■)•»,. , have miscalcBlated t£*~™«| Wf kS* *'"'^ "" '^'"'^ twice u high from the fl<»r „ U Iho^/iT'' T""*^ """* """■ W. w.y to the table, u>d tried to fad the ^toh h^t' ?^ ^^^f But he resolved to try, ind he moved nva^ *^1 -J xi. bradcet by the bure.a3 ^JnoT^Z I He pl^ ?"! «»S no^ oi. the ,.U. fo. the AT^^'Zi^^Z at least a doz^Iimes Tn tt ^v h^etbf^ r" *'t«' when he wa. a boy, but the s^e xSS^t «.ch K„°^" ^jJtS?^.,- -fat ff h^.^l'^' '- ^^ 4C«„X:A^tan°^fdk?£?eStt^^^^^^^ ISITet iii>wme warn fiS^Ti^S^a^ ZS'„i? whatiaewa tte transformation wK efeSJhl; eonldnotmagmo. But hewaanotgreatly ZptalT'"**'^ ,'..„'^;^'^9^. AH OLD FOGTf m J idwa^did like an open wood fire," he said, •• and noW' 1 wifTiiave a roaring one." So he touched the flame of the candle to the light kindling- wood, and in a moment it was afire. " I will wash while it is hnming op," said Ephraim. .f ife went^ to the place where he thought he should find the wash-stand, with hot and cold water running firom the ^ipes, but he was amazed to find that it had followed the strange fash- ion of the room, and had gone also I There was an old hand- basin, witlHi cracked china pitcher, standing upon a movable wash-stand, but the water in the pitcher had been turned into solid iee.» , . ■,. a- ^ xf^ • With an exclamation of impatience and mdignation, Hjphrami placed the pitcher between the andirons, dose to th^ wood in the chimney-place; and he did so with smarting eyep, for the flue was cold, and volumes of smoke were pouring out into the room. In a few moments he felt that he should sufiEbcate unless he could get some fresh air, so he resolved to open the upper sash of the window. . , * When he got to the window he perceived that the p%nes of glass were only a few inches square, and that the woodwork in- closing them was thicker and heavier than it had been. He strove to pull down the upper sash, but the eflfort was Tain ; it would not move. He tried to lift the lower sash ; it went up with difficulty; if seemed to weigh a hundred pounds;, and when he got it up, it would not stay. He succeeded, finally, iJa keep- ing it open by placing a chair beneath it. J , .' \ . When the ieejn the pitcher was Uiawe^, he finished his toi- lette, and tl^en he descended the stairs. As nobody seemed to be moving in the Btouse, he resolved to go out and get his break- fast at » restaurant. He unlocked the front door, and emerged into the street lust as daylight fairly had begun. As Ephraim descende^^lhfi steps infront of his house, he had ft distinct. impresBibfllpp'something was wrong, and he; was conscious of a feeliiigv4^^rritation ; but it seemed to hip that jnin^^ i f-iieefte gea s oftr^ not Oporatflj i ^^ precision ; and, while he realiaed the fiwt of a partial and Very unexpected change of the conditions of his life, he found that when he tried, in a strangely feeble w^, to ^pple With the problem; the solution eluded him and baffled hun. {"'^K^rf ■; i « I7t ■ \ AN t)LD FOOT. l«7^nf5^Tfw ^*K "^^^^'^V" * ^^ Nearly defined purpose led him to T^alfc to the comer of the street, just belbw fisXel* W. m^d to paus^ tiiere, as usual, to awiit the^mmVof the horse-car which should carry him down town Pnnn^«« custom too, he took from his^eaiscdt ^ket t?o or SST^ * - mes (which, to his surprise, had swolJ^n to the uncomfortebi; dTOension8<,f the old eopper cents), and looked ZSSdWl! ne;^.boy from whomhe bought. e4ry morning, tiS^MySw Ta^ lad. however, was not to be 8e*.Ti • if«/5 S*!!?"^^ *^* somewhat vexed at his absent. LaSse he ;^s esnSf 7*' lous upon that morning to obseWe th^uotarons S^L^^^ and Liverpool gram markets, and to ascertain who foil ^ were loading at the wharves. »««e^»n wj^t steamers o«T^%ri''T"*'*'"r/ ^^*y®^ "^^""^ logger than hS expected . and, while be waited, a man passed by. (Secged oddl v ISk • * noticed, in M^e.breeches anS ,very oYd-ftCne^^^^^^^ Ephraim said to him, politely — «*'" wi|i,.ana n^t. The stranger, stopping, looked at Ephraim, with a queer ex pression. and piesently said.— *^ ' ""^ * ^"®®' ^^' say ?»>'''''* *^^^ //'^*l^r«*^»d, you ; f^morni^ pape;,"did you ' any lAVm^^ *^' "^"^^^ P"P""' *^^ ^'•^*" °^ Commerciat^ ;• Why. my dear sir, there is but o'&e newsplper published in this city. It ifl the 6=a..K.. It comes out on fatSy Ld thi«^ you know, js. 6xdy Tuesday." "".turaay, apa tnis. -Doyoii^nljifntosay-that we have no dailv mnpra ?" «,'' claimed Epbi^m, somewhat angrily "/***? papers? ex- •• DaUym^TB ! Papers published every day I Wbvj'sir ib^i^ disgust!^ Ephraim, turning his back .upon ^tijenjan in The-^nger smilei a«d. shakiii^ Ksi^asyhe W^ri-' o>8 doubts Of Ephra^m's san%. passed onward. V "^^ " «A1j2^^/^u T^^^^eJ^o^basjustcQme fromibd inte^r pf Afri(fa.orek«jM.^^ escaped^l^^ «" ;^<^ ».J-.. " ,■•.'■'•**• i?^>y' 'i'- iir ou) f6ot. 178 ■^1' ter dbe» ttbt oome,%iia Ephraim glanoedUp the street anxioiuh ly. " Thewift not a oar in sight. A fire somewhere,- 1 suppose. Too b^ that I*^feould have lost so much timd. I shaU walk uown< ^ ._. % But. as Ephraim stepped into the highway, he was surprised to find that there were no raUs there. The obbMestone pave- ment was. tmbrokeikf' ^ ,.. ■ -■ ,1 " Well, tpon my wM ! This is the strangest thmg of all. What on earth has become of the street cars ? I must go afoot, 1 nupposQ, if the distanue U great, I am afraid I shaU be too : late fot business, as it is." 'j ' ' As he walked onward,at a rapid p«we, ajxd his eye f^l ^PO^ ^| the buadiugs along the i^'bte, he was ^queerly fusible that me city had undergone a certain pjrocess of transformation, it naa ^ a familiar appearance, too. He seemed to know it in its presept aspect, and yet not knaw it. The way was perfectly familiar to him, and he recognized aU the prominent landmarks ejsily, and .stiUOie had an indefihable feeling that some bth?r city hadstood wI^aS this did ; .that he had Imown this very route under othw ^^^ -conditions, and that the later conditions were those that naa. passed away, while those that he now saw belonged te a muon eaBrhei'Speriod.' <* , ** ' , a t ui, Q • ^HrSg, too, that the change, whatever it was, li»\«>^^*»* * ' loss with it. The buildings that lihed the street now he bought ■_ Very ngly. They were old, misshapen, having pent-roofs with ^ absurdly high gables, and the shop-windows were ^naftU, ; dingy, and set with smaU panes of gl^s He hadjmpwn it as . a handsome street, edged with noble edifices, ai^ »?«?°8 *2ii^ ' gaze of the pedestrian a suooda^oii of splendid windows fiUed with merchandise of the most biRiant description. . But Ephraim pressed on with^ a determination to seek his a- vorite restaurant, for he-began to feel very hungry. I» a littte .while he reached the comer where the restaurant jJoiUdhave > been, but to his yexation he saw that t^^^^^^^^Jf'^g^ |; cof|teh»use of mean M>petoanee, in front of which swung », , blurred *nd faded 8ign.-< w»fcu^,^at He resol^fd to enter, for he-could get *^^wj^^^. least. He pii^ through the.low^^oortray and ^^^^^Jf^ floor into artaSow sort of box. where a table was ?I>'oad | l«id. a^ he did so, h0 had a ^.ytseUiM^tl^t.this.too, wasjomftthiiig that he was familiar wiitt^ , • . * , . n V- .*;. IM ^ AN OLD mar. sion of^ol^^n^li^si^^^ '^ producing a succes- though, sir." ™' ^"^- ^' you up a nice breakfast, " vyhat have you got ?" bnng them quicklV." ^^' ^"""^^ °'"®'^« a*»d coffee, and ••Yes^ sir; hal/a minute, sir. Anything else «ir 9" „ ^nng me a newspaper." i ^ ®' ^"^ ^ date December 19. So ^^n \^8 E^w"®'' ""« gazette borl worthlessness, he tossed itAnStJt! fphraim comprehended its w.it^ almost s„«tfy't h^lStt' "^" '^« "-'• -^ .^/1T,°'L;S ri.t?4*rCh"lW<'.^-^ -iter,, from It were so savor, t&tTe t^fn ^L^u ^'^'" ""•* "«« spread before him, he perc^vef thlt fh .''"T'"; ^» "was . very co.«e, ty^o:^^,^^'^^ }^^ '^' ""'e' had given him ^ tablepit^f r'S:;^-^^^^-. t-". " to the end of the nove|t^d*'?f's^'.^r8,T.?"'' -' We haven't got an/, " ^P»^y%fZjf- '" *•• '"■ touted Ephraim; nr ; didn't i,,^ „, »" «»* Never «w any other ikd. parts, sir?" ';« f W» iWy- Do th^ l»ve 'em in ftnm -v; -UL A» OLD FOGY. 115 % "Get out !" said Bphraim, savagely. He was becoming some- what annoyed and bewildered by the utter disapjpearanoe of so many familiar things* . i. ^ n i. But the breakfast was good, and he was hungry, so he feU to . with hearty zest, and, although he found the steel fork clumsy, it did him good service. At the conclusion of the meal, KpH- raim waUied rapidly to his office— the office tha/i he oocup»ed for nearly sixty years. ^ As he opened the door, he expected to find his letters in the box wherein the postman thrust them twice or thrice a day. They were not there. The box itself wasgone. •• Too bad ' too bad !" exclaimed Ephraim. ♦♦ Everything conspires to delay me to-day. I suppose I must sit here and wait for that lazy letter-carrier to come, and meantime my busi- ness must wait too." , ., n i. • ^ With the intent not to lose the time altogether, Epbraim re- solved to write a letter or two. He took from the drawer a sheet of rough white paper, and opened his inkstand. He could not find his favorite steel pen anywhere, anAthere were no other pen^ in the drawer.^only a bundle of quills.^ Ephraim deter- mine to try to 9»^ one of these. He ruined four, and lost ten minutes befopelie could make with his knife'a pen good enough to write with ; but with this he finished his letter. Then he had another hunt for an envelope, l^utl^;cfuld find one nowhew and nothing was io be done but to fold^he sheet m the fashion that he had known in his boyhood, anA to se«l it with seahng- wax. Hfe burned his fingers badly while performing the last- named operation. j», „ « ,. • _^ SKill the postman had not arrived ; gpl Ephraim, being very anxious to mail his letter, resolved to gtfout ^^d drop it into the letter-box at the corner of. the street. When he reached the corner,he foutid that the letter-box had disappeared as po many oth« things 4iad done ; so he resolve* to push on to the post- 0||e& where he could leave the letter and get his morning's m«l. As he appitoached what he had supposed was the post- office, he was di^ayed to perceive that andther boMing oocu- iMed the site. The post-office had vanished. .'- ■■ -^^ iA.,\l*.> '■* lie turned to a man standing with a crowd vrmmmm^fMmw- inghun. and aiked him where tiie pest-office could be found. Obeying the direction, he sought the pia€* and found it. Kusb- iiig to the sipglfi window, behind which a clerk ptotfd. he ., .-j» Lr' f;'^^ ■7"if I 176 A» atiD FOOT. to-morrow." ' *"®'« ^^^ *>« no miul iu m ^ botfi mails delayed?" ^'* *°^ Caucago. Are ^l»)^3;^^;;^a^^ ^dt^e »ia ^ kow ^ ., » will come in to-morrow " ^°*® yesterday^ and, touStTd'.^Sho'Srerw •»''' '^''»''- "we don't .pp,„ ' Wl yo,. that th75ew"'?<;rt^''^^«y,»^if »«» thing, .^'^ coach, wliich takes twi»,.t„ ^ ™*"^ ^'O'oe here upon a staan. ^^ch'reaotst:: tte^^^^^^^^ '^{iS^<^d Ephraim was about td 3 kf !T ''^^S'^^ ™*ys-'' shut the window and made?SCr Z7« ''^^^' *^"* *^« <^^^^ a moment Ephraim was nii.^ tr*®"®*^'^" impossible. For should do ne?t, Td ZlTleV^S ^^i!' *^"^ what hi curious crowd gatheriuR about L-m^*°^ i^^^' ^« ^^^^ a regard him with pecS tt^est A«^"^'''* ^^^^^ «««^^*o fellow would make facetioS^m J^^ "'*'' ^°^ ^«° » ">'^e at which some of the vSSX,!l^"^''S Ephraim's dress, what bewildered, and wHoTJudon ± J^^^"^"^ ^'^ «>««' observed thaVall of the^bystaS^n T°'\«'^***' w^«° he ^gly high collar* anfcravf t« ?„ ?T ^?«®-hreeohes and very Pletely buried. i^^^T^rc^jJ^'"^ ^f chins were JoZ T^ho held in his hmd^^ewT^r^Z ^ ^"^ Me««eman countenance, Ephraim said to Sim J^"*"^ by Ws-friendly ^bav^XiII^^St^^;^ ^ *o give me a Kttlo info^iati^?"^^^' f":^^^ *>e gpod enoagh. ?/*> '■-.'!. AH OLD'ifocnr. in 4 ' I vj "Is " With pleasure j sir/* . /,v»5j **-««» ' 'ahaWmiesedBomeimportMitletterBthatllooMforfrom New Yorpand the- West. I wish to communioate wito my jor- respondeiite at once. WiU you please tell me where I ean ftpd the telegraph office ?" ' '• The telegra]^ office t I don't understand you, sir • ".I with to send messages to my friends at those P0i°*8- ^ ^^^ "Well, an; I kttow^f no other way to send them than though thepost-offitfe-hetaii' , . v *.«,« rtI>o you mean to say that there is no telegraph Une from here to New York?" V' - «ui:«^9'' i* My dear sir, what do you m^aii by a telegraph 4me f ^,...- - « A telegraph line— a Mne of wire on whioh I ««» 8®°*^ "^®*' -"^^tS^d^^^^v^i. wrong with you. sir "Idthe gentleman gravely. "'No such thing exists. No such thmg can exist ^ " Nonsense !** said Ephraim, waxing mdign*nt. How do you suppoi^ the afternoon papers to-day will «et ^heLquotations Sf the tlverpool markets of to-day ^ ^J^^^ rWon : lewn to.day the pri6e of securities at Oie Aeeting of the London ^ppingQloseto Bphrakn aiifl using alow tofle, ^»1«.^« <»owd laughed, - You mus^ be more careful, or persons will t&SBMt&L vou as insane." * , . _u^-i» ^ ^!^Ine! Why? Beoatise I tell you, what everybody kno^s, that iiA g^t cable news from Europe eve^ day. ^ • . •• Gable news J cable news ! What #es the old fo<^ °^®f* V" shouted the orowdf . : * „ i. • -^ - «Mirtin«'- " I '« What do I meaii1>* ««ol^imect BphrMm, m a gweion .1 mean that you «c0a pack' ef idiots for pretondmg to believe tha* tihere is no such thing as ^ telegr&ph, and no such thmg as a t telegraph cable to Europe." v ." , a ^ u j -*^ : ^^wd sent up a shout of derisive laughter and lushed 1^ him a^ if to hustle him and use hini roughly. The gentlen^ to whom M had sppkep seized him by *^« ^f*" »°^^^^ him away. When the/had turned the eoraer, the man sU^jpcd and said to Bptiraim, — ' ' , , * -t. -^ \ ♦•Youa»p4r to be a sane mah, ^l***^'^ ,7^,^^,^ :i|irangely7l^^ be more careful m ^ firtute. 178 AN OLD FOOT. If yon shonid be taken an «» . ».j m^onw, yoB would ^VtL^""^ ^^ ooneigned to » •d^oult to .eoure rele^ . "* oofiermg, and fiSd it y^ I am perfeotly sane " mM k,i, • " ••" prehendwhyyo/thSwKf te'l ''"-» ^ ""nnot com- Joj;moanby.ste.ier"^''''«°''8;"''- Nobodj^oan know what ^ " I have heard some fait u k ^ * r** *«' certainly ?•' used Steam to ma^eTl^t bo^Tpadclle"^*?^ invemioVwhich ^tn *«/*»' o«>^«i«g the Sean!?;^^^'^?^,""*^ *i^e river here ; too ridjoulous." ** *'' '^^^''"J'^ea*%,thati8alittre • Kidiculous I Whv— " ^' quickly way * "'""'"'8 • "«"> ^e bowed politely and^alVei Wm b4Cy.'""K^"r' "'"^"« «'"' »''d looking after uuderatandit'LtallflUh^rfindS^lTKV^ •'<"''' "^i" to B« oonepired to make Rame of me 1 ,^«'T "•*' ">« wo"-" »»lly are astray. I don't fLi ' ! *'"* *'"'* mj poor witB W|jdn.anshV" °'"^'^' « certain of them ^'^acl^r P»»t him, an old-S^^ haSd ^^r^^tf *" »'"'. ^"Wn^ t"0 of men who held ?rop; TheT' ^^''f ^^ » ««ore o? m«,y hundred yards distort f!^ p™""? '■»"^"» *«» not leathern backets were poBriLwa^n^.K * "!""«• "enwith »«». were forcing tBe LnS^^^t ""* °'S'"«- "'''"« other "Wine, were nZt^. but :tTTn:'^^ 'J"^ "■« '*«"»«'«- ^. and he remenibied 'wlKrfriel^Tj '^J'* "■""'*' »»<» «t»mers, '. """"^had said to him about .,8»h« expre8sad-^hl«4i«niil'ii:"ifc#J. '.It '""'.^.' . . ; .. ,»^^ *• "tepify of these people 'W0U' -f^ AN bBD POGY. 179 in a few muttered, ejaculations; and then, suddenly* bethought him of his business. , , f , i. a i. j He resolved to go dbwn to the wharf where h^ had expected ta ship hie cargto, and to ascertain what the situation was there. As he came near to the pkce, he saw that it had changed since he last saw it, but a handsome ship lay in the dock, and men were carrying bags of grain aboard of her.. •^ •• That must be my cargo," he said ; "but what on earth do they mean by loading it in that manner, and upon a saihng vessel ?" ' . * He approached the man who seemed to be superintending the work, and said, — . . ^^ " Is this EphraimBdtterby's wheat?' . The^man looked at him in surprise for a moment, and then, smiling, said,— ; . ii, .^- . .. "No, sir ; it is Brown and Martin s. ^ " When did it arrive ?" . " Y^sCerday." \ "By rail?" .' , \ ♦' By rail ! What do you mean by that ?" y "I say, did it come by rail?" ^ x. "Well old man, I haven't the least idea what you mean by ' raa; but if you wantio know, I'U tell you the grain came by canal-boat." " From Chicago ?" ' ^ _^. , " Never heard of Chicago. The wheat came from Pittsburg. What are you asking for, any way ?" , " Why, I'm expecting some myself, by rail from Chicago, and I intend to ship it to Liverpool iti a steamer— that is, ' ad- ded Ephraim, hesitatingly, *' if I can find one." " "Chicago! rail! steamer! ,Oid chap, I'm afr^d yourea little weak in the top story. What do you mean >y Chicago ? ' ' Chicago ! Why, it's a city three or four hundred miles west of Pittsburg ; a grieat centre for the western grain traffic. Cer- tainly you must have heard of it." , T 1. ^« Oh, come now, old man, you're trying to guy me 1 1 know well enough that the country is a howling wilderness, three hun- dred miles beyond Pittsburg. ^Grain market I That's good ! "I don't know," said Ephraim, somewhat feebly. "At used *o be tibere. And I expected a cargo of wheat from Chi<»go to • be here this morning, by railroad." •\ f. t'V 1 *ii Iw :"-f ■**i» Air orb »t)OT. ri-n 1^ What kmidf a railroad ?•»-.. -» awil^C w« W?*^i^!l° ' TT^ ftUow. one of his bnnging twenty tl^oosS busM. ^f 1". *»*^ .*» °» '*»'" It's a shame for the nM fTii J^ . veasei, mind you—m one day I about aW" ""^^ ^^"^^ ". "^*io°« to let him wander T As he «ained fiKo aw* oewildered, walked qniokly awav "Good morning, Mr. Batterby'." * ' ^ .;Bon.t W .e. B^tt^^rtS^,' WL^: ¥^- ^»S-»?'^^ Wby.J^A tr^4 tXJl'S: ';;S^eM'^i, "^ojl' ■««"'. " hii mind «worn thjlyoa we7e d^ *' "' ""* (»**■ " I «>«U hare wa7«ti"rt"wCL"li'''''^ e»erw..: By the ' him about any more " '^"« <*«iiraim ? I *mS »,.. f 1*'?':!^? i=P^ B»«^y ?/ Why, who do yon think WnjeU to-day, I think." ., .' ™ *^'vAO» *»^ mm /•^emutakeametoi^^^ta^,^ Ipb^ jo^-- .1 V/ «. *i Aware th|*t a bureau iii the War Department collects mformation which Sea iTtolndicato approaching conditions of the^ leather, andthat it gives this information to the newspapers? \ , -Never heard of such a ^thing, Mr. ^Batterby, and I dont heUeve it. Somebody has been joMng with you. The only weather indications we have are in the ^anacs, and they are "^'mto'S^'iaong in silence for^a^^ "Miller!" "WeU?'' / / •■V- •* Well r 1 J " I am going to ask you a good many queer questione tO-day, for a private piupose of my own ; wiUyou. agree to t^s^e^lhem candidly?" ^ » _^ • "If I can%" ' 1 . .^ .„ . • " And not think me insane, or absurd, or stupid ? "Of course I should- not think so.'* . . . I . ' ^ " t • • 4 •» Very weU," said Ephraitn ; •' and ir^tm we,are done, I may ix^lkin why I asked th«n, and perhaps you ean solve a mystery ** They* reached the house and. entered »vJ^^^'**^^ ' Ifffler did was to proceed to the «ide-boar«l, fill two glasses with wine from a decapttfr. and ask %|||MP *<> ^'^^^ ."\ y ^':i *• ■'V' i r .MJr 6ld Foax, ' i!f^*°'' ^«'" said Bphmfm, " Tju^ ^„,ii u ,* Miller looked at him ■£•. - « x ^ *°'*®*^ "• eluded that this mart We oS'^i *" ^i^««nt. He con- developed queemer lb ^e emo^^^^^^^ <>' B^terby's newl?- down. °^ ^^ emptied his own ^late and pit it ''Mrs Mjiier; my wife." * " 18 It aTphotograph ?" * " something eli. DM y^uT^r hLr rr,""'' ^«* "^ "'k JO" • " Neverl there is noCoh pw' ^"^^^ "'""' Chicago ?" «ri;S?/'"" ""'"ing of railroaasr^o, ,t^3^ip^_ ^^ ^^j^_ "l!**" *»lWng Greek to me." ' " W "y'a^t' "' * '"*»'■*?'' «»"« to Europe ?■• °°''" ^'^' Mm '^°''°'' ''°'""°'"' °°" °°°'"'^- No, I to the ^^SHr^"" """• ' '"'""y line *ero88 the continent newSUto'if?.,"'"" '■ ' "^ ^:'» ""^ " wood fi«. Do you •• Charcoal, sometimes, for some purposes " > ., 1 mean hard coal-stone coal ?" ^ wharr;o7:p rUw ?" s^'^r • '° '*'■ - ^ '«"'- ;l wiU t% yo'u IC^i^l m^a^T •■ZtdS'''''^''' . then to himself he said •« T orJ^ i>r ■ • '^^P^^d Ephraim ; and of .U tjie experieSr'WwTra'^ir.Ti.^' """■ *"' ■»-"-«/ 4it^rslt'rhXr:te^:Lr::L'»'=^>vp«'- waist almost beneath her^nttl fLf 7^ ■^"^^' ^'^ » ^^^g^ an enormous and ^deZs^Tt '^cL^k^'TrJ^^'''^^^ wsemblance to a gig-topi' ^ - ^*°^ bdre ^~- ^h^ not seen one of Siose Wonderfhl bits of head-ge^ '-\ r AX om voa% In ft few m ■% N \ ' 1 IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) k A // ^' ■»,*. 1.0 >^d I.I h\ 1.25 b£|2.8 |50 "^ Hi Ir 140 1.4 2.5 1.6 > / f ^}. .{■> Hiotographic Sciences Corporation 33 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 « ^ ^^ \ ^ iV :\ \ ^^ /^ AH OLD FOGY. MwMiUer had ieftihe room, her tusband'f utt«^^^ came thick and harsh, and presently he sU^ei. dSunken and helpless, beneath the tables - Ephraim sat alone at the board. The room grew darker, for ttie ram was now swirling without, against the window-paLes. There wassomethmgghastly and fearftil in the appearance rfthe apartment. The outlines of the furniture, swn thromrh the dusk, were distorted and misshapen. Ephraim felt as if he were m the presence of phantoms. He had the sensations of one who sitH m a charnel-house, and knows that he is the only hving thing among th« dead. ^ His good sense half revolted against the fear that overspread him; but It seemed not strong enough to quell the tremulous terror in his soul ; for that grew and grew untilit filled him with a kind of panic. He had ^oh a meaningless dread as the bravest know when they find themselves amid darkness and loneliness in a dweUmg wherein, of late, have been pleasant company and merriment imd kughter; wherein hJs been jov- ousness that has suddenly been quenched by utter, diwnal He was seized by a sudden impulse to fly. He pushed away his chair, and glanced timorously around him. Then he trod swiftly, and with a fiercely-beating heart, to the hall-way. Grasp- mg his hat fix)m the table, he opened the door, and fled out into the tempest. As he sped away through the gloomy street, now wet and slippery, and covered with pools of rain, it smote his heart with a new fear to think that even the city about him, with its hiirh waUs and impending roofs, its bricks and stones and upliftine spires, was unreal to ghastliness. But even his great dre#did not forbid his mmd to recall the mysteries of the day.. •• I know." he said, ajs he rushed onward, *• what it aU means. This 18 tiie Past. Some mighty hand has swept away the barrier of years, and plunged me once more into the midst of the hfe that I knew in my youth, long ago. And I have love*, and worshipped that past. Blind and foolish man I I love? m Ah, how I hM* it now! What a miserable, miserable time was itl How poor and insufficient life seems under its conditions 1 Howmei^y men crawled about, content with / FOOT. m ranoe nkenaiid M-kerifor »w-paneB. kceof the oughthe as if he ations of the only erspread 'emuloas lim with as the aess and pleasant •een joy- dismal ed away he trod Grasp- out into wet and krtwith its high' means, vay the lidst of I loved serable der its t with J Uttleni Lconflcions of A« ^jfX^ "^ Jit of ttie vart md wonderfnlpot^ ^^Thete^^'^^^^''^^ k^J to weep « he exoepting -*»^ Bpttrwin to /J^T. ^^ ^otbe realiwd— aUtraoted, unnerved, l>y«tM»»;- . ^ed open the lioAt With emjer )>?* HSfriSnK TU.feeJtAo*;"™ door. »nd went ■»*» h» ntt>^^^^ ^, y^ oocnpiM m the to hin. for he mw »u» '^"^^'^JT^ greet him. »nd he ww Sd tinle, long, long •go- 8^ ^~»^^ ^ ^ „ ^ " Ah, my dearest, f £ f «*f^" ' ^ you alone that haUowed it to the dead past to meet me B was you . me I loYed— loved yon—i , ^^j^ before him, "•Se'',L!rn'S"'5i;„-So^i>rs» r^*xr ahnost ni6oh«nio»ny BWd,— " Come in." . . j k. n^ned his eyes. Hewasm Hehe«d . Kg" ;^:?*f toe &. not of the past, wd ^SToi^iS:"'!?- NXthHnocked .t thed««; she '^i^^Zf^^v.f^rJt^^r Th«..-hi. j/^'Se'SuV h'I'2!d%h.SSly. NeUy. ho- 1 h.« suffered.'* • ^ ^ ••How, grandpa r- (.. ^i ft^" •'^/LJj^ 186 awjito. Mm down-stiurg' while vl^^ ka. }e^ better; I talked to you like -^^-m SJS7u;sri^'art"rAn^^ ^ ' ; I will tell j'Ott •»# ^ -^y> .':.^ "" "' ^i- TBSBlfD, ^ ' /t i*' -.t *^F. 'V .C^\ f'- - B*./ ./ - W, '' "' 4-i -" / ' / « j • ^ ■ ■ 1 ■ ^ • ' .:,X^^ N ^ J^- ^' ".,>> &r. •'