Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1887, Page 6

Written for Tae Evesine Sram. THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON. STMAS STORY, Is THREE Pants, By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Author of “Treasure Island,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Ete., Etc., Ete, (Copyrighted, 1887.) PART I. CHAPTER VI. A TRAGI-COMEDY IN A CAR In front of Donaidson’s Hospital, John counted it kood fortune to percetve a caba great way off, and by much shouting and waving of his arm to catch the notice of the driver. He counted tt good for- tune, for the ttme was long to him till he should ne forever with the Lodge; and the farther 4 go to find a cab the greater the chance < the Inevitable discovery had taken place, and that he should return to find the garden fulj of angry neighbors, Yet when the vehicle drew up he Was senstbiy chagrined to recognize the port Wine cabman of the night before. “Here,” he could not but reflect, “here is another link in the Sudicial Error.” The driver,on the other hand, was pleased to ¢rop again upon so liberal a fare; and as he was a man—the reader must already have percetved—ot easy, not to say familiar, manners, he dropped at Once into a vain of friendly taik, commenting on ‘Ube Weather, on the sacred season, which struck him Ohiefly in the light of a day of liberal gratuities, 0m the chance which had reunited him to a pleas- ing customer, and on the fact that John had been (@3 he was ploased to call it) visibly “on the ran- Gan” the night before. “And ye look driedful bad the day, sir,I must say that,” he continued. “There's nothing like dram for ye—tif ye’ll take my advice of it; and bein’ as it’s Christmas, I'm no saying,” he added, with a fatherly smfle, “bat what would join ye mysel’.” Jobn had listened with a sick heart. “Pll give you adram when we've got through,” Baid he, affecting « sprightliness which sat on him Inest uphandsomely, “and not a drop tll then. Business first, and afterward. WIth this pi the Jarvey was prevailed upon to clamber to his place and drive, with hideous deliberation, to the door of the There ‘Were no signs as yet of any public m; only, two men stood not far in talk, and their geen from (afar, set John’s buzzing. Ee might have spared himself his ht, for the pair were lost in some te of a theological Complexion, and with Jeng! upper lip and enumerating fingers, pursued the matter of their iference, and paid no heed to John, But the cabman proved « thorn tn the flesh. ‘Nothing would keep him on his perch; he must clamber dowa, comment upon the pebbie in the oor (while bé regarded a8 aa tngenious but un- sate device}, help John with the portmanteau, and eniiven matters with a flow of speech, and espe- of questions, which I thus condense: fe'll bo be here himsel’, will he? No? Well, De’s ap eccentric man—a fair oddity—if ye ken the expression. Great trouble with his tenants, they tet me. I've driven the fam'ly for years. I drove aca at his father’s waddin’.. What'll your name bet—i should ken your face. Baigrey, ye say? ‘There are y8 about GUmarton; yell be one gi inat itt Then this be a friend's portmanti ker Way? Because. the name upon It's Nucho- son! ©, if yere in ® hurry, that's another job. Waverly Brig? Are ye for away?” So the trieudiy toper prated and and kept Jobn’s heart in a flutter. But to this also, as ‘to other evils under the (ma and the victim of circumstances began at two Tunble toward the railway terminus at Waverley Broge. During the transit he sat with raised giasses in the frosty chill and mouldy fastor of his Chariot, and glanced out sidelong on the holiaay face of things, the shuttered and tne crowds along tle pavement, much as the rider in ‘the Tyburn cart may have Observed the concourse Satuering to his execution. At the station hig spirits rose again; another was fortunately ended—he be- Stage of his Sze. ‘water, He called a railway por- Yer, and bade him carry the portmanteau to the <qleak-room; not that he had any notion of delay: ght, Instant was bis design, no matter ‘Walther; but he Getermined to dismiss the cabman ere he named, or even chose, his destina- ‘nother Lak’ ‘This was niscunning alm and nowt another Lu as Dis cui now ‘with one foot on the roadway and one still-on the coach-step, he made haste to the thing in Factice, abd plunged bis hand into his trouser ne ‘There was nothing there? ©, yes; this time be wasto blame. He should Dave remembered, and when he deserted his Dlvod-stained pantaloons he should not have de- served along With them his purse. Make the most Of nis error, and then compare it with the punisb- meut! Coneetve his new position, tor I ords Yo picture it; conceive him condemned to return ‘Yo that house, from the very thought of which his Soul revoited, and once more to expose himself to capture on te very scene of the amisdeed; con- ive him linked to the mouldy cab and the famil- Jar cabman. Jobn cursed the cabman silently, ‘and then it occurred to him that he must the acu fncarceration of bis teau; that, at de must Keep close at hand, and lie curbed 19 re ealithe porter. But his ms, Drief as they had apes must, have him longer ‘than here Was the man already Feturning with the receipt. ‘Wel that was settled; he haa lost bts portman- sean also, for the Sixpence with which he had pard the Murrayrield toll was one that had strayed Gione into his walsteoat pocket, and unless he once More successfully achieved the’ adventure of the house of crime, his portmanteau lay in the cloak- yoom in eternal pawn, for lack of a penny fee. And ‘then he remembered the Porter, who stood aug ose alventive, words of gratitude hanging on Jolin hunted right and left; he found a cotn— ed God It was, a soverelen—drew it out, be- halfpenny, and offered it to the porter. ‘The man's jaw dropped. “Iv’s only o halfpenny startled out railway decency. = a “I know that,” said John, piteousiy. And here the porter recovered the dignity of wt “Thank you, sir,” said and would have re- Sameer = ao jut John, too, would suche al at. at Jo tay wo = cabman? ~ gace — 5s: “Hoots, Mr. .” said rou “I tell you ve no ¢! ” sald John. “Weill,” sald the drive: “and what then? I ‘Would rather give a man ashillin’ on a ce {his than put him off with deriston like baw bee, 1m Surprised at the like of you, Mr. Baig- “My name 1s not Balgrey !" brok john, ‘mere childish temper and distress, 1" 200% 1% “Ye told me it was yoursel, He had avoided the name of any for there was now quite a Uttie band of folk about the cab, aud he still kept an eye uj She, court of Justige, and labored to avoid con. geutric evidence. ‘But here again the fatal Jarvey “Drive on at once!” roared John, and slammed ‘the door behind him, so that the crazy chariot Focked and jingled. Forth trupdied ‘the cab into the Christmas Streets, the fare within plunged in the blackness Si SSpPay iat, peigubored on unconsciousness, ue driver on the box digesting his rebuke and his Customer'sduplictty. T would not be thought to Put the pair in competition; Jonn’s case was out Of ali parallel. Hut the cabinan, too, is worth the Sympathy of the judicious; for he was a fellow of nuine Kiadiness and a’ Ligh sense of personal gusty Incensed by drink, and bis advances had Deen crueily and publicly "rebuffed. As he drove, ‘Unerefore, be counted his wrongs, and. Unirsted for Sympathy and irink. “Now, tt chanced he had friend, & publican “in Queensferry street, from jon. 1b view of tae Sactedness Of the occasion, be thought he might extract adram. Quee Sleet lics something off the direct road to Murray- Heid. But then there ts the Minit eeem rae seed bY the cemetery, and v €abing oa bis friend tn Lied; and the charioteer, : already somewhat mol- 1, turned aside his hotwe to the right. un, meanwhile, sat collay ‘chest, bis mind tn al chin sunk yance. “The smell sitting In the well-remembered drawing-room to ly converse; and, instead—t Tt was his frst impulse to into the bottom of the cab; his next, to cover bis face with his handa. So be sat, While the cabman toasted the ean, an yublican toasted cabman, Rnd both reviewed the affairs of the nation: #0 6 Suill sat, when bis master condescended to ret and drive off at last down bili, along the curve 9 Lynedoch Place; but even so sitting, as he passed the end of his father’s street, he took one glance from between shielding fingers, and ‘a doo- u sriage at the door. ‘Well, Just so,” thought he; “I'll have killed my father!” And this 1s Christmas day!” If Mr. Nicholson died, it was down this same road he must Journey t6 the grave; and down this Same road, on the same errand, bis Wife had pre- ceded him'years before; and many other leading citizens, with the proper trappings and attendance necee at Son Se ee ee ea straw-cai and Tagged-cushionéd cab, wit his Dreatil congealing onthe glasses, ‘where ‘else Was Jobn hitaself advancing wo? ‘The thought stirred his imagination, which be- to manufacture many thousand pictures, ‘ht and fleeting, like the shapes in a Kaleido- scope; and now he'saw himself, ruddy and com- forted, sliding in the gutter; and, again, a ltle Wobeyone; bored urchin tricked forth in crape and weepers, descending this same hill at the foots Pace of fnourning coaches, Mis mother's body Just ling him; ad yet again, his fancy, runt far in front, showed lilm hisdestination—now stai ing solitary in the low sunshine, with the spar- Tows hopping on the threshold, and the dead man ‘within staring at the roof—and now, with a sud- den change, thronged about with white-taced, serena tena Ccluuity and physical fatotneen, Tt was drawing ono ngon—oWo/ aid Lwenty hours since he jw andalarm, and Rad been partly the depths of vacancy. <cit you'll no sland “If you'll no sand me a dram,” said the driver, + Yih a well-mertted severity of tone and manner, Siastesy Ze have no objection to my taking “¥eo—no—do what you " returned Jobn; and then, as be watched his ‘moat tas blairs, aud enter the whisk: there floated Famatar ms rome oa ot fully swane ast ‘awake and Biared at the (new. ‘them; Pa, his fae, be ts : “y Sains teahancy ates teeny the jarvey, be bebeld the treetops. hand-uplifiing neighbors, the doctor bursting through their midst and fixing his stethoscopes he went, the policeman shaking a sagacious head Deside the body. It was to this he feared that he Was driving; in the midst of this he saw himself arrive, heard himself stammer faint explana- tions, ‘and felt the hand of the constable upon his shoulder. Heavens! how he wished he had played the maniler part; how he despled himself that he had fled that fatal neighborhood when all was quiet, and should now be tamely travelling back Whet it was thronging with avengers! Any strong degree of passion lends, even to the a the ‘forces of the imagination, And so now, a3 he dwelt on what was probably awaiting ‘him ‘at the end of this ais drive—John, who saw things little, remembered them less, and could not have described them at all, beheld in his mind's eye the garden of the Lodge, detailed as in a map; he went to and fro init, feeding his terrors; ne saw the holies, the snowy borders, the paths where he had sought Alan, the high conventual walls, the shut door—what! was the door shutt Ay, (uly, he had shut !t—shut in his money, his escape, his future life—shut it with these hands, and none could now open {t! He heard the snap of the spring-lock like something bursting in his Drain, and sat astonished. And then he woke again, terror jarring through his vitals. ‘This was no time to be idle; he must be up and doing, he must think. Once at the end of this ridiculous cruise, once at the lodge door, there would be nothing fortt but to turn the cab and trundle back again. Why, then, go so far? Why add another feature of suspicion to a case al Teady so suggestive? Why not turn at once? I was easy to Say turn, but whither? He had no- where now to goto. fe could never—he saw it in letters of biood—he could never pay that cab; he Was saddlea With that cab forever. 0, that cab! His soul yearned and burned, and fis bowels Sounded to be rid of it. He forgot all other cares. He must first quit himself of this ill-stnelling ve- cle and of the human beast that guided it—arst do that; do that at least; do it at once. And just then the cab suddenly stopped, and there was his persecutor rapping on the front lass, like one With child of some Intelligence. joun let it down and beheld the port-wine counte- hance inflamed with Intellectual triumph. “I ken wha ye are.” cried the husky voice. “I mind ye now. Youre a Nucholson. 1 drove ye to Hermiston to a Christmas party, and ye came back On the box, andI let ye drive.” Ttwasafact. Johi knew the man; they had Deeneven friends, His enemy, he now remem- Dered, was a fellow of great good-nature—endless Good-hature—with a boy; why not, with a man? yhy not appeal to his better side? He grasped at the pew hope. “Great Scott! and so you did,” he cried, as if in a transport of delight, his voice sounding false in his own ears. “Well, If that’s so, I've something to say fo you, Tl Just get out, 1 guess Where are we, anyhow?" ‘The driver had fluttered his ticket in the eyes of the branch toll-keeper, and they were now brought to on the highest and most solitary part of the by-road. On the left, a row of tleldside | trees beshaded it; on the right it was bordered by naxed fallows, undulating downnhili to the Queens. ferry road; in front, Corstorphine Hill raised its snow-bedabbled, darkling woods against the sky. John looked all ‘about him, drinking the clear alr like wine; then bis eyes returned to the cabinau’s face as he sat, not ungleefully, awaiting John’s communication, with tbe air of ‘one looking to be yy Whe" features of that face were hard to read, drink had so swollen them, drink had so paint them tn tints that varied from brick-red to mul- verry. The small gray eyes biinked, the lips moved with ; greed was the ruling passion; and there was some gocd nature, some genuine ki atrue human touch, in the sper, his greed was now so set afire by hope that all other traits of character lay dormant, He sat ‘bere a monument of gluttonous desire, Jobn’s heart slowly fell. He had opened his lf) Dut be stood there and uttered nought, He soun: ‘Ube well of his courage, and it was dry. He groped in his treasury of words, and it was vacant. A devil of dumbness nad him by the throat; the Gevil of terror babpled in his ears; and suddenly, ‘without a word uttered, with no conscious pul formed in his will, John whipped about, tumbled over the roadside wall, and began running for his Ife across the fallows. He had not far, he was not past the midst of the frst Meld, when his whole brain thundered ‘within him, “Fool! You have your watch!” The shock stopped him,and he faced once more toward the cab. The driver was leaning over the wall, brandishing with his whip, his face empurpled, ike @ bull. And John had, or thought that he had, lost the cpance. No watch would ify the man’s resentment now; be would cry Tor vengeance also. John would be under the ey of the police; is tale would be unfolded, his se- cret discovered, his destiny would close on him at last, and forever. Hie uttered a deep sigh; and just as the cabman, taking heart of grace, Was beginning at last tO seale the wail, his et customer fell again ‘Wo running, aud disappeared into he farther fields, CHAPTER VIII. SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THE UTILITY OF PASSKEYS. Where he ran at first, John never very clearly knew; nor yet how long a time elapsed ere he | found himself in the byroad near the lodge of | Ravelston, prop alust the wall, his lungs | heaving like behows, fis legs leaden heavy. ie | mind possessed by One sole destre—to lle down | and be unseen. He remembered the thick coverts around the quarry-hole pond, an untrodden corner of the world where he might surely find conceal. ment Ul the night should fall. ‘Thither he passe down the lane; and when he came there, behold! he had forgotton the frost, and the pond was alive with young people skating, and the pond-side vov- erts were thick with lookers-on. He looked on awhile himself. There wasone tall, gracerul maiden, skating band in hand with a youth, on whom she Destowed her bright eyes perhaps’ too patently: and 1t was strange with what anger Jolin beheld her. He could have broken forth i curses; he ‘could have stood there, like a mortified tramp, and shaken his fist and vesived his gall upon ner by the hour—or $0 he tuought; and the next moment his heart bled for the girl.’ “Poor creature, is little she knows!” he sighed. “Let her enjoy herself While she can!” But was 1t possible, wien Flora used to smile at him on the Braid ponds, she could have looked so fulsome to a sick-héarted by- stander? ‘Tne thought of one quarry, 18, his frozen wits, another, aud he’ plodded on tow: Craig Leith. A Wind had sprung up out of the northwest; it was cruel, keen; It him like a fire, and ‘racked his fnger-joints. It ht el too, pale, swift, hurrying clouds, that Diotted heaven and shed "gloom upon the earth, He scrambled up among the hazelled rubvish heaps that surround the cauldron of the quarry, ‘and lay flat upon the stones. ‘The wind searched close along the earth, the stones were cutting and tey, the bare hazels wailed about him; and soon the aif of the afternoon began to be ‘vocal with those and disinal harpings that herald ‘snow. Pain and misery turned in Joun’s limbs to a harrowing impatience and biind desire of change; how be would roll in his harsh lair, and when the fiints abraded him, was almost pleased; now he ‘would crawl to the edge of the huge pit and look dtazity down. He saw the spiral. of the descending roadway, the steep crags, Dushes, the erin. Of show-wreaths, and far. dow Bobo "the diminished crane. He wasaway toendit. But it somehow his fancy. And suddenly he was aware that he was hungry; ay, even through the tortures of the cold, even Unrough the frosts of despair, a gross, desperate longing after foud, no matter what, ‘no matter how, began to wake and spur him. “Suppose he Pawhea bis watch? But no, on Christmas day— Unis Was Chrisuinas day!—the pawn shop would be closed. Suppose he went to the public house close by at Blackall, and offered the watch, which was worth £10, in’ payment for a meal of bread and cheese? ‘The lcongrulty was too remarkable; the good folks would either put him to the door, or only Jet him in to send for tue police. He turhed his pockets out one after another; some San Fran- cisco tram-car checks, one cigar, no lights, the pass key to his father's house, a’ pocket erchiet, YoUuch of scent; ‘no, money could be ‘There was nothing for it after all, what mattered itt He crept clowe alnong the the je crept close among wind play- Ra as paper, his joints burned, his skin curdied on bis bones. lie had & vision ‘of a high-lying cattle drive in California, and the bed of a dried stream with one muddy pdol, by which the vaqueros had encamped; splendid sun over all, the big bonfire mae oe no doul NOt take aod ot whither he went: fell, again and wandered farther; transformation scene, behold him in the jaws of the city, staring at a lamp whicl donned the tilted nightcap of the snow. It came thickly now, a “Feeding Storm;” and while he yet stood blinking at the lamp his feet were buried. He remembered something like it in the Past, a street lamp crowned and caked upon the windward side with snow, the wind uttering its mournful hoot, himself looking on, even as now; but the cold had struck too sharply on his wi and memory fatied him as tothe date and sequel of the reminiscence, His next conscious moment was on the Dean Bridge; but whether he was John Nicholson, of a bank in California street, or some former Jobn, a clerk in bis father’s oMce, he had now clean for- gotten. Another biank, and he was thrusting his pass-key into the door-lock of his father’s house. Hours must have passed. Whether crouched on ‘the cold stones or wandering in the fields among the snow, was more than he could tell; but hours luad passed. ‘The finger of the hall clock was close on twelve; a narrow peep of gas in the hall Lamy shed shadows, and the door of the back room—! father’s room—was open and emitted a warm light. At so late an hour all this was strange; the lights should have veea out, the doors ed, the good folk safe in bed. He marvelled at the pees ae leaning on the hall tabie, and marveile himself there, and thawed and grew once more hungry in the warmer air of the house. The clock uttered its premonitory catch; in five tmainutes Christmas Day would be among the of the past—Christmas !—what a Christmas! Wel there Was no use waiting; he had come into that house, he scarce knew how; if they were to thrust him forth again, it had best be done at once; and ke moved to the door of the back room and en ©, well, then he was insane, as he had long be- weved. ‘There, in his father’s room, at midnight, the fre was roaring and the gas blazing; the papers, Ue sacred papers—to lay a hand Oh which wad ¢fiminal ad all been taken off and piled along the floor; a cloth was spread, and a supper lal upon the business table; and in his father’s chair a woman, hablted like a DUN, Sat eating. AS he appeared in the doorway, the nun rose, gave a low cry, and stood staring. ‘She wasa large woman strong, calm, a little masculine, her features marked with Courage and good sense; and as John Diiuked back at her, a Taint resemblance dodged about his memory as when a tune haunts us, and yet Will not be recalled. “Why, 1Us Joun!” cried the nun, “1 daresay V’m tad,” sald John, unconsciously following King Lear;’“but, upon iny word, I do Lelieve you're Flora.” “Of course I am,” replied she. And yet itis not Flora at all, thought John; Flora was slender, and tmid, and of changing color, and dewy-cyed: and ad Flora such an dinburgh acceni? But he said none of these lings, Which was pernups as Well. What he said was, “Then why are you a nun?” “Such nonsense!” said Flora, “I'm a sick-nurse; and Tam here nursing your sister, with whom, between you and me. there 1s precious lttle thé matter. “But that is not the question, The point is: Howdo you come here? and are you not ashamed to show yourself?” “Flora,” said John, sepulchrally, “I haven't eaten anything for three days. Or, at least, I don’t know what day it is; but I guess Fm starv. “You unhappy man!” she cried. “Here, sit down and eat supper; and I'll just run upstairs and see my patient, not but what I doubt she’s fast asleep; for Marla is a malade inadginaire.” With this specimen of the French, not of strat ford-atte-Bowe, but of a finishing establishment in Moray Place, she left John alone in lus father's sanctum. He fell at once upon the food; and 1t 1s to be supposed that Fiora had found her patient Wakeful, and been detained ‘with some details of nursing, for he had time to make a full end of all there Was to eat, and not only to empty. the teapot, but to fill it again froma kettle that was AUIUNY singing on his father’s fire, ‘Then he sat Lorpid, and pleased, and bewlidered; his misto tunes were then half forgotien; his mind con- sidering, not without regret, this unsentimental return to Ms old love,” He was thus engaged, when that bustling woman nolselessly re-entered. “Have you eaten?” sald she, ‘Then tell ine all about 1" It Was a long and (as the reader knows) a pitiful Story; but Flora heard tt with compressed lips. She Was lost in none of those questionings of human destiny that have, from Ume to ume, ar- rested the Might ol my own pen; for women, such as she, are no philosophers, and behold thé con- crete only. And women, such as she, are very ‘on the imperfect man, very Well,” she safd, when he had done; “then down upon your knees ‘at once, and beg God's for- wXnd the great. baby pl his ki And the great baby plumped upon his knees, and did as he was bid: and hone the worse {oF that! But while he was heartily enough request forgiveness on general principles, the rational of him distinguised, and wondered if, per- haps, the apoiogy Were not due upon the other art. And When he ros@ again from that becom- ing exercise, he first eyed ‘the face of hls old love Gouptfully, and then, ‘taking heart, uttered his protest. “I must say, Flora,” said he, “in all thts bust- ness, I can sed very Tittle fault of mine.” “It you had written home,” replied the % “there would have been none of it. If you had even gone to Murrayfield ressonably sober, you would never have slept there, andthe worst would not have happened. Besides the whole thing be- gan years ago. You got into trouble, and when Your father, honest man, was disappointed, you Yoo the pet, or got afraid, and ran away ‘from punishment: Well, you've had your own way of t, Jobn, and T don’t Suppose you like 1t.” ““] sometimes fancy I'm not much better than a .” sighed Joni “My dear John,” sald she, “not much ! He looked at" her, and ‘his eye fell 4 certain anger rose within him; here Was a Flora’ h= dis owned; she Was hard; she wag of 4 set color; & settled, mature, undecorative maaner; plats’ of speech, plain of hablt—he had come pear saying plain of face. And tals changeling called hersslt by the same name as the many-colored, cliugip, matd of che of the frequent lauguter, an tue many sighs, and the kind, stolen glances.’ And to make all Worse, she took the upper hand with him, which (as John well knew) was not the true relation of the sexes, He steeled his heart against thls sick-nurse. t And how do you come here?” he asked. She told him how she had nursed her father in his long illness, and when he died, and she was left alone, had taken to nurse others, partly from habit, partly to be of some service in tue world; po 1, It might be, for amusement. scounting for taste,” said she, how she went “There's nO ‘And she told him rgely to houses of old friends, as the need arose; and how she was thus doubly wel- come, as an old friend first, and then as an ex- perlehced nurse, to whom doctors would confide the gravest cases, 3 “And, indeed, it’s a mere farce my being here for poor Maria,” She continued; “but your father Lakes her ailments to heart, and I cannot always be refusing him. We are great friends, your father and 1; he was very kind to me long ago— ten years ago.” ‘A strange stir came in John’s heart. All this while had he been tuinking only of himself? All this while, why had he not written to Flora? In penitential tenderness, he took her hand; to his awe and trouble, it remained tn his, compliant, A Voice told hit this was Flora, after all—told ‘him so.quletly, yet with thril of singing. nd you never married?” sald ‘No, Jobn; I never married,” she replied. ‘The'all clock striking two recailed them to the w rand. HOW she Bald, have beer “And now,” she said, “you have been ted and warmed, and I have heard your story, and now its high Ume to call your brother. “ov” cried John, choptallen, “do you think that absolutely necessary?” am a stranger,” said t ‘aie ag — Cel aid ? e. “Do you want Tun aw 7 Pio ne tne repre, une So ee spi him, he reflected, as he sat once more alone; a monstrous thing fora woman to pete she seemed to like him, ‘Would bis brother despise him, too? And ‘would his brother like him? And presently the brother ay ‘under Flo- ra’s evcort; and, standing afar off ‘the door- way, eyed the hero of this tale. ‘No, this 1s you?” he said, at length. ‘Yes, Alick, 1U’s me—iUs Joun,” replied the elder *Wand how did you got in herer’ replied be ow did you - the younger. “0,1 hiad my pass-key,” says John. “The duece you had?” said Alexander. “Ah, you have lived in a better world! ‘There are no Pass-keys golng now.” “Well, father was always averse to them ,' sighed Jonn. And the conversation then broke down, and the brothers looked askance at one another th stlence. “Well, and what the devil are we to do?” sald Alexander.“ suppose if the authorities got wind of you, you would be taken up?” “it depends on whether they've found the body or not,” returned John, “And then there's that cabin, to be sure!” “on, Yother the body!” said Alexander, “I mean about the other thing. ‘That's serious.” about?” asked “I don’t even know what it 1s.” blazing, Ue strips of cow browning and smoking on a skewer of wood; how warm 1t was, how sav- OF Ue steam of scorching ineat! “And then again ‘he remembered his fold calamiites, and bur- rowed and wailowed in the sense of his di Festaurant in Montgomery street. Sa restaurant tn Mont su he had ordered a pan stew and Venison cl Which he was imioderately fond, Tank's of ave seen John in nothing but the stormiest Sees awoke. If he were to. sit unbre and aio of cold feaieh owes oie moe fore the sez winiar's Sawa or gosta Sas taser in the gas-it wath of an itarmase. Pe... that what my father n. “About your robbil our bank in California, cours,” repited ‘lexader fm » - was plain, from Flora’s face, that-this was the first she had heard of it; it plainer still, from John’s, that er nen sg rhe exel “1 rob my bank! My God! Flora, this is too much; even you inust allow 2 . ror ees ay father, if you call that Tobverys ang hroughs lm 4 this room, id you notice the John gave the name ari have not been able to commend the "RWell® resumed Alexander, “Tl call round at ‘thelr place before I come back and pay your shot for Zou. In that way, before breakfast-Uie, you'll as r read it there, dumb delivery. “But there’s ‘one thing,” said the latter, “cable grams are dear; and I dare say you remember enough of the governor to guess the state of my finances” © “The trouble ts," said John, “that all my stamps are in that beastly houses" “All your what?” asked Alexander. “Stataps — money,” explained John. American expreasion; I'm afraid I contracted one or two.” some,” said Flora, “I have 9 pound “I bave note upstairs.” a, dear Flora,” returned Alexander, a 4 won" us very far; and besid my father's, business, and 1 shail be very much SUr- Prised if it isn't my father who pays for it." “I would not apply to him yet; I donot think ‘that can be wise,” objected Flora, sea Sig diary Bal ee é és o % der. “Please observe.” = He put John from his way, chose a stout knife among the su ‘an surprising Cie eee ee sy “There! wi you come to try, he observed, pocketing the money. “f wish you had not done that,” said Flora, “You will never hear the last of it.” “O, I don’t know,” returned the you man. “The eS is human, after all. And now, John, let me see your famous pass-key. Get into ope are for any one till stéome ‘back. "t ml you not answering w! they knock; I generally don’t myself.” CHAPTER IX. IX WHICH MR. NICHOLSON ACCEPTS THE PRINCIPLE OP AN ALLOWANCE. In spite of the horrors of the day and the tea- drinking of the night, John slept the sleep of in- fancy. He was awakened by the maid, as it might have been ten years ago, tapping at the door. The winter suprise was | eon § ‘the east; and, as the window was to the back of the house, it shone into the room with many strange colors of refracted light. Without the houses were all cleanly roofed with snow; the garden walls were coped with It a foot in height; the greens lay glittering. Yet, strange as snow had grown to John during his | ag upon the Bay of San Francisco, it was what e SAW Within that most affected him. For it was. to his own room that Alexander had been pro- moted; there was the old paper with the device of flowers, in which a cunning fancy might yet de- ‘Lect the face of Skinny Jim, of the Academy, John’s former dominie; there was the old chest of draw- ers; there were the chairs—one, two, three—three as before, Only the carpet was hew, and the litter Of Alexander's clothes and books and drawing ma- Verials, and a pencil drawing on the wall, which (in John’s eyes) appeared a marvel of proficiency. He was thus lying, avd looking, and dreaming, hanging, a8 it were, between two epochs of his iife, when Alexander came to the door, and made his presence known 1n a loud whisper. John let him tn, and jumped back into the warm bed, “Well, Jolin,” sald Alexander, “the cablegram 1s sent in your name, and twenty words of answer paid. I have been'to the cab office and paid your cab, even saw the old gentleman himseif, and properly apologised. He was mighty placable, 4nd Indicated nis belle. you _had been drinking’ ‘Then 1 knocked up old Macewen out of bed, and explained affairs to himas he sat and shivered tn a Gressing-gown. And before that I had been jo the High street, where they have heard nothing of your dead body, ‘So that I incline to the idea that you dreamed it.” “Catch me!” said Jobn. “Well, the police never do know anything,” as- sented Alexander; “and at any rate, they have dispatched 4 man to inquire and Tecover your trousers and your money, so that really your bill 1g now fairly clean; and I see but one lion in your path—the governor,” “I'll be turned out again, you'll see,” said John, dismaly. “J don’t imagine so,” returned the other; “not it you do what Flora and I have arranged; and your business now 13 to a and lose no time about tt. Is your Watch right? ell, you have a quarter of an hour. By five minutes before the half-hour you must be at table, in your old seat, under uncle Duthle’s picture. Flora will be there to keep you countenance; and we shall see what we sl see.” “Wouldn't it be wiser for me to stay in bed?” said John, “it youmean to mani your own concern: you can do precisely what’ you like,” repli ‘Alexander; “but if you are notin your place. five minutes before the balf-hour 1 wash my hands of you, for one.” And thereupon he departed. He had spoken Warmly, but the truth is, his heart was somewhat troubied. And as he Rung over the banisters, watching for his father to appear, he had hard ado to Keep himself braced for the encounter that must follow. “It he takes It well I shall belucky,” he reflected. “Ifthe takes itll why ivll bea herring across John’s tracks, and perhaps all for the best. He’sa confounded muff, this bro:her of mine; but he seems a decent soul.” AL that stage a door opened below with a certain emphasis and Mr. Nicholson was seen solemuly to descend the stairs and pass into his own apart- meut. Alexander followed, quaking inwardly, but with a steady face, He knocked, was bidden to enter, and found bis father standing ip front of = foreed drawer, to which he pointed as he spoke. “This 1s a most extraordinary thing,” he said. “T have been robbed!” < “J was afraid you would notice it,” observed his so! “It made such a beastly hash of the table,” “You were afraid I would notice 1?” repeated Mr. Nicholson. “And pray What may that mea “That I was the thief, sir,” returned Alexander, “I took all the money in case the servants should get hold of it; and here 1s the change, and a note of mny expenditure, You were gone to bed, you see, and J did not feel at liberty to knock you up; but I thiuk when you have heard the circumstances, you will do me justice, The fact ts, I have reason to believe that there has been some dreadtul error about my brother John, the sooner it could be cleared upthe better for aii parties; it was a piece Of business, sir, and so I took it; and decided, on my OWN respousibiilty, to send @ telegram to San Francisco. ‘Thanks to’ my quickness we may hear to-night. There appears to be no doubt, sir, that John has been abouinably used.” “When did this take place?” asked the father, “Last night, sir, after you were asleep,” was the reply. Fis most extraordinary,” sald Mr. Nicholson, “Do you mean to say you have been out all night?” telograplt abd the police Smcé, and Mr. Mameeune rap! office, and Mr. Mace’ r Oyiiad mny bands full” said Alexander ig “very irregular,” said the father. “You think of no one but yourself.” much to gain tn bring- “41 do not see that I have ing back my elder brother,” returned Alexander shrewdly. ‘The answer pleased the ola man; ne smiled. pe Well well, X will go into this arver'breaitast,” “The tablets a amall mater; Tata aoe ; 5 P that,” said the father. i eee “It’s another example,” continued the the awkwardness of & 1” rey his t tones of blighted sareasua, forthe. expression wes On the spot to Ines ‘the ve the aa Last night for in- “You could have wakened me ” inter- renYou eat last night,” inter. “Was it not some similar affair that Jom tnto a mess?” asked the son, akilituly eve, the ‘Bt the father was not less adrott. “ana ‘sir, how did you come to go out of the me “I ‘to lock the door, > ana torgoe door, 1 seems,” replied “I have had cause to complain > said Mr. Nicholson. ““BUCeLl To not Rano Did you keep the servants upt” reakiaue,” returned ‘Alexander “length iter ALE-nour going; We miust not keep Miss Mackenzie ing.” : io | Yosce in is ‘bosdm Baring informed him sithen- fear fee cogent if , : il H ii ‘scandal, ‘Went to that extremity, it was pos- ander might rebel” A laces, and even the —from which it e Old genUieman’s habit to suck mortifica- ton daily, as he marked the decline of our institu ‘Wons—even the paper lay furled by his side, ‘But presently Flora came to the rescue. she ‘slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old tmordinate amount of sugar. Thence it was but a step to the burning Sayed of the day; and in cones a little shaken, com- mented on the interval since she had last made tea for the al, apd congratulated him on his re- turn. then, addressing Mr. Nicholson, she congratulated him alsoin a manner thet defied his ill-humor; and from that launched into the tale of John’s misadventures, fot without some suitable Suppresstons. Gradually Alexander joined; between whether he would or no, they forced a word or two from John; and and Goad, that Mr. Nicholson relented “at length even be contributed a B question, and hetere tke Meal was at an end all four were talking even Prayers followed, with the servants gapping at tule newcomer whom no One had aduitlod: and after prayers there came that moment on the clock which was the signal for Mr. Nicholson’s de- re, tn “John,” said he, “of course you will stay here. Be not to excite Marta, if Miss Mackenzie Uninks it desirable that you should see her. Alex- ander, 1 wish to speak with you alone.” And the! when they were both in the back room: “You ‘ot come to the office to-day,” said “you can stay and amuse your brother, and I think it woula be respectful to call on Uncle Greig, And, by-the- by" spoken with a certain—dare we say?— Dashtulness), “1 to concede the principle ot an allowance; and { will consult with Dr. Durte, who is quite man of the world and has sons of his Own, as to the amount. And, my fine fellow, a consider yourself in luck!” he added with a “Thank you,” said Alexander, Darore naon s Getactive had restored to, John is money, brought news, enot in trut ‘but perhaps the least sad possible. Al ‘had been found in bis own house in Regent's Terrace, under care of the terrified butler, He was Quite mad, and tnstead of going to prison, had gone ta Morn- ingside Asylum.” The murdered mau, 1t appeared, was an evicted tenant who had for nearly a year pursued his late landlord with threats and Losuits; and beyond this, the cause and detalls of the u y were lost. When Mr, Nicholson returned from dinner they were able to put a dispatch into his hands—Jno, ¥. Nicholson, Randuiph Crescent, ergs — Kirkinan has disappeared; police looking tor him, All understood. weep Maint joe ‘eAsy.—AUSTIN.” Having had this explained to him, the ld gentle. man took down the cellar key aud departed for two bottles of 1820 port. Uncie Greig dined there that me and Cousin Robina, and by an odd chance, Mr. Macewon; and the ‘presence of these strangers relieved what might have been other- wise & somewhat strained relation, Ere they de- parted, the family was welded once more into & air semnblance of unity. In the end of April John led Flora—or, as more descriptive, Flora ied John—to the altar, if altar that may be called which was Indeed the drawing- Toom mantelpiece in Mr. Nicholson's hi with the Rev. Dr. Durie posted on the hearthrug ‘in the guise of Hymen’s priest, ‘The last I Saw of them, on a recent vistt to the wth, Was at adinner-party in the house of m; old friend, Gallatly Macbride; and after we hi in classical phrase, “rejoined the ladies,” I had an opportunity to overhear Flora conversing with another married Woman on the much-canvassed matter of a husband's tobacco, “Oh, yes!” said she; “I only allow Mr, Nicholson four cigars a day. 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EITHER ithout 2:00 p.m. every day. ough trains couust cate of Brooklyn Anwea, afforde to Fulton streot, avowing ‘New York city 20, 8-00, 11 ‘00, and 4 ree Decker Bros., Weber. Estey oF or alk dees SANDERS & STAYMAN, 213m OSk Fr street uortiwest, 1 E HOLIDAYS WE SHOW A MAGNIFT- Freche stesso Manon Pour iausnus natnenDECRER od Ebuay, Mshowany, Frenen Walnut and. other 1:20 pti a wo + Mshowany:, Fronen Wal x prey Styles. SANDERS & STAYMAN, 934 F st. nw, am, end 4:00 pm dolly — satete . pre ee For Annapolis, 9:00 am. 12-05, 4:20, aud FTER READING OUR FORBGOING CA\ 6:00 pm. daily, except Sunday. Sundays, #00 a m., 4:10 pam ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RATl- (AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHING N RAILROAD, andris, 6:00, 6: 9-47, 9 noon, 2-05, 4:25, 4:39, 6.0L 8. DS, ‘bear in mind that our prices are te and our terms the eases SANDERS & STAYMAN, n1-3m 934 F atmw, QELECT YOUR PIANO OR ORGAN No! iv intended for a CHIIST MAS PRES! selection f-om our lange and vari Peau be DELIVERED CHIISTMAN EVE If 30, 6:01, § Oo, and 10.05 pm For Richmond and the South, 600, 10:54 ats. daily, SANDERS & STAYMAN, 9:4 F st, a... Wash : J. Brea: 13 Ne Charles st Baltimore, Ma 12 a —_ st Richmond. Va. am. 1 DSTE! SANS NEARLY 200,000 HAVE Hy eeu made sud wid. “The choice of Oreaulsts and Miuiciaie the world over. "New styles for parle erate and easy’ terme. The mney * HAEMONIC" isa wonder, SANDERS & STAYMAN. jm 34 Fat new. ANOS Ei ED, REPAIRED, EX. to Peiieea. “Organs for rent tuned and repaired, ex Coes poor cianced General Manager. [141 @33: eeemaacmar * a 33m nw. oo OHMER PIANOS STAND UNEIVaLLED FoR! POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. X LINE TO NORFOLK FORTRESS MUN- ee MINEO, ASD THe SOUT ‘Tone, Brilliancy, Touch, and Finish. ‘These mstru- Steamers GEORGE LEAKY and LADY OF THE wuts can Untoncht on tins mnoet ipsesd Sorean One Cprigit Piano, pearly bew, €190. one. Chicker- Meant of wich teaves Washington dally et eine eGo conmecon with Boston and Providence Stent ing ‘Square, €150." We have séveral sample instra, ‘we will dispose of rs, aiso with all other rail and Steamboat Lines. pm, jonday.) On Sunda 1.04, am. 2-00, 5:10, 1:00, 0 iter. Tickets and information at the off 13th street and Penvaylvanin Mation, where orders.can be left f *.00, # 10, sud 20D, Gen. Pasenger Agent ments of renowned makers, which we will at ably low prices, for rent, rent ap- lied if purchased. Sheet Music, Music, Music Kfusica'Tnstraneata, &e.. ‘The nowt ‘stock « 5 and 10c. Music ih the Uuited States. Every pub- represented, Send for Catalogue of Publica- ‘ona, 1GO WORCH & CO, 925 7th st. nw. s-Om IANOS AND ORGANS OF THE MOST RELA. | FU , ‘make musical instrame sheet music, | Knox express will call end check sa eas, Bie almneemae nie Shee: CutNs | gugeat hvtelsapa geigate Penbeuces “Tobeyoone ‘Sole agents for the celebrated “Steck” Pianos, uuri- 745. _ ‘Passengers rates will be on and after the 15th $2 lar straight ticket and @3 round trip. Mt YE#NOS! Mr. viuNost STEAMER W. W. CORCORAN yaled for their Great Power, Rich Singing Quality of Tone, and Atsolute Durability. Agents for the “Whre; Plano Gerlich rank among the standard makers of this country) and the Peloubet “Standard” Pianos sold on instalments, rented, and exchanged. Leaves 7th-atreot wharf daily ‘except Sunday) for Mt. ‘Tuned and lepaired: satisfaction guaranteed. | 144 - pi ~ Snizlm CARTWRIGHT & REILEY, 937 F st.u.w | Yormou sud River Landings se far down ae oiyoou ae QTEINWAY & SONS’ GRAND SQUARE AND UP. sae RIGHT: PANOSS large assortinent constant band. Termsand races Foannahe fue of other frst-clans LL BLAKE, Captain, POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. re ‘Prices ranging we AMER “WAKEFIELD” Oe casei cot eomastww | SEROMA TES fom eeseal ESEE eailiful mechanic tan and wa! FRIDAYS aod AUSDAY pm, Woche River Lana REUARD © Bete, Baotens, Giewent iy Sa, ‘Connects with Band 0. kK at (ate W.G. Metzerott &Co., | Shepherds. See schedule. JOMN B. PADGE: 25 At the old stand, 925 Pa. ave 'W. KIDLEY, Manager. ‘ALLET & DAVIS PIANOS IMPROVED BY NEW | —— = stocalat cur Bist which ‘ars nelvctml with’ epoca OCEAN STEAMERS. _ vi agent be sold | = Ste lowest pousbte rates aud ou mouthiy iustall- | @ TLANTIC & WEST INDIA LINE. V BALLET & DENTS OO. S11 98 avo} | MEW AND CHARMING WINTER TOES, British, Dauish and Frewch West Indis Inlauds ICTOR, ley Pianos apd Or- ss. BARRACOUTA, aust Sb years a se Wont carranted. Prices Bailing 17th Dec., 28th 3an,, and thereafter moderate. Fine for rent and sale. Terms ‘aday or more at St Croix, St. Kitts A ‘aay. Warerooma BOL Oth wtrectm.w. "“a13-m | qua! Mattiuighe Bartndon, Demerart, tiie ee Soper’ ercommodatiois, excelirut Cuisine Do Nor Prncuase bunckine ‘Bath Rooms, Se. Apply wo UNTIL YOU SEE THE EMERSON PIANO. LEAYCKAFT & ©0. A thoroughly first-class instrument at a medium price nlé tuthe dn 140 Pearl «t. ‘Over 41,000 now in use. z ur ; Second-hand Pianos ‘and at prices from $10 | GMOET ROUTE te anit LLOYD 8. 8 Co. ojo Sold ox small'monthhy payments NORD! er BENKY EBERB ACT, 915 B st WINTER RESORTS. Es London, Havre), Brennen Waals, Wed Doc: 2h, fod ree BAS yuan, Pala, Wods jan i RINGS, N. ‘OT SPRINGS, N.C. Ce eee ae Seetiecar arto Bidar beat i (onan Agr ns meermae at low EF pRbOE. 92S Penn. ave ——— 00. in luxury. Eurative proportion or ane Tusury. Physica 226-a,tuthim To apt JP 200 wane rae BEST FUEL SOLD Aw the District ot Fair Prices, callom JOHNSON BROTHERS, RMUDA, Who supply more familie with ‘THE LAND OF THE LILY AND THE ROSE, COAL, COKE, AXD Woop HAMILTON HOTEL ‘Than ony firm in the United States ‘WILL OPEN DECEMBER 24, 1887. ‘For circulars, etc., sddress: 216-wha.3m