The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1889, Page 3

THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMIFER 25, 1899, -amake a Good “Trade” Through Evening World Exchange “ Wants.">e e-aSend Your Bost Ghost Story to The Evening World. HEARD IN THE FOYER, stesces: ares set tet THE PLAGID BROTHERHOOD, iset.suesrtcrtrsaa axect BUDS. IN HUMOR'S GARDEN, si oct. paces mony pasrone ta rs T . Bu, have two companies playing east of ‘im for a partner in training a team. i 1k WEST RHOW IN THE. [EATRE, N iH Y ——" burg, exclusive of New York City, | Small Boy—Oh, that’s all right. I'm aoing f of course, me) ae to stop in time for th Holiday Matinee To-Da: BURGESS, 4% Billy Rhodes, by the way, is the new Dio shee foe that HALE ORLA EU LIRE CC RAOREIC aan, | BORA Seaton, Moms of Interest in the Dramatic) , Hore is batch of Landon news wnt to Its Members Say the League Explosion Yale, caninin, ‘lected to 'ncceed Hil Qdds and Ends of Funny Talk Gath.) Two ttarvard Graduates. JENNI vA iS HE "Tone ites ta a Va source: ** “The G , Fall, but whon Gill ret d to college | Lhe tba al > ‘if WING Profession. gore: the Gonotiern.” at the| Wag Such a Tiny One, partes rata 16, Saek® | grad from Bverywbera, | ev. Dx. Hincont Wh ear anck, am HAS ARRIVED... SHE IS HERE. Cs Be MUTN TR) rage Qitsltores von, You are lookin #0 well. | 4" fry in Americal think, “The ied Haat Rhodes weighs 165 pornds, and uses REA ae Ha 4. Show. 25 Favorites, | Admission. 500, Soata resmeved 2 wenks tr at the Lyric, nuother opern, is a grent ——- every ounce of hin weight inn. game Ss " Fig Show, Hone rom success, Irving's ‘Dead F ,| Playing as if his life depended on win- foracas-—Vitching for a League —PaLacn | PYUBATAH Comigtte, 3 Holiday Talk in the Theatrical Dyertueion, and “doing Heat! wasraud | Pat Cahill’s Rejection and Other | niny. “ee dhe Waiter'a Hip: je Oa rene hake toa tet) WA ORR TD? S saith acer Ay Ate ihn} of “Ruy Blas,’ at the Gaiety, is - bd ‘rom Munveyte Weekly, j yeart a a World. cont burlesque aud is pecking the theatre Athietic News and Notes. Rhodes, last Fall, had particularly hard Le aca cdotacrwad m ~~ LIVING SClUBEUM. | | <_< Nest eee BEL oF jnightly, ‘Paul Jones’ in still on at the luck in being disqualitied for roughness, Tho Tellor Wouldn't Tell. ‘Woun CMs A z ae AA Tht Rena ny is AA et Gy play lk: ieee Hae 8 {rom Puek,) Ss LAVE RY Onn Fe HANDS ‘AG enring its seven. ¥ spitefulness on his part, but solely to Para P dew bad cone? Actors pass into obscurity more rap-| it Torre'n “London Day. tyr Dore rot | rhe Brotherhood is not at all alarmed | enthiuainem, Aw captain of. the. teatn paroles CSL CX OU AG 2g _ is ‘The Hide for Lite! “ idly then any other class of peoplo be.| the Adelphi, i don't think they wonld | OFF the explosion of the initial League | next year this feature of rongbness will | RELICS, xr os fore the public. Instances of this are | &° Wild over itin America. Great things | bomb ; in fact the Players’ League is de- probably be eliminated from his play. always cropping up. Here is ono that|maarpsrted from the Christmas panto. | riving encouragement trom it, according cee ; was discussed yesterday. Old John a . wv « to Secretary Keefe and others, and think LOIS AHR a eR ee ely al} uit Jack, an extremely capable actor aud said | John A. Mackay, it is reported, will be | it was a very little tiny explosion. On the) for ith a‘hletes. This ix the chief reason to have been one of the best Falstafs|{he star in Hovt's farce-comedy, |“ Alother hand, the National League adher-|why the great cry was raised last Fall : . ‘Texas Steer." Mackay seems to be com. ” Players’ | Sgainat the Jersey college because of known, when last heard fom was iu Vau-| potely on hi feet again, w face in-wiich ents express the belief that tho Players’ | (ed professionalism, ‘The athletes own ‘ i. i No V Le. patti, Chalitiore Go to, the next window if THES Ses aae al ; ie “Tninderation! TW like to, know what | QTAR TRENTRE, HROADWAY 4 1uTtt ST, ie MONsteh ORO eae got that aign ‘Teller’ over your MATINGEES XMAS AND SATURDAY, “ —iTo5 Tor any way.t”” a it 2. TEMPTATIONS 12 Tent Y BE ee : Séuig a tandowes Bue im ook Fanny pias in * Ba Towen Ae CARTE 4 a bal : (From Thine} FTE ICC RS: SWINGING. E j Bobbs—Getting rich out West, are you? CLUB FENCING & DANCING. ui is couver's Island giving hourly *‘ shows" | his many friends will rejoice with an ex. | League will be smashed into bits before | the college. For this reason mauy of the htaYo ; EVERY § JEU AE] - with n company of three people berides | ceeding gladness, the opening of the baseball ronson. best athletes in the country gravitate to Sere ee LUE LE Wednenday & 8a M ATT E | pores | pry himself. It is only at cortan times of ° As soon as Jan. 6 arrives and Ward ap. | Princeton natural! Then, too, the Col- | nting “sign-posts with the word A DENMAN THOMPSON, Grrr¥ssure. Evening. aTH AVS, — : . the | Joseph Wheelock is not going to be! pears in court ou a charge of being about | [ete is ever on the alert to secure athletio ‘ror they are when tiny are} THE OLD HOMESTEAD. = the year that currency prevails uy ' Mand. and it is guid tint Me. dnok accepts | Counected in ny way with “Ganelon,” | to violate hie contract with the National | ‘tent CM re ee Midlnaa Baia Renata lead BROOKLYN AMUSEMER TS. fish ax the price of admission, He, in| (84, play in which Lawrence Barrett was| 7 sigue, it will bemioro clearly soon which| If there iy an amateur in Chicago who ae “\eaerved Meaie | CRITERION THRAGAR o ’ 1O ve ay are at fl ir Thea. gue, re ca vhicl * | 3 i NT o Pictured Weruiag Wo) Aine fat tay Mlk tea. Men Wheelock fe: Hor clciee. anys | aide ucssea Heavest (bo tral, in said to pitch a fine game of baseball he | Waiter (to Brown, on whore bald head he | FROM FLORIDA, NIBLO’S. o¢ CHa AE A RHE BBOR fun, reflectivoly, and finally, deciding | (re: Mes Weereck 16 Hot doing any: aid otd is ‘inmodintely coaxed to cotne to Prince. | has iust tipnet his thay)—Skuwe ane, CARICA itt. KATA f f then casting thein into the box-office and Saluties of a precise fit, and the woods ate| ‘There xeeme to be n decided movement | 0%, If another man iu San Francisco i | but the fact am dat whon a gemamin fustets |" Gryriestry. Inolosed find #1, for whieh sent Watery, | nS RATER, dispowng of them the following day at | 20t full of then, Jon foot (0 demand of (he Board of Man. | reported to be a fine foothall ayer ae Tam Tee Lane rey am unt etire ter dO | sethy genuiny Dr. Cy McLANvs OrLEnnaTRn Resto the market-pince, Tmagine New Yorkers ee ¢@ z altars sath pape is | d- deen [ecm Piss, ‘The drugeiat here koopa th tor ff MATINEES, WON ES marching to the Fifth Avenue Theatre, | A number of companies lying idle this | Ser of the Amateur Athletic Union the /bearon him, | | té Gan Mevate Teesit: Dap Teouet have’ thsxenulis Wa have been M : § A HERES y exact reason Why the entry of Pat o | casting @ couple of mackerel at the sedute week will start forth after. tho holidays. | Cntilh sitcled atthe recent || ‘The Norwealin akater,(Pauléen, in exe (Preis divneegia Waele | using your pills for thirty-throo years and hy G BORA. No. 4 Kevnolds and skipping down the nisles lovely in their reorganization, ‘The | Abi! was rejected . ei ‘ Konbiie is A thom better than anyother. We uso then bison iW ociock, Nat Dat | be brought to task with any certanty of | feated Paulsen when in Europe last Win-| | Simeral. : lgrent boxing and wrestling tourna. |ceedingly anxious to race Jos Donoghue, | Simeral—The wvlf-appoiuted elevators of | a Gantt m ; Lee ee el le | theatrical venwon out of town bas beet ment at, the Metropohtun Opera. the Newburg skater. for large stakes. Tt the ata forget pee itas OFF OF in ensen 0F chillnand fren, dyoniany, bad colds BRAN at Cont'd Kuormous Success of |“ pape ape oT Doekstader has at last found a resting! whose unfortunate, circumstances "we | House. The Board of Managers canuot| will’ be, remembered, that Donoghue de- |“ Xnoover—Whatis t jean, hoatache and Kindrod troubles, We AUNT JACK, Hed ‘TAG ADEMY. That it already hay wings and, Mehl recommend them to all eafforers, 5 4 : sul 8 f r WikAM AUG» = ea Fee ea oe oye tee MCT iNet oe a ee AE OPENS Deine placed in the wrong, nx tinder the ter. ‘Lhie has rnkled in Paulsen's breast | fies dnd f TKOPEE & BIAS Cont Saas Mp. Lewon Monday night. joined Horr | la The Bernclifie” company |Tles of the Union they ‘have aright to ever since. Paulsen isthe chainnion of the Danan Man Floral City, Fla,, Oot, Salts ok SE Phebcatikatiate Vander iligitincn: (tare onbeagail: nest Ss, RAMMONY reject any entry with ut assigning any | Europe. Joe will not race for sinkox. as . seas MR McGINTY AND HIS FAMILY, | epWand ian mann's at ct le Cont a! month, Keorgan- | cause; atill there seems to be much pop-| he would thua become a professional (Prom Texas Stings, 1 Tn onse of nick headache, billonanags, tornid liver, Matinoes Monday, Wednonday and Saturday, pay Ui ireeted WGlever tellow: Bod in many cases may effect happy ular sympathy on the side of the piucky | Paulsen's friends say they will back him| Harry—Who's that pasting on the other | dyspepsia and costivennss, Dr, ©. McLay THIRD M’ TANDARD THEATRE. MR. i boxer of the Scottish-American Athletic | to the extent of a 25,000 purse to defent | wide of the strect? [onaren Daye PILLS never fail to give rn excellent organization, why, there is no} eS 4 Y " " | 7 HENRY 0B8* or Y | Club. the Newburg boy, Donoghno is at present | Charley—Dear boy, you'll have to excuse | bothynxes andall ages, ‘They are compounded with N RK, JACOBS’ BROOKE Se ee eee Oe eer tha Mia Hitnck onic ne Ceci 3G in Minneapolis giving exhibitions, mo. Tin Foal tari ann ton look further ta’ even tHe inelt delicate’ eodatltutions F MATINEES SATURDAY. oa urand Bnseiacslec prodpete i equally lucky, 7 family of ithe ite Fatrick Sniltvan, who) preparations are being, made for one of geben ahh ry Pees than the middlo of the street to-day, prion 23 canta, Propared | yo oie 7 mueathe | THE ARABIAN NIGF Ss. ‘+ Will you kindly let me know why | will take place at the New Lyceum Opers. | the biggest athletic mectings of the year, Western Jury. 7. ure, Pa Look out |DOGKStader’s |wartiii Sattinpay. | | TUE FAIRE ‘The Doll tT s ; Gilmore sdvertised Mme. Stone.Barton | House, Pairig fourth aevect Mid t2.be held at the armory of the For: [From the Epoeh.1 Fires Are Raging Everywhere. tion made in St, Lauls, which is olten KIDEN 2 FLYNN, |) All Original features. Thed {onng Sunday evening and then iade no |avenue, on. Saturday evening, Jan. 4. seventh Regiment, in Brooklyn. Feb. 21. | Anxiona Prisoner (to Bieri®—Don't you| pig hyn ihe Hanlin Courier 3 | palmed off on innocent wir ehasers ay ours | ‘ = AMT Kaew txplauation for ler uon-appenrauce? "A | There will be a very entertaining pro. | 2b¢ Athletic Association, of the Forty. | wink ihe juty will bring in the verdict bo-|, Fitwt Small Toy—We liad a fire at one | SS stance AMPHION good portion of the audience were her ad- | gramme, Oey Wheelien one of the leading ¥ota long house lant night. | ——— ? Soe 4g Inirers and went particularly to henr her, — ead ¥ (“Sherif cdubiounly)—It's hard to tell, You| Second Small Boy—That «ot ie Ga P Yi Gontd Tot huve demanded the price of A Gad Loave-Taking. |Dieveling orcmutzations of the envntry, | neo each, Jurrman hada, quart pattie of] ** en atid sister heat.” hci aan DOA BOOTLES’ BABY — seats?—A Lover of Music,” [From the New York Weekly.) \ 2 ;‘ 1. whirkey in his hip pocket, vin! . g ; | Knowlen a ’ ‘ j which hns the reputation of being one of yor know your fate by to-morrow morning | Butchered to Make a Heliday. — | Thursday, Vriday, Matines, DAVE. THEATRE, BRAND OPERA-HOUSE scores" enum, Aeuwera unfortunate to aisa| Desnondent Individual on through ex-| the prio winning athioic ongantat obs Soul weit. roa) te Meese Reliday rane paste | AL Mi i Mea arate PER \ HOUSE ‘Lee 9 0 . ws) —AL f ‘0 lovely, #0 lovely—the | of is section of the country, ‘The —— 7 TY e Well err — on | S< eS But the concert was there. | These little | jrantifnl blue nky, the white, fleecy clouds, | armory, which ix at the corner of Marcy The Difference. PES ALY ae ih dana pe ed TN Deo. 10 =MAZEPPA. : THE EL Eee eee eee conthe sek ons | the glorious sinshine—and to think Iam | avenne and Heyward street. affords every Urrom the New York Weekly] SAD uae Ying LGU MeL Reb me OUD e) MARIE WA EW LONDON THEATRE, 1111) C PARK THEATRE i ers | gazing on it all for the last time. facility for an athletic meeting on a| st on ore. day law | Experienced Gobbler (adiy)—My non. do LAL a | by it | Cri Matingcs Xmas are comfortably taken care of. Woo)" Startled Paxsenger—i—l beg pardon, gigantic ccale, yen wench Nene eoeanto ie ¥ t let your life insurance policy lapse. bPesina, Brot, Ommeelint the g. ‘ stoicism, dear lover of music, and you! bnt yon dont look like. dying man, “ee in this town, | Christinas is coming. Bret Gags PAOLA, \ gl by Kents Tee, COMPANY IN will be happy. like a person concemned to death forany| Gaptain Charles Gill, of last Fall's! Resident—Yer, wir, If you Nig to get iceman | ANDAGITILERTEG RGSEEH wake Colla | R SAOORE LVORIT a SHespondent IndividualIt im’t, that. | Yale tcotball team, lian the greatest adil. "Wivqnzor Oh, font want to get shaved. Be would Be taste: | HAND TOLD iy AERO Estar oat John Stetson was in town yesterday, | yon eee 1am going back toliveins ” stern ration for Captain Arthur Cumnock, of | 1 want to get drunk. {From Time] a Heeniten aire | fl eve ct the, hat: | JAS. HS WALLICK making arrangements for the production | city where they burn soft onl the Harvard football team. He saya he! Roxident—Come with me. Miniator—I am surprivod to seo you akat- | Thursday, Mins Floreien Mt John on Maraierite, SHELES OF HASLESEENE, | | LOSon = 7 — ) NG 1) mm bl “A happy, Christmas," he said, *tand a/I left the high road and compe a barren | eager, **You roe, I know you already, Lfolt a dread! ‘The enow hind ceaxed failing; now and | did his yest and stanched the blood from the yh | | ¢ | Provperoux love-smit, if you should ever be|xort of heath or tract of nM or smiled, and mate a rather halting repl: vareL thonghtit possible betore. | again the moon shone out from behind a wonnd. VALS Vik p\ smitten with a pair oj bright eyes. I hope | The wnow had drifted here. but with | Her lool. Ww, had been Ko piereing, | 1 rdoane last Words, an hie. binck. raguer J. Hghting wp with wilver | “1 was not alone—T saw this now l : b 1 be smooth leap, a hip, hurrah! J cleared obstacle after | I feltas though [was in the presence of a blue shawl over her head, and | Wite expaure of White-covered moor-| Joan was pillowing his head upom fh | breast, murmuring to him, oblivious Jcried, merrily. obstacle. and presently found myself by the | Jud walked with us to the gate. ] Jang. He turned a ghantly, questioning look | side of a worked-out coal mine. Mechantenlly I turned to the vase she had | ‘Only two daye more, dear doctor, and | [know not what impulse eizel me at this! around, a or, M1 without aiiother word walked | Never wa eiyore wretched-iooking spot. | been painting, and she cronsed over to the | then for the reallzation of my day ME moment, bat maint in Tax impaled to vied little brandy through bis teats y ere there; | doctor's wide emy old round by the rined mine. ww moments 5 ) TH] Vi ‘Any gentleman, here by the name of | the railings hastily thrown around the ens |. ‘They held a little conversation, in which I| Slie bowed once more, with thatold anpple | “fwalked quickly, for thy Miche. was bi He looked at Jong with Goxtany—his Gace 4 Harald" inanired the voice of the guatd.”. | trance to the mine were rotting away fant. | did not join. Loverheard Dick asking auev- | «race of uesture, and’ Dick aud I wathod Id. Nowant n Tdincorned s tig- | orbs fastened greedily on hor face. ie ALLL 4 i the Yen; Lam he,” L respouded. I shuddered as I fancied somo belated | tions, and her quick, nervous replies. | viiently home, ‘before mo, proceeding ata rapid pace | ** Am Lin heaven 2” he whi Here you, are, doctor!" he shouted, | traveller parsing this way homeward to| Ono thing struck’ me as boeing very pecu- — direction E intended to take, IT anick-| For answer xhe bent and his lip A diy, aud jovially; ‘here in the lost| wife and children—a whistling, merry fel-| li CHAPTER 1. the figure half stopped, then | ** 1 think he is dead!” wailed Joan, a» he | sheep? low, cateloxs and heedlew«—aud then acraxh, | ** hadno dream last night, , Jae thonely frightened. —L fainted again, og CHAPTER L. gven. proceeded to open his cigar-came very | Ho ntood anide, lauchingly, and presently | & fa the hope deferred, making tho | ing, in, answer to an observa had TWUISIMAS EVE BY THE RUINED MINE. 1 grinly: my curiosity wax aronked, | *'Oh, no, Miss Mellor, the wound js moe — 7 deliberately. and, having selected a weed | Dick Ludiam and I were claxping hands and | heart’ ro tick at home! | made: **for Christman ve isno near now 1 | Dick Ludlam wae right when ho wrote that | T'waited fora inoment til the moon burt | serious. Batt wish Dick Ludiam THE VISION FORESHADOWED, with great care, lit a match and began to exchanging all sorts of pleasant xpcecher, Entranced, and held captive by the weird | cau only think of that and the 1 Ah. |wcntence in the letter which had biousght | out again. eran here, anmwered a ‘1Utet voloe Acold, murky day; 9 thick fog: gaslight | Smoke. 9 “Who is the genticman who. travelled | faxcination, Lstood nursing my faney for a | doctor, if Clande dogs not come | me to Hedland—namely, tliat he could not, Ani thon [saw fier clearly! behind. ** I foliowed yon all this chs | yellow, through every | f2ti, for the fa’ thine, Tem his race. | with the guard?” T axked, ax he walked by | few minutes. A figure passed me by, muf- | never hold up my hend again! offer or Jollity. The % ihe lithe henre, the long, | thin i’ Claude 4 suppose,” hie weld, a glaring, dim and yellow, ih every] Teould have sworn to him anywhere,after | the side of Dick and myself. fled up to the eyes! Tilanved quickly at Dick a# the girlxpoke | ‘There wax neither one nor the other to be | flonting hair. Great heavens! it’ was Joan | too, knelt beside him. window in the narrow streets of the heart of | that one glance, | "+ Well, wir, you xee, he tas an pleasanta| Hastily, and without notice, he kept on| thus, He was looking pale; a pained expres | got at within his gates, On the contrary, | Mellor. Tnodiled. London; and the 21st day of Decomber, |, On one cheek Ww purplish red rear, dis- gentleman ak travelled my ride: but, Jord, | his way. ‘I fancied he glanced at me keenly | sion rested on his features, overshadowed, | alter this visit to Jean, he grew more silen Leaught her up. She was panting and| ‘We must wet him to my house,” he Y figuring. painfully what wa otherwice a | How hix own mother wouldn't know hin} | and furtively: but of this Lam not Kure, anit wore, by astern resulve, shown plainiy | and tacitnrn than ever. Dreathlen, and turned defiantly, timed. ‘here ix no danger, 1804. . . andsome, but very forbidding, counte- | He'x jest come home from Germany, pi Ina moment the soliloquy atthe station enough in the compressed lipsand clenched | Iti he was mu Do not stop me, sir,” whe his being frozon to death.” & On that particular dey, at 10 o'clock in| nance, jcontinued the garrulous ofticial, * His | on the previous night crossed my mind. [| hands, to be called away at y jt. am dexperate.”” Between ux wo liited him w him | the morning precisely, I, George Harold, | | I may have been preindiced: the « people are powerful rich; the best potteries | know not now why it was, I am content to 1 you not see my new subject 2” rhe | «lid not satisfactorily acco Mheatonther hands, ax thongh to keep | on our ahoulders, doam folk ry tbe wit Totter 4 have given him a «inixter look; hi in Hedland belong to'em. ‘They do way it | think some intuition pointed ont the man to | rexnmed anddenly, ‘*'They tell me there ix | reverie an | me of. 1 sho wax pale to ghastliness— | mourner at a funeral, i stool musing with an open letter in my | inquiring stare at myself may Have annoyed | was through a love afair, but I wouldn't meas an actor, with me inn life-drama to» love «tory connected it~ table of the) I had my suspicions—they pointed strongly | that her lips trembled woft As we reached the doctor's the bells — hand, Be for the moment; but certain itix.at that mention it, Oh, lis nami sir? Oh. I bed | come, Le that an it may, as the wind canght ip te Joan Mellor. | She Wid not appear to recognize me, or | crashing simultanconsly from half s dozen = Thad seen the whole year through; had | time 1 remembered an old print of Ca: ristmas Day. bel, and this man—childish thongh it was iy and | your pardon!—yex, It ie Hiltén—Geoftrey | the long cloak he was wearing, he turned to nd they came across, Did he love hix strange, beantiful girl? | else expecte! it was some other person, steeples proclaimed it never quitted town, save for a day or two at | “PG 'iny"Nunuination, seemed to have kat for i . most, all through the weary months, the original portrait of Cain in the picture. | “I passed my arm through Dick's, and wo| | Tmade my way back after this to Dick's rf it F jIton's eldest som, sir! Good night, and | adjust it, and by. the scar on his cheek I | There must ng more than met | Gri the ealmed herself, and looked | | ‘The mevsae had come tous ones Seal . will to ene ae "There had been changeatter change in the | ,,t had not much inclination to break in up- | proceeded towards the main entra house. Ax [parsed the front gate Eilrew out | it treated wi Juaxie purity and ex I did not care to broach the aubject to him; | said, mare gentl 0 forgive Mm knew him as Geoffrey Hiltor Th ° f ¢ OY at Dick Ludiam, erst so merry | m ‘ hein the face. a dela? ut fi You are Doctor, riend," she I, A month passed away, and I tf . verie—for just at this moment he| It swas still ¢nowing faxt, and 1m: hand looked at it anxionely. Wax | site color. t P cleou y a 4 3 fs fi ‘ office to which 1 wan attached, each one | Mis Fevarie-for junt at thie moment he| | It was still snowing fant, and my late com ch. ad Jooked xionely. Wax | site color, Idgment of Peri indeod, ho avoided any mention of our visit. To he mre, wered, soothingly, | sequel to thin strange xtory, du which t hea i thank ye! {' Peace on earthy s few minutes | "I thu gitltookingat me with | Hix low spiritn were i © Mist Melon, whats night tor-von 4) | played ach a prominent seeming tous (the clerke) more insane and | tp courage (and Lhope, bolitenexs. enough) | Ing it moodilys of the half-hour. Bick rpoke rather bit. | noon urew anrostieay ay, hint are UAE eee NS ta ee ea ith le eemualned erie eae ou Christmas Day, DB. deen complicated than the preceding | wish him the compliments of the reacon, | {wax nearest to him, and T caught anex-| Tentered by the door leading tothe eur-| tart winen T hud finisl | Advantage over bine trnlys of which, 1. w eateliyourdenth of cold?” but it ‘was the quietest Christmas B and remark ‘upon’ the very reasonable | cl that alinost startled nn gery'nnd met my old. friend, who. w \ 1 OL alow to avail miywelf, ‘and thie wave I fo." she Shot co, not so. But | spent in all my life. fy one. . weather we wore likely tay be favored vhi M corting to the gate one of his old and conld take exercine, he mas not (he nd ax I nat grieving, 1] Joan was by the bedside of Die “Aud with the dogged obstinacy of in- | with : et thfe nationte, 4 ’ T'took long walks over the heath: stood by | say him over here!" joined meat dinuers and. pel mate competences," raid we, bitterly, "they will| He repeated my first words in mocking | "*Cam on your track, Mr. Claude! Blow | OTH! waht you. some ron, mee that anot where L had keen Geollrey Hilton, | Her voice sank to a whispers she pointed | cata moutlifal of chicken and drink « 6 : ech for blow! I will wash out the disgrace, 1: ray ina Jow ton 10. flounder on till time is no more! But 4 What mokes a merry Christmas?” he| never, eet foot again in my vative land! | you want, cs id," you are positively | and wove a story for myxelf painted th ove tothe rnined mine, ** i xaw him in | of win " a Diogen Txnpnese you mean, the lady absent lover, Claude Angelo. in colors of ».” Khe continned, hurried): i| She seemed none the worse for her advem- ‘amie. there was the rub!—"' why rob us of our au- | asked, scorntully; ‘tell me that The fool—the fool! to think [would lose |” ‘The poor fellow tottered away. but not no | gives the golden apple nowa | roseate he, ae in contrast with his rival. — | he waxin peril! Oh! save’ him! save him!"| ture; indeed. she appeared to: be sual holiday #" “Love and happiness, I sup) Tan-|sightofhim! AndasforJoan—" | qnickly but that I.could Kee the expression | He nodded briefly and gionced at Joan, | Sometimen] wished L had not come down, | Sho was hysterical and excited, Lthonght, | matroniy,ay, and more beautiful, too, ‘thas Sahn ansnecudav Wye swored, laughingly, ‘roast beef and plum| Ho xaw us at this jnneture, and, raising | of grateful affection for the doctor ouhis| She had recommenced touching up the | after ail—for my oll chum could not accom: | and perhaps it wonld be better to hnmor | ever. s cho answe . pudding, steaming punch, merry, girls and hat politely, moved away into the snow- | featurex. | picture, and veemed, for the moment, ob-| pany me in my rambles. At home, he wan | 1 it woe a strange situation to| Lremember my parting with her, Iheld — It wax the only response we ever received, | boys, and xweethearts, aud—— clad night, . A good fellow he war, Dick Ludiam, and livious of our presence. [hot much of a eompanion: and, worse than ye din, and promised an ad- | out my hand a and it wax not aatinfactory .y You are wrong, tir,” he interrupted; he got more Christman grectings’ and| Presently she began her strange soliloquy. | all, 1 began to_axsociate him in my mind rook by: dear Miss Mellor,” Ras ag ‘So the year had xpun itself nearly out, and | ** but you are young. Money, wealth, po- CHAPTER 11 Pravers. my reader, than you or Tare ever| "Only ong Jetter—ouly one—and that full | with Joan and Ciande, and feared 1 ehould ke my, arm, then, Miss Mellor," | ‘tT am xo glad to hear Claude is on Chrixtmas was coming tast, sition—these are the ingredients for your * ikely to get. of ill news |Heave lim, in any case, with a heavy heart. | said quietly, ** and I will take care of yon.” | road to recovery. fe *“Phey could not have the heart to refuse | really good Chriatmas pudding, You, I soAn‘a VIRION IM THE DAYRIONT: Well, well, an T have anid, Tmet Dick. The brush fell from her nerveless finger, || But, arid my musing and wondering, | ** How dark it has grown!” sie raid, stid-| . “* Heaven blew and prosper yout” she saldy | meif Laid accept!” 1 muttered in nay Keit rir, have been in, London ? ow,” YT xaid, ** for ‘the Sphinx—the and Dick touched her gently. |time ‘went on, and Christmas Eve camé | denly. in reply. “J cau never thank you. ‘: rotiloany. | “By Jove, Till 2” L's come from there!"E anxwered, rather | | We spent avery. quiet evening. Dick and | myster‘ous Indy? Come, old fellow, Lam all | | ** Will you not tell ny yonr'story, "he eaid, | once more. 1 replied cheerful'y, av T felt the clasp of | Bhodid, though, albelt she knew it mot. aall events, Il make the trial,” * Nothing | loftily —™ have lived there all my life I, for we had much to think of—many events | impatience!" “now that Christmas ix ¥o near?” were sitting at the fireride, | both her hands on my I bent ‘over her. an 80. r rm. i youture, nothing have T could not endure the idea of being taken | to relate 4 He shook off my hand with rough good | She trembled vinibly. and ji, jnxt the shadows were It wax a work of some diffionity, if not of y forehead: | What more ~! And Yet it was by no means a tempting | fora rustic, and lugged myself with the| | Some of our old cronies were dead and |} drank a glass of sherry and nibbled | ** Yeu," she auswered; "ax I may noteee | falling, ‘The snow was descending in| actnal danger: for the narrow path was not on should I wish for? prorpect, Lthonght, ax Tonce again perused | notion liow cleverly L would nell him if he | gone, nome prospering. more doing, bails nit, aK he pnt on hix cos: ‘on ngain, dear doctor, before Lee Claude, | great feathery fakes; the wind howled, discernible except by the faintest line on each | ret trom Dick. PRES he ines before me, and in my mind's eye | began to speak of town, for, young as Tin-| but anch ax they were, one and ail, thik) ** Now, George!’ he said; nd remem. | I will tell you now. [as itrushed down the chimney, and L1o **Ciande Angelo has left ” be wrote, travelled to the desolate Staffordshire town, | donbtedly was, I knew and had seen a great | night we spoke of them, thought of them, at | ber, she’ is to me asa sister—a dear sister!| We rat on each «ide of her, and, in alow | and walked tothe window, —hew long | stand Kedland knows Joa whither my correspondent had Kettled as the | deal of what is, foolishly, perhaps, called | their kindliest and best. Poor Joan!” . voice, whe Jmained there I lo not kr Nilence had | noticed, i ‘They are married, an doctor and friend of the majority of its in- | life! It wan just ax we parted for the night Ire-| I pressed his arm in a silent nort of ay: i ‘Al B ix a become so habitual to us, even in thin short | one, ax L Lobserved af | gave her to hima! habitants. Heefged up nearer to me, for. at the pace | minded him ot Joan Mellor and hix promire. hy, and together we walked through the m at prevent. By time, that it might have been five minntex| Now, pave the sensation it er There was one—and only one—paragraph ere travelling, it wan difienit toh **Romember,” I said, jokingly, ** you) ft Redland. [reality. But I must telt 5« or halfan hat I stood peering out over Bhe shivered 80 1 could |enormons. ‘They recovered in the note catching enongh to make it other distinotly, Nee here, air," he | lured me hither to see Miss Cl yante, ly know, even to this live here. Two years aro L hive he vil- | the desolat: A er along. ton's body. Ispare you the sic! worthy of remark taking his cigar from Ta re, upon my word, I he ext of it, the blacks or the snow, I| lave with my moth k. who placed his— half carrying her, I) tails, Some day we will go down it Was a xtrange, one, too, and I 0 ni checking of, Khe spoke, € specially ‘to text by actual experience how | fancy it must have b nal mixtnye— | Hilton. J wax strong and well then, butthe . rv g | Joan and Clande in their Devonshire myself repeating it during the day mor his hand with the my theory is worth!” that the two te @, aw it were, and confinement, bad air and close work began ‘ e. he uttered, in enlated suddenty, |, Twas nent to India at this juncture, nechanical corneriners, often tuking the | lighted end, "*You say yon Nave been He stopped me gravel: |compromived the matter by coming down | to tell on me, and, like handreds of otter von Jann will a " for tive long years Was a stranger to etter from my pocket and reanning it curi- | London, sir; weil, 80 have I, Do yon know, Jeorge," he said, in a low tone, ‘my | together, ax thoneh arm in arm, aud inthe J might have stayed there ull my eye n anny) I heid up her hand, | Bugiand. ‘Ly first visit on my arrival home ously. axtcame to the station,” he continued, | letter wax a jesting on h but yon fondestamitr. Bnt Udo know thi: th (failed, consumption might) have coine first time her name had passed his lips since | ** Do von hear voices 2” khe whispered. 1,3 Tt ran thus: eneeringly, axed thousands of poor | muxt not think I would mals t this we left the village beh upon me rapidly, and then left the work- It was iinpossibl lare’, to expect to| the Academy. One picture, before **L have not much to offer yon in the way | folks?” girl's infirm ct what | wiped onr features and i ly to die. But Twas eaved from this, "IT said; "*I hope so, T trnst he mnt & at this time, crowds gathered thick and fast, att of @: ‘or jollity, ont fellow: but if a] '* 1 fear the season will not, he a very fes- | yon will! Kemember,” he continned, ear. the pure, snoweflaked eky and. py . onbow it was. My mother | he will be trie to his app x my attention. a hearty weleome and a surprising di co’ x tive one for kome ot them," I ventured to i he ix ko good and pnre that 1, for, came to the entrance of a tty cottage, liad lodger-an artist—named” Claude | I tear, somehow, the low if i Something cancht| jt wan *' Th Indament of Parts, Ma willbe enhicrently magnetic, pack up remark, . Would resoice to call her Kinter!” snngly reponing nnder the only woodland 1 | Teun't describe him to you,” xhe maken wonderful diferene ix faith, 1! my ear li tramp. tramp. Farther | ‘Chat Venus! Surely 1 knew her face, ar gome to-morrow, if ucan: forl| He waited to hear what I had to answer, | He shook hands with me cordially enough, § have made the acquuintance of a pretty Jax. | for he xcemed to Jerk out the sentences an| but there was a fiuuh on hix cheek, and i| ‘Truly, there not much of it—inet |xhoukd keep you by the honr listening if 1) heast and rhe neqleeted to reply titnt | she wh ‘ sie, one Joan. Meher by ame, who paints | though challenging me to contradict him.” |conld ree earily enongh J had awakened | enough, porhans, to chugest grcovery and | did. Supict to ray he was ax poor as my- epistie it, would Le my last—a welcome and | Joan ‘stooped with a endl We " ny seen in that part of the country ‘murmured, in a) wrapt. whisper, for 1) kn thir,” Leon Z ad a RWeet | on, faint voices we ly audible. | wasinistaken. [turned to the a ho, 467, ‘*The Judgment of movement | Clance Angelo, on china, need Visions and dreams] For the first time he laughed a iow, chuck- | memories not altogether pleaant, the kong of birds in Spi and Summer; | rel: I or; but his heart—ay, | arewell. and placed her hand on the telltale fout-| ‘Che portrait was one of Joan Mellor, dream« almoxt equalte Joan of Arc! Lam|ling sortof laugh, It made me feel posi-| | ** But you will show her to me,” I urged, | the coloring of rnsset in the erikp Autumn, | there wan wealth Dick siniled radly. print. A hand touched my shoulder, irying to keep her out of n. constmption, | tively nervous—a feeling of the flesh creep-| ** for the sake of your promise 2” and for the Winter—well, jnat now, at all| Dick bent hix head #0 low now I could not | on ate wrong, George,” he remarked Guie ti hasten!” she whispered, *+Goorge!” raid a ioe, eagerly. Dit Ufear Cupid undoes at night what do | ing, ax the country folks say. He smiled. % events, the twigs looked like white feathers. | see bis features. Jafters pause; ‘utterly wide of the mark. | Without anothor word we hurried on, + Dick!’ Lanswerew inthe day! But, at all events, it willbe a| After a moment's thought, he resumed his For more than that,” he returned; **for| Perhaps the place never appeared inwnch | —'* Need [speak the history of onr love, You do rot know Joun Mellor; Ldo—have| ‘The moon sailed out from the cloud once | We stood gazing at eseh other, Ho looked grand study for y speech. your good and herv. She iso genial and | clear, pare raiment ax it did thin day, Tean- doctor?” continued Joan, “*Ab. no: not. «tudied her character, ganged her heart,and | ag: Joan putone hand on her month | older, almost middle-aged. I point wv, Linnst confess to @ certain scepti-| ‘*Yes, poor folks by the thousand. young | pleaxant when her dreams have not dis- | not tell what thonght flashed across’ mo, ax |ovon to you, my kindest, best fiend and xo, 1 doubt not, hax 'Claude Angelo. ‘And |to stifle the shriek in ker throat, and with | 6 cism Where seers are concerned. Lhave but| and old, A curious fancy struck mé, sir, ax | quicted her, 1am sure you will like her, as—| 1 followed Dick Lndlam through the little | c y. But he was not my ouly ad-|he must know. as Ido, no faith can be! the other pointea to the railings surround. | £ x in Hittle faith in the marvellous, though [ often | f passed a flowing gin-palace, and observed | aa I do |vate. All wax chaos in and around: only 1 mirer. My employer's son, Mr. Geof truer, no love more perfect, than nestle im) ing the mine. < ‘ enongh deal in the wonderful and romantic, | at the door a shivering, wretched old croue| He wax standing above me as he xpoke, | felt awed, and, perbapx, a bit frightened. | must needs ask mo for my love, ofter her boxom. In axtonixiiment I followed the direction | | ** Joan!” he responded, f om ty ‘Bnt thin hannted. me—fascinated me! 1| becging for coppers ‘in order to buy gin| and I could ree the candle he heldin his | But this did not last long. make me his wife. He wax very How his voice trembled ax he said this! | of her glance. down to them this very day. Join ime," he” Had the glare of ‘ of Joan, cest | Lavcepted the invitation enthu cont not resixt picturing thin ** prettic Ins. | with—to dead er misery, perchance, I) hand tremble half an inch aws ho doctor knocked at the door; an ex- | and rich too,and, for mother's sake, Tmight| whatagripor the shoulder he gave me, aa! Was | too, dreaming tie” painting ewers and urns, alle the time “) dd fancied her a ZOOne girl, | I woneer d gueveed, and wondered | clamation of pleasnre reached me inaawert, | have accepted him, bad not Claude firet he prensed his face to the cold glass and | the enow, or the imagination of Joan, enst coloring her xtories with more perfect f her for mysel to myselt, hon fell sleep that first | eal voice, and I fo'lowed him an in adream, | wooed and won me. But, though it we looked on the foxt-falling snow Ja glamour over me? Or wasitin trutha| We reached the pretty village, beanty than conld be shown even by the Isafd. ‘'A romantic one, of | night in | ne door wax made fast againeand I found | have a great thing for me, and my | Tconfess tconki not nnderstand it, Twas real ecene ? x jout the famons painter, an A mont skilful hand on the delicate porcelain. | conrs My slum bers w dreamless, but! myself in the presence of Joan Mell narent’s life, perliaps, have bee made a | tronbled, the more xo as he would not open | 1 of lif reality it was—| whose pictures fetched thousands: It wax with almost @ nigh of relief, th 2" he answeres periape & true} nothing in them #1, el for a moment) Casnally | ced ¥ every- | little easier for th jef time whe remained lin heart to I bled, familiar wreatlod two figures, ** And to think,” [ said, ** onl that I found myself in the raiiway Q Listen, Picture to yourself a cottage | the terrible drama in which L was to play’ | thing 4p ament ordi ‘on earth, yetT could not, for all the world | wer { lm that had) Hastily 1 whispered, **Stay here, Miss | Dick, how near he was to death Fiage, the train in motion and Lan my dreary, smoky town, and sne a trevh, | this coming Christmas Eve. |noss. ‘The rhone again, xo bright Ii. be false to my heart and my | hung oni these | MeLor, ir, aw you value Ais if | mas Eve!” Nee carpet-bag fuirly on the way to my friend's ef rl, with two Joverr, mark yon Tlept late on the following morni: | the mahi arm crimeon curtains h lear boy 5 two days: irae Aw th extood | ** Ay." he replied; Geottrey Biles: folk houx 1 vored, desirable for hasbands, | wax snoring away, Imake no dou | at the win bird was singing away) **Whata time it wi ure! Twas hat al T cast’ back ax I|Jowed him like « bloodhound, but he was. Ii wax a_ton rney, and would have | rich, the ‘other poor. The woman, | hour after Dick i i errily in ite cago; weamellia.in full bloom, | xo unutterably happy. aud yet so wretched, ok, F t troubles rnatied etealtiily onward. foiled at last.” been dreary but for the preparations t fecling of the heart engendered by | and seen hik poorer path an exquikite porcelain flower-pot, ston | for Geoflrey would ineet me, though lis sin= fi yi wand melane It is a wight that belongs to me alone: We ha roachod a beautiful house, for dear old ** Father Christmas,” whieh | foll tured by novelereading, lialting | advice gratix at the earlier the window-sill. T heard Dick’ voice, 1 iveove? Initefdoan you are eatras, the plete on which will never be. | aur wilderness of rar tipess ; seemed tole tating every railway em-| between two opinions, hesitating between | days in the week. | hnt it konnded to me far away, as an echo of | y becaure they 4 jong ¢ fo her hurband—Joan Meilor, inthe di tance, a river gleamed like a ia ployee to hix ntme: poverty and aftinence, choosing povert Hut Lronved iyrelf at laxt, and jumped | the part. encouragement. Pint! H bat [felt stancing thus, bathed inthe meliew moon: ribbon; the sound of children’s ¥ was Hamper after, hatwper, baxket after bas-| the poor man, who starves both her and | ont of bed, dressed leisurely, and descended | 1 was ronsed by a tap on the shonlder, and Yealonm, cand sone day wet pressed it hight . chirte ax snow, beautiful | borne to us on the summer breeze, ket, game carelen ikplayed with com- | himsclf, and the end—the door of » London | to the breakiast-room, | Dick stood hetore eth.” Lean'ttell yon what We came on to the lawn suddenly, placent indifler ruitand holly, aud mix | gin-shop,”" ‘There wan & scroll laid beside my plate| * permit me to intro- nt thes quarrellod mo fiercely that 1 on coward, G re | There, in two garden chair, nat a. tletoe - all very Tthonght, |" Again he laughed at the detaila of the| trom Dic . \ i Mellor, fm Hyon Je came Home he wax) te love her. hy Y : nd a noble woman— { ; lished ont of the dead gray. leaden hue of the sky Help sourrelf," it ran; **plca @ yours s raid, addressing, the young si |. Iwan alarmed: Geoffrey mignt | x) r be mine—t ST cannot say. Curres, tannte, | gelo ant his wife. snoit of the ashe did so I stared at|relf: butexpect me at hail-past weven, 1) * doctor, of course,” she anrwered, he had the strength, aud Ton.) dishonorably in dang to. think of 1 . a name—Claude Ange A rush of littie feet startled me from the white snow began to fallin | hi foment. pay my visit to Joan at that time. righ cathy ve, at that time, the inclination, 1 MI en mine ax welas ber ‘ coward!” thundered owe; observation, Ha duken, the. alranephere. ing the husband to be un- | What in the world was there in this note?| "' Very well, then,” be _ oontinued, |" ** Wella lew days parsed over, and Cin tthe name, but with such d fig here, at Redlands, ont in the)" U Dick—Uncle Diokt hongh by’ magic, the wind roxe—yeu, | fortu: ae a 3 Jmapfovs it Simply nothing, and yet my heart beat loud | ** George Harold, —J Mellor!” was offered toe ent hope not with chuning trickery, learned in| Mamma! Here is Unele Dick ii he auxwered rea liistmax was coming without doubt! : ily: “your Jnat | aud tart, She bowed grac The action was as! man pictnres, I pressed him to ac i You nivat conquer the feeling," 1 ard, ‘man university He knelt down, and kissed the Tho world wax to put on the white mantle the wise one and the best one, too, | 1 had no appetite—a strange, undefined | thongh a willow trec bent in the sanmmer iA net like to leave me, but Law ** Bea brave man. Vemember, Dek, what Theant iin anayer. *It would be | children—a. pretty boy and 4 of pirity once again, i honor of that lowly | Young folks, poor and struggling, are imi-| feeling thrilled me in an unaccountable | breozc, no supple wax the form, ro yerfect | ini to be trac— that in two Fears from that | chanees of torgettulnens yon have conivared iwottrey Hilton | nertled to him lovingly. ny now for nineteen | provideut, axa matter of conrse. ‘How can| manner. I searcely dexeribe the ex- | the conrtes: time, come weal or woe, { would be his| tooth 1 your proferton "—- 1 . then—for pretty Joan) Joan rau away from Claude with i utiful story hey help being 0? ‘They vay only live in| traordinary restlessness which weized me as| Somewhere or other I had read, or heard, | bride, And the two years bavecometoan| ‘Ay!’ he interrupted. **'That must be | Mellor, my lema: 7 , ‘4 thought ax’ {alternately | the present: they cannot afford to rave a} 1 thouxht of the youn girl. that every description of beauty in woman | she murmured, ‘all but two more my ini-tress vow, 1 shall never care for o1 them at this juncture, but I was she cried. im from the window und tnrned my at-| single pleasure for middle age; and the re-| I waked to the window; the snow was | was to be secn in London; that on a June) days, and then for keeping my tryst women meni!” + Jo as tention to the creature comforts snugly | sultin misery. And yet these things are | still falling. The village, for it wax scarcely | Sunday s rambler about town might dix | ‘And yon have never hoard from Clande — He rtroved away with sombre grace, and One of them turned. It was the form of a| He gazed down upon her bea y lying in my bag happening, every day.” he continued, |a town, looked unuttcrably dreary, smoke | cover every feature of loveliness incident to Tusked in amazement, ** How | taking his hat trom the lilt parsed ou stranger, ** Don’t spoil him, Joan,” row Xp nti grew tired of smoking at Jast. I/ flercel: “Ob, the Joly athe madietn of it| everywhere, blacks falling as fast'as the | female comelin i , Lhaveacallto make, Geerge, and shall) Ju the bright light I saw flash, and he | ** or we shall see lexs of him than xo te tried to read; it was of no avail; there was| all! Bah! Tam sick at heart when I ‘y | Thad adopted th él shed to the lips; her eyen were set | . probably inn couple of hours,” he fell heavily te the carth, | “Siow do you do, Mrs Angelow” X imal thin tbat sleep. Of it. Why, even I have found it tra 1 ctnring dis | heart and won, unt] now. Aue din wwonvering tere, raid, ws he opened the gate, 1 er Win prostrate body, nized, politely. re ea fong: A tlumbered nneaxily and sit- | He stopped here, and when hespoke again the chimneys and factori x | L was tiintaken—had boen minindsing all DMT not tell xo it that) T\itchon him till he wax ont of night, | ‘Geottrey Hilton, T said, sternly, ** yon | “She van to me, and covered my hands fulle Lido suotknow, butt pemomber t way hig tone was bght ond engeters, oP with @ loathing, a |life., | had never xeew. such firey Hilton, had te fo'in Gers and returuing, rat down by the Hrende and Tarrest youfor attempted kiswe awakenol by the stopping of the train with fig for moralizing!" he waid. What y fro hem, even though | never hope to ree snch another again, till] many? Yer; and there the two 1 fought tof him, and pnd Clande, all marder!’ ** Clande—Claude, come hither! " ® jerk, and the round of a stern, b rronxense it is, only that words are so much | it should be baci wo nN. look upon Jos mice more. j sword Ciawe eived me and t was in the land He turned to me, ready to spring upon me. | mere gov fortune Thin train for Mediand, guard?” avked | better than tnntfered thought, and it I return 1 st-table, drank a| Fhe wax fair as to feature: hor even were ‘ dorennive, iv approached laxity: bub a8 he ry | anch a relief sometimes to talk even to the cup of coft tried toeat, It) blue and large; her lips red as a cherry: curtains Were drawn, Hi h YTweuld he felled him to irew away his cigar, “for Redland, vir; and here's | mont perfect stranger, Here, sir, try this nelancholy nd at lant I gave | But mabout her, atter all, |G the lamp hint Veet the Thad wont ka : Mr ” brand, concluded, and lot us change he attempt, was he i with eu exclamati proached him fea van empty carriage, ' t will tos giiard—that will dot { el the pam srappinh| by) tthand over his eve: Itinof no use,” I muttered grimly; ‘1! It was Di ¢ danyeell, looked at my wate then, with a Ta and we spoke of Red Joan, the dreamer, before 1 cau be | tion of i { i He surely cannot Lave torgote ‘call poople’s namew ont, guard, if | land and the ranting on the china, my deal 1d at peace. ‘= called red, it wa ak oun? it want kT pnt it to my ear, yon fancy yon know them. g % that you | old frie he doctor (of whom he bad som: Ww tly it was—what folly!" thougbr | esque tint, rarely met with, except in his | 9h, no, doctor; that was my foult, I doubting whether it had rot stopped I Y |. mad rush, he sped on for. would know mine, though, I suppose,” he | how he: and by-and-by the tr ck Isternly. ‘ad I gone back to childhood, | marvellons creations on can’ Jost his letter end did not know where to rine. No: tick, tlek, tick « - ame & cr wtited shriek, added, gravely, ni we were steaming slowly | to tremble ata phantom like thix 2’ Tiave raid she bowed to me, but as she| send to. hin. And T Eueved wo mult b vend loudly, 1twas clear 1h aL nil Waw ntille | 'Clande 1 wax not go lipaway. The old. wine was his sepnlehre. He had | Th lon, sir; ax you please abont jon, Thummed iuistiod an air from th | rove to my level (for rhe wus exceedi ine Geoffrey hi that? tunrmantod the oficial apologetieallys iid aye lila hand to me as, he stood on | last new opera, opened & magazine ard read) ta'l fora woman). she loved at me fixedly eto. him. and he himself would wit me ng the bell, which was answered by| broken through the rotten railings, aud Dut t do know suv, wit, though you've | the stor. He wax flushe hot and his | carclessly, not understanding arentence. || or dreamily, perhaps, would be the better 1 Bint ne sorts cane!” ahe concluded: | Dicks honrckeeper. must have perished before he reached the Doon away for many a year.” month worked, Into strange, convulsive | With & ind energy Tnclzed my het at Inst. | words then. with & shdden impnire, ber will be at the trywtingeplace | '* Has Mr. Ludlain retrrned?" asked, | bottom. ix TSAO aarat ee * “He te mica! the aablest | G and Joan ins breath. He whixtled ax he xpoke, and touched his | twists as he spoke ‘ords to me, and putting en my overcoat aud lighting a! every feature lighting up beautitully, she | on Christinus Eve!” “No. airs he "gle annwe ea mets ih al 6 “will call tt." 1 anew D cap in acknowledgment of the balf-crown | ‘*1 should like to shake hands with you, | cigar I sallied out. [held out & thin, almost transparent hand, || Hor features were irradiated with seh | * butt should Wink ho ean 't be long iow.” | | on Christmas Eve; or, Pain the gentleman put into his young rir.” he said, almost ently, ‘if you| I hadone hour to wait. I could not—wonld | bluc-veinedt andl’ white, ax deiicate-looking | pure. trusttnl thonght, F could not bring | L dismissed wrapped) myself tip) Lknett beside the wounded mau. | Blood | | Tears, cheers aud Isughter, suming ond 1 him very plainly myself, | don't mind. not remain indoors, as the china on which sho was paintin, |mvrelf to cast donbt upon her lover's | warmly, took the precaution to place my | was flowing from his shoulder, dabbling the | ceeding winter—su fe, for ho evonehied down, as itwere, intowcor.| I reeponded frankly, He pressed my etuated by @ mad impulse hurried on | **You are the friend of whom Doctor| trnth; pnt ax I remembered my meeting | brandy-fask in wy pocket, aud marched off | white mow around, | “Goodsby. to you all, aud’ ® merry. her, aud pulling his felt hat deeply over his | hand slightly, till the village wa» good mile behind me, Ludlam has »poken to mo?” she said, with Geoffrey Hilton, under such circum. for» walk. Llooked at the handsome features as Iun- mas to each every one.