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THE WORLD: SATURD! AY EVE \Z JOHN PAUL JONES’S GREATEST FIGHT. w7 (Reprinted, by Permission, from McClure’s Magazine.) (Copyright, 1899, by the 8. 8. McClure Company.) N_ the evening of O Thuraday, Sept. 23, 1779, a rather small, btown- faced, dark - haired man, about thirty-two years of ge, and of a melan- choly, poetic, and even scholarly, cast of coun- tenance, clad in a blue naval uniform, stood on the weather side of the high poop-deck of a large warship, looking keenly about him with = his bright, brilliant = bdlack eyes. Sometimes tn. glance fell meditatively two gallant white ships under full sail, mon- of-war evidently, which were slowly crossing his irse at a right angle a mile or two ahead of him, and making in toward the not distant land the while Anon, with thoughtful vision, he surveyed ¢ wiled decks before and beneath him; the rude, motley men, halt naked and armed with cutlass or pike and pistol, who were grouped about the «rim at guns protruding menacingly through the open ports; the old gun captains squinting along the Dreeeh 1 blowing their smoking matches while looking to e priming of the gums; the little groups of pix: ins, sail-trimmers, assembled about the brilliantly uniformed soldiers, or marinos, et and white of France; the agile topmen F human clusters over the broad tops " his head. Sometimes he turned about and swept the sea behind him with his eager gaze, frown- high displeasure at what he saw. "he soft light of the setting sun streamed over the larvoard quarter and threw into high relief the lonely ire on e weather side of the ship. Seamanship ke in the careless yet confident poise of the well- it, muscular figure, as he unconsclously balanced elf and easily met the roll of the ship in the sei elligence and kindness sparkled in his eyes; power and force were Instinct In every line of his aggressive person, and determination evidenced Itself in the pressed lip, the firm, resolute mouth, and the shtly closed hand which hung easily by his side gentle breeze of the evening tenderly and softly fell on the worn sails of the ancient ship, swelling the soiled and weather-beaten cloths of canvas out in graceful, tremulous curves as if in careas, as she opt slowly toward the enemy. The ripple of the ps clinging about her cut-water alone broke the nee, ‘The scene was as peaceful and as quiet as if foud calling of the drum, which had so lately re woed along the decks, had been an invitation to irch service instead of a stern summons to quar- or action. A faint smell of balm and spicery which clung about the ship, a reminder of her distan voyages in Eastern seas, was like incense to the soul. (ff toward the side of the sinking sun rose the bold shore of England. Flamborough headland, crowned lofty tower already sending a broad beam of ing light out over the waters to voyaging mari- thrust out a salient wedge of massive, rock- vast in rude, wave-plercing angle through t pa. To the east the full moon, already some ours high, shot the soft silver of her rays, ming'ed hh the fading gold of the dying day, over the pallid t this moment the mellow tones of the ship's ‘ard striking three couplets in quick suvce on awakened the commander from the reveries in which he had been indulging, and he turned’ to find his first lieutenant mounting the poop-deck ladder to report the ship clear for action. e dirk, express of the captain lingered affectionately wpon the form of the lithe, bright-eyed, honest and able young subordinate, who had yet to see his twenty-fourth birthday, Between the two officers subsisted the fullest confidence and the deepest affection, Who was the lonely captain? The greatest novelist of England calls him a traitor. One of the most prominent naval authorities of to-day, from the same proud nation, describes him as a blackguard. Popu- lar feeling among his contemporary enemies consid- ered Nim as neither more nor less than a blood- Uuirsty, murdering pirate. The captain of the ship which he was about to conquer 1s reputed to have most ungraciously expressed his regret at having been compelled “to surrender to a man who fought with a halter around his neck.” But the people who made and loved the flag, the Stars and Stripes, which fluttered above his head, and gave it a high place in the glorious blazonry of nations, told a different tale. The admiration of Washington, the incorrupti- ble soldier and leader; the beloved of Franklin, the discerning stitesman and philosopher; the friend of Robert Morris, the brilliant financier and patriot— Join Paul Jones, the son of a poor Scotch gardener, who had left his native land In infancy and who had been brought up with the scanty advantages af- forded by a life passed from ohildhood upon the sea, rose, against every sort of discouragement, by merit alone, to be the greatest figure in the 1 history of his adopted country for nearly a hundred years. By his indefatigab! resolution and insurpassable valor, his wonderful technical skill and fureinating ersonality, he became a chevalier of rane an admiral of Russia, the friend at once of 1Wo queens—one of the most beautiful and unfortunate the other the greatest and most splendid of his age. Ile was an honored associate of the king of a great country, and yet never renounced that which he con- his proudest title to honor, and by which, in that final end of things in which the truth that is in a min speak# out, he loved to describe himsel{—"a citizen of the United States,” This was a man who had been an apprentice boy at twelve, a sea oMcer at fifteen, a captain at twen- ty-one, who, in a slight, dnconsiderable vessel, a small schooner, had rendered most notable service to his chosen country in the face of war vessels of over whelming force; who, in a cranky, lightly-built sloop- of-war, the Ranger, a year ago, had swept the Irish Channel, terrified the whole western seaboard of England, captured in fair fight a regularly com- iiasloned English sloop-of-war of equal force with and more heavily manned than his own; and all this with a crew of mutineers refusing to obey his or- a and even threatening his life at the last mo- ment before the action, His hands had hoisted the first American flag that ever fluttered from @ masthead, the pinetree-rattl snake flag, with its motto, “Don't Tread on Me, Which seems, gomehow, significant to ithe man himself, The same hand later on had thrown to the breege ‘ie first banner of the Stars and Stripes that ever Was seen upon the ocean, His address and resolution had elicited in the way of @ naval milute the first offeial and public recognition of the new figure among the nations of the world from the author- fued representative of @ recognized government, As @ fighter, as a lover, as a diplomat, he was among the first men of his time, He loved glory, and fame, and duty with @ passionate devotion, and, as he stated, “ever looked out for the honor of the Amer- jean flag.” He was afterward thanked by Congress, mude the head of the American navy, and especially commended in @ public letter to the King of France, hia friend, a@ unique honor in our history, Before he died he had participated in “twenty-three bath and solemn rencontres by sea, A pirate, @ traitor, a Ss this? Nay, as true a man as ever fought for human freedom, as brave officer as eyer ety] heart-breaking adversity, sider _A8 Seton lor Her As ares Sod» having deol and as gallant a lover as ever Kissed a lady's hand. In the hundreds of letters written by and to him still extant, many of them on affairs du coour, th not a single coarse or rude expression to be found, T sum him up the hero and the gentleman. Not without his faults, of course, which I cheerfully refrain from cataloguing, for that is always a poor business; but they were not great and were counterbalanced by his many virtues, Look at him now as he approaohes the culmina- tion of his career, After his brilliant cruise in the Ranger unable to obtain a decent war v ssel, forced to put up with a nondescript antique, a worn- out Fast Indiaman, the Duc de Duras, now: re- named the Bonhomme Richard, which had been Two of the Most Thrilling Morments in This Famous Sea Fight. Covyright, 189, by the 8. 8. MeClure Company. early Every Man .. . —By the Rev, Cyrus Totwonsend Brady. answer, which was indistinguishable, was followed by a shot from the Richard, and the two ships tm mediately exchanged terrific broadsides, Of the thre K near the the first f thi her in eighteen-pounders down on the berth- Water Ine of the Richard, two burs! disoharge, killing and wounding a large part crows and blowing up a part of the deck. ‘The gun was, of cours, abandoned. Side by sid the bright moonlight of the autumn night, the two ships slowly sailed together for nearly an hour, The roar of one discharge answered the other, cheer met cheer, as the ironshailed bullets wove a hideous net of death about the two ship Fearful that he might be raked astern by th Serapis (which some accounts say was done), with the Exception of the Undaunted! Pearson, Had Been Driven Below or Disabled.” filled with old and makeshift guns—ship so rotten at It was impossible to make the necessary al- terations to properly fit her for her new service! Attended by a squadron under his nominal com- mand, one of the ships of which, and the best one was manned largely by British seamen and com- manded by an insane coward; at this very n Previous acts of mutiny were culminating in a flag- rant disobedience of orders to follow the Richard into the action! ‘The Alliance, fighting shy of the English war ships, was sweeping toward the fright- ened convoy, huddling off for shelter under the lee of Scarborough Castle, Another vessel, the Ven- geance, French in toto, was fleeing with ail speed from the action; and the third, the Pallas, an- other Frenchman, the only thing American about her being the flag flying above her, hung quivering in the wind in frightful indecision as to whether she should engage the weaker of the two English ships before them, At this moment the total crew of the Bonhomme Richard (so called from he nom de plume of Ben- Jamin Franklin) was about 300, of which only one- fourth were Americans, about one-half French sol- dfers, and the balance the riff-raff of all nations, Portuguese preponderatimg. Two hundred desperate English prisoners were confined below in the hold. Besides the captain, not a single deck officer was left, through a series of mishaps, save Richard Dale, the first Heutenant, than whom no man ever was a better, by the way. Commodore Dale, who has been Justly honored subsequently in the United States navy, loved and venerated Jones above all other men, always speaking of him to the last day of his life with his eyes filled with tears of affection, and re- gret as "Paul," which was, In truth, his“captain's birth name. Why John Paul assumed the name Jones has never been discovered, certainly for no disgraceful reason, for whatever name he might have taken he would have honored. ‘The armament of the Richard consisted of twen- ty-elght twelve-pounders on the gun deck; on the quarter deck and forecastle were eight nine-pound- ers. In desperation, Jones had cut three ports on each side of the berth-deck, below the main battery, and mounted six old condemned elghteen-pounders therein, His ship had in all, therefore, forty-two guns, twenty-one in the broadside discharging a total weight of 258 pounds of shot, The larger ship of the enemy was the brand-new double-banked frigate Serapis, mounting three tlers of guns, on two covered and one uncovered deck; twenty eighteens, twenty nines and ten six-pounders, making & total of fifty guns, twenty-five in broadside throw ing 800 pounds. As a further advantage, the de- structive power of an elghteen-pound gun is im- mensely greater than that of a twelve, The crew of the Serapis was about 350 trained and disciplined men, Her captain, Pearson, was a brave and deter- mined sailor of reputation in the service. There appeared to be no uncertainty in the mind of elther commanding officer as to the character and force of his opponent, Pearson confidently expected an easy victory, which he certainly should have won; and Paul Jones determined to make him fight as no English ship haw ever fought before for all he got, About half after seven in the evening the twa, ships drew within gunshot distance of each other, the Richard rounding to off the port bow of the Sera- pis, The thirty-two gun ship Pallas at last gath- ered @ufMcient resolution to engage the Scarbor- ough, @ twenty-gun sloop, and thus eliminated her from Paul Jones's calculations. ‘The Vengeance had fled, and Capt, Landais, in the Alliance, was hover: ak ir the conyoy, out of range, reason, as the Richard «approached, ut ieeraen deans) Mis, Are and hailed, The oment Jones, who had Kept slightly In the lead, finally threw his ship aback, checking Mer onw motion go that the Serapis passed slow ad oof him, As Pearson drew ahead, Jone d to throw his vessel across the rear fof the English ship to rake and board, which, of course, would haye been his best plan, as in that case he could have made good use of the soldiers on his decks, The attempt was a failure on account of the sluggish motion of the un- wieldly Richard, which only swung in af: of and inline with the Englishman. No guns now bearing on either ship, except for the continuous emall-arm fire, th was a slight lull in the action, on as the Serapis, which had drawn further wung up into the wind and partially raked ard. Jones filled away again, and the battlo Was at once resumed with determined energy. Pear- son now checked the speed of his own ship by throw- ing all aback, or else wore short around to cross the Richard's bows and rake. and the two vessels slowly Grew together again, The fire from both ships had been kept up with unremitting fury from every gun as they bore, but the Serapis's heavier metal had played havoc with the lighter American, ‘The car- nage and slaughter upon the Richard had been sim- ply frightful, ‘The rotten old ship was being beaten to pieces beneath the feet of her crew by the terrifle battery of the Serapis. Gun after gun in the main battery had been dismounted, At this moment the Richard, fortunately, drew ahead of the Serapis once more, in the game of egee-saw they had been playing, and Jones, in a last desperate attempt to close, put his helm hard over, and this time the Richard pald off in front of and athwart the hawse of the Serapi The jlbboom of the English ship caught in + mizzen rigging of the American. The wind upon the after sail forced the stern of the Serapis round broad- aide to ¢he Richard, and they lay locked together, the bow of one by vhe stern of the other, the star- board batteries of both in contact. Pearson had, uns known to Jones, dropped his port bow anchor at the moment of contact, in an endeavor to drag clear of the Richard, which he determined to knock to pieces at long range with his heavy guns; but, as Benjamin Franklin said, “Paul Jones ever loved close fighting.” and he saw his opportunity and rose to it then and there, Ag the two ships fouled each other, with hy own hands he passed the lashing which bound them together, He found time at this critical moment Teprove one of his officers for profanity, ‘Don't swear, Mr. Stacy," said he; “in another moment we all may be in eternity, but let us do our duty.” As the Serapis swung inboard the starboard anchor of the Richard caught in the mlazen chains of the former, and the two ships were bound together in an embrace which nothing but death and destruction could sever, The Englishman's ports on (he star- board side had been closed, and he worked his bat- terles by firing through them, thus blowing off the port lds, The vessels were so close together that: ‘the cammers and sponges of the great guns in one ship had to be extended throug! °¢ ports of the other; they were so close, in fact, that, as they ground and chafed together in the waves the men on the lower decks were actually Aghting a hand-to-hand conflict with great guns, But the heavier fire of 1.0 Sompis wag too strong for the endurance of (he half- breed crow of the Richard, The guns below were burst, silenced, and, dismounted, and from the ,madn- mast aft the timbers were beaten in and out until both sides of the American ship were literally blown away and disappeared, so that at last the Sorapis actually fired her batteries through the open air without meeting any obstruction to the shot, ‘here was really imminent danger that the upper decks aft on the Richard would collapse and sink down into} the ruins below-awhy they did not was a mystery, attem st Dale and a French colonel of infantr heroes in the battery to the list, but the carpenter W reported six feet of water in the hold and che at making water fast, and the frightened ina Atarms at once released the prisoners, cry the ship was sinking, and the whol age was sinking rushed headlong to the main deck, the ear uid qualled: presence sther petty officers wn the lead, crying for quarter, , succeeded in ‘Things had gone hotter above, however. ‘The heavy then in compelling mass of men, including the rilem the Rich: and the marines und had simply swept the & searohing rain of bullets fram their smallar sinee the moment of contact and before avery man upow her, with the exception of the une W, by the S. S, McClure Company. “‘gome ‘Bold, Reckless Spirits on the Midair daunted Pearson, had been disabled or driven below; ag: the decks were covered with wounded, groaning and they came together, Pearson, probably hearing shrieking unheeded, and with dead, Some bold, reck- ca ad run along the inter- “Have you struck? ‘vo him Jones returned that Immortal answer upon conflict in mid-air, had driven the English from the which Americans love to dwell: I haye not yet begun to fight,” Think of it! less spirits of the Richard licing yard-arms, and aft roa dizzy hand-to-hand tops of the Serapis, and gained possession, whence y poured a bitter musketry fire down the hatch- ways foet, ners who outnumbered his own a crew, any other man would hs * but Jones had ommenced at once, way with their big guns below decks, ssful above, sisted by some others, the captain, wh as sail-trimmer, p When the ships had come together, the English made an attempt to board. Jones selzed a pik followed by a few men, resolutely sprang to the point of attack, whence the British immediately re- tired, A like attempt of the Americans also failed As the prisoners and crew came springing up from the useless guns and the deoks below, several young American oMficers implored Jones to strike. He was not of the striking kind, The doctor ran from the cork-pit below, crying that the water was gaining so that It floated the wounded there, and they must ender. What, Dootor,” cried Jones, smiling, “would you we me strike i$ gun over.” rhe doctor concluded that the cock-pit was a safer isly. place than the quarter-deck, and went below again tantly to his ghastly station, The master-at-narms, ‘not After secing Jones, now ran aft to lower the flag. Minding o'clock, had tolled ike ery in the tops of th De Chamilard, sinking and thelr own we swded decks of the Serap's afloat by 8 a numb ry battle th fire to a drop of water? Help me get tame for quarter were busy trying to keep foot it pistol the ca purop rpenter equally su reted eapacity ross the deck with fire of the three and grape s During the repeatedly the close than twelve times, Dale now as he the tw the Al Landals aded erapls, ft had been shot away and was dragging in scone the water, he sprang on the rail, repeating his two combatants, The Naval Treaty. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Second |: Instalment-Conciusion) (COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY HARPER & BROTHERS.) SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENT repairing rey Phelps, @ trusted employee in tha. Fore i a fa Office “and nephew of Lard Holdhun Well, that was rea Lnportant sate document to copy. he i Holmes. "Come, Ton DAs luring @ few minutes’ abs auxiety brings on brain fever and het work ‘before us in town, for seven Weeks at Lrlarbrae, the fiancee, Miss Harrison, and her t Joseph Jock Holmes and Dr, twon hear the story (rom him In Joseph Harrison's room, which he has ovcu "God ‘bless you for promising to come. client, “It gives me fresh life to know that some: thing is being done, By the way, I have had a letter from Lord Holdhurst, “Ah! what did he say? "He was cold, but not harsh. I dare say my severe iiness prevented him from being that, He repeater that the matter was of the utmost importance, and Added that no steps would be takgn abuut my future hy which he nieans, of course, my dismissal—umiii — } my health was restored and J had an opportunity of erie. our ail abla A Mr. Jc Holmes opened his Junction, It's a very cheery any of these lines which rm to Jook down upon the houses iti “1 thought he was joking, for the view was sordid ran Jones: on the their exertions. r of his nst whom she fought. or others as well, my misfortune. few pumps, inking beneath butt of hi first Draining with) the who Was shrieking that the ship with un resourcefu crew, nter, and also crying for of mind, ter and alarmed » confused prisoners to English ship 1d soon follow if 1 By this means he and for the singular spectacle was presented of a ves- el being kept afloat by the people of the very nation quarter, On a be: not y With his own and ¢ from had fought grappled, ance on stern of the fire upon ince sailed slowly delivering 1oress the oph Harrison drove J we were soon whirling up i as Sunk in profound thot mouth Mu passed Richard, Had Run Along the In- terlacing Yardarms, and After a Dizzy Hand-to-Hand Conflict in Had Driven the English trom the Tops. In a lull of the fire, as ten ship, sinking beneath his kept afloat by the exertions of bewildered pris- kened, wavering struck lor to fight! the Ameri hands, had already and In nearly e-pound gun ntrated 1 with double- mainmast both ships had caught burning gun-wads rapis no vlmost continu ight the fire ind considerate Watson, for we haye a good day's s down to the sta ismouth train and hay Clapham ng to come into London by high, and allow sou this,” rmined desper t kept relieved rest of the shouted: The battle the English haying thelr own ot or about from hia starboard guns, which had boon heavily charged with grape. More men were ‘killed and wounded on the Richard by this discharge than on the Serapia, Disregarding the warning shouts and snals of the Richard, she then sailed awry and re- ited her performances upon the two ot her ships, w minutes before 10 o'clock the battle between the Serapls and the Richard having conthoued with the utmost fury during the intervening qeriod, she again crossed athwart the interlocked ‘ombatants Once and again her broadside did more damage to her consort than to her enemy. Thr.t wits her con- tribution to the fight, A little before the last onslaught of this Alliance, by Jones's orders, one of his seamen ran out on the main yard with a bucket of hand grenadles, which he deliberately proceeded to light and (brow down the main hatch of the Serapis. A number of powder charges had been carelessly allowed to @ecumulate upon the main deck by the too-confident Eitiglish, and 1 fearful explosion took place, which killed and wounded over forty of the crew About the same time the battered mainmast of the Englisirman, upon which Jones had been persistently playingy with his small guns, fell over the side, carrying vith it the mizzen-topinast as well. That was the end, At 10.30 o'clock Capt. Pearson with his own hand tore down the colors, which had been nailed to the 1iast by his orders, and surrendered his ship to his thrice-beaten enemy Dale, In spite of a severe wound which he had re- ved, but of which he was not yet comscious, so great was the excitement of the batt, at once leaped upon the rail, and, followed by a party of boar , swung himself aboard the Serapds. As they landed upon the deck of the English ship one of hee crew, not knowing of the surrender, dangerously wounded Midshipman Mayrant, Dale's second, with a pike. From beneath their feet still carne the roar of the Serapis’s guns. Her crew, ignorant of the fact that she had struck, had been chewred to re- newed exertions by an English shipmaster, one of the prisoners on the Richard, who had escaped from the pumps and made his way to the lower decks of the rapis, revealing the desperate condition of their antagonist and encouraging them to persevere, when success would be both speedy and certain. So the English, In spite of their captain, fought on. However, as the fire of the Richard was at once stopped when Pearson tore down his colors, an Eng- lish Heutenant came up on deck to see if she hart truck, When he learned from his commander that is own ship had surrendered he was astounded. Tle turned to go below, intending to notify te others, but Dale, fearing that he would resume the nbat, compelled him to follow his reluctant cap tain to the deck of the Richard. There stood the indomitable Paul Jones in the midst of the dead and dytng, wounded ‘himself, an? covered with blood and the soil of the battle, 1° Richard sinking beneath him, flames from his purning ship mingling with the moonlight and throw- ing an uncertatn, ghastly illumination upon the ene of ineffable horror presented, Still locked in he deadly embrace of the Richard lay the beaten Sempis, her white decks covered with the man- glel bodies of her crew, her lofty masts broken and wrecked, her rigging tangled in fnextricable con- fusion, flames breaking forth from ‘her as well; the sullen English, filing up from below and laying down thelr arms at the behest of their blood-covered, \uttle-stained conquerors, completed the picture, Tt was at this moment that Pearson, handing his sword to Jones, is reported to have made the un- gmiclous remark about the halter, With a mag- nanimfty as sweet to think on as is his valor, Jones replied: fonght like a hero; and T make no gn will reward you in the mc ir, you hay doubt your so ample manner.” His words were prophetic, for Pearson, though he had lost his ship, was knighted for his gallant de- fense, and received pieces of plate, &c,, for his ef- ficient protection of his convoy, The Scarborough, \fiwr a most gallant defense, had struck to the Pallas, and Capt. INercy, of the English ship,gwas also substantially rewarded. When Jones heard of Pearson's advancement ‘the characteristically made this remark: “He deserves it, and if he gets an- Mher ship and I fall in with him, I'll make a duke of him. The English Government put a price upon the head , of Paul Jones, dead or alive, of £10,000, an immense sum and certainly equivalent to $109,000 to-day, Cone sidering bis quality, they rated him cheaply, after all, What of the fate of the Serapis and the Richard and ‘her captain? It was impossible to save the Amertcan ship, though the most strenuous e¢ s were made to th. h of September, therefore, Jones d his flag to the Serapis, upon which jury-masts had been rigged, and at 10 o'clock in the morning the brave old Richard, sull flying the great flag under which she had foug sank, bow foremost, beneath the sea, Accounts of the casualties on the two ships differ and are un- certain: it would be fe to estimate those on th Richard as within 160 killed and wounded, and thos on the Serapis as within 200, There never was a more bloody and frightful battle fought on any sea There Is no batt nm record where the individual personality of one man contributed to the result obtained as much as in this. The little squadmn now made tts way to the Texel, Jones was compelled by the Dutch, at the instigation of the English, to el r accept a French mmission and set the French flag over the Serapis ucend, On the ransfe the Scanborough, or else give up his prizes. To his eternal honor, jose the latter alternative, and shifted his colors to the Alliance, rom the moment he entered t exel he had not ceased to fly the American flag. even In the face of the overs whelming enemy from whom he was desperately try- Ing to escape. ar Commodore Jones died in Paris in the year 179%, Ife was alone in his chamber at the time, and when his friends found him she was lying face downward upon his bed, ‘The hand of a conqueror whom no human power can resist had n laid upon bim, and for the first time in his life the face of Paul Jones wes turned away from the enemy. enough, but he soon explained himself. “Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islanus in & lead-colored sea,” “The board-schools. “Lighthouses, my boy! beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright Ltie seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better gland of the future, I suppose that man Mneips not drink?" “1 should not think 99.” Yor should 1, but we are bound to take every possibility into account, ‘Phe poor devil has cere tainly gol himself into very deep water, and it's @ question whether we shall ever be able to get nim ashore. What did you think of Miss Harrison?” “A girl of strong character.” "Yes, but she is a good sort, or T am mistaken, She and her vrother are the only ohildren of an fronmaster somewhere up Northumberland way, Hoe wot engaged to her when travelling last winier, and she came down to be Introduced to his prove, with her brother as escort ~* The conclusion of this Story will be published in to-morrow’s SUNDAY WORLD MAGAZINE, Orr tii ee