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v/e sat many minutes when we came to
undi-rstand what was tl.e direction cf
the current of her thoughts. They had
been e-.ll running toward the conclusion
that uLngus Macgillivray was in sama
way connected with the zay.-t ,iiuua af
fair.
“Have ye inquired, ” she aekd as she
cast her eye over us, ‘ if Angus has been
at Loiuu ¿yu yesterday? I could wad my
marriage ring he’s awa, and naa sutler
than he should te. Will ye no answer? ’
she continued in a wailing tone. “1’ he
in Edinburgh? When v. as he Been < ’au
uaebedy tell. ”
I looked to Gin an, fur I could not
answer without ralsehGod, imd L« uu
°’fi PlCTO^ *
derstooi ma
“I Lave made no inquiry, llaigatel, ”
said he, * *uur did 1 think it ueue .arv
to go then1—tlrn suspicion ¿reins bo un
natural, besides are you not taking ou
too heavily? This is only the secund
Jfty.3 3
“The second day!” she burst forth.
"And Deacon Macgillivray liasna Ken
• hu ALL
his wife or Lis bairns nor sent a letter
or a message to tell whaur lm is. The
a«cond day!” she continued in the came
wailing strain
"'When was it that he
»vas half an Lour behind his dinner?
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And this has taken place in Edinburgh,
which is just a lang street,whaur every
body kens everything about everybody. ”
“Many a longer absence La» had a
The Quickest io Chica happy explanation,” replied her broth
er. “Wu have only as yet one fact, and
go and the East.
it will just look us you view it. You
Quicker to Omaha and know peats will build tho side of a
house as well as make a fire that will
Kansas City.
bum you. ’'
“But there’s like use buttering
Pullman anil Tourist Sleepers, '
“1 tell
peats,” cried she impatiently,
Free Reclining Chair Cars,
you Deacon Macgillivray is dead, and
Dining Cars.
Augus is the man who has made m -a
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widow aud my bairns fatherle?;- ”
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And then came a fit of hysterical sob
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ating.
While I looked at her, and uf
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course pitied her, I could not help think
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confirmed by the information I had got,
and which I dared not comumnicata to
her. Thero was enough cf sorrow for
AND
the hour. Aud as we saw wa could be
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of no further service that night we left
her to that kind of consolation which
the heart seeks for itself, and sometimes
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the more readily and successfully that
it is left to itself and to him who is
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Express Trahis Leave Portland Dally
Next forenoon I repaired toGirvan’s,
as arranged between us, in order that
together we might make a more thor
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certaining whether the missing man had
been seen, and when and where, during
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Albany Inclusive Also Tangont, Sbedds Hul the forenoon of his disappearance. On
sey. HarrtebniH, Junction City, irviug uugeue going along I found that the affair Lad
*ria all «tation» from Ro«ebuig to Ashland lnclu- spiead, insomuch indeed that the ques
■ive.
tion, “What has become of Deacon Mac
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gillivray?” belonged now to the public.
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name of Peter McGlashan, a laborer,
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who resided in the Cowgate, and whom
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we saw and interrogated, had been th»
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involuntary cause of seme of the theo
ries, but ail that could be extracted
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seen Deacon Macgillivray that forenoon
Attached to all Through Trains.
nuirying up the High street, and that,
,W«st Side Division.
having occasion to return, he had met
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about 10 minutes later, Angus Mac
Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.)
gillivray coming up the bow., the tap ot
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trains of Oregon Pacific Railroad,
Ir was with minds very ill prepared
Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) for a masting with the deaconess that
we betcck ourselves about 8 o’clock in
i’ortlaiid
Ar i a 2 A Jt 1 ths evaulng to Borthwick’s Close. Wo
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passed without any better reckoning
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than the increasing silence in the street
and the gathering gloom cf the un-
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J tool, t.'.e paper out of Ms hand.
read for mysslf the following words, dia
posed in lines in thia manner:
“Deacon Macgillivray,
Borthwick’a Close, Edinburgh,
Killed on the 19th. ”
The paper was much crumpled, as if
it had met with rough usage, and, what
- ided to the effect of the direful words,
it was besmeared with blood to such an
extent that came of the letters were
ccaicely legible. I would willingly have
kept it from the eyes cf the deaconess,
but she held out her hand tiemblingly
to get possession of it, and it was too
late to attempt concealment She read
it at a glance, and, as if it had been ou
fire, threw it from Ler, unable to utter
u wold. “Stay a little,” said Girvan as
he rose and took his hat. “I will be
Lack in 10 minutes. ” He hurriedly left
the room. And I, taking up the paper,
Legau to question the officer as to the
person who left it at the bailies’ office.
I ascertained tLat Lis name was Hugh
McPherson, a cobbler who resided in
the Cowgate, and that his account of the
manlier uf obtaining it was that he
found it among straw on the street right
opposite the coach uffic« in the High
street, from which thu coach to Gala
shiels started twice a week, it was fur
ther stated by McPherson that liis opin
ion was that the paper had fallen from
the coach, along with the straw among
which it was found. Before I had time
to foim any opinion as to the real pur
port and meaning of this sibylline scrap
Girvan came again hurriedly into the
room, breathing Laid, as if he had been
running—an effect no doubt due more
to his excitement than to hia Ludily ex
ertion. Laying down his hat, he resumed
his seat, and putting his Land into las
pocket he drew out another paper some
thing like an account.
“Look at that, ” said he as he handed
it to me.
Glancing over it, 1 found it to be an
account for skins, due by Girvan to An
gus Macgillivray, duly discharged.
“What of this?” said I, uttterly at a
loss to know the meaning of it all.
“Examine the handwriting uf the two
paper«, ” said he.
1 did so and immediately ejaculated,
“Why, that bleed stained scrap is writ
ten by Augus Macgillivray.”
‘’No doubt of it,” said Girvan. “I
knew it the moment I saw it, but I
d anted to make sure woik. ”
“And sure enuugh it is,” replied I,
’ but what conclusion du you draw tiom
it?”
I am ofiaid to mentiunit,” was the
reply.
“But 1 in no, ” cried the deaconess in
a wild way. “It is just as I thought ”
she continued as elm moved her aims as
if to enable her to utter the words,
“Angus Macgillivray has murdered my
Lus uaud.
“But why should he publish the act
in his uwu handwriting?” 1 rejoined.
“Because the awful m«m glories in
his revenge,” she cried again hysteric
ally.
"That hardly squares with human
nature,” said Girvan. To this I assent
ed, adding that “Augus was not sc mad
as not only to write Lis own condemna
tion, but give the officers of the law a
direction to go in pursuit of him ’
With all these qualifications, it was
impossible to get rid of the direct ef
fect of the words of the paper cleariy
enough indicating that the deacon Lad
been killed by some one, whether Angus
or not. The officer himself seemed to have
uu doubt, aud. as for Mrs. Macgillivray,
her former conclusion was only rendered
mere certain, and the calmness into
which she quickly relapsed appeared to
be fka consequence of resignation to the
will of God.
Meanwhile the officer had intimated
that the paper was to be preserved and
taken up to the office iu the morning,
with any explanation that could be giv
en of it. Ho then went away, and lat«
as the hour was we resolved upon seek
ing out McPherson to ascertain from
his own mouth the true circumstances
connected with the finding of the ex
We accordingly
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snuffed candle till it might bu about 11,
when a »light knock was hoard at the
door.
lira. Macgillivray started, and we
were not less surprised—nay, 1 Lave no
doubt that oil of us had some notion
that tho visitor might bo no other than
the deacon himself. The door was open
ed by the servant; we listened to the
step on the passage—tramp—tramp—so
like one well known that Girvan ejac
ulated with a kind uf spasm, ‘ It’s the
deacon!" The words were electric. We
started up, and even Mrs. Macgillivray
sat upright gazing at the door, It open-
ed, and before us stood one of the town
officers with the rod nock on Lis blue
cost.
“Hera is a bit of paper,” Slid he,
“which was brought up to the office
about cu hour ago. ’1
And Girvan, taking it out of his
hand, fixed hi3 eyes upon it ea if he
were charmed, yet he did not seem to
comprehend what ho was reading, for
although I asked him what it contained
he could not utter a word. M ia Mac
gillivray’» eye was fixed upon him, and
L myself sat with open mouth wonder
ing what ailed the man.
“Can ya no read?” said the officer.
“Read,” added I impatiently.
And the Bairs words troubled on the
lip3 of the deacon“».
Ont it came at length, and the effect
was certainly proportioned to the cause.
I took the paper out of his hand and
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went tc the Cowgate, and having found
the man, who wa3 on the eve of going
to bed, proceeded with our examina
tion. fie adhered strictly to what he
had stated iu the bailies’ office, nor had
be any more to oouunuuic&te, but we
derived thus much from our visit that
we became satisfied the man was honest
and was not accessory to any trick or
deception whereby some cne might have
been supposed to have taken advantage
of the public fermentation to infuse a
new Interest into what was already suf-
ticiently engrossing. Girvan to-'k the pa-
per homo with him, and we parted with
the hope of getting some more light
next day.
The light certainly did not come, but
there was now more official inquiry as
well as energy. Girvan, at an early hour
of the forenoon, took the blood stained
papei to the bailies’ office an-1 found
that the assessor was go much impressed
with the strangeness of the whole story
that he had resolved upon handing it
over to the fiscal. Nor did he fail in
this, as soon appeared by a wall bill
which, about 1 o’clock, glared iu various
parts of the city to the effect that
v- hereas a paper on which was written
the following words (quoted) had been
found oil the High street of Edinburgh,
a reward of £5 would be given to the
person who had written the contents of
the said paper (assuming it doubtful
■whether Angus Macgillivray was the
man), if ho would come forward and
give testimony as to the object or meau-
ing thereof, or to any person who would
give information tending to show where
the pc-s jiiof Duncan Macgillivray, dea
con of the hammermen, could be found,
whether dead or alive. Nor did the fis
cal limit
citi: ial duties by this proc
lumaliou. fur .¿bout 2 o’clock l:e com
menced a precognition of all parties who
knew anything regarding tho atfau,
among whom w< r-< u,« deaconess (whu
was, in consequence uf h r weakness,
t.Aen tu iLu office in a sedan chair),
Mrs. Augus Macgillivray, McPherson,
Girvan, myself and the individuals who
had scon the missing men on the day uf
their disappeaxauce.
But nothing came cut uf the bill or
the precognitions tending toward any
thuory sufficient to stay the mind or in
duce belief, if we except a statement
made by a young man, a clerk in the
coach office, opposite which the blood
stained paper Lad been fuuud. He went
forward in the afternoon and was pre
cognosced by the fiscal to the effect that
ou the day of the disappearance he saw
two men whom Lu did not know mount
tho coach just when it began tu move,
and without having time tc pay their
fares, which they probably calculated
upou settling at the other end of their
journey.
One of the men, who was stouter and
fatter than the other, got inside, and
the other, immediately upon perceiving
the movement, sprang up behind. He
observed no conceit between the two,
yet he felt satisfied that tho one had re
solved to gu ufter be saw the other about
to take his seat. It was only after he
heard a description of the two Macgilli-
vrays that Le began to think they were
the men whom he had observed. When
this story eume to be known, it was
conveniently found to agree iu some re
spects with the history of the paper. As
suming that the men seen by the clerk
were really the two brothers, it seemed
probable that the deacon was lie who
went inside, probably Called upon to
undertake the journey on short notice by
some business emergency, and that An
gus, who was prowling about, had seen
his brother in the act of enteiiug the
coach, had suddenly formed a résolu
tion to dog him into the country olid
there wreak his revenge at a distance
from Edinburgh.
Thia sudden purpose seemed probable,
because if there had been any concert
between the two to tiavel together
Angus would have gone inside also,
where, according to the clerk’s state
ment, there w as plenty of room
for him.
So far ingenious and cer
tainly in tin circumstances not improb
able. Then, as to the paper, what more
likely than that it should Lave come
with the returned coach, having been
sent by Angus when upon the eve uf
flight after committing the deed and
bearing the marks of bloody fingers? As
fur the motive for thup proclaiming his
villainy, the must difficult element m
the whole story, it might have been
(what might not Le when the mind is
predisposed to find that it is.q the wild
acted' a bravado, glorying, as Mrs. Mae-
gillivray herself expressed it, iu his re
venge at a time when he knew he would
be far away before the paper reached its
destination.
Another day dawned, bringing with it
uf course further confirmation, iu the
passage of time, of the universal con
viction that, whatever might be the
speculations as to the when, how or
wherefore, there could be little doubt of
the fata of Deacon Macgillivray. And
with the same increase of effect the dav
passed. Taking Girvan along with me,
I called at the house in Borthwick’s
Close about 5 o’clock. We found there
Mrs. Girvan, and another, uf all the
world the most unexpected. the wife of
Aligns Macgillivray herself, Her story
was extraordinary enough, She said
that ever since the taking out of the
lawLurrows Angus Macgillivray Lad
been a changed man. He ieau l.is Bible
iu the morning and showed other indi
cations of penitence for the enmity he
had entertained toward Lis broiliei.
“And now,” continued the woman as
she took from her pocket a Bible, which
she Lad prubably brought with her for
the very purpose, “I swear by this holy
Look, which I hope to be the means of
the salvation of my soul and that of my
husband, that Angus Macgillivray, cu
that morning when he so strangely dis
appeared, stated to ms, aye, with tear»
iq his eyes, that ha muurned continual
ly over the separation of himself and his
brother; that he was determined to
throw himself in his way, to confess
his contrition and sorrow for what had
passed, to offer him his hand aud swear
I a renewed friendship, which he would
keep true to the day of his death ’ ’
This remarkable statement, which
was confirmed by the manner as well as
the honest character of the woman, was,
I think, believed by all of us excepting
tho deacuiiess, who Lad bean so com
pletely wedded to the old theory of the
murder by Angus that it seemed as im
possible to movo her from this convic
tion as it was to raise her out of the
great depth of her sorrows. “The news
haa been lang o’ coming, woman,” said
she; “I will believe it when Angus
proves himsel’ to be innocent o’ a
brother’s bluid. ”
“But you forget, sister,” said the oth
er, “that I have nothing to expect from
coming here and telling you a lie I am
here for your comfort; to satisfy you
that, whatever has become cf your hus
band, fie lias received iw injury from
the hands of mine.”
‘ ’That looks like reason, ’ ’ said 1, ’ ‘and
I think I now see some light breaking
through all this darkness. ’ ’
“Whaur?” ejaculated Hrs. Macgilli-
vray. “There is liae light to me except
the light o’ heaven. Nue earthly light
will ever show me ’gain the living face
o’ Duncan Macgillivray. He is dead—
dead I”
“And 1 may say the same of my hus
band,” said the brother’s wife. “Is he
not a-missiug as well as Duncan, and
who lias a right to say that the one killed
the other, or that other the one?”
I was struck with the reasoning of the
woman, who wa3 better educated than
the deaconess and with a greater power
of penetration, and the mystery was
abcut to take another turn. 1 rva» about
to enlarge upon what had been last said
when Mrs. Girvan laid her hand upon
my arm aud said. “Hush!” Wo Lad uo
notion cf what the meant Every one
looked at her now. I saw plainly that
she was l-usy li-t.uiim.
“I hear !>!• luou M u'gillivray’H voico
on the si dr, ” alio said.
And the words were scarcely spoken
wheu a ci ■.. ■j , <l shuffling of footsteps
was ht ord iu i u- l-.b1 y. 1 he door open
ed, and in there came the deacon and his
brother A.n :n
“Whit is the meaning c’ a’ thia?”
cried the cari up dignitary. “A dozen
people have met uie and told mu 1 hav«
been dead and buried fur fivo days. ”
“And that I murdered my aiu broth
er,” cried Angus.
“And surely 1 am dead, ” added the
deacon, with a laugh, “for my aiu wife
is feared at me and wiuna even uffcr me
her baud. Boggy, woman,” he con
tinued as Lu Wont round and took Lis
wife in his aims “what ails y- ”
During all which the deaconess was
iu a vertigo, with nothing in hei brain
fixed except the image of her Lu^baiid,
to- cited through a pair of staling eyes.
“And Johnny Gow diduu tell you?”
continued lie as he looked lound upon
us all still in amazement.
“No,” icr.ponded the wife as she be
V» licit iiùil ilo
gan to recover heiself.
to tell?”
“Just that Angus and I Lad gone
down to Blaekha’ to see our brother
Andrew, ” taid lie, "but I see now Low
i
*/.!
“Bi ggy. I' Oman.” he continued, as he went
round and took )<u wit. In his aims.
it is. Johnny was half drunk when I
gave him lh<_ message, and the sixpence
had helped to mair drink, and the dunk
had driven him stupid.”
“Why, deacon,” said I, “it has been a
serious affair. The whole city Las been
in the belief that you were murdered,
and Angus was suspected of the deed.
Nor is it to be wondered at, fur even
yet we want explanations. ’ ’
“Explanations!” replied the deacon.
“What mail- do ye need than just that
as I was going up the High street I met
Angus, who came up to me and said
that he was a changed man, that he
wanted the past to be forgotten, and
that lie would give the world to bo
friends wi’ me. 1 couldna refuse the
offered hand of a brother, and after a’ I
was as anxious to be friends again as
he. So maybe our hearts got big, and
there might Lave been something in
baith our een tLat belongs mair to wom
en than men. When we were in this
saft mood, the coach for Galashiels was
on the very point cf starting, and An
gus said that ho intended to go to
Blackha’ to buy sheep the next forenoon,
but that If I were agreeable he would
take his trip that day, and we might go
together. I have no objections, said I,
but we maun send notice to our wives.
I beckoned Gov’., Lecausu I tnuught I
could trust him, gave him a sixpence
and got a promise. Next moment we
were on the coach, and, by my truth, I
never enjoyed a jaunt better in my life.
Andrew was delighted to see us friends
again, and maybe there was a sowther
o’ kind that gacs mair to the heart than
words. Bat what though the cadie de-
ceived us, didna ye get,” he continued,
as he iooked into tlie face of the dea
coness “didna ye get the salmon that
Angus sent you on the day it v> as Killed
—the 19th?”
The secret was all but out What was
wanting was afterward ascertained.
The driver Lad appropriated the fish be
cause he saw no ticket of address upou
it
The ticket was found tv Hugh
McPherson. And thus was explained a
mystery which occupied the metropolis
of Scotland neatly a week—in other
words, which are legs or more applica
ble to most mysteries, the worsted was
colled off, and, behold, tho cork!—“Mys
terious Legends of Edinburgh ”
IRISH MARY
It was the early days of the repoy
mutiny, raid the revolt had alleadv lie-
gnu.
At Little Futterhabad. a small gov
ernment depot occupied byccmpanies e.t
the Sixth, o-.ie of the Invcrary rlflee, and
a battalion of native foot, under Cap-
taina Donaldson and Clare, though but
30 mil'D from Delhi, were all ur.oou-
scions cf auv danger till, two days be
torc, a
hunger < u horseback anived
at the cantonment with a nota from the
efficci- in command of the neighboring
town of Susi, informing Captain Don
aldson that some cf the sepoys there had
raised cries of disaffection, that a large
body cf mutineers were reported as
marching on the place, and therefore the
officers of the Sixth were implored to
start with all speed, and with whatever
force they could muster, to intercept
these latter, us, were they once to co
ale tee with the disaffected within tho
walls, the lives uf the English would in
all probability be the sacrifice. No time
was lost in complying with tue appeal
contain- d in this dispatch, and the sen-
ior captain (Duualdson) thought himself
showing extraordinaiy prudence iu de
ciding not to take the native battalion,
iu which, however, he had full confi
dence.
Tho regiment inarched out to Futter
habad an hour bcfuie sundown, leaving
b<hind it, uesides the Boldiura’ wives
and chikireu and the civiiiaus, an Eng
lish sergeant and 10 men to overawe (1)
the native troops; also the young wile of
Captain Clare, with her little baby, 2
weeks old.
Tho overpowering heat, dust and
noise of the dirty little towu had so af-
fected Mia Clare in her delicate state
uf health that lior husband had mut ed
her to a deserted mosque, about a quar
ter of a mile distant from tho depot, and
which, standing iu a garden thickly
overgrown with palm and tulip trees,
made a pleasant sui t of improvised Luu
galow.for the invalid.
The fierce day had faded into evening
at last, the evening of the day cuter the
departure of the troop«, and Mrs. Clare
lay on her couch, her ayah squatted on
the floor beside her, with her infant in
her arms, ami the punkah waving with
manotuuous regularity over her Lead us
it was pulled to and lco by a servant
seated iu the veranda ouGiJe.
The
croaking of the frogs could Le heard dis
tinctly from the pool iu tLe desert**!
garden below, mingling with tho sharp
“cheep cheep” of the lizards and an
occasional murmur from the canton
meut or the shrill “ta-ra” of the bugle
for supper, but it was not to these cus
tomary souuds that Mrs. Clare was lis
tening as she leaned rather forward on
Ler elbow.
“What can it be?” she said at last.
“Don’t you hoar it, Zeena? Can it be
the Sixth returning.'”
“The mem Balfib is feverish. Zeena
hear nossing at all, aud tho sahib Clare
and de Sixth net go to come back till
tomorrow. ”
“But we were to have heard from
them today, and there has beer, no mes
sage. Could anything have happened to
him? Oh, no, not that I And yet it is
strange, no ono coming near me this
evening, not even Mrs. Smyth, us she
promised, or—there, Zeena, you must
hear that!”
“That ' was the audible enough in
deed, a cry from the cantonment, sumo
thing between a shriek aud a shout, aud
followed by a confused hum of many
voices.
“Soldier got drunk — mud,” said
Zeena lazily.
“Sergeant put him in
black hole. ”
“It is nows of some sort lrum the reg
iment Zeena, give me tho baby aad
mu up iu the cantonment and see
what i£ is and ask Mrs. Smyth to
come back and stay the night with me.
Make haste—run.” And as the lady
clapped her hands impatiently Zeeaa
rose with the Bilent docility of her class,
and only waiting to lay tho infant by
its mother and place a tumbler of cool
ing drink beside her sped swiftly through
the low, arched doorway aud disappeaied
into the night
Left alone, Mrs. Clare’s anxiety in
creased. The strange rolling sound was
now plainly distinguishable lor the
measured tramp of soldiers, and that
some great excitement was going ou at
the cantonment, was more and more evi
dent. Once a shrill cry rose faintly into
the air; then C3me the sharp clang of a
bell as suddenly suppressed, and yet no
thought of danger there or to herself
crossed her.
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Children Cry tor Pitcher’^ Castorio
stìa^e0»atìeAA&-.iiaRs2ti?!5 i -
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thicket of prickly p» ai- and jungle gruss,
young woman, with a sunL’.uued, fn
tramping i path in fi..ut whh her ctn>ng
kled face, hung round with tangled feet and leaving many IX
a fragment uf
reddish *-lf lud « <iu*i lit by a pair uf Lei- ragged g.unnut. n...ui a . ticak of
laughing blue eyes, bar- arm:; hugging bluod uu the thorny boughs, yet never
something like a dingy bu. ile ul' rags Buffering a touch to di turb the sturdy,
to her bosom, lin-elf clad m eimihir brown skinned 8 month, baby or th«
rags of divers hues, ba lly covered by mi tiny infant of scarce twice as many
old plaid cloak, thrust herself into Mrs. days, which rhe earned
. tenderly uu
Cluie’s daiutv pi--.-cure—the girl nick her right arm.
named “Irish Mary,” wife of a soldier
Ou and on, tearing tin ir feet and
in th« Sixth aud a kind of self consti hands, stooping their Leu is low , play
tuted sutler to the corps.
ing inwardly the whole time, they
She seemed b*.;ide herself now, for struggled for half an hour, treading
after u pause fur Lrc-ath i
d:utcd t * their way at random thtc-ugh th« scrub,
me couch whuie the pritty p.tncian only trying for the time to put su much
lady lay and ex. laimed iu tones Lu..is<
mure spaca between th m and their feus;
with exciiein.at: "Mr Clare, dear, is on and on, tho Irish ,.itl walking with
it lyiu lure ye are, as if nothin were the firm, elastic tread 1 one well usd
doin' Get up an fly. for the love o’ tu the march; the English c.ue stagger
heaven. Ochonc! OcLonel It s a small ing aft. r with a ; <ep momentarily
chance ye’ll have anyhow!”
slacker und more un .eitain, until they
“Fly where? From what?” cried Mrs. reached the outskirts of the woo l ami
Clare, her indignation at th- intrusion found thems. lvr on the edge uf a large
lost iii astonishment as the other, hav field uf Indian coin, cove-ling the sum
ing deposited her bundle un thu bed, mit of the low hill where thev stood.
almost lifted her on to her L ct
Then, as Mary stooped lov. e.r with her
“From iniiriher an slaughterin an burden, that her h. ad might net show
worse a million times to the like o’ you above the tail green otalki through
an me!” Mary cried, her rough hands which she was about to make her way,
busy in thrusting Mrs. Clare’s little Mrs. Clare gasped out:
bare feet into a pair of ¿hoes and fling
“Go on. Save yours. If. 1 can do no
ing a dark cloak, which happ nc-1 to lie more,” and sinking down fainted away
handy,
over Ler muslin wrapper
at her humble friend s Let At the same
“3hure, an aren’t thu sepuy divils moment xhu latter'« baby, awakened by
either enteriu th.- depot, an our h -1- th.- sudden sic 1 of th. t filing bo.ly, set
diers drugged aforehand, an no shot up a piteous wail.
hit 1 to stay thim! 11- k to tiiim, dear!
Half I., -ide Lt-1 Iff .'l ay crunched
Th re’.; a ui; ! Goh, hmi , as ye'rt a down, hu lling L.,» I...L. to bn breast
liviu woman! There’ll nut bo wan alive with one Land, while vvhu the other ah«
an Lour liiu■ e, nor we uithcr if v.c’r. loos .lied the f.. .¡»j . .., n. - di
and
not gone from heir!’’
turned li i face uj . aid that th . nlyht-
“’iho s- poy.-here?” stammered Mrs
air might, refresh her.
Clare “Du you mean i-ur battalion La_-
She could duuo i.,.ji.
i neiv was nut
risen?”
a diop uf water u. ar to inuistm the
“Au Lave let iu u couple of huudhicd lips already Llack tud parched, but aft
rnora at Lsie. ML-thrtsa a ear, for God s er a brief while, when her child, bemg
Bake, dm« t stun tic i
lie : was wan fed and southed, had talk n asleep again,
of ours as wasn t drugged, Lergcant Me I she laid both babe; down by Mrs Clare
Cann he was, an the thing I stumbled I and crept on her hands and Knees tu a
over at tlm gate was the dead body of little eminence, where she could have
him hacked thrue an thrue. Sliure, an a view uf their surrounding».
Pour Gertrude! She wua mused trom
I turned straight roun an niver staid
till I got here, f a I knew *twaa in yer her merciful stupor L , umethuig sharp
and stinging, auu . p. uing liei eves saw
bed ve ware an none to pnrte-1 ye ”
“Thank you,” said Mrs. Clare faint Mary leaning over with a branch uf
ly, and very pal . bat
till bolding mnie thuxny plant iu her Lauu but nut
back, “but go yours- if. J < .mid not run
or walk either far, and Captain Claie even the seemingly cruel method at her
When It 1» Sometimes Possible.
will be back iu a lev, Lu«us now, 11 i.. revival recaliu-d her . u much as the look
be alive, and if not I—I would rath, r uf Luiic . <>ii the gill fa ■ .
Driggs—Can a man serve two masters?
die here. ’ ’
“Folier me-—sot” the latter whisper
Henpeck—Weil, that depends. He may
“Die, is li - ’ cried Mary cunt luptr.- ed, and i i tciin:.’ t Lind I, i Gertrude
have a wife and a grown daughter, yon
ously. “An d’yetlnnk 1 v. nid i
came Io a point wh<i ;, peeping through
snow. — W aterbur y.
A step aroused her, a quick, noisy fearin death, if that was all, or d’ye the sheltering stuck of the Indian curu,
step, Cuming nearer every moment. Was think it’s betther tor the < apt An to lm they could . e tin. valley beneath. They
Irony That Was Lost.
it Lei hasbaad? No; that was no mili- ye a slave to the black liaytLeiis, an Were not mure than half a mile as the
Many stories aie tuld of Loid Bowen’s
yer child’s brain: dashed out ou the bee flies from the mosque. It lay just
stones, as they did wid the childher at below them, its white domes gleaming
gently ironical manner, and no man of
this generation possessed that particular
Meerut? ML.iis, I’m flyin fur Jim 's ¿uku out uf the tufts of palms like a globe of
gift xn the same highly wrought perfec
an me boy 's here, an I’m nut goin wid- frosted silver in the moonbeams. Mary
out you, fur the captain's l«een good an j united to it cileutly, and Gertrude felt
tion. But it occasionally proved a draw -
kind to Jim. Come, ma’am, hurry! Lei blood grow chili within her veins
back to him, especially in dealing with
Ye’ll walk betther yersel’ than it yu as she saw live armed figuxt s, their black
juries. Once, we believe, during the
were tied to a gun an driven. Here
short time that he went on circuit, he
faces and whit-, turbans plainly discern
take hould o’ that shawl while I rowl ible in the pure white light as they
was tempted to sum up ironically, it
the childer together. I’ll canv thtm
was the case of a burglar who had been
stole through the garden to the door
an you kape close to me, an don’t spake from which the two women had so re
caught flagrante delicto, having entered
above yer breath. This way—su!”
from the roof and taken the precaution
cently CSUUpeJ.
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The will of the Irish girl was para
to leave his Loots on top. His defense
mount today, and the lady followed
was that he was in the habit of taking
(TO BE CONTINUEL. ]
with the meekness uf a child, in her
midnight strolls on the roofs of houses
A Uu¡¡ Six luche» Long.
footsteps.
and that he was tempted by curiosity to
The Hercules beetle (Üynastes hér
descend and have a look at ono of the
The eastern - ky was red as blood from
houses.
the blazing root of her own house in tLe cules) is out of the largest, if not really
Lord Bowen treated tho defense very
officers’ quarters, and in that scarlet the largest, known species of the coleop
seriously. “If, gentlemen," he said to
light Mrs. Clare could see the hillside ter» or beetle family. They are not
the juiy, “you think it probable that
and the walls of the cantonment dotted found in the I mud States proper, but
the prisoner considered the roofs of
over with black figures, while the v. hoi.; I understand that a fine specimen is oc
houses a salubrious place for an evening
air seemed alive and quivering with a casionally picked up on the islands off
walk, if you suppose that the tempta
turmoil of shrieks, cries and yells of the coast of Floiida and in the West
ladies. I have two dried specimens of
tion to inspect the interior of the houses
agony or tnumpli.
beneath him was the outcome of a nat
inches in
One look was sufficient, and then, as dynastee, one of which is
ural and pardonable curiosity, in that 77;c heavy curtain ¿rayin'] the arched the whole history of their successful length, measuring hum the tip of its
doorway was roughly torn aside.
case, of course, you will acquit him and
treachery burst ou her mind, Gertrude upper mandible or “horn” to the end of
tary tread, but a woman’s, and not the
regard him as a thoughtful and consid
its body. The head of the “varmiut” is
smooth, catlike footfall cf the Hindoo, Clare cowered closer to the side of the
erate man, who would naturally remove
jet black, and the upper mandible or
but one flying up the garden walk with Irish girl whoso very existence she had
his boots before entering the house and
pincher is notched and covered with
the frantic, almost clumsy haste. .An hitherto so loftily ignored and clung to
take every precaution not to disturb his
her murmuring: “We shall never cs- i stiff golden colored bristles. Thu under
other moment, and there was a clatter
neighbors. ’ ’ To the judge’s amazement,
mandible is perhaps an inch shorter than
on the marble steps; another, and the cape! What hope is there for usr”
tho jury took him at his word and
“Lave hould an toiler me, or it’ll be , the upper, and tho two form a pair of
heavy cloth curtain draping the arched
promptly acquitted the prisoner.—-West
doorway was roughly torn aside, uud a thrue for ye,” Mary muttered in curt I nippers that would cause the stag beetle
minster Gazette.
response as she dived into a u . ih ? or common June bug to die with envy.
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