MBS. BBOTVX. and so 1 said that I would it, if rapid, wonderingexprosjsjon of tenderness, myvcfeamberwftbont being absolutely AHiagBlfllBK DETECTIVE. knew of the erringdaughter. In short he wanted me to. as he reneated them: rud^'was passed there t3i my strange a new trial was obtained, the convict-' "And would I consent to i l&alled -iic ."My eaSCfittlev*iM&ei May^God mrasuaiiappeadrance was*-noticed by She is pretty as a fairy, MowmMftmi &*- lojetar WaaUarmretod. edgirl was released on bail, which little Mrs. Haynes?" bless you!" myvfatberara mother, and my mood And her voice is soft ati&loir, Rodman secured, and the sister died "Yes, I would consent." I stole quiettjr away from- him out The Philadelphia correspondent of And her chatter, light and airy, commented freely upon before our in a hospital before her case was "Then it was all right. He "would of the house,- with that fervent benediction Like a babblfcsg stream -doth flow. the New York Herald writes that guest. reached on the docket. never look about for a wife, nor should As she walks the long verandaa^^ lying fresh and deep upon my ''You* appear- so strange, Phebe," paper: I ever look about for a husband. We Of ourwatering-place hotel, *P^ 1 childish heart, and threw myself down said my mother one morning. "I V** All the rustic Jane Amandas In one of the oldest houses on South were Mr. and Mrs. Haynes. Did that in the shade of the old orchard trees really do* not know how to understand A Japanese Curio Store. Wish that they could be so swell, suit me?" Ninth street, near Christian, lives and cobbed out the heaviness that you. I'm afraid that Mr. Haynes And her presence is so sunny, '%*$&%- A curio store that most delights my "Oh, yes, that suited me! I like pressed upon my spirits. For hours I George Rbdman, a man of sixty years, will think yon are not pleased to see As she flits about the place, heart is kept by one Hari Shin, a that!" 0$&$ lay there in themeliow September sunshine, You'd suppose the bees for honey $ him. Every chance-that occurs you who is one ot the most interesting Japanese gentleman of the old school, "Well, then, he should have to buy brooding over the little romance Would go hunting on her face. resolutely avoidant* as though he characters inthis-city. Talking with who still shaves his hair in a stripacross me a little gold ring to weakno upon my And you'd thuik, if she'dinvite your that had so silently and strangely werethe veriest monster, instead of a let folks that John Sharkey, the well known detective, the top of his head and turns tos third finger, Just to call on her in town, grown into the^woof of my almost baby dear friend, What is- the matter?" f* How immensely'twould delight you a few days- ago about the infatution it forward in the gun-hammer cue some one owned me." life. I wept Before my time for the "Nothing. The strangeness of my That's of the ancient samurai. Hari Shin, "No, I didn't want a ring!" which somemenihav for tracking delicious griefs that forever cling to a appearance is but a reflection, I cannot Mrs.'Biown. *fr despising modern ways and business "Tut, tut, tut! That would never sweet and conscious womanhood. criminals, he incidentally mentioned help it, Mr. Haynes hates and despises signs, simply hangs a huge sword over do. People who were engaged to be As your eyes in admiration I When I returned to the house Frank Rodman, and your ^correspondent me-now" I said,, burying my his gateway, and leaves one to stumble Trace her flitting here and there, married always gave such pledges. had taken his leave, but in my little tearful eyes ini my hands. finally succeededdn learning something You are lost in admiration He should speak to father about it, in accidentally upon a rubbish and work-basket he left a small pearl box, "Phebe!" about the man. Not unmingled wifch despair so that it would be all right. If he lumber-room, and take it into his head which contained a plain gold ring! Did My mother's voiee- was stern arid O'er the happiness unbounded He is the son of a former Market was willing would I wear the ring?" to pursue his wav across the garden I wear it? Assyo a woman, reader, reproachful, but I did not heed it. That the lucky Brown has got, street merchant, aaad at his father's unguided. Hidden away backjnereis "No, I didn't like rings." and ask it? And you wish the chap confounded "HeLee hate me, mother! hates me death, twenty-five-years ago, inherited a room full of old saddles and state "Wouldn't I like a ring that he When you think what you have not. n. with a a comfortable compentence and kagos or palanquins a niche full of would buy?" Oh, she's very, \ery pretty "Phebe, Phebe! mother savs come "Your pardon,. little PhebeMiss considerable real estate, which, byrapid Yet, my friend, there's not a case old banners and spears an apartment "NoI wouldn't like a ring at any down-stairs! There is a gentleman in Lesterbut he does not!" broke in advance ux price, has made him Of scandal, gossip witty piled high and hung with old dresses, rate." the parlor whj wishes to see you." the clear, rich veace of Mr. Haynes. Or the like, around the place, wealthy. He had been a great reader brocade draperies, and uniforms During his stay, which was protracted The words broke harshly into my "Of aUipersons- in the world He Not a case of wicked chatter, in his youth and has imbibed a morbid rooms filled with carved and gilded to months instead of weeks, he pleasant dreams which I had been paused, and in a moment more I When you come to sift it down, fondness for studying the ways of Buddhas divine Kwannons more or strove in every way to change my determination weaving all the long, golden July But you'll find that she's the matterIt's heard my mother step lightly from that part of the-eommnmty that preys less battered and worn, and rooms of about the engagement afternoon, in? the unbroken stillness ot the room. upon the other-. He watched au the Mrs. Brown. old china, old lacquer, and old woodcarvings. ring as he termed it. I was inexorable. my little chamber. At my feet, upon "I am not eold^haughty,and proud," records of crime in the daily journals, The last room looks upon A ring I would not wear. Not the carpet, with its leaves rumpled I said, excitedly, looking up into his and often rendered service of the utmost a little garden, which holds, of course, even when he made ready for his departure, and crushed*,, lay my neglected Virgil face, "and I do tike you just as well value in tracking important "LITTLE MRS. HAYHES." in close proximity to a huge Latin its miniature pond crossed by a stone and told me that in a few as well criminals. Having plenty of means dictionary,, while upon my lap, in a bridge its stone lantern under the weeks he should be thousands of "What, little Phebe?" he asked, of his own, lie would pack his grip-sack wrinkled condition, my sewing was shadow of a tree at the water's edge, miles away from me, nor when he eagerly, a quick expression of joy and leave on-tte impulse of the moment BY MARGARET VERNE. lying, with a needle hanging by a long and bronze storks and stunted pines piled up before me pictures that he lighting up his blue eyes. for Boston or Pittsburg to work I. line of thread, nearly to the floor, as along the slope of the small mountain, had drawn at his leisure, during the "As well as. ever I did!" I faltered. up a peculiar bit of criminal work if escaped luckily from a round of cunningly represented at one end. long summer hours that hung heavily It was an eventful era in my young "And how well isthat? So well that that delighted his fasjcy. monotonous hemmincr, which as yet Across the garden are three more upon his hands, would I revoke my daring all these weary years you have life when my father announced his intention This work has been his amusement boasted! but two stitches at its commencement. rooms of armor, coins, and all kinds decision. I would take the finely executed not cherished a dream of the future for a quarter of a century. Rodman of renting the light, airy, of ancient things, and a second story drawings, and prettily framed that did not encircle me? So well is a bachelor, who lives in the house southern chamber of our old brown "Who ean it be that wishes to see repeats all this labyrinth of rooms portrait of himself, but I would have that every strong, passionate hope of me9" I exclaimed, rising hastily and his father occupied before him, the filled with more and more curios. no rings. house to a young portrait-painter your womanly nature has reached house im which he was born, though calling after my little 6-year-old Hari Shin's was the kind of place that At last he went away from us. I out constantly to me? As well as I who was about becoming a resident in the neighbors of his youth have all brother. "Who is it, Charlie?" I had been dreaming of, and since shall never forget the morning, or how have liked, ay, loved youtill every moved westward with the social tendency our village during a few weeks of the "Don't know it's somebody. Mother thanking the accident that took me cold, dull, and cheerless it seemed to pulse of your heart beats for me? As of the town. An old housekeeper summer. Never before had an event says come down." there I have found that few knew of me. How dreary and desolate everything well as this, Phebe?" attends- to the establishment and so stirring and exciting in its tendency "Who can it be! An hour since I him and his treasures outside of the looked because he was going I covered my face that he might not, he has very few visitois. He has all had seen a gentleman with a heavily men in the curio business. My enthusiasm away. It was no every-day grief that read the whole expression of my love broken over the monotony of my existence. the French detective novels at his fingers' bearded face come up the walk, but I for the place was followed by bore down on my young heart, no in my tell-tale eyea, and be shocked end,, and among his library I saw Never before had my childish was too busy with my dreams to that of the others, and Hari Shin's childish promise that assured him, as that it had grown to be so near a wild, all the-records of crime, including the imagination been furnished with so notice him very particularly. Still, queer, picturesquely crowded and hidden-away he kissed my quivering lips, that I passionate idolatry. "Meoaoiirs of the Sanson Family" and wide a field of" action or my little as I recalled his face and figure, and place has become our distraction, would never forget him, and that I "Will you become Mrs. Haynes in the "Newgate Calender." So highly his quick, springing step, there seemed so much so that we insisted would always be, his little Mrs. heart throbbed and palpitated with truth, in earnest, Phebe?" he asked, were his services recognized under Mayor something strangely familiar in them. on dragging an artist friend there one Haynes. drawing me to my old seat upon his Fox that he was appointed a special such a strange mixture of wonder and Who could it be? My heart beat rapidly. night the minute we landed from the "Would I write to him and sign that knee. detective (under the name of i delight. A portrait painter under our Surely I had seen that face and steamer. name?" "Yes." Smith, it is said), and has ever since form before, and a name that was singularly own brown roof, within the walls of "Yes, I would." "And will at last wear the ring?" been distinguished by the official honor dear to me trembled upon my my own home-what a rare chance for "I was a good girl, then, and he I held up my finger before his eyes. of a nominal membership with lips"Frank Haynes!" would never forget me. Good-by!" "My own darling little wife at last "the force." Of course he will not Hari Shin having taken in his sword my inquisitive eyes to draw in a new Wtk But I could not go down to meet 'Good-by!'' My voice trembled and my little Mrs. Haynes, in good faith!" accept any pay, and his nominal sign when he closed his outer gate, we fund of knowledge! What an object him, though I was summoned a thousand fluttered upon the word. In my short he exclaimed, covering my lips with salary of $1 a month was for years included had a serious time wandering back of envy I should be to my little mates, tim es. I did not wish to see him kisses. life they were the hardest I had found in the incidental account, and and forth before a neighbor took pity why should I? There was no occasion and how daintily would I mete out to to speak. That night there were sly looks and added by him to the fund for providing and pounded on his gate for us. By for "it. I was not the foolish little girl During the next two years no Jady glances cast toward me at every turn, a cot in a hospital for disabled policemen. them \v hat I learned from day to day the light of their common house lanterns, of 12 summers whom he had left fiye and at the supper-table my father quite During the past year his health love could have been more faithful to held aloft on their sticks, we of the wondrous man of the wondrous years ago in short frocks and curls, forgot himself, and called me "little has not been good and he has remained her absent knight than I was to Frank wound all through the labyrinth of employment. but a full-grown woman instead. No, Mrs. Haynes" again. nearly all the time in the city. Haynes. The brightest moments of lower rooms, the lights now bringing I was not the same. I would not go Your correspondent found j|im in the my life circled about the reception of I had heard of portrait-painters before, Reader, I have been a happy wife for to view a glitterins piece of old embroidery, down. Besides, a sudden headache chess room of the Mercantile Library his letters, the greatest joy of life was some three blessed,sunshiny years, and a sheaf of spears, an old it is true, but only as I had was nearly blinding me. Mother could and made an appointment to visit in answering them. Among my schoolmates as you may have already conjectured, helmet, or the solemn face and touching heard and read of fairies in my little not ask it of me when I was hardly him at his house. I had no childish love.no juveniles "my name is Haynes!" thumbs of some great Buddha. It able to sit up. But what would he story-books, or listened to my father to wait upo I me to sleigh-rides was a melting July night, and although The long stories that he told me think? Would he care? Would he as he talked of kings and courtiers in and parties that the children in the attendants following us fanning, we cannot be repeated here. They were Skeptical About the Telegraph. still remember tenderly the little Mrs. neighborhood delighted in. If I could the great world afar off. Upon our wiped the perspiration from 'our face all part and parcel of the last quarter Haynes of five years ago? i A Government surveyor engaged in not go and come alone I would remain and eyes, and continued roving, fully of a century's record of crime. It is parlor walls from my earlirst remembrance exploring some portions of the public Little! I repeated the word as I at home, whatever might be the inducements repaid by the fine effect of the lanternlighted needless to say that he has theories had hung portraits of my domain had for his guide an Indian stood before the long mirror, which offered to tempt me from scene for any discomfort we of his own regarding every undetected gave back to me an accurate picture named Black Beaver. Beaver had visited grandfathers and grandmothers, but my unswerving course. I was little suffered. When we had gone the fust crime that has occurred in this country. of myself. A slender, passable form St. Louis and the small towns on the Mrs. Haynes, and little Mrs. Haynes I had no idea how their faces came He begins with the "pretty cigar round and paused at the garden's edge a dark, clear complexion large, gray Missouri frontier, and heprided himself I was bent upon remaining. girl" murder at Hoboken,for the solution to catch a breath of air, one member stamped upon the dark canvas, or eyes a mouth whose redness seemed no less upon his aceuantance with the But while I was in the very midst of of which he has framed a structure of the party, a Japanese gentleman when or by whom their shadows had to have robbed my cheeks of their customs of the whites than upon his my heroic devotion a terrible rumor of interesting theory that excels who had resided for some years in the color white teeth a forehead broad, been fixed within the heavy gilt frames. knowledge of the country then being reached my ears, a rumor that Frank Poe's "Marie Rouget" and acquits United States, and acquired the right but not high large, heavy braids of traversed. He never seemed more Like the trees that waved by the Haynes, my self-appointed lord and Hamilton and Anderson of idea that it was the greatest and only chestnut-brown hair, was the likeness happy than when an opportunity was master, was engaged to a young and any knowledge of the poor girl's country of the world after Japan, proceeded door, and the lilacs that blossomed framed before my eyes. I turned offered for him to show his superior beautiful lady in the city. It was a death. The Nathan murder of 1870 he to take Hari Shin to task for every year by the old gate, they had away with a sigh, and glanced down to knowledge in presence of his own people. dreadful blow to my precocious hopes regards as "the most beautiful case of hiding himself and his treasurs so my hand. Upon the third finger of the to me always been so. The following, from the journal this century. He did nothing about and plans, though for a long while I completely away from the general left was a plain gold circlet. The hot of the official, shows varying degrees But now my eyes were to rest upon it, however, as he was engaged in Chicago battled against crediting the report. eye. To all suggestions Hari Shin blood rushed up into my cheeks as I of credulity among the natives: at the time, and when he returned Hadn'l Frank told me that he would the lace of one whose existence had was deaf and obstinate, insisting looked at it. I would wear it no longer. he found the reward so large that never look about for a wife? That I It so happened, upon one occasion, that he preferred not to be been like a myth, a fable! What a He should never know that I had "every vulgar fellow who could shadow was the only little lady who should that I had a Comanche guide who bivouacked advertised and known to curious worn it at all. Just then my brother wonderful personage he would be' an ox cart was at work on the case on bear his name? Didn't he write me at the same fire with Beaver. tourists and the mob. He said that came again to the door of my room, What a dark visage he would boast, his own or somebody's account." He regularly every fortnight, commencing On visiting them one evening, I he sold enough to the dealers of his own cryina out a new message. declares that the real detective must his letters "Dear little Mrs. Haynes," and what a monstrous, giant-like found them engaged in a very earnest, country, and then as a pardonable be a gentleman by birth and education. "Mother says little Mrs. Haynes is A and telling me to be faithful to him? and apparently not very amiable, boast said that he had lately been exporting form! How entirely unlike every person One story that he told, divested wanted down-stairs." Andandwould he do this if he was conversation. On inquiring the cause a great deal to a foreign country, II that I had ever seen or known of many interesting but not vitally "I have a terrible headache, Charlie. engaged? No, not a bit of it! Some of this, Beaver answered, "to Austria," in fact. would be this portrait painter. important incidents, will bear telling. Please tell mother so," and I sank one had maliciously lied about him, "I've been telling this Comanche "To Austria!" cried our Japanese Twelve or fourteen years ago a copy While these speculations were at down upon a chair close by the window, had manufactured the story from their what I seen 'mong the white folks." friend, with affected horror. "That is of the Picayune fell into Rodman's their height in my busy brain,thehero and leaned my head upon a chair own wicked imagination. I would not "Well, Beaver, what did you tell of no good. The Austrian*? are a hands, and he there read the details of made his appearance, scattering them handle. belilve it, though the whole world him?" queer kind of people, not quite civilized. the trial of a young girl, at New Orleans mercilessly to the four winds. There "Dear, dear! if they would but forget stood up before me and testified to its "I tell him 'bout the steamboats, You should export to America for murdering her lover. The was nothing giantlike in the lithe,graceEul me'" I murmured to myself, as the truth. and 'the railroads, and the heap o' and get Americans to come here. crime was apparently of the most cold figure that sprang from the village hum of their conversation came clearly As it to reward me for my faith, and houses I seen in St. Louis." Theirs is the richest and largest blooded character. Evidence seemed soach, or dark in the pleasant, boyish to my ears. An hour passed away set my prejudiced little mind to rights, country, and they can appreciate "Well, what does he think of that?" to show that the young woman, who face, shaded by soft masses of brown and I heard the sound of voices in the the next coach sat Frank down at our your fine things. "He says Vze heap fool." previously had borne an irreproachable hair, and lit up by a merry pair of hall, then steps in the walk below. I door. He thought he must come and Though Hari Shin's face showed some "What else did you tell him about?" character, had lured the young blue eyes, running over with mirth did not glance eagerly from the window, see his little wife once more, he said,as interest at hearing that his best customers "I tell him the world is round, but man to a secret meeting place and and mischief. His name, too, quite or peer carefully from the halfclosed I went timidly forward to meet him, were barbarians, he betrayed he keep all 'e time say, 'Hush, you there knifed him. Rodman was very like the generality of names, had shutters, but clasped my hands though he thought it very bad taste but little interest in the suggestion fool! Do you s'pose I'ze child? much impressed with the case nothing wonderful of striking by tightly over my eyes till the sound of in me to grow at such a rapid rate. made to him to enlarge his trade, and Haven't I got eyes? Can't I see the and especially with the resolute footsteps died away in the distance, which to characterize it. He He was afraid I'd grow out of my *j[ we left him standing in his one gauze prairie? You call him round? He conduct of the accused girl when then I crept stealthily downstairs and was simply Frank Haynes, nothing engagement he should have to put garment and gun-hammer coiffure, a say, too, 'Maybe so I tell you somethink arrested. She had positively refused stepped softly into the silent parlor, more or less, and when, with a pleasant, a loaf of hot bread on my head fine type of a conservative Japanese you do not know before. One to make any statement whatever. where so lately he had been. I was easy grace, he sought to win my to keep me within bounds. We of the original old school in which were time my grandfather he make long The more the detective thought half across the room before I noticed childish favor I "should have been had been engaged two years I was 12 trained the soidiers,nobles,and rulers, journey that way (pointing to the of it the more certain he became, without that I was not alone, and then, before quite at home had not the stunning years old, and a head taller than I who so long kept outside natidns at west). When he get on big mountain, any light from the the evidence to I could make a hasty retreat, a glad, knowledge of his art overpowered me. was at 10. He was going to Europe bay.Kobe, Japan, Correspondence he seen heap water on t'other side, influence him that she was innocent. merry voice, rich with its golden music, It was a strange freak for a child of to stay three or four years what of St. Louis Globe-Democrat. just as flat he can be, and he seen the He had never been in New Orleans. He exclaimed: "My own dear little Mrs. ten summers, but somehow it crept would I be when he returned? He did sun go straight down on t'other side.' caught up his grip, took the night express Haynes, as I live! How happy I am into my baby brain that I must not not dare to think. He believed I I then tell him all these rivers he seen, and went. The sickness of a to see you!" and a hand clasped mine What Can Done on a Bicycle. like him, although the while, in spite would be as tall as he by that time. juror had caused an adjournment of all 'e time the water he run s'pose the tightly, while a pair of bearded lips of myself, a preference for his opinions, Hartford Daily Times. Wouldn't I? the trial for a week. world flat, the water he stand still. were bent down to mine. I drew my ways and looks, grew up strong within "I hoped so," I answered, tartly, After the races Canary came on the Maybe so he not believe me?" head back haughtily. I was a little me. If he spoke to me when any thinking the while of the story of his tracK, radiant in a maroon velvet I told Beaver it certainly looked Rodman went to work. No motive child no longer. I would not accept, one was observing him I was silent engagement. jacket and lavender tights. He showed very much like that. I then asked for the girl's act existed. That had even from him, the caresses that he and shrank away from him timidly, "Whew! You are taking on the airs some wonderful things that may be him to explain to the Comanche the been the weak part of the prosecution, had bestowed upon me five years be-, r&fr-'*^ but when we were alone I chatted and of a fine young lady already, my little done with a bicycle. Before he got magnetic telegraph. He looked at me but Rodman's investigation developed fore. shirruped like a young robin. I think Phebe," he answered, laughing heartily. through with his exhibition, no one earnestly, and said, the fact that the murdered man had he must have noticed this, and from "You wouldn't give me one of "Ah, Mr. Haynes," I said, bowing "What you call that magnetic telegraph?" betrayed a sister of the accused when woidd have been suprised if he had it taken, into his head the boyish idea your brown curls to-day, if my heart in a dignified way, "I am pleased to the family lived at Natchez. This was thrown aside the wheel and ridden of teasing me. see you." should break for it, would you?" evidence against the girl, and his faith I said, "You have heard of New around on the air where it had been. To him, he said, I was little Phebe "No, I have none to spare." My manner chilled at once his warm, in her innocence was sadly shaken. York and New Orleans?" His best feats were- Riding with small Lester no longer, "now that he knew "Not one?" genial nature. Stepping backward He was about to return .home as he "Oh yes," he replied. wheel off ground. Backing with small bow much I cared for him. For the "Why?" from me and releasing my hand he did not want to supply any evidence "Very well we have a wire connecting wheel off ground. Swinging in small iuture he should call me Mrs. Haynes "'Cause said, with a curl of his finely cut lips: to the State. But he decided to visit these two cities, which are about circle on the big wheel only. Facing little Mrs. Haynesand should be "Your pardon, Miss Lester I had "'Cause what?"'' the girl in prison. He could only look a thousand miles apart, and it would backward and riding forward. Standing very angry if everybody in the house quite forgotten that you bad grown to "Because she has heard strange reports at her she would not say a word. He take a man thirty days to ride it upon up on saddle. Sitting on saddle, iid not follow his example. I must be such a fine lady!" ?|r of you, Frank," broke in my would then have sworn to her innocence. a good horse. Now a man stands at the machine being still, and balanced. not ever have any little beaux among He settled down to stay the mother, mischievously. "She hasn't I bowed him back a reply, flashing one end of this wire in New York, and Machime upside down, mount the big the schoolboys now that my name was case out. In short, after the girl's any idea of letting you rob her of her a quick, impetuous glance upon him by touching it a few times he inquires wheel, turn the small one over into changed but I must be prim and prop- conviction he found the sister, curls while she doubts your sincere allegiance asldidso. But there was no pleasantry of his friend in New Orleans what he place, and start off. Removing the 3r like any married woman who was whose identity had been lost, to her. She is a lady of spirit, attempted on his part, and had for breakfast, His friend at New faithful to her husband. small wheel, ride the large one backward and extorted from her the confession when my mother entered the room a you see." Orleans touches the other end of the "Would I agree to this?" he asked. or forward. Lay handle bar on that she had learned otthe appointed few moments after and referred, laughingly "On my faith, she is!" he exclaimed, wire, and in ten minutes the answer I glanced up from the hem of my the ground, mount the big wheel, reach meeting between her pure sister to our engagement, he answered gayly, fixing his blue eyes upon my comes backham and eggs. Tell him white muslin apron, which I had been and the destroyer of her life that over and get the bar, and start off. her in a few evasive words, as though face. "And I trow I'm in love with that, Beaver." |l listing about my fingers, to meet my she had supposed it meant the ruin of the subject was not anagreableone to He succeeded on the third trial and her for it. Never mind reports, my His countenance assumed a most mother's eye fixed laughingly upon my Clairette she had burst in upon them him. was cheered. little lady." comical expression, but he made no face. In a moment my lips were closed and stabbed "the villian to death. Affairs had taken an unhappy turn, I answered only by a curl of my lips, remark until I again requested him to Then he removed the handle bar, resolutely, while he, seeing at once the Then she had learned from her agonized but it was too late to remedy them, while he reached out his hand to draw repeat what I had said to the Comanche, leaviug only the big wheel which he sister that the meeting had been 2ause of my silence, reached out of the and day after day passed away, leaving me to a seat upon his knee. when he observed, rode. Next he removed the treadle made to find her (the murderess'] window and plucked a rose from a Mr. Haynes as cold and distant as "No, I won'tsit there!" I cried, pushing No, captain, I not tell him that, for from the big wheel, and, mountings whereabouts. The agonized mother running vine that crept nearly to the he had been from the moment I first away his hand, while the tears, I don't b'lieve that myself." propelled it with his hands. Next he of the two girls was dying of consumption mossy eaves. repulsed him. I would have given which had been crowding their way Upon my assuring him that such stood upright, hands in air, and rode and she had prayed to see her "Little Mrs. Haynes must wear the worlds to have recalled my unlucky into my eyes, gave a sudden dash down was the fact, and that I had seen it, the wheel. Then he brought out a erring daughter before leaving the rose, he said. "It would never do words yet, since they were spoken, I my burning cheeks. I'll never sit there he said, common wagon wheel, placed his feet world, that she might-reclaim the lost for her to toss her head and throw his would not unbend a moment from my again, never!" "Injun not very smart sometimes on the hub on either side and propelled one. For this purpose the pure sister rifts carelessly by. All women wore calm, cool dignity, though was as "My dear ltttle Phebe!" i *e he's big fool, but he holler pretty loud it with his hands. He closed by had sought the meeting that had miserable and wretched as I could be, Bowers which their husbands gave There was real pathos in his rich, you hear him maybe half a mile. You brought about the man's death. The laying the wheel flat on the ground, and knew that Mr. Haynes shared my them. Wpuld I wear the rose?" manly voice, aquick, penetrating, surrised say 'Merican man he talk thousand death of the mother removed the only suddenly pulling it upright, springing wretchedness. Se I glanced about the room again. look in, his clear, blue eyes, as miles. I 'spect you try to fool me witness, besides the prisoner, who on and riding away. This waataudly My mother was nowhere to be seen, uttered these words, followed by a All the time that I couid spend in now, captain maybe so you lie," applauded.