OLDACUOUNTS.' and torment him, but with a br^ter money must be still there. Alas!,it swei 20OFeet Above the WTfc speaking more at ease, "and I hoped, inward visage, and a heart moze was only too true! Then, for the first agitation. And you played billiards with a besides, that each day things would* Eopes 1 Boston Times to "Sew York Son. .F ure. Above all, with the New Year's 4 time, the real sense of his position brighten. But they turned, alas! from A Story of the New TearBread Cun Upon Capt. Frank Martin, the keeper and blessings. brother officerand, in his after distress, flashed across him. He did not thiuk baa to worse, until the bitter end arrived. the Waters Returm.^|-,^,||y|:, of the Minot's Ledge Light-house, is jm returned him the money you or care for himself. But his wifehis IP CHAPTER n. M*Vvt J?*3?f able to leave his post for the first time had wonsaving him from futura misery darling wife! That was her money, "And you have borne this load of CHAPTER I. ^r- It is sixteen years after the events and despair?" since the great storm. The storm was her one and only means of support, The scene was Washington the time sorrow all alone?" she said, reprovingly. recorded in the previous chaptersixteen "I did," replied John Landor. which she had counted on, and on surpassed in violence only by thegrea "My poor love!" Christmas the year '62. It was an intensely eventful years, which have "And it was one of the proudest and whose security she had doubtless He drew her to his heart and told one of 1851, when the first Minot's '&. cold and bitter nightso cold brought with them the usual changes happiest moments of my life." lived since he had left her. What her that he had not known, till Ledge Light-house was carried away. that are born of time. that, in spite of the bustle and excitement Grasping John Landor by the hand, would she do now, in these hard now, the depth of her devotion and her No other light-house in the world is so John Landor, merchant, of Pearl the stranger exclaimed, in a voice times, confronted by the sorrow and which usually prevailed until love. exposed to the mercy of the sea and street, New York, was between forty scarce audible from emotin, "I am anxiety which his rash and heartless "And now," she said, "we will send the latest hoursfor they were sleepless wind. The pinnacle of the structure and forty-five years old with dark Lewis Fairborough!" And before act would bring? away the servants and rent a cheap times, as many can remember, hair and eyesthe former turning towers nearly two hundred feet above John Landor could reply he siezed upon God knows how much he suffered. apartment elsewhere and I will give fast to greyand a distressed expression the street were almost wholly deserted, the notes, and tearing them in a the waves, and yet the tremendous God alone, who reads men's hearts, music lessons, while Eva stays at home of countenance which reflected hunflred pieces, threw them in the fire. and exposed to view but a few to attend to the children. was witness to his grief and sorrowing seas dashed fifty feet above the peak. mental care and trouble. It was 5 "There! the debt is paid!" he exclaimed, remorse his anguish and despair! He told her, with a thankful smile, stray individuals whom actual necessity Captain Martin related his experience o'clock in the evening and although "and I am thankful that it He was suddenly roused by a knock that things could never be so bad as and that of his companion in part as had called abroad. The rest the office had been closed two hours, is in my power to render you some that. at the door, and before he had time to follows: and he had no particular business to were closeted indoors and, judging by service in return, my noble-hearted old answer, a man entered and stood before And then he told her of his future attend to, he still sat there, apparently "The gale began on Sunday night, fellow." And he rung his hand once the light at the windows, were endeavoring him. It was his late adversary, hopes and plans. unconscious of the time, or of the wind blowing from the northeast, more. the author of his ruin. "We are confronted by a heavy trial, to banish from their minds all aught else around him. It was all veering to east-northeast, and then His first impulse was to spring upon and our duty will involve much bitter "Mr. Fairborough, said John Landor, sense and recollection of the outward the stranger, too, as most of the back again. From Tuesday night to him, or to order him away but there sacrifice. But let us trust in God, and "I knew you the "very moment houses were already closed, and the Wednesday night the gale increased gloom. Yet there was little cause for and be brave. And it will all come was something on the man's bearing you enteredand Heaven knows I streets were becoming less and less constantly, and on Wednesday night joy, many a household mourned, many right at last." which arrested the feeling, and reduced wished you to remain in ignorance of crowded every minute. Yet still he we could not sleep on account of the She pressed his hand, and then she our acquaintance. I am still your a heart was crushed with woe. But him to silence. All he did was sat, in the same position, and in the noise. Everything placed against "the drew the picture of their future home, creditor, althoughpointing to the to point to a chair, and to inquire, in the season was imperative in its same reflecting attitude as before. walls rattled, and the thunder of the with all the altered details of their fire as he spokeyou have destroyed a voice hoarse and tremulous with Better, he thought, to stay and sea was terrific. On Thursday morning claims, and shed the halo of its comfort lives changed in respect to worldly the wiitten proof of my indebtedness emotion, what further business he suffer there alone than carry home between 1:30 and 2 o'clock, I was over all, forming a bright parenthesis station but as truly blessed and to 3-011." could want with him. his tale of woe. And yet he must tell on the watch in the watch-room just happy, and as fruitful of internal good between the two eternities of "You will pardon my intrusion." them, come what may. For in a few below the lantern, where a sea struck "But I am rich," said Lewis Fairborough, as any lot in life could be. said the other, in a calm and almost past anxiety, and the dark and withering days all would be known, and his the tower, the heavest up to that with sparking eyes, "and He was resigned and trustful now, sympathetic tone, "and I trust respect credit, reputation, fortune swept time, breaking heavily against the part, at least, of my acquired wealth uncertainty which veiled the future. though, doubtless, care and trouble the motive which has brought away. He had done his utmost to solid granite wall, and dashing its I owe to you. Your generous conduct I is not, however, in the private parts lurked within, but under the control,' me hither. I was a witness of your avert his fall. But each fresh venture spray and ioam forty or fifty feet sixteen years ago was the means of of the city, nor in a private house, the soft, benign control, of nobler feeling. agitation and distress just now, and which he had made had failed his resources above the pinnacle. The spray from saving my beloved wife, who at the attributed it to the loss which, I regret nor even in,, a private room, that, our had grown feebler and feebler, nearly every wave broke over the time was lying dangerously ill, and And thus the old year yielded to the to think, you have sustained until, at length, ruinactual ruin tower, but none seemed to have had who would probably have never recovered story opens, but in one of the public new. through me. I followed you upstairs, stood before him. a force equal to this. We thought it but for the ease and comfort resorts of the most public thoroughfares "It willnot beashappy as thelast," and"the speaker was embarrassed the heaviest gale that the lighthouse which that sum of money was enabled He was married and had a wife and which at that particular time John Landor said, as he embraced his for a moment"and was induced from had ever experienced. Stilt to ptocure. It sa\ed me, too, from five cnildren. This was the bitterest wife the following'morning, "but God's were thronged day and night by eager, what I heard to follow you inside. I the wind kept increasing and sickness and despairfor had I lost part of all. He loved them fondly blessing will attend it all the same. acted with a soldier's impulse, which I the shocks were of greater power. At her then under those most cruel circumstances, anxious crowds, discussing the events and devotedly and as he pictured to We have commenced it well, and let pray you to forgive and I claim from 2.30 p. m. on Thanksgiving Day, and I do believe 1 should of the day and the probabilities of the himself their grief and sorrow, and the us only carry out our good resolves you a soldier's frankness in .return." just about high tide, another tremendous have died or fallen victim to a desperate hardships which they might be forced morrow, with the stern, excited interest looking the future squarely the wave struck the tower, still He paused for a moment, and then fate. You saved me from them to undergo, he clenched his fists and faceand we shall come out from the of the times. heavier than the one in the night,' both and I have prospered ever since. pursued: bit'his teeth in blank despair. trial with as much profit and honor. starting the paint from between the At the conclusion of the war I entered On the particular evening relating to "Tell me why this loss has caused He was a proud man too. and as 'Prosperity is the blessing of the old cracks theceilingofthewatch-room^ my uncle's house at St. Louis, and become, events we are about to describe, this you such distress? It cannot be for honest as he was proud. He could testament, adversity is the blessing of and moving the top tier of a pile of in a few years, a partner of the hotel was more than usually crowded. the mere money your look and attitude not bear to think of any loss inflicted the new,' he added, quoting one of his boxes containing five-gallon cans of firm. The house is now my own. I Soldiers had arrived from camp and disclaim it. There is some deeper in his name, and was determined to favorite essays 'which carrieth the oil stored in the oil-room. Soon afterward am rich, and yearn to give you some tiad taken every vacant room in the motive in your heart, and it is that submit to any sacrifice, even of a personal greater benediction?' I have often the-gale began to abate, and by substantial proof of my gratitude. building, and in addition to soldiers which I entreat you to disclose." The and private nature, if only he thought of that in trouble." mid-night it was clear weather, although Will you deny me this opportunity, Were contractors, sutlers,paymasters, young man was sitting with his face could vindicate his honor, and avoid there was a heavy cross sea under circumstances so momentous as "It shall be our present hope and and other public characters whom the buried in his hands, apparently unconscious the slightest stain upon his commercial still running." the present' You surley cannofcs consolation," she exclaimed, "and we times had assembledalas' to the detriment of what the speaker fame. And so sit down, I pray vou, and tell will never let the thought of it de- of the times! Many of these said. But he started up at the "Was there any peculiarity about As yet he had said nothing to his me the whole history of your troubles. part." were lounging in the hall of the hotel, concluding sentence, and, regarding the gale other than its length and I am here as a friend, not as creditor." wife. He had put off telling her,thinkingalas! discussing noisily the latest events of him with fixed attention, said: CHAPTER ni. force?" vainlythat they would the war, and predicting all kinds of "You wish to know the eause of my Strengthened by his wife's support John Landor heard, but was unable "Previous to this, in all gales since improve at last, and the impending imaginable issues while the rest, or distress? It is, upon your word, a pure and resignation John Landor left on to reply. He spoke some incoherent I have been in the light-house, I danger pass away. He had found it greater number rather, were smoking and friendly motive which induces the succeeding morning and, entering words, intended to express his have noticed that the heaviest waves hard to play the hypocriteif he had and chatting in the large billard-ioom you to ask?" thefcffice. awaited with calm and tranquil grateful sense of so much kindness, come during the last three hours of the loved her less he would have felt it of the establishment, engaging in the "It is indeed," he answered, earnestly. but he could not speak outright. heart the first disclosure of his ebb tide or the first three hours of the lessand to support so great a load game itself, or grouped around the "Have faith in my sincerity, and The words would not come they remained fate. It was not long before it came. flood. In this last gale the sea* were without her loving sympathy to share players who were most distinguished tell me all." rooted to his heart, and After he had written a few letters, and heaving at about high water/* it was about as hard a fate as he could by thn skill, and who afforded special "Well, then, I will. .That money" would proceed no further. A bright arranged some papers which related to damage?'r "Did the tower suffer any bear. interest. and the tears glistened in the speaker's and overflowing feeling took posession his present state, a stranger entered, "A careful examination inside, and He resolved accordingly to acquaint Among the latter were two young eyes"was what I had been saving of his soul. He felt that his trial was and introducing himself in John Landor's as well as could be done under the circumstances her,to disclose to her that same evening officers, one twenty-eight or thirty at an end, and his salvation nigh. for my wife. It was her sole resource presence, laid upon the table outside, failed to discover the actual state of his affairs, and years of age, the other between twenty in all the worldand I was to four notes which had matured that They conversed together for a long any injury from the gale or faults in the personal sacrifice which they involved. and twenty-five fine, manly fellows, have sent it her to-day." day. John Landor regarded him attentively time, each aquainting the other with the structure. It is apparentlv as He did not for a moment both of them, who had done brave "Your wife," exclaimed the other, for a few seconds, and, as he his individual historysince the evening sound to-day as when it was built, and doubt her courageher cheerful resignation service, and who looked prepared to with surprise. they had first met and at. length withdrew his gaze, a stiange and bitter not even a pane of glass in the lantern and submission to the change encounter as many hardships and "Yes, my wife." And this cruel loss returning to the present circumstances smile escaped him. was broken. There was some waterperhaps but he trembled in anticipation of dangers as the country might still this rash and selfish act of mine which had so auspiciously brought "Your check, please, for twentyseven half an inchon the lower the shock the first disclosure ^would further exact of them. The darkness exposes her to what I dare not think together. thousand five hundred dollars." floor, which found, its way in around convey, and the dread, anxiety that of the one contrasted strongly with \jjithout a groan. She is alone and The time had come! For a moment "First of all," said Lewis Fairborough, the windows." must ensue. the fairness of the other, and at times friendless, and II her husband, who John Landor hesitated, and then, in allusion to his friend's affairs, "Do you think this eale was the Firm in his resolve,however,he closed imparted to his featuresespecially would give my life for herunable to turning pale, with a sudden and painful "I wish you to go straight home and heaviebt since the gale was destroy- his desk, and, passing out into the when he frownedsuch a stern and avert^her beggary." effort, said. "It is my painful duty acquaint them with your change of ed?" street, proceeded up Broadway on his sinister expression, that many would "I am truly sorry," said the other fortune and on your way deposit to inform you that I am unable to "Yes, without doubt. Mr. A. H. journey home. have judged him, although perhaps "truly, deeply sorry. I too, have a this cheek which I am about to wiite honor them. As my failure is not yet Tower, a storekeeper in Cohasset,tells It was a cold and bracing evening, unjustly, inferior to his adversary and wife and God knows how I should to your order." reported I must myself declare it now. me that he remembers the great storm clear and sparkling overhead, and the unworthy of any sympathy as regarded suffer if she were exposed to any bitter I know not how I stand at this particular He sat down as he spoke, and presently of 1851 very well, and that by his stars, superbly glittering, returned the contest. loss through me." handed to John Landor a check moment, but there are a few marks the water was a foot lower this each passing salutation with a smile. The latter was all frankness and He was silent for a few moments, for $50,000. assets still remaining to my credit, time than then, and that this last was How much he needed sympathy good nature, with a soft and almost and then said, brightening up as he which I will make available without "You can accept it as a loan, if you the heaviest blow/" then! He thought of the loving, kind feminine expression of countenance, spoke: delay. To-morrow morning I will like," said Lewis Fairborough, with reception which awaited him at home suggestive of much feeling. They were "Will you promise me, on your word send you a full statement of my affairs, a smiler "and, should that not suffice, his wife's sweet greeting, and the both of them deeply interested in the as a soldier, to abstain from all Didn't Own The Trunfe, remember that there is the same and, I trust, arrange them on a satisfactory children's shouts of welcome. The tame. So equally were they matched, gambling for the future?never, as amount at your disposal." basis as regards their future At one of the stations of the San very thought of them was happiness. that it seemed as if the issue merely long as you live, to play for gain, if I settlement. Meanwhile, allow me to "God bless you! said John Landor, Francisco and Northern Pacific railroads, His wealth might go, but they would hinged on some chance stroke or opportunity, return your money? Will you promise, express my deep concern for the loss as he pressed his hand "God bless a few Sundays since, an elderly still remain. They were ^iis richest which usually decides the me this''*" which this disclosure will inflict onyou you!" And in another moment he gentleman got off the cars to take treasures, after allhis greatest comfort Contest between even players. Both "I will most solemnly," the young was off. and if I can in any way allay the apprehensions brief observations during the stoppage and his sweetest blessing. They were playing with the greatest skill nian answered. And he clasped his it has caused I shall only He first deposited the check and of the train. The assistant at were all the dearer to him now, and and caution, and the plaudits of the hands in token of the vow. be too thankful to do so. My books then, with a beating and exultant the station rushed out and made a the sense of their united love would tockers-on whenever a brilliant stroke "Then I will buy your promise," heaH, proceeded home. He could and papers are at your inspection." regular baagage-smasher's attack on make the trial easier for all. It might Itvas scored increased the zest and said the other. "Here, take this money hardly speak for a few moments, but "But it is hardly credible!" exclaimed a trunk, which he slammed about with be but a short one in the end. He tordor of the combatants. There was it is yours'" And as he spoke he held his wife in his- arms,, at last exclaiming, the stranger, with a look ol a reckless disregard for consequences. would work with greater ardor than (mite a erow assembled round the handed him the sum which he had lately "We are saved!" wonderful surprise. "Your notes The old man interposed "Young he ever had, and in a little whilea table, and such was the excitement won below. have been endorsed by some of the Then he sat down and told them all 9 man won't you break that trunk few years at the latesthe might recover which prevailed on every side, that The young man sprang forward,and first houses and I was assured that of the scene in the hotel, and the The "young man" turned a withering all his present losses. It would large sums of money were already stretching out his hands, received the your credit stood as high as that of stranger's deep distress of his retwrning look upon the old gentleman, and impudently ba but a temporary abandonment of Staked on the result. The interest of sum with trembling joy. him the money which he had intended any other corresponding firm in the inquired, What the matter their old home, their habits and ways i the game, moreover, was increased by "Mine?" he exclaimed. "You return foi his wifein. exchange for city." with you, do you own this trunk?'* of life things would all come right at Ashe large amount which was staked by the money you have wonwhich you his written promise never to play So it did, said Landor, faltering. "No sir'" came back in a tone that last. And in the fervor of his brighter Tihe players themselves. This was have fairly and honestly won? Impossible'" again for gain. Then of this same "No notes of mine were ever presented evinced much indignation, "but I'll heart and feelings, he quickened his their second game and the light-haired stranger's entrance in his office but an for payment that were not honored have you to undeistand, sir, that I pace, and struck out manfully for combatant, who had won the sympathy "My friend," said the other, seriously, hour ago, bearing his own notes, which on the spot." own this railroad." As Col. Donahue home. and confidence of all from the he was unable to ied*em of the stranger's "I give it to you in exchange for "Then to what do you attribute moved back to the train the limp He arrived at the door as it was sudden recognition, and his gener commencement, stood fair to win the your promise. Remember that in exchange vour inability to pay in the present young man reclined against the station, instance"1'" asked the stranger, looking striking 6 o'clock. His younger ous conduct in destroying the notes, Sum of $500 on the issue. He won it for your promise. Take this tor suppoxt.Healdsburg (CaL)/* children ran to meet him, and climbed followed shortly after by his princely and again challenging his opponent, sheet of paper, and sign your name more and more puzzled. Enterprise. upon his knees, and threw their arms loan. commenced a third game. The stakes below." "Partly to the failure of a house in arouud his neck to demonstrate their were doubled, and the excitement rose He &at down at the table, and wrote which I was largely interested, and "And the name- of this unselfish, joy. Hejkissed them fondly one by to such a pitch in consequence, that as follows: wnose notes I hold to-day," John noble man?" inquired his wife, still Tlie Pale, Wan Clergyman* one, and then proceeded, with an aching the more prudent of the lookers-on began "For the sum of $2,000, value received, sobbing in her joy. Landor answered, with a sigh "but heart, upstairs. Miring the recent lecture here in to murmur and disclaim among I pledge my word of honor, as chiefly to the depreciation of my own "Lewis Fairborough,'' he answered, He met his wife on the way. She Pastor Conwell's church, at Berks themselves while bolder members followed a soldier and a man, never to play stock, which since the recent failures with a smile. had heard his voice and was coming ajb Mervine streets, the Rev. T.. D- the example of the players, any game of chance for money. So in England, I have been obliged to sell "I will trea5ar& it all the rest of my down herself to greet him and in another VYitt Talmage related a little incident ioubling their stakes, and taking a help me God." life," she fervently exclaimed. "My at a loss." moment sne was in his armc. that will bear repeating. He- was closer and more personal interest in He handed the sheet to the young husband's friend and saviour!" "Then it is only a temporary embarrasment?" "You are late, darling," she exclaimed, speaking of a brother clergyman who the proceedings. This time fortune man, who signed it, and returned it to inquired the stranger. "I knew he was a noble fellow at reproachfully. "We expected you ur was very thim. "One day," he added, declared itself in favor of the dark contestant. the writer. "I trust it is," replied John Landor, heart/' John Landor said, referring two hours ago. There is nothing "as the preacher was walking along He did not seem to be the It bore the name of "Lewis Fairborough," to the scene sixteen years ago. And calmly "although I have incurred wrong, is there?" the street near his home he* was better player of the two, but he played and the date31st Decem- this is the result! How little I thought enormous losses." "I will tell you by and by," he stopped by a man of sobust proportions. more carefully, was more at ease, and ber1862. at the time that he would one day be "Nevertheless there is hope," said answered, forcing a smile. "Wait till fead his feelings under strong control. 'Are you the clergyman? living "And now," he continued, rising as the means of saving me'" the stranger, cheerfully. As far as I the children are in bed, and we can His adversary, on the other hand, was he spoke, "let us shake hands, and in this neighborhood who the people am concerned the loss will not effect "And now," said his wife, "if trouble have a quiet talk alone. I have not becoming more and more nervous and wish each other a happyit is a say is dyhacof consumption?' inquired comes to us again, I trust we may be my credit, and after a time the notes time to tell you now." sxcited,anti altogether less reliable he strange expression to use in these excited, the hearty-looking individual, at the found as redily prepared as we have will doubtless recover their face value. She looked up at him, and, with her was losing his self-mastery besides and troubled times, but I will use it same tim* taking are ample survey ol been to-day." I, for one, can wait." He was looking 4I don't woman's tact, perceived that there playing wildly and extravagantly as neverthelessa happy farewell and the divine's meagre- frame. closely at John Langdor all the time, But they have not been visited with) was a trouble in his heart. "Well," & his better judgment had forsaken best and truest wishes for the new know, brother,' meekly replied the as it struck with some awakened further trial, and the two families often she replied, "don't think about it now, him. All this, combined with the effects year." see each other, visiting and revisiting. clergyman 'but I have been preaching thought or sudden recollection. whatever it may be. Let us go down of the wine which he was freely The young man grasped the hand John Landor has prospered Tneir eyes met. the gospel at this weight for fifteen to tea, and, after supper, Eva will drinking, tended to convince the lookMrs which was extended to him, and said from that hourthanks to the kindly "Pardon me," said the strangar, years, and many"s the tisne I have give you some music. oiuthat he would have but little in replyhis voice constrained and generosity of his friend and the thinking he had given John Landor conducted funera3 service* over just After supper they ascended to the chance if he continued and those who faltering with emotion: strength he has acquired throughout pain "but your strong resemblance such a,big, healtiy brother as you. ill parlor, and, according to custom, John had lately bet on his success moved "I shall never forget my promise, his short-lived troublehis trust and to a valued friend of mine, whom I The robust individual said not a word, Landor had prayers. He prayed with moodily away to other quarters. nor the debt of gratitude I owe you. resignation and resolvewill avail had not seen for sixteen years, made but thoughtfuliy walked away.". special earnestness that evening, and him in each after care, and guide him And if the time should ever come Before commencing a new game a me forget for the moment. The resemblance Philadelphia Bulletin. several times his voice faltered. Even safely through the rougher, darker when you might wish to claim a corresponding Brother officer stepped up to him, and is extraordinary," he resumed, baby wa impressed, and, after prayers phases of his future. act from meand I could drawing him aside, endeavored to lead "something quite extraordinary. were over, ran up to him and Christian at Work. By means of a new and ingenious almost Avish that it might comecommand him away. It was of no avail. After May I inquire whether you threw her arms around his neck in machine wood intended for papei me, and I will obey." challenging his 'comrade to play another have ever served in the army? It is sympathy. He kissed her and took pushp is shavied off so finely that it is The other smiled and once more game, he continued the contest Wases of the various grades of help no common motive which impels me her on his knees, while Eva played for ready to go at once into the boiler shaking hands with him, withdrew. *nd lost. Again he played, and still in Californfa: Cooks,$240 to $720 a to ask, believe me." him his favorite pieces and when the The machine takes a log twelve inches 3\ Before retiring, the ,young officer the same result until, at length, his yea~ nurses, $18Q to 360 housemaids, John Landor started and after child had gone his wife sat down beside *n length, which it revolves at a speed wrote a long and loving Miter to his last remaining sumwhich he had 180 to 300 coachmen, 360 hesitating for a moment, responded, him and whispered words of comfort of 1,000 revolutions per minute, and wife, acquainting her witfF all the details staked with "trembling handswas to $720: butlers, $500 to #*00 Chinese "Yes." in his ear. a sharp, cutter shaves off a shaving so of the evening, of his rash and swept away allall he had in the cooks and general servants, $240 The stranger regarded him all the At length they werealoneand then, thin that it ^ould take 750 ol them selfish folly, nis after sorrow and remorse, world, and he and fate were left to to $420. Even a child of 14 cannot closer. '*f? in a calm and manly way, he told her to make an inch, a nicety of executior his subsequent deliverance Sght it out alone. be hired as nurse under $120 a year. "And you were in Washington on all. which maybe judged of by the fact through the nobleness and generosity A murmur of sympathy 'arose from the night of the 31st December, 1862?" The tears started to her eyes, and that 200 sheets of ordinary paper ar of his conqueror, and of the solemn Salmon was once a favorite dish foi the crowd as he retired but he took "I really* cannot recollectyou she would no doubt have broken required to majce an inch. pledge which he had given, never, as the* Christmas table. An old superstition, tto notice Of it. He .walked, or staggered must be mistaken, sir," returned down but remembering his own heaviness, long as he lived to play again for gain. long believed in Monmouth rather to the extreme end of the John Landor, avoiding a direct repjty. and anxious to avoid him any After that he slept, and awoke refreshed shire, held that every Christmas morning Boom, and there sitting down, enleavored "Pray let us talk of other mattejes." The Germans are drying immensi kj*i further pain, she smiled and kissed him and morally regenerated, as a large salmon exhibited himself in to collect his scattered "We will in time," replied the stranger quantities of potatoes for their fleet $& tenderly. "And why did you not tell if a loada heavy loadhad been remoyed, the river near Aberavon, and permitted thoughts. "but first of all. answer my question. me this before?" smiling sadly through The tubers lose 65 per cent, in weight. *3&i$ and his conscience cleared of himself to be handled. No one, fljHe could not realize hisloss at first, You were in Washington on the her tears. but are as good aa fresh ones when ?k?l every strain. And so he Jeft with no however was so impious as to capture ind put his hand in his pocket, think- night of the 31st December, 1862?" i*4*l "I had not courage," he replied, ugly shadows of the past to darken used, the pious fish. ,w^ bgitwasaU a dream, and that the "I believe I was/* John Landor an-