A p W%f?S^MmiMim 'jar ^KS S* The Hessians as Th ey Were. with the unheeded check still between J- 3%i Things Compressed. the office to the private room. Mr. "We are to be married shortly," WHAT MY LOVER SATO. The diary of Capt. Pausch, commander his fingers. Brown looked after him. said that gentleman promptly, completing ^^/s^m^^tt^fH The fine,st church in Buenos Ayres is JJt of Burgoyne's Haynau Artillery, IV. the sentence. 'He's a queer one," he soliloquized. called the Church of the Remembrance. By the merest chance, in the twilight gloom a manuscript of 170 pages, Elinor Cragsby sat with her friend "He's been here four or five years, and The blushing face, the downcast In the orchard path he met me-*- It is of pure Roman architecture, in lound in the State Library at Cassel, and companion dreamily gazing into he takes things as coolly, as if he had eyes beside him confirmed the statement, In the tall wet grass, with its faint perfume, Italian marble, and cost about $250,- ind a copy recentlv secured by Lol. the fire. After a while the elder lady if, indeed, confirmation was And I tried to pass, but he made no room been here all his lifemore coolly, in 000. It is the property of Senor Don Oh, I tried, but he would not let me. Stone, on which treasure-trove tne needed. Mr. Golding waited to hear looked up from the book she was reading. fact. Half of us would have gone to Carlos Guerrero, a wealthy citizen, So I stood and blushed till the grass grew red, Nation of October 15 has a threecolumn no more, but, turning short on his Golding full pelt, but not he calch With my face bent down above it. who erected it as a memorial to his editorial. Capt. Pausch heel with a muttered execration, left "A penny for your thoughts, Nell!" him hurrying. I can't make him out," While he took my hand, as he whispering daughter, who was murdered by a rejected the room and the house. journal is naturally most copious The girl started at the voice, and and with this candid admission, Mr. said lover about ten years ago. iescribing the three battles in which the words had to be repeated before Brown turned his attention to his How the clover lifted its pink sweet head, To listen to all that my lover said! ae and his famous battery bore an, she seemed to understand them. letter-writing. An alarm against violent exercise is She Was Watching Bill. Oh, the clover in bloom! I lo\ it. "I'm not sure," shesaid meditatively, active part namely, the naval action Meanwhile Gilbert Renshaw had entered sounded by the medical and surgical Atlanta (Ga.) Correspondence of Macon "that they are worth the sum." the private room where Mr. against Arnold oil Lake Champlam, examiners. They say it may be accepted Telegraph. In the high wet grass went the {.athtohide, "Then," said her friend with a smile, Golding sat alone. and the battles on the 19th of September as a truism that any nature or And the low wet leaves hung over, It was in the gallery of the house. J^3 "without wishing to be uncomplimentary "You have kept me waiting, Mr. and the 7th of October, which But I could not pass on either side, amount of exercise that will cause the The legislature was in session and the to the subject of them, I Renshaw." resulted in the surrender of Burgoyne. For I found myself, when I vainly tried, heart to jump or thump against the railroad bill was up for discussion. think I can guess their direction." "I regret to hear it, sir," was the [t, however, dwells freely on the personal In the arms of my steadfast lover. chest-wall i3 exercise carried, to an excessive Two old country ladies edged down, "I wish I could make him see how quiet reply, And he held me there and he raised my head, experiences of this officer and alarming extent. The and after much wriggling got seats. While he closed the path before me useless it is," the girl broke out, apparently The chief shifted in his chair, and and his men, and one gets glimpses And he looked down into my eyes and said One was stout and prim. There was athlete and the slugger, for this reason, irrelevantly. looked up at the young man. Of all aito the private life of these execrated How the leaves bent down from the boughs a look of defiance in her pale eyes. are short lived. "He doesn't wish to see that," said his clerks, apart from the important Hessian soldiers, which makes o'erhead Every feature seemed to be on the offensive. her companion. As I have often told question of their "market value," Dne lament their hard and unhonored To listen to all that my lover said. Norristown Herald: "The new Without speaking a word, you, it appears to me that he has deliberately Gilbert Renshaw was the one whom !ate. The author says naively that, Oh, the leaved hanging lowly o'er me! special delivery service is a great she seemed to say from head to foot, resolved to succeed in the he most disliked. tvhen on detached service with an English boon," said a Norristown young lady "Yes, lam here, audi have never been attempt to win your regard, and he is "I have sent for you, Mr. Renshaw," I am surethatheknew,whenhe held me fast, force who were ignorant of German, recently, sticking a 10-cent stamp on here before. Now, what have you got not a man of fine feelings. Nothing resumed the chief, "to point out an That I must be all unwilling as he was of English, lie felt, with a letter directed to a female friend in to say about it?" For I tried to go, and I would have passed, short of absolute discourtesy or rudeness error of yours in these papersan David, "like a pelican in the wilder- Philadelphia, said missive conveying As the night had come with its dews at last, would repel him, unless indeed, it error which might have involved grave The other was long and angular. ness." His men, In their hard voyage And the sky with its stars was filling. the important intelligence that the were the presence of a successful rival," consequences." She seemed to move in the magic circle aver, in a ship which had been a But he clasped me close, when I ould have writer was out riding with Charley she added in a lower and a meaning Gilbert Renshaw bowed but said of the visible authority exercised by fled, Suinea-slaver, -never forgot to sing and had an invitation to attend a tone. nothing. The eiror thus magnified into her companion. There was a meek, And he made me hear his story, levotional hymns morning and eveningthe wedding so much importance, was in reality And his soul came out from his lips and accommodating look in her tired There was something in the last sentence offering due to their Mighty said a trifling oversight, and was for the brown eyes, and the althea snuff stick that brought a flush to Elinor Protector." Arrived here, many of The manager of a circus which has How the stars crept out when the white most part the fault of ajunior. This, thrust between her lips barely quivered, Cragsby's face. She rose from her seat them were in hospitable from diarrhea, moon fled recently visited Canada says: "No- probably, Mr. Golding well knew but she chewed so gently upon it. She and moving toward thewindow.stood "and their homesick talk, night and To listen to all that my lo\er said. where else in the world are audiences as the papers would come before did not gaze about her much, but fixed looking out. Sudddenly she uttered an Oh, the moon and the stars is glory! iay, as long as their breath held out, Renshaw for revision, he choose to her eyes upon the throng of legislators so interesting to the performers. In exclamation of annoyance. Her friend was of brides and wives, fathers, assume that the entire blame rested below. Her faded shawl drooped back, 1 know that the grass and the leaves will looked up. Quebec, Montreal. Hamilton, and London, mothers, brothers, sisters and other with him. The young man was at not tell, revealing a faded calico dress, and a "Here he is!" said Elinor, as if in notable fugitives from United relatives left behind in their beloved And I'm sure that the wind,precious rover, once too high-minded and kind-hearted battered reticule of ancient date was answer to the look. States lawsuchasEno, Mother Mandelbaum, Haynau." It was hard lines for Will carry his secret so safely and well, to exculpate himself by accusing his clasped in her hand. "Lah, Sal,"she A smile played for a moment around and I suppose not less than them indeed. The shame of their That no being shall ever discover junior, and in a few words expressed suddenly exclaimed in a whisper, "If Mrs. Seafortli's lips, then vanished. 50 moreare pointed out to the ring One word of the many that rapidly fell being here was not theirs, but the his regret. there ain't our Bill down thar!" "And "Shall I leave you?" she said, halfrising. From the eager lips of my lover. people by some resident person. caitiff king's who sold them to the It must not occur again, Mr. Renshaw. why not?" said the prim lady aloud, And the moon and the stars that looked These exiles are sure to go to the circus English, to fight against the liberties' twisting around and facing the people over to relieve the tedium of life in their "Noon no account and Elinor, of a brave young nation. Gilbert bowed, but made no reply, Shall never reveal what a fairy-like spell onns the other side. "Williarm Toddle- uncongenial cities and they are interesting smiling herself.in spite of her vexation was elected te speak fo Snapdoo They wove around us at night in the dell, and then, after taking his principal's k: "Theirs not to reason why, to showmen, just as big financial recrossed the room, and with gentle In the path through the dew-laden clover directions, left the room. dle county." A dozen pairs of eyes Theirs not to make reply, rogues are to all Americans." force pushed the elder lady into her .Nor the whispers that made my heart swell Mr. Golding looked after him with Theirs but to do, or die." were fixed upon her. She reiterated: As they fell from the lips of my lover. seat again and then resumed her own. an annoyed expression on his face. The New Orleans Picayune says: "A Both officers and men were cavalierly "I say, why not? William Toddlekins Scarcely had she done so when the "If I catch you tripping again," he queen bee lays from L\000 to 3,000 treated by their English comrades, was elected to speak for Snapdoodle M0KE OF MY CLERKS." servant announced "Mr. Golding," muttered to himself, "you shall suffer which sank deep into their martial county. Why shouldn't he be here?" eggs in ninety-four hours. It is not and that gentleman entered, all bows for it my friend." souls. English officers could command The faded woman went down into her necessary to ask 'How doth the little and smiles. But the days went by, and for a Germans but German officers could satchel for another dip, and said: busy bee?' She doeth well, and should "Ellen," he said, attemptingto take time his vindictiveness remained without have no authority over English soldiers: "But who'd er tho't Bill Toddlekins be a shining example to the lazy hen From Household Words. her hand, "you must know how long an opportunity to exercise itself. and an attempt was made to would evei er got in the legislature. that can only be induced to lay one I. and how devotedly I have been attached deprive Capt. Pausch's men of side He was shrewd enough, however, to What's he goin' ter do anyhow. egg in twenty-four hours, and then to you, how I have longed for 'Thei'e was much speculation and arm when off duty. Pausch testifies wait his opportunity. And that was "Do? Why gracious alive, Mrs. Bettie, only when eggs are cheap." the hour that should enable me to suppressed excitement in the office of call5 to the Yankees, or "rebels," as he not long in coining. One Saturday afternoon he's goin' ter give them railroad approach you and offer myself as a It is worth remembering taat during them, firing so well at Valcour Island, he happened to want Gilbert Messrs. Cragsby and Golding, Colonial men fits." Again the prim lady fared suitor for you hand." under Arnold, as to sink one of his for some purpose, and sent for him. the fiist visit of cholera at St. I the surrounding company and bobbed Brokers, of Fenchurch Street. Mr. He paused to note the effect of this vessels, and firing when their own were The young man could nowhere be Petersburg, in 1832, says Iron, a firm her head defiantly. Cragsby, for many years the senior decoration which, in reality, he had sinking. How bravely, in this single found. Mr. Golding glanced at the of iron founders employing five hundred "What'us Bill know 'bout railroad?" partner in the firm, had just died, and carefully prepared before he reached line, does one see these comrades ol clock and frowned angrily. asked the faded lady, puttingthe cover men informed them that all those the house that evening. But he learnt our gallant forefathers disappearing the conduct and management of affairs It was just ten minutes to the time back on her snuff box and closing her who would not take a teaspoonful of I nothing from the contemplation of from mortal sight to people the reahu at which, their work being done, the had thus devolved upon Mr. satchel wihout even a snap. "Las' powdered charcoal on entering the the face before him. It was slightly of impelishable renown! clerks were entitled to leave. Some time I haw 'im he couldn't drive a steer 'Golding, who was now sole partner, works lfc the morning must leave their averted, as was natural, but in no were already closing their desks and 'round the post office corner. Bet he employ. The consequence was that and also nephew and executor to the wise did its fair owner seem discomposed. making preparations for departure, couldn't go 'round a railroad bend an' they did not lose a single man when Mr. Golding began to feel a A Woman's Colonj. 'deceased. The event had caused in but the sudden appearance of the chief find his way back. myriads were dying around them. little uneasy, and a new idea for the in the outer office galvanized them into -the office a feeling of unanimous regret. Mrs. Olive Wright of Denver say.? Further conversation was shut off. first time flashed upon his mind. renewed activity. A kind-hearted Tlie Hartford Times has the following for just then Bill rose to his feet, and that there is to be a woman's colony Could there be another? It seemed senior in the meantime surreptitiously interesting paragraph: "Jay combing his mane more or less gracefully in Colorado, and talks in this \vay too absurd, but it would not be dismissed. While by nature a just man, Mr. dispatched an officeboy to the restaurant with his left hand, "sailed into the Gould's ancestor, Nathan Gold, was about it to a reporter of the Denver He rose from his chair and which Gilbert generally frequented, Cragsby had been an unusually kind railroads." He stamped,he raved,invoked the richest man in Fairfield, Ct., in Tribune-Republican: 'In the first place bent over her for a last appeal. but the well-meant effort was fruitless. oneso far, at all events, as those the constitution, he foamed over 1670, and was an Assistant of his there are a great many eastern women "Can it be?" he murmured half reproachfully. "inalienable rights," and moaned colony (an office answering to Senator whom he employed were concerned. "Have I a rival?" who have capital to invest, and who Mr. Golding walked across the office when he spoke of an oppressed and at the present day). He died in gieat A man of high principle and strict probity, As the words left his lips, the room desire to put it into something which to the farther window, which, the down-trodden people. And e\ ery time honor and respect as 'The Worshipful door opened, and a voice announced he never made his own uprightness house being a corner one, commanded "will benefit women. They can't do anything his good right arm sawed the air, the Ma]or Nathan Gold, Esq., in 1694.' "Mr. Renshaw." At the sound Mr. the length of the street, and stood and rectitude an excuse for like that in eastern towns, because prim lady bounced around end gazed His son, Nathan Gold, died in office Golding, with a sudden start, faced looking out. Suddenly he uttered a defiantly upon the assembled company. popular prejudice is against it. severely judging others. As one of his as Assistant Governor ot Connecticut round, and to his utter astonishment slight exclamation, which drew all But the faded lady merely chewed Getting out here will grant them room clerks put it, "Cragsby was strict, but in 1723. The latter was grandfather beheld before him, smiling courteously, eyes, with glances more or less furtive, upon her althea mop, and said and liberty they can do what they of Colonel Abraham Gold or Gould i you couldn't help liking him. for he and with outstretched hand, the to the window. Theie, at some little nothing. She was watching Bill. like,and I think they will like to do considerable. (Jay Gould's great grandfather), who man whom he had dismissed from his distance, quietly strolling along, was would never find fault without a I have the authority )f several was killed at the battle of Ridgefield, service, whom he had even spoken of Gilbert Renshaw. Unconcious of those cause for it." This necessarily ensured How a Master of Ceremonies Got gifted and wealthy women in Boston in 1777, the place where he fell being contemptuously to Elinor herself as watching him he paused at the corner, him the respect and liking of those Even With Miserly Guests. "one of my clerks." shown to the present day." and New York on this question. 1 looked at his watch, and, after a moment's who were under his authority. "A friend of yours?" he said interrogatively, hesitation as if uncertain what know whereof I speak." Major Devlin, U. S. A., had for several lie- In 1863 the Rev. Newton Chance, of but in a tone that sounded course to pursue, turned into a side years been stationed at San "Where do you propose locating this Another circumstance which added Texas, killed an editor in Sherman strange his own ears, and caused street and disappeared. colony?" Antonio, amosdepot quartermaster. IDO his popularity was the fact that wras a amiable gentleman and moved to Mississippi. At that the other three to look curiously at III. "In the beautiful smiling valley ol He ant he disliked making changes in the arrangement time he was a lawyer, but becoming him. wr the San Luis. That is where I and had made himself very popular Monday morning came, and to the converted, he entered the ministry. of the firm. Having once The girl blushed, smiled, but did not to pitch a tent, the work in which amoug the citizens by many acts of amazement of each and all Mr. Golding Recently he returned to Texas, and answer and Mrs. Seaforth, who had shall redound to the honor and glory courtesy. It was therefore with regret employed a man and found him trustworthy was first at the office. The junior's, risen and approached them, came to while on a visit to Sherman was arrested of women. Rich women will bu.ld up that the citizens learned Colonel Devlin who were naturally among the Mr. Cragsby preferred to retain her rescue. the colony, and poor women will come for the murder committed had been ordered to Portland, Ore. earliest, were warned by the housekeeper him, even though the salary paid "Mr. Renshaw was a friend of Mr. here, and establish industries by which As soon as the-date of his departure in a mysterious whisper that tw enty-two years ago. continously increased. This gave a Cragsby's and is still a friend of ours." to support themselves. They will likely was made known, several prominent "the governor was there." A greater Sir Arthur Bass (of Bass's ale fame) "Mr. Renshaw," said the other, feeling of security to clerks and warehousemen engage in bee culture, silk culture, citizens made up their minds to tender degree of order and silence reigned "probably has good reasons for his the raising of domestic animals, .the Colonel Devlin a farewell banquet. A has puichased Chesterfield House, for that morning than was usual. which remained undisturbed friendship. Fortune-hunters usually manufacturing of preserve* and jellies meeting was privately called for the One by one, as the clerks came in, nearly one million dollars. In the till the death of the chief rudely have." and various other similar industries." purpose of soliciting subscriptions, the various posts were taken up. By hands of a famous architect it will be awakened them, when they remembered Gilbert Renshaw took a step forward. and this matter as well as the other the senior clerk's desk stood Mr. Golding, Somebody asked her the other day restored to its old-time glory, and how different were the views and "That is true as a general statement, arrangements were placed in the hands a hard, pitilessas expression chiminon his if men were to be excluded from the among the restorations will be the just nine \r Mr. Golding," he said, with all his of Fritz Bender, a German resident, wr opinions of the junior partner, who face. The clock women's colony in the San Luis valley famous mantelpieces which were taken former easy indifference, "but it is not a who went around with a subscription when the door swung open, and Gilbert colony. She replied that was the by Lord Chesterfield to Bretly. woul now hold undisputed sway. true, if you will allow me to say so, in list. Renshaw walked in. He glanced queerest question ever put to her 3Tqr Mr. Golding was accustomed to this particular instance. I, personally, round, evidently rather surprised at said she didn't think barbed wire "How are you coming on with the "That Presidential Grub." .rate his social inferiors by a very different am not a fortuhe-hunter. Perhaps seeing Mr. Golding, and then walked fences would have any effect in keeping banquet?" asked Sam Bennett, one of you know of some one who may better scale. Each, in his eyes had "a toward his desk. Ere he had taken men out of that colony, and she the committee. When Vicksburg fell, President Lin deserve the name?" three steps the principal's voice checked had no idea of keeping a dozen sturdy "Ivas disgoosted," replied Bender. market value." That was his phrase. coin wrote to General Grant, "I now him- "You were my clerk," said Golding Ama/ons on watch, as the fair ladies "Dose rich peeble vat should pay five A man might have served the firm wish to make personal acknowledgement with a bitter sneer "what are you did in the "Princess." It is understood "You need not trouble to open your tollars, dey comes mit one tollars. well and faithfully for twenty or thirty that you were right, and I was now?" there will be plenty of men on desk, Mr. Renshaw. But never mind. I gets even mit dose years, but this, in Mr. Golding's estimation, hand in the immediate \lcinity of the "I will tell you," replied the other in wrong This frank avowal was misers. Shoost vait," and Fritz winked Gilbert turned round, still more surprised sunny San Luis about the time the the same unruffled tone. "As you gave him no claim to regard in a mysterious manner. at this intimation. prompted by the fact that -the President famous colony is started. This rather rightly said, I was your clerk, and it Mr. Golding had walked across the The complimentary banquet was a or consideration. had doubted the success of knocks the poetry out of the scheme, came about in this way. At my father's office, and the two men stood facing grand affair. The wealth and fashion But, as almost always happens, Grant's campaign, though he had but its practical advantages may thus death, the property to which I each other. One glance at the stern of the Alamo City was present. The there was one person with whom his be enchanced. Men won't have anv succeeded was somewhat encumbered. wisely kept his opinion to himself until face, those cold, keen eyes beiore him, banquet consisted of eight courses. rudeness of manner was veiled by glory down there anyway they will Your late partner was an old friend of and Gilbert saw the other's purpose When the third course, which consisted then. But an anecdote, told by -courtesy, his asperity softened into "if have to resign themselves to being ours, and he suggested that I should in a moment. ot fish and oysters, was brought on, mildness, by the desire to please, and General J. H. Wilson, in the October overshadowed from che beginning. obtain a situation for some few years, Every one in the office looked on, Fritz Bender got up, and in his deep this person was the daughter of the Century, brings to light the fact that, They will do nicely to fill in the background, leaving the property thus to clear itself either stealthily or openly, with interest, voice said: late partner, and consequently his and may sometimes be in by applying the income to the extinction magnanimous as was the letter, the and every one was puzzled by "Dose schentlemen vich has subscribed cousin, Elinor Cragsby. trusted with the duties of under stewards. of the debt. To simplify matters, the way in which the young man one dollar to dis complimentary capture of Vicksburg brought a new For some years, Mr. Golding had As for figuring extensively, he kindly offered me a position in maintained his usual air of easy indifference. banquet to dot Kernel Devlin vill cherished in his inmost heartor perhaps anxiety into Mr. Lincoln's mind. i their sex is against them, and they his own office at a good salary, stipulating But Mr. Golding gave but blease go avay and not come pack any it would be better to say mind Mr. T. R. Jones. United States Marshal will be kept down. that nothing should be said or little time for speculation. more. Dose schentlemen vot has subscribed than hearta liking for her favorable for Northern Illinois, and a warm i known of his long friendship with "You left before the time on Saturday, two dollars can keep on eating aregard. As yet, however, he had not friend of General Grant and of President our family, lest it should be thought Mr. Renshaw?" till I dells 'em to vipe off their chins .achieved any marked success, but he Lincoln, was present at the surrender The Widow's Wit. he might favor me. I accepted the "About ten minutes before two," and clear dot banquet hall out. Dose -was of a dogged, persevering nature, of Vicksburg. Soon after the post. In a few years, as we planned, A dashing Washington widow, whe answered the other. high-toned schentlemen vot has paid and did not despair. The match marshal's return to Chicago, the President my property was unencumbered, and "And your reason for doing so?" five tollars can stay righd here, and had received marked attentions fron would be a very advantageous one, telegraphed him to come to your sudden dismissal of me simply "My work was finished and I had eat so much as dey wants." a very popular and gallant physicianfound for Elinor was, by her father's death, Washington. On his arrival, he was anticipated my own resignation by an important engagement." It is needless to add that this was herself suddenly deserted. Her placed in possession of a considerable met at the station by the President's two or three weeks. You see, Mr. "Indeed!" answered his employer. positively the last occasion that Fritz Esculapius, aged 52, was completelj, fortune, which would be of use in extending carriage, and taken directly to the Golding, while I give you lull credit for "But I do not allow any one of my Bender was asked to officiate as mas and improving the business. White House. enthralled by a beauty of 18, and ou' having intended to injure me, I can clerka to keep important engagements ter of ceremonies. "For," as Mr. Golding was wont to Christmas morning the wedding toofe Mr. Lincoln, havinggreeted him cordially, very readily treat with indifference a till the office is closed, and as I aay to a few friends, "Cragsby was a led the way into the library, place with all due pomp. Wormwood course of action that has ended in you have thought fit to leave at They Didn't See it at First. good fellow enough, but slow and oldfashionedcouldn't closed the door and said: for the widow! She swallowed ij failure." your own time, you will not be keeppacewith the "I have sent for you, Mr. Jones, to From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. bravely, wore an undaunted front surprised if I inform you that As Gilbert ceased speaking,he glanced .age." And now that the game was in know if that man Grant wants to be and Avas among the first to offer hur* A joke is a mystery to some people I shall not need your services meaningly at Elinor, who, with Mrs. his own hands he began to launch out & President." ried congratulations to the hapj In a certain court in this State tht longer. This is the amount due to Seaforth, had stood quietly by. It more boldly. But tq do this required "No. Mr. President," replied Jones"Are proceedings were delayed by the failure, pair. The conversation turned UTO you," and Mr. Golding held out a was evidently no news to them, and capital, and this, if he could but win you sure?" of a witness named Sarah Mony to arrive. slip of paper, but Gilbert made no Mr. Golding", as his gaze travelled Christmas gifts, and the- bride said his cousin's regard, was ready to his "Yes," said Jones, "perfectly sure After waiting a long time for movement to take it. from one face to another, saw that laughing gayly: "All my wedding pres* hand. Elinor's personal attractions, I have jttst come from Vicksburg I Sarah the court concluded to wait no his efforts had been in vain, and that "I understand you, Mr. Golding ents were sent just before Christmas which had in reality at first captivated have seen General Grant frequently, $h longer, and wishing to erack his little success was hopeless. and I am as ready to leave your service so on Christmas morning I had not "a him, would havebeen almost sufficient and talked freely with him, about that joke remarked: "This court will adjourn But the whole matter was so utterly as you are to require me to do single gift." "Ah! nry dear, tjhafc $$ to induce him to seek the" alliance and every other question, and I know without Sarah-mony." Everybody unexpected that for a moment he felt so. Technically, you are in the right, p ?but Elinor's wealth was irresistible. cruel you had me." said the bride, he has no political aspirations whatevei\ laughed except one old man, who that it could not be really true. He and I therefore opologizefor having deprived groom, reproachfully. Before the wet and certainly none for the Presidency. sat in solemn meditation for five turned to Elinor. you of ten minutes on ty bride co^tld answer, the widow's His only desire is to see you minutes, and then burst into a hearty Satuday. My presence, doubtless, is "You knew of all this, it seems?" MiC "Renshaw, the governor wants you," re-elected, and to do what he can under eyes grew dangerous, and, swingim guffaw, exclaiming: "I see it! Iseeit!" not very agreeable to you, bub we "Yes," she said, but speaking in so .said one of the seniors to a young your orders to put down the rebellion, slowly her-large fan, she murmured When he went home he tried to tell the may meef again before long should low a tone that he could scarcely catch man who,bending over his deskf 'ap- and restore peace to the coun- joke to his wife. "There was a witness "Surely, my dear Mrs-X., you should such an event happen you will please the words "I knew of all but it was peared so intent upon his occupation try-" named Mary Mony who didn't come," be more than satisfied, for YOU knoM understand that the interview will not my father's wish that the matter that the other had to repeat the words, said he, "and so the court said: 'We'll "Ah, Mr. Jones^said Lincoln, "you antiquities are aft tbe rage." In tht be of my seeking.^Good-day, gentlemen should not be mentioned. That, of and in a louder key, before any notice adjourn without Mary-raony.'" "1 taken. have lifted a great weight ol! my mind, and with a comprehensive course, was sufficient You would, awful silence foftowing^theAvidowrose a!^*8 don't seeany point to that," said his and done me an immense amount of glance and bow to the amazed onlookers, however, have knoSvn it before long, carefwjly arranged hr draperies, an*! *r\ Then Gilbert Renshaw, with a briei wife. "I know it," said he, "I didn't good, for I tell you, my friend, no the young man turned and quitted torfor boiared her adieu in stately serenitr "Thankyou, Brown," put his work at first but you will in about five man knows how deeply that presidential the office, leaving his employer standing, She hesitated, and cast an appeal* Di\X.and. bja brUte never retu^ei .Carefully aft'his desk, a^d locking it, grub ena.w& till he has had it hhn- as much astonished as any one, ing glance at Gilbert. minutes.' |pi M'urned and walked quietly across **lf."