mmmmmmm wjggi^w&hdPk&f* mmmmmmmmmm "-wv-ij' y%BP "SB*M ^w^jy^ i_j.jnwyWWf) gI MVER TEMPTEBHER!" lent man was not like the genial, sunny-natured "Very well, I will go there." AMERICAN PECULIARITIES hear yow talk in your old sarcastic GLADSTONE IN THE HOUSE. man that Crossley "had *iN She ordered dinner for two sent to tones again it makes me think you're known. them. XTFO Xbung: EngHahmen Write a Idttl not so bad, and that I had my fright he American Rural Home. 9%^. How He Dominates the Entire Assembly He was not popular with the ladies, While dining, ne said: Booh. for nothing. But I had an experience His Power in Debate. -fts They stood looking at each other." for he did not smile and jest, and "You must go to-day and select a the other day," he continued. "One In a little book entitled "So English" shower attentions on them as they London correspondent of The New York Her trembling Iiands were firmly suitable dress. You shall not come of my swagger young dudes took me are set forth the impressions hoped for. He treated them with to me in mourning." Times. '^clasped in his slim brown ones. aside and said he wanted to say something, and experiences of two well-born, wellbred grave politeness, but it was soon She smiled slowly. It was so sweet There is an indescribable fascination and hoped I shouldn't mind. His dark eyes burned with sup"pressed young Britons, who, having known that he was not a marrying to know that he would soon be her 'Fire away,' I said, 'I like listening in watching the great man as he sits reached the last ditch of aristocratic passion and bravely-borne man. legal lord and master, as he had long whereupon this proper young man, impecuniosity at home, come to America toward the outer end of the governmen "V mental anguish. At the end of two years he received been in spirit. this book of etiquette upon two legs bench listening toa "debate. It in pursuit of fortune. One o* this letter: He accompanied her to purchase the Her blue ones widened at the horror and a silver-headed cane, proceeded to may be that this is, not his invariable them is a merry, happy-go-lucky "They tell me I shall never get well. suit. At firsst she demurred. tell me, that I had committed a social *r ol their position, and darkened with rule, but at least I ha\e never happened young fellow, who says nothing about I want you. But if you feel you cannot "People may talk!" crime 'for,' said he, 'I think I saw to see him in the house in any other the unspeakable despair that had settled his pove.-ty, makes friends by the bear the partingif you feel that "Valeria, what are people to us? We you walking with Brown the other garb than evening dress, -with a wider do^en, becomes a pet in society and on her soul like a black pall. it is best not to see medo not come!" are all the world!" day, didn't I (now Brown is ahorse expanse of shirt front than is ordinarily finally marries an American heiress. He did not go. So she submitted. She a wifethe wife of a coarse, bru- dealer.) 'Yes,' I admitted. 1 plead die9" wotn even here, where very The other, of a different type, more "How can I see her Two suits, a grey ana a warm Drown guilty to having walkedhe with, \J*t* tal man, it is trueAnd he, her friend much linen is the fashion. He leans said reserved and less enthusiastic, does Human hearts are curious things. were laid out for her inspection. 'Well,7 years. Brown. What then?' ft back comfortably, with one thin leg \2t not take kindly to the unfamiliar She preferred the grey. 'people don't like that sort of thing & over the other, and with his eyes musingly Eight more years- passed. ways of a stratge land, refuses to present '""^T) Without one wdrd, one act, the "No," objected he, "it is too old! out here. People receive you, you fixed on the great mace on the A great yearning to see his old home his letters, and, after a struggle Take the brown with the garnet collar know, and are awfully civil to you", of knowledge had this day come to them table before him, when in repose. The took possession of Manly Cresswell. to maintain himself by writ'ng, dies and cuffs!" course, but they expect you not to be that they were dearer to each other full top light shines on his long, bald "Perhaps I may see her grave. O piteously ol consumption in his poor She laughed outright. seen in public with fellows in trade crown, his clustering gray side locks than the laws of man would allow. Valeria, would God I had died instead lodging. To th personage are ascribed "But I am too old." like that.' 'But,'said I amazed, 'didn't and his shirt front, anct makes him TTP s,poke. of thee!" He looked at her. most of the discontented comments we meet at Mrs. Robinson's the other the conspicuous object of every eye. "He was welcomed home cordially, night, those awfully rich people, on Americans and American "I will take the brown suitbonnet -'ou think I am a good man?" About 10 or 11 o'clock in the evening but no one recognized in the bearded, and didn't the late lamented Mr. Robinson life. "If I am really asked," he says, and all," she told the clerk meek- OFPK dothe best, grandest, noblest!" he always writes his daily letter to 3ilent man, the once good comrade, make his money out of horses?' "what strikes me in particular it is the queen, using a pad on his icnee nd you know there never will be Manly Cresswell. 'Ah, yes,' drawled my mentor, 'that's Then she paid the bill, left her number, the extraordinary patience of the and a quill pen, and it is one of tne vppiness for us together?" ay that very different, you know it's years "And where is your wife, Cresswell?" and they went out into the glorified Americans as a race." wr most familiar of his curious Nor apart!" since the Robinson's retired from business.' "I have none-" sunlight once more. this occupation never prevents 'Well,' said I, 'I confess I can't ''After to-day w must never meet "What! Are you a bachelor yet?" "Now, let us settle about our home. his hearing acutely ah thatisgouuon. see the distinction, though I do observe ain!" "As I have said." I shall not return to South America. Take a tram-car, for instance. All at once you will see him stop wi iting the difference, which is that Robinson she raised her streaming eyes to "Not even a widower? Without a I have sufficient fortune for you and Look at tbe poor, patient people who and screw his head to one side hke op mayknow made his money, and Brown is sweetheart?" me, and I suffered too deeply there submit to be penned together like a very wise old bird, and you th now making his.' *Yes, that's the -gThose tears! "No widower, and no sweetheart. ever to eare to return. Where would osomethingt that he has heard sheep. They trample on each other idea.' was the reply, 'but you see it's tev unmanned him. Tell me of all my friends." you go? Will you wish to stay here which interests him. If the speakins in the meekest manner at the slightest ht S awfully different, and one has to be r\R. A Mth a wild impulse, he put out his "They are all here." in Waco, or return to Crossley?" happens to be unusually good he will word of commend from their shepherd, very careful not to know outsiders.' ns and drew her to his side, almost "None dead? None married? None alte s3 thee She clung more tightly to his arm. turn and looku orator in the shape of the conductor, steadily, Well, Charlie, I thanked him for his cely. He crushed her slight form gone?" Whe "Neither. Let us make a new home in^s- who shouts, "Move up there,." "Go up 4. o-u J. as delighted at the discovery of new Offli his heart, "Let me seeyes, Rosa Tate married you and I." to the end," "Make room in that cor- tale I jrj- "Valeria, I cannot bear it! I must andpondered.1 soon after you went away. I believe awvindlnL awaSy "Where?" ner," and so on, the obedience and discipline go!" you loved her once?" "I have always loved Louisville." lion prp positionand attackinname the him,ofe these customsi are perfect, and, to my absolute legionare "Not I. The only woman I ever "Manly, mustl tell you to go? Must "Louisville it shall be, then," and D- shame, I look around upon the Before Antietam. arily draws his head down into his loved died years ago." you up forever?" she moaned, he looked at her so fervently, she began unruffled countenances of the passengers, andd collar and looks stonily at them but Gen. John C. Walker contributes an "Now who could that be?" tting her arms about his neck, to be afraid that he would kiss di and reah/e the fact that I alone if the assault be from somebody worth one "I'll never tell, and you could never article on the Antietam campaign, entitled Offiopping hei chestnut head his her there in the street. feel irritated. It quite annoys me, as listening to, say Churchill or Smith, he me!" guess. Any more news?" "Harper's Ferry and Rharps- Her landlord regretted to lose so ias NEW I used rather to pride myself upon my listens more graciously, expressing on "Wellyes, perhaps you remember speak,th quiet and such a promptly paying burg," to the June Century from it ledid not only held her more good temper. And then walking in his strikingly mobile face as the indictment did^ that drunken fellow, Crabbeyes, well boarder as Mrs. Crabbe, but he'cheerfully we quote as follows: sely. He not say, "Fate is the streets, people jostle and push, goes on all his emotionsamusement, he went to Waco, Texas, about eight furnished all the information and "Ge or,'"Wbywill The next day we reached the neighborhood 1'" be happy in our but no one seems to mind. I have observed interest, dissent, indignation, or years ago. The doctor thought a AttO ?mpt her word or act to break help the "South American" desired, of Frederick. I went at once i a man almost shoved into the scorn, elation. No great actor change might help his wife, but I heard and prepared an elegant wedding to General Lee, who was alone. After gutter he doesn't even turn to look I ever knew better how to show forth she died soon after they got there. He fhjonds that held her to an un- breakfast for the pair, who were married listening to my report he said that as husband. at the person who shoved him, but I more varied feelings in all their intensity drank himself to death about a year i _,. in Mrs. Crabbe's own private sitting-room I had a division which would often, ta raised her face. He kissed the passes patiently on. Its part of his on his face. And then to see him i! ago, but they say he left considerable at 10 a. m. the next morning. perhaps, be ordered on detached service, I nod his head, or slowly shake it, in response daily burden, I suppose, and he just property in spite of his dissipation. tic es of her hair.her brow.her cheeks, an intelligent performance of my to some controversial assertion! bears it. And then I find something "And he, too, is buried in Waco?" lions i lips. It was as if she were dead, As the train rolled away from the duty might require a knowledge of the Lord Burleigh's nod could not to marvel at in the amount of annoyance "Yes." KSnd he was kissing her for the first closed an time before the coffin lid depot, Valeria leaned closer to her ulterior purposes and objects of the have been more subtly eloquent. that people will put up with. jq-j3Vasf "Well, good-by. I am off on the husband. campaign. The other day, in the Pullman When he rises to his feet a great next train." ver her cold face. "Dear, I have known such sorrow, "Here," said he, tracing with his finger car, there were three children who hush falls over the house. It would "What for?" pT She shook as if with a sudden ague. such despair such sufferingtell me if on a large map, "is the line of our not be exact to say that all eyes are talked for five mortal hours, "Important business in another Jhe knew so well what those kisses it is all passedtell me that you will communications, from Rapidan Station turned upon him, because he is at all and in the intervals of those city." 4Hi neant which she received passively. never regret making me your wife." to Manasses, thence to Frederick. 3he knew so well what the future times the focus of observation, but a delightful sounds they wandered auj Day and niaht lie traveled till he "Love, is there any need for words It is too near the Potomac, and is liable light of interested expectancy comes around and occupied themselves in reached the city of Waco. meant for her. between us?" to be cut any day by the enemy's into every face. He begins in a low pawing and patting the passengers. What business had he there? As she clung to him she felt as if life cavalry. I have therefore given orders tone of voice, but there is such absolute Now for five hours thK is rather wearing itself were leaving her! Only to find a grave' to move the line back into the A year later. silence that his first words are for no one can ither read nor 0 Christ! forgive me! I alone am It would have been a merciful thing. Valley of Virginia, by way of Staunton Who is this pretty, pink-cheeked, never inaudible and rarely indistinct. sleep, and after all the children are NE' responsible for her death! Valeria, if "Good-bye!" he said, abruptly. Harrisonburg, and Winchester, entering bright-eyed, plump woman, with the He has been making notes during the strangers, and cannot be expected to I had remained near thee, thou "For all time!" she answered. Maryland at Shepardstown. gray waves of hair, who trips so lightly speech he is to answer, but he will not interest other people very greatly but wouldst not, thou shouldst not have Then he went away. JOP up Market .street in Louisville? "I wish you to return to the mouth refer to them once he is on his feet. to my amazement no one seemed to died! Would God I could die and be As the door closed after him she Presently two gentlemen meet her. of the Monocacy and effectually destroy His form as he stands at the side of mind except myself, and all the while with thee?" sank on the floor, lying prostrate, with One is white-haired, but genial looking, the aqueduct of the Chesapeake the table, upon which he lightly rests the mother sat pacidly smiling at her 1 her face turned down on her outstretched A quiet, but travel-worn gentleman the other is a blue-eyed youth of and Ohio canal. By the time that is one hand, does not seem as tall as it little darlings. Perhaps I ought not got off the train and accosted the first arms. nineteen. accomplished you will receive orders really is, so delicately is it proportioned. to say that people didn't mind, but 'Afc- "Have mercy upon me! Have merfcy hackman he saw. "Mother, you are in good time." to co-operate in the capture of Harper's*Ferry, I wish there were words in mer" she moaned. they minded and suffered without remonstrance, upon "My friend, I wish to go to the ceme- "Valeria, you are prompt." will rejoin us at Hagerstown which to convey the sound and fiber thereby showing their tery." Was she praying to her lover or to Yes, Valeria Cresswell has found the *h where the army will be concentrated. of his voice, tor until you are able to patience, and proving that they were her Maker? "All right, sir," said the surprised fountain of youth in this good man's My information is that there associate this with your image of the undoubtedly possessed of angelic tempers. God knows. cabby. love! are between 10,000 and 12,000 men man the mental picture fails. It is unlike "Did you ever hear the name Crabbe? at Harper's Ferry, and 3,000 at Martinsburg. any other voice, just as Saiah The other Engltshmnn, though less The little burgh of Crossley was Being a hackman perhaps you The latter may escape toward Bernhardt's is it has in itself thepou er Proct or Knott's Story. critical, sometimes expresses his wonder startled and thrown into a hubbub of know." Cumberland but I think the of generating new sensations, new at what he considers American speculation, when it was rumored Gov. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, "Yes, sir, I do remember the name. chances are that they will take refuge thoughts in the listenei's mind, it peculiarities. "Have you observed," that Manly Cresswell, its most popular He was quite rich, but di?d a year at Harper's Ferry and be captured. was in Cincinnati a few days ago. seems to have something of primordial he says to his companion, "how eveiy bachelor and most prosperous ago." "Besides the men and material of O) weirdness in its suggestionslike "I will not talk politics," he said, "but merchant, was going to South Amer- one here is esteemed according to his "Perhaps you could show me his war which we shall capture at Harper's the ocean or the "forest primeval." Of I will tell you an incident of four constituents health?" grave?" Ferry, the position is necessary oratory, as such, there will not be of mine who called on me The other day, when I was walking 1 I"Butdwhat for, Cress?"d "I can show you his monument, the to us, not to Garrison and hold, but much. There will be nothing at all ha been his boyhoo home, and in with a fellow, we stopped to speak to finest I ever saw, and just put up." once when I was in Congress." in the hands of the enemy it would be to recall Wendell Phillips or Webster, everyone was familiar with him. a man, and when the conversation "Is his wife buried near him?" a break in our new line of communication or to suggest Castelar or Gambetta. "If there's anyone thing we'd rather "Because I want to go," heaiva was over and we parted I said, "What A queer smile played around cabby's /red with Richmond. It is not even the eloquence hear than an opinion on politics it's all inquiries. lips. a brute that chap seems!" "A few days' rest at Hagerstown of Bright or of Joseph Cowen. There And no one in all the town W|| to hear you tell a story." "I don't think she is." "Hush," replied my friend, quite ?hy will be of great service to our men. are no gestures, save limited movements -*he went xcept one broke Manly dreaded lest his love for the .ted horror-struck, "y ju have no idea how "Well, I had to run down to New Hundreds of them are bare-footed, with one hand there are no -w^Tianand she dared not dead woman should become known, rich he is why, he has millions." York for a few days, and while there I and nearly all of them are ragged. I swelling outb irsts of the voice, no W"" it is because he loves rue! so briefly commanding, "Go ahead!" 'old "Ican'thelpit,"Ireplied "it doesn't met my friends from the old commonwealth. hope to get shoes and clothing for the tricks of rounded elocutional periods. he sprang into the vehicle. make a man look nice, does it?" They were all majors and nerself, as she lay upon her bed", feeling most needy. But the best of it will be One feels only at the outset that a a S ill unto death. She had not seen him The cemetery was soon reached.and "Oh but," remarked this worshiper colonels, and had never been out that the short delay will enable us to I great man is terribly in earnest then, since that awful day. the man pointed out the gleaming of money, "he's awfully rich, and of the state before. They insisted get up our stragglersnot stragglers as the slow, careful, logical sweep of tl That was his last good-bye. monument. wealth is power all the Avorld over, you that I go around with them to from a shirking disposition, but speech goes on one feels that this earnestness a The next news was that Valeria Manly sought it, anxiously scanning know." Barchaft, he really seemed simply from inability so keep up with is contagiouone catches its call on A. T. Stewart. I explained to 'Crabbe was attacked wi' a low nervous I all the names of the dead as he passed. quite dum-struck at my audacity in their commands. I believe there are spirit, hangs approvingly upon its development, them that my presence could do them iJ1 J-*1 fever that seemed daring to speak disrespectfully of a not less than from eight to ten thrills with enthusiasm at no good that I didn't care for Stewart, vitality, for when she He came up to the monument. I man of millions. thousand of them between here and its climax of conclusions. The great and I was pretty certain that he illness, she was no longei' But what was this? "Well," said Charley, "I think I can orators^ whom I havs named could didn't care anything for me. The Rapidan Station. Besides these, we plump and rosy matron o"y'ti A slender, black-robed figure sat opposite, ,7e beat that. The other day, when I was truth of the matter was I didn't want shall be able to get a large number of electrify a legislative osseinblage~play pleasures,h"and *head of'all social an regarding him. sitting atDelmonico's, 'seeinglife,'you recruits who have been accumulating to give the old gentleman a chance to upon its emotions at will, blanch its iinc a'nong the poor. With one stride he was by the woman. know, which for me is rather a rare at Richmond for some weeks. I have humiliate me in any way, as I had cheeks, quicken its pulses, command Grief made her selfish. She could sight now, a waiter came up, and in now requested that they be sent forward heard a good deal of hisgruffness. But iti wildest plaudits, but after the 1 jot bear to mingle with those who "Who are you?" the tone of delivering a message from to join us. They ought to reach my friends said they wouldgo anyhow. speech was over the votes would be spoke Manly's name carelessly. It She raised her eyes/ a king, said: "Mr. Z would like to us at Hagerstown. We shall then That night I went to one of the theaters, cabt just as if it had not been made. W seemed like a sacrilege to her. She "I am Valeria Crabbe!" ha\e a very good army," and he speak to you, sir he is over there and had a nice seat in the parquet. There are no such physical excitements could not bear to go to those places "Valeria? Oh, it cannot be possible! smilingly added- "One that 1 think Well, I didn't know Mr. Z, and I Glancing to the right, I saw my in listening to Mr. Gladstone. He where she had met him mostfrequently. I have mourned you as dead so many will be able to give a good account of said, 'Who is he, and what does he constituents a box nodding and doe3 not storm your senseshe conquers for it seemed as if she would shriek years'" itself." want?' 'Oh, Z,' said one of our party, your reason, convinces your smiling to me. I returned the salutation, i lier jsecret aloud to a scandalized "Manly!" he's fabulously rich, you must go and "In ten days from now," he continued, judgment. and my acquaintance near me world. "Yes, it is I! Come to me now, my speak to him. He's got a lovely place "jf the military situation is then remarked that my friends must be This tiemendous power of persuasion She lived in the memory of her past love' Nothing stands between us!" what I confidently expect it to be after in the country, and will do you properly very intimate with A. T. Stewart. is the key to the whole man. It ^friendship for him. So often she needed She rose. But was this his Valeria? the capture of Harper's Ferry, I shall if you make friends with him.' accounts for both his strength ami Ins sympathy and aid, and then the This hollow-eyed, hollow-cheeked, wan concentrate the army at Hagerstown, Now, as you can imagine, it didn't weakness. He is so superb, so matchless i knowledge would come to her like a woman with the gray waves of hair? "Why so?' I inquired in astonishment. effectually destroy the Baltimore & seem good for me to go trotting after an arguer that he can lead Enghbh i teen stilleto thrust, that he had gone "Manly, look at me. I am no longer Ohio road, and march to this point," an absolute sti anger just because sentiment around after him wherever *out of her life forever! young. At thirty-eight 1 am as aged 'Because they are in his private placing his finger at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. he was rich, and to the astonishment he wants to go. But he is also so ondeiful I Her only form of prayer now was: as if I were fifty-eight. Can it be that box. which he engages by theyear,and "That is the objective point of all, including the waiter, I a casuist that he peruadteven "O God! Let me see him! Let me you mean that you love me?" to which only his most intimate friends of the campaign. You remember, no didn't get up and run, but told the himself out of his own judgment see him!" "I do' I do!" he cried, "and see!" he are invited.' doubt, the long bridge of the Pennsylvania waiter to inform Mr. Zthat I should sometimes, and then leader and led But she knew her prayer would nevI lifted his hat. "When the curtain went down after railroad over the Susquehanna be glad to see him if he wanted to alike go into the ditch. Sentiment er be answered! His hair was snow white. a few miles west of Hamsburg. the first act I strolled around to inquire and shrewdness are curiously mingled speak to me, and I added, by way of i She knew Manly Cresswell loved honi "I, too, bear the signs of age and Well, I wish effectual^ to destroy that into the matter. They had his mental control He may be as ?xplanation for this (to them) somewhat or more than he loved her! suffering. At forty-two I look like an bridge which will disable the Pennsylvania called oil Mr. Stewart in his countingroom. cautious and wary as Machiavelh,. up curious conduct, 'You see I don He would never come back to her! old man, but in my heart there has railroad for a long time. With The merchant looked up grimly, to a certain point then he will be for icnow how rich he is, and if I went He must love another than her! He never dwelt but one womanyou on- the Baltimore and Ohio in our possession, and Col. Boone stepped forward as a time as open and unsuspecting as over to him I might iot go fast must have his own home, his own ly." and the Pennsylvania railroad spokesman, and unbosomed an avalanche Lady Jane Greyand then all at once 2nough or something. Now if when -1 -wife, his cwn circle of friends, which She sighed wearily as his strong arms broken up, there will remain to the enemy ofuativeeloquence. "Mr. Stew- flame forth with the passionate fervor sending for me he had at the same slie would never enter! closed about herhis lips sought hers. but one route of communication art," said he, 'we are a party of Kentuckians of a Loyola. Yet all the time he will time sent me over a slip of paper, with 0 God! God! How can I bear this "Oh, is it true? Am I to be your with the west, and that very circuitous seeing the sights. We have be, in his intentions, deeply conscientious nis exact wealth thereon inscribed, i. sorrow all my lile?'' She would moan. wife? Am I to live with you till I by way of the lakes. After that I been to Washington, sir, and called and sincere. Toward whatever then I would at once have started off. She seemed to be going mad' Her die?" can turn my attention to Philadelphia, point of the compass his steps may upon the President, upon Gen. Sherman, for I should have known the correct x-r restless, sleepless nights were robbing "God willing'" Baltimore or Washington, as may really be directed, his moral vision will the members of the Cabinet and pace which would have best suited the \g her of all bloom and youth! "It must be a dream! I have dreamed seem best for our interests." be fixed upon the north star the most distinguished statesmen of figures.' Well, Cis, thej didn't laugh, She did not oare! What was the admiration so often of being thusin your arms, of political enfranchisement and the national capital, and now, sir, we I was very much astonished at this nor even smile, but looked at me as it of men to her? What were hearing your voice, seeing the love light advancement. Hence it has happened feel that our trip would not be complete announcement, and I suppose he observed I had talked blasphemy. It ended by Fashion's decrees or follies? in your eyes!" that while the clever men of his it, for he turned to me and should we go home without seeing Mr. Z, a fat man, who wouldn't Hope was dead, joy slain, youth "But this is no dream. Come, let party, able at least to see that he was said: the Napoleon of merchants, who look di&tingue in a pantry, coming lost! us go away from here. Where do you temporarily in the wrong path, have has made for himself a name that is "You doubtless regard it hazardous over to me and telling me he had met Duty? What was duty to her? live?" often held aloof from him, the masses to leave McClellan practically on my celebrated the world over, and who some of my people in London. This "I have boarded at a hotel ever Ambition? What was ambition? of the English people, having supreme line of communication, and to march has more talent in his line than the was, of course, most gratifying information, Religion? God help her, but her soul since he died. My son is at school in faith in his intentions, have followed into the heart of the enemy's coun- statesmen and generals we have called and the condescension of it was so steeped in its awful despair, Nashville. He is almost a man now him blindly through good and e\ il report. try?" I admitted that such a thought on have in theirs. Now, Mr. Stewart almost overpowered me. I said I was 'jjjf -she had almost forgotten the story of eighteen. I have kept him in school And noAV, when Mr. Goschen had occurred to me. we will mot detain you a moment we very glad, but who I was glad for, my Christ! at Naslwjille for five years. I have and Lord Harington feel constrained "Are you acquainted with General have palid our respects and we will go.' own relations, or the fat millionaire, ftp Sometimes she seemed to be near not wished that he should knowjust from one point of view to part company McClellan?" he inquired. I replied Mr. Stewart would not allow it, I really didn't know myself and then, her beloved. His spirit seemed to com- howhis father livedand died!" She with him, and Messrs. Chamberlain that we had served together in the though. He threw down his pen and after a few polite platitudes, 1!^ mune with hers, and she could feel the seeined to have great difficulty in ut- and Trevelyan from a widely Mexican war under General Scott, but conducted them through his establishment we started to resume our respective W%\1 touch of his hands and lips, see the terA the words. different standpoint are threatening that I had seen but little of him since personally. After they had seats as before, not quite as before ll^f, light of his dear eyes, and hear thetenJpX'i "Valeria, to-morrow sees you my to desert him, I believe that the people that time. made the rounds they found an elegant though, for all the other people who der accents of his voice! wife." of England! are more united in "He is an able general, but a cautious collation awaiting them, including were that night out 'seeing life' had ip^' But in her dreams, he seemed ever "So soon!" she murmured. sympathy with him and support of one. His enemies among his champagne and old Kentucky seen me speak to the great man, and &0& vO avoid heralways there was a barfckJ?I "Is it too soon, love? Remember him than they have ever been before. own people think him too much so. bourbon. As they were departing tho while they asked each other who I rier between them! the past ten years." Vbti An he His army is in a demoralized and great merchant shook each of them by Be that as it mayand the question was, and the very waiters treated me 'Twill do just as you say," she answered, chaotic condition, and will not be prepared the hand and gav them cards admitting will soon be put to the testthere will with a perceptible increase of deference f^ God alone knew what he suffered. dutifully. for offensive operationsor he Herfortune by his 8br3Ww4ss and them to his private box during be no dissent to the proposition that and respect, I felt that I was shining ,*%Jf*f in ^outh America he was mak- They reached privatr he hotel. will not think it sofor three or four their stay in the city. That's how r'i have a sitting room," she the house of commons will be another in the reflection of a glory not my own, f*$IP weeks. Before that time I hope to b they came to be in Stewart's box at and different body when he drops o.ud and that perhaps I ought to have got informed him. on the Susquehanna." of it. tha theatre." up and run after all." "Ha, ha!" laughed Cis, "I like to S"* ^Jsff^jf 4 -jrt i I mam ^frmfrffir