J^^l^ !SSS5*p!5S95S5S^!?S -v'#?*+- j. 5ei^^SSeZ3^^ mind whether it was a revolution .or a "Francisco." came to your father for tidings of me. AS IBTOGUAPH. music, horribly distant. Waters! To /,%y holiday. "Your residence and occupation?", Then they whispered of the P&m.ul Rr reach water I would willing^v die but I threw myself on the bed and tried "I have none. I am traveling* search through the day and night, the f^ 1 kaexf was madness* so I resisted 2 asked to kiss "her at the door, "Sincerely yours,"" and just hecsRath to get into a doze, and was succeeding about." But my request was qfuite unheeded? tracking of my horse's hoofs upon the the fiery thirst that would have me Your nam*. Th4-lu jhfcthea came to me, when the alcade rushed into my room The same answer, delivered in the She gave no sign, although I swore Sweet as the liiwt Aviiiro rose's breath, snow, and the story of the scared release my bold and perish. Water! with a bevy oi hi** retainers and pulled |j I loved her and with ardor pleaded. very voice and manner of the first "I have a friend, .v friend in thee." ppasant who all night long had heard* Yes, there was water at the bottom *&* me into a sitting posture. double. t, 'U liV, the cry of tortured ghosts issuing W? of the shaft, fathoms deep below At length I dare and stole a kiss, II this be true, and trim ifc is, "The senor's commands have been Seeing the alcalde's embarrassment, my feet, but I could only reach that to from the earth. And the sad storyfT J? Which roused the maiden's indignation -For thou art truth tin self so true, obeyed," said the alcade excitedly. I went to him and suggested that he She said, "Ihis is an outrage this die and there was the water on the seized upon my Florian with deadly"fear, I need no moro to make* my bliss "The do. of a bandit has been arrested, imprison both men until the matter ~3 I'll meet, sir, with retaliation." fair earth, fathoms above mewater and turning back upon the black -*e As pure as heaven's ethereal blue. and win be tried before me at once. could be looked into. & Jler swimming eyes she raised to mine, should never see again. moor she tracked the hoof marks until But we need the senor's testimony. Why should I care fr wealth or fame? &u Her honeyed, ruby lips she pouted, "I cannot do it," he said. "One is they stopped upon the brink of the^p' I grew dizzy-^-sickblind. I should Poor bubbles these of empty air, -And kissed me. Ah, it was divine, Without the senor we can do nothing." innocent. If I imprison him I shall forgotten shaft, the shaf of the work^^.^ have faintedhave fallendied but Fiom all I turn to thy dear name, Bliss unalloyed' Who dares to doubt it? It took me almost no time to dress lose my place. Besides, the twelve ed-out mine, well named the Great^f"-%^h** as I leaned my head against a xock, I And find enduring substance there. and accompany the little brown alcade hours will soon expire, and without Twas no hand kissing, 'twas no sham, Wheal Mercy. felt as though a cold, refreshing hand and his browner alguazils to the satisfactory evidence I must turn Tne world may pass and heed me not, But lip to lip in osculation There I was found and saved by herj w^re laid upon it suddenly. pretentious stone edifice on the plaza both loose." Its sweetest bmiles to others lend "Where kisses are concerned I am I had loved so long. And, dearest, as \Y It was water! It was no madnessit My solace is this cheering thought, i In favor of Retaliation. called the palace of justice. I hinted that it was all a put-up I slowly came back to life that New^CT was water. A tiny stream trickling Yes, this alone, thou ait my friend. I had never seen a criminal trial in job. that Francisco probably had a whispered1 Year's morning and faintly through the bare wall of rock, like dew G. W. CBOFTS. a Mexican court, and everything was twin brother, who had arranged it to THE EED SCAB. to you of my pent-up sorrow, you, in from heaven. I held forth my parched new to me. The alcade presided with have the lights blown out, and had your great pity, thinking of my suffer- 1 tongue and caught the drops as they LEFT IN THEPIT. great dignity. He was assisted by a then in the darkness made his way to ing in the shaft, poured out all your fell and as I drank my strength was prosecuting officer and several advocates,as the prisoner's side, thus confusing ji' 'When I found myself stranded, so maiden heart. And your loving words, renewed, and hope and the desire for they call their lawyers, were matters with the intention of evading jS^to speak, in the heart of Yucatan, I my Florian, were sweeter to me than It was past noon when I started for life grew warm within me again. And also on hsnd. The court room was justice. ever the thrilling Spring had been in yet on this the second night of my imprisonment 1^'fWaa rather pleased than otherwise. the home of my bethrothed. But my filled with a crowd of eager spectators "It matters not," said the alcalde. the Great Wheal Mercy. I cared not so passionate- X{ I had been wiiting up the quaint old all talking.swearing, and shaking their horse was good and I rode hard. I "Two men cannot be arrested, tried lyI looked not so eagerly for succor. So in a month you were my wife, fists at the prisoner. The robber, trains of that strange land for a New and imprisoned on a warrant against might be at Trevesy by nightfall. My limbs were numbed, my brain and now I sit by a happy hearth, and Francisco, was the most unconcerned one, nor can a warrant be issued York paper, and had turned my face There was a sprinkle of snow on the deadened life was ebbing toward looking down on the happy faces of looking man in the crowd. Surrounded against two, when it is known that 'f~ 'homeward, when I received a letter death a shadow at times fell over my my wife and child, I thank God for ground, and a feathery shower fell by alguazis, he was not handcuffed, only one is guilty. No, senor, it is a requesting me to wait at San Pablo eyes, and if I held still to the hilt of that crowning mercythy love, dear and when he saw me he smiled and lightly around me, of which I thought hardship, doubtless, but it is better to my 3word, if my feet sought still the onewhich saved me on New Year's made me a polite bow. I lor further instructions. disappoint justice than to do injus- nothing till sunset. The short, dark ledge that rested them, they did it Day from a dreadful death in the tice." The proceedings dragged all through 'A San Pablo interested me. It was a day was over at 5 o'clock, and at mechanically irom habit and not from shaft of the Great Wheal Mercy. the weary day. My limited knowledge Then raising his head he said: sleepy old Spanish village, with a big hope. that hour asharp wind sprang up and of the language made it impossible for "The prisoners are discharged." I think sometimes I was not in my cathedral, a plaza with the usual collection the snow began falling thickly. I felt A Romance of the Waj*. me to follow everything that was said Silently the crowd divided, leaving right mind. I was among green fields of adobe houses around it, and a but I understood that an effort wa3 somewhat blinded by the big flakes, a broad pathway. Cleveland Plaindealer. and woods I was gathering flowers being made to prove an alibi. background of snowcapped mountains Down the aisle walked the Franciscos. ever flying downward and onward and John Taylor was born in Cleveland I was climbing mountains and from Three men with rather honest faces Each wore the same scornful smile. rising boldy from a landscape of tor\rid about forty-five years ago. He was the visions I invariably awoke to around me, like a cold, patient army, swore that on 6 o'clock on the previous Each gave the same wicked look out darknessdarkness above, around summer heats. the son of a Presbyterian minister. whose onslaught could never be stayed evening they had imbibed pulque of his black eyes. Each made the darkness below, hiding the abyss that The family resided in Cleveland untd a with Francisco at a little village twenty It was here that I met with the most or driven back. same low bow to the court, and when hungered greedily for my life. And no few years before the rebellion, when miles west of San Pablo. If they told puzzling experience of my life. they passed me I noticed that the red Still I pushed on, though the beast friendly face, no voice, no footfall near. the truth, 6T course my robber could they removed to the south. The Rev. scar on each man's temple were both I was returning from a solitary ride Not even a step, through all these I rode shook and trembled and strove, not have been Francisco. Taylor secured a pastorate and his of the same size and of the same flaming slow, slow hours. If passing peasant among the hills. The declining sun in his dumb way, to reason again&t It irritated me to see so much importance children became imbued with the southern color. warned me that darkness would over- through the day had heard the lonely attached to the alibi and to my headstrong will. And now, with Out of the arched doorway of the spirit. Before leaving Cleveland cry rising from the depths, he had set my case, because I had been led to believe take me if i did not make haste, but palace of justice, out into the darkness, some dismay, I suddenly perceived by John Taylor married a handsome it down to ghost or pixy, and had that the prisoner would be held out into the region of the mysterious ias I could see in the distance the massive young lady,but the alliance was made passed on his frightened way regardless. the sinking of my horse even to his anyhow, as he was wanted for other and unknown, passed the two towers of the cathedral, I felt no without the consent of his family. His flanks in heaped snow, tliat, bewildered crimes, and a big reward had been offered Franciscos, with not a~man to follow And now that night was wearing on, wife went south with him, however, uneasiness. for him. I was told, however, by the whiteness, he and I had A or say them nay. and no rescue. I could not live until and at the breaking out of the war that in Yucatan a prisoner when he At one place my lonely road or mule rout*1 lost the road. It was but a The next morning my expected letter ^rmngI knew that. My mind Taylor enlisted in the confederate regiment. demands a trial, must be tried or released came. I was informed to lose no path skirted a deep ravine, which was one at the best, for I was in a wncountry, -.udered again. My mother waited inside of twelve hours. In order His abilities were speedily recognized time in returning to the States, and I flo choked up with a thick, scrubby for me I must hurry home but I was where mines were many and to hold him, therefore, the San Pablo by his superior officers and left San Pablo at once. For all I bound by a chain, in outer darkness, r\ undergrowth that I was unable to see authorities had to make the most of men few. Extricating my poor steed promotion was rapid. The time came know, the two Franciscos are still having and I was going to die. There was no my evidence. anything but a tangled mass of foliage from the drifted snow wherein he a royal time down in Yucatan. when a trusted emissary had to be Christian in all the land to succor me The alibi business worried the Wallace P. Reed in Atlanta Constitution. and vines. sent to England on an important mission. floundered, I rested him a moment I was forgotten and forsaken, left in old alcade not a little. The "A good place for an ambush,'' I Tavtor, being a quick, intelligent the pitand I would unclasp my and shouted tor help. Again and thiee witnesses who swore to meeting said to mvselt. hands a ni fall and die. No, I would man with diplomatic qualities,was detailed again my cry came back to me, following Francisco on the afternoon before help The idea impressed me so that I The Kaiser's Long Reign. "Help1 call again once more. to go. The trip occupied several were reputable men. On the other on the wings of the cold wind, spurred my mule, but, to my surprise, Mercy! help!" months, and when Taylor returned Correspondence Charleston News. hand I was a stranger and an American. the usually docile animal stood stock but no other sound broke the deathly As my fainting voice died in the dark he found that a daughter had been Several times during the day I It was in 1806 that the French army, still. stillness of the night. depths and quivered up to the glimmering was recalled to the stand and examined born to him during his absence.' under the first Napoleon, took possession "Senor''' sky, I felt hope die with it, and Oh, for the saving light in some and cross-examined. The utmost of Berlin, not to be finally ousted Taylor had been but a short time The voice rang out from the depth I gave up all thought of life. I turned charitable window! But there was courtesy characterized the examination, until the decisive Waterloo in 1813. with his little family when the Rebel -of the ravine, but it seemed to be at my eyes toward my grave below, and noneonly snow and darkness, darkness but it had a latitude that would It was at this period that Prussia's Government again needed his services i ny ear. murmured with parched lips: and snow all around. I thought not have been permitted in an American beloved Queen Louise retreated to and he was dispatched to England for "Senor, halt!" it terrible, and yet in a little span of "Out of the depths have I cried unto court. Frequently a spectator Koenigsberg, on the eastern border ol a second time. A great sorrow was I As I halted, on account of my time from this I would have deemed thee, 0 Lord'" would interrupt with a question, or the realm, with her two sons, who in store for him, and when he returned *mule's obstinacy, the command was it paradise to be lying lonely in the The little rill that had saved my life make a suggestion to the alcade. Once were afterward to become Frederick to his southern home, he inquired anneccesary. heaped snow upon this drear moor. hitherto still trickled on, and its silvery Francisco remarked that he was tired, William IV. and the present Kaiser. for his wife and child. He was told by "Stand aside" I shouted, "and let I put my horse to a sharp canter, murmur, as it dropped on the and would take it as a favor if the No great doubt that his mother instilled his friends that both were dead. The me pass.'' and he went about a furlong blindly, rocks below was the sole sound that court would hurry up! into him the debt which she personally War was soon ended, and a few Just then I saw protruding out of then stood still, snorting with terror. broke the deathly silence around me. Towards the close of the day I saw a owed to the French and Napolean, months later Taylor's father died in -the bushes in front of me the muzzle I strove to urge him on, but he refused My prayer was over, and I had not man on the outskirts of the spectators and which he was to partially repay Cincinnati. His estate was divided of an old-fashioned blunderbuss, a to obey either whip or spur. Seeing relinquished my hold. I was stronger whose face and manner attracted my in 1870. It was then on the first day among seven children and John received flin lock weapon in very general use no reason for my horse's fright or than I had deemed myself. I would attention. He was the very image of of 1807 that he entered that army $3,000 as his share. With :1n Yucatan. stubbornness, I spurred him sharply, cry out again. "Help! help! help!" Francisco, the prisoner. this money he went to England and which he has gradually brought to its A shudder ran down my spinal and urged him with angry voice to I stopped. Ihstened. A sound was I changed my position so as to get studied medicine in London. Graduating, present incomparable perfection. column. I was unarmed, and the obedience. His wonderful obstinacy floating on the wind. Coming, coming, a better view. The resemblance was he settled in a small city not Then came the accession of his brother, blunderbuss was about the size of a compelled me at length to dismount, joining the drip, drip, drip of the rillthen wonderfully striking. The man was far from London. His practice was in 1840, precisely a century later email cannon. Resistance was not to and, withdrawn sword my hand, dying, then returning. Listening just Francisco's age, height, size and not very lucrative, and, after returning than that ot the great Frederick, bringing be thought of. prepared for highwayman or footpad, with my whole being, I recognized the complexion. His" sombrero shaded to London for a short time, he with it ravived hopes which were "I surrender!" I cried to my unseen I dragged him onward by the bridle. sound. Bellschuch bellschimes his right temple and prevented me went to Australia. Here he followed not to be realized. The king was more Joe. Upon this he made one hasty plunge chiming in the New Year. "O, God, from seeing whether it bore the peculiar his profession successfully. During dilettante than soldier or statesman. -"The senor is sensible," said the forward, then stopped, and at the have mercy on me! have mercy on me!" scar which disfigured the robber. all these years he searched for his The demands for a constitution and "man with the big gun, as he leaped into same instant the earth went from beneath Bells ringing in the new yearbells His costume was the same as Francisco's, daughter, not believing that she had scenes of 1848 were only surpassed in the road. my feet and I fellfell I knew chiming in the ears of friends, telling of but, as nearly everybody wore died. In pursuit of her, he twice came madness and violence. William must A rapid but close scrutiny ot my not whither, down, down into the sadness and hopebells clashing in at homespun of the same color and pattern, to this city, but could not find the spend some years in England in a -captor showed me a young man of deep darkness unfathomable, terrible merry intervals between music and this didn't excite my surprise. slightest trace of her. Mrs. Taylor Kraedium height, whose lithe, sinewy state of semi-exile. But five years as the great pit. I can scarcely say laughter, loving greetings, kisses and "If he has the scar," I muttered, was told, so it has been ascertained .figure indicated exceptional activity later he was again in Berlin, now as whether I thought as I fell, yet lknew joy. "he could pass anywhere for Francisco. lately, that her husband was dead, -and strength. He wore a homespun Prince Regent, in which capacity he I was going to deathknew I was descending Will no one in my father's house It would be impossible to tell and soon after she came North and cotton suit, and the face under his one of those unused shafts was to govern the State during the pity on me? Am I missed nowuere? them apart." lias resided principally in Cleveland. -sombrero had the brown tinge common that lie on many a Cornish moor years of lingering illness of his childless The bells chime a feasting The daughter became a young lady, to all the Yucatanese who were Naturally I began to understand the knew that my bones would be unthought brother. In 1861 he became King in and gladness, and I am here hanging and about a year ago she married a -of mixed Spanish and Indian blood. alibi. The men who swore that they of in its dismal depths forever. the name as well fought with Denmark, between life and death. The jaws of machinist named Meyer. She told "The man's right temple was disfigur.ed saw the highwayman twenty miles and added Schleswig and Holstein But even at that instant my flight the grave are beneath me, my joints her husband that she believed that sfoy a peculiar scar, shaped liked a away from the scene of his crime at to the Prussian state decided was arrested, and I hung in mid air, are broken and the bells chime on. her father was not dead and her reasons .crescent and of fiery red color. Beyond the very moment ne was tying my the future kaisership by an appeal clinging by ray hands, to what I knew Would it not be a good deed on this for holding that opinion. Meyer this scar there was nothing hands, might honestly be mistaken. to arms with Austria and finally not. It was my sword, which I had New Year's day to save me? Oh, feasters determined to find the father if he was 'remarkable about his face. He had They had seen this mysterious stranger. brought his perfected army organization forgotten that Iheld. By a miracle it and revelers, hear me! alive. He wrote several letters to /.regular features, thin cruel lips and But they had sworn to the scar. against the third Napol|on, had thrust itself, as I fell" beneath the "Help! help' It is Christmas time. London and received an answer that ^restless eyes like beads of jet. Could it be possible that the stranger's the result of which was the annexation earth and the rocks, in the side of the Help, for Christ's sake, good people!" Taylor had studied medicine. Further face bore such a mark? "I will hold up my hands and you of Alsace-Lorraine and his crowning shaft, and, jammed fast it held me up. The bells float nearer and drown the investigation was made and it can go through me," said I pleasantly- I determined to edge my way to him as kaiser of a once more united I cannot explain how this occurred. drip of the trickling water, and I cry was learned that Dr. Taylor had gone "You don't want the ule, do in the crowd and accidentally knock Germany in the old French capital of I only know that it was so. As the "Help" help!" saying, "Now will I call to Australia. Knowing that Dr. Taylor you!" off his sombrero in order to look for Versailles. The result of the last cry for mercy escaped my lips the mercy till I die." A film grows over my eyes, had always taken an interest in sporting "The senor is wrong. I do want the the fiery crescent. fifteen years had been to develop his came. My sword caught in the interstices but my voice is strong and desperate, matters, his daughter caused advertisements smile," replied the robber, in a quiet, When I reached that side of the capital from a provincial to a metropolitan of the rock and I was held up, as Ishout,"Christmastide!For Christ's to be placed in the leadingsporting self-possessed tone. The senor will building the man was gone. I made my feet dangling over the abyss, and city to increase its population sake, help, good Christians'" papers of London and New have the kin ness to dismount and every effort to find him, but finally my hands clinging to the hilt of my from some tOO.OOO or 800,000 A great lighta flash of fire! For a York City. No thing was heard in response bold up his hands." gave it up. He had either left the good blade. It was as firm as a wedge to 1,500,000: to give it the second moment I deem it death gazing upward to these notices, and letters As there was no use in wasting room or had shifted his position, keeping I could feel that in spite of my trembling, nosition on the continent. I see, amid a glare of torches, were addressed to Dr. Taylor in Melbourne "words, I obeyed without objection. other persons between us so as to yet my position was horrible, faces0 they were angels to meeager and Sydney, in Australia. The The robber, with a quick jerk drew screen him from my view. to remain thus, to hold on, was torture faces peering downward. And close letter addressed to him at the latter my hands behind me and pinioned unutterable.but to yield, even for As it was growing dark, four tallow Bombarding One's Own Coast. to me swings a torch, let down into place fell into his hands a few months them with a strip of rawhide. Then a moment, was death. There was no candles were lighted, but the gloomy the depths its light falls on my haggard ago. He immediately answered it, The other day, going down the Firth i-he bound me securely to a tree. After hope for relief even for hours there stone walls made the room look almost facea great shout rends the and soon afterward received one from of Clyde, the crew of the English guardship idSnishiug these preliminaries He emptied was no possibility of relief of posture as dark as ever. night sky. his daughter stating that she and her Ajax was exercised in big-gun raay pockets of the loose silver in them. there was nothing but strong endurance I was wondering what would be the "He is here! he is safe'he lives!" mother were still alive andi living in drills, with the view of expending the "Is that all senor?" he asked in dis.gpst. and courage to carry me through. outcome of the case, when the lights I cannot speak, though my lips Cleveland. Dr. Taylor did ot wait quarterly allowance of ammunition. I waited, I suffered, I prayed. were suddenly blown out. move, and my heart stands still as I to answer the last missive, but, packing About 10:30 o'clock, at which time "All I have," I answered. "Keep in your places!" shouted an It was a night to me of fire. The see one, two, three daring men swing up, he took the first steamer for the Ajax was directly off Innellan, a *The senor has my sympathy," alguazil. "Order in the palace of jus- winds blew and the snow fell, but the themselves over the abyssminers, San Francisco, and came to Cleveland. shot from one of the guns of the vessel said the raseal, with a vicious grin. tice!" cold touched me not. I had fallen too used to dangerand in a moment He met his wife and daughter after a was seen to strike the water, and "But the mule is something." The candles were re-lighted, and then deeply in the shaft for that, even if: stout arms are around, me and I am separation of twenty-four, years, then ricochet with terrific force toward The robber turned my steed to the was beheld such a scene as has rarely my tortured blood could have felt it. borne upward, carried gently like a the shore. It struck the ground immediately rajight about and jumped into the sad- ever been beheld in a court room or Morning broke at last, and hope child, placed an instant on my feet, adjoining a villa, entered Senator Stanford's-Scheme. anywhere else. grew with it. At intervals I had called and then laid tenderly down on. the the earth about ten yards from the "Let the senor be patient," he said In front of the alcalde's bench stood aloud through the night, and now earth. I am so weary, and faint, and Springfield Republican LelanoS Stanford northeast gable wall. The shot made 'as he rode off. "Some traveller will two scar-faced men as much alike as with scarcely an intermission, I raised worn, that I lie with closed eyes, never has all comprehensive ambitions a hole in the ground about seven feet release him, and it is not far to San two brown peas! my voice in cries for help. I did this striving to say a word of thanks* deep, uprooted four large trees, breaking concerning his new university at Palo & Pablo. Give Francisco's compliments "Merciful saints!" ejaculated an alguazil. till weariness stopped me, and I rested "Go not so near the brink, madam, them in pieces and scattering the Alto, and follows the- instincts of a to the alcalde. Adios, senor, adios!" "Do I see double, or are there in agonized hope of a voice in reply. I entreat!" I hear a voice cry sharp branches and fragments all over the business man in desiring to make it a And waving his hand he disappeared two Franciscos?'' There was none. No sound reached ly. Then I open my aching lids, and roof of the building,as well as over the means for practical education so around a bend in the road. me. I was in my grave alone. I called between me and the shaft kneels- a "It is the woi'k of the devil," suggested adjoining grounds, besides covering the called. He is quoted as saying: So this was the noted highwayman, again, again, again. I husbanded white figure between me and the sky a pious old man, as he crossed roof of the house with stones. Every /Francisco, for whose head the Goviernor-had I intend that the Stanford university my voice. I drew in my breath and there bends a white face, and tears himself, window in the place was broken, and offered a heavy reward! shall not only give one-a classical shouted with the strength of despair. fall down upon my brow fast and My friend, the old alcalde, put on great rents were made in the gable education, but that undee-its roof one There was no answer. warm. It was my betrothed,Flocian. There was consolation inthe thought. his spectacles, and looked sharply at walls, the house,in fact,being rendered may learn telegraphy, type setting, The sun traveled upward, and I But even when she stole her little INo one would blame me for surrendering the two men. quite uninhabitable, lhe fon,e of the type writing, journalism^, bookkeeping, knew it was high noon, though to me hand in minemine so cramped and to a dare-devil who was considered "Francisco!" he called. projectile even after striking the farming, aivil engineering, etc* the stars were visible likewise yet the numbed that itgavenoresponse-toher a match tor any three men in Yucatan. Each of the two men gave a jerk of ground and doing this considerable For a number of years prior to its midday rays shone somewhat into tendernessand even when she stooped his head, and answered to the name. damage, was not yet quite spent, as eeption young men, graduates of Haxvard, the shaft and showed me how I hung. and pressed her lips-to my eheek, I iBut my train of thought was soon "Let the American senor take the the shot was carried about a quarter Yale and" other Eastern colleges The pit was quite perpendicular it could not baeathe a. word to thank "interrupted in a pleasant manner. stand," ordered the alcalde. of a mile up the hill, afterward rolling used to call upon me-bearing letters of sloped slightly from my feet upward, her. Francisco had been gone perhaps a In response to the questions put to back for some distance. The adjoining introductioa and asking me to nd if* and I had found rest for one Soot on YetFloriaavdear wife, letme-te-H thee quarter of an hour when a muleteer me I admitted that I could not poiut dwelling also suffered to no little employments for them* I would Warn the ledge of the rock. 0, the ease of now that from the depths of my happy made his appearance leading his little out the real Francisco. extent. A plumber who was employed upon exan^ination that while their fe* my anguish from, thia merciful rest! heart thera rose a iymn of joy, and I Aurro along the narrow path. Hailjaag Three ^witnesses called to establish in the liouse at the time received kaowledge of Greek and Latin logic 0i Tears sprang to my eyes- as 1 thanked understood, from that moment that the stranger, I induced him to cut the alibi"were recalled. They shared injuries about the body which necessitated and metaphysics might be thorough, m. God for it. thou werfc mine, and I owe-say life to ixn% bonds and release me. The muleteer my bewilderment, and could throw no confinement to bed, and a they weroactually helpless, so far asps-practical The sun had shown me that to climb thy love. told me that I escaped lightly. light upon the case. servant girl had her hands cut. The knowledge went. They were-f^. out of the pit unaided was impossible Then thy sweet lips breathed words "tHe gtfve Francisco a very black char-acter. The alcalde scratched his bead. board school is in the immediate vicinity willing to learn, it is true, but t)is||^ so I called for help again, and called that fell upon my soul like manna Then he touched one of the doubles of Ashgrove, and at the time of world i full of unskilled labau, and so|I until my voice failed me. I ceased to words, of tenderness and pity that "If this p^ace had not been in sight with his cane. &?*%&&! the occurrence was filled with children. I was forced to put them oit the t&i\-^"\ cry, and night fell on me again. made-the torture of those slow homrs fof San' Pablo," said he, "the cutthroat "You, now," he said, "what is your A slight deviation of the shot would road as conductors, brakemen and As-the hours crept on a kind of madness in the pit fade away, so mighty did_ would have killed you." name?" s4 have brought it in contact with this firemen in order that they might become seized me phantoms sprang- up this reward seem for my sufferings^ i^ The uext morning the little town of "Francisco." was the reply. j|jg^|e: building. The Ajax people did not apparently self-support ing. I tben conceived I from the pit and tempted me to plunge I was carried to Trevesky, and as' Vr)an Pablo was in a state of eruption. "Your residence and occupation?" notice the damage that had the idea of a university-, from whichyoung below horrible eyes glared on me. But the men bore me along, you walking Ifen, women rind children rushed pellmell "I have none. I am travelling be*n done, because they went oa with A men could graduate fully i worse of all was the sound oi water by my side,,I heard them tell the tale througu the streets uttering wild about." their firing, although the other shots equipped for the battle of life in what- i a purling rill flowing gently in my very of my servants' fright when my horse yells. I looked out of the window several The alcalde turned to the other man. went in a more seaward direction* ever direction their tastes might run, ears,tricklingdropby drop* in sweetest returned home' alone, ana b.Q\x they times, but could not make up my "What is your uame?*l#