I ^iin TJ,.i.. 4PXTjj]jiu,i mnunjiLjg.jiii3cmTiiE.irrjiig.:r:CT:ooMiBwwi Mr, Jenifer's Inheritanc e. inn was full of farmers of the neighbor ps, wringing his hands a? he came. "The Young Ladyi^ 'That was the worst of it There "Now Just think of it! not one of xxf hood come in to the marlcet, and after hat was it that struck Mr. Jenifer wasn't plenty for any one to eat We dumb fools had thought of that You much discourse on grain and as so well known to him? What was The Rev. Clement Jenifer had inherited had stuck hist midway of the feeding see we was expecting to be relieved turnips the conversation, Mr. Jenifer it that filled him with a sudden horror, "This is about it," said John Scott, a property! The lawyer's letter foundhe being, of coutse, unknown stations, and there wasn't a great deal from hour to hour, for we had tcle^ and sent the blood back to his the engineer, as the train slowly crested tnrned on the death of Mr. Dacre. announcing the fact lay before him, heart? All the tales of ghosts and of anything on board besides what the graphed both ways, and the snow had "They do say," said one red-faced, a long gradual grade. "You're haunting noises at which he had passengers had in their lunch baskets. beside the breakfast which he had forgotten stopped by that time, and none of us gray-whiskered man of substantial scoffed so" lately recurre'd to his mind, atop of the Rocky Mountains now, One lady she had a tin of condensed in the thought of this unexpected had any notion it was going to be the appearance"they do say that the and yet there was nothing unearthly ma'am." milk and they mixed that up for the good fortune. It was not a job it was to dig us out Only the ghost has begun to walk ag:in since in the aspect of the man who was approaching Emily Vaughn looked to left and to babiesthere was ten of 'emand so the Spuire's death." meagre breakfast, although Mr. Jenifer, young lady had the sense to remember him. And now they two right, and was conscious of a feeling of "What ghost?" asked a younger they got on pretty well.. But there was stood face to face, and Clement Jenifer at five-and-forty was still only a that it might take longer than we was $ man with an incredulous laugh: "I disappointment. She had pictured the saw that thishe knew not what to about five other children, not babies, r"1 calculated on. mrat on a stipend of 150 *per annum, never heard of a ghost at Waterdell.' call itbore the face which he himself top of the Rocky Mountains as something but quite little, and I don't know what "Says I, 'If we were kept here a for through the greater part of "No, you mayn't,,' said the first had borne twenty years ago, and he quite different from this. Here they would have done if it hadn't been week, there won't be a shovel of coal his twenty years in holy orders he man but I've heard tell from my knewthough how he conld not tellthat were no frowning be ghts or sudden for the young lady." father, times upon times, that before left for any of the fires, let alone the he was standing face to face with had acted on the principles that if he gulfs, only a wide-rolling plateau, some squire Dacre come here, there was a the ghost of his own dead past. "The young lad\ !"said Miss Vaughn, engine.' jfgave hi3 time to the poor it was as distant peaks which did not look very power of quper things seen and heard Then ensued a conversation looking up with some surprise, for with 'Then don't you think,' says she, much, as they could expect, and so if at Waterdell and they say that since high, and far ahead a glimpse of lower strange, unnaturalbetween these the words a curious tremble had come in her soft voice, 'that it would be a they called Parson Jenifer "hard" he's dead they be come back." two, who still were one but whether levels runn ng down into plains. It into the engineer's voice, and a dark wise plan to get all the passengers together "They say who say?" asked a thin -and "close," and preferred going to the words were uttered on the evening seemed hardly worth while to have flush fnto his bronzed face. "What f! the Vicarwhy, that was not his weasel-faced farmer. in one car, and keep a good fire^%iy air, or whether the knowledge of what come so far for so little. "Well my man Marvel for one he young lady was that?" was in the mind of each was mutual up there, and let the other stoves go^Jj&,' fault. "Really!" she said. "But where are went across by the spinney last night, to both, it were hard to say. It was a moment or so before John out? It's no matter if we are a little t, where he has been almost every evening the mountains? They don't look nearly His inheritance consisted in a good .|'WhydoI haunt you?" said this Scott answered the question. crowded,' says she. these thirty year, and he swears this double of himself, gazing on him so high as they did yesterday!" house and several hundreds a year, "I don"t know what she was called," "Well, of course it was the only^^sS that he saw some one walking up and with reproachful eyes. "Do not murdered "Naturallv, ma'am," responded the P^s and he sat and thought over the difA he said, slowly. "I never k"new. She !j down the long path, and heard some thing to do, as we see at once when ib' victims haunt their slayers, engineer "things don't appear so high ference this would make in his future. awful noises." was the only one on the train, so we and have not you murdered that was put into our heads. We took the when you're as high as they are. We're *i^ No more for him the daily service, "Ah!" said the thin man, with a which was. the best part of me? just called her the young lady. She car the sick lady was in, so's she'd not atop, you know." grunt, "Marvel always were a liar." Where are the promises of your young read as pare of the day's workno was traveling alone, but her folks had have to be disturbed, and we made up "Liar or no liar," said thefat farmer days? Where are the aspirations, "But there's no look-off, no wonderful asked the conductor to look after her. more visiting of thriftless complaining, beds for the children, and somehow all rather angrily,- "my fathei saw the desires after a higher life, the distance, as from the top of Mt She was going out to some relatives of muddling poor, with whom he the passengers managed to pack in, the ghost himself sixty yearsago oitpn noble^ purpose with which my soul V- Washington. I confess I am disappointed." hers, her biother, I guess, who was was completely out oi touchin a and often he has told me of it and I was filled? Deaddead and buried train hands and all. It was a tight* sick down to Sacramento. That Was believe the old Squire knew of it too, beneath a crust of selfishness'" word, no more drudgery' squeeze, but that didn't matter so much, "It's kind of queer," said John Scott, for he never laughed or scoffed as how she came to be there." "Youthful follies," answered Jenifer because the weather was so awfully^ Twenty years of drudgery! That some fools do [with a significant sniff] with a dry chuckle, "how folks from "gone the way of all such early fancies. "Weie the children under her care?" was what his life amounted to. Not cold. when folk talked of ghosts." Why do you prosecute me?" Have I the East keep alluding-to that'ere for him the spirit of love that softens "No. ma'am she was all alone, as I "That was the way I come to see so stolen, or murdered, or lived uncleanly? And so the talk drifted on to other little hill as if it were the standard of and the high thoughts that sanctify told you but she took them under her much of the young lady. I hadn't anything Have I not kept to my work and matters, and Mr. Jenifer was left to daily tasks only the grudging gift of measurement. We don't think so much care from the very first. They had done it thoroughly, distasteful as it to keep me about the engine, so contemplate another element of absurdity obligatory toil. It was written on his of it this way. Why, ma'am, you're their fathers and mothers alongthree is?" introduced into his well arranged I kind of detailed m\ self off to wait on* face, in lines marked by 20 yearsno, about 2000 feet higher at this minute "It is true," said the other, "the commonplace existence, and of them had, at least, and the other not quite 20he had thought differently her. She was busy all clay long doin gs commandments you have not broken than if you w.is at the top of that little felt quite angry at the thought that two had their mother and a nurse girl, at firstbut by more than a things for the rest It's queer how L, but where are the hearts you have he of all men should, by the irony of shuck of a Mt. Washington that they dozen years of discontent and repining. but somehow no one but the ouug lady people's characters come out at suchi* helped to bind up? fate,be brought into a ghost story. How many have all think so much of." It was a pity, too, for the face seemed to be able to do anything with times. We got to know all about each you helped by your example? Rather, But as he never had believed in ghosts was one of great possibilities, clouded Miss Vaughn smiled, but she experienced them. The poor little things were half have you not by daily carelessness, he did not mean to begin now and other. People stopped sir-ing and/"' over by the dullness of heart that a shock nevertheless. The New staived, you see, and there wasn't anything by dryness of spirit, by perfunctory after inquiring nis way to Waterdell ma'am-ing and being polite, and show-^-/ fails to see through the service the England mind does not easily accustom performance of your duty, quenched Hall he found that he must start at to amuse 'em in the dark car, The"1 Master who is served. ed for just what thejj were worth, :y itself to hearing its sacred mountain the light that was, aye, God knows it once if he wished to reach there before and one of them, who was sickly, fretted selfish ones, and the shirks, and the was in me? And in doing so you nightfall. It was a somewhat dull thus lightly spoken against. Even now he had no regret for the all day, and 'most all night, and the cowards, and the mean cusses who wanted have wounded many another. There walk which led him at last along a "Have you ever seen Mt. Washington?" kind old friend who had left him a mother didn't seem to have no faculty are sinners who slay the body, but narrow road ending an abrupt descent. to blame some one for sending the goodly share of his property no she asked. or no backbone about her but whenever you have slain your own soul and The high hedges on either side weatherthere wa'n't no use *for any thought that the hand which had ever "Oh, bless you, yes!" leplied John the young lady came round, that woe be to him of whom this can be had lost their summer beauty without been ready to help him and many another of them to try to hide themselves any Scott, cheerfully. "I was raised over said." yet gaining the glory of Autumn sick young one and all the rest would was helpless now henceforth more than it was for the other kind. the few roseberries were sickly looking to Fryebnrg, and grew up alongside of Jenefer laughed in scorn. stop crying and seem just as chipper no spirit of gratitude for this last The women, as a rule, bore it better and withered and frosted with a "When I was what you are all this it. I thought it was a pretty big concern lovine giftonly a selfish pleasure in as if it were Summertime outdoors and whitish blight, and their leaves hung than the men. It comes natural. I would have had. its tpnors forme when I was a boy, but now" He his own good luck and a feeling of discontent the whole train lull of candy. shivering on the twigs, while in the now I am noknow to be frightened with suppose, for a woman to be kind of silent that it had been so long in closed the sentence with a shore, expressive I what you are who fields beyond the evening mists were fire.5 false "I don't see how she did it," he went coming. And thus thinking he rose and pale and patient when she's laugh. already rising. The road turned think to scare me thusan illusion of on, meditatively, thowing a shovelful and went to see his Vicar to make arrangements suffering. Buttheyouna: lady wasn't sharply to the right, and then Waterdell nerv-N the brain, a disturbance in the Miss Vaughn changed the subject. for the visit tothelawyer, of coal in at the furnace door. "Some that sort either. She was as bright as Hall lay before its future owner. ous system. Come daylight, and this She was not offended. She had grown which must precede his taking possession women is made that way, I suppose. a button all along. You'd have supposed will be as if it had never been." To a cheerful eye it might have to Lke this rongh, go'od-natured engineer of his new inheritance. As soon as we see how things were going, But the other with the sad and from her face that she was having seemed nestling in a bower of green- He found no difficulty in obtaining in the course of the three-days' and how bad they was likely to be, youthful eyes looked at him in sorrow, er}-, but Jenifer, out of tune with just the best kind of a time! leave of absence for thepurpose. The journey, during which, favored as* a and said- that gul kind of set herself to keep things in general and tired with his Vicar was a kind and open-hearted "I can see her now, standing before relative of one of the directors of the "Even your blindness you speak walk, saw its withdrawal from the along. She had a mighty gentle way man and was pleased at his curate's road, she had several times been privileged the stove roasting jack-rabbits for the the truth for when vou were as I am, high road a guilty seclusion from observation. unexpected prosperity. to keep along with her, too. You'd ere the world had dimmed your sight to ride, as now, in the engineer's otheis' supper. Some of the gentlemen Four tall Wellingtonias "Well, Jenifer," he said. "I am Aery never have guessed that she was so you would have seen the precipice on rose dark and solemn above the little cab for a better view of the had revolvers, and when the snow -glad for you, though you can't appreciate plucky. Plucky*! By George, I never which you stand. Oh, brother of me, wicket gate and cast a gloom over the country. got crusted over, so's they could walk it as much as if you had a wife saw anything like her pluck." though how degraded' give up yonr garden path, in which "some late geraniums and family dependent on you. At on it' they used to shoot 'em. And we 'Have you been long on this road?" dreams of a selfish futui turn back and petunias only served by "Was she pretty?" asked Miss the same you have my hearty congratulations." were glad enough of every one shot, she asked. while yet you may use the wealth their touches of brilliant color to accentuate Vaughn, urged by truly feminine curiosity. provisions were so scanty. The last that has come to you, not for yourself the general melancholy. The "Pretty near ever since it opened. "Ah," said Mr. Jenifer, "things generally only, but for others. Redeem the two days them rabbits and snowwater house itself instead of boldly looking I run the third through train that came come too late. Now if this had "Well, I don't know if you'd J'a' time that is left to you, and bring to forth on the passers by, turned its melted in a pail over the stovewas out from Cnicago, and I havn't been happened when I was ten years younger, called her so or not We don't think a happier second life the promises, face away from the road, and had no all we had to eat or drink." off the line since, Winter or Summer, what a difference it would have the aspirations of your youth." much how she looked after the first prospect but the little bit of garden made to me!" "I suppose there was nothing for except for three months when I was "Begone!" said Jenifer. "If not an and the four sentinel trees. She was a slender-built girl, and her "But your friend's life was a very you to do but wait," said Miss Vaughn. laid up with a broken leg." illusion, then you are an accomplica face looked sort of kind and bright The door stood open, and Mr. Jenifer valuable one to many was it not?" in some conspiracy to betray me into "This must look very different in "No ma'am, there wasn't nothing at entered a narrow passage where both to me. Her voice was as soft Wf said the Vicar. "From all that I have a rash vow. Did you and the old Winter," said Miss Vaughn, noting no welcoming footsteps came to meet all for me to do but help the oung well, as soft as a voice can be, and it heard of him, I should think that man who is in his grave plan it between his own only a Virginian creeper the treeless distances, and the snows lady now and then. She let me help even now there will be plenty of people kind of sang when she felt happy. She you and laugh to think how torn by the wind tapped on the porch still glinting on the higher peaks to the to say that the end has come ten her more than the rest, I used to think. you would scare your foolish dupe? looked you straight in the eye when otherwise all was still. Mr. Jenifer left. years too soon, rather than too late." Away from me! and do not hope to She'd come to me and say, ML Scott she spoke. I dont believe the worst looked round him for a moment, and "Why, he was nearly ninety'" said work your will. I have inherited, and You may believe it does! That first this rabbit is for you and the conduct- then went through the silent house to man that ever lived could have told Jenifer, as if the fact were rather a reproach I will enioy!" year, when the snow sheds wasn't the chief sitting room. It was neither or.'' She never forgot anybodyexcept that girl a lie if it had been to save his to the old man. Then he hastened "Nay," then, said his double," see large nor high, but it had that individual built, it was terrible. I was running herself. Once she asked me to life. Her hair was brown. She was away to make his preparations to what an end your enjoyment shall charm which only age and that train that stuck in the snow seven hold the ck little girl while she took different from girls in general, some- for leaving, bring you. I, whom you have destroyed, years of occupancy can give. days, perhaps jou'll remember about /The Vicar's wife came in "as the curate am what you were see now what a sleep. It was mighty pretty always how." The old-fashioned mantle reached, it it was all the papers. I sha'n't wentout. She found her husband you shall be." to see her with them ehildien. They "I think we may say that she was with its dark rich carvings, gazing rather sadly into the dull Then tor an awful moment the parson never forget that, not if I live to be as to the celling, across which was never seemed to have enough of her. pretty," observed Miss Vaughn, with a ,r knew that not only he himself street. old as my grandfather, and he didn't a massive oaken beam, nearly black All of them wanted that she should put little smile. "Mary, my dear," he said, "it is my stood there with the spirit of his once with age, the fireplace, with its glaring die till he was ninety odd." amTt so sure of that. There's them to bed, and sing to them, and tell "1 belief that after the miracles of the pure and earnest-hearted youth beside logs, gave out a cheerful glimmer, reflected "Tell me about it," said Miss Vaughn, them 3tories. Sometimes she'd have loaves and fishes there were some him but a third and dreadful shape plenty of ladies come over the road in the small quarries of the persuasively, setting herself on the himself as he should be, if no hand of among the five thousand who complained all five swarming over her at once. X. since that I suppose folks would say window opposite, over which hung a grace staid his downward course. tnat the bread was stale and high side bench of the cab, with that carved scroll, whose inscription there used to watch them."' was better looking than she was. But The lightning flash of awakened perception the fish not so fresh as it might have air of attention which is so enticing was not light enough to read. Mr. 5 I never see anv face quite like hers. "Well, how did it end?"" asked M:ss. showed him his own old age, -been." Jenifer breathed a sigh of relief at the to the story toller amusement* It was still,, like a lake, and you seemed Vaughn, as the engineei's voice,, which where that which he had called economy Meanwhile Clement Jenifer was comfortable appearance here, in contrast are few and tar between in the long to feel as if there was depth to it had grown to averice,where callousness had gradually grown lower and more speeding on to London to see his lawyer. to the depressing aspect of the 6 monotony of the overland journey to Sw had become crueltydiscontent, He found there was one condition And the further 3 ou went down, the dreamy, came to a stop. rest of the house but instead of settling California besides which, Miss Vaughn envycarelessness, impiety. He saw which he must fulfill before he sweeter it got- She never did any himself (as he felt tempted to do) "Eh? What:* Oh!" rousinghimselL himself, degraded, mean, despicable, could call himself master of the house dearly loved a story. by the the fire, he again went out to rustling when she walked. She wasn't **It ended when three locomotives and bad, without affections, without tenderness, and income. Mr. Dacre had only willed look over the surrounding property. "There ain't much to tell," said that kind. a relief train fioni Che \enne broke without hope, and as the Waterdell Hall to him under the Behind, the ground rose abruptly, and John Scott, with something- of the Another pause, which Miss Vaughn through to us on thp eighth morning horror of it swept over him with resistless proviso that he should pass one night was bounded by a closely growing coppice, feeling which prompts the young force, Clement Jeniferthe icy was careful not to break. in the house entirely alone. after we were blockaded. They brought through which a narrow path crust of years of life for self broken at Mr. Jenifer laughed when this clause vocalist to complain of hoarseness. "I "I don't know what them children seemed to strike in the direction of the provisions and coal, and we got on lastfell upon his face-, with the agonized was read to him. ain't any hand at telling things, either." village. The parson climbed the hill, would'a''done without her," went on first-rate after that. Did the sick lady cry of the apostle of old, "Who "That's not a very hard thingto do," leaving the coppice on his left, and Then, won by Miss Vaughn's appealing the engineer, as if talking to himself. die? No, ma'am. She was livrino-. shall deliver me from the body of -said he. "But was Mr. Dacre's brain st andmg on the highest portion of the e^es, he continued: Then, with sudden energy, "I don't when I last heard of her, down to Santa this death?" softening when he made his will?" meadow, looked across the low hedge "We ran all fair and on time till we know what any of us would 'a' done "Not at all," answered the lawyer Barbara. Two year* ago that When he came to himself he was in at the last pageant of the sunset. sshortly. "Any one who saw Mr. Dacre was about 200 miles beyond Omaha. without her. The only trouble was the quaint old sitting room his new Some elm trees were silhouetted was." an his last hour will tell you that home. The fire had burned low, and Then the snow began. It didn't seem that she couldn't be everywhere at against the sky, athwart which lay "And what become of your young the dear old man's mind was as clear only dimly illumined the room, but as bars of rosy flame, tender and evanescent. much at first. The women-folk in the once. There was a sick lady in the huh to the end as in' his best days. When he gazed info the glowing embers a One moment the dying light train rather liked it. Thev all crowded drawing-room at the end ot on& of the 'She left at Sacrame to. Her bro th-3 you go to Waterdell you will not hitherto unkindled log broke into leaped up brighter and throbbed to the windows to see, and the children Pullmans. She hart week hangs,, and please your poor neighbors there if er or some one was- down to meet her.5 5 flame, and as it leaped and flickered through all the burning heaven, and hurrahed. Anything seemed a pleasant was going out to California for her you suggest to them that the man the scroll which he had before remarked then suddenly it died away, and the I saw him a moment He didn't look who was so universally beloved was change after the sagebrush, I suppose. health. Well, the cold and the snow and failed to decipher caught and day was not. like her." & i crazy. I have no doubt this letter, threw back the yellow light, and Mr. f' But as it wrent on coming,, and biought on hemorrhage. That was "And you never saw her again? You"" Jenifer turned and looked at the which he instructed me to deliver to Jenifer read in letters of gold th' the drifts grew deep, and the cars had the second day after we was blockaded. hall. Already it seemed to be losing never heard her name?" you personally, will explain the mat- poet's words *"M to inn slow, the older ones began to There- wasn't no doctor on boarci, and itself in the darkness which gathered iter." "No, ma'am I never did." "Nor deem the irrevocable past round it, hiding in the recesses of the look serious, and I can tell you that we her hnsbaad he was niisrhty scared. This was, however, not the case. As wholly wasted, wholly vain, The engineer's voice sounded gruff gables, drawing curtains of mist over who had charge of the train felt so. He come through to the front ear to The note was but a short one, and If, rising on its wrecks, at last and husky as he said this. -He shov-ij|p the twisted chimneys. The silence, entire To something nobler wo attain." gave no reason for the testator's find the conductor, looking as pale as "We was just between two of the eled in coal with needless energy, i'i^.gi and absolute, struck almost with wish, except that he had inherited He sank on his knees, and there in a ghost. 'My wife's a-dying.' said he. feeding stations, and we put on all the oppression on the mind of this man asked"**"K "Are you a married man?" Waterdell Hall' under the same stipulationthat contrition of spirit and anguish o' 'Ain't there no medical man on the accustomed to city noises but even steam we could, hoping to push through he had ever been thankful Miss Vaughn. The question sounded soul dedicated anew to his Maker the train?' And wuen he-said noy he just, as he thought to himself, "How still to where provisions could be got at in for having carried it out, and years that should be granted to him, abrupt even to herself, but' seemed re-j it all is," there sounded in the coppice gave a groatf. 'Then she- must die,' hoped that though his friend Clement case we had to stop. But it wa'n't no the wealth that he had inherited levant to something her mind, close behind him a long, sobbing, he said. 'Great heavens! why did I Jenifer was older than he himself had himself, body soul, and spirit, ioi use. Ihe snow kept coming. I never "No." h"tP-^ moaning cry, which rose and fell, and been when he came into the property, evermore. bring her on th.s fatal journey?* see it come so. The flakes looked as rose again, and then ceased. I John Scott looked her sqnarelv in ?i (("for," he wrote, with a touch of his People said afterward that pros big as saucers, and the drifts piled so Clement Jenifer was not a particularly 'Perhaps the young ladVll have ordinary humor. "I have been, like the face as he repled. His eounten|^tf perity had been good for Mr. Jenifer, tender-hearted or compassionate quick that, when we finally stuck, in some remedies,' suggested one of the Charles II., an unconscionable time that it had made him softer, more anee was rather grim and set and for' ^fj/ man, but that sudden cry filled about ten minutes no one could see out a dying,")yet, that a solitary night porters for we'd alt go* into the way compassionate, more tender. He a moment she feared that she had offended him with a vague fear of some cruel passed in his future home would provte of the windows. The train would have alone knew that the vision he had already of turning to the young lady him. Then, as he met her deprecating deed iust perpetratedsome awful as great a blessipg to him as it had seen had come only just in time to been clear buried over if the brakemen whenever things were wronc. mystery to be brought to light and gaze, he, reassured her with I been to the writer, and so, without save h'*n from that utter ruin of sou) and the porters hadn't gone the whole "Well. I went for her and you never after a moment's hesitation he turned "fiuther explanation, signed himself a swift smile. f4^y\ W% to which he was tending and when he length over the roofs every half-hoar, in the direction whence it had seemed 4'No. ma'am, I ain't and I nevet see anyone so level, headed as she ins affectionate friend, Thomas Dacre. thought, as many a time he did, ot to come, and found himself on a long and swept it off with brooms aud shovels. That was all. Clement Jenifer never seemed to be She knew just what te that awful night, he bowed his head shall be as I know ot" he added. path, with a thick yew hedge on either We had a lot of shovels aboard, by liked being made ridiculous, and he in contrite humility, and gave thanks do: and she had the right medicine in "Second-rate wouldn't satisfy me now, side. __ Far ahead, in the dim twilight, thought that this will went very near for the warning that had been sent good luck, or else nothing eould have her bag aad in less than an hour that he coulddescry a figure walking I guess." He pulled the cord which that possibility. Yet he could not him.Temple Bar^^f Sif saved us from being banked up outright. poor lady was qmte comfortable, and slowly away'from himj.he could hear hung ready to hand, and a long, lose his inheritance for fear of being But it was terrible hard work, a moaning sound, as of some*one in her husband the most relieved man A* absurd, 80 after certain business instructions screeching whistle rang out over the I can tell you. Therev wa'n't no more A Tennessee newspaper contains tnc pain, Mr. Jenifery hastened his pace that ever was. Then the young lady from the lawyer he went to plain, and sent the palrie-dogs scuttling in order'to come up with the sufferer, following: "We are rejoiced to kno\* laughing among the passengers by the ftiis "hotel for that night and next came along where I was standingthere into their burrows. $ and as he gained on him and tbatJ.&.Rackheit, that princeof gentlemen '.morning started for Waterdell. He time it came to that, and the children wastft nothing for me to do, but I was could see him 'more -distinctly it "This is a feeding station we're and czar of culture, has secured put up at a little inn in the nearest stopped hurrahing." waiting, for I didn't know but there seemed to him that there was some the' contract of bunding the plank coming to," he explained. "Twentj anarket town before proceeding to his might be--aud said she: *Mr Scott I am thing familiar in-the gait and bearing "Ob, the poor little things! What sidewalk in front of the Gibbons block destination, where, the lawyer had informed minutes here for supper, ma'am and of-the Unknown. -And as he thought .growing anxious about the fuel. Do did they do? Were there many on He is a gentleman of the old school him, he would find all things it ain't a bad supper either. I reckon so the figure turned, and, facing him, you think there is plenty to last Supnose aud knows a good piece of plank, when in readiness ito receive himbefor his board? Was there plenty for them la vigi it was to Th you'd like to have me help you down, advanced 'with slow/ uncertain foot* vigil,8 lonely he seres it/V $ i,, we were to be kept here a week at?" wouldn't you?" Susan Cbo&dge. .ai*"