$4k III WINTER. the rounds of these dual countrytowns closet where the gas meter was, and LUCKY LEGACY. with the same impression again. Then Wiw MR. AND MRS. BOWSER. the door of which was ajar. It did the players are thrown a good he went to take the baby, who had no*SHI deal together and learn mostly everything not strike meat the time, but 1 often yet learned that the moon is more distant thought of it afterward. The Old Ma Puts Some Fire-Escapes about one another. Sometimes Young Tom Collins, a law student, than the door-knob, a box of geo~ Mrs. Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton. in His House. they do sometimes they don't. Anyway, Oh, to go back to the days of June, "Well, the preformance went on and graphical blocks. Then he went to inquire has just come into a strange inheritance. The other afternoon an expressman no one ever learned much about Just to be youa and alive again, andi soon 'Snowy'? turn came. He went if it needed pocket money He sat solitary in his little Hearken again to the mad, sweet tune 'Snowy.' He generally sneaked away out in his tights and finery, mounted delivered at the house several strange he told Malvina that ho knew she was Dirds were singing with might and main boarding house room trying to realize. as soon as the performance was over, up to the trapeze and was as clever as not kept awake nights with it, because packages, and when Mr. Bowser came South they flew at the summer's wane, and we saw little of him until he was "If the poor child hadn't me," he usual in his feats. I had slipped to her eyes were so bright. Ceaving their nests for the storms, to harry up in the evening he explained that wanted again. It was, therefore a bit the front of the house again and was said to himself, "it could go and apply After tea the moon came out. Oh, Since time was coming with wind and rain they were fire escapes. of surprise to me to find him loafing looking in at him wnen my eyes suddenly Under the wintry dkies to marry. that wicked, shameless moon! Tom by for admission to some institution. If I about the house when Ave struck one fell on a figure in a box. It was "What for." its light told Malvina right out that her hadn't it, I could—pshaw! that is not Wearily wander by dale and dune little town where we were booked for the same I had seen there before—the "For the house, of course." eyes were bluer than heaven—her lips Feotsteps fettered with clanking chain— a week's run. 'Snowy' was all the young woman who had fainted there the idea, I must decide what I am to sweeter than roses—and all that. "But we don't need any fire escapes Free they were in the days of June, time behind the scenes whether his with the naval chap. Hooked around do." When they parted Malvina went to Free they never can be again in our house, Mr. Browser." turn was o.ver or not. In fact, he for him but he was nowhere to be Fetters of age and fetters of pain, her room and cried. Tom had solemnly promised to care seemed to me to be trying to keep under found. "Don't we? Well, we shall have Toys that fly, and sorrows that tarry— What could a perfect king of a man for the new-born babe of his only sister cover and go out as little as he Youth is over, and hope were vain "Just then 'Snowy' got up to the them just the same. If you want to mean by talking like that to her? Under the wintry skies to marry. could. who had just died. perch on the gallery, from whicn he be burned I have no objection, but I "One evening I was standing up Of course he could not mean tc took the flying swing to a little trapeze Tom was interrupted by a knock on the Kow we chant but a desolate rune— propose to die some other way." marry a little school mistress only in the flies looking things over, when above the stage. It was a perilous "Oh, to be young and alive again"' door. It was followed by a cry of mingled "You never said there was any who should I see slipping over to one of home on a vacation ©at never Decemoer turns to June, feat, and there wasn't a breath to be entreaty and command, such as on* the wings but 'Snowy,' and he all in a Tom acted queerly, too, when alone And length of living is length of pain heard in the house as he prepared for danger." 'WThat's Winds in the nestlees tree complain, tremble with excitement. up, it. Every eye was watching him. I ly hungry babes know how to emit. in his room. He took a paper and "Because I didn't want to make Snows of winter about us tarry, I wonder?' said I,watching him all the pencil, and figured and calculated. He saw him in all his glittering spangles "I've fetched the poor little dear And never the birds come back again you nervous. As a matter of fact. I time. Well, he slid up alongside poising himself, grasping the bar between made a list of all the little properties he •Under the wintry skies to marry. around, sir," said the nurse, brandishing the drop and peeped outside, haven't felt safe any night for a year." his fists and then launching out. possessed. He added them up and ENVOY. her charge. Th*re! there! there! It's and there he stood like a statue, He sprang. There was a whizz "And now the danger will be obviated?" added then doAvn. Then he set down a ouths and maidens.blithesome and vain, so absorbed, I don't think he would the air, and then like a flash the house got the wind this minute, mixin* milk. list of all things he was accustomed tc Time makes thrusts that you cannot have noticed it if I had dropped down parry, was in darkness. Every light had spend money upon that could be dispensed Have you found a nurse, sir? And "It will be reduced to the minimum, on him. I don't know if you'd think Hate in season, for who is fain gone out and you couldn't see the end with. Then he brought out a baby wants clothes." certainly. Even if we wake up and Under the wintry skies to marry? it mean of me or not, but I got down of your nose. Heavens! what a hubbub book of economy, where it tells how 8 She dropped her shrieking charge and took stock of the audience to see there was. Every soul, worked find our bedroom on fire we shall be man can live cheaper with a frugal Avife what interested the man so much. I upon Tom's bed and started toward up as it was to intense excitement, than he can alone. He was astonished "SHOWTTS" LEAP. able to escape with only a scorch." saw it all in a]iffy. There was a couple seemed to have a voice in that shriek to find that book so intensely interesting! the door. After supper he carried the parcels in a box—a young man and a lady— that arose. Before I knew Avhat to do, "Oh! oh!" gasped Tom. "Donot go. and clearly iond of each other as they upstairs. There was several bottles there was a wild outcry about my ears A. Romance as Related by an Old Showman—A The next day Tom went again to see In the name of mercy, do not! Why do dared to show. It was this couple and a lot of people brushed past me. and a couple of wire macks, a hand Trapeze Performer's Peril. the baby. In fact, it had seemed to him 'Snowy' had been watching, and when No one knew what wasthematter,and you say I want a nurse? Are you not fire-extinguisher, and a rope and pulley as though the afternoon would nevei New York Telegram. Thesignabove I got behind the scenes again, there he in the panic some imp cried 'Fire'' I one?" come. He had more waiting to do at and other stuff. the door was inscribed "Dramatic was still, and, Jeeupiter, blamed if he tried to speak, but I was hustled the cottage, for Mah-ina's mother received "I am, sir," she said, turning confidentially wasn't cryinglikea child. "Where would a fire be likely to Agency," and thestairway, seen dimly against a wall, knocked down, trampled him, and she did not appear. At to Tom. 'a monthly.' I am on by a dozen feet, and by the start in the house?" I asked Mr. Bowser "Of course, I said, nothing, but I from without, was worn with the last his impatience spurred him to ask. willing to stay with you while lean. time I got up the house was almost watched him, and I noticed when his as he was fixing a hook in the tread of feet and revealed just then a "I don't A A ant you to see her again, But, sir, my summons may come any clear. turn came he seemed backward, and I young man. I will be frank with you casing of our bed-room window. figure coming down. A moment more day or hour. It is impossible to calculate. thought he had half a mind to shirk. 'Turn on the gas' I yelled, hoping and tell you the truth." "Down-stairs, probably." and the sunlight that was setting the But he went on and performed his I'll work for you while I can, sir, that some of the hands would hear ha\re "Oh, Mrs. Baker," cried Tom. "Well, we a front and back Iust of Union square aghtter with part as usual. He was nearly through but when my call comes no earthly me, and I was making for the meter stairR, and here are three chamber "She's a simple child, sir, and is in when I heard a hubbub in the house thing can keep me." closet when I stumbled against some •flhiniug particles shown upon a face danger not to understand that attention windoAvs opening out on veranda and went out in the corridor. The one. I heard a voice, and a man almost "Can you," said Tom, looking gloomily from one like you can mean that would anywhere arrest attention. roofs. Couidn't we escape by some door of one of the boxes was open and dragging a woman brushed past at his noAv silent prize on the bed, nothing." of these ways?" It was not any scar or defect of a boy was hurrying into it with a me. We were near the door, and a "can you give me any advice "If I thought we could would I be "Dear Mrs. Baker, you misunderstand glass of water. Kneeling on the floor feature, but a certain terrified look glimmer of light from the lamp outside Mrs. Primmins placed her arms akimbo. me entirely. I must see her this once. fool enough to go and throw away was the young man I had noticed and fell on them. Never A\ill I forget the at gave the man the aspect of one $30 on this apparatus?" he angrily I must, indeed. If she sends me away 1 at his feet the young woman was lying, face of the young woman I saw revealed Tom fervently prayed for light on the •Who had just seen a specter. The reporter demanded. will never come again." seemingly stone dead. We had a there—the face of the woman Avho meditations. "I—I suppose you know best." Tom conquered. When he explained standing outuponthe sidewalk hard time bringing her to and I didn't had been in the box. I never saw the "I have it," cried Mrs. Primmins. "Mrs. Bowser, when I don't know to MaWina about his small income and know what happened outside. But I fcoticed it, and turning to look after like with fright and agony. Involuntarily "Malviny's got to take it!" best I will resign. While you have consulted with her about its sufficiency, learned afterward that 'Snowy' funked the owner of that strange countenance I lent a hand to help her outside. "Bless your dear soul!" responded never given the subject of fire-escape she told him that he ought to be ashamed bad all of a sudden and cut his part But she tui ned from me—turned Tom. Malvina's the very one! What a saw that his hair was white as snow. one single thought, I have devoted to waste such heaps of money on one. dead short. tl to the man beside her and cried talent you ha\e for managing, auntie years of study to it. Take our Avalleyed He should have sent half to the heathen. "Odd-looking,isn't he?" muttered the with a voice that rose above the hubbub: dear." "This set me a-thinking. But the darling and go down stairs, and Tom's income has thus far held oul reporter to his companion, a member 'Save him' Save him? Oh, next night I had food enough for reflection. There was Tom, his very self! He when I want you I will call." better than when he was single. of "the profession" engaged just then, God! It is my brother'." It was a clear, moonlight had hit on exactly the right compliment In about an hour he called. He was Yonng man, try it! "Then a strange thing happened. night and I took a stroll. Now I'm to pay the nurse. He was actually like many of his fellows, in Micawberlike in great good nature. He had the The man beside him stood stock still. not a sentimental night mortal, but I floating through life on this instinct he hook firmly in place, and hanging to pursuits. A Custom Officer's Story. But only for a moment. The next he do admire nature, and once I was out had for saying the most pleasant thing it was a rope and some sort of harness. The lounging Thespian looked up, had left her and dashed into the auditorium. of the town I got up among some trees to evervbody. Mrs. Primmins of all Jeweller's Weekly. looked after the receding figure and I went after him. But it A A as on a little mound and there I stretched things desired the reputation of a manceuverer, "It isn't much of an ornament to Smugglers must lie awake nights all dark there and still. Only up above, said"Snowball myself with the bright sky over me. obseiATe. as it -was, of course, the one our bedroom," I ventured to trying to e\-olve new schemes to near the ceiling, I heard a strange, There was not a sound but the croaking of all others she did not deserve. "What has ornaments got to do eArade yes, he is odd." the payment of duties at least scrambling noise and a clatter of of the frogs and the chirp of the with fire-escapes? Isn't your Hie "Yes," she cried, chuckling, "I can I imagine they must from the number •"Why do you call him snowball?" glass Avhere the big chandelier hung. I katydids. I don't know how long I Avorth more to you than the daily manage. Let me alone! And the first of reAv schemes I am constantly obliged "Oh, on account of his hair, to be Avas out in a jiffy and groping about lay there, but all of a sudden I sat\ip presence of a tea-store chromo? The thing in the morning 111 go there Asith to be on the lookout for. No sooner t.V for the gas meter closet. I found it sure. Didn't you notice it?" and looked doAAn at the road. There escape is now ready." you. Now," said she, seizing her do we begin to watch for passengers open, and as I felt about me I was were voices there and they belonged to "For Avhat?" charge. Avho was beginning to squirm, "Certainly. I couldn't well escape with the thick-soled shoes made by suddenly pushed aside and a voice a man and a woman who were standing "To escape by, of course. Here is 'now I'll see what's to be got out of it." European shoemakers to accommodate cried out'A by the gate and hugging each other the situation- It is midnight. The your landlady." the diamond smugglers, than we "Well, that's the reason he is called rope here. Gi\-e me a rope. for dear life. I was amused at first cook, while rummaging about in Winking violently with first one eye have to keep our eyes open to detect There is one there.' Snowball or Snowy. It is only a nickname." and thought it was an ordinary rustic search of her "lost quid of gum, has and then the other, she started to go the woman with abonnetful oi jewelry. "I had seen a coil on the floor and love making. But from their gestures dropped lighted matches under the then, with a sudden solemnity, she reinserted We seize enough, heaven knoAvs. but I know whoever had asked for it "Is he an actor?" I saw that something above the common front and back stairs. The flames her head the door-AAay." not a fiftieth part, of the contraband had found it, Avhen, a moment after, was going on. The woman seemed "No he ii a circus man. I don't have been smoldering for hours. "If I'm summoned," she said, "it's I heard a footstep hurrying aAvay and goods brought into this country are know what he is now. But he used to to be pleading and the man fighting They now break toith with sudden above all else. If I'm called, I must go heard something dragging behind ever detected. The articles which her off. At last what did they do but foe in the trapeze and tight rope line. fury, cutting off our escape from either day or night." them. But I didn't stop. I turned seem to be most favored by the smugglers Pretty clever at his business, too, I take to crying, the both of them. stairs." "Certainly," said Tom, much puzzled, on the gas, ran inside and had the jets are diamonds, jeAvelry and watches, can tell you." "I kept on watching them, and after "And we crawl out on the veranda ,riiit you won't be, aunty!" As the flaring up as I entered the auditorium although silks and costly dress a while they kissed each other tenderly, The speaker was dismissing the object roofs." young man AA'alked abroad to get his again. goods are by no means despised. Diamonds, of he reporter's inquiry with this, and the man went away. It "Do we? Not much' We start to dinner he felt impressed with an almost "What a sight was there' Up near howe\Ter, was then that I first became aware of tha*- hold first rank, because but there was something in the awed do so, but we find ail the verandas mysterious awe of the old nurse. the ceiling, holding by a hand to a a curious feeling that had been coming of their portability and the •expression of that face, something in have fallen to the ground, the "To think of living always with death shattered gas fixture and likely to the white locks clustering around it, over me—a feeling that I was not supports having been heaved out by small space which they occupy. grinning one in the face like that!" he drop at any moment, Avith open alone. We have all such a feeling fchat remained in the mind of the the frost." Search in the most unlikely places has muttered. A\ras mouth and staring eyes, 'SnoAvy' questioner like some haunting presence. sometimes, you know, and then, as at "Well?" often reA'ealed a mine of wealth. Only In the night Toms dream of peace hanging Ana just above, climbing all such times, I found I was right. What an odd face it was for an "Well, we awake with the crackle of a feAv days ago in the travelling bag of was again dispelled. along a beam—a sort of rafter—that athlete and an acrobat? Thoughts of There was a man standing among flames in our ears. While you Avring a tourisc just arrived Avas a ery in* Another knock at the door. ran up to an apex in the primitive some bushes just above me and looking the Grimaldis of the stage,who carried your hands and declare that we are nocent-looking piece of toilet 3oap, "Am I under a ban growled Tom little hall, Avas a man Avith a rope tinder their grinning masks and piebald at the other going down the road. lost, I calmly secure all tne money, which Avould never have been given "what's the matter HOAV dangling from him. HOAV he got up I was in bhe shadow and he did not raiment tragical stories, came before jewelry and valuable papers and coolly a second glance by the inspector if it "I'm called," said the voice of Mrs. there I cannot tell. I have seen feats him, and ten minutes later, when notice me. But the moonlight was full make preparations to escape. I had not been for the evident anxiety Primmins. "My summons has come!" in my day, but holding to that rafter upon his face, and I knew at once the a buriy soul with the girth of a Fal«taff calmly pull down tne rope and harness, displayed by the owner of the bag to "Oh, the duce!" cried Tom, lost to and getting along it beats anything and the lungs of a Stentoi came young man I had seen inthebox. And seat you and the baby therein, get it back. Almost ashamed of him-' all sense of the importance of concilatmg I ever AAitnesssed. Well he readied such a face as he did have to be sure! along, who could tell the personal history and the next moment you are landed selt the officer pulled out his pocket the nurse. "Goto bed! Hold on the top, got hold of the gas fixture, Talk of disfiguring a face with a blow, of nearly every human being who on the ground. I folloAV just as the knife and attempted to pierce that till morning!" slippped down and quicker trod the sawdust on this side of the or by an accident, or with vitriol! engine arrives, and the papers of the cake of soap. The traveller's jaw fell than I could tell 'iad the In the morning, Tom, who, happy They're all bad enough. But, if you Atlantic, he asked him Snowball's next morning chronicle my Avonderful and the officer's knife blade met an felloAV, ahvays slept soundest under a rope about the trapeze penor..i.L',. i.l Story. want to see a terror, look at a self-possession in the face of awful sense of depression, did not make his obstruction at about the same time. there Avere the two hanging up there face disfigured by jealousy, and danger." "What have you heard about him?" appearance until 9 o'clock. He found There were just $3,000 Avorth of rubies by a brass rod that might give way at there you'll have it. That was "And don't they say any thing was what the big man said, and then that Mrs. Primmms had actually disappeared and diamonds inside of that partly any moment. I could hardly breathe what ailed the face that I was looking added solemnly, "few know the truth about me?" for parts unknoAvn. In the used cake. as I saw the rope SAvinging doAvn and at. It was black with passion. The "Not a word, or, if they do, it is to about him." arms of his hitherto stern landlady he the man trying to fasten it about eyes were staring, the lips were pressed remark that you were in a dead "I know nothing, "said the reporter. found his charge nestling. A new something in the roof. He seemed to together, the teeth were clenched. faint and your feet never looked so "It was his face that made an impression Electioneering: in Australia. light—that of love—was beaming in the hold on by a single hand and climb Hate,savage and unrelenting—murderous large." on me." solemn woman's eye—that Avoinan, with his feet about the brass rod as From the Cotemporary Review. if need be—was in that look. I "And can you go down by that rope "It well might," said the other. "It thought Tom, who could see any of her though it AA'ere a stout pillar. In another almost shuddered as I witnessed it, and harness?" There is ordinarily no personal canvassing is not the face God gave the man. He boarders starve and rot for ten cents minute 'Snowy' sank doAvn and and felt a deal more comfortable when "Can I? Can you cut wood with an at elections, the distances was once a jolly enough soul. But saved.' fell but only a feAv yards. After that I heard footsteps crunching among the ax? What is it for except to go down being commonly too vast for fchat -one night's fright fixed him. He has I saw the other end of the rope slip up, dry leaves and gradually receding. "I have undertaken," said the landlady, on?" practice. But there is a story current worn the look of terror that is left slowly, too, and doAvn came the body "I Avould almost as soon be burned giving Tom a smile such as he had "Then I started home. On the borders 'tipon him for many a year. He will of two noted Irishmen who were candidates gentle to the floor. In a minute's time never dreamed could rest in her features—"I up as to try it. I don't believe you of the town who should I meet wear it to his grave. If you care for a goldfieli, which included the other man Avas coming down the AA'onld dare go down on it." have undertaken to go with slouching along but 'Snowy.' I about it I will tell you what I know. an agricultural settlement supposed rope hand oyer hand, and soon he Avas vou in search of Mrs. Primmin's niece, "Mrs. Bowser, what a wife believes stopped to speak to him and as he But the narrative is not a cheerful one, to exercise a decisive influence in the standing beside me, puffing with exertion and Avhat a husband knows are two Malvina."' turned up his face with a start the I promise you. 'Snowy'—we call him contest. Each of them determined to and as pale as death. It AA-as only different things. Is it likely I would Several hours later Tom Collins moonlight fell upon it, and there were that—it is not his name, but the boys make a canvass of the district. Murphy then I looked at 'Snowy.' At first purchase this apparatus and put it sprang from a light Avagon which he his eyes as red as you please, and the •calls him so. 'Snowy' was a trapeze and Kelly (as it will be conven 1 thought him some one else. I didn't big tears shining in them. I didn't up here if I didn't dare use it? Shove had drivea to the door of a pretty cottage. professor. You see he is a well built, lent to name them) hoped to steal a knoAv the man. His black hair Avas up that window!" pretend to notice it, but all of a sudden, craceful fellow, even now. But when march each on the other, and set oil ityn fairly AA'hite, and there Avas that look as I looked at him, I got a sudden "But I wouldn't try it. You are "We will make the last effort by inquiring tie was young he was as graceful a theearly morning. Murphy.who- was of terror on his face that has never left rather clumsy you know." shock. The figure, tlie walk—I here." he said to his landlady, figure as any one I ever saw in the an indolent, solemn, and imposing it since. That is his story." "Another insult! Shove up that couldn't be mistaken in them—belonged who held the baby. -business. He was clever, too, and personage, so grandiose that one of "And Avho Avas his rescuer," asked window!" to the man who had parted was among the first who took flying With his usual impetuosity he pushed his colleagues declared that on public the reporter. I put up the sash and he seated with the girl. directly through into the rear kitchen. leaps through space from one trapeze occasions he constituted a procession "The young naval fellow. The I himself in the harness, sat down on There he forgot his errand—forgot everything to the other. When I knew him first "You may well believe I was interested. in his own person, became quite genial lover of his sister. She had recognized the sill and grasped the rope over his except Avhat he .saw. Ayoung he was with acircus. He was a great I was manager of the company, in the trapeze preformer her vagrant and familiar, and, in the first farmyard head, and with a look of disdain in girl, plump, neat and rosy, stood, with attraction, too, for when he came out and I didn't want to have any scandals droAre brother A\hom her father aavay which he reached, might be seen his eyes he swung himself off. A wild round arms bared before a table. She in his trunks and spangels and kissed about my ears, bo I thought it from home, and the young felloAV had in a little time helping the farmer to hoAvl rent the aii, followed by a thud was assiduously occupied in carressing .-tiishand about the circle, there wasn't my duty to inquire into the odd things seen her faint at sight of him and Avitnessed of something striking the earth, and I bail up the cows for milking. After with white hands little lumps of dough & girl present that didn't admire him I had seen. But I didn't learn much. the meeting I had seen myself such a stroke of condescension and looked out to seeii&Ir. Bowser lying in into shape. and took it too. The girl who fainted in the box was that moonlight night. As I said, he a heap below the window. I ran down good fellowship he assumed that his •"There area good many pitfalls for the daughter of a rich but cranky old Suddenly she turned. Such a dimpling was a very spitfire, and became downright and out as quickly as possible, and case was won, and asked triumphantly fellow, who had driven his only son »a young fellow in such a business to smile! Such rosy embarrassment! mad Avith jealousy. She had after seven or eight minutes he was ii they had heard anything of his Stumble into. But he steered clear of away some time before out of a whim, Tom, great black-haired, jetty never told him Avho the strange performer able to limp into the house with me. rival in tne district? "Oh, dear, yes," and the young man was the son of a =them. He never drank and I never giant that he was, thought this little Avas until the lights had gone "Mr. Bowser, are you much hurt?" said the farmer, "Mr. Kelly is a nice neighbor—a young fellow in the naval •faeard of his being mixed up in any gallantries. plump blonde an angel. Thought! out and left 'SnoAvy' in midair taking I asked. academy—and a gallant lad, too, although gentleman he's helping the mistress What was odd about him why, he was sure of it! that aAvful leap." He glared at me, but did not reply. he had a temper like satan. just now in the other farm to feed the was the way he used to keep to himself. After awhile he came to his senses "Andhow came the lights to go out?" "I am sorry you tried it." calves." People believed he was in some and said: "Well, the week went by and I saw asked the reporter. Some more glare. sort of trouble, or had come from a nothing more of 'Snowy,' except when "I'm looking for one Malvina Bark3r.M "Can you ask' I do not know myself "I told you 1 thought it dangerous." good family and was sorry for taking I met him on the stage. Our last Everyday Politeaes3* who put them out, or for what. "Mrs. Bowspr!" he huskily began, as to a circus life. But he never enlightened night in the town came, and'it seemed "And that is me." said the rosy lips. But I have always thought that a he lumped down on the sofa, "this is From the Philadelphia Telegraph. them of his own accord. that we were going to close with a "Then I've brought you a baby," he man A\ ho proved a hero that night the beginning of the end!" It is astonishing how many people- there are "Soon alter I came to know 'Snowy' packed house. I remember now every jaid abruptly. narrowly escaped being a murderer. "What do you mean?" in the -world who do not know intuitively what had the management of a traveling seat was full and I had just got done A good deal of astonishment can be I have never asked 'SIIOAVV' A\hat became common politeness dictates but still more astonishing "I mean you have made the last attempt variety show making a circuit down counting the receipts, and was going put into a pair of bright blue eyes how many there- are who, knowin* of his sister and the "young man. on my life you'll ever East. We had all sorts of attractions, what it dictates, do no* seem to reflect that in back behind the scenes to see if everything without spoiling them—and so there I do not even knoAv if they were married. have a chance to. You hounded me discarding the rules of politeness they indirectly from song and dance men to ground was all right, when who should I was. Fortunately, at that point the I do knoAv that 'SnoAvy' Avas for Aveeks and weeks to get this fireescape, sacrifice themselves by ignoring rules and lof by tumblers. There were stumpspeakers stumble upon in the corridor but the landlady appeared, and so, a moment never reconciled at home, and I know deduced for the comfort of all from the experience and you meant my death bv and banjo players and ballad young fellow from the naval academy. later did Malvina's mother called up of mankind for the purpose, first of all, that the result of that night's Avork a fall?" dingers till you couldn't rest. But I to prevent mankind's treading oa each others He didn't look much better than Crom the cellar by the voices. It S^ gave him the name he bears." "Why, Mr. Bowser!" noticed that with the Yanks down toes, and then, in the higher grade, to make their when I had seen him that night out Negotiations were soon completed. "Sav no more! I saw it in your eye pathway pleasant. Trifles, it is said, make up there the athletic feats 'took' best, so among the bushes. He was pale as Tom, again in his little room, found the sum of life but, paradoxically, nothing is, as you pushed me off the sill. TomorroAv 1 made it a point to enlarge»that part death, there was a wicked glitter in his The crime for which William B. Tascotfc it the loneliest, dreariest place he had tr cefore, a trifle that goes to make up a sum we separate!" «3t the entertainment. That was how eyes as he walked up and down, now the allesed murderer of Mr. Snell in Chicago, •which, for the most favoied of mortals, may aver in his life looked upon. But when the morrow came he *Snowy' came to get into my company. served a year in the Kentucky pen'ten nMeed be in excess of hia desert^ buc whick. and then peeping in through the door A couple of days later he concluded sneaked up and removed the apparatus nry was the larceny of §5,000 worth ol is for any one never absolutely greal It w* I made him an offer. He accepted at the audience and the performers. that it would be inhuman not to go and only by making the fund of comfort* great tickets issued by the Florida Southern and pitched it into the alley, and it and was engaged for the season. I lemember noticing, too, that he tontine that men, women and children can secure Railroad company. He was sentenced in inquire after his little charge, in an fire-escapes haven't been referred to "You can imagine that in going lounged a good deal about a little the full amount of whatever He. hag ha it 1886. incredibly short time he was seized since. 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