Pittston Gazette

              KSTABU8IIKI) 1850. i Vou xui. xo. :ii. D Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTOX, LTZEltXK CO., PA., FRIDAY* MAY Ci, |SCD2. A Weekly Loea! and Family Journal. |DKU ANNUM i IN V I DV A Nt'K. "Nay, that I do not know*, l'lease do not be anyrry w ith mi1. -Miss Balderbtone. J would uot do auyUiing' in the world to offend you —v' white lords, on whom might the!  of lluddha rest! KILL NYE IN OHIO. th.at I i so far a die the idea of lier going or nothing with him "Ile.niu?-t have provisions like we | not extinct, the monsters of the deep I will have seized their prey before we my ultimate iutentiou to raise the draft , that .led the other banks to be rude. It | Was probably quite another reason. But even if that were the case, why couldn't they say at once that they had no deposits with the New York banks and so could not sell a draft? 1 would not have told any one. 1 would have respected their squalor and Misery. Now of . course I am under no obligations. y ! °u tho street yesterday 1 ran into a young man who was admiring his new tpring snit in the glass store fronts as he passed along the street. I hurt him j finite severely. He reproached me, but 1 am accustomed to that. A little reproach in the spring of the year does me good. The lav "Now. s jaw dropped. When the commissariat question had been happily settled, and orders l:ad been given to the villagers to carry provisions to the sampan, excellent cheroots were lighted, and Campignon began to pump information from the koralc concerning the party whoi had conveyed Sir Llarry (jrahame up the have, Arthur arpued. could reach it." really. Miss Ilalderstone," he interposed. "1 hope you are not going to break the engagement, for my frieml Mrs. Llewellyn has been so patient in writing—" "Yet he bought but little at the village yonder, Mr. Dunbar. No, yon may" depend upon it that there is some hidden place of supply in the wilderness provided for just such an emergency. I f it were not ko he dared not make the journey. Think of it! Nearly two hundred miles of jungle and forests so interwoven with brnsli and prickly plants that you could not get two miles from the bank in a day's march. No, no. you may depend on it there is some half-way place of supply; perhaps up a creek, where none would suspect it. Say. sir, are you man enough to risk the danger of tlinainpr overboard half our supplies, and take your spell at a paddle for six hours out of the twentyfour? Don't answer in a hurry—think of it a bit—it means going on half rations and straininrr yourself pretty severely, facing perhaps death and very surely sickness, for the fever is pretty certain to get hold of you if yon overexert vourself." Even as he spoke, a huge snout was "Hut you are doing something which is seriously offending me; for se« your inconsistency. Vou say one minute that you have this man's address and the next that you do not know where he is; ifeides altotfetlter refusing to tell •what you do know. raised four feet above the water, and j with a snap the jaws of a scaly saurian j closed on the dainty morsel. E WRITES ABOUT CO\lE OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE STATE. "That you think it would be wrong to disappoint her. Well, I think so, too; therefore you can write and tell your friend that Miss Grahame shall Bail from Liverpool in two weeks' time." Already the moon was rising over a steep bank of cloud, when they found : themselves in a broader expanse of water, which, as the light became more vivid, took the semblance of a wide Lima, tlie of tlir F.Ierti-tc Cur, rtver. Some IDf tlir Joys untl Sorrows of Get- Miss BalUerstoue was very much annoyed.For many minutes they talked in a dialect utterly incomprehensible to Arthur Dunbar, and supplemented With many grotesque gesticulations; but the conference was evidently unsatisfao- ting a Draft Cached—A Rcuutiful I'lay That Willi.'tm Sa-.v •'Say next Tuesday week—the Moravian sails en that day, and the captain is a friend of mine and would look after her," Mf Colburn suggested, with nervous eagerness. "This much I will tell .vou," Kate continued, heartbroken at the schoolmistress' harshness, "that Mr. Duol»nr. when he sailed for the east n hen (fuivam discovered galvanism, it u said that lie raw'• liisD first experi] ents on :■ fr D~. w'.i.isc iiuius leaped instant ) v siui.tea contortions, '' ' ::naouneement seemed to Dvh effort M" Colburn. • s-ang t • h't - feet: | lagoon, whose placid waters presently i lay like a silver mirror under the rays of the full moon. In the midst of this miniature lake stood an island with deep precipitous sides and crowned with palm trees, a lovely bit of land- ICopjTljclit, 1ST«. by Edgar W. Xye.] The success and prosperity of the Ohio nciety, of New York, is ample proof of r'ie great wealth and intelligence of the Buckeye State, but after all it is better :o travel through the great state and observe lier countless avenues of wealth, 'roin her beautiful and well kempt farms :o her statesmen, from her cabbages to ler natural gas. You understand it In Ohio, "Well, so be it: the time is short for preparations, but she shall be ivaily." (continued ) Thus tae compact was ratinea. ter. Lord Scarborough suspects that there is something wrong; and, if he discovers the plot I am engaged in, I shall die with shame. Yet, heaven knows it is not for my own aggrandizement, but for him and the children that I allo-ved you to allure me into this mad project." /S.OV 1 kr A I saw h'm coming a square away and Regarding himself with ill disguised affection in the big windows and allowing ladies and children to get out of his way or have a wing knocked off, so I said to my companion. "See me knock a little North Carolina etiquette into that mollnsk that we see yonder." Arthur Dunbar found time that evening to run down to the farm and tell Kate what he had resolved UDon. and that gentle maiden all a-trembling at the glorious news poured forth such a melody of thanks that the young American, when he bade her adieu. "A thousand thanks. Miss I'.aldersfcone. You have taken a weight off my mind," the attorney simpered, as lie rose to go. Then, as if moved by an afterthought. he added: "1 suppose you have had no recurrence of your little delusion concerning Sir Harry Urahame's death? Pardon my asking, but ladies, when they have made up their minds to a thing, are so difficult to convince that I thought—" rnn ll lVO !,i A it1! :l Ll'.v llC» ••Suited! Oi l yon say tailed? Is he gone then?" lie gasped. The middle states have one peculiarity hat they are beginning almost to wish :hey did not have, although it was started wetter "Yes. sir," Kate responded with demure gravity. "He sailed for India three weeks ago." "I know that his lordship has not the enterprising spirit which you enjoy, and might feel that there was some slight stain on his escutcheon if he ouly knew the extent of your ladyship's diplomacy; but as for saying that I induced you to exploit the scheme, I' indignantly—"When I got up speed I steered for him with a newspaper in my hand, reading it carefully and trying to figure out what show there was for a premature .presidential boom which has the dressing removed from it a month too early. I got up pretty'good steam, for I weigh over 1S."D pounds now, and living at first class hotels all winter has given me fresh vitality and filled me with animal spirits and high purposes. "All this I will gladly do," Arthur Raid, resolutely; ''but how about these poor Malays? It is hardly fair to ask them to share dangers they never contracted to endure." CHAPTER XII. A ROC till JOl'HNET. I) lit If y % x\ Jf "That I was as obstinate as the rest of ror,Cex." Miss lialderstone replied, wit* o »jk*usant laugh. "Well, you are wrong for once; I am quite convinced, but—" It was near the end of January—of all mouths the most agreeable in Ceylon; the evening was so .soft and fragrant; the air seemed to have been poured down from some purer sphere, wafting with it songs of r ch melody and scents of Ironical flowers. "iJive theta double pay, sir. and they would face the devil himself; for there is nothing a Cingalese will not do for "Pshaw! Yon would deny anything. I say that you first brought me news of my brother's illness, and pointed out how easy it would be to promulgate the statement of his death before 1* had defrauded his family of their inheritance. Did I not advance you a thousand pounds to send this man, Archer, out to hide him away till death, which you told me was certain and immediate, should relieve us of the danger?" llut?' "Then so be it; only make them quite understand their contract." money," "Oh. 1 was only going to say that Katr is still skeptical—in fact, she has h::d a little romance, which it would be a breach of confidence to tell you about. Merely a small love affair, with the heroic youth bursting to display bi» affection by a trip to India to set her doubts at rest." A long, covered sampan or canoe, prepared with cushions and mats and propelled by the broad paddles of three lusty Malays: is making headway against the sluggish stream of the Quala river. In the stern of the boat sit two Europeans, dressed in the light costume of Colombo merchants and wearing white pith helmets with a screen of muslin hanging a quarter of a yard down their backs. Tnere was a sort of crunching sound, Mich as one bears when the lion tainer inserts his head into the open jaws of the wrong liotf by mistake. The young man staggered back over a dressed hog and the two lay there together, as it were, one dressed hog beside the other dressed hog. It was a touching sight. The overdressed hog did pot look so peaceful as the other one did. He had a troubled look which was not shared by— the one that had the forced smile and a \ chip in his mouth, also a stick to prop \ his bosom open. j There are several street nuisances of / this kind who make it dangerous for / lDcople to walk much in town. One walks along the street reveling in the ' view of himself in the store fronts; ayother reads the paper on the street, and another goes along counting his change, ever and anon stealing a ride qn some lady's train. A DIRTY, FOUL-SMfXLIXG OLD RABCAL. SoCarapignon explained to the brawny fellows what they wanted of tliem, adding, too, on his own account that j Dunbar was a great American prince. ; whose generosity knew no bounds, and I who wouk} reward t!|em when they reached Colombo in a manner beyond their wildest expectations, and indeed j he was not very far exceeding his instructions as the sequel will prove. Iiut the most intelligent of the Malays objected to the immcdiat ■ abandonment of the provisions, insisting that they I should carry them for fifty miles into : the interior, where they could hide theiq in the trunk of some rot ton tree, as for that distance the stream was very slow, ami In case of need they might be reached. This reasonable amendment was adopted, and a little later the two 1 Europeans took their places at the paddles, toiling manfully during the long hours of the night, and managing matters so that the boat was iq motion for eighteen "hours out of the twenty four. to Campignon, for he suddenly turned ; to Arthur and said, petulantly: "We must grease the old villain's palms; he either knows nothing, or WlU say nothing." HEI.P ca.me too late. scape, the more beautiful after the gloomy passage of the tortuous, shaded riyer. Mr. Colbura's face was natu*nlly scarlet, the glowing red that lie<hy exercise or fine old crusted port produces, but tb» familiar hues faded away to a sickly yellOw ochre tint which dii duty for paleness in a less florid complexion."Promise him anything you like," was the prompt accession. "You did, my lady, and I think that yon will acknowledge that the thousand pounds was well invested." Already the Malays were leaningover the side of the sampan laving their faces in the crystal fluid and drinking the sweet water from their gourds, when the Frenchman checked them in the unutterable bliss of the deep draughts. In a moment jingled a handful of rupees before tlx old man's eyes. "Yes, that I acknowledge; but yon have deceived me concerning Harry Grahame's illness; and, if he recovers and returns to England, we are disgraced and ruined." Their light and well-manned boat goes boldly up the stream- skillfully avoiding the huge trunks of trees which in this time of the year abound in all the rivers of Gevlon. Then followed a torrent of ejaculations. little less unintelligible than the chattering of a baboon. But the wily Frenchman extracted a meaning' from the flood of sound. KISSING TH* QUIVERING LIPS. could not refrain from kissing the quivering lips that cooed such soft, sweet words. "A youth—a lover—gone to Indial" he stammered. "You forget that Sir Harry Grahame is deal, my lady." "Dead!" Many a curious sight these adventurers see as they wend their way. Now the banks are covered with thick ju»gjp of thorny brambles, tall cacti, bamboo* ami J.he gigantic creeping plant, which the bailors appropriately call jungle-rope, growing iit intricate recesses which ure teeming with wild animals and noxious reptiles, and again the tall palms wuve their feathery tops In solemn grandeur. "'The waters of the lake are sweet to the taste and clear to the eye," he said, "but the poison of the stream above. Let us make the island, where we shall find some spring from which we can fill our vessels and be' sure that we are not pouring liquid death down our throats." Miss Balderstone noticed his con- AT THE BANK. CHAPTEB X. MY LADY MOURNS. "Yes." she said, suspiciously. "The ffews seems to discompose you, Mr. Col burn." fusion, "The old sinner bites at the bait, but insists on having a hundred rupees, as he very naively says the other party ; have promised him that if he holds his tongue. What say you?" out to be a charm. Charms, however, when neglected, become at times uof- "Well, if not in the spirit, in the body —as dead to all the world as though he lay in his ancestral tomb." Scarborough house was a tall, gaunt ■tone mansion, with a certain massive itateliness which impressed outsiders with its solemn grandeur. It needed not the stone griffins conchant on its broad steps to tell you that some great family resided ther~, even if you were not subdued by the dignified bearing of the hall-porter, or the splendid livery and gigantic proportions of the footmen, who lounged in its bi?Dad doorway with a perpetual sneer on their red faces for all who were not of blueblooded descent. We were visiting Lima not long since, a thrifty tow n with all the snap and vigor of a new gold camp in the west, yet with the shrewd and vool headed business t;vt of a Cape Cod town. She has this characteristic, however, to which :ance "But there is such a thing as a resurrection, Mr. Colburn; how are you going to keep the lid of this apocryphal tomb over him, if he regains his health?" "And well it may." he cried.rccovering his equanimity with a supreme effort. "Think of the scandal of such a proceeding. Poor Lord Scarborough, who really is the meekest, most sensitive man in the world, will be fearfully distressed when he learns of this. 1 know you dislike the ladies of the family, Miss Balderstone, but the gentlemen have never slighted you. it is uq old name and ought not to be dragged in the mud. I implore you, if you can give me any information in this matter, to bury your personal antipathies and come to mv relief." "Apcede to any terras." The information given by |h# was well worth the investment. "J sea a spot where we can land," Dunbar cried, shading his eyes with his' hand and pointing to an inlet guarded by two abrupt rocks which stood a* sentinels to a narrow natural harbor. Without a reply the toiling natives bpnt themselves to the task of reaching the tiny haven, and. when their efforts had beeu crowned with success, they found themselves at the entrance of a small canyon, scarce three yards wide, whose sides ef massive J shook hands with Governor McKinlev at Columbus the other day and added him to my handsomeand growing list of eminent acquaintances. He looks more like a statesman than any other American i have been at all intimate with since the untimely death of Daniel Webster. Governor McKinley is an ideal statesman in appearance and bearing. His head is well shaped, his carriage is dignified and easy and his manner comfortable and refined. Gentleness and re- IDose constitute the two great primary elements of the gentleman, and Governor McKinley has these. He said that six months ago two large sampans passed up the river, containing three Europeans and eleven Malays; that one of the white men was deathly sick; that he rewgnized tha natives as swamp-dwellers, a tribe of great ferocity who inhabited a tract of country two hundred miles up the river, and chiefly lived by piracy and of plunder; that the white men told him they were going to live on an island under protection of the chief of these people; and that to react) ft they iqust pass thrpugh the country of the Rock Ved- "By the simplest process in the world, by main force." Every now and then they meet some other sampau, downward bound, paddled by a bare-backed Ma'ay. with perhaps some Cingalese potentate, clad in a long white robe and with a huge comb in his hair, who is returning to the city after a visit to liis plantation. I have darkly alluded. It is a public square. The jrablic square was of course intended to be on the start a thing of beauty, but it has in too many of the middle state tawus become an open air livery stable, covered with the choice lecorations of a badly farmed farm. "But he is not a man to submit to force. He who could break through the barriers of an Indian temple would laugh to scorn your petty bondage." OHAPTER XIII. TP THK (j{7AGI.A RIVER. It requires a pen far mora graphic than 1 can wield to give even a faint description of the utter desolation of the country through which the Quagla river wound its tortuous course; now through regions of impassable jungles, where wild beasts and reptiles found lurking placG*, and where the dark waters rolled on with scarce a current; and, anon, barren rocks and sandy wastes past which the river flowed like a torrent. Towards night and in the early mornlntr dense miasmatic fo"* arose, stifling unhappy human beings with foul exhaJatlons, and almost more nr endurable than the terrible hsat of day The river too swarmed with huge sanri ans—scaly monsters twenty feet longnot the timid alligators of Florida, but fierce creatures which were man's deadliest enemy, more to be dreaded even than the gigantic serpents which they frequently saw hanging from the limbs of the trees on the bank, whose embrace would crush one's body to a shapeless mass. , "You are unnecessarily alarming yourself, my lady. The Sir Harry of to-day is not the Sir Harry of twenty years ago. This illness, which I believe you piously hinted at in our last interview as an especial dispensation of Providence to prevent him from perpetrating a base injustice, has left him a wreck, and, even if he should recover his animal strength, he will be a helpless imbeoile to the end of his days." For the most part the interior was, if anything, more depressing yet aristocratic than its outside, for the rooms were so spacious that they resembled more halls of assembly than the snug apartments of an English home. Darkness comes on. but it does not impede them, for they have not started till the heat of the day was spent, so one of the natives lights a chute, or torch, and fixes it in ttye of the boat, while presently the moon will come forth in all its tropical glory. The square is of course geographically in the center of the town, and is distinctly visible from every direction. The idea is a good one, but when it becomes the grazing grortnd of the motlieaten horse and the home of the watermelon rind, the spring of the year adds no beauties to it and Taxpayer and Veritas write pieces about it. He struck the right key. Miss BaJderstone's prevailing weakness was a belief in the peerage—a consciousness that it was improper, if not sinful, to stain the reputation of a familv whose coat 01 arms was emblazoned in the pages of Burke's Peerage. rock nearly fifty feet in height. C.unpignon whispered a caution as tW.y forced the lnDat tip the stream, Not ev -n a night bird was tllstm-V»ed by their, noiseless approach. The channel \tn which they were pr-ncw ling wap a strange freak of n«timD, winding in its course, like tho colls of a huge serpent — winding on and on with unchanging sam?aes6, as it seemed to the anxious voyagers, for miles. dahs. The true gentleman does not like to make anybody feel uncomfortable, "flie prig does. We did not talk long, as I am a very busy man and cannot pause in the great battle of life to visit with the various governors with whom I am thrown in contactiDeo we merely passed the fimu of day, and when 1 had taken in a good But there was one room, which was an exception—a pretty, dainty apartment, furnished with exquisite taste in the most charming modern style. Thu was my lady's boudoir, devoted especially lo the mistress of the establishment, and never entered under any pretext by any member of the family without especial invitation. Thus the night was passed, and morning saw those tireless ft.uldlers bending their tawny bacl;s to their task. But when the son rose in unclouded splendor they moored their sampan under the spreading boughs of a bread-fruit tree, and, after a hasty meal, fillet} their mouths with the bloodied bofc;! nut and flung themselves down to sl*ep the torpid slumber of the weary. "The Rock Veddahs! Who are they?" Artliqr asket(, wheq CamP'gnqi} relating these details. "It is terrible," the woman said, tor the moment conscience-stricken. "If I thought," she" hesitated, "that any information I could give would prevent a disagreeable sfiandal—" "DiCVyou never hear of the Rock Veddahs?" the Frenchman queried. "Then you have yet to be introduced to the lowest type of linmanity, to whom the IJosjesmen of southern Africa are polished gentlemen by comparison. They are indeed a race of wiltl men. It is also in many cases ft hay and wood market. Here "the wan in the bine army overcoat (he has never been in the army or he would not be wearing it) meets the man in the buffalo overcoat, and they borrow tobacco of each other, chew some of it, spit eight times, water their stock and go home. "But not more terrible than if he had returned to England," the lawyer speciously pleaded, "where he would be immured in a private madhouse. There "You would forget your animositie? and speak out," Mr. Colburn anxiously interrupted. "Just what I should have expected of you. Now, please, what is the name of this Quixotic wooer, who would rival the mad knight of Cervantes in his mischievous absurdities?" "Let us turn back!" Dunbar cried. "We are wearing ourselves put for nothing." Here one morning Bat its fair owner, a handsome, high-bred woman of forty, still in morning costume, though the afternoon was waning. There was a flush of expectancy on her delicate face and a nervousness in her manner which said, as plain as words, that her ladyship was ill-at-ease, a mood which her maid, who was in attendance, evidently looked upon with no very agreeble sentiments, for Lady Scarborough had a way of venting her discontent on her dependents. \ "Are yon, sure, Annette, thkt you . told the groom of the ehambet-s to announce Mr. Colburn as soon as ha called?" he enjoys, thanks to your ladyship's liberality, a home on the banks of a nor ble river, in one of the loveliest countries in the world." "They are a dangerous, wicked race,' and we have to go right through tho' heart of their country." Even as he spoke the tallest and strongest of the Malays dropped his paddle and fell prone on the bottom of the sampan, his face convulsed with mortal agony. How hot it was! People come to the editor and say: "That square is getting to be a blamed nuisance. Yon ought to roast it. Go for it." Then tho editor says in his paper, provided the man who made the suggestion has paid for his advertising promptly:* "He is an American," Balderstone began. Not a breath of air was stirring gunidst the dense mass of vegetation: not a twig ROr Jea-f fluttered; the long white paddy stalks, or Dy}lt} riee, glittered and sparkled in their watery resting plpces as though they were fashioned in burnished silver. The buffalos had betaken themselves to their watering places. The birds were evidently worn they were nowhere tg be seen; the beetles crawled feebly over the cooler shrubs, but they could not summon energy to get up a single hum or buzz; and even the ants dropped their lilliputian loads. "And the climate?" "Still if others have done it I suppose; wc can," Arthur said, with determination."Well, not very salubrious to Europeans, I am afraid, but in his condition life has no pleasures, no hopes, no ties." "An American!" the gentleman echoed, lugubriously. He had a pious horror of Americans as antagonists in courts of law. He had had more than one tussel with them, and realized the unpleasant persistence with which they refused to know when they were beaten- Five days had passed since the wan deters left the Cingalese village. They had toiled on regardless of heat, thirst or hanger—thirst I say, for the muddy water was so impregnated with the de cayed vegetable matter of ages that its taste was revolting. "As 1 expected,'' Campignon hoarsely whispered; "he is water poisoned. Quick, Dunbar, with your brandy  or he will die." "Von alludo to George Archer JR.d his accomplices, but. you forget that they are under the protection of the! swamp-dwellers, who are, I expect, too1 powerful neighbors for the Veddahs to exasperate." ; "And he has every comfort, Mr. Colburn?"They forced open his set teeth and poured the burning fluid down his throat, but help came too late, and the bronzed features twitched with mute agony, the brawny frame quivered, and all was over. There was an appeal in his glaring eyes which haunted Arthur Dunbar for many a long day and night; but his two companions seemed but lifc tie discomposed by his untimely fate, muttering a few words which the Frenchman translated as a declaration that all men must die sometime, and they hud faith that the American prince would compensate his widow when they reached Colombo and would remember to reward them for the additional toils they must now endure. Nay, they even were preparing to throw the body of their deceased comrade into the stream, but were prevented by Dunbar, who swore that it should have decent burial. All thought of returning until they had explored the mysterious channel was abandoned, and once more the canoe with its ghastly burden was sent speeding onward. "We regret greatly to see onr beautiful public square in such a neglected condition. Will not some one move in the matter? It is a sin and a shame, and as a matter of fact it is high time to call a halt." "Ah! well, perhaps it is all for the best. Now, if we can only allay Lord Scarborough's suspicions, all may go well yet. You have relieved me of considerable anxiety." "He is treated with infinite kindness." "And his name?" he asked, with aty the composure he could assume. "If you are afraid," Dunbar said,! testily, "say so, man, and turn baC:l(-! As for me, I shall roach air Harry Ura-t' bame, or die in the effort." Night was fast approaching. In that tropical region the curtain of darkness jails with a rush, folding in impenetrable gloom the landscape that scarce a few minutes before was bathed in the golden rays of the setting sun. By and by the stars will come out one by one with t wink.'tig brightness, and presently (me moon with a majesty unknown iu temperate zones will flood the heavenB wlth its silvery sheen: but meanwhile tho fog hangs over the river and even the .dazzling torches at the head of the sampan fail to make an object a dozen paces distant visible. "Arthur Dunbar," Miss Balderstone said, and immediately added: "But I only lock upon his promise to go to India as a piece of silly bravado, Mr. Colburn—not worth your attention." Teams net actually engaged, in traffic on the streets ought not to be permitted to stand hitched inside the business part of any city whatever. Even Minneapolis, big and prosperous as she is, still permits hundreds of farm teams to stand tied along its main avenues, not only by the hour, but by the day, a vast fringe of starvation, colic aud botts in the very heart of a great, thriving and beautiful city. "Vuite mi*, my lady." "And it is nearly four, and he is not here." "Lord Scarborough is not a very wise man," the solicitor said, didactically, "and I do not think it will be difficult to throw dust in his eyes. The only thing that remains is to be true to each other and have mutual confidence, for I am certain that the secret is known only to you and me and Frank Archer. Rest assured of that, my lady. True, I forgot for a moment Aaron Gore, the man servant, but you know as welll as I do that his tongue is tied, (t would take an especial dispensation of Providence to disconcert my plans, which I flatter myself are arranged with no mean skill; so do not tremble at shadows, my lady."  "And I shall stick with you to the last, sir. When Francois Campignon signs articles, he means to hold to them as long as he can." The Europeans could not sleep. A short, stertorous, feverish unconsciousness was their apology for slumber, and before the first hour of repose was passed, they rose from their reclining position, yawned wearily, and looked with envious eyes at their humbler companions, happy in the sweet oblivion of dreamless rest. ' "Just struck four, my lady, by the clock of the Horse-guards. 1 think, perhaps—"Mr. Colburn did not seem to entertain this pleasant assurance. "Do you know where he is staying?" he asked. "And you shall not regret your courage and honesty," Dunbar said, wai iqly. "Do not troubie to think. It is a bad habit for a servant to  and disgusting to hear her express them." "I am sure, my lady, I—" "Wiia you hold your toague, Annette? Your chattering makes my head •che." When they reached the cluster of trees under whose shade they had left their sampan, they found a crowd of natives, who had brought every conceivable kind of meat and fresh fruit for their selection, some even the charms to warn off devils and evil spirits which they urgently pressed them to purchase. But a sampan, light and buoyant as it is, is only a boat after all, and its gunwale was soon weighed down near the water. «o the oriler was given to the painter and cast off into the stream, notwithstanding the Babel of chattering remonstrance from the disappointed villagers whose wares had been brought in vain. Already the broad backs of the Malays had bent to their work, when loud cries from the direction of the village were beard, and they saw the fat body, wabbling to and fro like a Dutch lugger iu a storm, as he came on a run, with one peon holding a huge umbrella over his head, and another pushingJiim alonspin a not very dignified manner. •  "I do not But ff you desire to question Kate about it, much as I disjike to let her know that I have spoken to you about what she told me in confidence, I will send for her." The farmer would not want the gas works 011 his farm. Why does he expect to bring his nuisances into town? Because the farm is too often in the spring of the year a vast, humiliating exposure, that is no reason why these,sanitary methods should lie brought int&tpwu, is it? THE GOVERNOR HAD COXU. "By Jove, Campignon," said the younger of the two. "What an accursed climate! After the delicious coolness of last evening, this reeking heat is doubly stifling. It is like stepping from Paradise into Hades." full breath to explain this to the governor I discovered that he had gone. He was theu on his way to Ilhode Island, where he expected to speak in j/ublic. Miss Balderstone was not one to spare herself, when she once put her hand to the plow- "Can you take your spell at the paddle, Mr. Dunbar; or has the miasma of this accursed stream poisoned your blood?" Campignon asked, baring his own arm for the nightly toil. The girl's lips parted, but no sound came from them. She stood with clasped hands, mute and motionless, as much a slave as a Saxon hand-maiden, who wore a brazen collar round her neck with her owner's name on it in the days of the Heptarchy. "It pains me to beg the favpr, but if you would permit me to say a few words to your pupil I should be infinitely obliged." Columbus is a beautiful c»t *, peopled with a class of excellent people. The state house is also located here. I have spoken of it before. It is a plain structure, known as the Buckeye Architectural Wart. It consists of a large stand pipe with a lean-to at each side. It is owned by the state. No private person would accept it. "And What do you think it will be when we get further away from the sea shore anil the nights will be more sultry than the days. Mr. Dunbar?" the elder replied, lighting a ciCjarette with provoking nonchalance. "I am in rather a dead-alive condition." Arthur Dunbar replied, "but good for my share of the work yet. What a few more days of this bodily torture may do for me I cannot tell, but as long as 1 can wield a paddle I shall not shrink from the burden." Lima has altout the earliest electric car line in.America. It is a double trolly system, and the ears are getting old and childish. The rolling stock is to be renewed verv soon. CHAPTER XI. AN UNPLEASANT BI8COTBRT. The moment Kate reached the  she read in their faces the assurance that her secret was no longer in the sole possession of her friend, and a little flush of defiance dyed her cheek before either of them had spoken a word. The midsummer vacation ended at last and the young ladies were gathered together once more under Miss Balderstone's wing to pursue their studies and dream dreams of speedy emancipation when the regime of the school room should be exchanged for tbe delights of the drawing room- There are more pupils come back than tbe house can conveniently hold, yet Miss Balderstone's heart is sad, for she is in sore vexation of spirit. As if that confession of her favorite Katei Grahame, that she has allowed a wandering Yan%pe, probably some penniless adventurer, to steal her heart was not enough worry for one morning. Mile. Campignon. the best, sedatest, most-reliable French governess who ever entered her establishment, must decline to resume her duties and had absolutely left the house with the avowed intention of abandoning the profession. . Suddenly the long line of precipitous rooks broke into a low sanded shore, with gentle slopes on either side of the stream, giving a glimpse of a wild country rich iu towering trees and undulating rolls, like the broad expanse of an American prairie covered with a virgin forest, while beyond, the stream again entered a chasm iu another range of hills. The abrupt transformation of the face of the country aroused thaD wonder of the Europeans, and thqu amazement grew when they saiv beached on/the sloping shore  sampan, in which still rested many ol»£ jects of English production, such as articles of clothing, shawls, wraps and canned meats, doubtless the very boat they had been in pursuit of. Chained to one of the rough seats of tho sampan was a dog—a brown retriever—who fawned upon them with every manifestation of joyous welcome. "Now you are looking sulky,girl, and I will—" But what she would do to the unfortunate maid, the world never knew, for ■Sat that moment the groom of the chambers announced the attorney's arrival. C The frown cleared from the lady's brow as the dapper little lawyer bowed himself into the room, but there was a tone of reproach in her voice as ah* .bade him be seated. "I must bear it, I suppose." At m11 these towns nearly every one's room is heated by natural gas. It holds out very well. 1 was through this state earljk in the discovery business, and I then prophesied that gas from the interior of the earth would t-ontinue to manifest itself up to the present time, and jwssibly even later. Subsequent history has shown that 1 was right. "If you oani but yon have seep poth- Ing of the roughness of the trip yet. In twenty miles more we shall be in the wilderness, and then look out for squalls." Just then a human cry startled the speaker—a sc-eam of mortal agony, sounding very weird-like in the blackness of the night. This was followed by a loud splash, and then a hoarse voice rang out in a tone of command. The Columbus Buggy company is located at co-jmtras, and supplies a number of the smaller hotels with goods. "My dear, pray be seated." Mr. Colburn 6aid, gently, paternal benevolence literally beaming in his countenance. "Our mutual friend, Miss Balderstone, has found it necessary—purely in/your interest, you understand—to refer to your friend. Mr, Arthur Dunbar. It is necessary that I communicate with this gentleman at once—not in the remotest manner concerning'"your acquaintance with him—and I venture to ask you for his address." At Columbus I went to see a melodrama. It was called, "A Woman's Vengeance, or The Guilty Crime/' "You are a Job's comforter, certainly," Dunbar replied; "but sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. By the bye, we cannot be far away from the village where we were to lay in our supplies, and get our last chance of information from the headman." "For your life, sir, be silent!" Campignon cried, as he dashed to the bow of the boat, and seizing the torches plunged them Into the hissing water, "There is a war-canoe coming lown the river, I hear the strokes of their paddles, and our only safety lies in finding a hiding place." It was a thrilling piece. It supplies eleven distinct thrills and three opportunities to go out and get an anodyne. ,* The heroine of the play ihay be observed in the center of the stage at all times. That is how you know she is the itar. She appears first as a lowly girl in b gingham dress and diamond ring. In this garb she is betrayed and ruthlessly jollied into a bogus marriage with a low, coarse man, who laughs hoarsely, spurns her from him, speaks coarsely through his hat and goes away. The electric street cars of Lima are sadly out of repair, as Ijaid. Xhey brave the odor of a cheap lodging hotffce on the „ "You are late, sir," she said, in quiet reproof. D■ / "For which aecept my apology." h« ;replied, airily, not at all in the regretiful respect that a family lawyer usualiljr displays to a distinguished client, j . Tbe lady noticed this, and her hot blood dyed her cheek. "Hold hard!" Dunbar cried, and the Bien, pbeying his gesture, rather than his voice, once more swung the nose, of the boat into the bank. ►werv, as nearly as 1 can recall it now. "It lies just beyond the bend of the river, not two miles away," was the reply. "Were you thinking of going to. see the headman while these poor beggars tak« their siesta?" They are shabby in the extrenie. Also in the middle. Next Lent I shall abstain from the use of these cars. Miss Balderstone was supremely uncomfortable. intensely truthful herself, she writhed in the spirit at being made a party to any equivocation, and the lawyer's speech was, to say the least of it, not exactly candid. When the paunchy official could sufficiently recover breath to speak, he announced that he had the most important tidings for the uiimipettns, winch he would communicate for a consideration. So consequently Campignon sprang ashore und retired with him to a cluster of trees. A few whispered words seemed to satisfy the Frenchman, for he handed over the money, and Dunbar noticed that his face grew very grave as the conference proceeded. Muttering a few words to the Malays, he bade them turn the nose of the boat ashore, which they did with marvelous instinct, considering liovv impenetrable was the darkness with which they wer# surrounded. Only just in time did they suooeed In waching the friendly basbireeds, behind whose waving plumes they were safe from observation; for with a rush a huge canoe, manned by a score of nearly naked savages and 1ft by a dozen flaming torches, flashed down the stream. At the stern sat a man who constantly urged the toilers to greater speed, occasionally striking them with the reverse end of a long, uply he bor.e in his right hand. Like phantoms of a hideous dream they passed into the darkness and were gone. Lima is one of the thrifty and prosperous cities of Ohio, and is also the home of the Lima bean. } "It seems to me," she said, "that (your manner has changed of late. Yo« forget, sir, what you owe to me. Had "I confess 1 was," Dunbar said; you thought you had sufficient knowledge of the language to conduct the business; for 1 guess there are shade trees all -the way, and sitting broiling in this stifling atmosphere Is simply maddening." Iu Cincinnati the other day we tried to buy a New York draft. rphe first four banks were just out of New York drafts, and the fifth one had just been plagiarized by a "gentleman with a cough" who downed the bank for some $27.&i, I believe, and so it did not feel like selling New York exchange to "strangers." The bank had just offered a rewhrd of seventy-five cents for the arrest and apprehension of the fiend who had "did it up' in that bold way. aj»T 8CAKBOBOUGH ASB THI LAWTM She had told Kate Grahatne that she was a little goose to put any faith in her American admirer and blamed her for making, such a promiscuous acquaintance. "As for his story about going to India,-my dear, that is all balderdash. He will turn up some day and say he has been there, trusting to your being overwhelmed with gratitude," she had said to the weeping girl. "Just as if any sane person would go off to tho end of the earth on such a wild-goose chase, when he could have taken a sixpenny 'bus to Mr. Col burn's office and satisfied himself that Sir Harry Grahame was as dead as Julius Cesar. Besides, where was this Yankee hero of hers to get funds for such an expensive journey—did she think that he was a prince in disguise?" Kate took "time to reply. With the acute perception of love, she saw that some undefined trouble threatened Arthur Dunbar. "lie is in tolerably good condition, and cannot have been here long," Dunbar said, as he unloosed the animal, which whined his gratitude with piteous earnestness. She then resolves to become an heiress. Her father dies on the stage, losing his life and his artificial whiskers at the same time. His death leaves her wealthj', as her father, though poor, has invented a machine for boring holes in macaroni, thus reducing the cost of its production over 75 per cent., and so the girl, with entirely new clothing and a desire for revenge, goes abroad and acquires the French language. "Mr. Dunbar gave me an address in IxDndon," she said, blushing very prettily at the confession, "but I was not to use it except under extreme circumstances. If you have anything particular to communicate. Mr. Colburn, I should be happy to forward a letter. "Oh, I guess the old fellow knows a little English, and my small acquaintance with the Cingalese will carry us through. Sling your gun over your arm, Mr. Dunbar, and let us start." The words had hardly left the young American's lips, when a spear whistled by his head, and fixed itself in the trunk of a palm tree by his side. The quick report of the ..Frenchman's rifle woke the echoes a few moments afterwards, and a tall figure leapt into the air from a neighboring1 bush and fell to the earth, while another sprang in hot fury from a group of fems and charged upon them with long, glittering crease, a weapon more dangerous than a sword in the band of a fierce Malay, who has no fear of death and fights with the blind impetuosity of a wild beast. With a cry of frenzied rage, lie sprang upon C'ampignon, dashing him to the earth with the fory of his charge, but ere the gleaming blade could fall upon the hapless man, Arthur Dunbar's strong arms wens flung arounil the would-be assassin. Sleepless nights and scorching days had not robbed the young American of his marvelous strength, and, in less tin»e than it takes to write the words, the Malay was lying gaspinp in the .sand at the mercy of one who in his just rage seemed half inclined to strangle bun; but Cauipignon's advice prevailed, and he was simply bound with ropes, which were tied in such a wanner us to insure the security rather than the comfort of the prisoner. "The old reprobate," he said, as he took his place in the boat and gave orders to the men to cast off, "has added a little piece of intelligence which it was lucky we waited for, for forewarned is forearmed, and we're got to look out for squalls," It was not difficult for them to find the hut of the korale, or headman. In the midst of the thick foliage it looked like a huge wart on the pph Coffee, banana, cotton and pawpaw shrubs grew in wild profusion around it, though it had, literally speaking, no garden. ' J D or — It seems that some months ago a man from Chattanooga came in "with a cough" and presented a draft for payment. It wa» pretty large, and the cashier looked suspiciously at the owner of the paper, but he kept his hand up to lils month wL'-h that steady, dry, hackling cough, Which they say carried -him off pretty soon. Something did, anyhow, Possiblv it was the cars. When she returns she goes to work systematically to ruin the man who so ruthlessly jolted her affections and then went elsewhere. She goes into the stock market and by means uf a cheap boy, who knows how to buy in such a way as to make money and yet ruin her old paramour, she has inside of a few weeks shaken Wall street so that it has "You will oblige me, Kate, by dropping this mysterious air and answering Mr. Colburn's question—where is Mp. Dunbar?" Miss Balderstone U»manded, severely. "Ah, what now?" "Why. you see, it appears that yesterday a European passed up the river in a light sampan propelled by two strong paddlers. He stopped at the village just long enough to get provisions and promise the korale twenty rupees on his return if he would delay the passage of any other of his countrymen who might make the attempt to penetrate into the interior. He said distinctly that two men would do so, and described our appearance so minutely, that there is no doubt but that he alluded to us." "Those fellows are swamp-dwellers, and if I am not mistaken the.y are iq pursuit of us," the Frenchman said, witu a grim smile. "Luckily for us they speed along so incautiously, or we should have been food for the alligators ere this." "1 am sorry to disoblige yon, Mlsa Balderstone, but I cannot give you the - doorway, tlioy found "an "tlflerly, drled-up man nearly asleep on a hammock made of cocoa fibers, a dirty, foul-smelling old rascal with small bead-like eyes which glittered with conning like a serpent's Nevertheless he was a great man in his community, reaping where he had not sown, and preying like a vampire on the poverty-stricken people by whom he was surrounded. Serfs tracked him wherever he went; one held a talipotleaf over him in bis walks; another carried his stick of office., and a third beat off the mosquitoes with a switch. At present he was unattended, save by a half-naked peon who fanned him with a punkah. •ugh thi To all of which very sensible homily the poor girl had only been able to whimper a loyal faith in her young man, who was good and honorable becaus—well, because he was good and honorable, and the two ladies had parted with sentiments of mutual distrust.to be replumbed throughout, and then she gets the iob of doine it herself. All along through the play-she is getting ready and issuing invitations for tK denouement. It is very well attended. indeed, and passes off pleasantly. When the draft was sent on for payment to the bank on which it was drawn it was discovered, alas! too late, that the man with tl\e cough was one of those practical engineers who can put a pair of jackscrews under a ten dollar draft and raise it to any required denomination while von \."Sit, ' "And what shall we do now?" Duxvr bar asked, wearily. "Make the most of our escape and strain every norve to catch the white rascal ahead of us before they return," was the prompt response. ;lt not been for me, remember you •would aow be, aa yon were for yearn, the servant, not the head of the flrp ,/ou represent." , "Quite true, my lady, hut I think I have given a quid pro quo for your patronage, and delightful as it would be to •ny vanity to suppose that yon vera imply instigated in your kind service# »reward merit, 1 oannot but think Jtxat yon have called upon me to redeem my obligations. ft was perhaps for your own interests aa well as mine that you used your influence to promote my fortunes. Tour strictures are a little ungrateful, when you consider What I am now asking in your behalf." "In my behalf! You made a hard enough bargain to protect yourself anCj salve your wounded honor. I say you? manner has been unbearable since— .since—since we have been—" For the denouement she changes her dress, appearing in a scarlet plush cloak whieh envelops her entirely. When she gets ready to forbid the wedding of her old and tough lover, who has made arrangements to marry a stpop shouldered heiress whose family extends back among the Ptolemys, she throws this cloak aside as a boy would cast aside his garments before goifig in swimming, and stands before him dressed as she was when he so basely wooed and then deserted her. It was then at the very moment that Miss Balderstone's usually placid disposition was ruffled by these twin vexations that Mr. Colburn, the attorney, presented himself, and if that astute gentleman had picked his opportunities he could not have found a time when she would have been more predisposed to lend an ear to his suggestions. "Yet," Dunbar interposed, "that seejps impossible; for not a soul knew where we were going when we left London—not even Miss Grahame." The natives refused their spell of rest, anxious to put a greater distance between themselves and their dreaded enemies, whose bloodthirsty ways they were familiar with, so the sampan  6wiftly on in response to their vyjo»om efforts. He had a preparation of pulp and a powerful press, with which he filled up Ibo $ walk generally cut out of the paper at the end of the amount of the draft. Then he could easily cut out such other figures as his desire for ready money seemed to justify. "Nevertheless, I believe the secret lias leaked out, and that we shall regret the three weeks we lost at the cape and our month's delay at Colombo," Campignon insisted. "What was the cry we heard when the war-boat was reaching us?" Dunbar asked, still thrilled with the agonized scream which 6eemed even yet to float in the air. He was clad in barbaric pomp, yet renked in filth, and swelled with importance in a balloon-shaped kandyan hat, a flowing robe and loose jacket and the usual muslin scarf, the. strangers entered, the koraje sprang from his hammock, with an ability beyond his years, and began to salaam in the most approved Cingalese style: but Cainpignon, who had made his acquaintance in his trading trips up the Quagla, In a few stern words put a stop to his capering ceremony. I had the misfortune to drop into several banks in Cincinnati soon after this affair, and having, as I do, the air of a plausible, unhung hellion from TompkinSville, Staten Island, of course I wag at once spotted by the eagle, eyed man behind the wires, who had resolved that no xtraiujer should steal the bank's funds "I have brought you my Canadian friend's reply to my letter concerning Miss Urahame," he - said, handing the schoolmistress a note written in a lady's hand on heavy paper with a delightfully ugly crest in the shape of a mythical animal's head embossed upon it. "You see, I did not mortgage my assurances of her satisfaction with any arrangement I might make deeper than 1 could redeem them." "Well, we cannot reproach ourselves 'with that, for we were told that the river was impassable till the floods subsided," Dunbar said, a little vexed, for the Frenchman's manner seemed to impute carelessness on his part. "When he recovers from his blind passion, we shall get some valuable information from him: for these fellows in their calmer moments readily yield "Most probably the death-yell of a murdered slave," Campignon replied. "For, when on a forced journey these gentry see a poor wretch shrinking from his work, exhausted with the teiD rible toil, they just give liiiu, a slash with a crease and pitch him overboard to feed the crocodiles. Ah, I thought so—do you not see in the glimmering light that little dark mass floating  the stream? Nay, it is 110 use going out of our way to the rescue, for if life U I hate, a man who will do that and then brag about it. A man who will basely deceive a girl that way and then laugh about it ought to be written up in the papers, and I was glad to see that the play turned out that way. I always like to see a play like that. It elevates me. D j-fTE SPRANG TO HIS FEET. "Granted: it may be a misfortune and not a fault, but if some enemy is taking the wind out of our sails we must be on the alert." to tNe inevitable," the Frenchman said, eyeing his lute antagonist with a grim address," was the quiet but determined reply. anyhow, stniicr Finally, at the German National bank, I was received kindly and a d raft was sold to me at a reasonable price, with the understanding that i would be careful of it. A Cincinnati merchant said ■ "Aooompliceel Exactly, my lady. Ton cannot play with the Are without the danger of burning your fingers." i "Well, a truce to this levity. I sent for von to dismiss*mostimnortajit. mat* "Kate, I insist upon it! Nay, Mr. Colburn, do not interfere between me and my pupil. Disobedience is a thing unknown in this house. Where is Mr. Dunbar to be found. Kate?"  "We must catch up with him at any cost," Dunbar cried, excitedly. I "There rmy Ym» more of the?e seoun- I drela lurking in the neighborhood," Duobur conjectured, us lie looked to the ! churiro of his reix atincr rifle., One man was killed in the play, but it was not so sickening as some deaths are on the stage. I could have made ii more hickenirg l'yr twenty-five dollars. "It is acharming letter," Miss Balderstone said, giving it to him after she had oarused it. "but 1 candidly confess pould they lmve fruit, dried mpatsand bread? Of course they could; was not all in the village at the disposal of the "As well set a cow to chase a greyhound as expect us to overtake that twht-hepleil customer who carries little [to be continued.] to me. however, that it was not feur of it id the only weak place in the play.