Bortfolio,
LEONATUS.
The fair boy Leonatus, The page of Imogen:
It was his duty evermore
To tend the Lady Imoges;
By peop of day he might be seen Tepping against her chamber door,
To wake the aleepy waiting-maid; She wokey and when she has array'd," The Princess, and the twain had pray'd, (They pray'd with rosaries of yore,
They call'd him, pacing to and fro; And cap in hand, and bowing low, He enter'd and began to feed
The singing birds with fruit and seed.
The brave boy Leonatus, The page of Imogen:
He tripp'd along the kingly hall,
From room to room, with messages;
near. To dall natures a good conversation-
THE CHINA MAIL.
“Yes; but some poor man.
No 4058-JUNE 8, 1878.
allat always looks inconsistent. His many the passage?" Sniff (being interpreted) by the loss of these shares ay be ruined shareholder in the Company, and that, I reached the wreck, and then the trouble"
John.!" do you wish the man to leave it in
"Or would I like It takon into the drawing- rooza; or placed on the dressing table of the spare room, perhaps or on the study mantel-piece ?
I thought it had better go down-stairs, Oh, Teave it in the pamage," I said.. No one, will steal it.
He stopp'd the butler, clutch'd his keys which may be for. the moment prominent, of printed mattor. Although my answer mahogany counter apparently without registered proprietor, Against this it was was liable at any moment to be dished
(albeit he was broad and tall,)
And dragg'd bin down the vaults, where
wine
In hina lay beaded and divine, To pick a task of vintage fine; Came up and clomb the garden wall,
And pluck'd from out the sunny spots Peaches, and luscious apricots, And fill'd his goldon safver there, And hurried to his Lady fair.
The gallant Leopatus,
The page of Imogen; He had a steed from Arab ground,
And when the lords and ladies gay Went hawking in the dews of May, And hunting in the country round, And Imogen did join the band,
He rode him like a hunter grund, A hooded hawk upon his hand, And by his side a slender hound:
But when they saw the deer go by, He slipp'd the leash, and let him dy, And gave his fiery barb the rein, And scour'd beside her o'er the plain.
The strange boy Loonatus, The page of Imogen: Sometimes be used to stand for hours
Within her room, behind her chair; The soft wind blow his golden hair Aorom his eyes, and bees from Aowers
Ramm'd round him, but he did not stir. He fix'd his earnest eyes on her
A pare and reverent worshipper,
A dreamer building airy towers:
But when she spoke he gave a start, That sent the warm blood from his heart To flush his cheeks, and every word The fountain of his feelings stirr'd,
The sad boy Leonatus, The page of Imogen:
He lost all relish and delight
For all things that did please before; By day he wish'd the day was o'er, By night ho wish'd the same of night: "He could not mingle in the crowd, He loved to be alone, and shroud." His tender thoughts, and sigh alond, And cherish in his heart its blight, At last his health began to fail, His fresh and glowing cheeks to pale; And in his eyes the tears unehed Did hang like daw on violets dead.
The timid Leonatus,
The page of Imogen: What aile the boy!" said Imogen: He stammer'd, sigh'd, and answer'd.
She shood her head, and then she thought What all bia malady could mean;
It might be love; her maid was fair, And Leon had a loving air; She watch'd them with a jealous care, And play'd the spy, but naught was saɛn :
And than she was aware at first,
That she, not knowing it, had nursed
His memory till it grew a part-
A heart within her very heart!
eldedness seems contradictory; his font not and need to be all things to all men has an ale of insincerity about it, while in fact it is only a sublimated voracity; his sense of the relativity of truths and of their monitle" tudinous phases, aides, shapes, and referen. ces, wears to the narrow, plodding under standing a look of sophistry and frivollig, "O dear, no," said my wife, with a little The homely wit, whlub stays where it grow mile. No one will staal it; that's quite in its own little plot of earth, is puzzled at certain." I admit it was not a seductive the vagabond instinct, which aonde other looking object now. A minds sparing and wheeling and viroling in When we were alone, Mrs Trumway search of fresh and distant prospecta. naked me what I intended to do with the There is a trick which, at the first sight safe, which was the very question I had looks like this conversational dexterity, but been asking myself ever since returning which is in fact its enemy. The. true con- from the sale, vornationalist touches lightly on his subject "What do I lutend doing with it, my and then passes on, but he has touched dear?" I repeated, to gain time. Why some interesting or charaéterestic fastura-yeah that fado with it Why, in it; the pecudo-conversationallat nibbles open it of oobrae.
She sniffed a sniff equal to two columas and peoks at my tag or corner of it whether or no the point touched on stands was not premeditated, I didn't think it in any vital connection with the whole altogether a bad notion. According, for While handling a theme easily, it is still the next two three weaks my house be possible to put your mind to it. It is also came the constant resort of blacksmiths, possible, as Dr. Johnson has it, to put whitesmiths, locksmiths, and people in the your mind fairly to the mind of your engineering way, all of whom, however, companion. And this is just what the failed utterly in the attempt to open the pseudo-conversationalists cannot do. They unpickable fire and thief proof Lot: 217 are common among the mon, and still They fairly owned it beat them. I wanted more among the women, who are intro the safe opened, however, for the reason duced to one at a party as "Such a that, being opened, it might become an romarkably intelligent person! So much article perhaps useful or saleable, whereas $0.8&y. on all subjects!" And they now it was neither. One morning an idea certainly have a falsa air of intelligence, and of unusual brilliancy occurred to me, and I may originally have started with a good put on my hat, and went out to put it in deal of mind. A life incessantly passed in practice. I walked up to our great modeling my intrusion. company, without the balancing effects of gaol, and saw the governor, with whom 1 study and frequent solitude, always betrays had previously some acquaintance, I told itself in this peonliar quality of the talk, him I should feel deeply obliged if he could which we notice with most disappointment render me assistance, and then came to In those the externals of whose mind, so to the purport of my visit. speak, give at first sight a promise of intelli. gence and mental comradeship.
And in these two things-intelligence and comradeship all the higher interent of no- ciety Kos. The neutral interest in all that appeals to the intellect, and the personal in terest of social fellowship, each feeding and supporting the other personal sympathy forbidding the Intallest to be pedantic or absolute, and the intellect giving a ground and a charm to personal sympathy are the main conditions of conversation at its best. It is true that many other things go to por- feat the relation between talkera-manner, appearance, dress, even-to minds sensitive to such influences, as the minds of the best conversationalists often are the social at- mosphere around, the bearing, breeding, and mental altitude of the society in which they happen to find themselves. One push- ing, dogmatical interloper can mar not only a tête-à-18te, but the most harmonious as sembly of talkers. The fast that there is an eager listener present who takes what is said otherwias than as it is meant, to whom a playful allusion passes for your last word on a great subivot, or who will not let suggestion pass till it has been anatomised into shreds, or who has not the mental quickness and fluency to keep up with the play of talk, who cannot discuss without ar- guing and cannot argue without wrangling, Is quite enough to destroy the ease and se renity without which no conversation can advanca freely,
LOT 217.
At forty ahanga-going at forty! Did I hear two guin-ness offered -Thank you, air. Two guin-ness is in time. For the first time, at two guin-ness! For the second time! Any advance on two guin ness? For the third and last time going at two guin-nees!”
Rap!
"Have you, my good air, auch a thing as a good strong burglar on the establishment that you could lend ms for an hour or two " And I explained what wanted. him for, No, didn't see that he could-it would be against the rules.
"I'll tell you what, though," he said, after a bit; "I dare say I could find you toket-of-leave man who would do it. They report themselves to us at stated intervals, so that we always know where to find them. Indeed, I think I know just the very man, and will send him to you."
One evening in the twilight, about a week afterwards, our servant came in, in some alarm, to say that two very ill-looking men were at the back door, who said they had "come to crack the guy'nor's money- box." They were not nice looking men. One of them, a great brown ruffian, with head and nook like a bull, and a wisp of coloured handkerchief over a shirtless chest, hairy as Esan's, gave me a stolid nod as Í went out.
"The boss up at the Model," he said, pointing with his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the gaol, asked me if to be as I would obliga yon by crackin' a little bit of a box you've got. You see, gaynor, I ain't any tools my own, so I've brought a pal who's got his Lady's Companion with him, to do the job;" indicating his friend, who carried a parcel of tools done up in matting. I should say he was not a nice man to have for a friend 4 spare, short, ounning little fellow, with monalnom aganza feng that gave you the im: pression of a weasels, and a thin nose, with a continual nervous, twitching in the nos trils, like a rabbit's, as though he was an animal always on the scent for game or hunters, which perhaps he was, His name was Toney,
it.
"Well," I said, "I would give you some- thing to open it."
Would you, bogar?" growled the big man. Our terms is 'arf a Buv'rion-me and Toney-and two pots of her, and two ounces of bacter; and then it's a favour, on account of our doin' it to oblige the boss. And we ain't a-going to do it here, un'atan; but if you've got a bit of a outhouse at the back, where we can be private, we'll do the job there on the quiet.
in addition to the certificates, it had commenced. It would not only be difflauit *** Well," said 1, "what I will do will be contained his cash box and a quantity but quite impossible for me to convey to to go up to London to the Company's oll of gold and notes, and that the safe the reader the difficulties and obstacles ens, and ascertain whether these certificates had been stolen from his office, the notes with which we had to contend. In the are claimed on behalf of anyone else, and and gold and cash bax removed by the first place, all reports as to the condition if not, to claim them for myself."
robbers, who had obtained a war Impres of the wreck, the constant bouvy swell, I found the offices of the Undeniable ción of his key, and the valueless safe, muddy water, oto., were all found to be Security and Unlimited Discount Banking containing the shares, sold to an iron correct and not in the least exaggerated. Corporation (Idmited) a most imposing monger who had put it into the sale. The first great object was to moor the edifice of Italian architecture, with immense This Wendle had appled for duplicates of vessel in such a position as to allow the plate-glass windows, and Purbeck-marble the share certificates, which were refused divers to go down, as we had no boat fit to
HE columns, and the name of the company, by the Company, until he could prove the carry the apparatus. But to meor the in medieval gold Tetsers, running the whole destruction of the old ones. Unsucessful vessel and keep her in position was no easy length of the building. Evidently a very in this, and distrusting the rockless business matter, and at times simply an impossi prosperous concern. On entering there of the Undeniable and Unlimited," he at bility. Although we had a large nachor was not that amount of business doing last applied to have the shares standing in and hawser for head mooring, besides four which I should have liked to see; in fact, his name cancelled, which had been done, smaller anchors and breast lines to the beyond two clerks-ons of whom was per--It would therefore follow, it was con wreck, yet frequently the lines would, chafo, ing his nails with the office penknife, while tended, that my liabilty embraced the off; the chains would part, and not only the other and more elderly, was reading the whole twelvemonth, from the time Mr the diver who was down would be in newspaper the place was empty. I stood Wendle's name had been erased to the jeopardy, but the lives of all on board quite five minutas at the massive Spanish stoppage of the Company, I being the next would be endangered, as the schooner either of the clerks becoming officially aware argued that whatever hir Wendle, might to pieces against the wreck, one portion of my presence, so intent were they on their bave written to the company, the certificates of her being visible just above water, duties. I therefore rapped on the floor when found, were his property; and that and many parts nearly to the surface. with my umbrella, which made a great after they were stolen they none the less Under such circumstances, for a diver to noise in the empty office, which was church seaned to be his property. And if so, woy go down into a wreck under portions of a like for site and echoes. The elder clerk counzel preceded, there would be a very deck that were awinging and swaying with looked up impatiently from his papor, hus remarkable point for the decision of his the motion of the sea, and into treasure resumed its pernas immediately. The Indahlp. For be wont on to elicit that Mr vault where there was barely room for one youngest gat off his atool, and went to a Wendle, after losing nearly the whole of to crawl, with the water so muddy that looking glass, where he commenced arrang- his money, had committed suicide under they could see nothing, and their life line such determined circumstances that evon and air-hose leading mader, plating and ing his hair with a pocket-comb.
I havo called," I remarked in a some the charity of a coroner's jury had been overtimbers in the form of a letter S, requires what loud tone, about sonte shares in this constrained to pronounce it fulo de so, and judgment, courage and coolness that fall Company the certificates of which I hold."ho had been buried without funeral rito. to the lot of but few mon. And while it "Eh said the old clerk, at last detect. Wherefore, as the certificates of which he may be considered fool-hardy and reckless had been robbed were still his property in for men to take anck risk, we can but admira the eye of the law it would follow, from the courage and determination that prompts his being felo de se, that they became the them to it property of the crown, consequent on his agt. But if they were the property of the crown, the crown was liable for that twelve months; and again, the cafe could not be legally sold without authority from the crown, and his client could not be the legal buyer, nor, Qunrequently, have any right title, interest or ability in the shares aforesaid.
I repeated my business. "Certificates Nos. 2034 to 2033-they are in my possession-in fact, I bought them."
Well, what do you want? Do you wish them registered in your name Simpson" (to the young clerk), "get down the transfer book,"
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"That is the difficulty," said 1. "In the event, for instance, of anyone else olaiming the certificates, for they came into my possession in a rather singular manner,"
No difficulty at all. You say you've got the certificates, and you've bought them. It doesn't matter to us if you've atolen them. Just produce the scrip, and give me an authority to register the shares in your name." →
He looked over the certificates and counted them, while I wrote the required authority,
In addition to all thisBut no; I will spare the reader the further particulars of this involved case; suffice it to say that it was decided in my favour. But it was carried to a higher court, where I was re- quired to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and entered for the plaintiff, on the decision being contrary to evidence. There it was all gone over again with the addition, that the original thieves were produced, one of them no other than A great oblong official blue letter reached my burglar's friend, Toney (and I was me within a week. It contained a blow threatened with an action by the maker of most letters dated from Baninghall Street the safe for stating that Toney, broke open the Unimpeachable" in five minutes in do:--
my oathouse). Here the decision went against me. Finally, the casa came before the bench of judges, where a majority of one reversed the ruling of the lower court.
I was therefore at last so far encoessful in the issue as to find myself in the bankruptcy court, on account of the legal expenses my precious trial had accumulated. The one satisfaction attending this result was that I must inevitably have gone there bad I lost.
Re THE UNDENIABLE SECURITY AND -UNLIMITED Discount BanNKING
CORFORATION (LIMITED), "Sir, I beg to inform you an order has this day been made by the registrar, calling upon you as a contributory in respect of your fifty (50) shares held in the above company (now under a winding-up order), numbered respectively from 2,086 inclu- sive. The amount of the call is fire pounds ten shillings (£5. 108.) per share, making a total of two hundred and seventy-five pounds (£275); which sum must be paid at my office between eleven and four on Thursday next, the 26th instant.
*Bigned}
"Official Assignes in the Bankruptcy", O fool! I began to vaguely ses now why the clerk told me I might be quite sure no one eles would alalts the shares. They were not only of no value, but their posses sion was subject to heavy liability. And I, to be idiot enough to go and claim them when the Company was actually bankrupt
and worse!
I brought them in, and pointing out the safe, esked if they thought they could open
"Name, if you plesas, air."
"Open It," repented Toney, with mean- It would take too long to describe the "John Tramway," I said, for the loting contempt, why a kid could open it harassing anxieties which each weak brought The dear boy Leonatus,
was mine-Lot 217. Whatever made me with a pen-nive! It's one of them Unim-me, while my case as a contribu ory was The page of Imogen:
buy the lot? I am sure I didn't want it. peachables, Bill," he said to his mate; you dragging along first through one court and She loved, but own'd it not as yet!
What on earth could I want now with a remember 'em like what we had at thon apother, but the different lights which When he was absent she was lone, second-hand, patent fireproof, powder (some name I couldn't catch). Why, I various luminaries of the law shed on my She left a voice before unknown, proof, bomb-proof, thief-proof iron safe, could blow it open with an ounce of baccer unfortunate two guineas worth deserve to And Leon fill'd it when they met
constructed to resist fifty burglar-power in a quarter of a hour." "
be particularised. – She call'd him twenty times a day.
(nominal), case-hardened, undrillable, un- She knew not why, she could not say;
piokable, to be sold a bargain, owing to the She fretted when he went away, And lived in sorrow and regret;
key being lost, and the only man who knew how to make another having gone to sleep Sometimes she frown'd with stately mien, with his fathers' When I reflected about And ahid him like a little queen
my purolase I began to feel quite hot. And then she soothed him merk and mildThere is no doubt it was a bargain, or And grow as trustful us a chilà.
might have been to somebody; but then patent, unpickable iron safes with the keys Lost, and owner-proof, as well as thief-proof, are not everybody's money, however cheap. I had a cold creeping doubt if they were mine. While the auctioneer was describing it, and the people all round the room were yearning for it in bids, I seemed to see many remarkable qualities emanating from the enfe, like perspiration, so that its sequisition appeared to me then peculiarly desirable. But now that the thing was mine, all the latent value which had before perspired from it under the auctioneer'e hands seemed absorbed again into its shame fully rusty sides-it had become a miser able bunared weight of old fron-and loathed the very night of it, especially when I thought of Mrs Tramway,
The neet scribe Leonatus, The page of Imogen: She wonder'd that he did not speak, And own his love, if love indeed It was that made his spirit bleed; And she bethought her of a freak
To test the lad; she bade him write A letter that a maiden might, A billet to her heart's delight; He took the pen with fingers weak,
Unknowing what he did, and wrote, And folded up and sealed the note: She wrote the superscription sage, "For Leonatus, Lady's Page!
The happy Leonatus, The page of Imogen:
The page of Imogen no more,
But now her love, her lord, her life,
For she became his wedded wife,
An both had hoped and dream'd before.
He used to sit beside her feet,
And read remanues rars and sweet, And, when she touch'd her lute, repeat Impastion'd madrigals of yore,
Uplooking in her face the while, Until she stoop'd with loving smile, And press'd bar melting mouth to his, That answer'd in a dreamy bll- The joyful Leonatus, The lord of Imogen!
ann R. 2. Bloddard.
worth half-a-crown..
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I was obliged to accept their terms; indeed, they were both persons I would not have had a difference with for the world. So they carried the safe into the toolhouse in the garden, where I supplied them with the quantity of ale and tobacco agreed on, and they shut themselves in.
It's only a case for the alderman, Bill," I heard the little man remark an left them.
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The very sight of a salo catalogus is now sufficient to produce from Mrs. T..s sniff of about the capacity of a three-volume novel.
Chambers's Journal,
The whole venture was a decidedly hazardous one, owing to the great distance from home, and the difficulty of knowing just what was wanted, and the impossibility of procuring anything short of San Fran cisco. In fact, to show how a trifle might affect matters, I will state that, on the second attempt to blast, the electric wire was out by coming in contact with some So it might be Bald portion of the wreak. that the whole success or failure of the expedition was hanging upon a deliaste wire. The diver's air-hose and life-line were liable at any moment to be chafed off and should any of the breast lines park while the diver was down, ho would stand a chance of being dragged foul of the rubbiak, in which case it would be impossible to save his life. To make it more interesting for the diver, great ugly sharks kept son stantly hovering around, apparently await ing an opportunity to gather in a diver, submarine armor and all. And they cor tainly did not lack the espacity or inclina then to do so. A rifle ball through them, killing one occasionally, seamed to make them a little sby.
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After the recovery of the bullion, an effort was made to moor near the forward part of the wreck, for the purpose of taking out some cargo. And this came near bringing disaster to the whole outfit, and fleaving two wrecks in place of one. The morning came in calm and beautiful, and all hands were congratulating themselves on the prospect of a good day's work. Steal wont down in the forenoom and sent up a variety of articles of small value, and in the afternoon it came McGlade's turn to 'go down. But strange to may be anemed to: WRECKING THE "CITY OF
have a presentiment of danger, and was rather disinclined to go down. It was ap- SAN FRANCISCO."
parently one of those mysterious, invisible, The final recovery of the treasure from intelligences that speak to a person ab the wreck of the steamer City of San Fran- times, and that can neither be explained cisce, is a matter worthy of more than nor driven off The opportunity was passing notice. It will be remembered certainly the best one we ever had for that the unfortunato vessel was wrecked diving. The water was quite smouth, and while on her way from Panama to San the vessel lay more quietly on her lines Frassisco, on the 16th of May, 1877. She than she hadut any previous time, McGlade struck a rock or shoal known as the Tartar had gone down frequently without hesita Shoal, situated about eighty miles southeast tion under conditions much more unfavor
Shortly after she was able. And so at last ho overcame his from Acapulco. wrecked, the steator Wilmington, comman impressions, and put on the suit. But he ded by Captain Dow, was sent from Acapulco bad only fairly get down when a breeze to ascertain what could be done in the way sprang up faddenly from the southeast, of saving the treasure and cargo, and, and the schooner began to sag at onco It was argued that in buying the safe I possibly, the stup Captain Dow had with toward the wreak. The wire basket was was not buying the contents; that the safe him an experienced diver, from the New Bent down once or twice, but, as the breeze was described in the catalogue as a safe, York Wrecking Company, who, after going freshened rapidly, the signal was given for and nothing more, and that, consequently, down, reported (which report was forwar the diver to come up. He not complying as I had only bought a safe, whatever was ded to the Agents of the P. M. S. S. Co.) promptly, the danger signal was given, found in it was no more mine than any that the wreck was, with but one exception, when he soon came to the surface. By the other distinct article in the catalogue, and the most complete smash up he had over time he reached the deck, the schooner 1 could not, therefore, be responsible for seen, the timbers, plating, deck and deck was fairly alongside the wreck, the hawser liabilities attaching thereto. It was retort frame lying in one confused mass. Captain was chafing against the cylinders, and the ed by the opposing counsel that should bis Dow, still anxious to recover the treasure, situation was becoming critical. The kedge lndship acquiesce in the view of the case concluded to wait another day; and the anchor had been run off on the starboard propounded, certainly to his astonishment, diver again went down, but soon came up quarter to hold the schooner toward the by his learned friend, and decide that the and declared it to be impossible to save or wreck. It now became necessary to raise certificates were not purchased by me, and do anything, owing to the condition of the this and run it off the port bow, in order to not therefore ruine, he would agree to a wreak, the strong current, muddy water, haul away from the wreek; but by the time verdict, and immediately indict me for fe and constant wash of the sea through the this could be done, the wind had increased lony, for appropriating stares to my own broken fragments of the vessel and cargo to a strong breeze, and it was evident that us and authorising their registration in So the attempt was abandoned, and the the strain of the kedge would be great. Be submitted that if I had Company and all others interested very However, the line was taken to the donkey bought the shares I was liable as a contri- naturally concluded that nothing could be engine, and for a moment it seemed as Ibutory, and if not, as a felon. The learned saved. But soon after this, parties in though we might succeed in hauling out judge asid he could not entertain the issue Acapulco sent down another expedition in of danger; but in a moment more the ledge of felony, aa that was a question for a dis- the schooner Louise Simpson, with divers was found to be coming home, and the tinct tribunal, but he was inclined to rule and all necessary out, who returned schooner was drifting rapidly toward the that I had bought the shares. The condi- without success. Next came Col. Von wreck. Only one chance of saving the tions of sale were sufficiently explicit to his Schmidt, well known to the public of San schooner was left, and there was only s mind on that point" the lots to be clear Francisco as a most able and successful moment to consider and act upon the ad with all faults and errors of description." engineer; he fitted out his schooner Ariel chance. The schooner must go over the Indeed, the very term employed by auction and secured the service of an expert, diver, wreck, and take the chance of striking some custom appeared decisive. The item in He took with him giant powder for blasting of the projecting fragments. Right under question was described as "Lot 217-an and althenecessary outfit to insure success; her bow was the cylinder heads awaan. iron enfa." It was the "lot" which was but he found, as these preceding him had Under the quarter was a portion of iron put up to competition, Mr Trumway had reported, a heavy swell, muddy water, a plating, plainly visible just below the bought "the lot" that was, all the lot strong current and the wreck aconfused mass surface. Between the two was another The question then prose, could I be held of rabbish. He returned to San Francisco, portion that, possibly, might be low enough liable as a contributory, when in fot, I satisfied that nothing could be done, and so down for us to float over. But the chance, had purchased the shares, on the very day reported. After his unsuccessful effort it however desperate, had to be taken. There of the Company's bankruptoy, and the ze seemed almost like folly for any one else to was nothing else to be done, and no time to gistry in my name was not completed, until make an attempt, especially when such an consider the probability of its being suo some days later? In other words, they attempt required the outlay of considerable asseful. The word was given, the head seeing the Company had contracted no lis money.
mag lines were sipped, the fib was hoisted, the bilities during the time. I held the chares But there were yet two men in San schooner's head swung off toward those (having, in fact, ceased business,) could Francisco who were confident that they terible leaking orlindore, and as she alred be made a contributory 1 Against this it could get the treasure, notwithstanding upon the es, they seemed to be fairly was urged that shares represented past ro the repeated failures and the assertions of under her bow. The suspense was only sponsibilities, and that an I should have every one familiar with the matter, that it for a mordeat, for she came down with a been entitled to share in a dividend on the was felly to try. The two men were James splash, and so close to them that a man's past year, had one been declared, so it was Steel and Daniel Moledo, practical divers, hand would have been crushed had it been just that I should bear my proportion of whose reputation as such had been eequired between. The next wave threw her bo the burdens. And, again, it was clear that by actual merit. It seems that the repeated entirely clear, and as she fall off before the somebody maat be liable as a contributory failures and dangers attending the venture wind, the forged rapidly ahead: Every In respect of these Bity shares for twelve only made them more anxious for a trial, man held his breath, expecting to hear the months prior to the bankroptay, and the and it is only justice to say that the chief erash, but, like a horse jumping a ditch, it burden of proof as to the person so liable, credit for recovering this treasure belongs was one effort, and she was over and safes with their present possessor. The judge reason of the confidense they seerued to wresking, and were willing to abandon the thought not, as it was not to be contander have of success, I was induced to fit out adopt and satt for home. It was found I could have bad elth r interest or liability the schooner Caroline Medan, for a voyage that the freight would be of but little value in the company before the date of the tale to the wreck. This required an outlay of if resevered. The cofion of will water Toe oase, however, was complicated till between four and five thousand dollars, and combined, perhaps, with the copper and farther by the opposing counsel bringing was, to say the least, a very uncertain other metal, had eaten the from fearfully. The worms had eaten up the wooda." The evidence sa to the previous owner of the venture.
The party daily sailed from Ban bales of dry goods were worthless, except iron safe, and endeavouring to prove that his ability in respect of the shares actually Francisco on the 1st day of February, with for paper rags. And, as there was no terminsted twelve months previona to my crew of tweirs men, and complete outfit, indavertens to remain longer, we sat sail purchase so as to fix me with responsibility consisting of hoisting engine, diving up for home and arrived in San Francisc
paratus, mooring anchore, giant powder, after a tedious prasage of forty-three dayiş Bleonic battery, etc. After a very quick with saltar and hard winds mest all the god piensant passege of slatson days, we Note, d'innati
In twenty-five minutes, by my watch, the bull-headed man came and told me it was done, Not that we've been all the time about it though, guy'nor, for Tones I went home to dinner, which bad been he prised it open in Ave minutes, easy as waiting an hour. I said nothing about my a oyster, but we've been nettin' and doin' purchase. There was a small sniffa very a quiet pipe together." small one-expressive It's not at allThey osrtainly had opened it not by aplikely, Jobu, though, mind, I don't no picking the locks, as I anticipated, but by care of it without evidence, but, now I come wrenching off the back, so that the safe was to consider, it's ather more likely than not completely destroyed. They had drilled that you've something on your mind and two holes in the back-plate, to allow of in- nothing in your purse. After dinner, I ca serting two immensely powerful steel crow maped upstaire to my study. In the oven bara in such a posillon that leverage of the ing, saw it coming up the garden path on two bars would fall one against the other, a pair of tracks, Should I go down? No, and reneh out the intermediate pleas I reflected I would not go down. How 1 From the appearance of the holes and the detested the thing now! It didn't look smell in the outhouse, I judged the men had previously lowered the temper of the Yes, I heard the sorrant say in answer steel book with a blow-pipe in the places to the man with the trucks this is Mr where they intended to drill, I felt dis Trummeyle.".
posed to be angry at the destruction of the St's this" eald the man, and I wish safe, and was going to say so, when Toney him Joy of and he shouldn't mind a glass pointed out a dirty roll of papers lying of beer to wish it him in.??id
inside. I took them out, unrolled them, and alternation which it implies is impossible bringing out Me 2 Her comprehensive indeed Filty abare certificates, each for not only if there is not come parity of Valne mind must have taken in the altuation at a treaty pounds, in the Undeniable Segurity -in the thoughts exchanged, but also the tact glance (0) 16 dan
and Unlimited Discount Banking Corpora and art of selection among them. It re+: "Where's this from?" she asked the man. tion (Limited)) offices, Loud atreet, Ulty. quiren, sbore all things, a light band, the * From the saleroom, 'm."
I paid off my two burglars with light power of taking up a subjica sabily, and John It was the valee of my affes here and returning to the house, I believe readily, of holding it not too lightly, adapt tipnate wife addressed to her husband.danned a war-dance of telumph round if not myself, must be supposed to rest to them. For, at their solicitation, and by All hands, by all time had enough of lug the treatment of it to the interlocutor's "Have you been buying anything at a Mrs E., exhibiting a thousand pounds worth peef er point of view, of losing 11 when it is?
of property, which bad cost me but thres
There," said I **that's the good of go dog to sales
Well, but, John, these are not yours" "But they are, I retorted. "I bought them, and they are to bearer and no name on them to indicate whose they are"
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und of which is fatal. The delicate exchange Which conversation had the effect of and forgot my wrath immediately. A prize
his boased to serve as a zákutal stimulus, "Oh dess, yer," said I, palling down. And of faking up another with the same cifre. Didn't I tell you 1-It's a renditions, so he dropped, in lis return, as Bate
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motiis me it has served iin purpose. A tho Although two pairs of stairs separated rough disatission of a subject is always out me from the partner of my bosom, I was of place in a conversation-you want hints, aware of the sniff which succeeded, and gwomen, glimpack, the suggestion of varied implied "Oh, yes, you're quite right, my points of view, side-lights, the play of fancy man this is Mr Trunway's. You needn't and humour, even the ironical treatment be afraid you've mistaken the house. Thers Why, no bought the lot, faults and of one's own seriotis interests, All coloured tea's such another man in the nolchbour errors of description, and all 1 and it is as in the interim. It appeared that the safe by direct, refereges to the individual missi hood so lives så 249, 15." Bataland, she prov mundo mine as if I had paid a thousand and to contents, some eighteen months jë which you are fox the moment bought j sedad | "! Gjalta right; bring it in, please. | pounds for te
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