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THE OLD WATER WHEEL
"It lies beside the river, where its margs...
In bipek prith many an old and oarless barge, And yesty filth, and leafage wild and rank, Staguste and batten by the crambling bank.
"Once slow rayolving by the lodustrious mill. It murmured--only on the Sabbath still:
THE CHINA MAIL.
pensate by increased exertion for his dailyMy friend Watera hase I suppose boon diminishing capacity for labour, were un- antusing on, with the abetted tory that wearying and incessant. Novar have Teçou made him yetaren so let night. It is ex a more gentle, thoughtful tenderases than coedingly roll, I must say, although many was displayed by that young wife towards persons, otherwise acate enough, cannot, her suffering and sometimes not quite even-except upon reflection) comprehend a jest:ent of the room. The affair had become ly tempered partner, who, however, let mo There was John Kemble the tragedian, for add, appeared to reciprocate truthfully her instance, who 3 pat v affection; all the more so, perhaps, that he
1 Never mind John Kemble, ty doar sir, knew their time together upon earth. was interrupted Dr. Garland. Do pray, tell
¡No. 4724-AUGUST 24, 1873,
And orening winds its pulse-like beatings bore already shrunk to a brief span. In my as the story over again. I love an amusing London. Measures were also taken for reports. Majors Barras and Sandwith; of the critical situation of the drama. This
Down the soft vale and by the winding shore.
Sparkling around its orbed motion, flow, With quick fresh fall, the drops of dashing dow;
Through noontide beat that guatlo ruis was
deng, And verdant, round, the summer herbage
sprang,
"Now, dancing light and sounding motion cease,
In these dark hours of continual peaco: Through its black bars the unbrokon moonlight
Донь,
And dry winds bowl about its long repose!
And wondering lichens creep, and masses grey,
Ching round its arms, in gradual decay,
Amidst the ham of man, which doth not suit The shadowy circle, motionless and mute!
"So, by the sleep of many a human heari
The crowd of men may bear their busy part, Whare withered, or forgotten, or subdued, Its noisy passions have left soldado:
"Ah, little can they trace the hidden truth,
What waves have moved it in the vale of youth How once they sounded all is silent now!
And littlo can its brcken chorda avow
-John Ruskin.
OSES OF ADVERSITY.
If none were sick and none were sad,
What service could we render }
I think if we were always glad
We scarcely could be tender.
Did our beloved never need
Our patient ministration, Faith would grow cold, and miss, indeed,
Its sweetest consolation.
If sorrow never claimed our heart, And every wish were granted, Patience would die and hope depart-
Life would be disenchanted.
THE DETECTIVE OFFICER. (By Waters.)
THE MONOMANIC,
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coincidence!'
Roushave sprang impulsively forward to prevent the doctor reaching it. He was too late; and Dr Garland, tarring sharply round with the painting in his hand, literally transfixed him in an attitude of surprise and consternation, Like the Ancient A low, chuckling laugh close at my elbow Mariner, he held him by his glittering eye, caused me to turn quickly towards the but the spell was not an endang one, door. Just within the throshell stood MrTruly, remarked Dr Garland, as he found Renshawe, looking like a white stone-image the kind of meamoric influence ho had or rather than a living man, but for the fierce erted beginning to fail, not so very bad a sparkling of his strangely gleaming eyes, chance resemblanco, especially about the and the mocking, triumphant curt of his eyes and mouth lips. You, too, have at last observed it, This is very extraordinary conduct, then?' he muttered, faintly echoing the broke in Mr Renshawes and I must again under tone in which I spoke. I have request that you will both leave the room. known the truth for many weeks. The It was useless to persist, and we-almost manner, the expression, not the words, immediately went away! Your impres- quite startled me. At the same moment asion, Mr Waters, said the physician as he cry of women rang through the room, and was leaving the house, is, I daresay, the I immediately seized Mr Ranshawe by the true one; but he is on his guard now, and arms, and draw him forcibly away, for there it will be prudent to wait for a fresh out was that in his countenance which should break before acting decisively; more not meet the eyes of a dying mati.
especially as the hallucination appears to be quite a harmless one." es
nuatio was on the child's titont. Floosed ENCOUNTER WITH A PANTHER, talks apparently in spite of himself is the it somewhat roughly throwing him off Lieutenant J. O. Francis, who was him funny man who cannot reaist hue hun prous with a force that brought him to the self one of the shooting party which had a mallics; however inopportuns they may ba ground. He zoso quickly, glared at me brush with a panther near Ahmednuggar, Then there is the gentleman who chimos in with tiger-like ferocity, and then darted writes to a Bombay paper
with any portion of the dialogue that I bave been requested to sond à tone chances to hit his fancy, who has in stook serious; and the game night I posted a version of the shikaranoident which occurred a fund of ludicrous similes for the actors, lotter to Yorkshire, informing Mr Oxley of here a fow days ago, in order that the friends and who is never quiot except when he in- what had occurred, and suggesting the of the officers who have been “mauled" may cudgelling his brains for, some smart propriety of his immediately coming to not be unnecessarily alarmned by exaggerated utterance to be given impromptu during
opinion, Ellen Irwin was a handsome, even jest,, ml
goouring Mrs Irwin and her son from the 15th N. I., are the officers who have been humorist might sometimes be justly set an elegant young person: this, however, Mr. Renshawe: hesitated for an instant, molestation.
injured, and the medical officer is of opinion down as a rival playwright or as a pro- is in some degree a matter of taste. But and then said with reserve, almost dignity But the evening of lunacy is not easily that they are doing well Thres of us fessional concocter, of burlesque determined no one could deny that the gentle kindness, of manner: I do not know, sir-his ace, baffled. On returning home the fourth started after the Queen's Birthday Parade to keep up his character eson in private or the beaming compassion, that irradiated by the way, was determinedly avortod from evening after the despatch of my letter, I for Ghat Siras, a village about twenty-five semi-private-life, ele-seems-incapable of her features as she tended the fast-sinking the cool, searching gaze of the physician [found the house and immediate neigh miles from Nuggur. On Sunday night a serious appreciation of stage.work, however invalid, rendored her at such times absolute I do not know, sir, that I am obliged to bourhood in the wildest confusion. Aty panther walked off with a goat not fifty good, or at any rate he is very loth to show ly beautiful-angelised her, to use an expres- find you in amusement; and as your pre own wife was in hysterics; Mrs Irwin, yards from our tents. It was pugged up it. Hia cynical comments will often quite sion of my wife's with whom she was a Bence here was not invited, I shall be obliged was told by half-a-dozen tongues at once, to a big ravine about three miles from our destroy the enjoyment of those who catch prime favourite. I was self-debating for by your leaving the room se quickly as was dying and the frightful case of all camp. We boat for it, but it broke at a them, for their laughing satire te euiticiently about the twentieth tinie one evening, here may be
was, that little George Irwin, a favourite long distance from us; the jungle on the amaré to leave a ating behind it, and there it was I had formerly seen her, with that
Certainly certainly, Sir. I am exceed with everybody, had in some unaccountable hill side was so very think that it was im- are those weak enough to allow the thread sad, mournful look of hers; for seen her I was ingly sorry to have intruded, but I am aure manner fallen into the river Lea and been possible to tell where it would break. It of their earnest interest to be broken irre sure I had, and not long since either. It you will permit me to have a peep at this drowned, This, at least, was the general then went to the bottom of the ravine and parably after this fashion,
conviction, although the river had been rounded another bill, and must have gone But there are also talkers whose talk is was late; I had just returned home; my wonderful portrait.'.mp wife was in the sick-room, and I had entered
dragged to no purpose-the poor child's nearly one and a half miles. We followed, of nothing connected with the theatre or it with two or three oranges. Oh, now I
black beaver hat and feather having been but the longth of the chase and the extreme performance in it. Why they base come remember, I suddenly exclaimed, just
discovered floated to the bank, a consider-heat induced us to sit under the shade of an to the theatre at all it is impossible to above my breath; the picture in Mr
able way down the stream. The body, it enormous sabar bush for the purpose of guess, slice they arrive, there too late to Renshawe's room! What a remarkable
was thought, had been carried out into the taking refreshment. One of the natives understand what is going on upon the Thames by the force of the current.
with as went round to the other side of the stage, and as likely as not they will stay. A terrible suspicion glanced across my bush, and the panther suddenly sprang out out for a whole act smoking cigarettes and mind. Where is Mr Renshawe?' I tasked. on him and bif him through the arm. Wa, drinking brandy and soda, Arrived in Nobody knaw. He had not been seen since hearing the noise, seized our rilles, but the their box-it is generally to a box that five o'clock-about the time, I soon ascer-panther was round the bush, and bad bitten play-goers of this class go-they do not tained, that the child was missed. I had Major Barras through the arm before any even pretend to take an interest in the play Major Sandwich or the acting, but begin an animated dis- the house cleared as quickly as possible of thing could be nga f the numerous gossips that crowded it, and promptly gave it a twelve-bore shell through cussion about the races they have redently then sought a conference with Dr Garland, the ribs, whereupon it left Major Barras left, or the game of billiards that they had who was with Mira Irwin. The distracted and bounded back into the bush as quickly after dinner, or the movements of Erie and mother had, I found, been profusely bled as it had come. I could not dre as Major Great Northern Deferred A. and South- and cupped, and it was hoped that brain. Sandwith was between me and the panther. Eastern A. Perhaps the discussion grows fever, which had been apprehended, would Having tied up the wounds, we proceeded vehement, since it is possible to grow not ensue. The physician's inspicions to throw enars into the bush to make the excited over the pursuits of betting mun pointed the same way se mine; but be beast bolt, hat somehow it managed to keep and stockbroker ; and then one result of the declined committing himself to any advice, the bush between us and it until it had excitement is the great annoyance of all and I was left to act according to my own sneaked off 100-yards. We then saw it, who can see and hear the inhabitants of discretion. I was new to such matters at and it certainly looked quite done. I fired the box. It is mostly after heavy dinner that time-unfortunately so, as it proved at it, and knocked it over with a bullet that these worthies make their appearaños, or the affair might have had a less painful through the hind leg. It got off into an- and the fast that they have been dining is slits and I remained up, waiting for tain that it could hardly move, approached in the front of the box is always a curse to other alump of busbes, and we, being cer- generally very apparent. Their presence Tomlins the return of Mr Renshawe; and as the too near. Major Sandwith threw a stone, the performers, for it distracts the atten- long slow hours limped past, the night and it came out as if it never had been sion of all upon whats notice it is forced silence only broken by the dull meaning, touched. At ten yards' distance, Major and it is a slight upon the interest of the and occasional spasmodic screams of poor Sandwith gave it a twelve-bore shell in entertainment which cannot well be over- Mrs Irwin, I grew very much excited. The the chest, and I hit it almost on the same looked, prolonged absence of Mr Renslave con- spot with a bullet from a twelve-bore gun, It is scarcely necessary to insist upon the frmed my impresalons of his guilt, and I and the next thing I saw was the brute selfishness and the direct madness of auch determined to tax him with it, and take worrying and dragging Major Sandwith who him into custody the instant he appeared. was down on the ground by my side. It was two in the morning before he did Major Barras came quickly to the rescue so; and the nervous fumbling,. for full tan with a spear in his unwounded hand, and minutes, with his latch-key, before he could I fired three more bullets into it, the last open the door, quite prepared me for the two at so close a rungo as to burn its skin. spectral-like aspect he presented on enter. Major Barras too ran the spear through the ing. He had met somebody, it afterwarde panther, but the brute died with its teeth appeared, ontelds, who had assured him fast fixed in Blajer Sandwith's thigh, so that the mother of the drowned child was much so that its month had to be forced either dead or dying. He never drank, I open with a knife. Major Sandwith was knew, but he staggered as if intoxicated;bitton in three places in the leg and thigh. and after he had with difficulty reached the Major Barras managed to bear a journey head of the stairs, in reply to my question in a tongs, and got home at about half as to where he had been, he could only past ten in the evening, and sent a doolie stutter with white trembling lips: It-it to meet us on the road; Major Sandwith, cannot be be trus—tEnt Lay-that Mrs who could only bear to travel very slowly, Irwin is dying?!
did not reach camp till sight o'clock next
What were you saying? What trath have you known for weeks? I asked as soon as we had reached his sitting-room,
Before he could answer, another wailing sound ascended from the sick-room. Idght ning leaped from Renshawe's lustrous, dilated eyes, and the exulting laugh again, but louder, burst from his lips. Ha! hal' he fiercely exclaimed. I knew that ory It is Death's-Death's Thrice-blessed Death, whom I have so often ignorantly cursed! But that, he added quickly, and peering sharply in my face, was when, as you know, people said—and he groand his teeth with rage people said I was crazed
The following narrative reistes more to medical than to criminal history; but as the affair came in some degree under my notice as a public officer, I have thought it-mad! might not be altogether out of place in these alight outlines of police experience. Strange and unaccountable as it may at first appear, its general truth will bardly be questioned by those who have had oppor- tunities of observing the fantastic delusions which haunt and dominate the human brain! in certain phases of mental aberration.
What can you mean by this wild talk, my friend?" I replied in as unconcerned and quieting a tone as I could immediately Uomo, sit down I was asking assume the meaning of your strange words below, just now.'
The meaning of my words? You know as well as I do. Look there!'
At the painting? Wall ?' You have seen the original,' he went on with the same excited tone and gestures, It crossed me like a fash of lightning. Still, it is strange she does not know me. i am sure she does not! But I am changed!' he added, dejectedly, as he look ed in a mirror.
Whose image? *
come to you.'
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This was not, I thought, quite so-sure, but of course I acquiesced, as in duty bound; and matters went on pretty much as usual for seven or eight weeks, except that Mr Renshawe manifested much aversion towards myself personally, and at last served me with a written notice to quit at the end of the term previously stipulated for. There was still some time to that; and in the meanwhile I caused a strict watch to be set, as far as was practicable, without exciting observation upon our landlord's words and sots.
Ellen Irwin's first tumult of grief subsid- ed, the next sud pressing question related to her own and infant son's subsistence, An elderly man of the name of Tomlins was engaged as foreman; and it was hoped the business might still be carried on with sufficient profit. Mr Renshawe's manner, though at times indicative of considerable nervous irritability, was kind and re- spectful to the young widow; and I began to hope that the delusion he had for a while laboured under had finally passed away.
became excellent friends. Still, there ware within view of each other; a moment after mind.
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Quite true, Mr Renshawe, I very immorning. prudently replied, and in much too lond a fone, for we were but a few paces from Mrs Irwin's bedroom door. And if, es I you, you will have before long two murders on your hoad.'
sin
TALKING AT THE PLAY. The talkers at the play, talkera by habit
a fashion nevertheless,
behaviour as that indulged in by the 78- tious classes of talkers at the play. They may not mean to do much harm, any more than do the good people whose tongues, are loosened at parties the moment the music begins. They are simply too stupid or too saree to know what a nuisance they are, and comparatively few begin their converen tion in deliberate defines of the wishes of their neighbours. The fact is, that folks who sit near thesa chatter boxen would do wall if they would quietly remonstrate with the offenders on each occasion as it arises, when in nine oases out of ten the offence would cease. Assuming that the annoyance is not intended, it will be dropped the moment the sufferers protest ; and innob good would be done if these whose pleasure in thus spoilt for the idle gratification of others would at any rate give the culprits the opportunity of proving that their conduct was not intentionally subversive of
Miscellaneous.
BRIGHAM Young's widow is gradually
As an illustration of the many different
On arriving in London in 1881, I took lodgings at a Mr Renshawe's, in Mile-End Rond, not far from the turnpike gate. My inducement to do so was partly the choap.
The hope was a fallasions one. We were sitting at tea on a Sunday evening, when partly that the landlord's maternal uncle, a
Mrs Irwin, pale and trembling with fright Mr Oxley, was slightly known to me,
and nervous agitation, came hastily in with Henry Kenshawe knew by reputation only, he having left Yorkshire ten or eleven years
her little-boy in her hand, correctly before, and even that knowledo ---
18 LAYE? I Hammered, thorougary dy armed questioning, the astound எனக்குபப் and vegu. & neard that a tragical bewildered. She who was drowned ten or young matron told me substance, that event had cast a deep shadow over bis after-eloven years ago??
within the last two or three days Mr Ren- A choking hubbling noise came from the and from choice, represent a form of social life; that he had been for some months the To be sure to be sure! It was so shawe's strange bellaviour and disjointed wretched man's throat, and his akalingance against which legislation is practi Inmate of a private lunatic asylum; and believed, I admit, by everybody-by my talk had both bewildered and alarmed her. angers vainly strove to loosen his neck-tie.cally powerless. We know that de minimis non ourat lez, and those who spoil our that some parsons believed his brain had self, and the belief drove me mad! And He vaguely intimated that she, Ellen Irwin, At the same moment I heard a noise, as of evening's entertaiment at the play must remarrying. healthy action. In this opinion, both my blind staring eyes, and dripping hair, ceased had kept company with bio, Mr Renshawe, voice in eager remonstrance instantly actually interfere to put a stop to their agents at work for the speedy destruction never thoroughly recovered its originally yet, I now remember, when the pale face, was really Laura somebody else that she struggling, in the bedroom, and the nurse's behave worse than they do baface we un
for a while to pursue and haunt me, the in Yorkshire, before she knew poor George made a movement towards Mr Ronshawe, selfish way of enjoying themselves. If only of iron, the Nautical Magazine for April wife and myself very soon concurred; sud get I am not sure that we could have given low, sweet voice and gentle face came back,with many other strange things he mut-with a view to loosen his cravathie they would interrupt the performers upon gives the following In certain anchoragen satisfactory reason for such belfof. Ele and I knew she lived, though all denied it. tered rather than spoke cut and especially features being frightfully convulsed, and to the stage they would doubtless become chain cables after being submerged a low was, it is true, usually kind and gentle, But look; it is her very image!' he added that it was owing to her son reminding her get him out of the way as quickly as amenable to the law, and at the Instigation weeks are deeply scored, so much, Indeed, even to the verge of simplicity, but his fiercely, his glaring eyes flashing from the continually of his father, that she pretended sible, for I guessed what was about to general mode of expressing himself and protrait to my face alternately.
not to have known Mr Renshawe twelve or happen when he, mistaking my inten- of the sating manager they would not im that the fibre of the iron stands clearly out; conducting business was quite coherent
thirteen years ago. In short, added the tion, started back, turned half round, and probably be allenced or expelled. So, too, and fu places cella resembling the half- and sensible; although, in spite of his re- Whose image! Why, Mrs Irwin's, to young woman with tears and blushes, he found himself confronted by Mrs Irwin, they would be stopped if they were caught section of those of the teredo navals in signed cheerfulness of tone and manner, it be sure. You yourself admitted it just is utterly crazed; for he asked me just now her pale, features and white night-dress their little differences of opinion by a rezort examined a specimen of the link on the picking pockets, or attempting to settle timber may be traced. Few who, have not was at times quite evident, that whatever now.' I was so confounded, that for several to marry him-which I would not do for the dabbled with blood, in consequence of a the mental hurt he had received, it had left minutes I remained stupidly and silently Indies--and is gone away in a passion to partial disturbance of the bandages in salves to irritating their neighbours by their way be done to one of the hardest of to blows. But so long as they confine them-spot would credit that so much mischief a raukling, perhaps remorseful, sting behind. staring at the man. At length 1 said: find a paper that will prove, he says, I am struggling with the nurso- terrifying audible whispers or by animated conversa- materials by some unknown cause. When A small, well-executed portrait in his eit-Well, there is a likeness, though not so that other Laura something."
ghastly sight even to me; to him utterly ting.room suggested a conjecture of the great as I imagined
There was something so ludierons in all overwhelming, and scarcely needing her mon carried on throughout the performance heaving in the rust-may be taken off. Ake nature of the calamity which had befallen
It is falso! he broke in furiously. It is this, however vexatious and insulting ander frenzied execrations on the murderer of any check save that provided by an occasion of shell or weed behind, which almost In a low tone of voice, they are safe from paste; it easily washes away, leaves no trace him. It was that of a fuir, mild-eyed, very her very self.
the circumstances the recent death of the her child to deprive him, utterly of all al remonstrance or by an angry frown. infers that galvante action is the pause, young woman but of a pensive, almost Wo'll talk of that to-morrow. You are husband, and the young widow's unprotect-reauxining sense and strength. He sind Ultimately they may succumb to the foros of Sailors attribute it to an insect; but what- menruful, cast of features, as if the coming ill, over-oxcited, and must go to bed. 1 ed state that neither of us could forbear denly reeled, threw bia arma wildly into public opinion which must in the end decide ever it may be, the injury arising from the event, briefly recorded in the lower right hear Dr Garland's voice below: he shall laughing at the conclusion of Mrs Irwin's the air, and before I could stretch forth my the amount of deference to be paid to the submergence of a few weeks exoceda the hand corner of the painting, had already,
story. It struck me, too, that Renshawe hand to save him, fell heavily backwards daring life and health, cast its projecting No-no-no 1' he almost screamed. had conceived a real and ardent passion for from the edge of the steep staire, where he feelings of others; but before petty selfish, ordinary wear and tear of ten years.
ness of this kind is definitely recognised as shadow over her. That brief record was Send me no doctors; I hate doctors! But the very comely and interesting person was standing, to the bottom.
Tomlins
DENVER Tribune: The Czar of Ruania, it is this: Laura Hargreaves, born 1804; I'll go to bed-since--since you wish it before us-first prompted, no doubt, by and I bastened to his assistance, lifted him against, good manners, we shall, it is to He is on the watch alike in the streets and a breach of good breading and an intolerable gaid, is ever guarding against the assassin. drowned 1821. No direct allusion to the but no doctors - Not for the world 1 As her accidental likeness” to the portrait; and up, and as we did so a jet of blood gushed picture oror passed his lips in my hearing, he spoke, he shrank coweringly backwards, that some mental flaw or other caused him from his month; ho bad likewise received feared, have a long time to walt, sad in the Palace, upon the morning ride and in although, from being able to chat together out of the room; his wavering, unquiet eyes to confound her with the Laurs who had in terrible wound near the right temple, talldog at the play will continue to flourish the afternoon nap, on the journey and a of Yorkabire scenes and times, we speedily Axed upon mine as long as we remained early life excited the same emotion in his from which the life-stream issued copiously thoroughly objectionable fashion, but the evening entertainment, in the theater We got him to bed: Dr Garland and & The commonest type of talkers at the to his private room from a ride, he looks and at the churah. When ho returns not wanting, from time to time, significant wards I heard him dart into his chamber Laughable as the matter was in one neighbouring surgeon were soon with me, indications, though dificult to place in and bolt and double-lock the door.
sanse, there was-and the fair widow had and prompt remedies were applied. It was play is seen in the would-be-man-about-behind the doors, the book-case and the
town when he takes the conventional coun- evidence, that the fire of insanity had not It was plain that Janney, but partially noticed as well as myself-a serious menaca fruitless labour. bosa wholly quenched, but still smouldered subdued, had resumed its fermer mastery ing expression in the man's eye not to be dawned before he heard from the physician's really regards hie conversation as a sacred in during his absence. He never retires at Day had scarcely try cousin to a first night. This gentleman bureaus, in the corners and under the tables, to see that no assassin has slipped and glowed beneath the babit-hardened over the unfortunate gentleman. But what tritted with, and at her earnest request, we lips that life with him was swiftly sing duty owed to his companion. He feais night without looking under the bed to se crust which concealed it from the careless an extraordinary delusion: I took a candle, accompanied her to her own apartment, to to its close. He was perfectly conscious bound to prove how many acquaintances if there is a man there. He never goss or casual observer. Exolling circumstances, and examined the picture with renewed which Renshawe had threatened soon to and collected. Happily there was no stain amongst theatrical people ho has achieved upon the street without a strong escort. not very long after my arrival in the metro-curiosity. It certainly bore a strong resem- return. We had not been a minute
the of murder on his soul; he had merely by the aid of his membership of Bohemian And this always being numerously attended polis, unfortunately kindled those brief wild blance to Mrs Irwin: the brown, darling room, when his harried step was bourd enticed the child away, and placed him, clete. From the actress in the boz to the is a terrible inconvenience to him; it sub sparklen into a furious and consuming hair, the pansive eyes, the pale fairness of approaching, and Mrs Waters and I stepped under an ingenious pretence, with an aritis to the stalls he must be able to give afecta him to many annoyances and compels fame,
complexion, were the same; but it was hastily into an adjoining closet, where we acquaintance at Camden Town; and by
name and a condensed biography of every; him to submit to numerous deprivatione. Mr Ranshawe was in fair circumstances scarcely mors girlish, more youthful, than could hear and partly see all that passed. this time both he and his mother were one in the house who catches his eye, and He cannot slip around a corner or slide that is, his income, derived from funded the young matron was now, and the original, Renshawe's speech trembled with fervency standing are struck and rating by his opportunities la this direction are in through an alloy and get a quiet drink, and property alone, was nearly three hundred had she lived, would have been by this time and anger as he broke at once into the Henry Renshawe's death-beđi He had pounds a year! bat his habits were close, approaching to thirty years of age! I went subject with which his disordered brain thrown the child's het into the river, and read by fit that his auditor has then toll his wife after he gets home that Thrifty, almost zuiserly. His personal ap- softly down-stairs, and found, as I feared, was reeling
no means of testing the accuracy of the he has been sampling coffee and cloves for his motive in thus acting appeared to have information so volubly poured into his ear. pearance was neat and gentlemanly, but he that" George Irwin was gone. My wife wes you will not dare to say, will you, that been a double ons. In the first place, His reputation is, he thinke, at stake, and under pretence to his spouse of going to nge in the royal cuisine. He is not able, kept no servant. A charwoman came once came weeping out of the death-chamber, you do not remember this song that these because he thought the boy's likeness to a day to arrange bis chember, and perform accompanied by De Garland, to whom i pencil marks in the margin were not made his father was the chief obstacle to Mrs gospe, in parent or incorrect, must be the lodge or to a caucus, to slip around to other household work, and he actually dined, forthwith related what had just taken place. by you thirteen years ago? he menacingly Irwin's toleration of his addresses; and soppanion to the lady's relation to her the variety theatre of the formale minstrel very simply, si a coffee-house or tavern. He listened with attention and interest; sad ejscalated.
next to bribe her into compliance by a
companion is incorrectly described, the Ella bonse, with the exception of a sitting after some sage observations upon the and bed room, was occupied by lodgers strange fancies which now and then take Renshaws, rejoined the young woman with not be deemed accountable for his actions much more important malicious stories are he was testet bid wire I know nothing about, the song, Mr promise to restore her sor. But he could journalist is allotted to a paper for which entertainment. He has no chance to go ta he never wrote in his life, and a blunder Masquerade balls and flirt with the pretty young Russinesses, and them tell his wife amonget there was a pele, weekly-looking possession of the minds of monomaniaes, more spirit than she might have exhibited think, he murmured brokas told of an actress whose nietse is sented well putting up a job on the English. Thus lite young man of the name of Irwin. He agreed to see Mr Renshawe at ten the next but for my near presence. It is really the delusion was partly sold here, or within earshot of the reckless speaker, loses for his many of its charms and has was suffering from pulmonary consumption morning. I was not required upon duty such senseuse. Thirteen years ago, I was of the Evil (ne observed till the Wonderful indeed would life behind the for him many extra bardeus. He wishes - direnze induced, I was informet, by hila till elevent and if it were in the physician's only about nine years of age.
long before, but it was not till the the ones be if it were anything like what it is sometimes that he had not been borg A caralows, folly is remaining in his wat opinion desirable, I was to write-at-once to you persist, then, anfeeling woman, in husband was dying, that the idea fastened domibed as being by the clessone who Car, especially as he reflects that about alother after having stated, during the the patient's uncle, Mr Ozley,
this cruel deception After all, too, that itself upon my asking train, and grow knows everything 1 and if we #ore greater part of the night, at a large are at Mr Ronshews weer! heard, stirring be. I have suffered the days of gloom, the there. But the world is passing forgive not too pained to have to hear hia all his sovereignty and his power give him a coachfactory. His trade was in gold and fore seven o'clock, and the charwomen in nights of horror, since that fearful moment me-Ellen-Laura' He was dead! silver Isce-work-Lullion for epaulets, and formed me that he had taken his breakfast when I beheld you dragged, a lifeless
romeres at all, they would assuredly the privilege of being snubbed by Eng The ingrest on the cause of death re keep us well amused. Another confirm. land. so on; and as he had a good connection en nedsly: and-sppezrod to be in cheerful, | corpse, from the water, and they told me i turned, of course, that it was accidental;" i ed phatisfer in the old eleger who alwe feel it a duty I owe to you to express my. "BERKELET, Sept. 1889.Gentlemen, I with several West-end establishments, his almost high spirits The physician was you were dead I'
but I lang regretted that I had not been knows how to finish each sentence spoken business appeared to be a thriving one to punctual. I tapped at the sitting-room Dead Gracious goodness, Mr Reclean precipitate, though perhaps all was for on the stage before it is half over, and gratitude for the great benent I have do much so, that he usually employed several door, and was desired to come in. Mr shave, don't go on in this shocking way! the best for the sufferer as well as others who for the beneft of the less experienced rived by taking 'Norton's Camomila Pilla assistants of both sexes. He coupled the Houshawe was seated at a table with some I was never dregged out of a pond, nor Mr Oxley had died some fire weeks playgoes by his side audibly unravels the applied to your spent Mr Bell, Berkeley, Arst floor, and a workshop at the end of the papers before him, evidently determined to supposed to be dead-never! You quite previously. This I found from Renshawe's plot as it proseeds, repeats and explains for the above-named Fills, for wind in the garden. His wife, a preity-featured, well-appear cool and indifferent. He bould not, frighten ans,'
will where it was recited or a reason that, sash joke, and possibly, if the place is a stomach, from which I suffered excrucia formed, graceful young woman, of not more however, repress a clert of asprise, almost Then you and your sister, and that having zo ralative alive for whom he cared, standard one, gives reminiscences of the ting pain for a length of time, having tried then two or three and twenty, was, they of terror, at the sight of the phyalofan and thrice-gecarsed Bedford, did not, on the his property was bequeathed to Gus'e way in which each successive point used to nearly every remedy prescribed, but with. told me, the daughter of a schoolmaster, & paleness, followed by a best fash; passed 7th of August 1821, go for a wall on the Hospital, charged with a hundred pounds be made by artists now dead and gons. out deriving any benefit at all. After and certainly had been gently and carefully quickly over his countenance. Toksorved, piece of water as Lowfeld, and the skiff a year to Ellen Irwin, as long as she lived He is perhaps a laudator temporis acti, and taking two bottles of your valuable fills, I birtared. They had one child, a sprightly, too, that the portrait was turned with its was not, in the deadly, anddan, jealous unmarried. The document was perfectly be persists in singing his praises of time was quite restored to my usual state of curly haired, bright-eyed boy, nearly four face towards the wall; thos
strife between him and me, accidentally coherent and although written during the past at the wrong moment; or he is a health. Please give this publicity for the years old. The wife, Ellen Irwin, was
opset? But I know how it is it is this height of his monomania, contained not a gushing admirer of the modern soool," benefit of those who may thus be afflicted, reputed to hes first-rate and at some of
Bret, and the memorias he recalls; that' word respecting the identity of the youthful whatever that may chance to be, and he am, Sir, yours truly, HexRY AUTARS, the ligater parts of her husband's business; Dr Garland's professional inquiry on to the Birs Irwin screamed, and I stepped widow and the Laura whose pad fate had cannot keep his staliration to himself unul To the Proprietors of NDETON's Canus and for muerte to lighten kis tell, end com- ebote of his health, paid with a forced laugh: sharply late the room. The grasp of the Arat unestled the testetor's Person, the performance da oven. „A talker who | Size FRM=ljemp70.
By a strong effort Mr Renshawb regained his simulated composure, and in reply to