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CHAPTER XVII
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I dan doll with what pay youth,
To what light sharne,
Colored at by time or chango,
We warmed the many gah ad gringo-
All fe befero un.
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HE DAILY FRE88-8ATUR JAY FEBRUARY 18r 1900.
"Why What's the mafter with it?" de made Willlen
Nothing. Nothing to signify." says Croker, original tintas sti 206, Williams, don't mind idm Turia Henjy,
went off, what would be the result Panky Huma, ] that Hght. I my. You'll spoil svárything. Why aditheming Nan, who, either by design or chance, don't you meès P“. It li ghing bad tall ren, has been drifted towards him. She has been equally. My brosches are going berles Henjy. kind to both him and Ffrench daring the wren with a miserable shrick and a wild olatobcept perhaps a slight deepening of the ing, therefore both young men bellaved theme those unstable garments Somebody dispresty solros to be specially favoured by bee. Never toward the lamp once more Panologe seizes on theless, Ffrench has not yet seen it to east and the deapondant mood with which he had batered. He takes upon him now to shawer Hame's question
Probably blow the house to bits, with all tho inhabitants thereof," he says with soch andis guired and ghoulish hope in his tone, as striken Dold to the hosets of his listeners. He makes it plain to them, indeed, that should such a general burst-ap take place, it would be rather to his liking them otherwise.
"Great Honvan Fiet na hatia,” artes Grákar, seising upon Penelope, tucking her arm into The impromptu supper has proved Hsolf abis, and making, for the door. Every moment decided KUDARK. It has gone off without a hitch. is of valas, Chargo, William, charge1:On, Mr. Murphy haa indeed sarpassed himself; and Stanley, on! Let us at all events, free death with bahaved with auch dignity, such a noblu uare for goodly courage!" the wants of all (Hume, however, every specially} that it is no wonder that the latter individual re- gards him with an admiring eye. It may safely be afirmed that un, to this. Mr. Hams has un- happily been ignorant of a butler so advanced in bis ideas as Murphy.
The old attendant's superior behaviour has rot however been allogather able to subdue the na-
CHAPTER XVIII.
"I admire your tant, dividing
Slow to Bach; in equal share. Lest one slavo wax over-jènions, Ür another grow team seskas.
Beauty Clare?"
Easy. Easy! Don't make sach a row!" whispers sha Father sleeps erstly over-the
the doomfied child and specially restoren him to moral and physical comfort, and Croker is mated from death Here is an opportunity given to
gh, and he takes it.
One more darkness covers the room, but this time Nan bears its terrers alone,
"Look out-now its going off really," aries Willam, through the gloom.
CHAPTER XIX.
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at this point "you are black-blasan the coal Oh oh 1 Here he rain dissolves into tears,
Ob. Bat are you sure you won'tries him Pi and hides his face on Nan's shoulder.
Did It bart jou, William?",ake little says Miss Nolly tearfully Nomak, drawing near, with nosrtain stupa, a Noral What a naughty girl you are," if half afraid of him." Did it burn! Was it cries Nan colouring, and feeling, somehow, s like hot si Sho faridently, athirat Torila pangat ber heart for this uploving ***Would you knowledge.
father, who is still father, It was, I think," says Wiliam, rather really wish father to be killed? Put her down. Freddy, and don't talk to her like that. It is not right, and tho in such a baby; eks doesn't mean anything really, I am wars. Do you, now Nolly
vaguely,
Wat It like what King Darid anys, like cale of fire on your bead P" partues Norah, who is beat on getting all she can out of it.
The image of it," says Croker......... Yqa remember that book, "She, yan sra so fond of Yos remember the Lot-potting" busirean, 'in' cha:P, Wall, thaoza aquis, of Ere you spoke of
And off it goes F With a tiny spluttering and Swing that increase momentarily. Golden sparks Ag up from it that delight the beholder, with every now and then a thicker shower that draws abrisks of joy from the younger folks. It 16, indeed, a most obliging little devil and does Its best, to entertain its company. All grow in interested. All lean forward.
Those paltry fireworks at the Crystal Palaco couldn't held a candls to it," says Groker, with satholinum.
"I'm glad they are not in a position to do it at all events," saya Hartle
Iy, William, the lorror Istent is rather thick, isn't it? Likely to roof, ah p
Did you ever hear shot a funk " says Wi. liam with seathing contempt..
"It is indeed remarkably stout at its base; altogether quits a prodigious pyramid of its
Not too long, however, for the enraptured audience-it.wa except twix. They congratulate the delighted William, the children clop their hands; Hems at far recovers himself as to ausver laughingly a ramark of Pondlope's
tural spirits of those whom Fate, by a supreme |--Jaat before they reach the scene of William'i mistake, kas placol over tdu! The nondescript diversion-just indeed as they are all chatting woal has been carried through with agalety that poisily across the ball, Nari passes and holda up might almost be termed hilarious. To Mr. her bands. Home, who has been acoustemed only to the socity of such well regulated girls as are to be must with on the besten paths of regular someone heiroom, and if he boars us there will be kind, and takes a long time to work through. in London town, it occurs that tho Dolay "The Devil to pay," interrupts Bartle, blithely. girls are singularly yontig aud fresh, and un-Well-all right we're just going to pay it with spoiled by this old world, through which we must William's help." all work our way (be it long or short) to the
I hope the small won't go up through the eternal world beyond.
ceiling," says Gladys, anxiously, But sapper once ever, a paur wins upon the "Smell? is theres emeli ?” asks Fonelöps, who breasts of bath Nau and Penelope. Neither of in the daintiest of them all. Ebe bangs back a their gaste, Hama or Croker, show the slightest little and looks nervously at Croker, who surmis semptom of a desire to move on, and what is to ing thare le ganpowder to ba nked in the pro- be done with them for the remainder of the even-jected game, finde a diflealty in reassuring her Sug. Ind they boen older, or better veraad in "Os, such a smell!" mya's pipieg voice be thought reading, or a little more given erar to bind them. They all turn and and the two chil- xanity, they might have divined that neither of dren, like two calprite, gazing imploringty at 1hese young man seek or desire anything better them from the last step of the staircase. The than their own most desirable and undiluted com- elegant negligence of their costomen suggests pany. But as the case stands, they feel a little | the iden they have been to bed and bare just got blank, and for a while after they return to the up again. Appearancesareoft times deceitful, but drawing roos, eonvoreation Enila to zezo.
not in this instance.
Bat to every joy, as we all know to oni cast, is given an accompaging grief. Presently all become aware of a diabolical incense, that rising from the soap plate on which the devil: reposes, threatens to overpower the company with its detestable fames. Every que, at first-out of regard to William-tries hard to endure it in silence, every one is slow to spook about it; ell try to smaller their feelings and their faces in their pookef-handkerchiefs.
"Tes, I do, a Nolly, sullealy, unsoftened and unrepentant.
After this they all sink into a significant wilings, assiting the return of Bartle. To break up the assembly until his fate be known would be to bandy desert. him. But will be ro- turn, or in he being, even now consigned to a dungeon keep, where rats alone hold sway P Horrid thought.
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now is the first one hint given about the delightful old panishment; the origin of it, fact. But, they found the ooste dificult to go; they would not stick, do you see, ovary smentite fellow they britheir midst most fortunately thought our pote Hit zaggestion was at once adopted being eurer, and decidedly more graseful From that still later hars in our own times-comes the
"I said Toha! Toha!" rstaros Bartle, laid on. chimney pet hat. Most interesting, el ↑ See it "
No, I don't," says Nolly, breast, ring with vinent dingust. Beyond this he refuses to him with manifest distrust,
tall any thing, and indeed it is plain to all that A short bat alegrest orclamation conting from he he unfored much in mud at least) during ladys at this moment puts in end to the arga-his late couflet with his father,
"It is getting into," says Croker, looking at What is it? aka Ponelope, turning to her. bia wateb. "I suppose we ought to bid you Listen!" says the baldinger hand with good night P such a torriled, expression •oth countenance that instantly they all grow. an hoeroll, and begin is strain their cars with all their might.
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Tap, tap, tap. The soned of a silk--the sound of two shuffing feet. Near, cearer still; awfully near now-in fact, just outside the door, "Father (" says Nou, in a frozen tone. For getful in this supraone moment of har inte dir. graceful behaviour, the taras instinctifaly to Humo, as if to implore his assistance to sink
through the floor.
Alas! The disappearing lady trick is an known to him. He has culpably naglected his education in the most antial line. Miserable
His ignorance is now his undolný.. The footsteps como te a standstill just outside. Within, deadly silence reigns. The handle rate Flor. The deor slowly opens,
HAD.
But no
$nów kia nors is thin And it rests upon his chin
1ke staff
And a crook is on his back, And a melancholy crack
In his angh
Human natore, at last, however, gives way The powder proved too much for Mr. Croker.
What a heaven-born perfume P exclaims he It is the signal for e-gasazal chorus of diy indeed a singular longing to retire into his
"Poat! Ob, William. William," breathe boots. His startled relatives, staring at hini, Nan, as though suffoosting. She has been lost in wonder at this freak on the part of his an- buried in her handkerchief, almost from the mentionables, become presently aware of the fast frat; drowned la remyraeful tears as both that braces have been senenfnily set aside, and Ffrench and Hume hope, oying her through that nothing earthly still keeps him in the paths of the semi-darkness, but now they are undopcived; dicenes save a stout piece of cord twisted tightly for the scoond time she has dealt most treach round his slip, the body. His coat is careerenely with them: William'e devils are not un-stricken eyes that at first Huma (to whom alon lesanese itas! He shows a good deal of shirt, known to her, she bad only been preparing for it is a stranger) besitates as to whether As for Miss Nolly, beyond the feet that her the worst. Her voice is one of mulled agony; really a man of only a tatter Doggart." eyes are hig, with sleep, and that her Uttle white it slogst greats itself to her hoarern, that she instant's reflection, however, convinces him that fest are thrust into her shoes regardless of is bolding ber ness with all her might.
It is, indeed, Mr. Delaney who stands over there slookings, there is nothing very remarkable "Buhtiab!” speculatee William unfeelingly: glewering at them and covering them with an ¦ about her.
ons would think none of yon fallows bad over, ovil eye. held a gun!"
-Sodtenly a divorsing is offered to them that || Henjy's recobes are hanging considerably-in-a-fainting-tone presion a little futter in their brands. Through lower than they ought to bang ; they betray, the open windows that hokl command of the avenue, Captain Ffrenob may be seen approa- ching rapidly. His head in bent, with his stick his bents every now and then the unoffending air, -beaten decapitates a fell dandelion It is, indeed, quite plain to all, that be comes not in "What's he coming for at this hour?" says Croker turning instinctively to Penelope, who is sitting near him, or rather whoin ho is sitting neur. Nam abfor, with a sharp distrustful glauce al ber," You P"
Penelope langba.
"Is it for you?" questions Groker, staring even more keenly at her.. "I have often wen- dered at his devotion to this bon, but
"Oh! do let us come. Do, do, do cries sho Moriarty told us William was going to This is manifestly, unfair, as Miss Delaney in Lave a dorit in the schoolroom. And we have not a fellow, sad certainly navor held a gun in been so good. We didn't say a word when you his sense. But though rustrated with wouldn't let us come to the supper. Did we, Willismo sticka to his guns and declines to spo, now? Did we, Nan! We went to bed quite logire quiet, and let car stockings be pulled off without pinsking up our toas. And we raid our prayers andNanny-Nanny."
|
Such a figure presents itself to their awe
"I suppose "Raya Nau, sighing. "It's a most lovely moonlight," says Gladys, suddenly, we has been staring out of the window. And it is no distance to the gate,” pate în Croker encouragingly
Yes, let's go there," says Bartle. "All of as, I fool sa If I wanted air or something.
"Poor darling, hoy says Non, slipping a | most sexy arm around his neoks, you have been badgered, haven't you? And such a preparation for a night's reading, too
What is he rending for?" Bake Baue abruptly, not of Nan however, of Penelope.
"He is going in for the Indian Ciril Service Exam, mys she "and he's sure to pass, too, he's so olovor
Pesaingo roars Hartha instantly, growing the salon of blend. -"But indead, Pensispe only speaks the-truth," Everybody knows you are Bays Nets sweetly. perfectly sure to get through; they say you will be the cleverent candidate that-
"Oh, gm to the douce!" roars Bartle again, with all that ingratitudo so common, to the bast of brothers. Come on to the gate, if you mean it," continues he savagely, "or olee-
"No, no, we're coming," says Penelope tsoothingly.
Op
They all more towards the dour in a body, There is a slight confusion when they get to it. It is this opportunity that Ffrench sizes upon to go tp to Nan, and address her for the first time sisco the turning up of that fatal lamp, to which Aladdin's was as nothing.
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And still the Devil bars slowly on, still the odour risen. Ons thought, and one only is in every mind now how to escape from the room without offending William, before death over-it me for sormis to sour team to sites and pon of rostros. Leeps good to the bottest eruatossed A saitable as in Orsion or Kapoor M takes them. Looks are interobanged. but ench the girls, they indeed feel bound to rozesin, was it not for their benefit to please them, to help tham, to entertain their gausts that William has organised this show P. Gestitude forbide their departure at all events. To hassly desert him now after all the pains he has taken for their sakes- Yo! It is not to be done.
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rally this incessant tattoo increases the indigni floient prospects to give him a sense of bien
tion with which he is alsody overakarged; yot atre, sing barrister though he undoubtedly is,
Oh! they headful-they're dreadful," roker has, so far, shrank from a king Penelope says Nan. Bat-yee come on, you two-bat
tion of the irritating tarsal Hus, still lost in to share his fortunes. After all, the generons not a word. Do you bear P Not one word." ons recofis from taking the first stop. As for. amazed-contemplation of the striking object in things that have been said of him by the anter Lika two mice the happy children advance,
the doorway, bogias to wonder wholer the us Bar, may or may not, mean daily brest; and dancing a little breakdown as they come, and
tounding cap is not part of the head, and if the until he is sure, what right has he Lo even try to together they all suter, the sohoolroom.
tamel grow like that, and cannot now-be altered. win a girl's heart? all this, of course, is degi- It is a real schoolroom, that is, about the dedly correct in theory, but diflcult to carry out shabbiest room to be seen anywhere. Iak stains
laney, glaring round him, and plainly andisturbed in practice. The tongue may be obstinately here, paint stains there; god chairs, tables on
by shame st the spaelania bo presents to the nyas Bibot: but the eyes, (those most insubordinate the Targe of dissolution. One old sofa that
of his visitors. "What's all Ibis about, oh P” of features), will spark, and Par-lops long ere | might here team purobased when the Ark for.
This delicate question gues unanswered. Kan. this boa told herself that Croker lores hor. The nitare was put ap to saction, supposing Mrs. qaotus Gladys to Bartle in a tone of schour rebus meenly got behind Hame, and Penolope has Little foolish touch of jealousy he now displays Noah to have been fond of a nap now and then sigantico, Though I must say I call it a taken shelter in the shadow of an old bookcase. obly adds to this belief. Out of the very fainess out of season, which after all could hardly be shame that we should be sacrificed when it is As for Gladys, lost to all hope, she has begun, Fenchures Avenue, London, ENGLAND, . 1574 of her bappy heart she laughs at it.
to laugh, allently indeed, but immoderately. accounted laziness on her part, for what was she only Nan and Penelope who The words die on her lips.
tialplessly. "Perhaps not then," says she, socily""sy to do gave sleep during those terribly dali days, it is this little girl," laying er gentle hand forty days of tuin, que a intellect fails to fethom.
Crash! Bung Kr. Mortiful Powers) Receiving no reply, Mr. Delaney gathers up upon her borva, when our warlike domin No novels, no gossip, no piano (the damp Wonk What on earth has happened? The thing his loins and fires his attentions on the lusklass lores. And after that, what?
have put it out of order at once), nu hade the Devil has gone off bas exploded and Craker, who happens to be nearest him.
William-where is William F. Ta William dead!"
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Mr. Croker, Panar, a high sneak Let me tell you that you are both wrong In the middle of this roem, upon the lak William William beth lust in a fog of folly says Gladys, parting | stained floor, stands a dinner plate with a black Great heaven! Why don't he speak? Is hier lest is one of his many zapleasant chacmoteristics "Mr. Cruker, I think?", Ho the window curtains, and holding them one in byramid erect upon the centre of it. This harms lying about in bits that he makes no response, pears at Order from under the tassel in an in- sach hands as telst only her fans he seat.-object (apparently) is the devil! Like all Will nobody turn up that lamp ?
Molent way as if unsure about his personality. "It is to sea me he comes, of course." he such or acquaintances it is not to be depended
Hamabody does, only to make wretched non-Vory welcome 'beneath my roof; I'm sare. MATKINSON'S ENGLISH PERFUMERY, abeatches out her long, thin, childish nook, and penis sure to play you false in the long run.jestare a still more wretched truth: As light is. Croker. Bat-e-to what am I indebted for laughs aloud "How stupid of you not to have At prasert, however, this doril of William's site cast upon the scene of this oruel catastrophe, a thought of that before.”-
I asked him, Father," says Bartle, coming FRANGIPANNE there as calm as calm can be, without so much truly awful opaotacle prosonte itself to the roa *For you, you agly little thing! go to !" anys as a suspicion of gaile shout it.
of the horrifed spectatore, The Devil-true forward, very red, very nervous, and outrageons Crokor, regarding the childish creature with an Now lower the lamp!" says Willium, taking hild of Satani scatterer to the four winds, y angry. For a boy of his age, just stepping, amused glanco.
precedenco as Master of the Ceremonies. The the soup-plats has found a bome in many corner, from extreme youth to the wider manboot, what "Pont! Sg for you," ories Gladys, map- lamp is lowered.
and in the very middle of the debris, props, greater misery can thera be than to see a quat ping her dagers at him Como now; a but The room sizes into a gloom that kider its apparently lifeless, lias William, or what remains ungenerously trested in the home of his fathers! words, theft in great atms, got mask my imperfections and almost raises it inte beauty of him, so flat, so spread, so altogether ons with You don't say 30," says Mr. Delaney with Trade Mark-A-White Rose" or a "Follow Lyre HONGKONG FOR COMPANY, LIMITED Uudersigned not later then the 1741 inst.,
theypeluting with dietiest disparage-All the onlookers. Wilisus's audience stand the door, that involuntarily, run in the autistan air of jubisot astonishment. Your father ment at her sisters—" may marry commoners round in a circle. The two children, fall of one's grief one wonders what can have hecoms being reduced to a state of dotage, you very kind- and "with an indescribably mischievous aurag delicious anticipation of something that may of his nose. It is squashed out of all recogel-ly exercise the rights of hospitality in bís stead. of her shoulders good enough for them, too frighten them out of their wits, stand together, tioa
Thank yon, my, good Bartle, a thousand thanks but as for me. I shall warry a Lord!"
and next to the Penelope, and Croker beside
This being so, and my state of imbecility being FRE Is that your analterable decision "eke hor. Then Hume, then Nan, and then Boyle
mercifully lightened for a moment pr, per Croker.
Ffrench. Beyond these, completing the half
haps you will introduce me to your other "You.""
gusta" He passes his planos deliberately from | cirole, stand, Gladys and Bartle.
Üroker to Ffranch who is plainly longing for the fray), and from Ffrench to Hume.
They rush forward. They ding themselves precipitately upon their uses. Mr. Hume catching hold of the motionless figure turns it over! William's face is at last exposed to his sorrowing relatives.
And what a foot!
The children give way to sbricks, their olders
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[981) the World are but following sat the old order of things that indeed in aastaring the wild ravagings of joal-mintain an awe-stricken silence, as though softly, staring at Hame. sa yet changeth never. There must always be easy that had toked upon him, when he saw her frozen by fear. William's face is as black sa tremely handsome person over ther
OWLANDS' KALTDOR Refresher the funds t one old maid in every family! Tu diabetiere that with Hume-an invited guest-on his fret on your hat! Jat black! would be to upast the Constitution. You shall trance into the drawing-room, bat she had cer
Hume, being outside the pale of aty, this all exposed to the hot anu and dust, eradicatos be the old maid here! The Delaney old maid ataly emoceded iu raising his passion to faver disappeared, and the hair over the left ear is sa
Moreover, the eyelashes, and eyebrows have shell is oridently delivered with a view in insult.treckles, sunburn, tan, de, and produces a The one who has defied the grant in "
"Oh!" eries Gladys, darting towards him not been at all appattled in his za certain hope though it had never boon. The ear, however man."I am a neat neighbour of rots; and a whitess the teetir, prevents decay, and gives a
host. So quistly was this done, that Humza had
"My name is Huma, sir," says that yenzg beautiful and delicato complerton,
ROWLANDS ODONTO swift as a swallow, and pounding him sharply that time orly is required to make her biz,
remains!
vary planned to make your acqrra. I left with her small handa. And there isn't a word ghe had refused him, indeed, in a shapeless, to the stricken unlookers William's fab, black Sos mal" interraphs My Y. "True
This last fact convoys soms sense of comfort my card, but was nyfortunate to plesaing fragrance to the breath.
LOWLANDS MACASSAR OIL- -of-truth-in-it-ofther. Where-is-the old maid
amongst the Flakes, or the D'Arays, or the Deepague sort of way; but that she meant that ro- though it be, is at all events intact. How quietly you didn't see ma. That furune is waver, preserves and bonutiffer the hair and can be
fasal that she at all events masat it to be final he lies, poor soul! monds? Come now anar me that!"
rectifled now. As to being my arar neighbour, also bad in a golden colour. But to suger that is beyond him and indexer glanco, what a glaues-kor baby air. gine to sob; the other girls follow sait-the man were that. Your, anole, that disreputable ➡was surely denied by her manner, her tona, Plainly, it is all over with William. Nan be Mr. Hamo, I would quite Boom Bom other
B 36; 7/- 10/6. to follow us his argatunut possesses elements of faded, an sho stood on those balcony, steps, ohildren have already rained a hideons dir. Hameald Colonel, who
Ask Chemists for. Rowlands Artioles, of 20, Hatton Garden, London. difficulty net to to overcoms, Gadys looks so There had been distinct encouragement in them, stooping down, lifte this latest-and truly tarri altogether unlike a person who might eventually and even a gentle liking. No he would be ble Christy Minstrel off the floor and on to his
Father," says Bartle, furiously,
Wholesale and Retail Agents for Chius: A. 3. WATSON & Co., You seem disturbed," says Mr. Delaney, faint-hearted no longer; be would believe in his arm, and contemplates it with a wondering grief. turning to him. The old lean face has grown 1396
Shiroghai.. hower to win her. Perhape he had been hook-Was over negro quíto so black P ward hitherto, ad not declared his honest love
Bvid, the grey keen firety eyes are glowing. After all, he wasn't half a bad boy. Poor You would ecerset me, my son," says Bo, with FL
ILLWOOD'S INDIAN HELMETS for her in language plain. There was time William Boquist now, so- All at once he an abominable susrity." Ton-you" mongh for that, but, ge we all know, there is no relinquishes his hold of Willian, sad lys hbu time ko the present
Here all 41 ocios the sasvity gives way, the ELLWOOD'S PATENT AIR-CHAMBER HELMETS back upon the floor. The corpse bam bogan to viralent nature of the man breaks loose. kick, and kick badly: Net slowly, decorously, as ocepse should, ant with a vigour, a violence not to be surpassed. In dosth, as in life, William holds his ow
be an old maid
But even this diversión cannot hide the fact that there is little to bo done to make the evening pars by without the damnatory yawn Ffrezob has come it, has been welcomed; han been smiled at by Nan, to ressive only a scowl in; return, now, what is to come next?
The room is very dark by this. Emboldened by his new sudden resolation to lose he time he All the Delaneye are, at their wita' ands to pats cut his head-that one nearest Nan-und devise au amoment of game sort, that may atobing hors holds it fast. His beart beats bigh overcome the child that has followed on Fireuch's with hope as he finds that the slender Angers entry, when Williage, who has been mysteriously et in bis quietly, unrosiatingly. If they make absent for balf oz hour, Aings open the door. ho tend retorn for the warm pressure he bestows and standing on the threshold gazee bonarolently on them, they do not at least repel them. on the assembled gnosts. All at once Nan thd All is joy in a broast at least-antil un Penelope remember his words of the morning. kindly change, that maddest of all imps, drops his promise to help; they stare at him will down upon them. hopeful ores; ovidently he is going to redeam
"Be of: Out of my dghi, soum of the earth! shrieks ho in his speaking falsetto. How dare you dictate to me! Am I mastor in my own house or not? . `I'll show you! Nas, naat glance around him. His eyes are rolling I'm going to countenance your lovers, or what
He rises on his heels now, ond ouata an indig Penelope, whers are you lurking? Do you think terribly. The children, staring at him aghast, ever they are; is there no shame left amongst wonder whether Willam always had that amount you Get out of this-get out, the whole pack of white beneath bis lids, or whether the effect of you," Binging his arms abroad, and glamping of as explosion is to generate this glazing looks willly that the old dressing-gown, is on the
If the rat supposition be the true ons, Williamway verge of a final disseintion, and heaven
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bis words, he is going to entertain these three Henir (who in ever fall of enterprise slents to begin to lese sympathy with him, and to nurse that. I'll have no luterlopers here I'll show
It is, indeed, this particular moment that has evidently kept things from them! They aime knows what would bays been the result of 'The pubise are requested to see that the Helsets young men, whom Providence has thraxt apontar up the lamp, that hitherte has shrouded the a grievance. them almost without warning,
you that my house is my own. What what, Have any of you ever read a devil?" demands moment in which Hume has for the first time Tsant manner at the tits of broken soup plate, walls I suppose, whilst rackettings, and abart Bole Inventors, Patentees, and Manufacturers,
dingy apartment in a delicate darkness-this It went off," says William, staring in a what! I'm to be a cipher beneath my own four William, in a drop, sepulchral tone.
assured himself that she has, at least, betrayed that lie sbattered near his left at least, such fags, and explosions are going on under my very for him prefere-placed him in advance of fragments as go to prove that a plate of that one. William! Is that William P surveying his rival in her regard. "Alas, for all suck food particular pattern had once been there. hopes!
Hue.
Healy, stealing on tiptoe across the room, hent
on throwing light on William, who is koseling
.:
that latter-day negro, with a demenino glance.
It did." says Crokar, feelingly, sad faryCome hero, come here I sxy." nearly carried you with it. How's your hoed?"
"Oh, murder," says Williaro, and dashing past
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The extraordinary question sets Hikoan electric shook on his hearse and stiffens them all inte silence. After a minute or so Croker takes courage, and lets a remark pres his lipa,
The devil!" 687s be, half quizzically, half on the floor before his devil, and evidently work vidently frightened him, and he puts both hands dow sill, and precipitates himself into the gar amused, a good deal surprised.
ing some incantation which Henjys long to up to the metober in question, se it to sew that it on banosti. When one comes to leak into it, the answer suddenly throws a food of light over the is still there."What wils it demands be, aftar to that question sees to depend very considerous, disolosine William indeed, but more then a careful banding of it, and with such a return rably apon what kind of daril you mean," says thst Nau, with her right hand tightly shaped of his old gratiaem as gleddons the hearts of the by Hume-and-more than that, too-Man's left children and convinces the others that it is really He speaks without prejudice of any sort, and clasped by Firanch..
Wilisin kimeelf in the fisch who speaks, yet involuntarily his gaze falls on Ffrench. As though sharply muitten by mime nossen There is mes ning in it of a kind hardly under power both lovers lot go the slender fraacherous William, staring at the chins ships that surround They are still farther convinced presently, stood even by its creator, bat Ffrynch satches sands, and for a second stand staring, not at each him, says anxiously it, hold it awhile..and ther rolcano it by let other, but at her. Some faint bat remnant of ting his eyes fall to the ground. Is be a deyil. race must tie Midden in her breast, bemuse she then, in Hume's sight? Els already too sa blushes betly, and bangs her pretty bead quite tarzine countenance takes an even gliomler low. tinge.
There is a long, a terrible pause, fraught A devil I should love to see one," ories with pain for some, and considerable danger Gladys at this erential juncture, darting from for Croker, who is on the verge of apoplexy in behind her curtains into the faller light of the spite of the indignant gaze that Penelope has Impe "And William makes them to perfecret un him. This warm and must undesirable tion. Nothing like a powder-devil for fan, radiance-that the child has cast upon the root First it go piff-pit, quite mildly, don't you as reduced all ta silence. All save William! Croker. know then paff-paff, as it grows bolder uite That goath, oblivious of everything except the Huma planta bio feraly on his feet, where, in to the fact of kis son's indignation at his con molly, as it were: and thes, at last, puff, puff. cafal going off of his dear Devil, now atter contradiction to all their conoimatons, he with a regular explosion. Oh, I do love a desil davers happy interruption by lifting up his stands as firms as a rook, and apparently home the
To look at bor, one world sosively expect foice, and yeiling out to Hendy with a fervour worse for his accident, fi ene excepta his black it," says Croker, moskly.
that might have raised the dead, and that ened face, William! Have you got ena ready now pertainly reduses Benjy to the verge of despair. It was too dry." says he "I taid you so in "Hang it all cries he in a frenzied fashion, the drawing-room, but not one of you would, will nobody put out that light Hoof, is this hurry. And so, of course, it wont of with Quito ready, saya William, generally, and your doing! Go away. Go away. I say, or I'll bang on it got too low. No harm doo, however. then, after a patue, "ino ready. You'll have to
Is, Nec, what is to be done next, sk " rap, all of you, if you want to be in time. I'm Words evidently fall him. He still kneels Ee is still true to his desire to help them. afraid it's too dry. It's been made more than before his black and dangerous Setisk, looking -If I may suggest something," says Hume. "Bat he may beat him," suggests Nolly, Cont toupous and REDUCED TICKETA at the half an hour, and if too dry it may put off is like a huge sprawling frog, but though he glares laughing. It would be a liberal application of whimpering too, "Oh, I wish I was in bed spite of me."
at Benjy, who is evidently in the last stage of woop and water to your face." he speaks he Perhaps bell some back, and That sounds like a threat," says Croker. fright, nothing comes of 11.
regards the dilapidated Willissa with almost Bupposing we should be a trifle late, and it What ails you 1" rours William. ""Put out vízseryad kuramment
demands the third is Delanay, taking no notice. whatever of this snido.
i
at the scent of the powder Will hang round it still,"
"Fick me up," says William to Hume, taking no notice of this volatile fight on the the part of
Barile-s word with you," says he. There ie malignancy in his glance. He has been blind not, and longing to give him a verbal ches tirament is coming him. Stalking, major i eally to the dear, his miserable figure drawn to Its fullest height, be diappears into the hall broad, Bartie following
What'll be do to him whimpers Houjy, ooming now from behind Panelope's skirts, Langry 57s Croker. So he won't eat him: . Providentially it is too late for him to be
He must have supped before this,"
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