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CHRIS OF ALL SORTS,
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CHAPTER XXV.
1 OUMEROD PLACE: Those sparks of life That shonkl bo in a Eoman you do want,
Or else you use not.
Julius Cæmi, Act E. ne. 9. Ormerod Place was one of the backwaters of life that lie North of Oxford Street and
have basu baried in thio family vault at Fenton with my uncle, and my reputation lles on the veldt in South Afrion."
***I do not in the lont hallave it," said she Armly.
course, some of his pay comes from what has looking before him, without speaking. Chris passed through his kande ja rent." Then your saw that his hands and the muscles of his faco ogosta deduct their commission, and on a xam were working. After a long pause she said: eventually senches your pookat. What I world, "Roger, I have told you the story of thres urge you to do is to sweep away some of these rooms in one house, there are thres more under parasites who have their prɑboscis driven into the some roof that I have removed,” the arterias of the poor tenents.”
"No-no more ho said, and his voice shook. I preanma that those are samples of the rest ¿“ "Yes, sampira,"
"You would not have me go round and collect my own sente P."
"No. That is imprac ipable. Hore a single Intermediary boon you self and the tenants, in place of three and four, one who knows the people, and their needs, and can be just at the sume time that he is merciful.”
"Who is there !"
"Icm tall you a protégé of the Admiral,
Agnin silence ensued.
Christine looked down in close observation on his face,
Baddenly he started up, and turning his back to the table, standing beside her, facing the fire. so that his countenance could not be road, ho said: “Chris, old girl! If I failed in my duty
of great hardship, go into it yourself, Roger. That is right and now, to bagin, open the Property brings obligations with it, and is ikis | letter."
"No-do that, and read its contents to me.” particular yon have neglected yours."
Captain Fenton remained for a long time
(To be continued.)
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & HURNISHED HOUSE to be lot at PEAK High Holborn in which old stirke swirl about more see him thao you do a musquite. Yon are But about him another time. If there be a case is South Africa, I will not do so in England."
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"It is no. I am unaware what you have Léard about me,. I went ant exp oting to do great things in the Transval. I had contdence in myself. The first knock down I had there was over a consoy, I did send out scouts, bat they were raw soldiers, as inexperienced as ray golf in the new conditions of warfare that meet no there. They saw nothing. I ought to heva cantioned them.mors partiwlarly, to be on the stort. The enemy creeps up on his breast, hides behind a bush or a stons, and you no
unaware of bis presence till you hear the ping and which they never lewe, but whero whom of his bullet and receive his sting. Of course, water-logged they sink,
It consists of Louses let out in chambers, the blame attaches to me, but who can teach Tommy in a week, fresh from his barracks, to some looking north and never having the san-
use eyes and ears like a Red Indias? I should in at the windows, the other facing south, ex- posed to the sun. It is mainly tenanted by dous outpost duty. As to the other affair at have been equally inefficient myself had I middle-age bachelors, who are secretaries of Welmeierast, I ac ed, as I supposed. on my TWO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-No. 95 learned societies, or are literary men in a heavy instructions. How was I to know what was TWO
and 96, PRAYA EAST,
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· patents which do not catch the public taste, or Banevelent Societies, which though benevolente, and through that gap which I was
block, he slipped away. An important move. to the indigent are benefactors to the secretaries ment failed through me, and I have been sent
kome as incompatent. I misread or miscon A few of the fair sax exist there, such as atraed my instructions. Other officere return TEOUSES at Noi, 2, 3 and 4, CHICO met with in the Reading-room of the British to be decorated and wreathed with laurels, I
Museum, and the housekeepers to the gentle-crushed, and wearing a fool's cap. men, who occupy the chambers.
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Ny perambulators are trundled up and down No organ-grinders aver visit. pavement, the Place. A cab with boxes and trunks piled Hongkong and Shanghai Banking the roof, and with children's faces pearing out of the windows, nevar draws up at one Corporation. Hongkong, 31st January, 1903.
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"Why, Roger! it was but an unfortunats eircumstance.
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of its doors. Ormerod Place is not on the way to any terminas, and consequently in mot a But indeed I have a word of blame for you, thoroughfire in mach request One gentleman
Roger." kept a cat, which periodically had an noconshe- meat, in foot thrice in a twelvemonth. Bufore
Fon!" ho sirbel, and snk back in his armchair. Go on then, Chris. I am prepared bruised."
THOM April 1st, the GROUND FLOOR ench of these interesting events, the said cat for anything. My shoaldera are bout and SHIRTS & COLLARS ARE PERFECT FITTING, BEING SCIENTIFI
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perambaiated the Plans, descended areas, slipped in at several doors, explored strange chambers, in quest of a convenient surgery, the Sunday bonnet of a housekeeper, or the pillow of phinathropio gentleman, or the armchair of 1854 the Secretary of a Society for the Amelioration
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No, not even when this lady, with her window sash thrown open, twittered at her piano, "Love in thine eyes over dwells,"
Why Captain-Feuten had taken chambers in this doll quarter, was more than he well knew himself. He had perhaps selected them because he was so seldom in town, and yet required Un the morrow of the dion rat Lord Brendon's rooms in which he could stow away his goode,
a bansom was driven to Stowell. Chambers, and drew up at the door. From it descended Miss Lavenham and Admiral Chandos Lady Brond- on bed given to Chris the address of Captain Fenton in town, "
|
Roger!" she said-if he had looked into
CALLY CUT,
ker face, his would have seen the compus.don | NECKWEAR. OUR PATTERNS ARE EXCLUSIVE IN THE EAST. there Roger, you have neglected a duty to day. Here on the table liga a letter le yon from the War Office, and you ought at once to have PYJAMAS, opened it,'
́· Oh! I know what its contents ura; another humiliation, I am to be sent to drill a lot of rocrnits and to teach them the geose-stop."
"And if it be to teach them the goos 4-step, it is your daty to do so. Why you are the man to instruet recruita, yon with your experience." Captam Featon grouted and mattered sine- thing between his teeth.
She went on. "Fresh troops have to be sent. out, and he serves his King and country every
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Wit as well who trains the soldiers here to OUR SUMMER STOCK WILL BE ABSOLUTELY THE FINEST IN THE
profit by what he has learnt, as does he who leads them when they are sent out on active
Bervice."
“I'll look at the letter presently.”
Do your daty. Roger, eres in wall things. WM. POWELL,
But this is not all. There is something further I have to say, and it was for the purposef [4] saying that I came here to-day. I had pre- houses in East London. Have you ever seen mised, and must fulfil my promise. You owa
them p
Not I. They are in an unpleasant and un- saronry locality.
"I know them, or some of them. And as_ Asmodeus carried the Belamanon stúdent over Madrid, and took off the roofs of the houses to expose the interiors to his view, so will I deal with you."
He moved impatiently in his chair.
In response to knocks and beli, a woman appeared at the door, grey of hair, grim of face, and in her apparel showing a tendency to slatternliness. She preceded the visitors up- stairs, throw open the door and announced them. The first root I will remove is that of one Captain Fenton was asated in his armchair, house in an alley called Paradise Place. In with his back to the door, by the fire, which this house there are six rooms, with a family in was unpoked, with the hily papers on this floor each. In one room is a poor sick woman with anread, his pipe on the table nusmoked, and
a bady, lying on the door-the bedstead has b-side it letter a-opened. Christine was been sold. There are three other skildren, not distressed to note his face, as he turned listlessly one of whom earns a penuy, sad there have to on bearing the door opened, and visitors be supported by the two elder sisters. Ope announced, whose names the housekeeper mis-
works in a factory where tin chers are made pronounced and rendered anrecognisable, for match boxes. She has eat her Angors, Chris saw that a change had come over bergangrene is setting in, and I fear she will lose friend. His face was bronzed with the African two of them. The other sister worked at wbite Bax, but the neatness, the trimness which had frillings, but the Queen's death has thrown boon his characteristic were gone. His hair was her out of employment and the family has ruffled op is a bunch over his head, his cheek na bread, and will shortly he turned starving wes lined, and his eye sunken. Be was aged into the street, because unable to find the ten years. When he realised who were in the rent. That is the story of one room in one room, he rose warily and bowed, with a shy of y ur konses, Roger.“
and without cordiality.
He did not speak, but folded his hands, and Roger!" said Christine, "I have brought his fingers worked irritably. ||2515 | Sir John Chandos to call on you, and I have "In another room in the same house is a come, of course, relying on your old friendship tailor, rotting away from a distressing malady, |—that stande. Lady Emily Driver told me and nursed by his little boy. Thank God for yesterday at the Brendan's that she had been putting the sense of duty into an ignorant 1oo busy with School Board and County Counebild's heart; he tends the father, and begs, 08. 12 and 14, QUEEN'S ROAD | cil matters to pay you a visit."
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Yes I went there, but aww no one.” "Roger! Sir John Chandor has been dingged away by me before to bad read his newspaper. and I know fools the deprivation. Now-way
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picks up from the gutter or streets the bread that sustains life in the father and him, living in an unsavoury atmosphere, as you so aptly described it. Unsavoury, Roger-but in one room in one of your houses."
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he have your Morning Post ? he will sit in the bad, because he cannot afford a fire. He is window and study it. He is a little deaf, and a man of some education, but be bas sunk, I will not match our conversation, and I have know not how. He scribbles for the Fress, plenty to say to you, and you, I am sure, to me.bat only occasionally gets his work accepted. I brought him here, because with you, and after the lesson yon gavo mo. I bave become most pro- cies about my P's and Q's. I would not jeopra disa another rapture by any indiscretion.
Chris! do not refer to that again. A hundred times I have raproved myself for unreasonable sensitiveness on that unfortunate occasion. "Bay it was an indiscretion - I--I sm now the victim of indiscretions much more Borlone. Will you sit down? "
"No thank you," answered the girl. "Let Perhaps next week he may get something, me remain where I am.": -
She was leaning against the tabia before the fire.
"Chris," said Captain Fenton, slowly and sadly.that which you said to me last November was true--you said that I was puffed up with self consequence over my prospects. It was KO, and I behaved badly to you. But my prospec's
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Perhaps he has received payment in gold. MADE BY Then he goes to a first-class restaurant ani has a three-and-sixpenny dinner, and s bottle of champagne. He eats and drinks up ons pound, The rest he hoards for bread and an occasional blaster, and for his rent, which will go into your pookat. Roger. But it is long since be has earned anything at all, and the leather belt is daily tightened one hole about his waist, to prevent the wolf from eating through. perhaps not. If he would write his experiences sua commit to paper the tragedies that around him, he might interest the public, but his stories concern wicked baronote and designing countesses, of whom he knows nothing. In summer be lives on the embankment and in the parks and sleeps on the banches to save house rent. That is another denizen of one of your houses, of one room in the same honse, in that unpleasant locality-to BRANCH OFFICES:-UCHI-HONMACHI, MOJI; MINAMI-AJIKAWA, OSAKA us your own expression. Roger."
"How many more of these horrible tales. Chris? Your words are worse than soft-nosed bullets. What can I do? What would you desire me to do ???
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"I will tell you. This house of which I have removed the roof, is rented by a little greengrocer at the corner, and he sub-lets to the poor wretches. Once a week round goes. Mr. Coben, in a black frock-cant and top hat, for the rents, and recovers, amongst others, these due to the greengrocer. Cohen pays over the receipts less his commission to this man who takes the entire house and the greengrocer pays tator perk of year agents-What are their ROM the 1st April next and until furthe
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