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A SPIRIT BRIDE.
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ANDREW HAGGARD,
(Author of" Dodo and
etc., 812.)
[COPYRIGHT.]
PART II.
“Tempest-Term,"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1899
By a very simple right,” I replied, "the right that a husband lias to address his wife. She has been my wife for nearly a year."
"Her husband! Oh! thank God the she is married," said her father, then i have been blaming her undeservedly for.what I thought her approaching shame. Evelyn, my child, why did you not trust your poor old father, instead of causing all this distress? But why do you disown your husband now you see there is no cause to do so? On the contrary, intro- duce him to ine, and let us all be friends together. What is his name i
If I had been surprised before, I was much of complying with her father's request rose from her seat, and angrily stamping on the
Married! I am not married. Husband ground said, locking me straight in the face have no husband, at any rate if so he is mut a busband of this world. I have never eveh seen this man before, and he is a liar if he says that
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fullest materialised from and was for the time being as much flesh and blood as I am now. And we used to converse together for hours
THE MANY THAT CHANGED AND PASSED. It is obvious that, with such a career behind
QUEER EPITAPHS.
Blomfield, in his "History of Norfolk," gives
date, A.D. 1404→
Henry Nottinghant and his wylyn here That maylen this chared, stepull and quere, Tventients and bolles
they die alac, Christ them save therefore
troavo
And to brlage ther moules to bles Choved Salut Peter and Ave with myids Stuven
In the graveyard at Acton, in Cornwall, there
after dawn, and after morrily partaking of coffee more surprised than ever when Evelyn, instead I scarcely had the time to whisper, Farewell, he sat down to be reminiscent, than his bat at bowl und field a second time when fagged, I is this inscription, also partly prophetic
Evelyn and I arrived at Richmond, shortly together amid a crowl of workmen at an itinerant coffee seller's stall, we took the first train up to London, where I dropped my com panion at South Kensington Station as she said she lived close by. She did not say where, and I did not fisk. On parting she promised to meet me at the same place late in the afternoon, when she would learn my decision.. But sheI am his wife." begged me as an especial favour go to bed, and sleep for an hour or two before thinking about it; vowed that I was not sleepy and could not, whereupon the graceful girl, saying smilingly then must charm you to sleep, sir, bent forward and kissed me on both eyes. "Now good-bye, dear one," she added; "go home at once and dream of me." And she left me. I felt drowsy at once, and when I got home slept a sound re- freshing sleep until past mid-day. In the after- noon I met her again, when in a pretty sum- mery frock she looked even more beautiful than she had done the day before. She looked up enquiringly when we met.
1 accept your conditions," I said, "accept them unreservedly."
She pressed my arm in a confiding grateful manner, while her face was overspread with such a gladsome look of content, that my own happiness became also too great for words.
"Then now that that is settled, said Evelyn, "we will get married to-morrow, Wednesday" the stance had been on Monday night that will give us three whole days together before 4 must leave, you for the first time, Ah me," she sighed, “I fear, dear one, that you will find these absences heari-rending, but we must not repine, but remember that since there can be no absolutely unmixed happiness in this world, we must take the best of that which we can get while it lasts. Therefore let us waste no time. You can get a special licens for we in the name of Ellen Montgomery, and we will be married at St. Paul's, Knights bridge, as you live in that parish.
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But I am not a liar," I retorted. And 1 do say distinctly that you are my wife Evelyn, and. you have your wedding ring to prove it. Inside that ring is inscribed the date on which you married me at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, last year, the 13th of July..."
Now although I don't know how you know my name, 1 in prove you are a liar," said Evelyn, pulling of her glove. See, I have no wedding ring-"
"No," I answered, "hat see here is the white mark where it has been, and even it for same extraordinary reason you have taken it off, cin you deny to me that you are about to become mother, the mother of my child?"
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him, Dr. Grace's pen could no more help pouring forth intensely interesting matter, when one time could help knocking up centuries in benefit matches. The volume constituterin a way a history of modern cricket; and the Doctor tells us who flourished in one year or another, how county cricket rose and was
egulated, and how the M.C.C., whose govern
ABOUT SOME TRENCH PAINTERS AND EXPERTE IN PAINTING.
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It appears to be uncenain whether French art shall be represented at the Parts exhibition or
not.
Painters and sculptors are complaining bitterly of the small amount of space allotted to them, and threaten to withhold their works from the world's lair.
Kara Kes entombed one Roger Morton, Whose sudden death was early brought on Trying on day his corn.to mow off, The razor slipped and cut his toe off. The toe. or rasher what it crew 13, An Salamation quickly few to: The parts they took to mortliying. And pour dear Rager took to dying?
At Droitwichthere is an epitaph, dated 1701, which is not likely to be much quoted in adver tising mineral waters at spas:
Mare Hes and my three daughters, Killed by tirinking Cheltenham waters; If we had stuck to Epsom salts,
We couldn't have been lying in these here vaulis.
Equally hard on the physician is the following:-
Here lies the corpse of Dr. Chard, Who led the half of the churchyard. In Kent there is still shown the tomb of an and left handson legacies to his executors, on eccentric miller. who, in the year 1815, died condition that they should bury him under his mill, and engrave on his tombstone the follow- ing epitaph of his own composition:-
Grace has never made a pair of spectacles," Dr. Grace. He is very strong upon fielding. an achievement, he believes, rivalled by R. G. | pointing out that it was calculated that an Barlow alone. We may add, though, what Dr. | amateur who had made a century in a certain until at length, you, in your mad boyish fashion, Grace does not, that he distinctly ought to match really owed his side ninety-five, owing the following from Halin Church in that county, fell mully in love with inc-Muriel--the spirit. have made the pair on one occasion, in the to the runs made by the opponents whom he Test Match at the Oval in 1890, when he was And then one day, in a séance at which you alone
let off in the field. As to proposed changes in the game, the Doctor show's a sound con- were present, with the entranced medium, you caught in the slips before scoring in the first When innings and missed at point from a catch that persuaded me to allow you to kiss me.
servative spirit, though we are particularly glad you did so you embraced me so madly, so an infant could have made at the beginning of to note that he rather favours the idea that the follow on should be absolutely at the discretion ardently, and I was so gained by our love, that the second. I returned your kisses with the passion of the
of the leading side. We more than rather fa human being i was for the time, not with the
vour it ourselves, considering that the exten- chaste salute of a spint. Then, you remember
tinkering with the problem Even now it may sion of the margin from So to 130 was merely to your despair I dematerialised in your as
be very hard for the leading side to have to I love you." ere I was gone. And as a punish-
while, or the other hand, it would, of course, ment, for.ten long years I never was allowed to see you again, and with the cares of life you
often be an advantage to compel a follow even when the margin was less.-P. M. Cutette, forgot your spirit love completely. However, my love for you had sunk deep into my nature, so much so that when the time came for either my advancement inte another and a higher cycle
ment of the game was being intrigued against in the spirit world-or else retardation in my
when he began to play in the sixties, has come former condition for a hundred thousand years,
to control even the inter-county arrangeinents. coupled with the temporary possession of Appendices, which cricket students will find
I chose you, and I thank God, and shall
most useful even if they me not exactly res thank God to all eternity that I did so. And
miniscences of W.G., give the chief batting and this is how it was done. The girl whose earth-
bateling averages since 1870, Australian ly form I hear, Evelyn Montgomery, whom I
other teams, a complete list of records and had often met at seances, had lost an earthly love, whom she adored more than life itself curiosities, and so forth: while the volume is embellished with д great number In the world of spirits he made a similar sacri-
of splendid photographs of теп and fice to that 1 have done that he might be
teams will certainly be prized by all allowed to have her with him at times in the cricketers. And decidedly not the least inter spirit. Then it was ordained that while I might esting feature will be found in the Champion's assume her dar bly form to be near you, she mighty for all but thirty-six hours in every week, ppreciations and anecdotes of his camem. assume my own spirit form as the ethereal poraries, It will scarcely surprise many renders to find that he believes C. L. Townsend to be Muriel. But while 1, being really a spirit, can
"the great dricketer of the end of the century." find out, if I like, her earthly doings-she.
That Mr. Townsend is a great cricketer, &c. belonging to an inferior order of beings to my
we shall all agree, though perhaps De Grace self, cannot tell what I do. Hence her distress
has, as captain, sometimes made the mistake and astonishment when you forced her, in
with his protege that bowling captains often this my body which is also hers, to accom-
make with themselves. Ce the hell as pany you as your wife-also her distress at find
stance, as the Ductor says, undoubtedly used ing she was about to become a mother. Now to-night, 1 ought as usual to yield up to her Grace's belief in Mr. Townsend has sometimes keep himself on too long, and we fancy Dr. for thirty-six hours this earthly frame, but I am
been similarly unfortunate. The error, even physically unable to do so, and should I and
when made by men as to themselves, is by on "What in God's name does all this mean?" she ever meet and speak of our own free will it
means necessarily a selfish one, as Dr. Grace exclaimed the father, True, she has been has been from the beginning ordained that she away week after week with friends or relatives, that is also i, in her earthly form will surely points out with regard to George Lohrain.
George," the Doctor used to say in Australia, and may possibly be married to you as you say, die. Not that she would mind; on the con
when Lohmann was ineffective, it's time for but why does she so persistently deny it :" trary, it would be her greatest happiness to
a change, isn't it? Yes," Lohmann would "He good enough to tell me your name, sir," join her spirit lover. But to me, my ever-lored said.
darling, it will mean, one hundred thousandy; "don't you think I'd better go on at the other end The simple fact is that he was Thomas Montgomery, sir," he replied-years of regret to quit my earthly husband. always convinced he was just going to get “And yours?”
But we shall see what happens 'id-night. I
the wicket. To the measuries of great players *George Ashburton is my name, and I insist greatly fear, my husband, my beloved one,
we can only make brief reference. There are upon yra and my wife hele, who is apparently that you will lose me in any case-till then yous daughter, accompanying me to St. Paul's, lavish upon me all the love of your soul. I will hours and a half for 5, with the story of the C. I. Thomion's huge strokes and Barlow's two Knightsbridge, to set the register of marriages. cherish is recollection and yours to all eternity." original discovery of him as the porter wom
He said he would accule to my request, and That was all her story, wonderful and sad- Evelyn hal perforce accompany us. He saw but true-too true. Only too well tid I now ! the register, and his daughter's name as being remember my spirit love, Muriel, and now married to me. When Evelyn again denied understood also why I had loved my Evelyn having ever been married there at all, both the from the first. Between eleven and twelve that clerk and the clergyman who had performed night, Evelyn dozed with her infant at her the ceremony told her father they identified her breast. She then woke, and kissing the child, perfectly. After that she becue quieted, re-give it to the nurse, telling her to take it toer, did not like fast bowling for the hands; signed, and silent, but I insisted upon the father, who was completely dumbfounded, accompanying nie to my house, which poor Evelyn declared vehemently she had never
Oh Heavens, this is too much, father. I repeat to you most positively that I do not know him--and yet in some extraordinary way he seems to know all about me, even that I have been in some awful way the victim of some unintelligible misfortune. But he profits on it, and calls me his wife, well knowing it is false. Can it be that he is himself in some way the cause of all this misery?
There was no mistake about her voice-it was distinctly my wite's voice.
. For I had a little house close by. It's was big for one, but would dis nicely for two. We agreed that I should wire to the Smiths and ask them to come up to to the wedding-and also ask Mr. Smith to give the bride away. -They were very much surprised, but they were already excessively interested in Miss Evelys, and Suspecting some mystery about her were all the more willing to accede to our request. I got a friend from the Club to act as my best man, the two Miss Smiths were bridesmaids, and we were duly made man und wife. After this quiet, wedding we had a delicious.and jovial little breakfast at the Albemarle Hotel, where we resolved to pass the three days of nar honey. moon. And never has it fallen to the lot of man in this word to pass three days of more-Com-without doubt as bring their mistress, and her
the next room and close the door. She then threw herself into my arms.
She is come, George," she whispered, “sec, there is my
die station-master and his fellows had been un- able to get out for six weeks, and the invention
of the words stonewaller" by William Barnes for his benefit. There is Pooley's in- variable " A slow bowler's wicket to-day, sir,"
which simply meant that Pooley, as wicke and their are numerous glorious stories of the Aunts of that erratic bowler and are jester, Tom Emmet. The stories of others, in fact,
How exacting our artists have grown, to be sure: Some of the masters of the last century, whose names, perhaps, would hear comparison with those of the firing painters, were less instance. At the height of his fame, in 1736, he difficult to please. Tuke Nicholis Lancet, for was perfectly satisfied with being allowed to c hibit four pictures only at the Sulou. "Provide! connoisseurs see them," he wrote at the time, “1 am content; all the rest is of small importance. 1is works were relegated to a somewhat dark corner; he did not grumble, and submitted to his fate with a patience which would bring at smile of disdain to the face of our modern Raphaels, who are all of opinion that they ought to be hung on the them. At that time exhibitions of paintings there is never cucugh space of light allotted to took place in the open air in Paris, on the Place Dauphine, our the day of the Octave of Corpus Christ,
and
To return to the fatte pictures of Lancret to which we have alluded; they were done for the Chateau de la Muelle, and are now at the Louvre. They represent the " Four Seasuns " and are painted in that graceful style so dear 10 our forefathers,
lerneath this ancient till
tes lite body of pune Will, tida he lived and odd he died, And his Cuneral nobody cried: Where he's gase and how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody came.
For Sale.
GRANVILLE
The New
AUTOMATIC
TYPE WRITER.
introduced.
King Louis Philippe, who was somewhat an The best Machine for Office use, yet submiter of Lancret and always on the look out for some hidden treasure of art, one day found Mt. Argint's. It was in 1534. What do you two pictures of his favourite painter at a certain
want for these two landscapes?"
Ob not much, any sun you like to,name." Two hundred francs?" **For the two †“ "No, for each."
"Well, take them. They ne only rococo." So Louis Philippecarried away to the Tuileries in a common cab two fire pictures to which he assigned a place of honour in his gallery. They are worth twenty thousand franes if they are worth a sou," said he to M. Thiers, who,
seen before. But the servants recognised her behind you own spirit shape materialising are as innumerable as they are good, and the although a Minister then, did not forget that at
plete happiness than did I alone with my wife photographs and dresses about the rooms com in that comfortable spot in the centre of Lon-pletely convinced the father that she was most don. If bad thought her charming before undoubtedly my wife. He became perfectly marriage, I found her un angel after, but not furious with her at length for what he declared an insipid angel by any means. No, she was
to be her double deception, and despite her the brightest, happiest, most espiègle of girls: prayers and entreaties left her with me, saying as I said before, I never knew such a mind, it that I was her husband and her place was with was stored with everything.
me, and that he washed his hands of her alto- Kether. After he left, the poor girl fainted, and
Ito put her in her own bed. She was quito
On the Saturday night, when the time came for our first pacting, we drove away from the Albemarle along Piccadilly together. Shell and Gelirious all the afternoon and night, dropped me at my old home, and then after a long and tender embrace, she went on, giving the hapsom-cab driver the vague address of South Kensington.
after coming to her senses. At length the doctor who was in the habit of attending her had to be fetched, when he found her declaring that she was not my wife, and that I had no On the following Monday at twelve o'clock business in her room, and so on-he took the she returned to me, when we met with mutual on one side and told me he considered the case transports of joy, And thus commenced most dangerous. There was no doubt, he said, our inarried life. The enforced absences only that her mind was completely off its balance.. made our meetings all the happier, and
This was what I feared myself from her for a time it WAS
heaven. extraordinary behaviour, However, although almos! kept religiously to my compact and never she declared she was perfectly well, and wanted worried my wife as to her doings during her no medicine, he made her take a very powerful weekly absences from me, although I must opiate, which soon, sent her into a trance, like own that my curiosity as to the cause of her sleep, which lasted until seven next morning weekly departure was excessive. On one Then she awoke, but alas, no better, for shie occasion, however, I must plead guilty to hav. seemed not to know me in the least, and was ing played a trick upon her in the hope of perfectly horrified at finding me by her side. retarding her departure. I contrived to put She wished to rise and leave the room and the back all the clocks and also her own watch for house, and had to be detained by force. At ten half an hour. To my suprise, however, this o'clock, tired out, she fell asleep again, and at made no diffenence to her leaving at the pro-
twelve she awoke perfectly cured apparently per time. Glancing at the drawing 100m clock as far as her brain was concerned, although that Saturday night she noticed that it only very weak. She knew me now perfectly, and marked 11.15, when the hour was really 11.45. was most loving in her manner, but asked She merely remarked, "Oh that clock is half me how she happened to be in bed, and an hour slow, but I must be going," Then she seemned to know nothing about the day be looked at her watch and noticed the same fore. Indeed she seemed to think it utterly thing. Coming across to me smilingly, she impossible she could have come to my house kissed me and said, "You silly boy, you have on the previous day, until i told her ali been doing this, but it is, nias! useless, for I about the meeting with her father and her know within myself, without any watches, strange manner, Then she became very when the time has come for me to go." serious, and saying, "I feared something of felt ashamed of myself and never tried on any that sort would happen at last the end will thing of the sort again. At last a time came probably come soon now," she turned on her when my dear wife was likely to become a side and wept bitterly. But she would tell me mother. Although became moro and nothing as to why she wept. moro anxious on her account, this did not make any difference as regards her weekly appearances. She went off all the same, and the months passed by..
All that week she was in weak health and
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turned, and saw the well-known form of
the beautiful spirit. Muriel. She spoke much that is most fascinating. One is dis- musically:
customary
answered the other, "how happy. I shall be to regain my own body and die,
sister."
"And how sad I, to give up my husband, for eternity," whispered now my dying wife, "al though know we, too, shall meet again in the spirit world."
"The
one time he wrote an criticisms for the Con stitutionnel Those two pictures are Doves" and "The Bird's Nest.", Both are now at the Louvre, but we may as well confess at once that in them the master is not seen at his best.
reat
one of the reference is always pleasant,
WHEN W, G, WAS YOUNG. Of the Champion's own carlier days we read Since you have not abandoned the form of finctly attracted by the warm terms of admira- Evelyn Montgomery to-night, spirit Muriel, Ition and pride in which he always speaks of have been obliged to come myself in person his brothers E.M. and G.F., and the same may- Lancret enjoyed immense popularity in his be said of his account of the parents to whom own time, and there were not wanting people and yield up your spirit frm to you for the
we owe not only the existence, but the exis- who set him up as a rival to his own master, thirty-six hours."
tence as cricketers, of the incomparable three. Watteau. The latter resented this bitterly, Absanswered my darling wife, "it will not bc
Dr. Grace, the elder, was a man who soundly and he quarrelled with his old pupil on the for thirty-six hours only, but for ever, since you have voluntarily spoken to me. Do believed in superintending the games as well day Lancret was elected an Academician, as the lessons of his boys. He had pitches March 27th, 1719. One of the first Lancerts you forget the ordinance, Evelyn?"
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prepared specially for their instruction in now existing was discovered only a few months ago in a small town in the South of France. cricket, of which he was a great pillar, in West Gloucestershire. Nor was the mother I was purchased for a few hundred francs less keen; if anything, she was keener She by a well-known living French painter. worth of the picture is at kept scrap books, which she filled with cut. The
The subject is a rustic sings of reports of matches, and drove young least 100,000f. W. G. to see Clarke's All England, team ball in a grove. We find in it the graceful play in 1854. To the encouragement of such shepherds, the elegant women, the entwined parents as these, and of his maternal Un dancers, the pipers so dear to the eighteenth- cle Pocock, he owed his early keenness for century artist, all painted in bis best manner. cricket. He was always at it, with a broom This work is said to be far superior to any of stick when he could not get hold of a bat; the six due to the same brush which the Louvre indeed, he recommends an occasional broom possesses. It was until lately in an old château stick to all boys as an excellent method of in the South of France, the owner of which training in quickness of eye and hand 1 is became a bankrupt. The painter who is its little wonder that before he was far into his present possessor saw it by chance, and offered teens:W. G. was showing in village and local à small sum for it to the liquidator, who at- cricket that he was likely to follow in the steps cepted eagerly his offer, and thought he was of his already famous brother, E.M. Presently mâd for making it, not suspecting for a moment he began to play for the South Wales team that those donchommer, as he styled them con- (qualifications went easily then), and on July 12, remptuously, had any value whatever. 1864, made his first appearance at the Oval The lucky purchaser of this masterpiece bav- and ten days later at Lord's. The great careefing been advised to sell.it to the Louvre, re- had fairly begun.
fused flatly. He had a genuine work of art, he said; he meant to keep it by him and to enjoy it to his heart's content. Besides, the manage ment of the Louvre is in the hands of some worthy people who, if they saw a Laneret more perfect, more finished than any of the six which are at present in their keeping would be as likely as not to declare that the picture was not a genuine one, although no doubt on that score could ever be entertained by any one having a right to express an opinion on the matter.
Even as she spoke the spirit form of the real Evelyn, had dematerialised, and passed into the body of my expiring wife. And then a new Muriel rapidly materialised as the spirit of my wife assumed its own spiritual from, and as the spirit Muriel placed her lips on mine in one last, lingering embrace, the body of Evelyn Montgomery gave up the ghost. And they passed away together.
"THE EVERGREEN."
But what a long time it seems back to those sixties now! There was the state of Lord's, for instance, where the creases were not chalk- ed out, but cut in the turf; where handfuls of gravel could be picked up on the pitch and where there were no boundaries until a ball went among the crowd, as usual, one day, and the energetic Mr. A. N. Hornby badly damaged an old gentleman in running after it. But what shows us more than anything how far away those sixties were is the fact that it was possible for W. G. Grace to play unrecognized. He tells us how William Absolon got him to play against the Eastern Counties Club as Mr. Green," knowing that W. G. Grace would be barred. He had made his century, when Pooley strolled on to the ground and let the cat out of the bag,
The mistakes of those gentlemen of the The Louvre are both plentiful and amusing. following little story la an old one, but it will bear
In the year 1855 there lived in the des Martyrs a worthy shoemaker, Tandonnet by name, who had bought for a five-franc piece from a bric-a-brac dealer a picture which has since become famous in the world of art as "Rembrandt's Guilder." An artist who happened one day to bring a pair of shoes to the cobbler to be repaired exclaimed, "Why, you have got a Rembrandt there "What do you say?" observed the shoemaker,
DR. W, G. GRACE'S REMINISCENCES. "That's Alee Heame, gentlemen," we re- member hearing the poet Craig explain at the beginning of an M.C.C. match at Lord's, when the cards had not yet appeared, and the public could not identify the smaller of the two batsmen. He added, "And the other-no, I dont knew who the other is." The roar, of course, was universal; as if everybody who could possibly have paid to see cricket would not instantly recognize that massive form and beard! And just as "W. G." invariably bulks conspicuous before all or every cricket field, so does he bulk unique' in cricket history. Individual records of his may go: Mr. Maclaren's 424 against Somerset has beaten the champion's 344 against Kent, and "Ranji's" aggregate of. 2,780 in 1896 topped early on the Saturday morning she was confined his 7,739 compiled in 1871. But the all-round of a boy, and a fine little fellow, he was too, record constituted by the Doctor's whole career bright and intelligent looking, with eyes like stands unassailable. One feels as certain that I found the Sundaya very lonely in her his mothers. As the evening approached there will never be another W. G. Grace as absence, and did not know what to do with my Evelyn became very anxious. She asked for that there will never be another Shakspeare or self without her. One Sunday afternoon I went her child, and pressed him to her breast, look; Napoleon,
IN AUSTRALIA. for a solitary walk in Kensington Gardens. ing at me the while with the deepest love. I Thirty-five years of first-class cricket! Why, But we have no intention of following the Strolling moodily round the corner of some saw there was deep anguish in her glance. in the thirty-fifth year of the natural life most record, further, unfailing in manifold interest bushes I suddenly same upon an old gentle.
an it is, Only a word of reference can be "Do you know, George, my darling," she men are beginning to think that their place man and a young lady sealed upon a garden taid, "away us usual at twelve o'clock to night? but it was of Dr. Grace's cricket life that 1898 1872, which included among other things a who heard then that name for the first time.
and that I ought will soon be the pavilion rather than the pitch; bestowed upon the Canadian-American tour of seat. My astonishment was very great to to be as recognise in the latter my wife, for she had. But how can I go and leave my sweet young. was the thirty-fifth year. Yet even then he match in the mud that the umpire reluctantly say that picture is worth twenty thousand once volunteered the statement that when she infant, leave him to be nursed by another, who aggregated over 1,500 runs, and averaged consented to stop some time after darkness trancs." Tandonne: rushed to the Louvre and left me she never by any chance remained in not only will not care for bin, but will probably over 42 The wonderful length of his floruit had set in, and a word or two upon the Austra trusted his picture to the buying committee, town, but always travelled a great distance in even hate him. And yet what will happen if (even if it be over now, which he would lian tour of 1873-4. Caffyn's and Lawrence who, on the strength of a most elaborate and the short time. Naturally I went up to her. I do not go, God only knows."
be as rash to assert as it used to be in had taught the Australians 'much; and the conclusive report drawn up by the two most I noticed that she looked very pale and was
the case of Mr. Gladstone) is brought Australians, as Caflyn's book has recently eminent experts of the period, whose names I crying, and as approached, I heard the old
our most strikingly by such a thing as his shows us, made the very best of pupils. But prefer not to mention, declared the Rembrandt gentleman speaking to her in angry tones."
chapter on "Some of My Contemporaries," in they had still much to learn in the winter of to be spurious. This report is still in "Why, Evelyn, my dear" I said, "it is a very
which we find in immediate succession names 1972. Even in Melbourne they had not grasped existence, and any one who chooses may read. "Ahl that would not matter," she replied, belonging to such widely different dates as the fact that the preparation of a pitch cannot it. But what is the matter with you, darling, why
The Duc de Momy, however, who was a fine are you crying like this? And why is this gen- spirit could go, and yet I could leave my body mett, and C. B. Fry. Or one may observe him
him country there were some fearful and wonderful tleman whom I do not know speaking harshly here no it is now. But it would be somebody in some of the fine photographs which adorn grounds, as at Stawell, where one ball stuck not trouble himself about the official committee to you? What does it mean, dear? Tell, me:at. | else's soul that would dominate my body, just this volume, towering as captain in the centre in the dust and never reached the or the renowned experts. He went straight to once for it goes to my heart to see you thus as it was last Sunday. She would not of a team many of whose members were not batsman at all, Cricket of this kind old Tandonnet's shop. At the first glance he imhappy!
in the least understand being ill in born when he had already established his naturally I do not know which of the couple looked bed with a baby, and who knows how
great name. Or, once more, one may note spirit of famined the players with the recognized the powerful brush of the Konkerk
farce, and encouraged 3. A. Bush, master. more astonished when I thus addressed her she might treat the child? She is an unmar the dates of perhaps his greatest years. It when bowled, to explain to the focal umpire What will you take for it?" he asked the Both Evelyn and the old gentleman stared at ried girl, and might even murder it in her was in 1871 that he made ten first-class that he always insisted on inving a trial ball, shoemaker, me in the blankest amazement. Evelyn made despair. It would be different if I could only centurica, broke the Oval record with a whereto the umpire cheerfully assented. Twenty thousand francs," replied the man, nor the slightest attempt to recognise me in see her and explain everything to the spirit mág
magnificent 268, and averaged 78.9 and Umpires were far from perfection in Australia who had still ringing in his cars the sum any way. Indeed she put on an expression as form that conceals her identity now-but if we aggregated 2,739 in first-class cricket. It was in those days. Indeed, Dr. Graco maintains mentioned at random by his customer, the if she really did not know me. There was meet and talk it will be death to me certainly.. in 1875 that he took 1923 wickets for 12 apiece
that the weakness of the umpires is the great artist. The Duc de Morhy handed the twenty silence for a moment, and then the old gentle perhaps to her too. No, I must not go, I'must and in 1876 that he made. 400 not out against defect of Australian Ticker still, the reason blaenute to Tandonner and carried man, turning to my wife, said sternly:
take all risks and stay here" And putting her a twenty-two and 4,389 runs in first-class
being that, as professionals are few, the sources away the picture, which became one of the -arms around my neck she went on iny heart matches in one month,
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not-out much too limited. To the deficiencies of the ledged as a genuine-Rembrandt by those very umpires he attributes most of such unpleasant two experts who had formerly denied its But this is not all, and there is a conclusion nesses as bave occurred during the tours of authenticity with so much assurance. English teams,
A chapter is devoted to hints to young to the tale. After the Duc de Morny's death players, which, as was to be expected, is the "Guilder" was sold, with the rest of his uncommonly sound, and therefore contains gallery, and bought for 165,000 f. by a rich nothing very startling, unless we are to count banker, M. Salamanca. If to-morrow it were the opinion that, jumping out to slow bowling is put up for sale at an auction, it would fetch not altogether a practice to be discouraged double that amount. So much for the opinion and at-this-sound-enough-when-taught and of eminent experta and for the judgment of mort carried out in the cautious nanner indicaled by | official personingen.-E. M. Garin
f
You are too weak to go in any care." I said, "Why you would kill yourself if you tried even to walk across the room, so that must settle the matter for you, dearest,"
great surprise to me to find you in town today for since what took place last Sunday, my those of Richard Daft, N. F. Druce, Tom Em- be casually left to the last moment, and Ponnoisseur, having heard of this picture, did
Evelyn, who is this' person who prefumery a tling Wife," I raid, "I do not wish | Kent 177. against Note, and against from which good umpires can be drawn are finest in his gallery, and was later on acknow.
to address you sosemillan
She repifed with an of truth "I do not know him at all, Papa have never seen him before in all my life
staggered as if struck at the lie. I had never known her lie before, and then such a Bel: To disown me like this 1: But Lhad not tims for much reflection before the old man turned furiously upon me. thestrans By what right, air, do you dare to address my daughter when she declares who does not known you
to distress you, but do you not think the time against Yorkshire within eight days. And in has now come to tell me all-"
"Yes," said she, it has, 1 will disclose 1895, nineteen years later, he made a thousand runa in May and 2,346 in the year. Finally, everything. Listen my love. When you were last year, his score of 93 against Sussex meant very young and first of all began to attend that he bad at last played at least one innings spiritualistic séances, you frequently sav of every figure from 0 to 100, a fent which no spirit who gave herself the name of Muriel. I other cricketer is ever likely to have a career am that spirit-Nay, de not interrupt. In the long enough to repeat. During the whole of first instance you could only see my face, then this prolonged period, remarkably enough, Dr. by: degrees 1'osed to be able to materialise
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