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Portfolio,

AFIRESIDE PIECE.

Oors102, the blast is making riot,

Warm and dry, and so snug withal.

Musing I ait on my cushioned settle, Facing the firelight'a fitful shine; Binge on the hol the simmering kettle,

Senge that aver cohons of "antil ling syne." And close beside me the cat sits purring,

Warming her paws at the cheery glam; This fames keep flitting, and flickering,

whirring,

My mind is lapped in a realm of dream.

Many long, long forgotten anmmers

and

sovereign, wore found upon both Dawkins and the woman, Sarah Purday. Now, as it had been clearly ascertained that neither of the prisoners had left Farnham sines the And through the darkness the movfakes fall ceiver near at hand who had purchased the burglary, it was manifest there was a te Horo in my little room all is quiet,

missing articles. Dawkins and Purday were, however, dumb as stones.npon the subject; and nothing cocarred to point auspiston till early in the evening previons to the second examination of the prisoners before the magistrates, when' Sarah Purday asked for pen, ink, and paper for the purpass of writing to one Mr Jackson, in whose service she had formerly lived. I happened to be at the prison, and of course took the liberty of carefully unaling her note and reading it. It revealed nothing; and save by its extremely cautious wording, and abrupt peremptory tono, coming from a servant to her former master, suggested no- thing. I had anrefully reckoned the number of sheets of paper sent into the cell, and now on recounting them found that three were taissing. The turkey returned immediate- ly, and asked for the two other lettere she had written. The woman denied having written any other, and for proof pointed to the torn fragments of the missing sheets lying on the door. These were gathered up and brought to me; but I could make nothing out of them, every word having been carefully run through with the pen and converted into an unintelligible blot The request contained in the actually written hatter was one simple enough in itself, merely, that Mr Jackson would net on any accouat fail to provide her, in consideration of past services, with legal assistance on the morrow. The first nine words were strongly underlined; and I made out after a good deal of trouble that the word 'pretence' had been partially effaced and account' substituted for it.

Riae up, wraith-like, before my view, Bome in the brigatuces of masking mummers,

Some with their splendours bedimmed in hue. Lovely, sereno-faced women sweetly

Meanings divine in a glance convey; Revellers, minging among them fleetly, Caper and leagh, and are madly gay. Marble gode in the distanco tower;

Near them, dream-like in beauty raro, Ja a fairy grove that has burst in flower,

And sheds portume on the moonlit air.

Castles full many of wizard story

Totter along with their orests awry; Knights behind them, in full-plained glory,

With troops of their aquires coma riding by. Tis gone! The beautiful dream is over!

Away like a phantom the pageant draws! Oh dear The kuttle is boiling over,

And pussy is yelling with scalded pawn. -Theodore Martin, from Heine.

POWER.

His tongue was framed to music, And his hand was arized with it His face was the mould of beauty, And his art the throne of wil There is ut you any inventory of a man's

She need not have wasted three sheets of paper upon such a nonsensical request as that,' observed the turnkey, Old Jackson

THE CHINA MAIL.

tell me, if you will, your opinion on this matter.

No. 4682-JULY 6, 1878.

were my parting words to the trembling servant, that we intend standing to non- cannot escape; but if you let Mr Jackson in sense with either you or your master. You

no harm will befall you if otherwise, you as usual; and he enters this room. as usual, will be unquestionably transported,

Now,

something like £1600, There were, how of soap in the house. A few minutes ever, some law diffealties in the way, which afterwards the young wife, alarmed at the Jackson offered, if the business was placed worn-sorrant's tidings, flew into the room in his hands, to overcome for a consideration, in at agony of alarm and grief. Simulated poison, and certainly not the young woman, That it was Jackson administered the

lodging and such necessary sums of money there could, in his opinion, he no doubt that My own conviction! This, then, is my and in the meantimo to supply board and alarm, crocodile grief; Mr Morgan said; for she replied with vengeful promptness. as Henry Rogers might require. With this she had attempted to destroy her husband. proposition; you are sharp-witted, and know brilliant prospect in view, service became Mr Jackson, on being questioned, péremptorily this fellow's ways, habits, and propensitics go! at once utterly distasteful. The fortunate denied that he had ever desired Mr Rogers thoroughly-1, too have heard something of legates had for some time courted Mary to procure sulphuric acid for him, or had them and it strikes me that you could Elkins, one of the Indies maida, a pretty received any from her a statement which so suggest some plan, some device grounded on bright-eyed brunette; and they were both confounded the young woman that aba in- that knowledge, whereby the truth might united in the bonds of holy matrimony on standly fainted. The upshot was that Mra come to light. the very day the warnings they had given Rogers was taken into custody and lodged expired. Since then they had lived at in prison. Jackson's house in daily expootation of their fortune, with which they proposed to start in the public-house line.

Finding myself unrecognised, I called boldly for a pint and a pipe, and after some ear-shot of Jackeon and his party. They manoeuvring contrived to seat myself within presented a strange study. Henry Rogers was boisterously excited, and not only drink ing freely himself, but treating a dozen fellows round him, the cost of which he from time to time called upon Old Flint,' as he courteously styled his ancient friend, to dis- charge..

Come, fork out, Old Flint!' he cried again and again. I'll be all right, you know, in a day or two, and a few halfpence over. Shell out, old fellow! What signi- fios, so you're happy!

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like wild-fire. In a few minutes it was This terrible news few through Farnham

upon everybody's tongue: the hints of the quarrelsome life the young couple led, artfully spread by Jackson, were recalled, the truth of the dreadful charge. I and no doubt appeared to he entertained of had no doubt either, but my conviction was not that of the Farnham folk. This, then, was the solution of the struggle had een going on in Jackson's mind; this the realisation of the dark thought which I had imperfectly read in the sinister glances of his restless eyes. He had intended to destroy both the husband and wife-the one by poison, and the other by the law! Doubtless, then, the £1500 had been obtained, and this was the wretched man's horrid device for retaining it! I went over Jackson complied with an affectation of with Morgan early the next morning to sed aequiescent gaiely ludicrons to behold. It the patient, and found that, thanks to the was evident that each successive puli at his prompt antidote administered, and Dr Ed purse was like wrenching a tooth out of his ward's subsequent antive treatment, he head, and yet while the disinalest of smiles was rapidly recovering. The still-suffering wrinkled his wolfish mouth, he kept ex-young man, I was glad to find, would not olaiming: A fine lade tine lad! Generous beliete for a moment in his wife's guilt. 1 as a prince-goerous as a prince! Ah! wateted the looks and movements of Jackson another round! He minds money no more attentively scrutiny which be, aware of than as if gold was as plentiful as gravel! my vocation, by no means appeared to relish. But a fine generous lad for all that!"

Pray,' said 1, anddenly addressing Riddet as if incited thereto by compressed savage- per that you had no

Jackson, I perceived, drank considerably, the woman-aervant-pray, bow did it hap-

taste a drop, but tears frequently filled her eyes, and bitterness pointed her words as che vainly implored her husband to leavs the place and go home with her. To all her remonstrances the maudlin drunkard replied only by foolery, varied eccssionally by an attempt at a line or two of the song of The Thorn..

The woman looked fixedly at me for some time without speaking. As I meant fairly without shrinking. and honestly by her I could bear her gaze

said, how would that Kelp me

Supposing I could assist you,' she at last

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as I thought it would be. The gown did My toilot was not so easily accomplished not meet at the back by about a foot that, however, was of little consequence, as the high chair concealed the deficiency; neither did the shortness of the sleaves matter inch, us the ample shawl could be made to hide my too great length of arms, but the skirt was scarcely lower than a Highlander's kilt, and how I was to crook my booted legs up out of view, even in that gloomy starlight,

for the evidence is irresistible; but if in the in my hand, my whiskers might, I thought, no doubt be still convicted of the burglary, far too small; still, with an amplo kerobief It would help you greatly You would I could hardly imagine. The tap also was

meantime you should have been instru- be concealed. I was still fidgeting with mental in saving the life of an innocent these arrangements when Jackson knocked person, and of bringing a great criminal to at his door. The servant admitted him justice, there cannot be a question that the without remark, and he presently entered Queen's maroy would be extended to you, the room, carefully looked the door, and and the punishment be merely a nominal jolted down, so to speak, in the fellow easy- one."

with a burning scrutiny in her eyes, then he bawled out: She' swing for it, If I were sure of that she murmured He was silent for a few moments, and which were still fixed upon my countenance they aay-swing for it, d' yo hear, dame? if I were sure of that! But you are But no, of course she don't deafor and misleading me.'

be a precious good job when the parson says deafer, deafer deafor every day. It'll his last prayers over her as well as others.

seling me, I was not. I speaks in porfect sincerity. Take time to consider the matter, I will look in again in about an hour; and pray, do not forget that it is your sole and last chance.

than three hours had passed away. Sarah I left her, and did not return till more Purday was pacing the cell in a frenzy of inquietudo..

chair to mine.

faculties, any more tuan a bible of he wouldn't give sixpence to save her or any-ness. The pretty young wife would not this yesterday evening in such a house as you truly believe that if I can effectually before the muttered self-communing peased

opi tuna, Who shall eet a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men who, by their symp the io attractions carry nations with them, and lead the ativity of the human race. And if there be such a tie that, wherever the mind of man goso, nature will accompany him, per kaps there are men whose magnetisma are of that force to draw material and elemen- tal powers, and where they appear, immenne Instrumentalities organize ar. u them. Life in a munich after power; and this in an element with whion the world is so saturat ed-there to ne ank or crevice in which is not lodged-that no honest seaking goes torewarded. A man should pire events and possessions so the ore in which this fine mineral is found and he can well afford to Ist events and possessions and the breath of the body gu, if their value has been added to bim in the shape of power. If bavo essured the elixir, be can spare the wide gardeng from which it was distilled A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, in the ond to whish nature works, and the education of the will is the flowering and reult of all this geology and katromony,

body clee from the gallore."

I am of a different opinion. But tell me, what sort of a person is this former master of hers ?"

All I know about him is that he's a rose-grained, old curmudgeon, living about a mile out of Farnham, who scrapes money together by lending small sume upon notes- of-hand at short dates and at enormous interest. Flint Jackson folk about here call him,'

At all events, forward the letter at once, and to-morrow we shall shall see-what we shall see. Good-evening'

It turned out as I anticipated. A few minutes after the prisoners were brought into the justice-room, a Quildford solicitor of much local celebrity arrived, and an- pounced that be appeared for both the inculpated parties. He was allowed a private conference with them, at the gloss of which he stated that his clients would reserve their defenge. They were at onse committed for trial, and I overheard the solicitor assure the woman that the ablest counsel on the circuit would be retained in their behalf.

rejoined the provoked wife in a louder and

But you will plant thora, Henry, angrier teme than she ought perhaps to have used-not only in my bosom, but your own, if you go on in this sottish, disgraceini way.".

Always quarrelling, always quarrelling!' remarked Jackson pointedly, wards the by-standers always quarrelling!' the young wife sharply. Do you mean Who is always quarrelling P demanded Heary and me?'

atare of surprise. Why

No soap!' cohoed the woman with a No-no soap,' hastily broke in her master with loud and menacing emphasis. There was not a morsel in the house. I bought some afterwards in Farnham.

The cowed and bewildered woman slunk away was more than satisfied; and changed beneath my look to the colour of judging by Jackson's countenance, which the limewashed wall against which he stood, he surmised that I waS

I could hear for I dared not look up by He then got up, and went to a cupboard. the jingling of glasses and the outpouring spirituous aleeping-draughts. He reseated of liquids that he was helping himself to his himself, and drank in moody silico, except now and then mumbling drowsily to himself, I thought you had forgotten me. Now but in so low a tone that I could make no- she contiuued with rapid vehemence, tell thing out of it, save an occasional mures or me, on your word and honour as a man, du blasphemy. It was nearly eleven o'clock assist you it will avail me with Her and his heavy head sank upon the back of Majesty ?!

the easy-chair. He was very restless, and I am as positive it will as I am of my it was evident that even his sleeping brain own life,

laboured with affrighting and oppressive then, Jackson was a confederate with alept, were confused and indistinct. At Well, then, I will assist you. First, images; but the mutterings, as before he Dawkins and myself, and received the plate length-half an hour had perhaps thus and jewellery, for which he paid us leas passed the troubled moanings became for than one-third of the valze,"

a few moments clearly audible. Ha, ha, hal' he barst out, how are you off for soup! Ho, ho! done there, my boy; ha, hal But no-no Wall-plaster! Who could have thought it! But for that I-I- What do you stare at me so for, you old blue- bottle? You-you Again the dream- utterance sauk into indistinctness, and I comprehended nothing more. ING

cognizant of this??

Rogers sad his wife were not, I hope,

Certainly not; but Jackson's wife und the woman-servant Riddet were. I have been turning the other business over in my mind, she continued, speaking with increasing emotion and rapidity; and oh, believe me, Mr. Waters, if you can, that it is not solely saving Mary Rogers from destruction. I a selfish motive which induces me to aid in was once myself Ahl'

rose, stretched himself, and said: Come, About half-past twelve o'clock he awoke,

they were quickly brushed away, and she went towards the cupboard. Here's a

dame, let's to bad it's getting shilly here, Tears welled up to the fierce eyes, but Dame' did not answer, and he again continued somewhat more calmly: have heard, I daresay, that. Jackson has a lucifer-match was drawn across the wall, he You candle-end will do for us,' he muttered. A strange habit of talking in his sleep P

come! Why thee beest sleeping like lit the candle, and stumbled towards me, for he was scarcely yet awake. Come, dame, dead un! Wake up, will thee Ah! marder I thieves mur

My conviction, however, was not evidence, and I felt that I should need even more than by wonted good-fortune to bring the black crime home to the real perpetrator. silence resolve I found hard to persist in For the present, at all events, I must keep at the examination of the accused wife, an don't like your husband to be so generous magicrates. Jackson had hardened himself I was only aying, my dear, that you hour or two afterwards, before the county and free-hearted-that's all,' replied Jack-to irou, and gave his lying evidence with eon, with a confidential wink at the persons ruthless self-possession. He had not desired near him."

Mrs Rogers to purchase sulphuric acid; had hearted and crazy, you mean? rejoined the to his testimony that she and her husband gan as to whether there was any cure for it. Free-hearted and generous! Fool-not reseived any from hor. "In addition also I have, and that he once oinalteit Mor- wife, who was much excited. And you were always quarrelling, it was proved by a It was that which partly suggested I had no longer a doubt that it was my ought to be ashamed of yourself to give him respectable person that high words had All successful men have sgread in one duty to know something further of this money for such brutish purposes.

It is, I believe, a mere tancy of his,' she thing they were causationists. They be suddenly generous Flint Jackson, though

passed between them on the evening pre-interrupted; or at anyrate the habit is not lieved that things went not by luck but by how to set about it was a matter of consider but this time nobeard by Mrs Rogers committed, and that foolish, passionate as he thoroughly believes and fears it, from cognised me, and nerveless, paralysed, sank"

Always quarrelling iterated Jackson, vious to the day the criminal offence was so frequent, nor what he says so intelligible, there was no occasion to use force he re

My grasp was on the wretch's throat; but lawi that there was not a weak or a cracked able difficulty. There was no legal prefence always, perpetually quarrelling!! link in the chain hat joins the Best and for a search warrant, and I doubted the

exprentous had escaped her about wishing some former diroumstance, to be. His deaf on the floor incapable of motion, much less last of things. A belier in catuality, oprudence of proceeding upon my own re- If so large a eum as £1500 was really evidence, combined with the medical testi- care never even to doze except in her pre- fans in dumb affright and horror.

I could not quite comprehend all this. to be rid of anch a drunken wretch. This wite cannot underelve him, and he takes of resistance, and could only gaze in my strict connexion etween every trifle and sponsibility with so astute an old fox as coming to the young man, why should Jaok-mony, appeared so condusive to the magis-sence only, the principle of being, and, in oorisqueno, Jackson was represented to be; for, suppos- sun wince as he did at disbursing smalltrates, that spite of the unfortunate roman's belief in compensation, or that nothing sing him to be a confederate with the burglars, amounts which he could repay himself with wild protestations of innocence, and the hoped,"

This is not then, so promising as I gob for nothing characterizes all valuable he had by this time in all probability sent abundant interest? If otherwise and it rending agony which convulsed her frame minds, and must control every effort that the stolen property away-to London in all was probable he should not be repaid-what and almost choked her utterance, she was

Have patience. It is full of promise, as is made by an industrious one. The most likelihood; and should I find nothing, the meant his reiterated Fine generons lad!'remarded to prison till that day-week, frequents a low gambling-honso, where he we will manage. Every evening Jaokeen valiant men are the best believers in the consequences of ransacking his house merely tension of the laws, All the great because he had provided a former servant above all, meant that look of diabolical hate would be again brought up for the merely by oraft, no doubt, as he never drinks. Spirited young man and so on? What, when, the magistrates informed her, she almost invariably wins small sums at cards captains," said Bonaparte, "have perform with legal assistance would be serious. which shot out from his cavernous eyes formal completion of the depositions, and be there. When he returne homie at about ton ed vast achievements by conforming with Under these aircumstances I wrote to towards Henry Hogers when he thought then fully committed on the capital charge. o'clock, his cinstant habit is to go into the the roles of the art-by adjusting efforts to headquarters for instructions, and by himself unobserved, just after satisfying a obstacles."

return of post received orders to prosecute the fresh claim on his purse? Much practice inquiry thoroughly, but cautiously, and to in reading the faces and deportment of such consider time as nothing so long appeared a chance of fixing Jackson with son's course of action respecting the young

there men made it prelly clear to me that Jack the guilt of receiving the plunder. Another man and his money was not yet decided suspicious circumstance that I have omitted upon in his own mind; that he was still to notice in its place was that the Guildford perplexed and irresolute; and hence the solicitor tendered bail for the prisoners to apparent contradiction in his words and any reasonable amount, and named Enoch Jackson as one of the securities. Bail was, however, refused.

The key to the age may be this, or that, of the other, as the young orators describe, the key to all ages is imbecility-imbecility in the vast ajurity of men, at all times, and even in heroes in ail but certain cminent moments; victims of gravity, ons tom, and fear. This gives force to the strong that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action,

Ruta.

Henry Rogere at length dropped asleep with his head upon one of the settle-tables; Jackson sank into sullen silence; the noisy room grew quiet; and I came away.

Thore was no need for over-harrying the business, as the prisoners were committed to the Surrey Spring Assizes, and it was now the season of the hop-harvest-a delightful entertained some sinister design against his I was impressed with a belief that Jackson and hilarious period about Farnham when youthful and inexperienced lodgers, and I the weather is fine and the yield abnaduat. determined to quaint them with my 1, however, lost no time in making diligent saspicious. For this purposes Mr Morgan, and minute inquiry as to the character and who had a patient living near Jackson's habits of Jackson, and the result was a full bouse, undertook to invite them to tea on conviction that nothing but the fear of being denounced as an accomplice could have induced such a miserly, iron-hearted rogue to put himself to charges in defence of the imprisoned burglars.

We must reckon success a constitutiona trait. Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holda if their physiology is a little mythical) courage, or the degree of life; in ax the degree of oranlation of the blood in the arteries "During passion, anger, fury, trials o strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries, the maintenance of bodily strength requiring it, and but little is sent into the 'vora. This condition in constant with Intrepid persons." Where the arteries hold their blood, is courage and adventure possible. Where they pour it unrestrained into the veins the spirit is low and feeble. For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health. If Eris is in robust health, and has slept well, and is at the top of his con dition, and thirty years old, at his departure from Greenland be will steer west, and his Bålps will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eris, and put in a stronger and bolder m-Biora or Tourfio and the ships will, with just as much ease, sail ex badred, one thousand, fineeb hundred miles further, and reach Labrador aud New England There is no change in resulta, With adulte with children, one clase enter cordially into the game, and whirl with the whirling

Shew them to me, if you please.' World the others have cold hands and

A few minutes brought us to the place of swain bystanden; or are only dragged in boisterous entertainment, the lower room of by the bumour and vivacity of those who which was suffocatingly fill of tipplers and darry a dead weights The first wealth tobacco-smoke. We nevertheless contrived is health, blobpeso is poor-spirited, and to edge ourselves in; and my companion sinnut serve aby one it must hand its stealthily pointed out the group, who were zaources to live. But health of fulness seated together near the farther window, RIWETS is OWE ends, and has to spare, and then left me to myself, ruka over and inundates the neighbourhoods

THE DETECTIVE OFFICER.

By ' Watera:

PLINT JACKSON,

I was ordered to Farnham to investigate a

ose of burglary, committed in the bause of

One afternoon, whilst pendering the mat ter, and at the same time injoying the pret- tiest and cheerfulest of rural sights, that of I was lodging-we will call him Mr Morgan; bop-picking, the apothecary at whose house he was a Weishman-tapped me suddenly on the shoulder, and looking sharply round, I perceived he had something he deemed of importance to communicate.

What is it? I said quickly. Flint Jackson, his deaf old woman, and the The oddest thing in the world. There's young people lodging with him, all drinking and bouring away at yon alehonse."

Give me the key of the recess up-stairs, which you carry in your breast-pocket. In your sleep, unhappy man, you have revealed. everything!

me. I was silent; and presently he gasped: An inarticulate chriek of terror replied to Who-at, what have I said P

two or three hours about the quiet neigh-eitting at that hour. He carefully locks

I was greatly perturbed, and walked for front-parlour, where his wife is sare to be man. you tried to poison; that you netted. bourhood of Farnham, revolving a hundred the door, helps himself to brandy and water to light, without arriving at any feasible arin-chair; and there they both doze away, fragments of schemes for bringing the truth plentifully of late and falls asleep in his conclusion. One only mode of procedure sometimes till one o'clock always till past seemed to offer, and that but dimly, a hope of twelve." success. It was, however, the best I could' hit upon, and I directed my steps towards the Farnham prison. Sarah Purday had not yet, I remembered, been removed to the county jail at Guildford.

Is Sarah Purday," I asked the turnkey, more reconciled to her position than she was ?

garden by the like-tree; that you have That Mr Hursley's plate is buried in the received a thousand pounds belonging to the four hundred and fifty pounds by the plate stolen at Salisbury; that you dexterously tea, unseen by Henry Rogers's wife.” contrived to slip the sulphuric and into the The shriek or stream was repeated, and he was for several moments specchless with Well; but I do not see how

consternation. A ray of hope gleamed sud- Hear me out, if you please. Jackson denly in his flaming eyes. It is true-it never wastes a candle to drink or sloop by, is true' he hurriedly ejaculated; useless and at this time of the year there will be noseless-useless to deny it! But you are fire. If he speaks to his wife he does not alone, and poor, poor, no doubt A thou- expect her, from her wooden deafness, to send pounds!-more, more than that; two answer him. Do you begin to perceive my thousand pounds in goid-gold, all in gold -1 will give you to spare me, to let me escape 1?

drift

Upon my word, I do not.'. What if upon awaking, Jackson finds

Where did you hide the soap on the day Waters relates to him all that he has dis- Bogere? that his wife is Mr Waters, and that Mr when you confess you tried to poison Henry closed in his sleep: that Mr Hursley's 'plate in the recees you spoke of. But think that he, Jackson, received a thousand pounds geld is buried in the garden near the lilas-tree; Two thousand pounds in gold-all in six weeks ago of Henry Rogers's fortune, As he spoke I suddenly grasped the vil-

venomous as a viper.'

She's just the same--bitter as gall, and

of feree will and strong passions, and in The woman, I should state, was a person early life had been respectably situated. some early evening, on the pretence that heupon some excuse or other, and oarelessly Just step into her cell, I continued, had heard of a tavern that might suit them drop a hint that if she could prevail upon when they should receive their fortune. Let Jackson to get her brought by habens before and that the money is now in the recess on lain's hands, pressed them together, and me confess, too, that I had another design a judge in London, there could be no doubt the top-landing, the key of which is in his in another instant the snapping of a besides putting the young people on their of her being balled." guard against Jackson. I thought it very

breast-pooket; that he was the receiver of handcuff pronounced my answer.

A yoll probable that it would not be difloult to pretended explanation, went off to do as I Salisbury a twelvemonth ago, and sold in 80 loud and piercing, that the consta The man stared, but after a few words of the plate stolen from a house in the ploso at of anguish burst from the miserable max, glean from them some interesting and sug requested. He was not long gone. She's London for four hundred and fifty pounds. bles outside hurried to the outer door, and means, practices, outgoings and incomings, he said; and must have pen, ink, and paper man with wild energy and fashing eyes, let in by the servant-woman; and in half gestive particulars concerning the ways, all in a twitteration at the thoughts of it, All this hurled at him, continued the wondoked, hastily for admittance. They were of their worthy landlord's household. without a moment's delay, bless her con- what else might not a bold, quick-witted an hour afterwards the three prisoners and I was becoming weary of the business,

Four more days passed unprofitably away, saquense!'

man make him believe he had confessed, ro- Jackson, his wite, and Jane Eiddet-were These were supplied; and I was soon in vealed in his brief sleep ?" when about five odleck in the afternoon the possession of her letter, couched cautiously,

safe in Farnham prison. I had been sitting on a bench; but as these apothecary galloped up to his door on a borrow but more peremptorily than the former one. rapid disolosures burst from her lips, and I tive. Mary Rogers was brought up on the

A few sentences will conclude this narra

and with a face as white as his own magnesia, destination. She passed the next day in aed, I rose slowly and in some sort charged. Her husband, I have heard, has ed horro, jumped off with surprising celerity, I need hardly say it did not reach its saw the use to which they might be turn- following day, and on my evidence, dis- burst out as he hurried into the room where state of feverish impatience; and no coawer involuntarily to my feet, lifted up, as it since proved a better and a viser man. I was sitting: Here's a pretty kettle of returning, wrote again, her words this time were, by the energy of her flery words.

Jackson was convicted at the Guildford by his wife! fish! Henry Rogers has been poisoned, and conveying an evident though indistinct Heaven reward you! I exclaimed, shak-aesizo of guiltly receiving the Hurley threat, I refrained from visiting her till ing both her hands in mine, You have, plate, and sentenced to transportation for two days had thus passed, and found her, unless I blunder, rescued an innovat voiman life. This being an, the graver charge of entered the cell, the glared at me like Mr Waten she exclaimed, in s changed, was no moral doubt of his guilt; but the as I expected, eaten up with fury. As from the soaffold. I see it all. Farewell attempting to poison was not pressed. There chained tigress.

palpitating voice, as I was passing forth legal proof of it rosted solely on his ow

when all is done, you will not forget me? hurried, confecalos, which counsel would no That I will not, by my own hopes of doubt have contended ought not to be re mercy in the hereafter. Adion Pa ceived. His wife and the servant were

leniently dealt with.

Poisoned F

being on the spot, I think he will recover Yes, poisoned; although, thanks to my But I must instantly to Dr Edwards: I will tell you all when I retorn,”

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her behalf, and she was sent out to Canada; henevalent persone interested themselves in

where she had some relatives, and has, i believe, prospered.

You appear vezed,' I said, 'no doubt The promised all' was this: Morgan was because Jesuson declines to get yon bailed. passing slowly by Jackson's in the hope of He ought not to refuse you such a trifling and creska of other men's necessities-wered to the popular prefix of Flint attacked servant-woman Jane Hiddet ran out and All what things replied the woman, accompanied by two Farnham constables

The appearance of Jackion entirely an seeing either Air or Mrs Rogers, when the service considering all things.'

At a quarter past nine that evening I, W. Emerions

to his name. He was a wiry, gnarled, begged him to come in,

Sarah Parday was convicted, and sen their ledger had eyeing me forcely.

kuooked at the door of Jackson's house, tenced to transportation, I did not forget haary-browed, iron-jawed fellow of about been taken suddenly ill Ill indeed The That you know best, though I have a Henry Rogers, I should state, had been my promise and a statement of the previ aixty, with deep-set eyes aglow with sinister surface of his body was cold as death, and shrewd guess,' and greedy instincts. His wife, older than the apothecary quickly discovered that he

removed to the village. The door was ously narrated afroumetepoes having been What do you guess) and what are you opened by the woman servant, and we went drawn up and forwarded to the Queen and he, and as deaf apparently as the door of a had been poisoned with sniphuric acid (oll of driving at f dungeon, wore & ampering, imbecile look of vitriol, e quantity of which he, Morgen,

in. I have a warrant for your arest, Jane the Home Secretary, a pardon, after some wonderment, it seemed to me, at the presence had sold a few days previously to Mrs Purday. In the first place, you must plainly plate-stealing the other day. There, don's gumstances in her history which, alter striot

I will deal frankly with you, Sarah Biddet, I said, as an accomplice in the delay, was issued. There were painful cir a gentlemen of the name of Hursley, during of such unusual and abundant eheer. The Rogers, who, when purchasing it, sald Me perceive that your friend Jackson has cast scream, but listen to me. I then intimated inquiry told favourably for her, Several the temporary themes of the family, which young people, whe lodget with Jacken, Jackson wanted it to apply to some worts that had compistely nonplussed the unpracticed were really a very frank, banest, goud-look that annoyed him Morgan fortunately that fate will, there ona be no doubt, be favour, Ehe tremblingly promised compli Dogberries of the place, albeit it was not a ing couple, though not then appearing to ad- knew the proper remedy, and desired transportation, Middle at all diffent to read. The premises; vantage the countenance of Henry Rogers Jaakson, who was in the room, and seemingly it was quickly plain to me, had been broken, being flushed and inflarged with drink, and very anxious and flurried, to bring some ast into, but out of and a watch being set that of his wife clouded with frowns at the soap instantly, a decoction of which he apon the motions of the very specbns and situation in which she found herself, and proposed to give immediately to the seem- alever parson left in charge of the house and the riotous conduct of her husband. Their ingly dying man. The woman servant was property, it was speedily discovered that the brief history was thia They had both been gone to find Mrs Bagers who had left about robbery had been affected by herself and a servants in a family living not far distant ten minutes before, having first made the confederate of the name of Dawkins, her from Farnham-Sir Thomas Lethbridge's tea in which the poison had been taken, brother-in-law. Some of the stolen goods I understood when about three or four Jackson harried out of the apartment, but were found secreted at his lodgings; but the months previous to the present time Flint was gone so long that Morgan, becoming Oh, I know it very well-as well almost most valuable portion, comelating of plate Jackson, who had once been in an attorney's impatient, scraped a guantity of plaster off as you do But this is not my chief object and small quantity of jewellary, "had offos, discovered that Henry Rogers, in con- the wall, and administered it with the beat there is another, far more important one; Choppered it had questionless bui sa sequenon of the death of a distant relative esot, At less thcson has brok, and and I ran over the incidents relates to the persiste money, as considerable sums, in | in "London, was entitled " property worth : said there was unfortunately not a partiale | sitempi at paluning Now!!

whit then P Well ahe impatiently snarled, capposs

difficulty by helping me.'

This that you can help yourself in this

As how ? .

convictin Jackson of having received the In the first place, give me the mass of stolen property

Ha] How do you know that P

ance and after placing the constables out side in concealment, but within hearing, I proceeded to the parlour, secured the ter rifled old women, and confined her safely in s distant on theuset

These were brought, and I returned to the the old lady's gowns, & shawl cap de

«Now, Kiddet,” I said, “quick with one is

then but very faintly illumined by the stare parlour. It was a roomy apartment, with small diamond-paned windows, and just light. There were two large high-backed casy-chairs, and I prepared to take posses sing of the was fecently vacated by Jackson's

You must buriedly undurata:

This affair onused considerabia hubbub at the time, and much admiration was expres ed by the country people at the boldness and

attributable to the opportune revelstions of in fact, the exposeful result was entirely dexterity of the London • guanos! whereas,

Sarah Purday,

do not sak for wealth only to be placed THE NOBUAN'S PRATEN.-" Kind Bosvel; within arm's length of the man who has it,li