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CHAPTER 1.

The scene of our story is the little town of Bixoaks in Kent, and the period at which we begin is the year 18-, before the telegraph was invented and when the railway had scarcely

to

nes Clough lives in Sizonker. He is n Kentish squireen, about five-and thirty years of age. His house fronts the market square, and is a picturesque old place. of the half-timbered kind that in common in southern counties, At another angle of the squera is an old ion, with A suspended sign, and a little beyond it stands the ancient church, green with ivy to the top of its tower.

Clough's father, who is dead, had been the

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want it he can easily find out for himself. But some morning-to-morrow, noxt day, next week hill,ny time, and except that he has gone 'sume. where to start the world freak in gurgest nobody is to know anything about it..".

And I

I will go one hotter than the gentleman's and it will be the last penny I have in the worldone thonenad ponads."

The crowd is tingling with excitement whos Captain Crow's cold voice is heard again,

Two thousand pounds," he says. Larry laughs wildly, and crim “It's yours; sir-and-

The contest has been feron and exciting. Larry turns to the company and says, And now that it's sil over. boys, though I don't particularly want your company on this business, you know. I thank you for it all the same. It isn't my fault that you are here, bat you are welcome. I live a worn off the drink myself, but that's no reason why you should go home dry. So give the company what they want at my expense landlord, and thank you. Go in boys, and I'll join you presently.

They all go into the inn except. Larry and Captain Crow. Captain Crow is sitting on the sent by the porch of the inn alling his pipe.

I daremy you think I have done you a bad turn?" he says

You ain't suppose you've done me a good

You are to stay at home in this old hous"," "And you are you going back to the whaling ?

No I can afford to take my case now, and why shouldn't I?"

It's a hard life, isn't it?"

"Well, a little of it goes a long way, you know."

dures great hardships, doesn't he?"

"In these frozen seas'a man sometimes on- "Sometimes, perhaps."

They nee a wild, lawless set who go thore, and sometimes a man doesn't live to return home isn't that so

"And if it is what then? Lucy, what can you care for a man who has treated you so ill It isn't six years since you married him, and he has wasted everything. Gaming, drinking. idling, carousing, he has brought you to beg gary. What if he never comes back? You'll be better off without him; you must have re- pented of your bad bargain long Lacy, Yes, it is a wild life up there, and your young squireen with his drinking and his gaming, a and his sporting hasn't brought himself up to cope with it. But you shall want for nothing baither fou nor your child, and it in time, who knows but some day

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monument to his memory stands in the middle of the market place. It is a statue representing the venerable Egure of an old man, in the lour coat and kneelireeches of the time.

But Lawrence Clough himself, commonly called Larry, has gone to the bad. He is one of thon geniet souls whom all the world conspire to ruin. Fond of good liquor, good sport, and a good story, he has given up to company what was one to work, and reaped cou as, the usual reward..

lives in is to go in the general sweep. That is Larryds to be sold up. Even the house he more pillable, because it had longed to his wife, and was the place she had been in. The poor girl has stuck to him in spite of his failing having married him in the face of the spositica of her people, and notwithstanding more reputable suitors. She furs one child, a girl of six years of age, of the same name as herself Lucy,

It is the day of the public auction, a bright day in summer The crier is going through the town crying the sale of the last remaining lots of the stock and estate of Lawrence Clouch, Esquire. In the afternoon, the auctioneer, old John Cathbert, landlord of the Red Lion in

the market-place, monnisthe market cross under the monument, and reads out the conditions of le. Among those who are standing about. him in dressed as a sailor of the superior class, This is an old resident of the district, who has boon ten years abroad and is newly re turned home. His name is Crow. He has been away at the whale fishing on the Greenland seas, and is understood to have brought back a fortune. He may be thirty-ave to forty years of age His bronzed face is hard-featured and forbidding.

While the preliminaries of the auction are being gave through, an upper window in Larry's house upeas, and a young woman looks out. She is pale and careworn. It is Larry's wife, Lucy Larry himself is nowhere to be

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The action begins. According to custom every let is sold on the spot, and the auctioneer and his company leave the market-place Ther are to return to it for the last lot and the fins? quaring up. The last lot is to be the house.

I have,

turn. If you had bought the house you wouh! have gone on living in this place, and that would have been the rain of you for life.. Take the advice of a friend who wishes you well-do as I bave done."

Larry laughs, What, go whaling ?" Crow answers, Why not? You'll have good a chance as I had, ant, if you like, help you to a better. Listen to me. When I came home I left two of my boats at Whitby you want to start afresh, I will send you lack getting ready for the next druise. Now, if in one of them."

There's something in that," thinks Larry. "How long does a whaling cruise lost?" on your luck."

*Two years, three years, four years, depends

to be separated from his wife and child."

Four years! That's a long time for a mas Many a man has been longer; and isn't it better to go ont there and provide for them this to stay here and see things go to rack and

P**

-It's a wild life out yonder, im't it "

ought to be afraid of."

A bit rongh, maybe, but nothing a man "I'm not afraid of work, though I have not done much of it--more shame for me to say so. But my poor old father thought of something better than blubber-hunting when he seat me to Oxford, ten years ago."

ashamed you're

of your job nobody used know where you're going."" "When could I sturt you like.

**To-morrow, the next day, nezt week--when

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At that moment the post-boy goes by in his huils him and seks when the North Coach passes red uniform, with his bugle in his hand. Crow through the town. The post-bay answers:

Two o'clock in the morning."

There you are," saya Crow, you can get

off at any time."

says Yes I'll go."

"I'll speak to Lucy," says Larry. If she

She'll be a foolish women, if she stands in your way.

4

"I'll keep my word with the boys and pay

score, and then go in and speak to hor."

And if

Larry is going into the inn when Crow anys

you want a little money for your jour ney come to my house about midnight; I'll not

__

"But tell me anys Larry, why are you thing for your

But Lucy stops him. "Silence, sir? What do you think I om Yon ask me to send my and that he is not a man who can bear them. husband to the whaling, knowing its hardships. Do you know what that is! That's manslaugh

tor!

house for a shelter, with your brand for myself And you think to bribe me with this

and my little Quo—”

is

You are mistaken. Lucy: listen-—~

dearer to me than any other spot on earth, It's you that are mistaken, sir. This place

and so is my child, but rather than live in a and now that it's gone from me I'm homeless, palace with you, and a better man sout to certain death. I would tramp the streets and beg from

door to door."

++

"With your gambler, your drunkard ?”

Yes, my gambler, my drunkard, but my husband also, whether he is rich or poor; sad f do not repent my bargain, and what I did six years ago I would do again to-day.

“The woman's a fool thinks the man when Lucy ban returned to her house. And I'm a fool, too. What a thing love is! How, it tempts a man, betrays him, destroys him! to door. They may, for all the help I'll give Tramp the streets and beg may bread from door them. They'll pack out of this house at all events. It will do for little Harry one of these days. What a whirligig the world is to be sure."

(To be continued.).

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When they are gone and the market-place is empty, a child's voice is hard approaching, Nary Contractors, Ship Chandlers, mingled with the laughter of a man, and the

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Crow hesitates, then says: "I was gardener's boy at your good old father's once, wasn't I? Don't you think I may do's good turn for your father's son"

Larry bands his head as if ashamed at the mention of his father's name, and goes into the

inn.

Larry has not yet come out of the inn. From Time passes. The evening begins to close in.

amid peals of laughter. Meantime, Captain time to his voice can be heard telling stories Crow has been smoking on the seat outside the porch, thinking bitterly of the days when Larry Clough was a rich man's son, and he himself was n gardener's boy."

In the midst of these memories he is startled by a woman's voice crying Larry"

Ah, so I did, my dear, but I'm like the man with the reliable clock," said ho, when I strikes fen if points to twelve, and then I know it's hating in the twilight beside him.

It is Lary with a shawl over her head, stand.

pust one. But nover mind, Lacy, I'm back in time for the last lot anyway, and that's all I care about. We are not stone-broke yet, dear. There's that thousand pound legacy my mother left in trast, you know. It'll buy in the house, at all events. Old John promises mo to knock it down to me quick, and they say nobody will bid against us, so we'll not be houseless anyhow Good Health, my dear! Another pot, my boy By the way, Lucy, who do you think I met coming this way when I was going into the fields, this morning! Harry Crow, of all men! They call him Captain Crow now, and he has come back from the whaling a rich man, I hear. Well, riches have wings-prodigious ones seandagly. He has a bright little boy, wife is desi, and his wealth is no good to him. they

tell ms, about the age of oar Lucy, but his

than he is, in spite of my duns and debts. But Well, I forgive him, peor devil. I'm happior what a funny word it is though!"

Oh, it is you, Mr. Crow! How long since

we met!"

"That is not my fault, Mrs. Clough," says Crow

"You have travelled far since then, I hear." I travailed at all."

"And if I have." he says, “you know best why

you have come home rich."

You don't regret it, sorely. They tell me

Baye

"Rich! What are riches if you have set your heart on what riches cannot buy?" Lucy. "Ho's a sweet little man.

"Your little boy was here today,"

Our little girl, Lucy, and he are great friends already."

"You and I were great friends when we were to come lustween us then." as young as they are, Lucy. There was nothing

have married as wall us I."

That is a long time ago. Sites then you

all the world and his wife to laugh at him and "What else could a man do who didn't want.

sayThere goes a poor noodle who war jilted because he hadn't" a penny to bless himself with ****

"We'll not quarrel about that, Mr. Crów. You are also hurting me by mis-stating my Your wife is dead; you are hurting her memory.

Larry laughs, and calls for more drink. At that moment an old man carrying a lantern, a spale and o pick crosses the market pince. It is the sexton. Larry hails him and laughs. Is he a Diogenes that he newds a lantern in the job of work to do and must work late that night, as he did on the night when Larry's b father died;

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Larry is sobered. For a moment, he feels the reproach of his father's well-spent life contrast- ed rith hue con illopeat existence.

So be it, Lucy. The past is the past, and

you that byegones are byegones I have done you a good turn this very day..

if you owe no grudge neither do I, and to show

What good taru P

You know that I bought this house at that

action!"

"I have heard so."

Do you know why I bought it?" Why P

"I bought it to give back to you.” "To me?"

"To you. Well have you nothing to say to the -et-a-word of thanks wyen?---

It was very vary kind of you, Mr. Crow; but why-I mean what"

**.་ No, give it to me," he says, and taking the glass out of her hand he goes up to the foot of the statue See now, I'll never touch it again never"; and he lets the glass fall and break. Half an hour later the auctioneer returns to the market place and mounts the steps of the Gross fo sall the last lot the house. Larry is on the outskirts of the crowd, saluting evory-you my only conditions are that you shall do a

body

What am I offered?" says the auctioneer. Five hundred pounds cries Larry Five hundred pounds. I offered five hundred pounds. Any adranes on five hun dred ?

There is a pause, and the auctioneer raises his hammer. Then a colt voice says

Six Inandred."

Everybody looks about in earprise. It is

understands.

"You want to know what my conditions are, Lucy? I'll tell you. In doing a good turn for

good turn for your husband."

You needn't tempt me to that, Mr. Crow, Only tell me what I can do for Tarry and it's done:"

"Then send him away from you."

"Why send him away P

He'll do no good while he is hors,"

"But where could be ge to?"

To the witsling."

The whaling?"

Captain Crow. Larry laughs, and thinks he bargain. There's nothing s

"Hush! It's to be a great secret; that's the man need be Seven hundred," he cries.

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