CALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]* LAGDEN'S LUCK,
(A STRANGE LOVE STORY),
EY
TOM GALLON.
(Author of "Tatierley," "The Mystery of Joka Peppercorn," &c.).
CHAPTER I.
TO DIE BEFORE MIDNIGHT!
Mr. Clement.Frith was in low water. Let it not be supposed for a moment that the condi tion was a strange ena; if any emingly lucky title had ever floated Mr. Clement Frith, for a giddy hour or so, it had generally landed him, in the end, on some uninhabited poverty stricken island, or on some shoal, or up some forgotten backwater; certainly never on any full stream of success. Looking back over some forty-five or fifty years of life, Mr. Clement Frith might have said he had taken many tides at the food, and been landed again and again in anything but a land of Fortaue.
Mr. Clement Frith described himself, in vari- ous small advertisements and to his friends, as a Commission Agont-which meant, in his case, that he was an agent without the commission. Did you desire to rent a house or to lot one,. Mr. Clemont Frith would have been prepared to lift the trouble of the business trots your shondora-for a consideration, were you anxions to buy anything from a boat to a building estate-Mr. Frith was your mas.. It happened, howover, that but few people had any rent helief in the business abilities of Mr. Clament Frita; so that his talents rusted somewhat, for want
of 180.
Mr. Frith resided in what he was pleased to call Kensington; cynical people called it Bays. wuter. It was that part of Kensington which has scon botter days, and which embraces a multi- tude of shabby little streets and squares, and mean shops and poor houses; altogether a neighbourhood that lifts a struggling head with diffinity against the stream of life, and won ilers a little, perhaps, how it manages to keep itself aRost.
ration. I regret, however, my dear Dorn," he added, with a melancholy shake of the head "I very deeply regret that you did not first consult me, before taking such a step as this."
"I uover care to trouble you about these mat. tors, father, doar," she replied quietly. I have always tried to manage as well as I could."
Some lume in the man made him avort his eyes from her when he spoke again. "Of course I never intended that you should have to trouble about such matters," he said-"but I have been somewhat unfortunate. If your brother George were not a lazy young scoundrel," ho went on, with sudden heat; but sho checked bim quickly.
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looking into hers; she asked the one vital ques- concluded with the countries of Eastern Asia, the varions Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations. medical advisor; it is half the battle. To whom afloat; she saw the wistful eyes of her father with the Texts of all the most important Treaties,
Chambers of Commerce, Seales of Commissions. shall wo send ?"
The man drew the small table beside his bedtion her life had taught her to ask.
"But will he will he help us as you sug- Consular and Court Foos, Hongkong Stamp towards him, and quietly wrote with pencil, in
My dear Dora, he has placed in my hands-Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money Weights, and that stiff, cramped handwriting of his ame gest
as a gouranteo of what he will do for you-s and an address; those he handed to the girl. "I should like to see him to-night," he said.
suta of fifty pounds. More than that, he has Measures, and other Commercial Information made a will in your favour, in which the whole including:
be left to you." of his property-mostly abroad, I believo-will
The paper bore the name of a certain Dr. Nathaniel Sime, and this same doctor lived in a small street in Chelaca. The chler son of the fually having, as usual, nothing particular to do, was despatched to find him, and returned in very quick time with the mau. He was a nothing as he entered the place, but marched tall, cadaverous-looking individual, who said straight upstairs in the wake of Mr. Clementon, Frith to see his patient.
"I can't do it; it wouldn't be right," she said." with a shudder. "I don't know the man; why should he do this?"
My dear child, the man has taken a fancy to thing. In order to save trouble or delay, I have Don't be foolish; I have arranged every. secured some two days ago-u special licence. The marriage"--he did not look at her, and the fingers ho twined together worked nervous-
"Father you shouldn't say that, George has been unfortunato, too; he has lost various
He was closeted with the man for more than situations I managed to get for him; and he has been a littly will and reckless; but he's an hour; and uring that tino Mr. George Frith-ne'er-do-well son of his father-ter good fellow really-at heart."
tained his brothers and sisters with sono acy eount of the strange doctor.
Mr. Clement Frith sal silent for some time; at last he looked up with a brighter face.
"My dear Dora," he said, "I have a curious feeling that this this sojourner in our midst is going to make some difference to us. Things haro been what one might term stagnant for some time: 1 feel that they will mend. This gentleman may bo, after all, a man who has heard of us, of who by the way, what did 'you say his name was?"
"I really forget to usk him," said Dora. But I daresay he'll tell me, in case of letters arriving for him."
As the days went on 20 letters arrived, and no name was given. The now lodger was singularly quiet man, who never went out, and who paced abunt his room all day long, or sat by the window (the back window for preference) smoking many pipes. He always hid a aboary word for Dors, when she went up to his room, and the one general servant of the household by name Jane Nuits-grew quite rich in kur reptitious shillings. More than that, the thro younger childron, scrambling about the house, met the grave-faced, grey-haired an occasion ally on the stairs, and were observed to pay harried visits to westment shops in the neigh bourhood. Altogether an exceptional sort of Indger, this muu of no namo,
One day a curious thing happened: A man called at the house-iste on a summer evging, when it was growing dark-and enquired if a Mr. Lagden lived there. The servant said no then remembered the lodger; and said she would ask. While the man waited in the hull, Dors, who had heul applied to, ran quickly upstairs, and asked the now tenant if the visitor was for
Tím.
“Howwants a Mr. Lagden," she said, in a low voice,
The lodger did a curious thing. He caught hor suddenly by the arm and pulled her into
"No, it's not me,"
4. the whispered quickly, the room, putting a heavy hand over her lips.
"You haven't said any thing about me?
What looking man is this?" he whispered She nodded, and he dropped his hand from her lips. "Yes-certainly a gentleman," she said; tall, with rather nice eyes; speaks with a slow voico.”
There had been, some for years before this story opens, a Mira Clement Frith; it might be said that she hand drifted out of the world from the want of those shadowy commissions which nover came. She had hoped for them, and longed for them; had struggled along, in some mira- calone fashion, until she had scased to believe in thom; and so had given up the struggle al- together. With a faint expression of hope that they might some day come, she had gone away to a world where they are not necessary,
She left the burden of the business to her daughter Dora. Little Dorr had known it from the beginning; on her wise and capable little head fell the real monagout of the house.
She helplessly shook her head, while she But little more than a child at the time, and with four other children younger than herself depen- started at him. She noticed that his face was dent upon her efforts, she set her pretty, detar.very white, and that he was breathing so quickly mined face against the world, and held the that the muscles of his throat were swelling thing together. There was no hope in her heart and heaving while he stood looking at her. of anything but that one fiores afroggle against gentleman poverty and disaster; only the one passionate desire to keep that hungry wolf she had known from babyhood from the door, and feed these Bhe lovel
Let it be admitted at once that Mr. Clement Frith was hopeless. Absorbed in grief at the loss of his wilo, he gave the search for the commissions that never came, hat accepted without question the food that was pas before him. If sometimes he railed at the world, he' was concoded in the evening, what fine his young daughter pat his glass near to his hand and filled and it his pipe for him. And the moral axioms he was able at that dun hour
The visitor went away, evidently half-sutis. to present to his children ought, hai they been daly observed, to have made the fortunes of overy one of them. Dora said nothing about the fed and Dora returned to her duties, wonder- axioms; her poor, tired little brain was hard uting a little what it all meant. When, the next work planning how to get through the next day, day, another man called, and merely stated that he wanted to see the gentleman who lodged and many next days after that.
there, she remembered the instructions she lind received, and-fearful of losing one who paid to well-declared that no one lodged there at all. It was, perhaps, the first falsehood her white life had known, and it troubled her. She told the strange man upstairs about it, and he laughed, and told her she was "a little brick." That made her more uncomfortable than ever. It was only natural, of course, that Mr. Clem- ent Frith, having, like the lodger, no occupa- tion, and being, moreover, devoured by curiosity as to what thin mystery was which surrounded that lodger, should approach the latter in a friendly spirit. So it camo about that he,
There had been a small romance in the life of little Dora Frith. She was only twenty years of ago now; and the romance and come to her somo three years before. Quite a poor and ordinary story; of a young lad who loved her, ant, in direct consequence, was going to set the world very much alloxo for her eake. Finding that things did not light up very well at home, he set his eager face for the other side of the world; he was to come back, in something less than six months, with more gold than he could conveniently carry.
The man muttered something; it sounded to Dora's ears almost like-Ou the track "but of course it could scarcely have been that. Then he turned again to the girl.
There's no one of that name here; you'va' over heard such a camo in your life," he said; and there was a threatening note in his voies,
Do yon understand?
"Yes; I'll tell him so," replied Dora, and run downstairs.
Rummiest chap I ever saw," he sud Hadn't got a surgery or a decont humse like anybody else seemed scarcely to be known in the place at all. Laughed when I called bin Dr. Simo; kept on laughing to himself all the way along in the cab. I do hope it's all right, Doru; but upon my word you seem to have your family among a lot of quear Jazuled people."
I hope not," said Dora humbly. At a events, I did it for the best, ficorge, dear."
Dr. Nathaniel Sime stood in the little hall for a moment or two while he Imttoned his gloves. Ders was standing there, anxionsly waiting to hear his vordiet; within the doorway of the room dignified by the title of the dining-room one or two eager young faces peored out. Dr. Simo did not look up from his glove-buttons: he spoke in a curious, hard, suppressed voice, much as though he had been repeating a buson, "The man in andoubtedly dying." he said nan the term dying. I slowly Personally, I should give him some three days. When I mean that there is practically us hope for him, but that a certain strength of will and constite tion will enable him to last out that time. Ba prepared, however, for the worst."
The narrow hall-door closed behind him-hut not before he land looked back into the hall, to say in that suppressed voice of bis-As a matter of fact, an affection of the heart; been coming on for years. Good-night!"
Poor Dera Frith saw only in all this a means of income drifting away. Of course she was to be snatched out of life; on the other hand, sorry for the strange man who was so suddenly she had to think of those dependent upon hor those who had lived on the tenoy this man bad paid her. She wondered what was to lappen ended. when he was dead, and his power to pay was
Mr. Clement Frith was assiloons in his atton- dance on the dying man; more than once, in On the very fuct, the run sent duwn for him. night of the doctor's visit, when Dora, worn out with the excitements of the day, was sitting strangely to her. idle, her futher took her in his arms, and spoke
My dear child," he said it is sometimes given, even to the harblest of us, to help those nour and dear to us. It may be given to you to do that; there may be a strange forture wait. ing for you, Ask me nothing, ny child; rely on your pour old father to pull you through. My dear you would not desert us, if it came to the point of deciding what to do?"
Of course rot, father, doer," she said. "Bat I don't understand what you mean?
"My dear girl-dying men sometimes take strange fannins, in which case we must, if it be profitable, humour them. Be prepared, duar ohild, for anything that may happen."
Hosides, my dour. I have pledged myself, in a the parringe can be performed at once. way; I have spent some part of the fifty pounds." Father-why couldn't you tell me all this "Plotted! Really, my dear child—”
Why does he want to marry me if he is before? Why have you plotted with this man p
The fancy of a sick and lonely man. dying haps he wishes to feel that you will remember him better if you bear his name. Remember- it is nothing but a mere formality, the nun is dring."
Per
It is absolutely certain that he cannot last until midnight," said another voice. Dora, looking up, saw Dr. Nathaniel Sime standing in the doorway, with his deep-set eyes turned upon her.
To be continued.)
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Mr Clemont Frith was away the greater part of the next day; he came house in high spirits. More than once he murmured something about fortunes-and romanees-and suggested that the world was not such a bad place, efter all:
Dorn-having more than once he embraced his daughter Dora, and suggested, with some emotion, that she was "the Balvation of them all." something else to think about besides the un-Tokyo Hyogo tions wondered what had happened to her Yokohama fether, but hoped for the bast.
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Two days went hy, and that raysterious Dr. Nathaniel Sime came again. It was late in the eroning, and Mr. Clement Frith had given but n poor aceruut of the sick man; indeed, he had mande enquiries of his daughter concerning the style of mourning that would bost suit him. Dora was seated by the fire alone, when her father came in, and began to walk about the room, and to talk to her in a feverish way at the My dear child," he said I have a-a most same time. curious proposal very strange indeed-to put before you."
Before me, father ?" she asked, looking up "My dear bo said. Yes-before you, at hina.
The astute reader will, of course, understand that he mover came back at all. A pair of girlish eyes followed eagerly and anxiously the more than one occasion, took his glass und his pipe upstairs; so that, while little course which the good ship that carried him
Dora Frith worked, and the children played and fook; until that day came, when a nowspaper
talked with her, the murmur of voicss could be paragraph or two announced the fact that the good ship had gone down; and, although a few heard from above. Mr. Clement Frith, after one or two of these visits, let it be known that his boats had got away, those boats had never been seen again. In a word, poor Frank Dorne had opinion of the man who practically kept the Dora I have not been very fortunate in my gone to look for his fortune at the bottom of household going was that he was gentleman life, but I have not been, on the other hand, a She got up in a hurry, and came across to the restless sea. Thereafter, little Dora Frith who had seen much of the world: in all probabad father to you or to the others--el P (with a few cheap tonches of black about her bility a mun of soienes, who had retired into dross) buried that small romance in her breast, their midst in order to complete some great him, and took him in her armas. He souned work." Dora felt relieved, but wondered what curiously tumbled in some way; he did not and set to werk to fight the world for others.
Things hul gone from bad to worse, as time the great work was. For, as a matter of fact. look at her while he went on speaking.
the small amount of writing she had seen. when went on. Dora taught a few unsatisfactory papils how to texture their friends with The the mysterious one had occasion to write at all, Maiden's Prayer" and "Silvery. Waves"; and had been of a somewhat illiterate sert.
The tall man with the slow voice who had they mostly forgot to pay her: she wore out her tired eyes, night after night, at fine needle- quired before for a Mr. Lagden, came again; work for more fortunate folk; she sometimes this time he wanted to know if he could have
room in the house. Dors told him that they had her father to do endeavoured to urge
no rooms to lat; and be emiled, and thanked something. Most difficult business of all, she
her; apologised and went away. She told teade excuses to importunato tradesmen, and
the lodger about that; and the lodger not only paid off one small debt by making another,
At last the small house in the small square walked about all day, but all that night, too
to the great disterhunce of the household. in that dubions part of Kensington had come to such a state of siege, that something drastic had to be done. The busy girl-keeping the matter from her father-cleared out two rooms at the top of the house, and afterwards put the best furniture there: theu (while that father was absent during the day on anknown expedi tions; ezhibited a card in a lower window, deli- cately inscribed-"Autmonta"
In that she was lucky; the rooms were taken within forty-eight hours. She named what seemed to be absolutely impossible terms; prac. tically enough to keep the family for a week; and the terms were accepted without demur. She mentioned the lodger in her grateful prayers to a smiling Hearon that very night.
Mr. Clemont Frith was, of course, filled with boundless astonishment when he heard the news; yet he borrowed five shillings from his daugh. ter's little store on the strength of it. Ife was Yery curious concerning the new lodger that voning, while he sat over his gless.
I do not like the idea, ray dear Dors. of a
ranger entering this sacred prooinots of my use," he said and the arrangement will, of rso, he only temporary. When the world is us, we must eilen your to live upon the
a. I trast this man is respectable He seems very respectable, father," said mildly. He is rather elderly, with grey hamid that he merely wished to be left ald and was not quite sure how long he would sta He particularly desired to be denied to any who might call and make enquiries aboģim."
"Inds mysterious," said Mr. Clement Frit But after all, it is no concern of ours if theentleman chooses to immure himself here, it ware, away from the world. That he shouldy for what he has is the chief conside-
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"I sincerely hope, my dear sir," said Mr. not really Frith, plucking with a nervous hand at his chin
"I sincerely trust that you are $11,"
"Yes, I am," said the man, in a gruff whis. per. "I know the symptoms; you don't. I've had it before-but not so badly so this. The first was a warning; this moeys death."
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"if I only knew the way," she said earnestly, "My dear girl-the way is open before you," he replied eagerly.As a matter of fact, we have entertained an angel unawares; one who interest in you. I allude to the mysterious has, from the first, taken the deepest possible gentleman who has sought sheller beneath our humble roof, and who will-in spirit at least leave it to-night. I meanour lodger!
Is he really dying?" she asked, in a hushed voice.
"I am informed by his medical attendant, midnight." said Mr. Clement Frith. Now, who is now with him, that ho cuanot last till my dear, I am a deputation of one to you on his behalf."
To me?" she asked, wonderingly.
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To you. This gentleman-who is, in reality, very wealthy-hus suddenly conceived the idea Mr. Clement Frith, in great alarm, murziured that he would like to benefit someone before he something unintelligible, and raz down to find passes away out of the world. Having neither his daughter-that prop and stay on which lokith nor kin, his thoughts have naturally turned attention daring his sojourn amongst us; I had so often leant. In her own quick, practical to that being who has given him so much kindly allade to yourself. He is to die before mid- way she suggested the obvious course.
night; before that time he wishes to give you- think of it, my dear Dora to give you his Lame, and all he owns in the world."
We must have a doctor," she said.
"I never thought of that," said Mr. Frith weakly. "But wouldn't it be bolter to ask him
about it "
*I'll go up myself," she said. Come along, father, and do please be firm about it."
If Mr. Clement Frith had ever been firm about anything he had long since got out of practice; he souled feebly, and followed his daughter. The sick man seered glad of bez fresh young presence in the room; he turned round, and looked at her with a curious snaile
"Come-come!" she said brightly" this won't do at all! You're not going to die; who- evor heard of such a thing? We'll got a doctor for you, and you'll be all right in no time at all." "Ah-yon don't understand," said the man, However just to please you, I don't mind having a doctor; only I'll have my own."
"By all means," exclaimed Mr. Clement Frith
eagerly. "One feels confidence in one's own
"But I-I don't understand," she faltered. "In a word, my deur--he desires to marry you. Don't start or tremble; you are asked to do the most romantic and singular thing a girl was ever asked to do in this world; but think
what it means!'
"Bat, father dear-this eld man--whose namə I do not even know!”
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My dear on the word of an able medion! man your husband ceases to exist at midnight or possibly before."
There was no time for her to think. Sho might have thought of the dead lad, washing shout somewhere in the restless goa; she might have thought of some of those dreams which never had come true. She did think of all the
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4,000 h.p., in reserva
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G. Stopferd, Wolhaimai
Moorhen, river guaboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, Lieut-Comdr. G. G. Webster, West River Ocean, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 gane, 13,500
i.k.p.. Captain R. F. O. Foote, C.M.G., oruising
Otter, torpedo-boat destroyer, 330 tous, in
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Phonis, doop, 1,015 tons, 6 guns, 1,400 h.p.,
Comd:, J. Nicholas, Shanghai Rambler, surveying ship, 583 tons, Capt. Morris
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Aubyn Wake, Hongkong Robin, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 h.p., Lieat-Comdr. Vanghan, West River Rosario, eloop, 980 tons, 6 guns, 11,400 h.p.,
Comdr. Thos. Jackson, Yangtsas Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tons, & guns, 210
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Capt. Lewis Bayley, Hongkong Tamar, receiving ahip, 4,000 tons, gans,
Commodore . G. Dicken, at Hongkong Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, Lisat.-
Condr. E. F. R. Dugmore, on Yangtze Thetis, arnisor, 3,400 tons, Capt. J. C. A.
Wilkinson, Shanghai Tweed, "gunboat, 362 tons, 3 guns, 200 h.p.,
on Yangchas
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Wivers, coust defence ship, armoured, 2,750 tons,
1,000 h v., in reserve, at Hongkong Woodcock, gasboat, 15 tons, 2 guss, 550 h.p.
Lieut.Com. Hugh Somerville, Yangtazo Woodlark, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 gass, 550 k.p,
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