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A Lady Housekeeper

Nervous Exhaustion, Neuralgia,

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effect that on his next excursion battons should be eliminated, stooped under two pairs of buffers, placed a foot on the axlo of a wheel, and insinuated himself with great dexterity beneath the tarpaulin. of a ten-ton coal truck. As he squirmed norass actions of the policeman, there came a brief the coal to get a view of the subsequent whistle, a distant, husky cough, and the goods train to which Mr. Pep's hiding place apertamed started, carrying Mr. Pep along with it.

For a minute he dared not jump, as the train moved in the direction of his enemy and by the time that danger-point was passed the speed was too great for a leap in the dark. Straight into the busy Bilton goods-yard the elattoring trucks progressed. and pulled up in a blago of electric ares, to be dissected and shunted. Evidently Mr. Pop's bost tactics were to wait, for here and there, all about, men were dotted, wagging lamps, shouting, examining the traffic.

Fortune favoured him. In about five) minutes a heavy engine, No. 21, clanked soforuly backwards just alongside the ear which hold his watchful form, and stopped. The fireman climbed down, and, according to

Mr. Poy, Experimentalist, was what is. known in provincial parlance as "a bit of a character." He had made so many attempts at earning a-living-(tha astute reader will note that we do not say earning an honest living), that space would fail us to tell of his exploits, experiences, and experiments, Born in a quarter of a large city where a certain shrewdness of intellect common to the inhabitants was fios unduly hampered by a too rigid application of the laws of morality, oven his early years wore characterised by a slight confusion as to the rights of personal property, so that on one occasion, which marked, as it were, his professional debut on the stage of life, an unfortunate proximity to an innocent- looking individual who proved to be a plain clothes policeman had resulted in a trifling misunderstanding. At that time ladies bad pockets in their dresses, and did not carry the dainty, embroidered satchels which offer such tempting morsols for the Peps of the present day, the policeman, whoso eyesight brief dialogue Mr. Pep was able to over- as objectionably keen, had discovered, hear, went off across the tracks towards the despite the crowd, that a particular lady's station in search of his midnight package pocket contained a purse, n handkerchief, of sandwiches; the driver also descended, and the digital portion of Master Pep's and walked to the front of the locoiustive, hand.....Whereupon a large and hairy starrying an oil flare, had gripped the arm of the experimenter, and a voice, hoarse, but imperative,. had whispered into Pep's car the formula with which he was destined in later days to be somewhat familiar:-"Now then, youn fellow you just come along with me; and it'll be better for you to come quietly.”

The brief period of meditative seclusion which followed this episode had, we regret to record, no beneficial effect upon the out look of our hero, though for a short time he engaged in more legitimate efforts to sustain himself than the direct appropriation of other people's possessions. He became, for instance, a baker's assistant; but the crar ing for jam, as we might put it, upon his bread, led him to seek a loss limited sphere for his labours. Ho tried driving a wagon; but that also became too monotonous for his cosmopolitan mind. Trade did not appeal to him; finance might have shown a.temporary glamour-but he had nothing to invest music and the high arts charmed him not at all. Then, one evening, chance or fate bhrew in his wag a temptation which proved irresistible.

He was passing pensively along a suburban road, chewing the end of a cigarette, inspeo ing the houses with his critical little oyes, and wondering what his next move should be, when a neatly-aproned servant-maid houneed suddenly from a doorway and cannoned violently against him.

The tarpaulin beaved like some slumber. Ho ous monster, and disgorged Mr. Pep. landed noiselessly in the black shadow cast by the engine, and in another moment stood means an expert at engineering, but he on the empty footplate. He was by no know-as does every schoolboy the regule tor handle; and he also know that if you let on full steam too suddenly the wheels spin round without taking grip on the: rails, and nothing happens. So he hanged ever the reversing-lover, and pushed the throttle open about an inch.

if n spring had heen released, giving a The great locomotive jumped forward as mighty thick exhaust, almost like a grasp of surprise. The driver, started out of his wits, had just time to leap clear, for he had been standing in front of the bogie, with one foot on the track; he yelled, and grab- bed at the hand-rail as it passed bin---but the too of Mr. Pep's boot shot out and made in drop like a stone, with his yeli changed to a hort of pain, and his knuckles bleoling. In another half-minute his dim figure night have been a spriating over the rails towards tho Bilton No. 3 junction signals, holding one hand bundled up in a spotted handkerchief, while Mr. Pep, his grasp wil on the lever of the widely opened steamI- valve, was rumbling along on No. 21 through the echoing suburbs, smiling grimly.

By the greatest of good luck the track immediately in front of the engine happen- ed to be free from traffic. After that first!

Oh, I'm that sorry!" gasped the girl.mile the amateur driver was well aware that

"I tripped over the mat. Did I 'art you?

Not at all, replied Mr. Pep courteously "It's a pleasure to he knocked over by such a pair of bright eyes," he continued, his metaphor somewhat entangled. "And," he mid, as he dusted his cap, “you 'ava knocked me over, no error."

Beneath his ardent gazo the girl wriggled and blushed. It was an emotional moment, and whether the twilight, or Mr. Pep's gallant masoner moved her to such com munion, we know not; at any rate Mr. Pep during the next ten minutes gathered that the family was away en vacances, that the girl had permission to visit her home for a couple of days, and that at the very moment when she had upset him she was going in search of cab for her trunk and herself. Mr. Pep, pressing his advantage, begged permissior to see her off; she acceded to his request, and allowed him to arrange a meet ing with her for three days ahead. That appointment, for reasons which the logical render will be able to discover

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Mr. Pep's return to Bilton, accompanied by two gentleman who had been detailed to escort him, was quite ordinary-in a third- class compartment, in fact. He is now, for a time, debarred from the active exposition

every signalman on the main line would take very good care to give him a clear road. The thirteen-bell call (ie, Funaway on Wrong Line") would within five minutes to him that No. 21 minst be hurling herself be Bashed right along for as many miles as through space ut hundred miles an hour; he was likely to go, and it gave him quite but he did not understand that she had been a delightful thrill to think that the mail built for hauling enormous loads, not for From Exover, a swagger train, would have brilliant reaord breaking, and that her small to shut down her glorious run and scurry driving-wheels kept her down to about fifty of his economic theories; hut he often out of the way into some country siding or fifty-five. Nor did he know that behind smiles, as he tramps round the exercise until he had roared past. What they might him was racing the shapely Vanessa, yard, to think of the way he held up the do to stop him--derail him, switch him into one of the new passenger-fliers, the pride line on the night he burgled Bongiza

a dead-end, or whatnother of the company-accustomed to slam across House, nor cared for one crowded hour he had the country at spurts of seventy-five and charge of the up main of the Great Southern

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Joint Railway, and he intended to give themighty miles an hour with a train of shining, run for the money before he had finished. and fired by Burks, two of the cutest mun pick-and-spau coaches driven by Cotton Ho might have stopped in the open country in the G.S.J.R. sheds, Against her seven- And crept back to Bilton; once, 18 memories of the forsaken haul Bitted across bulky and strong though she might be, had sad foot wheels and 2261b, pressure, No. 21, bis mind, he thought he would return. Then it occurred to him that of course by this chance, in spite of the fact that her time the objectionable peliceman, assisted water was getting low, and her steam was probably by several enthusiasti: friends, the track, overhauling Mr. Pep, and scream- blowing off furiously. The Vanessa flew up and had discovered the sack and its contents, appreciate, was doomed to be a disappoint and was saving it up as evidence; ni heng, as if with delight, from her oper ment for one of the parties concerned, since, remembered that quite few unpaid

It was some time before she caught up; curiously enough, most of the portable and accounts, so to speak, were "out

against valuable articles belonging to that holiday-him. It was wiser, he decided, to sprint but when she began to draw near she bore making family vanished completely that very away from Bilton--and how better could it down on him, towering and trim and night, and have not been heard of since. be accomplished than on this previdentially speedy, like a fiend, her exhaust one So does fate—or chance-use the most provided engine? Besides, it was a now slumberous rush of sound, her cab windows inconseguent means whereby to shape our experience, and he began to enjoy it. What glinting like two immense, wicked eyes. And destinies. From that twilit evening dates muttered a few months' seclusion at his writes, by tho esquisite driving of Cotton, he not inured to such things? In fact, on slight shock and began pushing him on, the whole, did he not almost count on these Mr. Pep thought his end was come, so Ho wondered what interludes, allow for them in his calcula- fierecly were they all whizzing through the tions, regard them, in short. as not un cavern of the night.

He had not to wondor long, for a shout pleasant rests in a somewhat strenuous would happen.

So, pretty certain of capture i anner or later whatever he did, he drove made him look round. Over the heap of un, and smiled. A true philosopher indeed coal shone the keen eyes of Burke, beneath HONGKONG DAILY PRESS vas Mr. James Pep.

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On the night of our story, Mr. James Pop, having with great care tied up in a sack the very choice assortment of silver-

He found that in ten minutes No. 21 was nasty-looking revolver glistened in a glaring plate and bric-a-brac which, in obedience to cocking along at a tremendous-rato, and he ray from the fire.

Shut down, you infernal fool!" yelled his advanced system of economics, he deemed remember that boat ven miles out of it necessary to remove surreptitiously from Bilton a branch took off leading to War Burke, "or I'll shoot l' Bonanza House and turn into current coin, leigh. To fly off the rails at those switches Mr. Pep realised that his number was up, poured himself some whisky from a decanter supposing they were sot for him-would on the sideboard, nodded, a CAN BE CURED

"good luck" be highly ignominious, to say nothing of the He bad enjoyed the little diversion, and to his dim reflection in the huge mirror, and risk to his life, so he shut off steam. His there was no need to spoil it by sheer pig DEVON AND

ONLY BY PURIFYING THE BLOOD. glanced round to make sure that he had ideas as to the steam-brake were somewhat hendedness, He nodded calmly, and shut off 80 Ilustrations. CORNWALL

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the tender brake, and managed to slow a Cotton also slowed the Vanessa proportion- Bath, Weston-super mare, Malvern, Hereford of skin and blood diseases has effected professional manner than because they were Worcester, Gloucester,

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hie lantern and proceeded to vacate the signal box assured him that he was well found that it was just as well that circum Dolgelly, Harlech, Criccieth, Pwlhelli,

The Editor of the FAMILY DOCTOR," spacious room in the same manner as he had beyond the branch, he tore ahead again. stances had conspired to stop him, for they. They had not switched him to Warleigh, were sliding through Exover main station. Llandudno Rhyl, Bettws-y-coed, Isle of London's popular medical weekly, writes arrived--by the window.

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dirty finger-marks about. Then, shifting in sheer delight, as he approached a wayside locomotives took the side track loading tu the sack to a more comfortable position ou station, to glimpse the scared faces of the the sheds. He had better have allowed them his shoulder, he struck across country for staff as they peered and roared at him from to come to rest harmlessly on the manin, for the railway sidings of Bilton, a mile away. the platform; signalmen, too, wore leaning Burke could not quite pull up the ponderous

from their cabins to see him go by, He goods-engine in time the speed and weight Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Custome He was just descending cautiously an uneven grassy bank, which led to the lines kicked back the firebox doors, and clumsily were too great. The Vanossa, being more manageable and sensitive, stopped dutifully when a figure silhouetted vaguely against flung on a few lots of coal.

It was the starlight gave him pause.

For a truly charming twenty minutes he just outside the station, but No. 21 ran

Fagos, and includes a Sketch Plan of spun along comfortably, admiring his own slowly into the gloomy care of Exover sheds,HE VOLUME which consists of 461 unpleasantly close, disagreeably burly, and even in the gloom it bare a remarkable cleverness, wondering neeasionally whether tripped over a small yard-engine that stuck historical interet showing the disposition of resemblance to a policemianthe most after all that policeman had discovered the in her path, overved, went over the stop-

Then, chancing to look back wedges with a bump that nearly shook the the Forces at the battle of Kweilin, is dedicated utterly useless and superduous member of "swag." society, according to Mr. Pep, that could along the line he had traversed, he saw a pattern off the foreman's tie, barged into te dir ROBERT HART, G.C.M., and Dr. A Its description of Chinese Soalal Customs bo nadied. He softly unshipped his load, speak of light a speck that grew larger a brick wall, and brought up with a cough lowered it into a hollow, crawled down to and larger. So! They were chasing him, and a growl half in the open air, half under sed Superstitions, combined with the insight it gives into political conditions in China, makes Just to see “A vary enjoyable little run," observed UNIDRER OF FAH CATHAY" an excellené Unfortunately, in accomplishing this what would happen, he opened the throttle, Mr. Pep, Fleasantly, as Burke screwed the volume for presentation to friends at Home.

Well bond in Yellow Cloth with Chines martar out of his eyes. The men on night manœuvre one of buttons of his coat wide, and let her rip."

In two minutes the clamour of the huge duty gathered round, gaping, and Cotton Emblem in Gold caught a wire and twanged it, and at the machine, the thunder of her fight, scared came running up, prepared to hold Mr. Pep deep, grumbling note, which shook and him and at the same time fascinated him; down while the others bound him with wire But he simply stopped and gaped rattled sympathetically the contiguous wires the beat of the pistons and pounding rods cables.

For Mr. Pep, smiling in the most For yards on either side, the shadowy figure became merged into one continuous, mono- too. moved. Mr. Pep, wishing fervently that tonous undertone, above which provailed genial fashion, was blandly offering him al he possessed a cat's cushioned feet, and the loud, shuddering blast of the exhaust. cigarette from the very chaste and fragrant the He had to cling firmly to the rail to avoid case which he had picked up at Bonanza recording & mental memorandum to

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