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FIVE'S ENGAGEMENT, THE STORY OF AN INTER-VARSITY BOAT RACE.

[DY ARCHIE ARMSTRONG IN THE

Pall Mall Gasesti.]|||||| "D" said the President of the C.U.B.C. Four members of the crew spoke at greater length but to the same effey, and after the rest, of the crew except Fire bad grunted assent, the President laged disappointed at the want of originality, of suggestion exhibited, and re- marked that it was all very well but something

must be done.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1901.

At the end of a quarter of an hour he had made perceptible though hardly sufficient pro- gress. Miss Delaney reiterated her high regard for Mr. Smith (that was Five's name), as she coldly called him, but refused to admit any Five was not present. He had gone up to his praises might be sting. Cox rose and return of ber former affection, however highly his bedroom, and his condit was under dis-paced the drawing room, pinducing bis cigarette cussion. Five had red will in the "trials, case as he did so. Probably she thought he had improved in practice after Clirisimas, and was going to soothe himself with tobacco, after been really uncommonly nail during the the vivid pictures he bad drawn of Five sui- early part of training; on London water, hecidal condition, caused by her fickteness, for had gone to pieces us radly as he had she held out a match-box. He waved it away. come on, his rowing had lest life, his time He was playing trumps, reler ether his parti- was execrable, and the hard work, which had a man who is not quite sure whether compensated in early days for an admitted cular card is the thirteenth of its suit or not. roughness of fom, was conspicuously absent. Matters had come to a criss during that day's practice, and it was no joke for the Pre- sident to be told, as he bad pech, by the coach

that unless he could find another Five at once. he might regard their ce as kostfor rather given away. The men in the middle of the boat had all seemed so safe that are was no one in training who could replace Five in anything like a satisfactory manner; indeed, there was no one who could be named. trained or not. who was fit to occupy his thwart

"I suppose you know why he is, so rotten, said Saven, in a thick tentative voice. He was nervous young man, very big and strong but new to the boat, and from an obscure col lege of no social standing

Know ? exclaimed the President. "Of .course I don', if I only knew m gibt do some thing" He had considerable confidence in his own powers, as befitted a nian who had rowed in two inter University races already.

"But I know," growled Seven he seemed surprised and abashed to find himself endowed with more knowledge than his fellows but as

every one was silent he had to go on.

"He's in love, you see," he began, not quite sure whether he should have mentioned such a distracting topic to a crow in training.

It seems a pity, too," he said in a tone of resignation, "just as his uncle's dead, and it's all right about money."

UNFAMILIAR INTOXICANTS."

straight to the point it would be imposable to repeat all that he said.. He was a member of the Cambridge A.D.C... and his Amilarity with the wor's of popular English dramatists

It is probable that the first vice which primal aan acquired was drunkenness. Scientists tell supplied him with matter, while his mannery that man and a cerinin microbe are the only was that in which he would have played lovers' living organisms that take naturally to alcohol. parts had not the club stage manager consis- tently declined to assign them to him in eithermestic animals-dogs, donkeys, and elephants

Of course, there are exceptions. Individual do sex.

will occasionally acquire a taste for intoxicants; but, as a rule, animals will not touch them, But, as Byron says, "Man, being reasonable, must get drunk." The word reasonable here should be reasoning for without a more orless highly-developed power of reasoning, neither the simple reason that intoxicants do not grow, man-nor any other animal can get drunk for but have to be made. The alcoholic liquors with which we are familiar are not very many. In fact, the lower classes as a rule only indulge in heer, gin, rum, brandy, and whisky. Of the names, if they know those But there are port and other wines they know little more than many intoxicants made which are hardly ever seen outside the localities where they are manu- factured. For example, there is the grand old honey, fermented and, though it does not taste drink of the Vikings-mead. It is made from as if it were of any particular strength, it is, stronger than the oldest ale, and the unsuspect ing imbiber will find himself quite suddenly taid out after a couple of ordinary glasses. This liquor is made plentifully in Hunting in other counties. But the Londoner knows it donshire and in some parts of Wales, as well as note even believes that it is a drink like sack, barring its intoxicating effects to those not used which nobody now knows how to make. Yet, to it, it is one of the most wholesome and pala- table alcoholic beverages in existence. Another dri knot much known in England, but com. most intoxicating qualities beneath a mild mon in the United States, which conceals the taste, name, and appearance, is what in the though rarely, in Somersetshire. A glass States is known as hard cider. One gals it, of it will upset a strong man who is not a most fiery and potent spirit is made used to it. In some parts of the country from plums. It is manufactured and sold sur- reptitiously, and can be made either from ordinary cultivated plums or from the wild greengage, which in Huntingdonshire in called a "crack."

"I did not know what he had an uncle, but of course money makes no difference," said Miss Delaney

"Of course not," said Cox, producing a newspaper cutting from his cigarette case. "You did not notice this in the paper; that's his uncle, who, as you see, was a bachelor."

Now, the newspaper cutting produced re- ferred beyond question, to the death of a Mr. Jonathan Smith, who after, being three times mayor of a Midland town, had died with the reputation of being one of its wealthiest citizens, and beyond the fact of his never having married, the obituary notice gave no further information abour him. What it did say, however, was clearly to the point,

"Why did he never mention him?" asked Miss Delaney, sitting up in the low easy-chair she occupied.

"He was too proud, I fancy," said Cox. "Of course the Smiths are a very old family, and his-and-I suppose he wanted to be loved for himself, not for his prospects."

But he is loved for himself," she exclaimed. "I told you I love him very much." She had not sald anything of the kind before, but she:

impecunious Lyle "pere" to a gineer the match to this stage against considerable difficulties, for gout had lessened the knight's keenness for it, whilst, on the lady's side there existed counter-attraction in the shape of a certain Captain Faget, whom she had met at a country when Sir Murrough's "mud-care" preparations house. Miss Julia, was visiting there again were in progress, and, having heard of them; she recounted their details to this other suitor. ed, smothering his laughter in view of what "And d'you mean to tell me," he comment was to him the seriousness of the subject, "do you mean to say you still consider yourself epithet slipped out unawares, and Juha did not bound to marry such a man-my dear"-the resent it; my dear, you cannot do it-you

must not do it."

The girl shook her head in dissent. she answered wearily, and it is not right of "We've discussed all thai, before, Herbert,"

idea what breaking it would mean to my you to begin again. He has my promise, and you know, she hesitated, "you must have an

father,"

"

Paget did know Mr. Lyle's little ways as being far from commendable, and swallowed down the expression of wrath which rose to his lips, Then suddenly his face brightened. "Well," he said, with humble, if somewhat forced politeness, of course you are perfectly right, and I have no business to urge you to tinued, with more emotion, "I cannot stay what would be a breach of faith. But, he con- beside you, or near you, and not do so, I shall you xq abroad-at least until Sir Murrough releases

Julia started at this announcement, and her face grew very white. He will not do that," she answered after a pause; perhaps it would be better if you went away,"

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up, and I thought I could work it this way. hope, sesing you are cured, you will forgive me?"

The glances of the two men met. knight deliberately, after a silence, during "Ye'r a broth of a bhoy enunciated the

balance, and is my belief you have cured which Paget felt his fate to be hanging in the me-wid the help of the good peat I had from Kerry. Anyways, I've been thinking twill fit away, than to be marrying her and so I will the age av me bether to be giving the lady

the Continent.-A. India.

And so he diLyle senior being absent on

a

THE DOMESTIC PICNIO.

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There can surely be no one left in these days

about it. The craze of the thirties for eating to advocate the charms of the picnic. It night even be difficult to find any one to be funny one's meals in the wrong place has dwindled down to a mere occasional attempt at, tea in the garden, and we are even beginning to discover that the right way to produce the effect of ten in the garden is to drink it indoors with the windows open. Under these conditions the tea and the garden are kept in their proper places, and we get the relative value of both. lost if we take the tea into the garden,, for, But the whole charm of tea in the garden is instead of interesting little garden peeps from an open window, suggestive of all sorts of And, as every one knows, nothing is less like pictures beyond, we only get the garden. real garden than the garden we are actually sitting in.

But there is another kind of picnic that has But if the old gentleman does give you up, always appealed strongly to me, and that is the Paget insisted, what then p

domestic picnic. The first charm of the do features flushing into colour. "Don't let us meditated; and this, indeed, is the secret of its The ather looked down, the paleness on her mestic picnic is that it is scarcely. ever pre talk of it," she exclaimed, almost impatiently; superiority over the ordinary picnic, which de "it is not right-if such a thing does happenpends on invitations and hampers and enthu -she swept her eyes suddenly up towards his diasm. It is never possible to say when we to me then." -"it will depend upon what you have to say may find ourelves in the midst of a domestic picnic; the merest trifle, such as the sweep, or somebody's day out, or spring-cleaning, is enough to produce one, if the other conditions Sir Murrough's mud-cure gave promise of are favourable. The other conditions in afhouse A man giving the name of usually depend upon the sex of its inhabitants; vertisement from Bad Rippold, a celebrated about the domestic picnic does not flourish. struck by the recommendations of the appliciating the humorous side of food. Women, German Spa, and the impetuous Irishman Man seems constitutionally incapable of appre bad engaged him to supervise his private on the contrary, have a natural disregard for cant,

cure."

the seriousness of meals that is exceedingly Murrough to this attendant some days after am sure if I had not been a woman I should Tis the finest invintion," remarked Sir favourable to the success of the domestic picnic. the commencement of the carative process; have felt much more appalled than I did at the "the bleased Pathrick must have left good in prospect of furnished apartments. As it was, the very bogs of the ould counthry, when a they seemed in my imagination to offer un weenie sug av thim takes the pains out of a limited possibilities for any amount of domestic 'man this way."

picnics,

This spirit is water much success.

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"We know that," said Cox. "He's engaged was read ng the newspaper ship for the second white, and the taste for it is an acquired Hubert Koch had answered the knight's ad for I have often noticed that when a man is

10 be married; fancy a chap of his age going to marry!" Cox had recently taken his B.A. degree and was to steer for the last time; he was more than twenty-three, and sometimes looked quite wrinkled round the eyes at break. fast-time, while Five was known to be barely

twenty-one..

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time as she added. "Of course, while he had no money I should bave only been a burden to him."

Cox caught his own eye in a mirror that tilted down towards him above the mantelpiece, and having caught, winked at it, and it returned. the wink.

Of course I have been rather hard on him," she said in a gentle tone.

methylated spirit. There are many varieties one, for the uninitiated it resembles of beer made in England, which are only beer is one of these. It is getting uncom focally known and appreciated. Heather, mon fins, as the older people who know the recipe are gradually dying out, and the "But he ain't," said Seven quite roughly-

younger generation are content with the he came, you observe, from a college of no

ordinary beer at the village-in, arsenicated or social standing; "the girl has chucked "And, of course, to come into-seven thous

otherwise Many of the old English drinks him; written to say she'd like him as and a year and not have you to-to give it all

Survive in out-of-the-way villages. They are brother. But I fancy she wouldn't take to-makes it so much the worse for him," con-

unattainable to the ordinary traveller, gne rea it on

brother for long she tinued Cox, still studying his reflection with tourist he will never probably strike the places son for this being that unless he be a pedestrizu Jikes presents and S on, and Five's

apparent satisfaction. It will be noted that beastly hard up. He had to take his watch to the obituary notice of Mr. Jonathan Smith had

where these old brews are made, and even if he his uncle last time he stood her and her mother named no figure in referring to his fortunė.

should, they are not sold at inns, though they may supper after a theatre; she's not particular where she goes, Carlton, Savoy, anywhere, but we will be engaged again?" she said, after anto small farmers and cottagers, so that it is only "Suppose I change my mind, and tell him he hunt for private consumpte par The chief manufacturers are old house-keepers she likes to be well done; and the watch was a other pause. sort of keepsake from his ancestors."

"You have changed your mind," he ex- habitants that one may get to know of these by living in a village-and knowing the in "Suppose I think it offer and write next

drinks. Koorow," an old liquor, practically. obsolete, these three hundred years, is still made in certain villages of Derbyshire. It is a species of ale, exceedingly smooth, and flavoured with spices. Another old English beer is honey.. This is a drink which was exceedingly

braket," which is made from ale, pepper, Koch?

and popular in the fourteen hundreds i It can be got in certain parts of Hampshire and Dorset -shire. Aleberry" is still another which may

bread. But old beer is now a rarity-Sport yet be found, though seldom. Its necessary ingredients are old beer, spices, sugar, and Gossip.

."

"So he took it to his uncle," put in the Pre-claimed-with-conviction.- "Bident.

"He means he pawned it," said Cox, thought-week she suggested. fully" be rarely spoke to people like Five and Seven, except to call attention to the time on the bow side, but he had listened attentively, "The beggar ought to row all the better for being out of mess," he added, after a pause. "I suppose he think's he's at a broken heart "and all that kind of thing; that's the way with

A calf-love."

"Suppose you telegraph this afternoon," said course being towed late that day. Cox. The state of the tide necessitated the

Cox was bel eved to have had a very desper. ate love affair with the daughter of the tutor, under whose care he had sought to bridge the gulf that is fixed between a studiously neglected education at Eton and matriculation at Trinity. His companions did not allude" to it, they returned to hins for advice as to one whom experience had rendered wise, and whose cyni cism awed them. He had learnt, or at all events believed, that his first love had been blighted owing to a bribe offered by a relative to the tutor's daughter, and while he professed to be contented to remain a bachelor, he had views on the mercenary nature.of the feminine heart which he used to express in scandalous language at bump suppers

The President repeated that "something must be done," and lonked to Cox as if hoping that he would suggest the form that."some. thing" should take,

Can't somebody make the girl take Five on again?" suggested Seven. who was getting quite brilliant on the strength of the interest which his information had aroused.

"You could get away and go and see her," said the President, turning to Chx. "A water- man's boy can steer us to-morrow"

"My dear sirnid Cox in a tone of ex postulation; hut the President was a familiar friend of vast personal strength; he lifted Cox in his arms and took him to another part of the room, where they talked taracitly At the end of their conversation Cox was heard to say that he did not like the job, but he would have a few wonds with Five to see how the land lay; to which the President answered that as long as Cambridge won the race, it could not possibly matter who was in his work, and who believed in his mission.

Ten minutes later Cox returned to the room and, addressing his remark to the assembled crew, said sternly: "Pingoing to town to morrow; of course no one will let Fire know that my going has anything to do with him. I make it u right if I can. I wouldn't do as much for any other man." He walked out of the room with an air. of determination that made him look two stone

heavier than Sever.

She looked a little surprised and vexed at his impatience, but, as he laid a form before her and banded her a pencil, succumbed to the masculine will contained in a seven-stone-six

A frame.

instruction, and say nice things, you know

"You can write to-night," he said as a last bat perhaps you had better not mention my coming, or his uncle's money. Five-Mr. Smith, I mean-is so proud, you know."

telegram.,

"Poor fellow !" she said, handing him the

BIR MURROUGH'S MUD-OURE.

"Poor devil!" murmured Cox to himself, as he ran downstairs wich it in his hand.

Five minutes later it was despatched, shonCry, but in Sir Murrough Murphy's case there. From mud baths, to marriage seems a far but expressive to the person to whom it was addressed: "tave reconsidered my decision;

was a very direct association between them. cheer up; will write. Angy." Three hours father-in-law, Mr. Rupert Lyle, who listened He himself explained why to his prospective later Cox met the President.

with all the complaisance due se a return for financial favours past and prospective,&

"Well," he said, "how did you go to-day ? "Worse than ever," said the President. "Five had a telegram just before we started, and he nearly upset the boat twice. He's strallied his rowinck badly."

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He'll steady down to-morrow; and we shall Never mind," said Cox. "It's all right. win the race."

And win they did, after five days of rapid of the boat's canvas and nu more.. improvement and a hard struggle, by the length

After the race, while the steamer bearing the crews was puffing and pounding its way back to Purney through a crowd of hours and amid a din of cheers, whistles, and groans from fog horns, Smith, of the Cambridge crew, came up to the Coxswain of hic, boat and shook him warmly by the haud. Cox, whose previous communications with M. Smith, except during one conversation ally refered to had been

Ye'll see, Mr. Lyle the knight still tained more than a touch of the accent of his native Kerry" yez'll see that for me to marry Julia wid this gout ba me is not to be thought the very church if the twinges attinded the of; is a heathen I'd be making of myself in ceremony, It's just when a man has got a big fish, and is at the wie the excitement of the tree, they come on Sir Murrough, as he spoke, looked down upon the leg, swathed in bandages, out- stretched on a support in front of him, and bis companion was forced reluctantly to admit that to attend a wedding with such a linth, especial. ly as a principal, was out of the question.. marked, "but for myself the sooner everything "Julia is in no hurry, of course," Lyle re. is signed and sealed the better I'll be pleased want to get off to the Riviera, before the

lack shrewdness, as the fortune he had mada "Meaning," retorted the other, who did not testified" meaning you've the eye av you on Monte Carlo. Wel, a son-in-law isn't a parent to his wife's father, and if you do it on your own dollars, me bhoy, I'll not say a word."

The digression did not suit Lyle, "We can talic of that afterwards," he answered, some- what awkwardly," the question now it, how you are to get rid of this gout? What do you Mr.think of doing??

limited to such remarles Five, you're late

Five, you're too soon," luked a little nervous,. and became still more marrassed later on as he listened to what Five had to say.

"She

"Good graciou," he exclaimed. vowed she would not say a word about my having been to see het. Does no woman ever

Stop that said Five Angelina is not a woman-she is not like aber girls.

"Of course not," ejaculated Cox Smith "I do--I always know what she means

"You don't understand her," continued before she says it. There's something, though, puzzles me. Perhaps you can explain." in her last letter about an uncle of mine that reWhat does she say?" said Cox, doggedly sing his teeth. Can't a woman ever

buttered.

Bow, who had gone upstairs, as the lightest footed member of the crew, and had only turbed just before Cox, was then questioned to what had taken place in Five's room,

“I could not hear it all," he said, "but Cox tried to talk to him about love being all rot, and how he would soon get over it, and Five

he and of

Five held our the postscript of a letter, fold- ing back the upper portion of the sheet.

season' there is over."

buried to the waist in cavity, formed in the The patient, attired in a white wrapper, was floor of the glass house of which he had spoken to Lyle; the hold being filled with the com- specially imported from the wilds of Western position so rcommended by the speaker's grand- mother, the materials for which had been means of a system of pipes, under control of Ireland. Heat was applied to the mixture by the attendant, bearing coffee and cigars.

"Phwat is the use, the knight went on, "av going to the Continent-isn't this now as good as the best av the Eads in yer own country,

on thus appealed to, speaking with a slight Exactly, Sir Murrough, responded the

foreign models most abbroved-for the peat or German accent, "the abbliances are after the mud-the German shrugged his shoulders- disparagement by implication of the Irish soil

"I do not any responsibility take:" Sir Murrough glared at him, stung by his in which he was temporarily planted. "D'ye tell me, ye spalpeen," he exclaimed that the bit of Kerry bog I'm in this minute isn't bet ther than any dirthy foreign mud?"

The baths of Reichenhall, or Boll Bad, or Wiesbad," retorted the other, "will cure much more than goat or rheumatic affections which perhaps the peas of Ireland may benefit-I have of it no exberience."

And pwhat will the mud ye make in Ger- many do that good Irish peat won't demand ed the knight sarcastically,

I did once know a gentleman," the attend. ant answered," was much in lof with a lady he should not do well to marry. He did undergo the cure at Boli Bad, and his lof disappeared." "dyo mean to say Kerry turf wouldn't have Supposing it did,eturned the knight, done as well ?"

Koch shook his head in negation of this theory. I have of that no exberience," he repeated.

my preconceived notion of furnished apart

think the seaside must be responsible for ments. I quite expected to settle down to a life of warfare with a landladyi a servant, and

for the perpetual presence of vegetables. I the lodgers upstairs. Meals, of course, would depend upon the result. I was also prepared world would be a much more picturesque place often feel that if it were not for vegetables the than it is. Vegetables may even subtly assert themselves through the refinement of the private house. So it is no wonder that they have the power of completely pervading the furnished apartment. There they are beine cooked every that they spend upon the lodger's table, enthroned minute of the day except for the brief period in the biggest vegetable dishes that were ever invented; and I suppose it never will be ex- plained how a handful of Brussels sprouts can atmosphere. be responsible for so many cubic feet of

#She

other of the refinements I had earned to expect. After waiting some time 1 followed the oft-quoted example of the General's widow, and "touched the bell" This touch, as t to make the effect 1.hoped for. From below. were, of a vanished hand quite failed, however, came the sound of voices I barely recognised." "That's 'er!" said Maria, the servant, with her usual merk and smiling manner. She'll n sniff I was scarcely able to reconcile with

foreign to the cultured bearing. I associated ave to wait, that's all came in tones most with my landlady; "why can't she 'ave ligh tea same as-the-rest-of-us ?-? Some folks can't keep their 'ands off of a bell," rejoined Maria; "what's a pusson's legs to er" This was followed by the sudden entry of the vegetable dishes, and after that I touched tha bell in vain. But it did not matter to me, I had got my domestic picnic at last, and for the

floor: I used the same knife for the bread and began by clearing the cruet stand, and the rest of the evening I had a riotous time. I vegetable dishes, and the contre yase on to the the beef and the tinned tongue, and had shots bits of butter and crust and cheese round the at all three as I felt inclined; I parched odd. edge of my plate, and in one half-hour threw off the refined habits of a facuaight as not late dinner, but it was magnificent,

come and clear away, it occurred to me to ask When my landindy at last condescended to

she echoed, as she shook the crumbs into the her why she was so unusually busy. Busy?" coalscuttle. "It's enough to make any one. busy when a Cabinet Minister wires for rooms discovered that the rooms were for the Cabinet at six o'clock in the evening!" I afterwards Minister's old housekeeper, but this did not claimed, "hava you let the rooms of the General's immediately concern me, "What!" I ex- widow?

means Mrs. Jenkins, 'er 'usband wasn't a real "General's widow?" she repeated. If you My landlady looked at me inquiringly:

general-only a militia!""

A certain amount of picturesque regret for ed not out of place. But I have revelled in a the dethronement of the General's widow seem. domestic picnic ever since.-Pall Mall Gassile.

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods I was right about the vegetables. Otherwise have left the Godowns, and all Coods remain my imagination had played me false. Thereing, undelivered after 14th instant, will be were no lodgers upstairs; indeed, judging from my landlady etchy but significant allusions were maintained merely for the purposes of to the subject gathered that the rooms upstairs aristocratit reminiscence. widow left," was the way she put it, I haven't Sincethe 'General's troubled about letting again." "General's My landlady wanted no more than this. widow Ab murmured sympathetically. was a nice lady, was the General's widow," Moved into the country now, she has she rambled on "so highly connected, too! finds it very dull too, so she tells m her letters: No doubt she would find it'dull, after the society she's been accustomed to here." poss?" I shook my bead sadly. "No? She You know. Lady Sophia Micklethwaite, I sup-

landlady en passant. "Her and the General's leads London society, of course," mentioned my widow was great friends. Then there was the Honourable Mrs Pilkington and Lady Wil-

I'll show ye Irish mud's as good as German. really excuse me, miss, but, being accustomed By Pathrick!" ejaculated the patient, "burkins; of course you No? You must If I was in love now could ye treat me for it to the General's widow, I'm apt to think like the map ye tell me off

A condescending tough explained what she desperately unworthy to be the successor of was apt to think. I ordered a chap, and feit the General's widow.

"Nonsense, ye omadthaun," roared Sir Mar-

suggest—abe will aufer, Sir Menough."

"But the Indy the attendant ventured to Sorra a bit," fetorted the knight, who was under no delusions as to Julia Lyle's attitude towards him," her father might," he continued him of that took Git ahead," he added aloud under his breath," but maybe mud would cure

to Kech

the sufferer, and Lyle nodded assent

Ye'll have heard of mud-baths?* queried tinued, but my father's mother-she was a controlling the supply of heat to the bath in "Now it's a quare thing, the former cod-Thu adjured, the latter moved the regulator wise woman, Hiven rest her was cured of which the patient was immersed, and the knight rheumatism wid a mixture of kelp weed and squirmed in his receptacio, dry in the sun. peat she rubbed on the ankles of her, and let,

What on earth has that got to do with your

Ye didn't say the threstment was hot," he remarked, his face growing very red the toes of me feel in burning wather,"

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have here may be useless.", I do know," he said, "but the compost you The other looked doubtful. "The treatment

rough; "am I not just after telling ye Irish style of conversation that I was not going to be NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP It can be gathered from my landlady's chaste peat boats iverything But, I'll show ye allowed to make my stay under her roof into start the treatment ye spake of, and see schemes for doing as there's a lady I'm thinking to marry. Just an excuse for a domestic picnic. All my pet whether yp can cure my fancy for her if Gernot keep a servant to do as she liked, evapo

liked, now that I did man mud did it for another man, what I'm in rated before the haunting shade of the General's will do,it for me twice as aisy.”

widow.The General's widow had never allow

FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKOS hed the kettle to appear in the room, but had

HAMA, KOBE AND MOJI. “ The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees expected the tea to be made in the kitchen; aoof Cargo are bereby requested to send in their my tea had to be made in the kitchen-and so Bills of Lading for countersignature, and to it was, ten minutes before it was wanted. The take immediate delivery of their Goods from General's widow would never have dreamed of alongside. and cheese, but would have touched the bell" making shift with the same plate for pudding

that I had wished to save the servant, make one plate do for everything, pointed out When I, suppressing my feminine desire to

it was made clear to me that people who were servant. The General's widow, too, had never hightly connected never thought of saving the heard of the word "supper;" so my nightly meal of cold mutton, cruelstands, and vegetable cences of his relative-to-be annoyed him, rather impatiently, for the plebian reminis man answered; I can stop it if you wish," my dream of domestic emancipation was com

"I will pat," retorted the sufferer doggedly; pletely merged in the life of intense refinement "Iverything," returned Murphy "what cured I'll show ye what Irish mad will do," my grandmother will cure me-it must run is The attendant pushed the regulator handle, learned to hate the General's widow. If she that, my landlady forced me to lead, I had no lockingblood. I'm arranging to have the same kind a little further over, and the patient seemed to had sometimes been given a name instead of a

of mud baths se

"Abroad, I suppose Lyle ventured to sur-bath, judging from the spasmodic motion of better, but there was something especially be dancing, up and down, on the foor of the titis I might have been able to endure her pes mise;

"I'd go to Dax or St. Amand if were the portion of him which was visible. Still his aggressive about "the General's widow." 1 you." "that is what both Doctor Lentil and Sir John aspect of determination. Koch pushed the of London society of the

lips were set, and his rubicund face, down "Not a bit," the patient answered pettishly which perspiration was steaming, word as

even began to suspect her of a name that was Bulton said, and I tould Hulton his opinion handle again, and Sir Murrough cried out.

rank with i

the leaders was not worth ten pence, let alone the ten good

When I had given up all hope of living the from the ould comptary, and a glass house built the Queen of Sheba: didn't I tell ye," he went landlady's establishment. It was apparent the guineas I paid him. I'm getting the stuff over help.me up. I wouldn't have more to marry a startling change suddenly came over my Here, he exclaimed, "I've had enough simple life that was suited to mynble origin, in the grounds here to work it in. Fm adver on, as Koch slated him put, "Irish and you'll see in a couple of months I'll be

home one evening Generally, the turn of my You have the

then? queried latchkey was the signal for the prompt appear yer Ducks or Saint A-mend:

father-in-law, saying he'll never be that's voice tad in a lot of fashion, but not at all in the Just that same; I'll go now and write my ner. This evening, however, no notice what ance of my landlady, ber servant, and the din ever was taken of my arrival. The table was Then, Sir Murrough the attendant's somehow sounded differently. "I must tell you manner to which the General' widow had Misr Lyle and she likes me, but was bound is true-it would require an earthquake to my came to Paget-Herbert Paget. I love accustomed me The cruet stand was there, it to you by her father. You know what he is get rid of the crust stand in my landlady's

But, knight, what about Koch

But, Koch,interrupted the hewildered establishment but I missed the number took the name and character when I tried up the salt-celldis and got enta

less little mats edged with fringe, that heard of your mud-cure plan from Mier Lyle led with the forks, and thera were She said I had no chance unless you gave het i plices of geraniums: in the centre var any

got rusty, and said Cox knew no more about of course, it's all right if it makes us happier," love than the Senior Proctor, and did not like I have only two uncles, both. in India," it because when he tried to kiss that girl of hid Smith "Can't you tell me what she be always has lo stand on every rotors cleared his throat, and having no lo he hanged out of the room sharp that he is in which to confide, winked une eye, the nearly came on top of me.".

Bo, apparently, Cox was exercising Christian Mag not visible to Mr. Smith, at the light blue

flag flying above the Oxford one. forgiveness when he said that he would try to I know, of course, he said, at last, quite make things smooth for Five in his love affair. blandly. "It's about your watch you pawned, The next day, Cox went to London, drank to take her and her mother out to supper di half a bottle champagne at his club for lun- the Savoy, or was it at the Carlton ? She's a cheon, cut ausbituary notice with his penknife bit slangy-some girls are, but her heart is in from a back number of the Times, and put it the righplace, you bee." in his cigaretia case. Then he hailed a ban-Fold her that?" said Five, turning som, and drove to an address in Kensington crimson

written out in the stalwart Endwriting of "I'did" said Cox, firmly. "It melted hertising for an attendant that knows the business; do anything German mud could Peat would moment I entered the house, when I came

Seven of the Cambridge eight

heart; that's what she means by it making you both happler."

claiming Julix af yes without having gone to Koch aagerly, 13 S

"I hope so, I'm sure," replied Lyla devoutly and there the conference ended

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Is Miss Angelina Delaney home?" he asked The parihurmaid -sald," that Mis, De Mr. Smith heaved a sigh and then smiled. labey was out, but that Miss Delaney was at "It will be all right now, eh?" he ecstatically home, and he smiled as a Roman general must sald. She and her mother are at Brighton, Have, smiled when the ranger informed him I am going down there to-morrow. We shall that the omens were favouble, PREKOGUE talk a lot about you.”

When Cox, of the Cambridge Eight found"I expect you will, said Cox, with his cyce Julia Lyle's necessities or rather those of himselfnfronted in a dimioutlys rawing on the light blue flag, and a tendency to wink her father and not her wishes had given con- room young lady head and Moulders still affecting his right eyelid. "I am off to the to her engagement to the old Irish taller man himself, with small waist, large Paris to-night, and then my guardian induce broker, whose knighthood had come dark eyes, and hair, of arcurions red-brown always worrying me to go round the world to him as a reward for loyalty when loyalty tinge, he eyed her with admiration as a con- and improve my mind, think for once in a Coisseur in such mattofs, and decided to go ! way, I shall have to gradify the old boy.

was scarce across the water. The prospect of posalay Angering, Mla monay kad induced the

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