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lnat where SKY thlr IS, Mr., NlrlaZ Ana
And you are going there tomorrow
Acon-Vraz asked, glancing uneasly at his
companion.
OF course am said Ben Daoud, with
my little bag of money to make my little pur-
chases. And saving your presence, dear sir,
l think you will be great fool il you don I
come with me, and make some little pur-
chases too. For diamonds, Mr. Nirlaz, are not
80 easily come by every day, as in Sky Fair
and hundred years is long time to wait
before one can make another such bargain.
'Tll come, Ben,' the jeweler cried, enthu-
siastically. I'm come and if ever | can do
you any little obligation in the way of
moneys, will And he grasped the hand of
Ben-Daoud who sold clocks and discounted.
why, that s right, the other returned
And | II come for you at eight O'Clock to-
morrow, punctually; get your little bag of
money and your nightcnp and Il comb ready ;
But the ieweller asked, with one return
ing tnge of suspicion. how are we to get
there, Ben =
Oh, replied Mr.. Bon-Daoud, cooly, wen
have shay
Sky Fair diamonds cheap bargains I,
AGONY Nirlaz could think Of nothing else all
the time OF supper which was something
very nice indeed in the fish way, and into the
cooking of which oil entered largely. lie
| Miriam his daughter, who had large ewes
and a coral necklace (lor weekdays) were
fain to ask him the cause thereof and he,
| like good and tender husband and father as
| he was, (and most Hebrews, to their
credit, are,) told them of Ben Daoud's mar
vellous story, and of his intended journey.
The next morning, as the clock struck
eight, the sound Of wheels was heard before
Acon-Nirlaz's door in the Common Hard of
Belleriport, and handful Of gravel was
playfully thrown against the lrst-Hoor
window by the hands Of Ben Daoud of West
hampton.
But it needed no gravel, no noise of wheels.
no striking of clocks, to awaken Aeon Virliz
He had been up and dressed since six o'clock
and leaving Mrs Virlaz peacefully and sound
ly sleeping and hastily swallowing some
hot coffee prepared by Barney, the lad, Ito
whom he issued strict in functions concerning
the conduct of the warehouse during the
day y lac descended into the street, and was
af'9ctionately hailed by his fvllow-voyager to
Sky Falr.
The seller Of clocks sat in the shay of
which he had spoken to Acon-Virlaz 1t
was dusky little concern, very loose on it.
springs, and worn and rusty in its gear As
mentioned by the way that it ' was !" discount s
pony, having been taken as an equivalent
for cash in numberless bills negotiated in the
Westhampton garrison, and had probably
! been worth, in his time, considcra hly more
than his weight in gold.
Said pony, if he was rum un to look at
which, indeed lac wLs, being hairy where he
/ should have been smooth, and having occa-
slunal bald places, as though he were in the
habit of scratching himself with his hoofs--
which hoois, coupled with his whity-brown
ancles, gave him the appearance Of having
lndl tierent bluchers and dirty white socks
on-was IL good un to 20. So remarkably
good was he in going, that he soon left behind
the High street Of Bclleriport, where the
shop-hoys were sleepily taking down the
shutters where h0uscnaids were painfully
eiaboratnS the doorsteps with hearth-stones,
to he soilcd by the first visitor dirty boots
! (such is the way of the world y where the
mlIkman was making his early morning calls,
and the night policemen were going home
Blundcrborc-who had been ashore on leave.
and was little shaken about the ewes still
was Fastening to catch the beet boat to
convey him to his ship. Next the town
itself did the pony leave behind; the out
skirts, the outlying villages, the ruined
stocks and deserted pound, the Port Admiral S
villa ;all these he passed, running az fast as II
constable, or bill, until he got at last into
broad, white road, which Aeon Niraz never
remembered to have seen before II road with
a high hedge on either side, and to which
there seemed to be no end.
Mr. Ben-DaOud drove the pony in irst-.ate
style His head and the animals wagged in
concert and the more he houlished his whip,
the more the pony went and both seemed to
like it. The great white road sent up no
dust. It's stones. if stones it had never
grated nor gave out Il sound beneath the
| wheels OF the shay 1t was only very
white and broad, and seemed to have no end
Not always white, how ever for, as they
progressed, it turned into color first milky
gray, then what schoolboys call, in connec-
ton with the fluid served out to them at
breakfast time, sky-blue then a deep vivid,
celestial blue. And the high edge on either
side melted by degrees into the same hue
and Acon-Nirlaz began to feel curiously
teathery about the body, and breezy about
the lungs. He caught hold of the edge OF
the shay, as Though he were afraid of fall
ing over, He shut his eyes from time to
time, as though he were dizzy He began to
fancy that he was in the sky,
There is Sky Fair, Mr. Virlax = Ben Daoud
suddenly said, pointing ahead with his whip.
AT the moment, doubtless through the
superior attractions Of Sky Fair, the dusky
shay became of 50 little account to Aeon
Niraz as to disappear entirely from his sight
and comb, Gis l;ttIe b,n 81 r'dne, nie nlen'ca
in his side. nocket trrst inn 'uo's WAS :ale
At the same moment - "rm,1 ,nns. oh .ne cushion
to the discount nonv 70 nmt h;e0IS na'e Sooufe1
lying in some vepv ry remn,o Pc, m,.nsei. GUY a.
for he vanished 3I,ona,bor .v,n'i tn 81 Groa'ion
Nirlaz almost iancied tat he saw the beast Z
collar fall fifty thousand fathoms five. true a,
a plumoline, into space and the reins which
put moment before Ben-Daoud had held
lie founJ b;y,asoif9 """9 ,i,I; atAe ie"''els,
. lo,sc o,.;,t,, upon naru
down 80, ,ot i;l'n a.; "niIn' On 'oohlhs
.WhirP ~ NJ, 'itn'oiu-uus', Inn au,
when Acon.Virl,~ '1' tim;dI' tnI u"ouH gAplaihsu
. Chean nv dirt bere Ivy Ivy "sheu i nm:
vonr cast-iron r,,ors "p'Sai o. h piupe 70 or,nt t
Virlaz '""Oi' ~ 'e '""' l'cn'u' MT