The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-02-09
SeIeet MistelIanp
DICKENs'S NEW STORY.
A HOUSE TO LET
Y CHARLES DICKENS.
OVER THE WAY.

| CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
He took well, and pulled 'em in most excel
lent for nine weeks. At the expiration of that
period, when his Ed was a sight, he expressed
one evenin, the last Company havin been turned
out and the door shut, wish to have little
music.
"Mr. Chops" said (I never dropped the
''Mr." with him; the world might do it, but
not me } "NIr. Chops are you sure as you are
in a state of mind and body to sit upon the
| organ?'
His answer was this: ''Toby, when next met
with on the tramp, forgive her and the In
dian. And I ann
1t was with fear and trembling that I began
10 turn the handle; but he sat like lamb. 1t
will be my belief to my dying day that see
his Ed expand as he sat; you may, therefore,
Judge how great his thoughts was. He sat out
all the changes, and then he come off.
"Toby," he says, with quiet smile, "the
little man will now walk three times round the
Caravan, and retire behind the curtain
When we called him in the morning, we
found him gone into much better Society
than mine or Pail Malls. l give Mr.. Chops
as comfortable a funeral as lay IN my power,
followed myself Chief, and had the George
the Fourth canvass carried first, in the form of
a banner But the House was so dismal arter-
wards that 1 give it up, and took the Wan
again.
"I don't triumph" said Jarber, folding up
the second manuscript, and looking hard at
Trottle II don't triumph over this worthy
creature l merely ask him if he is satisfied
nowY"
GLOW can he be anything else? ?" I said an
swering for Trotte, who sat obstinately silent
This time, Jarber, you have not only read US
delightfully."- amusing story, but you have also
answered the question about the House. Of
course it stands empty now. Who would
think of taking it after it had been turned in
those last words, and Jarber waved his hand
indulgently in the same direction.
"Let this excellent person speak, said Jar
bcr. E'You were about to say, my good man."
Il only wished to ask, sir" said Trottle, dog
gedIy, ''if you could kindly oblige me with
date or two in connection with that last story?'
"a date !'' repeated Jarber, ''what does the
man want with dates 2"
81 should be glad to know, with great re-
spect,'' persisted Trottle ''if the person named
NIagsmag was the last tenant who lived in the |
for giving it-that he most decidedly was not"
With those words Trottle made low bow,
and quietly left the room.
There is no denying that Jarber, when we
were left together, looked sadly discomposed.
He had evidently forgotten to inquire about
dates; and in spite of his magnificent talk
about his series of discoveries, it quite as
plain that the two stories he had just read had
really and truly exhausted his present stock
| thought myself bound, in common gratitude,
to help him out Of his embarrassment by a
timely suggestion. So l proposed that he
should come to tea again on the next Monday
evening, the thirteenth and should make such
inquiries in the meantime mi ght enable him.
to dispose triunphantly of Trottle's objection.
He gallantly kissed my hand, made neat
little speech of acknowledgment and took his
leave For the rest of the week / would not
encourage Trottle, by allowing him to refer to
the House at all. / supposed he was making
his own inquiries about dates; but put no
question to him.
On Monday evening. the thirteenth, that
dear, unfortunate Jarber came, punctual to the
appointed time. IIe looked so terribly harrass-
ed that he was really quite a spectacle of fee
bleness and fatigue. [ saw at g lance that
the question of dates had gone against him;
that Mr.. Magsman had not been the last ten
ant of the House; and that the reason of its
emptiness was still to seek.
.sWhat I have gone through" said Jarber,
''words are not eloquent enough to tell Oh
| have began another series of dis |
coYeries Accept the last two as stories laid
On YOUR shrine and wait to blame me for |
leaving your curiosity upappeased until you
have heard Number Three"
Number Three looked like very short man
uscript, and said as much. Jnrber explained
to me that we were to have some poetry this
time. In the course of his Investigations he
had stepped into the Circulating Library to
seek for information on the one important sub
ect All the Library people knew about the
House was, that female of the last tenant,
IS they believed, had, just after that tenant
eft, sent a little manuscript poem to them
hem which she described as referring to events
hat had actually passed in the House, and
which she wanted the proprietor of the Libra
y to publish. She had written no address on
ier letter; and the proprietor had kept the
ready to be given back to her (the
publishing of poems not being in his hne)
hon she might call for it. She had never