Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-21

neaNy gun and Dag, WHICH hoPI uIOPplHs
on the ground, to the great risk of GU
feet.
"There," said he at last, sitting dow
between her and me, and tanning his hot
2 tanned face with his handkerchief. "Thert
il we are. This is all uncommon nice l car
n tell you. Did 1 ever think, when l turned
q out of bed this mornihg-whieh, by the
= way, was at five o'clock-that all this sas
in store for me 1 did not, indeed" And
y he burst into that most Objectionable OF
i all laughs, known as the q outlaw OF
= horse laugh. He was carrying his great
1 musket between his knees, and 1 saw that
i his fingers were still black with powder.
5 We had a field day to-day" he vent
on, and a ri1e-match against the local
: Whiteehapelf fellows. Licked them sound
? ~. What could you expect from White
ehapel's2 1 am so tired and hungry.
. You haven't the little sandwich box, eh-
+ the old sandwich box? No. 1 thought
not,
; "No," she said, Il but i am SO glad we
, met-we shall have such fun. And o,
Ridley"-this was nice familiarity, ad-
dressing a gentleman by his surname!-
30, Ridley, l am going TO stay in London
, for a week, at the new. great hotel, you
know-what do you call It 2"
1t will have been observed that all this
time l was in a manner passed over; that
l bad sunk into an inglOrious obscurity,
being precipitated from my former pros
perity. Feeling this wanton degradation
acutelyl 1 saw an opportunity here, and
struck in:
"YOu mean the Metropolitan Hotel Pal
ace Company, Limited, l think? p
Eyes" she said; lit is all the same, 1
believe
For tie first time he looked at me
straight, beginning with my sleeves, and
so on upwards. Presently he whispered
to her with q curious st1ile, and she whis-
Pered to him and smiled too. Durihg the
whole Of the rest of the journey to Lon
don they talked and chartered, and whis-
pered in the same confidential way. Near
the end 1 think she got ashamed Of the
ungrateful way in which she was behav- |
ing to me. After all, Ilaid hor undor
some obligation as regards the dressing
case and That descent Of the ladder. But
it was no matter. When the coarse Rid
ley got out at stations, which he did at
nearly every one, to fill what he called his
pocket-pistol, we got on again into the old
friendly footing. l began TO think that
she was a little intimidated by his pres
ence.
We arrived in London. ave can wait
here" he said to her, and Tommy shall
get us a cab" l had got my luggage very
quickly, and it lay on the ground beside
me. l had also secured the d-ressing-case,
to which 1 had certainly a little claim for
past services. Suddenly the hateful Rid
ley looked down. "You needn't" he said.
Here. Give me. Thank you"
l resisted this attempt. II beg your
pardon" l said. 81 have a sort of claim,
have 1 not?' 1 said to her, with half n
smile.
'Good graciousT" she exclaimed, 'how2
Uncle bought it for me when l went to
school p
'On, I don't mean that, I said. al
mean coming down the ladder-you recol-
lect."
"What the devil do you mean p he said,
roughly. "Give the lady her case, con-
found it," and with a sudden jerk he
snatched it from me. She saw the re-
proachful look in my face. 81 am so
obliged to you,' she said; II mistook, you
know"
Here was the cab. They got in. 1 stood
by, waiting, looking with a strange ex-
preston at the seat. awe are all going
to one hotel" I said, Hthe Metropolitan
Palace. Limited-not as regards room,
certainly, according to all account" l
added, repeating my little joke to mOllify
him.
Exactly" he said 81 think we have
everything now Would you tell the fell
low Metropolitan Hotel?"
II see there is one vacant place" 1 said, t
reproachfully TO her.
$50 OF" he called. And they did go !
on. I
We went to the same hotel. l was raw 1
ished, as the French say, with the magnifi-
cence of its proportions and decorations. l
But that was onlythe first feeling. Another
and another of another sort altogether, !
succeeded almost Immediately. That feel !
ing was he-or she (which should it be?) /
The fatal dressing-case, and the more fatal
descent down the ladder into the boat, had
done its work and had made me more or I
less Indifferent to Going Jones and his
Arabian work, to the -four hundred beds a
that had been put up, and even to that J
hoist or lift, which moved by hydraulic
power.
<AhI the lift. 1 am coming to that now. e
l used TO meet her constantly; in the $
morning; in the evening; in the hall a
in the great dining room where l never e
could get a place near her, She was al t
ways kind and good to me; but she was
with that Ridley. 1 am inclined t
to believe now, that the odious volunteer t
a terrorism over her, the effect /
of which she had too much self-respect to I
let me see. He was living there; so was b
Tommy. She was living there; SO was l. r
| may as well confess it now, l used to lie l
in wait for her in the hall, on all manner i
Of fiimsy pretexts; either until she came '
down, or came in, or came up. But v
she came down or came up, some v
how that Ridley fellow always coHtrived o
to thrust himself upon her. By some in Ii
trigueing he always sat beside her at the v
No doubt she rebelled against this L
and persecution. Meanwhile a
life was growing almost iHtolerable !.
from agitation and struggle, and 1 felt it :
must end in some way-nOt life, but the h
state of things generally. o
I have spoken of coming up and going h
down; and 1 nave avoided hitherto COM fl
ing directly to that portion of the MARIA a
There hangs thereby more than
would be eonceived-more certainly hangs n
than the simple chamber which the mystic t.
IOuo aScnCg VI SSAclCci 10 HldIllSoleu Ill v
The hydraulic apparatus, raised so many
in the day to the top of the house. a
have alluded before TO the cruel pulmon-
lry infrmity to which 1 was a sufferer,
and which unfortunately about this time =
to be more troublesome than usual o
The house was very full, so 1 had to be V
with a chamber very near to the S
roof, a region which would have been n
practically unattainable by me but for the
blessings of modern science. The lift was t
my salvation-my pulmonary salvation. 1 S
my rides in the lift, and relished t
he mode Of travelling SO much that made S
t the excuse for many journeys to and fro
my room. But there was yet another G
meaning in it. She, like other guests,
lvailed herself of it. Am followed now? Ii
And when I was lying in wait as 1 may
call it, in the hall, l confess to a little ar
When she had entered the appa-
ratus, 1 used to emerge, feign having for d
gotten a pocket handkerchief, or some t
other article and would be transported in P
her delightful society up to the root. 1t
charming; L could have gone up and .
iown from one years end to the other, v
ever getting out. But that of
course could not be. At last it all came l
10 an end, and the lift, accursed invention p