, 1866-12-16

0con aftefRaEQ8 LFQAu4!oo w tIucA 1oA
: SLEPT street, and, whon the owner. OF the
legend bad shive1ea on the pavement hall
m hour, what time the poEtef's knocks At
thS inn door knocked up the whuir town
Ant, aud tho ipn last, he CROPPED his ~ay
eroped between the succts OF a ahu.-up
BED that seemed to have been expressly ra.
{flgcrated for HIN when last made. -.
"You remember me. Young jackson ?"
nWtat do remember, II not youf You
are my flrst remembrance Il was you who
told me that was my name. II was yon who
told me that On every twentieth Of Decen~
4 Il called b, ,thday. suppose tho las. com.
mpnica1ion wss truer than the first :.
"What am like, Young Jaekson:''
stYou nre like blight all through the
year, to me. Ton haFd.lined, thin'apped,
| mask on. You arc like the Devil to me;
! most OF oil when you teach me religious
things, for you make me abhor them"
'sYou remember nc, Mr.. Young Jackson!"
In another voice from another quarter.
| Most gratefully, sir. You we're the ray
of hope and prospecting ambition In n,y life.
| When ! attended yous course, believed
that should come to be greater healer;
| md felt almost happy, cvcn thongh was
sttll the one hoarder In the house with that
horrible mask, and ate ard diaDk In silence
I
every day. AZ I had done crery, ereEy.
| every day, through nT school time aud from
| my earliest recollection"
| "Mhat am I like, Mr. Young Jacksou" :
| You are like a Superior Being to me.
You are like nature beg ginning to reveal her
self to me. ! hear you again, as one OF the
hushed crowd Of young men kfndlfnS under
the power Of your presence and knowledge,
! and you bring into my eyes the only exult-
ant tsars TINT eser &C. stooa ~ In them them 81,
In grating voice from guile another quar-
"Too we'll. You made your ghostly ap.
pcarance In my life one day, and announced
that its course Tas to be suddenly aud wholly
changed. Yon showed me which was my
wearisome scat In the Galley Of Barbox
Brothers. tWhen thty were, If they ever
were, is unknown to me there was nothing
| Of them but the name when bent to the
oar.) Tou told me what I was to do, and
~hat to be paid you told me afterwards, at
intervals Of years, when was to sign for the
Firm, when became partner, when bo-
came the Firm. know no more Of 1t, or Of
Il What am like. Mr. Young Jacksons'
"You arc like my father, sometimes
enough so to have brought up ~ uuacknowi-
edged son. see your ecanty figure, your
close brown suit, and your tight brown wig ;
but you. too, wear q wax mask to your
death. iau never By chance remove lit
never by q chance falls of-aud kuoW no
more Of you."
Throughout this Dialogue, the traveller
| spoke to himself Vt his window in the morn-
lug, ap he led spoke to hiasselfa at the Juuc-
tit.n orr night. And AS he then looked In
grny too soon, like neglected fire, 50 1o
now looked in the sunlight, an ash1er gray,
lie fire which the brightness al the sun
The arm of Baceor Brothers had been
Pntlic Notary and bill-brokiu: tree. Il hu,l
gained for itse'fa sripins reputation belU-.
the days Of Young jackson. and the Tcpata.
tlon had stuck to Il and 10 ilia'. 80.
| AS he had impeseeptsb}y come into rosses-
Sion Of the din den mp fn the corner Of a
court off Lombard street. on Whose srimT
windows the Inscription Darbux Brothcls
had for many long years deily iutcrposed It.
self between him and the sky, go he bad In
eeusibly found himself Parsonage held In
screw light 10 every transaction IL which he
I engaged, whose word WIS never to be
taken without his Attestcd bond, whom
oil dealers with openly set up guards and
wards against This character had come
as II the original Bazho1 had stretched him
ec'f down upon the Office floor, and had
thithcr caused to be conveyed Young jack
| fon In his steep, and had therr effected Q
metempsyehosis and exchange OF peesous
BY the deceit Of the only womuu h. had ever
loved, and the deceit Of the only friend lie
lad erer made; who c1oped from him to be
married together-thc discovery, 80 followed
Up, completed what his earliest rearing had
begun. &c ehrank, hbashed, within the form
Of Ba!box, ard lifted up his head and heart
| no mere.
But h. did at last effect one great release
in hls condition. He broke the oar he Lad
Piled 70 long, and he scutticd aud sank the
galley. He prevented the gradual retirement
Of an old conventional business from him,
By taking the Initiative and retiring from It.
With enough to live on Though AFTER I'LL with
not too much, he oblitEratei tho firm oi
baTboX Brothers from the pages Of tho pnsi
leaving nothing but ita name on two port
manteaus.
"For one nnst have some name In going
about for people to pick up" hc explained
dow, "and that nane at least was real once
Whereas. 1unng jackson !-not to mention
IFS being q sadly satisica1 misnvmcf for O.t
*Iacksrr."
He touls ur his lat and walked out. just in
time 10 See: Eassin:s alon:. On the opposite
side Of the way. Il Eclyct=cn man, carrying
he days dtn1er ID a small tund'o ,uat ,nighl
have been large- witdcut suspicion Vt CLINT
teuy, a''d palting away towartss the Lu"csiof
SheI..s La'n,e:' said paaeo1 Brothers
- And b. the by"
Kfd!cu;oca, surly, that man so serious
10 tc1fcn"talucd, and not three days cmancl
Aac1 tftm q routine OF 1rudgsFy, shout
| stand rubbing bis chin III the street, in 8
| bloHn study shout comic songs
'.Bedaites" said Barbox Brothers, tcs
| lily. "Sings them at the bedsidcs Wig at
.hr bedside, unless he goes to bed drunk
Does, .ttu1dn't wonder. Hut It's no bust
n"es CT mine. Let nc see. Nugby Junction
| Aagby Junction. WheEc ahaH / 70 next
As Il came into my head List night when
woke from an uneasy sleep In the carriagt
from here. Where sball GOT I'll 90 ana
!ook at the junction By daylight. There.
10 hurry. ard may like tho look Of p1g
Line better than another
But there were SO many Lines. Gazing
down upon them from bridge at the juno
ton, II Was a. N the concentrating Com
!, ranies formed great Industrial Exhibition
/ of the works Of the extraordinary ground
spiders TINT spun iron. And then 81 plan,
uf the Lines went such wonderful *ays, s<
! c1ussing aud curying among one another
that the eve lost them. And then somc Q
tnen appeared to Start with the fSed inten
tion Of going five hundred miles, and nil 0
; sudden Gayc il up at IN Insignificant bar
then others, like intoxicated men, went ,
little way very struight, apd surpsieiag1,
slued round and camt back again. And thri
others were SO choek-fall o! trucks of coal
|
/, others were 20 gorged with trucks Of ballast
Others were 80 set apart for wheeled object
l like Immense f.on cortoh-reels; while other
! were so bright antt clear, and others were q
= dsev osef TO rust and ashes and idl
| whcelsarrows ont Of work, with their legs il
: the cir docking much like their masters o1
+ st5ike), that there Tas no beginning, middle
or end to the bewi{dcrment.
Bnrbox Brothers stood puzzled on th
= = bridge, passing his right hand across til
YfrA @t7 <NH1 III fAf- rA,1tf fs.tS
8 while be looked down, as IL the raifwa,
Q Lines we're getting themselves phofcgra ohet
y on that sensitive plate. Then, was heard
distant ringing Of bells and blowing Of whIs
= Ties: Tier. pn'pet.looklng hesds Of ne'
: popped IN again: Then, prodiE,ons voodei
razoIs set up on end, began shaving the at
9 mosphere. Then. eevesul locomotive en-
Eines in tevernl directions began to scream
and be agitated. Then, along ore avenue
4 tra!us appeared that didn't como, but ssoppe,
without. Then, bits of trains broke Oh
y Then, strusglins ho:se became involve,
= With them; Then, the locomotives zhare
: whole.
: CLEARER by this. No hurry. No ueea to mas
E up my mind totay, tomorrow. nor gct III
J. day 4f,er. ~ tase walk;' ,
4 shontd} that the walk tended 10 the pia,
- - form at which he had alighled, and l.
= Lamps room. But Lamps was not In hI
room. A pair OF velyeteen shoulders ver
4 adapting themselves to one Of the lnp-cs
~ alons on the wall By Lanps' fireplace, bu
'1 Otherwise the room wxs void. In passlu
~ back to get out Of the station again,
! learnt The causr Of this vacancy. bF catchiu
~ sight OF Lamps On the opposite line Of rai
y way, skipping along the top Of train, Gor
~ carriage to carriage, and catching nehte
;, 1 nu1uesakes thrown up 10 him by co1iiutoi
r SNe!s. .-s- i. = =. -