The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-03-05

} become very intimate. we waikeu TO
gether we PLAYED together, tdkeI much,
aud commented on everything. He had
travelled great deal, anil of course | WAS
in luck to fall in with him on this account,
TO say nothing of his being the son of a
iorI. He WAS a going to show me Paris
and French life. and | must leave all To
him. He knew how to save me all trouble
and bother from the police officers at Ca
ais, and he would. He would hook at my
passport, to see that it WAS in perfect order,
and also overhaul nv trunk and tell me
the exact amount of duty | Sh Iuld have 10
pay This he did, ani then observed:
oh matter of ten guineas will see
you through II right, my lord! Yours is
a mere trihe-I wish mine WAS az little
It will cost me Il cool hundred; but sup
pose YOU left at home all except absolute
necessaries, as ought TO have done. By
the-way, as we are nearing Caais now, yon
NAV just haal me the amount, AMI | will
arrange it without giving yonr Iord>hlp
any trouble whatever. Yei stay?" he int
medialaly adle |, with a veXeu expression; ;
''coniouGd it what am l thinking about .
talking money atfsirs to your ior'lShip! A
goo joke, though, in its way-ha. ha. ha
--ouly yoa must not tell it ON lie in the
saloons of fashion, my lord. No, I'll tell
YOU what, my lord! | understand the>t.
things, AMI II! arrange AL, put Your bag
gage with mine, AMI Wen make it all ight
at the end Of the journey
| began to think it was going to cost
me something to keep mp NY title; but
then it WAS high lte might not a>t long,
and perhaps me,er come ar IN, AMI So |
resolved to see II thruug while my money
lasted
As we drew near Calais, all was excit'~
nent and hustle on brald our stea ncr,
each one ANXIOUS Ia look out anl get pos
SESSION % his baggage aud otherwise az
range for getting ashore at the earliest
Ipo>sib'e moment. As my friend had 81
kind Y ,oInuteere. to take all trouble AMI
responsibility off my hsnls, t,-I! very east !
Ind cnmtrHte,l, anu WAS amnsn. IN, sell
with the f-ut of lttl4 boats that Fra gath
creI around IL, Il lei with curiuu~Iy dressed
persons, all eager to gain the patronage at
The passengers for t!rn>elvra Or EMPLOYERS,
when ih. Hon Mr. Beaufort came hnrr,iag
up aud drew me apart from the others.
Il find, he said, II have not gold enougll
10 pay the duties ami "-t us to Paris.
Could YOU obIige me with change for il
five hundred pound note. 2
"Unfortunaiey y" | replied, Il have not
more than fifty gaineas in my po>>t>>io'i,
the rest of my fan Is being in a draft Oh
DeIes>rrt & Co, Paris."
How unfortunate. What is TO he done
| BY the bye, will you let rue see your draft,
my IoriF'
! produced it.
Stay a minute, til I speak to the cap
tain he sail, Il think | can arrange it. y
He hurried away, with the draft in his
hand. For the first time | felt liItIe
suspicious Of some trick, aud waited his re-
however, IN about ten minutes, and a>k,.l
me fo~ my irl sport, saving he thought he
could Ct through without any trouble
: As We hal not yet reached the pier, |
handed him that. but with the resolve OF
, having it back before going ashore
r " hen, some ten inmates Aer. h. re-
turned With Il chrerinI s,ni e, AMI, folding
: up my papers, put them in nv han |, with
the renark that al, was right, WAS So
ashamed of my late suspicious that felt
my self tush.
"rhe clerk" lie said "has changed NY
4
d, alid the rest bills on the Bank of F auce,.
By the-bhe, my lord, Suppo>e you take IA
tcw-you may want Ia use them before
YOU get your Nut;tll lraft ca>heI "
declined at first; b lie insisted 50
strongly on my taking and carry iug them,
} even though IhiughL night mt want
u use them, that at last, tearing longer re-
+ fil>al would hurt his feelings, | consented
: To put them in my pocket-br'k.
| Uuder tile management of my frienl /,
who spoke French ITS hn"ntIy as English,
e' erything got n smoothly, AMI | Soon
toun.I mf,se ira 'Sp"rte.I from the steamer
To II hu.. h,trl- without, as he SAIL havIn :
, any trouble whatever. Oar pt>>p,rr~,
: neantilne, had been given mp and srIft on
u Paris and temporary onrs, as is the Gus
! TON, hal been furnished in the place of
= them. We siput one mhTry night IN ta
ais anl tu k the ,Iiligenct. for Tire Capl,aL
) | will pass over tine the remainder oi the
journey, with the simple remark that every
r nom mt mure and more enl1ared Ine To
my agreeable ami ariStocratlc frieul, an,l
{, the only regret had w;ls III tie fact Of be-
) lng IN II false nnitiom, which sooner Ur
later lie III glt discover 10 Inv grief an |
slllme. tutniu,leI, |, Ii ,wev-r, wO lli ea-
Ir,r Ife f,r once. an trust u luck for
in, ly escaping from tdisag+e+t0le dsao'te-
r MeRt.
On fm,I Y arriving at Paris, or pass