, 1870-07-16
A LIFE OF TROUBLE,
run1 fte ff,1ndou1 ArrhaSr.

4 LIFE OF TROUBLE.
From. The {London) Argosy.
Il would have gone into the magazine last
mouth, but that Dunh&1n stopped it, telling
mt to write the otner paper.
Mr.. Todhetley says that you may sometimes
read u PERSONS fortunes in their eyes. don't
know whether it's true. She holds to it that
when the eyes haze sad, mournful oppression
naturally, tl,eir owner is sure to have lilo Of
sorrow. or course, instances may be found ;
Thomas Ry.ncr'e WAS one.
Tou can look back to March and read what
EAs said Of him "A del;cate-faced, thin man,
will rather sad expression snd mild brown
eyca. Il spite Of his poor clothes and his white
apron, and the obscure chop he had served in
for twenty years, his face had gentleman
plainly written in il but he gave you the idea
OF beng too meek-epi1ited; as il in any strug-
gle with the world he could never take bis own
part" The sAd expression wss IN the eyes
would have been painfully sad but for its
eweotness. But jt's not given to everybody
alike to discern this inward sadness in the look
OF another man.
Twas Of no avail to say that Thomas RF-
ner had brought trouble upon himself and
IN NarWickshire, poor in pence, rich in
children. - Thomas Was pnt apprentice
40 doctor in Birmingham, who Vas
a1so q chemist and druggist. Tom had
to serve in The shop, take ont teeth, make up
The lbytic, and 50 round With his master to
fevers and rheumatism. While he VITA doing
this. the curate died: and thenceforth Thomas
would have to mike his own Way in the world,
with not soul to counsel him.
OF course he might have madeit Bat fate,
or folly, w1s against him Some would have
called it fate, Mrs. Todhctly for one; others
might have sAid it ~as folly.
Next door to the Doctor was a respectable
pork md sausage shop, carriedon BY widow,
Mrs- Bates. Rymer took to go in there Of an
evening, when be had the time, and cit in the
parlor behind with Mrs Bates and her two
daughters. Falling money for theatres and
concerts, knowing no friends to drop in at,
Young fellows drift away anywhere for re1hxa-
ton when work ie done. AIra. Bates, good
old notherly soul, ns fat rs her best pig, bade
him run in whenever be felt inclined. RyIner
liked her for her hearty kindness, and liked
uncommonly the dish OF hot eausages that
used to come on the tatla for supper. The
wort Was, he grew to Ike something else
and that wAs Alss Susanuah.
II it's true that people are attracted by their
contrasts, there might have been some excuse
for Rymer. He was quiet and sensitive, with
refined mind and hmid manners. Susannah
Gates Wa free, loud, good-humoTed, and yul-
handsome then but, Judging By what she
was later, we thought it must have been quite
q broad style Of handsorneness. The Miss
Bateses were intended By theu mother to bs
useful; but they preferred to be styhab.
They played "Buy Broom and other FASH
iouable tunes on tho piano. speut tiuae over
their abundant hair, wore silks for best, car-
ried fans to chapel on Sundays, and could not
be persuaded to serve IN tho shop on the
busiest day. Good Mrs. Bates managed that
BY the help Of her foreman--a steady Youug
msn, whose lodginga were up court hard-by-
Well Tom Rymer, the poor cleFgymans
Bon, got to be as intimate in there as It were
tis home. and be and S1sannah eHuck up
friendship that continued al the years he was
lis time, Mrs Bates died.
The young foreman somehow managed to
secure the business for himself, and married
the elder Mes Bates on-hsnd. There ensued
some frightful squabbling between the sisters.
The portion of money said to te due to Miss
, ,Eusaunah was handed over to her, with the
Lfeuuest that che should find another home.
Nymer came o. age just then, and the first
thing he did Was to 8 We her a home himself
~ nEskng hfE biz b,;ht r'1e II.
were over from that day. The little Monershe
had WAS soon spent: be must provide living
how he could. Instead OF going on to qalify
himself for surgeon, he took asituation As
no for himself il IS email sl1op at Timberdale.
For the first ten years Of his married life, he
-ras a1waya intending to pass the necessary e1-
taRminatione each year saving it should bedone
: thene1t. But expenses came On thick and fast;
aud that great need with everybody, present
wants, had to be Served first. He gave up the
: hore then: went On in the old iog-trot line,
and subsidized into an obscure rural chemist
and druggist.
It's to be hoped you won't mind looking over
the PAPER for March. or this z,ay not be too
intcl!isible. That eon Of Rymer,e who had
become black sheep =ince be grew up, changed
the lank note in the letter, and decamPed
What with the stunning blow the discovery
itself was to Mr. Ryuner, and Whist with the
coucea'ment Of the weigEty secret, for he Ind
to conceal it, he could not SO and Tell Of his
own son, it pretty nearly did for him nymer
tried 70 make reputation in one sense-bE
the hnne1nS OF thai hve-ponnd bank note
to the Squire For Whl:h the Squire, igno-
rant Of the truth, thought him downright
luuatic.
For come months after that evening Thomas
Iymer vas to be ssen .s IL s h.s shop R. as usual I;
DARBY shire, the Ifmberdale doctor, said Vas
owing to the liver, and physicked him we'll
But the phvsic did not answer. or all OBJ
stinate hveEs, Darbyahire said, Rymsr's Vas
Some DAYS be could not 20 in the shop at all,
and Margaret, his dauglter, had TO serve tho
customers. She could make up prescriptions
just as wen as he did, and people grew to
trust her They had good business. It was
known that Rymer's drugs we're genuine;
handed down direct from the fountain head.
He mad given m The Posi- Onica. and The c-o-
&c, a sl,ep op,,ogte fnd tsken to it. In this
rnccrtain way, week SICK, and week toler-
ably well, nymer continued to go on for about
Ma-gare, Rymer stood behind the counter.
ncat little Gil in Gray mcrino. Her face was
;urt lie her fathers with the eatne delicate
textures, the sweet brown eyes, and the look
If ustiyc refinement, Margaret belonged to
l,is Fla cf tbe houso: there wAs not an atom
of Tic Brumnacen Bztesea in her. The
squire. who reneaoered her granaf..her, tie
was In her nineteenth year nov, and for steadi-
neg you nicht have given Ler ninetv-nine,
and tr,.ticd f,er aloue all oror the world aud
back .r.,n
Ehe etnod 3.a,,;,d tha ro1ntnr. making up
some MEDICINE. A1o1nau in a coarse brown
clcsk. with snowv cotton handkerchief tied
i dull AUTUMN dav: eyen,ne vss coming on,
snd the 1is felt chill.
.How much be it. nle,se. miss ?" asked
the woman. ~ Mnrgaret handed her the
bottle Of mixture, aone up nicely in white
= Eighteen peuee. Thank you."
Re the master bstter - the woman tu1nn9
ror13d from the door to inquire, as il the state
OF Mr. Nyner's hcalth Aad been an after
thought
Z. think he is little. He has very bad
cold and is lying in bed to-day Thank you for
aeking, Good night"
When, dusk came on, Margaret shut the