, 1870-05-08

The world. - ~ ''0' ~ N'1N>A' 'A' "ooe 1ot
However, one s.tisfactiont remains + him.
bank is 10 break next day, and AN. Emitt &
TO- 10 ne reta I.Psd: tPs Coed" rsys G9ntham when
Foor and Porfonlcas girl I shall find hsr less
oEdurate then" But his enjoyment Ct ills
1ef1ec'ion is lut monenrary. HIS enemy.
! Ea!ph Montreal, appears and challenges hin
! On account of an abduction. Mr. Gsantham
leiuses, alleging that the lady WAS willing
sGon.rd. iia1i a Eeonndlel! meIdg@i bastard! r,z-
cal! Sec, spit at you, lick, strike and spun
you! Ard as treat you now, 80 will treat
you the first time We ever meet in public !"
Eseh word was accompanied By 3 blow or a,
nlek, aDd, as he finished. Ralph spat in Gran
a =. hoaIse CT Ike the Shrek OF h5cna broke;
from 6rantham's lips, and he leaped upon his
enemy Ralph met him without finc9ling.
struck him to The earth BY dealing ono heavy
and uell-dIected blow. then said, '.St. James's
1ark, NJ msdnlght. Ering second and what
Yen the treatment Ct q dog before the world"
.St. J1mea'a Park, at midnight," said Gran
tham, as he rose. 1T shall be there"
Ralph left the room, laughing at the demon
no had reused, defying IN his heart thu re-
sengeinl dey1 breathing in the others iery
Grantlam now 1ings for murderer. Savage
Mike apFears, md being told that Montreal is
to be Il cut to pieces-hacked inch from inch"
unaccountably declines.
G!anthaIn leaped to his feet; his eyes we're
blazing. and he raised his hand. "Slaye!" he
said. with hot ferocity, "hare I fallen 80 low
that you--my hireling, the vretched felon I
hare paid to do my work--ahall now turn
against me IN rebellon7 Dog! do this. Dare
to disohey me, and will have you torn to
Ehreds, rent piecemea1, and your fragments i
scattered to tho w1nds. Hound! dare to defy
me for an instant and that instant is your
last"
But Savage Mike holds out. For it seems
thai, 't brnte as he is, there il one sound spot
beneath the blnclness of his heart" He fond
", pasEiouately loves the lady he is not mar
ried to /; and he is aware TINT Grantham has
designs upon her, which designs aro sisted e1-
5ared man. " do you understand Thy I defy
your" "Pshnw {" says Grantham and pro
ceeds to explain, in tho shortest and pIainest |
words in the English language, that the lady |
had struck Ills fancy, and that he is liberal IN
money matters. he goes straight to tho point |
in terms as undisguised as if ho were talking Of
the purchase Of ! horse, or the enjoyment o.
favotite dish. The bare audacity with which !
Euch matters are discussed, the startling di l
Eectuess, tho brief obscenity Of language en-
rloyed BY even the yirtuous heroine SIS one OF /
,Le most kablc things to be observed in
these publications. suggestion is an
writer's Not. only is there An absence |
of I'LL effort to write in roundabout and doubt
full pLrRecology, but in almost every case it ap-
peaIs as il the author had never heard Of such |
a process-hnd no moro notion Of it than pig |
of tho decency Of pantaloons. Enough Of
- Tho Wild EoyB Of London:" We need not
follow Mr. Grantham further in his pursuit OF
blood and beauty, nor have we space to show
tkat the samples We haTe Tentured to take
from one Of these rounuces might be matched
from half dozen. Some nto even worse.
There is one story Of its kind I've do not name
y Which has been reprinted over and over
lgain for nearly twenty years; by this time it
must have had as many readers as any Of MI.
Dickens storics; and il is ono Of the most
abominatle productions that ever came from
he press. Nor Is it by any means destitute Of
iteraly skill, Ms perhaps might BIO inferred
rom its long, constant, enormous sale. This
PARTICULAR story is evidently written for n fe-
nale public; it sports with adultery, and is
meant to solace the labors OF Workwomen,
die Wires, and factory girls. In it's time il
nuet have done enormous mischief. But this |
ale belongs to an old order Of denominations
vhich, moro or less, is likely to continue for
md girlE-tlese hiaeoua rpmances Of vice and
1ime designed to catch the halfpence of lads \
hat run on erIands or fag in workshops, and
4 girls who have scarce entered on their
Gems who, unhappily, fag in workshops too
heBe nre the products Of quite new kind of
tera1y enterprise. What can be done to aup-
rees them7 The mischief they do must be
They arc never seen by decent
eople, but they circulate By Thousands in the
tiles. Surely they como under the ban Of
be Law, and it cannot be difficult to discover
hat scoundrel profits originally by their dis
emination.