The St. Cloud journal., 1871-04-13

- lightly Of her as I did. But I ,
meant no harm. She never took a ,
fancy to me, as I said before, and, if
she had"
+ "1f she had, she would never have
told you Of it, Oswald, you may depend
upon that. If you think otherwise,
Mrs. Archer is very different woman to
what you suppose her to be. With re-
spects to her journey to London,
know all llparticulars, though 1 am not
at liberty to tell you the true reason;
but you may take my word for it that
it was good, and pure, and woman.
ly one. And, if tho day should ever
dawn, as I trust it may, when her
character shall be acknowledged to be
blameless BY her friends and relations
you win see that I am right"
II am sure Of it," said Captain .Os-
wald, rising, for his friend, had risen
preparatory to departure; s'for I al
ways thought her great deal too jolly
to have any thing wrong about her.
Has Archer heard any thing Of this
business, Garden? What does he say |
Of it,"
Il know nothing. and care less,"
rejoined Mr.. Garden. "Archer was |
never favorite of mine, although clr-
'eunlstances threw us much in each
Others company. The probabilities
are that he has heard nothing Of these
rumors about bis wife. But, if 1 can
get her name cleared with her own
tamily,Iil shall do it,
81 am very glad to hear you take
such al interest in the matter, Garden !;
and, if using my name-that is, relat-
ing to the part which I regret 1 took in
the busiuess-cau effect any good. use
it freely ; for l never thought Iahould
do the poor girl such an injury by COM
plying with her sisters request"
T. II am sure you didn't!" said Geof-
frey Garden, as they warmly shook
hands upon it, "aud I shall tell Mrs.
Archer so, the first time I see her"
'"Aud will you give me her address ?"
Willingly she will be pleased to
see the face of an old friend" with
which be wrote Eugenia's direction
down upon his card, and the two men
separated, equally pleased ct the inter-
view which had just takeo place.
Then Geotfery Garden took his wsy
again toward the Strand, going there
from habit almost more than inclina-
ton, Tor the hour at which he thought
there was any likelihood Of meeting
Harry Archer was past. He had made
20 point each day of calling at the
ICbariog- Gross post-ofice to learn if the
last letter Eugenia had written had
been asked for; but, as he placed his
foot upon its portals, on this particular
morning, he saw an apparitioo a hun
dred PAGES in advance Of him, which
made him withdraw it in all haste to
give pursuit-the apparltion Of man,
! clad IN native costu ne, who was strid-
ing in the direction Of the Strand.
Under the circumstances, an East-In-
dian native would, Of course, at any
time have attracted his attention; but
East-Iudian natives were in London by
the dozen, and he had followed them
for miles many times before, and dodg-
ed them up by-streets, and came upon
them unexpectedly round corners,
only to find them hawking missionary
tracts, or selling bottles Of otto Of rose,
Or packets Of curry-powder, and in each
case unmistakably nasty aud genuine.
/ But in the native whom he now saw
tefore him, threading quickly the
crowded pathway Of the Strand, there
was marked popularity which he had
never ssen in and Of his race before.
1 have said that he was "stridiug," and
!; Geoffrey Garden. knew we'll that an
East Indian never strides like an Eng
Iishmsu. In al other respects, Henry
Aroher's disguise ably sustained the
character he professed to be-; but be
could not OF he bad forgotten to alter
the method Of his walking, and his
|. step betrayed him for Geofrey Garden
had not watched it for . second from
+ the rear when he had fouod his man,
/ and detsrmind to run him down. But
, he was compelled to act cautiously, for
remembering that he wore no disguise
himself, he thought it likely that Arch
er, catching sight Of him, would take
to running aud though an East-1ndiau
, might run down the Strand at mid
. day without much notice being taken
Of him, 40 Englishmau in tull pursuit.
| of him would DO sure to attract crowd
. and tho chase would tnrn into hue-and
cry. And so the FIRST thing he did was t.
pull his hat down over his eyes, snt
cross to the other side Of the road, whenct
he hoped to observe the actions of the
man he followed without being seen
Once there, he soon came alongside o
him, and, even with the street between
them, noted several things which con
: vineod him his surmise was right. Il
the first place, Archer evidently anx
, ions to avoid any thing which coul'
J suggest the real land of his birth to
spectators mind, had adopted tho full
. costume Of 4 Bengalee, and this was 1
matter ofsuprise to Garden, who won
,I.dered a man Of his sense should no