The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-04-20

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"Ahe that IL al lie may be met with and fought
But =. thst Il patta truth is harder matter to
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~. CHAPTER XIV. -" .
81 a fat; sletpy.lookiog girl, !; engaged
on needlevork behind the counter, hall
rose sthis app..ranoe, and readily gave
the Information be desired: Catherine
Street was severai :. turnings farther
down the Strand; be vas walking from,
instead Of toward it; and, i: having as.
icertained so much, there seemed moth
ing further tori lin L Ia do except to. ppr.
sue the advice which she had tender.
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Il beg your pardou, e he stapmered,
ID his surprise q tie m.oner: :in which
Archer had .svaded him 3" ); :t"but i did I
not see : person in native costume en-
ter this snop short time aeo2'' z...,., ..., .
- "The native costume 2" repeated the
girl, at an evident loss to understand
the term !; "do you mean . gentleman
dressed like q Turk, sir ?'' ,,.,s'. 90
/ "Yes, yes {; a black man with tur-
ban ?'' lis 81 Gl1zs1 80 i@' VI +.
/ u" !""Blqck man. indeed r she :. re-
echoed, with indignant emphasis onsthe
noun masculine. "He ain, no more d
man than you are !! A da'kish gentle
man passed through thus way to Tiger
Alley ; he often do, if that's what you
mean but I haven't seen no Llacz
ssae here myself, whatever other peo.
ple may tbidt or say !'' And, With "a
flushed and irritated counteoance, she
Immediately turned her attention to q
fresh customer. -5,4
Garden saw that he. had plsyed .
wrong card, Henry Archer-if the
flying figure he had seen we're he-was
evidently knovn,at the small green.
gfocer's shop; had even, perhaps, gone
the length Of Willing away his leisure
by Irritation with the sleepy.lookioe
gill who took up arms so valiantly il
defence Of bis status and complexion
It would be loss of time to attempt te
extract sny further information from
herself. He must make the best ol
what he bad obtained, and try to find
his way to Tiger Alley.
"Bless the women," he thought, al
he emerged again into the street, "they
have one good quality touch their af
fections, aud they'll stick to you lik'
wax, and swear their .'.blaok mem arr
only 'darkish gentlemen' to the end Q
time. Well, inside OF out, she coult
hardly have hit on a blacker darlin,
than Henry Archer. And now fo
Tiger Alley" = 49, &c.
Is%' But, on inquiry, Tiger Alley seeme'
to be district more remote and les
well known than he had conceived j
possible so he hailed a Cab at once
and was driven to:it At . bapsom's u,
most speed and the prompti'ude witt
ebioh .ll this vas done caused Linn t
BE- landod there some time before. th
otject Of whom be was in pursuit a,
rived. So long = time, indeed, tba
he wandered up and down the mise1
able-looking street until be was weary
I.weppdering p It his Imagination had de
eeived him, aud the figure he had see
vas only that Of native after al; o
whether the girl At the green. grocer
shop had witfaliy misled him, an
Tiger Alley and Henry Archer had n
connection With one another.
i At last, however, his patience VI
rswarded-at last, when hc hsd nearl
given up the business as a bad jot
| When he bad commenced to remembe
THAT he was used 10 such a thing q
luooheon, and that he had not see
Mrs. Archer or the children fer tbre
tdays past, be -espied the same 6gur
which had attracted his attention b.
fore,> come creeping round the corpe
Of the dirty street. as though ashamed
~ it we'll might be, Of itself and it's So
roundings. TT IL
I As be caught sight Of 1t, Geoffre
:. Garden, standing on the other side ,
the way, called y aloud the, name {
"Archer r 10 the frst impul,e
j pleasure It his sueceas, and stretohe
forth = friendly hand Of greeting, b.
lie,iug that bis salutation would. /
followed by ! grateful recognition and a
| explaoation on both sides. j., But th
sound Of his voice, the sight Of his e,
tended hand, had very different effet
to what be had intended. Henry Arcl
er, looking up guiltily and as if b
stealth, saw only the tall figure of b
friend--the friend whom he had rol
bed, betrayed, and fed from-th
friend Who had evidently tracked hi
t, England, .nd was hunting him dow
for the purposes. Of punishment and 9,
pnsure, standing with an !. outstretche
am, ready TO- -denonnoe and give hi
inP. "a jpstio'. !