, 1873-06-08

sItuoM Punlsneds the betting men never kn
Wten my horse WAS distressed. Close cor
,. have told you that Did he ever tell YOU tha
WAS the best crioketer at Lords What's that
e cried he, suddenly, as email door at the end
J, I me room opened and closed again, almost j
= any shame I ahould say luncheon, for it's or
o'clock, not to say that the meal itself n
i have small pretensions to be called q. dim,
= Will you come and look at it7"
1 Tharo Was nothing very hearty in the invit
:, strange contrast Of this mans shabby ext
! rior, and the tone in which OF suld!
he had burst out to speak, excited anintense cu1
0 osty IN me- to see more Of him; and though
| WAS not without some scruple as to my right to
1 there at al, I followed him as We walked in
the inner room.
a yonng girl whose pale, careworn face AT
, gentle look struck me- more than the elegance
features afterwards recognized, .conrtesis
| Slightly rs We entered.
. H." distressed b. s., Marion" said the Coz
. sui, introducing me; "my daughter, sir-T1
no. af,a,;fser fna5s of your name'"
"Lowther, then-Mr. Lowther, Miss Lyi
yard; that's the regular form, I boliave. 81
! down, and let us have our SOUP = az he spok
he proceeded to ladle out smoky compound. i
which rice and fragments OF lamb we're freel
mingled.
"This is all you will get fer dinner, Mr. Low
I tner, and so Hecure what solids come to you
@.AAef t4AA A417A y - BULL H4u9 A3 We uT10K lArg
1t comes from Patras. aud has it's fine flavor o1
rasin.n :.
I ate and drank freely, and talked away abou
the place and the people, and at last induced MI
host TO speak OF himself and his own habits
He tshed and shot, he said, some years before
but he had given up both be also had IN Arat
nag or two, but he sold them-iu fact, as time
wore on, he had abandoned everything like
pastme OF amusement, and now droned away
NE N seml-stupor, or between gin and sleep.
! r.
letting man have his way. No one asks how
yon live, or with whom. The hogs in stY are
not less troubled with public opinion. Except
once that the Pacha sent me an offer for Marion,
| municason since took up my post"
Ihe young girls face flushed crimson, bat abe
never spoke, nor had I yet heard the sound Of
her voice.
"My Russian colleague" continued he, with
savage laugh. :" grew half terrified at the
became = sultana, and got some fellow to write
letter in Paris paper to denounce the British
intrigue, and declare that I had become Mussul-
man: and the F. O. people wrote out to me to
had not owned hat for 6ve-and- thirty years, I
wore turban when went ont, but as that was
an event that didn't happen above twice or
thrice year, they needn't mind it, and that if
her Majesty mAde point OF it, I'd not go out
any more.
"After that tie official fellows, who seemed
to have forgotten me before, never gave me- any
peace-askng for returns Of this and reports OF
that How many piastres the Pacha gave his
cook-how many kids vent to apilnn-how many
wives to small harem-what was the least d
man could live on in the Engliah service-aud
whether keeping men poor and On the prowi was
not sure measure to secure them Of an inquir-
ing and inquisitive disposition.
~ take it, they must have liked my dis
patches, for not month passed that they did
not poke me- up. At last there came q young
fellow this way; he WaB on q walk down to
Thessa1y, he said to see Mount Olympus he
hurt his foot, and he stayed here several weeks,
and he wrote them dispatch in my name, and
said what stunning fine thing it would be to
make all the country and the Epirus Greek and
that We should checkmate the Russians by erect
Ing rival State and heterodo1 Church, and I
don't know what else. He got up his Greek
theology from Marion, here-her mother Eas
from Athca-and he made believe that he knew
all the dogmas."
stole q look at Marion, but as quickly With
drew il, for sho was deadly pale, and looked as
il about to faint.
Marion Rnows," continued he, all the fine
reasons be gave for the policy, and how it YVES
not to be confounded with what tho Greeks call
the Grande Idee-no Byzantian renaissance hum
bug at all but some sort OF protoctorate State,
with England, France, and Italy. think, as the
protecting powers ane, in fact, he got to be so
and quoted such marvellous names
that F. O. rose to the bait end asked to have
further further information but, by that time,
be had gone away, and we mover aaw more OF
him." :.
Tho young girl rocked to and fro in her chair,
and fearing she would fall of in faint, hall
arose to catch her, when look 80 imploringly |
Bad as to go to my heart arrested me, and Isat |
still, and to avert attention from her, asked the !
Consul some questions as to the value of the |
project be had written about.
suppose it WAS about as wise as such things |
generally are, " continued he "i it may have had |
is little grain Of sense somewhere, and all it's |
required time to develop He was
Hhrewd sort Of fellow that William Hope
bat Was bis name; he borrowed twenty pounds
# me, and he sent it back too, and very pref
? wEting-desk to Marion, and box Of books
nd he said he'd come back some fine day and
Is now tWo Eears and half ne hnve never
card OF him. Is it not, Marion?n
" Two years and eight months" eaid she.
alnaly; but her lips trembled in spite Of her.
WAS not sorTy when our, chiboucks we're in
Eodaced, and the young girl had fair pretozt
steal away; for I saw with what struggle
he was controlling her emotion, and what a re-
ef It would be to her to escape notice.
The Consul was so pleased to have an opportu-
lty to relieve his mind that ho talked away
II hours, and Of his most intimate concerns.
J lnveighing against the hard lot that sentenced
8 wearing out Of his last years Of life in such
ace, he told me his whole history. There Was
1t one point Of any doubt; whether Marion's 7
oAlei uh4 Uetu WeOueQ WIG or not could
IT discover. She was dead some years, and he 6
oke Of her with more feeling than he seemed I
Ill capable OF showing. She had died Of that
cul1ar form Of disease which is found in the low
ing lands OF Greece, and the seeds
the disorder he had already detected in
arion. "There is a little short cough, With c
t effort. but when I hear it it goes to nv
art" said he, "for know well that thera
ks an enemy nothing can dislodge, You g
u it now, listen " sried he and he held M y
. hands to impose silence, but heard nothing.
sat on till evening, chatting, as smokers will q
IN that broken and unconnected fashion that | y
nits Of anything being taken up, and as light u
abandoned. There wns not q little to interest p'
q man whose mere incongruity with his sta n
q impaired strange turn to all his 'opin- 10
s and Judgments, and who even in his
,ishment tried to follow the events of By
I'D he Was never destined to ahare in. ".
many year he had thought OF nothing but vi
= to escape from this dreary spot-to ex- 10
nge with any one and for anything but now ou
b something like q dread Of civilization he II
,ged himself in the thought of his exile, bl'
,re he could be as barbarous, as neglectful, II
as degenerate as he pleased. ~
4 this same ssvagery one trait will suffice to Oil
cate the extent, :Prevesa was formerly mt
ut station where men frequently came in the \ an