The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-25

marry a beggar; but / have had some
thoughts of my own about marriage OF
late"
This was a remarkable admission for
Harry Warning to take.
CT hope they are favorable ones, re-
turned Lady Warning.
Certainly they are not unfavorable
my dear mother, said bachelor Harry.
"Given the right conditions and L shall
be ready to marry or, at least, to go
conrting," added he, little ruefully.
And do you find any help toward the
right conditions in your study of the
heralds' record ?" asked Lady Waring.
"That's my secret, mother" said
Harry. "But / have found enough in
fortnight. We shall see what shall
come of it. am off this very day, and
as soon as 1 have news to tell you L will
write, or, more likely, come myself and
bring it.
another trip after parchments |"
thought Lady Waring; but she made
no objection it was Harrys way to
come and go thus unceremoniously, as /
have said. In what way fortnight's
absence in France could possibly be
connected with a change of heart on the
part of Harry relatively to the subject
OF marriage was quite insOluble ques-
ton to her. She simply said
We'll, take care of yourself, Harry,
and come back as soon as you can"
And Harry made his adieu then he
went to his elder brother, and was
closeted with him for an hour but he
reached town in time for the noon train
to Dover, and before night he was
landed safe in Calais.
Shall j tell here what it was that
brought Harry Waring to Calais? On
the whole, L think it will be better
some of my readers have OWNED his
secret already. But L will give clew
to the mystery by reminding them of
what they know already-that Calais
was for more than two hundred years
an English possession, and that finally
it was retaken by the French under the
Due de Guise in the year 1868. Among
the forlorn band of five hundred En-
glishmen who then garrisoned the town
was an ancestor of the Warnings, O man
of wealth, who had spent the better
part of his life there, and who fell dur
ing the final assault His former resi-
dence, now in the poorer instead of the
better part of the town, as it was three
hundred years before, had been long in
use as a hotel of the second.class. To
this hotel Harry betook himself, with q
very definite and important plan in his
mind. a single servant accompanied
him.
1t was a quaint, spacious, tumble
down rookery of place, such as the
traveller in any old French town will
find in the more ancient quarters. 1t
did not look very promising in the way
of comfort and neatness, but it had
every appearance of being well patron
lied. Harry Waring doubted whether
he should be able to find any place i'll
it, after all.
The landlord hustled out into the
spacious courtyard to meet him, and
feared that he could not accommodate
milor suitably. There was, to be sure,
an attic chamber, indefinitely high ;
but milor would not think of taking
that ? And the Frenchman smiled IN
wardly at the odd taste of the stranger
in coming to his hotel at all, while he
cursed, also inwardly, the fate that had
just inveigled him into letting his best
rooms to pair of commercial travellers,
and at a shamefully low price.
Harry Waring, on the other hand,
had much ado to conceal his satisfaction
at finding the merest foothold in the old
hotel. But it was important not to
awaken any suspicion of his object. 81
am sorry" said he, "that you have
nothing better to offer me than sky
parlor. But tbs my whim to come to
your hotel. love to get away from
those modern buildings and perhaps
You can give me a better apartment
soon. Meanwhile 1 shall busy myself
in studying your old city,"
The landlord hoped to accommodate /;
meanwhile he would take every pains to
make milor comfortable an cinQltie1rse.
''Stay," cried Waring, who had been
closely scanning the courtyard during
the dialogue. "I will tell you what
monsieur shall do if he pleases. He
shall build me little pavilion on this
side of his courtyard, where sun shines.
There L shall carry on my studies, like
the hermit that l am my servant shall
take care OF the room and of my books,
and | will pay You roundly beforehand
for gratifying an Englishmans within. 1"
This proposition caused NJ. Heritier
to shrug his shoulders more actively,
perhaps, than he had ever done before
What radical, revolutionary, an I'M
heard-of PROPOSE ion "But those En-.
glishmen are capable of anything" re-
flected he. GA milor does not come to
this old place every day-no, not every
three months. Doubtless the milor is
as rich as he is odd. L shall not be
the loser"
There was long debate over Harry
Warnings proposition. ave will see
what can be DONE" said NJ. Heritier,
finally and the result was that the
next morning Harry Waring was over
seeing gang of carpenters who were
preparing to put up box fifteen feet
square in the old courtyard that had
been unchanged in external appearance,
except by decay, for more than CEN
tury Great was the curiosity mani
tested over the Englishman's within.
All day long the do-nothings of the
hotel peered out of their windows at
the workmen there was some growing,
indeed, over the pounding and hammer
ING that went on. but "milor" had