The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-06-04

ly, the fate that had Just invcigled hin
INTO letting his best rooms to a pair 0
commercial travellers, and at a shameful,
low price.
Harry Waring, on the other hand, haC
much ado to conceal his satisfaction al
finding the merest foothold in the oil
hotel But it was important not to awak
en- any suspicion of his object Il an
sorry" said he, that you have nothing
better to offer me than a sky-parlor Bu
tbs my Whlm to come to your hotel
love to get away from those modern build
ings; and perhaps you can give me bet
ter apartment soon. Meanwhile | shal
busy myself in studying your old city
The landlord hoped to accommodate
meanwhile he would take every pains Il
make milor comfortable 0u cinquieme
stay, cried Waring, who had been
closely scanning the courtyard during
the dialogue, II will tell you what mon
sleur shall do if he pleases. He shall
build me little pavilion on this side Of
his courtyard where the sun shines
There shall carry on my studies like the
hermit that am; my servant shall take
care OF the room and my books, and
will pay you roundly beforehand for graft
tying an Englishman's whim'
This proposition caused Nj. IIeriter to
5hrug his shoulders more actively. per
haps, than he had ever done before What
a radical, a revolutionary, an nnheard Of
proposition but those Englshmen are
capable Of anything,7 reelected he; u
| "lnllOr does not come 10 this old place
every day--no, not every three months
Doubtless milor is as rich as he is odd
| shall not be the lOSer'
There was Il long debate over Harry
Warin9's proposition. I've will see what
can be done" said Nj. Heriticr, finally ;
and the result was that the next morning
Harry Warlng was overseeing gang Of
carpenters who were preparing to put up
u box fifteen feet square in the old court
yard that had been unchanged in external
appearance, except by decay, for more
than a century. Great was the curiosity
manifested over the Englishman's whim
All day long the donothings of the hotel
| pcered out Of their windows at the work
men; there was some growing, indeed
over the pounding and hammering that
went on, hut "milor" had made ample
satisfaction beforehand to the landlord,
and on the whole | think NJ IIeritier's
| guests were more entertained than annoy
ed by the extraordinary performance in
! the cOurt-Vard.
While the carpenters We're at work War
ing established himself comfortably in his
sky-parlor, His principal anxiety now
was to get the early occupancy of his
| room in the courtyard. He had taken lit
tie interest in the construction except to
hurry it ON. Since the location Of the new
structure had been determined he had di-
vided his time between his books and long
strolls in the country 1t was atterward
remembered. however, that in the selec-
ton of the precise spot for his little build
ing. Henry Waring had been almost un-
| reasonably particular. Nothing would
suit him but that it should be placed ex-
actlv here and not there, to oct the "sun-
to the right or the left would not answer
lishman wanted of the sun in the summer
time; for his own part, he was glad
enough of the shade in June or July
- What a drol a creaturc" he would
eNclaim to himself 1T must be that he
is touched in the brains. But that is no
''''i' Inc calpeiiters Worked on meanwnue,
with provoking slowness, as it seemed to
Harry but in the course of a week the
courtyard resumed its usual quiet-thc
apartment was finished. Harry would not
wait to have it painted, II learned to like
the smell Of fresh pine on my American
travels" said he. n will take possession
at once. My servant will sleep in the at
! tic room.
So Harry Warnings new quarters We're
made ready tor him as soon as possible.
| +,,,.,iS Nod l,tt
| fused half the articles that tn landlord
| furniture the better his whim would be
stout leather trunks, was moved down
stairs, and precisely a week after he had
left home Waring found himself establish
ed in his new quarters, built to order, in
the old hotel which had been the house OF
his ancestor. He found himself, too, firm
" established in the reputation of being
crazy. All the people in the hotel spoke
of him, among themselves, as the insane
Englishman. and people came from dis
tant parts of the town to see with then
own eyes the building which this ineXpli-
cable lunatic had caused to be put up, But
Waring kept the peace with every one
and seemed we'll enough satisfied with his
reputation for madness.
The method of that madness however
he was very careful not TO reveal. For hi,
latest researches had convinced him thai
his ancestor, who died in the defence o
Calais about three hundred years before
the time Of this visit, had converted hi
whole fortune, a considerable one for the
time, into gold, and had buried it in tho
courtyard of his mansion the identica
hotel in which Harry was now staying
More than this: the obscure anagran
which he had found among the genealogi
cal papers of the British Museum he
thought that he had deciphered. That ana
gram defined the precise place in the court
yard where he should expect to find th,
long hidden treasure. 1t explained, too
the comparative decay of the pccuniar,
fortunes of his family, Here, withou
doubt the money lay and ii was this tha
the ancestral treasure still lay safely bTie,
in Calais. Arthur Waring had laughed q
} him. ''Do You think a Frenchman woult
, let gold lie buried right under his nos
for three hundred years?" said the eide
brother ''IIc would smell it on the fins
!: year But go and search Ion are wei
come to all YOU find. shant claim n,
ounce Of it
, 1t was moment of no little excitemen
| to Harry Waring when he found himsel
| locked in, with his trusty servant. Grubbs
over the little spot of earth where, thre
hundred years ago, his fortune had bee
buried His trunks contained the neces
sary tools for removing the floor and eS
| cavating the earth and this the stalwal
Grubbs commenced at once to do
t Great caution was necessary in OruC
: that the sound of the work should not dis
7 turb the people of the hotel. If Harr
: had made q true Interpretation Of the oil
| anagram, the treasure lay under the soutl
4 crn half of his floor. Little by little tn
. servant pried up the planks upon that sid'
1 NWarmg bored minute peelling hol
G through each Of the tour sides of the room
!, whence he could watch the courtyard, an
: discover whether his movements were SUI
| pected SO slow was the work, on accom-
| of tba Ooica1accpacS with which If bal I