Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-19
TOLD AT NIGHTFALL.

I'ruarleS E.ffinQstapa naiuter rarf
sitting i'm the studio w'ndoy Of his dal
ligbtfuI little villa at Frascat; na.,
Rome biob ovar t,,a ro,,,,dod III" q,
woods now lnr;d in the red satt;nop 80 ~ "
Reneatb a leadan 81 ~. @,loo,.,,, c1.a..' aa,i
naona s+rotoi'aJ FL, 'n' ~ Oaii
with its far rim, cnt fbe ais n To,.ta,' .anu
toms l,IoaJ-r.J haH ,,S.Nsi,P i . Pa
inc ''i'' '''"'s 'io"is sim
Inv ondIhaa hoo,, o,5
, scboo,' 'falio,rs n =, Ers,II uiu iuionus u anu anu
or three years nidar thaL ,,,,,s"ts VIZ" W. Nv,
that bod 1,ada IN sa,,ui, .,,a,i nf s SILL oui u
tha tamJ.rnr an mis re; sly ioI me an
t;al Ras;dns In Ia,od a nm, ~, E'',
hind of san;.I StorO sa;o. IL 4
ai,,-a,,s s,i. IL n'u
nanI baoa,,sa L. LII. s III M in oo;n
pat,,oI,,e pat1, J1 o,. nc q, sJLnieu, qui.e
or to have SO much as a wrong tbonoht
He would have chosen art as his nro-
fession. know. had he been allowed a
voice in the arrangement of his own
future but the hilions old father who
ruled his destiny made n civil engineer
of him. without the slightest reference
TO any possible fancy or nrotest of tbe
Lads. Naturally ne did NOT take kindly
tn the work tLouob he hncEIad tn Z,
conscientiously.
WI, y, 1.o, =. -.,
Gnv and + lent mn a nre,tv br;st cor
resnondence for ahout a tweIvemontb
Raj in INV second Italian summer his
letters suddenJv Ceased 10 arrive 7
wrote to him in vain hone of answer
for six months. and then fet the cores
pOndence 20 with a sigh
easily ascertained that he WAS alive
and well. but eould find ont nothing
else about him that was more reliable,
than the oossin retailed out nv certain
English military men. who had Tanned
their law flight across tile sea one
winter and percbedin Rome "iot into
a scrape about a woman, and didn't
behave well to her. .OrsOmethIng or of that
sort" drawled out one of these amiable
gentlemen. And this was all that
could discover about Door Urduehart.
But at last heard from Guy himself
once more. LOi he had Inherited a
small fortune from a distant relation !;
he had thrown civil engineering over
board; he was coming to Rome forth
with to study art In earnest at last and
we must spend the ensuing summer in
Villeggiatura together, eating figs at
| Tusculum. At the time nv story be
gins, he had been about six weeks in
Rome, and had already painted one or
two capital little pictures.
No village in the world drives such a
roaring trade in scandal as grand old
Rome. You have seen how Urduehart's
character went before him, as Sir Peter
Teazle's stayed behind, for the comfort
of the community, and what mercy 1t
met with; Now, when circumstances
are served up IN this mixed up way,
there are generally certain facts which
one may trace like pebbles through
disturbing waves. 1 felt convinced
that L should do so in Urquehart's case,
II ever 1t pleased him to give me his
confidence.
But could not try to thrust myself
into any chamber of his past not freely
| ing that there was a shut and locked
door, behind which lurked the solution
of a mystery. This mystery was the
great and grieyous change in my friend.
not to be accounted for by the mere
! lapse of two or three wears. And this
change was all the more remarkable
that it was not always obvious. No
two men ceuld be more unlike than
Urquehart to Urquehart in different
moods. 1t seemed to me as If much
evil had flowed INTO his heart by some
rent where much good had run out.
On this September evening. as we sat
together, GUY had been muttering some
very bad sentiments, which would have
grieved me more if had not attributed
them i'm part to some unripe peaches
and the state of his stomach,
aCuv ,, soid srdd.nIv .1,r. found
a.. Ley 70 ,nncb tbat n,aLes naonIa ,,aIn
arJ s,ora or von ), po'o eP
"xNbat do Won moan -, returpad he
rotbar rono,lI
".n,In .sWns. merIos Jn+ nm .orah holf
o,,aI h.1f Jor;i ,ha,, Co., p,t ,,n,,r ,
ans,oi' nnd Ill san,,, =" sbara tba;r
a'u H. - - ,f
mufnaf forhearance % They seem to
- -, 49,, anj So obont ~
watches as If were. Your angel never
torments your devil, or interferes with
his mode of ENJOYING himself, his Wal
purgis night with his man; and your
devil, with equal politeness, never in
trudes himself on the angelical PRAYER
meetings. They could not possibly
come in contact without disturbing the
harmony of the system; but they seem
to agree to differ, like certain polite
married couples" #4-
Urquehart took his pipe from his
mouth, and blew out a long smoke
wreath. Then he leaned head and
shoulders out of the window, and stared
far away at the sun, now like a clot of
blood on the lived horizon, till even the
crimson speck was absorbed: Then he
brought himself back to his former
position in a corner of the ricketty old
sofa, and from that dusky corner spake.
You hooked a fine flat fish there, my
young friend, with your moral critical
line. Your sagacity really deserves
patting fer having snapped up sneh a
good head of game. Still, you don't
know how the devil got into me; how
should y0uF He had hardly set claw
on your friend when we were boys to
gether. and L rather the better boy of
the two
"Ycu may well say that old fellow
At that time Cand what a little while
ago If is. after allD YOU really seemed
incapable of evil, or even of compre-