Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-08-10
BYLAW NO Z.

wirb mild and benevolent expressiop
strangely at veriance with the nervous
restlessness of his eyes the other a GRIN
taciturn man who has been all absorbed
i'm his paper since the train left Elm
burgh en- route tor the south. They hat
got In together aud were evidently trav.
cling companions Rather queerly as
sorted couple; for from their dress and
general appearance there could be nc
doubt but that their stations i'm life were
widely different. What could they be
Master and servant? Evidently not; fol
the humber of the two seemed to have
charge of all the travelling arrangements.
n detective and his prisoner? L think
Tor the one seemed too much at ease to
have guilty conscience; and the Otner,
though evidently in command, seemed
10 treat his companion with more delfer-
ence than is compatible with the con-
scious power of the captor.
NV speculations on this point have
filled up a gap i'm the Journey. Having
read all the war kilograms in the morning
papef. which / know L will find contra
dicted i'm the evening edition when
reach London; and having watched the
telegraph wires gliding mp and down. be-
si,le the carriage windows. anon sudden
ly disappearing into space, only to reap
pear again to continue their upand down
motion. am beginning to weary OF
this and il neither one OF my cOmpaEiOns
volunteer remark, must 10 something
to force conversation.
We were past Dunbar mt this time and
are fast approaching Berwick. l have
been vainly trying to catch the eye of my
apparently more compinionable coinpan-
ion. He is now closing them, and evil
IDENTITY settling down for qnIet nap. My
more taciturn friend has never taken his
attention off his paper; he must either
be d slow reader, or having exhausted
the news, he must have fallen on the adj
refreshments. / offer him my paper. lie
takes it with bow. giving his own In
eXchan @e-.he BaniiSliire Gazette. No
news 20 be got out OF that after having
eXhallSle the Sco;Sm III. am SOON re-
ducel to III. births marriages and deaths
Much interest To know that the wife OF
Hugh Macdonald. stone mason, has pre-
scented him Il sou also. TO hear that Mrs.
McQuinn is dead; anl the Nursery ryme
I sometimes hear my vile repeating tn
our bows occurs To Inc aud mentally ill.,
qlire, How did she d,e?" The an
nouncemcnt however did not eDlighten
me on that point, though il is easy to
guess, seeing that If contains the
further information That she departed
this life ut the advanced age of l0l years.
and is deeply regretted. The latter as
SprtiOn fear is only convention fib,
for find in a paragraph ann 'uncing her
death rs Il lOctl centenarian, that she had
great possessions. which hive filien 10
her Nearest surviving relative. great
granddaughter.
Nv friend Opposite is quite off tn sleep.
Quite clear that he has nothing on ills
conscience. The her Is rs deep in the
Scot Gilman as ne WAS crtwhilP in his own
paper. | can't stan this any longer.
Il Tx [ must. The BantfShire Gazette is
published in the country town bearing
the same name; so L see my wdyto Iii
opening.
lyon COME from Bantf. presume !?
You must have heen travelling all night !:
No wonder our friend here Is worn our. "
We have come from Bdnif. with no
trace of c'u,l in his voice. replied my
friend. :.We have ONE from Danff; tut
we have not travelled all night. Our
Governor mikes Ill point never to tV-
tigue any of his plrieus. It's part OF his
system: so we broke our journey ut Ed
inburgh.'
His IaiientSi I would as soon have
susper:ed nv oppo>itc Eeighbor to have
been criminal aS an invalid.
Indeed" [ say. might | inquire what
is his complaiut?"
NJ tacitura frirnl touches his head
in mysterious way.an,l am just in time
to stop "A low whistle indicative OF sur
prise. ana to turn it into another, "in-
deeds
:What particular form docs his abem
--complaint I ike?'
LAM beginning to hope thnt he is not
violent.
Generosity"
Generosity -
Yes, sir. You see he gets all kin'ls OF
schemes into his head for the relief of
suffering of all kinds; and lis friends
fearing he might make ducks aid brakes
of his money. have put him under the
Gre of our governor"
lis he wealthy"
Very"
Are his friends quito diSinterested p
well don't know. Bill they are
quite right. He might tall Into the bands
of nnprinciplel people who would help
ont his scheme 10 further their own,"
What is his plal?"
"Well. sir, his idea was that ambitious
such as authors whose books were un-
Sought. arts whose works did not meet
with the appreciation they expected. ac-
tors whose genius was not universally
recognized. AMI such likc-wcre great
bore To society, ami in their turn were in
clined to shun the world; so lie proposed
building "a retreat where all such could
retire To- seclusiOn-a kind of Agapemone
You see, SIR"
IF he had found a scanty population
tor his rural settlement, it would never
theless not be tor the lack of such peO-
pie"
.Just so. SIR"
'DO you consider his a hopeless case?'
IL fear so. sir. he is one of the quiet
sort, you see. More violent cases are Of
ten easier to deal with. Our governor
turned out rare wild one quite cured
the other day."
"What was his treatment?'
sLetting him have his own way. It's
part OfOur governors SYSTEM; but it was
rather risky in this city,"
l feel Interested and intimated as
much.
"WeIl. Sir, Captain B. had been
down with the yellow fever i'm the West
Indies. and it was such severe attack
that the doctors gave him up as bad
job. and handed him over to the black
nurses to do what they could for him.
They pulled him through, but with such
strong doses of quinine, that before he
was convalescent his reason was gone.
His was suicidal mania-about the worst
we have to 10 with, for the patient al
ways has his victim handy if he can only
get the means. They had rare job to
get him over to England; and when he
was first pnt under the governors care,
no WAS the worst case We ax,o, l,c1 rVba