The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1879-10-04

! up the basket from the l0.45 Liverpool
| express.
There was the linen; I've kept it
See here; all marked quite pretty and
proper, with lace around the edges. as
though its mother loved to make the lit.
tie one smart
monogram and crest. The first he made
out to mean II. l.. NJ. and the crest was
plainly two hammers crossed, end the mot
to, Il strike, not a common crest-and
he never remembered to haze seen il be-
fore.
.iAnd this was all!"
"Cept the banknote. That was i'll a
poor old purse, with a pawn ticket and a
thimble. | kept them all
Like true detective, Jack examined
every article minutcly The purse bore
the name of Hester Gorrlgan, in rude let
ters inside, and the pawn ticket was made
out in the same name.
Il cannot give you much hope that
shall succeed but | will do my best.
VIII you trust me with the note for a
,imcN
Surely, sir, with the greatest of pleas
ure. If you could but find the other
halt, it would give Har y-that's what
we call him-such grand start in life; ;
schooling and the price of binding him
to some honest trade.
Jack shook the mans hand and prom
ised to do his best and left the cottage.
When Jack Newbiggin got back to the
parsonage he found that his host had ac-
cepted an invitation sfor them both to
dine at the Big House." as it was called
the country seat of the squire Of the ar
ish.
They were cordially received at the
big House" Jack was handed over
torewlth to his OLD friends, who tigura-
lively rushed into his arms. They were
London acquaintances, no more; Of the
sore we meet here and there and every
Us, and We for them, as much rs for the
South Sea Islanders, but whom we greet
with rapturous cfusion when we meet
them in a strange place. Jack knew the
lady whom he escorted to dinner as a
gossipy dame, who, when his back was
turned, made as much sport OF HIM as Of
her other friends.
i have been fighting .seuI battles all
day" began Mrs sitwen.
WAS 1t necessary? should have
thought myself too insignificant
'sThey were talking at lunch Of your
wonderful knaek in coniuring, and some
one said that the skill might prove in
convenient-when you played cards, for
instance
"A charitable imputation With
whom dld it orignatc.'
"Sir Lewis Mallaby.''
please point him out 10 me-
He was shown a grave, seoNling face
upon the right of the hos1ess-a face like
mask, It's surface rough and wrinked, ],
through which the eyes Shone out with
baleful light, like the corpse candles in
scpulcher.
Pheasant creature. I'd rather not meet
him alone on a dark night
lie has a terrible character, certainly.
Turned lis wife out Of doors because she
would not give him al heir Il is this
want ot children to inherit his title and
estates which preys upon his mind, they
say; and makes him 50 morose and mel
ancholy.'
Jack let his companion chatter on. It
was his habit to get all the information
possible about any company in which he
found himself for his own purposes as Il
clairvoyant, and when Mrs sitWeH tiagg-
ed, he Piled her with questions and lee
her on from one person to another making
mental notes to serve him hereafter. 1t
is thus by careful and laborious prepara-
ton that many of the strange and seem
lngly mysterious feats Of the clairyovant
conluror are performed.
When the whole party assembled in
the drawing room after dinner, a chorus
of voices. headed by that Of the hostess,
summoned Jack to his work There ap-
peared to be only one dissentient, Sir
Lewis Mallaby, who not only did not
t"ouble himself to back upthe invitation,
but when the performance was actually
begun was at no pains to conceal his con
tempt and disgust.
The conjuror made the conventional
plum pudding III hat, fired wedding
rings into guartcrn loves, did all manner
OF card tricks. knife tricks, pistol tricks,
and iuggled on conscientiously right
through his repertoire. There was never
a smile on Sir Lewis face; he sneered un-
Finally, with al ostenta-
tion that savored Of rudeness, he took out
his watch, great gold repeater, looked
at it, and Enthusiastically yawned.
Jack hungerea for that watch directly
he saw it. Perhaps through It lie might
make its owner uncomfortable, if only
for moment. But howkto get it into his
hands? He asked for Watch-a dozen
We're offered. No; none Of these would
do. It must be gold watch, 4 repeater.
Sir Lewis MallabY's vas the only one IN