Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-13
NO. 100.
Gales ano Sketthes.
SOME ONE PAYS.
Continued from Yesterday.


>y: but the strange contrast of the mans
| shabby exterior and the tone in which of
Il sudden he had burst out to speak. eNeit-
ed an tense curiosity in me IL see more
ut him; and though | was not without
some >cruple rs to my right TO be there ut
Al, followed him rs we walked into the
| inner rnnm.
A Young girl. whose pale. careworn
| face and gentle look struck me more than
the elegance of features / afterwards
recognized, courtesied slightly rs we en-
tered.
A distressed b. s. Mavion." said the
consul. Introducing me; my daughter.
s'r.--l'm not aware Of Your name"
| "Lnwther."
| "Lowther. then Mr.. Lowther. Miss
| Lvdvard; that's the regular form. be-
| ieve. Sit down ard let shave our soup"
and as he spoke he proceeded TO ladle cut
n smoky compound in which rice and
/ fragments cf lamb were freely mingled.
! This is all You will get for dinner, Mr.
| Iowther. and so secure what solids como
/ IL vour share and here is such wine rs
/ we drink here. il comes from Patras,
and has its fine flavor ofresin''
| | ate and drank freely, and talked away
about the place and the people, and Mt last
induced my host to speak of himself and
| his own habits He iished and shot he
said some years before. hut he had given
up both he also had an Arab nag or two.
hut he sold them-in fact. rs time wore on
he had abandoned everything like pastime
or amusement. and now droned away life
! in n semi Stupor. or between Gin and
sleep.
Capital fellows these Albanian brutes
TOR letting a man have his way. No one
asks how YOU live or with whom. The
hogs in sty arenot less troubled with pub
| lie opinion. Except once that the pasha
sent me an offer for Marion. | don't know
that have ever had n state communica-
tion since took up my post"
The Young girls face flushed crimson.
hut she never spoke. nor had vet heard
| the sound OF her voice
My Russian colleague continued he
with a savage laugh. grew half terrified
at the thought of my influence here If my
daughter became a sultana, and got some
fellow to write letter in Paris newspa-
per 10 denounce the British intrigue. and
declared that had become a Mussulnan
and the F. O. people wrote ont to me 10
INQUIRE il it were true. and I replied that.
rs had not owned hat for five and thir-
" wears. | wore n turban when went out,
hut aS that was AN event that didn't hap
pen more than twice or thrice n year, they
needn't mind it. Id not go ont any more.
"Aiter that the official fellows, who
seemed 10 have forgotten me before. never
gave me any pcace--asking for returns of
this and reports of that How many
piastres the pasha gave his cook--how
many Kids went to a pilati-how many
]
| least man could live on in the English
sorvice-and whether keeping men poor
and on the prowl was not sure measure
To secure them of an inquiring and inqus-
tive disposition.
II take it. they must have liked my de-
spatches. for not month passed that they
did not poke me up.
At last there came a Young fellow this
way: he was on walk down to Thessaly
he said, to see Mount Olympus: he hurt
his foot. and he stayed here several weeks
and he wrote thema despatch in nv name,
and said what "A stunning fine thing it
would he to make all this country and the
Epirus Greek and that we should check
mate the Russians bv erecting rival
state and Orthodox church, and don't
know what else.
Marion. here-her mother was from Atti-
ca-and he made believe that he knew all
the dogmas.n
stole look ut Marion. but'as quickly
Withdrew it, for she was deadly pale, and
looked a. if about to faint.
marion knows" continued he "all the
fine reasons he gave for the policy, and
how it was not TO be confounded with
what The Greeks call the grande idee-no
ByZantian renaissance humbug at all. but
some sort of profectorate state-with Eng
land. France and lialv think. as the pro-
tectinc powers and. in fact. he got 50
plausible. and quoted such marvellous
names that +. o. rose to the bait and
asked 10 have further information: but
by that time he had gone away and we
never saw more ot him.
The Young girl rocked to and fro in her
lchair, and fearing she would fall off in q
faint. ! half arose to catch her, when q
look 30 imploringly sad as to 90 to my
heart, arrested me- and sat still, and to
avert attention from her asked the consul
| some questions as to the value of the
,project he had written about
! II suppose it was about as wise as such
things generally are" continued he, lit
NAV have had its grain Of sense some
where. and all its disadvantages required
time to develop.
He was shrewd sort Of fellow that
William Hope-tbat was his name he
borrowed go Of me and he sent it back,
too. and Il very pretty writing desk to
Marion, and box Of books: and he said
he'd come back some fine day and see us,
but he has apparently forgotten that, and
it's now two years and half we have
never heard Of him. Is it not, Marion?''
1.-TWO years and eight months,' said
she. calmly; but her lips trembled in
spite Of her.
was not sorry when our chiboucks
were introduced. and the young girl had
a fair pretext 10 steal away; for | saw
with what struggle she was controlling
her emotion, and what relief it wonld be
for her TO escape notice.
The consul was so pleased to have any
opportunity to relieve his mind that he
talked away tor hours. and of his most in
timate concerns. In inveighing against
the hard lot that sentenced his wear
ing out his last years of life in such 9