Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-10

| closed. You were drunk, or desert
er-I don't care which. My instructions
are positive, and you may go to the old
Nick for me. There now, that's your
answer, and you'll not get any other if
you stayed there till Dusk
6 suspect you mistake me, sir,'' said
| 1, mildly. &C 1 am a traveller and an En-
glish gentleman
| '' hate gentlemen, and 1 don't love
Travellers said he, in the same drowsy
voice as before,
GO Sorry for that, but must ask you all
the same If my passport permits me to
go into Italy?"
'' OF course it does. What sort of
traveller are you that does not know that
much, and that if you wanted visa,
it's the Italian should give it, and there's
no Italian or Frenchman here. There's
no one here but a Prussian, Strantop-
sky-dash his eyes-good morning; and
he again turned his face to the wall. l
cannot say what curiosity prompted me
to continue our little promising cOnver-
sation, but there was something so
| strange in the mans manner at moments
something that seemed to indicate a
| very different condition from the present
that l determined at all hazards to
| linger on.
I" don't suppose the sight of coun-
| tryman can be a very common event in
these regions said /, land 1 might al
most hope it was not an unpleasant oner'
'Who told you that, my good fellowP''
| said he, with more animation than be-
fore. '.Who said that it gave me any
peculiar pleasure to see one of those peo-
| pie that remind me of other times and
| very different habitsp''
| A.
not open these ungracious recollections,
for l never saw you before-I do not
even now know your name"
The F. o. list has the whole biogra-
| ply. Thomas Gardner Lydyyard, ed
ucated at ALI Souls, Oxford, where he
took first class in classics and law; was
appointed cornet in the Second Life
Guards, 9th, 18-; sent with Lord
Raycroft's mission to Denmark to invest
His Christian Majesty with the insignia
of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
Contested Marcheston -, 18-, and
was returned on petition I'll finish
what's not in the book-backed Queen
Nab at seven to two-got regular crop
per-had to bolt and live three years in
Sweden-took to corn brandy and strong
cavendish and ended as you see-V. G..
| at Prevesa. Is not that brilliant end
ing for youth of promise? Do you re-
| member in your experience as man of
travel that you can match it?'
| By-this time he had risen to the sitting
/ posture, and with his hair rudely pushed
back by his hands, and his face grown
red with passion, looked as fierce and
passionate as high excitement could make
a man.
i've heard your name very often, :"
said I, calmly; sClose and st. John
used to talk of you constantly; and re-
member Moresby saying you were the
best rider of flat race among the gen
tlemen of England
81 was better, ten times better, across
country. I Gould get more out of my
horse than any of the so-called steeple-
chase riders; and as 1 seldom punished,
the betting men never knew when my
horse was distressed. Close could have
told you that. Did he ever tell you that
I was the best cricketer at Lord S?
| What's thatPf cried he, suddenly, as a
small door at the end of the room opened
and closed again almost instantly. 90,
it's dinner! suppose if had any shame
1 should say luncheon, for it's only two
O clock, not to say that the meal itself
will have small pretensions to be called
dinner. Will you come and look at it?''
i There was nothing very hearty in the
invitation, as little was there any cour-
tesy; but the strange contrast of this
mans shabby exterior and the tone in
which of a sudden he had burst out to
speak, excited an intense curiosity in me
to see more of him; and though I was
not without some scruple as to my right
to be there at all, followed him as we
walked into the inner room.
A o-.,,1 4 L.
face and gentle look struck me more
than the elegance of features afterward
recognized, courtesied slightly as we en-
: tered.
i ga distressed B. S. Marion," said the
Consul, introducing me; C my daughter,
sir-Pm not aware of your name.
8. Lowther.n
"Lowther, then-Mr. Lowther, Miss
Lydyard; that S the regular form, be-
lieve. Sit down and let us have our
soup;'' and as he spoke he proceeded to
4 ladle out a smoky compound in which
rice and fragments of lamb were freely
mingled.
!, ..This is all you will get for dinner,
Mr.. Lowther, and so secure what solids
come to your share; and here is such
wine as we drink here. 1t comes from
Patras, and has its fine flavor of resin.''
4 I ate and drank freely, and talked
away about the place and the people
and at last induced my host to speak o1
, himself and his own habits. He fishe6
, and shot, he said, some years before, bu
he had given up both; he also had ar
Arab nag or two, but he sold them-ir
! fact, as time wore on, he had abandoned
everything like pastime or amusement
and now droned away life in semi
stupor, or between gin and sleep.
/ Capital fellows these Albanian brute.
, for letting man have his way. No ont
. asks how you live, or with whom. The
| hogs in a sty are not less troubled with {
public opinion. Except once that tn,
} don't know that have ever had Stat.
: The young girls face flushed crimson
f but she never spoke, nor had yet heare
the sound of her voice.
J, my Russian colleague continued
' he, with savage laugh, s' grew half ter
: rified at the thought of my influences
, here if my daughter became Sultana
: and got some fellow to write letter il
7 a Paris newspaper to denounce the Brit
ish intrigue, and declare that / had be
: come .Mussulman; and the F. o. peo
: pie wrote out to me to inquire if it wer
: true; and 1 replied that, as I had no
, owned hat for fve-and-thirty years,
wore turban when I went out, but a
e that was an event that didn't happel
l above twice or thrice a year, the
t needn't mind it, and that if Her Maiest
d made point of it, I'd not 60 out an
: more.
''After that the official fellows, VIII
a seemed to have forgotten me before
!, never gave me any peace-asking for re
d turns of this and reports of that. Ho,
;, many piastres the Pacha gave his cook
how many kids went to pilaff-wha
+ was the least man could live on in tn
e English service-and whether keepin
s men poor and on the prowl was not
h sure measure to secure them of an in
y quiring and inquisitive disposition.
d 81 take it, they must have liked m
l. dispatches, for not month passed ths
r they did not poke me up. At last ther
It came young fellow this way; he was o
# walk down to Thessaly, he said, to Sc
IS Mount Olympus; he hurt his foot, and h
stayed here several weeks, and he wrot
; them dispatch in my name, and sal
&c what a stunning fine thing it would b