New-York tribune., 1881-11-27

caution of paying my BILL am gau hau & oo, a0an %
seriously TO sketching again. III II S;H
place and turns to me The face OF an oId lieIue
used to stop here awhles ten wears ago AMI OdeT ru
i have my old room at the MILL ana WhaI ~
better there is the same floor for YOU ;s As
nerves and have on reading thus far. vividly PIC
tured yourself lying awake through the hgne us us
tenng TO the roar of the millstream hoWing uhuei %
your bedroom foor l may as well dlspel the PieaS-
sandy re belongs 20 the mill. m
And the mill belongs TO Sandy still;
bnt Sandy. or his forefathers observed the Wlse e
precaution OF erecting their house at convenient
distance from the mill. -. ,o., ,o
sYou will like 10 know this. But what IS more ,I ~
the point is the remarkable opportunity yGn wlIl
find Lcrc of adding few particulars to" lnder-
ground England fancy that al one tlIne ,hn9
Cesar other distinguished peeotb person ~ The
present level of Elandale. However tnae W., AZ
ploughmen here are always turning over cS t f
cal pottery, which believe are tho 0'
Come and dig it mp, there's good man. and ioT
goo1ness' sake tell who or what II rs we are tH
ing over. | had talk Yesterday afternoon wi.1 d
oIS edrss plon chman whom overheard using bad
language about one of these things he ha1 lusV
turned np He will have IT they are old drain
mines But | am sure they Roman chimney
pots and you would. after a very short and lncN-
nensve inquiry be able to settle the question
whether the Romans used patent iiues
You need not unless You iike: ION can
take train from BattebOrough, which viii land Nou
at Ribston, where will he to meet you on me ne hI m
rival OF the train at Tomorrow AFTERNOON. 80 W.
moro at present from Yours truly. TRAM
It is probable that if Josiah had, nntrammellrd'
taken his own way he would have declined thls III
vltatio1 and stayed where he was.
But TINS man Frank gave him no rholce; he WiS
like the centurion saying to one TO. ana hr por'h'
and 10 Josiah Come, and added JOSIAH WIN
comIcal air of pcrpleXity. he cometh. II ne nhi
only given me time to write and propose other
arrangementsl But he has fixed the hour. and the
Train. and the place; there is nothing lett tor NE
10 do iustice to JosiaHs nativo shrcwdncss. the
bait about the ancient Roman chimncypotS ha1
not the slightest weight with him. lie dld not
know whether Frank meant this for low lokr' hnt
was sure that if he in earnest 1t dld NOT matter
since his Ignorance on all that related 20 Heidou
antiquity appalling , r,
lowing afternoon, and took his arrival ,qnlIc A.
matter oi conrso He seized hold of Tosiah's modest
valise and with y hearty Come along, old man
trudgrd Oft down the lane AZ perfectly ridlrnl'uS
pace He seemed to be in high spirits, p rhaPs
little osentat9usy So and talked o on raf Ibot con %
vencntlv intervened between Elandalc anu 'he
railway station.
had better not say so in my company. thought
when first saw il ten ago that II was one oi
the most charming spots in England and coming
back 10 il now after seeing all the show places on
the Continent, | think SO still
is he married-the miller
NO; fancy he has been rather an odd chap-ohc
of those fellows with history. if could only get
Does he live by himself them
No his niece is his housckeepcr.
'Ahr said Josiah with some animation, as u ho
had Just discovered fragment OF mosaic OF nm
doubted Roman origin. So there is niece. Is
Yes. and. what is even more remarkable there
was a nephew but he il dead. Now, II you VIII bc
the house i'll three minutes. l3n VIII observe that
there is no fence 10 get over. We just walk of the
high road into the field, and there we are ana
there | perceive standing at the door waitIhg 10
welcome yOu is the niece. the astonishing fact OF
whose existence has greatly initered you .,
JOSIAH of conrse had not pGrenGGed per-. zee lhat
marvel at the mere existence OI Miss Ilargruyes
which il suited his companion To enlarge upnn. 10
had as anyone can see ventured upon lIttie badl
niece = Ah alb my good friend Frank, this Is
what brings ycu down TO this ont OF way place,
making you start OF in the dead OF the nlgh' Tor
what Won call country walk
But Josiah in the hands OF a strong man had no
more actual possession OF his own Jokes than in the
ease of a burly footpad ho would have had of his
valse with Its assortment of memoranda and fine
linen His little Joke had evidently missed nre, and
he was not the man TO load again.
Moreover he felt that much hDlder man than
himself would not have been inclined 10 make little
Jokes about Miss Hargraycs in that ladys pres
ence. She as only mlliHrs niece, aud hvcd IN
the middle of field probably with such society as
Is usually commanded from millefs households IN
happy England Yet she had that quiet self posses
sion yvlc6 ~ snppospd TO come exclusively from
what 10 called good breeding. She had not many
visitors in The OF year, or ever OF ten years
Yet she was not a bit shy or reserved with Josiah;
had largely INDUCED in fable With regard To- ms
universal fame and his memorable literary achieve
ments. He must be great man. though he dld not
look it, being much more embarI aSsed al the recep
tion than was the mllers niece To her he was
guest friend of an older friend, aud as such he
was straightway TO be made at home. .
Josiah liked Ellandale with its angularify. lie
liked his dainty chamber with its honesPnn linen.
fragrant CT lavender, and he decidedly liked the
miller's niece. He had known her only Tor ten
minutes but he came to the conclusion that she did
everything well, lending tO the comnouest acts of
daily life grace all her own lie reckoned hs5
age TO be twenty-seven or twcnty-eight, and would
have wondered why she was not married II he had
not felt sure that there was no one IN Euandalo
worthy of her.
what the female heads of households are sccus-
toned to call dressed. She had on only PLAIN
black Dress for the better protection OF Which she
wore an apron. But the apron was made after the
fashion known as bib, and few things more raylsh
ing had met the eyes OF Josiah since he discovered
that coin of tho Emperor iladrian which lom
| Purvis, casting abont for some means OF giving
pleasure to q valued friend, had purchased from
dealer and planted overnight under o cairn III
| ATgyieshire. one summer when he and JOSIAH were
| having little holiday at Oban
The miller's niece was not beanty after the
style that we photograph, and can purchase at
shilling each, with reduction on taking q quau-
| tity. Yet when Josiah came to reckon up her lea
turos as he in his bedroom he could not quite un
derstand how it was that she certainly failed In
| claiming such prominence. Perhaps 1t was her
| mouth that was little too large, though when II
was open to laugh. as occasionally bofel. 1t was
nlI6Q Witu sucH pfotJy tcttu ~
fair TO complain that full a view was obtained of
them. She had soft brown eyes surely made TO
laugh oftouer than they did. Josiah did not per
nit himself to speculate to what distance from
| her heels her hair mig have reached il she had
| been thought worthy Of being photographed with
it combed out Bat it was very abundant. its soft
and glossy wealth being plainly brushed back from
| the forehead and brought up in a stupeDdous knot
| at the back of the head. Josiah was sure she had
/ pretty hands a little brown, but soft vii hal.
| Perhaps she was not n beauty because she lacked
assertion, either the part OF herself or what is
| she was q very pleasant presence in house which
| could no more have gone on without her than the
| mill cculd have ground corn IL the stream had sud-
! denly run dry.