The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-26
twenty POUNDS STERLING.

ait I felt confident | had seen him in |
he street, bat Staiuing said it was nom
sense. and he bet me f20 to Is. WAS
wrong. lie had hardly finished speak
no when Maxwell came in. Staining
pulled out OF hisspoeket go note and
handed il to me.
..There ven are, old fellow "A fool
and his moues, etc. Another illustra-
ton Of thai Wise a'iase
.sNot exactly; for YOU don't expect |
shall take yoar naneysF
Yes. ! do: and Shall be extremely |
ANNOYED if YOU refuse
protested. but presently he said, in
co.'s .lsrabie irritation:
..1beu be my almoner. and give the
money awsy in c',urity.'
lie lstppresently.an as there are OBJ
lection n stanaipgin the public high |
WAYS v ~, banS note in your hand,
and puzzled expression in your face,
the no AS transferred to my pocket
and ] sent my way wondering, whom l
WIS inst full tilt By clergyman whom
knew.
Hrlloa!" he cried. MIR. Smith, you
and I sacin to have our minds so much
occupied that we cannot take care Of
Our bodies. III &M
~, grave matter OF mine, / said
abut' SOU look sad. Nothing wrong
Wi hsSen and worse So 81 @gI
..Nii flank YOU; but have just left
distressing scene. A young couple,
uar..yd in haste, have come to grief.
Los, aile and child are i'll. Relatives
alld friends hage recetled into the re-
mote gstc kgrotnd. Md worse than all,
the husband"
Has become Incorporate or has gone
F'.Neitber one nor the other.
Something worse?
YES; for to be dishonest is worse
than going mad And ii is such mere
tritle that's needed. apparently, to put
All straight, that \ groan at my inabili.
u TO find it" sa@-
What wanted?'
s"Welr it's only E20''
There's the money you require.
Haste away, and do all the good you
can with it. -
NV friend looked astonished. He
| even hesitated moment.
1T is very good of you," he said,
nerYously, "but really"
%.Ihave the power to give this away.
| Good by. y And | hurried of. Then l
fastened back to him.
May request that you will on no
! account mention my name?"
AS YOU wish ii, | wont; but you
f33spld Ra fYSe t sod me. lien eg ps Soua
/ i lad only gone q dozen yards wher
there passed me a young man with 9
flushed face and q frightened, anxious
look in his eyes. He caught up TO my
friend and spoke to him.
That is the man" said to myself,
''whose proceedings have been dubious,
and who win. / trust be rescued by
Staining's ego. Well, if the wheel
should turn. and this poor man should
ever be in a position to deliver fellow
creature from such trouble as he him
self is now in, by the surrender of ego,
l wonder whether he'll do it, Smith,
you surely know human nature well
enough to answer your own foolish
/ questions Not he-not bit of it. ~
This incident was soon swept from
my mind by q sudden call to go abroad,
even to the place where Maxwell did
not GO Brazil. Nothing hampered me
then; was q Young bachelor, and
could start for the antipodes at two
days notice. When | take my wife and
children Il forgot the number-for our
autumnal trip, in these later years OF
my life, | require weeks preparation.
Away, then, to Brazil; away to new
: life. new companions. new hopes, and
fears; away to fortune and the yellow
fever. Here OCCURS in my tale an inter
val Oh twentv wears (ny story deals in
twenties) j doubt whether | should
have come back had not - Young Eng
! lish lady onq! night sung in my hearing
an old homo ballad, 50 welliremember-
ed in connection with some loved ones
who in this world will sing no more,
that a craving for my native land mas
tered me at once, and in a very short
time | was on nv return home.
On the way had one night fright.
full dream. I fancied terrible enemy
had me down and relutchsd ny throart
; Tighter grew his grasp and fainter my
= breath. Ms staring eyes scanned every
: feature of my murderer. Slowly and
painfully did call to my mind the fact
above me. 1t was Staining but he wa:
reckless, desperate. ! gasped an en-
y treaty for mercy.
i Give it to me; ] want it; linus
have It Instantly Instantly was thu
: hoarse reply.
.'What-Nhat can he meanP"
What he shrieked in maniaca
frenzy. .''My f20r'
r ! had quite forgotten about the be
and the eco; but the dream set mt
;. thinking of what rumors | had hearC
A respecting Stainingisince left England
!. that his money had wasted, that thu
4 had fallen in position and even int
!. poverty.
r Poor fellowl3 A thought, there MAJ
be something in that dream. II hi
pride will accept it be shall have tina
money back, and very glad shall b.
: to restore it.
! Back in England, settled down in tn,
/ old country MaiH matters disposed
of, began to think Of minor ones, ant
!, !, among the latter the discovery of Stain
u ing. He was not in his haunts, and
failed so long to find him that was be
. ginning to despair. when one night ! me
him in the street,
4 The brilliant light Of the ballroom
y may increase the lusfer of woman
eyes, ;bl,t ii Won want to see broker
!, down man in his worst aspect, snrye,
q him standing disconsolately,. under
street Tampa drizzIing rain descendin: