The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-16
BY THE GATEOF THE SEA.
A NOVEL.
By DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY.


This is undergrad, ma'amn said the
landlady, laying the parcel on the table,
'and the postman says there's tenpence on
IT,
Lorrimer drew shilling from his waist
coat pocket.
There, there, my good woman; don't
interrupt us again, If you please He
walked to the window and looked out upol
the street Pray look at your letters
Mrs. Tregarthen, and excuse me for being
here at ALL
He saw that she had glanced anxiously
at the parcel, which looked as if it incueC
box of some sort. She obcyed HIN
without a word, and he heard every move
ment she made as she uncorded the
packet Then he heard the tearing of
the envelope about the letter, and
the rustic of the paper as it shook III
her hand There was nothing to
look at in the street except NANCY cat
who stalked a town sparrow, and missed
The bird by hairs breadth when she made
her final spring. 1t began to strike Lor-
rimer that Mrs. Tregarthen was long
while silent, and when, at last, he turned
poor lady had fallen back upon the bed,
and lay there in a dead faint, with the
baby still in her lap. She looked so thin
and pale and quiet as she lay there, that
the manager, who was a bachelor, and
knew nothing of women and their weak
nesses, took her for dead and rushed
to the door with tremllous call
for the landlady. That great creature
dispatched him for brandy and he being
gone, she proceeded very calmly to examine
the contents of the packet and the letter.
The packet contained a prodigious quanti-
ty of manuscript and nothing else. From
the letter the landlady gathered she
could just read that Messrs. Bilge 81
Barker regretted that they could not see
their way to the publication Of. A step
on the stair warned her of the visitors re-
turn.
Look up, there's dear creatur,n said
the landlady, in audible solicitude. "Ah,
that's it, my pore darlin'. You'll be nicely
by-and-by."
Lorrimer sweated with anxiety while
the landlady poured few drops of brandy
through the patients lips, but in
a few minutes Mrs. Tregar-
then began to move and moan,
and to click her teeth together, and then
he was ordered from the room, and paced
to and fro upon the fragmentary oil-cloth
in the hall for the space of half an hour
"How is shein he asked in a whisper,
when the woman at last came down stairs.
+" She's had good cry, pore dear" said
the landlady, breathing neat brandy at
him; land now I've persuaded her to lie
down. She'd better not be disturbed again
for hour or two."
"Of course not. OF course not said
Lorrimer fdgeting with his watch
chain "She has been very hard up,
I'm afraidn
loves me three pound thirteen shillin'
and sixpence for rent returned the land
lady, "and being but pore woman my
self, though with a feeling heart, | could
not deny her nothing, and candles of a
night extravagant"
Lorrimer was unhinged by the events of
the morning, and for the moment he was
half inclined to satisfy the landlady's claim
upon the spot; but not having taken final
leave of his business senses, he decided
against that course.
Whatever the lady owes he said,
"shall be paid" He drew his purse from
his pocket, and the landlady's eyes
glistened. Get her, he said, slowly and
thoughtfully with half-sovereign between
his thumb and tinger-"get her something
nice and tempting and nourishing against
the time she wakes. No. Never mind |
won't trouble you. I'll get it myself, and
bring 1t round in two hours time"
a bn 10
ing after him with the look the lean cat had
cast after the plump escaping sparrow q
while before.
Lorrimer was driven to Oxford Street,
and on the way he used most terrible Ian
guage without particular application. He
mad pity enough 10 fill him TO the
brlm, and curious bewilderment enough,
and when it could beat out the
others managerial enterprise inflated
MN For each of these profane language
seemed to furnish the only escape pipe, and
Tue managers speech would have been APP
proprlate to a deep-dyed villain bent on
murder. DE halted the carriage at shop
door, alis Lted, entered, and bought jellies
and preserves, drove further and bought
wine, drove further and bought fruit, u
goodlv pile, and double handful of sweet
smelling country blossoms
"Dalnme /" said Lorrimer, as he sat in
the hackney carriage and surveyed these
purchases I'll win the jades heart. I'll
MAKE her act. III make her 50 grateful
mat she can't refuse me-"
A brilliant idea struck him, and he ar
rested the coach once more He entered a
nop, anu when, after the lapse of some
Vi three minutes he came once more
spoA Ihe street, he wore the smile of
60, Ao m mas Just said checkmate to oppo-
o,,,oh, ne unfolded the tissue paper
"h l1,, wrapped his latest purchase
lhat ought to touch d mothers beart u
ne said, surveying it admiringl,, Spa,,,
coral. Real silver bells, and No aai.
india-rubber to be had for love or ,''ieo ~
he took all his purchases to the shalt.
mouse In the street off the Tottenha,n
Court Road, and he waited with such ra
thence as he could command until Mrs. Tro
garthen was reported TO be awake, and M
could be again admitted to her room.
IA little trife of jelly" said Lorrimer
balancing the preparation Galveston
jelly, my dear madam-a most nourisbin
article. Pray try little. A glass of port
am never to be taken at dsadvantap,
s. I carry pocket corkscrew Try tina
madam. guarantee it excellent. Alittl
trife for the baby, Mrs. Tregarthen | al
a bachelor myself, but am told that Chi
dren value such gauds."