The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-16
LOVE OR MONEY;
OR,
A PERILOUS SECRET.
by CHARLES READE,
Author of '"Put Yourself in His Place."
etc., ETC., etc.

You are not jealous of him, Mr.. I'M
"Jealous" said Percy, changing color
, Hang him!"
Walter, finding he was discovered,
and feeling himself in the way, came
out at the back behind them, and said,
Never mind me, you two; far be it
from me to deprive the young of their
innocent amusements."
Whilst making this little speech he
was going off on the points of his toes,
intending to slip off to Clifford Hall, and
tell his father that both cutting out and
untying had proved impossible; but, to
his horror, the Colonel emerged from
his ambuscade and collareG him. Then
took place two short contemporaneous
dialogues:
Julia. "1'd neverl Colonel Clifford.
marry "a jealous well, why don't
man." you cut him out?"
Percy. 81 never Walter. "They
could be jealous. seem SO happy with
I'm above it. I'M out it,"
possible for a ma Colonel Clifford.
ture like mine tobe You are a muff.
jealous" I'll do it for you.
Forward"
Colonel Clifford then marched down
and seated himself in the chair Hope
had made for him.
Julia saw him. and whispered Percy:
"Ah! here's Uncle Clifford. He is going
10 marry me to Walter. Never mind
you are not jealous"
Percy turned yellow.
well" said Colonel Clifford to all
whom it might concern, "this certainly
is the most comfortable chair in Eng
land These fools of uphOlsterers never
make the bottom of the chair long
enough, but Mr.. Hope has made this to
run under geIItleman's knees and sup
port him. He's a clever fellow. Julia,
my dear, there's Il garden chair for you;
come and sit down by me-"
Julia gave a sly look at Percy, and
went to Colonel Clifford. She kissed
him on the forehead to soften the COM
ing negative, and said: ITO tel! you the
truth, dear uncle, | have promised to
90 down coal mine. See! I'm dressed
accordingly"
$50 down coal mine!" said the Colo
mel, contemptuously. What fool put
that iCea i'll your head"
FitZroy strutted forward like ban
hancock. 81 did, sir. Coal is very
interesting product"
GAY, to a cook"
"To every English g-gentleman."
81 disown that imputation for one"
"Of being an English g-gentlemanT
There was a general litter at this sly
hit.
mo, sir" said the Colonel, angrily-
"of taking an interest in coal"
well, but" said Percy, with few
slight hesitations, mot to take an in
terest in Coal is not to take an inter-
est in the n-nation, for this n--nation
is great, not by its p-powerful fleet,
nor its little b-b-bit of an army"
A snort from the Colonel.
nor its raw m-militia, but by its
observation-disclosures; these depend on
machines that are driven by steam-pow-
er, and the steam-engines are coal-fed,
and were made in cOal-fed furnaces; our
machines do the work of five hundred
million hands, and you see coal keeps
them going. The machinery will be
initiated by other nations, but those ma
tons cannot create coal-fields. Should
those ever be exhausted, our ingenuity
will be initiated by larger nations, our
territory will remain small, and we
shall be second-rate power; so l say
that every man who reads and thinks
about his own c-country ought to be
able to say, Il have been d-d-down a
coal mine.'"
well" said the Colonel, loftily, "and
can't you say you have been down a
coal mine? | could say that and sit here
Well, sir, you have been reading the
newspapers, and learning them off by
heart as if they were the Epistle and
Gospel; of course yOu must go down a
coal mine; but if you do, have little
mercy on the fair, and 60 down byyour-
self. In the mean while, Walter, you
can take your cousin and give her a
walk in the woods, and show her the
primroses."
Now Julia was surprised and pleased
at Percy's good sense, and she did not
care whether he got it from the news
papers or where he got it from; it was
there; so she resisted, ard said,. cOldly
and firmly, "Thank you, uncle, but L
don't want the primroses, and Walter
does not want me. Come, Percy DEAR"
and so she marched off; but she had not
gone many steps before, having great
respect for old age. she ordered Percy,
in whisper, to make some apology to
her uncle.
Percy did not much like the commits
sion. However. he went back, and said,
very civilly, This is free country, but
! am afraid have been little too free
In expressing my opinions; let me nope
you are not annoyed with me-"
II am never annoyed with fool"
said the implacable Colonel.
This was too much for any little man
to stand.
THAT is why you are always on such
good terms with yourself" said Percy,
as red as turkey-cock.
The Colonel literally stared with
amazement. Hitherto it had been for
him to deliver bayonet thrusts, not to
receive them.
Julia pounced on her bantam-cock,
and with her left hand literally pulled
him off the premises, and shook her
right fist at him till she got him out Of
sight of the foe; then she kissed him on
both cheeks, and burst out laughing;
and, indeed, she was so tickled that she
kept laughing at intervals, whether the
immediate subject of conversation was
grave or gay. 1t is hard not to laugh
when very little fellow cheeks very
big one. Even Walter, though he adj
mired as well as loved his father, hung
his head, and his shoulders shook with
suppressed visibility. Colonel Clifford
detected him in this posture, and in his
wrath gave his chair a whack with his