The Red Cloud chief., 1886-01-29

4 Whisper something was going
wrong. Aroused by this conject-
ur.. the poet once more ayailed
himself OF the freedom his intimacy
with the manager gaye him, and
saantercd behind the Scenes. The
Ford Iorrimer was swearing like a
icdlamite. The Ducal usurpcr. the
banishcd Duke. Jaques, Celia, Phlbe
md Orlando STOOD about HIM. all in at
t.tudcs 81 more or less amazement
W hats the matter. LorrImcr?.'
asked the poet
Matter" cried Lorrimcr. 1.-The
fades oil At the last minute. and this Is
al she leaves behind her
The poet TOOK from the managers
ont>irctched hand a mote, and read
This:
Srn-Grcnmsfancrs have arisen which
make IL impossible that ! should cont nue. my
career upon the stag. ] shall To- happy to re-
pay you for Ail expenses yuu may have in
-rurr"d IN my tehaiE Pray communicate, IA
=, l"ct 10 iha! matter. with NV lawyers,
= IcsaTs Lowe & Carrier. Of Clement : Inn
Yours very trulS.
CLARA CHUEcHu-I-"
'Shc can't mean it, cried Lorrimer.
actually gasping. I've spent three
hundred pounds in money. and three
thousand pounds in vii in advertising
her. She wants more salary. That's
what il i>->hc wants more salary. But,
bedad. since she's tried IL on N this
way Che mastered his rare 30 far as
10 Ice able to cmbroidcr ii, a. il were.
with Il touch Of mock-hcroicS), Ii that
her jc~s"- were my dear hcartstr!ngs,
III whistle her oil and let her down the
wind 10 prey at fortune
Mr. Ronald Marsh sighed audiblv.
Shakespeare crowds us all from he
ficli OF popular quotation he said,
inwardly. lind Lorrimcr known it he
might have found a passage far more
appropriate IN my ~Epithalam um."
CHATTER III
When Tregarthcn found that his zeal
for the To- tprliiOn Of the mc-s-room
manner, had wrecked his military fort
UacS - went home. and there buried
himself among his books. Many. many
wears 40, the TTcgar.hens. his forbcars.
hal huslt FIR Themselves a fortress for "A
dWsiling-placc, and the house had
wasted away. bit by bit. like the other
belongings OF il owners. but had been
modern zcd and added 10 every here
and there. until II had crown and fallen
into one IF The oldest and most he;cro-
Cencous piles in England. a man must
Toe curiously modelled indeed If his clar-
actcr i IN no way affected 10y the char
ter of the house iii which he is bred. aud
a good deal Of the sentiment of the
frowning. rambling. stately. yet half
ruined old house had found its way into
Irrgarrhcn.
His ancestors. for reasons Of their own,
lad built their house upon an island.
and this island faced the Cornish MAIN
land on the one hand and The melan-
choly Atlantic on the other. The house
, stood high and bare for winter storms TO
ravc al. and IN the Tougher months of
the wear 1t had constantly Ia b. pro-
yisionei for a s.cge Of stormy weather.
since for week AT a time II was Danger
Gus, II not iInposs bie, To approach the
island. The one harbor faced the man
! LAND with two prodiC ious walls of rock,
and a narrow belt of smooth sand De-
tween. which ran upward toward hardy
grasses. and was directly overlooked
by the mansion. Those vast walls of
rock and the narrow space between
them We're known 10 the local folk As
the Gate of the Sea. SO old a house Is
thai of the 1rcgarthens could scarcely
fail to have been shot nj hy the local
bards and soothsayers: shoot bolts
enough and some OF them are sure TO
stick-and N of many prophecies and
notices chung. Ii set forth that what
socvcr good or evil the TrerartherS en-
durci should come 10 thea by the Gate
ol the Scl-a conclusion somewhat
opv since. unless by balloon or
earthquake. there was no other way of
approaching their dwclling-placc. II
ire Cornish couplct be- faithfully trans
lated. II proph"~le; rs much for char
acter rs for fortune
What evil or good ye have or be
Snail come 10 you all 10y the Gate OF the
Now in the DAYS when a full cellar. n
roughly generous lardrr and a chance
OF hard knocks and loot could tempt
adventurous souls 10 follow 4 frecboot-
ing = nticmIn. T~rceac;hcn : house
might have been n pl asurabic place TO
i've IN ior THOSE whose fancy lay that
WAY. hut for an almost ~companionlc-s
Nouurst"r. who had iuSt learned one of
the world hIttcrcet lessons. il MAS As
unU hnl som" a residence ~ might any.
where have been found. Trerarthen
needed home Influences and cheerful
companjonship; hut he had long been
an orphan. and he had neither brother
nor sister. tie was not n; olu,cly
wealthy. but NE had more money than
hc wanted. and there were few things
which could haNc been of more use TO
him than the spur of poverty.
-. IL Il. Il -
she m.nd IL p rsuade itself 10 ANYTHING.
1regar,hcn Persuaded himself that he
had done with the world for good and
az, tina; j: should occupy him no more
and that he would live for his studies
and no other earthly thing. His studies
began to lead him in n direction which
Ii was somewhat d that a Young cen
t.cinan of tn nineteenth century should
take. Some ancestors of his had COL
lec;ed all the works Of that crowd of
impostorS. guack>. sen -deceiverS, en-
thu>iastS and martyrs 10 science who
have written on the transmutation of
metals. the aivining rod. the elixir vitse,
the powers and properties of the stars.
and 80 forth-all the works. that is -
say. that he could n one short lifetime
Law hands on. TreCarthen began 10
Cvopc among the dark savings of these
gentry. at first with an amused interest
aud then with n singular growth Of
doubt. There might Ice something in
the DOOR NJ of transmutaiion after all.
When = man begins even 10 doubt on
a question like that he is pretty far
gone on a road which has lea of;ener
thar not To mere madness TreCarthen
saw the danger. but the study drew
him. and absorbed him more and more.
until he began 10 find in il q compensa-
ton for all things. Ii a man could lind