New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-22

| Then perhaps you Will ten me WHO YOU at1 ~ ~.
how your wife comes to be passing herself OIL as
INV sister?' This was relicf-the discovery OF q
| man in the matter at first.
| My name is Smell the other answered curly
L an ii non commissioned officer III the Stores DeI
| partmcnt. And now that you know who am,
will trouble you to tell me what you were giving
my wife so,, on
[ swcrcd frankly: wondering in his innocence
whether he were going to get it back :.
a hundred pounds the stranger stammered .or "a
| hundred pounds And then the deans eyes "eIc
| opened. and his face grew hot.
| Stay stay he cried pitably, for the otner was
clenching his fists with an unmistakable purpose
you misapprehcnd me altogether Indeed you 90.
nv good man. / am the Dean OF Dromore. My
name is Young. Yonr wife, with what motive l
am quite unable to explain, has been troubling me
! by passing herself off rs my sister
| AS your sistcrp incredulously .
Certainly the poor dean affirmed ana TO RIO
myself Of the annoyanc, ] perhaps foohshly gave
| her hundred pounds, as you saw.
| To do what?
| To go away ,
To 90 away? And you dare TO tell me this.
YOU rcprobate.' the soldier cried furiously DO
| you think that story will wash-that-that pack OF
lies? You, dean, and tell me to my face that
YOU offered my wife hundred pounds TO go away
| Shame you, old man Shame! ! say
All if any of the subalterns in the til whom
his manners had oppressed could have seen the dean
then Oh dear dear this is very terrible ne
murmured TREMENDOUSLY looking about him for help:
L assure you, my good man. you are quite wrong
Wrong? / will soon show you who is wrong!
cried the sergeant vengefully; and
But the catastrophe was averted: EFT e)acu.
lated some who had just turned the corner OF
| the garden wall 'er-what is the matter, dean
! What Is all this?'
The speaker was Major Andrew Macdonald The
sergeant pulled himself up and sauted-a machine
once more .
The major had come upon the scene in the nick
! Of timc-ony just in the nick Of time-and yet
the dean could not thank him-could for the mo-
mcnt do no more than smile feebly upon him and
wave his hand in depreciation, while the sergeant
ctif fitr atadh
But said the major, after listening moment
in silence, do I understand. DEAN that you really
gave the woman hundred pounds
Yes the dean admitted. Sho will tell YOU
Why. the woman is gone :. in surprise.
oh, yes, she has gone the soldier retorted bit
tcriy, his wrath which the presence OF tn" officer
had partially suppressed, flaming up again. She
has taken her money and her instructions, old gen.
tleman, and gone! Deuce doubt about il! And
where arc yOn going to meet her? That Is what
| would like TO know!
BE silent SHELL said the major But when he
he'd said that he did not see his way any further
surcd of his guilt To give a hundred pounds to
% pure impostor seemed to his Scotch mind an in
credible piece of folly-a thing which no man in
the deans position. and of his years, would do.
Why you might have gone away YOURSELF he
muimured, following out his train Of thought and
PERHAPS calculating the expense of removal to
Alglcrs or Cairo.
! I wish to heaven had the dean calculated
earnestly. But he could scarcely tell the young
man why he had not adopted that course: lie
/ could not explain, TO MN, MS hopes ABOUT
hopes now dashed to the ground and shattered be-
yond repair. Poor Mary For the only doubt
left in Macdonads mind turned on the nature of
the tie between the dean and this woman We're
the soldiers suspicious correct' Or was this vul-
gar Mrs. Smell really the deans sister-a sister
shamefully disowned and iltreatedP Was this
dull non-commssioned officer the deans brother
in-law? Macdonald shuddcred at this, thinking
of the escape he had had. and reused himself from
darkling scrutiny Of the offender to say
brusquely: Now, Smell, you had better come
/ with mo for bn
The last words he flung at the clergyman as he
turned, and nothing more. But they did the dean
good The sense OF his folly had up to that time
raralyzed him. Now, aware that his position was
really serious and that something more than folly
might be imputed he felt all the righteous indig-
nation which false charge confers on its victim.
For few minutes anger kept him from feeling
miserable or from thinking Of Mary. But as he
neared the hotel the sense OF personal failure
crushed him. A week ago he had been free from
care, Then this thing had arisen in its origin
an absurd trife; magnifed by his imnru.
dence TINT the rest CT his life might be spoiled
/ lie lotcrcd here and there to take breath as he
climbed the steep staircase of street, ami looked
up from time to time at the narrow wedge of deep
Al the beauty valletta had held for him yester-
day, all the pleasure MS peeps of sea suddenly dis
closed when least expected its quaint houses Its
existed no longer. He crcpt up to room n
shaken man and glad TO learn that US Laughter Laughter
The dean sat thus, probably for half an hour
q week it seemed to him. looking back on it with
loathing aftcrward. And then hasty knock at
the door recalled him to himself. lie looked up
Come in he said hoarsely We'll, what is it p
he ntinued. his face darkening as he saw who
his visitor vas, and rose to confront him. What
Fran apology. An abject and miserable apol-
oCy,' was the answer. The young man stood be-
fore him turning his hat in his hands, looking UNI
happy and much ashamed Of himself, and not Il bit
priggiSh now. i have hurried here to offer it for
myself and for othcrs-who should have been here
in person, for they are more in fault he added
with n touch Of viciOuSness.
Perhaps yoI had better explain said the dean
with hauteur. But hope was springing up fast
Tt was all q hoax. sir Some OF those young
fools in the TIL got it up Andy replied mpotm
ousy. They had fancy that you rather-well;
rather sat upon them, you know, and they wanted
/ to take you do--er. to have return match, you
see, and they put Mrs. Smell up to playing her
part finding that she had known bit about you
years ago
And was the acquisition Of my hundred pounds
part Of the plot Z? the dean asked wrathfully But
he knew in his heart that his anger was only pre-
tencc.
oh, no. of course not 1t shall be repaid at
once. The woman took advantage Of us all there.
She is not too good lot, suspect, and has given
Smell trouble before. But the fellows did not know
that, or they would not have had anything to do
with her. She had only been out here a few weeks,
and being known to few, suited their plans OK
actlv.'
lymph the dean snorted.' And were you in this
preci rus corsrirtcy, Maic. Macdonald?
Certainly notr Andy FASTENED to answer with
humility They did not say anything to me-erm
becausc-Mss Young is not at home, | suppose "
with change of subject, sudden, but fairly in
telligbe.
No. said the Dean careessly. Il think she has
gone as far as the Barracca., Well, hope shall
hear no more of this foolish business
You may depend on that sir said the major.
And then he took himself off with commcndable
tact
OF course his lcgs-or his heart-,tooly him to the
Barracca that great dsmantled building on the
highest point of Valletta, from which, as from a
terrace, some of the nOblest views in the south OF
Europe TO be enjoyed. There, gazing down on
the life and .color Of the Grand liarbor. oil the
stir and hustle Of which came up softcned by dis
tancc-thc distance Of depth only-even rs the same
distance dwarfed the ships OF war and the thousand
tiny craft at her feet, he found Mary. She was
standing in one of the embrasures, leaning on the
iron railing engaged in contrasting it may be, this
day and another. For when he spoke, she started,
AL hor hofo c1,a ppoH