, 1889-01-10

ing me, .'don't say q word more. please. l.
| know it was great libcrty-an unwarrant-
able ibcrty-but l cOuld't help it. l wanted
| TO make little return for all the trouble and
misery / had brought about, and / couldn't
/ think OF anything else. l had just done it.
! you see.n
Done whatr' l exclaimed, snappishly-I
! could have screamed at him for two pins.
| Why, the little bit OF carvinS-aren't you
| talking about that Ac inquired.
No, sir, although I'll trouble You to re-
move the article from EIy premises as soon
as you conveniently can
oh
But am alluding now, sir, to your un-
gentlemanly behavior in bribing my servants
to let you inspect my apartments"
IL didn't bribc your servants, Miss Neild.
Poor girls, frightened them, but l did not
give them money as II bribc. You might
have thought better of fellow than that, :"
| he said, very SOrrowfully; although why
you should l don't know exactly"
You had no right to go into my dodgers
rooms and search for thai trumpcry umbrella
you lost"
No right" he repeated.
''Ccrtainly-no right"
But one of those two old bcggars has got
that
How dare you say this to me-"
''Who else it bc! know you haven't
got it, he cried. Il a,n sure your two scr
wants are rs innocent as babes unborn, and
they Were the only two besides i'll the house
that niSht-thc upstairs lot had gone to TUn-
bridge for two DAYS"
How did You know that
oh, made every inquiry" he explained,
cuolly; and as the umbrella was precious
possession to mc-I think | told you before it
was ii gift from my father on his dying bed
I made every effort to find out what had
become of it,
And very mean way tt find ont il Was"
| said, with asperity-; '';nd-Sood morning"
"GoOOd EH ing, he said, in low crnsk-
mls voice. / raised hs bilious straw hat,
dropped .. zs'opc, which IIc picked up
and tuCl more under his arm, came
suddenly t., MI .t"p, aud let Ine so on my
way unlnO.>.'te.. ..ny iIr.her by him.
When had got COOL distance from him,
| began to feel little sorry-cvcn little in
doubt if had not been too hard upon him.
He had appeared 50 u:tcrIy dImfoun,Icd 10y
my last opinion of his conduct, and hc had
turned Of such q variety of colurs Perhaps,
from his point Of view, aDd with an umbrella
which had vanished from every point of view,
ho WIS not wholly 10 Lv blamed. Perhaps
the captain had-Eo, that was quite impos-
Sible. Perhaps Mr.. Guodc-oh, 1 was getting
as miScrably distrustful IS tins uni...Dpy man
Yes, was little sorry. Y; l went Of the
fort | stole one glance behind lie to make
sur% what had become Of him-that his i'm
pulSivc nature even had not led him TO jump
OF the cliff. He al ri, ,sht; hc was 4 long
way oH-indecti, i'll the very place where |
had left him-;iOt overwhelmed or mad with
grief and shame, | had almost feared he
might bc, but standing with his legs planted
widely apart looking ut me- through his telc-
scope. When he saw l had turned he
wheeled quickly round and feiSncd an inter
est in the sen, knocking tie hat off bath
chairman just passing; him with an early fare
who had lost the Use of lis legs.
Well, there is an end of the intruder,
thought, and l could have wished-yes, l did
actually wish-that | had been more of u
young lady and less of vixen in my re-
Iroachcs to him. had been put out by his
- Margate, by his vcnturing to
- s~,.'anosure,