Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-04
"Like her sister,

"Like her sister,"
s''Now," said Mrs Sidebottom, 'what are you
going to do? In this house you cannot well be
accommodated. There are rooms, but every
ones head is turned, servants and all. No
toast sent up at breakfast. Your best way will
be to go to Lambert's quarters in my house.
Here you would be amidst a party of tedious
women
81 want to be as far as possible from those
young ladies'" said Philip. Zone has been in
the train with me for many hours, and has
worried me beyond endurance"
Certainly. Go with Lambert In my house
you will be in Liberty Hall, where you can
smoke
II never smoke"
"And drink whisky and water
Il take nothing at night"
"And talk over social scandals"
''ln which have not the smallest interest"
swell, well, we dine in a quarter of an hour
here. You will stay. No dressing, quite en-
famille. Fried soles, joint and outlets la
tomato"
THANK you. Iaccept for the inns, learn,
are quite full will give orders to the porter
to take my traps over to your house, and then.
perhaps. you will give me ten minutes to tell
me what has happened to my uncle, for am
SILL In the dark respecting him."
$50 are we all" said Lambert.
From the room into which Salome had drawn
her sister, and which was the sitting room of
their invalided mother, could be heard the
sobbing of Janet and the broken accents of the
old lady and Salome. There were tears IN all
their voices.
/ Then there flashed through the mind of
Philip Pennycomequick the thought that here
without in the hall. were the sister anG two
nephews of the lost man, who had been as yet
scarcely alluded to by them, but he had been
told about what there was for dinner; whereas,
divided from them by door, were three per-
sons unconnected with Uncle jeremiah, who
were moved by his death or disappearance as
by that of dear connection
Philip, however, said nothing. He turned to
the front door to speak to the porter, when a
violent ring at the bell called his attention to
another man who stood on the steps.
'Beg pardon" said this man, 'where is Miss
Salome?"
81 will call her." said Philip. "Who shall
say wants to speak to herr"
"The night watchman, Fanshawe"
"Oh, Mr.. Fanshawep' exclaimed Mrs. Side
bottom, running through the hall to him, ''has
he been found?"
"No such luck"
Philip tapped at the door through which the
girls had retreated, and Salome opened it. Her
eyes were glittering with tears, and her cheeks
were moist.
There is a fellow called Fanshawe wants
word with you,'' said Philip.
The girl advanced through the hall to the
door.
"Oh, missr' said the night-watchman ''some
o. us chaps aren't content to let matters stand
as they be. For sewer t'owd gen'lman be
somewheer, and we're boun' to maxi anither
sarch. We thowt tha'd like to knaw."
"But-where?"
'Pt canal"
"How?-By night"
"For sewer. VII loaf o. cake and a can'l"
CHAPTERX X-WITH A LOAF AND A CANDLE.
With loaf and candle!
We live in the oldest world, where men labor
to do the simplest things in the most round
about way, and to put whatever they come in
contact with to purposes other than those in
tended. We have seen champagne bottles used
as candlesticks and bonnet given to a cat to
kitten in, and preacher haranguing in
theater, and pug1list occupying pulpit.
women dressing and cutting their hair like
men, and men affecting girlish ways; members
Of Parliament exhibiting themselves as black
guards. and leaders of the people leading them
to political suicide, as Jack the Giant-Killer
made Giant Gruff-me-gruff rip himself open.
Those who have feet to walk on, affect stand
ing on their heads, and those who have heads
to reason with, think with their stomachs,
With loaf and a candle!
Astronomers tell us that there are as many
suns visible in the armament as there are
human beings in Great Britain-about thirty
millions, and that each of these suns presum-
ably the center of q system of worlds like our