Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

French plums out of the bag in the store
closet? l must sit at my post, keep my hand on
the strong box and the bureau"
"But suppose Uncle Jeremiah were TO re-
turn?"
HE won't return. He cannot He is
drowned"
But the body has not been recovered"
"Nor will 1t be; it has been washed down into
the ocean"
Rather you than I sleep in his room." said
Lambert.
After a slight hesitation Mrs. Sidebottom
said, in a low, confiding tone, 81 have found his
keys. He left them in his dress coat pocket.
Now you see the necessity there is for me to be
on the spot. must have search for the Will.
Then she drew long breath, and said, NOW,
Lamb, there is some chance of my hearts de-
Sire being accomplished. You will be able TO
drop one of your MS"
"Drop what, mother?"
drop one of the MS in the spelling Of your
name. 1 have never liked the double In
Pcnnycomequick. 1t will seem more dis
tingulshed to spell the name with one n"
The captain yawned and walked to the door.
THAT is all one to me. don't suppose that
one n will bring me more money than two. by
the way have you written to Philip?"
"Philipr' echoed Mrs. Sidebottom. "Of
course not This is no concern of his. IT he
grumbles, we can say that we hoped against
hope, and did not like to summon him till we
were sure poor jeremiah was no more. NO,
Lamb, we do not want Philip here. and if he
comes he will find nothing to his advantage.
jeremiah very properly would not forgive his
father and he set us all an example, for in this
nineteenth century we are all too disposed to
leniency. shall certainly not write to Philip"
81 beg your pardon" said Salome. who at
41,ic of ha
you mentioning Mr.. Philip Pennycomequick?
"Yes, was," answered Mrs. Sidebottom,
shortly.
Salome stood in the doorway, pale, with dark
hollows about her eyes, and looking worn and
harassed. She had been up and about all the
night and following day.
"Were you speaking about sending for Mr.
Philip Pennycomequick?' she asked.
1--WE were mentioning him; hardly yet con-
sidering about sending for him." said Mrs.
Sidebottom.
Because" said salome, 81 have telegraphed
for him. 1 thought he ought to be here"
CHAPTER VIII.-IN ONE COMPARTMENT.
In a second-class carriage on the Midland
line sat gentleman and a lady opposite each
other. He was tall man, and was dressed in
a dark suit with a black tie. His face had that
set controlled look which denotes self restraint
and reserve. The lips were thin and closed,
and the cast of the features was stern. The
eyes, large and hazel, were the only apparently
expressive features he possessed. There is
nothing that so radically distinguishes those
who belong to the upper and cultured classes
from such as move in the lower walks of life as
this restraint of the facial muscles. 1t is not
the roughness of the hand that marks off the
manual worker from the man who walks
in the primrose path of ease, but the cast
of face, and that is due in the latter to
the constant inexorable enforcement of
self-control. In the complexity of social life
it is not tolerable that the face should be the
index of the mind. Social intercourse demands
disguise, forbids frankness, which it resents as
brusquerie, and the child from infancy is
taught to acquire mastery over expression.
As the delicate hand artifcer has to obtain
complete control over every nerve of his hand,
so as to make no slurs and shakes, SO also has
the man admitted into the social guild to hold
every muscle of his face in rigid discipline.
This is specially the case with the priest and
the lawyer and the doctor Conceive what a
hitch would ensue in conversation should the
lady of the house allow visitor to discern in
the countenance that she was unwelcome, or
for man of taste to allow his contempt to
transpire when shown by an amateur his
artistic failures, or for the host to vince when
an incautious guest has exposed the family
skeleton! 1t is said that the late Lady Bea-
consfeld endured her finger to be jammed
in the carriage door without vince or CRY,
and continued listening, or pretending to
listen, to her husbands conversation while
driving to the house. ALI members of the cul-