Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-03

evenings ago sne was steamlng ABOUT SUNSET
time along the southern coast of Long
Island and making for Sandy Hook. Both
were John Bulls to their very phlegmatic
cores.
The speaker was q very handsome young
man of athletic form, of refined features and
aristocratic presence-on whose face rested
shadows OF ennui, iIl-assorting with his age
The addressed passenger was a thIck-set,
pudgy man, with Hebraic cast of counte-
nance, whose looks bore an imprint OF cynl-
cism, Thev had struck acquaintanceship
in st. Georges channel, and both being
good sailors mad been in every respect TEL
lows" during the passage.
"Yes. those are outlying shores Of the
Empire State. Home of the exile, it has
been, as the shades of Emmett, Louis Phil
lips, Louis Napoleon and Garibaldi could
bear witness; home, too, of the downtroddeni
but how much longer America will continue
to be such home depends upon politicians
and labor-Socialists who have already begun
to exclude nationalities and artisans. But
yonder is not what may be called a home of
the free. The mob and the press have re-
duced Americans to sort of servltude.
The pudgy passenger spoke hesitatingly,
as if weighing his words, as coinmonger
would weigh half sovereigns or quarter
eagles of gold. The youngster seemingly
half listened only as if weighing his own
thoughts instead of his companion's words.
Yet he responded: "And yet it is to be the
home of my exile and where shall be freed
at least of suggestive misfortune.
The pudgy passenger was keen observer.
He had not been Wall street broker for Is
Iafo 1tu
Judgment of men and becoming an assayer
of motives. He had without attracting much
attention studied the youngster, and had
nodded much of the latter's observations into
q fancied story as to his past.
f'We shall soon go our various ways. You
already have my card. Do not fail to call
and see me as soon as you find it practicable.
may be useful to you, an exile, and per-
haps save you from being downtrodden in
this land of the free and easy"
The other slightly shrugged his shoulders.
perhaps from habit; but he accepted the
guerdon Of courtesy with q pleasant smile
and turned toward the cabin.
Reaching his stateroom he encountered in
the passageway his body servant, still pale
and weak from NAL de mer, yet wearing
self-satisfed grin as he found the vessel
nearing port.
"Is your lordship ready to be vaccinated?
I hear we are soon to be in quarantine,
where the doctors get fees for plugging your
arm with"
"Hush, Mivins, you forget. There is to
be no lordshipping over here. You have
slowed that stuff all the voyage-not a soul
OH board knows who 1 am and no one in
America shall ever know. To you and
to everybody am plain Mr.. Carson, an old
name in our family, and the moment you
offend we part company and you return
home, for all your seven years of excellent
service in our knockings about the world. 3"
The body servant touched his forelock,
and admitted that in the joy of coming near
land he had ''slipped his memory" 1t was
plain to see by the dialogue which followed
as to directions and acceptances of orders
that master and servant had been on terms
OF intimate understanding for long time.
There were few points in Europe, Asia and
Africa accessible to tourists that they had
not visited. Milford held q courtesy title as
the Younger son of a deceased duke, and
brother of the living successor, whose two
sons seemed to be perpetual bar against
anT hopes of the younger brother succeed
ing to the family honors. These were i'm
pressed at present upon -impecuniosity.
There were historic titles, domains mort
gagged to the last rookerie, and there was a
outstanding of every shilling beyond the
law of waste. Milord-who at Cambridge
had been crack oarsman, unrivalled crick-
eter, well up in the list as a wrangler and
the best boxer, fencer and athlete of his
college-had tor some time enjoyed goodly
income. But. although no gambler nor
bookmsker at races, nor given to gross vices,
he had been no saver of money; and when
the family crash came he found himself
with worldwide experience of men, Ian
guages, climes and manners, but the pos
SCISSOR of only a small annuity-the legacy
of a dowager aunt and Of amount just suf-
fcient to keep him on the living list for ne
cessities, and with the only real luxury left
him in the aid of a faithful servitor, who
blended the faculties of friend and body
servant Caring not to be prodded by So
cial bayonets in the "bsttle of life on
English soil, he had preferred emigration to
America rather than to Australia, where
English gossip was as busily rampant as in
Mayfair or Scarborough.
In q few days Carson had accepted the
post of private secretary to the banker, and
found himself installed at q fair salary in an
occupation which gave him all his hours
after o'clock of each day. His easy man
ners, his imperturbabllity and curious pa
thence made him in only few weeks great
favorite with his employer, who treated him
more as a friend than as a subordinate,
Carson also won upon the habitues of the
Office. In few months he became well
known on change, and was often invited to
dinners and evening entertainments At
the former he seldom ate or drank. His
soup-spoon and fish knife became mere TOYS
then, but his conversation was frequent and
attractive. He knew the art of the talker
in sinking self and starting topics that in
terested the self-loYe or sympathy of listen
erS. He took conversation as q game of
rhetorical battledore and shuttleeock, neat
lv returning with interested stroke deliy-
cred topic. But he never betrayed deep in
terest His throws were cynical, but never
offensively nor drearily so. There seemed
to be q subtle mystery about him that was
implied only. He bafled the curiosity of
matrons in the most teasingly Indifferent
manner. The ehatty American girl would
often be piQued at his want of enthusiasm.
His expensive stastes in carriage hire,
changes of dress, books, and in menus that
rather grstifed the eye than impressed the
palate all kept his purse thin, but he had
learned how to marry thrift to desires. He
suffered only one extravagance-the hire of
the faithful MI7ens.
Time hung heavy around the latter's
neck. He could not, like Mark TRpIey,
become Jolly under adverse circumstances
he missed his music hall Of the evening.
By day his old nook in 9 pub" was ex-
changed for the noisy tipple amid q crowd
Of strugglerE at an American "bsr." These
shocked his traditions. he missed his
lounge along the railings Of Rotten Row in
Hyde Park. Everybody Is DO busy here"
he would remark to his incognito lordship;
81 haYe been through Central Park this
afternoon, and the carriage folk and eques-