Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-02-08

NO questions were dSkeu OH tndt score,
and she received company iust when she
felt disposed. But I'm Cumberland Place
such doings were quite out OF the ques tion.
She had been appointed upper housemaid,
ami the situation was not by any means
| to her liking.
There were two footmen. n butler, and
number OF female servants, but not one
of them was at all in Elizabeth's style.
They. like the house, were much too
grand for her.
Friends of the servants were constantly
dropping in 10 supper, and these were
entertained literally enough at Mr.. At
WOO is expense; but Elizabeth had never
| yet v.ntured 10 ask her young man To the
house. for she knew that his manners and
conversation would have been at once
condemned by this fine society. and, with
out being the least bit of snob, she felt Ii
unwse to mention The fact that she was
keeping company with du'tman.
Give me generals place AMI him
dependence said lizabeth, as she walk
ed arm int arm with Reuben Bates one
nicht in the fdgware Road, and poured
forth her woes into his ears. Il ate your
stuck up sweils none Of your fash 'nable
ways fer me - can't abide 'em!
arvints is sarvints say, and
not mas ers and missuses; and to
ear EN- talk and see 'em a-goin'
on makes me quite Disguised, kube. 1t do.
some more puddin', NJ - 'Awkins' says
the first footman! Mis- 'Awklns' in
deed Liz is good enough for me, and
so up and told i'm straight. And. oh,
Rube. you'd ave larfed to see 'ow @
FLASHED quite the euler OF Teony. as
the sayin' Is. as If l were maxim too
free with i'm! More pudd n indee' I'D
puddn' i'm, No grand er amt III! style;
] weren't born 10 it, and don't like IL. F"
Stopping to look in at the window OF a
tempting linen diapers shop, lizabeth
was deeply engage in contemplating an
article which struck her "a 'Quite a bar
gain" at elevenpence three farthings.
when voice behind her nearly caused
her to fall through the sheet of plate
glass.
elizabeth" it said, 'can 1 speak to
you for moment"
Goodness cried Rube, with a start,
''if that ain the voice of the Il -
FLUSH you foo-hold your tongue"'
exclaimed elizabeth emp atically, grasp
ing the situati II In moment, with a
woman's shrewdness. BE of 'ome,
Rube-and not word of this, we ear,
or you'll never the own the and OF LIZ
buth 'Awkins.'
Then, turning round TO John Delaney
for il was he-she led him TO a quiet side
street away from the hustle and the glare.
"Oh, Mr.. Delaney" she said at last
when they had arrived at retired spot,
"wOtever are you dom ere? l 20. ed
You was far away, and safe. y
80 | was, lizabeth, " he replied; "but
l have come back.
''Do you know, she said earnestly,
that there i, a reward out for on. and,
If the perlice take you, you will be
'anged -
Not quite so bad az that, l think,
Eli abeth, he returned, with faint
smile imprisoned for life perhaps
but that would not be Tor long.
imprisoned? No; anged by the neck
till you are dead. Oh. isn't 1t lawful
'Ow could you br.ng your cart to go and
kill i'm?
"Kill whom? There was no one killed
from what | heard
''No one XII led and poor Captain Stur-
gis as was slortered like q sheep Oh,
'ow could YOU a done 1t!
80 aptain Sturgis -what about him?'
what about i'm? oh. il this ain t de
ceit and you, as killed i'm cold blood, tc
stand and ak t me so calm Ike"
- killed Captain Sturgis?"
'Nes, murdered 'im-you can pretend
ignorance TO me-.
John Delaney was utterly COMPOUNDED.
BY degrees he gathered the story Of the
5 CRY OF the shocking tragedy from ii a
beth. He felt chilled with horror. Wa.
he then branded as Murderer as we'll a,
a dynamiter?
$50 they think then, he said presently,
after Elizabeth had nished her story
''that IL was who killed him >
Think, sir, Who could help thinking
SO after wot come out at the him uest?'
True, he repl ed; .and does Mrs. At
wood think so too
Certainly she does
At this moment they drew near to 8
shop II was small greengrocers, and
the gas was tiaring recklessly, showing
the garden produce OF in an attractive
manner to intending buyers
The light fell strongly upon Delaney's
face, and he paused for a mon ent.
"Look at me, Ii abeth," he said
what do you see in u Y face? Death. i:
1t not have not many days to live
you can see that plain enough, can you
not -
She could see II only too well, and, a:
she ga e upon his emaciated features
and wasted frame. Iii aberh wept.
"Don cry he continued; I'VE mus
al, cone ~ ii sooner or later and ! shall
rot be sorry for my own sake. You were
kin to me in the old days, Elizabeth
Will you do one thing more for me- Ash
Mrs. Atwood TO come and see ne. Her,
j. the address," and he wrote down til,
name Of an obscure st eet in Camden Town
''ies, sir, said ! liza eth -. will asl
'er. ''wever Ia you may be, can
forget old times.
THANK on. " returned Delaney, walk
ing oil little farther II Unl,
came back To lOnio1 iaSt night. | codid
not keep away somehow any longer. as
night walked up 10 where where my
mother and sister I've. saw them boil
both through the window. They Loo
i'll and aged, IL is hard TO have to stra'
up in the dusk TO catch a glimpse OF one ;:
mother.
His voice became nearly in1udble from
emotion. The night had clouded over
and The rain began 10 tail steadily doNT
into The III r6y street DELANEY
shiyered i'm his threadbare clothes and
violent ut OF coughing pfeven ed nim from
say NJ more tor eral minutes. Whei