Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-08-21
i certain extent familiar with the me.

b certain extent falallaar with the me-
tropolis. he began to question me mi
nutely and ended by making ME prom
Use to dine with him at the Criterion, of
which he had actually never heard, and
20 with him afterward to the best of
the theatres the day after we arrived in
London.
He wanted me to 60 with him the very
evening We arrived, but on that point l
was firm. My sister Jane. who was iv-
ing with a hen canary Called Bob, after
me, before its sex was KNOWN in a small
house in Kensington, would naturally be
hurt if 1 did not spend my first evening
in England with her, after an absence of
so many years.
Carr was much interested to neal that
I had IA sister, and asked innumerab1e
questions about her. Was she young
and lovely, or was she getting on? Did
she live all by herself, and was / going
to stay with her for long? Was not Ken
sington-was that the name of the street?
rather out of the world, etc?
Twas pleased with the interest he took
in any particulars about myself and my
relations. People SO seldom care to hear
about the concerns Of others. Indeed, /
have noticed. as / advance in life, such
a general want of interest on the part of
my acquaintance i'll the minutiR of my
personal affairs that of late l have al
most ceased to speak Of them at any
length. Carr, however, who was of
what I should call a truly domestic turn
Of character. showed such genuine pleas
IRE in hearing about myself and my re-
lations that / asked him to call in Lon
don in order to make James acquaintance,
and accordingly gave him her address.
which he took down al ono in his note
book with evident satisfaction.
Our passage was long, but it proved
most uneventful. and except for an oc-
casional dance and the theatricas be-
fore mentioned 1t would have been dull
in the extreme. The theatrtcals GER
tainly were a great success, mainly ow-
ing to the splendid acting Of young Carr,
who became afterward a more special
object of favor even than he was before.
1t was bitterly cold when we landed
early In January at Southampton, and
my native land seemed to have retired
from view behind a thick veil Of fog.
We had a wretched journey up to
London, packed as tight as sardines in a
tin, much to the disgust of Carr, who
accompanied me to town, and who, with
his usual thoughtfulness, had in vain
endeavored to keep the carriage to T
selves by liberal tips to guards and por-
tiers. When we at last arrived in Lon
a., ha 3r,;efed IN rot$ipu mo a ooh op1
seeding my luggage onto 1t before he
looked after his own at all. 1t vas only
when l had given the cabman my SIS
ter's address that he finally took his
leave, and disappeared among the throng
Of people who Were j~ostling each other
neal the luggage vans.
Obviously enough, when / arrived at
my destination an odd thing happened.
/ got out at the green door Of 2S Sub
urban residences, and when the maid
opened it walked straight past her into
the drawing room.
well, janet" l cried.
A pail, middle aged woman rose as 1
came In, and I stood aghast. 1t was not
my sister. 1t was soon explained. She
was a little pettish about it, poor womanl
It seemed my sister had quite recently
changed her house, and the present oc-
cupant had been put to some slight IN
convenience before by people calling
and leaving parcels after her departure.
was only In the next street, and I apollo
gized and made my bow at INC My
going to the wrong house was such a
slight occurrence that l almost forgot 1t
at the time until | was reminded of it by
a very sad event which happened after
ward.
Jane was delighted to see me. 1t
seemed she had written to inform me of
her change Of address, but the letter did
not reach me before 1 started for Eng
land with the Danvers jewels, about
which I have been asked to write
this account. Considering this is an
account of the Jewels 1t is wonder
ful how seldom I have had occa-
sion to mention them so far; but you
may rest assured that all this time they
were safe In their bag under my waist
coat, and knowing / had them there all
right I did not trouble my head much
about them. l never was a person to
worry about things.
Stin I had no wish to be inconyen-
fenced by a hard packet of little knobs
against my chest any longer than was
necessary, and I wrote the same evening
to Sir George Danvers, stating the bare
facts Of the case, and asking what steps
he or his second son wished me to take
to put the legacy in the possession of its
wne l had no notion of trusting a
packet Of such immense value to the
newly organized Parcels Post. With
jewels l consider you cannot be too cau-
tious. Indeed I told Jane so at the time,
and she quite agreed with me.
TO BE CONTINUED.