Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-13

thoreuehtArs=aHd Then resumed his Albilets
stroll, slowly aud reluctantly To these ~
decisions aud hssitnilons there same the In
eyItabla climax with ewes loworsd-but yet
ssetnlng 10 ses everything around him aud
far ahead o. hinl--hu went down Park
street uutil ha came tO the smaller thorough
fare named On the onrdi aud there, with still
Freater shame laoednrm be- paused aud ven-
turud 10 look al the house that he guessed 10
be the abode OF tho old man aud his
granddaughter Well, II was sufficiently
humble dwellingi hut u was nrht
and oleani aud In the little balcony outside
theidrst door we're n numbur ol pots Of low
ers-lobelaA, ON-eye daisies aud musk. The
window was open, hut he could hear nothing,
lie glanced up aud down the small street,
by this time the carriages had all been
driven away 30 dinner party aud theatrei q
perfect silence prevailed cverywherei there
was not a single pHsseF-bV. II was quiet
corner, a resliul haven, these two lonely
creatures had lound alter their varied bullet
ings about the world. Aud 20 this Young
man, who had Just come away rom the roar
of Oxford street aud its surging stream Of
human lite, there seemed something sincu-
larly fascinating and soothing IN the still
ness He began 20 think that he, too, would
like 20 escape into this retreat They
would not object TO a solitary companion?-
TO neighbor who would be content
70 see them from the other side of the way,
at the window now and again, or perhaps TO
saw GOOD morning 70 or "GOod evening II
as they passed him on the pavement? He
could bring his books; here would be ample
opportunity for study; there were tar too
many distractions and interruptions at mis-
fathers house. And tben-atter weeks and
weeks OF patient waiting-then perhaps
some still evening-he might be invited to
cross over? In the hushed little parlor he
would take his seat-and-oh the wonder
and enhancement OF it-be privileged to sit
and listen ana hear what the wanderers, at
rest at last, had to say OF the far and outer
world thew had left behind them. He did
not know what she was called; but he
thought of several names; and each one
grew beautful-became possessed of a Curl
Gus interest-when he guessed that it might
be hers.
Suddenly the silence sprung into life;
some one seemed to speak to him; and then
he knew that it a yiolin-being played
in that very room. He glanced up toward
the open window; be could Just make out
that the old man was sitting there, within
the shadow; therefore it must lie the girl
herself who was playing, in the recess Of the
chamber. And in q sort of dream he stood
and listened to the plaintive melody-hard-
ly breathing-haunted by the feeling that
he was intruding on some sacred privacy.
Then, when the beautiful, pathetic notes
ceased, he noiselessly withdrew his bowed
head She had been speaking to him, but he
was bewiIdered; he hardly could tell what
that trembling, Infinitely sad voice had
said.
He walked quickly now; for in place of
those vague anticipations and reveries, a
more definite purpose was forming in his
brain; and there was a certain joyousness in
the prospect. The very next morning he
would come up to this little thorough lare,
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self, perhaps opposite the house where the
old man and his granddaughter lived. 1t
was time he was devoting himself more Wig
orously TO study; there were too many peO-
pie calling at the big mansion IN Grosyenor
place; the irivolties OF the fashionable
world we're too seductive. But IN the secu.
tion Of that quiet little quarter he could give
himself up 10 his books; aud he would know
that he had neirhburs; he might get
glimpse of them from time TO tine; that
would tighten his toll. Then when Mary
Bethune-he had come 10 the conclusion
that Mary was her name, aud had made not
such a bad guess, after nll,=when Mary
13rthune played oue Of those pathetic Scotch
nira, he would have u better right 10 listeni
he would oonlentedly put down seaman'a
'Progress of Nations" aud go 10 the open
window and st there till the violin had
ceased 10 speak IL was q most excellent
work right well-beoause II was based on
common sense.
When he arrived at the great house Ia
GrOsVenOT Place, lie went at once into the
dining rOUm, aud ound, though not 10 his
surprise that dinner was ust about over.
There we're only three persons seated at the
long table win 'b was sumptuOusly iuT-
nished with fruit. flowers aud silver, At
the head wqs We Harris father, Mr.. Har.
Ian NgTIf huf
bourgeois-looking man, with a stiff, redantic
and pompous manner, who nevertheless
showed his scorn Of conventionalities by
wearing u suit o gray tweed; on his right
sat his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ellison, a re-
mRrkably pretty young widow, tall and ele-
CANT OF figure, with wavy, brown hair, shrewd
blue eyes and a most charming smile that
she could use with effect; the third nember
OF the group being Mr.. Ogden, the great
electioneerer Of the North, big and heavy
man, with Yorkshire-looking shoulders a
bald head and small, piggish eyes set ia a
wide extent of face. Mr.. Ogden was re-
splendent IN evening dress. il his shining
shirt front was rather billowy.
"What's this now?" said the pretty Mrs.
Ellison 10 the young man, as he came and
pulled in a chair and sat down by her. |
"Haven't you had any dinner"
''Good little children come in with des-
Eert, :" said be, as he carelessly helped him.
sell to some olives and a glass OF claret.
tits too hot to eat foOd-unusual for
MAY, isn't it? Beside had late luncheon
with Musselburgh."
LORD Musselburgh?" put in Mr. Ogden.
'I wonder when his lordship is going to tell
u what he is going to bean owner of race
horses or a yachtman or a statesman? 1t
Eeems to me he can't make up his own mind;
and the public don't know whether to take
him seriously or not"
"Lord Musselburgh," said Master Vim,
firing up in defense of his friend, "is an En-
glish gentleman, who thinks he ought to
support English institutions-and 1 dare
say that is why he does not find saving
grace in the caucus"
Perhaps there was more rudeness than
point in this remark; but Mrs. Ellison's
eyes laughed-decorously and unobserved.
She said aloud
"For nv part, l consider Lord Mussel- |
burgh very admirable young man. he has
offered me the box-seat on his coach at the |
next meet OF the -Four in Hand Clnb."
And are you going, aunt?" her nephew |
asked.
''Yes, certainly"
"Bard on Musselburgh, won't it be,
rather?" he observed, in casual sort of |
way.
"Why?"
because if you are on the box-seat, no.
body will look at his team
"None OF your impertinence, sir" said |
she (but she was pleased all the same). |
Boys must not say such things to their |
grandmother"
Now the advent of Master Vim was oppor- |
tune; for Mr.. Harris, finding that his sister |
in-law had now some one uf like mind to |
talk to, left those two frivolous persons |
alone, and addressed himself exclusively to !
his bulky friend from the North. And his /
discourse took the form Of pointing out what |
were the practical and definite aims that |
socialism had to place before itself. AS to |
general principles, all thinking men were
agreed. Every one who had remarked the |
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