The National tribune., 1890-12-04
VIII.
soRcERY's FATE.

SOkCEKiS FATE.
At the Establishment in the Gap Sir James
Athol was found TO be little cross and
crowded with cares.
Nj O'Connor," said he, "where have you
been? Everything has got out of place A
| Queens dispatch-hag arrived this morning
from Knoxville full of war rumoTs. The
Irish labor on MY Nottingham property is
in the perfect Celtic luxury of strike. Old
| Turtle here, whom / have tried TO extract
some valuable information from, is dumb
as land terrapin, and does not know the
name he was called yesterday. And 20 add
to my perpleXities q faded paper, of curious
import, which had resolved in q few words
and parts of lines by my maguilying glass,
has disappeared, though left ii in the pam
try, thought, iust outside my Bathroom
Upon my word old Turtles Obliviousness
is catching, and, perhaps, only dreamed that
saw such papcrn
Creeper Turtle, who was there, rolled his
eyes upward, saying:
TaFpin? Was that my name? Pears
10 me | was TuTlIe, or Turkey, OF something
like that, yesterday. CoorOo, Perry, Ethel
them names l can recollect, but not my
own. / have no name. Memory is in the
grave, aud the tombstone IS all blank"
Sir James, you were not dreaming. The
fact is that the paper / suppose you have
missed belonged to old Braddocll Beatty,
and his daughter was anxious to recover il,
so took it back there to-day, and it is go
ing TO be delicate matter to levy upon it
again"
"Braddock Beatty? How came he by the
name Of Braddock -
" 1t seems that he was named for some
body who took service under Gen. Braddock
nearly fifty years bgiore Beatty was born"
" 4 small coincidence that! But uspicion
makes everything seem a coincidence. Well,
Mr.. O'Connor, mnss have that parchment.
How are you going 10 get it?"
" sec no safe way but TO get the help Of
Archy Beatty, the srasOn, his son."
a dom; Ike hi e is a religious prig.n
"M,ss Perry says he il not 50 bad. IgEor-
ant, Of corrss, and next to boorsh by the
ledness - his education. Ho is clean,
however, in his person, loves water, and has
as respectable aspirations as are here
afforded.
HE MIGHT EE HUNDRED"
81 (orgit whether It's Cooroo OF Perry that
Master Archy loves" groaned Old Turtle.
ats one or t'other, it seems TO me; but may
be not"
"You are right, O'Connor," observed Sir
james Athol, Allowance must be made
FOR these neglected people in the cul- sues
and narrow side-valleys of rude, new
world. don't want to be, myself, too dog
matte, and ! may as well admit that this
stouomason Is no fayorite of mine, because
old CreePeris grandchild prefers him TO me-"
The three men looked at each other alter
nately, and something in the wretched con-
dition Of old Mr.. Turtles mind and estate
made the other two fee! that they mast
apologize to themselves at least. As Brian
O'ConnOr had the most 10 confess he broke
through the conventunalities first.
" Sir James, we hardly expected to find in
these hills and hillsides material TO infatu-
ate us, but il is 80. am, .or the first time
in my life, in love with girl like Griselda,
who has only one suit OF serge and hardly
a change Of chemise."
And /, like Griselda's Lord find my
rowing eyes turned as low as the innkeeper's
gracious daughter. j can't help liking the
younger graHdchild of even such flatteued
reptile as that old man."
"Rlptsll? Rapteii?" gueried old Tur-
tie THAT wasn't my name. Seemed to me
/ was mudturl.le, or something that way"
"Sir James, said the Secretary, | mar
vel 10 think that my father the dairyman,
would want TO fog me if he heard that
had fallen in love with this poor Turtles
grs,HGChild, and yet can confess it to you,
BITonet, and yOu don't even rcprOve me.n
MY boy, there has always been dem0c-
racy. The political Shil loieth Of that name
is quite another thing. Oar rising poet tells
Of the King COphetua and tie beggar maid:
"As shines the moon IN cluuded 7kles.
She ia her poor attire was seen:
One praised her ankles. one her eyes
Onc Aer dark hair ard loyesome mien.
"The dispersion Of the nations is the acci-
dent Of our finding women on unknown
shores, and we Englishmen generally marry
or cOnsOFt in OEr colonies with what is love
able there Bat IN the case we are acknowl-
edging the sway Of something eminent, and
not 10 recognize the beauty and gaiety OF
these Turtle sisteTswould be TO confess our
selves stocks aud stones, instead Of two in
teligent men. We wouldn't fOrbear to
smell of a brilliaut flower because il was
wild, and the flower Of our human species,
biOssomed off therwayside OF life, is the
proof of freedoms old and universal sway.
David in the field, Hagar in the family,
Ruth among The poor relations: superior
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