Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

the dining room the great Communist capi-
talist looked round with little air of i'm
patience and said:
"But where is VIM"
"He was here short time ago" said Lady
Musselburgh; she dared not say more.
Mr.. Harris, from below. sent message to
his sons room; the answer-which Lady
Musselburgh heard in silence-was that they
were not to wait luncheon for him.
Too busy with his reply to the Mirror"
Musselburgh suggested. "Sharp cuts and
thrusts going. I wonder that celestial minds
should grow SO acrid over such a subject as
the naturalization of tithe."
Newspaper controversy" remarked Mr..
Harris, in his sententious and grandilo-
quent manner, sis an excellent method of
thrashing out any subject; but newspaper
controversy with an editor, if you wish to
get the best OF the argument, is folly. 1t is
not only fighting with phantom; it is fight
ing with phantom who prints what he says
in large type, and sends you into the outer
sheet"
There was some scufle on the stairs out
side, to which nobody (except Lady Mus
selburgh, whose ears were painfully on the
alerD paid any attention; but when a ham
som was called up to the front door, Har-
land Harris happened to look ont.
"What, is he going off somewhere?
never knew any creature SO careless about
his meals. I presume his Indifference
means good Digestion"
'sOh, Wins digestion is all right" Mus
selburgh said. 81 hear he dimes every
night at the House of Commons-and vet he
Is alive"
"But there are his portmanteaus Mr..
Harris exclaimed, and be even rose and
went to the window for a second. Well, he
inst in tima fo Vinoant sfay, int ba
cab. and drive off; and Herewith he re-
turned to his place at table, and proceeded,
in his usual bland and somewhat patron
izing manner, to tell Lord Musselburgh of
certain experiments he was having made in
copper-luster. He was not in the least con-
cerned about that departing cab; nor did he
know that that was the last glimpse of his
son he was to have for many and many a
day.
And meanwhile Lady Musselburgh sat
there frightened, and guilty, and silent
And that without reason; for what she had
done she had done with the full concurrence
and approval of her brother-in-law and her
fance Gas he then was.) Yet somehow she
seemed to feel herself entirely answerable
for all that had happened-for the failure
of all her schemes-for the catastrophe that
had resulted. And the moment she got out
side her brother-in-law's house, she began
and confessed the whole truth to her hus-
band.
"But why didn't you tell Harris?" said
he, pausing as if even now he would 60
back.
"Oh, couldn't. Hubert; daren'tr' she
said, evidently in great distress. "I was so
confident everything would come right
advised him-I persuaded him to pay the
e5,O0O-"
"Oh, nonsensel' was the impatient reply.
IA man doesn't hand over e5, 900 unless he
is himself convinced that it is worth while.
And he got what he bargained for. Those
people have gone away; they don't interfere
any more"
"Ah, but that is not ALL" Lady Mussel-
burgh put in, rather sadly. 81 made SO
the hallucination had worn off little, he
would see what those people really were;
and turn his eyes elsewhere; yet apparently
he believes in their honesty more firmly
than ever-talks of my going and asking
their pardon-and the like; and now he has
wholly broken away from us-declares he
will never be under the same roof with us,
or sit down at the same table with US. He
has gone over to the other side, he says, be-
cause they are poor and friendless. Poor
and friendlessp she repeated, with SNAP
OF anger-'living on the tat OF the
land through their thieving And
yet" And here again she paused, as II
recalling something to herself: do you
know, Hubert, was startled and frightened
by Wins manner to-day; for had suddenly
to ask myself whether after all 1t was posi-
Bile he might be in the right, and we alto
pether wrong. In all other things he
Shows himself so clear-headed and able and
shrewd: and then he has seen the world you
sasilv deceived. Sometimes hardly know
that 10 think. But at sI events, this II