Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-05-22

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grand voice as your own" This and
great deal more he said in the same strain,
which modesty forbids me to reproduce
here
| Now, am not without some knowledge
! of the world outside the Close of March
| bury cathedral, and could not listen to
such gathering tale" without having my
suspicious aroused Who and what is this
man? thought |. looked at him narrow
| ly. At first the thought flashed across me
that he might be ''swell mobsman"
But no; his face was too good for that;
besides no man with that huge frame that
personality so marked and so easily recOg-
nizable, could be a swindler; he could not
escape detection n single hour. dismissed
the ungenerous thought. Perhaps he is
Eich, as he says. We do hear Of munifcert
| donations by benevolent millionaires now
and then. What if this Australian, at
tracted by the glories of the old cathedral,
should appear, us deus ex machina, to re-
endow the choir, or to found musical
profcssoriate in connection with the choir,
appointing me the first occupant of the
PROFESSIONAL chair.
These thoughts flashed across my mind
in the momentary pause of his fluent
tongue
"As for yourself, sir" he began again,
81 have something to propose which TRUST
may not prove unwelcome. Eut the pub
lie street is hardly suitable place to dis
cuss my proposal May | call upon you
this evening at your house in the Close? |
know which it is, for happened to see you
70 into it yesterday after the morning
service"
II shall be very pleased to see you," re.
| piled. I'VE are going out to dinner tits
II 4 IL.
gagged till about ="
"Thank you very much. Then l shall do
myself the pleasure OF calling upon you
about c o'clock Till then, farewell" y
graceful wave of the hand and my un-
known friend had disappeared round the
corner Of the street
Now at last thought, something is GO
ing to happen in my uneyentful lfc-some-
thing to break the monotonY of existence.
/ Coming events cast their shadows before.
| The shadow had been cast, and Il very
solid and substantial shadow too-oyer
six feet high, and proportionately broad
and thick.
| had succeeded, it was evident in at
. tracing the notice of some great Austria
. liam millionaire. or course he must have
inquired my name-hc could get that from
any of the cathedral vcrgeis, and, as he
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the famous iii"@l'i VI l'tIocic 'ouct"Iu ~
deriving secret sa,lSiHc'ion from VHe ms
fortunes OF my irIehGS. Gun IL was re,
iharhaoIe th't IL s"o"l' pi'eh mus ana
IL was uupoUo'euI! Hue 'h"U on lhaI p'f-
ucuI'r SUNDAY l was III eA'eIieho voice;
ana then inc Sail'Ly WHICH Is iittur"I 70 All
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sell only 700 ready 70 ucI'eNe tn"' my voice
was IHe ilhcSu anu cIe"'eSU ever no'ru'
somebody's must De the Hhest' anu why
not miner
My mysterious friend, whatever else no
might be, was most certainly man Of
good taste and Judgment. That could not