St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-11-07

of the new neighbors: there are q good
many newcomers in the street,
| PortEan Brown set next morning
for Lucerne via Brussels and the Rhine
staying a few days al Ostend on the
way. lie took his place in the undo
niable comfort Of a first-class carriage
in the express to Brussels with mind
as free from care and nneasiness as an
elderly gentleman ever possessed. A
life of plain. undiluted prose had, up to
this, kept his imaginative faculties in
complete allegiance: -lunatics, hyp-
nOtists, mur,ierers, etc, as possible fel.
low-travelers, had never entered his
mind. As a rule, indeed, his fellow.
travellers no more excited his interest
or notice. than his pear neighbors ut
home. On This occasion he was Just
conscious, in leaving the station at Os-
tend, that an elderly couple were the
other occupants Of the carriage; he
merely gave passing glance from his
newspaper at the man, stranger, who
got in at Eruges and sat down on the
opposite scat
Nearly an hour had passed before
Brown laid down his newspaper, and
when he did he was Mortified to see in
the traveller who got in at Bruges the
dark-faced man who had excited his
suspicion when he started from Lon
don.
At Brussels Brown lodged the dark
faced man.
Never within the whole course of his
experience in foreign ports had Brown
passed . more wretched night; the
morning found his nerves in sad
state. lie. who had never before known
himself the posscssor OF nerves! The
fidgety man who mad. fussy arrange
ments about starting by the first train
for Lucerne. and whose eyes had a way
of casting furtive-not to say appre-
hensive-glances around, was strange
" unlike the self-satihfied, phleg,natic
Briton who had arrived the evening be-
fore at the Three Kings.
The success of this maneuvcr in leav-
ing Brussels made him repeat it; be-
sides he was in a perfect fever to get
to the end of his journey, and rid him
self Of the charge of the diamond. His
spirits rose considerably rs the hour of
the trains departure drew near with
out any appearance of the ''shadower'
in the station. Brown;remained on the
platform until the last moment, then,
with . fervent sigh of relief, he entered
the railway carriage The train was
just moving of when the door was sud-
denly opened, q breathless porter
dashed in handbag aud parcel of rugs.
followed by . still more breathless
The door was shut. the engine
the last departing signal, the
train moved from BALE station. In one
corner of the carriage sat Brown; in
farthest on the opposite
side = sat the man with the black |
whiskers,
How often-in fancy we place our
selves in heroic situations. and there
in fancy act with ineariablc heroism.
Il is quite different, however, when the |
heroic situation isa reality; our conse-
queat actions are liable to be quite diff |
ferent, too The position in which |
Brown now found himself might well |
have appalled, the travest He. was
alone in . railway carriage with =
Dcoundrel who had followed him from
London; Brown had utterly sban-
Toned surmise since last night and &C
,epted each idea as an absolute GER
object in this scoundrel's
REV WAS the capture OF the valuable
diamond. which was 1t that very mo-
nent on Browns person. A long Jour
,ey lay before them and Brown was
,nafmed. Atthis review of the stua-
ion his heart sank; he drew back in
into he eorasss--His eyes
met those of the other man; u
leep flush suffused his face. which
eemed to find reflection in the others.
brown hastily took mp BaedeI<er and
I6ected to read. the maa cppo&te |
simultaneously did the same. A trapS't
'arent unreality on both sides Browns
urtivs glances invsriably caught-
uickly withdrawn though they werS
hose Of the other man leveled On him.
~ /hiS~ went On, the slightest
hange Of position. the least moseAent
d the opposite corner made BroVn
tart Might It not herald the sppeoaf h
{ danger7 A spring. . rrsh. tie T.
Tie tension was terrible; to remj3s4<
,activs almdst impossible. Bro3n1
d n iaspir..icpl ~ z II
i not armed. he wosld pssssnd to be1,
hat might do sossthiaN produce q
eoitation or delay, II least. Aeco4a:1i
'sly. be dslibsFsscly sssumea Z boes!f