Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27

don't seem to- Why should they?'
"Oh, dear me, how can you look so limo
cent and foolish and good and empty ant
gentle, and all that, right in the hearing o
such things as those! Look me in the eve
/ straight in the eye. There; now, then, an
swear me without finch. Isn't DR.. Snod
| grass your father, and isn't Zylobolsamun
your brother?" (Here Hawkins was abou
to enter the room, but changed his minG
upon hearing these words and elected for
walk down town, and SO glided swiftly
away.) "And isn't your name Spina
Meningitis, and isn't your father doctor
and an idiot, like all the family for genera
tions and doesn't he name all his children
after poisons and pestilences and abnormal
anatomical eccentricities of the human
body? Answer me, some way or somehow
and quick. Why do you sit there, look.
| ing like an envelope without any address on
it, and see me going mad before your face
| with suspense ..--.= -.
''Oh, 1 wish 1 could do-do-I wish ]
could do something-anything that would
give you. peace again and make you happy;
but know of nothing-I know of no way.
l have never heard of these awful people
| before
''What? Say it again.
Il have never, never in my life till
now."
''Oh, you do look SO honest when you say
that. 1t must be true; surely you couldn't
look that way, You wouldn't look that way
If 1t were not true. would you?''
81 couldn't and wouldn't It's true. Oh,
let us end this suffering. Take me back
into your heart and confidence
"Wait-one more thing. Tell me YOU
told that falsehood out of mere vanity and
are sorry for it; that you are not expecting
to ever wear the coronet of an Earl
Truly l am cured-cured this very day
I am not expecting it!''
20, now you are mine I've got you back
in the beauty and glory of your unsmirched
poverty and your honorable obscurity, and
nobody shall ever take YOU from me again
but the grave! And it,"
'tDe Earl of Rossmore, from Englan'!'
my father'' The young man released
the girl and hung his head
The old gentleman stood surveying the
couple-the one with strongly compli-
mentary right eye the other with mixed
expression done with the left. This is diff
cult, and not often resorted to. Presently
his face relaxed into kind of constructive
gentleness, and he said to his son:
Don't you think you could embrace me,
too?"
The young man did it with alacritv.
Then you are the son of an earl, after
eyes, II
"Then 1 won't have your
go, but YOU know"
fib."
"she's right Go away and leave US
want to talk with her."
Berkeley was obliged to GO But he did
not go far. He remained on the premises
At midnight the conference between the
old gentleman and the young girl was still
going bllthely on, but it presently drew to
q close, and the former said:
81 came all the wav over here to inspect
you, my dear, with the general idea of
breaking off this match if there we're two
fools OF you, but as there's only one, you
can have him if you' II take him."
Indeed L will, then! May I kiss your"
"Iou may. Thank you. Now you shall
have that privilege whenever you are
good"
Meantime Hawkins had long ago re-
turned and slipped up to the laboratory.
He was rather disconnected to find his
late invention, Snodgrass, there. The news
was told him; that the English Rossmore
was come, ''and I'm his son, Viscount
Berkeley, not Howard Tracy any more.'
Hawkins was .aghast. He said:
Good gracious, then you're deadp'
'Dead?"
"Yes, you are-we've got your ashes"
Hang those ashes, I'm tired of them; I'll
give them to my father
Slowly and painfully the statesman
worked the truth into his head that this was
really flesh and blood young man, and not
the unsubstantial resurrection he and
Sellers had SO long supposed him to be.
Then he said with feeling:
'T'm SO glad; so glad on sally's account,
poor thing. We took you tor departed