Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-04

day or two; he seems dazed or cowed
or something"
"liOiT,d old bearl | wonder if he
knows anything yetl" replied the late
Miss Boami4l
IF he doesn't, he's not likely to
know foi ;ome weeks" said Han
cock. II going away for a months
leave himself this morning, he told
me.
'Now I'm married | mean to re-
taliate by cutting that dreadful c'd
colonel. He did his best to prevcrt
the match, Charlie"
''Oh, you mustn't be hard on poor
old Spriggins but here we are.
Honeymoon Hall is a great ram
bling one storied bungalow, with the
usual veranda running all around it.
Ramasawmy Bux stood on the veron-
da to welcome his master and mis-
tress.
AS the eyes of the mild Hindoo fell
upon the unruffied visage of the
bridegroom his heart was smitten
with a great fear. Ramasawmy was
not a coreligionist of Cowas5ee
Readymoney Bottlewallah, and his
faith in the powers of the moon god
dess to strike his master silly had all
along been halting.
The sahib would be savage when
he was informed that he was only
part tenant of Honeymoon Hal, and
that another pair of occupants were
to arrive later in the day.
Now, when a Hindoo lies to save
his bacon he lies without thought Of
Interior consequences. Immediate
immunity from the sahib's toecaps
is what ne puts before him as the
one and only goal. Ramasawmy's
lie, promoted vice the moon goddess
superseded for absence without
leave, took to itself, like an older
practitioner, the form of a serpent.
With hands raised to forehead and
STOPPING in deep salaam the knit
mutghar approached the carriage
and addressed Hancock, not in the
vernacular in which he had con-
versed with Cowasjee, but in the
English of the bazaars.
''Sahib, it ismy sadness to tell mas
ter misfortune considerably large.
Master and memsahib must keep
this side the house. Other side great
tremendous cobra loose, in the floor,
with his wife and whole heap of lit
tie cobras. Floor very rotten, and
they pop in and out like thingumbob.
This side, floor all right" "
"All right Ramasawmy," replied
Hancock carelessly.
By tiffin time the bride and bride
groom had settled down into their
new quarters, and had explored that
part of Honeymoon Hall which Ram
asawmy's fiction had reserved to
them.
After the meal Charlie began to
cast about for something to do, and
bethought him cf the cobra
Look here, Bellissima, said he,
lets go and have some fun with
those snakes. The reptiles dote on
music, and I've brought my banjo
and a key bugle. Well have a pri-
vate snake charming seance in the
Hindoo style, and fetch 'em out of
their holes"
The instruments were brought
and the happy pair stole along the
veranda around the corner of the
bungalow toward the snake infested
rooms. Outside a window that was
yelled with a cuss-cuss fatty the am
ateur snake charmer paused.
'"This room will do, said Hancock;
wen start the music first, and then
peep through the blind and see if
there are any results.
The bride twanged the banjo, the
bridegroom put his soul into the bu-
gle, and between them they raised
such din that the jaellals afar off in
their dens must have imagined that
a rival tribe Of their own species had
taken possession Of Honeymoon
Hall.
But not for long. In another mo-
ment silence-grim, awful, terrible
silence-roigned over those desert
solitudes.
For the cuss-cuss fatty was torn
aside, and there, astounded and
speechless, stood the misogamist
Spriggins and Bella's mamma.
The two parties glared at each
other without a word. Then the
fatty was dropped.
by jove, it's = duplicate job, was
the chief snake charmer's sole re-
mark, as he led his partner back to
review the position.
Colonel and Mrs. Spliggins returned
to KuITachee fully three weeks be-
fore Lieutenant and Mrs. Hancock,
preferIing, it is supposed, the con-
gratulations of the cantonment to
the state of society which prevailed
at Honeymoon Hall.
The only extant explanation of the
speedy departure Of the elder tenants
is to be found in a remark which the
lieutenant afterward addressed to
Mr.. Cowasjee Readymoney Bottle
wallah:
mo, you old scoundrel, 1 shan't
sue you for the balance Of the rent.
l took it out of the colonel. Boston
Globe.
Dead Bodies in Lake Superior.
The bodies of the drowned nra snid