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house in a terrace to


49, ideas progress from a
house in a terrace to
q detached villa from which he can
not even see the smoke Of his neigh
boris chimneys.
Paul Jinnygate's Lancashire home
was on this latter scale. He owned
half a million spindles and looms and
the loveliest daughter in the county,
and whatever your ideas Of parvenu
cotton lords, let me tell you that
Paul was a highly educated man. He
had written a standard work on an
abstruse subject, and at the time /
am writing Of he was M. p. for Turk
Town.
His Parliamentary duties brought
him away from the comfortable Lam
cashire house to live in the Metropolis,
and he was struck with a fiat not far
from Albert Gate.
But Paul was a cautious old boy,
and he put the doorkeeper through a
rigorous cross-eXamination as to the
character of the other families who
occupied flats. The mans answers
were satisfactory; it was the
gilded nest Of bankers and earls retir-
ed merchant princes, and stock brok-
>ers.
A great art furnisher waved his
wand over the empty rooms, and
Paul and his daughter We're elm in a
week.
The doorkeeper had been guilty of
slight suppression OF the truth. Be-
meath that roof was a young man
who was neither rich nor titled. He
rented an attic very much on suffer
ance. He had contracted not to
smoke, not to keep late hours, to
have no visitors, not too keep a dog,
cat, or canary, and not to play any
musical instrument. 1t was also in
the bond that she should wipe his feet
on the mat, and take off his boots
in the hall if he came in after ten at
night.
Frank Stacey was a very excellent
fellow, OF good family. Only he had
offended them deeply by showing dar-
ing originality, thing the family had
been hitherto blameless of, and they
had washed their hands Of him. That
is why we find him in this attic under
the same roof as Paul Jinnygate,
where he lived on bread and cheese,
and worked away cheerfully at his
great invention. A wonderful inven-
ton it was, too, a .s'sEut-off' which
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could show you a sheet of foolscap
covered with the letters OF the alpha
bet and Cookers arithmetic, that
proved this clearly.
One day, as Frank was commencing
the steep ascent to his room, he met
vision Of beauty; and the "shut-off''
made no further progress that day.
You will guess, intelligent reader, that
this vision of beauty was Clare jimmy
gate, and that Frank fell violently in
love at once. He began to waylay
her on the stairs, and one day he saw
ed her from a terrible accident. Her
dress had caught in a loose stair-rod;
in one moment more it would
have been "out at the gathers" had
not our hero rushed forward and pre-
vented the catastrophe. After this
romantic introduction matters pro-
crossed very rapidly between the
young people. Pretty Clare, begin
ming by not disliking the enterprising
young man, soon got to positive lik-
ing. and from that to love is a stage
generally taken at a gallop
Still, intelligent reader, accustomed
as you are to the ways Of heroes, you
are not prepared for FRANKS next
step. He actually called on the mil
lionaire and asked him for his daugh-
ter's hand!
''And who May you be, young gen
tleman?" asked Paul.
"a man Of good family and an in
ventor'' answered Frank, proudly.
What is your position?" went on
the old gentleman calmly.
That was aposer. Frank position
as dWeller on the house tops was ele-
waited enough. but was certainly not
IN the sphere Paul Jinnygate expected
his daughters husband to move in.
AS for inventors-well, he had given
one OF his operatives a daily quart of
beer for life for an idea in .4card-
clothing out of which he was making
a thousand a year. No. it wouldn't
do. He would trust Frank as a gem
tleman to see that matters returned
TO their old footing;i if not, it would be
a very simple matter to pack Clare
off to Lancashire. The old gentleman
was logical and calm, and the lover
retired with a feeling more hopeless
chan if he had been received with In
Wective and hob-nailed boots.
But chance,and Cupid are a strong
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