The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-12

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lcmAright. isss By Robert Louis stevenson.l
CHAPTER xxII-{CosrrSuEp.
W$were no sooner in smooth water than
the Iatroon. according 70 their beastly
Holl4nd custom. stopped his boat and re-
quirdi Of US our fares. Two guilders was
the dams demand, between three and four
shillSngs English money, for each passen-
GER But at this Catrioni began to cry out
with vast deal Of agitation. She had
asked Of Capt. Sang, she said, and the fare
was but an English shilling. do you
thinE will have come on board and not
ask fsrst" cries she. The PATRON scolded
bacL upon her in . lingo where the oaths
wers English and the rest right Hollands,
till 81 last (seeing her near tears) pri-
vste;y slipped in the rogue's hand six
shiit ngs, whereupon he was obliging
snosAeh to receive from her the other shill-
ing Without more complaint No doubt 1
wash good deal nettled and ashamed. I
likss to see folk thrifty, but not with 80
mu6s passion: and dare say it would be
rather coldly that asked her. a. the boat
meyed on again for shore, where it was
that she was trysted with her father.
"He il to be inquired of at the house of
one:Sprott. IN honest Scotch merchant, {"
saye she; and then with the same breath,
II am wishing to thank you very much
ycu are brave friend to me-"
- will be time enough when get you
to your father" said /, little thinking
thss I spoke 30 true. az can tell him .
finf tale Of . loyal daughter"
'ph. do not think wills be . loyal
Girt 1t all events" she cried, with great
desl Of painfulness in the expression. II
d0Tsot think my heart IL true"
Yet there are very few that would have
Ddie that leap, and all to obey fathers
ortsers," I observed.
III cannot have you to be thinking of me
sc.s she cried again. 'When you had done
thst same. how could I stop behind? And
a. ALL events that vas not all the reasons. >"
Wpereupon, with burning face, she told
m4 the plain truth upon her poverty.
,God guide usl" cried I. "what kind of
. Siaft-liks proceeding Is this, to let your
Wf b launched on the continent of
Esrops with an empty purse-I count it
h4fdly decsnt-scant decentr' l cried.
s@Yoa forget. James More, my father, IL
4 poor gentleman" said she. "Hs il .
h0nted exile"
But ! think not al your friends are
hSntad sxiles." exclaimed. "And was
tits fair TO them that care for you! Was
iffaiS TO met Was il fair to Miss Grant
tat counselsd you to 60, and would BE-
dsiven fair horse-mad II she could hear Of
ite Was IL even fair to these Gregory folk
Tat you were living with, and used you
Lovingly? It's blessing you have fallen
~ my handsl Suppose your father him
dered by an accident. what would become
G: you here. and you your lee-aione in .
Strange land placer The thought of the
thing frightens me-" said.
ST will have lied to all of them" she re.
E1ied. II will have told them all that
Fad plenty. l told her, too I could not
re lowering James More to them"
found out later on that she must have
covered him in the very dust, for the lie
sas originally the fathers. not the daush-
5sr's. and she thus obliged to perseyere in
= for the mans reputation. But at tho
tune. was ignorant Of this, and the
taere thought of her restitution and the
hcrils in which she must have fallen had
fulfilled me almost beyond reason.
Well. well. well. said l. you'll have
10 learn more sense"
l left her mails for . moment in an inn
Npon the shore. where got direction for
Gprott's house in my new French. and We
walked there--it was some little way-be-
holding the place with wonder ~ We went.
indeed, there was much for Scots folk to
admire. canals and trees being intermin-
yied with the houses; the houses, each
within itself, Of brave red brick, the
soior OF rose, with steps and benches Of
sius marble at the cheek of every door,
and the whole town 90 clean you might
nave dined upon the causeWay. Sprott
s~as within. upon his ledgers. in . low