Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-10

hand on his arm; and behind all these
aspects of the nocturnal city he saw.
in his minds eye. picture Of the
lighted drawing-room at home where
he had sat talking with Flora and his
father, from the other end, had looked
on with a kind and ironical smile.
John had read the significance of that
smile, which might have escaped
marked his sons ENHANCEMENT with
satisfaction, tinged by humor; and his
smile, If it still was thought con-
temptuous, had implied consent.
At the captains door the girl held
out her hand, with a certain emphasis,
and John took it and kept it little
longer and said, "GccG RIGHT, Flora,
DEAR" and was instantly thrown into
much fear by his presumption. But
she only laughed, ran up the steps,
and rang the bell; and while she was
waiting for the door to open, kept
close in the porch, and talked to him
from that point as out of a fortifica-
ton. She had knitted shawl over
her head; her blue Highland eyes
took the light from the neighboring
street lamp and sparkled, and when
the door opened and closed upon her
John felt cruelty alone.
He proceeded slowly back along the
terrace in tender glow, and when
he came to Greenside church he hblted
in doubtful mind. Over the crown
of the Cation hill, to his left, lay the
way to Colette's, where Alan would
soon be looking for his arrival and
where he would now have no Wore
consented to go than he would Rave
wilfully wallowed in bog, the tSlch
of the girls hand on his sleeve. Ind
the kindly light in his fathers eyes,
both loudly forbidding. But right
before him was the way home, which
pointed only to bed, place of little
ease for one whose fancy was strung
to the lyrical pitch, and whose MT
very ardent heart was just then
unanimously moved. The hilltop,
the cool air of the night, the company
OF the great monuments, the sight OF
the city under his feet, with its hills
and valleys and crossing files of lamps,
drew him by all he had of the poetic,
and he turned that way; and by that
quite innocent detection ripened the
crop of his venal errors for the sickle
Of destiny.
On q seat on the hill above Greer
side he sat for perhaps half an hour,
looking down upon the lamps CT
Edinburgh, and up at the lamps Of
heaven. Wonderful were the resolves
he formed; beautiful and kindly were
the vistas of future life that sped be-
fore him. He uttered to himself the
name OF Flora in so many touching and
dramatic keys that he became at length
fairly melted with tenderness, and
could have sung aloud. At that
juncture a certain creasing in his
great-coat caught his iear. He put
his hand into his pocket, pulled
forth the envelope that held
the money, and sat Supplied. The
Cation Hill, about this period, had an
i'll name of nights; and to be sitting
there with four hundred pounds that
did not belong to him was hardly
wise. He looked up. There was man
in very bad hat little on one side
of him, apparently looking at the
scenery: from little on the other a
second night-walker was drawing
very quietly near. Up jumped John.
The envelope fell from his hands.
He stopped to get it, and at the same
moment both men ran in and closed
with him.
A little after he got to his feet
very sore and shaken, the poorer by
purse which contained exactly one
penny postage stamp, by cambria
handkerchief, and by the all-important
envelope.
fro BIB CONTINUED.