The herald., 1893-01-18

Ills eyes bra Ttttu every yWlSr6, TtStlbf5
nowhere. His lands ddgeted and tren.
bled; he seemed all of quiver. | ex-
pectod him to break into paroxysnl
every second. If Hadn't called out he
would have run us right into the shore.
When called he clutched the other
string violently, jerking tho boat almost
round. l heartily wished him at Jericho
before ne had come near us.
No one spoke. We went slowly along,
watching each other. At last he said
something. .es
ell will get out" he said in an odd,
nervous way. t9st
"With pleasure" said All, sin a few
minutes" ~rf
"Why not now? Why not now, sir?'
he said, seeming to shake from head to
foot.
"Where are you going to get-intc
the river"
only hoped he wouldn't lei it carry him
too far
Tho man glowered at him; for mo-
meht he looked him full in the face. /
never saw look in a mans eyes like
that in his ALI returned him look for
look. Slightly, almost imperceptibly, 10
quickened his stroke. A little lower down
was little hamlet with well known
inn and capital landing Stage. When
we came alongside the stranger said:
"This will do; I'll get out here"
He turned the boat ashore. No sooner
were we near enough than he rose in
his seat and sprang onto the shore.
There were several people about-water-
men and others. Alf was after him in
an instant. He rose almost sinultane-
ously and leaped ON the shore. He
touched him on the shoulder.
"Now, come," he said, "don't be fool
ish; we know all about it."
The other turned on him like o flash
of lightning. "What do you mean?"
But Tom was too quick for MIN; he
was on the other side and took his arm.
"Corne," he said, "don't let us have a
row."
The stranger raised himself to his full
height and shook Tom off with ease He
then hit out right and left in splendid
style. Tom ard Alf went down like
ninepins. But my blood was up.
scrambled on shore and ran into him,
lodged his blows and closed. | am
pretty strong. He was old enough to be
my father, but found that / had 1net
my match and more, was like baby
in his arms. He lifted me clean off my
feet and threw me straight into the
river IT was a splendid exhibition Of
strength.
Tom and Alf, finding their feet, made
for him together, and, scrambling out
as best could, / followed suit. You
never saw such a set out. We clung to
him like leeches. The language he used
was awful-his strength magnificent.
| Though we were three to one, he was
match for all of u.s. Of course the by
ISLANDERS, seeing row, came up. They
interfered and pulled us off.
"Here's pretty go!" said one. whats
all this?'
"Stop him! lay hold of himl'' said All.
"He's lunatic!"
"a whatp" said the man.
"He's lunatic escaped from Dy.
Rawles asylum!'
Instead of lending hand this man
went eff into roar of laughter, and the
others joined.o The stranger looked lit.
orally frantic with rage A gentleman
stepped out from the crowd.
sThere's some mistake he said; rshis
gentleman is Mr.. Travers, of Tolhurss
Hail." iiaat1 1Ataos
You could have Knocked us all three
down with feather, l believe. Could
it be possiblep Could we have been such
consummate idiots as to have mistaken
a sane man for lunstic? And that was
Lillian Travers' father / could have
shrunk into my boots. could have run
away and hid myself in bed.
To think that we should have dogged
and watched and insulted and assaulted
the man Of all Others in whose good
books we wished to stand-Lillian Tray
ers' fatherl Never did three men look
such fools as we did then We were so
confoundadly in earnest about it; that
was the worst of all. / don't care what
you say; you may think it first rate
joke, but he must have been an eccen-
trio sort of elderly gentleman. If he
had behaved sensib1y-if he had made
one senSlDie relnnrk ne would nave blown
our delusion to the winds.
We rendered our apologies as best we
could to the man whom we had insu1ted,
but he treated us and them with the
loftiest scorn, and we got one after an
other into the boat amid the gibes and
jeers of an unsyrnpathetic crowd, and
as we rowed from the wretched place as
| fact nc or,r ao 20 xuor,1d foLn re xyo aanb
in our secret heart declared that we
would never forget our adventure up
tho river with lunatic. And we haven't.
From that day to this have never seen
Lillian Travers, nor do ever wish to-
Million.
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Royalty sinsT swear Words.
William the Conqueror did not introduce
swearing into England, but he brought
with him very forcible oath. William