The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-08-03

over the closet, Nellie was awakened
by his footsteps as he came down.
She gave a cry of joy to find that he
was back and she would be freed.
He, hearing her and not waiting to see
from whence the sound came, ran out
of doors in search of her. Nellie was
puzzled. Then it flashed through her
mind that it was not John but hor-
rid robber, and he had been frighten-
ed away by her cry, perhaps taking
their money with him, for she knew
not how long he had been in the house.
The reaction was too much. She
tainted, and while John was calling
her and searching for her, she was
needing help within few yards of him
and he knew it not. He finally per-
suaded himself, that he had not heard
her, that it was his excited magma
ton. The only thing he now knew to
do, was to go to her fathers. They
had at first been so happy, and now it
had come to this. He would beg So
hard for her to come back to him
would promise her anything. He was
about starting when he thought he
might need lantern before he return
ed as it was getting late. Fastening
TO the closet for one, he impatiently
opened the door, and 10! there lay
Nellie, an unconscious heap on the
floor.
''Oh, my Nellie, my darling Nellie"
repeated he time and again, as he car
ried her out and tried to revive her.
What could he do? He vowed if she
was spared to him, to treat her better
than he had been doing. When she
finally opened her eyes, what joy for
= I,o ! L.. 10
her from his arms, it was with the I'M
derstanding, that there would be no
more cross words between them, and
she felt that she had not suffered her
imprisonment and terror in vain. If
either of them feel cross or peevish,
the remembrance of that day comes
checked before they are spoken. The
bolt has been removed from the closet
door, and less dangerous fastening
placed thereon, and they are again
as 'happy as the day is long"
IN A DAY.
Only few people can afford to put
off the duty of the present hour, and
they are the geniuses who can do two
days work in one.
Sir Edwin Landseer was once en-
gagged to paint a picture representing
a lady and two spaniels. Although
he was paid on the spot, the picture
was delayed for four years. At the
end of that time au unsatisfactory
sketch was allowed to be engraved,
but the result proved to be so poor
that Landseer became immovable in
his determination not to finish the
picture at all.
At length, however, he agreed to
send to certain exhibition of paint
ings new picture which the owner of
the Lady and Spaniels'' might &C
cept in place of that unfinished piece
of work.
The time arrived for sending in the
pictures, and the keeper of the institu
ton received from Landseer only an
empty frame, with the promise that
the canvas for it should be delivered
in good time.
The hanging committee finished its
labors, and the empty frame was hung
Oh the line. Vanishing day came,
but with no picture. A friend of the
artist FASTENED to London to see him,
and at II o'clock found him busy in
his studio. Landseer pointed to the
unfinished canvas on his easel.
81 shall send that to the exhibition
tonight, finished picture he said.
Il have given orders not to be dis
turbed, for it depends OH that whether
can complete the task | have set my
self"
Next morning, when the friend ar
rived at the gallery, there hung the
promised picture-two of the dogs
which had been Sketched for 1.-The
Lady and the Spanels' now placed on
IL table with IL cavaliers hat.
1t was IL fine piece of work, and was
thankfully accepted by the gentleman
who had given the first commission,
and who profeSsed himself as only too
glad 10 receive a picture painted in a
day in place of the one that. had been
so many years on the road.