Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06

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tap came at the door; she threw the pen
down. Its Jonathan! Keep him out! He'll
murder me!' and then fell back speechless.
II was Mr.. Jonathan Marillier. We hus-
| tied him out with scant ceremony and re-
turned to the bed. DIR. Burnaby shook his
| head-"1ts question of moments now
back on the pillow. Miss Patty broke into
| a loud fit of sobbing; the unsigned will
| slipped from the bed and fell at my feet a
useless heap of waste paper. and in that
passed from the poor old lady's hands into
the grasp of MIR. Jonathan Marillier.
My father behaved splendidly. No allu-
sion to his loss ever passed his lips. He Of
ficiated at the funeral, Of course. 1 went
and found myself in the same carriage with
a brisk young solicitor from London, repre-
senting the firm employed by Miss Corbett
lies an awful cad. that Marillier" said
Mr.. Harry Blew. discussing his client with
| engaging frankness-'the meanest little
| screw L ever met with. / hope he'll with
draw his business from us. that's all.
Think of his disputing the servants claims
| to months wages, and recommending us
to send that poor little black prince to the
Union. He makes me SICK he does. ]
down here till affairs are wound up,
though. Lucky for me the majors come
Maj. Marillier from Ireland?"
YES didn't you see him? He's here.
man. monkey and all. His affectionate
cousin isn't overjoyed to have him, but
he seems cool hand, says he'll stay a
week, and evidently doesn't mean to be
turned out before he chooses"
Blew went on to tell me that there had
been careful search made for a will,
though to moral certainty none existed,
MISS Corbetts ways being well known.
| Mr.. Jonathan Marillier took possession in
due course. Mr.. Blew extorted some con-
cessions from him by representing that his
conduct would be severely criticised by
the county. and as Jonathan quite in
tended starting in life as a social magnate,
as soon as Rhoda could travel" he was
amenable to reason.
He actually asked US to dinner one day
before Mai. Marillier departed. should
say that the major spent fair share of
his time at the rectory. and was deeply
/ touched at hearing of Freda's narrow es-
cape of heiress-ship.
We found the party to consist of Mr.
Blew. the Marillier cousins, ourselves and
Lord Allonby. big, jovial squire of the old
school. The dinner was magnificent,
worthy of the display of family plate which
attended II. Parker waited-under protest;
IN fact. 1t was only out of consideration for
Maj Marillier that he condescended to re-
main under the same roof with Mr. Jona-
than, he informed me- 1t was a dismal
1 ceremony. The cousins were barely on
d. speaking terms. Blew looked bored AL
lonby hungry and the major grave and
curiously absent
I Jonathan was captious and argumentatiye
when he wasn't boastful, talking of the
changes that would be made when the
place had a master"
Where's that pineapple?" he suddenly
asked.
Parker looked slightly confused, but re-
piled with dignity, An accident has hap
pened to it, 1 believe, sir but I'll inquire -
What has become OF it? 1 insist on
knowing!'
Parker had disappeared, but one of the
footmen replied
The monkey, sir"
I'm not stand it," broke out Jonathan
| Its always that monkey whatever hap
pens! Yesterday 1t was the sugar tongs,
old family plate. heirlooms; today, the
dessert: How any man can reconcile it
with his sense of what Is honest-simply
honest-to be the means of making away
| ceive''
! So he fumed--the major the while peelins
a pear with supreme indifference.
The whole big suite or rooms-yellow
drawing room, blue drawing room music
! room, boudoir and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| Illuminated for our benefit but was all too
| narrow to inclose the explosive elements
of our party.
Blew and 1 at last walked the major
out through the conservatory to the ter
race. 1t was a warmish February night
such things do befall now and then-and a
blazing moon. We walked backward and
forward for a turn or two, and then leaned
over the balustrade, looking at the expanse
of lawn and shrubbery and the woods
beyond all wonderfully clear and distinct
/ in the white. still light. Suddenly a spec
| trail outline flew over the lawn, followed by
! "Congo! exclaimed Marilier and sinful
tanecusly. Doesn't ii recall Ballynogginy ~
Congo 1t was. He lodged Carmody round
and round the fountain, and then-attract-
ed, L presume, by the brilliant range OF
lighted windows-made for the terrace
came up and over the side in three swarm
ing leaps, chartered recognition of his
master, and then. to make all safe, seized
q trailing Dough of ivy and swung himself
aloft up to the ornamental stone work
above one of the windows.
! Up came Carmody
| ITS the housekeeper's best bonnet. yer
nonor! She's just dancin' mad after him -
he parted.
Congo proceeded to dissect a mansled
mass OF black stuff, part of which seemed
composed of giant grapes made evidently
OF some inedible substance for after tast-
ing one Congo wrenched off and cracked
| The others spitefully till he took to pelting
BLEW with them.
| Marillier meanwhile was talking IN Gar
mody.
There they are. ready enough. I'll be
bound, sor." L heard the latter reply. Two
| up a church steeple. let alone the roof"
And lanterns?" Marilier asked
| thought 1t rather an expenditure of
force II they only wished to recover the
bonnet. now hopelessly demolished Congo
had put 1t on, and Aiionby, who had Just
come out. was shouting with laughter
/ very well. very WELL Maj. Marillier,' ~
said Jonathans voice at the window I've
found my servants in new mourning once:
can't be expected to replace your brute's''
Here his remarks We're cut short by Con-
go,who made one leap on to his head and a
second into the room. Marllier sprang
after him. He sped like lightning through
the whole suite of rooms, across the hall
and into the deserted dining ROOM Here
when We came up with him, We found him
ravaging the table, his cheek stuffed with
preserved fruits and nuts. Allonby tried
To throw u napkin over him, but this only
produced d fierce chatter, and the creature.
now seriously scared, kicking over the
epergne. raced back as he had come out on
| the terrace, up the ivy. appearing for one
| moment grinning over the battlemented
parapet, the next high on the ridge tiles of
the roof against the sky
| Shoot him. shrieked Jonathan, half
frantic. Hes got thes nut-crackers! A
sovereign to the man who gets a gun and
brings him down."
| I'll give ten to any man who can bring
him back alive!'' shouted the major
| Here you are, sir!' sang out a gardeners
boy, hurrying forward with a ladder on his
| shoulder He placed it against the wall.
and up he went. Up went Carmody with a
| lantern swinging in his teeth I'd went
Maj. Marillier, shouting Come along
some one-Blew or Riversr'
| Up went all, followed by two men with
additional lengths of ladder stirred by a
simultaneous impulse of frolic to join the
mad game of follow my leader (and that
leader Congo) over the roof of Brockwood
There can never have been a weirder
scene under the stars than that monkey
hunt. Brockwood looked as big as a small
village by the half-light. The roof ran up