The record-union., 1894-12-15

1Ao eHIoIceu rest naQ been q soothing
nurse TO the common sore and hurt nerve
The ozone of the sea gave its MAGIC of sta
ton to all. And from this time on the
voyage OF the attentive WARNINGS and
the apt and grateful Lessings was all too
brief period OF tenderness. exaltation and
delight.
Queenstown was reached: the pretty
scene OF the departure here of the mails
was witnessed, and just as the sun was
sinking in the western ocean, its splen-
dor ritting through an almost sky-hid
swarm of ghostly, futtering gulls, the
steamer resumed her journey past dream
ful old Youghal, where Raleigh and
Spencer sulked and dreamed and loved;
past fateful Point Carnsore, and as the
stars began to glow above the glowing
waters, swung into the tideful channel of
st. George, and thence into the wilder
Irish Sea, coming to anchor at last beside
the Mersey's shifting sands at midday,
where the deft Warnings lessened for their
friends the pandemOnium which ever
RACES when the snOrting tenders come,
and the badgered passengers, with their
mountains OF luggage, are huddIed to-
gether like cattle TO old LiverpooPs land
ing stage.
I'VE will all go together to London"
said the banker kindly. II will call a
cab 1or myself and Lady Rivington and
will drive to Lime Street Station where
we will reserve a nrst-class compart-
ment."
Yes, take it Ieisurely now, dears,"
| added Lady Rivington with reassuring
smiles. st will require about an hour 8
time to finish the examination of your
luggage. Be at the station in lust about
two hours. GoOd-by until then, dears!"
Good byn' and "Good-byr' it was
| then cheerily all around, but not without
tremuious misgivings on the part of the
Lessings, whose novel situation already
| filled them with anxiety and alarm.
Mr.. Lessing and his son, after many
repeated pleadings and alterations with
the inspectors, gave up completely and
sat down upon their luggage helplessly.
Mrs. Lessing supported her daughter,
as the latter jOtted and composed, and
Kate, pale and wordless now, sat
silent and scOwling, as though some
unusual storm was brooding behind her
pretty eyes. At last Mrs. LesSing ap-
preached her husband and asked vex-
edly:
Why don't you hurry them men up?
l feel Just as though | had lost every
thing when them folks is out of sight"
''pn bet cookey we havev' blurted
Kate, marching straight between her
father and mother. Pop Lessing, what
was that banker fellow doing with your
letters of credit in the library this morn
ing?"
"Why, II was jest indorsin' of 'em so
he could git 'em cashed by his broth
ers, the Warnings. and save us the ex
changeu'
well, we've Just been robbed by
those slick ones!" returned Kate very
quietly.
''Ro bbedn shrieked the remainder OF
the Lessing family, sinking on their
luggage in various attitudes of despair,
while the note book of Genius fell idly
by Helcn's side, and Washington Lincoln
Lesslng's stick for the first time assumed
threatening activities.
If that pair" remarked an inspector
who had noticed the disappearance of
the Warnings and subsequently keenly
regarded the LeSsings, as If anticipating
some unpleasant denOument, "'ave got
anything as belongs to you, you never
need worry about gettin it back. They
are the rummest Yankee sWindlers as
ever played th' H'euglish lord an Teddy
dodge. | truly 'Opes you ave a few
| pound left?" he concluded sympathetic
| cally.
Don't go on so, Pop and nom. We're
all right. Well have lovely time yet!'
| said Kate cheeriiy.
"Oh, Lord! How? Ten thousand bar
rel
John Wesley Lessing, is this a time
to fling flour at your suffering family's
heads?'
Just the time; justw retorted Kate
! lmperatlvely. The toll dear old Pop
| paid me on more than ten thousand bar
rels for keeping those musty books Kate
Lessing has got right along with her this
blessed minute, and it will take us all
farther than you thinkr'
They fell upon the brave little sprite
with caresses and joyful tears. When
she had eXtricated herself she added
spltefully to her mother and sister:
HOu can have 1t and spend it if" and
here she became the personincation of
unyielding Tyranny-'if you two folks
! have just got enough of European nobil-
ity, and Castle Wolds, and Paddock
| Woods and Tunbridge Kents and pheas-
ants and hounds and all that sort of
! beautiful mutf and mistr'
! Lord, Kate!-one other condition, dov'
pleaded MIR. Lessing, with renewed ex-
element.
"W hats that?"
mo more jottin' an composin'! An,
Kate darling, for conscience sake make
1t cover Milltown when we git backv'
he added in desperate whisper.
''No more foreign nobility, and no more
Jotting and composing, now and forever
or. no Mllltown flour toll for a good
time IN EurODe" she promptly added.
with eXasperating solemnity.
a groan escaped her mothers lips, and
tiny tear trickled down her sisters
pinky blistered nose. But Genius has
fairly glowed with Weaknesses since
were opened the eyelids of recorded
Time, and it capitulated with a whis-
pered murmur of assent, while the Yale
half-back "Rahed" himself hoarse, and
the subdued but now united Lessings
saw Europe in a gentle calm that gave
them receptive, happy eyes. and they are
now where the rum blings of their dear
old mills" bring to their hearts only the
pleasant and undisturbed repose of Iife's
blessedest content.