The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-19

Con Win me- anu my uAihu WoS siinoos
eager to have any remaining doubts re-
moved.
But" said !, "what is to be done?"
$50 TO tho city authorities, Fl" replied
no on the instant. land get them to Is
su~ warrant for the apprehension Of
Angus Macgillivray.
II have been at tho bailies' ofiico,"
said I, land found that tho officers there
do not consider the affair a. sufficiently
alarming to induce even an ofncii
search"
Because, replied he, "they don't
know the facts" adding satiricaily. IL
Is generally believed that those who are
blind don't see.
"But even il they were pat In posses
sion Of the facts, no warrant would be
issued without q signed information.
and would you take that responsibility
was my question
mo, replied he. "but you might be-
cause you have made the proper inquiry
and found Angus fed"
II would not like to take that respon-
sibiliV either" rejoined L besides
the time is not FAR enough gone for any
very serious apprehension We must
wait another day. There il an old say
ing something TO the effect that II You
want to keep your friends. don't prolong
your visit beyond three days, and II you
want to be thought not dead, don't be
unacoountably absent from home beyond
three nights.
To this Mr.. Girvan agreed, and both
Of Us saw the propriety Of visiting the
deaconess, who was hour by hour losing
hope. We found her In the same posi-
tion in which had left her. noticed
that as we entered she turned wistful
eye upon us, with an expression that
seemed to speak and say, ''Is he not with
you?' and there followed that blank look
In which the orb seems dead.
There was silence everywhere, % II
Angerona had there set up her templa
and the votaries were mute. The chill
dren, ignorant Of the cause Of change in
their mother, had been put 10 bed The
servant whom we saw as we passed the
kitchen sat at the fireside hanging her
head, as il she mourned the death Of
kind master, and no neighbors dared to
intrude where they could carry no CON-
fort-a species Of kindness this in the
people Of Scotland which results from q
delicacy they get small credit for from
those who Judge from q rude speech and
homely If not coarse manners
We sat down quietly and gravely, .
clear enough indication to her that we
brought no hopeful intelligence. nor had
we sat many minutes when we came to
understand what was the direction Of
the current Of her thoughts They had
been all running toward tho conclusion
that Angus Macgillivray was in some
way connected with the mysterious az
fair.
"Have We inquired, /" che asked as she
cast her eye over us, If Angus has been
at hame syn yesterday Icould wad my
marriage ring he's ava, and nae suner
than he should be Will ye no answer"
she continued in awailing tone "Is he
in Edinburgh? When was he seen? Can
naebody tell?"
looked to Girvan, for I could not
answer without fslsehoOd, and he un-
derstood me.
81 have made no inquiry, Margaret, 7"
said he, ''nor did think it necessary
to go there-the suspicion seems 30 un-
natural. Besides are you not taking on
too heavily? This is only the second
day"
''The second day'' she burst forth
"And Deacon Macgillivray hasna seen
his wife or his BARNS nor sent letter
or message to tell whaur he is The
second dayi" she continued in the same
wailing strain. "Whep was il that hs
was half an hour behind his dinner
And this has taken place in Edinburgh,
which is just a lang street. whaur every
body kens everything about everybody. y
MANY a longer absence has had .
happy explanation, replied her broth
er. 1--WE have only as yet one fact. and
it will just look as you view 1t. Yor
know peats will build the side of q
house as we'll as make fire that will
burn you"
"But there's nae use butterirl
peats." cried she impatiently. 81 tel
you Deacon Macgillivray is dead, ant
Angus is the man who has made me {
widow and my BARNS fatherless.
And then came fit of hysterical sob
bing. which we had no means of allevi
sting. While I looked at her, and o'
course pitied her, Icould not help think
ing how completely her suspicion wa
confirmed by the information had got
and which dared not communicate tx
her. There was enough of sorrow fol
the hour. And rs we saw we could b.
of no further service that night we lcf
her to that kind of consolation which
the heart seeks for itself, and sometime
the more readily and successfully tha
it is left to itself and TO him who II
master of the heart and the issues
thereof.
Next forenoon repaired to Girvan's g
as arranged between Us, in order tina
together we might make more thor
ough search to the effect at least Of as
certaining whether the missing man hat
been seen, and when and where, during