Griggs courier., 1897-10-08

recommended to the Hotel Berti as hav-
imp an excellent cuisine. His expenses
we're paid by an old lady of his congre-
cation, SO he never had to worry him
self about a shilling here or there, and
when he sat down to dinner, and had
partaken of some bisque soup and a sole
a la Soulise, he began to feel that, after
all, there are consultations in this vale
OF tears.
The hotel was very full. Already en-
thusiastic colonials were beginning to
arrive for the jubilee, and could be dis
tinguished generally by the ultra new
ness of their clothes and the curious
quality of their voices. A specimen
was sitting nearly opposite to Mr.. Dane,
and was talking in high key to an
other man.
''Take my word for it, sir, Australia
is the coming country. Why, over here,
if you get five per cent. for your money
you think you're jolly lucky; we can
get IA or Is as easy as winking. And.
as for trade, you just come over to Sgd
pey, and we'll open your eyes for you.
Oh, it takes a smart fellow out of the
old country to cheat an Australian.
You may talk about your Derby, I
should just like you to see our cup run
for. And the women!-well, haven't
seen a woman in London that's patch
On our Sydney girls"
81 wonder he ever came to such be-
nighted place as England, don't you?' ~
said quiet, gentlemanly man, who sat
next to Mr.. Dane, catching that gen.
tlcman's eye and smiling.
"He appears singularly boastful
young man." said Mr.. Dane, rather glad
to have some one to whom to speak.
''You always notice the want of a uni
vcrsity education"
"Ah, quite so," said the other.
Money!" the Australian was now
saying. "Folks here don't know how to
spend it. I've come over for the Jubilee,
and don't expect to have much change
left out of 5000 when I go back. But
there's plenty more where that came
from"
"Rather injudicious to be so COM
municative to stranger, is it not?''
commented Mr.. Dane to his neighbor.
"Oh, he is an unlicked cub, with all
his experience before him. Now, have
been globe-trotter for years, and Eng
land seems the most delightful place on
earth to me, though nearly all my old
friends are dead or married, and put
up at hotel for want of a home," said
the other with rather a melancholy
smile.
Indeed. You must have many in
teresting experiences to relate" said
Mr.. Dane, attacking salmi of ortolans
with great gusto. II have always de-
sired to travel, and I was very inter
ested in discourse on the state of the
Fiji Islanders delivered this afternoon
at Exeter hall by Rev. James Fergus
SON."
Eyes, they are a very interesting
race" observed the stranger, and some
how, Mr.. Dane found himself imparting
a valuable fund of secondhand infor.
He went to bed that night very we'll
satisfied With himself, and feeling as
he never had before, that man needed
to leave home to be appreciated.
Really, Mr.. Peyton, as he found his
new acquaintance was called, was a
decided acquisition. He always sat by
him at dinner, and once or twice Mr..
Dane had gone up to his private room
afterward, where the cigars produced
were of the best quality, as was the
liqueur brandy. Mr.. Peyton was par
ticularly well-bred, refined man, and it
was only by chance mention Rev.
Thomas found out how we'll connected
was his new friend, so he was rather
surprised one afternoon to come upon
him talking to the young Australian,
vino was telling choice story of how
he had licked man twice his own
weight and a professional bruiser into
the bargain.
"You see, he isn't bad-hearted lad, u
said Mr.. Peyton, afterward, "and he
doesn't seem to have a friend in Eng
land, so on that account I have rather
fellow feeling for him."
"It is very good of you to be bothered
With him, am sure," said Mr.. Dane,
who did not much relish the Austria
lian's addressing him as Bishop"
Curiously enough, that very evening
another friend of Mr.. Peyton's turned
up quite unexpectedly at dinner. An
open-faced, weather-beaten man, with
q bluff, genial manner, whom he intro.
duced to Mr.. Dane as Col. Staunton
"lIe's one of the Oldest Virginia fam
ilies," he explained, lone of the Old
sort, chivalrous, aristocratic, impul
sive; hates the very name of New York
hope you'll join us upstairs tonight
You'll find him very entertaining"
II shall gladly do so," said Rev
Thomas, fattered by the invitation.
1t really was very pleasant upstairs
in the cozy little sitting-room. To cele'
brate his meeting with his old friend
Col. Staunton rang the bell, and or
dered four bottles of 's4 champagne
and under it's genial influence, and that
of good cigar, Mr.. Dane found himself
growing wonderfully entertaining. He
recalled several college stories, a,
winch both Peyton and the colone
laughed heartily, so that he could af
ford to overlook the disparaging re
marks of the Australian, who had also