The age-herald., 1897-08-08

oA AoAHO anu aSS 1t4ty 1ttt4 tuo Etu tSAHkt7t buildings of foreign cities. could afford And the joy was that 1t Vas all mine inalienably-greeued hsdgefow, spot. less road, decent gray stone cottage. EegTied Spipney, tasseled o6pse, apple bellied hawthorn and well grown tree 4 light puff of wind-it scattered flakes of may over the gleaming .rails-gS4e me faint whiG as it might have been of fresh cocoanut, and knew that the golden gorse was in bloom somewhere out of sight. Linn@us had thanked God on his pended knees when he first saw a field of it, and, by the way, the navyy was on his knees too. But he was by no means praying. He was purely dis gustful.
 The doctor was compelled to bend over him, his face toward the back of the seat, and from what I had seen supposed the navvy was now dead. If that were the case, it would be time for mo to go, but I knew that so long as a man trusts himself to the current of cir cumstance, reaching out for ani reject ing nothing that comes his way, 10 harm can overtake him. 1t is the con triver, tho sohsmer, who is caught by the law, and never the philosopher. I knew that when the play was played destiny herself would move on from the corpse, and I felt very sorry for the doc tor.
 . In the far distance, presumably upon thoroad that led to Framlynghame Ad- mira1, there appeared a vehicle and horse, the one ancient fly that almost every village can produce at need. The thing was advancing, unpaid by mo, to- ward the station; would have to pass along the deep cut lane below the rail way bridge and come out on the doctors side. I was in the center of things, so all sides were alike to me. Here, then, was my machine from the machine. When it arrived, something would hap pen or something else. For the rest owned my deeply interested soul.
 The doctor, by the seat, turned so far as his cramped position allowed, his head over his left shoulder, and laid his right hand upon his lips. I threw back my hat and elevated my eyebrows in the form of question. The doctor shut his eyes and nodded his head slowly twice or thrice, beekoning me to come. l descended cautiously, and 1t was as the signs had told. >The navvy was asleep, empty to the lowest notch, yet his hand clutched still the doctors col lar, and at the lightest movement (the doctor was really very cramped) tight ened mechanically as the hand of sick woman tightens on that of the watcher. He had dropped, squatting almost upon his heels, and falling lower had dragged the doctor over to the left.
 The doctor thrust his right hand, which was free, into his pocket, drew forth some Keys and shook his head. The navvy gurgled in his sleep. Silently dived into my pocket, took out one sovereign and held it up between finger and thumb Again the doctor shook his head. Money was not what was lacking to his peace. His bag had fallen from the seat to the ground He looked to- ward it and opened his mouth, O shape The catch was not 8 difficult one, and when had mastered it the doctor right forefinger was saving the air. With an immense caution I extracted from the bag such knife as they use for cutting collops off legs. The doctor drowned and with his first and second fingers initiated the action of scissors.
 Again I searched and found most diabolical pair of cock nosed shears, capable of vandyking the interior of ele- phants The doctor then slowly lowered his left shoulder till the navvy's right wrist was supported by the bench, paus- ing moment as the spent volcano rum- bled anew. Lower and lower the doctor sank, kneeling now by the navyy's side, till his head was on a level with and just in front of the great hairy fist, and -there was no tension on the coat col lar. Then light dawned on me.
 Beginning little to the right of the spinal column, cut a huge demilune out of his new spring overcoat, bringing it round as far under his left side (which was the right side of the navvy) as I dared. Passing thence swiftly to the back of the seat and reaching between the spines, l sawed through the silk faced front on the left hand side of the coat till the two cuts joined.
 Cautiously as the box turtle of his na- tive heath the doctor drew away side ways and to tho right with the air of fru strated burglar coming out from un- der bed and stood up free-one black diagonal shoulder projecting through the gray of his ruined overcoat. I re- turned the scissors to the bag, snapped the catch and held all out to him as the wheels of the fly rung hollow under the railway arch.
 I came at a foot pace past the wicket gate of the station, and the doctor stop- ped it with whisper. It was going some five miles across country to bring home from church some one-I could not catch the name-because his own carriage horses were lame It's destina- tion happened to be the one place in all the world that the doctor was most burn- ingly anxious to visit, and he promised the driver untold gold to drive to some ancient flame of his-Helen Blazes, I, think she was called.
 Aren't you coming, too?' he said.