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sheriff C. M. Finn, of Independence County, left here for Batosvlle this morning with Fred Doremns, . young white man want ed in that place to answer to the charge of sednction
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ca Friday August B, there will se big barbecue at Washington Part. which is four miles West of Pine Bluff ou the Little Rock dirt road There will be plenty of barbecued meat nicely cooked. for all who at tend Messrs. Gal Cross Louis Cheek. IL. q Hanna C. C. Collins !. H.. Pilbington and AIr Willis compose Che G0mmitte of Arrangements and they will see that the barbecue is q grand success.
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KEEP your blood pure, your appe RM tite good, your digestion perfect by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, which has power to keep yon WE'LL.
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Mr. John lipseomt, a prominent planter living near Plumb Bayou is i'll the city today and says, he has the finest crops he ever had or ever expects to have fl ne should follow farming for life time.
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Mfr Jesse R. Core came down from Plum Bayou yesterday, and gives encouraging news about the crops in his vicinity.
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TOO Cr,ide

Medical Eaitor-This will never do. Jones. 4ou write here of "A pen dip ped in gall We've given up gail Make 1t "a pen charged with danger ons septicsemia Pick Me Up.
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A DaRsrsnt ATatt.r

Ihs Man teEpsCtsntly)-Then you will be my wife: The Girl-No, indeed. 1 simply said loved you.--Nsw York Ledger.
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Prayer meeting services tt the Main Street Methodist Church to night. The services will De lead hy Mr. James Gonld.
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Hulse, the Cotton Belt brakeman. was tound over today ny Justice Niven, to await the action of the Grand Jury, on the charge of steal ing a diamond ring from Conductor Congers.
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Anderson-Meyer, druggists, keep the celebrated toilet soap "Shah of Persia, which took the first prize at the Worlds Fair.
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Harry B Tipton, of Little Rock, won the championship at the It. smith meet held at It Smith Tues day He won both professional races by making q mile in 2.39 and two miles in a:52SS 4 ] Mercer. of Little Rock. won second in both events. Tipton rode an exhibition haIt mile in l:7B minutes.
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Thc barbecue at Washington Park on the Little Rock dirt road. on Frl- day,August l3, will be a grand affair. The people who attend are assured oi good dinner and can hear some splendid speaklne.
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painter who gave his name be- fore the Police Court as F. M Clark, but which ia an alias, was lined $20 in the Police Court this morning for assault.
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Constable PhIlpot gave is blood hounds another chase this morning. He Is greatly pleased with his apets, and believes he can chase ..nf eriiisiiilfti with them.
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Mir. and Mrs. II. c. McGaughy aud child. and Miss Mary Lindsay leave today for Sugar Loaf Springs. where they will soiourn for several weeks
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The Flks held very interesting meeting at their hall last night
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 The melon crop in this section is very fine this season. Airs. Fred NJ, Hudson ia reported To be mnch better today Mir. and Mrs. T. r. sorrels is in the city visiting friends.
 Capt. W.s. deter leit yesterday or Q business visit to Monticello
 pr. F. R Donnelson, Of Paetera. is in the city.
 Mr W. II. iangford ana wife are in Little Rock today
 Mrs. Chas. 0 Harris has returned aftega visit to Magnesia Springs.
 During the eclipse this morning it wae decidedlycooler.
 MT. Louis Altheimer has returned after pleasant visit to Hot Springs. Rabbi Becker left today for Allan tie City New Jersey, and will be absent several weeks.
 
 Mrs. w IT. Woodbridge and child ren will return from Ashley county this afternoon.
 Mr. $. II. ZolIer. proprietor ot the Dollar Store, returned from husi- neas trip Co Memphis last night.
 Miss Sane Holmes is expected homo from Ei Pnso, TeXas today, where she has been for several months
 The Secretary of State will soon issue ta pamphlet form dlgeat of the corporation laws of the State
 Judge Glliott's buggy was dam- aged yesterday evening by his horsc which got frightened and attempted tQ rua.
 4 silver of steel struck Porter shelby, an employe at the Cotton Belt shops, in the hnnd his morn ing and caused a very painful wound
 Measrs. George Moore aud W IT. Hickey, of Altheimer, are .takm ja" the Nashville Centennial.
 Miss Kate Larkin has returned home, after yisiting friends in Gal weston. Tex.
 Miss Gussie Tag&ari will leave next Monday for West Virginia. where she will visit hieuds for the remainder of the summer.
 This morning Il marriage license was issued to Henry F. Williams and Miss Pinkey L. Wheeler.
 Cotton declined five points in the New York market yesterday caused by good rains in Texas, the great cotton raising State.
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l have always thought that what wss good wa1 only what was beautiful put h action. -Rousseau.
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Attorney Reinberger has returned home, after an extended pleasure trip through Tennessee an Kentucky
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Miss Lucy Maxwell, Of Texnrkana, K in the city. the guest Of her friend. Miss Johnnie Boon.
 Mr. $. C. Martin came down town this morning, but was forced 10 rec turn home on account of ill health
 The Little Rock Democrat says, "Mrs. A. NJ. Perdue, of Pine Bluff, nee Miss Charlie Gordon, formerly of Little Rock, is in the city on q visit to her mother.
 MT. S. \. Kosenherg, the popular news and cigar dealer. returned home today from tine Eastern markets His new goods, in station- cry novelties. oare arriving daily.
 Mrs Joe Roseubura gave 5 dinner to the young folks his morning in honor of Miss Selma Harris of Little rock Euchre was also lndulged in. The prizes was won bX Miss Florence Rosenbeaum and Mr Meyer Solm- son. All in attendance report an en- loyable time.
 Anderson-Meyer, druggists have added another curiosity 10 their museum. Itis an alligator three feet in length. which Is now on exhibition in their show window. The reptile was sent to them by friend in LaHisIana
 Remember the ice cream festival to be given by the Epworth EoaRue oi the Lakeside Methodist Church for the benefit ot the church. at the grove in front uf the residence of Mr George VlnInR, on Lakeside Friday night Everybody is invited 10 come out and gel some good cream and have good time.
 Clark Tate, colored was arrested this morning on the charge of c4rfy- ing a razor as deadly weapon. When the officers searched him another dangerous weapon was found on hia person If was nothing less than the pen, of steelyard, with string attached, looped at the end so as to litover the hand A man could kill an OK with this weapon, and 1t was carried by the negro only as deadly weapon
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Mir T NJ. Phillips came over from his Altheimer nlantation yesterday, and last night visited snlphnr Springs He will move his family 10 that place in few days
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r. NJ. Thornton was before the Police court this morning for viola ting the stock law His horse got out Of it's lot and the stock officer placed it in the pound
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MT. Maurice Goldsmith. of Green. vile, Miss, is in the city.
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Mrs. Johnny Campbell and son, Charley, have returned from fish ing trip to Humphrey.
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The ruins of the D. E Riggin resi- dence, on Lakeside. caught fire hat night and was consumed
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Mir Luther ] Smith is ut home again after q months vacation spent at Hot Springs.
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Mrs. Eugene Fies and little daugh- ter, Elsie, will leave Monday for White sulphur Springs. West Vir- einia
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MT. E. sanfeid left yesterday for business trip down tie read.
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Mrs. Rubenstein and little dousl- ter, Bernice, left yesterday for St Louis to spend the summer
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Mir. Adolph Lyons, Of Little Rock. was in this city yesterday
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Assess your taxes. Thls is thl last week you will have to do it.
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Harrison Smith, q eolored yonth, was run over by the cars and killed ut Malvern, Friday
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sNotIce tor rnhlicntinn sano

Land 0aiee at Littie Rock. Ark. 1nIv 9- 70, Notice IS hereby given that the f0liowtnr. named settler has filed notice of his infen- tion 10 make final proof in support of his Ct,tilil.aha that said pr. of will be made before BinH, Ark, on September I. lS91. vfz: oueen la' teHSen, widow of Jefferson Patterson deed, | E. No. lSgi9 for the E of NEIL sk II W. ' '' bc games the sellowing witnesses 10 prove hls continuous residence upon and euitiva tlan of said lHnd. viz Ii Halliburton Rot Miliiam>. John T H0do. Calburt shelly siI of Double Wells. Ark e'i
 ]. ]. BEAVERS. Register. Miss Willie smart is reported to be quite sick.
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Jack Allen. colored, plead guilty to assanlt before thePoliceeohrt this morning and was fined $5.
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Mr. Ed Saunders, who has been sammerlng at Auburn, is In town today to see his best girl.
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Mrs. j. D. Mnner has gone to san Francisco. where she will spend aeveral weeks.
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Mrs. E. E. Harrison, of Washing ton, D. C., is in the city ylaiting relatives aud friends
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The Price of Songs.

The following list shows that a great deal of money is made from popular music iii England:
 Sir Arthur Sullivan is said to have realized e10, 000 by his celebrated song e'The Lost Chord Balfe appears to have received high prices for the copy rights of some of his songs, For I Dreamt l Dwelt M Marble HallsN he got fs, GOO, the game for When Other Lips, and e5. GOO for The Heart Bowed Down P When recently put up for auction. q, 2l2 l5s. was obtained for the copyright of Michael Watson s song Anchored. -Harper's Round Table.
 An English writer says that if the Prnssian conscription were applied in India England would have 2.500, 900 regular soldiers actually i'll barracks, with 500, GOO recruits coming up every year---a force with which not only Asia but the world might be subdued.
 Two branches of the Aberdeen Asso-. citation For the Distribution of Litera- ture to Settlers in Canada have been formed in Montreal
 No Inventor.
 They do say that every American is horn inventor, said the patriotic gentleman
 My husband. said the fat lady. is an exception. He uses the same old ex- cases for being oat late that ased to hear my father use Indianapolis Journal.
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Cotton declined nye points in the New York market yesterday. caused by good rains in Texas, the great cotton raising State
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MT. S. A. kosenhorg, the popular news and cigar dealer, returned home tetiay from tiie Eastern His new goods, in station cry y,noveltlea, cte,ar arriving daily.
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This morning u marriage license was issued to Henry F. Williams and Miss Pinkey l.. Wheeler.
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 lFfom Thursday g Daily
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Miss Gussie Taggarl will leave. next Monday for West Virginia, where she will visit friends for the remainder oI the summer.
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tFrom W eanesday s Deilya

Mrs. Will Hart is seriously III. Mir. J. l.. Mills left yesterday for Little Rock.
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Miss Kate Larkin has returned home, after visiting friends in Gal veston Tex
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Messrs. George Moore aud W. T. Hickey, of Altheimer. are .takm in the Nashville Centennial.
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Tine Little Rock Democrat says. Mrs. A. M Perdue, of Pine Bluff, nee Miss Charlie Gordon, formerly of Little Rock, is in the city on q visit to her mother.
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Miss Lucy Maxwell, Of Texnrkana, is in the city. the guest oi her friend. Miss Johnnie Boon.
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\ silver Of steel struck Porter Shelby, an employe at the Cotton Belt shops, in the hand his morn ing and caused a very painful wound.
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Judge Elliott's buggy was dam aged yesterday evening by his horsc which got frightened and attempted tQ rua.
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The Secretary of State will soon issue n pamplet form Il diReat of Che corporation laws of the State.
The times., 1897-03-31
ANOTHER RAIL WAY HEARING
Petition of the AnacOstia Company
to the Commissioners.
Argument Against the Brown SyS
tem-PIea of Citizens in Behalf
OF the Capital Company.

There was a second hearing before the
Commissioners yesterday afternoon Of
the contention bet ween the Capital and a IL
acostia railroad conn anies over the intro
ducton of the electric system of propul-
pulsion.
a feature of the hearing was the pres
dent Griswold, in which he again objected
to the granting of a permit for the under
ground construction.
Il submit this he concluded with
the request that tie Commissioners de-
cline 10 issue the permit as now before
them, which might be coupled, in the
discretion of the Commissioners, with
permit to install the only system that las
thus far met the approval OF Congress-
When this work is completed along the
route authorized, Eleventh street east, the
Anacostia Railway Company will install
its main line with the same system to It's
terminus, at Eleventh and streets orth-
west
At the conclusion of Mr. Grlsw olds
paper, Attorney Darlington, for the Cap
iIdA nan Ndg ! 0llpiuS dI t>S 70 TGSpUHQ.
I'VE are about where we We're yester-
day." he said. "Our friends of the
AnaCostia Company have nothing to show
in respect TO their own road, but ale
here TO try and prevent the building of
our road in accordance with the act OF
Congress.
The plates to be employed are not
dangerous. II any difference, the plates
used in the Metropolitan system are more
dangerous than those we propose to
operate"
The following petition was filed with
the board:
We, the citizens of Southeast Washing
ton ana Anacostia, respectfully petition
the honorable Commissioners of the Dis
trict OF Columbia to grant the permit of the
Capital Railway Compan to put down the
Brown underground electric system along
its city route, thus giving us rapid transit. +"
The petition contains about 800 names,
Among them are: w. L. KoontZ, R. c.
Hess, Frank Dean, l.. n. Allen, Joseph A
T. W Roberts, j. II. Covington,
d y. Russell. w. H. Moran, John NJ Mitchell,
c. F. Carroll, a. 81. Padgett, j. Harthy,
f. Howard, G. II. Osborn, Lillian Fowler,
and Emma Speiden.
The times., 1897-03-31

This column yesterday morning pre-
dicted yesterdays change OF front very
bandly. After several days Of a very
bad slump, which lasted over until Mon
day night, the suggestion was made in The
Times yesterday that the end OF The de
cline was reached, for a time at least
The reasons were good why this should
be SO. The Mckinley boom after inaug-
uration who mostly sentimental traders
affair 1t was not supported by the
public, who didn't believe enough that
Mckinley was TO bring prosperity to in
vest in stocks at least Having gone too
far tie Missouri decision was d
good reason for its sIumping back into
its former low figures Itis by nomeans
yet certain that the decision will be a
very great evil to the railroads
Stil, there was undoubtedly some real
selling Of investment securities This
parried the market further in its dominant
turn than the purely professional specu-
ators would have done. But there was
no reason to suppose that stocks were
going to nothing. as some seemed TO think
The end Of this movement came, too
The Times was fortunate enough to see
1t in the wind on the very day of its oc-
curence. The market today is most
uncertain quantity. 1t seems probable,
however, to careful observers that there
Will be continuance OF yesterdays firm
Ress and no breaks, at least of no great
advances.
The times., 1897-03-31
The World of Business.
Wall street Yesterday.

New York. March 3o.-There was dis
tinctly better tone to the markets for Sc
curitles today. The apprehension in re-
gard to the recent decision OF the Supreme
Court disappeared il a measure because
OF the announcement that leading officials
OF Western railroad associations had
given orders to the freight agents to
maintain Rates, and also because of state
nlents. which were afterward confirmed,
that the counsel for the Joint TIaffic
Association would advise the continuance
of the association until the Supreme Court
had an opportunity TO pass upon its le-
gality. Only one reaction Of Importance
occurred during the session and that was
in svnlnathy with the sudden break in
Jersey Central from 50 IS to SO on a
revival Of the rumOrs recently current
that the dividend VIII be reduced. It is
10 he saiG that even this failed TO diSlodge
long stocks ia any considerable amount
and the decline from the highest of the
morning was only 4 to 1 Ii per cent
outside OF Leather pfd., which broke
2l-S to % Ia
Near the close speculation developed re
newcd strength on the announcement from
Washington that an amended railway pool
lllS fll4 ildt Httil ltltiOtIAth ll Ailt s,tiiuNt
10y Senator Foraker and that strong ef
forts were ma king 10 have the bill become
a law. On this there was fresh move
ment Is cover shorts and the market closed
strong in tone. Net changes show ad-
vances Of IA to 5-S per cent, led by
Rock Island. Jersey Central was an eX-
ceptioE and closed 2 1-2 lower. Total
sales were 231, $40 shares, including 32,-
900 Sugar, % 800 Burlington and Quincy,
%, 900 Jersey Central, 1900 st Paul,
l3.3oo Chicago Gas, 10000 Rock Island
and Q. 400 Tobacco.
The hond market was higher. The sales
footed up 81. .262 900. Chesapeake and
Ohio General 12s rose Ia, TO 73 Ia;
do. Richmond and Allegheny first Con.
As, l. to l01 l-2: General Electric Deb. 5s,
] 3-S. 10 SO 3-s: Houston and Texas Cen
,ral Deb As, / 1-2, to 81 1-2; Long Island
Con. rs. 3-S, to lis; Atchison Gen. As,
b-S. to 50 6-S; do, Adj. "a. to a. IA;
Northern Pacific 3ds, "a, to 53 Ii; do,
4s. 5-S. to SIS; st Paul. Chicago and
Missouri River 5s, /, 70 10 IA; standard
Rome and Twine 6s. . 19, to 6s 3-S:
do. Incomes, /. to 19, and Union Pacific
Col Trust 6s. 8, to 90 12; st. Louis South
western first As dropped 3, to 81, and
do, seconds, / IL, to 10. In Government
bonds. $4,000 coupon As OF 1907 sold at
ll3 3-S
The times., 1897-03-31

| humorous CONSERVATION. The divil anc
| bis imps -askin' yer honors pardon-plays
| their pranks there on ALI Halloween. bat
| flesh ana blood never slept at Sullane and
! awoke to tell what killed him in the morn
| ingl''
1t was not until some months later, after
| had returned to America, that found the
| little leatheT-bound book in my trunk and
| read the story, i'll the perusal of which /
had been interrupted on that night. The
substance of il is as follows:
| The last lord Of Sulane, q powerful
noble ana a famous warrior, lived in the
latter part of the sixteenth century. He
married young wife, to whom he was
deyotcdly attached. For some years they
were chiidless; then boy was born. But
the husband suspected the fidelity Of the
wife. He dissembled his suspicious, even
so far to profess his love even more
vehementiy than before. At length he an
nounced that lie was about to make a
journey and would be absent several weeks;
but would send steward to attend TO the
business of the household while he was
away He went; the steward came. He
proved to be dumb, but was otherwise
highly intelligent; and what was more, he
soon showed himself more than willing
to AID and abet the wishes OF the lady
OF Sulane. Having assured herself of his
trustwoTthiness, she made the dumb man
her conridant. One night--it was All
Halloween she entertained "a stranger at
dinner. The steward was present and
waited on them. The party was full OF
I.irth and reckless frolie. They drank
wine freely and ate heartily, the steward
urgiIg them to excess. The main dish was
a ragout, prepared by the steward himself,
of rare flavor and delicacy. The lady Of
Sullane declared that she had never tasted
aught so delicious, and asked the steward
of what meat it was made. He replied
that he had dressed the head of the animal
as a side dish, aad with that he placed it
before her, covered with silver cover.
She took off the cover and saw in the dish
the head Of her own son.
She started up with a scream; the
stranger sank back in his chair, dismayed
The steward threw off his disguise. He
was the lord of Sullane himself. He
plunged his sword through the body of
the man; but the wife, driven mad by
horror, was already a maniac. How long
she remained In that condition is not
known: but she never again left the room
in which the fatal banquet had taken
place The lord of Sullane lived to a
great age, but no man ever heard him
speak a word from that night forth, and
he was found at last dead, with five black
marks on his throat. 1t was said that
the devil had strangled him.
Perhaps the scene that overheard was
telepathicany conveyed to my conscious
ness by means Of the little book. Perhaps
it was all a hallucination, or a dream.
For my part, | have no further explana-
tion to offer | can only affirm the thing
which 1 have told happened even as 1
have told it.
The End.
The times., 1897-03-31
Copyright, 1897, by Julian Hawthorne
yNppcJc

The narrator is ma klng tour Of Ireland
as a newspaper correspondent. He has
spent some uinie in kilcrea, wncre he made
friends with Father 6Hea, the parish
priest. The latter makes him II present at
parting of an old leather-bound volume i'll
manuscript. The narrator Is continuing his
journey TO Ballynean it is All Halloween
when sudden so0fm tif1 les Tim iOr snel-
ter to ruined and deserted manor house.
After stabitlS his nos5. IN one OF the rooms
and partaking Of the scanty food he mad
with him, the traveller makes himself as
comfortable as possible for the night, when
suddenly he hears voices masculine and
feminine-i'l an adjoining room. Although
they have weird sound he prepares to
investigate.
The times., 1897-03-31
PART IL.

Accordingly 1 rose and walked down
the room to the door opposite the one by
which l had entered. 1t was one of the
few In the house that still hung on its
hinges. Passing it, l discovered n small
antcroom not more than three PAGES across,
ending in deep recess at the extremity
of which was another door, which was
closed Light, however, was visible
through its cracks and crcvices, showing
that the room beyond was illuminated,
and the voices within were now plainly
audible / stepped forward until ! was
within arm 's-reach of the door; it was no
longer doubtful that two or three persons
at least Were in the further room, and
were IN a conviyial frame OF uiind. The
woman's yOice-there seemed TO be but one
woman-constantly replied to or chimed
in with the masculine ones; there were
bursts of laughter, the jingle Of glasses.
and the usual clattcr OF dinner table.
neutrality-suspicious. owing to the hollow
echoes Of the place. was unable, though
SO near, to distinguish a single word that
was spoken.
The talk, indeed, was carried on in a
curiously subdued tone as if the speakers
feared TO be overheard; aud the laughter
was snothered and, rs it were, in whispers,
/ stood and listened.
Why did | not open the door and 20
in? | found II difficult to explain my
hesitation even to myself, That woman's
voicei 1t was lightsone and sweet, and n
the mans tone-his, who chiefly addressed
her-there was kind ot passionate gentle
ness that betrayed the infatuated lover
Yes; the party was well tuned, and IL
might have been discreet in me to nave
refrained from disturbing them. Yet, it
was not discretion that withheld me. How
shall say it? There was an emanation-
an impression coming from that room that
chilled my blood, stifled my breath, and
brought to the heart an indescribable feel