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and he infuced his sister to accompany
him 10 India, she being desirors TO
originate q zenana mission and full OF
true aud genuine enthusiasm for the
propagation of C~hristianity.in India. In
trutbs Charles had behaved with some
deception toward bis sister. who was as
guileless rs she was good. He persuaded
her to lend him her portion, and there
By he had been enabled to procure his
plantation, and he for his own part was
resolved to make a fortune. To this end
he abandoned all idea Of marrying yet
awhile, or of amusing himself in the
style. of most members of his class. He
had taken Ross, a cool, clear headed
young ~Scotchman, and his little capital
into the concern, in return for some
twelfth OF the net profits and q vast
amount Of special skill that young Ross
had somehow acquired in the prepara-
tion of indigo for markets, the process
being in some respects quite Ms delicate
and involving as much uninterrupted
attention as brewing.
When Ross took up his residence on
the plantation, he simply thought at
first that Karney was rather q cold,
selfish sort of fellow, who was entirely
absorbed in praoticing all kinds of econ
omies, and that his lovely sister was a
visionary, impraoticable and somewhat
eccentric sort Of young lady. She GER
tainly did press her brother on the sub
ject Of saying ''grace before meat and
would remind him how his Hindoo
neighbors never failed to light up oam-
phor in the evening before tho pictures
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to decorate them with fresh flowers.
"And shall we," she would ask, ''let
ourselves be outdone by heathens and
idolaters2" Then there was q continual
conflict between brother and sister on
the subject Of money. Lillian, her broth
er declared, was always making de.
mands on him Oh account Of her pro-
teges around, and he affirmed that all
the beggars, hypocrites and ~rascals,
male and female, Of the locality pre-
tended to listen to her preaching because
they knew that by doing so they would
be FREQ to her purse.
Everybody who has lived in India in
timately among the people knows what
q curse and scourge debt is to tho mass
es. The native of India, it has been apt
ly said, is always in debt, and mar
riages and funerals alike are terrible
sources of %pecuniarY trouble, and when
1t was found that the mem sahib at the
bungalow of Sahibs Karney and Ross
was easily persuaded to aid any one who
would listen to her preaching and re-
ceive her tracts it vas certain that there
! was some truth in Karney's complaints
as to his sister being often victimizcd
by impostors.
OF late, however, Ross, who was
shrowd enough, had drawn sundry con-
illusions of his own which were not
much to the glory and praise CT his
partner. He was not ct this period him
self what could DO called q religious
man. In truth, he was of the typo Of
the average prudent, moderately clever,
steady, temperate. Woodworking young
man Of he day, anxious, like SO many
more, to make money, and with very
vague notions as to what he should do
with it when made, hut although he did
not always agree with Miss Karney's
profession and practices no had come
~insensibly under the spell Of her inHu-
enoe, of her gentlcncss, her sincerity
and %unending sympnthies, and he felt
that were he her brother it would be
difficult indeed to refuse her aught she
asked in the name of charity and Chris
tian love.