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VOL. VII
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ATLANTA, GA., AUGUST 20 l*M.
NO. 314
BY M. L. C.
Earth has many noble heroeg
Who have never known renown,
And the brow that's most deserving
Does not always wear the crown.
Monuments of purest marble
Mark the spot where victors lie,
But the world will scarcely notice
When her humble heroes die.
He who nobly fights life's b*ttles.
Conquering self and hating sin,
Is bv iar the truest hero
Though no earthly pa ms be win.
There are aims which, high and holy,
We should ever strive to gain,
Never stopping for the danger,
Nobly disregarding pain.
And though praise may be denied us,
And our triumphs none can know,
There is One who dwe ls above us
Ever viewing all below.
He will mark each loyrl effort
Which we make to walk aright,
And with crowns ae will raward us
In a land ot love and light.
SIR
PAUL BRADMIRE.
A Tale Founded on Facts which Excited
and Profoundly Agitated the Aristoc
racy and Gentry of all Britain.
BY ALFRED DIKE.
(Author of “ Esther, the Jewess.”)
CHAPTER V—(Continued.)
Felix laughed in spite of himself again at
his logic; and the bumpkin grinned also with
good humor with Felix’s genial open face.
“No,” said Felix coaxmgiy, “you can’t be
a bad fellow, I am sure, and you cannot do
an injury to another who has never injured
you, nor any one else, simply for the sake of
money. I can’t believe that, and—”
“Ef yar couldn't believe it what did yer
s-y so fee tfcanf Dow yer aay what yer
Felix laughed again more heartily than be
fore. and tne youth seemed to enjoy it.
“My opinion of you,” said Felix “has been
o’-isnged for the better by hearing you; for
the man who can refuse gold, and as much
gold as I offered you, when he might pocket
it, and by a falsehood even not betray his
first employer, is not an abandoned creature
but has some principle about him.”
“Well,” he replied, “that’s not loike the
two missuses no ways; for they hears
nothink, but sticks to tber own free will. Ef
they happen to want to b’lieve a think, the
devil couldn’t change ther opinion, and he
knows as well I taint worth while to try:
and as for doin yer harm withoutin yer doin
me harm, I swar 1 never thunk of sich a
think. ’Taint harm mun, but good I war
tryin to fio yer.”
“How?’ asked Felix with surprise, “come,
come, you don’t think me so green as to be
lieve you took so much pains to do me a good
turn, and I an utter stranger too, when you
could have done it at once without trouble?”
“Yer don’t take on wi’ yer that the furthest
way 'round is sometimes the nearest way to
home,” he said, “and ef so be 1 bev histedthe
curtain a small bit fur yer to peep under and
yer won’t peep, yer are loike the two missuses
agin.”
“But you have not hoisted it high enough
for me to peep at anything,” said Felix.
“Yer didn’t wait,” he replied’ “tho I wor
running a pesky risk ef so be, mind, I wor
serving one missus ’stid of two; fur it don’t
mak much differ wether yer wor sarvin one
or two. Sue don’t mind the pence, but
nothiuk but the pounds. That is, ef the crap
turns out a poor harvest, she wou’t hear a
word about the weather, the land or beasts,
bnt sticks the bushels she alers measures up
before they’re born. Resin is with her a
blackguard, and argiment a plaster that
won’t stick; and the onliest think as will
stick is—it is so es she ses, ’cause it is so, and
she sticks to that if it don’t stick to her closer
nor a brother.”
“Well,” asked Felix laughing, “if it be
such a task to serve a mistress, why do you
serve one then?”
“Stop thar," he answered “you are catching
flies agin before they come. I sed ef so be,
why can’t you mind un’s words!”
“Well, well,” continued Felix, “don’tmind
what I say, but if you are a good hearted fel
low, as I think you are after all, tell me what
you can venture to tell me in mere good fel
lowship, and i promise you on my honor as a
gentli-man, I will not divulge one word of it
to a living soul.”
“Much good would that do,” he replied.
“Hev I not been tellin yer ef so be, I served
a ’omen, and the think didn’t come out right
as she telled yer to bring it out, though a
yearthquake upset it she’ll hear no resin or
argiment, but pitch into yer, yeartbquake or
no yeartbquake. What good would yer still
tongue do then 1 And I had ruther fight fire
any time nor a mad’omans words; and it aint
words only, but blows too, fur 1 swan I hev
had scaldin water, and no parable water
neither, but gen-u-ine, hot bilin water
throwed on me, and couid only guess who did
it, 'cos I failed to do what I tried to do with
all my might. Resin were outen the ques
tion and the hot water wor not.”
“I see,” said Felix laughing vehemently,
“that you have unfortunately fallen among
the Philistines among women, and judge all
by them.”
“Well,” he replied, “ef so be I failed 'mong
Philises, I swar yer’ll find Philises every
where, and withoutin bavin to hunt fur ’em.
Yer can’t tell me anythink about women, I
wor raised up ’mong em.”
This last proof of his knowledge of women
spoken too as if it was an uncommon advan
tage so diverted Felix that it was some time
before he could speak again.”
“Yer may loff,” said the yeoman, “but yer
will find what I tell yer truer nor j illy, if so
be, ver ever git mixed upwi’Wen; and,
darn”it, yer can t help it ef } er try. They
are cunninger nor men. I swan I blieve
th- y be born wi cunning in their mouth, and
it comes out when they are not thinkin on
U “Well, well” said Felix, “if bo be (using his
salvo) there is a woman in this case, you as a
good fellow, who know women so well, can
help me out: and if you should get m*xed up
OOIaO SHOULDER.—(Seepages)
unpleasantly with them, I am sure I can help
you out,”
“Ah!” he answered with a wink and an ex
pressive nod, “that is somethin loike. One
good turn deserves another. Now will yer
swar ef so be I raise the curtain for yer, and
I too get into hot water—parable hot water I
mean and not the rale think, yer will help
me out.”
“Yes,” said Felix, “if so be, I can do so
honestly.”
“Honestly?” he echoed, “D >es yer mistrust
I’m gwine to steal sometbink? ’
“No, no!” said Felix, “I mean honorbly.”
“Non# of yer heel-taps, young man,” he
said decidedly.
‘I didn’t ask yer whether yer wor honest
or honorable, and if I had, I should only had
yer word fur it; so ver must hev no ifs nor
ands in yer answer, for yer must take my
honesty and honor on trust, jest I take
vern.”
“Agreed,” said Felix, “that is fair play.”
They then shook hands upon the compact.
“Now,” resumed the spy, “ye’ve hearn
what I said ’bout ’omen’s vengeance, and yer
see caution is necessary. Then first promise
me that yer will not let on to any man, or
’omsn, nor blab one ’ord ’bout any think I
tell yer, or any think I show yer, nor name
the name of any one I send yer to meet, ef
yer loike to meet ’em. These be my secrets,
and 1 can keep ’em, or tell ’em. as I loike ac
cordin’ to yer answer.”
“I give you the promise,” said Felix
“Then," he began, “how would yer loike
to be loved by a pretty, a beautiful, a most
lovelv gal?”
“Well,” said Felix, “I suppose I should like
it very well if she happened to be cue right
one.”
“Then yer hev picked up a right one al
ready ? ’ he questioned.
Felix hesitated, and the other continued:
“I know it, yer needn’t to speak, and good
for you.”
“Why so?” asked Felix.
“Don’t yer ask idle questions, and yer will
know it is idle withouun my answer. Tnen
there is a beautiful gal in London, and a rich
gal, and a tarnashun smart gal t h at loves
you as hard as she can love any think, and
she is dyin’ to meet you.”
Felix was thrown into astonishment and
asked:
“Is she a reputable and good girl?”
“IS he’s proud enough and grand enough ef
that be what you mean by repertible, and as
to bein’ good hevn’t I told yer, and tuck pains
to tell yer what ’omen is, and yer said my
’omen wor all Philises, and as yer won’t agree
that all on ’em be Pmlises, yer must be yer
own judge whether this one be a Pbiiis or
not; and yer wouldn’t be long Hadin’ it out
neither.”
“Why?” asked Felix.
“Dura it!” he petulantly replied. “Doan’t
ask questions that yer will find how to an
swer verself. Didn’t I say yer wouldn’t be
long Hadin' it oat, plain as I could say so?”
“But tell me. suppose I don’t care to meet
her and don’t meet her, what then?”
Tee spy drew near to him and whispered:
“Yer had better think twice before yer fail
to meet her. I know thar be more mixed up
in it nor two, and yer would do yerself harm
more ways nor one.”
“What do you mean? I don’t understand
oae word of this strange story,” said Felix.
“Can’t yer sense the meauiog no how?
Don't yer see, ef so be, yer be not blind as a
bat, that I war not to tell you her name, nor
bint her purpose, nor nothin’ ’bout ir, but to
make up si >me story that would draw yer to
the postoffiee at 12 o’clock to-morrow when
the lady was at once to turn up and take yer
in tow. I should hev folierd yer but little
longer bet >re tellin’ yer to go thar at twelve
to-morrow to meet a gentleman on very im
portant business who had had no time to call
upon yer. and if so be he could not then be
present he would drop a letter in the post-
office for yer. Mind I war to bring yer any
how, and she war to take no excuse for fail
in’. I never seed her so bent on any think
afore. Now look hei e, ef yer don’t go I shall
git into a muss and a uproarrus muss that
won't break up fer a spell, and yer are in fnr
it to help me out quicker nor yer bargained
fur. Yer war lookin’ *0 here arter. ef so be,
1 war to git mixed up in ’omen’s affa’rs. and
guv yer word to keep me out, but I war look
in’ at this very fix I'm in. I wa’n’t gwine to
walk three mortal daysarter yerfurnu'hin’.
and then be badgered to deal h ur.erwards.
So if ye’re a mau of yer word, my spell is
over and now comes youra. Turn and turn
about is fair play. I may as well tell yer
howsoinever, we botu on us hev got a rail
Pbelis in hand, and no mistake, and ef we
don’t look sharp, we’ll come oaten the scrape
worse'n we go in.”
“What the deuce do you mean by all this?”
asked Felix in some perplexity, though
amused at the fellow's cool impudence, and
the crafty trap he had gotten him into, and
confidently boasted of.
“Didn’t I tell yer, yer couldn’t help gittin’
mixed up wi’ ’omen ef yer tried?” he tri
umphantly asked, “and here yer be mixed
up already and yer’e mixed up some whar
else beside. Yer can’t git out now honestly
and honorably—them’s yer own ’ords not
mine—unless yer eat yer 'ords. Now I’ll tell
yer what you must do. She’ll purtenu she’s
surprised to death at meetin’ yer, and declar
she thunk yer had gone to Paris, that she
heard sc, and if thar war only a railroad to
the moon she’d say there. But yer must be
as much astonished at meetin’ her as she does,
and say yer thank she war any whar yer
please ’cept in Lunun, and yer may kiss her
too for what I care, and for what she cares
too, ef nobody sees yer. And mind now,
don’t yer mention me, nor hint a word about
me, or ef yer tell why yer come to the post-
office only say that a very nice and smart
young fellow bruug yer notice to do so. That
is for me, yer see, and the help yer promised.
Now for yerself, for yer are in it yer see—
yer must take her on yer arm and walk with
her and call on her and seem to be in iove
with her. for if yer make her mad by slight
in’ her, she can play the very d&ucewith yer,
but yer will see that quick enough for yer
self. Now you’ll meet her, won’t yer?”
“Oh, yes, certainly,” said Felix, “but I
coull.acc my own part better if you would
answer my leading questions.”
“Noa yer wouldn’t,” he replied, “fur yer’jl
soon fi id yer can answer all yer questions
without askin’ ’em. Now then we are done
watchin’ each other, and goodbye till some
thin’else turns up.” And so they parted.
CHAPTER VT.
In an elegant parlor of a first-class hotel
sat a young lady of exquisite beauty, dressed
in the'height of fashion, and in a style that
bespoke weal h and a lavish outlay of it. Her
^•anner was restless and expressed disquie
tude and anxiety, as she at one moment
walked quickly to a window, and peered
watchfully on the crowded street below, as if I
scanning toe face of every passer; at another j
she dropped into her seat with her head bent j
down, and her brow contracted by a frown
as she muttered:
“The vile, faithless wretch! I might have
know it. I could kill him.”
Then she would start up, and, throwing
open a door, ask for the twentieth time and
more of some domest’c—
“Has not my footman come to the house
yet?”
At last her own quick black eye caught the
form of the servant at a distance approaching
the hotel. With a face flushed with anger
she waited till he came up, and bade him fol
low her into the parlor, as there were no
other persons present. The footman was a
young fellow, rather good looking and tall,
and of a quick, lithe and wiry motion. As
he followed his mistress, his countenance was
a mix ure of apprehension and dogged defi
ance. When sufficiently removed from the
others she asked, angrily:
“Well, sir, where have yon been? and what
have you been about?”
'• iiVell.” be answered, with a shrug, “ef yer
doant know, om snre I doant. Oil I knows is
I went where yer told me, and ’boat what yer
sent me, but whyfore I haint found ont yet.”
“None of your impudence, sir,” she said
fiercely, “you have taken a whole day on an
errand that might have been accomplished
in an hour.”
“Wnold day!” he repeated with emphasis,
“It tuck three days and three nights to trail
up and run down the fox. ’Tis mighty easy
to sit down here and tell other folks to work
maracles outside, by the hour.”
“All your services are miracles,” she re
torted, “you stupid, idle vagabond.”
“ Yer’d as well stop that sort o’ stuff ef yer
think to make me cry, or ter b’lieve what yer
say. Ef y er had to do the same thing to
morrow. yer would choose no nn but I, and
trust none but I; but ef yer sent the devil
yer’d call ’im a idle bagabone for his faithful
saryise.”
“Hush, impudent varlet,” she impatiently
said, “and tell what yon haye accom
plished.”
“Tnat’sit,’’ he said to himself, “she ses
so’tbiu’ worser nor imperance, and when yer
ai swer her ther truth, she calls it imper
ance.”
“Tell what you’ve done, sir, at once,” she
said with anger.
“Well,” be answered, “yer will git in a
good humor now I guess—he’ll come.”
“But, are you sure of it J” she eagerly
asked.
“1 know it,” he answered; “I don’t say
what l don’c know.”
“What did yen tell him to induce him to
come?”
“The Lord help us; did yer not tell me
wbat to tell him?”
“No.”
“I had nothing else to telL”
“Are you sure now there was no hint upon
which to found a pos-ible conjecture of a lady
in the case, or when he sees me, to afford a
-i adow of suspicion that the message was an
artific' !”
“1 knows nothin’of yer barty-fist. No.
I never so much as heaid there «uz such
a thing as a harty fist in the case, and how
the Scratch could I ha’ telled him on it? O,
yer tak’ me to be green enough to ha’ telled
the men a gentleman sont lor ’im, and the
gentlemau wor a lady ?”
“Well, well,” she replied hastily, but more
pacifically, as a slight smile curled her lip,
“Did vou hear him say anything about
ladies?” and here she fixed her eyes searebing-
ly on his face.
“Yernetd’nt be starin’at me in that ar
way,” be coolly sard, “jest as if yer wor in
Jove wi’ me, for ef 1 hev ony thing in me that
1 don’t want to let out, the devil, hisself,
couldn’t pull it out, and yer can’t see sharp
enough, sharp as yer be, to diskiver it.”
“You toolish doit,”she said, “I asked you
if be said anything about ladies, and wlat
be said, and whether he seemed to like
ladies?”
“Yer need’nt to think to blind me wi yer
ladies; 3 er be trying to catcb me in a lie. I
can always tell what yer mean by yer eyes,
before yer speak a word. They ’re m'gLty
bright, 1’Jl ’Jow, bnt they tell talcs outer
school, ard purty ugly ones too so metimts.”
“No matter about my eyes. Tell me at
once, are you sure he does not suspect that
my meeting him can have aDy possible con
nection with the message to meet a gentle
man at the posteffleef’
_ “I tell yer,” he replied with emphatic de
cision, “that he can bev no ’spicion of sich a
think, or any other think ’cept wbat 1 told
him: ard I told him about the gentleman
and about his droppin’ a letter in the office ef
so be he couldn’t ct me. Now, as he won’t
come, he will ask for the letter, and ef ther
be no letter he mo ut ’spect somethin’ then.”
“Ob, he’ll pet the letter,” she said; “I’ve
managed that”
■ Ou, 1 spteted all that,” he said, “for I
know how clever yer be.”
But being in doubt as to the real purpose
and end aimed at in the mar oeuvre, the cun
ning knave determined to probe it to the bot
tom it possible. He had always theretofore
carried out the girl’s plans faithfully and was,
as be told her, her chosen instrument, and
in this case he was to watch Felix te discover
w flat bouses he visited, and how often, and
after that to decoy h m to the meeting at the
post< ffice. He discovered where te went,
and w here be lodged, bat wesnttarly thrown
< ff bis balance by Ffclbrt resentment at He
.spjonagetjni his despairof tedwdnghimto.
believe bis meseagetc Im aa to meetiwg a
man at the postoffiee; and ha did not dura to
suffer a miscarriage of the plan. He was
therefore driven to the betrayal of his trust
rather than meet the fury of the disappoint
ment ; for suspicion excited in Felix’s mind
as to this scheme for meeting him might
arouse suspicion in any other plan. He was
therefore driven upon bis compromise. Be
sides ibis, he felt himself drawn to Felix by
some inexplicable attraction as he locked
upon his handsome, open countenance and
its good natured expression, and felt more
inclined to do him a kindness than to do him
a disservice, if such were intended: and to be
blindly inveigled by the girl he felt assured
would be a disservice.
“Now,” be said to her with a demure face,
“I suppose my part if the game is finished;
but yer better be perticler how y er play yer
own part.”
“How V she asked, looking with a really
S uzzlea expression as she steadfastly fixed
er blight piercing eyes upon him.
“Ahl I know wbat the beautiful sparkles
mean now,” he said again pointing at her
eyes. “Well, then, hear wbat I means— ytr
know I alers loved yer,” but seeing her start,
he said, “Don’t be foolish now, 1 don’t mean
sweetheart love—I aint such a fool as that—
but love of ther sarvant for his missus, tho’
yer can be as cantankrus as a cat with her
bristles up. But still 1 love yer, and try alers
to sarve you. Now listen—yer want to ketch
this young feller, and really he be the hand
somest man I ever seed, and I knows he’s a
good jolly feller too, and ef I wor a gal,
which I ain’t thank the Lora, I’d think twice
before I’d take the tother before this un ef
ao be, l could get this un.”
“Stop, sir,” she said; “what are you dream
ing about? Whr says I want to catch this
young man, and what do you mean by this
man and the other man!”
“Don’t run over the game; yer want to
ketch him for suthin’, and ef yer don’t want
him fur a sweetheart, 1 has nothin’ further to
say. I was only gwine to tell yer how yer
must hold him arter yer ketch ’im.”
“Well, then lets hear your wise plan.”
“But, let’s deal fair and ’bove board; yer
ern’t carry ont yer game withoutin help, and
as I knows so much already, you’d better
make a clean breast on it and tell me all, fnr
it is safer to trust one althegither, than many
’air and ’alf. But, ef so be yer ketch this un,
yer’ll course let the tother un off, jest aa yer
aid the first un.”
“No,” Bhe answered.
“What will you do then, hold on to both?”
“Yes. As yon trnlv aav, I have to trust
somebody, and have already trusted you so
far, I may, perhaps, better trust you than
anybody else.”
“Whew!” be whistled, “I be darned ef I
see through the thing. How can yer hold on
ter both?”
“Leave that to me. You attend to this
one, and hold him on, and I’ll manage the
other till I decide which to take finally. Here
is the reward I offered yon, and 1 will add
five guineas to it if he keeps his appoint
ment”
He pocketed the guineas, and then said:
“Nuw, yer must do as I tell yer. Yer must
look loike some un s’prised to death when yer
meet im, and say yer hear he wor in Parish,
and wouldn’t be back in six months, and yer
must be delighted, and’twon’t cause you
much trouble to do thar, as you will be de
lighted. Yer must ask’im to carry yer to
ev’ry whar, as yer are a stranger here, and to
walk with you to many places, and mind yer
ef he tries to kiss yer doh’t yer try too hard
to stop him, and doan't yer flare np like
mad.”
“What do yer mean by kissing me, you
Impudent scamp, you? And how dare you to
speak so to me?”
‘ Did I say J was gwine to kiss yer? I said
when he goes to kiss yer. No call to scorn
me at that rate ’fore yer’e axed. I swan I
would’nt give one glass of cider for twelve
dozen kis-es. But all men bavn’t the same
sen«e as I hev. I’m tellin’ yer how to mt>k’
a fule on ’im; bnt yon mak’ ’im sinsible ef
yer choose to try that way to hook Tin; but
I’ll bet five guineas yer tak’ my advise arter
all yer flouting, as yer know I alters come
link* a cat on my feet, thof I start to fall
back foremost”
15tie laugned outright at this.