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Coniston.
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OR our (part we should hav*
preferred that Mr. Wins
ton Churchill's "After
word” had been a "Fore-
ward" to his novel, "Con
iston." To have known
through all our long ac
quaintance of five hundred
and forty-odd pages wHh
Jethro Bass that that ec
centric and surly old cur
mudgeon who never his
whole life through had it
■percolate Into his heavy
understanding that there was such a re
quirement of civilized existence as what
is commonly termed "manners.” and pos
sessed but such a short-sighted compre
hension of the consideration the world
demands of each human being; to have
known that, this character, coarse-fibercd
and uninteresting as he was, was not
imaginary lait out of actual New England
history a few years after the civil war—It
would have made a difference. We are
convinced that it should have been a
foreword, for beyond a. doubt history
has a deeper and more compelling inter
est than mere fiction. Jethro Bass, it
appears from the afterword, did exist,
and as "typical of an era,” as the author
says, becomes more than the mere puppet
of fancy, and learning this too late we
experience a sort of self-reproach that
we dip not cultivate him with more ardor
through all those first chapters when, we
.ire constrained to confess, despite .he
presence and the fine skill of the author,
we were near to slighting the acquaint
ance.
Mr. Churchill has adapted his style mar
velously well to the story he has to
toll; the simple, rugged life of the moun
tain people he writes about could not he
pntmod in the brilliant colors or with
the panic brushes as the scenes In "Rich
ard Carvel," and the humor of "The Ce
lebrity” is necessarily lacking as im
possible to the New England character.
The author has had perforce to foil aw
that first of the rules of good breeding,
and adapt himself to his company, and
most excellently well has he done it, and
what these country folk lack in live, mov
ing interest he makes up in a quaint
pleasantry which suggests the style and
dignity of the writer of some decades
ago.
"Coniffon" Is a political novel, and we
venture (it cannot be said positively, of
course) a faithful presentation of the
situation in New England at the time-
after an exhaustive study of "the flies
of Tlie Tribune.” to which such frequent
reference is made. Mr. Churchill's entry
into politics may have lost him some
what, but the gain has been undeniable;
If his literary tool chest was before weil-
stoeked It has received a complement of
instruments of such edge and temper the
w erie lie now can do is of another sort
from that which had already shown him
a master craftsman. The Woodchurch
session, a famous session of the legisla
ture in a state the. name of which is not
given but none the less known, is an
intrigue, the machination of the deep
and silently working mind of the mighty
Jethro, W'ho from his position behind
the window curtain of the "throne room"
watches the movements of the world out
side and makes and unmakes men at will.
And it is the keen perception and knowl
edge of things of public concern coupled
with the adroit skill of the artist; it is
Mr. Churchill, .the trained (politician as
well as literateur.
We are free to say the vulgar hench
man of Judge Bass and the unscrupulous
politicians all who fill the rotunda of
"The Pelican” blue with smoke and with
a something else as stifling to moral
as the former to material sense, interest
us in so far only that the story could
not proceed without them—that they are
forced upon us is distasteful to the ex
tent that they become unbearable except
as “typical of the era." Yet it is the
political side of the story that makes
it what it is, a truly great piece ot
work.
Nor is the romance anything short;
rather is it most artistically conceived
and executed—so perfect in detail and in
drawing that Cynthia Ware and Cynthia
Wethere.ll merge unconsciously one into
the other in our recollection as they se ml
ed to do in the affections of Jethro Bass.
The love that was in the beginning is
bore, true, noble, deathless, the love of
man for woman, and woman for man,
and if he who ruled the state through
nefarious practices was a boor and a
high-handed robber, yet his love was
pure and tender as that of the best, even
of Robert Worthington, who is hero
enough to be made star actor in another
and different drama. Cynthia—Cynthia
Ware or Cynthia Wetherell. either or
lxith—is the type of heroine that stamps
a story good or indifferent, and lives. It
is a book whose merits are not to be
weighed quickly, but one that will as
sert itself and take its own iplace with
our best fiction.—The Macmillan Com
pany, publishers. New York.
Superseded.
Henry Holt &. Company, in a publish
ers' note introducing M'iss May Sinclair's
little story, “Suspended,” makes the
statement that Miss Sinclair expressed
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America, considering it the best of her
work previous to "The Divine Fire,”
which goes to emphasize the very ap
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don and particularly the sacrifice of
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training.
Miss uQIncy, 45 and looking 50, little
and shrinking, and realizing that her
twenty-five years' service at St. Sider-
ell’s has at its end earned her no more
than tolerance until she can be gotten
rid of, has her foil in the magnificent
Miss Rhoda Vivian. Miss Vivian at 23
possesses the world, so far as it exists
for her—radiant and pervading beauty;
superabundant health, remarkable fa-
m'lliarity with languages, being "classic
al mistress;” handsome clothes, the fa
vor of the head, the dread Miss Cursiter,
and—the love of the tparagon. Dr. Caut-
ley. Miss Vivian lives In a very afflu
ence of earth's joys; what would be
work to another is simply so much in
tellectual play to her. Miss Quincy ekes
out a narrow and starved existence,
studying, into the night and clinging
wildly With her feeble hold, in deadly
fear that she may be forced to let go,
and dumbly determined that she will
never do it.
Tlie contrast Is complete, and the at
tachment taht grows up between the wo
men pathetic—only pathetic, until to
ward the end is shown how each has
contributed to the development of the
other. As could only be. Miss Vivian
has decidedly the better of it all the way
through; and the unfairness, the very
smallness and littleness of the existence
to which life has consigned Miss Quin
cy, fills us with an impotent raging
against the same old things we rage at
for first one experience and then an
other, and for which there is no mend
ing. nor even any hope of ever under
standing.
There could he but one ending, inevi
table and .predestined from the begin
ning of all m'istake and tanigledness of
life, and ns with Bastian and Rhoda wo
stand by poor little Miss Quincy's grave,
they "trying ndt to look too happy," we
find that we can > scarce smile at all at
thetr happiness, so numb is our heart
at the hardness and the injustice to that
other poor, cheated existence. In this
simple annal the author foreshadows the
strength of "The Divine Fire."
Edgar Saltus.
Tn a. recent survey o'f American litera
ture George Moore found only three com.
mendable writers—Poe. Wait Whitman
and Edgar Saltus. In praising Saltus he
remarked that he i snot now read. But it
would be difficult for Saltus to lie rend.
It Is not that the demand for his books
is lacking or that they are what is
termed out of print. Their publication
has been legally enjoined. Saltus is the
author of at least two dozen books. Of
these twenty were handled by a house
that failed. From the ruins a new com
pany emerged. Saltus objected to its
methods. He continued to object until
the court of appeals, in sustaining him,
restrained the company from further
publication of his wares. Then and since
other houses offered to take them over.
But Saltus, regarding the m as juvenila,
declined to allow them to reappear. That
is why he is not read. He is beginning
again, however, and the first of a series
of new novels has just been published
by the J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila
delphia. It is called “Vanity Square,"
and is a story of Fifth avenue lire.
Benson’s Latest Success.
According to The London Book Month
ly, "The Angel of Pain," by E'. F. Ben
son, was first on the list of best-selling
books in England during April.
In Canada it ranked high among the
most popular books for May. and in the
United States It also appeared on thtj list
of best sellers. The American publish
ers, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadel
phia, have on press a third edition of
this novel. .
John Calvin.
Professor Will 1st on Walker’s "John
Calvin," published by G. P. Putnam's
Sons, is abundantly justified in making
Its appearance. Among other justifica
tions there is this one: For well-nigh
fifty years no biography of this dougnty
organizer of reformed Protestantism has
appeared in English.
The a.ttitude of Protestants toward
Calvin has changed much In half a cen
tury: and documents discovered of recent
years afford the biographer some new
facts. On both these scores the volume
will be looked forward to with interest
as to the author's attitude toward his
sublet.
Professor Walker has not written as a
partisan, but tells his story in a calm
and objective fashion. The illustrations
fn his book are abundant, and have been
chosen 'With great care. They afford an
admirable pictorial setting to the life of
the subject of the biography.
' Earthquake Pictures.
“Glimpses of the San Francisco Disas
ter,” published by Laird & Lee, Chica
go, contains 116 half-tone reproductions
from original photographs, describing
graphically the scenes which followed
the havoc in the beautiful Golden Gate
City and tlie earthquake zone.
These vivid pictures, with the realistic
descriptions, constitute a complete and
accurate history of the great catastro
phe. Numerous general views of the
ruined city are given, both during tlie
progress of the conflagration and cio.-e
after the quake. Other cities in the
earthquake zone are Included—Oakland,
San Jose, Santa Rosa, Napa, Salinas, are
all represented in this collection, to
gether with many.views of the Leland
Stanford, Jr., university buildings, both
before and after the earthquake.
Citizenship and the Schools.
An interesting and sugestive book by
a widely known public man and scholar
is "Citizenship and the Schools," by
Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks, of Cor
nell, published by Henry Holl & Co.
Professor Jenks is already favorably
known as a frequent contributor on\
economic and political questions, and lias
been chosen by our government as an
expert investigator of trusts and adviser
to the department of labor, as well as
special investigator for the war depart
ment of currency, labor, taxes and po
lice in the Orient, while Mexico and
China were glad to have him reform
their currencies.
Throughout the new book runs the
thought of the possibility and desira
bility of combining with the practical
sense and dynamic vigor of the success
ful business man and politician the noble
ideas of the best civil life, and the au
thor insists upon the duty of making
real and vital to the child in the publfc
schools his obligation to the state, and
indicates how this can be done. His sub
jects include:
"The Social Basis or Education,”
"Training for Citizenship,’’ "Tlie Making
of Citizens," "Relation of Public Schools
to Business," “Education for Com
merce," "The Far East % " “Free Speech
in American Universities,” “A Critique
of Educational Values," “Policy of the
State Toward Education," "School Book
Legislation."
Magazine Melange.
Before you get through the first chap
ter of "The Life and Times of And’-«tv
Jackson," which appears In the July num
ber of Watson's Magazine, you feel that
not only do you know Jackson, his fam
ily and his anteccndants, but that you
are going to keep up the acquaintance,
though Jackson is just the kind of young
man elders and parents must have held
up as a sad example. "As you follow the
narrative of Andrew Jackson's care’-’-.”
says his new biographer, "you will hear
him say many things that you -do not
approve, will see him do many things
ivhieh you cannot applaud, but when vo.t
recall that at the very topnotch of hit
success and pride his heart stayed in the
right place—you will forgive him much tn
his life that was harsh and cruel and-
utterly wrong."
There Is no more delightful incident In
the life of that most delightful of men.
Robert Louis Stevenson, than the friend
ship beginning in his early days and
lasting all his life between Stevenson
and Jules Simoneau. keeper of a little
Bohemian restaurant in Monterey, Cal
M. Simoneau still lives in Monterey, his
greatest treasures being his memories of
Stevenson, and some precious letters and
a set of Stevenson’s works sent by the>
anithor. each volume having on the flv-
leay a typical inscription and autograph.
Julia Scott Vroomnn was fortunate
enough to gain from Simoneau his own
story of tlie days with Stevenson; and
her .record of the old man's reminis
cence s—adding a valuable chapter to
Stevensoniana—Is one of the features of
the July Century.
There Is a distinctly American tone to
tlie 'July number of The Reader, from the
red, white and blue cover to the hen
pecked husbandi joke on the last page.
Arthur Colton contributes the opening ar.
tieie. in which. under the title, "The
Country God Made.” he travels with pack
and Ataff through the land just over ho
Sierras, moralizing and philosophizing so
delightfully that a memory of Stevenson
is unavoidably awakened. The article,
styled a "travel essay,’’ is announced as
the first of a series by Mr. Colton. Bran-
dor Matthews contributes a discussion of
racial characteristics under the title.
"Americans and British.” In this paper
Professor Matthews approaches his sub
ject from a new angle, and In a semi-
serious, semi-humorous manner, tells
where the American differs 'from his
British cousin and why he should be
•proud of the difference. There is a dec
laration of independence air to this "pa
triotic contrast” that makes It peculiarly
timely. William Archer, probably the
greatest English authority on Henrik Ib-
s. n and his dramas, tells most intimately
and entertainingly of "Ibsen as I Knew
Him." The article was prepared several
months ago. with the understanding that
it be held until after. Ibsen's death. This
is a notable contribution and will prove
valuable to the many A |ei ican admir
ers of Ibsen.
One of the most important literary
events of the season is the beginning of
a new serial 'by Mary E. Wilkins I* ree-
man in Harper's Weekly. In "By the
Light of the Soul” 'Mrs. Freeman has
written what she believes to be her most
important work of fiction. She lias con
trived a plot of singular originality and
absorbing interest, and she develops it
with cumulative dramatic Intensity; yet
not content with this, she has made this
latest story of hors an engrossing and
poignant revelation of the growth of a
young girl’s soul. In the character of
the intensely emotional, sensitive, and
noble Marla Edghani, Mrs. Freeman has
drawn a jiersonality as lovable as It is
haunting and pathetic.
The truth about Dowie is told In a
feature art; -le in The Home Magazine
for July, It records the actual facts in
tlie rise and tall of John Alexander
Dowie and makes clear the cause which
gave this remarkable frenzied financier
and religious mountebank the mastery
over forty thousand people and twenty-
five million dollars. It tells how he
schemed like a conscienceless promotor,
played politics with the bosses, imposed
on the credulous like a vender of patent
medicines, built a city and took the deeds
in his own name; displayed the organiz
ing ability of a Rockefeller, a Gates or
a Morgan, and love of the spectacular of
a P. T. Barnum, and how he finally fell
into disrepute when the love of gold
overw.hielmed him and carried him into
excesses for which he has rightfully been
condemned. The author of the article
is Mr. James Osman, who lived in Zion
City, where he ferreted out the truth
about Dowie. The article is elaborately
illustrated.
and possible remedies or certain prcs’cnt
day conditions, such as pauperism, suf
frage, immigration, taxation and party
politics. His book apptared serially, dur
ing the pist winter, in The Springfield
Republican, where it attracted wide at
tention.
The World's Work for July is the an
nual uplift number which makes an ade
quate measure of the country's moral,
artistic and educational advance, for in
spite of adverse criticism there has been
great progress.
Tlie July Country Life in America Is
essentially a midsummer number. The
author of -Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, tells us about
tier home in Kent and "An American
Author's English Ha-Ha.” We learn of
a "Swimming Pool at Cornish"' that is
both 'practical and ornamental, through
Frances Duncan. "Some Secrets of Lawn
Tennis Skill," by J. Parnily Paret, is re
markable for the 'picture of Fred Alex
ander volleying at the net. I>r. James
A. Henshall describes for us "The Gray
ling: The Lauy of the Streams" in his
usual entertaining manner. "Cruising on
the Maine Coas.," toy William Lamoert
Barnard, gives a practical description of
how to go a.oout suc'n a cruise.
Publication Notes.
Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. have
in press a new book by Charles F. Dole,
entitled "The Spirit of Democracy, ’
which critics have pronounced one of the
clearest and most searching studies of
popular government that has ever been
presented. Mr. Dole’s attitude is that of
an impartial analyist in search of causes
Edwin Markham and Florence Morse
Kingsley are near neighbors and friends;
in fact, Mrs. Kingsley's last novel, "The
Resurrection of -viiss Cynthia," is dedi
cated to him. This novel and its im
mediate predecessor, "The Transfigura
tion of Miss Ph'lura,” develop her new
and hopeful philosophy of "the infinite
supply."
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Gearge Barr McCutcheon, with his
wife, sailed from New York on June I
for an extended European trip. His new
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Miss Carolyn Wells sailed for Europe
on June 7. This is Miss Wells' first Eu
ropean trip. The latent book from Miss
Wells' pen is the very amusing "Ru
baiyat of a Motor Car, published this
spring by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
The story of life in college circles is
admiragly told by an anonymous writer in
the entertalnifg novel entitled "In the
House of Her Friends," Just issued by
Robert Grier Cooke, Inc., New York. This
book is one of the most thoroughly well-
written volumes of fiction, especially
strong in Us subtle delineations of cnar-
acter, skillfully achieved by a masterly
hand that is guided by the power to
assume different points of view.
THINK OF IT!
Tales was a year old in May. Devoted
entirely to translations of stories from
foreign languages, this unique monthly
published In its first year 198 stories,
translated from fourteen languages, rep
resenting seventeen distinct nations and
literatures. Tlie year included these trans
lations; French 64, German 46, Russian
21, Italian 19. Spanish 10, Hungarian 6,
Danish 5. Swedish. Norwegian, Dutch.
3 each; Polish 2, Persian, Turkish, Jap
anese, I each. Fourteen of the stories
were novels of book length.
A Ilttlp book, light as a bubble and
easily read at a. sitting, comes from Miss
Alice Brown, .which will Inveigle the
reader by- i-ts title, and capture him by
its interest and attractive appearance.
The Court of Love” (Houghton Mifilin
& Co.) is irresistible In its comedy,
laughable in Its absurd situations, and
kindly in its attitude toward modern life.
There is, of course, a lovely girl, and it
is her peculiar whims and fancies that
lead to the curious entanglements which
concern all the characters, to say noth
ing of tile reader.
This bit of fun and humor is a distinct
departure from Miss Brown's stories c<
New England life, and partakes more of
the character of a Howells farce.
“Prehistoric North America" is the title
of the volume by Professors W. J. Mc
Gee and Cyrus Thomas shortly to appear
in the series of The History of North
America, published by Barrie & Sons, of
Philadelphia. Little need be said on the
score of the authors' special prepared
ness for the work. Their eminent labors
In the field of anthropology a nd ethnolo
gy have equipped them .with an almost
unapproachable intimacy with the sub
ject. It is natural, therefore, that the
publication of their magnum opus is
awaited by scholars -with enthusiastic
interest. This volume will give the gen
eral reader access to som P of the most
fascinating rexsords of our oon/tlnent.
Hitherto no such work has appeared, in
deed has not bee npossible; for adequate
records were not available until the com
pletion of recent explorations, which has
been awaited in order to enable the au
thors to complete their study in such a
degree as to furnish the story of the an.
clent peoples and civilizations of North
America.
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Continued from Second Rage
and which might now, in 1863 be most
aptly placed in the mouth of some north
ern patriot.
In 1776 America declared its independ
ence of Great Britain, and in 1777 an ad
dress of congratulation was brought up
in the house of lords and intended to be
presented to hi s majesty upon the prog
ress of the war, and to show how ready
the people of England were to back up,
and on the occasion Bord Chatham,
though infirm, went down to the house
and said: “Let us open our eyes to the
disaster which threatens us. The people
whom we lately spurned as rebels is now
our avowed enemy. We have not to wage
war against bandits and against bri
gands, but against undaunted and vir
tuous patriots. You cannot make them
respect you. You call them rebels. What
are they rebels for? Surely not for de
fending their unquestionable right. Your
trade . languishes. your taxes increase,
your revenues diminish; gold at this mo
ment is at forty-two premium. And
why? Because you wish to continue this
cruel, vindictive and self-destroying war.
Their subjection is not to be acquired
by force of arms; their affection may be
acquired by reconciliation and justice. ’
(Cheers.) These very words, continued
Sir Robert Peel—and they were spoken in
1777 by Lord Chatham—were applicable
to the war in America at the present mo
ment. He believed, as he had said, that
emancipation was more’ iikely to follow
separation than union, and he should, as
a member of parliament, be glad to be
able to look back to 1863, and say that
he belonged to a government, headed by
a man who was the most popular states
man that ever ruled the destinies of Eng-
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land, which, by acknowledging the in
dependence of the south, led also to the
emancipation of the slave. (Cheers.)
RECRUITING IN THE NORTH.
The Now York Herald published the
fclowing article, in 1864, oil how the
yar'kee army was recruited:
“When the facts in regard to the mode
of procuring volunteers, white and color
ed. in this city and the country districts,
arc made known the public will be forced
ti recognize a picture sedie which all
that Clarkson and Wiltoerforce once de
claimed about the horrors of tlie slave
trade will toe forgotten. 'Hocussing,' or
the administration of drinks containing
narcotic poison, has been for months one
of the ordinary methods of promoting en
listments. False representations of every
variety have also been in use, and in
many cases the recruits have been com-
jalled to swear in under threats of physi
cal violence in case of refusal.
“Nor is this the worst. Between the
volunteer brokers and certain of the au
thorities there is at least prima Tacie
evidence of something like complicity in
a scheme of fraud, tlie most cruel, ruth
less and gigantic that modern days have
will essed. In almost every street of our
city, parents are lameting the enlistment
of their liaDless sons, mere boys, be
tween fourteen and seventeen years of
age, wtho have been made drunk and then
enlisted and robbed of every dollar of
tbeir bounty.
"Cases are on record in which old,
gray-headed men, tottering on the verge
of the grave, have been carried, while
intoxicated, to a barber's shop, their hair
dyed, their general appearance spruced
tup with some semblance of fictitious ju
venility, and then enlisted, their bounty
money being the reward of the patriots
engaged in this honorable business. Crip
ples. with ruptures. hernia, varicose
veins, pulmonary diseases, broken iegs,
broken arms, toothless, deaf, half silght-
less, hunchback. wry necked, half
fingerless. doseropit and idiotic, have been
received into the service of the United
States In certain of the rural districts,
the brokers in these cases seldom giving
their victims more than $20 or $30 out
of $300 to $500 which they have received
for th'm through tho criminal negligence
of the town or local authorities.
INSTANT RELIEF
FROM CATARRH.
ON KINDNESS TO WOUNDED.
A southern war paper gave out to its*
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“The papers of the north are filled with
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their kindness to our wounded. The fol
lowing is a sample of that kindness, from
the note, book of a lately exchanged sur
geon. An order has been given to the
sentinels at Fort Delaware to fire into
any room occupied by confederates when
a light or fire would be fou.nd burning
after 9 o'clock p. m. One of the men.
ignorant of this order—for it had never
been published to the prisoners—raked up
tho coals in the fireplace after the hour
named, and placed a piece of bacon on
them to broil. The sentinel hearing the
noise of the bacon frittering on the fire
leveled his musket and shot the poor fel
low through the head, driving his brains
out against the sides of the room. All
the surgeons and men imprisoned at For;
Delaware at the time can testify to the
truth of the facts of this murder."
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THE KEEFER OF THE INN.
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just going out with it."
"Give it to me," commanded McKer-
gow.
"I'm posting it, you fool. I tell j-ou!”
reiterated Marker.
“I'm fighting," said McKergow simply.
"Read;’?"
"Quite." sneered Harker, and the next
moment the blood was running from
McKergow's face—Harker’s ring.
No man could hav P stood against Mc
Kergow then, after his lonely walk, and
the mastering thought, and the blow to
crown all. He struck twice, blindly and
fiercely and hard. Harker fell.
McKergow knelt down and went sys
tematically' through his pockets in the
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dark fill his fingers closed upon the let
ter. He stood upright, and his only
thought was that the dark was getting
irksome. Then there was a blinding
light behind him; the room sprang sud
denly to day, and ho turned to M’sku
Bouvard in the doorway, a lighted lamp
in his hand.
The landlord put the lamp on the
table, slowly and carefully as usual,
shifting it to its accumtomed place. Not
till then did he kneel down. Harker’s
head had struck the open hearthstone.
"He’s dead," said M'sieu Bouvard
calmly.
'“Yes,” said McKergow wearily. “What
are you going to do?"
"Bury him,” said Bouvard quietly, and
it woke McKergow up.
"What's that?" he shouted, in a
whirl.
"Look you,” said Bouvard. “He's
dead, Mon.-ier McKergow. He's dead,
the pig. He did not know me, but I
knew him at once. When I was at Au-
ray, years ago, he stayed with nie. There
was something with my daughter, Mon
sieur, my daughter Anna, whom you
have never seen, and afterwards * • »
he went away in the night and never
wrote to her. It killed my wife * * *
and my daughter walks in Paris. Who
knows him?—he had no friends. We
will bury' him. you and I. He has gone
away in th e night again, to wander
somewhere else. I had a score witli him
that you have paid, and we are alone in
the house, we two. * * * * » *
So McKergow went home. The past
is no trouble to him, for he believed him
self justified and that night he dropped
the past (behind him altogether. The
rest is in the garden of the Hotel de
l’Europe. and with M’sleu Bouvard, who
nightly prays tor a sinning daughter, for
McKergow (though he does not need it)
and for the everlasting peace of his dead
wife. And sometimes, though this Is
seldom, he adds a very little prayer for
the peace of Barker's soul.
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