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FKOM THE DIARY OF INSPECTOR BYRNES.
By JULIAN HAWTHORNE, Author of
“The Great Bank Robbery,'’ “An
American Penman,” Eto.
iCopyright by O. XL Dunham, and published,
through special arrangement by tha American
Press Association with CasseR & Ca, New York
and London.]
CHAPTER XVI.
A STRANGE WOOING.
V HE judge , puBec ...
off his shoes and
stockings and
S
and tugging fulled
manfully,
the boat tTrender up liicrh
Wr m twtrSort enough
^to transport the uie
nit ^ ^ladies shore. len he took Mrs to in the No- his
arms and set
down on the
beach; then he
turned to do the like service for Pauline,
and his heart beat at the thought of
having her for a moment so near him.
But ns she stood poising herself in the
bows, light, beautiful anil agile, he per¬
ceived that she meant to make a leap of
it, and. Indeed, tho distance was proba¬
bly not beyond her powers. She glanced
at him at that juncture, and could not
have failed to notice the sudden faltering
of his expression from its previous joy*
ful expectation; she hesitated, and then,
with a faint blush, held out her arms,
saying: “After all, perhaps you had bet
ter take me.”
The judge could not speak; the revul
sion was too sudden. She had never be
foie done anything which seemed so sig
nificant, and as lie received her on his
sturdy shoulder he experienced a happi
pess more poignant than lie had ever
known. Tho action lasted but for an in¬
stant, but the effect was by no means so
transient; on the contrary, it kept glow¬
ing and increasing in his soul, and quite
illuminated his whole aspect. Pauline,
too, was in an unusual mood; she seemed
softer and more accessible than was
usual with her. The tears which she
had lately shed had brought all the
woman in her to the surface. There
were tones in her voice that thrilled to
tho judge’s heart like exquisite music.
The memory of her brother had done
her lover good service. shade
A spot was selected under the
of a cedar, with clean white sand under¬
neath. Here Mrs. Nolan was established
with her cushions, and the cloth was
spread for lunch. Tho basket was un¬
packed, tho plates and knives and forks
arranged, and the good things set but out.
They had brought a jug of water, it
had become so warm as to be unpalat¬
able; so the judge proposed that they
should go and find a spring; there was
sure to bo ono not far off. Pauline
assented and they started, leaving Mrs.
Nolan beneath the cedar.
‘1 did not know whether to bo glad or
sorry that 1 was the means of bringing
that strange message to you,” said the
judge, when they were out of earshot
“And yet I could not help thinking that
tberc must have been some providential
design in the matter. It was as if Percy
had appointed me his messenger to you.”
“Oh, lam giad—I am only glad!” re
joined Pauline musingly, with her eyes
downcast. “It puts my doubts at rest'.
All tliis time 1 could not realize that ho
was gone. I knew it, of course; but it
liad not been brought home to me. Now
I can feel that all is well with him. I
ani glad It came.”
“It seems a pity that so much of tho
message should he illegible,” remarked
tho judge. “It would have been well to
know for a certainty that it camo from
Percy's own hand.”
“Perhaps it will become more legible
wlien tho wood is dried. But I should
not care if it turned out to have been
written by somo ono else. It is from
Percy’s ship—the Amazon—and in that
case it is from him.”
“I am a little surprised," said the
judge, after a pause, “that Sir. Martin
lias not written us somo of the details of
the affair. Ho can hardly have failed to
understand that any information, how
ever slight, would have been precious to
you. You have not heard from him,
have you?” right. lie
“No, and I think you are
should havo written. But I can imagine
•why ho has not. It was his suggestion
that Percy should leavo New York. He
urged him to go with him; ho took that
responsibility. Tho least ho could do was
to guard him from harm. When that
storm came he should not have let him
go out of his sight. But, instead, lie let
him be drowned. I can understand why
he lias not written to me—ho would not
dare!"
She said this with a passionate em
phasis. Tho judge was secretly con
scious of a feeling of relief, but his sense
of rectitude compelled him to say; “It
M ould not lx; just, I think, to charge Mr.
Martin with being accountable for Per
cv’s death."
“Perhaps it is not logically just; but
that is the way I feel,” was her reply.
By tliis time they had reached the
spring, which trickled out of asand bluff
a few feet above high water mark, and
filled a barrel that had been sunk in tho
sand below. The judge knelt down and
plunged the jug into tho cool water,
which gurgled into it with a refreshing
soumL Pauline stood, with her hands
hanging folded, looking down on him.
The blue sea, tho sunshine, the warmth
were inexpressibly soothing.
“How pleasant it is here,” she- said.
The judge rose, with the jug in his
band. A moment before hc had not
raeant to speak so soon; but now tho
words seemed to break from him invol
uaUrUv.
eyes met. Sho was startled, and the ex¬
pression of her face at first seemed to
indicate refusal. But after a few mo¬
ments the softer look returned to it,
mingled with sadness.
“Would that be best?” she asked.
muSecpf . _ . .
who who must decide. I Ihavo havo loved loved you you ever e er
since you were a httlo girl.
“Does my mother know of this?
“Yes, since last year; and she lias bid
den me Godspeed. But I do not wish
f°r U ^ir^elf Twice 0
more‘but am vour
rears V and nii in my love for you
V 1 qhoTfood iv.- silent and «ilntl fimT nlwnv* wIdfo ho ”
She stood silent foi a v, ul. * She I1(? was ‘
evidently touched by his words, and by
the manly generosity of ,» appeal; but
something was yet wanting to give t ie
final conviction to her heart, and she
>o nio to herself to commit herself
“Thrrcis no man livin- for whom I
care s0 much as for you,” she said at
lpmrtli Sg • “hut I h*ivp never tlmmrht H of
can ng for for > vou ou in > n that bat wav w ay 1 have do dc
St^wL to be j our wife. . . . OlTv« Oh, you must
givojpo tupej. I.do not .know wlist 1
think', of Tea W Tansar nol be in
doubt-I will give you an answer soon,
It seems to me that if I could love you
as you wish it would bo a fortunate thing
for me—fortunate that a man like you
should wish to marry such a girl as 1
am. But give mo till to-morrow.”
“As long as you need,’ answered the
judge, huskily. “It is my duty and my
happiness to wait for you and upon you
as Jong as Hive.”
”he breeze fell again during the after
neon, and iliey delayed their starting in
expectation of a change later on. The
result justified their forecast, for as tho
moon appeared above the eastern horizon
clouds began to gather in the west,
and the tops of the trees waved and mur
mured. The direction of the wind was
such that, after leaving tho island, they
could make a nearly straight run for
home, keeping the boom over the port
quarter. In setting out a long tongue of
] and extending on the southeast broke
the sweep of tho wind, and made it seem
much lighter than it really was. The
water was smooth and the impulse just
sufficient to mako them glide along rap¬
idly. But tho moment tho point of tho
cape was passed tho sudden increase in
tho violence of tho wind fairly startled
them. Tho judge, who was at the helm,
made the mistake of supposing that it
was a gust or temporary squall only, and
therefore did not put back into tho
smooth water and double reef his sail,
as he should have done.
By tho time he had discovered that the
wind had come to stay, they were too far
on their courso to make a return advis¬
able. To have done so would have in
voiced beating up almost in tho teeth of
the gale, which would not only have
been a long job, but ono which the height
of the waves would have rendered dan¬
gerous. To keep on, on tho other hand,
seemed comparatively easy, tho w-ind
being nearly fair, yet not so much so ns
to involve the peril of jibing; tho dis
( anC G, moreover, was not very great, and
the boat, though heavily laden, was
going fast- Accordingly tho judge
grasped the tiller firmly, and kept her
headed so as to pass tho lighthouso a
CO uplo of points to the northwestward.
The three occupants of tho little craft
wer0 ad seated, of course, close up on
the weather side, the spread of sail hav
; n g a tendency to bear her down to lec
ward . The judge sat next tho stern;
Pauline was close to him, and Mrs. Nolen
was nox t to Pauline, her feet being sup
ported against tho sheath of the center
board. Butastliey sped along the waves
ran Jfigher and higher, and began at
length to dash over tho weather gun
■ wrd0i wetting Pauline’s back and shoul
dcrSi and running down into the well.
The effect of this, after it had con
tinuod for a while, was inevitably to
make the boat sit lower in the water and
thus offer less opposition to tho inroads
of tho seas; and it was evident that an
e ff or t must bo made to bail her out.
There was a tin dipper in the locker
not w jthout difficulty the judge suc
ccodf . d ; n getting this out, and, stooping
downi endeavored to bail with his right
hand, while handling tho tiller with his
’ impossible hold tho
] cdt , But it was to
boa t to her course with one hand in
guck a seai and a fter a minute Pauline
took tbo dipper and Intimated that she
wou i d attend to that part of tho work,
gj le bailed rapidly and steadily and
threw out a largo amount of water, but
d)0 wave s continued to rise and overlap
dl0 gunwale, so that she was unable to
keep pace with tho influx, and tho boat
set t] ed so ] ow that ever and anon a wave
would wash in to leeward. Tliis was a
scr j OU3 matter; it meant tliat swamping
u . as n0 (; f ar c (j ; and with tho extra
ballast on board sho would go tho bottom
ij ke a stone. And if sho did. nothing
was moro certain than that they would
| )C droV vned. It would bo impossible for
0 ven the strongest swimmer to reach the
B j loro on BUC h a night,
yf,- 3 Nolen, after expressing, in the
.
subdued manner characteristic of her In
a }[ circumstances, her horror and despair
a { tho situation—the real gravity of
which she was, however, probably far
f rom recognizing—had relapsed into a
Bort 0 f lethargic stato, half reclining on
t }, e narrow seat, motionless, and seem¬
ingly unconscious of the water that was
dashing over her. This passive attitude
wa3 doubtless the best for all concerned
d iat sho could possibly have assumed,
The judgo perhaps suffered more than
anv 0 f the party; for he felt himself
nnimlv- responsible for the affair, and tho
Jdea of death stepping between him and
Pauline at such a juncture was almost
more than ho could boar. Pauline, alone,
was apparently perfectly cheerful and
composed. She even felt a pleasant cx
hilaration in tho face of the imminent
danger. The exertion of bailing liad put
her in a warm glow from head to foot;
and though 6he saw that her labor was in
effectual she maintained it with unfalter
i ng resolution. They were now within a
mile of the light house,and as soon as they
Daasetf under.thc ife-.oLB.tliPS oe
tszasr “ “T 1»dd«L?u^ C 5
leeward, throwing the girl forward on
her knees m the bottom of tho boat,
The judge reached out quickly to save
li0r lrom s ° ins ovcrboard i »»» dotog so,
tJio tiii(jr was thrust over; tho boat camo
directly before tho wind, tho sail jibed,
an d the boom, as it swung to starboard,
t rnck t p 0 judge on tho head, and
knQckcJ him fato tha water . At the
sam0 moment a wavo catno ovor 4ho
stern and deluged the seat room. Tho
end seemed to be at hand.
But Paulino was not a woman to bo
vanquished without a struggle. As she
^ \.J an d seized tho tiller, her
ind fcctly clear as to what
s p ould bo done. Tho boat had already
faJJeu p(f aud wag broadside to the
wifld; s!l0 put down the he lm, and
brought her up in the wind’s eye, rap
^ haulingAni tho.sheet m *odideo,
giving it u turn round t c eat.
Thcu sho bent her e ' aK0 0U th ° dark C01 "
fusion of watera in wliich tho judgo had
it was ten to one that , ho , had , ,, been car
rIed t0 leeward and out of reach. But
one circumstance, of which Paulino was
not aware, operated in her favor. There
was a Btron g tido running out against
tho wind; and whcn tho j udgor oselus
; icad appeared within a foot of where
p a uline sat. Sho stretched over toward
him, grasped him by tho sleeve of tho
coat and drew him toward her. Though
half stunned by tho blow ho had re
cc ived, ho managed to get his arm over
tho gunwale, and, a wavocomingto Ins
assistance, ho half scrambled, half was
thrown into tho bottom of the boat,
Once ther e. Ills rema ining strength for
mo did not attempt to relieve lum; s o
had her hands full of other matters. The
boat was almost in a sinkuig state, and
.hoy w,r. stili ,»»„ tan hn« . mil.
fron-pore.
Sh«- watched her chance Needfully to
come about, for to ship another wavo
like tho last ono might bo fatal. Tho
boat obeyed her helm promptly, and set
off with a plunge and a roU towards her
destination. During tho pause she had
drifted some distance to looward, so tliat
she was now sailing with the wind very
nearly behind her and tho boom far out;
aud although tliis involved some danger
of jibing again, it diminished tho risk of
taking in water over the quarter, and
was in so far an advantage. Paulino’s
utmost strength was required to hold the
tiller, which struggled with her like a
wild creature fighting to get loose; yet
she was compelled to keep ono hand upon
the sheet likewise, which might at any
moment need hauling in. Tho strain
upon her nerves and muscles was terri
ble, but she clenched her teeth and held
on; in courage and spirit, at least, she
was equal to the occasion. Once in a
while sho threw a hasty glance into tho
body of the boat. Mrs. Nolen had slip
ped down from her seat and bad man
aged to draw tho judge’s head and
shoulders “If I on them,” her lap. said Paulino to her
savo
self, “I will accept it as a sign.”
As she spoke tho boat gave a le»p and
was suddenly in smooth wator. Tho sail
barely swelled to tho hroozo. The change
was so sudden that it seemed miraculous.
They had passed under tho lee of the
lighthouse, but that appeared inadequate
to account for so abrupt and great an
alteration. Indeed, Pauline always be
lieved and declared afterwards that the
galo had actually ceased, without visible
causc, in a moment of time. The boat
slipped sluggishly through the water on
an even keek There was scarcely air
enough to carry bar to her moorings in
tho little covo.
“Well, then, I will bo his wife,” said
Pauline to herself, as they touched the
pier; “aud I think I love him now!”
CHAPTER rV’IL
A hunter’s yarn.
o steam ingin N a warm October sh i p oven- Pil¬ tho
grim, of the New
V'A Itiver Y ork and lino, Fall had
i Uf ’ 4 4o4t bor dock
jj place at tho and former was on
jj? sountb her way A up rather the
r» stout but actively
mado man, with
curly red hair
IA 1* ’#
•_»&..« ’
da P rommen4 . r a y
Jv eyes, mounted
the gangway from below, and stood near
the door of the saloon. lie had just
taken a cigar from his waistcoat pocket,
and was in tho act of cutting off the end
of it wit!,his I«“knifo.when a bill per
sonago with bony 4ta4uro9 an(1 a tbm
neck camo in through tbo door ami con
fronted him. lie was about to pass on,
bnt, at a secondglanco, stoppedand said,
as if to himself;
“Henry Clifton."
Tho red haired man turned sharply.
“Bob Stapleton, by jingo!” he exclaimed.
They shook hands, evidently pleased
at tho encounter, eyeing each other ail
over, as if to make sure tliat no part of
either was missing.
“Well, and wliat have you been doing
with yourself these three years past/
inquired he of tho red hair, who an
swered to tho n;imo of Clifton. “Let’s
see; it was in Liverpool I saw you last,
wasn't it? You were after that forging
gang.” ’em,” responded the
“Yes, and I got
other, who had been addressed as Bob
Stapleton. “It was a good job; I vc had
nothing better since. But what brings
you over here?"
“Oh, a private affair—something par
ticularly choice," replied Clifton, sticking
his cigar in his mouth. All expenses
paid and twenty pound a month. ’
*‘IIuIlo! That*a not bad. A hundred
dollars and expenses. What Is it? Is
Scotland Yard after the Fenians again?"
. “No. no., i^PJt’t^lpng^to^thsliard
?" any n more; {< ct J aoing “ -bam^r fp“^ no^on Zulu my
5 ^re«s-s : ,
70 |-"% A^obberyf;
“No; no such common business. A lost
heir!
A lost heir? That sounds ^ good! Como,
we’ve got the evening before us; suppose
you spin the yarn.
“Humph! I’in not so euro about that,
returned Clifton, scratching lus whiskers
thoughtfully. “This isn’t the sort of
story that one tells to everybody. How
®, vcr ’” added, “you re not everybody,
thoughi1 suppose ]you tions ider
somebody, at all e e to, y P
to keep it dark I fancy I can trust you.
But let s go into some quiet coiner—as
it’s a warm evening, suppose we sit out
side, where we can smoke. I have cigars
enough, and this yarn will probably last
out more than one of them.”
As they passed out of the door, a
gentleman who had been sitting in a
chair not far o!L wUli hU
j *
mgl> ’ b f n asIce P’ ^, qU ‘f ly s
seat and proceeded to tho door of a state
room a little way forward of the paddle
box. He entered tho room and locked
the door after him; then ho breathed «
sigh of relief, no took off his hat and
looked at his reflection in the mirror.
It showed tlio countenance of a man be
tween 20 and 30 years of age-perhaps
nearer tho latter ago than tho former—
the lower part of which was thickly
covered with a brown beard, cropped
short at tho sides and round tho throat,
but allowed to grow to a point on the
chin. Tho forehead, cheeks and nose
were deeply bronzed by tho sungiving
a peculiar appearance to a pair of hand
some blue eyes. The hair was cut short;
any one would have taken the head for
Tbis idea would
have man put boon across confirmed lus nose when a pair tho of gently tinted
eyeglasses, mounted m gold, lie ro
hta.ll ciltaUy.
“Yes,' ho muttered, in tho undertone
which people use when conversing with
themselves, “it s a good get up, consider
ing the simplicity of tho materials. No
one can say I am disguising myself; and
yet I doubt if my own mothcr-Goil
bless her!—would recognizo mo at tho
first glance, though my sister might. I
must have been intended by nature for
an actor; my features lend themselves so
re adily to a disguise. At ono time I am
an American; then nn Englishman; now
a Frenchman; to-morrow I may attempt
a Turk or a Russian. But what an ox
traordinary pieco of bad luck that that
fellow Clifton should be on this steamer!
Does hc know that I am on board?
Hardly, And yet, what is he boro for?
R must been that same business; and
i n that business I am concerned, how
ever unwillingly. Perhaps ho has come
to look up my record. Confound him,
why can’t ho lot mo alonel I shall have
a hard enough time of it without him.
of courso he will go straight to Inspector
Byrnes, and when tho inspector finds out
tliat I am not-what’s that?”
in order to answer this question, K
must bo observed that the state room
occupied by tho bearded gentleman was
W1 “outside” one; its window opene.1 on
tho water, or rather on a narrow strip
0 f deck which intervened between tho
nd i and the wall of tho stato room itself.
This strip of deck was just wide enough
to admit of a person sitting there, with
his shoulders against tho wall and his
feet on the rail—an attitude said to bo a
favorite ono with Americans, and which
any person who has studied the circula
tion of tho blood and its action on tho
brain will gladly put himself Into. The
window, it should ho added, was pro
tooted by a wroden blind with fino slats,
not noticeable from without.
The noise which had caused tho
hoarded gentleman to break olf so ab¬
ruptly in his monologue had been caused
hy tho advent of two persons with camp
stools to tho apparently secure already retreat
which the narrow strip) of deck
alluded to afforded, Having established
themselves there to their satisfaction,
and lit their cigars, they began to talk in
a low tono. But although tho blind of
the bearded gentleman’s stateroom was
s ] iu t i the window itself was open; and as
lie had reason to supposo that tho con
rersation was going to bo of particular
importance to himself ho took caro to
leavo tho window as it was, and even to
g jt down beside it. As the reader will
already have surmised, tho speakers were
the two gentlemen to whom wo have al
rea dy been introduced—Henry Clifton
and Bob Stapleton.
“You went first to New Zealand, eh?”
your man—Valentino do you call lum?—
to be there?”
“Ho was tho second son, don’t you sec?
an d consequently, after he'd run through
tho ni0I , L . y his father gave him, ho had
otdy p,jto fall hack on. So ho
started for Now Zealand tornako his fort
uno nt sheep farming When I got
there ho had been gone tho better part
0 f a year or morc . The sheep farming
|, a d not turned out very well, but he
Pad got a sum of money somehow, and
Pud gone off to enjoy it; whether he
would come back again, and where he
p a q gono, no ono could tell me. You
may bo sure that if ho had known that
hi s elder brother was going to die, and
[ et pp n j nto f u |i fx^asossion of an estate
wortli three-quarters of a million of dol
lars, he would have left Ida address."
“It's a most curious thing,” observed
yj r _ Stapleton, philosophically, “how
some men will run after a good thing all
their lives and never catch it, and an
other man will run away from a good
,pp lg ad ppj pf c> and nc ver let it cutch
him.”
“Well, as I was saying," Mr. Clifton
continued, “this 5Ir. Valentine—as I call
pj^j—had left for parts unknown, and
my business was to find out where that
was. I thought it all over, and made up
my mjru i tliat America was about the
mMt Hkdy place, for ho wouldn’t be
]j kc ,] y to go back te England, and, Is-irig
of a roving disposition, and never hav
Ing visited the States, tliat was naturally
t p e first place he’d think of. And when
a goes to America he’s pretty cc-r
tain sooner or later .tQ_fc:tch. 5 k u; Nsw
^ ^ w in ^ w - Tork t1mt t
figured I should find him. But before 1
^ ^ wheth / r my n f an wft3
tbera Sending telegrams half round
earth costsmonev ’ Bob-but it doesn’t
^ ite M much a3 to g 0 your80 i f> U
, . . , , , , .>
1
.‘However, expenses being paid,” said
“Th a t’s all very well, but parties cm
J>f rlo ^gir ,,n , on o lito to have a good account
money; and a good recommenda
tion is sometimes worth more than cash
in hand. Well, I didn’t look for an an
Bwer insido of a weok or ten days; but
f or t v -eiicrbfc ,* hours after I had * sent otT the
^ t “id thatfobelimcdl of hotel came
m 0 .md f rao
\Zt fo M Valent no and that
“CSa^met aman had a-rired from
a party going bv that name
in Mexico some six weeks before, and he
thought likely he’d bo there vet. I told
him to bring tho man around, and I10
camo and 1 had a talk with him.
^VuTmy „ H b d Valentine ’that. sure enough; &
j } mindaa to Ho
, IlTl , • ns could bo- for
neverseem hhiimvselfl
T ‘ and a nhotr-r.anl. taken four
Valentino .... ( - lv0 v l ra i^f orc The fellow said tint
had come to Mexico i fimi New
st'Thomas „ cl i bi , r d
-uni a friend of his—I’ll
‘ ,, . ‘ lvrcv—was drowned ia tho
-
„
„ Y „ hhn Pl , f do ou? -. in .
rpoBod ‘ Mr ’ Stapleton ^ “and ho was
d wned , n tho hurrica no?
AnQ wba( . mi ht hla othcr nMao b 0 ->»
. Tiu not giving ; names: I’m telling you
, ,. . M ( a if , ,.„ r ilv
* Inind| ’ that’s all; and a .-ojotned mighty
t telling,”
,, n/T ,.,, K . „ So Z £32 Valentino
. . , ,
‘ ‘.‘w e nj l0 Ti brought some letters, so It
Bcpaia ,...... 11 rot i i ing n 1 o it I
’ ‘ '
ani 801,10 0 Kl s"i s, in * 1 '
e T m 0 in > ,uu 1 i eal wa » rC0UI ll !' ^ ‘ d ”‘ f i tM< " ft I .','
. ...
Cl>,llL 0 st nn ! ® ^ 1
, B ? o B P 0 f l
’
_
b ^ ,u ’ talk ."I!". "8 tl abo ,° «‘ n ,"° n line8i ! P ’ l Si .TJ
ia !° B |tNU i!1 , 1 , m a ‘ * 11 '
’
sent urn off up to a place called I aclm
ca, about sixty or seventy m,les north of
10 CI o inouu< .1 ><>u t 10
know . »moUiing ol mining it ap
I™rs-and examined the mines that
wero w orking, and some others t at had
> 0 ™ given up; and at last ho fixed on a
0 K 1 ' 00 "' '' 11 u> are wash any
' ,uno [^ a ,; but 1,0 took a fal J t y ° 4
for 1 that aad wont back .
a - ’
800 nh 0114 8° ttin 8 possess 1011 ol n a
.
managed things very cleverly, and got
41,0 swells interested, and nrndo tit t it t
1,0 wantl f 0 let 4bo “ int °, a 8°° d tlun ?:
an(1 , w ° ulJ bo 8a tisfied with t a very small
share himaclf, and wouH tako a tu
rout.le of looking after the business off
tbpb ian<!a blto tbo bar K abl - * ° b 1
dlJ 1,0 do but ra 80 a company, and tbo
company raised , a capital you low
how those things are workod and they
fllod tlu 'T clai,n 1 10 Hind, and np
| lolntc ‘ hlm ,llana K er > IuuI 11)0 ,ltHt tost8
ho made showed a bigger percentage of
s'ber than uid been known a mt
ncighhorhood for a hundred yeais.
brought me; U ,1 ho I > said l0 | i ,K) all n Mexico \r ni f. n wm .! >l a c
mg of it, mid that Mr. alentine h pic c
tnffS ’ t,l0U K h tb °y might io sum , coni
pmatively speaking, wore like y o s and
b, "i m a cool hundred thousand do a in
a >' aar ’ "Inch is enough to keej^g
00 410 l )arl8 “
" ' ' '• 1 ' I' 'Old Clink it
I, II. ' ^HH||||g| 1 Jg|||!|£H|
' ' n ’ -i; m v
i i n <
no |.-( and
Midden, for no rea mi 11 ml. < ver
can find out, his brother dies and lcaWi
him a million in England, and lie goes
to Mexico and collars a mlno worth a
hundred thousand a year. Iho million
ain’t enough, and tbo inino ain’t enough;
lie must have’em both; that's tho way
of tbo world every time!”
Mr. Clifton accepted this statement
without comment and went on with hla
story,
“As you may suppose, I lost no limo
In packing my grip for Mexico, and I got
there in duo season and without accident,
4 put up at tho beat hotel, ns Is always
"G, wa 3b f " r i4 com4 « no Il,oro ,| n 4ho tod -
.
„ u j 0 t, off hand wav; and I had no diffl
eulty at all in hearing all I wanted. Mr.
Valentine was there; nobody could speak
too well of him; he won hand in glove
with tho president, and ho was at that
moment out in Pachura, BUi*:rlntendij)g
4bl) l mt,ill K ’.T of 41,0 n ow machinery In
.
hinl Kl , t! „. m;st morning, at 0 o’clock,
I took tho train at Buena vista station
to Omcltusco, and then by diligcnco and
horse car to dead Fachuca, which I reached full at of
sundown, tired, and chock disagreeable,
dust, shabby and hole a lachuca precious cold, Is, and 1 don
t caro
" “nut l'was on btislnesg and when I
learned that Mr. Valentino was liired camping mulo
out about fivo miles above I a
then and there, and a black follow to
show mo tho way; and hy nightfall I
had him!”
[to be continted.
.
LADIES’ FANCY HAIR DRESSING.
I make Switch'--and Bangs to oriU-r.
I work vonr* ombings for join li'-ad,
I can 'Work your rutting- "it<>
thing human hair ran be m:e U in o.
Sl ‘‘‘"TZ'-tUm -T
J;;;,. '“" - p'^rren, -uitight miaranD-e I
r and dry as
, ,, 1Uld ' p. Ke-pectfully.
*1 hKKV
Chauncey, Ga.
Tues. Mar. !'■>, c-in
^ ^ ^ n
A PIANO FREE!
Yes, We Mean It.
GIVE IT AWAY TO ADVERTISE
OUR BUSINESS.
Write and Learn Particulars
flO ^ We sell Music for 10 cents
«« Sold elsewhere for 40cents
to *125
send for UntalogiH* or over !$ 000
pieces to select from. V great saving
parents u ho are giving their Ihuigli
tei> U musical education.
A \ XI’U Guitars, B = ljos, Vio
M = Boxes
\)W 5 4 RT F R F S °' d ° U
small mon
' ,, dy payrnc.iK Calalopaoa tree.
< >K<;.\NS, from $25 upward m price.
1‘lANOS, from $185 upward in price.
lj yrtn \\’i^!i (o s*ivf* lVlOllO 'T V a nil
! ,l , , 111 : al 1101U0 , caU 011 n <)l ) ,
’
,
GEORGIA Ml’SIU HOUSE.
K. 1). IRVINE,
Mulberry Street, Macon, (la.
of gW The enterprising Music my24-ly House
the South.
LOANS NEGOTIATED
—on—
Farms and Town property i
IN B1BI5 oh ADJOINING COUNTIES
KLJLIOTT ISN'TKS & CO.,
138 Second St,., Macon, Qa.
Apply to C. It. ARMSTRONG,
7-12-88-1v Eastman, Ga.,
Money to Laan
NX } improved farms and town prop
ci ty in Dodge and adjoining comi¬
ties, at legal interest. ARMSTRONG,
It.
Eastman, Ga., Nov. 20, 1888. tf
PEACOCK & NASH,
FEED, LIVERY AND SALE
STABLES.
First class teams. Open dny and night.
Rates reasonable. Special attention
given the. commercial travel.
LI MBER CITY, GEORGIA
apri.i wiytu
IjMii; RENT.-.....An eight-room cot
tiige In Eastman. Terms favor¬
able. Apply to
nmy2U' W. B. COFFEE.
If. jr. TO r l 7 1 'JJY,
—DEAL Kit IS —
TOIJACCO, (KiAK’S
:inil all grades tine hand-made It IK I lliS
tilled WHISKIES.
I make a special feature of FI I.LING
JI'GS. Orders promptly attended to.
112 I’oei.Ait Stiiket (Oi.i> Stand),
my 21-Ini M ACON, GA.
DRUIVJMERS’ COLUMN.
jUES, representing John
■ShXV hole-ale
■
.
llliiiiilisii^^^" : v> k
J. K. MALLORY, of Small & Mal¬
lory, Wholesale G roeeis and Fro vis¬
ion .Merchants, Macon, Georgia.
J. F. SHELLEY, reprcscnling M
I'erd ifc Co., Savannah, Georgia
wholesale Fancy Grocers, Cigars
Tobaccos, and Liquors, headquar¬
ters, Kastman, Ga,
Gl’S II1USC11MAN, wiiolesale representing A.
Gibiiin & ('o., grocers,
Macon, Ga. celebraled Specialties-— Central Fancy
groceries; tiio
City Hour; our Mamie tobacco.
General agent tor Die Metropolitan
Tabneco and cigars.
SOL H. ROTHCHILD, with Frank
A Co., IVhoh-al*; Dry Good and No¬
tions, Savannah, Ga. New York
office, 34 Thomas March, Street. 11, 0 fri
mo.
1». B. LA N I Lit, will, Glauber A. Louies,
Whole: ale Healers, in Grain anil
Meats, Brun •« i<-k, Ga.
.March 14, fl mo. fri
VV. T. BATEMAN, with W. B. Car
IIart & < o., Wiiolesale Boots and
.Shoes, Maeon, Ga.
March 14, *i mo. fri
R. T. ADAMS, with Rogers & Ad
ams, manufacturers of Candle* -and
( nickers. Also dealers In Units and
I’ealMlts. nie(i2!t Cm
IL GO L DM AN, with II. Myer A Bros.,
Tobacco and Cigars, Savannah Ga.
my IO-fiin
__________
VV. C. HARVARD, with Ham Adams
<ft Co., Whole-ale Grocers, lf>5 Third
-lreef, Macon, Ga. Visits Hie lin-r
chants along the line i,f the East. T<-n
......•■(•, Virginia and Qcorgi i railroad
once a week. niv 31 fl-mo
J NO. L. TURNER, rcpre-.-nting Geo,
S. Jones & Co., Wholesale Grocers
and Commission Merchants, Macon,
Ga. The oldest aud most reliable—
established In 1853. jun 7-0ino
If you Hpif up phlegm, hacking and cough, are
with a
use Dr. J. II. McLean’s Tar Wine
Lung Balm, 2*2-U‘