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Spring Place Jimplecute.
CARTER A HEARTSELL. PROPRIETORS.
VOLUME XI.
THE DEATH OF PARNELL.
THE GREAT IRISH LfcADER DIES AFTER
A SHORT ILLNES-.
Tiia Norn Falls as A Thnnderbult—H« Took
to His Hod taut Friday ami Was Not
Considered Critically H>— Consterna¬
tion Among: His Followers—OenernI
Oriel in Ireland.
London, Oct. 0.—Great Britain and
Ireland were startled this morning by
the utterly unlooked-for announce¬
ment that Charles Stewart Parnell, the
noted Irish leader, had died suddenly
yesterday at his home iu Brighton.
It has been well known that Mr.
Parnell has not enjoyed the best of
health for years past, and it has been
noted and widely commented upon
that, since the O’Slua divorce devel
ments became a matter of public noto¬
riety and political tronble came upon
him, the great. Irish member of Parlia¬
ment hail grown thin' er and percepti¬
bly aged iu appearance. But nobody
expected to hear of his death and no
inkling as to his illness had reached
the newsiiapers.
Only at t his hoar (1 p. m ) has it been
possible to obtain details iu regard to
the death of Parnell. He died at his
home, Walsingliam terrace, Brighton,
at 11:30 last night.. His death is said
to have been indiric ly due to a chill
which he caught last week, and which
at first was uot regarded of a serious
netuie. Parnell, however, grew worse,
and a physician was called, with the
result that the patient was ordered to
take to his bed. This was Friday last.,
and from that, lime Parnell lost
strength and finally succumbed.
The exact nature of the disease
which caused the deatli of the Irish
leader has uot been made known yet.
From the day he took to his bed, how¬
ever, the state of Pcrucll’s health has
been such as to necessitate the con¬
stant attention of two physicians, but
iu spite of their incessant and unt.iriug
efforts to prolong or iave his life, Par¬
nell gradually sank lower and lower,
until he expired in the arms of Mrs.
Parnell, who is utterly prostrated by
the shock experienced through her
husband’s death.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT,
Another account of Parnell’s fatal
sickness is as follows: Parnell had ar¬
rived at his home in Brighton from Ire¬
land Thursday and complained of suf¬
fering from a chill. Ou Friday follow¬
ing he was unable to leave his bed; his
regular physiciau was summoned and
he seemed to have considered Parnell’s
illness to have been of a ierious naf ure,
for he soon sent for another physician,
with whom he held a long eonsnlta
tion over the sickness of the Irish
leader. This consultation of physi¬
cians was resumed Sunday, when Par¬
nell was found to be in great, pain and
apparently growing weaker every
hour. His sickness was pronoonced to
be the attack of acute rheumatism and
every attention and care were paid the
sufferer. He was carefully and untir-
nglv nursed by liis wife, who hardly
left his bedside from the moun-nt her
husband’s illness was pronounced to be
of a serious nature. Parnell, iu spile
of the care and attention which he re¬
ceived, did not seem to rally from t >e
rheumatism, and grew weaker and
weaker. Several hours before his death
he became unconscious, and so re¬
main' d until he died in intense agony.
Owing to the suddenness of the Irish
leader’s illness and to the belief of bis
wife and of th“ attending physician
that he would recover, no friends or
relatives of his family or that of Mrs.
Parnell were present at his bedside
when he died. Mrs. Parnell and the
physicians were alone in attendance
upon him at tlie last moment.
LIKE A THUNDERBOLT.
In this city particularly the news of
Parnell’s death came down like a thun¬
derbolt upon the clubs and in political
circles. Nobody, so far as at first
known, was even aware that he was
ndlsposed, and constqnently, when it
became knowr that Parnell was dead,
the first idea..formed was that he had
committed suicide. As the day wore
on, however, it leaked out from state¬
ments of his intimate friends that Par¬
nell had complained to them recently
of not feeling as well as usuhL.butit
was not thought by auybody.that, there
was anything dangerous in his condi
tion. The Last time Parrn 11 appeared
1n public was at Creegs, in Ireland,
Sept, 27, when he delivered a long
speech upon the attitude and alleged
inconsistency of Dillon and O'Brien.
Upou that occasion Parnell stated that
he was speaking in defiance of the or¬
ders of tlie doctors who were attending
him and who had expressly ordered him
to keep to his room. He carried his
right arm in a sling and explained to
inquirers that he was suffering from
rheumatism.
Telegrams from Dublin and other
towns in Ireland and the piineipal
SPRING PLACE, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891.
towns of England unite In reporting
that the death of Parnell has caused
the greatest sensation among his sup¬
porters, principally on account of the
sudden manner in which he died, in
Dublin Parnell's supporters are in a
state of consternation. A meeting of
the friendsof Parnell was hastily called
as soon as the news of his death becaui
known, and it was decided that a meet-
ng of all of Parnell’s followers should
be called for this evening to consider
what steps to take in the face of the
disastrous event of their party.
In an interview today Justin Me
Curthy said that it was impossible to
forecast the political effect of t he death
of Parnell- He hoped it would lead to
a complete reunion of all shades of
opi don among Irishmen in general and
iu the Irish Parliamentary party in
particular. “Certainly,” he said, “it
will not biud< r the progress of auton¬
omy, or, iu other words, the movement
of Ireland.” McCarthy said that ho
believed that all feeling of hostility to
Parnell or of hostility between individ¬
ual members of the Irish party in Par¬
liament would be swallowed up and
completely disappear in the genuine
and universal regret which was exp-
ricnced among irishmen at the death
of Parnell. ‘‘Three weeks ago,” Me
Oartby said, “we (Parnell and myself)
had a long and friendly conference at
my house at Chelsea, anti we mutually
agreed to draw part of the Paris fund
from tlie bankers in foreign capitals iu
order to defray the expenses of regis¬
tering, wliich weie incurred before the
split in the party.”
“Before the divorce proceedings,’
aid McCarthy, iu conclusion, “I was a
close friend of Parnell, whom I ad¬
mired intensely. Parnell consulted me
in regard to the lamentable manifesto
and 1 used all efforts in endeavoring to
prevent him from issuing it to the pub¬
lic. My idea was that the issuauce of
tlie manifesto would make his further
leadership of the Irish party an utter
impossibility.”
The above is about the substance of
what McCarthy said, but it was evi¬
dent that he and the members of his
party were deeply affected at Parnell’s
death and that all feeling of animosity
to the great Irish leader had sunk be¬
neath the ilood of sorrow caused by his
sudden and untimely death.
Continuing McCarthy said that those
who followed Parnell’s leadership un¬
til the last month had done so out of a
spirit of personal devotion to the Irish
leader, adding, with tlie removal of h i
personality, our separation as a party
ceases. Home rule does not depend
any longer upon any one man.
Parnell himself carried it to that,
point. His work, so far as
it depended upon himself alone,
was done. The cause stands now be¬
yond the reach of danger of any Kind.
FURTHER REPORTS
The son of Dr. William Richard Som¬
ers author of the many important med¬
ical .works on disease of the brain andllie
spinal cord including his “Manuel of
Diseases of the Nei voe system,” who lias
been attending Parnell, was the physi¬
cian who watched the closing hours of
hie life. The great leader’s condition
was so had throughout Tuesday that Dr.
Somers was unable to leave his bedside
from early that morning until Parnell
breathed his last
This evening Mrs. Parnell is receiving
a large number of telegraphic messages
from apparently, all parts of the world,
all of them containing words of condo¬
lence with her in her bereayement.
A dispatch sent from Brighton at 5:30
p. m. to day says that Mrs. Parnell con¬
tinues in a condition too prostrated to hu
able to see any one. Her eldest daugh¬
ter is with her.
The death of Parnell has not j et been
registered, None of the local authorities
of Brighton have been communicated
with by the attending physician. Both
the celebrated Dr. S oners and his son
refuse to make any statement as to the
cause of his death or as to the progress
of his sickness on the ground that no
member of the Parnell family has as yet
accorded them permission to say any¬
thing on the subj' ct, and that, until they
receive Rueh permission, the physicians
will under no circumstances say any¬
thing in reference to Parnell’s death.
The news agency states that among his
complicated private affairs Parnell left
unsettled the question of the custody of
his wife’B younger children. “It’s no
secret,” says the same authority, “that
Parnell claimed to be the father of the
two youngest children of Mrs, O’Shea.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, member of
parliament for West Birmingham when,
interviewed regarding Parnell’s death
said that it might influence the govern¬
ment to go to the country on the | recent
legislation, but, be added, it was more
likely that the government would en¬
deavor to press the Irish government bill,
with a fair prospect that it couid be
done if the opposition would adopt the
same attitude toward tl is as they had
done toward the English local election
measure. But it would be, he thought,
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
late in 1803 before tlie measure could be¬
come a law.
Mrs, Parnell, Parnell's step-daughter
and servants, according to the latest ac¬
counts of the death of Parnell, were the
only occupants of the house on Walsing-
h&m Terrace when the Irish leader ex¬
pired. The end there, later reports state
was one of intense agony for tlie sick
man until the moment he became un¬
conscious and eventually died without
pain.
Captaiu O’Shea is liv ing at Brighton,
coming to London daily. When he ar-
arrived to day, lie called at the office of
his solicitor, where he was shown a tele¬
gram from Mrs. Parnell, requesting that
a e’erk lie sent at once to Brighton.
Soon after another telegram, this one
unsigned, arrived, saying that Parnell
had committed suicide. It appears that
Mr. and Mrs. Parnell fully intended
having a a religious marriage ceremony
performed, but the vicar of Steyning re¬
fused to officiate, on the grounds that
Mrs. Parnell was a divorcad woman.
The vicar, however, offered to lend the
use of his church for the ceremony if
Parnell found a clergyman to officiate.
The bishop of the diocese then forbade
the ceremonoy, as the parties were al
ready civilly married. Finally, through
Parnell's persevertnee, it was arranged
that Rev. Mr. Penfold of St. James,
Marrylebone, should officiate, and Par¬
nell intended to seek a lisccnse, when
the bishop of Chichester, who was on
the continent, returned. It was reques¬
ted that the marriage should take place
at 8 a. m., anti should not lie divulged
till afterwards.
Mrs. Parnell r.ques’s that an emphatic
denial be given to the rumors that her
husband committed suicide. She staff's
that he had long suffered from rheuma¬
tisms, which developed into the fever
that killed him.
FEELING IN IRELAND.
Dublin, October 9,— Members of par¬
liament and others who remained fol¬
lowers of Parnell in spite of everything,
aj a meeting held to-day, appointed
Pierce Mahoney and John Redmond a
committee to proceed to Brighton to¬
night in order to he of all assistance pos
sihle in makiug the arrangements neces¬
sary for the funeral of Parnell. The
corporation of Dublin has been summoned
to a meeting for to-morrow, at which,
sympathy with Mrs. Parnell will lie ex
pressed and where a call will bo isiued
for a public funeral. The general feel¬
ing in tne leading political clubs in both
Great Britain and Ireland is that the
death of Parnell will heal the breach
which has so long existed in the ranks
of the Irish parliamentary party. There
was tremendous excitement in this city
when the report of Parnell’s death
spread among the masses. One of the
reeults was a gre t rush for the newspa¬
per offices in endeavor to get confirma¬
tion of the startling information. The
offices of the National league were fairly
beseiged with an excited concourse of
warm hearted Irishmen who had fotgot-
ten all about the divorce troubles of
Parnell in their desire to express sympa¬
thy with the great leader of the Irish
people who had fonght so many battles
for them in behalf of home rule. Many
tear stained faces were seen among the
crowds as the good qualities of the dead
man were referred to and when his ef¬
forts in the cause of irish independence
were mentioned.
Prominent Parnellites, who have been
interviewed upon the subject of Par¬
nell’s demise, declared that, it would not
effect their position and that they in¬
tend to continue in independent opposi¬
tion to the party which has fought
against their leader.
The first nows of the death of Par
nell which was received in this city
was through Parnell’s brother-in law,
McDermott, to whom Mrs. Parnell tel
egraphed the sad news. As soon as the
information reached the National Club
the blinds were closed and the flag was
half-masted, and will so remain until
after the interment of the body. Mem¬
bers of the National League now iu
this city are making arrangements
necessary to attend the funeral of Pai-
nell.
Now that Parnell is dead it is said
that it was a matter of notoriety
among his intimate friends that his
health had been rapidly declining for
months past. H is friends and doctors,
they say, urged him in vain to be more
careful, but all their remonstrances
were unavailing. Parnell continued
to work at the highest pressure a^d
underwent constant privations and fa
tiguing journeys which would have
ruined the health of the strongest, man.
After the Sligo election, it was private¬
ly admitted that Parnell was greatly
depressed and that he felt himself
obliged to resort to stimulants iu order
to sustain his nerv •». At Creegs, on
September 27 last, Parnell complained
of suffering from a peculiar pain In the
region of the heart, which pain, he said,
had never troubled him before. This
was in addition to the rheumatic
trouble in the arm.
The Mail to-day, commenting on
Parnell’s death, says that of the many
enemies Parnell had In Ireland, even
the most bitter will he shocked at the
suddenness of his de&tli. “For mouths
past.” the Mail added, “lie lias looked
as if he was breaking down underst.ress
of a battle too severe even for a strong
man. Though pis cause was hopeless
lie was stiff a thorn in the side of Glad¬
stone and might, still have influenced
elections. Now the battle for home
rule must he fought on its own merit-*..
All the same, every generous heart will
lament the tragic end of the Irish
llieusde. ”
Freeman’s Journal says: “One of
the most remarkable careers ot mod¬
ern times liss been brought to an
early and sudden close, at such a
moment it ill befits tlie Irish nation to
set aside or discard the memo¬
ry of bright days when Irishmen
regarded Parnell with confidence be¬
cause of liis integrity, honor and devo¬
tion. VV<> claim that a great effort
should now lie made to close with hi.
death the sad history of the last few
weary months of fratricidal strife. We
appeal to the people throughout, the
country to be moderate and calm, and so
advance toward national unity, without
which, we honestly believe, it is impos¬
sible to predict the final triumph of the
Irish cause.”
A MOTH KKS GRIEF,
Bordentown, N. j. , October 9.—News
of her son’s death had not been received
by Mrs. Delia Parnell until a reporter
called at Ironsides, by which name the
home of the family has been known
here for scores of years, The reporter
broke, the news to lier as gently as jms-
eiole and when he at last announced
that Parnell wss dead, lhe white-haired
mother reeled backward and fell on the
floor. “O my son! O my good, kind
Charles! they have killed you,” she
shrieked, lier grief was heartrending.
She was Hei/.ed with hysterics, and by
turns she laughed and wept. “When
Charles wrote to me asking me whether
I needed anything, I told him the crops
were bringing me in plenty of money.
That cheered him, and it pleased me to
say so, although I was in poverty. Oh!
he was a good and dutiful son and never
neglected me. Lies! lies! lisi.! all lies!
when they say he refu hi d to provide for
#ae. I say it’s slander, foul slander.”
Then the old lady pac- d up ami down
the room, sobbing convulsively. “It’s
Michael Davitt and the Irish World’s
persecution and politicians that have
killed him,” she cried. “His death has
been caused by the persecutions of his
enemies ”
For some time Mrs. I'anu-ll Imu been
making an effort to get over to Ireland
to see her son, but for three years she
has been kept at home by suits in the
courts of Philadelphia. The proceedings
bad loft her entirely without funds.
Mrs. Parnell said she did not know
what she was going to do about the fu¬
neral. “All 1 ask is to ho permitted to
see his body laid away in the grave, and
I hope they will embalm and keep ,,is
body until 1 can he present at the ser-
vices.” Although Mrs. Parnell claimed
that she is not in want and is in no need
of assistance, she is living here in abject
poverty.
SIR -JOHN POPE IIRNNKSSY DEAD.
London, October 9. —Coupled with
the announcement this morning that
Parnell died last, night was the news that
Sir John Pope Hennessy, member of
parliament for North Kilkenny, was al¬
so dead.
Sir John Pope Hennessy, it will tie re.
membered, immediately after the expos¬
ure in the O'Shea divorce casein Decem¬
ber, 1890, contested the North Kilkenny
election, hacked by Parnell's opponents,
and defeated the Parnellite candidate,
Vincent Scully, by 1,117 votes. This
was a great, and possibly the greatest,
test of strength between the Pain* llitre
and the McGarthyites, and the defeat of
Scully ni doubt counted for a great
deal in the future seiies of disasters
which befell the Irish leader.
Sir John Pope Hennessy’s deatli is
said tojiave been due to the mental and
physical strain to which he was sub¬
jected as one of the consequences of the
political coute it in North Kilkenny.
The time is not far distant wheu
every weekly in Florida will he com¬
pelled to establish a $2 rate per year
for subscriptions. Daily papers can
bet ter afford to run their weeklies at
$1 than the office can winch only issues
a weekly, from the fact that, the daily
matter is largely used in the make up
of its weekly. The Herald has es¬
tablished a $2 rate simply because it
could not be printed at $1 and give
satisfaction. Of course we expect to
lose some of our subscribers, but if we
should lose half we would still be in
pocket, and live with the satisfaction
that we were getting what we are en¬
titled to. Subscribers should consider
that it requires skilled workmen and
hard cash to run a paper as it should
be.—Palatka Herald.
A ladies’ regatta at Stockholm tlie
other day comprised nine boats, all
rowed by young ladies in pretty dresses.
A Week'iilniliiKtriHi Aiivaitttt'intvnt .
Thu Manufacturers’ liecord ofiteto
her 3 says:
“Looking over the entire South, it is
seen that there w a very dicLhd im¬
provement taking place, and that t/(is Is
section, like the rest of the country,
rapidly recovering from the effect of ti e
panic. Tie p"oide of Hie South aie tak¬
ing h< ilii of industrial e derprisee with
renewed vigor, while there is all increas¬
ing movement of outside capital seeking
investment in this region. Manufactur¬
ing enterprises are well employed, rail¬
roads are busy, trade is increasing, col¬
lections are getting easier, and alt signs
indicate that the South as a who).* is en¬
tering upon a period of much prosperity.
The list of new enterprises organized
continues to increase fiorn week to
week, and a summary of the leading
ones reported in this week’s issue of the
Manufae'urers’ Record shows how de-
ruled the „ improvement . _ h. Engl*,, ,, , and
American capitalists have organized a
$1,000,000 company to bni|d steel works
and a tinplate mill at Savernake, Va;
th« Maganese Iron & Coal Co , of New
Castle, Va., intends to buil l a 5 mile
railroad to reach its ore properties, erect
an iron furnace, etc.: a $1,000,000 com-
pany has been organized in No.th Caro-
hnft to manufacture tobacco stem mere.
I here is a marked increase in cotton-
mill enterprises. One South Carolina
mill is adding 10,000 spindles and 305
looms; another 3,000 spindles: a Georgia
mill is adding $25,000 worth of machin-
ery; a North Corolina mill will toe.ease
its Capita, Mock to *500,000
ments; two new mills are to be built in
South Carolina, be id > several large
mills previously reported, and two in
North Carolina. In Florida a $1 .(100,000
phosphate company and a $110,000 coin
pany have been incorporated: a 100-ton
phosphate mining plant is to be built
near Bartow and a new mine opened
kaolin company organized by New Jor-
sey people; in Baltimore a $500,000 com-
pany lias been organized to develop sub-
urban property, build electric works,
waterworks, hot.!, etc., and a $35,000
company to refine cottonseed off; Velas-
oo, Texas, reports an ice factmy.coM
storage and refrigerating plant, planing
mill and brick works; Ameiic.us, Ga., a
$i00,000 cotton-ami oil mill company-'-
FJntonia, Texas, water works; Mt. Airy,
N. 5 tobacco factories; N w Bir-
mingham, Texas, company;* potion ; Charlotte, N.
G, $85,000 oil Brenliam Tex-
as, $850,000 paper pulp company Knox-
renn.. r
tory; Buchannou, VV. Va,, furniture fac-
tory; Charleston, W. Va., woodworking
factory; Waynesboro, Va., electric light
company; Hillsboro, Texas, $30,000 flour
mil! company; Savernake, Va., a $30,-
000 pressed-brick company; Marion, Va.
maganese and iron mining; Baton
Rouge, La., carriage factory; Mailing-
ton, W. Va,, $100,000 development com¬
pany: Arkansas $30,000 lumber compa¬
ny; <5, mil too, Ga , $85,000 water works:
Enterprise, Miss., electric light plant;
Burlington, N. G, tobacco factory;
Farmington, N. G, 50 barrel Hour mill;
Aranas Pass, Texas, ice factory and
electric plant.
“'J ins summary, which does not in¬
clude nil of the enterprises in o te week,
indicates how widespread is this increas¬
ing activity, and how gioat is the diver¬
sity of the now enterprises now R ing
undertaken, It. gives some idea, more
over, of what, may lie expected later on,
after the crops have been gathered and
sold and money becomes more active in
seeking investment.”
Kngrnr Fl»ld ««i Liltm^f Qur.iilinit*.
“The Scented Gardens” was the title
of a translation which tlie late Captaiu
Burton hud made from the Arabic.
Finding it in manuscript Lady Burton
burned it up rather than profit by it« pub¬
lication, and for this the lady is being
complimented by many people who, wo
suspect, do not know what they are. talk¬
ing about. “The Perfumed Garden” lifts
already lieen done in English. 11 belongs
to that class of oriental erotics of which
the “Ananga Rauga” is a notable ex¬
ample, and which lias been published
by the Kama-Shastra .Society, so culled
of Benares (London if). These poems are
curious and beautiful specimens, well
n orth the study of mature and scholarly
men, and ns Burton was unquestionably
the most proficient translator of this time
we regard tlie destruction of his nmnu-
script as a piece of wanton vandalism.
Alt books are not for everybody ; in liter¬
ature there is a distinct aristocracy of
intelligence. Therearemany whoshould
be prevented from reading the songs of
Solomon. Literature is not so likely to
be unfit for readers as readers are likely
to be unfit for literature.
There is one greath truth that seems
not to have become deeply grounded as
yet, and it is this; Woman is by nature
wholly, irredeemably, and irreparably
disqualified for the offices of literary ex¬
ecutor. A woman and a kitchen stove
will do more damage in five minutes
than a fiord? of hungry savages in five
years.—Chicago Daily News.
A French cook says coff ee should be
H'tored.
One Dollar a Year.
NO 38.
PANDORA’S PUPIL
1 >r Miss Piper little thought when f
’ ’*• b gan to teach Mr. .Sliger, a gentle-
and mao ^jneglected V education, how to re Ad
WI that her fair fame »-chain
danger. in,' -.tie day Mrs. Gri'mm, her
landlady, paid her a visit; t->ld her she
ought tone ashamed ff/^ierself to be¬
have borhoodWq'teUkfms so Ai^jaJyjjh all the neigh¬
about the scandal—
and wound up by asking ; the poor little
old maid to leave the house. \
Poor Miss Pandora! As her friend arid -
landlady walked out of the door with
her handkerchief to her eyes she stood
motionless, as though turned to a pillar
of salt. She saw just how this repair of
neglected education must appear to her
small circle of discarded pupils, and felt
a strong desire to drown herself, or jump
out the window, or turn on the gas, or
take a box of matches in her tea, and
she might actually, it seemed to her after
ward, have died of mortification, but
that the gonR at the front door p ulled
violently at this, moment, startled her,
and, Nora, running up, wrapped in a
waterproof cloak—for she had been mak-
ing preparations to go $o bed, announced:
“Mr. Sliger.”
4 ., ?**« J can ’ t come ht ‘” up,” said Pandora, “at
S lOU1 n, ?
do « ^°’„ m ‘ S8 ’ he **** for , ** to corae
Pandora went down. Mr. Sliger was
at the door.
“There’s a telescope at the comer,” he
said; “something going on in some star
or oUwr > 1 believe. Get a bonnet and
sl,awl 8,1,1 come and take a peep. It
Z M tt 1 ™' ln “*">nomy tor me
-
. TonSS &£*■ “T
Pandora without a word obeyed.
The door was closed after the two,
leaving Mm. Grimm staring at Nora.
“That’s the capsheaf,” said the lady,
“ sha H 1 sit up for 'em!” asked Nora,
“No,” said Mrs. Grimm. “I will.”
Moanwhil ° Miss Pandora and Mr.
01 the telesco and
> ,e
,
rary, and which were explained by Miss
Pandora to be fixtures, and then ad-
jounied to an ice cream saloon of much
elegance.
This, indeed, was desperate dissipation,
1>autl ora said to herself, as she sat
aMf® th f CUt ^ goblets on tlie damask
liOle ;i.,uariu,n ftmnWu'la'tte'SrtS U the
and over the glossy plants ajt
n 2noted in the iong mirtoire. However,
"hat did it matter? She was already
“talked about, "turned out of heir lodgings’
as a l>erHou who had gone wrong. She
wou) ; 1 kt ’ep Hus merry moment to re-
I™ w he “ 8he had P at an to all
him, tsnss ,
ITe was ordering every indigestible
luxury on the bill of fare, the diamond
on liis little finger flashed like a small
sun, obsequious waiters bobbing about
behind them. He looked kindly at her,
nn.l asked he/ if she liked this or that.
He was as simple as an old baby, as kind
as an old lady, and he was a nice, pleas¬
ant looking man.
“ All over! All over!” she said to her¬
self. “1 miglithaveknownwhata wicked
world this is, and how ill it thinks of in¬
nocent things. Why might uot I go on
teaching him forever without harm?”
People were corning in from concerts
and theaters; tables were filling, but
theirs, between the two columns beyond
the fountain, was very quiet.
The waiters were gone to execute Mr.
Sliger’s behest. Suddenly lie turned to
her and took a letter from his pocket.
“Read that, Miss Piper,” he said.
Pandora opened the missive and pe¬
rused it.
It was from a firm of Lawyers speaking
in plain terms of Mr. St. Leger ns a gen¬
tleman and a man of honor and fortune.
“I did not need it, indeed,” said Pan¬
dora sadly. “And this is tlie way your
name is really spelled? St. Leger! It’s
a beautiful name. ”
“It sounds a little curious to me,”ne
said. “My mother wrote it Sliger. I
never knew, but you see I was all right.
They never took mo without a character
when I—went for a place—in the old
time, and I couldn’t expect you to take
me without a character either. I—I
don’t know whether you despise m# for
my ignorance or not} but if you do not,
why, I want you to take me for your
pupil for life—to marry me, you know,
Pandora. Will you think of it?"
It was a dreadful tiling to do in such a
public place, but Pandora Pigjer felt that
she was going to faint. >
“It was in my mind the first day I
came, ” he said, “I had often
seen you
through the window, when you gave les¬
sons to that little girl at Bell’s. I used to
watch you with my opera glass. I felt
sure that you were just the woman for
me, and every lesson you gave me proved
it. I shall learn everything from yon-
goodness as well a a spelling. Oh, say
yes!”
1 ’andora said:
“Yes.”
Mrs. Grimm was sitting up for her,
pale with wrath, when she returned; but
Pandora took her by both hands and said:
“ You won’t turn out till after
me my
wedding day, will you, dear? You’ll let
me get married here? It’s next week.
Mr. St. Leger won’t wait. You see, we
have to go to England to live on the
And, after all, apoor little teacher
no great preparation. ”
“Servantsand diamonds and a country
house and a city house—everything heart
could wish, ” Mrs. Grimm says, in tolling
her story. “ A great lady, no w. It’s like
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