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IN LUCK AT LAST
BY WALTER BESANT.
CHAPTER HI.
IRIS THE HERALD,
By a somewhat remarkable coincidence it
was on this very evening that Iris first made
the acquaintance of her pupil, Mr. Arnold
Arbuthnot. These coincidences, I believe,
happen oftener in real life than they do on
the stage, where people are always turning
up at the very nick of time and the critical
moment.
I need little persuasion to make me believe
that the first meeting of Arnold Arbuthnot
and Iris, on the very evening when ter
cousin was opening matters with the Fcky
one, was nothing short |of providential.
You shall see, presently, what things might
have happened if they had not met. The
meeting was, in faot, the second of the thre<
really important events in the life of a girl
The first, which is seldom remembered with
the gratitude which it deserves, is her btrth:
the second, the first meeting with her future
lover; the third, her wedding day; the othei
events of a woman’s life are interesting,
perhaps, but not important
Certain circumstances, which will bo im
mediately explained, connected with, thii
meeting, made it an event of very consider
able interest to Iris, even though she did not
suspect its immense importance. So much
interest that she thought of nothing else foi
a week beforehand; that as the appointed
hour drew near she trembled and grew pale,
that when her grandfather came up for his
tea, she, who was usuallv so quick to discern
the least sign of care or anxiety in his face,
actually did not observe the trouble, plainly
written in his drooping head and anxious
eyes, which was due to his interview with
Mr. David Chalker.
She poured out the tea, therefore, without
one word of sympathy. This would have
seemed hard if her grandfather had expected
any. He did not, however, because he did
not know that the trouble showed in his
face, and was trying to look as if nothing
had happened. Yet in his brain were ring
ing and resounding the words, "Within
three weeks—within three weeks,” with the
regularity of a horrid clock at midnight
when one wants to go to sleeps
“Oh,” cried Iris, forced, as young people
always are, to speak of her own trouble:
“oh, grandfather, he is coming to-night."
“Who is coming to-night, my dear?” and
then he listened again for the ticking of
that clock: “Within three weeks—within
three weeks;” “Who is coming to-night,
my dear?”
He took the cup of tea from her, and sat
down with an old man’s deliberation,
which springs less from wisdom and the
fullness of thought than from respect to
rheumatism.
The iteration of that refrain, “Within
three weeks,” made him forget everything,
even the trouble of his granddaughter’s
mind.
“Oh, grandfather, you cannot have for
gotten!”
She spoke with the least possible touch of
irritation, because she had been thinking of
this thing for a week past, day and night,
and it was a thing of such stupendous inter
est to her that it seemed impossible that any
one who knew of it could forget what was
coming.
“No, no.” The old man was stimulated
into immediate recollection by the disap
pointment in her eyes. “No, no, my deary,
I have not forgotten. Your pupil is com
ing. Mr. Arbuthnot is coming. But, Iris,
child, don’t let that worry you. I will see
him for you, if you like."
“No; I must see him myself. You see,
dear, there is the awful deception. Oh, how
shall I tell him?”
“No deception at all,” he said stoutly.
“You advertised in your own initials. He
never asked if the initials belonged to a man
or to a woman. The other pupils do not
know. Why should this one? What does
it matter 0 him if you have done the work
for which be engaged your services'?"
“But, oh, he is so differentl And the
others, you know, keep to the subject.”
“So should he, then. Why didn’t he?”
“But he hasn’t. And I have been answer
ing him, and he must think that I was
drawing him on to tell me more about him
self; and now, oh, what will he think? I
1 drew him on and on—yet I didn’t mean to —
till at last he writes to say that he regards
me as the best friend and the wisest adviser
he has eves had. What will he think and
say? Grandfather, it is dreadful!”
“What did you tell him for, Iris, my dear!
Why couldn’t you let things go on? And
by telling him you will lose your pupil."
“Yes, of course: and, worse still, I shall
lose his letters. We live so quietly here that
his letters have come to me like news of
another world. How many different worlds
are there all round one in London? It has
been pleasant to read of that one in which
ladies go about beautifully dressed always,
and where the people have nothing to do
but to amuse themselves. He has told me
about this world in which he lives, and
about his own life, so that I know every
thing ho does and where he goes; and”—
here she sighed heavily—“of course it could
not go on forever; and I should not mind so
much it it had not been carried on undei
false pretences.”
“No false pretences at all, my dear. Don’t
think it.”
“I sent back his last cheque,” she said,
trying to find a little consolation for herself.
“But yet "
“Well, Iris," said her grandfather, “he
wanted to learn heraldry, and you have
taught him.”
“For the last three months”—the girl
blushed as if she was confessing her Sins—
“for the last three months there has not
been a single word in his letters about
heraldry. He tells me that he writes be
cause he is idle, or because he wants to talk,
or because he is alone in his studio, or be
cause he wants his unknown friend’s advice.
► I am his unknown friend, and I have been
giving him advice."
“And very good advice, too,” said her
grandfather benevolently. “Who is so wise
as my Iris?”
“I have answered all his letters, and
never once told him that I am only a girl.”
“I am gladyoudid not tell him, Iris,” said
her grandfather; but he did not say why he
was glad. “And why can’t he go on writing
his letters without making any fuss?”
“Because he says he must make the ac
quaintance of the man—the man, he says—
with whom he has been in correspondence
sso long. This is what he says."
She'opened a letter which lay upon a table
covered with papers, but her grandfather
shopped her.
'“Well my dear, I do not want to know
. what he’says. He wishes to make your ac
■riuaintance. Very good, then. You are
to sea him, and to tell him who you
■re. That is enough. But as for deceiving”
■-he paused, trying to understand this ex-
scrupulosity of conscience “if you
■ome to deceiving—well, in a kind of a sort
THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY IG, 1885.
of way you did allow him to think his cor
respondent a man. I admit that What
harm is done to him? None, He won’t be j
so mean, I suppose, as to ask for his money
back again.” ,
“I think ho ought to have it all back,” ]
said Iris; “yes, all from the very beginning. ,
lam ashamed that I over took any money ,
from him. My face burns when 1 think of
it.” .
To this her grandfather made no reply.
The returning of money paid for services ,
rendered was, to his commercial mind, too ]
foolish a thing to be even talked about. At (
the same time Iris was quite free to man
age her own affairs. And then there was
that roll of papers in the safe. Why, what ,
matter if she sent away all her pupils? He ,
changed the subject.
“Iris, my dear,” he said, "about this other ,
world, where the people amuse themselves;
the world which lives in the squares and in ,
I the big houses on the Chelsea embankment
here, you know—how should yen like, just
for a change, to belong to that world and
have no work to do?”
“I don’t know,” she replied carelessly, be
cause the question did not interest her.
“You would have to leave me, of course.
You would sever your connection, as they
say, with the shop. ”
“Please, don’t let us talk nonsense,
grandfather. ”
“You would have to be ashamed, perhaps,
of ever having taught for your living."
“Now that I never should be—never, not
if they made me a duchess.”
“You would go dressed in silk and velvet.
My dear, I like to see you dressed
up just for once, as we have seen them at
the theatre."
“Well, I should like one velvet dress in
my life. Only one. And it should be crim
son—a beautiful, deep, dark crimson.”
“Very good. And you would drive in a
carriage instead of an omnibus; you would
sit in the stalls instead of the upper circle
you would give quantities of money to poor
people; and you would buy as many second
hand books as you pleased. There are rich
people, I believe, ostentatious people, who
buy new books. But you, my dear, have
been better brought up. No books are worth
buying till they have stood the criticism of
a whole generation at least. Never buy new
books, my dear.”
“I won’t,” said Iris. “But, you dear old
man, what have you got in your head to
night! Why in the world should we talk
about getting rich!”
Bit
“But, you dear old man, what have you got
in your head to-night f 1
“I was only thinking,” he said, “that
perhaps you might be so much happier ”
“Happier? Nonsense! lam as happy as
I can be. Six pupils already. To be sure I
have lost one,” she sighed; “and the best
among them all.”
When her grandfather left her Iris placed
candles on the writing table, but did not
light them, though it was already pretty
dark. She had half an hour to wait; and
she wanted to think, and candles are not
necessary for meditation. She sat at the
open window and suffered her thoughts tc
ramble where they pleased. This is a rest
ful thing to do, especially if your windows
look upon a tolerably busy but not noisy
London road. For then it is almost as
good as sitting beside a swiftly running
stream; the movement of the people below
is like Zthe unceasing flow of the current:
the sound of the footstepsis like the whisper
of the water along the bank; the echo of the
half heard talk strikes your ear like the mys
terious voices wafted to the banks from the
boat%as they go by; and the lights of ths
shops and the street presently become spec
tral and unreal like lights seen upon the
river in the evening.
Iris had a good many pupils—six, in
fact, as she had boasted; why, then, was
she so strangely disturbed on account of
one?
An old tutor by correspon lence may be,
and very likely is, indifferent about hie
pupils, because he has had so many; but Iris
was a young tutor, and had as yet known
few. One of her pupils, for instance, was a
gentleman in the fruitrand potato line in the
borough. By reason of his early education,
which had not been neglected so much as en
tirely omitted, he was unable to personally
conduct his accounts. Now a merchant
without his accounts is as helpless as a tour
ist without his Cook. So that he desired, in
his mature age, to learn book-keeping, com
pound addition, subtraction and multipli
cation. He had no partners, so that he did
not want division. But it is difficult—say
well nigh impossible—for a middle-aged
merchant, not trained in the graces of letter
writing, to inspire a young lady with per
sonal regard, even though she is privileged
to follow the current of his thoughts day by
day and to set him his sums.
Next there was a young fellow of nine
teen or twenty, who was beginning life as
an assistant teacher in a commercial school
at Lower Clapton. This way is a stony and
a thorny path to tread; no one walks upon
it willingly; those who are compelled to
enter upon it speedily either run away and
enlist, or they go and find a s n cluded spot in
which to hang themselves. The smoother
ways of the profession are only to be entered
by one who is the possessor of a degree, and
it was the determination of this young man
to pass the London University examina
tions, and obtain the degree of Bachelor.
In this way his value in the educational
market would bo at once doubled, and he
could command a better place and lighter
work. He showed himself, in his letters, to
be an eminently practical, shrewd, selfish
and thick-skinned young man, who would
quite certainly get on in the world, and
was resolved to lose no opportunities,
and, with that view, he took as much
work out of his tutor as he could get
for the money. Had he known that
the “I. A.” who took such a wonder
ful amount of trouble with his papers was
only a woman, he would certainly have ex
torted a great deal more work for his money.
All this Iris read in his letters and under
stood. There is no way in w hich a man
more surelv and more naturally reveals his
true cnaracier than in his correspondence,
so that after a while, even though the sub
ject of the letters be nothing more interest
ing than the studies in hand, those whe
write the letters may learn to know each
other if they have but the mother wit tc
read between the lines. Certainly this young
schoolmaster did not know Iris, nor did he f
desire to discover what she was like, being t
wholly occupied with the study of himself.
Strange and kindly provision of nature. The
less desirable a man actually appears to
others, the more fondly he loves and be
lieves in himself. I have heard it whispered
that Narcissus was a hunchback.
Then there was another pupil, a girl who
was w orking her very hardest in order to be- i
come, as she hoped, a first-class governess, •
and who, poor thing, by reason of natural
thickness would never reach even the third .
rank. Iris would have been sorry for her, <
because she worked so fiercely and was so
stupid, but there was something hard and
unsympathetic in her nature which forbade
pity. She was miserably poor, too, and had
an unsuccessful father, no doubt as stupid
as herself, and made pitiful excuses
for not forwarding the slender fees with
regularity.
Everybody who is poor should be, on that
ground alone, worthy of pity and sympathy.
But the hardness, and stupidity, and ill-tem
per, all combined and clearly shown in her
letters, repelled her tutor. Iris, who drew
imaginary portraits of her pupils, pictured
the g rl as plain to look upon, with a dull
eye, a leathery, pallid cheek, a forehead
without sunshine upon it, and lips which sel
dom parted with a smile.
Then there was, besides, a Cambridge un
dergraduate. He was neither clever, nor
industrious, nor very ambitious ; he thought
that a moQaratc place was quite gooa
enough for him to aim at, and he found that
this unknown and obscure tutor by cor
respondents was cheap and obliging, and
willing to take trouble, and quite as effica
cious for his purposes as the most expensive
Cambridge coach. Iris presently discovered
that he was lazy and luxurious, a deceive)
of himself, a dweller in Fool’s Paradise, and
a consistent shirker of work. Therefore
she disliked hint Had she actually known
him and talked with him she might have
liked him better in spite of these faults and
shortcomings, for he was really a pl *asant,
easy-going youth, who wallowed in intellec
tual sloth, but loved physical activity; whe
will presently drop easily, and comfortably,
and without an effort or a doubt, into the
bosom of the church, and will develop latei
on into an admirable country parson, un
less they disestablish the Establishment; ir
which case, Ido not know what he will do. ,
But this other man, this man who was
coming for’an explanation, this Mr. Arnold
Arbuthnot, was, if you please, a very dis
terent kind of pupil. In the first place he
was a gentleman, a fact which he displayed, }
but not ostentatiously, in every line of his
letters; next, he had come to her for instruc
tion—the only pupil she had in that science,
in heraldry, which she loved. It is far more
pleasant to be describing a shield and setting
questions in the queer old language of this
queer old science than in solving and pro
posing problems in trigonometry and comic
sections. And then—how’ if your pupil be
gins to talk round the subject and to wander
into other things? You cannot very well
talk round a branch of mathematics, but
heraldry is a subject surrounded by fields,
meadows and lawns, so to speak, all covered
with beautiful flowers. Into these the pupil
wandered, and Iris not unwillingly followed.
Thus the teaching of heraldry by corres
pondence became the most delightful inter
change of letters imaginable, set off and en
riched with a curious and strange piquancy,
derived from the fact that one of them, sup
posed to be an elderly man, was a young
girl, ignorant of the world except from
books, and the advice given her by two old
men, who formed all her society. Then, ai
was natural, what was at first a kind ol
play became before long a serious and earn
sst confidence on the one side and a hesitat
ing reception on the other.
Latterly he more than once amused him
self by drawing an imaginary portrait ol
her: it was a pleasing portrait, but it made
her feel uneasy.
“I know you,” he said, “from your letters,
but yet I want to know you in person. 1
think you are a man advanced in years. T
Poor Iris! and she not yet twenty-one.
“You sit in your study and read; you weai
glasses, and your hair is gray; you have >
kind heart and a cheerful voice; you are
not have never tried to make
yourself rich; you are therefore little
versed in the ways of mankind; you take
your ideas chiefly from books; the few
friends you have chosen are true and loyal
you are full of sympathy, and quick t(
read the thoughts of those in whom yoi
take an interest.” A very fine character)
but it made Iris’s cheek to burn and he)
eyes to drop. To be sure she was not rich,
nor did she know the world; so far her pupi
was right, but yet she was not gray nor old.
And, again, she was not, as he thought, e
man.
Letter writing is not extinct, as it is e
commonplace to affirm, and as people would
have us believe. Letters are written still—
the most delightful letters—letters as copious,
as charming as any of the last century; bu'
men and women no longer write their letter
as carefully as they used to do in the old
days, because they were then shown about
and very likely read aloud. Our letters,
therefore, though their sentences are not sc
balanced nor their periods so rounded, ar«
more real, more truthful, more spontaneous,
and more delightful than the laborious pro
duetions of our ancestors, who had to weigh
every phrase, and to think out their mots,
epigrams and smart things for weeks be
forehand, so that the letter might appear
full of impromptu wit I should like, for in
stance, just for once, to rob the outward or
the homeward mail, in order to read all th<
delightful letters which go every week back
wards and forwards between the folk in
India and the folk at home.
“I shall lose my letters,” Iris reflected,
and her heart sank. Not only did her corre
spondent begin to draw these imaginary
portraits of her, but he proceeded to urge
upon her to come out of her concealment
and to grant him an interview’. This she
might have refused in her desire to continue
a correspondence which brightened her
monotonous life. But there came another
thing, and this decided her. He began tc '
give, and to ask, opinions concerning love,
marriage and such topics—and then she per
ceived it could not possibly be discussed
with him, even in domino ami male dis
guise. “As for love,” her pupil wrote, “I
suppose it is a real and not a fancied neces
sity of life. A man, I mean, may go on a
long time without it, but there will come a
time—do not you think so?—when he is
bound to feel the incompleteness of lift
without a woman to love. We ought tc
train our boys and girls from the very be
ginning to regard love and marriage as the
only things really worth having, because
without them there is no happiness. Give
me your own experience. I am sure you !
must have been in love at some time or j
other in vour life.”
[TO BE CONTINO ED.]
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NICKEL plating;
A Useful Trade, Easily Learned.
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fr/ql L jjk ll] $ IH a >Ji ’•*
.* nnTI ’r KA In order to meet'a
‘ t rvlAy rj s’o OU long felt want for
i a convenient and portable PLATING APPA
-1 RATUS, with which any one can do the finest
. quality of Gold, Silver an.d Nickel Plating on
Watches, Chains, Rings, Knives, Forks and
Spoons, I have made the above low.priced
set, consisting of Tank, lined with Acid-Proof
Cement, Three Cells of Battery that will de
. posit 30 penny-weights of metal a day, Hang
ing Bars, Wire, Gold Solution, one quart of
Silver Solution and half gallon of Nickel. Also
■ a box of Bright Lustre, that will give the
metal the bright and lustrous appearance of
, finished work. Remember, these solutions
are not exhausted, but will PLATE any num
ber of art icles if the simple Book of Instruc
tions is followed. Any one can do it. A
woman’s work. FOR FIFTY CENTS EXTRA
will send Six Chains or Rings that can be
Gold Plated and sold for Two Dollars more
than the whole outfit costs. Our Book,
'‘GOLD AND SILVER FOR THE PEO
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VALUE. REMEMBER, this Is a practical
outfit and I will warrant it, or it can be re
turned at my expense. Will be sent C. O. D.
If desired, upon receipt of #1.50, balance to
be collected when delivered. Next size outfit,
with Tank 12x10x6, only #5.00. TRY IT.
Profits, over 300 per cent. BOOKSENTFREE.
Address.
Frederick Lowey, 96 & 98 Fulton
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Sliuptrine’s
Wew Pharmacy,
Bolton and Montgomery streets.
PURE DRUGS
Dispensed by Careful and Exne
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U ark" XhoyT
Not that barque which spreads its salt?
the favoring gale and with every ca&t-O.
drawing taut, sails the sea, a thing o.’life
beauty, but that bark which comes from ft
cold and hastens the traveler to that port
i from whence there Is no return. For thl»
i bark use
“COUGH AND LUNG BALSAM.”
It Is the best medicine ever presented for
coughs, colds and hoarseness, and for four
seasons has given entire satisfaction. Price
25 cents. Prepared only by
DAVID PORTER, Druggist,
Corner Broughton and Habersham streets.
J. c.
CLEANS CLOTHES,
i Removes all Grease, Paints, Oils, Varnish
! Tar, Dirt or Soils from any fabric
; without injury.
’ FOR SALE BY
: J. R. Haltiwang-er,
i Cor Broughton and Drayton streets.
. Also sold by L. C. Strong and E. A. Knapp
I To Clean Your Last Winter’s Suit or
Anything; Else Use
“Household Cleaning Fluid.”
It removes grease spots, stains, dirt, etc.,
I from woolen, cotton, silk and laces, without
■ Injuring the most delicate fabric.
Prepared only by
DAVID PORTER, Druggist,
Corner Broughton and Habersham streets.
and
I have removed my entire livery establish
ment from York street to the
Pulaski House Stables
where I may hereafter be found. All orders
for carriages and buggies promptly attended
to Fine Saddle Horses for hire.
E. C. GLEASON,
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Savawih Club, Livery & Board Stables
Corner DrayMn, McDonough and Moll era.
A. W. HARMON, Prop’r.
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Aar* Good Lot of Wood Just Received."Bft
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Ed. Burdett.
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