Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 October 1898 — Page 7

Estate o( Jesse W. Beach, deceased. OTICB OF APPOINTMENT.

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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has Iieea appointed and duly qualified as!administratrlx of the estate of Jesse W. Beach, late of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

ALICE 0. BEACH.

Dated Oct. 18. '98-3t Administratrix.

Estate of John H. Hole, deceased. J^OTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed and duly qualified as Administrator of the estate of John H. Hole, late of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. FRED ROtlEHS, Administrator.

Dated Oct.. 13, 1898—10- 14-3t

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OTICETO HE1KS. CREDITORS, ETC.

In the matter of the estate of Samuel Heath, deceased. In the Montgomery Cir«ult Court, September term, 1898

Notice is hereby given that William M. Reeves, as administrator of the estate of Samuel Heath, deceased, has presented and filed his accounts and vouchers in final settlement of said estate,and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Curt on the 9th day of November, 1898, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in »aid court and show cause if any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs and distributees of said estate are also notified to be in said court at the time aforesaid and make proof of heirship.

Dated this 17th day of October, 1898. WILLIAM M. REEVES, 10-21-2t Administrator.

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OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

State of Indiana. Montgomery county. In the Montgomery circuit court, September term, 1898.

Lew W. Scott et al. vs. George Walker, Leona Scott, Leota Scott, Ina Scott et al. Probate petition No. 2708.

Come now the plaintiffs by Claude Thompson, ttheir attorney, and file their petition herein, together with an affidavit that said defendants, Leona Scott, Leota Scott and Ina Scott are non-residents of the state of Indiana and that said action is based upon a distribution of the personal estate of a decedent.

Notice is therefore hereby given said nonresident defendants that unless they be and appear on the 71st day of the September term of the Montgomery circuit court for the year 1898, the same being the 9th day of December, A. D., 1898, at the court house in Crawfordsville, in said county and state, and answer or demur to said petition, the same will be heard and determined in their absence.

Witness my name, and the seal of said court, aflixed at (Jrawfordsville, this 14th day of October, A. D„ 1S98.

WALLACE SI'ARKS,

10-21-2t Clerk.

NOTICE

OF CREDITORS' FIRST MEETING. 1 a the matter of Robert W. Stump, Dy whom a petition for adjudication of bankruptcy was tile*! on the "J7th day of September, A. I)., 1898. In bankruptcy No. 12.

In the District Court of the United States for the 8th district of Indiana. To the creditors of Robert W. Stump This is to give notice that on the 11th day of October, 1898, at Indianapolis, Indiana, in said district, one Robert W. Stump was on his own petition adjudged a bankrupt, and that the first meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt, for the purpose of filing and establishing their claims, for choosing a trustee for his estate, for examining the said bankrupt by oath, and for the transacting of such other business as can lawfully come before such meeting, will be held before the undersigned referee at Crawfordsville, Indiana, in the office of Hurton & Jones, 10514 east Main street, on the 7th day of November, lS9a, at 10 o'clock a. m.

Claims duly proved as provided by Section 57 of the law of 1898. may be mailed to, or filed with, the undersigned prior to such meeting.

Dated at Lafayette, Ind Oct. 1ft. 1898. HENRV H. VINTON, d&wlt, Referee in Bankruptcy. Burton & Jones, Attorneys for Bankruptcy.

J^XECUl'OR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATF, The undersigned executor of the last will and testament of James E. Giililand, late of Mllliln county. Pennsylvania, will offer at public sale ac the door of the court bouse at Crawfordsville, I ndiana, Saturday, November 6, 1898, at 2 o'clock p. m., the following described real estate situate three and one-half miles southwest of Crawfordsville. Montgomery county. Indiana, to-wit: The east htlf of the northwest quarter of section twenty-four (24). township eighteen (Is) north, range five (5) west, containing eighty and six one-hundredths (80 6-100) acies also part of the west half of said northwest quarter of said section, beginning at a point fiftythree and one-third (531 rods east of the half mile stake on the west boundary line of said section, thence north one hundred sixty (100) rods to the north boundary line of said section, thence east twenty-six and twothirds (26%) rods, thence scuth one hundred sixty (160) rods, thence west twenty-six and two-thirds (26%) rods to the place of beginning, containing twenty-six and two-thirds (26%) acres. Also an undivided one-half of the west half cf the southwest quarter of section thirteen (13), township eighteen (18) north, range five (5) west, excepting twenty acres off of the north end of said west half of said quarter, containing thirty (30) acres more or less.

TERMS OF SALE:—One-half cash in hand, balance in equal payments in one and two years in notes bearing six per cent, interest from date and providing for attorney's fees, secured by mortgage on the real estate. Landlord's share of wheat crop to go to purchaser. W. T. BROWNING,

Executor last will of James E. Giililand. CLAUDE THOMPSON, Attorney. Oct 14 1898.—4t

J^OTICE OP SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

Notice is hereby given that I, Ezra C. Voris, administrator of the estate of Mary I. White, deceased, will sell at public auction at the south door of the court house in the city of Crawfordsville, Indiana, the following described real estate situate in Montgomery county, state of Indiana, to-wit: A part of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 35, township 19 north of range 4 west, beginning at a point in the Noblesville road 32 feet west of the southwest corner of Henry Swisher'* loi (as owned April 7. 1887), running thence west 13 rods and 97 feet and 4 inches, thence north U0 rods to the center of the middle fork of Sugar Creek, thence east up the meanderings of said creek to the northwest corner of the tract of land sold by Kennedy to Henry Swisher, thence south along the west line of said Swisher's tract to a point directly east of the northeast corner of the tract sold by Kennedy to Clark, thence west 89 feet to the nortbenst corner of the Clarlr tract, thence south 12 rods and 2 feet and 4J4 inches to the place of beginning, containing 8 acres, excepting forty-five hunaredths (46-100) of an acre sold by Mary T. white and others to Mary M. Watts. The above 8 ncres being the two tracts bought of Jackson Clark. February 25,1882, and the second tract bought of Elijah Kennedy, February 27, 1882.

TIME That such sale will be made on Saturday, the 5th day or November, 1898, at 10 clock a. m. of said day.

TERMS OF SALE—One half cash and onehalf in twelve months from the date of sale the purchaser executing his note secured by mortgage on said real estate bearing six per cent, interest from date.

EZRA C. VORIS,

Administiator of the estate of Mary I. White deceased. M. W.Bruner, attorney for administrator.

Oct. 7.1898-4*

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LOST MAN'S LANE.

By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN.

[Copyright, 1897, by Anna I\. Rohlfs.]

"You entered tliis hut as well as the big houses?" I intimated. "Four walls," was his answer. "Just four walls nothing more.

I let my linger travel along the footpath I have just mentioned. "Steep," was his comment. "Up, up all the way, but no precipices. Nothing but pine woods on cither side, thicicly carpeted with needles."

My linger came back and stopped at the house marked M. "Why is a letter affixed to this spot?" I asked. "Because it stands at the head of the lane just as Deacon Spear's guards the foot- Any one sitting at the window can ee whoever enters or leaves the lane at this cud. And some one is always sitting there. The woman who lives there has two crippled children, a boy and a giil. One of them is always in that window.'' "I see," said I. Then abruptly,

What do you think of Deacon spear?'"Oh." said he, "a well meaning man, none too fine in his feelings. Ho does not mind the neighborhood likes quiet, he says. I hope you will know him for yourself some day,'' said he.

At this return to the forbidden subject I held myself very much aloof. "Your diagram is interesting," said I, "but it has not in the least changed my determination. It is you who will go back there and Jliat very soon." "Not very soon," said he. "Whoever goes there on this errand must go at once, tonight,, if possible if not, tomorrow at tint latest." "Tonight! Tomorrow!" I cried. "And you thought"— "No matter what I thought," he sighed. "It seems I had no groundwork for it." And folding up the map he slowly rose. "The young man we have left there is doing more harm than good. That is why I say some one of real ability must replace him and that immediately. The detective from New York must seorn to have left the place."

I made him my most ladylike bow of dismissal. "I shall watch the papers," Isaid. "I have no doubt that I shall soon see in them some token of your success."

He cast a rueful look at his hands, took a painful step toward the door and dolefully shook his head.

I kept niv silence undisturbed. He took another painful step. By the way.'' he remarked as I stood watching hini with an uncompromising air, "I have forgotten to mention the name of the town in which these disappearances have occurred. It is called X., and it is to be found on one of the spurs of the Berkshire hills." And being by this time at the door he gave me a bow in which was concentrated all the insinuating suavity of which ho was capable and in another moment was gone. Th'e old fox was so sure of his triumph that he did not even wait to see it. He knew—how I never have thought it necessary to inquire—that 5. was a place I had often threatened to visit. There was living there the family of one of my dearest friends. She had been a schoolmate of mine, and when she died I had promised myself thr.t I would not let many months elapse before making the acquaintance of her children. Alas, 1 had let years go by!

CHAPTER III. SUCCUMB.

That- night the tempter had his own way with me. Without much difficulty ho persuaded me that my neglect of Althea Burroughs' children was without any excuse that what had been my duty toward them when I knew them to be left motherless and alone had become an imperative) demand upon me now that the town in which they lived had become overshadowed by a mystery which could not but affect the comfort and happiness of all its inhabitants. I could not wait a day. I recalled all that I had heard of poor Althea's short and none too happy marriage and immediately felt such a burning desire to see if her delicate and espiegle beauty—how well I remembered it—had been repeated in her daughters that I found myself packing my trunk before I knew it.

I had not been from home for a long time—all the better reason why I should have a change now—and when I called together Mrs. Randolph and the servants and told them of my intention of leaving on the early morning train it created quite a sensation in the house and no little surmise.

But1 had the best of explanations to give. I had been thinking of my dead friend, and conscience would not let mc neglect her dear and possibly unhappy progeny any longer. I had purposed many times to visit them, and now I was going to do it. When I came to a decision, it was usually suddenly, and I never rested after having once made up my mind.

My sentiment went so far that I got down an old album and began hunting up the pictures I had brought away with me from boarding school. Hers were among them, and I really did experience more or less compunction when I saw again the delicate yet daring features which had once had a very great influence over my mind. What a teasing sprite she was, yet what a will she had, and how strhnge it was that, having been so intimate as girls, we never knew anything of each other as women! Had it been her fault or my fault? Was her marriage to blame for it or my spin-st-erhood? Difficult to tell then, impossible to tell now. I would not even think of it again, save as a warning. Nothing must stand between me and her children now that my attention has been called to them again.

I did Bot mean to take them by surprise—that is, not entirely. The invitation which they had sent me years ago was still in force, making it simply necfor me to telegraph them that I

had decided in maiu tiiein a visit auo that they might expect me by the noon train. If in times gone by they had been properly instructed by their mother as to the character of her old friend, this need not put them out. I am

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woman of unbounded expectations, do not look for the comforts abroad I am accustomed to at home, and if, as I have reason to believe, their means are not of the greatest I should only be provoked at any extra effort to make me l'eel at home in the humble cottage suited to their fortunes.

So the telegram was sent and my preparations completed for an early departure.

But, resolved as I was to make this visit, ni}- determination came near receiving a check. Just as I was leaving the house, at the very moment, in fact, when the hackman was carrying out my trunk, I saw a man approaching me with every evidence of haste. He had a letter in his hand, which he held out tc me as soon as he came within reach. "For Miss Butterworth," he said. "Private and immediate." "Ah," thought I, "a communication from Mr. Gryce," and hesitated for a moment whether to open it then and there or thrust it in iny pocket and read it at my leisure on the cars. The latter course would be far the easiest, for my hands were cumbered with tho various small articles I consider indispensable to the comfortable enjoyment of tho shortest journey, and tho glasses without which I cannot read a word were in the very bottom of my pocket under somo other equally necessary articles of smaller size.

But something iu the man's expectant look warned mo that he would never leave me till I had read the note, so with a sigh I called Lela to my aid, and after several vain attempts to reach my glasses succeed, din pulling them out at last and by their help reading tho following hurried lines:

DEAR MADAM—I send yon this bra swifter messenger than myself. Dn n-.t jot, anything that 1 m:iy have sakl last, nii*ht inliuercce yon to leave your comfortable home. Tho adventure offers tco many dangers for a woman Read the inclosed. (j.

The inclosed was a telegram from Obadiah Trohni, sent during the night, and evidently just received at headquarters. Its contents were certainly not reassuring:

Another person irissing. Been to have entered Lost, man's lane. Never seen to have come out of it. A harmless lad known as Silly Kufus. What's to be done? Wire orders. F.

"Mr. Gryco bado mo say that he would bo up here some time before noon, "said the man, seeing me look with some blankness at these words.

Nothing more was needed to pull me together. Folding up the letter, 1 put it in my bag. "Say to Mr. Gryce from me that unintended visit, cannot be postponed, "I remarked. "I have telegraphed to my friends to expect me, and only a great emergency would lead me to disappoint them. I will be glad to receive Mr. Gryco on my return." And without further parley I took my bundles back from Lela and proceeded at once to tho carriage. Why should I show any failure of courage at an event that was but a repetition of the very ones which made my visit necessary? Was I p. likely one to fall victim to a mystery to which ray eyes have been opened? Had 1 not- been sufficiently warned of the dangers of Lost Man's lane to keep myself at a respectablo distance from the place of peril? I was going to visit the children of my once devoted friend. If there were perils of no ordinary nature to be encountered there, was I not all the more called upon to go if only as a moral support to these young people, who perhaps themselves were paralyzed by fear?

Yes, Mr. Gryce, and nothing now should hold me back. I even felt an increased desire to reach the scene of these mysteries and chafed some at the length of the journey, which was of a more tedious character than I expected. A poor beginning for events requiring patience as well as great moral courage, but 1 little knew what was before me and only considered that every moment spent on this hot and dusty train kept me thus much longer from the embraces of Althea's children.

I recovered my equanimity, however, as we approached. The scenery was really beautiful, and the consciousness that I should soon alight at tho mountain station which had played a more or less seritsus part in Mr. Gryce's narrative awakened in me a pleasurable excitement which should have been a sufficient warning to me that tho spirit which had led me through that affair next door had seized me again in a way that meant equal absorption if not equal success.

The number of small packages I car ried gave mo enough to think of at the moment of alighting, but as soon as 1 was safely again on terra firma I threw a hasty glanco around to see if any of Althea's children were there to meet mo.

I felt that I would know them at once. She had been so characteristically pretty tbey could not fail to show same likeness which would lead to an instant recognition while they could not fail to know me. But whilo there wore two or tlireo country maidens to be seen standing in and around the little pavilion known hero as the mountain station I saw no one who by any stretch of imagination could be regarded as of Althea Burrough's blood or breeding.

Somewhat disappointed, for I had expected different results from iny telegram, I stepped up to the station master and asked him whether I would have any difficulty in procuring a car riage to take me to Miss Knollys' house. He stared, it seemed to me unnecessarily long, before replying. "Waal,'" said he, "Simmons is usually here, but—I don't see him round today. Perhaps one of these farmer lads will take it."

But they all drew back with a sort of scared look, and I was beginning to tuck up my skirts preparatory to walking when a little old man of very meek appearance drove up in a very old fashioned coach, and with a hesitating air,

springing entirely man muain^ managed to ask if 1 was Miss Butterworth. I hastened to assure him that 1 was, whereupon he stammered out some words about Miss Knollys and how sorry she was that, she could not come for mo herself. Then ho pointed to his coach and made me understand that I was to step iuto it and go with him.

It was not tin altogether encouraging outlook, especially as I saw the heads of the various onlookers draw together and many curious looks directed at us both and tho conveyance that was to carry us. But I was in no mood to be daunted now, and accepting the old codger's apologies with what graeo I could 1 stepped iuto the wagon and prepared myself for a ride into town.

But it seems I was not to bo allowed to enter upon this adventure without another warning. While the old man was engaged in bringing my trunk, the station master approached mo with great civility, and with a touch of his hat asked if it was my intention to spi-v.l a few days with tho Misses Knollys. 1 told him that it, was, and, thinking it best: to establish my position at once in the eyes of the whole town, added with a politeness equal to his own that I was an old friend of the family and had been coming to visit them for years, but had never found it convenient till now and that I hoped they were all well and would be glad to seo mo.

He made somo sort of reply, showing considerable embarrassment, then plucking up his courage said with marked constraint: "Perhaps you have not heard that this village just now is under a cloud." "I have heard," I said innocently, "that one or two men have disappeared from hero somewhat mysteriously. Is that what you mean?" "Yes," he answered. "One person, a boy, disappeared only two days ago." "That's bad," Isaid, "but what has that to do with mo?" I asked smilingly, for I saw ho was not at tho end of his talk. "Oh untbina ho cried eaccrly.

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"only I didn't know but you might bo timid"— "Oh, I'm not at all timid!" I hastened to say. "If I were, I should not have come hero at all. Such matters don't affect me." And I spread out my skirts and arranged myself for my ride as if tho horrors he had mentioned had made no more impression upon me than if his chat had been of the weather.

Perhaps I overdid it, for he looked at me for another moment in a curious, lingering way then he walked off, and I saw him enter the circle of gossips on the platform, where ho stood shaking his head as long as wo were within sight.

Before taking his seat niv driver escort gave mo a furtive glanco as ho stooped to tear from ono of the spokes a bit of rag that seemed to have been caught there. He was evidently preparing to make a good impression and to do me suitable honor.

My companion, .who was tho shiest man I ever saw, did not speak a word whilo descending the hill. I talked and endeavored to make him, too, but his replies were mere grunts or half syllables which conveyed no information whatever. As we cleared the thicket, however, ho allowed himself an ejaculation or two as ho pointed out the beauties cf tho landscape. And indeed it was wcM worth his admiration and mine had niv mind been free to enjoy it. But tho houses which now began to appear on either side of the way drew my attention from the mountains. Wo were still somewhat remote from the town, were rapidly approaching the head of that lane of evil fame with whoso terrible history my thoughts were at this time full. I was so anxious not to pass it without one look into its grewsome recesses that I kept my head persistently turned that way till I felt Iwas attracting the attention of my companion. As this was not desirable I put on a nonchalant look and began chatting about what I saw. But he had lapsed into his early silence, and only answered by a

snap of iiis whip at tlie Horse wnoso jo trot needed a little urging. Suddenly 1 myself grew still. The houses were growing fewer on the. left hand side of the way, and 1 saw beyond the dark boughs of a pine thicket. We were Hearing Lost, .Man's lane, wo were abreast of it, we were—turning into it. 1 could not. repress the exclamation that escaped me. "Where are we going?" 1 asked. "To Miss Knollys' house," he found words to say, smiting his horse again, but with a sidelong glance at me this time, full of tineas/ inquiry. "Do they live ,,n this road?" said I, remembering with a certain shock ,V.\ Gr.ve's 'iein-s description of the two young iauie.- v.ho with their brothex iulrilii e.-l the dil::iiid::ti (1 mansion marked the map lie had shown me. "(Arr.un. 'was the laconic answer, and. e-Higed to be satisfied with this, 1 drew iii\ self tit) with just on longing look behind at tho cheerful highway we were rapidly leaving. A cottage, willi ail o[ i:dow, in which child head could seen noddin eagerly toward

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1 SAW A FLASH IN ONE OF THE UPPER WINDOWS.

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tilled me w:th quite an odd sense of dis comfort as 1 realized that 1 had caugh: tho at tent ion id' one of the little cripples who, according to Air. Gryce. always kept watch over this entrance into Lost Man's lane. Another momen and the pine branches had shut the vision out, but I did not soon forget that eager, childish face and pointing hand marking me out as an intruder if not a possible victim to tho horrors of this ill reputed lane. But I was aware of no secret flinching from tho adventure into which I was plunging. On the contrary, I felt a strange and iierco delight in thus being thrust into tho very heart of this mystery which I had only expected to approach by degrees. The warning messago sent mo by Mr. Gryce had acquired under it a deopor and more significant meaning, as did the looks which laid been cast me by the station master and his gossips on the hillside, but in iny present mood these

very tokens o! tlie nous nature oi my undertaking only gave an added spur to my courage 1 felt my brain clear and my heart expand, as if even now before 1 had so much as set eyes on the faces of these young people I recognized the fact thai tie were the victims of a web of eir.:vtni..ra:ices so tragic and incomprehensible that only a woman like myself we aid be able to clear them away and restore ilic.su girls to tho confidence of the people around them.

I forgot that these girls had a brother and that— But not a word to forestall the. truth. I wish this story to grow upon you just as it did upon me, and with just as little preparation.

The farmer wno drove me, ana wnoni I afterward learned was called Simsbury, showed a certain dogged interest in my behavior that would have amused me or at least havo awakened my disdain under circumstances of a less thrilling nature. I saw his eye roll in a sort of wonder over my person which may have been held a little nioro stiffly than was necessary and settle finally on my face with a look I might have thought complimentary had I had any thought to bestow on such matters. Not till we had passed tho path branching un through the woods toward the mountain did he see fit to withdraw it, no' dil 1 fail to find it fixed again upon me as we rode by the little hut occupied by the old woman considered so harmless by Mr. Gryce.

Perhaps he had a reason for this, as 1 was very much interested in this hut and its occupant, about which I felt freo to cherish my own secret doubts—so interested that I cast it a very sharp glance and was glad when I caught a glimpse through the doorway of tho old crone's bent form and toothless jaws mumbling over a piece of bread she was engaged in eating as v.'e passed her. "Mother Jane," explained my companion, breaking the silence of many minutes. 'KAnd yonder iSMiss Knollys," he added, lifting his whip and pointing towardj^he half concealed facade of a larce aftfl ure-tontinus dwelliua fe.-

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Company is scarce In these parts." Astonished at this sudden launch into conversation by one whoso reserve evep. had found it impossible to penetrate, I gave him the affablo answer ho evidently expected and thou looked eagerly toward the house. It was as Air. Gryco had intimated, eminently forbidding even at that distance, find as we approached nearer and I was given a full view of its worn and discolored front I felt myself forced to acknowledge that never in my life had my eyes fallen upon a habitation more given over to neglect or less promising in its hospitality.

Had it not been for the thin cirelo of smoke eddying up from ono of its broken chimneys 1 should have looked upon the place as one which had not known tho care or presence of man for years. There was a riot of shrubbery in the yard, a lack of the commonest attention to order in the way tho vines drooped tangled masses over mu face el the desolate porch, that gave to the broken pilasters and decayed window frames of this dreariest of facades that leok of abandonment which only becomes picturesque when nature has usurped the prerogative of man and taken entirely to herself the empty walls and falling casements of what was once a human dwelling. That, any one should be living in it now and that I, wdio have never been able to see a chair standing crooked or a curtain awry without a sensation of the keenest discomfort, should be on tho point ol deliberately entering its doors as an inmate filled mo at the moment with such a sense of unreality that, 1 descended from the carriage in a sort of a dream and was making my way through one of the gaps in the high antiquo fence that separated the yard from the gateway when Air. Sinisbury stopped me and pointed out tho gate.

I did not think it worth while t-n apologize, for the broken palings certainly offered as good tin entrance as tho gate, which had slipped from its hinges and hung bull a few inches open. But I took tho course he indicated, holding up my skirts as well as my packages would allow and treading gingerly for fear of the snails and toads that incumbered such portions of tho path as the weeds had left visible. As I went on something in the silence of tho spot struck me. Was I becoming oversensitive to impressions or was tnero something really uncanny in the absolute lack ot sound or movement in a dwelling of such dimensions? But I should not have said movement, for at that instant I saw a flash in one of the upper windows its of a curtain being stealthily drawn and as stealthily let fall again, and though it gavo mo tho promise of some sort of greeting thoro was a furtivenesH in tho action that was so in keeping with the suspicions of Air. Gryco that I felt my nerves braced at once to mount tho half dozen uninviting looking steps that led to the front door.

Bur, no sooner had I dono this with what I am fain to thing was my best air than I suddenly collapsed with what must have been a movement of sudden and to mo quite comprehensible fear, for, while I do not quail before men I never rightly know where tho howl of a dog so keen, piercing and prolonged that it frightened the, very birds over my head and sent them flying from tho vines in clouds.

It was the unlyippiest kill'! of welcome for me. I did not know whether it came from within or without, and when after a moment of indecision I saw tho door open 1 am not sure whether tho smiio I called up to grace tho occasion had any of the real Amelia Butterworth iu it, so much was my mind divided botween a desiro to produco a I'avorablo impression and a very decided and not to be hidden fear of the dog who had greeted my arrival with such an ominous howl. "Call off tho dog!" I cried almost before I saw what sort of person I was addressing.

Mr. Gryce, when I told him of this later, said I could not have made a more and have a reasonable fortitude in tho presence of most dangers corporeal and moral, I am not quite myself in face of a rampant and barking dog. It is my one weakness. I can divulge that much now, and whilo I usually can, and under most circumstances do, succeed in hiding any outward manifestation of my iivjer trepidation I always feel that it would bo a happy day for me when dogs would be banished from tho affections and homes of men. Then I think I would begin #o live in good earnest a:id perhaps enjoy trips into tho country which now, for all my apparent bravery, I regard more in the light of A peuanco than a pleasure.

Imagine, then, how hard I found, it to retain my self possession or even any appearance of dignity when at the r..omcnt I was stretehiug forth my hanil toward the knocker of this inhospitable mansion I heard risintt from somewhere significant introduction of myself to the Knollys mansion.

TO BK CONTINUED

Coughs of uii 10iijIue.

The cough, or puff, or a railway engine is due to the abrupt emission of waste steam up the chimney. When moving slowly the cough can of course be heard following each other quite distinctly, but when speed is put on the puffs come out one after the other much more rapidly, and when eighteen coughs a second are produced they can not be separately distinguished by the ear. A locomotive running at the rate of nearly seventy miles an hour gives out twenty puffs of steam every seccmd that is, ten for each of its two cylinders.

The Tablet! Turned.

Mr. Oldchap—Are you interested ia fossils, Mies Gushley? Miss Gushley— Oh—er—this is so sudden!—New York World.

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