Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 June 1872 — Page 6

THE OLD MAN IN THE STYLISH CHURCH. BY JOHH H. YATES.

I saw CheWTe-dajf

tBM

The sister* were fixed up so fine tb# hardly bowed to pray. I bad on these ooorae clothes of mine— much the worse for wearBut, then, they knew I wasn't one they a millionaire 80 they led the old man to seat away by tbe door Twos bookjcw and nncushlsped, a teat Jar the pear.

Pretty soon ring a«d Thef led him vance of mine

some people do

It Isn't nil of life to live, nor all of death tcNlie."

1 doubt not there were wealthy sires In that religious fold Who weut up frem their dwellings like the

Pharisee of old

Then returned hotne from their worship with a head uplifted high, To spurn the hungry from their door with naught to satisfy. Oui, out! with such professions they are doln' more to-day To stop the weary sinner from the gospel's shlnln'way Than all the books of infidels tban all that has been tried Since Christ was born In Bethlehem—since

Christ was crucified.

How simple are the works of God, and yet how very grand— The shells In ocean cavern*— the flowers on the landHe gilds tho clouds of evenln' with the goldlight from His throne, Not lor tho rich man only not for the poor alone

Then why should man look down on man, becauHO of lack of gold Why seat him In the poorest pew because his clothes are old A heart with noble motives—a heart that

Ood has blest-

May be bealln' Heaven's music 'neath that faded coat and vest. i,

I'm old—1 may be childish—but I love simplicity I love to see It shlnln' in a Christian's piety Jesus told us In His sermons, In Judoa's mountains wild, He that wants to go to, Heaven must bo like a little child.

Our heads are growln' gray, dear wife—our hearts arc bvatln' slowIn a little while the Master will call for us to go When we reach the pearly gateways, and

pel

Joyful ey««, sn

look In with loyrul

We'll see no sty 11*1 of the skies

oqsW

worship In tho temple

(From Scxlbuer'» Monthly—July.]

Harker and Blind.

Honry Harker was living in the front room on the second floor when I went to board in the hall room on the fourth, at Blatch ford's, 99 Clay street. He had been thore longer than any ono then in tho house, and he was In tho same room when Blind came, two years later. He was a tall, well-made fellow, with a good address, and by long odds the cloverest head In the house. No one in tho house know more ofblm than what tkey saw. I thought Blatehford knew as much of him as anybody. He had an office In North street, where ho was never seen to do much but read and smoko but ho never seemed to want for money, though he did not appear to spend a groat deal nor care to.

Ho wag exceedingly pleasant company by reason of a certain quiet, humorous, satirical ilow of talk that was endlessly amusing. With the appearanoo of entire frankness and carelessness, Harker was the most thoroughly roserved person I ever saw. He would answer any question asked of him. though I noticed that nobody seemed to put many questions to him, and you might talk with him a whole evening without imagining that all the frank noes was on your side. But when vou came to think it over In bed the next uiornlng, you found you knew no moro of Harker than before, though vou suspected that he knew considerably more of you.

There was one point upon which we all took oflense, and made common cause against him ai\d was his Intolerance of all sentiuieni, and his scornful incredulity aa to superior honor and purity of women over men. Now tho majority or the young men who made the floating population of the house had pictures or girls whWh they carefully kept out of sight, and «hich generally happened to be seen by some of ua before they had been long in tfee house. We wore somehow made awar* that the folr ones represented in various graceful and languishing attitudes were sweet upon the owners of the nulls. One or two, I remember think* Ing, had the superior advantage of having been chosen from a caseftil but however that waa, the two or three unfortunates of us were secretly mors or less envious of those favorites of fortune, which may account forthe ungenerous opinion just advanced. However. ws all belonged to on© class or the other except Harker, and be was quite content to form a third class by himself, and was more than a match, with his coolness and keen perception of weak and ridiculous phases, for all of us together. Any bit of sentiment or sentimentality toat Hill out In his presence met with such a sharp and derisive handling as brought most of us to sword-points with him sooner or later, though we soon learned prudence by experience Ills temper was maryel-

cool and well controlled, and ha waa nerer the one who cum out of (Ik battle asoond best, and hot and red In the fee*. He offended one or two fellows so deeply by good-humored daiUlon sad mookery of some soft •ninh that they would not speak to StoTaairpwiliy ti« wit* their ^Wftda In the air and blind on one aids.

rot ta 4an* vor or scorn, that tbey profitable, ana soon came over.

-been

Well, wife, I've been to church to-day—been to a stylish one,— And, seeni' you can't go from horne, I'll tell you what was done Yon would have been Surprised to see

tell

what

not can

back

re*erveh

theptof.

11 to a cushioned seat far in adseat and

I thought that wan't exactly right to him up so near, When he was young, and I was old, very bard to hear. But, then, there's no acconntin' for what the

Tbe finest clothing now-o-days, oft gets finest pew But when we reach the blessed home, all undented by sin, We'll see wealth beggin' at tbe gate while poverty goes in. I couldn't hear the sermon, I sat so far away. 80, through tbe hours of service, 1 cot Id only"'watch and pray Watch the doin'sof tne Christians sitting near me, 'round about Pray that Ood would make them pure within as they were pure without. While I cat there, lookla' all around upon the rich and great, I kept thlnkln'of the rich man and the beggar at his gate How, by all but dons forsaken, tbe poor beggar's form grew cold. And the angels bore his spirit to the man sions built of gold. 1 his How, at last the rich man perished, and spirit took its flight From the purple and fine linen to the home of endless night There he learned, as he stood gazin' at tbe beggar in the sky.

nushed

foond itun-

Harker seemed to htvo sort 0* soon liking lor me preferred to alt and walls us. i#T /l m.xA 4 kaf WM WA

wTth'me ifl was at"hand, and that was

,rRosy,

t. iA..iUk

treasures under lock and key beside binv I llkecl him, and ijl"

^r,fii,fe»i»dia-'isi»:

Several of us were sitting together in Pickering's room one night when Blatch ford eamo up and told us about a

vouna

unie8S8U 3 and

n. ta~® an(i

went

I told Blatehford I could take him as leaned back against the wall imperturbnot if he was one of the patent ably, and heard htm through and kind that shot up like an umbrella or when Ary bristled up and '.nen^^

in like a telescope. Harker with his fists, he put his hands.on the Emked round over his shoulder, and fellow's shoulders and pushed him looked rouna over

match ford into another opposite

straight at what he meant, with very little regard to what ho trod on or In. I don't say that we found faolt with him, for, indeed, I suppose we had

him, little when

little right to throw stones at However, I think we were all surprised as well as tho host Harker spoke:

said.

Don't bite, eh?" Ilarker Think I'll spoil him

Well, you see, he's only a youngster, and. his mother kind of expects me to keep an eye on him, you know, answered tbe landlord. Now if you'd-

Well, fetch the chap along," Harker broke in.

We'll play light on him.

I'll talk out the Pilgrim* Progress when he's round, and Brootny cau come in mornings and nights and hear bis catechism."

Blind came tho next day, and lodged with Harker that week. He was a slight young fellow, with a clear complexion and a merry face, a quick step and a ringing laugh. Hewassbyat first, but very soon was on easy terms with every one in the house, and every one with him. He was the frankest little fellow, that Ary, as we all came to call him before long. He had a clerkship in a tea-house in Smith street, Taylor, Leake it Company, he sent something regularly home to bis mother and sister, Annie, in Jay county. We all knew that within two weeks, and a great deal more. A framed photograph of a nice-looking uirl appeared on surly old Scrlmzer wall soon after that gentleman went West. Ary used to be singing a catch a good deal on the stairs and about, in those early days.

rosy, rosy, red,

Rosy on the heather.'

and perhaps it was from this that wo found out before long that tbo nicelooking girl was Miss Rosa Redfleld, of Sedley, Jay county, and that she was the writer of certain white little letters that lay on Ary's table at pretty regular intervals.

I was curious to see how Harker would act toward the chattering little follow, and I must own that I was surprised. Ary naturally made his accquaintanoe first, rooming with him the first week or two, and he conceived an immense liking and admiration for Harker, and talked with him in a confidential way that none of the rest of us would have dared upon or thought possible. The first time I saw them together after the first strangeness had rubbed off, Ary was rattling away to some sf us In Harker's room, and appealed to Harker in a simply surprising manner. And when I expected that Ilarker would have taken his cigar out ol his mouth and burst out laughing Immoderately aiid scoffed at the foolish fellow, he only nodded and smiled in a quizzical,somewhat puzzled way, and let him chatter on. He seemod to regard Ary as he might a pet kitten, watching with amusement its present antics, and wondering what it will boat next. He kept his promise to Blatchford, and was quite guarded In his talk before the boy.

sains

SSSS

and met. he

and so I and

By tacit agreement, he took Ary moro or less under his care, and undertook to Introduce him to the sights and great while' Ary «m? to°re««rt ™nd oveVinddeniJ and" gave hlm.afapaa ""fnthiniBb^ke.with ..tart «nd that was a verv comical burlesque of jumped out of bed. to the *Jo°r bis cynical friend's habit of looking of my room, I asked \Vho there through the best designed glare and "It »ne—Harry. Open tho door, Daddimr to the dingy sham often was the low answ er. enouffh behind them. Perhaps that Harry was there in the dim hallway, was not tbe best way of looking at in his shirt and pantaloon*. thing* but one does not find it difficult "Come down. Broom, be

yielded and walked auiotly with Arriving at the house,

ielded and walked quietly ng at the house, we all

went

Atm

sof MAWH

I wm At nana, niiu 10&V wu wcu* -v

about all. He kept me at arm's length, or satdown by »table liX ai.l Avervbodvi sod without papefiying Iber©, and I threw mvac abowina his ibll I, in my more on the ged. This portion soon bungling way, kept him outside certain

bounds. I would as soon have put my I asked Ary ty arm in a bear's embrace as have trusted waited lo try

Blarry

I three

straight up to Ary'a room. Hark

^.1

became

ftw

L^ete'MMdT^ &kS£ SKI? o°?e»«r„ed

^f.|t

the t/ctnre with its fiice to tbd wall, declare it made .me jump. Ary stood vm up and put his bands on the back of the a cu- chair and shook Irom boad to foot.

follow °who "was going to take He was no saint and he didn't pretend a young folio

Scrimzer's room when he left for the West next week. Blatchford had known young Blind's father now dead, and his mother wanted to put him in there to board. But be didn know how to manage for bim till

just the He

threatened to strike him. Harker

uj» oh bajk faig chair an(J lhrew

himself

appeared "Look here, Ary," he said "because

to h/a little surprised it did not seem I've been a condemned fool, ain't that him th»t Harker ruber qaeer re.«.u tor your going to mlrtt uk^Wlow. And certainly the devil too And he pH np and Harker was hardly the kind of person a fond mother would choose to form an ingenuous youth. He was uncommonly rough in his talk, and usually

I called him anu he came in, and we chatted and had a game of something and parted good lriends again. Harker went out of town the next day and was away till about the middle of January. I was in Ary's room- when Harker came in on his return. The picture was still hanging as he bad turned it— with its face to the wftll. He saw it the first thing, and weut straight over and turned it^ back before he came to shake hands. Ary went very straight after that, *nd took, I thought, a firmer and more reserved and manly tone.

It was In June again, I think, that Ary brought down to dinner one evening a couple of his country friends. They were loud, loutish fellows, brassy and slangy, and hny thing but like Ary, who indeed seemed rather ashamed of them. 1 hey had been clerking since Arv knew them in a provincial town, and had apparentlv got no good there. They were in the city for a day or two, and Ary was showing them around. The second cvouing after that, I caine in about ten. and found that Harry Furness could not find bis new silk hat. He had come homo to dress to go. out with some company, and hunted high and low for his hat until he was too late to keep his appointment, and so ho staid in rather out of humor. He thought that the hat must be stolen. I went down to his room and found Harry and Pickering there, and we sat talking till quite late. Tbey said Harker had been in asking for Ary, and had gone out again. Ary hnd gone out with Eis friends right away after dinner. We sat a good whilo talkiug, and I was about going up when we heard the ball door shut and a step on tho stairs. Then Ary came in, looked round at us, and folded his arms. His face was flushed, and his eyes wild and bright, and Harry's new silk hat was on his head. Ho evidently thought he was iu his own room, w'hich was directlyoverhead and he must have made the same mistake once before since he first went out that night. "Look here, yon fellows, get out of this," ho began ''kite now. This is my place, and I don't want you. Come now, travol!" and he squared off and wanted to fight us, blustered and danced around us then he dashed down Harry's shining hat on the floor and put his boot square through tbe crown. I thought he was shammijg till then his gait and talk were as straight and steady as any man's. But he was not shamming he was raving crazy. Three of us tried to carry him oil to his own room, but could not ho broke from us and kuocked us about in the most rcckless way. Afterward he became quieter ana we put him to bed with Harry. He lay still a minute or two at first, and then rolled over and

ulled the clotbes off Harrv, and when tried to get them back be turned

to ima'irlne worne ones that a follow of "Ary's been rolling and talking and „no"f4ub*.vn6d

£Td

not

^Ti Jht that snmrner and fall and him. too, but could not. I nut my ear

any a^.rn.UT. rt\"n«n to hU month bn«t. karry wo.

brtTllan'twith thSfr^cKmM di remember hearing and we looked in st some of them and four as I vrmlted. I told tho doctor walked along slowly, Harker enter- about it as we went along, and he talnlng himself sod me with running asked one or

commentary,.sharp, witty, unsparing near the^bouse, I »w some II very amusing, upon the people we op the steps, WMI no it, I had-my own opinion or whst he amvr us, and th said, especially of the women, but there was reason enough In his satire,

I knew better than to cross him

carriage go rushing by through the

8a^-

saws.

now

l^°

ii anew uener man to crurauuu mstter now?" he said. Hsve you I made my own reserves, said little seen Ary A laughed a good deal. "Ye8V?f ^T6 a™ We had stopped on a corner to let a

ran

slush of last night's snow, when, hsp- ss if_he was desd.l^edoctorexpenlng to look across tlis street, saw mined hira a F« persons walking the other way.

threw sway his cigar. said, "let's take him boms. We walked ups Mock snd crossed and earns up behlndthim. Ary ..4 round snd recognised us flush* op, hs demanded when ws were ng.

looked

We'rr coinf for yon/'

seemea to ires Bim« gwu uw», w«S4S0lte pitiAit to s4tt»y hear him maundering about the girl by the hour" in that low, weik wwt They were all very good to him in the house, though some of the Indies aslwd*»*bsrtroublesome questions at first, hut we put them off wfth ibe first thing that came, which waa perhaps as near tbe truth as we knew. Alter a while I began to feel doubtful about Ary, and though 1 bad every confidence in Or. Marah, thought be began to doubt too. Ary stater was sick st home at the time,and we did not like to give his mother a new anxiety it it could be helped. So we put off writing to ber about him.

One

fairly

Didn't and it to

wasn't Satan down upon sin Oh, made him sick. He was a sweet one turn mentor and parson, wasn't he

bufc be a 8

neak and a

to be, but be wdsn't a sneak and hypocrite, and he'd be consigned perdition if he'd have us twsin place. We had better move on, had we weren't wanted there, and we didn't move we'd get some help,

—I manflfffl for him till W6 uluQ ulUVo WtJ a gov Wiuo UCJ*, SerimMr lfi/t unless somebody would and he faced up to Harkerand blustered

his we if

night I was watching by A

when tbe doctor came in. He count

counted

Ary'apnlse, and examined hiamedi

snd asked. •'Who Is this Rosy T" I pointed to the picture on tbe wall behind him. He went over and looked at it sharply then he turned back and took up the perscription he had written, and tore it across snd acrossi "Do you know her he asked.

44No

•'Can you brim: her here V* "I don't know. I can see."

44What

went out, and I went with him. came into my room and lighted a cigar, and smoked a while, leaning on the window, and went away without a word.

I went into Ary's room the next night as if nothing had happened. He had evidently thought better ol it by daylight and with a cool head, and was glad t,o have me come in. Anew white envelop, I noticed, lay on his table, and doubtless this had something to do with the change. We heard a step coming, and Ary looked up and said to me "It's Hark, Broom call him in."

is her name

Rosa Redfield." took another slip and sat down to write. He wrote and pushed over the slip and I read it: "It is my opinion that the yonng man, Ary Blind, lying sick in my oare at 99 Clay street, will die, unless Miss Rosa Redfield can be brought to see him and can quiet him by her presence.

JAMES L. MARSH, M. D.

June 17,18-." I hunted up Blatchford and got a note from him inclosing the doctors slip. I was in Sedley, Jay county, a little after sunrise the next morning, and found tbe house I wanted. Miss Redfield looked scared when she read the message, but she made no ado. She was quite a little person, erect, and quick iu her motions, and trim in her plain morning dress self-constrained and reserved, ar.d I thought I saw a good deal of decision in the way ehe glanced and spoke, though sho said very little. She went out aud told tbe family, and her tether came in and talked to me and then Miss Rosa came and said she would be glad to accept my offer to accompany her to the city. We came away directly and arrived in town at two. I left the young lady at a friend's in Blair street and ran down to the office. When I looked in at Ary's room that night he was sleeping like an infant, and Miss Redfield sitting by the bed holding his hand. She came in every day and took care of him, and he fretted no more while she was with bim, and presently lost his restlessness altogether. Harker had been with Ary more than any of us from the first, having more leisure, and I was curious to see now be would act toward tho little lady. He never went voluntarily into the society of ladies, but took frequent occasion to amuse himself at the expense of their foibles and follies, and redicule such of the young fellows as professed to find pleasure in their parties and sociables.

In Miss Red field's company how he seemed to take his cue from her did any little service she required with a quick eye and light hand, was merely polite and respectful and entirely simple and well-bred. For her part tbe little lady boro herself in the most modest, yet thoroughly self-reliant. manner. Her coming and going and presence in the house were equally quiet her touch was light and ner voice low, and she said very little indeed. She pleased all by her address when our paths crossed hers, but never weut out ol her way to meet or avoid us, and was no more tban polite to any one of us. She took it for granted that we wero gentlemen and treated us as such we had one link with her in our common friendship for Ary. she seemed to say, and so far were friends, but beyond that we wero strangers and had no right to presume upon our forced association at that one point. And we ail admired her immensely, and were jealous of Harker's greater acquaintance with her, though she certainly showed him no special favor.

Harker's met bis match," said Harry one night.

him„

C001!1^

saw some one going lie earne down when then I saw it was

Harker. "Is that you, Broom What's the

still, and

kirn

P*?1 bim and be »t«ira. A ry

was Tying

there Mrfi^lyrtill-J^artly

H*r1kIer!

"Come on, Broorn, said Harker, and rubbing him like mad. Presently Ithe stepped out over the guttor. I pulled doctor csmo running op sgwn with Mm back snd pointed serosa. some artlties, and Squi "Hark." I said, "who's that gist's clerk, from the oomen They

He looked over, and then bent down took no notice of us, wit srent ^rsight »t a better view. "It's Ary,' be st

their fight

"that's too condemned bscL" He light, but tbey followed them with his

eyes,

deal

with deat^ wsss close

then opened his «W

his cigar. "Broom," he them sane and alive. But he was taken down fearfully by tho experience of U»st night, ar& he sank Into lowfover after it* his mind wandering weakly In the tog of delirium for a Ions tUns» He

irrelevant

jumble with all sorts ol

ran over to Harker's plsee and told hind. You had better go and speak to Lak\ Broomy," he said. They are good men, and you cant expect them to'want a fellow coming thftre like that. But it you shpw tbem hew it is they may give him snother t*y, snd maybe tbls'll scare him into keeping straight. I'd go myself, but I don't make up very smooth, you know, and like enough I'd spoil it.''

So went snd piJt the case to Mr. Lake. He was an old Qaaker, and essAryHj ily persuaded. I promised him that

Ary should not repeat tbe offense, and ot him another chance. Harker and carried hitn off after dinner that night add told bim what I had done and Ary promised. He was very thankful and

Einitent,

cines snd the rest. He seemed out ol credit to say that uo more oomplsints humor and impatient, and said nothr came from that quarter. _. Ing to me. Taking slip, he wrote a Harker kept pretty close by him and new persoription, left it lying on the triedfo keep bim in mind,but not in the table, and stood up. Ary was in one of old way, and not with the old success. since Ary's scrape. Harker waa not his ta'lking moods, restless and wander- Sinoe Ary's serape, "Ing, blunderingin all directions of just the fellow he had been. Histemthought, and arriving nowhere, but per became brittle, aiid the unfailing always coming back to maunder about coolness and good spirits thst had been

Tl. JiIaU 2m a at ma/1 A Kla O SNW1 llAl

Miss Redfield in a hundred grotes}u. oonneclions. The doctor stood looking for granted now.

and vowed he would not

Ksiituinu ua* *snck on mo, and I must give htm

times

He don't laugh at her

she's as up and down as he is, and he's sharp enough to know it. There's no mincing about her she hangs out no flag, hue don't walk on her^oes and perk herself up. She stands up straight aud says what she means, and a girl ain't worth much that can't do that?*

twice it came on rain, and Harker

could not help seeing her to Blair Street safe and dry. She went back borne presently, snd some days after Blatchford told me be had a letter from her with a note for Ary, which she wished him to get when he was quite strong again. Ary

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icked up rapidly and got about tbe I was thinking whether I knew what OOM. *nd then went down ono day to the one or two tilings, and whether his a J.l

room. Harker was sitting there with bis was ed on

Ary waa very still for a day or two that, and not pleasant. Then be another humor, talked and laughloudly, and knocked things about, little whether be broke them or la became pretty wild in those and saw most that was going on. breakfeal one

after took

carln not. weeks

He was coming up from morning I went downf snd he csine sod" •ml I tried to keep him from griag to the store in that state, but oould do nothing with him. Some time after thafriie te in our firm's offloe shoot noon day and told me be had been turned off. He waa sober enough then, and looked bock. When he went out, I

hugged me. and said I was a brick, tbatl waa drunk and I knew I was.

11 ItO MfAI*A AAt ifl D6 ULbAD

his strong points were not to be taken He was as indifler-

down at him a good whiio with stern, ent to us and our opinion as ever he intent face. Suddenly he turned to me would fall to thinking by himself, slt--l.j ting smong us, and sit sucking br gnawiug the butt of a cigar by the hour, an

and pay no, more regard to us than if he had been in his own room alone,—and then go off without speaking. He would turn suddenly savage out of the merriest humor, and answer the simplest questioo with a ourse and

she lives in the country."

how should he know But he showed his fractious humor most all to Ary, was domineering, reasonable, and even gentle with hiin by turns, tried to drive him, and lead bim, and coax him turn about, or all together. And Ary of course, resented nis harshness and bitterness, and gave as good as he got. They had some pretty hot scenes, enough to have made kindness impossible forever between any other two. But Harker always went baok as if nothing had happened, and inalsted on ignoring any quarrel: and Ary was quick and hot and quick over it. However, Harker did exercise a certain re* stra|nt upon Ary, and I used to think that the girl's lace was always before the little fellow's eyes (though since the night be got that last letter it had disappeared from bis wall), and scared him iuto keeping within certain bounds. Still there was a wild

spirit

iu him in

those days that led him a pretty mad dance ot it. Harker himself was a puzzle we could none of us make out. He was us easily superior to tho rest of us as ever, and he made it felt now in many little ways not pleasant. He kept apart more, or with Ary only, and his waspish temper and sharp, Ironical tongue mdde some of the fellows keep out ol his way. Harry came in ono night and sat awhile with me before going to bed.

Broom," he said, "I wonder who Harker knows in Turner street

rod head, the iron man," I answered, "over by Thoroughfare. Why?"

Knows Somebody else besides Brodhead," said Barry.

441saw

hint fto in

to 273, near Bell, to-night. Brody has seen him going' that way two or three lately. certain."

fy. He never used to, I'm

I was out one evening after that, and turned i&to Thoroughfare just as Harker came up from below. We walked along together talking, and by-and-by came to the crossing at Turner street.

Oood-night, Broomy." he says,

this is my wayand he turned off toward Bell street. It was in September, I think, tbat Ary made the acquaintance of the youngCuban, Lozer. He was a large, swarthy, hot-tempered fellow, flush of money snd fond of play. He took a great fan ay for Ary, and Ary undertook to show him the town and teach him the game of billiards, which part of his education had been neglected upon tbe family plantation. Ary had no mouey himself,, but be was quite willing to play as long as some one else paid, and be and the Cuban arranged it ou those terms. They were together every night almost, and for the first time Ary did actually draw away from Harker. I thought no good would come of it, though no special vice or crookednoss in the Cuban, as far as I oould see.

One night in November I was reading pretty late, alone in my airy room, when Harker came up and looked In. He had on bis bat and overcoat, and there was something unusaal about him, I could not say Just what.

Broomy." be said, oome up and help me look for Ary?" I asked no questions, but put on my coat and went with him.

I asked him if his had seen Ary that night, and he said No," he had been looking for him. He seemed to be rather olue, and to have come for me from foeling lonely or low-splrlted. It was the first time 1 ever knew him to want anything to lean on. We looked in first at the ^4Alblon" billiard-rooms in French street, but found no ono we knew there.

Harker scarcely spoke to her at all, and she was the first woman who ever came to tbat house whose manners and morals escaped more or less sharp tbat black Creole.—I don know what,s handling from bim. Arf was out of the matter with me to-night, Broomy danger, and Miss Redfield came in ev- I'm stumped ery afternoon now, and Harker was We looked there when she came, or would drop in and walked afterward, just as he bad from tbe first concluded he was probablv at home in before she come. Two or three times in bed, and we turned that way ourshe was caught In the dusk,and once or selves.

Harry saw him at Flaxman's about nine," lie said. "I suppose he is with

Harker put his finger to his lips man who But «he

motioned me to go but, and I went gone to the tad. She don know an vaway. Harker came up presently snd thing about it. If bes black I like on the edge of my bed, still smo- to know where yoo 11 for white. and what color we are. They're fenced

Well," I said, what now round so. girla are She's gone bock on bim. Broomy: somebody blabbed. She knows all do, and thinks she knows a good more."

about Miss Redfield once more.priisi ng her cleverness, her simplicity, her gentleness and sternness alike to Ary, her goodness and grace. It was strange enough to hear him and t^iink of him as I had known him till now.

Broom," he said, "it I bad known a like that when I was Ary's age, 1 —jk I'd havo been some good. I thought I knew one once, but that was a long while ago. I never told anyono about that before, Broom. I'm a regular spoon, to-night. I thought they were all like her sinoe then, and I!ve seen a good many no better, I used to laugh at all klpds and didn't mind a reat deal. I knew thei were ten men ten thousand who did not lie or steal or go back on a mate, and ifl hadn't have known that I dont see what there would have been tor me to hold on to."

He said no more, and We walked on in pretty sober thought. Turning a corner we almost stumbled over a woman who came in our way. The incident jarred on my humor, and 1 cursed her and pushed her aside ^Harker nulled me by the arm. "Let her alone, Broom," he said quickly, and turned and spoke to her. "Go home now, will you? and .for God's sake get out of this."

He came on and I looked round at him wondering. Do you know her?" I asked.

Know her he cried out.

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too bad about Ary, Broom. But I'm hanged If I can see sny way out of this iged ir can see sny

hat on,smoking, and an open letter snari of his and I ain't quite sure it lylngon the table. Ary lay stretch- ought to be unraveled, "he" JL. his face on tbe bed, bis arms three times bis boad, and be ain hair above his head, and perfectly good enough for her I never saw a

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know what temptation means, and there ia no virtue without that, I guess. If tbey did tbere'd be more had and good and a sight less shilly-shaly. I dont say anything against Miss Redfield, snd I wouldn't have her less kern in her pride. No, not we've seen enough of tnat. And yet she oould

VUVUKU ws make a good little man of Ary with a turn of her band, and bee be is going to pieces with this condemned Creole, and no way out of It that I can see. This Is the hacgdest muddle of a world."

I wondered at hia heat and impatience. We walked down Through fare. When we estne to Turner street, Harker turned off to the left, two or three blocks out of our way. I noticed that be looked up at a nouse near the cor* oy of Bell, and that tbe windows were

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never saw her before. It, Broom she's a woman, ain't she? You and I have no right to curse her."

I was going to whistle, but did not. We went on in silence and apart. We did not speak again till we came to the oorner of French street. "Waita minute," I said. "I'll just run over and look in at the 'Albion' again.

I left him on the corner and tan across. It was very late and the bar was closed. From toe street door and through tbe inner one, I oould see the long billiard-room beyond. There were only, two men in uie place, playing in the farther end. The gaslight fou on them broadly One was a Dig follow In his shirt sleeves, with a dark skin, snd the other was smaller, with his coat on And his baok turned toward me. them ing with moil vuco. »u« uet voices came to me through the rooms and the glass*ot the door. Then they were silent, bending over the table, and the big one took careful aim with his oue and shot. The slight fellow jthrew up his head, and I beard his high, derisive laugli ring out. The dark man bent forward, took up one of the Ivory bajls and flung it at Blind's head. Ary dropped and the ball struck a pillar behnid him with a sharp sound and shivered on the floor. Quick as light he Bprand up and clubbed his cue and struck the Cuban aoross the face. Loser reeled back afcd his right hand leapt straight to. his hip. I saw it and shuddered, but Ary saw it too, and sprang upon him and pinnned his arms to his side.

Good God!" said a voice at my ear, and Harker pressed me aside, and went in. He went straight through the two long rooms. The forthest table lay in his vyay he put his }iands upon the green cloth and vaulted clean over, and sent tho two men staggering apart by the sheer momentum of nis body. Blind reeled and went down out of sight, and Loser turned with a curse upon Harker, and they closed. Both were large, strong men. There was fierce, silent, desperate struggle, the

k, heavy tramping the only sound, er tripped somehow and went down on bis knees, and Harker threw his weight upon him and bent him back with all his might. Then tbero came a sudden report, and Harker let go his hold and stood up straight, his eyes looking out over our heads and revolver held by the barrel in bis hand, the muzzle toward his breast. Lozer

staid still on his knees, looking up at bim apd Ary, juat groping up blindly from under their leet, looked in his

face too, ahd with a cry caught the pis tol from his hand and pointod it at tho Cuban. But Harker struck it aside just in time aqd flung it aoross the room. "Let'B havo no moreof this," he said,

one's enough for to-night." It bad all neon a minute's work. I bad hardly got round to where they stood, I caught I" grew dizzy and fhe floor.' I cut away tbo clothing where tho ball had been before tne. Ho looked up at me and said, "Take mo home, Broomy."

bluker as he reeled and blind, and laid him on

Then ho shut his eyes and lay still. I looked lound and ordored Ary to fetch a carriage. There was ncarcely any bleeding outaide, only a clean bullet bole through tbe firm flesh,and pitiful enough to see. Quite a crowd gathered in and prefsed upou ua, and 1 turned and spoke to them angrily: "Get back out of this, now, can't you and let tbe man breathe." and a voice uick, will you?" It was ijozer witn tne doctor. He came and threw himself down by us, and fairly boo-booed when he saw the wound. Harker opened his eyeB slowly and looked at him. "Come, now," be said, "you bad better skip. You've done the business for me."

ana let tne man greauw. I heard hurrying ieet. and calling, "This,way, and be au you It was Lozer with the

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Harker was moody, an— him and let him have his own way. He took my arm as we turned back, snd presently began to tslk.

I don't know what's come over me lately, Broom. I didn't use to mind about anything. But this boy and one or two things nave shook me op."

my God," he cried out. "why

didn't you keep away? I didn't want to hurt you. I'm it I did. Ob, bo, ho—" and he got up swearing and crying together, and went away.

The doctor examined the wound Ary came running in, and a carriage clattered to the door. A dozen bands lifted Harker and oarried bim out and lAld him in. 1 gave the number and street to the driver.

Get up," added the doctor. "Never mind tbe door. Get over on the wooden pavement, and be quick do you hear?"

Ho eame In and shut the door alter biin. We held Harker as easily as we oould, jolting slowly over the stones two blocks to the east, till we struck tbe wood, snd then went rolling rapidly southwards. The horses' feet clattered startlingly in tbe deserted streets, and tbe wheels moved with a bard, steady iar tbat was trying to every nerve but he never uttered a sound save once, a quick, fierce groan, as we struck a cobble crossing, and I saw, as the lamps flashed on bis face, that bis

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up st 99. We carried him up aud laid him on his bed. He asked for water, And Ary went out. Harker turned to me and said—waa close by bim and hp spoke low—"Ask Miss Redfleld ti come."

I thought the pain must haveset bim wandering then. Ob, Harker!" I answered close to his face, she can't come from so far. Don't send me away, now it's no use.''

Ob, I forgot," he said *'you dont know. 8he's at her uncle's in Tarner street—John W. Slost, 278, near Bell. Go and fetch her, Broom.

I met Blatchford on the stairs, halfdressed, snd told bim what it was, and [Oomtinued on Seventh Page.J