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An eni to fair things tlmt drllnht our i-yea
An pii Ho plpp.sant rounds that clmnn
our para.
An end to enmity's foul libeling
And to the gracious praise of tender
friend;
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thin
To lova there Is no end. '
That warrior carved the empire with his
nword;
The empire now Is hut like him a name,
That statesman spoke and by a burning
word
Kindled a nntion's heart Into a flame:
Now naught Is left hut ashes and we bring
Our homage to new men; to them wa
hend,
Therols an end to all but one sweet
thing
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All beauty fades away, or else, alas,
Men's eyes grow dim, and they no beau
ty see;
The glorious show of nature pass and
pans;
Quickly they come, as quickly do they
flee,
And he who hears the voice of welcome
Hears the next slow, sad, farewell of his
friend.
There Is an end to all but one sweet
thing
To love there Is ao end. I
All the Tear Round.
in I in
It did not end happily not for Harry
Seymour, that Is to say; but It provided
Borne excellent entertainment while It
lasted and Is talked about In Wickets
Held to-day. We were all of us staying
In Wlcketsfleld, and Seymour had fallen
a victim to the fascinations of Miss
Norah Cardonnel, possibly becauxe
Wlcketsfleld Is a dull little watering
place and there was nothing; else to do;
possibly because he knew, or at least
suspected, that she was worshipped by
Stephen Lambsworthy, and Stephen
Lambsworthy was his especial beto
noire.
I don't want to attribute unworthy
motives to him. As a matter of fact, I
liked him very much: so let uh give
him the benefit of the doubt and ray
he had grown to adore Miss Cardonnel
because Miss Cardonnel was adorable.
Anyhow, It was plain that he was hope
lessly In love, and though I had been
honored by Lambsworthy's confidences
In the matter I personally did not give
up much for his chances.
No two fallows could possibly have
been more unlike than Stephen and
Harry Seymour. Harry, dashing, good
humored, high spirited and handsome;
Stephen, meek, nervous and with next
to nothing to say for himself. That
both were very young waa their only
point of resemblance. I thought I had
guaged Miss Cardonnel's character suf
ficiently to prophesy which of her ad
mirers would be accepted, presuming
they both proposed, and I confess I
was startled when Seymour displayed
such strong Irritation at the news that
Lambsworthy was expected on the
scene.
"Confound him!" he said, "what does
he want here? Can't he read In town
Just aa well?" (We were supposed to
be cramming for an exam., the three of
us.) "What does he want to come both
ering here for?"
"Well, you forget," I said, "Lambs
worthy may be said to be the discoverer
of Wlcketsfleld. At all events, neither
you nor I would ever have come down
here If It had not been that he was al
ways talking about it We should
never even have known the Cardonnel
but for him remember that."
Seymour growled. It was a fact that
Lambsworthy had Introduced us to
them, and Harry never cared to be re
minded of It.
"I don't want him;" he said, "I don't
get on with him; he is your friend, not
mine, and he bores me. He is like a
young lady and he wears spectacles."
"He wears spectacles because he Is
short-sighted," I observed; "and as to
being like a young lady, that Is all rot,
Seymour! Anyhow, If he is such a com.
plete duffer, why need you mind his
coming?
"What do you mean?" asked Harry,
sharply.
"You are annoyed at his arrival be
cause you are afraid you may find your
nose out of Joint when he appears. I
say If he is such a duffer why need you
be alarmed?"
"Oh! pooh, pooh, rubbish!" said Sey
mour, "I afraid of Stephen Lambs
worthy? That is too rich! that is
really funny!" He made a loud noise,
which I understood was meant to rep
resent laughter. "You won't beat that
If you talk for -a month. Ha, ha, ha!
Why, you don't mean to tell me you
suppose for a single instant that a girl
like Miss Cardonnel would seriously
consider throwing herself away on a
noodle like Lambsworthy? a flabby,
Inveterate, feeble, faltering bundle of
nerves like Lambsworthy! Oood heav-
ens! Afraid! Afraid of Lambsworthy!
Ha, ha. ha!"
"Well, that's all right," I said. "I
am glad, for your sake, you are so con.
fldent. I assume, however, that you
won't deny she encouraged him when
we all came down here? Because I
saw her with you, and I saw her with
him, and I say she did!"
"She flirted with him," said Seymour,
tolerantly; "she flirted with him a little,
yes! Why not? A girl must amusa
herself. I do not complain of that."
"That's lucky," I replied; "singularly,
Tortunate for your own piece of mind.
His letter says he will be with us to
morrow. He wants me to look out for
a room for him."
"Cannot our landlady accommodate
the gentleman?"
"No," I said, "she can't now with a
bedroom, that Is! He will come In here
to meals, of course, but he will have to
Bleep out of the house."
Seymour shrugged his shoulders, as
muoh as to say that he was really indlf.
ferent as to the arrangements, and
lounged away in the direction of the
Parade, where, I have no doubt, he ex
pected to meet the Cardonnels, as was
bis dally custom,
I am ashamed to say that I neglected
to engage a shake-down for Lambs
worthy that afternoon, and as he ar
rived by an earlier train than the one
he had mentioned on the morrow, it
devolved upon him to go around and
explore for himself after he got in.
However, he was quite cheerful when
lie returned to the cottage to supper;
ho bad had tea at his friend's, the Car.
I'o'ii'Ms, In the moan time, and as he
tul'.l us ho had secured a comfortable
little room In the next street to us. He
Inquired nt what hour we breakfasted
rnl promised us not to be Into. He was
ro very lively and talkntlve for Lambs
v.orthy tlmt I felt the fair Norah had
1 pen njrveenHe In their Interview, n.nd
I fancy Ili-.rry Seymour had the same
Idea, for he scowled at his whiskey
mill water darkly and failed to chaff
the other as brilliantly aa was his
wont.
I do not think that Seymour and I
had turned In more than a quarter of
an hour, when there came a violent
ljentlng at the utrret door, and peering
out from my window, I saw Lambs
worthy standing on the step, with his
portmanteau In his hand and his hat
ui the back of his head.
Wondering what he had come back
for, I slipped on some things and ran
Uown and let him In.
"What Is It?" called Seymour, as I
passed his room.
"It's Lambsworthy," I answered;
"perhaps his landlady Is out, and he
can't get in."
It transpired that the house In which
he had been going to sleep had been
broken Into. Lambsworthy was great
ly upset. The landlady, who had been
spending the evening out, and had only
returned a few minutes before himself,
met him In the passage In a state of ter
rible, consternation. Her bedroom
door, which she had locked before he
left had been forced open. The hasp
was wrenched off, and the wardrobe
and chest of drawers had been rilled
of all their contents.
"The room is In a most dreadful con
dition," said Stephen, "and the woman
poor creature, Is almost off her head
She said that she had never had ruch
nn experience before. I waited till a
neighbor came In to keep her company
she was frightened to be left .ilone
In the hoime or I should have been
back sooner. You must make up a bed
on the sofa for to-night, you fellows."
"Why didn't you stay there as you
Intended ?' said Seymour, who had
Joined us. "They haven't stolen the
beds have they?"
"Well," said Lambsworthy, slowly,
"do you know, It Is strange, but It didn't
occur to me. It gave me such a shack
the whole thing; It was so unexpected,
that my own Idea was to get away as
Boon as I could. And they have sent
to the station and the police will be
here very soon. There is no sign of how
the burglars effected an entrance. It
would really have been very unpleas
ant to sleep there."
"Funks!" said Seymour, under his
breath; and though I know that Lambs
worthy was not a coward. I could see
myself his nerves were a little out of
order, too.
If confirmation had been needed, I
should have got it, as a banging came
at the street door again, and a thrill
voice was heard asking if "Mr, Lambs
worthy" lived there.
Stephen Jumped up and went out,
coming back to say that It was the
servant, who had been sent to inquire
if he would step around at 11 o'clock
to-morrow, or If he would be here at
the cottage, In case his evidence was
wanted.
"I said I would go with pleasure," ho
explained. "But I do not see what 'evi
dence' I can give."
"Nor can anybody else see it either!"
returned Seymour. "My dear fellow,
is it possible you don't understand
what the girl came for really? She was
tent to see if you had given a false
address of not The police are suspect
ing you,"
I thought Mr. Lambsworthy would
have fallen.
"Suspecting me?" he ejaculated.
"Certainly; very naturally, too. You
P" to a house, a perfect stranger. You
rgage a room, are furnished with a
latch-key; and the same evening, while
the landlady Is out, a burglary takes
place a burglary never having occur
red there before. If they had found
no 'Mr. Lambsworthy' living here, there
would have been a warrant Issued for
your arrest."
"Do you think that Is no, old fellow?"
asked Stephen, appealing to me with
big eyes.
I admitted that it sounded probable.
I, however, added that his respecta
bility was a very easy matter to prove,
even If it should still be doubted, and,
after he had regained his composure,
we improvised a shake down for him
on the couch, and we all retired.
How can I describe the development?
Lambsworthy went around to the scene
of the late commotion at 11 o'clock next
morning as he had promised; and, when
he came back, he was In the nearest
approach of a rage that I had ever
seen him in.
"Old chap, the wretch does suspect
me!" he exclaimed. "Seymour was
right! She gave my deposit back, end
said if it was all the same to me she
would rather not let the room. Of
course, I said I did not mind; and as
she was rather Inclined to be high
handed, I added that on the whole, I
did not know that I should fancy bring
ing my luggage there. I said It was
'rather a dangerous proceeding for
lady to go out and leave a house to
take care of itself.' And what do you
think she answered.
"I cannot guess, Lambsworthy."
"She said It was a good deal more
dangerous to take a lodger without
reference. I told her If she dared to
hint at her Infernal suspicions to hei
neighbors I'd have her held up for
slander, and so I will! I never beard
of such a thing."
He was In a state of great excitement
all day, recounting the affair over and
over again to 8eymour and Miss Car.
donnel and myself. I am bound to say
that I got a Uttle tired of it, but Fey.
mour roared with laughter every time,
and I caught a look in Norah Cardon
net's eyes that auguered badly for hire
in consequence. If nobody else wai
sympathetic the young lady was.
Harry Seymour disappeared durini
the afternoons-went for a long tramp,
ho paid and I had the Indlgnunl
Lemba worthy all to myself until he re
turned.
When he did come back he said h
l'.al noticed a card with "Apartinenti
t ) Let" on it in a window just around
the corner, and suggested to Btephei
oltulnli.g a room In the house.
"This looks a good, substantial kln4
cf domicile," he said; "one not likeli
to bo burglarised! Wouldn't do for thtl
I tst place you choose to be broken into
viu know, Lambsworthy; that wouK
Le really damning!"
Lambsworthy, who shuddered at thi
1 io Idea, thanked him, and sallltri
t n th to see If he could arrange.
He came back and told us he had
-ettled.
"Hut," he said, "do you know I'm
nervous! What Seymour said Is true,
, and it tnlght happen Unit the eninn
kind of thing occurred theroU What
should I do if there were a robbery
there, too, to-night. Why, I should
be taken tip; I am certain I should:"
"Pure thing!" said Seymour, explod
ing afresh. "Console yourself by ie
memherlng that coincidences like that
don't ha'ipen!"
He was very amiable to Lambsworthy
that evening, pressing him to try his
tobacco after supper, and shaking
hands with him warmly when they
Raid "Good night." He, however,' did
not want to go to bed after the other's
departure; he said he should sit up and
smoke, and begged me to do likewise.
"It's quite early." he said, "not 11.
Sit up with me, and we ll turn in. if
you want to, as soon as I've finished
this pipe."
I consented. As a matter of fact, he
had never been better company, and I
was Just laughing heartily at a I'tory
he was telling me when
"Good heavens!" I exclaimed, turning
pale, "that can't be Lambsworthy come
back again to-night? Who Is It?"
"Better open the door and see," re
plied Seymour philosophically.
It was being beaten wildly as I bolt
ed Into the passage. Another Instant
and my worst fears were verified.
Lambsworthy stood before me with
chattering teeth, the portmanteau the
accursed portmanteau by his side.
"Not "
"Burglars?" he gasped. "Yes! For
the Lord's sake, give me some whiskey,
old man, I'm feeling 111!"
He followed me Into the sitting room
and fell Into a chair.
"It is the same thing," he muttered,
"Just the same thing. The house had
been broken Into when I got there, end
no clue no clue. The man showed me
the room; everything scattered and i.p
slde down. 8eymour, I shall go mad!"
He seemed In measurable distance r.f
It even Seymour was concerned. It
certainly seemed like fatality. Where
ever the poor fellow went there was a
burglary; his name would be one the
tongues of all Wlcketsfleld directly.
There was never anything known like
it. I
We gave him whiskey and more
whiskey, and after that whiskey again.
Whether he slept when we left him at
last on the couch I do not know, but
his face was as white as a sheet in
the morning and when Mr. and Mrs.
Cardonnel called with their daughter
they were aghast at his appearand.
"It Is perfectly extraordinary!" ex
claimed Norah, "and as to the police,
who can allow such things"
Words failed her to express her con
tempt for the stupidity of the police.
"I tell you what," said Mr. Cardonnel,
"I should go to the station myself if I
were you. Confound it all, we will go
at once. Something must be done, and
without delay."
I noticed that In a moment Seymour
was almost as pale as Lambsworthy. I
was even prepared to hear him offer an
objection.
"I should not do that, sir If I may
presume to advise," he said. "I should
wait a day or two."
"And why, sir?" demanded Mr. Car
donnel, peremptorily; "why should we
wait an hour?"
"Yes," echoed Norah, haughtily;
"why should we wait five minutes, Mr.
Seymour?"
"We will go now," cried Stephen; "I
thank you for the suggestion. We
will go at once, and I will see the in
spector myself."
Seymour sat playing nervously with
an ash tray on the table. . He seemed
to be trying to speak, and to have lost
his voice. At last he said Jerkily, and
with an attempt to laugh.
"To tell the truth, everybody, you lire
spoiling a practical Joke of mine,
Lambsworthy was so very concerned
at the first burglary that I thought
how extremely funny it would be If
the same thing occurred In the next
house he tried. The landlord Is my to
bacconist, and well there wasn't a bur.
glary last night at all; it was just ar
ranged between us for a lark! that's
all."
If I live to be a hundred I shall
never forget Miss Cardonnel's look of
contempt as h finished speaking; and
I don't think Seymour will forget it
either. Her papa's violent opinion of
practical Jokes and Jokers paled into
insignificance beside it, and Lambs-
worthy's good-natured assurance that
"no harm was done" fell perfectly un
heeded In the room.
Yes; Norah became Mrs. Stephen
Lambsworthy, and refused to Invite
Seymour to the wedding. Whether af
fairs would have ended like that in the
ordinary course, I don't know; but that
Is how they did end, and Seymour, at
least, has always been convinced that
he has only himself to thank for it
Might Have OW Them Away.
A traveler Just returning from Mexico
tells an amusing tale of the attempts of
a peddler to sell precious stones at an
exorbitant price, who In the end con
sented to dispose of his wares for a mere
song. It was at Queretaro, an Import
ant city on the line of the Mexican
Central Railroad.
"When the train pulled in at the de
pot," said he, "It was immediately sur
rounded by a score or more of peons
trying to sell opals to the passengers.
One tall, rather Ane-lcoklng Indian ex
tended toward me his hand containing
ten or a desen glittering stones. .
"How much?" I asked.
"Twelve dollars," replied he, "Cheap,
very cheap, only $12."
"No, no!" I replied, in an emphatio
way. "Muy caro" (very dear).
"Five dollars!" then quoted tho
vender, turning the stones over in his
hand, that I might see that they wero
all there. ,
"No, $1." said I.
"Yes, yes!" cried the vender, eagerly.
"One dollar; yes, yes, you can have them
for $1. Take them." New York Her
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