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Why tho Subjort of Dunlin? Was
Distasteful to Him.
"I'vi soon a trMKl many strans-o thinjjs
in my tinn. us you kntv, luit I ihvt
-t tol.l y.i nlKi!t tlu strangest f
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ly siil. in the veramla of his snu little
house in one of the northwestern prov
inces of Imlia, watchinp tlie sun sinlc
lx hiinl the etulless line of stately palm
trees that stood ranged like plumed
soldiers alon tlie opjnisite bank of the.
river.
'Suppose you tell it me now. pen
cm!, " snj.'trest'd I, fruessinpr from tlie
grave l.M.k on the old liero's weather
lieaten f:u-e that the fortlit'oiuiiiir story
must have deeper interest than any of
his ordinary campaigning aneedotes.
"I don't mind if I do." answered the
veteran, "for although it is an aiTair
that I have no creat pleasure in look
I
ing hack titon. it taught tno a t.mhI les
. son, if only I had the sense to profit
h.V it.
"When I was quite a ynnnc fellow
and hadn't long- joined the army." he
resumed after a pause, "I tised to t'
lonff to a fashionable club in London,
the members of which were just the
sort of men you read at nut. in Lever's
novels as wild as could le. always in
some serajH' or other, and spending
their whole time in ridini. shooting,
.'aiiililiinr or fishing all except one.
"That one was a small, quiet, pale
faced, pray -haired man. with a very
sad, weary look, as if he hail once Ik-cii
crushed by some great sorrow and had
never been able to shake it off. He
hardly ever spoke to anyone, and when
he did it was in a voice as meek as his
fa. e. So, of course, we made preat fun
f h'ni amonp ourselves, tindiuvr these
quiet ways of his a very queer contrast
to our own rackety, harum-scarum
style, and we nicknamed hiu, the
fjuietest Man in the flub.' thouyl,, in
deed, we mipht j'.ist as well have called
Iriin the only quiet man iu it.
"Well, one evening when the room
wis pretty full an. I our friend. !k
Oitict Man. was sittinp. as usual, in the
far cruel-, away from every 1 1 n iy els,
we l"ran to talk almtit dueiiie'. 11 sub-j.-et
with which we were ai! tolerably
familiar. f..r there was har.Uv a man 1
anion; us who hadn't Ikvii 'mit'oi .,
" 'They di'l some tidy dueling in tlie
ol 1 times,' s:-.i.l I,..rd II , who was
killed afterward in action. 'Yon re
member how those six chums of Harry
III. of l-'i-arice f'.iu'ht three to three till
there was only one left alive out of
til.' si."
" 'That was pretty fair, certainly,
cried I'harlie Thornton, of the fluards;
'bet. after all, it doesn't lieat the preat
duel thirty years apo ln'tw i-en Sir Har
ry M.irt i;i:ra!e and t'.d. Korteseiie.'
"Me had hardly spoken when up
jumped the quiet man as if Soiuelnly
liad st'ieit a pin into hirn.
"What on earth's the matter with
himV whisp. red Thornton. '1 never
saw him like that Ivcfore."
"'IJtit what was the story, then,
Charlie?" asked another man. 'I've
heard of I-'ortcseue, of course, for he
was the most famous duelist of his
kind in all Knpland, and I've heard of
his lipht with Martinpale. t:x; but I
don't think I've ever had any particu
lars, or at least none worth spcakinp
of.'
" 'I can pive them to you, then. an
swered Thornton; 'for 1113' uncle was
Mart in pale's seeomL I've heard him
tell the story many a time, and he al
ways said that althoiiph hs had lien
in plentv of duels, he had never seen
one like that, and never wanted t see
it :i:rain. What they quarreled alxuit I
don't know, and I dare say they didn't
know themsel ves; but my uncle used
to say he knew by the look in their
eyes when they took their places to lire,
that it could not end without bl. mil, and
it didn't. They fired twice, and every
shot told; and then their seconds, sce
inp t hat Iwith men were hard hit and
blcedinp fast, wanted to put an end to
it. Hut I'ortescue who was one of
those prim fellows who are always
most danperous toward the end of a
fipht insisted upon a third shot. The
third time, by some accident, Martin
pale lired a moment too soon, and pave
him a bad wound in the side; but l'or
tcscue pressed his hand to the wound to
stop the blcedinp, and then, almost
bent double with pain thoupl, he was,
he lired and broupht dow n his man.'
" 'Killed him?
" 'Kather shot him slap throuph the
heart. I'.ut it was his last duel, for
f i-i m that ilay he was never heard of
apain: and people said he had cither
committed suicide or died of a broken
heart.'
" 'Well, I don't see why he need have
lone that, for, after all, it was a fair
lipiit,' struck in Lord II . who had
been hnikiiip over the newspapers on
the table; 'but if you talk of duelinp,
what do you say to this?
" "Another DtielinpTrapetly in l'aris.
Thi; notorious Prussian bully ami duel-
ist. Armand de Villciie.uve. has just 'k
added another wreath to his WimkI- j
stamcil laurels, tne new victim licinp
Chevalier Henri tie l'olipnae. a line
younp fellow of twenty-three, the only
son of a widowed mother. Some st roup
expressions of dispust used by the
chevalier with reference to one of lie
Yilleneuve's former duels havinp come,
to the lattcr's ears, he soupht out
l'olipnae and insulted him so pnssly as
to render a meetinp inevitable. The
hevalier havinp lired Iir.it and missed,
De Villeneuve called out to him: "Ixxdc
to the second buttonhole of your coat!"
and sent a bullet throuph the spot in
dicated into the breast of his opjoiient,
who expired half ait hour later in preat
apony. His mother is said to be broken
hearted at his death. How much lonp
r, we wonder, will this savape lie al
lowed t'j olTcr these human sacrilices' to
his own inordinate vanity?"
"Just then I happened to look up and
saw the Otiact Man riseslo wly from the
chair with u face so chanped that it
startled me almost as much as if I had
seen him disappear bodily, and another
man rise up in his stead. I had once
Keen an oil paintinp abroad in which
an avenpinp anpel was htirlinp lipht
ninps upon Sodou, and Comorruh, ami
that is just how that man looked at
that moment. He planced at his watch
and then came across tlie r.xiu and
vent quickly out.
"The next nipht, and the next, ajid
the next after that, the tjjuiet Man
didn't apjH-ar at the tduK and we all
bi'pan to wonder what -onld have In
come ot mm. nut wnen 1 oamo in on
the fourth eveninp there he was
thouph lie ltMiked as it seemeil to me
rather paler and feebler than usual.
" "Here's news for you. Fred,' called
out Charlie Thornton. 'That rascally
French duelist, le Villeneuve. has met
his match at last; and Dr. Lansett. of
the th Henpal native infantry, who
saw the whole affair,- is just poinp to
tell us all alxiut it.
" 'Well, this is how it happened. lie
pan the doctor. 'In passinp throuph
l'aris I stopjH'd to visit my old friend.
Col. De Malct. and he and I were stroll
inp throuph the Tuileries pardens
when suddenly a murmur ran throuph
the crowd: 'Here comes De Villeneuve!'
Then the thronp parted, and I had just
time to catch a plimpse of the bully's
tall tipure and lonp black mustache
when a man stepped forth from the
crowd and said somethinp to him, and
then suddenly dealt him a blow.
" 'Then there was a rush and clamor
of voices and every txvly came crowdinp
round so that I couldn't see anythinp:
but presently De Malct came up to me
and said: "Lan.ett. we shall want you
in this affair, althouph I'm afraid that
you won't have a chance of showinp
your surpery, for De Villwneuve never
wounds without kiilinp."
" Must then the crowd oj.x?ned and I
saw, to my amazement, that this man
who hail insulted and defied the m.ist
terrible fiphter in all France was a
slim little fellow, with a pale, meaper
face.
" ' "As I am the challenged party, I
have the ripht to chxse weapons," we
heard him i-ay. quite coolly, "and I
chxse swords."
"'"Are you mad!" cried De Malet.
scizinp his arm; "don't you know De
Viilcneuve's the deadliest swordsman
in I.nropc? Choose pi&tols pive your
self a chance:"
"1 istols may miss swords can't,"
answered the stranper in a tone of
such savape determination that every
one w ho heard him even De Villeneuve
himself, furious thouph he was pave a
kind of shudder. "I had vowed never
t fipht apain. save with a man w ho de
served to die; but you have deserved it
well by your colu-bhxxleil murders, and
die you shall!"
" " here b. th sides were so caper to
fipht, there was 110 need of much prep
aration. They met that eveninp, C..1.
de Malct bciup the stranper's s--ond,
and another French otliccr actinp for
I e illcucuve.
"'As a rule, De Villeneuve was as
cxl on the pround as if he had Wen at
a picnic, but at this time he was as
wild and tierce as a tipcr, partly, no
doubt, from havinp locn insuite I 1'-f.-.re
so many of his admirers, but also
became he had found out tiiat the
str.mper was -in Lttplishtiiau. and he
hated e-.-crvi.hinp Kn rli .-.h like oison.
Hut more terrible tliun all his fury was
the cold, stem, pitiless calmness of the
Lnpiishuiau's face, as if he felt certain
of his man.
" 'They fought for some time w ithoul
a scratch 011 cither side, and then sud
den! v the Knplishman stumbled for
ward. x;osinp his left side. Ouick as
lipiituin thi' Frenchman's poin,.
.lart'il i.,, nnd instantly the other';,
shirt wa. till crimson with blood, but
the moment he felt the steel pierce
him he made a thrust with ali his
mipht, and buried his sword tin to the
hilt iu De Villenciive's lnxly. Then I
uiiilcrstiMxl that he had tlcli'oeratdy
laid himself open to his opxm-nt"s
weapon in order to make sure of kiiiinp
him; so he hail, for De Villeneuve never
spoke apain.
"Just as the doctor said this, down
fell :i chair with a "Teat crash, and
look'mp up we saw the IJuiet Man try
inp ti slip past us to the dxr. Dr.
Lansett spranp up and caupht him by
both hands.
Yon here?' he cried. 'Let me con
pratulatc you ujxin havinppunished. as
he ileserved. the most cold-hearted cut
throat in existence. I trust your
wound d.M-s not pain you much?'
"'What?' we all shouted, 'was it he
who killed lie Villeneuve?'
" 'Iiuloed it was, answered the doe
tor, 'and it was the pluckiest thinp 1
over saw.'
"We all jumped from our ehairs and
came crowdinp around tin; hero, settinp
up a cheer that made the air rinp, but
he looked at lis so sadly and darkly that
it made tlie shout die upon our lips.
" 'Ah, lad-: lads!' said ho. in a tone
of deep dejection, 'for heaven's sake
don't praise a man for havinp shed
bhxxl and destroyed life, i killed that
ruffian as I would have killed a wild
beast, to save those whom he would
have slauphtercd; but (hxl help the
man who shall take a human life
merely to pratify his own pride and
anper: If you wish to know- what hap
piness a successful duelist enjoys, look
at me. Do you rcincmlx-r that story
which f'apt. Thornton told here the
other nipht alx.ut the duel in which
Col. I ortcscne, the "famous duellist,"
as you called him, killed Sir llenry
Martinpale?'
" 'To be sure.' answered Charlie
Thornton, hxikinp rather scans I; 'but
what of it?
" 'I w as once Col. Fortescue,' w as tlie
answer." Saturday Review and Re
public 'I hi" Irfe-I Hat.
In MeChire's Mnpazine Frof. Henry
Drutnmoiul .iisens; es the question of
where man pot his ars. Nat tire, lie
holds. :-chiom makes anythinp new;
Jut method of creation is to adopt
somet hiup old. So when land animals
.Me. re determined on. and nature started
out ,t manufacture cars for them, she
ui iJe thrill out of old brea thinp appa
ratus. She saw, Frof. Drummond coii
tvnds, that if waU-r could -ass throuph
a hole in the neck. Mich as lishes have,
.sound i-Kiill pass likewise, thereupon
he broupht ci-rtain sjveies adapted to
lier iuim.-4 to shore, and sot to work
upon the live pill-slits and .-lalxirated
t h" wlioic in a lioarinp irpan. This
was not a quick pr.x-css. but tin slow
lalx.r of a.'T.s. but tinally was pnxluceil
the perfect car, and man was not cre
ated until the work was done.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
ToitToisr.s have Wen known to live
"on years.
Tin: larpost mammoth tusk yet dis
covered was hi feet.
At tisk equator the avcrape annual
rtiinfall is h o iuches.
Tin: cost of a one-man sea-divinp ap
paratus for it depth of -IK' fe.-t isS."7.".
N'aiiii .'.i''; Fon.M'AKTi: has been jani
tor of a Kentucky church for "0 years.
A Ml'l.i: ow ned by residents at Crow
den Creek, X. C., is reported to be near
ly half a century old.
THE BOY BATTALION.
Why They Did Not End tho Civil
War.
In those stirrinpdays back in the six
ties the drums, ilaps and lonp lines of
marching men took captive the hearts
arid fired the imagination of Wys.
Marbles, bats, tops and balls were ex
chanped for military implements and
trappings. Every urchin became a sol
dier; every squad of lioys a company or
battalion.
So eager were we, in our North Caro
lina neighWrhood, to fill our ranks and
outdo the neighboring plantations, that
all manner of r.-cruits were gladly re
ceived and enlisted, including our ne
gro playfellows, and on a pinch even
our sisters and girl cousins.
Af ter a time we grew tired of drilling
and lonped for more stirring service.
The men had gone to the front and our
hearts had pone w ith them. Our mot
ley companies were disbanded one by
one, and the more enterprising boys of
the neiphlxirluxxl Wpan to discuss the
advisability of a forced march to the
seat of war.
To such a proceeding we were quite
sure our mothers would object. Hut
hail they not, in some cases, opposed
the enlistment of our fathers? We
heard the loud cry on all sides, that it
wits every one's duty to do his utmost
to end the war.
Just then we found in the garrets of
our homes several Ionp-forpotten lots
of military accoutrements used bv rcl- I
: .1. . . . - . - ... !
ai.it.-s iu me -uexican war. or in mili
tia drills. That decided the matter.
Now we could equip ourselves.
A niarchinp column, comprised of
Neil Tippet, Mark Lanny, Tom Mallet,
myself and several smaller boys, was
instantly lormetL
We were to muster at the Creek
Ilridpe at daybreak. Of course we
were too much excited the nipht Wfore
to sleep. We were all on hand Wfore
the day broke, and the Ixjy battalion
was formcL We wore hupe light-horse
helmets, made of leather, decked with
trailing horsehair and shaped like the
helmet of Alexander the tireat, Wsido
cutaway coats radiant with buff trim
minps an.l brass buttons. The coat
sleeves were rolled up so that wemipht
have the use of ou hands, and under
the lininp of tlie helmets leaves were
stuff itl to keep them from dropping
down over our faces.
We had an armament that we felt
must Ik? decisive. Indeed, we wondered
how our elders could have overlooked
such irresistible weapons; and we
counted ourselves the most fortunate.if
Wings in having discovered them.
I Imre a sword which no less an au
thority than Fncle Trimus the car-riap--driver,
declared to W nearly sharp
enough to shave with. Ned had a
pistol which discharged six shot with
out reloading. Mirk had one which
required no cocking, but was fired by
the pulling of the tripper, and Tom
had a rifle that would kill at a distance
of a mile.
The fact that I had a sword of course
made me captain. After inspectinp the
puns to see if they were all loaded, and
orderinp to their homes all recruits un
der nine years old I was twelve for
the reason that they were V x small and
had no uniforms or weapons, I shouted
the command
"Shonlder-r arms! Forward mar-rch'"
We trudped bravely forward. As
soon as the friendly screen of the woods
was reached the command was halted.
or rather it halted itself, in order that
a line of march mipht W apreed upon.
For two reasons we decided aban
don the highway and strike across the
country. me reason was that we
wished to surprise the enemy and end
the war with a volley. The other rea
son, and the chief one, was that the
most formidable enemies of -the expedi
tion in the iMrsons of our mothers held
the rear and would doubtless pive pur
suit along the roaiL
So, filiup off by the left flank, we
struck out through the wxxls and
fields. The thorns and briers seemed
thicker than we had ever Wfore known
them and the gullies closer together
and deeper. l!ut tilled with enthusi
asm, we pressed manfully forward.
The sun crept slowly up, Ixt'ominp
hotter every moment. Our weapons
grew heavier, and our military coats
seem.nl to lx' larper and lonper with
every step we made. Hunger reminded
us that we had not only left home with
out breakfast, but that in orpanizing
we had also entirely overlooked the com
missary department!
To our minds a soldier was a fiphter,
pure and simple. We hail never for an
instant associated soldiering with eat
ing. That the soldier mipht get killed
was likely; that he might get hungry we
hail not dreamed of.
My men Wpan to murmur, and now
and then to halt and look back.- 1
urged them on. reminding them that it
was a soldier's duty to suffer and even
lie for his country, and that tho more he
did of Isoth, the greater and truer
soldier he was. With many other cheer
ing words that I had pick.il up, from
listening to the grown people, I ex
hort is 1 my army to do its duty.
Hut in spite of all I could do the com
mand Wpan to straggle so badiy that I
was forced to detail Private Lanny as
a rear puard, with strict orders to keep
the men in line, lhit as the rear puard
itself S.XU1 Wpan to strapple, I was
forced to quit my place at the head of
the column and till that place myself,
urginp my men on, sword in hand.
After awhile we Wgan to skirt a pas
ture in which grew many persimmon
trees. Among them was a dead one, to
wh.iM' branches some of lust year's
fruit still clung. The moment the com
mand .espied these, all order was lost.
It scrambled over the fence and W-pan
to feast.
Knowing that an officer's place was
with his men, and also being exceed
ingly hungry myself, I was not long in
joining them. The persimmons must
really have Ixn-n dry and tasteless, but,
plentifully sauced with hunper, we
thought them the daintiest f.Kxl we
had ever eaten. We swallowed them
by hand fills.
While I was in the tree a loud rush
inp in the leaves of the adjoining
woods attracted my attention. We
were so tired that I was sure that we
must have traversed a vast region, and
thought it more than likely that we
were at last in face of the enemy. I
ordered my men down from the per
simmon tree and threw them hurriedly
into line. I drew my sword and ad
vanced my force, with OH-ked pieces,
to where wood and pasture met.
Here the noise prew so much louder,
indicating the approach of such a su
perior force, that we halted to decide,
by council of war, w hether officer or
privates ought to occupy the front
rank. The privates were sure that the
oflicer should. The otiieer was equally
positive that he should not.
As each party at once set alxjut put
ting his theory on this point into prac
tice, the company was sKn back at the
persimmon tree which stxxl on the
crest of the hilL Here we had an open
space at our front, and, what seemed
just then still more important, an open
one in our rear, with a line of retreat
downhill.
The rustling of leaves and snapping
of twigs swept nearer and nearer. The
edge of the wxl was reached. The
outmost fringe of bushes was now
a-quiver.
I have a confused recollection of a
roar, a rush of wildly flyinp earth and
leaves and still more wildly Hying hel
mets and cutaway coats. Then I found
mj-self astride a persimmon limb a safe
distance from the pround, which was
held by a ravinp bulL The animal was
dividing his attention Wtween my tree
and the three others that held the re
mainder of the battalion.
"Aim! Fire!" I shouted as sxjn as I
took in the situation.
No response came. I repeated the
command still louder and more per
emptorily, and continued to do so until,
having at some risk wriggled myself
around on the limb so as to face the
battalion. I found that the reason why
my soldiers did not fire was that they
had nothing to fire.
The armament of the battalion was in
the hands, or rather under the feet, of
the buiL 1 reached for iny sword only
to find it also missing.
The bull took his stand under the
tree. The afternoon stretched out into
an interminable expanse of time. My
persimmon branch Wcame intensely
uncomfortable; but still tlie bull kept
watch for us. Ity and by a thunder
storm arose and made matters much
worse.
Accompanied by blinding flashes of
lightning that seemed to play around
our very heads an.l deafening thunder
peals, the rain fell in such torrents that
we could scarcely breathe. As the
horsehair helmets haxl Wen abandoned
with our arms, the rain poured into our
gaping collars till we were soaked
throuph and throuph.
Twilight anise fmm the woods like a
black mist and Ix-pan to envelop us
The rain slackened, but the bulC in
stead of departinp, lay down amonp the
trees, sprinpiup to his feet Wllowing
fearfully if any one of us made an at
tempt to pet down.
I wits Weoming so chilled and stiff,
and ny hands were so lx-nu ml xsl w ith
clutching the tree, that several times I
was on the point of losing my hold and
falling to the proumL Fmm the some
what unsoldierly sounds of distress
that came from the other trees. I in
ferred that the rest of the battalion
were in no Wtter plight than I.
Just as nipht was swaliowrhp up the
world. I made out a dim, decrepit fig
ure hobbling alonp on the other side of
the fence.
"Whut dat up dem trees?" demanded
a voice.
"It's me:" sang out with one accord
four hoarse and whining voices.
"My goodness aliW, chillun, whut
yer mean turnin' tree-frawg dis time o'
night?"' came the response.
O. Fncle Nat:" I called out. "Drive
away that bull: He won't let us eoine
down' I chattered.
(iixxl old Nat Dibby, a free nepro
whom we all knew very well, had hap
pened to oorue past- lie iiiadj a rush
at the bull, and drove him away, and
one by one we half-slid, half-fell out of
the trees, helped down by Fncle Nat.
I wondered greatly how he happened
to lx? here so far away, and when he
told us that his cabin was only a mile
away, I could not Wlieve it.
Uut it was to his cabin that he txlc
us, and after we had been regaled on
ash-cake and buttermilk, the battalion,
captain and all, were tucked away in
the only Wd in the house, while the old
man and his wife. Aunt l"aty, slept on
the fl.xir.
Iletimes the next morning the bat
talion Wpan their retrograde move
ment. At the head marched Fncle Nat,
W'arinp our weapons in his arras Aunt
Patsy had sjx-ut most of the nipht in
drying1 our regimentals but they were
so rumpled and liedrapgle-i by the catn
paipn of the daj Wfore that all the
pomp arfd circumstance of wr was
pone, leaving us to cut pitiful figures
indeed.
"Ne" mind, honeys," argued the old
man, as we trudped at his heels "I
thinks you's done mons'ous smart for
liT scrojs o chillun lak you, I d.x's
You's done toted dese hyere puns all
day 'dout sluxitin' anybody or yerse'fs
eider, you's cloinb trees lak squir'ls an
frez to tie limbs lak tree frawps (Jo
home an' eat a few mo' ash cakes an'
you'll lay you'll W gin'nls ev'y one un
yer, by eu' by!"
When we came within sight of home
we found the wildest commotion. Peo
ple thronged the place. Searching
parties were Wing formed. Mounted
messen gors were dashing off along every
road ami bywa3.
We trembled with fear at the thought
of meeting our mothers. We had ex
pected to march back to the sound of
martial music and crowned .vith glory
that should compel forgiveness How
could we go back in this guise?
Uut even here the pixxluess and tact
of Fncle Nat stood us in poixl steaL
Haltiup at a safe distance, lie hid us in
the bushes went forward alone and
made peace at the house. Then he
came back and led the forlorn battalion
tap the hill and turned them over to the
authorities David Dodge, in Y'outh's
Companion.
MAN'S INGENUITY.
Neaki.T one hundn-d diffen-nt ma
chines have Ix-on invented for Wiring
rock.
Oxkii three hundr-d miles of irriga
tion ditches are in ox-ration or building
in Yakima county. Wash.
A hay saver, consisting of athnns
sided device, w hich enables the horse to
insert his head into the manger but
dix-s not permit any lateral movement
of it. is a late invention.
A 1'LAN to force coal by pipe line
from the mines to the sealxiard has
lx-cn proixis.il. The coul will W
pround to Nwdcr, mixed with water,
sent throuph tho pip.'s. the water then
removed, the coal dried and pressed in
to bricks .
ANOTHER FELLOW'S (j I KL
now Geoffrey Halkett Was Cured
of Hia Ono Failing.
There was a man once fleoffrcy Hal
kett by name of few failinps hut chief
among them was the ineradicable con
viction that he understood the inner
most workings of the mind of a pirL
"A clever beggar 1 once knew," he
explained one nipht to his old intimate,
I'addon "in fact, alxmt the cleverest
Wppar 1 ever did know once said to
me: "If you know one thinp thoroughly
vou hold the key to everything. It
didn't strike me particularly at the
time. I had no reason for testing it,
but it's awfully true, Jim. I can see it
now."
It was in Jim I'addon's rooms in
firay's inn that this sententious remark
was uttered. Jim I'addon was at the
moment keenlj interested in wonder--inp
whether the cork of a soda water
lxittle would come out easily, like a
tooth with pas, or would require ex
traotinp with a wrench. The pas
pained the day.
"Well," he said, content now to dally
with trivialities, "and what if it is?"
"Well, I'll tell you. Sometimes this
knowledge is very useful to yon, and
sometimes well, it's just amusing. I
don't think I'm particularlj- conceited,
but I flatter myself that 1 have always
had a knack of understanding girls It
isn't a thing a man cares to talk alxiut
much. In the first place ninety-nine
people out of a hundred would .put
anyone down as a fool who said this
possibly, I am rather femininely
minded. In any case, I often used to
think I could see things from their
point of view Wtter than most follows,
and argue their cases intlu ir ow n way.
Now, since I have thoroughly under
stood one girl, 1 know I can do this.
And what is the consequence? Why,
they never astonish me now."
Pa.l-.lon t.xik his pipe from his mouth
and attempted to realize an old ambi
tion, and blow a second smoke ring
throuph a first.
"My experience, he said, when fail
ure tripjK'il him up remorselessly, "is
that they vary too much. No two are
alike and they always get mixed up,
and to try to put them riht is the
worst of all." Whether he w as alluding
to smoke rings or girls was not very
clear.
"Look here, old follow," he said,
"you've either had one whisky tx
many or tixi lew."
Paddon adopted: the only course open
to him.
"Who's the rxxir pirl you've experi
mented on? Do I know her'.'"
'"That's rather a brutal way of put
tinp it, but 1 siipxse it's Kate."
'Then," said 1'aildon, "isn't it almost
a pity that you are not goiup to marry
her instead of sue."
Halkett smi'.ed. He was not a mar
ryinp man.
V. hen next tho two friends met it
was at the homo of Kate Temple, tlie
maiden who. after Whip analyzed bv
one man, had perversely fallen i:i love
with another, llalkett, too ;'iiiosoiIi-ii-al
to W jealous had only found in
tlie circumstance of her preference for
his friend a further pnxif of the weli
known law that ideals must W low
ered h:'lf-mast high w henscii. nee passes
by. Iu short, he liked her still, but his
attitude now mipht Wstbe liesoriW'd as
one of slightly ontcmptuous sympathy.
Tiie cireuiiistuncos under w hich they
all met were now rather deprossinp.
.i.:mcs Paddon had many weaknesses
and one of them had just attained an
aiarmmp prominence, Sir Mcllcrmott
Hailarat. who doubled tlie parts of emi
nent specialist and family iriend to the
Temples (for Kate had one incum
brance she was garrisoned round
about by a maiden aunt with fads), had
just discovered tiiat his tiear younp
friend Pad Ion possessed only one lunp
in.itead of the normal number, and that
that interesting relic must 011 no ac
count be allowed to w inter iu England.
It was now Sc-ptemW-r. The young
man mipht take his lunp to Davos
Platz or to Colorado, but he must Ik olf
without doiay.
Halkett. like most people, was at his
Wst in emergencies The one cheering
f:ict to the Temples on this last de
pressirip evening was his quiet an
nouncement to Kate that if Jim liked
he would po with him and hxilt after
him. H.? had previously arranpod it all
v. ilh Paddon, who was p'.oased. This
almost reconciled Kate to her lover's
poinp to the further country. Jim Pad
don did not feel ill, he said, whereas if
he went to place haunted by invalids
iie would prow worse out of sympathy.
The p.xd-bvs that nipht were said
in chapters. IJeotTrey Halkett left first
and Kate's eyes were eloquent when
she thanked him. She did not say
much, but he was satisfied. It was at
tiiat moment that the eminently femi
nine thought occurred to her: "What a
pity Geoffrey should not many some
idee girl!" Then old M rs Temple said
pood-by to all and discreetly left the
lovers to settle the rest. This I-xk two
hours and three-quarters during which
time Ieoli'rev leaned apainst a lamjv
jxv.t smoking and thinking it rather a
pity that Kate's eyes should lx- wasted
on. I i;u. He was aroused by Jim rush
ing iLiirn the steps, aim st kn.x-king
him down and swearing at him. They
walked to Iyomloii that night, by w-ay
of petting up strength for the journey.
The next day thiy started.
Luskin, who advix-ato.l once a period
of lengthened probationary absence for
the young man in love, probably fore
saw the ad van tape of taking stops
which would cancel fifty per tent, of
first enpapements Paddon was not to
W relied upon with impunity. His
limp crvw lusty and strong in the
bracing air of the Kooky mountains
but he fell in love with a settler's
daughter just Wfore the time when he
should have return.il to Kate. Halkett
had noticed this emotion in its in
cipient stages, but Paddon had not,
nor had it even tinged his letters to
Kate, when he contracted a prevalent
form of fever and the settler's daughter
nursed him throuph it. As sxn as he
lx-came convalescent he Wstowod on
her a new Colorado edition of his old
love for Kate.
Now, Paddon's illness had W-on 11 al
kett's opportunity. Whatever swerved
in him, it was never his loyalty to his
friends He wrote to Kate regularly,
reporting the invalid's -health. When
i;m n'.rained convalescence it was
pnrtiptly broupht home to him that he
.i...l.t resume management of his own
affairs but his new smtitnont barred
the w ay to this At this crUis it seemed
good to Jim I'addon, whose simple
brain was not capable of dealing with
two sets of emotions, to unceremoni
ously depart with the settler's daughter
and marry her. He considerately left
a note requesting Halkett to deal with
his honor as he thought fit.
fooffrcj Halkett was a gentleman by
instinct, and at the Wst but an ama
teur liar. He had the llritish aversion
to taking away a man's character to a
girl. After much deli Wrath m he said
to himself: "If I know Kate and 1
llat'cr myself that I do know her --she
would rather retain her faith in a dead
Jim than lose her faith in a living Jim."
So he wrote that Jim had pot worse anil
died. He did not consider himself in
this, which was to his credit.
Then, Wing no longer required in
Colorado, he followed his letter home.
On the way home common sense ar
pued with him and broupht home to
him very forcibly that he had made a
mistake. Sxncr or later Kate must
learn the truth. It would W Wtter for
her to hear it from him now than to have
it brutally broken to her later, when it
mipht injure her life more. Il was not
a pleasant mission, this mission of con
fession on which he went a short time
after his return, but he confronted him
self with the thoupht that she would at
least aek now ledge that all he had done
was out of consideration for her.
fieoffrcy Halkett never told anyone
what hapjK-nel at that interview. As a
matter of fa. t, the pirl heard hi. n all
through, an.l then, white and trembling
with indignation, infinitely scornful
w ith herself for havinp allow ed anyone
to defame her lover while she listened,
she turned and left him not. though,
before she had pointedly suppest.il that
ho should never enter the house again.
"She had never trusted him from the
very Wginniiig," mi she said, "and
now "
Halkett took up his hat and went.
This man, who had thought himself
never to W astonished apain, was an
olistinate man, but not t'xi i.hstiuate to
a -know ledge himself astonished. Ho
wasted no time over useless arptiments
or letters, but he went abroad and some
time subsequently he met Jim Paddon.
The interview was short, but satisfac
tory. All. it appeared, that llalkett re
quired of his former frien.l was a letter
written to Kate, t.-llinp her how mat
ters stx'i. Paddon demurred, and
Mrs Paddon thoupht llalkett a nui
sance. "I may W a sneak," said Jim; "but I'll
he if I'll write myself down one."
Halkett declined to enter into the
distinction. "You can put it in a gen
tlemanly way if you can," he said.
A man with only one lunp and a bad
case is 110 match for a man with two
limps and n pixi.l case and a rapidly dc
velopinp passion for a woman. In less
than a month llalkett was home with
the letter.
"Kate is devilish olistinate when
she's in a bad teiiijx-r,' he said- to him
self. "I know what she'll do now;
she'll refuse to see me. and I'm not
going to trut-t the letter to the post."
Still, he wrote and asked her to make
an appointment. She replied by re
turn, naming a day and hour. Hal
kett gasp.-d a little at this, but went
for a walk to think how he should
meet her.
He need not have troubled about
arranging speeches or lines of con
duct. Kate tix.k the initiative at the
interview, as he might have known she
must- She was very civil, only rather
idstant, and asked him why he wanted
to see her.
"I have broupht you a letter," he
held out her hand.
He pave it to her. She looked at the
writing, murmured an excuse and left
him.
When she came back there was little
changed alxiut her except a bositaucy
in her speech.
"Don't make me apologize," she said,
"but. of course, 1 knew 3-011 were ripht
when you told me, only I wasn't poinp
to allow anyone but Jim to say such
things about himself, was I?"
"Certainly not, said Halkett, too
lilind.il by the sentiment of the sen
tence to consider its prammar. "It is
I who have to aivilopize."
So the part.il pxxl friends and the
student of women went home satisfied,
and ou the w hole rather pleased than
not with the sensation of astonishment
to which he was now becoming quite
accustomed.
After a decent interval of these
friendly relations he asked her to
marry him.
Then the friendly intercourse
snapped like a pipostem and she told
him lie had insulted her. "You ought
by this time," she said, "to know me
tixi well to imagine that I could ever
love again."
This finished off Geoffrey llalkett.
He spent a miserable month making
up his mind whether to po abroad or
to the devil, and he finally decided
on a combination, when this letter
came:
DtAKMa II ilkktt Have we aunoyed you
In any way; 11 not, wby do you never i-umu to
see un iui We shall txitu be in, an.t very
Ii1vuk.i1 to we you any aflenuMiu Hum 1-1 k If
you cure to lixik usupu-ain. Very xinci ri ly
yoors K.11 k Tkmi'i.k.
P. S Aunt nays she may have to po out
Wednesday, but every other afternoon sue u ill
be ut home
Scoff rey Halkett read this letter, but
not all his experience could make him
look as though lie had expected it.
After a little w hile he smil.il and lit
his pipe, and was happy. He mipht
not understand women, but he under
stood that letter. On Wednesday
morning he spout twenty guineas on a
rinp, on Wednesday -afternoon he
called at the Temples' and saw Kate.
After all, now that he was cured of
his chief weakness he was a very
good fellow, and there is never a Wtter
w ife than the girl who is capable of
astonishing you on occasion. Sau
Francisco F.xaminer.
A lMrldeily Lucky Accident.
It was a fortunate accident that led
to the discovery of the mcth.xl of trans
ferring handwriting to iron. A Pitts
burgh iron f. mnder. w hile experiment
ing with molten iron in different con
ditions, accidentally dropped a ticket
into u mold. Ho presently found that
the type of the ticket was transferred
to the iron in distinct characters Fol
lowing up the idea which this fact sug
gcsUil. he pnx-ur.il a heat-pr.x.f ink,
with which he wrote invertnlly on or
dinary w hite pajHT. This paper w its in
trixluc.il into the mold Wfore the mol
ten iron was pour.il in. When the mold
cm .led the paper had lteoti consumed by
tho heat, but the ink, which remain. d
intact, had left a clear impression uii
tliciroa. .