NEWS OF THE WEEK —Baldwin Gardiner, President of the Pacific Stock Board in San Francisco, has disappeared, and his whereabouts are unknown, though his resignation was received by the Board on the 22d. It appears that ‘*he has been dealing heavily in rising stocks, and was short on the market. It is estimated that his liabilities are $200,000, mostly due to customers, He leaves no assests.’’ — Four men were killed and a fifth one fatally injured by a collision be- tween two freight trains at Savoy, Iili- nois, on the evening of the 224. — Part of the scaffolding in cyclorama building at gave way on the 22d, throw- ing four men to the ground, fifty feet below, Michael Gugler and J. Austin were killed, and the others were dangerously injured. William H. Chesney, a prominent citizen of Hart- ford county, Maryland, was killed on the 22d, at Aberdeen by being run over by a railroad train. George Gibson, a slater, was killed by falling from the roof of the Eagle Hotel, at Lebanon, Penna., on the evening of the 22d. —Thirteen persons, of the family of L. H. Perkins, Superintendent of th Springfield Silk Milis, in Springfield, Massachusetts, were poisoned on the 22d by drinking poisoned tea. The tea was left on the piazza of the house where the family lived, on the evening of the 20th, in a small tin box, with the advertising card of alocal tea store, The tea was steeped for dinner noon, and thirteen of the fourteen persons who sat at the table drank it. All are expected to recover. It is thought the crime was committed by some dis- charged employe of the silk mill. —In Chicago, on the 22d, John P. Boyd was adjudged insane, his insanity having resulted from a ‘‘practical joke.” It appears that about three weeks ago some firemen *“‘held him up” under pretence of robbery, ‘‘just for the fun of the thing,” Boyd is a thin, nervous-looking man, 25 years old, a confirmed invahd, and bas been sup- ported by his sister for eight years, — Asbury McCormick, aged 11 years, on the 234, shot and killed his sixteen- year-old sister while carelessly handling a pistol, in Buford, Georgia. —TLevi Stackpool, aged 9 years, was killed by a calf at Auburn, New York, on the 22d. He was holding the ani- mal by a rope, which, in play, he had tied around his neck. The calf started off, threw the boy down, and dragged him until death resulted from strangu- lation. —**The greatest blizzard ever known 4 new Detroit, poon. At Fargo and Jamestown the lemperature was at zero. It was snow- ing in Iowa with a temperature ranging from 17 to 38 degrees above zero. —Near Moonville, Madison county, Indiana, on the 224, Ethan Allen Maynard shot and killed William H. Biddle, a neighbor, and then com- mitted suicide. There had been trouble between them, growing out of the betrayal of Mrs, Biddle by Maynard. Near Edgerton, Missouri, on the 22d, an old man named Reese was killed and his two sons were dangerously wounded in a quarrel with a man pamed Shackelford and his two sons over a disputed lease of ground. N. B. Hilger, a wealthy planter of White county, Arkansas, on the 23d, quarreled with named Hoskins, and struck him on the head with a shovel, killing him instantly. At Cleveland, Ohio, ou the 234, Benjamin Wheller without bail, for the murder of hi, wife. Wheller is 81 years old and his wife was 87. They had lived in Cleveland a half century, and each was worth $200,000. Mrs, Wheller was strangled to death on the might of the 12th inst., and Wheller claims —Wilham Reed, Treasurer of the Bouth Boston Horse Railroad Com- pany, in Boston, was arrested on the 23d on the charge of having embezzled $104,000 from the company, of which $34,000 is over 1ssue of stock. He also the Directors. before the Municipal Court he was held fn $5000 bail for a hearing next month, —By a collision between cattle trains near Chicago, early on the morning of the 24th, two cars and a caboose were smashed up, and a num- ber of cattle and a drover named R. G. Paul were killed, A farmer named McKinney and his three sons, while working on their farm at Edina, Mis- souri, on the 22d, were struck by lightning. One of the sons, aged 10 years, was killed, another was fa- tally injured, and the third is missing. It is supposed he was blinded and has wandered away. The father was not dangerously Injured. Richard Hol- Jand, Saperintendent of the Enter- Coal Company, was on the 24th killed by a freight train at Mt, Car- mel, Penna. Benjamin Pryor was probably fatally Injured on the 24th at the Fishback Mill, in Pottsville, Penna., by the breaking of a roll, the **hook’ end of which struck him in the abdomen. ~It wasgeported at Bismarck, Da- kota, on the 24th, that Seven Indians, “Big Thunder,”” the Crow chief, am- ong the number, were drowned while attempting to cross the Missouri river at a point of ten miles north of that city. Big Thunder was one of the most famous Chiefs of the Crow na- — While driving home from Syracuse, New York, on the 24th, Jeremiah Cala- han, his wife and son, aged 12 years, and Mrs. Foley, of Lafayette, were and Mrs, Foley fatally injured. ~A violent storm of wind and rain oud emery Be fh tort of ew on the 24th, Beveral were un- roofed, and other damage was done, —Charles Richardson, of Alpena, Mich died about a year ago, leav- ing a will beq to his widow property valued at ,000. The will was contested by his brothers and sis- ters. The wife employed three lawyers and then, contrary to their advice, comwprotwised the smt by paying the relatives $120,000. The lawyers pre- sented bills amounting to $38.000, Mrs, Richardson considered the charges ex- orbitant 'and refused to pay. On the 20th she drew $162,000 from bank and went to Detroit to keep it away from the lawyers. Learning that the lawyers had followed her, she drew the money from the bank in Detroit and has since kept it about her person. —Baker & lark, wholesale grocers of New York, have made an assignment, with preferences amounting to $185,361. Oe of the firm sald bis liabilities would not exceed $188,000, while the assets would reach $189,000. 8. P. Phillips & Co., agricultural implement dealers of Milwaukee, made an assignment on the 24th. Liabilities unknown; nominal assets, $70,000, William Hayden, fur- niture and desk manufacturer of Chi- cago, made an assignment on the 24th, Richard 8S, Marden, boot and shoe man- ufacturer of Montreal, has made an as- signment. Liabilities, $83,000; assets, $65,000, —In Attica, New York, on the 23d, a man, who had registered in the hotel as A, Guilman, threw himself in front of a railroad train and was killed, Hs was a fine-looking, well dressed man,ap- parently between 35 and 40 years of age. On his person were found $161, a silver watch, and a card with the name “A Guilman, Pharmacien. Rue St.Jac- ques 10, —An express train on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Road, which left Pitts burg at 11.25 on the might of the 24th, ran into a freight train at Con- way’s Station, 24 miles from Pitts- burg. Harry Burkshaw, fireman, of Cleveland, was killed, and Hank Shan- non, engineer, and Jacob Allen, bag- gage master, were severely injured. The freight train had stopped to take on water, The rear of a passenger train which left the Erie depot at Jersey City, on the afternoon of the at the west end of the tunnel collided with the signal station. The station was wrecked and the car nearly upset. Twenty-six passengers, who were in the car, were thrown vio- lently from their seats, and many of them were badly cut by broken glass, One of them, John G. Conner, suffered a dangerous scalp wound. ~— Another attempt was made on the morning of the 25th to burn the Conti- nental Hotel, in Chicago. Flames were found in six different places on different floors, but they were soon ex- tinguished. There was a terrible panic among the guests, but no person was in- jured. —QOwen Moore, colered, was mur- dered by an unknown man near Pans, Missouri, on the 24th, The murderer skull with the ibutt of the gun, and then eut his throat, Patnck Hayden, a well-known politician of Jersey City, | was shot and fatally wounded on the | 25th in his saloon, by James Cavanagh, { an ofl peddler, Cavanagh gave hime self up. There was a fued between the men, said to be due to Hayden's al- { leged intimacy with Cavanah’s daugh- ter. —It snowed and rained all day on | the 25th at Pittsburg. On the moun- | tains east of that city a sleet storm pre- | vailed and all the wires on the Penn- sylvania Railroad for between Derry amd Conemaugh were | broken. Telegraphic communication with Washington, D. C., was also interrupted. About a foot of snow fell Il the street { abandoned. Atheavy snow storm pre | travel on | plain. | Henry was six inches, at Whitehall | twelve, There was fine sleighing on | the 25th throughout the Mobawk Val- | ley, in New York, over a foot of snow | being on the ground. { -——A telegram from Williamsburg, { Kentucky, says it has been ascertained | that the Poe family of eight persons, | supposed to have been burned to death lin Knox county, a month ago, were | murdered by one of their neighbors and {a woman who iived With him. Their throats were cut and the house was fired. “The baby screamed until the flames smothered it.” The son of the mur- which belonged to the murdered family were found in the cellar of the accused, —An explosion of gas took place on the 26th in the Conyngham shaft at Wilkestarre, Pa., by which over forty miners were burned, twelve of them into a worked out chamber with naked light on his hat. —Michael Fitzgerald and & man named Douglass were precipitated into a on the 26th by the giving way of a foot bridge, and Fitzgerald was drowned. Mrs, Charles Smith was burned to death at Charlotte, Michigan, on the 26th by her clothes catching fire. Mrs, Mary DByllesby, aged 87 years was burned to death at Meadville, Penna. on the 26th, while alone in her room. Alice Gridley, 4 years of age, was barn- ed to death in Cleveland, Ohlo, on the 26th by falling upon a stove. ~The schooner Metropolis, with lumber and fron for Chicago, went ashore near Elk Rapids, Michigan dur- ing a blinding snow storm on the 26th. The crew were saved, ~The Dominion Oil Company's Works at Montreal were burned on and three men have become insane from the excitement. One of them, a young farmer, named Iilhodes Clem- ents, while goipg home from a Jruyos meeting on the 23d was suddenly seized with a maniacal frenzy and killed his companion, Samuel Gordon, with a club, Boon after Clements was found sitting beside the body of his victim eating the dead man’s heart, Clements was on the 26th adjudged insane, In Atlanta, on the 26th, Robert Hill shot and killed his brother Anthony and then committed suicide. Whisky was the cause, —Three Russians, who lived near Roscoe, Michigan, found a bottle by the roadside on the evening of the 25th, and drank the contents, supposed to be alcoholic, The bottle contained acon- ite, and al! the drinkers are dead, —At Johnsonville, near Troy, New York, on the 25th, six members of the family of Valdlah Aiken, became serionsly sick after breakfast, which was composed of wheaten pancakes and recently made headcheese, One of them is still in a precarious condition. —J. C. Lynch, a travelling salesman for the Hazard Powder Company of New York, was killed through his own carelessness near Galveston, Texas on the 28th. Lynch visited a powder mag- azine belonging to the J. 8B. Brown Company, for the purpose of destroying 500 pounds of damaged powder owned by his company and stored in the mag- azine. He carried the kegs of powder a short distance from the magazine, piled them up and set fire to them at arm’s length. The explosion which followed threw Lynch high air, killing him instantly. ~— Returns to the Canadian Marine Department of the storm which swept the lakes on the 17th and 18th ult. show that it caused a loss of 37 | =A Missouri-Paclfic passenger train i collided with a freight train near { Greenwood, Missourl, on the 27th ult. | Both engines and a small car were | wrecked, Elijah Magnoflin, a postal | clerk, was killed, and P., H. Beebe, | another clerk, fatally injured. While Frederick Cleckner and her nine-year- | old son were struck by a train. | the 26th, and William R. Benjamin i was killed. Daniel O. S, Hooper, presi- | Society, was so badly injured that his | recovery 18 doubtful, | —Two partners in | Charles Spencer and stock Charles Cohn, {| Hackberry, Arizona, on the 25th Cohn rushed at his partner i stabbed him to death with a knife. He then took ito town and gave himself i Cherokee county, Alabama, | years years ago, Joseph B. Hardwick ! was killed by Calvin McFee in a quarrel { about a tract of land. McFee fled, and ! was not arrested until a few days ago, when he was found in Southwest City, Missouri. He had been caught by a brother of the murdered man, who was on his track for the past twenty years, Three colored men, who had robbed and fred a gin house, were lynched in Franklin county, Misassippi, a few days ago. uit, and pocket up. twenty -T'w0 "bug eyes" engaged in oyster | catching off Piney Island, in the Ches. apeake, were lost in the storm of the 25th, and all hands were drowned ex- | cept the captain of ome of the boats. i Another “bug eye’ and a sloop were | capsized in Honga river, and two men | were drowned, The boat Fleelwing | was capsized in the mouth of the Anna- imessix river and three men were i drowned, Three men, named Orby and Ernest Lake, and Joseph Sanford, were drowned near Windsor, Nova Scotia, on the 27th, by the upsetting of a boat, Howard Tulley, employed by | the Government in staking out a chan- i fell from a boat on the 27th and was {i drowned. ~The total imports of merchandise into the United States during | twelve months which ended on October 31st amounted in value to $697,020. 603, vious twelve months, | the careless use of a fuse, took place on | the 28th in the Wyoming colliery, near Forty Fort, Pa. 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' S————— ‘Mid the petals of the roses Trembling dewdrops hide apart, Till the morning soon discloses HSunbeams mirrowed in each heart; Till each heart is warmed and lightened And {is sphere of action heightened; Ab, thy beart of hearts doth woo As a sunbeam draws the dew. Thou, my sunbeam, warming, gleaming, Art the some one of my heart; With thy heav'n alluring beaming Blessing of thy joy impart; To thy somewhers heaven take me; What thou hopest of me make me; Lo! my band and heart are thine; In my heart, too, thou art mine, AIT II, AN ESCAPED LUNATIC. “Who on earth!” Josiah Stoker broke off suddenly in the midst of the conversation he had been holding over the fence with his next door neighbor, and gazed up the road! A little old man with a huge valise was coming down it. “He's pointing right here,” Rufus Bissel. The old man came on slowly; paused before the neighbors; set down his valise and searched their faces with sharp, good-humored eyes. “Don’t you know me, boys?” | said. “Ths “boys looked puzzled. “Makes me think of Joel 1 declare for it!” sald Mr, at last, “Just what I was thinking,’ said | Mr. Bissel, “A man that used to keep slore | here,” Mr. Stoker explained. *‘‘Bissel tand I clerked for him one winter. Twenty-five years ago, it was. He | went West,” “Don’t say so?’ sald the old man, with a chuckle, “Well—he's come | back!” There was a chorus of exclamations and a hearty hand-shaking. “Of course you'll put up with me?” said Mr, Stoker, hospitably. | wife, Sarah Burt that was, she'll be i glad to give you a bed,” sald he Toby, Stoker | house,” said Mr. Bissel. beamingly. “‘I'm calculating to stay a week,’ said the old man, *I'll divide It up between you. I can't spare more than a week can't a minute longer, “Well, begin with me” sald Mr, Stoker, cordially; and he dragged him towards the house. A pretty, dark-eyed girl opened the door. “My daughter, Jenny,” said Mr. Stoker, proudly. “And my | wife.” he added, indicating the moth. erly woman advancing to meel them. There were two chairs by the fire and a pitcher of cider in the cupboard. “wp sie with Bisse! and me,” said Me, Stoker, wiping lis mouth and leaning forward “We've lived alongside of each other for twenty-five to poke up the coals, speak of, rather looking for something. Bissel’s have taken a regnlar shine other. No telling what'll come of it, | And Low's the West?” The old man's fece grew animated, “Well,” be said, complacently; | “gilver-mining’s rather more paying than store-keeping.’’ “What have you been doing all these | years?’ asked Mr. Stoker. “Silver-mining,” responded his guest. I've made my pile, this town and fifty like itl" “‘Good gracious, Tobey!” gasped his | hearer, And he sat in open-mouthed wonder wlule Tobey, with his wrinkled | face aglow, described his mine and the | manner in which he had *‘struck.” | *FPhere’s one thing that troubles me | considerable,” Tobey concluded, *'I hain’t a relative in the world, Stoker— | not one! And the question 1s, what's {going to become of my money? It | worries me,’’ “You do1't say?" sald Mr. Stoker, | sympathetically. | There was a pause, | “See here, Stoker,” said the old | man, bringing his fist down on tae table suddenly, *‘you’re as good a friegd as I've got. I knew you when you was a boy, Stoker. See here; why shouldn't you have my money?" Mr. Stoker. having no satisfactory reason at haud, was silent. “It's a bargain,” said Tobey, with energy. ‘You're the man, Stoker. I feel it. You're deserving of it, Stoker, and you shall have it. No, you needn't say a word--not a word. I've wade up my mind.” And Tobey drained his mug with a benevolent smile. When Mr. Bissel came over that evening--his son Wallace had arrived a full hour before and was talking to Jenny Stoker in a corner—he noted a change in his friend and neighbor, Mr, Stoker was excited. He paced the rom recklessly while Tobey and Mr. Bissel talked over old times by the fire; and the few remarks he addressed to the latter were vaguely patronizing. Mr. Bissel was puzzled; but he went home without discovering a cle to the mystery, leaving Wallace still absorbed in pretty Jenny Stoker. The old man came down stairs next woo ves morning with his hig valice bumping after him, “Thought I'd give Bissel a turn to-day,” he explained. “And ses here, Stoker,” Lie added, confidentially, “I wouldn't say anything to Bissel, if Iwas in your place, about that little plan of mine; it might make hard feelings.” “Just so, just so,” sald Mr, Stoker, approvingly. When he settled himself against the fence that afternoon, therefore, for a friendly chat with Mr, Bissel, mn a like attitude on his side of it, it was with a perceptibly increased condescen- sion in his manner, If he had been in the mood for observing he might have seen that Mr, Bissel’s demeanor had also undergone a subtle change. But the fact escaped his notice, **Curious, wasn’t it, Tobey lighting down so sudden?” Mr, Bissel remarked, Mr, Stoker assented. “Been doing wonderfully well out West,”” Mr. Bissel pursued, “Got a gilver mine out there. Maybe he men- tioned it?” “Well, yes, ’ said Mr. Stoker, guard- edly, Mr. Bissel recrossed his legs and coughed reflectively. “Well, he did say something about i not speaking of it,” he sald slowly; “but I don’t see as 1t’ll do any hurt to | tell you. I declare, it knocked me all | of a heap, Stoker, and 1 don’t know how to tell it; but the old man has made up his mind to leave me his money. You see, he hain’t a relative | in the world; and he says I’m as old a | friend as he's got, and he always did | think everything of me—good gracious, { Stoker!" For Mr. Stoker's face was slowly | lengthening. | *“That’s what you're up to, is it?’ he | sald, raising himself from the fence | with an ominous jerk. | “What?” retorted his hearer. | “You're deeper’n 1 thought,” { Mr. Stoker, in a volce grown angrily i hoarse, | “What d’ye mean?” said Mr. Bissel, | with resentful sharpness, { “If he told you that.” Mr. Stoker | responded deliberately, “it was because | you proposed the thing yourself, and wouldn't let up! to you Rufns Bissel, he was made to.” Mr. Bissel’s face grew red; the hand which clutched the fence trembled | indignantly and he struggled to speak. “There's been foul playl” Mr, Stoker went on, excitedly. ‘‘He told me, did Joel Tobey, right there in my kitchen, | just yesterday, thet he was going to leave every cent of his money to me.’ Mr. Biseel’s face turned from red to white, *I don’t believe iti” said wrathfully. There was a palpitating silence. The two neighbors of twenty-Ove years, glaring at each other. ——————— § he 1 v1Y 4 OIG, friends, si004 ia my house Stoker, unsteadily. “I'd see see her “Don't you ever get fool again!'’ said Mr. “‘you nor yoyr son neither. | my girl in her grave before 1'd | married to him!” “And I'd give my last drop of blood {to save him from being tied to any of { your kith or kin!” sald Mr. Dissel, | furiously. If there came a thought of thelr life- | long friendship, of the many years they | had lived side by side in perfect trust | and harmony, it was throst aside, The | red-haired man who had come up unob- | served and stood walling in a bored | way for a chance to speak, said to him- | self that he had never seen a liveller | tussle, | The red-haired man looked weary, | travel-stained, and was himself rather | out of temper. | “Well,” be remarked impatiently, | “seeing you're stopping to take breath, | may be you'll tell me if you know any- thing about an old man I'm after. Escaped from a private asylum. Must but he’s kept a little ahead, thin, with sharp eyea.” His listeners started. “He can’t mean Tobey,” Stoker, slowly. “Tobey’s his name,’ said the red- hatred man, joyfully, ‘‘Have you got him?" “He ain't the one,” said Mr. Bissel, with dignity. *‘He'’s on o visit to his friends. He owns a silver mine out tr Ww . The red-haired man laughed. “Thinks he does,” he said, jovially; “that's his mania; he did have one years ago, and sunk all his money in it, and it turned his brain. He's been in our asylum ever since; his friends keep mim there. Perfectly harmless, but cracked. If you'd just mention where he is, by the way? I don’t care about missing him this time.” * Mr. Bissel jerked his thnmb baock- ward in agitated silence, and the red- haired man disappeared with alacrity. Mr. Stoker rubbed his chin for several moments in sober reflection. “It's just what we deserve, Bissel,” he said at Jast, solemnly, “Just what I was thinking, Mr. Bisel rejoined. “I declare—I don't know but I'm glad of itl” sald Mr, Stoker: “When it comes to quarreling with your best friend, Bissel--" 5 “A silver mine, more or less, wouldn't hardly make it square!’ sald Bissel. ‘Just what I was think. Short and wd Mr, " . A tall young man and a dark-eyed girl were coming slowly up the street together, ‘“They’re a pretty good-looking couple, ain’t they, Bissel?” said Mr Stoker, “They can’t be beat” Bigsel, heartily, And friends shook hands, » ie gid said the two Hindoo Mill Hands. Thecotton spinning industry in 1ndia, and especially in Bombay, has given honest employment to thousands of people, and brought them almost from a state of poverty verging upon barbars ism, to a comparatively well-to do state, The nature of their present work has brought them within well-constructed buildings, working with ease and com- fort under systematic management, coupled with what we might call really good earnings. For all these improve ments in their state, they are nothing in comparison with any of the Contin- ental workpeople, far less than that of the English, and very greatly inferior to American mill operatives. Ther working capacity is small and the qual- ity of thelr work very poor. The habits of these people are pecu- Har. They are of an obedient, fore- | bearing and patient nature, having, however, deceit and fraud underlying rr those qualities, As a rule they | idle, skulking their time away in gos | siping and smoking. They watch their {| English foreman as a mouse watches a | cat, always trying to know his | abouts, with a view to evade him as | as possible, They will how of | real hard working as long as he is | them, but as soen as his back is turn { they are off again somewhere for | | fifteen minutes, during which | their work is either neg ‘ partially done by their ighbors, who | also take their turn when the former | return. They waste away ule where. far give as near eq en or ¢cled or only 16 Le about half | their salaries in dnaking country ligu made from Mohwra flowers, and | are very impertinent whilst in a { of intoxication, They spend | their earnings as fast as they can, and | the more a man earns the more he 18 in | debt. They are very d | habits, and when properly | | turn out very faithful servants. Their morals are also of | standard, The | would stoop to anything that | conscientious, and about 10 them work for their masters with honesty. So long as they can earn sufll- client money for the prime necessaries of their lives—i, ¢., food and clothing, they do not care for anything more. The class of overseers, or what called In India “jobbers,” are a decent sort of workmen, understanding their work pretty well. They have a very substantial control over the men ds Loey tale AWAY Clie in andied they YW em a very generality of tb W per cent. of real are ander them, and are their real guides in all other matters besides work. If the su. perintendent gets wrong with hem they put him to endless trouble without showing the least sign of doing sucha thing. They are the cause of strikes whenever there in any mill, and st hey would ignore every- | thing about it, and would really array | on the superintendent’s side and get t« know all their ideas and movements, and thus keep the people on strike they have wholly or partially gained their point. Native mill hands are supposed to be a class of very hard-working men, but one can easily note from the foregoing remarks that they are not so hard-work- ing as they are supposed to be. No doubt they are confined in the mil for | twelve hours of the day, but that does pot constitute bard working, as almost half of this time is spent in gossiping, smoking, and otherwise neglecting their work, which 1s performed by a sumber | of spare and extra hands that are as a | rule employed in almost all the mills in | India, although of such a class of men | there are fewer In Bombay. real is one $Y) # aii % wy 4 add wid The Man With a Glass Eye “speaking of giass eyes,” said an old lawyer, “brings to mind alittle in- cident that occurred in Chicago. Among our young professional men is one whose brilliant black eyes would attract attention anywhere. He goes much into society, and is quite a favor- ite among the ladies because of his eyes, One of these beautiful black eyes is glass, but it seems 80 much the counterpart of the other that not one person ina hundred would detect its artificiality, Among the members of his profession not one Knows that the young man has only one good eve. “On one occasion he escorted a young lady to the refreshment tables and entertained ber with pleasant chat in a way that he thought was making a favorable impression. As they were taking ice-cream he locked up as she gave utterance to some startling excla~ mation, and was surprised to see her eyes fixed on him with a look of mysti- fied intentness and horror. She was a well-bred girl, but something so aston. ished ber that she contined to look at him in a way that raised ths question of his sanity. A fly had lit square in the centre of his black glass eye and remained there, he, of course, uncon~ scious of lis presence. The spectasle of that eye looking at her with a fiy on it and the owner making no attempt to. brush it off was too much for his coms panion. [lis explanation, even, was not quite satisfactory. She had be. Heved 30 implicitly in those magniticent «yes that sie has since that time regrrded him as something of a rand.’ ©
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