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EgetTis.
The Lawyer's Patron Saint
3150
Br JOHN C. GAZE
A iawyer of firinanny, mice on a time,
%Vbe bn-ineesu wa- fl egging ut home,
Was -rut a legate to ituiy's clime,
To roarer with the Father at Rome.
.end what was the message the mini-ter brought?
To the Pope he preferred a complaint,
Thal each other pi ole.shat a puiron had got,
‘Vitthe l.c awyer, had nevera baba!
Vcry tru • .nid his llotine.---ttntliu; to find
An atuarey •u 601 and p'e.tsant—
•llnt illy vs I) ia•t -ant m already ai.igned,
And 1 can't make a at sv sale nt p•esent
To rlwo•e from the bar it %vt re fitte4t. I think:
['crimp, you've a maim in your eytt''.-
Anti 1113 liolgue44 bete gave a tabchiet.ous wink
To a zardinut sittmg smear by.
Hut the lawyer repied,. io a lawyerilikc way,
- 1 know what Ie mud. -I, I hope,
I
didn't t 011IC hither, u low nit io -up,
roller advice lo :he I'opc
Very well," •aid ht. llothie-s, ••then we do
The be-t that may ititly be done;
It don% seen) a wetly the thing, it IA true.
That the law ithould tic tth ales- alone.
"To neat your prof.,..ion n tet II a. I can,
And teat e you uo eaupe coinpluint,
I tirorici.e, as the only quite fea-ible pine,
In give you a second-liana saint.
To 'he twighboriog church) ou will presently go,
And nal the pia:: :
I ir-t I I) n n w uve--n Ituntlred or PO—.
'1 hen moduli) band 'go )01.1f Ccs;
4. 111C11••••••11) lug morea ver—go glopm g around,
And touching 010 object ;done,
The rill )ou ute Seth gilleLly he found,
For the lust Oho you touch your OA
The lawyer did as Iu Iloltoe•s said,
Without on omi•sion or 114 ;
Thal. WI. ag she Laminas off from his head,
,W,ttut du 5,0 u tloolr. no Now ?
These turn. SLAW:hue! (figured in puitn.)
Siwduing the Eviller in Evil ;
And the lawyer exc!uitinag. "Be thou our Saint!"
Was touching the form of the Bevil!
gtirttints.
Hesou's Handsome Daughter.
==l
And very handsome she certainly was;
nut a tall, tine, dark girl, startling you into
admiration ; •neither was she a lovely, blue
eyed, pensive blonde, with snn.bright hair,
but a creature as softly, harmoniously beau
tiful us a twilight eve in the month of June
—nothing of the eastern, sultry warmth of
August. nor the somewhat chilly feel of the
month of May, but a union of many sweet
influences over the heart.
She looked at you, and you thought how
soft and beautifully expressive her dark,
gray, candid eye was, It had nothing to con
ceal, so it fixed itself fully upon you either
to admit a liking, or to avow a feeling of in
difference, but it never turned away in down
ward glance. She had, as we have said,
nothing to hide, nil was of twilight softness,
and chaste as the young pale moon just ris
ing up to illumine the mid-night hour with
effulgence.
This was Iluson's daughter,
And ninon himself,
Well, no was at nondescript. He had no
profession, or business, yet he seldom want
ed actual money, though it was a thing ho
wis always hunting after, longing for. But
he was not often without a shilling in his
pocket and if he owed a few trifling trades
men's bills one week, ho Vra4 quite certain
to pay off tho next, and give a profuse order
into the bargain. lie had a maxim: •'keep
well near home, and you may cheat the
whole world afar; no one will believe it of
you."
Iluson had been on the very lowest stool
in a solicitor's office. Half clerk, half mes
senger, he was under every one—all had a
right to command him: and perfectly con
tent he was for awhile, on a very low salary,
for he was serving an apprenticeship, and
acting the part of en office-sweeper, picking
up many a scrap out of the dust which
others had rejected. We are figuratively
speaking, and when ho had collected a suffi
cient quantity to enable him to not for him
self, ho shook off the trammels of others, and
started on his own account. Once having
seen Ellison, you were certs.in to meet him
again—at some moment when you Mast ex
pected it over Huson you would be sure to
stumble.
"AIL ninon. Well, what al o you about
now?"
"Just doing a little job for Mr. So-and
so," would be about the reply, in a whisper
Ile always spoke in one, and looked furtive
ly around cts if fearing detection in some
thing. ITow easy it is to judge parsons, not
by appearances, but by peculiarities of man
ner. You felt quite certain that •'the little
job for Mr. So-and-so" was a dirty one, or
Iluson would have had no hand in it.
He had, in early life, married a governess,
not for her beauty, though she was very
good looking; not fur her accomplishments,
they would do no more fur them than earn
a few sorry shillings per diem, in giving
lessons; but he married her because, one
evening, at a friend's house, the hostess
said:
"I think Miss Clempsort has the strangest
talent I ever met with ; she can instan
taneously imitate any band-writing she
sees, and writes at least a dozen different
ones."
Hawn stopped short in something he was
saying, and looked earnestly at the ,girl;
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA. SATES DAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1860.
he had not even noticed her before. He
thought it a great talent, and his admira
tion of it led him to admire its possessor
too. S. Miss Clempson became Mrs. Hu
tton. Ile could not certainly, even to him
self, have given a form to his thoughts, only
lie thought to be able to imitate any hand
writing was a proof of genius, which led
hint to covet the sole possession of the pos.
seseor. But, somehow, Mrs. Iluson had a
something about her which awed her 1111S
band. Site was gentle and kind, but she
had an eye which pierced through him, and
consequently Mrs. [Mason went to her grave
without ever being called upon to give a
specimen of penmanship. She, too, wits as
i ; 4norant as the world at large about her
hu-band's business. is on 'Change"
was all she was authorized to say, and many
who heard that alleged fact, thought what a
good thing it would be fir that meek, lady
like woman, and fur every one in any way
connected with him, it Hugon could really
be on the road to 'Change—not stocks and
shares, but his conduct.
At Post Mrs. Ilason died, and her ',its.
band remained with a young hild in his
charge. She died without ever knowing
more of his occupation than that ho was on
'Change; happily for her, and thanks to her
earnest eyes, which forbade everything like
confidince from-a man like 'Eason. Before
her he padlocked his heart, and kept her
without; somehow he hail involuntarily so
great it respect for her that he preferred
keeping her in the dark; he could not have
bruokedan ezpression of distrust, contempt,
and perhaps horror of him from her, for
Iluson was whatever his public life might
be, n good husband; respect for her made
him 50, though not even acknowledged to
During her lifetime Mrs. Huson had
educated her daughter; when she died, the
little girl was sent to school, to keep her out
of her father's way. But girls cannot be
kept as children all their lives.
One of Mogen's greatest chums, and hest
employers, was a solicitor named Murehis
son, one of the most plausible men in the
world, Every one liked him, bat not one of
those who knew him well trusted him; he
was Ifuson's most intimate friend, which
said much.
One day Murehieson called nt Ituson's it
was during the Christmas hollidays, and
Lily, the la ttee.s daughter, ran into the room
and out ngain, presto.
”By heavens, !Insert," exclaimed his visi
tor, "what n pretty girl you child grows !"
"Child :" answered Ilason. "You have
said the word—sho's only a child—chilttren
change so much."
"Why, she must be seventeen, at least—
not such a child, neither."
"So she is—quite seventeen." The father
began to ankwe.
"And a fine grown young woman."
"I never noticed her before." Iluson was
very thoughtful.
"Some young fellow will he oarrying her
off, if you don't look sharp after her. Some
penniless fool, That would boa pity. She
ought to marry woll, and make your fortune
and her own."
"Ilumph l" ejaculated Hagen, in a deep
study.
That gunner ho gave the Missy Gentle
!intim-that he intended bringing his daugh
ter home.
Lily was sorry to leave her companions,
but glad talus with "papa." the man ever
"in the City;" so one counterbalanced the
other, and Lily sat down at home, happy
and softly many as a little bird. Ono day
Iluson was unwell, and could not go out,
and it was especially annoying, as he had
an appointment with 31archisson,
"Lily," he said after vainly essaying a
cup of green tea to charm away his head
ache, "pop on your bonnet and run to Mur
chisson'e office, see himself, and say I am
too ill to come to him to-day; ask if to mor
row will do."
"Yes, papal; where's his office 7"
"Put on your things ; I'll then direct
you."
And in ten minutes down came Lily fre4h
and fair ns one. She had a knack inherent
to her of dressing well and neatly. This day
,he was quite a picture.
"I .liin't like seuiliag her cut alone to
those places," inii , ed Liason, as the girl
is really growing woo•
derfully pretty. I must Pee what is thetiest
thing to ho (lone with her. Marchissrin
was right. Such a girl, witliguni training,
may prove a treasur; but she mustn't go
" L it alone. However, it can't signify for
.Inoe."
But it might, Mr. Hugon, and most par
ticularly. Lily, with her light, springy
step, was soon at Muruhisson's; and just as
she was going in some one was coming out.
.end this some one was an excellent repre
sentation of a good looking young fellow.
These young fellows will look at the girls,
and the girls qt them.
no was running out in a hurry; she was
hastening iq, and they net quite as closely
as the needle when it hops up and clings to
the magnet. Ife caught her in his arms;
she almost fell back; then he caught her
again; hoped ho had not hurt her in the
shock of meeting; she said "No," and
blushed; he begged pardon and smiled; she
went in, and he walked out, but he didn't
go far.
"What the deuce can such n girl as that
bo doing at Murchisson's? She cannot bo
his daughter?" soliloquised the young man,
and his soliloquising lasted so long, thot
Lily came out, but the solicitoraccompanied
her to the door, and pressed her hand us he
said "Good bye."
His keen eyo detected tho quick entry
into an alley opposite of his late visitor and
clienr, the solilogniser.
"Humph !" he said to hint-elf, as the
other tried to hide ostrich findlion by con
cealing his head alone from the enemy.—
"Sean Lily Hason, and watching fur her:
do. young sir, and watch you."
So the three Ntlrted ni.l.—hdy first, like a
deer just uncarte.l; the youhg man, like a
clever hour.d, after her, and ,
the whip-, er-in, after both of them. 'I. he
chase was too exciting for either of the Ore°
to look behind. If they had done so, Lily
would have seen the youn-• admirer, and he
Murchison, an.l possiLly Murehisitill
certain dark gentleman in searlo , , r. ho wits
ever in attendance coin rauot, and wh, ii
very fund of hiring himself nut on quiet lit
tle john, which wouldn't g, quite right with
out him.
I=
Ntorchisson hal 11 a the qliL , ,ltteAt intention
interfer:og in any way with the course of
true love, procidi young man whom
he was following should s nbark, bis hopes
on that oft navigated stream, but ho was re
solved to know all about it, for purposes of
his. own. On sped Lilly, and after fullowed
the- other two, hanging on eachother's track
at equal distances, something after the fash
ion of stars on the brow of night, but there,
with that similie to illustrate it, terminated
for awhile all the poetryof love's warm pur
suit, fur a maid of all work opened the door
grumbling at the frequent raps that morn
ing, which intosferred with her own private
arrangements. Lily repliednot, but meekly
walked in, shutting the door on her admirer,
and quite unconscious that he was following
her. Murchisson slipped in at an open door,
at the risk of being taken fur an admirer of
the great coats and umbrellas in the passage,
and inquired for a name as foreign in its
sound as his act was to •his purpose and
thoughts.
The lover looked at the number on the
door, took out his tablsts, wrote it down,
and then, jumping into a Hansom which
canto by, went of, Heaven knows where,
and the solicitor emerged into the street.—
But Murchisson knew the breed well of
young men about town; ho knew that hay
ins taken so mueh trouble, this one' would
take a little more when the fit came over him
IZEiI
Three days afterwards • Hugon, who had
been confined to the house ever since, called
at Murehisson's.
"I say," he continued. after their friendly
greeting had taken 'place, "what is young
Adamson like, the plaintiff's son, I mean, in
that ease we have in hand?"
"A 4 ugly an animal as you over saw—a
black looking, dwaraih creation."
"Can't be he, then," fell from Iluion, in
a thoughtful tuna.
"Of what or whom are von thinking?"
"Why, of a fellow who has been watching
my lipase the last two days. Y I'te
been at home ill. and hang tno if the follow,
whoever he is, or whatever he wants, he s
cease I hovering about the place, like a
bailiff, or a carrier pigeon sent home with a
number under its wing from Epsom on s
Derby day. to find its house shut up."
"Hal ha! liar' laughed Murchison: "the
notion of that- uarrier pigeon tickles toy
fancy, only it nould have ;t letter, not a
number, I stt,pc,t , . If the mir.t.t.ler he time
pers,m I ima,;itie "
"iNtmt do yi)II 1110:11). 3lUrChi,ol , ; yOU :or:-
or speak at malnr.?"
Whats your wat,liamn like ?"
"IV hy It g,koil loAing ?
with lightish brown h.nr."
"That's the nmo 1" will Moroni.; in laugh
el and rubbed hi 4 113:1 "You talk of
pigeons," Ito added; "well. it I inin:alce not,
this will prove al pretty a one to pock
you ever met with."
"I don't understand you.".
''Don't you remember my caning y..ur
attention to the f.lct, one day, :not
yon had a pretty laughter?"
'Lay!' f.itlnr, in .1.n.i.72-
EMI
''Just the same Lily. Your carrier pig
eon is a client of mire. or I am mach mia'
taisen. Lily is the r.ttraetion, and if we
p1:1:, - our card; well ths , re'll Le a g./)d round
sum fir both
•• Who is he—what is her eagerly asked
flagon, his eyes kindling with aridity.—
"And Lily," he enntinuad, nit in one breath.
Murchisson did not elionie to fully answer
tho first two question., an lie replied to the
last one with:
"Of course; Lily's prudence may be trust
Mil
"She is as innocent as nn infant. Bnt
who is this fellow? flow do you know all
this?"
"Simply suspect, because I met the youth
in your neighborhood some days since, and
wondered what the deuce be was doing there,
especially as lie seemed confused. I won't
mention names I am sure, then we'll put
our heads together and see what's to be
dono."
"rta lost in amazement. How did ho see
her?"
"Ilow did ho see her!" and Blurchisson
shrugged his shoulders in contempt of the
question, as he echoed it. "See her!" ho
continued, "Why if unmated young ladies
are allowed to fly about alone, they'll vary
soon meet with some wandering eushat dote
ready to make a pair. You sent Lilly to my
office one day; this youth saw her coming
out, I suspect, and followed her home."
"The deuce ia in the girls!" exclaimed
Iluson. "A man need be an Argus and a
Briareus squeezed into one to he upto them."
"And even then, my dear Basun, they'd
manage to get alung.ide one of the eyes
with a stye on it, and a hand tied up with
wititl..w But iu this one instance I believe
the 01311 is alone to blame. Leave all to met
:1111 it ~ ut and tell yon. Say notitiag to
Li ly—rt , ,t a but watch."
^•l'hat I will:" and tints the two wurth-
Vino \las tne lover? yJung ladies and uld
will ask.
IL 1c,14 a very nice young fellow. without
a l‘it of nmtscose or puppyista about
,•ttll leasW iOl there anything of slang—rare
thing now-a-days.
Gray Russell was an only son; though
with very g•md prospects before him, ho de
detested the idle, ignornant existence of half
the young mon of fortune who 'are content
to live a mote life of fashion. Ile wanted to
study sea air, the pleasure of the waves, the
joy on dry land, each in its turn, so he went
as a middy, and at the time we have become
acquainted with hint ho was a lieutenant in
in the navy, just returned from abroad, hav
ing been summoned home by the death of
both parents within a few months of each
other, and thus he became master of a very
large unencumbered property, which inher ,
itance was in the hands of Murchisson, as
solicitor to the estate.
There is a peculiar tenderness for woman,
generally speaking, in ashore. They not
only love but respect them. To what is it
to be attributed? Perhaps, that they have
gone away with only a mother's love in their
hearts. Severed. except occasionally, from
the sex, they never think of woman save as
a creature born to ho nll their own mother
I=
Gray Russell's heart was a void; all he
had loved had become too spiritualised to
fill titi that aching space which called out in
its mortal sorrow to mere mortality fur com
fort. Spirituali,ol beinv may elevate our
minds to ileaven. w'toty tva hope to meet
them, but while we are el ..1.5.0f earth, on the
earth we cast ~ a l.-eve• for fellowship. And
a very p-c, v..• la it el , I, which mig'it have
.ildenca; :11. , nest ..f any captive lark,
Gray met tri: b 1;1 Ltly ilu,oa. Sne had run
latu his arms, notritentionally, it is true,
and somehow he could out get rid of the
sensation of pleasure when he fitucied that
he still felt her soft, warns breath, as he held
her for a moment captive.
lie followed her, as we have seen; and all
the remainder of the day feeling happier and
less lonely than he had dune since his re
turn home. ho determined to continue the
same mendicament which had commenced
1111 cure. (We really beg pardon for calling
Lily's sweet face and smile a mendicament,
but to soothe the too fastidious, and recon
cile them to the expression, wo will say that
yhe was its manna to his heart.) A whole
day vainly he paraded the street; be saw a
man in spectacles at the window, but not
Lily. Perhaps, after all, that was not her
apartment. There was somethiog so genu•
ine in his feelings that he oould not bring
himself to go off to Murchisson and prate to
him about "a deuced fine girl he had seen
leaving his office."
So he returned nest day to her street, and
tho', perseverance was in some measure re•
r*,, t • be NAM the old fisher 11,411.i11, it
trua, Ito betide hint stood Lily, a basin
something is her baud, which she was cri•
c. axing hint to tilt , . II wk was
turned; she net or saw him, yet ho went
at, ty perfectly slti , fied, especially when a
shopicceper In the neighborhood informed
him that a Mr. Ifuson and his only child
lived there; a most respectable man, well
ltnown on 'Change and in the city.
Gray iluqscll went home quite conont.—
Such a Mart as Iluson mull u it be otherwise
than respectable.
will naturally be ins ;gilled that a man
tvb / w ru l .l t much trouble to watch
a..d a girl would not rest there.
Gray Russell set about devising some
scheme to accomplish an interview, and noth•
ing better could he imagine than to person
ate another. So ho watched one morning
until ho had seen the father leave home, and
then he rapped nt the door and inquired for
the very person whom be had just seen go
out.
"Out? how very provoking," he said to
the maid of all work. "Is there no one I
can speak to?"
"Miss is at home, sir." answered the
girl.
"Miss?" he questioned, in the most inno
cent tone possible.
"Miss Ituson, sir," was the oorreoted ro-
PIY•
-Then will you give my compliments to
the lady, and say that I have a very par
ticular message for her father, if she would
permit me to deliver it to herself." -
Gray Russell's heart beat quicker as the
girl reappeared with:
"Walk up, if you please. sir."
And he found himself in the 'prosencte of
Lily, and Lily more beautiful than ever.—
And yet it was not beauty alone which had
charmed him; but something in her tone and
manner which spoke of better things than
mere skin-deep loveliness. What an im
mense amount of duplicity love has in Lis
train. He is never at loss fur un untruth
or en excuse.
81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE.
The cleverest actor on the boards might
have envied Gray Russell's acting when be
started, and expressed the utmost astonish
ment at again meeting the young lady whom
he had so rudely jostled at Mr. Murchimon's
dunr.
Lily was completely taken in, and assured
him with a smile and a blush that it had
quite passed away from her memory.
Another of Cupid's fibs, fur she was con
stantly thinking of it—and of him.
••I had no idea," continued Gray, "when
they sent me from the office to speak to Mr.
Hamm, that I should hare the pleasure f
*gain seeing. you, to renew my excuses," ite
tvided, fearing that the first admission might
startle her.
"I ambit+ daughter," she said.
"Su I am inf.irmed, else I should not have
taken the liberty of asking for you, Miss
Unison, to deliver a message from Mr. Mur
chisson."
"Then you are in that gentleman's office?"
she said without reflecting that the very
question betrayed an interest in the young
man. What, in an ordinary case, conld it
have signified to her who he was? lie came
with a strange message, that was all she
had any right to bo interested about.
"Yes, I am," answered Gray, undaunted
ly telling an untruth, boldly and daringly,
without the mockery even of a mental reser
vation. lie had come to the house, saying
to himself:
"If I can only get in and aeo her, I'll tell
her I lore her."
But somehow, when he found himself in
her presence, he felt that Lilly must be won
with more difficulty, and not carried by
storm.
"I'm Murchisso a's clerk," continued Gray,
"and that gentleman ham sent me to see
your father, and urge his immediate calling
at the office."
But Lily know nothing about her father's
movements. probably ho had gone to Mr.
Murchisson's. She would at all events de
liver the message.
If Gray, on a first interview, had told her
he loved her, he would not have been per
mitted to sit and chat an hour, as he did,
with her. lie was Murchison's clerk, Mbar
! chisson was her father's intimate friend, ar
gued Lily, so she talked to the visitor ae if
he were un old acquaintance, and she so
fully confirmed the favorable impression
Gray had formed of her that ho went away
ten times more in love with her than before,
and Lily felt as if she wished i.erself a so
licitur's clerk perished on a high stool in
Murchisson's office, provided her stool were
placed beside the one on which sat the
agreeable clerk who had left her with a per
foration in her heart just large enough for a
sigh to creep out.
"That dodge won't do again," thought
Gray Russell to himself, as he walked
thoughtfully down the street. "I must think
of something else."
"Papa," said Lily, as her father entered
some hours later, "have you been • to Mr.
Murehisson's to-day?"
“No ; why do you ask ?” growled Hu
son, who was not in a very amiable mood,
and betides he always looked suspiciously
on any question put to him about his whero
ahouts."
"Because, papa," answered his child,
"Mr. Murchison sent his clerk hero to-day
to ask particularly for you, begging you to
call."
••Blurehieson did ? Why I thought he had
gone to the country to-day. At all events.
I had business elsewhere, I can't be at his
heck and call always."
Vl . lLi oat of temper, so Lily said DO
'more. Somehow ho didn't quite like Mur
chisson sending after him in that manner;
it looked like espionage, and though he felt
curious to know what the other wanted with
him, he resolved not to go near. him nest
day.
Flagon and Murchisson were most inti•
mate and devoted friends, as we Lave seen
—bosom friends. But neither one nor the
other chose to let that "good fellow, lluson,"
or that •capital fellow, Murchisson," know
a single thing of his own private affairs more
than it was requisite be should be made
acquainted with. They worked well to
gether, but both did ea with his hand in his
own bosom, clutching (figurative speaking)
a dagger for self defense.
'"That good fellow, Eluson," was watched
as narrowly by the other as ever cat looked
after a mouse; and that •capital fellow,
Murchisson," wits never trusted by llnsen
beyond where his naked eye could see him;
ho would not have felt secure in wearing
spectacles even to do so, lest the glasses
should increase or diminish the objects.
auson fancied that his "friend" wanted
to see him about his daughter's admirer, and
he resoived not to be in any hurry to go to
the office, in order not to seem anxious, and
thus make a better bargain. Iluson felt
secure about Lily; no one could tamper with
her without his knowledge. Ile question
ed and cross-questioned her. She had not
been out, had nut sat at the window, as her
father desired ber especially not to do so.
and neither without nbr within had seen
any one but "lir. lqurchisson's clerk." !
liaison was perfectly satisfied.
"Oh, old Sharps," be thought; "Marais
son always sends him on menages." He
was thinking of the solicitor's ono-eyed
clerk, with a black patch over the other
lost orb, and as be had a delicate matter of
haziness on hand just then he could afford
not to go near Morel:anima's office for a few
days.
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,565
"The night brings reflection," says a
French proverb, and Gray Russell had full
leisure to test its truth, for he lay awake
the livelong hours of darkness, thinking of
what were beet to be done about Lily, and
up ho got in the morning, determined, in
the first place, to go to Murchisson's office
and find out whether he was suspected.- 2
He went accordingly, and was received by
the (in this business) unconscious and in
nocent solicitor as if no such person as Lie.
son and Lily existed in the world.
Gray Russell conversed about his own
private affairs some time, and just as he was
rising to go, said carelessly :
"By the way, Murchisson, the other 071
nearly ran over a young lady who was com
ing out of your office; pray apologise forme
when you see her."
The other smiled to himself.
"The postscript of his visit," he thought,
"containing all the spice of it," and than
he said aloud in a ruminating manner, "A.
lady—a lady—oh, ah, Husou's daughter.
I remember, she named it to me."
"She must have thought me very stupid."
"No she didn't—that is, she merely
mentioned the circumstance to me, sad
seemed to blame herself more than she did
you."
"Oh, dear no!" exclaimed Gray. "I as
sure you it was all my own awkwardness.
Pray apologise for me."
"I will when I see her. I haven't aeon
her or her father for some days. It sue
prises me, in the latter particularly."
"Then Hum] hasn't called," thought the
delighted Gray; "so the dodge of yesterday
will do again to•day."
And this proves that the cleverest man
may make a mistake. lidurchisson bad said
too much.
Hastily taking leave of the other, orstart.-
cd Gray Russell to Lily's street, and, puz
zled by this abrupt departure, after 'him
started Murohisson. He had too much at
stake in this affair to let anything be done
that he was not cognizant of.
To his surprise be saw the young man
walk a few times past the door, and then
rap, converse an instant with the servant,
and walk in, and stop in too; for the other
watched half an hour and he didn't come
out.
"This must be seen to," soliloquised
Murchisson. "lie's got the start somehow.
How the deuce has he managed it ? But
there, where's the use of inquiring? When
a lover's on the outside of a house, and his
charmer within, the deuce take him, he'll
be certain to find means of scaling the walls
somehow. This most be'seen to."
As Gray Russell ascended the stairs he
said to himself, "I'm determined to-day to
tell tier all, and tell her I love her, too."
But after sitting nearly two hours with
Lily, he wont away much the same as he
bad come, as far as any deolaration went,
for beyond a few well turned hints of deep
admiration, he said nothing, and the little
he uttered was ushered into being by the
preface as be entered of, "I beg ten thonsand
pardons, Miss Hugon. for this intrusion
again, but your father did not call at Mr.
Murchisson's yesterday, and that gentleman
has sent me again to solicit a visit at his
earliest leisure."
lie had inquired for Hosea of the servant,
and being told he was out, as he suspected
by his absence from the window, Gray bold
ly walked up.
"Papa was tired last night when he re
turned," answered Lily, with a blush, cer
tainly not of displeasure, when she was who
her visitor happened to be. But amiable
as she was, Gray left without daring to tell
her all he had threatened to himself to de
tail as ho sprung up the stairs.
"This won't do," he thoughtfully said to
himself. as he plodded away from the door.
longing to return and dare to speak out.—
"This dodge won't do a third time—a crisis
must come."
So it did. Murohieson waited his omens
out, and then went home to act. Eason.
too, came home.
"Papa," cried Lily, "Mr. Murchissou's
clerk has been here again, to request you
will go there without delay."
"lle's confoundedly anxious," muttered
Iluson. "So much the better, I ithaa's
harry," and down to dinner he sat.
"I must see Iluson to-night," tbought
Mu rch i sson. "Here, Sharps."
The one-eyed clerk appeared.
"Sharps, go nt once to Mr. Iluson's, and
say that I must see him tomight."
"Yes, sir," and the door closed upon
him.
"If you please, air," said Mason's maid
of all work, opening dm door, jest as Houton
was (father or husband like) going to pall
off his boots after dinner, and pat on his
slippers, "if you please, sir, Mr. Mumble
son's clerk has just called, and be sorest
his master weals particularly to see you at
once."
"The deuce coofound him:" cried Hoorn.
annoyed at this species of persecution instil
! toted both by Morchisson and hie clerk.—
"Where's the fellow?'
! -Down stairs, sir."
"Show him up."
At the words "Murchison's clerk" Lily
became scarlet. which might bare been
attributed to the feet that she was stooping
over her father's foot putting on his slip
pers. She dung not look up till a hoarse
voice fell upon tier ear; then site did, and
there alts beheld Muschiseen's "(moved
clerk: