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The Parting of Ulysses
=
I dare not live, thy loving thrall;
Dread queen, I quit thy wondrous hnll;
Soft, dreamy days. time's perfumed fall,
Farewell, for aye, farewell
Von trembling star, that gems the west,
Shakes o'er the land where I must rest;
The great gods beckon, their behest
It "onward e'en through bell!"
Stay me not, raise, dread queen. thine eyes;
La! crimson floods eves amber skies!
Pearl dropped, thy sort-fringed eyelash lies
In shade upon tiny face.
Call me not cruet CANE my fate,
'Tilt that which leaves thee desolate;
Tine gods are ster; the galleys watt, .
Good rowers, take your place:
sbh,, loon tip:clinging a rme their, sheath
linos the bold hcurt.-and yet, thy II reuth
Ambrosial soothes my neck —oh, death!
Doit thou not spare too long?
•Is life a boon, if I must part
3 l:rorn love like Cirderi? Faithlesslenrt,
Iletterdeatles pang than ilk's long smart!
True wife, I do thee wrong! •
Yield me my =nen, rrry frolic crew;
The palm.leuves cloud with glistening dew;
+Tin late Bright-haired one, oh! too few
' The Working hours of life:
Resublime, my rocky home.
Remembered more, the more I roam,
I hold thee e'en through leagues o f foam.
Loved kle", sweet son, true Wife!
List glittering Circe! wedded love
Burns stronger than yen orbs which trove
To greet their crescent queen above,
Fair stars that blind the day! •
fly magic wiles made once thine own,
•ILlncharmed, my weakness stands like stone,
The gods draw back their lingering toga,
Farewell: my crew, give way!
Finding a Relic
A relic strange from my bachelor ho &Ms,
You show me with erim•lotting face t
A little thimble o C silver fine
Anthem not wondering, bride of mite,
%Whose linger it used to grace?
Hash it a history? Yes, oh! yes, •
For she who that relic wore.
livery pulse of my soul could stir
With a look °tit/Audi, while I, to her
Masa cousin—a boy—no more.
1 4 1 - ii wedded. And I. a frequent guest
Ming on a couch with my hooka,— •
Wlth jealous pangs I could scarcely hide,
Have watched hie gestures or love and pride,
And the an.wermgjoy other looks.
Andbetter I liked to see her sit
A lone in her easy-eliair, •
tier mien more pen.lve, hei cheek more pale,
7 Misled with work that was telling a tale'
Of new+kuo Yr pleasures and care.
Or work forgotten—her dark eyes closed—
Her fancy with sweet dreams rife,
O fa tiny form by her arm caressed,
A baby face to her bosom pressed—
., The mother, us well as the wife.
'Tsvas than I saw them—mother and baba—
But shrouded with flowhats fair;
Unconcloas both , as they calmly slept.
Of the Vuer tear s that be arid I wept—
Of the lour long vigils, we sadly kept—
Kept in our. love ad despair.
From thework her fingers would touch no more
I took that relic alone:
But your cheek is wet, and your lip is pale—
I should not have told this sorrowful tale—
Go, hide the relic, my own.
greisttiono.
One Night in a Gaming.Nonse.
DT AN EX-POLICE OFFICER.
Alittle more than a year after the period
when imlverki circumstances—chiefly the re
sult of my redden follies—compelled me
to enter the ranks of the Metropolitan Police,
aethe.eole Means left me of 'procuring food
and raiment, the attention of one of the prin
cipal chiefs of the force, was attracted toward
ma .by the ingenuity and boldness, - which I
was supposed to have Manifested in hitting
ppon and unraveling a clue, which ultimate-
Wed' tithe detection and punishment of
Aber perpetrators of an artistically contrived
fraud noop an eminent tradesman of the
10ired end of London. The chief sent for
me—and after a somewhat lengthened eon
nehme,(Mg, not only expressed adiniration of
my conduct in the particular matter under
peed my Berries kt affair repair
jiti/Pleleisnati and rnsolntion.
:think I hare met ;on before," he re
tnatritell, witb *veining smile, on dismissing
nvi; 2 •Whin you' nctimpiOd a diserent position
from yogrprettent•one: Mt:tits/arm your
oaf—l bass no wish to pry unnecessarily
into other men's secrets. Waters is a name
common enough in all ranks of society, ;gal
glow:row blowitialege tbeteollialtpr
ened into' as ironical egvression, "tie mis
taken. AtialArivialt4lbir:teiitiMony of the
gentleman who obtained yotiradmisaion to
the force—l have halted-int; the matter
since I' litiettof- goat' behavior in the late
161:PliliS1111 2 -11111 sufficient guarantee that moth
big more perioita than itaptudiiiicaisid fully
;.•
can be laid to your charge.. I have neither
right nor inclination to inquire further. To-'
morrow, in all probability, I shall send fur
you."
I came to the conclusion, as I walked
homeward, that the chief's intimation of
having previously met me in another sphere
of life was a random and unfOrtunate one,
as I had seldom visited London in my pros
perous days, and still more rarely mingled
in its society. My wife, however, to whom
I, of course, related the substance of the
conversation, reminded me kbat be had once
been at Doncaster during the races—and
suggested that be might possibly have seen
me there. This was a sufficiently probable
explanation of the hint—but whether the
correct one or not, I can not decide, as he
never afterward alluded to the subject, and
I had not the slightest wish to renew it.
Three days elapsed before I received the
expected summons. On waiting on him, I
was agreeably startled to find that I was to
be at once employed on.a mission which the
most sanguine and experienced detective of
ficers would have felt honored to undertake.
"Here is a written description of the per
sons of this gang of blacklegs, swindlers and
forgers," Aoneluded the Commissioner, sum
ming up his instruction. "It will be your
object to discover their private haunts, and
secure legal evidence of their notorious
practices. We have been hitherto baffled,
principally, I think, through the too hasty
zeal of the officers employed—you must es
pecially
° avoid that error. They are prac
ticed scoundrels; and it requires considera
ble practice, as well as-acumen to unkonnel
and bring them to justice. One of their
More recent victims is a young Mr. Merton,
son by a former marriage, of the Dowager
Lady Everton. Her ladyship has applied
to us to extricate him from the toils in which
ho is meshed. Yuu will call on her at five
o'clock this afternoon—in plain clothes of
course—and obtain whatever information on
the subject she may be able to afford. Re
member to communicate directly with me—
and any assistance you may require shall be
promptly rendered."
With these, and a few other minor direc
tions, needless to recapitulate, I was dis
missed to a task which, difficult' and pos
siblY-perilauis is it might pro . * I 'llailisfia
a delightful relief from the weary monotony
and dull routine of ordinary duty.
„I- hastened home, and after dressing with
great cure—the best part of my wardrobe
had been fortunately saved by Emily from
the wreck of my fortune—l proceeded-to
L idy Everton's mansion. I was immedi
ately marshaled to the drawing-room, where
I found her ladyship and her daughter—a
beautiful fair looking girl—awaiting my ar
rival. Lady Everton appeared surprised at
my appearance, differing, as I dare say it
altogether did, from her abstract idea of a
policeman, however attired or disgu ised—
and it was not until she had perused the
note of which I was the bearer, that her
haughty and incredulous stare became miti
gated to a glance of lofty oondescendent
civility.
"Be seated, Mr. Waters," said her lady
ship, waving me a chair. "This note in
forms me that you - have been selected for the
duty of extricating my son from the peril
ous entanglements in which he has unhap
pily involved himself." • - - -
I was about to ~ r eply—for I was silly
enough to be somewhat nettled at the noble
lady's haughtiuess .or manner—that I was
engaged in the public: service of extirpating
a gang of swindlers with whom her son had
involved himself, and was there to procure
from her ladyship any information she
might be• possessed of likely to forward so
desirable a, result, but,-fortunately, the re
membrance of my actual position, spite of
my gentlethan's attire, flashed vividly upon
my mind; and instead of permitting my
glib tongue to wag irreverently in the pres
ence of a right honorable, I bciwed with def
erential acquiescence.
Her ladyship proceeded; and I, in sub
stance, received the following information:
Mr. Charles Merton, during the few
months which had elapsed, had very liter
ally fallen "among thieves." A passion for
gambling seemed to have possession of his
being; and almost every day, as well as
night of his haggard, feverish lire, was
spent at play.- A. run of ill-luck, according
to his own belief—but in very truth of flown
right robbery—had set in against him, and
he had, not only dissipated all the ready
money which he had' inherited and the large
sums which the foolish indulgence Of his
Mother had supplied him with; but bad in
volved himself in bonds, bill and other obli
gations, to a frightful amount: The princi
pal agent in - effecting this ruin was one San
ford—a man of dashing exterior, and the'
presiding spirit of the desperadoes whom I
was commissioned to hunt out. Strange to
say Mr. Merton had the blindest reliance
upon this man of honor; and even now—
triekedolespoiled as he had - been by him
and his gang—relied on his counsel and as
sistance for, his escape from the desperate
position in which be was involved.
The Everton estate ; bt4 passed,. is alefanl t
of male issue, to. a distant relative of the late
lord; so that raia,absolute and. irredeems.
1 : 4 4 stared ;foth ; the watched -dupcalsd.bilk7
relatiies in the face. Lady Evertmen join „
fire was not a yiryilargkona, nudism son
had been,permittid4o.4qoander sums,whicly
sbOnld have.,been,devnted to the, discharge
Of some IrbicAryirialloaow-Dnumd
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COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1862:
Lady Everton's narrative. Repeatedly dur
ing the course of it, as she incidentally al
luded to the manner and appearance of
Sanford, who had been introduced by Mr.
Merton to his mother and sister, a suspicion,
which the police papers had first awakened,
that the gentleman in question was an old
acquaintance of mine, and one, moreover,
whose favors I was extremely desirous to re
turn in kind, flashed with increasing con
viction across my mind. This surmise I, of
course, kept to myself—and after emphati
cally cautioning the ladies to keep our pro •
ceedings a profound secret from Mr. Merton,
I took my lertie, amply provided with the
resources requisite for carrying into effect
the scheme I had resolved upon. I also ar
ranged that instead of waiting personally on
her ladyship, which might excite observa
tion and suspicion. I should report my pro
gress by letter through the post.
"If it should be be!" thought I, as I
emerged into the street. The bare supposi
tion bad sent the blood whirling through my
veins with furious violence. "If this San
ford be, as I suspect, that villain Cardon, it
will indeed be a triumph—victory! Lady
Everton need not, in that case, seek to ani
mate my zeal by any promise of money re
compense. A blighted existence, a young
and gentle wife by his means cast down
from opulence to sordid beggary, would
stimulate the dullest craven that ever crawl
ed the earth, to energy and action. Pray
heaven my suspicions prove correct—and
then, oh my enemy, look well to yourself,
for the avenger is at your heels!"
Sanford, I had been instructed, was usu
ally present at the Italian opera during the
ballet; the box ho generally occupied was
designated in the memoranda of the police;
and I saw 'by the bills that a very success
ful piece"was to be performed that evening,
and determined on being present.
I entered the house at 10 o'clock, just af
ter the commencement of the ballet, and I
looked around. The momentary disappoint
ment wee soon repaid. Five minutes bad
not elapsed, when Cardon, looking more in
solently triumphant than ever, entered arm
in arm with a pale aristocratic looking
young man, whom I had no difficulty from
his striking resemblance to a portrait in
L.tdy Everton's drawing-rooms, in deoiding
to be Merton.
My course of action was at once deter
mined upon. Pausing only to master the
emotion which the sight of the glittering
reptile in whose poisonous folds I had been
involved and crushed, inspired, I passed to
the opposite side of tho house, and boldly
enterel the box. Cardon's back was toward
me, and I tapped him on the shoulder. He
turned quickly round—and if a basilisk had
confronted him, be could scarcely have ex
hibited greater surprise. My aspect, nev
ertheless, studiously bland and conciliatory,
and my outstretched hand seemed to invite
a renewal of our:friondship.
"Waters!" he at last stammered, feebly
acepting my proffered grasp—"who would
have thought of meeting you here?"
"Not you, certainly, since you stare at an
old friend as if he were some frightful gob
lin, about to swallow you, really."
"Hush! let us speak together in the lobby.
An old friend," he added, in answer to Mr.
Merton's surprised stare, "we will return
in an instant:"
"Veil, what is all this, Waters?" said
Cardon, recovering his wonted sang froid
the instant we wore alone. ••I understood
you had retired from among us; were in
fact—what shall I say?"
"Ruined—done up! Nobody should know
that better than you.".
"My good follow you do not imagine—"
"I imagine nothing, my dear Cardon. I
was very thoroughly done—done brown, as
is written in the vulgar tongue. But fortu
nately my kind old uncle"—
"Pasegrove is dead!" interrupted my old
acquaintance, eagerly jumping to a conclu
sion, "and you are his heir. I congratulate
you, my dear fellow. This indeed is a
charming reverse of circumstances."
"Yes; but mind, I have given up the old
game. No more dice-deviltry for me. I
have promised Emily never to touch a card
again."
The cold eye of the incarnate fiend—he
was little else—gleamed mockingly as these
"good intentions" of a practical gamester
fell upon his ear—but he replied, "very
good, quite right, my dear boy. But come,
let me introduce you to Mr. Merton, highly
connected personage, I assure you. By the
way, Waters," he added, in a caressing and
very confidential tone, "ray name, for family
and other reasons, which f will hereafter
explain to you, is for the present Sanford."
"Sanford!" •
"Yes; do not forget. But allone, or the
ballet will be over."
I was Introduced as an old and esteemed
friend hom he (Sanford) had not seen for
many Months. At the conclusion of the
ballet, Sanford proposed that we should ad
journ to - the' European Coffee Rause; nearly
opposite, and but we sallied. At the top of
the staircase we jostled agaisst the Cam.
missioner who, like us, was leaving the
house- Ils.bowedslightly to, Mr. Merton's
apology.. and his- eye .waadcred -coldly and
briefly over . our persons; not the slightest
sign or recognition escaped him. I thought
it possible he did not know me in :my
*aged apparel—bet looking back, after
descending a-few steps, I was quickly nude-
Nivea. . - .4L sharp quick glance, expressive
both• of t nesursgement and suriwise; , 'shot
out from nyder: his-- pent-house brows, and
as swiftly vanished. Ile did not know how
little / needed spurring to gain the goal he
had in view.
We discussed two or three bottles of wine
with gayety and relish, Sanford, especially
was in exuberant spirits—brimming over
with brilliant anecdotes and sparkling badi
nage.
lie saw in me a fresh rich prey, and his
eager spirit reveled, by anticipation, in
the victory which be doubted not to obtain
over my "excellent intentions and wife
pledged virtue." About half-past 12 he pro
posed to adjourn, eagerly assented to by
Mr. Merton, who had for sc me time exhibi
ted unmistakable symptoms of impatience
and unrest.
"You will accompany us Waters?" said
Sanford, as we rose to depart. "There is,
I suppose, no vow registered in the matri
monial archives against looking on a game
played by others?"
"Oh no! but do not ask me to play!"
"Certainly not;" and a devilish sneer
curled his lip. "Your virtue shall suffer no
temptation, be assured."
We soon arrived before the door of a quiet,
respectable looking house, in ono of the
streets leading to the Strand; a low peculiar
knock, given by Sanford, was promptly
answered; then a password, which I did not
catch, was whispered by him through the
keyhole, as we passed in.
We proceeded up stairs to the first floor,
the shutters of which were carefully closed,
so no intimation of what was going on could
possibly reach the street. The apartment
was brilliantly lighted, a roulette table and
cards were in full activity; wines and li
quors of all varieties were paraded. There
were about half a dozen persons present, I
soon discovered, beside the gang, .and that
comprised eleven or twelve well-dressed
desperadoes, whose sinister aspects induced
.a momentary qualm lest one or more of the
pleasant party might suspect or recognize
my vocation. This, however, I reflected,
was scarcely possible. My boat, during the
short period I had been in the force, was
far distant from the usual haunts of such
gentry, and I was otherwise unknown in
London. Still, questioning glances were
eagerly directed toward my introducer and
one big burly fellow, a foreigner—the ras
cals were the scum of various countries—
was unpleasantly kinquisitorial, "J'en re
sponder' I heard Sanford say, in answer
to his reiterated queries: and ho added
something in a whisper which brought a
sardonic smile to the fellow's lips, inducing
a total change in his demeanor towards my
self. This was reassuring; fur though pro
vided with pistols, I should, 1 felt, have lit
tle chance with such utterly :eohless ruffi
ans as those by whom I was surround. Play
was proposed; and though at first stoutly
I refused, I feigned to be overcome by irre
sistable temptation and sat down to blind
hazard with my foreign friend fur moderate
stakes. I was graciously allowed to win,
and in the end found myself richer in money
by about ten pounds. Mr. Merton was soon
absorbed in the chance of dice, and lost
large sums, for which, when the money lie
brought with him was exhausted, he gave
written acknowledgements. The cheating
practiced upon him was really audacious,
and anyone but a tyro musthave repeatedly
detected it. He, however, appeared not to
entertain the slightest suspicion of the "fair
play" of his opponents, guiding himself en
tirely by the advice of his friend and coun
sellor, who did not himself play. The ami-
We assemblage broke up about six in the
morning, each person retiring singly, by
the hack way, receiving as be ,departed, a
new password for the next evening.
A few hours afterward I waited on the
Commissioner to report the state of affairs.
Ile was delighted with the fortunate debut
I had made, but still strictly enjoined pa
tience and caution. It would have been
easy, as I was in possession of the password,
to have surprised the confederacy in gaming
that very evening; but this would only have
accomplished a part of the object aimed at.
Several of the fraternity—Sanford among
the number—was suspected of uttering
forged foreign notes, and it was essential to
watch narrowly for legal evidence to restore,
if possible, the property and securities of
which Mr. Merton had been pillaged.
Nothing of especial importance occurred
for seven or eight days. Gaming went on
as usual every evening, and Mr. Merton be
came, of course more and more involved;
even his sister's jewels—which he surrepti
tiously obtained, to such a degradation will
this vice plunge men otherwise honorable—
had been staked and lost; and . le — was, -- by
the advice of Sauford,'abour ; tc
. COneliide a
heavy mortgage on his - estits;ltr order not
only to be clear of his enormous "debt of
honor," but acquire fresh means of "win: -
fling back"--that ignis fatuns otall:gansb
lere--his tremendous losses! A new pre
liminary "dodge," I observed, was now
brought into action. Mr. Merton esteemed
himself a knowing band at ecarte. It. was
produced, and he was permitted to win every
game, much to the apparent annoyanie and
discomfiture :of" the losers. All' this - rifts
precisely the snare into which I bad myself
fallen, I of course the MOTO readily detected•
it, and felt certain that the grand coop Was
meditated! 'ln the meantime I had not
been idle. Sanford' was oonfidentially - in=
formed that I was only waiting' in" London
to receive between four and five thonsind
pounds—part of Unele-Ptemgror's legfiey—
and:then intended to immedittell finiteli to
back to canny Yorkshire. To have seen the
I t O. d
villain's eyes as I accidentally, as it were
announced my errand and intention! They
fairly flashed with glee! ..Ah, Sanfordi San
ford! you were, with all you cunning, but a
sad blind idot to believe the man you bad
wronged and ruined could so easily forget
the debt he owed you!
The crisis came swiftly on. Mr. Mor
ton's mortgage money was to be paid on the
morrow; and on that day, too, I announced
the fabulous thousands received by me were
to be handed over. Mr. Merton, elated
with his repeated triumphs at ecarle, and
prompted by his friend Sanford, resolved
instead of cancelling the bonds and obliga
tions held by the conspiritors, to redeem his
lasses by staking on that his ready money
against those liabilities. This was at first
demurred to with much apparent earnest
ness by the winners, but Mr. Merton, warm
ly.seconded by Sanford, insisting upon the
concession, as he deemed it, it was finally
agreed that scarfs should be the game by
which he might hope to regain the foriuns
and the peace of mind ho had so , rashly
squandered; the ldst time should hi be suc
cessful—and was he not sure of suecessl—
he assured Sanford, that, he would never
never handle' cards or dice. lle should
have heard the nioeking merratent with
which the gang heard Sanford repeat this
resolution to amend his ways whena r ho had
recovered briCk his wealth!
The day so' eagerly longed for by Merton
and his confederates—by the spoilers and
their prey—arrived, and I waited with fev
erish gaiety, the coming night. Only the
chief conspirators eight in number, were to
be present,'iir4 no stranger but myself—a
privilege I owed to the moonshine legacy I
had just received—was to be admitted to
the crowning triumph of successive fraud.
One only hint I had ventured to give Mr-
Mecton and that under a promise, "on his
honor as a gentleman" of inviolable Secrecy.
This was it.
"lie sure before commencing play to-mor
row night, that the bonds and obligations
you have signed, the jewels you have lost,
with a sum in notes or gold to make up an
equal amount to that which you make the
risk, is actually deposited on the table."
lle promised to insist on this condition. It
involved much more than he dreamed of
then.
My arrangements were at length throne:i
-11, complete, and a few minutes past twelve
o'clock the whispered password admitted me
into the house. Au angry altercation was
going on. Mr. Merton was insisting, as I
bud advised, upon the exhibition of a sum
equal to that which he bad brought with
him, for, confident of winning, lie was de
termined to recover his losses to the last
farthing; and although his bonds, bills, ob
ligations, his sister's jewels, and a large
amount in gold and genuine notes, were
produced there was still a heavy sum • de
ficient. "Ah, by the by," exclaimed San
ford, as I entered, "Waters can lend you
the sum for an hour or two—for a consider
ations" he added in a whisper. "It will
soon be returned:"
"No, thank you," I answered very coldly,
"I never part with my money till I have
lost it."
An indignant scowl passed over the scound
rel's features, but he made no reply. Ulti
mately it was decided that one of the fra
ternity should be despatched in search of
the required sum. He was gone about half
an hour and returned with a bundle of notes.
They were, as I hoped and, expected. forge.
miss on foreign banks. ➢lr. Merton looked
at and counted them over, and then the play
commenced.
As it went on, so vividly did the scene re
call the evening that bad sealed my own
ruin, that I grew dizzy with excitement, and
drained tumbler after tumbler of water to
allay the fevered throbbing of my veins.—
The gamblers were certainly too much ab
sorbed to heed my agitation. Merton lost
continuously—without pause orintermission.
The stakes were doubled, trebled quadrup
led! His brain was on fire; and he played,
or rather lost, with the recklessness of a
mad-man.
"Hark! what's that?" suddenly exclaimed
Saniord,.from whose Satanic featuies the
mask be bad oolong worn before Merton bad
been gradually slipping. "Did you hear a
noise. below?"
My ear had caught the sound, and I could
better interpret than he. It ceased. -
"Touch tho signal bell, „Adolphe," added
Sanford.
Not only the play, but the very breathing
of the villiane was suspended as they listen
ed for the reply.
It came. The answering tinkle sounded
once—twice—thrice. "All right!" shouted
Sanford. 'Proceed! , The farce is nearly
played ont."
I bad instructed the officers that two . . of
them in plain clothes should preseni
them
selves at the front door, obtain admission by
means o[ the password I had given them,
and immeadiately seize and gag. the .door
keeper.,, I bad also acquainted them, with
the, proper answer to the signal bell—three
pulls at.the heUdle communicating with the.
first flair. Their cemrades were then to.be.
admitted, and they were all ,silently to as
contrtgei stairs and Waitins otkihe landing
till imninicinid by me fnentet :ana'afeie the
ga' Mastitis.' The back entrance was
,al3o .
sepurely but unobtrusively watched..
One bin& feardeeturbed • mei It' Vliss lest
the seciandiels mould taketate alarm in'
ientirtiti to exiliktish the fightaeitictY all
the toigiaihiatii and Ito - al,' ei;c7l4,
um) PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT I'Jf-ADDS.
some private pissage which might, unknown
to me, exist.
Rousing myself, ae soon altlie play was
rem:tined, from the trance of memory by
which I bad been in some sort absorbed, and
first ii 4 seertining that my pistols were within
catiireach—for .1' knew I was playing a des-.
perate game—l'rose, stepped carelessly to
the door, partially opened it, and bent 'for
war), as if listening for a repetition of the
sodnd which had so alarmed the company.
To;my great delight the landing and stairs
were filled with police officers—silent and
'stern as death. I drew back and walked
toward the table at which Mr. Merton was
seated. The last stake—an enormous one—
was being played fOr.-Merto - n, lost. , Ile
sprang upon his feet, deathly pale, despair
ing, overwhelmed, and a hoarse execration
surged from his clenched teeth. Sanford
and his associates cooly raked , the plunder
together, their features lighted up with
fiendish glee.
,"Villian—traitor—miscrantr---shrieked
Mr. Merton, as if smitten with a sudden
frenzy, and dashing at Sanford's throat;
"you devil, that you are, have undone,.des-_
troyed me:" ,
"No doubt of it," calmly shaking off his
vietim'e . grasp; "and." think it bas been
very iirtiatipalli and effectively dope, too.- 7
Sniveling my fine follow, will scarcely help
you much."
Mr. kr.ortoa 6tared upon the taunting
in speechless agony and rage.
"Not quite so fast, Cordon if you please!"
I exelaitned,:at the asme time taking up a
bundle of forged notes. "It does not appear
to me that Merton has played against equal
stakes, fur unquestionably this paper is not
genuine!"
"Dog!" roared Sanford, "do pia value
your life so cheap?" and he rushed toward
me as if to seize the forged notes.
I was as quick as he, and the levelled
tuba of a pistol sharply arrested his eager
onslaught. The entire gang gathered near
us flaming with excitement. Mr. - Merton
looked bewilderedly from one to another,
apparently scarcely conscious of. what was
passing around him.
"Wrench the paper from , him!" screamed
Sanford, recovering his energy'. "Seize
him—stab him, strangle him!"
"Look to, yourself scoundrel!" I, shouted
with equal vehemence. "Your hour is-comel
Officers enter and do your duty!" •
In an instant the room was filled with po
lice; and surprised, panic stricken, paraly
zed by the suddenness of the catastrophe,.
thegang were all secured without the slight
ett resistance, though most of them were
armed, and marched off in custody.
Three—Sanford, or Cordon (but he bad
half a dozen aliases) one of them---were
transported for life; the rest were sentenced
to various terms of imprisonment. My
task was effectually accomplished. My
superiors were pleased to express very-warm
commendation of the manner in which' I had
acquitted myself, and the first step rin'the
promotion which ultimately led•to my pres
ent position in another., branch of imblict
service, was soon afterward conferred upon
me. Mr. Met tan had hie bonds, , obligations,
jewels, and -money restored to , him; and,
taught wisdom by terrible experience, never
again entered a gaming house. •
Neither he nor his lady mother were un
grateful for this service I bad been fortun
ate enough to reader them.
Engrsh Women.
BY SATELASIEL LIAWTIIOIISE
I have heard a good deal of the tenacity
with which English ladies retain their per
sonal beauty to alate period of life; but (not
to suggest that an Amerioan eye needs use
and cultivation before it can quite appreci
ate the charm of English beauty at any age)
it strikes me • that an English lady of fifty
is apt to become a creature less refined and
delicate, so far as her physique goes, than
anything that we Western people class un
der the name of woman. She has an awful
ponderosity of frame, not pulpy, like the
looser development of our few fat women,
but massive with solid beef and streaky tal
low; so that (though struggling manfully
against the idea) you inevitably think of her
as made up of steaks and sirloins. When
she walks, her advance is elephantine:
Wien. else sits down, it is on a great round
apace tif her Maker's footstool, where she
looks as if nothing could ever move hiss. Sbe
imposes awe and respect by the Mtichness
of her personality, to each a dbitrierthet Yds:
probably credit her with far"groa ter
and intellectual force than she can fairly
claim. JIM; visage is' - aitsaiTy . lsini . :and
stern, not alwayer . tiositively forbidding, - hit
calmly terrible, not merely by its breitdtli
and weight of feature, but bepasur r lt seems
to espress so ristsoh aeri:#akdeiticlf-rgli
ancti, each acquaratactue,Witis:'
toilb„toiildea; aiid`daigers, sifid
. 2 u halnrdL
cipacity for traUipling,down . i. 3'oslt ; ..
Out'itnything - positfielisulient ra , of aitjvlis i y.
offensive, ev.inNpd;
ti - Wtinightx3ru, ette"4intillie l efre * cf:4 *tier94n 7
ty•fout gun siniVin'tniiiikfpitiir;:toq u 'izitliy%
yon assure ini2'reurtfut t - there isi . v „ risa.:l
danger, you' cannot` help
meiadoas ,eou'ld tie Ijpt oliiet. i e,11•4 13 " 11 :4 1:
ti 'gawk: and binvlisititlie:efkitfto . lli:
BicS soy catudertnftrit''ph . 4
tenfOld—nii,'i 'hundred: fo,ll4 l l4ettit' s 4ll
to tali' c;are antei4eir taxi; .
friatiaiddhaiiiu;Nrruata'
not found ssay moil! to sai:Tomei
Efty t Glitaatikreater
- T•,` ;,:sr.etyrrw Sqvire -
EWBOLE -N1T,M8.t11,40.42::7,1-i,
courage, fortitude and strength- ofahn meter
thationr Women - 'of eimilarmgvamearFillt
tOugber:'physiCar- imdfiriitfc;s:
Morally ;'she is strong; otispect, oh tn'ao=
tiffaiti, and , would — be,au - n_rit - ')yc
timidin . eiei3pljopa E l . sttait ,. t4nt might
call for energy Outside of th',Orc‘34ortiOntai-. , , t 4
ties amid which ithehaS'grtis :;.
- You m eet'tb figure la tbsi street, and
li've, and even sMile atthe
But oonceive :of her in . a ball: . roons.,:ith, p
the bare, brawny arms thot, she insafiaily r. , d
aisplays there ,
, and all the other*rospon , d r ,,„
ing development,
.such as is „beautiful . itt... 15.
the maiden blossom, but,a spectacle to bowf:
at in such an orer-blowu cabbage-pie
this.
Yet, somewhere. in this enormous bulk
there must he , hidden.the„modest, &alder, s.is
violet-nature of a girl, whom an,aliert tattsit,s':
of earthliness has unkindly ovetrgrow.n. ;; ri,
an English maiden in,..hor teens, ,though . w _
very seldom sopretty.tus. oar own;4o,msnif,- 3 ,,,, /
possesses, to say the truthea oertainqhmrtsaw t
of half-blossom, and delicately4olded A05V,01,44: ,
and tender womanhood shielded krainidpel
ly reserves, with•which, somehow c r . , o t h e r,,,,„
our American girls oftert,fail to mAsrn•&h?frin,
selves during onLappseciable, mornertA.,(4k
is a pity that the English violet should grow... •
into such an outrageously developed peony
as I hare attempted to describe. I wande*
whether a middle-aged husband oughttatbeAv
considered as legally married talalLtirnacra:ll
cretions that have overgrown , : thensinider- 1,1
nese of his bride, Aim* he:, led her ZS: therslSl
tar,- and whichzmake, liot 80'....lnuottioare*
than he ever bargained-:fort. .14
sounder view of tho ease, that.the mattinzi);.:.
Mal bond cannot be. hold to- inoluddithar , rt.
,three-fourths of the wife that had no ea i
. t.
fence when the' ceremony frerroTidedr
And - as a Matter 'of conscience` and go'b~
ought nit an Englitly`Ma:itieh patt* 4
to insist upon the' celebration "ortiVrilie j•
Wedding at thi end of twahlinigrieiri, Ifi
order td legalize and 'mutually
that corporeal groirth - whith 4 betli - Pariae"'
have ndi rid callfeoms into' poeircisfien J eirice
they wcre pronounced one - KO
METIIiiSELEII O\LY 4P. A
people, hove been seoutitemed "(22
~ s
I . 3Fsrd
I )&o:ids.deb .
a s
_rather an aid n the,
gao 1 book says g t 3:iii;a icil34
atnehundred
and sixty-nine ;ears • old whari,lie,(lied l i 7:‘ ,l
Bit as compared:with the' - pecralti.'of`vhlost
acooants are given in 'the: sacred' writinxi
of India he was - onlyagreen-striplini.:
Bookie, referrinito the sietethent/ iii e'
Sanorit booki on the •tubject , says: J , "Thb
imagination of Iliad aleistaneed:all •oonspe-- -
titian. Among an immense .nninbertilf. ,
similar facts; we' find 'it• recoided "•thlte
ancient times the duration ethic oreektinibie 4
men was 80,000 years, and that: &irk Intitillt
lived to be upwards of 100,000.":'SSine•die&E I :
a little sooner, others a little' laterilktrili•:;=+.
the most flourishing period% ottintiqiiityritmg
we take all classes tcigether,.loo;ooo' is.the to
average. Of the King, -whose' name - wtteur
Ynoistibir, it is casually mentioned *, thaX hp
reigned 27,000 years; whileancither t Xfalltt, t
reigned 66,000. They' were cut off
prime, sirice'there , 'werti eevernl instances of
the poets living to be "hal?a, million .' But
the most remarkable case is !bet of f t, Tqrys ni
shining character . in• , bistory,
united the functions
This emiaelit man lived in a piiia and .
Ms lie er
tuoitsage; and hit days were Indeed lea s . g .
the late; sioas Made Kiez:wheclia to
was 2:66o,9oo'yeiarq4lilkel reiine4, G,30). 7
000 years; !raving ; done whic h
. he res4ned%
his empire , and, liered,'Ma 1 - 4.1:00:0011 . ,
years more, whin he died.' Iho terj sap,"
after thii; that' illeftlitiselel& 'wits ~,
more than an e xceedinglyjuvenile
ual? The Sancrit, writings, it will ea- re
membered, are regarded as , tfacredlOkftle
East Indians as the Bible' is - by , otieliisoplef.'l
e. 3 vte-,1
litimaisa-Biltbs?—A writei chi~ : the - ettlit a
jest eaysi—"Ttle i 'mask peigiiiiCyiniblia.- 1 1.7 1 '
Many a-time 13 ava I thonghtin'seeutia itlfitia ll
male: which Thad, perbensi - biio 4 fcilYgirre
' from - tree to tree, 'and atleit 'seen 'citdithr''
perched on a leafless twig;!-cheit *lf 11:iiiidlr"
intention has beEti anticipated lik Oil's' leiP
ad. in fact, but; to lilt appearananii , l4Calq l
so in will. Another hi:miming-bird rallies"
in, knocks the one I Court off hie perelfrand''
the two 7 go - fighting'end screaming ii:ittTyrift""
a pace hardlY*Mhe folloired by ttio:'isy'ii.-t2 l
Another time this flying:6klit I: fa`lotialafilitt 2
in mid-air; the -6elliktiriatei :"Montlitipi6
biglfer and higher; till ifiir otiii"Wdrslett in
battle dike 'amity . 4eTekiiigibelter; fal &wed
by the victor, who never relicaniebeFiTail
i m21;04.'611 the vatiquisgesi;VP&olitifficald
hiding, succeeds in makine:lifieeli-aliii:Zg•
These fine faids ire'riat" waged - alone - ?Ye
tween members of the earne r epeeists. • 'OP
exquislioilitOlecVigirievtiei iia iii al 'is -Pr
~ , . ...bat':: 9. .7. , .
rayrtle-aiek#rs ri r gr i ga,ttLa i ne t tp , 4Ast , ! ;
ink r , , 4l . l ll4'po w gnAtey ,.. orl:file spay trk„ is vt . lt i z !,
remarkable' II Ts' ve'ri l setloin, tliat t*o
dales timeNatitila laraeitial% " V.
c;OliteitCOn;mence;nwlt shat P ,
nc:
Islize* after . Shifelt ' Vitt 4 L - r, -
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the i•eisttirs!'ortye l ," . vitite o r
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grps t ia s irfro WIL. ~ w s ",.° ;44 4! 1 /'-! a l
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