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LANCASTER, PA", FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1881
Price Twe C .
CLOlHUftf.
jOK BLIABLK CLOTHIMU
AKDTHK
LOWEST PRICES
60I0-
Williamson & Fester,
36 East King Street.
THE
Spring Styles
are coming In, and the assortment's the finest
we have ever had.
BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S
CLOTHING
will be a specialty this season. The patterns
are tire choicest, ana the stvlcs and makeup
the best. Trusting you will favor us with a
call, our opening day is whenever It best suits
you te come and see what we have te show you.
WILLIAMSON & FOSTER,
ONE-PRICE HOUSE,
36 EAST KING STREET,
nc-1ydw LANCASTER, PA.
Special Announcement!
New is your time te secure- bargains in
CLOTHING!
Te make room for our large stock of Cloth
ing for Spring, new being manufactured, we
will make- sweeping reductions throughout
our large stock of
EOT WIGHT CLOTHING,
CONSISTING OF
Overcoats, Suits, &c,
MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS.
ODDS AND ENDS OF CLOTHING IN COATS,
PANTS AND VESTS, BELOW COST.
Call early te secure the best bargains.
D. B. Hostetter i Sen,
24 CENTRE SQUARE,
6-lyd
LANCASTER. PA.
A RARE CHANCE!
The Greatest Reduction ever made in FINE
WOOLEN S for GENTS' WEAR at
H. eEKHIABT'S
1
A Large Assortment of Genuine
English & Scotch Suiting,
sold during the Fall Season from S30 te 840.
A Suit will be made up te order in the Best
Style irem S20 te S30.
nEAVY WEIGHT DOMESTIC
Suiting and Overceating,
Redueedin the same proportion. All goods
warranted as represented.
The above reduction will for cash only, and
ler the next
THIRTY DAYS.
H. GERHART,
Ne. 51 North Queea Strest.
SLEIGHS, JtC.
Carriages! Carriages!
EDGERLEY & CO.'S,
FracticalTarrlagc Bnllders,
Market Street, Rear of Central Market Houses,
Lancaster, Pa.
We have en hand a Large Assortment et
BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES,
Which wc offer at the;
VERY LOWEST PRICES.
AH work warranted, uive us a call
49-Repalring promptly attended te.
One set of workmen especially employed for
that purpose. r fnac-tfdiw
CULNA AND OLASSWAMi.
TTODSKSTIKE VOUDSI
AT
CHINA HALL.
HOUSEKEEPERS, LOOK TO YOUR IN
TEttEST! ""-
The Largest and Most Complete stock of
HOUSESTERE GOODS
In our line In Lancaster. Prices the Lewest.
Quality the Best
HIGH & MARTIN,
15 KA8T K1KG 8TBEET.
JMY
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Etf TBIKUB!
NEW THINGS!
JOHN WANAMAKER'S,
13th Street, Market and Chestnut,
-:e:-
DUESS GOODS.
Among our new all-wool dress-tabries Is
an extraordinary flannel, if it Is a flannel. It
is se extraordinary as te take 11 out or flannels
altogether, pertmps ; but we have no better
name ler it. Many ladles will be obliged for
this notice.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, southeast from the centre.
!
DRESS GOODS.
What art and skill are doing In cotton
ilrcss fabrics! Twe counters are gorgeous
with them. The lowest price is 6j cents a
yard, and the highest C2 cents ; but they are
made in soft and delicate ways by texture or
print or dye. te rival the stuffs et luxury.
Here are the familiar names :
Scotch zephyrs Foulards
Madras ginghams Sateens
Seersuckers Lawns
dilutees Cretonnes
Oxford cloths Memies
Toile d Alsace Cheviots
Printed shirtings
In almost every name arc triumphs. Yeu are
net etten asked te admire se modest works of
art and skill; but see it you can pass these
counters witueut a new view of modern
achievements. JOHN WAXAMAKER.
Fourth circle, northwest from centre.
COTTON DUESS GOODS.
A lady who has bought $15 worth of
sateens at several visits here, and who Ins
been everywhere in town, says there's no such
collection et wendcrtul goods any where. Our
assortment is se large that many patterns are
nowhere el perforce ; but this is especially
true et small figured goods, the choicest of all.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, northeast from centre.
WOOLLEN DRESS GOODS.
Seme neat checks te-day, browns and
grays, '23-inch, 25 cents. Will pass for all-wool ;
but a little cotton Is carded In.
JOHN WAXAMAKEU.
Third citelc, cast Irem centre.
I)UUE LINENS.
We hav'nt a mixed linen In the store, net
even in handkerchiefs.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third, fourth and fifth circles, southwest
from the centre.
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets, and
City hall squat e.
OCOTCH GINGHAMS.
O Mere Scotch zephyr ginghams arc in fte
day, but net all by any means. Our price is 31
cents ; 40 is the New Yerk price.
New don't suppose that such a difference as
that means anything whatever In the ging
ham. It does net. It means simply that we
buy et the makers, and save one profit.
JOHN WANAMAKKR.
Fourth circle, Thlrtccnth-strect-entrancc.
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.
It you would rather buy a coarser and
heavier gingham, that leeks as well a little
way off, at 15 cants, the Madras zephyrs, et
Americau make, are what you want. They are
fust colors te.
Then the zanzibars, at 18 cents, are a little
heavier, and closer woven. The modest Cheviot-plaids
at 15 cents and seersuckers at 15 and
18 cents are- here also.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle north trem centre.
DOJIESTIC CALICOES.
Chintz et lndige-blue ground with white
polka-dot et various sizes, and ether little fig
ures net unlike the dots et American make, at
10 cents, is a meat favorite.
Calicoes in general are 8 cents; but some ;
Gat terns are 5, simply because they arc net .
iced se well.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, northeast trem centre.
IADIES' CLOTHS.
j An entire counter is devoted te ladles'
cloth ter dresses. There's nothing new in
them but the colors, plain and illuminated.
New ladies' cloths are here. It is useless te say
mere et these favorite stufls.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, south Irem centre.
INFANTS' CLOTHING
of like range; very rich te very plain,
borne specimens are shewh In the Arcade.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Southwest corner et building.
XT EW FANCY BRYON COLLARS
1 for ladles and children ; mere than CO
styles, some of them humoieus (such as have
been worn by young gentlemen et late). Lauies
will dlfler about the shape as well as about the
print.
At this counter last Saturday the sales
amounted te ever 800 cellars and cuffs. One of
the busy places.
First circle, southwest from the centre.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
JOHN WANAMAKER,
. Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market and City Hall Square,.
PHILADELPHIA.
IRON ItlTTJKItS.
TltOS IUTTEIIS.
IRON BI
A TRUE TONIC.
IRON BITTERS are highly recommended ter nil diseases requiring a certain and effi
cient tonic; especially
INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OP APPE
TITE, LOSS OF STRENGTH, LACK OF ENERGY, &e.
It enriches the bleed, strengthens the muscles, and gives new life te the nerves. It acts
like a charm en the digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such as Tatting the
Feed, Belching, Heat in the Stomach, Hemrlburn, etc. The only Iren Preparation that will
net elacken the teeth er.give headache. Sold by all druggists. Write for the ABC Boek, "2
pp. et useful and amusing reading tent fret.
BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY,
123-lydAw
VLOTUIXU.
GREAT REDUCTION IN CLOTHING.
Gentlemen, we are new closing out a heavy stock of "Winter Clothing
at greatly reduced prices.
We have a large line of elegant piece goods that must be closed out
te make room for our heavy Spring Stock. In order te de this we will
offer special bargains for the next forty days.
We have also a fine let of Ready-Made Overcoats in plain and fancy
backs, which must be closed out in forty days. Anyone in search of a
bargain will find it profitable te examine our immense stock.
MYERS & RATHFON,
POPULAR TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS,
- Ne. 12 EAST KING STREET,
PO INVENTORS.
W. H. BABCOCK,
Attorney-at-Law, et Washington, D. C, form
erly an examiner in U. S. Patent Office, offers
his services as solicitor before the U. S. and
Foreign Patent office?. Careful work at fair
prices. Was associate et Mr. Jacob Stauffcr, et
Lancaster, until the lattcr's death.
UO&cd&w
HOODS.
XTEW THINGS!
AT-
Philadelphia, Fa.
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
New things In black dress geed et almost
all sorts are ready.
Silk grenadines came semn time age; new
the wool and .'ilk and wool grenadines arc
hare; and the variety is greater than we ever
had before greater than anybody ever had, se
lar as we knew.
New armures, plain and llgucd, are notable,
especially the latter. Among them are armures,
Willi small figures and plaids, that can he been
only when looked at in certain ways. Tim
draping of a drfs of these would appear te be
partly plain and party figured or plaid. The
figures and plaids seem te have no nxistence
at ail. Yeu can't find them except bvaccldent.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Next outer circle, Chestnut-street entrance.
IN ENS.
lj Just received
a larce nuiuitltvet Irish
sinning linens; uncommonly ausiaciery : zi
te 7i cts. Seme remnants at three-quarters
value.
Sheeting and pillow linens et many makers.
Netice, if you please. 100-inch sheeting at $1,
and 43 inch pillow at 45 cents.
A certain three-quarter napkin at $ ! a dozen
has been compared with one considered a bar
gain elsewhere at a higher price.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
City-hall-square cntrace.
HOS1EUY.
Misses' and boy-. French ribbed hose at
1 te 55 cent-, according te size; C te Scinch;
is bald te be selliiit: elsewhere at G" te 80 ceats.
Cardinal, navy bin- and ceru.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Outer circle, Che-tnnt-street entrance.
SHIRTING LINEN
of a certain make which we knewall about
we have in ten weights. The ce.us"St is suit
able for men's drawers ; the finest ter tlie finest
shirt fronts.
This linen wc order six months in advance
et our wants, have it bleached wholly en the
grass, finished without dressing, and labeled
"Old-iashiened linen." It is a perfect linen.
If care und skill can produce such. Wc se!l it
by the side of Richardson linen :it two-thirds
te three-quarters the price of the latter, which
is net a w hit better. 'JS te 75 cents.
All our linens are bought wiih Just such care
and skiii as tins statement imp. les ; ami tnc
largeness of our dealing enables us te add an
inducement in price also.
Buyers et table, sheeting and pillow linens,
towels, &c, for hotels and institutions had
better call here first.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Cith hall-square entrance.
I IN EN REMNANTS. '.
j Anether maker's shnrMengih remnants,
similar te thnshirting linens mentioned above,
in four Wrights, value as geed 50 te 75 cents,
arc selling all at one price, 40 cents.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Clty-hall-squarc entrance.
S" UMMER SKIRTS.
Pinstriped sateen (the French eotten silk
like fabric new e popular) skirt trimmed with
plaiting et same, or with that and band of silk
embroidery, is the favorite of all the washable
skirts we have ; and the variety is beyond be
lief almost.
Net washable, also for summer, is Italian
cloth or Farmer-satin, made handsome in a
great many ways by combinations, plaiting,
btnuinsts, pipings, cmbreidei ies Ac.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Southwest corner et building.
1 T AXDKEKCHIEFS,
New Initials: new letters, a diffeicnt letter for
each price. New colored borders. Linen cen
ters with colored silk borders (nowhere else,
irebably), require te ba washed with care;
mt with cure they wash perfectly ; colors last.
'Woven color borders, plaids nud stripes of
course. Net a mixed cotton and linen hand
kerchief in the stere.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, southwest from centre.
NDERWEAR.
-ine muslin and cambric underwear,
richly decorated with lace and embroidery,
carefully finely and skilfully made. This we
have in greater variety than you will find else
where; Out there is no difficulty in getting
this grade et work.
Underwear of a plalnqr fort Is difficult te get
carefully and skillully made; but we h:ve a
really great collection of it. Fer mere than a
year past we have been raising the tand.-ird of
manufacture and cultiuarfng simpler styles.
We have work the;like of which is in no ether
Iieumj, here or in New Yerk. The ideal of it is
the best of home-made underwear at such
prices as will cause it te be preferred te homo home
made and step home making as fast as the
work becomes known.
JOHN WAVAMAKEK.
Southwest corner of building.
TKOS lUTXr.ICS.
ERS!
SURE APPETISER.
BALTIMORE, MO.
LANCASTER, PEM'A.
GET THE BEST HORSK AND CAXTLK
POWDER. The att entien of farmers and
stcck raisers is specially called te the above
powder which Is pronounced by many farmers
the best for distemper, coughs, colds and ether
diseases and conditions et Horses. Alse, for
Cattle, Swine and Poultry. Fer Milch Cows
there can be nothing better. 23 cents a pound
or S pounds for $1.
Prepared and sold by
ANDREW G. FRY, DRUGGIST,
Cor. North Queen and Orange Streets,
Lancaster, Fa.
Hancaster intelligencer.
FRIDAY EVENING, MAECH 11, 1881.
Miss Mortimer.
ur vr. T. WALLER.
The bills proclaim her an Amazen
Queen iu the sort of "fakement" te
which Bowker, lessee and manager, finds
his Millchester audience of bleated cotton
swells, used up " hands " and heavy dra
goons can most promptly and profitably
be get te " tumble."
Penthesilca's golden hair shimmers
under her helmet with metallic reflections
of its own. She has a sort of cream-laid
complexion, which a blush would seem te
blister, but which stage paint makes te
bloom provocative Seen at close quar
ters, the sharp contrasts of red and white
en neck and chin, and the gray eyes pen
ciled into dark, the ever-ripened under
lip all this rather enhances than ether
wise the strong, though quite uiucsthetic
attraction her face has for men.
A suple, glittering cuiras moulds like a
corset the lithe exuberance of her form ;
cxiguqus folds of tawny leopard's skin
drape her from one shoulder ; and then
pink silk and buskin beets end " admira
bly all."
The great glass in the green-room re
flects this fuli length for a moment or two,
till, with a slew smile and a nod of ap
pi oval, she turns away at the shrill sum
mons of the callboy :
"3Iiss Mortimer, please"
Outside the green-room some one lurks
about expectant of her a stunted Caliban
in a grimy jacket and paper cap, whose
countenance exhibits an uncouth arrange
ment of the objectionable passions iu dirt
and white. Caliban shambles away te the
deer which epeus out onto the stage and
holds it back for her te enter. Her gloved
hand gives him a sort of pat.
" Thank you, Ned," she says as she
passes through.
She has given him, as it were, his night
ly dram. Dram ! where is the gin that
would fill him with this lire ? Fer a touch
el her Hand she niiglit nave ins file, or
what ether man's life she chose te ask for.
The dram working in him, he lurks about
the wing watching her. Te the clash of
cymbals and the clatter of drums she en
ters, superb, splendid. She is the rage at
Millchcstcr ; she has " bit 'em, as Bow
ker has it.
Symptoms of the rage are strongest, as
usual, in the great stage box occupied in
force by a detachment from the barracks.
Penthesilca's glance gees straight at ene
man in this box a min fair te see, who
.stands, a head above his fellows, in the
background, silent and making no sign.
His white teeth shine out, though, at her
new under his reddish moustache, and the
cold blue of his eyes warms up sufficiently
te satisfy her, no doubt,' for she smiles,
again as she takes up her part.
Caliban,-in the wing, has "spotted"
this little byplay net for the first time.
Uy-and-bye, when the can is passed
round his gang, ene of them, I fear,
drinks damnation under his breath te a
ccrtaiu captain of dragoons net for the
fir.it time, either
"Geed evening, Certain Harfesd."
He has conic lounging in the grecnioem,
as is his went, during the wait. She might
be in her street dress, and holding out her
hand te him in the street, such profound
unconsciousness is there always in her
tone of being that temptation te him in
her stage dress which she is and nicaus te
be. And this unconsciousness is only
another irritant. And, at last, this cool
hand is brought te declare himself. He
produces something which his experience
lins taught him may materially assist his
declaration. It is shagreen case, which,
opened, discloses a diamond bracelet. She
makesa little movement, cat-like woman
like as though te pounce upon it
"Just se," thinks the captain.
But it is net just se. She checks that
little movement in time, and it is the back
of her hand which touches the captain's
offering. She wants a geed deal mere
from him than a diamond bracelet.
"Ne, thank you, Captain Harford.
There arc plenty of men in Millchcstcr te
give me that sort of thing "
"Of course," he agrees unpleasantly.
"If 1 chess te wear it ; but, you see, I
don't."
Between the tip of her glove and her
shoulder-strap there is certainly nothing
whatever en either of the grand arms' she
holds out te him. New he has noticed
this this absence of votive offerings al
ready ; and it has somehow llattercd his
vanity very much as it was intended, per
haps, te de.
"I thought, though," he says, mollified,
"that you'd let me give you something."
"Se you shall. .Yeu shall give me some
thing worth having that flower."
He -stares at her.
"Sentimental?" he wonders. "By
Jove !"
" And you shall keep that bracelet for
me."
"Till when?"
" We'll talk about that te morrow.
Here, fasten this this again for me. Quick !
I must go !"
And she gees with the scarlet flower
out of his button-hole set between the
clasps of her cuirass. The cool hand quits
the green-room feverish.
" What the devil is she driving at ?" he
speculates, as he makes his way back te
the little private deer which gives access
te the box-corridor from the stage. Up
aloft in the flies, Caliban, watching him,
wonders, were he by accident te let fall
the handle he holds, whether it would be
quite heavy enough te kill the cautain.
Tomorrow comes ; and she comes along
the quiet read, her hair shimmering nqw
under a felt hat, and the cuirass and the
rest replaced by an ulster and a home
spun skirt ; and he walks beside her with
his horse's bridle ever his
arm ; an& the
denouement comes also.
" inc reason," snesatu quietly.
why
I don't take diamond bracelets from ether
men is because I care for you."
" Virtuous tack ?" the captain marvels,
whilst he squeezes her hand, and makes a
mumbling indicative of rapture.
' But you wouldn't take mine," he
minds her presently.
" Because I don't knew hew much yen
care for me."
' Scruples ? Delicacy ?" he marvels
again. " What the devil is she driving
at?" b
Hew much he cares for her ? He swears
hotly enough, that he cares mero for her
than for anything ocanybedy besides.
"Will you marry me, Captain Har
ford ?"
This is the denouement, is it ? This is
what she is driving at. It is as much as
he can de net te whistle. Marry her ?
What does she take him for ? What docs
she suppose he takes her for?
" Well ?" she asks.
He commences te explain that there are
reasons why
" Why you can only care for me mere
than for anything or anybody besidss?
Very well. Then there arc reasons why
you and I had better say geed-bye.
Alibis arguments failed te demonstrate
the non-existence in fact of auy such rea
sons. He is fain te admit at last she
means what she says, when he finds him
self held steadily, coldly at arm's length,
with never a chance of breaking down
this woman's guard. And he cannot, as
after a fashion he has tried te de, get
away from this woman from the thoughts
of her and his temptation ; he cannot just
let her slide, and leave the regiment, And
conciliate the old man, and marry Claire
Foulis, and cultivate his cabbages and the
home affections according te the pre
gramme. The pregramme has small at
tractions for him ; he is possessed by this
Mortimer woman " bit " as Bowker puts
it and at last begets half wild and fit te
de queer.things.
Miss Mortimer iu this business is of
course only playing the cards it has
pleased Providence te deal her in the v. ay
she thinks most calculated te win her
game. And her game most decidedly is te
marry this Haiford. She likes him as
well as auy man she has ever seen. He is
handsome and a gentleman and a captain,
she sums up. And he will be Sir Kanni
car Harford by-and-byc, and she would be
My Lady. Of course he didn't, jump -at
marrying her when she asked him ; she
couldn't expect he would ; but he will
come te it after a while, she thinks ; and
if he doesn't, why there's no harm done.
Only, when she has worked him into a
fit state te de queer things, she fancies he
is fit te de the thing she has asked him ;
and se negotiations are reopened. He ex
plains his position ; hew much the old
man has him in his power ; the ether and
very decided opinion he entertains as te
his heir's matrimonial arrangements ; the
row there would be if he were ever te
knew of this arrangement. And se forth.
New the Mortimer is aware that she is
playing for very high stakes, and that she
must net be tee particular. Se eventually
she agrees te Louden and the civil cere
mony. They are te go up by a morning
train aud come back married, in the after
noon. She is te play, as usual, that even
ing, and nobody is te be a whit the wiser.
Details she does net ask much about. But
one thing she does ask him :
" Yeu mean straight ?"'
Of ceurse he does.
" Upen your word of honor as a geutle
man ?"
Upen his word of honor as a gentleman.
If she had ever had a doubt, she has none
after this. Still she retains a superstitious
belief in that formula. But one right
Bowker, with strong language just off his
tongue, has te come en, and, in his most
conciliatory tones, announce that, owing
te sudden and serious indisposition, Miss
Mortimer will be unable te appear.
These are net the days for belief, super
stitious or otherwise, in any formula. His
word of honor as a gentleman ! She lashes
him with this as a woman will in these
cases ; and he stands it as a man must.
Will she listen te him? he asks, when
he thinks he has steed about enough. But
the old special pleading avails nothing
with her. She keeps te the point. Will
he keep his word ? He will de anything
and everything she asks him. Will he
keep his word ? Anything and everything
she asks him but that he has te explain
with all seething circumlocution. Her
gray eyes are hard en nun as Hints ; ner
-small, sharp teeth show set ; the cream
laid complexion turns a shade or two
paler. It is perhaps as well there is no
mere lethal weapon under her hand than
a hotel table knife.
Having, however, no dagger te use but
the daggers of speech aud leek, and recog
nizing at once the uselessuess of weapons
like these, she turns "from him without
another word, aud leaves the room. She
is back again directly in her hat and ulster,
and bhe is going. This is rather start
ling.
"Going?" he tepcats. "Nonsense."
"Yeu thought I would stay here after
this?"
He certainly had thought s-,.
"I wouldn't stay here new te be your wife.
Ah ! don't touch me. Keep away. You'll
ceme with me? If you come a step I'JI call
out te the first man I meet who you are
and what you have done.."
And he sees that she would actually
put this remarkable threat into execution,
and he appreciates the hideous csclandre
that would fellow.
"As you please," he says at last, shrug
ging shoulders, biting his moustache aud
glowering at her. "If you really prefer
te go, and te go alone, why, I suppose you
must. Only, hang it ! I don't knew that
I am going te give you up like this."
"Leave me alone, if you are wise, Cap
tain Harford, after today. If you ever
come near me again I won't answer for
your life."
She leeks dangerous enough as she
leave him with this warning; but te him
it only means that she is a very angry
woman. Justifiably angry, no doubt.
He grants, a part lul, that he deserves te
be knifed or shot for what he has done, if
it were the fashion te knife or sheet men
for this sort of tiling;. but then it isn't.
Still, being gene, he had batter let her go.
What is the geed of esclandre ?
But she leaves in his heart behind her,
rage, mortification, vicious vindictivcucss
all exacerbated by the sting of a certain
sense of shame which he has never felt
before.
The whirligig that biiugs about revenge
gees en much as usual.
There being nothing else for it, he has
adopted the main items et the pregramme
which has such small attractions for him.
That is te say, he has left the regiment,
he has conciliated the old man and buried
him into the bargain and he has married
Claire Foulis. As a cultivator of cabbages
and the home affections he does net seem
likely te excel. He has evinced no symp
toms of settling down yet ; and when, one
dismal December afternoon, Sir Rannicar
he is Sir Rannicar new and Lady Har
ford arrive after a long sojourn abroad at
Robbins' hotel, my lady still fend and al
ways rather foolish, sea-sick te-day and
heart-sick these many days, finding her
self once mere left te dine alone, collapses
suddenly behind the soup-tureen in the
sight of a scandalized waiter, and is borne
off by her maid te tea and tears in her
bedroom.
The Mortimer reads this arrival amenpst
the rest in the paper next day, as she sits
in the pretty little morning room of the
pretty little house, te which the success
which invariably attends talent such as
hers has entitled her by new. And as she
reads that same expression which Captain
Harford saw en her face last comes en it
again.
It passes from it swift as a breath passes
from a polished blade at the sound of a
knock and ring at her street-deer. Her
face shines again for him, who, young,
bright, blushing, eager, comes, in a couple
of his long strides, from the hall-deer into
her presence, with a bouquet in his hands
that has cost him a "fiver," and an artless
excuse en his lips for coming se early, the
enunciation whereof costs him consider
ably mere.
The fact' is, though, that it is such a
lovely morning that he thought Mis Morti
mer would like te ride, and-and she will?
Hew jelly ! And he has told them te bring
round the mare. And he has brought this
bouquet. And the bouquet is charming ;
and Mr. Carbcry is very kind ; and she will
go and dress. Anen they ride away to
gether in the sunshine ; and the first man
almost they meet is Sir Rannicar Harford,
who takes off his hat and nods a rather in
solent salute.
Sir Rannicar had heard all about Miss
Mortimer at the club the previous evening.
Hew having recovered from her severe in
disposition and reappeared in Millchester,
she has "bitten" various ether provincial
audiences ; hew, the fame of her having
reached-the metropolis, she has become
the bright particular star of the Royal
Philander theatre, and "bitten " all Lon Len Lon
eon also. And hew this young Australian
Carbery, has suffered se severely from the
effects of the bite that he is currently re
ported he is going te marry Miss Moiti Meiti
mer. " Marry her !" sneered Sir Rannicar,
who has le tin mauzait as a rule. " Regu
lar mania that woman has about mar
riage." Harford had known her at Milchcster,
hadn't he ?
"Oh, yes," laughs Sir Rannicar ; " I
knew her there well-enough. But," he
breaks off, abruptly, "hasn't the young
feel get anybody te leek after him and put
a step te this business ?"
The general impression is, however,
that Carbery is by no means a Xoel and is
quite able te take care of himself. If he
marries Miss Mortimer it will be a bon a
cieit. He knows all about her.
"Dees he ?" Sir Rannicar sneers again.
And he believes she's all right.
"Of course he does," the ether laughs.
And who says she is net ? There have
been lets of fellows after her ; but no
body can say she's gene anything but
straight.
"Sure of that ?" Sir Rannicar inquires.
Well, he knew her at Millchester ; can'
he say anything ? Never mind. Will he
say it te Carbery ? Why net ? Here is
Carbcry.
The Australian comes into the smoking
room. He stands a couple of inches ever
Sir Rannicar ; he weighs a ceuple of stone
heavier, is half as big again round the
chest, must have an arm like a blacksmith
and, it appears, a knack of using it. On
the whole, when the two are made ac
quainted presently, Sir Rannicar does net
say much. All that Carbery hears is that
Sir Rannicar had the pleasure of knowing
Miss Mortimer when she was iu the pro
vinces. In the man who takes off his bat and
nods that rather insolent salute Carbery of
ceurse recognizes Miss Mortimer's soi sei soi
distauteld acquaintance, and wonders why
she does net.
"Don't you knew that fellow?" he
asks.
Docs he knew him? she asks herself.
Knew which man ? she requires aloud.
The man who took off his hat aud nodded?
she didn't see him. Who is he ? Sir Ran
nicar Harford ? Of course she knows him.
Why, they are quite old friends.
Aud sue brings her mare round, and
rides up te her old friend, and holds out
her hand, and is se glad te see him with
her lips, and se steadily fearless of him
with her eyes, that she rather discomfits
her enemy by this manifestation of pluck
and aplomb, and rides away with the best
of this bout. With that idea of hers con
firmed, though, that her enemy does mean
the mischief she wets of, and that she
will uever marry Frank Carbery, if Sir
Rannicar Harford can prevent her.
New, she means te inarryCarbcry ; and
therefore, if Sir Rannicar Ah ! the
liar ! the coward ! Let him leek tehim-
self well, if he tries te de this thim
- -
Lurking at the wing, as usual, one cven
iug, a certain stunted Caliban, who has
followed Miss Mortimer through the prov
inces up te Lenden, sees the man he has
been told te leek for in the stalls, and
drinks te an old ter.st of his again pres
ently. Sir Rannicar has taken an early opper
tunity of coming te see his old friend in
her new piece, which is of the old pattern
only " mere se." Pcnthesilea that was
is the Anadyemene that new is, who rises
from the -fifteen feet depths of the mezza
nine through a sea of azure gauze, her
yellow hair shimmering unbound upon her
shining shoulders, and her magnificent
self robed diaphonens in iridescent sea
foam.
One of her audience thoroughly appre
ciates Anadyemene, and is less minded
than ever te see her marry this Carbery.
But he no longer feels called upon te put
the dot's en the i's for this wild Austra
lian, who might indeed de anything rather
than thank him for it. Auethcr feeling
net a geed one naturally has get the bet
ter of his vicious vindicttveness for the
time.
She, with all her facilities keenly alive
te the situation, perceives this, and
laughs that silent, inward laugh which
never bodes geed. She laughs because
she knows she has get him again ; that he
has delivered himself into her hand ; that
the dots will never be put upon the i's at
all ; and that she will be Mrs. Carbery.
And se she leads him en, cleverly, coolly,
remorselessly te the end. He is barely
half an hour from it at last.
That night he has come into the Philan
der green-room as usual, and she and he
are alone there ; and there, in a voice thick
and husky with wine and passion, he tells
this Anadyemene, who has maddened even
him, what it is he means. He means she
sha'n't marry this Carbery. He means
she belongs te him, and that he never has
given her up, and never will.
"I see," she returns, keeping her eyes
upon the ground lest he, drunk as he is,
should chance te read some irrepressible
sign of her purpose there, and se escape
her. "But if I told you I meant te marry
Mr. Carbery, when he asks me, all the
same?"
"Well he wouldn't ask you, Bel :
thet's all."
"Yeu would tell him? Yeu really
would, upon your honor as a gentleman ?"
"Upen my Eh?" he breaks off,
staring at her. " I'll step it anyhow."
"Very well," she says; "then I nlust
ceme te terras, I suppose."
He supposes she must, tee.
"What terms, Bel?"
" We'll discuss that presently at bup
per, if you like."
Nothing he would like better. Then let
him wait where he is till the piece is ever,
aud she is dressed. Let him come around
and knock at her dressing-room deer in
half an hour. By that time she will be
ready. In half an hour? All right. He
will come.
Fer a second her glance falls en htm
full and fell. He might have read his fate
by this flash. But be reads nothing of the
kind, and smiles back at her triumphant as
she gees te finish her part.
In the dim-lit narrow passage at the
back of the scene yawns the mouth of a
pit Acheron. Caliban sits there with bis
lantern te light her down. It is through
this opening that- Anadyemene has te
descend te the mezzanine, theuce te arise
before the footlights. She touches her
attendant with her hand, and says : "New
Ned."
The two descend. Caliban emerges
again alone from the depths and sets down
his lantern te show the opening according
te regulation. Half an hour passes. The
piece is ever, the audience dispersing.
Seme one comes along the dim-lit passage
en his way a way he has trod before to te to
nighteo knock at Miss Mortimer's dress
ing room deer. Caliban and bis lantern
disappear. Sir Rannicar comes en, intent
upon that- discussion of terms, gets half
way around ; and then feels the flooring
fall suddenly beneath his feet, and, with a
cry and a curse, and a clutching of the air,
falls into the dark, and there lies crushed,
senseless, bleeding. And then a grimy
hand holds up a lantern, and Caliban's
face peers down ever the top of the pit.
Net dead when they get him ent. A
paralyzed cripple, though, with a dam
aged brain, who never sneaks coherent
speech again. His wife nurses him. Hew
he get down there no one understands.
The opening was properly protected Cal
iban proved that.
" And I warned him myself," says Mrs.
Carbery. The (Londen) Theatre.
We notice that Tem. Dick and Harry are new
appearing with their Grandfather's recipes for
Coughs, etc.. and seckinsr a fertune through
advertising, but the people knew the value of
ur. uuu a ceugn syrup anu wut take no ether.
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