THE fiCHAttTOff TBIBtWE-SATTTttDAr fMHtNINGrV MAY 11. 18!)5. 11 Makers .of BookSo FAMOUS COMPOSERS. That excellent aerial publication of the J. B. Millet company, Boston, "Famous Composers," has progressed to part 20, leaving only ten numbers yet to appear. The live latest parts contain Interesting biographical sketches and critical estimates of Clau- llo Monteverde and Alessandro Scar latti, by W. 8. B. Mathews; Giovanni Pergolese, Vlncenzo Bellini and Gaet- ano Donizetti, by H. .M. Tlcknor; Lulgl Cherublnl, by Phlllpp Spltta; Giovanni BgambaA by Arthur Foote; Giuseppe Verdi, biJi. E. Woolf; Jean Baptlste Lully. Jti Philippe Kameau and Andre ErnAt Modeste Gretry, by Os car Comettant. the celebrated French critic; and Francois Adrian Boleldleu, by Louis C. Klson; In addition to which Martin Roeder contributes a very satis factory essay briefly reviewing the his tory of music In Italy. In these Ave parts appear many admirable Illustra tions, those adorning the sketch of Rossini being1 particularly noteworthy. We purpose in the following notice to glance for a moment at M. Comettant's sketch of Rameau, at Mr. Spltta's study of Cherublnl, at M. Pougln's ap preciative review of Rossini's works and at Mr. Woolf's article on Verdi. I.. Jean Philippe Rameau was born at DIJon, in France, on Sept. 23, 16S0, of parents who were fond of, but not pro ficient In, rhusic.At the age of 7, the boy could at sight execute on the harpsi chord any musical score that was placed before him. His parents seem, however, to have had a nineteenth cen tury horror of music as a profession, for they tried every means in their power to have their son master the law. They sent him to a Jesuit school, but all he would do there was to pencil scores and fragments of music on his books. He failed signally to make any progress In -book-learning, and was sent home. Here he resumed his musi cal studies, and mastered the harpsi chord, orsan and violin. At 18, he fell so deeply in love with a widow of DIJon that, to break off the liaison, his par ents had to resort to the old trick of boxing the lad's ears and sending him forth to travel. He passed some time In Milan, but, longing for home, hired out as a violinist to the manager of a traveling orchestra, and after several years passed In travel and In study, went, in 1717, to Paris. Having never had opportunity to study counterpoint, Rameau sought the great Parisian organist, Marc-hand. And here we come to an episode which shows that human nature Is much the same In all lands and ages. Marchand Immediately detected the latent genius Of his pupil, and was filled with fear and envy. The post of organist at the Church of St. Paul, becoming vacant, was submitted to public competition. Rameau was poor, and hence entered the lists, his leading rival being one Daquln, an exceedingly Inferior per former. Marchand was Judge. He seized the opportunity to humiliate Rameau by deciding In favor of Daquln, and Rameau, for a time, was by poverty forced to leave Paris. He first went to Lille, but later was selected as organist at the Clermont cathedral. He took this position under a contract which bound him to keep It for a period of years. Clermont was a quiet little town, up amidst the Au vergne mountains, and while Rameau passed several years here In pleasant etudy, he longed for a more active career. Several times he applied for a cancelling of his contract. The cathedral officials refused. At last an Idea seized him. His playing had been Inexpressibly sweet and tender. He ab ruptly made It harsh and discordant. The people of Clermont protested, but the more they protested the worse he played. He told them thus loflg an ticipating the Immortal Wagner that tho change was an Inspiration which had come to him In a dream, and that it would yet be the means of reforming the tastes of all true lovers of music. They stood Rameau's "music of the fu ture" as long as they could, and then tore up his contract. Freed at last, he celebrated his farewell by playing as of yore, with a feeling and tenderness that took 'the congregation by surprise. It was during Rameau's sojourn at Clermont that, unaided, he worked out the basis of his writings on harmony, which have ever since been the recog nized standards on this subject. From Clermont, Rameau returned to Paris, In which city he resided until his death, Sept. 12, 1764. The first thing he did was to publish his books on harmony, which, not being1 understood, were brut ally criticized and ridiculed. Then he wrote almost innumerable pieces for the harpsichord, which, becoming pop ular, brought him money and fame. Finally, ambitious to become a com poser of grand opera, Rameau colla borated with tha illustrious Voltaire, on an opera, "Samson;" but the direc tor of the Academle de Muslque refused to sanction Us production. Nothing daunted, Rameau wrote the music for another opera, "Hlppolyte et Arlcle," which was more fortunate; and from fifty to seventy-seven, our composer produced works with unflagging regu larity and success, reaching the climax of his powers in "Castor et Pollux." That he made many mistakes In musi cal grammar will be admitted; but to Rameau the world owes both the dis covery of the natural formation of chords, from which we date tha science of harmony, and the development of grand opera to a point almost equal to that which was In vogue at the time of Richard Wagner. II. Of the Florentine composer, Cheru blnl, Mr. Spltta presents a distlnot and well-rounded sketch. Its Interest for us lies in its episodes, the first of which occurred during the terrors of the French Revolution In 1792 when Cheru blnl, having four years earlier accepted the directorship of court operas In Paris, was one day pounced upon by a troop of samsculottes which marched roaring through the streets looking for musicians to accompany their songs. Upon recognizing that he was an at tache of the hated coUrt, the crowd grew threatening, whereupon a friend pressed a violin into Cherubim's hand and told him to play for dear life. This he did; and so well. Indeed, that the rabble kept him at it until long after nightfall. They stood him upon an up turned wine-cask, and there he fid dled, hour after hour, like the man in the story, whose .fiddling .held' the wolves at bay. Yet It was during these troublous times) that Cherublnl com Some of the Latest Volumes To Issue from the Press. posed one o his greatest works, "Lodo Iska." At another time, in tho presence of Napoleon, Cherublnl resented an ig norant crltlHm passed by the Corslcan upon his music, .saying, sharply: "You love the r.iuslc which does not prevent you from thinking of the affairs of state." The rebuke neMlud Napoleon, and he never forgave It. Upon another occasion, the emperor, who had re cently returned from the wars, asked Cherublnl what he thought of the opera "Fanlska," which had been pro duced during Napoleon's absence. "It will not please you, sire," Cheru blnl replied. "Why not?" "It Is too good." was the curt re sponse. And to Napoleon, who prided hlmseJf upon his ear for music, this second thrust was an Insult superadded to Injury. III. M. Pougln, who has been selected as the biographer ot Rossini, Is overmuch given to superlatives, and has no time for Wagner. To him, Rossini is the adorable mnster, the Incomparable art ist, whose name should be written on the annals of art In letters of gold. All other composers are of minor conse quence. Notwithstanding thpse out cropping of M. Pougln's preferences, his summary of the main Incidents In the composer's eventful and highly dramatic career Is accurate and Impar tial. We shall not repeat those biogra phical details they should be familiar to all who take gonulnt Interest in mu sic. We mention only one Incident be fore passing to a consideration of Ros sini's rank as a composer. When that most successful of Rossini's composi tions, "II Barbiere di Sivlglla," received its flrrt production at Rome, it encoun tered violent opposition. A reigning favorite, Palslello, had treated the same subject In a different manner, and al though Rossini publicly paid tribute to Palslello's genius and disclaimed any wish to Interfere with his laurels, the Roman people refused to be appeased. Zanollnl thus graphlcaly pictures the episode: "The Romans went to the theater, per suaded that they were going to hear detestable music, and disposed to pun ish an Ignorant upstart. The overture was executed In the midst of a confused hub-bub, the precursor of the tempest. Garcia attempted to accompany with his guitar the first air of the count Almavlva; all the strings broke at once, and then began the laughs. Jeers and hisses. A little while after, Don Bas illo, an old singer of the Slstine chapel, stumbled, on entering the Btage, and fell and bumped his nose. This was enough; laughs and hisses buret from all sides, and people would not and could not listen any longer. One per son applauded, one only, and that was the composer; and the more he clapped the louder grew the hisses, vnitll, when the fury of the crowd had reached its climax, he mounted upon his chair, so that he could be seen by all, and with head, hands and voice testified to the actors his approbation. He remained intrepid until the orchestra had all left, waiting to receive the last Insult- Dur ing the second evening, Rossini was conversing at home with some friends, when cries were heard in the street. In front of his house, and the lights of many torches were seen through the window. The guests at first were alarmed; but soon distinguishing In the confusion the voices of friends, they opened the doors, and In an Instant Rossini was seized and carried by main force on the shoulders of the mob to the theater, where the whole audience cheered and roared Us message of sur render." The fickle public! had changed Its tune, and ever since' that second night the "Barbiere" has been recog nized throughout the world as the su preme achievement In opera bouffe. Our biographer, in his estimate of Rossini's genius and rank, takes It with ill grace that "for years past Rossini has been spoken of slightingly, his genius misunderstood, his worth de nied. Certain adepts of a new school, who affect to disparage all that was done before them, are ready to drag him to the gibbet without even giving him credit for what they owe him di rectly or Indirectly. They do not seem to have the least Idea that It Is Rossini who has emancipated musical art as applied to the theater; who has given freedom to melodic form; who has sub stituted for the majectlc and uniform solemnity of the ancient lyric declama tion, a rational diction, with an expres sion more vivacious, more Intense and more vigorous; who, by the movement and variety communicated to the rhythm, has given to the musical phrase the natural sentiment and warmth of action which It too often lacked; and to whom we owe the rich ness and tho splendors of the modern dramatic orchestra." "Who knows," he asks. In a final burst of scorn, "if that admirable orchestra of Wagner, to which unhappily everything is sacri ficed, would exist today had It not been for Rossini?" M. Pougln tries not to be wholly an eulogist. He admits that there are grave faults to be found In Rossini's serious operas; "In the first place a lack of unity, and also certain weak nesses which by their proximity mili tate against some really admirable pages; then the abuse of vocalization and of the ornate style, absolutely In compatible with , the purely dramatic element; finally, the occasional lack of real emotion and the frequent absence of pathos, an absence so complete that It may Justly be said of Rossini that he never knew how to sing of love." Yet these same operas, ha maintains, have "qualities so grand, an Inspira tion so rich, a style so noble, a phrase so elegant, an orchestra so vigorous and always so full of Interest that the works, although Imperfect in their' en semble, have been able through cer tain sublime portions to win very great success;" while as for the qualities of Rossini's lighter muslo, we are assured that In the wonderful Imagination which It discloses, In gaiety carried sometimes to the point of folly. In an ardor and quickness of Inspiration that was simply prodigious,; and In an in strumentation always ney, always piquant, always of extreme elegance, his music Is still as young and fresh as when It first appeared, eighty years ago. . .,. ,:. ;Vr.' Verdi, 'the' last representative of the Italian opera composers of . the old school, and the most., popular living composer, was born Oct. 10, 1813, in the little village of Rohcole, of' parents who kept a small tobacco shop. There is no record In his case of extraordin ary Juvenile precocity, At the age of 7, his parents managed to get htm a splnnet; and when little Giuseppe one day got vexed at his own inability to play this Intrument as he wished, and proceeded to smash It to pieces with a hammer, It Is on record that he re ceived a highly exemplary parental thwack on the ear. At 10, he was em ployed as organist of the village church at an annual salary of 17.20 and per qulsites. Six years later, having In the Interval studied to the .best of his limited opportunities, Verdi set out for Milan, hoping to enter the conserva tory there. He was refused admission on the ground of Incapacity, but found a sympathetic Instructor In the then celebrated composer, Lavlgna. An Interval of eight years, marked chiefly by his marriage to the daughter of his patron, Carezzl, followed, and was broken by the production, at Milan, of his first opera, "Oberto," which, be ing received with moderate favor, de cided him to be a professional com poser. The rest is familiar history The second opera, contracted for by Merelll, a Milanese manager of note, was to be a comic one. While he was writing It, his two children and his wife died. When produced, It failed lamentably, as was to be expected from these doleful circumstances. But a third opera, "Nabucco, ' written as a relief from his sadness, was Instan taneously successful; and from that time Verdi was then 29 years old to the present operas have flown from his pen with amazing ease and versatility, The failures have been many and dire; but the successes have been even more emphatic. The latter brought wealth fame and honors Innumerable, against which the former make apparently no Impression. Of Verdi, the man, we take leave by copying from Mr. Woolf s readable sketch the following descrlp- tlon of how the great composer passes his final years: "He resides oni his handsome estate near Busseto, except during the winter months, which he passes in Genoa. He has a beautiful garden and a lnrge farm, to whose cultivation he devotes himself with enthusiasm. He Is very fond of his animals, especially his horses. To young musicians he Is es pecially kind. His modesty is exces sive, and he objects strongly to talk of himself and his art triumphs. He lives quietly the life of a well-to-do country gentleman, and Is delighted to see his friends, If they are not over-prone to discuss mualc. Tils disposition Is char Itable, and he gives freely but unos tentatiously to the needy. Some of the splendors of his garden, which appear to be the mere caprices of a rich man with a taste for the luxuries of life, were conceived and carried out for the purpose of giving to poor working peo- pie out of employment the means of earning a livelihood. He gave ten thousand francs toward building a theater at Busseto, because the lnhabl tants desired one. It Is a small but handsome and elegant building, on the front of which is Inscribed, In letter of gold, the name of the great master who, years before, when a poor boy, played the organ In the church of the neigh boring village of Roncole for the year ly pay of $7.20." It is our biographer's Judgment, In which most persons will cordially agree, that while Verdi Is undoubtedly one of the most popular opera com posers of his time, perhaps the most popular one. It Is not at all clear that he can be ranked as a great musician In any exacting sense of the word. He has followed gracefully In the beaten path, and has been In no sense an In novator. "Gifted with an inexhaustive fund of melody, and a strong feeling for dramatic effect, 'he has trusted to these gifts without paying especial heed to any philosophic principle on which operas should be composed; and has ap pealed to the nerves and the ephemeral emotions of his public, rather than to Its heart or its Intelligence." In short, he has been the prolific, versatile and successful tune-maker, to whom ap plause Is everything and futurity noth ing. But all men cannot be giants; and the mass of music-lovers, while loyally revering the mastadon maestros, will no doubt long continue to be grateful to Verdi for the simple, sensuous pleas ure which he has so lavishly afforded them. .' L. S. R. AMONG AUTHORS AND. PUBLISHERS. Hezeklah Buttorworth purposes making a journey to spam. It has been announced that Mr. Du Mau rior's new story is a very long one. Anthony Hope has written a series of four story-telling dialogues which ho calls "Had Matches." They are suld to be par ticularly witty. W. D. Howells has written an Introduc- tlon to the English version of Tolstoi's now story, "Master and Man." The Ap pletons are bringing out the book; Robert Bridges ("Droch" of Life") Is arjout to publish another book, entitled "Suppressed Chapters," containing criti cism and satire upon popular writers. "Celibates," George Moore's new novel, Is to be published here Immediately by Macmillan. "Dr. Gray's Quest," the late Francis Underwood's novel, has Just been brought out In London. Grant Allen's new novel, "Under Sealed Orders," dVserts the "martyred woman," as he calls her. This story deals with "martyred Russia." The Nihilistic plot Includes the time-honored expedient of swallowing compromising papers. The value of the forthcoming "Amor lean Congress," a history of national leg islation and political events, 1774-1895, by Joseph West Moore (Harper). Is enhanced by the fact thut no other student of Amer ican history has entered and occupied the field. Twenty-four persons have united In a "novel novel" announced by the Hobart Publishing company (Chlcngo). Its pecu- Whcre Science ends and Common Sense should rule. Persons of seden tary habits are liable to Indigestion or dyspepsia. These, in turn, will bring on nervous disorders, kidney com plaints, constipation, etc This Is es pecially the case with merchants, stu dents and scientists. They will give you the exact dimensions of Jupiter, the distance from Saturn to the sun, to a foot but they cannot or will not tell themselves what will cure this train ol disorders. for aliments resulting from scdcn dentary habitsinactivity of the liver, habitual constipation, etc. the entire medical fraternity of Europe and Amer ica almost unanimously recommend the genuine Carlsbad Sprudcl Salt and the Water of Carlsbad. Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole Agents, 151 Franklin Street, H. Y. Ilarlty lies In the fact that Its twenty-four chapters are written each by a different person, who knew nothing of what any of the others was writing. M. de Herodla, whose reception into the French Academy has been already long delayed, on account, it Is said, of tho fas tidious care which he has been bestowing on his discourse, will not be receive till the fall, owing to the Illness of Francois Cop pee, who Is to make the reply to his ad dress. The emperor of Germany Is said to be writing an elabarate bok on a military subject. It Is to be published In the au tumn, on tho anniversary of Sedan. He port says also that tho first volume of tho Archduke Ferdinand's "Diary of My Voy age Itound tho World" is to be published immediately. R. K. Munktttrlck, who begnn life ns a writer of humorous paragraphs, and Is now devoting himself almost entirely to writing serious verse, celebrated his 42d birthday anniversary last month, Mr. Munklttrick Uvea at Summit, N. J., not (far from Humilton Muble. Frank It. Stockton and A. li. Frost live but a short distance above him at Convent Station. Josenh O'Connor, editor of the Rochester Post-Uxpress, it Is rumored, has In prepa ration a volume of verse which has been written In tho leisure hours of a busy llfo In Journalism. Tho collection will Include melodious lyrics, a few of them tho work of college 'days, and a selection from nu merous occasional poems, one of the latest of which was written for one of the New York ceremonies at the Columbian Exhi bition. A new edition of Bulzac Is announced by the Macmllluns. It will be published In admirable crown octavo form, In about forty volumes, and will be absolutely com plete. Various translators are engaged upon the work, but they will all bo under the supervision of George Balntsbury, wno will not only edit the volumes, but write a prefatory chapter for each one, besides contributing a general Introduction of some length to the first volume. Richard Realf's poems are to be pub lished In- the early fall by a New York publisher. It will' be a limited subscrip tion edition, numbered, and only those volumes previously subscribed for will come to the Eastern states. The work will contain 100 poems, three pictures of ltcalf, and a sketch of the author's life. Ono knows little of Richard Itealf except that he was a brave Union soldier, thut he wrote In his poem "Indirection" one of tho loveliest lyrics In our language, and that he committed suicide in San Francisco In 1879. The prospectus of the English Dialect Dictionary to be edited by Prof. Joseph Wright, secretary and literary director of the English Dialect society, Is now pub lished. This great work will be issued by annual subscription two parts during 181W, and the remaining parts at half-yearly Intervals. Eight years will be required for completion, and 1,000 subscribers are needed to luunch the enterprise. The vo cabulary will embrace all dialect words still In use or known to have been In use In the past 200 years In Orcat Britain and Ireland, together with all American dia lect words still In use In the British Isles. Geographical area, pronunciation, and Immediate etymology will all be shown. Another firm has been founded for the publication of well-mode books, after the fashion set by Stone & Kimball. The name of the firm Is Lamson, Wolffe & Co., and It Is said that they will bring out chiefly books of poetry, essays und fiction. Our Now York namesake Is moved to offer it some excellent advice. "The thing to be remembored," it observes, "Is that while a few enthusiasts may for a time buy those dainty editions of poetry and amateurish essays which look so attract ive to the dilettante's eye, the serious buyer of books wants good reading as well as good print and binding, and he will not support the shallow, affected ephemerae which a taste Imitative of the worst Lon don faddists may chose to offer. Uncut edges, thick paper, fine type and 'adorable' covers will do nothing In the long run to preserve trash from oblivion and its pub lishers from a loss of prestige. The press work of these new houses Is often beyond reproach. Its discrimination In the matter of the contents of a book and In connec tion with Its 'moke up,' as the printers say, Is often beneath contempt. Title pages go mad with affectation, you feel that everyone concerned in the printing of the book would kill an Idea for the sake of a colophon and. In short, the Impression given Is of men playing at the production of literature. It Is literature that Is want ed, not the bleatlngs of young versifiers or the essaylets of Jejune prosers. STORIES OF THE TIME. M. Do Lcsscps and Ills Anglophobia Countryman. Great was the delight of M. de Les seps when one day an old gentleman from the west of France climbed up to the third story of his lodgings. In the Rue Richelieu, and said; "I have come, monsieur, to subscribe to your railroad across the Island of Sweden." "But, my good friend," said Lesseps, "It Is not a railroad. It is a canal; It Is not an Island, It is an Isthmus; It Is not Sweden, It Is Suez." "That's noth ing to me," replied the visitor, "so long as it worries the English." Prince Tnllyrand was startled out of his sleep one night by a plstod shot, and seeing his man servant in the room asked him what It was all about. "May It please your highness, there was a mouse in your room, and, fearing It might disturb your rest, I shot It." THE DEATH OF A DRIVERBOY. Written for The Tribune. The beautiful sunbeams crept over the hills One flowerladen morning In May, And tho sweet songs of birds and the laughter of rills, Proclaimed the awakening of day. I,o! Nature, exultant, diffuses her Joy, And lavishes pleasure divine; As a fond mother kisses her dear little. boy. Ere he starts to the Cayuga mine. O, Uttlo she know what the duy would un fold As she gazed on his beautiful face; That Death, cruel Death, with horrors un told, The sweet kUs of love would efface. Blessod by his mother and guided by prayer. The little one wends his lone way; Ho turns now and then to look back from afar, And motions a tender good-bye. Down In the mines, gloomy and bare; Ilnrkl to that cry: "Help!" Men rurjj, lumps glare Oh! that deep sigh I Rulse him gently, see tho chlldluh face, Robbed of tha kiss Death reigns in Its place Oh! love unfathomable pangs! Darkness around him, save the dim light That flickers weirdly, like the shade of night, As on the robe of day It hangs. Homeward they brought htm, all filled with alloy; And tenderly knocked at the door Of which, with a kiss, the dear little boy Had left but an hour before.. The-school children gathered a beautiful wreath; They sung "In the Sweet, By and By," And angels, exulting triumphant o'er Death, Resounded his praises on high. "Llewellyn" was laid In the humblest of tombs, With only a miner to praise him: No costly sepulchre or monument looms. With goldheaded letters above him. Uncarved Is the stona and unwoven the tale The tale of his death, g-rlm and gory, But, alaal he was poor a sure sign to veil His name from the temple of glory. George W, Bowen. " Bcranton, May 1, 1695. (These short serial stories are copyrighted by Bacheller, Johnson & Bach eller, and are printed InTheTrlbuno by special arrangement, simultaneous with their appearauco In the leading dally Journals of the large cities). III. Plummer looked1 casually In tho direc tion indicated, and then Immediately turned his eyes In another direction. "I see her," he said, "she's Just taking a look around tho corner. That's a thing not to be neglected. Of course, the Laker's house IB being watched we set a man on It at once yesterday. But I'll put one on now to watch Miss Shaw's place, too. I'll telephone through to Llddles probably they'll be able to say where It is. And the women themselves must be watched, too. As a matter of fact, I had a no tion that Laker wasn't alone In It. And It's Just possible, you know, that he has sent an accomplice off with his tourist ticket to lead us a dance while he looks after himself in another direction. Have you done anything?" "Well," Hewitt replied, with a faint reproduction of the secretive smile with which Plummer had met an lnqujry of his earlier In the morning, "I've been to the station here. And I've found Laker's umbrella In the lost property office." "Oh! Then probably he has gone. I'll bear that In mind, and perhaps have a word with the lost property man." Plummer made for the station and Hewitt for his office. He mounted the stairs and reached his door Just as I myself, who had been disappointed in not finding him In, was leaving. I had called with the Idea of taking Hewitt to lunch with me at my club, but he declined lunch. "I have an Important case in hand," ho said. "Look here, Brett. See this scrap of paper. You know the types of the different papers which Is this?" He handed me a small piece of paper. It was part of a cutting containing an advertisement, which had been torn In half. "I think," I said, "this Is from the Dally Chronicle, Judging by the paper. It Is plainly from the 'agony column,' but all the papers use pretty much the same type for these adver tisements except the Times. If it were not torn I could toll you at once, be cause the Chronicle columns are rather narrow." The torn scrap read as follows: -oast. You 1st. Then to 3rd L. No. 197, redbl. time. "Never mind I'll send for them all." Hewitt rang and sent for a copy of each morning paper of the previous day. Then he took from a large ward robe cupboard a decent but well-worn and rather roughened tall hat. Also a coat a little worn and shiny on the collar. He exchanged these for his own hat and coat, and then substituted an old necktie for his own clean white one, and Incased his legs In mud-spotted leggings. This done, he produced a very large and thick pocket-book, fas tened by a broad, elastic band, and said, "Well, what do you think of this? Will It do for queen's taxes, or sani tary Inspector, or the gas or the water supply?" "Very well. Indeed, I should say," I replied. "What's the case?" "Oh, I'll tell you all about it when It's over. Oh, here you are, Kerrett. By the bye, Kerrett, I'm going out presently by the back way. Wait for about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour after I have gone and then Just go across the road and speak to that lady in black with the veil, who Is waiting In that little foot passage op posite. Say Mr. Martin Hewitt sends his compliments and he advises her not to wait, as he hns already left his office by another door, and has been gone some little time. That's all; It would be a pity to keep the poor woman waiting all day for nothing. Now the papers. Dally News, Standard, Tele graph. Chronicle yes, here It Is in the Chronicle." The whole advertisement read thus: YOB II. R. shop roast. You 1st. Then to night. O 2. Second top. 8rd L. No.l7, redbl. straight mon. One time. "What's this," I asked, " a crypto gram?" "I'll see," Hewltit answered. "But I won't tell you anything about It till afterward, so you get your lunch. Ker rett, bring the directory." This was all I actualy saw of this case myself, and I have written the "Go Across ths Rood and Speak to That I.ndy." rest In Ua proper order from Hewitt's Information, as I have written some other coses entirely. To resume at the point where, for the time, I lost sight of the matter. Hewitt left by the back way, and Btopped an ampty cab as It passed. "Abney Park Cemetery" was his directions to the driver. In little more than twenty min utes the cab was branching off down the Essex road, on Its way to Stoke Newlngton, and In twenty minutes more Hewitt stopped It in Church street, Stoke Newlngton. He walked through a street or two,' and then down another, the houses of which he canned carefully as he passed. Oppo clte one which stood by Itself he stopped, and, making a pretense of con sulting and arranging his large pocket book, he took a good look at the house. It was rather larger, neater and more pretentious than the others In the street, and it had a natty little coach house Just visible up the side entrance. There were red blinds hung with heavy lace In the front windows, and behind one of these blinds Hewitt was able to catch the glint of a heavy gas chande lier. He stepped briskly up the front steps and knocked sharply at the door. "Mr. Merston?"hcasked,pocketbook!n hand, when a neat parlor maid opened the door. "Yes." "Ah" Hewitt stepped Into the hall and pulled off his hat "It's only the miter. There's been a deal of gas run ning away somewhere here, and I'm Just looking to see if the meters are right. Where is it?" The girl hesitated. "I'll I'll ask mas ter," she said- "Very well. I don't want o take It away, you know only give it a tap or two and so on." Hewitt followed the girl to the base ment, apparently looking straight be fore him, but In reality taking In every detail of the place. The gas meter was In a very large lumber cupboard, under the kitchen stairs. The girl opened the door and lit the candle. The meter stood on the floor, which was littered wlh hampers and boxes and odd sheets of brown paper. But a thing that at once arrested Hewitt's attention was a garment of some Bort of bright blue cloth, with large brass buttons, which was lying In a tumbled heap in a cor ner, and appeared to be the only thing Hewitt Immediately Seized tho Otue Coat. In the place that was not covered with dust. Neventheless Hewitt took no ap parent notice of It, but stooped down and solemnly tapped the meter three times with his pencil, and listened with great gravity, placing his ear on the top. Then he shook his head and tappped again. At length he said: "It's a bit doubtful. I'll Just get you to light the gas In the kitchen a moment. Keep your hand to the burner, and when I call out shut it off ait once see?" The girl turned and entered the kitchen, and Hewitt immediately seized the blue coat for a coat It was. It had a dull red piping in the seams and was of the swallow-tall pattern a livery coat, in fact. He held It a moment be fore him, examlng its pattern and color, and then rolled It up and flung It again into the corner. "Right!" he sailed to the servant, "Shut off!" The girl emerged from the kitchen as he left the cupboard. "Well," she asked, "are you satisfied now?" "Quite satisfied, thank you," Hewitt replied. "Is it all right?" she continued. Jerk Ing her hand toward the cupboard. "Well, no, it isn't; there's something wrong mere, and I'm glad I came. You can tell Mr. Merston, If you like, that l expect his gas bill will be a trood deal less next quarter." And there was a suspicion of chuckle In Hewitt's voice as he crossed the hall to leave. For a gas Inspector Is pleased when he finds at length what he has been searching tor. Things had fallen out better than Hewitt had dared to expect. He saw the key of the whole mystery In that blue coat; for it was the uniform coat of the hall porters at one of the banks that he had visited In the morning'. though which one he could not for the moment remember. He entered the nearest postuffice and dispatched a tele gram to Plummer; then he hailed the first available cab and hurried toward the city. At Lombard street he alighted and looked In at the door of each bank till he came to Buller, Clayton, Ladds & Co.'s. This was the bank he wanted. In the other banks the hall porters wore mulberry coats, brick-dust coats, brown coats and what not, but here, behind the ladders and scaffold poles which obscured the entrance, he could see a man In a blue coat with dull red pip ing and brass buttons. He sprang up the steps, pushed open the Inner spring door and finally satisfied himself by a closer view of the coat, to the wearer's astonishment. Then he regained the pavement and walked the whole length of the bank premises In front, afterward turning up the paved passage at the side, deep In thought. The bank had no windows or doors on the side next the court, and the two adjoining houses were old and supported In places by wooden shores. Both were empty, and a great board announced that tenders would be received for the purchase of the old materials of which they were constructed in a month's time; also that some part of the site would be let on a lung building lease. Hewitt looked up at the grimy fronts of the old buildings. The windows were crusted thick with dirt, all except the bottom window of the house nearer the bank, which was fairly clean and seemed to have been quite lately washed. The door, too, of this house was cleaner than that of the other, though the paint was worn. Hewitt reached and fingered a hook driven into the left-hand door post about Bix feet from the ground. ' It was new and not at all ruBted; also, a tiny splinter had been displaced when the hook was driven n, and clean wood showed at the spot. . Having observed these things, Hewitt stepped back and read at the bottom of the big board the name "Windsor & Weeks, Surveyors and Auctioneers, Abchurch Lane." Then he stepped Into) Lombard street. Two hansoms pulled up near the post ofllce, and out of the first stepped In spector Plummer and another man. This man and the two who alighted from the second hansom were unmls takeably plain-clothes constables their air, gait and boots proclaimed It, "What's all this?" demanded Plummer as Hewitt approached. "You'll soon see, I think. But first, have you put the watch on No. 197 Hackworth road?" "Yes. Nobody will get away from there alone." "Very good. I'm going Into Ab church lane for a few minutes. Leave your men out here, but Just go round Into the court by Duller, Clayton & Ladd's, and keep your eye on the first door on the left. I think we'll find something soon. Did you get rid of Miss Shaw?" "No; she's behind now, and Mrs. Laker's with her. They met In the Strand, and came after us In another cab. Rare fun, eh? They think we're pretty green! It's quite handy, too. So long as they keep behind me It saves all trouble watching them!" And In spector Plummer chuckled and winked. "Very good. You don't mind keep ing your eye on that door, do you?,I'U be back very soon." And with that Hewitt turned off into Abchurch lane. To Be Continued. A Bank Failure. AN INVESTIGATION DEHANDED. A general banking business Is done by the buiuan system, because the blood de posits in its vaults whatever wealth we may gain from day to day. This wealth is laid up against "a rainy day " as a reserve fund we're in a condition of healthy prosperity if we have laid atay sufficient capital to draw upon in the hour of our greatest need. There is danger in getting thin, because it's a sign of letting down in health. To gain in Mood is nearly always to gain in whole tome flesh. The odds are in favor of the germs of consumption, grip, or pneumonia, if onr liver be inactive and our blood im pure, or if our flesh be reduced below a healthy standard. What is required is an increase in our germ-fighting strength. Dr. Pierce's Goldeu Medical Discovery enriches the blood and makes it wholesome, stops tbe waste of tissue and at the same time builds up the strengtb. A medicine which will rid the blood of its poisons, cleanse and invigorate the great organs of the body, vitalize the system, thrill the whole being with new energy and make permanent work of it, Is surely a remedy of great value. 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