THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., OCTOBElt 1, 1878.
play us false, this Is ready," and he held
up hla weapon,
Hebe took a small kitchen-lamp In
her hand and ascended the stairs before
them ; there was no light In the lobby
or passages. When she reached the
head of the stairs she opened the door
and went in, and stood till they follow
ed her.
" This is a very dark passage," she
said: " but it Is not narrow : wejust go
right to the end of It, and then" At
that Instant the light disappeared from
her hand, she slipped back, and before
the men had time to think or move Bhe
had the door shut and locked upon
them. It was a strong door and a
strong lock.
"They can't break It open lit less
than ten minutes," she thought. Bhe
flew down the stairs like a bird ; the
front door was locked and barred and
chained, but her fingers served her well.
In Instant she was out. The gate of
the shrubbery was fastened too; she
tore it open, and away down through
the darkness and the mud she ran like
a hare to the hinds' houses, losing her
slippers by the way. Bursting in at the
front door, she had only breath enough
to grasp:
" There are robbers In the house j they
may kill Mr. Elliot,"
It being Sunday night and supper
time, the men were all In their own
houses; they did not stop to think or
think, but snatched up a pitchfork or a
poker, whichever came first, and rushed
in a body to the house.
John and Nelly sat looking at each
other from the chairs which they could
in nowise leave. The house-doors were
both wide open, and a cold draught
swept through the house.
" Some one went out," said John.
" The doors are all open at least," said
Nelly.
" I hear nothing," said John ; " what
can they be doing, the rascals ?"
" Be glad you are not shot," said his
wife philosophically.
" There would have been some satis
faction in being shot, but to be tied like
a sheep in my own house 1" groaned
John.
The robbers were not tied, but they
were trapped, and had the satisfaction
of cursing their own simplicity and
stupidity. They struck a match, and
found there was no outlet from their
piison but the door; it was a bath-room
and lighted from the roof, which was
high, and to try to climb the walls was
hopeless ; from top to bottom there was
nothing that either a hand or foot could
lay hold of. The only chance was to
break open the door, which they could
have managed in time, hut they had not
time ; many feet were on the stairs, and
voices discussing what had better be
done. Some consideration was needed
before opening a door upon two desperate
men armed with a revolver.
A minute or two after the farm
servants Hebe came on the scene again
with a coil of ropes in her hand.
" I noticed them in the barn yester
day," she said, " and brought them in
to tie the men. Maybe you should just
watch the door, and let them be where
they are till the police come."
This suggestion was approved of and
adopted; half a dozen men planted
selves on the stairs; one was sent off on
horseback for the police, and another
for Mr. Elliot's brother, both spreading
the news as they went ; and people be
ing all at home and unemployed, the
population of the district set in for
Stonylea, and in a short time a congre
gation was gathered not much inferior
in numbers to those drawn by Messrs.
Moody and Sankey. Mr. and Mrs. El
liot were well known and respected,
and, besides, such an outrage had not
been heard of in the district within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant.
Having posted her sentinel, Hebe
hastened to the relief of her master and
mistress; her face was bright from
exercise and excitement, and, the danger
being over, only a very strong sense
of propriety enabled her to suppress a
hearty laugh, the situation was nov
el and, as it struck her, comic. She cut
the cords that bound Mr. Elliot, and he
stood up a free man.
" You have done well the night, las
sie," he said.
" Have V" she said a little surprised :
she did not know that she had displayed
the valuable qualities of resource, pres
ence of mind and quick and deft exe
cution. Even Nelly, when she looked
at her own wrists showing the marks of
the cord that had bound them, felt that
Hebe was of use for something more
than flirting and dressing herself, but
she did not say so : in actual life people
who fully and frankly confess their mis
takes and make amends for them are
fewer than in print or on the stage.
Mr. Elliot and his two daughters, Liz
zie and Sibyl, with Mr. King, arrived at
Stonylea at the same moment as the
police, and Mr. King had the pleasure
of assisting to capture and secure the
burglars and divesting them of their
crape and veils ; be must have seen on
that occasion some heads and some ex
pression of face and posture of limb that
could not fall lo be useful to him In his
art. The two men were carted off by
the police to the nearest county Jail,
there to await their trial.
By nine o'clock Stonylea was left to
Its usual quiet again, and John and
Nelly had quite recovered their cueto
mary tranquil state of mind. Hebe
went about her business of attending to
the unexpected guests who were to re
main over night. She had got every,
thing done and was speaking to Miss
Elliot, when suddenly she said :
"Oh I" drew her hand across her eyes,
the color went out of her face, and she
fell back in a dead faint. Lizzie caught
her, and in a minute or two Bhe was able
to get to a sofa. Properly Bpeaklng, Jock
ought to have been at hand at this crisis,
but he was not, being from home at the
time. Poor little Hebel Though she
did not belong to the working classes,
she was not quite made of iron, but she
treated her weakness lightly, and said
she would be all right in the morning.
And in the morning she scrambled up
to her work, although Lizzie arrived
very early on the sceDe to doit; and
even Mr. King, who had been out with
the dawn, came In by the back door and
Bald that as a small return for the capi
tal milk and scones she had given him,
he would light the kitchen-fire, having,
according to his own account, a special
gift in lighting fires. She looked athim
and said :
" I was as sure as anything that you
were the tea-man, but I did not like to
say it."
"Set off to your bed again, Hebe,"
said Miss Elliot : " with the tea-man
and Sibyl to help me I will surely get
through your work. Come, run away,
Hebe."
Feeling weak and queer, the girl obey
ed orders.
" Now," said Lizzie as she covered
her up comfortably, "Just lie there and
divert yourself till you are really able to
rise."
" Miss Elliot," she said, "what way
do you sometimes call me Hebe and
sometimes Maud ?"
"Ask Jock," said Lizzie. "I have
nothing more to do with your educa
tion; besides, it's the Scripture rule,
what women don't know they are to
ask their own husbands at home."
"But he'll maybe not know, either."
" Have you really the impudence to
think there is anything Jock doesn't
knowV Saint Paul couldn't have be
lieved it, and he made his arrangement
for a case of the kind ;" and she bent
over her and kissed her cheek. Hebe
turned round with dewy eyes and a
sense of complete rest, such as she had
not bad since she had wakened out of
childhood ; the womanly caress gave her
a feeling of sisterhood and home that
Jock might have been Jealous of.
" How my brother determined to mar
ry that girl is to me the oddest thing I
could imagine," Miss Elliot said to Mr.
King when she went back to the
kitchen.
" Well," said Mr. King, who was busy
breaking sticks, " I don't see that all ;
if I had not been previously pre-engaged
to the former lady the day before,
I think I should have fallen in love
with her too."
" I can fancy that part of it, for I fell
in love with her myself, and I can sup
pose you would have carried it out ; you
have the artistic temperament. I am
quite prepared for you doing a daftlike
thing. But Jock I It is so unlike him :
he is so intensely practical."
" Well, why shouldn't a practical man
marry a practical woman V It Is most
appropriate."
" If you had been all your like under
bondage to Jock's good sense, as I have
been, you would enjoy it more oh, you
would enjoy It I" and she laughed mer
rily. " Why, it's Utile more than six
months since Hebe was dancing on the
road to the sound of a fiddle with people
she had never seen before; and he knew
it."
Hebe's illness was of brief duration.
The Elliots felt under obligation to her.
but it was an obligation they would very
willingly have paid off with a twenty
pound note, that being a sum suitable to
tho position in life of the girl ; but with
all her managing talents, Nelly ,couldn't
manage this; her servant would not
allow that she was under any obligation
far less accept a reward. '
" I did nothing," she said : " I only
turned the key of the bath-room door :
anybody could have done that."
Neither had Mrs. Elliot ever been able
even to get her nephew to listen to her
at all on the subject of his misplaced
fancy ; bo, there being nothing else for
it, she gave in to her husband's proposal
that they shou Id let the marriage take
place in their house. Jock did not ac
cept the offer as a favor, nor with the
gratitude his aunt expected ; be merely
said:
" Very well : it is a matter of perfect
indifference to me where I am mar
ried."
And at Stonylea It was. Hebe'g bear
ing on the occasion would have been
characterized as dignified if she had been
a Howard, although it was merely the
result of feeling herself among people
who thought her an Intruder into their
family ; Jock and Lizzie were her only
loving friends among the Elliots.
When Jock bade his sister good-bye
as they went away, he Bald t
" When we come back you'll find she
knows the name of the capital of Eng
land, and of some other capitals too;
there's nothing like practical geogra
phy." "Be careful, Jock; don't break her
heart driving in pegs."
Had Hebe overheard these remarks
With all her calmness and self-possession,
she was no sooner in the carriage
than she fairly broke down. " I am so
Ignorant 1" she sobbed.
" So am I, but we can learn together,"
said Jock. . ,
And ever after he always bracketed her
and himself together, nor ever attempt
ed direct teaching ; but having excellent
material to work on, the scholur made
rapid progress unconsciously. She had
much good sense and very good natural
dispositions things which Jock always
believed he had discerned in her before
he made up his mind to fall in love ; and
very possibly it might have been so, for
was it not his business to Inspect mines ?
When they returned, Mr. and Mrs.
King presented Jock with a picture of
his wife in a Bob Koy shawl.
A Dutch Quarrel.
''VTOW, Mrs. Itosemyer," said his
j.! Honor, " what do you want a
warrant for 1"'
"Foor my hoosband, so much I
know."
" What's he been doing V"
" I licked him."
"You licked him I"
" I licked him. Und I got right py
dose."
" How do you make that out V"
"Ven I told you then you find out.
I fix his dinner so he go py his work.
Then he catch his hand belli nt und say
he got a pain in his pack. So he lie
down on the lounge and groan like he
was very pad. Ven he feel better it was
too late to go py his work, so he soys he
go mit the greek und catch some fish.
He don't goome pack pefore it was
nlghd, und all the fish vot he got vas a
meersable leedle pull head what you
couldn'd gound; put he smells like
some beer parrels more ash dwendy
dimes. Und den he say:
" What for supper aind ready 1"
"I tell him 'you schplit some of
dose firewood und I talk mit you.'
Then he catch py his rlghdt arm und
scream :
" ' Oh I I got the roomatlcks I'
" 'So you can't split some wood ?' I
say.
"Neln: ohl dose roomatlcks I dose
roomatlcks I' he kept on grylng.
" Then I vas madder ash you dink.
Und I say ;
" ' Ven you dold me you got a pain in
your pack, I say noting. Und ouf you
got doouble up on accound you got some
of dose roomatlcks, I say dot it vas all
rlghdt. But, py golly, ouf you got dose
roomatlcks vat don't goome only ven
you got some work to do, then I lick
you on slghd!' "
" Very well, if you licked him what
do you want a warrant for ?"
" On account he shall be locked up
oud the vay so I put smearcase on my
own brod, py shimmenyl Vot you
dinks."
A Giant's Grave.
A London letter says: There are
only four streets, I am told, in
all London whence verdure is not to be
seen ; that is to Bay, all the streets of
London command a view of some grow
ing green trees or shrubs. This is
rather startling when you come to think
of the hundreda of acres of houses and
narrow streets this great city of cities
presents to the view of the visitor. Take
" the Old Lady of Threadneedle street,"
as the citizens disrespectfully term the
venerable and mighty bank of England.
Within its strong walls is a garden .even
a delicate fountain, and a big tree, in
deed two trees and some numerous
plants. Fresh and atractivo they stand
out in charming contrast, smiling at
busy business and listening to the ever
tantalizing clink of gold. This garden
is more beautiful and attractive than
any I have seen in many towns in
America a land of trees 1 You survey
this emerald spot, studded with floral
rubies and adorned with petalled tur
quoise, and you lookaroundatthe topaz
fringe of guinea gold, and exclaim, " no
garuen in tue woriu is bo rlculy en
vironed." Millions of money per month
pass around this garden. Beneath that
tallest tree there is a story. It is brief.
Allow me to tell it for the first time in
print, eome years ago tne bank bad a
clerk whose height measured nearly
seven feet two inches. He was a mar
vel In more ways than one. He could
add up I don't know how many columns
of figures at one time without an error ;
do subtraction and multiplication simul
taneously, and look upon " vulgar frac
tions" disdainfully. In a word, he was
a big figure. Nature has given to big
men gentle dispositions.
This figurative giant was most amiable
and a general favorite. The clerks In
the bank of England are all gentlemen
by birth and education, not a few of
them being by blood ties allied to the
oldest families in the kingdom. Indeed,
I am told one is the lineal descendant
of a king, and as the monarch through
this descendant proclaims Ireland as
their domain, I will not for a moment
stop to dispute the pedigree of " the
pretender." In good company the giant
labored and lived and died, for giants
cannot carry their lengthened sweetness
long drawn out beyond the period al
lotted to man generally any more than
a dwarf. When the giant of the bank
of England added up his last figures
and balanced his accounts with this
world his clerkly companions sought to
shroud him in the leaves of the ledger
of their esteem and bury him beneath
the tree I mentioned in the precincts of
the bank he loved so well. There, in
this verdant oasis of the commercial
desert, his financial spirit is continually
rejoiced by the tinkle of gold and the
evermovlng millions, not a farthing of
which he can not reckon on.
His Theory.
FOUR or five City Hall officials were
Bitting on the steps on the Wood"
ward avenue side Saturday afternoon (
discussing politics and the weather,
when a smallish man, seeming to be in
considerable mental distress approached
them and inquired :
" Gentlemen,Js there a scientific man
among you V"
" Certainly there Is," they replied In
chorus,
"And you must be familiar with the
laws governing storms V"
" We are," was the prompt answer.
" Well, then," continued the stranger,
" I wish to relate what may seem like a
singular occurrence. I live on Division
street, and though it began raining at
midnight the other night and continued
for twenty-four hours, not a single drop
of water fell upon my garden."
" Is that possible 1" grasped one after
the other.
" It is the solemn truth, gentlemen,
and I'd like to know by what law of
nature you can aooount for it. It was a
long-continued drenching storm, yet not
one drop fell upon my garden."
There wasn't even room for a sugges
tion. The crowd was astonished and
silent. After a long minute one of the
gentlemen turned to the stranger and
asked :
"You must have a theory, haven't
you V"
"I have."
"And what Is it?"
"My theory, gentlemen, . is that I
rent rooms on the third floor, and had
no garden for the rain to fall on."
Five men rose up in chorus, brushed
off their coat-tails, and followed each
other into the hall In Indian style.
Very Fastidious.
A Boston man and ' his seathetio
daughter are spending the summer in
Bockland. They there were Bitting on
the front piazza, when the father re
quested his daugher to read him the eve
ning paper.
" What ehall I read about ?" queried
the Boston girl, as she opened out the
paper.
" Read the European news," replied
ths father.
The Boston girl began :
" Is is rumored that Beaconsfield will
not accept the decoration of the" and
then she blushed a deep red, and stop
ped.
"Proceed," said the father, after a
pause.
" I cannot," returned the Boston girl,
blushing still deeper.
"Why not?" queried the father, in
some surprise."
" Because I do not like to," replied the
Boston girl, painfully.
"Nonsense," exclaimed the father,
sternly ; " read the item, I tell you."
The Boston girl caught up the paper
in desperation, stared at it in a stony
manner, attempted to speak.and fainted
dead away.
When she had been restored and the
excitement had subdued, the father took
the paper out behind the house, turned
to the dreadful item and read :
" It ia rumored that Beaconsfield will
not accept the decoration of the garter."
A young man in Paris lit a match
by scratching it with his thumb-nail.
A particle of burning phosphorous lodged
under the nail, and though instantly
quenched, communicated poison which
soon extended to the arm. Amputation
was advised, but delayed until it was
useless, and the young man died in great
agony twenty-seven hours after the
burn.
V E GET I NE
Purines thoBlood&Glres Srength.
DuOrom. III. .Jan. 21.1R78.
Mr. M ft RTBvawa. 1 ..... .. ui. V....- t . i
J111' been doing wandors fur Die. Have been hav.
Iiir the Chills and Fever, contracted In the
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Immediate relief, timing up mjr system purifying
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Silon ptubl1oPartteu.reUOTate' bM ,nd JU8t olaim
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