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And if the “ My name is Wolf Ileatherclough, TH REE 1) A YS UNDERQ li OLS our feet: and, following it almost instantly, use of their signal of “attention.” The darling wish. She had seen in town just I ’ iictrn. law had its just titles this day, you'd be up miss,” he said. r _ ------ . was seen at a little distance to faniilar tap—tap—tap tap—tap was re- the sewing machine she coveted. With EFJohn B. Gough has a lecture con­ yonder, with a striped suit on and a hall to Then the two pairs of eyes, one black, , The sun on Friday, April 2, had risenisen j sway jind then to fall,, making a,draft of | turned, and I saw at once that my instrue- this wonderful little helper in the house, cerning “ peculiar people,” and if he had your leg.*’ the other blue, looked at each other, and brightly on (he mining village of Caobon- air wilieh immediately extinuished tor must he among those outside.* she had no doubt but that she would in time had occasion to revise it during the past once glance was just as firm, fearless, and °fr» aU(I the dull and dismal March day. TIIE IIAllBO Il LIGHTS. She hurried oft’ in the opposite direction lamps and left us standing, for the moment J rapped: “ Is there any hope for us?” grow rich. Meantime she was stitching season he might have found ample illus­ at a prodigious rate, just to show her ene­ decided as the otlier. with their raw, rainy, inclement weather, hercfl of speech in the darkness, while the Unanswered: “ We’ll t.y to save you; the roses from her cheeks, and almost the trations of his subject in the principal char­ BY JOHN W*. CHADWICK. my how much more active she was than “ I'm a civil engineer, and a civil sort of looked a long way back since the genial dull,, heavy echo reverberated till it was rainclond burst over the shaft deluging it life from her heart. There she sat in the Just at the harbor’s inuulh she stood; he. His rage cooled sufficiently for him to fellow generally, I hope. I’ve been sur- sunshine had brightened our disposition lost in the recesses of the mine. We were, with water, and one of the boilers shortly pleasant room, the blinds half open, the acters that have come to public notice in Behind her was the beacon white, be sarcastic as she disappeared, lie waved veying Northern railroads, and I’ve hardly and dried our roads. is I slid, stupefied for the moment, but afterwards exploded, blowing up the cn-1 sweet roses budding in cluster, and the connection with the Tilton-Beecher scan­ Which send* its kindly warning forth his hand after her in the manner of high seen a lady for ten years. Consequently,” The miners had “ struck ” the previous soon recovered our speech and senses and gine house. “ How did you get in?” I wisteria blossoming into the very window, dal. Strange notions of social morality, From evening shade till morning light, tragedy, and remarked, serenely. continued the hearty, solid, strong young <hiy for some fancied annoyance, and th anxioisly inquired of each other if any one asked. ** \\ e are in an air hole which with heaps of cloth and calico on cverv “ Sweet-voiced female of the name of man, “ I don’t know very well how to be- inside workings and breakers were desert- had teen hurt. communicates with the surface.” “ W hat'side, intent upon turning them all into of manly honor, of womanly purity and Above her was the golden sun; Babylonia, farewell! ” have to a lady. The lawyer tells me that cd« except by the engineers and firemen I answered that I was all right, and of the office of honorable friendship must More golden shone her tossing hair; time is it?” * “ Three o’clock, Sunday that wonderful sewing machine, A little while after, Badylonia fell ill. you and I are deadly enemies, though we W c—that is, the Superintendent, the “ in .asked where the “ inside boss ” was, for I Theoceau’s azure at her feet. moraing.” ’ Presently the widow called her to din- have been held by these people, if we may With her blue eyes could not compare. They told her at length it was a mortal never heard of each other before in our lives, side boss ” and mine engineer or surveyor had not heard his voice. The Superinten­ We had been inside over two davs! nei’« judge by their “ statements ” and conduct sickness. She had not sat up for days be­ We’ve each had a grudge bequeathed us ■—had decided to take advantage of the dent slid he was standing by him when Would we ever escape? * “I thought I wouldn't get any fresh Full sheer the cliff whereon she stood. fore that. But as the stout serving-m aid hv will, and we are to set to and scalp each | cessation of work and make a trip inside, the fall cam e; so we produced m atches, A short silence, and he rapped: “ How meat, Mantlia,” said the prudent widow: with reference to this unhappy affair. The And, though her exes were downward cast. announced the direful tidings tlie old wo­ oilier like a Crow and a Blackfeet. It | in order particularly to look at one of tin liglitec our lamps, and looked around us. far above the water are you working? ’’ “ so I j ust warmed over that bit o’ corn Lew iston Jo u rn a l thus comments on some I still could row my boat auear man sprang bolt-upright. She clinched seems odd to thrash a fellow when he “ breasts ’ in which a “ roll ’had been met. V glaicc to the left showed us his form, lv I turned to look. It was within five feet beef with some potatoes, and found some of the singularities which these people And see their glory as I passed. h er hands. never did you any harm,” said the solid j‘‘l’“l in general to view the appearance, ol mg insensible, with a cut in his forehead. 1 of us. The condensed air was exhausting greens in the garden.” have d ev elo p ed :— Patiently there she watched her line, “ I will not die,” she said—“ I will not voting man. nuisinglv. I the mine to see that none of the doors had the d.rk blotches of coal-dirt on his face . our strength: our lamps gave a final flicker ‘ “ That’s right, mother; it’s a nice little We do not intend to comment upon the That sank among the golden weed, die. I mean to outlive John Clough.*’ “Yes, Mr. Heatherclou^h?’ ‘been left open by which the inside air contrasting terribly with the wary color of and burnt out; 1 reached down for water dinner,” responded Manthy, who needed a value of Mrs. Moulton’s testimony, or any ** Who would not be u fish < ” thought I, But she grew worse for all that. At -I don’t know who’s in the right of it, would he vitiated, for our mines were not the sk’n, rendered far more ghastly and to bathe my throbbing temples and felt good cut of beef steak more than she did a other testimony in the Tilton-Beecher case. ** Rv such sweet hands it doomed to bleed.** length they brought her word that bar ene­ I’m sure,’’said Wolf. “ But when a fellow <>*«« from fire-damp; to observe the tim leathlite by th e yellow gleam of the ! something soft resisting. It was the body sewing machine. my too was ill. lias spent ten years surveying railroads, hers, for in parts of the mine there had It shows, however that Mrs. Moulton is not Sweet bands, hut browner than the i ock of the Boss. I drew back with a shudder. It was a nice little dinner, and the widow “ Aha!” said the terrible old woman. and farms so big that it was a two davs’1 been indications of a “ squeeze;*’ and als< were fastened in Aral crawled up my leg; it made my and her daughter grew quite chattv over the least singular of all the singular people U hereon tier pretty ftet had place “ I ’ll outlive him yet. I will not die.*’ journey to cross ’em, twenty acres looks like • to notice the workings of our two ten-incl iy the fall of coal; but that did not concern ; blood curdle “ **■ concerned in this trial.