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efforts to escape, But, detained by some magic wes deed o' ship-fever a weck agone, and was! | But a sob caught the bor that inate, Must] man, I never saw such a brutal father in all my
intlaence, it eouid 0 only utter ries of alarm , drapped overintothe sea. There's naebody tocare she go? slie, who seemed to weil life.”
aod grivé. At last, un:esistingly drawn
real, or is ome accord, into the Serpent's look after, and never a roof lnd we over our heads |
night but the roof wi’ stars. Thae given the
nt-Mare (of Z* Hlustration news: buita ker crust o° bread wi the. rest, but I can do |
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a on, it fortie wee bit lassie noo; sure [hae five o” iny ain to only one who Kaa ored irim since | ‘The man_bevan to fumble ia his pockets, and
{ letuced mother had bowed her icad, a year | the ehild cried out:
f passed | out of the world, murmuring the| “Tal ke gure; he’s gota knife; bo’s a-going to
' d uy—eren ragged Joe? And set} stick y
ot |it nae mair, tor there is nane to the fore;” an @ must not starve, Sure mous, the man produced @ knife, and
tatand | she w aiked ‘away, leaving Joe thule with wonder | "0 . sir!” he cried, throns zh a blinding rain of | opencd it ‘ike crowd slipped od, oue by one,
Avignon), ov a| and pity, tears, “I'll be your. eee you'll only let me | except tw
: vithout a bieaih of wind, when beat| ‘Poor baby!” he said; “oh, poor baby! what | work and keop Jessie. There'll be nothing to ein ‘an. officer,” one of these ericd to a
visi i riace of the soil, | will become of ber?” ut the fight wind sang on, | hard for m mo—nothing. | Sue kissed me this tiorn-| fri
eesie? We could lire on s0| “Ir am to be arrested,” the man said,
in any corner; and I} sha'l be isteometting? woth depeupon plunged ,
? v $ . the kni body. of the ebiil
With ontspread tail, bristling ‘reatbers, ‘aud beat-| give no help, Joe thought; yet they never ceased | he drew a little prarer-book out of bis pocket, | The child tntekeds" Tan murdered, I'm mur-
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g wing, it seemed to be strugg tog in rain to// their tender lallaby, and the little one slept on. | *sbe shall say her prayers night and morning, | dered,” and a crowd “mushed to the spot.
held, | Why not? The'birds and creeping things goto | and I will say them with her, if I did mean to| ‘The aman, quietly raised the ebitd in “his arms,
y ‘fnread, their rest, and there is One who cares for them, | drown myself only last evening. You don’t know | and, ng bis bat, ea
it darted to and fro in all sireatons but the un: | and knows what is in store for their awaking. | bow strong Lam, vor how much I can do, thoogh | ““Gentlemea, this is a wooden child, I'm a
seen thread retained it Grmly, and dragged it There was no need for the babs to open her eres| I'm weak just vow from eating nothing sester- | ventriloquist, und avy little ollering. you may be
? pleased to make will be very acceptable.” >
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escape from some terrible, danger.
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Glancing. from i eed downward, | warm place in whic “Yee,” said the doctor, with a twinkle in his
nsieur Saint-Mare saw, peeping above some away the wolf of starvation eyes, that might have proved a tear, if one had
thisties, I, triangular, flatter whose rust one small child with Go looked elo rou ave strong, that is evident.
ves, darting singular glavezs, steadily followed | the whole ereation tenderly in Ilis havd ? "And there were gaaats in those Gays." But his THE WITCH HUNTER;
and mastered the movements and ellorts of the “Its little pulsea from His bosom roll”? reat Scotch heart was beating one the less for
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It was a Iull-sized, yellow-green, common snake, | The daylight began to fade out of the hearens,| a flush was rushing along hi ty fs it
standing, with the help of the thistles, erect on ils | and the eurliest evening star leaped, large and| sudden flame bad’ leaped ot He ana AL Brother’ - Revenge.
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tail. ta ;
‘The bird’s cries, grown weaker, more hurried, | knew, the gas-lights would begin to fash out, and! of the park and up Centre Strect, that the tw _ :
and more plaintive, showed that Nes strength was | drunken mea aud women would reel -against the | could burdie keep pace with bins ° SHAFTER XX¥.—"TEE NIGHT ADVENTURE.
at last exhausted, nother instant it would | old sca-wall, mad with sorrow and sin, Clearly) Joe took Jessie in his arms at last, and though
have been buried 91 ick i | aliving tomb. the Battery was no place for such a child, He} he trembled with fatigue, managed to walk rapidly
Opportunities ol “witness ing such a ‘feeding: drew bis arms softly around his charge, and, fewr-| yntil his new friend tarocd suddenly and caught
tinie” a Dut Monsicur Saint-Mare. bad | ful of awakening her, he crept slowly away. the child away.
Where should he go to find quietude and rest? “Tm be iter able to arty ler than you,” he
the remembered. t é Par’ ot foo said, “if you are a giant.
Broadway. He would slip in ther ing | “Presently he bounted “up a fight of stairs, and,
ww | in somo-shaded corner, Iny the litle gitl dowa unlocking a door, went quickly into b
upon the grass, and cover her with his ofd, pated «Sit here,” was bis command, “and wait antil
cont, n what should binder him from going | { come back.”
back te ‘th e verge of those washing waver. and| Then he darted a
plunging away f from that hunger that was gnawing) When be retarned,” ‘he was followed by a black
a im, that sleep sweeter than any he} man (he may have been | frica, who
could get nde the trees, haunted as Le would be | knows?), who bore a gre ak on which was a
by the dread of angry policemen? smoking’ bowl of porno, a broiled steak, and a
Yes, he would surely ‘0, he thoug! loaf of bread.
But'when he bad jatered te Park, iNozing with | “Now,” said the doctor, “I’m about a3 hungry
as-lights, and crowded with gayly dressed people, | as Uttle Miss Jessie, for I sat wp all night with a
—_—_+-__—_— je could nd no place where his buby-frieud might | see tnan. | Here, little one, is your bowl of * por-
. lie without being seen ; and just then she awoke, | ritch ;’ and, Joe, I'll give you feave to devour just
Ragged Joe. and ber soft arms about his heck, her murmured | half ibe steak—‘only you must take a long flame
. rds of wonder at all she saw, were enough to} for it. Starving pe eople caumot eat Sin a hurry
lowly away,
conch, and by degrees,
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‘» Joz stood on the B attery, looking out] keep him, By such slight threads does God hold without danger. See what it is bea doctor EsBeS.
the wal ters of the splendid bar, whose waves Tehen we are moving on to do wickedly! He |e added hell an hour atter, lenai ‘e back and j
wi ‘atching Joe rorking stil at hissteake Really, | Were alone for the might “ihe three women sat
my medicine has done you good already, It] talking for some time.
wil be bulf an hour eating it, you shall have | N°, Tight was to be seen save * that given out by
another shee of T sce you'll have plenty | the glint of “the woo ta
of appetite, and L ‘shall bave ta fill my cupboar
Now that they
Atlast all thought it time to prepare for bed,
th n, a3 Joe looked up with a start, and laid | that they might be up before the jailer made bis,
down his bread, as it he feared the ‘cu pboard morning roun
would speedily be emptied “by bis most gtievous | At this moment a strange, odd, murmurin;
ult the ‘oer y9r laste rit mers sound was heard, which, after a short time,
Mat “TL pive $i learete reached itself into’a name—that of Alice. .
derour as nich wile 3 You live with me os 1 used hhenee came the sou ‘
to devour in my boyhood; ga my mother used ng girl, with a wildly beating heart,
to siy that 1 would some day, she feared, eat a looked mu oes and iat last mado out the win- ,
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whole oF, and sorry over the tail dad he rude wooden bedstead, she was
able to reach tos love with tive grating.
“Who speaks?” she said.
“Thank heaven!” replied Clarence Holt, 1
have found vou at last”
On every hand could be seen noble buildings,
where the rich lived, andi were as bappy as money
and leisure could make
* That was @ long inne tee but this was some-
: what late
It Kugeed Joe bad turned his eres to the shore,
4 instead of lookin, 0 sea, he would
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little one rattled Rieu o to slee} .
beer, as if life was of no account except to eat| he, too, slept—a broken restleas : sleep, indeed—| tiest in the city, though he had but little money
and drink. at it Uronghe strength for the to spend in adornments. There was a small room
It een grass was trodden down, the| In the meantime, up a down watked Police. | behind it, where he set Jessie's crib, and a sofa ”
beautiful irou tence broken, and the walls a mere | ma ers, wich a firm step, but a clouded | in the visitor's part, where Joe slept every night; | {. jeaven and you!” murmured Alice.
ruin. Le: mot wonder t bat Joe looked anywhere face soda beary heart. A fet hours ago. he bad | and the boy never allowed a speck of dust to stay There is not a moment to be lost, Are you
except on ‘shor seen the coflin of bis only child lowered into its| on table, chair o1 . el safe from visit for the night?” »
But what could hue have been thinking oft last, resting plac wondered if the world | "Then, 'such meals as they three had together! | (; Lhave every reason 10 Lelieve so, >
and worn, and ther ould ev ver t look Pleasant to him again; if the sun How heartily they sed to lina at the droll tricks But keep watch, and warn me at the first
Teat os eres that ‘Spoke as wrould shi armly. th tare gi team as brightlt. of Joseph '§ pretty Scotch terrier (it had been alarm. My position is perilous in the extreme. I
here speak of want and porerty. | the fountar Jeeeti pa ore + rie bat he gave Hee ‘his boy for |#™ standing on the back of ms good horse, and
s thinking that ‘be had better he way wondering, he caugh i sight of the shiner pi and avly Jessie's canaries | ‘round the market-place are. friendly watchers;
children. A week ago he would have turned | rang in (vith their shrill voices to swell the glee t | bat it Tam discovered all will be lost, Be calm
Ne now he whispereg—“ not by day, when rk, for a couple of ‘worthless I think no king was ever so happy over his dainty | #24 hopeful,
id sce, and bef a dozen strong men| vagrants that might sleep in the gutters where | fare as Doctor Malcolm over his porritch and| And Alice saw that he was at work with some E
would be ready to leap me, and drag me] they belonged ; but when he drew near to awaken Potatoes, which he loved to share with the children geid and a chisel at the cement which held the
~ back 3f0 dry Tand tne to starvation; but after xpel them, someting hindered Aim. - of his .
dark T can’ steal arcu, shadow of the wall, aid Policeman Saunders, as. Yes, “they were his. Ie would never Jet them She knew how arduous and thavkless a job it
and leap when no cals know. Then I shall be ‘wet eyes; “I ean't turn out 0, be said, until they ran awax ond Te't him alone, | ¥as, and waited without a wor
out of all this tro . rad they were about as likely to do. that as a|_ At the end of an hour of bard and patient labor,
“When the boy pont thought it all ont, and folly . Once in the night faiey king would be io Fun away rom bis diamond | be bad Toosened both bars.
ade up bis mir, he turned ai and beg Joe shad opened ‘bis eyes and slipped off the bench | palace, with ils crystal gates, and take up his| “He wrenched them eat by main force.
0 tI r rest, tenderly Keeping the Ow elling among the water-snakes in the Dismal And vo: v pil all you can, and
n| Swamp. creep out. I will eit Fouin uly arms, and lea
fd q@espairing; but be clasped bis hands nothing more until a kiss had touched his check.| No boy could know so well what he wanted you to friends below,” he urged. “ Be calm—be
bathed boa, Ttted lis eyes to the blue sky that he | 4 Lice? Whobad ever kissed Razged Joe before? | done as Joe, decla.ed the doctor; and if he was ary.”
T see after that day, as he thought, Some. one, perhaps, a long time ago—ob, very | not mistaken, Joe woul make ‘a better doctor| Alice did as she was told, and, the crevice
md rp on, be neither knew nor cared whither. | long! some dey than he was himee elf. being narrow, she bad to be ‘dragged out by her
Seo fenly he bear of pain, and, looking | "Ue opened his eres, to find the little one peering 3 for Jessie,” added Doctor Malcolm; «I'm | enger lover
dot «, found that 3 had | Tred len upon ‘the han anxiously into lace. get setting quite ric! ich of jate, and shail ‘8001 a] Some oi ¢ by this time had found aladder, which
of alittle child. * ‘Uae oo dot ns porritel?” murmured she. | cottage and have a housekeeper; so she must ¢o | had expedited matters in a remarkable masiner. :
joe was sick and hungrs, but he was not cruel, | “ Dessie’s hun to eebvol, and learn 10 play the iano for Joseph | _ Grace came next, an 8
He stooped and lifted ‘her in bis arms to carry “sPorriteh” that must mean food, which Joe] and ine when we come bome ed trom much | diftieuitr, her breadth of beum belng much larger
her back to bad lasted singe he had eaten’ a dropped | care of the sick.”” in that of her mistress.
be acked. cracker "by th e baker’s cart night before last. ut I never beard any news of ragzed Joe alter met wil only a groan or two, even this matter
1—sol” suid the little creature, shutting] | Well, Jessie sbouldu't starve, if be did; some-| that first morning, w ent into the office for
tightly, and then opening them upon thing m ust be done, owder and found bim cating bread and steak, Be quick, eles, urged Clarence “not a
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tim witb a strange, balt-frightened ook. Wiat| Joe got up wearily, and taking the bairn by the] while the great tears rolled down his pale face,
did she mean? and, Sa "ked ‘slowly “toward the g: d the light of a 3 loving gratitude shone out of
_Joe looked far and pear, but no woman was in A gentleman brished past bit before he hed | his bonnie dark
+ sight who seemed to be searching for a lost child. | rea
ete 21" be are Vm afr the poor USint 4
ing has strayed away from her family while they | The gen ntleman turned, and seeing that it was . edding, av
wandered 0 far that | only a regged boy, who, for aught he could know, A Fearful Story,
out grief and trouble. | might be a pickpocket, or, at best, alazy beggar, | Oxe day recently a respectably dressed man
I will sit here Sindee this ‘ee, and hold bera while, | would bave burried on without answering; but carried a well-grown child, muilied up and appar writenes!” eried a deep voice,
for, indeed, I bave nothing better to do,” just then Jessie cried a little, and asked again: ently sick, into French’s Hotel. He placed the | and a Pistol was fired in ioe direction of the
own he eat, and the child clung to him, as)" “Hae 00 na porritch? Dessie hundry !” child on the stairs, and began to talk, to it ig. @ win i,
if, all in a moment, she loved an d bim| He stopped, Doctor Malcolm was not the man| very unkind, rough. wa he attention of the] “I am shot,” faintly , giaculated th the supposed
above every other persoa iu the wot oe }o bear such a child ery for hunger and not see | guests was attracted, and tl they gathered around, | witch,“ e, au:
Jt melted Joe's heart to, feel her slight, bare| that she was fed. Besides, her curious Scotch | ° ** You are able to walk ap. stairs bs, yourself,” | And she
ms around bis neck. and the pressure of her| words were sweet to his ears, for he had prattled | the man said, ‘und I won't carry y\ at Clarence, si | nothing by halve
pretty bead upon his shoulder. them on his mother’ “8 Kee full thirty years before| | “Ob, oh! Phe child sobbed, ap carry me up;| He dre ber forth, and, assisted by those below,
There she {ell asleep soon, and lay as quietly as| in boonie Edinbar, Loan. ease, pas do. Yo w ever since I was run | got her to the growed.
though her couch was of velvet. Are poujust from & cotland ?” he asked. over ar gud ‘ost both my feet I can’t walk stalwart horseman, mounted o:
The ligbt breeze rufiled ber tangled t hair alittle) Then Joe told the story of how he bad found the opiates a lon Flemish war-horse, like two brewers’
now and then, ad one lonz, yellow child, he had nothing to feed her with, vethat's all stuf?” the man answered; “get up| into one, snatched the woman up in hi
$3 Joe's hand, whieh be bad placed under ber| “ oor aud ragged and hun- | at once, or W’ll_ make you.” Loud was the bproar from the pris
cheek fora pillow. gry, but begged for myseif yet, and I The poor child began to sob worse than before, | Flames and smoke poured from
He looke: at the curl, and sighed heavily, He for this little girl T want a|and the brutal man gave it a severe thump over | orifice of the apartment, so lately vecupied by the
‘must have hada sister of his own once, I think, el to earn living, that I may | the side of the head. The child moaned pi:eously, | prisonel
or he could nerer have been so gentle and tender} sports ber if she were my sister; for I believe indi of the bystanders was excited, |" The whole town bezan to mo:
sud perbaps she bad just such shininy tome in my trouble, ‘gd what He | andone cf them suid to the man: indows were thrown up, and eries of “ Watch !
* feigh?” outspoke bh voice a his side, mast try and kee} Is that child yours ?” fire!” were shouted.
presents se mhal a are ye doin’ wi’ Sibyl's baby ?”” ? said Doctor Mal lcolm ; naa’ cannot s that to yor ou?” the man answered. “I at this juncture a screeching voice was heard,
The boy looked up quickly, for he feared to take cave of soursel, it geome: and shall you suc. a gaunt Sgore eothe figure of a lad—burst into
waken se slee eed, do you think, io keeping such a baby? the ehild sobbed, “and be the market-p
Hed to od ber mother, mavam, but T co | il ‘relieve vou of hers Parkaps God did send 8 he’s a-coing to kill me.” ardent” siguted Soapy Cloud,
cots 20 I bat down to take enre of the e ehild, op her to you, that I might put her where she cao be ais fist, and ‘made as though “The witetes re cseapin
ing som3 one would come sod cial I will see that’ she is taken at once to| he was about ton Ste the child's savaze blow, One| He b . as the heavy butt:
hie woman langhed stra: the orphan asylum. Perbaps, too, I will bite you| of ithe bystanders inter‘ered, and waid : end of Clarence lot's ce "bocked Lin secs:
“Yell po’ be likely to ud Ber mither, for she! to work tor me.” “Say, U you don’t stop this, l’ w calla police- fess
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