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Entered accordina to Act of Congress, in the year" Il, by NORMAN L. MUNRO, 4% the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C. {Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second Class Matter.)
Vol. VI NORMAN I, MUNRO, oe
Mole VU {atin Pani gONRe | . NEW YORK, ‘MARCH 7, +1881, fH Psx amen x Aruxce.! = NO, 887
The Twins, disobey, and with a heavy heart
Xe th thy Hey sal, th table te pater" aud gan to
mars ent,
Tre Mouths, two noses, and two The sickly spears of davlight
stolein through the disty winiow,
What painter shall we get to paint and fell upon the child's face, 00
‘And giorify the twinge that Bridgetta could see. that th
‘he smiled with delight and
tion.
ie meal over, the child
dragged to ber
Giovannt and Brig
ig for hours,
Buddenly. a brilliant thought
seemed to strike the Italian,
“Whera Luigit” he asked, turn-
ing to his w
© Sickain beda.”
A miotion from Giovanni, and
Bridgetta left the room, returning
soon, dragging in Luigi,who proved
to be a, delicate, littie fellow about
Come; paint our litte Jack and Jil,
And don't be long al
aia
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‘The Cosey Corner.
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By the cheerful ‘ingle side,
Where evil spirits neerintrade,
Hahaha
Ani Ws
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Where te foved ones closer gat ys -
When i iue haste is * ea ie 4 Ng ys Tani vias , Leon'e, sings :
pense that cometh from above ett ee ‘ ale 3 ‘The iden ‘was approved of by i
"| age SE Ss Bridgette, and for a week the two :
viper ta a rears, Mf f ie a iE children jed to play :
oa tal Se = , ; HOU ee Ut to pl }
heavier grows the bunien weight aige had Ween taught to pia
he toute pint i i the violin, and with Leonie soles |
How weet ia coe cores Hi My !
in with the muclodyy
Giowaunt was justified In ‘ex
ing great things.
Between the two children a bond
wameet i
Whore wo can dresin of Heavenly Joys
And worldly ills forget,
‘The earth has many places of sympathy arose, for no one was
ands with a ind to
Where only Neturos votaries” Rind to Leonie save this poor,
"To pay her cou 3 little cre sone fate was ah
1 ‘The sweetest, cosiest cores pitiful as her ow :
Were melody has birth, § L ; : Do ax Giovanni tells you,” he
An genni grow ad rosa blow sebest : , Z id 40 Leonie, when, ‘one night
| wvhere else on earth. ey : own to. sleep ide be
: ety straw, He's
A palace with its splendor, at hho wouldw't
nd spaces set aps
Tale loveless that: Share the eye,
. ever win Tay.
poe thors fare no Seay Corners
Where L eat
Beside tho loving friends prize
jar more than kingly crown.
“Tis there the heart releases
Reseiffrom grievous ching
there the aged pilgrim, lode
seta at toons |
mory
He's to send us out to- i
morrow?" fink went on, ‘
“Outi” repeated Leonie. “* What
frees"
‘Though others choose to linger
Aunid the halls of state,
7 Charmed by the splendor that sur-
iv rounds
‘ ‘The dwellings of the great
Givo me thd cose comer. —— — out into the streets to sing and
ad the alee erful i, He had time to utter no more, A figure bounded forward from the darkness, caught the the ragged wretch oe his arm was about to descend, and hurled bim | play i pennies, “Well have to
oo wh rita ne'er Intruc . “Kill the little da: edurthy old-omedhawal?-be oe ring in two dollars a day, or he’
"Rad pouccfu ones abide : headlong into the ne snow. rlintif ye dare, ¥ ‘old-o1 cried. so. ean =i oa 6 in tw Covad inti mh ,
. aera "4 Te nN |stralghtfores rd story with no marginal notes, you ) rags, and ite aw! ful cold ‘and dirty here. Please, | hard, He beat ‘over 80 tony ene
~Fiucarel . . ples me take me home.” ‘got the marke on omy “back yet
fucarellt still bo still amit, yen ‘the Italian fash cruelly. Fee ian tay shoulders—they're kinder
. “ Forgive me, excellency!” he says. a Fo here!” hi °. igtenst with a savage) raised like.”
Stre t- 3in e re “There! that will “do,” t ‘arley utters in a warn- | hiss, “ ‘a here telia o ‘Leonie felt the marks of the lash, and drew back
5 | ing tone, “Now, answer me plainly; do you know | The Tittleone uttered a | Piteous moa and sprang | | shen
the Five Ponts?” ward the door. “Oh, ® she moaned. ‘Does he beat
(1 have been in but a short time, ex-| “Mr. Gerard, mamma, Antonio!” she screamed, |rittte sirls ike that nt toe Luigi’ . ‘
cellency, but 1 Know: much— yes, I do know the | but the Teatinn "was too quick for her. “Yes, he don’t mind—he's a brute. I only hope
Five Points, > ax he catches the warning glance in| With a single bound he Feached b her tide, caught | we make the two ‘oll “The others only, ive to
THE UNDERTOW oF LIFE. Eee ogame rain ue hates tec sams inna aS Tmks Se oa cea
ere f is a there of you rood,” Var- more.”
, : sn Sacre! cures, you, me what you up. Sings, | T hope Mr. Gerard ‘ll see me,” said Leonie,
car?
we hopefully.
ir the little one and hissed the words “ie won't be any use,” Luigi replied Gio-
” "Eeanie moaned. vanni ‘ll paint your face and change you so auch
"e Italinn foamed, drawing a stiletto | for a few weeks, that the gentleman wouldn't
ive anol Training the gleaming steel above | know you, After rhe thinks 3 your people have given
CHAPTER | i room with a tiger-like stealthiness, and stands be- wearer i Jas be as been Paid: he fer ne, Curae you, or Giovanni killa you! pp hunting for you, be el let, Jou go outss youre,
. v jerstand jo. But, you, let no one I “ vane
MASTER) wore Garaed Vatley oppresses one, Antonio Bu-| Km at you are doing Antonio. The great | The’ startled eyes of the child rested upon the | “""Good-n rong 8 ‘out, Good-night, Leonie’
WiTHovT, the snow lies ‘hiekiy upon the earth, | eareht hlisone with abucinte alarm. Young, slen- a natio n is necessary. We are living here in & aiittering U blade, and, crouching down to the floor, Soot tigi,” and soon both eluldren
as though the world slumbersenfolded ina mantis der and of the medium heights swarthy of com- lie hotel, and if-y’ seen to leave with ‘Stl fixed upon the murderous steel, |
9 spotlens white: within, the violet velvet curtains | Flexion, with straight, black hair, a small, black Ihe eld we night meet withavekward treatment. | gyi" eee fo sing ina low, sw veel, harmonious | Sener ligt bad sail, Giocan
n close, and the flash of the logs blazing Fiuatache, point ted ‘goatee, thin, bloodless lips. Remember, America, no one knows us, | yoice, i ee face 60 that m9 gue could
on the, ‘arte Theweth quivers in ruby lances up | that part in a cold na iethless sil, showing’ a | #0ne can, ouch for “IC lips of the Italian moved in an approving | XNOWR ber, and, after threatening her with
: that part in. col io, showing 2 remembers exeeleney." the Tal tian says. | angle ME proving | if she dared spe “ak to anyone OF attempt to escape,
‘The light oft tal chandelier falls in amel-| tet far tek ies peneath his bushy, (“But what of her’ mother? You know, signor; |"""\Gooda, ver’ gooda,” hesaid, patting her sunn; oe rigt in the streete with her compan:
low, golien flood ‘Sver the Tt black brow: batt Bash like the glad joan re ted that she too came to Aiwerieat! curls his course and dirty name ee pene | FOR.
‘The'carpot eof a fa faint, Ereenisi of a Damascus “bindes ‘hans lender a graceful |» G Natley's eyes ‘es flash poisonously. sing Ha, le Jn—si
} and thei re with Sounche's of violets, ‘a: woman's, and, neat like eBeaces! he ‘utters. “What if she is? She is! some more an’ ‘Gi
4 they see! fin a at rey nob in id. pho te q | melody, Iteelt; ‘this iy a fale pekcpordratt f Gerard, pee pat age child woman She will never ¢ rene
The furnit ebony and gold, upholstere again—she would not dare!” he adds in
: one edit fyi with | Variey® vale ang for met bo anys ail with a “in. eruting ‘he peach. be ea realng, AL want to go ome. os vite int eat eee ua gave them their even-
violets and golden whea mass of pulp, and the ! ,
: $10 ever their dette sy Biden ha | that mirthiess and chihing sail , ow, make a ‘cosine ‘of his fingers utters again, and the Iittle one, awed and terrified, sang] | Ko another week drag v3 the public seemed
ant bayond fs hung by Varley waves his hand impatiently. eth than bis one ove Leouia'e reccek musical vote and the Fea
Yes,” he courtly “but in merey abalish | Woe SLPS is woman may be, it will be danger- ewan gata music that pealed forth from those | ian reaped a rich harvest. .
that hideous grin, it mal ‘os me sick, "Do you ous for her to oppose this man chaltiah i, and Giovannl Sperats Knew it | | Lata one nights just x Leonie and Luigi, tirea
silver, filled to | M8, You scout Gor" he says suddenly, looking up aud waving |, His ¢ with an avaricious fire and | with their daily labor, had flang themselves upon
o oA Tay covered with giistening peaches, the Bacal bows 1 tng ae owt bie oe. BOP his lp ‘moved wwith'a wicked smuile. wee baie of straw, Bridgetta Suerte
‘ product of some hot-house an wort ‘a pretty bh nor, anc Hoke y, (ata the oO ore | The Itatinn bo 3 low! yy He that this child had genius; that her | ¥ ore Giosannt sat, pale and trembling.
Penny at this season of the ¥ nls in the cen- | the sone ever Ie len woe bis Hips signor's| «Tam the signot ” he says, and: disap- sreet, ranelodious Voice was the gift of nature, and ta the matter, Brilgettay” the Italien
Br ‘of the fo room, where the Tighe from the chande- whose itehe ce et him 's9 well as: peor fhe bandittt /PEets into te otber apart nt un Tae he coy could, through ber, win the sweet smiles of | § with alarm at bis ‘wife's appearance.
: lier above falls with a jubilant flash upon the elit | 7ST native Italy, and who follows him here to areesea for the street, mind ivr te Timea |. "Goda, gerla, goodn, gerla.” bo said, locking
Sat othe reclining in th luxurious embrace | America just as he will follow him to the end of) jttle girl of, perhaps, ten years, well mufled up | the door "turing to fhe apartment’ beyond drona upa
. of a violet satin divan, drawn out go that he ean the world. > na f sleeping soundly. Uron'e waita here, Giovanni order her breake: maka
feel the full beat of tho fir, with his fout resting | ° “Stop that infernal jabber!” Varley reais in “Shek is'a beantiful child, fair as the day, with a| fas'.” wanni, we maka de Leon'e blinda,
be = asap dark eyes sudden ly. “Do ta resume of my | face like a Circe and a form like an infant Venns, | And leering back at her, he pushed open the other gerla no singa lika de Leowe—we grow
went stare, and | past every time summon. yout ou, make me cerca from hisechatr and folds the mutter | door and disappenred. richa, richa!
and sicher | Bick with your infernal protestations of, Melty. | closer a Left to herself, Leonie cast a startled look| The idea scemed to please Giovanna. It Leonie,
you thik I believe You, you miserable, cant-|\ “Farewell, Leonie!” ith'a col, me- | around.” beautiful Leonie, with ber rarel
pe rite! Curse you, ‘the here's not a greater tallie lace “ ‘fencetorh gene hte is among the | ’ A dingy garret room, ear rpetless and filthy, bun- could only be bli od the sympathies o}
on rel living than you, Antonio Bucarelli:” Homeless and friendless Isat you adrift | ales of aw in the corners, he Boor stewwen with | wie
vs and een . S atieean ay you ciuk tathe| mascen Of fallen plaster, ong dirty window so | richer. harvest ean having made \
bows and smi lesaain tly. “Yon | Undertow of Life!’ Go, Antonio, | await Your re-| high wp that she could seo only the white house-|use of it before— of ota covets H Heguid \
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falian who makes his’ living .
si “The Handsomeat W tm dmerieas” * For: Mother'e wee nameless waits, gqich as harpists, violin nga, you “
hor of * Marco, the, Strect Singer’ «The eat Woman in'America;” “For Mother's | | ists street-singers, etc, You have bi
Bu the aut ¢ SecTiltle Charlotte Temple,” Ete, Etc. tnsbagh Tne Glovainl sperath”™ in
‘ils Tish zou to take the child, mafle
were asleep,
On the morrow, as Luigi hed sail, Giovannt
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good to them upon their first at-
tempt, ‘end whe they returned that, niglie col
wet, Gred and hungry, they bad made three d
“No, no!" the fittle one tmoated.. "Please, si, | Inrs between tern
Toads to a sleeping apartm:
curtains of rol velvet under the misty web of
Tl r
ity of the: the, for th
beauty in th that proves his place is ; among such sur- 10 Ttali :
“ pleases,”
i . oH ital fund dark is crisp, black curls fall nate ten ‘oven beat mn bub ‘you cannot kill | turn.” tops and the falling snow; this was all that niet whieh would mune ie Fearigites for
and
‘ “4 Jave, My life] He waves his hand and ue away, er gaze, ime, and resolved to Use this
bak fron hea, ion ask nti Cari |Blong nti °you se eran the aca), Tue Han bows Vindigh the door | “Hue wind howled in through the eracks in the |* Having concluded to-do thie
nentaly en st belongs to Je down, the stairs and its te showy Sores geri | walls, and the child drew back into the farthest | drug and bidding Bridgetta take opt the candice
over a mou! th yc aver forget & ki Pcuppresse i ng there a ne, Gerard Varley*listens to the ier hudling dow in the straw and drawing went slowly into the room where the childrew
re blacl ; i %. pout her, for it was bitterly cold. sle
ack 2 he that bes Hs | trikes is Mubioweea way that gots | sound OF his retr ag ten er Tay ly
Fi vena at a er slike passion. | the silver di wes cashing one one against the other. | | |, He inde door close after him, and hurries to node wm Mr. Gevard,? she moaned, for waa 2 utifal Leonie, with one
; aio | the wi ooking ou - jeved the man lier friend, believed be was, as bo
short, og mag we him that tells 36 te eeiet oe Rear sit sine, Safer am safe!” be says, and lets the cur-| had told her; taking her toher mother, oh plea
Sue hie is far too hands . Wouldnt have any more of this infernal jabbor—| comme and take me home! I don't like this dirty, wipe fain beckoned hie wife forward, and tip-
tol id re- lieve a single syliabl attr Now, . ‘Mamma, mamma!” He side of the sleeping ¢
A single gle Ses Jom with Anindeseriba- | that 1 didn’t believe a spel that other stu” to ca aren It : She buried her face in ber hands as she spoke] ““ Holda the lighta de «: ad? ho whispered to
Bi etna vague, s! ar, sucha one Fourselt.. Where fe the Gade nd gobbed as though her poor, litte heart would | Bridgetta, and the ‘weman raid the eanaieo
ourself, h t . nKt its Tays fell fully upon the beaut
the ine iment famed lion. xe the sott|yiesea? © S8leePr signer, Im the other apart) | Waara, your nnn, eh? ‘The doo opened beyond suidienly, anda woman, | irned face of the eb “ }
pe very 0 a eae pjaws aresheathed, |<! Iininistered the drug I gave you?”| 1, Ee0me , ; witha platter of food in her hand, ehambled to- | Uncorking, the vial with bis teeth, the Itelian
fl hot is eis like a dart of poisoned Have you ade adininis Dt fell tone, rug I gave y “Leone, eh? I like th’ nana, Leon’e singa ward the bil A nt over, lifted iis very gently from over :
aan the flas eys doppands Varley ina subdued tone for Giovanni?” : “Don'ta, sho said, sinking down beside the ‘ohild'd beautiful, violet bive eyes, and allowed :
in the fire, Bucarelli bows No, Idon't want to sing. I don’t like you, I the *ehnilds “Giovanni senda, your breakafas'—you ‘9 tiny drops to fall wpon them. {
m flung over ber
mny curls, lay slumbering # veetly- in tbe fleby '
“remains in this position, gazi “Thave tollowed rout excellency’s orders to the | want to go home The little one stir el in| ier shunbers, moaned a
oF Grown Sperati Inughed coldly. "The little one lavked up and beheld a face $0 re- Little, robbed hur iid then turned over to!
i his
for exactly two minutes by the dai 33 ita Bwis very letter,” he replies, “I now t furthe
but here, Giowanni| pulsive that she in untarily shrank back, ‘The | sleep nga
lock on he mantel then hhend su | Coninmands, for am £ not the signor's most devoted wife sunk
a niedavoure Beit five of say he " een “yeu hear?” woman was Giovanni's wile, pid ter aide nd auived the dingy roo ie
deny ee te hell upon the table wi in| Hes not, fish the speech, for, Varley trl he chil fiviid ak his lances, slunk back |“ Eata" sho wid coarsely, plunging the plato Teonts, the wtrect ninger, slept
and s shapely hand, af the same ens aie fruit ifo at his head, ab the sanio time | and crouched against the wall, into the child dreaming that waking woold Porn fo hen to ihe
larly cold and metallic: ejaculati “ seat want to min phe Teonie, avg at the sight of the coarse and | of the workl she inhabited, no gleam of the sun-
op fiowe infernal Ties, oF, by eaves, P| ing her beautitil biue “Twant to go home, | unsavory weal, would lave refused to do this, but | light and the d
2 ase in atyour cursed body tL wun a] ®auk may own pretty "jrtasea, P dou’ Iive Chess | something ia the womau’s tace warued her not to | "Poor homeless little wait! is there no power to
atinn
ay.
*Anto:
enee elvet curtainsatthe arch stirquickly
and'en ‘eli ‘moves, or, rathor, glides, into the bret