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“Yes—you hardly bad boen let in before you
were as dead as
And the ey rent? *
“Yeu?
<hond Neagle and allt®
“Toman. You only were left”
ec en he eB te, fearing to trust me, because
words 4 ing
a fe (bout div
y. ut be “oa Bufo for it?”
“What, map, you wouldo't betray them, if they
succeed 2?
f reward for that as would make
mon?
ne, exprenion posed over th
“As on ua woold ent, 1 would os as great
my loss,
face of Paul at
‘eee, motes boded him 20
“outlet stay and take a pot of ate, man, while I
91
lac
tig it t aside, be
ey, mou t 2 Tet pever stomach foryer
e wet Wake up, child. By the
tae ae the priests say, be has a handsome fice,
fe. Poor thing! It has a mother, I dare
a ve ‘He shook her ‘senly,
Little Eva, for it was che, opened her large,
raised them
beautifal eyes, an to his fuce with a
look of such auooeoce end helplessiess, that the
old convio ened and warm!
towards her for In bia earller year be hod been &
father, and lot a loved and Sdoised child ot ber
age. 1d that aspect of humanity
the tiger is tender to its young Ww! a even
human tiger are stenéd by fun ionecent beauty
of children.
2 was, as we have already
defined terror were equally blended, a wanderin,
szgel stayed fom the le, and thot had Lott
wyin the wilderness of Loadon in seeking to
Come i re little maid. You must be cold, aud
wet, and hungry. We have enough to eat here
thank
startl
and seemed to be uncertain whether to fy from
the etrange, ronghlooking man, or comply. "But
his voice bad a kindly tone in ft. She Gxed her
ae Inqseingly upon bis ond then, ming set
eter
aight
fae, the Gnally reached the sheltering stoop, where
tat wilderness of sin—London! what sad history
Isthine? Where is thy mother? Lives thy fatter
Art thon the offpring of guilt, an
parents? Or has the death of thy me
ther and father wade ‘ee an out
‘ natal roof? Thou art all too yoong and ionocent
sore hear =
afew moments Paal
and ‘observing, with the eyce of
perience,
forthe contest mind could not be wholly i ines
ble to them. fe saw her color ander bi
and then removed it from her, ying to wel,
with a shake of his bead— *
She's an offeioot from one of these wild my-
aman of fame exe
for blood telly in bumans as well as in bra
beasts!”
silo Bra eat with her feet drawn
uiating nneasily under hie eyes ; and the color
relieving the palenes of her ctioek, heightened her
beanty ; thongh over her forehead hung het
‘ier a hang.
gled hair in rich ixed
and shreds ; for doubtless neither comb nor mi
to. Though Pant, through all her
rage an mile eomplesion, saw Inher these
igns of superior condition, to Steenie’s 7s a5 be he
glanced towards her, ehe was but a comm
| gota bean git tuck sate: pet ly ‘dt in
dark in forme
res had cova 5 anierng stg tues eas of Seot
"Soa yer ler, mia, wi sich a ebiet to the
diggs? ” he said,
ame, my chil
“Era,
“Mind yer fruit, ato, Son Pas,” sid theccarte
" Scotchman, as he emptied bis glast, and winking at
mine host. °
Ne Look ye, Steenie: I'vill not have you sy »
She's een better days, and
seeds pity” ,
“Well, oe can ba’ an orphan aeylum bere the
are ye; it's nae basiness of mine
*Sack’ a
Good ‘moral
Twoulil od ise you to keep silent ahout the
“robbery, if it bas taken place: It may be for your
interest.~ I. can make Hischctift ff 0 you justice.
{HF you peach, your life wou’t be worth
baubee
“ «Whol tak? itt? oo
. Tos was said eo stendily and firmly, that th
Scotchman became a little Pal, and bis eye fe th
what is the Queen's
heavy a job.
“Sot for a man who bal teen years a tamkey,
Tike Hincbeliff, and bal dnplicate keys to all the
id knew the plice as x bo aid. Ab, good
3, Sampsons!” ‘This was addres to a burly:
okie countryman, in a smock-trock, and who
8 wtip in his hand, who eae in.“ Slow
vr?
But fall “ont buy for talking shoot the
Ty.”
‘sinthe Tower, It waur too
vrords which the Scotchman did not rad
of
mm
ecb the foaming mug before him, but ect- | | * Tnteltign
said
‘of ptecaol love, never diew bok |
fell asleep. Poor Brat rest ware you
teast from tby | Scotchman bai st
surveying ber | an
ber points of birth and lines of benaty, | he
‘She shall bave a good cea, ‘What is your
ay? wi
oat, pad to listen, and Interebanged a Took with
the ina eeepe
ennon is upal aboot un ‘Tes Tower's
robbed on a the od Kin ‘ing’s jewels, an’ the Queen’
a, au’ there’ ‘tellin’ what im’t tle!
Heres
As ie epoke a neqsearrer appeared at the doo
with an “extra,” which Paul eagerly parchased for
sixpence aud away went the man shouting
“A great Tower rubbery! Queen's jenels
ole! Only sixpence
“This looks like it f Steeui, man,” eaid Paul in
an jone, as he unfolded the paper,
a mere slip, printed especially for that news. He
aa follows, while Sampeons took a seat by oue
the tables, with @ mug of ale:
and f
“MMe CROWN JEWELS STOLEN!
“ a ae with the police
lodged wi
‘Tower sometime last night,
ier monly and tt most oto valuable ee es
taken from the cases, and carriod away.
uy, ho was seined’ by tho robbers,
‘hoouand pounds i ofered by
the hie Fo sri wl probably be increased as
as the Gor Mnost daring and te:
tmarkable wobery of moderates.
“We hare just beard a rumor that Lord Toplis, Earl of
Conybeare, stat
ed as
Toriue once princely, bat Grou inatrcd bY his, rs
pea br for play. pe litle terminates with his death—no
New enough for one ‘night's work,” said Ba
“So they succeeded,” eaid he to Steeni
Ber. “Now be discret, and you sball bare your
share, though you took no part in it You are
bettereff than Hine slr for you run no rss. T
hope they have well got of
ON ard of again we shall be
taeda atl?
‘No—no!’ They are in our power! ‘They will
% make an enerny of me! They know I would.
a Jet them rest in any Jand beneath the sun bat
‘at the arms of English law should take them by
and the certainty of twenty
informs, makes him unsafe.
Y
d Tiow-like in
aspect, rose from behind he halanoon shaped tap
h a lying and, stretching he
bye lime, be looked up into Paul's face with in-
talligent inquiry, as mac os oe say, “What do
wish 1?
Paul led bim to the place on the bench where
Steente had eat, ana said
“Take good nose of hima, Bolt! ° Now ere!”
and he pointed to where, a moment hefere the
in the door. E
ed at the spt, and then sought his master's oye.
Follow Lome back again and tell
wer le goo!” -
a ks ofthe animal one could easily
derstood every word spol
abe erator be aia “Alter 8 moment’ vadelsy,
ipo!
the, ene, at lacy Seung the fave of Paul,
his hard tool io, as his voi ic oat to her, She
him of the enp-
suicide of the earl, and Cane neat
cat, with ebildish thoughtlesmess, “I mw him j
she knew net ‘what reatsined her.
‘oor Eva! ry hungry and thirsty ; and
ber nerves til vib vibrated not only ith tae coc
again called to her.
Ue looked kindly at Wee, and emiled
‘You must be having something to ool Come
T had: a house-keey
em young leopardess before iit
wad and lcaly place While she ate she kept ber
eyes fixed on him half in doubt balf in confideece
indaest—euch good treatment wi
hee! She seemed tobe una. to rls She
devoured
canted ay rom hee at before che
oa Leonean
e Your ‘ime, Esa, You need not swallow
“eu sil av a diane and a my
0, had &
te eye Notthat she wasso beeatfal-—
in Diao, and not for the eileen of mea
ny claw Se looked though wt you do out of
such hair! For her sake I am
“Whee Tht sw you, you made roe
most of the meet with,
“Bless met wat a oireet st voice! Her name was
”
rye
“That ie my name!” *
“You st it mag Eva”
ari
daughter?” asked Eva, glad to
be need aod oil spoken to.
tiv act, bat th that cane | fre
Therese.
yy years ago. I will tell you aout
her, nfo t ied er Ir Tnever loved God 1
maa, I loved my ebild!”
e old conviots voice was tremaloas, an
deep | emotion cause his hairy chest to heave th
ct
‘There's a a joer r the market sellin’ the news, masxive
“Tr ‘rill ‘tall you all spent wae a it will do me
| good to talk about her ps, when you
Scar about her yoa will te 2 ving to be my Hite
daughter
. “Kons lad
«Aad have a homef”
“yar
“And a place to sleep indoors every night,
oer .
es, poor thing!”
“ Na ‘Von bread and meat to eat like this?”
“Bet
ragged he for
an artlesness
tes | eyes that for years bad been as dry as adamant.
. CHAPTER XV.
‘THE CONVICT'S DAUGHTER.
. The convict, after Joking gut at the door to
red his services, and seeing
the farmer was dozing over hie breakt
to Eva, who sat
her former doubt of his kindness visible in her
large eyes, and eat
"You ask about my anoghler, stom a ou bare
made me think of today. a year
aisce Las roared Twas thea Snot whet 2 be.
Thad a wile who loved me; but per-
ier thea everthing in me to love, But
fast, turned
ith
self upon the tae
ber arms upon the tbl, J ber Uitte hand upon | dead and so '¥en9 home butt one!”
her face showing | ook grateflly into his face,
| his heavy, dark one, earessi
no more lack of ct o powerful i ape
tay and communioa.
and eaid with emoti
ion :
“Yea You shall be my ehild But tint et me
show all that remains of m
“Is she
the change in his voice as he rose uj
from the room.
“Come and see! Nay, do not fear. Come and
let me show you how Tloved her,
ee followed bia
$n the man-
Be litle ebelf of books, many of them children's
with numerous other evidences that it bad
teat His eile parte
is here “Fst ag she arranged it
Everything
sie was my ile housekeeper. There aro her | took me
books. ‘Thateanary-hird in # washers Ilet | them no money
no one feed it bat my.own baud! There isher’ pose « sethey bot th
a fowers now dried up} se placed them tee
a year ago. That is
wed ‘Thos litle f ‘eonen ‘upon this cushion
e waiedt® .
« pasts a sweet room!”
“It is as sacred as a church to me, Eva,” he said
with a tone of reverence. “ Now look ia beret”
AS
spoke he opened with a key tho door of a | brought me over. from Paris,
surprise of Eve ehe saw that | Paris. I epoke Ba
it was Tightea with candles At fist only a con- | too, But these people taughtmebad
expectingly, and with but little of | fv ila
jarge closet. To
scene of lowers, es der
ed canopy met her
ing beneath the etiful canopy —* Look, Eva! |” “Tt is f
la!”
There is my chil
With mingled emotions of awe and cuties,
she bent forward, and behel
wo ter baad ae, | They
here?” asked te ‘vith he notjeing
to lead her
ttle tek parts, neat | ftom such a place you
Tlere she
id they freak "ea ee
every day”
ceqihat dd you do for them?"
« Bogged mney—and cooked and went chores,
and wnited
« Where ca ‘ty live”
“Where is ‘ha e .
© In Shakespeare Alley.”
Of all places in London the most vite. Coming
uw are like a pearl sn: hel
from under the feet of swine, How came you
he jou say is now at
aud the other in Prien f for Elling her?”
“The their hour. "My far died
mm alone, So th
and made me bg for them, IT browglt
they beat me”. ..
deserve their fi is e, But ¥ see now
‘our voice so peculiar. You have a
ore tree secent. | , Who 0 was your father?”
ach emigre
there and left me
we vt
fe was very, ey poor, and s0
wt "yay he td at the Dea.
“7 do not Know, a i 1 remember ay father
”
four yea more.
get, Itecems| iva, voy g greatwhile ago.”
“Whatdo syouromeuuber before your fatherdied?”
‘“ mber It utiful
6, too, Wi
And my father; but he was not
n
that is, Her ory. We were very ‘The warlike. hands were folded toget er, the fine | go handsome, nor £0 Kins. was dark, and very
benny. Meet EA (Cina ix mil gers anclasped upon her breast, a wreath of flow- | severe, But I remember another home—a greal
en. isa me child, with the | era, not yet withered, but aa fresh as if’ yest y, | while before thats and it seems to me I have had
wet of m ak vies Ber et eee committed a | enci ‘Her fingers held a little gold | two mothers. Js all mixed like a dréam!
-gan & ea once I might ‘Te body was robed a whit eatin, dom 5 aow—I was once’ very happy, and
ave i ia or y oma but eo got into evil company, | with blue and pink bows, ‘The, whole epectacle | avr green felds, and heard binds singing in the
came, and brought my little girl with her to poi
son to see me. It was a bard thing for me to look
on the face of tho woman I bad wronged, and
upon the innocent child whose father was now
criminal,» There mus good
in me, to win and ke
did not die. But it was ah the same, it seems, in
law.
“Ten years!
to Botany Bay for ten years. 1} will you take her place
Yen ent
aia not wi about the te and the sentence £9
say poor anbapay wie
Nowlet_me tell ra t how le Loved
an her God-—for she took on #0 aller T'd gone
from England, that she could not do without me
wi
ve sngulacly Veoullful and touching, Two wax sie, and waa nota beggargtl aa Tam now.
ne head, and t vo. atthe fet, sony il | is all Lknow.
scene. Vat is ihe name of the man—Simon!”
"Eva gazed with wonder, and epeechlees, Tb dia | ° «Yee, sin’?
not look real to her. |. “He is no doubt in Newgate. I must see the
la ake dead Now, as this is all you ean tell me, Eva, are
“Yea Lem
Australia of
child, to have it rot in the putrid and effervescing
ed her. I learned
avoryart: embalmed it. It | else to go to.
igure of wax, a8 you behold.
e like @
te isl ike hers lovely, only the mouth is
silent forever, andthe eye regard me no more »
er brea atb, oo if ehe feared to disturb the serene re
“You ae sight. She is an angel
an.
the art in | you villng
ehiet Teould not part from my | ed child?”
to be to me in the place of my depart
Yon atone’ are od tome,” T baré no one
Il be grateful to you as long
as I live!”
“From the first I have been satisfied, from the
guage you use, that you are of a good family,
an angel,” whispered Eva, holding | who have early taught. you to speak well But
fe
wre comes the woman I sent for.”
{t took but a few words for Paul to inom the
of dresses that he wished her to provide
pl in my sight, but not in my forthwith @ suitable wardrobe for the orphan he
card for Ie filed with my wife aad chil had adopted. Money is power! ‘The woman cur-
‘yor il house less deeolate—you can ied obeticnee to his wishes. Paul now left his
‘acked you if you have a home or parents
tempted to
she tight be tranported ‘tnd join me?
steal it
“Yeu Tew oe Lady M fargaret Conybeare’ the
pile, now dca 9 of the nobleman who dro
‘Dimecif last
Dut ae did et epeak. “Tis Tordchip bal onoe
been
father, the old cart, chot bimself from m gloom, and
tis said his father fell on his in the
Netherlands, after losing “ate Teva i the
fami But as I was seying, my poor wife
stole the riog and confessed, and was transporte.”
a
The convict swallowed a great gulp of air that
seemed choking him, an
orou, pity for him, for ber, and interest in the infant’s| of
a's | as if trying > believe he was as good, in epite of | fate
rate,
“Yes Tt reached me safe, Bat the sight of it
tw:
were not half as pretty as
It bad the truo image of her mo-
ther. How I doted pen itt How 1 utahed
over it! It
om my wide, Ht wae Jall Tloved-all thet made
sil human, I was a herdsman song | the
satan and sbe asisted me in taking eat
the forks, and he presence was & eoosant Soy 0 Botan:
my soul. I tried, by my devotion and love
to atone forthe evil T bad bro
to her,
raght a her mo-
a “a she love you?"
She did not ‘wow her father waa & ‘con-
id mi
At nine she oa sows intelligent and afetion-
er | ate. len;
- tou lore to alk about so, litte ghter
ned
“Yes, Now that the sij
my heart, Tfreavitt could
my ten years expired, and
London”
‘gear at che had never seen the ni
‘tor until us morning.
“Yea Topened tiv inn and tried to hecome an
jonest man ; but a ‘iaraed eoovit is sapped
still to be a Foguej and no one gave me ere for
Twas true to myeif unt my child
took sick ‘a died?”
“Died
Se aswered Paul, died? and he repeated
tte dre word with gloomy end alnoet
emphasis, “She waa sick three re Whe
foond se would not live, then I praye .
yed to God ?
IfGod there be. I bent my iron-bound
knees and begged Him
child to me!
he oF is roomt So che died!
eo T eared Goran have. been 8 det A your
face met my eyes at my doo
ber oy ad, for ueo nf our
g
z
her own; and if she had lived ae would have
it your vena thivtee
Then Tain glad I come to sauna ‘on the step,
hope you dont fet so wicked Ow against God!”
“ a ny chi
The your little aughtert I will try and
Jaa! sing, that
4
‘a vailed voice— | fi
f you bas open
talk to you about her | It was
e How
eas wrong child here in Landon
d
il this moment taken itfor granted she
to | protege with
‘And be locked analously for ber reply, beving
and with a beat ighior
sa tad been sacs his child's
more fought the socety of his gue He found
them in the full tide of discussion of the robbery
was a | of the crown jewels, and the adroitness and success
meless orphan, . As she shook her head his face | of the robbers w
hot
brigteue He took her hand kindly ia his, and | anything but sympathy for the crowo.
aust have sent you t
be you Keep these Candles b aro
“Ever since she died
three daye’
1 “And the flowers?”
pulehre, a8
to look at the pictures in the Tittle ack pastor, fa
confidence aud
the Lent upton of the
mall warm beneath, he ebeetily replied to the
rich, foaming heverngo was termed by hit
face uf the convict,
woul nd have imagined lay hidden
seta a ot loro, of feeling, of ‘fection the
Met Who of hit saelata
muapeeted he had any ‘fellngs ach as were
srose, sensual, worldly, avis” Skin wit Wale
ter he
asi one of the uber, who appeared to bo Ma
more inti mrad, to look after the tap ; and
leaving them discussing the robbery in the Tower,
an ord ed to the
‘She waa in
"with
upon it was in the foreground,
and in the distance was a church tower with foar
irreta 5 aad farther one the horizon-was a range
of the peaka of which
ih singular wildaes
28 gazing upon it with lips
in. that, Eva, Let
ne came yoa to be aliouse
Pre not ‘teaye been €0
“That Ibelieve.. Where did you take yout last
meal 2” he asked, trying ep by step to get af ber
his
“Ft was three dass ago—at Simon's.”
# Who isSimon 2?
« Therese’s brothet
# And who is These mo
“sl 8 wicked, cruel Freachwoman, But
she’s dead now! and she. ‘shuddered of recalling |e
Whe eeene at the den,
Did you live with these people
Juve you, and make you happy, and you'll be
1 good
gal? "Aud Ev bo tat oppuits to hin wee
“Yes Simon killed her last night ‘with a bro-
kea mug. He's taken avway to priton, and she is
T reuce thesa every
«Are bron agi to moe every marning fresh by =
every morning remove | doors, without rot on
eating Era | beer
m all eyes | of them got their
motions which lay |for their nonsense,
les
ga
ae tho bola robbery in the Light of heroes—Na-
Petbe guinlde of ‘the Font of Conybeare pert o come
up, an last. mi
at there would ot. be enough Tet to 73 By! a
at Lady Imbel w sould be cast out of
“Not while J have one over rine? answered
‘ou cont ia ret
tid soon bad each min served an about your
‘ink his" cream of the valley? as is #1 eat
friends. | bailid’s sor
evident admiration of the heroic eulject of his re-
ye es, and is now lodged in the jail. doer
hear,” aiid a third. “Ivil go hard with him,
+ fen yea or for ie
“No, but——” an
bad psid attention to their wants, he | gave a signiteant ‘niet ‘or bis uecketet
thing for us bal
@ man.
Tats sentiment met with generat anova ant
ut to go to Am
its park. * Its walls were castellated, a stone draw- | one by ove the men retired, leaving the taproo
i deer were in its glades ; | fa sol
70 BE ‘costmscED IN oOR NESE] ”
—_~.--___.
ART OF BEING AGREEABLE,
rt of being agreeable is to appear well
\d rather to seem
ment to them. ..A man thus disposed perhaps may
not have much laraiog, noe'any wits but if be
it | have common sense, and something friendly in bis
Iebavior, it conciliates men’s mit
re than the
test talents without and
=
&
wy ira ‘ man of such a turn comes to old age, be is
almost eure to be treated with respect 11 a tre,
indeed, that we should not disenbi teria
company ; but a
0) very
strictly consistent with fr cud mic, iy
| prudent wlevoe where he _canno!
be
that bo will gain upon every one that hears
hold in: is disposition a not merely the git
ture, but xt irequently the effect of much kuow.
ie of "fhe world, aud a command. over: the
st Moweyt,—There fs mel
ie ‘the reel not only so, but, moreover, there
jo moment at all, that is, no instant force and
eve ut in the present, The man who will not
is resolutions when they are freeh npou
him, ean have no hope from them afterwerls 5 they
Will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry a
gkorry of the world, or eunk in the slough of fade
a