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B! m Buniowm Ewan-r Hm, D. D. Antony Blske left the ofiiee of anrill 5: CO. e good den! disappointed. He won him- self s. shrewd end intelligent fellow. He had secured the patents on his new invention snd wss reedy to proceed with the mmnfoctnre. He hsd oerried the papers, the drawings. his model mschine to anrill 6: Co.. and they had them in consideration. They now ofi'ared him $800 for the whole thing if he would turn it all over to them. He bed pro- poeed one end snother scheme by which he should go into business Le 11 psrtner with them. These hsd been referred by the msnsging psrtner to the Mr. J orkins behind the scene, who was an imaginary person created {or the purpose of saying no when the msnsging putner wes ashamed to. Prae- tiesiiy ell these schemes had been refused, snd Antony we: now to take the $800 or nothing. This was not his first ex perlence in such business. He knew by this time that the geople who bring things before the public, a the inventions, ba they books or be they i 683, genernllv expect to be well paid for doing 9°! anglhe knew‘thst tbeLayqtem‘of 101' 0011]! EU, nuu no any" .uâ€"- -_- _,_e-,, cooperation, which people are hoping for and praying for, was by no means yet established. With some bitterness of feeling, it must he confessed, though he was a good natured fellow enough, he walked down the street of Tamworth considering whether he would take the $800 and he done with it, or whether he would go to Pitts- bgra and see if there were better chances t ere. A-â€" . . as - siLk hum Us Antony Blake did not believe in debt, and he knew how to live on a very little money, but for sll that he bed very little money in store, and he certainly did not have the $10,000 which would be pecesssry . for him if he were to (quip a little machine shop of his own and make his own automatic car coupler. But as it happened, he was a. person well esteemed in the whole com- munity of Tamworth, as he deserved to be. I should like to know, however, how much of this esteem he owed to one queer circum- stance. While he hsd to start in life with absolutely no property, it happened that he did hold, as trustee for his mother. some bonds, which he considered worthless, in the second issue of the Cittersugue and Opelous- as Railroad. These bonds had lopg ‘since “ RBIIIUW. .Lutnv Uvuuu .0... u... _-, ‘ been taken 03 all lists known to bgokere, and it was long since any coupons had been i paid. Still the Cattaraugus and Opelousas existed, and there were sanguine people, among whom his mother was one, who supposed that at some time payment would be resumed. Antony, being her trustee, had to keep these bonds somewhere, and he had been notified by legal advisers that he must keep them in one of the security vaults which are now established in all the consid- erable cities. He had hired a modest safe at the Amieable of Tamworth, and at the Amicable you have the faeilties of a charming reading room, where are all the new magazines, where you can wash your hands if you need, you can make an appointment with a friend, you can write a note on the Amicable’s paper. These facilities are thrown open to you he- eause you have hired, perhaps for only $10 a year, a safe in that bank. Antony had found that here was by far the best club room in Tamworth. In that city they have what is known as the “Strangers’ Rest” well developed; you can go in and pay ten cents an hour for all the comforts of a club room, and then go out again. But Antony found that, in the long run, 810 a year was cheap- or for him then the Stran ers’ Rest at ten cents an hour, and what should like to know is whether his standing in that com- munity had not materially risen since the old dons and widows and railroad trustees and other such persons who had their safes there found that he was one of the habitues of the reading room of the‘Amieable. EL â€"...n L!â€" u: uuv ave“..â€" . v-._ - -V- . _ He suspected himself that it gave him ‘ these advantages, end he was careful not to pre-ume on them. He took care not to all: there writing letters in times when a. busi- ness men would be at his counting room ; he only looked In there at the hours when the most prominent of the done were there ; he took care not to appear to it as the only loaf- ing piece which he bed. In proportion as he was cautious in these regards the done begun to rt epeot him on one of themselves ; that is to say. as a person who did not hive to work very hard for his money, and who had in the chember adjacent the secrets by which a. quarterly revenue comes to the initiated, without much cracking of their finger nails or griming of their henden , A_u_-_.. ....... vs sm..â€"D .. __-_ n this particular morning Anthony was obliged tobreak his rule. I: was just the‘ hour when he should not ordinarily have gone to the Amioahle. It was seldom in- deed that he had any occasion to look at his mother's bonds in his safe, for they were as worthless one month as they were another. But to preserve the respectabilities of the piece it had been his habit to have his safe opened for him once e quarterâ€"shout the 1st of May, August and the corresponding quartersâ€"which he observed to be “coupon quarters "for some very distinguished dons. .2,A ’_L_ __- -2 .5... "MI. on“. ENE DEPOSIT. lluul ‘0]. IV. Irvâ€"v - ..V‘, He would retire into one of the little cells provided for the oconeion. open his box and then carry it: book that it might be deposit- ‘ ed in his safe again. The law time then he bud done this. Anthony had pieced two fifty doilnr bills in his little tin box, to find himeeif from upending them. He ew ehet he Ihonid hove enough money for his current expenses besides, end he ind not wed no mnke n nermnnene investment of this mm. B1: 1! he were to no to Pitu- burg he Inns: hove these two fifties in his pocket, end he welked down to the Amiceble. gun the number of hi: uie, md hie box was given to him. It is pouible that there no one or two of the humble: reader! of this little ehory who one not mqudmed with the oueful unenl- nery of e maxi eefe oompeny, end a the eeory hlngu on t mochinery it any be well to exploit: it. You see you no to heve the double oomhlneflon, potent. eheoluce eeâ€" enrltznthet ls given to the I eat corpora.- don the worldâ€"soy the Bu: 0! Englend â€"and n the same time you, who no a poor on Ahmny Bloke wu, ore to hove your own little lap-nu: cell in which your on pro- perty la kept, end notody elee in the world any fluorite-regs?! it. All chielie ll y 0. my a: system 0 oemen. emotive clerks, doorkzserl. raglan" of Iron. tron floor: below nave, no me fire mt burn your securitie- nor voter drown them, nor [helm bro-k In. nor rut CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. The most honorable and virtuous warden are selected by the most ingenious and high- ly approved competitive examinations. You present yourself at the gate, and you are personally known to the warder, who speaks to you cordially and opens the gate to you, as he would not do if you were one of those unknown loafers who have no safe in the security vault. You pass through this prison gate joyfully. for you know it is no prison to you ; you tell him that the day is tine, or that it is rainy, ‘ as it may happen, and pass on till you come . to another gate and another warder. You 1 tell him that it is fine, or that it is rainy, as before. He also calls you by name, and says that you are looking well, and you enter a second passage. This passage is provided with little catacombs or columbaria, precise- ly like those under or near the oity of Ron e, except that these are much smaller and that these catacombs have now no doors, but in the security vaults each catacomb has a little iron door. and these doors are numbered. You remember, by mnemonic processes known to yourself, what is the number of yours; the number (i Autony's was 4 927. You meet in this passage a smiling, gentle- manly friend who also calls you by name, expresses his hope that you are well, and tells you what the weather is. You also tell him. These are not passwords. but they are the civilities of the occasion. You then mention to him, in a whisper, if you please, the number of your box. He effects to re- memberâ€" does remember,perhaps - and with his key adjusts the lock of your catacomb. But, please to observe, he cannot open the catacomb because he has not your key. Your key has been given to you long since when you hired your oatacomb. You then open the catacomb with your key, which you can- not do till he has first turned his key in the lock. In the oatsoomb you find a long, nar- ‘ row tin hr x. unless you should be a very great don. In that case you have a large catacomb and you have a large tin box. But Antony was a very little don, as the reader knews. and he had therefore a box long enough for any coupon bond, but not large enough to contain many. .I, ,_L_J LL- -......L... Ivuvuâ€" v- .- --_-_ He drew out his box: thanked the courte- ous attendant, passed warder No. 2 again, who asked him if all was right, and then in the passage between Nos. 1 and 2 selected a little room like that in which you eat cysters in restaurants of some cities, when it is supposed that you are ashamed to eat oysters and wish to have a separate cell assigned for the purpose. lou go into this cell, which you find lighted. There is a little table for you, with a pen and ink and. blotting paper and a pair of large scissors. These scissors are there that you may cut off the coupons ‘ from}: your bonds. 1 . is”. LL_L L-A.L LL- ...,... , _________ Observe with admiration that both the requirements which have been referred to are fulfilled. You are here as lonely as Robinson Cruacelwaa before Friday came. All your wealth is in your hands; you can do with ib what you choose. A minute be- fore this wealth was in a safe which nobody excepting you could open, and a minute hence it will be in that safe again. uuuvv no u ... .. __ On this occasion Antony Blake found some diflienlty in opening his box. His key seemed to be out of order; but, being an in- genious person, it happened that he had a little akeleton key with him, and With this he threw open the lock of the bot. He saw in a moment that it was not his box. The securities in It were those of the 0.. K. and W., C., B. and Q., B., C. and D.â€" seonrities, many of them, absolutely “gilt edged" in the market of the moment. There Were one or two United States bonds, and, in short, if a good fairy had touched his mother's bonds and changed them into bonds of the very best [she could not have gone better for him than had been done ere. u. v- Antony Blake was emezad and dazed. He lifted the bonds out one after another to see by what process of evolution the Getter- eugue end Opelousns had been thus changed, and with a vague feeling that he should find his two fifty dollar noses at the bottom. The fifty dollar notes were not there, but there was a. little parcel of five or six menu- soript notes tied up with a white ribbon. Antony had no disposition to get at other people's secrets, but he did want to know how these things caune into his box, and he looked at their addresses, as he could do without opening them. Three were to Evelyn Haddem. Three were to Fergus Macintire. Antony had never heard of either of these p°0ple. The letters were numbered, and tin. v “e of each was written nuuruurcu, nun. any n , w v. Vuvb- u..- n. --_ on the envelope. Amnnv observed that the last two were written on the same day, May 29. “It is a romance. I think," said he, and he thought so because of the ribbon. But clearly the most curious thing in the romance was that the letters were in his box. Ii young Blake had gone at once to the head centre of the wonderful combination of warders, guardians, clerks and assistants who made up the hierarchy of the Amicahle, this story would never have been written, and the reader would at this moment be seeking other occupation than that he has in hand. “ Before a story can he told," say: Mr. Anthony Trollope. “ there must be a story to tell." All that follows on these pages spring from Mr.Blalre's aversion to take the head centre into his confidence, or indeed, any other of the guardians in the hierarchy. ‘ ,,,_ _l LL__‘ no». â€". v In the first place, he knew none of them personally, though, no has been soon. they all new him rofeesionelly. That is to say. It was the pro euionel business of each of them to know Antony Blake by eight 3nd to we the: he nlweye had the box in No. 4 927 when he wanted in ntd than no one else ever had it, and also the: he never had my other box than his own. But all of them A n 1,-"A $34.- v-4. a... had been imported from New York to carry on ma Amicsble, which wee 5 new enterpriee in Tamworth, so that he hed not mode thelr nequulntenoe other than offifielly. In the second place, es occurred to him now for the first time. he should huve gone to the head centre before if no mount to go at all. He should hnve ne when hit little hey did not open the nd box. He should not have ploked the lock of n box, which, as he now know, wu not hle,‘with hie little skeleton key. In the third place, he we: not euro whether he should beet advance the ends}! jmtlge by going. to the head QIM _____- wâ€"v â€"â€" -â€" '__.~- oonu‘e. He could y tint his 8100 were not in his box. But here were neuritic: of three or four hundred than! M much worth ; end, a be well knew, there was not my one outside on idiot uylum who would one! Cotter-lug!“ md Opelounu bondl. It might be tho: the head contra Ind some of theothon were engoged In 3 common trend, of which be bid In his hand! I _llt:.le ole}. 3035;353:17de through “3 CHAPTER III. mind end determineti him. winely or not, to nuke no complaint to the head centre till he hnd taken the ndvioe of n lewyer friend. Meanwhile his first bulineu we: to go to Pittabnrg end to gen the SlOO which he needed for his journey. There we: no moneyin the box, end of coarse Antony could not have taken it if there 1nd been, seeing it we: not 111:. ‘LGreenbeckef save ,2;, u -_- 5L- an emment loyal authority. “us the currency 0! thieves." But even had Antony been a thief he had no opportunity :0 steal. There were the six letters, tied up with the white ribbon. Antony did look at the addresses, as had beet} esid.‘ o‘ ,‘L,L But at the moment his only wish was that his despised Cattaraugua a'xd Opeloueas bonds were in his hands. He remembered, 1 as he often had remembered before, the pathetic grief of Robinson Crusoe, when the great current of the Orinoco was sweeping him to sea in his canoe. Then poor Robin- son looked at his retreating islandâ€"the is- land which be h .d always called a prist nâ€" and wished that he might return to it, be- cause it was his home. So poor Antony, who had always despised the Catterangnu and Opelousas, now wished that he had them in his hands. In point of fact, he put back the box into the cell from which he had taken it, and he went at once to his lawyer cousin. But the lawyer cousin was not in. Antony did not like to tell his queer story to a stranger ; he therefore borrowed a hundred dollars from the lawyer cousin's clerk and went that: night on the train to Pittsburg. This is not: one of those stories which tor- menta the reader by refusing to tell him all the writer knows. vuv .u..-v. .â€" Once for all, let: the render understand that the bonds and the letters which Antony Blake found in his box belonged to a very nice girl whose name was Edith Lane. How it happened that they were all in this box shall now be briefly told. _ It was some six months before Antony lake found them that Edith Lane’s father called her into his own room. He then ex- plained to her that she was so old that she must learn to take care of her own affairs. “ I do not mean,” said he, “ to turn over to you now the whole of your mother's property, but I do mean to turn over to you so much that you shall not have to come running to me when you want to buy a shoestring and a paper of pins. I have placed in this envelope a number of bonds; I am going to show you how to cut: 0E the coupons from these bonds. ‘ You Will have to do this twice a year; you will then have to carry these coupons to the Waverley Bank, where I have opened an ac- count for you. When you want money you will write a check on the Waverley Bank, and you will go for the money yourself or send for it. You can do as you please about keeping an account of these things. If I were you I would keep a little cash book, but I shall ask no questions. If you come to me at any time for money I shall then ask questions. But it is a great deal better that you shall learn to take care of your own at. fairs before I die.” ,, Poor Edith was distressed and psined to hear her father tell: of dying. She said as much; she said that she knew nothing about business, and she had a. great deal rather go on as they were. But he wss flint. He told her that his precise object WAS to teach her to draw a check end to keep a. bank account, and to teach her something of her interest in the community, not to say her duties in the community. He had begun with thirty or forty thousand dollars of her iortune, which he_hsd put into these hands. 9,! hL- 1:: uv nun- v.- ._ .____ if" Edithrwas f’r‘ighteneé, and said she did not know where she would keep the bonds, and she was afraid thgy _mighp_pe agolen. “That,” said her father, “is the second thing that you are to be taught. You will not keep these bonds ; I do not keep mine. I have brought these this morning from my own safe to give them to you. I have order- ed the carriage, and 1 am now going to take you down to what is known as the Amloahle Safe Company. I am goingto hire a little safe there in your name and you will keep your bonds in that safe. When you want to cut off the coupons you will go down to the Amiceble, ycn will have the safe opened and you will_cnt ofi‘ what you need.” LL n _ -...... This frightened Edith more than ever. She almost cried, but: in hergdiatress she referred to an old joke of the family bor- rowed from “Georgia Sketches." 1c is the story of a young man whose father was urging him to marry and said to him, “Where would you be if I had not married ‘2" The young fellow replied, between his soba. “ Yes, dad, but: you married mother and I shall have to be put; out to a strange gal." Edith said she did not want to he put out to any Amicable Safe Company 'or any Waverley Bank. She wanted her rather to take care of her money and to give her what she wanted to spend. But he was perfectly firm : the carriage came to the door, and Edith bed to go up to put on her hat and secque and gloves to go down for her first lesson. What she was taught the reader already knows. She was taken through the getee, she was introduced to the attentive warder, and she had ensign- ed to her one of the unslleet safes, exactly such a. sale as Antony Blake had, and as it happened the number was next to his No. 4,928. The reader now has a partial notion of what mistake had occurred. "Ill: sun ‘1”: .â€" w..- oolnmbsrium end was opening his safe‘ to put his box swe . The lock msde eome little obstacle. a he had lsid his box on the floor that he might hsve both hands in hmdling the key. Edith had to wsit a moment for the opentions to be finished, end. on it hsppened, the laid her box on the - floor as she stood by him. being, in hot, if i the reader is curious. putting on her gloves 1 at the some moment. Antony touched his hat to her, stooped, picked up the box and t it into his own sefe, without sny thought the he had mode s trsnuer. He pagedout the door, “laced the werders "nu. ‘._A. 4A... .44.... knv In point of fact. about s. month before Antony Blake had met his disappointment, ‘ it had been so ordered by those minor powers who, under orders, overrule this world, that he snd Edith Lane went nearly at the same time to the Amicablo. Antony had gone simply to show himself, that he might keep up the reputation which he had acquired no a don among dons. Edith had gone, on her second visit, to out off some coupons, which she had done successfully, and which she had carried to deposit at her bank. But it 11de happened that when she brought back her little box. to place it in her ssie, Antony Blake was _elreedy in_ that corridor of the , 2,,_ L2- ..3. râ€"w --------- . â€"~~ and was gone. mm: put the other box into her cafe. 5nd :- the rude: meet, the change In: completed without a thought from either puny. CHAPTER 1V. II: we: not till Antony Bloke we: wall :in Pimbnrg, denling with the venom eons of Tnbel Chin, who meke that ci one of the riches: and loveliest in the war] , that Ellnh one day ordered the can-in e. drove down to the Amioeble, took on: W no she enppoeed to be her box and found in it Anoony'n Csttareugna end Opelonm bonds end his hundred dollere. nun... vâ€" _-..â€"_ - Ofoourse Edith knew she had made e mistake. and she instantly supposed, a: she usuelly did, thet everything which we! wrong was her own fault. This, then, was the first result of her father‘s training her to businessâ€"that she had lost all her own property and had stolen some other uroperty of vastly more value. For the girl knew nothing of the worthleasneu of the Catter- eugus end Opelouees. and it was easy for her to see that whereas she had left in her box only thirty or forty thousand dollars worth of bonds, ehe had under her hands. "v..u v. v __v _V._ two hundrgd and fifty théuasnd dollars' worth of the second' mans yof that unfortunate road. She did not do what Antony did, however. She took the whole percel, hundred dol- lars and all, and put it into her little satchel. She put luck the box into her sofa, and as quickly as she could escape the eye of the werders. all of whom she thought looked on her with suspicion, as if she were a. detected thief already, she rushed to her little coupe and bade William drive her dufictly home. I ‘1 L__ EALL-.. ...... , ..__.-. Her only thought was to tell her father all that had happened, and to confess that she was a £001 5 course, this would have been the true thing for her to do : but there was, unfort- unately, a delay. Her father was in Chicago for two days, and Satan had all that time to inspire her with other counsels. Now, al- though Satan might have done his worat he- tore he could make Edith Lane do anything wrong, it was easily in his power to make her do something very foolish. For, as Henry Kingsley well says, when the devil cannot achieve his purposes by sending a knave he does the same by a much easier process and sends a fool. For the more she brooded over the matter the more the poor girl persuaded herself that she had better not, as first, speak to her father. Besides the feeling that she was a fool and had made IsLLI _ -25- 8. horriblg mistake there was a little side trouble whish increased and increased as she thought. of it: till it: ab lest) became a giant Afrite, destroying; all her peace. It was the recollection that: she had put in her but the six letters which had been lntrusbed to he): by her cousin Evelyn. ‘ 1 I, A “.41.! - av uv. v w. -....-__ J .. _, , Now this Cousin Ev elvn had had a horrible love passage with Fergus McIntire. 1 have no right to call it disgraceful, though I am ‘ very glad that none 0: my readers was ever ‘ so compromised. It was a very bad business, and Evelyn had been pulled out of it only with great tact and difficulty. All the com- promising letters had been brought together and should have been burned up. Instead of burning them Evelyn Haddem, when she heard Edith had a safe of her own, bed begged her to take care of them, and at her ‘ sesond visit to the safe Edith had put these letters with her bonds. {he reader knows what had become of them. Now this was the only secret which our poor Edith had ever had from her father. She did not want to have these letters brought to light by any investigation which should be made. The poor child instantly ‘ fancied herself before a police court as a thief ; she fancied the discovery of her box opened by a judge and these letters of Evelyn’s and Fergus' read aloud and printed in all the Sunday newspapers. She cried over it ; she wrote a note to Evelyn which she destroyed ; she wrote another note which she destroyed also, and finally said to herself that she had rather lose all her own property which was in the safe than have any revela- tion made as to what was in the box. If she could only be sure that whoever had the the bonds would burn those hateful letters, it seemed to her that she should be perfectly heppyz . __ _ . Inivsl, Y-‘___‘_ .....IL.. "fi'ah this, of oourselEdith Lane was quite wrong ; but as the reader will see, she was in a false position, which she bed stumbled intg really from I32 insult: of her own. , _L-J- m... -......_, ------ __ "we ,, Poor Antony Blake is the person who de- serves the most consideration and sympathy from the reader. He was most hospitahly received by old friends whom he had known at the Polytechnic Institute. He saw all the marvels at gas distribution. of glass making, of ironfounding and, by Mr. West- inghonce'r kindness. he was taken through the wonderful machine works from which that exquisite apparatus is produced which preserves every year the lives of I dare not say how many thousand people in this world. He saw some of the Tubal Cains . whom he ind gone to see, he showed to them the plans of his machine, which were cordially commended. He had one and an- other suggestion made to him as to the ways for putting it upon the market. But it was clear to him, as it had been in Tamworth, that the destruction of the poor is their poverty and that he was in no ,way to get any dic ant return for the very exquisite contrivsnce which everybody admitted he had in hand. unless he himself could invest 810,000 or $15,000 in the complicated mach- inery which was necessary for producing it. (m In: commune.) It is asserted that the smallest screws in the world are those used in the production of watches. Thus, the fourth jewel-wheel screw is the next thing to being invisible, and to the naked eye it looks like dust ; with s glue, hnweVer, it is seen to be e. smell screw, with 260 threads to the inch. end with a very tine glass the threads may be seen quite clearly. These minute screws are 41000.h of an inch in diameter, and the, needs are double : it is also estimated that; an ordinery ledv'e thimble would hold 100,- ‘ 000 of these screws. No attempt is ever made to count them, the method pursued in deter- mining the number being to piece 100 of them ‘ on 3 very delicate balance. and the number of the whole smountls determined by the weight of these. After being cut, the screws sre hardened end put in frames, heeds up, this being L030 very rapidly by sense oi touch in- stead of by sight, and the bends are then polished in an automatic meohine, 10,000 st 3 time. The plate on which the pclishinfnil performed is covered with 011 end as grind g composed, end on this the mechine moves them rspidly by reversigmetion. PAt (in guping wonder at the lethal on a. Hebrew butcher’- Iign) : “Here. Mike, 'tin yemlf bu the folno l’unln'. Cm ytz ride this now 2” Mike : “I cunnot; but“ I had me flute hero I bolsve I and pity It." What he Could Do. Watch Screws- 3 Curious Yarn Told by an Indun Army omcer. The tele which I em ebont to relate van told to me many yam ago by a distinguish- ed (fiber of the Marine army. For obvioul reasons the mmee have been Altered. but to this day by the camp fire: of the eat fer tinl held every year is told w th beted breath the terrible tale ot the iewels of J uggernent and of the vengeance of the great god. “Many years ago," said my friend, “I was quartered ab Fuzursbad, an important military station about 150 miles from the Madras coast. There were a large number of troops there of all descriptions, and certmnly for half the year the life we all led was gay and _hlqh enough. “ Unfortunately, at the time I was there gambling end betting were much in vogue, and many men plunged and name to grief over their debts oi honor. Of all that gay company nobody was more popular and better liked by both men and women than young Fitzroy ; but, unfortunately, he lost money at the races, tried to recover himself at the whist table, but failed, got into the bends of the Mswerees, and got deeper and deeper into the mire of debt. You could ‘ see by his cereworn and troubled expression of face that the poor young fellow was in a real bad way. I was not surprised, then, when one day he came to me and said : 'Mejor, 1’m done for. I'm utterly broke. I can’t get any more money in the bazmr, and they'll run me in unless I can get uwey for a bit. I must get to England and see if I can raise the wind there. but oodness knows,’ said the young fellow itterly, ‘how I can dere ask my poor old governor. Mojar,’ continued he. ‘I must get away; it's simply killing me. You were a great friend of my father, and promised to help me. I wish I had stuck to your advice, but it's too late now. Will you come away with me? Give out that we have taken ten days’ leave for some shooting. and see me down to the coast. It I go off alone I shall be stopped by those cursed Mowerees.’ '- . w "‘After some hesitation I agreed. He sent in his application for leave to Europe on private affairs, and I gave out that I was going on atendays’ shooting expedition. Aweek later, with a couple of tonges, we had started on our long and weary ing journey to the coast, where my poor young friend hoped to pick up a steamer to take him to Europe. On the second day out we met crowds of people tramping alongâ€"men, wo- men, and childrenâ€"and the next day still greater crowds. In reply to our inquiries we were told that they were returning from the great festival of Juggernaut held at Peri. now only some three days' iourney from where we were. The tonga wallah kept us interested with a graphic description of the festival and of the great god, which was especially remarkable for the wondertul jewels it possessedâ€"two emerald eyes of iuestimsble value, its lips formed of the finest rubies in the world, and a necklace of priceless pearls. 8TB ALIRG PROM J UGGBBEAU '1‘. I The sun was sinking as we neared the town of Puri, and we could see the pinna- cles of the temples rise above the trees which surrounded the place. Half a mile the other side of the town stood the Travellers' Bungalow, where we intended putting up for the night. During the last twenty-four hours my young companion had kept silence, and was moody and almost sullen whenever I tried to rouse him. A more uncomfort- able meal I never ate than the dinner which was served up to us that evening. ‘ and I was quite thankful when the poor lad said he was dead beat and would go off to bad. My own room was on the other side of the bungalow, and I tool: my pipe and sat smoking on the veranda. The moon Was just rising, when I thought I saw the fimre of a European stealing along the' Wall of the compound. Strange, I thought. and wondered what other European could be here at the same time. an idea struck me, and I went across to my oompanlon's room. There was nobody in it; the bed was undisturbed. I threw down my pipe and rushed out into the moonlight. “A few second later I was out in the road, and tn ned instinctively in tho direction of the town. Running down the road, I soon came to a sandy lane, which went outside the village wallsin the direction of the temples, their pinnacles stand- ing out clear and distinct in the moon- iigh . In the distance I thought I saw the figure of my poor lad, but soon the turnings and twistings oi the lane, with its thick cactus hedges on each side, shut him out from my View. In a few minutes I was close by the bi temple compound. Running up to the wall looked over, and thls is what I saw: An enormous courtyard of pav-d. stone, on which Were lyinga number oi priests, their white garments wrapped around their heads and bodies. In the back- ground was placed temple after temple, but in the centre stood one solitary shrine raised on three separate flightsof ‘ateps, and inside I could see the great black god raised on three other smaller flights of colored marble steps. The moonbeeme shone directly on the god and lit up the emerald eyes and ruby lips, while the pearl ueeklsoe glowed on his huge black bosom. Not a sound was to be heard except: some diluent tom-homing. The festival was over and Puri had lapsed into solemn silence. To my nnuttemble horror I saw my oompnnion walking right eoroeg the courtyard. “Not a living creature moved, until a parish dog rose up from near the well, gsvo one howl, end then slnnk ewey and crouch- ed down again. Still no one stirred. My tongue clove to the roof of my mouth. I tiered not shoot even if I could have raised my value. A gheetly horror tool: hold of me es the idea struck me thet in hie mud- ness my poor friend intended to ewe his honour in the greater dishonor oi robbing the idol. Speechless I sew him mount step after step, and the next moment I sew him enter the stored shrine and crose the thresh- hold which no other foot but that of the Brehmin bu ever passed. Nine steps led up to the godâ€"one, two, three, four, five, six. He pulsed. I tried to shout, but no ‘ sound would come. He releed his hand an ifto tour 03' the peer] necklace. It was still above his reach. His feet then touched the eeventh. Cen I ever forget the eight 2 In the moonlight fleshed out two erms cover- ed with I. hundredâ€"m , two hundredâ€" ds end oluped the ering youth to the bloc god's breast. At the seme‘moment b11751 god's brunt. At. the sums moment the sound of a gong broke the stillneu of the night, And in one: moment the prion: had cut off their covering: and were rub- ing to the Ihrlne. Two minutes lum- I on? the mud and horrifiod 93'1qu ctgrxlng tho umfizod sud horrified Kill: a curving out the Nolan body at the oncrod Eng- lhhxnnn, and I turned 3nd fled."