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Mr. .b‘itz Smythe‘s heart began to throb ”regularly and fast.’ Long as he had worshiped Cecil ‘ he had never dreamed 0 such an episode as this. away. "You are abruptâ€"too prema- ture. But you will, then, really and actually be mine!” “Yours, sweet queen of my inmost heart, until death!" ejaculated Fitz- allyn, radiantly. . .‘Hml” She held up a warning ginger. “We are interrupted; some one ; u coming! Breathe not a word of this to mortal soul, but come totmorrow cranium fin ---‘--‘ “ ' nervous thrill 5t” magnet! her whole ing sea-coal fire, enjoying a Joye] and “Cocxl Lacyr'What on earth does she want? I wonder if my hair is parted properly behind? Confound the boots, they won‘t on! And my collar is gow perfectly well.” mom with a sickly smile as a slight figure. (its-fed in black and closely â€"_ vâ€"u-pv‘. 7011a,, 81 ided in In--. It was about nine o‘clock that séme evening, and our hero sat, slippered and dressiqghgowned, before his shin- that some you; vantage of the 9019“ him as a meat. thawed?" “I don’t know but tht the girls are right, after ellâ€"tbs ' degree,” he mused within his own mind Is he bent his steps toward his bache- lor domains. "It won’t do to be too demonstrative-the women must be held in check just at presentâ€"and yet I don’t know. either. It seems to me the sensation of receiving a. proposal from one of the {air sex would be very delightful; but then the embarrass- ment of saying no!” Fitzallg'n Fitz Smythe stroked his chin med'itatively, and almost wished AL-L "But it’s no nonsenseâ€"you an real- ly a very handsome, attractive man.” “Really, now, girls.” Fitzallyn made good his retreat, among the gigglings of his fair. friends and cousins; but nevertheless he car- ried away with. him a pleasant inter- nal sensation of being a very fine sort of fellow, dangerously. fascinating, and rather in peril at this period of his rolling years, so conspicuous to¢ feminine prowess. I . “Dar!” said Josie demurely, “We don’t get a. chance but once in four years. and if I didn’t happen to be engaged to Mark Aubrey--” “Nomenae!” “Well, that is the very reason; her chancu are gzrowzim desperate.” Mr. Fitz Smythe laughed. “Do you really believe that any wo- man would be bold and unfeminine enough to come WQOing to a man, Josie Pennilefl" ”Miss Deborah Suffem, indeed! 'An old maid with green spectacles and a twisted month.” ed vary longing at you in church last Sunday.” "’Now-nowâ€"you re really too bad,” mid Mr. Fitz Smythe, with a flattered eort of simper. “I shan’t be married, leap year, or no leap year.” ho_ detestad "There's always danger for a bache- 1 Venus herself." , 1m- in leap year,” she said solemnly. .\ow, now, dont overwhelm a fel- .. . . . low with such a deluge of questions! Only thmk’ 3111‘” ho“: dreadful 1t Fitz believes that Miss Lacy has fallen would be for Cousin Fitzallyn to be ’desperately in love with himâ€"proposed mun-tied! Nobody to take us to the â€"all that sort of thing! He’s the ‘big. est donkey out, or he would have “DON- DObOdF to Band us bouquetsâ€" Sean me giggling behind my veil the no mart at theyromenado concerts!” whole time. You should have heard “Dreadful!” echoed the other girls in, how‘charminlx h0_ goatpitulated. the ot self complacency, about twenty-sev- en and a lawyer by profession. Minnie Martin shook her curly head. _ “There's always danger for a bache- If he could only have witnessed the unceremonious manner in which the ' fair Cecil of his exciting 1nterv1ewl9avp- ed downstairs four steps at a ““39! I if he could only have heard the shril- APWL!’ MW“ .. I- , 'cleft the silence of the winter’s night Oh, I really thznk theres no dan- I as she strode along, he might have car,” said Mr. Fitzallyn Fitz Smythe.i“'211demd, 3 little. . ,, He was a tall, slender young man, Off With your toggery. girls! she . ;e'aculated, rushing into the midst of mth 3 1°33 curled mustache, ey 831355955 1: e laughing circle who still sat round mounted in gold, and a general aspect 3 the fin. and, with cloak and crinoline of self complacency, about twenty-sew I removed, Mr. A‘lfreld Pennifer stood 1‘ - lmischievously revealedâ€"a handsome, ’3 93d.“ lawyer by profession. troguish lad of seventeen, slender and Minnie Martin shook her curly head. ' graceful enough to have personated I “There’s always danger for a bache._ Venus herself. I nehad "V omhiped Cecil an Eastern do- ape the sum}, he had never such an amsode 39 this. young lady would take ad- r worlds,” she whispered. upon such a delxcate er- . lay propitious season and subject for the experi- 'HV timidity fluttering . figure. your veil. and f-m urm 111'- the etc]:- novar, JsUUAU WU‘IUMV 116W openuand the mischievous be of Ian hlng girls swarmed round Cecil. " Ve have heard it all. Cecy. The door was just the least bit in the world a'ar," they cried. ' a vn! How could you be socru- “Spare my poor Grimalkitn,” she in- terposed, and Fitzallyn, stumbled out of the room, he scarce knew‘ how, in :11}. guy of embarrassment and mor- 1c . He had just closed the door, when the portals of the ‘Ii.ttle bougloilr flew nmn ant: LLA “A “It’s very strange.” he muttered. “You have probably been asleep and dreaming,” said Cecil, with a pat- ronizing- tom of her gol-d-misted head. “Take less champagne for supper to- night. Mr. Fitzallyn Fitz Smythe, and you will doubtless be troubled with no more apparitions of young ladies mak- inglove to you.” had made of himself. j‘Iâ€"I must be going.” he faltered, seizing nervpualy on the cat, who lay flastt asleep in a chair, in lieu of his . a _ V- "‘- â€"â€".--ww- UV Jvu‘ Fitzallyn sat looking helplessly at Miss Lacy. Surely he could not mis- trust his own reason and memoryâ€" §grely his senses had not. deceived him to whom I BjIfiJEnga-gvgd EBYISVIBXERE and I should as soon think of: tel'hng my footman that I loved him as of making- any such} coqfessjor} to you!” Tl‘:_-“l, I” "Qeci_ ’n “Miss Lacy, thien‘bdo you mean to assert that you did not come to my office last night and tell thatâ€"that you loved me? In shm't, did you not entreat me to become yours?” Cecnl Opened her blue eyes wider and “Mr. Fitz mythe, I don’t know whether you are mad or intoxicated. Only one or the other plea could ex- cuse the verv singular language you are using. I have never been into your office in 'my life. I was at the _____ vvw WU uuu Opera last night with the_ gentleman #n _-_L -â€"-â€" WODJ Fitzallyn began to doubt his own identity strangely; the .edifice of 'hlS self complacency tottered dubiously on its very insufficient foundation. “Cecil, do you mean to sa â€"-â€"” “ I beg- your pardon), l r. Fitz Smythe,” interrupted the inexorable beauty, “but you will please address me as Miss Lacy until you have permission to_ sneak ~ otherwise.” . COCA! (flew back a. step or two. Was the young man actually mad? ”I have not \the least idea of what: you mean. Mm. Fitz Smythe,” she said with a cold glimmerxin the blue eyes sufficiently unlike the melting glances of a damsel willin'g to be wooed and "Have you fo otten last night. Ge- cil? Sweet one. have come to make all the arrangements for our speedy marg'ia e.” Mlss acy stared at him blankLy. "Last might? Our marriage?” “It’. Miss Lacy was t socigty this season. alN‘ llyi low* 1):, Fitz 1 despe :he â€"a%1 cw « 5': seen I 5! whole in how 0 great, ,, gall 01 " 3’ 3PE 3d be lot [1 girls,; door,o ” and it x How C '3 blue 83 -LL L'l â€"Wu -wv vbw mu ’9“ IX handsoineâ€"Jblonlde. with deeILblilue eyes, golden hair, surrounding "her wellâ€"shaped head like a.“ mist, and a complexion onlly lees pure and deliicate th_a_n tinted wax. ed 1001:. "I cubic? 113?; 183%? ghtlgf I had not been so time t cio,” said Bell Martin, in a. 10 man: voice, “will on pmmi ', mm, never :to tail it we ni‘ “But us!” fa _ --â€" v 3 ' eratel in love with himâ€"proposed . 9.821% that ysort of thing! He’s the 'big- ' gest donkey out, or .he would _ have ‘ seen me giggling behind my veil the whole time. You shoqu have heard how charminly he ca,p1tulated, the great, conceited calf! And he’s to call on Miss Lacy to-morrow morning by special a pomtment. \Von’t there be lot’s of un? Just you go, then, girls, all of you, and get behind the door, or under the table, or somewhere, , and it’ll be better than the theatre. How Cecil Will open her magnificent blue eyes! How she will wither him with the weii ht of her ro a1 scorn! Jupiter! I on y Wish I ecu-lg to see him shrink up Jike a dead leaf on the fire.” Ceci Cecil Lacy _a-n1d (her room Inf} 0. how a ry Cecil wi toned 'nnie Marti 1‘i_f_e. I was. at the the spoiiled belle of vyjll be _with THE DURHAM CHRONICLE the shield, working as I have described. In that little journey from the bar-‘ ricade to the smeld one aw m exag- rated Operation 3 series of physical “'3 that “dwarily escapes one'a at- tention-3001181301. “nan-man... .L- 3..---. That presented a. strange, unearthly appearance. Black darkness all around, save for the line of electric lights run- ning along the roof; a strange, deathly Chill; a touch of clamminess infecting everything. Our voices piped shrill and strange and ghostly. - A l-_â€"â€" ~ , the pressure on each side of the tym- panum equal. _ Then I began to feel distinctly exhil- ara'ted. The increased amount of oxy- gen pumped in was intoxicating me a trifle. The journey along the tunnel had been a little tiring, but now I felt sprightly. Here was the secret of youth; here was a practical demonstra- tion of Jekyll and Hydeism. But at wlgat an_e1;pensel i vâ€" v' ‘ â€"v-v “v“â€" ing in the drum ot my ear, and little wonder, for the six thousand cubic feet of air which was being pumped in ev- ery minute was curving the membrane inward. so that I had to swallow in ord- er to clear the Eustachian tu_be.and get ‘Ln n AAAAAAAA - ’ effectually corked up the compressed air . and which, of course, had been moved several times as the work proceeded. Through this barricade ram two nar- row passages, about the height of an ordinary man. These were the alr- looks. A little air-tight door, just like the door of a safe, openedâ€"the air, of course, being let out in the processâ€" and’we entered. The door was closed after us, and we were left for some minutes in the look to become acclim- atized to the new atmospheric condi- tions of the tunnel beyond. ‘ To this end certain valves were turned on, and the compressed air from the inner tun- nel poured in with the deafening roar of a steam nozzle. A CURIOUS PANTOMIME. Then followed a curious little panto- mime. My guides holding their noses between their fingers, began swallow- ing vigorously, and signalled me to fol~ 4 low their example, Speech being al- ‘ most impossible, as sound depends so : much an atmosphere. I felt a. crack- 4 Along the roof ran a line of electric lights, while in the dark corners the men used pink colored candles. A little north of Shaft 2, in which a lift was tearing up and down, talking the excav- ated soil to the surface, we came on ged along the entire passage through mud and mire, noticing ,en route, an army of men engaged on all sorts of work. TRIP INTO BLACKWELL TUNNEL UNDER THE THAMES. UNDER A HIGH PRESSURE boo: Imury u; masmr Alfred’s masquerading ! “Fitz: thinks every girl is in love [ with him, you know,” said Josie, "and :we tho ‘ ht It would be’ snob {I splen- lIdid chec to his horrid, smirkln‘g self ‘ conceltl” . ‘ y Cecil tried her best to look grave, but she couldn’ ‘ ’you the claw to tibe mystery?” "And will you promise pot to‘ be angry?" pleaded pretty Josxe Pennifer m 1101' most coaxmg tone Of course Cecll promisedâ€"what else could she do? And Belsl .told hem the story of Master Alfred’s masquerading trolw. of whom his mysterious ' was remained an m- m- A- II ' . Ev- 4.0 a“, !, June 17,.1897. lit Cd from him. 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