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‘is nothing. But destroying it would be a crime against God and Art. and may I he spitted on the vane of St. Mary Abbot’s it I commit it!” Talk such as this was unanswer- iable; indeed, the whole aiiair had gpassed the pale of useful comment, and the one course left to a practi- cal person was to shrug his shoulders andenjoythejoke. Thiswasnot a little enhanced by the newspaper re tports. which described Raffles as -a handsome ‘youth'and his unwilling-ac- icomplice as an older man at black. guardly appearance and low type. “Hits us both on rather neatly. Bunny,” said‘he. “But what none of .them do justice to is my dear cup. Inokatitonlyloohatltman! Was over anything so rich and yet so dnstc‘! StAgnesmusthavehada pretty bedtime, but it would he al- most worth it to go down to posterity in such enamel upon such gold. ‘And then the history of the thing. Do you realize that it’s the hundred years old and has belonged to Henry VIII. ad to Elizabeth among others? Bun- ny when you have me cremated you ’an put my ashes in yonder cup and 187 us in the deep-delved earth to gather!” “And meanwhile?” “It is the joy of my heart. the light of my life, the delight of mine eye.” “And suppose other eyes catch h... nfl‘mu. RAFFLES “Quite time enough,” 931‘! I- “It will mean your letting 1:19 10099 the jubilee’s on Tuesday. and 0“ mam coming back («RX ‘ AL.- “It doesn’t muéh matter wnetne: he’sbukornotifyou 5918qu n- C.-.- "Imnatn’tbelate te.They don’t keep Wenwfloit'n momma! qnuumGoou outmdbwne W Hun nutmmnmu. knot 83mm mmmlnutbo mmmlbmlnulymwm a -v- _, -v “Bunny,”hea1ed,flinzln8mn°'9' paper across the room. “I“ 3“ an idea. after yourm heart. I know wherelcanplaeoitafterall!" “Then I congratfilate ’00-" Amuur omeksman. A Doctor’s Medicine WEEKLY POST. mum 1mm Author of “Shsdow WW1- had part and I’ll do mine.” Subtlety and success were in his race. It was enough for me, and I had done his extraordinary bidding within a quarter of an hour. In another min- ute Mes had opened the box and tumbled all the biscuits into the near5 est chair. “Now newspapers!" 1 fetched a pile. He bid the cup of gold a ridiculous farewell, wrapped it up in newspaper after newspaper, and ham packed it in the empty biscuit x. “Now some brown paper. I don't want to be taken. tor the grocer: young man.” - - c. , _ ._ __‘-‘ He may have been an hour away. It was barely dusk when he returned. and my mt question refund” 0‘“ dangerous ally. the 90116?- Mes had passed him unsuspected in 801118» but had managed to avoid him alt-086“!“ on the return journey. 17111011 he had completed by “Y 01 the other an- trance nd the mot. wae¢egam "And What nafe you do!!!“ wltn the cup?" “Placed It!" “How much for? How much for?” “Let me think. I had a couple of cabs and the postage was a. tanner. with another twopence for registrar uon. Yes. it cost me exactly five-and- eight.” _ __ . ',,,L-A sn.‘ -Aâ€" ‘5 Clan». “It cost you? But 'what did you get for it, Mes?” “Nothing, my boy.” “Nothing!" "Not 3 crimson cent.’ “1 am not surprised. I never thought it had a market value. I told you so in the beginning," I said irritably. “But what on earth have you done with the a way that cm the porter 00““ 30‘ recognise mm :2 they me Me to (months corner. And the can no still up. but Mes would :0. and whahedldlshonldnothaveknown him myself, “Well. I’ve sent it to Sir mum- Blgge to present to Her Majesty, with the loyal respects 0! the thief, 1! that will do for you.” said Rattles. “I thought they might take too much stock of mextthe G. P. 0. it I address: ed it to the saver-alga herself. Yes. I , ,,Ll_.o_ 1.. I‘m-‘1‘ A neat enough parcel it made when thestrinzhadbeenuedandtheends cut close. Whnt was more Men): was tompupMes himselfinmch .- ,,A IDAY, JAN‘ 30, ‘ with it, and I registered the box into the bargain. Do a. thing properly it you do it stall.” ' “But why on earth.” I groaned, “do such a thing at all?” “My dear Bunny. we have been reigned over for over sixty years by infinitely the fin t monarch the world has ever seen. he world is taking the present opportunity or the fact for all it is worth. Every nag tionislnyingotltsbestatherroynl feet, every class in the community is doing its little levelâ€"except ours. All I have done is to remove one reproach from our fraternity. At this I came round, was infected with his spirits, called himflie sports- man he always was and would be, and names was soon clinking his glass against mine. # A -12 ”a: 95m “and bless Wl'dcni'nrgr‘ Suez Cami. New York. Jan. 19.â€"An mound!“- myuearmnn!” “No questiqns._ Bunny; 7°“ 4° 7°” Sir Arthur (0mm 1901 by Chu, It was the early heat of August. and the hour that of the lawful and neces- sary siesta for such as turn night into day. I was therefore shutting my window in a rage and wondering whether I should do the same for Rat- fies, when he appeared in the silk pa- jamas to which the chronic soucitude of Dr. Theobald confined him tram morning to ntght._ w AW“ Ian», .7, w- I put my head ohi'tb see, it being a primary rule of our quaint estab- lishment that Mes must never show luv-nirv- .- my elbows, as I leaned upon it and looked down in order to satisfy a. curi- osity in which I could see no point. “Dirty-looking beggars.” said I over my shoulder: “dark as dark; blue china, oleaginous curls and earrings; ragged as they make them. but noth- ing picturesque in their rags.” “Neapolitans all over," murmured males behind me, "and thnt's n char- acteristic touch, the one fellow sins- ing while the other grinds; they al- ways hove that out them” A..- -huâ€"fl VIII-n â€"â€"vv- “They took me back,” he repeated. “My God. how they took me back!" Suddenly he stopped in his stride. “You don’t understand, Bunny, old chap, but if you like you shall. I 11; ways meant to tell you some day, but never felt worked up to it before, and it's not the kind of thing one talks obout for talking‘s sake. _It isn't 3 m rather a. no chap, the singer.” said I as the song ended. “My hat. what teeth! He’s looking up here and all round his head. Shall I grinning chuck them anything?" O "4. AL _ 58 “VII wvu- â€", "Well,. I have no reason to love the Neapolitans,- hut it takes me backâ€"- it takes me back! Yes. here you m. n m : couple of half-crowns m: Mes put Into my hand. but I had than them into the street for pen- nies More I saw what they were. Thereupon I left the Italians bowing to the mud. as well they might, and I turned to protest against such wan- ton waste. But Raffles was walking up and down, his head bent. his eyes troubled. and his one excuse armed nmonstrance. wvâ€"v -v- .â€"._â€" nursery story, Bunny, and there isn‘t alanghinitfromthestarttoflnish. On the contrary, you have often ask- ed me what turned my hair gray, and now you are going to hear.” This wr: promising, but Mes’ manner was something more. It was uniqueinmymemoryottheman. His anemoesottenedandsethardhy turns. Ineverknewitsohard. I never knew it so soft. And the same might be said at his voice, now ten- der as any woman’s, now flying to the other extreme of equally unwanted ferocity. But this was toward the end of his tale; the beginning he treated characteristically enough. though I could have wished for a less cavalier account of the island 0! Elba. where, upon his on showing, he had met with much humility. - - AL- “v. w..â€" .â€"â€"â€" â€"â€"f “Deadly, my dear Bunny, is not the word for the glorified snag a! the mol- lusks, its inhabitants. But they started by wounding my vanity, so perhaps I am prejudiced after all. I sprung myself upon them as a ship- wrecked sailorâ€"n sole snrvivorT-strip- " -vv_'_ "â€"7 ped in the sea and landed without a stitch; yet they took no more interest in me than you do in Italian organ- ders. They were decent enough. I didn't have to pick and steal for a square meal and a pair of trousers; it would have been more exciting ii' I had. But what a place! Napoleon couldn’t stand it, you remember, but he held on longer than I did. I put in a few weeks in their internal mines, simply to pick up a smattering of Ital~ tan; then get across to the mainland in a little wooden timber tramp, and ungratefully glad I was to leave Elba blazing in just such another sunset as the one you won’t forget. “The~tramp was bound for Naples. but first touched at Baiae, where I carefully deserted in the night. There are too many English in Naples itself, though I thought it would make a first ham hunting gmtmd when I knew the ‘e better and had al- tered myself a b more. Meanwhile I got a billet of several sorts on one of the loveliest spots that ever I struck on all my travels. The place was a vineyard, but it overhung the sea, and I got taken on as tame sailor- man and emergency bottle-washer. The wages were the noble figure of a lira and a half, which is just over a bob, a day. but there were lashings of sound wine for one and all and bet- ter wine to bathe in. And for eight whole months, my boy, I was an abso- lutely honest man The luxury of it. Bunny! I out-Heroded Herod, wouldn't touch a grape, and when in the most delicious danger of being knited for my principles by the thiev- ing crew I had joined._ "Iâ€" A- __L-_- “alt-Que the 'kind of place where y u it was in the beginningâ€"before any- thing began to heppen. It wen u wedge 01 rock sticking out into the hey. thetched with Vince. end with the rummieet old home on the very edge of all. e devil of I height above the see. You might hue at et the window: end are pea your Baltim- endn plumb into b no mu:- 0 hum “autumnal". _ -. - A.. “From the union behind at house â€"Iuch n mun, Bunnyâ€"clouds:- ud mime-n. lam“. mum at! m tum 0: um. «mm m Marga-r1. e pom a Salvatore! MW“: No. 9 of the Series. Scrlbnn’l Sou) m; It met there were neon: two hundred steps tunnelled through the solid rock: then on iron ate. and an- other eighty steps in the open sir. end last of all a cave lit for pirates â€" o-penny-plain-and-twopenoeâ€" colored. This cave gave upon the sweetest little thing in coves, all deep blue water and honest rocks; and here I looked after the vineyard shipping. a. pot-bellied tub with a brown sail. end a. sort of dingy. The tub took the wine to Naples and the dingy was the tub’s tender. 1- A- ‘_ "The house than n: aid to be on the Identical site at a. suburban n treat of the admirable Tltggfiua. There A , ALAAL-A was the old sinner's private theatre, with the tiers out clean” this day; the well where he used to fatten his lsmpreys on his slaves. and a ruined temple of those ripping old Roman much of an antiqusry. but I could have become one there if I'd had noth- lug else to do, b t‘lhad lots. When lwnsn'tbusy' theboatslhadto trim the vines or rather the mm or even mp mate the wine men in a cool, dark. musty vault underneath the temple that I can see and smell as I Jaw. And can’t I hear it and feel it too! Squish, squash, bubble; squash. squish, suggle; and your feet as though you had been wading through slaugh- ter to a throne. Yes. Bunny, you mighm’t think it, but this good right foot, that never was on the wrong side of the crease when the ball left my hand has also been known to crush the lees of pleasure From sanguine grapes of, pain.” He made a sudden pause as though he had stumbled on the thruth in Jest. His face filled with lines. He was sitting in the room that been bare when-first I sawâ€"est. ‘ ere were basketehairs and a table in it now. all meant ostensibly for me. and hence names would slip to his bed with schoolboy relish at every tinkle of the bell. This afternoon we felt fairly safe. for Theobald had called in - -- unm_hn_-u.n -Al“ “I, 9.56. l‘ll ouvvâ€"_ ll _.._ --,,, - 7 the morning, and Mn Theobald atlll took up much at his time. Through the open window we could hear the grille-organ and “Marga-ti” 3 few dred yard- further on. I fancied Me. was llgtenlng to it while he - . - . ,A#- -A J “I don’t know, Bunny, whether mn're a believer in transmutation 1 some. 1 have onen Wt it easier to believe than lots of other thin“. and I have been pretty near bellow initmyseitsincelhadmybeingon that villa of Tiberius. The brute who whohaditinmydenyhelm'tIdll it with a whole skin, was or is as cold-blooded a blackguard as the worst of the emperors, but I have of. ten thought he had a lot in common with Tiberius. He had the great, high, sensual Roman nose, eyes that were sinks of iniquity in themselves. and that swelled with fatness, like the restoihim,sothathewheesedifhe walked a yard; otherwise rather a iinebeasttolookatwithahugegray mustachelikeaflyingzuiLand the most courteous manners even to his men. but one of the worst. Bunny, one ottheworstthateverwas. Itwas said that the vineyard was only his hobby. Itsehedidhisbeettomake his hobby pay. He used to come out from Naples for the weekendsâ€"in the tub when it wasn’t too rough for his nervesâ€"and he didn’t always come alone. .315 very name sounded un- healthyâ€"Corbueci. I suppose I ought toaddthathowasaoountthough counts are two-arpenny in Naples and in season all the year round. “He had a little English and liked toairitonme.muchtomydisgust. Itleouldnothopetooonoealmyna- tionality as‘yet I at least did not want to have it advertised. and the swine had English friends. When he heard that I was bathing in November, when thehayisstillaswarmssnewmiik. he would shake his wicked old head -“vu used. "â€"I‘Ierisrhook in head abstract- edly when I handed Mm the cigar- ettes. md his tone hereafter was never jug thunk padibeen. A nâ€"â€" â€" â€"‘ ‘6‘.- arid say, 'You are very audashnuâ€" 70? In very audashm!’ and not no inn-null." huh-9m. gsockh Brushes are made for service. No detail I: naglocted that helps to ensurohlghquallty.‘fhon is no resort“ fad Innova- t?ons or sham finish on which the mlkfl'l of In- 'cv'or 9°06. aonnd to catch tho on. of bum. If you want Ian-foot brushes. buy _@¢m was man Human}. BSHES ml “null. m "must. run Imus-ts. m’ um mu. ‘m 'cmnunou muflhmmllm By Mhommmbuumthoflnt m mdllethimknow unbound! It And then we were done for the last , time. phosphomeent fire! Ah. yes. it w agoodenouxhluetorschsmsper- tect paradise to lie low in, another Eden until ‘ ° ° “My poor Eu!" “1 called the girl Eve." said he. “Her real name was Faustino, and she was-onset s vest bully who hm ontinshovelontheinlandhorder o: the vineyard. And Aphrodite rh- in. mm the us my. 19'! Mile!“ “It was the most exquisite two I uernwmshfllaeemthnmoâ€" absolutely perfect features. I. skin an: reminded you of old (91d. ”fight“; :nâ€"d Eatâ€"1133i; Mutual dun Aphro- dite emerging tram tint We“ was its bronse; msgniiieent hair, not block but nesrly. snd such eyes snd teeth thst would hove- msde the for- tune of s hoe without snother point. I tell you. Bunny, London would go mad about s girl like thst. out I don't believe there‘s such snotber in the world. And there she wss wssting her sweetness upon thst love- ly but desolste little corner of in low and remnined deed even toyou' And thst'sslll’mgotuztotellyou sboutthsLBunny:cureedbehewho tells more! Yet don’t you run swsy with the ides thst this poor Faustino was the only womsn I ever cored about. I don’t believe in oil that ‘only’ rot; nevertheless I tell you thst she was the one being who ever en- tirely satisfied my sense of beauty. and I honestly believe I could have chuck- edtheworldsndbeentruetoFsus- tins for that alone. .“We met sometimes in the little temple I told you about. sometimes man: the vines, now by honest acci- dent. now by flagrant design, end found a ready-mode rendezvous, ro- mantic as one could wish, in the cove down all those subterranean steps. Then the too would cull usâ€"my blue champagne, my spurklins cobaltâ€"and there was the dingy ready. to our hand. on. those nights! I never knew which I liked bestâ€"the moonlit ones when you sculled through silver and could see for miles, or the dark nights when the fishermen's torches stood for the see and s red slung in the sky for old Vesuvius. We were happy. I don’t mind owning it. We seemed not to hsve 3 core between us. 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