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A CLOSE SHAYE. CHAPTER IV. “ An Inglis desire to speak to gentle men,” said the waiter, as he put a bottle of wine on our table after dinner. “ Who the deuce can it be 1 Show him in ” said John ; and there came in an Englishman in a suit of grey tweed, re markably like one of the men in the passport-office on the quay. “ Beg pardon, gentlemen, for interrupt ing you, but I must ask you one or two questions. I am J*ohn ITudson, of the detective police, London, said the stranger, introducing himself. “ What do you want with us; I suppose you know who w r e are?” asked John, the least bit nervously ; for his caution, out raged in the morning was taking its revenge. “ I know you both very well, gentle men, and that is the reason why I have come to see you ” said the man quite civilly. “I thought that knowing -who you were, it was rather strange to see you in such strange company this morning.” “ What do you mean, man ? ” I asked “Just this, sir. The woman with whom you passed through ihe Customs this morning is an associate of some of the knowingest thieves in London, and I’ve every reason to think she’s to do with the party who’s causing me to watch the port of Boulogne.” “ indeed,” said John, “ she seemed ■well-behaved and respectable enough. My friend here and I have never set eyes on her till we saw her on the c’earner,” “I’ve seen her lots of times. I dare say she asked you to carry ker bag for her. ” “She did,” said John, surprised and also rather annoyed. “ Of course she did. Bless you, she saw me on the quay, and didn’t want no questions asked. If it hadn’t been for making a row, which we all know, gentle men, is not pleasant, I should have insisted on that hag being looked at. I reckon there was plunder enough in it. I knew her little game.” “ Are you looking for any one here ? ” said John. “lam so. A man as has escaped from servitude, by name William Fother.” “ William Fother ! ” we exclaimed both, John Lloyd adding heartily “ con found William Fother.” And then en sued an explanatory conversation, in the course of which the detective gave us some excellent advice about “ taking up with unprotected females,” and drew from us a willing promise that we -would communicate with him in event of our seeing again the remarkable woman, whom John Lloyd had befriended. “ She used to pass for the wife of this very Fother,” said the detective, rising to go. “ I thought it my duty to warn you against her. Good night, gentlemen.” ‘ ‘ Good-night,” we answered, and we puffed through two pipes each before either of us said more. chapter v. “Humbug! You’re as nervous as a hare,” I said to John Lloyd, in answer to his oft-repeated assertion during the time of our brief sojourn in Paris, that he had seen the strange woman dogging us at various public places. “ It’s no humbug. I could swear I saw her only this afternoon, watching us as we walked back to the hotel down the Rue Montmartre. ” “Much good may it do her. What is it to us whether she watches her head off? We’ve just time for a cigar, and then off to the opera.” The opera was the “Pardon de Ploer mel.” We stayed to the end, and as we descended the outer staircase on our way from the house, John nudged me, and looking in the direction where his eyes were fixed, I saw, sure enough, our fellow passenger from Folkestone. She was alone, and was just coming out of the lobby leading to the gallery, when we saw her. She placed herself on one side of the crush-room, and seemed to be waiting for some one. We passed a few feet in front of her ; and as we did so, the woman quitted her station and followed us out. At the corner of a street she came up with ns, and touching John Lloyd on the shoulder, said— “ I wish particularly to speak to you. I am the person,” she added, “ to whom you showed kindness on board the Folk stone boat, and whose bag you so oblig ingly passed through the Custom House. It was a great service you did me—l should like to repay it; besides, I have taken a fancy to you. ” John, to whom all this was addressed, bowed his acknowledgments of the com pliments contained in the last sentence, and requested to be informed what it was the woman had to say to him. “ I will tell you,” she said. “ You had better leave Paris directly. There is a man in it who has sworn to take your life. He knows you are here, and, I think, knows your address. Leave Paris at once, both of you. 1 have had great difficulty in getting to speak with you. ” “Pleasant”, by Jove! Who’s my friend ? ” said John. “The escaped convict, William Fother. ” “ Fother again ! Confound the fellow. How do you know anything about him 1 ” “ I am his wife,” said the woman. “ 1 helped him to escape; 1 secured the plunder for which he was sentenced. I brought it over from England in my black bag—y ol j know the black bag,” she said archly, “ so you see that I know some thing of William ; and I know for certain that h© will kill you if ho can, for getting him condemned. Do not neglect this warning. I would not have him commit that sin, nor would I have you the victim of it. Good-bye.” Mrs. Fother was gone, while we stood wondering at what she had told us. We then walked back to our hotel, and smoked several pipes in John's locked and barricaded bedroom, and discussed the .singular, not to say unpleasant predica ment, in which we found ourselves. John objected strongly to my suggestion that he should have himself described anew in his passport as “ Convicts’ flight porter : ” he also rejected as absurd the notion that Mrs. Fother had fallen in love with him, and had, therefore, been at the risk and trouble of coming to warn hiirP of his danger. At first he poqh ppofied the matter ; but the information •“givefbto us by the detective at Boulogne confirmed the woman’s tale as a likely'ofie ; then it was proposed to go to the'French police, to communicate with our friend the detective at Boulogne, to write to the newspapers. Eventually it was resolved that we would leave Paris on the following day, visit Normandy for a fortnight, and then return to Paris with the idea of seeing something more or something less of the convict’s wife. If we should return, we resolved it should be in company with Mr. John Hudson of London, detective officer, now stationed at Boulogne. CHAPTER VI. “ I am just going to the barber’s round the corner, to have this hair shaved oft,” said John (who had grown a moustache since his emancipation from wig and gown) as he presented himself at my bed side the morning after we had decided to “ All right. I’ll follow you presently, I want my heard trimmed too. But you’re plaguy early. Suppose you couldn’t sleep because of the convict and his bride. Glad to see you with a com plete throat this morning, old man. Keep a whole skin till we quit this city of doom,” I said jokingly, for it must be allowed that I was a disbeliever in the danger that was scaring us away, ;

and I was anxious to make a convert of John Lloyd as well. The hair-dresser to whom John went lived in the Rue do la Guerre, which was close to our hotel. The shop was a very small one, having just enough accomoda tion for the barber and the harbored, and for two persons besides. A glass door opened into a narrow passage which led to the interior of the house. There was a large mirror in front of the chair used by customers, a wash-stand, some pegs for hats, and a small bench for people who might be waiting. The glass door towards the street was hung with a cur tain to prevent people prying in. Al phonse Gras, well-known all over Paris as a skilful, civil, and amusing fellow, was the proprietor of the shop, and so great was his fame as an instructor in the art of hair-dressing, that pupils came from afar to learn their business in his little den. When John Lloyd went in (it was only half-past six in the morning), M. Gros— or Alphonse, as he was more generally called, was busy dusting out the place. “ Would the gentleman look at Galignani for a minute, while the water was made to boil ? Would Monsieur excuse Alphonse from serving him himself, since Alphonse had at that moment to go to the house of His Excellency the General de Blanc, upon whom Alphonse waited daily 1 Monsieur would perhaps permit the absence of Alphonse, since monsieur could be equally well served by Alphonse’s deputy.” The first thing John saw on looking at Galignani was a full description of William Fother, the escaped convict, and the offer of one hundred pounds reward for his capture. “ Hang the fellow, he sticks to me like a burr,” John said, and flung the paper down in disgust. Presently Alphonse bustled in with his deputy, and having seen John comfortably seated before the glass, went on his way to the general’s, leaving his shop to John and the assistant. The assistant chattered away in broken English on several topics, and seeing that John had been looking at Galignani, asked him had he seen the “ announce of the English police courts about the escape of a man with an odd name,” in whose history, as given in the paper, the assistant said he took a lively interest. Poor John ! he could no more get away from the convict with “an odd name” than Hercules could from the poisoned coat of Dejanira. I will not repeat the expression John made use of by way of answer to the assistant, who, having lathered his face and throat, was about to commence shaving. Shaving ! Bless us and save us ! John happened to look up in the glass, and saw there the reflection of a man with a develish expression of face, malignant hatred in his eyes, standing over him with a razor grasped firmly in his hand, and apparently in the very act of trying the blade on his throat, John had not noticed the assistant when Alphonse brought him in, but now, in spite of his wig, close-shaven cheeks, and false moustache, John recognised the assistant under whose hands he now sat for the same William Fother whose con viction he procured at Preston. There was no time for deliberation, and sepech would have been fatal. Instantly, 1 as if by instinct, John bounded off the chair, and doublihg back on the assistant, caught his right arm with his own left and flung it upwards, while with his clenched fist "he struck the man a blow on the shoulder which made the arm drop power less to his side,and hurled him against the wall, making the room shake again. In another moment John had got the man down and half throttled him. There was no mistake as to indentity. The wig fell off, revealing the yet short hair which had not yet recovered from the prison clip, the false moustache got askew on the man’s lip ; and in the few words the poor wretch could get out, broken English was dropped in favour of the British vernacu lar*. John’s first impulse was to complete his half-done work on William Pother’s throat, his second to hand the man over to ihe police, his third to follow neither his first nor his second. He loosened his hold on the throat, but stiil kept mastery over the man. The razor, one of Alphonse’s best had been thrown to the end of the room in the scuffle. “ Why did you want to murder me you fool ?” said John. “ What good could my body have been to you, lying here ?” “It would have made us quits for what you did for me at Barnborough. ” “ No, it wouldn’t. You would have been hanged for iny murder, and then you would have been where you are|now as re gards settlement for that,” said John, shocked at the absurdity of the equation Fother had imagined for himself. “A minute ago I had a good mind to kill you, and now I am uncertain whether to have you hung or not; but lam under obliga tion to you, though you don’t know it ” (John would not betray the informant who had put him on his guard), “ which makes me hesitate. You don’t deserve any mercy, but I will show* it you on two conditions, which you must accept or not as like, but you must do it at once.” [to be continued.!

USES OF ALCOHOL.

Dr. A. Buchauan, psesident of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, says : —“ The whole argument is comprised in the three following ques tions, to which a clear and unhesitating answer can be readily given :— 1 Is alcohol food ?’ ‘ Is alcohol poison ?’ and ‘ Should the use of alcohol be restricted by legal enactments, as dangerous to civil society ?’ The first question he answered in what is alleged to be the Scotch fashion, viz., by putting another question : ‘ls fat an article of food —the fat of beef or of mutton, for instance, or butter, which is quite similar ?’ Now, no physiologist can have the slightest hesitation in answering the latter question in the affirmative, and the scientific answer is in accordance with the universal experience of mankind. Fat cannot indeed produce bone or muscle, but it serves other purposes not less im portant in the animal economy. It generates heat and vital force. It consists almost entirely of the combustible ele ments—carbon and hydrogen—and these, meeting within the blood-vessels with atmospheric oxygen absorbed from the lungs and deposited in the blood-cor puscles, gradually undergo combustion, and so give heat and vital force to the body. Now, alcohol consists of the very same elements, varying somewhat in pro portion, hut alike fitted to undergo com bustion within the body, and so produce the same salutary effects. In one respect it is much superior, for it is more im mediate in its action, which is of great importance in all cases of sudden emer gency. Fat to be absorbed into the system, and pervading the whole body, gives out everywhere it heat and invigor ating energy. The sacred Scriptures and all ancient historial works attest that, from time immemorial, wine has been be lieved by mankind to produce these salutary effects. Who is there at the pre sent day who has attained the age of man hood who has not experienced the same effect in his own person ? If any man affirm that he is an exception, I reply that he is an exception also from the great majority of his species in the constitution and susceptibilities of his body. If, therefore, I am asked whether alcohol be a good or bad thing, I am bound to answer, in accordance with the evidence of history, and in accordance with my own experience and the experience of many trustworthy men communicated to me, that I hold it to be a good thing—-a good gift of God to man, which human perversity alone has converted into an instrument of evil. Now, how should such a gift be received at the hands of the I

great Giver of all good 1 Should we spurn it from us, and declare in our wisdom that it is an accursed thing which we cannot receive ; or should we receive it humbly and thankfully, and use it with out abusing it ; that is, so use it that we may obtain from it the benefits intended for us, and avoid the evils consequent upon abusing it ? It is to my mind, there fore, quite clear that all who entertain these views of the beneficial action of alcohol upon the human body ought to partake of it; that they might have a double sanction, moral and religious, in so doing ; and that for any man directly or indirectly, to prevent them from doing it is a wrong action, contrary to the dictates both of morals and religion. On the other hand, it is admitted on all sides that alcohol taken in excess is a poison, and destroys every year innumerable human lives. Seeing that the cause from which the present unsatisfactory state of society proceeds is fully ascertained, there is presented a wide and promising field for wise legislation ; and surely all good men will unite in asking, nay, in demanding, such legislation from Government. Quite the reverse. Two great parties cannot agree upon first principles, and therefore they do nothing. The noble band of philanthropists who, from their long and arduous struggle in the cause of humanity, are so well entitled to lead the way in this all-important work, will admit of no compromise, and have nailed their colours to the mast. They require and can accept of nothing short of total abstinence from all alcoholic liquors. This requirement will never be acceded to by the vastly more numerous body of plain men, with less enthusiasm but perhaps as much thought about them, who feel in their own persons that alcohol does them good, ' and many of whom have besides a rational conviction that it is a substance eminently fitted to act beneficially on the human body. Such is the unfortunate dilemma in consequence of which all legislation has become impossible. Meantime the wheel goes round ; drunkenness and crime shout together in triumph, misery and disease groan aloud in dispair, and death consigns forty thousand victims annually to the silent grave.”

LIBEL ON THE QUEEN.

The following low and coarsely-worded paragraph appeared in an article in the Williamstoun Advertiser of May 15 : “ We are now fully supplied with a list of the new (Gladstone) Ministry, and the further intelligence that the result of the elections has completely upset the plans of Her Gracious Majesty and the Prince of Wales, inasmuch as, I suppose, they have fully calculated on a release of the great Jingo party that has succeeded during its term of office in bringing the nation into contempt and disrepute. What a blood-red page the renegade Jew mountebank has written in the history of our country. A seven years’ bountiful harvest for the reaper Death ; and the net results, titled distinction to the charlatan, an obese, not overburdened with brain, old woman, dubbed Empress, Zulu murders, Afghan massacres, and millions added to the national debt.” As this newspaper is owned and con ducted by Mr. A. T. Clark and Mr. W. M. Clark, two members of the Victorian Legislative*Assembly, attention was called to the article in the House. Mr. Service, the Premier, desired Mr. Berry, as leader of the Opposition, to join him in condemn ing the publication of the degrading para graph, but the latter declined to act, main taining that attention had been drawn to the matter by the metropolitan press for party purposes only. Mr. Zox, one of the members for East Melbourne, asked Mr. A T. Clark to say whether lie in tended to own or disown the article. He emphatically described the whole affair as disgraceful, and contended that anyone capable of writing such an article was un worthy of a seat in the House. Mr. A. T. Clark replied in an angry tone, neither apologising for the offensive words nor attempting to justify them. He held that as the proprietors of the paper were answerable at law for anything they printed, nobody had any right to call them to account in Parliament. Mr. W. M. Clarke, the other proprietor, reiterated what his colleague had stated, simply telling persons who felt aggrieved to seek out -i legal remedy. On the following day, Mr. W. M. Clark said that the article appeared without his knowledge, and that he regretted its publication; also that the co-proprietor had nothing to do with the matter. This ex planation was received with favor by the House, particularly as it indirectly cor rected the prevalent rumor that the article had been written by Mr. W. M. Clark. What gave a certain amount of point to the article before these explanations were forthcoming was the fact that Mr. A. T. Clark hold a commission from the Crown as an officer of Volunteers.

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