MY ROBBER.

We had thought it all over ; we had dis cussed it from every standpoint; we had argued it pro and con, this new and impor tant question which had forced itself upon our lives, but at last we had reached a con clusion.

Perhaps to others it would appear trivial. To us it was a mighty moment, for it threw open our doors to the admittance of a stranger—in other and less enigmatical words, a lodger.

We were alone in the world, Helen and I, living in a pretty cottage left us by our parents, just on the outskirts of London, in one of the fashionable suburbs, too ; for our father had possessed comfortable means and had died believing our future well provided for. Unfortunatcspcculations and investments ] however, had consumed so much o£ our capital, that, without encroaching upon it further, the interest would no longer support For two years we had struggled along in the vain effort to make a dollar do the work of a pound, until we had relinquished it as hopeless, and with the future merged into a necessitous and pressing present, the idea just expounded occurred to us. It was in Helen's fortile brain that it originated. Sho was but three years my senior, but oven that made her but twenty-three. I was very proud of her, for sho was very lovely, with a sad, far-off look in the great, brown eyes, whose secret I only knewj She never spoke Will Hastings name. They had had some foolish quarrel just prior to my father's death, and soon after the rciment of which he was captain was ordered to India.

I did not seem to spy upon Helen's movements. It was quite by accident that, laying on the hall table, I saw a letter addressed to him, in his London quarters, for the maid to give the post-man in the morning. I said nothing of my discovery, but I understood my sister's restless expectancy for the next few days, every time it came the hour for the postman's rounds. I shared it silently, but in vain. We read, one morning, in the paper that the regiment had muled, but from Will liimself no word had readied us.

It secerned strangely unlike him, this hard unforyiveness—but Helen had held out tlic olive bnincli—alie could <lo no more. Only even yet, in the dead o£ night, when she thought melsloepiug, I sometimes heard her sobbing in her room. But lam disgrcssing from my subject, and just now it ocenpied all our thoughts. We were silting together at tho breakfast table, when we first fully appreciated our own temerity at seeing before us, in the "Times," the advertisement we had in serted with such care. How many times it had been revised before the printers had ob tained possession of it was a secret locked in our own breasts.

" If he," the pronoun referring to the el derly gentleman for whom our advertisement wasiuserted "should walk in now, it would not look uninviting, would it S" asked Helen, forcing a smile, and glancing at the dainty table, set out with its sparkling glass, and rich old silver..

The latter was a small fortune in itself— we could nave lived upon it for a year; but it was an heirloom. Helen and I must have boon insadwant indeed to h iveparted with a single piece. "No," I answered, cheerily : "let us hope he will arrive at such an auspicious hour as this." But my hopes were to be blighted. During tho ensuinc; forty-eight hours we had many candidates, but on one side or other some obstacle was in the way. Our hearts sank as we reviewed the situation. Which one of them could we tolerate to share our home? .We had almost determined to give it up—to struggle on yet a little longer as we sat together in the twilight, on the evening of the third day, when there came a quick, decided peal to tho bell.

Our little maid answered it. A moment later, a firm manly tread crossed the hall— a tall form stood upon the threshold of the room in which we were. The stranger bowed courteously.

" May I enter t" he said, in a strangely musical voice.

I had been sitting on a cushion at Helen's feet resting my head upon her lap. I was conscious that her soft, caressing hand had produced the wildest disorder among my loosened braids as I sprang up confusedly; but, save that a pair of eyes momentarily regarded me from behind darkened spec tacles, our guest devoted all his attention to my sister. Quicb and dignified, as she over was, she bade him be seated.

"An elderly gentleman" our advertise ment had called for ; we were alone, and so felt it would bo more suitable : but was this man young or old ? His voice was young, his was young, but the spectacles he wore made him appear both old and ugly. But in this half-liglit it was impossible to see..

I struck a match, and lighted the lamp. He cave a sudden start, and turned away his liead.

" Pardon me," he said ; " but I am suffering from an acute inflammation of the eyes ; I cannot bear any light." "Put it out, dear," commanded my sister, and 1 obeyed, my curiosity all unsatis-

I s-tood listening silently as he and Helen talked. He was greatly m need, he said, of a quiet homo. Our advertisement had strangely attracted him, and, though Eerhaps not as yet decrepit by ago, he felt c might be safely written down as elderly, especially since this painful condition of his eyes made it for a time impossible for him to do anything save sit in a darkened room.

His voice was in his favour certainly. His manner too, was that of a man well-born, well-bred. I could see that Helen 100 ked favourably uponhim.and wasnot surprised when the arrangement was closed between them. Kising to go, lie handed her his card, and written upon it his banker's address. " You cau make any inquiries there, Miss Roy, "he said; "and, unless I hear from you to the contrary, I will take possession on Thursday next." Thursday! and this was Saturday. Only four more days for Helen and me to be alone together! Scarcely had the door closed upon him than I burst into bitter tears.

"He shall not come !"I cried, "We shall starve first 1"

'•"Why, Daisy, did you not like him, dear ? Of course, he shall not come, if you object; but he oflered us such very liberal terms, and seemed so ouiet and unassuming I thought you would feel as I did, that we had been most fortunate. Let us wait until morning," she added, "before we de cide anything." Her advice proved good. The full glare of day showed the thing in a more prosaic aud sensible light. The very end for which we had been struggling was attained, and I ad been unwilling to accept it. My ingra titude deserved to be punished.

The next week, in the twilight as before, Mr Douglas Sage arrived. There was a large book case, several boxes of books, a reading-lamp, an easy chair, a varied as sortment of smoking paraphernalia, as accompaniments, to give us renewed proof of a masculine element under our roof tree.

For two weeks everything worked smootlily. Except for v subtle odour of cigar smoke about the hall, and a daintily preparcd tray three times a day, we could almost fancy no change In our household. Mr Sago had asked that for a time his moala might be served in his room, as his eyo» could not as yet boar the light. It scomod scarcely right to leave him all day alone in'that darkened chamber, unable to road, to write, or do aught to while away the slow, tedious hours. It was Helen's suggestion that she or I should occasionally read to Mm. "At hiß age and in his condition of health it really seems our duty," she said. Somehow it fell to my share to carry out her suggestion. Ho accepted my suggestion eagerly, and so it grew a habit that I should devote to him two hours of each day. For the rest of the time, as I have said, Helen and I might forget niß existence. He had been with us a month, when one ovening, we recoived from London a mes sage that my father's sister, an old lady, was vory HI, and desired that one of us should come to her at once. I had been suffering all day with a ner vous headache, therefore it fell to Helen's lot to go. The evening seemed very long without her, as I sat alone in our pretty sitting-room. Above my head I could hear our guc^t walking to and fro. He seemed strangely restless to-night. Had his restlessness im parted itself to me! At ten o'clock I closed the house and went to my own room, but was wakeful and could not sleep even after 1 had prepared for bed; so throwing on a wrapper, after two wakeful hours, I sat down to read. In the Times, which I had carelessly picked up, was a long account.of a robbery committed in a house located in one of the suburbs, where one of a gang of thieves had obtained admittance as a lodger, thus opening the way to the others. The whole thing had been most adroitly done, and the police wore on the track of the thieves, who it was suspected were in hiding and in disguise. Disguise! Why did this latter word suddenly brand itself upon my brain ? Why did Mr Douglas Sage's spectacles suddenly loom before me ? AVliy did I remeinbcr.how many times I had instinctively felt the "bright eyes which were hidden behind them fixed searchingly and serutinizingly upon me ? A cold shudder ran through me. The silver I With what pride had we placed the heaviest and richest upon the tray which served our guest! Neither had we sought his." references. His payments had been made promptly, and in advance. He liimself had appeared so quiet aud unassuming that it had seemed all unnecessary; but to morrow—to-morrow I should satisfy my self at once.

To-morrow 1 Ah, was it not already too late ? Just beneath my window there soun ded a long low.whistlo. It was answered, I could have sworn, from an open window within the house.

I sprang to my feet, and stood with fast beating hsart, listening to every sound. For a time all was still, save my own heart throbs.

A half-hour must have passed. Mid night had struck it seemed a century be fore, when suddenly I heard a grating sound, as though a lock was being filed.

Why was it necessary, when their con federate could throw open to them the doors ? I no longer entertainocl any doubt as to the real status of our guest. Every thing went to prove it. His close confine ment to the house during the day, the un certain view we had of his face, the voice of youih, and assumption of old age, the spectacles which seemed so effectual a _riis- guiso—all, all 1 But my enlightenmentpad come too late.

The grating sound continued, when sud denly there came to me a desperate courage. I was alone, an unarmed girl, but I would confront those midnight marauders, possibly murderers, and cow them by my very help lessness.

I threw open my doov and passed swiftly down the hall, "^es, Mr. Sage's door was ajar. His room was empty. I ran on down the stairs. Tho dining-room was in darkness ; but, as I crossed its threshold, a light flared up. Mr Sage stood beside the table, the obnoxious glasses gone, a pistol tightly held in his clenched hand. I now saw him as he was; a man who could not have attained his thirty-fifth year—a man both young and singularly handsome, now that one could see the bright flashing eyes. " Miss Margaret—" he began, in a quick, alarmed tone; but my wrath could no longer be repressed. " Coward! traitor!" I exclaimed. But sk that instant there was a sudden noise as the window was opened, a blind ing flash, a deep groan ! then my courage fled and I fainted. When I opened my eyes, Douglas Sage was holding me in his arms, anxiously bending over me. "Poor child," he niurmcred tenderly. "How dare you?" I cried, wrenching myself from him; then, catching sight of a policeman in uniform, I added wildly, " Arrest this man j" and again fainted away. • A long fever followed. For days I lay unconscious and delirious. They would not let mo talk, even after I had recovered my mental balance. Fresh* flowers and rare fruits filled my room during the long period of my convalescence. •'Helen, you must not!" I declared. " It is wrong to be so oxtravagant." But she only smiled, and my luxuries were more plentiful than before. But one day, as I was sitting, dressed tor tho first time, in a large easy chair, there came a quiet tap at my door. " Come in!" I called.

And then I thought my delirium had roturned, for in walked my robber. I turned deadly pale, and felt as though I might again disgrace myself by fainting; but somehow the first tones of his voice re assured me.

From his lips I then learned my mistake. My delirium had revealed it all to him. " Poor little girl!" ho said. And then he told me how, restless and unable to sleep, he, too, had heard the unwonted sounds, and had stolen down stairs, pistol in hand, to discover the cause. My answering signal, then, was all my excited imagination, for Mr Sage had been barely .in time to save the thieves from entering, and to put a bullet into one man's leg and into another's shoulder, to guar antee their capture. A hot blush of shanie rose to my cheek as I listened, and looked into the face of the man I had suspected of such villiany.. I understood now from whence came the flowers and fruits, hut when I tried to thank him he would not let me.

"I cannot yet toe absolved from my sin, Miss Margaret," he said, "for do you know I am not yet sure but that I shall turn thief, and steal from this House its most priceless treasure?" What could he mean, I wonder? Why did his words thrill me with new, sudden happiness? Ah, doubtless my leader has

guessed; yes, guessed rightly. But there is more yet to tell; for one day, when I had grown quite well and strong again, Helen came to me with the old sad look gone from the brown eyes and a wonderful new light there. , „ "The Eleventh has come home, Daisy,, she whispered, "and I have seen Will. It was all a cruel mistake, dear. He never received my letter. Oh, Daisy! lam so And then she broke down into glad tears. Well, Will was sadly impatient. He said ho had been cheated out of years enough—he must claim his bride at once; and as I could not be left alone to take care of the silver, Douglas said he must guard it with me—that I had called him a robber, and robber he must prove himself. "But, darling," he added, "you share the crime; for it is you who stole my heart long ore you had given me the sweet gift of yours in return!"

"English Spoken."

TIBBITTS tried to worry one of those Parisian salesmen, and for once succeded. He stopped the party promenading with him on the Boulevard ,dcs Italicns at a jeweller's, who displayed in his window the legend, "English spoken." Tho "English spoken " in the shops is good enough, as a rule, to explain the nature and quality of the goods, and that is all. Further, the English-speaking salesman has no more idea of English than he has of Ashantee. Tibbitts marched in boldly, and the English-speak ing man appeared. He was a very well preserved, baldhcaded man of 50, and at him Tibbitts went. "Do you speak English ?' "Oui —yees, Monsieur." Tibbitts grasped his hand enthusiastically. "It's refreshing to meet one in a strange land who can speak one s own language." "Yeea, Monsieur."

"Well, what I want to know is, is the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad cutting rates the same as the other roads, and do they cut for Westeni-ljound passengers the same as for Eastern, and do you have the remotest idea that the cutting will be kept up till September when I return, and does the Pullman Sleeping Car Company cut the same as the railroad companies ?" " Eh, Monsieur ? Zeese watches " " You don't quite understand me. You see the Pullman Sleeping Car Company is quite distinct from the railroad companies, and one may cut rates without the other. See ? Now, what I want to know is " The bewildered Frenchman, who spoke English, stared in a wild sort of way, but his politeness did not flescrt him : " Ees eet ze watch, ze diamond, ze " '' Not yet. What I want to know is, who is this Lapham and Miller who have been elected to fill the vacancies occasioned by the resignations of Platt and Conkling, and is Miller going to be a tail to Lapnam's kite, or are they both square, bang-up men, and " " Will monsieur look at ze goods ?" "No, no. Is the Cliicago and North western in this row !" By this time the Frenchman was out of patience. "Monsieur talks—wat you call 'im— gibberish. I 'aye not ze time to waste. Kef it ees ze watch "

"Sir," replies Tibbitts, scYerely, "when you announce ' English spoken' you should speak English, or at least understand it. Good morning, or, as you don't understand the plainest English, ' bong-swoir.'" He had succeeded this time, and should have rested on his laurels. But Tibbittses, alas, always overdo what they undertake. He had extracted so much amusement from his first experiment that he tried it over again the next day. He entered a similar place and commenced the same thing. , " What I want to know is, is the Chicago and Northwestern in the railroad war, and do you suppose the cutting of rates will continue till September, when I return,'' and "

•'lndeed, I cannot tell you, sir. It is something Ido not keep the run of. You had better apply at the American Ex change or the ' Herald' office." Tins in the best and clearest American English, Poor Tibbitts had fallen upon a bright American who was turning his knowledge of French to good account by serving as a salesman in Paris. Mr Tib bitts smiled a ghastly smile as he bowed himself out of the place. Bad marksmen who by chance hit a bull's-eye should be very modest and refuse to shoot again. Even Napoleon, great as he was, fought one battle too many. —D. R. Locke's Paris Letter in Toledo " Blade."

Little People.

A few days ago, Maud wanted to go bare footed like the boys. In a little while she came in, saying, "Mamma, my feet are all wearing out, and papa will have to get me some new ones."

"My dear," said a fond New Haven mother to her. boy, "why do you not play ■with the little Jones boy?" "Oh, lie's horrid. He says bad, naughty words, just like papa does." Reform will begin at home in that family. — " New Haven Register."

A mercenary little boy overheard a con versation between his parents concerning a wedding that ■was soon, to come off, and re called the subject at the*breakfast table, the next morning, by asking the following question: " Papa, what do they want to give the bride away for ? Can't they sell her?"

Mary was inquisitive, and very curious about relationship. A man stopping in the family often told her of the sayings of his little step-son. One evening Mary came to him and said, " Please tell mo some more about your door-step-son, and what made him that kind of a boy."—" Youth's Com panion."

A young friend iii California writes: "My little brother having heard the barren spots in the field called ' alkali spots,' came to mother one day, while an old bald headed man was visiting here, and said in a loud whisper, " Mamma, that man has an. alkali spot on his head."—"Springfield Re publican."

"Come, papa, that's enough; now let's go home," was the audible remark of a pastor's 3-year-old daughter in an Illinois* church. The day was not, the child was weary, and the good parson was labouring along with his sermon in a way which seemed to the child to be calculated to add to the general heat and weariness.

Tommy and Jennie were playing cars. Tommy got cross, and hit Jennie with a stick. Her cries brought their mother, with inquiries into the matter. "Why, don't you see," said Tommy, "we was playing cars, and I just switched her off the track a little ways." So Jennie thought it was all right and played on.

It is of no use trying to explain to child ren that there is a difference between canary birds and women. A lady who was visiting at a. neighbour's was asked to sing, and said that she really could not do so under any circumstances, when a little girl went up_ to her and asked, " Please, is you a-moulting?"—"Providence Star."

Inheritance.

Under date of July 15, Mr Charles Darwin contributes the following to "Nature":— "The tendency in any new character or modification to reappear in the offspring at the same age at which it first appeared in the parents, or in one of the parents, is of so much importance in reference to the diversified characters proper to the larvte of many animals at successive ages, that almost any fresh instance is worth putting on record. I have given many such instances under the term of ' inheritance at corres ponding age».' No doubt the fact of Yana tions being sometimes inherited at an earlier age than that at yrhich they first appeared—a form of inheritanoo which has been called by somo naturalists ' accelerated inheritance'—is almost equally important, for aa was shown in the nrst edition of the ' Origin of Spociea,' all the leading facts of embryology can bo ex plained by these two forms of inheritance, combined with the fact of many variations arising at a somewhat late stage of life. A good instance of inheritance at a corres ponding age has lately been communicated to me by Mr J. P. Bishop of Peny, Wyoming, New York, United States :- The hair of a gentleman of American birth (whose name I suppress) began to turn gray when he was twenty years old, and in the course of four or five years became perfectly white. He is now seventy-five years old, and retains plenty of hair on his head. His wife had dark hair, which, at the age of seventy, was only sprinkled with gray. They had four children, all daughters, now grown to womanhood. The eldest daughter began to turn gray at about twenty, and her hair at thirty was perfectly white. A second daughter began to be gray at the same time, and her hair is now almost white. The two remaining daughters have not inherited the peculiarity. Two of the maternal aunts of the father of these children ' began to turn grey at an early age, so that by middle life their hair was white. Hence the gentleman in question spoke of the change of colour of his own haia as 'a family peculiarity.' "Mr Bishop has also given me a case of inheritence of another kind, namely, of a peculiarity which arose, as it appears, from an injury, accompanied by a diseased state of the part. This latter fact seems to be an important element in all such cases, as I have elsewhere endeavoured to show_. A gentleman, when a boy, had the skin of both thumbs badly cracked from exposure to cold, combined with some skin disease. His thumbs swelled greatly and remained in this state for a long time. When they healed they were misshapen, and the nails ever afterwards were singularly narrow, short, and thick. This gentleman had four children, of whom the eldest Sarah, had both her thumbs and nails like her father's; the third child, also a daughter, had one thumb similarly deformed. The two other children, a hoy and girl, were normal. The great-grandchildrua of this gentleman were all normal. Mr Bishop beueves that the old gentleman was correct in attributing the state of his thumbs to cold aided byskin disease, as he positively asserted that his thumbs were not originally misshapen, and there was no record of any previous inherited tendency of the kind in his family, He had six brothers and sisters, who lived to have families, some of them very large families, and in none_ was there any trace of defor mity in their limbs. £ " Several more or less closely analogous cases have been recorded ; but until within a recent period every one naturally felt much doubt whether the effects of a muti lation or injury were ever really inherited, as accidental coincidences would almost certainly occur. The subject, however, now wears a totally different aspect, since Dr Brown-Sequard's famous experiments prov iug that guinea-pigs of the next generation were affected by operations on certain nerves. Mr Eugene Dupuy, of San Fran cisco, California, has likewise found, as he informs me, that with these animals 'le-' sions of nerve-trunk are almost; invariably transmitted.' For instance, 'the effects of sections of the cervical sympathetic on the eyes are reproduced in' the young, also epilepsy (as described by my eminent friend and master, Dr. Brown Sequard) when induced by lesitas of the sciatic nerve.'"

In rain he seeketh others to suppress who hath not learned himself first to sub due. . A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on Ms part the kindness should begin on ours. " Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever in creases the strength and authority of your body over your mind—that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be itself.

Printed and Published by tho Proprietor, Henbt Brett, ol Symonds-street, at his General •: Printing Office, Wyndham-street, in the Pro- < vince of Auckland, New Zealand. Saturday, Novkmbkb 5, JBBI.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 5, 1881.

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