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He was a bachelor, in young middle life, on the whole pop ular with his flock, for he was good nat- ured, easy going and a. gentleman. But he was not what you could calla strong vicar or a man of earnest views. He sailed along pretty easily down the stream of parish life, avoiding storms and collisions and doing what was re- quired of him in a. negative kind of way. If he had no very dear friends it was cer- tain that he had no very bitter enemies. Many spoke well of him; none enthusi- astically. Some spoke disparagingly of him; none abusively. From this it may be inferred that Rev. Stephen Eudacott’s character “as something of a colorless sort. On one point he was particularly cau- tious. No doubt he had reason. Bache- lor curates are the acknowledged prey of amorous spinsters. A bachelor vicar was still more splendid game. The reve- nues of Lynedon were considerable, the glebe lands were breed, the Vicarage was a charming house, ‘just the ideal resi- dence for a lady with good taste. “How pretty I could make that drawing room,” sighed one to herself. “What tennis parties Icould give in that dear old gar- den,” thought another. “It would be so nice to be taken in by the bishop at the confirmation luncheon,” felt a third. But the vicar had no desire for matri- mony. He was not susceptible. He much preferred the independence of bachelorhood. Not that he was a mis~ ogynist; quite the reverse. tian, be loved all women—as sisters. It might even be said that he adored the whole scx~ln that capacity. Many mothers daughters, and many, too. with daugh- A true Chris— 3 his acceptance, was a small locket such as a man might hang upon his watch chain. And such a. locket! An opal heart set in gold and outlined with pearls. On the back was an inscription—the signifi- cant word AEI. ‘ To say that Stephen Endacott was aghast at the unblushing elfrontery of this valentine would be feebly to express his sensations. He pushedthe thing from him savagely; he crumpled up the note With energetic rage; he threw it into the fire. He would have liked to see Cecilia herself consuming in the blaze of that conflagration; he had, indeed, already consigned her to hotter flames. Then he took a speedy resolution. This time he could not let things‘slide. There must be no mistake now. He must not keep that obnoxious valentine an hour, unless he was willing to let himself be compromised. He caught up the locket, thrust it into its box and repacked it. It was going back to Cecilia. Dobee by the next post. The vicar had rarely before been so angry. He did not even concern himself to answer Cecilia’s note. He just sent the locket back in withering silence. If that did not crush her and choke her off for ever, nothing ever would. Per- haps it was as well that she had laid herself open to this crowning snub. The vicar took the locket and posted it with his own hand. But he had not yet done with Cecilia. When the evening post came in at 7 o’clock, it'brought him another packet, larger than the last, hearing at the head of its label the address of a. local book- seller. The vicar opened it. A visiting card fell out. He could hardly believe his eyes—“VVlth Miss Dobee’s compli— ments.” Was impossible that after that ‘ tremendous snub which he had inflicted with marriageable 1 _ It seemed incredible. ters who, from any but the desperado’s l standpoint, were the reverse of marriage~ able, tried to stalk the vicar. tion defied them all. They could not get up a compromising situation. The vicar declined to be committed. W'hen young ladies called to ask him for spiritual ad- vice he was always either engaged or else so busy that he could only spare them five minutes. When he did give them that five minutes it was in his study, a l His cau— 3 room with large French windows open- = ing upon the lawn. And the gardener generally managed to be moving about outside. There were those who averred ' did not feel quite comfortable. that the man was paid extra to do so. At 1 . to worry him now at this hour of the last most of the ladies abandoned the chase as hopeless. One or two, however, persisted. They were true Christians, you see, and liked to exercise the cardi- nal virtue of their creed, which, according t) the apostle, "nopetli all things.” The vicar Would have been better pleased with a heat banish despair. He was heartily sick of living in astute of siege. The most ind-cfz-itigable of those who ; invested this lmm‘egzmble fortress was Miss Cecilia Dobee. Miss Cecilia Dobee was a lady of numerous experiences. She had in her time played many parts, from that of the fast flirt to that of the slow saint. But in neither role nor in any of the intermediate bad she achieved suc- cess. it was not her fault. There were facial disabilities. As a flirt she could not make her physiognomy fascinating; asa snintsile couml not make it celest- ial. "ll; does matter,” said some lady friends of hers, "what poor dear Cecilia does with her face. It will al- ways be like a currant dumpling.” So it alwavs was. No cosmetics could alter that (loughlike complexion. But Miss Cecilia persevered. Nothing put her off from her apparently desper- HOE ate pursuit. She lay in wait for the vicar , round street corners, and when be ap- peared always happened to be walking in the same direction. At district visitors’ meetings she was invariably the first present, and took the seat next to his. She fiXed him with intense glances in the pulpit. She worshiped him with ad— miring glances in the reading desk. She wedged him into corners at social func- tions. In short, she ran after him so conspicuously that her conduct was a. standing joke with all the gossips of the place. The vicar was intensely annoyed. But he did not know how to stop it. Had he been a stronger man he might have gone to Lawyer Dobee, the young lady’s father, and suggested to him in confi— dence the propriety of his parental in- terference. But he Was Weak and vacil- lating; he had a nervous horror of any- thing liken. scene and a constitutional inability to say unpleasant things. Con- sequently he did what weak men gener- ally do in difficulties—he let things slide, contenting himself with avoiding Cecilia Dobee as far as be possibly could. At length he had the satisfaction of seeing that young lady begin to relax her attentions. Tne vicar breathed again. After two years his continual Snubbings were now really taking effect. He had been wise to wait and trust to time for assistance. Even a rhinocerine hide must be penetrated if you only go on at it long enough. The vicar felt ten years younger. He had actually not set eyes on Cecilia Dobee for a. week. On Sunday last, when he prenu..ed, there had been no Cecilia’s face to worship him from the front seat under the pulpit. At the district visitors’ meeting next day no Cecilia. had been present to support him. The vicar was sanguine. He quite believed that Cecilia had been choked off But a surprise was in store for him. Even the boldest generals now and then make a strategic movement to the rear while planning a fresh attack. Cecilia Dobee, after this short withdrawal of her forces, renewed the attack in a. holder way than she had yet ventured to adopt. It was on February 14 that the vicar sus- tained the shock of her sudden assault. The morning’s post brought him, among other communications, :1. letter and a packet. The letter was in Cecilia. Dobce’s handwriting. He opened it with a groan, and read as follows: DEAR Mn. Exnacorr—I hope you will deigu to accept the small offering which I am to-day having sent to you. This season of St. Valentine, with its extra liberties, must be my excuse in your eyes for thus presuming. Ever yours, sincerely, CECILIA Doses. The vicar threw down this note with an angry gesture. He said something about Cecilia Dobee which was not cleri- cal. For the credit of the cloth it is bet‘ ter not to repeat it. Then he caught up the packet. Its label Was ominous. 0n the head of it was printed the name of a well known Bond street jeweler. The box was sug- gestively minute. He hastily unpacked it. Then he said something about Cecilia. Dobee even more unclerical than his last observation concerning her. There was an excuse for his thus forgetting himself. The valentine. of which she had pfayed :"Advertise in the Gmrrn. ' I have put it on. upon her by returning her locket, she had had the face to send him another present? But perhaps she had not received the locket when this book was dispatched. He glanced at the work, “Life of St. Athanasius,” elegant- ly bound in morocco, with a gilt cross upon the cover. Au unexceptionable present in itself. But under the circum- stances any present was an insult. He tore up the card and tossed it into the fire, impatiently. He left the book lying upon the table. He then lighted a cigarette and sat back in his chair meditating. The vicar An idea had suddenly crossed his mind. Suppos- ing, by any remote chance— Hal The front door bell! What visitor was going evening? It was too provoking of people to come after dinner. The vicar’s lan- guage was again unelerical. It was nearly being still more so-—only he checked himself in time—when the pan lor maid threw open the door and an- nounced: “Mr. and Miss Dobee!” Thevicar sprang from his chair in a hurry] He Colored, and both looked and felt embarrassed. There were no two people in the world, at that minute, Whose presence could have made him feel more awliwurd. Lawyer Dobee, however, appeared to be quite at home. He ad- vanced and shook the vicar cordially by the hand. . “Good evening, Endacott. I must apol- ogize for our intrusion. This silly girl of mine said she must come and thank you at once for the handsome present you have sent her. And as I could not let her come alone so late, here we are both together, you see!” “I—I—” began the vicar, with a very red face, “I—I——” “Oh, I knew it was you, dear Mr. Enda- cott,” broke in Cecilia, with her most unutterable look. “I recognized your handwriting on the address. It was so good of you. Such a lovely locket. See! Doesn’t it look very pretty?” To judge from the vicar’s face he did not think that the locket looked at all pretty—that is, if he saw it, which, in his dazed condition, he probably did not. The sudden shock of this apalling truth, that he had been too precipitate in re- turning to Cecilia Dobee u. locket which she had never sent him, had almost stunned him. In the face of an awkward situation he never showed much presence of mind. On this occasion-——\‘.'l-.lch, it must be admitted, was particularly awk— ward—he was simply bereft of his senses. ‘ “I—I—” he stuihmered, “that is———I— mean—tliere——there has been a mistake.” “Eh!” said Lawyer Dobee, suddenly becoming less cordial. “A mistake? I don’t quite understand you, Mr. Enda~ cott.” "I—I ought—ought to tell you,” mum- bled the vicar, more confused than ever. “I mean to say—the fact is—it is rather -—rather difficult to explain.” “So it appears,” observed Lawyer Dobee, dryly. The vicar’s confusion, his embarrassment, his hesitation about speaking out, suggested an absence of straighforwnrdness in his conduct which made Cecilia’s father eye him very queer- 1y. “The truth is,” the vicar blurted out, tryiug, without much success, to pull himself together, ‘fithat the whole affair has—has arisen out of a pure misappre- hension. I—I—if you will hear me out] will—~will explain it to you.” “If you please, Mr. Enducott,” said Lawyer Dobee, regarding him with a grim stare. The vicar told his tale. He dial not tell it at all well. It was perfectly true from first to last, but it did not sound true. Lawyer Dobee’s cold gray eyes confused him, made him falter and hesitate. He stammered and blushed like a man pre- varicating. Consequently his explana- tion, as he rendered it, was surprisingly lame. -It was evident that Cecilia’s father did not believe a word of it. “A most extraordinary story, Mr. En- dacott,” he remarked at the end. “ltis the gospel truth: I give you my word,”.crled the unfortunate vicar. “Umph!” was Lawyer Dobee’s only comment. His face wore a very unpleas- ant expression. ”Come, Cecilia,” he said, turning to his daughter. u'We had better be going. In view of your extraordinary explanation, Mr. Endacott, you shall—ah—hear from me further.” gt 4- it- * * * g. Lawyer Dobee was not a man to let the grass grow under his feet. Next day he went up to London and interviewed the jeweler from whom ~ the locket had been purchased. The latter produced an order written in the viear’s hand upon Lynedon Vicarage note paper. “Please send an appro. pearl and opal heart locket as advertised in this week’s Universe, at 7 guineas.” Upon the lawyer giving a written un- dertaking to restore this document, the jeweler obligingly allowed him to take it away with him. Lawyer Dobee smiled to himself as he traveled back with the‘ unanswarablc evidence in his pocket. It had been no surprise to him. Probably Nwsboyslwanted. he knew a good deal about it already. In his younger days he had perpetrated more than one excellent practical joke bv his skill in imitating other people’s writing. This promised to be the most excellent of them all. At the worst Cecilia’s little scheme would fail. There was no great- er risk. For in case of dangerous develop- ments arising, what easier than to de- stroy—that is, to lose—the vicar’s order? But probably no dangerous develop- ments would arise. Endacott was so week, so nervously afraid of a. scandal. that he might be bounced into an engage< ment at once. At all events, Lawyer Dobee meant to have a. shot at it. He interviewed the vicar next day. The following is a. fragment from the close of their conversation: ' “Very Well, Mr. Endacott, if you refuse to acknowledge your own handwriting, I have no more to say. Of cents, I shall take what steps I may consider necessary to vindicate my daughter.” “But the thing is a forgery—an impu- dent forgery!” protested the vicar. LaWyer Dobee shrugged his shoulders. “A jury will have to decide that point.” he said, coldly. “I wish you good morn‘ ing, Mr. Endacott.” - * 1 -~ 9! 1(- * * it * Lawyer Dobee, however, was incorrect. A jury did not have to decide that point. But after the next annual confirmation in Lynedon Church, when they adjourn- ed to the Vicarage for luncheon, it was to . Cecilia, not now Dobee, that the Lord Bishop of the Diocese offered his arm.- London Truth, LINCOLN’S RENOMINATION. Scenes at the Baltimore Convention on the Final Roll Call. That was a. business convention, and when the roll call began, Maine simply announced its sixteen votes for Abraham Lincoln. New Hampshire, coming next, attempted to ring in a little speech with its vote, but was summarily choked off with cries of “No ‘speeches,” and the call proceeded in an orderly manner. no del- egatiou venturing to make any other an~ nouncement than that of its vote. The convention struck a snag when Missouri was reached, and the chairman of the united delegations made a. brief speech in which he said that the delegation was under positive instructions to cast its twenty two votes for U. S. Grant; that he and his associates would support any nominee of the convention, but they must obey orders from home. This caused a sensation, and growls of disapproval arose ,from all parts of the convention; for it was evident that this unfortunate complication might prevent a unanimous vote for Lincoln. The Mis- souri delegation, it should. be understood had been chosen many weeks before the nomination of Lincoln became inevita: ble. There was never any recall of the instructions given at a time when it was apparently among the possrbilities that another than Lincoln might be the nomi- nee of the National Convention. When the clerk of the convention an« nounced the result of the roll call, it was found that Abraham Lincoln had 507 votes and U. S. Grant 2‘). votes. There< upon Mr. Hume, chairman of the Mis« souri delegation, immediately moved that the nomination be declared unanimous. This was done. Straightway the long pent up enthusiasm burst forth in a. scene of the wildest confusion. Men hurrahed, embraced one another, threw up their .hats, danced in the aisles or on the platform, jumped on the bench- es, waved flags, yelled, and committed every possible extravagance to demon- strate the exuberance of their joy. One of the most comical sights which I beheld was that of Horace Maynard and Henry J. Raymond alternately hugging each other and shaking hands, apparent- ly unable to utter a word, so full of emotion were they. And when the big brass band burst out with “Hail Colum- bia!” the racket was so intolerable that I involuntarily looked up to see if the roof of thetheater was not lifted by the vol- ume of sound. When quiet was restored and other business was about to be resumed, the band again struck up “Yankee Doodle” in its liveliest manner, and another tor— rent of enthusiasm broke forth; and it was a long time before the excited and jubilant assemblage could be quieted down and order restored. In those days the mere . sight of the American flag or the sound of a. national melody would stir an assemblage to fever heat—Century. Hawthorne’s Early Attempts. Most of his early attempts at fiction be burned; but in time his hand became surer, and he found that he had learned at last the difficult art of story-telling. His little tales began to be published here and there in mouthlies and in an— nuals. Being anonymous or under dif- fering signatures, they did not attract attention to the author; but in the news- paper notices of the periodicals in which they appeared they were often picked out for praise; and this finally encouraged Hawthorne to gather a score of them into asingle volume published in 1837 under the apt title of ‘Twlce Told Tales.’ Al- though the little book had no remarka- ble sale, it won its way steadily; and the readers who had enjoyed Irving’s pleas- ant sketches of New York character in ‘Rip Van \Vinkle’ and ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ could not but remark that Hawthorue’s pictures of New Eng- land character revealed a stronger imag- ination and a deeper insight into human nature. Delightful as was Irving’s writ- ing, Hawthorne had a richer style anda firmer grasp of the art of fiction.—St. Nicholas. London Policeman Sleep. ' The London policeman is dignified if slow. The other day a citizen stood in the middle of the read out Pimlico way, shouting “Murder!” and “Stop thiefl” A crowd gathered, and finally, after about half an hour, a guardian of the peace arrived. who straightway took the man into custody. When arraigned be« fore a. magistrate. he explained that it was all an experiment. He was new to the neighborhood and simply wanted to find out how long it would take to attract the ,attcntion of the man on the beat. The magistrate discharged him in the interest of science. But the English metropolis has been convulsed by the fact involved in that half hour’s delay. Not in His District. 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