Puck — October 29, 1879 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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546 PUCK. had taken a great liking for him, having met him in the sick man’s room frequently, and been in this way thrown a good deal into con- tact with him. So, too, had the Captain, whom Dr. Beeswing was careful to inform of Archie’s conduct; and it may be that the kind-hearted Captain, who secretly liked the open, hand- somejlooks of the lad, whispered something of the story to Alice Jakes. Anyhow, ever after the third morning, when she and the Captain had been more than usually intimate, she had shown quiet but marked and very kindly interest in our hero. Nor did she keep her information to herself. Immediately on being told of the invalid boat- swain and Gascoyne's kindness, she had, with the unthinking impulse of a true woman, gone to the Doctor, and prevailed on that long, aunt, lantern-jawed and long-nosed, but skil- ful and true-souled Mephistopheles, to allow her to call upon the sick man. Perhaps she had little difficulty in getting the Doctor’s consent. At any rate, she did not anticipate any, for had she not, with that quick feminine instinct peculiar to lovely woman, seen from the very first that the susceptible doctor was her slave— hopelessly, and for life? 0 she called on the patient and sat by him quite a time, and cheered him up and brigh- tened the heavy hours for him by a thousand indescribable little kindlinesses and attentions which only women know how to give, until, when she left, the poor fellow heaved a great sigh, feeling as if she had taken all the warmth and sunlight with her and left all cold and dark behind. And, in going out, whom should she fairly stumble against in the dark but Gas- coyne, and, owing to her ignorance of the way, and the badness of the light, what less could he do than offer her his hand and pilot her to the saloon? There was nothing in it, of course; it was the merest act of conventional politeness; but all the same, the two young people felt a certain strange glow—or shall we call it thrill?—of mild but pleacant excitement; and it is undeniable that, as they entered the saloon, almost hand in hand—for he still, of course, retained hers in his own as he handed her in—they looked a remarkably handsome couple. ‘That was the beginning of their acquaintance- ship, or, to speak more correctly, of their inti- macy, for it was not long before they became great friends, much to the chagrin and rage of Huckleberry Jakes, her quasi-acknowledged suitor, and the grim enjoyment of the Baron, Captain Smith, and the Chicago millionaire, As for Old Jakes himself he said little, but he set some inquiries on foot, in his own shrewd, cautious way, as to the young man’s character and standing; but these resulted in almost nothing. That Archie was a gentleman was unmistakable; and that he was accustomed to live well, if not even luxuriously, he gathered from the bedroom steward, who knew to a nicety the contents of his boxes. It further transpired, though not until they were-some days out, that he was the only son and heir of an English baronet, but more than that nobody seemed to know, although when his parentage became known they were all—especially the ladies—dying to find out. At last, one evening after dinner, as the old man was sitting on the quarter-deck with his daughter, enjoying his post-prandial cigar and watching the great sun slowly sink into the ocean in a blaze of blood-red glory, Jakes said: “Alice, what sort of a chap is that young Gascoyne?” The girl blushed slightly as she answered with a smile, which was as much of the eyes as of the mouth: “How should I know, papa? Ask Doctor Beeswing, or the Captain.” “And why those two in particular, little woman?" pursued her inquisitor, glancing | lovingly all the time at the frank, sweet face and guileless eyes upturned to his. “ Because—because they could tell you sSOre about him than I; and—and indeed, papa, I had meant to speak of Mr. Gascoyne before, because I think Huck’s"—(Jakes Jr.)—“ re- marks about him simply disgraceful. Ask the Doctor and he will tell you something that will convince you that Mr, Gascoyne is worth a hundred such small souls as Huckle.” ‘The girl spoke with a warmth and feeling, for she felt deeply all she said, that fairly startled her father. He looked at ‘her for a moment anxiously, and then said, quietly: “ What is the story?” And she told him; and that same night Old Jakes was particularly friendly to Archie, and made several advances of an unmistakably friendly but, what Archie relished less, inqui- sitive kind. (To becontinued.) Pack’ % “Bechages BALLAD OF BLUE CHINA. ‘There's a joy without canker or cark, There’s a pleasure eternally new— 'Tis to gaze on the glaze and the mark Of china that’s old and blue: Who'd have thought they would come to us, wh 0 ‘That o'er loot of an empire would hang A veil of Morrisian hue, In the reign of the Emperor Hwang? These dragons—their tails, you remark, Into bunches of lotus-flower grew— When Noah came out of the Ark, Did hese lie in wait for his crew? ‘They snorted, they snapped, and they slew, They were mighty of fin and of fang, And their portraits Celestials drew, In the reign of the Emperor Hwang. Here's a pot with a house in a park, In a park where the peach-blossoms blew, Where the lovers eloped in the dark, Lived, died, and were turned into two Bright birds that eternally flew Through the boughs of the May, as they sang; 'Tis a tale was undoubtedly true In the reign of the Emperor Hwang. Come, snarl at my ecstasies, do, Kind critic, your tongue has a tang, But a sage never heeded a shrew In the reign of the Emperor Hwang. Andrew Lang, in Scribner's “ Brit-a-Brac." Lizzie W. Fisher asks in a poem: “If I should die to-night, what would you do?” Liz, that’s a very refreshing conundrum for this season. If you should die to-night, it would, of course, necessitate a visit to the coroner in the morning, and then, you know, Liz, we'd have to buy you new clothes to wear in the other place, and 2 minister with great lantern- jaws would stand over you and say good things. Then we'd have to hire cartianeas you know, and times are very hard, and money isn’t very plentiful, A first-class funeral costs about $150, Liz; so don't for the world think of go- ing off suddenly. Wait until the peach season is over and things look a little better for specu- lation. Hawkeye. Tuere isa principle that underlies the whole matter far beyond the individual.—John Kelly, Tue word “ boom" is beginning to have a “hardly ever" nausea about it. — Wheeling Leader. A PROFESSIONAL beauty, though two words, is really only one silly belle." —Philadelphia Bulletin, Ir it had not been for his lower extremities, Talmage would to-day have been a poor man, —W. ¥, Evening Express. TueCincinnati Saturday Night remarks, with the utmost sang froid, that the Washington monument is not a “ put-up job.” One way to let people know that you are not going to the poorhouse is to wear rings out- side of gloves.— Detroit Free Press. To prevent suicides and attempted murders, Mary Anderson should be compelled to marry immediately.— Buffalo Sunday News. The vigor of youth for the aged and infirm ia Hop Bitters. The Mummery ¢ of Masonry. ‘A new Edition of Puck, No. 128, containing above Cartoon, has been published. Copies can be had of all Newsdealers. Beware of Counterfeits and Imitations! 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