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Dunham, and published, through special arrangera ent by the Arr. en caa Press Association with Cassell & Ca, Kew York and London, j CHAPTER VU VAL MARTIN. f H?LE these un? toward 'events -vrereoccurring at the jewelry shop and the police office, an affair of a different na ture was being transacted at the house of Mrs. Nolen. A couple of weeks had passed since Valentine Martin had called on Mrs. No len and her daugh? ter, so that his appearance there that day had something of the charm of nov? elty. Mrs. Nolen, however, was too much upset hy her interview with Percy to be able to extend the visitor a welcome, and that duty therefore devolved "upon Pauline. The latter, it may be observed, had not been informed of her brother's pecuniary troubles, and only knew that her mother was for some reason greatly distressed. She came down stairs and found Valentine in the library. Judge Ketelle had pronounced Pauline a beautiful girl; and beauty was her most noticeable external quality; but it was not her chief claim to distinction among those who knew her. She was finely or? ganized and trained in mind as well as body, and possessed a charm separate from any physical attraction. It was not that she was a learned young woman; she never embarrassed any one by re? vealing the presence of more information than might reasonably be supposed to belong to her; but there was in her ex? pression a spirit and understanding that promised whatever was delightful in mental scenery and tone. Her tempera? ment was calm and equable because it was deep and healthy; it could not be aroused save for adequate cause, but when aroused it would clothe itself in "power. This wide and vigorous nature would go on ripening and enriching itself long after ordinary people dry up and dwindle away. Pauline could not be measured or assigned her definite and ! fixed place in human nature. Her sym pathies were broad, and what she might ! do or.be depended rather upon the de-} mauds made upon her than upon any limitations in herself. The young Englishman, after the first conventional things wero said, did not appear to be in a loquacious mood. He replied in monosyllables to Pauline's ob? servations, but his eyes kept returning to fix themselves upon her with an ex? pression of somber thoughtfulness. .'Are you getting tired of America?" she asked him at iength. "1 have enjoyed somo of it, very much," he replied. "I wish I had known, years ago, what I should find when I came here." "Would you have come sooner?'* "It isn't that; but I should have left undone some things that I have done in the past. A fellow is generally a fool in the beginning. He gets sense after a while, but the things the fool did re? main-worse luck!" , "If they did not, you would never grow wise." "What is the use of wisdom, if it only makes a man curse himself for having been not wiser* "What do you expect wisdom to bring you?" "It ought to bring fortuno and ihappi ness, but it doesn't." "No, wise people don't seem to be nappy or fortunate. But they are wise; 'they should expect to pay for that." "Very true, Miss Nolen; we can't eat i our cake and have it, too. But I might have l>een content to have eaten my cake, if only it hadn't turned out to be made of bran and shavings. How would you i like to hear my strange, eventful his- ' tory? It has never been published," "I would like to hear the real life of a j man-what he thought and felt. But that is the part the stories leave out." "Well, the whole truth is a vulgar and j sordid affair; a good deal of it is. And there's a reason fer it, too. For it is ! chiefly the analysis of a lie." "That is not the truth's fault." "Oh, of course not; the children of j light always have the best of the argu- I menti There has been plenty of muck in my career, but plenty of variety and adventure, too. Younger sons have that advantage, at least, over the elders." "According to our American way of thinking, it is no advantage to inherit a great estate. Iz can only tempt a man to be like his ancestors. I would choose tobe a younger son myself." "If i? Tvere a matter of cho;.ce, perhaps j those most concerned might more .often agree with you. But, if you are born a j younger son, your preferences are not j consulted; and it is not. in human naturo ' to enjoy having even a good thing Crammed down your throat. However, I wiLI say for my governor-he was Sir Henniker Martin, of Derwent Hall, near Riswick, Cumberland-that he did very j fairly by me, as a whole. To begin with, he laid the foundation of my future dis- j content by giving me what is called a ! liberal education-the Eton nnd Oxford business, you know. I distinguished j myself in both places." "Not for scholarship?" ! "Since you will have It, no; but for running up debts. Thc trouble with me was, I was too good a fellow. I was the most popular fellow in Eton, at the time I left it; I had documentary evidence of that." "Documentary?" "Yes. When a boy leaves Eton, tho fellows who liked him each give lum a book-something swell, you know, bound in calf, and all that, such as ho will bo ' sure not to spoil by reading it too much. Well, I got a hundred and eighty of those 'leaving book3,' as they call 'em." "A popujar library?" "Yes, and all gone now, like the popu- j larity. It was the same way at Oxford, only bigger bills and .'ess innocence. But ' the governor paid up Uko a man, and then got me a clerkship in the foreign of- j fice. If he had made me chief secretary of foreign affairs, I night have buckled down to business; but tho clerkship only made bad worse. Easy hours, light work. Of course I went out into society, j head over ears. No end of friends-lots I of popularity! You never saw such a j clever, good looking, good humored chap as I was. I had co time to waste ii office; my chiefs began to growl; a father called me up, told me I w good and that he was tired paying f gave mo two thousand pounds an outfit and packed me off to New Zea It was to bo sink or swim, as luck u have it, but no more lifo preservers ; the old gentleman!" "Were you popular there, too?" "It's every man for himself ther went to Napier-Hawkes Bay-the sheep farming country in the -col There I ran across a chap I had kn at Eton, Cartwright Brown his rj was; he had a station (that's what call a ranch out there), Matapiro, or banks of the Ngararoro river. "V Cartwright initiated me into the my: ies of sheep farming, docking, tai] and all the rest of it. Very diffe from Mayfair and Piccadilly, I can you!" "Was there no society out there?" "Very entertaining society in Na] and plenty of it. Oh, yes, there women everywhere," said Valentine; he was silent for a time, and seeme lose himself in re very. "There w; neighbor of Brown's, Hector Pope, tween us and Napier; I invested money in his ranch, and got to spenc a good deal of my time there and at club in town. I didn't scrimp ray much; I kept a couple of race ho and played unlimited loo at the c.1 my sheep and my other investments to take care of themselves. You imagine what the end would be, w out my telling you." "Mr. Martin," said Pauline, "you h left out something! You would have gone on in that way if you had had some experience that influen you." He raised his head and lookec her; after a moment she added, "I d( mean that you should tell it. You 1 your money, you were saying?" "All but fifty pounds, and a heap clothes. I packed the clothes in : trunks, forty of the fifty pounds I kant to Brown to employ as events might quire; and I was just on the point shipping for Australia when a Ma outbreak in the Taupo district was ported. I came to the conclusion ina was probably born to be shot; so I i tered the service as full private in 1 Armed Constabulary. You have her of the Irish Constabulary. This v something of the same sort. "I enjoyed that campaign more th anything in New Zealand. Tho Mao are splendid chaps for a fight. You ha your Indian wars here; but you shoi see those fellows! Well, one day we h to attack a hil! which the Maoris we posted, it was about the shape of a b< hive, and covered with trees; it w called Niho o te Kiore, which mea Rat's Tooth, That tooth gnawed a t hole in our regiment. The Maoris h posted themselves in the trees-up in t branches-and had made a sort of glac round the trunks; it was capital cove they could see our fellows coming, ai pot them at their leisure; but our fi was wasted on the trees. If we got t? near, they would slip down from o] tree and run to another. Our men ke dropping, but there was no sign that v were producing any effect on them all By and by the men came to tl conclusion that the fun was too expe: sive, and they began to fall back. ( course the Maoris followed us-pretl fast, too. I hated the idea of gettir shot in the back; 1 hud a few rounds < cartridges left, and I kept ^drawing i and popping at 'em. Brown was ne. me at that time. It was bad goi;: under foot-rocks, bushes, gullies; ail < a sudden I feit something hot just b neath my collar bone-a bullet throng the left lung, I remember feelin pleased that I hadn't been hit in the bac after all; then I stumbled over a ro< and went down. Brown saw me-h was a lie\itenant-he hailed three of ou men, and they lifted me and carried m< I was pretty heavy and very bloody, an I had fainted, and the men thought I wa .dead and began tcgrumble.for the Maori were closing up. They wanted to dro me, but Brown pulled out his revolve and vowed he'd shoot the first man wh let go. As that was a certainty, wherea there was a chance of dodging th Maoris, they held on, and brought mi off. I got well and was promoted to ; lieutenancy-what for I nrver discov ered. Before I could be about again th war was over. I went back to Napier and there I heard that Miss Dorrien Tay lor, my mothers sister, was dead, an< had left me eight thousand pounds, took a part of it and sailed for Aspinwa! and came up to New York." "Did you leave the rest of your legac] with Mr. Brown?" "Yes; and you were quite right, I was on the voyage out from London There was a woman on board. Whei wo reached Napier I married her secretly Brown was tho only man who ever knew it. It was not a wise affair, Miss Nolen ?he is living; she will outlive, me. knew I should have to tell you, and I'v< done it!" _ CHAPTER VIII A REVELATION. v~7 F you have a wif< {j why do you nol I live with lier?' ?^Pauline asked her calm blacli eyes dilating ii little as sh? turned them or tirely a fm; agent in th e matter. We were mistak? en in each other -that's thc long and short of it. She ca j ?ti vated me as women will sometimes captivate men when circumstances are favorable, and a long sea voyage is a very favorable circumstance. Then, for her part, she expected certain advantages from the marriage which it was not in my power to provide for her. It was a mutual nais understanding. After tho explana? tion, she went her way and left mo to go mine. She did not a,;k my consent, and I did not enforce my authority. But whatever I have she has a right to share; and whatever cannot be shared I have no right to have." "I am sorry for you," said Pauline, in a tone that conveyed moro than many assurances. "There's no help for it," returned Valentine, with an assumption of indif? ference, "not even in the law." "You mi an you cannot bc divorced?" "She will not consent to it." "Why not?" "Because she happens to know that my eldest brother is in delicate health, and thai nothing stands between mo and a fortuno except his life. But let us talk of something else. I am thinking of leaving town." "In the midst of tho season?" XiThe seasons aro pretty much alike to me. Besides, New York will not bo a pleasant remenee for nie an longer." 0 .''Has New York changed, of hi you?" "The change Is in my relations w you, Mis3 Nolen," said Valentine, leani forward with his elbows on his kne "I can't come here any more. As lc as I could keep up my false pretense; ai! long as you did not know me to" b( married man-I could take advantage ? your ignorance. But I have coinmitt hari-kari, so far as that is concerned, a it's time I disappeared." j "It is not keeping any falso preten: to bo silent about your past lifo." 1 "Not in the abstract, perhaps; but 'this-case it is." "Why, Mr. Martin?" "May I tell you? You won't bo < fended?" But without waiting for 1: answer, and as if fearing that it mig be unfavorable, he added, hurriedly: have no right, being a married man, feel towards you as I do. At iirst I did: care. When I first saw you I knew it won be better for myself to keep out of yo way; but then I thought that it cou make no difference to you-you wou never know what I felt for you-ai that I might as well endure tho pain f the sake of enjoying tho pleasure. B since then my feeling ha3 changed. Y< aro not the kind of woman who ought be tho object of the love of a man in n position, even, though you wero n aware of it, and though-as I am at honestly to say-I would rather ha died than attempt any act of -decepti< towards you. I had never known befo what love was; there is a sort of saci lege in my liangmg around you, as have been doing, not daring to show m self to you as I am. Two weeks ago made up my mind never to see you agar But I couldn't stand going off withoi letting you know all about it. So here am, Miss Nolen, for the Last time. I cc look you in the face now and srvv.'gooi by. And it won't hurt you to shal hands with me." The changing tones, the passion, ti restraint and simple pathos with whic all this was said touched Pauline's virgi soul moro deeply than it had ever bee touched before. She divined all that wi not spoken, and recognized the gallai spirit of the man who loved her too we to stay where she was; and whether c not she liad hitherto been conscious c it, her mind now contrasted the mai fatally encumbered as he was, with th free man that she had supposed liim t be; and involuntarily the question pn sented itself, Had ho been free, woul she have yielded what he desired? 3 was a perilous question, but she cor templated it steadily before dismissin it. She had an intellect capable of du criminating between merely conver tiona! morality and the deeper distinc tions between good and evil. Her re spect was as small for the former as fo the latter it was profound. "If you had not cared for me as yoi do, you might have stayed, and we ha v. been friends," she said finally: "but a it is you are right to go. I am only J girl-and I feel more than sorry for you I don't know what I might feel if voi were always here. No; I do not lov< you! don't thin? it. Mr. Martin. It i: only that-if I wanted to love you-'. should not send you away!" Valentine sat silent; and whether h( were happier or unhappier than at an} previous period of his life ho could nol have told. So far as the significant pari of ais life wa3 concerned, he felt that il was over with him; he would nevex henceforth be the victim of ar:y strong desires, hopes or fears. Only one possi? ble event would give him liberty, the op? portunity to live a real life. It wag on the tip of his tongue to ask Pauline whether, in case this event occurred, she would let him return to her; but an ac? cident postponed the question and it was never put. The two had been so taken up with what was passing between them that they had not noticed the sound of the door bell or tho tread of a heavy foot upon the hall floor. But at the moment Valentino was about to speak, perhaps, with the effect of changing all their lives, the door was tlurown open, and Judge Kctelle abruptly walked into the room He stopped short on seeing the two, and there was an instant of silent em? barrassment; but the judge evidently had something on his mind. too serious to be postponed for conventional formal? ities. "My dear girl," he said to Pau? line, "you will excuse my blundering in here, for it is probably l>etter that I should have met you before seeing your mother. You '.viii know better tlian I how to carry my message." "Have you bad news. Judge Ketelle?" "Painful-no, no, not the worst! your brother is perfectly well; he has suiFered no physical injury whatever." He paused and turned to Valentine. "I think this is Mr. Martin?" he said. "Yes; can I bo of any use?" "I believe you are a friend of Percy's! Well, I dare say you could be of some consolation to him. He has got into a scrape*-a matter in which ho is not in the least to blame, however-that is, at all events regarding the main point at issue. It is a misfortune, but it will be set right; but meanwhile Mrs. Nolen must bo brought to a knowledge of it with all tho tact possible. Indeed, if it were not one of those things that are certain to get into tho papers, and per? haps to become for a time tho subject of idle gossip, it would bo best to say noth? ing to her at all." "I am waiting to hear what the trou? ble is," said Pauline, in a voice entirely calm, though her gre:-1 black eyes shone with unusual brilliance. "Y'ou needn't hesitate to tell me anything." "It is annexing-that is thc most and least that ra ?iesaid of it. Percy is n->w at poiico headquarters, my dear. Ile will be bailed out as soon ns a magistrate j can be got to hear tho case; and 1 carno up hero in tho interval." "Oli! been punching somebody's head, has lie?" said the Englishman, in a tone ! of relief. "Where was he inst night?" I "Why, he was hero this morning a I few hours ago," said Pauline. "Ile had 1 a private talk with mother. He was ! nof "Ho was entirely himself," put in thc judge. Tin's is ono of those pieces of bad luck whieh may occur to any man. The circumstances were such as tosug ! gest the hypothesis-though upon en 1 tirely inadequate grounds, in my opinion -that Percy had been guilty of an in ' fringe?ilent, of the law. You..will smile when yon !:<.-ar it; but the absurdity of the thing does not.render ii less annoy j ingfor the moment. Ho happened to ? bo in a jewelry store when a lady missed her pocket book. It was supposed that it had been stolen" " Vnd Percv wasaccused of taking it!" I said Pauline, m. alow voice, j "In default of any other plausible oI> . ioct of suspicion, tho detective pitched upon him and he was taken to tho j station." "That is torr preposterous todo him : any harm," Martin remarked. "If it I had not been so bad, it would have been i j a great deal worse." .j "When tho lady knows who he is. the [ will refuse to prosecute him," said Pct linc. "So I should have-"supposed," returned the judge. "But it appears that there wasalready somo acquaintance between them; and Percy was in conversation with her at the time the loss was dis? covered." "Who is she?" demanded Pauline, turn? ing very pale. "Her name is Tunstall, I believe-the wife of one of our coal barons." "Tunstall-Mrs. Cuthbert Tunstall," repeated Pauline. "I think I have m^t her-yes I have met lier. She is a pretty woman-fasliionablo. And she accuses Percy of having robbed lier?" The judge moved his head silently. Martin, at tho mention of the lady's name, had changed countenance slightly. "She must bo Iiis enemy," said Pau? line, setting her grave lips together. "INO woman who knew Percy would hare done that except from a wish to ruin him. Slie knows he is not guilty." "Was Mr. Tunstall with his wife?" in? quired Martin of the judge. "He came in the midst cf tho affair. I may as well give you an account of the .affair." And the judge went on to tell 'the ; story that is already known to the reader. Both his listeners listened in? tently. "My opinion is," said Martin, when the narrative was finished, "that the job was put up on Percy. The woman did not have any money to lose." "You forget that lier pocketbook was found in Iiis pocket," said Pauline. "Sho may have put it there herself. But at all events that does not account for the bank notes. New York women are not in the habit of traveling about town with two or three thousand dollars in bills in their muffs. She would have had a check, if she had had an;, tiring." "The same objection occurred to me," said the judge, "and I spoko of it to In? spector Byrnes. But it appeared, upon investigation, that Mr. Tunstall, knowing his wife had several hills to pay today, including this at the jeweler's, had drawn a check for $?,000 in tho morning, and given it to her beforo going down to his business. She has a private account at the Fifth Avenue bank; sho cashed the check there, and received, among other ; notes, the thousand dollar and the five hundred dollar ones specified in the com? plaint." "No; it was not done in that way," said Pauline. "A woman like her would not dare to run such a risk. She must have lost the money. She may have lost it before-she entered the shop, or some one may have stolen it from her there. But I am sure she cid not accuse Percy because she thought he was guilty. There was some other reason, and when she? missed her money she took advantage of that pretext for attacking lum. But she' forgot he hos a sister 1" "It may have been her husband who put her up to it, you know," said Martin io the judge, in an undertone, and he gave that gentleman a look, the siguifi canee of which he understood. He drew out his watch. "The tourt will sit within an hour," he remarked. "I must go back to police headquarters to be on hand with bail. If you care to accompany me, Mr. Martin, I should be glad of your society. Pau? line, I will leave the task of opening tho matter to your mother to you. You will know how best to manage it; I should avoid appearing to attach very serious weight to it, and yet it won't do to alto? gether make light of it, either. You may expect to see Percy in the course of a couple of hours or -so." "Good-by viii then," said Pauline, ris? ing and giving him lier hand. Then she turned to Martin and added in a lower tone, while the judge walked towards ! the door, "1 should not feel so safe if it | were not for you." CHAPTER IX. BAIL. f- ? AVE you any I .????! I knowledge about j ii this, Mrs. Tun- i Iffjnpf' stall?" inquired ; |||5-j J the judge, when j gsjj IA he and Martin ; were in tho street j toge: lier. "It's a nasty com plication," replied the Eng? lishman.. "Ij fancy Percy has been making a fool of himself j about her. There was no actual hann j done, you understand; but there was j some nonsense and imprudence, anil J Tunstall, somehow or other, got wind of | it. Percy has been in a state of mind : lately, but 1 didn't expect the woman : would behave in this way. I suppose slie had tho alternative of turning against j her husband or against Percy, and find- j ing that the strongest battalions were on j her husband's side, she very prudently and with much propriety sided with him. j But what is Percy's defense?" ' "He denies the charge," tho judge an- j swered; "but ho has ho theory as to how the thing happened." "What i'j the theory of tho proseen- : tion as to tho disappearance of thc bank i notes?" "They assume that Percy must have i passed them to a confederate." "Was anybody resembling a confeder- I ate seen hanging about?" Tiie shop was full of people coming ! and going; but no one in particular was j noticed." "It's, a rame theory," remarked Martin, after a little consideration. "If Percy had passed a confederate the money, he would have passed him tho. purse too. ; It is moro likely that whoever did tho stealing Ivopt thc notes, which could not be ideal ?lied, rind got rid of tho purse, . which could bc identified, by dropping it into l\ rev's pocket as he passed hy." "1 think that view is a sound one." s:;id the judge; "but tho thief has got oif. and the prospect of apprehending lum ii very soe.!!. Percy may not '-e cou vi ted; 1 hardly think ho could tit*: hut there is, nevertheless, evidence enough against him to produce a dis? agreeable effect upon persons not ac- j qunintcd wah him. And, of course, when it is known that Mrs. Tunstall was acquainted with him, and ret did not hesitate to a.censo him, his position - even ;.!'; rho has been legal Jv exonerated wi.i bon namiul an I am inclined i-- thin;: t!.:;: the!>est thing foi him will belo leave New York ;.r.d remain away f,%r scone y ears. Meantime, the affair will be forgotten, and possibly thc true culprit may he discovered." "1 agree with you." said Martin, thoughtfully. "IV.ey can ho of no use here, no matter how tho affair turns out. I have a mind to propose lo him to go with me." "To w ith yo;:!" repeated the judge, with an involuntary ace? nt surprise. "I infer, then, that you contemplate leaving New York?" "I shall leave New York very shortly. My idea is logo to Australia by way of ban Francisco. In Australia Percy ?would have a fair field to start out a do something. I might be able to gi him some help." "His family should feel much ? debted to you," observed the jud< cordially. .'There's no obligation," returned M? tin. "I am fond of Percy-not on 1 own account only. If 1 can be of a good to bim I shall consider ravs lucky." The two gentlemen now entered horse car, and the conversation cease Martin lapsed into a gloomy revery; t the judge's spirits seemed, for some r< son, to have visibly improved, He h record a severe shock at the morai when he entered the room and fou Paulino and Martin together. The 1; ter's announcement of his intended c parture brought an immense relief. 1 had already begun to like tho you: Englishman, but he now began to rega him willi siucere affection. They left the car at Bleccker street ai proceeded to police headquarters. The was still a quarter of an hour before t formality of getting bail could be z ranged. They were admitted to tho i spector's room, and at the judge's requc he courteously gave permission to the to have an interview with the prisone "How is ho standing it, inspector asked Martin. "He doesn't findit amusing, I suppos but ho is as comfortable as could be e pected," replied the impenetrable office "These will be no difficulty in gettii bail, will there?" "I presume there will be nothing TX usual. But the case is not a simple on There are some awkward features to it "How is that?" demanded the judge. "Well, as regards motive for oi thing." "It would need a strong motive to gi* weight to such au accusation," Marti remarked. "That may be true for those who hat made up their minds beforehand not i believe him guilty. But tho jury wi not be composed of such persons." "What is the evidence you speak of i ?sied Martin. "He has been short of money for som time past," said the inspector. "Ther is reason to think that he borrowed a sui of money several weeks ago. But withi the last two days his needs became ver pressing, fie incurred a debt of nearl a thousand dollars at play last nigh) The money has to be repaid tbi3 evening under pain of social exposure. He wa unable to borrow again, and it made hi situation very trying. When a man i that condition suddenly find two or thre thousand dollars in his hands, and ri members that they belong to a woraa whom ho has every reason to think wi. not betray him-well, when a skillft lawyer tells that story toa jury, it woul not be surprising if it makes some im pression on them." "You don't take any stock In sue! rubbish yourself, inspector," observe? Martin, with a laugh. The inspector lil ied his eyebrows. " should be very apt to take the sanie viet of the case that the judge and jury do after I know what it is," he returned quietly;, and that was all that could b got ott of 1dm. They now descended to the basemen and were conducted to tho imprisone* Percy. He was much more compos?e than they had expected to find him. I: fact, he luid experienced such intens* and varied emotion during tho last fev hours that no matter for discomposure was left in him. Martins presenc* seemed to gratify him. He asked tli judge about his mother and sister, am. received his somewhat rose colored ac count of their condition with apparen indil?erence. "But you will be able to judge of then for yourself at dinner," the judge added kindly. "You mean when I am out on bail?'' "Certainly; that will be in a couple o; hours from now." Are you going to furnish bail, Judg< Kctolle?" "Undoubtedly I am. Who bas a bet ter claim to stand by your father's son?' Percy was silent a moment. "Have you ever believed that I might possiblv have committed this crime?" he asked at length. "No such idea has ever entered my head. I am surprised you should ask mc such a question," said the judge, with an emphasis that indicated that ho wat a little hurt by the insinuation. Percy took a long breath, and as he looked up his face betrayed sigrtS of a feeling that he had not hitherto be? trayed. "You are a good man." ho said in a husky voice. "I wish ? had had tho sense to trust you long ago. I was afraid you would pitch into me, and tho fact that I deserved it made it all the more difficult to face it. I don't know whether you have beard that I borrowed A thousand dollars from my motlier two months ago. She wanted, to consult you. but I wouldn't let her. This morning! went to her again: but she didn't have anything, and there was nothing for it but to apply to you. I was on my way your office when this thing occurred. If I had not happened to sec her'- Ile He broke off and sitered Ids phrase-"if things had not taken the turn they did ? should long since have received your blowing up and the money, paid my debt, ami-but it turned out otherwise." "Who is the man to whom you lost the money?*' inquired Martin. "His name is Henry Cotton," answered Percy. "You know lum." "Te be sure; and ho is a friend of Tun Etall's." returned Martin, thoughtfully. "Upon my word, the luck is against you. Wiii you answer mo one question?" "if ' ran." "Yo:: can, and -.ve are among friend::. Aro you cured of a certain haly:" Percy laughed, and thai laug!: of bit? ter resentment and humiliarion was a more convincing answer thai) any words could have framed. It put ali doubts i-j rest. "Ah!** ejaculated Martin, with ar? ex pn :sion of satisfaction, "then it will bo id! right!" At thal moment an o?jcer came with the information that the court was ready to decide the question of bail, and the whi .!<. ]?:? ; : v pi . >?'<. eded to'thec?url room. The tra. usart ions t here were brief and not particularly complieared. Mrs. Tunstal IV lawyer.*-pr? ifesscd t-> consider the case an especial!} grave one, and re? quested i'.i.:t bail ie fixed at tile lull amount permitted bylaw. Counsel or tother side maintained * !::.! : he char c against Mr Nolan was a : fvpcsiofo-*? one, and deniand.-d that he he allowed goon l;!s<v.:i reco uizance. Thc cou?'":', after duedeliberation, dec'and that thc facts against Cu prisoner, though not conclusive, were saflicicnt t > v.arran; <?, !;ui:vd bal! ;./be fa rms Vd to tho amount <?i ?iileen lum ired dollars. Judge Ive? tt liv immediately qualified for (hat sum, the bonds were signeoL. an 1 the prisoner left th.e court with bis friends. "And nov.-." said the judge cheerfully, "the worst is over. Let us get into a Lack, Percy, and drive un to the house. Your mother and sister will bo anxious to soe you." '.1 am much obliged tc you, judge, for all you have -done for me," replied thc young man; "I wish I had known you sooner and better. But this affair is not over yet, and it may end differently from what we hope. Lntil the trial, at ali events, I must remain a suspected man, and i can't go io my mother's house with that suspicion hanging over me. When I have been public!j acknowledged to be an .honest man I wiii go to my mother and sister, but not till then." "My dear boy," said the judge kindly, "you are a little off your balance after all this trouble, and you natural ly take a morbid vie w. I assure yon you have no need, to fool Fore about the matter. I need not tell you that you will lind noth? ing but love and confidence awaiting you Rt home, and that there can be no other place in tire world where you can hope to find them to anything like tho same de? gree. On the other hand, your mother and Pauline could not fail to feel hurt if you did not appear." "That is all very true, judge," Percy answered, "but here's something else that you haven't considered, and which wm ne certain to come out, now that the thing is going into the newspapers." "What is that?" "My relations with Mrs. Tunstall. My mother will hear of that, and that is a thing I can't deny. I love my mother, and I know she loves me; but she could never make any allowance on such a subject. It would be a useless pain to both of us to attempt to discuss it, and I am not going to put myself in the way of it. No, I can't agree wii.h you, judge," he added, as the judge seemed about to make a rejoinder; "I have been through as much as I can stand for the present, and any thing more would break me down. Say to mother that I will see her by and by, but not now." The judge saw that the young man j was obstinate, and feit that his sensitive? ness was, under the circumstances, not discreditable. He further reflected that, in rile course of a day or two. lie would probably be more disposed to modify Iiis resolution. Accordingly, he relinquished for the present the attempt to persuade him, anti having ascertained that he' j would take up his quarters with Marlin j pending further movements, he bade him farewell, little thinking how long a time would elapse before they met again. Percy and Valentine betook themselves to the latter's rooms at once, and, hav? ing ensconced themselves there, Martin poured out some whisky, offered his friend a cigar, and cf ter they had smoked for 3 while, said: "How much do you owe here, outside of your gambling debt?" "Not more than three hundred dol? lars." "Thirteen hundred dollars debts, and your bail fi f teen hundred. Two thousand eight hundred altogether. I have over seven thousand dollars. What do you say to my settling all your liabilities to? morrow., and taking you with me to Australia?" CHAPTER X. PAULINE. HE quest ion staggered Percy fora moment. "I didn't know you were going to -Australia," he said. "To Australia, or Mexico, or South America, cr the North Pole; it don't make much difference where. But I am going, and I'm goi?)g*c morrow. And 1 want you to com?i with me. Percy." "And jump my bail?" * "And jump your bail." . "I can't do that Judge Ketelle is liable." "Haven't I told you that I will settle all your liabilities? Half an hour before we leave New York, 1 will post a chock \ to him for the amount. Your friend j Henry Cotton will receive his dues this j evening; everything shall be paid. And ? r.-c will be off together and make a fort- I i une. if you like." "If I went off is that way," said Percy, j after a little thought, "everybody would come to the conclusion that I was guilty and feared conviction." "You are not guilty, are vou?" "No." "But you do fear conviction, and all 1 thc more if you're not guilty than if you are. That stands to reason." "Of course I hope not to be convicted, but" "Exactly; and now do you know what \ I think? I think there is a strong proba- j bility-a deuced strong one-that you will be convicted. You can see for your- j sei/" that your defense doesn't amount to i a row of pins. And if once you get into i jail, my boy, you are done for. limo- j cent or guilty masc *, no difference; you 1 w?l have a stigma on you that all tho J years of your life will never oblit?rate, j If I were in your place, I wouldn't ; isk j it. You have an opportunity to escape 1 now, and you had better take advantage ; of ii." "But if I escape judgment will go ; against me by default, and I shall have tho stigma just the same." "Listen to reason, Pcroy. To have the stigma of being adjudged guilty is bad j enough; but what is ? compared to bring j adjudged guilty and pent to jail into; the bargain? If you were actually guilty, : or if 1 thought you were, the situation i would be different: but you are mao- j cent, thong!? you can't prove it; and. : being inn?x*ent, why should you spend tw< or three years in Sing Sing just to! gratify the spite of Cuthbert Tunstall and his w ?fe? ' It weald be more sensible to take that razor and cut your thror-?. Yon are innocent.'and you have ar per? fect right to avoid being imprisoned if you can. No one will suffer ! y i:, a: d there is no telling how much you "lay gain. The robbery ?if which you are ac? cused ?ros committed by somebody, and probably by a professional thief. Pro? fessional thieves-pickpockets especially -are always practicing thei?" trade; and sooner or later* they aro certain to get caught. Wh.cn the thief who stole Mrs. Tunstal Ts money is caught it is uv re {h.-n iik< ly 'hat the truth about the robvory may com; out; you will be vin? dicated, and then yoe may come home nah living colors. But if your vindica? tion came aft? r you had ?c?"ved your time in jail it wouldn't do you much good not to mention tho positive harm that jail life might .have done you hi tho meal?while: p-'op.e would never forget that you had worn the stripes, though they might easily forget whether or vol you had deserved to v. ear them. Hat come hack with a fortune-come I ack after having made a respectable rame for yours-; ii ia another part of the world -or after having simply lived in free? dom instead of in bondage and in tho eocietv of thieves-and, trust me, you vrill never regret iii This is rot a mal ter to be treated cn sentimental grounds; it is a serious tiling-quito as serious as a question of life and death to you. Yon are innocent, and you have a right to your freedom; that's the case in a ntrt shelL -Don't throw away your whole career for a figure of speech V This T/as a powerful appeal, and it lost tithing by Martin's delivery. It pro? duced an evident impression on Percy. "If I were certain that I should L-e con? victed." he muttered, b.a?f to himself. "You may fairly take that for grant? ed," said Martin. "When there has been I crime, there must 1? provided a crim? inal; that is the legal maxim, and in de? fault of a better you will have to bear tho brunt." "It is not -myself, only, that is to bo considered, Val. ; my mother and sister are quite as important." "I don't deny it; it's a part of my argu-. ment. You said this afternoon that you, did not intend to see them again until after you were vindicated. Did \'0 J mean what you said?" ..Certainly I did." "I think you were right in your de? cision, for more reasons than one. But if you remain in New York you will not bo able t? keep your resolution. If you don't go to them they will come to you. But if you are a thousand or two thou? sand miles away you will have no such embarrassment. And that isn't all, my boy. If you were put in jail it would bo a bad thing for you, but it would simply kill your mother outright and ruin your sister's prospects as effectually as your own. Whereas, if you go off with me, you and I can keep up a correspondence with them and explain exactly how the* case 3tands. They can watch your career step by step, and the knowledge tha? they are doing so will give you tho strong? est stimulus to succeed that you could have. Meanwhile they will be watching tiie progress of affairs here, and as soon as anything turns up in your favor they can let you know and you can act ac? cordingly. If there were no other reason for jumping your bail, consideration for your mother and sister would be enough." This suggestion practically decided Percy. "I believe you are right," said lie"; "b?t ? dont see what right I have to let you pay ail my liabilities. You and I have been friends, Val., but I havenever done anything for yon, and I have no prospect of relaying you for what you propose to do for me." "You will owe me less than you sup? pose," Valentine replied. "In the first place, my money is no use to me; if I didn't spend it for you, it would go into the pockets of tho tradesmen and bum? mers of New York. In the second place, I want your company; we suit each other, and that is not a thing that hap? pens every day. But the real truth is-= I have never spoken to you about it, al? though you may have guessed something for aught I know-the truth is that I am a good deal influenced in what I am doing by the fact that you are Paulino Nolens brother." "Ah! You caro for her, then?" "Yes, I care for lier. She is the dear? est friend I have in the world, and for her sake I would do most things, Bult she can never be more than my friend, ani I can do very little." "If you want to marry her, I am sure she" Valentine interrupted him with a gest? ure. "It can never come to a question of that," said he; "lam married already.' "Youarramarried man! Does Paulin? know it?" "I told her this morning. It's a long story, and you shall hear it another time if you want to. I married in haste, and I am likely to have plenty of leisure to re? pent. Well, you can imagine that noth? ing could please me so much as serving her in any way I can, and I know that no better way is open to me than to give a helping liand to you. So, if you agree to join me, you will be doing me the best kindness that one man can do another it is not to be measured in time, or money, or anything else. My prospects, as you may suppose, are not especially cheerful at the best; but whatever good comes to me will be from the thought ?tcx I am of some good to Pauline*3 brother. I can't live with her, or see lier any longer: but I can live with you, and that's the next b-ost thing, not to men? tion that* you are tolerably good company e:> your own account." He ended with a laugh. ? "It's very kind cf you to put it in that way. old fellow," said Percy, in a some? what unsteady tone. "Well, I'll go with you. I have been a drug in the market so far, and I won't tn::':, any promises; but I don': think you'H iind moa volun? tary drag 0:1 yam a: :i?? events. Have you any delinite plans?" "I have a thousand: we hare on?y to pick and choose." Vaierumo replied^ "My intention this morning was to #0 direct to Australia hy way of San Fran? cisco, but 1 think 1 shall change that, for one reason, because I mentioned il to Judge Ketelle, and, ?.: any case, i; wi'.I be well to get outside the country assana as possible. We might go to Mexico by steamer, to begin with. ? have some good letters to people tiiere, so that wo shan't be strangers. If anything gooo: turns up we can stay lhere; if not wc can gc tc Colon and Panama, and get aboard some vessel bound westward. You may find an opportunity to make a practical acquaintance with mining be? fore you are done." It was then ?bout i o'clock in the after? noon. On consulting a newspaper they learned that one of tho United States and Brazil Mail Steamship company's vessels sailed on the following day, Wednesday, at 2. o'clock. This vessel stopped at Stf. Themas, where, if they saw fit, they might disembark and take passage to, Havana. r? nd thence to Vera Cruz and* Mexico, thus throwing possible pursuers o?? ? ho scent. Tins seemed to be the best route o-v:i to them: and, as there was no time to be los! Martin Left at once for Inroad street to secure their passage. Percy was left alone to meditate on his position. Martin's rooms were in a bachelor apartment heuxc, not far from tho jutt> tien of i if:!J avenue and Broadway. Tho roar ci the streets wa? audible as a continuous sound; and lo Percy, sitting in an easy chair before the tire, and wearied v. i;li tho emotions and vicissi? tudes of the day. i: had the soporific in? fluence of the wind among pines, cr the rtoise of surf on a shore. The sun had sot. and the room became dusky. Percy's' eyes ( !osed, and ho was just on the point of faib'ng asleep. Ti e sharp sound of the electric beli aroused him. Had Martin returned al? ready? Ho must have left his pass key, to be obliged to ring. Srill partly asleep, Percy arose and wont to tu^ door and opened i;. A lady :-??od on Me thres hoid. and as rhe door swnin^f lack she stepped quickly inside, Percy recoiled a pp.ee o;:> two wiui-a disagreeable sensation " ii ''thought that the visitor was Mrs. Tundra!'. But the next moment, she sp?'ke, and the voice was that of his sister. "Pam so glad you* V/DX7 IN CttF cv rorr.i IT P4f??r - - " J**^' '* '