breast-pocket, and laid it on the

, and returning it again before the evening is over. The only question is how to op

etchem; "put the package in your pocke

"Bring us three hot whiskey pun

th the punch, and the

and the gum will dissolve so that you can open

n was speedil

ing already served so excellent a turn, we w

rew more wolfish than ever, and, after a significant flash toward each other, the gamblers turned fortune against their victim finally. The brandy was now placed within his reach, and under its influence Haldane threw do

long breath of relief, and, rising, stretched themselves like

said Mr. Van Wink; "

we get off safely with it

s sunk in the

" said Van Wink, answering

package of money, and replaced the two empty envelopes

parate, that one should go to Boston, the other to Baltimore, and that they should return to their old haunts in New York after the interest caused by the affair had

e to leave the house with their assistance, and yet so intoxicated as to be incapable of thinking and acting for himself. They took him down a side street, now utterly deserted, and left him on the steps of a low grogger

d a vague impression that something was wrong-that a misfortune of some kind had befallen him, but all was confus

if he knew more'n other folk? Are ye waitin' for

ome," mumb

's yer

ed the youth, thinking h

t Boss Arnot's new cler

her Haldane. I s

me '

elf at odd spells, though I takes moighty good care to kape out o' the way of ould man Arnot when I'm so afflicted. He ha

abe, man of all work around the office building, all felt that their employer was a hard, driving taskmaster, who ever looked beyond them and their interests to what they accomplished for him. The spirit of the master infused itself among the men, and the tendency of each one to look out for himself without regard to others was increased. If Pat had served a kinder and more considerate man, he might have been incl

. Should I kape ye out o' the way till ye get sober, and ould man Arnot find it out, I'd be in the stree

e wary disciple of Bacchus disappeared w

ad had gradually ceased, and she had found her airy drawing-room a welcome change from the apartment heavy with the odor of anaesthetics. Two students from the university had aided in beguiling the early part of the evening, an

If your mother knew that you were out of your be

pter, dear au

I'll remain here a while longer, for either your foolish story or the after effects of my wretched headac

the servants had all retired. But the applicant without did not

the untimely call. His wife's nervous timidity vanished at once, and she stepped forward to join her husband, while Laura

" demanded Mr.

," answered a voice wit

t excitedly; "what can this mean?

p the office and does yer irrinds. Mr. Haldan

and Mrs. Arnot was much alarmed, thinking that Haldane was suffering from some sudden and alarming attack. Thoughts of at once telegraphin

ome. Take me

y to her husband, and she saw that hi

urning to Pat, who stood

t it's not for a dacent sober man loike m

rshly; "your breath tells where you have been. But w

young man, who had slowly and unsteadily risen, and was supporting himself by holdin

a neighbor o' mine was taken on a suddint, and I went for the docther, and as I was a comin' home, who sh

it on the doorstep of a dr

was, sur; it had t

object for you and Laura to look upon; so please retire. I will see that he gets safely to hi

his own room," said Mrs.

nd Mr. Arnot again seemed to hesitate for a term, but the blank was more expressive of

ot found Laura's face expressive

I in any way to blame? He said he would

not worthy to speak to you; much less is he fit to be intrusted with that which you will eventually give, I hope, only to one

n through bad habits of long standing, and that he had fallen into the clutches of those who always infest public haunts, and live by preying upon the fast, foolish, and unwary. Haldane, from his character and associations, was liable to such an experience whenever circumstances combined to make it possible. Young men with no more principle than he possessed are never safe from disaster, and they who trust them trust rather to the chances of their not meeting the peculiar temptations and tests to which th

of herself. However, the morning light, the truth concerning Haldane, and her own good sense, would banish such morbid fancies. Indeed the worst possible way in which a young w