The American Claimant

arted on the sorrowful err

as us

, Col

hotel. Actresses. And a

them b

there's never a one of them that knows e

's st

f a book. In some cases there's manifestly a fatality about it. For instance, take What's-her-name, that plays those sensational thunder

t give her a reputa

ar, but they don't know what made it familiar, because they don't remember. First, she was at the

ad

be plump and attractive. Well, she got burnt ou

re'd she

front row. All the papers were full of it. She struck for higher pay and got it. Well, she got

pend on to keep up her name, it's a pretty pr

ry time there's a hotel fire she's in it. She's always there-and if she can't be there

a thing. She must have

n't let her in. They think there will be a fire; and besides, if she's there it cancels the insurance

d $60,000 worth of diamonds I

ve times. And yet if there's a hotel fire in San Francisco to-night she's got to bleed again

d earl took one glimpse at the melancholy morgue and t

not one of the five could be identified by its neare

ne had I

f them. Pick ou

pointed out the spot where, if the newspaper account was correct, he must have sunk down to destruction; and at a wide distance from this spot they showed him where the young man must have gone down in case he was suffocated in

fears. Yes, it's a matter of ashes. Will you kindly

sult as to the best manner of forwarding them to England, and also to give them an opportunity to "lie in

e lumber room to see if they could find a British flag to use as a part of the outfit proper to the lying in state. A moment later, Lady Rossmo

e world possessed you to clutter up the

put up her hands in pathetic astoni

t you

ime I've sot eyes on 'em, Miss Polly. Dat

l, for he was call

hit's one er dese-yer common 'curren

ore to her foundations. "I see it al

m' l

e Sellers from Engla

be; "for," said she, "when his sentimentals are up, he's a numskull, and there's no knowing what extravagance he'll contrive, if you let him alone." She found him. He had

sket of ashes trying to look sorry for it and make a sight that is really solemn, because the solemner it is, the more it isn't-anybody can see that. It would be so with one basket; it would be three times so with three. Well, it stands to reason that if it wouldn't be sole

eemed a doubtful attention, to his wife, but she offered no objection, for it was plain that he had a quite honest and simple-hearted desire to do the friendly and honourable thing by these fo

circumstances. Except-yes, we must strain a point there-on

what,

chme

n that way; the prospect of another stunning decoration of that nature distresse

s that wasn't allowed to any bu

aren't any nearer relatives than relatives by usurpation. We cann

lcanic, too, as to variety and violence of color, but they pleased the earl's barbaric eye, and they satisfi

entlemen to consider what ought to be done next with the remains. Rossmore thought they ought

end all of t

yes,

at

. Think of the shock. No-one at a

have that ef

more than he could bear. But mitigated-one basket at a time, with restful intervals between, he would be used to

were his father it would be dreadfu

ggested Hawkins, gravely, and

be the strain of suspense upon me all the time. To have so depressi

be nothing of that kind; so old a gentleman could not endure

looked up surp

m? It's a total mistake, to my mind. He oug

nk so, too,"

I should," sa

will see it yourselves, if you think. Onl

Rossmore, "the thing is per

" said Lady

e is in. We know he is in one of them, but that is all we do know. You see no

monuments and three inscri

t right. That is

d give the same name and the same facts and say he was under ea

ed uncomfortab

bjection. That is a serious

silence for a whil

f we mixed the three r

m by the hand and s

conceived. It does you honor, Major Hawkins, it has relieved me of a most painful embarrassment and dist

asked

immediately

wait, M

t? W

break that childles

nows I

ill never have to give him the last and sharpest pain a parent can kn

won't

precious thing left him, the uncertainty, the dim hope that maybe

now by the papers t

oves his son is dead; and he will keep that up and live on it, and on nothing else till he di

crime, and I'll bless you for it always. Now we know what to