Show fro i 0 g wi ek kj sl A large parts pany is assembled to 1 celebrate the feat fea t of st Part partridge rid ge 1 at KaeL Ravel toke stoke hill hall an old country house about two aniles distant from As ju AI ithe the northwest north west est coast of devon the M itt lanous rious branches of society are very fairl burly cepres represented by its component parts there are two peers aers three members of the lower low er alouse louse some guardsman guardsmen guards men some undergraduates T a clergyman cl ermai arid and a lieu il tenant lenada in t the h e navy nav but our bero is wk SA a representative e man many yet lie he be alws to a class which called into e ex i irence by the accumulated wea wealth 1 th of the nineteenth century cen lur is is ever cier on A the increase frederick branley Tr anley resembles sir charles coldstream Cold stream inasmuch as he ha has been everywhere evory where anere and in 1 done everything but lie he if is by no means 4 used up and can sail take lake an interest in in whatever his hand finds to do nor is is his hi everything everybody eer body eans everything it is is not bounded by jerusalem and rid pyramids ur mr Ty rawley has hag fought in in more tb than an one ne state of south america and has wondered for more than two I 1 years from isle to isle of the pacific A ra mysterious senous reputation hovers round lim him lie he is is supposed to lo have done many ciany things thing s but no one is is very clear ahat they abey are and it it is is not likely i that much information on the poi point nt will ill be obtained from him tor for he seldom talks much and never speaks of himself illis ilia present alli mis ion ap pears to be to lill l ill partridges play crickett cricket and dress himself not that it must be supposed that he lias has ever heen been in in the habit of wearing g less clothing than the custom of country in M which he may have been located locate required but only that ait at the present tune time lie he devoted much attention to tuff buff m waistcoat aist coat and gauze neckties neck ties braided coats coad and curled mustaches such as he is is however he is is an object of interest to the feminine portion of tho the party at Ravel stoke hall 1111 tor for lie he is is rich and handsome as well as mysterious igus and he cannot bo be more than two and ivirty thirty and the ladies at Kavel sto ke outnumber the men tor for although it is is still rare for the fair sex ser to participate actively in the saturnalia of the partridge god they will always be found hovering in con sid erable numbers oil the out t ski skirts S of the feast a and nd the varieties of the british lady are farely represented there are some mammas with dau daughters aters to marry charry and there are coq some daughters with mith a mamma to prevent ma i r ing agu 1 abich is per naps the the most thin thing of the two t 0 as she has an income in in her own right there are blondes and brunettes it arid and pretty brown haired brown eyed girls who hover between the ano we orders and combine the i most dangerous characteristics of both 1 who can wear both blue and pink and who look prettier in the one color colof than they do in in the llie other but who always com command malid your our suffrage in fa that which they are wearing when hen you look at them arid and th there ereis is constance baynton banton with g gray ra y 05 eyes es and black hair and the nicest critic of ance might be defied to slate tate what she had bad worn half an hour after he left her for no one can ever look at anything except her face Y yet et constande constance is is three and awen ty ly arid and still unmarried alas what cowards merl men are the fact is is that constance is very clever but as mrs mellish the widow dow says ays not clever enough to hido hide ftp it Is she a little geee lexe d at li her 1 e r present condition condit fon iori certainly she does botex not exhibit any tendency to carry out mrs Mellis hs suggestion j if it has ever been re repeated heated to her the young met are more afraid of her than ever an ano certainly ferta she d does oes say salvery very sharp ti things lings sometimes sometime S especially she is is severe idlers the b butterflies u t ter flies of fashion fashionable UV i stence S she h e appears to consider that ae he has a special mission mission to arouse th 1 TO l but t thy do not appear to like being eing lectured ec with the young oung ladi ladies s s she h e is legreat a great favorite for she is very affectionate and though so 0 beautiful and distinguished she has proved herself to td be not so dangerous a irval r al a as might have been expected indeed it has arlanp d moro 1 1 that ma male e admiration rebounding from the hard surface surf ace of 01 4 her er man ner ners has found more yie yielding metal in in the bosoms of her particular friends besides she is always ready to lead ille ibe van van in the general auak attack upon lie iho male sex when the ladies adies retire retire to the drawing room not that she ever says anything behind their backs she would not be ready to repeat to their faces but in that course probably she would not meet with such general support in mr Tyr Ty avley rawley slie she affa affected acted to disbelieve she stated as her opinion to her intimate friends that she did not believe he ever had done or ever would anything worth doing but wt that he plumed himself on a cheap reputation which as all were ignorant of its foundation no one could possibly impugn there i Is s reason to believe that in iii this instance miss constance CoL tance was not as conscientious cons dentious as usual but that she really entertained a higher opinion of the gentleman than she chose to confess he certainly was not afraid of ahir clr abild bad even dared to contradict her favorite theory of the general worthlessness of english gentlemen of the century it was one wet net morning when she had been reading scott to three or four 0 ot i her particular par nicular friends and it must be confessed th that at she read remarkably well that she began to lament the decline of chivalry Ty rawley was satin silting half in and bal ballout bailout flout of range berha perhaps ps she talked a 4 little at bitic at atay aay rate he chose to accept the challenge hal lenge 1 I cannot agree w with you miss aliss baynton 11 he be said it is is true we no longer wear ladies gloves in in our helmets helme is nor do vie ive compel harmless individuals who possibly I 1 may have sweethearts of their own to admit the superiority of our lady love at the pointon point of the lance hut but of all that was vi as good in chivalry of courage truth honor enterprise enter prie self fice ice you will bindas find as much in in the nineteenth century as in m the twell twelfth ill he brigAte brightened ned up as he spoke and ana it was quite evident that he believed what he said it a circumstance which always gives an advantage to a disputant more alore than one pair of bright eyes smiled approval and I 1 miss liss con constance S tance saw a probability of a defection from her ranks she changed her tactics ac s you aro too abo moderate in your claims for your air 1 if 1 I remember right modesty has hag always bee been acon considered 1 a qualification of a true knight I 1 1 I lam am not ashamed to speak the 1 truth he replied replied your our theory would have been mor more tenable enable before the days das of the crimean war arid and the indian mut mutiny irly but the roon men who lit their cigars in in the trenches of the redan and who carried the gate of delhi may bear comparison with bayard or cosur cmur de uon lion ohi I 1 do not allude to our soldiers said she of course I 1 know they are brave but and here she hesitated a moment till possibly piqued because her usual success had bad not at attended her in in the passage of arms she concluded but to 0 our r idle gentlemen who seem to have bae no heart I 1 for anything Ty tyra rawley ley trailed smiled possibly you may judge too much by the outside he be said 1 I am inclined to fancy that hat samp of those whom you are pleased to call idle gentlemen would be found to have heart hear enough for anything that hat honor or duty duly creven or even chivalry could find for them to do 1 I hope you are right said miss constance with w ith a slightly percepta percept i ble curl of her upper lip which implied that lie did not think so thawley bowed rind the conversation terminated afew a few minutes afterward ter ward ft hen he had left the room room the conversation coni ersa tion of the young ladies was interrupted by master george baynton aged fourteen who suddenly at attacked his sister 1 I t think link you ou are wrong you know when hen you a humbug 21 1 my imy dear said contance con tance anih a start 1 I never neier said anthi ug I 1 so ru well you implied it you know in your our girls eirls words and I 1 thinie you ou in make ak e a n mistake ii s tak f for or he can shoot aliks caie ocl never misses misses a thing illing and Il alitar itar lie be can ride no end lie vm was rather out of practice in I 1 his i is cricket cricket when he cae cune c une clo don tyll n b buthe ut he ing everyday every day L il all 1 alry vj right up to the cedars do you on think there is nothing elt else eida for a man to dibut do but rido aad shoot and play cricket oh all very i cry well ell but batou you should hear w hat merton our second mater master says ays and a great brick he be is is I 1 tuu too yhale cr ou on do do it it is as v well ell as you can caria whether ns its cricket or verses and I 1 belac believe e if tyra gravley Tr avley ley had to haht fight hed go in in and win win and I 1 16 11 no mist mistake ahl ahi paid constance with a sigh he has evidently what is is it you boys call it ita tipped you irila I nl it na hid indignant ignant g at this insult george walked off octto to find his friend an and d have haie a lesson in in billiards the day liDge lingered red on after the usual fashion ot of wet days in september in ii full country houses there was a little little dancing after dinner but all retired in in hopes hope of a finer day on the morrow brawley Tr awley had baa some letters to write so that it it was past two to before he thought af going to bed he always slept with it hii is window open and as he hrevus ihre wip the sash a fierce gust of wind blew out hi his candle and blue down the lookingglass looking glass Plea pleasant sint by joja jove he salilo quizzed 1 I wonder ia smashed unlucky to break a look ing glass im hanged if I 1 linow now where the matches are biever mind I 1 can find my way to bed inobe in the dark lahat what a night as a flash of lightning ning illumined the room tor for amo a moment and he blent bent out of 0 the window vin dow the wind muk must be about nor ner nor west cheerful for anything my 1 l coining 0 in er up to bristol f from rom t the lie southward ut a r d I 1 wonder what a storm isike on this coast I 1 have a great mind to go and see I 1 shall never be beable abl able e to get that hall d door or open without waking them up what a Auis nuisance ance stay capital idea i ill go by y the window before stai starling ting upon his expedition he changed the remains of his evening dress dressier for lie he had been writing writha in his dressel dressing gown 1 for foi a flanner flannel shirt and tr trousers trow sers while a short pea pa jacket and glazed hat completed lis his arrays array his room was on the first floor and lies had intended to drop fr ilithe windowsill window sill but the branch of an elm came so near hear he found that dial unnecessary as springing to it he wat was on the ground dikea car caf inan instant lie iia soon found his wa way across the country like a bird to lacross the e edge dge of the cliff the sea for miles seemed one sheet of foam t but a laflash flash of lightning discovered 1 c averel a grod group of figures about a acarter 4 1 a r of a mile distant ant ad distinguished ha shouts in m the intervals of the storm 1 he was soon among them and he i found that thai all eyes e es were curried en ft a 1 vessel which lia struck on n a rock within two dundr hundred d yard of the chal it was evident that she would would goto golo pieces under their very eyes Is there no way w ay of opening C corn 11 with her he asked at of an i old coastguard coast guard man 1 why ye see see sire sir we be hav have e sell sent t i to balfor I 1 for Man byi rockets bill she must break up before they conio how far is is it to bilford 2 belcer than seven seren mile your our honor if wo we could get a rope to them we mi might lit save tho the crew 1 every one of them I pur honor but ic it aint aint possible i 1 11 I thirk thick a man inan might swim sum out oit ait the firs first t dav c would mould dash him birn to pieces against the clit what depth dep h of water cater below the cliff goes donn like a wall vall forty fort fathom at least the ithe 7 deeper the ater what h stan coto 16 the water A good fifty feet 1 well I 1 have dived oil th the e mim main yard ird of uie the chesapeake N now ow listen sentoro to ro leave hav e yo you go 97 some light stran strong repel allnoch As All nuch as you ou like WU take i a double coil round my m chest cheit and do you ou take talce care to pay it atit cut fast enough as I 1 draw upon it much aft after e r the first s t pa u i it t ivi still 11 bo be th the e same I 1 thing I 1 as su suicide icide every bit az wels well we w e shall see ee theres TW tine time to be lost I 1 3 instant anthe he chipped off his hat boots and pea jacket jackel then with the knife he cut ca oft its its sleeves I 1 and passed gassed the ropo rope through them thit that it it mi might lit chafe him less th 0 eyes of L t the h hadid ad old boatman originated rig t ie there was evi evidently ent y a method in his madness you are av cry s ip good 64 swimmer V I 1 sup suppose p 0 3 e sira abata aB tA 1 I julve dived through the at a few times 1 I ineer never knew a whito white man that could do that Ty raley rawley smiled but whatever you do he said mind and let me have plenty of rope now out of the way my friend sand ind let me have a clear start he walked slowly to the edge of the cliff looked over to see how bow much uch the rock kocl sheia s eli fd d outwards then alin returned turned looked that there was 1 plenty of rope to carry him out then 1 took a short run and leaped as ab if if I 1 from the board of a plunging ing bath he touched the water full five and twenty feet from the edge of the cliff down into its dark depth he went like a plummet but bu soon to rise anso bagain again As he reached the surface lie ho saw the crest of a mighty wave a few yards in in front of him the wave that he had bad been told was to dash him lifeless against the cliff but now his bis old experience of the pacific stands him in in good stead for two moments he draws breath then ere it reaches him he be dives below its center the water dashes against the cliff but the swim swimmer rises rises far beyond it A faint ch cheby rises from the shore asbbey as they feel him draw upon the rope the waves w ancs follow in in succession succession and he dives again and again rising rising like an otter to take breath making very steadily onward though moro more below I 1 the water than above it wo must now turn ta the ship P the waves have made a clean breach over her bows tho the crew are crowded upon the they hold holdon on to tho the bulwarks bulwa and await the end for no boat can live in such a sea suddenly ashes from the waters water s ship ahoy a hoy alio shouts u ts a loud clear voice voice which makes itself heard above the storm throw mo me ii a rope or a buoy the life buoy was still bang hanging in in its accustomed place by the mainmast th the captain almost mechanically chani cally takes it ii down and wilh well directed aim throws it within a yard or two of the sm immer in |