Show Lu FOUL By Charles rf Reade e an and PLAY Dion B car Continued from Yet Yesterday Morning Nancy anc met mt compan com com- Joseph Wyllo Wylie In corn com pan pany an and as sato bailors tire are lre brisk k wooers wooer he lie soon Oon became her hor acknowledged suitor and made some om Inroad Into Inlo her heart though ship she I kept ept on the defensive 0 sive idre warned by pa past paL t experience Wylie's Wylies hove lovo making h had d a droll feature fea fea- enI en- en I ture about it it it-It It was vas most t of ot It carried carried car car- ried on In the tite presence of three washerwomen washerwomen wash wash- because Nancy hu had no time lime timeto I to In 0 spare fr from her work a and nIl Wyllo I mil hai fl no time to los lose in his wooing being heIng be he- ing Oil on shore for tor or a limited period An And this absence of superfluous up delicacy on his part gave him an cm unfair ad advantage nil all vantage over the tallow chandlers chandler's tor foreman man his only rival at present Plesent Man Many a a. a sly thrust t and man ninny many a nearly laugh from the f female malc auditors greeted greet greet- greC- greC ed ee his amorous eloquence but hit for all al Hint that they sided with him and Nancy C fIt felt J her hm Imp Importance and brightened along Jong with wih her hii m mates males ts t's at Lw sailors sailor's approach which was as generally lil nh- nh by hy a cheerful hall hail haJ He Ht was good company to tn use 1150 Nancys Nancy's own phrase and she sIl accepted him as us a sweetheart on proba probation tion But But wh when n y Mr tr Wylle ur urged Id I'd d her to marry him she sho ho demurred and gave a string of or reasons reAson all ni of ot which the sailor and anti his allies s. s the tho subordinate washerwomen washer waher- women com combated hated In full ful conclave r Then she site spoke Olt out My 1 lad Jat the washtub Is a n sad saddle le as wont won't carr carry double Ive I've s seen n poverty enough nough In my mothers mother's moLlIs hou It shant come In tn at m my door to drive love Jo out o 0 window Two Iwo comes come s together with just enough for two next year ar instead of or two t o the they U are three thle anti and one of or tho the three cant can't work anti and wants ants a servant extra and by hy and anti b by 13 there thele li is half a n dozen and the mone money coming In al cit the spigot and going out at nt the hung bung hung note hole One tiny day In the middle of hl his uk wooing woo ing she laid down her Iron anti and said You come comp along with wih me And AntI I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder how ho much will wil be done whilst whist my back bach Is turned for you rou three gabbling an and wondering what whatever ever Im I'm Im a going to do with this tills here sailor satini s z Sh Shi took Wyllo a few yards down the street nOd and ald showed him a I large houto with most of oC the lie windows vs broken n. n There sh she sho said theres a aIg sight Ight Ig t for Cor a sea faring man That's in J. J chal chancery chancery- cIT Well its it's Is I's better to be ho there thre th than thanIn n nIn i In h h- h said hl yle Wylle Wylie meaning to be sharper I t Vait aIt alt till Ul youve you've tried cm em both hoth I c said Nancy Then she took him to the lie back of Q the house and showed him him a Jar large larger e r garden attached to t. it Now Nor Joseph said Mil she Ive I C f show showed d you 01 a lodging Judging house and a dry dry- r ing-ground ing and Im I'm a cook and amI a clear i and Im I'm Im wild wid to keep leep lodgers mid and tb do 10 for Cor eta em em wa washing and arul nd all aJ Then If IC their foul linen goes out they fol Co follows ci- ci 1 lows it I the same me If t they e has their meat from om the cook shop Four hundred hun hun- tired dred Jre pounds a year eal lies Jes there a waiting S. S for me Ive I've Ive been at t them heal often ofen to let Jet me rue them premises but the they says no we have got no border from the court to let JL Which the court would rather see em go o to rack an an ruin for nothing than let em cm to an honest woman as a would pay the rent punctual punctual punctual anti and mulct make her penny penn out of oC em eTI and n bo none the vorse And to top p Acl hein Ui the price o I pounds ay lp t nou ue e from you rou ne ne thoU thousand down and d the the m mortgage at 45 pounds I the year which it Is liFt dirt cheap I 1 say ay So now nov my man roan when that house hOlse Is Ismine ismine mine Im I'm Im yours Im I'm Im putting by for Cor forit it I 0 o my side ide If I you ou means all aU you ou ouM M say wh why not save va a bit bi o 0 yours our Once I 1 gel get that house luse and ald garden you need o to sea n no no more nor you OU shant If I I J am to be he bothered with wih a man a-man let Jel me know Jeow where wre to put m my linger finger on him it at all ni hours hour and arid not lie Je shivering and shaking at nt window ant every f ey as creaks creaIs crEaks and anti him lim out ou at sea Anti And nd if ir 1 yiu you arc ar too proud proul to te drive dri the linen In Ina Ina Inn a n H light ht cart why wily I 1 could pay a man I In short she sue told him plainly she he would not nol marry till tl she was ns above the world and ml the road to above above- the tho world I was wa through that thai great battered house and seedy garden In chancery Now Now- ow- ow it il ma may appear a strange coincidence coincidence coin coln- I cl that Nancys Nancy's price to Wylle was vas two thousand pounds an and Wylle's Wylies t was two thousand pounds but lUt the fact Is It was a n forced coln- coln Wylie bargaining with wih Wardlaw a Id law stood out nut for or two thousand pounds because e that was the price o of ot the tiP house and garden anti and nHI Nancy ancy Now Wylle le returned to England England Eng Eng- land safe after his crime and his hl perils I J he hi comforted himself with wih the reflection tion ton that Nancy would have ha her house hom e and garden and he have hn e Nanc Nancy But young Ja lay on his sickbed sick sickbed Ick bed hi hl his father ather was about to to the office olce anti and the gol gold disguised as ns copper was ordered up to the cellars In Fenchurch tr street et There In all ni probability the tho contents would would-be examined examined ex ox- ere long Jong the fraud exposed anti and other otner unpleasant ant COI consequences might follow over anti and above the loss Jos of or the tho promised two thousand pounds Wylle Wylie le felt ver very disconsolate and went down to Nancy ancy Rouse Rous depressed In spirits spiris To hl his surprise she received him with wih more affection than ever and reading his face in a moment momen told tol him not to fret fret ret It lt I will sill wi be so In your wa way of life said this homely comforter Your sort comes come home empty handed handed one Oil tIny day and anti mone money in both hoth pockets the next Im I'm Im glad clad to see seo you OU home nt at a all for tor Ive I've been in care about you OU Youre You're very welcome Joe oc If IC I you OU ar are come home hon honest st anti and sober wh why that I Ithe Is hi hithe rich the next best thing to coming home Wyllo hung his head heat anti and pondered these words an and well vell wel he ho might aught for Cor lm he hr hail had not come home either so o sober soler or so 80 honest a as ho Ito went out but quite as poor However his elastic spirl spirits soon oon re revived re- re revived in Nancys Nancy's sunshine and he became be be- became came more in love with wih her than ever But nut when presuming upon her OCI ei affection af aC- af- af he lie urged her to marry him and aOI trust to Providence PrO she laughed in his face Trust to him providence you OU mean said she No 0 no no Joseph Joseh If I you are arc unlucky I 1 must ho bo lucky before you and me can come together Then Wyllo Wylie resolved to have o ju his two thou thousand n pounds at alt all ni risks He lie had one Otto great reat advantage ac over o a landsman who has hns committed a crime He lie could always alwa's go to sea and amid all fluid find employment first In one ship and then in another Terra firma was as not one of the necessaries necessaries saries of o life fe to him I I I I He lie le came to Wardlaw's office to feel his wa way and talked guardedly to Michael about tic tite loss Jos of or the lie Pr Proserpine Jib Ills Ils apparent object was I to II- give information his real object was to gather it it He lie le learned that ol old Wardlaw was very ety much occupied with wih fitting out a a steamer that the fort forty ch chests of copper had actual actually como come up from Crom the Shannon arid and were under their feet feel at nt that moment and ant that young Ward law n was desperately ill f and never to the lie came Michael had hadnot hadnot not at that time learn ell the true cause of young Wardlaw's illness Iness Yet Wylle Wylie detected that young Wardlaw's continued con con- tinned absence from the office olee gave Michael singular uneasiness The old man f fidgeted and washed the air with his nis ils hands and with Iti wih simple cunning urged urGed Wylle Wylie le to go and se see him about the tile Proserpine and get him to the office If it I was only ony for or an hour or two Toll Tell Tel him we are nil all at sixes and sevens sevens se Mr lr Wylie all al at sixes and Well VeU said Wylle Wylie affecting a de desIre desire desire de- de sire to oblige give me a line to him for Cor Ive I've I e been twice and could never get gel in Michael wrote an earnest line to say that Wardlaw senior had been hitherto much occupied In fitting fUng out the SI Springbok but that ho was going goinG into tUo 1 t c i to Vio l V A-V The note was received but Arthur Arlhur d declined to see the bearer Then Wylle Wylie told the servant ant It was Joseph V Wylle Wylie le leon on a matter mater o of life and death Tell el him I 1 must stand at the and hallo It out if it he lie wont won't hear It I an any other way war This riis threat ol obtained his admission to Arthur Wardlaw The he sailor found hIm on a sofa sfa in a darkened room pale and worn to a shadow Mr tr Wardlaw said Wylle Wylie firmly you rou think I dont don't feel for you but hut sit sir i we are gone too far to stop you and me inc There is two sl sides es to this business it a hundred and fifty thousand thousand thou thou- sand pounds for or you an and two sand pounds for me or it is is- is What hat do I 1 care for money now groaned Wardlaw Let It I all al go to I time the devil who tempted me to destroy destro her her I 1 loved better beter than m ney better heter than all al the world Well eIl but hut hear mo me out said Wylle Wylie sand and pounds to you and two thousand sand an younds to you OU and two thousand pounds to me or else it is twenty years years' penal servitude to both hoth on us Penal servitude And tho the words roused the merchant from his lethargy I like hike a n shower bath I You know that tat won well enough said Wylle Wylie Why t was a hanging matter matter matter mat- mat ter few Come a a years ago come como there are no two Iwo ways you ou must bo be a aman aman man or we wo are undone Fear prevailed In that lint tImorous breast which even love Joye of or mone money hod had failed to rouse rouse Wardlaw sat t up starIng starIng star- star Ing wildly and amid asked ed Wylle what hat he hewn was wn to ti do tb First Filst let me ring for a n bottle lote of or that old oM hrand brandy of or yours jours OUI The brandy was as got Wylle Wylie Induced him him to lo drink a n ul neat teat and then lien to sit at time the table and examine the sailors sailors' lors' lors declaration and the time log logs Im Im no great said sid he I a going to lay Jay the these e before the underwriters till un you ou hart had overhauled them There Tere take another drop no now twill twill do ho you ou good while good good while I 1 draw drw tm up I this thun thundering blind Thus encouraged and urged the hearted broken schemer languidly compared compare tho the seamen's declaration I with wih the logs and amid even In n his feeble state of ot mind ani and bod body made an awkward awkward awkward awk awk- ward discovery l covery at at mit once he Why h the they dont don't correspond sl salt said 1 What lt dont don't correspond Your zour our mens men's statement and the thi thiC hips log The Time men speak of one on C heavy gale gaJe after aUer another in January and the pumps going but the log JoS saysA says ays I. I A putt puff of ot wind from tho the N. N 1 E. E And Ant 1 here again the entry exposes your you r exaggeration one exaggeration one one branch of or our evidence evi evl- d thence dence nce contradicts the other This comes come S ot trying to prove provo too much You Yoi a must say the tho log was lost Jost went down a with wih tho the ship How can I cried l Wylle Wylie I hay have a told to an I had got It safe sto a at t home g Wh a 1 you OU say nay ay that What mad mad- nes ness ness' ncR Why h were you awa away from your our of office of- of nee lice at ul such a n time How can I know everything and do everything I counted on you OU for th the headwork ashore Cant Can't yo ye 0 think of ot an any wa way to square the tho log og to that part hart of ot our tale talc might paste pate in a n leaf Jear or two oh elm eh That hat would bo be dL discovered at once once- You have committed an Irremediable lable error What hat broad strokes es this Hudon Hudson Hud Hud- son soil makes He lie le must havo have written with wih the tho stump of ot a n quill quit Wylle le received this last Jast observation le with within J a I look k of contempt t- t for the mind 1 I that could put so trivial a question In so great greut an emergency Are you ou quile lUite sure poor Hudson is dead ake asked Wardlaw in a low voice Dead Dont Don't I 1 tell teU you I 1 saw sw him die said sid Wyllo Wylie trembling all aU of or a aitu itu dd en He lie 10 took a glass glas of or brandy an and s sent nt it i flying down his throat throat i Leave Leavo the tile paper with wih me inc said Arthur languidly ull and tell teU Ill I'll lU crow crawl to the office olce tomorrow You can meet mf m mo me there 1 I shall so P nobody else e. e Wylle Wylie called next day at nt tl tIme the office and auth ant was received by who had now learned the cause of ot Arthurs Arthur's grief f and ushered the visitor In to him wi looks of benevolent concern Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur was seated like a lunatic palo pale and on time Iho table before him was a roa roast t fowl and a salad which he had hail forgotten n to eat cat Ills his Ils mind appeared to all alternate between love lo anti ami fraud raud for as al soon oon n as he lie saw Wylle Wylie le he hp gave himself a sort Rort of shake and amid handed Wylle e the tie log and ant the theta ta pa papers Examine them th they y agree better beter with wih each other duet ilO now Wylle It I examined l tho Limo log and started with surprise and and superstitious terror tenor Wh Why hy Hiram's Hirm's ghost host has been here at work hO he sol said It Is his ery very handwriting Hush t I saul said 11 Wardlaw not 1101 so loud mud Will Wi it f do The rime writing will vill wi do tic first rate rale rte but bul butan an any one cnn can see this lug log has hns never ne been heen to sea ea I 1 Inspired 1 by t the he others other's I Ingenuity ty he lie then after n a moments moment's reflection empted th time the salt sni collar cellar Inlo into a pint and md poured a little ItLe water valor over o el It f. f He lie le welted vetted tIme the h leaves eg a of If the time lo log with this salt alt water seater and eared dogs logs eared tH the lime whole ho book hoole k Wardlaw sighed See what expedients lent we are arc driven to said sId he l Ho then took look a little soot sool from tho the chimney and mixed it I with wih salad Mla oil nil oil He lie applied of or this mixture mixture mix nix ture to |