had him brought up. The third prisoner, Ferrani, was brought in, and, when confronted by Ismailia and Mamba, broke down, and confessed that he also had been a participant in the crime. Before he arrived, I had left to return to Kassongo, having turned over the two prisoners to Lieutenant Lemery, who sent them down to Kibonge, which was then the Congo Free State headquarters. There they were hung, after a trial, in company with the Arab chiefs who had massacred the Hodister expedition. These executions took place in the latter part of May, 1894, a year and a half after Emin's death. Kinena and Kibonge have not yet been caught, having run away to the bush after the capture of the village of Kibonge. They are now twenty days' march from there, and the natives report that they have no powder, caps, or cloth, and that soon they must return to the river and surrender themselves. It will not be possible for them to make their escape eastward, as the natives on the road to Tanganyika would not allow a party of Arabs to pass unless they were able to fight their way through; and as Kibonge has no powder, this is out of the question. Nearly all of his people have returned, and, having reëstablished themselves in their houses at Kibonge, are beginning to cultivate their plantations. It is thought that Kibonge has not more than 300 people with him.

Among the effects of Emin Pasha were found the following articles: two sheet-iron traveling-trunks which contain some of his journals, his list of specimens, some thermometers, a parallel ruler, a uniform coat, a large writing-portfolio, several letters from Mackay of Uganda,

several letters from the Imperial British East Africa Company offering him the position of governor, and two decorations one of a chevalier of the Order of Francis Joseph, the other of the Royal Crown of Prussia. The journals were beautifully kept, and written in ink. The handwriting was so fine that a magnifyingglass had to be used in order to read it. Some of the entries were in German, others in English, others in Italian, French, Arabic, and Turkish, showing what a versatile mind he had, and proving his reputation as a wonderful linguist. A copper-colored native woman of the Equatorial Provinces, who had been his companion ever since he left the east coast, and his two-year-old daughter, who is of yellow complexion, are now at Kibonge, and are being cared for by the officer in command of the post. When the child arrives at the proper age she will be placed in a mission school, at the expense of the Congo Free State, where her education will be assured. It is well known that the woman who was with him at Wadelai died, and that her daughter Ferida is now in Germany, where she is receiving her education.

Not the slightest suspicion attaches to Said ben Abedi of having had any connection with Emin Pasha's death, which is regarded by the Arabs with whom I have talked as a stupid error on the part of Kibonge, who committed the crime simply to place himself on the same level as Munie-Mohara, who had killed Hodister. I do not believe, either, that Tippoo Tib had any hand in the crime, which must have been as great a surprise to him and to his son Sefu and his nephew Rachid, who was the governor of Stanley Falls, as it was to us.

R. Dorsey Mohun.

John Hay.

TENTY FAREBROTHER never knew how near she came to having what she would have called an "offer" on the evening following that of the sewing-circle supper. To her mind, as to that of the average New England country-woman, "offer," taken by itself, was a strictly specific term meaning an offer of marriage.

Tenty had never had an offer, had never looked for one, and, incredible as it may seem, had never wished for one. She had been altogether too busy-first, in looking after a somewhat delicate mother and hard-working father, and, secondly, in caring for a younger brother and sister-to consider herself matrimonially, and now at sixty was calmly content with her state of single blessedness.

ENGRAVED BY J. W. EVANS.

Not so Tooty, whose baptismal name was Ruth. Tooty, from the time she put on stays, and began to touch her cheeks with rouge, had never ceased to hope. Four-and-thirty years had elapsed since then, but her waist was still slim, her cheeks, though faded, daily renewed their bloom, and her heart fluttered as of old at the approach of a mateless member of the other sex.

The two lived in a low-browed, wide-spreading old house at the end of a lane in the hamlet of Mantib, Massachusetts.

Tenty was a cushiony little woman,— what Mantibians called "stubbed," - whose almost imperceptible waist had remained guiltless of stays except on the rare occasions when she had been persuaded to put them on at Tooty's solici

'T ain't likely we shall ever forgit him, and a little cheerful s'ciety would do us both good." Tooty assented.

"It's just about a year sence we had it before. Poor Asa was here then. Well, well, what changes a year does bring forth!" And Tenty sighed, and gave a moment to retrospection. Then she resumed more cheerfully:

"And I tell you what, Tooty, I won't cook the supper till they all git here. I'll heat up the brick oven, and cook it all t' once, and then I shall know just how much victuals to cook. And Mis' Pratt's Jenny she 'll help; she's a faculted creatur'. Last time, you remember, there come a snow-storm, and everything was blocked up, and nobody got here but Mis' Pratt and Mahaly, and they waded through up to their knees; and lots o' victuals sp'iled, though poor Asa did his best to save 'em. He was a marster hand for his victuals, Asa was; and he brought on one o' them bilerous attacks he was so subject to, you rec'lect, Tooty.

"But this time I'll get everything ready as near 's I can. I'll bile some corned beefthat 'll keep, and we can make hash out o' what's left. I never do get tired o' hash, specially now my teeth are givin' out. And there's plenty of mince put together for mince-pies, and I can stir up the creamy tarter biscuit after they git here, and pound-cake, and you can fry the symbols, Tooty, and Mis' Pratt's Jenny she'll make some o' that new-fangled victuals they had at Jerushy's weddin'-blue mange they called it. Most folks like new victuals, and, for my part, if there's anything goes ag'in' my stomach it's old victuals. And there's that crab-apple jell' and quince preserve we never can eat up now poor Asa's gone." Thus Tenty ran on, on hospitable thoughts intent. "If it's pleasant, we can cob on everybody's comin'. They know they'll git good victuals, and they have n't be'n here sence Asa died, and there'll be sights to talk about." "Yes; they'll be glad to hear all about it," responded Tooty, with a keen sense of the additional importance accruing to them through Asa's sudden demise. Not that every detail of it had not been thoroughly canvassed from one end of Mantib to the other, even to his "burying," the cost of his coffin, the fashion of his shroud, and the fact that Tooty, even on that sad occasion, did not fail of her usual bloom. But Tenty's sympathetic soul well divined that to the tragedy-loving Mantibians its repetition on the very scene of the tragedy, and in the presence of the bereaved sisters, would be as alluring as the sorrows of Ophelia, or the wailings of Constance to the inveterate theater-goer. There is a wonderful similarity in human nature, whatever its environment, and he who cannot satisfy his histrionic taste in one way will do so in another. Among those sure to be present at the sewing

circle was that Mahaly who had waded through such difficulties to attend the previous one. Mahaly lived with Joel Larkin, her brother-inlaw by his second marriage. It was currently believed in Mantib that Mahaly had designs upon Joel; it was said so openly, even as early as the funeral of the second Mrs. Larkin. But if so, they had come to nothing, as was shown by his third marriage with the Widow Lapham. She, however, having died at about the same time as Asa Farebrother, speculation was again rife as to his probable fourth marriage, and whether Mahaly would "fetch it " this time. It was understood that bets had been made at the store, to the amount of" a cent," that she would; but no one had ventured to take up the stakes in Joel's behalf, the general feeling of the parliament as voiced by its spokesman, Billy Hollis, being that a man who had made a fool of himself three times "by jingo!" was not unlikely to repeat the process.

His first marriage had been with a woman who had left on his hands a penniless maiden aunt; Mahaly remained in his house as a trophy of his second; and the Widow Lapham had bequeathed to his care a querulous mother-in-law. Such was the silt deposited at his hearth-stone by three successive matrimonial waves, and, as may readily be imagined, his household was anything but harmonious, and far from the place of rest a man's home should be when he is tuckered out with his day's work, as Billy remarked.

Was this state of things to continue to the end of his life? was the query naturally forced upon him. He was, even at the time of the beginning of this story, blindly struggling in the net spread for him by the wily and determined Mahaly, and was casting about for some way of escape, when the lonely and unprotected situation of the Farebrother sisters was suddenly and, as he felt, providentially, presented to his mind. Here was a way open, and by no means a strait way. It broadened out into green and pleasant pasturage: a comfortable and well-furnished house, a goodly sum in the savings-bank- this was when the Massachusetts law gave the bride's fortune to the groom the instant it pronounced them husband and wife; a nurse for his old age, especially if he fixed upon Tenty, upon whom, on the whole, his choice fell; and a devotion unparalleled in his former experiences, if he were to judge from the attentions lavished on the lately deceased and, as he felt, inappreciative, Asa.

That he should be welcome, he never for a moment doubted. He had heard of the nightly terrors of the two sisters; he was sure that a protector would be received with open arms. He had only to speak.

But what of his own household of equally unprotected women? Were they to be aban