vid Lockwin's quarters? If we find Chalmers housed in
comfortable apartments at Gramercy Square, is it not inconsistent that
he should gradually supply himself with cough medicine, turpentine,
alcohol, ammonia, niter, mentholine, camphor spirits, cholagogue,
cholera mixture, whisky, oil, acid, salves and all the aids to health
and cleanliness by which David Lockwin flourished? How slight an
annoyance is the lack of that old-time prescription of Dr. Tarpion,
which alone will relieve the melancholia!

For Robert Chalmers finds that the weather still gives him a turn. If
the lost prescription will alone lift the oppression, is not the
annoyance considerable, providing Dr. Tarpion cannot be seen?

Robert Chalmers had planned a life at Florence. But now he is a man
without a body. It is enough. He will not also be a man without a
country. He will stay in New York.

In fact, a fortune of $75,000 is not so much! It will be well to
husband it. The books must be bought. Day after day the search must
go forward for copies like those in Chicago. Josephus! What other
copy will satisfy Robert Chalmers? Here is a handsome Josephus--as
fine as the one in Chicago. But did Davy's head ever lie on it?

Well, bear up then, Robert Chalmers. You are free at least. You need
not lie and cheat at elections. You need not live with a woman whose
heart is as cold as ice and whose pride is like the pride of an
Egyptian Pharaoh. You sunk that yawl well in the sands of Georgian
Bay! You filled it with stones!

You thought you were the sole survivor, yet how admirably the rescue of
Corkey and the boy abetted your escape, Robert Chalmers. They saw
David Lockwin die. They took his dying wishes. Fortunate that he
could not mention the deposit at New York!

But why is David Lockwin so dear? Why not forget him?

Did he play a part that credits him? Why stop at Washington and take
the mail that awaited in that long-advertised list? Truly, Robert
Chalmers was strong enough to lay those letters aside without reading.
That, at least, was prudent.

Let us read these newspaper accounts. There is intense excitement at
Chicago. Lockwin is libeled. The election briberies are exposed.
David Lockwin had spent nearly $200,000 to go to Congress, it is stated.

"Infamous!" cries Robert Chalmers, and vows he is glad he is out of a
world so base. He puts forth for books.

Search as he may, he cannot find the editions that have grow