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BY A. CONAN DOYLE Stranve it is and wonderful to how upon this planet of ours the and most insignificant of set a train of consequences in mo- { tion which and react until their | final results are portentuous and incalen- lable. Set a foree rolling, however small, and who can say where it shall end, @

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events

what it may lead to! Trifles develop into |

tragedies, and the bagateHe of ome day ) ripens info the catastrophe of the next. An oyster throws out a secretion to sur-

round a grain of sand, and comes intu being; a up, a merchant buys it and sells it io a jeweler, who dispose: of it to a customer. ihe robbed of it by two scouncrels who quarrel over the booty. One siays the other, and perishes himself upon the seaffold. Eere is a direct chain of events with a sick mollusk for its first

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link, anc a yrallows for its last one. Had that grain ef sand not chanced to wash in between the shells cf the bivalve, two living, breathing beings with all

their potentialities for good and for evil would not have been blotted out from among their fellows, Who shall undertake to judge what !s really small and what is grovat?

Thus when in the year 1821 Don Diego Salvador bethought him that if it paid the heretics in Kugland to import the bark of his cork enks, it would pay him also to found a faetery by which the corks might be cut and sent out ready made, surely at first sight no very vital human interests would appear to le effected. Yet there were poor folk wh would suffer, and suffer acutely —women who would weep, and men ‘who would become sallow and hungry-lIcoking dangerous in places of which:he dex never heard, and all on acceunt of that

one idea which head flashed across him as he strutted, cigarettiferous, beneath the grateful shades of his limes. S

crowded is this old globe of ours, and si interaced our interests, that ene can not think a new thought without sume poor devil being the better or the worse for it.

Don Diego Salvador was a capitalist, and the abstract thought soon took the concrete from of a square, plastercd building wherein a couple of hundred of his swarthy countrymen worked with deft, nimble fingers at a rate of pay which ne English artisan could have ac- cepted. Within a few months the result of this new competition was an abrupt

fall of prices in the trade, which was serious for the larvest firms and disas- trous for the smaller ones. A few old-

established houses held on as they were, others reduced their cstablishments end cut down their expenses, while one o1 two put up their shutters and confessed themselves beaten. In this last unfortun- ate category was the ancient and respect- ed firm of Fairbairn Brothers of Bris port.

Several causes had led up to this ¢i-- aster, though Don Diego’s debut asa cork-cutter kad brought matters to: head. When a couple of generations back the original Fairbairn had founded the business, Brisport was a little fishing town with no outlet or occupation for her superfluous population. Men were glad to have safe and continuous work upon any terms. All this wes altered now, for the town was expanding into the center of a large district in the west, and the demand for labor and its remun- eration had yroportionately increased. Again, in the old days, when carriage was ruinous and communication slow, the vintners of Exeter and of Barnstaple were glad to buy their corks from their neighbor of Brisport; but now the larg: London houses sent down their travelers, who competed with each other toggain the local custom, until profits were cut down to-the vanishing point. For a long time the firm had been ina precarious position, but this further drop in prices settled the matter, and compelled Mr. Charles Fairbairn, the acting manager, to close his establishment.

It was a murky, foggy Saturday after- noon in November when the hands were paid for the last time, and the old build- ing was to be finally abandoned. Mr. Fairbairn, an anxious-faced, sorrow- worn man, stood on a raised dais by the cashier while he handed the little pile of hardly earned shillings and coppers to each successive workman as the long procession filed past his table. It was usual with the employes to clatter away the instant that they had been paid, like so many childdren let out of school; but to-duy they waited, forming little groups over the great dreary room, and discuss- ing in subdued voices the misfortune which had come upon their employers, and the future which awaited themselves. When the last pile of coins had been handed across the table, and the last name checked by the cashier, the whole throng faced silently round to the man who had been their master, and waited expectantly for any words which he might have to say to them.

Mr. Charles Fairbairn had not expected this, and it embarrassed him. He had waited as a matter of routine duty unti! the wages were paid, but he was a taci- turn, slow-witted man, and he had not foreseen this sudden call upon his ora- torical powers. He stroked his thin cheek nervously with his long white fing- ers, and looked down with weak, watery eyes at the mosaic of upturned, serious faces.

‘“‘T am sorry that we have to part, my men,’’ he said at last in a crackling voice. ‘‘It’s a bad day for all of us, and for Brisport too. For three years we have been losing money over the works. We held on in the hope of a change coming, but matters are going from bad to worse. There’s nothing for it but give it up be- fore the balance of our fortune is swal- lowed up. I hope you may all be able te get work of somé@ sort before very long. Good-bye, and God bless you!’

‘*God bless you, sir! God bless you!”’ cried a chorus of rough voices. ‘Three cheers for Mr. Charles’ Fairbairn!’’ shouted a bright-eyed, smart young fel- low, springing upon a bench and waving his peaked cap in the air. The crowd re- sponded to the call, but their huzzas

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cac more own give. nen they pegan to flock out into the sunlight, looking back as they went at the long deal tables and the cork-strewn floor—above all at the sad-faced, solitary man, whose cheeks were flecked with color at the rough cord- iality of their farewell.

‘*Huxford,’’ said the cashier, touching on the shoulder the young fellow who had led the cheering; ‘‘the governor wants to speak to you.”’

The workman turned back: and stood swinging his cap awkwardly in front of his ex-employer, while the crowd pushed on until the doorway was ¢lear, and the

heavy fog wreaths rolled unchecked into the deserted factory. “Ah, John!’’ said Mr. Fairbairn, com-

| ing suddenly out of his reverie and taking

up a letter from the table. ‘‘You have been in my service since you were a boy, and you have shown that you merited the trust which I have placed in you. From what I have learned I think I am right

in saying that this sudden want of work |

will affect your plans more than it will many of my other hands.’’

‘*l was to be married at Shrovetide,’’ the man answered, tracing a pattern up- on the table with his horny forefinger. ‘*Tll have to find work first.’’

‘“‘And work my poor fellow is by no means easy to find. You see you have been in this groove all your life, and are unfit for anything else. It’s true you’ve been my foreman, but even that won’t held you, for the factories all over Eng- land are discharging hands, and there’s not a vacancy to be had. It’s a bad out- look for you and such as you.’’

‘‘What would you advise, then, sir?’’ asked John Huxford.

‘*That’s what I was coming to. I have a letter here from Sheridan & Moore, of

Montreal, asking for a good hand to take |

charge of a workroom. will suit you, you can go out by the next boat. The wages are far in excess of any-

thing which I have been able to give you.”’

‘“‘Why, sir, this is reat kind of you,”’ the young workman said earnestly.

‘*She—mzy girl—Mary, will be as grateful to you as lam. I know what you say is right, and that if I had to look for work I should be likely to spend the little that I have laid by toward housekeeping be- fore 1 found it. But, sir, with your leave I’d like to speak to her about it before T made up my mind. open for a few hours?’’

‘‘The mail goes out to-morrow,’’ Mr. Fairbairn answered. ‘‘If you decide to accept you can write to-night. Here is their letter, which will give you their ad- dress.’’

John Huxford took the precioms paper with a grateful heart. An hour ago his future had been all black, but now this rift of light had broken in the west, giv- ing promise of better things. He would have liked to have said something expres- sive of his feelings to his employer, but the English nature is not effusive, and he could not get beyond a few choking, awkward words which were as awkward- ly received by his benefactor. Witha scrape and a bow, he turned on his heel, and plunged out into the foggy strect.

So thick was the vapor that the houses over the way were only a vague loom,

‘but the foreman hurried on with springy

steps through side streets and winding lanes, past walls where the fishermen’s nests were drying, and over cobblestoned alleys redolent of herring, until he reach- ed a modest line of whitewashed cottages fronting the sea. At the door of one of these the young man tapped, and then without waiting for a response, pressed down the latch and walked in.

An old silvery-haired woman and a young girl hardly out of her teens were sitting on either side of the fire, and the latter sprang to her feet as he entered.

‘*You’ve got some good news, John,’’ she cried, putting her hands upon his shoulders, and looking into his eyes. ‘I can tell it from your step. Mr. Fairbairn is going to carry on after all.’’

‘“‘No, dear, not so good as that,’’ John Huxford answered, smoothing back her rich brown hair: ‘‘but I have an offer of a place in Canada, with good money, and if you think as I do, I shall go out to it, and you can follow with the granny whenever I have made all straight for you at the other side. What say you to that, my lass?’’

‘*Why, surely, John, what you think is

right must be for the best,’’ said the girl

quietly, with trust and confidence in her pale, plain face and loving hazel eyes. ‘*But poor granny, how is she to cross the seas?’’

“Oh, never mind about me,’’ the old woman broke in cheerfully. ‘“‘T’ll be no drag on you. If you want granny, gran- ny’s not too old to travel; and if you don’t want her, why she can look after the cottage, and have an English home ready for you whenever you turn back to the old country.’’

‘‘Of course we shall need you, gran- ny,’’ John Huxford said, with a cheery laugh. ‘‘ Fancy leaving granny behind! That would never do, Mary! But if both come out, and if we are married all snug and proper at Montreal, we'll lodk through the whole city until we finda house something like this one, and we'll have creepers on the outside just the same, and when the doors are shut and we sit around the fire on the winter’s nights, I’m hanged if we’ll be able to tell that we’re not at home. Besides,

Mary, it’s the same speech out there, the

same king, and the same flag; it’s not like a foreign country.”’

‘‘No, of course not,’’ Mary answered with conviction. She was an orphan with no living relation save her old grand- mother, and no thought in life but to make a helpful ani worthy wife to the man she loved. Where these two were she could not fail to find happiness. went to Canada, then Canada became home to her, for what had Brisport to offer when he was gone?

“I’m to write to-night then and accept?’’ the young man asked. “‘I knew you would both be of the same mind as myself, but of course I couldn’t close with the offer until we had talked it over. I can get started ina week or two, and then in a couple of months I'll have all ready for you on the other side.’’

‘**It will be a weary, weary time until we hear from you, dear John,’’ said Mary, clasping his hand; ‘‘but it’s Ged’s

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write the letter which is to take the three of us across the Atlantic.’’ Strange how Don Diego’s thoughts were molding hu- man lives in the litth Devon village.

The acceptance was duly dispatched, and John Huxford begin immediately to prepare for his departcre, for the Mont- real firm had intimated that the vacancy was a certainty, and that the chosen man might come out without delay to take over his duties. In a very few days his scanty outfit was completed, and he started off in a coasting vessel for Liver- pool, where he was to catch the passenger ship for Quebec.

‘*Remember, John,’’ whispered Mary, as he pressed her to his heart upon the Brisport quay, ‘‘the cottage is our own, and come what may, we have always that to fall back upon. If things should chance to turn out badly over there, we have always a roof tocover us. There you will find me until you send word to us to come.”’

‘“*And that will be very soon, my lass,’’ he answered cheerfully, with a last em- brace. ‘‘Good-bye, granny, good-bye.’’ ‘Lhe ship was a mile and more from the iand before he lost sight of the figures of the straight, slim girl and her old com-

panion, who stood watching and waving to him from the end of the gray stone quay. It was with a sinking heart and a vague feeling of impending disaster that he saw them at last as minute specks in the distance, walking townward and dis- appearing amid the crowd who lined the beach. *

From Liverpool the old woman and her granddaughter received a letter from John announcing that he was just start- ing in the bark ‘St. Lawrence,’’ and six weeks afterward a second longer epistle informed them of his safe arrival at Que- bec, and gave them his first impressions of the country. After that a long un- broken silence set in. Week after week and month after month passed by, and never a word came from across the seas. A year went over their heads, and yet another, but no news of the absentee. Sheridan & Moore were written to, and replied that though John Huxford’s let- ter had reached them, he had never pre- sented himself, and they had been forced to fill up the vacancy as best they could. Still Mary and her grandmother hoped against hope, and looked out for the let-

, ter-carrier every morning with such eager-

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ness that the kind-htarted man would often make a detour rather than pass the

} two pale, anxious faces which peered at

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him from the cottage window. At last, three years after the young foreman’s disappearance, old granny died, and Mary was ieft alone, a broken, sorrowful wo- man, living «s best:she might on a small annuity which had desgsndetd to ber, and eating her heart out as she brooded over the mystery which hung over the fate of her lover :

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