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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26,February 1893, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893An Illustrated MonthlyAuthor: VariousEditor: George NewnesRelease Date: September 27, 2009 [EBook #30105]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STRAND MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1893 ***Produced by Victorian/Edwardian Pictorial Magazines,Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netTHESTRAND MAGAZINEAn Illustrated MonthlyVol. 5, Issue. 26.February 1893ContentsA Wedding GiftHandsQuastana, The BrigandZig-zag At The Zoo: PhocineThe Major's Commission.Peculiar Playing Cards II.Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes XV.--The Adventure of the Yellow FaceIllustrated Interviews: XX.--Dr. BarnadoBeauties:—Children.Shafts from an Eastern Quiver VIII.--The Masked Ruler of the Black WreckersFrom Behind the Speaker's Chair II.A SlaveThe Queer Side of Things."Kenneth Threw Himself Suddenly UponPhillip. "Kenneth Threw HimselfSuddenly Upon Phillip."(A Wedding Gift.)(A Wife's Story.)By Leonard Outram."I will have you! I will have ...

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Title: The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Author: Various

Editor: George Newnes

Release Date: September 27, 2009 [EBook #30105]

Language: English

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STRAND MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1893 ***

Produced by Victorian/Edwardian Pictorial Magazines, Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

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"Kenneth Threw Himself Suddenly Upon Phillip. "Kenneth Threw Himself Suddenly Upon Phillip " . ( A Wedding Gift. )

A Wedding Gift Hands Quastana, The Brigand Zig-zag At The Zoo: Phocine The Major's Commission. Peculiar Playing Cards II. Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes XV.--The Adventure of the Yellow Face Illustrated Interviews: XX.--Dr. Barnado Beauties:—Children. Shafts from an Eastern Quiver VIII.--The Masked Ruler of the Black Wreckers From Behind the Speaker's Chair II. A Slave The Queer Side of Things.

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myself to sleep, as other girls would have done in such a plight as mine. As I entered my room with a lighted candle in my hand, there came an awful crash at the window—the glass and framework were shivered to atoms, and in the current of air that rushed through the room, my light went out. Then there came a crackling, breaking sound from the branches of the old apple tree beneath my window; then a scraping on the bricks and window-ledge; then more splintering of glass and window-frame: the blind broke away at the top, and my toilet table was overturned—the looking-glass smashing to pieces on the floor, and I was conscious that someone had stepped into the room. At the same moment the door behind me was pushed open, and Hagar, frightened out of her wits, peered in with a lamp in her hand. By its light I first saw Phillip Rutley. A well-built, manly, handsome young fellow, with bright eyes and light, close-cropped curly hair, he seemed like a merry boy who had just popped over a wall in search of a cricket ball rather than an intruder who had broke into the house of two lone women in so alarming a manner. My fear yielded to indignation when I realized that it was a strange man who had made his way into my room with so little ceremony, but his first words—or rather the way in which he spoke them—disarmed me. "IT'S ONLY MY BALLOON" "IT'S ONLY MY BALLOON" "I beg ten thousand pardons. Pay for all the damage. It's only my balloon!" "Good gracious!" ejaculated Hagar. My curiosity was aroused. I went forward to the shattered window. "Your balloon! Did you come down in a balloon? Where is it?" "All safe outside," replied the aeronaut consolingly. "Not a bad descent, considering this confounded—I beg pardon— this confound- ing little to drop through the cloud and Thought I was half a mile up in the air. Opened the valve a  fog. discover my location. Ran against your house and anchored in your apple tree. Have you any men about the place to help me get the gas out?" We fetched one of our farm labourers, and managed things so well, in spite of the darkness, that about midnight we had the great clumsy thing lying upon the lawn in a state of collapse. Instead of leaving it there with the car safely wedged into the apple-tree, until the morning light would let him work more easily, Rutley must needs "finish the job right off," as he said, and the result of this was that while he was standing in the car a bough suddenly broke and he was thrown to the ground, sustaining such injuries that we found him senseless when we ran to help him. We carried him into the drawing-room, by the window of which he had fallen, and when we got the doctor to him, it was considered best that he should remain with us that night How could we refuse him a shelter? The nearest inn was a long way off; and how could he be moved there among people who would not care for him, when the doctor said it was probable that the poor fellow was seriously hurt internally? We kept him with us that night; yes, and for weeks after. By Heaven's mercy he will be with me all the rest of my life. "I NURSED HIM WELL AND STRONG AGAIN." "I NURSED HIM WELL AND STRONG AGAIN." It was this unexpected visit of Phillip's, and the feeling that grew between us as I nursed him well and strong again, that brought it about that I told Kenneth Moore, who had become so repugnant to me that I could not bear to see him or hear him speak, that I wanted to be released from the promise he had wrung from me that night at the garden gate. His rage was terrible to witness. He saw at once that my heart was given to someone else, and guessed who it must be; for, of course, everybody knew about our visitor from the clouds. He refused to release me from my pledge to him, and uttered such wild threats against poor Phillip, whom he had not seen, and who, indeed, had not spoken of love to me at that time, that it precipitated my union with his rival. One insult that he was base enough to level at Phillip and me stung me so deeply, that I went at once to Mr. Rutley and told him how it was possible for evil minds to misconstrue his continuing to reside at the farm. When I next met Kenneth Moore I was leaving the registrar's office upon the arm of my husband. Kenneth did not know what had happened, but when he saw us walking openly together, his face assumed an expression of such intense malignity, that a great fear for Phillip came like a chill upon my heart, and when we were alone together under the roof that might henceforth harmlessly cover us both, I had but one thought, one intense desire—to quit it for ever in secret with the man I loved, and leave no foot-print behind for our enemy to track us by. It was now that Phillip told me that he possessed an independent fortune, by virtue of which the world lay spread out before us for our choice of a home. "Sweet as have been the hours that I have passed here—precious and hallowed as this little spot on the wide earth's surface must ever be to me," said my husband, "I want to take you away from it and show you many goodly things you have as yet hardly dreamed of. We will not abandon your dear old home, but we will find someone to take care of it for us, and see what other paradise we can discover in which to spend our life-long honeymoon."

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