chin sank upon his breast. He felt as if some one stronger than he had seized him in a powerful grasp, and was thrusting him away from the path he had chosen. He began to tremble from head to foot, and his heart shook his side; but at this point he smiled in his peculiar way, explaining his emotion to himself thus, "I thought you were after me, Stein; but it is only that my revenge is coming, and I love it like a bride." He was introduced to Clover Guerrinar. And as he was a natural actor, the hesitation and embarrassment which he felt, and which suited his rôle well enough, since he was trying to cut a limpish figure, were genuine, and not due to stage fright. He was startled into eagerness at finding her the very remarkable person she was, but pretended admiring perplexity. She looked at him in a kindly way, as if she noticed his embarrassment, and thought it came from awe at standing face to face with a young woman of so much beauty and well-known power. Wentworth rallied. “You would make no mean adversary, Miss Guerrinar," he said. "I should almost be glad to have a conflict with you, mind to mind." He thought with zest of the actual warfare which he was intending to wage with her. He gazed upon her admiringly, and even allowed himself to measure her height. "What an extraordinary sentiment!" she said, in surprise. "Why do you address me in this manner?" He shrugged his shoulders, looking round the room, which was full of guests, and then answered: "I have heard a great deal about you, but I was not fully prepared, nevertheless. I had been given to suppose that you were sometimes cruel, and you look to me like a generous woman." "I infer it: no one seems to understand me any better than you did just now." "But I do not like them," she said, opening a large fan, and moving it with a grand motion, suggesting that she wished to ward off absurdities of all sorts. "That is no news to me. I am snubbed by people, and they turn away from me mercilessly. I should be glad if some one would tell me the popular thing to say." "I have snubbed you already, I am afraid," said she, laughing, "but I will not give you up in despair quite yet. You may call upon me, if you will, and I will be as lenient as I can possibly manage to be, whatever fancies may assume shape in your brain.” Wentworth colored, but merely because he was overjoyed with this opening to success. Miss Guerrinar set him down in her estimation as very emotional, and took a feminine satisfaction in finding him so, for however unreliable emotional men may prove to be after long trial, they serve to pass the time with piquancy, if they have any worth at all; and those of them who have real worth are both charming and rare. Fortunately for the proper development of their acquaintance, as Wentworth would have termed it, she was making a winter's visit in Boston, which was foreign to them both, so that there were, on this account, no inquisitive and overzealous friends to remark upon the vast difference observable in the once efficient Wentworth, no one to alarm Miss Guerrinar by comments upon the incredible alteration in his manners and facial expression. Impecuniosity was one of his chosen cards; and another wise provision which he had made was never to talk about himself to her, unless by accident. But then he constantly created the accident which was necessary. Her own stability of character and pioneering spirit of quickly reaching to the roots of matters with a fearless interest made Wentworth's occasional bursts of confidence and the attiThese words arrested her attention, and tude which he at once assumed of looking she looked at him from under her bent to her for enlightenment and imagination brow, expecting to catch sight of some seem to her reasonable, especially as she bravado in his aspect; but Wentworth was accustomed to having her friends played his chosen part to perfection, and lean upon her greater mental and moral looked as innocent and puzzled as a stray-strength. She had been nurtured with ing child. She blushed, evidently displeased with his brusqueness, but he quickly added, "I never can hold my tongue, and it is a bad weakness for me, since I am full of odd fancies." all the discipline of a motherless only child. Pretty girls hung about her and tried to imbibe larger views of life, and elderly ladies consulted her seriously as to the styles of their caps and the propriety of their mantillas. Her lovers always told her that she had an ennobling effect upon them, and the heads of families exclaimed, "Ah, here comes Miss Clover; she is a model for all sensible attractiveness, girls!" There had been a time when Miss Guerrinar seemed to threaten to pass beyond the horizon of everybody's comprehension by preparing for college, but the terrible danger had been tided over by her engagement to Stein. The young lady to whom Miss Guerrinar was making the winter's visit, on the occasion of her father's having temporary business in the city, was very much surprised to hear her call Wentworth her moral "pensioner," and laugh over him, in the early stages of their acquaintance, as a "boy man" who had not been taught the A B C of self-develop ment. 66 "He strikes me," said Miss Dike, as a person of considerable self-development. Just think how well he plays the piano, and how delightfully he tells a story! He appears to know a great deal too, upon all sorts of subjects, and in all sorts of languages. The trouble is, Clover, he is so much in love with you already that it makes him seem to you vapid:" "I don't believe even love can make a man of innate power vapid," answered Clover. "Sometimes it makes them altogether too domineering.” Miss Dike looked at her friend shyly, having no doubt that she bore Stein in mind. "Well," she said, in a moment, "I only wish some of the others were as entertaining as your 'pensioner,' although he does have fits of the blues. And I have been told often, by my married friends, that it is wonderful to see how many young men can have the blues when you come to discover!" "There is something in your argument," Clover replied, checking a laugh. "For I consider Mr. Wentworth to be particularly ingenuous, and I am sure that he turns his worst traits to view." Miss Dike sighed. "It is so dreadful," she said, “"to know that I am so small and unoriginal that I shall always be patronized. If I should marry, I am quite certain that I should even ask my husband what color I must wear." Clover moved her head with a weary dignity, and responded encouragingly. 'You will escape all the anxiety," she said, "of making great decisions for yourself. It is the law of my nature to make them, but it is an arduous fate." Her eyes filled with tears. She was more sensitive since the breaking of her engagement with Stein, and mourned the loss of him as though he were a dead lover, instead of, as she thought, a disappointing one. The difference of opinion concerning Wentworth which the two young ladies revealed to each other was wholly due to his own efforts. He was afraid to have them agree about him, for in that case they would soon weary of referring to him at all; but if he could but manage to interest them both in different ways, there would be all the aid of pique, the love of argument and generous defense, and contrite admonitions of too much severity upon his side in their feminine conclaves. To Miss Dike, therefore, he ventured to exhibit more of his actual character than to Miss Guerrinar. One of his frequent calls was upon a bracing, sparkling day in November, in which he found it difficult not to gush forth into all the vivacity and keenness of his temperament. Miss Guerrinar was more genial toward him than ever before, and looked so gentle as well as beautiful that as Wentworth sat himself down he was obliged to groan in a plaintive manner, or else give up to a flow of spirits altogether too good for his part. 66 What is the matter now?" asked Clover, in concern. That I am alive now," he muttered. "This day makes me almost mad with energy, and yet it does not seem worth while to do anything. I've been marching through Boston looking at the statues of great men. Well, even their greatness could not prevent these motionless effigies of them from assuming their names, and playing a perpetual joke upon them for having lost their 'go.' "You know, I have no doubt, that these statues are due to the defective memories of the public, who must have something before their eyes in order to keep the thought of a great man before their minds. But I don't wonder you are discouraged, if you have been looking at monuments. I never look at them if I can help it." "You will not always be able to escape them," said Wentworth, with a keen glance. "And shall I be paralyzed with regret by them?" she asked, smiling. "We shall see." 66 "You speak as if you had a hidden meaning," she said. Perhaps you expect to serve yourself up as a hero for my private destruction when I behold you in marble. You don't seem to have made much headway against your fancies, although I have given you so much good advice as to the necessity and means of doing so." "I have taken all that you have said to me to heart," replied Wentworth, raising his eyebrows sadly, and looking upon the carpet in front of Clover's feet as if he longed to find himself prostrate there. "You have certainly led me to see what I need. If I had but been nurtured in an atmosphere of courage and faith!" He started up and went to the piano, and played some fine selections in a masterly manner. His musical performances were always welcome, because he had thoroughly cultivated himself in that line. It was an indication of fine elements in him that his taste was so good, and his touch so delicate as well as strong. At last, after a couple of futile attempts to get through a song of Schubert's without sighing, and putting his hand to his forehead as if in pain or perplexity, Wentworth whirled round on the piano-stool and stared at Clover stolidly. | hear the piano at home, and as I can not play well myself." He slapped his gloves upon his knee as if applauding himself, and smiled with a gay toss of the head. "I'm a lucky dog after all,” he murmured, his eyes sparkling. "Do you know, I really am repaid for all the years I have filled with labor over my music. But when I play to myself alone now I seem to be trying to make some one listen who is not with me, and I play ever so softly to try to cheat the very atmosphere into carrying the notes through space to you; and if I grow very happy, and feel truly glad that I am playing, then I know that I have quite made myself believe that you are listening. I say 'you' because you are the only person to whom my music has ever been of value." "Are you sure of knowing that no one valued it?" He turned his face, thinned and pale with low diet, away from her glance. At last he answered: "It is sometimes better to think than to know. Are you generous enough to let me be ?" As if crushed and terrified at the near possibility of an avowal that she did not "A great deal. I particularly like to care for him, he hurried away. "Have I given you pleasure?" he demanded. FROM AN UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF HAWAIIAN HISTORY. ROM 1838 till 1843 the Hawaiian Isl-| The American merchants came forward ands were a bone of contention. In- and raised the sum, and the peril was for trigues were constantly set on foot by the time averted. agents and subjects of France and England, having for their object the subversion of the native government and the seizure of the islands. In 1839 the French compelled the king, Kamehameha III., to comply with certain unwarrantable demands, and as a security for future good behavior to deposit $20,000. It was thought that the demand was made in expectation that the king would be unable to comply, and that thus the French would have an excuse to seize the group. But the plots continued, and in 1842 the British consul, Richard Charleton, a coarse and illiterate man, incited by an ambitious adventurer, one Alexander Simpson, endeavored to involve the native government in difficulties that would result in hoisting the British flag over the group. In the same year Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson Bay Company's territories, visited the islands. An English gentleman of liberal views, he would not lend himself to the intrigues of his countrymen, albeit one of them was his therefore I have given away the life of our nephew, and by his advice the king, har-land. ilear ye! But my rule over you, my assed on all sides, decided to send compeople, and your privileges, will continue, for missioners to the United States, England, and France to try to obtain, if possible, a definite acknowledgment of his kingdom and sovereignty. To this important embassy were appointed Rev. William Richards, formerly one of the American missionaries, but who had been for some time acting as adviser to the king, and Haalileo, a native chief. They quietly embarked in a small schooner for Mazatlan, and crossed Mexico to Vera Cruz. As soon as it was known that they had left the islands on this mission, the British consul, Charleton, also secretly embarked for London, via Mexico, to lay his complaints before the British government, leaving Simpson as deputy to carry out their joint designs, whom, however, the Hawaiian government declined to recognize. On the Mexican coast Charleton fell in with Lord George Paulet, commanding her British Majesty's frigate the Carysfort, and made his lordship, as his course afterward showed, a convert to his schemes, and by his formal and plausible complaints against the king induced RearAdmiral Thomas, commanding the British squadron on that station, to order the Carysfort to Honolulu for the purpose of investigating the alleged grievances. On his arrival Lord Paulet, a hot-headed young nobleman, readily lent himself to the designs of Simpson, without inquiring into the merits of the case, dazzled by the idea of so early in his career making a brilliant stroke for his country, and extending her drum-beat round the world by one more station. Making outrageous demands upon the king, at the cannon's mouth, compliance with which he knew would be impossible, he required, as an alternative, the immediate cession of the kingdom to England, or he would open fire upon the city and declare war in the name of Great Britain. In this terrible crisis the proclamation issued by this native king to his people is so touching and so king-like that I will quote it here: "Where are you, chiefs, people, and commons from my ancestors, and people from foreign lands! "Hear ye! I make known to you that I am in perplexity by reason of difficulties into which I have been brought without cause; I have hope that the life of the land will be restored when my conduct is justified. "Done at Honolulu, Oahu, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1843. "KAMEHAMEHA III. "KEKAULUOHI." Lord Paulet took formal possession of the islands, installing himself as governor of her Majesty's new dominion, destroyed every Hawaiian flag he could get hold of, and placed an embargo on every native vessel, so that no one could go out and carry the news. An American man-of-war, the Boston, Captain Long, had come in a few days before the cession. Captain Quackenbush, late of Norfolk, Virginia, was then a midshipman on board of her. The Americans were very indignant. They had their guns double shotted in hopes of an opportunity to interfere, but, being on a cruise, could not go out of their way to carry the news, and could only remain neutral. His Lord Paulet would thus have cruelly prevented the king from communicating with his ambassadors who were abroad successfully working for the acknowledg ment of his independence, hoping to commit the home government to an acceptance of this "voluntary" cession at the cannon's mouth before the other side of the story could be represented to it. young lordship and Simpson chuckled over the success of the stroke by which they had, as they supposed, closed every avenue of egress for Hawaiian vessels, and secured the arrival of their own dispatches in England in advance of every other version of the story. Yankee shrewdness was, however, too much for his lordship's plans. It happened that the king had chartered his own yacht Hoikaika (Swift Runner), previously to the cession, to an Amer ican house for a voyage to Mazatlan and back. Lord Paulet, anxious to get possession of the only creditable craft at the islands in order to send Simpson as his bearer of dispatches to England by the speediest way, and being prevented by its charter from seizing the vessel without the consent of the American house, offered, in case they would relinquish their charter, to allow them to send an agent on the ship to attend to their business on the coast, and to bring down any freight on the return trip, thereby saving them | time was to be lost. Lord Paulet had rethe whole expense of the charter. It must be remembered that in those days communication between the islands of the Pacific and the coast was very infrequent, depending on merchant ships that came from Boston twice a year, except for occasional chance vessels. Lord Paulet rightly conjectured that the Yankee merchants would jump at the offer to have all their business transacted at his expense, but he little dreamed of all the use that might be made of the opportunity he was giving them. The officers of the Boston, who would have been glad of an excuse for a forcible interference with his lordship's plans, not being allowed that pleasure, consoled themselves by giving a ball on board, to which the officers of the Carysfort were not invited. christened the Hoikaika as "her Majesty's tender Albert," and was fitting her out with all possible dispatch. The king and his premier, a princess almost equal in rank, without whose signature none of his acts was valid, had left the island of Oahu immediately upon the cession, and in sullen dignity of despair buried themselves among the mountains of the adjacent island of Maui, leaving Dr. Judd, his minister, to represent and protect his interests—a man of indomitable courage, unusual ability, and unflinching devotion to his sovereign. Those happy isles in that day did not boast a lawyer. My credentials were copied verbatim, except necessary variations, from an old Blue-book containing the credentials of John Adams as the first American minister to England. Mine were a commission as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of St. James, from the Native King of the Hawaiian Islands," the title Kamehameha was allowed by Lord Paulet to retain, with some half-dozen other blank com 66 I was then a young merchant in Hono lulu, and attended the ball with many other of the American residents. At its height I was quietly invited into the cabin of the Boston, where I found Captain Long, Dr. Judd-previously a prominent American missionary, then acting as the king's min-missions signed by the king and premier, ister and other influential citizens and to be filled out by myself for other counwarm friends of the king. Here I was tries as occasion might require. These told of the king's desire to send an envoy were rendered necessary by the uncertainto England to present his protest against ty of my finding the king's other ambasLord Paulet's act of violence, and his an-sadors, Haalileo and Richards, with whom, swer to the charges against him, and to in case I did find them, I was to associate demand the restitution of his sovereignty. myself. I was informed also of the opportunity offered to the firm of Ladd and Co. of sending a messenger to the coast in the yacht. Ladd and Co., who were warm friends of the island government, had proposed that the king should send a secret ambassador, in the character of their commercial agent, thus turning Lord Paulet's master-stroke against himself in the neatest possible way. I was asked if I would go in this double capacity of ostensible supercargo and actual minister plenipotentiary. Mr. Charles Brewer, who was one of the council, a noble-hearted man, with whom I was about associating myself in business-now enjoying a green old age in Boston-not only gave consent to my going, but agreed to advance for the king the necessary funds, and take his pay in fire-wood, all the king's other revenues having been cut off. I readily accepted the commission. No The papers were drawn up by Dr. Judd and a confidential clerk at midnight, in the royal tomb in Honolulu, with a king's coffin for a table. So secret was it necessary to keep the transaction that even this clerk was not trusted with the name of the ambassador, which was left to be inserted by myself after I had sailed. The papers prepared, a canoe with picked crew of Kanakas was dispatched from a distant point of the island to summon his Majesty and his suite to a midnight council. Crossing the boisterous channel in this frail conveyance, they landed at midnight on the shores of Waikiki, a suburb of Honolulu, and in its cocoa-nut grove, by the light of torches, my credentials received the signature and seal of the king and his kuhina-nui-"great minister"Kekauluohi, the "big-mouthed queen.' Then, the king and his attendants returned to their mountains, without Lord Paulet having a suspicion that they had ever left them. |