Mr. Wesley was at that time a curate at a salary of £30 a year, and with his newly-wedded wife, took lodgings in London till the autumn of 1690, when he received the living of South Ormsby, in Lincolnshire, through the presentation of the Marquis of Normanby.

There also was in Sligo, in those days, a woman, Ormsby by name, whose husband had fallen mysteriously sick.

In a year the man Ormsby fell sick once more.

But after a while he sickened again, the fatal third time, and away went she once more to Cairnsfoot, and out went the faery-doctor behind his back door and began muttering, but soon he came in and told her it was no use her husband would die; and sure enough the man died, and ever after when she spoke of him Mrs. Ormsby shook her head saying she knew well where he was, and it wasn't in heaven or hell or purgatory either.

Among his classmates were two men whom one delights to name with him,Ormsby M. Mitchell, later a general in the Federal army, and Joseph E. Johnston, the famous Confederate.

You mean' little Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel.

" "Then Master Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel is the true son of his father," smiled Paul Colbert.

Ormsby, an Englishman in his early twenties, good-looking and courteous, with an air of accustomedness to luxury, but of being roughened by his environment, was sitting on a bench one morning with a girl.

I asked Ormsby.

" Ormsby puffed his pipe as Tahia put her hand in his.

" Ormsby went to the Dangerous Isles on the Etoile, and did not return for three weeks.

" Ormsby and I talked it all over in the parc.

"I knew you'd make difficulties when it came to the paying part of it, and since I didn't know, myself, I wired Mr. Ormsby again.

But we'll bear them togetherwe three; and I'll never say another word about Brookes Ormsby and what might have been.

The motor-car was running on the spent velocity of the descent, and Ormsby thought to edge past without stopping.

"So did I," said Ormsby.

" "A seven-hundred-thousand-dollar difference?" suggested Ormsby, who had had speech with Loring.

Kent had fought his way triumphantly through the special election to a seat in the House, aided and abetted manfully by Ormsby, Hildreth, and the entire Trans-Western influence and vote.

Wm W.E. Wynne. given by W.W.E. Wynne Esqre to me W. Ormsby Gore April 8. 1837.

A.L. ORMSBY, Vice-President and Gen. Manager * * * * * MUSIC IN THE SPRING

For help in this search our thanks are due to Lord Stanley of Alderley, to W.R.M. Wynne, Esq., of Peniarth, Towyn, Merioneth (whose father owned the MS. and left a note in his copy of Dyce's reprint that he had given the MS. to his "old friend the late W. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P. for North Shropshire") and to Lord Harlech, the grandson of Mr. Ormsby Gore.

For help in this search our thanks are due to Lord Stanley of Alderley, to W.R.M. Wynne, Esq., of Peniarth, Towyn, Merioneth (whose father owned the MS. and left a note in his copy of Dyce's reprint that he had given the MS. to his "old friend the late W. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P. for North Shropshire") and to Lord Harlech, the grandson of Mr. Ormsby Gore.

A.L. ORMSBY, Vice-President and Gen. Manager * * * * * MUSIC IN THE SPRING

to me W. Ormsby Gore April 8. 1837.

We were fast friends ever after, and, when she went away to her distant Western home, Carry Ormsby bore some memorials of her summer friend away with her, in the shape of books, plate, and jewels, such as her simple means could have ill afforded.