Then Bullion and Stearine will drop in, I think,both solid men, useful acquaintances.

Mr. Stearine came next,a tall, thin man, with a large, bony frame, and a bilious temperament.

By-the-way, Mr. Stearine, you were speaking the other day of a little discount.

Street rates are rather high, you know; but I will do the best I can." Mr. Stearine smiled again, as he had done every minute before, and expressed his gratification.

" Mr. Stearine hoped his friend would obtain as favorable terms as he could.

If anybody is shaky, it is Stearine.

He may go hang; but we must look after Stearine, and prop him, unnecessary.

Lucky, there he comes!" Mr. Stearine entered, not with his usual smile, but with an expression like that of a man trying to be jolly with the toothache.

A short, but dexterous cross-examination showed to Sandford, that, if the twenty-thousand-dollar note could be extended over to better times, Stearine was safe.

Henry has failed; so has the Vortex,and Mr. Fayerweather, the President,and Mr. Stearine,and everybody else, I believe.

See, there is a note signed by Flint, Steel, & Co., and indorsed by Lameduck, another by Kiteflyer and Co., indorsed by Burntwick, and this by Stearine & Star, indorsed by Bullion.

Sandford's main anxiety now was to provide for Stearine's note, which he felt assured the promisor could not meet.

"Stearine must look out for his own paper; if he don't, he must go down.

Stearine owes me; you indorse; you can't pay, neither of you.

Pity Stearine hadn't wick enough in him to stand alone.

They won't suspect, for they think Stearine's note has been extended.

On the morning of the day which brought the downfall of Stearine and his indorsers, Sandford and Fayerweather, with the Vortex, whose funds they had misappropriated, Monroe came to the counting-room unusually cheerful.

"Yes,I have failed; so has Fayerweather; so has Stearine.

He used stearine candles, too; not the common paraffin variety.

Quite a large boxthough nearly empty nowof stearine candles, six to the pound.

That we found in Blackmore's chambers a framed inscription of large size, hung upside down, together with what appeared to be the remains of a watch-glass and a box of stearine candles and some other objects.

In the bedroom I found a large box that had contained a considerable stock of hard stearine candles, six to the pound, and that was now nearly empty.

However, when looking over the drawers in the bedroom, I came upon a large box that had held a considerable quantity of hard stearine candles.

I subsequently obtained some of the same brandPrice's stearine candles, six to the poundand experimented with them.

and Mr. Jaffrey drew a newspaper from a pocket in the tail of his coat, and read as follows:"It has been estimated that if all the candles manufactured by this eminent firm (Stearine & Co.) were placed end to end, they would reach 2 and 7-8 times around the globe.