violin held me as one
fascinated. I tried to move away, but could not, as you can judge by
what occurred afterward. There was a strange fate in my standing there.

"I stood quite still and listened to the well-remembered words which
carried me back so forcibly to my own past with Dorothy:

"'Far away in summer meadows,
Where the merry sunbeams played,
Oft I lingered 'mid the clover
Singing to a village maid.
She was fairer than the fairest,
Ever faithful, fond and true,
And she wore beneath her bonnet
Amber tresses tied with blue.

"'Ere the summer days departed,
We had made a solemn vow,
And I never, never wearied
Kissing her sweet cheek and brow.
She was dearer than the dearest,
Pure as drops of morning dew,
And adown her back were hanging,
Amber tresses tied with blue.

"''Twas decreed that fate should part us
Ere the leaves of autumn fell,
And two loving hearts were severed,
That had loved each other well.
She was all I had to cherish,
We have bade our last adieu.
Still I see in every vision
Amber tresses tied with blue.'

Just at that moment a step sounded on the pavement.

"A man rushed down, hatless, from an adjacent mansion, and in a
twinkling seized the offending young musician by the throat, and hurled
him from the sidewalk, crying, fiercely:

"'I will teach you to come here every morning and to sing that accursed
song of all others in front of my door. I have ordered you away twice
before. I'll teach you better than to come back again.'

"The unprovoked assault upon the helpless cripple awoke all the anger in
my nature.

"I sprang forward and separated them; but when I saw who the cripple's
assailant was, my amazement knew no bounds.

"It was the young doctor who comes here to attend Jessie.

"He turned on me with terrible ferocity; then I recognized the fumes of
wine on his breath.

"'This is the second time you have interfered in my business, Garner!'
he cried, fairly foaming with rage. 'Once when you attempted to take
Dorothy Glenn from me on the Staten Island boat, and--now.'

"I fell back as though he had struck me a terrible blow. In an instant I
recognized him. I had been looking for him ever since Dorothy's flight.
I had caught but a fleeting glimpse of him in the past, and his
whiskers made such a change in him, no wonder I did not recognize him as
he cros