"That's so!" he replied. "This here calls for lawyers." And leaving the store in the care of a substitute, he struggled into his coat and marched down-town with Dick, and the two presented themselves with their romantic story in Mr. Harrison's office, much to that young man's astonishment. If he had not been a very young lawyer, with a very enterprising mind and a great deal of spare time on his hands, he might not have been so readily interested in what they had to say, for it all certainly sounded very wild and queer; but he chanced to want something to do very much, and he chanced to know Dick, and Dick chanced to say his say in a very sharp, telling sort of way. "And," said Mr. Hobbs, "say what your time's worth a' hour and look into this thing thorough, and _I'll_ pay the damage,--Silas Hobbs, corner of Blank street, Vegetables and Fancy Groceries." "Well," said Mr. Harrison, "it will be a big thing if it turns out all right, and it will be almost as big a thing for me as for Lord Fauntleroy; and at any rate, no harm can be done by investigating. It appears there has been some dubiousness about the child. The woman contradicted herself in some of her statements about his age, and aroused suspicion. The first persons to be written to are Dick's brother and the Earl of Dorincourt's family lawyer." And actually, before the sun went down, two letters had been written and sent in two different directions--one speeding out of New York harbor on a mail steamer on its way to England, and the other on a train carrying letters and passengers bound for California. And the first was addressed to T. Havisham, Esq., and the second to Benjamin Tipton. And after the store was closed that evening, Mr. Hobbs and Dick sat in the back-room and talked together until midnight. (_To be concluded._) [Illustration] INVERTED. BY JOHN B. TABB. "Bicycles!--Bicycles!" Nay; to shun laughter, _Try_ cycles first, And _buy_ cycles after; For surely the buyer Deserves but the worst, Who would buy cycles, failing To try cycles first! A LAKE GEORGE CAPSIZE. BY EDWARD EGGLESTON. [Illustration: A QUIET ROW ON THE "BROAD LAKE."] Lake George can be the calmest and loveliest sheet of water that ever was shut in by mountain walls, but like all mountain lakes it is very fickle. If you have never seen it "cut up its didos," you do not yet really know our Lake. In the fall, when the tourists have gone and the hotels and cottages are quiet, Lake George now and then gets into a great rage and becomes quite sublime.