respectively, harmonized in every relation with the map itself.
Around the walls of the room, and throughout the whole establishment,
kindred prints and paintings were somewhat profusely scattered;
presenting unmistakable evidences, that the proprietor hailed from
the Emerald Isle, and had no inclination, whatever, to disguise the
fact from either his customers or the world.

At the period that the soldier entered the premises, there were some
half dozen persons seated in the bar; each discussing his favorite
beverage or enjoying his peculiar "weed." Among these there was one
individual, however, whose appearance was singularly striking, and
who was taking part in the general conversation with an easy
flippancy and keenness of observation that showed he was a person of
no ordinary information or experience. There was something about him,
nevertheless, that, notwithstanding all his efforts to be attractive,
was strangely repellent. His small, grey eyes, thin, blue lips and
hooked nose, gave an expression to his countenance which was far from
prepossessing; while his soft, low, purring chuckle of a laugh,
whenever he made a point in his favor through some facile observation
that interfered with the deductions of those around him, evoked the
idea, that he was some huge, human mouser that was congratulating
himself on having disposed of some unfortunate and unsuspecting
canary. He was, withal, shapely, and had an air of refinement about
him, the most decided, and, quite beyond the ordinary run of saloon
habitues. His complexion though somewhat dark and out of keeping with
the color of his eyes, was yet pure; while his teeth were remarkably
white and brilliant, and apparently as sharp as lancets. In height he
was about five feet ten inches; and in age, somewhere in the vicinity
of thirty. He was dressed in plain gray clothes; and, from all one
might gather from his external appearance, was a person in