ee ss ~* A STREET & SMITH Proprictors. Vou. XXX, A STORY OF ENGLISH SOCIETY. Nos. 37, 29, 31 Rose St., q P.O, Boz £896, New York. Trin iiksees i ma o MIS CHAPTER L ALICE AND RENA. The declining sun of a cloudless September day was irradiating, with its level beams, a peaceful Kentish landscape, traversed in a north-easterly direction by the shining-tides of the river Medway, while the purple crests of a range of not inconsid- erable hills, outlined against the horizon, were wrapped in a vail of tender haze, and the vivid green of the roadside hedges suggested spring, rather than early autumn, to the casual observer. Under the plumy shadows of the dense-growin hedges, upon the snort, velvety grass of the road- side, an old man sat, his shoes and garments powder- ed over with dust, while two little girls, apparently eight or nine yéars of age, played and frisked round him—brown-faced, hardy looking little elves, ‘with bare feet, ragged calico frocks, and tangled hair in- sufficiently protected from the sunshine by tattered Straw hats tied under the chin. At the first glance they seemed to bear a singular resemblance te one anothem—at tho seeond an Sbservant eye conld Getect a wide difference. The taller, and apparently the elder by a year or so, was dark, with large, hazel eyes, fringed by long lashes, hair growing low upon her forehead, and teeth that shone like pearls between her rosy, parted lips; while the smaller and slighter of the two was fair, where the shadow of her frayed hat had, in some measure, kept the sun- shine from her brow, with brown hair flecked with shifting lights of gold, and eyes of violet gray, full of limpid depths that seemed to sparkle far down below the irids. ‘“Grandpapa! grandpapa !” this fair-haired sprite called out, pulling vehemently at the skirts of the old man’s coat, ‘me and Rena climbed up on the stile, and we saw, oh, such a many people way off, picking hops, and there were littie girls like us— can’t we go, too? Grandpapa, are you asleep ?” The old man slowly opened his eyes. “No, child, no, I was not asleep. Let us go on, Alice—we cannot be far off, now !” “But look, grandpapa!” coaxed the child, as he rose with difficulty from his sitting posture, and she stood on tip-toe to peep over the rustic stile, where the other child was already balancing herself like a young acrobat. It was indeed a pretty, rural picture, the hop- pickers seeming to swarm over the fields below, while the river, winding through the meads like a ribbon of silver, lay beyond, and, almost completely embowered in woods, the turrets of a stately pile of architecture rose up between, and a sylvan vil- lage nestled in the hollow, scarcély more than a mile or two distant. “Grandpapa !” exclaimed little Rena, shading her eyes from the sun with one brown hand, ‘is that the place we're goin’ to?” 4 ‘‘Are you tired, my child ?” asked the man, mourn- fully, as he laid one hand on her shoulder. ‘*Yes—no” said Rena, doubtfully, ‘But we’ve walked a long way, and Alice’s feet are blistered; Grandpapa, is this the place you used to live when you were a little boy ?” ‘*Hereabouts !” he replied, absently. ‘“*But show me the house, grandpapa !” ‘“When we come to it, child, when we come to it,” he answered with a sigh. ‘Come, Alice—come Rena; we've a weary way to walk yet !” Little Rena skipped down from the stile with a oe elasticity, and caught hold ot the old man’s hand. ‘Come on, then,” she cried. ‘Alice, you may. have my shoe, if you like—the one that the sole isn’t gone. It is pretty good it you step on your toes. ‘My foot don’t hurt me so much now,” said Alice, “since I tied the green leaves round it, and grand- apa says we’re most there. Oh, Rena, see that big butterfiy_—ian’t it splendid! Grandpapa, we never saw any such butterflies when we lived up among the mountains.” Jason Garfield did not answer. In truth and in fact he heard not a word of the children’s merry babble as he plodded on over the level roads that had been familiar to his feet years and years ago. Just then he was existing not so much in the pres- ent as in the past. “I wonder what she will say to me?” he thought. “She'll be angered sore, I’m afeared—and she wasn’t @ woman any one would like to face in her angry moods—but it isn’t nature to expect a man to keep away from his own native place forever. I could have lived in them furrin’ parts, but when it came to die there—and I mistrust me the end isn’t far oft now, for I've lived my three score years and ten, and the old machinery’s pretty well nigh rusted out. I wouldn’t betray her, but I can’t die with that secret on ~ soul. No, no, I'll give it back to her—I’ll give it back to her, and——” “Give what back, grandpapa?”’ asked a small, woe voice, and little Alice’s blue-gray eyes gazed up into his own. “Grandpapa, what are you talking about 2” “Was I talking ” said the old man, with a guilty flush on his cheek. ‘Some nonsense—some old song I used to hum, like enough, when I was a boy. Don’t you pay no attention to What the old man says, Allie—run on with your sister,” ' “I don’t want to run,” said the child, ‘‘my foot is sore. Did my father and mother live hereabouts, too, grandpapa ?” “Yes, child, yes! where should they live? and what makes you ask such silly questions 7” “I don’t know,” said Alice, mechanically, catching at the poppies that nodded their scarlet heads from the hedge rows as they passed. ‘I suppose I was thinking about my mother. It would he nice to have a mother, wouldn’t it, grandpapa—a real mother all to myself, like other little girls ” But before Jason Garfield could trame an answer, Rena, standing on the rise of a hill a few rods be- | yond, beckoned with her small hands; and called to her sister with noisy delight. “Oh, come, Allie, come! I see such a queer, old church, with the steeple all, covered with ivy, and a great, deep, porch, where we can sit down and rest on the stone steps. May we rest there, grandpapa ?” ‘He nodded askent, and the little girls flew onward, while his weary footsteps followed ata slower and more measured pace. ‘I mind “it well,” he thought to himself;.‘‘I’ve never forgotten St, Hilda’s, all the time I’ve-been away—no, nor ever shall. It’s a sight good for sore eyes, to look upon that mossy old tower again—ay, that it is.” At the crest of the hills one seemed to come almost directly upon the church, which nestled away among stately yew trees and hedges of box, its shadows, drawn by the pencil of thesunset, lying over the Enterta According to Act of Congress, im the Year NEW. YORK;-APRIL 12: 4875. “Grandpapa,” whispered Alice, who was looking on with an awe-stricken fage, ‘are they men?” “What nonsense!” said the less impressible Rena; “don’t you see they’re only stone? And oh, what a curious place, all hung round with crimson silk cur- tains, and a little stone fireplace, like a real house, and an eagle and a dagger cut into the wall over ” “Come away, child, come away; that’s my lord’s pew,” said Jagon Garfield, glancing apprehensively over his shofider, as if @xpecting some chiding sexton or beli#in er to r. “Is it a pew?’ demande audacious Rena, ‘‘and why is it so different from the others. Who is my lord ? and—___ ” “Oh, sister, Se!” chimed In little Alice, who stood before a beautiful mural tablet let into the wall half- way down the Bain body ok the church, “two beau- tiful little ange clasped a other’s arms, and letters in whitemarbie! me and read!” Jason Garfieldstood leaning on his stick, his face singularly ghaély inthe green light stteaming dewn from a western oriel window, as Alice and Rena, standing hand in hand, slowly spelled out the inscription on the wall: ‘Po the mene of Allegra. and Katherine, twin uchters of Adelbert, Earl of Glenhampton, who died June 21, 18, aged two years and fifteen days. Suffer little childten to come unto me, and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven!” “Come. away, children, come,” he said, huskily; “the bell will be tinging for evening service soon, and we must not be found vagabonding about here! Come, I say!” “But, grandpapa!” pleaded, Alice, ‘I want to look at the marble angtis more! Did you know about Allegra and Kathetine? What made ’em die? Who is Adelbert, Eart of “Glemhampton? Tell me all about it, grandpapa!” But Jason Garfield had hobbled out of the church; Rena reluctantly followed him, and."Alice, who had no fancy to.be left dlone.in the big, echoing build- ing, even in the companionship of the “little marble angels” ran lightly after, ““Phe cold*fioor feels 80 g00d to my feet,” she said, piteously. ‘‘Rena, jon’t you think we might sit down here a minute on the green grass, where the waige rags out of St. Hilda’s Cup, and bathe my sore oot ? ‘ ae a churchyard,” said Rena, somewhat doubt- ully. “But nobody would see us hedge. Please, Rena, it And Rena, with 4 glan where her grandfathés leaning on his stick, apa if we got behind the so !” Over her shoulder to in front of the porch ¥ gazing off over peacefulgrows of graves beyond, and the sound of a wayside fountain, walled by rude stones and sur- \ i é pit /| an Tha ; oe YN, | i ih ———— ——= _—_— or tA a a Re Wa _——— — = =. y = a: se Sa if S SS pel Sk , , on vy LY ~_ iT ¥ : > LY ' a a “Oh, that feels so nice! Do it more, sister! Let the tts, by Bireet, & Beith, in the Oflcs of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. Three Doliars Per Year. | FRANCIS S. STREET. Two Copies Five Dollars. {f FRANCIS S. SMITH. ““No; but don’t you see the little cottage on the edge of the woods, where there's a wire fence?” “With the chimneys painted blue?” eagerly de- manded Rena. “Yes, with the chimneys paifited blue; that ‘is home!” He spoke in a tone of strange, subdued exaltation, and Alice’s weary face grew brighter at his voice. It seemed near, but it was a long walk to the tired pedestrians before they reached the outermost limits of the grounds of Glenhampton. Keeping in the footpath which led alongside of the ornamented wire fence, with its hedge of glossy-leaved rhododen- drons beyond, and here and there a glimpse of close- shaven lawn, dotted over with huge trees apparent- ly centuries old, they presently reached a little gate imbedded in the green wall of leaves. “Grandpapa, it’s locked,” said Rena, in an-accent of disappointment. “They mostly used to keep it locked,” said the old man; “‘but the key hangs just inside, where them as knows can find it. Yes, I thought so.” He had deftly passed his arm through an aperture in the wire-work, and reached a little iron key, with which he unlocked the gate and admitted. himself and the two children. Rena glanced up at the rustic little lodge, over- grown with a perfect wilderness of ivy, woodbine and clematis; but the window shutters were closed; door stone. “Grandpapa, what’s that?” cried | Alice, clinging closer to the old man, as some night-bird rustled through the gloomy foliage overhead. ‘Nothing. to hurt yer,” said Jason, gazing deject- edly around. ‘Well, well, I hadn’t no right to expect things to stand still durin’ the years ’ve been away. She’s dead, or she’s moved away; an’ I haven’t the strength to go an inch farther.” He sank wearily down on the door-step, but the latch and tried the door. ‘“‘Grandpapa, see!” she cried; ‘it comes open; it isn’t locked! Let us go in.” A gust of moldy-smelling air streamed out upon the soft twill atmosphere of the outer world from the confined room, and Rena, straining her eyes into the darkness, could just discern the out- lines of a few articles of furniture standing careless- ly around, as if recently left by their possessors. “Pll open the window shutters, grandpapa,” she said. “See, there’s an old bedstead, and you can lie down and rest until somebody comes.” ‘Until somebody comes!” Jason Garfield, rising feeblyto his feet, felt a eR ae SOR Re ee aR a santa eens ih, (| 2 ox THE NEW YORK WEEKLY. =~ ee ee a r ee ee Se ES eee bees x Se ae a ——— as —— ane — ee aie cer ee ‘‘Why, miss, it seems there was somebody took | called Silent Tonge, and she checked her rebellious de-{ tain, His enemy shall be sufe in our hands. We willsee refuge in the lodge last night unknown to us all, as | Sire to thware the wishes of the old captain, and takiug | that he sieeps a longsleep. When shall he be given into ~ was burned to death—an old man, miss, and two her guitar suug’these words to its accompauiment: our hands ?”? : ‘ sateen od ; «When the west wind sory wiusper, ee eset ve meee ee | d to death!’ echoed Antonia, in accents of Thott mations: stens at mel ‘aan ‘ . less horror, her face blanching ee listened. Whee cere on ot night come ae horse that 1a Ls! und am Ww 7.Meghh hers shall follow / , miss. Joseph, the under-gardener, he told , Oe ees ( “It is good. They . $s a-comin’ by there late last night, and he “They want fleet hor 7 . C D atty hi ‘ he ¢. ye answered the old servant, deferentially, “as you'll see if you'll just please to look out of your west win- dow; but there warn’t no need for disturbing you, nor you, my lady. I’ve sent Jennings down with the keys of the private engine-house, and the boat- house, and I was just goin’ to step down myself.) b when——” Oem Aor ea a But Lord Glenhampton stayed to hear nothing]. re before } ken draperies that, ly at the castle had been transacted by the Huns- worths, grandfather, father and son, and a cordial frendship had also existed during all these years between lawyers and clients, which the present Mr. Hunsworth was about to seal by a marriage with Lady Glenhampton’s friend and governess, Antonia Clive. Arthur Hunsworth was a fine-looking. man of about thirty, with hazel eyes, clustering brown curls, and a pleasant square, mouth, overshadowed. b. dark muStache—a man whom any woman mig think it fo Shame to love and ‘trust implicity= }- Boyl Antonia Cliveievidently gloried in the fact that's had won this \moble heart and nature to be her 0 You could readit in her sott eyes uplifted to} yf i lover's faceyin | flush whieh stole over her the © I face when he spoke to her, or allowed his eyes to) ,» he saw the red ré rest lovingly upon her transparent brow! ie { ar’ pale, beautiful ‘“‘Day after toel intonia! an said, @aress- | s side - 44 ae ingly. ‘“The@ime ‘ery nearnow!” | Lady Glenhampton rey her, white ; | “T wish it Wéere-sooner,” “Miss. Clive ex ed, | mere wrapper thrown “round her, 1 4 with a sudden impluse as her fingers involuntarily | cured by a heavy silken cord at the slender w s pirit grateful lifts m2 the Platte, the } closed ow the hand which had taken hers, a will- Ry uP, a ne regs pall repeonanes tye" € Praise f6 God tur ull His gifts, Tho old capiain Heataibeot e a _ nave anal a ing captive. you know that the night air is c 8 nes, an’ t br ess, reigned “talk” — ronte “My darling—why 2” “Oh, Adelbert!” she gasped, “what isi? Where| scorched that horrible that-—” | Wiupresag twese wordgrand oven’ Eagle Liye forgot tose | dcrariedn ore? Sue soon Grizzly Beat aud his friends ‘ “I don’t know, Arthur=JI eam’t tell! Do you never | can it be? Not in the hh oP rns, I Pepe T aenne - But Antonia’s uplifted finger and deadly pale apathetic, ; acter demanded, his mau-| Not, however, until they saw that Silver Wing had : | experience sensations which you ¢annot account for | told me there was a merry-making there late last | countenance warned him to desist in his catalogue | uer bet te | placed the young officer near her tent, with the black : in so ae ee a aT . a 1 ni 4 Re if xii 7 sstneuinie m of horrors. Pepi! fos j ‘ ee a } ray oe Pie pti iPS ner not : mee om by him, Yule she sot at a distance from them, “Antonia always eved in omens and premoni- e caught at arm, nervous ng tohim,|. * . sh , Ta than spoke. ’ , , uy cap-] a wra n thought. tions!” laughed y Glenhampton, Hghtly. “You | as she tnd : : Tra ; “Tber De paldon tae ce te was Soin’ tain believed to becdused by the mar velo beauly of the} a hae read the speaking paper,’’ said Grizzly Bear Will have to effect a radical cure, Mr. Hunsworth. | “Be calm, my darling,” he sgid, soothingly. “No, |up to my lord, and I wouldn’t no-ways have you girl, for he one ee Pe Bae (nso _ a emer, -» if Lorie to Eagle Eye. ; Wait until you are a bride, Antonia, and then you | itis not in the direction ot the hop-barns. tt seems | come sudden on a scene like that!” fe Oe ea” +» see sama wine +e har tae thane ws Pp wer tial ~~. ' will be the first to laugh at these idle fancies!” farther to the southward, and nearer tothe park-| Touching his hat once more he @ d, and Miss} iis na tside now demanded his attention, ld captain caine out in view to conceal It quickly. ; _ Little Lady Blanche had come up to her mother’s} gates. There! do'you hear thé village bell ringing | Clive called her little’ companions, who had been’ and biddi & rteib tiie others he would return| “Let the Sioux be ready. to start. when: thessun Is as i side, and stood there, gravely listening. owt? Edith——” “And he stopped abruptly, as a] merrily chasing butterflies over the closely-shorn | in a moment, he stepped outside the tent. high asaman, When the day dawns the pale-face pris- i Bt “And Iam to be Miss: Clive’s) bridemaid, mamma,.} sudden-up-darting volume of flame revealed the out- | grass, tocher sides 5 us a + That moment sufficed for Silent Tongue to place a letter poner willbe put ona horse alrdytald to goyhsitid the old Taare re eee oe Te eee ie ee: cut | etn gee ce acnampaig ara et |S taav ir youaretaa” 06 asso Ta te: you | elebOST VOTRE many Ot nanan Ted 9 | ‘an 0 r? arte ge 2 we n- are 1 o their camp. ‘ 10ld her glove for he elieve it is the deserted lodge at the west e not go to tke fire. ‘here is acroy people there, will yo Halemes ania seni i wad “ Wiebe Sc REE ee no more,” (said Grizzly Bea 8, and I ‘furnish the best ture fast and strong, so they ma vee Wn stables that can be d that is Night,’’ said Eye if he will pers 1 will see thabiie : j at chief to his euand what his et iuterpreting for asec Sn me aaa tate wo NR - mee “2 ;: dnfederation will be “Sioux; the Yanktous RR LI as et ge RI ° se ” 4“ ” , aR 8 ‘ 0 one near who has every right to pro- Yes, darling,” answered Antonia, “and you are | trance! and your papa would not be pleased to Nave you go.) tact and bear you away from your present surroundi fast horse le has promised,” sald Grizzly Bear. : to pass long days with me in the cottage under the}- “Oh, Adelbert! but no one lives there.” , -. Bla uttered exclamation of disappoint- vr ae | beeches, you and Prnest, and mamma.” “Fortunately not,” he answered; “and, if it is}ment, Ernest pote his 1owor fp sullenly, * pepe Ay! Uh. hte a1 boas itiserel Be ea oh They shall be sent,” was te a re “It is all ready for us, Antonia,” said Mr. Huns- | nothing more than the old lodge, I shall not regret | “I want to see the fire!” he exclaimed,.. “I will | for we will be near.” 7 : sie Worth, relieved to. perceive that the momentary} it very much; it has long been a blurr on the beauty | see the fire!” ee Ine ; “You are not an Indian then, nor dumb, as is sup- CHAPTER XXIX.. - shadow had passed away from his fiancee’s fair brow, | of the landscape, and nothing save the old associa- | ‘*We can see it without ‘directly to 1@ spot,” | posed f? said Silver Wing. When Silver Wing led the officer toward her tenth “and Iam going down to-night for the last look be- | tions connected with the place have prevented ime | said Miss Clive, in a con ory tone, “Don’t you| ‘‘Silence—he comes! Conceal the letter, and conceal | eyes Were studying her lovely face aud form, but she >ore it is consigned to old Smithson’s care, until we | from pulling. it down.” know, Erney, from the top of p it hills, Were | #80 all feeling and e citement!"? eaened preoccupied with thought, and did not return one vvturn from our wedding trip to claimit, Ihavehad| “Yes, I know,” said the countess, softly; ‘but }the marble temple stands, we can see all the place?” | Edgar Temple had just dnished this warning, and Silver | © eee po inquires ces. he pointed to # vine- tie boudoir ceiling decorated in lilac and gold to} since those days——” e" . “So we can,” said Ernest, brightening up,, * €, | old captain returned shaded seat peer it, and said: ee ea a ; batt Fone taste, and Lady Glenhampton has insisted} She stopped, checked by the gloom which seemed | Blanche, theré’s a short cut across th gan pa a - He aaa vot alone. “Be seated there, sir; I will order a small fent \pitcnea on filing the conservatory from her own stock of | suddenly to enwrap her husband's face, and at the sow of, that will take us therein five minutes! I'll] An officer, in the uniform of the United States cavalry, | 0M purpose for you.” % Lig piaala”: oo : same moment Boylsford knocked once more at the | show you the way, Miss Clive.” re with his hands bound ‘behind him with buckskin thongs, | ‘Fair lady,” ite replied, “I am a soldier, | “Because I know which flowers Antonia loves the | door of the’outer vestibule. — , “I know it already,” said Antonia, smiling. ‘‘I | was led into tue tent by a white mau, one of tne old cap- | Starry sky as acanopy! Take no trouble for my ‘con best,” said the countess, ‘I shall miss her sorely,} ‘My lord, pardon me for disturbing you again, but |} have been there as often as yo ter Ernest!” tain’sscouts, but accept my thanks for interfering to as jue/from tor- Mr, Hunsworth; but you have the best right to her | Parkins has just come up from the fire. It’s the old | © She led the way, exercise A) ey recall- ret ae started when he saw this officer, and in | re and death!*? : 3 Ake now, and it would be of little avail to keep Antonia | lodge, my lord—burned to the ground!” __ | ing to her cheek Somewhat of the color which had } Spite of his usual seli-possession muttered the name of} — “I did my duty, no more, ae re lied. “Fon are too . here with Antonia’s heart gone.” “Then there is no great harm done. But how did| been stolen therefrom by Martin Valpy’s hideous Aonuped. me | ee rT ei denaes it ok , na They talked idly on, now of one thing and now ot | it take fire” Ont SF f tale, and her bright hair, éscaped from its confining wee pre i fore rs wv fl ai i apund, Md | iiapstsianea Gna at ag for yyy . another, and when Mr. Hunsworth finally took his} .‘*That’s: what IT ean’t justly make out, my. lord. | net, hanging in golden luxuriance down her back. 7 he ov ndwa new £ soaked, +h heard my name| ‘“‘Alas! I would rather the brave and ue Should Live for _ leave Antonia Clive had forgotten her momentary de- | Maybe ’twas_ them botherin’ hop-pickers coming : Putting aside the hazel bushes she entered the spoken.” me!’ she said. ‘But please be seated. lhave na message a pression and was light and gay as any sunbeam, |home late with théir lighted pipes. Maybe ‘twas a capse, calling Blanche to follow. ~ Eagle Eye saw his error, and to correct it spoke in | {rom an unknown friend which I oui look into.” i | | ‘You will not walk down to the cottage with me, | spark from’old Gaffer Jones’\kitchen chinibly; he’s} “7p going through the deer park!” shouted Er- | Sioux to Grizzly Bear, repeating tue name Norwood while | She entered her tent, while he seated himself where she =~ ey, eel 3 i Antonia?” he asked, holding her hand in his, with | up early gettin’ breakfast for the hop hands, and his | nest, waving his straw hat inthe air. ‘I’m too big | talking. indicated that he should. His position was such that he j ; ‘| | a lingering touch of tenderness. cottagé ain’t'no great distance from the lodge. Any]to be afraid of the deer—and I'll bet a cravat I’m | “What does your friend say?” asked the old captain of | Could’ sce her every look and motion. __ anil ; “Not ver miei I ven so are pie 7 do,” she} way, nty lord, there ain’t no ne for you to dis-4 there the first!’ ~~" ; ene ler etiad deict i: tus vas 61 the sae took A ee from under her bodice, opened it, i auswered, smiling. ‘You will be here early to-mor} turb yourself, and Fim only sorry Linley hadn’t got} He dashed a in an opposite direction, while 7 ; atte " ; row morning ?” wit enough to keep himself to himself, instead 0’ ln avout aa Mateha Rept on Mntoush’ the hazel cea Td eee er eat ot, Sey whicafegme’ Garber mee. ‘Sulgfiec’ nextel ig. ’ “As earlyasIcan get away from red tape and] goin’ racketin’ about’ the house.” ; -{copse until they reached an open space beyond, | “is that your name? asked the old chief, addressing | one after the other, fairly spoke iu the Various expressions * - parchment bundles.” And old Boylsford withdréw, muttering to himself | where Miss Clive suddenly paused, throwing up her |} the officer. of her more than intelligent face. se ; e She passed out on the marble-fiagged terrace with | ashe went. Lord Glenhampton let the curtains fall |arms ‘above her head With a wild scream which | © ‘‘It'is, and the Sioux know me, for I have taught them {| “Who can write to her in this far-off ee mnt { CRIM. eee Wing had thrust the letter beneath her bodice when the eta ’ oe sao Na RSs Pt ! he said in him, and they parted in genuine lover-like fashion. | once:more, : echoed through the summer silence like a death ery. | More thau one rough lessyn!"’ suid the officer, undaunted | & query he mentally asked. ‘Where can she \be 0? 'And, as he went down the broad flight of flower-gar-| ‘Go back to bed, Edith,” he said to the'¢ountess,| For there, tr oeeaed stiff and stark. athong ‘the in tone and bearing. | } | Her language, like her beauty, is more than common. ianded steps, he turned and waved nis nand to her, } who stood beside him, shivering slightly in the raw | ferns and grasses, his pale face turned full to-|_“Perlaps they will teach you a lesson now. No prisoner | Add she must have power over that old mau, or 1 would | i Hel oR aly at : f r omoa | 3 ; of your color visits my camp and lives! It is enough for | Ot be where 1 now am”. gayly, in the dim starlight. morning chill. ward her, and his half-cl eyes, glazed with the od: men to know my Maren et The letter was evidently read and re-read, then con- : Bs Vo | How little Antonia Clive dreamed that she should} ‘Presently,”/she answered. “I must go first to | horrible f rpse of urd 2 ; ¢@ | never look upon his living face again! - 5} sée that the children have not been disturbed.” ri her amanioha MoE *auk Hanworth" Sileet tad yan take thie poe oe eter ie ee asked eeWwiien the Indians came out from the lodge ; He walked hurriedly on through the dusky sha-| ‘Call Marienne.” ; ; * @oux Bictintele > ih of the seout. a : captain, the young officersaw the sigu which pas : dows of the park. -The cottage which was being} “sAs if anyeye but the:mother’s could satisfy the if Fe Hi Tae 2 . “We Were over near the new railroad, sir, and he was | leen the young girland one of them, prepared for his bride’s future home was some little | mother’s heart!” she answered, smiling, as she drew Li OAT me . {Out hunting, He supposed us to be frieudly hunters, and} “She must be friendly with-that Sioux distance from Glenhampton, and be wished to give | the cashmere robe closer about ‘her queenly form, The Right to Dramatize this Story ts Resérved by the Author, ~ | camped withus. He seemed to know all about the posi- | Wo kuew and denounced iné Uy af 8 it one last survey that night. \ Naturally enough his} and vanished) through the purple velvet draperies i 0 di0 RAldd on tee oF | © } tion of une troops in the West, and I thought his informa-'}ly thatsheoverheardhim, 9” Pete te mind was full of pleasant thoughts and tenciés, as | that concéaled the arched central doorway. Sil: pre Win jn {ide wauldbbe Usefaloto:'yeu, and ‘iumead Of kiting him’), *Boun i hose Indiahs are WHite-—men, so’ disguised he strodé lightly along, little reeking of the pro-|_ The nursery at Glenhampton Castle was separated torte ver ; 4 > Were, brought anim int x { is ria clton ie ip antere =e , deed prorat yada Lad : gress Of time until he was'suddenly startled by a | from the apartménts of the carland countess bya. i! of Fle GiaeGOhog 1a of the onan tae erantetey yor yetimen eg jen is 1). cape from the flends who s rouue me! eh Oh < r ) *> ‘sniall brown form rising as if by magic out of the | corridor and the rooms devoted to Miss Clive’s occu- THE ANGEL OF THE TRIBES ~ ©Save your breath! You have none to waste, for your This was said by Sliver Aig inva tone just joud enough | - tall, tangled ferns at his feet. ‘ 1od paney.) «A ost glance at the two rosewood ‘OTE UL Tors mers zt , . days are red!” said the old captain. | ony for Him to hear it, ana Perey, S Were turned from Jim, | ‘ : *Halleo!” he ejaculated, stopping abruptly, *“what’s:| couches, vailed@in embroideredilace, told the count~ Owe By ie ST Te ieee | MOOG | OY tian ven they have been spent honorably, and {| When she spoke so that no attention might beatiracted, | | - this? Is it a elf, or brownie? Here, herg, child, ess that little Ernest and B ere fast ‘asleep. fy “) ed Buntline, i gawoh! Pare not ned with theft and murder!” said the young . “Old friends—go tried that you kuow them lo de true 2"? | 10 { isk . I > t . 7 ys ; rye —- 9 st0 ae you? and What on earth are you here ! | and Lieschen, the trustworthy Silica stsees; teho (Silver Wing was commenced in No. 17. “Back NOs, can be} “Wonld my friend, Eagle Eye, the Ogallalla, have arich | “I never saw citherbefore, “But l believe them to be Heo, “Dm Rena!” sobbed the child, 'TP’m lost!” had been Blanche’s attendanb’ ever si her birth, | OU#ined fromauy News Agent in the United States], “I treat? Would he like to punish the man who boasts that} ‘Tue!"\she answered, “Be /cautious—I will tell more | m Rena! » child, T en Blanche’s atten ever since her birth, ‘ave —— + he has slain his people t” when I can, They are to;communicate to me further be- “Why, where do you belong?” demanded Mr. | was alsovasleep. er & Loua CHAPTER XXVIII, Os |. Grizzly. ; as interpreter, and through | fore the moon rises, As night is close at hand I will give. : . hbk i 4 Hunsworth, more puzzled than ever. — ' Lady Glenhampten oes only ‘to press her lips Q j ve UR en Eagl oe AER orders { ur conifor’ it E 4 ,. With grandfather. He’s down there,” ‘pointing | to Blanche’s sleep-flushed: cheek, and put the curls } a Ve hen et solar ve > ie i drink the blood of his enemy. But he ments! . POGVOn Air sy ea WA eee Agee ' with one tiny, trembling finger; ‘*but I can’t find the | away from Ernest’s tai, white forehead, ere she went | y the | nly Begr, elaborately “got-up” in. wii iret ore camp of his brother, the chief of the |. r Wing raised a whistle to her Jips, and blew three : | pint Setar ; and plumes, f : lalla guests, ‘Blackfeet, offer = prisoner a 1 ; : VS gay) 0 ‘if to the Great Sf@rit. Let the } dis! notes. A negro man auswered by hastening to- ; tS 4 oe ae te it?” a , s yf ees tw bret " F re. the door | even spot ly . de@ honor to ‘oes alesface- put under the guard of Silent ward me nah wonaiaiate ; ” a ; ] “It’s a little house where nobody lives, dow; as she perce a line of light wader it—**Antonia, Ope wat ne uise, rode up the | T aay ie ‘Place there, ee + th wire oe seddodes 72 . . = Oy Yo aswake!™ ae aa a rns re pu ; BE fore the gre Ment ote e est. im ‘ 4 “Oh, the deserted lodge. But whatis your grand- tonia Clive was not only awake, but she/ was oe ae tel ae fae Lak e aT father doing there? Does he know that he is tres-| up and straining her eyes fro the window. | {com pe eee ee ; 5 n, and, bidding . oe from, ua very short-time he had tie ; +e I passing upon Diya ane a “ “Have they aroused you, rest?” asked her]}™~. = ay ae wt pte t ent tip.” 1 PR te VERA RNS yy pA Seer Tee SP veo at: fuee em. neler See ae the room and passing her arm /asked the old captain. . € ger men |. “Now built a eiiftip-fire ‘between tat tent and ne, Ly re es “Oh, pleasestake me there: .I’milost.2)0 6 caressingly around the governess’ waist. “One cannot speak at e han Spi : ‘fol bec eh |G, wail tvinethver your Ble ccc iate hone Pint 4 ‘Come, then,’ said the lawyer, marveling within| ‘lheard the noise and the voices,” Miss Clive an-. cmt or » 1 shall not te } ad: phi T send wehile ihe geaticman Nee Ny 7k hs : . | himself, ’Pake held-of my hand) and we'llisdon be ered, putting back her hair witha sort of bewil- fe ‘He speak ry ie ||. “But the horse, good mistress, he will trample me to ce 4 i oi | othere.” elt 10 9 it9 £0 DTETOR ( 0k. Oh, Edith, what is it” oo aed 2 A’ Ved the nobie oo Te sete will never harm any one that he sees under ri S ss j #7 i ye i ) cP 7 ” , ds Aa . 1 h iy > ey 4 m i “Is: it far? piteously) cores the wearied | ¢ that need make you look so pale, oes fa ki 1 a protection!” said the lady. ‘Come yiteme, aud lay nae rs try to save me fre ath, e ficer, in alow, Waseiah ‘tone. “I have no one child. it ol enhampton answered witha smilc.« hand u 1 ma ' pou hismaneasldo!? | . ‘ ; » “Not very; half a mile or so.” ; e red light?” to! Thenegro trembled, but obeyed her, anc when he found rior me; I am an orphanand have few earthly ties } that 80 long as she was in company the horse.showed no | nd me to life. Let him do his worst.” sa vicious propensity he became reassured. Quickly he — oft dsiw you Rena half-ran, halt-hobbled. by theoside ot ner} —“ ‘ati tho ht it was the dawn.” soil isay again harm. shall not come to him!’ cried the | Lrouglitiuel, and when the shades uf evening began to — conductor, too thankfubto find herselt gomgimthe} ‘Little simpleton,” smiled the countess, | : direction of her grandfather,even to think of (the | you remember that youare looking toward the ‘ ©; message le had |intrusted to her hands.’ For she | west? It is a fire!” _ gaint a ie bongue: ave girl, her voice rising clear and loud. darken the officer sat down to an excellent supper inthe © tt | » Was but a childpand fright, weariness‘and solitude |. ‘A fire?” Antonia gasped. .* ag |. “When a stranger comes into the lodge of a Sioux to} ‘Who commands here, you or 1?” asked the old captain, eee it Of a cheerful fire. ow it acy had combined to unsettle her small memory. ; ‘Lord Glenha » conjec dat onee that it hold a talk with him, the pipe of friendly counsel is angrily. ; y bela y informed him that she never ate at that hour, | ‘An oil lamp—patt of the long disnsed furniture of | was the deserted lodge at the lower end of the park, | Soked before the talk begins.” ' You may command, but when I say he shall be spared | Dut sl¢ would see his wants attended lo. « the abandoned lodge—burned dimly on the tabie, as | and it seems he was right, There is no harm done; | ,,Gt2zly Bear intorpee? these words, and the old cap- | my word sliall be kept!” said the brave girl, “Youknow | _ With ler head reclining agaiust tue tent-pole Rena'led hdr -gitidearg the! tw beers, | dittle’ Alice [0 One tived there, eit i will vive ae aa ti nes 10 DEO EG i eee org are Sane” Parse’: jt amma Svat very bonuettar arnt che wick ae’ eee . % : ths ikea : ; ; # * “ x A oa our 8 es. Now thwar , i With the flickering, sprang from her place beside the bed. 5 et to replace the unseemly old e by alt ee eee atand ay tod te B y oo Wem & ae Mv ” he said, as he filled the single wish and 1 will tear down all I have built up.” playing on her face and form. The yo! “Oh, Rena,”»she cried, “thought you never were | building which will be. OF cturesque, Now , Pp N y y us ' coming back.” 08 OR cut to sleep, love, or Mr, yas worth will be rank en 1 t it to Grizzly Bear as the aed ia a defiance shall cost you dear. Go back to | Lad seen a picture more lovely. af DOM Ls ; : at ; at , your quarters. Go and remain until 1 decide how to pun- | _ His cyes seemed to say so, for lie co She stopped as she behelda stranger with her lit- ns loss of your roses he comes in the morn- ‘ ' ; ng, oy was passed in silence until it reti [to the | ist you.” from resting ou it. tle sister, and shrank shyly back. — : ae a ‘ Tl RE leE plied to tl ! in, ma tarry mt = ee pom po Craas fice etancee ae ne * _— wr ; : od } >: ad ; ; oe En os £ ne len Eagle Eye replied to the £ 7 . | girl, pointing to the prisoner, whose eyes were fixed with ec p among the stars. Yet no her. ils eyes Were riveted on the, bowed: loin tess" robe as if she would fain hinder her departures |, (Tue SloUx of Ue Ogun, the Brute awe Yanck- | & woltering gazo on her lovely face aind queenty fora. | mos: a smile Tiged up her face as if her Uiough which sat, its elbows supported on its, knees, in a | * I—Thave something to tell you. Edith, 1 am very ine sce They ahiaye the earth» they go upon velt and severe the thon rhicn. pound his arms to. | He aid hot wish to disturb ler veverié, But he did long =| wooden chair, where the sickly yelloy of the | wretched? Beef! ~ ‘Tthe war-path.?? Bate | gether. — : to tak with her, ‘To hear lrer! syifull of melody. To lamp shone feebly on its wrinkled brow. ‘scant,} With amute motion she pointed'to the white cam-| Grizzly Bear interpreted these / 1 | With anger. His face was | #Sk her history. For he felt that sa@ wus a child of ro- _ silvery hair. The strange footstep ading on the | bric robe on the sofa, the broidered Persian silk | ‘We know they are numerous verfal, There- (0 the scout, who stood|™ance. That nove of the dark suiroundings such as he — threshold seemed to rouse the old man trom‘some- | slippers on the rug, wet pedraggled, as if they | fore we would strike hands wi bring them ci had seen in his captors and im that rude, slern old men thing which was neither dream nor syncope, but a| had been dragged through dew and dust. into our ederacy.’? is ‘i offers to move. As to Pe dint to her, She seemed like an angel surrounded commingling of both. He looked up, with wild, di-} “Tamust have been sleep-walking again, Edith,” ( into the Sioux | Her, I will make her kn ig not a power here,” | VY @emons. lated eyes. ‘| she wail hah face in iauy Gle ton al don’t run; nobody is going to harm you! Who are} The doorinto the nurse’s PLT Beh s.9 officer, Standing proudly erect. : e asked. : : 9” - eset en anen se ellga \ place.” j to Miss Clive’s room. = and while this officer is niy_ ON understand me, Leo?" Leahey? + et, and seemed preased to ath u JOR mar wanetrnrenens », oF Wi er listened e gravity ofa red man, and thenr ee Barre in front, a . fF oie t ey Ee — 7 € iJ already every word ut- Pi y she noticed how earvestly he was regarding her. A blush, $ “Night! NrenT!’? she n a low, shrill voice. but not an angry one, made her face roseate. , Confederacy istodo.} In animstant the mighty horse darted in through the} ‘‘Pardon we, sweet lady. \1 would not be rude; but I ’ entrance of the tent, tearing the curtains, which had been | COWd not keep my eyes from your face,” he said. yere paper. “Surely there is uo wrong in your jooking at ie,” she glaring and his red mouth open the animal | Said. ‘“LJike to look at you—io hear you talk. Lhuave no sprang forward, the old captain recoiled in dismay, | Cue here that 1 care to Jook Qt or speak to,” } While the young girl, 8 the officer by the hand, stodd | “Thanks, lovely lady, thanks! Please answer me a lose in frent of the noble and, with flashing eyes, | question. Is that old. man your father ?” t Silent Tongue | and he sprang forward 1 Her glance changed from the sky to his fuce, and. hen _ Mr. Hunsworth ?” broke gaspingly front his white | breast. “Oh, Edit thought I had oy that lips. [hideous habit! I have been in the Oh, Apparently: Mr. Hunsworth was no less astonished | should have died outright of terror it I wakened i at the encounter than the old man, He appreached | of a sudden and. found myself there!” | ‘These words interpreted, were answered by the old as it scarcely crediting the evidence of his own] ‘But what makes you think so?” eageriy ques- captain thus: Veaka 4 senses, and exclaimed, in low, thrilling accents: | tioned the countess, ; |. “Phe red men Will make a mighty War upon the pale- Jason Garfield! is this you 2?” ! “When I heard Boylsford’s voice in the corridor I a. and ae cea oe em t aertan re CHAPTER III ‘ret Ww he oe cau mi Seen See, Bare the They Will break up tleir iron roads. Taey will kill their | cried out: “No—thank Heaven, nol’ she answered, earnestly. CH: : itt * | warriors, and make slaves of teir women and cuildren. | "Now who ts helpless. See the man who recoils be- | ‘He has pretended to be 80, and has heid me in lis power WHO Was IT? She saddens as the words fell from her lips, but cael pei ee ee Fico, a und. ee Lie ak at as ie mts ! am eps arcane bal be te dress: rot hit : sre aty f Ay . 1 own n “ t Mal r ani innate dre The starlight shining through the antique latticed | Lady Glenhampton soothed her with soft words and |; a Dao the thoesphe ata tier’ eriea entaged capt. a. ye eipncter opt he acknowledged that he was not my fautier, +2 um on. panes of the lodge casements, blanched a square | loving caresses, ; le Eye smoked — pipe, And a revolver in his hand proved that he meant no | fled that I was stolen by him from my parents when I was upon the floor, where, restingion one pillow, their “It is nothing, dearest,” she murmured. “Lie| deeply before/he replied. Then he sais idle threat, a babe, and, from a Jetier which I received this day from couch naught softer than the rude boards; the:two | down again and rest Your wind -3 60 agitated just 6 pale-faces are many) Aleap—so sudden that it-was made before even the| @0 unknown haud, I am led to hope that a relative and sisters lay, twined in each other’s arms, and sleep-| now that your poor overtasked body cannot but {plenty as the rocks in the face captain could raise tis armed hand—and the young officer | ‘Tiehd—the letter says a half-vrother—is near nie, aud is _ & ing the heavy, trance-like sleep of ‘mtter weariness, | sympathize with it. Shall I get you a soothing |£ye went with the great Big eens revolver iu hisowm hand. determined to effect. my escape from the custody of this i : while around them lurked the. awful shadows ot draught?” =: Waters, and to the home of the Father near tothe} “Nota motion from any Oar he os : thing or'f WOAMer. A wh atk 18 eked for in'ihe lever sae pout a $ | | death and danger, drawing mearer with everyin-} But Antonia refused aught in thé shape of: He saw with his es their at war | harm ihis young girl, or hed may identity, and that mark is here!” bt ws inpnensh pete is nS CADET IT LLY EI ’ ees medi- ry warl i tit And he raised the ft eapon to t As she spoke she bared her white, roun: near i stant, Beli Bt 7 S110 ‘ cine, and Lady Glenhampton persisted in sitting peepee cron rhe ne ares x the old captain. a naam, ape $C the shoulder the young officer saw a cneanat en brightly 3 No eyes, save those of the tender, brooding stars | beside her bed until a troubled ; sere: more | jiandsful—tie pale-faces are man; ifuls!’? it was death to moye. T ce of the old man blanched | red as ifit had been painted there. above, and perchance now and then a startled deer | descended upon ber heavy, eyelids. -T sherose;} Theold ca Was not dis at this speech. as white as his haif. Evem tle scout with andon| “You think that one of the disguised Indians is your or solitary fawn, lifting its head from the .dew-| and, not daring to touch her lips to the fair pale face, | ‘1 know that the pale faces a & \ : sprinkled grass, beheld the gliding motion of white | lest she should break the fragile charm of-the un-| they are cowards. As the fire eats up grass when itis} The Grizzly Bear looked more with admiration than| _ “Yes; the letter came from lis hand, Who else would draperies, the momentary gleam of locks of tawny | certain sleep, lifted up along yellow tress of Anto- | dry on the plains, 80 will the red men on the hot breath of | with anger on the bold prisoner. p rum this fearful risk 2” “3 old, as a tall, slender figure hurried through the ive’s’ hair, and” p her rich. red ‘wardestroy'them, The wed men are Strofig and brarve,,} °o''He is a : ‘brave, butan old warrior}”’ he said. “If ‘Lady, Uheve is one near you who would run every risk, . d g g nia Clive’s" hair,and” pressed if to Her rich,’ red ; ey .{ | snffer tortare; death ms walt So oneliest nooks of Glenhampton Park. ' motkh “LoASU. od DATOW « |) fand they are learning to war on the paledfaces in his own | he is to die, he will not sell his life for nothing! nffer torture, death itself to serve you. ata df die ro oa 4 i a. : , | fashion. -Wilk the Eagle Eye get,.his peopletecomeand| ‘No!’ cried Norwood; ‘I will hold life for life at least!’ That onedS yourselfyand'l Uiauk you. But why do Vas it a dream, or a;vision, or the yapory imist- For these two women loved One another with an look at us in; our great camp? . Will he.tel hon of the |, “Make him give hig word—his oath; to let you free } you take suchan interest in me, a stranger ?* wreaths rising up from the glen assuming momenta} affection rendered all the more’singular by the wide | Anget of the, Tribe—of Silver Wing, m he saw to-/and harmless while you hold him. .there!"? cried Silyer |. “Lady, because I gould not help it if 1 would. My heart . rily a shape akin to that.of humanity ? Little Rena, | differences between their respective stations if life. | day#?. te ae ae Oo ee | Wing, “Ihe reluses shoot. him,dead Where le stands, | lias gone out to you in that mysterious magnetisni which z roused by what seemed to her the stealthy soundot|": Long before Lady'Gienliampton of her® husband’| When these Words had ‘passed through the usual chan-| aud trust the rest to mel”? $ “| Kuows Do wish but that of Jiving. or dying for you and ; footsteps, started in her slumbers, and half-opened'| had left their apartments the next or} little | uel, Eagle Bye answered: “ ) te ' «f* “Devil—you lave your father’s spirit as you lave your | Bear you. Freedom without you were misery. I feel that : oor. ‘Who. is Silver Wing? Ols' she nota ng ar mother’s beauty!? muttered the old man. if 1 am to lose Sight of you, all my life will be darkness.” : of ber }/*You lave lieard heradvice, did wretch! I shall act on| He paused, aud she read even more than he had spoken tin about a minate, unless you promise all she bade me ms - oy earuest eyes, Yet every look was pure and ~? he said. ‘But ] his own weapon dared not move. relative?” - her eyes, to behold—a strange continuation of the } Blanch’s'voice sounded ‘mertily at Antonia’s troubled vagaries of her dreams!—a white face, with | “Miss Clive} Miss Clive! please will you come with | 8quaw? Why must the Ogallalia’ sp wild, glittering eyes, bent over her own, ‘so close | Ernest and me’to look at Where the ‘fire’ was’ last | Piet: Sle rides a ex seen that the long, fair hair touched her cheek. night? Liesthen has’ been down, and ‘she’says tet agig etm Seite’ s For one insiant only, and then it was gone; and | there’s a lot of Villagers there, and all-thé hop-pick- music east tha Rena, starting to her feet, shrieked aloud in the ex- ‘ers on theimway to their work, and thé ruins are! sie goes up into thee tremity of her childish terror: iit smoking yet!” qa * JH Ane Bi Great Spirit! Steist *“Grandpapa! grandpapa! Oh, wake, Allie, wake! } © Heavy-eyed and unrested by her brief slumbérs “Let Eagle Eye lear Tamso frightened! There’s some onc here close to | Antonia Clive obeyed thelittle’ girl's summons ‘and | song Of birds: “What iis “eyes see ‘and Wy : us}, Allie! grandpapa! wake!” begama huttied toilet. 9") © 4 2 8 © * |_| heart may believe.’ ) “sie obeo "| | He had reached ninety when the’old man saw there was | him. ' He cannot pass my sentinel.” “Perhaps awalk in the fresh air will do me good, | © When tne old captainwasinformedwhavEagie Eye wad-} no change in his stern, determined look She smniled aud pointed to the-horse, which had already : H f we ean nya f : a ara ot 4 we id, he blew, a whistle whieh, he took from ie “Hold! I-yield. You shall go freel” "he eried. ‘I wil] | heard steps coming and had turned to face the fntrader Nor were Rena’s slumbers,the only ones disturbed | shé thought, o:At all'events, it is worth the trial /* An ef negro Rete to-answer te ea) release you {rom confinement. You shall go free and un-| “Anna, call that beast'to you!” cried the old captainjas upon that eventful night. Come, Blanche,” she added aloud;‘as she tiedon her| ” in. / stod he came near... ‘Ef wish to erse Wi er for : _ The ordinary sleep of the Ear] of Glerhampton was | simple straw hat, aiid took up’ the’ white parasol, Hae pe Shi wet er wish, ar Ur need oie Wing. “Swear it on the me- little ume.’? — hee nee, ee , light, with long intervals of feverish wakefulness; | which lay‘on,a table near ‘byy ‘And? with | Blanche} o> surprise and please & Ke ‘ally ‘withy Her musical |'mory of my dead mother!” [T0 BE CONTINUED.1 | but he had rested well and soundly beyond his usual | holding her hand, and Ernest rumming’ on” before, power” 10 D eT! Cia! © COMB we ~" -) "A flush over (hat white face—a tremor which shook that] ~ 5 wont, and was still sleeping in the dark hours pre-| she’ walkeddown the broad; ' graveled path leading | The negress bowed her head and departed ‘on ‘the er-'| 614 mian’s form frony lead to foot, and then he gasped ont: ; i. ' pening A2G Kia ahem his valet sounded a noisy | to the western entrance ot Glenhampton' Park. — ei Rosle.R ov oe = a 7807 Sod . ‘es vipa her Panne om ; ‘USEFUL eal U j \ ati if 0 : a ye i earsuch sounds ; a ‘break » €o ‘ou arem . : I pon his chamber door, About half way to the ‘gates, ’a" gray-leaded old re Me pe tn e, y' y gues HINTS FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. + tai taities ask aud more! said Norwoud, : 5 Phat gilts... She touch f ana . “1 will die first!’ cried the old man, and he emphasized | “i am glad you like me,’’ she said at last; ‘fur 1 feel a ngs of birds. {alis . air..| his words with a bitter oath. strange influence itt your presence, and I will save you if and talks fac tot ie gel of tite tebe! 7} VDo 1 W “Then pray, if ever you prayed, for before I count one | 1 am Baye or Porte: if you perish.’ A if th us hundred, you die.. Pray, robber. aud murderer, pray! |. ‘‘Lady, itis music from Heaven to hear you speak; but e inusi¢ tiiat is veipete tliat the | cried the Officer, and then he began slowly and steadily to | be cautious—the old man comes this way.” arokeat, his douint, { Baissi “J will retire,” she said, “for I do not Waut to talk with >. B zB. “Wake . 2 tod) towak an > vas ordi r heard belo: ( rhe o2¥ oo 4 antilavith an escort he sends you back from whence yon Vake, my Jord! he erled; “wake! Firel the | man met them! walking very’ fast,” Antonia woube- SP eee tee he te inp of horses feet. were. were brought y y ¥ "q ‘ight, W castle’s a-fire!”./, nized him as Val iff , Bs CY | : ae ; “Hold your tongue, Linley!” bawled the husky | hampton coals f i vol in : nit Fk et Tie git aenent apes Wee ry no | to Mer hide aaa ah vem henn saahe tne teen the |, Pure. soft, water is the best of all blood purifiers. | voice of the old stewards “It ain't no more a-fire}. “Good morning, Mr. Valpy,” she" said) cy; }adw was never out et ment of Nest Dee tts ~. 'Lrent followed by the horse, Which seemed to know that he Lined ana benbes iver Gente Ake eee tae! || than you be—no, nor half so much, Where's the use | “I suppose you have been down to look at 't 1 fire re pratay dere! the girl itt, 0 the lidrse would Nave en- |. was looked on.as her guard and protector. washing out the blood ® ithout any irnialiba du aaa natosph: of raising such a hue and cry, and rousing my lord} 1 was just taking Uae children there!” > 9" > —- fitered thie tené when she did.’ “ tay there, my good Nigh *Free—yes he shall be free to go from here, and free to the system and wi out of his bed at this time o’ night? I never see|) Martin Valpy toueli ed his hat: ©) )) 5 of LAvill not be out of your sight andtearing.”)— ” | be followed by those who will see that he never returns 1p] which are likely to arise from the action of drugs. Why then | such a born fool as you be!” “I beg your pardon, Miss Clive,” he said; “hésita- >oThe horse’ seemed to comprehen lL her words, but his tell of what he’ has secn here!” cried the old’ Captain, | ee ee ne pe Poathe. cantaie wie teee But by this time Lord Gienhampton had thrown }tingly; “but eA good way to clean black kid gloves that are NAS, ie arias OF lady 8 eyes, let alone a little child’s ? ae ‘iis Ogallaila brave eit carry word to is tribathathed 1 ift the hair from his accursed head’? | soiled, turned white, and otherwise injured, is to take a tea- | Ne lat 13 it, Boylsford ?? he demanded, address- ‘Why not'?*Miss Clive asked, wneonsciously. _, | as seen and heard the bengtiful Angel of e Tri no OF sear interpreted these words, and Eagle Eye spoonful of salad oil, oe few drops of ink in it, and rub it ing the steward, ‘Has anything happened ?” He drew closér ts ner, lowering his voice a8 he did |” Siiver Wing tel rebelliouse She was about’ to refuse, Tr cin oun! erSlack iad cas faa’ Wippors ‘onsets restoied § oth it “There's a fire somewhere, my lerd, sure enough,” ! so, ne but she saw a wishful JockiWwl the eyes of 1m who wast.” ’ ppe ‘ored to their ithout these chemical changes and depesits Ae! t “We will accept the trust of our father the Great Cape | original gloss by this method, | F ‘ . 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Thare iz no grater evidence ov weakness, or inability, than to see a an anxious to gain bi fupudense what the world never bestows olttiy az the reward ov lmodesty and merit. ; Impudense iz sumtimes mistaken for self-relianse and independense ov Karakter, but thareiz just az mutch dif- frence az thare iz between bravado anu true courage. It requires sum little force ov Karakter to be impudent —bullys hay it well-developed, but I hay seen loafers who had got down even befo impudense. No.man Ov good sense or common honesty iz ever im- pudent, he knows Ov a surer way to gain hiz ends. Too mutch self-assurance runs into impudense, and im- pudense soon runs into common rudeness and sassyness and then we hav the disgusting loafer, without seif-re- spekt, dispized bi all decent people. It iz, perhaps, safe to say that allmost all the great, az weil az the lesser enormitys, that hav scourged the world can be traced direcktly back to impudense, A sassy boy soon bekumsa disobedient one, and dis- obedience iz an open gate, through Which all manner oy crimes march abreast. rae : HIPOCRASY. ; Hipokrasy iz one ov the Jowest priced sins in market, Hypokrits, without meaning it, and without even sus- pekting it, pay to virtew one ov the finest kKompliments she ever receives for they acknowledge her power and sim- plicity, When they array their wolfish forms in her jambs wool. Musokidey iz not ont only a grate wickedness,’ but a dreiiphull phoolish one too, for it Kosts dubble the time and pashunce to be a cunning have that ituluz to be hon- est, Thare would be a poorexcuse, at least, for prakticing hipok- rasy, if this vile artifice everdid suckceed ineskaping detection but sooner or at last we hav seen an imposture ovenny kinc brought to grief. ; t It iz very rare, if ever, that a crime or deceit iz buried with its perpetrator, and thare is hardly enny thing ‘that iz dishonest which the world dispizes more and will work harder to detekt than hipokrasy. poe: like impudense, iza certain sign ov weakness, and like impudense too, iz allwuss a sorry koward. | pany, but az a general thing hipokrasy iz too mean to be impu+ dent, and sueaks about the world humble, but devlish. Next to stealing stands hipokrasy, two sins that I dun’t beleave the devil himself feels proud ov. : ENVY. Envy is a jaundiced-eyed pashun, that grows poor and diskon- wer while looking thru its gogles at the happiness or « sucKcess ov others. > ’ It iz one ov them kind ov mizerable failings that every boddy knows they possess, Dut every one 1z ashamed tovown it. Menny men. will. feel just a. little bit prond if yu cal! them libertines in all luv affairs, and won’t sue yu for damages if yu say they are jealous, but no man will allow himself to be called envious, without growing indignant upon the ockashun. If thare iza person in the whole world who haz not meee disseaze, nor never had it, he bas got one ov, the best kind oy foundashuns to build the superstrukture oy a perfect gentleman on we kno oy. 9 Envy iz a komplete bane to all happiness, and iz one ov the very worst weeds that grows up to choke the virtews. This vile pashun waz the Kauze ov the fust murder that waz committed, and iz hable to be the kauze oy thé last one, and at the cross-exumination at the great judgement day will be the ones upon which more witnesses will brake down that on enny other. INGRATITUDE. ; Thare are more kriminal paings in this world than ingratitude, but scarcely enhy more despikable. arene Why this pashun, or sentiment, or call it what yu_ will, shou'd eyer be found in the human harte, iz unaccountable, for in no way, directly or indirectly, duz it mimister'to the vanity or self interest oy enny one, ¢ 5 To be ungratefull for enny gift seems to be inhuman, and to be ungratefull for menny things we receive iz to be a fiend. Strange to say, next tuenyvy, ingratitude iz the most common sin in the catalouge, and what iz most strange ov all, just in the raslio that it should be the less, it iz allwass the gratest. Thus we see mankind often gratefull for little things, but sel- dum gratefull for large ones. : The more yu bestow, the more yu must, or looze all kredit or respekt for having given ennything. he ingratitude ov a child to a parent, altho, thank Heaven! not the most common, iz the most detestable. 7 , But we are forced to say, that in the studdy ov the very best ov ‘the pashuns, impulses, or attributes of the human harte, we shall -find/ more, or az mutch to be sorry for az to be glad ov, and thare- ee expekt that the worst ov'them will fill us with iorror. RUMOR. Rumor haz a hundred and fifty tounges, ' bit little brains, and no heart at all. It haz wings on its feet, and like the kat, kan see better to tray- el in the dark than in the light. It1z born in sum sly place, in sum dark closet, down cellar, and perhaps out doors, behind the barn or pig-pen. It haz no father nor mother, nor even uncle, It iz a foundling, but iz allwuss adopted bi sum f° ‘ It iz short-lived, but lives long enuff to prove the baseness ov its origin. Rumor iz a lie, fighting under cover ov the truth. Ramor iz a bizzy vagabond, not allwuss malishus, buf allwuss suspishus, and all thoze people who are the fust to beleaye aru- mor, are the last to beleave the truth. E Rumor iz a poor excuse for lieimg, but iz the best excuse thare ia. 3 hein Rtas: ashan, bet tharei x. Za & Ver is ud ov @ pt ae: are-IZ sinihiek Peta, SARS ate cor a, tiie "thave iz never enny enyy. ; rm Thare iz one thing certain—enny person who iz willing to ex- cite jealousy in another, aint worthy oy being jealous ov. — ~ Too mutch in love to be jealous, iza truism, for i hav allwuss beleaved that thare iz more self luv in jealousy than ennything else. Jealous people are allwuss selfish and suspishus, and tru luv dont hav neither ov thoze passhuns or sentiments to trubble it. Thare iz a grate deal ov morbid jealousy amungst folks, which iz nothing more than.a kind ov liver komplaint. Hosstetter’s bitters, price a dollar a bottle, will cure this type ov the dis- seaze, - Jealousy iz forever hunting for whatit don’t want to find, and when it haz foand it then it iz mad bekauze it haz. GOSSIPPING. Gossipping iz the art or instinkt ov talking.a good deal at the bull’s eye and allways missing it, : ‘ Gossip talks mutch and sez nothing worth remembering or re- ating. oN gossip’s tongue iz like a cow’s tail in fly time, duza good deal oy flirting to no purpose. Gossipping iz the current literature ov some lokalitys, ana iz just az well satisfied to talk about one thing az another, whether it be the extravaganse ov the parson’s wite or the death bia stroke ov litening ov Farmer nsou’s oldjsow and litter ov 9 r Every naborhood haz its authorized Gossip, who leans over the front yard gate late and erly looking ways at once, and haz sumthing strange or orfull to relate. . It iz impossible to eskape one oy theze retail yenders oy petty skandall, they will follow their yiktim like the flies do a sore- headed dog, buzzing something in hiz ear. : Old maids are to be. the most. expert gossips we hay, buti hav seen able-boddyed men soe ploughing in the middle ova lot and walk a quarter oy « mile to the roadside to head off the doktor and excha lies with him for haffan hour. ' Four delishus maids and one rumatick old bachelor ar- ranged around a tea table insum rural disirikt will mix up gos- sip and tea enuff to pizona whole township for six months to cum. , The grate diskumfort ov a country life iz the silly gossip that iz sailing about which yu hav got to listen to and Nelp cirkulate or be looked upon with suspishun bi every’ yet ee fr : I luy the country az well az a cow duz, but disgusting gos- sip which forms about all the intelligence ov it drives me krazy bak into the city agin, whare tu hay got euny time to prattle and less hav enny time to listen. ; -1f the senseless gabble vy one ov theze provincial places could be gathered into book 1orm, and a copy ov 1t presented to each ov the inhabitants, they would all diskover that while they had been besmearing their mabor, their Dabor had been equally bizzy in bespattering them. PITTY. Pitty iz the cheapest charity kuown toman, It aint worth enny more to a man, Who iz in a tight spot, than common politeness. It haz injured more people than it haz ever hel pt. It kosts nothing and aint worth nothing, only to the one who 1vs if. Thare iz little, if enny, real charity init, for a ¢cluss examina- shun will reveal the fakt that pitty iz nothing eise, when it iz biled down and strained, but a sekret kind oy thankfullness that the other tellow iz wuss off than we are. T would not drive pitty from the world, i would, only like to understand its full market price, i yo be sorry iz cheap, but to put yure hand in yure pocket kosts sumthing. ; : I dont want enny man to kik me when i um down, not if he kan find ennything else that wants duing; i-rather le wouldn’t, but if he haz got nothing but pitty tor me he can pass by on the other side. } B54 No man waz eyer pittyed out ov atite spot yet. Pitty 12 weaker than chicken broth, and will reduse a strong man faster than the coddling ov u mother-in-law the tust four weeksufter he iz marrid. Pitty iz nothing but self luv diluted a little, and iz one oy the most hypokrit.kul phages ov it. } Abuse and neglekt will often set the gaul to work in aman il he haz got enny, but pitty iz hke soaking a rag in lukewarm water, it makes it more weakly. We allwuss pitty thoze the most whoare able to help them- selfs the most. ’ It iz very eazy for a man to git down so low that pitty won’t reach bim—this shows the heartlessness oy pitty. Whati kno about pitty i hain’t learnt out oy the books, but I hav learnt it out ov the world. oo Enny man who-willallow yu to pitty him iz a fraud. If ya want to ruin aman forall praktikal purposes, pass around a subskripshun paper in hiz skool distrikt regular once a year tor hiz benefit. : : : I hay got az mutch milk ov human kindness in me az the mi- nority hay, but I never talk pitty to no one, for I hay been told that the gods (I mean the wodden gods) only help them who help themselfs, and they are the very ones who don’t never want enny help. f When Esop’s waggonner got stuk in the mud puddie: nd be- gun to baw! at one ov the wodden for help, 1 notiss that sed didn’t begin to pitty him, nor.didn’t even offer to giv him a Aire but told him to put hiz shoulder to the hub. wr The teamster dun az he waz fold. ang whiptup hiz cattle, and i az like az notsworeé 4 little, and out ov the soft’ spot went he waggon. f Bully for the wodden god I say, anda tiger for the teamster..___, Don’t understand me that i think that man kan liv im this he- nited world without the kind simpathys oy hiz brother man, ren- dered in sum suitable way, upon suitable ockashuns, Beasts ia the forest kant do it; even a imule would languish if he couldn’t kik, or be kikt. We pitty others simply bekauze we are afrade not todo it. Pitty iz a kiud ov fraidness that we may git into a tite spot ourselfs sum time, and won’t hay the grip to git out oy it without bauling for help, One te man who haz refused all help and pitty, and dug himself out ov the mire onto solid siie, haz dun more good to mankind bi the example than asermon oy pitty could do if Integri stry. ken f ery pulpit in the land. oa a FINE TEA nae | Pttere ends sslllings for the present, 40 cents per Ib. by Express, or 60 cents Ib. pack~ age (postage paid) by When you i " tire of pay- : ing from 8c. to $1.25 for TIA. enclose in letter tous 60c. for sample pound of Green, Black, or Mixed, and. yeu will, always trade with .PAXSON VICKERS'S' SONS, No. 130 ani 132 Water st., N. ¥. Ny Maryius. No Agents. No Poor Tea, t AN 1a TY. Write your address plain. (PLUCK. CONTRIBUTORS.—We accept nothing this week, but we sollemly refuse: Cat, Home Brewed, Disaster, Moses, Ginger Snaps, Q. B., Pretty Poll, Saw Dust, Doubttul, Mary Jones, Oyster Stew, Cab- page, Coal Pit, Dutch John, Amy, P. 8. D., Rose, Egg Nogg, Hate. tul, Baby, Bullhead, Snrall Beer. —____—__ > 4+ ---- LONG hopes wear out joys, as long melodies wear out griel. AN extravagant wife is a curse; & prudent one a bless- ing. ee me Theze two moral vagrants are often found in each others com- SS DIED: At Bloomfield, N. J.. on the 6th of March, of pneumonia, Rob- ert J. Duff, Jr., aged two monthsand four days. The opening bud is sweeter than the full blown flower— The weakest leaves fall first when comes the shower— But.God directs the storm that shakes the blighted leaves, And Christ each stricken human bud receives. Then dry thy tears, sad mother, do not moan, Since Christ has claimed thy darling for His own. Such are His jewelsyand they sweetly rest Forever on ny syMmpathizing breast. “HE ART’S-EASE.”? i ni ae BETTINA 4 : +. 9 k i j jis ceri was cémmenced in/No, 12.. Backehumbers ¢an be obtaified4rom anyrNews Agent.in the United States. | : 7 ge Uf & CHAPTER XXIV. A “ _ THE CLOUDS BREAKING AWAY. “Time and the hour will wear away the longest day.” It wasaday in the latter part of April, when spring and winter seemed struggling for pre-eminence, as during all the morning the gray clouds chased each other across the leaden sky, now showing a disposition to hang out )patches of biue, and again, with a cold gust of wind, growing black and heavy as the fitful showers came pat- tering down. »About noon the clouds broke away, and the sun shone out brightaud warm; the rain-drops upon the green twigs itlered like diamonds in. the sunshine, and the breeze came softened aud perfumed with the breath of spring flowers. f Peace had again come to Bettina’s soul, but the sun- shine appeared forever banished from her heart. A thought, or rather consciousness of this kind filled her mind a8 she took & Seat upon the Goor-step, to watch Eddie as he played upon the little grass-plot in front of Ule cottage. Engaged with lier sewitig, she did not per- ceiye Norali approaciing from the village, until she drop- ped a lettenin lier lap. ; . it was trom her lawyer, who alone possessed her ad- dress. ; Stuuned ail motionless she sat for some minutes after read- ing its cout. then the warm blood rushed in lava tides over ber cheek, neck and brow, as, Clasping the child in her arms, she exclaimed exulting!ly: ‘We are sree, Eddie! Thank Heaven, we are free!” Then, turding to the amazed servant, said: “Arthar Suydam is dead, Norah; we are tree to go home.” “Oh! the Dora Have mercy on his soul! but may His name be ! praised tor r release, darling,’ cried)the good woman, chok- ing vith eam joy. ; F ‘Fes, I amat liberty in God’s beautifal world once more.” And the light of hope-flashed into herdark eyes and flushed her cheeks agshe spuke. She drew a deep breath as if for the first ime f g the air ot freedom, While her torm grew more erect, and her step full of lite and.vigor, as, full ot excitement, pe paced thefloor, rapidly revolving in her mind plans for the uture. The arrangements were soon made and preparations complet- eu, to returnagain witli Norah and Eddie to her native land. But when the hour ior departure came, she could not resolve to go away, perlaps never to come back again, without seeing Mrs. Ullin, to thanBher for the kin@ness &nd affeetion whi¢h had been estowed. upd her, when she so much needed ,it, and to relate to her enoughof her past history to justify theapparently strange line of condu@ which she had pursued. AS they dre near the house, her heart beat rapidly with mix- ed teelings of py and sorrow, but When she stood upon the thresli- old but one thought tilled her mind— “T shall stamd biameless in all eyes now.” The door stépd open, and she entered the hall, but as she paus- ed undecided Whether or not toretrace her steps and ring the bell, Eddie rai before her into the library. Bettina quidly followed, to see him With both chubby arms clasped arouni Mrs, Ullin’s neck, and his laughing face lying on her shoulder. + P : “My dear clild, my darling Eddie!” she cried, placing him up- on her knee. “*‘Where is Bettina?” The questioh8 was answered by Bettina-herself, as she entered the room and knelt beside her chair, saying: “Rorgive mé¢, my dear Mrs. Uliin; torgive my apparent in- gratiuide! Ihave come to explain all.” “You are forgiven, dear girl, and welcome, ;thriee welcome home,” was the kind answer, accompanied’ with «a warm em- race, ¢ | “Ed die is tht very p! ed. Bettina, are youi “No, I am got ill, but Aave suffered more than I can tell you, and the keenest pain has ever been that you should have to think mé urgrateful; perhaps wicked!” c “T have always felt willing to trust you, dear.” “But that yaa should doso blindly no longer, allow me to tell you something of my past history, thatI am now, for the first time, at libert? to contide to you,” ‘ ‘Taking a sea} upon a low ottoman beside her, Bettina related: the sad story 3) lung concealed. When she lad finished the recital, Mrs, Ullin, with tearful eyes, pressed 4 loving kiss upon the tair cheek that had so often flushed with pain at their unkind suspicions, and said: “This must te your home now, my dear child; you must stay with me, and take the place of the one who is gone.” Bettina’s heart saddened to retuse the Kind request, for she would willingly have passed the rest of her life with the one who seemed” bow to) possess the strongest claims upon her love and gratitude; but how could she again live under the same roof a abdas the wife of Doctor Ullint it was simply im- ossible. e The desire, which was, indeed, strong in her heart, to see her native land again; to visit her early home and tie graves of the loved ones, were the reasons she gave for her refusal—claims Mrs. Ullin could not deny. “But you will, return again, I may haye you and Eddie to comfort my od age, may I not?” Scarcely umerstand) she ‘could agree to the eee ; ‘ ‘Ot the pale, sad-looking wo- Bee feared to 7 ; . well calculated to fascinate any young, unsuspecting girl, and I soon found that he had won Florine’s whole heart upon their very first acquaintance. = father did not like him, and, upon inquiry, not being satisfied with the character he bore, forbid him the house: but my aunt, dazzled by his apparent wealth, and flattered by his ms ee ae all she Pore to faxor Un, Match, ‘Young and ignoran 1@ World as I was, I soon discoy traits in Arthur, which my sister, blinded by love, Pt eee that destroyed my contidence in him. , ws bosom friend—Monsieur Bartole—I had from the first de- spised. 3 “Knowing my distrust of her lover, and that I would not. suf- fer her to act in opposition to our parents’ will, Florine deceived me. When I thought the affair broken off, she was clandestinely my side, she eloped with him! “They were married at a little village but a short distance from us, from whence they wrote pleading for forgiveness, which it was evident Arthur had little fear of obtaining; but my father, though kind and affectionate and very indulgent, was ever stern and unforgiving at any act of open disobedience » I had no hope of her being pardoned, and ae judgment proved correct, tor, though she was his favorite child, he neyer forgave er. “The shock, together with grief for the loss of her child my mother’s death within a few months after, and porelans other month my father was smitten with paralysis, “Until death released him, one year aiter, I scarcely left. is bedside; but as soon as 1 was left alone in the world, my first thought ae seek oe dearly nok eel “After a long and. weary searc ound her, with a you babe, ina state of utter destitution and poverty, and deserted by her husband. “She died ina few days after [ reached her; but not before ex- acting a promise from me, to leave the country and coiceal the child, if possible, from his father, who would, as we knew, cer- taluly attempt to gain possession of him, so soon asthe know- ledge came. to him of his being heirtoa large portion of his grand{father’s estate. 3 With her last breath, Florine implored me never to desert her boy, never to nee, or to divulge his true name or history while there could be danger in the discovery. * “[T solemaly bound myself to fulfill her last wishes as far as should beim my pewer. I leave it with you to judge how well I have done so”? The rest of her story, of Low they came to the cottage on the riyer, the priyations and hardships they had there endured be- fore She could resolve to attempt the ouly expedient that seem- ed lett—to trust the babe to Mrs, Ullin’s well-known goouness and bounty, Bettina soon told. Then she raised her tearful eyes to Doctor Ullin’s face. He had listened to herin perfect silence, and still sat quiet shading his brow with bis hand. r Inthe pause which ensued, she began to fearfully wonder if she was yet to be mistrusted. At this time Eddie rushed into the room, and Doctor Ullin, catching him up, 1mprinted a warm kiss upon his white forehead, then placing him in Bettina’s arms, said; “Yes, love her, Eddie; love her all hoy can, for she is richly deserving of all your love, Ol! Bettina! noble, pure woman! how can you ever forgive my unkind, ungenerous behavior, and base suspicions; you cannot forget, but in all humility I ask that you will try to forgive me.” “TI can only remember your goodness to me, Doctor Ullin, but before my history is completed, I must again resort to a very painful subject, As you are now aware, kindred blood runs through yours and Exdie’s hs your Cousin Arthur and my sisters husbaad were the same. Upon becoming his uncle’s heir, which was shortly after he lett this country, he assumed his un- cle’s name, and perbaps escaped your notice, “The woman Hagar, who was the partner in hiscrime when he left your sister, again accompanied him when he desert- ed Florine, and in her guilty love she appears to have been faith- ful, as she was with him when he died.’ “Strange, indeed!’? said Doctor Ullin, musingly, thongh not seeming to notice what she had said about Hagar. “This accounts for the etaen likeness that dear Cornelia oft- en observed in Eddie to Arthur, about the mouth, I think. But he has your eyes, Bettina,” “Florine’s eyes and mine were just alike.” As Bettina looked up to answer the remark, they both smiled to think what a bugbear those beautiful dark orbs had proved in the past, — CHAPTER XXV. SUNSHINE AND SUMMER, Spring days had lengthened into summer, ttina had yielded her consent to stay with Mrs, Ullin white her son should be absent, but no definite time was fixed for his departure, and gradually the subject ceased to be spoken about. The shadow that had again gathered and brooded over the household seemed dispelled since Bettina’s return, for of the joy- ousness and sunshine that was in her own heart, she dispensed freely to those around her, while Eddie’s merry prattle and giee- ful Jaughter would causeLhe very ghosts of gloom and care to flee away. The pale blossoms of spring had, for many days, given place to the more gorgeous flowers of summer. The skies were blue, breezes balmy and perfumed with the breath ef roses, for it was June, the rose month, and one of her fairest mornings, Butterflies danced in the sunshine around Bettina’s head like winged attendants upon the goddess Flora, as she came crowned with rosea, roses in her bosom, roses in her hand, and overflow- ing from the basket upon her arm. She advanced up the garden walk, and Doctor Ullin, sitting upon the steps of the verandah, inurmured: “My queen! fairest and loveliest!” __ Liftung her beautiful face, radiant with health, to his as she came nearer, she asked: “Were you talking to yourself, or were those low mutterings intended for my ear ?”’ “To myself ? Yes; but every thought is of you, Bettina.” “Have T not told you, sir, that I was christened ‘Florence ?’ ”” “Bettina you must ever be to me, for though you now come to me like my youth, transforming all the real to a dream, 1 would meeting him, And one night, while I supposed her sleeping. by, | ever remember you as Bettina, that I may not forget the wretch ed man you saved from despair and all that he owes to you.” _ Then, taking the basket from her, he took her hand and drew it through his.arm. _“Come, walk with me to the summef-house; it is as changed, since we last were there, as my own life; then, every hope of happiness seemed vanishing with the falling leaves, and now, it is as full of beauty and freshness.” Hours passed by until the noon sun rose high in the Heavens before Doctor Uilin and Bettina left the beautiful retreat they awa sought in the morning, and then he led her into his mother and said; ‘“Mother, will you consent that we leave you for awhiie. Bet- tina has promised to be my wile, and I would take her to visit her native land once more ?” With a warm embrace, Mrs. Ullin folded her to her bosom, Sayiug: “God bless you, my daughter! I will most willingly spare you for a short time, since this is henceforth to be your home.” (THE END. ] PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS. [Most of our readers are undoubtedly capable of contributing; to ward making this column an attractive feature of the NEW YORE WEEKLY, and they wiil oblige us by sending tor publication any- shies which may be deemed of sutlicient interest for general pe- rusal. Itis not necessary that the articles should be penned in scholarlystyle; so long as they are pithy, and likely toafford amusement, minor detects will be remedied, Ravings by a Lunatic. I wish I were a pot of jam, An iceberg, oma nail, A rocking-hoerse; a pair of skates, A partridge, or a quail. I wish I were a silver fiute, A miner’s safety-lamp, A grizzly bear, a poplar tree, Or else a three-cent stamp. I wish I were a horse’s tail, A ruler, or & pen, A glass of rum, a lock of hair, A parrot, or a hen. I wish I were a new-laid egg, A pillow, or a jay, A diamond ring, a cake of soap A yew tree, or a sleigh. I wish I were an overshoe, A prayer-book, or a flag, A possum, or a bad cigar, A tumbler, or a rag. I wish I were a half-starved cat, A hammer, or a saw, A leg, au arm, a thumb, a foot, A toe-nail, or a jaw. I wish I were a fine mustache, Or else an ugly rat, I wish I were a buuch/of grapes, A melon, or a hat, I wish I were a dollar bill, A penknife, or a coat, A piebald horse, a kangaroo, A reindeer, or a goat. I wish I were a Cheddar cheesé, A hat-stand, or a mat, A yard of silk, an apple tree, A pound of mutton fat. I wish I were a jelly-fish, A chignon, or a thrush, A cuphoar’, or a pair of tongs, A fender, or a brush. I wish I were a box of tea, An acorn, or afig, - The mainspring of a lever watca, A swallow, or a pig. I wish I were a little star, A moonbeam, or a bed, An ounce of shot, a powder-flask, » Or half a pound of lead. I wish 1 were a comic song, A house, a roof, a floor, I wish—I wish—1l don’t know what— I can’t wish any more.—CHERRY. Funnysraphs. — Teli us how the trees can puton a new dress without opening their trunks?) Why, it's because they leave out their summer clothing, — A barrel of liquor was seized in Portland last week, marked “prime pork.’ Of course the supposition is that it's a portion of “striped pig.” — Our devil wants to know if the bills before Congress are not counterfeit, why there should be such constant trouble to get them passed ? — After all, there are really only two kinds of diseases, Says a French doctor—oue of which you die, and one of which you don’t. ; — Some knowing one in speaking of pawnbrokers’ du- plicates, says, cunningly, they are the turnpike tickets on the road to poverty. A Darky’s Philovonhy of the Earth’s Terra- Firma, Some years ago, during the reign of slavery in the South, we were accustomed to visit the magnificent plantation of a Mrs. H., three miles south of the lovely city of Tuscumbia, Ala. On one of those occasions our attention was attracted to a spot | where two sons of Ham were indulging in a rather animated controversy OD the’ subject ot -theeartinsaxis, ir_p se. o ae $ ios > “Wat does dis airth rest on? “V’se tell you, Brutus, I don b lieve in your gegrafy. Dis ere airth of our’n is on a rock.” A scowl stole over Ceesar’s face as he retorted: “An? Brutus, wat is dat dere rock on?” This rather non-plussed Brutus, but he was equal to the emer- ency. 4 “Well, Cesar, you isde ignorantest nigger I eber saw. Dat dere rock is on anoder rock.” Cesar was again outgenerated, but he came to the scratch with a vim, and again repeated his last question. “Den Brutus, tell me, sir, wat is dat dere rock on?” With mouth and eyes expanded to their utmost tension, Brutus roared out his reply: “De zilosofy of dat dere rock is, dat Gere am rocks all de way wn. > do PLATO. Hair-Splitting. =" A Jittle eight-year old girl, who had just returned from church, asked her father if the preacher was in earnest when he said the hairs in every one’s head were numbered. Her father said he was. She then pulled a hair from her head and said: “Dad, your eyes may be better than mine; what is the number of this one?” AL, K. HALL. Better than Bread. During the summer of 1864, while the 13lst Ohio regiment was stationed at Fort Federal Hili, in Baltimore, the folfowing inci- dent occurred: One day, Wall McF., of Company A, and John B., of Company C, with a few companions, were off on a ramble about the city, and returned rather sick. They had probably taken too much water in their whisky. When they arrived at the fort:‘they thought Will McF. was about to die. The chaplain was called, and he asked Will if he could pray. The sufferer answered negatively, and sothe chaplain repeated the Lord’s prayer, and was silently heard by those present until he came to the a “Give us this day our daily bread.” On hearing these words, Jobn B. exclaimed: “No, no—confound the bread! We’ve plenty of bread, haven’t we; Will? Who cares for bread? Pray for pies, or whisky, or something useful.” c W; .P. A Snow-Bound Husband. Mr. George W. Brown loved his wife, but when other ladies were present, and his spouse absent, he could make himself very agreeable to them. Recently, while on business in the West, he sent his wife the following letter, the opening part of which pleased his wife, as may be inferred from her remarks: “My Dear WIFE—I am thinking of you all the time Wife—“What a good and faithial husband!” — ‘Before going to rest at night, and the first thing in the morning, my thoughts.are ever of thee, my darling——” Wwye.—“Oh, how thoughtful! Whatagood man!” —‘‘I met the charming Mrs. Morris on the train, and she was very glad to seeme, . will not be home as soon as 1 expected— not until the week after next. The roads are al} snow-bound, and I bad to send this letter by a special messenger,”’ Wife (growing excited).—“Snow-bound! and that red-headed widow out there! Hecan’tcome home, eh? We will see!” And instantly starting for the telegraph office, she sent such a mes- sage to her incautious husband that tue operator jumped as he read it. NATTIE. Eecollections of Boyhood. When I was a boy, my father on_ one occasion sent me to the mill for grist. On arriving there, saw some youngsters in an adjoining field, playing ball. Atter tying my horse to a tree, I went over and joined in the game of ball. When it was over, I returned to the mill, which, to my astonishment, was closed for the night.. My horse, to add «to my annoyance, had broken loose and wandered homeward. I was two miles from home, and had to footit. On nearing our house, I saw my father step behind a tree; but unaware of his motive, I boldly marched to- ward him, tull ot excuses, As I reached the tree, he stepped from behind it, and swinging a stout hickory switch, helaid itom me yigorously, yelling at every stroke: “Are you going home, sir?” “Yes, sir,” I replied, jumping around quite lively, and he stridx~ ing me at every jump, Of course we made quick time home, A tew cays after, while the old man was feeding the sheep, and in the act of stooping, a cross ram in the flock struck bina head-foremost in the rear, and sent him sprawling on the ground. As he got up on all-fours, the ram charged again, striking hina in the same place. They repeated this performance half a dozem times, while I lay behind the fence, yelling: ‘Are you getting home, sir?” The old man, although a pious elder of the chuel, after rte on all-fours on the other side of the fence, begam Tee the injured part of his body, and suid: “D. that ram ? Fooling a Dutchman, Jake Schneider, an old German furmer in Western Pennsylva- nia, came to town during asession of the court, At the inn where he stopped he got into conversation with Bill Fox, the wag of the place, and to him complained that the weasels frequently made raids upon his chickens. Bill advised him to get a fox and tie him in the coop, and it would drive away the weusels. Two days afterward Jake hurried again to town and eagerly sought Bill, whom he shortly found. Bill quietiy asked how the fox an- swered the purpose for which he had been obtained. Jake re- plied, “Dat fox is a humbug—wusser dan weasel. Le like chick- en; he eat about seex,”’ Fy Yea a A Running Joke. A certain young man, who probably had not seen more than six or seven winters, and not the smartest boy you could find in the world, and who, by all appearances, never knew what a liand- Remeber was, was invited one day to dinner by one of his play- mates, All went on quietly for awhile, when his “pard” happening to look up at his guest, and probably having a mixed idea of his geography lesson, put the following conundram: “Why is Willie’s nose !ike the Mississippi river ?”” Of course no one could answer this somewhat ludicrous ques- tion, and all signified their curiosity to know. Upon which “Young America” quietly answered: “Because its waters are always running toward the mouth.” lRosTY, A Cheeky Proposal, A prisoner was arraigned in the police court, some weeks ago, for throwing stones through a window, and when asked by the judge what reason he had tor doing so, exclaimed: “Your honor, because I desired a chance: to make your ac- quaintance. I love your daughter, and now take the opportunity to ask you for her hand.” The judge being a very accommodating man. sent him up for six months to Jet him take a hand in breaking rocks. WILLIAM MILLER, 4