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Recent Battle-Fields. Reicbslnnd. others to share the gloom of his great sor- head and soft rings of snow-whit;e hair in me 1· Did all the world think me row, and he played his part so bravely beneath a black bonnet. The t}10ught guilty 1" The New York Witness says :_:Th&. A telegram from Trinkitat, in the Lon. that, allowing for the lassitude of physi- was even madder than he fancied. In The cry broke almost unconsciously don Times says: This morning the cav- standing feud between IFrance and Ger· cal weakness, even his mother thought spite of the lithe slender form and 11tately from the pale lips. Arthur saw. the old alry and mounted infantry, with Maj. many, so long as the ~latter retains the CHAPTER XXII.-CoNTINUED. him little changed, and began to nourish carriage, it was not even a young woman lost look-the look o~ desperat10n and Gens. Graham and ~utler, Col. Stewart, conquered provinces of " Qe and Lor· The color died slowly out of Mrs. faint hopes that love and .hope would who stood before him. abandonment-shadowmg her face once and their respective staftB, started to visit ra.ine, will in all prubability not only keep Bruce's £ace-a naturally florid face, in bloom again in the cruelly darkened life. "I thought you we~e a~leep," tl~o ch~ld more ; and yet he could ~ot. speak the a large rebel village called Dubbah, some both nations in very st11ai'ned relations, which pallor became ghastly. She looked " There is his cousin Claire Fontayl).e," said shyly; but she still lmgered, m spite words that burned upon his hps, for at five miles beyond Tokar, where it was re- but :finally lead to a most injurious war. round her with wide frightened eyes, and she would think. "The child is good as of what the young man fancied was an that moment the solitude was broken in ported that a number of the enemy had It must be confessed that Germany had said, in a hoarse whispergold, and waits on him like a sister-an entreating gesture on her companion's upon by a little group of passers-by. He collected. . The statement proved to be strong reasons for taking and keeping " Why do you ta.lk of that awful time heiress too, and - oh, if my poor boy part. He thought also-but his gaze.was could only draw her upon the bench, and incorrect, for on nearing the place the those provinces as a result of t he declara.n.ow ~" would only forget and give his heart to dazzled and uncertain- that some strange jealously try to screen her from observa- scouts reported that nothing living was tion of war by France against her. In the Cristine met the startled glance with a little Claire, he might be happy eveR emotion caused that companion to tremble tion. visible, except some goats and cattle. first place, they had been stolen from yet !" from head to foot. It was an odd irony of fate that posed cold and cruel smile. Dubbah is a large, straggling village, of Germany in a disgraceful manner by "Because it has all come back to me With an innocent diplomacy, she con"I think your mamma is ill," he said them thus in this easy lover-like attitude, circular form, covering a mile in area, France two hundred years ag©. I n the to-night with the sight of Vance ; he has trived that Miss Fontayne should be much hesit;:i.tingly ; and his voice sounded while the girl's heart was hot with indig- and situated in the middle of the base of second, the population generally speaks never forgiven me N era's death-he never with her in these "convalesc'e nt " days- hoarse, broken, oddly unlike his own. nant pain, and his throbbed with !~ate and the plain. The huts are built of stmw, German. Thirdly, these provinces were will. AJ;J.d he will avenge her now by and in one way at least her efforts were It seemed to alarm the child ; fbr she wild remorse. ' canvass, canes, and matting, and are all in needed by Germany to defend her from crowned with success. The shy, romantic drew back a step or two, eying him with As the strangers passed, she could have a woful state of dilapidation. preventing this marriage !" such a belligerent nation as France had There was a dull ·assured conviction in' little girl was very much disposed to ideal- wide-eyed wonder. risen; but he kept her prisoner stil+, and As we drew near a wonderful sight met over and over again pr(}ved herself to be. Cristine's tone which decidedly frighten- ise and worship her handsome cousin, "My mamma is not here. Oh, you whispe.red, with an eager passion that our eyes. Outside of the town, in some And lastly they were the legitimate spoils ed Mrs. Bruce; but she answered quick- who, in the character of wounded hero, mean Nora! She is never ill; l am al- gave him strange and sudden strength- large huts, were stacked a quantity of of a war begun by a French invasion of lywas naturally doubly attractive. But ways.. My back is bad, and my head "No, you shall hear me, Nora! Was rifles, and close by was Baker Pasha's Germany without any adequate cause. "What nonsense! Cristine, you have Arthur's man;ner from first fo last was aches dreadfully; but Nora--" it strange 7 You were. mad-a trapped missing gatlings and mountain gun, N everthelesa, it would prnbably hav& never done your brother justice; you simply and frankly kind. Mrs. Beaupre As she turned with some contempt to '.l'nd helpless creature, w~thhopless. misery brought there fro!D Tokar. Round about been better for both nations had Germany Nora's could not flatter herself that his heart was illustrate her remark she too seemed m your heart and a wild fever m your and in every hut, lay more rifies, heaps magnanimously submitted the choice o.li wrong him shamefully now. troubles, poor, mad, unhappy child, are touched. But her faith was large in time struck by something ~trange in Nora's brain. If fate had placed a weapon in of bayonets, cartridges, portmanteaus, their political connection fo. a plebiscite of' aaddlery, clothes, stationery; material, the inhabitants of the provinces in quesall done with and forgotten ; and, if you and the magic influ!rJ;l.Ce of companionship, attitude and persistent silence. The your hands at such a moment-I' did act a - a little unadvisedly in her and she hoped on gallantly still. e"'otistical little speech died away in a "I might have used it," she finished, and remnants of all kinda-all taken from tion, and generously given them back to But sh~ was not thinking of her project f~int murmured sound · she moved with with a convulsive shudder· " But, the equipment of Baker Pasha's army. France had the majority been in favor ei affairs,,he has no special right to resent it." · · sai 'd as she watched her son's worn face. slow dragging step' back to her co~pan- Arthur, as Heaven hears me, I did Clothes were there, pierced with spears, that connection. " He arro0 aates the ri0 "ht, "Cr1stme "Your own prescription is best, dear," ion's side. not; I am as innocent of Lord de Gret- papers, medical instruments, hand instruIn view of this standing mei:iace to the bitterly ; he always cared more for Nora than for me-perhaps · that was why I she said gracefully. "Fresh air s,h.allbe "Are you ill, Nora 1" she asked curi- ton's murder as that child-as ro':1 !" ments, and all manner of articles, quite peace of Europe, a proposition is made hated her so fiercely. He will sacrifice your only doctor. We will go for a long ously, laying one hand on the slim black Oh, blessed 'fulneas of convict~on that useless to the rebels. by a person named M. Maas to fully r ec· me to her memory now." drive." arm, and trying to peer into the shrouded rushed upon t~e tortured man with that The enemy had evidently lately been in oncile the two countries without wound"But how can he, child r "And deprive Claire of the Albert Hall face. "I would rather go out with Net- c.le~r unfaltermg speech ! Oh, bles~ed Dubrah, for there was found in a hut the ing the self-respect of either. That plan " How can he ? Oh, the task will be concert, after your promise to chaperon tie than with you. Nettie is never tired hftmg of the load that had well-mgh forage cap of a hussar, killed in the cav- is to neutralize the provinces in q;uestion crushed him to the earth ! He could not alry charge of Friday last. From the under the name of Reichsla11d, whose in· very easy ! L isten, moth er. Isme1 B en- her 1" Arthur asked with a faint smile. and never cross." juda cares for me and me only. Nothing " She will be in despair if clear aunt Beau- She spoke in an aggrieved petulant speak or move, he could not see the dear confused state of the mass it was evident dependence is to be assured by the great in my position or surroundings will alien- pre abandons her." tone · but the woman did not seem to proud face for tears that blinded him- that t he rebels had hurriedly ransacked Powers, as is the case now with Switzer~ .ate his regard-I have his word for that. "Dear aunt Beaupre's" face was a hee,d' her. She clasped the smaH hand, he could only lower his face_ ~pon his the loot for objects of value. Here and land, Holland and Belgium. The fort· But in me he will have neither speck nor study of contending feelings. and led the girl away, with rapid and un- ha11:ds .and utter all .the gratitude and there in the huts were recently dug ressra of Strasbourg, .Metz and Belfort ble,mish. I must be exactly what he "I had forgotten Claire," she admitted certain step from the bewildered man. praise m one great v01celess sob. holes, showing where money had been should be demolished, and no soldier of thinks me, or I shall not be his wifo." vexedly ; "but do not mind that, Arthur. It all passed so quickly that he had no "~ cannot prove it, Arthur. All the hidden. . We found great quantities of either France or Germany should be al"Well 1" Mrs. Bruce interjected, as The child can go some other time. She is ~ime to disentangle his thoughts, to dream past is one dark .dreadful ~ream. I only dourah, sufficient for two years, t ogether lowed on this neutral belt. Still further, with other provisions. The number of :M· .Ma·IS would look to the c~federation Cristine paused "'.:ith glittering eyes and a dear unselfish littlo thing, and will only of speech or action · but, as he saw the know that I am mnocent. sharply indrawn breath. be too delighted to renounce a pleasure woman who was ,: Nora" and not the "And I will prove it !" Arthur Beau- riB.es exceeded 1,500. These were at of Reichslaii.d with Switzerland;Belgium, for you." ghost of his dead love, 'who was gray- p~e crie~ proudly; but she shrank back once destroyed by the soldiers. The Holland, and the Duchy of Luxembourg,. " The more reason /that we should not haired and old and yet moved with the with a httle cry" Well, Vance will refuse to speak to rebels seem to have abandoned all that the neutrality of the whole to be guar"Oh, Arthur, I am de~d l". me, as he has refused to open my letters. suffer her to do it," Arthur said very de- free quick step of early youth-as he saw was not absolutely necessary to them. anteed by the .Great Powers. Thia would The ·Baron, naturally curious as to the cidedly. her passing from him without one word, Before he could break m with an eager Leaving Dubbah, we again visited be fl peace measure for which we fear the · There was a half-sorrowful, half-angry one backward look all the keen arwuish protest, they heard a sudden cry, and, Tokar. From the appearance of the nationa chiefly interested are not preparcause of our quarrel, will question and investigate; and then-- You may guess recognition of his mother's project in the of his troubled tho~ghts found vent '\n a looking up, saw ,Vance Singletsm comi~g walls it was evident that no serious at- ed. Probably Russia would not like it the rest," she finished with a short bibter young man's thought. . Did she think, brief bitter cry. towards them. with .a look o~ blankest d1s- tempt had been made by the rebels on either, for doubtless she wants to have la1~~- Bruce both looked and felt because Nora's name never passed his It reached her. It reached her and may. . He did n~" recogmse Arthur at the town. In Tokar only seventy soldiers France ready to act against Germany on lips, that the dead girl was forgotten? brou!!ht her back. She imused, cast one fi.rst--it was long smce t~ey ~ad. met, and were found by Maj. Gen. Graham on his one side Whenever she mi.kes an attack thoroughly dismayed, and at a loss for D'd k l t th' · wh' ~ t I t 10 m fl uences arrival there; but next day we found on the other. i sh e th' 10 t 1a e h ea:r.t m ich h' 1s startled glance over her shoulder, and h1me and sorrow and c_im~ consola~ion. Her children had always unhappy love was shrined would ever then-Arthur could never tell how it all .ad changed th~ young soldi~r mu~h-the many coming in from the count.ry, with ·--------been impracticable, and altogether be- open to another tenant 1 happened-just as the dark waters seem- sight of N ~ra m conversation with any their fa;miliea and property. These had Foundlings' Surnames· yond her guidance. It was quite possible .· "No, we will not disappoint little ed closing over his head, she was kneeling on~ made him uneasy. either fled when the rebels were fighting A "Country Parson" writes to us : Il'h that Vance, urged on by the burning in- Ola.ire," he said, with returning bright· at his feet clasping his cold hands with Vance, have Y?U forgotten Arthur at El Teb or gone off in company with a recent note you ,record the objection dignation he had 11hown at the time of ness. "And you shall have your way too, her warm iovi11g fingers, looking i'nto his Beaupre 1" N_ora said. gently; and then the rebels, and, lagging behind, had at raised by the city of London guardians Nora's death, might now take vengeance motl1er. . y ou can d r op me at K ensmg· h e h eId out 1 face with her dark, lovi'ng, 1 passi'onate t us h and in frank we1come, least thought it better to return. Tokar christening a foundling by the name of on Cristine ; but in her 1 ieart of hearts t on G ardens ; the day is· · exqmsit.;i · · 1y fi ne, eyes, calling him with her own tender h . OU$h th . ere was on1y an a dded const erna- is a miserable mud village, possessing no "Elizabeth London Wall." Some years. she did not think it probable. With all you most proden~ of nurses, and, while voice to live and look on her, and not to t10~ m his look, ~n~ muttered blankly- intere(!t. The garrison state that since ago a friend asked me to take his duty his faults, her scapegrace son had always you listen to the music, I can sit under break her heart. Motl10~, Cristme, a1.1d you 1 °!3.Y their surrender they had beell' badly for him at the workhouse of St. George's, been loving and sofi -hearted. Surely h t " G t.,_ t . 11 h ' d t e rees. Yes it was Nora-Nora i' n li"vi'ng flesh- eorge, ·1mga are commg o a crisis treated by the rebels, whose servants Hanover square. Turning over the hap·· h e, his mother, wh om ma is wan erM rs. B eaupre would h ave preferred and-b ' I" s tismal register I waa st ruck by the ari»to· d i· · l h d · f . lood reali.ty-changed, oh, so chang· no,w, S ,, · . they had agreed to become. mg anmove a ienation 10I a never or<>or.ten, · s1 · with lum; · We found a wounded artilleryman. He cratic names borne by the illegitimatecould him still "' t h at s h e an d Cla1re iould sit ed from the Nora of the old days _ o much the .b ·~tt er, Ar tll t!.u r sa1d but on this point Arthur was :firm, and, changed even from the wi'ld-eyed mad- firmly and proudly , they could . not, and stated that he and seven others had been children. Grosvenor, Portma1~, Ebury,. "You fears are far-fetched and improb- wit · h v1si · 'bl e re1uc t ance and a f amt · protest dened Nora he had left upon her weddi'ng they ,s,h ouId not , s t ay as . they are f or drag!led with ropes to El Teb to fight the Cagendish, Berkeley, BelP"rave, Warable," she said hurriedly, for the entr'acte agams · t the 1onel' h' l · Id I mess to w 1c I it wou day-a new Nora, with eyes that 'vere ever . . . guns. All the others were killed, and he, wick, and Lowndes occurred with curioua. music was drawing to a close, and she cond emn h. im, h' is moth er accep t ed th' is ineffably sad through all their lad and . V al'\?0 t wist ed h is 1 _ong moust ach e with on ti·ying to escape, was shot in the back frequency, suggesting the astonishing proknew Benjuda would soon be back; "but arrangement at last. . tender light ofrecognib i'on, wi'tgJ a pale "'hat, many other cir?umsta;nce~, would by thti rebels. He crawled to Tokar dur- flivacy of certain peerslo were popularly we will take care to give them no solid The 1onel' 't spi'ri'tual face ~ that, crowned wi h mess 1 A rt1 rnr f e1t t h at i ' th · ·uch un- hav,,e b een a 1 ook of ser10-comic d is.may. iQg .th91ni~ht. He said that a great num- supposed t o be blamel · in their dome11· to complu.in timely snow looked like the face c foundation in fact. You and, Vance must would be basest ingratitude of a . ,N o, no, of course not. The d i fficu1ty b'h1 F Qf ·the rebels escaped in a wounded tic relations. ' But Pie dilly and Mount. not meet first in the Baron's presence. of the untiring energy with which his . . t ' d f . d I is, what would you do ? You know how easy it is to talk your h d . h' virgin-mar yr, pure an air an sweet . "F' d t th l d "0 t . condition. According to this man an.f street at last suggested a solui;ion, and I mot er strove to rouse an mterest im. The shroudi ' ng vei"l thrown back, the in ou. e ~ea mur erer,, ap am others the rebels say .they were deceived found by enquiry of the porter that it was brother over ; trust me for the rest." H e must b e talked to, must b e amused ; eager eyes upraised, the soft hands clasp· B eaupre said grimy J -,.,so grimy 1 tl.1at by.Osman Digma, who told them it w11s the custom to bestow on the foundlings Cristine shook her fair head despond- since he could no longer forget his ing his-·o Arthur Beaupre'· lost love Vance looked_ round, as though dreadmg untrue that the English were coming, surnames derived from the places in. ently. Perhaps · many ..., to hi'm that day, c not i'n a the ech o of ln~ word s. 1 work ' h e must d rown cam<> back . some faint stirring of t roublea m and assured them that they would only which they are discovered. M~hers, I · ch'ld' 1 N ora sat with cIasped h an da, eager1 conscience reminded her ho.v thoroughly ~ t h em m i ish pay. Above a11, he must dre " · · b t · l't d t th y have to meet and defeat another Egyp- was informed, preferred oo depo..it theit she deserved her punishment, and forbade never be alone and he must never think. An~1:0°f0;1S1Yuhe uw ~~l;~~ey a~un ru to: listening ; her face. was quite calm and tian army. He says that tl1e rebels will _children on the doorsteps q_f the houses her to hope for escape ; still there was The kindest of prescriptions and the h ,, a . 11 h' .Y gl composed now, but m the great sad eyes never meet the English again. ip the-great 'aquares, as-tney' would there~ome-thi'ng i'n her mother's words H is thoughts she could not get a t Dmgs m · the bhtiss- t.,_ . t d awn of h ope an . d JOY· . " · The cruellest. d er, ~orgettrng f · h ,.ere was th e fam on returning here I visited Baker oy become readily conspicuous to the eye cloud on the white brow grew a shade fettter ; they hovered ever and always e sense 0 re_umon. eat might ave "A terrible task, I fear," Vance saict Pasha·s battle-tield. I t is a horrible of the passiug policeman. London, by them m that moment, and found nervous1 lighter, the lips were . less cruelly com- round t h e one torturing memory : but, found them both content. y- " a cruel tr'al i to Nor a's nerves scene. In one place were more than the wa.y, is not unknown as a surname. I pr~ssed, and when, a little later, her lover oh, how wildly and persistently he craved B t ti lik . f 11' fil'i at the best. And-oh, you must come to three hundred bodies, heaped over each once asked a laboring man how he cam·· returned, very flushed and self-complac- at times to be alone ! u presed e l~e mg f on h e, us and talk it over! I cannot keep her other, showing the remains of the sqnare. to bear sµch a name ; and he told me that ent and smilmg, very apologetic too for Well, fate would favor him for once! memory an ·ear awo e- ear or er. here " . ether places seventy bodies or more it was a nickname given to his fathe:r, the length of an absence that had seemed Mrs. Beaupre, handsome' and stately 3<5 If not dead, if not in that one safe spot Hfs own nerves were so evidently In were lying together, Beyond this corpses who was the only man in the village wh to her extremely short, she was able to she always looked in her rich matronly that earth cou!d offer her. as ~ refuge, shaken tha.t he dared to try them no strew the ground up to within half a mile had ever visited the great city. up i'n hi·s face ' and chi'de hi'm wi'th attire, and the slim pretty little girl who then Nora was m fcruel hperil 'still. The 1onger. JC M oreover, A rth ur rememb ered l!~;le "~ d th dd of Fort Baker, mostly in small groups of fh::~;iio~.anquil"grace for his deaertwn of merged comfortably in her ample shadow, ::~or rl~~k~:;~0:~:f wi~~ :Ild ~~aa~~ that· it was time for , the appearance of fiV1l or six. Morice Bey, Dr. Leslie, Ending a Letter Properly. only peeping from time to time from un' ll h d " Mrs. Beaupre and M iss Fontayne, so he Capt. Forrestier-Walker- all Englishmen It is not everyone who can wind up a " :rhere was metal more attractive on der the falling lace of her pink-lined para- eyes. A t e weary weeks an day!' that made no effort to detain them ; and the - and many other Europeans were recogFrench note in the exact form which tha the other side of the . f ootlights, no sol to see that Arthur was comfortable, had wo.rn themselves a~ay.so drearily, so three were soon out of sight. and their graves are now marked circumstances under which it is written doubt," she said, with a d·e mure droop and to answer his rather forced civilities 11lowly, became a,s nothmg ma mo~entBut, oh, what a changed world was nized, by crosses . demand. A son of the late M . .Menier (a . of the white lids. " The young lady in with a shy little schoolgirl phrase, duly Lord de Gratton sTmurd_er was a thm)S, of this on which he looked with happy misty chocolate Bonanza) was placed under aJ· the canary-colqred gown is an exceedingly deposited hinl in the grand tree-shadows ~~irrday, and :Nora a. hunted fug1t1ve eyes- no more, a world that had crushed rest for a fortnight, when a twelv'lt The M:ehdi's Tutor. pretty person--" of the "long walk," and, with an anxious ,;y . · . ,, and overwhelmed, but a world he would months' volunteer, for assuring his col. our veil- some one will see you 1 yet convince and conquer-for was not " And a very charming person also," backward look and caution against catchThere is at present in Paris no less a onel of his " high consideration." The - agreed the Baron gaily, as he drew up his ing cold, left him at last. he crie~ ha~shly, t~ough mdeed there was Nora living and innocent ~ person than the mehdi's tutor ; and of colonel did not want t o be too highly con11eat between.the two women and. prepar· no one m sight. Nora, do not stay a (TO BE CONTINUED.) course he ha.a been interviewed by the sidered by a young fellow of his military The day was fine and warm; tl;ie :mn moment here !" ed for further enjoyment. " She is an 1 l'k ld 1 h !'l!'igaro's correspondent. Ge-mal-ed·Din rank. I saw Louis Blanc furious because old friend of mine too ; and we had ay i e a go en g ory on t e ta 1 treeShe rose in an instant, and the pale A.nother Great Canal, naturally a few remarks to exchan~e. tops, anhd fell! in long htremulfouhs linefs loTtily face contracted as in a spasm of This is an age of wonders-of gigantic (the Beauty of Religion) is a man of about a noble .deputy, with whom he was not 47 years of age, and is an Afghan. He well acquainted, ended a scrawled not. a.cross t e ve vet smoot ness o t e tur . sharpest agony · , she J Ust glanced at the ·11ust ration · ut it was not Miss Levinge who eh B d b k . li und ertak'mgs. A noth er i is at B tained me. ,, Art ur. eaupre 1eane ac agamst t e child, . who had seated herself on the grass hand. The Suez and Panama Canals are has been a long time at the same business to him with the word "Salutations," and " It was Vance 1,, Mrs. Bruce asked rugged stem of the old tree that shadowed at a little distance, and was apparently not quite diasp(!)sed of, and yet a proposal a.11 the mehdi, apparently without the tagged to it a postscriptum. The salutaeagerly ; and again Benjuda shook his fim, ant al_>an~~nedh himielf to a :very taking no heed of her, then said, in the is made for the construction of a canal same success; but at all events the me}idi tions should have been qualified, and th& sleek black head, amused by their evident uxury: 0 _quiet oug t. t . was a mo- sweet low voice he had thought hushed which unite the Baltic with the North is his favorit.!'l .pupil, and all the niehdi's writ\)r, before addressing a man of Loqls. curiosity. miint il_l wluf'chl he expec~d all tbhef achhii!'lg for everStia. The canal, it is said, will commence staff are his other favorite pupils ; for in Blanc's standing, should have considered " N lt th V th h I memories o tie past to rise up e ore m "'.!'here is no danger. You forget that at a point between Brunsbuttel and St. this respect he resembles the late Dr. Ar- well what he wanted to say, and thus obQt a oge er al).ce, . qug saw, like living things, sure that they need not I am dead!" nold. On the arrival of the inte.rviewer, viated the necessity of llP. S. It is e:xspoke with, and congratulated him. By- b h d b k h Margarethen, on the Elbe, will pass the-way, he is a very fine young fellow, e kcrudsbe . dac ~plon t emse1ves, or Arthur shuddered at the words spoken Re11Jsburgh, and end at t·he Bay of Kiel, Gemal-ed-Din at once asked him what he tremely difficult for a lady to wind up a . with s .uch sorrowful. firmness. Did not near JT 'fi - would take-a piece of courtesy, by the letter to 11 Frenchman of such h:i'gh station Mrs. . Brµce ; he and I will be capital mas e ehm a smi .e. ia1tenau, aout h of the great forti friends, l know the coming man when I : But, somehow, what he expe.cted. did this calm acceptance _of a living de.ath cations of . Friedrichfort. The length way, which does.not fall to the lot appar- as the President of the Republic, she see him, and generally manage to . lXJ.ake not com.a to pass. 1!'erhaps tlit::.mtluence mean ~s calm a confession .of that ?rime will be 97 kilometres; the canal will have ently of most int.erviewers. The conver. being more worthy of her sex, and yet his acquaintance too," he added, w~th his qf the air a:rrd ~unsh:me, .the qmet beaut.y of .which it, Jrul:d~ened him to thmk:- ·a depth of nine metres at low water, and sation was carried on in Arabic, with the bound to make him feel that dhe is con· genial little chuckle of admiration for his of .the grand ~Id garden, deserted on this ~hich, looku~g mto. the pure proud fa?e, be 100 metres wide. The largest ship aid of a dictionary, and both parties got scions of his superior rank. In all cases own cleverness. bright· a~tumnal ~ay by . all bu~ a few it seemed so impossible to connect with .will be able to pass at all hours of the on tolerably.. The tutor, it seems, is respect should ;be expressed in the wind.· over in Paris on business concerned with . "But, if Vance did not detain you, nursemaids and children; lulled his weak- hed . tide in both directions The canal being his pupil, who is about to set up a. news- up phrase of a note or letter if the person h d'd ~" C . k d b . . ene~ senses to. forgetfulness. What~ver "~ead 1 You are f!Ot dead!" he cried, entirely under the c~ntrol. of Germany, 1 · · rtstine as 0 " rrngmg him the cause, he gre~v less and, less consc10u_s speakmg with savage roughness, born of her men-of-war will be able to avoid the paper to spread over the eastern world to whom it is written has a gray beard ot "IV 0 a white head.-Paris Cor. London Truf#.. back to the point with languidly persist- f h ·h d · d h' 1 · "o N I 1 ·h his views on politics, which are much betent curiosity. It really mattered m1bhing o t ·.e past angms an ')~resent. pat~i, a:n is crue pam. h, ,or.a, . a mo~~ w1s 'perHous passage of the Belt, which Denter known in Europe, he says, than in to her, but she was conscious of an odd sat m_ a . s.~m1nely pl.acid, half. enJoym~ .YO~ were, ;~ther _tha~ hvmg th':1s 1. mark is at' present able to impede by her The Kbedlve's Mother. desire to k;now. fra~ne of mmd! watchmg the -~usy n,urseWhy _ ? Sh? wmced ~ htb,le, 9:nd coast batteries and. by torpedoes. When Asia. This organ he says, will be di11The mother of the Egyptian khedivll' "A lady," said Benjuda. gravely- " a maids-and thei~ attendant soldiers, hstt'in- grew a shade whiter; but m her wide the Baltic is frozen over the ships can be patched in bales to all Mohammedan lady, though not the one in the e;anary- in~ ·to the shrill sweet .laughter of -~he clear eyes there was. no. trace of. shame, utilized in the North Sea. It is thought countries and read wit h avidity ; and in a who re,cently died was a Circaseian slave, coli.red gown- an 014 friend of.mine, and children and ~he soft_ w~.isper of the wmd .only.a hopeless half-mdigna~t pam. that mercham vessels will gladly avail short time there will be a grand l\'[ussul- and one ·o f the four women to whom the a very handsome women, though a little a~ong the trees, until his thoughts grew Somehow that look dazzled and thrilled themselves of the canal in order t o avo~d man upheaval, ending with the conquest ex-Khedive Ismail was married after the past her first youth. You may have met still vaguer and more hazy, and at last he the haggard watcher with the sweetest the long tour round the Kettegat, and of the world, including America.; and uni- Oriental fashion. By one of those wives her perhaps, for she travels about a good fell asfeep. . hope. Was it possible 1 Yes, since the dues paid by them are expected to versal happiness for two hundred yea.rs. he had several children, by another t~ deal- Lady Olivia Blake." That sleep las~ed perh~ps half an hour; Nora lived, all things were possible 1 cover the cost of the construction of the For the benefit of t imid persons. however, daugh,ters, another was childless, and th'.e then he ~oke with a chilled, uncom~or~- Wa.s it true that he had foully wronged canal. Another marvel of science-an- it may at vnce be said that thP. conquest fourth was the mother of Tewfik. Thill a?le. feelm~, an~ th.e sound of a cluld's the girl he loved so dearly 1" other stupendous enterprise, upon which will be carried out with as little blood- son was not intended to be the heir te the shed as possible, and no pillage; and any- throne, and his mother was not exalted te CHAPTER XXIII. p1tymg whisper m his ear. . _ "Arthur "-the sweet clear_voice was the age may be congratulated. one who likes to submit will be allowed a high position until long after the birth. "My dear Arthur, your eyes 11re heavy, ·~Oh, poor . man, how Ill he lli>ok~, infinitely sad-" is ·life everi harder and ·-·-----..--- - -- - - - - - - to do so. About the prophet's life the Ismail did his best to set the claims Qf your face is 'p ale- that means another bad whiter· and thmner than I am, and Ju:i more biUer 't han I thought it 1 Have A Strange Preseriptien, ~ night. . You must see Sir Jallles to-day. " arm in a sling 1 Oh, Nora, do loo.Id"' you"too "- she pa'used a second, drawing A village worthy was on one occasion tutor says very little. The mehdi ha.s Tewfik aside, but he was the eldest of all lived seven years at the bott om of a well the family of sons, and the sultan, having "Indeed I must not," Arthur BeauThe l~st cry, ~he appea:l to" Nora," fell a long pain'ful J:ireath-:-"cond~mned me 1" accused of stealing S"Ome articles from a no doubt in search of truth- and has a set aside the Moslvm law of succession ill pre answered, looking up into his mother's on the si?k mans. ears .with the force. of The accusa:t10n of her voice was the doctor's shop. The judge was much anxious face with a haggardly affoctionate an electric shock1 sen?mg the blood flymg s .veetest music it had ever made for struck with his r espectable appearance, great liking for the French. "L'Anglais, 1866 in favor of the rule of primogeniture amile, as he suffered ·hertoarrange his com- mad!y through his vems, though .h e scorn- Arthur, the a~ger of her eyes more wel- and asked him why he was guilty of such voila l'ennemi," said Gemal-ed-Din, iinit- a.sit prevails in Europe, refused to make fortable chair and hover round him in her ed himself evtin then for the wild follr. come and precious ~han ~ny lol'.k ~£love. a contemptible act. "Weel, ye see," ating Gambetta, and the .interview , ter- -any further modifications. So Tewfik was minated, for the. prophet's t.utor, was get- .finally accepted by· Ismail as his heir and tender mother-fashion. "I am off the Were ~here. not fifty th?usand N oras m Both seemed to give ~1m n_ew h!e and replied the prisoner, ·iI had a bit pain in ting enthuisastic, and there were a good and his slave mother given a rank com· sick-li~t, mother, and want nothing -but a the world, and .was not his ~fora dead 1. strength, a~d yet to sting ~im with re- my side, and my mither tauld me tae mensurate with the prospects of her son. little fresh air now." · He opened h1~ eyes. A little lame girl, morseful pam. He forgot his weakn~ss, gana tae the doctor's and tak' somethincr " many deadly implements about. 'l'he latter has not followed in his father's "But your wound has been troubling with a pale pinched face and fair hair fall- and rose quickly to his feet, clasping the "Oh yes" said the Judge "but sur~iy "I hear that your brother is given to footsteps in the arrangement of his houseyou again, dear !" . ing ov_ er pa_ i nfully rounded ~h~ulders, was small c?ld h::inds with convulsive force, she 'didn:t tell you 1o go' and take an Arthur nodded a little abstractedly. watch~ng hi1!1 with eyes o! pitymg "".'onder. an~ saymg, with broken fervqureight-day clock r' The prisoner was somnambulism 1" " 'Vhat's that 1" "He hold, but is the devoted . husband of on~ , . . _Ji_ The old wound that ached and throbbed ;A-ta htt!e distance, holdmg the ra:ll of an Onlr t ell me, Nora, that I was wrong, evidently nonplused, but it was only for walks in his sleep " "Well, that makes wife. I guess you don't know my so sorely through the long watches of a iron chair, as though for support m some and I will doubt myself, my own ~yes and a moment. Turning to the Judge, a me smile. sleepless night had not the fanatic's-knife sudden weak~ess, was a tall .slender wo- ears, the whole world, everything but. bright smile of hmnor stealing over his brother. He is the laziest man in Texas.· NICE RECIPE FOR CRANBERRY SAUCE.thrust for which he was invalided home, m~n dressed m deep black, with a crape you t" . couut~na.nce, he quietly rejoined, "~ime He wouldn't walk in his sleep no matter A delicioue sauee may now be prepared but that crueller stab which Mrs··Beaupre veil drawn across her lace. She drew a.way her hand, and stood be- an' the doctor cure a' diseases ' and sae I how &0und asleep he was. He is too lazy for Winter use. It is made of cranberries fondly hqped he had forgotten. Something in the p~se of the graceful fore him.in perfect silence, but silence t hat thocht,---"but the r';lmainder ~f the reply entirely. I might not be sutpri.Sed to and raisins. To one quart canful of cranForgotten I There was no hour of his forn1 and small stately head brought back struck him to the heart. Somehow the was lost in the peal of lauizhter that rang hear that he had ridden in a stree1l·car in berry sauce, allow one good handful ot his sleep ; but a.s for his wal:king, that is raisins. They impart a delicate fiavo1, life in which that spectral. memory ~eas- that maddest fancy to Arthur Beaupre's positions had reversed themselves : she throu"'h the Court. " 0 out of the question. He doesn't walk w:P,ich is a great improvement on the cratted to haunt and torture the young man's mind. He brushed his hand across his was the judge and he the trembling crim,.,. 4. - . ..,.,+uH·--.......f11oithful thoughts. But he wna not one to eyes. ; . they had grown dim and misty. inal. When you meet a hear1 bha· is true when he is wide a.wab when he ean help b&niea alone, with a little sugar for pioe it." and pudding·. We&r hi11 heart upon his sleeve, or force ' The sunlight fell upon the_ down-bent "Was the110 not,one person to believe don't be afraid te trUl9t it. "UPIDlTf AND tJ 1'10J1'(E. U.D 1' L l' f 0 will