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scarcely surprised to hear tha,t Cardenas you to be an old acquaintance- of his. ·a gain she has been with me. I know not Johnny-Oh, gran'pa dear; I've been was waiting for me in the library. Vainly I assured .J1 im l1e is mistaken, bul; when she is ooming, yet suddenly I am CHAPTER I-CON'.CINUED. I found him in. a thoughtful attit.ude, · only from your own hp~ will he be con- aware that ber l!piiit is w,ith 'me and calls counting what my skates will cost, and it fdr mti. 0, tlie rapture of these meetings! just oom 1s to $1. I have saved up 32 his head resting en 11is hand, his brows vinced." J. need not say that few hours elapS"ed, contracted ; ea.ge,Iy,. I advanced to greet She made me a· proud courteey, and tl10 We wander forth over the face of the ·cents, Can you ad vise me where to get We float through the dark pine the rest 1 .after my waking, ere I again . sought the him, with wards of tender solicitude upon words, "Monsieur ia entirely in error; I enrth. Hermitage. Juan showed· me into the my. lip11.. ·,Waiving my proffered hand have never s.e en him before," sul.ot~ upon forests of thenonth and tho glowing wilder- ' "It's a. poor rule that won't work both aside, he rose. · my heart like the death.knell of tlrat nesses of ,the tropws. .We see the grand- ways !" exclaimed the scholar, as he room, where, to my delight and surprise, I found Astrooa sitting alone. She greeted "Away!" he"ciried; "there is blood upon hope :which alone made life endurable to eur of mighty; mountams and the sweet- i.natched the instrument of correction neas of peaceful. ';alleys, We_ pass, a~ will, from the teacher and proceeded to return me without embarrassment, I almost th1".t hand!" . , me . _ _ dared to think-even with pleasure. Day· , I staggered ba?k, when, .gazing upon '.l'hus ~peak1?g, she p~e11~d me with the through great c1t1e~, over fruitful pl ams or the compliment. light made her if anything more beautime wlth a stern yet sorrowful expression evident mtent1on of qu1ttmg the ap,art- arid deserts. W ~ watch the ben~ing of Some strolling Thespia-;J o\lre once he said · , ' ment; but I seized her hand, and gazed ~he Southern Cro_ss,,or the· moon glimmer- playing "Macbeth" in a ~~~itry town. ful. She wore .i:io ornaments now, sav,e the single diamond star, which to-day "Philip Bea.uv11Js,.you have shed hu- long and de.eply ~nto her eyes. At first mg white on regions of untrodden ~now. The properties were not in very systema· beamed with a peculiar significance ln my man blood in a.no-er w 0 meet no they met mme with a firm, steady glance; We cross the deep seas ;i.nd seek fair Is!- tic order, for when the hero of Shake· eyes. CH.APTER II. more." , , " ' yet as I gazed I saw a troubled expression ands. unknown. to man. Sp~ce to _us rs speare's drama exclaimed, "ls that a dag"My father is engaged at present," she Many and many a time, when I awoke Distractedly, I endeavored to justify rise in their clear .d~pths, even as though nothmg. The world and all 1ta glories- ger I see before me 1" a shrill voice re11&id, "and has bid me entertain you; let of a morning; and, in my own home, sat myself, but,all my words ·were unavaling. m~mory was st.r1vmg to re-aaeert her yea,. even the heavens-ar~ ours. We hear sponded from the "flies" : "No, sir ; it's U8 go through the gardens." only the commonplace attributes of life "Right or wrong," he said, "I care re!gn; but as my hope~ took form she strams of wondrous music, and ours are the putty knife. The dagger's lost " the secrets of the 11tars. ' With a beating he~rt .l follo.wed as ahe around me, J said, "I have dreamed not . a man's life lies at . your d·o or and withdrew her hand hastily and left us. N 1 · h "Mamma," complameu a little girl, Jed the way, and that sweet afternoon these wonderful things;" and then, as wit~'tha.t life passes the lot for which '1 had Mad in my rage,. I turned upon Carot on Y a~ mg t does. she ~eek me running into the house "me and Willi wlll ever linger in my memory. We wan- sleep left me and my full powers of destined you." denas and cursed b.1m. 1 Even m the sunlight, with the wanted nurse to sit do~n and let us pou~ now. dered beneath the grand old trees, we thought came into play, I would lie and Till that momenti it had uever entered "It is a juggle," I cried, "You · have busy world a~ound, she calla for me, and sand in her back, and she won't doh." gathered the glowing roses, we chased, marvel at the mysteries now interwoven my thoughts that his idiosyncrasy would stoMn her meI?-or;r o~ my'love from her. I obey her summ~ns. And then I am " Certainly not. She did quite right." like children, the butterflies trom flower with my life. Regretting nothing; long- lead .him to dream of severing Astn~a. and Else she could neither forget nor be false told that I have lam four hours in ~ trance, " Well, that s what you told her to do to flower. We walked, and the pure ing only for the .hour to come when~ n;i.yself; qut· as the trut.~ flashed across to me." · motionless and · scarcely breathmg, and when.she first came." "I told her she fancies she clothed in words were rich might again see my spirit-brfde, as In,~ me, all ligltt,and hope seemed to leave . My an~ry word~ provoked no ans Vf0~ . me~ loo)fi upon me as one w horn death may was to let you and Willie pour eand down with grace and insjliration. The poetry Cl\lled her; not, indeed, to her face, as by the world. I cast ~yself at his, feet, im- mg warmth on hrs part ; he only · said cla1!11 at any· moment-I, who laugh at, her back 7" "Not exactly that, mamma, ef her simple nature would perforce have ta.dt consent we never mfntioned the oc· plored an, d1 wllpt. Iconju;red ·him oy the sadly: ~hei.r fears and p~ay t~at the same sweet but you told her to mind the children. made the most prosaic listener feel fqr curreuces of that evening. , 1 fove he bp~~'.his· <laughter, by th~ 1ove he "J would haye spared you·'this, but ·Y.O_ll trance may be mme agam to-morrow. I - ··· . · 1 .And lattei;ly, she h~..s sought .me more .As two H1ghlanuers were walkmg onee as poets feel. Judge, then, the \saw her now less than before, a.a Car; bore me, np,t to part us; but the only an- were sul'e to discover us some day, and it effect her words and her beauty had on denas in~isted upctn my company for swor I could 'give was : · was well you should learn' the truth at frequently, and I know that her spiiit through Govan one afternoon a steam Can it be that the tramway:car pas~ed them. Both w~re grows more joyful. me.. Then sh,e 1 led me to her room and some hours,evert d~y. He was engaged, "It ma;r, not be; your hand~ are stained once." 1 . · · ·· ' Bllllg strange songs to me. Such music he 11aid, in developing the full powers of blood; so you are ho mate for,the Daugh- · "What ·rs,the truth-~he loves me no power 'the.t parts us is waning1 That age struck with astomshment, never havmg is stealing 'the force from that strange and ~e~n one before, but at last one of them , Wbll never heard· OJ?- earth 1 J?.er , :fi?gers my 'm;nd, and everything this stiange ter of tll.e,$tars." . m~;e?" . .. · , · wandered over t~e keys, impr~vmng as man taught me at this period seemed to Driven,\o desperation, I C\:ied: L1ateu, .Ph1hp. "When I fou_ nd. you resolute mind that decreed her wa.'king managei\.to gasp out : "Lor'. pless m.e. they w~nt melc.d1es :Ii~ for angelic C~<?lrs. · tend to one goal, the· Improvement of the ··.Not only,for myself, but for her I weri;i no longer fitted to b~ my son, l b~de hours to be void of all recollection of our Tougal, c.1d you ever saw the likes of that The hours flew by, till, as the tw1.J1ght human ra~e. If his ideas were erratlc, plead. She loves· me; y!la, o.n<;l our spirits you leaye me, a~d I carped my daughter love1 , Thll.t,. eventually, all the dominion before 1 T~ coach has run a~ay f:ae' ta gath~red, Ileft her reluctantly, and more they were colossal; if his theoriea were are one, linked together· by your power, «Way that you m1ghtmeetherno1more. .As he ho~ds over her will be go11e, his sway horee. Rn;n, r1;1n, To~?al1 hke a good convmced tha ever o~ the trut~ of the false, they were magnificent. Men were. and your-own Jipa sasd tha.t naught could you sorrowed for her, ilo she sorrowed for brokei:i; that, at Ia~t, in her glorious boy, and fncht rt pack. ble I had h~arQ. the mght before, _ eveutnally to beoome a race of demigods. sever them." you,an.d then I ·bade her forget .the ~aet. ~eauty, she ..will come to me in pody, as ."Even a more extraordinary incident," An~ so I saw her day after day; and Time he counted as nothing, He paus~d, and said-not 50 much by You, whoknowmypowerofold,w1llbeheve m 11puit, and a~11-nding b~fore me, whisper, said a. student of nature, "occurred when eae~ time she seemed more sweet, more. "True,, he s~d :i n rep\y to a question way of reply, but as one communing with me ".'hen I say th~t a.t command"that "I am here!" when the bitterness of the I was a boy in Peru. My b1·other and I · radiant·than the last. And then, how J of ~ine,' "that it ·may b~ a thoue~nd himeelf: · portion ef her ~1.fe vamshed from her paat shall . fade in the light of tho love were snow balling each other one fine know not, I l~arned ~hat my love was years before th~ ,conaummation; but . "I ~h~k not 1 mY:.POW~r m~y be wan· memory; that all those ·months we I/pent glowing in her radiant eyes? morning. I lost my temper, picked up a returne~, and m burn1n~ words avowed whnt; then 1 1 shall see nothing of my· mg with mcreasmg year~, but it m·~ :set togethe~ are to her a blank. you · if · if * * solid chunk of ice, and threw it with. all the pa.sawn I felt. Hand m hand we stood work in the fl;isb but m irit will be strong enouoh to keep your souls doubt 1 O, Aatrrea t Daughter of . the Starii 1 my tnight at Jim, who was standing but beforeherfather, as, with alookofsupreme 1 .t . the rr· 'inal Y sp it · f thsee aphrt " ' 1:1 · · :"No," I said, "but give me oblivion ·My spirit bride! I wait-I long for .that a dozen feet away. Just as the ice left h bl d Si . ,n8 o g progen o:r o e , llk . " - . h. d k my hand the mercury took such an up"Dut I will see her again!" I exclaimed; .~wl1se. t "' h l'ed "I h t hour. Let it be soon! · !hoy llli hits I a.fir teyest, e beslse dus.h hncde J ewi:-oall him Abraham, for sake of jump that poor Jim was severely wa··d u. e n g rs me my e ov~ e a argument-by the force of his own char· "I will see her,· even lf I have to force an ,can no ' , e rep I ; " ave no 'l'.ltll:END. scalded told me nothing more of her history, and t ·n di.· ith "ti entranie into her chamber ·" sway over you to that ertent. · by the hot water ~. was show. 1 0 11 J, knowing ._how deeply the recital h'a.d athc et;_suuim.pted ...i~~s ~cfe w thpecu iaril 11 Ever 'Calm~ he replikd ... · ' "But our spirit-union 1" I asked, ered on him. The ice h melted in . f b t . t" h" p a .1<.eep l 1SultlCu1 rom o ers, sos ia ' · I f . d h d bl d transit." moved h im, ox: ore. o ques iop. im. er- the far more wonderful race we give the "Leave this ple.ce to·morrow, and r11. a~~1e e seeme trou e asher~A. Railway Horror In Bengal .. hap,s he saw clearly t~at matters were world alter the whole tone of· mankind turn in a week's time, and it may be you plied, that was. all. nonsense; a mesmeric "What is the meaning of that red line goins exactly as he wished, and that I and h tL t t ' shall be admitted " . . trap.ca they. call it, m which no doubt you The Times of India gives particulars of above the fourth story of your house r: . t· A t , w en "e presen puny crea ures · d d h" ,, need ed nomce~ rve11ave s rrea. s supreme are extinct and forgotten, my descend· In vain I begged· some wotds that hope ream~ strange t mgs.. the terrible railway accident which hap- asked a stranger of a man near Pitts· )>eauty ai:d umocence to make me ants will look' back and honor'me as' 'the miglit live on ; <.1ll he WQuld say was, I said no m(J)re,. but, . erck, !lt heart at pened on the-20 ult. on the Eastern Ben- burgh. "That is a water mark. Thall urge my amt when Is.aw a hope of sue· god from wholl} they spr ng." "Come in a week's time." And then, the re!'ult of IX!Y uiterv1ew with Astrrea, gal railway. The mail train from Goal- mark shows how high the water was durcel!B. J!i\ow th~t her bps as well as her And I, rightly or wron~ly, sat at this with a sad bu't kindly look on ·me', he de· left him! notbmg c11refully the h~use and \lndo io Calcutta ran into a goods train at ing the great overflow about a year ago." cl~ar and pru.t hful eyes ~onfessed the lov:e. i;nan's feet and. pelieved I. The month· parted. , the street, b.u.t .,utter~y uncertam as to Aronghatta station at about 2 a.m. It "Impossible ! If the water had been a{lpears that the goods train was dia- that high the whole town would have &he bore m~, 1 be~ged Cardenas to permit passed on, the dead !eaves fell from the Obedient to his command, I spent the what futt'.re lme of action tp take. . . us .~0 be um~~d wrth<?ut d~lay.. , ' · trees,. and winter came upon us ; every next week wearily in a dull city ; and · Tha.t mght,, as I lay sleeI?less, VFld to patched from Calcutta about 10 o'clock a~ been wept aw&y." "The water never My son, he said, . remeI?-ber, you n of the fleetin ear was welcomed b when the ati :ulated time had assed my :111md came the..recollection °! the my- night, and was ti.med to arrive at .Arong- was that high. It only came up to the wed not only for your own happmess, but m~ as bringing m! much nearer to th~' with beating h~~rt stood · once mfu.e be~ ater~ous c,eremony i~ the tape~trre~ roo.iµ. hatta' station at 2:05'a.m., when it coulq first story window, but the cursed boys fo:r the good of the world. 1 ~ave much day when the ma~·er. should declare the fore the gate of the Hermitage. · Aga.m 1 f~lt Astrrea 8 fingers m mme, ~y have been shunted into the siding to al- rubbed it out three or four times, so I put to teach you yet-muc~ tha~ i~ ~od jl.lld probation to be l).t ~n· end My summons WlLS answered by an old head restmg on her arm .. Isa,.- the white low the down mail to pas13; it was, how- it up there where they can't get at it, . noble. Yo l must wait wart a ye1 at I F u . · . . d draped altar, and before it the- tall, com- ever, somewho.t ·late, and w~s in the act of It takes a smart man to circumvent those th~t my- pti.n· ,, f n euruary who mformed me,das 1 1 rstenef man .· d. · fi gure of Card emu. · It seemed shunting, when the mail train, the driver 1ea, and d ··r"n u 1 g. .. ti"me-'-e u r · ' f h , reca1ved some t1dmgs woman, . C h mg · h 1 "I cannot " I cried, ".A year is an rnm my at er Iii country, Franc~, that ,c~1m "'.n lfespa1r, that ar enas a~ 1e t to me that eventheperfumeof the strange of which had. received "line clear,'"'a}l- boys." ' the my h life,. A his residence four days a.go-ehe behaved · · the ·Air ; an d .. ;, s 'the scene ------·~------. . di age-wh o k nows w1 iat th" mgs may happen changed d whole d tenor . , .of d · . mcens.e was in 11eared in sight, and, although the brakes in the' time I She may find how unworthy re1ative e ' ~n I on ' hts . eat I ·was ' not to return. rose again before me I cried, .. Oh sweet, ~ere applied as stro;ogly as possible, a col- · .A. New Wny'to Obtain a Situation. I f-m of her. .One.of us may die, and we found to bei°ntitle\t? ~o~e ;eo~st~e~abl~ I reached my home somehow, and threw my bride, come to me, foll are not our lision took place. The frainii remained Several years ago a.gentleman, who is may be severed for ever." . , , . property. t w~s a solutelr ·nee ss~ry , ~yself on my ,bed, (rom which Xd.~d not souls for e'Ver united l" ' locked' togeth.ar, while the carriages im- ab present manager qf a large stationery 9 1 .rr~e for a i~ onth. The m.enta] atram a~d And then I knew that her' 's pirit was mediately in rear of both trains were business in the 'Vest, found himself in . : A~d then, as I ~ever prayed ~~ be·· :fi ul:u~oI to !'~ys Ji~l~~~~b~hh i;fY 0 lrj3 th' t · e , ea q. 0 grief com imed brought on_ so severe .an ill- with me and that mine · went forth to 'either smashed to pieces or . "telescoped" New York without much spare cash in fore, I besought him to grant :iµy request. · y, ~ . Ji:[e w~s .foi: !Qme tbne inexoraJ:ile, but said ~~:~:;~ere l~kedm°wu~ ~-V:)fr:, t~!t ness that for d~ys I lay at · the . pomt 0~ meet -it. ' , And all seemed joy, and we one over the other. The driver of the his pocket, and no visible prospects of at last, m reply to my entreaties: d · d d f d , Y . · I death. '\Vhen I reeovered-ay, even be two 'Were together ·once more. Her goods train, Walter Morgan,. was found getting a situation, He had but recently "I wi1l do this for you : to·dat I will 1 r~ ed even:. ewlf ay ~ se~arl"t~n. t fore I recovered-I commenced the quest thoughts my thoughts and my thouo-hta dead, jammed against the engine fire-box, come from Belfast, Ireland;. he was famila ~s pre- of my life-a que5 t that even now is un· hers Our exist.ence ~ne Let oµr bodies The driver of the mail, Walter Cummings, iar with the stationery business in all its wed you in the spirit, a bond that is w~~ dar enas tnnse d stronger than any earthly marriage 01· tie va!,eM upon.~~ · 0 UD;d . er ~. e my Jbourney. fulfilled. ' I fir11t of all, sought the owner be f~r apart our spirits' free from the had one leg completely severed. He was Qranches, and he had good> recommenda· · · y son' '.,u.e sa1 ·' remem er you of the Hermi "tag.. -< · m·!'.ed a ' s to the ·rammels " of' the fl.esh could ' t h at man can mak e, ,, , au d mq meet and removed to the Calcutta Medical College tions from the other side, where he had · . . ave yet to piay an important part on whereabouts of Ws la-te tenant and was v ·.,. _ · · Thatmghthecallednstoh1m,andlcd thest<.tgeofthe world Sweet as th.e·re· i ft:>r dth t C .d h d '· 1 "d wonderfortha1lwlll. ~th1mwhoreads hospital, where I.ie lav·in a critit~l con- served his "time" to the business in the m to a-chamber which I had never entered Il'oee' , four present !if~ is it may be well m~ t th ad e~~- : simp aa.y, "/!..dream ;" I care not, It was no dition. The native firem;m wii.a serious- regular thorough-going style peculiar to before. It was situated at the top of the fol· yn,u not to forg-et tt-·'e existence of t de rlen . 0 e e~d 0 18 Bertmh an.dqufi - dream', nor was dream · ever like unto ly injured, while the body of the goods the ola country. Hll bad vainly sought . of the roof of w h. . . eavmgt no ~·..1. ress. t y C e a1 a th"is. L et sc lence, now or liereaft er, at - train fireman had not been discovered. for an opening in Chicago day after day, h ouse1 a port ion ich h a d nna;i\l:nid Q-o A.l!trre",,_ and I will watch de t ' t· d th . o d . ·en removed and. rep1aced b y a s h ee t of . 1- · · ·· · e ec th ive 1 race em Th o . . a1a1s, an _ t empt to exp1am. · th . 1 be every day for your return." th t f .1 d ft E . e my~t· rc mtercd urse 'l'he carriages of the mail-train nearest the gl'owing footsore and wear:y tramping gls.as, through whrnh I could see the stars · d. 1 , · fi 1 t .. · . · · J .ere e seen at e · ,en 11e ng we held; for me it is sufilc10n:t to know that engine were almost completely smashed. from store td store, gettin~ the best shining all brightly as though nothing inAn so, wit a heart. forebodmcr evil, I la.D,d, and for three ' long , ye~rs sought in the depth of that night her soul sought Here the principal loas oflife occurred. but vague encouragement fi;gm·thclargest w n ~n Eur_ope. mine, and,"togethor, we wandered, or The ()arriages immediately following were establishments as to what might occur in tervened. The walls of the rooro.1 were went. Ifo"'., - ~t~a.nge rt seemed to me, them. through everylar~e to. hung with a material like old tapest~y : aftet tho events of the last few mont.ha, I 111:v1she~ large suma r~ enga{lmg s~1lled floated forth, under the cleat stars. No telescoped one on t.he other, presrnting the fut111re. As he was not dealing just this completely covered the walls and' to atep mt<;> tihe ~very-day world agam; p9hce asaIStance, and famter and famt~r words, as far as the world understands the appearance of a small mound. A then in " "futµ,res," he inad e up his mind even the cloor-as Cardenas parte4 the how pr?satc ord1~ary ~en ·and women my hopes grew.with ev?ry report of fad- them pasaed between us . but plain as special train was sent to the spot early in one night as he comtnuned with his pipe hano-in"B like curtains to alloW' us to en· see~ed m comparISon ·with. my late com- ur.e.. I f11;ncied it poea1ble that Cardenas the l~tters my pen now for~s on the pa- the morning, and returned in about five that he would try another tack. ter "' At one end was a small lltrncture pamons ! herever .J might be, my might bring Astrrea forth from her &e- per before me could I read in some mys- hours with twelve natives wounded, seven A couple 6f days afterwards an adverdr~ped with white velvet, which ( knew tho~ghtst~ 1 b3:c\ ~e h~llhe that ~eld clnsion, so if I heard of the advent of any ·terioua way each thought of here, and as women and five men. They were atonce tisement appeared in every one of the 1 at once was intended for a kind of altar. ~l f ~~u t u .J.Pm ~ ~ e an er won er- genius.in the a.rtistlc or literary world, I read it, knew that my answe;ing conveyed to the Campbell hospital. Chicago ·papers which read as follows: vf'y h~ng else sei,imed dull any new poetess, artlst or singer who was thought was clear to her. I can only make There also arrived five Europeans, Mrs. WAN1'ED - Gentlemen thor.;ughly acOpposite was a divan or couch covered ~d a : er. ' with rich silk. With the exception of a ~ c0 rjon-~ ~ca ~n I_DY eyes, ar- taking the world by e.torm, I hurried. to myself atall understood by saying we spoke Cann, the wife of an apothecary attached qmiinted with the statione1y businera to 1 otnget or. t. e tt~hmewhenM mhlghtt positions in Chicai!'o. St. Louis, the scene of her triumph, to convmce in thoughts; that our spirit-converse that to the railway, her sister's child, and her ftll,responsihle .bracket projecting from the wall and bear- buenttyl"h ann Cincinati. secure attention the appli0 myself she · a la mp, these were tl1e on1y ob 3ec · t s I. 0 a' 1 re3om ' ht contame · d l" I renewa1 of two young sons. The infant was killed ca.nt must &tate 'ro mg n er Y <Y th b . em'th b uc ll d Wl:l.B n ot As t rrel\ , my spirit- mg itt1e b ut tie wher~ Bild up to when l!iSt emplo~ed, reason for quitting, sge, Ealary expeotnoticed in the room. There was none of my tanpoy~nce, e usmesds ad cahe bride. I lived for the one object of re- our unalterable love: that as we passed in Mrs. Ca.nu's lap. Her two boys were ed, reference, etc. A.d1~ress X- , , h h. l1 . . me o arrs was protracte · an w en · · · h d "t-h t 1 h f l . · · and bruised. Mrs. Cann much shaken _ t e .IX!ac .meryd usua ~ appe~ammg: ~o at length 1 began to see the e'nd of it the f~pn~ng nd' ~~lliw1 f ~ive , ~e:lc , a se benea~h. th? lhumm_ouhs stadris, shmmkg, to The number, of replies that our frirnd mag~01ands a.An won er·hwor ers.h e event occured which has been fatal t~ my sd a c d1 nghaa.. ureat, 10.t yfears our sp1rrt-s1~ t, wit a ra ancy un nown received a severe shock and bruises. The . ,. . pa!se · 0 ne ay, vmg o war or a to human eyes-as the moon above to us injuries sustained by the natives were in received to the foregoing rather staggermotrone to strrea to t e couc , and lif , h 11 1 seated me on the ground beside her. My h e ]W~ ~;sd. Sunply t? kill the wjary few hours in the old town of Rouen, as I an orb of dazzlina silver, clothed th; world some cases very serious, The guards of ed h~, but he was very methodical, and head leaned a.gainst her arm, and our ~urs, vrsr ~one :v:nbnft' i\mr P a~e walked in my usual aimless ' manner beneath us in lig"'ht and shadow, we knew both trains escaped unhurt. On the ar- selected from the answers such as were fingers were mterlaced. The maiden amuse;en sor 0 a ' e reve rt through the.narrow streets, I came face our' destinies were linked for all time rival in Calcutta of a native suffering from from employees recently liberated from evinced no fear, but my heart, I am not was; t~ as ~ teahed, ;yne~v hnd pre- toface with the man I had sought so far i' cannot tell the duration ofouri~ter fractured ribs he was found clutching a the serfdom of wage working, His plan ashamed to say, beat audiblv. occtul? ' bga:ns t ~h~ ~ ~ room, and wide. My heart leaped in my breast, course that night · It must have been bag of rupees. He stuck to the bag, even of campaign was to go as quickly as ·pos· Cardenas then ext(nguinhed the light wa. o t~~g, .U no m go t e ,..ancers, and eagerly I sprung forward to hold him, measured by hour~, as I can well remem- when carried away on a stretcher. It is sible to the stores and factories where and placed another lamp or chafing-dish' so;e r~g m hadder g:ve o.uehnce. to lest he should seek to escape me. This ber watching the moon sink into a bank reported that there was twelve . dead at the vacancies had been made, beginning tipon the altar This wa; a curious Shape' at fenkc hin;ian w o la run Tehnoug wmle action was needle~s, as he evidently had of clouds on the horizon-clouds that to Aronghatta station. The bodies had--n.Qt with the biggest salaries, of course, and 0 · · · ' ma e m quarre some. e q uarre no Intention of d' H k b dil h b d ·k b himself, begin by stating thai .imd threw onl.Y eno~g:11 light to make the however it a.rose, was nothing but a~ a'- once and stoepva dlil~ mdel. f e new me ohi hy eyes Jll.&Y alve. een . har ' 'ludt all been recovered from the debris, but it introducing eutlines of ob3ects vmble As I lay in' t b~t · ·k b 11 d u pe · an · or some mo- w c to us were g orrous wit ve1 e was 'reported that sixty persons were he understood they >'fanted a person to fill such and euch a positioµ. He knew weebn a urun enb ut y abnl w'a ments, ,could say nothing; .only stand and light-and then the morning star arose in kilied, tensely excited with my ha.nd clasped in encotun etr ' him sprink le someting on passed con emp uous so er ·man ; u ' a o gaze at him' wondering if my good .fort from the letter received from the former .Astrcaa.'s, I saw and a m:eetin was ~rem toril . - splend or; and then,. as once b efore, a11 occupant the work to be done and the the flame. This, whatever is was m~~e l · · d ·B · h lf g F P h P ~ une was real. I could not help not1cmg t,hings seemed to fade as I felt I was sinkExit the Buffalo. salary paid. He had all the "points," . little difference in its brilliancy b~t soon c alf1mle . Id emg la ha .d Iren~ hmednt mdy that he looked older and more careworn ; iIJ.g into sleep only to awake with the ' se , cou scarce y, a w1s e o o b t th · t 11 t h l 1 · · ' · T.ljle extinction, of the buffalo, which and could shape his applications so as to a sweet odor gradually ~ermeated the air, so, have avoided it; and having always h'/ f em ed s on: c .k .as evert~ll sun h11?h overhead. and whilst I was trymg to remember b k"llf "th th f 0 ils h dl"ttl · _ is a.ce,an ~won ~ru .ar eyeaai 0 thejoylfelt11slrecalledtheevents has been predicted for some time, ie now fill the bill exactly if the pl,atceg were still 1 u l wi 1 em ' h th ·t th t f th· T een s e a conveyed the impression of power and ' mght · , During. the open. He had good refereut~11 and was w e er l was e seen o any mg .., clination to balk my insultei: and teared1 1 d h. h. f H k fir of that t I knew that Astrrea s love, practically accomplished. k~ew or not, Card!'nas turned, and fixed less ~II. to the result of the au'el. or s ip over ls 0 11ows.. e 81?0 e st, could the cloud t~at lay over her memory year 1881 .the fur-traders of the northwest really a competent man, so that he wu his eyes u~on us with the same calm; stern We met the day but one after the :~~l~~d'r:!:ly the melodious voice of old be lifted, .was miae yet. Well I knew I handlq~ ~09,Q_OO buffalo hid.es. . Last year abfo to meet any immediate test, as to his abilities to which he might be pull. .glance w~rch had ao strangely affected me quarrel, an<). I, who had never struck a · · h~ dT~amed no dream ; but, marvelou.s 10,000 hides were marketed, while this on t~e m~ht when. we first met. Re~em- blow in anger since I was ' a boy, found. "You have e:iught me for three years," as it might be, we had, free fro..n all fet- year's trade has virtua.lly amounted to no His intention was should he fail to make ber, m th1~ narrative, I endeavor .to ex- !lpon crossi_n.g swords with my antagon- he. ilai~, "and IlOlf you find me_ :What ters that. would re~tra~ us, that night thing· . Since the Northern Pacific rail· a strike in Chicago, to apply .to the from plam nothmg,,I. risk no speculati~ns, I ist, and seewg the vengeful look in his would you 7" held mag17 commumcat10n. I felt no fear, road W118 completed the buffaloes have houses in Cincinati and St. Louis 1 hazard no theories; I am content simply -sullen eyes the·lust for blood rise within · "Astrrea, mr, bride," I said wildly. · . · no a.we-JOY alone at the strength of the been shot down without mercy, and in which his correspondents had cut loose, to record such ~vents as happened. As me, For first few ' mfoutes I was "Poor boy l ,' .he said, with an 11.ir of bond ~hat bound us toge.ther. I wondered thousands of cases lef P, wi~hout the remo- bat he had no occasion to do so. His artful dodge in advertising laid bare to him ' · Oa~den~s cast his eye UJ?On us, I felt t~e h~rd!y I,>resse4, and, .being unused to compassion, "and yoti have suffered, if I had power to .summon h_er at will; yet val of the hide. In consequence· there are but oceasiop- all the existing and possible vacancies ' ln · maidens fing~rs close with a soft press- figbtmg m earnest, wild and flurrleQ.. but Does, the dream I .bade you dream linger dare npt try, fear111g she m1ghb suffer un~e roul!-~ mme ; I seemed to be sinking soon I grew calm and fought well' and yet 1 Can you not forget 7" told agony if a stronger power than mine al straggling animals south of the line of hia trade in Chicago, and inside of two mto delicious.sleep; nay, 1 oan even re- 13teadily. My opponent was an acoom- · "Nev~r. Let me but see ~~r once, withstood her. ,"I will wait," I said, ·he road, and the few dl:ovee which are days he was installed in one of our largess "and my beloved will come to me at her north of it will probably starve ' during wholese.le·houses, where he is now the member cl~smg my eyes, when sudde:nly plished swordsman; yet, how I knew 1md ~ will rest ~ontent f?r years, all ~rew_rad~n~ round me, a~~ I knew, not, one of my passes went throug~ his JVIth calm pity, hesa~d: . own time. Some day I may learn what. tlie coming winter. On the plains of Da- respected manager. He never deemed it worth his while a111fbymsp':l'at1on, t.hatmy spm~ and~y guard, and he fell dead at my feet. .. . 'Would you be happier m remember- power is mine; now I will only wait and kota the walks and wallows of the bufto reply to the boys who answered his<Ul. may be seen, anµ tMy look as faloes. thoughts m~ngled with another s ~pu;t I felt but little remor8e. The ma,n had mg her as one who ·loved . you, or,,as one liope." Perhaps some of them are here yet, and · I thought I would try and see her though they were used but yest~rday. a~~ anoth.er s thoi.1:ghts. Words, fail m fastened an unsought quarrel upon me, w~? has forgotten your .~x1stence 7 1 givmga.n idea of this blended e~i~tence. pond ai it Jearned befpr,f:l the eng·gement Le~ me but see her, was my only re- again· for now she might know me and Where fields of grain have grown this may now for the first time understa.nd It seems that we wer.e near the altar, yet waa'a well·k~own dueilist, I felt sad that ply, an~ my hear.t beat wildly as I fancied perhaps·, in spite of her fath;r's ~viah, seasqn the buffalo and antelope had, up why they never heard f,orn X. about the had the power of seemg the.whole room a·:man's life should be cut short 88 I I saw h1'm relentmg. wouldfolJow me j;o the end!! of the earth. to three years ago, cropped 'the bunch- responsible posititm.-[Western Papel' n one glance, whi:re, as I hv~, I could ..hould have felt had I seen him kilied in "Follow' me, ~hon," he said, "but in- I had no difficulty in finding the house, graes for thousands of years, and their Trade. gaze upon our bodily forms lymg as Ca.r- a ;railway·accident; but I laid no blame to dulge in no vain hopes, for I say thaJ the but was peremptorily denied admission. bones now lie scattered over the prairies dena.s had plaoed them, and. wrapped m myself if he had fallen by my hand, He poles of the earth are not further apart In vain I offered .larye bribes; the ser- from which t he animals have disappeared Queen R!lnavolona,of Madagascar, newthe deepest and mo~t placid . sleep. I had insulted me, he had challenged m<i than you two will av.er be.!' , vant was faithul to his trust, "Monsieur forever. ly crowded, is reported to be a dec~ded hi:ard marvellous strams of music; I heard and J was ~ghting for my own life. s~ In silence I followed him, and soofi w~ was away, and his orders were distin_ct." ""'4~.....--and rnrn01t Christian woman. Young, mig~ty :words of song meet those h.ar- confident did I feel of bein11 in the r!ght, enter!ld <1 large old house: and he showed I loft the hou~e and longed for the m~ht M r. Sk~rving, ·a L-Othian farmer, im- intelligent, and full of energy and zeal, m~:m1es' _I ~aw the heavens above teemmg J;bat I ~ef'used to 'fly acros the frontier, me into a roo~ on the first flnor, where, ti) com_ e, .hopmg we might ~eet agam , mortalized hi a doggerel ballad Lieut, she hopes, with the aidof her prime minwith brilliant st~rs-stars as yet not preferring to st ·nd ID)' trial. The insult near the window, sat Astrrea. H er beaut y Alas ! It rs not so. Ne1the1' m t he many Smith, one of S ir J ohn Oooper'a officers i11ter, who ii! 111110 a pronounced Chris ian, dreame~ of-and ~ seemed th~t ab~ve had been Bf> marked, th e provocation so to :my famished eyes seemed more glori- hours I wait ed and. watched, nor in t he at the battl e of P rest on.. Pans, in which to make Madagascar a truly Christian !he mns.rc and son", a :}eep v.orce !lll<ld< great, that the court acquitted me. As ous than ever, ancl wit h a cry ef rapt ure I few, hours I slept, did she come. the English were routed by the Scotc}j. ,k ingdom. She entefll largely into schemes . ~or,ever ang ~or e~~.I.'· . soon as I was released, J t ravelled as fast sprung forward to clasp her to my heart, 'Ihe next. day I sough~ the house, once rebels. The 11ffront.ed soldier challe-nged for education, and ~ncourages the people IJ;ow 10~g. t hIS 11p~rit-consc1ou·ness and as I could to Jl!ngland, !lnd reaolied my but stopped short upon seeing her reQoil more, and m the sen~nt a ,!aoe rt;a._, bc- the poet to single combat at H lddingtun. to bear up heroically against all they are bod1ly-ohhv1on. contmued I know not, ~ut ~ome late itt mght, Iongmg for the mom- vith a look of unmistakable affright in fore he spoke, the wo~d~, ~ons eur ha~ ..Gq.og awa' back," was th rustic bard's called to endure ~roi;igh F rench interat laet tbe mua1c :ond ~he song greiy !amt- mg to break,. that I might again see, tho~'!0 eyes that .had ever before grown iiellarted-1 know not wh~re.· anower to the bearer of the challenge, ference. She hopes bhat it may turn out, er and far !1-way ; tl_re heavena began to Aetr~a, and m her love forget all troubl0.!l 1 more r:.diant at my approach. ~t needed Although fearing ~at further search "and tell Mr. Smith that I have no leis- that France has not authoriF,fd the acts fad~, Q.~d httle by little the &.~range 11cent and annoyances. I was very anxious, as, no more than this to tell me she would be vain, I rdliumed the life I had ure t o come to Haddington, but tell him of :French officials, or if ·!Jlt... has, thllt of t he mc~nse arose, and agam I 11eemed st~ange to say, :since phe. ciuel I ~ ltad re- did not even recognize me. As I st ood been leading for the last thre~ years, and to come here an' I'll take a look o' him, England, Germany, 11;nd Am~ca. will ai ~o aleep, out that second sleep was wak- cer~ed no comm?mca.t1ou from her, spell·boulld_, with extended li9:hds, Car. wandered from t own to town, ever pop- an' if I think him fit to fetch him, I'll last interpoB e in favor of a. 11mall nation mg, fo~ my sense~ return~d, an~ I found whilst up to th~t time letters had reached deuas came fo:i;ward, and spee.king in the ing t hat Cardenas might again cross my fetch him, a n' if n:o, I do as he did-1'11 ju~t 11t!l<rting out in tho righb direetaid : , path-a hope as yet ungrat~.fied, _ Astrrea s hands 11t1ll olaspmg mine, the me each day. I had written to apprise pure.at French, B rin awa'." ion. first, and Oardenaa bending over us as if waiting for our awakening. '\Ve rose; and as I looked into my love's eyes, I knew that during our trance my thoughta and hers had been as one. "Children," said Cardenas, as he joined our hands once more, "remember, your spirits are as one. You may be parted bri earth, ,but not in space. Sin by one ' is sin by the other. One cannot rise or fall without the other." Then, trembling with awe, we passed under the upraised tapestry, and spoke no mor.e that night. · · The Daughter ~f the Stars. ~P!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!'lil~!!!!~~~~~!!!!!!~~~~·~'!!~~·~·~~~~a·~P~'~""K~~,........~~~'f~+~~~~AAA~·~4M~-~-~W~UlllZ~'"""'~~tM~iM~&~l-.~~~&M~~~~~~xaza~~~~e~IB*i~·~~·~~&M~w~111~!GM~IWd~i\tliil1!~~~~~~ ·~~~~~~~~~li!illli~~~~es+W&~~=====~~~E&~&~l!llRllll~~ Again and And yet I am not happy. room lighted by. the lamp I had noticed her of my ret 1rn, so, late ss it was, was "My daughter, this gentlema~-believes Wl'rTICISMS. mr po * 11 si ?a !o f 1:::- 7k fu [PB: t fd. ° i £ d ml hl ti/ the -------- ---1!1 · ..