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aN _ home with them. - pre VOL. XX, NO. 28. Forth Onfarin rar |, Ce des -- A WEEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICUL- Having had considerable practical ex. perience in France, the United States TURAL & FAMILY NEWSPAPER, |and Canads, and holding Certificates from 18 PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT., Her Majesty's P ivy Council in Building EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, Construction, I am prepared to turnish DESIGNS, PLANS, DETAILS, ESTI- MATES, §C., . For Buildings, at a low figure. All orders addressed to me, Port Perry Post Office, will receive immediate attention, N.B. [am prepared to erect Buildings ot any size or kind. Port Perry, Feb 8, I877. : BY BAIRD & PARSONS. TERMS. --$1 per annum, if paid in ad vance ; if not $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; and no paper discontinued until all arrears are L RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line, first insertion .. .$0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line Cards, under 6 lines, per annum . The Subscriber in returning his sincere Letters containing money, when ad-| thanks for the very liberal Patronag ie Ww SPENCE, CoxTracTOR, BUILDER, &C. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER imma PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, J UNE 21, 1877. H. MAJOR, ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties IL wishing his services can call at the Observer" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Sales. Glen Major, Oct. 10, 1876. WM. GORDON, L ed A y Vi OR the 'Township of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, Parties entrusting their Sales to me way rely on the utmost attention being given to their interests. WM. GORDON, Sunderland, Brock. T. HL WALSHE, y pa e be- d to this Office, pre. and regester- | stowed on him in the past would inform the 3 P ed, will be at our risk public generally that havin, bought a Advertisements measured' by Nonpareil perty and moved into the Village of Prince | 3 ) Albert, he will in future give his whole and charged according to the space they oc- | attention to his business as Contractor, and is now ready to undertake Stone Work, Brick- | CUBS. ments received. for publication, | KEVIN BETIS, Nk Cedar of, he hor without specific instructions, willbe inserted | est notice and in the best and most durable antil forbid and charged accordingly. No a Jowest figure at which advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. | {i first-class workmanship, A liberal discount allowed to Merchants M. and others who advertise by the year or half-year. Phese terms will in all cases "be strictly ~~ ed to Job Department. Pamphlets, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and color, executed promptly and at lower rates than any other establishment in the County. Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &e. printed can have them done to take | -- SPENCE. Prince Albert, April 5, 1875, PRE HARRINGTON, Teae Port Perry. struments. Residence, on Union Avenue. ISS 8. 8. HARRINGTON, Teacher of M Music. Applications by Post or in person golteted. Residence, on Union Avenue, Port Perr, ~ Business CTS. JAMES W. BEALL. WOWNSHIP CLERK, + TOWNSHIP OF EAST WHITBY. | and General Insmance H. PARSONS. J. BAIRD. Conveyancing Agent. Office in the Town Hall. from 9 a. m. till 5p. m. "YR RE watescienw 1 & RE ee -- Business hours JONES, M. D, Coroner, . Surgeon, &c. Port Perry. Residence--Ofice door west of the Presby- gerian Church. Physician, business on Mondays and Saturdays. JAMES W. BEALL. Tp. Clerk. Columbus, March 28, 1877. rian rere D% WARE, Coronor for the County of JOHN S. M. WILLCOX, Ontario, Physician, Surgeon and Ac- oucheur, Prince Albert. mere 1. SANGSTER, M. D., Physician, J. geon and Accoucheur. Coroner for the County of Ontario " PORT PERRY. » pointed OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE or the county of Ontario. Any business Office over Notts Furniture Store, corner of antrusted to his charge will be carefully at- <ucen and Perry Streets. fended to. OfMce hours from 9 a.m. to 12 m. "TW. BURN HAM, Clerk of the Third Divi- Residence, the dwelling recently occupied J sion Court. Office in Bigelow's Block, | ny Mrs. Geo, Paxton. Port Perry. | OfMee hours from 10a m, to 3p. m, formerly assistant to Prof. Maclean Surgeon 0% The University Hospital, Ann T. C. FORMAN, Arbor, Mich. INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS & MEASURES Ofice--Currie's block--corner of Queen For the County of Ontario. and Perry streets, Port Perry. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. se Sh AE KENNEDY, M.D, M.C P. 8, ie ------------ RS. MCGILL & RAE, Physelans, Surgeons, &c.. &¢, Office and. Residences, King sty, Oshawa, FRANCIS RAF, M.D. WM. M'GILY, MM. Lol New Marriage mre M. F. MCBRIEN, M.D, M. R. and. « Guy's Hospital, London, Engl The hye R. Act. Or Ble Oshawa, | er arr Port Perry, July 1st, 1874. E. FAREWELI, LL. "ii a e torney for Ontario, Barrister, orney, ENRY CHARLES having /bebn. re. > ¢ Public. Office laely oc ANRY ARLE i Solon A CS athranes Ener Brock strect, appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- nish Licenses as heretofore--at Port Perry. : iit ral Y MAN L. ED | L Chancery, At! | Oshawa. yMee--Simeoe street, opposite the Post Office ITH, LL. 1B, Barrister, A , Solieitor in Chan ad Insolvency, Notary Public, &e. office--MeMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. R. RIC¥ARDSON, Re-appointed Issuer of ' Marrvinge Licenses. Under the New Act. Office, lot 10, in the 1st con. Brock. Barristers & MACDONNELL, CAR IN & MA NB ristors and Attorneys at Law, Solicitors Jouneil, Untario. Offices : Court House. Whithy, Brock, Avg. 5,1874. 33 WM. C. CAMERON, i. CDONN eC CAN 3 A IIURD, Attorney at Law, and Solicitor T C. FORMAN, P. in Chancery. Office in the Royal \reade, . ISSUER OF Port Perry. Marringe licenses. ) One door west of the Walker House Port Perry W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan- A cery Notary Public, &e., &c¢ Office hours punctually from 9 a.m. to 5pm. |, Monsey wo Loan at 8 per cent, on all kinds of good security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. ea ---- : eet OHN CHRISTIE, TOWNSHSP CLERK, ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchester IE, ONTARIO J. A. SURRAY, pn ges Famer Mutual Insurance Cy Corrigan & C bell s Store, Perry. All work done in the very atest and best style and warranted to give satisfaction, _ Port Perry, March 28, 1877. Head Office, Whitby, Ont. This Company is now fully organized and is prepared to accept risks on Farm Buildings and their contents, country School Houses and Churches, Those wishing to insure and thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportunity of doing so, either by applying to the Head Office, or to any of the loca) Agents of the Company. Our rates The undersigned would inform th public | will be found as low as those of any respon= that he now practices his profession of | sible Mutual Insurance Company in Canada, Dental Surgeon at his residence, Prince Head Office--Opposite the Royal Hotel Albert, where he is prepared to attend to all | Brock St., Whitby who require his services, or partis vil be C. NOURSE, Seeretary. attended at their residences if they prefer It. nt My long and thorough knowledge Pt every| WH BROWNE, General Ag department of the profession enable me to warrant satisfaction in every instance. R. FOSTER, L.D 8. Prince Albert, Aug. 16, 1876. zy > Hi DEN ISTRY. 7% | | WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS. 0. N. VARS, L. D. 8. J. &R. WOLFENDEN, +EETH iaserted on all the latest princi- Veni i - Tr ples of the art, and as cheap as the cheap: Foreign and Amorinn Sue a sat, and as good as the best. Teeth filled tex, Montmeis Ke s unidas em ye in Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted | Also, Agent for the 5c0 : i ildi rde:'. without pain by producing' local anwmsth- Also Building Stone cults or OTT, esia. Dentical Rooms--in Cowan's new A 0 gent, Port Perry. block; Ses Atkinson's Drug Store, King | wy i,0 july 20, 1874. 32 y CHAS. THORN. V 8. Fuctionecrs. es EMBER of the Veterinary Institute, M Chicago, Ill. Gold Medalist for the est examination on Horse Practice. Author . of 8 First Prise Essay on Shoeing. Gradu- | 1,jouNsEp AUCTIONEER, ated Sept. 16, 1867. ' . FOR THE CO. OF ONTARIO, JX Dr. Thora begs to announce that he has | AND TOWNSHIPS OF MARL taken up his residence at Port Perry, and is | poss & CARTWRIGHT, now pre %o treat nll oases entrusted to | Begs to thank his many friends and the his care in the most skillful and scientific | public generally, for the liberal patron- manner, All orders left at the Medical Hall | age bestowed upon him for the past five years. of Mr Allison, will receive prompt attention. | "proving now given up the business of The Veterinary Stables may be found | Bailiff, I intend, in future, to devote my on Lilly street, opposite Comitt's Factory. | whole time to the business of Auctioneer, 'Perry, Oct. 28, 1873 Collecting, &c. It will be my enleavors by prompt av : ful attention to business, to ve a chitects, & efuction 'to all who may favor me with Y GRIST, PATEN SOLICITOR AND their Sales or Collecting. M, WILLCOX, mAUGHTMAN, Ottawa, Canada: Bi dmughied and Blank Notesfurnished § i free ot arge. Transucts business with the Patent Office Arge. aps always on hand. and ottiey ta of the Also. Bill Stamps MEAT 36 for sales &0. Pp of Atos Copysigite Rg The Re de at the Opserver Office, and at the Standard Specifications, and other Documents neces. | Office, Port Perry. W. M. WILLCOX, to secure Patents of Invention, prepared or of the model of the Invention. Port Perry, Oct. 25, 1873. best material | WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction her of A us %y TH Also dealer in Musical In- | | 1 FED Auctioneer for the Township of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in North Ontario; Mariposa, etc., in the County of Victoria. Residence--Cannington, Brock. Orders left at this office, or at his residence will be punctually attended to. Debts col= lected in Cannington, or otherwise, and prompt remittances made. Remember-- eer. § EE E WALKER HOUSE > PORT PERRY: Ti: Subscriber having leased the above hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the approbation and patronage of the public. THE WALKER HOUSE whether for extent or quality of accommo- dations is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by none out of the best cities , &e. || |MUNEY TO LOAN ! [HE Subscribers have la ey placed in their hands Village arms, 11 Propert/ other Securities In'this and Rau ieast possible delay. WANTED TO PURCHASE, est figures will be allowed. manent Build n from 2 to 20 years. Lands Bought and Sold. Several good farms for sale. sutance Com panies. ness transacted. za DEBENTURES BOUGHT."&X JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, General Agents, Office in Mr. Ross' Ontario Buildings, Port Perry, Oct. 11, 1872, AN Commercial Travelers, the Traveling Public, Farmers and others doing business The Clerk will be home for township | in the Village and the general public will find in THE WALKER HOUSE all that can be required in the matter of accommodation and moderation in charges. F the Town of Whitby, has been ap- |The Charges are No Higher at the Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House is fitted up throughout in FIRST CLASS STYLE. The Tables and Bar supplied with the choice of the market and the utmost atten-- tion paid to the convenience and comfort of ALL GUESTS. An abundance of comfortable Stable and Shed accommodation, and attentive hostlers. W. B. McGAW. Port Perry, April 20, 1876. pore PERRY HOUSE, PORT PERRY. | JAS. V. THOMPSON, - PROPRIETOR. The above House is now most comfort- ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigars, also, first class Stabling and good Ostler Additions have been made which maker this | the largest and best House in this section of | country. Fare $1.00 per Day. Taree HOUSE, PORT PERRY, The Subscriber having leased this comfort. able and convenient Hotel, will spare neither labor nor expense in providing for the com. fort and convenience of guests. 'I'he Tables will always be supplied with the best to be had in the market. Only choice Lignorsand Cigars at the Bar, Any quantity of firstclass Stable and Shed accommodation properly | attended to by careful Ostlers. CHAS, HOLT, Port Perry, March 8, 1876. EVERE HOUSE, MANCHESTER. By GEO. HOUCK. Having leased the above excellent Hotel it will be my endeavor to conduct it in every particular'so as to merit the appro- |. bation and patronage of the public. Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875, NTARIO HOTEL, WHITBY, T. MASON, - - PROPRIETOR. The public well cared for, and all Guests | Day will please feel at home. Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. Corner of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts. CANNINGTON, Ost. D. CAMPBELL, ProprieToR This Hotel is now furnished in the best style, and offers every accommodation to travelers pe5~ First class Sample Rooms. Livery attached, Cannington, Oct, 20, 1875. 43 in eiti--. A NGLO-AMERICAN HOTEL, QE: HOTEL PRINCE ALBERT. W. H. PARK, - =- =- PROPRIETOR. . Having purchased the above pleasantly situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired Bought, prompt r The party ing money can without commission, at Eight is allowed to fix his own tir of interest onee a year (not in advai he can at any permit repay part orall of the p without prior ce to the Cemy binding thems ves in the mortgag such sum, whether large or small, No No extra charge is e ment. Loans made farm, or good productive town and village property. Inall guarantee Loan will ten dolla that a One ot cost the bor , and loans up to f am acting as Age city in the transaction. tion. JAMES L Broke Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and stree D, Uxbridge, May 17, Money The undersigned has any amount of Money ! years younger than her former play to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at fellow. Unusually Low Rates of Interest! | ALS CAT epaid i r 3 i . Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit | she said. the borrower. Also several Improved Farms, and Wild Lands for sale, cheap. Investments made in Municipal Deben- tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks. Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Official Assignee, Broker, &e. pricE--Over the Dominion Bank, McMil- 0 lan's Block, Brock st.; Whitby. Whitby, April 10, 1873. > OF DIVISION COURTS FOR THE y of Ontario, For the year Count Whithy... Brougham Port Perry Uxbridge . Canningto erton rly .. 13 2 G. H. DARTNELL, . Junior Judge. Whitby, Dec 27,1876. eer et eat. THITBY, PORT PERRY & LINDSAY RAILWAY "IME TABLE No. 18: Taking cfleet Wednesday, May Oth, 1877. TORONTO TIME. Trains Going North. NO. 2 MAIL. dep. 9.10 Whitby Junction . hitb, . Port Perry Trains Going South. 0. 1 EX. Port Pert. . Prince Alber and ted the entire p even to the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the | best Liquors and Cigars! Tro / Strict attention paid to the comfort of HOLESALE and Retail dealers in gy, ests. The table and bar well supplied. W. H. PARK. Prince Albert, June 12, 1875. A RESTRORS HOUSE, (LATE ALBION,) WHITBY, ONTARIO. FE. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. sree mitre The Only First Class House in Town. only. At Port Perry with Str. + Maple Leaf" for Lindsay. . JAMES HOLDEN, Whitby, May, 4, 1877. ENSON HOUSE, late Jewett House, Kent Street, Lindeay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. OYAL EXCHANGE HOTEL, WILLTAMSBURG, CARTWRIGHT. E. BRYANS, Proprietor. The Subscriber having succeeded Mr. Mason in this pleasant and ccmmodious Hotel has spared neither labor nor expense In re-fitting and renovating the entire premises. The Bar } supplied with a superior cl of Liquors and the best brands of Cigars, The choice of the market provided for the Tables. Excellent stabling and attentive Ostlers, E, BRYANS. 'Williamsburg, Dec. 6, 1875. 17th of April. THE STEAMER " NORSEMAN," (W. SHERWOOD, MASTER.) leaving Cobourg every morning at 7. Foy on arri ¢ if MONEY . (Private Funds] "f'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- terest. LYMAN ENGLISH, BARRISTER, &C., Oshawa w msburg Railway for points East, West and South. Returning, will leave Charlotte (port Rochester) daily at 9 Ww direct. Dealers In Btock, &o., cheapest and Most _ex| ton, Albany, New York, &e. For further information apply to W. SHERWOOD, itious route to November 21, 1866. 4 Or to C.F. Gildersleev Kingston, MORTCACGCES WANTED. e sums of mon- 5r investment on and ¢ i » Oot or Oh, yes, we shall he at the lowest current rates of interest. As we have funds on hand at all times Borrowers candep nd on getting their money with the Any number of Mortgages for which the high- Wu iue R10. Appraisers for tha Canada Per- ng Society, the cheapest and largest Monetary Institution in Canada. Paid ip Capital $1,500,000. Instalments re-payable #9 Agents for several first class Fire In Collections made and a general agency busi- Port Perry. JAMESLUND, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE ROKER, CER, Commissioner for taking in"Court of Queen's Bench, &e. MONEY TO LOAN In any manner to sult borrowers, Mortgages &e., Collected and nt |The consequence was that when time, just as eiréumstances cept nd nonly | Porlock to visit his remarkably it as a direct reduction of principal, immedi ately cancelling the interest on the sum paid. d on such repay- to 20 years on re n : + thousand dollars not' to exceed twenty dollars. As I | } valuator for both | Maggie' Companies there can possibly be no publi- { ota te 0 ntl ft bohad ined ghteen months after be had gaine If the title 1s perfect the money will be | his e ission. t.Q tia." paid here in two weeks after making applica- | his commission. Ghiess what it is. io | carseless murmur of the sea, as at ilo Loan | or ever since maggie could remem- x for 2' he asked, and wiped away her NO. 3 MATL. » Platform Stations--Trains stop on signal- Connections. -- At Whitby Junction with Grand Trunk Rallway Trains, East and West, tage for Uxbridge, and Managing Director. DAILY LINE TO ROCHESTER. Commencing on or abotu Tuesday the Will make her regular Trips on that Joule, ant R. Port Hope at 9., on val of hI. Trains from Kast and West, connecting at Rochester with the New York Central, North- ern Cen and Erle Railways, aud of m., except Saturdays hen she will leave at 8 p.m. for Port Hope will find this the Bos- Port Hope. 'Without a Pigtail. When I'am a man you shall have a proper horse, and not a thing like this," ho said grandly. ¢ Perhaps we shan't play together then, though,' she answered. said thoughtfully. 'You know,' he ad- ded patronizirgly, ¢ I may marry you--that is, if you are pretty, and can spin a peg top, and dont funk jumping in a ditch, or do stupid things that are of no use at all.' ¢ Perhaps I shan't want you to marry me,' she replied scornfully. «I should like to marry a soldier.' ¢ I shall be a soldier, and you are sure to want me to marry you,' he said with a decision, and she believ- ed him, and from that day forth she considered the matter sottled. And when many a year later he told her laughingly, that he was only a poor soldier, and must marry an heiress or remain in foreign service all his life, sho was not very uneasy, for sho felt sure that then he was only joking. They had many a talk and walk togother before the first spell of foreign service came. Alice Gran- gor's uncle lived next door to Maggie Dun'op's parents, and as her father was an invalid, and her mother was wholly engrossed in attending upon him, the goings-out and comings-in of that young lady were not subject [to the amount of attention they might otherwise have received. «Oh, 1 hope she won't!' said Maggie, like a truthful little idiot. Shall you ever write to me, Alic dear ?' « Yes of course I shall, and I shall expect you to write back six pages crossed, and all that sort of thing, you know poor Maggie, it'll ruin you in postage stamps ; its a bob to China.' . I don't care,' sho answered reck- lessly, for Maggie was a fearful little pauper, whose father had ruin- ed himself long ago, and just kept up a patched-up sort of appearance, and did'nt know what would become of them all it it ever seriously oc- cured to his creditors to pounce down upon them. So Alic Granger went to china, and Maggie waited hopefully enough tor a letter, but six. months passed and none came. ' Perhaps it takes longer for a letter to get here from China,' she thought, knowing as little about the means of transit and the time it took as if the Celestial City had been in the moon. But a year,passed and no letter came. « Perhaps he's ill, or its miscar- Ey WHOLE NO. 1020 she was invited to do; and Matia was glad of this, for thero were often guests in the drawing-room who would have admired the pretty governess moro than would have been agreeable for the heiress: One evening, when Maggie had been about a year at Woolwich, and she was sitting alone in her schol- room a8 usual, for her pupils had just said good night and been deliv- ed up to the tender mercies of their nurse, Miss Patterson walked in very much dressed, and rather flushed and excited. ¢ Miss Dunlop,' sho said, ¢ & shall have a few friends this evening, and I know one or two of them like an improptn dance; will you be ready to come into the drawing' room and play, if we should want you 2. «1 fear I cannot play dance music very well ; I never keep time," enid Maggie. «Yes, I feared so, and thought I would come and tell you, so that you might practice for an hour or two after dinner ; and she sailed out of the room evidently 'considering the ried,' she said tearfully, half wonder- ing if it could be possible that a Chinese heiress had turned up, and that was the reason of Alic's silence. Poor little Maggie! She was very miserable about him, for a girl frets and fumes and vorries herself about her first sweet heart more than about twenty after ones all put to Alle Granger came (as he did at every availing opportunity) to welloff uncle, he beguiled his time away by talking with pretty Maggic Dunlop, until he beguiled her heart away. , I have got some news for you, I he said, one day, about | They were walking along the green lanes of Porlock, listening to the lintervals the had walked and listen lod ever since they could remember | ber, at any vate, for she was six You are fgoing to bo promoted ¢ Promoted, you little goose ! No one over gets promoted in the British army. Guess again.' ¢ You are agoing to marry an heiress ;' there was a lump in her throat as she said this. « Wrong again, no inestimable young person with green eyus, a turning nose, susceptible heart, and fifty thousand a year has turned up yet. But it's something neary as good. I'm ordered to China! (Oh, Alic! she gasped, and burst into tears. 1t was very foolish of hor, but then she was only sixteen and had not yet acquired the praise worthy act of concealing her feel- ings. «Why, whatever aro you crying tears. Ile'd kissed her ever since sho was five, and thought no more of it than if she had been a sister, or the cat, excepting perhaps it was gother, oven though she may not really love him half as well as any one of them. Avd she could not satisfy herself by making inquiries of tho well off uncle next door, for he had left his house and the pad- dock, and betaken himself to Cannes in order to live the longer. At last the brilliant thought struck her that she'd write to Alic, and she did then--for Maggie was getting clder --pride stepped in and would not lot her send her letter. Two years passed, and never a word. 'It's too bad,' sho said bitterly, and wondered ruefully if he had married a wile witha pigtail. Aud the days and the months wont by, and Maggie journeyed on into womanhood, but no word or sign came from Alice Granger, and at last she gave him up altogether. 1. Maggio was twenty years old when her father died, and the cred- itors did pounce down, and she and ------------ 1 only speak out of kinduess,' she said fiddling at an emerald ring which Maggie had never noticed on her finger bes fore. 'Of course Mr, Granger' is so very, intimate here, that we should never misunedrstand anything ke did--' she sud- denly dropped the ring, and proceeded to look for it ; it had rolled to Maggie's feet, and she picked it upand handed it back.-- "Thank you,' the heiress said ; 'I don't know what Mr Granger would say if I told him I had tried to lose it already.' Maggie's heart stood still. Then he had given her that ring! 'We are going out with him this morning,' she Added with # gracious smild that froze poor Margie, she disappeared. Then Maggie went into her own room, the only place she had in the world entirely tof herself, and cried till her eyes were red and her head ached. The lessons did not progress that morning. Maggie wasthinking of Alic who'was no doubt strolling abont the common, listening to the band and making love to the heiress. The children were more than usually stupid too and all the world seemed upside down, and all its ways tarned crooked. Suddenly at about twelve o'clock, just when Maggio w. s in the fiddle of expoundingas best she could the eccentricities of the French grammer, there was a knock at the school room door: * Come in,' she said. The door opened and there stood before her astonished eyes the form of Alic Granger, #nd behind matter setled, and Maggie, after re- lieving her feelings by making a few elegant grimaces after hor ro- treating form, meekly proceeded to play the Mabel Waltz and the Flick Flock Galop. "Then she put on her shabby black evening gown, and struck a spray of white flowers into her golden hair, and waited patiently tor the summons, hoping she would wait in vain. It very soon came, and with a roll of music under her arm, a flush on her innocent fright- ed face, and a scared almost hunted expression in her eyes, she descend- ed, and timidly opened thedrawing- room door, and then stood still for a moment staring at the scene be- fore her. Their sat the heiress with an eager pleased expression on her face, and leaning over her, talking and laughing, and more handsome than ever, and sunburnt and soldier ly looking, was Alic Granger.-- There was no mistaking him. The color rushed into Maggie's face as if to say a hurried good by, and then left it altogether. She recovered him was a man, evidently his servant, with a box on his shouldiers. « All right, Tim, put it down ; that's right now be off. "There, I've brought thé curios ities round, Maggie; I thought you would like to sce them.! «Oh, whit will Mr Marshall'and Miss Patterson ay 2' said Maggie in consterna tion. ¢ Nothing for the next half-hour or 80, for I have just seen them saf:ly on their way to Woolwich, and thought I should just get a quiet chat with yon --My dears,' he said turning to Maggie's wide-cyed, open-mouth- ed pupils, 'I'm shure you'd like to let off your lessons, so I'll let you off for half an hour ; run along, my little dears,' and he opened the, door for them, and shut it after them. Oh, Alic I' said she with fear and tremb- ling. « Oh, Maggie! he answered mimicking. --~ . What did you mean by going away from Porlock, and not leaving any address ?' «I couldn't help it, and you never wrote,' she answered helplessly. «No, I never write letters; don't know how to spell well enough, But I have beent hunting for you all over the place, and never dreamt of finding youlere. Now we'll un- pack the box ; I had it opened before I came, so its only fastened by a lock.' self-possession, however, and walk- with what she considered was grace towards the piano. She felt rather than saw him raise his head and lock at her, and the next moment he was by her side. « Maggie, My dear Maggie! Why, fancy you being here; where did you come from ? I have been trying to find you out fo, months." . her mother were sold up, and all Porlock and ten miles around talked about them, for Porlock and ten miles around loved its scandal as much as the rest of the world, and though it grieved over the misfor- tune of others, it still appreciated the subject for therdiscussion they afforded." Mrs.Dunlop was offered a home in London by a sister who was well off and bad tempered, and it was thankfully accepted. Maggie was informed that she must get her own living, which = being precisely Maggie's own opinion as well as intention, she advertised for a sit- uation as governoss. Now Maggie had a very modest idea of ber own merits, and therefore only asked for twenty-five pounds a year and com- fortakle home, so no less than five nicer--which it was no doubt. 'I shall only be away five years at most, and when Tcomo buck I'll bring you a pigtail and an ivory tooth pick, and a whole lot of things and--' «Yes sho said, listening atien-- tively. «But then you'll be a ydung woman--I forget--and out, and all that sort of thing, and won't condescend to speak to a poor lieu- Summit ia Lt hm tenant ; and you will have all the tle . 42 + 9 m F a rook TH" £7 pm squires and fos-huntery about the Whitby June 3 « lan 20h place at your feet. «Oh, no, indeed T shan't Alice,' she said, eagerly. « But I tell you, you will. 1 be- lieve you are born a little flirt, and 1 shall come back and find you--' But sho burst into tears again, and put up her pretty little hands as if to stop his teasing, which she could not bear just then. It seemed so cruel of him to laugh and joke when he was agoing away for five years. He did not seem to care a bit, and sho could have broken her heart on the spot, and would have done so and thrown the pieces away 80 as to have never to be bothered with it again. Then seeing her mournful bluo eyes, he was mercitul, ¢ I or Contr an i or ie 4. the | polievo I shall como back and find and Ogde! al you to be just as great a little dar- ling as you are now, and if we have money wo will got married and live happy after, and if wo haven't we'll get married and starve 'ever after--unless, of course the heiress turns up." answers came to her announcement that sne could teach English, French music and the rudiments of drawing. One of these answers wus from Woolwich, and stated that Mrs. Marshall required a governess for her threo little girls. Maggie thought she should like to live in a garrison place; she might even see Alic there, not that she would con- descend to sheak to him after his neglect, of course, and not that she cared--oh dear, no! Only, out of curiosity, she should like to see what the Chinese wife he had no doubt picked up was like; so to Woolwich she went Mrs. Marshall was a stiff-necked «I thought you --"" and then she did not know how to go on; so added almost pite- ously, * I am governess here.' « Are you ? oh, I see,then that is the rea- son T have not seen' you nefore I suppose. Do you really know Miss Dunlop ?' the heiress asked, coming up and speaking in her coldest manner, Maggie wished sincerely sho could sink into her shoes and bury herself. « Why, of course 1 do ; we havo been play- mates ever since we were born--haven't we Maggie ?' and Maggie feeling she was being backed up answered bravely. "Yes. «Oh, indeed! how interesting I"--then turning to Maggie. ¢ Will you beso good as to begin a waltz, Miss Dunlop 7--"This was to be our dance, 1 think,' to Alic, aud she sailed off with him triumphantly. -- And Maggie's fingers pattered valiautly over the keyboard, but her little heart felt a terrible Toad within her. And be had al. ways told her he must marry an heiress, «But Alic, they'll never forgive mo.' «Never wind, it don't matter, because if you are good I'll take you away next week. Besides, they'll forgive me anything. I saved the colonels life when he was in Hong Kong--at least, he says go. There now what do you think of these for fighting withy I got them at Java on purpose for you;' and he held out a pair of heathenish looking clubs and brandished them over her head, and then proce cded to pull out the rest of the contents of the box and to decorate the schoolroom with them, ¢ There's Mr Bud- dha, and there's--why, what's the matter Maggie ?' «Nothing ; only you will. get me into dreadful Miss Patterson came in this morning and scolded trouble--yon will indeed. me for talking to you last night.' « Never mind, she was enly jealous,' he laughed. ¢ Now tell me how soon you can leave hore.' « What for 7 he asked innocently. «Who, you haven't forgot that we agreed to be married when TI came back have you yon little coquette ?' and he put his arm round her waist just as of old, and was not reproved, At was so very comfortable she thought. ¢ No, but you are engaged are younot? ¢ Yes, of course T am--to you. «Oh 1 but, Alic--" « Oh ! but Maggie--' and then he stooped and kissed her, and nothing more could bé and the whole thing was plain. Oh, she was so miserable! This is why he was evi- dently on such good terms with the family. She didn't care--she had got over her fool- ish feeling for him long ago, Lut she would give tho world to be at the bottom of the sca or a thousand miles away. He came up to her directly the dance was over. 'I went down to Porlock to try and find out where you bad gone to,' he said 'but nobody knew.' «Tt didn't matter,' she said huskily, let- ting her fingers wander yaguely over the keys to make believe she wasn't very interested in what he said. 'Yes, it did--It mattered a great deal, = Why, I've got & box fall of curiosities for yon--clubs to fight with. and a little heathen god or two, and a statute of Buddha, and-aly sorts of things. I told you I shonld bring you them home. Do you live here--I mean sort of a woman, and starved at poor little Maggie (who looked almost as childlike and' twice as pretty as ever) through double gold glasses. Colonel Marshall, her husband, was a nice old man, with a bald head and an iron-grey moustache; and there was a grown up daughter, a Miss Patterson, Mrs. Marshall's daughter by her first busband, who was really mistress of the establish- ment for Maria Patterson bad a strong will and she was an heiress. «A very nasty heiress too," poor Maggie thought, and she was right, for Maria was skinny, and twenty- fivo if she was a day, and thought herself sarcastic, and always said nasty things to people who did not dare to say them back again. But Magaishad not much todo with any of the family but her three little pup ils,and was quite contented with her sohoolroom and liked toread quietly | of an evening, and seldom went into the drawing-room after dinner as in the house ?' he said these last words under his breath, for the heiress came up, and the next minute he was carried off to dance with Mrs. Somebody atthe other end of the room, but not before Maggie had nodded a reply to him. Soon after this Miss Pater son came up to_the piano; and saying that she wished to pay herself, and that Maggie looked tired, dismissed her without her be- ing able to get another look at Alic. In The next morning, to Maggie's very geat surprise, Miss Patterson came into the led, 'Miss Dunlp, she said stiffly, ¢ I should like to know where you say you met Mr. Granger.' « At Porlock. His uncle lived next door to my mother. He is a very old friend in- decd--' «'Phank yoit. 1 merely wished to enquire because of course you are aware that it is not usual for one in your position to make herself remarkable by having long confiden tial talks with any gentleman who may visit the house.' 1 don't know what you mean, Miss Pat- terson I' Maggie said indignantly. schoolroom before the children had assemb. said, for the door opened and their stood the colonel, and there stood Mre Marshall, and there stood Maria Patterson. Miss Dunlop!" screamed Maria, horror= struck. « Mr. Granger said Mrs, Marshall In as- tonishment. « Hoity-toity I' exclaimed the colonel. -- «What does all this mean 7' «She must leave tho house at once,' said tho heiress. «Of conrse she mist,' Mrs. Marshall said, «I never heard of such a thing in my life-- To deliberately send the children out of the way, and have Mr, Granger up into the schoolroom : arid what is all this rubbish ?--pointing to the curiosities. My dear Mrs. Marshall,' said Alic, look= as if he were beginning a speech, 'it is all my fault: You told meand so did the col= onel to consider your house my home, and 1 have doneso. Miss Dunlop here was a palyfellow of mine once, and when went away we were engaged, but somehow we lost sight of cach other when therc"were & few thousand miles between us, and it was the happiest moment of my life to meet her again lastnight ; and £0 I tcok the liberty of calling on her this morning, and we were just arranging to get married next week when you interrupted us.! ¢ Quiet right my dear Granger,' said the old colonel Leartily 'you shall be y from here--"' x +Oh 1 please let me go home to mamma== . do Tet me go home at once,' pleaded Maggie, finding her little tongue at last. +1 think it would he more satisfactery if Miss Dunlop went back to her rylations.' said the heiress sourly. ct] So they all finally agreed; and that very 'But Alic she asked in the railway carriage --for he escorted her to London of course-- cwhy did you give Miss Patterson a ring 1 thought yon were going to marry ber [Concluded vn fowth page.) afternoon Maggie packed np her modest be- longings and all the curiositics, and went to the well-oft but bad-tempered sunt. ~~ & *