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The undersignedtwonld respectfully call the attention of those wishing the services of Auctioneer, that he is, SE to attend nd siflcs on the shortest notice anywhere in the County of Ontario. Blank Notes and Bill Stamps kept copsiantly on hand. 5 186 ACCOUNTS COLLECTED PROMPTLY. hotels Royal Ganadian Hotel, PORT PERRY. and care, warran oh ve snifucion 'ora Thee erie having ln leased the above Hotel : fitted up in b 5 gle in keeping ity the Shree an increa: an ros Whi iy Comper be bor! hood, A & ote so dealer im all bi ) Linde af J ry, Fe gy and conve; Pet attention to the Table and the Bar. Rersuncins. riggs, Port Hope; Rev. Comfortable Salles and in Hostlers. J T. Byrne, Whithy ax Gould, Esq., Neither labor nor expense will be spared in lage. 4.00.11. lags. ou + | making the Tso Royal Canadian Hota worthy of h Dec. le 1 tronage. y HENRY FOY. | Port Perry, Jane 16, 1869. +| "REVERE HOUSE," MANCHESTER B. PLANK,......... PROPRIETOR. 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S Medicine cannot qungt bo Jor re- Sov Ye Tumorite EO ag tal n the generalLinimen ph magi- al i EEE raliga and all kinds of Rheum- nth, and fe honor 1 the body. THIS is to cert that I had a Tumour on the side of my ck Ror th ts oi of twenty cS Ww ually removed it from my neck a few he ab named Ri Ein hen ain or WM. D. ANDERSON. $1 pe er bole. ia mo most cases one bottle will Hn must accompany the 2) pont 12-3m At fhe yillase of Borelia (oow P. March iP 1872. "JOHN CHRISTIE, TOWNSHIP CLERK for Reachs' Con- ve; Rneer Commissioner of the Court o &c. Business carefully attended Manchester, there in the dead o'night.' the Lady Creighton's Crime . ¢ Yen, it' a queer looking old place. and 2 | queer things happened there.. I've heard. Things that don't seem much in this bright sunshine, but which would make a man's | flesh creep if hod see and hear em over «So 0 "So it is, nd people shon the place as Hey would the plague." ¢ I'd like 10 visit it," Whatdo you say, Falkland 7" And my-travelliug companion, Colenel Elton, turned 10 me with some. thing of the baitle fire lighting his stern face. ¢ I'm not afraid of ghosts, Colonel." ¢Good ! Neither am 1.> Then address ing the German peasant: ¢ Csn we get at the keys and secure the services of a fellow not afraid ot sighing guele of wind at midnight 7° The peasant shook his head in condem~ nation of the light? tones, saying as he did 0: ¢ There's no need of keys, sir. A storm crashed one of the old doors in more than a year since, and you can go and come as you like, But if you want a good, brave fellow to guide you and - stand by you in thich and thin, my brother Franz is the one ler you, and he'll gojbacked by a hound that fears nothing human. ¢ Very good. We'll investigate this mys- tery to-night.? 3: It was nearing dusk when we reached the irregular old structure which had a'- 'racted our altention earlier in the day. Perched high amidst rock and forest, 1s aspect was ly forbidding, though the extensive groonds 1 still gave evidence of o former care and taste which must have releived the place of its sombre wildness. As we wandered through the laberin- ilune halle and rooms, other evidences of bygone luxury met our eyes in remnants of taded carpets and stray pieces of furni- ture, elegant enough to have graced a pal- ace. "And these proofs of the last tenant's hasty. flight were to be fouud tn every direction. Oe room on the first floor had ecardely been disturbed, and in this we finally de- cided to bpstow ourselves and. the hamper which Franz had guarded with a care that sufficiently expressed his regard lor its con = tents, Once ablaze with firelight and can- dlelight, the room looked a cheery place in which to await ghostly sighta and sonuds, and we discussed the contents of the above mentioned hamper, trasting that our 'mun- dane comforts might not scar away ihe nocturnal visitants of whom we had heard. ¢ Franz,' said the colonel, sipping with critical tuste the glass of hock now and then raiecd betwaen his eye and the light, * Franz, [ think you told me the fast resi- here were English." ¢ Yes, sir. A lady somebody, with her two daughters--one a child--and an army of servants. Sometimes they were seen abroad, but not often ; and afier a time the young lady was never seen.' ' ¢ How long did they reside here.' ¢ A year I believe though it may bave been more or less. Twas whispered that they ran away from what we'te come to look vp. And I'm thinking something 0k them off in a hurry, seeing how "they left things." ¢ It might seem so, returned the Colo- nel, glancing rteflectingly around him, ¢ and? ¢« Hush | exclaimed, raising a warning hand. ¢ What was that 7? There succeeded a dead silence, broken only by Nature's quiet voige out in the for onlin ent, « ¢ Your fertile imagination, my dear fel- low,' at last Jaughed the colonel, empiying his glass. sol ¢ Not eo," | exclaimed, as we all sprang to our feet at a londer repetition of the sonnd which had arrested my attention a minute before. ¢ Twas a woman's voice --a voies that' I know 1" cried the colonel, snatching up a candle and dashing from the yoom, ¢ It came from ihe ball above, he ehont- ed back as Franz and [ prepared ta follow him. * 8p,' exclaimed Frans, a8 we reached the door. ¢ Look at the brute !* pointing te hia boasted pet, crouching in the 'extremity of terror undor a low couch by the fire ; {Come, Fury | Come I' he called, but a whine was the only response, snd we join: the colonel alone. ¢ It's nofhing homen, colonel ; you needi't look," said Franz, eol- emoly, as with ashy cheeks' "and Tips 'my friend darted from ehiamber fo chatiber. As he spoke the same heatirending - wail --sweet as mournfol--echoed through the halle and died away in i corner of the building. ¢ Higher! higher 1 cried the cla wh ; ing two steps at a time. ¢ Nima}. Nina ! My datling--my love | 1 am bese, Nina! he shouted ay the hall was reached. Horror filled my sonl. Had wy | friend gone mad ? 1 looked at Franz. His eyes plainly spoke my own unexptessed fear. No voice ed the eolonel's! fm p d call, yet with frantic grief be: prisécntsd his vain search, tearing away moth eaten hangings, sonnding the walls and beating the figore despite our entreaties and aigu- ments, At last we. got him down lo the room we had entered sa inoredulovaly & few bours previous. He sunk; into a seul; despairing woe marked on every {igeut nt. ¢ Drink it, colonel,' begged Franz, pho ing the brimming glass againat the aet lips' adding ae it was taken and drained: ¢ Stall We leave this cursed place, sir-2* ¢ You can leave il you wish, but J shall remain {ill this awful mystery '1s solved,' muttering to himee) as he again sunk into that wofal silence. ¢ There's been foul play, 'just as I 'expected.' Directly he looked up, demanding abruptly : ¢ Frans, wae the lady' Bitde Creighton © Lady Creighton 1" Franz answered ppl : ¢For my life I codld not tell ihe name. But there ! do you hear that 7' he whispered, a grey hue settliug about his mouth. ¢ Them wheels alwaye rolf up here at midnight and then the worst comes. . Heaver he'pus.!" The Colonel had staried to his feet at the first sound, and we stood Breathless listen- ers to the rolling wheéls and ringing hoofs. On'they came, nearer--nearer halting: at last, at the main' entrance. With one accord we caught up and light- ed the torches laying at hand, and rushell into the hall just in time to see the great door roll open with a heavy lana, and hear the dull tramp of heavy feet and the soft rustle of silken gowns. Close beside us the: weird tinseen com- pany passe, oroesing the hall to the stare, and then up step by step. * Halt paralyzed |, 1 stood gazing into vacaney till Elton" J me. ¢ Come ! Where they go, I go ! . And step by step we follow--up to the hell above, and then tothe next. Not a word--nothing but tha: dull tramp and silken rustle. lv wae frightful | Yet on the colonel: strode," eviftently undisturbed by the terrors that shook. Franz and me, a' mute. anguish and unfaltering" Purpose breathing ibtough every glaree and move- ment. 'That some terrible grief had once. swept nis life, ranor had long before . whispered, and [ was half nnconciously speculating or it, associating the unknown past with the strange present, when a dead hush fell, euded instantly by the most appalling shriek that ever smote human ears. Just ithen in {ront of ns it rose, dying away in the same . prolonged, mournful wail. we had tirst heard. A strange guttural murmur, a hurried rush of feet, a chiiling blast of wind and we stood in total darkness. As Franz clatched wildly at my arm the colonel's voice rung clear as a bugle in the frenzied ery 'Nina ! Poor dove, | am coming !" Then, as the truth seemed to strike him, he groaned : ¢ Heaven help me! Am I mad? Alas! she ts dead !' Scarcely had the words left his lips when # low fiendish laugh, which each of us could have sworn was breathed close 10 his own ear, curdled the blood in our veins. -- Even the colonel was struck with horror.-- A sharp ejaculation escaped. his lips, and it was in hoarse, uneieady accents that he bude relight the torches if we had the means. But even as he poe; a vivid, lambent light shone about us, revealing the tall slender figure of 8 woman whose dark, rich besuty was set ofl to isi by a heavy black eatin tobe, with road trailing, bloodred tinetnre, and knots of the same ruddy bue burning under diamond fastenings in the jeity hair, and at the gracefal throat. She stood at the end of the hall, one elender hand gliding over the adorning frescoes ; one little blood-red slippered foot pressed hard against the wood werk below. With panting breath and glittering eyes, Colonel Elton bent forward, watching - till the seeming, wall fell slowly back. Then 1 be sprung forward, shouting fiercely, : "Lady Creighton ! Demon! Fiend ? We only'saw a spasm of pain contract the Beaotilul features--a swift hand raised toward the 'door, and" all' wae dafkness.-- Hurriedly re-lighting 'ody torches we ap- proached the 'whlld, "bi¥ "ont 'eager hands had scarcely | touched its frescqge when the low weit of 4 harp sfrack us motionless. A few wondering ohorde--a few wilder. ingly sweet and moutnful strains and then there rose a joll perfect melody, swelling | dually into a h pest thas every instant approached nearer and nearer. Like great fidal waves it dashed up 10 our very feet, and: then slowly" receded only to Sweep back and sgain encompass us in wierd slotm uf 'melodious sounds. To and ro it swept--=toand fro, toand fro. Franz 'was the first 1p shake off the spell that beau us. « Tt comes from behind this ebived wall? he exclaimed. ¢ Les break it in--there's | no good behind it I' The colonel atatted an if from a dream. frercoen, pressing a 'foot ae: she aig he | ton. answered hoareely, a Wa found the secret apringn) bot whether hone or. _miputes, WED, consumed, by the 1s shudder. ¢ Wait! We'll first search among these | i [ito wild, fitfal' gusts "that rifled away till'tbe far distance every sound. Andina silence almost 2s weird as the music, we traversed the long, narrow passage and 'winding, chambers with iron bound doors and high grate windows. All the belongings of a drawing room, bed chamber, and boudoir 'scat. fered through thess rooms, somany tokens of a vanished presence. No dismantling hand had ever been here. Pdintings garnished the walls; richly hound volumes lay heaped in pretty con- fusion on the tables ; a harp, with drokén, rusted etrings, and a quaint chair stood beside it, just as the musician had left it.-- Under the lace and velvet hangings of the couch; was the imprint of a human form.-- Even the gemsstudded brush beneath the | drgssing-mirror apoke of some fair woman in a faw golden threads waich Colonel El- ton drew out-with a tender hand, and press: od. to his lips in ® passion. of love and rief. On the floor at the foot of the couch we found a tiny erystal flask suggestive of much to Colonel Elton. But save the one little word ¢ Nira," scratched on a book, nothing more by which to identify the life that had been, rewarded our diligent search and lighted by the blaze of the. rising sun we slowly and sadly returned to our camp- room. There Franz met with a grief.-- Hin noble pet was dead ! ! A fact strange as indisputable. That same day Elton and 1 were en route for London, sweetly It was one of Lady Creighton's grand re-unions. Colonel Elion had raid his reepects, avoiding with infinite tact and grace the cordially exteided hand of his hostess.-- Glancing at me: he said : ¢ Lady Creighton, I have presumed upon my intimacy with the late Sir Robert and his lovely daughter, so far as to bring an old friend, Allow me to present Major Falkland." With shivering horror I gazed upon the woman glowing in the perfect maturity of her exqnsite Ttalian beauty. No dress of dress of black satin and ruddy-hued ribbons this time, bot a crimson velvet robe, pal- pitating opals, shimmering diamonds, and laces a queen might have covete(. Rich and mellow was Colonel Elton's voice when he spoke again. «We ere just trom Germary, Ciaighton," he said. Lady. Creighton paled under the eye with which he transfixed her, ¢ We left the singing Rhine for the bor- ders of a grand old forest--the very forest your feet once skirted.' I noted the same look of fear that swept the faoe under the frescoed walls. It was swift as awlul, and she answered in silvery tones : ¢That was not remarkable, Colonel Elton. I was resident in Germany a num- ber of months. My late husband's daughter was a greal invalid, and we carried her thither when other means failed to reward our hopes. Tt was a sad time, for Sir Robert being ton feeble to leave England all the respunsibility feil upon me." ¢You must have found it wearying,' my friend returned, with the same transfixing vaze." : Lady Creigh had d herself somewhat, and her face betrayed nothing as rhe answered calmly. Lady {WHOLE NO. 744 Er ---- white gossamer lost to her view, she drops ped intos favteull, motioning ue to seats near her. 'The quiet even voice took me by sotprise, and also the courage with which she dashed into an evidently dreaded subject, ¢ Doubtless yon have heard sone of the nce in Germany, Saabs. tsidn Nina's madness was a family secret, kept {rom all save a few faithiul servants, and we naforally prelerred the secltision of a foreign country for vur darling, to the publicity and horrors of s mad-house. 'In Germany we could guard ber with secre ss well as loving care.' Elton's broad chest heaved at that starts ling mention of madness which accounted for certain grated windows and iron bound doors. He rephed nonchalantly. ¢ 1 heard many things; Lady Creighton -- some of which I will tell you. When I was first ordered off to India, | bore with me the hope of winning a sweet giri's love --and I leit one in London who had both the will and power 10 keep me informed of all concerning the lovely Nina~ Nir Robert Creighton's once precious darling. Consequently, | learned in due time that old Robert's heart and hand had been won by a peerless Italian widow --that Nina had been gifted with a mother. Trampliog all obsiacles under foot I re- turned for a brief visit. I returned to find my wild idolatry had gained the coveted reward-- Nina's love was mine. Besides that I soon found that she was far from being happy--that her father's beautiful wife "was & terror and a dread to het.-- Though sharing her fears, I lavghed at them --and with the glad hope of claiming» al some future day, Sir Robert's condition-- al promise, I departed for the post of daty. ¢ Then Lady Creighton, I learned through the same friend that Sir Robert had made a new will--and one which was very gener- ally esteemed the work of his peerless wife. Since I am detailing much that you already know, [ may etate that this will contained a clause etating that the vast Creighton estates were entailed to Lady Creighton's little child, Beatrice Vinci, through his own daughter, Nina, in case the latter should die unwedded. 1 was disturbed at this item of English intelligence, for, said I to myueelf, Lady Creighton may--" He paused and leaned toward the superb creature whose eyes were riveted on his by a species of fascination. ¢ You look so white and horrified, Lady Creighton, that [ fear you do not quite understard,' be sneered, with a cold deadly smile. Then he résumed with the same smile, the same icy tones: ¢[ said to my= self, Lady Creighton may be--may be-- Tempted! Don't my lady! Don!" he laughed ruthlessly, as a low cry parted her white lips ; ¢ you mar the thread of my story, which is still unfinished. ¢After a few months | heard that my Nina wan in delicate health, and that the peerless Lady Creighton, who was a model step--dame in the world's eyes, had carried the poor darling to Gegmany, hoping eome- thing from change of scene and air. While madly chaffiing the bit of duty which kepy me Where I was, the last sad letter reached me. My friend had lvoked on the white, coffined face of my darling, and followed her down to the old Creighton vaults. *He knew my fears, and voluntarily assured me that no shadow of distitust might touch Lady Creighton's immaculate name. ¢I did. But must entreat you to ex- cuse me~ other guests | ste are wailing my leisure.' ¢ Mamma!' a sweet voice murmured at her elbow. ¢Ah! Here is my daughter, Beatrice Vinci. I suppose you have forgotten her, Colonel Elton ? She was bui a sprite when you last saw her, Carissima!' And her dark passiondte' eyes burned lovingly ss she presented the beautiful innocent girl at ther side. Lady Creighton moyed away, doubtiese hoping to avoid, furthet conversation with he man she had just escaped. She might as well have shunned the out- strstched band of death. Colonel Elton wae her shacow. At last the rooms began to thin, and still he lingered, and Lady Creighiton's face whitened and sharpened perceptibly. Al last we were the only remaining guests. Self-possessed and in- ible he spoke. Lady Creighton, I have remained for a quiet chat sboul 'that' Germany in which we both have occasion to feel & very deep interest. 1 was prepared for hauteur at this point; but remorse had done its work, and she bowed sHiveringly. ¢Germany-!* echoed the lovely Beatrice who was havering near her mother. ¢O 'mamma ! | can't hear it mentioned without That. terrible-- terrible old' ' Beatrice, go!" interrupted Lady Creigh- almost sharply. "It growe late. These gentlemen will not detiin me Jong, and 1 | wil'woon join you? © © | AaU aguinithe mother love: adit Hor task, I 'cannot say. As the door swung open the grand melody wavered, shivering ¢ Again presuming on old tithe privileges,biack at our louder 'open sesame !' maga fone eyes as she watched the girl' reirealing form: The last floating thread of Forcing a belief in this assurance, [ remain- ed yeur after year under Asian suns; for when the doting Sir Robert followed Nina there was nothing to draw me to England' But, Lady Creighton,' and his voice lest the anguished tenderness of the previous minute for the clear nonchalant tones which doomed her at every word, ¢ but, Lady Creighton, after ten years something impelled me to = wanderer's life in Ger- many ; and strangely enough, as | told you earlier in'(he evening, 1 tracked your loot- steps.' Again he paused, leatiing forward, with glittering ¢yd and cold emile. ¢ My Lady Creighton, permit me to ask you & question. Were the contents of this dainty toy quite harmless 7" extending a haod on which Jay the crystal flask. ¢ The same old halls whi¢h your crimson slippered feet once trod echoed our heavier - footstepe § the same {rescoed door which your delicate fingers so often touched swung My lady, the harp strings were all rusted and broken, but these fine golden strands re< mained; deathless tokens of the being whose graceful head they once adorned.> And he suspended the shining threads be< tween Lady Creightan's eyes and the flam- ing chandlier. ¢ Oh heavens! will you never be done ? shodderingly gasped the stricken woman. «Soon, very soon, my Lady Creighton . Be patient. 'She was, | know, though her wails and her shrieke rang pinfally through | those old rooms and hails, when we reach ed, with that ramping; unearthly crew, the line fréscond door. | Hate Sy you know something oF thik spivil gang? -- of the tramping of the ramping J th QONCLUDED ON FOURTH --