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J.B. begs to obEeivs hat' the greatest 8, 200 | reliance can:be placed upon the purity of of good | his Diugs, Chemioals, ke. : Teeth Carefully Filled Scaled, or Woy pd Marsh & Trounce's old stand. So 3 J. H. BACHE, "Pott Perry, Oct.1, 1866. S "THE RAILROAD HOUSE!|" Good Stabling, attentive Ostlers, and | Fishing or Ininting on Lake Scugog can | | was it who died at Ventor if it 3 "AT SEA "Far away, the flowers Are growing, And the sweet June breezes blowing, Bish warm light on hay-fields glowing, * Sleepy cattle, homeward going. 5+: By the leafy hedgerows lowing, Lights and shadows waver o'er, Lovingly, the lovely shore, » Far, far away. Here the winds dire round us sighing, And the desert waves replying, And the sea-bird skimming, flying Round our ship, her rough track plying, Day and night still changing, dying Round our course--for evermore, Passing from the lovely shore, Far, far away. \ Far away dear hearts sre sending' Thoughts of love, all space transcending, :Dear, and-honored knees are bending, Voices sweep for us ascending, . Many a notesof blessing blending -- Miglity blessings, following o'er, |, Guard us to that other shore, t Far, far away, Moonliglit on the waters sleeping! Sun, iri goldeii gloty steeping ! .. Stars, your watch above us keeping! I" Waves ubodt us rolling, leapiug! Winds those liquid mountains heaping, Light us, roll us, bear uso'er To that other unknown shore, Far, far away" SELECT READING. A iy Yogiins Lady Audley's Secret ! CHAPIER XXIX. IN THE LIME WALK. x 'Indeed! gaid my lady; * and what reason could any one have for: announcing the death of Mrs. Talboys, if Mes. 'Calboys bad been alive?' 'The lady herself might have had a reason'. Rubere answered quietly. * What reason? ¢ How if she bad taken advantage of George's absence to win a richer husband? How if she had married again, aod wished to throw my poor friend "off the scent by this false announcement? Lady Audley shrugged her shoul devs. ' ; 'Your suppositions are rather ridiculous, Mr, Audley," she said; FE to bu disp ods that on hava reasonable grounds for them. '1 bave examived a file of each of the newspapers published in Clhielms- ford and Colchester, continued Robert, without replying to my lady's last obscivation, 'und' 1 find in one of the Colchester papers, dated July the 2ud, 1859, a brief paragraph amongst numerous miscel- lancous scraps of information copied from other newspapers to the effet that a Mr. George Talboys, an Eug- lish gentleman, bad arrived at Syd ney from the goldfields, carrying with Lim nuggets and gold-dust to the amount of twenty thousand pounds, aud that he had realized Lis property und sailed for Liverpool in the fastsailing clipper Argus. "This is a very small fact of course, Lady Audléy butit is enough to prove that any person residing in Essex in the July of the year fifty-seven was likely to Lecome aware of George Talbeys' return from Australia, Do you follow me?' « * Not very clearly," said wry lady. ' What have the Bisex papers to do with the death of Mrs, Talboys? " ¢ We will come to that by-and bye, Lady Audley. I say that I believe the anvouncement in the Zimes to have Leen a false announcement, and a part of the conspiracy which was carried out by Helen Talboys and Licutenant Maldon against my poor friend. 'A conspiracy!' ' Yes, a conspiracy concocted by an artful woman, who had speculated upon 'the chances of ler husband's death, and had sccured a splendid position at the risk of committing a ¢iime; a bold womav, my lady who thought to play lier comedy out to the end without fear of detection; a wicked woman, who did not care what misery she might inflict upon 'the honest heart of. the man whom 'she betrayed; but'a foolish woman, who looked at life 'as' 4 game of chance, in which the best player was likely to_hold the. winning cards, forgetting that there is a Providence above the pitiful speculators, and that wicked secrets are never per- 'mitted to remain long hidden. If this woman of whol speak had never been guilty of blacker sin | than the. publication of the lying Lannouncement in the 7imes news- paper, I should still hold her as the 'most detestable and despicable of her sex--the most pitiless and calcu: lating of human creatures, That cruel lic was a base and cowardly blow in the dark; it was the treach- 'érots dugger-thru assassin. ; : 'But'how do you know that the announcement was a 'false one' sked my lady. "You told us that | you had been to Ventnor with Mr. | Talboys tv,see his wife's grave. 1 wi not Mrs Tulboys?' "Extremes are genera PORT PERRY, those -eruth ADVER usually lies between. + fbn Ta - 7 : ; \ dM ) yx SR Sr TISE T3 [$1.00 Per Avvom, IN ADVANCE. * shall before: very dong. 1 ly, tht. 1 "win "deter- "the: mystery of ys Ms DD by ie put off hy feminine Fy womanly trickery? ave put together ence, which wants kind there to be 'com le strength, Da or myseif to be hink- I shali fail to ssing links? No, ball not fail, for 7 'or them! 'Fheve isa b at Southampton -- Plowson, who! has he secrets of the nd's wife. I have jean help meito dis: of 'the woman 'who wdtior, eharehy ard, auswer i tell you, mined to George think IT ani prevaricatid Nol Link by the chain. but a link' plete in its # you thii baffled? 1) discover thol Lady Aud) know where fuir haired w a woman eulle some share in fatier of my. fi an idea tha cover the hi lies buried and I will sp! that didcovery; Minless , "Unless what' asked my lady, cagerly, | i » ¢ Unless the onan I wish to save from degradation and punishnicot accepts the mey I offer her, and tukes warning 'While their is still thne." My. lady shiligzed her graceful | shuolders, 'and ance nut of her Bhie eyes, She 'would a very foolish woman if she suffered lierself to be influenced Ly amy, such alsnrdity,' she said, "You are hypoclondriacal, Me Audley, and you must take cam: phor, or ved lavender, or sal volatile, What 'can be more ridicalous than this idea which you have taken into your liead? You loose your friend George Talboys in rather a mystor- iuus nianner--that is 10 say, that gentleman chooses fo leave England without giving 'you due notice. What of that? You @unfess that he became an' altered" mun after his wife's death, He. grew cecentric and missnthropicaliho affected an utter indifference asda what beeane of him. © What mare. likely, then, that lie grew tired oF the monotony of civilized life, 'an@ ran atvay to AVA fie i i rn cain Bud de; romantic story, bat by no means an uncommon one. But you are ot satisfied with this simple interpreta tion of your [riend's disappearance, and you build up some absard theory of a conspiracy which has no exis, tence except in your own over- heated brain. Helen Talboys is shed bright defi dead. The Times newspaper declares she is dead. Her own father. tells yon she is dead. The headstone of the grave in Ven: tnor churchyard bears record of her death, By what right! cried my lady, her voice rising to that shrill and piercing tune peeuliar to her when affected by an intense agita- tion--* by what right, Mr, Audley, do you come to me and torment me about George. Talboys--by what right do you dare to say that Lis wife is still alive? 'By the right of circumstantial evidence, Lady Audley, answered Roberf--'by the right of that cir- cumstantial evidence which will sometimes fix the guilt of a man's murder upon that person who, on the first hearing of the case, seems of all other wien the most unlikely to be goilty." ' What cirgumstantial evidence ?' 'The evidence of time ani place, 'I'he evidence of handwriting. When Helen Talboys left lier father's house at Wildernsen, she left a letter be- hind her--a letter in which she de- clared that she was weary of her old { life, and that she! wished to scek a new ome uud a new fortunes " That letter is in my possession.' 'Indeed.' 'Shall I tell you whose hand- writing resembles that of Helen Tul- boys so closely, that the most dex- terous expert 'could perceive no distinction between the two?" ¢ A resemblanée between the hand- writitig of two women is no very un common circnmstauce now-a-days,' veplied my lady, carelessly. '1 could khow you the éaligraphies of half-a-dozen of wy female Correspon- dents, and defy you to discover any great differences in them." * But what if the handwritiug is a very uncommon one, presenting juuthed; Reculiaritios ~hy which it may be' recognized among ped? Sh : "Why, in 'that caso the coinci- dence is rather curion my lady, 'bat it is no than a coincidence. cannot deny the fuct of Helen . Talboys' death on the ground that her hand- writing résombles that of some sur. Co "vivin| p? st of an infamous WY § Eton "But ifn series of Sud 'Solnoi: deaces lead et to, the aw point,' said Robert, 'Helen Talboys left her father's house according to the declaration in her own handwriting, 7 because she] was weary of her old ife, and wished to a new one. to Do know w I infer fron sar re or | My ludy shragged ter whoulders. ; "for dinner, touble in making' 'you at Crescent Villas. I took them 'Miss Tonks, Ee ------ I bave not the slightest idea,' she said; ' and as you ie, thea main this gloomy place nearly half. an bour, I must beg that you will Aclease me, and letme go and dress "No, Lady 'Audley, answered Robert, with a eold slernness that was 80 strange to him as to trans.' form him into another creature--d pitiless embodiment of justice,a cruel: instrument of reteiPpution --* no, Lady Audley) he repeated, -41 have told: youthat womanly prevarication will not belp you; I tell you now that defiance will not serve you. Ihave dealt fairly with you, anfl have given you faiv warning. I gave you indi- rect notice of your danger two mouths ago.' . 2 * What-do you mean? -asked my lady, suddenly, 'You did not choose to: take that warning, © Lady Andley," pursued Robert, * and the time Las come ind which Timst speak very plainly to you. Do you think the gifte which you have played against fortune are to hold you exempt from retribution? No,my lady, your youth and beauty, your grace. and refincnient, only make the horrible secret of your life wore horrible, 1 teil you that the evidence agiinat you wants only one link to be strong enough for your condemnation, and that link shall be added. Tele Talboys never re turned to ber fatheds house. When she desorted that poor old father, she | j went away from lis humble shelter i with the declared intention of wash- ing her hands of that old life, What do people generally: do when they wish (0 begin a nbw existence--to start for a second time in the race of life, free from the encumbrances that had fetteved their first journey? They change their names, Ludy Audley. Helen Talboys deserted her infant son--she weut away from" Wildern. | sea with the predetermination of | "What a coward I 'am to think of sinking ler iudentity. She disap- myself or my own danger' he peared as Ielen Talboys upon the thought. The more I see of this 16th of August, 1854. and upon the 17th of that month, she reappeared as Lucy Graliam, the friendless girl who undertook a profitless daty in ranean iol 4 { chal 'wacked no shidiome iu Whichabe | 'Yoo are mad, Mr, Audley!' cried my lady. "Yon are mad, and wy husband shall protect me from your insolence, What if this Helen Tal. boys ran away from her home upon one day, and I entered my employ: er's house upon the next, what does that prove? "By itself, very little, replied Robert Audley; 'but with the help of other evidence ----' What evidenen ? *Toe evideace of two labels, pasted one aver the other, upon a box left by you in the possession of Mus. Vincent, the upper label bear- ing the name of Miss Graham, the lower that of Mrs George Talboys. My lady was silent, Robert And- ley could not sce her face in the dusk. but he could see that her two small hands were clasped convul- sively over Ler. heart, and he knew that the shot had gone home to its mark, 'God help, her, poor, wretched creature,' he thought. 'She knows now that she is lost. I wonder if the judges of the land feel as 1 do now when they pot on the black cap and puss sentence of death upon some poor, shivering wretch who has never done them any wrong. Do they feel a heroic fervour of virtuous indignation, or do they suffer this dull anguish which knaws my vitals as I talk to this helpless woman?' He walked by my lady's side; silently, for some minutes. They bad been pacing up and down the dim avenue, and they were now drawing near the leafless shrubbery at one end of the lime-walk--the shrubbery in which the rutned well sheltered. its unheeded decay among the tangled masses of briery upder- woul. pe 25 unk | of A'winding pathway, neglected and half-choked with weeds, led towards this well. Robert left the lime-walk and struck into this pathway, There was more light in the "shrubbery than in the avenue, and Mr, Audley wished to see my lady's face. . He did not speak until they reached the patch of rank grass beside the well. The massive brick- work had fallen away here and there, and loose fragments of masonry lay ; dilated, buried amidst weeds and Driers. h a . |" 'You shall never live to do this, Tho Leavy 'posts which, had sup- . C0; Chao 0 0° Way ported the wooden roller still re- mained but the iron spindle had been dragged from its socket and lay a few paces from the well, rusty, discol- oured, and forgotten, 2 ' "Those two Inhels are in 'm ion, Lady Audley,he resum He them om eh left Ly in the presence of Mrs. Vincent and Have you any proof to offer against this evidence? You say tome, 'I am Lucy Grabam and TE Jalboys, yon way do so. . choose to go wandering about to ithe, your own inclination, but I would sometimes apparently sane as yourself, to the lunatic asylum? afew paces amoung thie weeds and brashwood as my lady said this, crime to shield her from the conse- quences of the old one," he thonght. She would be capable of using her thought, * but sbe has kept hers bid- den from me. wears is not to be plucked away. My uncie would rather think me mad than believe her guilty," that grave and carnest fuce, so dif- ferent in its character to my lady's dread Ler influence upon others: the more reason to wish her far dway from this house.' reer ae] 3 im i 10 absdunigi edhe him inathede u8 quietas some solitary graveyard, | and dog" my steps, an looks, and play the spy upou me? you know what it is to wrestle with [ WHOLE No. 25 have nothing whatever to dc with Helen Talboys!' In that ease, youn tan produce witnesses who will de clare your antecedents. Where had you been living prior to yonr appear- ance at Orescent- Villas?" You must have friends,' relations, connexions, who can come firward to prove as ruc as this for you. If you were the most desulste creature upon this 'éarth you would-be able to point to some one whocould indentify with' thie past. you 2 1 Xes cried Ne if 1 were placed in a criminal dock, I could, no doubt, bring forward witnesses to relate your, absurd accusation, Bat Law pot in a ciimival dock, Mr Aud- 'ey, and Ido not choose to do any- thing but laugh at your ridiculous folly. I tell you that you are madl If you please to say that Helen Tal- boys is not dead and that 1 am Helen If you places in which this "Mrs. TalGoys has lived, you must follow the Lent of that" such funcies have conducted people, as warn you lifelong iwprisonment of a priyate Robert Audley started and recoiled * She would be capable of any new nfluence with my unele to place me n a madhouse! : 1 buve shown her my cards,' he The mask that she The pale face of Clara Talboys-- tarile beauty=arose before him. woman the more reason I have to mle was walled in and hidden away from the world of the living. 'It was somewhere in this garden that she met George Talboys upon the day of his dissappearance, he thought, '1 wonder where it was they. met; I wonder where it' was that Lie Tooked into her cruel face and taxed lier with her falsehood. My lady, with her little hand rest- ing lightly upon the opposite post to that against 'which Robert leant, toyed with her pretty foot amongst the long weeds, but kept a furtive watch upon lier enemys fuce. 'It is to be a duel to the death, then, my lady,' said Robert Andley, solemnly. 'Yon refuse to aceept my warning. You refuse to run away and repent of your wickedness in some foreign place, far from the generous gentleman yon have de- ceived and [voled by your false witch- cries. You choose to remuin here and defy me. a '1 do," answered Lady Audley, lifting ber head and looking full at the young barrister. * It is no fault of mine if my husband's nephew goes mad and chooses me for the victim of his monomania.' 'So bie it, then, my lady,' answered Robert: 'My friend George Talboys was last seen entering thes: gardens by the little iron gate at which wed came in to-night, He was last heard inquiring for you, He wus seen to enter these gardeus, but he was never seen to leave them., 1 dou not be lieve that Le ever did leave them. 1 believe that he met, with his death within' the boundary of these grounds; and that his body lies hid- den below some quiet water, or in spme forgotten corner ofthis place. 1 will have such a search made as shall level that house to the earth and root up every tree in these gardens, rather than I will fail in Snding the grave of my murdered friend', Lucy Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, und threw up her arms above her head witha wild gesture of despair, but she made no answer to the ghastly charge of her accuser. Her arms slowly dropped, and ske stood staring at Robert Audley. Ler white face gleaming through the dusk, her blue eyes glittering and have you, tormented me sof Why could you not. let me alone! \Vhat barm had I ever done you that yon should make yourself my persecutor, watch my Do you want to drive me mad? Do a madwoman? No,' cried my lady, with alaugh, 'you do uot, or you would never---- . TO BE CONTINUED, COUNTY COUNCIL. Detailed Statement of monies expended under. By-law No."127, during the year 1866, BEC. II, THE CENTRE RUAD IN REACH. Balance from 1865......... 1866; Nov. 3, John O'Don- nell, breaking stones and cleariog--ditches. ........$10 00 Nov..3, Jas. Coulter, do.... 18 00, Dee 14, John Faheny, for gravelling .iivievers snes. 24 74 x i -- 50 Td SEC. 1IJ, THE CENTRE ROAD IN BROCK. Balance from 1865... ....., $11 50 Pd Neil McLean, grubbing and tarnpikiog .....q.ee SH 50 BEC. IV, THE CENTRE ROAD LN THORAH Balance from 1865 . S241 VY A. Campbell, work ' bridge....... I 50 Sept. 25, Geo. ditching, 00 Dec 26, Peter Walls and Peter McCuaig.......... 23 57 Balance wopaid, work not Completed; svvuve runnin, 56 00 241 07 SEC.'V, THE CENTRE ROAD IN MARA, 'Balance dus from 1866, in $170 8 Feb: 15, "dobn Harrington, : ditching... oviien sassy 3» July © 24, M. O'Connell, turnpiking, &c..... ver. 30 00 Dec. 11, J. McHugh, du....124 05 --_--= 170 03 BEC VI. BROCK ROAD SOUTH OF EPSOM. Balauoe from 1865... ..... $3 53 Dec 8, Thomas Stonehouse, breaking stone... ......u 3 53 FROM EPSOM TO UXBRIDGE. Balance from 1865......... 93 66 Nov. 24, R. Howsam, grav- elling and breaking stone 93 G6 SEC. VII, TT CuN. SCOTT. Balance from 1863......... 12 00 Deo. 26, Johg Dunn, for fence. and embankment 12 00 SEC. 1X, 47H CON. UXBRIDGE. Balance from '1865........ 16 66 Nov. 24, J. Carr & J. Dreen, 16 66 SEC. X, SIMCOE STREET. Balance from 1865..,..:... 408 13 June 8, G. Kirkpatrick..... 20 00 "J, & W.Slcep.r.oey 78 15 "12, XN. Dyer....... .. uo 00 Sep. 17, H. Burnliam, in suit County of of Dyer vs. Ontario .... Sept. 17, W. & leep. . woe CR Smith, ay, 20 ' Northcote & McDonald 25 00 Nov, 24, B. Major... iv... 30 00 * N. Dyer 70 00 hi A. Ross... 14 00 Dec, 28, W, & J, Sleep... ,. 27 84 ---- 408 13 SEC. XI, CO. LINE SOUTH OF MANILLA, Balance from 1865 130 52 Feb. 9, M: N. McPha 50 52 June 9, Neil D. McPhade 8§0 00 SEC. XIPSCUGUG. Balance from 1865........ . 23) 22 Feb. 2,J.Jackson, graveling, 150 00 R. McKinley, wood........ 7 00 1867, Jan. 17, JW. Gamble, turnpiking and graveling 73 22 230 22 To the Council of the Corporation of the County of Ontario: + I have. the honor to repo't, that, sitice the last session of the Council, all necessary supplies for the Court Louse and Jail, have been obtained, and necessary vepairs made, the ac- counts for which having been duly examifed=m rtificd, and herewith submit That, dufing the seven months ending on the 31st December lust, the Juil records sbows, that 46 pris: owners, 37 of whom were males and 9 females, having been confined in Jail, for periods varying from two days to the whole term; that 4 of the pris. oners were lunaties, one of whom has been confined in Jail since the 19th of December, 1865; that on the 31st of December, there remained in Jail, 4 male, und one female prisoner; that the average number of prisoners in Jail during the above term is 7, being about 10 per cent less thau during the corresponding months of last year. That the aggregate number of days on which prisoners were on Jail al- lowance, during the suid tem, is 1488, and the aggregate cost for rations $150,67, Leing 10 18 cent per day, for cach prisoner. That on the 30th of October last, I met the Engineer of the County of Simcoe, at the Narrows Bridge, and on a careful examination of the works, fouud, that the superstruction of the pier on which the swing turns, is so thuch decayed as to require re- moval this winter, and estimated the cost thereof, at $134 That tho guard piles ou both sides of the swing, are so much decayed and broken, as to require new piles to be driven for the protection of the Bridge, for which purpose it will Le necessary to procure a pile- driver, the probable cost of which will be rom $125 to $150; the estimated cost, of piling, ond planking tiie same is $120, waking the toial estimated cost, including a pile driver, say 8400. The Council of the Counuty ol' Simcoe, at a session held in. Novem. ber last, ordered the work vo be pro- -veeded with, as soon as this county is ready to join init. Part of ths timber in the swing is decayed to sume extent, it is however, considered safe for another year, An account for some temporary repairs amounting to 810,15 is herewith submitted. That the balance of monies, appropriated under By-law No. 137 unexpended in 1863, (1,377,08,) has been expended, with the ex- ception of £159, on the cetre road in Thoral, which work ia not fully completed, ade tailed statement of this expenditure is heres with submitted. All of whichis Fespetiully submitted. JOHN SHIER, CountyEngineer's Office, } County Engineep Whitby, Jan, 22, 67. - 0 74 J