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A Mad** m Mam ior >' Thftt t BiA rich man's vta luhAsiu lands. And piloa uf brioii, » d Hionu aud gold. JkaA he luhenu soft white h&uij0, And Uiudur flt*Bh that fears the r«ld, >tor d&rus to wuar a ganoeut old ; A herit«4(e. It hmiuii r« lue, OnoAcarcu wuuld wi«ii loihold In (••. The rich man's sou InhoviA* carc« ; The bank may bruak. tbi' facturybum, A bruath umy burnt hiB bobblo shares, ^ Aud uuft whlt« htuids cuuld hardly earn A liviufi that wuuld auxvo hu turn ; A horit&Ku. it sotiuiB to mo, Ouo sc&rcti would wish to bold ia feo. Wlifttdoea tliu poor man's sou inherif? Btuut uiUMclebsiid a Hiuov.-y huart, A hardy fraiut<, & tiardiur spirit ; Klag uf two liaiitU, be does his part lu ovury usf f ul tttil and art ; A htiritafju. it sut nm to ni». A king might wuh to hold ic fee. What does the poor man's son inherit ? A patieiicu lo&rtied of buiti^ pour, Couraffu if sorrow coiuu to buar it, A fullow-fuulintj that issuio To luaku the outcast bluMi his door ; A heritat^n, i kc-uuih to niu. A king ini>;ht winh to huid in Cue. O rich man's sou 1 there is a teil That with all others level stands ; LarKocharity duth never soil Hut uui^' whitens s ft white kandaâ€" Thi* i^ the tifBtcrop fruni thy lauds , A h«nta4!*i. it sueus t«> me. Wurtli hc'iug rich to hold in fee. O poor man's sun I sctirn not thy statu ; Tlifrti iH worse wuarinesH thau thine In ui> it'ly beiuifriuh aud f^uat. Toil uuly grviw the ttuul to shiu», Aud ui«Jturi ruHt tra^rautand kiinign ; A hfrita4{e, itHerinH t>> uie. Worth b«inK poor to hold iu fee. - Jatnes JtutaM JjOW^H. SIR HUGITS LOVES. " HcHveu forbid !" eJBoulst«d Buf{h ; be was quite appalled at th» Dolion of any likenuaa between thiu abNurd tfteoimen 4>f humanity and bi^jiaelf ; but happily the little mother did not hear liim, for lihe wan adju8tiD({ the Iouk robe to bar liking. " There, you must take him, Uogti ; I want to Mo« liiui once in vour arma â€" my iwotreaaartB toijetber;" and Bhe held Uie baby to him. Uu)>h did not see how the weak Aroui trembled under their load, as be retreated a few Htepii in moat genuine Alarm. " I take him ! My dear, I never held a baby in my life ; I vhouM b^ afraid of drop, pioghim; no, let hiio utop with hiH mother. Women understand theH« Hort of thintjH. There, now, I thought Hn, he ii Koin^ to cry; and Hu;<h'a diiicoinfltted look waa not loet on Fay, aa the b«by'g ahrill voice upoke well tor bia atrength of loDga. " Uh, haah, huah," ahe aaid, nearly cry- ing heritulf, and rocking the baby to and fro feebly. " Vuii u|Mka ho loudly, Uugh, joa frightened him ; he never orieitBO when we are alone." " Yon will be alone directly if yon do not •and him away," waa her hi'aband'a impatient anuwir; it iu not pleasant for a man to be deafened when he ih tired after • long journey. Why, I do believe you are goiuti to cry too, Kay ; what ia the food of a nuriia if you exhanat yourarlf like thin?" Aud he pulled the bell rope angrily. " Oh, pleatie don't uand my baity away," ahe implored, in ijuite a piteouu voice; "he ia alwavH with me now, and ho goo<l and quiet, imly you Htiirtled hini hd." ••RonaMtM," ha rMnrneO daoldedly ; " your iUnaaii haa made you fanciful ; â- uraly I mutt know what in bcHt for my wife. Niirae, why do you allow Lady iiedmond to wear heraelf out with a crying child? it<^annotba right in her weak aUte." Kay gave up her baby without a word; ahe wan too gentle tu reinonutrate, but if he oould have read her thoughta. " He doeti sot care for his child at all," she waa say- ing within herself ; and then Hhe waa very quiet, and shialdud her face with one hanu. Sir Hugh wal rather uncomfortable; he knew ho had been out i>( temper, and that he wan diaapiminting Kay, but ha never guesHixi the Hlitb he had indicted when he had refused to take their boy in hia arms. " Well, l'°lty<" be aaid, in rather a depre- eating manner, " I meant to have had a little talk with you, now that noiay fellow is gone ; but yon * em sleepy, dear ; ahall I leave you to rest now, and come up again after dinner?" Kay unnoverod her eyes and looked at him rather oddly, he thought, but ahe made no auHWur. Hugh roae and looked at his watch, and re(ieated his question. " Nu," she said, very slowly; "do not trouble to come up again, Hugh. I cannot talk to you to-night ; I shall be better quiet." "There, 1 told you an," he cried, triumph- antly. " I knew that little rasual4iad tirqd you." "My baby never tires me," sheanKwered, wearily, and closed her eyes. Oh, it ahe oould only close them forever I But then she rememberwl how terrible death had seemed to liar iu her illnesHâ€" a bit of infln- | ite pain. Hugh looked at her a little pu/.zled ; hii Woo Wifte was very much altered, he thought ; and then he kiHsed her two or three liini'S with Home affe'Jtion, and went to his •irt-HBin^-rooin. lint when nlie hwaril him go down stain ahe rikiig (or the niirae to bring back her baby directly. Tlio woman did not like her excited look, or the fierce way hIki HlniDst snatched him to her bosom. " Yiiu had much bettor try and got a little sleep, my lady," she said, kindly; but Kay only shook her heail. It was not bed- time yet, she mtid, but iihn would like to be quiet with her Imhy for a little. And when ourse hail goiiL tn have a talk with Janet, ahe tottered frum thecouoh, and knelt down beside it, and wetted the white rube with her tears. " It ia all over, baby," she moaneil ; " he does not oare for you or for me either he •nly WKiita Margaret; but you niimt love Tour niothor, lialiy, and grow up and com- fort her, for she bus no iiiie but yon to lovo her ill the wlmle wide world." Lady llediiionil hid a serious relapse after this, ami it was two or three weeks before "he waa carried 10 the couch Itgain. • • »J*^ Wj • . Sll^ll had not learnstl his lesson yet. tUfiMhr ,his wifii'a llln^sa nor hi^ own had lattghc him «iadom; he longed weakness, which he insisted waa doe in a great measure to her own fault. If ahe had not excited herself so much on the night of bia return, she would never have had that relapse. It waa a very tiresome affair altogether; for his own health waa not thoroughly re-established, and a Lon- don physician had reouimended him a few months' travel; it waa just what he wanted, and now his trip to Cairo and the Pyramids must be indefinitely postjioned. He rather obstinately chose to believe that there was a want of will in the matter, and that Kay could throw off her weakness she likod- Htill he was very kind to her in his uncertain way â€" {X^rhaps because the dootora said he must humor her, or she would fade away from them yet. Bo he told her that she would never get strung while she lay moping herself to death in that little painted bird-cage, as he called the blue room. And when she answered list, lessly that she could not walkâ€" which he waa at first slow to believe â€" he used to carry her down to one of the sunniest rooms in the old Hallâ€" into either the morning- room or library -and place hercomfortably on her couch with her work and book before he started out for hid ride. It was a new thint; to have those strong arma performing such gentleoftices lor her. Kay used to thank him gratefully with one of her meek, beautiful looka, but ahe seldom said anythingâ€" his kindness had come too late to the poor child, who felt that her heart was slowly breaking with its hopeless love. For who would be content with the mirage when they are thirsting for the pure water ? Or who would be satisfied with the Dieted grain and the measured ounce when they havo given their all in all? Those looks used to haunt Hugh as he rode through the Singleton lanes; Im used to • n-«lo over tli'Ti' in an odd, ruminative fashion. He remembered onoe that he had been in at the death of a doe â€" where, or in what country he could not remember ; but aba bad been overtaken with her fawn, and cue of the huntsmen dispatched her with his knife. Hugh had atood by and ahuddered at the dumb look of anguish in the wild deer-eyea, aa with a aubbing breath the poor creature breathed ita last, its helpless fawn licking its red wounds. Hugh had not been able to forget that look for a long time ; and now it recurred to his memory, aud he could not tell why Kay's eyea reminded him so of the dying doe's it waa au absurd morbid idea. And then he touched his bUck mare a little smartly, and tried to efface the recollection by a rousim^ galop. Hut, do what be would, he could not get it out of his mind that his Wee Wifie was sadly altered ; she was not the same Kay wlioee little tripping f-'et had raced Nero and Pierre along the galleries with that ringing laugh. This was a tired Kay who rarely Hiioke and never laughed â€"who aeemed to care for nothing but her baby. Hugh nsed to tell her so sometimes, with au inexplicable feeling of jealuuay that rather surprised him ; but Kay did not under- stand III in. * What doea it matter forwhom I care?" she would aay to herself. " I must love my own baby.'' And then she would think bitterly that Hugh aeemed to like her better now that she had ceased to vex him with her childiiih demonstrations. "I am gutting very dignified," she thought, "and vary uBiet) aiwi 1 tbiuk tbia pUaoaa biio. Do olcf people feel llba tbia, I wonder, when all their life is ended, and they have such feeble, aching limbs? Ah, no; I do not believe they suffer at all. Itut now I seem as though lean never rest lof my longing that Hugh may love me and toll me so, before I die." And so she would prose on in her Bad plaintive little way. No wonder Hir Hugh marvelled at her, BO silent of tongue, so grave of lookâ€" such an altered WeeWitle; but alltheconcluaion at which he had arrivt-d waa that the baby had beon too much for her, and that, when the aunimer heat was over, she would grow strong again. And Kay never ooutra- dieted him. And by aud by. when the days grew a little cooler. Kay began to creep about the garden a little, and call herself well. Hugh (trove her out once or twice in her puny carriage ; butshe saw he did not like it, and begged him to let her goaluneâ€" such reluct- ant courtesies gave her no pleasure. Uut presently Krie came for a brief visit, and was her reaily escort, and after that shu really began to mend. CHAPI'KU XXXI. FAT M mSTAKH Hbu lovoA with lovo that oaniiut tire. And when ah. woe I she lovtH alunu Tliruufjh imtniitnate duty love nain-a blRbar As Kr«ju Krows taller round a fttime. i^tyveittry I'atlrU're Never I 'tis ?9rtaln i hat no bope Isâ€" none .' No hi>|w for ine, atitl > - 1 for the- iju fear, TliM barduat i»art I'f my bartl ta«k Is dour ; Thy ralin assures uiu ibat 1 alu nut dear. Erie was quite shocked at Fay's changed appearanoa, but he aaid very little abuut it. He had an instinctive feeling that the shadow had deepened, and that Kay was aiuk at heart; but ho only sho'ved his sym- pathy by an ailded kindnesH, and an almost reverential tenderness; and Kay was deeply grateful for his ileliuacy, for hIih knew now that t]tmigh she had bt^eii blind, others had had their eyes open ; and she had a morbid fear tbot every one traced her husband's restleaanesa aud diaa^kfaotion withhislife to the right cause, ana knew that she was an unloved wife. Fay was very proud by nature, though no one would have guessed it from her exceeding gentleness; and this knowledge adduil largely to her pain. liiit ahe hid it â€" she hid it heroic^ally, and no one It'U'W till too late how the young creature had suffered in her silence. Kile and she wore better friends than ever; but they did not reanine their old con- fldeiitial talks. Krle had grown strangely reticent abuut his own affairs, and spoke little of his Jiinfeti and his approaching marriage. Hu knew In his heart that Kay had read him truly, and knew that his warmest affeoliona hsd been given to Fern, and he had an uneasy oon- aciuUHueas that ahe condemned his conduct. Kay uever told him so; she congratulated him vmy prettily and made one of her old miaoliiavoiis sp^ohea about "the yoiuif! IWy widi the go in her" but somehow it aJghied to Tall Hat ; and aim sHked him a tew quaslions, as in iluty bdund; about his «ae day ; " tor I wean to be very fond of yoar wife, Brla, whoever she may be," ahe continued; " and I hear from the Trelaw- neys that Miss Holby â€" but I nnst call her Kvulyn now â€" is very nice indeed, aud that yoa are to be cen^atalated." " She is far loo good for me," returned Erie, with a touch of real feeliug, for his fuuicee'i UDselfisfa devotion was a daily reproach to him. Could any girl be sweeter or noro loving, he thought. Fay aigbed as she watched him. KrIe had changed too, ahe said to hrraelf ; he waa nicer, but Ise had lost his old-time merriment ; he looked graver, and a little thin, and there was not always a happy look iu his eyes. Fay sometimes feared that the other girl with the (air hair had not been forgotten; she wanted to tell him that she hoped Evelyn knew all abuut her, but she lacked the courage, and somehow it was not so easy to t.ilk to Eric this time. Uut there was one subject on which he dilated without reserve, and that was on Mr. Ferrers' search for Crystal. He was in New York now, he told Kay, wilh bis sister, and he was waiting for further iiitel- iigeiice bi,fc.-» he followed Miss Davenport. "Miss Trafford corresponds with him," he continued, with an effort; "but it seems the travellers have little time for writing." But he wondere<l, as he talked about the Ferrers, why Kay changed color bo often â€" he had heard it waa a sign of delicacy. "I am tiring you," he said, hs^stily ; "you are looking (juite pale; yoa want a change sadly yourself, my Kairy Queen." Aud Uugh, entering the ruom at that moment, caught at the word, and came Dp quickly to the couch. " Don't you feel sa well to-day, pet ?" he asked, kindly ; "why are you talking about a change." " It was only Erie's Donaense, dear," aha said, hurriedly. She never could speak to him without a painful blush, aud it always deepened it he looked at her long, as he did now. " I never saw you look better than yon do to-day," returned her husband; "she ia quite rosy, is she not, KrIe ? But you are right, and a change will do her and the boy Kood. I was thinking how you would like to go <lown to Devonshire, Fay, while I am •way." " Away ?" she said, very quietly ; " where are you going, Hugh ?" â€" but there was no surprise in her face. "Oh. you cannot forget," returned Hugh, impatiently, " unless that baby puts every- thing oat of your head. Do you not remember that I told yoa that Fitzclarenoe was ceiniD;Hownthiaweek to arrange about our trip to Cairo." "No," she replied, "you never said any- thing about it, Hugh ;" which was the truth, for he had never taken (he trouble to inform her, though Mrs. Herou had had ordt rs to prepare a room tor the expected guest. " Well, well," rather irriubly, " I meant to tell )ou, but one's memory is treacherous ' What doe* it matter to him where yon ! Jnit pot yowraelf in my gtaoe, aad thiali go, 10 long aa he ia enjoying himaelf," burat from Erie's impatient lips ; her meekneaa really provoked him. But he regretted the rash speech as soon aa it was uttered, especially as a eoft hand tonched bis. "Hush I Erie," she aaid, gently, "yon should nut speak like that ; not to me at least, ha you not know that I have no greater pleasure in the world thau to obey my husband's wishes. No," shecontinued, aud her eyee grew misty, " I have no other happineaa but thatâ€" no other happinesa bat that." " But, Fay," interrupted Erie, eagerly, " what poBsiblj objection C'uld Hugh have to your staying at our house while Mra. Montague ia there ? We would wait ou you, aud watch over you, aa though you were a (jueeu." " Yea, yes ! I know that â€" you are always 80 kind to me, Erl"* : but '*. would never do for me to come to 3e!grave House. Hugh does not like Mr. Uunt- iugdon." " Very few people do," muttered Erie, " but hehaaalwaya been a good friend to my mother and me." "Yes. I know; and he is your uncle, ao of course you make allowances fur him. But Hugh has told me the story of poor N'-» Uunti;i!'HT' ; and, somehow, T feel ay inougii I ooald never visit Belgrave House until you are master there." Erie smiled. " When that day comas, Mrs. TrafTurd ahall reap a golden harvest at ker all her hard work. Yoa do not know huw I long to help her, and make life easier (or them all. Think of aach women living in a place like the Elysiau Fieldsâ€" over that shop too ; and yet, if I were to take up their cause now, t should only forfeit my own chances, and do no good. Ho you mean to be obdurate, my Fairy Queen, and nut come to us." " No, de>r," ahe said, quietly, " I conld not come." But ahe never told him that one of her reasons waa that she might poaaibly inoet the Ferrers there, if they were coming back from America ; and she felt just now as though she ' little thing could not have borne such an encounter. Erie had to go up to London thenextday, but the Hon. Algernou Fitzularence took his place the following evening, and after that Kay had a miserable time; for all day long Hugh and hia guest were plaoniug the ronti for their trip, or talking over previous toon. Liilier Fay'a knowledge of geography waa very liiuitod or her head got coofuaed ; but aa ahe listened to them, she felt as though Egypt were thousands of miles away, and as though Hugh would certainly get lo^t in those tracklekS deserts, and waa cruel to leave her for such dangers, she thought. And som«times she got so nervous that she would make an excuae and leave the room, that ahe might not bear any more. And then ahe would wander about the grounda in an aimless way, trying to throw off the oppreasion that was growing greater as aomeiimes. He will be down here about the dayi went on. It waa not that she did Wednesday or Thursday, for iu auotber week we hope to start." "Indeed," returned Kay, in her tired voice, pulling off her baby's ahoe ; but to Erie's astonishment, ahe manifested no emotion. As for Sir Hugh, he waa relieved to find his Wee Wifie waa becoming such a reasonable woman. Why, ho could talk to her quite oomfort- â-  M y withoi#i tear o< a aoaoe. " What will you do with yoaraelf, dear," ha continued, briakly. " Don't you think it would be the best thing to go down to Daintree and show yoar baby to Aaot Griaelda?" "5ust aa you like," waa the indifferent answer. Hut Erie interrupted her. " How long do yourself from the Hugh?" " Oh, two or three months yoa mean to absent bosom of your family, waa aa reatlena ami unreasonable as ever. I proaiirclH, ami how often he saw Miss Hulhy, Ua grew very impatient over Fay'a pro- 1 •"<' " '<* ^^"Id bring her to Itedmond Hall we cannot follow out the route Kitzclarence proposed under that time-about ten or eleven weeks, I should say." "Three months? WoU, all I can aay ia marriage ia nut the fettered state that we bachelors imagine it to be. I had uo idea that one ooald get leave of absence tor half that time. Iho|w my wife will beas aucoin- moilating aa Kay." "There waa a concealed sarcasm in Erle'a careless s[)aach that jarred a\Km Hugh, and he answered angrily, " 1 wish you would not talk such nonsense, KrIe. Kay has the sense to know that my health re({nlrea complete change, and I shall not b* the man I was without it. I ought to have had three inunths last time, only her illness recalled me. But now I okn leave her more happily." " And you exiieot to make the trip in eleven weeka with Kitzclarenco aa the leader of thoex|Hidition. Kitzclarance.ao renowned for his panctuality â€" so celebrated for never altering a given route at a minute's notice." Krlo wao going too far. and Sir Hugh answered him with decided impatience. " I did not know KitKolarence waa a friend of yours, Krio ; but I never listen to the idle gossip one picks up at ona'aolub. I am perfectly satiNl'iod with his arraiige- inentH, and ao are the other men â€" we have two other fallows going with us. Kay, my dear, I should like you to write at once to your aunt, and auk her if alio can have you and the boy. The cottage is rather small; do vou think you conld do without Janet, and only take nurse ?" 'â-  Oh, yea," r.'pliod Kay, in the same con- Ntrained voice; but ICrlo saw that ahe had b<'c<iniu very pale. But just then Ellerton entered and told hia inaater that some one was waiting to apoak to him ou buaiiiosa ; and so the aubjectdropped. Kriii looked rather wistfully at Kay when they were left alone together. " I am afraid you will bo very lonely when Hugh goes away," he said, kindly. "Why need yoN go to Daintree ; yon will bo dreadfullv dull there with only vour aunt. I do not see why you should not couio to llulgravo House nrst, while Mra. Moiitaguo ia there. Slie ia a very ploonant woman, Kay ; and you ootjld do just as yon like, and you would Hco Evelyn, and 1 nin sure yuM two would aoOn ho great friends. l,o cnme, Kay ; and yoa can go fo Daintree after warda.' Fay etiook her head with a faint, dissent ii(g Biiiile; but she waa touched by his kind thoimhi for hai:. "No, Krlo," she aaid, decidedly, "it would not do at all. Hugh wcnld not like It. Ho wiahea mo to go to Aunt Utiiolda." not w,tiit her husband to leave her. f{er luuehueaa could not be greater if he went awayâ€" ao ahe believed in her wnitchedueaa ; but aha waa so terrified for him. And ahe had taken a dislike to the Hon. Algernon Fitzclarenoe. He might be a great trav- eller, as Uugh tuld her, and a very amua- itig companion, but hia mannera were not to her taste. Kay's innocence instinctively t«oh alarm at the covert admiratidh oen- veyej in her guest's looka and words. He was too much a man of the world to pay her open compliments ; and indeed tier gentle dignity repelled him ; but ha made her understand that be thought his hostess very uharming. Hugh noticed nothing; he was rather pleated than otherwiae that a fastidiaua man like Kitzolarence ahoiild admire hia little wife. Kay was certainly very pretty, even in her husband's eyes, and she waa so much improvedâ€" not halt so childish. But it waa a relief to Kay when the Hon. Algernon departed. Huijh was to join him in town for a day or two to procure hia outfit, and then come back to the Hall to bid Fay gcKxI- bye. It^waa on the sea md day after their guest lad left Uedmond Hall that Fay wont into her husband's room to dust and arrange his papera as usual. It was a duty she had taken nixjn herself from the first. Sir Hugh had a maaonline horror of what he called aervants' intarfer- enee-he never allowed them tu toaoh the pa|iers on his writing table or bureau; and his atrio'nres en the feminiue duster were ao severe that no one but Mra. Heron ever ventured even to remove tho overflowing waste-paper baaketa. Hut when Kay came to the Hall she aaaumed the duty as her right, and took a great pride and pleasure iu her task and Hugh's first marital praise was bestowed on the ulever little flngera that tidied without diaarraiiging his cherished pa(iers, and after that the work became her daily pleasure. But thia tnorning there was an unusual amount of disorder and confusion. Sir Hugh had sat up late tho previoua night sorting and ilea- truyin;; his letters ; and not only the baakets but the fliKir was heaped with a prolualDii of torn paper. Kay felt wwli and tirad, and sho went about her work alowly; hnt she would not ring for aaervanttohelp her; it would be a long time before she tidied Hugh's paiiera again, ahe thought. And then her attention was attracted by an uMlluiahcd letter lying at th« bottom of the iirhrii which she first believed had been thrown away by mistakeâ€" but on closer inspection aho found it was torn across. Uut i« was in her husband's handwriting l'"av never knew why the temptation came to her to read that letter. A sentence had caught hor eye, and an intense wish aiiddenly came over her tu read the whole and know what it meant. Afterwards she owned that her fault had beon a great one ; but she was to pay dearly for hor girliali curiosity. It was a mere fragment, and waa •ppar- ently the concluding portion of a long flxp'a'iatory letter. "... And now I have told you all frankly, and however muih you ma) condemn uie, at least you will be s«rry for mo, " For, indnod, I have done all that • mar oan do, or at least the beet that is ia me, and havo only been beaten and humiliated at every ti:rn. 1 Can do no more. My ill less has exhausted me, and taken away all strength of reaistaiue; and though it ma) what I mast suffer. " bo )uu must not blame me, dear, if I' have come to the conclnaiou that the same place cannot hold us both â€" at least oot for a time. One or other of as must leave ; and of course it must be I. The misery of it is too great for my endurance, until I can learn to forget the past ; aud, as I have told you before, Margaret," â€" the word lightly scratched through and " I " substiiuted, ouly Kay never noticed this â€" " I think it right to go ; and time and abaence will help as both. She ia so good and gentle; if she knew all, she would own that thia is my duty ; but " hero the letter was torn across, and Kay read no more. But as ahe stood there her fingers stiffened over the paper, and an icy chill aeemed to rob her of all feeling. She thought that letter was written to Margaret, aiid now her despair had reached Poor, unhappy Wto Wine; it was » miMt fatal mistake. That letter bad been writ;c^ by HB;jh one n^i'ht when he could not slcp, aud it wa3 addressed to his wife. He nad come to the conclusion ihiA be had lived the life of a hypocrite long enough, and that it would be wiser and more honest if he unburdened himself of bis unhappy secret aud told Fay why he bad thougnt it better to go away He had tried to epeak to her ouc^. but she did not seem to under- stand, aud he tied grown irritable and impatient ; it would be easier to make excuses for himself on paper. He could tell her truly that he was very fond of her, aud that he wanted to make her happy. "I mean to make you a good husbai^d," he had said in a previoua portion ; " on» of thes* days, if you are patient with me, yon shall be the happiest little woman in the world." Uugh never finished thia letter; aome- thing happened to distract his attention, and be never found an opportunity of com- pleting it. The night before be bad read It over, and the beginniug had uot pleased him. " I will write another when I am away," he aaid to himaelf; "I am afraid she will feel herself hurt if she reads this, poor little thing. I have not been sofiicietitlv considerate." Uufortanately Fay bad come to a differeutconclusiou. She thought the letter had been written to Margaret, aud that the "she" who was mentioned was Hugh's wife. Yes, it was his wife of whom Hugh spoke when he aaid the same place could oot hold them both, and for "place" the unhappy girl aubstituted "houae." Hugh oould not remain in the aaino hoaae with her. " She was good and gentle ; if she kuew all,"â€" ah ! aud ahe did know all â€" " ahe would own that it waa his duty ; his present life was unendurable," aud therefore â€" therefore he was going to Egypt with that dreadful man who would lead him into danger. "One or other of u« muat leave, aud of oourae it muat' be I." " No. no, mv bonnie Hugh," ahe said a* laat, with a dim smile, as she lifted up her eyea to hia portrait ; " it one muat be sacri' ficed It shall not be you â€" no, my dearest, it shall not be you." And then, in her child- ish ignorance, she made up her mind that Uugh should not go to Egypt. "You are very uubapp), darling," she went ou, pressing the letter in her hands ; "you are terribly unhappy because you can- not lovo mo and care for your boy ; but yon shall not be Iroobled with us any longer ; and,^ indeed, I could not stop â€" " aiid here a blusb ot ahaoM oamf lo her awaat iaoe â€" " kuowing what I know now. No, baby and I wUI go, and yoa sfaall uot leave your beautiful home and get lost iu those hor- rible deserts; yju ahall stay here and learn to forget all your troubles', and presently you will be happy ;and it is I who will go, my deareat.' iTobacontiuusd.) Kxtraonlluary y««»ne In a Churrh. An extraordinary scene occurred in All' Saints' Church, Woodford Wells, Ess<-x. It was the occasion of the usual harvest festival and the building was crowded. Aa soon aa the aervico commenced an elderly man. of gentlemanly api>earanje, jumped up from his seat excitedly, and, pointing to a lady who was entering, exclaimed, " Oh, what a bonnet I" He continutd muttering to himself, and occasionally starting to hia feet during the prayers, as Well as beating time with his hands to the music. The churchwardens and others endvavured to |>acify him, but when they approached him he placed himself in a threatening attitude, the coiise()uence being that no one was able to lay hold of him. Meanwhile many of the worshippers left the church in a state of alarm. When the first hymn was given out by the vicar, the man again jumped up suddenly, left his pew and advanced toward the vicar, every one expecting something aerioas to happen. The man, however, went up to a lady, put hia arms around her and embraced her, to her great consternation. He then turned and walked out of the church and uo one followed him. He is a stranger to the loaality,and the supposition is that he is an escape<l lunatic. Mark TwalD'a Meanest Man Oatdoue. Tho Brookville UtconUr publiahesthefol- lowing : " Tho writer was on the road to Karmeraville and had to wait some time at the EiU !ollgate, whiih was blocked up by a waggon with a hay rack. As we finally drove up and handed over our four centa Ihe old lady in charge of the gate said : • If you wait long enough I'll tell you why that man was so long here. You seo tbia morn- ing he went past with a load of hay solarno it would not go throngh the gate. To help him out of the trouble my husband and myself got raila from tho fenceand fixed up the side of tho road, so that he could drive around the gate, and he got by without unloading. When ho came back just now he refused to pay only one way, as he aaid ho had ouly gone through the gate once. What do >«ii ihiuk of that?' aaid the old lady aa we dnw on." Lessons la Natural I'lillosopltjr. " Yea, Tummy," said the teacher of the infant class, " that is right; vegetables come from tho ground ; and now can Wilho Wattles tell US where meat comes from ?" " Yessuni," responded Willie, with tho air of one familiar with the subject," meat oomea from ikit butohar'a." The Place for Our Huperllunus Girls, Keep a close watch tonight and see which of the one humlred young gentlemen I aeom cowardly to you, I am forco<l to runfof our town escort tho aix young ladies to away, for my present life is nnendorable. ihe oooeeri.â€"QuanahiTeta*) Advance.