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- ?1... Hullotv CHAPTER XVI--(Continued.) We returned late, and very tired; JKbd as there were two beds in my fDom, Lee consented to occupy one Of them, in the place of going home to his own lodgings, which were at the other end of the town. It might hare been three hours liter, when I was roused from a deep sleep by the consciousness that some­ thing was in the room, and bending over my bed. I had heard the words, "Are you coming?" in a deep, low tone close at my very ear; but when I started up, I saw nothing. The inoon shone in at the window, broad and full. I could discover nothing more than the familiar furniture, and fay little terrier, sleeping quietly on Ms cushion in the corner. *• That voice, so deep and full, was wfllill ringing in my ear. A vague ter­ ror was at my heart. I turned upon my pillow. As I did so I saw--I swear I saw--through the curtains--that face! And the cold and gloomy black eyes were beat full upon me; and the clenched hand, with its signet ring, was raised to draw the curtains further away. The vision faded looked over at the opposite bed. Lee slept quietly with a smile upon his lips. 1 was glad that he did so, even in te midst of my horror. I did not dare raise my head again; but as I lay counting the slow ticking of the clock upon the mantelpiece and expecting every instant to feel that clenched hand upon my own, a sudden drowsi­ ness seized me, and. In spite of my terror I fell Into a second slumber, as deep and dreamless as the first I awoke again and quite as sud­ denly. I drew back the curtain and Ifoked out into the room. s "Are you there, Lee?" I asked. No answer come. His bed was empty. I rose at once and began to dress. Far up the lonely, moonlit road I could see a figure hurrying toward the college. I knew that it Was Lee. I knocked at the door of the next mom, where the janitor of our college Slept. He came and opened it. "For heaven's Bake, dress quickly and come to the college with me," said. "You have the keys?" "They are in the hall,** he saM, looking bewildered, .1 went to the nail--they were not there. "Lee*has them--h--e has gone!" exclaimed wringing my haads. The janitor seemed to comprehend every­ thing instantly and hurried on his clothes in an instant. Going cau­ tiously down the stairs, we closed the hail door behind us. We leaped the hedge, for the gate was still locked, and ran swiftly up the road. But the lonely figure I had seen, vanished be­ fore we reached the college grounds. I paused a moment under the por­ tico and leaned against one of the pil­ lars to recover my breath. The great hall door was open; we1 entered and stole up the stairs without a word. The moon lighted us. We tracked him through the first and second hall, the lecture-room and the library. Then we found the door of the second staircase unlocked, and knew by the taint, sickening smell that came up that he had found his way to the dissecting room. We paused in the hall outside its door to watch his movements. His eyes were open, but it was evident that he was still asleep, and my companion held me back, whispering, "Don't make any noise that will wake him suddenly. If he finds himself here with that corpse he will die of fear. We must get him into the open air before we speak to him." The body lay as they 'had left it that night--a-- headless trunk--carved and cut in many directions by the scalpel. Lee bent over It with an absorbed air. One hand held the keys he had taken; the other grasped the cold clenched fingers, seeking for the signet ring. He found it--then he raised himself up with an anxious, thought ful air. He walked slow toward the window and seemed to look out, though the heavy wooden shutters were closed with bars of iron, and the only light tht entered camq, through the open door. I sat down upon the stairs and leaned my head upon my hand, for the fetid air sickened me. An exclama­ tion of horror from my companion's lips roused me before many moments had passed and following his out­ stretched fingers with my eyes I saw Lee in the act of unlocking a closet don. "The head is there!" whispered the janitor. I sprang forward--he followed me. The headless corpse was in our path. Our sudden entrance jarrred the slight boards and the body fell to the ground with a dull, heavy sound, that woke Lee from his sleep just as the key turned in the closet door. "Don't look there!" I cried wildly. "Look at me, Lee only at me, and you are safe!" * It was too late. That head, with the dark and haughty face (which at that moment seemed lighted up with a fiendish smile) was the first object that met his bewildered gase He started back--the sudden movement |.shook the shelves and the head fell, striking him full upon the breast, ,and then bounding like a ball upon the the floor. He gazed at it a moment, 11 with such a look as I pray I may i never see in human eyes again. A sudden spasm distorted his face. He |< threw up his arms with a wild cry, land fell heavily upon the floor beside I the corpse. I sprang to his side and raised his [ head. But It drooped again, till the f6ark brown locks mingled with the hair of that head. "Lee, qpeak to «m!m shuddering. 'Rose, if you road any more such tales I cannot stay in this house!" "Very well,' said Rose, good-temp­ ered ly, "I only wanted to amuse you and myself. I think it have done neither." She shut the book and going to the window looked out. Presently she stole down stairs, wrapped herself warmly in her cloak and out to walk in the ground* CHAPTER XVII. five o'clock train and coach of the evening a strange gentleman arrived at a little roadside inn about two miles from Holllow Ash Hall, and four from Banley. He was a hand­ some, foreign-looking man, apparently about thirty-four years of age--"A perfect gentleman!" as the landlady rapturously called him because he drank her weak tea 'without complain­ ing and afterwards sat quietly in his parlor over the wine and cigars, with­ out giving aliy human being in the house the least trouble. Secured from all intrusion, he watched the cold moonlight falling on the distant fields, and listened idly to the "Last Rose of Summer," played on a cracked piano, without much regard to tune or time, by his landlady's daughter, in the room below. He sat still and pensive "in golden quiets of the moon," and thought of his early, long-lost love, now so near him once again. Would any secret instinct tell her that he was coming? Would she feel his presence--his love--even before he had assured her of them? Who shall say? His thoughts grew dim and more indistinct. The song below, a«d the voices of the people at the bar be­ yond, seemed to blend in one low, continuous murmur, but faintly heard, yet soothing from its very indistinct­ ness. His eyes closed--he slept--bat In his dream, Rose was still with htm, He awoke some time after with a sudden start The moon, now high in the heavens, shone full in his face, and showed the deserted street beneath. A clock struck upon the stairs, it was just eight He uttered an exclamation of sur­ prise, took his hat and cloak and go­ ing out at the open front door, took his way alone toward Hollow Ash Han. And, as he walked, he thought of the quiet and beautiful English home where most of his boyhood had been spent, and where, in after years, the Rose of his life had bloomed for him --bloomed, but never faded! Among those trees and flowers his heart got rooted in so deeply that to the day of his death the fibres could never be wrenched away. He had gone far from the place;, possibly he could never look upon it rgaln; yet ever and anon, as he wandered through the world a violet springing at his feet, a bird singing in the air, a little of blue sky beyond the distant hills made him young again, and brought the old house so vividly before him, that he could almost see the faces and hear the voices, nay, catch the very words of those who were living there, and who had doubtless forgotten him en­ tirely. He thought of those old times wltth a smile and a sigh as he walked quickly along the village road. He thought of Rose as he had seen her there, evening after evening, laughing, singing and flirting--yes, certainly flirting, like a princess of love among her worshipers. He thought of a night when they had quarreled, and when he had left the house in anger only to return and hide within the grounds, watching her jealously, as the curtains waving in the breeze gave him glimpses now and then of the lighted rooms. Oh, what sighs he breathed against the rough bark of the tree which Bupportec^him, as he saw her beautiful face, iparklfbg with delight and la^&fiter, turned toward the win­ dow! How, later on, he envied the partner who held her hand, or clasped her waist! How he longed to be the flower in her bouquet, the spangle in her slipper, the very ground beneath her feet, bo that he might be touched or looked upon again by her. She had never known of this passionate devo­ tion, and even, he, going to seek her again, was half inclined to smile at the remembrance as a folly of the past. It was dead, that feeling; his affec­ tion was more rational now, he said to himself. But was he right? Do Such loves--does any love ever die? I think not What has once been a part of us can scarcely fade into utter noth­ ingness again. In another and more perfect state of existence, these ele­ ments of happiness, disturbed here, but peaceful forever there, will be our own again. Their parting had been very much like all others, to all outward 6eeming. The tearful eyes, the half- choked farewell, were all there; and careless eyes looked en and careless laughter arose around them. But I doubt if ever there was a sorer heart than Stanley Vere took with him as the train moved slowly away, as he caught the last glance from those soft eyes, the last wave of that snowy hand. • In such separations pity is wasted on the one who goes; it should be given to * one who is left behind, to follow each dally occupation, jilt forever miss the voice and eye that once lightened and illumined them. But the breaking up of sueh an at­ tachment Is no light thine, snd to him the world seemed suddenly dark and co)d. Missing Rose, he groped blindly on his way, m if the light of his ex- iitence had gone out la fact, she s the only oae who had stood be­ tween him and the werML Othere might have a mother, a lather, a broth­ er, er • sister, te itul fetweaa and that harsh and cruel jppii He had but her, and when she WW taken from him, all those sweet lies were rent in the one that bOnad them to­ gether, and he stood face to face with all the antagonists, unarmed and un­ shielded. He tried to supply her place --not because he was Inconstant, but because he loathed loneliness. In ev­ ery instance he failed. Those whom he sought had other tie(( and friends; at least, he could only occupy a sec­ ondary place within their hearts. What was more important to him than this --they were of the common order of women, 'ftieir souls were narrow- brains capable of supporting but one set of ideas. Probably he wearied them, but It is certain that they wearied him most unbearably. Now Rose, with all her girlish fun and gaiety, had a noble soul, that fed upon high thoughts, and intimate as­ sociation with such a fresh, pure spirit as hers had unfitted him for any lower companionship. So it came to pass that he still went on his way alone; and in the valley of humiliation, or on the mountains of peace, his cry had ever been, "Will she ever come back to me? Shall I find and win her once again?" He asked that question standing in the public road and look­ ing up at the white walls and lighted windows of her present home. As he gazed, he saw a figure--a female figure --pacing up and down the lawn. His heart told him who it must be. In a moment he was by her side. "Rose! Rose! Will you welcome me back?" he cried in a voice that trem­ bled with eagerness. And she, pale and startled, but smiling all the while, put both her hands in his. "Dew Stanley, welcome!'^ And so the question was anwend. , (To be continued.) SLEEP AFTER BATING. i m Valt StomMk la Dahvombki te DigMttW. Whether to sleep after taking food is good or bad is a question which many ask, but cannot get a decisive answer. That it may not do much harm in many cases seems evident from common experience, but still it does not appear to be a good habit. Dr. Schule of Fribourg, has .made ex­ periments which tend to throw light on the matter. He hut analyzed the contents of healthy stomachs after meals and finds when sleep follows the meal, the movement of the stomach is weakened, and the acidity of the gastric juice increased. Sleep on a full stomach is therefore unfavorable to digestion. On the other hand, mere­ ly to lie down or rest in a horizontal position stimulates the motive action of the stomach, without increasing the acidity of the gastric juice. The moral of his results is that one should lie down after a meal, but not fall asleep, more especially If the stomach is di­ lated and its juices excessively acid. People troubled with acidity should, above all, avoid sleeping after meals, and yet such people often feel drowsy after eating. The difficulty is to draw the line between resting and sleeping after a meal. Talking is less apt to in­ duce sleep than reading in ft supine position. batino when exhausted. Cornering the Appetite an AeeoaapUsh- mant in Self-Discipline. Half the people we know have vio­ lent attacks of indigestion, because they will persist in eating hearty meals when in an exhausted condition. They seem never willing or able to realize that there are times wtsn the system is in no fit state to grapple with a full meal. They come in tired and hungry, almost ravenous, not thinking that maybe a good deal of what they consider hunger is gastric irritation, then sit down to a table covered with the substantial of life, and deliberately go to work and overtax the already overstrained vital powers. No person should ever eat, heartily when very tired. The wisest thing to do Is to drink a cup of hot water with three teaspoonfuls of milk in it, sit down for five minutes, and then begin slowly to eat, masticating thoroughly. In a lit­ tle while the vigor of the stomach will come back, and all will be well. If this course were followed, there would be one case of dyspepsia where now there are a dozen. It seems to be the most difficult of all things to properly control. When once mastered, some­ thing important has been accomplish­ ed in self-discipline. CIwm Captivity with Crippled Mat*. Officers of the British steamship Saxoline, which came into this port this morning from Oette, France, to load oil, brought two sea herrons, one with a broken wing, and the other, its mate, that refused to desert the wounded bird, says a Wilmington, Del., dispatch to the Philadelphia Press. It is uncommon for these birds to get into mid-ocean, yet when the Saxoline's voyage was but half over the birds flew into the rigging, one breaking its wing by striding against a yardarm. It fell to the deck, was picked up by an officer of the steam­ ship and placed in an improvised cage. Its mate steadfastly hovered over the ship until finally the door of the cage was opened. Instantly the second heron flew from the rigging and en­ tered the cage, where It remained with the disabled bird. Beatlnf GlnrUtone In Arfontant. Mr. Eden Eddis. a famous English portrait painter in his day, who was once nearly elected an R. A., has just died within a few days of his 89th birthday. He once was discussing with Mr. Gladstone what was the brightest color in nature: The statesman claimdS that red was; the artist said that even in the dark you could see the blue flowers in a garden. 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