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Growing Old. Growini old I The puls<s" mOA11ure Keeps its even tenor still ; Eye and hand nor !all nor !alter, And the brain obeys the will ; Only by the whitening tretsee, And the deepening wrinkles told, Youth ha& paSBedaway 11ke vapor; Prime le g'one, &nd I g'row old. Laughter huehee at my preeeooe, Gay ;roung volooe whlaper lower, U I dare to linger b;r U, All the stream of llfe rune slower, !'hough I love tbe mirth of children, Though I prl"" ;routh'e vlrg'in gold, What have I to do with either? Time le telling-I grow 001. Not eo dreed tht gloomy rlTer That I ehrank frvm 80 of yore; All my !bat of loYo and !rlenchhip Gather on the furthershore, Were It not the beeli to join them &e I lee! tho blood run oold ? ~e I hear It e&fd too hanhly, "Stand back from no-you are old !" A youog Irishman, named James Nola.ns, performed a noble deed of daring in a sudden mining ca.ta.strophe, which happened at the ooal-pite situated near the villa.gee of Niddry So he wrote, with bis heart in the other room, and New Craighall, in the neagboui-hood of And thoughv of ·he babe &'Oing out In the gloom THE END. Newmille, Da.lkeith. About two o'clock To the ahadowy land beyond the tomb, one afternoon the rumor wa.1 spread that the Prof. :Bell at ·Work. U wu hard to write with death ao nl&"h, But be gronnd out jokes 1111 the hours went by, Prof. Bell is actively at work upon pro· pita were filling with water. It waa conAnd oloeed e&<h paire with a grlof·bom sigh. bleme of sound a.nd electricity in a wa.y that firmed by a guah and fall of wa.ter from a. promi11es an invention of far greater import· height of 130 fathoni1, with a din whioh n wu hard to write but the world muet laugh, a.nee, scientifically and practically, and the struck despair into the hearts . of the weary 8o he penned the rhyme and the para&"raph, And eYen a hwnoroUll opllaph I telephone itself. His laboratory is an old- mi11era. They were juet about to a1oend Hie pen flew fast and the hours went on the she.ft, and the ma.n at the pit-head ha.d fashioned two-story house 011 Connecticut Till hie nigh* or kill was almost gone, avenue, in the neighborhood of the British dialeovered that 1omething had gone wronii. Aud fue eaal showed the first faint streak! ol dawn. Lega.tion, Washington. He also ha.a a private There were sixty-three men and boys at 'l'hen he dropped hh pen and raleed hie he&d, work, of whom thirty.eight escaped to the and secret laboratory over in Georgetown, "Now Ute colum la finished," the tunny mu said, wbere at present he has a most skilful work- neighbouring pit, while twenty-five who Aad the nurse, coming In, aald, "The baby ls dead I man engaged upon the forthcoming instru- were oU:the oppositie side of the torrent rement. What ia it, is known only to the pro- mained, · These ran through a. portion of A Legaoy of the Blan Trade. They find me a few ·minutes later, Mrs. fe11sor and the man who is working at the the workings as yet free from flood, but Ratherfurd having sent them all to sea.rob Yellow fever ia the direct result of the idea, Thu inventor has 1ald to hie friend found their s.ca.pe cut off, tum where they llave traffic, the dread scourge having been for me, alarmed by my non-"ppeara.nce a.t that if he succeeds, the new idea will yield would, and exha.ustion took the place of unknown in Americe. till brought here by lunche1>n. At first they think I am dee.d, OJU.f'l'ER TI.-(Colfo··ll'DIID,J him greater returns than the telephone bas. despair. At la11t they awaited their fa.te that trade, The African disease, intelll!ified But the first words I hear distinctly put but the Doctor, who is sent forimmediately, It is 1m1pected, however, by tho1e who have in a Ie;eI communicating with anot.ber pit, by the filthy ha.bite of human cargoes, ca.me that project out of my head at once and for- pronounces it to be a fainting-fit only, prob· given some attention to the course of Prof. measurmg only five feet broad by five feet firet to the port of Vera Curz, with a slave ably brought on by the heat of the sun. I ever, Bell's thoughts upon the subject that It is high. The aha.ft was nearly filled with abip In 1699, and in like manner was trans "But this oannot go on"-I hear eTery do not rave a.t all, or betray my miserable the photophone, or the u1e of electricity to water, and a volume of water we.a rushiag ferred to a.11 the W eat Indies. In Vera wo'rd, 11harp and clear, " She will begin to secret in any way as I return to C011Boiousreproduoe over the wiree the ima.ge of the down upon them; but here they wr.ited two Cruz, whenever an old wall is ta.ken down 1llllpect something. Even yesterday on the ness, and I am glad of it. But I will not person speaking before the instrument. Prof, mortal hours, until, seeing no chance of the or a 11treet dug into, the fever is sure to island you saw how vexed she was-the have Judith near me, which surprises Mrs. Bell is a ma.n of prodigioue mental energy, flood diminishing so u to give hope of their break out with redoubled force in that c!bild 18 not a fool. Erroll, though you seem Rutherfurd, or would he.ve surprised her if and he is constantly developin~ new ideas escape, ·even of them da.1hed under the looality, thu1 showing that the germs are she had not a.ccounted for it by the disorder io think 11he is." and new applications of electrlca.l force for we.ter, and through the hole whence it came, always present, though sometimes dormant " Of course it is our object to keep her in of my bra.in. -Neither will I rems.in a single the productionofueefulme.chiues. Hethrows leaving their oompanions in the belief that until disturbed. " What briugs Ralph Rutherford here so Wle dark u long e.11 po111ible. But any one hour longer than I can help at Velfry, them off as easily and carelessly as you they were lost. They were, however, mercioften?" Among the numeroua yellow fever atories Mr11, Rutherfurd is exceedingly anxious bu.· a fool would he.Te gneased our aeoret It is aunt Theodosia who asks the ques- can fancy. For instance, he ma.de not long fully Aved, reaching the shaftwherea.nxiou1 with which, Vera Cruzans are wont to cheer that I should stay quietly in my own room l<lllg .go," · friends were awaitl11g them, after battling visiting 1tranger1 they tall that on~e a there for the next day or two at lea.st, prom- tion. And she asks it of me, looking at me ago an in1trument called the audiometer, " Your mother does not gueM it." in the dark with the aeething waters; But perhaps not a dozen of which ha.ve been over the edge of the wheelbarrow ae she veSBel drifted into pGrt, apparently at ".Booauae she haa persuaded herself that ising that no one shall come near me but what of the eighteen that remained? One herself. But I will not have the carriage stoops to gather up the pile of weeds she has ma.de, It consists of magnetic cylinders random, and withoull hoi11tb1g any of the I am in love with Lisle." graduated to each other. These cylinders by one, twelve of them ventured their. lives usual aignalll. Rumors ran through the ra.ked together. on the garden walk, countermanded, and Mrs. Rutherford is " Poor little Lisle !" "How should I know, aunt Theodosia ?" will indicate by measurement how much as their comrades had done-braved the town that a pirateahip ha.darrived, or some It ii 11he who pities me, and not him ! afraid to thwart me, Before five o'clock I sound it is possible for a deaf person to hea.r, waters and the dark hole, and were similar- foreign emba1sy on a secret mission; but " I thought you might, that was a.111" J'iend as I think her, I remember that. And am lying in my own bed a.t Osierbrook, with and if they hear any at all. J:'rof. Bell has ly re11oued, But four men and two boys finally the 11$range era.ft wa11 boarded by the the curtains drawn and a.nut Theodosia. BitDo I know t I stand by the wheelbarrow, yet I loved him so mueh better than I loved were still left behind, Three more hours ting silently knitting in the big old-fashion· l ooking down dreamily at the clean-swept also devised an instrument, which might be authorities, who found it to be a charnel laer I pained, while friends a.hove were vainly " I wonder how she ca.n imagine for a. ed arm-chair at the foot of the bed. Here I pl\th. It is just a yea.r since I came to Osier- called the submarine telephone, by which hou·e of decompo11ing corpaee, for every sou 11ignal1ing and ca.llil g to them to follow their DU>ment that a.ny ma.n would look at her can weep and weep and weep, and no one be brook- a year t his very day. The May sun· can be Mcert&incd, by the echo from a stone on boa.rd had peri1hed of vomito. comre.des, example. They were the more while you were in the room," Erroll la.nghs, the wiser. liiere I can groan deep in my shine lies Wl\rm on aunt Theodosia's flower- dropped upon the bottom of tho bo.y or river hopele11a beca.uae they believed their mates t::·ll'SIJJIJPTl9N UIJllBD.-An oia physician .am:aaed. misery, for dear old aunt Theodosia. fa tcio beds, on the overblown evening primroses in which the en.ft may be floating ju11t what had perished, and tha.i such si~al11 a11 reach· retired from practice, havln~ had placed In his "You aot Tery well," Judith's voice an- deaf to hear. Judith ha.a had her revenge on the budding lily-of-the-valley. I have the depih is at that point. He h&1 a.110 utl· hands by an Enetlndia mlse1onar7 the formula ed them from the roof were warnings to re- ofa simple vegetable remedy tor the speedy BWlll'll, with a shadow of reproach in it. on Mrs. Rutherford; but Bh6 ha· broken got on a fresh brown linen gown, prettily lized the telephone to r ecord the echo a.t sea main where they were. The lamps were and permaneJI tcure ofUonsumption,Bronchitis, which ma.y show the distance of ice bergs and "Perhaps you are a.1110 amusing yourself at my heart ! made, wi. t h big pearl buttons, and a Zulu Catarrh, .Asthma and all throat and Lung .Af· kept burning with difficulty, Three more fectlon11, alao a positive and radical i:ure tor ·7 expentll ?" hat. My ha.Ir has grown again ; but only other obatruotiona. Even a buoy can be Nervou11 Deblllt:r and all nervous Complaints It is three months before I lea.Ye that bed into a crop of babyish ehort curl.a. And I distinguished by it11 nae. Prof. Bell is grad- houn pa111ed, r.nd the re10uing party ea.w after ha.Ying " YOU *hink tha.t J ndith ?" te1ted he wonderful curativ~ powera in thoueande of case11, ha.s felt it hi.ti that something must be done to draw them " 1Je, I do not think it. I know you love a.gs.in-during some of that time a great feel quite strong and well !\gain, and have ually growing out of all bu1lnees pursuit., dmy to make it Jrnowu to Me suffering fellows .me u far u yon are oapa.ble of loving any many people thought I should never leave it grown brown and sunburnt, riding my pony and devoting himself to the improvement of from their Hying grave. Some one mu11t Aetna.tad by thie motive aod a deelrc to rellen; human suffering, I will send freo of char&"e, to again alive. But youth and a good con- over the breezv hills and through the long the deaf. He is oonstantly giving more a.nd force a passage through the water, bnt all woman." who desire.It. tbl1reolpe, In German.Freno)!., stitution pulled me through- that and the green winding la.nee ; but, though my wings mere time to his little school, where he ha.a who!" I will go if some onu will push me or Engliah. with full directions for preparing "Jud&t1h !" and usin&'. Sent by mall by addressln11;·>,,'ith " [ lon you," ehe sa.ys simply, At a.II care those four good women . bestowed on that were clipped have grown 11.gain, I never perhaps a score of pupils, moat all of them throuMh, for ·he current i11110 strong," vol- etarap, naming this paper, W. A. Noyi:s l<li!I ~5 the gro.cel·es child who had defied them feel in the least inclined to fly away. I love wholly deaf, to whom he le teaching the art unteered our youDg IrJ..h hero, Ja.meeNo- Power's BlockRochester N. Y . events I am sure of that." la.ns; and a mate named Smellie put his "And I love you 1 Ah, gin me one, when she was strong and well. Osierbrook-the peace, the serene quiet, the of eight language. He is training the1e lit· They never grow weary, they a.re ne·er qua.int, formal, sunny da.ys, the awe·t calm tie children so that they can distinguish feet agr.inst hl.e back, and he foroed himeelf J11dith I You know I love you with my impatient; they bear with me as my own nights through which I aleep so soundly, from the lips and face of ·he person speak- through the we.ter. He reached hie im- Contlnue1 to do a General Hanking Busi.ueae whole heart and soul." ta.Bo wmanvill" Branch. Thereia a quick kias, and Judith says might-they seem to me like angels, with· tired by the loving attendance to give which ing wha.t tbe ea.y, and teaching them to Im· prisoned comrades, spoke to the111 cheerfully, DEPOSl'l'S bade them follow oa, and placing the boy ered and old and homely as they are, when hurriedlyis tlie cine great object of my life. Those ita.te the proper arrangement of the lips, ReoelTe~ in Sayings Bank Deparl ment and " We must go in, Erroll. If they think they bend over me through the long weary. feeble hands shall do nothing that mitie can teeth and tongue, so that they may a.rticu- Kerr, aged thirteen, on his back, dashed ca.ll . and mt.erest allowed at current rates. N. night-watches, putting cool bandages on my do inateaci ; thoue faltering step· shall al- la.te sounds, It is understood the.t Prof. Boll ha.ck again. Saved I All but one ! Where not1oe of withdrawal necessary. All deposlW. we are together a.ll this time I" p1L;rable on demand, " But think of how dearly I pay for these hot mlaerable forehea.d, lumps of oold deli- ways be steadied by my strong yonng arm. ie at work upon the problom of resolving we.a the lad Walker 1 Nolana did not pauee to consider, bull ventured a.gain through the ice cious on my pe.rohed tongue. They are heat at onoe into electr:J1ity, a. result, if it EXCJHANGE few stolen moments with yo·, darling!" They may be peevish somebime11, and obcan be obtained, that ..~m:greatly simplify waters. He found the boy in the da.rk, Bought&nd sold and Drafts issued upon Europe "I think h is Lisle who pa.ye for them. always there, one or other of them ; in the alone, abandoned to death. " Eh 1 r.od may United Stateft and Canada, also Gold, Silver and dead of the night I seq them, sitting In the stinate, and a.pt to think their own old way and chea._pen all uses ol! electricity. Ah, peor Lisle " United Sti.~ee Green backs boni.rht and sold. the best; but I can bear with them, -no God blese you!" wcra the words breathed in· Lisle ha.11 never even dreamed of such big chair, the candles throwing their shadaharp word shall ever pa.es my lips, no slight CJOLLECJTJONS to hi<! ear AB he took him aleo on hill bl'Ck, ows grotesquely upon the opposite wall, love aa we feel for ea.ch other, IJudith." I'iTe Editors Welcomed the Poet hint that their monotonous, often-repea.ted a.nd bare him safely through the torrent. Promptly made at current rates upon all part their spectacles on their noses, their Bibles "I hope not, poor child I" The pa~r had gone to press and the edistories are not as freah and delightful to me It waa eleven o'clock at night when thia ct Great Brittnln, the United States and Do P o.r child 1 She. calls me poor child; but open on their kneee, their placid old faceo a1 the very newest number of my favourite tors were leaning back in their cha.ire fanning daring deed was aocompllahed, and cheers minion of Cana.de., he _ n enr utters one eingle word of pity for 8<I ca.Im and peaceful, shedding a.n answerTelegraph T1·ansrertt "monthly ;" no yawn shall Fbetray how themselve11 and wondering If sheol could be of welcome greeted our collier hero. ing peace into my soul. ;me from fiut to l.&st. a.ny hotter than terra when e. seedy-looking Made tor large or small sums on all parts ot If I get well, i will be good to them e.l- their late hours weary me, no. smile show man with a red nose' entered the room, and " ffis.e will ma.rry somebody else before Canada. 'l'hle is eepeci..lly adTantageo11e ta that I am conscious of the quaint mi1~kes persons l!Ylng In Mamtoba or the North-wea't w11ys- never lo.ugh at them, never call them 'he year ii out, and forget all about me." It 'O'l&kee the funds available at once at the they make, or their 11till quainter correction es.id timidly: An organ of the London printing trade re- as place ot payment, odd, or old, or ugly, never dieobey them in "We have \rea.ted her cruelly between " Here is a poem-" minds ita readere that Lord Salisbury wa.11 a of ea.oh other. I love them, and I count my thought or word or deed. For tu.rther pa.rtlonla.ra oa.11 at the Banking u, Erroll." Instantly five editor· sprang to their feet etrong opponent of reduction of duties on House. If I get well ! But if I do not! If I die- ·ervioe nothing for the love I bear them- and five olubti were waving in the air. "It eeuld not be helped-we could meet GEO. McGILL, they are so good, so old, ro near the awful newepeper e'6mpe and paper, so that print- T. BHODIE, in no other way. If you had let me go to !, Lisle Warburton-if I die, and am put in· Acoountant. Manager " On .Beautiful Snow," continued the seedy ers have no er.use to love him. verge of that eternity of which they do not ·y to a coffin and buried beside my mother in 11be V1earaae--" man. es seem to be afraid. " Don't you think my enemle1, peraeouj the eha.dy old church-yard on the hil1 I I "What I" simultaneously from five voices. " I guessed he wa.a coming here !" ion, and slr.nderers were bitter enough with· think perhaps that will be better-better "A peem on Bea.utlful Snow," repeated The words rouee me from my reverie. mit itiving tham any real cause for ooa- even than to live to show my gratitude to Re.lph Rutherfurd has turned in at the low the seedy m&n, with deliberation, · my aunts. plr.int ?" Five clubs dropped to the floor and five white gate-is riding up the avenue. At " Well, I acknowledge that you were '.l'hey will soon know how gra.teful I am men crowded around the poet and shook him the door he dismounts from his hone ; old right about that," he says a little sulkily. to them. They must soon die, all of them by . t he ha.nd11 and patted him on 'he shoulder, A large stock of Carriage and Team Harness ready for the spring "Judith, sometime· I think you do not and in Heaven I can tell them-my mother Taylor takes the bridle, In another minute and fairly overwhelmed him with attention, --trade at the-he is standing beside me in Aunt Theodosia's love me a11 well aa I love you." too-she will tell them-garden in his pla.in riding dreBll, his whip in Then th .. editor· in-chief led the poet to the " Why do you think so ?" " This is some nice lemona.de, dear. Won't his band, but r. · gra.ve smile in his quiet best ohe.ir, and said : "You think of what people will say, I you try to drink it ?" "Read it to us." hazel eyes. think of nothing but you." Aunt Theodosfa is bending over me. Aunt CALL AND EXAMINE. The poet placed his hat, with his hand"Are you busy, Lisle?" " Of nothinK but yourself, you mean." Anohoretta is standing a.t the foot of the bed, kerchief in it, on the desk, put on a pair of "Not very busy," I a.newer, smiling. .Also Whips, Trunks, Satchels, Leather Valises, Rubber Rugs, Buggy "ludith-I who have never cared for any wipiDg her spectacles. Aunt Emily is cryrusty rimmed spectacle11, a.nd,: unfoldlng hie "Beoa.uae I wanted to epeak to you." Dusters, Rubber Horse Covers, Axle Grease, Curry Combs Brushes woman but you, who never forgot you in all ng silently near the fire. ma.nuacript, clea.red hit1 throat, a.nd began to " To speak to me ?" Harvest Mitts and all goods usually kept by the t;ade. ' these years-I wish you loved me even be.If " What is aunt Emily crying for ? Am I He makes no an.swer to that, moving read. as well All I love you I" going to die? Tell her not~ cry. I-I don't REPAIRS ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY. As he spoke of the fleecy flakes descending slowly down the clean-swept garden-walk, "You need not doubt t he quality of my mind." in soundless showers, of the whitened fields, P. S.-Special inducements (for Cash) daring the next 30 days. - -and so constraining me to keep him company. ,ove," ehe answers, her quiet tone contrast" You are not going to die, dear child, " Lisle, have you ever wondered why I the northern blast whistling o'er the world, ing curiously with the pa.s11ion in his. I lgve You are going to get well." the editors put aaide their fans ; then they came to Osier brook so often ?" you, Erroll, and I ahall love you till the day "To get well?" rolled down their sleeves. As he proceeded "I ha.vs-sometimes." "Yea. But you must not spee.k-you a.re I die." with his description of the terrors of the "And what reason did you give youraelf?" very weak yet. Drink this 1md go to sleep · I think you will. I do not think it eould "I thought you came to ask for me-at frost king, thu fury of the storm, a11d the be poeaible for two people to love each other again," frozen corpse found beneath the snow next first, when I was ill" as we do and forget. That is the only oom-JUST RECEIVED ATmorning (a poem on .Beautiful Snow without "Aunt Anchoretta., why a.re you aha.king " And a.fterwa.rda ?" iort.I have." "I thought you took an interest in me be· a frozen corpse would be incomplete), the "Erroll, I must go now. No ; you cannot your bea.d Y" editors shivered and arose and put on t heir I am sitting in an arm-chair in the draw~ cause I bad be. e n so very near death." ceme with me I I have to remind you of tha.t ing·room at Osierbrook. The window be" I took a.n interest in you frow the very coa.ts. so often "-and she la.ughs. When the poet ceased the thermomtlter Thev are Fresh, Good and Chean. "It is awfully ha.rd!" he answers impa- side me stands wide open, but the October first day you came to Velfry, Lisle."in the office hll.d fa.lien thirteen and one-half air Is warm, and I am well wrapped-up in " You?" A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF tiently. I hear her step pa811ing up 'he alley to- the fleecy white sha.wl aunt Anna has li:nit" Y os, I. But I thought-then--that you degrees, wa.rds the house, He will probably come ted for me. My lap is full of flowers, late 011.red for uome one else." Then the edit or-in-chief arose and said ; round this WS.). I straighten my11elf from roses, and stock and mignonnette from aunt " A poet who in the strength of the swelt"So I did!" I answer, smiling. AT EXCEEDINGLY LOW PRICES. the crouching attitude in which I have been Theodosia's garden, which I am arranging ering heat of a summt r day brings into a. "You have got over that?"-" Q1dte." listening for what has seemed to me an infin- into bouquets for the school-children to wear "So I thought-long ago. But I a.m so newspaper ofp.ce a. poem on Beautiful Snow ity of torment, and turn to meet him like at eome /ete or other to-morrow. My fingers old and grave, Lisle- so much older than deserves a monument . As you are not apsome small mieera.ble wild animal brought are not of much use to me yet, they are so yon, I mee.n. Could you ever care for me!" parently in a.ny specie.I need of a monument to bll.y by a great dog. IUNG STREET, BOWMANYILLE. Ha.ve I not been caring for h m ever since at pre11ent, come out and we'll sta.nd up the stiff and feeble ; but I love to touch the flowers, and a.untEmily will tie ea.ch bouquet those convalescent days when he had ridden beer for you." Then the glad procession x CHAPTER VII., AND LAii!T. over t o Osierbrook, and _ s at on the low sill took its way to the subterranean depths of over again afterwards. --AT-" You here, Lisle I" Erroll exclaims, the of the drawing-room window, holding his the nearest hostelry. " Was I shaking my head, dear?" moment he catches sight of me, standing ·P " Indeed you were-till I thought it would horse's bridle over his arm and talking to in tne middle of the long green alley, faoing fall off. This i~ the season when the mercury, 1>11 me in his gre.ve, pleasant, curiously diffident !" him, my hllnda clenched, my face deathly well e.0 the students, takes degFees. I la.ugh feebly a.t my own joke. Aunt An· way, pale. ' Summer resort hotels a.re putting on big " Lisle, could you ever as.re Ior me enough choretta. crosses the room to my window, adjectives and otherwise keeping pace with " Y 08, I run here." "Do you remember J udith Irving, Lisle?'· to marry. me?" "And I suppose," he say1, looking at me "I might-some day." the season. Mosenba.um, who keeps the Will always be found m stock a full assortment of Boots, "Yes-quite well." while his own color changes-" I suppose " Lisle, my darling, do you ca.re for me "Boudoir," was taken to task for stretchMy hes.rt does not beat faster; I am not you have been eavesdropping ?" ing hie advertisement too much. " Hi Shoes, Slippers, Rubbers, Trunks, Valises, etc.-as good in conscious of any pa.ng of recolleotlon--0nly now yu " Yea- if you choose to oall it so." there, Mose," said a friend, "I see you ad- quality and low in price as can be found elsewhere. Aunt Theodosin is a. little deaf, but she of a vague, numb, curious feeling, such as "With the usual result?" he .asks, with one sometimes experiences when an old is not at all blind. And I suppose she dis- vertise that your rooms have been enlarged." tho firat sneer I have ever seen on his h:uid- wound is touched whioh he.a long since been tinctly 11ees Ralph Rutherfurd put hie a.rm " So dey haf," "But there have been no Special attention given to ordered work and repairing. some mouth. round me and draw my head down to his oarpenters at work on your place." "No I healed. Call and inspect. " I oerte.inly did not hear any good of my· "We never liked her," aunt Anchoretta breast, Perhaps she even sees him hiss me I Wa.it till I tole you; I haf scraped der sell-or of you, says gravely. "She waa not 'a. girl we could But I am so happy tha.t I do not grudge her paper off dose wall, See I" " I .... BTORMAND SUNSHINE, Perhap· it was just as well that you did hear," he goes on, recovering his composure. " I for one am tired of this little game." "Oh, Erroll"-it is my last despairing ory-" how could you have pretended to love me? How could you be 10 cruel, 110so base?" "I never loved you !" "I know that now. But I was so young and foolish, and-and I loved you so much!" "Pshaw I" he exclaims, turning on his heel. "You know no more of what love really means than that little white eloud Jloating up there in the sky ! 1 I stand looking after him, but he never turns his head, " I never loved you !' The words ring in my ea.rs, the green alley swims round me, the hedge bobs up and down ; I cover my eyes with my hands with one despairing moan, and sink down in a. heap upon the mossy walk, rateem. I do not wish to speak unohar·.. tibly of any one, but I 11.lways had an id"' that she would not tum out well." "What he.1 1ke done !" "You remember Erroll Rutherford?" " Yes," I a.newer, in the ea.me dreamy. scarcely interested wa.y. Aunt Anohoretta., looking at me, sighs a sigh of intenae relief. " Re was another person ef whom I had a. poor opinion, though at one time we all thought he meant to tum over r. new leaf and- and marry a girl who would have pulled him up instead of dragging him down. But now, it seelllll, theae two have put a. climax to all their foolish doings by running away with each other !" "By running a.way!" " So it seems. This letter is from Mrs. Rutherford, who is heartbroken a.bout it. It seems that Erroll he.a nothing, and Miss Irving lees. How they are to live nobody knows but themselves." "Aunt Anohoretta, do you like pink roses and mignonnette together-10 ?" I hold up the little bouquet for her inspection, smiling; and she, approving of it, proceeds to make two or three after the same pattern. I do not ask another question, nor does aunt Anchoretta. allude to her letter any more, so completely has my old love dream faded away-so completely have I forgotten the lover whose "Honour, rooted in dishonour, stood, Who11e faith, unfaithful, kept him falHly tme, ·the s~ti&faction I know she ·derives · from the proceeding, absurd as it must look to a third party. . " But I cannot leave my aunts, Ralph." "You she.II come to them every day, de.rtliDg, as long as they live." And, with this a.asu~e.nce to comfort me, I plight; my trot h. A HERO OF THR OOLLIERIES. A Ga.Ilana Beacne or Jllntll'!I Imprtaoned tn al «::oal Shatt. · - 'l'he Funny Man's Baby. 'l'he f,unny man went to h18 do·k to write. He b&d:watohed all day; he would wrlle all nigh· And finish hie work, 80 ho trlmmod thellghi. Io the room adjoining ble baby lay, And fuey said she wae 1lowly _paaslng away, .uid would die ore the light of another day. ....... - . . THE ONTARIO BANK - BOWMANVILLE HARNE SS SHOP. ' , VV. 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