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Alicia was purposely stupid about the verbs. Rosalie took every oppor- tunity to "squeak ” her slate pencil, just to see the governess jump. Mar- maduke set ‘nimse’f to work to torment Frances. A pert maid came in to say “missus wanted ‘to know why there were no flowers in the drawing-room this morning.” “ I forgat them,” coloring. It was denial not to add : governess, nuu as as “ You’ll please to as school hours is m as school hours is over,” said Bridget. “ And Miss Senator, she left word you was to sew Yace into her white dress tor the forms-o'c‘xock tea, and the ould lady wants some one to read to her, and missus has mislaid her moon- stone clasp, .-~.: «1 says you’re to come and hunt it up bfore the new house- :naid sweeps the, room.” Miss Dwuley listened with com- grassed lips. ALL :1 (:3 morning she had Jeen lookiz25; 13:12:11 to spending a :00! hour by t: xix e-r- side when the :vearisome saw ‘2 hours were over, and his was to be t 18 end of her anticipa- ions ! “ And serves her right,” returned Alicia. “ She’s no business to nag One. so about the German verbs 1” “ Are ycu P” :Frances opened her laughing blue e yes very wide. “Ain’t it funny? But nobody has given you a diamond - rrov; to wear in your hair? And you re not (:2 gagd?" “ N o !” said Mel icent Darley, short- ly. “Marm 1duke, put down the scissors. Rczaiie is your sum ready? Now, Alicia” ( o the retux n1n0‘ eldest pupil), “ you ll oblige me if you will try to write a les 3 disgraceful German exermse.” “The governess is cross,” Whispered Frances to h r. sister “It’s her birth- day, too, and there s nobody to give her pretty things” “ Children," Eric}. she, abruptly, “ you .re dismissed. It is a. great deal too lot for lessons today 2” The smah captives dispersed with ivhoops and 3310.333, and Miss Darley 133 just about tc- issue out with her ihady straw hat and a pair of garden fcissors to cut roses when a tall, Spare gxdy with protuberant light blue eyes find a. Roman nose appeared at the end ff the hall. like to bé nineteen!” Miss Darley looked up. “Is she nineteen? I am nineteen toâ€"day, too," said she. -“ They’re; gozi'c now,” said she, with along breath. “How nice Marian’s new jocky cap looked ! How I should “Then,” raid Hrs .Foz‘ester, “you 50k a grew 111:; r+ x, Be so good as to in them back again, and resume {550113, Please *emember, also, for the E:th'e, that I do not wish my orders to tampered with. I believe you were I{gag‘ed here as a governess, not to ter around and enjoy yourselt. ” And Miss Dal-lav, with crimsoned oaks and angrily beating heart, had Alice Forester flew like a. bird. Rosalie, one of those sulky children who never exhibit the least alacrity, kept on drawing impossible dogs and horses-on her slate. Marmaduke ap- plied himself to the manufacture of a. paper fly-trap, and plump little Frances climbed on the Window-sill to see the equestrian pm by set forth. “ It’s as bad as it can be, Alicia! Go out quickly and see them start, if you want, and then come back and do your exercise over again.” )arley. 7” m‘d g-as, “ or is it and that Sun be. ’ May I EliS screamms [inflow when dache 2” Miss Darléy heldrup a sliln" vflgger at Marmaduke, shook her head at Rosalie, and glanced “:22?in over the blotted German exercise. Miss Den- - :tmlamed that she‘had missed the children early on account gthe heat i '* wstlessness. “Then,’ said Mrs. Forester, “ you )ok a great liberty. Be so good as to th them back again, and resume gssons, P 811$? remember, also, for the glare, thatI do not Wish my orders to mmpered with. . I believe you were ed here as a goverjness, not to Miss ma a < exercise right 2 Tell me quiug, Victim“, for I want to run out and see Marian go horse-back- riding with Crag-m Pinnock. It’s Mar- ian’s birthday, and Fred Pinnockâ€"” “ Miss Darley, tell Marmaduke to Stop pinChingf I've I); “31153 D f .. 1.: Rosalie Sfop squeaking ht . 53:16: I 9 mil. ’3” G .1.n It was a June day, the warmest of the season, and all the school-room windows were opened to admit the lag- ging breeze t‘uL 12a; #:in stirred the linden boasts [315: Sauce, the superb St. Bernard dog, 13.; stretched on the flagged terrace walk, where the shadow of the elmâ€"tree came and went, his red tongue loiler} rmfl his sieepy eyes wink- ing at the sunbeants. An opaque mist of heat seemed to quiver on the distant hills, and Miss Darby, sitting at the desk, felt almost inclined to envy the cattle standirgj krrcndeep in the river ford below. 1 ‘( "1.0m _ mistaken in the time, Miss mid 311‘s. 'i’oresner, for she it is it oniv eleven? I under- t school hours are from ten till ay I ask the meaning of all miss; and shouting under my when I am lying down with a. “U u but» 1 In..- Only the Gwerness. If {Ix-em,” said Miss Darley, it was an effort of self- Lo add : “ I was engaged as nun as axial help.” please to get some as soon BY SHIRLEY BROWNE. at to obe And with a courage born of thws new conviction, ’she refused Mr. Se- bright’s suit. He showed his yellow teeth-«an (Vil light came into his shaggy browed eyes. “ I suppose you know,” said he, “ that: a word from me would lose you your situation.” “Yes, I know it.” “ And of course it Won’t be pleasant Mrs. Forester discharged Miss Dar- iey in a fit of virtuous wrath when she discovered that the pretty gover- ness had attracted the regards of the retired East India merchant. But the rest of Mr. Sebright’s prediction did not come true. On that very day a letter arrived, inviting her to the farm in Central New York, and, ,to his dismay, 01d Simeon saw the bird he had fancied entrapped soar out of his reach at last. Melicent looked at him with distaste. ‘Vould it be possible for her to; link heryoung life with this gray antiquity? Upon the whole, would not even suicide be preferable to Mr. Simeon Sebright? Yet she was so weary of fighting life’s battleâ€"and Mr. S >bright was a. millionaire. For a. minute she hesitated. “ \Vhat shall I do ’3” she asked her- self, “ Oh, what shall I do? No, no, Ican not deliver myself over, like a package bought and sold, in exchange fcr this man’s gold! I am a drudge now, but as his wife I should be a slave / If I were to betray myself into such a. doom, where would be my self. respect? I may fall low, but never so low as z‘lzz's l" â€"and she’ll Connie to me qulet enough Aha. ! we shall see I” It was a pretty, one-storied cottage, covered nearly to the roof with tor Homeless ! Yes, that was itâ€"home- less, and on her nineteenth birthday ! Yet she could not doubt that she had done right. She could toil suffer, starve, if need, but she could nat give herself to a. man whom in her secret heart she abhorrecl. “She’ll come to it yet,” he said to himself. “ I’ve only to get Jane For- ester to turn her cut-ofâ€"doorsâ€"only to make her utterly friendless and alone for me to have you remam here afterâ€"” She turned away and vanished into the wooded copses. Old Mr. Sebright, however, did not dispair. She was standing looking sadly at the river, with her hand on Bounce’s collar, when Mr. Seabright came hob- bling out. (Chronic rheumatism was one of his standard possessions.) “ Ah, my dear young lady,” said he, “I hoped I should find you. Ugh! ugh I” as a. sudden twinge seized him. “ May I beg for an answer today to my suit? I have waited very pa- tiently.” MI. Seabright was sixty, with a safiron complexion, an irritable temper, and false teeth, that somehow made one think of abeast of prey. But he was very rich; his wife need not toil her life away as a governess, and Meli- cent’s nerves were worn to such a degree that she sometimes felt as if suicide would be preferable to the dreary monotony of her daily tread- mill of work. . “And I don’t earn enough to buy my clothes and postage stamps,” she said to heeself, “And everybody calls on me to do all the odds and ends that no one else will undertake. 1 can’t sleep nights, and I have no appetite, andâ€"and I am nineteen years old to- day, and there isn’t a solitary soul to rememler it E” herself. “ I would as soon marry the hideous Punjaub idol on the pedestal in the back drawing-room,” and she shuddered- as she mentally coznpared him with Harry Lindley, the handsome» young sea. captain, who had once seemed to care so much for her in the old days when he was Rudolph’s friend and companion. a. mere automaton. But at last a. door- way of possible escape seemed open to her. Mr. Simeon Seabright, Mrs. Forester’s rich brother had fallen in love with her, a. yellow-faced, battered old East- Indian merchant. “ Can I marry him P” Melicent asked herself. “ I would as soon marry the “He might have remembered how utterly solitary I am,’ ’she said to her- self. “ X letter a. week would have been very littl e for him, and it would ha1e given me new life and courage.” Alone! It 11 as a. hard lot. For twelve months she had drudged on f01 a. pitiful salary, until now she felt like )lelicenc Darley was fighting her own battle with Fortune. Her onlv brother had been compelled to abandon his profession the law on account of failing he'alt-h and had gone as a plain farm- hand to Central New York. Melizent had been devotedly attached to him, and her greatest grief was that Rudolph seemed to have forgotten her among his new associations. I was bro'fight' up a. lady. Arid Why does everybody snub me and treat me like a. drudge? It is too cruel !” herself, “that I should be ordered around and bullied like this, While Marian Forester, nineteen years old toâ€"day, like myself, walks a. path of roses, and drinks life’s sweetest cup. I am young, tco, and I am not ugly, and n -. y. 5;; JR guumgsd; THE WATCHMAN, LINDSAY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1890 Mr. H. J. Scriver, of Hemmingford, 11 relative of the member for Huntingdon in the Common, met with a rather exciting adventure Saturday evening while driving homeward alone in his carriage. While passing through a wood near the village of Corbin a stranger stepped out of the bush, drew a. revolver and pointing the revolver at Mr. Scriver’s head, said in the most menacing manner possible : “i want this horse and buggy, You get'outror I will put a ball through your head.” He then began to move towards the carriage, when the driver told him he had .better .«r~.’. .'.v.xx._‘y Kit-s :‘Croiver, us he did not pur- The old saying that “money goes” was illustrated last week, says a corres- pondent of a St. Louis paper. A cus- tomer tendered me a twenty dollar bill. I had it changed by a neighbor, who, being in a hurry, gave me a pocket piece of $10 in gold of the issue of 1861, which he prized highly and did not want to part wzth. He came to me as soon as he had found he had given me the valued coin, and I went out and hunted up the customer to whom I had given it. He had bought some cigars at a neighboring store and had given the gold piece in payment. Upon going to the cigar store "we found that the pro- prietor had transferred the coin to a saloon-keeper near by, and at that place we found that the saloon-keeper had used it in liquidating his brewery bill. The next day my neighbor went to the brewery and found that the cashier of this institution had just parted with the coveted piece of money tc a dissatisfied employe. The individual was at last located in a neighboring saloon and the coin was recovered. l HAMMERSVILLE, Ohio, September rc {â€"A terrible tragedy occurred here last evening during the trial of the case of George Barngrove vs. Joseph Hiler be- fore Esquire Vandament. A Mr. Hiler died scme months ago, Icavmg a will in which he devised most of his proper- ty to two of his sons and two daughters, ,to the exclusion of other children. There has been talk of contesting the will, and much bitterness has been manifested. This was a case {or dam- ages under an alleged breach of contract between Joseph Hiler and Barngrove, who was one of the sons-in-law of Mr. Hiler. During the trial, Constable I. N. Allen, another son-in-law, stepped to the door, when a pistol shot was heard. Allen came staggering into the room and fell across acliair, exclaiming, “John Hiler did it.” Before the term rorized spectators could realize what‘ had happened, the murderer was seen standing in the middle of the crowded court room, and fired a second shot, which took effect in the right breast of George Barngrcve, passing entirely through his body. And standing out in the moonlight with Harry Lindley that night, with the scent of the Michigan roses above, and the thrill of a. great happiness in her heart, Melicent thanked heaven that she had had courage to say “ No" to the old man who would have bought her like a Circassian slave into life- long servitude I. “Harry told her. And there’s a , green-winged linnet. there, your favorite I birdâ€"Harry told us thatâ€"and a view ‘ of the Mohawk river from the window I ‘And if you like the neighborhood, and if the air agrees with youâ€"” “ \Vhat then, Rudolph '3” “Well, it’s a profound secretâ€"but Harry is going to leave the sea, and build another cottage, andâ€"and ask Miss Somebody to come and live in it. But mind you don’t tell ! Here she is, Kate !” as a laughing, dark-eyed girl came running out to welcome her, crying: “Was it really a surprise, Melicent? I may call you Melicent, mayn’t I? Oh, we have been planning it so long, Rudolph and I. A surprise for your birthday. Harry remembered your birthday, and here he is! Come and welcome her to her new home, Harry ’I What makes you turn so pale Melicent P 1 Are you going to faint “l” , But Melicent Darley did not faint, although for a second everything seemed to swim around her. Home! It was such a strange, '-secret word. "But how did yom wife know I liked pink ?” interruptedl Melicent. " My wife, to be sure. Yes, you may well stare. .VVe wanted to give you a. genuine surprise. I was married last week to Kate Lindley, Farmer Marston’s niece and Harry Lindley’s sister. And hereafter your home is to be with us, dear little sister Mel. Your room is all furnished in rose~pink, the color you like best-a” 7 wwws. “My imme,’ said he, proudly. “How do you like it, Mel 2” “ Yours, Rudy C?” “Yes, mine. Bought and paid for.” “ And_ who is your housekeeper, elm-tree brooding above it, and acres on acres of green-garlanded hop-poles stretching away into distance like the v1neyards of the Rhine, to Which Rudolph conducted 'his sister that evening. Rudy .9” How a Coin was Traced. Exciting Adventure. Tragedy in Court.‘ , ,_ /-.~.-A30u 116. “Yes, sir, you did; but I have been working down that? for the time. I guess nobody knew of 1t.’ “ Well, I’ll take care of your case.” “The next day the "engineer was re- stored to his old position With all his rights, which made him the bldest engineer on the road.” - RECEIVED A TELEGRAM to hurry back to Milwaukee. He asked for an engine to pull his private car back, Noching but a freight engine was to be had. “ Can you pull a passenger coach ?” asked the superintendent of a greasy-look- ing men under the engine. “ Yes, sir, I think so.” “ Well, get up steam and hook onto my coaclII'I” d d h “ e id so, an t e su erint told him to rush things for tlge maizniiixeigt That was all Tyler wanted, and he rushed things so well that the superintendent or- dered him to go on to Milwaukee. Before reaching that city the engineer had washed himself and put on a clean shirt. As the superintendent stepped out of his coach to compliment the engineer on his re- markably good run‘.’ he suddenly steppedâ€"â€" “ Why I thought I had you blackballed from this road yearst'ago.” exdaimed he “yes, Jsir, you did; but I have been A, 11“--- LA That same Tyler was the greatest en- gineer I ever heard of. He seemed to have no fear and Would make the most remark- able runs on record in railways annals. The paymaster on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern always asked for Tyler to rush his car on the line. He was the first en- gineer to pull a train of cars over the Canadian Pacific Railway from Vancouver to Montreal. He was an engineer on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line. and was pronounced by the master mechanic to be the best man in the employ. He had a knack of snaking the first mail trains in ahead of schedule time when all the run on time. The superintendent noticed this one time and ordered the engineer to be discharged for reckless driving and at the same time ordered him blackballed. The master mechanic did as ordered, but not Wishing to part entirely with such a good man he sent him down on a little branch just building in Iowa and in that obscurity he was working for two years. Finally the 'same superintendant went down to in- ‘ spect that road. While there he Some of His Experiences in Buenos Ayres and at Home. The Seattle Press says : “ Speaking about the rebellion in Buenos Ayres,” said a former officer on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, “ I know a railroad engineer who had some lively ex- Deriences in those Iparts during the last rebellion down there. He was an engineer on the government railroad running out into the interior of the Argentine Repub- lic. He was out on the further end of the line when a little unpleasantness broke out at the capital. The government ran out of powder and could not contend much longer against the insurgents without a supply of that necessary adjunct to modern warfare, so they telegraphed throughout the re- public for powder. A car-load was found near the end of the track, but longr since communication over the rails had been stopped. When a volunteer engineer was called for to make the perilous journey, Tyler, the man of whom I am speaking, said he would go. He hooked on to the car of powder and’ a car of soldiers and started for the capital at a break-neck Speed. He rushed into Buenos Ayres and the powder thus secured SAVED THE REPUBLIC FROM THE REBELS. Munroe was among the first of the ar- rivals. and shortly before the time set for the ceremony went upstairs to escort his prospective bride into the presence of the clergyman. She was not in her room, and it was not until an hour later that he learned that she had been married to Voorhees by the Rev. Dr. Wheeler, of Holmdel, N. J. The newly married cou- ple are supposed to be in New York. i - " . ‘ . :J.. s exeited over the sensational elope- merit of Miss Lizzie Bennett and George Voorshees, which occured vbsterday after- noon. The elopement of itself would probably not have created such a profound sensation were it not for the fact that Miss Bennett was engaged to Mr. Frederick Munroe. and was to have been married to him in the afternoon. Miss Bennett is a comely young maiden of nineteen summers She is of medium stature and of fair com- plexion and is the belle of the village. about a year ago she made the acquaintance of young Munroe, who lived nearby. In a short time their engagement was announc- ed. Had they been married all would probably have been well. for it was at this time Voorhees, who had previously been a silent admirer of Miss Bennett, began paying her marked attention. Munroe did not like this and it is said the rivals bad words together and even blows. At the hour fixed for the wedding yesterday afternoon the officiating,r clergyman was awaiting: the arrival of the bride and groom at the home of the bride’s parents, Asnum PARK, N. J., September 11. â€" The little hamlet of Crawaord’s Corner midway between Keport and flolzpde] N pose making any resistance. The would- be robber, who was an exceedingly fresh one. immediately placcd the firearm in his hip pocke}: wase‘bout: te‘ climb up into the 'L lflfl. C1 -_-..A_ said: “N ow, my man, it is'your turn to throw up your hands ; execute at once or you are a dead duck.” It being dark, the fool thought he was covered by a sharp- shooter. and no doubt believing discretion to be the better part of valor, he obeyed. In this strange attitude Mr Scriver drove the stranger before him for over 100 yards but the horse giving a sudden start he was driven ahead of his prisoner, who took advantage of the circumstance to make a rush for the side of the road and finally escaped. Although the villain has not been captured, the incident has cre- ated considerable alarm in the neighbor» 11(iotlâ€"JS'7nyli7‘e. ‘ Jan: 1 buggy. As quick as a. flash, Mr: Scriver whipped a. large pipe-case out of his pocket and poigfipg it at the hefnd. of his friend, AN OLD RAILWAY ENGINEER. A Bride's Elopement. DRY KILN NOW IN BULL ‘ BLAST AND DRY nouns, SASH, moumss‘sas, £ch CLeSINe MILLINERY Oil Cloths, Linoleums, House Fur- nishings, c. ment of Axminster, Wilton, Brus- sels and Tapestry Carpets, Chenille, Madras, Swiss and Lace Curtains in great variety. Cheap Cafpets , King St. East, Toronto Tweeds, Ready-made Clo 'zzg, +1” \JLL; CARPETS, EXECUTORSE SEE E Furs, and Gentleman’s Guaranteed with Prices ri BUSINESS OF ENTIRE STOCK C Consisting of First-class ~. SMYTIâ€"I SON. TO SECURE Opposite the Market. ‘ight. Ui‘ leaving the by her life: Even in he: 1,3,ny the CU 333'de an with 3. 101121 gather. 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