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85371361176666 Effie-:0: :30 mud n: mm: a. hat. Only yanked . nulnko nut! I nnlnhod our min a “Lg-“3m 090 in gnuoh “7 it]: __ _--â€" w nâ€"uve I rneh into the next roomâ€"my dressing- room in off my hondolrâ€"end heving bethed my poor eyee end heetlly hunched my heir end given myeeli e gonerel eir oi prosperity mete for the diningroom. 0n the eteirs we encounter mother. looking so pele end wen, end elmoet terrified, thet I teke my head 01! Mermednhe’e erm end ell it round her weict. It will never do for or to present Inch e woinl ocnntenenoe to the criticism of eervente. “ T to look e little more cheerful, der- ung." whie r. eagerly; " it will not be for long; en t he. to be gone through. let no he breve in the doing it." She looh et me with e relieved eetonleh- mom; and truly the Imus“: of Vwill ban me through thin {autumn-I330 “0:11;; Allan- nn an. In mnn __ .. ‘-mâ€"wv.w’ IIqu VI ignorenoe of whet the preceding convene- hon may meen: " I hope on will oxen-e mamentloningit, elr. but lit ere ie one thing at! mother thet niece Mrs. Oooh'e lrrlte eneee. and mute her perverse towerde the rest of the houeehold.it is to hear the eonp wee ellowed to grow eold." "All right/boon ; Mn. H eon’e nerves ehell not be upeet this even 3. We will go down now." eeye 'ane. with I smileâ€" . very impoverished specimen of ite kind, I must owe, but etlll e emile. “ I hope not." Then, havin noticed the quavering voice and dep air of this old cervitor. who has known him from his youth up. he add- more gently. “ You may now. I know I can truet you. I do not Sink I have any more dircotione togivo you at preeent." Tynan how in a shaky. dicpiritod way. :and leaves the room. Outside in the duck of the corridor. I can see him put his hand to his eyes. But he in staunch. and even now compete himsou to turn and say. with detox-once and with a prod-worthy show of damn-nun- A. _L_n AL - Although in ebeenoe me be mote pro- ed then think. I sh wish them III to remnin as they nowmsothetthehonse In“ be in reedinees to reoeive nset my moment. But." turning- his gaze tor the first timetnliy upon Tynan sndspeeking very sternly. “ I will hove no whispering or gossiping shout things thst don’t concern them; mind thnt. I but you in ehuge. Tynan, nnd I desire thst All such oonduot‘ he pu?nished with instmt alumina. Yon “ Yes sir ; you may besure there shell be no goe's’iping or whispering going on in this “ Portoouy. air," replies the old butler. will: his eyes on the ground. And an I “toll him, 1 know how perfectly indaod he “demands. not only whn in being and, but ulna, whn in not_ lacing gold. ’“_L- â€"_77 ‘ abroad ; en?! as Mrs. Oeififiéleiiahzvel‘t-fi will not allow her to mompeny me, end an the has been ordered change of sir, she will 30 £0 Hazelton, which she hes not seen. end unit my return there. You quite "flame“: Tylaoa ?" ._-_ -u-u-‘n svtwu nuu liked manner the: hen distinguished hie lemming speech, he goes on: " It in eno- .ether nuoerhin when we Ihnll be able to come beck to Strangemore. u the buemeee 3:13“ I speak will necessitate _my_ going - fine. a- I... I1..___-“ A money for the poor, with en ndditionel gift from Mrs. Curingion, which I willtruet you end Mrs. Benson" (the houekeeper) “ to see properly distributed.” "'13th you. air; it shall be euelnlly “tended to." “ I em quite sure of thet,” kindly. Then, with e return t9 the rugher forced nud‘ mu-) ___~ ,, - “ It may be as well to let you know that Carriagton and I are leaving home next week (or some time.” "Indeed. sir? yes. sir." Tynon’s fees is perfectly impassive. except at the extreme corners of the mouth; these being Illghtly down~drawn indicate regret and1 lame distress. “ We both feel much disappointed at being obliged to leave home at this particu- lar time. the Christmas season being so close at hand ; but the business that takes no is important. and will admit of no delay. I shall leave behind me the mml mm M v __-.. vâ€" â€"- -â€"â€"- wnvuulu DIN-’5 know everything 7 " Very good." returns Mumsduke, in hie ordinu-y voice. " Let Mrs. Vernon know." Then, on though eating on a second the hi;â€" Lyme-’7 .._' â€"â€" _J eyelids onmsou. 'Duke lows the lamp prudently. and tells beck to the heuthrug, landing wuh hns bends clasped carelessly behind him. before he says, in s sleet, dis- tinct tone : “Come in." “Dmner u: served." mnounoes Tynan. Iofuy, with the vegueet. disoreetosz of coughs. How is it that servants Alwuys inn- Aon-uoln i...- 9 Author or “Molly Burn.‘ "The Busy." “Air! )3"er Lulu." etc. etc. There is a. low apologetic knock at the door. Instantly I sent myself on we not. in a dignified an «and. u I can assume. mdexing my hair is .11 swry my my mlia- ....... nnnnu I_,, l. “ 1‘ non."" «15., m. -- 0%» skls' Emmoii‘WHi "JEEneY'T'Goi-S . . Iplendl'd’tenowa to help them pm. Where hue may gonew ? I! you no One of dam, anywhere. land he: to mo. 1 would am a moon! at rural: gold To one of moms den an 0 girl- 01 old. With an Innocent bout And on open mile. 0 tnowa not the mowing of “ flirt " or u ltvln " wno all 01 um: "be.“ " 213' 3:?" not: other ln nyllah cloth“. um. old bollu, who, .8 nlno and ten nick of p ensure nnd fired 0! men. 0! travel. at balls. of fun-- nd no new thing undo: the Inn. Ono. In the beautiful lonfnao, u Some durum» children sod to know ; Girl- who was merryi .- lunbu nt lny. And hushed And to] chad an live on: any. no, thought not at all of the " style ' 01 their clothes. The nevorimn ined the boys were "begnx ”â€" “0 Let: clxls' roman" nnd “mules worn um. old hum!!! mu. old And vie w‘ Itylo." .efiEâ€"liéhind mejha nun] sum or ..__ u -u mun UL MU HUI-ya In hwo thuy gone toâ€"Oho little um. “.mumsara'm‘fimrkm" ’ . on o nu: a mm. mm. m. may? PHYLLIS. WInCMâ€"A um. um. B! I'll moms. " Whet will you please to order (or dim ner to-dey. mum ?" eeke coal: from the doorway. I hove never yet given direo~ “one for the. meel. much to am worthy creature's deer", whose hm. end the umln "stew-pone. I intone up with leugnld enrpriu. " ythlng poo pleue.” I My; "you ere elweye very Ion-footer}. I told you I 'Bm, Britainâ€"evening dawn on. this hint- ». glimmer of nncwod hope dies, and I stat back once more into my accustomed n“â€" I nio on, leaving him. bowing nnd unp ng nnd much gntinod. in the middle of the path, with the unwanted smile Itill npgn my lips. fi-_ _ -_---..â€". .u an: wuu. "1 am eorry 1 have nothing better wort ofl‘erlng you than these 'ere.” He tenders me the bouquet as he 3 eatsâ€"a very mar- velofahonqnet. oonei erlng the time of ym. “ Thank you.” I eay, with a graeione emlle, horn of my inlet and pleasant pro- menade; "itle lovely. It is far rettler in my eyee than the summer one, oauee eo.nnexpeetod."_ he py medley V 7' _ ..-. -.... pm..." Eire welke. though scrn ulouely neat, ere ungrevelled. and here on there 3 deed leef. crisp end dry. displays itself. The very trees, though berelt of lesvee. do not eppaer eo foolish, so melancholy, in this free lend of theirs. As they always look elsewhere. Ifeel some enimetion creeping in my blood; my step is more springy. At the gerden gate the tether of all this sweet. nose steps up to me. He is e rosy-cheated. good-humored-looking men. a brilliant oontrsst to the nneplproeehehle Oummins ' he presents me wit a smell bouquet of winter flowers. ‘ " I em proud tosee you me'am." he esys. with e touch of interest in his tone. " I y And very delicious old gardens they ere. u old-Inhioned u the house. and quite as picturesque. There in a. tote! went 0! method. of preeieion, in theynngement of them. the instinctively eherme :he eyes. I wonder from oroherd into flower-Men end from flower- union. on again to‘ oreherd. withoute reel: of eny sort; no fines divide them; it is all one pretty, Anna mu“... 00 e to eddreae Bis-1‘" _..__.-...., "“3 “ Tge gerdene here. me’am. are so pretty. the prettiest lor milee round. " “ Are they? I must go and see them." " ’Deed, m'm, end it would do you good. A smart well: now onoe in a way is better‘n medicine, 30 I'm told. And the ounde round here in rare and pretty to col: et.‘ though to be sure winter hes a dupintin' effect on everything." " It in cold.” I any. with e shiver. “ It ie. m'm, eurely"â€"-leeving the mighty edifice the is erecting on the top of my heed “ Very well ; do," reply I with e sigh of etion. Much pleased with her enoeeen. the dam- eel retreats. end punctunlly to the moment, on I riee from my hroelxleet table. eppeure _-â€"_ , _'-- v-wu fella unheeded on my lap, while I let memory wander heckwsrd. and ask myself, udly, if such 3 being ever resll lived as wild, merry, careless Phyllis Ver on. The days go by, end I feel no wish for outdoor exercise. My color slowly Mes. One morning. the women who has taken Martha's piece, and who finds much apps- rent delight in the binding end twistin of my heir bio impossible fashions, t es Mn“..- .- ASS“, , I find some hull-finished work nmong my things, and taking it to my favorite room. bend over it hour by hogr; more often It 0-“- __L , , l - i All the visitors that should call do call; it is not a populous neighborhood. but as I decline seeing them, and do not return their visits, the would-be acquaintance drops. On Monday the vicar. a slight. intellectual-looking man, rides up to the‘ door, and. being refused admittance. leaves his card, and expresses his intention of coming again some day soon. Which mes- sage, being conveyed to me by the respect- able person who rei s here as butler, raises my ire, and in uces me to give an order on the spot that never, on any pre- tence whatever. is any oneâ€"vicar or no vicarâ€"to be admitted to my presence. Sunday comes, but I feel no inclination to clothe myself and go forth to confess my sins and pour out my griefs in the house of ’ prayer. All days are alike to me, and I shrink witha morbid horror from present- ing myself to the eyes of my fellows. In this quiet retreat I can bury myself, and nurse my wrongs, and brood over my 1 troubles without interference from a cruel J dull, wonderfifiz habion. â€"Wlâ€"1;'oan she; not be an indifferent to me as I amto them? ‘ The few «neat: who hue had the house in charge hue been reteined. end three more hue been added. These hue evidently mode up their mind: to receive me with open arms; but on 3 week pueee. Ind I ehow no signs of interest in them. or their work. or the gerdene. or enything con- nected with my life, they no eleuly pnz- ‘ filed and d‘ieeppointed: '1‘th notice in el __--.. V __.v. ‘1' View. In renmy it is only nmflo and. half distant from the house. no thn nt night when the wind in high. the sullen roar of it comes to the listening our. n â€"â€" "an... wvcvu Alu- 03 one can catch 3 glimpse of the sen. From the parlor windows it is plainly visible; in the othor room: a. rising hill, and in Inmmer the tollnganteroppt {he “3;... I- ___Lu_ 1; 9 , . 7 5' out, some richly. homily oupotod ; it in u picturesque old plus, shot .1; any other time. no under my other olroumatonou. would huge filled me will: odmintion. Haulion in I very pretty. old-{uhioned house. nbonb hull the size 0! Stun omore â€"with many snuggling rooms we] wdn~ sootod almost three puts up each wull. Some 0! mo floou no of gleaming pomp“! n-I- -n..- -x-|_|_ L,, n an! unruly burs no: mflmogoly mane". It is our. and he in gone, and I hIVO alien infio . um“ Into 0! Ipathy Ind indiflounoo to what in 30mg on mund me. an} angel; but: some resemblance to I panned! Bow [:an word by word the ‘nnd but bopolou clinging. lho llnnuln touch of lands um never more shoal join. the dupuir. we puuon. of the flntl 0mm? loll ovormud he is gone. 3nd Ihnvo ltllen into . unlod “do of spam! Ind lnAi“.----- A- _I_-L 1; , _â€"v_ vâ€"‘-' now all} I writ. at n. how dumb. w. Anguish or those for minuta. in which 3 whole you’- koonglq tong“, wu oom- {2:03. but. find took a "w o! mhrolhu. long. " For the world. 1 count it not on inn. but an hoepitsl; and e plsoe not to live, but to die in.” At lest I swske to the feet thst ‘1 sm illâ€"dresdlnlly ill. There can be no donbtoflt; end yet my melody hes no neme. I hnve loet ell sppetlte: my strength has deserted me; great hollows luvs grown in my cheeks. above which my eyes glenm lugs end feverish. When I su‘ down I feel no deslseuto use ”sin.” IVA-M ,1 . LL _ 5 lat mistskeâ€"n blot; there is no proper plsoe ‘tor ms in the universe thnt seems so greet. There is no heppines within me. no spring of hope. I appear to myself a. thing apart â€"innooent. yet naked with n dingrloelnl brand. With an old writerâ€"whom I now forgetâ€"I eon truly any: Monotouous as is my existence. I hardly know how time flies. March winds rush _ by me, and I scarcely heed them. But for ; the hurtful racking cough they leeve me es e legscy. ere taking their duel de arture, I would not beve known they ad been among us. This cough grows and increeses steadily, rendering more pelid my elready colorless cheeks, while the little flesh thet still cleavesto my bones becomes less and less es the hours so on. It tears my slight frame with a cruel force, and leaves me sleepless when all the rest of the world is wrepped in slumber. 0b. the weary days; the more then weary nights. when oblivion never comes to drown my thoughts, or. coming. only wraps me in dreems trcm which I wake. demply cold. or sobbing with a horror (00 deep for words i There ere times when I fight with Fete, ‘ with all that hes brought me to this pess; when I cry aloud and wring my bends and cell on death to rescue me.in the privecy o! my own room, irom the misery thet weighs me down and keeps me languishing in the dust. But these times ere rare. and come From Dore. on her return from Rome. cornea such a. kindly, tender letter as I had not believed it pomble the chilly Dore could pen. It is wound up by u poetaeript from Sir George. M worm-hearted in tone ee he in himself.. It touehee me, in e. fur- ofl', curious manner; but I ehrink from the invitetiou to join them thut it oonteiue, and refuse it in such a wey us must prevent a repetition of it. 1 "J. will: , " Lâ€"UIW II." “ Dear me, mum 1 now do you ? Most of the quelity loves it. Then what would you r." ? I'm a first~olsss hand in the pastry mo“)! . " Mske meâ€"n meringue." I murmur, in ‘ despair. seeing I shall have to give in, or else so through a list from the cookery book, and tortunetely remembering how I once heard a. clever housekeeper say there were few sweets so difiioult to bring to per- leotion. But the difficulty, it there is any, only enchants my goddess of the range. “ Very good. mum; you shell 'eve it." she seys, repturously; end retires with flying colors, having besten me ignomi- nionsly. A monthâ€"two monthsâ€"go by, And still my self-imposed seclusion is unbroken. Now and egein I receive a letter from former triends. but these I discourage. From mother I hear regulnrly once u week. ‘ whether I nuswer her or not. Poor mother! 1 She has begged end prsyed for permission 1 to visit me, to see how time is using me, whether I em well or ill; but ell to no sveil. I will not be drugged out of the gloomy solitude in which I have ohosen to buy myself. out m... nusu ayes. um sugnuy wheeny intone- tion. as though she were constnntly trying to swellow some of her own good things that had inedvertently stuck in her thmt. It seems to me thet I ought tolove this comfortable creature. who in so obetinntely bent on flattering me egeinst my will. “ But whetever to he mey any. n plum pud- ding for n delicate Indy like you is oncom- mon ’eevy on the ’ert cud mind when bed-w hour comes. I! you would just sey nny- ‘ thing thet would pieces youâ€"something light thet I might try my hand onâ€"nn ice- pudding, now i"-â€"-this with as near an attempt et coaxing as respect will permit. But the word “ ice-pudding" calls up old memories; I remember my ancient week. nose for that particular confection. My brows contreet; n ehnrp pein fills my brent. “No. no! enything but ice-pudding." I tey._hntlly; " Iâ€"hnte it.” " 1n course, mum." “ya cook. undumted. She u t fine, tut. healthydooking womun. win: lug: eyeg, 351d alighfly whoeay intouu- til... _..- -n ,V.., â€"â€" vuâ€" now I“ of. you will for oortnin 1 seven." “I thought a Chriumu varied. cook. You an In ordei v.-_.â€" --â€"-v 'V' “I“. W on. youflmhdty "111M001”? would luv. ovuythlng to 39:. Why do wonnk unfit-‘11-- Innâ€"A gains mutory ox or life in a. nd oneâ€"u ’ ‘5 “Draper plmo AL_L __ DI no lunonoonm :geu oortnin It." by riltmu dinner never on: hue the usuul an more; " or count In bud not. He had hard of hot an“: nan baton ho ha! v- “U'" u " I think I regret nothing but my youth." return I. weerily. “ Bed you never et eny time, eny idee of tan truth 7" eeke he, in e low tone. pre- een y. " Never. How should I 7 He kept it from me. ieermg it would oeuee me pein." “ He deceived you groniy.” "Yea but, ee he thought. for my good. Where wee the use of enlightening me? The etory wee told ; the women wee deed â€"-oreohe believed. He ohoee to hide it from me." " Yes. he hid it irom you." "Well, whet of thet 7" I cry impe- tiently ; " it wee e mieteke, I think. but e kind]? one. Henwee eiweyhe thinking of In ten. wee r e e woree ehgekfipgm then it mp0“ ml: He bed no ieinteet tho t of her being elive until ehe etood before im." He in eilent. Something. in hie menner, in the very wey he heepe h e on bent reeo- . intely upon the ground. ehi me. Upon hie ieee e ourione y determined expreeeion ‘ hee thered end grown. " o teinteet thought."lrepeet,eherply. I wetehing him now In keenly ee he wetoned I me More; “of oour_ee he h_ed_ not. Re I In: L---.e -1 euâ€" e " Abrond somewhere: we none of no know whore. You think of him inocu- untly ?" still with his eyes latching Ind finding my loos ; "it is to: him the color huleu your cheeks. the light hon died from your eyes? In it the old life. or in it merely him you my“ ?" II I lhnnb T nn-AA_-AL!_ A n . _- .fl _ ,, av- _-â€"_ -â€"-u- III-u, Infill! turning i0 geze suspiciously in my feoe. “No; why ehouldI? We period for- ever when he brought me here. Oh,” with A sudden, eh uplifting of my voice â€"“how long ago i seem! whetyeu-e. end yous. and you-e! Tell me youâ€" where is he 7" “ Noneenee." impetiently. " Why hove your people 10“ you no much done? It in shameful. unheerd oil Phyllis. promiee me go will see u doctor if I eend one." " ho shell minister to e mindgdia- cued ?" eeye I, still smiling. "No, I'mll not see your doctor. My ailment hue no neme; I do not under; quiet is my best medicine." We welt on e little my in eilenee. “ You do not ask else:- your friends." eeys he. ebru Ily. " Hove I a ll any loll ? Well, tell me. I should like to knowâ€"how in Mermeduke ? end when ?” " Do you not been from him,_then ?" Ln-na_.. A- n.“ __,, "Monmmw'i‘hmue a um. um poring: soâ€"whon I m. spin to and an ulna." " Whet ebomineble morbid feneyl It is horrible! exoleime Sir ,Kuk. excitedly. “ You must see u doctor without deley; it you were well no zueh mournfnl ideee would occur to you." " Mourniullj’ I _emile a little. " Yea. w " So you think now ; but as time goes on you mustâ€"yon cannot fail to tins of it. Is it natural to one so young to look hetselt voluntarily away from people of her own ago? Why. how old are you. child ?" “ Almost nineteen." " Almost nineteen 1” cries he. with an unmirthfui laugh, "and you may live for fifty years! Are you going to immure yoursel! within these same four walls for fifty years." “ I shall not live for fifty years." " But you may; without excitement of any demiption. I see no reason why you should not live to: a century.” " I shall not live for twoyeare," returned I. im reesively. “ yllis. what are you saying?" cries ‘he, with a shudder. “ The truth. I am dyiu slowly, and I know it. I am glad of it. I ave no energy. no hope. no wish for life. Do you wonder "I shell neven iii» the world.” return I, quietly. " Here is my convent ; at least within its well: I find peace. I see no one. therefore hen no evil telk. I hove no wish to be disturbed." “ I tell you i; in killing yon." he repeats, angrily. “ Better to hoe _md endure the world’s tnlk at once. thnn linger here until holly- ancinaonl plgt.” â€"v-â€" uwma ‘u' now u indwerenoe. Considering how unlooked-lor in your presence here. it utoniehee even myself the: I can call up so um. surprise. Curious. in it not ? You look thin, I think. and olderâ€"not so well as when last we met." Be grown a ahnde paler. “Do I?" Then, drawing 3 hard, quiok‘ brenthâ€""And you, child. whn hIVO you been doing with yourself ‘2 Except for your eyes, it is hudly you I see. So whim. so worn. so ohnnged; this plnoe in killing you. ’ “ It in a very quiet plnoe. It suits me better {lien nnyptlieroould." ,,fi~_ -vâ€"vv â€"- .â€"- -‘m [omen A. (u u I am concerned. “In. dies; I forgo. thou won month .3 Hualton. l thinkolour put as a Strange- moro. Bu eyes as rowing. cumming with undingulud min. the abuses in my hoe and form. At long“: he speaks. “ I badly thought to meet you here. Mu. Outington." he shy-L lav-aging I'll-iv .n‘ -‘J----l_‘ _._ yoltotdn . Why do 1 tool no our rho, no emotion In tho mind indood w thin mo dud? lnm more punlod by my own «lmnou nt this moment thnn ovon by on event to nnoxpootod a In: pro-once hon. Wo both stud still And at» qt «on nth-.. Aâ€" -~â€"â€" 7 Yea,- The nimble ahlllon, "Gloria." the property of Kr. Helium. Benin. died recently of Influnnntlon o! the bowota. The mind was nluod 3t Ibout ”.800. There was no inmrmoo on the bone. And the loss will be u lotion- one to tho owner. Th0 00mm physician In" to stud in u: ordlnuy cone? tor the yous. t on Ittond n modiul to ool six yam, Mid and: up with two yous In the hotpltulâ€"thirtoon nun In an. 8." I. Be a Politician. Ariana: Traveller : A little boy Ind ‘ girl phying in the yud. The girl and: n apple under 3 tree, und will in oxolnml- tion of delight. begins to bite it. "Hold on I" and the boy. “ Throw it may. The oolwy is oomin'. an' it you on thut . pie you will be too sick m'you our" k. m’ the doctor will come an’ give you some bad machine m’ then you will die." The girl throws the apple downmnd the boy. mulching it up. begins to on it. "Don’t I" the gill anon. "Won’t il kill you. too ?" " No." lays the boy. munching the fruit. " It won't kill boys. I": only alter limo girla. Boys don'l in“ oolwy." A ML-A _.___ __.__ ‘- '5 Oh. ii msku'fiBâ€"afie'ronoo to me," te- plied the ’equllo. “for. you see. its your- dmghkr, intend ot mino."â€"Arkamaa . Traveller. “ Whet’e the metter, 'equil'e ?" " I don’t know what this oountty’e comin’ to. Whet would you think if your denghter ehould run ewey end men-y en ignorent hired men 7" " Oh. I don't know, squire. but I would not teke it to heat, it I were you. L an]? try to think thet it heppened tor the t.’ " Would you forgive the girl 2" naked the 'equlre. " Yea. I believe I would. There'e no nee in holding out. you know. When did it > up ?n " net e while ego." " Who performed the oetemony ?" “ I did.” " Whet I Then you could not heve been ~ oppo:_ed_to the men-leg." Camus. the 'squln" ’Sqnite Panel-non. waning In Ii! of deep concern, appmohnd his friend. Farmer Glover, und. without spotting, lanai; on_th9 fence audpighed. hie wile ought to heehke in most every- thing. It in neid thet folks like their opposite. their counterparts, end so they do. in eomemreizgeote. $1 :3“ With blue ey ty ni ‘ treated overe wotenfith hazel eyes. I did. end I'm dietreoted yet whenever I look into them. But in Mantel quelitiee and emotionel quelitiee, end testes and hebite end princi- ples endthe like they ought to close to» ther. Indeed. it is better for themto eve the seine-{polities end the eeme religion. Andeo eve oteerved thet the happiest unions, ea e gonerel thing.ere thoae where the high oOntreoting pertiee heve known eeoh other for e long time. end heve eeeimileted tram their youth in. thought end feelingâ€"Atlantic Constantia». I set in my pism ruminstiug over the scene and I wondered that there were es msny heppy mstings ss there sum to he. Partners for life ought to he eougsuisl end hemouious in so mnny things. When men mete e psrtnership in business they can't get slang well if they are unlike in disposi~ tion or in more! principle or in business hsbite. They can dissolve sud seperste st gleeeufie and t_ry unetheglnen. A men end I an: motionless. speechless, from rage and manner“. .. _-_-â€"u â€"_- -v- _ uvâ€"vu' :v. year, even for severe! yam, I would any noihing; bus until this women. this Cer- ‘lotte, dies, you on never be his wife. Remember thet. And who ever knew my one to die quickly whose deeih wee longed for ? Look at ennuitente. for instance; they live for ever ; therefore this inoletion otjoura will know u) end." __' -â€"- uâ€"v uv v. II uuvw IIIU W “III”.- .. Huniedly drewing afipin from some secret {01:10: my dree9,I press ildeep imo my um. no deep the: pxeeently I he] a worm eleg- hitterly. “ Hove you come ell we wuy ‘ down here to tell me what I know so well alreedy ?” “ Yes. end for something mom; to oak you :0 be my wife. Huehl let me epeeh. I know we answer you would mehe me. but I do not think you hove fully weighed everything. Were you to endure this lite you no no! lending but for n xenon. for o “ Oowu-d l” murmur I bitterly. taking my hende from hie um, and turning nwey. The exoilement of the peat few minutes he: been eexrlhle to my weekened frame; I feel e vogue diuineee,e ooldneee creeping over me. I em A good hell-mile from home; should I hint. there will be nothing for it but for Sir Merl: to «try me there. end to hove the. men's erma round me for no long 3 time ie more then I oouldendnre. Th: here 9:093!)th “nerve me to union. “No; I don’t believe he did know." be unaware, doggedly. “ You no sure of thu?" I ask. feverishly. “ I would givo my on]: o! it." he replies, wimjnormod anllonnaas. For n moment I. heeieetee-e long mo. maneâ€"end then the right triumphs. Tho I: in hie own mind he is firmly eon- vin the! oen he hm endne my mind wilh this donhfi o! Mumeduhe'e integrity, ii will enbetsntielly eid his own oenee. null. being 3 gentleman born end bred. he finds l diflonlty in hrin in his lips lo unex- the miner-hie 1.1..th " Why don't you epeek.” cried I. fiercely; “ whet do you meen by etendlng there silent. with thet hetelul expreoelon u your leoe 7 Do you moon to in-lnuete et there wee edouht In his mind 1 Look et me, end enewer truly. Do you believe Mel-me. duke knew thet women to be living when he mended me 7" I em hell med with euepenIe end leer. Piecing both my hende upon hie um. I put forth ell my puny strength. end eotuully compel him. strong men en he is, to meet mlgue. mun-1106. Bu! you «not thinklhu; It In lingo-01M: you on think it . mentor. uguol' an In In snoutâ€"ominoml to. unit mutant. m.» a mu dovnouur the evil dohrminzuon in his has in than or; him «no it digging deep furrow: in ’ho‘mfiy _l_oun. , __ on: In» an. Had he "on donbud on the gubjootnhl! tyqohuy would hug boon I!" an .- Lllo rut-en. (To be continued.)