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WHITBY, © G DAWES, Proprictor. - The chimes, the chimes of Motherland, Of England; green and old, ; That out from fane and ivied tower THE RAILROAD HO HE RA SE! | POR Be | N.SINCLAIR, PROPRIETOR, re-furnished the above establishment, most comfortable home. } the service of our customers. with Liquors of the choicest hrands. : N. SINCLAIR. Port Perry, August's, 1866. 1-tf. House of all Nations. PORT PERRY, guns, and tackle. 22 x 80 feet, called Port Perry Hall, nnd certs, or Shows. a The Bar is well supplied with choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Good 'Stabting and Alfentive Ostlers. Port Perry, August. 8, 1866. THE ROBSON HOUSE | (LATE sORIPTURE'S HOTEL,) DUNDAS STREET WHITBY, C. W. GEORGE ROBSON - - » Proprietor. pu subscriber begs to announce that he has leased the building formerly years, und that he has now renovated and re-furnished the building throughout. ~The premises are pleasantly situated, opposite the Post Office; and in the coutre of the Town. i i The Railway Omnibus calls at the Hotel, and the Stages for Uxbridge and Beaverton leave the door every morning. IZ Careful ostlers always in attendance. A GEO. ROBSON. August 10, 1866. : 1-tf. DR. JONES, ASSOCIATE CORONER FOE THE COUNBY OF ONTARIO, Prince ALperr. N. McCLINTON, ii. D; Physician, Surgeon & Accouchetr. Office & Residence--Sonyn, Brock. | 1 EMPERANGE EXCHANGE AND EATING HOUSE! MANCHESTER. Good Accommodations for Travellers. Mears at all hours of the day. Good Stabling and attentive Ostlers. : JAMES PARKIN, Proprietor. Manchester, Oct. 3rd; 866. 81 = a - » Bricks & Drain Tiles pee subscriber wishes to acquaint the Publi¢: with the fact that he bas now on hand a large quantity of Bricks and Drain Tiles, at his Yard, in Port Pemry, And is prepared to increase his operations to meet the increasing demand, The subscriber is ulso prepared to take Contracts for the furnishing and laying up of Bricks in Houses, &e. JAMES GOOD: Port Perry, Aug. 17, 1866, 3m NOT OFF THE TRACK! BUT RUNNING AT THE RATE OF $2 a-doz. for Photographs, 9c. Fach for Lettergraphs ! "~ALSO--- WATCHES and. CL OCKS, . io Sn olny i Jewelry and Accordeons IF" Repaired at Baompss anid v : # amid woinduA. OLARK'S 0! Photograph Car, Broek St., Uxbridge, Uxbridge, Oct. 20,1866, + 14-tf . ? pi Port Perry, Oct.1Y, 1866. travelling public will find it.to bea Good Stabling, . attentive Ostlors and | best of dation' are always at Parties wishing 0 enjoy u day or two of Fishing or hunting-on Lake Scugog'can alwayd be accommodated with good boats LC. W, JOHN KIRSTEN ~~ - PROPRIETOR: Fishing or shooting parties for Lake Scugog will find at' this house good boats, A new and commodious Hall has lately been built in connection with this House, is open for Political Meetings, Balls, Cou- known as Seripture's Hotel, for a term of Dye Oils, wit At d years have-tolied; How. gloriqus must their music Ld As breaks the hallowed day, . Oi And calleth with « seraph's voice ' "A nation up to pray! : kui Those chimes that tell i thonsand tales, * Sweet, tales of plden times!! | oii And ring a thousand memories At vesper, and at prime'; At bridal and at burial, For cottager and king-- : Those" chiimes--those glorious christian 4 aul chimes, } ¥3~ The, Bar Ja kept: constantly supplied |, How blgssedly they ring! | he $ . Those chimes, those chimes of Motherland, Upon a Christmas morn, - Outbreaking, as the angels did, For a Redeemer born ; How merrily they call afar, To cot and baron's hall, With holly decked and mistletoe, To keep the festival! I love ye, chimes of Motherland, - |... With all this soul of mine, And bless the Lord that Tam sprung Of good old England line! And, like a son, Ising the lay That England's glory tells; For she is lovely. to the Lord, For you, ye christian bells! And heir of her ancestral fame, And happy in my birth, Thee too I love, my forest land, The joy of all the earth ; For thine thy mother's voice shall be, ~Aud here--where God is King -- 1-tf | With England chimes, from Christian spires, The wilderness shall ring. SELB To Lady Audley's Secret ! CHAPTER XXVIL BEGINNING AT THE OTHER END, Robert Audley nad requested Clara | Talboys to telegraph an answer to lis question, in order to avoid the loss of a day in the "accomplishment of the investigation he had promised to perform, The telegraphic answer reached Fig-trec-court before twelve o'clock the next day. The name of the seaport town was Wildernsea, Yorkshire. Within an hour of the receipt of this message Mr. Audley arrived at the King's cross station, and took his ticket for Wildernsea by an ex- press train that started at's quarter before two, Mr. Audley was the only passen: ger who alighted at the dismal sta- tion. a 'I wonder whether settlers in the back-waods of America feel us soli- fary and strange as I feel tonight? he thought, as he stared hopelessly about Lim in the darkress. y Ie called to one 'of 'the officials, and pointed to his portmanten, - * Will you carry that to the nearest hotel for me? he asked--* that is to say, il I can get a good bed there. The man laughed as he shouldered the nortmanteu, 'You could get thirty beds, T daresay, sir, if you 'wanted %¢m,' lo said. * We aiut over busy at Wil- dernsea at this time 0 yvar. Tins way, sir.' said the porter... 'You would' believe the crowds "of company we have down here in the summer,' Mp Audley seated himself close to the wide steed fender, and gtretehed his cramped legs upowr the hearth- poker into the vast pile of coal, and sent a raddy blaze roaring upward through the chimney, r 'If you would prefer a private room, sir-=--7 the man began. ' No, thank you,' said Robert, in- differently'; "this room seems quite private cnough' just now. If you will order me a mutton chop aud a pint of sherry, I shall be obliged. Certainly, sir. And T shall bs still move (lige if you will favor me with a few min- utes' conversation heford you do isos * With very greah pleasure, sir, the land rd answered, good na ur, edly, "We scé so vory littlé com: pany 'at this season of the year, that we dra only to6 glad to oblige' those 'This is the Victoria Hatel, wir! | rug, while the laudlord drove the | lord, witha pompous e the air of splomnity and ervagded this bu : inforfation which T can afford | is likely 'to be of 'altimat value 'Yow, thank'you? Robe inter uptiogs the flow of Lave lived bere PR ir? ail in 7" | "Since the year fifty 1 ' 8in | twos sic Luwa arf busitibs we Lentered ji. that time, called Muldon # ' Captain Maldon, sir 2 © * Yes, commonly called; Maldon. 1 see. you do him. : ~.* Yes, sir, 'Cay newmbey very room, though the damp ab that time, and Wo weren't able to paper the place for nearly twelvemonth afterwarlls. Bis duugh ter married a young officer tliat hete with his regimout, 4b Christ mus time in fifty-two, married here, sir, and'they travelled Lon the Continent fot six ni apd came. back "lLiére 'again, gentleman ran away to and left the Indy, a 'wee after the baby was born ness made quite a sensati derusen, sir, and Mrs 22 Vp gel the namd---=; 3 . Talboys,? suggested Robert, 'To Le sure, sir, ; Mrs. Ti Mrs. Talboys wus' very mu by the Wilderusea folks, going to say, for she was ve and had such nice win that she was u fuvourite w body who knew her) "Can yon tell me. Low Maldon and bis daughter at Wildernsea after Mr. left them 2 Robert asked, 4 * Well--no, sir,' answered lord, uftera fow moments: tion. " Fi + Fean't say exactly 'fow was, I know Mr. Maldon ased to sit Lieve in this very parloar, and tell people how badly Lis daughter bad been treated, and how he'd been deceived Ly a ydung wan he'd put so much confidence in; but I can't say 'how long it was before he left Wil- dernsea. Bat Mrs. Barkanb could tell you sir) added the landlord, briskly. * Mrs. Barkamb,? ) ' Yes, Mrs. Barkamb is the person who cwns No. 11, North Cottages, the Louse in which: Me. Maldon "and his daughter lived. 8. a vice, civil-spoken,. motherly woman, 'sir, und I'm sure she'll tell you unything you may want to know, 4 ' Thank you, T will call upon Mys; Barkamb to morrow, Stuy--one more question. Should you recog- nize Mrs. Talboys if you were to see her?! * Certainly sir. Assure as I should recognize ond of my own daughters.' Robert Audley wrote: Mrs. Bark. amb's address in his pucket-book, ate his solitary dinner, drank a couple of glasses 'of sherry, smoked a Cigar, and then retired to the apartment in which a fire hud been lighted for Lis comfort, : Robert. did npt awakes until. the broad winter sunlight shone upon the window-blind, "and the shrill voice of the chambermaid at his @oor announced that 'ft cight o'clock. © At a quarter before ten he had left the Victoria Hotel, and was making his way along thy lonely platform in front of a row of Lustialia, I two 2 Linsi= Wil Ii % e land- libera- 'It is such a place as this; he thought, "that works'a strong'man's ruin, He comes here, dheart' whold jand happy, with no better experienge of a woman than is to be learnt at a flower-Show or in a all-rooms, with ho moro fanilidr knowledge of thie creature then he hus of the fur-away satdlities. of: the | remoter' planbts; with a vague. notion . that sho is a whitling tectotam in pink gr blue gauge, ora" graceful automaton for 'the display of milliners' manufac: ture) Fens t mr AEH ' Ruminating in this" wise; Robert Audldy reached the house to 'which "ha which he gold in, | primar beat the. hetghbottoot For Dintetrapted . Robert, ba lind, hoon dirgoted a8 the. resi) elderly servant, who ushered ith a feeble iptotest; against ; the Jnatlonds volubility, 'I waut to, fe tions abo, ! ¢ "ho Ry te ud smiled, his readi if required by Mr. Audle "How many ypars_have you 'here? Robert asked, ta I orandui-book from g "Will it annoy you it Imake notes of your replics to my questions?' elderly-looking as , herself, = Mrs, 'bright' handful of fire in the grate... : 1 dann here ober the grey. does mend] I should apou my -rosafy, 'and 'repent and aes8b 1 iarisnia » ihe $ rd Ral He scated himself in thé arm- Hom afi hi wrmured, | rds. You [fo take one--be quiet, "Novedbet in thf year fifty- ay Hukr Prop to, thal Ligh®:, Lis, fonse 'was | only comiplefed in the Octaber beforg pose of hig visit, ¥ 5 Annee d CREM dab at * Do you remember a lieutenant in the navy, 'on lidlfpiy believe at Ci ptain tain" Maldon was | 1 one -df-"otr' Lest 'customers. I¢ used to spend Lis evenings in this lls were {, They were | shadowless houses that faced the sea: | [ ¢e of Mrs. Barkamb. ] as | admitted Mfr by a prim, | Hi into. a. sitting-oom. as. pum. and |/ Markamb, a comfortable matron of Ry Somfurtable, matron or, bout of Sitti g narnichait Defore df ining} fis 1H BKY. X hike t Tv hore wad toll the Dade | Lh# Jo my life. ie ground. p to bark 'at and 1 objection to this Liat. You were wishing, the cottages,' surest, amb, whose wind ra groove, and whose | last twenty Years ha we vying rpond hoe letting. 1 tiow,' he ssid, in' donelusion, formation some moments, 'Tean give yoo the date of Gap- tain Maldow's "departure, she said, "lor he lefi No, 17 considerably in and white; but with Lalboys---- 1 Mrs. Barkamb paused for a few moments before resuming, 'You are aware that Mrs, Talboys regan Jo AM ut' the Tht rather abruptly 2 she asked. 1 Iwas not aware of that fact. tIadeed I Yes, sho heft abruptly, poor little woman! She tried to support herself after hee husband's esertion by giving music lessons, she was a very brilliant pianist, and succeeded v well, T believe. «But ] Suppose her futher took Jer money 'from her and spent it in public honses, However that may be, they bad a very serious misunderstanding one night; and the next morning Mrs, Tulboys left Wildernsea, leaving ber ligtle boy, who was out at nurse in the neigourtivod.! 'Bat you cannot tell me the date of her leaving. 'Pm afr id not," answered Mrs. ind yet, stay. Captain to me upon the day . J poor old gentleman, and he, dlw troubles. II could find that letter, it might be dated, mightu'y it, now 2 bable the letter was dated. Mrs, Barkamb retived to a table in the window tn which stood an old fashivued wahogany desk, lined with green baize, aud suffering from a plethora of documents, which vozed oul of it in every direction: Letters, receipts, bills, inventories, and tax-papers were mingled in hopeless confusion; and amongst these Mes. Burkantb set to work to search for Captain Maldon's letter. Mr. Audley waited very patiently, watching the grey clouds sailing across the grey sky, the grey vessels 'gliding past upon the grey sea. After about ten minutes' search and a great deal of rustling, crack: ling; folding and unfolding of the papers, Mis, Barkamb uttered an ex "clamation of triumph. * Ive got the letter,' she said; 'and there's a note inside it from Mrs, Talboys.' Robert Audley's pale face flushed a vivid eritnson us he stretched out his haud to receive the papers, ' The peisoit who stole Helen Mal- 'dows loye. letters from George's trunk in my chambers might have halfpast! spared | themselves the trouble,' he thought, The lettor from the old lieutenant was not long, Ut almostevery other wold was underscored. My geiicrous friend, the write bégan--Mr; Maldon had "tried the [Tady's gonerosivy. pretty severely Jduring his residence in ber; Louse, skarely paying his rent until threat- ened with the intruding presence" of the broker's man--'I am in' the depths of despair. + My: daughter has eft meh. You may imagine' my feel ings] We bad a fiw words inst night fupon the subject of money maiters, which subject has always heen a disagreeable one' between us," and "on sing this morning 1 found 'hat: I !'"|'wag deserted! Whe enclobed. from Helen was waiting for me on the 'parlour table, 'Yours in * North, Cottages, 5 i » 0 iim 16th, 1854 'still m 8: ote from Mrs." Talboys "was ore brief.) It began: ubrupsly AT oft waitlicaas Foon weary of my life here, and can, to find a new one. 1 the world, disseyered vy link Shichi' binds me to 'the hateful past; to: seck another. bhome and another fortune. For noe if Lhaye been fretful, capriciou you know whyT have been' so. "know he secret which is the key ' Hiren Tavnpovs. | puppoxe, siny (What was, (6) meanin ash--one of [two Tast t: + Teo st sentences. ) none narrow ile during the been an un, Robert Andley explained the pur. ' T.eomw to ask one simple' ques- 'I wish to! disebvidr thie ckuet date of Mrs, Tulboys! departure from Wildernsea. 'The proprietor of the Vietoria totel informed me that you were the wost likely person to afford me that | my debtf and I have the whole busi- ime'| ness' in'Uli came to me in his you know-- Mr. Audloy said it was. oily pro- 378 invitation, aud placed his oo that Robert Audley Kab only 100 The clderly 'ter- | well. 2 Lom : ded from | his migtross's. therwise take + 'He sat for. a Tong time bonusii silently over the, lettey, written' by A Helen Talboys. Ta been so. © You know tf is the key to my [ifél He wearied his Yrain Hy endpayor- fing to find a clue to the signification of those" two sentences. , The date of Helen's departure, according to Mr. Maldon's letter, was the 16th of August, 1854, Miss Tonks ha, declared that Lucy Graham .entered the school at Crescent Villas the 17th or 18th of" August link in the chain of citcumsthntial evidence, perhaps; but it was a'liik i Mss Buriat doliberated for Fwevertheloss, and it fitted neatly into its place. 'Did Mr. Maldon hear 'from bis danghter after she had lefy Wildern. sca? Robert asked, 8 * Well, I believe hie did hear from lier Mrs. Burkamb answered; ' but 1 didw't sce. much of the old gentle man after that Angust, We parted very good friends, in spite of my sending in the brokers; and the old gentleman went to London with 'the child, who was scarcely "a twelve- mgath old.? Mts. Barkamb had nothing more to tell, and Robert had no further ques: tions to ask. Ie requested permission to retain the two letters written by the lieutenant and bis daughter, and left the house with' them in his pocket-book. Ie walked straight back to the hotel, where he called for a time table. An express foc London left Wildernsea at a quarter-past one. Robert sent Lis portmanteau to the station, paid his bill, and walked up and down the stone terrace fronting the sea, waiting for the starting of the train, / " * ' 'Ihave traced the Listogies of Lucy Graham and Helen Talboys 10 a PI ETL re are . by" y : next business is to discover the his. tory of the woman who lics buried in Ventor Churchyard.' CHAPTER XXVIII. HIDDEN IN THE GRAVE. Upon his return from Wildernsea, Robert Audley found a letter from his cousin, Alicia, awaiting Lim at his chambers, ' IPapa is much better,' the young lady Wrote, 'and is very anxious to have youat the Court. For some inexpliciable reason, my stepmother has taken it into her head that your presence is extremely desirable, and worries me with her frivolous ques: tions about your movements. So pray come without delay, aud set these people at rest. Your affection- ate cousin, , A.A 'So my lady is anxious to know my movements,' thought Robert Audley, as he sat brooding and smoking by his lonely Greside. * She is anxious; aud 'she questions ler stepdaughtor in that pretty, child- like manner which has such a be- witching air of innocent frivolity. Poor little creature; poor unhappy little golden haired sinner; the battle between us scems terribly unfuir, Why. doesu's she ran away while there is still ime, He repeated this question again and again as he filled and emptied his meerchanm, surrounding himself with the blue vapour from his pipe until he looked like some modern magician seated io his laboratory. * Why doesn't she run away ? 1 would bring no necdless shame upon that house, of all other houses upon this widg earth," I only wish'to do my duty. I will give her one more warning, a full and fair one, and then~--~--" Bis thoughts wandered away to that gloomy prospect in which he saw mo gleam of Urightuess to re- lieve the dull; black obscurity that 'encompassed the futpre; shutting in his pathway on every sido, und spreading a 'dense cottain around and about him, which Hope was pow: erlées to penetrate. + Caio A | "shall I gordown to Southampton; he thought, ' and endeuyodr to ds: cover the history of the Woman who PAA J fo gadiig distraction and despair, | gid at Ventor? Shall T'work under. ' Heyey Maroox. | : y ground, bribing the paltry assistants in that foul comspirany, til I find uly way to the thrice "guilty: "pal 2 'Nol not till I have tried other: mizand' of discovering ive trai Shall I go to that niiseruble'old maw, lave been played >upon' my poor 'friend? Nov Uwilt not tortute that! | terror-stricken wretch as} fortured bim a few 'weeks ago, Twill go straight to the arch conspirator, and , | will tear away the beautiful veil under which she hides her wicked: ness, and will wring from her, the secret of my friend's fate, and banish her for ever from the house which ; fore which 28 upon | in the | done'to my friend, Rebert though, same year. This made a very small VOL.1;No.23), PORT PERRY, THURSD. JANUARY 11861... © [WHOLENo.93.. : ONT ARIO HOTEL! . THE QHIMES QF ENGLAND, "le. Nt at allele replied the lind it opposite Mrs. Barkamh at that] . | These lines wore wri oe snot her Tt i let : Ho started early the next morning for Eseex, and reached Audley before eleven oolock, Phi Early as it, wes, my lady; was out, of those : a yu should forgive me, for ve le or Thave 4 shopping . expedition swith «her step-daughter. She had several calls to. make in the neighbourhood of the town, and was not iikely to return unt dinnertime, Sir. Miche | and he .wouldicome dewn stairs in !) the afternoon. Would Mr. Audley £0 to Lis uncle's room? | ; [that "generous © kinsman. What could ho say toliim? 'If T.could forgive lier-the 'wrong '1 should still' abhor her for the misery her 'guilt must bring upon, 'the man who hag believed inher! He told Lis unclé's servant that he would stroll foto the village, and re- turn before dinner, 8 : "I will go into the churchyard he thought, * and stare at the tomh- stones. There is nothing I can do that will nuke me more gloomy thay Iam) He was in those very meadows through which he had harried from Audley Court to the station upon the September day in which George Talboys had dissapeared. He looked at the pathway by which be had his nuaccnstomed burry, and. the vague feeling of terror which had tuken possession of him immediately upon loosing sight of his friend. ' Why did that unaccountable ters ror. seize 'upon me? he thought, Why was it that I saw'some strange mystery in my friend's dissapear- ace? Was it uw monition or a 1na- nomania? What if I am wrong after all? What if this chain of evidence which I have constructed link by link, is woven ous of my own -| folly ? "What if this edifice of L ror and suspicion is a mere collection of crotchets--the nervous fancies of a hypochoudriacal buchelor Mr, Har- cour i | mysélf a hor m, * Tlay the separate links of the chain before Lim, and he 'cannot recognise their fitness. He is unable to put them together. "Oh, my God, if '1t should be in myself all this time that the misery lies; if-- Le smiled bitterly, and shook bis head. 'Ihave the handwriting in my pocket-book which is the. evidence ot the. conspiracy,' he thought. It remains for me ta discover the darker half of my lady's secret." He avoided the village, still keeps ing to the meadows. Robert slowly ascended the narrow hill-side pathway leading up to the gate in the churchyard. As Robert opened the gate of the churchyard, and strolled listlessly into the little inclosure, he Lecame aware of the solemn music of an or¢ gan, audible through a half.open window ih the steeple, x 'Who would have believed that Audley church could boast. snch an organ? thought Robert. When last I was here, the national school- master used to accompany his c¢hild- ren by a primitive performance of common chords, I didn't think the old organ had such wnsic in it. He closed the gate softly, and crossed the little patch of 'gravel before the door of the! church. This door had been left ajar--by the or- gonist, perhaps. Robert Audley pushed it open and walked into the square porch, from which a flight of narrow stone steps wound "upwards to the organ-loftand the belfry, Mr, Audley took off his Lat, and opened the door between the porch aud the body of the clurch, The little gal. lery was exactly opposite to him, but the scanty green curtains before the organ were closely drawn, and he player. | ' oo +i He loitered inthe novks and cats cers of the church, examining the dilapidated memorials of the well- wigh forgotten dead, and listening to | this music, "If my poor friend, George Tal. boys, bad died in my arws, and 1 had buried him in this, quiet chureh, in 'onic of the vaults over which 1 tread . Seday, how much anguish of mind, vacillation, and: torment I" might - {have escaped,' thought Robert Aud. ALT find | ley, us be read the faded inseriptiona prinei- lupon tublets, of discoloured marble; *¥ should have known his fate! Ab, 'how much there would have been in that. dt is this, miserable uncer. and charge him with hig'share in the | tainty, this hoyrible suspicion which sliamefal trick * which'ol' believe' tis} has poisaned my. very life." TO BE CONTINUED, #4 fe { 3 ---- - + 'Love Gon, Now.--The sweetest word of our language is Love, The | greatest word in our' language is Gon. | The | word, expressing tho shortest. 'time is Now, The three, make tho greatest and the sweetest duty that man can perform. | She had driven to* Chelmsfprd upon ael'y hiealth was very much improved, | Noj' Robert had nowish to" meet: | gone upon that day, and remembered conld not get a glimpse' of tho