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X . ------ . 0 VOL. I * N 0. 24.] a Terms. $1.50 per ANNU 1% Lu he _ PORT PERRY, THURSD, Eye Part Py Slondary AND Naki 'ONTARIO ADVERTISER "Eve ry 1H | AT THE OFFICE IN PAXTON'S NEW BUILDING, 18 PUBLISHED URSDAY Morning QUEE STREET, PORT PERRY, O. W., 'And contains Notices of the Political, So- ONTARIO HOTEL! BROCK" ST., WHITBY. i. GC DAWES, Proprietor. PORT FPHRRY. N. SINCLAIR, + -- PROPRIETOR. N re-furnished the above estahlishment, cial, and Moral questions of the day; Ag- | the travelling public will find it to bea ricultural' and Commercial extracts ; an | most comfortable home. h "Epitome of the General and Locabdews of | - Good Stabling, attentive Ostlers, and the week, her with tly sel d | the best of dati Miscellany J the service of our customers. Tarus,--$1.50 a year; but $11f paid fn v. advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 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Tapacto, eto THE RAILROAD HOUSE! |- Fit apne ] ee Subscriber begs to state that having 33 The Bar is kept constantly supplied "FOR" THE "COUNTY "OF ONTanio, | | "Thete's a voice that speaks within as; If we own no craven heart, - As we press along I.fe's pathway Takiuk our appointed part} And itlids us bear our burden, Heavy though it seem and feel, And with strong and hopeful vigour Put your shoulder tothe wheel. They out hide a tranquil sky, Or should storm drops fall around us, Soon the sunshine 'bids them dry. Neyer doubt and faint and falter; | Heart, be stout and trie as gteel |* Fortune smiles on brave endeavor -- Put your shoulder to the whee]. . Folded hands will never aid us To uplift the load of care; "Up and stirying" be your motto, Meek: to suffer, strong to bear. Or our destiny can seal; With a will then, strong and steady, Put your shoulder to the wheel. Men of worth have conn'd the lesson, " Yen of might have tried ia purty ged lips ha eathed the dgsim In the list 'ear of TARR And be sure thronghout life's journey Many a wounded heart would heal, If we all as friends and brothers Put our shoulder to the wheel T READING, SELIG Lady Audley's Secret! CHAPTER XXVIII. HIDDEN IN THE GRAVE. He looked at his watch, * Half past oue," he' uttered. *T shall have to wait four or five dreary hours before my lady comes home frém her morning calls. Her morn- ing calls'=her pretty visits of cere- mony ov fpiendliness. Good heavens! what an actress, this womanis. What an arvch-trickster --what an all-accomplished deceiver, But she shall play ler pretty comedy no longer under my uncle's roof. 1 have diplomatized long enough, She has refused to accept an indirect warping. Tonight I will speak plainly.' The music, of the organ ceased, and Robert beard the closing of instrument. poe wk 'Tl have a look at this new or ganist, he thought, * who can afford = play Mendelssonn's finest figures for a stipend of sixteen pounds a year! He lingered in the porch, waiting for the organist to descend the awkward little staircase, In the weary trou: ble of his mind, and with the pros. pect of getting through the five hours in the best way he could, Mr. Audley was glad to cultivate any di- version of thought, however idle. He therefore, freely indulged his curiosity about the new organist, The first person who appeared upon the steep stone steps was a boy in corduroy trousers aud a' dark linen smocklrock, who shambled down the stairs with a good deal of unnecessary clatter of bis. hobnailed shoes, and who was red in the face from the exertion of blowing the bellows of the old organ. Close be- hind this boy came a young lady, very plainly dressed in a black silk gown and a large grey shawl, who started and turned pale ut sight of Mr. Audley. x This young lady was Clara Tal- boys. Of all the people in the world she was the last whom Robert cither expected or wished to tee. 'That the sister, of his lost friend should be here--liere where she could watch his every action, and from those ac- tions seduce the secret workings of his mind traciog his doubts home to their object--made a complication of his difficulties that be' could never have anticipated. It brought him back to that consciousness of his own helplessnéss, in which he had ex- cinimed-- ' *A band that is stronger than my own is beckoning me onward on the dark road that leads to my lost friend's unknown grave. Clara Talboys was the first to speak, ; 'You are surprised to sec me here, Mr. Audley,' she said. Very much surprised. 'I told you that I'was coming to Essex. 1 left home the day before yesterday, '1' wad leaving home when I received yonr telegraph mes: sage. The friend with whom I am staying is Mrs. Martyn, the wife of the new rec¢tor of Mount Stanning, I | came down this morning to see the village:and church, and as Mrs. Mar- tyn had to, pay a visit to the schools with the curate and his wife, I stopped herd aud mused inyselt" by trying the 'old organ. I was mot village called Audley, The plage akes lia name from your. family, I 80 & i wih op 'believe su,' Robert answered, that the fgreatest vin the 9th Con. Scngog, 200] relianc ' be placed upon thé purity of | wondering at the lady's calmness; in ls hoi ind tnd Sanna i Dregs, Cbontont, ket nro ie | ' embar. TL tt, SSF ln | Tl Curly Pid Sl, or | | ramen, * Ars you fring to wait Also part of Lot 3 in the 3rd con, Reach, | Edracted. | bere for your friends, Miss Talboys LT Shot 5 om AS) [Marsh & Trounce's old stand, Yes; Jicy ar tv return here for © [JOSEPH BIGELOW | = 0 Uy og gAOHE, |me after they bave finished their Pork Povey, let Anguit, 186, 3. | Port Perry, Ooty yeas CTT frowadat TU = S [BUT YOUR SHOULDER 10 tus WHEEL, What though clouds are darkling o'er us, "Tis not chance that guides our footsteps, the | $3: to bury his talents at" Andley, und wars till{l éame here that there was | at oie or » |'in his own, and faised it to his lips. = ; x a YS. JA 4 . hand loking abseutly tombstones and the luw 44 'g bak : ning with' thew t | away through thy, Yeu! : into the field alg) Robert stood with, hi up to the Porelny or £900 irk er dud y Aouw Loar 'Who is tha ome young man churchyard. Clara Tall his 'pale fuce, haggard deepening shadow thi upon it so long, +] "You liave been ill sine last, Mr. Audley," she proiee: that bad the Fame me suduess us the notes of the old under her toueli. ; I] 'No, I have not been ill; T haye, been only harassed, wedried by af lundred doubts and perplexities ! * He was thinking as he spoke to her-- 'How much does' she gness? how much does she suspect F He had told the story of George's dina) nea and. @ L804 picions, suppressing: only tA names 'of those concerved in the mystery; but what-if this girl should fathom the slender disgnise, and discover for herself that which he had chosen to withhold, : - Her grave eyes were' fied upon bis fuce, and he knew that she was trying to read the innermost scerets of his. mind, rate } ' What am I in her 'hands ? le thouglyt, 5 "What am Tin the hands of this woman, who has my lost friend's face and the mapuer of Pallas Athene. She reads'my pitiful, va- cillating soul, and plucks the thoghts out of my heart with the magic of her solemn brown eyes. How un- equal the fight must be between us and how can T ever hope to conquer against the strength of Ler beauty aud her wisdom yy Mr Audley: was clearing his throat preparatory to bidding Lis Aliraldom of her presence into the lonely meapow ontside tha churches avoid, : : 'Yon promised fo write me Mr. Audley," she said, * il' you made any discovery which carried you nearer to the mystery of my brother's disappearance. You have not writ. ten to me, and I imagine, therefore, that you have discovered nothing. Robert Audley was silent for some moments: How could he answer this direct question ? ' The chain of circumstancial evi- dence which unites the mystery of your brother's fate with the person | whom I suspect,' he said, uftera | pause, 'is formed of very slight livks I think that 1 have added "another, \ link to that chain since I saw you in Dorsetshire.' ' And you refuse to tell me what is is that you have discovered. +. 57 'Only uctil I have discovered more,' i 'I thought from our message that you were going to Wildernsea.! "I bave been there, " \ 'Indeed ! It was there that you made some discovery, then 7 'It was," answered Robert. . * You | | rust remember, Miss Talboys, that the sole ground upon which my" 'sus. picions rest is the indentity of 'two individuals who have no apparent connexion--the identity of a person who is supposed 10 be dead with one who is 'living, The conspiracy of which I believe, your brother to have been the victim hinges upon this. 1f bis wife, Helen Talboys, died when the papers recorded her death--if the woman who lies buried jn Ventnor churchyard was indeed the woman whose name is inscribed on the head: stone of the grave--I huve no case, [have no clue to the mystery of your brother's fate. I am about to put this to the test. I believe that I am now in a position to play a bold game, and I believe that Tahal soon arrive at the trath' He spoke in a low voice, and with a solemn emphasis that betrayed the intensity of Js feeling. Miss Tal boys stretched ont her ungloved hand, and laid it in his own. The cold touch of that slender hand sent a shivering thrilt through his frame. ' You will not suffer by brother's fate to remain a mystery, Mr. Aud- | ley, she said, quietly, 'Irknow | that you will do your duly to your friend, ai The rector's' wife and her tw 'companions entered the churchyard #8 Clara Talbnys said this..: Rober Audley pressed the hand that reste i Bier BO "T am a lazy, good-fornothing | fellow, Miss Talboys,' he said; ' but if I could restore your brother | George to life and happiness, 1 | should care very litle for any ster. | fice of my own 'feeling. Ifear that | the most I can do is secret of hia fate, and in. at I | must sacrifice those who. at to me than myself! I orgais : young governess about a year and waiting at the principul gate of the churchyard in the care of the boy Als, Martyn shook the reins, and the sturdy chestnut cob trotted off in the direction of Mount Stunning. ssid, alter a long panse, 'I want'to know all about her. Have you licard Ler maiden name? a childish beauty though, with large clear blue ey»s, and pale golden 2 BO : 4 iuglets, that fall in a feather beautiful companion good morning, rluglets, Sy hery and making his escape fron the Shows over her throat and shouf- not ask any further questions about my "lady. to §Thone Ot --1 passage in which he said; --My child: write this, could see her, Clara. Her eyes are as clear as the skies on a bright sum- you see round the head of a Madonna in an Italian picture, 'the broad grass plat in front of the Coart as the carriage containing my archway, and drew up at the low torret-door. himself in time to hand the ladies out of the vehicle. delicate blue bonnet and the sables which her nephew had bought for her at St. Petersburg. very well pleased to see Robert, and smiled gave him her exquisitely gloved truant?" she said, laughing. now that you haye returned, we shall keep you prisoner. let him run away again, will we, Alicia? scornful toss that shook tho heavy cutls under her cavalier hat. movements of so erratic an individ: ual,' she said, ley has duct himself like some ghost-haunted hero in our German story, 1 have 'given up attempting to understand him. with an expression of serfocomied perplexity. 'She's u nice 'giel,' he don't know how it is, but she scems more a nuisance than she used to be! : his mind which he could not under- waitin, rasan you, Clara? fi Wiidley, a friend of adr ! 4 me ation of vy acar; rsonage in the parish "His young wife! repeated Clara Talboys, looking carnestly at, her friendz Wasi b. " "Has Sir" Michael Audley lately married then ' ¢ Yes He wis n widower for six. teen years, aud married ao pentilgss a half ago, The story is quite ré- mantic, and Lady Audley is consid- ered the belle of the county. But come, my dear Clara, the pony is tired of waiting for us, and we've a long drive before dinner. Clara Talboys took her seat in the little |, basket-carr which was who hud blown the organ-bellows. Will you tall me more about this Litdy: Audley, Finny? Miss Tulboys ' Yes; she was a Miss Graham,' ' And she is very pretty?' 'Yes, very, very pretty. Rather + Clara Talboys was silent, She did =, her dlr hi - sh little wife is watching me as I Ab! hew I wish you ner's day, and her hair falls about ier face like the pale golden halo CHAPTER XXIX. IN THE LIME WALK. 'Robert Audley was loitering upon ady and Alicia drove under the Mr. Audley presented My lady looked very pretty in a Sho seemed most bewitohingly as she ittle hand. 'So you have come back to us ' And We wont Miss Audley gave her head a 1 have nothing to do with the 'Since Robert Aud- aken it into his head to con- Me. Audley looked ™at his cousin thonght, ' but she's a nuisance. 1 He pulled his mustachios reflect: ively us he considered this question. His mind wandered away for u few moments from the great trouble of his life to dwell upou this minor per- plexity, . ¢ She's a dear gitl,' he thought; 'a generous-hearted, bouncing, noble Kaglish lassie, and yet----"" Ho lost, himself in a quagmire of doubt and difficulty. There was some hitch in stand; some change in. himself, beyond the change mada in him by his anxiety about George Talboys which mystified and bewildered him. 'And pray wise Jave Jos 'been wandering during the last day or tw "Mr. Audley asked my lady, as he lin with her stepdaughter upon the threshold of the turret door, | v until Robert should be dE ade 'thiem* to ak 3 1'dnd | looked up Pi | Something 'in the' sPortant |b of 'Audley. we 'But we'll cull at the conrt in. a day OE two, and you shall sce the baronet and bis pretty young wife! ' + Aoog mit tarted ds oho bright young beaut the childish inn "pression, seemed 'gréw ghastly dr, L Yorkshire,' he watering plucd aH George Tal- 9" time of lus mar- The white change in my lady's fince was the only sign of her having heard these, words. She smiled, a fuint, sickly smile, aud tried to, pass hier husband's neplicw. 'I must dress for dinnar,' she said, 'Jd am going to a dinner party, Mr. Audley; pléase let me go in.' ' IT must ask you to spare me lalf- an-iour, Lady Audley, Robert an- swered, in a _low voice. 'I Came down to Essex on purpose to speak to you. What about ? asked my lady. She had recovered herself from any sheck which she might have sustained w few moments before, and it was in her usual mannar that she asked this, question. Her face expressed the mingled bewilderment and curi- osity of a puzzled child, rather than the serivas surprise of a woman, * What can you want to talk to me about, Mr, Audley ?' she repeated. I will tell you when we are alone,' Robert said, glancing at his consin, who stood a little way behind my lady, watching this confidential little dialogue. : "He is in love with my stepmoth- er's wax-doll beauty," thonght Alicia, * and it is for her sake be has become such o disconsolate object. e's Just the sort of person to fall 1 love with his aunt. Miss Audley walked away to the grass-plat, turning her back upon 'Robert and my lady. 'The absurd creature tuned as white as a sheet when lie saw her,' ale thought, / Sg he can be in love, after wax-doll can set it going. have given him up long ago il I'de known that his ideal of beauty was to be found in a toyshop,' Poor Alicia crossed the grass-plat aul disappeared upon the opposite side of the quadrangle, where there was a Gothic gate that communicated with the stables. I am sorry to say that Sir Michael Aulley's daughter went to seek consolation from her dog Cesar and her chestout mare A.lanta, whose loose box the young lady was in the habit of visiting every day. ¢ Will you come {unto the lime walk Lady Andley ? said Robert, as his cousin left the garden. '* 1 wish to talk to you without fear of intercup- tion or observation. I think we could choose no safer place than that, Will yon come there with me ?° 'If you please,' answered my lady. Mr. Audley could sce that she was trembling, and that she glanced fiom side to side as if looking for some outlet by which she might es- cape him, 'You are shivering, Lady Audley,' he said. : 'Yes, I am very cold. I would rather speak to you some other day, please. Let it be to-morrow, if you will. 'I have to dress for dinuer, and, I want to sec Sir Michael; 1 have not seen him since ten o'clock this morning. Please let it Le to- morrow." here was a painful piteonsness in her tone. Heaven knows how painful to Robert's heart. Heaven knows what Lorrible images arose in his mind as he looked down at that fair young face and thought of the task that lay before him. "1 must speak to you, Lady Aund- ley, he said, 'If lam cruel, it is you who bave made me cruel, You might have escaped thie ordeal. You might have avoided me. I gave you fair warning. But you have chosen to defy me, and it is your owp folly which is to blame if [ no longer spare you. Come with me. [ tell you again I must speak to you. There was a cold determination in bis tone which silenced my lady's objections. She followed him sub- missively to the little iron gate which communicated with the long arden behind the honse--the gar- lenin which a little rustic wooden bridge led across the quiet fish-pond into-the lime-walk. yi The. early. winter twilight was closing in, and the intricate tracery of the leafless branches that over- arched the lonely pathway looked black against the cold grey of the evening sky. The lime-wulk seemed dike some cloister in this uncertain light. : ont 1.00 Pen | opening a package of St. -- ANXUM, IN ADVANGE, WHOLE No. 24. ible place to frighten me out of my. poor wits 2" eried my lady, peevishly. |' You ought to know Low nervous an.' ' You are nervous, my lady ? 'Yes, 'dreadfully nervous. I am worth 4 fortune to poor Mr, Dawson, He is ulways sending me. camphor and sal volatile, and red lavender, and all kifids of abominable mixtures, but he can't eafe me. * Do you remember what Macbeth tells his physician, my lady 7" asked Robert, gravely. 'Mr. Dawson may Ue much more clever than the Scot. tish leech, but I doubt if even Ae can minister to the mind that is dis. eased." * Who sail that my mind wus dis- cased ? exclaimed Lady Audley. ' I say so, my lady,' answered Ro- bert. 'Yue tell me that'you are ner vous, and that all the medicines your ductor can -prescribi ure only wo" much physic that might as well Le thrown to the dogs. Let me. be the' physician to' strike to the reot of yout malady, Lady Audley. Heaven knows that I wish to be merciful-- I would spare you as far as. it is in my power Lo spare you in doing jus- tice to others--Dbut justice must be done. Shall'] tell you why you are nervous in this house, my lady? 'If you can,' she answered, with a little laugh. 'Becanse for you this house is haunted, a * Hanuted? 'Yes, haunted by the ghost of George Talboys.' i Robert Audley heard my lady's quickened breathing, lie fancied he could almost hear the loud beating of her heart us she' walked by Lis side, shivering now and' then, and with her sable clouk wrapped tightly round her. © 'What do you menu? she cried suddenly, after a pause of some mo- ments. ' Whytdo you forment me about this Georke Taiboys, who hap- pens to have taken itfinto his head to keep out of "our way for a few months? Are you going' mad, Mr. Audley, and do you scleet me ns the tl oy " m v » "He was"n gti Lady, was lie nob ' Of course!' ui swered ley. 'What \skould he be but a stranger L 'Shall I tell you the story of my 730, you, 'I fy f - story, my lady? asked Robert. 'No, cried Lady Audley; I wish to know nothing of your friend. If he is dead, I am sorry for him, Ife lives, I have no wish either to sec him or to hear of him, Let me go in to sce my husband, if you please, Mr. Audley, unless you wish to de- tain me in this gloomy place until I catch my death of eold." 'I wish to detain you until you have heard what I have to say, Lady Aud- ley, answered Bobert, resolutely, "1 will detain you no longer than is necessary; and when you have heard me, you shall take your own course of action, 'Yery well, then; pray loose no time in saying what you lave to say,' replied my lady, carelessly, 'I promise you to attend very pa: tiently. * When my friend George Talboys returned to England,' Robert began, gravely, 'the thought which was uppermost in his mind was the thouglit of his wife. ¢ Whom he had deserted,' said my lady, quickly. 'Atleast,' she added, more deliberately, ¢ I remember your telling us something to that" effect whea you first told us your fricnd's story. Robert Audley observation, "The thought that was uppermost in his mind was the thought of his wife, he repeated. 'His fairest hope in the future was the hope of making her happy, and lavishing upon her the pittance which he had won by the force of his own strong arm in the gold-felds of Australie. 1 saw him within a few hours of his reaching England, and I was a wit- ness of the joyful pride with which he looked forward to his reunion with his wife. I was also a witness of the biow which struck hima to the very heart--which changed him from the man he had been, to a creature as unlike that former selt as one hu: man being can be unlike anther. Tho blow which made that ernel change was the annonncement of his wife's death in the Times newspaper. I now believe that that announce. ment was a black and bitter lie." TO BE CONTINUED, did not notice this A tobagconist at Berlin, on recently mingo, was astonished to find near the top of it the dried buman. haud of & negro, and a little further down a bowie knife, leased to stand aside and allow ""Why do you being me to thls Hors I Lady And. friend's disappearance as I read that . » A i - A SE PR a