-- ee TI sone -- A-History of Adventure By J. RIDER HAGGARD. per. . INTRODUCTION, In giving the werld The record ef wha looked at from that pant of view only, ~ 1 suppose, one of the inést wormderful ard nyt _ Jie adventures ever experienced by mario roto, | feel itincumbenton rae to explain lua! my exart connection with it in, Amd so Trias xs weilsay at once that Iam net the narrat bat only the editor, of this extraurdinary history, and then proweed to tell bow it found its way into my hands. - Some years ago I, the alitor, was stupping with a brother at one of the universities, which, for the purposes of ibis history we will vall Cambridge, and was one day much struck with the appearance of two people icornveren CHIL son going arm in arm down the street, Oue of these face wan renew 4 without flaw--e goed face.as whemte lifted bis hat, which hed | jue then 803,peus lady, Isaw that hos bend was covered with little was. looks like a statue of "Apollo rome to life. note a splendid man he is:" yo | Well, that ss all fhia gentionnen mun was, | think, TS IoT thie stkidtow of rand Bee pendent te ns ath I tor theagh Dam deal and forcotten, we sal ' ae he ob a i . in ened: thnk 4. Wt at ' Hoobly. only ae tesa "ag iumy pet pet. stort ears learn in tinte - comin, ait that ivi ter be 4° even here that ehamge osil "preire Of 9 4 os be ivtefinltely ig for a feort pr again be broke asl think i] De cabes, etd set ode wher tate *Thety, whieh ool ' the chest. acet ow will will be my papers, taeler the agtherity of whet! eBid wil te haided over t You wad be well pan, Holly, and | kuow that You are hotest, tut if you batray any trust, hy beass I will haunt vou" Posar nething, being too bewihlerei to sperk. wis be srr at ow te 'This better, as tr herpaha anise rhein "eempe ned Into une ef firs drew T+ <TD peas ore cnet ety ister ge Wea have ferand murs t te . vest Teedteh fey pore cee oe Wit te toe th et * Yalta mr te tran lawser. pets 4 + infertaati nm cae thei Vinewy bad atrepdiv left ' Tht = feet They Eb) new at jes Ubeir cobi country for nt know He beld up the candle, and looked at his own face in the plas. [ft had been a beaut | ful fare, bat dixemse had wres ked it, "Food urious te think | etesas Ot Uhe bis | tory itself thh< Fine r fot jurige. ' him, with the identity « ator from the genrral pub- lic, exactly a> 'it has come te me Personally the jarney y one, the little game played oat, | Tlave made Re my mind to refrain from) , Ab me, Holly' Jife is not worth the trouble of comment« t first [owas inclined to believe = life, exeept when une ts in love---at least mine that this uistory of a 'woman on whom," has not been: but the boy Leo's may be if be ehthed in the majesty of ber almow endless -- bas the courage and the ae tiood-by, my 'eternity: ftectt- ny tike---friend "end with « omen ol. the dark wing of night, was sume gigantic nes be fluns his arm about me ae aed kissed me allegory of whigh I could not catch the mean- on the forehead, and then turned.te go. dng.. Then I ti t. that it might bea bold "Look here, Vinewy.7 1 said, "if you are as attempt to pure ¥ the possible results of in- fli as you think, you had Letter Jet me fetch a mortality irrafted on the sutstance of a earnestly. "Promixe me tha Tam going to die, and, like a poisoned fat, Dwish to die alone. ~ | world around her the winds and the tides | "I don't believe that you are guing to bi y Frise and fall and beat unceasingly. But a¢ I ) Aaything of the sort." J) answered, went on T abandoned that mn * also. To me ! wied- and with the worl' heorep engl on yer 'be Seasty nan ig the adeecdly om 'amp of ~ nicest, too. They call him 'the Cireek god.' But look at the other one, Tle's Vincey's Pree tho god': name) guardian and supposed to be full uf every kind of information. They call hit "Charon. * T tooked and found the older mau quite ax interesting in his way as the glorified speci- men of humanity at bivside. Heappeared to he about forty years of age aud was, I think, Re Oriya hia companion was. handeme. 'T begin with, vd was sbortish, rather Low- legred, ve leep chested) and with unusually eRe hedtark baie and anal eyes, atel the bair grew right dowd on bis forvhemt and hia whiskers grew rogut up to bis hair, so that there gas uncommonly little of bis countenance to be seen, Altegetber he resninded me forcibly ofa geriila, and ~ ema wwne-sotiw ting sory. pleasing aul gent: pout thd man's eye. f rementber = that I should like to kaow bin, "AU right." answered my: brother, "neth- ing ensler. [ know Vincey; TU rica " "and be did; amd for some minutes w aaa chatting--about the Zulu people, think, for Chad jusf retarned front the Ca at the time, Preently, howe aa tive mete fair baired irl, anc who clearly knew them well, at once Joiea and walked off in their company. spetuber being rather amuse) because of ihe we Lack fens addy ancing. He mopped stort inthis talk, cast a repirear hut look at bis companion, and, with ano nod to myself, turned and marched off alone he street. I heard afterward that he which accounted fer his precipitate ret I cannot say, however, that young Vincey showed much aversion to fenipine society on this occasion. Indeed, I remember laughing, - and ing to my brother at the time of man whoni one to marry, since it in exc y prob- hie, thet the eequaitanre would end in a i watiep, Egave it up and -- to think the werkd tu Asotin wal the Caves of Kor.) that Tine Wiust terve~ teen drinking: --F- Tue hada | know that by was, nnd had been very ill, -- _-- bat still it | hie that he could he in such o come a# to be able to know for CHAPTER L certain, that In \would not outlive the night. MY VISITOR | Hod the boom There are wine events of which every cir | cumstance and surrounding detail «ems to be graven on the memory fa sach tha we cannet forget it, and so it is with the | swne that bum about todescribe. Lt rises | its Clearly before my mind at this moment as 4 though it had hayype ned yesterday It was in this very ri Qnth, some thing over trenty yes deeether > heb Gy Holly, was sitting: ome miy Cambri grandis awas Ty vere mnt. I forget what, for my fellowslip witlon a week, apd was ex- | pevted by mais tutor and my college generally tes. dintinysiel sur Oll,..Le lost, wearer ont, { flung my book down, and, going to the Hinfitelpuse. took down a pipe and tilled it, There was a candle burning on the mantel piece. and @ long, narrow glass at the hack of it, and as f was in ibe act of lighting the I canght sight of my own countendhe me Paitin! 26 Fofleet, S lighted! nuate hb burned away till scorched my fin- ers, forcing nie to alrep it, but still itaet apd stare] ct mise in the plas and re- Hevted, . "Well." J said aloud, at last, "it is to be hoped that { shall be able to do something with the inside of my head, for I shall cer- paver never du anything by the help of the ticle." man would cage sears o! age he bad never seen sites thy was a tiny 'infant? | | Ne Was jikelv that be could fertell bis } own death so accurately No. Was it likely | toh ewuld) trace tits ohevniggi more thah + tapes je eLape Christ, _be j Werk d stnddesby is aviide the alehyte 'acme ty \osbipot bis ohikd and foase half bs fortune to Mee friend? Mest certainly not, Clearky Vineent wos cicoredrank er nen, That being se, Whel atid it nicans and what was in the eed a baited itl pile Trig te such an extent that at lat [ could stand It no Jonger. and deteriniue! te sleep over it dumped wpm ba put tue heya and the letter that Vincey hod left away into my dispatch box, and stovo 4 the irun chest in a large portmanteau, t terted in, and was soon fast asleep. As it seemed toane To bad only been for a few minutes when | was awakened by soneb xy calling me. 7 sat up and rubbed ty om it was broad ilaylight--* o'clock in far "This romark will doubtless strike nuy loads who reads it as being slightly obscure, but ®ns in reality alladingto my physical de feiencies. Most men of twenty-two are en- aa » What ix th tter with you, John!" dowed at ony rate with some share of the fe eramolinget ional vin FT asked uf the gvp whe waited on Vincey and rt, myself: =you look as theugh you hat sen @ alnuet to deformity, with long, sinewy arms, ; 7 "Yes, sir. ami so 1 have," he erseinen heavy features, deep set gray are, a low | *leastways I've scon a corpre, which in worm, brow half ---- with a mop of. thick | Dve been In to cli Mr. Vineey, as tiga deserted clearing on wich | there he lies stark and dead?" { CHAPTER li. THE YEARS ROLL sy, Of course poor Vineey's sudden death cre- ated a great «tir in the college, but as he was transfer of-her-affec won ult ypother too good looking, and, nd, what is more, he had none of that consciousticss and rial about hint which usually afflicts hanc men, and makes them deservedly disliked by their fellown That evening my visit came fo an end, and that war the last lxaw of beard of es not ta month ago | moulin letter and two packets, of manuscri, and on opening the first, found that it Was jar to x, Campaipar, May 1, 18-. wit comnkler: or fear eat you should d in this fmtcaccisen' oat lor dowkt bring cast Pe inenka "Thold gne-riew: about re nee aes § . Leo holds another, and _ after ranch to a comprutnds: , neinely,« es much concerning our Meaty ae ja couslatent withthe maintesaace of the hows fides of the 'Ant ove whet am Ito say further? . U realty do every- 'These and arise jn mix snind; Maan te getaretne: a there pow + * Witt you wadertake the task? We give he eorrplite freedom, 280 asa feward wr: awe as tainly have the credit of giving to won we. wat wandeetal history. an distin Sipe frost 2nownh to be very TT, Gil f RilinTactory tee A ee was forthcoming, there w no inquest. They were -net so particular about Tervomts in these days as they are now; generally tdishiked, a+ cmus- with considerable intellectual Bo ugly was t the L ghese young men of my col- net even care to be seen walking with me. Was it wonderful that 1 Was misanthropic nd mullen! Was it wonderful that I brooded and bad as 1 was called upon te velunuteer any informatidn about our inters iw of the night of Vineey's decease, beyoud saying that Le had come into my rooms to see me, as he often did On the day of the funeral a lawyer came down from Landen and followed my poor friend's pe- mains to the grave; and then went back with ks papers and effects, excepting, of course, the which had been din this I and worked least only onef 1 was set ml Ls elt the pon§up affection of my nature upon Then soliale. and she hit couse, 10 pre vo es Ty pleaded took to and stood side b' byiside with me, aud thetn into a single groove ae days, turned to the events of the night. of poor Vincey's death, and wets Lasked. myself what it af meant, and woadered if I should hear anything more of the matter, and, if I did not, what tne b be my duty to do with the curious iron chest. I sat_ there, and thought and thought till I began to grow quite disturbed over the whole the mysterious midnight visit, looked into "Now," she said, "if I am Beauty, wuilre yar pet bees ey a when I was anly 3. And wo I ated and stared, and ft a sort satidfaction in the sense y deor, TTntened before T wend to ope It, for it was pearly 12 o'clock at another mitted micide? [t looked like it. was the quest of which Boss with my trast. The letter, vsbtch | val bare. ranean: ate' o mi ic waa incinad. Soa weeneon eee erent very tte Ue my tt | visit," he answered, is leak Towaved "re back attempt he ly--J am don Sand Ome tert mwicede fmperiously with: hic}: fF bgt LT want no doe eto Mr. Vincey's clear and peccise instrarticas, both personal ben attention of ' fal tits of omughing. , ' -anan, Holly 5 foe, } tan ek - call. the St Sy cacaa dacirabls ona Bas if testing the capacity a _the testator or Gherwlat, | } to Of the fe! "As pat gt Now rh os to ies as handy. befe foxyou gui geting mie ths . friounita: @ mniracle.'. tao ng that the testa 38 a Gea oft i = aot brary "Dist you ia ener ens Dhnie a ut + rai "et (om fart ry bade ertakivg t ty Duby zrpot hie He me yey bir, fo ber te duck Hpon bi fae Holly. if yo wil mews to lone you the }. Psprery nliyes ale" He cesta 6 P abeh ) ed mover been yond Phases. - MITCHELL , PORK PACKING : PROVISION HOUSE "Ir HBAs Tes INFORM 4305 ard worrregy * esta tolivhe iin the eles "Qe trust "avtake bbe willing fe ume tt daw fame + dea hase tet steak Not fer tee bt ' rele + ote ant hewrities of my Years for tethiun, F 9 [ tree eit, ne? tout them as mech af the Sir Phat berth mor af the fuet Thats tes sorb: 4 to tehons Devibi ccuntide the 'en ") amd be taps! th- ' a > iT " + The gat tt ent t ent of my ehair. Rabie oo -- rice ace setae nes ey chae i hex tow keep a large sahocl #irst Cha, "8 Meats, Sausage. Lard my basing ob | Cheese, Butter. &e.. at ' ai wht ook was or Lowest Market Price werd armed sewied at cae p wo tar dh { , rtleane tee aur the he . will be the last survivor of ot won my T, bet ma. Ret price tor Beet ctoe ancient families in the world, that is, ax far as families « can be trace? «You will laugh at oy ne whe: nf "ay it tut she day it will be- Ian | aint w 'eh scare atts 'ulty suceweded in } 1 apartments quite chose! White Beans of ne family, my sats ant ode sixty aixth be the alii: gates. The next go wax to AND ANY QUANTITY OF--- lineal ancestor, was ian prieat sof teta nurse, And on this point I to a} . Isis, tora he was meee Grecian ex ldvterininathn, | nould have no woman - DR ESSED HOG Ss. and was called Kalitkrates. or Uie lord tt over me about the child, and steal strong 6 and beautifal, or, tobe stil] more ac. Qe tions from me. The boy war nit enough , ledthons eomaeenn ith Ln ftlrdhecostiny & strength... ithe city. ' Poth some pay fo ' rt fiom that EP vaewte Ltouk bedsings This But ter, Eggs, Die ad Apples. Seed ent the His father (do without fema: rromumansoctol no T met to} Pwas, I "beliewe, one of the Greek eervonaries Work to Din tip a siitahw "rene raised by Hakor, a Memlesian prince of the With wom diffk ulty I suc eed in hiring a! twenty-ninth dynasty. luur about the year het ble, roand faced zone Ee man, 380 before Christ, just et the time of the fiua) "he bad been a helper ia a bunting fa'l of the Pharaohs, this Kallikrates broke at whe said that he was une of 4 Sonthy cf = jr vows of ¢elibecy and fled from Egypt "¢¥enteen and weil accustomed ty the ways the princes of royal bleed who had felien Of children, and profoeed binslf quite will- iv Oe EE Bind Was Tally wrerketting-te charge of Measter--Leo Meteenat of Afring, snowwbere, as] be When be arrived: Then, having = lieve, fn thie ef where Delagoa iron hox te town, and with ny own hands $9 | 400 *# win rte Lot 6. in the 10th Coprre bay mow ds, or rather to the north of it, be Vit at my banker's, [ hought some | of Ellice. On the are ord bis wifo 'being saved, and all tho r~ hens apen the health and angrent ot red Fram Dwelling Ho use and Barn. meinder oftheir company~ destren ine omer childresa vad them, Oost to mya = w¥ oF ancthesHere. ther eudured great then alow! to Job--that was the young man's $1.80 ae "om a ilies Son Pode tee _bardships, but were at tn-t entertai = by the NaMe---and waited. Rowe PO? a NAVA Propte oh BK -4DATISLED,} = wenan of peculiar loveliness, who, calor ewnstances which Po cinnet enter into, bat which you will one day learn. if you live, fran the contents of the box, finally mur dowd my ancestor, Kollikrate< wife, | -- however, eacu ped, ohew, 1 know Atvens, Mea child with her, who nes, Or oe fae Nt: , ALEX. Gov RLEY. Manager. -Strationd, Mar 38. 188. a 600 ACRES GOOD FARM LAND. FOR SALE. JOHN WHYTE, . & Acre Conti- the Farmers will find " Maud 8." tion Powders invaluable for use tn stable ur hen coop pn buy $1, '800 son the side of thix Lot. $1,500 nla Loti, in the 15th Conees at? 6, inthe Lith Comer large Drain runs alon; For further partioular apply to WM. EASSON, ESQ., stratford, A fact worth knowing. -- You con buy a Mights Heaney better Tea for 23 cents per IL fom dames the 5 Las ge than the pediera cn) at 30 cta. Fire hundred vears or roore afterward the ' | Get a sanple ead compare stot ho what family migrate to eo brler cirran you have paid Scents or more per By for. Statice of whieh no trace nce aml here} © _ ' egranp with the iden of preser. inc (he ~ 5 li vow aewe locket ff the vengeancy w bie hy swe tint werk i in jut is wortite necount ot it be Sisthiniies,: The apherr te have areereopern$ f, Pee tent Septet: tither gol oo miver, | 1 herly comune the cogvemen of Vides. er ke eeptiel ta new anal Avenger, Here, too, they ramen for san moat pew Vater mther five centuries or mere work to be fr ianl Canadian and Amer:can Slate when Charlenasne faction as tequali ty Inunly, where they were the 'ateld, wllete im bt petoen M the-head of the-fatnity-seotie io have allachei., hue a ee, ducectru platen. palin himeelf te Lhe great cniperor, and te have i+ bopper te Winase ine, tek, Ntoatferd. : . terned with him acres the Alps, ate this tly Soe re ta have setled in Brittany Six conerati Rs, 2 Bad Condition. later bis tinea) repres tarive ere oe Lite Enz =] ind wath dy sgep saa that - lanidin the reign of bilwand the Confessor, food of way hind wath and. in the time of Willam the Couqgu¢cu, disiers, asad cum bot take a drink ¢ "f was advanced to great hener and power ater for qamenti ata thee. T have st : Frm that 'time till the present day Tenn go yreat sufferer frou liver eomp.asnt trae my deseent without a break. Not that dysjcpaea Thany Jenrs," oy" }-the Vinceys---for that was the flual corrup Nelson W. Wiatebhead, . tior, of the name after its bearers took rect in whom: two botties of 'Berdund k Blood Bitter Ts English soil--have been particularly distin- cured. guished--they never came much to the fore Sometimes they were soldiers, sometime but on the whole they bed pr~ pnt ev level of respectability, and still deader level of mediverity. From the time of Charles IL tilt the beginning of the present century they were merchants. About 170, Stratfoml, March 50, 1857. F. BLOXAM, SLATE ROOFER, ANU bE MLE EN aochiain, wat "ft ere whieu wil make thes Tir Test be orang se vee Tau Hirose swe ALwaye mits Shinctuit Hoots a av Re pe sired" jie t al detalles Ly Milt.t n nt. near GT r Stator ratfond Pou coal westbe tte ae itr pairis ny 5 paciptly erie at sburt +t rertie Micatteph, Marci Das7 PRO BONO PUBLICO' CANNABIS CORN CLRE etre could mot take fur Ms Rea ed Corns, BRuniotes, amd Soarte, 250 J. NASMYTH & © . a. ; OOTH ACHE GUM Wheat Germ Meal, is the Letest luxury as fer th@ Licukfast table, and is far supe: ior to either rolled oata or --s wheat. is to be had at Walsh Bi Relieves bomediatly without burping the Guris, 10: J. UW. NASMYTH @ «. Children like 'Campbeli's Cath. SASMYTIOS COUGH MIATURE my er made a cousidernble fortune' artic Cumpounil, it is so pleasant to take, out of brewing, and rutived. In 1821 he died, and acts without yr ping. and my father succeeded him and Bongo inbet of the-tmeney: -Fen- yea' reed + Pleasant and bffertive, 7 4. . Ht. NAAM TH ac WINTER ELLID 1 os rpaed ea ee Charest Hands, Sore J. H. NASMYTH & CO., MEDICAL H a Ontario St. DLE.C. WETS. Wind the Clork.-- The best clock needs regulauitye = winding whew the main-sprirg uns dow So, too the buwan machinery gives out, it neeo- ne rogram vw] the maiw-spring un ot a oon conditiens of the »ysten In pur- well also have been called | Gasne B.B.B. beware of Dantactelia the* incontitat like my okd Cirevk ancestor, ward, she d Re erg awhile, his head snnk upon his' baad, and then continued; Wy ge had diverted me from a Project which [ cannot enter into now. 1 have no time, Holly--I bave no time! One day, if you accept my trust, you will learn all about it, After my wife's death I turned my mind to it again. ut it was necessary or at least [ conceived that it was necessary, : that I should attain to a perfect knowledge of : 'Plone, Bran, Shorts, Uats, Qat- fiesta cei "rg | __ , Grama, ery however, my disease developed itself, | And ali other Products of Mill me." And | at following Wholesale Prices :-- burst intc | ascuon, First-class roller, tamity Floer, per ue AUSSIE ON MLS Will, on and after March 29 1987, Leliver to a!! parts ~ of the City, FOR THE LIVER - BLOOD, | iSTOMACH | Cwt. I gave him gern more whisky, and, after | Coatesce, _ tami flour, resting, bo went "} have never oe my bay, Leo; since nev Dandelion | Ask your Se neem nl what pecul: intrest it toa stranger. Once more, watyea' t undertake it?" hs wena enh HODD & 'CULLEN. A Sluggish "f must Grst know what I am to under-. ey Be ye "You to undertake to have the boy, ao, ive With yo tlhe 2 euro ap rier wooed school, remember, On jae aoe beth Jay your guardianship will end, and Ja, will then, with the keys { give you on the table} ) "open. the iron box, and bet bi tents, and any whether or no be is wi ailing 0 | fundertéhe the quest. There is no obligation | on him to do so, Now, on mace ¥ present income is £2500 0 @ pear," Half of tain Khare mre You wil for on, your. ting ee Se remuner witbaretarie ep i fa year oo i Test fe to accumulate sa Hf 3 i Hilla F "BRANCH STORE ~ "For my sake, Holly. We have been ns, ichemsls,. and T bare. no time to 'make o "Very-well," U said, "I will do aS. Bessie | ¥. i there is nothing in this paper to i chang my. toind," and I Goeac the" fe! he hed Tye wpon tbe table by the reemtions ireegue ee ig rend + Frwally cer