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The New Era, 1882-08-10, Page 2August 10, 188Q. Life?s Myst el' "V. Shemea,nt what she said. She was f ar too terrified of Glenoairn either to equiv.° cate to him or- deny bin; and at tha moment she would willingly have signed a bond with her own blood coneigning her •soul to the.power a of darkness if she ehould ever again even exchange words of friend ship with Duke. Her only: anxiety was to fly far away and hide hereelf-far away from the man she loved, far away from the man she feared. - "Keep your word," he said sternly, "if you set any value on his life. For as sure as that sun will set to -night, if he and you communicate by private meeting or letter ever again, he is a des,d Man. Bear that in mind." Zora was nottin the least likely to forget Faint with agitation and alarm, she fled to her room, and flung herself helplessly on her knees by her bedside, breathing no word and shaping no prayer, only falling insinct- ively into the attitude of praying, though too stunned in Bout to pray. She was not religious, but tmaterstitious, andin the face of trouble and terror, sank down oralier knees by, instinct, as if in vague and help- less appeal to some 'invisible strength that might guard her around and keep the enemy oft. She was stricken into a sortaf mental insensibility, and could not collect her thoughts nor find words to utter even to her own heart. Shaane, terror, sorrow -in all these the wonder is to how Glencairn hill discovered the carefully kept secret was lost. She dared not took back upon the past; she dared not . oast a glance into the future -a future without Duke, without him for ever She pressed her hands to her ears as if to shut out the echo of Glen - cairn's threat, but it beat in her brain, eaoh syllable rif it throbbing and ringing there till it made her dizzy. 'She closed her eyes as if to shut out some horrible vision, but it burned in the darkness through her olpeed eyelids. She shuddered and cried aloudaastif-protestinga,nd pleading, "Oh! it is ended! it is ended! For his sake -never, never more 1" " • CHAPTER XXII. . . A sinking sun—a sky of red.= - In bars and banners overhead; And blown apart like curtains drawn. Afar at sea a blowing sail, That shall go down before the dawn. And they are passion -tossed and pale, he two that stand and look alone. ` —Joioui-s MILLER. For the remainder of that day Zora kept her room, on the plea of a headache, which was indeed no false excuse. .In the even-. ing Zara ventured to make her appearance in the salon; pale and. gentle and. pensive-. " evidently suffering still, poor dear," as gooa Mrs. Craven Observed -and was pet. ted, and compasSionated, and .sent to bed The next morniug she -arise fresli and fair, having quiterecovered her brightness of eye .1.tr,d complexiOn, .lier. -Composure of countenance,, and -to -all appearance -her eguthility Of spirits.: . ' Thatday all went smoothly. The.party took boata and roved to Cidena,ffiria,Where they had lunch, and went :OYer Prince Saxemeiningen's palace and grounds. :And all the day, during the.tow, and the drive, and the sociable ,wanderings along the - picture -galleries and around the gardens, Glencairn kept his steady secret watch on Duke aud "Zora stjll. TheY were unexcep: -----a-tionally--distanthand_indtfferent- °nay_ Glenesarn with his penetratinganbservittion. noticed that, Zora 'avoided Duke with 'a -kind -of _timorous 'anxietyand care, and that Duke once or twice seemed to rernar this.binahelf;and to look half puzzled, as if he scarcely.understood why she should be so unusualla cautious. Duke had a little note-and-sketela2book in which he was always scribbling items Of information, or dotting dawn suggestions for future sketches. Once by unlucky chance this day -,Glencairn . noticed that. Duke scribbled something hastily .on the page opposite' to thaton whiCh he ptefessed to 'be occupied, and also that he, deeming. himself unnoticed, tore out the: page on which he had 'Written a few hasty words,' and kept it doubled up in his hand., Its transfer* to Zora was cleverly managed; so cleverly that even ,Gleithairn; keenly on -the watch as he was, did not observe it; but he • did observe the ragmentary retreating and wavering of Zora's eye when next her look met his, tame hall. an heat afterward, face • to face ; and he feltaa full and ,imtnediate conviction that the folded paperlay hidalen in her bosom.' Yet as it was not proven, save by that uneasy receding of.her eyefromlais, he gave her the benefit ' of the doubt. • Besides, he deemed' that he had so thor- oughly alarmed her -she would scarcely , dare to disobey him so sdon!• . It ie the evening of that day ; andall the party, by ones.and twos and threes, have • wandered out. upon the terrace, and are assembled there., Glencairn is the laet, to join them. • It is a prettta.scene. • The ivvi. • light flings a 'soft subduing Veil over earth • and eky, that melts all contrasted colors • into harmony. The statues.' shine . White between the ithadowy green trees.- The • girls' light dresses gleamt faintly througli the duelt ; and all the.bright rays there are seem caught by the two fair heads of Kate and Luli. Put further in the shadow there is a little graceful darkly -draped figure, -drooping modestly 'back. Zones face is slightly downcast, and her dark curls do not catch the rays of light. But Glencairth's eyes fix instantly on her. Duke.is bending over her • chair, bending so- close. that hie curly hair almost brushes her. brow, Speak- ing to her aside; and she,thaugh her face is downward bent, is -answering him, for in the twilight Glencairn sees her lips move He crosses the tertace so , quietly, that none of the groupheed him till he is among them. He only glances at Duke and Z tar a -with -so -brief -a-ndt-IntattfaridiEPTICid- a pa.ssing glance - that , Zora does not think his eyes were fixed on her a minute or -two before, and so takes no fresb alarm. The conversation is- general, . and froni the moment Glencairn johiathe group there is not another Flyllable uttered aside. Kate is chattering gayly aboutsome gypsy fortune.' • told her on ERthipstead Heath. " Six lovers -no less la -I- was to. have. Fancy six lovers for -.oneyouag woman I Well, I'm Waiting fOr my lialf dozen -have been waiting ever so long 1" •, , "There's time enough, MiSs Craven: not the slightest .need to hurry," obeerves "01, but there is,! if. I've got a round • half dozen to dispose of, .unlese indeed they all coms at once. Tata (peen of the gypsies was much more complimentary to me than she was fo-Lali: I say, Lula' don't you recollect what fun we had?" , "She was ,an arrant old humbug, your gypsy," 'says Luli, smiling. .. • " That's because she didn't,allot you sita lovers!" crieft Kate. • : ' . , "How many dicl she foretell to you, inquires the one lawful lever, whole er- featly aware that he has the field entirely to himself.. , "She would have foretold a hundred if f3he had thought I wanted them. She kept making random shots; and each time she found , she was en the wrong tack, she shifted about. She first alloadme aactoal black haired gentleman, and when she found I didn't -want him, she began to hint at one next dear to an Albino; and finally, if I remember right, allotted me one of &Lola"- ' . "Did you ever have your fortune told, &int?" asked Kate. Several times by cards. They always foretell a spade mau for me," replied Zora, with the moat perfeet appearance of inno- cent franknese. Not that it is true; but she thinks all circumstances donsideredeit is. a prudent thing to say. . "Spade man What,' an agricultural laborer?" inquires Puke. '1 You stupid ! no; a very, very dark man, the blackest possible," -replies Kate? • "Cards are great fan; but palthistry is the most interesting, 'and looks the MOBt like real magic." continued Rate, with the air Of an. authority. , " I can tell fortunes by the hand," she continutte. " Here comes Pietro with the lamp, and new I'll shOw you." • Pietro and Adeunta now appeared, bear- ing aesmall table, a big lamp, a,nd the coffee tray, full Of dinaimatiye cups, with a doll's sugar boavl. • • "Now," said Kate, "111 tell somebody's fortune te Come' along, fault, l'll.begin with you.', Kate pulled lault's hand ihto the circle of light Shed -by thelamp; mad bent her head over it. • Lula not very much interested, but 'mildly sympathetic, bent • her head too.' • . "-Now you see," began Kate, gravely, with the air of a cicerone pointing out the beautiesof a cathedralar a picture gallery, "those four lines make a big III. That means -marriage. Well, then --now let ma see-paa,rriage a yes," continued Kate., eat-- dently at a toss. • "Really, I can't find any- thing else: Luli, you haven't got half lines, enough in your Hand; it is a raost unsatis- • factorily smooth hand. Zoid, let me: try yours. Now here, you see, is the large al. again. .Marriage. Yes. Well; now here. ,-this complication of . lines -I 'don't hap- . pen quite to know what this meana. Mr. Glencairn, de yen' know? -.you are well up. in those thiags, aren't you ?" • ' -1cSha..11-1-try- my ekill ?' asked:Glencairn in polite conipliance with Kate's requdet, • and courteous reference to Zera. Zora, whose cue in . fife was never to be, rude to any one, could not refuse; but she would almost . as Soon have touched a poisonous snake as have . laid her hand in Glencairrt's. ' "There's good and evil mingled in these lines," he. said. , " They are cross-roads, and lead' in widely 'opposite directions. When them:clam: of this hand staade at the turning-peint-indicated here, it will be well to be °Maul whichroad she takes." " Well, ^is that all.? Can't you tell her soniethinar abeut hers spade than?' asked Kate, anxious in her ftiend'ti interest. ' "1 CEO.). read nothing more." ." Well, I declare Ettold my fortunes just as well !" cried Kate. Then followed a general exhibition and. comparison of heads. " Come Mr. Mayburne it's your turn!" said Kate. " I'll tell you shah a nice for - •'Kate took bold of Duke's.hatal as frankly and simply as she, had taken thcese of het. girl friends, without au atom of coyness or coquetry, and spread it openiu the Heat.. . "First -of all," she said, " here is the' big M-raarriage.a • • " abelieve everybody' has that-Me-baohe- lor,s, old. maids- mid. ad ; so doit't rely too much on it,". 'said Mrs. Craven. • • . ":Now," continued Kate, 'there ought to he an EL somewhere, to. mean -happiness. -tIreriatistatel Neveriemirid-;:ehareadat_ network of lines here. I don't 'quite•know: what they mean, hut I daresay it ira som'e-. thinnanitet-a-And now,-what-te -this line, with the cut across it?. Mr. Glencairn, Come and .help -me again. See hew this line breaks here ! Thereis quite a deep out acrosa it! What is it ?" Glencairn looked, and said rather curtly, " I dort't know" Buteeptnething r.in his look suggested :that.. he answered in the • negative rather from want of will than, want of power. • staid he added, with some involuntary betrayal of interest,. "1± is a very deep cross. /coats. °fettle other hands we have looked at to night have. 'such. "What tine is it'?" said Mr. Craven - "why, that's the line of life. Didn't you .all know that ?" •• "Then, what is this eat across it?"atke , outspoken Kate. "Some accident or misfortune, I .sum. pose," said Glencairn, indifferetitIY: • "Sudden death, • I should fancy," observed the. owner. ef . the crossed line. " And one might have a Much Worse for- tune e than that." ' • "Oh, itaell stuff and ponsense 1' pat in Mrs. Critven,lia,stily,meaningtO be discreet. and cohsolirig. " Don't you take any heed of this nonsense, Luli my dear." "1• don't" said Luli, with a calm smile. "Palmistry contradicts itself, and different hands tell different stories." • , "Elow do yau make out that, palmistry ' cantradicts itself ?" asked Kate; leaning con- fidentially toward' Lull, as, the rest of the greup gathered closer round' the coffee table ; " a,nd don't yeti' think its odd?" • " Whyait is ,cohtrodictory," aidLuli, in a lowered voice, becanse---a 'Howcould there really be is line of 'marriage in my hand if the line' of life was cut shortan ?" ' . - Kate did not advance the clear argument that the line of, marriage would of course occur in the haaril of one destined' to be a • widow, but only said - •. . • ' , • " Whyelauli, you talk as if there was only onernan in the world!" " There is only. one, I think -for each • one woman," Lull replied. , "Ah, I don't know whether statistics would bear that out," said Kate. " But-, well, Luli,I think after all you are right. hope -Some clay-" She hesitated more softly, and thoughtfully than usual. Even unromantic, outspoken, laughing Kate had as foolish a Warden's heart as the rest ' pight-th-e-instincts thattGleadairn- ever obeyed, the instincts Which of ten misled him, though he haver knew himself-anialed, drew him out upon the terrace when all the:rest, save Duke, had retired to their rooms. He walked slowly up and down in the shadows, and noted. that the lights Were still •shining in Kate's room a•nd in Zora's; but before he had been there many moments Kate's light Was extinguished: He walked up and down awhile; Zora's light burned still. He descendedthe eteps into the garden, keeping always in the shadow, and took up his post in' a nook of the shrubberyop a grassy- bank, from which he could command a full view along the terrace, a•nd also the stepaand the path at the,foot of the steps so long as it ran straight. . He had not waitedthere. long when a tall, light,, well -knit figure with a firtn elastic step, appeared at the further end of the terrace, and came straight along it, full in view in the'clear starlight. Opposite Zora'a 'window he paused for a anonient end cast a .hasty glance,up at the light, and; then continuelt his walk down the terraoe:- He stopped again ib the she,. •dow by the steps, waited a . few minutes, and then paced, this time more slowly, the full length of the terace agaba. • Minutes passed; the solitary light still gleamed. What manner of a vigil Was it shining on? What uncertiniaty, or what resolution, what trouble or what hope, kept her from- her rest?. - Of -hopeathethewas surely little in the .aspect of her life just now. Of resolution in her nattne there was little, now or ever. While that light still shoue, Glencitirn still watched in dog- ged patience ;" Duke still waited, in silent impatience; perceptible to the watcher. • While these two waited and watched, in secrecy which irked them and. shame for which they yet did not bluslathe one a traitor to his honor, the other a listener aad a spy, both either naturally blinded or resolutely blinding themselves to the disgrace of theie position, the same soft dusky starlight that looked on them rested on the sleeping face of the one link between them, the daughter of the one, the affianced bride of the other. Amidst the dark and silent strife of con- flicting passions that was waging around. her, he was sleeping, pure and peaceful as a child, unconscious of all these human struggles and sins and snares, as if they had been shadows corning and going on the wall while her eyes were closed in sleep. Gtaileless, and yet the _cause of all this secrecy around her; loyal and true, and • yet the cause of her lover's deception; innocent and yet the cause of her father's sin ; pure as an angel, while the two whom she 'most loved in the world sunk deeper in the dark sloughs of disloyalty and dishonor through her and' for her sake -she slept iiiisuspectingly, with the trusting, tranquil smile with which ,ehe had said her prayer for them still lingering on her lips. . • Duke, utterly unconseious of the eyes that were folloWing his movements, waxed more and more impatient,and as the minutes wore away,. and still Zora's light burned and still she did not conae, his very limited stook of patience melted entirely away. He waited at the foot of the balcony and looked up at the light. At last he set his foot on the balcony stairs; for the first time. -Invisible barriers, but more potent arid compelling than iron bare; forced him back, but -the gleam of that light and the silence drew him on. He stepped on th the second stair, and waited -then on the third-fourth. He was not allowed to mount further than the -fourth step. The light flickered and moved,: the curtain was pushed back; the_ window opened eoftly and rapidly, a,nd Zora was out, quick asat flash and soft as a shadow, on the balceny, and half way down the balcony stepain .‘'She drew Duke with lier dima to the' terrace., and there setzing_laid hand with ss gesture that seemed .to partake 'More of clinging terror thau affection, shealmost dra,aged him on down the garden stairs into the wavering 'shadows -of the garden paths. _ • • ' , • "Oh! you 'have frightened nee out of thy senses!' .she bays in a panting whisper. " Oh! why a,rta yeti soimaru.dent ? you. might .have been seen! Kate -might have looked out of herevaindow Pataa-tethha ' "Kate is sound asleep.b,y this time: you are so late, darling -I have beentvaating so long-andI want to talk to You -to ask "0; I .cannot stay -a. niinute-I-have only -only come tosay-that 'this must be last meetaa Zora's a:thee is broken andbreathless. She is 'fairly gasping with terror. Duke noticeswith ainazemeat that .this is sccaiethina far -more -than and far differeat frounher usnattitnidity. - "1 should.nothave. come now;". she emit .tinues hurriedly, in, the:Sense agitated tone, "only you .t. -a SaW yoil-and was afraid sotne one else:Might- -see. a I was sitting up thinking.. It must be our last meeting than -our lastat. - , • "Why, Zora, my dearest' Child, hatt peesa ;timorous little :dialing, -who-Tie-the. inat For Go -de ealtastionTi. ,she 'gasps inattetrified whisper; With a her - voile start; and as his a,and'is round her, it seems to hint that thateuppert P10218 lieepe her. irate failing, for she is ..tremhlipg in 'every -limb like an aspen in the breeie. The auturan night- is chill; but it is not the cold that, rnakee her shiver andcibngto • "Hush 1: be ,calma sweet!. dont tremble set' , tell me :what ,hatafrightened you. I• , will -take cate .of. You.". • She is inmortalaterrer, for she knows. she i breakin:gher promitie to Glencairn, and ,althoUgh.,she does not kithlv,of ,his presence her fear of him Weighs like, a :nightmare, on her Dat she loves Duke BO' absorb- ingly that heithath his •.careffeing. soothing even her -feat begins to. melt; ..and when. he , eays, :with . strong. arni clasped round het,.."1 will take care of yeti," she drawd her breath easier with something of relief; With the naturat-nwoirisally sense' oarell- ance, "I am safe with Uttar that is ane of the most laughable, unreasonable, maddest - wildest, most. ' invariable and universal' instirtots 'of • woman'slave. Againet assailants too strong for a tiottalieta to cope with, a woman deems t the , presence of., the Man she loves a'secure shelter and'allpavVer-•' .ful shield! ' So Zora's terror Calms, and she - sighs as she endeavers to collect herself suffi- cientltat_e_ tell hire steadily and resolutely. that these interviews Must end at Once and for ever. . But it is hard to pay, as it will be harder to carryout. And she is.trerabling stilland canntet trust her voice; and' it is far, More teraptina tot be,- silent _thee to 'speak such words.' , ,• •-: •„She looka. up to. him .for etrengthi. she clingSto him,. in trusting appealing copfi. .dence; ae though he, poor. reed, were a kook Of safety; earl . their lips meet in:one of those. 'stolen .kieses Whose” sweetness is scarcely marred by even -the 'sharp stings of .9onicience and. terror. •- . One•sletider ray of light from the Crescent moetar Which is glithrnering -among tho. tangled tree -tops, beams.; Upon het'1 air; 'pale face, and Duke's handsome head bending to 'meet it, and 'touches ,with silver the tremulous little' white hands that are clasped upon,Dulies shonlaer. Thetvathhercannot hear what they. say,: 'but' he can see tide plainly. , Ho sees that her lips move' ' he sees that Duke replies; but only a .eyllable'' now andthen of the words they atter reiches hie eat. She speaks se- 'T-36ftlY and tremuice-asiliet• voice quite inaudible to him. But as they draw nearer the foot of ' the marble steps, he hears Duke's clearer anclless,subdued Yoice • There can be -naa'dtange-i, sweet: You ...must try t� see, isnetn-morrow." . • . ." No, no -awe paint .not venture; it is 00 fearfully dangeroua. Duke, 1 encsago new. :Good night." ' t" Good .night then,' darling.. Stay one Mopient 1 Look out for a letter to-morroar, itt the usual place.' ',I, may write, anyhow. That must be all safe. De not trenableato, Zara. •Don'ttfrighten yourself.- Trust/no td care f or you more anxiously than you pare -for yourself." ' • Zora drew a deep 'sigh that .became almost a sob, • " Good night -good by 1", she said witha hopelessly deepondent look and torte. She despaired Of being -able, in thou) few agi- tated mortientshto make it clear to ,Inra ,the,t this must be the end., She despaired ofherown power to break the bonds that yet .she knew must' not and couId•not hold, She 'dared .not teil.him,her reasone for alarm. . Coward ad ahe was; ale . would sooner have given herself up to death than have risked bringing Duke in open collision with Glencairn. It was for him rather than for herself she trembled -and through fear lest he, whom she loved,.. should, in- ritsliness, M indignation, or in courage, provoke a _quarrel .with- hina- whom_ sha feared -and she dared not speak. a She had resolved to shake -herself free with one effort, and she saw despairingly, that the meshes of the net clung around her atilt. Too weak to defy or deterniine, elle temporized, evaded, and, irt her heart, pof3tponed, "until to -morrow." Duke, not knowing what cause she had for terror, yet 'strangely stirred by her agi- tation, and by the utter abandonment of trust and terror in which• she had clung to him, caught her back to bis heart impetu- ously as she turned to leave him, whisper- ing in her hopelessly sad and quivering tone, "Good night -good -by 1" "Not good -by 1" he said. • "I cannot lose You, Zora 1 My ,darling, good night -but not good -by 1" Those words fell plainly upon Glen - cairn's ear, and plainly he saw the passion and the pain ancl the -self-conflict on the two fades that drew together slowly and irresistibly, and then, yet more lingeringly, parted. And the conyiction came home to hina.that it wotild be'easier totear the iron from the loadstone rock than to part those two frotn one another, ." so' long as theYbeth should live." • - •' . As Duke and atria ,in silence and _cau- tion, ascended te the terrace ancase,paratecl, they never dram:tied of the eombre eyes that witnessed their good-piglat kiss. When Zeta had drawn her curtain and put out her light, and sighed as she laid lier head. upon her pillow, and closed her eyes, heavy and dim with fast flowing tears, even she, with all her ,aensitive, instinctive, deep- rooted terror of talent:mita, never suspected that down in the further, lower garden - Paths, he whom she dreaded was pacing to and fro, unresting, the only living, nthving creature in the midnight silence, silent himself, like a black shadow amidst the shadows, and still seeing, in his mind's eye, her fape and Duke's as the pale light of the crescent moon :had revealed them to him° an hour ago. "There is some truth in palmistry," Glencairn said to himself before he slept that night. "It seenaa to me that. the tithe has come, and it is to be. The means lie _ready to my hand, I know.„: It Was in vain my seeking to bai- the way that they must tread. It vvae written that it should come to this. I knew from the first that some evil must come of it." 'CHAPTER XXIII, • Oh, evil' was the root, and b,tter was 'the fruit, And cripasou W(19 the juiee'of the vintage that ' we troa —1111CAULAY. • : In the -garden next.morning, bathe bright early sunshine under sthe pure . blue sky, while every little' stvatiog twig and, trena- bling leaf is 'distinctly outlined'in the clear liaht an unconscious game of arose -par; poses is being • silently played among the• Iluroan beiagawho ia all taat clear definin,g light, that' picks out every tiny' insect tan the branch, cannotcatch., one glimpse into each. other's spirits •• . The three' girls are wandering UP and . down, chatting in, a languid • desultoryttvay:: Glencairn is lounging along- beside them, lookinginoodtr; and -rather haltnia," as Kate.would eay .;- but that in him is aiothiag- newa Kate is lively , of accelit is tieuttl. when. /the, ap.ealte, but is satinteritg on in lazily silent cotentment for half the.tirae ; and Luli and Zara, whd 'do' not, as as rule, thilesesome, iriteretiting topic is started, talk ranch; are not contributing largely to the conversation. ,Zor,a is not now the pale trembling, agitated girl who last night oiun fth terrifiedly and despairingly • to Duke's arm in the starlight. _She.,is _taneltamiling-th-ought-notaactually reirtliaul onthe surfaces end only at her heart she is anxious and oppressed. She:. ehrinka away in spirit, .altheugh :she 'dares not ehrink openly, before ' Gleraaini ; she .cannot breathe freely in his presence, slie :dreads lest his eyea should force her to betray her- self; and ,to preserve her habitual amiable serenity of °man:tot:mace . casts her -..an un- usup,1 Struggle, ,: • Glencairn en .his side more than _hali. shatiecta that there is a wtittenmessage waiting scabevaliere .fOr her,' and is fully: determined thataehe. shall not ohtein-lamt-, Seision.ef it atneticede '• Kb has seen in' a ,CaSual, -Passing aglande through the 'Open', window of _Duke's: room 'Duke, Seer/Jingly .,abs�rbedisi tvtitipg hurriedly.and impetu- oiisly. All bueiness 'of letter -writing is generally transacted ia the eaten: still of 'coairee it , does not; by any means folio -via that a latter, Written haetilY in • privacy trtast..of necessity . be for 'Zona,' But he deeind it•woath watching, He knows that Duke, Went doita .the garden ; a.pd out . through the lower, gate for a ranable with- , oat the slightest -Chance Of evena second's communication with.Zora. • Therefore. in cadet he ,ehoulil latve imprudently' trusted 'anyameasage for her to -pen a,nd .papeisat 'cannot yet' have been -transferred to..lier, andinuat consequently be lying aeady for her,tsomewhere-in" the. Usual place," as referred to ,last nigbt, probably -and there' sh'eawould no doubt search far it when.e,ver. .she should find an opportunity. But 't ander six eyes" the' oppertunity is a cliffia cult tiling te,find, . • • Zotit,".litiaiiiigtao idea- that her enenatt: ,witneesed her.' stolen intervieta last, night, or that he can have any reason for taispectt hagthe pdssibility of a correspondence this morning,- is under no imthediate apprehea- Biota and is only troubled' by Vague nervous- ness 50 hs the poesible letter that may be lurking, so near to him. • ' • • Once as she Oases by the austictrellis- work forming a -.'kind of 'arbor where th'e hiding-placeluakete she easta a quick, half - involuntary, nervous, scrutinizing 'glance upYvard: toward the' chosen corner. And rapid -as lightning, keen as a falcon, Glen - cairn's 'eye flashes after hers; unseen by her unnoted by the -act -here. It is momentary leek, but he has observed and interpreted. It occurfato him, and he smiles grind% to himself -at the thought, that ,the situation is suggestive .oftat farce. ---Twa people, or opposite sexed,' each with an .eye on a sus- pected' hiding place;- one • watching the other; the second endeatioring to a.yoid the vigilance of the first; . • Kate unconeciously comes -to hist aesista mime by proposing to Luli to go dovvn to the bottom of the garden, and see , if there -ate any signs of . the. "beloved :ohee" return. Lull' is -.nothing-. loath, and Zara; fearing tobe left tete.a..tete with Glencairn, is.relithtantly constrained to follow them.. .. So Glencairn is alone, eloee to thetrellia Work, to One corner of which he has traced Zorit'e apprehensive watchfal glance. t • Half an hour afterward, the oecupation of walking about the garden has palled ma. the three girls; and they have returned to; the house.- Still Zeta has found ho chance of is search ;sand all this While Glencairn has•Waited and Watched in dogged patience near the place' with . the paper she at long- ' ing to seek forfolded- in his breast. Duke is, wrapped in thought, certainly iiet of a Sanguine nature. His reflections are wanderhahrand not ouch as promise to lead to adieu ; but lie' is quite absorbed in them,- and '1111907iSeithie that Glencairn as only a few yards off, looking at him- • There is a strange expression in Glen - cairn's eyes -the' look which • Zorat has once, and once only, seen there, and which she will never forget -the look in which. the savage prevails, predominates over all _else; ..onlYsitis alltanathed nova, „It ie not •,'Icatial madness, and yet no Sine , and healthy mind ever reflected to the eye that fierce and half furtive gleam. It is - literally a tigerish and terrible craving to destroy; it is the • outcome of the potenti- ality that lurks' deep, deep down -often' never betraying itself, often _never even suspected --in every morbidly imaginative and passionate nature. , It is this potent- • ality,' underlying all -deep passion -be it of loae or hate, of avarice, patriotisrcaor ambition -that is the mainspring moving tb so many murders of the kind which startle and interest us because they are not the act of . the mere mercenary assassin. taking life for gold, nor the blow struck in hasty souffle or drunken quarrel. ' Such a nature was Glencairn's full of that deetractive instinct and. power, With a creed of morbid fatalism that paralyzed half his -hatellectual :faculties, .and lashed' the other half into feverish and half insane activity, while • all his radial faculties seemed unbalanced ahd twisted awrys• He looked at Duke steadily from head to foot.. Awaking suddenly to the inexpliaable but never -misleading consciousness that somebody is' leaking at. him, Duke- tarns and glances around. As ..he does so, Glen - cairn's look•claa,nges in a second e over that --betraying, 0722h2OUS flicker in his eye' there darkens a shadew of restraint and eeorecy, • The .two.. men,, standing. alone together, look each in the other's face. Onia sabject is.uppermoet in both their minds- Each wonders avha,t is the others thoueht. ' If they.had spoken-eitbat one word had been uttered to break theice, and lead to that subject that lay so near the surface, • the whole :current of other lives than only. 'theirs might- :have been changed: But neither of thorn chooee to lead to a discus- sion with the other. Dffite removed his cider' fromhis lips, • and looted ready to. respond, but resolute net to start any dis- cussion. .Glencairnecia his part, looked Pt him only for ,a nutmeat with his secret, • unfathomable eyes a' and passedon in a, • .silnee which, in any other man, would _have been strange, but in him' was nothing' very peculiar. • •• • .: • • • • .It is the afternoon of that day; and the inmates of . the Villa-- Sea -be -hi are on the . terrace as usual. Glencairn, who always chooses the sunnieet spot, Who, according tn Kates deedriptida. of him, , could litre in fire liltaattealamander, is ,basking in the. warmest and's-brightest :rays, sealed cm one of the stone 'benches; with the daye Galig- nani in hid hand.- Kate and Zora are. lean- ing against the balustrade near Mau, absorbed in • some .centadential whispered conversation, laying their heads very otos°. together. 'The subject of this confidence -is iirobably some • mysterious flirtation of Kate's -Some 'hintedadmiration en passant of •an aolatemarte or a British tourist -for. Zora, is evidently playing the role of sympathizing and interested listener. . la. a *cool shady nook, discreetly far from Zora, Duke Mayan:aye is holding a diecns- sten with Mr. andtarrs. Cravert. The groups are' thus distributed when Luli.copues out upon'the terrace.. She passes by Kate:aad ZotaWitti a_ emile; ole pauses is monaeut to ea:chat:the' a look with Dale, to let 'ter sleeve , brush his shoulder; her. hand ',rests there ,for . a- monchen,a as she Passeshiaa slowly andliageringly." 'Then :she goes,on te. her father's, side, and hangs 'over' ais sheillder,, and peep e at the news- paper which .he. -is idly scanning with a mind far away. . ^' Not tired, child?" -h-e says -for they have been,aut a great part of the day, and Luli is not' a good walker., • . To he .continuea. Latest News from All Oyer the World. entartainta J. S. Deaeon, of Ingersoll, has been ap- pointed Head Master of the. Central School iia -Belleville. • • , , A waman giving her name as ,johnstone :applied for protection in the Quebec police etation on Tuesday. She had an infaht with her, but . was miserably clad, and, appeared' to be not:quite sane.: .Slietsaicl she was froth the vicinity of 'Louden, Ont., . and was ,searching. for fear children who had been stolenfrom her.- . • A couple of snatch thieves ha Taranto on. Menday night relieved a Michigan' farmer of a pocketbook containing a107 in cash, two ttromiesory 'notes and a railway ticket to New York. The thieves asked for change of a bill, .cend on the Michigan. man . pro- ducing his wallet the siitch •gatne was suc- cessfully worked. . A youngenen aged":20,-named Fred True,, front the State of Maiho,:but recentlYii the employ of My. 11.. MoIntyreaof Gran - Ville, Que.; was killed' in. the satv-raill there yeSterday,by efalling aeTOSS , the .cirmilar. saw.. The' accident was caused, by. the end of a slab which he was earrhtng catching in the sawnte he passeda.Whieh •;drew -htrit into the eaW, • hutting off ,liis ' head,..a,na almost cutting him to.pieces, ' • Robinson & :Ryan's circus suffered .5 ilea treat.On arriyal it was frowned upon by the Church and Mayer. ' The weathet. Was drenchiag. The gallery fell, berrying 200 Peoplee. Sha,rpers Bold :a large maim' tity.of bogus tickets. , To -day the bailiff lute gone to St. Hyacinth to seize the entire' thing, as he expresses it, to satisfy the claire' of Couturier & 11'inkham, advertisers ta7nodoca.ntractors, ,the: aecemat amouating to • American. A diamond valued at .57,000 was found in the Red creek near Danbury, N. C., yes- terday morning. Several diamonds have already been found in this State. TritirfOtherhoocia Telegraphers of the United States and Canada ,and the United Telegraphers of North America were con- solidated on Saturday. The consolidated organization lute a riaembership of from six to eight thousand. An excursion train returning early on Saturday' morning from Niagara to janaes- town en the Buffalo & Southwestern Rail- -Way struck three men asleep on the track twenty railes east bf Jamestown. Two of the men areadead 'and' thoaotheris fatally injured. Governor Sherman, of Iowa, has issued a proclamation declaring the /vault of the election on the adoption of the prohibition amendments as being 29,700 majority in favor of the adoption. He commends all citizens and residents to take notice aud govern themeolves accordingly. The American Lumber Company has purchased from the Detroit, Mackinac! & Marquette Railway Company the standing pine on its entire land grants except MaokintioCounty and east part of ChiPpawa county, in all half a million acres. They also purchased 225 million feet of timber framthe Northern Peninsula, giving 11 the control of the largest body Of pine in Miehigaa. It is intended to °tit fourteen million feet next winter. The head offices are in Toronto, Canada. . A Franklin . Pa. speeial saye the well _known Seavation Army_ laid ,B"eige to this peaceful city Iast-Saturdiyainidiisliiilail, exf - an attack has been kept up with unremit- ting . vigor. When the Salvationists first ,proposed coming Imre it was their intention to hold regular old fashioned camp meet- ings, but the plan wasaf tetwara El changed, and the Meetings ate Dow takhg place daily .and _nightly id a large, cirus ten t, whieh is crowded to its utmott , eaacity at every medting. There are eight menabers of the army here at present. , Lizzie McLaren, aged 17, was enticed into the reservoir ,grounds , Lancaeter, Pa., on Saturday night, made drunk and outiage,d.lay several men. The ; -girl recog- nized fear of her assailants.' One has been arrested. The girl is now a raving maniac. . " •I \\ Harrison 'Hoag, is leading citiZen of Berne. ville Pa and his two sons made a Post viortem of .a valuable cow which died sud- denly. All Were blood poisoned. •Hoag died in terrible agony. It is feared that ' rilae seas will also -die. ' On Sunday night roughs forced- aiaen- trance inth Moreland'ssaloon. at Seneca, • Falls, N. Y., and beat Mrs. Moreland. She died yesterday morning. John McKeon, who was arrested at midnight, Is the prin- cipal.- Another jnan was arrested yeeter- da,y..racirning; The murdered woman was about to become a mother. Crowe, of dynamite farnalas returned to Peoria from Cbicagoswhete it is reported icohvention was held last Week, attended by a number of prominent Irish Americana from different sections of the country, in- cluding Major Hornigana of New :York; Patrick Collins', cif Boeton, and a, delegation. ' from the Pacific °Oast. It is, -learned that artangeraentb have been- made for the 'establishment of a factor Y far the mann- ' facture of bombs and other eXplosives, to be used by the Crowe -Rosa Lotion in ' the war against Penland. . • ' •'Etiropettd• • A treaty has ;been concluded between Spain and Chili. A Spanish frigate Will proebed to Yalpataiso and exchange salutea with Chili's' forts. •, At a. -meeting .of 2,000- pereonseat.' the a Alhambra theatre, Madrid, yesterday, it was decided to appoint a committee to urge the Governmerit to increase and strengthen the naval forces of the country.' , The passengers of the .1Ianaburg steamer • Gellert, who !andel at Plymouth, report that the vessel naraZialtaescaned ,burning on jtily 2Stli ththugh fire hi the :aftermost ' water tiglat hold. , T.he captain had provided for the abandounaent, but two .large holes were cut through the deck and, the (tempera, ment flooded. -The vessel Was damaged to ,the extent of 10,000. • • The steamer with Cetewayo on board .a,rrivedin the Thames yesterday. • ' The Ladies'-Land-Leegue is about to be dissolved.. It is proposed to- establish an open organizationtin ahich the ladies w al not participate. ' . Parnell has issued an urgent whip tithe Irish 'Members of the House of Conamons. , to oppose the athendmeuts made in the' House of Lord to the Arrears, Bill. • One of the ainerffirdents adopted -makes it com-• "pulscry torttlie Lent! Commiesien to order . • the payment' of half of. tine antecedent. . arrears. .T.Le Arrears Bill passed the third reading in the House of Lords last evening 'LIE A`OliC'E ETENrs Attother iftigJius,Hsh ,Crind 7111i5rtlivvest; ' • Sma."Po,c, • •• ' A LOndoncablegraita,detealeet (Tuesday) , night, says,: .. AtThaffie-Fat-Canadian --Nratth- weet Land Company heti 'been -launched on... ' the sitnarket here.,.... The- Angle -Canadian Land COin.piny issued' , its- prospectus . Theccimps,ny....will.ha,ye a capitaa.' of -R509,000, divided into ar0,009 .shar.ea. of • 210 each: .Half the total stock , only. is . plaeed oh the .tharket, inclaf this --12',500 shares are offered • for subscription; .,in Canada . and the 'other half in England. The: object of thecompany, es:set-forth in . -the prospectus,:is t� invest., capital in tire' • - purchase 'at.' real property in Ontario, Manitoba -.Baal the 'Canadian! Northwest •• Territories. Lord.Erskin.e is Cliairnian•of the Board. ef.P.rovincial Directors. A despatch 'from:Winnipeg ;Says': Tt is now believed 00 good .authority to be the : • intention of the Govermaient toiehanget the. • - 'Capital of theeNorthavest Territory from . Battleford to a town to be 'located, by Ithe • Pacific Railroad; on, Pile of' Pones. Creek, a,' shert • diataince.. eoutliWest. 9,1 Fort Qu'- Appetleapden the line'. af railway. The necessary public buildings to acaomntodate -Liouteuant-Ggyeraor Devsdney and °Metals wili ,be at . °nee proCeeded with, , and barracks for the eastern eheadquarters of the Monnted 'Police are likely' to .be're- moved there froin,Qu'Appellet , • • 0 wipg to the- cliffic.ulty Of ever malting . Flat Creek ' a fit -place iu which' to live, and the incouvethence of the. Presept.riala Way Statioh to the surrounding•aettlemeats the C. P. R. has been petitioned to Move . the station' one anda half miles west of the present site. .•.- , Weste has a h). ild base ef smallpox,. CIL Horrible Death ot Mos Afflicted .sith the pia eatie. The Arthur Enterprise says': • A shocking ease of glanders, 'resulting in the death of manna named Freak Curl, aged about 30 years, ocCurred a little over a week ago in Luther. The upfortanate man had been employed in Hathaway's mill; and haying_ cracks upon his hands it sP supposed he, caught the hafection through the .handling of aortae la,oatds upon -which horses affected with the disease had diecharged the fatal poison from the nostrils. It al said there is no other way by which the infection could have been communicated; as the man had nothing tcado with horses. We have been informed the whole body of the • unfortunate ma,n presentedis frightful . appearance, the best medical aid was of no avail and he died in great agony on Monday, the 171Ia of July. Our1 was a married man, and leaves a Wife to mourn his untimely death. Ilis athea and mother went to the Red River Some time ago and aro at present settled in that country. Persons having horeee affected "th glanders incur a fearful reeponsibility in keeping such animate, more particularly when they make use of them in a waY to enclauger the lives' of persons unaware of their being dffeoted with the loathsoine and, terrible „dieease. Yet it 'is a notorious fact that perilous have been found so wieked and unprincipled a,s even- to- dispose of animals eo affccte-d, even in violation of the law which otders that all such be destroyed, Pereons of,this elites are no better than mutdeters, and should meet the severest punishment allowed by law. A. lamp explosion occurred on Monday evening in the County of Carleton dail, which, but for the presence of mind of one ' of the prison officials, Might have resulted • . in a terrible holocaust: