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•'Dili ; e VO to :%-r 1 orterr..,r"
"Yeti .e• hatit ',. . ,,, .. • r. It 159 Ly
from St 1.: It 4 111' 1' .. •f •t• 0,1 .0 1St.
Louis r•.. ,t Cr.. u•1+..1 u.1. W.611 1,411111HthVr
fallow:. ...oh ttiy'nava ' .ii.a.. ur , you, but
• Nerdy dr 1 d, no k, l llt11 wutl d gu au.i have
a. rprut, au xwi.u.L ,c
'.A t,, lee, ith:acd!'
"But we ward off by train to Ka ons at
five o'ei• :ok the next morning. The devil
wouldn't keep him suitor, anti' Ise dicta of
D.T. the (lay after we got Wm to 'L'r",oa.
So the e's the truth o: lc, tool you .needn't
go to New York at all Hand me the dol-
lars. I'll be off to the :Stotts; and you
oan go back and marry the widow,—ur
leave her alone, just as you pl000e." ••
They ware down below when this story
wastoad, sitting on their portmanteaus in
the little cabin in which they wero to sleep
The p^: swot ct of til s tomboy cottain:y Lad
no attraction for Mr. i.etcock°. 1•Iis com-
panion was mo..t distaste.ul to 111:11; the
ship was abominable.; the expense was
most sttvere How gladly would he avoid
it all it it ware possible!"
"You know it all as well as if you were
there," said Robert, wand w• 1•u banding
on his grave " He did believe it The
snan in alt I•robabi:icy had at the last mo -
wont to -ti tho true :tory W Ly not go
back and b.+ married, again? Tho Doctor
could b.; got to believe it
But then if it were not true? It was
only for a moment that he doubted "1
must g to 'Frisco all t1Lu sower ' he said
"Why su? '
"Beer:,:e I must in truth staandupon his
grave - .trust have p.tn.a atm be has beon
burl of tit re."
"Tne,t you may g : by yourself," said
Robert L.teuy Ho ha 1 said this more
than once or 1wiea a'r:eudy and hal been
made to change his tone. He 0.111 ti go tot
stay as he 1 lea'.o;l, but no stoney wnnid be
paid to him until Peacocks bad in his
possession positive proof
froy's d • h So tha two nlnrte th 'i • un-
pleasant journey to Now York together.
'.'here WAR uutni,ialnir>,, ci :he ,:ay, even
as to tit' amount of liquor nob Amalfi he
aliowe I I' neacku wuti.d paw for nothing
that 11: Lied no; himself or :er. Jloft'oy bad
sante 11,31 ;8nd.nf itis own, mut was trd-
quantty (!rang while on holird. There
were m•'ny troubles; Lot stiu war (aa i at
last rt':.0 . New York,
Thea "a. we woo a great question whether
'"'they ova -'.,i _o tiireot front t•henca to San
Franc: r.1, or Imlay themselves til^e 1 or
Your d.. by goi.ig round b' sit. Louis.
T4efro:' was anxlors to ro to St. Louts—
and o•1 :Lot amount Pea°oo:Ce was a inO.t
rosolvad to take tickets direct throu,;h for
San lora :Disco Why should Lelrov wish
to go to St Louis? But thun, it the Lary
were lit.) ^ ,her false same teat, might he
learned ,.b lit. Louis; and it was at Mot
dooi('t.:l that thither they would go. As
they went on from town to town, (moni:-
ing earri;;es first at one plata and t. en at
another, L•froy's manner became worse
and worse, and his 1 ingu:age mnro and
more t;greatening. 3'oacooke was asked
whether he tnougllt a man was to be
brought alt that distance without being
paid for his time. "Yru will bo paid
when ;tau have perforated your part of the
bargain,' .•':Lid Peao .e.se.
"I'll • . r fane d
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II .:c•e s m.e' ta: t o the n) at , .
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Olney
Louth," ,,aid Lofroy, "or I'll know the
reason rhy A thousand dollars! What
aro a taiu.•aud dollar? Hand ont the
lnonay.' 'this was said as they wero sit-
ting to etht'r in a °mr;ler or separated por-
tion of the smoking' room of a little hotel
at wairlt . h y von wa:tin;, for a sten :lar
which wa+'u take thorn down the Missis-
sippi to tot. Louis. Poacoc'ke looked round
and sax theyy were alone.
"1 sba.. Lana out nothing till I see your
brolb,;ro orlt'•e," said Poacooke
..You „'•,. to"
"Not a o "'ow! 1Ynus is tho good ofyoni'
going an like that? You ougllb to know
me we.: (-amigo by this time'
"But two o not know the well enough.
You 8111. havo taken me for a very tame
twat .-.' rirt,lr."
"1;'erilai.;1 1 pato •'
"May la you'll °hant:o your mind "
"Peri tips I shall. It is glare possible
that you moult, ,Murder ma, 13ut yott will
not get 11117 money by that."
"elur•t..r you! You ain't worth mar -
doting.' J•;:elt they sat in silence,waiting
far another hour and ahaif till 1110 steam.
boat enure. The reader will understand
that it ingot have boon a bad time for Mr
1'eaoeke
The y were on the staamor together for
about 1-w.'1(:, font flours, isor,:1l whioh
!Atm(' I au...j s,su::o a word. :as farllq hit
tamr►pan:as• could tau.ler:ta..d ht: wcs out
of 1udo, 1•11c:Ara eL.rtem:node sober cur
big tine somber part of the dot, 1 ,'ting
only what erioab of II Imo wa,1 ; rovi.;ud
fur,Elan ' ' - L. ts.nv :•t(..:.ed
�y0 s PEACOC E.
t Loms, which they did tat+ at night,be
had. trade acquaintance with pertain fel-
:ow travellors, and was drunk and noisy
W11011 they got out upon the quay. Mr.
Peac.lok° bore his position as wolf as he
coat ft and n^conipanietl hint up to tho hotel
It w•t. a •r:tngcd that they should contain
two days at t. Loris: 811(1 then start for
wan Otaitalsou by the railway which rune
ao-oss the stats of Kansas. Before he
we,tt• to beta Lofroy insisted. on going into
tb. large hall in which, ns is usual in
American hote,s, men sit and loaf and
smoke and rend the newspapers. Here,
though it was twelve o'ciuck, there wilts
still a crowd; and Lefroy, after los had
seated himse.f and lit his cigar gob up 1
front his gout and addressed all t .0 men !
around hint.
"Here s a fellow,". said 11e, "has come
out from England to find out what's be- I
come of Ferdinand Lefroy."
I knew Ferdinand Lefroy," said one
mein, "and 1 know you too, Master Rob -I
o.:"
"What has become of Ferdinand Le-
froy?' asked Mr. Peacock°.
` He's gond where all the good fellows
go," raid another.
"You moan that he is dead?" asked
Pt-acocke.
"Oi course he's dead," said Robert. i
"Poe been telling hint so evor since wo •
left England; but he is such a d— unbe- 1
Booing infidel thnt he wouldn't oredit the
noon's owa brother. He won't learn much
too o about hila."
"Ferdinand Lefroy," said the first man,
"died of the way as he was going out '
Tt cat I was over'thu road the day after." t
" You know nothing about it," said
Hubert. '"He died at 'Frisco two days
atter we'd got him thorn."
"Ho died at Ogden Junction whore you
turn down to Utah city."
" 1:o11 didn't see lam (lead, said the
other.
"If I remember right, continued the
fi st man, "they'd taken hint away to
bow - him somewhere just titer° in the
nolghborhood. I didn't care touch about
him, and Ididn't ask anypnrtionlar goes-
tlons. He was a drunken beast,—better
detect than alive.
" You'va been drunk as oftun as him, I
guess," said Robert.
"I novor gave anybody the trouble to
Miry me, at any rate," said the other.
"Do you mean to say positively of your
own knowlo^o," asked Peacock°, "that
Ferdinand Lefroy died at that station?"
"Ask hint ;•he's his brother and ought to•
know best"
•'I tell you," said Robert, earnestly,
' t:lat we carried him on to 'Frisco. and
Clem he died. If you think you know
boot, yon can go to t'tah oity and wait
giro till you hear all about it. I guess
they'd make you ono of their ciders if you
v tat long enough." 'rnen they all wont
to had.
It was now clear to Peacock° that the
man as to whose life or death he was so
anxious had, really Glial. The combined
evi.lence of those men, whioh had tomo out
without any proa0ucerted arrangement,
arts proof to his mine,. I3nt thorn was no
evidence whioh 110 could talc° back with
bins to England and use thorn as proof in
n court of law, or even bafnro the I31shop
and I)r. Wortle. On the next morning
before Roblrt Lefroy was up. ho got hold
of the man whohad boon so positive that
death had overtaken the poor wrotohh 111
the railway station, whioh is distant from
Sou Franeieso two days' journey. Had
thus man diod thorn, and been buried there,
n ,thing would be known of him in San
Francisco. The journey to San i+'rnnoisco.
would be entirely thrown away, and he
would ho as badly off as ever
" i wouldn't like to say for certain,"
aid the man when he ural ifter.ogated,
"I only telt you what thug told me. As I
woo passing along, somebody said Ferdy
3 racy had boon talon dead out of the cars
011 to th,ti platform. Now yon know AS
1'a 1 0:1 about it as I do."
lio was thus ,soured that at any rate
t i.1 ?ou:'nay to San Francisco had not ban
rt...sg:e he: a fiction. 'sho man ha' gone
•'a•'co:," us had been said and nothing
would bo known of hint at Ft. Louis.
lay must stnra on on upon his journey incl
woke snob inquiry as alight he possible at
the Ogden junction.
(;n t he day following they started again,
taking their tickets as far as Loavan-
wortl► They wore told by the officials
that they would find n train at Leaven
wtll•th waiting to take them on 80rass tho
onuntry into the regular : an Francisco
'fro But as is not unusual with railway
u'l.cials lit that part of tht world, they
Niro deceived. At LoMenwortlt, Choy
w.tio fowled to remain for four and•tatenty
h u•sr,and there they put thetnatetrit!ttil nt
'3 numerable hotoI in which they^t'vero ob-
l:gett to oecupy the same room. It was a
maga uncouth place. In whioh a5 It mom -
ti to Mr. rra000ke, 11110 leen Were iunra
uticoartmous to Lim,and the Wage around
..- '•Aral •LR•' ;E ,-,111:,I.'.g•ef 4:+9,
mote unlike to what he had mot else- saouut tto living now as gentlemen ought,
Where, than in any other town of tho with threo hundred niggers of -our own,
Union. Hobert Lefroy, slut° the first but for thoso avoursod Northern hypo,
night at St ,mots, had btcoino sullen °rites,"
rather than disobedient, 110 huts not ro- "Row oan I find the stone?"
fused to go 00 when the 1110010811 mine tar "There's a chop there who brows,
starting, but had loft it in doubt 11.11 tho guess, whoro all them graves aro to bo
last nwniont whether he slid not intend to found But it's on tho right hand, n long
prosooute his journey, When the ticket way down, near tho for wall at the bob -
wits taken for blotto protondeclt ]bonito- tom, just viler° the ground takes a little
nether Indifferent abort it, and would dip to the north. It ain't so long ago but
111umsell' givo nolieip wltatevcr in any of What tito letters on the stoao will b3 as
Wm wont troubles of travelling. But as fresh as if thoy were out yostorday."
far n9 Otto llttlo town of Leavenworth Ito "Does n0 ono in San Ft'a11o!sdO know of
ltt,d howl tarr'0d,atld Palaook.) now bogan its death?"
to ,:link it probable that ho might ruoceed "There's a °hap named Burk° at john-
in taking him. to Son 1.''ritnclloo, son's, tho elgar.sltop in Montgomery
Lin that night 113 endeavored to thaw() Strt'ct. He was brother to ono of our
b' in to go first to bad, but in this nue fnilod, party, and he wont 'out to the funeral.
Lofroy insisted on remaining down at tho Maybo you'll find lain, or, anysvily, some
bar, where he had 018/01011 for 111 810lf traces of him,."
sola° Wittier for whioh Alr. Peao::cko, in `1'1211 two leen Fitt lip discussing the
spite o1 all his otforts to ilia r :.:il'tlxy, I indttter nartrlV thyiyhola ;f the night, awl
would Ira 0 to pay, If the unto wotl.tl Ret I'"w voidu, hufon) ho star,o-11 btvl brought
drunk +u1di lin titer°, :w ouuhl ,tut hotp hlulsalf to aace.l0 to Lefroy's last proposi-
himself. On k;(is 1)0 was determined, tion. Wu did givo the man money enough
that tt'`-,ethe:' with or without 1:110 man, ho to supp rt hint for two or throe wanks and
' uold go on by tho first train;—•x11(1(° he also to tako ilial to Chicago, promising at
took hilnoolf to his hod. tho same tl%o that Ile w^Nd 110:91 to hint
Ile had been thoro perhaps half an flour the thousand Wino; at Oolong., 1110814 110
when his oompanirm came into the roost, find him theca at the t1Fpointcd tinio, Hud
—certainty not drunk. IT0laeato•1 hiineelt shook, ho also have found ]:crclinanci Le-
on his btWnail than, pulling to him a► large froy's gravo at San Francisco in tho Intuit
travelling bag which he used, ho unpack- ner dose -Mott.
ed it altogether, laying all the things
whioh it containel out upon tiro bed. CHAPTER XIX.—"N013.01/11' HAS
"t\Vhnt aro you doing that fory7 sail i1Ir. GONDbiIINED YOLT HER1L"
Peacock°, ('we have to start front here
to -morrow mor.lin ; at live " Mrs. Wort le when sho perceived that her
"I'nl not going to start to -marrow at husband no longer galled on Mrs.l'en000kcl
five, nor yet to -morrow at all,noryet next alone bowline liars::! morn as'ttdnou, in
day." her visits, till at last she too olitertainocl a
"You aro not?'' great liking for the woman. Whou Mr,
"Not if I know it. I have had onough Pedtuoolfn had been gono for nearly a
of this game. Into not going furthcr west month she had !Alen into a habit of going
for anyone. hand ont the nuonoy. You across every day actor Oho porformm)ce of
have been told everything ^boat lay hor own domestic morning duties and ro-
brothor, true and honest, as far 119 I know maiming in tho solluol•llouse for an hour.
it. Hand out the mono." On 0110 morning she had found that Mrs,
"Not a dollar," said Pea000ke. "All Peacock° had just received a letter front
that I have heard nfi yet w;11 bo of no ser- New Yor:c in whioh ho had narrated his
vim to mil. As far as I can see, ycu will adventunw so far, Ho had written frcnn
earn it; but yon will have to wino on a Southampton, but not aft3rthe revelation
little further yet." which had been made to him there as to
"Not a foot; I ain't a -going out of this the death of Ferdinand, Ho might have
coon to -morrow." so written, but the information given to
"Thou I must go without you;—that's him hod, rt the spur of the moment,
sll." seemed to him to be so doubtful that ho
"Yon may go and be --. But you'll bad refrained Then he had boon able to
have to shell out the money first, old fel- think of it all during the voyage, and from
low." Now York he bad written at great length,
"Not a dollar." detailing everything. Mrs. Peacocks did
"Yon won't?" not actually read out loud the letter,
"Certainly I will not. How often have which was full of such terms of affection
1 told you sop" as aro common between man and wife,
"Then I shall tako'ft." knowing that hor title to be called n wife
"That you will And very difficult. In was not admitted by 11irs. Wortlo; but she
rend much of it and told all the drown -
stances as they were related.
"Then," said Mrs. Wortle, "be certain-
ly is—no more." There canto a certain
accession of sadness to her vol00,as she re-
flected that, after all, she was talking to
this woman of tho death of hor undoubted
husd,
"banYes; he is dead—at last." ]firs, Wortle
uttered a deep sigh. It was dreadful to
whatever•"• - • her to think 11 woman should speak in
"My God!" said the lean suddenly, '4i .-that way of tho death of.hor husband. "I
am not going to bo done in this way." know'alt that Is going on in your- mind,"
And with that he drew out a bowio•knife said Mrs. Puacooke, looking u,( into her
which he had concealed among the things fano.
which he had extracted from t•he• bag. "Do you?" -
"You don't know the sort of oountr: "Every toonght. You are telling your-
you'ro in now. They don't think much "self how te:•rible itis ttht• a woman should
' here of the life of suoh a skunk as you It speak of the death of her husband with -
you mean to live till to -morrow horning out a tear in hor eye, v ithout a sob, --
you must tomo to terms." without outs word of sorrow."
Tho room was n narrow chamber in
wliIoll two beds ran along the wall, eaoh "It is vory sad."
with its foot to the other, having a narrow "Of course it is sad. Has it not all been
spaeo between theme and the other wall sari! But whnt would you Have me do? It
Peacock° occupied the one nearest to tho is not because 110 was always bad to ale,
door Lefroy now got up from the bed in —bemuse he marred all my early lifo.
the further corner, and with the bowie- making it so foul a blotch that I hardly
knife In his hand, rushed against the door dare to look book upon it from tho qufot-
as though to prevent his minipill] ion's ne89 and, comparative purity 0f these later
escapo Peacooke, who was in bed tin- days. It is not because he ,las 8o treated
dressed, sat rip. at once; bat as he did 'so me as to maim mu feel that it has been n
he brought a rovoiver from lender the pit- misfortune to me to be born, that I now
low. "SO'you have boon and armed your- receive thcsa tidings with joy. It is because
self; have you?" said Robert Lofroy. of him 19110 has always boost good to me
"Yes," said Peacocke;"if you come as the other was had, who has made 3110
nearer me with that knifo I shall shoot wonder at tho noble instincts of a 1nan,
you. Pitt it down " as the other has wade nut shudder at his
"Likely I shall put it clown at your bid- possible meanness."
dingo" - "It has boon vary hard upon you," said
With the pistol still held at the athor Mrs. Wortle. •
Ham's bend, Peacock° slowly extricated "And hard., upon hila, who is downer to
hinrsulf from his boil. "Now," said be, me than my own soul. Think of his 00n -
"if you don't como away from tho door I
rho first place. if you wets to out my
throat--"
"\Vhioh Is jusb what I intend to do."
"If you wero to out my throat,—whioh
In itself will be diflioult,—you would only
fiud the trifle of gold whioh I have got for
our journey as far as 'Frisco. That won't
do you much good. The rost is in circular
notes, which to you would bo of no servioo.
duct to me! How he went away to ns 101-
shail fire ono barrel just to lot them know fain the truth when he first hoard tidings
in the ilouso what sort of affair is going which made him balievo that I was free to
on. Put tho knife down. You know that become his! slow he inusb have loved 1110
• I shall not httrt you then." i then, whoa, after all say troubles, ho took
.After hesitating for a moment or two, me to himself at tho first moment that
Lefroy did put the knife down, "1 ditin't was possible! Think too, what ho has
mean anything, old fellow," said 110. "I clone for ale since: and I for kiln! How I
only wanted to frighten you." 1 have ntartod lila life, while bo has striven
"Well, you have frightened, 1110. Now to repair mato? Do I not owo him every -
what's to come next?" thing?" -
"No, I ain't;—not frightened you a bit. "Everything," said Mrs. Wortle,--"ex-
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day. Well now, I it tell ye how it alt is. I diel do what was wrong. Would not
Spying this, he soatote himself on his own , you havo clono so under such circom-
bed, and began a long narration. He ; stances? Would not you have obeyed the
would not go further west *than Leaven- 1 ,man who had been to you so true n has -
worth. Whother he gob his money 05 band while lits believed hims9lf entitled to
whether Ile lost it; ho Would not travel a •, tho name? .Wrong! I doubt whether it
foot further. There swore reasons which was wrong. It is hard to know sometimes
would make it disagreeable for him to got what is right and what is wrong What
into California, But ho made a propos!- . he told ]me to do, that to me was right.
Had he told me to go away and leave hill(,
I should have gone.—and have died. I
supposo that would have been right." She
paused AS though sho expected an answer.
But the subjo. t was so difficult that Mrs.
Wortle wag ratable to ninke onto "I have
sometimes wished that he had done so.
But 11n I think of it when I ala alone, I
feel how itnpossiblo that wouict have been
to him. fie could not have sent 1110 aw8y..
That which you call right would haus
boon impossible to ,tin, whom I reoart! •ns
the most Perfect of !minim beings. As fir
as I know him, ho is faultless:—and yet,
awarding to your jurlgmont, ha has o01”"
mated 8 sin so (loop that ho moot stand
disgraced b0fere the eyes of all men."
"I have not sold so "
"It oomet to that. I know how good you
aro;--how nnuoh I otto to you, 1 Jtnow
that I)r, Wortle and yourself have boon so
kind to tis, that were I not grateful !ta-
yond oxprossion I should bo the meanest
hunl=n ('ieaturo. 1)0 not suppose tient I
AM angry or vexed with yon 11008080 you
You'll and ttt%� nape on it,'--•i':crlltiand .- condemn me. It is neeetsnry that you
Lofroy of ittf14Pdttit, Ltinti(zittna, 1 ilbtarek should do so. But how Baan I condemn
Was the taloa of our plantation, where wit tnyoolft'--or how oan 1'oondema him c"
tion If L'otcocke would only givo hint
money enough to support himself for the
nocossitnry ,into, he would remain 1(t
Leavenworth till his companion should re -
ton there, or ho Weald make his way to
Chita;;:(, nod stay t110ro till . Leacooke
should co no to hila. Then h0 proesedod
to explant how absolute evidonoe alight
be obtained at San I+'rabniboo t+s to his
brothor'E death. "That fellow was lying
altogether," he said, "about my brother
dying at the Ogden station. Ile was very
bad there, no doubt, dal We thotight it
was going to bo all tip with hint. Ile had
Oa horrors time. worse than I evor raW
before, and 1 ]tope rover to see the like
again But we did get h111 on to San
Pranciseo; and when ho was obi° to walk
into tho city on his own legs I thought
thnt, might be, he Would rally and °one
round. 1'lowover, in two days he died;
and st•o b:iriodl him in the big cone•
tory j11st out of the town."
"met yo pat a Stone over hint?"
"Yes; thoreika stone a5 huge a1 life,
"If you are both free now, Ifs • Mar be
]wade right."
"Mit bow about ropentxnrpt UI1 it be
111 right though I shall not l;tv,e repented?
I will never repent, 'limp tato lawn Jn
aocordaneo with whioh 1 tall,,; admit that
I have dono wrong; 'ma .htltt, J ,tot broken
those laws 1111hetl he bq 20 late, 1 should
bavo hated myself t;�r,g}),gh 011 MY lifo
afterwards."
"1t was very t11,f ocean"
. "If you could Wow,. Airs, Wortle, how
difficult it wo,ilkek taws been to go away
and leave Katt It seas not 1111 ho canton)
1110 and 0.14 lila that he was going d10111
to Totals, to Seo how it 1)81 been with 111y
liusltttntl, that I over know what it was to
tope it nuan• Ito hacl 1)011or sold a word,
Ho trtodl not to look it. But I knew that
1 hilt, his heart and that he bad mine,
Atom that moment I have thought of hien
day ata 1 might, Whon I gave hint InIF
chat, tllt'u (11111110lttutArl tram plc, Igtwe 1
hint as his coin, It has teen Ms to do
what 110 liked with it ever singe, let Who
Might live or who might die, Ought I not
to rojOIoo that he is dead?" Mts. Wortle
ooliltl,int answQr tho gtles1ign, `ho 9094
only shudder. t'it watt hot by any will of
• )my own," continued the eagor woman,
"that 1 marriod Ferdinand Lo:roy. Every-
thing in our country was then destroyed.
Ali that we 191011 and nil that wo valued
Inad been taken ltwaY front us, War had
tisstroyed evorything. When I was just
springing out of ohildhootl, we were ruin•
yd. We bad to go, all of us,—women at
well ns neon girls as wall as boys,—and
bo soothing also than we bad been. 1
was told. to marry hila,"
"That was wrong."
"When everything is in ruin about you,
what room is there for ordinary well•do-
itltge It loomed then that ho svouidl have
soma remnant of property. Our fathers
had known atoll other long. The wretched
man whom drink aftorwards outdo so vile
,night have boas as good a gontlouian as
another,if things had gone wail with him.
Ho could not have born a hero like him
whom I will always call my husband;—
but it is not given to ovary man to be a
hero."
' "Was he bad always from the first?"
"Ho always drank,—'from his wedding -
day; and then Robert was with him, who
was worso than ho. Botwgen them they
were very bad. My lIfe was a burden to
nue. It was terrible. It was a comfort to
me even to be. deserted and to bo left.
Then came this English:non in my way;
and it seemed to me, on a sudden, that
the very nature of mankind was altorod.
Ile did sot lie when hu spoke. 'He was
never debased by drink. He haul other caro
than tor himself. Por himself, I think,he
never caaod. Since ire has been here, in
the school, have you found any cause of
fault in him?"
"No, indeed."
"No, indeed! nor evor will;—unless it
bo a fault to love a woman at. he loves
me. See 1111)411 be is doing now,—when he
has gone,—what ho has to suffer, coupled
ao he is with that wrotoh I And all for lay
sake!"
"-For both your sakes."
"Ho would havo - baton none' the worse
had he chosen tb part with mo. He lulls
in no trouble. I was not' lois wife; andlo
need only—bid me go, There would have
been no stn with him then—no wrong.
Had he followed out your right and your
wrong, and told me that, as we could not
bo ratan and wife, we must jest part, 11e
would have boon in no trouble;—would
he?"
"I don't know hose it wonid brave bcon
then," said Mrs. Wortle, who was by this
time sobbing aloud in tears,
"No—nor I, I ohould have been dead,—
but ho? Be is a sinner now, so that he
may not preach In your churches, or tt'a0h
In your sohools;—so that' your dear hus-
band has to be ruined almost bocnuse ho
has been kind 1111 him. Ho then might
have proa°had in any church,—have
taught in any school. What duo I to think
that God will think of it? Will God con-
demn ,lint?"
"We trust leave that to Him," sobbod
Mrs. Wortle. -
"Yas;—but in thinking of our souls we
must rolled a little as to what win holiovo
to be probable. Ho, you say, has sinned,
—is sinning still in galling mu his wife,
Mn 3. not to believe that if 110 were called
to his last amount he would stood there
Imre and bright, in glorious garments.—
one fit for heaven, bacons° Jte has loved
others butter than ho has loved himself,
because ho has clone to others as he might
have wished that they should c10 to him?
I do bnlieva it! Believe! I know it. And
if so, what am I to think of his sin, or of
my own? Not to obey 11118, not t0 lovo
him,not to do in averything as be counsels
mo, —that, to tae, would bo sin. To tho
best of my oonscienoe he is my husband
and to toaster. 1 will 1 not
y go into the
roosts of snota. a
you, , lir s Wortle, good
and hind as you are; but it is not because
I do not think myself fit. It Is bnonuso I
will not injure you in the (palmation of
thoso who do not know what is fit and
what fs unfit. I stn not ashamed of my.
self. I owo it to hint to blush for nothing
that he hos caused nut to do. I hnvo but
two judges,—tho Lord in heaven, and he,
lily husband, upon earth."
t1Nul:ndy has condemned you here."
" Ye"; --they have condemned 1((c. But
I et. I not angry at that. You do not
thirst:, :lrr•. Wortle, that 1 can bo angry
'With y0tt,—A0 kitlda9 you 110" 11e00, !O
gaiterons, so f,n'giving;—the more kion
beeatls0 you think that we are (Montan-
ed, lcendietraag sinners? Oh, not It is
n811052l that you should think so,—but I
think dilferontly, Circumstances 1)111110
SO phtc: d loo that they have lan(1° m0
unlit for you' sooloty. If I hall no
decent gown to wear, or shoes to my
foot, I oluntld be unfit also'—but not on
that noc0tmt clisgtacodl in my own asti-
motion. I comfort myso'1f by thinking
that 1 cannot bit altogether ba(1 when n
mave n in0.8(10')" as ho has loved tne'tlnd does
lo
The two wanton, when they parted on
that morning, kissed 08011 other, whioh
1 how laid not clone bofora; and, Mrs.
Wortle 1(1111 ,leen tnadle to doubt whether,
after 511, the sin had boon -so vary sinful. -
Sho did endeavor to ask 120raelf whether
she would not have dean the same in the
smite (+i1eiinutanOCS. Tho weinnt 1, she
tllofxht, must have been right to bavo
married the loan whom, she loved, Whin
site heard that 111111 ilrst 1iorrid husband
wilts dad. 'Toro could, ab tray rate,
base boon nasin in that. A•nd then,wl1at
ought she to have Bona �vtlen Olio e0d
Hobo --dead no be was t< pase(t vu
boon—burst iutotber 0Mrs. iiortlo
h
—who found it incldst ;pent/
to Imagine herself to 110 in suoh a posi-
tion—did
ost•tion—clad at last noknowledgo that, in
8Ue11 Oir0unlnotan0es, she oortainly would
bavo done whatuvOr 1)r. Wortle had told
her. 511e could not bring it nearer to
hertelt than that. Site could not ouggOSt
to herhelf two mon as her awn llushantls,
Sint could not imagine that1110 I)votar
had been 0ltllor alta batt - husband, who
had unospectedly o,lmo to life—or tho
good husband, who would not, in truth,
be her busballtl at all; but slat (1i(1 tle-
tormino, 111 hop ow:l 111it1(1, that, how-
eYOr all that MigIlt haws been, she would.
of�{9x1;9 JiOVO tin"' -t' y batnvtir the I_)nnttlr
11111 n1 her. She I'I0Utd naso !;),nits, �o obey
11tH), 011011 though, 111tH sWoaring, sho
81(081(1 1101 111( 10 really nnli Heel ]11111; (tad
thor0 sv001(1 ltitvo boon 110 at'tiar 1101 e
open t<,L hal'' x11 wnR torribin to thin
—so torriblo tlu►t sho mold ]tut quite
think of it; but in struggling to tidal: of
it 11er heart was softened towards this
1 other woman. After that day she nom
spoke further of the woman's sin. Of
I course, s110 told it all to the Doctor—riot,
indeed, explaining tho working of her
! awn mind as to that suggostiun that ho
' should have boon, in his first condition,
a very bad man, and have been roported
dead, and intro comet again in n second
. shape, als it good man. WO kept tliat to
baraelf, But she diel endeavor to de-
scribe tho effect upon herself of the
tlosoripttol tho woman had given hor of
her own conduct:
"I dom't quit° know how she could
haw° dono otherwise," Enid :1lrs. Wortle.
"Nor I, either; I hnvo always sand 60."
"It would haw) boon s1( very hard to
go .s, 611101) ho."
''It wwayould bavoho b1101(!°011 veryr7)011hard to go
away," said the Doctor, "if ho had told
her to (lo so. Where fns 5110 to go?
What was 91)0 to do? They had betel.
brought together by eiroumstanoos, iu
such a manner that it was. so to say, Jot-
possible that they should part. It is
not often that ono conga across events
like those, so altogether out of the ordin--
my mousy that the 0011111/011 rules of life -
9001)1 to be insufficient for guidance. To
most of us 1t never happens; and 1t. Is
bettor for us that it sh001(1 not happen.
I3nt wwhenit door, one is forced to go
beyond the common rules,. It is that
feeling which has matte me givo them
my protection. 76 has been a grunt ,)lis-
fortuno; hut, plstoed as I was, I could
not help myself I could not turn them
out. It was dearly his duty to go, and
almost as (stonily nano to givo her shelter
till he should comp back."
"A. grunt misfortune, Je frey. "
"I mu afraid, so Look at tl'is."
Then he handed to her a letter from a
nobleman living at a groat distance—at
31 distanco so great that Mrs. Stantiloup
would hardly have reached him there-
expressing his intention to withdraw` his
two boys from the school at Christmas.
"He doesn't givo 01115 as a reason."
"No; wo are not acquainted with eaoh
other personsilly, and he could hardly
have alluded to my conduct in this mat -
tor. It was easier for 111n1 to givo a
mere noti0, sue., as this. But not the
less do I u'adcrs'nntl it. Tho intention
was that rho elder Mowbray should re-
main for another year, and the younger
for two years. Of course, he is 1(t liberty
to change his mind; nor do I feel 31175011
entitled to complain A school such as•
Athos mutt (lopend on tho credit; of the
establishment. 110 1(1(s heard, no (1011bt,
something of rho story which has injured
our (radio and it is natural that be
811:3`1)111(11
1)0111(1 0 hoys w"
"D 1 7011
811)thrinokbthat atheay.school will be
put 1111 anti to"
"It ,not a ver?y like it."
"AltogaAer?"
"I shall not care to drag it on as a
failure. I aur too ole, now to begin again
.with da aero attempt, if this collapses. I
haw) no offors to 1111 up the vac:1801os.
The parents of Cholla W110 remain, of
usurp, will know bow I. 1s going with
tee sc.10,11. I shall n0: be disposed to lot
SG die of Jtsclf. Illy idea at prison as to
carry 't on without saying anything till
the Christmas holidays, and thon to give
notice to the parant9 that the establish-
ment will ba closed at Midsummer."
"Will it make you very unhappy?"
"No doubt it will. .A 111.1t1 dce1 not
like to fall. I am not sure llul what I
aur lass able to hear such failure than
most linen."
"I3 etc you have sometimes thought of
giving it up."
,.
11 •t
ns.3? T
havenot known win ir•
. Why
should I give it lip? Why should any
ratan giro up a profession orhill ho has
hcnith and strength t0 carry it onto'
"'You have another."
"Yost—but it is not the ono to which
my mangles haat boon ohiclly (*99130(1,
:!'ho wcrlc of a p:lri..11 511e.1 as thea can be
done by ono pmac111. I have always( hod a
curate, It is, moreover, 110ng01150 to say
tient a lean sloes not care most for that
by whin he mattes his money I am to
give up over ::f1,000 aL yens, which I havo
bad not a trouble 1 ut a aclight in
making. It is like coming to 11110 and of
one's life,"
"O:s, Toffrey 1"
"It }has to be looked in the face, you
kno)s
" C wish, —I wish 1 hey had novor come, "
"«'1.111 is tho good of wishing? They
Cana), anti, according to lay ,way 011
tllitlkhg, I did my duty by them. Muchas I nm griovel by this, 1 protest that I
would du the san10 again were it ng^in
to be bone, Do you think that I would
be dctorrc(1 from wilt I thought to be,
right by the machrnatiulls of a she.
2iriimitt tile!) as that P"
"Hag sho dorm it?"
"1oli, 1 think so," ralcl the Doctor:
after wino litho hesitation. "I think 1t
has been, in truth, her lining. There
has been a grand of;p0rtt1nity for alantlo'',
and On 11125 used it with uno0111in'dyti
skill, It was a Woncl?rful ohanao in lie
fnwor. 8bt1 int been (ambled -wtblooirt
(CONTINUE UE 11 (.li P,1C E i) .