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THE HURON SIGNAL. n1DAY, DEC. 16, 1831.
HELEN LAFONE
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THE FOES OF A HOUSEHOLD.
A TALE OF ENGLISH, LIF'I.
the batik of light left epos the wake by I erraneesmont fur its future. Slat meet
this settle* ma me unbroken by auy ham esteem' that • Isom( hie distrait:
breath of wind. Toyotas the gam is- ion would marry moon. and she wished
laud, the eye rested epos • waste of to save her child ilrOUS being 1.1 1 to •
hills sums bare and rocky se these own seepasother. That was the Lettere**
point of view, othera thickly wooded, thought, that her Mild should be giveu
sod suggestieg the rick pastures and to a stranger. But be did not coin*;
✓ ustling awe fields nestling us the though he was seat for at once. She had
valleys.. Down tit a hollow, wine two been deaden hour whea be gut home."
or three miles disteut, lay a little Agana be mu silent, and agaiu Pend-
villare. The smoke from the chimneys val respected hus mitoses. Probably this
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rose straight into the .till Mr, the red j was the first time be had spoken a these
) I tded roofs owned to glow in thc ;.;,,.-.; ,''''. :., end now when el 14h• ()Pea"
sanlight, tied to th. middle of the I his lips he spoke out of the follows of
village rose the church, • venerable and his heart. Peroival Dow began to isn-
wig round which shuttered derstaad the peculiar tendernees with
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Twa men were walkint godly al "Poor hide Helen ! Yes, she los linlinstil 15a4's
the genet solitary road. T.!: wae a per- resew°, certainly ; thoggli, toted you, 1 many historscal recollections, and to- which his friend regarded the girl whom
loci Jed/ Imarag, and they had doted- am not saying ste dose not make the
Iwo good reason' for nut being in a meet of • leerier which, if not precisely
burry. They were as different an age es bad, ia st karst awkward and unfortuisate
in personal oppestance ; perhaps the -especially when me takes into coosid
only poiot of likeness lay in the fact *ration her chsracter and ter fattier's,"
that both held cigars between their lips. he concluded, alter a lathe pause which
I Ins was • man who, though in sctual had followed the word "unfortunate."
years perhaps not much past middle hl., "If you were the true friend you call
looked already old. His hair was peryourself," said his companion, "you
hotly grey, and his figure slightly bent. would ()uremia thp mystery fur me. As
Probabiy ne one had ever called him • guest at the Thwaite I cannot very well
handsome ; but his fami was more pleas- talk about it to Miss Lafone. An ex -
lag than many • merely handsome one, ',tensions would emessitate my taking
for if the features were rather sharp and one aide or the other, and 1 can't do
the expression shrewd, there •as such that. All the same, any one must eee a
an air of kindly geniality In his whole ap- hundred times a day that soinething Oa
pearence that otos could not but feel at- wrong, though I have ito far been ura-
tracted by him. He looked the kind -We to decide on which side the fault
of man to whom one would apply -in-
stinctively, and not in vain -in 11111.4 of
doubt and difficulty. He strolled ou,
his eyes fixed neither upon the ground
nor his companion's fere, but straight iu
front of him ; and the stick which he al-
ways carried uoless it rained, was held
upright against his back in a manner
which did nut fail to produce smiles of
amusement when the doctor was amongst
strangers.
CHAPTER I.
His companion was • min far younger
both in years and appearance. If Dr.
Hazlitt looked older than he really was,
Percival Moore enjoyed the distinction,
rare enough in these days, of looking
rather young. It was a distinction for
which Dr. Hazlett, had already told him
several times in the short two months of
their acquaintance be could never to
sufficiently thankful ; it was also a dis-
tinction of which Moore himself was an-
couseieus. He was neatly not aware that
though mat thirty he looked nu more
than six or seven ami twenty, neither
had be ever given any consideration to
the fact that this look of youth came per-
bably from his habit of looking in general
from • healthy and unprejudiced point of
view, taking thing, very much as he
howl them, and yielding neither to un-
due elation nor derression aocording as
his lock went up ur dowu.
His face was an exceedingly *moot
one, though not distinguished by any
striking beauty of Mature. He was very
much tanned, and this particular oom-
pleaion seemed to harmonize with the
thoughtful expression of his face. His
oyes were dank grey, aud, like his face,
thoughtful and pleasant ; his hair was
ward which the eye turned involun•
tardy, it wise' much Lb* centre feature
of the landscape.
Moors, as he flaked at alt this, heav-
ed a half unconecious sigh, sod thought,
not fur the first time, that it had beau
well fur him that his father deed when
he did. He , Percival, woull have
found it mere and mons impossible
every yeer to live the life Incifather had
story he was telluag, and he felt toe in
Wrest he already took in her growing
and dm/issuing. The sudden death of
the niother, the fact that her fears had
been realized -Mr L1110/10 had 1111•11111n1
again. • woman to whom none a the
qualities which the doctor had so freely
dealt out to her predecessor omilil hi
attnbated-seemed to foreshadow • life
of trouble and difficulty fur the child
chalked out for him. Yet what diets- left behind. He felt his veins fired tea
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malty lee would hare hod if , indeed, he • little of the enthusiasm with the ab -
had ever tuoceeded iu persuading his sconce of which the doctor had twitted
father that the life which was all him just how, and an impulse to esp.'s,'
interest and excitement to keen was Heloo's cause without stoppiug to in•
"flat, stale, and unprolitable" to his son. quire if it were • worthy tine.
What acmes there •oulel have been ' Dr Hazlett interrupted hie models -
what battles to assert his own right to tions by baying, with one of his queer
bis own life ! what bitterness of spirit half smiles.
shows much tact or any great sense of had been gained ! "You will say I am not telling you
chiefly lies. 1 cannot say Mrs Latrine whoa the vicwry
justice in her dealings with her daugh- The thiright of strife and battle brought Helen's story at all, but her mother's.
A little petienoe. At the time of which
el speak she we* a very tiny creature, uf
small importanes to anybody, and least
of all, I think, to her father, who, of
mune, bad wanted an heir. He was
the other hand, pointed to where in oke inconsolable at first -you know the
will end, for I don't see what Mims le -
midst of a patch (of trees, a large and Ir. style. would see no one, speak to nowise;
tone hopes to gain by it. At the saute
; regularly built house stood upon • slope, he quarrelled with his soother in law, on
time, she is so evidently unhappy that I
! surrounded by green lawus and flower the ground that had phi nut left her
"Just as I admire your prudent and .1"a , daughter ao soon her life would have
feel very sorry for her."
1 "Brentwood hooka well from here,' he been awed, and behaved altogether in
ter," replied the doctor, with a touch of 1 m;ama saaaatad. and then said- rather nominee! fashion. At the end of
very reasonable meditations on the mat -
I said, glancing at his c.ompanion.
sarcastn in 'his voice. "Some men of i ,
your age would have espoused her meal min Ls o�'." -
'But teem going to tell ene about ; come out ut his seclusion and to travel.
1 three tuunthe he had been persuaded to
at (floe, without stopping to inquire . , ' At the cud of • year he wrote to have
whether it was a worthy one or not. 1 'Ay, ay, duvet fear I shall forget. 1 the house male ready for himself and
of your knowing I his new bride.
But pool watch events for weeks, and n°* "4' th. aecasaitY
pause to weigh the circumstances of the all about her, aud you shall know." i "He had never been able to bear the
mac You won't offer your sympathy to He puffed at his cigar for a minute, as j sight of the child ufter his wife's death,
the daughter bemuse it rnight excite i trehloiatagblheefnoernstidalyadartrationngiougieg ahni_s_ story, in I and I verily believe that in his wander
hostile feelings against the father, whose i ; ing abroad he had forgotten her; for I
guest you are. You coolly deliberate i '•Lafone and 1 are the same age, and (shell never forgot his face whim he sew
whether after all she is sot more sin- have known each other ever since we her again. I was present at the time.
ring
than sinned against, and final') You were !ads. We never had much in GI3111 One thing I am curtain of -he had *ilk -
declare your wiah to hear all the facts, 0100, though there was always perfect ' er from forgetfulness, or some other fest'
frieodlinees in our doings with one ing never mentioned her to his wife ;
that you may pronounce judgment with
perfect impartiality. I cannot sufficient-
ly praise and admire your prudence and
sound common sense. '
Moore burst out laughing as the doc-
tor finished.
"Well,- he mid presently. "I can't
ise.e what else you would bare done In my
place. After all, you meet own there is
strife enough in the family without my
adding to it, wdich I must inevitably
have done whichever aide I had taken,
either by encouraging Mos Lafone, or
rousing her anger by toning her she is
ccting foolishly. I only wish to observe,
more in sorrow than in anger, that you
might have spared me the trouble of
saltine, by letting ens into the secret of
it all You must know sll about it ; you
are am old friend of the family, and ap-
pear to have rather • particular fondness
for Miss Latone herself. You ought to
know the whole thing by heart."
"So I do," observed the doctor reffec•
tively, , "as you say, Helen is my spe-
cial favourite, so what oculd I do better
than tell all the secrets of her life to the
first stranger who happen to come in my
wey I"
"I am not a stranger now, and I sin
very much interested in Miss Lafose.and
bas mil What see ersteheleOa die , to bed. 1 pat cob my hat sad ami up
mequalitim of obasacter whet& break Hie', beta"
demi level and estmotony a coevesties- I The doctor did act speak for • mousiest
ality 1 Every little grace and beast, of thee he said --
I
character beloeging to ems passim aloes 'Ben what • bad girl you an, IYINSII
ie a crombet. Naturally there le my were 1 t tusk 1 shall have to attendee
nothing wOieh 14.0 bitterly resettled by ;•.'o."
these who do not possess them 1' 81. said nothing. bit looksd over dm
"Atid this seamed girl, Alice, who is bay, where tbe tide was now high • and
away; I have not men her, but I have j the little rowing beets wore re:eking
hord that she is very beautify& Is it !lightly from aide to side. As eb• booh-
oo!" ; ed • smile came into her moo aud curled
:terfootly. She is marvellously 1 the coroer of her mouth. She said hal(
beautiful -aa superior iu mere physical ' aloud -
beauty to Helen as Listen is to her in "Thirty me.-
everything eke. '' "Thisty use what r
muted his head and wadded yea moth% abandon e, Neand you avow
After this they were both bailout, till 1 "Thtrt-eae times you tbavu tom
the doctor ei
in We direction (4 • young girl yam was do it. That is, ouuntine from the time I
coating towards them, as bet said..
"Ah, here is Helm in person.'
ter ; but then neither does Mute Lafone
appear to make the slightest endeavor
to smooth things down, or to meet her
mother half way. I cannot help being
interested and feeling curious how it
back Helen Laws, into his mind, and
he turned to Dr Hazlett to claim the
fulfilment of his peonies. The doctor
was looking the direction of the BM-
tinig sun, and, shading his eyes with
another. One thing, perhaps, which
helped to keep up the friendship was the
fact that I have tile monopoly of killing
and curing here, no one having ever
thought it worth his while to oust me
front my durable position
• •T y -000 )ears ago he married.
He brought hia bride from a distance.
and from what you Lave seen of that
lady's character since you node her ac-
quaiutance you may judge for riurself
if she wm ple,ased either at thin omis-
sion or het discovery. I clammy the
child wag the cause of okay a private
scene : but, in fact, she can hare made
very little difference to them, for they
She did nut belong to this part of the hardly ever saw her. It was not until
country. She was • sweet creature. and Mrs 1Afone's own family began to grow
when I say a sweet co:store I don't ap that Helen came promsuantly into
mean a woman who went about with a notke, and beano* the open object of
face like • professional martyr and a her steptauther's jealousy and ill -will.
dealt brown, and closely cut, after the porpetual smile on her 1ps, as though to She is one of those women whom mazer -
(animal of today. In figure he was say "See with what angelic patience I nal instincts develop uuless they
unusually tal, well made, and spare ; bear my lot in We.' I have seen women become mothers themselves, and then
there was the unconscious gime of per- like that, and I have award people call their affection is exclusively for their
hot health and streugth is every one of theiu sweet creatures. 1 didn't. Mrs own children. She has also an immolate
hie inervementa. Lafoue was very beautiful, with the . amount of family pride and lofty ideas
He woes the ouly child of • retired brightest eyes and most spirited face I , concerning the position of the eldest of
lasieufact unto, and had been brought tip over saw. She filled the house with . a family. She could never forgive Helen
and relocated with a view to taking his sunshine ; she tilted the whole village : fur having been before her own children
teasel's place in the et -amerces* world, with sunshine. Don't suppose she was in coming into the world It was as
and adding tr. the already c (loused fot- merely a lively woman with nothing but much the fact r,f her being the oldest,
tune %bath his father had built op fur high spirit* to recommend hear. She was . as any personal feeling, which in the first
himself. With this end in .iew he had also one of the cleverest women I ever place inspired her dislike. She tried to
been placed at an ordinary middle-class knew. What an iiitelligence she had ! , ignore heir, and could not. The servants
echoed. withdrewn from his studies When I think of it I am tempted to re- are all fund of Helen ; her nurse was an
ahen he was just beinnuing to under- bel against the seeming waste ot mature
ataod the value of them, and put int., which could allow an intellioence like
"the treeinntioi Here he hid pawed 1 have been ever sinew / knew her. IOU hers to perish before a had time to
eau remember. 1 dual know often
you said it when I was a baby."
"But my poor, dear child, don't yo*
me how difficult yue make things kr
yourself 1 Why mast yon answer them at
all t You are not going to marry this
man, and they cement make you do it.
Bo wby not let them talk WI 1 Of mousse
Mrs. Lama says disagreeable things, so
does a snake bite whenever it tan; but
you know all the disagreeable tbialpk
the world don't alter the teeth that yea
wore right and they wrong; that their
ideal is a miserably low owe, load years
so bigh above theta that they esnatet see
it, end event sally deity its mititenme.
Try fur my sake, Helm, to *ovens we
impulses, and to be content with din
consciousness of right."
"If I could do &erbium it would be
fur you," .be replied. in the low subdu-
e d tune in which she had spoken all
along. "But ynu cannot tell how hard
it is to be aileat when abs says these
things, aud I get so tired ol being sl-
oops on the defensive, always fighting."
She had pales forgotten Moore's pal-
e ence. All she was isonecioee of wag hes
oae fettled threatened to abandon Mr.
Her voioe shook and she was perilethly
near tears.
"Now, Helen, that is not fair. Yoe
know sa sell as I do that I was only bi
fun."
"Yes, know ; but verything wear
of .o momli more iespurtance than it emit
did before."
"It is the weather; it hes been vier
hot, and you are tired and upset. Sew
up through this evening. and 1 promise
you things will look brighter in the
morning."
He took her hand in his and held it
tightly as though to give her courage.
Apparently he succeeded, for she re-
turned the pressure, and said tr.ore
bravely -
"Yea, that 14 true. 1 am very glad I
met pre. I only behaved so foolishly, I
expect, because I had not seen you for
so many days Don't let it be so long
again, doctor.''
"I have beau very busy -too busy
even to call at the Thwaite. But this
evening I am at liberty, except for
Moore, and he must yield to you. I
will walk home with you, and I think
we will go now, for, so moo of the pme
testing warmth of which too spoke jest
now, I ass afraid ynu rue a risk of catch -
nag add. The wind a now quite 000L''
"Very well, we will go now," said
Helen, raisin Moan from the tome
waste whit& she had hem leaning.
"Moore," mid Dr Hastitt, "come on;
we are going."
"Going where 7" staked the yoga.; rean,
rooming himself front his meditation&
"Back to TM Thwaite. When we
set out we intended, I believe, to astern
to my onttara. but Helm points oot to
me that I have allowed an wordiastely
long time to elapse mime I kat showed
myself at bowie, so I am going to repair
my fault nnw."
"Good gracious " ejoulated Moore.
"You were them three days ago, I know
k for • fact"
"Helms says three days is too long,
and at say rate I ams going to take her
home now. I've eon come or not as you
lite."
"Oh, I am ready," turning to follow
, theta as he spoke, for the rloetor, still
as to the cause of her behavicur. He holding Howe.. how in heti hod ay.
had seen that .he woo original and worth ready begun to take the homeward my.
talking to, but he had gone no further. (To sa commune.)
He had even credited her with • spirit
of feminine jealousy, when hearing him
once speak in terms of unusual enthu-
siasm of the beauty of Dome women be
had once met, she had said, with rather
an enigmatical smile. that lite should see
her sister Altai. Now. all his proem -
mired ideas were overthrown, and he
felt more roused and interested than be
ever remembered W have felt before,
As the conversation% between the two
maned likely to last for some time, he
began to try to put WWI order into bis
thoughts, en that before lofts he lest
oven the murmur of their voles..
This is what they were saying.
"What m•de your temper hot,
H sten 1"
"Oh • great many things. Mamma
took advantage of Mr. Moore being away
to read me • lecture on my manner to
him, which die says is cold and distant
to incivility. From that she branched
off to my Ammer to men ironstone, and
finally got into that stupid affair of last
summer. She wanted paps to support
her, and to a certain extent he did, but
they are not altogether agreed. She
would give her diamonds if I would only
get married out of the way of hared/
sod Alio. ; he does not care two straws
whether I get married or not so long as
I do not wee in hi. olio"
"Helen, is that • right way to speak
of your parents asked the doctor in a
voice in which sorority was lamentably
deficient.
"That is not fair, doctor. Yon ktiow
I am Arty taint% you the truth."
"Well, my chili, what did they say r
CHAPTER
ban Ilirltftlet101114.
As the doctor spoke, the girl, who
had been walking slowly &look with bet
sees boot on the ground, raised them,
and seeing dui two men arm made a
little gesture of recoguiliou with her
hand. Then. quickening her pace, she
joined thron in a monsout, and put her
fiend into the outstretched one of the
older man.
"Good evening, doctor !" she said
with • smile. "It is three days since I
saw you ; what hate you been doing I"
'Going about my daily work -and
you 1 '
"1 have been doing as tonal, WO -
w hat one uf our favorite authors calls
"the same old lie."
The dorror moiled, and laying his
hand on her shoulder ,aid
"My dear child, are you not afraid to
go about so lightly clad 1"
"My temper was so hot when I came
out. I could not beer any ueneceseary
clothing," she answered, smiling again,
rather a melancholy smile.
After first speaking to the doctor, she
bad addressed • few words to Moms,
anl then took no further notice a him,
but turned all tier attention to bet
friend, and • low -voiced convereatioo
wok place between them, consisting ap-
parently of questions asked by him anti
answered frankly by her.
Moon, seeing that just then at any
rate his presence was supertluoiss, with-
draw • few steps, and began delibenate-
Iv to consider the face and figure of the
girl who had jest joined them. Fur
though he had spent some weeks under
the Beale roof with ber, all be had just
heard ;had so quickened his interest
as to create a wish to renew his impres-
sions, and see if be could get any clue to
her character from her facie.
She stood by the doctor's side, almost
facing himself, aud her facie tuned want -
ward, so that every feature was closely
visible in the soft evening light, She
was small, not above middle height, and
of slender and delicate build. The small
head was well set, and covered with
thick wet ing hair of rich chesnut brown.
He know h.iw she wore it - combed
loosely beck and plaited on the top of
her heed, leavirg the bead white fere-
heed entirely fro.. Her features were
not regular, bet the whole formed a very
attractive face, and one full of character.
Perhaps her eyes were her chief beauty.
They were large and dark and clear. "lull
of fire, and shaded by long laahes. What
struck people most in the girl was her
high -bred air and the wonderful grecs of
all her morements. All her features
were fine and clear. Her feet, hands,
and ears were noticeably entail and de-
licate. She had on an evening dress of
some soft black material, and wore no
wrap or outdoor clothing except a large
garden hat.
Every day for acute weeks Percival
had seen moil or lea of this girl, had
talked to her, ands.. the isolated pro
sition she held in her family, without
being moved to any deeper feeling than
regret that she should behave with so
little witdom, and interest and curiosity
admirable women, chosen by her mother,
and very tenacious el the child's rights.
When her mistress spoke of 'Mies Iso
through every branch, beginning a• the show itself in all its fullness, and just Ione,' meaning evidently her own daneh-
most acknowledge that I bare at leatt when that happened which would have ter, nurse would comet her in, the
very humblest half -timer, and aage€1•„:! displayed a laudable bias towards the done. It was deplorable, dep!orable." quietest, most respectful, and at4he
phabine hia rise and program woe! ne I right id f the question by coining fio
knew all the ins and outs tif the buai• 1 He paused, lust in thought, and it al- same time most unequivocal mannefP I
pa-rticaulaers°t-) one a her sworn friends
most appeared as if he would not con- have heard her do it again and again.
Ems by heart and allies. It has not taken tne all this tin.. ,.,...,‘,..,..
Moore recalled hien to As the chillren grew older the position
At this point, when ke had Oat lit. I time to find out that, whatever uples .."-- "'" --""
teemed his majority and was about to be 1 may have about encouraging her in a himself with affected cynicism. became more complicated. What Alice
was old enough to do must of necessity
received ionic the otemstercial world es imatewhat dangerous oourse of action, ' the old atnr" "PP°" -s ail- be pertnittol to Helen. If Alice at
his father's juimor partner and repro- y y k t 700." understood wife ping away into an
seventeen were sufficiently instructed to
eentative. the elder Moore had disci, Dr Haslitt smiled as he mid, "Yee, am y grave for want a the excitement
I leave the schoolroom, tt would from
leaving his son sole master of himself Helen's enemies are my enemies too. It °I being aPPranst"-" ;
; their point of view have been ridiculous
and his soormous wealth. may not be prudent, but I do encourage "Ah," said the dcctor, raising his!
Helen there, who was two years
maniur'e, pesos of naiad that hie died
Perhaps is was well for Mr Moore, her. She has • great deal to put up hand, "don't say that Those things i
to keep
with. and shows such Rood fight. I may be truly maid of roller women, per -
of the other girl. Then all their friends
older and hid ten times the intellirence
whoa heeded, beim* knowing the deep would not adviee her to yield. Besides, baps, I cea't tell ; but nothing weld be would persistin distinguishing hotness
and growingdistaste of his son for the 'none erroneous as regards Mrs Woo&
why shonld she yield 7 She is not in 'Mill Lsfooe' and 'Miss Alice ;' it was
business of which he was so proud. At the wrong." Her husband adored her. He had the very painful. There was never any
heart Percival was Dot • business, that "You lot your affection run away with intellioence to understand her rare Remit, sympathy between Helen and her stap-
le 0011E1DEITOW, man. lie had done his and he thought all the world of her.
your lodgment," rejoined Moore quietly. mother -that you must have men at
father's will la clamming his career in "Poesibly. I cannot deny that I love Still," he went on, falling back into hill cotes. There ie No need to go further
life, partly became. Ise had • curiosity to Helen as if slue were my own child. I meditative tone, "I can't tell what made into detail ; you know the people
know how a largo business like that was have known her ever since she was a her marry him. I have heard she was
and must see for yourself how a hundred
carried on, and partly because he was baby, and have always felt constrained an only child, and her mother in narrow
times a day causes of disagreement
prepared to inseam • part of his life to circumstances, but I eanoot believe such
would arias."
to keep an eye upon her, partly for her
please his father : but he had never in- loot her's sake. She wee the most charm- a moon "male have any weight with
"Of course," replied Percival, meets -
tended to make Wanes, the pursuit ef her. She oould not have -loved him. 81%.
ing woman I have ever known, sof timely. Then after • pause he went on.
has whole life. He had always meant to Helm is her isaftgO." must have seen lie was inferior to her,
"AU that you have said is comprehen-
/ire it up upon hia father's death, and "You knew bee then 1 Of count, I and • woman cannot love • man who is sib!. enough as regards Mn. Lahme, bet
Os sooti as possible after that event Ise know the ream& ifra boo,. ie 0" her inferior ; it is impoesible. How -
eves it does not account to see for
wound up his affairs, retired from his Helen's stepmother, and I have some- ever, it did not last long. For one year lofone's indiffereace to his own chilli,
former hauuts, and began life anew, Weal felt curious about her own mother, she was en the house like a radiant ores- the daughter of • woman whom you my
and more in accordance with his own bat I never heard bit mention her. ' he adored.
tore from another world -there ere cer-
testes. He travel'ed, studied and ob- knew her. Give tainly not many like her in this -and "The very mann. He knows as well
served. an4 the result was that after 4•Beesuse she
me thee to light another cigar and you then it came to an end -she died l''
as Ido that he failed in his duty to the
make years a unsettled existence he had shall know the whole story." Though the spirit of this final cake. child from ch. very beginning. Ile
bought an estate in the neighborhood of
The doctor stood still as he lit his trophe had breathed through the whole knows that his first wife was to his
listootherly, anti reettived henceforth to
cigsr, and Moore, a• he waited for him, of the deo:toes story, Moore was hardly own i as gold este copper. He feels that
liv• on his OWIll lend, and study from the
touked round with an almost painful prepared foroto ha
it when it did come. He he ught re been true to her ste-
lae sone. of the problems which were
eedling themeeives to the in te
.1.m
2._ sense of the exquisite beaety of the emperiesmed • kind of @hock front 10.moe7, and he had not the str& Hength to n -
fore
country in which he had chosen to lire very abropenees of the announcement. gist this woman's attractione knows
world of speculation. repeated almost helplessly- ' hit has fallen, and he would like to foto
i in first arming to Osmotherly he had his life. and
"Mho died !' get that he ever stood higher. Helen is
After leaving the doctor's house,
met Mr Lafone, one of the magnates of "A fortnight after Helen was born ; a continual reminder, don't 700 under.
which stnod • little way out of the
the plata, who had taken • fancy to she had been going on so well, and then stand. If you have any knowlefee of
him, sod at shoo home he had bees, al's! gl laffaai alpma;:ita kciatedinaantteanalenarditaviwrovnerm. all at once the turn canoe, and she woe human nature you can supply abundant
and *till was staying. until his own place dead in • few hears. It seemed emote- mown, ; 10 whit% you may add this
h.a been put into proper repair. Th• creeper, they had slowly mounted the
.101.. Lorono was &will 1 ,1111 1 was ethic one- Pilot does a man now -a days
steep lane until they reached some high
very day he went to Mr Le:forte's with her, and I pray I any never be pre- is Lefone's pnsition know of the charw-
omen teeth, (mei whorl they had looked
house Percival mot Dr Haelitt there,
and in spite of the disparity in these down upon the bay into which the tide sant at much • deathbed Win:. ter of his daughter 1'
'10.4.4 not want to die 1" mid Moore, "Tr..," mid Percival, and wee 10c.was gradually creeping. the calm waters
years and positions the two men had at womb) break the silence which had fol- silent. The thoughts arisine from all be
tinged with the rays of the setting man.
owe struck a sympathetic vein, and few lowed the doetor's lam words than be. hue jest board, eau as yes rooter
They west throegh several fields, and
days passed without • meeting between cause he felt that any words were meow chaotic, but he felt that Thee he had
them. This es -ening Moot. had been along a narrow path throngh sparsely
diniag ankh the doctor, and they had ' growing plantation of les, athwart the
eari"itlantl" echoed Dr Haelitt almost follow iho coarse moggested by the
arranged them, and should be able to
strolled out after dinner to taste the ' aright Illiondof steno fd which fell the
shs7174( "St w" delimit'. 8ho hod Woo doctor, he would be in posseesios of a
freshaem of the evening, mid, perhaps, ' long low beano of the setting ern.
almost beside hermit with joy when the most intereeting oecupatios.
through neither meationed it, to me the and lay in broken patches of light tipinn
pomp of the sunset over the golden the soft green grass 0... elemr of the child waso be". o and .1*. a" s° Sled it Than your theory is," he mid pee
They -
wees they found demoiselles at the ion( ••• a inci- ,,,f1 "In"' Se though ti" 'Niftily, "that the whole difficulty arises
med. of the bey.
heti herd', spoksa twine. outing of a hare aed lofty ridge where the Ione- "67 'wee aa bit Inv"' it mail haw* limes an inability ow each side to read
ika d.anaes preto,. erooper.envava ,,,t„, „h„„„,i oho. th,,,mh the thin, heist her alive ; and she died -died in ....._
obarecter of the other /-
moi
bosom and it was idoore who, in the enemies of sal and ryes. From the I the middle of • saimnificent sumer day,
"Partly only ; I think Helen reeds the
toes of a son eentineing an interrupted top of the ridge the vim. was ',mem& I alone, bet foe servants and myself. Hee nth.", pretty well ; but th"Y h`vil sot
egmegiolorma, broke the silenee 117 5.7 amt. Looking southward they saw the 1 .0,411., hul fr4" him". "PP"lifig she
keg.
"Thew ... " •
bay in all its beauty : the reeky repot.' ifas no looser wanted , her loaband was ihutheribetra"ster. .114116"ibbh"werematriPregho.nsito °Inking':
you really do thick Miss 1,.. a shore sad the hill* renew from it 811'a' b"."•• 11 yoti
for you ao
en.. ono sows motes for the warlike at- and sweeping up to the one on which "mire wall an"thar = libiS ibis inforsaistiele, they mead tell
mos amid get
ne with Heise, die ill
e14•6111 she aseietaise toemrde her they stood. There was • hese nem the 1 111" P•••"111 did °at
'
fasady." viater, whit& had the opesi ass from "am nowt have bums beg hesbend's .0 geese sod ernekety.' "
I The &gam elidl ime oftedeste hie gym them. The tide wee sneaks, iii ; one 'rimester so very well, she eras en ass- "A" ia as r
,...... vaa ita ha mow alab a ban du, „other the strotokuu el ltd town to see hl.,so anxims to give the "Leek and.... she Ism eretebeIN el
fm...:L. ....nn. aria Aim. nffauterl leua lAbor lima eiRild into his komplett. and US 1111111.ka IMMIldi enema. Who Casa 1. .....a. ....Ala. -
"The usesl thine, bat it seems that
tiresome men was not satisfied with the
answer I gave him. but erre to to papa
about it. Papa replied that he 'mold
rolito pportimoy when wit three were alone
m.on the subject, and he took
at &inner.
"Ab, now, what did you say I"
"I ansa seem, of course, hut I did my
very beet to keep enol ; however, 1 began
to express my views on !marriage, and
you ean imagine what it was like. I be-
lie,* they thought me mad. Mamma began
to talk about ingtstitede and Ininandrety
end flippancy, sal after sh* hid g as on
for some time 1would hold myself is no
Otero ; 1 said what I really thnegbt
sheet girls of twenty inserying men of
*early fifty. The resell was that peps
remolded I would imam the Tome ass4
Only two Bottles. Masers Johoston,
Holloway & Co., whole's's dnegnints of
Philadelphia, Pa , rspurt that some time
ago a gentleman these a duller,
with a request to send a gond eaten*
cum to two army .officere in Arises&
Remedy the game madams told them
that both ot Medicare and the wife a
a well-known U. S. A. °mond had been
cured of Catirrh by the two bottles a
Ety's Cream Balm.
ISOM1. Geed Butusise.
This injunction applies ant truly 1. 11*.
mental but the physical welfare. Salt
rheum, erysipelas, and all obetieete
humors of the blood are perfectly rare -
thy by Burdock Blood Bitters. II
Want of Sleep 4
Is sending thousands annually to the
TheitalanroubLesaludisYluarmleamadarest; aadogies.111.yweekued°c"retheubsirtatisemartall7nothi.J.
give temporary relief, are likely Is de
more barns than good. What la sealed
is an Alterative and Blood -wider.
Ayer's Sersapardlei is ineomparabio
the best. It corrects those diseurbsasse
in the circulation whicb came sleepless-
n ess. giros increased vitality, sad ra
setondoresth:nerrous system tea bealibOd
Rev. T. G. A. Coteagent of the Maim
Broom Missionary Society. writes that
hie stomach was out of order, his sleep
eery often irlhombel, and some im-
purity of the blood inantient ; loot thee
• iserfeet enre wow obtained by the nse
of Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
Frederick W. Pratt. 494 WeehhelyINOI
street, Boston, writes: " ilimigliter
was prostrated with move= debility.
Ayer's Plansparilla restored her to
h ealth."
VItIsj F. Beaker. Is, Pi.. vas
eared colf fterenonlImMINI and semplimenese
by tattling Ayees Sarsaparilla lit shoat
two mouths. daring %Mich Use Ida
weight increased over fffeety poised*.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
reormair ST
Dr. J. 0. Ayer • 0e..
thee to aft Temeit
Al