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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-30, Page 6THE THREAD OF LIF3 GR SUNSEUNE AND SHAWJ. CHAPTER NVIIL—Coatrricanoos. ever, the depth of her distress to dream of Elsie spent: a full fortnight: or even more, a Pressing even lIi sympathy 4poe06- her at 00 at Lowestoft; and before the vacated her i itiopportnue a moment, If ever the right. hoepitablequartera he the Retie' rooms,it wee i tiena ter hint came at all, it could .come, he quite uuderttocd between them alltact. she knew, only In the retaoto future, was to follow out the aimple plat; of aetioll At the end of the pier, Elie halted the so hastily sketched by Edie to Warrens chair, and made the chairman wheel Et as. Elaie's fano desire now waatoescape ob$eiva, she directed, exactly opposite one of the tion. Eyes teemed to peer at her from every open gapsin the barrier of woodwork that corner. She wanted to fly for ever freta . ran round it, Then she raised herself up Hugh—from that Reale 'alio bad at last aowith difficulty from her .seat She was ttnconseicizsly revealed to aer, tke inrtaost ; holding something tight in her small right depths of his own solace .and eelf•evntred, : hand; she had drawn it that moment from nature; and slrewanted, to beowed the elide- the folds, of her 1104°44It was a packet'of tine necessity for explaining to Others what ; papers, tied carefully in a snot with seine only the three Retia at present knew --the heavy obfect. Warren Relf, observing eau way she had +eonne to leave W biseetrand. 00141y from behind, telt' sere in his own Hungering for sympathy, as vren=en s?cili sfaauheavy ebjeet by il+a curvet it, banger in a great sorrow, alae had opened to described as it wheeled through the air Elie, bit by bit, z be deodgates of her grief, when Elsie threw it. For Elsie had risen and told piteenneel the whole of leer palrafaaal 1 now, pale and red by turns, rind was ding - and pitiable story. In her own tided, Elsie irg it out with fovea teh energy in a Weep w as tree twee the reproach of au attempt at wolf-mutder; and Elie alud hdra 1',vlf accept ed in good faith the peer heart-brcten gyre• acceaxut of her adventure; het sine scold never hope that tee cater world could he in- duced to believe rut her ee er;eel itioerence- She dreaded the reds road taints and: bespi- d Tena aedi ienuetzdsea of ou Lister i;e,; sty ; she sbrank frorki exresiing bereelf to iia engem er ita eyeepetby, ebcb°rest (drily dis- tasteful to her delicate nature- She was threatened with the pinery_of a eee wtpaper peragrepia. Hugh MI srngeee lie of girded bee thaw lila eeay ehenee 0 escape, SIle accepted le wilitegly, With +sat efterthoeg'st. All she tented Iii her trouble wee to latch her posts" hea.I where new would Cad it; and Ildtae 1,elf a plan enabled her to do Oat* in the meet and safest peeslble Planner. I ee ea', rlre didn't Wild) to mastic Wigifred utttrapgy. Winifred Roved her calish:Hugh. Site eaw that now ; the recopuise41 ,it dfxs- xiutatly, She wondered elle ;-ido't aeell it Plainly long before, '%iuifred hod utters been se full of Hugh; bed tanked ea usrroy -dltseaticzss bad seemed so deeply icltereete4 In all that concerned ilia Aud Hush had offered his heart to Winifred—be the tame mere or less, he had et tensa offered it. Why should she with to wreck Winifred'a life, ae that creel, selfish, ambit/0m men lead wreaks ed her ower ! Site couldn't tell the whole teeth neve without expoeilag klu,gh. And ter Wiatit"rue'e sale at, leaee She weft eat expcsehlm, end blight Wittifrea'a dream at. the serY menseste et the drat: full teed:eq. For W ifred ,,;Ake! Nay, rater for Lie owns. For lit *pito of everything, elle still loved him. Slat: ce del :sever forgive bialy. Orif she didn't lava the Hugh *bet renally was, she loved ae least the memory of the ]^Ensu *het was not ;;and the;: never bad been, Fcr hie dent sake the cauld:sever ex. pose that other base ereiatute'that bete hie dance and wore hie features. Fer her own love's sake, she could never be trey bon:. For her womanly consistency, for her geese of identity. she couldn't tura round and tell the truth about bins. To acquiesce iiia lie was wrong perhaps ; tut to tell the truth. would have bees utore than humeu. "1 wish," she cried in ber agony to ]:die, "1 could go away and hide myself for ever in Canada or Auetralfa or somewhere like that—where he would never know 1 wets roily Wog." Edie stroked her smooth black hair with a gentle hand, ; she bid views of her own el. ready, bad Edie. "It's a far cry to Loh Awe, darling,' shell ermuredaoftly. "" Better come with mother Hud me to San Remo." " Sue Remo ;" Elsie echoed. "'Why San Demo ?° And then Edie explained to her in brief outline that she and her mother went every winter to the Rivieratekia h with them a few delicate English gids of consumptive tendency, partly to educate, but more still to escape the bitter I,oglish Chriatrnae. They hired a villa—tho same every year— on a slope of the hills, and ongaged a rest- dent governess to accompany them. But as chance would have it, their last governess had;juet gond off, In the nick of time, to get married 10 her faithful bank clerk at Brix- ton ; so here was en opporunity for mutual accommodation. As Ed.e put the thing, Elsie might almost have supposed, were elle so minded, sho would be doing Mte, Reif an exceptional favour by accepting the post and accompanying them to Italy. And to say the truth, a Girton graduate who had taken highhonours at Cambridge was cer- tainly a degree or two better than anything the delicate girls of consumptive tendency could reasonably have expected to obtain at San Remo. But none the leaa the offer was a generous one, kindly meant ; and Elsie accepted it trust as it was intended. It was a fair exchange of mutual services. She mast earn her own livelihood wherever she went ; trouble, however deep, has al- ways that special aggravation and that special consolation for penniless people; and in no other house corld she possibly have earned it without a reference or testi- monial from her last employers. The Bells needed no suob awkward introduction. This arrangement suited both parties ad- mirably; and poor heart•brokon Elsie, in her present shattered condition of nerves, was glad enough to accept her new friends' kind hospitality at Lowestoft for the pre- sent, till she could fly with them at last, early in October, from this desecrated Eng- land and from the chance of running up against Hugh Messinger. Her whole existence summed itself np now in the one wish to escape Hugh. He thought her diad. She hoped in her heart he might never again discover she was living. On the very first day when she dared to venture out in a Bath -chair muffled and veiled, and in a new black dress—lest any one perchance should happen to recogniz: her—She asked to be wheeled to the Lowes- toftpier, and Edie, who accompanied her out on that sad first ride, walked slowly by her side in sympathetic silence. War- ren Relf followed her too, but at a safe dis- tance ; he could not think of obtruding as yet upon her shame and grief ; but still he could not wholly deny himself either the modest pleasure of watching her from afar unseen and unsrapeoted. Warren had hard- ly so much as caught a glimpse of Elsie since that night on the Mud. Turtle ; but Elsie's gentleness and the profundity of her sorrow had touched him deeply. He began indeed to suspect he was really in love wish her; and perhaps his suspicion was not en- tirely baseless. He knew too well, how - ani; Arch far, far into the water. It gruel; the aurfaee With a dolt thud—the beavy thud of a stone or a metallic body. In a Second it bad snarl: like lead to the bottom, and Elrie, berating into a silent flood of team, had mrdered the eheirnaan to take her bane nabs.. Warren P,elf, ekul►tios hastily down the Stella behind that lead to the tidal platform rudder the pier, had no doubt at all in bis ossa mind what the object wan that Eeie. had flung with such eery_ force into alae deep water; for haat night en the .11h4 -Trails as he tried to restore the in- feasible girl to a raising gleam ellife avid cetcecientouees, two distance articles bad £alien, one by cite, ht the hurry..et the tnP- riaer?t, 014 of her louts and drippau bosom. Ile WAN not Miens, but he couldn't belp obaervisg thea:. The first was a bundle el water-logged lettere iR at hand which it was impoastble for hint not to recognise. The second wan a pretty little lads'a watch, in gold and enamel, with a neat ineeription. engraved :on a afield on the beck, dd E, t . froth Ti. d," [n Lembardio lettere. It wasn't; [rival Jtelf'a fault it be knew then who Ii, M. was; ward It wasa't his .fault if be knew now that Elsie Challonerhad form, wily renounced Hugh Messinger', love,- by flinging Iris lettere and preseute bodily auto the deep sea, where uo one could ever ptee- eibly recover them. They had burnt into tier Heart, bvfug there in her barioan, She weird curt' there ,,boot treat her bruised aril. wounded Heart iso leuger. Aud now ou title very drat day Haat she had veutureld mit. she lauded her love and ail that beloved to it in tlta't deeps where Hatt Mas h:ger Itstuaelf had sent her. Cut even aa, Reuther bard. They were Hugh's letters—those predece nuroir laved letters. She went home that rnerning cry log bitterly, and she cried till night, Dike one who mourns her lout husband er her chi drat. They were all she had left of Hugh seed • of her day-dtearn. Ildie knew exactly what she had done, but avoided the vain effort tocomfort oreonsoleher. r Cont. fort—comfort scorned of devils 1" Belie web woman enough to know she could do nothing. She only held her new friend's hand tight clasped in here, and cried Wide her in mute sisterly aympathy. It was about a week Inter that Hugh Messinger, goaded by remorse, and unable. any longer to endure the saspellse et hears bag nothing:further directly or indirectly, as to Eleies fate, set out aae morning In a dogcart from. Whitestraud, and drove along the coast with. Ilia own thoughts. in a bluing eurnligbt, as far ea Aldeburgh, There the road abruptly atop'. No highway spans the ridge of beach beyond ; the remainder of the distance to the Low Lirht at Orford - nen muat be accomplished on foot, along a Ant bank that stretches for miles between river, t c eco and ri r untroddcn d retkle ss , ono , an bare plank waste of nand and shingle. The ruthless ata was pouring down upon it in full force as Hugh Ideasfager began his soli- tary tram along that uneven road at the ldartell° Tower, jnat south of Aldeburgh.' The more usual coarse is to sail by sea ; and Hugh might indeed have hired a boat et Sleughden Quay if ho dared; but ho feared" to bo recognized as having come from Whitestrand to make iequiries about the unclaimed body; for to rouse suspicion would be doubly unwise: he felt like amnr. derer, and he considered himself one by im- plication already. If other people grew to suspect that .Elsie was drowned, it would go hard but they would think as ill of him. as he thought of himself in his bitterest momenta. For, horrible to relate, all this time, with that burden of agony and angnieh and sus - penile weighing down his soul like a mass of lead, he had had to play as best be might, every night and morning, at the ardour of young love with that girl Winifred. He had had to imitate with hates fol skill the wantonness of youth and the', ecstasy of the happily betrothed lover. Be had to wear a mask of pleasure on his pinch- ed face while his heart within was full of bitterness, as he cried to himself more than once in hia reckless agony. After such un- natural restraint, reaction was inevitable. It became a delight to him to get away for once from that grim comedy, in which he acted his part with so mnoh apparent ease, and to face the genuine tragedy of his miser- able life, alone and undisturbed with his own remorsetul thoughts for a few short hours or so. He looked upon that fierce tramp in the eye of the nun, trudging ever on over those baking stones, and through that barren spit of sand and shingle, to some extent in the light of a self-imposed penance—a penance, and yet a splendid indulgence as well ; for here there was no one to watch orobserve him. Here he could let the tears trickle down his face unreproved, and no longer pretend to believe himself hippy. Here there was no Winifred to tease him with her love. He had sold his own soul for a few wretched acres of stagnant salt marsh : he could.gloat now at his ease over his hateful bargain ; he ,could call 'himself ` Fool' at tie top of his voice ; he could groan and sigh and be as sad as night, no man hin- dering him. It•was an orgy of remorse, and he gave way to it with wild orgiastic fer- vour. He plodded, plodded, plodded, ever on, stumbling wearily over that endless shingle, thirsty and footsore, mile after mile, : yet glad to be relieved for a while from the strain of his long hypocrisy, and to let the tears flow easily and naturally one after the ether down hid parched cheek. Truly he walked in the pati of bitterness and be the bond of iniquity,t. The ironwaa entering ins to his own sous ; and yet be hugged ir. The gloom of that barren stretch of water -worn pebbles, the weird and widespread deaela tion of the landscape, tbefierce • glare of the rokhday Eno that poured down mercilessly on hia aching head, all chimed in congenial, lywith hie presentbrooding end melancho- ly hnmonr, and gave strength to the poig- nsncy of hie retneme aid regret. lie could torture himself • to the hone an these small matters, for dear Fltie's take; he could do penance, .but not restitution. Ile couldn't. even so tell out the troth before the whole world, or right the two women he bad cruelly wronged, by an open can- feseien, ,At last, after mile upon mile of weary staggering, he reached .the Low Light, -and sat down, exhausted, on the barn shingle just outside the lighthouse-keener'e quer ter°,. Strangers are rare at Ofordneae; and a, morose -looking man, sourced by eolfttide, soen presented himself at the door to Stare at the new -copier;. " Tramped it ?" he asked curtly with an inquiring glance along the shingle beach. • -" Ye—o, tromped it,'• Hngb answered with a weary aigb, and relapsed into alienee, too utterly tired to think of how be had best set aeont the prosecution of lila delieste inquiry, POW that he had pot there, The Lean ,toad With bit band on hie hip, and watched the stra.iager long and close„ with frank mute curiosity„ at. one watchea a wild beast in its csge et A menagerie, At last he broke the eeleiuu *Renee Ones more with the elle inkleisitive word, " Why V "Amesefaent,' Hash enewered, catebing the u an'e laconic mtannar to• the echo. For twenty minutes they tallied on in this brief di_ejointed Soartoo faabiep,, with goon den and atttwer ats to the life at Offordnese tossed to and fro lila a ()pick belt between them, till at last Hugh temehed at if by ac- eidlent, but with auptenit skill, upon the Esti itraotgnettiouef provisioning lighthouses. Trinity Housa steatn•cotter" the man replied to hia sheet suggested orrerryy, with a abielong jerk of his ;send to seathward. • Twice a month. Veryfele grub. Biecu t an' pone an' tinned meets an' arch lute," " tf;ttr empleyeeeu the ctrtttr'e men," Hugh i.uterpoaed quietly, r' hlgat age a dW Of life in their way aouietia .es. The rru nodded. "alr' death, too," be eeteuted with uueoaap;oloisiug hrevity, Wrecks*." "An' wires'." " C,orgaea I" "Ab, corpses,1 Ilona of 'too," " Here '1" " Well, innnekinfleff., Aa the mirth nide, moony. Alit with the tide, Cutter** mu, tuna one wally a week or two ago, es it might be Saturday. R'ght over yonder, by the groyne, to witdward, " eller "Not this time--•gid—young woutan.° "Where did she come from?' Hugh esZel eagerly, yet eappareeeiree Crit +eager. nese in his bee and vale taw well too he teas airy "How abould I knew:" the frau answer- ed with something very like a*lingo "They don't orgy their mimeo au' addeeares writ- ten on their foreheads, es 11 they were ves, dela. Lowestoft, Whitescrend, S'outhwold, Aldeburgh—might 'a beenany on 'ern." Hush continued hitiuquirles with breath - !eta interest a few minutes longer ; then he asked again in a trembling voice t "Any jewelry en. her:" The man eyed biro suapieloualy askance. Detective in dleguire, or what ne wonder. ed. "Ask the cutter's man,".hedrawled out *lowly, After.a long pause.. "'Taint likely, if there was any jewelry ona corpse, he'd leave it about her for the coroner to claim, till he'd brought her up here, is it ;'' The =ewer cog aaun otediloodoflight' on the aeafaringview of the treaanre•trovo of corpora, for which Hugh bad hardly before been prepared in hia awn ailed. That would acronnt ear her notbeing recognised. Did they hold an inquest?' he ventured to ask' nervously, The .Ilgilthouse-man nodded. 'But what's the gond?--no evidence,' ho continued, 'Not' identified. They mostly ain't, theso here drowndod bodies. Jury brought it in "Found drowndod." Convenient verdict— saves a eight of trouble." " Where do you bury them 5" Hugh oohed, hardly ably to control bin emotion. The man waved h'is hand with a, careless dash towards a sandy patch just beyond. the High Light. "Over' yonder," he answered, ' There's shiploads of 'em yonder. Easy digging --easier 'an the shingle. We plant. fad the crew of a Hamburg brigantine there in a lump last winter. Went ashore on the Oaze Sands. All panda drownded— about a baker's dozen of 'em. Coroner cornea over by boat from Orford an' alto upon' em here on the spot, so you may term it. That' consecrated ground. Bishop ran down and said his prayers aver it. A eorpee couldn't lie better or more confortabler, if ie comes to that, in Kemal Green Simmet- e�He laughed low to himself at bit own grim wit ; and Hugh, unable to conceal his disgust, walked off alone, as if idly strolling in a solitary mood, towards the desolate graveyard. The lighthouse -man went bank, rolling a quid in hia bulged cheek, to his monotonous avocations. Hugh stumbled over the sand with blinded eyes and tot- tering feet till he reached the plot with its little group of rude mounds. There was mound far newer and fresher than all the rest, and a wooden label stood at its head with a number roughly scrawled on it in wet paint—" 240." His heart failed and sink within him. So die was la?. grave 1— E'sie'a grave 1 Elais, Elsie, poor deso- late, abandoned, :heart -broken Elsie.—He took off bis hat in reverent remorse as he stood by its side. 0 heaven, how he longed to be dead there with her 1 Should he fling himself off the top of the lighthouse now ? Should he cut his throat beside her nameless grave? Should he drown himself with Elsie on 'that hipeless • stretchof wild coast ? Or should helive on still, a miser- able, a retch ed, sell -condemned coward, to pay the penalty of lis orueltyand his base- ness through years of agony ? Elsie's grave! If oily he could be sure it was really Elsie's 1 Ha wished he could. In time, then, he might venture to put up a headstone aith just het initials -those sacred' initials. But no ; be dared not. And per- haps after all, it mightnot be Elsie. Corpses name up here often and often. Had they not buried whole shipbads together, as the lighthouse -man assures him, after a terrible tempest ? He atood there lona, bareheaded in the sun. His remorse was gnawing the very le A We but of him. He was rooted taa the spot. 1 ndAt le h e Elsie hold him suet boa nRk h. roused himself, and with *terrible effort re- turned to the lighthouse. " Where did you say this last body came up'.'" he asked the man in ae careless a voice as he could easily Master, The man eyed him sharp and hard. "Yon seen precious anxious about that there youug woman," he anewered coldly. " She floated alongside by the groyne over. yonder. Tide throwed her up_ That's where they mostly come ashore f rem L,weetof a or Whiteetrand. Current. aweepa 'ein, right along the coast till they reset the Hens then it throws em op by the groyne as. reg Far as one o'clock, There a a cross eurrent there We that as makes the point and. the sand;bank," lived altered, He knew fell well he was rousine suspicion.;; yet he couldn't re- frain for all that from gratifying bit eager and burning desire to know all be could OM poor martyred Alaie, He dared not ask what had became of the clothes, mneh at he longed to learn, hat he wandered away slowly, step after step, to the side of the groyne. Ila furtleer fao--e war eheltc ed ky heaptd.ap abinglefrom thelighthouse man's e ye. Bush sat dawn in the shade,; clese under the timber Wilts, and looked around him along the beach where Prole bad been washed ashore, • it lifeless bard harden. Something yellow glittered on the sande hard by. As the inn caught it, it at- rraoted for it second his er]eual attention by its golden shimmering, His heart come up whit a hotrod lute bit month, Ho lineae it -=lee knew it -.-he knew it in adult. It was E"aWa wtrtotb @ EbrWt i aE' lsie'r 1 The watela tie himself had given—years and gears ago -no ; six weeha linea only—as ,to 6irtinday present—to poor dear deal. Bide. Then Elsie woo dead 1 He wan vans of it now. No need ter further dengeroaanee- ttonin . It war Valet( rto hide he; had 'oat been gentling. Velli ley busied there hoped the shadow et a doubt, aa.• kalewn and dithouonre d. It WAS D♦laio'a grave and Elates warteh. Whet peon for hops or for fear any lottger i It wan Bite'. watch, hot rolled by the cur- rent urrent from iruweatof; pier, at •the lighthouse. • turas had tightly told him was tteunl, and 044 ashore, everything elao wan. Always eaest, by, the ride of theggrrooyase where the: stream in the at timed.hairply outward at t the extrente ceetern nioet point of Suti'eik. IIe picked it up with tremulous llogere art kfesed it tenderly ; then he slipped it nlidab- rorved into bait breasat-packet, close to bis heart.-Eisio'a watelt, land began his returns journey with as iehing bosom, over triose Dummied.. ot baro nitches, away !sack to Aldeberga. The beaaala arenled toner atub drearier than befere. The orgy el resuwafe heel puled away uew,audl the ceoluees of utter derpafr lied gime over ieeterd of it. Il.alf.u;ay eft. he sect down At last, wearier thou ever, en the tang pebble ridge, and gaud %lee more with awlmmiag a es at lira,. visible token of Riiie s doom. Hope was dead in • hie heart new. Horror and agony breaded saver bit tool. The world without was dull and drew; -the world witin was a tett,. peat tat pasaiaa. He would freely have Riven alt. he'.poerelaw, d titatnietnent to he dead end isrwsled in one grave wzth Elsie. At that Sante instant at the Low Light tbo' cutter's mon, come ,riereass In, au open boat from Orford, was talking careles aiy to the uuderliuic at the lighthouse, "How s things with you?'" he asked with a mesh, " Pretty :Moil alike, and that atodgy," the ether answered grimly. " How's '. yours?" " Well, we've tracked down that there body.," the Trinity.Ilonereman said casually; "the gel"a, I mean, as. I picked up on the nate ; alt' after all • my trouble Rom, you.' wonlin't ballkvo it, but, hang it all, there ain't never it penny on it. Fieteher of Saltoun. The celebrated Fletcher of Saltoun, who distinguished himself so remarkably by hie politicel hoetility to the tyranny of the last two princes ,,f the house of Stuart, by hie zeal for the Revolntionunder King FPiltiam, and by hie opposition to the legielatve union between England and Scotland, by Which the separate Importance of the latter was for ever lost, and its prosperity.. natal*, standing, wonderf ,Wily promoted,was the principal proprietor of a large district in lfaddingtonbhire, in which are situated the village,, of Saltoun, East and }Fest. When Air Fletcher saw the union fully eetablished, and his own political career at a close, he Appear', to have d'u. eoted his active spirit too the improvement e£ hie country in the useful arts. Accordingly the Scotch owe to him the. fanners and the mill for making pot or hulledbariey, Having resided a consider- able time in Holland, along with other British, malcontents, before the Bsvolution, be had, obtained there the two instrnn?ents already mentioned; and at a littera period of his life he contrived to import them to Ha mon native oauntry. With this view, in 1710 he took James Meikle, a. millwright in his neigh, bourhood, to Holland. Mr .Meikle went to ,Amsterdam, and Mr Fletcher took up. his residence at the plague. The correspond- ence between them is said to be still in ex.. ieteuee; and frons thence it appears that the iron work of the barley -milt was purchased in, Holland. An the D"Itch were always ex- treacly jealous of the exportation or Intro- danetiota tet,. foreign countries of any of their manufactures or oatrittrents, hlr Meikle is said to have been under the necessity or disguising bion as a menial eerv:slt of hie employer"a lady, and is that character ob- tained per::i .sioal to see the tnatrnoents which he wearied to imitate by attendin the lady on pretended visite of curiosity. Mr Meikle, on his rdtalrn to Salteen, erected as barley-tntbl there, :noel made eked' cold the instrtiiuent celled the fanners. The barley mill bed c4uatent en4'.tivtnent, null.. Ssltoun barley wan written upon ailment every petty shop in ttsaScottish.village,, "Not" the lighthouse -man murmured interrogatively. "No, not a fardeu," the fellow Dill res. ponded in a disconsolate voice. "Wy should there be, neither ? That'e'ow I put it. 'Tain't it nob's. Tuna out sho warn't nobody. after all, but one, a'those 'ereo light.o'-loves down, yonder at Lowestoft, ?duet 'a been a aaflor'e Poll, I take it. Throweed 'ereeif in oil Lowestoft pier ono dark night, might be three weeks gone or night be ,a fortnight, on account of a alter- cation she'd 'a bin'avin with it young man as sho teas keopin' company with.—Never aeon a more promisin' nor a more disappin-' tin' corpse in my horn days. Wen I pekoe 'er up, nays I to Jim—" Jim," says 1, as confident as a ehurchwurding, "yon may take yoar davy on .it 'boa a nob, this gal, by the mere look o' 'er, 'au there's money on the body."—Wy, 'er dress alone would 'a made anyone take 'er for a gonu-wine lady. An' does it turn out ? A bad lot ! Just the pariah pay for 'er, an' that in Suffolk. If it'adn't bin for a article or two in the way of rings as fell off 'er fin - gore, in the manner o' apeakin', an' dropped as I may say into a 'meet man's pocket as 'a WOO it a carryin"er in to take 'er to the mor- tuary—wy,it do seem probable,it'e my belief ae that there 'oneat man might 'a bin out a ahillin' or so i:"'is private accounts throneh the interest he'd 'e took in that there worth- less an' unprincipled young woman.— Corpses may look out for theireelvos in future as far as I'm concerned. I've 'ad too much of them ; they're more bother'n they're worth. That's about the long an' short of it." (Ta EE coNTINDED.) News from the Skeane river relates that the troubles there are not so bad as it was feared they would be. The constable who shot the Indian is to be tried for manslaugh- ter, and as a result the hostiles are said to be satisfied. While this information is brought down by a trader, the special con- stables are working their way np the river and " C" Battery is encamped at Fort Simpson awaiting orders to proceed. It is to be hoped that the affair may prove nothing but a scare. When over, it will be well for the Government to relieve the Indiana of any grievance they may be labouring under. This is a great year tor eclipses. Four have already taken place, and another one —a partial eclipse of the sun invisible in America —is due on Wednesday next. Of those that are past, two were total eclipses of the moon and two partial eclipses of the sun. The former took place on January 28 and July 22 rotpeotively, and were both visible here; the latter took place February 11 and July 9 respectively, and were both invisible here. Oa the 9th inst. the earth will plunge into a meteoric zone, and " fall- ing stars" ought to be more numerous than usual. The most brilliant part of the display will probably occur on the evening of the 10th, Al Boating SAW, Wrr.'te,nt,l',lie SI, r;rancfr, Jr i 7,(Miy oerr Me $el." >rY t A, *MUMS, railcars. When the vernal days are dale And tie saltry sonueer Pisa, Its lanCCucrorer nature brings.-- Then o;rne shady cool retreat From the t. tty a stere and heat. liatli health a_d lieau'ing la it's wings Chetttg (Treble) We aro exiling glad nitric, Oho) Wo ars,silica glad and fere. Wo aro sellecg fled eel fere f eorbl \l a arosallieg, salters, € til"",og. sanding. ea. :ca stall and free, rl asst We jrekr:;riay; ,radars, 'OUZOldccpl; Dat]. Ah"t:s n: -.t the barlead hraSa..- In it. da; t. tha t,, elrstu -. Can latah the t.`.;.; abVs that brta'lhe a> d b alas Weary tar.di!dratfeeble will 4',177 Lith bit ita;perfd .t slant Butte's sdendraut gifts to prat euro, Fn. wkere l:Alto S:. Francis Pact, SRweruriiaeat by ferret d skies— In as cwir eittire en its beeT:tr,, Neel the *Interline asap:e treev,— raa'd ba' (col refreshing' Orme— We $eia with the linnets to o;ir *haat. here "St. Lawrence" lint i l green; Blends tivttb "r eat: r'd° mirky ebeeo, White away through oleo Cesare"'ttdes:en t, -- Where it plus " U -f o.t sn'," tine And .tonelloyele'sIslet divide, Till" 'er la^_rrl `ua=Sa tthemunienilvdfriecia. Bore—In fetefwl dava of ehf— Alre Retiottlon wrathful roll'd,— Loyal eons conserved the ?latlee'a fa'e, And uprcared " t.frn;rarry'e Cairn" —On the " lI'Aate.teirrlr:f D iri'a" 801u8n To express their devotion to the state. Nu—refreshed—our neturosings, TIP. with songs, the welkin rings, And. the 1. c—etnbowered in Its green— Oives==for body, mind and heart— Added strength to do Ilfe's part. Tram the sweet cnehautmtnis of the scene. rt a (nota--F.seh line in the chorus !e repeated four times, a -d if a number of voices can join in, the beauty of the chores can be heightinet by each part ravine' the wording," A Sweet Story. LC8OU araaorcei Once 1 thought her looks were haughty, And her love was growiragcald, And her smiles were faint and weary ; And hor faith was los'ng hold. Then erin;'nd slighted her hunkd And Ise*reed all her mows, Till she faded, droop'd and pio'd. We would always snarl tsgether, And then go with aching heart Sighing sore for one another, Tonne solitude apart. Tilt a nobler lore came o'er me. And I sought her lone retreat ; Where our wild impassion'd story. Ended most divinely sweet. Boy -Like. Rr OtOROs COOPER. From early dawn he roamed about Withlances inquisitorial, And in the house, likewise without, He left some sad memorial. No ono could tell, from those mild eyes. What his remote intention was; Ile loved to waylay and surpri'e, And startling his invention was. A violin he broke. in fun. And afterward its brother flute ; To see what made the tune in one, And also what made the other toot. The sawdust in the dolly packed For him a wild attraction had ; A watch be could not leave intact; From this groat satisfaction bad. . He dug, to see how grasses grew, A bicycle he took apart - Folks locked up all their books—they knew He loved to take a book apart. A drum had wondrous charms for him To see Just where the noise came out; With him around, the chance was slim That unbroke any tot s came out. But as he prowled about one day, With hungry curiosity, And near the cradle chanced to stray, Hs shook it with velocity. Packed off to bed ere he could sup, His lips agentle sigh earn. from ; Because he stirred the baby up To find out whet a the cry came from 1 " You must lead quite a pastoral life," said the woman to the tramp, "roaming, over the country in this beautiful weather.' "Rather more of a pasture•al life,, madam," replied the tramp, sadly ; " I slept in the. open air with eight cows last night." li