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on the 1i:itch= table, whit her -e'er% ua-
linishocloot,
Sat Sarah Aim, intent upon tt, thrilling novel-
ette.
The baker owl the groeerman knocked londlY,
but in vain;
Then leicked the nelat all oft the deer, alid went
away again.
The flre went out. and tho light grew dim, but
Sarah Ann read en, ,
Intent upon the ;fortunes of Lord Algernon,
Fitzjolin.
'Whose proud and. wealthy father desig,ned his
son and. heir
For the beauty of the season, the Lady Maud.
do Vero.
She loved him, but Lord Algernon, much to his
pa's distress,Disliked. the Lady Maud and loved a modest
governess,
She came to where the beauty accidentally o'er
-
hears
This wilful lord. proposing to the geverness who
fears
She's unworthy of the honor, but she loves him
as eer life,
.A.nd will do her very best to make a true and
worthy wife.
She still reads on, and. as she neared the bottom
of the page,
She learned how Lady Maud became convulsed.
with jealous rage,
Forgot fierself, tine, maddened by the sounds
of rapturous kissing.
Sprang forward--Serah turned the lent the
other page was missing !
-Nato York Sun.
THE SISTERS
"He will not leave the country yet,"
said Elizabeth. "What is it, Mr. Brion ? "
"I think I see what it is," broke in
Patty. "Mr. Brion thinks thab father was
Mr. Yelverton's uncle, who was lost so long
ago. KingKing-Mr. Yelverton told us
the other day that they called him 'King,'
for short -and he was named Kingscote
Yelverton, like his uncle. Mother's name
was Elizabeth. I believe Mr. Brion is
right. And, if so—."
"And, if so," Patty repeated, when that
wonderful, bewildering day was over, and
she and her elder sister were packing for
their return to Melbourne in the small hours
of the next morning -"if so we are the
heiresses of all those hundreds' of thousands
that are supposed to belong to our cousin
Kingscote. Now, Elizabeth, do you feel
like depriving him. of everything, and stop-
ping his work, and leaving his poor starved
costeronongers to revert to their original
condition -or do you not ?"
"1 would not take it," said. Elizabeth,
passionately
"Pooh !-as if we should be allowed to
choose ! People can't do as they like where
fortunes and lawyers are concerned. For
Nelly's sake -not to speak of rnine-they
will insist on our claim, if we have one;
and then do you suppose he would keep your
money? Of course not -it's a most Insult-
ing idea. Therefore the case lies in a nut-
shell. You will have to make up your mind
quickly, Elizabeth."
"1 have made up my mind," said Eliza-
beth, "if it is a question of which of us is
most worthy to have wealth, and knows
best how to use it."
They did not wait for the next steamer,
but hurried back to Melbourne by train and
cloacae and reached Myrtle street once more
at a little before midnight, the girls dazed
with sleep and weariness and the strain of
so much excitement as they had passed
through.
a So they began to work as the bureau with
solemn diligence, and a fresh set of ono -
were evolved by that occupation,
which counteracted, without effacing, those
others that were in Patty's mind. She
become absorbed and attentive. They took
out all Mrs. King's gowns, and her linen,
and her little everyday personal belongings,
searched them carefully for indications of
ownership, and, finding none, laid them
aside in the adjoining bedroom. Then they
exhumed all these relics of an olden time
which had a new significance at the present
juncture -the fine laces the faded brocades,
the Indian shawl and laces,
muslins, the
quaint fans and little bits of jewelry -and
arranged them carefully on the table for the
lawyer's inspection.
"We know now," said Patty, "though
we didn'tknow a ew months ago, thatthese
are things that could only belong to a lady
who had been rich once."
" Yes," said Elizabeth. "Dat there is
another point to be considered. Elizabeth
eigh ran away with her husband. secretly
and m haste, and under circtunstances that
make it seem most unlikely that she should
have hampered herself and him with lug-
gage, or bestowed a thought on such trifies
as -fens and finery."
The younger sisters were a little daunted
for a moment by this view of the case. Then
Eleanor spoke up. "How you do love to
throw cold water on everything !" she com-
plained, pettishly. "Why shouldn't she
think of her pretty things? I'm sure if I
were going to run away -no matter under
what circumstances -I should take all
mine, ff I had half an hour to pack them up.
So would you. At least, I don't know about
you -but Patty would. Wouldn't you,
Patyt ?"
Well," said Patty, thoughtfully, sitting
back on her heels and folding her hands in
here lap, "1 really think I should, Elizabeth.
If you come to think of it, it is the heorines
of novels who do those things. They
throw away lovers. and husbands, and
fortune, and everything else, on the slightest
provocation • it is a matter of course -it is
the correct 'thing in novels. Bub in real
life girls are fond of all nice things -at
least, that is my experience -and they don't
feel like throwing them away. Girls in
novels would never let Mrs. Duff -Scott give
them gown and bonnets, for instance -they
would. be too proud • and they would barn
a bureau any day rajther than rummage in
it, for a title to money that a nice man,
whom they cared for, was in .possession of.
Don't tell me. You. are thinking of the
heorines of fiction, Elizabeth, and, not of
Elizabeth Leigh. She, I agree with Nelly
-however much she might have been
troubled and bothered -did not leave her
little treasures for the servants to pawls.
*Either she took them with her, or someone
able to keep her destination a secret sent
them after her."
"Well, well," said Elizabeth, who had
got out her mother's jewelry and was gazing
fondly at the miniature in the peatoedged
locket, "we shall soon kuow. Get out
the books and music, dear."
While this was going on, Patty, at a sign
from Elizabeth, seb up the leaves of a little
tea -table by the window, spread it with a
white cloth, and fetched in such a luneheon
as the slender larder afforded -the remains
of "alre. McIntyre's (thicken and ham,
scene bread and batter, a plate of
biscuits, and a decanter of sherry-,
for it was past, 1 o'clock) and Mr. Brion
and Paul had evidently no inten-
tion of going away until their investigations
wero complete, The noel Was quite silent.
Her soft steps and the brueli of her gown as
they passed to and fro were distinctly'
audible to her lever, who would.
not so much as glence at her, bub re.
mined sternly intent, upoe the triartuseripte
before him. These were fond to be very
intereeting, bat to have no More bearing
upon. the matter in hand than the rest of
-- -
the relies, thet bad been overhauled ; for the
met pe,et, they were studies in various Arts
and emeaces prepared by.111r. and Mrs, King
for their deatgliters =meg the process of
their educatiou, and such odds and ends of
literatore us weald be ,found in a clever
Woman's common -place books. They had
all been gone ever at the time of Mr. :King's
deeth, in a vain hunt for testamentary docu-
ments ; and Elizabeth, looking into the now
bare shelveand apertures of the bureau,he-
gsan to think how she could console her
peters for the disappointment of their
hopes.
Cense and have seine touch," she said to
Paul (Mr, Brion was already at the table,
deprecabing the trouble that his dear Patty
was taking). "1 don't think you will find
anything more."
The young man stood, em with his brows
knitted over his keen oyes, and glanced
askance at bile group by the window.
" We have not done yet," he said de-
cisively ; "and we have learned ' quite
enough, in what we haven't found, to
justify us in. consulting Mr. Yolverton'e
solicitors."
" No," ,she said, " I'l have nothing said
to Mr, Yelverton, unless the whole thing is
proved first."
Never thinking that the thing would be
proved, first or -last, she advanced to the
extemporized lunch table and dispensed the
modest hospitalities a the establishment
with her wonted simple grace. Mr. Brion
was acoommodated with an arm -chair and a
music book to lay,across his knees, whereon
Patty placed the tit -bits of the chicken and
the knobby top crust of the • loaf, waiting
upon him with that tender solicitude to,
which he had grown =customer', but which
was so astonishing, and so interesting also,
to his son
"She has spoiled me altogether," said the
old man fondly, laying his hand on her
bright head and she knelt before him to
help him to mustard and salt. "1 don't
know how I shall ever manage to:get along
without her now."
CHAPTER XXXVIL
inS0oVratY.
It was between two and three o'clock ;
Mr. Brion reposed in his arm -chair, smoking
a little, talking a little to Elizabeth who
sat beside him, listening dreamily to the
piano, and feeling himself more and more
inelined to doze and nod his head in the
sleepy warmth of the afternoon, after his
glass of sherry and his recentsevere fatigues.
Elizabeth, by way of entertaining him, sat
at his elbow, thinking, thinking, with her
fingers interlaced in her lap and her gaze
fixed upon the floor. Patty, intensely alert
and wakeful, but almost motionless m her
straight back and delicately poised head,
drooped over the keyboard, plying all the
"soft things" that she could remember
without notes ; and Paul, who had resisted
her enchantments as long as he could,
leaned back in his chair, wibh his hand
over his eyes, having evidently ceased to
pay any attention to his papers. And,
suddenly, Eleanor, who was supposed to be
washing plates and dishes in the kitchen,
flashed Into the room, startlmg them all out
of their dreams.
"Elizabeth, dear," she exclaimed tremu-
lously, "forgive ane for meddling with our
things. But I was thinking and thinking
what else there was that we had not
examined, and mother's old Bible came into
my head -the little old Bible that she
always used, and that you kept in your top
drawer. I could not help looking at it, and
here "-holding out a small leatherebound
volume, frayed. at the corners and fastened
with silver clasps-" here is what I have
found. The two first leaves are stuck to-
gether -1 remembered that -but they are
only stuck round the edges; there is a. little
piece in the middle that is loose and rattles,
and, see, there is writing on it." The girl
was excited and eager, and almost pushed
the Bible into Paul lirion's hands. "Look
at it, look at it," she cried. "Undo the
leaves with your knife and see What the
writing is."
Paul examined the joined leaves atten-
tively, saw that Eleanor was correct in her
surmise, and looked at Elizabeth. " May I,
Miss King?" he asked, his tone showing
that he understood how sacred this relic
must be, and how much it would go against
its present possesor to see it tampered with.
"1 suppose you had. better, said Eliza-
beth.
He therefore sat down, laid the book be-
fore him, and opened his share) knife. A
sense that soinebhinig was really going to
happen now -that the secret of all this
careful effacement of the little chronicles
common and natural to every civilized
family would reveal itself in thelong-hidden
page which, alone of all the records of the
past, their mother had. lacked the heart
to destroy -fell upon the three girls; and
they gathered round to watch the
operation with pale faces and beating hearts.
Paul was a long time about it, 'for he
tried to part the leaves without cutting
them, and they were too tightly stuck to-
gether. He had at lastto naake alittlehole
which to insert his knife, and then it was a
most difficult matter to cut away the plain
sheet without injuring the written one.
Presently, however, he opened a little door
in the middle of the page, held the ilap up,
glanced at what was behind it for a moment,
looked significantly at his father, and
silently handed the open book to Elizabeth.
And Elizabeth, trembling with excitement
and apprehension, lifted up the little flap in
her turn, reed this clear inscription-
" To my darling shild,Elizabeth, •
From her loving mother,
Eleanor D'Arcy Leigh,
Bradenham Abbey. Christmas, 1830.
Psalm xv., 1 2.'
There was a dead sileuce while they all
looked at the fine brown writing -that deli-
cate caligraphy which, like fine needlework,
went out of fashion when our grandmothers
passed away -of which every letter, though
pale, was perfectly. legible.
"This, added to our other discoveries, is
conclusive, I think," said the old lawyer,
sanding up in order to deliver
his opinion impressively, and. rest-
ing his hands on the table.
At any rate,. 1 must insist on placing the
a
results of our investigation before Mr. Yea
vertort-yes, Elizabeth, you nmst forgive
me, my dear, if I take the matter into my
own hands. Paul will agree with me that
we have passed the thrie for senthnent. We
will have another look into the bureau -be-
cause it seems incredible that any man should
deliberately rob his elefidren of their rights,
even if he repudiated his own, and therefore
I think there must be legal instruments
Somewhere ; but, supposing none are with
us, it will nob be difficult, I imagine, to
simply what is wanting to complete our case
fromi other soarc'es--from other records of
the family, in fact. Mr. Yelverton hirnselfs
in five minutes, would be able to throw a
great deal of light Upon our discoveries. It
is absolutely necessary to consult him."
"Let us look tier that secret drawer, at
miy rate," he said. "1 feel pretty certain
there must be one now. M. Ring took
great vete to peeYetzt identification (luring
his lifetime, but, as rny father says, that is
a very different thing from. disinheriting
you. If you will allow' me, I'll take every
moveable part oOt first."
He did so while she watched arid essisted
him, All 1:11e blase -handled dtawace, and
sliaing shelvee, end, partitione were with-
drawn flan their elbsely fitting eoekete
leaving a number oi holea arta epaces, each lean
diffaring size and shape from the rest,
Then lie drew up a chair in front of the
exposed skeleton, and gezed at it thozights
fully ; after which he began to make care
-
hal measurements inside and out, to tap the
woodwork in every direction, and to prise
some Of its strong joints asunder. This
work continued until 4 o'clock, when, nobs
withstanndino the highly stimuleting ex-
citement of tlie day's proceedings, the girls
began to feel that craving for a cup of tea
which is as strong upon the average
woman et this time as the' craving for
nolebler of whiskey is upon the -shall I
say average mon ?--when the sight of a
public -house appeals to his nobler ' appetite.
Not that they wanted to eat and drink-.
far from. ; the cup of tea wos the symbol
of rest and relief for a little while from the
stress and strain of labor and worry, and
that was what they were in need of. Eliza-
beth looked at her watch and then at Patty,
end the two girls slipped out of the room
together, leaving Eleanor to watch opera-
tions at 'the bureau. Reaching their little
kitchen, they mecha,nically lit the gas in the
stove, a,nd set the kettle on to boil ; and
theu they went to the open window, which
commanded an unattractive view of the
back yard, and stood there side by side,
leaning on each other.
Theta they talked by the kitchen, window
until the kettle bubbled ou the stove ; and
then recalled to the passing hour and their
own personal affairs, *they collected cups
and saucers sugar -basin and milk -jug and
cat bred ana butter for the afternoon repast.
just as their preparations were completed,
Eleanor carne flying along the passage from
the sitting -room. " They have found a
secret &fewer," she cried in an excited
whisper. "At least not a drawer, but a
double partition that seems to have been
glued up; and Mr. Brion is sure, by the dull
sound of the wood, that there are things in
it. Come and see !"
She flew bank again, not even waiting to
help her sisters with the tea. Silently
Elizabeth took up the tray of cup's and sau-
cers, and Patty the tea-pot and the plate of
bread and butter; and they followed her
with beating hearts. This was the crisis of
their long clay's trial. Paul was tearing at
the intestines of the bureau like a cat at
the wainscot that has just given sanctuary
to a mouse, and his father was too much ab-
sorbed in helping him to notice theirreturn.
"Now, pull, pull I" cried the old man, at
the moment when the sisters closed the
door behind them. "Break it, if it won't
come. A -a -ah !" as a sudden crash of
splintered wood resounded through the
room, "there they are at last! I thought
they must be here somewhere?'
"What is it ?" inquired Elizabeth, set-
ting down her tea-tray, and hastily.running
to his side. He was stripping a pink tape
from a thin bundle of blue papers hi a most
unprofessional state of excitement and agi-
tation.
"What is itT" he echoed triumphantly.
"This is what itis, my dear" and he began
in a loud voice to read from the outside of
the blue packet, to which he pointed with a
shaking finger-" The will of Kingscote
Yelverton formerly of Yelverton, in the
county. of 'Kent -Elizabeth Yelverton, sole
executrix."
ClHAPTER XXXVIIL
TEE Tran YoR AOTioN
'les, it was their father's will -the will
they bad vainly hunted for a year ago, little
thinking what manner of will it was;
executed when Eleanor was a baby in long
clothes, and providing for their inheritance
of that enormous English fortune. When
they were a little recovered from the shook
of this last overwhelming surprise, Mr.
Brion broke the seal of the document, and l
formally and solemnly read it to them. It
was very short, but perfectly correct in
form, and the testator (after giving to his t
wife, in the event of her surviving hirn the 8
sole control of the entire property, w'hieb
was =entailed, for herlifetinie) bequeathed
to his younger daughters, and to any other
children who might have followed them, a
portion of thirty thousand pounds apiece, h
and left the eldest, Elizabeth, heiress of
Yelverton and residuary legatee. Patty
and Eleanor were thus to be made rich be-
yond their dreams of avarice, but Eliza- h
beth, who had been her father's favorite, 6
was to inherit a colossal fortune. That h
was, of course, supposing such wealth P
existed in fact as well as in the imagination a
of this incredible madman. Paul and his 1
father found themselves unable to con- a
calve of such a thing as that any one in K
his senses should possess these rare and
precious privileges, so passionately desired t
and so recklessly sought and sinned for by 1
those who had them not, and should. yet f
abjure them voluntarily, and against every w
natural temptation and moral. obligation t
to do otherwise. It was something wholly r
outside the common course alum= affairs, E
and unintelligible to men of business. a
Both of them felt that they must get out t
of the region of romance and into the s
practical domain of other lawyers' offices s
betore they could cope effectively with the P
anomalies of the case. As it stood, it was Y
beyond their grasp. While the girls, h
sibting together by the table, strove a
to digest the meaning of the legal h
phrases that had fallen so strangely h
on their ears, Mr. Brion and Paul ex. ri
changed sotto voce suggestions and opinions P
over the parchment spread out before them. vi
Then presently the old man opened a second lo
document, glanced silently down the first m
page, cleared his throat and, looking over el
his spectacles, said solemnly, "My. clears, Id
give me your attention for a few minutes,tt th
Each changed her position a little, and la
looked at him steadily. Paul leaned back tr
in his chair, and put his hand over his eyes. he
"What I have just been reading to you," Pi
said Mr. Brion, "is yourfather'slastwilland
testament, as I believe. It appears that his sc
surname was Yelverton, and that King was an
only an abbreviation of his Christiau name ne
---assomed as the surname for the purpose ir
of eluding the search made for him by his P
isTow, certain circumstances have te
come to our knowledge lately, referring, ho
apparently, to this inexplicable conduct w
on your father's part." He paused, coughed, in
and nervously smoothed out the sheets be- ga
fore him, glancing hither and thither over sq
their contents. "Elizabeth, my dear," he th
went on, "I think you heard Mr. Yelver- th
ton's account of his uncle's strange disap- H
pectranee after -ahem -after a certain un- Id
fortunate catastrophe ?" ha
"Go on," said the young man. "I will hi
come back presently." m
"BLit where are you going ?" his father pi
repeated with irritation. "Can't you wait of
until this business is finished ?" pa
"I think," said Paul, that the Missea of
King -the Misses Yelverton, I suppose I to.
ought to say -would rather be by themselves lie
while you read that paper. It is nob just -
b.,ke the will, you know ; it is a private ta
atter--not for outsiders to listea to." tio
Elizabeth rose promptly and weht to- ba
rds him, laying her hand on his arm. ari
we o you think we consider you an out- pro
skier ?" she said, reproachfully. "'0t1 are ge
me of us -you are in the place of otir wh
brother -we want you to help us neve more the
tie= we have ever done. Come and sit gro
down -that is, of course, if you can spare ex
time for our arairs when you have so many jIlti
important ones of your own." the
Ile went and sat down, taking,the seat by as
Petty to which Elizabeth pointed him. out
tha
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face he her hand% Her lover laid his z
geutly on tlie baok of her chair,
" Shall begin, my dear ?." asked
lawyer hesitatingly. "1 &zzn afreid it n
be painful to you, 1Dlizebeth. Perhaps,
Paul say, it woeld be better for you to re
it by youtsolves, 1 will leave it with y
for a little while, if you promiee faithett
to be very careful with it.'
But Elizabeth wished it to be read as t
will was react, end the old men, Kagn
suspecting that she might be illegally gen
0118 to the superseded representative of t
Velverton mune and property, eves glad
keep the paper in his own bands, and p
oeeded to recite its contents. "1, Kin
cote Yelverton, calling myself John Ka
do hereby declare," etc.
It was the story of Kingscote Yelvertox
tuifortunate life, put on record in the fox
of an affidavit for the benefit of his childre
'apparently with the intention that th
should clean their inheritance when he w
gone. The witnesses were an old midwi
long since dead, and a young Scripte
reader, now a middle-aged and prospero
ecclesiastic in a distant colony ; both
whom the lawyer remembered as featux
of the "old days" when he hi
self was a new -comer to the out-of-the-wor
place that counted Mr. King as its oldo
inhabitant. It was a touching little doe
mena in the sad story that it told and t
severe formality of the style of telling i
Kingscote Yelverton it was stated, w
the second of three brothers, eons of a Ion
line of Yelvertons of Yelverton, of wide
three, however, according to hereditar
custom only one was privileged to inher
the ancestral wealth, This one, Patrick,
bachelor, had already come into his kin
dom ; the youngest, a briefless barrister
comfortable circumstances, had married
farnier's daughter in very early yont
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Guards -when the tragedy which sha,ttere
the family to pieces, and threw its vast pro
perty into Chancery, took place. Braden
ham Abbeywas neighbor to Yelverton, an
Cuthbert Leigh of 3:radenharn was kin t
the Yelvertons of Yelverton. Cuthber
Leigh had a beautiful daughter by his firs
wife, Eleanor D'Arey ; when this ilaughte
was 16 her mother died, and a steennothe
soon after took Eleanor D'Arcy's place ,
and not long after the stepmother came to
Bradenham, Cuthbert Leigh himself died
leaving an infant sou and heir; and no
long after that Mrs. Cuthbert Leigh mar
ried again, and her new husband aclminis
tered Bradenbam-in the interest of th
heir eventually, but of himself and his own
children hi the meantime. So it ha,ppene
that Eliza,beth Leigh was rather elbowed
out of her rights and privileges a
her father's daughter; which being
the case her distant cousin and near
friend, Airs. Patrick Yelverton, mother fo
the ill-fated brothers (who lived, poor soul
to see her house lefb desolate), fetched th
girl away from the home which was hers no
more, and took her to live under her own
wing at Yelverton. Then the troubles began.
Llizabeth was young and fair; indeed, all
accounts of her agreed in presenting the
portrait of a woman who must have been
irresistible to the normal and unappropri-
ated man brought into close contact with
her. At Yelverton she was the daily com-
panion of the unwedded ma,ster of the house,
and he succumbed accordingly. As an im-
partial chronicler, I may hazard the sug-
gestion that she enjoyed a flirtation within
ady-like limits, and was not without some
responsibility in the matter. It was clear
also that the dowager Mrs. Patrick, anxious
o see her first-born suitably married and
°Wed:, and placed safely beyond the reach
of designing farmers' daughters, contrived
her best to effect a union between the two.
Bat while Patrick was over hexed and ears
in love, and Elizabeth was dallying with
im, and the old mother planning new fur-
iture for the stately rooms where the
queen was to reign who should succeed her,
Kingscote the guardsman-Kingscote, the
andsome, strong -wiled, fiery -tempered
econd son -came home. To him the girl's
eart, with the irnmeznorial and incurable
erversity of hearts, turned forthwith,
flower to the sun ; and a very short fur-
ough had but half run out when she was
s deeply over head and ears in love with
ingscote as Patrick was with her. Kings -
010 also loved her passionately -on his own
estimony, he loved her as never a man
oved before, though he made a proud con-
ession that he had still been utterly un
orthy of her; and so the materials for the
ragedy were laid, like a housemaid's fire,
eady for the match that kindled them.
lizabeth found her position untenable
mid the strenuous and conflicting atten-
ions bestowed on her by the Mother and
ons, and' went away for a time to visit
ome of her other relatives; and when her
resence and influence were withdrawn from
elverton, the smothered emnity of the
cabers broke out, and they had their first
nd last and fatal quarrel about her. She
ad left a miniature of herself hanging in
er mother's boudoir; this miniature Pat-
ck laid hands on, and carried off to his
rivate rooms; wherefrom Kingscote, in a
olent passion (as Elizabeth's accepted
ver), abstracted it by force. Then the
aster of the house, always too much in-
ined to assert himself as tench, being
ghly incensed in his turn at the liberty
at had been taken with him marched
to his brother's room, where the disputed
easure was hidden, found it and put it
his breast until he could discover a safer
ace for it.
They behaved like a pair of ill -regulated
hoolboys, in short, as men do when love
d jealously combine to derange their
rveus systems, and wrought their own
reparable ruin over this miserable trifle.
trick, flushed with a lurid triumph at his
mporary success, sbrolled away from the
use for an aimless walk, but afterwards
ent to a gamekeeper's cottage to give some
structions that occurred, to him. The
mekeeper was not at home, and the
uire returned by way of a lonely track
rough a thick plantation, where some of
e keeper's work had to be inspected.
ere he met Kingscote, sbriding along with
s gun over his shoulder. The .guardsman
d ,discovered his loss, and was in search of
s brother, intending to make a calm state-
ent of his right to the possession of the
dun by virtue of his rights in the person
the fair original, but at the same time
ssionittely determined that this sort
thing should be le= a stop
There was a short parley, a brief but
rce altercation, a montentary strugg,le
on one side to keep, on the other side to
ke, the worthless little bone of conten,
n -and 11 was all over. Patrick, sent
ckwarcl by a sweep of his strong brother's
; fell over the gun thathad been careleesly
pped against a sapling ; the stock of the
n, tlyitig up, was caught by a tough twig
WI dragged across the hammers, and as
man and tho weapon tinnbled to the
toed together one hammer fell, and the
ploded charge entered the squire's neck,
b under the chin, and, passing upward to
brain, killed him, It was an accident,
all the fainily believed ; but to the
hor of the misehatice it was nothing less
n murder.no Was guilty of his
ther'e Med he accepted tho portion
l'atty looked up at hun wistfully, and then
ed her elbows on the table ancl put her
of Cain -to he A fugitiVe 414
vagabond on the face of the earth
-In expiation of it. Partly with
the idea of sparing pain end disgrace to his
(believiog that the only evidence
ayitileble would convict him of murder in
a (mut of law), and partly because he felt
that, if acquitted, it would be too horrible
and impossible to teke an inheritance that
had come to him by such means, in the
overwhelming deepera,tion of his remorse
and despair he took that determination to
blob hhneelf out which was never afterwards
revoked. Returning to the house, he col-
lected some mouey and a levy valua,bles, and,
unsuspected and unnoticed, took leave of
his home, and hie name, and his place in the
world, and was half ,way to London, and
beyond recall, before the dead body in the
plantation was discovered. In London
Elizabeth Leigh was staying with an old
Miss d'Arcy, quietly studying her music
and taking a rest while the society which
was so found of her was out of town; and
the stricken 'nail could not carry out his
resolve without bidding farewell to his be.
loved, He had a clandestine interview with
Elizabeth, to whom alone he confided the
circumstances of his wretched plight. The
girl, of course, advised him to return to
Yelverton, and bravely meet and bear
whatever might befall ; and it would be
well for him and for her if he had taken that
advice. But he would not listen to it, nor
be turned frorn his fixed purpose to banish
and efface himself, if possible, for the rest
of his life ; seeing which, the devoted
woman chose to share his fate. Whether'
he could and should have spared her that
enormous sacrifice, or whether she was
happier in snaking it than she would other-
wise have been, only themselves knew, She
did her wornan's part in helping and sus coining
and consoling him through all the blighted
years that he was suffered to live and fret
her with his brooding melancholy and his
broken -spirited moroseness, and doubtless
she found her true vocation in that thorny
path of love.
(To be Continued.;
Speedy Scotch. )tarriage.
The Rev. Joseph Yair, of the Border
parish of Eckford, Roxburghshire, who is
now defying his Presbytery, has always
been a man of strong will. To those who
knew him in earlier days, it is no marvel
that, although 90 years of age, he should
claim to be quite able, with the assistance
of a probationer, to attend fully
to the spiritual wants of his parish.
As illustrating his decision of
character his marriage may be referred to.
The parents of the young lady of his choice
were greatly averse to the match, and, when
the wedding day came, had her securely
locked her in her bed -room. Mr. Yair was
denied access, Turning to the peewits with
a plaintive tone he pleaded that he might be
allowed at least to shake hands with her
and bid her good-bye. This was granted,
and the bed -chamber unlocked. No
sooner was this done than Mr. Yair
seized his bride by the right hand said, "I
take you to be my wife"; and she as swiftly.
replied, "I take you to be my husband."
The parents were dumb with astonishment,
aud the Rev. Joseph forthwith bore off in
triumph his blushing bride, and, it may be
added, the hardly -won wife proved an ad-
mirable helpmeet. The spirit that is baffling
the Presbytery now is the spirit that baffled
the bride's parents then. The old man xnay
not be wise, but he is courageous.
A Solid Knock -down Blow.
The whale blows water while at play;
Trees blow in every clime;
The sweetest flowers blow in May,
But wind blows all the time.
There's lots of blowing in this world.
Sufferers from catarrh blow their noses, and
quacks blow about their "cures." Dr.
Sage' si Catarrh Remedy is the only infallible
one. Its proprietors back up this claim by
offering $500 for every case they fail to cure
permanently. This is an unanswerable blow
at humbuggery, corning from men of sterling
reputation and ample capital. Nasal
Catarrh cannot resist the potency of this
Remedy. It stops discharges, leaving the
senses acute, the head clear, and the breath
normal. Of all druggists, 50 cents.
The Tanner and Kis Ducks.
The followingstory was told by one of
Chicago's prominent lawyers. No other
proof of its triithfulness could be desired:
It was when I used to practice law in a
little town near the centre of the State,"
said he. "A farmer bad one of his neigh-
bors arrested for stealing ducks, and I was
employed by the accused to endeavor to
convince the court that such was not the
case. The plaintiff was positive his
neighbor was guilty of the offence charged
aga.itist him, because he had seen
the ducks in defendant's yard. How do
you 'know they are your ducks.' I asked.
Oh, I should know my own ducks any.
' replied the fa.rmer, and he went
into a:description of their clifferentpeculiari-
ties whereby he could readily distinguish
them from others. 'Why,' said I, those
ducks can't be of such a rare breed ; I have
seen some just like them in my own yard."
That's nob at all unlikely,' replied the
farmer, for they are not the only ducks I
have gad stolen lately.' Then I called the
next witness."
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Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca,
Mo., during the past two years has
been affected with Neuralgia of the
Head, Stomach and Womb, and
writes: "My food did not seem to
strengthen me at all and my appe-
tite was very variable. My face
was yellow, my head dull, and I had
such pains in my left side. In the
morning whenI got up I would
have a flow of mucus in the mouth,
and a bad, bitter taste. Sometimes
m3r breath became short, and I had
such queer, tumbling, palpitating
Sensations around the heart. I ached
all day under the shoulder blades,
in the left side, and down the back
of my limbs, It seemed to be worse
in the wet, cold weather of Winter
and Spring; and whenever the Spells
came on, my feet and hands would
turn cold, and 1 could get no sleep
at all. I tried everywhere, and got
no relief before using August Flower
Then the change came. It has done
Inc a wonderful deal of goocl during
the time I have taken it and is work-
ing a complete cure," CI
G. G. GRN, Sole Man'fr,Woodbury, NJ,
UV TUBER Teo 800Ne
A fitp Tatiti PhYffician Who W1hc ie.11a4
Kent quiet Longer.
A certain Well-known Gorman- PhYsierm
of the .00110 4d0, 81.V13 the St, Louie
Republic, was'. the 'victim of his own.
previoosness " the other day. He Jura
suocessfally treeted a wealthy lady's
daughter for diphtheria and the lady was
extremely grateful for it. When the ehikt
was thoroughly well mother and
daughter oppeare4 at the pleyeician'a
office. Tho little girl shyly handed the
physician a, neat knit purse), while the lady
went on to say: "For having saved my
child, doctor, I want to present you with_
this purse."
"list," said tho physician, after an eal-
barressing peuse, I have sent you a hilt
for 3O0."8
The lady flushed, then said quietly, "Let,
me heve the purse, please."
She 'took two 8100 bills out of it and re-
turned it to him, with the remark "There .
are $300 in there now, so your bill is, paid,"
and left the room.
Now the donor is cursing his chunsy
'tongue for the bad break it made. , Tha4
little speech coat him just 8200,
Wisdom Frani Kansas.
The Lord hears lots about the faults of
husbands from over religious wives.
The trouble in love affairs is that the
parties to it love too mlich te love long.
A man can't love a woman he does not
trust; women love men every day they
can't trust
aoa,
There are none against whom men need
protection so much as those whom they int-
plicitly trust.
A friend's help in your troubles never
travels beyond the point where hotfoots his
own interests.
It not unfrequently is the case that one
friend makes a man more trouble than twee
enemies cause him.
The best loved inan is he who gives the
most ; he is also the one least regarded
when he stops giving.
That men are different from women is
considered by the men as a sufficient war -
rant for all their follies.
"1 wish Iwas a man," said a woman the ‘
other day. It is always fashionable for
them to be comfortable."-Atehison, Glo5e.
The Fools are Not All Dead.
A lazy man, whose horses and cart were
stuck in the mud, prayed to Jupiter for
help. Jupiter answered: "Fool get up
and put your shoulder to the wheel, and de
not call on me when you can help yourself."
Foolish people buy medicines hap -hazard,
blindly trusting to promises made without et
guarantee. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical.
Discovery is guaranteed to cure colds,
coughs, all lung affections, and even Con-
sumption, in its early btages, It puts to
rout all stomach troubles, purifies the blood,
gives healthful action, to the sluggish liver,
and drives blemishes from the skin. It is
an honest medicine, and an invaluable
health insurance policy which should never
be allowed to lapse. All druggists keep it
Cure For Corns.
An absolute and permanent cure for corns
is the rest cure, says a New York Times
writer. If you can go into a fortnight's
seclusion, giving out that your ankle is
sprained, and keep the corn foot in a stock-
ing and wool bedside slipper, without
pressure, and useing only when walking
about the room, the corns will disappear
and will not return. All inflammation sub-
sides first and the corn becomes loose an&
easily detached and that is the end of it.
For soft corns the constant wearing of a
bit of old linen saturated every morning
with sweet oil is said to be a sure cure.
From the beginning the pain of the in-
fliction ceases, and after a time the corn it-
self loosens and falls out. Both these
remedies are from good authority', and will
bear trial; the first one, perho.ps, being
rather difficult of accomplishment, since
many of the acids and corn salves sold,
irritate and produce soreness, and the knife
of the chiropodist is apt 10 afford merely
temporary relief.
A Big Plant.
According to R Leader Williams, Engl.,-
neer•in-Chief of the Manchester Ship Canal,
England, the plant used on that work con. -
sided of 97 steam excavators, 8 steam
dredgers, 173 locomotives, 6,300 trucks and
cars, 228 miles of single track railway,
costing about $3,150 per mile, 124 steam
cranes, 192 portable and other steam en-
gines, and 212 steam pumps of all sizes.
The maximum laboring force was 17,000
men and boys and 200 horses. The. coal
consumed amounted to 10,000 tons per
month. The total excavation was shoat,
46,500,000 cubic yards, including 10,000,000
cubic yards of sandstone rock.
Dealing in Futures.
"You have been a grain speculator, I
believe," said a solid looking business man
as he entered a, broker's office and without
ceremony took the first chair he was waived
to.
"Yes, sir, I have been a speculator, bat
I am out of the business, thank goodness.
It's hazardous, sir, very hazardous."
"Yes. Well, then, I take it from thab
that you don't believe in a young man deal-
ing in futures."
No, sir, I do not. It is a reprehensible
practice, air ; very reprehensible."
"What would you do with a son, if yor
had one, who persisted in dealing in fu-
tures ? "
"Why, if my son -and I've got one -
should deal in futures, Ishould wrestle with
him awhile, and then if he persisted I shoul&
fire him out of the house."
"Alt right. Your son is coming to see
my daughter nearly every night in the
week, and last night I overheard them.
talking about how much they thought I
was worth. If that isn't dealing in futures,
I'd like to know your advice before I fire
That Accounted for it.
Eminent Personage -May I ask whether
you are related to the Mr. Smith whom L
met at Venice last year?
Mr. Smitla-I am that Mr. Smith, sir.
Eminent Personage -Ali 1 that accounts
for the remarkable resembla.nce.-Bostoit.
Globe.
The einevitanee Tax.
New York Harald : Mrs. Hicks -When.
will you ever learn, Henry, to tax 3rocur
memory?
, Hicks -I presume I shall start in this fell
--if McKinley gets there ia Ohio.
Mrs. John MoLeen vvrites, from Barrie
Island, Ont., lelareh 4, 1889, as follows: "1
have been a great sofferer from nettralgia
for the last nine years, but, being advised
to try St. Jacobs Oil, can now heartily en -
done it 218 being a most excellent remedy
or this complaint, ae I have been greatly*
benefited by its
A (gusto of dates weighing 18 pounds and
comprising 1000 dates is on exhibition at.
Phenix, A. T. near which &tee they we#0,
grown,