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WALD-R:10 M.D., President; 0 . TAW.° g Secretary J. B. ilUG103, o seises° r UtlAe SNELL, Agent for Exeter and vioinity The Molsons ank (0IIABTEBED B Y PARLIAMENT, 1865) Paid up Capital „, Se,000,000 lice Fund ... 1,100,03 Headonice,Montreat , F WOLFERSTAN TTTOMAS;Plece. GENERAL KANAGEE. IVIoney a.dvaneedio good farmerson their own rare with one or more endorser as 7 per cents rer annum. Exeter Branch, cpen eyerylawful day from lo a.m. Los p.ra SA -TURD snot) o,,m, to 1 D. m, Sentra rates of inteseet ellowed on dopes! ,N, DYER, liEURDON, Ou13-Manager. NOT WISELY, BUT TOO WELL ClIA.PT ER XXVIII. --(Cceon$ into, ) Keith, in his Weakness and lonelinees, might have been entioed here epporently by her wish. There would hey -e been hours of languor mad convalescenee, during which they would heve been together -boars when the softness of pity in her owe heat‘t and the awakened memories of his would have held all the old power, and all, the long folt-against danger. But she sees still that the plot 13 not defeated, thet she Lostraine draws her slender figure up to to ,fall height, and, with a cold bow, turns %dile to speak to Colonel °exhale. For an instant LeAly ,Teeu looks at her ae if s Then the blood eashesin a. torrent to her feee and neck. She knows the meaning of such an Rotten only too well, Diluter is itunounced now, and Sir Francis, whet has also observed this aet of his wife's, offers his arm to Ledy Jean. Colonel Carlisle does the sante to Lauraine, has a subtle foe to combat, aud In all het and lady letwyude follows. The dinner is a dreary affair. Emit cf scorn and wrath Leeraine yet feels the miserable conviction of leer GSM impotence theta feels t'• scene is impending, mad 'Colonel Carlisle, who has some inkling of oppressing her. he hours ass. Of time she takehow inattere stand, is very uncomfortable. Tps no count or heed; only lies there prostrate and sick at heart, and desolate and ashamed; feeling that a great crisis in her life has come, and she cannot tell how to deal with it. The luneheon-bell rings, but she sends a mes-sage that she ie ill and cannot some downstairs. Atwater hour passes, and still she does not move, only lies there in a sort of stupor of misery and bewilderment. There comes a gentle kuock at the door, and she hears Lady Etwyndee voice asking permission to enter, Wearily enough she gives it. All syna- ps.thy seems useless to her, and her friend's perfect happiness seems to show up in but sharper contrast her own wretched life. Lady Etwynde guesses inetinctively that something. is wrong. Neither Lady Jean nor Lostrame has appeared atlunelteon, and Sir Francis has looked like a human thuuders cloud all the time. She comes forward now and. kneels by Lauraine'e side. " Whet has happened, dear ?" she asks. Am you ill'?" Ill enongh in mind," answers Lauraine, and then site tells her ail. Lady Etwynde listens in silence, but her beautiful eyes grow dark with indiguation and bitter scorn. " It is all that hateful wonsan, cf come," she says at last. "Oh, my dear, my dear, whist will you do now 2" "1 cannot tell," says Lauraine, despair- ingly. ".Aceept such an outrage as tide I cannot, and yet if I lusist-well, I told you He resolves that on thm e orrow Etwyndeand himself must quit Falcon's C hose, sorry as he is tor, and much as he admires, Laurahae. The lathes rise to leave the table, and pass out of the room, Before entering the animists -room Lady Jean bends down to Lauraine, "Will you be good enough to explain the meaning of your strange behaviour?" she Says. Lturaine turns and faces her nuflinehing- ly. "You must excuse me from entering upon any discussion, with you," she says haughtily. "You will find a note in your own. epartment that will fully explain every- thing -not that I fancy such explanation is 11°11174J eau's handsome, sparkling face changes to a dull, ashy grey. She to be insulted thus, to her very face, and by a woman who she despises as a fool and hates as a rival! Her teeth clenels like a vice. She is too wise to. bandy words ; she only teens and walks straight to her own suite of rooms, and there sees the letter spoken of. Tearing it open like a fory, she reads the few curt lines in which iss,uraine states thet circumstances. render it advisable her visit shoald come to ao end, and refers her, forany explanation she may deem emissary, to Sir Francis. To say that Lady Jean is furioas would but ill convey an idea of the tempest of rage, hatred, and spite aroused in her heed by the knowledge that she is discovered* "How could she have found ont, and so suddenly ?" she muttered to hereelf. his threat.' had no letters ef mine to leave about. '1 "Bat that is absurd 1" exelaime Letly W as stover such a fool ae to svrite to him, Etwynd.e, indignantly. " He has not a. and to.day she has been shut up in her shadow ,of proof. No judge would lieten to suchsaa ease. It is only a threat, rooms,r.,)-aa,ant forgotIhavexa notmetFjahetten Frank. Aliv,tlisle Lauraine ; and that woman has put him up ub could. she have overheard ?" to t. in any ease the disgrace would be "She trembles with mingled rage and the same," says Lauraine. 'I was so blind, shame. If Lauraine had stood before her so foolielt. Everyone seems to lia.ve noticed now she could have killed her withoet o, re - Keith's devotion to me, and 1 -it was an gret, crushed out her youth and. beauty loug before I auspected it," with ruthless beanie and rejoicing heart; but "She lockers -on always see most, you Lauraine 1}5 not there, and Leuraine has all know. But, still all tins preves nothing, and I don't believe your husband would seriously think of dragging his name and yours into one of those courts without a tittle of evidence to support his Gamma - tion." "Evidence can be bought," says Lento ane ; "and even were it to cense to nothing, here is the shame, the scandal. Olt, my por Keith 2 It was an evil fate that threw istwo together a gain. For a, malaise t Lady Etwynde is silent. She is deeply troubled. She knows avail enough that, be a woman es er so mnoaent, the breath of public discussion will tarnish her fame for ever. A sense of injustice, danger, rises in her heart, and fills it with hot, indignant thoughts. "1 menet counsel you to submit," she says. "And yet—" "1 do not mean to subm4..."- exestvers Lastraine, tranithilhesestl Wavould look like YisiteitlaCe the worst. For inye.elf, I do slot care so much: I have been unhappy so long -but it is of Keith I think." " My dear 1" exclaims Lady Etwynde, "spare your pity 1 A man never suffers in these cases; it is always the woman -al- ways. The more guiltless, the more society will shun her. It is a sort of way it has for .condoning its awn errors and impurities. It looks well to make a violent outcry when anyone has been so foolish as to be found. out. As long es you sin in the dark, no one will dream of saying a word, let their suepicions be ever so strong. A woman like you, Lauraine, who has only been imprud en t and sorely tempted, and yet dares to be virtuous, will reeeive no mercy and gain no belief." "I know that," she says, and her indif- ference is scarcely forced.' now. She feels tooliopeless for strong emotion. "As for Keith," goes on Lady Etwynde, impatiently, "it is all owing to his selfish- ness and--" "Hush," cries Lauraine, sternly; "I will not have him blamed. He had been sorely tried, and many men would have acted far worse. It is on me that all the blame lies -on me only. It all began from the fatal error of my marriage, and I deserve to suf- fer, I know; only sometimes, Etwynde," she adds, wearily, "it does seem as if the suffering was beyond my strength." The tears sprang to Lady Etwynde's eyes. "What will you do 2" she asks despair- ingly. "To -morrow I will tell Lady Jean that it is best for her visit to terminate," answers Lauraine. "1 do not see why I should condone my own shame. As for the con- sequences, Sir Francis must do what be pleases. I know I am innocent, even if blameable -the result, time will show." "1 think you are quite right," says Lady Etwynde. But I atn afraid you will suf- fer for it. Lady Jean is a dangerous woman to offend," Lauraine pushes the hair off her temples, as if the weight oppressed her. "1 do not expect anything else but suffering now. And I may as well endure it for right as for wrong. If I have respected my husbaud's name, at least he might respect mine," " And whatever you do be sure of this," says Lady Etwynde, gently; "my house is always open to you. Let the whole world turn its back upon you,Lauraine,my friend- ship will never fail. ' Lauraine looks up at the beautiful face Her heart is too full for words. But when she is alone again a great fear chills her. "I have done right,',she says. But -what will it mist 2" • CHAPTER XIIX "LET MR HAVE BEE. TRIUMFIL* the shame and defeat e, Like a wounded. tigress she ' ces to and fro her room, a thousand seh jects flashing through her bred , and all the ia thee and pro- fiereeness and 'savagery oilier nature roused. into an imamate, furious longing to revenge this inside, us she terms it, upon the woman who ha$ dealt it to her. And at this moment, and while she is in this mood, Sir Francis enters. Lady Jean turns upon hint like a beauti- ful fury. "So -you have been fool enough to let her find oat, 'the says, in a low, chok- oa VOiCO. "Read that.' He glances aver his wife's letter. He is emu -seed also. He heel not thought she would have courage to act like this. "By Heaven.: she shall sutler for it 1" he mutters, savagely. "She bee dared. tie sielysae, after all ' t • • " • s "Defy you?" echoes Latly Jean. " Did you know then?" "Certainly ; I knew since the morning," he answers. She was in the library -she heard US." " Did I not tell you, you were an lm - beetle," screams Ledy Joan, to send me a, message -to ask me to some to that room; and now -now— Groat Heaven! what AM 1 to do? I am rained, and all through your idiotcy 2" A woman always turns round on a man when these is a question of inconvenience to herself. Sir Frauds stands there sullen and raging, but he is equally at a loss what to counsel. '` "I ant meatier here," he says preseetly. " Yott shall not go," Lady Jean laughs in his face. "Master herei-oh, no doubt? You should have exercised your meetership in time, then ; now it is too late. Your wife and I cannot remain ander the same roof. Why, do you suppose that for a single moment I should stay to put up with her insults? Are you really such a fool? No; it ie good-bye to you both from to -night, only don't let her dare to breathe a word of this to the world, or it will be the very worst clay of her life -that I swear. "Good-bye l -what, do you mean 2" says Sir Francis, stupidly. Do you think I am going to give you up for that puling, white- faced piece of virtue who calla herself my wife? By Heaven, no !" " You seem to forget that you were mad to JUNO that same puling white-faced non- entity for yoer wife once upon a time?" sneers Lady Jean. "You bought -your toy, and now you must keep it. I leave your roof to -morrow, and never again do we two meet, unlees---" She pauses meaningly. He seizes her by the arm. "Don't. drive me desperate. You knotv I cannot give you up. You shallnot- must, not go. I have a hold. on La,uraine. She is afraid of me. There is all that about -Keith." Lady Sean shakes off his hancl and laughs mockingly. "About Keith! Pshaw I They were too wise for us, mon anti. Don't fancy you can do anything there. Of course they were in love -everyone knows that; but I doubt if you have a handle for a case,' if that is what you mean. And if Lauraine were afraid of you, would she have written this 9" She stands before him -that letter in her hand, and all that is worst in her whole nature roused and stung by the justice that she deems an insult. Sir Francis is quite at a lass. That Lauraine has so coolly dis- regarded his threats seerns to augur her own fearlessness and her own innooence. He feels an itivoluntary respect for her despite his anger - end the fury of baffled schemes. It had never occurred to him that she would be brave enough to act thus. She has openly defied him, and that defianee arouses in him ft longing for vengeance -a hatred of the purity of prin- ciple that has heen tempted and. yeb stood firra-that in the weakness of a vvoino.n's nature has been strong as -never was his manhood; that confronts him now unsharre ed and uudauntecl, and ready to bear the cost of the most terrible vengeance that cotild present itself to a woman of Laur- aine's nature. , "Would this?" persists Lad yetean, n - raged at his silence. "Afraid !-she is fearless enough, trust her. She has been too _clever for us both, and there remaius All through that day Lauraine keeps in her own room. Sir Franois does nob ap. preach her. He is quite confident that his threat has taken effect-ehea she will never proceed. to extremities. He has not seen Lady Jean to tell her of his wife's discovery, and. be dares not send her another message. When he goes down to dinner he finds his wife in the drawing -room. She looks very pale, and is dressed in Weak velvet Lady Etwynde is beside her, and Colonel Carlisle is standing near, Sir Francis has scarcely entered the room when Lady Jean follovvs. She and Lauraine have not met thee day., She walks up to nothing for it but to make the best of it. tier hostess, extendiug her hand. 1 1 will have no scene, no scandal, I leave your houee toanorrow, and never again do Set foot in it, or receive you," "Ad. you think I will suffer thie ?" odes Sir Franoie. '"I`hat I am going to part from a woman 1 love for the sake of one 1 hate 2" "I think you cemnot 11elp yourself,' answers Lady jee, e, coolly. moan what I have said. Now -go. 1 dou't Want to create further scandal, and your presence here at this time is eoniewhat -.singular, to say the least of it." . "Jean, do not dive me rnad 1" cries Sir Francis, desperately, "You aro e:ever, keen of wit. Snrely you can devise some plan by which we eau defeat her ? It is htuniliating, unbearable to be baffled like this." "She has seen through our scheme she is prepared," seats Lady Than. "Don't praise me for keen Wits or cleverness, mon anti; you cam admire them more safely as exemplified by your wife! Now -will you go?" "tot unless you tell me when and how I are to see you again." "Never, never, never !" almost weenie Lady Jean. "Is that enough? Never again, 1 swear, uuless your wife is -to all intents and appearauces-whet she has deemed me ! As that will never be, I think you must resign yourself as philosophically as possible to an eternal parting." "How heartlosa you are!' cries Sir Francis. You cannot mean it We might meet sometimes. There is no kind "Oh, fool -dolt !" cries Lady Jean in a fury. " Have I not said enough,? It is to you 1 ONTO this insult, You can pay the penalty of it. You heve nothing to do now but put up with your bargain, or - wait for freedom!" "Freedom," he mutters, vaguely and stupidly. "Do you mean that I should try for a divorce V' She opens the door and pushes him im- pudently aside. "1 have said all that is neoessary, It is for you to act I" "Asti," he says. For a moment he heel- tates, then goes forward and, firmly closes , the door. I will not go tilt I have said my say. I warned Laurel/se that if she did Is is I would proceed to extremities. hall do so. She has defied me for the first itn e in her life. Well, she shall stiller for its If you hive my roof she leaves it too. She has chosen to insult you; let her have her share of disgrace. Lady Jean looks at hitu'asif bewildered, "You moan--" "I think you know very wellswhat I rneesa," he says, gloomily, "You. wero the first to eouneel it." But the seaside], the diegraae," cries Lady Jean, hurriedly. "And thee all this will leak out, and it will look likes trump. ed -up case, done to shield yourself. And my nanie—No, no ;• 1 comet have is:. Slie is right. Let her have her triumph; it won't lost long. There are other ways to punish her besides this. Leave it to me. I must 25 calm. I muse think. No; that idea is ridiculous. You my drag her name through the dirt, but you drag your otvii also, and she eau always bring up --this. And, though I hate her, 1 know the la a, Mod woman. She is cola; that is her safeguard,lbr she never loved yoe. But all the same, she will not forfeit her own self-respect. It is ouly another sort of pride, but it, is safe." "Amd yet von alsvaye sestd-s-riabe.gins Sir Francis. "Said," endsilie laughs her old mocking laugh.wane I said, of course I say it stilbs'ald then proofs are different. She loves Keith Athelstone, and he laves her; and yon -love me. It is a triangle that you omit melte into a square. She has the best of it now, Iset her alone, and let her triumph. It may be my turn next.' Infatuated as Sir Francis is, something, in the cold, measured hatred of this wont an's last words strikes upon Jahn svith chill almost of fear. He would rather have seen her furious, violent, tempestuous, than as she looked now. She wo.s pot the sort of woman to care for a "waiting race," and he knave soma deeper purpose underlaid her words. She turns on him suddenly again, and stamps her foot. " Will you go? Do you wish to disgrace me publicly? Have I not suffered enough at your hands 2" "But you will write ; you. will tell rne whete you are ?" he implore. " Yes -yes ,• I will write. Only go. I must be alone I must think. And to -mor- row I hove. Arrange all that," He leaves her then, and Lady Jean rings her bell and bids her maid pack immedi- ately; she has received news that neces- sitates her return to Paris. Early the next morning she leaves the inCieHlasaseearg. of farewell. Sir Francis drives his ostess did not appear, or send any guest away to the station. He has not seen nr spoken to his wife. " You have triumphed," says Lady Et- wynde, standing by Lauraine's side, and watching the carriage as it disappears down the great oak avenue. " Triumphal?" Lauraine sighs heavily as she turns her aching eyes away from the dark forest glades that stretch for miles around. " It is a poor triumph, Etwynde, and laden with bitter me merles, and weight- ed with many fears. Something tells me that I shall suffer for this before long." And Lady Etwynde echoes that fear in her own heart, though now she speaks all brave and cheering words that her tender love can frame. "How will it end?" she thinks, despair. "Bow will it end 2" Perhaps it was well that she could not toll at that hour, in that time. (To ex coNTestreo.) WRITE HIS ONER6 IN APRIOA. one4itetbrt:slevao Le4ttioaren,,irselc.0.11Kitex:airv the AsBelgiau °Meer, who hos been in the hard fights that have resulted in the over- throw of Arab slave stealers in the Congo basin, has sent home the story of the pa- thetic fate of two white employes of the Congo State, who early in the war were taken prisoners by the Arabs. Now and then the Arabs lied some mese sage to send to the white leaders in .the compeign against them. The -prisoners wrote these letters, and thus the 'Belgians learned that they were still alive, though they did not know from day to day what fate might befall them. One day a Congo State force reaohed the bank of a river. Shouting was soon heard across the stream'', and natives in the eer- vice of the Arabs informed the black sol- diers of the Congo State that a conferenoe was desired, Meking their .way to thik river bank two white officers easy in the tall grass on tee other shore Mr. Lebrun, one of the white prisoners, No man was seen near him, but the whites knew very well that plenty of Arabs istid their black, armed slaves were lurking in the thickets along the opposite river bank, :300 feet aw3,aly. Mayr. Lebrun said the Arab chief Sephor desired the officere with the escort of &eye men, to cross the river and go about a mil inland to have a talk with the rebel chief, At the seine time Lebruu made' it plain that the enemy was near at hand in large force, and the whites knew veey well that the wily Arab was merely trying to set a trap to °etch them, They had tto Mee of felling into it, but, the talk went on for half en hour. Meanwhile about fifty Arabs evarenco,lelseijoili,,2t,:coview on the bank babied Lebrun and a qearter of a mile away at least, 230 more of the enemy could be seem, The whites began to cudgel their brains for some way to reseue Lebrun. One of them went beck to ciamp to get reinforce- ments and, station them in the bush not far from the river bank, though out of sight of the rebels. The °Meer on the bank. had meeewhile hid twenty -61 his best shots in the tall grass, whileeten more, acting as his guardiawere plo,in view. The talk was still going on, when suddenly the Belgian officer asked Lebrun: " nanybody on your aide understand stand the unfortunate prisoner. As he spoke he came down the bmk and bathed his feet atthe rivet's edge. An Arab ohief came with him, and a little behind him wore a lot of blacks, resting on their guile, and all ready to take the offensive a,t a moment's eventing. The Belgian officer said to his men in the grass. "Each of you mark your man and leeve me the chief." Then be said to Lebrun "You cam SWIM, Call% Yon r "Yes," answered the prisoner. "Well," said the otlicer. "I have our bee marksmen hid in the .grass and we can save you. You Sump Into the water and swim for no, and we can drop every mau who lifts a The officer writes that there waya hair minute " of simply awfal silenee.," Lebrun was seated with his feet in the edge of the -water and his, head bent in thous/ht. He had been a prisoner for, five months. With bis 'poor comrade Lepinhe ho had suffered many, pvivatimas, and therleteel felt thee any day might be their laet esillere wet a "deuce to escape at last. :',;e -was not a very brilliant chance, for heeinight be ?shot in the water, but thereAs a fair prospect; that he would be able to make the other shore in safety. Should he try it ; and white would beeome of Lateens if hildid try it? It was evident that such thoughts as these were passing' through his mind. It did not take long, however, to reach a decision. He arose to his feet, and said. to his anxious friends 0» the other side : ' "Thank you, bays; I'd like to try it, but I can't. They'd kill poor Lepens sure if I did." Then he walked up the bank to his ghard again. His heende shouted to him to wait a minute, and they sent over to him their last drop of brandy and a piece of cloth autl a letter that had been -written to Lepens. That was the lest the Congo State forees saw of either of the men alive. .A few days after the news came that both the prisoners had beau killed. It was found that their heads had been struck off and placed high ovor the gate of an Arab settlement which soon fell into the hands of the whites. DREAM BRINGING GANJA. The Smoking of the Indian Hemp is the Coolies' Chief Solace. In 1552 books on geometry and astrono- my were destroyed in England as savoring of An ertisementiin one of the great Lon - dos dailies reads "Daniel's Defiance -The finest variety of cabbage in cultivation. It is early, short -legged and compact. Sow now." Many old clothes men advertise for "Left -off wearing apparel." Contrary to the general belief that Ire. land lead the world in its fondness for " praties," etatisties show that the people of Germany and Belgium are the greatest potato eaters; the consumption In these countries annually exceeds 1,000 pounds per head of population. Ia digging a 'well in Carroll County, Mo., recently, a farmer claims to have found at o, depth of ten feet a stream of water in which were floating numbers of white wal- nuts, together with leaves from the trees. That part of Boston known as the north end is strictly of a cosmopolite's character. On a certain street there are displeyed signs in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese'French, Russian, Hebrew, Norwegian and %Mete 'A portrait, which is supposed to 1,,) ee Robert Auchmaty, one of George IIISs judges, in Boston, is still hangiog M the supreme courtroom in that city. The Pic- ture is the work of John Singleton Copley eaeie u4 511 All those who have yielded themselves to tbe fascination of "Monte Cristo" have an hieffaceable recollection of the wonderful cave scene in which the guests of Dilates are plaeocl under the voluptuoue influence of hasheeslesays the New York Commercial - Advertiser, Hasheesh is a kind of greenish jelly made from hemp, and cunningly flavoured, and it is said by its votaries to afford a very short pathway to the moat exquisite sensations known andthe penaltiee for its use are bitter and gliastlyin propor- tion. A milder form of the intoxication pro- duced by hasheesh follows the smoking -of the loaves of "pejo.," or the hemp plant. This plant is grown in many parts of Asia, and so addicted is the Indian coolie to sol- acing himself with its fancies that in what- ever part of the world he happens to pitch his tent, even if only temporarily, he makes the genie plant occupya prominent place in the cultivated clearing that inevitably surrounds his "barracks." Now that the periodic fulminations against opium are de- prived by facts and figares of much of their force the attention of the English govern- ment has been diverted to the subject of ganja consumption in India. So long ago as 1871 the deleterious effects of ganja were brought to the notice of the government in India. 'The question has been taken up again, and local governmeets have been directed to enquire into the truth of the allegations frequently made that the abuse of the drug produces insanity •and other dangerous effects, and they were regnested to report whether it would be expedient to restrict the use of ganja or to supprees the eultivation of the hemp plant altogether. Upon a careful consideration of the opin. ions elicited the government of India has come to the following conclusion in regard to the effect of the drug: "It does not appear to be specifically proved that hemp incites to criine more than any other drugs or other spirits. And there is evidence to show that, on rare occamone, this drug, usually so noxious, may be usefully taken. There can, ho ever, be no doubt that its habitual use does tend. to produce insanity. The total number Of eases of insanity is small in pro- . portion to the population, and not large even in proportion to the number of rtauja smokers; but of the eases of insanity pro. dewed by the excessive use of drugs or spirits by far the largest number must be attributed to the abuse of hemp. What fills the housewife avith delleht, And, makes her biscuit crisp and light, Her bread so tempt the appetite? COTTOLEISIC What is it makes her pastry Rich A, treat, her husband eats so much, Though pies he never used to touch? COTTOLEN What is it shortens cake so nice, Better than lard, while less in price, And does the cooking in a trice? corroLetit What is it that fries oysters, fish. Croquettes, or eggs, or such like disk As nice and quickly as you'd wish? COTTIr. What is it saves the time and care And patience of our women fair, And helps them make tlaeir cake so rare? GOTT° LEN! Who 15 11 earns the gratitude 0fevery lover of pure food. 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