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They Hear the Strew. tier the Second . '�`M 'chitd,ta *ad Mrs. Yereton kind--
�'ime ly, holding out hair hands, "you have '
colpo back to We, my child; My eon
The weary Mine a element sleets loves} yotr and you can clear his.name,
The airs were anent for R seem We Will Call him back to us, you and L
As past Hesperian shores we swept,
That Vero ea a r embered face, Tile cttn come Agit when there is noth-
Been anter ;neat- empe&e.$ years. tt! f04tr. °'
iaa Redder, when the ehadows Meet.
Din through. the MIK of teeny team
And strange, and, though a shadow; Sweet.
So seemed the half -remembered shore
That slumbered, mirrored io the blue,
With heavens where we touched of yore,
And ports that ovea'we;l we knew..
Then broke the calm before a breeze
That sought the secret of the West;
And listless ail we swept the seas
Towards the islands et the bleat,
Reside a golden -sanded bay
We saw the a e:is, very fair;
The flowery Mil wnertwu they lay,
The Rowers set upon their hair.
Their old sweet songteame down the wind
Remembered mettle waxing strong-.
-
Ahl now no need of cords to b pd,
No need had we ofOrphic song.
It (*nee had seemed a little thing
T., ay ocr,fives down at their feet,
That dj big we Wright hear them sing,
And dying see teeir faces creek,
But now we g.aneed. and, passing by,
No Litre bad we to tarry long;
Faint hope and rest and memory
Were more than any Siren's sang.
—Andrew Lang's Ballads.
I. EL EN LEE.
There was the gloom of a great sor-
row to the proud halls of the Veretous;
the haughty master lay cold and still;
the heir — handsome, warm-hearted
Gerald --was a wanderer, suspected of
having stained hie young hand with hie
father's blood; the proud woman, who
beeazue suddenly widowed and worse
than ehildless-.-was it wonderful that
she thought the world darkened and
God's mercy withdrawn?
Ab, had she foresees. this when she
accepted into her heart and home the
girl at whose door It all lay! Sad a
warning come to her, when the dying
mother gasped her prayer, that she—
Mrs.. Vereton—would be a mother to
the helpless child whose fatherbad for.
saken her! The pale child, not far be-
yond her infancy, had been taken from
her mother's bosom and laid lovingly
upon that of her mother's friend, who
was without A daughter. and then, the
young heir saw how beautiful was the
girl's sweet face, how true and tender
flze young heart, and be --loved Bert
The pude of the Veretons sprang to
life, and hot words waged, for the first
time in their lives, between the father
and his son,
"Go!" the old man cried wrathfully.
"Go front my house! yourself and the
sly minx who would fain be mistress of
it! Leave my sight and my house with-
in an hour!"
idr. Vereton had shut Che door of his
library against his wife, and in the
morning he was found, there—dead.
Dead for hours, the doctors said; and
the crimson stream which was clotting
on the floor about him had been drain-
ed from his heart; the hand that drove
the dagger home had been untrom-
bling; the blade had ;ono unswervingly
to the seat of life!
As the wife bent over her dead bus -
baud, stunned by this terrible blow, a
low whisper reached her, which made
her very brain reel.
• It does look queer; the servants say
that there was a bitter quarrel last
night .between Gerald and his father,
and Gerald has not been seen since.
I tell yon it looks rather auspicious."
it was the noon of night when Mrs.
Vereton again sought her dead, and
she started with a proud gesture of in-
tolerance as she saw the slender figure
of the girl site had adopted kneeling
beside the coffin, her face buried in the
velvet pail.
"How dare you come here to see
your work?" Mrs.Vereton cried hoarse-
ly. "You have murdered him, and you
have destroyed alike the soul and life
of my infatuated son! It was about
you they quarrteed; it is to you that I
owe it that my son has shed his father's
blood!"
* * * * * *
Three years have told their four -fold
tale of budding, fruitage, decline and
death, and Mrs. Vereton, sitting alone
at her desolate .hearth, is thinking
drearily of the past. She is thinking
of Helen Lee, now, and her thoughts
are neither kind nor loving; the door
opens slowly, and a slender figure
crosses' the threshold and advances into
the room. As Mrs. Vereton looking up,
saw the dark eyes and perfect features
of the girl whom she was once so kind
to, she arose with a haughty frown;
she regarded the intruder with a
haughty silence, which the latter was
first to break.
"You bade me come toyou,madam,"
she said in tones that had desolate
notes of pain in tbeir music, "when I
could take the stain of blood from Ger-
ald's soul. It has never lain there—
ah, no! But I have brought you proof
—you, his mother, proof of his inno-
cence—the confession of a man who
murdered your husband!"
"It was not Gerald!" The mother's
very lips were white, her hands clasp-
ingeach other in agony. "Not Gerald!
Oh, heaven, have some mercy for me
still. My boy! my innocent boy!"
"For you, mercy and future love,"
the girl cried bitterly. "For me—yon
shall judge when I have told you all,
madam. I must love your son well to
thus clear his name by darkening my
helpless future—branding myself the
child of a murderer!"
Mrs. Vereton shrank from her with a
faint cry.
"A murderer's child!" she said
loathingly, in that moment of strange
revelations.
For an instant the girl's eyes Sashed,
and she drew her slight form to its full
height.
"You thought yourself a murderer's
mother," she exclaimed. "Did, . yon
think the world had, therefore, the
right to shrink from you as though you
had•shed bloodP .iii; madam, t am
young;' with sudden plosion. "will
this red stain ever leave my lifeP"
ilut before she could proceed fur-
ther,s'
there wasO
t r th a a anfn i i inthe lie
he , 11
outside, s mingliing of the servants'
voices, and a ringing one, clear and
free, rising high above them all. As
that voice reached them the two wo-
men grew suddenly white, and while
one hid her young face in her hands.
the other stood up, grasping the arm
of her chair tightly; a glad motherlight
in her eyes.
A moment later and the door was
flung wide, and Gerald sprang to her
outstretched arras, which she closed
around hien with a glad cry; "Gerald!
Gerald! my son!"
He held her closely for an instant,
kissing the tears from her cheeks; then
putting her ewer. he knelt beside HO -
en, his eyes tracing her yearningly.
"No welcome, loveP" he asked re-
proachfully; "no little word after our
long separation? 1 ani accused of my
father's death! 1 have been arrested
and escaped. In an hour I will offer
myself up to stead the trial. Helen, 1
was sure you loved zee, Dayou shrink
now because you think me blood-stain-
ed? is it that, dear? Surely you do
not hold me a—murderer?"
She bared her face and showed it to
him then, haggard, dreary, white with
paid; but the dark eyes, meeting his,
were full of affection,
"Gerald," she said hoarsely, "you
need not fear arrest; there is no trial
before you. The stain has been taken
front your name and placed on mine,
Li teal"
She told how her dead parent --nam-
ing him with a shudder --had stolon in-
to the house that night—to rob the
Veretons! Had seen Air. Vereton in
his ohair, and on the moment's impulse
slain him.
Ere she had finished Gerald had
taken her trembling hand in. his and
drawn her to his bosom. When aha
burst into a wild passion of weeping
he held her there, )tie lips to her fore-
head.
''My darling," he said tenderly."you
base borne enough. Let me win you
to forget all the horrors of your past.
Let my lova comfort and shield you
' now."
But she put up her hands and held
him off still..
"Think!" she cried brokenly. "It
was my father, Gerald, who made you
fatherless! You cannot lova his child!
You must shrink from her! Your pity
would sacrifice your peace!"
"Mother." said Gerald looking up to
where Mrs. Vereton stood with down-
dropping tears and trembling lips, and
she bent and kissed the sorrowing girl
again and again.
"This is not pity, Helen, my child,"
she said brokenly; "it is love. Accept
it, dear; become Gerald's wife and my
beloved daughter! Who will remem-
ber that a father who was nothing to
you alt your life was a sinful mane
Come to us, Helen."
And the girl laid her dark head
gratefully on her lover's breast.
At Ansonia. Conn., John Mortises,
owned. a 2J0 -pound S berian ddeo !-
hound. that lead n tumor of six inches
in diameter, and on Saturday a horse
doctor removt'd it. Tne dog was
neither chloroformed nor tied, but xt
muzzle vas put on, and at a word from
his master he placed himself in position
for the operation and lav gaietly, t--
strained. by nothing but the look's uu,l
words of his master, until the dce:l
was done.
Breakfast parties are the fashionable
Lenten entertainments in New York,
and are served at 11 o'clock by candle-
light. All daylight is excluded, and
the guests—generally about twenty in
number—are seated around four small
tables, five guests at each table, and
the tables are placed sufficiently near
for general conversation. Breakfast is
served in courses, after which there
may be music or any amusements sug-
gested by the hostess.
When hungry pigs see foot;, their
mouths water, and the gastric secre-
tion is Largely increased. A manufac-
turer of pepsin, taking advantage of
this fact, turns hungry pigs into a pan
where a trough filled with food tempts
the animals, though a wire screen pre-
vents their eating it, and thus absorb-
ing the pepsin contained in the peptic
glands. Then the hogs are killed, and
the yield of pepsin is comparatively
very large.
It has been decided by the New
York Supreme Court that the money
which a widow receives as insurance
on her husband's life cannot be taken
to satisfy debts incurred before the
husband's death. The case in which
the -decision was rendered was an at-
tempt by the owner of a judgmont of
thirteen years' standing against a de-
ceased hotel man, to enjoin the widow
from withdrawing the insurance mon-
ey from a bank in which she had de-
posited it, and the court held tlutt en
iniunction must be denied.
A gentleman from Henry county
bought twenty-four sacks of flour and
twenty-five shoulders of meat from one
of ourmerchants the other day, and
two gallons of whisky from the bar-
room. When he started home he felt so
good he went off in a sweeping gallop,
and for about two miles he lined the
road with sacks of flour and shoulders
of meat. The last seen of him he was
takinga drink out f the jug,while the
last iece a of meat was sitting astride of
the couplingpole.• ,There is • no telling
the amount of fun there retiifly, i.. in . a
two -gallon jug of corn;iquor.—Ceisyers
(Ga.) Weckty.
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