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Ha stood beneath her window
And beneath the elex+shade
(The ileac was a maple),
And he sang a serenade,
We will hope ehe t ftuged his tervor by
Th' amount c1`. nom 1►e made.
" Oh,, why art then not near me le
He sang it Bixteere times,
To fear me,' and to" cheer me,
And to fourteen other rhymes,.
And interspersed with language cribbed
From Oriental climes,
She leaned from out her lattice ;
der lattice was not barred
eller plate -glees window, that lel,
And perhaps she leaned too hard,
For the lattice was wide open, and
It opened on the yard,
A sudden fiashof lightning,
Or so it seemed to him —
Then he felt his musoles tightening,
And his sight grew etrangelr.dim
,
And they sack together earthward, and
All nature seemed. to swim.
Was he happy, was he grateful
For this complaisance of Fate
No—he muttered something
hateful
As he crawled off toward the gate.
Is rulill meat or our wishes worse
Too aeon than if too late?
—The Century
WON AND LOST.
CHAPTER V,
" The lady—where is the lady ?" Mr,
Danvere demanded almost fiercely ef the in-
nocent porter. ,
" Lady t" the man echoed aeteniehed.
" There wasn't ne lady here, sir,"
"No lady?"
" No, sir ; the oarriago was empty, jut
as you see it new. Did you expeot to find
a lady here, sir 2" The man was curious.
Mr. Danvers turned back with a sudden
,,9uspioion ; he glanced first under the seat of
ithe carriage, then up to the rank ever his
mead. The travelling bag, the dressing -case,
were both gone. He had net remarked their
disappearance until now, He sprang frem
the carriage at a bound, a muttered impre-
cation escaping him he pulled out his watch.
" When will the next train to St. Sebas-
itian's start !" he demanded of an inspector
who stood in his path.
" This ,train has just come from from St.
Sabaat nix's," the main anawered oracularly,
and,>atlth the usual efli,lal contempt for the
eigeweance of an interrogator.
toy of the art whioh be had. counted. for
ever burled and hidden away in thegeoret
chamber of his own heart 2 Should he cow
fees the grainof truth, and se found with a
hi& hand, the mieohievoue faleehoud7
The candid .nurse involve
a good deal,
as he psroeived. It involved a peril whioh,
for all his determined repudtatien, his heart
recognized as real and menacing. Wiese if
1 eboogg buta hor-
rible
beno. fa s d
he story should
, reality 2 What if proof of this ehonld
be lyianin watt for him there, at St. Sebae-
tlan'e, where of all places in the world, he
had haat expected to be confronted with
anol, a risen gloat 2
How and whenoe had that mysterious
paper found ite wan inns his wife's hands 2
Ile had not dared in those first momenta to
question her, Now he would give all he'i
poseeeaed to know In what quarter to look
for hie enemy. He took the crumpled nate
from hie pocket and smoothed it out on his
knee. It was written in i a trembling un-
oertaiu hand, in half -formed foreign char -
tatters, and the words, as he read them
now, were startling eneughh , •r
a
young
bride—oonvin o nenough,he thought with
i
a thrill of exsaperetion o any uwilling
one. If Eve had loved him, could ehe so
easily have accepted her release ?
"Merle Delorme Danvers "—so the bil-
let ran—" lives still. Tne marriage of this
morning oan be no marriage. Percival
Danvers would, to her, have oalled these
lines melodramatic and strained, an obvious
and clumsy invention. Now, to himealf,
he called them nothing of the kind. He
had seen something only too like those.
trembling oheraotera before ; he was
familiar with that style, pathetic and simple
in its forgiving reproach, HIs dark
cheek paled and tie strong hand trembled
as he drew from the innermest recess of his
pooket•book a tiny strip of printed paper—
s newspaper paragraph apparently—and
laid it beside the written paper on hie
knee, as if to confront the one with the
other, '
" Died, at Bella Vista, St. Jerome, Jane
10th, 1S7—, Marie Delorme Danvers."
" It is a lie 1" Percival Danvers cried
suddenly and violently, striking the
written witness with his open palm. " A
wretohed lie 1 Some eld servant perhaps
has oencocted It. Yee, there was a wo-
man—a Frenchweman—I remember, who
wae in her confidence, knew all her secrete.
This woman has turned up—Heaven only
knowe how—and is trying to make a mar-
ket est of her knowledge. She must have
been in the place by some unlucky chance,
have heard of the wedding thio morning,
and lain in wait fer me, to threaten me
with what mischief she could do, and to
make me buy her silence. Stay 1 There
was a woman hanging about the carriage -
door as we left. I thought ehe was look-
ing for the seat. She must have been look-
ing for ma, and, by some fatality, let her
preoioue concoction fall into my wife's
hands, defeating her own endo, and ruining
me."
Yes, ruin would be the eoneequenoe of
this fiasco, if he were awkward—ruin to
his heart and to his life. Percival Dan-
vers saw plainly the fatal depth opening
before his feet. He knew that he must
crush the danger with resolute—it might
be with nnscrupnleue—fingers, or the airy
and promising fabric of happiness and of
gratified ambition which he had jest reared
so successfully would be shattered into
fragments about him.
He laved that lost bride of hie with all
the pasaton of his matured manhood—a
passion as different from the soft sentimen-
tal fancy of hie feeliah youth as the burn-
ing fervour of the tropfoal sen is frem the
feeble ray of the pale moon. In spite ef
her coldness, in spite of her unresponsive -
nese, perhaps because of them, he who had
had a world of women at hie feet loved
this young girl as he had never yet loved
woman. It maddened him to think ef
Teeing her. He vowed that he would net
lose her, cast what it might—that he would
yet win his wedded but unwon bride.
He thought out his plan of action with
his head between his hands, as his oab
rattled through the noisy streets, and,
when it turned into the great gates of the
Easton Station hie course was resolved up-
on. He would take her at her word. She.
might perhaps try to hide herself, as she
had threatened, from all belonging to her,
for a time ; but in any case, he reflootod,
he could trust Mre. Delamaine'e worldly
wit and promptness of resource to cover
the escapade and save the scandal
until it should please him graciously to
return from the silence of hie high dis-
pleasure, in the role ef a jaunty -offended
but generous husband, and to receive hie
erring bride back again. He would profit
by the time thua given him to arm himself
with a complete refutation of the foolish
tale that had soared her away; and his re-
turn would be a triumphant one, giving
him the right to start from a new point,'
and, he told himself, with a new and ever -
whelming prestige in his favour,
Even whilst he vehemently repudiated
them, there were doubts and fears haunting
him whioh, for the eake'of his ewn peaoe,
he must olear away and set at rest for ever.
The edifice of social success whfoh he had
been building up se carefully must not have
a flaw in its foundation, threatening it witn
terrible downfall at any moment. His fade
darkened as he vowed it should net.
" For Liverpool," he said to the clerk at
the beoking•effiae. It was the first step
in the journey whioh was to set him free.
"I know" Mr. Danvers returned impa-
tiently, "I want the first down train.''
"One jestgone—won't be another for
three hears."
"Is this your luggage sir!" the porter
interrupted, pointing to a lady's travelling
trunk, new and handsome, and to auadry
similar articles, " Where shall I take 'em,
elr 2"
'6 Take them to—"
Mr. Danvers left his sentence nnfiniahed.
"Shall I label them sir," irqutred the
porter, who was a ;littlo deaf, ane was :be
aides rather dazed by the steam of an engine
blowing off rather clews to his ears. " Shall
I label them?"
"No," roared the gentleman—" confound
you 1"
"You might keep a civil tongue in your
head, at all events. the man grumbled to
himself as he turned away. "Bat I reckon
something's gone a geed way wrong with
my gentleman en the road. I wonder what
made him think there was a lady on the
other side of that carriage?"
And so curious was the man en the sub-
ject
ub•ject that he went back to the carriage in
gaeetlon and examined it minutely—with no
result, it is true, but apparently with some
gratification to himself, Just as he wee
turning away he espied a small folded paper
lying on the ground.
"Is this yours, sir 7" he inquired, turning
beak to the gentleman.
Mr. Danvers read it and thrust it away.
"Here call a hansom, and take these
thing to the cloak room,' he said to the
porter. " Leave them there—oonfound the
ticket 1 Pat the portmanteau in here. The
telegraph office," he called to the driver as
he got in.
The porter steed on the kerbstone looking
after the retreating vehicle and saying to
himself—
" Well this is a rum go 1 I'd give some-
thing to know what's up, I wenld. The gent
was liberal enough, for all his bad manners
—a real gent, though airltable," he conclud-
ed, tossing up the half-crown Percival Dan-
vers had thrown him, " I shouldn't mind a
hard word or two more at the same price
any day."
Meanwhile Mr. Percival D invert had
caused himself to be driven first to the tele
graph-office—where, however, after writing
outa message addressed " St. Ssbaatian's,"
he suddenly changed hie mind and tare the
paper in half—and then en towards the Eas-
ton Station, Not that he particularly oar-
ed where the man took him ; but he had
been forced te name some destination. Hie
plane were as yet in chaos, only a dim in-
stinct suggested the order for the station for
the North. As he sat back in his oab he
was acowling at a pale spectre which had
risen up from amonget the dowers and' fa-
vours ef his bridal festivity—the spectre of a
dead pant, long laded out of eight and fer-
gotten.
" Dead and buried," he repeated to him-
self more than once—" dead and buried.
Who shall dare to say it is not a lie—a
wretched lin 2" he repeated with a savage em-
phaaie—" a forgery -the device. of some
wretohed creature who owes me a grudge
perhaps ?"
/et there was a strange fatality in the
reaurreation of that dead -and -buried secret
past jnat at this supreme oriels of his life;
and certain words he had heard somewhere
An some period of ohildieh superstition,
words of solemn threatening and retrihn-
?ten his mind.He cast them
azidecame back to
impatiently, Such old men's fables
should not fetter a resolute will and a strong
mind. He needed both fer the emergency
in whfoh he found himself,
It was an awkward aitaatien; it -was
worse, it was a ridiculous one. His bride
had run away from him on her wedding day
She had cheated him—this innocent unso-
phisticated girl—by a ruse as simple as it
was successful, Could she have devised ft
alone 1 For a moment a dark suspicion
clouded hie brain ; then, he .throat itfrom
him. Even in his bitter anger and humilia-
tfen'he could not so insult htt—his pure -
hearted, innocent young bride.
Hew was he to save the scandal 7 he won -
dared. That ravening Wolf the world must
not have such a dainty morsel art Percival
Danver's bridal failure to gnaw and tear,
Ho did not believe her few words—that she
bad fled from him and from all who belong-
ed to her, and that it would, bo unless to
Milt her. She would, she meet, take refuge
In her own home, acid with her own people—
she was so ignorant of the world, so timid
and helploee, He would take the next train
hack to Se, Sobastian'a, and then-- Then
two courses would be before hint ; whioh
should he take ? Should he still hold to the
tens he had already taken with Eve—that
the tale wae only a triok—a Dilly sohool-boy
bidden lines. A good-natured InsPeoter,
etraok perhaps by the beautltul troubled
smug fees, olvilly took her burdeue fr
her as aha stambted along and hurtled tor
firat•oteaa osrriage,
"Where to, Wiles 7"
Her eye osught the placard :Over the
carriage window.:
"To Blapketene." ahe said hastily, It
]vas a plate ehe had scarosly ever,heard of,
end therefore, she gelekly recognised, the
more likely to Ito a safe venture, "I
have no tioket,"She added to the man 1
and he called a porter,
" Bring theladya ticket for Blanketone,"
he said,
" How much will it be 1"
" Fifteen shillings, mise•"
She handed him a sovereign .as ehe
shrank breathless into a seat. Would he
never oome hack ? Would the train never
mora en 2 Fifty monde bad not ()leveed
before his hand wan thrust in at the wig•
dow, making her almost shriek out In her
terror ; and yet it had seemed an age.
„
hen e
,
e
and tdeo
Ticket, miss,
Tg.
o ns
' ene ef the two
half or w
She ve him.
gs
he handed her. Tea whiet'e sounded, the
Main moved on slowly—oh, so slowly 1
She crouched down, hiding her face.
Fortunately she was elem. The speed of
the engine grew faster and faster, the
station buildings glided by, the outskirts
of a town were permed, green meadows and
clustering woods approached and glanced
by, and the sun shone out. She was free 1
She was safe 1
The shadows lengthened, the afternoon
waned, and still she jaurnered on and on,
with no other aim than to put as wide a
apace es possible between herself and the
man whom, a few hours singe, she had
vowed to "love, honour, and obey," till
death did them part. She thought with a
shudder of these solemn vows with their
awful binding power. She knew that
Percival Danvers meant te olalm all they
gave him -that her only'ohanoe lay in flight,
in hiding heraelf from him and from all who
belonged to her. She knew tee that there
was ne one to whom she could turn for
help. The events of the last three menthe
had taught her to distrust all those who
were nearest and dearest to her, to count
them all as ranged on Percival Denver's
side. Her story, unsupported by any
proof—for snob proof as she had was, she
remembered, left in hie hands—would be
received with atter inoredullty in her ewn
home; her convictions, her feeble word,
would be overborne by his powerful pro-
testations. She would be bit berly reproaoh-
ed for the disgrace she had brought on her-
eon and her family, and would be handed
over a second time to the man wham she
loathed. She could hope fer no mercy
now. Had she net already been refused
it?
She was faint and sick with hunger, bat
she dared not stay even to eat. She bought
a Bradshaw at one of the stations at which
the train stopped, and found that, at a
j anotion just short of Biankstone, she
could catch a train bound for the distant
North Welsh border, a part of the country
quite unknown to her, and not likely to be
visited by any of her people. There she
might hope to be safe, she thought, She
tied a thick gray veil over her golden hair
and fair young face ; and, ae her oarrlage
gradually filled with fellew-passengers,
ehe shrank into her corner away from the
oi.rlona and interested glances sometimes
directed towards her. She had never
travelled alone before, and, as tha first
excitement subsided and the depression of
a long sleepless night-jonrney began to
make itself felt, the sense of loneliness
penetrated to her heart. Then with the
night Dame terrors which the daylight and
the sunshine had held at bay.
GRAPIER VL
The shock of the sudden revelation had
roused the listless young bride effectually,
She believed implloity in its truth. Per-
cival Denvers's ooneoienoe-stricken leek had
forced oonviotten home to her heart. So
full and perfeot was this conviction that
ehe mimed to have known it all along. It'
was this which had stood in the form of a
faithful instinct between her and the Iover
whew all the world praised,
An indeeoribable horror and loathing of
the man took the plaoe of the toleration
with whioh she had aooepted his courtship.
She covered her`eyee that shemightnot
look at him. She felt herself trembling
with a atorm of indignant repulelon, She
shrank as far away from him as the limits
of the carriage permitted. She could
scarcely breathe in bis presence. Then
the train stopped at the junction station,
and Mr.Danvero doeoended. She was
alone, She could breathe freely, once
more. A ;aaudden evermaatering impales
mimed het to caoape, to set herself free,
It was the work ef a moment to shake a
long travelling-cloalk out of its straps, to
hide beneath it the elegant and oonepioueue
" going -away " costume, to snatch up dron-
ing -can and bag, to hurry into the next
compartment through the oommunioating
door, and to fasten it seeuraly behind her.
What if the outer door should be looked 1
A pante seized her, No it yielded to her
tench, and she sprang down, amongst the
rails, interacting each other here in a kind
of iron oat's-oradle.
A train was standing by the opposite
platform, just en the point of departure;
and, in the bustle of large party of ex.
ourelonine, taste misdemeanour passed un•
Seo how it fs ;' yctu"ve fallen Out and eov-4o
away in a pet. Yea haven't been worried
as I have, and you haven't learnt the ways.
of men, and ' ou're frightened at the first
you'll e?rcuse me -too pretty to be wander-
ing about by yourself alone. ]Make it up
doar; make It up and go beak to him."
"Ob, no, po,' the shuddering loathing in
the fair young faoe utartled the landlady into
e new view of the matter—" I oanuot go
back l You will not betray me 2'
"That I won't, my dear, You may trust
my word."
"Help me ze find a home," Evo entreat-
ed.
Mrs, Smith set heraelf to think the mat-
ter out,
'°I've got it 1'' alio said at'length triumph-
antly. There's Serail J-sffoott, She Said
aha d like a quiet lodger or two if I game
across any that would suit. Her rooms is
nice—a farmhouse—and she's a very re-
spectable woman and a good woman, too.
We lived together before I was married ;
and I ought to knew her well, for I've sum,
and wintered ea
mored her her,as I,
may
y
and I oau answer for herb'
" Where is it ?"
"It'a aboat twenty miles from here—as
pretty i► country plane as you'd wish to see.
The station ie two melee from Sarah's plaoe.
If you tell her you game from me—Ann
Smith of the Welsh Harp-ehe'Il do well.by'l
you. And 1'11 drop her a line myself te
make more euro."
S• it was settled; and Mre, Snaith saw
her young guest into the fly which was to
take her to the railway ]tatters, and Dame
bank to her own parlor behind the bar, with
a satisfied countenance.
" It's as well Smith wae out of the way,"
she said as She poured herself out a asp of
tea, " He'd be asking questions, and he'd
get short answers. Men want to know
everything ; and they're not to be trusted
with it when they do know Int
There were two stations between Eve's
starting•point and her destination, In' the
oarrlage where she found a plane were al-
ready seated two ladies end one gentleman.
The gentleman, a grave person in olorioal at-
tire, handed the young wife in politely, re-
arranged hie own baggage and wraps to
make room for here, and these civilities of-
fered, retired to his corner and hie news-
paper, and appeared to be abaorbed in the
latter. He left the train at the next station;
and Eve saw him en the platform np to the
last moment, waiting quietly, with hie over -
omit and rage in a loose heap over -his arm.
and hie bag at hie feet—a highly reepeota•
ble, perfectly irreprorohable, typical country,
parson.
hard word, at you're too young, and-
Theohill gray dawn for which she had
longed through the darkness seemed when
it came only to give a fresh impetus to her
nervous terrors. She grew sick with fear
at each recurring station, lest the face of
Percival Danvers; lest th3 shouted message
from affi:ial should be the signal that she
was discovered.
It was a relief when she hit the train at
last at the terminne. The porter who oar-
rled her scanty luggage conducted her to a
quiet little hotel, where a pleasant -looking
motherly landlady took oharge,of her at onoe,
spread a oesy comfortable breakfast, and
havered about in kindly intereeted way,
very comforting to her, lonely and faint as
she was.
She was provided with the means of living
for some time -in her Ignorance she thought
for a long time. In the dressing•oase she
had been se careful to secure was a packet
of bank -notes the present of her rich god-
father, given to be spent en her honeymoon
tour in. Roman mentos or Venetian laoe, or
in such foreign trifles as might please her
fancy. And this store exhausted, she would
still have her j -wale to fall baok upon ; she
had read of herelne° in distress selling their
jewels.
Her'firat care wae her wardrobe. She
went out into the town and chose a simple
outfit, such ae a young governess might be
provided with, and loot no time in exchang-
ing the handsome travelling dress for quiet
brown attire' which would baffi3 identifies -
tion. Then with trembling fingers she hid
her long fair hair, oleeely knotted, under
her hat.
In the loneliness and weariness of the
night it had seemed to her se easy to be
lest ; new, with quick inconsistency. It seem-
ed te, her so easy to be found. Would it
not be safer to hide in some remote country
village? a girl passed at the moment with a
basket of fresh flowers, heaped np with a
liberal hand, from some country garden. A
breath of green fields, of ferny shady woods,
came, wafted with the perfume of sweet
woodruff and fragrant Mary -lilies, to Eve's
harrassed tenses. She turned and went
back at once to the pleasant faoed landlady.
"Can yen tell: me of country lodgings in
some pretty quiet village ?" Eve asked.
"Let me Bee," maid the landlady looking
reflectively at the outlet she had just set
before her guest; " there's rooimat Henehaw
and at Barham but are you likely to stay
any time, ma'am 1"
Yes, sme time:"
"It'll be lonely," the landlady said ten-
tatively.
"I don't mind being alone," Eve said has-
tily, .' ,That ie -I ought -I moan I must
gat need to it,"
"Ah, ma'am 1 You ate a widow, then ?'
—her eyes were fixed ttpon the ' bright new
wedding -ring whioh Eve had forgotten to
hide.' "Dear, doar: you're young ma'am
to be loft!"
e down
ho looked Eve flushed crimson as s
en the telltale badge; then Mho` looked ;np
at the honest kindly face of the tveman, and
a sudden Impulse seized, her, She felt In
her heart that that fade was trustworthy.
"No I am not a widow," she said, "You
will keep my searet will you not I I am nn.
heippy—I am in gnat trouble. I want to
find a quiet place where L oan live --perhaps
te teach—un-
til
ton
bore I oan find f children where h," ha in d uddenl bursting
til o, she exciaimo s y g
into tears—" oh, perhaps for all my life 1"
Ten minutes later the train stopped again,
and Eve prepared to descend. Suddenly she
stood still and startled her fellow passengers.
by a ory-.
"My, dressing-pare—it is gone 1"
She was standing with her veil thrown
back, the better to assist her fruitless aearoh
and her beautiful young face white with the
dawning oenaoioaenese of all the loss involv-
ed to her. Her money—all save the change
from the five -pound note with which she
had paid her hotel bill and her fare—and
her jewels, the stere on which she had
counted—were gone 1
" Gone 1" one of the ladies repeated.
" Surely' not ; I saw you bring it in in your
hand. It cannot be gene—let ea look !"
She searched, her companion assisted, the
porter rummaged under the seats and in-
speoted'the rank overhead ; the ladies left
the oarrlage the better to mein the search.
Bat the one was certainly gone.
" It was the clergyman 1" one of the ladies
exclaimed, after a few seoends of dismayed
reflection,
Hush Annette !" the other said reproving-
ly. " Hew oan yen say such a thing?"
" I am sure of it 1" ehe answered, " Who
else oan it be ? No one but he has left the
carriage, and I saw it j ast before. I re•
member it distinotly, It was in a Rueeian
leather Dover, with a strap. I de remember
now that he shaffiid up his coats in ae awk-
ward manner when he got out,
"Bat a clergyman 1" the ether remon-
strated.
"Dan'? you knew that they often dress
no like a bishop ?" her sister replied. " I
hope yon have not lest much "—to Eve.
The tears were rolling down the girl's
white cheeks, but she struggled for cone -
'' M dear," ;laid the good woman " don't
+' a white hand tender• a rainyday, He should consider what he le
fret •- - 'siting the little w
A UNIVE&SAL BENE `ROTO
The aged, Invei►tor of 'Vsccinetton torula
druphobla.
Pasteur k a universal benefaotor, Elia
aohievemedte in chemiatry and microscopic
biology have been among the most impor.
tent et the century, His theories upon fer-
mentatten and the study of German have
produced immense restate. He Is 'the terror
of the dishonest wine merchant, having eta•
oideted the various epitome. of wine falela
mien, while his research and studies into
the diseases of cattle, silk -worms, and ether
animals has been an epoch in chemistry's
annals. Paateur seems atill;a young man'
He was born at D els, in the Jars oountry.
Deo. 22 1822, and at a very early age was
already a profeetor of ohemistry in the great
Sorbonne, of Paris. Sixty-four enmmere
have only ripened his talents, for hie face
ie youthful dewpite his grey beard, and his
hair, of unusual thloknese, soaroely hides
even one white thread. His life is one of
constant trial, research, worh, and public
benefaotion. Day, month, and year his
to the peo-
ple
are luaugratuitously
g P
ple; rich and poor fare alike at his kindly
hands, and if be had milli«nm, all would be
spent in doing good. He gives on an aver-
age sixteen hours a day of hie time to his
work. and his patients. It seems enormous
yet it is not an exaggeration. This, too,
WITHOUT RECOMPENSE
for the moment. The wonder is how his
own health oan stand such a strain, The
demands upon his time, the responsibilities
of hie potation are se great, the trials and
worries attending it are suoh that at Me
laboratories his fade wears an almost habit-
ual expression of perplexity and sadness. It
eeeme to say :—" Even I soaroely knew
where to turn or what to de," and yet he
is ever there, constant, ready, cheerful,
and patient. I would advise any one
Doming to Paris, if they wish to assist at a
scene whioh they will remember fer a life-
time, to pay a visit one morning at half
past ;;10 Ne. 14 Rue Vanquelin. Vulgar
curiosity stops before the spectacle of such
individual humanity, courage and greatness,
As Dr, Pasteur bid me good -by, and as
he let me out of the little side door, I said
to him :ea
"You should be the happiest man on
earth when you think ef all the good you
de."
" I am afraid human nature fs mach the
same," he replied, sadly ; " we never think
of our good fortunes, but always of our mis-
fortunes. I alas feel and appreciate only
what I am unable to aocoinplieh,"
posure.
" Thank yon," she said ; " it ie a serious
loss for nee."
" Telegraph bank at once," the elder lady
advised, as she resumed her seat ; " you may
catch him yet, Here is the station -master ;
speak to him."
'There was a little crowd already collect.
ed round the carriage ; heads were thrust
out of windows, curious at the delay. Eve
drew her veil over her face and shrank
back.
" This young lady has lost her dressing -
Ing -case ; I saw it put into the carriage.
A parson—a middle-aged elan, droned like
a clergyman, got out at Henshaw. No one
the was in the carriage. This is our
name and address," . the lady called An-
nette said, proffering a card to the official.
" We hope you will recover your property"
—kindly to Ere, as the train moved on.
"Yon must give me your ewn name and
address. Yon will have to appear against
the man, 3f we catch him," the station-
master explained to Eve.
"Appear against him!" Eve stammered.
" Yes, before the magistrates—in Court,"
" Oh, I cannot ! I—that' is, I am net
sure the clergyman took it. I wonid
rather lose it than appear against any one.
Please de not telegraph !" Eve entreated,
trembling at the threatened publicity and
alive to its risk' to herself of discovery.
" Will some one "—looking at the men—
" take my luggage to Hill Farm—Mrs.
Jeffaett's-and- direot me en the way
there 7' '
A volunteer steed forth immediately ;
while the station-maater stood looking after
the young lady.
"It's a queer thing," he said. "I,11 tele-
tgraph h all the tame, She'll be glad enough
o find it if it comes baok, Yes. I'll tele-
graph," he repeated decidedly, turning into
his efli 3e.
LATE DOMINION N iWE
Halifax and S . John expectto have street
t e p er t
railway systems shortly,
Excellent brink is manufactured at Cal.
gary, The oolor is a oroam and the prise $13
a thousand,
A ohfld was born on the Arthabaeea dur-
ing a reoent trip and wan christened Herbert
Arthabasoa.
From Glamorgan towneleip a stern comes
that three wolves chased an old horse until "
it was tired and then ate It.
Two magnificent Rooky Mountain eagles,
each meaeuring.17 feet from tip to tip, were
exhibited at Port Arthur recently.
A Prince Edward Islander has a horse
which has lost one of hie eyes, and oan
breathe threugh the place ocoupled by the.
missing optic.
A baby carriage in Stratford was blown
do wn a hill and dashed to plena against'a
tree at the bottom, The baby escaped with
a few saratohes..
of the C P. R. ld a al-
Mr. Van Horne,.
C
he would eve orders
ok sal that w
gary stn d or
for the immediate construction o► stockyards
in that town,
It ie said that one result of the visit to the
Maritime Provinces' by Hon, Mr, Foster,
Dilaister ef Marine and Fisheries, will be an
improvement in the system of lighting adopt-
ed along the coast,
A Janetville hen prides herself en the
production of twe big eggs, one measuring
8j inches around lengthwtee, and 7 inches
aorose, the other' 7s by 6 incites, the aggre
gate weight being guar ounces.
Mr. Wm. S endham, of Middleton, was
struck by lightning recently. It did not
kill him, but broke hie shoulder blade, left
a thin red and black etreak down his body,
tore his clothing, and made a hele in the
sole of his boot.
A big fieh story Domes from New Bruns-
wick, It to stated that two persons naughty
with hook and line in Fall Brook, St. Fran-
cis, in a part of two days, 1.580 trout, and
that on another ocoesion two Frenchmen
naught, in the same time, in the same
brook. 1,200 of the same kind of fish.
In Tarnberry a little boy was feeding
some horses in the stable, when he touched
one of them on the cheat with the fork.
The animal plunged forward, received the
prong in the heart, and died, The other
horse was frightened, and began to kink,
and the little boy was resoaed only after -hie
arm wee broken.
Entertaining the Egyptians.
Mr. James, in the " Wild Tribes of the
Soudan," gives the following description ef
a magic -lantern entertainment given by him
to a orowd of the natives, which mast have
been quite ae amusing to the exhibitor as to
the audience :—On one oaaealon we exhibited
the magic lantern to the intense delight of
a large crowd who came after dinner en par -
pose to see it, and had never seen anything
so wonderful before. We worked the lan-
tern from the inside of a tent, with a sheet
hung in front`oi the door. We always cern,
tnenced the show by a display of portraits
of the Q teen and Prince of Wain ; these
were born very popular, and invariably re -
demanded. We had been careful. before
leaving England, to choose subject's for the
slides that we thought would interest the
people ; and their exhibition was always
successful Tne most popular cenafeted of
a series of animals found in Africa, such as
the lion, hippopotamus, elephant, &c. ; and
when we displayed a representation of a
man escaping up a tree from a crocodile,
with the beast epening and shutting its
month, and trying to seize him, they fairly
shrieked with laughter. Sense of the elides
represented the Suez Canal, English scenes,
caravans in the desert, African villages,
&o. ; and all these were explained to them
in Arabin, to their lntenue delight, while
the Arabic was translated into their own
tongue for the benefit of those that did not
understand that language. As a termination.
to the entertainment we sent up one or two
racket] and lighted a Bengal light or two,
by which time our reputation as wonderful
magicians was fairly eatablished among
them, As a hint that the show was over
and it was time for the orewd to retire, we
bit upon the expedient of conducting the
sheik by the light of a Bengal light to hie
horse, which was waiting for him outside of
our zerebe. The result was a most happy
one ; a veritable stampede took place, and
the camp was cleared in less than five min-
utiae.
(Td BE CONTINUED.)
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A Meteor Falls in Midday.
A startling phenomenon occurred at
g
Valoartier, Quebec', the other day in the
shape of a blazing meteor mahing a rapid
descent. The meteor was probably 10 hot
in oiroumferenoe, Atter touching the earth
it emitted a strange light, reminding one of
the pictured nonce of the infernal regions.
The sight worked on the minds of the pet-
ple, many conjuring up the worst fears and
looking forward to a speedy dissolution of
the universe, What most enhanced their
fears was the fact that just previous to the
occurrence the sky lowered, the beasts of
the field gent; up unearthly and (Retraining
eoroeohes bringing the credulous trembling
kneed gWithin the pant few days
to their P
the lightning has been very severe and earth-
quake shooks have been frequent,
A young man should lay tip something for
scan 1 Or should ho his' nettle boldly,
grasp thin
cannel do as
„ .rpp i.cin to do when ho anything.
.and tell out with convincing candour that old _noticed as she sorambl d alp from the for• .Tyr It ll all come right, never fenrr. /can going
11100.0.00.
Capt. E. G. Green, of the Montreal Field
Battery, committed suicide by shooting
himself at Chateau Lamothe, near Bor-
deaux id France. Mr. Green was a native
of Birmingham, was 39 years of age, and
had many friends in Montreal, He was de.
ing well in his business, and his suicide is
inexplicable,
At Laurencevlllo a young farmer name d
Ttbbita mounted hie horse and started for
the river to rescue two drowning ehesp.
Ha was jest entering the stream when hie
horse pitched him ever his head, Ho ap-
pears to have been struck by the animal's
hoof and stunned, for he oank at once, and
when the body was recovered there was a•
black mark on his forehead.
At L'Etarg, near the border line between
New Brunewick and the United States,
there has been discovered a deposit of min-
eral earth which has the property of pre-
serving fruit from decay. This quality was
accidentally discovered. A barrel"of the
stuff stood in a St. Jahn stere and a lad put
some Bartlett pears in it,•where they were
forgotten and remained some months. On
emptying the barrel the fruit Dame out per.
feet in size, and with the taste unimpaired.
Mixed into a paste with paraffin it earns,
giving out a great heat and a light. It is
also manufactured into paint, Typed has
a surface area of 300 acres, an$ . e at least
24 feet deep. The substance comes out in
a 'solid mass, but crumbles easily into
powder.
A Strange Sect of Italian Robbers,
The capture of a brigand near Rsoohfg•
liere, a hamlet situated in a remote part of
the Calabrian highlands, has revealed the ex -
intent's in that region of an extensive soot,
remarkable alike for the wildness of ite ten-
ets and the nefarious character of its pram
tions. Its head le an ex -sergeant, Gabriel
Donnie!, who claims to bo the Deity, and
represents the Advent as still to come.
During the last five years he has been or-
ganteing this seat whioh comprises nearly all
the small farmers and shepherds of the
district, His gospel seems to be a sort of
communism of the ,lowest and most sensual
type, The clandestine meeting of the sent
are alleged' to be marked by orgies and ob-
eoenerites, recalling the worst features of
Oriental paganism, Dennfoi'e ewn sleter-in-
law, for refusing to conform to these prao-
tioeswas shut up in a gave and left there
to die. This nearly led to the breaking up
of the community, as Dcnnici and his fol•
lowers were arrested and tried fer murder;
but owing to the impossibility of procuring
witneseos againtt them, they were acquit-
ted.
The seot has now been brought into fulier
notion by the capture of Serafino Brune, one
of its leading members, or saute, as they are
styled. Thin worthy, after murdering a
doctor, betook himself last April to the
woods, and with the connivance of his o0
religionists ft ,nrishod there ' as a highway
robber. The police having felled to track
him, Bruno was arrested the other day by a
fooal landowner, Count Cenversano, His
capture:000asioned great demenotratione of
grief at Boochigliere, where hundreds of
men and women hung about this precious
saint and kissed him rapturously.
How the'dP aohes Live and Hide.
An Apache will ride a horse down, ' kill the
n
animal, and out as large a piece, of meat out
of bim ashe oan abnveniently carry, steal a
fresh horse, and pursue hie journey, He
will ride the fresh horse until it oan parry
him no further and his supply ef moat free
his last horse is exhauated, and, then kill
the steed and steal a new one, as before. The
government ecouti are Apaches, who are alt
lowed ail the ammunition they want, They,
of course, stand In with these on the war-
path and supply them with oartridgee, In
this way they are enabled to keep np the
war. When the scouts aro' discharged they
return to the reservation and there break out
themeeivee.
Gan, Sherman, of the Anierloanarmy, will
visit Victoria, B. 0., shortly,
Fish that Walk and Climb.
It in net to be supposed that a fish is ab-
solutely comfortable away from his own ele-
ment, but it is nevertheless tree that he
sometimes sees fit to live en tfie land for a
short period, Of all land•fregnenting fish,
the moat famous is the olimbing peroh of
India, which not only walke out of the wa-
ter, but aleo neonate into trees by means of
sharp spines situated near its head and tall.
It has a peouliar breathing apparatus,
which enables it to extract oxygen from the
water, stored up within a small chamber
near Iia gills, for nae while on land.
The Indian snake-head acoemmedatee
himself to the season, when the pond which
he inhabits is entirely dry, by storing en-
ough water in his special chamber to mois-
ten his gills during that trying time. He
oan thus remain for a long period in a dor-
mant condition, buried within thefdry bed of
the pond. Old residents of India say that
these fish will survive for many years in a
state of suspended animation, and that when
ponds which have been dry for several ano-
oeeeive seasons are suddenly filled by heavy
rains, they are found to be swarming at onoe
with fall -grown snake -heads. ,•
In countries where the ponds regularly
dry up, at certain masons, the fish inhabit-
ing them either lie dormant in the mud, or
make their way overland to fresh sheets of
water.
Full"grown eels journey across country
when the ponds in which they live become
dry in summer. Te keep their gills wet dur-
ing these excursions, they distend the skin
on each side of the head, and fill the penoh
thus formed with water.
A singular walking fish le the periophthal-
mue, of the tropical Pacific shores. At ebb
tide he literally walks out of the water,
and, erect on two lege, promenades the
beaoh in aearoh of stray crabs and nths
marine animate left by the receding wan et,
What Ailed A Sentimental Young Lady.
In Liverpool, net longsinoe, a sentimental
young lady from town was on the Cunard
steamship quay, where ehe saw a young girl
skiing on a trunk in an attitude of utter de -
j aatfon and despair. " Poor thing," thought
the romantic lady, " sheds probably alone
and a etrangor. Her pale cheeks and gra at,
r
sad eyes tell of a broken heart and yetern-
a
ing for sympathy, She has probably had
some unfortunate affair and, hail left her lover
in the far West." She went ever to the
traveler to win her confidence, "Crossed
in leve 7" she asked, sympathetically. "No,"
replied the girl, with a sigh : " oroased fn
the Servia, and an awfully rough' peonage,
too 1"
Soienoe Baked,
Young Man—Is it true, Dootor, that
amokincigarettes tends to soften the
brain ?
Phyafoian—There is a belief to that effeot
bat with all our boasted modern 'ootentifla
applianoee it oan never be verified,
Young IVIan-Why, Bootor 7
Phyaiotan—Beoauso nobody with brains
ever efnokes them,
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