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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-5-26, Page 2HE LE that, It Weee ao fault of inioe, I swear," Tho Agure answered not, hut looking the wret4Med man. in the %ix), POinted down to his feet, where two thin, emaciated, ehildren grouched, evidently IP the Viet stage of :US - e t --_— owie and starvation. d in. tlistern tooes he liten- s o whnt Atonement on you make for this ?" was aske APTER VII. i wOuld never be able to talte bis place ; bnt er 13:llew so well' " Man 1 in the enjoyment of CH . what should., noder happier ausrres lose ye,n ean help us indirectly ; you can aid us been mine, whet de you say to t lie ?"'" He It was a little After five on the following with what we most need., and that is money, • d . Sir — , ., pointed own to the crouching children afternoon that Sir Geoffrey Welleed from hie you shall see the shade of big ugntrete pree- • 1 di again, eters-% y yet sa y, louse into the square. He seemed, by Ms . eutiv and hold converse with lum ; but on i " Anything,' the baronet exclaimed— ineety ale, as if he was afraid of heving his e. .' ' . the peril of your life, do not move from. the "anything, So that you do not tertnre no inovements watched, for he stopped,liesi. snot where I shall place you " . like this . It Is no fault g mine, I did not ;sited, and finally walked awry geietly in ^^' "Lab us go now," Sir Geoffrey crieu ;he direction a upper Breeds. Street. Cali- 1 - . know. But anything in my power I will do, eager y. " Why should we waste an mere hg a honsom, he Was driven ta one of the time talking here ?" y and do gladly." "Well for you that you have spoken thus, paint approachos, half town, half crountry, "Because things are sot prepared. YoTherk I began in lie, f eeyond Paddington, where he dismissed his , shades from =other world do not come u shall complete the work and the mau called Hector le Gautier shall ,at. Then he walked gnietly on till he forth at a moment's bidding to show thern- help you with his aid and counsel. —You reaolied hie destination—a well.appointed selves to mortal eyes, though the air is full though sombre -looking establishment ; and of them now." have a daughter ?" "1 have --your niece Enid. What do you there, after some hesitation, he knocked. Sir G'eoffrey looked uneasily around for know of her The room he was shown into was laid out any traces of these ghostly visitors, though g ?' Much ; perhaps more than you.—Listen! with preparations for dimmer ; and just as he could, see nothing ; neverthelees, the idea and interrupt me at your peril. You may the little elock over the mantle struck the of a ohamber 1 ull of supernatural bodies have views for her; perhaps she has chosen half-hour after six, Le Gautier entered. He was by no means pleasa,nt, for herself. Ani I right? But this must greeted his vest quietly, almost coldly, and "Then our pact is complete," Le Gautier not be 1 Hector le Gentler must wed her. rang the bell to order the meal. It was a continued. " Briefly, it stands thus ; -r am "But I have other views, There is al - quiet little dinner, really irreproachable in to show you such things as you wish to see ; ready"— its way—the appropriate wines being per. and in return you become a member of our ir Do you dare to cross me ?" the vision feet, for Le Gautier by no meaus despised Brotherhood, swearing to promote its wel- sternly asked. "Have not I and mine suf- the pleasures ot the table, and, moreover, fare by all the means in your power. ferecl enough at your hands? Promise, was not the 111E1,11 to spare where he had a Quick I say the word, for I feel the unseen ore_ purpose to serve, " Well, Sir Geoffrey," he said, toying influence upon me." He stopped abruptly, and again the sigh- " Yes, yes—agreed ; only show me my with his glass, when the meal had concluded brother." —it was past eight now, and the light was As Sir Geoffrey spoke a change came over beginning to fail—" do you feel equal to Le Gautier's face ; the baronet watching the coming trial?" him, perfectly fascivated. The medium's " 0 yes, the baronet replied eagerly, eyes grew larger aud more luminous, his though his face was perturbed and the glass features became rigid, and he moved lido a in his hand shook. Let us get it over ; man who walks in a dream. His gaze was this suspense is killing me. Sometimes I fixed upon the other, but there was no sense fancy you are playing some devilish art on of recognition there—all was blank and mo - me. I doubt the evidence of my senses." tionless. He rose from his chair? moving "You do not doubt," Le Gautier answered towards the door'his hands groping for it -sternly. "Listen 1" The light iu the room was fading, and like the action of the blind, and he beckon. ed to Sir Geoffrey to follow him out along nothing distinctly could be seen save the the dark passage. glimmer of the waning day upon glass and ,, come 1,, he said in a strange hollow silver. At the moment, the strains of music voice—" come with me ! The spirits are were heard, low and soft at first, then swell- abroad, and have need of me !" ing louder, but always melancholy. It was The room they entered was situated at quite impossible to tell whence it came—it the back of the house, having e large old - seemed to strike the ear as if the earth was fashioned bay window of the shape and full of the sweet sounds. Suddenly it ceased, form one sees &the banqueting -room of old and a sigh like e mournful wind broke the country-houses—a long narrow room, deep - stillness, 1 ed entirely in black' and the only light in It might be my dead brother himself the place proceeded from two small oil. playing," Sir Geoffrey said, in great agita- lamps held by white Paden statues. As tion. "The organ was his favourite instru- the twain entered, the draperies were vio- ment Strange that the music should be so lently agitated, as if by a sudden wind; an familiar to me 1" ' icy current seemed to strike them full in "Do you doubt now ?" Le Gautier asked. the face. A chair, impelled forward by an "Does your unbelieving mind still run upon unseen hand, was pushed across the bare -trickery or mechanism, or are you convinc- floor, and Sir Geoffrey, at a motion from his ed ?" I companion, seated himself therein. Le "I must believe," the weak old man re- ' Gautier stepped forward toward the window, plied; "1 have no alternative. I put my- 1 and lighted a fiat brasier, sprinkling some self in your hends. Tell me what I am to sort of powder upon it, and immediately the room was filled with a dense violet mist, "Your own conscience must guide you, through which the oil -lamps shone dimly., and whet the spirits will to -night must be 1 The weird music commenced again, and as it obeyed. It is no question for me to decide; ! died away, a loud report was heard, and I am merely the humble instrument the the curtains across the window were medium between one world. and anether. I wrenched apart, discloaing an open space. dare not advise you. When your nerves are As Sir Geoffrey gazed into it, e form began sufficiently braced to meet the dead, I will ' to appear, misty at first then getting gradu- restore thecommunication.—Areyouafraid?" i ally clearer, till the watcher saw the figure "No, no'!" cried the baronet; "1 am not ' of a girl, dim and slight, for he could see afraid." i the woodwork of the window behind; but A cold, icy hand touched him on the , clear enough to see she was fair and young, cheek, and a low voice whispered in his ear i with thick masses of long yellow hair hang - the words: •," You are 1" Trembline, 1 ing over her shoulders, and half hiding her frightened, he rose from his chair; and , face from sight. There was a look of sad - then suddenly' the room was filled with a !nese on the brow. light, showing the baronet's set face, and ; "You may speak," the strange hollow Le Gautier's pallid features wearing a sar- ! tones of Le Gautier came through the mist. donic smile. Hardly had the light appear- 1 "If you have any questions to ask, put ed, when it was gone, leaving the room in ; them; but, at the peril of your life, do not double darkness at the change. A yell of attempt to move." harsh, discordant laughter rang out, dying 1 With the most reverent and holy belief in away to a moan. 1 the reality of the scene before him, Sir "What is that, Le Gautier ?" Sir Geof- : Geoffrey gazed at the downcast features. To Jeep asked. "Is this all real, or am I , his diseased mind, he was on the borderland merely dreaming ?" 1 of another world, and the very thought of "The spirits laugh atyour audacity. You', speaking to the bright vision was full of boasted you were not afraid whilst you are awe, trembling in every limb. You dare not say 1 "Who are you ?" he said at length in it again 1' 1 tremulous tones. "Let me know who it is "1 am alarmed, mystified," he said;fwith whom I speak." , "but I am not afraid." eI "1 am your better self," the vision spoke; A mocking shout of laughter followed this ' and the voice sounded faint and distant, speech, and the words, "You lie 1" as if ut- ' yet very sweet, like music on the waters. tered in chorus, were distinctly heard. A ,"1 am your good spirit, your guardian cold hand clutched Sir Geoffrey by the : angel. I stand by you night and day, the throat, holding him till he could. hardly ; presiding deity of the honor of the House of breathe. In his intense agitation, he snatch- Charteris." ed at a shadowy arm, and suddenly the ' This artful stroke gave the listener confi- hand relaxed its grip. Le Gautier struck a dence and flattered his family pride. "Has match and lighted the candles. 1 every man a spirit such as you ?" he asked. He who has white spots on his nails is fond of the society of ladies, but is fickle in "Are you afraid now ?" he asked quietly. 1 " Every man who is by nature noble— his attachments. He who keeps them well In his "Indian Journal," Colonel W. "0 ves, yes; anything to save me from yes. To every one who has courage and rounded at the tips is a proud map. He whose In narrates a still more wonderful in - that horrid grasp I My throat is aching genius, one of my sisters belongs. I am the nails are detached from the finger at the f ur- with the pressure." , guiding star of your House. I have stood soldier drew Ins mantle over his head. I stance of the powers of combination in these Le Gautier looked at the finger -marks by you and yours in the hour of need. I ther extremities, and when cut showing a of death pronounced against the Nihilists have felt great mirth when the good priests animals. A herd of antelopes was feeding in calmly. Ile was acting , splendidly, not Wir your father die. I saw your brother's larger proportion of the finger than usual, convicted of complicity in the recent at. overdoing the affair in the slightest, and, on , deathbed. It is of him you would speak ?" ought never to get married, as it would be tempt to assassinate him shall be commuted came to the quagmire's merge with candle, a field from which the crop had lately been , the other hand, not appearing altogether in- i "15 is," the baronet cried boldly. 'What a wonder if he were master of his own house, to imprisonment at hard labor for life in the bell and book, and commanded my perturb- taken'and Colonel Campbell was watching e* different. He was playing for a high stake, of him ?" for short nails betoken patience, gooclnature, cases of all but two of the condemned. ed spirit to return to its appointed place. them throna telescope, when he became My life is very brief, but when I die some aware of six wolves, which also had espied and it required all his cunning, all his cool i " You owe him a, heavy debt of repare.- and above all resignation under severe tends. Polia,noksky, one of the condemned, said he My audacity, to win. To the casual observer, ' tion," the vision continued sadly. "In life, Nails which remain long after being out and his accomplices acted from firm convic- other Jack arises to scare the peasant again. the antelopes. Thewolves had chosen a spot birthplace is down in deep mines, by • where they weee screened from the antelopes he might heve been au enthusiastic believer. ' you were not always friends ; in death, you level with the fingeelind are a sign of gener- tion that what they set to do it wa,s their , "You have seen enough," he commenced were not with him. He left a family. Are osity. Transparent nails with light red duty to perform. Another of the prisoners church yardsin marshy places and near by some bushes, and. were sitting in a small stagnant pools. I am hydrogen ,gas mixed circle, evidently consulting with ea,ch other. quietly, but with an air of the most profound ' you aware of that, selfish mortal ?" mark a cheerful, gentle and amiable dispos- is a, young student. He ,had just fanished conviction—" you have seen enough to know , "1 did not know ; I never knew. But it ition. Lovers with transparent nails usually his studies with brilliant success, having with phosphorous [phospluireted hydrogen] Presently they separated, one wolf remain - u and I spring from leaves or aniinal matter ing where he was and the others creeping that the thne for delay is past, and the hour . is not yet too late to atone. Tell me where carry their passion to the verge of madness. . taken the gold medal of the university for action has arrived. The spirits to•night they are, and I will go to them." If yocome across a man with long and ! which graduated in a state of decay. When I escape from around the edge Of the large field in which him. The youth was so are incensed with you; they are furious at 1 "15 was too late 1" the figure replied in pointednails you may take it that he is either ' ardent in the cause of Nihilism Shat he sold my pent-up birthplace I become suddenly the antelopes were grazing. One wolf hid it - illuminated, and the people cry, " Behold self at each corner of the field, while the this delay ; and unlese you. solemnly promise tones of deepest sorrow. " They are dead a player of the guitar, atailor, or an attorney. ! his gold graduation medal to obtain funds to carry out my proposals, I shall not risk —dead ot neglect; nay, more, starvation. He who keeps his nails somewhat long, i to enable an accomplice to leave the empire. Jack.with-a-Lenthornin the nmarsh.' " sixth animal crept unperceived to the middle our lives by any manifestation to night." They will not dispute your sway now. round, and tipped with black is a romantic ! All the prisoners pleaded guilty, and every By this time the light had grown so feeble of the field, and there'lay clown in a furrow. that I could scarcely see it ; then it gave a When all the conspirators had taken their " What am 1 to do ?" Sir Geoffrey cried While you had flattery and adulation, while poet. The owner of very round and smooth one refused, under threa,t or promise, to piteously. "1 put myself entirely in your you lived in luxury and splendour, your nails is of a peaceable and. conciliatory dis- 1 tray any accomplice. The evidence indi- little flutter and expired. places, the first wolf same from his conceal - hands. Tell me my duty, and I promise to kith and kip lacked bread.' 1 position. He who has the nail of his right ' cated the existence of four widely ramifying A month later my science master and my- ment and charged boldly at the antelopes follow it." i "But surely some atonement can be thumb slightly notched is a regular glutton, i Nihilist organizations having head centres 1 self were afloat one evening in a birch in chasing them completely across the large , "So much the better for you," quoth Le made?" even nibbling at himself, as, when having at St. Petersburg, Kieft, Vilna and in Siberia. the little stream that ran through the field. But no sooner did they approach the g, Gautier sternly. " Listen 1 You know I • "Too late—too late! Nothing can avail nothing eatable at hand, he falls to biting One of the witnesses was a woman. She ad- marsh. edge of the field than one of th 3 crouchin am a member of a great Secret Society. In them now, no specious sophistry, :o out his own finger -nails. And, lastly, he who mitted that she was the wife of one of the "Let me show11 .1k - wolves started up, turned them and chased, -Lanthorns," he said to me, and, tak- them in a conteary directionovhde his pant - the first place, you must join that ; and let ward a,ppeara,nce of remorse. Y .0 can keeps his nails irregulatly cut is hesty and accused, although she said she had never 7ith ! ing the paddle he thrust its blade into the ing accomplice lay down in hiiplace to so_ me tell you, your late brotber was a member. atone, though slightly, by completing the , determined. Men who have not the patience been joined in wedlock to him by "unneces- bgottom of the stream and quickly withdrew cure wind .for a fresh burst.' .Again the boun- and took the keeneet interest in its move- work your brothel. began in life. Know i thcuttheir nails properly generally come to sary religious formalities." She was, on t " Look " he said, pointingto a large cling herd da,shed. across the plaing Mg to married, most of them commit suicide or get this admission, arrested and conducted to ' . . peison. bubble wbiOli wriggled to the top, "what escape on the opposite aide, butl ere they - ments You must join 1" ' that at your very door, proud man, thous- grief; keno ws," and, putting a lighted match to were once more headed by one Of he crafty ' .A. Kansas Mayoress. icalars of a serious accident on the Atlantic 1 Owing to a telegraphic embargo the part - low flame which quivesed a moment and and °Mused thent until relieved'b ' a fresh i the htibble, lo! there appeared a little yel- savages, who took up the chase in \his turn The little Kensas town known as Arigonia, & Pacific road, near Dagget station, have . then went out. hand from the opposite , quarter. In this just reached us. The east botind passenger 1 Filo e we produced a nuniber of similar little Psric(1)SeeaenUcief r 0 an am To ar ns ewr Darin the way along the edge f .th a She ' t cl. ' I driven ess, the power of ladies to preside over the train' three hours behind time, rushing Jacks, and two boys who had ventured out a fresh assailant heading them at eetvroreel eying e ee e a lady as Mayor, or Mayor- from the whispered in the air, " Beware 1 With in- 1 " I will I Sir Geoffrey cried eagerly— I i ti on the hill to wateh our coming, perceiv- until they a,ppearedgierfectly stupefied with .eyotrunrenr i, creased agitation, he continued; "11 that is will! Only show me how; and let me see interest of cities will be subjected to a across the desert at the rate of forty miles , part of my penance, I must do so ; though my brother, if only for a brief moment." practical, though Scarcely conclusive, test. an hour, ran into an arroyo, tho bridge over in) the lights flutter upon the water, be. fear and crowding together like frightened " It is on no understanding at all 1" Le ' e radiant emile. " As for the means, I it is on the stied understanding that 1"---- 1 "That is well," the figure replied with The lady announces her intention of intro- which hied been burned. The engine went , s' 114ed that we were doing traffic with the sheep, began to wheel. round in diminishing clueing a variety of reforms, and proposes to over the gap, but the jar threw the fireman Gautier thundered. " Who are yoa, poor , must leave that to you. But you shall tree commence' by filling eface every possible out of the cab, The tender went through i • ilar exp,eriYment in a stream whose bot- low,", as Beer Fox would say, and although evil one. An ' one who wishes to make' a circles. Duritig this time thesixth wolf " lay .• with ladies. Her Honour is not a plump, inth the shallow arroyo, fortning a barricade 1 decityieg . Vegetable 'matter the antelopes Must have passed close th his mortal, that you should make stipulations ? your brother, if only for a moment. --And We must have all or nothing, Take 1 , or now, farewell."semething,over-forty, grurevisaged,against 'which the cats ran with terrific . similar contains , tided, matron, suds its *amazes rights' ad- sPee" force. The. mail car was turned completely will be rewarded as we were. hidingplace, he never stirred. Els ene evi• leave it 1" "But stay another minute. I"— He looked straight across into the other's The farewell was repeated; corning to the vocates so often are, but a young, attractive around and the baggage and express car Wee dently was to wait until the antelopes were Foe a moment tbeeisat thus, atriveng bar the amter, as 5 1 Yioleb mist rose agam, filling : .• thrown twenty feet from the track ancithene . 1 A Generous Gift. , fresh, coulcl spring among them and bring face, his eyeselettrning with their intensity. !Hates:lees eater as from afar off, fainter arid , Married lady with fonr little children. .A. completely tired put, when he, being,perfectly cradle and a tiers° girl accompanied the ed °vel' Two passenger cars were derailed . masthr 'Then Sir Ge.offre looked away. , the room with dense 'fragrant rittnoe , . .. g officer h er ffi . al , . but the tevro•pullma,n cars remained on the Poor relation t " I didn't know bat, as orie or two to the graind. This, hewever, he 1 through which the rigid figute of Le Gautier , eggi,iew Lows mobe,Demosrat, e of frightful consteination . f , . - , you were re ninielnii‘ the hone , s ,, ,, e ome of the never did for olonel Cangebell, taking - He was compiered. P "Let it be So,' he said. " Your will has could be dimly sten erect and motionless. track. A seen enseted, Ice, bee believed the passetgere in the over turned car would eseape death. on/y iron:were e mind 0_0 , discarded tirtieles 'might be of titae to mee if compassion on the antelopes, shoe , the near- est wolf, whereat the ,ivhole Paq3'e finclinl re 110144 AND e'oug, IstEIVS, TEE LIM" Di TEE gnu SOYIPrelds rceoPiteXilietahtei01144111reAetrIettlattivde UDAWND 00Teeleeeis eutereeteng eeseiiiiistee or Vevey Inilietellgeetee • read Celentta, One ,evenieg dOriiig ray holiday:3 I WAS I -44e111""aft 4'"). -Ea"'!"' 4,eti.auge disease, reseinhiiiia cholera, is sitting on the top of the hill gegen pier ; On aeornint of its enormous extent, lens - raging along. the Lonisinns, horXer„ Selma' cottage stood and looking down over the sitt mnre infested by wolves than any Other dolt: lot eoirpet rearloCtil for rd .th e extension of the 1 Time gluol.i that etretehed so far away into tilineencTioeaeitil teeerurinbtirey,a(ailtittui:esinmeRitsikeisiewotihvaest Northora Pacific railway front Deleete to the 1 It e rePute was Ineet illy-ania3r—tlie, marsh's hwve "earod• Even' as l'st says the Rev', I was—and the superstitious folk ;mond about , piji,eGos•e)di7boyodh,littleigeolwoblevteosthintlehisetyheweroOurlyd hvaerttd. ge,:,),o,„ Roche, of Chicago, tho other day I told tnany stories of. the supernatural things appointed John F, 11'111001y oil inspector of and terrifying lights seen, along its level. ture to attack human beings in an open mem. the city, at a salary of $10,000 a year. While I looked thinitio of these things, a ner, for no enimal has more regard for its g lig.ht suddenly appeared. rtibbed my eyes, own safety than the wolf, which exhibits nu Mr. Timms Guerin, engineer in the thinking it to be a delusion; but there was extraordinary otholdnatiou of cowardiee Public Works Department, geed in his no deception. A light there was down feroeity and cunning. , It is suspicious to Os The report is reitereted that Mr. Par- itihOeW SWgrildn4 taolidthieb rlingt.vteclanfidbafgulallYn to She 1"t degyeei and whenev" it "es any °b'jec office the other day, from heart disease. nelPs health ie iu a critival condition, and left. At this moment a very slight draught Shat he is no longor fit for aetive Parliamen- of air came up ,the valley and I felt its breath upon my face, NO sooner had this tary work. Pour Blood Indians have been Arrested little wind oommenced than the light began and taken to Lethbridge, N. W. T., on sus. to move steadily with it aucl to come direct - *ion. of firing upon a mounted policeman ly toward our cottage. receotly. It had a coneicierahle extent of marsh to cord to trail behind the carriage, Th While Mr, Henry Irving was driving in traverse, and I wondered if it would like. mistrust the cord, and keep aloof. a hansom in Loudon, he is as run into by a WiSe come up the steep. Although its they, after a while make up their heavy van and had a narrow escape from a general direction was toward the hill upon that the cord will do them no harm; serious accident. which my hammock swang it moved un- steadily, and left a wide trail of ragged, Over $35,000 was spent for the champagne dancing shadows. Now and again I fancied luncheon given to those who attcmdecl the that I saw the figure of a man carrying the splendid funeral of the late Duchess of Nor - light, At times his head aud shoulders ap- folk, at Amalie Castle the other day. peared indistinctly, and rtgain. I thought The eattle•dealers of Manitoba are at log - EVIVRIES AQUI WOLVES, Canadian boundary has been let. to winch it is not accustomed it suspects a trap. Knowing this peculiarity, the writer con- tinues, those who are forged to travel in wolf -infested districts are careful to take with them a long rope aad, if they should be hard pressed by wolves, they allow the wolves iuds the travelers tie some object to the end g the rope, and again allow it to trail behind the carriage. Anything. will do—a boot, a bea- dle of fur, or two or three sticks tied losely together so as to produce a clattering noise as they bound over the snow. By thus dis- that I caught a glimpse of an arm; but treating the 'wimple attention the travelers looking steadily, when the light did not often manage to gain sufficient time to eea,ch flieker, I was convinced that the shadows human halntetions, when the disappointed brutes unwillingly give up the pursuit and were playing me tricks. retreat to the shelter of the forest. Nothing will induce a wolf to enter an area which is enclosed by poles connected by coeds, and even the telegraph wire has been found to be a preservative against the wolf. In Norway when ehe first tele- graphic line was esta,blishedbythe Storthing, believe, that God gives to no evil spirit one of the members showed himself to be a power over one made in his own image and far-seeing man. He said that his constit- uents had no interest in the telegraph, but likeness. 'eVherefore do you fear? Then I grew strong again, and waited he strongly supported the grant on the Two French men-of-war are reported to with composure the issue of the affair. The ground that the wires andpoles would fright. have been sent to Hayti to enter an official light had reached the foot of the slope and eu the wolves out of the district. He was protest against the seizure of Tortuga Island paused and flickered for a moment there, perfectly right, and for more than twenty by the British Government in settlement of and then airily began the ascent. I watched , years not a wolf dared to venture within its claim of about one million dollars ageinst it now with breathless interest mingled with ' the line of posts and wires. Hayti. superstitious fear, for it was not more than It is reported that six English detectives two hundred yards distant from where s arrived in St. Louis two weeks ago, and are The flame seemed very thin, and was a busy ascertaining the character and extent bluish white. The mass was irregularly of the Irish National organization and round and about a foot in diameter, and it watching the movements of suspected ex- moved at a rate equaling my fastest walk. tremists. As it neared the brow of the hill I slid off It is reported that a recent fire destroyed my haminock and walked toward it. My the ancestral home of Confucius, and, with hair, I believe, stood upright under my cap, IS, all its art and literary treasures. The and my heart throbbed in my throat; but I building was erected 600 13. C., and the di- was resolved to face the mysterious thing. seat male descendants of the great philosop- A few paces b,ncl it was close at hand. I her have dwelt there for 2,000 years. stood while it passed; and by its light I saw Sir Wm. Young, ex -Chief -Justice, died at the buttons on my knickerbockers. Turning, Halifax, the other night, aged SS. His last then, I walked after it It moved straight public act was to lay the foundation ?stone onward, and when it got among the trees it of Dalhousie College new buildings.' He began to dodge about, though at every fresh was one of Nova Scotia's foremost sons, and one of those who obtained the colonial =ge- ne charta of responsible government. Mr. Carling is being besieged by appli- flame was growing smaller and the flame d- uets for the position of manager of the. new self becoming more sickly. I quickene 1 my experimental farm and their political pace and thrust out my hand till my forefin- friends, but he has lessened the number of ger touched the mysterious blaze. It was gerheads with the Canadian Pacific railway on the question of rates, and declare they hag voice whispered " Bewere I" In an will drive their cattleee, root until rates are agony of terror, the baronet looked round ; but the dark eyes , never seemed to leave reduced. Divers are et woelr on the steamer Tas- Sometimes the impulse came upon me to him. So frightened was he, so stricken by arise and go into the cottage, but I then re - mania, which was wrecked south of Corsica this cunningly devised display, that he dare collected my boldness in speaking to my on the 1Sth ult., andwhich contains six boxes not defy the figure standing there before of jewels belonging to the Maharajah of companions, and I grew ashamed of my COW^ him. ardice. Then, too, a voice would seem to say JitodInmsoartet,irday in my ear, Where is the faith of which you "1 promise," he shouted at last—"I pro- a parcel containing five thou- sand dollars expressed by the Bank of OS have spoken? You have heard, and you mise," , "'Tis well," the vision said. " From tawa to its branch at Carleton Place, was this moment, you are free. You will see stolen from the express car while in the sta- me no more ; but if you dare swerve a hair- tion Ottawa. breadth from our compact, then you shall find my vengeance swif t and terrible. Geof- frey, farewell 1" "But, Ughtred ; one moment more - 1"— A deep shuddering sigh broke the silence, and the figure was gone. Alinost distracted, Sir Geoffrey rushed forward to the curtains, which had again fallen, but nothing was there. The smoke cleared away, and one again the room was quiet. Le Gautier opened his eyes, and gradually life and motion came back th him, as he awoke like a man from a trance. "Are you satisfied," he asked, "with what you have seen ?" " Wonderful 1" the trembling baronet re- plied. "It was my brother to the life—the very voice even. You heard the compact ?" "1, my dear Sir Geoffrey? No, indeed," Le Gautier exclaimed in a voice of great surpriseee "Recollect, I heord nothing; my faculties were torpid; they formed the me- dium through which sights and sounds were conveyed to you." "And you heard absolutely nothing ?" "Absolutely nothing.—But of course, if there happened to be anything which con- cerned me, you can tell me at your conven- ience.—And now, I think we have had enough of spirits for one night, unless you would like something to steady your nerves ?" Sir Geoffrey declined the proffered re- freshment, pleading the lateness of the hour and his desire to get home. Le Gautier did not detain him ; and after a few words, they parted; the one to dwell upon the startling events of the evening, and the other tp com- plete his plans. It was a neat stroke of Le Gautier's to disclaim any knowledge of the conversation, the rats er that the delicate allusion to his relations with Enid were mentioned, and besides which, acquitted him from any awkward confidence. "The game is in my hands," the schemer mused an hour later, as he saover his last cigar. "Would any one believe that a maneof education, I almost said sense, could be such a fool ?—Hector, mon anti, you will never starve vs long as there is a Charteris in the world. The opportunity has long been coming, but the prize is mine at last ;" and with these words the virtuous young man went to bed, nothing in his dreams telling him that his destruction was only a question of time, and that his life was in the hands of two vengeful women. (To BE CONTINUED.) Reading the Finger Nails. MAN-E'ATERS. The fear of man does not seem to be strong- ly developed in the Indian animal, which frequently becomes a man-eater. This pro- pensity is probably due to the superstitious and inert character of the natives, who might easily rid themselves of the wolves, but instead of doing so, as some Europeans would do, content themselves with offering rice to some favorite idol. The well known hunter, Captain Forsyth, mentions two re- markable instances of man-eating wolves, in both of which the animals hunted in cou- ples. In one a railway was being made through the jungle, when the laborers began to disappear mysteriously. At last it was breath of wind I observed that it resumed found that two wolves had carried off the its onward march without any gyiations. I missing men. One of them lay in wait at still followed, narrowly taking note of the the side of a path, while the other went way I went. I now saw that the bulk of round to some distance and also hid itself on the same path. When a solitary man came up to either of these treacherous creatures, it allowed him th pass and then crept noise- lessly after him. As soon as the victim ap- those eager for the position by declaring not cold, as they say all things are that proached the spot where the*ederate that the successful candidate must be a prac- come out of the vasty deep; on the contrary, was concealed, the second wolf speang upon deal mau having a knowledge of both Eng- the flame stung my finger and I felt pain for him from behind. At the same moment the lish and French. some hours afterward. first wolf leaped on him in front, and before he could recover from the shock they had torn his throat open and killed him. In the other case, Captain Forsyth happened to ar- rive at a village where the inhabitants were ef in a state of great excitement, a wolf haviog just carried off a child three years old. He foetid that the child was the victim of two wolves, a mother and son, which had for some time haunted the village. One of them used to creep down to the lower part of the village, where the chfidern were ac. customed to play, while the sose* wolf hid itself at the upper part of the illage. Suddenly the second wolf dashed openly throueh the place, snatching up a child and making off with it. The people ran after it endeavoring to rescue the victim, and then the first wolf, taking advantage of the con- fusion, sprang among the villagers, picked up another child, and escaped with its prey. The audacity of the animals seems th live paralyzed the energies of the inhabitants, who never even attempted to follow the wolves to their den and destroy them, but submitted th lose about three children week- ly, considering their loss due to irresistible fate. I need not say that Captain Forsyth speedily relieved the village of its subtle and ferocious enemies. The male pupils of a school in Cleveland, 0., have notified the teachers that unless their hours of study are so arranged as to admit of their attending baseball games, they will strike. Careful enquiry discloses the unanimous determinatten of the parents I heard a voice speaking horn the midst of of the boys to strike also if the threat is the waning flame, and it said these carried out. things to me: The thirteen counties of the upper Penin- "1 perceive that you do not know me, sula, were all swept by the recent storm in 1 and that you marvel what I am. I am not Michigan. In some rich pine fields the trees a sprite, either good or evil- and I am not were mowed down like grass, and millions abroad to do any creature harm. I am a of feet of pine were destroyed. Houses were poor wandering ball of flame whom some unroofed. or demolished. Unfinished build- call Jack-with-a-Lanthorng and some ings scattered. Hardly a town or settle- Will -with -a -wisp.' Inpast ages some have ment escaped. Only three fatalities are re- regarded me as a harmless wanderer, and ported. It is estimated the damage will others as a malignant spirit. The Gauls, reach $100,000. afeer seeiug me for many centuries about their swamps, called me Fea-follet, or Foolish A curious premonition of death occurred o Isaac 1V1ushrush, a workman who was kill- Fire; and whenever I appeared upon the banks of the Tiber the Romans spoke of the ed by the explosion of a boiler, near Pitts- Ignts Fatuus, or Deceptive Flame. I have burg recently. On Sunday, the day before never shone to do men harm, though some- thd explosion, he was much depressed in times when blazing above a dangerous quag- spirits, and told his wife he feared some mire the unwary traveler has come toward great calamity. At 2 o'clock Monday after - illy light and perished in the toils of the noon the explosion occurred, and Mushrush was killed. At the same hour, before it was swamp. I .have been an object of grave 10 - possible to philosophers in my day, and I have possible for the news of the accident to reach terrified the stoutest hearts. When Cmcina, his home, his little child left his play and with his Roman legions, lay entangled in the rushed into the house to his mother, cry with surrounded by the German hordes, lag, "Oh, mamma, papa is killed, papa, is killed." I lighted my lanterns everywhere in the marsh; and with a shudder the iron-sinewed The Czar has decided. that the sentences In a little while it grew calm and the wanderer stopped, hovering above a cluster of daisies. stood also, resolved to keep watch upon this lantern -errant; but while I was forming the resolution I imagined that POWER OF COMBINATION. "1 knew my brother was embroiled in ands of your fellow -creatures are starving, some rascally Socialist plots," said Sir Geof- ground down by injustice and oppression. fxey incautiously; "but I really do not see You ean help to lighten this burden; you why I"—He stopped abruptly, for the can help these men who, poor, and savage same mournful sigh was heard, e,nd a voice as they are, are yet men, and brothers." conquered mine. Proceed., for I see you When the mat cleared away again the fig, I A.gaiti. the sigh was heard, and a Voice ible he stood there, mullled in a long cloak, Englishmen in a tavern at taltimore organ. Fireman Charles Snuth *as picked. up un - We are gthng to re- insteed of being hunters made the best Of have something more yet to say." tire of a man grewvisible. Perfect yet intemg- 1 Sixty.eight years ago last Tuesday five Itich relation ; " ,VcrhYi certainly ; I am theneselves in the position of benig haute said distinctly : " n ie well." The music rend'his features partially hidden by a eat, , ized the order of " The IndePiaident. Order ietieruereilteaUdIO sli(tIternaeed trotic:;iiiilhii:ju'tiellse. glad. Y°°- sl)°ke of it paper the dirting-tooni. I'll send you down their wav to their (An li'aunts. burst ottt again triumphant this time. When, broad -brimmed. hat. At this spectacle, Sir ' of 0 chlfellows." To.day it nuttibers in the Re is not expected to reeester. , Seven or the old paper when it is torn eft'. 15 isn't the last pealing strains died away, Le Geoffrey's agieatier• inereasetle and great United Statea ever 500,000 members, it eight of the passengers were very badly .4. badly soiled " Gautier Continued I "Youe brother died drops Stood upon his forehead, 1 has diabursred since its organization $41,004,-. hurt and quite a number seriously, Mr. _r_,. • Mrs. Ella Grant Campbell 1 Cleveland, at Xew York, as you know' ; but at that " rt is he—triy brother I" he groaned, 000 in relief to members, and, exPended in L. Pippin, mail agent, who Was seriously in- " lie O., is the proprietor a the hut, us "Settlings 6,1(4 no was en business of the society, 110 atertic /rein his feet . but again ene word various' war: for the prosecution of its work jilted in a, previous accident, and who was Miss Ethel Dickens granddaughter of Avelino Greenhouse." She began blesinese Mali hed his heart so -firrnlY set upon the " 'Beware 1" seemed to be hiseed irt hia ear. $110,000,000, And has never been more pros. making hie fit/it trip smite hts receversey Was the noveliet, hoe starteda type-writne office. about fifteen, years ago as a little girl with a eriuse asi lie, no man has been so nussed. You My dear istother, do not lankat me tike Pelona than neWinjured about the leg and his foot mashed,for oepying stage parts and prompt ooks, iiinet basket of bouquets.