The Exeter Times, 1887-10-20, Page 2LOVE'S TRIUMPH
By the Author of " MaSS1tY18 PanSEimoD," “ BEATItimS'e, AtIDITION, r'Foii
LovE on, KINDRED?" ".A Goenele Deeeti," &c.
CHAKER XL
In the first -floor front et an extremely
mistiest Loudon boaediughouse sat Glynn
lete trooper in her Majesty s -th
'Hussars, leaning back wearily le his chair,
his quiet dark eyes leaf thoughtfelly, half
sadly, fixed on the street below him.
The "top season" lis,d just gone gut, the
hoopeieason " had come he and the etreet
wee filled with Lobild,ren trundling them,
racing with them, falling over theni amid
muck noise, laughter, and tears; while the
ories a a hawker nem added a drurn and
oat of pan,dean-pipes to a naturally stentori-
an, voice burst now and aaain through the
dim as he recenueended his damaged fruit
to au inattentive public. A mechanical
piano tinkled dismally half through a walte
tune, jerking in a manner that would have
'theme distrecting to a musician, then ceased,
and after a pause began again a few yards
away. But, netwithstanding the ooise,
Glynn had opened the window for the sake
of the breath of cool air that was wafted in-
to the little room on that warm August
evening.
A. traveling -trunk standing near, packed
rand corded, and labelled "New York,"
showed that the boarding-house first -floor
front would not knee( him much longer, and
setorts• natio1es9 of clothing -procured that
slay -were scattered over the table and ugly
horse -hair chairs, or hung out of the open
(-mouth of a smell portmanteau. There was
boat ihim all the ditorder of preparation
for a long journey ; but although he was to
. start for Liverpool at midnight, and his
peeking was not nearly completed, the ex -
trooper was doing nothing beyond sitting
stid' 1, listening to and watching the turmoil
withont with an indulgent ear and eye -for
Lb would be long before ne looked upon such
aacene again. He was enjoying the sense
seif being his own master, and resting quietle ,
for he had been tramping to and fro in the
&fit streets all day, buying what he required
for the new life before him, and two severe
-wounds and the merciless heat of Egypt had
se injured his fine constitution that he was
ortslly fatigued now.
them, Did she fear that he would claim
her and pet her to open shame, after elle
}lad so long enjoyed Mark Verscheyle's
money ? Serely not l What then could
have induced her to employ this groom of
Captain Haughton's to rob him first and
bribe him afterwards? Why was she so
anxious for hini to leave England?
To these torturing questions -which his
sober judgment could not answer --his heart
replied with a forboding that blenched his
brown cheeks even while he dared not put ut
into words.
He rose from his chair and began walking
aimlessly about she eoom a hundred dis-
jointed ideas, thoughts, ancl resolves passiug
through his mind ; while Ilya.ciuth's pale
proud. face, contemptuous lips, and unhappy
eyes seemed to meet 1 im at every turn.
Why had she done this thing? Why had
she compromised herself so with a man who
was as craftetand insolent as he was deceit.
ful and fawning? What necessity had dri-
ven her to such a desperate act as this?
Must there not have been some reason for
it? She must surely be going to do some-
thing that she feared would force him to
break his oath and claim from her the fulfil-
ment of the vows that she hed uttered in
Herby parish church five years before
When his thoughts had reaebed this point,
and he was filled with the fear of the inevi-
table conclusion to which they were bringing
him, his eyes fell upon his friend's unopen-
ed letter. In that perhaps, which would
doubtless have some scraps of gossip con-
cerning the guests at Haughton Abbey,
would be an answer to all his questions, or
a confirmation of what his heart was repeat-
ing to hint more loudly every moment.
He sat down by the table, and, tearing
open the envelope with shaking hands, read
as follows -
"Dear Glynn -Although I hope to clasp
hands withyou.to-morrow, I cannot refrain
from dropping a line to you now, to prepare.
you for the fact that you will find the very
happiest fellow in the three kingdoms wait-
ing for you at Liverpool. Lily Verschoyle
has accepted me. Her parents have not
said me nay, and we are to be married some
three months from this. And it is all your
doing. My soldering turned her gentie
heart to me first, and my soldiering I owe to
you. I took courage on the night of the
Earl's breaking -Up ball, asked her, and re-
oeived my answer, so that I am really and
truly the very happiest fellow breathing,
and must gush to you on paper like a school-
girl. I have one crumpled leaf among my
roses however -I suppose one must not be i
altogether blessed n this life, it would be
aggravating to other folk. It is Miss Vera-
choete's evident dissatisfaction and disap-
pointment at her sister's choice of a mere
nobody like ma. She is not trying to pre-
vent our union certainly, but she utters
many things with those sneering lips of hers
which put one into a white fury even to re-
call afterwards, and which are impossible to
'Mao sharp rat -tat ot the postman as he
gaterattlrem door to door down the now dark-
. ening street roused Glynn from these bitter
and torturing reflections. He watched the
-num, half -hoping for a letter from his one
'friend, to whom he clung now in his loneli-
ness as a child clings to a parent;
and yet, when the men walked up the steps,
ramd. he saw the word " Gannon " scrawled
,across one of the envelopes, the young man's
Tite.a.rt sank • within him; for Garret Croft
‚waste 4save met him at Liverpool on the
lollowing morning, to see him off and give
aim a hand -clasp at parting, and this letter
mast be an apology for disappointing him, a
-.farewell on paper.
Ere sprang up, and then sat down again,
eltumming with his fingers on the table and
!biting the ends of his thick moustache, as
Sirepulaive and impatient now, for all his five
years of discipline and rigid obedience, as
tee was when he walked away from his
Toride about an hour after their marriage.
iffe did not have to wait long ; in a very
taw minutes a aleepy-eyed, dirty child tap -
pad at the door and enteeed.
"Two letters ! 'Both for me ?" inquired
Glynn, in some surprise.
"Yet, sir. .An' please, sir, you're to sign
rot= name here, sir. He said so ;" and she
pointed a grimy thumb over her shoulder
towards the steps, where the postman was
still standing.
dr What -registered ! Who in the world
laa. sent me a registered letter! Who knows
of my address but Garret V' -and the ex-
throoper, as he spoke, held the envelope with
its blue crossed lines away from him, and
leaked at it as if it were something poi -
somas.
A horrible feeling of dread possessed him ;
something seemed to tell him this was from
Hyacinth, and that she was sending him
money. •
" ' E's waiting -postman, sir," said the
girl, Offering him a slip of paper; "an' he
says as 'ow your to put your name 'ere, an'
leoleeharp."
Glynn hastily signed the paper, and,
throwing Garret Ceoft's letter upon the
table, looked closely at the written address
.aa the other.
It was not from Hyacinth -he was spared
*at bitter insult at her handed and, with
-a Ogle of relief, he opened it, not much ek-
ing who was the writer.
The letter was written on a rather dirty
piece of paper, and the penmanship was
-evidently that of an uneducated person.
Having a faint idea that he had seen some-
Olsing like this unsteady hand on bills for
horses' food and other things pertaining to
Captain Haughton's establishment, he turn-
ed the leaf to look at the signature, and, as
he did so, a Bank of England note for fifty
pounds and, some other papers fluttered
softly to the ground. Glynn glanced at
likens, but did not stop to pick them tie, as
lie was too impatient to read the letter.
"Deer Gannon -This comes hopping to
^find you in good helth as it levee me at
present thank. God for ib and seeing as how
you were sacked pretty suddent, and might
think I had a finger in it which I had not I
made interest with the Captain for you and
he sent you this stiff and paseage intermedi-
ate for Sidney by Occedentel her name on
ticket if I haven't !pelt right being a poor
?nand at the pen going to -morrow 17th from
Liverpool or Pacific name on ticket to start-
ing this day weak you telling me New York
was your game because Australia to deer I
ohildrea wore more noisy and energetic than
ever.
Glyeat went to the window, and stood
there for some mieutee staring, eeeieg noth.
hie however but Hyacinth's fair feee set he
-
*eon hiin and all the world. Then with.
out waiting to gather up the money orletters,
he Wok his hat ancl hurriedly left the house,
walking with a step so weak and uncertain,
a demeanor so wild and excited, that he was
conscious of the passers-by staring at him.
A policeman even turned end followed him
for a few paces, wondering if he were drunk
or mad.
In the course of his walk Glynn Neville
stopped opposite to a looking -elites iu a hair-
dresser's shop, and pulled the travellinmeep
he wore a little more over his forehead,
scarcely recognizing AS he did so the wild
haggard face -ashy white but for the angry
scar on one eheek-the drawn mouth and
burning eyes that he saw there.
He was an hour too soon for the train
that he intended to travel by ; but he walk-
ed straight towards, the station It vvad a
relief to walk, to be in motion; the time
passed more quickly amid the life and noise
of the buey streets, which in a manner har-
monized With the agitation and tumult in
his heart, then in the close little room that
he had left. And so, long before he had ex-
pected it, he tound himself opposite to St,
Pancras Railway Station with fully an hour
to spare.
He went inside the terminua, and
leaned against a railing on one of the
platforms, troieg 'to calm himself ond to
control the tumult a emotions that was
making his heart heat against his side and
hia wound throb as if the flesh would burst.
He endeavored to interest himself in the
confusion, excitement, and general disorder
of the scene on which he looked with snob
unseeing eyes, and so force himself to pause i
for a little n the torturingincessant think-
ing, conjecturing, questioning, that was be-
wildering him, and to which he could not
possibly obtain an answer for many hours.
The scene did for a few minutes take himout
of himself. One of the greet exoursion-trains
that in July and Augu,st bring "country
cousins" up to the ojty from every part of
the kingdom had just labored slowly in;
the platform was filled with a mass of peo-
ple, swarming, hurrying, crowding hither
and thither, most of them not in the least
knowing whither thetswere to go next, but
rejoicing in the fact that this was London
and they were going to have ten days of en-
joyment for their money.othere looking
anxiously for "town" friends or rela-
tives to pilot them to a place of safety,
or encumbered by baggage, or wives and
daughters, seeking assistance at the hands
ef some official, while the tueinoil and con-
fusion _seemed unending.
Bat the excitement and noise were wel-
come to Glynn Neville -anything but si-
lence and the agony of his own thoughts
was welcome to him during the hour he had
to wait. He pushed into the middle of the
crowd, and, one among five hundred, drift-
ed slowly towards the main entrance. He
was not watching anyone in particular,
when, in a strange, senseless, mechanical
way, while a 01111011/3 dreamlike, unreel sen-
sation took -possession of him, his eyes fixed
themselves upon a tall slim lady dressed in
dark gray, wearing a thick veil,and carry-
ing a small bag or drersaing-case in her
gloved hand, who was walking Immediately
answer'atthe time. It is a satisfaction , front of hum Her back was towards
to me that we are to have none of her money him; a little tweed 'cap, pressed down on
-most of it will go, I suppose, to Pay her flaxen plaits and tied with a double fold
Haughton's debts. That is the last and
most nuzzling bit of news here -the Re -
Neer hes refused for the last time, and the
happy man is the bully and roue whom you
and I had such a long experience of in the
Soudan What has induced—"
The letter fell from Glynn's hand, and his
head sank forward on the table; silent,
motionless, with clenched teeth and ashen
cheeks, he bore the agony of this revelationi
sght of her agatn, his wife, his young be -
much as he had borne the lancet and probe loved wife, alone, unattended, at night in
when the spar -head was being removed from London.
his side. Why was she here? How could she so
Here was the explanation clearly and risk her refutation ? Whfther was she letter before before him -the exp &nation towards forward instil he touched her dress; and, in
which his thoughts had been tending all spite of all his suspicions and of the reason
along here was the one possible reason for that healed to ,execritte the day that her
robbing him, for bribing him to leave the false face came into his life, he felt intoxi-
errantry at once, doubtless calculating that (sated with pleasure and delight to be so hear
he would be on the high seas at the time of her, to watch over and guard her unawares.
her marriage, and so, even If he saw the The crowd- was rapidly thiEllitIgi cabs and
name "The Hon. Mrs. Haughton" in a omnibuses carrying off the greater portion
i
newspaper, would not connect it with her. of them, the rest being mellowed up in the
"Her marriage 1 " He repeated the words restless life of the streets. He saw that she
over arid over again to himself through his WaS nervous, undecided, timid, evidently
clenched teeth. The girl who had knelt by not quite equal to the task before her, what -
his side and vowed to be true to him until] ever ib was. Althotigh she walked fast she
death, was deliberately planning and man- stopped often, looking up at the names on
ceuvreag to blind him, to get him out th
et e the street corners, also about her, as if, she
country in order that she might marry -
dreaded something or some one; and once)
other man an
er twice she stepped a..side to avoid a group
1
"1 don't believe it -I can't believe it I" CI' MS11 whose loud voices and bold. eyes
he cried out, finding some slight solace in seemed to' alarm her. ''
Why should he not speak to her now ?
the sound of his own voice ,• While the spear -
he asked himself, when the first passionate
wound just below his heart, which had won
delight of merely following and. watching
him an honourable diacharge and a small
pension, began to smart and throb, "No, i her was past. He had been waiting im-
patiently for the train that was to carry
I won't believe it ! She would not -oh, she
would nob! Her conscience may not be very I him to her, in order that he might save her
clear concerning money -matters -a woman'sl or warn her -he scarcely know which -
sense of honour never ft so keen on mthat 1 and, now that, by some mysterious erratum-
i
point as a man's -but her unsullied purity, ment of events of which he knew nothing,
sMIN
her fair name -she would not risk those -he was here, within a few yards of I
no, not even if her heart were really touched Pacing the lamp -lighted streets alone, mire -
the time to speak to her I
and she loved,. Loved ? Bah! She could : 1Y this was
Your freed " JAMES BELLY,
"1 eot your address out of Mr. Croft's
room it's wrote up on the -wall, over the fire-
ealase."
" Now," thought Glynn, when be had
socceeded in mastering the meaning of the
ill -written, ill -spelt, and unpunctuated
words, “ what is this? Is her hand in ib?
Is it part of the same game that began with
the stealing of my pocket -hook, which
doubtless was accomplished with this man's
Assistance ? If it is not Miss Vetschoyle,
who else can it be ?"
Pale with emotion he sat, holding the let.
ter in his hand a,nd looking dowti blankly
at the papers an the floor. tTrireasoning
nsid impulsive as a woman in all that con-
cerned the affections, he leaped to the con-
clusion that this letter from his fellow ser-
vants -who had never been orn good terms
with him, and was about the last person hi
the world to befriend him -had been an-4ton
.at the instigation of the girl who had
blighted his life ; thae the money was her
meney, and that she was trying to tempt
him to go to Australia, after having sue.,
ocoded in.gaining posseesion of everything
that he might have used against her.
of black lace, hid all bet half an inch of her
neck. Her longsgeay mantle was logoe, Egad
concealed her tall, slender figure.
Gradually he awoke from the trance of
amazement into which he had fallen
to a sure and certain knowledge of
who she as; ; and as he did so he
told himself that only sudden death or some
frightful accident would' force him to lose
her heart, and lenowinte that, before he oast
her from hini forever, be must listen to her,
he must hear her say -
"1 am puutilted more throe you, for I love
yote-have loved you since the night I tient
you from me 1"
She tried to say this, fearing that be
would break from her, and that her oppor.
tuuity would be gone, looking up into his
face and feeling the heating of his heart
against her side. But what she saw in his
face -love and forgiveneess-chokeil the
words in her throat; and she could only
cling to him ie mute ecstasy of happiuess,
one moment ef which was worth all !ler five
yeare of wealth.
" What's the matter with the lady 1"
asked a policeman, approaching them.
Glynn started, roused to the exigencies of
life by the man's question.
" She is my wife -taken ill ; could you
get ine acab ? ' be Said, keeping , down his
emotion with all the streneth of his will.
The policeman signalled to a " grower."
Thee Glynn addressed Hyacinth.
" Hyricinbh--my wife," he said-" will
you come home ?"
she whispered, in a strenge
dazed way-"hemo ?"-and, turning slight-
ly, she kissed the eleeve of his coaa.
He took her in his arms and placed her
in, the cab, ,
"Drive on -anywhere 1" he cried to the
cabman.
She was still clinging to him convulsive-
ly, as if she never meant to release him
from the clasp Of her slender arms. With
a calmness that surprised even Glynu him-
self, he placed her beside him i and, submit-
ting to her embrace but not returning it,
spoke to her in a low stern voice.
"Hyacinth, my wife -my loved and un -
forgotten wife -given to my arms thus by
some strange chance, telling me byerour sweet
eyes fixed on mine, by your dear arms clasp-
ed about me, by tke utterance of my name
when you were in danger, that, in spite of
your cruel and sinful words to me five years
ago, you love nie as I never dared to hope
you would -Hyacinth, I Will not ask you
why you are here -why you, through a
servant, robbed me and. tried to bribe me to
go may into exile -why you allowed it to be
add that you were about to marry Cyril
Haughton 1 trust you, I believe in you
in spite of everything, and I ask you to give
up all -all that you gave me up for five
years ago -and to listen to your own heart."
His voice faltered and he stopped, unable
to control,his emotion; and she, her hand
creeping a little further round his bowed
nook, her cheek pressed a little closer to his
broad shoulder, an ineffable delight filling
her heart, whispered eo low he could scarce-
ly hear her -
"1 did not rob you; Haughton did -
after you were dead, he said. In that way
he discovered my secret, he declared. Be
told me you lay beneath the sands of the
desert; and he threatened to put me in the
felon's dock unless I married him. But,
Glynn, I oould not -no, I could not 1 In
life or death I am yours ; and I believed you
dead;.so I said 'Yes' to gain time, and I
came away secretly ; and of all the money I
brought only enough to take me to -to that
place -oh, I should have found it !--where
I thought you lay."
WIILIAM SHOWERS'S OONFESSION. WANTS TO RESTORE THE EMPIRE,
ue Tells Thew he limed his Two Tune What is Saki Au idarts about ihe Comte de
e
Housekeeper. The tjemte de Paris has now for some
1 A packed &girt I00111 at Lebanon, Pa, k tdialeysrole P Pe; dtdheed s obve if oo or before ot the : 910''''ke, tnye.11 'lea:pi ?ens loni
the other day heard read the terrible eon- t his detailed ntenq of modernized monarchy
fession of William Showers aged 60 who
' 0 ' have been thrown broadcast throughout
murdered his two little grandsons at Anville Frauce, But there has not yet been the
last May. A few days ago he attempted to slightest sign that royalty will reap from it .,
bleed himself to death by puncturing his ' any harveet. The masses of the people reed{
ears. Showers tottered into court leaning it with indifference, or with the platonic
on the arm of the Sheriff. Later hie con-
fession was handed to J udge McPherson, pcuols'it7ristYof''14'oitmhe ''IVIeltwiehfint4hnecYitad,apirloyRaTitwtter
who, after reading it, ordered, to plead to advertising scheme. d
the indictment of murder, and the culprit (
pleaded guilty. The confession was thee NO STIR MADE IA PARIS.
read, It went on to describe how Showers Even in feverish, over impressionable
and Betsy Sargent, hs hotteekeeper, aged Paris, the elaborate menifesto causes no
40, were to have been married last May, outburet^of party anhnosity.
but the two little boys were in the way. President Grevy read the manifesto at
The boys, aged.4 and 6 years were the sons Moet,sous Vaudrey, After ponderiug over
of Showers's daughter, who is dead. Show. each phrase with his scrutinizing le al mind,
ers'swife is also dead, and he wasalope witn
the boys. Miss Sargent %greed' to marry
Showers if he got a piece for the boys. Show-
ers tried to piece them, and finally they
disappeared. After their disappearance
Showers gave conflicting stories about them.
First he said they had been hound oat;
then that they had been lost on the' moun-
tain. This lead to his arrest, Red a few
days later the deed bodies of the boys were
found buried iii shallow holes in Showers's
back lot. Intense excitement followed.
Miss Sargent declared that ehe knew noth-
ing of the crime. She was in court to -day
as a witness, and heard the confession read.
The most horrible part of it is as follow:
.
• 'intlris' appeal.
Crandsons meta theeld orbit!
Betsy came to my house on the night of
May 16. We lit the candle. The clothes
of the children lay on the woodchest. She
rolled them togeft er in a bundle. Then I
lit my. old lantern. I had already dug the
hole in which the children wine found in
the gutter the evening before. The chil-
dren were then already in bed. Sammy,
the little one, slept up stairs, and William
down stairs with me. Then we went into
the bed room where William was. I had a
thick twine, about as thick as a lead pencil
and about ayard long. Willie was sleeping.
I tied the twine around his neck more than
one time, and choked him to death. She
carried the lantern, and had dosed it so
that no one should see it, and I carried the
boy under my arm, andput him in the hole.
Then we went up stairs. The other light
we put out. She carried the lantern up
stairs to give me light. It was a four cor-
nered lantern, and she opened one side.
There was a little petticoat, and this I
tied around Sammy Speraw's neck and
strangled him. Then we took him down.
I carried him under my arm. She carried
the lantern, but had it shut so that no one
could see us go down the lot. There were
currant stalks, at this hole, and when I
came there with the little boy I tumbled
over the currant stalks, and the boy flew out
of my hands against the wall. I had to let
him go or would have fallen into the hole.
Betsy °ought hold of my back at the coat or
I would have fallenln. That is what cans -
id the wound in the boy's head -his fall-
ing against the wall. She (Betsy) stood the
lantern in the currant bushes opening it
sufficient to give me enough light to cover
up the hole. I:then covered it up with the
ground. Then we went up to the house.
I had the shovel and she had the lantern,
which had been closed up. On the way to
the house I said." What will we do with
the clothes?" Then she said these I would
burn. We talked awhile and were both ex-
ited, you can think. "Noeii," she said, after
we put the clothes in the cook stove," I
poured coal oil on them and they were soon
burned. ,
At this Miss Sargent fainted, and was
carried unconscious from the conrt room.
A warrant was served. on her later in the
day. She still denies the charge, and says
old Showers is trying to drag her down
with hirr. The people believe her, and she
was sent home to -night under police surveil-
lance.
"Good heavens,' he interrupted, involun-
tarily clasping her waist, "1 see it all now !
How could I ever have doubted your in-
nocence? He would have forced. you into
marrying, him, and then told you -when he
had paid his debts with your money, and
when yon would not have dared to speak
for fear of the law -that I was alive, that
you were not his wife ! Oh, Hyacinth, he
would have lowered your pride to the very
dust; and I -what could I have done
then?"
"But there was never any fear of
that -never," she answered firmly. "Did
I not tell you that I was going away
-to hide from the law -to hide from him ?
For, Glynn, r loved you't It was my pun-'
ishment to love you -to long all those five
,years for the heart I had despised. It is a
plainly set down in this ay, triumphant Ing? he 'as ed himself wildly e.s he pressed relief to me to say it to you -to me, who
I
not love Haughton -she could not turn from .As he debated this euestion with himself,
an unsullied and honest affection ta him. still keeping her in sight, it was decided
No -a thousand times, no 1 I have been- i for him in a way that he half expected it
and shall be all my life -true to the words ' would be, leaving him no choice in the
that I vowed that morning, and so matter.
will she., Do I not remember bow she 1 She passed before a brilliantly-illumin-
said, It is nothing to me how you ated public -house to look for the ziarao of
pass your life, but shall live mine in pur- the street, and, while doing so, her bean-
ity and honour all my days? No -again tifol face» and pale golden hair, only half
no Wife to me she has never been; but • hidden by her veil, attracted the atten-
we are bound together, by the most solemn tion of .two well-dressed half-in.tokicated
of ties. She would not dare to do this men. One of them advanced towards her
' k d thi 1" and said -
He had been walking up and down the "Ah -pardon me -want name of 'street, tory,' is—is dead ;" and she turned her face
against his true heart and began to eob like
a child.
He gave a qnick sigh, half of surprise,
half of profound relief, and, with his arm
still about her, took the newspaper and
opened it, a bold heading-" Suicide of an
Officer," meeting, his eyes at once.
A it ending for him. Bah child -why
do you cry said the ex -trooper a ltttle
sternly, when he,had read the paragraph.
"1 cry not' for him, but tor Heaven's
mercy to me," she answered. "He is
taken I am shown my sin, granted. time to
thought to say it over your grave. Let me
tell you this once that • to look upon your
face, to hold you in my arms as I do now,
iseworth all the riches in the world tome,
and that I would die -oh, ',would willingly
die so I"
" Will you give up all ? Will you let me
hide you from the law? Will you come to
my poor home now, and across the seas with
me to -morrow ?" ,
She raised her head from his shoulder for
a moment, looked into hiseyes, and answer-
ed solemnly-
" Yes -ter better for worse, for richer for
poorer, your home is mine, and I wiff follow
you -oh, willingly -gladly -through the
world 1"
* * * * * *
" Glynn, I have something to tell you"
"Tell it then, Hyacinth; news is rare
and precious on the banks of Red River
Creek d' and the speaker, who was half -way
up a ladder, training a great bush of "bitter-
sweet" about the doorway of an extremely
new wooden house, turned a sunburnt
bearded face over a rolledup red shirt-
sleeve, and looked down with happy con-
tented eyes at a very beautiful, if somewhat
untidy, young woman who was standing be-
neath, a newspaper and an open letter in
her slim white hand.
"No -come down, please. I want to be
close to you while I tell yon. This"--holcl-
irg np the letter-" is from Lily.
Semething in her face showed him that
this news, whatever it was, was serious.
He dropped the branch of " bitter-sweet"
eame down put his brown hand about his
wife' ri neck, and touching her soft cheek
said- '
" Well, Bluebell tell me your news."
" is a. letter from Lily; and she says
that Haughton our enelny, whom we fear
even here on the borders of the Indian terri-
smell stifling room while these words fell my deal? Can't 1 assiet you? Pretty girl
from hie lip. He paused now and tiat -ell alone -so late --ver' wrong -ah 1" -
down ley the table again, pressing his hand and he tried to place his arm round her
to his side -for the scarred flesh felt as if it shredder.
were being torn with red-hot pincers. The What brought Glynn Neville'e name to
long sword -cut, on his face also had become Hyrointh's lips in a Wild despairing cry ae,
quite inflamed. trembling with nervous terror and disgust,
"If it were to bleed now until died,' she tore herself front the fellow, crying,
he thought, writhingin his chair with pain; ( " Glynn -oh, Glynn!" while the lights`
"what a blessing it would be for her 1 But danced before her eyes and she almost fell?
I shall not die yet; I lived, I who sought ) And yet that appeal, that sobbing cry for
death when men who had wives and little help and protection, made in her imagine -
ones hi England poured out their life -blood tion to a little heap of sand in a desert place
he slowly rose from his ohair end saa
"It is a well written laistoric theei
is thoroughly academic, but it contai
a pa,rticle of danger to the Republic."
TUB PRIME MINISTER'S VIEWS.
M. Bouvier,. who presides over the most
moderate and conservative Cabinet that has
governed France for many years, said, after
reading the manifesto -,-.
"This will consolidate the republicans
more than anything thab could have been
devised. It shows the necessity of republi-
cans of all shades rallying round the Repub-
lic, and will force my colleagues and myself
to seeks majority in the ranks of the repub-
licans solely., and not oount, as hitherto, on
the votes of the donservatives. As tedthe 1'
effect of the manifesto, that's briefly stat-
ed :--
tas oouneen aneilethn-
" The French .peeple, no matter whet
their political stripe may be. in a mild pla-
tonic) sort of way commend the descendant
of the Capets for coming down from the
sublime atmosphere of generalities and
emunciating olearly and distinctly his poli-
tical creed. They approve his pluck in
throwing overboard, once for all, the fiction
of 15 divine right, but feel ooevinced that
heteforth the return of any kind of a mon-
ar her in France would be a mere idle
dream."
Under the Bouvier Ministry the royalists
and imperialists have found a modusvivendi,
a sort of truce with the republicans; and
for the Comte de Paris to launch his thun-
derbolt at the present time seems pretty
good proof that he himself and his reaction-
ary advisers felt that his truce might be-
come a lasting peace, thereby destroying
forever any chance of the monarchical resto-
ration.
THE NEWSPAPERS HAPPY.
The manifesto has certainly been &perfect
godsend for the paris newspapers. Column
after column of leading 'articles appear day
after day. Figaro says "The act that the representative of the
monarchy. has just accomplished is perhaps
the most important one in our history since
the French Revolution, for the charters of
1814 and 1830 were only intended to orga-
nize the purely representative machinery of
government, but the programmesof :t e 15th
}aril,
of September embraces a wider 1 op and
aims at an entire reorganization o ksociety.
THE couve's COURAGE.
"M. le Comte de Paris, after studying
the conditions of modern life in the United
States and England, exposes with a loyalty
equal do his courage the entire mechanism
and details of his future government. The
Republic is now more than ever impotent.
With an army reedy to face any foreign
enemy -aa General Breart now says it is -
with an army ready to quelleany insurrec-
tion at home, and with a worthy heir to a
race of kings on the throne, Franco would
again arise from her ashes and Igain pos-
session ef herself."
It
not
Color -Blindness among Railroad Employees.
The conflict between the officers and the
employes of the Reading Railroad, with its
forty-two thousand employees on three thou-
sand miles of track, which has occupied re-
cently the attention of the public, and has
threatened to produce a suspension of work
on that read, has reopened the question of
color -blindness among railroad employees,
and led to a, full demonstration of ins exist-
ence among those engaged even as engine-
inemthehere the defect nay lead to serious
accidents, with loss of property and life.
The officers of the road have selected the
system for examination suggested by the
writer, and employed to a full success for
more than five years past on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, and have appointed me to
supervise its details, and, as ophthalmologi-
cal expert, to deeide all doubtful cases after
careful examination of those found defective
by the nonprofessional examiners of the
company. s
on the hot seed -en -len whose death broke ' by the Nile, was answered at once. repent, pardoned, given you !"
trothed. A broken heart I 0 In do I no whoth memory she wastlying from the world
know what a broken heart is ?" that ehe had once preferred to him, to oast
the hearts of many a. mother, wifo, or be Ile whom she had thought of as dead, for / understand you," he said, kissing her.
"And now, when we get tich enough, sve
can go to Ireland in safety and see Lily and
her husbe.nd in that ivied house by the Nore
of whioh ehe is always writing."
"Yo," -dreamily. Do you know, Glynn,
in spite of what she says about her happy
life, 1 think I an happier --for I have sinned
and been forgiven, tried you and found you
true; while Lily— Ah, well, we .both
know that there IS NOTHING lima Lelia in
all the world I"
(Tut END.]
He started up and began walkieg about hen elf down where she thought the poor
again, in a tumult of doubt and appreheri- remains of what she loved lay -he sprang
i nt b i H 1 ti forward at hor call and thin the drunken
guilty, at another that there was some ne- c wretch who had molested her headlong from
fariousplot againsther, the first step in which the paveinent ; then he turned, looked at
required his removal to the other aide. of the , her; and she, with a sudden and passionate
world. Slowly he came to the resolution ' movement, clasped him in her arms,
that it wae hi duty, having regard to the ! So husband and wife met again, after five
chain that bound them both, to go to Haugh- ' years, tinder the flaming lights of a giu-pal-
ton, see her, and, if this were a ,plot, con- I ace, amid the hurrying life of the Lond6n
vince her that he still lived and solemnly streets.
Why was she so terrified at thie tohim of warn her that she must abide., even as he Hyacinth gave no heed to the looks or
at least by the conditions of their separation. comments of the prenseigeby, caring for noth- H. Riderllaggard's brother, who is 'English
The sun had now set; the lamplighter wars ing but the fact that he was alive, that she Consul itt Tamatava, will soon issue D, WA:Pk
his tO look on her 011eb more ? he asked him-
self, laying down prerinsee of which
a th hurrying down the street end the swarming held him fast in her arms, pressed clode to on Madagascar.
'he had no proof,nc en reasoning from•
The conflict is nearly over, since de-
monstrations of the optical defect in engin-
eers, made before a committee appointed, by
the employees have satisfied them of the
propriety of the testing, and that the safety
of the travelling public demands the removal
of all color-blind persons; from positions
where their optical defect might be the
cause of distressing accidents. In the recent
demonstrations, I was able at my office to
show that an engine -Man declared a red
danger -signals, made by placing red glass in
front of a large gaslight at a distance of two
feet away, to be a green light ; he was also
not only unable to distinguish a red from a
green flag within six feet, hat he failed to
classify the flags, white, red, green, and bine,
even when allowed to take them in his own
hands.- Wreraem Thomson., M. D., in
Poputgr Science Monthly for October.
vie
Cologne.
Cologne is ohiefiy interesting to visitors
on account of its Cathedral and its Cologne
water. To see the one and to buy some of
the other are the two great objects of trav-
elers here. But, apart from these principal,
attractions, we shall find the city very in-
teresting. Most of the ' streets are queer
and old, some of the houses dating from the
thirteenth century ; and the Rhine, which
Is here crossed lot, a long bridge of boats,
precents a very busy andlivelyscene with
its craft of many kinds.
The real Cologne water is made by Johann
Maria Farina, but when we go ont to buy
some, we may be a little perplexed by find-
ing that there are some thirty or forty peo-
ple of this name, all of whom keeps shops
for the sale of Cologne water. There are a
great many descendants of the original in-
ventor of this perfume, and the law does
not permit anyone to assume the name who
does not belong to the family; but the boy
babies of the Farinas are generally baptized
Johann Maria, so that they can go into the
Cologne water business when they grow up.
There are two or three shops where the
best and "original " water is sold, and at
one of these we buy some of the celebrated
perfume, generally sold to travelers in small
wooden boxes containing four or six bottles,
which we get at a very reasonitble price
compared with whet we may have to pay
for it in America. We cannot take much
more than this, because Cologne water is
classed as spirits by the custom -house au-
thorities in England) and each traveler is
allowed to bring only a small qurntity of it
into that country.
Army Horses From Canada.
Though the Imperial authorities have for
a time postponed their efforts to obtain
army horses in the Dominion, it is evident
that the attempt will be renewed as soon as
there is any available supply, and that this
demand will continue whenever it suits us
to fill it. Colonel Philips, with apparently
good reason, looks to the ranchea of the
North West as the great field from which
the Imperial army will obtain the remounts
it needs. But there is no reason why the
farmers of Ontario should riot participate
in the profits that are to be obtained from
this source.
What It Will Do.
Poison's Nerviline, the great pain cure,
never fails to give prompt relief in the fol.
lowing coMplaints :-Spraine, bruises, cuts,
tic douloureux, rheumatism, spinal pains,
neuralgia, toothache, lumbago, sciatica.
Buy to -day at any drug store a 10 cent bot-
tle and thst it iu any of the above tom -
plaints. It never fails, for Nervilite is com-
posed of the most powerful pain subduing
reiriedies in the world. Get a bottle at any
drug store. You will be made happy. Ten
I and Z' cents a bottle,
NeWS of 'Stanley.
According to the last news received at
Betas from the Upper Congo, Stanley was
pushing forward, and the only difficulties
he met with ,were the natural oluitacle of
the co:retry. About the 2511 Of Jur the
expedition had ascended 'the Atutvla'tni to
the elevated country belongingto the Malio-
di district. The river becoming too narrow,
they left the rafts, and the men for several
days had to carry a double burden of pto-
ViSiORIS. The steel whaleboat was carried
past the narrows and again lannched.
Stanley calculated that upon arriving at the
summit el the table laiids giving shape to
the basin of the Ardwhimi, the expedition
would halt two days for reet, and. would
establish a camp there, to be garrisoned by
twenty men, with a European officets The
districts tratersed were tranquil, and little
difficulty was experienced in obtaining pro-
visions from the natives, The progress of
the expedition averaged twenty kilometres
Tippoo Tib in his last ineesage wroth
that he was till at his post at Stanley Falls
awaiting reinforeemente. He had gained
the goodwill of several neighboring chiefs.
Owing to the disturbed sta,to of the conatry
Tippoo Tib could not, as he agteed to, organize
a revictualling force to despatch direct to
Albert Nyanza but he intended to do so as
soon as pessible. Diaquietcontinned between
Stanley Falls and the confluence of the
Aruwhimi and the Congo, and many vil-
tante had been pillaged. It ts .believed that
the garrison which Stanley left at Yambungiot
itas been forced to interfere to maintain
order in the neighborhood,