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Earge Bottle, 25 Cop. _ To p AARtiv 111.11112111111111RMIIRMIO OpOedipmiiiirelalserdi litikatipearcepeerall Russ eutkil le S. and o.trirmigt Fitk) Pt" R E MOURED WITH NO INCONVENIENCE IMOUTATRUSS _ CHEAP 'BY MAIL woof nettle. bous onfaii$ 'ratted to yea. A Post Catta 4o ft, 811AL CLOTHE 04 tnee st. olloarO -*NADA THE ..SECRET. TOWE.R., CHAPTER 1.—(Colorfast7ED.) Hitt era, aa he said this, wandered to the end of the table where Kate sat, and they lingered so long and so lovingly upon her that he aid not observe the flash of anger that gleamed out of Grace Lilburne's blue eYes.nor did he see the savage way in which she bit her lip with mortificatiOn. An attentive servant looking after Me wants soon recalled him to the desirability of doing justice to the Christmas oheer,and he found very little time to notice jealously how attentive Sir Algernon Colebrook was to the fair hostess. Even a Chriatrusa dinner must have an end, though the Tian& be as plentiful and the delicades as numerous as on this ma easion,and some after the dessert had made its appearance the ladies retired to the spacious drawingsroom, where the gentle- men soon joined them. "We are going to dance in the great hail, Kate explained to Lord Roland Ayre,when for the firet time that evening he managed to secure a seat by her side ; "ib makes a splendid ballroom when the tables and rugs are oleared away." "Yeti, so I should think. YOhi have not forgotten your promise to give me the first dance?" "Oh,nol" and she blushed with conscious gratification as, despite her sister's ree marks, she felt sure that Lord Roland loved her. • Coffee was brought in,andthere was con- versation and musio, broken into at length by the host suggesting that they should go to the eervants' hall to see the Christmas tree that had been provided for the serve.nts and tenants, or more particularly for the children of the latter. Lord Roland gave Kate his arm as the large party made its way to the servants' While the rich feasted, the poor were never forgotten at Silverton Castle, and if the baron and his daughters made merry, his humblest retainers found a warm wel- come in the kitchen. On the present occasion the huge Christ - mat tree WWI all alight with colored lamps, while gifts had been provided for the ser- vants and their guests, and three rustic musicians with their pipes and fiddles were ready to play for the impatient dancers. "We will look in later on," said Lord Lilburne, with& kindly nod, and then he and his friends trooped baok to the hall, which by this time had undergone a great transformation. Holly and mistletoe had been previously arranged among the old snits of armor, and mingled with the trophies of the chase; but now, since dinner, brilliant flowers had been plaoed about the hall in great profu- sion, giving color to the scene as well as fragrance to the air. A band had been engaged for the occasion, and soon the noble beetled off the ball with the most distinguished lady present, while Lord Roland and Kate immediately fol- lowed. Grace, who was likewise dancing, watch- ed her sister jealously, and she saw how, after a time, Lord Roland led Kate into a recess half -screened from the rest of the hall by flowers, and she scarcely needed to never been known to sacrifice her own convenience for the welfare of any living person. But the evil spirits that always strive to make humanity their prey have full peeves - Biota of the baron'e youngest child to-niglat, and as she wanders away from her father's guests through this most analent part of the oastle,a plot,as diabolical in its wicked. noes as it is oruel in ite conception, framers itself in laer mind, and she prepares for its execution. CHAPTER IL LOVE AND TREACHERY. Lord Roland has been growing desperate during the last half hour. Ile has not danced since Kate left him, and he has not spoken to anybody since he ha e managed to get away from Grace; but he has watched Kato anxiously, and more than °nee he has gone some little distance along or aoross the room to speak to her, but has failed to reaoh her side before she has been carried off for another dames. Sir Algernon Colebrook seemed to be as muon on the watch to attach himself to the fair heiress as he was himself, and Lord Roland felt that he had no time to lose in seouring the prize that so many were evidently anxious to make their own. Fortune favored him at last. Kate, with her last parener, paused near the door just as the music amused. "Will you oblige me by asking Miss Weimer to take some refreshment," said Kate to her pa.rtner, while she indicated a very grim old maid sitting alone on an ottoman. The young man obeyed, though he did not like the task assigned him, and Lord Roland seized the opportunity to offer Kate his arm as be said: "Let us find a cooler room than this ; yournust be quite tired of dancing." "Oh, no, I am not tired," she replied lightly, "though we will look for a cooler place if you like • hut how the wind is howling, and I really believe it is beginning to snow." "It is," he replied, pressing her arm to his side as he felt she gave a little shiver; "but the snow is falling slowly; and I dare say it will last a long time ; fortunately you have not to go out to -night." "Nor you either," she replied, with a smile. "1 heardisapti say that you would remain with ue over to -morrow." " He made no reply but made the way to a small drawing -room which the sisters used more than any one in the house. It was deserted now, though a bright fire burned in the grate, and Lord Roland led the timid girl into the apartment, then paused, and looking earnestly into her deep dark eyes, exclaimed passionately: " Kate, I love you. Look at me, dear- est ; tell me, will you be my wife ?" She dad look at him. The love written on his face was too earnest, too overpowering to be mistaken, or to admit of any coquetry cn her part ; and she now anawered as simply as any village maiden would leave done. Yes, Roland." There was a bough of mistletoe hanging above them, but they did not need this 8.88.11 excuse for the long kiss of love in which their lips first met, and Roland had led. Kate close to the fire -place and they were both watching the logs burning brightly upon the hearth,and he was telling her how dearly and truly he loved her while his arm clasped her graceful form, and her head rested trustfully upon his shoulder, when the door of the room was softly and noise- lessly opened. So absorbed were they in their own hap- piness that they did not observe it, neither did they see the child -like countenance of Grace, with a murderous light in her blue eyes, looking at them. She went away,however, without making her presence known. But as she left the room in which her sister and Lord Roland were talking of their love, her heart seemed to take fire, and her brain became active tor evil as that of a fiend. All the pant -up malignity in her nature now asserted itself, and she was ready to commit any crime so that she might gratify her hatred and win for herself some of the great advantages now possessed by her rival. Love misplaced, and affection slighted, are sometimes pleaded as excuses for needs of passionate revenge ; but, though the plea is a bad one' Grace Lilburne could not shield herselfbehind even that flimsy pretext. It is true that she coveted the admiration and devotion of Lord Roland Ayre; but this was rather because it was given to Kate than because she set any great store upon it for itself. Indeed she was incapable of the strong, passionate, self-denying devotion that is a ' quality of even the most selfish love and thus, though she would gladly enoughhave committed any crime to win her sister's lover, she would very readily accept a sub- stitute if she failed. Therefore, it vsasnot solely on account of Lord Roland that she now gave herself up heart and soul to work evil, but envy of Kate's beauty, her wealth, and even of her virtues made this wicked creature determine upon her half -sister's destruction. Butinty was it to be accomplished? It is easy to wiah. an enemy dead, and only a little more difficult to some natures to make the wish a reality, if an opportun- ity to do so can be found ; but it is not al- ways easy to make this opportunity and to carry out the vile intention in such a• man- ner that no suspicion shall attach itself to the perpetrator. "She shall die," hissed Grace as she clenched her little hands till the nails dug themselves into the pink palms ; "yes, she shall die this very night, even if I risk my own life by putting an end to hers. But how—how am to do it ? " • She bent her head in morbid, anxious thought, and she wandered al out the de- serted passages and corridors of the ancient portion of the castle, as though she °aped - ed that the ghosts of some of her dead ammeters', who had been notorious for their evil deeds, would clothe te tell her how to accomplish her murderous design. In her restleesnees she wandered up to the top chamber in the old tower, and. lie- eened to the howling of the wind and peer. ed thrtnigh the narrow windovt7 into the darkness beyond. A river ran near the base of thiet tower— a deep silent river, the.t would not readily betray her if elle gave it a VietiM ; but how could Kate be consigned to the dark water in suoh a manner that help would not be forthcoming? She mused on this seismic so long that she at length bethought her of a way in Which to entrap Xate down to the river Attie. If Hate received a note parperting to come from Vrazilt rairfield, the son of her fosterdnotiter, end Wheae mad infatuation for the baron's eldest daughter had banish. listen to them to learn whit the ardent lover was saying. To her secret satisfaction, however, the lovers were interrupted before half -a -dozen words could pass between them, for Sir Algernon Colebrook, who had engaged Kate for the second dance, now came up to claim her hand, When her sister had taken the arm of the baronet', Grace joined Lord Roland,and began to talk with him. But he did not ask her to dance, and he raid very little heed to what she said, for his eyes were following Kate and her part- ner through the mazes of the dance. "Kate and Sir Algernon seem very well matched, don't they ?"observed Grace, fol- lowing the direction of his gaze. "They dance very well together, if that is what you mean," he replied curtly. And then he turned to address a couple of ladies who had just drifted into this corner of the room. "He is infatuated with her, but I believe I could make him love me if she were out of the way," thought Grace, darkly; "she has always been the first in everything—, has always stood between me and what I most desired. She has robbed me of my father's love,and all the servants in the house would risk their lives for her, while they would not imperil a finger to help me; and now she has stolen the love of Roland Are, whom I love better than life, and whom, 1 had resolved to marry. Oh, if I could but get rid of her once for all,how different life would be—what a brilliant future of success and happiness would then lie befere me 17' With these evil thoughts in her mind Grace left the hall, and wondered about the dimly -lighted and seldom -visited corri- dors of the old wing of the castle, The sounds of mirth and revelry fell upon her ears, but there wao no reeponsive echo in her heart. Dark, vengeful thoughts filled her breast, and as she listened to the abrill north wind as it howled around the mansion, and put- ting her face close to thcs window, saw the large white fla.kee of snow that were beginning be falls she shivered and wonder- ed why the world was full of contrasts, and why her sister's lot should be so bright end happy, 'while, to her distorted imagination, her own was dark and cheerless. That the fault lay in herself never for a mOment °centred to her, and when she complained of the devotion of her servants to Kate, the conveniently ohose to forget that her sister never Spared her purse nor her own comfort when the obildren or relatives of their dependents were sick or in any kind of trouble. -ft was itate who sat op with the genie, keeper's motherless child when the doctor dearls,ired of fts life, and it was she who • nursed the now spordy boy back to health and strength, What wonder, then, that the boy'S -father Would willingly have given hie own life for here, Ko.tee good deeds were done 'silently 'whenever it woe possible, and timir number was too grea6 to be counted hut Grace had ed him from the OaStle, Kate might perhaps yield to the appeal and go out te meet him and then under cover of the dark night the reet would be easy. Bat would Kate keep the appointment, or would ehe not be tame likely to hand the note to her father aud ask him to deal with, the impudent writer? Here was the difficulty. Grace knew that ohe would, herself be an easy dupe for sueh a plot, but Kate ara.s so uncomfortably straightforward, and had A high appreolatiou of what watt due to her own honor and diguity, that she might ree gard the most impassioned Appeal ao an insult, and resent it acoordiegly. And then, again, Freak would not dare ask Kate to meet nim, and ahe would know this and for tide reason, if for no other, would, not go to the rendezvoue. " Next) to Kate I detest him" Grave muttered vindictively ; " but tliere has been no love lost between us all our lives ; he was the terror of my ohildhood, and yet for all that I played him some clever tricks; and often got him punished when he would otherwise have esoap • 1. Ab, that rex:elude me ; in this very tower is the tesoret well that he threatened Go throw me into ; it will answer my present purpose if I can get Kate to its edge. That will be a grand revenge indeed, upon both of them," She laugsited e. low, wicked laugh, and the wild wind, as though in sympathy, shrieked among the branches of the leafless trees that partially surrounded the man 810)3. But Grace heeded not the sound; she had eiven up her whole mind to work evil, and the means by which to accomplish her foul purpose were near at hand. " I must and will get her here this very night," she muttered, "but. how is it to be done? Ala I have it. rn propose a game of hide and seek, and it shall go hard with me if I don't make Kate hide in a place where Lord Roland will never find her. We'll have a modern edition of 'The Mistle- toe Bough.'" Then she began to sing in. a mocking tone: "And young Loyal cried: 'Oh where dost thou hider I am lonesome without thee, My own dear bride. ' She finished the song, the singing of which seemed to give her much satisfac- tion, though she had not a single listener, and when all her arrangements were made, she went back to the great hall; but it eves some time afterward before the happy lov- ers rejoined. the gueste. "I wish you would try to put a little spirit into the people, Kate,, " said Lord Lilburne to his eldest daughter, as she and Lord Roland re-entered the hall; "every- thing seems to flag, and the musicians are half asleep." • "Poor fellows,they are tired anti hungry, too, I have no doubt." here interposed Grace with more consideration than she had ever shown before. Let them go into the kitchen, papa, and join in the fun the servants are having—we can amuse our- selves. "But how ?" asked Lord Lilburne dubi- ously. "We'll have some Christmas games. We will get up some charade, or have forfeits, or play a game at hide-and-seek. That would be tI.c. best fun, wouldn't it, 7" she added, appealing to Lord Roland. It would be a change, lie replied indif- ferently, "and 1 dare say people are tired of dancing. Some are going, too." "Yea, but we must have one romp before we break up. Let the band get their supper, papa, and we will have a game of hide-and- seek. When they come back we can dance Sir Roger de Covarley, and then say -good. night." "Very well," assented her father. So the tired musicians were taken off to the servants' hall to be feasted, and Grace, who seemed to have developed an unusual amount a animation, declared they would have some prime fun. Her excitement was infectious'and sev- eral girls went off with her to hide, and they were all found sooner or later, while the boughs of the mistletoe that were hung ao profusely about the castle offered an excuse fcr kisses that would never have been ventured upon in the presence of a chaperon, let the excuse be ever so valid. This romp had been going on for some little tiine,butKate had taken no part in it. There had been plenty of girls willing enough to hide, and others eager to find them, so that she had escaped • but Grace at length would take no refusal. "Come, Kate," said her sister in a low disagreeable tone, "it seems as though you were too prudish to join us,and you needn't be afraid, Lord Roland 18 sure to find you. I'm sure you two have been spooning there long enough for all the world to know what it means." Kate made no reply, but she rose to her feet, gave one smiling glance to Roland. then turned and followed her sister. "Where shall we hide ?" she Asked in- differently. "Oh 1 I know a splendid place," was the reply ; "we will hide in the west tur- ret. You shall have the little chamber leading out of this room," she said, throw- ing open a door at the top of the staircase, " and I'll shut myself up in the one above you." a "But it is dark, and ibis cold." objected Kate, with a shiver, as they crossed the room toward the little turret chamber which opened out of it. " Nonsense 1 you won't be here five minutes, and the corridor is lighted. Go in quickly ; I think I hear them coming." So saying, she pushed her half -reluctant sister through the narrow door, then closed it upon her with a Bent apring. She did not go into the room above, however, but she stood pale and motionless listening for the faintest cry. None came; and at length, unable to bear the suspense any longer, ehe cautiously re -opened the door, and pronounced her sister's name. No answer was returned, but a blast of cold, dark air seemed to rush up from far below, and to strike her very,heart with its icy breath. Grace Lilburne was hot surprised though she had only been there once, many years ago. In her childhood she had been Shown the chasm at her feet, and had been threat- enod by Frank Fairfield, the son of Kate's foster -mother, that if she listened at doors, and told tales about him again he would throw her down here and slat would never be heard of again: The threat had been efficacitans, and the horror of it lingered long in her memory, and she remembered SS though it had happened. yesterday how terrified she had been at seeing what looked like the solid floor glide noiselessly away when he touch. ed a spring leaving uneoverefl a dark and terrible chasm that seemed to have no bottom. While Lord Roland had been telling Kate he loved her, and after she had madit up her tnitid to kill her eister,Grace had taken a lamp, and with to slight difficulty had premed the long-dieused apring with sufficient force to make the faltie floor slide out of it's place, meets -ling the feel, dark chasm below, which had once been such a sonrce at tette to her childish imagination She bed left the floor of the turretohanber open, though elm had carefully closed the door—but now, when the murderous work was done, she dere not bring a, light, neither dared she leave the place encovered, and ahe felt oaubiously about for the spring, and at scene peril to hereelf, Mime elle was working in the dark, tihe managed to fiud it, and the floor slowly moved haole into its place with a grating noiee, dosing with e sharp map. Terrified lest she ehould be defeated, and confident that the search had already begun,Gre,ce elmost flew to the room above, and there stood, pale and well-nigh spell- bound, with horror at the foul deed which he had so deliberately planned and so com- pletely accomplished. But she knew- she must not give way to her fears in the presence of other people, or she would aeon betray herself, for an awful time of anxiety and dread was still before her. It was with an intense feeling of relief that she heard the door open and saw a man's form in the doorway,for the paesages, as I have said, were all dimly lighted, though small out.of-the-way rooms, like those in which the turret eharabers were, were left in darkness. "Oh I I am glad you have found me," she said,coming forward ; "I seem to have been here such a long time,and I am so cold." "It was very foolieh to hide in such a part of the castle ea this,"said Lord Roland, eeverely. Where le Kate 1" "I don't know where Kate is," was the petulant retort ; "I suppose she was wiser than I and hid where she could be more easily found; but I shall go back to the others. I dare say Kate has already been found." "Probably she has," returned the anxious lover. Then he walked back to the great hall by the side of Grace, but as they passed under a light he exclaimed in surprise, as he look. ed at his companion ; " What have you done to your dress? The front ol it is almost black." Grace uttered a little cry of alarm ; then recovering herself, she said : " How careless of mel I forgot the walls would be thick with dust, and I pulled myself np to the window to see if it was snowing. Excuse me a few minu- tes, I dare say my maid oan wipe it off." So saying she hurriedly left him, but no maid could wipe off the mark from her white satin any more than the stain of the crime she had committed could be wiped from her false heart. She covered over the spots on her dress with some flowers and lace, which she hastily pinned in their places ; then she washed her hands, and went back to join her father's guests. Many of these were gone, others were departed, and Lord Roland Ayre's of 11 - repeated question; "Has Ks.terbeen found?" though answered with a vague "I don't know," did not excite the interest or anxi- ety that it would have done at Any other moment. When all the visitors who were not going to remain for the night had driven away, Lord Lilburne's annoyance at the disap- pearance of his eldest daughter gave place to alarm, and he summoned the servants and organized a search throughout the castle. But though they ransacked the rnanaion from garret tobasement, and examined every nook and corner, Kate Lilburne was not to be found. Grace was questioned again and again, but she stuck to the story she had at first volunteered, and declared that Kate had parted with her before she ascended the staircase which led to the turret -chambers, in one of which she herself was found by Lord Roland. "Can she have hidden away in some old oak chest?" suggested one romantic spinster doubtfully. But Lord Lilburne retorted disdainfully: "We have no such old oak chest,nor any secret rooms in this house, madam ; all that kind of thing was destroyed when the castle was rebuilt by my father." "It was not altogether rebuilt," auggeet- ed the old lady, timidly. "No ; but there was nothing mysterious about what was left," was the impatient reply. "The old baronial hall, and that part of the original building nearest the river, were spared, and there is nothing mysterious about them. I used when a boy to wish that there was." "Still, Kate must be somewhere," ex- claimed Lord Roland ,anxiously; "she would never have -gone out of the house on such a night as this, for the snow is falling heavi- ly, and, wherever she is, I am convinced that ,she has met with foul play at the hands of some one." "What can you mean ?" demanded Lord Lilburne. "Who is there who could wish to injure my child? She never had an enemy in the world." Lord Roland shook his head and his eyes unconsciously rested upon Grace. "Do you think Kate has eloped ?" she asked nervously. "Eloped 1 With whom should she elope ?" demanded Lord Roland, hotly; 'only this very evening she promised to be my wife." " I—I didn't know," faltered Grace ; "there was 'Frank Fairfield, whom papa had to send away from elle neighborhood ; I thought he might have oome back again, and"— " And what ?" demanded her father, sternly. " And persuaded Kate to go away with him," was the seemingly reluctant answer. "Then never make such a suggestion again 1" thundered his lordship ; " Kate has more consideration for herself and for me than to have taken such Ev step. Go to your own rootn. If you had not persisted in playing that ridiculous game, this mis- fortune could never have happened ; go to your own room, I say." The girl obeyed, and the other ladies of the party quickly followed her example. "Now what is to be done ?" asked Lord Roland, blankly, when he and Lord Lil- burne, with two gentlemen and three or four servants, weresleft together. "1 don't know," was the despairing re- ply ; "wet will go through the house once more if you like, but I have very little hope of finding her before daylight. If something very serious had not happened to her she would have answered when We (salted her. I don't know what to do, 1. feel perfectly stunned and bewildered." And the old peer pressed his hands to hie throbbing brow ; the anxiety of the lad hour teemed to have aged him by many years. "You stay here and rest," said Lord Roland ; "or go to bed if you think you can sleep, whilo I, with some of the servants, will tioarch through the castle again.» • And they did Mo. Bqt this aeoond search was as freitlese as the first had been, Wad all through that night the snow fell With a soft, rustling sound, and when the pale gray tramline dawned the cold,misty light fell upon faces haggard aild worn with an*lety, While mit, side the castle the ground Was covered with FAWN. to the depth of Several ineheta Children Cry for. Pitcher't Ceder* When deylight game the -father and lover searched every (Movie:, in the great ing once again ; and they Called Kate by naannancl entreated her to austrer, but the voices, aucl at length the two men utterly °DIY ,reaPonse was the eoho of their own britenntdowbahemu,nder the grief that over w - (mo Da 00STIPuees.) IF THE JAI'S TAKE PEKIN. The Chinese EneperOr Kula Hang HIm- elri11xiIong USa ADAMS lore' Tombs. The members of the diplomatio corps and others familiar with conditions and custom China are fond of speoulatiag just now upon the possibilities that may follow the capture at Pekin by the Japanese army, It is assumed that the young Emperor of China will observe the traditions of his race in case be is overcome by so direful a cat- astrophe as the capture of his capital, and hang himself among the tombs of his ancestors, and should that occur there is no oao to succeed him. He has uo children, and the most sacred of the traditions tnat concern the royal family requires that the emperor shall have ancestors whom he may worship, and from whose spirit he may receive itispiration and guidance in the administration of the government. In China if an ambitious politician does not advance as rapidly as he desires, he attributes his fail- ure to the dissatisfaction of his ancestors with the site selected for their burial, and removes their borteo with great ceremony to another which he gonsiders more favor- able. If he does not then succeed he moves them elsewhere, and. keeps on doing so until he enjoys beater luok or gives up in despair. The ignorance of the Emperor of China: concerning the disasters that have overtaken his armies and his fleets is believed to be a decided -advantage to the Japanese, for no one dare tell him the whole truth ooncerna ing their continual and frequent defeats. Nobody, not even the prime minister, oau approach the emperor except upon his knees; nor can anyone talk to him except while lying prostrate, with his forehead pressed againstthe rugs upon the floor of the platform that surrounds the throne. Such a posture is not conducive to fluent communication, and as st is a part of the religion of the Chinese to consider the em- peror omnipotent and invinoible,it requires more than human courage to inform him to the contrary. It is cuetom also for the emperor to hold those who approach him responsible for the tidings they bring. and reward or punish them accordingly. Li Hung Chang was deprived of his yellow jacket, his peacock feathers and his golden rose tor informing his sovereign that the armies of China were not in a condition to resist the advances of their enemy, and the man who notifies the emperor that the Japanese are at the gates of Pekin will certainly lose his head. Man and Wife Die Together. For more than fifty-five years Robert Adam and Ms wife, Esther Adam, lived together, and when death came it smiled them sway together. Mr. Adam svas taken ill with the grip four days before his death, and his wife took to her bed with a similar attack the following day. 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