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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-10-3, Page 6THE BRussuLe POST', STRA GELY WEDDED, A 'Thrilling Story or Romanoe fat Adventure, CHAPTER L • cover mart le: laid. lie will probahly ma to luncheon." Aud whoa the vas left :done, Indy Ons titwAnn, J3 Inviss ricoviDENtic. 1 coigne knew Itt-th past atal pies, nt as clearb as if she had been Dr. Trrytir himself sh ' know wl, v ,tJ many men who had loved he 1 Twain ifoorthoughter Mod eiddee away impelee i and tlisappoiuttel, she saw it all plainly en • ough ienr and she went straight past thc 11 boudoir door to her own roomena never pu 8 I in au appointee° •until ihe lunelebell rang. lifitantune Lady Coestanee had gene un ettepiciously to her visitor and freuel, , stead ,,f a pertly :Ad Bishop, en eager eye( broad ehouldered man who held out tw tremblieg hands and came to meet. her witl I two eager werds upon his y trg ' I -my dunes," and foe aeswer Lady Con ' stance, went to hint without any pretenCe ehynesstiko a child to ite mother. I "I did not know who it was," she said, with a daddenin her vette, ena by and bve when her ladyship tame itt! Otto Itt vith entstretehol liamb .Lady Coustanee corbel, ',limber, you knew "James told me," she answered, and then she looked rather hard nt her (laughter and held out her hand. um eo happy, :Mother," Lady Cenetance e most on ha ma eat the eht aeme, The yellow haven() ceemetIon from t hat doom. TI e chill of death reigued over th Biehop's house Epiecopal Pal(tee at Munk hatupton, the awe of a meat change Imo fallen over the old eity. For on the previon clay, Edward, by Divine ProVidenee, Lorc Iliehop of the Dirweee, bad beet -carried tr bis last lo»g home In the Cloisters of hi Cathedral Chmelt, The townefollt heel scarce as yet begun tc -wonder who %meld be the new Bishop. They were full of the quiet scholarly gracei of tic xleparted prelate -they had forgotten to often they had blamed him for not barite; been more prominent among them, for heing am &le Ale, so full of humility and all those aneek qualities which, as a loud of sop to Om consciences, we make a leant of attributing to Christ, and which almost universally se utterly despise ie the men I Yes, they had forgotten all the irritations, the petty ir- ritotioue td. the pan ; their spiritual tel sanctified hy great sufferings had beeenne them it dear saint in glory, whose blameless life anew, them would be a bright beacon to guide them on that dark road whieh we must all tread one dae. Perhaps there ism, ironV se caustic as the irony of events I A great spiritual lord was looming in the distance, the notfardistance, --who evould he in mist things what the good 'folk of Blankhampton had wished in him who had just left them ; a big heavy -jowled Man of great dignity of bearing, ponderous and arrogant, a patron of Christianity rathee than a serveut of Christ ; a man who would /nuke it rule of being pronnnent among his people, who would be their superior in things of earth as well as in things of heroven, a man who would seldom try tol,o affable aced if he did would invariably make all beholders -wish fervently that he would not, a man of the world worldly, a Bisluns of Society, not the society of his own See but that portion :of the world which is called the" Upper Ten Thousand," and is commonly spelt with a captial 8. .As yet, however, Blankhampton was en. troubled by the personel attributes of Bi• shops still to tome; it mourned him who was just gone, and over the Palace wherehe had held gentle sway during nearly fifteenhappy and peaceful years there still hung the diin shadow of his departed presence, a cloud of sweeten and wos. It was not generally known that Bishop 'Trevor, as already they had begun to call him, had every romantic history. The little world of Illankhampton knew that be had been celled early to the dignity of the Beneh, that he had married a lady of title immedi- ately on his taking up Ms new office, a lady who had once been beautiful and young but who was then some tive or six and thirty years old. They had seemed very happy together and after two years Lady Constance bore her lord a son, and in giving birth to the child her own meek and gentle life had slipped away, The child flourished and throve apace ; the nurse who had charge of bin, was in time succeeded by a governess and the gov- erness by a tntor, aucl when Jack Tre- vor was a little over twelve years old the Bishop, after many months of intense suffering, died, and no other mistress had ' ever come to take the place of the gentle middle-aged bride who had come home to the Palace nearly fifteen years before. So innoli did Blankhampton know of the whispered with a blush. "betty Oascoigne- ' began the Bishop, wheu od.e stepped hiul. "I eu emit say nothing -I see it all, she etAd. "You (hall talk to Lord Om:coigne presently, Will you give me yone arm down the staies 1" It was not usual tor them to go down with ceremony at that hour, and Lady Gascoigue never felt the net rd an arm at any Otte, but during the fee" steps they took together, the Bishop understood that it wits all right and that hie new honours had made the way smooth end easy for him. And the Bishop gave the intelligent James a couple of sovereigns before be left the house, to the further enlightenment of that Median ary. Well in due time they were married and the bride went clown to Blankliampten. I do not know what the good folk there had ex- pected or desired, tut Lady Constan . e Tre- ovr did not impress herself Very onech upon them. Perhaps the dil not try to do no Anyway, 10 10 certain that when she slipped quietly out of life nobody seemed to think that an irreparable loss had fallen upon the 13ishop-4hey thought it was a pity that the baby, poor little thing, had not gone too, and they. In/0e sure that the bereaved hushand would marry again when the year was over, and if they did not say it, they most of them thought that it was to be hoped he would marry a more energetic woman uext tMle, Mit they knew notlimg of a terrible hour when the gentle Bishop had knelt beside his dying wife's bed, when he had watched the life that was all the world to him, quickly ebbing away, " Canty, Canty," -he Mu! al- ways (tailed her Conty--" dont leave 100 - don't leave me," lie can't. " Dear Eddy," she aeswered, " I thiuk I have to go ".-it was, oh ! such a faint, faint voice-" But I'll wait in Heaven for you mil -awl -you'll have the chill" hIi1 come as you leave zee, Conty," cried Ito poor Bishop in an agony of grief, with the tears streaming down his face. " That is M your hands, darling,"ehe said tenderly. It was soon over after that, and Blank. hampton waited and waited for a new mis- tress to reign at the Palace waited and waited in vain ; no other woman ever came to supplant the love of his youth, the dear wife of his days of success, and Edward, Lord Bishop of 131ankhampton, ots lie had -matter but no more. They did not know promised went, when his thne mane, to seek a)eatmany and many a year ago a eon of the his Conty the other world, as she had left then Lord. Trevor had married for love and hint in this one. in defiance of his father, and that their Bis- hop was the only ohill of that marriage - that he lived in poverty and educated his "only son no one knew how; that Edward Teevor had won scholarships as a boy, hail worked himself through a 'Varsity career CHAPTER IL enn, aNn Boy. "A boy's win is the wind's will." Sunday came and went I An immense congregation gathered in the Parish -es the sethotzt costing his father a penny beyond Cathedral is familiarly called in Illankhamp. eels modest tailor's bill,that he had work ed on , ton -to do the last honours to the dead Irom point to point, until he beceme head 1 Bishop, and to listen to the address of eulogy anaster of a great public school, and that as which was given by the Dean. ayoung man he had met and worshipped In one eoruer of the Palace pew sat Lady her who afterwards became his wife, and • Gascoigne -the Countess Dowager now - /dared not ask her to marry him, partly be- cause he had his own parents to support in their older years and partly because Lady Constance's people were such as would not Iwillingly hear of their loveliest daughter -marrying into what for her position would .3;:e dire poverty. Yet Lady Constance had given all her heart to the straight -limbed gentle -eyed young parson, who had mover set eyes on the head of hishouse or seeu the home of his .anoestors, and one gay or lordly lover miter another went sadly away with "no" for an an - Nver,and all the best years of her life wont by waiting for what she had no hope might ever come to pass. Dear, clear, what tender romances there are sometimes in lives that seem tooth outer world both common -place mul uneventful, It happened ono fair June morning that Lady Constance had been driv. ing with her mother. They had been to see her youngest married sister - they were all married except Constance -and my hody, the 'Countess, had been expatiating on the sin- gularity of Constance remaining so long a spinster, "I menet tell how it is, Connie," shesaid, "you musthove been hard to please -Margrect will not compare with you loe an instant and she never was half so agreeable or eo sweettempered, and yet she is the Marchioness of Ormsby and you are Constance Gascoigne yet," "I suppose I woos hard to please, clear Mother," answered Lady Coestance, smthng softly as her heart flew to a greet publics school -which she had never seen -where he ruler' supreme. "Not but that I should miss you dread- fully, Connie," my lady went on tenderly, ''buti I don't like to see Margaret's little airs and greees anti—' "Never inincl, dear Mother," said the other smiling broadly now, They reached home a moment later, a handsome house in Grosvenor Square, iota a tall servant in livery came to meet them, "There is a gentleman, my lady," he said -"the Bishop of Blankhampton-he asked for Lady Constance," "I will go to him-" mid Leery Conetance. ""I daresay it is abont the Home of Rest. You'll come, wan% yon, Mother ?" "Presently detor, Cerry tny books into the library, James." The daughter went upstairs and the mother went into the library, "Shall 1 ley another cover for lunch, my lady 1",Jarn os enquired. 1‘.1 think not, Jamie. We don't know the Bishop of Blanithampton." "Pardon me, my lady," James answered, -"but he Moe been here several times. 100 snit to be Dr. Trevor," "Dr. Trevor---" and then hor ladyship sat clown and stared tot the servant with ail her °yea 'the 13ithop of —Really, weeping copiously, as much ouL of genume affection for him who was gone as for the penile" remembrances of her deer lost daughter which the past week had brought back to her. And in the other oorner-his accustomed placte-sat young Otoseoigne Trevor, more commonly known as " Jack." That service was a terrible ordeal for the boy! He was only thirteen yeers old, and the pew apportioned to the Palace MILS like the corresponding one belonging to the Deanery, to prominently placed that its occupants were the observed of all observers. Every sob that escaped his grandmother's li s tore his heart afresh with an agony that was tolmost past bearing, But onbothsidos lie had COMO of a proud stock; he had inherited the blood which tan go to the etake with s smilo and tvill accept triumph or ruin without so 111U011 as 010 quiver of a single muscle. Ho could not keep back the tears which woeld force their way from under his unwilling eye -lids, but he would have died before he would have lifted a hand to wipe them newly I And when all was over he had to face the ordeol of passing down the crowded nava between the molts of eager spectatore, each one seeming more anxious than another to get a good look at tne Countess and the Bishop's only son. What do you say, my Reader ? That you don't believe that any one would linger at such a time to gaze at the fresh grief of the »ewly bereaved I Wel), all I can say is that young .Tack Trevor knew 13Iankhampton better Cum you do I Ile, poor boy, re -called clearly mough, the time two years before when the old Dean had died, when the people in their anxiety to miss nothing of such raree.show as three heart -broken girls, bad not hesitated to climb the three steps which led to the Deanery pew o,nd hong on to the door so as to get a really staisfying look at the sobbing crape.shrouded figures dill kneeling with thmr faces hidden in their hands I fio Jack knew well enough that there woe no escape for him, and he gave his slight young arm to his zranitmother and passed. steadily through the throng of people, his face pale ae death, his eye"( dimmed with tears, yet with his head well up in air, a boy with the heart of a man I The 'Bishop had left his eon to the guardian. ship of his undo, Lord Chtscoigne, oouplocl evith a wish that he should spend as much time with his grandmother, Lady Gascoigne, au that lady arid Jaok himself should wish. 'el should liko him to be as mttoh with yen as poesible," ho had read to Lady coigne the week before his death. "Ho is a good boy, very brave and tretliful, told I don't think you will find him meth trouble." "rolciwttril," meld the old Count:wig steadily "Jaek is the Very light of my old ago -my 4114'108f Lonnie s boy whom she hart KW Art you you have surprised the. Certainly another my, he is bravo ano tru ful ; but if he were not 11 he were hcrerld, es many bby uf his loge core, 1 ovould still carry oetal yoer wishes if redy eut of my gratitude t yeti for hayieg lemothe beni, of lutslond to my girl and bw it haviimput melt. women lot her phew," now thought te Rid. persieted the old lady, " inau men would have thought of it, most nom would have thought ttf it fer after itw lase ( mime, you must have beet:often lonel and wretched, )lany a num tveuld hat' 9 The ready tears began to fill the chilffl looety eyee, '' Oh ! dash," she eried-thei o le" to midden impniee she ilung her arm s ;them him ala held up her sweet little fac r 0:: his. Dear, ,fflar :leek," she satl--"but wen't, you want him droodfully ifor yeu self 1" Vc 111111%.8fty 1 8114i1," Jack outwore, 1 with m boy's delightful cumlour-"tti e Cm:miles is very fond fa you met hell married agoun became Um empty bee wa too geievoue 101)50 nevee thought of it," repented th Bishop and even Olt% lie aid 110i tel her of that lasi. ata promise he had mad hit Cmty 1 that was e. thieg betiveen bin and her too seeped to repeat even to he mother Well, Lady Omeoigne and Juek went imel le the Palaee and toed to eat a miserahl meal, ended in the old Comore going oirto her own room to keep quiet unti time for the afternoon service at the Parish and (leek Nauru and wretehed, not, liking to go to the stablee, Its was usual with hin after humheon on Sundays, found Meisel somehow walking slowly and ainilesele through the West (Meilen, :Now the IA est Cowden WBS one of th prettiest bits about the Pidace Jtock's mo t her had loved it, and the Bishop heti been ne euetotned to spend moony hours pacing slowly up end down its iwatly-kept pathwees think 105 111 his sermons and his addresses to the young -thinking often too of her who had so often walked there hand in hauft with him. So Jack, hallowed by thonghts (4 him for whom his grief %vas yee fresh, found himself AmIking among the brightheed flower beds towards the hauk a the river. Aud as he %yolked a voice called to him soft- ly- " ack," it said-" Jack." :reek Trevor geickeeed hi$ footsteps no he hood it. " Is it you, Ethel ?" he answered. The garden at this point ended in to nay- reW ehubbery, which 10 its turn led into a rip rd meadow -hind which ran te the bank (,1 the river. A little wooden gate led from this shrubbery to the meadow, and tot this gate when Jack, reached it he found the owner of the voice standing. " Oh Jack 0e01," sbe cried, "1 wanted ao to see you -I did wiite, We are so sorry, Jack, so sorry all of us. And I WII.S ill OM PariS11 tiliS morning, Jack, and I cried all the time," " Let's go amid sit on the bank, Ethel," said Jack holding out his baud. So together they went, Jack and his/cloud Ethel, and sat down on the river's bank in the bright August sunshine, and as jack set with his hand in hers --tot because they were by way of being sweethearts or in the habit of showing endearments towards one another, but ray and solely because Jack was in trouble -he began in sotne indefinable way 10 be comforter). His grandmother had toed with all her heart to comfort him, it is true, hut with Indifferent success, far every tear and. sob that escaped her lady- ship had only seemed to rive the heart of the boy more cruelly. Lady thoscoigue was big, , and so -to sloppy, yes, I know 11'0 a vulgar I word, yet nothing else seems to express her ' so well. Her tears wore so ready to flow, her tongue was incessant, her reminiscences agonising, Ethel leas difibrent, she was so gentle and so pretty, she hood known the Bishop everso much better than his mother- in.law had done, She mourned for hitt with all her true and tender childish heart, yet tears did not have the effect of flurrying her %elude face as always happened with Lady (mac:mole-teen only made her eyes look like forget.tne-nots Mier a shower of ram. " Mother says, Jack," said Ethel present - t oat eon trill be going away from the Pelage now." 505 I am going to live with 113y grand- mother," he answered. "In London?" "Will you never come back to Blan ahamp- ton again ?" "Oh ! yes, some day." It was a subject On whlch jUSt then Jack was very loth to enter ; bee if the very young are good comforters, sometimes they prove themselves unconscious inquisitors of the first degree. All uncon• sciously Ethel went on. " \Yhen do you think, Jack ?" "I don't know. I shall mime back when I have a chance. I should have had to 50next month iu any ease." "Yes," Ethel sighed -"Boys do hare to go to sehool-but I missed you awfully last year ; and I shall miss you now, I know." happier down hero than he would be it oJaek," said h..1litel, "I will take care o rInfutlin1al,,11T'11°';too.':ovil:11;11",1 been ten years olde 1 he would have had a tender little remark tc e make thew -"Happy Crummice," or some O thing of that kind; es it was he rather rough ✓ ly-Mr him - ,lisc'egagc d lihneelf front elo tender elasp (,1 the elingieg arms, and tor c himself tovay Willi ell a hoy's aversion to any e thing approauhing te01 seem', s "Olt 1 iaresity Lruettoolo t'etI ttotnl, he'l 1 itet a very good time," he said gruffly, thei , went bath to 1 tv Mace through the 8/11.1/1) bery and the Woe thorclee, leinkieg hard tt I keep the tears which wood(' come into his f eyes, from falling. • When lie reached the house he found the carriage at the door and Lady 1 Inseoigne e just coming clown the stairs, lotting oh 1 no large and so hot in her voluminous crape. • laden garments that the ltt,y's heart fairly , sank within him at the prospect of eitting - through &pother Nervier: at the Parch, However, happily the afternoon service at the Parish is not a very long one -just the evensong and an anthem, and while his grandmother 10:05 settling herseli in the ear. liagu. Jack had time to rep upstairs and hello Rene cold water into hie Arash•Inisin, into whielo he plunged bis quivering fate, A ;,cocai rub with a neigh towel made him look , almost himself egain, lona in two minutes he hail brushed Ids fair hair into a smooth wave aeross his head and was downstairs • agaiu. And the Parish was fuller than it had been in the morning even :1)011 11.1111 women were strouling three .leep lathe broad centre aisle, ana fit groups about the centers of the state. ly ohl peooe, and as mem as Lady Claseoigne and Jack were seatea, a verger came to to$k in an egonized whisper whether he might 1111 up the temainiug stalls in their pew toe usual? Lady Gee:hie:1e assented, ofcourse.-she had a hooey crape veil behind which to bide her mare -mei immediately three newt yoeng soldiers were put between her and .Jack. Jack was thankful. He knew them all, Moil seen them ttt his father's troble several times (Ind he Ithew that they would Dot stare at ben unmercifelly as three women would have done. However, the service passed off better then noight have been expected. Lady thoseoigne clid not begin to weep until theanthem began; even then she only wept softlyand noiseless- ly. 'The ernes of the righteous are in the hands of (toil And there shall no torment tench them, ,Tn Toe sight of the nowise t itt uem 10 (lie ; Alld lhstr clepart ere 1 tekeh fur misery, but they are in peace." Theo iollowedSpolir's "1 llest are the de- parted,' and thee the yongreption subsid. ed into 1.11(11` seats while the offertory \511,8 collected. In is than ten munites after that Saab was leadmg his grandmother through the crowd once more , and the dreadful day of piffle suffering was over. Looking leek in after years'Jack Trevor ahvays declared that his reel boyhood end - °d on that day, that he then became rt man in reality' although he had but the form of a boy. In truth at that thne he was his grrondmother s chief stay and comfort. And it was well that it Gascoigne, loeing I of gout, had not "You will have Mary Btornfylde—" he began. ' "Yes -but Mary Banifylde likes dolls." with conteinpthous empluosis on the word, and she screams if she sees a rat, and a womp sends her out of her mind. She cloesn't know how to bait it fish-hook nor climb a tree nor -nor anything !" "Oh! well, Mary is a duffer, there's no doubt about it," jack said in a tone of quiet conviction -"There's Dolly Tennant -she's no good, she's such a mean little thing ; end there is Lucy Vivian, she isn't much better, Well really, Ethel, unless you can pot up with the Lawrences, I clon't see what you will do." "I can't bear the Lo.wrences," cried Ethel. 'They'll be better than nothing," said Jack -"amid when I get my holidays perhaps Mrs, Morditunt will ask me do ,en hero -toed I'll tell you what I'll do, Ethel, I'll ask Granny to invite you to stay with us in Lon. don or W1I000V01. we are," "Will you, Jack ? 011 ! that will be lovely. I know Mother will ask yon down here -I'll get her to ask Ltody Cboscoigne be- fore she goes. I know she will." "So in Intehnlyet eager V0i088, the children laid thew plans for the future, and presettly a servant caste in search of Ethel. "reliss Ethel," he said, breaking in upon their talk -"the onistress has gone to g ready for servile." "Yes 111 come in James, thank you," Ethel answered -she was a very polite little son!, whom the servants about the CMG worshipped. "Aro you going to service, Jack ?" she asked as James Owned away. 0111 yes." "Is Lady Gamoig•ne going ?" "Yes -at least I believe so," Ethel pressed a little 'lower to him, "jack," she said in an a%vedvoice-"Waen't it awful this morning 1" Jaek could not, her', shiveri»g in spite of the bright sunshine which was (streaming down upon them, "Yes, if, was -horrible," he answered. " People thenk it interesting to eeo any 000 tronble," said Ethel, with unconsoious irony-" and inetead of looking. the other way, as they ought to, they atom as if it ems peepshow" " Yes," said. Jack. Moro was a moment's silanee-alreeuly they were walking along the pa:downy rum ning through the shrubbery which divided. the Wane grounds froin the grottoes of the CHIN and os they reached tho little gets thietigh which .rames had juse rood, jack turned to his friend, Ethel," he etold-" look here -Ian going to leave yott my bull -pup." was so ; for her son, Lord aid tipnit,,fith a bad attack been e to go clown to Illankluompton even for the funeral, end, eecessarily, it was imperative for the execu- tors to lose no time in ananging the 13iSh op's Weirs and in deciding which of his belong- ingswere to he kept for his son anti whit:lover° to be sold, as be had directed, by auction. But at the end of a week Lady Gaseoigne had arranged almost everything, hacl scapftr. toted the pretty modern furniture which the dead Bishop end Conty lad bought, from the stately suites of carved oak, bleak tond shining with the polish of years, which be. longed to the Palace, she had set aside all the most valuable of her daughter's wedding presents and all her jewellery, antitheft had been packed ready to be taken to her house in London. The horses were all delivered over to the tender mercies of a local dealer and were to be sold during tho following week, with the exception of a particularly leondsome grey cobwhich had been for several years a great favorite of the Bishop's and which Lady Gaseoigne thouptwould besuit. able for Jack to ride. And last but certain. ly not least, the evening before Jack and Lady Gaseoigne were to leave the Palace, the boy went over to the Cliff° to take Commies, the Mill -pup to his new home and mistress. "You know, Jack," said lethol's mother, "I really don't think- a bull.pup is quitc the dog for a little girl of ten years old -but Ethel has set her heart upon Crummles so I suppose I must give in." "Oh ! yee, Mother," cried Ethel. "Oh 1 yet, Mrs. Mordaunt," echoed Jack vistfully. It was perhaps a little hard on him I. lave his porting gift to his old playfellow ond friend regarded in the light of a person- al favour towarde him rather than from him, He had given Ethel his clearest possession, 1, bull -pup of the tette Match= strain, 110 lad offered it after a fierce struggle with ihnself, and had with difficulty kept him. elf from going back on his word, giving as a pretext his doubt that Crumudes would ettle 111 0 now home or the coachman's feat hat the clog was notyeb over the distemper, And then to have his precious pup received ne if lie were being .gtven a grudging homs ut of charity to lum and kindness to thr iver I Well, it was hard, and that ha viten grown-up people are often so stupid nd so unseehig. If Mrs. Morditunt had enlisted the depth of unselfishness and lability which had their home within young nek Trevor's bosom, lier lino of notion tont that clay would have been so different hat this etory probahly could never have een written for the simple mem that it vould not lutve been there to write. As it vas she heel yielded to Ethel's entreaties nd understood nothing that was going en it thc boy's heart. Ethel dicl, but at that noment Ethel hardly counted, Jack only MOW that the wae tho pluckiest little chum ra Mel over had. "He's a nice boy," mid Mrs. Mordattnt to ler husband a little later -"but really I am ot altogether soery that he is going away, lthotigh it is true that we shall never get ech to neighbour its the dear Bishop again. 110 10015! 18 getting toe wild as a hawk, tore like a boy than a girl." "She might be worse," remarked Major Mordaunt, who had always been n !pent riond of .Jaelt Trevorai-othe boy ]e as meat as the day and as pluelcy as—" "Oh I yes, yes," lois wife broke in -"Ing• hero are other things to consider in a girl's raining than those," "Wm," mettered the Major -"I don't =OW so mtich about that -honesty and luck melte a very docent ground work-Ve -ry decent, my bee" (se eic maseitOntel,) e), 18 YOUNG FOLKS, TACIU ()Weide the wind was howling am though 101 the bad ooit imliffevent smelts litel leen he loose, loud were holding o carnival In mid nice The ehutt ore r01 Ilo a ; tho hoot mealy against tin; window panes; the 11.00.1 creaked and moulted, end deal' long, Imre breuelem mute straggling ropiest the house with a creeping, grating sauna that was un- canny. Nut ineide all was light and warmth. A Might fire glowing in thc, grate sent rays of ligh t and 001...0 of warmth into the corners of the rootn; the ellr1R1118 were drawn, and everything 1ooket1 bright ttnd homelike here, in spite of " wind ana weather, Jo foot of the fire, on low ottomans, and neetling m the hoorth rug, wets four grave liOde f011(8, fillently gazing inth the fire, As silence Wal4 llUt their strong point, there was something remarkable In it. " Why, what, is the matter with my pots tliat 1:re so quiet ? Holding to Quaker intoting" 0 papa:papa I Have yon come? When did you come 9 1'm so glad ; so glad ; so glad. ' Such a clime of screeches end screems ; such an avalanche of kisses and begs as be. fell ma. I was soon eomfortably etucconeed by the fire, and then said : " Well, why was the immn so quiet when I entered?" " 0, papa, Bess said she was afraid, and believed there were ghosts around -I here WO113 SUCh singular 110100S 011tS11.10.1 didn't belleVO her thoegh, and told her she wee a goose. Don't you think so too 9" replied Jack. " But what made you so quiet ?" " 0 we were jutt kind rethinking it over, you know." " So my little Bessie thinks there aro ghosts abont does she 9 What put that into her head 9" '0, peoa it is smelt a dreadful eight; and this alt ernoon jack read such a dreadful st(I.Y.L'S 1 blaster Jerk again I And he is the youeg 011111 who has been calling Ins sister a goose because she was nervous. I told you not to read such stories to yew. sisters," " IL wasn't so very had, and I didn't suppose she would be so silly as to get frightened over it. She didn't say a word until night. But I'm sorry, and DI promise net to do no again. And now, papa, please tell us a stooge won't you ? It will make Bess forget what a 140, it is." '‘.0 pepa, please do !" chimed in all the rest, " I clon't believe Jack meant to to naughty ; don't scold him any more," came softly from the region 51my shoulder. And WB 010 W11,110 II story. " But I've told you every story I ever read, heard, dreamed or manufactured, over and over again." "0, papal, you surely havn't," piped up Jack, " Tell us it real true story about when you were a boy. Tell us abont the wolves. I've heard you say there 15 ere wolves around here when you were small." "0 papa, please not that kind ofactosittc.neyr tomight (Incu d ft rly head nestle down on my glint -Oder. "It sounds as if there is a whole pack of wolves around the house now," " Pooh 1 Bess is rofreid again. I tell you I'm glad I ain't a girl. Nothing will hurt you Bess ; go on with n, wolf story, papa said the irrepressible Jack, as he described several somersaults on the hearth rug. " What a little heathen you aro Jaelc What other unpleasant thing besides ghosts and wolves wilt you think of ? How unbe- coining ft is for you to tumble about in such a style iu the presence of your sisters 1 And Bessie clear, if I tell the boys of the wolves (although Jack doesn't deserve anything) Otto story will not be very terrible, Wolves are not as terrible as many sup- pose, In fact, a silt& wolf rarely attacks humankind, and a little child would not be in great danger from a loue wolf. It is only in the winter when they am in packs and nearly starved that they attack human beings. A single wolf, when not hungry, is a very cowardly, sneaking sort of an tonim. "Well, I don't mind hearing of them if they never ate any one," said Bessie, rais- in her head. "They most certainly clicl not eat any orm -or at least not to my knowledge in this part of the country, although they ate a ember of seeep. "The &milers used to build high slanting fences around the stook yards, within which they kept the sheep nights, along with the mottle, Then when Mr. Wolf got into the en. elneere,which he sometimes did, he could not get back over the high fence sloping inward. Then the cattle, thinking him a stray dog, would kill him, or at least keep Min from hurting the sheep. "One learning my father came in and re- ported that auto large sheep wits dead out by the tarn- killed by a wolf. Father set temps for that wolf, but never caught him, When your go andfather first come to this et/entry (on A -di 1st, 1701) this pretty valley was merle eovered with woods, the only clear seotsa ing Indian corn patches here and there. It en the woods were full of animals, Beers D., cl wolves wore abun- dant, and deer roamed "earlessly about. As I was the youngeet. of a large family, Otto country was partially deared in my earlier recollectioe, and most of the wild animals wore gone ; but I have heard my father tell a meat, many stories dills adven- tures. The impotent% Jack here burst in c "I wish I had livocl then 1 I would have just slayed the wolves and beam and deers. That woeld have been (list glorious. What fun boys must have had then I" "Yes, they used to have some fun them as all boys do ; but they had to work molt harder then than you do now, and did not have so many privileges." " But didn't you ever see any bears or wolves yourself, papa 9'' Jaok asked in to disappointed tone. "I thought you were going to tell us about what you had seem" " Yes, I've soon to great many wolves-" "There !that sounds rather more like it," murmured Jade "And their thins hacl scalloped red flan. nel borders." "What I" (ma a curly head popped up Suddenly from the shoulder it was keeping straight. "What funny wolves they muse havebeen, Was you co little boy when you saw them t" " Come now, papa," exppetulroted leek, "thet ain't fair, You're just a teasin' fellow, Ib story at oIt; and I shall go upstairs and 'read. Must stories two to great deal more interesting than this, Besides, you never saw any meth wolvcs ; you SW (Ally their skins." "Well, if it will clo you any good, 1 een tell you that 1 have scet to wolf --a real live four.logged wolf-- otteride to menegorit, One ran moron my road when I evae to little clinic ping to school, We had a long way to go to school, and part of the way eves through the woods. (Inc menden ae we %yore raolug oolong, juott tut we readied thie Ocoee of woods, a leg fellow bounetel ,ett rd. raw side, and diseppeared in the thieltet :ao the other side," " 1 Melly, peen, I What am you do..." 100Os',1,,t48 INvi.(14oicli1:11i):" ran nitmg 1 -1 0 ,01 ° '.“ "Well, tlitot wee a. pretty Oleg to ,Ie ! I jest wish I'd been there," " What %mild you Mom dent, davit I" "I slinuld have followed right eftee him, if 1 houl Immo in your ahem." "if I (death' have done so, 1 wenld ;web. affly be following him yet; fee he ran er) Met 1110V01. 0011k1 Move caught tip 0)1)1 1 hen you wouldn't Imre had auy father or story uil,l'"I'ice got the hither, but 1 don't know about the etory. Didn't they lutes any Ware when you were small No, the wild bears were toll gone then. But there were plenty of dem' ; ana whet pretty creatures they were I They usea to come in our fields and eat the whoett, c,f which they wore very fond ; and they teced te cheek at the over not far from out house. We used to kill them to tat -vent son is very Mee meat. I was quite n. hod when I killed my first deer, and how prond I was of it, Mo. An old lady who visited us, sometimes, had a tame deer that fol- lowed her about liko a flog. She W1US vevy fond of her pot, sua luta a bell fastened to its neck, so that 110 one would kill itby mistake. She got it when it was a little fawn and raised it herself ; so when she BLUM) to our Il0l180 the deer always followed her, etaying in the plea until sho WRS reedy to go horns Occaelonally it would como lop and peep in at, the windows, to see if she %ens there yet ; and then a f ter findina that she was malty there, the deer would' lie down, awaiting the appearance of her mistress, as quiet as a kitten. "It seems strange how you 0B11 (101110Sti. cate wild animals'simply by being kind to them, Even Otto Sons! of dumb brutes be- come manageable and fond of you, if you are only kind to them. "Another of out, neighbors luta a tatne bear, which was captured when 0 mere cub. That bear was 101000 friendly fellow. Ono morning an uncle of yours was eleoppieg, when something CILIlle Up from behind, and catching Mame its huge arms, gave hon a vigorons hogging. "He naturally thought it loose wild bear, and nearly tore his clothes off in to struggle to got away. When he got loose and seized his an to strike the hear, ha saw a stmp around i te neck, and knew it was e tatno bear, that had broken its chain and left for Ole woods. Your uncle W011iii101118 and Rent word to the owner of the bear, who camo and took him home. 1 remember seeing throe bear come down the road one morning following his master like a little dog. That was when he was m cub -before he gave you uncle that hearty embrace, And when he got, opposite oar house, our big dog rushed out and frightened lum to that be climbed to tree : and I had to take the dog to the house hefore his master eoula coax him down. .rtna when he came down, he went cowing along the veil fence ; mail he wae quite a distance from the house, before he venturett upon the ground. 1 "I'mars are very fond of milk, and this one 1 wits 00 exception to the rule. One day ton I old woman passed him with a pale of milk ; , Mr. Bruin walued up with her to, lois hind [ legs grasped the pail in Ms fore -paws, took ie away from her, and drank up 111) milk. , 1 'Itis queer how to bear walks on his hind feet, and carries burdens in m his ars "Arms, papa?"." I " Well, you little pee, in hts fore -paws, 1 I er's yard and carried off n, full grown pig ; then. Delve heard your grandfather tell about a huge bear that tameto inhis fath- walked off with it in his arms --leg pardon, Ins fore -paws -as if it had been a baby. Right in the day time, too. How the poor pig did squeal and cry ; but ats my grand- mother -your great.grandmother was there mime, she had to let itim go, Prob- ably if your grandfather had been there, „NIL Bruin would not have gotten off so easily with his booty, " Your grandfather was out hunting one day, W110111)0 met a very: largo bear. He fired and Melte one of its shoulders. He had no more bullets and he knew not what; to do. What would you have done in his place, Jack 9" " I don't Icnow papa ; what did he do ?" "He tried to Flash powder in his eyes and blind him, so that, he could get near (though to kill him with a club. But the bear was so furious with the pain, that your grand- father had to got out of his way. The next clay he and another man with a pock of dogs went later the bear. They found !Amender the roots of an old tree and killsaiiiem, Y " ou know bears were v The moat was good to eat end the skin and oil were both useful. "Now I think WC have had quite bears enough ; and you little folks meat all go to bed." An Extraordinary Phenomenon. A correspondent of the Manchester Ecc- amine?. wrote frotn Choy/ton on August 8, callingattention to "the magnificent menon of Tuesday night last (eth inst.), which appeared in the northern heavens, Returning from tits direction of Choviton Orem towards Koppel Road, one's eye wits entranced as with amegie spell by one of the most beautiful eights: woe witnessed. I have had the pleasure of seeing a goodly nnmber of heavenly or solar sights, but few, if any, suepassing this one. The object must surely have been more than morenothingtiess, It wtos first noticed to the right of ancl above Ursa Major, shot downwerds tot huge hall of firo, then apparently nearing the lets° of the 'Pointers,' burst with a vivid display of variously °aloe mod sparks, letoviug behind itt apperently-the distenoe of the one 'pointer' to the other -a streak arbor, about the length of and resembling the throe bright eters often called the 'Yercbstiole in the 'Hunter's Girdle' ' part of the beautiful eon. stellation Orion, the bar itself being clotted the whole length with little diarnends of varied brillianoe, 'which continued for the Emma of between fifty and sixty seem& quite distanat, then gracbuolly, one after the Miler, along the bee tos it were clyi»g out. Sticeeeding this there Was quite a thick kind of nebulafor some ten minutes over and around the seen°, similar to a portion of the 'Milky Way,' which gradually laded toway, leaving to clear patch behind ie. Tho heavens monied the scone were most brilliantly lighted up for sole° time, The time of ob. eorvation was from 117 r, atexact to 11,22, or fifteen minutosand the occasion ono long to be remembered, and Mcleod strikingly con. firming the beentifel words of tolio Psahnise -The Heavens declare the glory of God ; and the fireitoment showethHis handiwork," Stick to Kw MAI. Right actions spring from right principles. In oases of diarrlicea„dysentery, (mem eolie, summer complaint, cholera morbus, eta, the right remedy is Vowler's Igxtraet of Wild Strawberry, -an ;Wailing cure - ;mule on the principle that natures remedies 000 best, Never truvol, without it.