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DICK'S SWEETHEART, mane might have been fauna again,
atd. the dear gather of all•would have
forgiven her sine. She had been wicked
perhaps-yes,often; but indeed she had
tried to be goodonly there is eo much
always to be longed for hero, although
so little to be gained.
" To live lie we should always die,
It worse goodly Mt 111;
To change low IoU or Mese
No better change IS made.
For all wortaiy things am vain,
Ili them there 15 no trust t
We see all things weds remelt!.
And then they change to dust."
How still it goowI How long the
shadows lie Alreaciv Apollo has tend;
in a crimsou glory h'elaind the neareet
How. quickly the eters are counng
Out to deck the summer sky ! Is it as
being behind those stars that they dre tee
of her at home? Has even Dick come
to think of her a8 (lead ? 011, dear, dear
Dick ! Did he know how *dm loved him
-that it was for him -to save him from
the dull burning pain that will live in
her own heart for evor-that loft
all, all?
• A dry but passionate sob breaks from
her. It seems to agitate all her delicate.)
frame. The eager longing of her spirit
ie almost past control as she (1300118 on
What is and what might have been, had
nob those past days, so rich in gladuesa,
been overshadowed by so cruel a cloud.
With a little gesture full of dompair,
she turns as though to go Marion. lier
sudden movetuene prevents 33 yonitg
man, who for a long time has ineet
watching her in a nervous anxiety that
hes checked his desire to advance, from
fa1Ijm. heel< into the shadow of the ever
greehe behind hire. Thus surprised, he
wisely steeds still, and lets his longing
eyeli seek hers. '
Teen (*31 10 a, moment she seee
Her mind flies' back from distaut
thoughts of him to the knowledge that
he is here before her, standing over
there in this most blessed twilight.
Ho comes quickly np to her and holds
out his arms, an agony of love upon his
face. She runs to him; she Hines her
13y the )*it 331 of "Monsen T111N'411100;"
13].,;1•s, 4,35113 1/11101.30001{14 3' 13kill,131$;"
"MI01,1.11 DAWN," ETC,
what '1,15 3.0144331 38'43 lflll 0111Z0G be My
young beetthe your pardon sir -
but I hey*, so Mita, to do that spare mo-
nients is almost unknown to me, An old
geritloinen lives at the cottage; very
charitable he be, though given to eon-
tary habits, ale never inixin' with the
neighboure round; an' so X thought as
" Yes, I'll go there," save Bonverie.
Turning in his Saddle, he smiles down
at her. Then is a briglitnees in hls
facm she hos not seen there before -a
Hort of %menu unsatisfactory hope that
11358 0011310134 in it,
" Why, there now -I'm glad to Nee
you Snlile at me," meys the kindly. Then
-" Go 'oar waee." elle .eay.S. waving
him onwards., " au' I'll pray Heaven
you may 1)33.30 snme'at bettor than me
100Mile you 11001 5 our bed this
night."
CNA PTT.I
Tho dying 03111 18 glinting through the
waving trees, casting warm ',atones of
light upon the mosey sward, There is
110 semi I13/00 the calm evening air save
the MUrittlir 01 the etrnarn and the gen.
V° movemen14 of the boogie.> and grasses.
.1431301 here tee lewe is lost in a dense
shadow caet by the bea nailing 1110305 11133311
grow Jew down until tbeir drooping
leaves ree oh even to the witterei bosom.
The inexplieable sweetness of the air,
the softness, the purity of tone, the•
depth of the greenuess that lies within
that charmed range of firs npon the
right hand, who shall give voice to it
sal 311 45 indeed a perfect evening, a
31133011110 low erabrauce of 33 01101333 perfect
3341131111,0.
"Screens cv,,wn of soerew is remembering
lespolsr things." innocent arms around his neck, and
Dolores, etamliug in the foreground of 1 allege to 11101 as it tired child might
this Lamming picture, with her hands cling who iu ite weariest hour has re-
cleeped listlessly before her, looks 5.31 gaine*1 its parent's breast.
thenah her pale 30n1133 head has boell No tears fall froneeler ; j wor'l es.
capes hor. She liee within 13113arms
guiesceut, her breath hardly seems to
pass her lips.
"131 darling, my soul!" exeleirris the
young man, with imonntrellable 011131•
tion. " Speak to 111., let me hear your
voiee!"
As though the Round of the well -loved
'1011031 has power to rouse her, she dim
within his arms, and a heavy sigh es-
capes her. leer a, moment she regeens
consciousness.
"13311138 beeu a long, long time! ' sho
are el meting their WWI vml, bet 3311 1311. whispers, so feintly that he has to stoop
leseeed by her. Her ttionghis aro far to hear hole
;noun) rut memories of I e Toe long!" reberns he, with vshe.
les or him! e monee,
Her gee: is fixed upon that tiny speck Ho might perhaps have 88111 03018. but
or the great ocean that shows clearest Isomething-WM Slight lessening 01 111311
theough the break in this beeth.treee. I hold of the gentle arms --tells bun the
Is she thinking of a ?lay now gone, when truth. Geeing with aneions haste into
she walked hand in han1 with one roost her face, he sees that she has fainted.
dear to her atom, n., gleaming there, a Lifting his shedowy burden and hold-
ing it eloso to his heart. 13031033010 13310005
towards the house. fielding thus the
thing he loves best iu the world, he
learns with a bitter pang of sorrow how
light) his burden is -so light that 114 33331
hardly so be called. flow white she
looks -how 811113 314 it only 11103011.
LIT/WA ; her ewe -toot30 elae, and worn, 1 solonsness, or is With a 100k of
and tee full of spiritu-lity for this gross terror upon his fano, he lias'ens his f03ot-
(...1-11 1 -is slightly raised, so that 0,1.) 81101143.
watciling may ma(133 the ravages th perhaps it tg the 01334)131 1310(313313)3333
grief co'. Twee !Aye on it. These through the air, perhaps the beating of
ere no teen wiblres 11 r aye..., but there 1 her lover's heart so near her OWn, Or the
•.vietfulnese ahout her eienest mere consciousness of her presence, that
month mere pititul Chau any weeping. relives her; at all events, before he has
New she sighs faintly. and her eyes half covered the ermine that imparates
wander to the yellow hills beyond, on them from 11118 110086, sho is restored to
which already the mists of evening are life again.
'louts:reline. Perhaps there, just) behind She struggles faintly to he feet, and,
them nee her lenne-iitele word I-eed still leaning heavily against bini, eighe
all thee made life sweets • softly -
1 row li•rig is 11; since last she dwelt "Is it you then, Dick, :tea no dream e"
with those she loves? Four weeks ? she whimper's at laeb.
leav, oentury rather 3 'What a world "1433 3814,004' darling."
of time bees passed her by eines then 1 «D0111 take nae to the house -et
Mush all her corning day le dreary as load not yet. The tioft air does mo good;
thews I esti' all colon sloes, all blank? She and 1111000 8110 MO many thilige 1411118811 say
trembles as she pictures to herself the
terrible monotouy 01 11310 gray exietenee
the hes sketched out fee herself. an ex-
ietence barren of love and tender ties,
and such fond trivial things that serve
to make lifo bearable.
Well, it is bettor 803 The twining
Users clasp each other with a, liercee
ernith, and the throbbing heart beats
back a gtowing Hob. And it is all so
long ago now, eel eo word., no sign
Yos, they mat doem her dead I
doubt they no .;* think of ber 338one ly'
Ing hiller quiet 341.1.00, 101341 all life's tor -
'lents ended, and the 5811 341133111 upou her
tame lost, left behin11 in the world's
berry as it marches evor onward in hot
haste.
And indeed, if by this time they !MVO
begun to think of her as dead, they have
not so vary far exceeded the truth.
Another feint deepening of that heevy
fever, a few (live more of exhaustion,
and sho might have beeu rookoned with
those who ave no longer amongst the
living. So tear she was to the mid of
her lifo's journey that aimed they might
believe elm had reached it.
011, how cruel were the kindly bends
that hal pulled her back from the
grave 1 Whet an irreparable injury aid
these good Samaritans do bee when
they raised her from her sielt couch and
tenoned her from the otos of ,Detath,
into whose onibeace mho Would iso 1.3311.
finely have sunk.
Now, oven now, elle might breve both
at, resb, lying with stroaghtened limbs
and feverlese brain, With 'nothing to
rem upon her heart 1440 the cool earth
and the thtobbings a the gently -grow -
ring grasses. Under the dewy soh she
evoeld he reeting in a great peaee, her
Noel in heaven.
a; re ely bound by that sad wreath. A
slight willowy figure she appears, gaz-
ing 11 11333 sovrowing apse into her past,
and forget -flit Or tile moment of a future
111,311can contain for Ler 00 1)0310.
She 18 (133331 in 13. white gown -the
same white gown iewhieh she left her
1103103, 31010 ready, fresh and pretty again.
as Mrs. Edgewortles hands could mats.
ale. The leett beams of .the sun aro
claneeng brilliantly about her head,
wide, is scarcely a degree less sunny
than they; on every brands the, birds
lovelight in her eyes brieliter than " sain t-
eeSlee. gel;.1.?".
etti'.:.....et.ode.es, Not a move-
eetbetiays the face that 8310 15 living.
Her seal 144 wandering, and the body
weits in snout ecstasy for its rebore.
Her fragilo form resiste the evening
113 ere Ilee 3i1141e eleuder beetle
THE kilifTSSELE POST
a gluon Sou.
"Just now she is buoyed up with
hope, which, thank oat, 418311 11014 prove
an altogether smell one. But, if I Iniel
failed to Red *you— 011, door, dear
love," cries he, with paseionnee re.
proach, "13010 could yea KO Imo trifled
with what was all tho world to um, your
life ?"
• I didn't invite the fever to 8)8,11 31111
returne she, in quaint defence.
wasn't my faule that et caose, though iu
tenth I am Cory Ull1011, obliged to it 'in
many ways. Those' first days Of beep:,
tinconscioueneme, ana those 0E11814, when
I was too week to feel anything but in
difference, killed the time that lay L.;
rue between then andnow. 1133±1 I beee
in my proper sousee all those intormin'
able hours, I shonld have been driven to
my death by fretting and, worrying aud
longing for you 1 But yete-stearlfast,
ly-" believe me, I shoul,1 never have
sought you or recalled you -never., 1
would have lived my pain through, oven
though niy life should bo its wet. And
now "-sadly-. it has all to he done
over again. My past trouble goes for
weight" She catches her breath hose
vily. " Tele me," she says presently,
" how it was I failed, how you discover.
ed. use 2"
." It ween't I," flays Dick. Then be
height., with an irresistible merriment
I give you a geese," he says, "as,to
who 11311,8 the real finder."
Audrey 2"
"No -Sir Obiolisy. There I Did you
evor thilik lie 10041 113 ViSA to 13 0011
height -to be regarded as a person 01
vit d'importance, the actual discoverer
of oar little desertee ?"
e You mustn't call me names," mine
miles she, with a faint return of the old
pretty mischievous spirit.
Thi4 gleam from the far-off days
SI:rlkeS 14 certain 501153) of pain upon
Bonverhee hetet. His eyes fill with
he sive. " Now answer mine, Tell
there.
"1 Immo answered yourreteetione,"
me how it is you are here, and with
hein---"
hi a few words elm makes him master
oe all her actions from the hour she left
Groylemis 110111 1)010. With simple brit
earnest gratitude. she dwells upon the
bender care showered open her by these
straneors into 'mime liteeelto has fallen.
Withont a hesitate, riot knowing
who or what I wag,' she cnnclucles,
" they tool: me in and tended me with a
'mealtimes% a, sympathy, not to be sur.
parcod. leo loug as I live I shall heal:
in my heart the memory of their good
deeds to lime'
"Itis well to know that elegir reward
is sure," says Bouverie nolemely.
There is eiloece for a while, and then
suddenly, as though some thought he
has beim harbenring has been too etenne
for him, he turns to 1100 1031111 h envious
anger in his oyee which is still over.
4)010019441 81103) 10406
What did you mean by treating us
as you d'sl 2" he says: " Did you velem.-
stand ? DPI you do it 'wilfully? Or le
it possible nee could not 3411055 at the
depth of the misery to whieh yon con.
signed us? It was a living death NVO
endured from‘.`dity to day. Did yon
know bow we miffered?" Ho lays his
hand upon her shonlder, and .compels
her to meet his hurtling eyes.
"Yeo, for I enffered too," returns ehe
gently.
"Nob ouediriudrecIth pail; so meth as
we did. I tell you it was harible, the
doubt, the despair, the everleeting
fearl"
" Ali, do not scold mei" enereate she,
loviugly. She nestles Moser to him
She steals oue hand rolled 1 is neck, and
with the other Marne ad face to her
own. "Dear good D'e I" she whispers
wooingly, and t/rose s upon his lips it
little soft fond lose. There is a pause,
and then-" 1±1' think," sho says, with
fieeteeing conviction, " that you are bhe
very handsomest and nicest face in all
the world."
What man ootild %viblistandthie ? 1303).
01313334,30 Reit) of his glen endeavour to
the controxy, miles bre elly.
"There now -see how conceited NVO
can look," says his temptress, meanly
traded advantage of his slight deielite
to you alone." tion from the cold paths of virtue. As
She sinks upon a, gaxdon-seat 1331330 110)', sho spenlo, she blushes generously and'
and he, wrapping a lenge shawl le I laughsaloud.
But this very giving voice bo her mirth
lying there very tau 10033'34,11111011her,
soaks himself beside her. They ate '011 murders it. She sterts as though struck
hemmed in by the rhodOleuilrons the. by tome unkuown hand. The mere
they ere quite hiddeta from the e eter
soend of her 0100 0001301000011 hoe fright.
ened her. She cheeks it and pales
I •
"Yoe aee 1,3430 yee ere Ales 1- • A346331'
111011 111100(14 ?" he rteke her 11,`) , I1 '' I do not think 14131190 laughed," she
"Quite eine, It wee telly
I 1,4 ,1141 .• maW you." Sento painful reeolleetion
tilt3:,a, troubled whisper, "-since last
ler • leo. cness. 113,
etastlea WO litble "- with a 333331
eoti you Pit 1110011 porliale, tle
strange loae that wli lt 18,14 W,114 o ,
0, vision, and that 3,111033311 wake fs si
preeently to lied 1'0l3) 3534 0511 to lo
yoit were befere." •
"You have been ill?" Heys the yomie
man abroptly, untuletakahle auguieli 111
hill roue.
7043, 100 a ehorb time, But 11V33O11
1111111 bltat now, '4)1311 1110 of
I invest mind it. What is itbha.t is
'made yon the 494341(31( 7033 now ere e"
A Neer of sone) sort, But it wag
eothing lunch, or I could nob be so well
330 14 =Bow. You can sOe that for yorie.
belie
"I :me see time von are but a shadow
of your former eolf."
11. very.. subetailtial-IIII33I1OW, 011,
Dick, 11013.0 53101 X will toll you ell you
'mut to know afterwards ; but litsb toll
me of Lallie."
"What of her '?"
" She is well ?"-witletronsulous anx-
iety.
"Well 358 11 disbeessed mind will let
11033 316. You alone fill her thoughte
nighb end day. Thiel: then if she Can
be altogether as well eis you could wish
her,"
1' are unkind," geve the girl. w tei
roturne to bee and she shudders. ."
thomo lest (lays," she says e 141 14 could
only foiget them, If I nail;ht beet them
feints my happy paste' Bub they spoil
may not, bo altered," says
Denverio. ")3u33 be eonsponente for ib,
thero is always 331,0 11431341311 possibility of
a plad future."
,..The fature 1 To tno 111 livings 'no
comfort," retorns 01)33, 10111141 lowered oyes
end tone. • '
"[14 %Mall 1" me.ye Diolteitoutly.
Ab b1115 111C313104 a voiee eminee tothens
:screw% the acented lawn.
"Miterriblores, Miss Dolores 1" ,
" cOreing," toturrie Dolores quick.
ly •
"011, come, come, coined Do mydoar.
The dew 30 33034111011134 to.fell."
" It isn't, yort know," nye Dolores
softly, smiling atleick; but Mee, 1111340.
00034611 hates to S00 vie oat alto)! sun.
(lewn."
" She is right. Yes, come in," ex.
• claims Boa cove repentantly. " How mad
he me to keep YOU out all this titne.
Come, darling."
-" Not until you easeyou have feegivem
nee, Ion 100116 angry with me is lament
since. "I Monet beat that. If I have,
caesed pain,Diek, tey-try to leern
Matti
5 4.4 I .1 4
THE Men BEST MEW
THE' J3EST
"VNTI1V";
W. 1331. Alorrix,
14iSOBI+51011I13038 W011115, - MI1'-dnELI,, Oso
Manufacturer of three Offorout kinds of
Windmills . The sluipleet *8ro±,ganti,i1m�st
satisfactory Windmills yet mettle .For eumP-
Ing NV &tor , stewing wood,thoppiug grain or
driving any Light nutohinory they 318330 no
sous]. My 14S1311ATEll 34031833 heves e.
cured a world -Wide 14331315333( 34133, I tharantee
them nitheing superior to matt y now in the
ms,ket,end 03313331 10 any over made They
winthrowneatew300feet,orioreeit rs mil e n
the level. Farmers and stockmen are re.
questedte lend forpartiOule'rebefore buyins
either Windmill or Pump ,asq claim that
mine ere the best i II 0 market • Addresr
W' ?It mottans,anton on Ont,
it el: fee eer ewe zelze iefe
MONEY TO LOAN.
Mthey to Oflii t‘ro1. 11000ert7 nt
L OWE 6T BATES.
PRIVATE AND COMPANY FUNDS
W. B. DreasoN,
Solicitor,
l3russols, Ont.
Money to Loan.
.PRrY:031TE FUNDS.
,$20,000
of Pr rate Funds have ast been placed in
my hanasfor Investment -
A.T 7 PER CENT.
Borrowers can have their loan s complete
3, throe de.) if title is altiafactory.
Apply to E. E. WADE.
l'd4uen 19, BOO
GUSTO 111 TAILORING.
The undersigns begs leave to ietimate
to the.publio that 110 has opened a tailor
shop 111 the Garfield Douse black, over
Powelles atom, whore he is prepared 10 at.
tend to the wanes of the eublio in cutting,
fitting and making clothing in the latest
and most fuellionable styles. My long ex-
perience together With a (puree of i)letrue-
thin under one of the beet milkers in Termi-
te is a guar:mem of being able to ee eatie.
factory worlc. Satisfaction guararitoed,
36-3m (11. A. BEER.
M ONEY TO LEND.
Any amount of Money to 'Loan on
Farm or Village property at
6 & 6,1 PER CENT. YEARLY.
Straight Loans with privilege: of re,
paying when required, Apply to
A. HUNTER,
Div. Court Clerk, Brussels.
NOTICE.
The undersigned still keeps on
hand the
Genuine Bell Organ
Of Guelph ;
•
eve Raymond '
Eewing
He also keens the
:Bost GRAIN GRINDER
In the World,
STRAW CUTTERS,
Large and Small.
IZOOT CUTTERS,
At prices to suit Purchaser.
BARN TRUCKS, CLOTHES
WRINGERS, or Anything
you want, except money,
G. -LI 0 -V
OPPOSITE TOWN HALL
Brussels, Dec. 10.
BRUSSELS WOOLEN
1 beg to inform the farming corn -
,Fri munitv that 141314111110133 prepared
`,•st
take in
Carding, Slinning,
The undoreignecl takes pleasere 111 in
forming tho people of Ethel and surround
ing country that he lets opened a shop
where he is prepared to lettencl to Ole (0'
3)133131333 of
WatelleS, CIOCkS, Sewelry, Etc.,
In a manner that will give the best of satis-
faction.
All work guaranteed to be done in a
satisfactory mannei 00 1)0 charge
made. A call solicited.
-Shop opposite Robertsons Hotel, Ethel. -
Wm, Doig.
READY FOR 'WORK,
. .
The undersigned woald intimate to tho
'33)03)110 of Bruseels end suerounding country
thee he has moved his large stook of Har-
riesolroin Manchester into the shop lately
vacated by Robert Stevenson, .Getthasn a
meek, where he es prepared to, attend to
1/10 wants of t1103411b110. I have it oomplete
stock of
Light and Heavy Harness,
Collars, 'Whips, Blankets,
13rushos, Combos, Trunks,
-Bells, Valises,-
.
Ana Everything in tho 13181431005 111418.
Harness made to order Item beet nutter.
MI, on short entices,
Repairing promptly attended to. Satis-
feetion guaranteed in every inetrome.
Give No 41 01411 1)51401333 you porobaso else-
where. Don't, forgot the stand -Dr. Gra.
eam'FI block, Main street, 143ruane18,
I O. Richards,
And Weaving,
at my iNew 33ri1111 Woolen
and promiso to give Satisfaction
to those favoring us with their
trade. nave on hand and will
keep -constantly in stock a full .as-
• sortment of
ille tit 8.
IF Immesh
TweedN.
Pro &Igo*.
11'51-118,
knitted Geode, • 311')383 3303181 .
Cottee Shirthige, Grey 'Cottons,
iso Fine Canadian Tweeds,
PANTINGS 4; SEDGES
for Suits which WO will get made
up on short notice and a good 6.1 -
warranted every thin.
Highest Market Price
',Ain Pen
BUTTER ci.e.
GIVE NM A OW
at my New Mills before going
elsewhere.
Geo. Howe..