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for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Q11.
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' MO by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys 'Worms said Mayo
feverishness. Castoria prevents vonAltinr, Sour Curd.
cures Diarrhoea and Wind CoXL. Castoria relleVeS
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates tho food, recu1atc3 the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy sad natural sleep. CitSo
toria is tho Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend.
TRIatifTif ilie cousietency, an Sileh purpOseless juncture, will be wel to 'e
tortuousness, they had been so Uiar during' the day. You have been
steady alike in their loyijIty and their good and given me no trouble
hostility in ninny eases, that it was no questiona and hesitations."
111AxwELL GRIM wonder if plain Englishmen feared to "I am yoiir servico;" be rep
trust any dark faces in those days. simply; "I know that you woul
The weather was still very hot, and have left your refuge but for
he had found much refreshment in rea,ann,".
sleeping in the veranda after the first "Goocl reason indeed," she
few nights. Perhaps he had some "You have heard Gossamjee B
vague notion that he would be better speak a the tyrannical raeulvie
able to penetrate to the woman's caused the Hindoo temple to be de
apartment to help Ada, perhaps, also, This man has sworn that there
he felt freer and more capable of self- be no more English, and for that
in his room.
defence in the open court than shut up son Gossamjee was so anxious to
as both off as Hindoos. With ni
He had passed three or four days be- succeeded fairly well. I was in I
neath Gossarnjee's roof; it was now until eleven years old. Hindost
October, he little knew what magnill- is my second language, I know in
cent chances of distinction he was los- of native ways, besides, women do
ing in the first terrible week after the attract much attention, their lives
storming of the English position. He passed in such seclusion. But yo
slept tranquilly on his mat, dreaming rived in English uniform, and wo
of the great willow by the mill stream, ed, and this somehow got w
the pleasant, cool sound of the turning Gossamjee suspects that one of
inill-wheel, the familiar faces in the servants turned traitor. These pe
firelight his father and mother given are • always intriguing, and s
back to 'him, as the dead so often are friendly traitor warned Gossamje
in dreams and Jessie a child again, the moulvie's plan, which was to sea
light-heterted, spoilt, and happy. Per- his house—probably this very ni
haps Jessie, safe beneath Miss Blush- He told Ruksbhai also that he wo
ford's prim guardiansh y, was even defend us to the death. Poor R
then dreaming thesame ream, on her bhai herself proposed our flight;
white curtained, lavender -scented pil- had the locks oiled, and gave m
low, seeing Philip again in his man- key and a suit of Chunia's clothes,
hood and his Crimean laurels fresh up- furnished me with food and a li
on him. Perhaps she started from her money. Dear Ruksbhai, she is a g
tranquil sleep, thought of her poor boy actor, and I hope that she will be a
fighting in distant India, and said a to persuade Gossamjee that she kn
'prayer for him before again turning nothing of our disappearance. She
to her rest.
to take old Toru into her confiden
Philip's dream suddenly changed to Toru dare not betray her mistr
dim and tumult of battle, he was be- Gossainjee would certainly beat
fore Sebastopol again, volunteering to for her part in it. And for sue
replace some shattered gabions under breach of hospitality he would b
heavy fire, when a musket ball /gain Ruksbhai severely. Dear Gossamj
struck him in the shoulder; again he I wish I might have bid him good
clenched his teeth with pain, and went and thanked him. He is such a no
on adjusting the gabions with the un- minded man. Even Ruksbhai lo
injured arm; but the pain of the wound him, though he is her husband. H
grew and grew beyond all bearing till I shall miss them all. You did not
awoke. •
with, what he thought, a loud cry he Rajmahli, of course? But you h
heard a girl's voice singing hymn
The moonlight lay upon the court- It was R,ajmahi. She is sixteen, an
yard, a palm -tree standing motionless widow. I taught her many thin
in the centre traced its plumed crown and we studied Sansciit together. A
blackly against the deep sky, and cast little Sata, a child of six. Poor ba
its elongated shadow right athwart It is bad enough to be a woman in a
the court toward him; another, a hu- case, but to be a Hindoo woman; th
man shadow, fell across his recumbent is nothing more terrible, except to
form; instead of a gun -shot wound a a Mohammedan woman."
dark, light- hand was grasping his "They are used to it," he repli
shoulder, a dark turbaned face came his mind busy with more person
between him and the moonlight, a
Hindoo youth was bending over hiln, "And I am used to being a woma
matters.
dimly seen against the strong moon- she returned, with a scornful smi
light.
"but I find the more I am used to
"Chunia!" he exclaimed, starting ig). the less I like it."
"Hush!" whispered the lad, in a voice "You surely would not wish to b
and follow me."
which stirred him, "keep in the shadow man?" Philip remonstrated. Perha
salmon, mackerel, and such lucky fi
He rose without hesitation or ques- as are not skinned alive, consider th
tion and catching up such clothes as discipline excellent for eels, who, li
he had laid aside, followed the slim Mohammedan women, are used to
and graceful figure, wondering if this "At :all events," she returned,
might be some fresh scene from dream- must look as much like a boy as I c
land, or the sweet madness of a, fairy till this little excursion is at an en
tale, and filled with a vague delight in My name is • Carendra Lai, you a
the mystery, romance, and probable Bassenjee Lai, my brother, and we a
danger of following his fu itive coun- returning from some pilgrimage
Lucknow, where our parents live. A
impediment in your speech obliges n
to be spokesman on all occasions."
The moon set and clouds arose, gra
ually blotting out the stars. They tr
veiled along in the darkness, listenin
to the cries of wild beasts from ti
jungle they were approaching, an
talking but little; Philip regrettin
that he had left Gossainjee's hospitab
roof without a word of thanks or far
well, and speculating on the trout)
that might befall the honest mercha
on their account. It was well th
A.sla had_expla.ingd- nothing hPflirialTaral-
as In -that case he would have felt hin
self bound to tell his good host of h
intended flitting.
"Gossamjee will surely think me u
grateful," he said.
"No," his companiop replied; "h
uil; -think 'that urr fOUril favorabl
opportimity for; flight, and will be" gi
that we did it before getting him in
trouble. It was agreed between u
that,' was _to seizeany chance that of
fered without telling him, so that h
might be unable to furnish any clue i
case of pursuit. There are some ver
fierce fanatics at Beelampore wh
think English blood the most 'daint
offering for their gods. Oh, Mr Ran-
dal, how beautiful it is to be free.
Yours is the first English voice? I have
heard since—for three months," she
said, her breath catching at the mem-
ory of the last :English voice she had
heard; "and I have not had so much as
an English Bible to read, and have only
spoken English when teaching Raj-
mahli, and sometimes her father and
her brother."
"Poor child I" Philip replied, touched
at the thought of her desolation, "I
wish I were ten men for your sake."
The dawn was breaking now, not the
sudden splendor of the tropics, but a
much less gradual dawn than we know
in these latitudes. The air grew sharp,
the darkness seemed deeper, and then
the clouds cleared off, the east glim-
mered grayly and turned to white and
gold, the great sun leapt up from the
horizon into a sky of deep glowing or-
ange; the warm autumn day was near.
Tax .•:.cLarrow W..4161:
rebellion had two snob a want of darkness," Ada said, tranyilly at thiS
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"Tell nay brother that I am here,
alive and safe," she said, at the close
of the hurried, half -whispered inter-
view. "Tell him I never parted with
thip," she added, quietly drawing a
keen, quaintly fashioned dagger from
her clothing, and letting the light flash
upon the damascend blade, before she
again concealed it. "I know exactly
where to strike fatally." She pagsed,
listened, and then bidding him a hasty
good -night and drawing the silken
sari more closely about her, vanished
as auddently and silently as she had
appeared, leaving Philip gazing with a
dazed, incredulous look on the space
she bad just occupied, before he sank
on the edge of the low bedstead and
buried his face in his hands, striving to
•
shut out from his vision the baleful
flash of the dagger which haunted
him long after, most eloquently speak-
ing of the perils women have to face in
times of anarchy and tumult, and re-
calling the many. terrible and some-
times untrue stories he had heard of
the horrors of the last few months.
She knew where to strike fatally!
How calmly she had spoken, as if as-
suring him of the most ordinary fact.
And he was powerless to help her.
The hubble-bubble and the Hindoo
posture were alike forgotten, the tur-
ban was pushed farther back from the
brow damp with horror, and Philip
sat, a very European picture of trouble
and dismay, feeling the full tragedy of
the mutiny as he had never done be-
fore. He had heard of Jellapore, where
Ada Maynard's own sister -lb -law had
" been flung alive into the flames of a
burning building before her husband's
eyes, and thrust back with bayonets
till she died. Was it all a dream? He
rose and looked around the little room
with its swinging lamp and scanty -
foreign furniture; he looked out of the
open bay window 'shaded by its sun -
lattice, and saw the moonlight sleep-
ing peacefully on the housetops, and
scarcely penetrating the narrow
streets, touching a gilded cupola with
burning silver, shining upon gracefully
swaying palms and dark masses of un-
familiar foliage in the distance, and
bringing out the bastioned walls and
turrets of a castle upon a hill—the ar-
chitecture of which was like a confus-
ed dream of feudalism and Gothic
Middle Ages blended fantastically
with oriental splendor and despotism,
the whole touched with peculiar glam-
our of the East and the deep enchant-
ment of the days of chivalry.
The magic of that rich and splendid
Eastern land had scarcely affected
him in the constant succession of ad-
ventures and dangers; he could even
look unmoved upon the grace of the
slender symbolic palms, the very name
of which has a charm, calling. up a
thousand associations. He had first trywoman in her fresh disguise. He
seen these "palms and temples of the was bound to be her knight, his life
south" through a medium of bloodshed was at her service; as she explained
and horror, but to -night the domes of nothing she had doubtless good reason
burning silver, the light soaring grace for her ,4ilence. Noiselessly gliding in -
of the minarets rising above them, the to the -tliadow, she flitted around the
dark, rich, foreign foliage, and the verand.l. passing cicige to the sleeping
castle on the hillside, all sleepirws.in forms )1' Gossamje and Chunia,, each
the clear moonlight, woke in him a on his !)urdah, till she reached a door,
feeling of beauty and romance to be in the lock of which she placed a key
remembered forever. wt-ich turned without sound.
Chunia had told him the 1fiarne of the 1 She relocked the door while Philip
•,--taittuer-of that castle, a native noble- waited, silent and almost breathless
tna,n, neutral in. the present strife. in the ablute darkness; then with a
What if he should prove a friend, as whispered "Come," led him along a dark
more than one rajaltAai oztheen_101.1 • they--etrierged''
---tive-Englislahat summer. narrow street ot Beelampore; Ada soft-
Gossamjee Bhose soon dissipated II locking the last door behind her.
that illusion; he held up a bambee, Then she paused p. moment, pushing
split and tied together at the ends. him back into the shudow, from which
n sea this, Randal Sahib?" he he had incautiously e°naped, placed a
asked,"whoever leans upon the aid of parcel in his hands, and a-ft.i. 3
the ajah Mohun Singh., leans upon intently and looking, as if in doubt,
this banibee;" here he cut the binding this way and that, started again, still
string, while placing his hand on the barefoot and noiseless, as was Philip.
top of the cane, which gave way in They passed the bazaar, which he
half a dozen direcaensand_iell- on -the ad -been s,ble to -watch—from-his w111 --
-fiber. "Whim Singh would give you dow when it was filled with busy,
fair words and lodge you in his castle chaffering trade people, then an amus -
one day, and the next he would betray ing and picturesque scene, but now
you. As the reeds by the river side, silent as a tomb; they passed the
so is he, blown this way and that by Hindoo temple, recently, defiled by
all the winds of heaven. order of the despotic moulvie, and un -
This description of the rajah tallied molested, save by a growl or snap from
only too well with Philip's conceptions the curs prowling the town for offal,
of the native character as formed by left the houses behind them. Ada
the experiences of fugitive English and then stopped a moment to put on her
public report, and when he looked into shoes, and Philip was too glad to fol -
the keen, mobile face of his host and low her example, for their feet were
benefactor, and listened to his smooth already wounded by stones, and then
and honeyed words, and observed the silent and ghost-like in their white
obsequious politeness of his manner, dresses, by which each could faintly
being yet new to Asiatic ways, he distinguish the other even in the dark -
wondered if it were wise to trust Gos_ ness, they sped onward and now up-
samjee any further than he could see ward till the road led them beneath
him. He thought not, and yet he and the embattled walls of Mohun Singh's
Ada Maynard were completely at his castle.
mercy. The moonlight smiled broadly upon
Philip guarded his words and nar_ the castle wall, showing a beautiful
rowly watched Gossamjee Bhose when- arcade of pointed arches and slender
ever they were together, and some- pillars fashioned in the wall above,
times at chess, which the hospitable front which, for all they knew, a sen-
Hindoo played to beguile the time for try might be watching; they crept
his wounded guest, fancied that he along past the lofty wall on the op -
detected double meanings in the re- posite side in the shadow cast by some
marks he made on the game, which trees, Philip all the time keeping one
always terminated in victory for the hand on the long, sharp, dagger -like
Hindoo. Nor did Gossamjee,s fre_ knife that Gossamjee had given him
quent observation, as he left the apart_ with his native dress, and remember -
meat, to the effect that Philip was his in the dagger Ada flashed in the lamp -
father, and that his house and all he ligat on tilts night of her visit to him.
possessed belonged absolutely and ex- INo sound came from the sleeping
elusively to Randal Sahib, reassure castle, 1)()tiling molested them, they
him in the least degree. Therefore he reached the crest of the hill and looked
did not entrust Ada's precious ruby to back upon Beelampore lying far below
him, forgetting that Gossamjee had al_ them in the magical light. Then his
ready resisted one favorable opportun- guide slackened her hitherto rapid
ity of keeping it; nor did he tell him pace, and at last broke silence,
of the treasure Ada Maynard had left
with him on her hurried visit. This
was a tracing on tissue paper, so small
that it conld be concealed in a quill, of
a plan of Lucknow. its environs and
the various roads leading to it; which
she herself had made from a plan found
among one of the murdered European
officer's effects by the friendly ayah to
whose husband the spoil had fallen.
This Philip pondered over until it was
traced upon the yet finer tissue of his
brain.
His wounds were healing rapidly,
and the repose after the tremendous
exertions of the last few weeks before
Lucknow was most welcome and re-
freshing. Gossamjee remarked on his
improvement, but besought him not to
leave him until he was quite recovered;
reminding him that sick and wounded
are more hindrance than help in the,
field; until Philip began to wonder if
he had some sinister purpose in retain-
ing him beneath his roof. It was true
that he need not have succored him in
the first instance, much less have tak-
en him to his house as he had don e;
but the actions of natives during the
CHAPTER III.
THE TWO COMRADES.
"We are going to Lucknow, Mr Ran-
dal," Ada says; "where does it lie?"
He did not know; Beelampore was
not in the plan she had given him.
His guide then told him that she was
not sure of the locality herself, but
was certain that it was considerably
north of Beelampore.
This information was most depress
ing, especially when a sudden twinge
reminded Philip of his recent wound.
He looked with dismay at his compan-
ion's slender form, conspicuous in the
white boy's dress, and tried to calcu-
late the distance from Lucknow by
the time it had taken the bearers to
convey him in his palanquin to Bee-
lampore. Alas! these bearers, besides
being swift and practiced runners,
knew the way and were not obliged to
hide themseiVes. The adventure was a
desperate one.
"We must make the best of the
•
Chnittren Cry for Pitch 'el Caugtorlitht
ft
ugust
Flower"
Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca,
Mo., during the past two years has
been affected with Neuralgia of the
Head, Stomach and Womb, and
writes "My food did not seem to
strengthen me at all and my appe-
tite was very variable. My face
vras yellow, my head dull, and I had
such pains in my left side. In the
norning when I got up I would
have a flow of mucus in the mouth,
and a bad, bitter taste. Sometimes
my breath became short, and I had
such queer, tu 'ling, palpitating
sensations aroun cf, e heart. I ached
all day under the shoulder, blades,
in the left side, and down the back
of my limbs. It seemed to be worse
in the wet, cold weather of Winter
and Spring; and whenever the spells
came on, my feet and hands would
turn cold, and I could get no sleep
at all. I tried everywhere, and got
Pt, relief before using August Plower
Then the change caine. It has done
vionddrfttt deal of kdOd datitig
thqtitne I hoe' faken it and iS Wait -
Jt Coin •Iete C-1 - "-
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Castoria.
"Castorla is an excellent medicine for del.
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children."
Dn. G. 0. OSGOOD,
Lowell, Mass.
" Castoria is the ben remedy for children of
which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
Interest of their children, and use Castorla in.
stead of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves."
Da. J. F. ICINOTULLOZ,
conway,
Castoria.
"Castor's is sown! adapted to children thal
I recommend It as superior twiny przteriptfon
known to me."
II. A. Al- tellaa, M. D.,
111 So. Oxford St., nrookbrn, N. Y.
"Our physicians in the children'depit*
ment have spoken highly of _their expel* "
0050 in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among ourt
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess Ott they
merits of Canaria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
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