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'shoot the iarankerol
A clear little tauticl came skipping out ,
In the glad new day with a worn' shalt
danciug feet and with flowing hair
She an with joy ip the mended air,
"Deal sing before breakfast, ion% ery before
night!"
What a croak to darken. the ehild'e delight
And the stunid old nurse, again and again,
Bepeatea the ancient duu refrain.
The childpausea, trying to understand ;
--Butiter -eyes- atta-tata-great - world -rainbow--
;
Ber lighspannea
a m. d.foot hardlY touched the carat.
Ana her.0001 trimmed over with int:meat
mirth
"Never mina -don't listen -a() sweet little
maidi
Mae sum of your morning song," 1 said ;
"4 1 Pain merit meet you, why, all the
010r0
Oad, a the rapture that came before.
"O tsars Ana oorrow are plenty enough.
Storms may be hitter and paths be rough,
But our tears that' fali, ince the dear earth'e
shewers -
. That hop to ripeo the irate slid newer%
"80 gladden the aay With your blissful song..
Sing oa while yo o may, dear, sweet and strong I
make spoof yoer moment of pure delight,.
No matter what trials may come 'before night."
LOVERS VET.
• ,
(By the author)! "Sladohne's Lover.')
onounat xxxm.
Thursday evening, and the hand of the
____Grreolul-olock-pointed-to-a-cpiarter_to 10.
Lord Earle at reading. Lady RelenitEar
left Lillian asleep, and bad taken up A book
near him. Lord Airlie had been elsiitohing
for Beatrice a plan of the new wing at
Lynnton. Tlooking up suddenly, she saw
the time. akt 10 Hugh Fernely would be
at the shrubbery gate. She had not a
moment to lose. Saying she was feeling
tired, she rose and went to bid Lord Earle
goed,night. He .remembered afterward
how he had raised the beautitul face in his
hands and gazed at it in loving admiration,
whispering something the while about
"Lady Airlie, a L'innton." He reinena«
bared how she, so little given to caressing,
had laid her head- upon his shoulder,
clasping her arms roundhis neck, kissing
- his face, and caliing hitt% ber dear • papa.'
He remembered the soft, wistful light ill
.1.ier' beautiful eyes, tbe sweet voice that
lingered•in his ears. Yet no witsning.came
to him, nothing told hini the fair child he
loved so dearly stood in the shadow of
deathly peril.
If he had known, how theta strong arms
would have been raised to shield her -how
the stout, brave heartwOuld have sheltered
her 1 As it was, she left him with jesting
words on her lips, and he did not even gaze
after her as slie quitted the room: It he
had only known where and how he should
see that face again 1
Beatrice went up to Lady " Hehaua, who
smiled, without 'raising her eyes from her
book. Beatrice bent down aud touched
the kind, stately face with her lips,' •
"Goodnight,. grandmammta'. she said.
"How studious you.arel " ,
Goodmight-hletalotr,py child,!'
turned Lady. Helena, and the fair face
turned frdm her with a smile.
"You have left me until last," said Lord
Airlie;" good -night, my Beatrice.. '•Never
mind papa ---he isnot looking at uS; give
it always• now -its light will never leave
me more, Look at me, Xleatriee," he cried ;
"let ine see those dark eyes again."
But the glance she gave him had in it
nOthing but coldness and dread. In the
excitement a hie jaw he aid not notice it,
"Words are so weals," he said, "1 cannot
tell you bow I have longed for thigl 14011r.
I have gone over it in fancy a, thousand
times; yet no dream, was ever so bright
and sweet as this reality. No man in the
-
wide world ever loved any obe eta I love
you I3eatriee."
She could not resist the passionate
torrent -of words -they mufit-have--tOuched
the heart of one lees proud. She stood
perfectly still, while the calm night, wind
eeemed to thrill with the eloquent voioe of
the speaker.
"Speak to me," he nal% at leagth.
"How coldly.you listen 1 Beatrice, there
is no love, no 3ey in your face, Tell me you.
are pleased to see me -tell me you have
remembered Ina. Say anything -let me
hear your voice."
"Hugh," he answered, gently, drawing
her hands from his strong grasp, "this is
all a mistake. You have not given me time
to speak. I am pleased to see you, well and
safe. 1 vin pleased that you have escaped
the dangers of the deep; but -I Cannot
say more. I -I do not love you as you
love me."
His hands dropped nervously, and he
turned hls despairing face from her.
" You must be reasonable," she con.
tinned, in her . musioal, pitiless voice.
"Hugh, was only a dreaming, innocent,
ignorant child when I first met you. It
-was-not-lo-ve-I--thought of.-Yowtalked4
me as ne one aloe ever' bad -it was like
reading a strange wonderful story; mybead
was filled with romance, my heart wits"not
filled with love."
"But," he said,.hoarsely, "you promised
to be mywife." • ' _ -
"1 remember," she acknowledged,." I do
not deny it ; but, liugh, 1' did not knew
what I was saying. I spoke without
thought. Inemore realized what the Words
meant than Icon understand now what the
wind is saying." . . •
A long, low moau came from his lips;
.the awful despair in his. face startled her.
"So I have returned for this 1" he cried.
"1 have braved untold perils, I have
escaped the dangers of the seas, the death
that lurks in heaving waters, to be slain by
Gruel words from the girl . I loved and
• truste&"
He turnedfrom herr unable to check.the
bitter sob that rose to his lips. .
"Hush, Hugh,';' elie said, gently, "you
grieve me." •' •
"Do you think of my grief ?" he oried.
"1 comae here tomight, my heart on fire
with love, toy brain dizzy with happiness.
You have killed me, .Beatrice Earle; as
surely as ever mau was Maio." , • :
. Far off, front amongst thetrees, she sew
the glimmer of the light in Lord Airlie's
room. It struolt her with a sensation at
fear, as though he were watching ber.
"Let us walk on," slm.sttid--" I de not
sta.ndin,," here:" •
Theywent through the shrubbery, thrringn
the broaci green stadia of the •park, where
the dew-dreps, slagne open fern leaveo and,
thiek-graitha long.tiveimanLehest:.
nut trees«where, the Wind moaned, like a
human being: in deadly pain ; on to the
shore of: the deep, cake Ta'ke, where -the
green• 'reeds, hent arid swayed, and the
moonlight shone in the rippling water.•
• this,while Hugb had net spoken a Word, but
had wallied in silence by her side. He,
turned to her at length, and she read the.
rising passion in his face,. • • •, •
-"You promised rae," he said, ." and 'yeti
must keep your promiee... log said you.
.wOuld be my wife. Nct 'other man: must
dare to speak thyon of lover he criedf
••graspingher ann. "Ip the sight of Heaven;
•youare naine, Beatrice t arle.". • ••
•
" I ana not," she answeredprotidly, "and
• I never will be ;• no mai wohld, Or aoind,
take advantage -of a promise obtained from
a wilful, loolush.thild,"
• " will appeal to1.1or4 Earle," . he said -
".I Will lay my claim before him:" .*.
• "�u may do so," she replied and;
although he will never look upon me again,
he Will protett me from You.' ,
•She saw the, angry light ilanie in his
eyes, Mae heardbie breath tome in..quick,
' short gasps; eaid the danger:a1,:quarrelling
• with him.struck • her. '. She laid her 'hand
upon his arm*, and he trail:Oiled • et the
gentle touch., • ••• •
' " she 'said, "do not be angry.
You are a brave Man -; .1 know that in
your life you never shrank frona danger -or
feared pant The brave are always gener-
ous, always noble; think of. what X am
going to say. Suppose thatbY the exercise
of anypower -you could -really compel Me
to. laii your wife, what would it benefit
you?.' I should .riat love you, I fell, you
candidly. I should detest you for spoiling
lily, life -I would never see you. What
would you gain by forcing me to keep.my
promise" •.
. He Made no•reply. The wind bent the
reeds, and the.water cattle up to the bank,
with a long. low; 'wash. • .
"/ ampea,1 to yourgenerosity," she Bola=
" your nobility of character. Seleasi?
froth a promise I made in ignorance.. I
'appeal to your very love to me -release nae,
that I may be happy. • '•
,
• " Those who lovetruly," she continued,
'receiving no reply, '" never ,love selfishly.
If I cared for any one as . you dolor -nee, I
ahouid consider ray • ownhappiness• last of
all. , If you love ane, 'release tee; Hash.. I
oan never be happy with yon." • . •
"Why notr he asked, tightening the
grasp upon her arra;
Not . from, merCenary Inotivele," she
replied, earnestly; "not beeause my father
is wealthy, my bane magnificent, and you
belong to another , grade of soeiety-not
for that, but because I do not love you. X
never did love yam as a girl should love the
man she meann to marry."
"You are very candid," he said, bitterly;
," pray, io 'there any one elsayou loye in
Mile way 2." • • • •
That Cs beside the question,": she
tePlied, haughtily ; ." I am speaking of You.
and myself. Hugh, if you will give me my
• freedoni-ifr, you will. a;gree to forget the
foolish promise. of a foolish child -I will
respect and, esteem yeti while t live,I shall
bless you every day, your name will he a
sacred. ono Math -rite& in nay heart, your
mentory will be a source of pleasure te me.
You shall be my friend, Hugh, arid I will
be eatrue friend to yoln" •
" Beatricel" he cried, " do not tempt
Me 1" - •
" Yes, be tempted," she said-'‘ let me
urge yen to be generous, to be noble I See,
HUgli, I have never prayed to anymah-I
pray to you; I Weuld kneel hero, at your
feet end beseech yeti to release the from a
promise X 'never meant to give."
Her Wade touched him. She ,turiv the
Softened lOok upon his late, the flaming
• anger die nut of hie oyes.
. " Iltigh," she said softly, " I, Beatriod
Earle, pray you, by the love yott bear me,
to release me from all clainl, and leave me
me one.kiss.”' rt.
She rinsed her face to his, and he kieseo
the proud, sweet lips. . •
He touched the. golden lead.
a You will never part with it," he saki:
and Mie smiled as ohe answered, to,
never 1". • „.
Then she passed dot -cif his aight, and las
who.would have laid detail his life for her,
saw her leave him „without': the fainteet
suspicion of the shadow that hung over her.
The smile. still Wageredon her lips as
she stood iu her earn remit. few more.
hours -one inore trial -she said to herself;
then she would be free, s.nd, , might' enjoy
her • happiness • to its full extent. How'
dearly Hubert hived her -bow unutterably
happy she would be .when Hugh released
her 1 And he wohld-she never doubted it.
"1 shall not want you agitirai' she said
to her maid. "And do not call me fu the
morning. I am tired." • •
The door of Lillianis: room was not
closed; she went in. The night littxtP was
shaded, and the blinds closely drawn, so
that the bright inaonlight *could net intrude.
She went gently to the Side of the bed
where her sister lay, Poor, gentle, loving
,Lillian 1 The pale, sad face, with its wist-
ful,avearied expression, was.turned -be-the
wall. There were some traces of • tears,
and aven in eleepTfieep sighs passed the
quivering lips. Sorrow and woe were
impressed on the fair face. Yet, as Bea,
trice kissed the clear, &din brow, shewould
gladly have changed places with b.er.
"1 will soon . make it up to her," she
said, gazing long. and 'earnestly .on the
sleeping face. "In a few weeks she shall
be happier than shahas ever beau. I will
make Master Lionel go on his kneels to her."
She left the room, . and Lillian. never
knew who had bent se lovingly Over her.
Beatrice took froaa her wardrobe a
_thick, warm shawl. She dreW•it overher
head, and so half hid her face. Than she
Went noiselessly down the staitcase that
led from her suite of rooms to the garden.
How fair and beautiful the night was -
not cold, although it was September, and
the moon shining as she lind rarely seen it
shine before.
It seemed to sail triumphantly in the
dark blue sky. It poured a. flood of silvery
light on the sleeping flowers and trees. •
She had not lingered to lohk• round the
pretty dressing-reom as elle left it. Her
eyes had not dwelt On: the luxurious cham-
ber, and the white bed,'Wherein she Ought
to have. been sleeping I,. but, now that she
stood outside the Hell, she looked up at
the windows With a eende of loneliness arid
fear. There was a light in Lady- Helena'
room and main Lord Airlie. She shrank
back; what would lie think if he saw her
now?
Deeply she fell the humiliatiou Of leaving
her father's' hoose at that bettr Of the
night; she felt the whole shame of what
she was goilig to do; but the thought of
Lord Airlie netirea her. Let this due night
pass, and a life -time of happiness lay before
her. ' . •
The night wind momied fitfully amongst
the trees; the breeches of the tall lime
trees swayed over ,her head; the fallen
leaves whirled round her feet. She crossed
the gerderss the moon cast grog°
shadows upon the broad paths. - At length
she saw the shtubbery gate, and, by it,
erect and motionless, gazing on the bending
trees in the park, was Hugh Fernely. He
did not heat her light footsteps-ethe wind
ainongthe lime trees drowned theni. She
went up to him And touched his arm gently
. -
"Hugh," the said, "Ian here."
Before she could pteveht him, he Was
isneoling at her feet, he had clasped her
bode in his own, and vras covering theta
'With hot kiesett arid burning tears.
" hly darling," he said, "my Own Bea.
-trite, I knew yen onle!"
Ile tOse then, and, before she &told step
hita, he tot& the elaewl from he heed and
raised the beautiful tweak) that the moon.
light fell dearly open it.
4‘1120Are hUligtirea tttla thirsted," he field,
"tor &tether look et that face. 1 shall see
ellence ; they bad wandered down to the
very edge of the lake. The water rippled
in the moonlight, and, while Hugh. Fernely
thought, Deatrioe loolsea into the clear
depths. How nearshe was inhertriumph 1
A few minutee more and he 'would turn to
her and tell her OUP was free; His face
was growing calm and gentle, She would
diemiss him with grateful thanks; she
Would hfiliten borne. liovreottim would be
that night's sleep 1 When she saw Lord
.Airlie in the morning, all her Borrow and
ehrune would have passed by. lEfer heart
beat high as slie thought of this,
ft think it must be ito," said Hugh
Fernely at laett-" I think I mustgive yon
up, Beatrice. I could not bear to make
you miserable. Look op, my .darling; let.,
me see your fitcri oncemore before I say
goodbye."
ar.
She stood. before him, and, the thick dark
shawl fell from her shoulders upon the
grass; she did not miss it in the blinding
Joy that bad fallen upon, her, laugh
Eernely's gaze lingered upon the peerless
features.
"I can give you up," he Baia gently, "tor
your own happiness, but not to another,
Beatrice. Tell me that ,you have not
learned tit, love anotheraince I left you."
She made no reply -not to have saved
her life a thousand times would she heve
denied her love for Lord Airlie. Bis lase
Was still warm upon her lips-threee same
lips should never deny him.
"You do not speak," he.added,
By Heaven, Beatrice; if X thought you
had learned 'to love soother man -if I.
thought you wanted to be free from me to
marry -another ',X-should,--go-madaemad...
,witli jealous rage 1 Is it so? Answer me."
She saw a lurid light in his eyes, and
shrank from WM. He tightened his grasp
upon her arm.
Answer me 1," he cried, hoarsely. "
wil know." :
Not ffir from her Slept the Lover who
*would have shielded her with his strong
arm -the lover to whom every hair upon
her dear head was more precious than gold
or jewels. Not far from her slept the
kind, loving father, who was prouder and
fonder of her than of any one on earth.
Gaspar Lawrence, too, who would have
diedfor her, lay at that moment not far
away, awake and thinking of her Yot,
the hour of . her deadly peril, when she
stood on the shore ofthe deep lake in the
fierce grasp of a half-I:maddened man, there
was 320 one near to heln her or raise a hand
iii her defence. But she was no coward,
and ell the high apirit of her race :rose
within her..
Loosen our grasp, Hugh," she said,
calmly-" you pain' um."
"Answer Me! " be cried. " Where, is the
rtitg I gave you?"• , ' •
He seized bath hand:laud looked at them ;
they were firin and cool -they did not
tremble. AU his fierce, angry eyes glanced.
over. them, not a feature of her beautiful
fact quivered'. "
"I'Vbere is my ring? "he asked, "An-
swer Me, Beatrice:" • '
"1 lis,ve not Wove it lately," she replied,
" flagh, you forget youtself. Gentlemen
do not speak and act in this way."
"1 bonen 1 ,am going mad," lie said,
• glocimily:"..I ralincroish rnyclairn
to you; Beatrice; for your own sake, bift I
-will never give you•up to be the wife of any
other man, Tell me it is not so, Tell rne
you have Ja0t been so doubly false LLB to
lovsamaother, and•I will try to do all you
wi4Bfiliaa'Ito live an my. Unloved; and
untharried,',' she answered, controlling her
augry indignation .by a strong effort,
" because, when 1 Was ale:Ay and neglect-
ed girl, I fell into your power? I d9 not •
'ask such a sacrifice frana you. I hope you
will love' and naarry, and be happy." '
• "rshall not care," he said; "hat hap-
pene after I aria Wite-it will not hurt my
jealous, angry heart. then, Beatrice ; but I
should.not like ,to thihk that. while you
were my Prornieed wife, and I was giving.
you my eery thought, you were loving
some one else. Lathould like to, believe
.you Were true to nae while .you ere my
own," •-
He said to himself, with A wild, horrible
laugh, that ho had watched all night by
her grave.
Ile turned and fled. One meeting JAM1
with aerce, wild eyes full of the ere of
madnese, with pale, haggard fame full of
deepair, would have shunned him. He
fled, through the greeu pork, out on to the
highroad, away through the deep. Winnwoods-
he knew not whither -never back;
crying out at times, with a hollow, awful
voice, that he had been all night by her
grave; falling at times op his face with
wild, woeful, Weeping, Rraying the heaveus
to fall upon 'aim and bide 'AM forever from
his fellow naen.
He crept Itito.a field where the hedge.
rows were bright with autumn tint, Ile
threw himself down and tried to close his
hot, dazed eyee ; but the oky above him
looked blood -red, the air *teemed Ailed with
flames. Turn where he would, the pale,
despairing face that had looked Op to him
as the watere opened was before him. He
arose with a great cry, and wandered op.
He came te a little cottage, where rosy
children were at play, talking and laughing
in the bright sunshine. •
Great heaven! ,t/ow long was it since
the dead girl, now sleeping_under the deep
waters, was happy and liftht as they?
Heed again. Thin time the piercing
oryfilled his ears; it seemed to deaden his
brain. He fell in the Pala near the cottage.
Hoots afterward the children out at play
found him lying izr the dank grass that
fringed the pond under the elder trees.
slept in her room all night. We cannot
And her."
Ife =fled. at first., thinking, as she bad
done, that there most be some mistake,
eatd that Ws mother Was fanciful and her -
Vous; but, when Lady Helena, in quick,
hurried worde, told him of the onfastened
door and the ribbon'his foe grew serious.
He took the ribbonfrona the imaid'It hand
-.it seemed likea livieg part of hie dough -
ter. He remembered that he had eeen it
the night before on laer arose, when he had
held up the beautiful face to Idea it. He
had touched that same ribbon with his
band,
"She may have gone out into the
grounds, and have been taken ill," he said.
"Do not frighten Airlie, mother ; I will
leek round' myeelf."
He went through every room of the
house one by one, bot there was no trace
of her. Still Lord Earle had no fear; it
seemed se 'Irtterly impossible that any
harm pould have happened, to her. •••
Then he went out into the grounds, half
expecting, thebeautiful face to Braila upon
him from under the shade of her favorite
trees. He called aloud, " Beatrice 1" The
wind rustled 'through the trees, the birds
sang, but there came no antiwar to his cry.
Neither in the groods nor in the• gardens
could he discover any trace of her. He
returned to Lady Helena, a vague fear emu.
ing over him. ,
"I cannot And her," he said. "Mother,
I do not understand 'this, She eannethaVo
left as. She was not unhappy -my beauti-
ful child."
The first faint flush Of dawn, a rosy light '
brolter-ha-the-oster
golden shimmer 'was on the lake •as the
aunbeams touched it. The forest birds
awoke and began to sing; they flew from
brawl' to branch; the flowers: began to
open their "dewy eyes ; " the stately swans
wane out upoti the Jake, handing their
arched necks, sailing round the water lilies
and the green sedges.
The sun tthone out at length in his
• majesty, wain:dug and brightening the fair
face of gature-it was full aud perfed day.
The gardeners came through the park to
commence their work; the cows in the
pastore-land otood to be milked, the busy
world began to rouse itself; but the fatal
secret hidden beneath the cold, dark water
remained still udtold.
• CHAPTER XLI, •
•
•
The sun shone bright and warm in the
bre,akfast-rooin at Earlciecohrt. The rays
fell upon, the calm stately face of Lady
Helena, apon the grave counteoance of her
son, upon the bright, handsome features of
Lord Airlie. They . sparkled on the deli-
cate silver, and showed the pretty *china
to perfection. The breakfast was upon the
table, hut the three occupauts Of the room
had heal waiting. Lady Helena took her
.seat. • . .
-"It seems strange," she said to Lord
Earle, "to breakfast without either of the
airle. I would not allow Lillian to rise;
and from some caprice Beatrice forbade her
maid to call her, saying she was *ad."• Lord Earle made some Ittughing reply,
but Lady I.Ielena was not • quite please&
Punctuality•with her had always :keen. a
'fa-vorite virtue, lur eases -of, -real •illness,
allowance was of course to be made; bot
she herself hacl never considered a little
extra fatigue a sufficient reason for absent--
ing herself from table. •
• The two,gentlertten talked gayly during
breakfast. • Lord Earle asked Hubert if he
would go with him to Holte, and Lord
Airlie said he had promieed to drive Bea-
trice to Langton Priory: '
Hearing that, Lady -Helena thought if
:time to send .some litIle warning to her
• grandchild. : She fang for Susette • the
Maid who waited upen Beatric,e, and told
her to &al her young mistress. ,
• She stood at her writing -table, arranging
some letters, when the maid returned.
Lady Helena looked at her itt utter wonder
-Abe girl's face was pale and soared. .
"My lady," she said, "will yeti Please
genie here ?' You aka, wanted very particu-
larly."
• Lady t,ielena, without .speaking to either' ,
of the gentlemen, went to the deer where , • "Come away, Airlie 1" ' said Lord Earle.
the girl 'stood. ' . • - " I shall() mad. 1 °I 'will call all the ger- .
" What is it, Susette?" sheasked, what
She Made no answer, fearing to irritate
him if she tad the troth, and. soorning to
deny the love that was the crowning 'bless-
ing of hearlifei His anger grew. het •
silence.. Again the dark Abash rose in his
face, and hie eyes flanied with fierce light.
Suddenly' he" imMght sight of tie gold
locket she wore .rbund her neck, lostened
by the Mender &AM:
• What. is this thing'. you wear.?" he
aske&;.qt.tiCklyaleu-threw aside `my ring.
What is • this? Whose portrait have you
there? Let me see it." .
"You forget' yotirself again," she said,
drawitigherself hatightilyatatay. '-"71-haVe-
no account to render to yea of my friends."
" 1 Will see who is there 1" he exied,
beside himself with angryrage. #' Perhans
• I shall know then •Why you wish to be
freed from me: Whose face is lying near
your heart? ' Letare see. If it is that of
any one who has antwitted me, Twill throw
it into the depths of the lake." •
You shall not see it," she said, raising
her hand, and clasping the Tittle locket
• tightly. "lam not. afraid; Hugh Fernely,
You never USG N40101200 to MO." '
But tbe hot anger leaped up to hie heart;
he Was mad with cruel jealousy and rage,
and tried to :Match the locket from •her..
She.defended it, holding it tightly *clawed
in one hand, while With the other she tried
. •
to free herseltfrom hie grasp.
It. will never • be known how'. that fatal
accident happened. Men will- never 'know
• whether. 'the hapless girl fell, or whether.
Hugh Fernely, in his • mad rage, filing her
into the lake. There was a startled scream
that rang through the deer 'air, a heavy
fall, a splash amidst the waters of the lake.
There was ' one awful, despairing glom
from a pale, horior stricken face, and then
the watere closed, the ripples spread Oyer
the broad surface, sod the sleepiog lilies
trembled for a few mitutes, aud then lay
still again. Once, and Mace otly, awoman's
white handy -thrown. upas it were in agon-
izing supplication, cleft the dark waters;
and then. all was over ; the wind blew the
ripples more strongly, thejr. Nvashecl on
the grass, and the stir of the deep water.
subsided.
• lltigh tamely. ad not plun,ao into the
lake after Beatrice -it Was too late to dove
her; still, he might have tried. The cry
that rang through the sleeping , woodo
'seemed to,paralyte hitt-he stood like one
bereft of reason,sense and life. Perhapsthe
verystidclehriess of the event overpowered
hint Heaven wily .knows what passed in
his dull, crazed. mind while the girl he
loved Rank without help., Was it that he
would uctt eo.ve her for another-athat, in
his cruel love, he preferred to know libr
dead, beneath the cold. Waters, rather than.
the living, happy. Wife of another man
Or Was it that in the Sadden shook and
terror he never thought of trying to save
her
2e stood for hours -it seemed to him as
years -watching the Bot whete the pale,
agonized face had veanshed-watehbag the
eddying ripples and the green reeds. Yet
he never sought te savo her -never plunged
hito the deep waters, vihence he might
have rtisened her had he wished. He bettor
moved. He felt tui fatigue. The first
thing that roused. him was a gleam of gtoy
light in the oedema Oky dud the sweet,
faint ktertg of a little bird.
Then he saw that the day had broken.
, They allowed hina to enter, and Lord
Earle and his mother wont with him.
None iu that room ever forgot hie ery-the
piercing ory of the strong man in his agony
-as he threw himself by the dead girl'a
side.
"Beatrice, my love, my darling, why
oould 1 not have died for you ?"
ot,ind then with team Of eympatlay, they
showed hira how even in death the white
cold hand grasped his locket, bolding it so
tightly that no ordinary force could remove
it.
44 In life and in death.1" she had said, mad
she hod
To be continued -
in peace,"
"Let me think," he replied -"give me
a few utinutes ne matt could part with
the cleareet treasures ho has so hastily.
'Let Me thitik whet I loge in giving you Up."
CHAPTEZ XL,
They etohd for some time in poked
There was no slip of paper, no letter, ne
clew to her absence. Mother and son
looked blankly at eattother.
1IIiona1d,' she oried, "where is dm?
Where irthe poor ehild?"
He tried to comfort her, but fear' Wee
rapidly mastering him. ,
"Let us see if Airlie, can suggest any«
thing," he said.
• They went down to the breakfast-roorn,
where Lord Airlie still waited for the girl
be was never more to meet alive. He
tUrned round :with a smile, and asked if
Beatrice was coMing t the smile died from
his lips when he saw the pale anxious faces
of mother and son.
• " Hubert," said Lord Earle, '*" we are
alarmed -let us hope without cause. Bea.
trice cannot be found, She has not, seem-
ingly, slept in her room. My mother is
frightened," . •
Lady Helena bad' sunk pale aud trem.
bling, upon a couch. Lord Aline rooked
bewildered. Lord Earle told him briefly
how they had missed her, and what had
been done,
"She must be trying to frighten us," he
said; " Oho must havehiddeu herself. There
can't he anything wroogr Even as , he.
spoke he felt how imposeible it was that
hie aliguified 'Beatrice should have done
anything wrong. • . •
He could throw 320 light upon the sub-
ject. He had not seen her feed since . he
had kissed her wheit bitldiug her good -night.
Her maid was the last person torwhom she
had spoken, Susette • iota left her in her,
own rciom, bad siuce then nothing had
been seen or heard of Beatrice Earle.
• Father and lover weot out, together,.
Lord Airliviraggestifil thatellelid perhaps.
gone out 'into the garden and had met
with some accident. ahere. Theywaeit
• carefully over every part -there was no
trace ofBeatrice. They, went through the
'shrubbery out into the park,Where the quiet
lake shone amidst the green trees:"
' Suddeuly, like the thrust, of a sharp
sWord, the remembrance of the mornieg
spent upori the water came to Loyd Airlie.
.1Ie palled to mind Beatrice'sfeet-the cold
shudder that seized her when she declared
that her own Moe with al mocking smile
wao looking up at her .frorrs the depths . of
•
He walked hurriedly toward the lake: A.
Was calm and 'olear-the tall *reeds and
green eedges swaying ih the wind, the white
lilies rising and falling With the ripple.
. The blue sky and green trees were reflected
in the water, thepleasure boat Nvasleatened
to the boat -house. How was he • to know
the horrible secret of the lake? • •
...a. Care by imagination.
At a large hotel the not uncommon
dilemma aroge etthere being only one roem
in the house vacant when two visitors
required accommodation for the night. It
was a double -bedded chamber, or was soon
converted into stela, and the two guests,
who were both commercial travellers,
agreed to ehare it. One of these gentlemen
was a confirmed hypochondriac, and
greatly alarmed hie companion by waking -.-.
him up in the middle of the night, gasping
for breath. ." Asthma." he panted out, " I
am sobject to these spurned:lc attacks,
' Open the window quit:lily ; give mat air I"
Terriaed beyond naeasore, the other
jumped out of bed. But the room
.fwas pitch-dark; he had no, matchee, he,
had forgotten the position of the whidew.
• "For heaven's sake be quick!" gasped the
invalid. "Give me more air, or I shall
choke!" At length, by dint of groping
wildly and upsetting half the furniture in '
be apartmeht, the Window was found; but
.it was an old-fashioned casemeet, and he
hasp or catch was to be discovered.
"Quick, quiak ; air; air 1" inapleted the
apparently dying mail. "Open it, break it
or I. shall -be suffocated 1" Thus adjured his
fried lost no more time, but eeizing a boot
smashed every pane; -and the offerer
immediately experienced great relief. "Oh,
thank you, a thousand thanks," "Ha 1" he ,
exclaimed, drawing deep oighe which
testified. to the great coinfort he derived," I
think, in another moinent I should have
been dead!" And when he had sufficiently
redovered and had expreetted his heartfelt •
gratitude, be described the intense distress
of these attacks and the lentil of time he .
had suffered from them. After a while
both fell asleep again, devoutly thankful for •
the result. It was a warm summer night
and they felt no luconvettieace from the
brokeo window, but Whoa daylight relieved
the pitoh.doakness of the night the window
was found to be still entire 1 Had invisible
glaziers•been at work already, or was the
eilisode of the past night only a dream ?
No ; lor the floor was still strewn with the
broken glass. Then, as they looked round
theroona. in. amazon' ent, the selotion of the •
mystery -presented its.elf hi the shape of an
antiquated bookcaoe, whose latticed glass
doors were a ehattered wreek. The spas-
modically attacked ono was cured from that
.moment. So much • for imagination. -
Chambers' Journal.
vantri, an have C., regular searcli,"'.
• • is the niatter?". • • Id. 4 few minutes the 'wildest coithisiott
"For mercy's" sakot my. IOW' retdied* and dismay reigned in the Hall; Women
the maid; "cothe up -stairs. tI cannot wept alood, and Men's': wee grew pale with
find Miss Beatrice -she is not in herroom."; fear,. The beautiful, brilliant young mia-
sma the girl trembled violently; 6r Lady tress luiddisappeared, and none knew. her
Helena Would have Smiled atheaterfora • fate. They searched . garden,. park, and• '
grounds; meta intot basfewent hither and
"She • is probabisr With Milts Lillion," she
said; "why "make 'sit& & .reystery, thither; while ,Lady Earle lay half •dead
Susette 1" • • • ' • • with fear,' and,Lillian. rested calmly,
kuow
"She is not there,* my lady • I cannot ing nothing of What had happened.
findher,",--was the answer ' It was Lord Airlie who, first -suggested
"She may have gone out into the garden that the lake shatilda be dragged. The sun •
or: the grounds," said Lady'lleiena; rose high io the heavens then, and dhona
"Ivy ladY,"!Stisette. whispered, and. her gloriously over water and. land. • "
'frightened fate grew deadly pale; "her bed They found the drags'and Howson; the
has net been slept:in; nothing is touched butler, With Lee and Patson, two gardeners,
in her roonl ; she has not been in it all got into the boat. Father end lover stood
• tight." - •'. •• • side by Ride on the bank. The boat glided
A shoek of unutterable dread seized Lady softly: over the water; the men had been
Earle; a sharp spasm seemed. to dart once round, the lake., but without any
through, her heart. • , • • f•result. Hope was rising again in. Lord
"There must be some atietake," she Airlie't hea�,w.heta he saw those in the
said, gently; " I•will go up-stairswith pm." boat leek at eacili other, then at him.
• The roomswere Without occupant; no "My lord," said Cowden, Lord Earle's
disarray of jewels, flowers, or dresses,no valet, coming -up to Hubert, pray :take
little slippers; no single trace,of Beatrice's my , master horde; they have.found some:.
presence was there. • -• • thing at :the bottom . of the lake. Take
. The pretty white bed was uototachedno him home ; and please keep' Lady Eftrle
one had slept in it; thablindewere drawn, and the Women out of the vra,y.". • -
ari4 the sunlight struggled to enter the "What is it?" criedLord Earle. "Speak
roam: • Lady Helene, walked mechattically to me; Airlie. What is it?" • • •
to the Window, and drew aide -the toe "Come away," said Lord Airlie. "The
oortaine; •then shalooked round. • • merawill net work While we are here."
"She has not slept here," she said; "she 'Their had found something beneath the
roust have slept With Muse Lillian. You water; the drags had caught in a woman'S
have frighteued ree, Susettel Iwill go and dress; and the onieti • in the boat stood
see myself.". metionless until Lord Earle Was out of
'. Lady Helena went through the:pretty sight.' •• •', ,
silting room, where the books Beatrice had Through the depths of water they -saw.
been reading lay upon the table, on to Lil- the &int of a white dead face, and a float-
lian'e chamber. ing mass of dark hair. They raised the
The "paling girl was' awake, looking 'pale body with. reverent halide. Strong men
andlangoici, yet better thanshe had looked wept ahead coathey did so. r One covered,
the night before. Lady Earle controlled the quiet (age and another' wrung the drip.
all emotion, aud went qinelay up 'to her: ping 'watch, from thelong hair. The sun
"Have you seen 13eatrieethie morning 2" , 0hono on,. as threigh in mockery, while they
she asked. "1 want her." ' carried the drowned girl hotne.• ' •
Net" replied Lilliau.; "I have not seen Slowly . and with halting steps they car.
her silica just before chimer last evening." tied her through the ivartia duhny park
"She did notaleep with you, thdo" emid where' 'he was never more to. tread;
Lady Earle. through the, bright sunlit gardens;
• "No, elle did hot sleep here," responded through the hall and up the broad stairease,
the young girl. '. . the water dripping from the dark hair and
• Lady Helena kissed 'Lillian's face, exta falling in large drops, iuto the pretty
quitted the room; a deadly, -horrible fear. &amber •she had so latelV quitted, full of
-wee 'turning her faint and old. Prom the life and hill
ope. Tey laid her on the white
rente of rooms Lord garl had prepared and ,bea Wherefrom her eyes would never more
arrangedfor his daughters a staircatie ran open to the morning light, DA went away.
whichlea into the garden. 'Ito had thought "Drowned, drownedl Mewled and
at the time how Oaf:nicht it would be for diad 1" VitttEl the cry that went, from lip to
them. As Lady Helen. emtered, Susette lip till it reached Lord Earle Where he set,
stood upon the %tears with a bow Of Pitik trying to soothe his weeping mother.
ribbon in her hand. • "Mowed 1 Quito dead 1' Was the cry
"My lady," she Baia," fastened the that reached Lillitte in her siclaroom, and
outer door of the stairease last night brought her , down pale and ttenahling:
myself. I looked it, and shot the bolts. It Dtowned and dead hours ago Were Cm
is unfastened now, and I have foutici this werds that drove toed Airhe toad with
lyingby it. Mise Earle wore it Set evening 11 '
on her dress." . •
" Something terrible must have hap.
pened," exclaimed Lady Helena. "SuRette,
ask Lord Earle to come to me, Do not say
Wad te any One,"
Ile stood by her side hi fear mintiteta
looking in mute weeder at her pate, seated
face.
" Donald," she said, '4' Beatrice bag p61
• itibeirt Earnrd rand Niti4 Mother. "
London letter 88413 Europe, as
You kuovr, royalties -are nearly all related: •
When one dies all the..:rest_go :into _
ing and suspend pleasure. A comnion
result of this •is whale passage of arms
betweenthe Queen and'the Prince of Wales
at this.morcient• The Duke of Saxe•Ooburg
died two or three days ago, just when the
Goodwood races were •in full swing; and
when the. Prince of Wales was 'enjoying
himself very mueli, indeed at the mansion
of the- Duke of Richmond. Instantly the
. Queen telegraphed to the ,Prince desiring
him td return t�London. • The Wince tienl.
bunt word that he could weep just as freely
for. the departed second cousin at Good-
wood as la •...Marlborough • house., The
Queen insisted cin hid not going to thp races,
The Prince replied that he raust,'wherisupon
the Omen:, in a great rage; telegraphed,
positive 'orders to ,the Duke .of Bachmond•
not to allow any dancing at' Goodwood •
Imam' during the•races. '• Thus the Prince
goes 16 the races in the daytime, but tias to
contents himself without tripping the •par-
tidularly light and fantastic. toe which he
loves' to wield vsrhen any fair dames are
about., I, now hear , that he will go ,t6
Coes next week, but the newspapers
have been 'asked* net to. :t�
hie presence, as he iotends to be
at 'the regatta almost intopnito The
Queen, too, being at Osborne, would
he -a trifle too handy for •hitri; • and he
• would'in all probability find that merry-
making at Cowes.tvas •followedby a little
enforeed penitence at ()Aherne. • The •
Prince evidently • has lost none. of his
original diead- rif" his , august mother's
anger.
Imagines or atenson
A short time ago a fine specimen ole
water spaniel gave birth to a litter of five
• healthy pups at No. 813 Hempstead street, •
and a few days afterward a, servant 0
napped Iwo them. At first the mother
did not seem to display any teeling of
'regret, but it soon becanae apparent that
the supply of milk was intended ter fiVe
instead of three mouths. This tact hemline
.somatent to the Mother that stila sought
Pie a remeciy,,,,,,,aud discovered it in the.
gimps of two ' kittens, -which she badly
took from their quarters under a lumber
pile in thesame yard. These two adopted
children were placed: with their stepbtothers .
• and. sieter, and were fed by their new •
'guardian or stepmother.' She could not
hove mistaken them for her offspring, Inas-
muela as she knew of their' existence
before her babies were taken from h'er,
and saw them daily, She could have taken
the kittens before had she thought they
were part of her family, but it was only
when she was obliged to And relief for her
breasts that she resorted to the Modell
mentioned.-Masouti Repo/Aim. .
to tomes
They could riot tealize 5. tIOW had it
happened? What had take!). her in the
dead of night to the lake? -
They sent messengere right and left to
surotron doctors in hot baste, as ths?Ugh
human skill could avail hor now. .
"I Mast SOO her," gold Lord Airlie.
"11 you dci not Wish td kill Me, let me toe
. •
now Mika are Cavell
the .
In e repOrt of Sir Edward Thornton,
lately 'Minister at Washington, and now
Atabitseador at'StaPetersburg, attention is
drawn tia certain bayeterious Area both in
warehouses and aboard ship, which, after
careful inquiry by a police committee and
a board otunderwriters in New York, have
been traced to consignments of black silk,
The immediate cause of danger is, it
appears, the chemical materials now used
to glare weight as well as imptoved color to
the silks. The art, says the report, has
oohed such perfection that the weight of
the 'lethal silk- cat! be inoreased four -fold
without apparent adulteration; but the
mieorals, vegetables, acids and While thus
used, combined with animal subetames
and the natural gorra of the Bilk, consti-
tute a fermentable eompound which
generates eirbonization or oombustion
under pressure, Coniinertent and heat,
That the black Bilk goods have igbited
spontaneously from these coos and
caused eerione fires is &moldered to
abundantly.proved by the evidence. -Len -
den Neits.
The, position of auditor of 0, S. Beltway,
rohaered temporarily vacant lay the resig-
nation of hit H. Taylor, has been Otaferred
upon IL 3. Pelton. • Mr. Felton heti been
eugegoa la the aerviee of.. cotap, any,
and latterly ha a ofdoe of ohief •
Waiter eletk; •