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Sept. 2',4, 1.881.
A Song.
• "1 want you to put ine where I cause° th
Ocean." -President Oarfle14 to the knower:v.
Afar from the deep blue sea,
Mar frem thy choral ot• waves,
A child who had yearned lay thee
Vorthy murmuring music crave';
For the laugh of thy binows that hound
In play amid shells on the shore,
Or dashing o'er rocks that resound'
ttoubied and stormy roar. •
Lot him for the greenwood sigh•
whose home le its leafy bower -
whose heart at the twilight hour
Offers emblems of peace to tbe sky.
Els may be the breeze
That rustles the forest flower,
Or stirreth a thousand trea8
To ae anthem of stenth and power
-But give me the sea-girt isle.
Hy forefathers' home and grave,
'Mat basks in the mutual smile
O f kunlielit and rippling wave
Its billows sewn all my own,
And the skies reeve riser to me,
"Whose arch rests fondly down
On the breast Or the healthig Sett.
aries Carter, crun., of New York, in, the'For
Inereal4 (.4ed 2ikepositor,181a, ,.ing
18th,180.1
•
AVIONOE I) Air LAW.
eitory or Love and Daring.
• . ......--
author of " What 11e Cost Iler,"
. o owenewine's Harvest," and other
. nenular norls, -
' CHAPTER I,
• IN
•• • "Who travelsby Donnerblielt Bears
takes a bad road," ring; a local proverb in
Craven; • and, like most proverbs, it• con:
tains a half truth. The ort-traolt is, in
fact, so wretched that it has no right to
• the nanpt of.the road, especially too, since
in the winter time it is not used hymen At
all, but is the sole odoupation of a' mon a-
totrent. Such being the ease oxen at
this present., whon -Craven (British, tlratg'.
van, ',District of 'lecke") is the snintner
• haunt of tourists, demanding to he carried
eVerywhere in wheeled ceuvoyances; we
may , imagine it, was no better in, the
year ef grace 1820. 'At that Very. date,.
however, and somewhere aboutenidinglit in
• September, two travellewmight lattei been
• seen (for luoleily for thorn there was it
moon)'essaying that: ill -reputed•
W 04r
in a gig. Western Yorkshlre,, as geogra.
pliers are aware, does not'fringe the • sea -
.coast, and yet. upen the left band of, the
wayfarers arose a, Wallof cliff as sheer and
massive as any which oppose itselft�
ocean scattered fragments of rock, .too,
• similar to those which are. found an the
sea -beach, strewed the track, and in such
numbers as to he utavoidable; Whet there
was of roadway, independent of these, was
a natural lime.Stene • pavenielit;• with
B:ssuredin it at unequal intervals.' The
heve thotiglit; hit a haw
been made of boxwood et_leitet lieve
resisted stuili continuous •sliciells-; aka how
the springs stood would have • Lege: ;4
/uarvel to Such as Were unacquainted .with
thefact that the gig had no springs.
• " Nciw, Calor, pull np,-and lot me •out,"
pried•one of.the inmates, after a conenesion
-Whielrmade every; timber in •the- homely
coutevanee rattle and creek. •ttl'd rather
• get along upon all fours, if that benecesNitry,
• thim •sit through another jolt %he that..
Oorne, retme out,•1 Bay," • •
The tone Was thatetwonld:be determine.
tiou, that Mixture Of ,peremptoriness . and
•coeciliation., which is the certain ii:dex of a
dependent Mind. The :reply • woe cquallY
dignificont of. a • dispOeition-dogged arid
obstinate, not easily Molded to•••200tIter'e
hand, but once. being. so, fittedto bo
.iitstz.unaent for bccd.or good, without much
' iscruple. ' " - • • • •• •
.'" Sit where ye be, 1 silk. 11S. ettlere
wore, I was never•to loso hold on ye,lor that
yo were unfitted to Walk alone.' .
" But looleyeu, Sirrah-hunderwst
it hump 1 1' pretest I • thought iny
bone was broken, • How dare you talk to.
nie in that fttellion? Am not I your zees.
• ter. sir?" •' •• .
" Ay, ay, that's like ()nought but my
orders come fromthe master of both cif u.s•
Sit you down 1 say ;" and the driver seixed -
. the other's wriskas he strove to. rite, anti
forcedhim down with iree grip on to the
• Wet again. • •• • , • • .
my word, this - is pretty
• treatment," • observed the victim •
queru-
• lously ; e it really: is, .i0iitor. Why, , you
• cc:4'14111,1 treat me'lluich worm if 1 misplay
of the patients."•.- . • ,
• • '4 Well," died • the ilriver, slapping his
• thigh," brits-thatto -a• goode one ;
treat you much Worse!" . Hero he lauglied
, loud slid hershly that the merinitein--
•, walls were forced, though sfillenly enough,
•' to re.teliO. his cheerless mirth. 4` Ah,
Clement 'Carr, buti think Leonid." .
.".Don't laugh like that," 'enclainied his:
coMpatrion,:earneetly ; "don't do it; pray
• don't; tia don't talk of sueb. things.: My.'
..brother said wctwere never -to talk of them; .
even to One another." •
" Ah, did he?" replied the men thatwas
called Caters in a sobered. Ono. "Well;
then, I ex his •pardon. Mr. Gideon is o-
•• knowing one, he is, else what ecneld.he the
harm of talking about any mortal thing on
• Donnerbliek Soars .at midnight, . with
nobody but the devil -who knows ell about
•rig ;already, I re -liken -Within hearing; is
more thee I Can tell, and. devilish funny."
" Cater, be quiet, 1 say," interrupted Mt.
• Carr a1nostwit &scream'. -; "Don't speak
of anything dreadful like that ;. and
• eivear -for :Heaven's' sake .don't swear-
' .ulitil we.come to the turnoilgerattl"
"-Then 1 shall talklikea parami•• to the
end of this journey, that's certain; Mr.
Clement.. Thereis no turapike or 'any.,
thing like it, between thie and dyffe Halt,
Why,,• you're never. 'eatitified, you ,
• Yot didn't like the'rnoer-teaelt„ as we came
• 'alOngr,an'y better, just because it was a
• little sluehy-like." • • •
• 'Ib was 'a.„ quagreire," answered the
other, shuddering at the bare recolleetioe ;
"k was a Oinking, stinking, swamp." .
.•" Ay; 'end I know Who Was a shaking,
quaking summut else," replied the other
• malielottely, intliat 'ere place, whoa
was 0...telling You that pretty', story about
the youog woinan and her sweetheariyho
was lost in that very qua g years and years
age, and was dugout since, only the other
clay, as one might gay, ttll resh and
pleasant,• only a trifle, browned with the
peat, and all of a sudden we plumped in tip
to the .axles-eey life, didn't, you turn. a
• pretty color 1". • '•
Again Mr, Cator re'lieved Lis feelings by
• . peal after peal of diecordentlaughter, stud
again the unwilling rooke returned his
Mirth. ••
" This- is- truly, harrible," obeerved Xr.
Clement Carr, as he clung in agony of
tore& to this side rail of tho gig which was
now descending :a sub of .precipiee-" to
• travel such a toad as this in company with
such Arnett!" •
•,fhte spokein a toneoeplotie reprobation,
sail as would, have galled' mast .people
Clothed With any remnant of self.respeet,
But Mr. Cater,whO had long parted with
his last rag, only laughed the mote.
of all the lily-livered Chape• as ever I .carae
aorosS, strike me blind --bat yoti ate-
" Dot't," groaned the ether, the image
of his Corapanioni. sightless, immediately
PrOSenting .itaelf before hint "There is
lightning in the air. Pray don't How
should I Over find my way aloue.out of this
howling wilderness ?"
"Ay, howling b is,"- rejoined the driver,
looking over the Shoulder grimly at his
unconsoious companion -a sbortbut corpu-
lent man of •middle age, who might be
•termed " gentlenian,n so far as a new suit
of broadcloth and a decent hatband could
carry hive towards that social elevation,
"you never spoke a truer word than that,
Mr, Clement. Have you not heard
strange sounds ever since we passed
1 the Kirkstane, like the rushing alla rolling
of thuuder
" yes, Cider, yes, Ithought-and hoped
• -it was onlya. sort of Ringing in my own
i
ears. What s it, my good. friend ?-.what
on earth is it ?"
• —
"it's nothing on earth," Ur. Clement,"
respemled the other gravely ; it's the
waters under/math us on their way to Hell
Oates."
"Heaton. forgive me, the man's gone
mad I" ejaculated the stout man, the thin
red lines whiola were hislips growing white
with fear.
" Well, and what if I was mad, Mr.
°lenient ?" pursued the other with a leer.-
" You would know bow to quiet me, I sup-
pose, as well as any man except XI:.
Gideon; that isle say, you wOuld if you
had we at the Done, although here, per-
haps, I should rather Eave the advantage
• of you, being the more powerful of the
two. My life, .but it would . be a pretty
game if. you were to be .paid out for all
your tricks in that very "wity-t Think of
one of those poor wretches whom we have
lab, behind us -yonder °Oohing you here
alonerunder the harvest moon, and settling
his long aeoceint Rebid you for •
".Yeti're not to talk , about it, Cater ;•
you're not talk about it," interrupted the
other piteously; 4"and besides, we do At all
for their good ;:,and if' I do but get sae
home, it shall never be does again, so help
...••••1
me -it never shall!"
"Well, you are :a clever. one," ()Worm',
the driver, 'admiringly, "and you've • a
certain pluck about yout-thet I will say,
although you are Buell an evorlaating
coward.. Now, to think of your attempting
to gammon Providermethr- that -way 1 It's
„aOut above me, • audeithas a Sad. I•
shouldn't have the face to ;let ithout it.
• Why, yeti' know as well as I do that if you
only get estfe outof this, bed road end
indifferent eonipany; and ones. fluid yourself
in clover again et the Done, you'll be
thau ' ever ; Jor won't you be taking it out
of them as is left, for ell the torrore you
have suffered in briuging this news of "our
dear lemented friend as has exchanged our
guardianship for a piece where we
aro assured even yet more tender care. will
be taken of him 1" sills sanotimenicius
smithe with which these last words were,
delivered proclaimed thom at once to be a
quotation from Kr, Clement Carr liimeelf,
nrhoiis ordioary speech, .when „net under
Abu- loilnence --altirmr-ilt-reapy-rather.
bunpily parodied. $o delighted, at all
events, was far,-Cator with the, success of
tlie inikatien, that he indulged 'himself
with another' of hie joyless pereedies; This
Wat4 duly reverberated, as usual, with the
curions hunitning . Winn& not •
clieceruiblo in the erigieal... "There," ob.
•eereed, Mr. Cater„....triumphautly, that's,
NOuit bereeii of tryingto gammoh 'Prove .
d6ucn. There's Red Grates:abiling.".
, .
•
• trust tho gromid -may not. open,"
ejemilated the sheik man, piously" Verily
treet the' groued. mayin"t. Open-Withueitig
• eine) 'wicked word." • ‘' • ,
' Dut. thatie the very -thing *it's a•going
tc . do,"' returned • the other With o sneer .;
"5t/whets the,use of trusting?. Here we
are, letik,.at the very .edge Of. Baden POt-
otherwiee vatted •Hell Gates -and '
sight to ne seen: Ain't. the ground. just
opened withaveegeance, oh, Me. (fierilent ?"
'Urdu the right-hi:1,nd sidp of the : cart -
track, and riepatitted from it fiy.. no fence of
eey • kind; gaped:a chasm, •
far cloWn in which- theunseenwater wee
bubblhig.and •einimering; as though • it
.1:reread did boil. ' • . • ' • :•
vv add younot like to atop out new
and just crane over a bit ?" inquired :the
Jast ..spintker; maliciously, pulling 'the
poW'orful black mare le arrive so ttucldenly
up That he reared within a Ow feet or tbe
frig), trial eevity„ "Why, darned it the nitin
isn't elnitting his eyes l-shuttiegailtt.eyee,
hut moving bus lips, 'Why; you a
garatooning Providence dpain, . surely
There, „that's right; take a , good long look
..sit it: People come ;,frona miles eivaV and
spend o -deal o' Money to see Boderi. Pot
even whenit ain't ashilingos it ie„to-night.
:13at you're -in luck, yeti abr. ' • • • . •
If Mr. Clement Carr; part ,..prciprietor of
that . farnoik asylum for the nobility mid
• gdntry-ef aberrated intellect, called the
Done, Yarkshire,.. wile in luck upon the
,present occasion,his 'countenance exhibited
no vulgart triumphs or. oven Complacency.
Itt fact, if we had not had the' word of the
veraehnis. Mr. gator to tlie contrary, ono
• would have pronouhced • him to have.
beeti. in the worst luck ocinceiyable, so.
abject was his appeerauce, as, clieging to
his 'favorite . rail, and bowing. .4is Whole
'Weight on the' side of .the gig most remote
from the object of his torrent, he regarded
the curious natural phenomenon thus Pre-
seuted to hie notice. •' •
• "•/ waa born add bred in Craven Myself,"
continued the •skeepere's•for such wee the
position which, the driver of the* vehicle
occupied when • et. the Dene--" and yet I
• have never seen this sight but once 'before.
.Thereuinethave_beereedwarf:train on -the -
moors of like, that's certain., There's
always rain enough, of deirree.74. for. all the
• inidergreend rivers as you, have heard
itirdehiug beneath you -the singing in your
•earetsas you called WLercitity themeolvoce
'hero, But as for •biliag, that's rare.". '
.
"X have • quite satisfied . my 'curiosity,
Cator," observed Mr. Carr in a hollow voice,
and speaking with, no, little difficulty on
eceetint. cif• a tendency of his tongtie• to
cleave to tho roof of his mouth:, •• • •
••• " Very geed, sir," replied tho other with
Meek 'rowed. • "1. am sure yonr wish is
my law only, Mr. Gideon said •1 was to
'take the greatest care -of this here mare ;•
couie niong we aud wants -rest)
'and hero's a nice bit of teed ground -
there's notrauch of 'it irtCraVen-as.seems
to be put a -Purpose for her: to rest upon.
I'm sure you woaldn't he cruel -to animals,
Mr. Cierrient ; cruelty is something totally
foreign to your nature; •"our 'syetein is
• opposed to violence of all deseription,'"
here he snuffled again, "130. let Up bide a
bit, and wit for the Beggart." ' • • '
"Tho Boggert I " Whispered Mr. Clement;
hoatsely, ceding. an apprehensive gismos
• about him for an,enstent, and thee refuting
his gaze apou the chasm, as thorigh fas-
cinated by its horkid,depths, "what is the
Roggart ? •
"Whoa 1 heve itt naypipe,"returnedMr.
William Caters suiting tivi eetion to the
word, I shall be delighted to give you all
the information in. rhypowers What a"
(puff, whiff) " fortunate nuiti you are to
visit Craven for tho first time with a guide
like Me:"
thelie.parts,he Res by the former name., as
a sad of territorialUtle. 'When ha is not
elsewhere, hereabouts -at Staynton Hole,
Ribblqside Pit {which you Omuta see by
the bye), or Withgill Wells, 'all country
seats of his in these 'parts -he is sure to be
M Peden Pot. See bow the white water
churns down yonder, just where the moon
catches it, like the froth on it readrean's
lips. One hundred and eighty feet sheer,
they say, Blr. Clement, from where the
rank grass ceases to- grow; and there, at
the very edge, do you eee a footprint deep
• in the stone, with the toes pointing down-
wardz
Following the direction of the speaker's
finger, bis companion could just discover a
bare spot, something of the shape' of a
human foot, Tite suggestion of it fellow.
creature having ever Stood • in such a
position might have sent a. chill to it bolder
heart than Kr, Carr's.
" I see, I see -it is too frightful,"
answered he, hastily; "it looks like cer-
thin death."
"1 should think it did," remarked Mr.
Cator, dryly; "aud it would have been
• death too, if theluau lio.d not been dead
,ttlready."
" Dead already?" echoed the other,
44 now could a dead man plant a.footstep
like that ? "
"Ab I how,indeed, Mr. Clement? You
• must alik the judge before whom the case
was tried a century ago. Now, think of
your not knowing that, awl you it relative
by marriage of the iiarty in question t
don't Mean the Po,ggart-altliough I have
seen yon under circumstances when you
might have plied for. own brother to Um;
-but Guy Clyffard of Clyffe, an ancestor
of the very man whose sudden and dopier,
able death-,-."
" HeaVena mY witness that could not
• be helped," interrupted his companion
earnestly. "He brought if -upon himself,
Cater. It was a question of his life or ours.
DO/0 you think the mare is sufficiently
tested, my good friend/ The moon is
sinking ; it is getting sensibly darker,"
"Did: I not "say sudden and de'plor.
able," Mr. Clement? Why, 'yen
oould • not have eaUght me up
more, .ifintrply, if I had hinte4 at it
coroner's 'quest. -.Guy Clyffert, then, was
a faraway ancestor;althongh in the direct
line, of our late lamented friend and
patient; and if there had been moll ao
oetablishment as 010 Done in those days,
ought most certainly to have been placed
there under -whet is eur • phrase? -
judicious aieraIreetraint. But there was no
benevolent institntien'of the kind thou
extant,' and so this .mad fellow 'went 'at
largo. I can't tell you what he did,. or•
rather what he ilid„ not de, to make Satan
his friend, but it is certaia' he brought the
purse upon the ,Clyfrards: -There is an
ugly story about hie Invieg left a mother
and Child in the eaves under Bibble forest
youder, to find -their Way out by them,
selves' abut-7ot -all. -eventsehe was not it
-
moral • character, • like - you and me.' He
Married e' queer wife, too. .The ClyiTards
have efted done that, although it is only of
late yearythat they hitve married beneath
them -nay, don't be 'angry, Mr. ClOnieht ;1
• Mean no offence to Miss Grace as was -but
in that resneot GuyOlyffard outdid them
No:pair were, over so cordially hated
as they by the Whole •:Fell.sida Woll,after
a Pretty long les:so of lite, and •having BoWed-;
.his„ full crop of tares, as it pertion, Would
'Say: the Squire . fell sick mid was net ex-:
.pected to• recover:, About -that; time, on a
certain day ittJuno, one Mr. Howarth:(his
family live in Thorpdare yet) was otter -
Minting iu Boden Beck -ib breaks into the
open above and below the Pot here, and is
still famed for 'otters -and- there Was a'
matter df four-aud-twenty folks with. hini
onfoot and on horseback.; While they
were at elide% not a huedred yards -from
whitre.we Ore standing . now; o couple of
men came ruheieg,upthe Fetlwitlie±ceed-',
'ing swiftness. • : • -• •
4 Thee°be well -winded' Bela' Howard
to -his huntsmen.; never did 1 tee men run
SO feat before.' • , • ,
'."•Why, Heaven Bayous t the -one•in grey
le Squire -Guy Clyfferd,' replied,the hunts-
man. • 'And who is in black thot•folleWri.
him soClose ?' • -, •
" But nehodyinewered that, olthdugh.
• all the hunt lied -got their eyes:fixed upon
thTheidymming.pair,. They ran on at head-
long speed right towards the Pat lit was -not
celled lioll Gats then); and .Guy's faze
Ideated-like:a hunted hare's they .said, so it
is like he knew who Was :behind hi ; . then
ha • fled down the cleft, though all cried: out
to him to stop, mad iftto.the • yawniug gnlf,
as if for sholter7 Mid...that. was his last foot-,
step.which is printed there.' Thetewasno
dime 'mark brelse,: though .the • Min in
black took the.sanse.road, Clyfferd's.Leap
they. sometimes call it. ' There • vas no
more otter-hiniting after that 7 but Howarth
goes ettaight home, itu'd tells .his wife he i's.
sure theSquireis dead, for he his just seen:
him: chased by the devil into Bedell Pot.
And 'etre enough he had breathed hie last
in Olyffe Hall at that very' time. You may
inippose how this was talked of over all the
; so. ranch. • so ; that Medina
Cly,flard,-. the widow, brought her action
,againet Mr. Howarth for publishing the
Mandel that ' he had 'Been her &cored
•husbatid driven lute hell; and the defence
set tip •• wits this that he had so' seen hint:
• Sho laid the :damages. at five thousand
pounds. It was.tried • before 'Judge
Bciltby, at. York, io 16e7, .` The • wit-
Uesses for Mbilani were the doctor. and
:e.ther-two,1: who had been, with -the.Squiro
when he died. • He had 'refused to-, go to
:bed, and insisted upon being dressed in a,
new gray hunting -suit,, itt which to take
the field the Moment he felt bettor.. Btit
Howarth, on his part, had his four -and-.
• twenty men, of whom • the 'huntsman and
• many others sWore to the very•buttons on
the saldseitrwhichthey hadobserved Were
covered With, the 'scone eortok eleth whereof
•the cloth was ina;de. It is impossible to
resiet such testimony ;:ato, the Aage gave
iete it like.: the rest. • Lord have mercy
upon me l' said Iv 'and grant 1 hiay never
Roe what you have 'eon.: oho or two may
. be mistaken, but five -laid -twenty cennot be
mistaken..t. • • So Madam .01y/ford lost her
cause," •'• ' • . ..••
Bub the•Boggert 1" exelahnect Mr. Cle-
ment, enthralled, despite histerrors, by
this*singular narrative,
" Well, the Beggart hail haunted Bedell
eer since, De, you see 'these stones, aft
large as eggs,,Which he has cast up from
the water in his rage; and lido:146u will
'heat him mush -1g to .himeelf„ far down lit
the 41eptlis of Hall Gates:" • "
'The bubbling and boiling had by thie
time • euheicled, bet as the pair listened
attentively,' it dull, monotonous sound -
doubtless thrglutting of the swollen pool
against the roolocould bodistinotly hoard.
Tho two men listened for a little in total
silence, then, Come up; roare-come tip,"
ejaculated Mr. William Cator master
hati had enough or the lloggart."
. Master had 'had so .neuell of hitri that he
never spoke it Word . until the dark and
perilous way lay Well behind them, and
they were moving swiftly along upeh what
was by toteparison a level road.
- "Are there no mere bowidere, or under -
round rivers, or Pots, William?" inquired
. Clement Carr with asStinana carelesti-
11005, . ,
"Nothing More, sir," replied hie 00m.
anion with IMMO triage of • conventional
onA,PInn 11,
• VOrquorrrtim ADVatirtirts om tirt4 ircrr
exAtiTAn.
"Tho Bogart," commenced Mr, William
Cater, calmly, "is what is more generally
kneWri ati the Devil; but while he is in
re:',"44'." •
respect apparent,. in his tones foe the Arst
time, " I thoughtyouwould think it rathera
wild journey over them Fells."
"It 1 ever aortae that accursed road
again," exclaimed Mr. Cleinent, breathing
very hard, and shaking hie fist lathe direo,
tion from whicbi they ettElle*- "may the
Aend in truth ily away with MO, as those
otter hunting fools, fancied they saw him
"I say," interrupted Ur. Williazn Cator,
checking Ina steed for the second timiei
"jot you take care what you are talking
about.'
"Why? where? what?" uoterrogated the
other, apprehensively, "You. told* me
there was nothing more to be alarmed at."
"Don't you go making a teat ia the place
we're coming to of what happened to folny
Clyfferd, Mr, Clement. The Olyffards are
an old family, and hug their traditions
after it fashion which you mayn't under.
stand. They're particularly proud, I
believe, of the ancestor who brought th.e
curse upon them. If he Man go downward
by the way of Hoden Pot, it is certain he
took some other road to the same place;
but it was a, Ane thing, and it compliment
to the Olyffarde to be fetched by the Prince
of Darkness."
4,1 an sure they are weloome to any
superstitions they please," observed the
other with it grating laugh. "Folly of that
sort is always it step utt the right direction,
and I trust that ono member of the family,at
least, may always qualify himself for a
residence at the Dene,"
• "Ay, you, rim callit superstition, Mr.
Clement Carr; "but if you had lived boy
fkud. Man for it quarter* of aoettbury within
a mile of Clyffe Hall, you would not be so
glib with your tongue."
." You are an ignorant and iineduoitted
roan, Cater," returned the other loftily,
and therefore such 0reclidity, fostered by
locol prejudice, is in your mum only netu.
rid." •
• "Very good, Mr. Clement," answered the
other dryly. "Perhaps we shall differ less
about this matter to.raorrow morning."
to -morrow morniug less then now,
'.my good Cater ?" inquired • the other, with.
an air of careless patronage. • •.
"Because you will have slept upon it sir,
which is said to often alter a man's opinion,
and more especially as you will have done
BO in Clyiffe
"But there's nothing against the Hall,
my Ood Cater, is there Mrs. Clyffard
has never breathed it syllable of anything
impleasant?"
"Nothing, air, nothing,. exeopt those
tales whieh credulity,fostered by lotted
prejudice,' is so apt to invent, anti which:
iguorant and u•nedueated' folks aro so ready
to believe, But Yonder' is Otyffe Hall
itself; we 'shall have a =pie of hours'
sleep before daybreak yet, if we,puell on.".
"1 shall not go to bed to•night, ' said Mi
Clement Carr decisively; it Would be
scarcely worth While." •
Mr.. William Cater ehuckled aloud.
• 't And look you, Cater, perhaps our etay-
ing in the house may be lookee upon as an
intrusion. at this period of • the family
affliction. • To -morrow night we will. sleep
a•t`tihTdhienru."
•
eisno returned
the driver malieiouffly. Here are the
lodge forme; please to•hold the raine,*while
I got out aud ring the.hell."• • - •
.
••• CHAPT411 IH.
IntOrima :On BIBTE11.•..
It was the quieteilt- honeof the twenty.
four, • as, we itt our egotism are wont to
speak, as•thoirgli it were not Inc • otherwise
With the majority, ofour follow' Creatures
on this Orb, and busy inicIdey with oak otvu
fleaI and blood in the under world.. The
high harvest -Moen at lull was flooding the
silent weeds With mellow light, and crown-
ing' the eternal lithe With selenin splendor.
.Throxigh the iron • gates; •'the avenue
stretched larand wide, and the broadoitits
..threw-oach it'shadow ofitSelf on the east-
ern aveard,„as: perfect as thotigh it Were .a
cad Mantle. At the end of the long vista
rose the midmost tower of Clyffe ;' Mid
on botheidete. beyond ' the trees, vast:
masses' of the. stately - onsioa , or at least
of its girdling terrace, could be seen sleep.
,ing in the ineonbearns like some enchanted
pile or lairyleed. • Aeimuct it etiread the
park; Wooded sea enowled, . the ferey
eouchirig-plece of many • at antlered herd
and behind it, as far as the eye eduld range,
rose the dark background of Ripple Forest
end *Fell. • It was a scene to make the
• lightest hearted thoughtful, and .yet, if
Vieviedaright; to lighten the bur•den ef 'the
mod sorrowful. It mattereeset which Orb
beholds it, or if peitheif does. Autumn
after ,autumu, age alter age, • the innocent
night wears still this precious jewel of the
harvest moon upen her brew; and the soft
effulgence overflows the world; and steeps
it•iit heavenly - splendor,. whether Mortals
oare to Mark it ofno, as the Urin3, and
Thummin shone in the same, whether he
who looked upon them, perceived the pre••
solace of the Lord of Hosts, or only beheld
&burnished breastplate. . • ••
upon all the crowded towns it shinee,
where the children Of honest labor .sleep*
unconscious of it ;; as upon the•loaely
deso-
late moorlands; where there is 'none to
gaze upon its lavish sheen. 'Whatever it
i
bathes n its mild radiance, straight grows
fair, except the faces of the wicked. Fat
and afraid, irresolute and,eruel, Clement
Carr eat in the epringless gig looking like
Vulgar yiteUtug,. The. ceuntenence :of
Mr: William Cator, also, -who did not .con.
trive to waken the lodge -keeper (although.
he clung on to•the bell as though he were
tithing • pert in a bob major) with 'liiit
first,. nor yet With his second summons',
was 'harsh - and grim es the etone 'deer-
hbende thatsat on either side the portal.
When the gates were opened 'it last, he
lathed thO mare into it .gallop, . as though
'she had been thd cense . of their :eong•
detention. Still, even these men;:liti-tliey •
emerged train the deable lino tit- ealts,
-standing like sentinek whose Officer of the
watch was Tina° itself, and beheld the
various proportions pith° castle (for such
in truth it was), eiteli significent of its
epoch, but hartnonized one with' the other
.by the revolViliglesseven. these men, .1
Say, could not restrain a characteristic
outburst of admiration. It was not,: in-
deed, the..pipturesqlienese of this edifice,
girt by its broad black belt the sleeping
moat, aud far less any of the Jristorieet
associations which Might have hallOwed
from turret to basement to 1401no, folks,
that claireeds their regard, but the mare "
praoticel consideration of how considerable
an limn:le-the proprietor of such it domain
must needs possess, who could •keep it in
sueli due order end repair; for old as Clyffe
• Hell was, there was not it vestige' of ruin
• abut It; the keens that sloped down to
the moat side were smoothly shorn, and set
with banks of flowers t• and from the stone
terraeo above theta, faded with fruit trees,
came news al it trim rose atdon, in *evety
odorons breath of the cool -autumn air, •
"Fine place,'Cater," observed Mr. Carr,
as they drove over tho storm bridge, brit
thinly covered with ivy, which only of lap
years had replaced the less Convenient
dratv;hridge, Ile spoke not only appro*.
ingly, but with a dertain air of part pre.
rietorehip Width did noteiseitre busearn,'
panion's attention.
"vary true, Mr. Clement," returned' lie.
"WO boon in the amily in One shepe or
another more than five hundred • years.
They say it has growed ttt this, bit by bit,
from to /Angle tower -that to the west, I
think it was, where the walls are sixteen
feet thick, and the windows more holes
with bare to them -wonderfully convenient
for our little .business, oh, Mr. Clement ?
But these great placee don't amigo hands
very readily. You may sroile in your
rnieclaieful way, and Miss Grace, as was,
is denbtless it very clever woman ; but the
Clyffards of Clyffe-Strike me bliecl, but
that's the bloodhounds I Well, I own it
look of indecision, of vacillation,alinpst pain-
ful:Or eontemplate; while those of the ladl
shone clear and steadfast as a sta.r. Her
month, too, ante firm andregolute, althougb
when she smiled.; this did not inar ite
sweetness; and her voice, though some-
what ineisive, was clear and raueical aa it
etruolt stalactite,
•" Both to bed, ray good lads," continued
she; "these persons are not robbers, that •
your aesistanee is needed ; while whatever
news they bring will keep till breakfast -
time."
made my heart go pk.a-pat, Did you ever . The lab retired, although roluctantlY,
hear such a howling in your life? It really
seemed as thongh they had overheard us,
and guessed Yehat we were thinking of.
Them very bloodhounds, or leastwaye their
fathers before thew, have been here these
three hundred years. Not even it puppy,
they say, has ever been parted with by the
family; only A full-grown one was killed
by the king's order, or something like it,.
for eating the gete•keeper's child. in Squire
-
Guy's, time, He swore it was such it piece
Of tyranny as he would never put up with;
but tb,e dog was hung for all that; and the
story goes that his master buried hina in
the chapel yonder, and got exconanutacated
by his priests for eo doing. Hang the dogs!
I hope their chains are stroeg I Well, 4t's
one way of rousing the house, at all events."
The feelings of Kr. Clement Carr (who
sat on the side next the keunel) did not
Admit of articulate speech; but he got down
with rouch more agility than could have
been expepted of agentleman of his pro.
portions, Lud. running round the back of
the gig, applied himself to the iron knocker
of the nail -studded, front door with a witl.
The court -yard in which theY now wore
was formedby three sides of the castle,
whieh stared upon thethgrom it score of
curtained windows, as. frem eighttese °yea;
but through both shutter and curtain of
one . of them glecitued a pale end . eickly
tiget, telling ef weltertiluess aud watching
even at that slumbrous `hour.
" Thet is Squire Ralph's own °heather,"
observed Mr; Cater, podding cautiously in
the direction in question;** ." and if you'll
take the advice of so humble an individual
as myself, you will not _make such it dreed-
ful noise:" .
The shocks which Mr: Oury was echninis-
tering to the oaken door did indeed
reverberate over the whole building; aud•
the baying Of the bloodbeunds, mixect with
the rattle of as they .etrained to
break their .bOnds, . made pp .1). hideous
clamor. The latter noise, however, only.
incited Mr. Clement to freeh exertions.;
and when the door was suddenly opened iu
front of him, -he rushed frautically
crying," The dogs, the dogs Shut it; lock
it;• never,mind, Gator I " without even cast-
ing a glance at theperson who had admitted
11 hisolarra had permitted hirn to
do So, it Weald , probably hove taken
another direction. •
Ite who stood.in the doorviay, _glancing_
iu spew:Mesa inclighatiiiii-ftein the ndruiler
ih the gig to hirn who had made so 'uuceie-
,nionious in entrance. Was evidently 'no
serving man. 'ilis face, though haggard,
•and, at the moment; peckerecl With rage,
wore an air of eonsOlous superiority very
different freni, the well -weighed, eupereith
ouseees• of it hall porter; while his apparel,
although disheveled, as he had
• sought -repose (as indeed .he had) without
undressing, was rich ;and Oveir elegant.
.legt What -rendered him most peculiar, and
putit out Of the question • that he •oduld
be merely a retainer of the •establishment,
was that he wore his heir, of which he had
an enormous quantity, ,notwithstanding
that he was far ltriVanced inyears, in
plaits,: as race horties:do in these days, and
:from out of thete his gray,' face peered
inquiringly, as'it river god's is • sometimes
• pietured•to do'froin his fell of bulrtnibes. •
• ".How dare you make this oh/merit* My..
door ?i" he broke forth after nwhule.l''Who
are you; felleve,...in the gig,,aud. who is this
car whom. yottleve brought with you?"
- His inquiry wee -addressed to Mr..William
.Cator, but referred to Mr. Clement Carr,
who, having climbed, up to the huge marble
of the hell...by rriectus of -a
Chair, had cleverly kicked it over, sons'to
isolate -himself from ell 'attacks of blood-.
hounds pr. others ; and there he sat, with
his lege swingiug from the impetus of hie
exertions, but by no means from the care-
less Confidenee which. sometiraes begets
that motion in:persons. similnrtyoirourn-
atanced. • , •••• '
• " riaine is,Cater, sir," returned the
driver, baring hie head, :and epeakine With;
unwonted hltrniuity.. e We lave jest colie
over from the Dane." ;• , •.. •
•-"1•• Might have %known .it,"' Muttered.
Ralph Clyffard gravely, ter .it was: the
• Squire of Olyffe •Hall himself who stood
before them. "Have I net been forewarned
these three tifike?"•44hen•1jcrecldeil elmad,
"Come, iii, eirrel ; a: groom Will take you;
horse. When did. ray poor brother Cyril
die 1" ' • • ' ' • * • • . - • •
• "We regrekto say, sir," quoth .Mr. Cle-
ment Carr froeu the rnautelpiece-:"1
*sneak for Gideonand myself-4144tthe
sudden and:deplorable demise' of 'Cyril
Clyffard, Esq„ took:place peiterdity;efter-
• noon at twenty.tieven' minutes aod a half
exciotly to four °Week."• .
•• "Come down; sir, ;molten yOur Wilma in
a fitting manner!" cried Ealph Olyfferd iu
it terrible ,voice. •" Could no messenger be
found to bringsuch ovil news to Clyffe-
Hell less like ate &Pathan this."' • •
• Thus adjured, but by no Means -display:
ing the nimbleness of the animal to whieh-
. he had been likened, Mr. Clement descended
'from his post 'of vantage; • ' •
. ,• " The poor gentleman had had paroxysms
for neatly a week; sir.. Hid unheppy melody
with -their fitoos to their inexorable step,
mother (for such, she was); and not until
their footsteps bad died away along the
vaulted stone passage, did she again break
the silence.
"Cyril is dead, I conclude," said. She.
Ralph bowed his head, overcome with
sorrowfal thought; but when she drew
close to him, antleplaced Ler fragile hand
in. his, he carried it to his lips, and kissed
it tenderly. .As Ile did so, she, with the air
of one to whom sovereign favor iv nothing •
new, inclined graciously towards the mete
sensed,
"How did it happen? Tell me, Cle,
mot."
"For these three days past" (the •hu.
band midwife exchan,ged a, meaning glance)
"the poor gentlemen has been, getting
worse and worse; at last he grow very
violent. Gideon visited him as usual
yesterday afternoon, and Mr. Clyffard
seized the epportuaity of the open door
to rush out, and east himself over the well
eteir-case. He Was killed on the spot."
Ralph hid his face and shuddered.
"That will do," said ho; "Twill hear
more at another time. The servants are
now aroused, and 'will see -that .you .want
for nothing. I. am sorry that I spoke te
you so roughly, sir,'! and ivith it stately
inclination of his head, Ralph Clyffard
=yea thoughtfully away: • • • .
" Whk is not Gideon here?" inquired
Mrs. Clyffitrd, her beautiful lips shutting
dose together, as soon as she had , spoken,
like a purse with a coral claep.
" He is hurt;" answered Cloment„
They had it struggle for it, he and the
other.' -
"I thought so," answered" the woman.
quietly, " Ile Meat have been hurt, indeed,
not to have bornehimself. • It is ;very '
unfortunate." . ' •
"Well, I am euro I had rather he .had
come than I," •auswered Clenient, sullenly,
"Such it dreadful road as wo had to travel,
and not much, ef a welcome at the end of
,
it, fromnne's own slitter, Why, I believe
your husband thoughtat first that I was no
more a gentleman than Cater here."
"1 dere say ho did," returned Mrs.
Clyfferd, dryly. "My husband is very
peculiar.')
" Peculiar'!" echoed Mr, Carr. "1 think
so indeed.. Why, bis hair alone is enough. ,
M frighten one. He might to be ot the
-Demr-hinfeelf *Mat streho irbutcre-h-ouglar •
" Rush 1" returned the lady, imperse •
tively. • " heve an excelleat break-
• fast, Clement, and whatever you please to ,
call for in Clyffe Hall is at your service;
see: then, that you make. yourself et home
-so well,' that you necel not remember
that yen have auy other home. Speak not.
one word about the Defie: •You •wilt And
attendance yonder."'
• She shot orielbok of Intelligence toi'vards
Cater, which .v,ras retutned swifter thee it •
shuttlecock; and followed. her buil:mud' to -
his chamber. •' • - • . •
" Tbat's.pretty treatmeht of it brother,"
ejecinlated Clement,.bet not until she was
well out of earshot, " I is th be hoped .
thateomething's ocorning -of it ell at last,
/or I'm sure we've had, eneugh te put up ,
Stop 1" thandetecl the master of the
house; not another word if You value your
•life. • " Rupert, my son, whit is it 2"
' The change in Ralph Clyffards tone, as
iit spill.,V„ftliikkar words, was jike
n:4:0
Bute*s th ivied after it tornado. He
addressed them to &youth of about eighteen,
who had it'd entered the hail with it lamp
in his hand he had it dressing gown loosely
,cest about him; as though he had justleft
his couch, arid his large blue eyes wandered
wildly and inquiringly, from his father to
the 'strangers. Accompanying- him was.
another lad about it year hie junior, whose
appearance afforded it singular'contrast tO
that of the fernier. They wore both,
favored, but Whereas the elder was attire
young Saxem, ituburn-liaired and ruddy,
with tho.silver deem upou his cheek already
turning to.golden, the younger might Inve
been horn timid au Italiau elty, no dark
and passionful his eyest so •bronzed. his
face from brow to pointed chin.
0 I was wakedby the knocking, father,"
replied the youth who was called Rupert;
'" and Ray Bahl he Was kin he board
Yoke% iu the hall; Lola ,a0 nay and
Will'go quietly to bcd again," inter.
rupted 0 woman'avoiaewith quiet doeision.
The speaker had entered noisolearily by
some door in that part of the greet hall
which lay in ehadow, so that it was !napes-
nite to tiey how hang she might have boon
there. But sbe .now glided forward into
the full light of the moon -beams -really a
wonderful vision. She wawa blonde, Wall
as might well hoe been Rupert's mother,
but that she was much too young -about
eight -end -twenty at 'most -yet slid had no
likeness to the boy beyond that of core-
plexion, while her expression wassin` gularly.
different. Itt Ituport's eyes there was it
• You'have had , your revenge, too, Mr.
Clement," observed the other, grimly. --,
' One -has paid for it," answered-VR(114m, '
with am ugly look "but the indebtmentis
upon the wrong side still. • I ath longing
/or the day when weshall cry vita." • '
'" The meteor is in good hands," returned •
the keeper of lunatics ; " Miss Grace as
was is a oleyer woman ; and' in the mean-
time lotus punish the larder."
- To be continued*
•
A PLUASANT Suernise.-;--Surpriee parties.:
are not at all times agreeable or aeceptable, •
butrtfie visitation the Chief of Police Of . •
this city ,reeeived • this 'morning . was: . •
decided consolation. He was presented:by:• •
the.exprese Manager with it sniall•box and
alit]. for .25' cents.. .ayinent 31,rtiLmade,...,
after it slight Misitation itairthO box opened.
Tim caver having been loosened, a piece of
paper :showeti itself aud underneath • stri
ordipary-watch key. • Thee"cante another ,
pike of paper and heneeth it e neet, large,
heavy silver Watch. No letter or intima-
tion of the gift had been reeeived,Jantwhete_.1-__...,
the outer ease wee opened :the ..following
insdriptiohwaii found thereon: 'el*sented.'.'
to Hugh McHimion, Chief of -Police, Belle: ,
ville, froni med.& detective friend for Auld -
Lang Syne." Into..sileb. hands go the good -
gifts of this world, but then alican't get
thdmBdUvi1leZneU'Yflear. ,
The two sobs • of the Prince of Wales; ,
1)6'4 in Australia, wrote and signed a very
sensible little reply to an address presented •
to them by the boys of the .Prince Alfred
• C011ege, at Adelaide. • It ran thus: "Boys .
• of Prince Alfred College; It gave us great
Pleasure to come among you and to go over
your Behool and 'grounds. We 'shall long .._:-.---
remeiriber the sound of your voices, And •
'trust that if ever agein.. we visit Adelaide
some of tilde we sawas boys we May then
meet as mon, & credit to, their school; 16
tli_eruselves and the colony."
iteirsio Strenees.-Threeyoung ladiet4
Who boarded the Conritnian here on Tues-
day evening for Toronto whiled away the
early portion of the night smoking cigarettes
to the company of three gallants. The •
• smoking acted on the stomachs of thelair
0000 the same as seasiokness, aad while yet
oue lay with her -heed on his shoulders, a
cry and throwing tip of the arms signified .
teacart had fainted, • In a few minutes- she ,
was restored and afterwards lulled to sleep
with kind cerressing.-/Cingsfen Noes. •.
The' Chevalier do Chatelaiu, (Me of a •
group of which Victor Hugo and Louis
• Blanc have been -prominent figures, has
jab aioa in England... He Was apohitioal •
• refugee, and is best known in the literary
world by his translations frena English
poets into French. He w,as the translator
of Hamlet," "Macbeth," "'The Winter's
Tale," and " Tho Canterbury Tales," arid
published itt five :velinnee '".Bertutes de la.
Poesio•Aligleise,f -a collodion of over 1,000
Mr, William 'Prager Forsyth, for some
years Superintendent of the money order
branch of the Post Office Department at
Ottawa, died oh Friday: from 13right's
disease of the kidneys, his remelts will
be taloa to Scotleed, his native comitry,
to he interred in tho family volt,
A Bomb despateh says a gentleman,
believed to b» Herr Niomaele, 0 erree,n Con,
SW at Leghorn, while itt the 4oupe on the
railroad from Paris to Tarim, was seriously
wounded and thrown out of a. Window by
itit n•itulli°eNimPitarettlii.dent's cottage at long
•
Braneh is *in full, sight of the sett shore,
Dr. Bliss will have it lino opportenity to
learn something about anatomy.
Constantinople has 45,000 Iowa.