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Bow can I paint a face which le to Ws'
-That none may now its grace unless they
see it? -
Tet shoule you dream o any face so rev°
„It seemed all gooeneso; that would barely be
No bright-eyed girl, although she once wee Bosh,
Isabel sing, Time her prnbeauty stole,
And Oineehati drawn, with tort, artistic towns,
The wrinkleis thet reveal her gentle tout; •
Rind charity -that almost seems to cheat
tut hate of sin by loving still the sitiner-
Beams trom her eyes, pay eyeis thet, 130ft and
&twee hint the depths of tenderness within
her.
Mao always sees some good In every one
Aid so each feels for her eeteem a debtor ;
Her passing sheds &radiance iike the tun
'Aed yet the does notknow she makes la better
Lfweet, sympathetic facet In orange or tears,
IMMO see much good in any other;
Vor bettor tell the tie that her mitigate
That just to write ber name-, and that
"Mather'
.end owith silver cord that naught can tever,
end set in my unworthy•frame of rhyme- „
Praying that God may keep it bright forever--;
I hang her picture on the walls of Time.
. AV)0114.101) A.T LAS. •
A Saw,- 01 Love and Parini. •
By the author of "Igiat Re Cost Her,"
"Gsvendoline`a Itarvest," and other
popular novels. '
Stupefied amazement, wretehedneas, des-
pair, took each the aothers place on
• Rupertai features is the . girl went on;
when she had finished; be lay with his
• white face blank, as though life and paesion
bad left it together. Seriously alarrned,
Mildred seized. his Gold hand, trove to
warm it in herpalms, the therm of he touch
'still worked ; the life blood which had
ebbed from his very , lips, flowed alowly
• back, and in the rayless eyes it fierce and
lurid light began, to kindle. Twice his
parched tongue essayed to utter something,
but the could not math itt meaning; the
third tirae he spoke plain. " Sendme the
laattress hither. • Let her take your piece,
and leap above me with her lying smile, X
want to whisper. something in her ear.
Send me that woman hither." .
"Huth, hush! 1 hoer her claming, Rue;.
be alba." .
" Calm! with those words of doom • still
ringing in my ears? Calm -ay; as the
tropic sea is calm, beneath whose tve.veless
face the shark awaits •the swimmer. Give
her yournhair, Idildred,-yop who love•me
not." • •
•
."Yon would net tell her, Rupert.; that
would be base indeed:"
" Tell her -ay; inet one whisper in her
eat. .Then, afterwards You raay tell her
what you like. I have. get some news for
her to take to Pluto.". „
"Dear Rupert, for my sake, do her no
harm," pleaded Mildred in an agony of ter-
ror. '.When I. said- I loved .you not, I
meant, uot get 1." •
aReverege and cunning, which had held
• divided sway in the Wok man's face, here
_abdicated_togetber hepeleronemenaeat
at .there like 7a sun, and then was sue-
eideaed by aspicion. '
donot believe you Mildred Leigh,"
answered he fiercely; " nor will I unless
yon swear it 1" ••
"Swear it?" echoed Mrs.' Olyffard, enter-
ing the „rooni; "Heyday,; but 1 Mat leek
to this!. My Mildred Put upon her oath 1
When I VIOA yang, it was the Man ,who,
swore, whereby, if troth was broken, he was
Perjured; but the lady was held blameless:
There is no nth cartesy in these days.
Shame -upon you, Rue l" ' •
She stood beside the two, with one email
hand on either's. shoulder. •
„
"It 'is ;not I whois to • blame,” • said
Rupext hoarsely. 44 Fair rather, *ill you
not Bit?" . •• . •
"Nay," returned Mildred. hastily " yen
have hot taken your broth yea. • rJet me
tend you a little longer.; Clyffard has
been your nurse all day." • • : ,
"So, so," Said the Lady of Olyffe with's
. silver laugh; " this is•pushing Infanta our
stale indeed! You tell me fratakly What I
&Ili to expect; whenClyffe shall :Cha.nge its
mistress.• It was not troth that yon. were
plighting then? The qnestion is .4 note
eon?" Ana I not right, dear Rupert?"
"Ala 1 asked her that;" • • '
"And whit was tb,e reply ?".quoth Mrs.
•Olyffard, praiiiingaher hand with Meaning
• againet Mildred's shuddering flesh. "A.
•month.? I guessed it wait a month. Come;
since my modeat Mildred will not • anewer
• you, I will anitwer for her. In a month,
she Khali be your, Rupert." .
• "I intuit hear it from her own lips, good
• Mother; you prophesy toe smoothly," •
Mra. Clyffard's fair face/darkened; mate
'ten were not, the, as they had seemed.
Mildred had refused him, or procrastiriated
at least. The young girl's fate was bale&
in her hands, hut not to•hide ite blushes;
it was as pale atirciable. ;
Grace Olyffard's soft voice hardened; it
• Wee music laid, but dear, incisive, as the
°lath of cymbals. "I do not pretend to be
'a prophet, Rtipert ; you 'nag me there;
but what 1promise-that will .come to pass.
My niece shall be your 'wife a and as for
heaseruples about time, that is a maiden's
'"From her Own lips, I say," repeated
*pert hoarsely. •• . •
" Sweat then, niece Mildred -I, pray you
find your voice -to wed the Clyffard within
thirty days." .
• a
' Netter was deadly menace clothed so fair ;
never did spoken words convey more cruel
-meaning than was ;shot from those azore
eyes. .• . ,•
Feat for Raymond's safety, thteatened,
as it seemed ,to her; in every tonoof her
ttuntai voice; -.fear on her own account,
which always overwhelmed ha when
brought face 'Oficial with Mrs., Clyffard ;
pity for Rupert, mad terror as to what vio-
lencie he might:coininit upon the instanti.if
aihe should anewer "No "-for she had
read Murder in his 'eyes awhile ago -over-
came the resolution which bad, hitherto
inmportecl Mildred. • Keeping he face. still
covered, ancr'murmuring it "God forgive,
inc " tea herself, she answered solemnly,
"I swear."
"Swear what?" asked MO. Olyffardpid-
leitly. •••
"I swear to niirry your stepaion Within
thirty daye."
CHAPTER XVII.
tug• cixotro fl TE eltrestmene,
Two years have passed lance the event
reborded in the last nhapter, Oute %semi
is ntr loriger ' laid at Olyffe afl but far
away in the Bath county ; while the
dwelling 'which is occupied by Mir dramatis
persotwe is very tuipretending. A little low.
roofed Cottage, set in a garden glowing with
eptingflowere, Mich aaon1yourfah Ho early
an a genial climate. The two French
dwa open'onatiey la oalt as a hoy'a
cheek, and in the centre ra a teal chump
of Pampas gratis, 'watered y ashapely
nymph of Marble froth a Mutable pitcher;
the lawn is girt by a broad purple belt Of
Ineasia, beyond whieh lies the gatden, not
for show alone, bat rith in vligetablee and
saVory herbe ; While around all this fairy,
demeene ' there ruts a 'waving wall of
odorous tanaarisk. A Waving WaI1 1 say,
for though the cottage is neetled in the hol-
low of ebalk-hill, and- the boisterous
winds from north and east, which roar and
• revel on the downs above, can never reaola
it, it ties open to the south and west
• winds, whose soothing song imam ceases
the •summer through. With them the
swallow wanes to nestle neath the eayee,
with them the bee (whom on the tiny
heighte their violence will not permit to ply
ha thievish trade) to rob the flowers; but
on a ledge of chalk, full in the noonday sun,
stand three stout Wawa for which the rent
• is paid in Flittering comb, so that the
winged thiet is rifled in his toro-a few
frail toes, warped by their windy years
to grow aslant, keep off the westering sun;
but all the sooth ia open. To those who
sit within the cottage, the sloping garden
and the sloping down beyond, are eseo, and
then the sea; but to one who froial the
window withdraws a pace or two, or lies
upon his bed op -stairs, the eyes Mae
straight down oo the boundless blue of
mean. Ah;preolous boat in eickness, to
wateh the shifting she.dowe of the •clouds,
the twirling eddies, the daily battles of the
wind and bide; to mark the sea -gulls wheel
or blown about by the fierce gusts; to see
the glorious oempany of white -robed ships,
which this or that fairy wind has just set
free, pass by upon their dietant errands, or
to gaze upon the more homely toil -which,
oin the little bay, the iislaerroen are plying;
to matemplitte the great waters; arid thoge
who make their business thereon. Then
• at night, how the. sharp pain ie dulled by
the seals monotonOus undertone, that
lullaby a everlastiug rest, or oyerwhelmed
and deadened by the naajestio music of the
stain 1
. But there is a sicknesa in this Uottage
now; the tall man sitting in the little
Weeny above the door -way, whose uncov.
• ered head alinost Ouches the green roofing,
is not boteed by it ; nor is the graceful
fami•of bisyoungwife, although a year ago
or so shetlessed the sea, what tiroe, after
her tableful trouble, she lay awake long
nights with her sweet . babe beside her,
eleepless, but in rest unspeakable: The
baby girl, too, clinging to her Mother's
•skirt, is well and blooming, And *et there
•is a shadow upon' the young Wife's brow,
which even the satielaine of that tiny pre-
sence cannot erase, nor the blithe and the
ringing tones of her husband'e yobs.
"What, -my Pretty one 1" quothis, " a
cloud upon thy ;brow 'upon our ,marriage
• mornieg. For shame I Come let me kiss
it away, 10e. Not a word of quarrel have
we had yet, though we be such; old married
folks; .but I shall quarrel, and spoil our
claim to the Dunmow flitch, if you do not
smile to -day. ,No, not an 'April gleam like
thatswhich leaves your heaven the darker,
but july brightness, that must last all
day. Cons, smile like My ONVD Mildred."
"My dear, dear hilsband,"-answered Mil,
drat, tenderly, "1 knOwl ani very foolish;
very.wrong. Therecennot be, of course -
'there cannot be any reel danger to us.",
She stooped down to her child, and drew
her to her bosom, and held her there; and
kissed and rooked her to and fro. - "11 is
so long ago, and she has never tracked us
yet; and We have taken no, one into our.
confidence, so that neither by design nor
tatereatinete estifv/fteVer be betrayedT.and
living here ,so. far 'limey from her, and
under another -name; we cannot but he
safe -I have :said to myself a- thousand
times; arid yet, and yet-•"•.
. "Yet what, Mildred?", • . •
"Well, nothing ; you Would: only laugh at
• nie. But to -day, of• all the days, in the
Year -the day when 1 Would wish to: feel
n� touch of gloom -a tomethingssseme pre-
eentiment Of evil seems to: cast its :threat-
ening shadow uponmy sonl.- She will
never cease to 'tack els out, Raymonti;while
life is in be; Sif that I am tight ettie. A
waif or a blood -hound:. ccitild not be more
stanch, more persistent for When I
think of her; I always 'think of that fell
creature, lardy but sure as fate, which
pursues the helpless hare whole days and
'meats, and at the last -no Matter when
that - 7 . • • •• '
"My dear wife;" interrupted Raymond,
impatiently,-" you p.re not complimentary
tit yont .Aunt Grace at all 1 The ,thimal
you describe 18 otature • Of evil odor
called a stoat; moreoyer, you do noVtake a:
high view of my OP711 courage and ability to
defend you and little Milly; in ealliog Mg a
helpless bare. If I be so, and thisvermin
comes within kifiking distance., know this,
she Will find me uneomMonly strOng in the.
hind legs." " , •
"'Nay; dearest, while You are with us, I•
rarely nave any fear ; but *ben YOu leave
the cottage even for anhOur, and new you
are going away to -morrow for two whole
nights -ah, merthat will be teeeiblei"• ,
"Why, what aPowara, has my .Mildied.
become; who used to be to.biave."' •
" That was when 1 bad only .myself to
:take ;dare of, but this little one,Baymiond-
what would my mutt not give to get her
into her sparer The hatieheirese of
Ortiffel would that we were what - we
seem to be here, andshe but Milty Etep•
burn, with nothing to inherit, save this
'little honed and ground. We have been
happier here than ever we were elsewhere."
"That is very true, love; and I"for my
part should be well Content to Pass all hay
der] here. But if poor Rupert dies -or -
or worse; I will not hit down and let that
woman linen* my rights, • far -lesa my
child's. No, that ,I will.not. • I knOW;..love,
'why you shudder. ' You deem that she
would poison me and mine, rather than
•give.up an inch of land, or yield one golden
piece. But thje poisaing is not ela easy as
one reads of in the story -books. • • At Ciyffe,
indeed, the might have -worked her wsked
will without moth hindrance, or perhaps
even subsequent pea; bit -not se here,
Moreovets she hot above te law. Her
unscrupuloue fingers cannot eatitch what
that bide her to deliver op, any inore than
they eatt teach tie here. to harni ,,yourself,
your ehild or me.. I tell you we are sitfe,
Mildred; and if there is a fear, On either side,
Ib should be tipon Grace Clyffard'e. Is she
to storm and rave forever, and we to listen •
shuddering, because we too have chosen to
marry ?-411ave 1 no cause tocurse her in
my +thrt ; an alien fidfft my home,. and
forced to keep ,in hiding like one escaped
&Om prison? I think I am doing ill in
this, wife. If there Were no Cowards, ,be
mite ,there would, be na tyrants in • the
world. The aura my poor father gaits me
Is 'nigh spent; I heed. the gold he told me
'with hi ii own lips was left to roe in .his will.
Why should 1 not chitin my own 1"
" Raymond, Ritynatid;" cried the young.
Wife paesionately, "Fa Hea•ven's flake, be
patient. Let us not bting the thunderb,olt
upon onisislyea, eVen if we are feted not to
escape it. Gold 19 indeed preolotie in
Grace Olyffard's greedy eyes, toad power,
and the pride of station; abut revenge is
dater to him than ell; Be .eute that on
that clay When toted troro.Clyffe together,
tipoh his isery. marriage -maps, she tegito
toted a Vow to pay us both. '
"1 Sbould have thought my IitclY would
haat, bad enough of Owe," returned /thy-
inond Marbly, "When you kept that della
the So wickedly'extorted,to the letter--
martied her sterasott Within 'thirty doe !
Sweet petforer 1 I can forgive poor
Rupert% 'wrath at 'having Waited -hie. prize
90 nartoWly.-tiitide he was but her tool,
and tweet' leant how ettiefly the urged
ou-
but ea for her --a Well, let twirled het
dainty; teeth: To thing -that atter two long
• pore of abiice, the naeMery of thie kite
should still utter toy dove, thooeh folded
in my very , me 1, 'Your cheek m chilly,
Mildred; are ott cold r, •
wres, a little cold, dear husband. The
wind ia riejng in the west, es though for
tempest. Vitt than have Tooth weather,
to -night.
" 'Tialike enough,; and if bad weather
seta in after Cale long calm, it will last, X
fear. Come, let us have a walk. together,
while wane we .may. Upon one's wedding
day, a ramble arm -in -arm,. Darby and
aoati-like_,. is only fittina. Let us pay a
visit to the good lieutenant and his wite,',
4. *ye, and take the dear child with us to
pee her god -parents," exclaimed Mildred,
joyfully."
"You-adeceitful-wielted-gypay," re-
• turned her husband, shaking hie finger itt
reproval; to see her god -parents, indeed!
TOD want to have her with usthat Walla
I do believe you neva feel your little tree-
eure safeunless beneath your eye's. How-,
ever, just aa y.ou 1ike love; tell Jne, then,
to put her bonnet on."
"1 hita rather wary Milly myself, Ray-.
Atte ia rather busy -and HS such a very
little way to the coast -guard station." •
"Another white one! It is three mike
if it is a. yard, • But then the walk ie upon
the cliff -top, is it not? a very dangerous
pathway in 4 Willa and Jape bi sock a
giddy girl, and .can never be bought to
underatandthat the °pries a nancli more
than her life's worth in her arms, when the
hes that precious child."
"Nay, Naymoutl, dear, I -know You love
it just as much its Ide. How thankful yeu
ciiheradewdlistb_:_be,,avhen you were. told •yoer
•
"Ata true," interruptedRaymond, heal-
ly abut that WDO very foolish a Me. If
he had chanced to be a boy, whet tben?
. He weald have had a very 'different bring.
mg up. from that which has ruined so
many a Olyffard, He Would have been
spared tbeeuree 'which has fallen upon the
eldest born of tis tor so manygenerations."
"And yet how glad you were that it'veati
a girl, Raymond."
Was. I? Well, perhaps I Was; at all
events I love. our ',dilly. Come, hutton-
mouth; give papp, kiss.; then get you
gone, you and, yea mother too, anit wrap
yourselves up wain,. lest the rain should
'catch us before we cap get home again:"
With smiles and. kisses. he. dismissed
them both; 'then left alone in the veranda,
he leant upon the Wooden rail that faced
the lawn, and drew a letter: from his
pallet; the address ran thus: : Alts.
ECRPBMIN, Pampas Cottage, by Westpor-
town. It was -written in a cramped and.
Villgar hand, and in one corner was
eorawled " Irainediate," underlined three
times. • "Hew Iatunate it was," solilo-
quized Rayinoed, "that X chanced to meet
the poetnaan in !my walk this morning.
Otherwiee,• this letter weld have. driven
ray Wife. wild With terror. She: would
• neither laa,ve eaten nor slept till the had
• compelledus to 'flee once more from the.
wrath ot this .thedevil to some obscure
hiding place; just as we have got reconciled
to our little cottage here; and ,have begun
to -feel it ' home' • I will burrow DO more,.
.,but fight at out aabove .ground. ' .The
-threatened--peril • is•-nayeterious- -enough,-
but the Warning puzzles mia. even. 'moo.
“'What a hand ray • eumaymoue.friehd writes'
all leaning the Wrong way • like those blown
backward saplings: yonder. It May be Os:
gtilsed„ of course; but at the , best I should
say it was no gentlenaan's hand. I am not
much of a critic, but the spelling, toe; let
alone' the .conapeeition!s•appears • rather.
faulty, • . . • , • - -
" Beithit,sBaymond CiWartit •• catil
eges havefound gott but at last; find -another
hoal for4 ;, awl at oitee. There is datt4
ger lurking at you' Very. doOr.:--A Tnun.•
WELL•11184V.t2:. .•• •• • .
It is•certaily• very: strange, and stranger
that zacomea.when, ray par wife has this
nameless dread upon bee. It tan be no
hoax, for nobody eaVe•those, we .baee most
cause to fear oould • have supplied .the
materials. for it. The postmark is West-
portOwn only a therefore the writer cannot
be very' .off. But except'. the Aim&
folks.whona weare. about to visit, What
weIlWishet have I .abotittere, or indeed any.
where, &leaf' We are conapellea to impose
even upon:Mae goocl.people a to lead a life
.Of deception,' to exist hunibly; itittiveIY1
What a fool was I to pass my. Weird to
Mildred 'that it'ehauld alwaye be se until
Riipert-s-4' :He thrust the letter.intalsis
bosisin, .as. his yoting.Wife rejoined Min,
equipped for walking, and with the child in
her arms. • •
• "Well, yeti have been quick," :said he.
"What, MillY want a toes before she
stats? Give her to me' then, mamma:
Nay, new I've. got het. I Shall carry her
Myself; all•strategia are fait in 10*e, all ID
war, the id My le.wfor prize." . •
It Was a. fair picture -that stalwart
father with the wee bairn Cradled in Oa
ehelteriog arm, and the other thrown
around his wife proteothiglyissindssySiC
there' was something in his eyes besides
• their love: the fire that glows • within the
eagle's orbs what time the .sees :the 'fowler
incb. by inch .descending , froth the. cog
upon her eyrie, axe in hand, to beer -away
heryotingS • . • • • • • ; , •
•. •CtIAPTER xvirL
. • , prosistirzyn• exs.XiON.
•
The path 'Which led away from "%mins.
Oiatitge to the coast -guard station lay west.watd along- the there, and for a "little.
distance alter" passing.. by the". fishing
hamlet, as Raymeitidhad said, °Roseate the
cliff top, but soon alescended,:not to the
each, but thresh an intethaedate bell Of
reek and underwilod between' the oliff aiad
the Sea. Hares sheltered 'from the tieing
wind, • and -amid - a Verdant 'wilderness of
thorn and bassi; it was..easy to have
imagined it was midsummer. The jaek-
daws slid in circles from the cliffs the
-woodlark • hanging :in 'the sheltered. air
poured forth his love; the linnet. 'whistled
to his mate frima the ware bush; and
•tlitting fiora• shrub to sharb, the tin* wren
twitted his mite of thanks to God's own
ear. • At timar too, from it broad bank of
briar, that, like a frieze, stood out from the
'white cliff, a . hawk Would. shoot feral,
.noiselese and swift a light, and polite above
thepeactefut scene, like Satan watahing our
blamelees Parents in their sleep: then
shooting tip above the down, would glide'
and. pose again,fdespite the wind, and yet
• again Wald rise for broader view, tefall
Malignant star -and strike hie innocent
Prey in emis seeming sheltered lienaestead.
No homestead is, -howeVer; visible to
biitoen eye -no sign of tbe. presence of
reatri. The breiken tools, indeed, teseroble
Often human architecture -here a fitted
theft, and there a coke:to with its dapital
atianthtni Wreathed -but some grand thtoo
of Nature hee. strewed them there, who
in her pangs an fashion • things more
beautiftal, than Arte can mold in years of
patient +ail.) The sea is wallas, Satre for
one speck of *bite, which, like a pure Sal
paesing. to • eternity, goes...soddenly ont on
the horizon's verge. *
14 Xs net this a leery .pittadititheius
Mildred? aclaitned Itayttiood en i A
titla'lltYis indeed, dear Ray, lYfay
angels ;tiara us while we tatty '
. Anse antlered Itayinond. gravely.
"Not, hoteiever," added he, More checirfieLy,
that I am 0,Ware of Our I:Wetting, ehY
special guardian, other thee What .all Mor-
tals, need against their pplritual foe. As
for mortal enemies, never, surely, was, a
• little house so girt about with defenderis as
is Ors. The sretegglere in the village
would fight for you as reeolutely as ever
they fought for an anker of mw; while
the good: lieutenant and his twenty men
here would draw their outlesees in your
defenco. as gallautly as Oath you were
the Inland Revenue herself., What a suu$
home they have yonder 1 Of .all the com,
fortable-looking,thip-shape, spick•and-span
relapsing that then Can dwell in, I do
think prevative etation is the most
enviable.' •
The path had greclually risen until it
brought them ie. sight of the tenement in
question, a long low line of :building, with a
verasidit in front of it, and a large garden,
which extended to the sandy sberp. They
aped now at the lookout station, marked
by a mast for eignalfisgs, and sheltered by
a turf -bank from the wind, with the grape
worn almost hare spelt it tis place e where
the ran en duty was wont to lay his:teles.
cope -altogether a soog . vantage -ground
enough, and- of course commancliug a great
-expanse of view. The picturesque broken
ground over whit& the three had come,
upon oee, side: and on the other, a white
curved bay, with the coast -guard boat high
on the sinning sand, and ready to be
launched at a minute's neitice ; While in
front the sea -could be awept for scores ot
miles. But by far the moot noticeable
• feature Of 4' the Look -out" Was certain
oarved Wooden images 'stuck up On .entip
which gave to it the appearance of a spot
.dedicatedto heathen rites. These idolsa
• though representing tbe softer ea, as often
ite the masculine, Were by no means re-
markable for personal beatity. Not one
• had been • permitted to- retain ite entire
complement rit limbs, atid.if o lady bad rnan
aged to preserve the -aquilinity of her nose
she might consider hereelf a fortunate excep-
tion: These were figure•heads of vessels
which the cruel waves had mutilated, when
they. cast 'the hips to whieh they belonged
upon -that long low reef "to westward
stretcieg far out to eess Already; 'with
the:growing wind; the waters churned and
foamed there iu White malice; tut itt that
Comparattve calm it was impossib/e to
picture what wild work they made there
during a storms What hours ofhuman
agony had been witnestied by those pitiless
cliffs, when scudding before the gale, the
helpless ailiips comae on to their doom
among the hissing breakers r • What vain
resolution's of repentancehad they beheld
in thti,white scared faces of whom Death
was beckoning -what dumb resolies to. meet
the Worst like men!
Fro'm eacioaan's Reef no living Man or
Woman °yet yet came to land; nity„ the
bodies of the drowned which strewed the'
meat for days.after n wreck could scarcely
be called hunaan, so litUised -and mangled
were they by the sharp and jaggedroelis ;
but at a very low tide the ' reef was not
without its attractions. GoId' bad been
found there, and was found there still in
old world or alien coins, guineas, moidoreS,
dollare and doubloons; witile it wan even
said that op a tins() when a ship from the
Iindies was there. wrecked., tin) silsser send
• ofitley: 'Vey:7(607411aiu cOnseqUence),
had been mingled with Sparkling gold•dust,
and that the ivory leetir of elephants
glistened upon the bare brans beach.. • Thlittle e
thutoh-pard. iota four, miles away,.
was three parts occupied ,with 'the bones
thus cast: On . shore ;.. . most of there
Unknown, and buried in . one Mighty grave
with a common •headstone; Saered to. the
Aleatory of the Crew Of this or: that.thassel,
who'perished in a storm oi D'eatt4nan's Reef,
and then the-, date. _Nay, :sornetilnee the
very" thip wits eanselees; her home -port'
and,: her destination alike mak/town e and
.the Part of the World' he came from Only:
guessed by het 'scattered and. ovieetless
cargo... And yet, these who perished in. het
bed.relatives, aod . friends, and lovers, like .
the .thet• of • tia,: and for long "years were
watched for, doubtlees, andheaseen impor-
tuned for them -not altogether, tette hope,
in vain. •• •
BO it :is an ill, wind that blows no ' One
any good; and the .coast „Poptilation theeea
about& were by nutneans averse to e, :south•
and i what it. brought them.
" Death, is king, ' and vivat Wteolse," was
their motto ; •and many .a,, tiottage. the
neighborhood of Inialty Bay wee Indehted
for its mat anabitioutt piece of foniture to
the. fury :of the 'winds and waves: Sue
Waits were reckoned is.. gifteot PrOvidenee,
and". accepted by the simple folk. With
genuine thankfulness, :much as a good har-
vest might be • eckbowledged: by the pious
elsewhere. In . times • there -had been
ugly storieeafloat of ships having been:
lured to their destruction; by false *lights,
professing tObe ettfety•beathns but whether
true or false, stela matters belenged t� s the
past only.. AttoVe the cliffs which looked
clo.Wn lhereettliere was now a little light- •
house„,which shot a fiery Warning far out
to* ion randtblii-WITAX-iffifivearly- a -bottle -a '-
men, who resided by .tuineWith the 'corset -
guard; there being only room for one lodger
In thiepocket Pharos. Thus, Micky Bay
was deditate.d, as it were,: tithe protection
of life as well its :property, and seemed, at
least to one of the three persons who were
now looking' down upon it, as the most
• desirable of human homes. •
• . "Howl wish that we lived here,' dear
,Ititymond; with those gad kind 'Careys,
watched night and day by trusty guardians
itisteed Of in otir • lonelrOottage, where,
• wheneVer you are abaent, .1 feel so forlorn
and. unprotected. See; there is, the lieu-
tenant himself, and Witir a strainer too, at
it -newts ; at least I never saWw hies' about
thestationbethre. "
"Perhaps he is some official , Visitor, or
superintendent; Carey told me the. 960 slay
that beswits expecting some person of that
kind. Look how. he is pointing out to him
the VegetabletiOne ;• I think I can hear him'
telling about those potatoes baying been
dibbled in old Jacob, the lantern-keepdr
With -his wooden leg; that's one of the .olci
gentleman's . stock Aeries: All, now he
sees us. . took how he interrupts his talk,
and, breaks away from his visitor at once
to come and bid you welcome; we may be
sure therefore, that he is not the inspector."
Certainly, if . snob he was, Liateneat
Carey paid less reaped than 'is usual in
ouch eases to any official superior., striding
away from him with . rapid- steps to meet.
the newsconiers, and tpouring -forth, in a
rich and powerful voice, rkrain of welcomn
as 4.11 a
' helst9 e. tharmina of :you, 1VErfi;I1ep•
burn ; this is.very friendly to walk so far
to our poor home ; and to bring your ttea-
ettre, With. you tocia-my little, godchild.
Matice, Marion 1" (here he reified his Vole°
as though • contending with some fancied
Attila. Of the eltnneiate) "come out, wife;
here are the Ilephures," Then, ite he and .
hiS Addams' approached one another, Ite
*eat on in what he liobetitly considered to
he tonfidential Mae, but which could be
heard itt a faVorable Willa about half a
' •
" X ane Bo delighted te see you, Henbane ;
always delighted, Of contiies hut particularly
So to -day. HeteSs . a drag° lubber does
,to Stay With tee .frorci the Omen, a West -
pat -town, recotainetaded by the landlorde.
it ma Whotri one teepate and to whore
ban under Obligationea but-juid as though
kept a tavern like himself. My friend,
Mr. Stevens,' Wtites, he, .4 lb eameedingly
anxious% 10 ilea thecoast near Lucky It
and especially the Mermaid Cavern, dor
thesa. epring tides; • ail4 there being
accommodatiota. for Weiselt nearer th
Soo, and much more for hts, man (wlao
xemaine beret, I have `ventored to ath you
to givellim sliakealown. for - Hight or
tyro.' Tbatia just what the fellow Writes,
and hoe is this, litevene-a lubber, sir,
a lubber -upon .my hada, X have an
hour's time to ewe, io expectation' of ..this
inspection', You Inuot thew hint the Mer.
maid Cevern, Hepburn; yen inuet show
hint the:mutt,"
etout, florid and, notwithstanding his
preeent trouble, very cheerful.loelting
teen, was Lientsoant Carey, though he had
been pitted by the iimall-por in a manuer
whieli, he was wont. himself to Ray, was no
be 010 seemingtiei ipo x7. bw°huagtile Vett waanBaolistlw alayi int°,
he wait by no- Dwane of o repining obarea
ter, otherwise finding hinseelf a lientene
atilt, after about forty years 01 teseervi
he might perhape .11eame ooneidered hie 0
ease a bard oneaand Lucky Bay eather
misnomer as hut place of residence. 13
1
..,
ficen yr( vow Alma.
!),Y,
mg fesia ineldeps ottheitlIchigunt nomisIFireer
----.
no
an 4 despatch from Xingston says
age man named David Keeler, previously
tiefernaet ha this vicinity, lately a resident
of the poourged dietrict of Michigan, passed
through the city to -day broken in health
Ana a pauper. He tells a lamentable
etory.. Surprised by the Are at night, he
and. hie wife started for a clearing. They
auffered much by the way, and el length
weary, sick and exhausted, the wife sat
down, l'he husband tenderly twit, ber in
bis arras to protect her from the cold, and
while in his embrace she died, Re did not
wish to abandon the corpse, but carried it
for half a mile to the Itheee of frtends,
'where a,rrangemeets were made for its
burial,
Fr9Sa Mire As Ohm.
*"' TWeasej in3tYa wsofuni;"
Fattiee," began A yOUPg Detroiter the
ce, ether evening, "were you in the war?"
0 .
yen
a
L
" Yes
I: et
a of dead and wouteled men?"
"Did you kill many?"
r
Well, r shouldn't like to answer that,
931eIBtir°euYe'
4Au very modest, pa?"
"stsliope Pro too motleatito brag."
"That was what M. Smith meant,
then, when he was telling the men down at.
the drug stare that you hadn'tt any war
record to brag df."
He did, ? Smith is a liar I"
"That' viliat I thought. He tow the
mon that you run so feet be couldn't catch
YOU on horseback, and any boy knowe that.
a horse can catch a man with a stiff knee.'".
--Detroit Free Press. •
on the contrary, not only did he make t
very beet of his poisitMisi but entertaieed
.the visionary iclea that it would be
improved Rome day; that tothave a poet, in
the coast -guard was oot another name for
being put on the shelf; and that a day
would .cothe when be would . sniff the
inceese of ()Maid favor,and. be rear.
admiral et hall the cams of the rainbow
before he died. It was a happy faith, awl
musthave been shared in this° evil 'days of
favoritism by reaby another gallant bee-
..wraoltunl,dohrasvnereallyl mtelatethLeicirrdcloeomofatAtha etrihiraanlatya
of naval Bellingham ; grey -headed Meta
Must have banged themselves from the
• vypariaw
yard -at -m, :Id isn't i despair pless po from
hto0it
a tdelre t aploi •
'Waterloo bridge. -11 was Lieutenant'
.Carey's belief, in spite of threeadverse
evidence, that the Admiralty kept a favor-
able nye upon hina. It Wass true, indeed,
that there had beenno indecent haste in
promoting _their protegs, but whit they
had said to themselvescWas this : • .1 What-
ever happens,. we have John Claret' in
reserve; we know where to /Ind. bins -we
know where to layout hands open him
and by " (here they swote a little, 9.9 ii•
was the fashion to do in those days, pat.
tioularly when under the anfluence of
friendly emotions) -44 and by the Lora
Harry, but some day we'll do it." That
day was still indefinite, and being so, why,
it might be any day. Iherefore, Lieuten-
ant Carey held himself coostantly it;
readiness for .piona.otion, kept his preven.
tive statioain an obsolete flawless state of
discipline and perfection; andould have
exchanged it for the otetn cabin of any
vessel 'suitable for a young commander of
four-and:fifty, at a moment's notice and
with a good eonscience: In the meantime,
he indulged his imagination by ,putting
such superior ships in ponamission that
were likely. to fall to his share at first, and
in reading his own appointment thereto
upon the quaater-deck to a crew that had
flocked in hundreds to serve under his
'respected name. He had even con000ted
libtleOrl3t3ue.i.lealte,?Ther.oVhp.roeterlitiurVm.Psittallnyose...st0...
and pending their occurrence, bad repeated
it to Marion, hie•wife, abetit one hundred
and forty. times.
"Don't Yon think it will be. the right tort
of thing to toy, Mation ?" he would •
incpaire ; and after every repetition Mrs.
Carey would gravely reply, "It ouldn't be
.better, John," She took an immenhe
hatereat in ' the -alterationi .*Inch be had
•deterthined to make in the cabin arrauge-
Monts, whiel3, was the less to he, wondered
at sips they bad nothing but her own.
convenience and comfort in 'view; for in
those days a sea captain in His Majesty's -
service was permitted to have his wife on
• board. with him ; and had it not bee; to,
good John Carey's dream Would have been
robbed. of half - ite pleasure. Marion had
been the only blighter:, Of his friend and
ee-religionist-•••for. Carey was a Catholic,. a
circurnstalice which perhaps did not benefit
his, professicinal :prospects inthose days -
Lieutenant Henry Linton, , who -was
struck clown by ; his .side at. the
battle of Abotikir,,, by a: spar from •the.
Fienbh ship i'Crient; when' that great
gesel was - blown to :fragments with a
ousand Men in . her; and :with his last
words he had Cominended the friendless
:girl to,. Car.ey's, pitotection: , bequest,.
divan up • .and • sealed' with whateeer
formalities, could have. been, eeyedstvith:
more .duteotie care; the idea of failing.
such. a sacred duty never entered 'into his
thoughts; but the exeoution of .11-, Miff not
easy. Little Motion, at a girl's school at'
Haramethroith, had first to be written to
.by the blitifsailor,who WAD terribly pet to
11 how th break site bad newt by.letter'';
then the.thanty pension the child rebeiVed.
froha Government had to be atipPlemented
„front the lieutenant's oivn purse, in hider
• that her scholastic advantages shoula. be
Still continuea to ha, andthies necessi-
• tated a different system in his (twit eXpen-
dithre, which . for *his menne had been
.hitherto profuse, not to say prodigal.
Then, 'when on shore, these 'interviews
with Miss Baekboo.rd, the :sobool-mistress
-who nearly had a fit uponhili happenieg,
iti the ordinary course of conversation, to
mention the Lord Harry -Were very trying;
and more embarrassing did matters
become, When •Miss Markin, grown 10 -
womanhood, seemed to have a diffialty itt
calling him papa, which she had dime for
the last half dozen , years, and' tabula not
Rise his wether -beaten cheek as untial
Without a blush upon her own pretty faces
Then with a delieaoy of expreetion such
9.8 tity Lord Cheeterfielcl could hot haee
athieved, although lie eat up half the night
raking .,his train for courtly phrases, the
lieutenant just appointed to Lucky Bay
had effered bia horny -hand to theafriencle
less girl, to he and to hold in marriage,
if such an unequal di:Latch could really be
• contensplated by her with fever ; though if
not, the hand was 'hers still, so•long as life
• was in it, dedicated to her service for het
defence and succor always. But Marion
Linton accepted het • benefactor
as her husbaed, and * had never
had any • serious cause • to regret
that she had done so. No kinder heart
ever beat beneath a blue jacket, nor Were
its able simplicity and pnselfishness lost
upon ber; Each, as they iinagined, owed a
great debt of gratithde to the Otheia and
(way day, strange as it sounde, that debt
increased by mutual repayment. Without
uxoriousness, which was foreign to his
bluff and healthy native, he Wits as devOted
to her att he had promised to be if he had
net become het husband; While .she was.
aticlacmed, to him feat by that teastiest
cable vhose attends are reOrence and
esteem as well as love. Lieutenant &Ms;
Carey had, in short, fallen ihto Itiek'e Way
at last, and, as it was hie delight to boast,
with itnaall thanks to the Admiralty. Their
favor had not beer% eanonstrated, and was
therefore yet to come; and how so likely
to tome as through their own official
visitor,att present expected? This it was
that We the good betimant 90 ohary of
his hospitality at this partiotilar juatures,
and se anxious to shift the btirden of enter.
Mining his stratige guest upon Raymond's
shotaders.'
(Tots eatinueda 4
Wealtar and`ainein.
Herr Zander, a German musioal direc-
tor, has made ,puhlfo ,eolne interesting •
observations go the relatioee between the
condition of the bureau yetis adthat of
the weather; He says that apart from the
inevitable ehaugett in the iutonation, purity
and strength of the 'voles% resulting from •
physical variations, such ail ilinese,
nervous tension and the like, he hes noted
other influences of a barometrical eaters
that seem to indicate approaehing changes
in the weather. In clear weather about to
change into that of a cliental, rainy, char-
acter the voice became weak and showed a
ten'deney to grow deeper, In wet weather
about to clear up and become dry andbraoing
the opposite was the ease, Thevoice became" ;
bright, clear and atrong, tied Was disposed
to strike trio laigh a pitch. Herr Zander
was directa of a church choir and teacher
of singing in a high school fer • many years,
and hall ample opportubity of verifying
these csancluefons, •,
•
•, INooffialtse.
,
• •
Mr. Lawrence, Barrett is playing at the
• s
Park Theatre, Boston.
." Money Bags," Mr. j. N. Shannon's '
new oomedy, has made &bit in Philadel•
PlIiaa;1;b4. TtoubadOUrs last.Week
Snros
:duce& stheir sneiv.spieces -si 'The •Arnateuess .• •
Benefit," by Pronsoo Howard, in CleVeland,
Ohici, and thespapete Speak favorably Of the
performance.
Louise'llifontague, who has been figuring
in the street: predession of a oirous as ,the
Most beautiful woman in •America, having
been :awarded, it is asserted, a:prize of.
010;000, was injured ; lately in paa accident
en the Louisville 6; Nashville Railroad, and •
is now suitia.for *5,000. he alleges that •
her neck is peqnianently disfigured, Miss .
KODtaglIO WAD. formerly a singer in the
Bowery varietishowe. '
:Lloyd's publish a list .of. ns .vessels
reported oirtheit " loss " . book between the 'S
121h •mid 19th inst. The list inoludes •
nothing lees seriouethaiivesteledismasted. '
'The Matti chiele who arrived at Athitbaa
to cleolare theirs willingeess :to submit to
tbeCzar were Andue d to do So by bribes.
.: . , '
i
Tbe 'Ragan, cornea tidee demanded the
surrender of the gne 0! Mery as a guaran- •
tee Of good faith., . . : .
MrGledstonegiyes this eseount of him,
self i "By 'blood Iiire ti, .Sootchman; lath '
tyresidetice ii Londoner; 1 aha hy•mare
riage a Welshman, and ,I ant by birth a
,LaAncuasehxiircestriaincn."
attacked .three •farmers '
near DallassTek., mortally wounding one; .
He kilted a horse and 'escaped. . '
Th'e Anglican ' BiShop of OtitarlOIthVes .
Liverpool for Canada on November •tOth.
reweaseaeerareemeeeweee, .
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