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The New Era, 1882-05-04, Page 27 May 4, 1882. (JII 1Z very Sollimid. In every sound I think I hear her feet -- And still I wend my altered way alone, And still I say, To -morrow we shall meet." I Watch the shadows in the crowded street -- Each passing face I follow one by One— In every sound I think I hear her feet. • And months go by -bleak March and May -day heat- " Harvest is over -winter well-nigh done - And still I say, "To -morrow we shall meet." Among the eity.squares, when flowers are sweet With every breath a sigh of her's seems blown, In every sound I think I hear her feet. Belfry and clock the unending hours repeat, From twelve to twelve --and still she comes in nOne— • . And still I say, "To-niorrow we shall meet.' Oh, long-delayed to -morrow I hearts that beat Meabure the length of every minute gone - In every sound I think 'hear her feet. Byer the sun -rise, tardily or fleet, And light the letters on a churchyard stone - And still I say, " To-morrovi we shall meet"! And still from oat herunknown, far retreat She haunts me with her tender undertone - In every sound I think I hear her feet - And still I say, " To-morrowwe shall meet!" „ , LIER, BOY 'Air 'LAST,. , . A SOCIETY NOVEL. , By the author of " Edith Lyle," "Mildred "Forrest House," "Chateau d'Or," eto. That was all she said -all that Maddy ever knew of her history, as it was never _referred_to_.again,exo.epL that_e_vening,_ when Agnes said toher, pleadingly : "Neither Guy nor Jessie, nor any one, need know what I have told you." "They shall not," was Maddy's reply ,; and from that moment the past, so far as Agnes Was concerned, was a sealed page to both. With this bond of confidence beteveen' thena, Agnes felt herself strangely drawn towards Maddy, while, if it were possible, something of her olden love was revived for the helplese man who clung to her now instead,of 'Maddy, refusing to let her go ; neither had Agnes any dieposition to leave him. She , should stay to the, last, she - aid; and she did, taking afaddy's place, and by her faithfulness and care. wimiing golden laurels in the opinion of the neigh- bors who marvelled at first to see so gay a lady- at lJnole Joseph's bedside, attributing it all to her friendship for Maddysjust as they attributed his calling for Sarah as a crazy freaks She' did resemble Sarah Morris a very little, they said ; and in Maddy's presence they sometimes won- dered where Sarah was, and if she was happy with the old. naan whomshe mar- ried, and who they had heard was not se rich after all, as most of -the money be- longed to the son, who inherited it from his mother ; but Maddy kept the Beeret from every One, so that even Jessie never suspected why her mother stayed day after day at the cottage, watching and waiting until the last day of JasePhhi life. She was alone with him when he died, • and Maddy never knew what passed be- tween them: She had left them- together for an hour, while she did some errandst, and when she returned Agnes met her at the door, and with a blanched cheek whis- pered : "He is dead; he died in my arms, blessing you and me. Surely my sin isnow forgiven ?" CHAPTER XXII. BEFORE THE BRIDAL. There was a fresh grave made in the churchyard, and another chair vacant at the cottage, where Maddy was at last alone. Unfettered by care and anxiety for eick ones, her aching heart was free to go to the stately mansion she had heard described so often, and where now two brides were busy with their preparations for the bridal hurrying On so fast. Since the letter read in the leafless October woods, Maddy had not heard from Guy directly, though Lucy had written a few brief lines, tellieg how happy she was, how strong she was grow- ing, and how much like himself Guy was becoming. Maddy had been less than a woman if the last intelligence had failed to affect her unpleasantly. She did not wish Guy to regret his decision ; but to be forgotten BO Boon after so strong protesta- tions of affection was 'a little mortifying, and Maddy's heart throbbed painfully as she read the letter, half hoping itmight prove the last she should receive from Lucy Atherstone. Guy had left no orders for any changes to be made at Aikenside; but Agnes, who was largely imbued with a love of bustle and repair, had insisted that at least the suite ot moms intended for the bride should be thoroughly renovated with new she have had her way, she wohld have stopped the marriage, and, bringing her boy home, have given him to the young girl weeping so bitterly in her lap. But Mrs. Noah could not have her way. The bridal guests were, even then, assembling in that home beyond the sea. She could not call Gruy back, and so she pitied and caressed the wretched Maddy, eaying to her, at last: " tell you what is impressed on my mind ; this Lucy's got the consumption, without any kind of doubt, and, if yoU've no objections to a widower, you mast—" She did not finish the sentence, for Maddy started in horror., To her there Was something murderous in the very idea, and she threat it quickly aside. Guy Remington was not for her, she said, and her wish was for her to forget him. , If she could get through the dreaded to -morrow' she should do better; 'There had been'.a load upon her the whole day, a nightmare she could not shake off, and he had °owe to Lucy's room, in the hope of leaving -her burden there, of praying her pain away. Would Mrs. Noah leave her awhile, and see that no one came? The good woman cold not refuse, and going out, she left Maddy by the window, watching the sun as it -went down, and then watching the wintry twilight deepen over the landscape, until things were blended together in one great darkness, and Jesine, seeking for her, found her , al last faintieg upon the floor. Maddy was glad of the racking headache which kept her in -bed the whole of the next day, glad of any excuse to stay away from the family, talking of Guy, and what was transpiring hi England. They had failed to remember the difference in the longitude of the two places ; but Maddy forget nothing, and when the, clock struck hg-dheihalledh Mrs. Noah ;to her and -Whis- pered faintly : "They were to be marriedbefore 12, yeti know, so it was over tyre) hours ago, and Guy is lost forever !" . Mrs. Noah had no consolation to offer, and -only pressed the hot, feverish hands, while Maddy turned her face to the wall, and did het speak again, except to whisper incoherently as she half slumbered, half "Did Guy think of me when he promiBed to love her; and does he, can he 'see how miserable I am?" . Maddy was indeed. passing through deep waters, and the day and the • night of the fourth of -December were the longest. dreariest she ever , knew, 'and could never be forgotten. Once past, the worst was kver, and as the rarest metal is purified by fire, se Maddy -came from the dreadful ordeal strengthened for what was before. Both Agnes and Mrs: Noah noticed the .strangely beautiful expression of her face • when she mine down to the breakfast - room, while Jessie, as she kissed her pale cheek, whispered: • • " You leek as if you had been with the angels." • . Guy was not expected with his bride for two or three weeks, and as the days drag- ged on, Maddy felt that the .waiting for him was more intolerable than the seeing him with Lucy would he. Restless and •impatient, she could not remain 'quietly at - the cottage -and when at Aikenside, she longed to return again to her OWn, home ; and in this svay the time wore on, until the -anniversary of that day when she had conae from,New York, and found Guy waiting for her at the station. To stay that day in the house et) trife. with memories of the dead was -impossible, and Flora ,was surprised and delighted to hear that both were going up to Aikenside in the vehicle hired of Far- .mer_Green, whose sonofficiated as driver: It was nearly noon when they reached their de_stination, meeting at the gate with Flora's brother Tom, who said. to thin: • We've heard from Mr. Guy; the ship in; they'll be here to -night, and Mes. Noah is turnin' things -upside down with the dinner." . Leaning back in the buggy, Maddy felt for as moment as if she wehe dying. Never until then had she realized how, all the while, ehe had been clinging to an indefin- able hope, a Presentimeht • that something Might yet occur to spare :her frona along lifetime of pain, Bucliss lay before her, if .Guy -were really lost; but -the bubble had :burst, leaving her 'nothing to hope, hothipg to cling to, nothing but black despair.; an& half bewildered, she received the noisy greeting -of Jessie, who met her at the door, and dragged her into the drawing -room, dechrated with flowers from the h-othouse, and told her to gueSs Who was coining. "1• know; Tern told nae ;' Guy P3 corning with Lucy," Maddy answered, and re- lieving herself -from Jesdie, she turned to Agnes, asking Where Mrs. -Noah was, and if she might go to her for a Moment. '9b, -Maddy, child, I'M sorry you're. °ohm to -day," Mrs. Noah said, as she chafed Maddy's cold hands, and leading her to the,fire, made her eithdown, while she paper - and paint, carpets and _furnis, untied her hood, and removed her cloak ture. This plan Alk.h.lsheah opposed, for ' she gneesed how little G-uy woeld care for " did'not know it, or I should net have the change; but Agnes was resolved, and, canoe," Maddy replied ; "I Shall not [stay, as she had great faith in MaddY's taste; she as it is. I cannot see theni to -clay. Charlie insisMdSthat she should go.-to.:Aikeriside ..Will_drive ie backsbefore the train is due. and.passler judgment upon the improve- But what did he say? Andlow is InicyS". mente. It would do her good, she 'said- • " He did not mention her. There's th•e littledreaming bow much it cost Maddy to. despatch," and Wird. Noah handed to Maddy eornply with her wishes, or how fearfully, the telegrain, received this morning, ,and the poor, crushed heart ached ae Maddy which was simply as follovvs went through the handsome rooms intended "The Steamer is in. Shall be DA the for Guy's young bride ; but.Mrs. Noah station at 5 o'clock p. m. guessed it all and pitied the white:faced . " -Gush Rumniehost. „ girl, whose deep. mourning robes told the' - Twice --Maddy readitehverhelPeriefeeind loss of dear ones by death, but gave no much the same feeling she would. , have token of that great loss, tenfold worse than experienced had it beep her death warrant death. she was reading. ' " It was wickedSin her to fetch you here," "At 5 o'clock. I must go • before that," she said to Maddy one day When in Lucy's she said, Sighing as she •renaembered how, room she fouhd her sitting .upon thelloor, one year ago that day, she was travelling with her head bowed down upon tlae win- over the verY route where Guy was now dow sill. "But she's a triflin' thing, and travelling with his bride. Did he think of didn't know 'twould kill you, poor child, it? think of his long waiting -at the depot, poor Maddy " and Mrs. Noah laid her .or of that metnora,bleride to Honedale, the , hand kindly on. Maddy's hair. "Maybe events of which grew more and, More yon'd better go home," she continued, as distinct in her'metnory, making her cheeks Maddy made no reply ." a must' be hard; burn even now, .as she recalled his many to be her in the rooms and among:the acts of tenderness and care. things which by good- geed rights should -bee Laying the telegram 'on the, table, she yours.' • went with Noah through the' rooms, "No, Mrs. Noah," andMaddy's Voice was warmed and made ready for the. bride, strangely unnaturaI g she lifted -up her lingering longest in Lucy's, Whieh the head, revealing a face so haggard and: bridal, decoratimis and the bright' fire svlaite that Mrs. Noah mini frightened, and blazing in the, grate made singularly.invit. asked in Much alarm if anYthing new had ing: As yet there vrete•no flowers there, happened. •• and Maddy clainaed the privilege of arraeg- ' " No, nothing; I was going to say that ing them for this room herself.. Anes had I'd rather stay a little longer where there almost stripped tho,. censervatory; are signs signs and sounds of life. / 'ehould die Maddy:found enough to form a most taste.' to be alone at Honedale to-mprroW.', I may full bouquet; whid13-. else placed upon a may die here, I don't hnow., Do you know marble dressingstable then within a slip that to-morrow.svill be the bridal? " of paper which she folded adross the top Yes', Mrs. Noah knew it but she hoped she wrote: -• ' it might have escaped Already's mind. . • " Welcome to the bride." ' ." Pcior child,"' she ' s'aid _again's " poor " They both will recognize my •hasid- child,. I mistrust you did Wrong to tell him writing; know I've been here," she No " . thought, as with one long, last and look at " Oh, Mrs. Noah, don't say that; don't the room, she Walked away. make it harder for me to laear. The They , were laying the table for dilator tempter has been telling me so all days and now, and with a kind of dizzy, uhciertain my heart is so -hard and widked, I cannot. feeling, Maddywatclied the iiervants hurry - pray as I would. Oh, you don't know 'how Ing to and fro, bringing out the choicest Wretched I am ! " and Maddy hid her face chintts'and glittering silver, in honor a the inithe broad, Motherly lap, sobbing so bride. , Comparatihely, it VMS not king- wi clly that Mee. .Noah waegreetlY per-, since, a little, frightened, homesick girl, 'she Plexed how to act or what to say. ---------.- first sat down with Guy at that table, froth Yeare ago, she yehuld have spurned the whieh the protd Agnes would havehanished thought that the grandchild of the oldman her ;liut it seemed to her an age, so 'Much who had bowed to his own picture,' ehould of happiness and pain had' come be mistress of Aikenside; but now, could place for her there now, near Guy; but she should hot fill it. She could not itaY ; and she astonished Agnes and Jessie, just as they were going to make their dinner toilet, by announcing her intention of geing horne. She was not dressed to meet Mrs. Remington, she said, shuddering as for the first time she prenounced• a name whioh the servants bad frequently used, and which jarred on her ea e every time he _heard it. She was not dressed appro- priately to meet an English lady. Flora of course would etay, she said, as it was natural she should, to greet her new mis- tress ; but she must go; and finding Charlie Green she bade him bring round the buggy. -• Agnes was not particularly surprised, for a vague suspicion of something like the truth had gradually been creeping into her brain, as she noted. Milady's pallid fake and the changes Which paheed over it whenever Guy was mentioned. Agnes pitied,,Maddy, for in her own heart ,there was a little burnihg.spot, whoa she remembered who ,was to accompany- Dr., Holbrook. So she did not urge her to remain, and she tried to hush-Jessie's lamentations when she heard Maddy was going. • , One long, sad, wistful look at Guy's and Lucy's home, and Middy followed Charlie to the buggy waiting for her, and bade hina drive rapidly, as there was every indication •of a coming storm. • The gray, wintry' afterhoon was drawing to a close, and the December night was shutting down upon the Honedale hills in sleety rain, when the cottage was reaehed, and Maddy, pas'singup the narrow, slippery walk,entered the cold, dreary room, where there was neither fire nor light, nor friendly voice to greet her. No seund save the ticking of the clock ;Tho welcome save the purring of the house -cat; who came crawling at her. feet BA she knelt before the stove and, tried to kindle the fire. Charlie Green had offered to go in and -do this for her as indeed he had offered to'return :and etityall hight, but she had declined, preferring to be - alone, and with. stiffened ,fingers she -laid the kindlings Flora had prepared,,anathen applying the match;watchetl the blue flame as ,it gradually licked hp the smoke and burst 'into a eheerful blaze. • • " I shall 'feel better When it's warna," she said, crouching over the fire, and shiver- ing with more than bodily cold. There was ' a kind of nameless terror stealing over her as she sat thinking of the years ago when the inmates of three graves acroSs the.meadove were there beneath that very roof where she s,at alone.' " I'll strike alight," she said, rising to her feet,. and trying not to glade at the .sha- dowy corners filling' her with fear. , The lamp wite found, and. its friendly. beams. soon dispersed the darkness fronds the corners ahd the fear; frona, Maddy's heart, but it did not drihe ,froin her mind thoughts of what might at that mornent be transpiring aA Aikenside. If the bride and groom came at all that night, she knew they must have been there for an hour or more, and in fancyshe saw the tired but happy•Lucy, sag in her pleagant room she made her toilet for 'dinner, with Guy 'stand- ing bh and looking on. Did he smile approv- ingly upon 'his young wife Did his eye, when it rested on her, light up with the same expression she had seen so often when it looked at her? Did he conainend, her taste and say his little wife was beautiful, as he kiesed her fair white cheek,. or was there a cloud on his handsome ,face, a Shadow on his heart, heavy with thoughts of her, and would he rather it were Illaddy there in the bridal room? If BO, his burden Wag hard indeed, but not so hard as hers, ant/ kneeling on the floor, poor Maddy laid her hea.d in the chair, and, 'mid piteous moans, asked God, her Father, to help them both to bear h:help her and Guy ---making the latter love as he ought the gentle girl who had left homeand friends to live with hira in a far distant land ; asked, too, that she might tearfrona her heart eirery sinful thought, loving Giiy only as rthe might love the hus- band of another. The prayer ended, Maddy still sat upon the floor, while over her pale face the lamplight faintly flickered,showing the dark lines beneath her eye,shased the tear -stains on her cheek. Without the ,Storra .still was raging, and. the wintry- rain, Mingled with sleet and anew, bee.t piteously against the 'curtained windows, while the wind hoWled mdurnfully as it Bhookthe door, and svveep. the hill. But Maddy heard nothing of the tumult. She had brpught • a pillow from the bed -room, and plachigit upon the,chair, sat dowti again Upon' the floor and 'rested her head upon it. She did not even know ' that her pet cat had °refit up beside her,, purring contentedly, and occasionally lick- ing -her hair, Much less did She hear above the Storm the swift tread of horse's feet as some one ulnae dashing down the road, the rider pausing an instant as he 'caught a glimpse of the cottage lamp, and then hurrying on to the public -house beyond, where the hostler frowned moodilylitheffig called out to care for the bores of a stranger, who went back on foot -to where.the cOttage la.nap shone a beacon light through theinky " darkness. . • a The Stranger -reached- thelittle.gaterand undoing -the fastening, went hurrying up the walk, his step upon the crackling snow catching MaddY's -ear , at last , and making' her wonder who could be coining thereon such a night as this. It was 'probably Charlie Green, ahsaid, and with a feeling of impatimacei at being intrudedtpon she rose to her:feet just as the door--turned- upon its hinges, letting' in a powerful draught of wind which extinguished the light, and left her in total darkness. But it did not naatteh.- Maddy had caught a sound, a peculiar cough, whioli froze the blood in her veins, and made her quake with terror quite as much as if the footsteps hurrying toward her had been the footsteps of the dead, instead of belonging, as she knew they did, to Guy Remington -who, with - parments saturated with rain, felt for her inthe darkness, and found her where from faintness she had crouched again beside the chair, and drawing her closely to hina in a passionate, almost painful embrace, said, so tenderly, SO lovingly : "Maddy, my darling, nay own 1 We vvill" never be parted again." _ ' CHAPTER XXIII. Luce. Hours went by, and the hand f the olOok pointed te twelve, ere Middy compel- -led herself to hear the story Guy had come to tell. She had thrust him frena her at first, speaking to him of Lucy, his wife, and Guy had answered her," I have no wife - I never' had one. Lucy* ie in Heaven;" and that svas all Maddy knew until the great shock had spent itself in tears and sobs, which became almost convulsions as she tried to realize the fact that Lucy Atherstone was dead; that the bridairobe about which she 'had written with girlish, frankness proved to be her shroud, and that her head' that night was not pillovved on Guy's arm, but resting under the Englieh turf and beneath an English sky. ' She could listen at last, but her breath care° in patiting gasps; while Guy told- her how, on the, very morning of the bridal, Lucy had greeted him with her usual bright snail°, appearing and looking'better than be had. Been,lier look since he reached her mothoh's home; andshow for an hour they sat to her alto° then. There was a a together alone in a little room daored to her, because years before at was there he con- fessed his love. ' Seated on a low ottoinan1 with her golden head lying on his lap, she bad this morning told him, in her artlees way, how much she loved him, and how hard it some. times was to make her love for the creature second to her love for the Creator; told him she was not faultless, and asked that when hi found how erring and weak she was, he would bear with her frailties as she would bear with his; talked with him, too, of Maddy Clyde, confessing, in a soft, low tone, how once or twice a pang of jealousy had wrung her heart when she read his praises of hie pupil. But she had conquered that; Bile had prayed it all away, and now, next to her own sister, she, loved. -Maddy Other' words, too were spoken -words of guileless pure affeolion, too sacred even for Guy to breathe to Maddy; and thenlelnY had left him, her bounding step , echoing througlithe hall and up the winding stairs, down which she never came again alive, for when Guy next looked upon her she was lying white" and .still„ her neck and dress and golden hair stained with the pale life -blood oozing from her livid lips. A blood -vessel had been suddenly ruptured, the physician said,addingthat it as what he had been fearing for some time, and now it had come -and there was no hope. They told her she must die, for the mother wouldhave them tell her. Once, for a feW moments there was on her face a fright- ened look, such as a harmless bird might wear when suddenly caught in' a snare. But that soon passed away as from beneath the closed eyelids the great tears came, gushing, and the stained lips whispered faintly: "God knows best what is right, Poor Guy! Break it gently to him." ". At this point in the Story, Guy broke down entirely, sobbing only s strong men can sob. • "'Maddy" he said, "I felt •like -i heartless wretoha most consummate hypocrite -as, standing by Ludy's side, 1 met the fond pitying glance of her blueeyes; andsuffered -the peerlittle‘hand • to part nay hair as she „tried to comfort Ineseven though. every .word she uttered. was :slaortehing,her fifes trierte comfort 'me, the Wretch' who was, the.reschuhwillingly, and who at, this pros- peet of release hardly line* .BA frit whether he yeas nahhe 'sorry than glad. You mayheell start from me inhorrorS Middy, I was just the wretali I describe; but ..1 overcanae it,. Maddy, and Elea,Ven is mywitness that no thought of you intrudeditself upon me afterwards as I. Stood by my d-ying Lucy.. I saw how good; hoW sweet she 'MIS, and. something of the old love came back to me, as r held -her in uay airzs, where she wished ' to be. :I would have eaved her if I could: and when I called her my .darling Lucy' they were not idle Words. I kissed her many timesfor myself s 'and:once, Maddy, for you. She toldine to do so. She whis- pered, Kiss me, •Guy for Maddy Tell her pa rather she should, take my place than anybody else -rather my Guy should call lier wife -for- , 1, know she . would not b.:deadens if you sometimestalked of your , dead 'Lucy, and 1 know she tvill help to lead you to that blessed home where. sorrow never comes.' That was the last she ever spoke, and -When. the. 'Run w,ent don death hadelained my bride: She died in my a.rms:, Maddy. I felt the last flutter- irig-of her pulse, the, last beat of. her heart. I laid her back upon her pillows.' wiped, the blood:from her -lips and frona her golden curls. I followed her to her early grave. I easy:her buriedfroin riay sight,an a then,Mad- dy, I started for home ; ,thoughts of you and thoughts kf .Luashblended equally together Until Aikenside was reached. 'I talkedwith MM. Noah ; 1 heard' all of you there. Was to tell, and then I talked with Agnes, who was not :greatly surprised, . andhdid • not opposes:ay coming here tonight. I could not renaainthere, knowing' you were here alone, even though some old fogie B might say , it was not proper -God knows what is in my heart. In the bridal chamber I found year . bouquet; with its Welcome t� 'the, Bride.' Maddy, you ' must be that bride. • Lucy, sanCtioned it, and the (lector, , too, for:I told him all.. Hie kWh wedding was; of'. course, deferred, an:4 he did not corriehonae with nae, but he Bid, 'Tell Maddynot to wait. -Life is too Short to waste,apy hap- pihesi. She has nay:blessing.' And, Maddy, it mustbe BO. Aikenside needs a mistress; you are all alone. Yous: are raitie-mine . forever!' , `: • • • ' The storm had hied 'away, and the nacion-: beamsstealing through the , Wind9W :told that. Morning was breaking; but sneither Guy tor Middy heeded' the lapse of time. Theirs was a gad kind of happiness as they sat talking together, and could Lucy h'ave, listened to them.ehe would lia.ve felt satis- fied that she Was not forgotten. One long brightcur, out from her, head by his sewn hand, was all there was kit of her to Guy: isaveAltehallowed' nie'mOries of her:purity sat cl-goacineestatshanride which'would-yet ,nsould the proud impulsive man into the o :earnest, .0.011SietenrtCAlitrEi,sti,a‘ 13: :IN:which, Lucy X-X in her life had desired. ,thitt . he ehOuld be, 'and which Maddy rejoiced tsee,'hina. --CHAPTER It is the,close of a. cabal September after- noon, and the autumnal sunlight falls softly • upon Aikeneide, where a gay party is now assembled. For four 'years Maddy 'Clyde hag. beeiai mistress, there arid, in looking -back-upon-thena-she-wondershovs B& ranch happiness as she has known _could be experienced in so short it time. lever but once has the slightest ripple o sorrow shadowed her heart, and that hems, when her noblehusband, Guy, said to hers in It voice she knevir was earnest and determined, that he could no:longer remain deaf to his country's hall --that where the battle storm was raging he wag' needed and henaust not stay at home. Then for a brief 'season her bright face Was overcasts and her brown eyes. dim with weeping. Giving him to the war seemed like giving him up to death. , But women eau be as true heroes as mon; and stifling her own grief, Maddy Jzten t "him' 'away with Smiles and prayers ,and cheering words of encourage- ment, turning herself for consolation to the source trona' which -she never sued for peace in vain ' • and, save that she rhissed her huSbandterribly, she was not lonely, for her beautiful dark -eyed b6y, whom they called Guy, jun., kept her busy, while hot many week e after her husband's departure, Guy read With hadistened eyes of a little golden -haired daughter,' wham MaddY had named Lucy Atherstone, and gazed upon a eurl hair she enelosed, asking if it ,were not like some ether hair. now raeuldering back to dust 'within an English church- yard. , " Maggie say S it is,"' she wrote, _alluding to the wife of Dr. Holbrook, who. had come to Aikenside to stay, While her hug - hand also did his duty as surgeon in the army. That little claughMr is a year-old baby how, madii1 her short white dress and coral bracelets site heglecteh -on tho nursery floor, while her niether and jessie and Maggie -Holbrook hasten out into the Yard to welcome the returning soldier, Major Guy, whose arra' is m a sling, and whose face is very pale fromthe effects of wounds received. at Gettysburg, where his daring courage had wsell-nigh, won lot Maddy a widow's heritage. For'sthe present the arm is disabled; and se he has heen -die. ...• where' warm words of ,welcome greet him, from the lowest servant upto his darling wife, who can only look her joy• as he folds her in his well HrnEl and kissee het beautiful face. Only Margaret Holbrookseems a little Sad,.. for " she had , hoped her husband would come with Gay, het' his humanity would not permit him to leave the • suffering beings who needed his care. Loving messages he sent her, and her tears were dried when she heard from Guy how greatlyhe was beloved by the pale occu- pants of the beds of pain, and hew much he was doing to relieve their anguish. Jessie, grown to be a most beautiful girl of nearly'16, is'still a child in actions, and, wild with delight at seeing her brother again,. throws ,her-arnas around his h'eok, telling, in ahnhat the' dame breath, 'how prohd she is of hiriashow much she wished to go to him when sheheardhe was wound- ed, how she wished he was, a boy, go she could enlist, ' laoiv nicely Flora ig married -and settled at the ,cottage in Henedale, and ' then asks if he knows . anything of the Confederate Colbnel to whom 'jiist before the war' broke out her methershas married, .and whose home was in Riehniond,. . , Gttyknowe nothing of him,' except .that he is still fighting for the Confederacy, but frcen exchanged ,prisoners, whe had conies in from.Richinond, he has hed of a beau- . tiful lady, an officer's wife, Mid,as rumor said, a Northern woman' who visited them , in prison, speaking kind words of sympathy to all, , and onces binding up a. druttaner' bey'e aching head :with - a handkerchief, ,vvhiola he still retained as a 'memento of her, and on whose corner (gelid be faintly traced the name of " Agnes.Remingtoe." Jessie's eyes are full of tears Lis she says.: ‘.'Dear mamma. It's. Menthe since I heard from hem' direct. Of course .itwas she who was so pod to the drummer boy. ,She ,einnot he so Very 'bad," and essie ,glances 'triumphantly at Mrs. Noahoh ,lao, never having quite overcome her dislike 61 -Agnes, land eerelrtried-Jessie by declaring that het.inether "bad found ,lieh level at last; and was jest where she wanted:to be." , Geed ' Mrs'. ,Noals.! The ancient .rnan who,se name She bore 'wohlds as eoori have thought cif heaving, 'the ark as she of., turn-. ing,traitor to hr oountry, and when she -heard of theriotoud haolhraised against the draft she 'talked eerietely of going in per- son to New York " to giye 'ens, a piece of her Mind," .and for one whOle, day refused to•speak to Flora's husband because he was. a " clum dimocrath'• and she ,pre- sumed wanted' the South' to beat. With the exception of Maddy, no one was more pleased to see Guy than herself.. He was her boy, the one ehe brought up. and, witha mother's fervor ] she 'kissed his bronzed cheek, and toldlaira how glad she . was to have him back.. . : - " ... ', With his boy on tie sound arm, -Guy disengaged himself from the :noisy- group and went with Melly to wherethe child he had never seen Was.jast. beginning to show SidnS of ,resentment at being left so long Lulu., sissy, papa's coma; .this is papa," the little bey _cried, assuming 'the honer of the introduction. : . • . . ' ' . • , ' Lulu, as they,called . her, • was not afraid of the tall soldier, and ., stretching- out , • her fat, white hands; went' to him readily. , Blue-eyed , andgolden-haired, she ., bora-belt little .- resemblance to either father or. :mother, butthere was a sweet, beautifulhacesof which 'Maddy had oftendrearued, but never seen, and whether it .were fancyor not, Gu:y_h_thought. it beamed upon _him again in the itha,ntile features of this little girl.. Partinglovingly her yellow.curls and kissing her fair 'cheek,' lh, saidto Maddy- softly, just ad he always spoke of ihit dead one:, ' T. . . . " Yes, 'darling, Margaret Holbrook is right -our baby .daughter . 'iEl xr.ery ,much ..iike hurdear.lost Lucy Atherstone." PIE. END. ---,,,, =lieu niatism 111011141ottic. Mr. Louis Picard. Laroclielle, P. Q., Writeethat iaevvaii sufferhig severely frorn an attack of rhuumatisna, •which was to severe , that „he,. scarcely .hetaid walk. A. teighbor.called his attention to Dr. Dow's. Sturgeon Gil' Liniment.. He. procured. -a' battle ancl had .occasion, to use' hat' half, of - ithefere he was mired completely. It is diffieult tedeseribe just how..the 'remedy works iii a cade, of Allis kind,but it is evi. ilea t that the medici�ewns exactly adapted, to the:disease, and . while .it would be pre. suMpthohe to' say 'that. BUC1A results are: sliownin every 'case, it is within the .truth to say that there are few:cases of rheuma- • tism,. lumbago, sciatica and similardiseases that are not benefitted, if not ,completely. 'eared by it. , The complete cure forms the great Majority. - Entertain the Girls. " What shall we do , to entertain 'Oar' giris ?" says ehreli• gi, . ous exphange.. A man Who needs advice as to .1iow to entertain bis girls is not lit to edit a, religieue •paper. , We suggeshthat he shouldtake one of them'out buggy.riding in the afternoon; tell' :her What .,ahlitisy she is, and, 'hew insipid and fixed -up that other Thep he should take" that.other:girl " out or ice, Cream safter supper-and-tallsherconficlehtially-lipW very 'uninteresting and awkward the buggy- - riding girl is: .Wlien the two girliisnieet, the, religious editor' can.depend on. them. , entertaining .each other...Without his per sonar assistance. • . .• Smug Elorto4e It is the fashicin. nowa-days to denounee 'slang phrases. 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