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°Bir,,I have, herea little thing, •
Quito:touching ittitaway,
n.,That4,01111,cif rippligg waters
,And the erriell ofiiew-mown bay ;' •
•' The bashful niaiden's'witehing
The lowing of the kine
The meadowa,spinegled o'er with Bowers
The sunset most divine; ,
'• .Are also pictured ay -the use
Of softly sounding werdis ;I -•
And over all -there conies the, sweat„ ,
'Ldw twittering'of the birds.", . •
•
'Twits then up apitike the editor :
"Your eche-male .good,"lie said ;
On the,rippling water raoket ,
on are really quite ahead. •
But thia•imangled mead -ow buliness •
And the bIuehing country maid •"
Havelong since copyrighted been;
And therefore afraid .
That your story will not answer;
But if you could only make
The maiden sweep the parlor '
It will eirolly take the cake."
* * * *
"
The poet man was much downcast,
- The lustre left 'hie eye; _
Ho rose to go and sadly, said: "-
" canlaTIGtellialle-. omeago Trannie..
4. Life's
M'srstery.
-There is something new and thrilling and
strange in her loveliness to -night that
strikes them both. A sort of -flush and
night of daring and exultation illuminating
her face. She has the look of , on,e wise is
triumphing in a new strength, able to pass
an ordeal under which she had deemed she
mud break down, strong not through want,
but.through excess of feeling, not through
insensibility of nerve, but through the
Intensity of this soul's yearning which Bemis
fall of force enough to break through the
barriers between world and world;
"Yes,-1-canesing_thela.st verse again if
_ gays with 'the sante kind of
thrill and daring in her voice:-.A:ndiiiie does
sing it again, with the "same abandonment
of passion and rapture, of aspiration and
longing in her eyes and tone. Only on the
lead 'syllable the pure impassioned voice
quivers; a'sudden inlet blinds the upward
gazing eyes, and the long lashes sweep
down over them andaveil the brimming
tears. Itisswell thatit is the last syllable,
for she has strained her strength felts lim-
its, and knows she can sing no more. She
retains her superficial tranquility, however,
and the tears •that have risen -do not fall,
and the silent lips do not tremble percep-
• tiktly. "
But the last words' of ths song have
somehow struck a Eittenge, 001afear home to
•Ialencitirn's heart. •
What hour shall to these exiled eyes
Their lost -their home restore?
What if the hour should benear ?- ,
f3he is so fragile in her, youth and beauty1
What if the hour of thatreunion be not
far off? No, no; it cannot be 1 Ile thrusts
the idea from him violently, fiercely. Folly
to be moved with forbodings at a foolish
varier She is well, and stranger than she
has been for years.
He has steered the bark safely over
shoals and rooks and past the breakers.
They are nearly in the harbor now.
.' • • • • • .
• CHAPTER 'XXXI. .
Sister, my sister, 0 soft light swallow!.
guest
chamber, , •
Bow haat thouheart to be glad thereof yeti
For WA. ere thou fliest shall not fallow,' .
•Till life forget and death remeixiber
Till thou remeniber ancl I forget I•
0 sweet stray sister, 0 shifting swallow,
The heart's division divideth nal
by heart is light as a leaf of a tree,
But mine pies fortli-among sea -gulfs hollow,
To the place of the• slaying of,Itylus,
The feast of Duffle, the Thracian sea.
liwienmaam
Zora, has ' only , -been staying with Dili
Glenoairn for two, orthree days when Rate
, Craven, who has returned from Hastings
sooner than she was expected, makes her
• appearance at the Chalet for a flying visit
of a few hours. She is bright and gay and
• demonstrative as_eiter.
" It is a shame,- Luli, for you to seize
upon Zara, and get her here all to yourself,
• while Lwas out of the way," she observes,
with a feint of being aggrieved I have
half a mindto take possession of her now
and carry her back with me." .
• "Please. don't" responds Luli, smiling,
• but earnestly too; I can't spare her just
yet. You won't run away so soon, Zora,
will you?" ' •
• "Well, I •won't grudge her to you; as
you're moped up all alone down. here," says
• Rate'magnanimoualy and frankly. "1
havelots of society andfun, and more par-
ties than I can go to. " So you may have
Zora for a little while." ,
• " Mr. Griffiths" is here announced, and
. makes his appearance in the drawing•roorn,
tall, broad, %big,. Iight-hisired, and grizzly
• bearded, and clad in a rough; light-colored
- --acoatathatagives-him-soinethingethesappear--
• , sues of a large, light Newfoundland dog.
He is introduced to Miss, Oral:lee, greets
Miss Brown, and takes ' Luli's hand, very
much as if it were a white retie. Then,
• being probably dazzled and embarrassed by
this radiant trio of girlhood, he looks round,
as if to find some support in Glensiairn, and
finds him not. • '•.•
,
"Where's your father ?" he enquires.- r
• " He may be anywhere within st,hureired
tallest's'," replies Luli, with a placid smile.
He is off on the of his wanderings: When
we came down' to breakfast thie morning,
we found no sign of him' hut 9, half cup of
cold coffee and a crust of bread. •• By which
I knew that he had betaken himself-,
heaven knows where -on. one of his myete-
rious rambles."
"When do you expect hire back?"
• "Haven't you known papa long enough
to have discovered the utter futility of
, expecting him at any given time or place?"
• " He was &twat% sorneveltat erotica".
adittifferMartilf-Griffitlisattvithasaamile-of-
• amused reminiscence.•
" And does he really play 'these little.
games often?", inquired Kate. ----- . -
"They are rather' a favorite amuseMent
of his," replied La. "I am •acouetomed
to them,. but 1 .think they astonish the
• domestics. A few..weeks ago," She. added,
with a smile brightening up her laddlike
outshine, , "he went for a constitutional
walk before daylight. The hall door was
heard to shut at that unearthly hour, and
• the rest of the household assembled in my
room in alarm, and in amusing deshabille
They tb tight it was a burglar getting in,
insteadf the master going out.' -
' Luft�b it ready," announced one of the
house old at thie moment. • •
. '
"You really are not going to wait lunch
for yoUr papa; then ?" remarked Kate.
"1 am afraid you woold all run a chance
of getting very hungry if.I did ; and I
, don't want my own appetite to become, too
wolfish," laug,hed Luli whose meals would
.—ahavebeen a moderately sufficient portion
for a canary,
"Mr. Griffithe is taturally alarmed at
the idea of having to carve for three young
ladies," , observed Kate, endeavoring, by the
preternatural 'solemnity of her lip, to
,.
counteract the mischievous merriment of
her epee.
',. As looliiii(*peoverbiallse Bee more th.s41
PlaYers,14theinaher halt 'aaY's visb4.seea
wore �f f21-riffit1is' growing attachment
than Luli herself. Noris, 'Kate alone na
her percepticip.. Zora s arrived ,iettlie
same cow:Mullen alreadY• The ver:Y Sers
yenta at tirit''''Chalet, the. housemaid ,Whe
Waits at dinner, the Gook teliciee scullery-
window.commands a view of the garden,
opitte confidently of Mr. Griffiths that " he'a
, after our yeurtglady" . and wonder f' when
tit Will opine off
• Rate dime, not go se tales this latterspec-
obi:than, She only 'observea to Zora in a
private and' confidential aside,
cas, e there" •ela ? Hard hit, evidently
--oname side." '
," On one Side, yes," agrees Zora.
'
"He's Old, isn't- he ?" &utilities Kate,
With a meditative air of Some dietaste.
"Still. • better to be an old, man's darling.'
• you know. Not that it's a game I should
ever care to play 1" .
"1 do not fancy Luli would care to play
it either," replied Zora, adding thought-
sful_tys:" or rather, I don't think she sego
that It's a part-ihs e iibkly tiTshaVe the -
Chance of Playing."
"Lull was always as innocent as a babe
tinhorn," says Kate, 'half scornfully, half
affectionately. "But she'll have to see that
soon, nnleas like a little, goose she treats
him coo much:in a paternal -light ,and so
scares hire' -off. I don't SUPPOSS," adds
Kate, through whotie careless levity breaks
gleams ell sterling- sense and wenlanly
heart sometimes, " everbe astond
of anybody as she was of poor Duke. I
don't know thet I should partioulatly like
to see her caring for anybody' else in,that
devoted way."• _ _
A! No," agrees Zora, in a subdued voice,
trying not to let Kate see how •she winces
under the allusion.
ol3ut still it would be a very good thing,"
Rate -continues. ."'for her_ to settle t down
ebmfortably with BOMB nice, gookfellow:
She is too affectionate aud amiable not to
havesome love •left to give, although it
Mayn't be the best love. • Andlialf a loaf
is better than no bread, and rechoufees
2iffialions are batterthearnone-aankthough
a itinis-g-
man might!" • •
"Mr. Griffiths is net so very old though,"
observes Zora. •-
"Just about the age that men get hard
hit," se,ye-Kate, with an air of experience.
"Look there!" nodding toward the two
unconscious subjects of their discussion
who are standing on 'the verandah, the
, gentleman assiduously picking up the shawl
which is dropping oft, the young lady's
shoulders, while she turneaher graceful
little head with a sweet but half careless
•exp.ressionof tharilse. • , •'•
' 01t is elan for you to have your yew*
friend's With you,. isn't tit?" he observes.
left so mtionsto youeeelf en Gleriedin
"It natist be dull and t loopy for you to be
away?" ia
..es
"It is lonely, but not dull. And if it
wereh •ld t h way's,' she
.,_seeni no an ea. . „. ,
answers, gently. "It would troublekith.
if hethought felt dull •do,ne,A'but she
could not 'be tied t� this cottage, Yoe keel..
And indeed . I am never, never really
she adde eagerly,,fearful lest her
Words should seen's, to it:41y a iiotuplaaitt"
" I atriancostomed to be alone; I like it; I
think I inheriath,e taste from him." •
" If you: no itis the only thing you resem-
ble him in. • I never saw a father and
daughter more unlike 1" he says, sincerely.
He has never seen Lull in those rare'
and always terrible moment when the aha-
dow other father's .spirit darkened:ler. face,
"And yet you always seem 80 happy
together," he adds, half questioningly,look-
ing at her with a sort of yearning, as if
looking into paradise whose gate might by
a bare poseibility open to him if he dared
to try it, but which he deemed too unattain-
able to dare. s •.
" We. do net seein; we are," she answers,
with a dreamy smile, but a look of pain
and memory in her eyea that harmonizes
ill with the word "happy." •-
"1 do not know who could fail to be
happy With, you 1" he observes.
" That's 'because you ,do not know me,'
she responds frankly and utamspiciously ;
" if I were your; daughter, you would knew
how tiresome I oan be 1"
• "Good gracious," whispers Rate to Zara,
"the little goose is actually talkingabout
• being hie daughter!"--: -
During the afternoon Kate is escorted
out by -the rest of the party on a tour of
inspection of the premises. The Pallet
cannot boast of extensive, grounds, and a
• very few minute's, suffice for the exhaustion
Of all objecta of interest in the garden and
the yard. After these have been inspected,
and duly admired, the girls, with Mr. Grif-
fiths of course as. Moduli cavalier, resort
to the hayfield near at hand, which,
althouglaprivate property, is generally left
open, and used alike r a ehort out and
lounging plain by the neighborhood in
general. '• •-
" To think that I have to go back and
dance in a -stifling gas -lit tall -room all
to -night I" says Kate, reclining comfortably
on a heap pf. hay,: with her hands clasped
-behind- herehead,saiklier-hat_ptished_down.
over her face, iso as to hide' it as ferns th• e
tip of the, nose. • "Alin -haven't seenyour
pater, Luli 1' I wanted to gee hint very
• much. You know what a pet he is of mine!
What a shame of him to go off in this Way 1
• But, especially asbis ' return is so indefi-
nite, I can't wait for it."
• Glencairn's wandering mood, however, is
but of brief duration this time. Dinner
has only been kept waiting about a quarter
of an . hour, . partly on the chance of his
return, partly because -Miss Craven has
been "seen off" at the station by the resit
of the party, and the train being a few
minutes late has delayed them, when Glen-
cairn'pushes the gate open and comes down
the gravel walk. '• •s
He is not at all suprised to find the One
Visitor, Martin Griffiths, there; he is non-,
• chalatitly surprised and interested to hear
of Rate's visit and of her regrets at depart-
ing without seeing him. He is kissed and
welcomed -gladly, but withcaft any of the
-effusiveademonstrationaof-relieved-anxiety
• e -by Luli; and would evidently iv aston-
ished and displeased if it appeared that his
absence had been considered at all strange.
There no fear of Zoraas uttering any
remarks or inquiries. She is always silent'
.and eonstrained befote Glencairn.'
• They have a• naoderately lively dinner;
though the 'hal of conversation sloes not
roll tourapidly. , • .
Martin Griffiths, who frequently is blun-,
dering enough to speak his mind, ventures
further than meet people when he observes'
in the course of the after-dinner iete,a4ele,
. I was quite surprised, old fellow, todnd
you had gone off on ezne of your wander-
ings when I came to -day. I fancied you
had left yotir Old habit's behind with the old
life in another heiniephere." •
And I fancied I had done' eurprising-
people," said Glencairn. "It's refreshing
to find somebody who oan still be surprised
at me You thought I had left my old ways
behind me, did you, my _dear boy? Did it
ever strike you what it good world it -would
be if we timid leave our caa selves behind
he added meditatively looking at the wine
in his glares against the light. •
• "It seeMB to me that I have left my old
self, the boy I mad to be before I first left
1
England, a:long, loeg,way behind," said
"But I newer 'was such a self as yetaused
to be," replied Glenceirnawith isishalf 'sad,
half bitter areile., "You were alwaYs the
same soul and the sense heart, biartin-
one soul in one 'body through all your life
Now it seento mcs, sometimes that two
souls poeeess hedy tern, two Bela -
rate and distinct souls, yet each retaining
memory of the "ether's deeds., Query -is
one responsible for the other? What
should you say ?" ,
"Y," said Griffiths, sinsply and 'straight-
forwardly se was his nature. "Your two
souls are only your conflicting impulses.
You were dways a creature of moods." r
"Of such moods as I used to walk down
on the plains," interposed Glencairn ; "such
Zoe& come into the room, to has put
-1Sown the letter iu its •placee and taken up
this Times as they eater. ,
Zorsesmilda her" inual timid good morn,
ingt her anxious distant courtesy to Glen -
cairn has: 'always, something fearful and,
prOpitiatingabout it, as hie, manner to her
ts 'sternly ceremonious awl stiffly politer
"How are you child ?" he inquires of
'Atli, with his usual nuttutinal look of
keen and anxious inquiryto aseertathaif it
is to be one of her, ", weir -days" or ""' il
daps."
"Perfectly well to -day, dear," she answers
with a xeassering gratefol ensile, and lifts
her fair fame te his grizzled mustache for a
good.morning
As she turns to the breakfast table she
glances down at the letter that lies await -
moods as I walked' down to -day. .Yes,,I sag her, and on the. nastent.her,pale ,cheek
a prey to tleem still -worse, worse than
ever! They are like a legion of devils try-
ing to seize upon me. If I yielded -but I
never yield. ' I tra,mple thernadown. As ib
is, when they are on me, feel, scarcely
responsible for myself. I go far advay-
alone-and wreatle with them. , All I can
do is to be alone, and ,to walk them down.
Faces=voices-peoPle-drive me -mad 111-___
"And 'doee this often happen ?" asked
Griffiths, with , a look of grave sympathy
and an. unconscious glance toward the gar-
den where the- two girls walked.
Glencairn anewered the look as well as
the words.' ' • •-
• "Not often. I never let the shadow, o• f
these moods fall' upon the . child if I can
help it. You are thinking; Martin, that I
am but a rough, grim guardian to be her
only companion? he added, fixing his friend
with his deep .keen eyes. •
Martin Griffiths, too truthful to answer,
"NO," too hottest to deny hie thought, said
only, looking with a Sort ,f 'half envious,
half pitying tenderness at ate girlish figure
croaeing the walk in the twilight, •
•
"She loves you."
As he walked home that night Griffiths
found himself earnestly reflecting upon
Lithe life with :that strange but devoted
father of hers, and wondering whether he
hiniself was a doting fool to let the girl's
face haunt isim by night and day, as a
-wernanSafatae never -aster's once for a brief
'dream -time -long --years- ageeehadahaunteds
him before: If this viere an entirely hope.
lesa infatuation, would it not be best, now
that it seemed to be tho Strong to be con-
quered, to retreat before it? to take a last
look at that fair face and turn trona it for
ever -leave it far behind, never to be seen
exzeptiai dreams again? Yes, if this were
a hopeless , infatuation; that would be the
• only course. But was it hopeless? Dearly
as she loved her father, her life; motherless
and sisterleas, could not be other than a
lonely' and to some extent a sad one. There
might be a place in it for new hopes and
new interests, although it was evident that
one fairest hope alreadjlaad been deetroyed.
• He could never bid that one flower of
youth and early romance bloom again, he
knew. • He judged Luli rightly enough,
rather by ,instinet than by reason, to be
assured that,whatever her past, it was a past
nUfuture could efface 'or eolipae. He was not
-
Poetic nor imaginative ; he had always
deepisedwhat he calledsentiment; and
until now he had scarcely knowelsovemash
unspoken romance ley latent in his heart.
But had, he devoted his life to rayolsolegy
and to the weaving of human emotiops-and
passions into Metre and melody, he conld
not have perceived more closely that the
deepest depths of this girl's nature had
already been fathomed; ,and that there
was- one stilled chord of her heart which
would answer to no living touch. Still she
•wea.auerotuut and gentle, 'she might learn
to know, a second love. It might be
reserved for some mends blessing to be pri-
vileged to breathe an Inthan Summer of
seeend sunshine into her life. Why should
he not be that man? •What wee he, griz-
'21ed and bronzed and battle -worn, that he
should expect to gather , to his ovni a fresh
• young heart with all the dear and bloom
still on it? Although the dew of a first
early love had been shaken off it, he would,
be I blessed enough if he could win that
• heart now; true and pure as it muster be.
And he might win it, surely. Noman
could ever love her better than be would do.
• And although no human tenderness could
surround her withmore careful cherishing'
than did her fathees, yet Glencairn was, as
he had owned, but" a rough, grim guardian
to be her only eompanion.' And how often
she wasteft solitary, cornpanionless, alone!
• "'Could he butagem het affections, Grif.
fiths thought to hinvelf, he would study
her every taste and fancY,make her life
not only safe and sheltered, but bright and
shnny; not content with only guterding,her
from care, he would give her • all the
pleasure that seemed. suitable to her youth
and beauty. But the time had not oorne
yet to etartle her by any advance, heknew.
The path must be trodden slowly and
gradually; the goal approached by cealtiollS
degrees. Pairing up and down in the June'
moonlight, forgetful of the passieg hews,
he resolved that -there must be hope for
him; if be oeuld only bide bietime. •
CHAPTER XXXIL
•Alas, we two I.' We two,' thou caveat
•' Aye, Miabbiffitilt-Witrfnae-
• That once of old. But shall God lift'
To endless unity• ,
The soul whose likenese with thy soul
• •••••--ROBETTL
Was but its love teethe° ?
" The birds are twittering from the fir -
trees; the thrush's trill mingles with the
distant whistle of the engine as the morn.
hag train whirls on its way.
The windows leading ' int the green
verandah .9,re flung open; the dew-haglit-
teting still like a, shovver of diamonds on the
white blossome of the syringe, that climbs
round the window. frame; the early Blin
glints into the tooth and on to the spowy-
clothed table where breakfast is laid, and
where the 'servant is:laying down the let.
ters the postman haslust brought. ,
A fragrant steam curls up from the silver• .
tout of the tall' coffee-pot; the covered
dishes look temptingly suggestive ; and the
crisp hot toast is beautifully brown; (woe
would betide the cook should it be burnt 1
and--equally-would the master's, wrath
descend upon.her'head should it look sookly
and pale).
The master is the firet in the field, the
only member ofthe little company present
at the roll call as yet. He is not regard -
Mike door or the cloak impatiently, nor
the covered table sanguinely ; ,buteyeing
with suspicious- eye the large thick letter
which the servant has laid by Luli's pIote.
He knows that it is not- anything very
alarming e but still to him its appearance
iedecidedly unsielcome. It is about the
• size Of a photcigraph, the . shape of
5 photograph • It is directed • to Luli
in the handwriting of ' Duke Mayburn's
-Mother, an old invalid lady who never
comes to London, and Whom Lull never
sees now the takes care of that),,but with
vtdaom eho still keeps up an oceasichal cor-
respondence. He recollects now that in the
old lady's last letter some time age there
bad been ai allusion to having more copies
struck off of the only good photograph
existiog of her poor boy. This then no
doubt is the portrait.
He has Only time to come to this conclu-
sion, to turn it over and frown at its inop-
portune arrival, when feminine dresses
rustle acroee the passage, and Luli and
Wenches whiter still, For just one moment
her senaitive lipquiver and her breath
comes abort. Then she it' mistress of her-
self again. Quite composedly she takes
her seat, and quietly, but not secretly slips
the packet into her lap, knowing well that
no one will question her as to why ehe does
• not open it, but unable to endure to see it
lying there. She snaileitecelmly, if _with
-absent eyes, to her- father and to Zora, and
begios to pour out the coffee with careful
steadinees., • • -
The morning tiewatatier is unfolded, and
Glencairn reads sprat ts aloud, and Luli
dutifully expresses interest iu the divers
facts he announces, comments on.. the
bsconding ofa, fraudulent banker, and
lietens-witli an appearance of attention to
something -she really knows not what -
about Pennsylvanian railways. •
She stirs her coffee and breaks up a piece
of toast in her plate, but touclestiothing
herself, although she' pours milk into the
saucer. and sets it down for the eat; and
flings crumbs -on -to -th& verandah for the
• But after breakfast Lull 'suddenly van-
ishes frorn the scene, without inyiting Zora
to follow her; and Glencairn's attentive
ear informs him that she has ()reseed the
library into the drawing -room. • Leaving
Zora pretending to be absorbed in. the
Times which he has laid down, Glom:Aire
follows Luli. •' ' •
=A -pair of eheasay_ourtaiuseelre.wnategether
across an earth feindi-the peatiere--0-91
divides the library from the drawiog-room.
Standing intently in the libra-ryalseelistens
for a moment to hear if any soberer -signs
of hysterias are audible; for he knows his
• daughter just well enough to, be aware that
her composure does not mean indifference,
and that she is sometimes calmest when
most deeply moved -for a while, until the
reaction comes. Hearing no Bound, he
softly parts the heavy, noiseless curtains
a finger'e width and looks between them
quietly. -
No 1 she is not weeping; she is not faint-
ing ;- she evidently needs no soothing nor
Rapport •••
•. She site there with the picture in her
hand, geeing On it as if entranced, still as
a statute ; and her faae is a revelation to
the watcher 1 A lovelier crimson than ever
. cif old has suffueed her wan, pale eh eeks
a Mist -elan -US 'tears, 'but too soft and -rap-
turous for tears, mellows the burning
brightness of her, large, intense, and fever-
ishly piercing eyes. Her lips are apart,
and she, seems scarcely to breathe, and
9.11-her-fair-facedis-fluslaed-and-halloWemby.
the ineffable ehadisw and glory of a love
that has no more to say to earth -a measure-
. .
less love overfio"wing the limits of lifers
divine love strong as death .
• In thedniinite spirit is room
For the pulse of ant intlnite pain. .
But the potentiality of theasouLiss.not
infinite for only pain. It is as infinite for
• endurance, and for love, love that is the
body's weakness and the spirit's strength.
The look opon Luli's face revealed to
Glencairm like a flash of lightning across
thsalarkness, a truth to which he had
been blind, and yet did not reveal tlie
whole truth to his self -sealed eyes. ,He saw
that this was not only memory, but love
stili;• he did not see that it was a love
that would last while memory lasted- a
• memory that wotdd endure during her life,
and that might probably not have long to
endure. For Luli's eyes, spiritual always,
wore so divine a look now -it seemed as
though the scrul were so far stronger than
the body that it was but tarrying for a day
before it spread its eternal wings- a cap-
tive too strong for the frail bars of life to
• • Presently her lips nuiveda she breathed
a whisper so Softly that , even in the utter
'silence . her. voice 'scarcely reached the
lietener's ears.. '
"Belong ago, my darling!" she mumured.
"How long it( seems to me l• and yet but
• "yesterday 1 Is it long to you? Time is
• short -and there is 511 eternity -for UB 1 for,
you and me, my love 1" •
•"Glenciairrtdrew back and drove hie nails
into the palm"; of his hands as he, Steed;
pale and stern, alone. After a monient he
dapped forward' and pulled aside the cur -
taints with a rough and resolutshand, and
with a look, as if he Were walking up to the
naitzlell Of leveled guns, he strode across
the room to, Luli's -Bide.asSheitarted; and
her'. Odor changed, but ' she looked hp at
• him 'Serenely with , those dreamy, far away
over her and booked at the portraiteresting .
'hie arm upon her shoulder. ,
• So together they looked on the silent sha:
doiv of that beautiful face that should never
• smile' itsbright living shales' thent again,
that Wee inarbletetill middens, yet retain-
• ing eon:lathing of awful reminiscence of its
living beauty even ' in the tetchy', fixity of
death, when they last looked uponib with
the burning gaze of agony too deep for teeth.
So like 1 so like the dead 1 the large olear
eyes Seemed to smile With the Old winning
'frankness. Surely threes firmaurved mobile
lips would potato speak! surely ,the stray-.
hag curls of hair over the broad' brow would
wave as they used to do when he hall Muit.
tiently tossed them back! • ,
" It is like," Glenectirn Fiaid, in deep,
harsh, but carefully composed tones.. ".But
put it away, Luli. Do not brood Upton the
past. Let it lie." -
There was it betrayal of passion and ear-
nestrzess, however, suppressed 'in the tone
with which he uttered the bat Words, that
wasunusual to him,Lullonly answered him
by a look of affection and a sad half 'smile,
that jest cury,ed het lipe, atid'did not reach
her eyes. • 'Then she rose andditipedhee
hands through his arm' and clung there
testingly eel' so they left the room
together, and returned to • Zora, who die-
gaised with her usual skill the thrill 'of
pain,- and almost of horror, that ,always
shot through her when she witnessed any
demonstrations of affection between the
father and 'daughMr, who were so closely
-united in heart, so far apatt base&
a.,...Thetwocagirla were ,growing more and
more tiytaohed to-onah othetapartly because
they ere each of loving and loveable
natures, partly ' on account of the secret
and mysterious aympathy which was week-.
ing unknown to draw them near together.
Theyehed . hitherto mutually' avoided any
allusion to the tragedy Which had soterri.
bly cut short their pleasant day* at Como;
indeed they • had never mentioned Duke ,
Ildayburne at all, although the , tlaopglit of
birn was especially now that they were
• together, always uppermoet in both their
hearts. •. Perhaps it wee this 'secret synth-,
thy, whit% in Luna) heart at lead was an
ocault' instinct uncompreheuded by hereelf,
or pethaps the fact thattier spirit was Mir.
reeand Ity„ the receipt of the
portrait,' that 'led !bar 'now to break, threugn
the Me of their mutual reserve, and inspired
her with an irresistillle herniae to show to
Zera the photograph she had received that
Morning.
• Zora had pleased what it was long before.
Lull pot it into' her hand, ,' although
few, half -faltering words had named no
name; and Zora shrunk away, her breast
heaved, a,nd an impercettblevalitidder chilled
and thrilled her, as Olga forced herself
reluctantly to take the portrait in her hand
and tuna her eyes upon it.• -
"Do you think it is like ?" murmured
Luli, softly, with an irrepreseible yearning
and cravingileadetriess betraying itself in.
her tones. •
Zen'looked on the likeness of the man
who lay in his -far off grave, whom her rash,
erring. love, had unwittingly caused to be
so etroiken down in Ids prime, whom she
had loved with the first warm upbreaking
of the passion of her heart, tidy, more! for
whom this day, this hOur; her heart throbbed
passionately still) Although her eyes were
_bent down upon it, 'the felt that Luli's eyes
were fixed upon her. Her lips "quivered,
and the delicate, faint rose tint faded and
lett-her oheeks ashy white. The hand in
which she held the portrait trembled, and
tears welled.up and brimmed fast over the.
• longblack eyelashes. Luli saw these
and alight broke then- upon her. ,, She laid
her hand upon „Zora's gently, and bent
closer to her, and 'the force of magnetism,
irresistible, unexplained, compelled Zora,
reluctant asshe was, and ahrinking and
trembling, to lift her tearful eyes and meet
Luli's gaze.'
Both Were Bilelet,pnly their eyes searched
eanli other's depths, Zora's half fearfully,
terrified's', . yet earnestly, Luli's with . a'
pure, piercing, yet tender scrutiny, that,
had nothing to• conceal nor fear. The one
look slowly grew from a search to a cer-
taintY, and in its sOlemn silence said, You
loved him, then ?" The other was the look
of a ,suppliant, confeSaing but concealing
still, and in its mute appeal said "Forgive
• Luli drew Zora to her with an infinite
sgentleneeeased kissed her with a soleran
• teuderneas that would have beseemed an
eternal farewell, but that given as the
pledge of a never -to -be -worded sympathy,
•the seal upon a never to be broken bond.
Zors could not take it as an absolution;
fdr she knew too well that Lull had Cot the
most distaut dream of what she had to
forgive.
Bursting into • passionate tears, Zora
threw herself down at Luli's knees, artd
clung to her, and sobbed over her and, wept
upon her bosom, and yet dared not return
her soOthing kisses. Theareak and stormy
heart brealuig beneath its secret and its
remorse, beat throb for throb against the
heart too, pure to suspect, too guileless to
"Dear Zora, dearest 'Zara 1" whispered
Luli's soft voice, "I- had, not a dream of
this beforel But you will be all the dearer
-a 'Nowt" Lull, repeated -dreamily; as if
monitoring to herself. "Could I have said
so if he had beets living? No, I could not
then Earth is earth: Even Love is niit
.perfect here 1" •"
--Zora-only-sobbed-in-answer.--Lnli hads
no tears to shed. • She soothed and com-
forted Zora, unsuspicious of the Borrow
she was soothing, and rocked her on her
• breast like a child until she bad caressed
per into calm. But across her own far-off
yearning eyes there came no mist; they
looked far and clear away to Heaven
"through-ra6-liTiliding veratears.
•
' To be continue)'
Deal Doubt it.
Failure is not always _followed by fall-
ure, and although you may have tried rem-
edies repeatedly Without benefit don't
doubt that you. -win find the right thing yet
.
POTNANtN iS PAINLESS UOR.8.4/TRACTOR 18 it
positive remedy for corns, and.once need at
once cured. This feet has been vouched
• for by 'thousands who have used it. Sold
by druggists.
• 64 Golden Medical Discovery,' •
has been used with signal euecees in 'con-
liumption of the lungs, consuriaptive night-
sweats, epitting of blood, shortness • of
breath, weak lungs, coughs, brenchithaand
kindred • aifeetiorts -of throat .,and chest.
• Sold by druggists. -
• Morrison Heady, a Kentucky blind man,,
is fond of chess. He haa chessmen with
projecting points, so that he may distal-
ghuairshbobytehaet. touch between them. He is
dt
The remarkable' efficacy -of-- Wheeler's
Elixir of Phosphates and Calisaya in' 'ter -
vows debility and all need up conditions of
the system, whether from work, worry, or
dissipation and depraved habits, is owing
to iteerestoring the balance' of supply and
Waste of nervous energy by the direct
nutrition of thenervous system. No mat-
ter what may bathe OaUBe of exhaustion
eofthesitaliorees, there issno specific med.
Motion for it, nutrition Of -th-e-Wilaittid
tissues by food elernenta being the only
royal road to recovery.
,
•
A hymna which escaped two menthe, ago
teem a 'menagerie at Tula; in Russia, has
been doing immense havoc in the neighbor -
hoed of that city. It tore to piece's a
ehephefd and several children.
• "Maio must work and women weep,'
So'runa the , world away? "
• But they neednot weep ao much if they
Use Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Preserittion,
which •cures itIl the - painful maladies
•peculiar to women. Sold by druggist's.
• Rev. Joseph Cook met with a serious
accident on the voyage from Japan to
Sydney, having been thrown from an upper
to it lower deck by a lurch of the ehip
during it- atonal. • Fortunately no bones
were broken, but some of the muscles and
cartilages of the ribs were torn, which
necessitated surgical treatment on his
artival at his. destination, but this and it
week's rest insured his restoration to
health.
• The huge, drastic, griping, sickening pills
are fast being superseded by Dr. Pieree'a
"Purgative Pellets." • Sold by druggists.
• -There are nine bold travellers among
the English women. It is announced in
London that Miss Marianne North has
sailed for the Cape of Good Hope to
resume her task of painting the flora of all
parts of the world. After- spending some
months in South Africa, elle proposes, the.
Academy says, to visit Madagascar and the
Seyoheilea Archipelago, both of ' which
present rare and beautiful objeete for. the
peneil. As before, ahe travels alone and
thiattended ••
•
• Diehard, who killed DeMa880.8 in a duel on
• Sunday, at penile wag himself dangerously
wounded about the head and armpit, and
received three cuts on the hand. Diehard
will be prosecuLed, but will certainly be
acquitted. •'
•
Faitettettatte,•
The Profit Cipep at Airco? Voile latae
IlBelAytitiotaivriroae.
A l3Ciffillo ,despateli eate : Benjardo
Baker,. proprietor of the East Hatebueg •
orchard, reports the crop e ictal failuee
throughout the State, , The counties Of
Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, Cattaraugue
• Chautauqua, Erie; Monroe, Lise'Ingstooe
and 00eidefWill barely preclude enough At
this fruit for the pillage rnrhet At this •
tinae of the year the ruling price .for early
apples shot*" be P1 to ee, per bar -Tel, and
local dealers" have generally been able to
contract for fall andr winter varietieS at
• 51.50 to 53 per barrel. At tbeeeprices the
revenue to Erie County growerh89 for a -
long time footed up over S150,000 annually
for the exportable stook', alone, while the '
Ittage cider naills'of the neighborhood have.
sold theirproduet for a shriller amount. Not
one in ten of the eider mills will be opened
this•fall, and the yield of- Erie, Niagara,
Genesee, Monroe and Livingston Counties
Will not realize the farmez•s any importaalt
"sum of money. Prime stock is at thia
time,readiljr taken ata4 to l5 per • barrel,
and the comag winter Will see ordinary
apples selling at $10 per barrel. So light a- ,
-yield the State over has never been ,kiioWn
before. Potatoes also being a very light •
crop, the year will hardly' be recorded as
one of the best for the farmer. Consumers
in the large cities will be the: principal
sufferers, however. -The yield of, pears,
peaches and all small fruit is much below
the average.
1111WiEl. cotiwr otaaaustricit.
'
Eastern' Circuit,‘ -he Hon: Dlr. justice Galt.
•
Pembroke, Tuesday, 19th September: ,*
Perth ; Monday, 25th September. •
• Ottawa, Monday, 2ud, October.
• Cornivall,Zionday, 23rd October. .
•.L'Orignal, Monday, 30th Oetebtx.
. ,
Midland Circuit -The Hon. the Chief-J,ustice or
, the Contirion Pleas.
_
•
'Brockville, Tuesday, 19t1Q.September. •
'Kingston, Monday, 25th September.
' NaPahee, Monday, 9th October: .
• Picton, Tuesday -,17th October. .
Belleville, Monday, 30th october.
Victoria Circuit -The Hon.Mr. justice Osier*
Brampton; MendaY,9.8th Sentember..
s.ro cly12e
' 4r1.1! Ot7ee
JindtsyftStelerm. b °.
• Peterborol"MondayOthOCtober. •
Cobourg, Thursday, 12th October:. ' ,
Brock :Circuit -To ,ne. taken by several Judges.
I '
•
Orangevil1e,Monday,'23rd October.
Walkerton, Monday.23rd October.
Goderich, Menday,..23r4.1 October.
• Stratford, Monday, '30th October.
,owen Sound:,Tuesday, 31st October.
Woodstock, Tuesday, 7th November. •1.
iagitra 'circuit:46 Hon. Mr.4ustice PatterSon..
. „
St. Catharines, Monday, 25th. September,.
Hamilton, Monday,- 2nd October. , -
. Milton, Monclay,16th ,Ctober.
• Cayuga; Thursday, 19th, 06tober.-: .
W,elland,•Monday, 23rd October.
4aterlociCircuit-The Hon. Mr. Justice Burton.
,
Guelph, Monday;125tli September. •
Monday,,2nd. October.
• . Brantford; Tuesday, lOttiOcteber., •
Slincoe, Tuesday,117th..Octeber.
Barrie, Monday, 23rd Oritober. •.
W,entern Circuit -The How Chief Justice of the.. •
-.Queen's Bench. •., • .
Chathath", Monday, 18th September.
*.Sitailies,Tuesitay,S2etb september.- ,
• Sandwich, Monday, 2nct October. •
'. Si. To...nias, Ilendo.Y.9th October.'•
London, Mondani, lith: October.; ,
Home Circuit -The on Mr. austiosairniona .
___civit.cameatuonday.Serateeeptember, • a._
criminal court, Monilay, 9th October.
•'CH&IeCEBY DIVISION. '
•• The Hon. 3lli. Justice Prondfoot.
Toronto; Wednesday, ast ;.November.
' western oireuit-The Hon'. the Chancellor., ••
London, Monday, 18th September. •
• Chatham, Thesday,26th Septralier:• .
_Sandwigh,Friday 29th 'Sense al her. •
Stratford,arnia,wn
eshduaiTs.d3ary,dOctober. '
26th October.
• Goderiek Monday, 30th Octobei.
. Walkerton, Monday, 0th N, Ovember. • .
The Home cireuita-The Hon. Mr. Justice Proud- •
•ViThitby, TiMsdan lat•
th69Ste.`nteMbor.
Guelph, Monday,E18th.Sep comber.
• Owen Sound, Monday, 25th September.
Brantford, ,ThursAav, 28th 'Septenaber.
Barrie, Theaday, 3rd October. •
Simcoe, Tnesday, 10th October.
St. Catharines; Friday, 13th October.
, teantotonada. uesday .aeth .0etober.
Eastern Circuit -The Hon.Mr JupticeFergoson. ,
.Cebourg, Thuniday, 5th October.'
• Belleville, Monday, 9th October.'•
Kingston, MondaY,16th. October. ,
..: Ottawa, Friclay,'20tli October.
Brockville, Friday, 27t0 October..
Cornwall, Monday, a.tth Ootober.-
•
• ..Lindsay, Thursday, 9th November.
,P„eterbotos Tuesday, 14thiNovember.
•-a-a
-A great part of. Spring Gardens, that
curlews little precinct between 'Charing
Cross and St. dames' Park, and one of the
most interesting localities in central Lon-
don, iSth be torn down: • In the time of
Charles I. it was 'a fear garden with a
plie9atintry and 5 bowling green, and took
its name • from 5 sterieg of water. Many
remarkable men resided there. Ina few
years it will be difficult to identify the
houses inhabited by Prince ,RuperteLord
Crofts, Colley Cibber, Sir Edward Hunger-
ford and 'GeorgejCanning. •• ,
Milwaukee papers are Ball full of discus-
sion of the local) boycotting matter: The
latest' move isthe refusal of it brewing com-
pany to take 1,200 tons of'coal-according
to iiontract because the coal dealers eigued
the petitiou slaking the manager of a theatre
to 'close on -Sundays -a -a -I-- _
20431101031ENSEBAIL.
• (FROM BRAZIL.)
• The Arevr Compound, its ", won-
• derfal 'affinity to the Digestive
Apparatus and the Liver„ increas-
ing the dissolving Juices, reliev-
ing almost instantly the dreadful
results of Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
and the TORPID LIVER, makes
• Zopesa an eirazy day ncceiyizz
very*
It acts gently and ,Speedily in
B,iliousness•if Costiveness'. ,Hea.d-
ache, Sick'Headache, Distress af-
f.er Rating;Wind on the Stomach,
Heartburn, Pains in t'he Side and
Rack, Want of Appetite. Want ol •
Ene.rgy; Low Spirits, P„oul Stow:-
aolt. It invigorates the .Liver, car.
Ades elan snzplus, bile, regulates
the Bowels, and gives' tone to the •
whole syStenr.
•Cut this otit .and talre it to yonz
Druggist and get a10 cent Sample,
ora large bottle !dr 75 cents, and
*on .Votax no.i.clibor &bend ite