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The Advocate, 1887-09-29, Page 6" Piqua Will ItUse Thee." n ,, , times," returned Vern, with 0 eaePiele.n, PA WO eheald, 'halire plenty at tiele ta,Market. in and very .aegenaPlialtedt and,gre0t1,Y149Y-94 r9.091104.,gP314n4 Ag ,fiee14-1.-andt Weak as ,, .... Fent villages thee, Friend, when thou tears in her voice. "Never Mind alMnt N.9W Yerk ; and that 840 loved,eh.PPPlag." by all who knknewhiml ' . . - was; t crawled odeckfidl' of languid For 449Uthhat ain, me; tell me about ,your afternoon, Crystal;- 44 Cryetal, 1 do ,beilore that you have "Ho Was much. younger that Uncle curiosity, to pee ray father's,conntry. But 0;:ilixhiet l Skilful: hand and'aukions brow, , made up your mind to leave up." Rolf ; he was still et college when pnole the ,first glimpse dieappeinted nie—a leaden Tongue et Wisdom, busy hrain,•-• have you enjoyed yourself 2" . " Yes—no—Weil, thS children ,441, The OrYstal hesitated a MoMonti NA -he; dark Rolf Went out to India With his Wife, lap! lsz,zhi.,,4to)eyb4aol(linelgiff EILPillidlinagrnildevgpt, All thou watt than be forgot, - diptingoished himself there, eta ;made Aud thy place shall knew thee not. flowers were beautiful and the gardens So eyes grew a little misty. pretty, and there were plenty of gaily, "And if it be my duty, Fern, Will you great Many friends ; his 'brilliant .abilitiee loginitag.Ont. of a .claum mist ; this was all I Shadows from the henditig trees, dressed people there. oh, by the bye, X say a word to keep me, darling?" as Fern attracted the notice of rather an influehtial Lorunldingebeawoafy 041discgonapg6117idel.y Anwhdaa;xwrass. • O'er MY loW1Y head May Pass, ' . . Sighs' from: every wandering breeze saw Mr. ,Huntingdon, he was wal4ng with lo4ed seri ,owfully in her face. 1" 1 van 2let Man ; he offered him a secretaryship, and Stir the loug;•thick, churchyard uses.thleaving you. for good and all ; I 'will oever scoot afterwardp took him with him to Staufortliciame op to me with a tall gentle- , b Wilt thou heed them? No • thy slooP such a handsome girl." . . Vern felt an odd chokiho sensation in her do that until—" but here she paused,. Reale', man with a hindrown, wrinlded fano and 811821 ho.tireanness, calm aid deep. thipat. " You must have been mistaken, and then htraied on. " The faet is, Fern,' "There his enccess was even greater a grey moustache. .8onie sweet bird, may it and sing Crystal ; 'gr, Erie has been sitting with ,yger mother can ,ho longer protect me; that it had been in London. Every one " ° Here is your little Mee°, POlOnel On the matblo of thy tomb, us.' your *other's unraanly persecution is conspired to spoil and flatter the handsome Ferrers', I heard her Say in her pleasant , Soon to flit on joyous wing "Ob,yes he told us e0 for of coargehe driving me aWay. No, 1101i say nothing 'Youtg Englishman. He wee admitted to clipping voice ; ' poor little dear, $ho has . ,.1.4.-'roin that place Of death and gloom, , . . . ; . On some bough to warble clear, came up to speak to me when Miss Selby bitter of him to•night ; after all he is yoqr the most :ailed eircles ; theyonthful queens fretted herself almost to death for her, But these songs thou Shalt not near, had joined her friends ; they came it very brother; but it will bo better for him if I of society .tried .to find favor in his eyes ; mother.' Then as I hung back, rather- . leave here—a brief absence may help to he might have made rnorethat one splendid shyly, I felt myself lifted in my uncle's., 8ome kind voice may shag thy praise, late, just 88 We wereleaving." cure him." Passing near thy place ef l.5?st,match, I or.there was quite a ',Attain about arm. , • Fondly talk of 0 other day"— "And—and—jt was Miss Selby ?" it yes, and her aunt, Lady Maltravere.i 1' Put his selfisimeee mist net drive you. him, lint he soon pat a, stop to his brilliatt " 'Little Crystal,' he, said, gently, and r But no throb within ihy 'breast .. career by a most imprudent marriage, for thought I felt atear on my face as he kiss.edt Shall respond to words Og praise, and they had other people with them. I away, my poor Clrystal," Orold thoughts of 0 other days," liked the look of WU Selby, the has a "Dear, it will he far better for MO to," be fell it hive with It. Roman flower -girl Me> 4 my PuCT Edmund's 04.ild,' And'. nice franhface. I think Sholooks charming, returned Crystal with a sigh. "1 am grow- and made libr his wife. then, stroking my hair, 'But you shall,: Slime so fleeting is thy name, well and she walks so too. I do like a girl hag restless again, and as Miss Campion "Ab, you look shocked, Fern; society eorae lionae with me and be my dear little - Talent, :beauty, power mid wit, It were well that without sbanie to hold herself well." pays, the change will do me good; I came was shocked too, they had made so much of daughter' and then, as the kind hand ' Thou in God's groat book wart writ, '!O AMr. Erle wap wal- king with her ?" home to tell you this .to.night, I have told him, you see. fondled me, I crept nearer and hid my face - There in golden words to be" People said he was mad, that Bianca' s in his coat. Dear uncle Reif, I loved him "Yes, they are evidently very intimate ;" Miss Campien that I will go." Graven for eternity,dark eyes had bewitched him ; it may be pg, from that melnent. The rest of the day" _otionom. a-carnai, but CrYstai ' forbore to add that Erle had • " Next. week I" ° looked 'clecidedly.uncoinfortable at the sight "Yes, probably next, Wednesday or but from the day when he first saw her seemed like a dream. ofher, though he had eorne up to her, and Thursday, about a week from to -day. ,I lying up her roses and lilies on the steps of " We were speeding thropgh a strange SIR IIUGH'S LOVES. had entered into conversation. She had shall have to be Very busy, 3:04 See. Don't the fountain, to the last moment when he unknown .country, past, fields and not thought thought him looking either well or look so pale over it, Fern; six raotths will laid his head like .a tired child on her rows, and stretches of &moth uplands, happy, though Miss Selby had seemed in seen pass. Do you knew," rather sadly, bosom to die, he never loved any other ugly ploughed lands:and patches of grey- ----0.—. high spirits. But she kept these thoughts n I have had such a curious feeling all day, woman but her, And he loved her well. But sullen gloom that resembled the sea. CHAPTER, XXII.to herself. as though something were going to happen, it was not a happy match; how could it "Now I was gazing out blankly at the •rivo STEINGS TO oxt DOW, Fern did not .s.,sk any more questions. ema that 1 wanted 10 get away first. Oh, I be? it was . too unequal ; he had all the dreary landscape, andnew nodding drowsily , Oyer the grass we stepped unto it, A miserable consciousness that Was new can't explain it ; I felt the sane yeaterday, gentleness and calm that belenged to the on inyunole's shoulder, till all ,at once we And Goa He anoweth how blithe wo WM, to her experience kept her tongue tied. Fat, did Mr. Huntiogiontell you anything Ferrers, and she—she brought him, beside stopped under some dark trees, and a voice Never a voice to bid es eschew it; Erie had not mentioned that he NMI! more about those Mende of . his Whom he her dark Madonna beauty, the fierce Italian very close to me said, 4 LerrOa lift her out, Hey the greet ribbon that stowed so fair I going to the Botanical Gardetts with Miss met down at Sandycliffe ?" nature, the • ungovernable temper that father.' And then some one parried me . . . , . Selby; he had only muttered something "No, dear," with rather, a wondering beeerhe the heritage of her unhappy into a sudden blaze of light; and All at The heck grows wider, the hands must sever about an engagement as he took his look, "bo onlyjust mentioned them, you daughter." , once I found myself in a large pleasant On either margin, our songs all done, Taking the course of the stooping sun. leave. know. Whatiam eople they were, and so Fern started OA though she • would have room with tionie sweet-smelling wood intrn- We move apart, while she singeth ever Crystal saw thatFernlookeddiscomposed, kind and friendly took rather a; faney spbkenjhutOrylital only pressed her hand ing on the hearth, and a girl ' with dead- , . JEAN Itoraawoon, but she took to notice. She thought the to them." and` went on— brown curls sewing at a little table with a . That room of Mrs. Watkins' was unusu- sooner that her eyes were Open the better, "Yes,but I gilt lie. might have . "When a few months had passed over, white chino, lamp on it. ally quiet that May evening, only Fern for in her own mind she was convinced spOken of them gain," and the fame of Bianca's great beauty had "Tho strong arms that had carried nie Trafford was sitting alone by the Open from what she had seen that afternoon that l' Oh no be only Paw them twice_ J. he got abroad, society relaxed its frowns a in' and put me on the sofa, and were now window looking out listlessly at the few Erie Huntingdon was on the eve of an ,jut went • over to tell them* how Iiatly little; and received its erring favorite into bungling over the fastenings of -my heavy - passers.by. engagement to MiSS Selby, if he were not Redmond's ankle was; it was only the act& itif arms again. cloak, belonged to a tall youth with a Fern's busy hands were idleto-night, and actually engaged. They were quite alone dent thatmadehim speak of them at .all. "They had left Rome and had Settled at pleasant face, that somehow attracted the work lay unheeded in her lap. There when he had met them .first. Lady ROW interested you seem in those Perrers, ]Florence, and friends began to fleck round me. was a shadowteo on the fair face, and a •Maltravers was sitting - down at a little Crystal." them; Bianca was only a peasant girl, 1' ' Come .and help me'Maggie,' he said,: little pucker of anxiety on the smooth distance, and Miss Selby was blushing and ir Yes," Was thequiokrespoilsellmtsome- but love taught her refinement, and she laughing, and then the fair mild face of ' girlish forehead; as though some harassing sinning and looking excessively happy, and tiling in her voice made Fern look at her did notdisgrace, her husband's choice ; Margaret bent over me. problem. were troubling her.,„ Crystal had been rather indignant at the hquiringly. "Did you—Sid you know but it would have been more for her " ' Poor child, how tired she looks, Roby," Fern was not quite happyo in 'her mind. sight. tkem, Crystal ?" she asked in some sur- happiness, and my father's too, if they had I heard her whisper, 'and so coatoo, the • • Erie Huntingdon had been there that very 7, "Pray do not let me keep you from your prise. never Withdrawn from the seclusion of darling ;' and then she knelt . down beside th afternoon, but he had not stayed long, and friends,' she had said rather "celdly when 1 Yes," was again e brief answer; but their quiet villa. ii me and chafed my hands. and talked to me• his manner had been different somehow. Erle came up to her. "That was Miss af er a moment's silence she said, "Fern, "For very soon the fierce jealousy of her kindly ;and Raby brought me Some hot • Fern was revolving the visit in rather a Selby, was it not, the tall young lady in y have been very good, very patient all undisaiplined nature began to assert itself. coffee, and spooa watching me drink it,. troubled. way. She wondered if Erie's grey With whom you were walking? what a th time, you have never asked . me any "She could not endure to see her bus- looking down at me with his vivid dark. decided nervousness and want of ease had nice face she has ; and Erlehad reluctantly criestions about my past life. I think as I band talk to another woman, or hear hirn. eyes, those kind beautiful eyes—oh, Baby, - been owing to her mother's rather cool re- owned that it was Miss Selby. ait going away from you, and as one can -t,' praise one even in the most moderate Baby I" and here for a moment Crystal ception Of him. Mrs. Trafford. had not "Go back to her by all means," Crystal not tell what may happen, that I should terms.., A mere trifle would provoke her, buried her face in her hands, and Fern was been cordial in her manner; she had had replied, with a touch of sarcasm in her life you to know my miserable story. Oh, and then long and painful were the scenes grieved to see the tears were streaming treated the young man with some restrain voice; "she is looking round and wonder- itkvill be safe with you; I do not fear that that ensued. through her fingers. and dignity, and had not pressed him to ing whom you have picked up. Oh, yes, 1 for a moment; I have only hesitated all "She loved him passionately; she loved "Do not go on if it troubles you," the• prolong his visit. Erle must have felt that like the look of her very much.. I think you tlese months because of the pain of telling him as only an Italian can love • and she said, gently '. " I am interested. oh, so: he was not wanted, for he had very soon are to be congratulated, Mr. Huntingdon ;" it, and for fear you should cease to love me made his life so bitter to him thatle yielded interested in that poor little lonely child;. risen to take his leave, and had gone away and then Erie had marched off rather if ea knew of the fauna I am so bitter* it up almost thankfully at last. He had but if it pains you to recall those days, you fitting. pi a little sadly. sulkily. been very patient with her, and when he shall not distress yourself for roe." Fern was too loyal to blame her mother, "She looks absurdly happy, and 1 ' Faults," incredulously; "1 have never was dying, he nut his hands ripon her dark "Yes—yes---I wish to tell it, only give but she wished she had been a little kinder suppose she is in love with him; just see s n them, Crystal, you always seemed so' hair in his ten er way: • • mebne moment." And for a little while to poor Erie. Something was vexing 'him how she smiles at him. 'What fools we go d and brave and patient.' " ' We have not been happy together, she wept bitterly; then drying her eyes,. she was sure; he was not in his usual girls are," and Crystal had turned away, ' My dear," she answered, mournfully, dear,' he said, 'bub I do not think it has she went on in a broken voice, spirits. Once or twice when there had. feeling.very sorry for Fern in her heart, "appearances are deceitful sometimes. Do been my fault. 1 loved you always but it "Ah, I was not lonely hong; thank God, been a moment'a pause, she had looked up but all the same she knew better than to y remember the story of the poor . was hard to make you believe ib; be good there is nothing more transitory than a from her work and found him watching say a word of sympathy to Fern. ch °iliac whose name was • Legion, and to our child, Bianca, for mysake.' And ohild's grief deop andinconsolablo as it first her; and once she was sure that there were He has made himself very pleasant to h w he eat clothed and saved in his right then, as she knelt beside hi im n speechless appears. tears in his eyes. If they had only been her, but it cannot have gone very deep., 1 do lipid? to me it is one of the most touching anguish and remorse, he called his little "1 aid not forget my mother—I do not alone she would have asked him what was not believe Fern knows what love is," sh? 'ald beautiful instances Of the Redeemer's Crystal to him and kissed and blessed me, forget her now, but in a short time I threw the matter, and if anything was vexing said veryl bitterly to herself, and then she per.' He was so galled by his chains, he and while he was still holding my hand a off all traces Of sadness. The change the him. He wanted to tell hersornething, she changed the subject. wis so torn and wasted by those evil sudden spasm crossed his face and he put novelity of my life, the unfailing kindness was sure, but her mother had been there "Ob, do you'know, Ihad such a surprise,".. af rits among the Galilean tombs. Fern," ahnisothheeardmdoemwnenutpbeenwhaesrgone, shoulder, and in that I experienced, soon worked a beneficial all the time, and had followed him to the she continued, cheerfully, as Fern averted Wth a deep pathetic look in her eyes, effect on my health and spirits. In a door herself; and though she had gone to her face and seemed much engrossed with "Sometimes it seems to Me that, thank " My poor mother, she did not long little while I ceased to regret Italy and its the window for a parting look he had not a Savoyard and his monkey on the opposite Gd, the evil spirit is exorcised in me too— survive him. blue skies—and the Grange with its dear glanced up—he had walked away very fast sidegif the way. "When I got to Upton tl*t there is nothing in my heart now but "As SO0h as the news of my father's inmates became my world. with his head bent, as though he were House this morning I found Miss Campion ptisionate regret for an unpremeditated death reached England, Uncle Rolf wrote "But it was Raby • who was my chief ., absorbed in thought. had arrived unexpectedly, and of course she sit". It had not been quite a happy winter for went with us." . ., 41 My poor dear Crystal, is it so bad as at mice offering a home to his only brother's friend—my favorite playfellow. "1 loved Uncle Boll; child as.I was, I Fern. First Erie and then Crystal had "Do you mean Mrs. Nortgo's sister 2" t t 7" widow and child. "11 was my father's desire,. she knew, very soon learnt to reverence that dimple been away, and she had missed them both. asked Fern, With languidcuriosity. ' Yes," with a sigh; " shall 1 tell you that she should live under the protection of kindly nature—that loyal heart; and terribly: It was not as though she had "Fes, Aunt Addie, as the children call abut it—as I told your mother—oh, how his Aaatives, so she obeyed his wishes Margaret was like a dear elder sister; but other friends to take their places, and their her; she is staying at some private hotel gbd She was to me, how she tried to com- at once. she did not hesitate for a moment, it was Baby who from the first became my absence had made quite a blank in her ex. and she drove :over to see them. I was fift me and she had suffered so much her- teough she felt ably was a 'dying woman, master and my companion; Raby who istence. so pleased to see her, for you know how taIf. Of course, you have always known and it broke her heart to leave her bus- instructed and reproved and praised mo; If her mother could always stay .at'home kind she was to me at Hastings. I do it ' name is not really Davenport, but you hand's grave. She would bring her child. whose frown was my worst punishment; i and talk to her, if Fluff Were older and believe that she has taken a decided fancy live never guessed. that t was Crystal to England and place her safely in Colonel whose smile was my reward. more of a companion, she might not have to me, and it does seem so strange." l rrers." Ferrers' care, and then she could go with tTo be continued.1 missed thein so muoh ,• but somehow her "11 is notatrange at all," exclaimed Fern, I" Ferkers.1 Do you mean that you belong an easy conscience to rejoin ber beloved. day -dreams were hardly as consoling as rather roused by this; "many people take ii„; Mr. Erle's friends, the blind clergyman "How. well 1 temember that journey ; . A Wanderer Returns in Tatters. usual. They seemed more shadowy and a fancy to you, Crystal. I did directly tho lives with his sister at the Grange?" every detail was stamped upon my childish unreal, and now.and then Fern felt a little mother brought you in that evening,"..,...—,---- i".)Yes, I am Margaret Ferrers' cousin, recollection.Yesterday afternoon a seedy looking Man dull. Ever since her mother and Crystal "Oh, you"—smoothing thefair hair tie young omit whom they adopted aswalked into the . office of Deputy Sheriff as"Alas 1 she never livedtO reach England. had given her those hints aSout Erle, the caressingly—" you are a darling, and you ikair own child, and who lived with there She Was taken Very ill in Paris, and after Sainuel A. Johnson, and announced him. girl had felt some hoettile influence threaten- love every one, but Miss CaMpion—well, flarn childhood. Well, I will tell you from a. few days of intense suffering, she passed sell as John F. Mahon, of the firm of John ing her 'tweet content. Her thoughts Were she is quite different. One would never ae beginning, for you never will under, peacefully away. Mahon Lt Sons, of Lynn, that was bank - always straying to that unknown Evelyn' expect a clever woman of the world whot„and without hearing about my mother. . ." A kind-hearted American widow and rupted in 1881, at which thne the junior Selby of whom Percy had spoken. Now has friends and acquaintances in allquarters 9:ye meyour hand, dear ; if you are tired, her daughter, with wham my father had a partners fled the cetintry. The estate was and then she Weald question Erie about of the globe to be guilty of thiti sort of aid do not want to hear more, will you slight acquaintance in Florence, had Put in the hands of aesigneeS, who, in her in her innocent way, but he always sentimentality- but all the Same," with a Oa* it away. I am glad it is getting dusk, travelled with us and were at the same November,1883, paid a dividend of 3 per evaded these questions. little laugh, "8b0 seemed to be delight* to 6 you will not see my face; the moon will hotel, and nothing could exceed their good- cent. Mr. Mahon presents a sorry appear- ., " Oh, yes I see her sometimes," he would see me, and of course the American scheine atm presently, so we shall have light teas to my poor mother. • ance to those who knew him before his de. answer. "What?makes you Bo rouchinter. was revived." hough." "They nursed her inost tenderly, and parture. In conversation with a Herald ested in Mies Selby? I have other lady "Oh, Crystal," With aVery:long Mee, "1 p One moment, Crystal; does Mr. Ede were with her when she died, and Mrs. representative, he stated he had been in friends, dozen ti and dozens of them ;" and thought you had givenup that idea," how ?" Stimforth proinised my mother most faith- Canada, Texas, Ireland, Paris and Eng - then Fern would look confused and uncom- "Nob at alt; but I wanted to hear more " No, of course not, he is a mere acquain- fully that they would Wateh over me until land since he left Lynn, and had at one fortable, and would change the subject; about it, and I could not make up my nce ; what shonld put that it your head, they had seen me safe under Colonel time Passed as a journalist. He asked but all the same this girl was never Out of mind."fFerrers' care: ern?" . Sheriff Johnson for the warrant for hi thought. She was rich and well-born and '1 You talk as though you Were thinking il" Oh, nothing, it. was Only fancy," re. " Every one wa,s kind to me. I remember arrest, as he understood one had. been issued. beautiful, and Erie was alwaysmeeting her. seriously Of it. Mrs. Norton would never rued the girl; she hardly knew why she once when I was sitting in a corner of the iit the question; was it something in saloon with Minnie Stanforth, I heard The sheriff knew nothing of any warrant, Fern tried to hide these thoughts, but consent to part with you:"and he referred Mi: Mahon to the police Mrs. Trafford often fancied the bright fade "Mrs. Norton would do exactly what her 3 le's manlier that afternoon? He had people talking softly of the beautiful dation: Here he told his story to Marshal was a little clouded. Vern laughed and sister wished her to do' '• nlY dear. Aunt ked her, a little anxiously, if Miss Devon- Florentine lady Wholay deed up -stake, and Hart, who telephoned to the police station talked as much as ever, and worked as Addie' s1 will rules Unton House; I begin to rt were going away again, and if she how some one had told them that she had at Lynn, but they did not Want him. The busily for them alt; but more than once, understand things better now. We used to ilia be at home the following week. "For died of a broken heart from the loss of her district attorney was applied to; but he when she had returned earlier than usual, wonder how Mrs. Norton. could affoad all e had been such a runaway lately,'" he English husband. did not Want hira. His old demise], Mr .../. she had found Fern with her hands lying those pretty gownsand bonnets, and why d Said with a slight laugh, "and I was "1 was not with her when she breathed James H. Sisk, was applied to, and his idly in her lap, and a; very thoughtful look the ourate'.13 wife was BO M,uchbetterdressed 'nking that it mint be dull for you when her last. Minnie had coaxed me away On answer was "Send him to Lynn." Mr. in her face. Fern would jump up at Made, than the vicar's wire, and how they could is away." But Vern had assured him eats pretext or Other, and when 1 becanie Mahon declined to go, as he did not liare to with a merry laugh at her own idleness; afford to go out of town and have all those t Crystal had no intettion of going away reatlesa and miserable, she took Me in her appear DA a tramp in the city where he but her mother did not always forget the nice things for the ehildreMbat of course it in, for she }Ad no idea of the plot that kind arms, and with the teaks strearaing once rolled in wealth. He sat in the station look: It was fystal and Miss Campion were hatthing from her eyes, told the truth, ar too drearny and abstracted, is all Aunt Addie'd doings." last tight a picture of despair. He had she said to herself, as she watched her child " Miss Campion is 'rich then." weert them. "Fero, sometimes when I shut my eyes been Iwo weeks on the roadfrom New York, tenderly. "Fes ; Mrs.Norton told ine ill about it CHAPTER XXIIL I eat recall that Scene now. and what to do With hinaself he aid not Crystal was thinkingnauch the satin is when we were in the gardens: She says ' "1 can See a child Orouthitag in a corner know. He was offered a bed by the kind the entered the room rather quietly that some old uncle left her all his Money. ottystan's sroftv, of the big gaudy salon where a parrot was hearted Marshal.—Boston Herald. May evening—so quietly, izideed;that Fern She acme so much good with it ;and she 19 i The path ins' father's Toot Screaming n a gilded Cage, a forlorn . was not cOnsciens of her presence till the especially kind to Mrs. Norton, who is her • trod Me out (which suddenly broke oft icaiserable child, with her face hidden in her better ?" put her hand On her shoulder with a light favOritii . eider. She has prornieed t� at tinao he dropped the wallet Of the flesh hands and Oryitig as though her little heart d passed) alone 1 earried Om end set langh: send the boys to school when they are old • child -heart 'gainst the thorny underwood, would break. Trying to Collect. "How is Brown getting on, doctor—any " Asleep, Or only dreaming with yank • teach the grassy shelter of the trees, enough, and she pays nly salary, and in " 1 reftember even now With gratitude eyes, open, Fern. What is thematter, little fact, the Whole houttehold are intieh •, babe i' the wood, without a brother -babe I like the tedbreast bird, how .giacid the StanfOrthe Were to Me. " Oh, Bitavn has been. up and about for tam: tveohcf.'' , one 2". ., , benefited by Aunt Addict'. So Mrs. NOrteal own self-pity, 'es back to devea,011 that *tit With leaves, Minnie had a little bed placed beside hers, More ?" " Oh, Crystal, how you startled me," ex. Eti,tabeta Barret .13rolinti74. told me rather sorrowfully that if I made and ‘voulcl Often 'wake tip in the middle of " Then you don't go to see him any claimed Fern, turning ctimson under up Ins, . rabid to go to America With her the tight to soothe and comfort me, When "Don't 1? / Wont to his arida three Crystal's sharp serptiny. " What Made sister they walla not 'Say a %Ord to prevent "1 meet begin at the very beginning; I Marled from somo dream it a paroxysm of times to see him yesterday; and Pni you come in so noiselessly 2 , I 'never even it." rn " said Crystal, with a stifled eigh, childish terror ,ind grief. 'Young as I was way there now." . oriloy .. heard your footsteps. ..Ye, I wag dreaming; "But yeti Will not go, dear," teexingly. 1 hoe 1 shell not Wearn ry you ;". and as / so fretted and pined after my othea,- .... I believe," pushing back her hair with "Miss Campion has friends in Now rn diselaimed the possibility of fatigue that if ivahad stayed longer in Paris I . Tomato Pio.—The .renitiina Of cold pork rather' a tired gesture. "Fluff Was sleepy York," returned Crystal, evasively; "but th much energy, she continued : " Oh, I should have beet ill ; but, as soon as the and Went to bed, and mother had t� help or muttori a few Slices of potatoes and the does not meat to stay there long. She 'II be as brief 'tie possible, but I Want you funeral was over; we started for England. . . • - • aid an 1 onions, CoVet with shoed tOrmitobrif a DVSs Martingale with the accotiiite,and one Wants to eee Niagara and Coloradq, and I understand it all plathly: . ' " Thiele Rolf had been princerited, by little stock; gets. stupid sitting alone." , forget the route she has planted ; but a , " I hoar() told you that Margaret Forrore attaok of gout, coming to the funeral, bub, or; if this be not at hand, alittle Water ; make a short orttet and bake.- "1 never heard you say that before," donapanion she mniit have; iind she) offers my coatha ; her' father, COloneI Ferrets, he Wrete to Mrs. Stanforth ,giving her full ' The wetter from tho Daniel spring, Geor- , 4 a brother' much yontger than hitt- rather itcrediflotialy ; " You aro the bright. Stith handsorne tonna; and after all 'the ' intbriMtiona,, and promised that if possible . Oa; is Said to be a natural hait dye. Bath - mg gray hair with it will change' the doter oat girl . 1 ItnOW; Fern.; year mother's will not be away more that five or Mk 1 lf :his halite ticati Ediniindi, A I, and -.di Wad ho would meet 'as at Dover. name 'Little Stinelaine ' just 'Mita 'yeti ; months, and 6,,i she says the change will do ' y - '. you alvicays deem t� Me the veil detidiace of "11 WaS early one NOVember Enernitlg,, OA me good ; the only thing id she Will start 1 " I recollect him very . little; except that I lay listlessly it my berth, that 1 was ' 4_ • 1, to black. early text Week, and tiet 1 tell her I. have , Was very kind to me, but they tell Me aroteed by the noise overhead. as e Lotta returned frOm Europe on beard tho n . "Ob, ono rutistbe dull and iittipla Soilfe, nothing ready,. Oho onlylaughed aha said at he was is thignhirly heti:borne- man, brief 'VOyitge over, X wondered; had We itearathili Etruria:.