The Huron Signal, 1881-02-04, Page 22
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I weld raw tNailr--Il -
the face a tV ►, whore
len; jest a, ay se . the
est oLsrtge, di/ eta
es I weighed, awe did ems. .vee
. timinel a Alli'0 el-
lite
it would
was all Doti,�ia
ktelisiissap otwa revere el lift
Why, sitting hem, trusted and looked
up to, depended rein r the sole humse
dl ip-`-rey eeloteamir examined, as i)
P Mil* way eel we i< wen the lad"
'genet .Alitsr of 41► --I watching, 1
M�t�r whealed betew let Ally sick-
,this 1rrn. th whisk trembled in the
awe, felt myself wigwamim red
ss ►.hits. Nay, Ives." ea named roil
Were Tom," 0, nos ho miler d
pride !
Drying to myself thus -Job i sq -1
rmmight et aaotbar Hebrew, who rue*
•'.et Into ahs Lead, been Vie, the Aqui
gists;" ani died. Item. iate>ty mu 4,
May there not be, even in times ,
such a fling r " .eeb the Teeth T'
I believe there is: I know 1w.
The Gentile wont out. I with.
m eyes shat. and had not it f ill:
I hawed her steel .most, the xoom tryaji
to get a light. Alms to trust my own
heavy step -hare seemed as soft r snow
-I contrived te pall the window blind
ride, so that . pale white streak fell
across the hearth when she was kneel-
ing -the cher lea hearth, for I bad not
dared to tisk the notes of keeping up a
fire,
$b. Amami up, and shivered.
' la that light morning T"
- " Yea Aso yew pid T'
" • little," -
" It is always- mid at daybreak. Go
Sed get a slnawL
She took
ne apajse, but put the candle
auto pl... a�..me over to me.
" ow du you think he is r
" No mono."
A nigh, patient, but hopeless. I took
an opportunity of examin her close/y,
to jehow teem her self -retro' was
likely to last; or whether, after this great
shock end weary night -watch, her phyl-
a/A strength would fait So looking, 1
noticed a few blood -drops trickling over
her forehead, oozing from under her
hair.
" What is this r'
" Oh, nothing ! I struck myself se
we were lifting papa from the cabbage.
I thought it had oared bleeding."
" Let me look at it a moment. There
-I .hn11 not hurt you."
" Oh, no ! I am not afraid "
I eut the Bair from around the place,
yid plastered it up. It hardly took a
minute; wan the smallest of surgical
operations; yet She trembled. I saw her
atnngth was beginning to yield; and she
might need it all.
Now, you mud go and lie down for
an hour."
She shook her head.
You crud. "
There might . have been something
bltrah in the words -I did not quite
know what I was saying -for she looked
rises.
' I mean you ought; which is enough
argument with a girl like you. If you
do not rest, you will never be able to
keep up for another twelve hours, dur-
ing
uan
ing which out tether may need you.
II• does not need you now,
" And you T"
" I had much rather be alone."
Which was most true.
Bo she left me; but, ten minutes after,
I heard again the light step at the door.
" I have brought you this " (some
biscuits and a glass of milk.) " I tow
you never take wine."
Wine ! Oh, Heaven ! no ! Would
that, years ago,. the first drop had burnt
my lips- been r gall to any tongue -
proved to a not drink, but poison -as
the poor old man now lying there once
wished it might have happened to any
non of his. Wen might my father, my
young, happy father, who married my
mother, and, loving and loved,
with her the brief years of their youth ---
well, indeed, might my father have
wished it for me !
Be there I sat, after the food she
brought me had been swallowed down
somehow ---for it would have hurt her to
come back and find it untouched. Thus -
watching, hope lessened by degrees, mei
into mere conjectures r to the newer
in which the watch would end. Possi-
bly, in this state of half-oo.sciouen.a.,
the breath would quietly }lass sway,
without draggle or pain; which would
be eeriest for them all.
I laid my plass, in that sue, either to
IN of any us. to the family if I could, by
remaining until the Trekernes arrived,
sr to leave immediately all was over.
Oireumetrnees, and their apparent wish,
must be toy rmly guide. Afterward
there would be so difficulty; ulty; the les.
they saw of stay one who had been aro-
ciated with ouch • painful time, the bet-
ter. Better for iii, of theca
The cloth below eklask-whd hour i
rid net 'aunt, bed it fek like morning.
twee- bed tet --I mud maks it morn-
, Yeast to the etude.. no refresh my
go v/mth the soft whits dawn, which, as
s t>pwswi the blind, Adie Win the met,
tans the moil. berm yellow and dim.
n ight was omit and gone Acmes
' he momilend, sod up on the iar hills,
' was %beady morning.
A thought struck me, eoggssting floe
"rore chews Estinguieking the candle,
i drew aside all the cytase; so r Ma
throw the day ' ht in a full stream Mere
the foot of the ; and by the side of it
- with the patient s hand between sine,
.4 eyes fixed steadily ,.n his fats--
1
u.
res opened, not es the old hawk
why, bet. with an espag Sinn in them
that 1 never expeieted to see again. They
turned inatincttvely] to t he 1►ght ; tiles,
Myth a drew, wandering, bet ptl.elb
..Ik, el leek, ttrwarrl m. P.ehly the
•+h1 ern mailed
That minute war wurtt, .,yini, to!. or,
ether, having I.• ed for all thes, twenty
The relit wheat f nay. •. tet! 'r -,.t M
told soother time
imr We life thU wen
.14 eileep piwasioua Ie givee
ward, whichever way *0 car
✓ ed, to keep, any leer., lib any
moodier' attendant; resolving thanks or
fee. Yes, if they oared it, I determin-
ed to take a fee; in order to .how, both
ta/�n'atd ,civzroadivetslip► I wee etas the
MawdI
f.sirio
7
thaw fa
practice-prwpaang or the sacred duties
.hr11e him, aaatk.-ked on.
t�1M 7Poi Will be done;
w> •40 wvade more beautiful OM 1
41110 to, 10 Norpla •ZpiShltial
kqw � fit:wge for; we that things so mei-
don 4114:; to 4W sba $-
=t y a Loan bad
hie enrSD0=
OS
posted pori- •M1!° ons hie "-
how much it mere, a t sit to
��STllae. r1 s7 died,
011t
1e, mea.latipt at all !M
0 mad
after � . gigDid L�
features, and +• tete deft •
He was smell r -
the alder.
had at St.
p�i��wmhOa-
;rid :
fellit111;
the two of
B to
•y�
eV's fort/. Tr' brit
twenty year
It is you, little ail yet/loess it, mel►.
have made ms think upon these mT
-my Lathe, motidt, and Ilaflar, 2kni I
have never. dared to Wink of until now..
Let me oontiaita
it r. J'nhelike's has been a difficult
Ser --mgrs r in its seeendary stagethan
at Ent I .x this to his daughter
-the second daughter -the only one of
whom I found of much abidance; Miss
Johnston being extremel) nervous and
irritable, and Mrs. ?reborn., who I
trusted would hate taken her share in
the narsiag, .prim" more of a hindrance
than a kelp . B ibetiold not b. made Le
oomprehrd wiry, --/bili ban father was
oat of denser, she should not rash in
a.d out of tie -mak 'room continue*,
with her chattering voice, and her tray
silk dresses; and she a off nailed be-
cause, when Mr. Charier», having come
for a day from London, was admitted,
quiet, sod, and shocked, to spend a
for minutes bid the oh!! man's 'bedside;
her Ataatas, all of lively rattle and rude
animal spirits, mer carefully kept oat
of the room.
"Yen plea it all betweenyou," eh*
said,one day, half sulkily, to er sister
and myself. "You play into one
another a hands r if you had lived to-
gether all your lives. Confer, Doctor -
confer, Miss Nurse, you would keep me
too Oat of p.W s room, if you mould.
I ornately would. Though an excell-
ent , kindhearted and good -tem -
to a degree, Mrs. Treherne con-
trived to try my temper more than I
would like to gay for two intolerable
days.
The third, I resolved on a little con-
versation with Miss Theodora, who,
having mat up till my watch began at two
now came in to me, while I was taking
brealdaet, to receive myorders for the
day, Ther were simple enough quiet,
silence, and, except old Mrs. Cartwright
wham I had sent for, only one person to
be allowed in my patients room.
"Ah! yen, I'm glad of that. Jud
heprken!'
Doors slamming; foetateps on the
stairs; Mrs. Treherne tilling out to her
husband not to smoke in the hall
'That is how it is all day, when you are
away. What can I do? Help me please
hs� ase!"
.4n entreaty almost childish in its
earnestness. Now and then, through all
this time alae has seemed, in her be-
havior toward me, less like a woman
than a trusting, dependant child.
I sent for Treherne and his wife, and
told them that the present was a matter
of life and death, in which there oonld
be no Jandu upon ceremony; that in
this house, where no legitimate rule ex-
isted, and all were young and inexperi-
enced, 1, u the pysician, mud have
authority, which authority must be
obey id, If they wished, I would re-
.igp the came altogether; but I soon saw
that was not demred. Th promised
obedience; and I repeated the medical
orders, adding that, daring my abuenoe,
only one person, the person I chose,
should be left in charge of my patient
'Very well, Doctor,' said Mrs. Tre-
horne; "and that is --"
"Miss Theodora'
"Th.odots! oh. nonsense' Ohe never
named anybody. She never was fit for
anything.
"{she is tit for all I require, and her
father
wishes for her also; therefore, if
Ma* Y 'I can at o� p up to
ice r
She had stood pottier and iafinesivs
till i spoke, then the soler rushed into
her fan and the tear itote bee eyes.
She lilt the roma isemediatsy.
Det, as i went she wee 1 is wait
&tan rah at rho floor. "Thank the -
thank yon so anucht But do you realty
think 1 shall make a good, careful Proms
for dear paper'
L told her, "Certainly, better than
any rime else hers; better, indeed, then
aq one I knew."
it am. geed tow We look ,if happy
. erprien
'Do you really think that/ Nobody
eves theme)* se well d rue be/lore I
rill tq--rf woo'{ I try,-tu amen.
pew
jr�aapradr� lmaert.
llet people some alter p n 'n.
reel or nursery, who is more "oonafor
table" to thea than any one else to
whoa, in trouble, the thoughts always
ly fink who, is siekness, would b rhos
en to smooth the the weer) nil)nw end.
*hied,
liivotbe
still lust not
05rint sa
we
last
s, I mind 13f1riaig hist
VIIA *Mira
1 faff 111•
like a
like a
which tuns round, large and quiet, to
Irk you right in the frees.. -rran they did
I weeder, if any seaidiii be Ulmer
ware to temp= >d tater -{rens, ,w,kiie rar-
ing in thew that would
rake it amialal hado� S test days or
itoam to lite -sad I 1..pp.sted to lore
ss®eieat 000wia smile ante will Mr my
what I .1.104 Amp, whom I desired to
ss., in thaw tJtr led 'tsars, when the
Istaing of a man could injure
snbodr- 1 this is thea ed
folly. To lies, not to die, is likely to
be my pieties. 14 accept it; blame me
uot
ern
s the wine
eDa aMr• iep$loss i4i .afterdusk, i * ;mei
04
in "the doctor's room. Thera, at midi-
niillt, TYehsrse wake ma I drew
and refine baths{ quiet 'heather, whin
the little bras rtes from bards the tell
Stith a awfb sod a wbiagsr. "Not at all
(teed, thank Toa" A few wards, awe,
aid I give it my mod*bill it "good -
algid." ams Mike its place, sitting dews
it tiler.e anwalt.Q, and lgaot*s . mg
head back against the same
which MEI hoop iad.atalio., soft
waeatasd se I watch by the old wan
till
This it Imo malaria, been.
Uatel1atdj, right was {tae patient's
most trying time He mod to leo mean-
er watching the shadows of tbs
t e• the oartaiaa. Sometimes,
I rare lint food or modicum, tura-
sd with a will stare, as if he
knew meor thotight I was Some
"owl th he wed" question me
nae b where was Dors/ and
Imp can that she hada good
j�p� .Odor Dora !
�sw ora—"the gift of God"-
it in good to her same, with m.snhige
to them, though people so eetdote rsama-
bis their names. Her father emir tie-
' to feel that she is not Walks
"She is a good girl, Doctor," hs mid
one evening, when, after having safely
bourne moving from bed to his arm -chair,
I pronoumoed my patient convalescent,
and his daughter was seat to take tea
and spend a evening down stain, "she
is a vet'y good girt Perhaps I have
Muer thought of m daughters."
I answered vaguely, daughters were a
great blessing -often mon so than eons.
"Yon are right, sir," he said sodden-
ly, after a few minutes' panus. "You
were never married, I believer'
"It you do marry -never long for a
Doe. Never build your hopes on him
-Armin he will keep up your name,
and be the stay of your ofd age. I had
one boy, sir; he was more to me than all
'
my
daughters.desperatequestion was I prompted
to tak-I could not withhold it, though
the old eau's agitated countenance
slowed that it must be one passing
question only.
"Is your eon living T"
"No. He died young."
"
This, then, mart both. aeoret-simple
and plain enoegh. He was "a boy" -he
he died "young," perhaps about eigh-
teen or nineteen -the age when boys are
most prone to run wild. This lad must
have done so; potting all the circumstan-
ces together. the oonclusion was obvious,
that in some way or other he had, before
his death, or in his death, caused his
father great grief and shame.
I could well imagine it; fancy drew
the whole picture, filling it up pertin-
aciously, line by line. A man of Mr.
Johnston's character, marrying late in
life --r he mud have done, to be seventy
when his youngest child was not mooch
over twenty -would be a dangerous
father for any impetuous, headstrong
boy. A motherlen boy too; Mrs John-
ston died early. It wka may to umder-
stand how dnfe would rise between the
son and father; no longer young, with all
his habits and peculiarities foihned;
sensitive, over -exacting; rigidly good,
yet of somewhat narrow-minded virtue;
scrupulously kind, yet not tender; alive
to the lighted fault, yet seldom warming
into sympathy or praise. Th. sort of
man who compels respect, and whom,
being one's self blameless, one might
even love; but, having committed any
error. one's first impulse would be to fly
from him to the very end of the earth.
Such, no doubt, had been the car
with that poor boy, who "died young."
Out of Nand, no doubt, or surely they
would hers brought him home and bun -
ed him under the shadow of his father's
church, and his memory would have left
some trace in the family, the village, or
the neighborhood. As it was, it seemed
blotted out --es if he never existed. No
one knew about him -no one spoke
about hien, not even the sisters, his play-
mates. So she - the second sister -had
said. It was • tacit hint for me also to
keep silence- otherwise i would have
liked to ask her Meow about him -this
poor fallen boy. I knew how suddenly
how inveluntardy, se it sear, a wretch-
ed boy eon -one Brigr perdition
never afterward retrieved,
Thinking thus -pitting by the bed-
room flus, with Mr. Johnetos .deep op
poattw-+poor old man, it meet have been
kis bure as. and mot W owe whish has
mode hies se wmembve AOM maty sons --
T suddenly oNged Ile Stile hew, in the
abeintibgre We three weeks
ip-
past{ 1 011 anew ieedl.ri
rt. It weld M IN/gabs test was this
s wadding thee I /
i ft
would, others*-�4J old it
any other mal, to plowed deities, aid
andel ties, the warmth of whisk stole is -
to ase, bend coal, are this lammed
iieas0lir►id it meat net last- Met
while it did last, why net share it; why
waist in gifting w►1i,ids in the rslde
Toe dill tics. Thaw aro
WINO IMO.�dg�r 1311 the
letter, if goer bb 4 o. to write
it. Thee you will know
Tea over, Mir Theodora 'ame o se
after "our patient," es she called hie,
e king if hs had behaved well, and dose
nothing he ought not love 'lnnet
�-R• naid
"If reds tag to yeat
forgive it. 1 with 1 were only r good
allarria'nhalliatAireMS15
same track eyes, God hirgive me
pitr me!
rebs std wan.. .tke bdeide, �a
to -low who . ihr�e
a�i.1 lifi aaia�aiiiM�t3i .a
hireitifee
lessim� jIas
t ui6rwitt� dot t �i
fht►w�msi i.�:
Iowa thimble. ea, Olio trebly do. saki
to me:
"II is atoe��iti4R money a,mmaddide .1
abash** hrlpi,Me �rpteetiges tsetse
is the snide%01 k' . I magi
maim eleiilsb i iw4rr119b itenelIf
—
erehatedeet wet
t eiliegivail Snipers
with
OP new 10/1 es. *f .h. shorlld never pe
afraid el tmMs any mown"
That Shea spompetiead le• Any -
Wag whish calla out the dormant 'm-
agpies of the .lewder must do a wane%
geed. With some women, to be goad
sad to be happy u one ;ed the mine'
She ▪ is changed, too, I can see. Pale
she look., there is a softness is beg man -
net sad a sweet oompoeure in her .fag,
differed from the . restiaaness I ones
noticed there -the peefjltofd irrit.bWity, or
aserhid paint though she toed bard 1. disguise Me at �'
itod swoeeeded doubtless; ie ell eyed bet
Ili• a▪ l* retests che.rf el, - tot. that..1h
ever MMi .tri lie; it roe len1y }frilly,
like her widest sister, but seeming to
carry shout is kw beet a well -spring of
otiotes* which Debbie. out refreshingly
opera av gthiog end everybody about
her. It is esiprially welcome in the
sick -room, where, she knows, our chief
aim is to keep the mind at ease, and Ike
feeble brain in striate rest. I could
emits, remembering the hears we have
e pemt--patiest, dolor, and norm -in
the most puerile .masemeota, mad alto-
getmer 4elieiow none'sss, alae Mr.
JJ.i�111 Magee ooava suet.
AB tii►ie}s.w over, 1 knew it a.. I
sat by 1Wr�_!_e, 'watehiag her play off her.
withtlerh ' flees her * ab sad prattle
lice abort sof tlmt
was mag on dews slam
" ow Titfit (leis!" he cried at last,
"Doerr, the girl is growing -I w't my
witty -bet absolutely_ mieebiee.oe►"
I said, talents segment .o..Mimee
&pp.s� W. yet discover in
lair lleedore J the brilliant
wit of her day.
"Dr. Urquhart, it's a shame! How
can you laugh at me .o1 But i don't
ears You are all the batter for having
somebody to laugh at You know you
aeon
I did know it -only too well, and my
eyes sat have betrayed it, far ben
asap. • Oolorod a little, sat down to
her work, did sewed on silently, thought -
t• or a good while.
was in her mind! Was it pityl
Did she fancy she had hart me -touched
unwittingly one of my many sorest She
knows I have had a hard life, with few
pleasures in it; she would gladly give me
seem; she is sorry for me.
Most people oompassion is worse
than their indifference; but hers given
out of the fulness of the pure, tender, a m-
suspieious hart -I can beer it. I can
be grateful for it.
On this first evening that broke the
uniformity of the sick -room, we thought
it bottom, she and I, considering the pe-
culiarities of the red of the family, which
she reins to take for granted I am aware
of, and can make allow.ace for -that
none of them .hould he admitted this
night.m prohibition not likely to a311ict
thent "And pry, Mias Dora, how do you
mean to entertain the doctor and mel"
"I mean to give you a large dor of
my brilliant conversation, and, lest it
became too exciting, to season it with a
little reading, out of something that
neither of you take the smallest interest
in, and will be able to go to sleep over
properly. Poetry -most likely."
home of yours!"
She colored deeply. "Hush, papa, I
thought you had forgotten-- you said it
wsti 'nereeme.,' you know."
"Very likely it was. But I mean to
give it another reading some day.
Never mind -nobody heard."
So she write poetry. I always knew
she was very clever, besides being *ell -
educated; Talented women -modern
Corinne► --my impression of them was
rather repulsive. But she --that soft,
shy girl, with her gay simplicity, her
meek, household ways --
1 said if Miss Theodora were going to
read, perhaps she might remember she
had once promised to improve my
mind with a eenrse of German literature.
There was a hook about a gentleman of
my own nary -Max -something or
oth or-
"Piooelnstini. You have not forgotten
him ! What s armory yea have for little
Elle thought so ' i .aid, if She weeid-
ered a poor doctor accustomed to deal
mere with bodies tier words, could eras-
CT/d,
os-
perltwmt /M sort et boob she roved so
Plea auiwould r She to hear about Max
"Y think 1Iaoeld sot understand
it. .
"I never tbught any such tbiog,"She
cried vat is her old abrupt way, and
west oat of the room immediately.
1'►e book she fetched was a little
.dsiaty ewe. Perhaps it lid been a gift.
I asked to bait at ft
"Oast you road German r'
.iQOt a line." For my few words of
eo nver.,tiosal fuesigk toners have beim
leaned littally, the ter te communi-
cate with stray petieais in hospitals.
t told her so 'T ern very ignorant, as
you most have lore sine. fnflnd nut,
Mur Theodora
Rhe .aid mothireg, but hegan u. read
As Ars{ rreras1111M1g line hy lin. thee
014
int a - e ably..
4 his
motion?laked the to jam b7
Frahm May the girl's hand. 'a beat,
one snare *here the father tempts, au,
be111p the daughter to t,mpt h, ,..
hoped this Yuat b tart rebel; but Cher
man is ?ansa -the girl, tut,u,,wuuu
appeals to her, bids him keep w hu
1,u>uoe his love. It is :•
as may liarr happened -mixt,
it tins.. en ,modern
tillslll.� w$ .si w4Yds."" elwouch attwb•
gV'inq of the sort of leve
Open t Was used to theorist, wool.
lie won hap, always winding up nit,
his favorite verse- how straiyte il.,t
shoe* Dome bank to my mind now --
';,iJoeeleve tNe, deer. e0. eio
okdd I sato more.•
Yax--odd enough the name would, -
the hesitated over it at first w t h a•
laughing apology, then, foe}ettng
*bout her book, rt came out naturally
'and sweetl -oh, ao sweetly wsetimes
-Max died How, I do toot clearly re-
member, but I know he diad, and never
married the girl hs loved; that the time
when he held her in his arms, and kiss-
ed her baton her tether and them all,
was the last time they ever saw one
another. She read, sometimes hurriedly
soil shawl inaudibly, end thea just
like the people who were speaking, as if
quite forgetting herself in them. I du
not think ane even real:deed that there
was a listener in the room. Perhaps
she thought, because I sat so still, that 1
did not hear or feel; that I, Msx Urqu-
hart, have altogether forgotten what. it
was to be young and to love.
When she ceased, Hr. Johnston woe
soundly asleep; we both mat silent. I
stretched out my hand for the written
ens, to go over some of the &ententes
win; she went on reading the Genian
volume to herself Her face was turned
away, but I could see the curve of her
cheek, and the smooth, spiral twist o1
her lair behind -I soppier, if untwisted,
it would reach duwa.to her knees. This
German girl, Thekla, might have had
just such hair, and this boy -this Max --
might have been allowed soraetimw to
touch it- reverently to kis it
I ran interupted lore. A eon at the
hospital; .lames McDermot-fever-ward
-cut his throat in a it of William.
There most have boon great neglect in
the nurse or ordely, perhaps in more
than they. Thews night absences -this
pewoocupation-though I hare tried
earnestly to fulfill 511 my duties; yet,
es I walked beck, the ghastly figure of
the dead man was ever before me.
Have I net a morbid coasoismos, which
revels in selfaceasstion 1 Suppose then
was one who knew me as 1 knew myself
- - ouuld show myself unto myself, and
say, "Poor soul, 'tis nothing. Forget
thyself. Think of another -thy other
self -of me,*
Why recount this, one of the runt -
leas painful incidents that are always
recurring to our profemtioe1 Becalm),
,having begun, I mud ten you all that
happens to me, as a mac would, Doming
home after his day's labor to his -let me
write down the word steadily -his wife
His wife -nearer to him than an mor-
tal thing -bone of his bone and any
of
his flesh; his rest, comfort, and delight
-whom, more than almost any num, a
doctor requires seeing that on the dark
side of human fife his path must contin-
ually lie.
Sometimes, though, bright bits come
across us -such as when the heavy heart
O relieved, or the shadow of d•.atb lifted
from off dwelling; moments when the
doctor, muc`, to his Own oonaoious hu-
n t.:stton, is apt to be regarded ran
angel of deliverance; dwells when he is
gawp to linger a little amid the glow of
happiness he has bees instrumental in
before he tures out apin into
the a of hie appointed way.
And such will always be this, which I
may consider the Mr of my iet.s at
Il0ckmownt. They would met twat of
my leaving, though it .r seedless to sit
up. And when I had seen Me Johnston
safe and snug for the night, they iniisted
un my joining the merry supper -table,
where, relieved now from all car., the
family ameembled. The family included
of course, Mr. Cbarteria. I wan the only
stranger.
Theydid nontsest mer a stranger -
yon know that. Sometimes falling, as
the little party naturally did, into two,
and two, and two, it seemed as if the
whole world were conspiring to wrap me
in the maddest of delusions as if I al-
ways had est, and were meant to sit
familiarly, brotherly, at that family
table; as if my old solitude were quite
over -and gone, and that I should never
be alone any more. And, over all, was
the atanosphere of that German loretak,
which came up curiously to th, surface,
and caused a conversation, which, is
some parts of it, seems the strangest
thing of all that strange evening.
It was Mrs. Trehern who originated it.
She asked her ester what had we been
doing that we were so exceedingly quiet
op stairs?
"Reading papa wished it Aad
being farther gautsoned, Mir The,dora
told what had beau read,
Mrs. Trailer bunt out laughing im-
modee*ate.
it wouldhardly be expected of Gush
well- Med and amiable Iodise, bot i have
often seen the eldest and yossgent
O sten, annoy her --the sewed Deo -u
mase feminine way--ae woad never
think of doing it er poem a time
m how it e
-se�mieat to gall the aapy Wood to her
oinks, sod Saar her whole eanar te
change keel gentler** into deiaaee.
It wan e„ now.
"1 d. mot met anything so very ridicu-
lous in my reading to paps out of any
book I choose."
I explained that i myself had begged
for Nis Dae.
"Oh, and I'm ant, she mer delight,•41
to oblige you.
"i was,". she Rani boldly. "and 1 eon -
alder that anything small or great, which
either i, or yen, or Puas1.pe sea do to
oblige 1k Urquhart, wet to he
happy and thankful to do for th. re
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