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The Huron Signal, 1888-6-22, Page 2HELEN LA FONE 00 THE FOES OF A HOUSEHOLD. fall OP 11161L11411 L11'1. THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1888. CHAI"aint XXXI. "Hoyou masa," 'eked Sir Coddles*" I will take you there this everting. is a low 1/0608 sad with a very pals fees, Yon will utadentlsd then "that tea ru longer love your has- '• 1 thane poi for your confidence in hand t' teltisg use thug- said Su Cuthbert attar a "Yes," with • uervow Airco, "that is somewhat lengthy silence. villa I semis A woman's love oa.mst " Was my .tory few iatereetiog be - km ea nothing. Yu. have .Dia him; MON you knew the ted r • 7us tae his oars, arena duo, IuudvJt "Tr: b me, but I did went us you moat ot know it" Elie otter icy iadttfereooe. hs despises me ; he thinks I drag barn Imes gemmed it. Now du yos think 1 dews. I have torsed him to hak his should be happier if I could see the hr end lits with an inferior being. At erect 1 sad forget all that W Bose thought it would be enougb to be hie " 1 will not believe the NMI is to be as Wile; then I found that would not esti.- Toa say. Something mat happen, fti as. I have tried to an it. and I things will change, he mat love you in W ye failed. He will never lute we." the end." "Is he made of moor 1' " Now you are hoping that the mama "He never wilt I see now- be iso- will lel*. 1 hoped w once, but I hese slat. Ws are out made for one enoeber. gives op hoping now. I did sot love kite ; what I took for Esss " He mead see that you are unhappy ; eras eon pride sad self-will and pettier- he is not blind." slay. That illueiun baa gone now. aid " He is blind to everything that sou - I hails ootbiog left—notbiwt." aero sae. He thinks of nothing but She leased her head for • memo* Helen, (eels nothing but the emptiness egaiaat het arm and then went on— she has left behind her. Dort you an- " Yoe think. perhaps, 1 so giving op doretard, he thinks I love him. - • too moon, I will tell you abs' 1 " Yoe torture me when you speak lis• have dose, and thea you cm judge for that. Can I do nothing 1" ssarself, He takes no ootersat is mer " What wood you do 1 Y..0 mat see nothing that I do touches how in the that the position is unchangeable. Now wary least, yet 1 here dune deeperMM let a go home, it it growing cold. thing's to awaken toes feeling. )•rent, 1 - tried to interest myself in hu pursuits ; I saw bethought I was intruding. After CHAPTER X X XII. that I lad a life of ceaseless gawty. Per . THE La•T Ttuw. seek* w• stereely saw one mother. Ilse did not ears ; he was happier without Alma mid Sir Cuthbert walked home ems. nes that failed I made midis, timid almost in silence ; whoa they and efMlled to be jealous of his sties- did *peak it was cf matters gait* differ - ties. /e ether women. That made him est from the one which hied just occupied Ukiah he be hung • millstone rosad kis them- It was nearly dark when they Mak. hail& there it ended. Finsi� 1 washedra Blstwomd : the windows were triad to ask. hint jealousjealoof me. 17t.t lit up, and as they walked up the g•rdeo attempt fell flattest of .11. Before yos everything about the house seemed to t ins I west out with Mr. Dalrymple speak of pease and security. ons *vests& and managing so that we Just before dinner Alice got Pereival's west os the bey together. Every malate telegram. She read it over and then teemed an hoar, but I stayed and st./ed, crushed it in ber hand, saying— and it was nearly midnight whss we "I wonder what. his buboes* is. He Dame is. Waa he jealous or awe 1 says he will explain when he Domes Not at all He reproached me peel home tomorrow. He never mentions for sot having put on a warmer wasp, say of kis besieges aliairs to me ; that and there was an end of it. I MISS .bat roams my curiosity. ..poisai.. for calling you to my help. "I do sot think he knew himself b*i b tod me you were coining I told kiss who you were and why yes went to India. What man with a wo- man like me for has wife would have let yos sows atter that ? He saw no moon. He had perfect confidence in me. He thought I loved him st ; had I not asked him to marry me? He looked apes my telling bim u a comt.limeot. A oomph - meat ! Great heavens ! it was the last effort of a desperate woman to keep alive her ono lope and to kindle his, sad lie talked d compliments ! ' Apia they were aileet. The scene had obese d Mace they came ma. Theo the w W Mill been high, now a pale red streak which glimmered through the taw was the only sign he had left in the sky. A hese had crept over the wines, they could only hear, not see, the im- amate' td. ; th• hills began to loom dimly thnnpth the gathering mist, said the snore distant ones were hidden from view. A Will wind had arisen which sighed tktosKh the leafless trees • yet neither Alae* nor Sir Cuthbert noels any movement to return home. "Would that you had married as," be said at fest. "I do not know, I might have been *pared the awful pain, this feeling that 1 myself have deliberately wrecked soy own life ; but there might Imes been other thisp, and I suppose I span get uasi to it. I have a whole lifetime be- fore me." "That wadi be martyrdom. Tera Ind better leave kiss." 'After &skimp his. to marry i.. ! Base times I circumstances ender which we might be separated. I have given a7 imegi.atioo full rein, .ad ante I tho.gbt•- los with not easily maim whet r "Lad me hear," " I have thought, suppose Hiles should Dome to life again, and I should turn out sot M be bis wife .t all, how in- expn:saibWy thankful I should be." "You are wish's' for the moon." "I know ; sad yet sometimes I mud think those thiagss ars • relief from what 1 suffer. Qat you understand that .t all 1- ''I think ea Oannot you live with your hosbed os terse of friendship r• "could I put op with 1rieodsbip when I had Looked for love 1 it will be WI* Owe before he sees that I no MntZe, care Inc boa ; but he will see it at last, .Id thea—" she broke of wick a wile. " Then r' ' Then he will have • right to,eptSaeh roe. not I.e(oes." " I do not think be ever will reproseh 'woe the hps ; it is the only postsei1 1 jest like s..tber. Whose are *see twee saw whish a smile did sot real. i lins.— lt satdSL d••. u uyw tae and seal— ' , "Tuft behave me. wee await 'Thad is my stared, and 1 will sot part I `e a"" ham e~e°e' kava "1'4 'wed fak. with it. 1 June fluid the key to ►u : That is the great shag, to await se Rifts heart, Mod uu roe sem won ..or hold it. I from cameo. I am vine to oo•year You may look is veils is eyes, votes, and my fate. "'Worse it may be." omits ; you will sever dad it, and it 1 "Il distresses see mon than I eau as7 save is you, yos woad out know how to to how ioo Wok him that. You a ell sit �' Wok■omen nn ihe world to week ut oumquw- T s, ~sed with* o sot hate her. I se., "I bow to i "It does seem slraags, doss it sot 1" longer ease lore foe that reason. 1 Jest tests Fuer eves book to the last time very seldom state here at all ; as my yug saw me. Whu then would have sea bears Weenie dead, 1 erase to some. that u tworan I shoed heve wee That posture bee uuw no messing to me=WS 4 . such • my lb., that I ehoald b. I can look .t it without envy sad with; thinking seriously d •.t.& as • mew out tlieebia l.'• of escaping from it 1' "But to your husband you cannot "You are not thiskislt a suicide," he teal like that. 1)u you not bate bum f said firmly. "Yrs are sot well. you we -'No ; sometimes 1 wish I and ; love nut yt►wreelt. But do out let sash that t btermed to We iso still alive, and thoughts gain Ponumoi"o 'of yuur sled, love. 1 cannot hate, because 1 never they are out good for yuo. Your life lured. Do you sot understaud 1 Per- wd1 cb•op, he will—" oval is nit more to me now than the She shook her head, though not in- ntereat aoquai.tanes with whom 1 haws patiently, as she replied nnthiug to common—.othing ; end to 'Nay, now you are talking nonsense, have to pees your life with an aeyn•in- sad you kouw it. He and 1 shall never tents !" be anythiug to one souther, our moons ' How will you do it 1 You cannot d.. are too diowimilsr, a miracle would be it !" be maid, bending kis dark eyes spun required, and I do out dean a minc'e." ber He was ottani, looking into the tire, "That is why 1 am afraid," she answer- his bead supported on his had, his oyes ed, raising her eyes to hie and speaking rather distended nm perplexity and die - almost in a whisper. "I know that I uses mom* do it I am not a strong brave "Has .11 this," he spiked, "destroyed women. Had I been 1 .huuld not be your babe( in his lose, or are you still where I am now. I am week. I try oomvinoed that it exists f' hard to get what I waut, and when 1 She shook her bead. have got it I nu longer want it ; my uoly "I wish it had duo°, but it has not. I wish ie to get rid of ;t Sooner or later told myself over and over again that it is it meat corns to an dad I know bow, a phantom, a myth, • delusion. I du how 1 ' pressing her hands to her temples. not convince myself w the list. The "If we might ()tidy see the future," she more loudly I tell myself that it does west on, "only left the merest cornea not exist, the woes certainly I kouw anti of the veil and ase just the next thing feel that it does ; that it is sumewbers- that is Doming. If I only knew what But I have missed it, I am meter find will be the next thing to happen. To it "Would it b. any oomturt to vol to kouw the future and forget the past, that would be rest and peace." know that then is a lave always at your She taw spoebio, more to hone( than service, tweet ebsariag. and one panto Ton .' " &. far, .stalely, he hes bghe ed very well tit use. He hes bees contained by • sense of daty, and no doubt be Rot some satisfaction ink of the tbleeki that ill he was not happy, I was : thee he bd Oven me what I twee told him 1 wasted most in the world. I cannot MU what he will Feel or do when he (isds that to be • mistake." " i. it sot yowl wish to leave Mss r " If you owed show me sett ,4Pbtfel soy by whish 1 might leave Ws to day, fee ever, i should be grateful tare all tare my life lung." He was eileet, mid after a mnmMt she eget oe with the same dreary mew whit► bad tread her face Won- " Yoe tea there is sone. I most dew sty weird, and ret what emititert I esti eat et the mfemi.s that fess Won up t.hiab I lie is of soy owe trebles Prami.e me that if ever Tee !rat i. seed of help you with ease OEM* " 1 serer shall be I. seed of bhp. If my bonbed hated see 1 shield .an in she ere e( the world be y Weed lied es.ubis site. But be serf IMO baa me, be low .et nee aweigh ler tit to he. gift Were yen ever a lei statin 1" M!•�wrMl ir,....tlr. hie, be. bogies ver» her hood. who will always come at your call r • t vent impelmi1.4 1 ; tit ft to pass oal: mhabil"'habil"'50 " I hoes IA w feeling aling that I ahead sodomised ye., •Md that we are mo i• sympathy with use sther." • I meow It meat have baso," eh. eWhew har ld owly, a(,.r a sw- ami their eyes MIL He let kis bp. Is was hard to hear kw nay Ws sew but is•atitot kept bis wheat, esti she went os— "You listened to tae very patiently d Madly. I am oats of thump people who think less about • thing if they may ualy speak of U. `Speaking .•f that has been a great help to me, awe I do tut think 1 ouald have spoken of it to guy ase but you. I. that •n) outuf..rt 1" "It is immense comfort to know %hot beim I have beof even so much use 1. oa," be replied. raissug net hood to his 14e a• be spoke. in . had fallen .gain into her lap, her eyes "I know what you mean," she said, were fixed upon the fire, and her face raising her head. "Do not say it ; it is wore an expression of suffering which a no use. Try to forget it." mored Sir Cuthbert's heart. Words of " I cannot forget it. I have never paean burned upon w tonne. A loved any woman butoo, and 1 shall great desire to take her away from here, love you all my life. Would to God you and wrap her in hu own love and ten- had married me, you would nut then dearness filled his heart She at there. have been io this strait'' crushed with flee consequence. of her " No ; you would. Would that have mistsie—con.egeenme to which there bees any batter, I wonder r seemed no end, save with her life or that " My love would bare created yours." of her husband. The pity of it, be " Ah '. s,•, that is • mistake. Dont tbotm*bt. The life of such a woman 700 ass that is what I thought Was I trailed, ruined, made so that •.he herself right 1" 'ffuuld not bear to look at :t. It could " There must be a way out of it, "be not be, it should not. said, almost to • whimper ;" "there "No, and that makes him all the more She sat in aaknce, and be also looted strange. The clergymen who wrote to moodily into the fire. At last i.r' a spoke. him has been here once. Percival met "Ought 1 to feel my burden lighter him by accident in the village ; he was because 1 myself bound 5 on my hack 1 than a perfect stranger to in both. Even in my prugperoas days, before I Wbat business can be possible have with had a soul, 1 used to think there was Percival • • great injustice in the refusal a sympa- Rinner was anno.inced and they went thy to people who were responsible for into the dining -room. It was • silent their own misfortunes. It seems 'u toe m.aL Neither could throw std the feel- as though such people bad • greater lug which weighed upon them, neither claim upon our pity. A wr that has felt inclined to talk of anything except been by some one etas passes by and 1 themselves, and in ileo presence of tke forget, and I have the hope that it may servants that was impossible. So they nut occur again. plat when I myself spoke (thistly of the people who had left have brought the wrong to pees I have them, of the newest novel or volume of no such hope. The wrong lies in my poems, of anything rather that what lay own nature, and 1 mat carry with me moat prominently in their minds. all my life ; I cannot free myself from At last Alice rose, saying— it ; 1 cannot change it ; i am its slave "Come to roe when you am tired of for ever, and so I say that those who .d he would be; bow he would open hu being aloe*, Sir Cuthbert, and 1 will brin,t about their own misfortunes are resigned eyes 1 I went to him same fine ival s stud more to be pitied than others. The day sad said. 'Let us part, you never y ., An hour or two Iter Mrs Moore dross Sir Cuthbert to the station in her puny phaeton, and mw him start un his journey to Loadun. When she got home the t000d • telegraua from Percival telling h er by what train iu the eventug she was to expect his. The hours flitted slowly by ; the .hurt water day seemed logger than the loug- est day in duos. Alice thought it would never come to an end. She waslo ane. mud all her hue ab. had hated, ad - most famed, beinr done. She did not go oat .gait ; the chill and damp, and a solitary walk or drive would have esus het home more depressed than she al- ✓ eady felt Her thuaghta no chiedy .w the weir who Lad just left bar, and she wondered what had made her tell bim all she had done. Her last words spoken in answer to something he had snot when he was already in the train kept coming back into her miod. "In the next six months, you know, many thi-tgs may happen Alt afternoon she sat over her work. The unpleasant day seemed to deter others beside herself from going out, no callers disturbed hor solitude. She had leached aluae, axons she upped her fur o'clock tea, and after hewing dressed with her usual care, she dined alone Yerci vat's train did not arrive until late in the evening. and she knew that 'oohing annoyed hies mom then foe her to wait dinner for bun if be weer uuaroidobly detained. After dinner she returned to the draw- ing -room, and with • sup of *die* by her side. gave hereon up to rettections. The long, solitary day bad its effect upon her. Sbe was tired of working, the novels which at ie e took up and glanc- ed .t rowed, orepugnance cooly feelings of repugnan in her. She sat in her low trey chair before the tire and thought. She pav- ed her whole life in mental review. She saw herself a spoiled and petted child, then a young girl with promises of marvelous beauty, longing for the time when she would be grown up, later she .w • beautiful sod admired woman with the world at her feet, and bound- less possibilities before bar. She was asked in marriage by one man after another, and she refused them all, wait- ing fur she kdew not what. Then came a time, of which even alone and in silenceatleoshe dared not think. The leer picture was perhaps the least pleasing of diem all ; she sat alone, surrounded by wealth awe can, an unloved, unloving " Tee I can •lwsye wake my owe way. I am not brava I am a coward. I can bear a short poo even if it be severe, bet I cannot live through a life time of self reproach and self repression. If I bad to choose between having out a very palatial tooth, and years of incessant though not acute toothache, I wo'ild have the tooth out.- " ut" Surely there are more ways than Doe of curing the toothache, he said roil- ing. ' May be ; but if one is more effectual than the others." He noticed bow she shrank beck at the words, as she said— " And forfeit the esteem of my world. No ; I could not do that. How surpris- ta*• yew "I will come sow if you will allow first have nothing to reproach themse.ves me," was his reply, and they crossed the with ; the lest live in a bell of self -blame ball sad went along the corridor leading and appreheosrou. Whet I suffer, there- to the study together. fore, is not my.fault• Who gave Inc my They looked very well, stepping thus character ? who trained we ? The slowly along, aide by side. Sir Cuthbert foundation of all for was laid so long wee not particularly tall,noticeably below ago. No; it is not my fault." Percival, and Alice s unusual height Sbe paused, and Sir Cuthbert was towed me, and I find ,that I no longer love you ; it was a mistake.' " She laughed mirthlessly. He has such per- fect faith in my love ! I have noticed. that he avoids even any mention of toe sided marriages for fear of giving me pain. I suppose be judges my love like his own, ,oeotered in one persue and changeless." Sir Catbbert said nothing, and she roes saying— "Let us go back to the drawing -root. and I will sing to you. I .m sen you will enjoy that more than this.- They his.'They left the room, and each in pass- ing glanced at the oortratt, which cop- tiuued to smile upon them. brought ber lumen loocks un ► level with silent, almost holding his breata, lest bar companion's closely cut black hair. by drawing her attention to him be Both moved, naturally with slow dignity should disturb the current of her and grace, Alice's silken skirts swept thoughts. The most perfect silence rustling over the floor, jewels burned at retyped over the house ; the tire glowed, her throat and on her arms, and she the wall mayHelulrned d r brightly, h ly and frhorm the spoke in a lower, softer tone than usual "It is strange that you have never happy sister. been in this room," she said. "People Presently Alice went on. are not admitted indiscriminately, but "If 1 had chosen my own character. I you sod Percival are Iriends." should have to .bide by it. I should. They reached the study an she spoke. She bad given orders for it to be lighted, s, that when they opened the door and wept in everything in the room was dis- tinctly visible. Sir Cuthbert looked roo0d in silence. Alien turned to him with • smile. It was jet as Percival had left it in Um morning. He was not a man who loved • great degree of order in his tri- vet* affairs, and books, papers, and let- ters lay strewn carelessly about The dre burped low ane red, the lamp was bright, abutters and curtains were dosed and drawn ; with the little work -table and easy chair near the fire, it was alto• either a comfortable -looking mom. Sir Cuthbert turned to the portrait. "Is that your sister r" he asked. "What • beautiful face. I did not think ber exactly beautiful when I saw her " "Asa girl she was not beautiful, but her married life was happy, and abs was one of thugs women whoa. beauty is de- veloped by happiness and love. Then, .e yea see, she is beautiful." "Were those all her things 1' looking at the work -table and the tow-oabioeed chair. "Yes ; she sat here a great deal. Percival did nothing without onnsultiag her ; he told her everything. To save him the trouble of oontitplly going is search of her, she established herself herr. Some of the things he collected from the other rooms after her death and broeght to this room. When i Mame, every retie of her presence had diaap. "Do you often coos hem r' "Parakeet would tail yes that I .ever was, and tab.e he i. hen I sever do. Dad I .meld set mime the times that I have ease when i tea he was away. Ines I etiU loved him. I seed to come sad look and look at the picture, sed beg it te tall to the .harm it had for kis, eves from isyosd the grove, to give leg one glimpse of the land is whirl they had lewd ed lived together ; to let ma knsw whether they ley 1n the eyes, or the ems* or the seise, or the helm aINKeibv. i have lea me my k.ees be fore that gilder., tsarist. with mutter- aNe lagina, for jest ase glimpse of light Asti what ewes/ did fou est 1 ' ern •slid. Yes see that bath .mile Don't Wait' Until year bear bea.wes dry, (two .ad gray balm�e gbma lsg tie .sties "modest M preserve Me beauty sad .145517. yew as ytdlentable a bottle DI drawn /Limes Hatt Vtmer-the only dmt. fi lea.srelse r the ber--.ad sae a little, d[tdly, to preserve the asaaral calor said reveal beldame. Themes Keaday, tame Ores, Ry., writes: "Several se albs age my lour ooamnemed tank* out..ad is • hew weeks my best was almost bald bald. I s tried nosy ,mdiee, bot they did no good. I easily bought a bottled Ayer's Hair Vigor, and, atter owing Daly a part the of t.oate.ls, my Mad was Dowered with a heavy gtas\ of heir. I ream - mead your preparataoa as the d the best heir- esses/et Is tworld." i "My ►sir was faded sad dry," writes Mabel C. Hardy. of Dol•vas, I11.; " but atter wing a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor it became black and glossy." The next morning Alice's humor seer - have no right to rid myself of it, but ed to have entirely changed. the greet• since it is only a burden laid upon me by d Sir Cuthbert at the breakfast table other people, I .m jostited to freeing with a smile, from which all bitterness myself from it in the way I Ilk*. best. , and gall had vanished. She was rather No one can blame me ; 1 there r any ; surprised that then was no Tetter from blame in the matter it reds with these Percival, but supposed there would be a struck her that she and her husband who gave me lite, and no help with , telegram later in the day. The sxpres- would be alone foe the first time for weeks, and that this would be only one of many evenings spent in • like manner. He trying to smother his indifference in politeness, she was doing her best to We misery under smiles, and feeling rightly or wrongly, but feeling with every nerve, that the one feeling .he stirred in her husband's heart was ma - tempt. "I cannot bear it, I cannot, '• she mut- tered. "To leers bins, to be out of the reach of those oold, kind eyes, those careful attentions which chill my heart. 1 would giro even my beauty. How keg will it last. I wonder, ■nd what will be the ted r' Darker and darker grew her face. Up and down she walked, her rustling dress trailing titer her along the boor, her hand premed to her side. There was • monad of wheels outside, *door opened and diet, footsteps Came shag the hall, and when Percival came is be maw bis wife stretched in her chair before the fire, from which she row with a smile and suppressed yaws to my -- "At last you have Dome ! I hate bees so doth an day." Then as she torsed tad saw her ba- ltaad's fate, elle ssd— "i'eleeival, what is eke water 1 Some- thing ►.. happened I at. sure." (two an °amnion .) Ayer's Hair Vigor, ase by I1,agew sad lateness Pimples and Blotches, So disfiguring re the fees, forehead, sad neck, may be .tensely removed by the use of Aeer's eareap.rilte. tee beat and safest Alterative sad Blood -Pedlar ever discovered. Dr. J. C. Ayer & ts•. Lower, Mass. bH q Diseelms; el: els Mess fare,• e OP t resat. -+::►it rotalNO. COCO4 • little 1: FAST. ••RJ' a ih,w 'm.r 1.e.wi,-dae of •.e natural L.wa el...'I. K.oer, I la" ie.a• Woke of dateetion and net rat re., and bi a orte?fl .ppticat len of he fine pn.pertlrs of .r d -.trawled t'uv..•. Mr grat. Lw. er•vided oar batv.aaratt table with • delicately natured trreraar .,t+iu. Maar Swim n+ unset Merry duc•uri *Its. ft 1. ht the jwltva.'.5 use el .twk article's of list teat a A,n,:,i IIIto" Duty Ir Kradua.ly leant rep total Wrung enough to resist every truslcut;y hi titjear. 1muu.trM+ t suttee maiadte.are&tui4ti-•in•:d '" r,,.a7 to st tack wherever Shoe .4 4 west pews. We may escape many a fatal abaft ler trop:ag oareelrw wet fortified will. pure Mod and t properly nourished tromm."-'•Viva Serrate rla,Afe " Made simply with bolbne water or milk. Hold ualr In na.•het• lel grocers. iaoel:edtrw' Jb4 KI'1'n At Co , Netto-opatt..c Chem- ists. Lawton. Kum land. Tlrl Mat MUM. Ss dem CATARRH, NI is 11* NAY FEVER. STOPS oreemegs ham` Vasal passages EASY TO USE. into the thrust mid areatalve expectoration hired by Cs teeth. 1MId by Druggists errant preiste os roam et pries, *alt. sad et Andress • FOLFORD• & O.., arsskvIIIs, Ont. wife. She rose from her chair sod be I NIC W ik up and down the room, her fingers interlaced, her forehead contract. SPRING GOODS ! esti, Ob, this •oveiese life, bow tong was it to last? Fur ever. It could not. a1- iDAILY ARIA INu. ready the presence of her husband was dball h. had to hbeen For a day • yd •e , halt he had been •sea/, presently he ' i i would return. She pictured it all to bersdf. He would Dome in with an ex THE TAII.OR, pression oflite indifference no his face. • would rise to meet bon, and raisingha. • barge at.ortelent et beet moo" for bet face, would receive his km which would strike her face like a snowflake, as light and as cold. He would ask her how she bad been during his absence, re- gret that business had kept him sway from her so long ; probably would de close her suggestion of refreshment, and than would pause to allow her to ask the bar eat to ut gas to wa questions which it Was y p . Had he had a pleasant journey 1 Was he cold 1 Had he Dein anyone they knew 1 Then would come an explanation of Sir Cuthbert's sudden departure, massages would be given by her, regrets uttered by him, and they would Dat through the rest of the evening, mute, or wearying tb.mselves with the effort to keep up • vapid, pointless cooversatioc And that was life and married bugs ; It suddenly which to bear life. No one can blame cion oil her companion's fare made her me if, after having made an awful mos . say take, I decline to accept its ooaotosio ea t 1 am afraid you have had bad ewe, and decide to give up this life, which is I Sir Cuthbert." only • burden and a misery to me." " Not bad, only awkward and annoy. "Mrs Moore ! Alice !" cried So Cuth- ing coming jolt now. I regret very berth, "say no more ; 700 know not much the.; shall have to leave you tbia what you are saying. Yoe cannot be morning ., serious 1' " I call that very bad Cannot you "You do not like it 1 Alt, you sew, stay even till Percival comae after all you have projodoees gnu are " 1 fear not," he replied, and thin he . e15.b. It would pais yos and give you told her what called him away, saying .t • shock to hear that I .w deed, killed by my own hand. Ynu would rather I bore the burden of this life which crush- es use with its misery, and in which I Dan moa no gleam of hope.' had you would not get tired of us "You shall not talk like that. You for • by time." any not be happy now, but you will „Since lad night i find it additiooally bs." " "No ; for people with my character .o h ardwh Noes last night r the end — " Even if I leave to your decision you will say I mud go.'' " I aes afraid so. I am very sorry 1 suck thing as happiaem is possible. Since ely marriage 1 have reed sad thought •Arent d.al,asd this is how it alt ends. Every ee new is 'greed that the sod teed aim of hsm.aity is t appiess ; it might be had so easily. If instead of preachior and lecturing and t.skiwg schemes for escuriog the happiness of the world, ail the unhappy people would maven to pet themselves to death tied rid the earth of • great burden, there would bs a cheese for the rest W hat a good thing it 'meld he for k. aaauty ; the world woad teem to begin life taw " 'Yee are not well, Mrs Moore ; you are sot nosiest!. You take ton germy • view of thongs ; year life mast not be as you .ntiidpmte ; a ohmage m.st some.' "Why meat 1 Time is soother this' whi.h .seem as. esti et the same time makes me imps/seek In talking over ttfhoueir affairs, pestle My, 'Is w rix �aeths. new. many &kepi meg Whykah•.e a.y%bi hopes 7 ^tat happened M the Ind og mo the, or the tris menthe baste tb t 1 orbefore wet that 1 Netbiag. (1.. day tees j thew before it. That is a less. I am ltaeaimg—W believe see day will be " Too cannot have forgotten of what wt spoke, nor the view you held. I am mat unwilling to leave you aloe with those thoughts.- " 1)u not he alarmed." sbe l severed wiling. "1t will not take plea yet, e. - less some very wonderful tied notaries event should happen to preeipitate mat- ter., .ad yds know I have an& up m n and sot to belief • in the odorless. and the wonderful." "Whet time do you expect Mr. Moos r "I have sot beard. Re seldom moss away flet. hoes ; whoa he does he e ver Isile to write ; this time be bee not doss. se. I masa *..tease the (*snag that there is som.tkisg .trs.ge in this t.yst.rioe Waimea I an eteemdwrly sorry that I .hall not fes bit. .gain " H. will be v sorry leo. i did e st thigh you we have bus. friend., yet yen are." " St. absid," .b west ea prss.stty; "that yen will tarry sway swrong I Ma- prsnie. .f me. Believe me, who that I .•leeu feel se 1 dad Iasi a sem 1 sespeak is that wog. I wawa seestt's lionsiperiUs emirates redisally he Mose, thoroughly eleao.ise e nd ie.igeretieg IL. As • este sad ab- . otees oers for the varies disorder* erased by .•a Iitteienel tei.t or infee- tie., this remedy hos no squat. Take N this most` (aril moaners (ads& not nervily plogsmi Miley said real seise bet se- peweestt eras left nodose se (l..a*i•.01 el a lease esthartie iii Wed elesk Pia fY NTLEIEN'S SIIITS on hand. at the old and reliable stand. W ust- at., near the Flank of .HoutrtaJ. anI- Rt7QI3 DIIl'QLOP. INVENTION ; tasi.a e+ the world during the last half sensory. Not least anwnw the wonders of eeative pee- ls rt�.m • nett bevel and system wart alt eta les performed all over the erreadre wftbeat eepsratittg the workers from Shalt Wren Pay liberal : au) Drew eau de ....air either ars, young or old ; no spacial .( Capital act needed : you are eters 1,ee. Cat Coral sue sed re. urn to es ani We w01 tread yo0 free. s°w.et.Ing of arrest vales and its- mad to yos, that wilt Wert yen Is bowl - sew, which will bring yea M MOM MM7 lle right away. than aaytbiag ellen as the warla Orated outfit free. Address Teri & CO.. w rennets. lg.lae. * CURES plaist, Skis an imparitles of the Moog from whai- er mw arise reawte Wash - awl Rene - ay m. Highly wa ,atraled. plemant. e•bbot.4. tide *.sx FOR 31. 1)) i t i ".; )'4 UND. Take se saber. nota Eveeywbeve. Peter" ti sees. per Mote. DR_ HODDER'S COUGH HD LUG COBE, bold everywhere. Price. 23 eta. and se et par beetle. Preprt.ters and swafe.:turers, !1!t- TRZ ORION IIZIACiN1oen� Oat Coto Cry ler Pucker's Castoria ohm Ilsley woe seta. we paw her Cese.i. Wht. see wt. • As& Asada* der chee.fa Wbt. abs Meme. Ma, ale time ha Oaesele. Writ. s►. 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