The Exeter Advocate, 1888-9-20, Page 2THE THREAD OF LIFE
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CHAPTER XXL—Cr,Ea, - sity.-Still,, Warren Ralf was above ail
arranged
Talk Dohs, thing honest and trustworthy, Not. to
Warren Bait sad arrani;ed far his mother K
an_d sister, with Rode Challoner, so seek send that advertisement, straight to Elide,
the friendly shelter (4 San Remo early bo even at the risk of hurting her own feelings
Q.toher, The sootier away from Itogland would eQnetitute in some sort, he felt, a
the better. B:#Qre -Ow),went, however, breach of oenf dense, a oonstraction #al to avert the cbanoe of dies reeable en, hood, or at the very best a suppreskio sort ;
i - a Warren Relf was tee utterl and
counter he met them on their arrival to � nd y
Own at Liverpool Street, and saw theta transparently truthful toothier for a momen'a
safely across to the eeatinenre,l wool ata Say paltering with essontiel verities,—He
London Bride. It chanced to be the very i sighed a sigh of profound regret ae he took
trek same day that Hugh Masala ger had lrfg penkurfe with lingering hesitation irons.
:ted his second forged note topoor father- his waistcoat pocket- Bob ire boldly cut
P t3 P o - • the advertisement from tree Agent'
lees Winifred, ut h 5 y
a
Elsie. dared hardly look the young las int• Columna, none the lees, thereby defacing the
er in tits face"eve now, forshae
an
d timid,
mid first page cf the
e
Flares,
and re
n
der
ng
.t ,sad Warren, Relr rFslec sag her. at -self lfble to the censure of the conm h
i
te
o
twat ecnsittvaneas, concentrated most for FantPn n.nry to thecftbpra ertY-
,
attention oa bis mother and Elie
scaxcai after the psrpetratlon of which heiaoun of•
allowing Elsie to notice b . shyaide-olan a 1 fence he walked gravely and soberly into
his unobtrusive preparations for her own the adj leieg wrisifng roam and mat "t"wn
pr rseeeleomfortoathe journey, I3utElsie'a to indtre a hasty note intended for hie sister
y
:ick eye observed them all, graeefelly, at1the moan* tLo wre o aftor ou lefty I
sande the leas for that, She liked Warren; can las slgut of cuctvae ativeryouueeat in
it woe impcaeible for anybody esti t"a lilts i g fl
cod re,p,et ;be hank poen _patnter, wins the se:ond colacau of thin moruittg,s ratted
hie hen's, b:esezed fake, and'leie open, ramal ., Show it toll et. 1 can't beer ro mead Se ---I
cant bear to cause her any farther trouble
eau- :e r; heal manners. ecuid l she was and or emberra=sment of any sora after all she
broker; hearted stili, she could not ga away h;zs °40ere; and yd et—:t would be moron
fr „m .f',.aalgatad for over antiantiever-,tor lTlsie
versomip titaoetemegeier_agtheetttaaeke I feel, to evnceal it trent Aher. f el►e tekes
hint just once its a few Mora words; for my ativlca, ala' will vo. acs ver nt, flat
nit his it tudt;e4..a, Aa they too on rho liar' k ter let thioge reuaein Aa they axe, To
t• atty plattarm with which tine Saudi• write one tine wcutd be to upset all, Fer
Rahway Ce€npany wogs our s 4. heaven's sake, dou.'t show Her this letter.
----With love to you both and kind regards
t London Dr,idge,:abs drew him aside to Her, Your ati'ctiauate brother, W, R.
!nt #roruhie moister sad sister Hoaddrersed the Etter, "Alias Reif,
hasty a. hxnuksng glaribe which , „
., n ovoid not chooae but fo ow; ",';Ir, $4.`f du Zaai" e, Aiassaillea, and weptav'r.
11 with. it to tho bnF nal; tho nr;tutel•ailaol#,
f, alae ,said, tooktng down atthe fluor wi;ere IlnGh. Aiaesenger as :atter was already
fumlalao�g with her parasol, I }vatnt to tyro
t you; �I cao't go away without thanking
WIleen eve Reif received that letter s0Xt
nee eveilin at the hotel in the Rao Cbernabloro
the of art it bad cost her to say alto :oQked at it once and lanced over at
ad a %Vila lump rats sudden f n his Elsie. She looked at it twice aid lanced
for gratitude aid pleasure, 'dies g
i:alloner," he answered, lookip !Hack at over at EMa, Sae looked et itet third thee
- , --, - . ---and then, with a women a sudden resolve,
witu ata. nnmia ai.able. Ji ht in bra earn
site did exactly what I4a+rran himself had
told her not to do ---site handed It aorees the
table to Fido,
Ruglea plot trembled indeed in the bal-
Alice that emineint; for if only Elate wrote to
Winifred, ignoring of comes* hia last forged
letter, then lying on the hall table at White,
ward* all would lieve beets up with huts,
Ma lie would have come home to him
straight tan a lie, The two letters would is
ell probability ,not have coiueided. Stl'ini-
iced would have bums: him from that day
forth for just what he was --:A liar* -rind ew
forger.
Asad yet if,, by tbat simple and natural
coincidence, Elisio had sent zn letter from
Marseilles merely a curing Winifred of her
safety and answering the advertisement, it
would have fallen in completely with Hugh'
plot, and rendered Winifred's menaranc
doubly certain. Elsie had sailed to Ane•
tralia by way of ASateeilles, then. In a
novel, that coincidence would merely have
occurred . In real We, it might) eaaily have
done ao, but as a matter of fact it didn't;
for 1'eie read the letter slowly" first, and
then the advertisement,
Poor fellow 1"she aaiil as ails pawed
the letter back again to kale. It wive
very kindof him ; and ho did quite right. --
1 think. I align tato his advice, after alt,—
It's terribly difficult to know whist one:
on ht to do. Bat I don't think-' I shall
write to Winifred.
Not for herself. She could bear the etc
posure, if ib was to save Winifred. Bleb
for Winifred': sake, .for poor dear Winifred's.
She couldn't deprive her of her now lover.
Ought sho to let Winifred marry bim!
What trouble might not yet be in store for
Winifred?—Nn, no. Hugh would surely
be kinder to kr, He had sacrificed ons
loving heart for her sake; he was not likely
now to break another.
How,little we all can judge for the bast.
It would have been batter for Elsie and
butter for Winifred, if Elsie had done as
Warren Relf did, and not as ho .said—if she
had written the truth, and the whole truth
at once t,o Winifred, aliowing her to bo her
own judge in the matter. But Elsie had
nob the heart to crush Winifred's dream ;
and very naturally. No one can blame :a
woman for refusing to act with more than
human devotion and foresight.
Hugh Masainger had left theheadquarters
of Bohemia for twenty minutes at the exact
moment when Warren Relf entered the
Cheyne Row Club. He bad gone to tele-
graph Me respectful condolences to Winifred
and Mrs. Meysey at Invertanar Castle, on
their sad loss, with conventional polite
nese. When he Dame back he found to his
surprise, the copy ot the Times, still Iying
open on the smoking -room table; but Win-
ifred's advertisment was cub clean out of the
Agony Column with a sharp penknife. In
a moment he said, to himself, aghast : " Some
enemy bath done this thing." It must have
been Relf 1 Nobody else in the club knew
anything. Such espionage was intolerable,
unendurable, not to be permitted. For
three days he had been trembling . and cha-
fing at the horrid fact that Relf knew all and
might denounce and ruin him. That alone
was bad enough. But that Ralf should be
plotting and intriguine against him ! That
Rel should use his sinister knowledge for
some evil end 1 That Ralf should go spying
and eavesdropping and squirming about like
a common detective I The idea was fairly
part endurance. Among gentlemen such
things were nob to be permitted, Hugh
Messinger was prepared not to permit them.
eat eyes, "say nothing, else. lam more than
auiliclently thasakeii already, ---1 know yon
wish this eplaodo kept aeeree from every
one : you may rely open ate and upon my
mete b the yawl. 11 ever in my Biel eau
be of any aerviee to yen, reulereher you on
cewxaad tue.--If met, 1 a :ball neveragairtob•
treats myself upon your naetao ,--rood-bye,
geed. -bye." 4ud tabiat her hand ons nun'
meet is hip cam, beheld. it for a accond, tben',
let it drop 'again, "Now go,°' be said in .a
tremnleus voice--" go bauk to Edie."
E'aief one blush 'back ack as he bade'.
her. Geed -bye, ishe said, as she glided
from his fide—'e Good bye, and thank you."
Tani was all that passed between thole two
that day, Yet kliaio knew, with profound
regret, au the train steamed off through the
dreu3bty corridorson its way to Dover, that
Warren Rolf had fallen in love with, her;
and IVarren-R<If, standing alma: upon the
eliu^y, knee. platform, knew with. Au ecstasy
of relight end joy that Ellie Challoner wee
grateful to hint and liked him. It is sotno-
tiliug, gratitude. Ifo valued that mare
ftyam Roe Challoner than he would haus
vaned lava from, any other women.'
With profound regret, forber part, Ttsie
SAW tbat Wtsrren Relf had fallen In love
with her; because he was sueh an honest,
manly, straight forward, good fellow, And
beeauso from the very brat moment aha
had liked him. Yet what to her were love
and lovers now? Iter heart lay buried
beneath the roots of tho ppepinr at White -
strand, au truly as Hugh :liaasioger thought
it lay buried in thechtap eea•washed grave
inthe sand et Orford ntsi. She was grieved
to thick dila bravo earnest man should
have fixed his heart on a hopolcss object..
It was well sho was going to San Remo
for ever. In the whirl and bustle and hurry
of London life, Warrenitslf world doubtless
noon forget bar. But some faces aro not
cattily forgotten.
From London Bridge, Warren pelf took
the Metropolitan to Sr,. Jamoa'e Park, and
walked across, still flushed and hot, to
Piccadilly. At the club, ho glanced hastily
at that morning's paper. The fiat para-
graph on which his eye lighted was Wini-
fred Meysey's earnest advertisement in the
Agony Column. It gave him no little time
for reflection. If ever Elsie saw that adver.
traement, it might alter and upset all her
plana for the future—and all his own plane
into the oargain. Already she felt pro-
foundly the pain and shame of her false
position with Winifred and the Meyseys;
that ranch Warren Ralf bad learned from
Edie. If only she knew how eagerly Wini-
fred pined for news of her, sho might be
tempted after all to break her reserve, to
abandon her concealment, and to write full
tidings of her present whereabouts to her
poor little frightened and distressed pupil,
That would be bad ; for then the whole truth
must sooner or later come out before the
world; and for Elsie's sake, for Winifred's
sake perhaps even a wee bit for his own
sake also, Warren Ralf shrank unspeakably
from that unhappy exposure. He couldn't
bear to think that Elsie's poor broken bleed-
ing heart should be laid open to its pro-
foundest recesses before the eyes of society,
for every jaw of an envious old dowager to
snap of and peck at, He hoped Elsie would
not see the advertisement. Ifshe did, he
feared her natural tenderness and her senile
of self-respect would compel her to write
the whole truth to Winifred.
She might the it at Marseilles, for they were
going to ran right through to the Mediterran-
ean by the special exprees stopping a night to
reat themselves at the Hotel du Louvre in He passed a day and night of inexpressi-
the RueCannebiere. Edie would be sure ble annoyance. This situation was getting
to look at the;" Times," and if she saw the too much for him. He was fighting in the
advertisement, to show it to Elsie. dark : he didn't understand Warren Relf's
But even] if she didn't, aught he not eiience. If the fellow meant to ciush him,
himself to `` call her :attention to it ? Was it for what was he waiting ?. Hugh could not
right of bim, having seen: it, not to tell her hold all the threads in his mind together.
of it? Should he not rather leave to Elsie He felt as though Warren Ralf was going to
herself the decision what course she thought make, not only the Cheyne Row Club, but
-best to take under these special !circum- all London altogether too hot for him. To
stances h' have drowned Elsie, to be jilted by Wini-
tie ehrank from,doing it It grieved him fred, and to bo baffled after all by that
to the quick to' strain herpoor broken heart creature ;Rolf; this, thiswas, the hideous
any farther. She had suffered eo much: why and ignominious future he saw looming now
rake it all up again? And 'evert:Who thought isibly before him 1
all these thipgie he knevreacli mothent with ' It was wibh'a heavy heart that noxt°even-
profonnder certainty than .evor:thatbe,letved ing al seven ha dropped into the club dining -
Elsie, There is nothing ;oar earth - to excite room... Would, Relf be there? he wondered
a man'sV love for; a beautifulwoman like silently. And if so, what course would
being compelled to',.talre tender care for that: Ralf adopt towards kin ? Yea, Ralf was
woman'shappiness—having a gentle solid- there, at a corner table, as good luok would
tude for her moat sacred feelings thrust upon have it, with his back turned to him safely
one by circumstances as an absolute nem- as he entered'; and that fellow Potts, the
other mudbank artist—they hung their
Wretched daubs of fist Suffolk seaboard aide
by aide fraternally on tine walla of the Inti
tote -.was dining with hiur and ooneotitrg
mischief no doubt, f or the house of Atassfngere.
Hugh half determined so tura and flee ;
then. ail that was martly and genuine within
blue .revolted at once against that last die,
grace. Ile would not ren from thio Creature
Reif, He would not be turned out of his
own ;,lab--hc was a member of the Commit-
tee and a founder of the society: He would
face it out and dine •in spite of him,
Butnot before the fellow's very eyed; that
wag more than is bin present perturbed con,
dation: ,tdugh Maasinger could manage to
stand, Ile ekulked neteely reuad, unseen.
by Ralf, into the side alcove -fa re-
cess out off by an, arched. doorway
newhere he gave w
bin order in a very lo
voles to alertfo, the obsequious waiter,
Martin was surprised at so atrial reserve,
•edre. afeseinere he was generally the yew
freest and loudest -spoken gentle/444 in the
whole laouaefnl of 'one. He always talked,
he did, as if xbo club and She kitchen and
the servants all belonged to Jahn.
From the alcove, by a pial fn#erposi•
bon, of fate, Hugh scald Bear diatluctly
irhmk Reif was saying, Strange--Inoretlibte
eh „alar stroke of luck ; he had indeed
caught alae men le the very. net And moment
of conspiring. --They •were talking ee Elsie 1
Their eoavecsatien eagle to hie* distinct,
though low..Uainaturat excitement had
quickened leisAerratet to a strange degree..
He heard rt all. -every sound -every syl-
kable
"These yen promise, on your word of
hanour as a geptdtmee, yon'fl never breathe
word of tine or of any part t£ Alii Chula
loners affair to anybody anywhere?
"My dear boy,1 prtu nae, that's enough,
fee* the neceesity as yule de, ---Se you've snsa-
tnally got theletter, haveyout"
leve got the letter. If you like, 14
read it to you. It's hear itt ray packed. 1
haves to reetere it ley the time Mr. ?dopey
retorts to mar;Ptv,' •
Mr, Meyseyl Restoreit1 Titers,ferall his
platting, Reit didu t know that Mr, Meysey
tuna deaf, and tbat bin i eaeral woe •t ne<d to
tease Oen eat Whlteaatreud an lktondey or
Tuesttey.n
There was a shore Pantie, no letter?
he wondered.. Then Ralf began reeding feu
a low tope : "My darling l,v.irtifred,1 can
hardly Maim up tiny mind to write you thin
leteer ; and yet t must; L oan no longer
avoid it." •
Greatbeavena. it waxalria own tore latter
to Winifred 1 8,'ow en earth hast it ercr
conte into Reli's passesslen 1
I'lot, plot' -ptor emeeter flet 1 'Dirty:
derhend, Belo and -corner apF•bosioeas l
if had wheedled ll ant of Aleyseys Sanas
heiphim. totraelcdowomai confront
anenay 1 Or ,lee he tread, auborued one of
t 'i hitee tend servants to steel or anti*
it Master's eorreepoudeuee 1
mid it through M. the lash word,
your affectionate• but heart iirokeu
were they going to say :next 1---
Both: justelrew a long breath of sur.
iso, band then whistled Shortly and curious:.
"The mau's rt, blackguard to he.vo broken
poor girl's heart;" he observed at last, le;
lobe this. Ilea a blaekguard, Relf.—I'm
very sorry for her.—And what's become of
Miss Qhalloner now, if it isn't indiscreet to
ask the potion!'
"Well, 1'otta,, l've only taken any other
pion into myeoWidence at an in this matter,
beoaueo yen know more than halt already.
toad it wastttapossible, withont telling you
the other half, fatly to make you feel the
:necessity for keeping the atrictesb silence
about it. 1" I rather not tell either you or
auybody exactly where bliss Chahloner's
gone now. But at the present moment, if
you want to know the prcciae truth, I'vo
no doubt ,lies at Marseilles, on her way
Abroad to a farther destination which 1
prefer onher aosount not to mention. More
than that it's better not to say, But she
wiehts it kept a profound secret, and she
intends never to return to Eegland, "
As Hugh Masstuger ,heard those words,
those reassuring words, a sense of freedom
and lfghtaoms burst instantly upon .him in it
wild rush of remotion,' Aha 1 aha 1 poor
feeble enemy 1 Was tine all? Then Rolf
knew really nothing i That mysterious
"Yes" of his was a fraud, a pretense, a mis-
take, a delusion 1 He was all wrong, all
wrong and in error, Instead of knowtuq
that Elefo was dead --dead andburied in her
nameless grave at Orfordness -he fancied
she was stilt alive and in hiding 1 The man
was a windbag. To think that he should be
terrified—he, Hugh Massinger—by such a
mere empty boastful eavesdropper !—Why,
Ralf, after all, was himself deceived by the
forged letters be had so cleverly palmed off
upon them, The special information he pre-
tended to possess was only the special infor-
mation derived from Hngh Maseinger's own
careful and admirableforgeries. Hehugged
himself in a perfect transport of delight.
Tire load was lifted as if by magic from his
breast. There was nothing on earth for him,
after all, to be afraid of 1
He saw it all at a glance now.—Ralf was
in league with the servants at the M.eyseys'.
Some prying lady's maid or dishonest flun-
key must have sent him the first letter to
Winnifred, or at least a copy of it : nay
more ; he or she must have intercepted the
second one, whiah arrived while Winifred
was on her way to Scotland—else how could
Ralf have heard this last newly fledged fio-
tion about the journey abroad—the stoppage
at Marseilles—the determination never to
return to England ?—And how greedily and
eagerly the man swallowed it all—his nasty
second-hand servants' -hall information !
Hngh positively despised him in his own
mind for his ready credulity and his mean
duplicity. How glibly he retailed the plaus-
ible story, with nods and hints and addi-
tions
of his own : " At the present moment,
I've no doubt she's at Marseilles, on her
way abroad to a farther destination which I
prefer on her account nob to mention." What
airs and graces arid what comic' importance
the fellow put on, on the strength of his
familiarity with this supposed mystery !.
Any other man with a straightforward mind
would have said outright plainly, " to Aus-
tralia ;" but this pretentious jackanapes with
his stolen information must make up a little
mystification all of his own, to give himself
importance in the eyes of his greedy gobs-
mun ohe of a companion.. 'It was too gro-
tesque 1 too utterly; ridiculous 1 And this
wag the man of whom he had been so
afraid ! ,'His,own'dnpe 1 the ready fool who
swallowed , : at secondhand such idle tattle
of the servants' hall, and employed an
understrapper or a pretty sethrette to open
other people's letters for his own informa-
tion 1 From that moment forth, Hugh might
cordially hate him, Hngh might freely
despise him; but he would, never, never,
never, be afraid of :him.
One only idea left some alight suspicion of
uneasiness an his, enifghtened mind, He
hoped the larfy's.maid-.»that hypothetical
ladytt•maid--had mit on the forged letter
-after reading it—so Winifred would have
time to think much about Elsie at present,
in the midab of this endden and unexpected
bereavement 1 she would be too full eb
her own dead father, no doubt, to pay
any great: attention tat her governess s
nnis#ortuuea, But mill, ane doesn't like
ono"e private lettersto be so vulgarly tam-
pered with. And the worst of it was, he
could hardly ask her whether she had reoeiv,.
ed the note.. Ho ooald hardly get at the bot-
tom of thio law conspiracy. It was hie pol-
icy tow to let ,sleeping doge lie. The less
said about Elsie the better.
Yet itt hie heerb he despised, Warren, Relf
for Iiia meanness. He might forge himself 1.
nothing low or ungentlemanly or degr,tdi ig
in forgery. Dishonest, if yon. like ; dishon-
es o* 1 etoa
t, n 'Vulgar. .,� ar B a pea offer people's
and lowness and vulgarity o ism4 sort
lettere.---pab 1—the diegua
of t 1 A, sort
of under-footmanis h type of crustae ity.
"" Pacoa ffrtitor, g yon Will, of : ouree,
bot don't leo a oad and a diegraoe to your
breeding.
too se communal
nal
�►li'ilrt oucried Glad,"
o szv ttur. to* a v(01174(1% buttertay
Hanging upas -a Ieel. Do tell me x2{3
There wan na butter a Ob„ doe e Ito v,inge 1
[ neve ", newer esus such pretty thtega--
MA streaked acai storiepKwaa gee and browri'a i
gold—
It'ereiiitsha;satithenellthe clavi are sett"
"•yea, le'," She sill, ion zetata aaili,
"l'ruhurn1rd. e'tidde
"Lao& nugbt nay daily ajsita t:rgotherptayete
And when sho thnugh; lraar'd gQ to drawn et»<ira
Then dotty wag Straii. and ST I said;
',hest nevernaind, bat say'rca in the b3,
Ae;aaae l thlott that god ie j aat.as near,*
When dolls are 'frail, do ,cams. pr9 NO V43 l ear:"
The loather ep;ake Pont o tb the r o!lleo p
"I" tataerlyd,chta,"
"Oh c/Se RudSTD thellaw-m in the sky -s
The etas hag lest ala Nvei tyeu bf•a'ad•by,
Tit*? see+ri+ca take *US l,t } nitl urrr'ls, owl t 67➢;
Me all oh nut the poor !o ttw vmia 7
And then. eetbnpe, aheet `Iiia Reding It led??"
" Tia roam to do 1 tient, hceb 1 coat drive ret
wild;
I'm honied, achl d."'
The little o49 grew very eget 11,7w,
And grleve3 and. p aa,:.€d•K ae the elafiliab thew;
And thea it E1Saer1itl; "3fa2ber, do you 1tw w
The reaaau'sante yea meat he b entail oo
I : sera the hxtra are littler Thee 1,
S A I WM take my pennies and will t Sty
Tui: elaek 3 aka, as ti , ae 67 can hs:
to Feu eel we,"
The tra.ther troy hie leialleintialto ;
She alis with Pallet, hints and We as utaite
Ai tee, [!n'her l heart to wiatet''ael:iil,
She Gita at tetease, Et reeil3artlei 04111 unit.
""?tf ehltdhos eex a4ta%teethe,autalaissa3;titl
Ii Bravessadu)tthatThM:tdart gr 4etxia 13�kt
The ti.ne drop hy."
e an
en,*
richt
sweet id own o rasa: ever tali
aS tackthew s thecanes to t,ult4 towel:
eel thy; own : ane raiwr the lar
mesa, el sad: is take it: flighe 1
-sone tonne yaateeeenca Arae
Elia;;nget8 vinawafe;
Ina itis irettie'eal by the way
Jfar darkest day.
ainthenrtetl.
1 where two mails part ;
leer 11 art thou with me In the ataxtlaae hare?
I eant:et lift my eyes to roc.
Speak to ma If then art 1
I tremble. nod my heart 1R can with tear;
Fork U the way theta had sppelnte,1 tune
From the bright too Oder
It eihda ter darn a valley dark at dents,
dol wizards and Miami a,salt my stiletto Beat;
An ley stilet and v rev
tooter tome, chillint rue with awful Intern's;
How eanu thou nay^ thy. yoke to li ht and awe ?
:env, these are, pate who go 774
Dawn the grey ehadowd; ese'a ono Ural, ani worn,
Berrie„ it erasi that galleth him full sore ;
And b•oa f et this doth flaw,
Ana that ouo'a pallid brows aro raved with thorn,
And eyes are bliod with weeping cvcrniure.
Still.tliSY press onward tat
And the tends, compels them em ; now, tar array,
I sea a creat hill shapci like. Calvary ;
Will they eeme there at 1344
A reflex from some tar tali perfect day
Tpuchcs the high clear faced tr•ldeoly.
Ah ! v ander path Is fair,
And musical with runny singing birds,
Largo galdoa trutttu:l enlnhawoolored !towers
The wayside branches bear'
The air Is eaurwureus with sweet lovo•words,
And iron tr ars singing through the,happy
hours.
Nav, I shall look no more.
Take thou my hands between toy Arm fair ha -ds
And still their trombling, and I aha 1 not weep,
Some day, the journey o'er,
Sly feet shall tread the mull safe evening lands,
Hand theta cant give to thy beloved, steal).
And though thou dost not speak.
And the mists bide thee, now I know thy feet
Will trial the path my feet walk wearily ;
Some day the mists will break,
And Budden looking up mine eyes shall meat
Sono eye,, and lo 1 thine a:213 shall gather me.
To the Singer.
BT WHAM( aS-irotr.
Sistor, the sant that winces in thee
Rath in ft s'mothing of the spring,
what timothe bunny breezes swing
The daffoiil beneath the tree ;
I seem to sit beside the sea,
And hear a spirit In thee sing.
Thy voice makes many a pleasant place
To rest in, many a fragrant spot ;
Blue eyes of the forget-me-not,
The oharm of wistful maiden ways,
Bring hack a hundred yesterdays
Of song, that may not be ingot.
If at an hour wnen storm -winds away
The clouds through heaven from pole to pole,
The passion in thee seems to roll
In music to the Far -away,
Listen within thyself, and say :
' It is the soul, it is the soul.'
Shifting Shadows.
rar wILL T. JAMBS.
Zenith pact, the sun is stooping
In the Occidental sky
Parched with drought, field -flowers are drooping,
Earth and grace are bleached and dry.
Down the lane andthrough the meadows
Quaintly oast from shrub and tree,
Stretch athwart my pathway shadows,
Shifting, lengthening changefully,
Just outside the straggling village,'
Where the brook1ots drone is heard,
'Heath where fleet -winged robbers pillage
Luscious f nit from the vineyard,
diose beside me, longer growing,
Till it intermingles mine,
Moves animated Agure, showing.
Ah ensemblanoe-dearest, thine l
Old Lady f to elderly bride on wedding
trip);=That young man who just Womb into
the emokin', caetseems very fond'; o' you
ma'am. Elderly Bride—Ah, yes; John
loves me most dearly. Old Lady -It does
my old heart good to see such affection these
days, .Is he the only son ye got, ma'am
PERSONAL,
bir. and Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt are
now engaged in superintending the erection
of their paw house in the Isle of Wight.
Some writings of Kaiser FredeeiGk's show
that he leis hie ,memoranda to biz wife as
her private property, and hip diary is near
again in her bands.
Air. Austin Chamberlain, a soar of Ur,
Joseph i banaberlain, has beep made 01441'4r.
liamentary candidate of the Liberal Union..
lata for Selkirkvhire,
The Empresa Victoria has promised that
no biography of Kaiser Fritz eball be pub.
limbed for five yeare. There is no dread of s,
$sandal therefore at preaeut.
Mr, W. K, Vanderbilt has rented Lena,
dewne Ilense for nee next so on, Lord
R aeberry has reee tl livedad there,
and it is
one of the finest houses in London.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has christened an
old liquortritha new rime, She
e
told au
inerewer
lately that she invariably tools
a little aconite beforegoing oe the stage, to
ateady her nerves. It turned out that this.
aconite war, the primeat Seatch whiskey.
The Prince of Wales hole bean installed
rand prior of the order r f the I$Pepitai of
t. john:. of Jerusalem, Bishop Q.untarde,
of Tennessee, a member, was present at the
installation core: muse. The order main.,'
tains an ophthalmic hospital a: Jerusalem..
The rssrvivora of the terrible Chem:north
disaster, which resulted in the death of over
eighty psaaengere, on the Toledo, Peoria,
and Weistere Ttsllway,; have 'f'or'med a,u
genie D;.tl, B; Will president,
membrra prepeeo to meet nave a year
the anatverasry of the wallaetit if prat•
rind oleo to help rang at the 1ntnbex
he need pecuuiaryaid.
Dr, George ate, lonatd, the pn aubor and
aloveliet, is a trill metal vita a UUaely ship _d
;head, which is orotund with gray haw
parted le the middle. Kia beard cud mos,
leeks of iron gray era lPta; 441 aiakeA.
Ile appaetra to grew atietotege itt the pal -
pit, foe hepreen/See with verocsteeen enc{
in a valor et meeadient +duality made At.
tractive by an unenistekalne Swish °' herr.'"
Alr. Gr adstane'e study at Rewarder: Cas•
tie halals 14,00 volncaes, v hfah are ranged
onshelves jattiug ant iota the room. There
ie net a bol: that Mr. Gladstone canner #gay
his baud ripen the uaaenant he wsnta ft,
There are three: wrltiug•de,ka itt rials t'aatn,
alto of whish is for the exolueive nee of
.4lrte',04.11earter. The ex -F enter iarealifatltt
At seven and dlaas a ; tight, breaklag hitt
abyalight Mon ean ole two eels*,
re. J. 13 B"ag ln, wife of the California,
lllwnuiire, Basila her nes:teaaioa arebygiven
by King 14131$ Of I3wariaa to L:lzr haste,;,
At a sale of Iola Aioute;'s e4ferte t' tai ruby
brought S1,d0(1, but it is near valued at
VOX °, M, it Qstrtis, the a«tor, whomade A
iartune byuie tua reouation of $,aft lef Winn.
auris a pigeen•blooil ruby forwlaich he le said
tahavepard:$7,00id, Rubiep, when they reach
certain sire, ore more v,alu due than
diamond*,
'Tamen A, ?ti;NeIi Widatier, en A"nerfatui
artist who hem made his hems arsd repatetion
itt England, was mend? married in Lan.
don to .are. Bastrlce Gedwln, dans hter of
.l elan Birnle, the soalppter. Me. Whistler
as grotnn was doused in a walbfitttn blue
frook•su tt, and carried •a brand -low -bread.
trimmed high heat under his arra. A pair
of c:tl;try<e:lore glom brightened his
cote; no, Tae bride) was dre:tac,I In a. suit
of iaiaLt with tt teat to mates,.
User. lls v a L+akwa,11 taught eahool for
fifteen piers hefar3 alis wont into the law,
She foetid ton thing vary hard work ani very
pear pay, one as alto lint a family to suppare
—her hueiancl, alaea dotd, beton thea au
--:the ataitel. law ani was admitted
to the bar, sari new elm novar melte, less
than 03.010 a Year. Afra,Link w.»1s:tye
that she can do housework as well as any
woman, but that lb is cheaper for her to ft: -n•
ploy her talents in other directions. Al-
though her ambitions run in the lino of A
public and political life,Ishe dresses nbeubae
other women do, and dela delight in lana
and dimnandi.
Drvight L, Moody, tho ovangellst, is very
much opposed to having his photograph
taken, ,lie sat to a photographer only once,
and that was just before ho loft England, be-
came he wanted to leave his 'portrait with
a few friends •; bat ho broke tho negative
with his own hands, so that no more .im-
pressions could be taken. ?ilr. Moody makes
his home at. Northfield, Massaohnsetts,
where his mother, now eighty-threo, still
lives, and where ho has his co-worker, Ira
D, Sankey, for a near neighbor.
A gentlemen who has recently visited
Wilkie Cellfn% at his home in Wimpole Sb.,
London, say; that the novelist is looking
old, and that his hard work haslofbits marls
on him. He it thin and stoops very much,
but his oyes, though near airhted, are bright
and sparkling. Mr. Collins is a hard work-
er, and when Inlay with a novel, usually
works night and day until it is finished. It
is quite common for him to work fifteen
hours at a stretch, eating seemly anything
and drinking only a little champagne during
that time. He geta very mirth excited over
his stories, and walks about; the room recit-
ing the speeches of his characters in a mo3t
dramatic manner.
Capt. Wiggins in his ship L abrader, well
laden with all sorts of English merchan-
dise, has safely reached the mouth of the
Yenesei River, and transferred his cargo
to the steamer Phoenix, which will take
it 2,000 miles up the river to the towns
in southern Siberia. It remaina to be seen
whether Capt. Wiggins will fight his way
safely back through the ice of the Kara Sea
with the cargo of Siberian produce he has
taken on board. Ab all events his voyage
to tho Yenesei this year has been a brilli-
ant success, and he seems in a fair way to
prove that a sailor who known all the ins
and outs of ice navigation can in most years
carry on traffic by water between the ports
of the Western world and southern Siberia,
a practical discovery of mush importance.
Huge Plan for Water Supply.
The stupendous plan for supplying the city
of Liverpool with water involves the remo-
val ot a whole Welah village,, including
woods, cottages; churches, etc., this immense
space to be devoted to a reservoir four and
one-half miles long by half a mile to a mile
broad and eighty feet deep. There are to
be three lines of pipe each sixty-eight miles
long, with filtering beds and secondary re-
servoirs, and the nosh' of the aqueduot alone
is estimated at $15,000,0001,