The Brussels Post, 1891-5-1, Page 22
LYNDON OF HIGH CLIFFE.
AN OLD EOLDIEWS LOVE STORY.
100 0. D memo, Agthor of " When tne Tide Was "Tho Artist aud the Man,'
" into to Larger Room," Else, Etc
CHAPTER Neon.) It was Veronlea, of eouree, wile issued
The law.suits, whose course wee followed
with keen intereat by multitudes of people,
made Veronica famous. When, rooting on
the advice of her uncle, Mr. Alexander
Smith, elle eame oves to England, she had
no dfficulty ho mitking her way into suoliety.
Her appeerasice mud personal qualities
helped her to keep the sashimi wsiah bee
them. Alolly, who had scarcely recovelet
fi orn the °fleet of her delightful surprise,
mind do nothing but oath with shining oyea
at, her brother, and Letty Morrison MIS far
Otto shy to make a Riegle remark.
Veronica, happily, was able to epeak for
them 41. 11 o shall atop at York, I sup.
pose. That will be in the middle of the night,"
she said. " Ono of yon might just. .
peep M.
weoith and unwriety had merle tor Ilea Ati If we aro not all of us asleep, wooing t to
the time of whieh I write, these stweacereee 5 sup of eoffee. When shall we reach Effie-
ly a more popular wonme on LonIno t ran
Veronice, 13 sown
She had mow bens iu England collide over
a, year. She had lived prineipally in Lon.
don, whica possessed an extraordinary
fascination for hole She had begun to think
burgh"
" Very coley in the morning," said Percy,
" end unfortunneely there'e not a train on
to our piece until nearly mid-day,"
" Oh I but I call that fortunate," said Anse
Browne. " We can breakfast tot an hotel
however, for same:, masons, some of v et o and go round together. I bave never men
we shall hear iter, that it might be well Edinburgh. My Scotch friends tell me it is
for her tio take 0, p'e ie bi the einintry, end the most wonderful olace in the unirerse."
one of her obi, els in her visit to the North 0 All the universe but Glitegow," seid
was to 10,.... round for seine plass en which Percy, with it laugh. " Well, good evening,
to pitch lea trot. We must take our places."
la is e.,,,ilees te say that :Vise Browne, A few moments toter, and they were My-
ths menet, ei whose fortune, thaelos te the in, slowly out of the station.
dispneet 0 . tea known to every iitia wh" In the ladies' carriage everything went
tools e 1 :t11 oset ht suelo matters, hail teen smoothly. Veronica, who could be, when
wooisa asss, and again, wooed tole° 07 she chose, one of the most tobarming corn -
gentlemen whose mere notice would have penions in the world, set herself at once to
been coesidared an honor by most women. win Maly,» heart and to conquer Letay's
She hail not, however, allowed herself to be shynees. Botore they had been an hour in
von. She liked her liberty. She enjoyed, the train odor had succeeded. The young
inuoceetly erloolgio, the ahservuuso, With girls had forgotten that she was a rich,
whieh she was sera:ended, mal her uram- bandeomely-dressed women of the world.
.one of the twist lee ise, restlees brains that a They were listening to her stories, which
won= Ian et er lam gifted with- -wee full were exeeedingly mousing, and giving their
of selennee, meet of whieh, as she felt, tveuld own little steno in return. They were
perish untried if ehe gem herself to Moaned, telling her whet they kuew about tho towns
As regatelsappearaues, Veronica was, in mod villages which wore, or seemed to be,
the fullest sense of the word, a handsome flying post them, and admiring with her the
woman. Tall and somewhat full of figure, brilliauay of the July sunset. Milly cried
with a clear eomplexisn, dashing brown out that she would see far better skies M
eyes, mod it profusion of dark, curly hair, the North, •• Welt till September," she
sho was a girl who would have been noticed said, "or °Mame Then you will see. You
even in a crowd. would think thmetimes diet:then/00ra were
Of (teem she deemed to perfection. She ex, am.
bad learned the rot of dressine:s in Atneriea,
''But I don't know that I shall stay in the
and had pane:sad it in Pens, under the
best maeters and mistreseee of tl.e lictle- North so long," said Miss Browne.
known &deuce, Wherever she went, and " Oh 1 I hope you will. I hope you will,"
whatever oho v. -as doing, her style of (trees °vied Stilly, and timid tittle Letty echoed
was am:legislate to the oeeasion, 80,11 that the wish.
it was se very appropriate, to perfect in its " Well, I must see how I get. on. If you
way, there was never any remark to be aro all very interesting. But I think you
made about it, aro," said Veronica, with a smiles
Wlien Colonel Lyndon was brougb t up by "Percy is interesting;" said AI illy earnest.
his friend and formally introduced to Mies ly, " Oh ! Miss 'Browne, you ought to see
Browne, he felt at once that he wap in the what he is. But I'm afraid he w00% be at
presence el a. earthle seaman. "1 hear w0 home very long. I think it's to shame that
are towelling the mine way," he saki, lift- people should have to 4. away so far. And
itig his hat courteesslla "1 hoPo You will there are lots of soldiers wanted in En-
t:lake 10.., ni me. I shall be delighted to be
of earldom to you ie auy way." "Von would not have your beother a stay-
• • Thsak you e thoonand times," seed the at-home soldier, Milly ?" said her governess.
young hely. ffer swift brown eyes swept o yea, e would, I would," cried the child.
over him or a mamma In dna 'moment "I shoukl like him to stay at home always
she seemed to take hian in. She smiled and
Wh
held out her band. "I hear from Uncle careYshouldn't he? We want to be taken
of as well as the people in Africa."
Altaic," she said, " that we are to be neigh- " Of course we do," said Miss Browne.
bones up in the North. You are botind tor
But Letty said softly, " I am afraid lye
Castle &trick. I 041 on my way to visit
can't choose, Milly. We must all•becontented
General Mackenzie, of Deep Deane. Pets
haps you know the place ?" to go where we are sent."
In the carriage whereCiolonel Lyndon and
"Oh, yes. I 'wow it well, ' said the
Percy had seats there was very little con.
colonel. "General Mackenzie is moo of ony
oldest friends. We served together in India. venation. Percy, who was tired by the rapid
travelling and sueeessive excitements of the
I stayed at Deep Deane years upon years
clay, dozed off early. The colonel remeiued
ago. Is tbis your luggage ."
A pile of boxes, bags, Saratoga trunks, awake, gazing out quietly upon the changing
sky and revolving many thoughts M his
bundles of evraps and umbrellas was being
'wheeled on to the platform, and beside them mond. He was accustomed to long vigils.
\naked a young lady in travelling costume Seated at the door of Ids tent, in the sweet
and a smartdooking man in livery, both of starry nights of the Indian winters, or in
whom were trying, but approrently with barracks at to station in the plains, when the
o yea, earth was steaming all night with the beat
scant success, to count the parcels.
it is all mine," said Miss Browne with it which the fierce tropicat sun has drawn up
little laugh. "That is what frightened my out of her bosom, or riding in the small hours
uncle. I might travel in eefety, he thought, of the inoreing front barrecks to camps, he
but my possessions would be too much for had often outwatched the stars, and such
me. Colonel Lyndon, do you know that moments he had found favourable to thought.
young loody in grey ? If you do, I wish you Melly a knotty point he had settled with
would introduce me to her. I Should like himself, many a problem he had striven to
to travel in the same carriage, Her face is solve, many a high thought -such thoughts
a perfect picture." as make the cheek suddenly flush, and the eye
"0 \vas just going to ask your peemission kindle -had come to him, when the world
to introduce her to you," seld the colonel. around lohn was wrapped in slumber.
" She is the governess of a little friend of He heti na particular problem before him
mine, youngest daughter of Mr. Winstonley now, nor any hankering after abstract
of &trick. and they have heen put under thought And yet be was glad of the quiet
ray olutrge by Lady Elmo Winsionley." hours. Ho was thinking of the avenge in.
"Wo are keeping you from them, Lyn- equalities of fortune -wondering why one
don," said Mr. Smith. human being should be born to every sort of
" Oh, not at all, They have a protector Privilege and observance, while another had
now, I believe I am not wanted by any nothing. This puzzle followed him throe&
one," said the colonel. the night.
Miss Browne was sun looking meditative- 1Ve shall think, perhaps, our colonel was
ly at the pretty girl in grey and her con -a a men of violeut theories-oue who thoeght
pantons. i Oh, yea ; they have a protector," lightly of loosening the laws of property and
she raid, smiling. " What a gooddooking bringing in anarchy, by destroying the bands
bey 1 The happiest face I have wen for ages. that hold tociety togothee. It was not so,
Does lie beloeg to them, Colonel Lyndon? 1-larl we asked him, in fact, whet hispolitics
I should say, to look at lobo, thet he was in were, he would Iwo told us that he woos " a
love and had just been eceepted." faithful dieciple of the old whoa" Whence
0 Thot is Captain Winstanley, of the then had this new feeling of discontent
Third Foob," said Colonel Lyndon. " He against the general order of things erison?
is young to he a captain, but he is not quite The imege that followed the colonel
a bey, Alin Browne. Yon musenot, at least through the night, haunting him Avon in his
leto hint know that you think him one, Ile brief half-hours of sleep, moy partielly .ex -
is olio of the best young °fame. M the plain the myetery. It was of a fair-heared
service, but be stands upon oseetamity," girl, dressed in plain trowelling garments,
" Oh I introduce ono ! introdueo me I With three' appealing eyes as the sky of the
This le delightful, quits like a romence," East, and most deheete features. That a
cried Miss rearms • Uncle Alias will see creitture so tender should be cast upon the
ses is.sas, „ 1,,, K. t the fUr Wrap, Duda Worldh
, should hove to earn her bread by the
THE BRUSSELS POST, ApETT, 24, 1P91
CHAPTER IV,
TUB Tasvin,r,nits Annivn essioot S'erstert,
The little party of travellers epent a plea-
sant fnranonn in Edinburgh, cepoaln Win.
stauley end lois little sister knew all the Ins
end outs of the beautiful city, anti Colneel
Lyndon, who had spent somo of the best
years of his boyhood in Sootlaud, was, Alin
13rowne seid laughiegly, as good as a guide.
book.
To Letty Alorrieon, as well as to Miss
Browne, the sights of Edinburgh were new,
and in her quiet way alio enjoyed looking
about her, Now end then she was troubled
by a pang of uneasiness as to whet Lady
Flora would say when elle meelved the telo.
grain• hut the matter had been token so
coinpl'etely out of her hazels, and the
colonel, who, without ropperorong to take any
particular notice of her, was coneinually on
tho watch to savo her transitiveness from
beiug alarmed, and inspired her with so
,,,telt confidence, that she was able to shake
off her tuntility.
" Yon will say it is my fault," the colonel
heti said to her ; mid really, when Lelty
looked up at him, he 1 le 1
s..... Oswego. .).m laige
enongh and broad enough to bear to heavier
burden.
As for Captoin Winstauley, he was not so
ready of specoli as usual. It is to bo feared
that he wus innilassed, more Bum a person
of his experience should, hove been, by the
Immleoinely dressed girl, with the flashing
brown eyes, who bad virtually Wean the
condonei of the party into her own hands ;
and who, being in her element, showed her.
self to the beet advantage,
The aceidental meeting with some of those
who were to be her nearest neighboons for
the next few weeks had delighted her. It
was ono of those things, as she obeereed to
hut companions, that only happened to for.
tunete people. And Veronica, at Shia period
of her career, had no doubt that she belong.
ed to this category. Hee good -nature aud
overflowing :mint of fon and happiness
during that day were delightftul to witness.
At Castle Haricots., in the meantime, the
ocoonel's telegram bad produced some sue.
prise,
Lady F loro an,d her husband with General
Mackenzie of Deep Deane, who had riddee
over to seceltir. Winstanley on rolittle matter
of busin am, were breakfasting together when
A was heeded in. They had juse been talk-
ing of the colonel, to whose arrival in the
neighbo whood his old friend and emnrade
General Mackenzie was looking f orward with
groat pleasure, and Lady Vlore, who was
little puzzled by the telegram, handed it to
him to read. The general took ito Ins ides
'as those who wish to live long should take
their food -slowly and deliberately-. He
adjusted hie spectacles, hold the little piece
of pink paper at the proper distence fromffiis
eyes, read the inessage to himself without
eny clonal ge of eountenance, read Bulged slow-
ly, put tho paper down, and just as Lady
Flora was going to ask him what ha thought
uf it, broke suddenly int one of his tt roman.
dous peals of laughter.
It was no light thing, this laughter of the
old general's as Losly Flora knew ; and tap-
ping her foot on the floor to repress her im-
patience, she waited till it had subsided,
"Peed= me, Lady Flora," hesaiii
-wiping ide eyes-" now, really you know
it's irreerstible. Lyndon, of all people in
the world 1 -and Smith 1 -sly old fax 1 -his
doing, you may depend -introduced them -
asked him to help her on her way. Help
her 1 Why, Veeoulea could take all of us
in hand to -morrow -think nothingof it.
Shoal mooing° a province -an army.,
"Aro you epealtino of tho visitor you
expect bo -lay ?" asked.Lady Fiore coldly.
dear, or ti„. seso, James ma Iselinf labour of her hands, should live in the.housos
them to the carnage. Now thee, Colone of strangers, this, to the greet heart of the
Lypilim. The geed -looking boy is on the old sohlies, evee ineoneeivable.
loto tr. eut ler 1(111." 0 ioiotially, throUgh tint long night,
he thiinght of the other girl whose aeffilein t -
They s sit tot the Steel. of a first-olass com-
s %nom be bad made, tun' whenever he tho ht
pirtment, which Was ai yet unappropri tteu,
awl lit, which Percy instaulay \vas erain.
ming books anil newspapers, and eaki,d end
fruit, and the pareels and bogs which Letty
Merrier:it boasted Wore eithet• too It i1 or
toe eialuable to lc entruetrid to Om luggege,
van.
Tly,r0 is 1,001n for ;ill tboso thingS
in there," said lidise . es to the offiontil.
" Couldn't you pet smol : bolles to mune
to my earring Uni 's cieg wed a
eee tee that mete ing; If ill% two
woeld join 110 10 woult. le pica:cult, 1
think, for nd all. lIhen Citptitin Whist aniey
end you might have this oorriage."
While elle enoka 8110 Wall bowing and
emiling to her new aeimaintances.
and Lotty Alorrleon were a little shy of her
at first ; she looked sn vorv experieneed ;
hub Percy NVInstaulny was 'delighted with
bed.room instead ot thllwroy carnage, was
her. IL: had never seen a girl, ne he read
ham' to the colonel, whose appeentowe ple:oe. Pr"Parad t" tak° them lt i"
ed hint more. " No aro all going to the Palace Hotel,"
" One oan't lie forma,: in a railroad. sta. at', amid' " My uncle wrote for rooms there,
mod to boy° brookiomt roody. Woqi vest for
an hour lotifore eic look round ledinbergh.
Alilly hos pneniscal to ahow me everything
Castle and the dear old town, Ltud the
Callon Hill and Ifolyrood. I think," turn.
Ing Celonel Lyndon, " ono of you had
better telegraph to Lady Flora 1Vinetanley
for wo shall certainly not catch the forenoon
train."
'(01e along," he scold. Pll tologresh ito
rim- Inoue, My mother had Snell onaidnimay,
of her he siniled. adinwed her ; noman,
" Yes -yes ; sloe's the Miss Browne of the
telegram. Don't you. see I I call her Ver-
onica. Her father, poor lad ! was in the
same regiment with me once. Well I must
he off. We expected her by an early after.
noon train. We shall hove to make differ.
ent arrangementa."
"So shall I," said Lady Flora; and then,
feeling that she had been a little abrupt
with her old neighbor, she said uourteously
Butt she would reek° a point of calling on
Miss Brosvn soon, and that she hoped she
would enjoy her visit to the North.
A curious old man, and as :shrewd as he
was slow was General Mackenzie, of Deep
Deane, 'When, jogging along quietly on hos
strong chestnut mare, he reached the bend
of the avenue, he pullect op, and gave way
to another of his gusty fits of laughter -
!roughed until his eyes were rod and his
cheeks purple.
" Ha, ha I my lady 1" he muttered delight-
edly. " Ceught out, are you ffienet
Aleaokenzie is gocd enough for you in the
North, boot 1101; in the South, Janet Mac-
kenzie's friends are it different niatter."
And thereupon be tonohed up his mare
with the whip, and she started ott at epsilon,
taking him for a clear two miles itoross Otto
Moor ab a single stretch, After which,
having given sufficient bent to his youthful
exuberance, he drew up, and trotted on
steadily to his pretty old holm) in the Deep
Deane Valley.
The evening of thot day arrived in due
1 me. The general took his village cart to
Otto station and Mr, Winetanley his wagon.
000o. As 'for Lady Flora, who load been
unnsualey depressed. all day, she dressed
herself in to black velvet gown, trimmed
with lace, p0000 a becoming little motronly
cap, and sat out on the terrace in the soft
evening light to watch for the return of her
guests,
Nothing could. have been more bewitch.
ingly beautiful than the proepoot teem tho
terrace no position, we should have said,
at first algid, could have been pleasanter
than Lady Flora's and yot, as she slot wateh-
ing, she sighed. Sloe Wad thinkhog of her
sou, hee young soldier, whose handsome
face and delightful frenk boyishness of
nrIlincr woe ell hearts o thinking, and re -
gay end pleas:Lilt it sounded She was
lieteniug with a Noodle, when sououl for
whltt elle was wholly unpsepared fell upou
tt r oar. Peary's voice; 1 But it wee Ma
possible I Do w000ld bo lueguee awey from
Ithgleaul by this.
She stood leaning over the puppet, of
the Weave, with her. heed pressed to her
boort to 11.11 its beating. If elle bail be-
lieved in phiontom voicea-but aloe did not ;
and if she did, what would it-iehat could
it mean ? 10 eanio again-soiloolued this
time, and mysterious, as if it were traselling
away from her. Feeling almost :lick with
expectation mot surprim, sho looked out.
The carriage catno in sight at last, She saw
11 evinding slowly up the lcmg avenue.
Yes : there was one figure more than she
was expeoting to see -a figure that, even in
this aim light, she could not inisteke.
" Percy I" 'rho (tried mit-. Percy I"
At the sound of loei• voloc the young
soldier sprang front the carriage, scaled the
side of the hill round which it was winding,
raced up the steps that led to the terraw,
and, befOre his mother heal idly realized
whet bed happened, eanght her in hie artne,
end kissed hoe pale face togain and again.
Why, Percy," sloe °vied out breathless.
ly, " is it you, or is it--"
" Not to wraith, mother, I can assuee
you. Come into the drawing.room and have
a good look at me, and VII toll you all about
It. I haven't really startled yeti too much,
hove I 1" ho said anxiously, foe there was
a curiously bewildered look on her face. " I
should have telegraphed or written, but I
down on you 11100 this."
He told her rapidly about the accident to
Otto Sametreadul and his consequent leave,
and by the time he load come to the end of
his story Lady Fiore was herself again.
" So thae 1 have you home, she said,
home safely, what does anything mattee ?
Yon know it was never my wish thot you
shooffil go,'
" 13001 /1111St go sooner or later, mother."
" Well, we shall sec about th ot. We
need not begin to talk of it yet, and theee is
the carriage drawing up. Come down with
mo to the hall."
As, leaniug on her son's arm, Luly Flora
weut down the old oak stairease which led
to the inner. hall, she looked so comely and
younfs that Colonel Lyndon could have
imagined that time had stood still since,
long ego this beautiful wawa') hatl capti-
vated his Loyish fancy.
Sloe went forward to moot him with out-
istreteled handa anti beaming oyes. " A
thousand, thousand welcomes, (Soloed Lyn.
(ion," she said, " and a thousand thanks.
1 asked you to briug 100 my daughter, end
you have brought me my daughter aud my
son."
h his fellssnses about eel, „sum haw, vett:lig that silt: had lei, :him leave her,
of el. husband load thought it well that toe
failed to cin so. But take care of her 10
01„, &same ohs we, mes, ths,, abintit elieulil go on fereogn service; Oolonel Lyndon
11110 card of herself and Of any mindere rif ad.Visod lier strongly not to :prees to an
peeple betides, Strange, strange Wen"! dic (.:.,hang0 ; every one of their nollilary
incepoidities of einem, 1 Further than Ova friende hail given the 8R1110 advlee, and
the colonel, with all his doop thinking: eho hurl Mho had lot him go, If elle
could not wive/ere. had only been more beforehand with events,
At York he pooped Otto the ladiee' coes wonlit have insisted on having her own
Huge, and, finding them aweke, Inionelit. way. Mackanzies, if Limy had boon
them coffee and male. There were no other raisilYfehillillY, would heve told her ef their
stoppages, fiXeOpb of a few moments at o, expeuted goo eels
time, Finielly they ell met rarely on the Lady Float meet eitting alone, as wo Itaro
platform of the rotational; Ed i»bn testa where saki, upon the terrace, but a Net pink bluetit
they found-atol tide did not sarprime Colo. tinged her Oleo's, It is curious how oven
pel Lyndon in tho least -that Aliee Veronica our ernall soeial sins find US '1110
lee:wine who looked as fresh and boards as if kenzies' youogest deughter, jaucit, had We
ole had been all eight lone in a comfortable in Londial that motrioe. She was 11.
lively, tool amiable girl, bilt she Was I ''1 :
elm was et :tying itle o with people whO did
nnt move ill qUit,s 1.110 Sarno circa) es Lady
Flom, For Perey's aake-Perey, who Was
110 roulanlie-Laay Vlore was aerofoil to see
as little of Janet, Melikenzie as poseible. She
fult now that aloe had been mietrokon. Poor
Lady Fiore She ineent well, mid NI10 Wits3
tttlgry With hereelf wlitt alio modea ilitlik0;
bill, only those wan Inv. tried know svhotit is
to etece ofeas hark safely threngh therooke
and shoals of a Londop meson.
It w veva: still up here above the names,
CO1.1 1001 baforelloo omit isata auto in sight
Olily Flom, heercl the rotting cif wheels.
'ibis, the ripe. of Voicoil 01100 toWO,Al line
on lip. wx, Milier's lough. Ilow
1.100, lo 0,1r
" Cirennistion ilea don't rolnlit of it. Now,
are mei ell together? There to Thiele Atiolt
inaki»g eigns 0, ue. We may as well tithe
poseeeeion of our cierriroge."
In a few ifolloll les everything was arrenged.
Milly end tot 71110105 governess were occupy.
Ing 00,e,,;,LN,1014/14 111 Arial Browne's oar.
liege ; tier p irsels and Goalie Were 111
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very inneorthet position in this home, hasn't
she, Stilly?"
'lit omy I hail millet. elle filled it tloan
1 "g""o t'll Y"' A"" How it was Taken L„t Stulday Right,
Pon't listen to him, Letty dear," tined
tho 11 I
ENGLAND'S CENSUS,
et 'et: (*often tried to keep her in reeler,"
persieted Porey.
" Don't t s ; ho Osierl the wroug
way. 8 3 101 every 0110 01,10, until Letty
thine," said M 111y. " (live her tonne tea,
Peruse and don't, talk 00 1011010
Bat, Culonni Lyndon, W110 had, in the
meantitne, tumid a comfortable °hair for
Letty tithe 1110 window, was alretody at her
elbow wit lo oup.
Oh 1 thank you ; thank you a thousand
times," she seid, looking up et him, " But
why should I be helped first?"
Because the redo, of us can look after
ourselves," he anewercd. " 1Ylett else will
you take -a biscuit You must be hula
grY."
i• I am not in the least hungry," answered
Letty,
" That to because you two excited. You
ought to be hungry alt or so long a journey."
" Bet it is a little exciting," Buhl Letty,
Fl R 101V VOlSO. All the othesit-.Lioly Flora,
and Milly, una Percy, and Mr. Winetheley
-we rebusy talking, and ft Wad a ecliel to
bo able to p001 0110 her feelings to some one.
" I have been thinking of diem so imich all
day "-she went on, a little breathlessly -
" Lady Flora, I moan, end her son. It
noted he so delightful for Bonn to meet like
widths t resist the tempation of droppmg this ; and them this is such a lovely lames
Doesn't it look strange and solenut in this
1 ogh t 1
You Imo boon here before S"
" Yes -once -sin my holidays, They were
the best holidays I ever :spent. Stilly wits
quito it little girl then -the sweetest, little
ereitture ill t110 world. And Lady Flora
Belot tloitt if I made as noni progress ton she
hoped, 1 should he bee ,.,7overnexi ;ionic day,
And over sluee then I have counted the
months and the years, and nntv the time
ItTtec,o,lite, I can scercely believe that it is
" You love them ell, then ?" said the
colonel.
".Love Omni ? Ah ! if could only tell
you. Boot no one knows how good they havu
been to me," anssvered Letty, with a Catch.
lug back of the breath. "1 am only uf
sometimes that I eon too young and illeX-
pOrielloOd--01111,10 would he better for Milly
to have so/no one older. However," bright.
ening up, " one can only doones best."
"And your beat will be very good Mcleod,
I am convinced of that," saki the colovel,
who felt ow -lonely touched by these little
girlish confidences,
Dat Lady Flora was calling out that they
had speut time enough over the teadable,
and every ono was sent off to dress, and
when they met again -this thno in the inner
hall, on whose wide heorth a pineelog W/1S
burning -good epirits an t lively general
talk were the order of the day.
Before tho little party broke up it was
agreed that a visit should be paid to the
Mackenzies anti their guest on the following
morning.
(TO nn CouTI.Uunn.)
There was a pleasant smile on the old
soldier's face as he took his hostess's hand.
" It gives me tho grentest pleasure in the
world to have obliged you," he said gallant.
ly ; " but as for this son of yours, I can
take no credit to myself ; he acted on his
own responsibility entirely.
Wily, who came nulling in at Ole
moment, heard what the colonel mid, and
called ont to her mother not to believe lam.
"He brought Percy to the station himself,"
she said. "I was eo surprised, mother,
and we had the most delightful journey.
Veronica Browne says—"
" Veronica Browne 1" eehoed Percy.
"She told me to call her Veronica ; and
she is the kindest and pleasantest girl I
ever met," cried ISlilly, Ask Letty."
" Where is Letty, by the -bye? asked
Lady Flora. "I suppose she has slipped
away to the scl000lroom. Just like her.
Bun up and bring her down, itJilly. Bring
her to the drawiug-room. We will have a
cup of tea there now, and supper in half an
ho is "
She led the way to the drawing -room,
followed by Colonel Lyarlon, Percy, and
her husband.
This room, which had a sort of notoriety
in the neighbourhood. deserves a few words
of description. It load been lately re-furn-
tithed and decorated at immense cost, under
Lady Flora's personal supervision, and was
full of beautiful things. But that which
made it really most lovely was the prospect
that remold be seen from its windows. These
wore four in number. Two of them come
needed the terrace from which Lady Flora
had been watching for bit' visitors, and faced
Oa thesun.setting, The others were north
and south. They let 10, 00 this season'a mar-
vellous, indscribable glory of color and light.
Sweeping stretches of purple moor; lochs,
large and small, a great multitude, now blue
as the noontide sky, and now flashing bright
as if paved with living fire ; on this stile the
silvery bosono of it broad sealoch, so (Izmir
clod evith heathereolacl lints that it looked
like a lake: on Boo other the sweep of a rime
whose serpentine wiudings, seen far across
the plain, seemed to end ouly with the dis-
tant raw of mountoins-this, and much
more than this, was to be semi front the win-
dows of the Castle Etteick drawing -room.
On this July night the two windows that
looked out to the terrace were open, end the
solemn twilight, which lingered at this
season all eight upon the hills with tho
esveet, wholesome breoth of the moorland,
came into the lighted room.
"Better than London, isn't 10 1" ovoid Mr.
Winstanley to Colonel Lyndon, us they
stood together near one of tin: windows,
while Lefty Flora, at the othee, was con-
tinuing her interrupted conversation with
her son.
" Better I I should think so," answered
Otto colonel ; " but there i0 114 comparing
tloe tsvo, I wonder, as I look out, that I
could have spent so many woeke of the sum-
mer t here."
" lanhion is a queer thing-quito moan-
eountable," add alr. Wieoartnley.
"Colonel Lyndoe " coiled out La•ly Flora
from lice window, wish yoa would mono
hero and toll Ion somethoig ebolot your
journey. Percy eau toll me nothing not
even if tho mies Browne at as handsome)
as people thy.
" Miss Browne is melt -tally liandienne,'
suid the colonel, with oh " 1 yoa
memo to say that Pon
"I could not describe her lo ony 14,11101..4
Satisran11011," Said wits ee Yee a
good hand at descriptions Bat Imre ere
Milly and 'lass Mortesom You had better
ask them"
Lathy, vim lied thrown off her travelling
hat and jacket, awl broutheil lier• pretty
broom hair, looked, to tae eolonere, more
eltat•ming than ever, am thnidly, end with a
bright pink colour on her oramee, 8110 1011011,-
0d 110N pupil lilt° the dertheirg-roole, His
impulse Wad to go to meet, looor, loot
to the group round the WindoW ; 4110, thin le.
ing that to take eery particular natiee uf her
Might 'mbari itos it the more, he thmained
whore ho was. Lady elorit tele: Wm exceed.
bodykind ab heett, nod to whom Lathy
Morrison was something more than an online
tory grimmer., N0011 sot her at her ewe,
" Llome in you cooneh oldirl," she said,
felting her lion& tool giving lour a 0 fro
•• Dirt y•iiti think It, solid forget s 011 beeatteo
my boy Imo wino home uway 011.
NieliI41 0.0011 ao yoa mum."
" I told her 31W woe silly," said Mil.
deo 1.
meet &a over law is: 1 no.V,"
Lely Neith a " 11h: 3
A marvelously perroet Ryxlem In Vogue -
The Cost Only Ons•Teittn or what
"Curie main " Pep; tont.
Once every ten years 1ohn Bullyerforms a
remarkable feat. It is the taking of the
001MS Or OD United Kingdom, and it is ELO.
coinplisheil with a niekeldiathe-alot rapidity
that challenges even the Admiration of to
B11143)541 111140101. f1.0111 A1116[100,, TI10 1110L110d
of taking the candlid poSsedilea great interest
foe the people of the United States, as offer-
ing a striking oompurithe with the elow asul
uneatisfactory methods of enumerating the
American people.
On Sundey night last, the Britens pained
through the tureatile of their tenth (amen.
ohol einsel anode:). Tloo next morning the
record wee delivered to Somerset House, to
be aesionvil and labehel, and all the work
was effected with marvelous perfection of
oegarileation by which Great, Britain he
made to stand still for a minute and be
photographed, So consummate is tho skill
with which 50W1 planned that, all.embracing
ontwhinery, flint at ono and the some mo-
ment, all over the abated Kingdom, the
rtanTling pen emight and set down every
men 14 Illatt14,
The United Klegdoon was divided up into
40,0, 0 disto•ins, J lt is etaimated Goat tile
total eoet uf the week AVMS IOSS 0111,11 5700,-
000, while for the SR1170 work in Amerlea
nearly 57,0011,000 was appropriated by
Congress.
The Liability of Directors.
As a result of the unexpected verdict of
the jury that investigated the tunnel diens.
ter in New York ciiy, President Clark of
Otto New Yoi k and New Haven Railway
company, Mr. Chauncey M. Depow tond
others have been arrested charged evith
manslaughter and ore now out on bail await.
ing their trial. '3 his action on the partof
the authorities does not Seam to strike Mr,
Depow tte very reasonable. Indeed he
°loons throb it is utterly absurd to bold a
direator i•esponsible in such 0 cam, as that
would result in endless confusion "Why,"
Ito says, " I am director of thirty railroads
and another of the localised hits a seat on
ono hundred and twenty boards." The
Week M replying to Wile defence says :-"lt
does not seem to Move occurred to the astute
nand of Mr. Depew that neither he uor his
friend is under any econpulsion to accept
snoh a multiplicity of offices, or that the
crowning absurdity lay in supposing thet by
multiplylug his voluntarily assumed dutios
beyond all poesibility of doing them pt',.
perly, one could or should escape eespon-
sibility, either moral or legal, for their nem
-
fulfilment." Continuing tile Week adds : "It
is time it WaS clearly understood that no
considerations of economy, or diffienIty, or
resold travel, shell avail to justify or axons°
in the eyes of tho km, eny mammon% or
company for neglecting ,any precaution
necessery to °nem.° the maximum of safety for
employees and passengers."
The Growth of Methodism.
The Wesley centenary celebrations, re.
oently hotel by Ohs Methodists throughout
the wot•el, besides bringing into greater
prominence the wonderful growth of that
denomination duriug the one hundsed years
mince the death of its founder, heve furnish-
ed to number of Betaking illustrations of that
Iffieseilloy between the Christian denonoina.
tions winch is a distinguitioing fertture of
those latter times. Perhops the most marked
exhibitions of this spirit occurred in Landoll
end Edinburgh, the stronghold of Epinoopal-
illtdeM and Peosbyterianism,respeetively,
the former °Ay Canon Farrar was peesent
at one of tloo codeboutious and publicly re-
jofeed in the wnt•k being dome by his non,
oonformiost brethren ; while in the letter
Dr. Cameron If.ces, of 81 Cites' cathedral
placed at lho service at the Wesloyans his
ereat °dike which oe the opening night,
Wad crowded in every part. Among those
present memo the Lord Provixot, and the
magistmt es in their rolled, While thO Inds ern.
117 tees re:wee:in: eil tile principal, ,111.
William Attila Whatever may be the 110 11,0
ilestinyof the Chard' onto uniformity of s•is.
ible organization inis mantfosttha 1:1 hat unity
of effirit which 100117 believe to be or intim
Rely greater importance than Mere outward
lokenuee is increaeing modal awhig the 111100.
rad parte ninteo ceesely 104011(0. A consent.
motion 1,1116, hi 11,11ieli thoesande will rejoice.
The 00103101 nvae intrueted by the home
secretary, Mr, Matthews, to persons in nu-
thoeity in the dila:ran t parts of the United
Kingdom. In Eugland and Scotland the
duty devolvo upon the English and
Scotch registrars gel:en/A; in Inland to a royal
0011/10i05I011 presided on er by the Irish regis.
tr•ar general, and in the ishonds-whicas con -
Fasts of two groups, the bile of Man in the
Irish Sca, and the channel islends, Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, Heron, Stole, jethon
and Brechon-the enumeration was made
under thoo superintendence of the respective
lieutenant governors, according to Mistime -
Bona issued by the registrar generol of Eng-
land. In England aud Wales the COLISUS SWAT
consisted of the employes of tho general
reiristry oflloe, the superintendent ragiStrarS
ietheir districts, the registrare and the en-
umerators. There are WO superintendent,
registrars' diStliel-S 1,1 IllOglaucl and Walee,
wbiiuttato subdi vided into 2,105 sub -districts,
each lio.ving a local registrar of births and
deaths.
ene DIVIsTM; INTO SrMDIsTalCu'S.
While the boundaries of the parishes or
townships were taken as the basis epee which
to frame the division into sub -districts,
strict attention was paid to the various local
sub -divisions, so time the number of their
houaes and Inhabitants could afterward be
readily and accurately ascertained. Where
a parish or township was sufficient to form
of itself a distinct enumeration district, it
was assigned to one enumerator ; and, RS a
general rule, it was assumed that where the
enumerator would not be required to travel
more than 15 miles in visiting a smaller 11 am-
ber of hotares in the country, the district is
not too large.
She enumerators were required to bo
totligettt aud active, able to read and write
well and have some knowledge of ari Orme.
tic ; they were not to be younger than 18
yearS Of loge or older than (15 • they Were to
be respectroble persons, libooly to conduct
themselves with strict propriety and eivil-
ity in the diseharge of their duties, and well
laueni.ntecl in the district in whioh they were
to t
The enumeration in Scotlaud was carried
ou in the same manner, under its own regie-
tear general. In Irelend the enumeration
was effected altogether by the officers and
men of the coustalmlary force, whose local
knowledge rendered them particularly well
suited for the undertaking.
COVNTINti IN PUBLIC 1:MTITuTrOSS.
Public institutions, such as coulees, jails,
convict prisons, reformatories, workhouses,
hospitals, barracks and lunatic asylams,
whose inmates exceed 200 persons, were
treeted as separeto einimesation districts,
and the governor or principal resident officer
was ape:canted the enumerator. The smaller
instils] eions were treated as ordinal:3,
homes, and the perticulars regarding. then'
inmates obtained by the distrtet enurneeators
in the usual evay.
The onumernaion of persons on board
merchant vessels, fishing smacks and other
Craft in the portS, docks, oracles and rivers
was accomplished by the calicoes of Her
Majesty's °Interns, Seheffiders duly filed
by the masters, evei•e obtaleed in the CaS0 of
Otto vessels in port on the census day ; and
on the arrival:of every home -trade condeortet.
tuff VONSol within the ensuing month, inquir-
ies will be made in order to ascertain wheth-
ersthe census bee been given in ony port in
Otto United Kingdom, and if not, the master
will be requester' to fill up a sehedule. All
the returne collected by the officers of her
mrojesty's customs itt England will be trans-
mitted direct to the Central office.
The Qua'o.ty of Tonkin Coal.
The favourable reports of the quality of
'Punkin coal appear to be fully confirmed, 00
is now Wetted Mutt the :perelueb of tile last,
mine developed in limploong peovee to be
excellent. A well-knotve firm employing
twouteetwo steamers aye taking the whole
supply Croon 10, which, aillionglo surfaice
emtt only, is so good that it is being Need in
their yeesols motel:ma owl is coneitlered
Otto ot as settsfaetory ae that corning from the
hied 1 atomics° mines tithich 1mM° been Worked
far yea's!. 'lila Tonkin fuel is Said to haVe
on0 very valeable advantage over that from
Jelin, in that it burns withont smoke,
thereby showing that the cemberition is all
ihat ean 0,110sired. 10 011 011 likely thee, Hs
eller:plisse 111111 101,1 01 ite being extern ively
moil 110 ]tong Bathe, whicle has nt,W X tv
industries, enl aN Many ad tWeiVa11111 1 1'
1 0,1 of Lippin,i, 00 01.0
1.000,
011I111 MOW AND NavY.
The information about semen and others
on board vessele 100 the royal navy, ab home,
were supplied persuite 1 to instructione ad-
dressed by the horde of the admiralty to the
officers in command of her majesty's ships
and vessels. A return will also bo mado, ona
clor directions of the commondmein.ohief of
the British meow distingniehing officers
from nomcommissionca °incurs, ma rank
and filo by the monmituding atilt:or of every
regiment or bet I Minn of Moo British army,
at home oral:mail, showing the ages, county
of bieth, end whether snigloonarriee or
widowers ; also the nuonbers end egos of the
wives and children of soldiers.
In order to secure Oho enumeration of
persons on board boats, barges and other
craft iu inland wrote's, not within, the inns.
diction of tloo officom of oustoms, snob yes -
sets wore visited oe the census morning and
Otto required particulars obtained from the
master or persoe in charge, either by the
ordinary enumerator oe by a poise» special-
ly employed for Olio mosporre,
The enumerators were directed to make
diligent inquiry for tloo purpose of ascertain.
ing the number of poesons uoto in any dwell.
ing house on the conalis night, but sleeping
interims, Sheds, threvans, tents, oto, or in
Otto open atr, ond to enter such particulars as
mold be obtained eespooting them in a form
provided for the purpose,
To Out Glue With Soisson.
Olio can ent glass with A soissors tos easily
as though it were au antanno leaf. 1711e en -
tiro scoret consists In pliniging the vein of
glass into a tub of welor submerging <deo
the hands tout the scissors. Tho einseore
will coob in rotritight lines without a (law.
Tide resiat Is achieved in coincipioneo el tho
robs:ewe of vibration, If the leeet portion of
the eiessele le loft out of the Wot,r, 1110
1114.4 V.:11 provonk 000 gluesouttnig.