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• POETRY.
. • Thi .014 risiztO.
How still and dusky in the long -tamed rtioni-4%..:-
What lingering shadowssnd what faint
• Of Eastern treasures—sandalwoodandacen
With nerd and cassia and with roses blenti.
_ •' . Latin- the•sunshine
ila-
Arid h arded letters full -of hopes andplansttainibabinets are here,
Ives thism by. -I came once more to see •
The014 piano, dear to memory,
• t :TA past days Mine— -•
Of all ea voices from- forgotten years
_ •
It's the saddest; see what, tender tears
Drop on the yellow keys as, soft and slow,
I -play sonde melody of-Iongago.- •
. How strange it seenis !•
• 4,thistrtnwgeak flutes: ._ti,iat once-, were,r7ich.
Givis Only now the shadow of a song, -;
- :The aping echo of the fuller strain
That I.shall-never,. never hear again;
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Unlessm dreams.
White hands have touched : Fingers a
• andlw.hite, . •
• Since stiff and weary with life's toil and fightl;
.Dear clinging hands that long have been at rest;
Folded -serenely on a quiet breast, • -`
•.Only to think: - :
: 0, white, sad notes, of all the pleasant claire", .
-• The happy song, the hymns of holy praise,
The dreams of love and youth that around ou,
• - 1 - • -
Do they nOtinake each sighing, trembling String;
' . mighty link? • •
All its Musicians gone beyond -req. -all --
The beautiful, the loved; Where are they all ? • '
'Each told its secrets, touched its keys and wires.
TO, thoughts of many colors. and and desires,-
A With whispering.fingers ; -
. All are -silent now, the farewell said, • .
_The.tast song sung, the lad tar sadly shed;
:Yet lovelies. given it many amnia to keep • .*
In this /one room where only shadows creep
•- And silence lingers. '
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- The old piano answers to my call, -
Ud from, my fingers lets the lost notes fall.
0',.sotil that I have loved, with heavenly birth
: .Wilt thou not keep thememory of earth,
- Its smiles and sighs?
`Shall wood and Metal and White ivory
Antwer the touch of love with melody,
And thou forget ? Dear one, not so:
• I move thee yegthOugh how I may not know)
• /- \ Beyond the skim - - •
Thanitagiring.
"- 1312, mengrown sick with toil. and cartel.
Leave for awhile the crowded mart; -
Oh, women! sinking withdespair,-
Weary:of limb and faint Of heart, "t-
, Forget your cares today; and opine
• As children back to childhood's home.
'Fellow agti,:n the winding pins;
Go to the places-Oho:re you went;
• .When climbing up the suipamer-hills,
In their green lapyotisat content • -
Ai;c1softly leaned yourhead to rest •
On Nature's calm and peaceful breast::
Walk through the sere andfading woad,
Bolfghtly trodden by your feet,.
When all you knewsit life was good
, And all you drearaed of life was sweet
And,let fond memory lcactiyou back 7
• Wet yoathful love's endhatited track._
Taste the ripe fruit of :orchard boughs,
Drink from the mossy Well once more.;
.Breathe fraerance from the:crowded thoW,S,
- With fresh, sweet.cloverinningo'er
And cciiiiitthe treasures a yOur.feet
• Of silierrye and golden wheat. • • •
Gosit betaide•thehearth a ;Ain •
•
• .Whosebirele once was glad and gay;
• Andif !rem but the precious chain
• Some shining links have dropped away,
• The guard witlitenderer eart and hand
• TJe remnant of your household band.'
• Dr, w nearthe board with;plenty spread,
- : And if in the aecustome place ge.
You see thefather s reverent head,
Or mother's patient, loving fame,
Whate'er your:life may have -of ill,'
Thank 6..ct that these are left you -still.
Arid thengh *here home h
to-dayrin alien lonelines
•- Though you. may 'clasp:no other's hatid :
• And c1aira,n9 sister'a tender kiss;
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though withno triemf or I ver nigh..
The pastas all your conip
i.th been you, stand
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•'Thank God for friends you life has known, •
For every dear, departed daY,
- The blested past is safe al ne— _ •
-God gives, but does not t e away ;
He only safely keeps abov
For us the treasure that w love. •
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!"-0 Painter of the ruIlii and Flowers ! .
.-. 0 Painter- of the fruits and flowers! -
•We thank thee for thy wise design.
Whereby these human hands of ours.
In Nature's garden wort with thine.
that
from Amithanks ,.- :from Our daily need .
The -joy ofsimple imple fath1 s born: .
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That he who mites the summer weed
.. . May trust thee for the autumn corn.
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Give fools their gold and knaves their power,
Let fortune's bubble rise and fall; •
. Who sows a field or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is morlthan all.
• he who pleases most is ; •
And God and -man -shall wn his' worth, '
XtrtitrolfethltiVag.„,,,,...,„__ •
his bequest - •
The 'time of harvest shall be giiiii'd- 27----;--
The flower shall bloom, the fruit shall groW,
If not On earth at last hi heaven.
—J. G. WarrirEER,-
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_ 'WHAT Hi THE 9 .
.-What s ti20 use of this in2pettionahaste ?•
The,end *certain. ' „Let us take ourtime,
.And hoard the vital forces that we waste •
• Before•our day has reached! s golden prime..
;
:What is the use of rushing ith spent breath
After Old Age; its furrows, itti white hair! ,
• 'Why need we hurry so to welc me Death,
- Or go half way, with hands tretohed out, to.
Care? , • . , t
,There -is no use. Dear heat, i Ore but, wait,
All ,things will fihdus. Let us pause, I say-
' We cannot -go bet/Dud the anent gate - --
That lies a short day's jet -limey down the way. -
SO let ne take our tijae in .koutlits fair boWers,
The Summer season is ad brief at best-; • ;
„Let us look on the stars, and pluck the Rowels,
• And when our feet grow weary let us rest.
Metas take tiinefor love and its delights.;
•
.It is the one sweet thing that Pays for all
The bitterness of life, for !Sorrow's blight,
• Forl'ain!s- despair and Death's funereal pall.
In_the lost era, When -the world was new,
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Love Was men's Brat pursuit arid.life'eexcnae.
Now has that time come beat to me and you-
-Why should we seek for =re? What is the
use •-
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EING XCIN.L..N-Fe.NGES.
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• Thou ring tipoti Of Anger, •fs
littie band of gold,
' I press-, thee to my lips Lind heart
•- With happiness- untold.- .
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I had outlived tnYchildhood; • ,
. And walked frora girlhood's dreltni;
Iiy days were idly Seating _
Adown the world'sbroad strewn.
araIngon my tliger;_
t taught to me
and how holy -
Y-Iffe.warbe.,
hire only,
111:01113 Of 121in6.
is ed,
thing divine.
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finger,
d of gold, • -
• to my lips and heart
and joy untold. .
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FS ltELATIONS ,
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reopte Loved 'Her Muth:.
. cgArT.zw INAT:
iUJiVE • SHOT THE WRONG. MAN:'
They are gone! and there has-been
ling through this -house all the night
vrth
no wind about, such as I never heard
are even 'in, a gale," Powles says,
eAmnly, by , of. comforting he; young
rem: - .
The warning howl has -no right t� busy
shout • Rupert, who's 'a stranger and
• to the house," Dolly replies, trying
.„ ngh off the uncomfortable dread feeling
oh is rapidly overpowering her, _ Then
lds—
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owePoyeles, let us be1 very busy all
119 Ours they must be away; let tie clean
auallbtighten and -decorate, and find food
doo- k it, and. arrangelt . prettily, and
god them a good - -Kelooree home !" and
Pe,;., Jets agreeing to this, for :hard Work,
cling, and cooking _are all ocngenial to
heljthe morning hours do not hang heavily
.orieVolly's hands Or heart. • .
• i3tit aboue4 o'clock She hears the wheels
ofikitar dashing -up the driye,and, rushing
'ouef to give a. greeting to her brother and
thtl friend who has gene to help him in this
d4.(1,Of need, she is Jest in time to reoeite
Derfliagh Thynne in hererms. • -
ft Ite is better;"- Darragh says, -first of
•
" Ronald will live, Deity; live for you.
in time' to stop your brother and Ril-
e 'from going to this meeting?"
-They went this morning. How aid you
—low did you hear ?" • -•
rom Kathleen. My dear, true - Olga -
girl wrote_ to me to beg me to dome
an. ho with them for life's sake,' and-Piii
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mit -cousin, -Lord Killeen, Will be an
a protection to Robert," Dolly says,
rzg to Inter!' up her own spirits, trying
• o let the -thoughts of -Ronald, ,which
• We ' "preeincerevives, root - all
hts*pf others from her mind. ••
12.! you &Vt. know them—you 'deal
then2," Darragh says, raising- 'her
c a ed.haecle-up -and *tinging thein des-
peeetely ; " they ', Rte..: maddened and
1. bliOted„ ' and deafened; they - will: net hear
•T'thigkr:piets of the friends who counsel Mode-.
. ratfOn ' - they will not see kindness any longer
1 f', h -
lin te.faces. of those, who do not look darkly
let ieltd.in . authority, Urged on to. bided-,
thite gee! by those who mean the 'golden
..fut
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t ,.:• that they promise for -themsekes,
4_ for those- Poor sheep .who have
go listraY, My ootinttyreen are fer7
get i gratitude and themselves." ' : ' , - I..
•,eiureniy say would that you had been
• go: with them,. and pray that
sn'S mercy: will • be over them this
a z,, Dolly aYs, resignedly; - 'and * then
art la:tells her • plan in feverish,. haste.
It : ii to go - on to the village' about fiv
mill' off,- and find' 114.- Atinesley. and Lor
KU it. _ • -- ! ': .. - • . : '-
leen will be ank,4, but 'adopt ' Ts-
to:beer than death,"" Darragh says, .
lly ; but . the .hopefulness deserts her
.-the driver positively • refuses to let
‘70r: be used for the piirpbse, saying
tidy, . : : . •' , , .. •• - . -• :
're beet out of this stew 'to -day,
ragh ; blood is, thicker than water,
tuttiv.of my mother's' collates who
and work on. the Darragh. demesiie.
be taking you to come betweenthith
eir interests to.4Iay."..- - . -:- - •
ed Ill walk it," Darragh says; tette-
* -but Dolly 'points out to her that
tti has neatly minis fort the two gen-
t() getup, and that she might mists
7 talking adother.road: '.-.- :-...
heere travelled so fetonly to- be made
ket the. last by one who was born
:$ on Darragh' land I." theiIiish girl
gifeeignately, turning in •iedignatiou
iieeeltiver,. Who bears her wrath With
•ilesophy• of one who feels that She.
o him. neither harm nor good any.
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e and help me, Darragh, darling,"
avs ; they will be here soon; their
IB nearly -come." - -
• "the hour" of one of them, has
cam eady, Unconscious Dolly!
• On e same day that Robert Annesley
•and1.1td Killeen went out high-heartedly
tit dott eir best andineet their fate, Marian
Anne ey, still sojourning- in hope, though
deep)in debt, in the bijou residence in.
Greeiy3treet, receives a letter whial fills
tite, ttetong mune -
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4Honilfit ble, MM. O'Leary, and,. to Marian s
)20,6' jut, dated- from Galway. city._ _
'1" Di 4114- have ocsourred to you 'before
fr ,i
this t my resideneehere was 'not alto-
,-
geth he motiveless one it appeared to be
to me superficial minds," the ladyWriteS ;
"the Pre youevrill not he surprised to -hear
that I, at back here in My pubholy official -
°hit is a member_of the Ladies' kand
Le Association; and: is a lipelik-fti- in.
diem!:iue I have long had at heartInamely,
th,e' • reption of this lovely land from_
the 111 ai sway of those ;Who Wile. iii. -it:
BLY viii -Paris was paid in the. same
°Olsen went there under= Orders to
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redeiv, er directions, from seme Of Out
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Organteing Members, and ' now I am back
lieget-to carry. them.. out in their
ever Wh4zt 'he -.learns this, More especially;
I
epared
fuilei3 letittrety.. I fear Your Inisband will
diettp tOve of. Me- mtire thoroughly than
at I e , a ed.:upon ..to addrese,a dieting
, .. •
clottel# is borders. the day after to -mor.
row.""That% to;dityl''.ffarian observes,.
arent4 tically•,. as she reads these words.)
"1 ittu 7 se there veill.be no chance of my
Miegy to actual- collision with Mr. An-
egitey0 , °ugh I must do att with his landed
riteMale4 ' Mr. Arthur Thynne is OthiiiEg
ver heti to-nigh.to and will:support me on
e try ugpeoasiton- of my Making my •fiFst
latfor 1`..1 spite& - to --thei`people- WM have
regarde Ine hithertote a there fashionable
ma',
"7114-1 °rim% woman!" Megan oriese
ithl
hislui., 8. El e of notonety. - --Not one
=tab, • a settlement of. the debts she
' d a to incur, ad 017011 so =alias
0 Pr AO "vielittitt44.4074sh mile'
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nee,. and • I.-hratzetyteeteedertge,
aPPlir lit' tat ttistOik*Olk
Vine feeling ; ." sh• e's' only doing
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my hue has as good asidetatrtett.ixte
• " 0121 n't give way yeteMatlini". the
sister towhom , she is making her ;Saint
iiiterrup • " Let us alibi; :our way.4tit of
Bente our diffioulties - ;
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" That" ntord easily said than dimes"
Mrs. -Annesley stye, rueftilly.. "1 may -get
out of them in imagination; but I never
shall in reality, unless Robert ads sensibly
and gives. "iip- that place - in- Ireland and
tiiltes up his praoticie in London again." .
"Now, Marian, how .can he d� that?
He's sold it," the practical younger sister
ten -duds her; "but it you make it knciwn
here that your husband is ruined because
his tenants won't pay their -rents, and that
he and Dolly are starting like rats in.a
hole becanee to one dens to take thernfood,
you Will be pitied instead of being dunned,
that 'sit you drop all the -show -Said gayety
at 'once.," •
, • - •
That's just ' what -1 don't want to do,"
Marian poutie -" What is the 'good of my'
having been -presented and of my being
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asked everywhere • by the best . people if I
.drop everything now now ?- It's my duty ,' to
try and keep tip myhusband's- position,
though he negleota to do it himself,
Then, with her: sense of wifely duty in
this direatiOn strong upon her, Marian goes
to dress herself for a bazaar at Kensington
House, at which 'Lady Killeen is to hold a
most attractive stall—" Remiss" .at two.
shillings *glass and white kittens at lour
'guineas a pair: " - .•
Mrs. Annesley is to aid -in 'dispensing one
of these two necessaries of life; the 4011 -
miss 'falls to her share, . and toward the
good end of -disposing of harmoniously
she wears a cleverly devised "milkmaid's
dress" in the finest white and _blue "cash-.
mere. A garland of superb pale pink and
white rens surround her broad hat, another
-encircles her waist and wreathes itself to
the hem of her dainty drei3s... Altogether,
the appearance of the ruined Irishiland-
lord's wife is simple, effective, and prepos-
seseing to a' degree, and, 'at Lady Killeen
considerately whispers to every one— .
- "She's keeping up_ With • an • inintense
effort t� -day, poor thing! Her husband, is
literally besieged in. his own house in Gal.
way—Boycotted, you know, and quite
ruined; but her interest in our cause- is.so"
great.' . •. -
Marian's cant* creates universal 0°1221324e
• aeration and she drives a thrivieg trade.
Men who have not tasted milk since the
• days of their unresisting infancy drink
Koutthiss now at her bidding as freely as the
kittteits lett up the 'cream, 'which is another
spectialty of this Arcadian dell. Altogether,
Marian is so happy in the melees she has
made that she ceases to think dismallyof
the state of things in Ireland,"„onacciount
of -which she is being so widely.. pitied,.
while Lady Killeen never gives a thought;
dismal or otherwise, to them at all. .
And this, on the day that Robert Annes-.
lei and Lord Killeen take that fatal, fool.
hardy -dtive, from which one of them is
destined -never to return.
sttlinfilegt. sometimes nearly falling over we were jihildren, the faoe that has nevelt
looseoteneit or abrupt rises and'dips in the been turned awaylin coldness -from us, hor.7
pathyeqt, 'but ,alweys resolutely pressing ever Dutch we may have tried him and ria
forwtodt and always on the alert. counter to him. Come and . see 11il1ect
SO' -'en and on for two :weary miles; and and after that sight go back and engtourePt
"SuOdenly, where the hedges and your beautiful savage ill her unwomiuelz
b_aaleo 40 higLest, and the darkness is the *aye if You can."
-deepee' t-,lby reason ot the intensity of the " I can't Stand it," the new Lord 10111* -1,
b1acitialladow84 the twodry out simultane-. Says, hanging back at the door of al
oti8144 recoil Mi
ore n •anguish than in chember of death. . Don't ask me, Dee. -e
•feariqorr their feet have half slipped or ragh;- you have snaken My nerves 14 yoZ-Ft
hall t-,trutak BOMB soft and yielding sub- words, for they seem to imply Viet I,hatO-
stane.e,.-:,'4i'ed the thought flashes into the helped to .bring poor Harry's fate tweet
brairC II each in an instant that they -Are him." . . .
tteadite4.-on a human beirg. k • - • Separate yourself openly at .once•
. It iii*znan ! this woman end tne party who are ushe're•
Robert !" . Dolly ceies, inatinot her."
guiding her to the truth; then with arms "Yroolaiin myself a Tettegade, in fattli
and 12_,e4de nerved to the task by affetttion thatie what • you • would have me do, is IN
and tliOope to save, -they lift the senseless peerage 7.7 -falter away from the Oalltil
man teaM the.ground,and draw bini gently directly it brings sorrow to our Own fame
out ogibe.black shadows; and by thegrudg- ily ?" .
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ing isee .first .that it is Mr. Annesley, " You wont% Make me waver," he saw,
and peesently that he is not wounded. discontentedly. "Upon .my* word, Dam.4
Froni'-:#18 recesses of* the friendly bag nigh, you hurt and .dtitappoint me cruelV
they hfing a bottleful of water and lave his The opportunity, has come, has been forma,
brow eiitia it, and pour. brandy down his upon me—by most unhappy circumstance
throat, id in a few moments have the joy 1 admit—of - proving myself a perfr9
of heating him gaspandmurmur, and pre- friend to the country. As Lord Kill WW1
sentlr eegeter himself.a good. rent -roll, I can do a thous d timei
As ho tifti himself up on his elbovi, and more than I could as Arthur Thynne; wit
in his dexed state and the murky light fails a doubt ever in my mind as to how I tri0
to reccie his sucoorers, he and Darragh to pet. .for my chambers .aud, club.
at the -Te moment - look to you to share the additional povie:J'
-11 Wfiere is Killeen ?" and responsibilities as-wellas the.titie
" In weeniute more he knows -them, is able property with me, Darragh; and, histei0,;
to staii0 ttp and • tell them what has hap. of giving me the !promise that you'll dose;
rened,te, lar as he knows; • ' yon.want t� hold me back and --and hana,
- •" bed come just .here," he says, per inch - • •
"when, scene fellows jumped out of the "I shall _never share the title and pre.1!
ditch att,a- seized Flight by the head; there petty, the • power and responeibility
was alf6eale and a shot fired, and I was you. I'll only pray you to use them *011.'11,
thrown'i it, .I Suppose, for- I. remember The wqrds are Out of her mouth beforQi,
nothin4, more till 1 felt your dear arms she has made up her -mind that it will te.)
rouncltug peck,Dolly. Is Killeen all -right? well to utter them. They spring tortte
Did heAd-andiell you ?" ." spontaneouglyeataggerieg Lord Killeen an
• " OAS Robert, he pallet:be killed," Dolly shookieg herself,
whispere....,'"We have heard nothing, seen "You throw me over, Darragh ?•,"
nothint o him e we. got frightened and - "Don't call it that/ Arthur, Arthur, T;
came tedeak for you ;I • could. not make you a good Wife now; your
• A..804 cry from Darragh -interrupts ambition and hopes could never be n3ino
her. The), girl has gone on a lett yards, and now I' I could not feel them, I could not
when tkiey reach .her she is kneeling down bear to see them gratified; they would be
by the tjide of the'ditch._ forever between us, and such love as Mort
I 041 pee what it is," ehe sets, 'piteL is not strong enough to bridge them woe;
Ously, 4i but there's something lying at the " It is true, -then; what I have heard,'1
bottom Ahem, and. Deily; the grass jewel!. he Flays, ohokingly ; " anclthie,--thissiiseeer
here, where my hands are !" . waves. his hand , -toward the ' rade .
"ItN tiew---it is water I" Dolly stem- where his dead ctoesireis lying--" gives rut
mere, .'helieving her 'own words; and, the excuse you have wanteil---.-ee
Darragh answers— . • "Are you thinking of Captain litackivere
." It'slthiOker than . water; it's Killeen's .she interrupts, and he tells her,
blot:14117 •-- .• • . - Yes. • • •
There 4e.no one to •help. theme- . From a, "1 am glad you bete told me go -t -yes
coteeigsee:e4eeolate, haltrumedshantyhard teed, though it makes Me say wordetha; i-
hY—the* revulsed when they praY for will blister my tongue. Arthur, I am weak
enough to love him, I -a.dmit that; lent
shall- never be wicked enough to. marry
him."
"You sg0 BO thinking to comfort me." .
" NO ; I would not say it einless it were
true. I thinik too well -of you to comfort
you with a falsehood. I say it beoause
mean it as SOleMOIY SS HUSH it when
87. lairmraughst, t los you," he °Hess
-They've Ow- the wrong man I" • °
suddenly. has been .daz-eled by another
.womatt—by ether women litit Darragh
shines them: all :down in his fickle heart.
when heis with her. •
The 'bazaar is oyer preotically when the aid 112 " that"- whiali is lying at the
rime and Princess drive away -at 7 6-1.olook." bottom '6t Vie ditch out of it. They- are
adyKilleen has a dinner this. night, fcir not repdleed rudely; hutsorrowfally.
hioli Marian dresses in robes of splendor " WheiVe Aeft of me home would be burnt
that banish all recolleetion of, and obliterate about .roly e,4,4 to -morrow if I helped -you,
all resemblance; tit the milkmaid, see," the -.Man • of . the house says. Ana.
The dinner • is one. of those feasts of when Rai,lett Annesley turns away here
fashion where the 'viand's are as perfect as leesly, thisittnin matters to his wife— _
nature and art. can combine td make them, " The -taints be good to us all this night !
and the guest's are moro.perfeotly eeteeted
and amalgamated even :than the viands.
It is -it luxurious, rather .prolonged repast;
and' by the time it is. Over it is time for
Annesley to -go home .and array her.
self. for a `ball it the house of &Cabinet
Minister's- wife., . . •
• Her he'd and-citessing-roomge in the little
house in Green istreet ate *a blazed light,
and her clever maid and admiring:sister
are just putting. the final touches to a'dress,
thetoneand- texture; make 'and style of
.whioh would make an ugly woman lovely,
when a telegram is brought to -her. •
"Just open it and • seelf it is trete Bob -
eft," she says to her sister, .1' if Menet from
him it can wait." e
•. The girl-obeysher gayly, °pens the telee
gram, and reads a ...few words; then, step-
ping abide in eider that the expressien-of
her -oWn face inay not be seen, ehtisays.—
"It- is from Robert, • You :must zeadit
yohreelfe Marian; you must."
The telegram is snatched from her hand
by Marian, whose eyes dilate with horror
as. she reads it:
-Two_ hours before this telegram is
received by Mrs. Annesley, two anxiety-.
stricken,girls are waking up and down in
the faint yoling-.- inbonAighted darkness
-before the house at Darrigh. °
-- It is long, long past • the time when Rob-.
ert Annesley and -• the gallant, genial guest
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whoat gone- With him, hoping to better
his cause, ought' tohave returned, and
anxiety is fast merging -into despair 18 .the
breast of the etetetof Metals(' InsAand:the
e cst*ers- nts of the day,
nOteven Kathleen; the loya101iddagh girl,'
has; been to -them, 'and. they know that
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hard, stiff lines which she. has not dared
to break, pita have been drawn around
her in order to keep her away.-
- "It's so hard to be only wpraen on Muth
a day as this," -Darragh says at length,
when the silence between them has become'
terrible from the way in :which: each has
Occupied it in thinking. • '
"Whatcould we do if we were men ?"
Dolly asks. • • . -
"G� out and look for them, find them-,
and help them," .Darragh replies.
"Do you . thinkthey—they aged help ?"
poei Dolly falters.
know it." ,
gh !.how ?'" Dolly ories, with the sharp
ring of dreadful fear in her " you
can't know it,you can's knew morertlian.I
do: Let us hope still." - • •
Let tis. do what men would :do if they.
iierahete,"- Darragh answers: It is bet-
ter that we should go out and hear what is
to be heard, and see What -is to be seen
Shan wait' here for the sound and the sight;
let wept on the road and try to find them."
let us take *hat may be wanted if
s hurt." Dolly says. . "Robert's
-th lint- and -linen bandages, and
andy will be the hing; taking it won't
eke it needful a bit the more will it 2" -
They find the bag neatly packed with all
the aPPY640e8 and: restoratives thet are
warted in 'eases of accident -0i inanition;
and • 'drawing their ulster bac& MOre
Closely over their heads, they take their
watOut through the:igrounds • and solute
the ii*.d WhiOls legiiikibieetlethe ditat
villatt *here the tiniettilgjiaa 1:hepodlea
ayt ,arif m14
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-hot, heavy,. ra er7trat'k innkrinter
night; There, is just light etough for.thezn
to be able to see to avoid -ge ditch which
lies between the road an •' the hedge, but
..no,-; stilt:client-to enable tk. A to disoern and
small obit& .1 may be lying
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Terthelesstthey pidly on, often
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. There:pp, one to help them; Sp these.
three apply themselves to the task of lift-
ing the eta warm body of the murdered
Matt out 14,the ditch. "Then; while Dolly
and. Dat'gragh . watch by it, Mr. Annesley
walks-. siigeW into Galway for a -stretcher
. and the tioliee, and 'in a few minutes all the
_city kno*sAhat another foul deed has been
done; 'adother deadly sin committed in_
poor Patootism'e outraged name; another
innocent;.elethrt. offered up at the horrible
ehriiie IMO, bloodthirsty Discontent.
They_ ,free shot the wrongmanl It is a
pity, and,_tb4-iy regret the mistake, more on
account feife-'having missed the right --tene
than bedieelee of any remorse they feel
about th.ii:ediltlese one's death. A few -fiery
words frOWthitt fair espouser of the Irish
cause, Mr O'Leary, the next day. assoil
all the po6S few ofthe monerigidly con-
soientiouk.thre feeling.
!ilpr words are faithfully reported
to Dartagh tity ,Kathleen, and Darragh does
• not forgeke of them. - • - . •
•.Darragh.i.-:_tvoe and, saltekbasement, her
remorse; igig4, longing for retribution to fell
OD the ingederers of her -cousin, are very
terrible- Wipes to witness. in thole days.
She °Aimee eld,herself of the remenibranoe
that 'somelloil her own -words may have
fanned thiji lame which. has , now burst
forth and .!.eeglin to cton'ettme the land ..and
destroy tbra? members of • her own- house.
She loathe#. t-tte recollection,of all her seem!
ing 'partiza:n0ip. with the sham patriots,
1whicoaS
set teteiliosn.teachheahingluied'addejrts° alttissiegf
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• thought -ok1,4136ring the title of Killeen with
the one witA hes helped to bring abOut the
.bittet end 74.7isthic12- the last.0118 who bore
• that title. ot4ollied. She -shrink-et with.the
shrinking 10, which there is deadly fear
from the iCe; of the possibility of women
stikisivg at -.Vele juncture 18 her Own land,
terrible, rel/i4esei, tigrese-like, at were the
women oft.41i'.S French. Revolution And
*it:Bethel). e.v.9114' er Other fears and remAnd,
is the fiat 4'14 remorse she feels at being
pledged to elitite the fate of the man whore
she hergielf teee helped to -bind to this unhal-
lowed CausetV.* •
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'grfow Well we meet each 'otheti. . A
dozen tinieelfietlei day before she sees Ar-
thur does slitiosk herself this queetion.When
he dope MCA meets him with a cry of
horror, foe pAreles annonuces Mita as "Lord.
Ulm," ankDarragh am' only 'think of
her murder*, equsin by thatname. •
. "One woWel , think . you *hated me, Dar-
ragh," he -NO, ;eproachfully "one would
think that it :as torfauW
Were yo h Withthat woman when she
addressed tI14 -..iestiittryesterday,t.befori
.Mr. A.nnesle* end he spoke to them /0 is au
-hex *moor, t he - averts , his eyes as he
'replies-- •
A"tites-'
C.11sEAt'ufiTREEpltRoALEXIII.
It is not often that tears fall from the
eyes of the -gallant -and- gay young Irish.
Man ; but they are falling new as he leaves -
his cousin. . Poviles sees theta as she lurks
in the hall. to' let him out, and forthwith -
she weaves a powerful romance 111 her
brain concerning the way the "new Lora
Killeen that is took on about the late Lord
Killeen that was, . after booking uponthe
latter's corpse."
With disappointment and mortification
about Darragh -gnawing at his heart, with
real grief for his °eddies untimely and
unintended end Stingivg his soul, with real -,••1
work and inxiety. coneected with the title
and property he Use been BO Unexpectedly
called upon to assume pressieg upon him,
he goes straight to Mrs. O'Leary. -
She has. deffed -her platform garb—and
anything more becoming than its matche.
lessly-setere and perfect lines has never
been seen Galwey—and hes donned a
eseque of _soft terracotta oolored silk
frothed- all overwithlace. Her manner is
-as softk as -the silk; there is nu trace in it of ,
that impassioned savagery which pommies"
her this morning when exculpating the blune
der which has resulted in the death of
Lord 1!iednIn hereefnl robes and
ui.,.4ia:elootsiiketiespiri0peatesieonesrwardwith;
• grandly -gentle air to - meet the ,n2ain whocr,
high fortune is assured by the untimely
end of his Cousin: -
"You look sad, my friend," she bNiine,
syinpathetically, and her sympathy is tot
feigned. It is one of the characteristics of
this woman to really like some petiple
warmly •and well, without regard to any
ulterior advantage she may- venire from
themUp to the -present tithe -Arthur
Thynne has been of interest to her chiefly
bemuse he is an open agent in the work of
which she has been a secret entissaryr but
now that the time has come for her to.
throw off the mask and work in the open
instead of in the dark, las. O'Leary regales
hilt with additional interest as a oolleragae,
an ally, emphatically as a friend.
„ Moreover, she has heard news this d
.which has. awakened memories of the
'bygone deys When she was a very young
and a. supremely lovely woman, of the days-.
when she was greatly prized and tapper.
eentlytelsarly loved, of the days when she
wasreally-hepeful ofpulsing through rde
an honored and honorable woman, These
.daygi are past, never *to return -with one of
their fond, foolish hope S and tespikations.-
But she remembers them tendetly. this day,
When thenewsreachesherfromasouree eke
T.ER XXVL • cannot disttust,that theliusbandfieni whom `
_gro . legates. she has been so longparted, and`whom she
-Theinternewlietween the 00thililE1 is not has so often bitterly reviled, died, soma
a Pleasant one. That Arthur *401 have Months- ago, and died forgiving her.
laseefireianegted allr.:41th"tiethe efevme4ale*firetKiland ibonalio's-snishilytialle—n2istellusewtbritemonnutrifni,inirh-t:ohisYtenigymbh °o•wttolildhe:rtell!:akibralyerena:
'itwifheoseftwwoesrd.ws lighon the eenin Thee- Death
lietuttry-Againpt ,Obe landlord interest, is a Would only - relieve me of 'his swit7
mottiarof ' pahrtiolthe giSt Who feels tions arnwd°g4tiagemiliwtraia,t and g;Pduotw,itit "kw.
'rn-timinakithesiehh‘sey4rLhidatkrflieeilr, world; eaktthr her pain tawaevbiestlieanrdmiW!takth of
Omp raremeriagembr. AnoB:11
"Come anitok. at his face,” she soya, haven't the feeling to 'do this now; after
_h e 074e:'t Close to his brow; but jai
it's the floe t tette have both loved sines! • -
ened. The ookFtti,d who killed him must .W148 find - an I 11 w 't till in
sprineeing e', qttb is bruised and blank- alleomiohryado: thfercet:Imbh:01:7ntindufted.Y8 tie! -
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