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"HE IS A FREKMA1 wnnf rn Tor -a to . . ....
to
'ji... sanr.r day f jore, ;
Tvh'"rt is vninly beating, for it throbs j
tcrn n more; I
' :tn life's swoet morning, or ita
". :uid cryMal ilfw,
.(. ;'. wtr t liar lay beneath it such a
s.-ut -n d v inning hue; j
. Min 'mis riceu higher, and the dew
i. . i'""'pr,, ;
.... ni'Tii s swi-ct breath has withered '
-,t: ',; v-.vej-t thro' childhood's hours. I
i .' ;:iili- my young ft-et threaded
.-. - t he wild wood and tho dell,
. ,. .v, i-l:t of other footsteps op tho
-,i .-mrni'd fell, '
uic f friendly voices woke re-i,.1.Ii..n-i'
rny own: i
j i.-.. aiid echo only sends me back
.., ;,; t-rint; tone,
; , i :i t's ;i hollow rustling at my every
.. . viiifiit end
r waken no more a rnstling from
lull of a friend. j
- -i hearts as well as voioes in the
eaily youth
: a 1.' se every pulse was faithful, and
.': ..-e ev-ry throb was truth; j
v whuse. wealth of krindly flishes Kent
1 iiiit to dearer eves ,
pjain will s-hine upon mc euns that 1
"vi-1 more shall rise
k whose light, indeed, is hidden by the
s death's fingers pressed, '
,.i sadder, light, averted from th eyes
ved the bHt.
,. inner lost tones and glances back- I
: -'I
!1 on mem'ry roll,
. the chastened radiance of that
..it of the soul ;
i vi t am searching for the sweets
kh'-d hours
, ,rli of early morning breathing
n iiliereil tloweis:
.11 ii s I am tracing while this
ri"i:id me playp,
riie ga'ln-red darkness beams
:.! of i,:ii.-r hys.
kvli: g nit runs.
lAir OV T H V. WKI.SH COAST.
, 1. 1 , u k-v i:d. calm as glass and
Mi ii ii! miow-w niie sauii,
t,.us rocks gray by day,
il.- im a: nadino arch of
m tlie went ward a strip
.... i
I tw I". M1
i ... , T;n;: n i ;ato the harbor, and
sun; i.'.Ai k ,i- x-aiust the lower Hue
jl.vi!.,; tz-'.-l. wl.cr-, tar lieyond, tho sun
:-:t iJ ;; ! ii- li iining orb to rest lie
Tl . w tv.'. i iv.t the point the topsail
HI i-f a tl.r-masted vessel. Nearer,
n l. n girl sjated on a heap of
J c.vwi--'l. in-r pretty brown dimpled
;.vp.-'! .-'.. n t her knees, her head un
i ur by a mass of black silky cur'.s,
iliik aiul restiug against an old
.-rn-,Tii and broken, and long dis
n'.ii.h had found its last haven in
i. '-'k It was all very quiet at
!y and ly a step came trampling
i n d nuf'Ota sauds. The young
'-fk g! 'ved with a deeper red, and
i: h'.tu to heave and her hands
::ir'Ugli siic wer a otru ou tue
t'i its mate. ICot being a bird,
however, she coquetted sat
the sunset she did not see, i
"vl mid almost screamed when a
' : '.m and bearded and muscular,
s ;-'.-!. ',7 round the stern of the ruined
' ! i.h a short exclamation, half
i'
nt
l
a
T
i
. f
ore
IV;
it-
at giadness, took her straight
and hugged her till the j
"is'-t earnest,
r toe down! put mo down!
now
- - fvj raile, sir? Let me go, please
' 've given me a kiss, Faithie,"
! i'ler. keeping his hold good-hu-"
7-'. tt.iu something of reproach in
'- b.i.e eves. "What! not one af-
:: .r.i::i,&- waiting? Why, laisie, I
i-' jii-.i :a:ed for me a bit better nor
A;'' I hungering for this minute
'jai.il hour since I left yon."
'-of the reminder perhaps even
Z of his arms touched her.
had a warm little heart, al- 1
7( )ari ountrer and smaller than !
5
tr-
iftte'
it
. tit-'
against which it was beatiug now. I
l,vst an a true woman, tho moment '
-,rg'; she begau to cling, and put up J
;:--e for you, Kyle," she said, "only j
r-": l .iv; xo," and forthwith she be- j
'likea baby He mad no answer I
cr'? ki-isinz her with close, tender I
- Haul eyes, till the tears were !
'' '.'! the lips pouted.
' K ", do let me go. You're so
'
I
4,aij.i some one might be pass-
.'.'5n:n- his hold, however, and i
. iuim:i Dcti, iuua j
-'i i-.i on the boat's keel be-
' has a b.;ttr right to kiss i
""n icii you, Sam Jones' j
Ijr him to begin, for we
'he pier together, and sho j
'"- r ope,,, and her arms j
, while he was still peering
on the chance of her look-
.;i0;:
... M 1
an j.
a bold eirl." 0:10th
'i.ose ans the manners
I WOnd'T VOll alwlti't trn
14H
VUP: you first came here."
1!l 'W"'n itnn-er man and his
.Vs h451ftr staring; "but there,
snfte'hart; and besides you
kvPt a girl in Wales, or Eng-
"' L !" r'l!,i ,r'eet my fancy save
. . -.r,e."
ver51
Jl.6'3
onS"
""l Atr.
rica," f aid Faith
,!,,.-iip. backward waiulering,
rep aren tier lover: "whv. in
the name of ah that 8 comely, you wouldn't
would"urPare t0 YankeC 8irl'
t,, . ,. i
Tho honest lDd.gnat10n in his tone, how.
ever ludu rons in ,t f, had a softening ef-
vu mm. iter big brown eyes grew
suddeuly wet, and her voice sank to a half-
shamefaced whisper
"Only I told you I wouldn't wonder if
you took to a foroign girl, Kyle. Some say
they're prettier than we are."
"You would ha- wondered, though," re
torted Kyle, promptly. ''Prettier than you!
I'd like to see t lit woman. Faith, give me
your hand, and turn your face this way.
Do yon think 1 11 be content with the back
of your head to-night?"
He took her hand as he spoke, and she let
him keep it; but her face was still turned
away, and there was a faint quiver about
the ruddy lipR. Perhaps h-r next words ex
plained it :
'"Father says you're going away again al
most at once, Kyle."
'Aye; when he came aboard to meet us
he gave me the offer. It did seem hard,
a'most too hard, when I'd honed to have a
little rest aside of you afore I went away
aain. T.ut, after all, it will shorten the
time o waiting one ft'ay, lassie."
"How, Kyle?"
"Didn't your father say I was to wait for
you till I was a captain? I'm going as cap
tain this time and only for a six weeks'
trip; leastways that's what they calculate it
at. Some business with the New York
agents, I think; but I suppose you've heard
about it?"
"That the Olinda was to be fitted out for
j sale and that you were to take her over an'
charter another vessel to bring you back?
j Yes; but won't it tak you longer?"
! "I doubt not. They're to have the boat
and cargo ready. Mr Denbigh's arranged
' all that. Did you know his son the new
! junior partner is to ship with us?"
! "Yes," she said. Good Heaven! how
rosy her face was now; and yet the crimson
sky was fading into blues and violets. II
! was looking at her, ami the brows suddenly !
' darkened over his eyes, giving them an odd, '
i fierce expression. His voice, however, was
' quieter than before. I
j "I can't say I earn about sailing with the !
I owner's son. I'd liefer tak any other pas- :
senger. They're apt to fancy that because
they're boss ashore they need be boss aboard,
an" I'm a masterful man myself, an' don't
hold with no Co.'s in salt water. Hows'
: e.-er, I shouldu't mind so much if I liked
the man." j
, "And don't you?" asked Faith timidly,
, her color still high.
''Do )ou?" said he, stooping forward to
look her full in the face. "Ile'a been a deal ;
at Amlwch since I left, people tell me, an'
you must ha' seen plenty of him. What do
, you think of him? J
"I, Kyle?" her eyes drooping beneath the
sharp scrutiny "I I don't know. He's
pleasant-spoken and civil. I think he's nice
enough." '
"And I think him a cross between fool
and ape," quoth Kyle Griffiths shortly ; "son
of aea-cook! Well, Faith, I wonder " J
j Faith snatched her hand away angrily. j
' "He has more manners than you." cried !
she, panting, and ruffling like an enraged j
sparrow, "he is a gentleman at any rate, and
I would never dream of using such language
' of peopln ho don't know more than to speak
to. Oh," and here her feelings were too
much for words, and an indignaut little j
sigh and shiver filled the gap.
Even the violet was dying out of the sky '
now, and cool gray shadows crept up from
the cast, aud threw a sombre tint over the .
roan's face. A small, cold wind roso out of
the sea, ruffling its breast with long, fret- '
ful lines, like the. puckered face of an ailing
child. "It chilled the dimples in Faith's
cheeks, and blew the soft brown locks ott
Kyle's stern brow ; and far overhead a gull .
flew by, with a long shrill scream, like the
wail of a banshee. Before it ceased Kyle
spoke;
"He is a gentleman, is he? I thank God,
then, I am not. Had I been one I might
have been betrothed to soma fine lady,
i'stead o" the daughter of an honest seafar
ing man like myself. Faith, twice these
five minutes have you found fault with ray
manners. I don t say tney re uuer uui a
rough sailor's have need to be, but you
never laid blame on them before. Has this
gentleman been teaching you to do so in my
absence this time?" (
Women are constitutionally cowards,
Faith Morgan was a very woman. J?or an
reply at flist 'she, metaphorically, turned
tail, and took refuge behind that ever-ready
shield of femineity, a burst of tears. Itwas
not until they had lasted long enough to
make Kyle apostrophize himselt as a oruie
that she sobbed out:
"Hour e-c-cruel vou are! You kn-n-now
that I love you as you are better than and
. ..... . - .1 U n.attr
yet oh! Another oursi, nu mo & j
head dropped very near Kyle's knee. In- and nights before; and the waves had wrest
ir,t9rilv he laid his hand caressingly led terribly with a crazy barque which, with
V j
upon it. Involuntarily ms voice vou.
tOOK
sofreued, soothing tne.
'Am I cruel, Faithie, and to you? Nay,
then, don't cry. Majhaps I was over
iharn. but I was met on landing by ill talk
about young Denbigh an you. Ihey sani
he had been taking my place, an though I
wouldn't believe if, r.or even u, -thefoul-tongned
gossip5, it rt cnt nie
when you spoke up for him. Faith, lassie, I
love you more than many a husband. If yon
were to play me false with any one, 1 think
I'd feel hke killing him an' you too."
He looked like it at the moment, and she
, ,i vi i Mo, 1 at the min2li2
ociieveu uiui, aim -- -
of nassionate tenderness and wrach in
his '
tone. Instinctively she turned and cl.tspcd
his strong hud in both hers, her face turn
ed upcoaxingly.
"Din't think o such thinRS.Kyle, love:
you know I never could. What's Mr. Den
bigh to rflC but father's partner?"
tlo ,t. . .. ... , , .
ing down into tho sweet eves. The moon,
just ri3ice- K,it,ered " something which!
unnoticed by her, had escaped from the
folds of her neckerchief-a golden circle,
with the portrait of a man within.
"Faith," said Kyle Griffiths, in a tone '
which strove for steadiness, "you're wear- j
in' a grand new trinket since I saw you i
last. Who gave you that?" I
He spoke too suddenly. With a quick, J
frightened gesture she snatched away her
hand, as if to hide the bauble. With a face '
deeply, terribly red, the red of cowardly '
consciousness, she stammered out,
"I I it's nothing father's I mean I
bought it." j
Without a word Kyle loosed her wrist
and rose up. Without a word he turned !
from her; only when lie had gone ten steps i
he came back, aud said very hoarse and
low,
"Faith Morgan, you have told me a lie, j
an' you know it. I can't, say if it was for j
the first time, but I can say it shall be the !
last. I wondered" and his voice sank :
deeper sti'.l "that you shou'd shrink when i
I took you in my arms a while ago. I won- j
,i , , . . . . .... . ;
or uo vou uareu isi me uo it, wr ln?t man n
face lying between my heart an youi's. Go
to him now, as you will; I want no wife on
whom I can't depend in word an' deed."
He was gone the next moment; and Faith,
sobbing bitterly with grief and anger, went
home to find Philip Daubigh at the garden
gate waiting for her.
He had been courting her for the last two
months; and she had coquetted with him.
Flirting is not an amusement confined to the
upper ten. I have heard of a young Tata
gonian squaw who was as finished an adept
at it as any Ttelgravian beauty; and Faith,
an only child and the prettiest girl in Aml
wch, had been wonderfully fond of trjing
her fascinations on th "weaker" sex, till the
arrival of a new first, mate for her father's
favorite vessel, the vessel he had command
ed himself until he was admitted to a part
nership iu the firm of Denbigh & Co., his em
ployers. Kyle Griffiths, big as a giant, true
as the '.icht of day. and masterful as he said
himself, had ".cut out" all the rest in no time,
and won Faith for his own undivided pro
perty. She never even eared to look at any
one else when he was by; and, I believe,
loved him as entirely as was in her nature,
with most worshipful affection; but when
Kyle was away at sea and young Mr. Den
bigh came to Amlwch Mr. Denbigh, who
Was what she called a gentleman: some one
ho wore fine clothes, and had white hands,
and a curly moustache and when this hero
testified an immediato and violent admira
tion for herself, how could she help going
back to the old habits?
She did not help either. Mr. Denbigh
made love; and she smiled and flirted, all uu
conscious in her flattered vanity of what the
neighbors were saying, until, just three days
before Kyle's return, the suitor brought mat
ters to a crisis by a declaration. They had
a tift" about a pho',oof Faith, which Denbigh
had stolen and put in his locket; and he had
brought her a fine gold locket with one of
himself in it, and begged her to accept it aud
take the donor into the bargain.
Followed a wakening for sill little Faith,
and the confession, "Dot I am engaged !"
Followed an( er (from the gentleman) and
tears (from the lady).
Followed tremendous scenes of masculine
woe and anguish, and feminine contrition
and soothing.
Finally Denbigh left the house, determin
ed to try again on his return from America;
and Faith remained with the locket, which
she had at last consented to keep and wear
as some small salve to tho giver's wounded
affections. She loved Kyle far, far better
than his rival; but Phillip Denbigh was so
handsome and sweet-spoken, it would be
downright cruel to refuse him such a tritle as
hanging the trinket round her neck for a day
or two; and no one need ever know.
Nevertheless bome one did know now;
and the sweet-spoken gentleman got a sav
age snubbing on this afore-mentioned eveu
iug. "Kyle will hear I refused him, and come
back. He'll never leave me so. He must
ask my pardon first," thought the weeping
beauty, that night.
He did not ask pardon, however, nor come
back. The Olinda sailed three days later,
and Faith's two lovers sailed in it. Kyle
had a beautiful black retriever, which he hail
ljeea uged to jCilve behirul to "take care of
his lassie love w hile he was gone." He took
it with him this time; and Faith nearly wept
er lovelv eyes out, that she had been too
prouj t0 OWn her folly and seek a reconcili-
ation fore he went. Patience! it would be
backi an,i she would be" geod so good and
meek He must forgive her theu.
Eight weeks all but two days when tho
sun went down in stormy grandeur, one cold
eveuing, on the Irish Sea. It had been blow-
1 m-r- eritna 1 1 1 r II V fttlfl for TTT .1 11 V itarR
creaking timbers and leaking pores, with
! strained and naked masts bending beneath
' the gale, at every lurch they seemed like to
bury themselves iu the foam-crested waves
! tumbling mountain-high around them, had
1 striven like a living thing to weather the
cruel storm.
1 Where teas she now ? The huge breakers,
crested still with foam, turbid and purple
Btained, dashed themselves, moaning and
roaring, against t'.M gray and iron-bound
; cliils of tho Welsh coast, flinging up great
I fragments of timber, torn and twisted scraps
1 of sail-cloth, and battered, shapeless things,
' too awful in their piteous mutilation for any
human name, against the pitiless rocks, only
to suck them back again mlo the black and
boilinggnlf below. Above, great storm-reut
Clouds, black too, but fringed with fire, wcro
gathering thickly over tho threatening vault ;
and low 0.1 the horizon the Min, like a blood
red hand, pointed from between th-.-m t
something black aud broken, over which tho j
sea was breaking in unresisted fury the
steam of a vessel with the broken bowsprit
and foremast just visible amongst the foam
and spray. Greatly as the wind had lessen
ed that sail looking red now before the angry
sun was all the captain of the pilot-cutter
cared to show even now to its tender mer
cies. It had been a work of danger to get
uear the wreck at all, banging as she did in
a nest of rocks; aud there was a look of relief
on more than one hardy, sunburnt face, when
the order was given to tack and 'bout ship
again.
Suddenly the captain caught up his spy
glass, which was lying beside him, and after
a hasty glaiu e through it, roared to the men
to "hold all hard."
"There's summat liviug arter all," he said,
pointing to a ridge of low outlying rocks,
where some object was plainly discernible
even by the naked eye. "There! just above
the line o' high water. Can't none o' ye see?"
"A man down on all-fours!" cried one of
the crew. "Look, he's moved a bit higher.
Poor fellow! he must be a rare plucked uu
surely to ha' kep' life in him so long."
"Lower the boat," said the captain sharp-It-.
"?C(iw mv lmlQ rsltp -ill .tim" "tnoi.
out puot;, "give us a coil o that lute. v e
mayn't be able to get over near him; an, I
say, one o' you lubbers, chuck a lottle o'
rum inter the stern-sheets quick!"
They are brave, kindly men, those Welsh
pilots; I have owed my life to them, aud
know; but I am afraid they thought their
courage and kindness wasted when they
found the objectof it was only tik0og! They
hauled him into the loat none the less, al
most too much spent, poor fellow, to second
there efforts; and then, while he was trying
very feebly to lick the hands that had saved
him, his beautiful eyes full of a dog's grat
itude, they saw he had a tin flask tied to his
collar.
The captain opened it. "To Miss Faith
Morgan, Amlwch" he said, reading some
thing within; and then, not being a person
of refined delicacy, ho took the paper ovt
and opened and read that. This was what it
said: "Boat just left with the crew and
Philip Denbigh. No room for my ; but uo
wish for it. Unmtnbvr that. I give mine on
board, with willing heart, to him you gave
it to ashore. God bless yon, sweetheart.
Forgive me rude words as I forgive your
falsehood. There's a Saviour more merciful
than we are, an' to him I pray to care for
you, an' make you happy, as 1 would ha'
tried to, had Ho been willed to let me."
They gave that paper, with the dog a
beautiful black retriever to Faith Morgan.
It was all that ever came" to port of the ill
fated Tride of the West, tho ramshackle old
barque, which hail been hastily patched up,
and thought good enough to last one voyage
more. Boat and crew wero never heard of
again. They must have perished with their
fine young owner in the vain attempt to
reach land, that stormy night; and there was
no tongue left to tell of those bitter eight
weeks when the "sweet-spoken" gentleman
strove, by every vulgar boast and innuendo,
to torture the man whom he considered his
successful rival the man who was no gen
tleman, but who had the grand old knightly
feelings that would have made him bear any
thing rather than, by word or retort, drag
the name of the woman he loved into an un
seemly dispute the man whose unswerving
discipline aud tireless energy had alone pre
served them even so long the man who,
when the ship had struck, aud the cowardly
scoundrel who owned it was cliuging in fran
tic, helpless terror to his knees, when the
men were shouting for the captain 1o join
them and cast ott, lifted in the miserable
wretch first with his own strong arms; and
then, seeing there was no room for more, cut
the rope that held the boat to tke sinking
ship, and stayed alone to die!
Anil Faith? Faith is living still. I met
her yesterday coming np th high street at
Amlwch, with her married daughter, each
holding a hand of a wee, toddling, brown
eyed thing between them. A bright, bonny
old woman she is too, with as comely a face
as if the eyes had never been washed in salt
tears, the brow never wrinkled under a cloud
of care.
"I must be goin' home to my old man,"
she said, stopping at the corner. "Kiss gran
nie, sweetums," and then turned just at the
churchyard-wall where stands a rough stone
cross, "To the memory of tho captain and
crew of the Pride of the West."
Kyle's prayer has been granted perhaps
better by his death than if he had lived to
carry it out. As Faith says:
"He was a rare good man, but hard, over
hard and stern for ord'nary folk."
Davciko and Fault-Finding. Iiev.
Mr. Nightingale contributes to the Spring
field Republican the following story of Ilev.
Dr. Lothrop, an eccentric parson who offici
ciared in West Springfield: "A young lady,
a roemler of Dr. Lorhrop's church, went on
a visit to a neighboring town, aud while
there attended a party and danced. Tidings
of her sin reached home before her. On her
return she was visited and called to most
severe accounttor the disgrace she had thus
brought upon the church, and which had
been found out, notwithstanding it had been
done among strangers. One staid maiden
was specially earnest iu her rebukes, and the
poor girl felt very bad. What shall I do?'
she asked. 'You had better go and see Dr.
Lothrop.' She did go, and told him all
about it. 'And so, my dear, you went to the
party and danced, did you?' 'Yes, -sir.'
'And did you have a good time?' 'Yes, sir.'
'Well, I am glad of it, anil hope you will go
again and enjoy yourself. And now I want
vou to tell me the name of the woman who
lias been making all this trouble.' She told.
i 'Go to that woman and tell her from uu;
j that if she wants to get to heaven she had
( lietter make more use of her feet and U-ss of
' h.:r tongue.' "
' Old yarns darned stockings.
The Light or Stars.
The night i com-, but not too pooa :
And sinking silently.
All silently, tiio little iuoon
Drops down behind the sky.
Thcro is no light in earth or heaven,
But the cold lijht of stirs ;
And the first wa.i of nilit is given
To the red planet Mars.
Is it the tender star r.f love?
The star of love and dreams?
O no ! from that blue tent above,
A hero's armor gleams.
And earnev-t thoMirht" within me lis-.
When I lchold alar.
Suspended in the coning skies,
The shield of that reofstur.
0 star of strength ! I w thec stand
And smile upon my pain :
Thou beckonest with iliv miiilcJ Laud,
Aud 1 am stroug agar.i.
Within my liren-t there is no liVit,
But the" cold liht of stars;
1 give the fir-t watch of tlie 1.1 tjlit
To the red planet Mars.
The star of the uneonquered will.
He rises in my broa,t.
Serene, and resolute, and sti'J,
Aud calm, and sell -possessed .
And thou, too. whosoe'er thou art,
That rcadest thi brief p.alui.
As one by one thv hopes depart,
Bo resolute anil calm.
O fear not in a world like this
And thou shalt know ere long.
Know how sublime a thing it
To tiutler and be strong.
The Maniac.
The maniac was a giant. lie had broken
his heavy chains as Sampson had broken his
withes had torn open the door of his cell
torn the keeper literally to pieces hurst
open the door killed tlie watchman with a
heavy iron liar he wrenched from the door
and escaped with his formidable weapon into
the city. Tlie whole place v;is aghast at the
news; ami we students at the hospital and
dissecting-room, who were connected with
the asylum, had to nerve ourselves to help
capture the escaped wild beast.
I had gone to the dissecting-room alone,
and was ulout to commence using the knife
on a subject. There was a storm raginir,
and with a low .sob the wind swelled through
the long aisle of forest trees-, and Cashed
with the gathered force of an ocean wave
against the dead-house. Simultaneously a
hand struck the light door, and the yell of u
maniac rung through and through my brain.
Above the door, through the small venti
lator, tlie face of the madmau aiid thj
murderer peered down at me.
" Ah, ha ! I have caught you at ln-t here
and alone I have been waiting for you.
You took me once, didn't you? Ha, ha!
Let me in !
The coolness of imminent peiil brought
my powers to action. I held Ids eye an
instant; but it was evident lie was too wild
for that : his bloixl was up. aud it roved with
er.ger ferocity through tho rontn and over
the frail walls. With the light lioiind of a
leopard I gained the d ior and shot the
double bolt. A gleam of rage darted from
his eyes; but he laughed, " H.s, ha! you
think that will keep 1110 out? "
lie leaped to the ground. In au instant
tlie light was out.
" Wait," 1 cried. ' I have a weapon in
my hand keen as a razor. It is .jis uied by
the d:id .itly I Into; b.n working .in.
B ust the door, and I'll plunge it in your
heart. If it but touch yon, you arc a dea.l
man. You may kill me, but I'll you also, a.
certain as fate ! "
The swarthy giant shook the door until its
hinges creaked and groaned beneath his
hand. Then, laughing again low t himself,
mattered, " Fool, I "II outwit you yet," and
stole off in the darkness. I heard him,
for an instant, pressing against the wail
of the building, and it swayed and bent
inwards with the weight. Then silence.
The din of my pulses made thunder in my
ears, as I tried to hear his ste-.iiing tread,
und the sobbing wind rising anew with
weird, unearthly .shriek, made my efforts
fruitless.
A thousand limes I heard his low, mur
derous laugh. A thousand times I felt his
brawny strength against the door, anil saw
his wild face looking down at me through
the gloom; but still he did not come. I
tried to think he had abandoned the design,
and slunk ofl' discouraged ; but I knew it
was not so I knew he was crouching in
some corner, on tho watch to spring on me
when I passed-
Could I stay there all night? Xo, cer
tainly not. An hour more, and Harry Leigh
(my young wife's brother) would come to
seek me eoao unconscious of the danger,
until a bloodhound at his throat would choke
the brave young life down there forever.
I listened in the intervals of the now fitful
storm to hear if he was breathing near me;
I waited for tlie next lull. It came that
deep hush that follows tho g'Jsfy wind. I
put my soul iu the sense of hearing, hut no
human shadow of sound greeted it.
When the storm swelled again I drew the
lH!t and looked into the night ; a black pall
hung over the earth and sky. I had as good
a chance to pas him in the obscurity as he
to catch me. With my knife in my teeth,
a-.id tlie m:is.sive thigh bone of a sktleton u
foil him with, if I must, I drew otV my shoes
and stepped out into the darkr.ess. sud
den whir! of the tempest almost took me off
I.iy feet, Vtl-.d a brick, di-lodd fr.eu one ,.l
j the chimn. Vs, yru.e-l 111 head i.i i..- ji.;
hh-1 broke in half on tin: pavemc: t.
With bated breflth, :md s s I:'.- the
tread of a panther scenting his prey, I
parted the ti.ick darkne-v- and Mrncd my
face towards tbe hospital. He m:;!a he
either here at any -t p ii!nn the paag.-
or hid in the anjjle of the v.a l :t the d'hr '
through which I nui-t enter. This seemed
most prol-be ; hut there ;:s another -Lior
known only to the do' ! r. !
I thought I would elude him. With infi
nite caution I lieg in t staile the l.iJi Wa:I,
dreading horribly le-t some sudden l.rca'.v iu
the sky might reveal ns to thv wild eye :
thai wttched for me hut r--. !
Safely pa-s-iug the summit. I threw niv leg '
over for the de-eer.t, m.o felt ray '1 seized. '
It was hut the ciiaihii jf tenuiil of a wild
1d, skirtif g the wall. Grasping my knife
i; n;y right hand. 1 e. ;-pt along the h.i-he-i
for f.'tv vrirds, then struck across the lwn
for the side entr;:
The
i; .;:icss per
plexed me, but I thought I was .-teeiiug
straight. Suddenly ir.v f.i.t strexk V-.iV.s.
What wa? this? 1 tried to re.?!!eet. There
was no pavement round thai part of the
l"-jital.
I I pushed on tv.-iecT-'.ain'y : an 1 feeling a :
weight in the air, p. it out my band to g'.ope
for some clue to my whereabout. I was in
an alley Hanked with stone walls far above
rny head. I gave a sudden turn. In an in
stant I knew I was in the subterranean pas- i
sages of the asylum. -Turning to retrace my '.
steps, the opaque density of some heavy lod v
crouched between ine and the outer air. I
heard its stifled breathing its stealthy tread
approach me from the very door of the dead
house here! A struggle for life with a mad
man in these narrow, gloomy vaults to lie
in the pool of one's own heart's blood in this ;
undiscovered totuh and my young wife, ;
Constance! was maddening. i
For an instant my brain was on f.re. Then 1
I thought there might le an exit other de- :
vious windings in which I could elude my
deadly pursuer. Going deftly backward.-, I ;
turned the angle in the wall, and then
plunged at the utmost -peed or a young and
active man along the back passage. In
stantly I knew I was pursued. Meeting
another crossed path. I struek into it in the
opposite direction. The maniac instantly 1
followed me. What a race through those
cavcrnoiis depths of the und-h.iusi-! What .
tragic pitfalls might lurk at evctystep?
What black and stagnant pools lie wailing to
eugulf me ! What deeper depths of iev
blackness into which to fa" and lull for
ever !
The pa-sag"- grew narri-wc. We were,
perhaps, under the very oeutr ; of th. build
ing, and fiirthe-t from ti e outer air. I had
tried to breathe ni.Isei.--.ly ; the eil'.rt ex
hausted me. I knew nothing of th laby
rinths; could only g icss at. our position by
the distance from the entrance. I hud
counted the turnings we l.;vl msle. I
thought I could retrace them. My strength
was failing. I was the th-etest, but he was
nil st en L:ri::g.
l're-.-nt'y he w-.uM run me !.-. It v;;s
a terrible ventere, bet the n.-e-s-.-ity was
eminent : I would try ir. huhe! ing all my
foree, I dartel like an anow 011 into the
diirknes--. The -irl leune-s of my increased
seed bullied him. I su. ee--!. 1 in putting
fifty yards between us, gained ai.d turned
the next angle ; then, drawing my-elf against
the wall, with every nerve and nuiM-le
straineil into prcternatin-al tension, with the
mighty heaving of my spent c.hc-t crushed
into silence by an iron ctTirtof despairing
will, I awaitel for him to puss me. I heard
him coming rushing on with new strength
through the blackness, reach the angle,
turned ft. suiting his mtt-rvf Ixxly niriitist
the jutting stones. I heard him spring like
an animal along the track I felt his hot
breath like steam the foam of l is set jaws
Hung across my face and he topped. I
felt that he was feeling for me ! that he
was crouching on tlie stone--. I saw the red
of his eyebulis glare opto inc. through the
darkness. I felt the touch of his icy flesh .
on my hand. Like lightning he raised him
self, arid throwing his vast weight against
me, pinioned me to the stones. And the
manage of a mad man et bay surged i.p-
wards to my brain. I.cla-je 1 iny knife con-
vuisivciy, and seized him by the throat, rc-
solved to die hard. It was l ain.- it was
shaggy. The hands against my chest had a
thick coat of fur. I clasped him to my
brea-t. It was Lion my d g, I.k-n. ;
i
"Great heaven, Keene ' what kept you
the whole night in the dead house? h is
near day ; the door has been oponid this two j
hours, and Derby and King have '- en asleep.
I was getting on my boots to look for you '.'' 1
" Why in the name of comin-.i) sen ;e dl 1
yon id tins uog out arter iue Ui you tell .
me that?" j
"Why he howled liks n mania-, and
clawed at the d.-or till I thought you were
in r,me danger, and I coulJ r.ot kwrp him
'!'-' j
"Darker! Well can't u'.k now.
Kouse yourself; I have had an interview
with your maniac, and be is prowling
around the grounds after me r.ow. Call i.p
the men. I mast go ufier Philip imme-
di itcly."
" You don't say so?" i
"Yes; don't waste a seeond." j
In five minutes the whole foice of the ho- '
... , .. ;
pital was out in the ground-. U e took lum
in the angle of the gr.it door, crouchcl be- '
hind the jutting wall, waited for mc ! lie j
drew his 'lips ba.k over his teeth, in the'
dumb ferocity of u mad brute, as he saw me, i
.i ..v.-vsv-ttle into a d.ii!. Inril --hire.
impos-;
s-ible
d.
(-1
c, as he hi -e-l out,
I' this js twiee tvviee
w.1',1 1:0 the ti'.il time!"'
Ai'iimi the hla.t.iug gia: 1
j'ni ti 1 t.;.;..! ;
hour oi' the tempes:-t :..--i. J night, v.o -iiooi
hands over the feI.:dlijo-s of oar z?:.1.a. ;
1 ..c., a. . t- (. '- '-
fr-t.and the. 2a.igi-t.-v att.-t l!t ei. .- or
my adxenturr). and 1 -. -A,d Ki-.g 1 n l
left. :-.nd Hurry I.eigh a-.i i I st. d at thn
v ii-d'-w viatchieg the young win:-', d v v'.-n
i'tr the h!!', t'n re wa- someii.rig v--ry likei
t.-e.r- i.v.-r the hold, brig'it blue ..f l.js eye
us !, point " ! to tho gn;"i:e w:'!I of t'-o
tii:td-hoi;-e. mid mM, (.' u.-la.nf v-eild
!.;,, ;n.r.e there !.-e:ie, i r tlie.!. a,:d tuino
mo -.lid
:i'. e N en a i,c:r. y,
A I ire Lji-iiu
ii ay .i.e :i:ur.
Mora!.
I
1 -1: -iti r ic r en
'.: 'f-a-ne-l
of the way
n l.-s- .in. I ; was in the ' ;
of t..: f r but t'-e i
i'.'.e engoi-vr wa 11 .4 i
man, and ;:.- I t- -r.. .,!.
i."mg so liv.le ; he said 1
r.o rum, iog aid sho.it;. :;r
is a .'ire ' j.-jt it out vn.
vi.. -7 r;,;
I Hut l!.e:c u a- th.' " -
order, hriir'it and i l -un. :
v..:- i
. V
II.
thing
' l"i.e;
r
p.a-e.
kin 1
to
t.ie:
thero
D.
:i
! like a
. . .v
J i A
1 t! en
;'..-!! it
I. VIM., e ousel i.;s t
I:
ftroke were like ju:i-:i: i e:s .
it seemed to slaekni a h;'!-
started up vnli renewed vigor, and w,-knew
that far otT, at the other t-n.l of the lis. , in
work told.
The engineer v. a- qui -t a-; i ea'm . now I n
opened the door and U-t-.l at th.-lire; now
he touched a valve whc'.c the pre m re wa
t.xt great, and let the -team e-e iji.-; n. -.v ho
added more fuel; ne h..- ii.t-i . ,.u -omo
lt-hes. And another in.::, '.i:h oi; touched
the machine here and there, where the fiie
tioii was tierccst.
They did not look at the f.re, did not go
near, and y.-t t! .- w r.- .1 ii ig tht ir cliie-t.
You iui:;ht leave sail t! e . i. ,k no iiuere-1
in it, that they ven- wanting iu leeiing;
there were plenty ' !'p ;! who made mom
talk, and leint-nted t ' r the po-ir man who
w.is lo.-h.i; l is ;X'J. p.rh:i:.s; but after all,
win. was doing :in-t .'
There is n story rent in
Hpj. lies l-:i;K a- a fi.it v. hei; ,
ti..; s as to i hut which d
:ii i-.:t which
h :i u-k pies
Oot e.eiCern
t;.:-m.
" There was a in 11 in (-av X.-w ,Jerv r-T
".ny where) v. ho m-ide a large loit Ju--. Do
y.ni know how he made it
" X
" I'y rti5tn,i-g hi- wu b-'.-irte
I thought of this at the tire. r.d ir rt a'l
I took the le son oi whi.-h I -poke. In OirL--
vc.lV
" likss.-d is be that shall xt'inu in .'us ,f,
in the e::.l .1 t!i.- d iy-."
We w-irt :n r I. " n i-ti ins ;' tho--e tn'-n
at the engiti , who -hall si.-idily an-1
earnestly do the,.- j.- tr; mul itn.-od to thr.r
own
busi,;,--:
d-::i
with no s(,...tij; ml;, b.jt .t,
1.
Siisaiant
.e ;
it h.
alio
a
::! t--.!-d.
in.
r finds this fra
as.mt stimulant.
:"
Th,
. to be a ve
t-ant - viii! toiiis whi h
w!ii n tea-n. ison-
ing prodm in a patient not inured by
lia'.i; di-:i;.pear in the seasoned tea-drinker,
leaving only a e.-rt-iia exhilaration whieh
ajp.-ars to l- perfectly i '11'f.e..ms. If tea i-i
n safe slhria'.ant. it is i-.-i tuiuiy an ag;eeih;-
one, and there seems to ! no valid reason
why b;ain-w .rh
the solace. t' -i
mi l refuse themselves
i- c's::i';'.y
Flench
people fnd in c. ll'-e the most cilienciou-remedy
for the .'eiiipooiry torpor of the mini
which result- from the proee-.-es of digestion.
Balsae di-.n.k great -juauiiti.'- of collh-e whilst
he wrote; and this, j: is llieved, bioug'it
on the tt-rrihle nervous di-casc that accelera
ted his end. Trie lv.t j.i,,f that tea n.l
colT:;e arj favorable to intellectual expression
is that ail tuitions use one or the other as
aids to conversation. In Arabia, there is
never any talk without the inev i tabic cofi'e
that flagrant Aiahian b-erry j.r.-pared with
sach deiieate cunning that it v ieids the pe
fect aroma. Ti;e vvis,hin 0f oe.sisionnlly
using these various .stimulants for intellect
ual purposes is proved by a single coi.sidora-
ti0"- 0l us 5::ii n 'Ui'e cleverness ami
a great deal of shiggis-i .stupidity. Ther
are certain ocetvd ms vvhen we absolutely
nec-l the little cleverness that we ;e-srs.
T!ie orator needs it when he -peaks, the
poet when he versifes, but neither ear'
how stupid he may become hLi-h the oraii-.n
is doiivere I, siii the lyi ie set d e.vn ei
p.i;er. The slim .!ant sei v-s to b, i;.g t
the talent vvhen it is waote 1, like the wtwJ
in the ;-i;is .f an o'-gan.
Lalttckv Ha is.
Tindirioo yjrith t!.-rc a-e j. st thirty-two
dnys ii. the y,-Hi- i.r, ,., which iii
to j.,"m lir.n.ls, nr.m-.-ly: t'-e first, s,v..r:d. third,
f-.arth, s,., :-;.; ? , a.vj twelfth of Jan-
,;ry: the fwst, sisth ami eighth of March ;
the sixth and ele.eeth of Ap.il; the SAft,
-5 :, ami s.-rei th of M: - ; the cr.;h and
f ilectith of J '::o ; thj il.lU -o.d i.inr-.ventli
of July; tiia tvclfi.' si sevt..u-e.tb of
August ; the sixti and seventeenth of Son-
tombcr; th -ist'.i ofOctol-r; the fifteenth
nnd ri.ieteetith of X. vci.iVr, and th,. l.f-
te-nth, sixteenth and seventeenth uf Decern-,
her. As to the b.-st day of the week, w 1. :
" Monday f.r wealth ;
Tuesday for health;
tH. vf aIL
llnirsday for enc-ses ;
., j,ay t.ir j.jj -
Saturday no Jack t ail."
--
A rm.r jmih.-sop ur tnas ur.o.udenej
himself ..n one of Woman's weakness-:
"J:.n. d- m -ii .hm't wake sacn f..-;ls .if
ne-eives,
lb.M
n.c-i a- 02 Wiiifi.!: Jd
u"Ut m :i. Ird-v ; i- k u d- ;i.'-.-:i iy s.-t
.1 :y.in in it : u -ii If d y ; a ;.ves. rt: -b'.i'-.T,
i:"" s uu n ; i -'- r .; iou iioos-r ue
j bed he I thing t nigh: to rod a man. A i y,
' I n.-'. - look and-- nv '' ' '"' ; - '
.'": .-