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Patent Of Our tin-1 ,pitiisll' cin old mi ili.iit It le rime u-As-urxoTo.v. - . . m r r u i u i if it-nu ""..I ,.,o, and vise a.s t" ,--r -c p4 tb.vt .VOC -1'i - .--- ISSECUJiKD I'li-tninatpr, the We rnr.-r, n--i'-. . , ..fiieials Sapt. f ""'ir'l' ,m r MrcuNi. b1- ",U,,;V; a .d ' ref "".e; to actuchents In your own - - CA-HiVOWACO, ! - . wnlilnct. ' 4 L GRACE LILKURSE'S SECRET. A STORY OF TWO CHRISTMAS DAYS. They lmnicil so miifli that.wlicn tlmv enff-red thw drawing-room they found the room quite ciniity. Other jit-ople siiou trooped in, how ever, and very soon the Coulbourne puis found themselves sufficiently well sought after, despite their plain attire. The rivals of the evening, however, were the brid-elert and her chief bridesmaid. Miriam Ilindman. i rare was dressed in pale blue, ex quisitely trimmed with cream lace and blush-roses, while her polden hair, her rold ornaments, and her bright blue eyes made her look bewitching in the extreme. Hut her beauty was quite eclipsed when M riam appeared. The bruin tte wore rose-colored satin, half-covered with eosilv black lace looped with lihes-of-t he-valley, while pearls and diamonds wereclasped round h r throat, and Mlii-s and diamonds shne in her jet-black hair. Indep. ii l.-nt of ornament. Miriam was woinh riul'iy beautiful, but rich colors and sparkling ..a-ws added great ly to her natural charms, and she used laiiohnio-iy to say that shn was thank ful she had been born too Iat to le ex pected to wear white muslin sxowns, short in the waist and tied round with a sash, until the time when she should be married. "It was almost enough to drive a girl to marry the. tirst min who asked her, if only to obtain the privilego of wear ing silk and satin. she would say laughingly. "Ilappilv in our davs we can wear what we like, without caring for the opinion of the male sex or tor that of Mrs. Grundy." She seemed to care for tlw good opin ion of one member of the male sex this evening, however, and he for hers, and though his marriage with his hosts daughter was fixed for the following morning, Victor seemed to be unable to resist the attraction of Miriam's black eyes. I "race watched the couple jealously whenever she thought of them; but something move important than the temporary defection of her lover tilled her thoughts. She was planning how to get awav from her guests unobserved and to stay long enough to be able to ascertain what lay at the bottom of the dark shaft into which she had thrust her sister: "I shall have no opportunity after to night," she thought gloomily, "for to morrow I shall have people about me the whole time until I go to church, and after that I shall go away with Victor. " Yes. it must be to-night. When the conjurors engaged come intotho hall to play their tricks I will slip away. I shall be less missed then than at any time." She smiled as sho came to this con clusion, and turned to answer a ques tion which a gentleman at her side had asked. ii.i-ri:i: vi. j WHAT Illl.U K .V AT TIIK 1IOTTOM OF ; Tllli MIAKT. j The tables had been cleared away, the guests had returned to the grand old hall, and dancing had been going j on for nearly a couple of hours, when the band ceased playing, and a com pa- ny of conjurors and jugglers, specially ( engaged for the occasion, made their i appearance. j All th" lights were lowered, and the. large party of guests seated themselves in a half i-iie'm round the p"i formers. The host this even :ng was nior than n silos, he was nervous and excited, and as the minutes and the hours went on he seemed to find it difficult to turn his eyes from the door. ; "Are you exiectiii g anybody, papa?" i (; race had ask'-d him more than once 1 as she observed his siimuiui' rnaiiu-r. Yes I don't kienv," lc had replied impatiently; "don't mind me, go and llllltle voi.l-se',1.'" And fi- turned away r.s though an- JioVeil at be lig q!M Sti'Mied. ("tiae - wa.s too much trouMed with l.erown p-i p.' Xitics to pay much heed to her fatiier. and wln-n th- j'lgglers fomiiieneed tlieir tricks, and she be lieved all eyes were fixed upon them, she ros-- froiu her .seat and quie tly let t the room. She had made all lid' preparations. The previous year sle- had soiled her rh'hcite dress, and shu remembered how Iv .land A re had looked at her as he poiuted out the liu. Now she wa- more prudent. She hastily buttoned on a dark u!stor that complei-'lv i-vr-'l h-r .ib-bl;if gown, and otherwise protected herself against the cold, for she recollected even now, with a shudder, how the wind, rushing up from tho dark aper ture, had seemed to strike lu r with its icy breath and chill her to the verv Lone. There was no phot om the ground this vear; it was a gie n Yule-tide, and old p"o:.'f t:dk -d of there being a full crnuVhvard. wh le others, m.ve i.opeful and less prone to tak' a u!".eny view of matters, s.i'd tie-re was fins! m the air. and before New Year sl.iv tle-re would be skating on tho river and the lakes. With her nerves strung by a nameless fear to the horrible task before her, (ir-u-o Lilbmne went swiulv to the chamber which, a yi-ai ogo this very night, had been the scene, of such a cruel tragedy. It was not until sho had lighted the lantern and fastened the door behind her. and she felt liurself quite alone, with the consciousness that her victim was lying only so many feet below the spot on which she stood, that her cour age wavered, and for a few seconds she felt that she could not look upon the face of the dead. Her courage soon-returned and she knelt down on the tloor and pressed the hidden spring with all her strength. Slowly the hoards moved back, disclos ing tiie large square aperture, from whence the wind came rushing up with a damp mouldy smell that made her feel sick as it swept over her. She waited a few seconds, and then she took the lantern and carefully ex amined the sides of the dark mysteri-ous-lookintr well. Her heart stood still as she discovered that not only were the aides of the shaft formed of solid masonry which had been scarcely affected by the hand of time, but that on one of the four perpendicu lar walls iron clamps were lixed, funn ing a kind of ladder let into the stone, and clearly intended to le a means of ascending and descending the shaft. Taking the lantern in her hand she examined the cord attached to it. to see that it was securely tied. then she slow ly lowered the light into the darkness below. Sho kept her eyes fixed upon the iron ladder, but every bar of it was intact, and so intent was she on noticing this, that though the lantern had been sway ed a good deal by the wind in its de scent, she was Middeuly startled by finding that it was resting upon some thing and seemed to be able to go no further. And she saw that what she had lielioved to be a damp and almost bottomless well, was not in reality more than some twenty or thirty feet below the false lhxr that covered it. Still it is deeri enough for the fall to have stunned Kite if it did not instant ly kill her; and now, with burning anx iety and breathless terror, Grace leans over to look, as she hopes, himhi the corpse of her sister. Can it be true? do her eyes deceive her? or is she the victim of some cun ning delusion some horrible night mare? The crushed mass of satin and lace, pearls and flowers, that shn had so often pictured to herself as lying here was not to be seen, and she might have be lieved that she had dreamed the events of the last (,'l.ristmas Day but for two things which th light of the lantern on being moved about revealed. Oiie was a pearl necklace, the other a lace handkerchief, both of which had belonged to her ill-fated sister. The effect of this discovery upon Grace Iil burne was to paralyse her for the time. She could not act or think; she simply sat on the floor like a creature stunned, and it was only the sound of voices in the corridor that ultimately roused her. Even now she could not move quickly, but she drew tip the lantern slowly, pressed the spring that made the floor slide back into its place, then she de liberately divested herself of her ulster, extinguished the light, and walked out into the corridor. She did not observe Miriam Ilind man and Victor Gayherd standing only a few paces fr"-m whence she emerged, for she was like a woman walking in her sleep: and though stunned by the sudden discovery she had made, she had not as yet begun to realisa what it meant for her. There was a strange look in her eyes as she rejoined her father and their guests, and Amy Goulburne asked if she was ill, and somebody else suggest ed that she was about to faint. Hut she smiled absently and declared she was quite well, and site gave the signal that the dance was to recom mence, though she herself declined to take part in it. "I am a little tired and I will look on," she said to a gentleman who asked her to dance with him. She sat and watched them, absently and vacantly, and she saw the looks of love that passed between them. Grace knew quite well that V ictor would never have thought of marrying her if ne had not believed her to lie her father's onlv surviving child and sole heiress, and now she wondered if Mir iam hal persuaded .him that Kate was really alive, and if at the last hour he meant to desert hr for his old love. She knew not what to do nor which way to turn. When her mind became more accustomed to the situation she began to think that she was fright ening herself unnecessarily, for now she remembered that the bottom of the shaft into which Kate had fallen seem ed as though it were only a portion of a room or cellar which was probably as large as the chamber above. If this were the case, the. injured girl might have crawled away into some dark corner, and there remained until death had mercifully ended her suffer ings. "I wish I had possessed the courage and the presence of mind to descend by those iron steps and see for myself w hat is hidden below, and where the place real I v leads. "There may be many secret chambers beneath the old part of the castle, of which neither my father nor I ever heard. I uuist do it sooner or later; I shall never sleep in peace again until I know that Kate is past troubling me." And all this time the fun never flag ged. The bauI plaved. and the guests danced and flirted and talked about the morrow, and whispered among them selves of the great good luck ot Victor Gay herd at having won so rich an heir ess. Lint Mr. I.ilbnrne was not good com pany this evening. His lost daughter was constantly in his mind, and every now and again he felt as though if he looked round he should see her. Miriam was quick to observe his man ner, and to divine the cause, and she at length said: "It was about this hour last year, was it not. that Kate was lost?" "Very nearly." he replied, his eyes wandering to a clock. Then he and the girl both sat silent waiting for they knew not what: but with their eyes lixed upon the clock as though they had been watching the old year out. and were anxious to welcome I in the new. j Grace and Victor had been dancing, bui the hand had stopped suddenly, and ! they had paused very (lose to wiieii; i Mi . 1nbiirne and Miriam were sealed. " What do they mean by breaking off like this?" asked Grace in a tone of an noyance. i fler question was never answered. At that in 'in. dit. the house-steward, who rarely slowd himself except to announce distinguished guests, now I came t the open doorway, and an ! iiounced: I "Mr. and Mrs. lloland Avre!'' Mr. Lilhunie sprang to his feet and i started forward with a cry of welcome. ; and Grace likewise took j the new Colliers. Hut no sound escaped i step towards 1-. r lips. For a moment she sw i ed I i .shaken by a t 'iiip -s!. tle i ! wmi' I on her f.'e-e, and wh ! ed ii -r up thty thought i dead. k.' a sapling she fell fd il they pick tiat she w as CnAPTKIt VII. TiiiKU'oii tuk: svow. "We must go back to the night when Kat- Lilburne so mysteriously disap peared. It will be "remembered that the snow began to fall only a very short time before she was persuaded" logo with h-r sister and hide. The snow- might be a very seasonable visitor on Christmas night, "but the ser vants at Silverton Castle took very good care to close every door carefully against it, ami there w as cousequeiitlv'no dan ger of anv solitary watcher outside the mansion Wing observed. Indeed, with so much free-handed hospitality inside the mansion, and such a warm welcome extended alike to rich and poor, it would naturally be supposed that no man in his senses would have wandered like an unquiet spirit round the building when he could take shelter from the cold white flakes of snow, and from the biting blast by the side of a glow ing fire, and solace his inner man w ith an abundance of Christmas cheer. Despite the folly of such a proceed ing, however, a man, wearing a thick ulster, and judging from his appearance well-to-do in the world, certainly was loitering outside the castle on' this eventful night. If you could have looked well at his face, you would have seen that he was young and handsome, and you would probably also have observed that he was nervous and ill at ease, as though he knew he was doing something of which he was more than half ashamed. He seems doubtful now as to whether he will carry out the purpose that brought him here, or go away without accomplishing it. And yet his object in coming is not to wrong anyone, even though it may increase his own pain by feeding the flame of a perfectly hopeless love. Yes, it was lov'e that had brought Frank Fairfield to this cheerless spot. I le felt all the keen sorrow of hopeless love as he wandered outside the house that held the jew el he adored, yet dared not seek to wm. An tnrough this day the demon of j unrest has been upon him, and at length, unable to control hi3 actions, he had left his mother's house, and harnessing the cob to a phaeton, which he had bor rowed for a week from a neighbor, he drove the old vehicle in the direction of Silverton Castle. Arrived at the outskirts of the vil lage, he left the horse and carriage in a sued, and set off to perform the rest of his journey on foot. He soon got tired of walking, how ever, and as he came near the deep narrow river, he bethought himself that he could approach the .castle in a boat with verv much less chance of be ins recognised. S, in spite of the cold, he took a dingy, and then, though the darkness of night was setting in. lie began to row towards the castle, for he knew every winding of the stream that flowed be neath its walls. It was quite dark when he moored his boat under the Castle walls, and went cautiously round the mansion, to i j inspect it, and to try to catch one J I glimpse of Kate. i ! The dogs did not bark at his approach, ' for they knew him. and he had some j ! difficulty in quietiy Retting away from ' I their too demonstrative affection. I j Hut the object of his fat iguing jour- j ! nev was not attained, lie could not : , get into any position where he could j i see Kate, without being observed and recognised. ' ! He did not wish to speak to her. He ! only wanted to look upon her face, and i to know that she was happy. j j The hours went by. and he was be- : ; coming sick and numbed, and his heart ' i was heavy, for the sounds of mirth and j joy, of music and laughter, were in ' ! painfully strange contrast to his own j : desolate condition. j The falling snow warned him that he must soon retrace his steps and make J I for his mother's cottage, for his practis- : i ed eye told him that the snow-storm ' would be both a long and a heavy one. J j "I will see her, come what may," he i i muttered with sudden resolution, when , j midnight was approaching, and the ; i sound of music from the hall had ' ! ceased. j ' He approached the disused tower, j ' very close to which his boat was moor j ed. and pulling aside some low bushes, ! he felt aiout in the darkness for some j I time with his hands. ' At length he seemed to find what he 1 j wanted, for his hand came in contact ; ! with a small grating, and half lifting I this he was able to take holdof ahandle j which, on being turned, enabled him to ' push inward a portion of the masonry I at the foot of the tower as though it i were a door. I This indeed it was. an iron door, with i stone so carefully and cunningly litted , upon it that only a person who knew the secret could ever detect the spot, or suspect the existence of any means of ingress. Frank passed through this door, but he did not close it, for he had no fear of anyone disturbing him. and he meant to enter the castle without observation and hide himself in some dark corner, so that he might have one view of the gav scene in the ball-room, where the ladv he loved was sure to be the belle, ami then he intended to return to the grounds as he came, leaving no trace of his stolen visit behind him. , He had not been in this place for many years and he advanced carefully and cautiously, more than once tempted to strike a light, yet fearful of betray , ing himself by doing so. I This fear was increased by two or j three strange circumstances. ; In the first place the wind seemed to '; rush through the vaulted passage in a 1 perfect blast, and he fancied though : of course he could not be sure, as there was no light to guide him that the i false floor of the chamber above must be out of its place. Fear of detection, and of coming sud '. denly upon souieliody he knew, made ' him stand and eagerly listen for every i sound. He had just come to the conclusion I that whatever might be tfie condition of the floor above, the coast for himself was clear, and he was about to take a i few steps forward and mount the iron bidder which he had often used before, ! when the rush of wind increased and i the sound of voices overhead became : distinct. j There seemed to be words of expostu ! latiwu and of encouragement, then there j was a despairing gasp of terror as some I thing appeared to fall. ' Whatever it was its descent was ar j rested for a moment, but onlv for a nio inent. then with a heavy thud the some thing fell close to his very feet. I He looked up. but there was no light, j Whatever it might be that was Kins' so close to him it uttered no sound," ami I he was standing b wild -red. not know ; iug what to do. hesitating whether to i go aw ay at once, or strike a light and j ascertain what had happened, when, as I he was hesit i'ing and doubting, he heard indist im.-t ly a voice overhead, and i th -n. more ! linlv. the grating sound oi the 11. wir above being forced back in ! to its proper place I It Wrts only at this moment that the ; co:iViCti":i dav:i"d upon his mind that 1 s uae fi ai i'ui cl iine had been committed j of w hich he had been the unintentional I and unsuspected witless, j A low groan cIosl beside him roused I him to iiiihi'-.Ji.it action, and lie took a I box of w ax-m iiclies from his pocket i and struck a light. The desire that had brought him iiere this night above all nights was gratified: his eyes rested oie e more upon the face of Kate Lilburne. If ever a prayer was granted, and came to the suppliant as a curse, surely it was so now with Frank Fairfield. He looked upon Kate as she lay sense less at his feel; blood was flowing from a wound on her forehead, and from a second wound on the side of her head. And yet her fall had been slightly broken by her gown having Iteen caught by some projection from the wall. The wounds on her head were serious, however, and Frank tried to staunch the blood with a couple of larg hand kerchiefs he had in his pocket. This was no easy matter, as he had to do it in the dark, his wax-matches being of no use except for a second or two at a time. Kate remained senseless, and the young man tried to revive her bv forc ing some brandy which he had "in his flask down her throat. Hut his efforts were in vain, and the dank vault in which thev Ixith were chilled the blood in his veins, while tho girl who was laving on the floor was al- most as cold as though gh she were dead. His first thought was for Kate, and he took off his thick warm ulster. wraj ped her in it as well as he could, then, turned to leave her so that he might rouse the inmates of the castle, and bring them to her assistance. He had only taken a few steps, how ever, for this punmse lief ore he paused, suddenly rendered powerless by the difficulties and dangers of the situation, not onlyto himself, but to Kate, until she should le sufficiently recovered to explain what had happened. What business had he in the castle? would naturally be the first enquiry, and he was compelled to admit that he had none that he was a midnight tres passer and might be taken into custody as a suspected person. Then again, it was evident that a de liberate crime had lieen committed of which Kate was the victim; but who had planned or executed it. be had not the faintest idea. "No ore can nurse her like my moth er, who has been the only mother she has ever known," he murmured as he lifted the fair girl tenderly in his arms, and carried her out of the vault into the open air, and to the boat. How he accomplished that journey through the snow-storm he never ncht ly knew, but when he was obliged to leave the boat as the river would have taken him out of his way beyond a cer tain point, he bribed a homeless tramp whom he found taking shelter in the uesertea Doat-nouse to help turn carry his brother, who," he said, "had met niiii mi aLLiiirui, iv um niivu he had left his cob and phaeton . V . n.w.i.lnr.l "1 . . the shed where 1 He placed Kate in the carriage, and thus the tramp only saw an inanimate figure wrapped in a" brown ulster. And the man, when the task was completed, went on his way. glad of the handful of silver given him for his pains, and, as day after dav took him farther away from this part of the country, he never heard of the strange disappearance of Kate Lilburne, and even had he done so. he would probably have failed to connect it with the piece of good fortune that had befailen him this bitter night. Frank roused his mother to attend the unconscious girl. Mrs. Fairfield's face was white and stern as she angrily asked: "What have you done to her? Is sho dead?"' "God only knows," he replied de jectedly; "but I have done her no harm. I have "saved her from certain death if she is not already dead." "Go for the doctor and don't come back without lrm."' Iler words were brief: her son might tell her what story he liked, she had al ready formed her own conclusion, and she mentally resolved that if Kate ,.! burne died she would not in any way shield her sou from the consequences of this night's work. t IlAlTI'.lt VIM. DOll'.Ts AND rKAIts. Mrs. Fairfield stood calmly bv the side of the girl whom she loved" as if slie had been her own child, and seem ed to show so little emotion, and to be so passionless and so stern, her mind was in truth racked by a thousand nameless fears. "Whatever harm he has don? to you; my darling, he shall pay for and pay for dearly, and until I give you back to your "father I will guard you as the ap ple of my eye. Though Frank is my own son, I will not spare him." A low moan from the sufferer recall ed the woman to the necessity of put ting Kate to bed, and she went about her difficult task gently and tenderly, j as though the tall graceful girl now j hovering lietween life and death were fitill the pretty baby whom she had fed from her own breast and dandled upon her knee in the years gone by. I Mrs. Fairfield had often reproached 1 herself with loving her foster-child Kate Lilburne better even than she loved her own son; but that she really did so there could be no doubt, for Kate had tilled the place in her heart which bad been made void by the death of her youngest child, a baby-girl, who died when she was but a few weeks old, and the little heiress had been given to her to love and cherish, and had clung to her as her own infant might have done. Hut the high-born little maiden, with her beauty and grace and her gentle ways, was like a princess to the woman whose previous experience of children had been among the rough ruddy boys and girls of her own class, and Nurse Fairfield almost worshipped the child committed to her care. Frank was a boy for any mother to be proud of, Mrs. Fairfield was told on every side, and Mr. Lilburne himself had been heard more than once to ex press the wish that Frank was his own s n. All this was gratifying, no doubt, but thewoman's heart clung most to her nurs ling, and when, as the years went by, and Frank's mad infatuation for Kate made Mr. Lilburne decide to purchase a partnership for him and pension otf his mother, the latter resented the we.l meant kindness, and blamed her own offspring for the wrong which sh con sidered lie had done her. She was a little angry with Kate also for parting with her so readily after so manv years of faithful service and lov ing devotion, and she had in conse quence declined more than one invita tion to the castle since she came to live in this out-of-the-way cottage. Hut all her resentment vanished at the sight of the fair girl who looked like a broken lily, and on whose face were stains of blood which had trickled down from the wound on her head. The situation, was agonising, and but for the anxiety she fell at Kate's still unconscious f ondition, and the dread j 6he had f making bad matters worse, she would at once have started for Sil- j verton Castle, and would have entreat- j ed its ovvner to come without a mo- . input's delay to his suffering child. It seemed a long time before Frank j returned with the surgeon, who found I the still unconscious girl undressed and j m bed, aim giving no sign of lite be yond an occasional low faint moan. Her white satin dress and everything she had worn that evening had been carefully put out of siht, and there was nothing about her to indicate she ! was not Mrs. Fairlii Id's daughter. The doctor examined her, believing the story told him that she had been i thrown "from a gig. "There are no" bones broken," he said I at lengih; "but I am afraid that h- r ' head ii.is b en seriously injured. Apart i of the skull is pressing upon the brain. I and though she may regain hrr bodib ! health. I very mucii'fear her reason wid I be permanently affected. Hut 1 will j come again in the morning." : Frank clasped his hands in despair j when Mr. Kemble repeated this opinion ' to him. I Judging by his own feelings he felt j that death would be ten thousand times ; preferable to madness, i He showed the doctor out of the house, repressing his emotion as far as possible, but when the front floor was closed he did not dare to go near the chamber in which were his mother and . poor Kate. 1 When his mother at length appeared, ; she found him so nearly unconscious that she thought for a "time that she ! was going to have two invalids upon her hands instead of one. Judging that he was suffering from . exhaustion as much as anything, she i made him swallow an egg beaten up in liiandv and milk, and when he had slightly recovered she said sternly: l ou musi. inaae an truoiciu i" use yourself to meet the trouble you have brought upon us. Tell me, in as few words as possible, what has happenei, for I mean to send for Mr. Lilburn ; at once." Her cold hard words seemed to give him a fictitious strength, and he told her the story of his adventure and of Ids night's work. Wing careful alike to avoid excuse and exaggeration. "And what business bad you outside Silverton Castle at such a time'." she demanded sharply. "I only went to catch one glimpse of Kate." he replied humblv. "Catch a glimpse of Kaiel" she re peated with disdain. "Who do you think will ever believe that you spent whole hours in the cold and the dark with no other motive than that?" she demanded. "Evidently you do pot." he retorted, Stung bv her tone and manner. "No. 1 don't," was the emphatic re- sponse. "Then it is useless my trying to con vince you." he returned. "yuite useless; and as for any secret passage or staircase that leads Into the castle, it's very strange that I should have lived at Silverton all those vears and never heard of anything of the kind. I should mighty like to see if it is there." "You can easily do that." he replied i calmly. "I found the place out many years ago. and have gone in and out ! that way at night hundreds of tunes." i "And yet no living soul besides your j self knew of it?" she asked with in ; creased suspicion. i '"Yes; Miss (iraee knew of it. showed her the hole in 1 he floor om j and threatened to throw her down i she watched ijje and ti l 1 tales aim I if . it me again. I frightened my lady. I cm ; tell ou. and 1 r m'-tnlifi' the "look of i mingled horror and wonder in herew s : when I pressed the spring and made ! the floor slide back into its place." 1 I "Miss Grace," repeated Mrs. F.nr- 1 j field thoughtfully. "No; this isn'i her I work: but she may have told somebody : else how to open the place through which you say Kate fell. he or soine ; body else might have been showing the I place to Kate herself." j Ut.t J'ra- k shook his head as he sai 1: '"It could not l ave been an accident orthe place would not have b -en i -vcr-I ed in directly K ite feli. The false flo,,r i dots not open nor shut easily, the irmg ! needs a go-"! deal of pr ssur.-.andcould i never have cl"S"d by accident." "What do you ppq-os.. to do?" was the mother s n-xt one-turn. "That I don't know." he replied de jectedly. "It is not for myself that I in-sitate." he added, seeing the look of impatient anger gathering on his moth er's face; "but th" consideration that kept me from raising an alarm w hen Kate fell at my feet is equally strong now. To give Ka;e to ,( r father is, perhaps, to give her back to the mercy of the person who tiied todc.-troy her.'" "Uood Heavens; you don't suspect , her father of having tried to n i.-d- r her, do you?" exclaimed Mrs. Fairfield ' in horrified amuehe-iit. "I suspect no siiigl". person." he re plied evasively; "but that somebody did try to destroy Kate's life, and that the same man or woman believes her to be l)ing at the bottom of the shaft down which she fell, there can be no. doubt whatever. I expected that Kate Would be able to tell us who took h-r to that little room, but the doctor has dashed that hope to the ground." "There is another view of the matter hich vou don't seem to have thought about.'' his mother said severely. "It would have been b d enough for any man to have brought Kate from her lather's roof in the middle of the night: but for you to have done it was only to bring suspicion upon you and disgrace upon her." "Oh yes: I have thought of all that," he replied bitterly; "but when life is .at stake one forgets what malicious tongues may say about one's actions." Mrs. Fairfield rose to her feet, re- ; marking emphatically: "Weil, if you won't goto Mr. Lil hunie and t il him what has happened, i 1 will." "Very well." he returned resignedly; "do as on th ; iik b 'St. 1 am willing to suffer anv penalty for what 1 have done that the severest judge c t:j inflict upon me. only remember, mother, that Kate's life is at stake." "Kate's life:" The two words took all the tempo rary courage out ot Cue nurse, and made her weak and vacillating as her son. " What would you have me do?" she asked. "If you have the nerve to go to Sil Vertvn ('ii.stiei,s though ii..thing had happened and n-.k to see K ite.an 1 lis ten to all they cm tell you. and then act upon vour own judgment as to what is best for her. I should sav do it." he replied. "th n "No; if what you have told me is true I should break down." was her shud dering reply: "and if it b She paused, and he l i 1 e hot 11 Co iled her w Hi quest lonmgH'. "If it is not true! Do you She made no direct rep ub! m ?" but sa.d evasively: "You had lietter go to Mr. Lilburne; it is v uir duty . not mine, to do so." "No." he answered; "I w ill wait and see if Kate gets belter. When h'-r rea son returns there will be no mure cm for ah.xietv. No; 1 won't go. 1 will wait." His mother said no nede, but left h:m. for at heart she v ,,s as unable to come to any decision as no was. As day after day, and week afiei week went by. however, the doctor's fear lx-cani'- a sad reality. Kate's body recovered i rom the shock it had received, and she grew stroi g. and able to eat an I drink and walk about like a person in i '.din.iry Menially, however. -!. was b ter than ai idiot; she had no n and no intlh-cth..l coii-co i-ie reasoning faculties wt r li'-ai mailt, i'lld the doctor who r.Tten health. tie b. t 'hiorv, ; h." r ir dor led her shook las head w hen Lai: ed an operation to n niovi on the brain. i'cld silggc-t-the pros.-;ne IT World's Women. The late died at the Georye T);iticr,i"i, who of eabtv-;wo. was the ave daut'iwer ot .loan the I. tilted Status of Mf.achuwtts, iik-nt WashiiiKton. was Mr. lllisf, the l)vls, first of Coc.r. for the District appointed by I'res-H'-r lirst husband lmv pui iiitr ot Dutii 1 Webster. Mrs. .1. R. ShofT.-ner, of tire. r.sl.oro. X. having recently ien h!r:h to twin lioys, making el'-ven tuns I:i all, in h family, the North Slate has put heron Up free list, and oilers tLe stun.' i remi nn to every "ilauthter of liullfonl County who present rier hub.m:d with malo twin.-." It 1 antd thnt Mrv (i. K I-orniard in- i tends to follow tbe example of Uucbe s ' of Montrose In EuKlnud nnd keep u rr..- . ing utoble. She hss permittM the : trainer to make enlevements for hrr , horses under the name of "The I.ocusia ! s-tables." liinuca lonalio, who n ahort time nun enchanted the Berlin public w it h her In-an- ' titul voice and fine fiorat uras, afier n.e-t-lnR her last enRsiireiii.n' t Kiorence hits entered a convent at Turin. I In 1050, It is asserted by rourt pronhets, j the entire Hoaee of Ixirtta wiil le bottaed by Arntrican heln-issea, prov ided It live : long. , A pnper has been sturtod In Henderson. North Carolina, with a woman at lis bead, and to which tha contributors are Southern women only. i Mra. Jennie bind Goldschrui.lt cou- i ftsws that she h4 kept her vocal organs ! in tune for twentT-flve yearn by yelling at j her children. Miss Edith lugaUa, a niece of the ulo quent Kansas Senator, 1 a teuchr m the ! public schools of Louis', tile. 1 .tennie June says that low nocks are as full dress for ladies as swallow-t alls are for I tfeuts." I Three w erKly newspapers In Georgia are ! edited by woo: en. j The colleges "f the country contain eijib- ; teen thousand female etudents. frctecti:;g M'llioa;rcs. How O'lr Itirh,-st Men Ivfrnilrd. The private s, rviof f -r the protection of u. nii.lorbiltK. Ast. ml G ':' 1 was or.'t.u il thru.1 yci::s m-.i, m l ia o-t.-a-ioly separate fcr ench family, tho'i -, the men wr.c .lefT. 1 tie- Van derhutp ruid A -tors are provided by the same stuM.r-hr.u tit. arid practically work together. l'utrol tlntT is done, rcy iXrw York com -s pond i t .f the It di.ai ol-.s Jour nrd. nip ht u: A dny. end tw.-i.tv detect ives are exclusively t-mj-lcyetl for the purpose. ll-.ere r.re f-.nr A-tor rci donees and fivi - belonging to the V.iuderbilts, all in or .-lose to Fifth Avenue, between Ihirty-tlod nr 1 Fifty -second streets. The spies rre on watch eight bonrs each jir ilay. iiL.d tin; i m.lsi are so ar mnped tl.-.t the nine bov.s. s cannot 1 e Bpi r oacln d n'.'sef n by one or more of tin e-tfird.-t"! n. Willi;. ia iiifo-.r '1 li. V finder! ilt wns the on'g- t'r is htMi-i.:, a-. 1 he Wfts it 1 v t'h. hirec rr.::.!- r of ill. '.hll d t Cr.ihk-- le!v r- which he ro-'eh-e 1 H-- Tri i-sd to have no four of rnli-.-h.il evil doors, "but wu- i.ppn Lehhivo t! at liianitcs mic-'t iii hick Liui cr some rne'i.i H-r of in- f -.i. S:ncc hi- .le;;t I'l.i r. nils hnvo r-vn ln.";e'i with nil Forts of it -p. uh lii-huh J.s an 1 t! rcata directed to Lis s : s. i iv Gohl i'.- p-! '-protect ton ftee-r, t and ' l. irnct. .-;.t je. He entrust it to n ili-io l ive tf't hires Lib ovr: ho lv-e-nnrd. I is ni OTe . -. s m t y. but r vi ars he iif.s hoi id- i-, T":.vif 1 by iv. 1 t! it i M -'re: t ctv-i. i"s f-t..lr.rt yoT saf. .'-."r 1 r: Cr, .l:s r,!: or around "hi-, of s'U . TV I . of ih,- W r.-i Tea" is a l io by a sr--T -. " 1 h.-i- 11:11 families, wh.' f- t OCT ".T CO v.- mi or ti, r- av3 in a ;.cr.. too T :.'r 1 dutv is in v: .-TV ro hi W i.V. done net of ! .-.ccs if 1 ic tr.;.,!. so n.irn r wo 1:1 n -.v d- ,,.r p 1.. pt i, f. i t m - f syiioj-yms t, as t vow m.-l ! v a f.nd iivt crank, and i!i ; drive . :T the ia are ii'.- : n. 'I'.iaiii: cs who a anv exploits. bniihe the V. io;ii I ui-ide tho l:oine ail 1 i. lT.ce r;l;es J?it iiw.-en his in-tiad if io flips b in a oib, f n... i iv. rino- ::thisl 1".!-vite car. as obs i ved that r. a s-ninterihg w.. the Mops about the si rvru.t to tl !.hd It .31 li,. T ;iw t of did case an- l,i:...-n to the f " us ,,ui. kly as it t. !. )ne of the defenses is ajgninst those who in G. ni l's would writ. tagonistic scutum ids with ehfdk on his sidewalk and steps. Men arid bojs are frconei tlv caught at it and com 1110.1 to.lesi-t. A specimen of that olfi" of revolt-tioni-ts sot ms to be n oot. and a wild one. judging by tic description of him. His chalk was bright red, and Le rap idly wride: " The rich may shirk. Ti e poortnrt-t work " before 1 e was collnr- d: and th n. as though ,1- rmined th.it at 1-a-t the terminal rh vines of his verse sh -il 1 lie cnd.hi'one.l. ho added Wwlmt -v - oil 1 have Ken the end cf the third lino, " lab. r." a-id right undcniecth " uei-h1 or." The rc-et renin. ins unknown. A HISTORIC OLD HOUSE. Built a Ciiitury Ilrfere tlie Itirol-itim. At the foot of Wo h-t i- nv.-nv.e. F.a veaswood. l.oi4g I-lai.d C;t;. . t-'-s !- j.n ancient Dutch i.i.itvr i. -.-.-..-. th-- pr- -p-ertv of Dr. Wo Ih .r.l, . f i c ... klvu. The hnTise was 1-ltlt ih I1' '.' years after the rot iron. r nt of 1'. u r ! ve ' i: v- VOSailt. the List Diltch Gov. l.:ol of 1'. o Co Province of Now rk. FniM ;; Uevolntionsry war tl is h. -.i v. a, of the outposts of the l;ti-h :!!: ono . . of occupancy under Sir Henry Clinton, and was occupied as head phut, r- 1 y Lord KawJon, afterwards the Mitrpiis of Hastings. In tho yard nre th" rr-mnins of nu eld i ldock-1 ouse. huilt for r tection fr.-m j the Indians, and anU'diiting the ill I Louse Ly years. ! In this" house Wa-1 it g4 --i Irving wroto his KnickerL.M k' i 's Ili-t.iv of j New York. Later Fenitnoie Cooper I visited the place, and while there wrote I The Water Witch. The fecne of the , celebrated chase of the Wat-r Witch 1 y , tho British gunboat was laid m the Lust Liver. Tho old house is td.avnct'-n-tically ! Dutch, with low oi ilih(-s. !,?i,l li.dhu.g of the imposing top.-, t vv ) . h is i.. i o- . able lihii'Ii:.- 1.. .Ui-io::s tl.it v.. b'-'M ih the Colcni.d p. ri -d. C. u-f-. it. rot Myb . appears t h.r.vo b. "i the o'. j cr . t:;o Imlder. The st no-. f thev.,-11 ! fee darkened wnL nor, ahd the brick w. iV nnd many of the oak "ovuius Left iu to fcL-'W sit-'HF f f sh ciY. t n the laavv ii-.-n f:oi t door is tho crew's foot out j rojH-rty oonfiso: This doi-r is its i and so is the o.it 1 V the F d'd from 1.1 :.s the Ilt Lew i m -it:h the Lous. ..11 . Is. - !f. r it- 1 1 1 . - 11 l.h . Coop: af.o in Which 1: tl.V! .i e t. under tl.o h :i l fcsii- Henry Clnilo ft Lost l i l the! f V. "ev . hvr.i.-. l.-i.g 1 graves. Tho ih ho lioor i ; 1 1 o i . . rty iei . lit:'l r L-: f H 1, Island Ili-toii al Vl ! h 1 le oil! 1 i ding ih, own thef.rcpLtei . an The- in n i-nse Lirh- ro from is f.,:i:in--t ::r!'..,v,v.ii!i son to drive a team of Lei s Actoss the fll-.-pi.lco is -i.il a long iron j-elo, u--p nd.-d ft h 1..: . i s till : pe r- ugh. . Led 1.1. h ond I . t are iron rings, used 1 r Ind l.t 1" kettles, r.r.d roasting meat. The original proprietor w: s Manning, a friend of Gov. Sir.;. The l'.hiekwolls. who were tho of I'd iekwcH's Island, came into f-ion of the property thron.h u" riage or descent. On,-Col. lh .1,.: ii .si.lt. V. In 1 a . iS- t-3 i niir-1.-!1 Fc-rvod in the Ana licau army , Involution. From Luu tl., lui-ing the 1 io;.. rty was taken l y the l Town, i f l. im i.s obtained the property from th.-l'.l i. k wells, and (ten. Hughes was tl.o next owner, and the Woo.lhnlls suce--e !ed. L'ntil within five y ars. the In u-o has always remained a private residence. It is now rentod and kfpt as a public house. i i In the Tnl Window. "Frottv girl that." ' Yftf.s ' "Sho looked at you ad if she knew vou."' " 1 aa.-. "Does she ?" "Well, tho fact is, me loy, she's my aistaw. llut she niawied u fellaw that wnns a Ftiiw. aw something of tLut sawt. and they live in a hnwding houso, so Icawut tifiawd to w ccugt.ize L vv ia public. IL.it I always send In r my cawd at New Yeah's. Faw pnl ! She Las lieon foolish wathaw than cw iiiiiiiaJ, doii't chew know." 1 I
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