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DONALD E. PUFTGN,
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MIRIAM:
Tie Romance of Heatlerleiili HalL
Bv Manda L. Crocker.
Copyright. 1889.
And when this tvaa accomplished he
would leave the mining districts and retire
to comfort and happiness la soma beautiful
home near the -a, as his undo had done.
Then llirUm should le happy la her elegant
home, and he well, he would be the proud
est, happiest husband in England.
Together the bappy couple planned the
future, as they occupied the pleasant, quiet
Compartment carry to g them to Bradford.
That seems a kotnde of bappy omen,
though," mused Pc?gy, walchtntf the sun
shine checker the daccing shadows at her
feet. Eoinde o' happy, but me heart is
broken for a' that," and she wrapped her
withered hands in her linen apron and
crept alonjr stealthily toward the ni
"liut the swate mtsthress is boun' to
have love and goide thratement where
she's rin an' that's more thaa she would
wtn from the maMher, the darlint."
Through tbe clasVering- oais she passed
in rear of beicff soen oy bir Kupert, not
withstanding he tvus prrtty sure to stay In
his own apartments the remainder of tho
day. An conscience makes onwards av
the whole ar us," she muttered, slipping
tnrough the shrubbery like some guilty
thing bound for a friendly covert
Poor old Fegsry! She had parted with
all that was left her to love of the proud
family which had known her as house
keeper for years.
The boanie brown hair that Audi had
praised so much had grown white in the
service of the great IlaiL
Phe dragged herself into th servants'
quarters, wnere old AlciI was waiting
her return in great trepidation, and tat
down, moaning and rocking herself to and
fro in the extravagant manner of her
countrywomen, expressing her inconsolable
grief. AncU said nothing, but his beard
ed Up quivered as he sipped his ale. and
his h:tie blue eyes filled with tears as he
looked at his wife.
Hir Rupert, feeling weary and somewhat
Indisposed, had his dinner served in his
own apartments, and never did James
serve at a quieter hour.
Sir Rupert said but a word or two, and
those were low monosyllables; the serv
ants, knowing of Miriam's flight, went
steathily about their several duties, as if
they feared the very walls would cry out
and implicate them.
James came and went like a thief fearing
detection, and whenever his master looked
his way ho grew pale with fear; but as Sir
Rupert asked no questions he was glad
that the revelation had not been his to
make, and that the austere father re
mained in ignorance as yet of his daugh
ter's flight and subsequent marriage.
'Oh 1 the disclosure,' muttered he, as he
came down stairs with the trencher, and he
shivered in anticipation of the morrow.
CHAPTER X.
"Howly mother ! an we'll put it off till
the crac K o' doom if we can," Peggy ejacu
lated later, when Sir Rupert had re
tired, and the servants had all huddled
around her in the west wing to hear the de
tails of Miriam's departure. Not rung suited
her better than to entertain them in her
graphic way and impassioned manner with
weird ana strange recitals cf fortunes pos
sible and impossible, and often she had held
them spell-bound until the great clock of
the central hall warned them of midnight.
"But ye all know full well," she reflected,
"that the masthcr trt.i Le knowin uv it ter
morrer by some manes, an' mark ye," mov
ing her right index slowly around the circle
like the finger of destiny, "mark ye, there's
not a mother's son of ye knows a single
wurrud of the runmu away whin the
masihur's wrath runs hoigh." And al
promised with one aocord to faithfully
keep their knowledge a secret for the
Swate childer's suke," Peggy said, while
her auditors knew full well that it was for
her own sake as much, and more, than for
Miriam's that they were enjoined to such
secrecy.
'An' we must kape the saycret for the
loife uv us," supplemented the housekeep
er once more, as they were about to sep
arate for the night; "ye know ifyedon't
we'll bo whooped out o' the Hall quickern'
a wink ; ony way, maybe we'll be kilt roight
on the spot, an' which is wu trust uv the
two Oi' in not to say."
At breakfast the next morning Sir
Rupert s'ttlcd himself in his accustomed
seat and looked about him ; he would wait
for Miriam, something he scarcely remem
bered of having to do, she being an habit
ual early riser.
The butler stood respectfully near, quak
ing ia every limb, in dire anticipation of
the impending; storm about to burst over
"too sent roa m, sjki"
their unlucky heads, and perhaps sweep
them from Ueathcrleigh like chaff.
"Miriam is lute," said Sir Rupert. 'Call
the, housekeeper.
Clarkson was waiting In the next room,
and at a look from the terrified James
camo forward as if by magic, halting at a
respectful distance, demure and innocent
looking enough to win the favor of anyone,
however austere.
It was evident that the wss In better
trim for the emergency than her fellow
servants were.
'Ask the maid If Miriam is iU," the mas
ter commanded, rather thaa said. Then
he relapsed into a silence to be felt. He
was thinking that perhaps the disagree
ment of the day before had unnerved the
almost heart-broken daughter. Perhnps
he had been too harsh ah I perhaps he had.
Latlle did he dream when he aaked for the
maid that she had gone. Declaring that
sho would not stay to hear the anathemas
sure to fall, little Mary Ferris had left only
a few hours after hor mistress went sway;
and, at the time the master of Jieatherleigh
called for her, sho was relating again the
instances in connection with tho flight of
Miriam to the dwellers of her father's vine
rovercd cottage, some three miles from the
UalL
Clarkson wont, without a moment's hesi
tation, In search of the girl, whom she
knew to be far enough away. "Howly
mother," she murmured, as she went up
stairs, "deflnd us In swate marcy! The
niasther'll be for the killin av us all in less
an no toime. Oi feel it in me bones."
Opening the door of Miriam's room she
peeped iu cautiously, as if fearing that the
woeful tradition had taken form unto itself
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and was but waiting to slay the first in
l ruder. Then, remembering- the fair,
proud face of its late occupant. Peggy went
over to the bed and knelt for a moment in
prayer, making the sign of the cross as she
did so.
Oh, me darlint, me swate mauvourneen,
an' it's a towerin pashun yer faythur'U
be in r
After giving vent to her excited grief for
a moment longer, she went down stairs
slowly and, as she afterward expresaea it,
"with me heart a-jumpin' roight in me
mouth."
"An' shure an the maid must be sh tap
ing; an Miss Miriam isn't in her ' part
men ta at all, sir."
"ot there ! Then where the deuce is she!
Speak!" he thundered, bringing his
clenched hand down on the table with such
force that the silver echoed lo the china
service an' inkling of his wrath.
"An' indade it's not Oi that kin tell ve.
masthur," answered Clarkson, the wild
look deepening in her large blue eyes.
"Faith, sir, an' Oi haven't set eyes 011 her
blissed self since she went a-walkm' in the
park on yestnerdry Made Oi haven't, sir."
"And you I' cried Hir Rupert, jum ping up
and facing the terrified buuer.
Poor James shrank back from the tower
ing form of bis wrathful master, wishing
he might shrink into space for the time,
and stammered out that he "thought he
had heard Miriam in the hail the previous
evening."
For a minute Sir Rapert stood Irresolute,
looking about him. Suddenly it dawned on
him that sbe might have flown gone with
that impudent, poverty-stricken Fairfax.
This exasperautd him beyond endurance,
and he fairly shrieked out his next words
in angry accusation.
''ou are lying, sir; playing the role cf
hypocritical innocence). She has gone, I
verily believe, with that rascally lover of
hers; and you are all knowing to it all in
the plot to deprive mo cf my authority my
daughter."
He waved his trembling hand toward the
group cf Irightenea, white-iacea servants,
who bad assembled in the hallway, and
stood watching, with bated breath, Hieir
paaaionato master. Having delivered this
scathing accusation, he strode past them,
bound for Miriam's rooms, and bent on an
investigation for himself.
After a fruitless search for tho willful
daughter whom he had loved and hated al
ternately all her life, he came down again,
breathing vengeance "on the whole crew"
for their perfidy, and vowing that it would
not be good for them if found treacherous
to the interests of Ueatherieigh.
"I want the chaise at once I" he yelled,
eyeing the coachman wrathfully. "I w ill
sift this matter. He who defies'a Percival
might as well dare the Almighty," he con
tinued in thunder tones. "I am going to
see if nhe if they break over my authority
In this daring manner."
The parting words of young Fairfax, to
which he gave but little heed at the time,
aside from treating them contemptuously,
rang in his ears now like calls of an aveng
ing angel. It looked now very much as if
Fairfax had not spoken idle words.
In a short time the Heatherleigh trap was
flying along the quiet lanes at a break
neck speed, and the whole country side was
wondering st its haste. Bent on revenge
for this insolent disobedience, he spared no
pains to overtake the runaways.
"IH, there 1" he shouted to a man whom
he knew, and to whom, at any other time,
ae would not have deigned to speak, "Hi,
SOT THERE t TBM WHEHE IS SHEf"
there ! Do you know of the whereabouts of
Arthnr Fairfax at present!"
The laborer doffed his cap and answered,
re pect fully:
"Truly, I can not tell you, sir, yet I
heard that he was married last evening at
All Saints."
With a muttered Imprecation he aped on,
and soon the pretty little chapel of Fairlicht
was passed Earle Fairfax, whose hand
some villa smiled down on the fair, quiet
churchyard of All iSuiats, would know, per
haps, all about the disgraceful affair.
To that residence he must be driven, and
subsequently the Heatherleigh trap dashed
up the drive of the Fairfax home. The
horse was covered with loam ana dust, and,
on lue wiiuit., Cnw'id turut tnought be had
never seen quite such a pitiable sight. A
jaded horse, choking with dust, the liveried
coachman white and trembling with excite
ment and tha master of Heatherleigh ia
such an excited passion of rage and pique
tui 1.0 aorcciy managed to be understood.
They, Miriam and Arthur, were married
In the chapel last evening; yea. And by
this time are pretty well on their way to
Bradford, I should judge."
After Earle Fairfax had Imparted this bit
of news laconically. Sir Rupert cursed
his luck and turned his horse's head home
ward. "You knew nothing of this !" ho ques
tioned, glaring at his coachman, while
they wens returning slow-paced and weary,
seeming to forget that individual was in
cluded in the morning's condemnation.
"2o. master; 'pon honor," answered
meek-eyed John, turnicg faint with fear
lest his master should order him down and
off and go on without him. But Sir Ru
pert said nothing more and was silent all
the rest of the way back to Heatherleigh.
Sir Rupert alighted at the inner gate
shutting oft the long avenue of elms, and
rushed in alone over the flagged pavement,
across the terrace and into lue hall, more
like a lunatic than the feeble old man that
he was. John drove off toward the sta
b!c. glad to his heart's center of the oppor
tunity of putting space between the irate
master and himself once more.
They are gone; mf-ried and goner Sir
Rupert shouted in desperation, banging the
massive doors after him as he entered.
"Henceforth she is no daughter cf mine!"
Poor frightened Clarkson was the only one
present, and. courteseying meekly, she an
swered : "Yes, masthur." Then under her
breath she could not help murmuring:
Oi'me so sorry 1 Poor childer !"
The father heard and partly understood
the sympathetic words in reference to his
daughter, and, in his present state of ex
citement and anger, he could Illy brook a
word to the contrary. Turning wrath
fully upon the sympathetic Hibernian he
shouted : "I will not have a word of your
puling sympathy. Clarkson. Miriam is
poor enough now, God knows 1 without mak
ing mention of it."
Peggy cowered under the frown of th
eagle eye bent on her offending head, and
the master of Heatherleigh strode on by
her, and went upstairs to his apartments.
"Send James to me immediately," he called
in authoritative tones from the first land
ing, where be sat down for a moment's rest.
1 he housekeeper went in search of the
butler with hastening step. "Shure an' the
maslhur's mad us an owl ; it bates the very
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haythun how angry he Is." He's all toro up
an' he's aftnur wanun ye's this minute;
an' it's the loikes of ye to be hurryia' roight
off."
James ran upstairs to the bidding, and i
almost now along the shadowy corridors,
bent on obeying his master's behest, and
shortly stood before him. The quiet, airy
peacefulness of Sir Rupert's apartments
contrasted strangely with the stormy soul
of its occupant.
The broeze that came In over tho open
casement from the sea, fresh and sweet,
tnly fanned an aged face) flushed with
anger, played with whitened locks timidly,
and died amid the silken curtains unbonded
Mature and nature's sootning influence
had no part in the thoughts of the proud
soul seeming in its own wrath. No; tin
legendary curse had fallen, and Sir Rupert
as one of the vict.ms was busy trying to
cope w.th its Influence.
"You sent for me, sirf" questioned
James, softly, the strange light in his
master's face startling hira.
"Yes, I did," returned Sir Rupert, sav
agely. "Have my dinner here in an hour.
Soice that undutiiul daughter of mine has
gone with that beggar I'll have no one dine
with me hereaftar; I'll take my meais in
my apartments up here. Do you under
stand met"
"Yes, sir," answered the butler, meekly.
"And hereafter I do not want tcr name
mentioned in my home; she has forfeited
all right to Heatherleigh, and henceforth
she is no child of the Percivals. Now I
wish you to remember what I have said."
And with an impatient wave of his hand be
bade the butier retire, and leave him alone
for the nonce.
With another meek "yes, sir," James
glided out of the presence of his msater,
and down-stairs as if the evil genius cf the
Hall was at his unfortunate heels.
"Lord ! what a passion the master is in,"
communicated he when among his fellow
servants in the wing once more. And ex
citedly, and pernaps with some exaggera
tion, he repeated Sir Rupert Percivai's
words.
"Howly St. Fathxick," groaned old AncU
Clarkson from his corner, where he sat
with his accustomed mugof ale on his knee,
forgetful, for tue time, of its deliciousness
in the blood-curdling topic of the "master's
wrath."
"You may go down now, and if I need
you I will ring for you; otherwise I want
no one near me to night," Sir Kupvrt saic
an hour later, as the punctual butler set
down the tray at his master's elbow.
James was not summoned again that
evening, and feeling relieved he joined the
servants' circle once more, and around the
wide chimney, w hose flickering flames and
glowing embers lighted up their earnest
faces, they sat and speculated as to where
this last estrangement would lead.
The next day brought a grent change in
the manner of the master of Heatherlvigh
It was as if he had gone through some great
seaof sorrow. Abscut and softened in tone
und gesture, he wandered aimlessly about
the Hall, th.nking.
He opened Lady Percivai's apartments
and walked through the long-silent rooms,
touching littie mementoes cf her care here
and there gent'y, as If in communion with
the dead.
Af U;r this, he took down Miriam's portrait
from where it hung by her mother's, over
the marble mantel in Lady Ferci vol's pri
vate parlor, and crriod it away to tho
lonely gaiit ry. Pausing at the end of the
row of fated portraits, he looked long anu
earnestly on tho cleur, fino features of his
beautiful daughter, and then said half audi
bly: "Miriam I my daughter, Miriam, I um
alone 1 I am unable to undo what I have
done; and, too, a Percival never cats his
words.
"I would have saved you, my child, could I
have done so; but the fatality of the family
has overtaken you, and what could your
pocr, desolate father do? You have forsaken
Heatherloih for a poverty-stricken com
panion, and have gone with the choice of
your heart, as did Allan here. Alas I Allan,
that I have now no brother 1 Alas I Mirmm,
that I now have no child. Henceforth you
are dead to me; good byo aye, worse
farewell!"-
Having kissed the portrait of the proud,
willful child, he bung it up for a moment for
another view of the sweet face. Truly
she was regal thea," he said, with a deep
sigh. Then he turned the face of his
daughter to the wail with a shiver, and
sea-ed the doom of ms motherless child.
After this he tottered upstairs to his
apartments with much feebler seep than he
had ever known. Surely this was, by far,
the greatest sorrow cf his long, loveless
existence. Ah! yes. It was the hardest
blow be had ever experienced.
Bereaved of his beautiful wife, whom he
loved tenderly, how crusbed and sorrowful
bis days had been in the great, lonely Hull.
But he knew where she was resting; this
other bereavement, why, this was so differ
ent, so different 1 Poor Miriam 1 bo knew
nothing cf her wandering away ; perhaps
might never know aught of her ir.ore. Tho
rest cf them went that way Allan did.
The curse of temper and circumstance
was worse than death. Yes, in comparison,
death was kind!
The threatening breach had now widened
beyond repair between S.rKnpert and his
child, and "too late" was written across the
seal of her doom. Be must bow also to the
inevitable.
And that day on which the master of
Heatherleigh buried bis daughter la bis
heart was but a precursor of many dreary
ones to follow. The same silent, crape
shaded routine, admitting of scarcely any
variation, went on. A lonely breakfast in
his own apartments; long, companionless
walks about the grounds with his hands
behind him and his eyes bent on the ground
as if ia deep study; the silent dinner hour
next, and lastly, solitary evenings, on
whose mournful hours none were allowed
to infringe by trying to be companionable.
About this time the servants began to
show signs of a general revolt. Sometimes
they declared that this prison-life would
materially shorten their days.
Ancil and Peggy reminded them that they
would bo substantially rewarded some day
likely If they would only continue to be
faitbfuL
But the mutiny of the western wing of
Heatherleigh boiled and effervesced until,
at the close of a very trying day when
Sir Rupert had been unusually contrary
with them, the gardener and cook said,
meaningly, "that if the master was found
dead In his bed in the morning, why, it was
nobody's business but And they
wagged their heads ominously.
CHAPTEJt XL
All day the storm had raged and battered
and shook the windows with angry hand,
but now there had fallen a somewhat calm
er hour.
From the window of a residence, a beauti
ful country seat, near the shore, a pale, sad
face peered out Into the sullen eventide. The
house and grounds gave evidence of taste
and wealth, coupled with an inviting air of
welcome hospitality, that seemed a very
eye-rest at the close of such an uncharitable
day. The sun now lay low on the sea, and
the breakers dashed high up against the
rocky sea-woll, failing' back with thunder
ous moan, as if disappointed that in all
these thousands of years they had not been
able to scale the height and broitk over their
Irksome boundary. Heavy clouds bestrewed
the horizon, and shot out the blue zenith as
with a curtain of sorrow. Only in the west
lay along, calm rift of sunset sky, through
which shone softly the sunlight, as if
washed with tears.
But the pale, sad-faced woman looking
from the pane saw nothing of the evening's
promise ; she only noted the darkened east
and the dim sunlight's last smile playing
atf alii on the black sea-world beneath.
Tears bad been exoaustea and the soul
SI.50 and
fountain had become dry, but the wild, hot
eyes roved abroad over the cheerless land
scape, or sea view rather, aimlessly, really
taking note of nothing; while tho weary
brain almost reeled beneath the awful shock
it must endure.
In the Dext room a man lay dying. The
physician was bending over hira with a po
tion calculated to ease and soothe the last
few niocients of his patient, while the at
tendants stood wistfully, silently by.
They had done all they could, all that
human agency and affection could devis.
btitthe flat of death had gono forth ami
row, in the prime of young manhood
Arthur Fairfax must die. '
Ha bad lived to see his dream fulfilled,
however. He had gained wealth and found
his beautiful home by the sea that he had
planned to have on his wedding day.
Yes, it had all been realized, but what a
faurful pr.co was asked! Overtaxed, his
system gave out, and he was cow ready,
ul'j'r mouths of decline, to leave it ail.
Months &1Z.0 he felt a f trance sense of ex
haustion stealing over him, but he thought
it a mere lassitude whirn by and by would
wearoff. So paring but little attention to
nature's warning he toiled on with almost
superhuman effort to complete this domes
tic paradise so dear to his heart. His plans
were about completed, and Mil ium should
have bar beautiful homo as they both had
p auned. Miriam, who had given up every
thing f.r lum and his love and who had al
ways been the same sweet, unchangeable
wife, should now bo happy ia her own ele
fant establishment.
And their boy the bright, -winsome lit
tle son, lnheri;ing bis mother's dark eyes
and the blonde curls of the Fairfax family,
should never know a want, never have a'
wish unsatisfied, if money could 11 the re
quirement. He had wealth now. The world
i.adgona wed with him, turning steadily
'ueath fi,rtuue's smile.
This he had said to himself on that last
day up iu the mines whilo closing out his
sales and getting rid of shares in the stock.
He was very fatigued that day and more
nervous than usual, and LTncIe Benton had
made a note of it by saying : "You look bad
on the verge of a severe illness, Arthur, or
I'm mistaken. It's a good thing that you
retire from business to-day, my boy."
lie was aware of it hirLsoif, to some ex
tent, but a month's actual rest at The Rest,
the name cf his tvuntry scat, would be suf
ficient to thr.w off this weariness and he
would be hims.-lf again.
' These, theu, bad beon his plans, tut the
best laid plans "aft gang aglea." And now
it had como to tliis, after weeks of hone
less battling with stern decree.
Tho day had now gone out on the waters
and the blackness of night and despair had
settled down over Miriam. SLo tottered
across the room and into the next, aud with
clasped hands stood helplessly gazing down
on the beloved face on the pillow.
A light broke over the face bs tho fast
glazing eyes met her wild, yearning look,
and ho beckoned her nearer. She leaned
over him fondiy a.nd kissed his brow where
tho death dauips were gathering and he
whispered: "Bring baby to me, dearest."
Below stairs the nurse-girl was lulling
the child to rest with a sweet cradle song.
He had been kept quiet all the long, dreary
day by strate-y; couxt-d with dainties ami
amused with fairy stories unfolded to his
credulous mind by the nurse who loved to
revel in these plea-ting fancies herself.
-Arthur wants the baby," said Miriam,
breaking in on the edge of dreamland, and
cu.spicg her boy with a sudden tenacious
movement born of grief.
The nurse resigned her sleepy charge
with a frightened glance of Inquiry into the
white face of her mistress. She Reoded no
words totelithat at last the agony of death
and parting had come, for the look on Miri
am's face was plain of interpretation.
The mother bore away the little son, so
soon to become fatherless, and tho tender
hearted nurse-girl, turning away, burst
into tears.
"Oh! it must be an awful thing to dio
and leave one's friends," sbe moaned to
herself, going about the room, picking up
mechanically the toys of little Arthur
wuich in his rreat glee at playing Aladdin
he had scattered about. "Poor little one,"
murmured she, "his tender heart doesn't
understand it, and it Is well enough it
doesn't."
"Kiss" but tho lips failed to utter tho
rest.
'Love papa," said Miriam, and tho child,
putting his chubby face down caressingly,
kissed the pale, paternal lips. "My paoa is
cold, so cold," be said, wonderingly, looking
up.
The attendant took him away then, at a
sign from the mother, aud kneeling by the
couch Miriam drew the death-damp brow
pa
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" LOTS PAPA."
to her breaking heart and pressed passion
ate kisses on the cold lips.
A look of unutterable joy overspread the
features cf Arthur Fairfax, aud he said
haif audibly: "Good-bye, Miriam, dearest;
watch ovre ocr boy. and meet mei "
"Yes, darling, with God's help," moaned
Miriam; and she held in her arms, not her
devoted husband, but clay cold, inani
mate clay I
They led her away also, then, away from
her beloved dead. Sho sat down beaide the
sleeping, fatherless child, and throwing one
arm over the uncmscious boy moaned away
the r.lg"ht in a vigil of grief.
'Why was this!" she asked of the mid
night silence. "Why should he be taken
from her when they were so prosperous
and happy, when every thing that heart
could desire for comfort and domestic bliss
was theirs."
Littio Arthur threw up his baby bands
and murmured "Papa," and fretted" in his
slumber.
With a mother's touch and caress Miriam
soothed him to untroubled repose Benin. Ho
was all sho had now, and her hot hands
wandered over his silken curls straying
about on the pillow.
All the next day sho sat by her beloved
dead, stunned with the awful sense of her
bereavement. The servants went Boftly
about the house with sorrowful faces, and
the attendants came in and went out of the
room and sho scarcely knewiu Twice thoy
brought lit tie Arthur in tho silent, darkened
rio:u to S..-0 his papa, but the sight of the
two together she could not bear, so when
the baby teased "to see what made papa
sieep so cold," they took him off iu the gar
den and talked away nis curiosity Concern
ing the dead.
The last sad rites had been performed;
the solemn-looking hearse, draped in black
crape looped with silver stars, had gone,
Arthur's friends had gone home, all but
Patty, the youngest sister, and Miriam sat
in her beaut if ul home a widow.
Patty would stay with her all the coming
dreary winter she had promised as much,
anda by the springtime she should kuow,
postage per year in advance.
NUMBER G.
perliaps, what was best to do.
When the spring laughed merrily over
the isles and flowers came, they went
abroad for a month. Litilo Arthur's
health seemed to demand a change, and the
devoted mother held no saciitioe too
great for her chi-d.
Miriam had her plans. She would travel
a little, and, m returning, would cumo
homo by Hastings, and, if sti" couid, would
venture on a vix;t to the Hall. Perhaps
her father might forgive her for tho sake
of her beautiful, faihciiess .-hild.
True, she had v.r.tteu 1 1 acquainting
him of Arthur's death, and he had left the
servants to make the reply, and send com
fort and sympathy; but be was oid and
very strange, any way, and a letter, after
all, was not like seeing them. Patty
thought it would work no harm to try a
visit to Heatherleigh, at ieast ; she wished
to visit Beechwood once more, although
stranger bauds had desecrated her favor
ite va.ks, no doubt.
And Patty blue - eyed, kind-hearted
Patricia, who made the best of sisters
superintended it ail, and left Miriam to
seek solace and comfort taro-f.-ee, and tho
weary-hearted mother fell sho never could
be thankful enough for such a priceless
compaiiioa as dear little sister Patty.
Again, she sat by tho window, in the
eventide, looking out over the cl.ffs and the
sea; again tho death fiat had gone forth,
and "tho flower that grew between" was
ruthlessly snapi-cd from its parent stem.
Patricia sat near her, dropping tears on
some broken toys 6he had treasured up
from tho nursery. ihe could not weep
now; she was too desolate. God had seem
ingly forgotten her and lert her withuut a
ray of hope, without a single Btring on
love's harp unbroken. Away out in tho
offing she saw a white-winded ship, with
tint of sunset tingeing its sails the faintest
of roso hues. That was, doubtless, the
messenger sho had Bent beaj-mg a long,
long letter to one whom she had never soeu,
but the missive contained a request, never
theless. The tear-stained pages, when unfolded
at Bay View cottage, tucked down by the
blue waters ol ihe 'arragansett, would re
veal something like this :
"1 am alone. God pity me! A stranger
in mine own land. Bereaved of husbaiid
and child in one short haif year, I am deso
late. Shut from a father's doors, I am ia
the depths of isolated sorrow. I have an
abundance cf nutans, and would bo no
burden; could I come to you! I am but a
stranger to you also, but you were my
mother's frieud; will you not be mine al
so!" Then thU was the message she had sent.
Patricia knew it, and had demurred there
to, but she must go. Sho had told herself
that a week after tho clods rattled down on
her baby's coCin, and if she received an
auswer from Bay View telling ber that her
mother's friend still resided there si.t
vrould sell her beautiful home and leave her
native laud forever tho laud which had
held nothing but sorrows for her from her
cradlehood.
Patricia's lover and affianced husband
would purchase The Rest, and it would
remain in tho Fairfax family. Had little
Arthur lived sho would have continued
her residence here and would have kept the
elegant home, beautified and cared for, for
him.
But with his death all her plans cher
ished for his future were laid away with
him, and nothing now remained but to get
away from it all.
The breeze swept up from the sea and
through tho open casement, dallying with
tho loose crape sleeve of her dress, the
sweet laigl.ah vioieta lent their breath to
the caress of the wind, and a bird in the
garden below bogau its vesper song.
Miriam shut her eyes aud leanod back In
tho depths of her chair to dream of
fond baby fingers stealing up around her
neck, and of a deep, musical voice calling
tenderly across tho vale: "Miriam, dearest,
food inc."
To he dnUiifutd
TOO MUCH CARRYING.
I'n.nltKblo Marriages the Most Prollfle
J-.ourt-e of Trouble.
TIio truth is iirnl it is the truth that
many are beginning to realize, 11c r will
It be conjured nway until all ri-ht-mindud
na-ii and women give it fume
serious thought there is to mn-h
marrying and giving in iLarringe
in tho world. Hy far the prcai
or minibe-r of young pirls of the
prceiit oay aro raised with tho soi-j
ambition of "miikir.g a pood mulcb,"
as if the quintessence c f hnjijiin-s '11
life wa3 to bo found in matrimony.
The author is Dot an "old nuiid," to
u;etho current ox pre-ssinn. and she has
no intentions of boasting wln-n ho says
hh j might try Lor own experience in
married lifo did tho wish to do so, but
sho can assure her readers that 110
feeling cf "sour grapes" influenced
her opinion that more unhuppincss
results from unsuitable marriages than
from any other evil in existence; that
uien mid women marrying from tho
wrong motives invariably bring afflic
tion upon theinnel tea a:id their chil
dren, and that there-fore, the Hymeneal
flame should not bo lighted except un
dor circumstances of peculiar promise.
Men and women PhouM both remain
un marrkd until they have readied an
ago when intelligence and common
eense prevail over impul.-o; but even
then le-t tht-in look carefully into their
own reasons! for taking to iiiiportiint
a stop. Let them lay their day dreams
aside and f:ico a cold and conventional
reality, and thus, with a heart pre
pared for the bitter or tho sweet, with
a mind resolved to make many sacri
fices and a temjier inclinod only to look
on tho brighter side of life, they may
prove to bo tho exceptional couple,
niul. like this b'issful lovers in our
-H fr.'ry trs'.-s, "live long and happily
f c r v !. ' F.u nice Ste wa rt.
A LITTLE NONSENSE."
lienor Among Thieves. Old Lady
"Sir. you'tr stolen my daughter's love."
1'nahashed Culprit -Well, didn't 1 re
turn it?" Time.
IV-iiiocrat -This lias b.-.-u a pretty
!.;ii-J jear for the !;( i.l-l !? in the
I'liiK "d States." Rep i'ii ' Tin "Yt s; but
we ca.-ri;-d Brazil." Life.
Caste. BigCalf (vainly) "Oet out,
of n.y way or I'll step on ou You're
iioHdy."' Barnyard Fowl (haughtily)
' If uu could hear folks grumble when
they find veal in chicken salad you'd
change your tune." N. Y. .-.-kly.
Modern Training. Mother "Novy
you have broken my cur- You de
nerve a whipping; 'come here.' 1 ritz
';,!. I won't con.e." Mother "Come,
I-'ritz, till I wh'p ye 1, and then you
; hall have a slice of cake-." Fliegende
Blatter. First Widow "Why, Mrs. Verdant,
what do you intend U do with the pail?"
Second Widow "Well, you see. my poor
husband requested that his grave Vc
kept green, and as I am about to get
married again I thought I would give
it a coat of green paint." Munsey's
Weekly. -
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or tonetv, s i cmiatinuinmi dtnonrd to cotl mltrn
turn to ' matter of Urn id or individual inter at
tain! bt m m adprrfUrmmri .
Job PKiKTiva of all kind. aeatly sad exped!,-
ouij execaiea at loveii prioes. LKn tycu lore
M'STAB'S REVENGE.
now a DUeardsd Lover ot f.ean with
the Widow's Uaugbter.
CIIAI'. 1.
"Ha! You refuse me, do yon. Miss
Hamtapg?"
The man who asked this question
had passed the first flush of youth.
He w as no longer, properly speaking-,
a young man. Yet ho was well pre
served. He had not reached the &g&
at which it seemed expedient for him
to part his hair just above his ear
and plaster a thin layer thereof over
tho top of his head, lie had thrown
aaido the walking-stick of young man
hood, but had not assumed the cano
of middle age
It 19 well to 6peak of these tacts,
for they are necessary to tho full un
derstanding of this painful history. :,
Moreover, they cost nothing extra.'
"I do, Mr. Mcistab," said the young1
lady, coldly.
"Then, listen to me, Rachel Flick
ergy llamtagg!" ho hissed. "1 swear
you shall bitterly repent it!"
CHAP. IL
Wild whistled the bleak wind. Dis
mally moaned tho huge elm tree that
rasped and scatchod itself against the
cruel edges of the shingles on tho cor
nice. Shrilly shrieked tho weather
cock on tho barn roof for a drop of oil,
and grewsomely groaned Algernon
Fitz-Thompson McStab as ho stolo
forth in the dead of night, made his
way cautiously by a circuitous route
to the ancestral smoko-houoe in tho
back yard and went inside. ,
"I'll 6how her!" he muttered be
tween his toeth.
From beneath his coat he drew a
compact bundle of letters, cut tho
6tring that bound them together,
struck a match, made a bonfire of tho
collection and watched them slowly
consume to ashes, whilo tho crazy
building shook as if with indignation
and the wind sighed hoarsely, likeono
In sympathy with the wretched but
wrathful man.
He was burning the letters he had
written In happier days to Rachel
llamtagg. Sho had returned them to
him scornfully.
CITAP. lit
"This is so sudden," said the widow,
blushingly, "and so unexpected. 1
I thought your visits to our house
wero for the purposo of seeing my
daughter."
"ihe is too young," replied tho
visitor, decidedly. "1 told her so last
evening. We parted in a friendly
spirit, but I gave her to understand as
delicately as I could that I should not
call to see her any more. This is
sudden, it is true,' but I trust none tho
less agreeable on that account. May I
not venture to hope?"
"Why. sir. I"
aaaa
"And now, my dear," ho said, at
tho expiration of a happy half hour
as he gently lifted her head from his
shoulder, "I should like to see your
or perhaps I ought now to say our
daughter, to tell hor of this happy
event."
"Shall I call her?"
"If you please, my dear."
( HAP. IV.
"Rachel," said Algernon Fitz
Thompson McStab, pleasantly, "you
will bo glad to know, I dare say, that
I am to be your father. That is all
we wished to say to her, was it not,
my love? You may go, Rachel. Please
close the door, my child, us you go
out." Chicago Tribune.
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.
Afft'CtlmT Story f r Little Nrwaboj Who
tukt Ton Uol'urn.
A business man ef Iletroit, whoso of
Gvo is on Woodward avenue', relates thii
singular experience in the Free Press:
"I wanted a ten-dollar bill changed,
and as I was alone I stepped to the door
and called a littio newsloy whom I had
frequently employed to run on errands,
and told him to carry it to the nearest
store and get it changed. I then went
inside and waited. My partner came in
and ridiculed mo for what I had done.
'.' 'You will never see the boy or tho
change again," ho said.
"I mustaay his prophecy looked pos
sible when as hours went by the loy did
not return; still I trusted him. I could
easier lielieve that he had been run over
r made away wiih than that he had
stolen the money.
T did not change my mind when a
w.M-k had passed. I di 1 not knu where
ho lived or who his associates were, and
no newsfoy wemed to Ik? missing. The
second week was nearly gone when a
woman came into my olllce one day.
She was crying.
" 'Are you Mr. ?' she asked.
" 'I am, madam. What can I do for
you'."
"Then sho told mo that her littio boy
was dying; that ho had been ill marly
two weeks, and kept constantly -:Ul:nf
my name. I went with her and found
my missing newsboy. As soon an h
saw mo ho began to rave.
'I l.st it! I lost ill was tho burden
of his cry, but I alen knew what he re
fenvd to. lie had l-st tho tu-dollar
note, and it had preyed 011 his mind,
causing brain feer. lie died in my
arms, unconscious that 1 had trusted
him from the ery UrsL, and that I
would have done any thing to save his)
life. I have not a don bt t !. at be either
lost it or had it suatclii-d from him, and
his sensitive nature k.- t ban from tell
ing the truth, and he gao hU lifo Up ill
tl.0 straggle." .. -
Jellied Chicken. Ioil t.'ie el.i.-ker.
till the meat falls from tiie bone, in as.
little water as possible; take it out and
le t it cool; chop and season Willi salt,
and pep(er, then put it in a mold with a
layer of hurl, lioiled ej gs, eith.-f chop pet.,
or sliced; lil thei water in which th
meat v as cookcl until is half loicd
away, add a tablesp,onf ul of gelarine,
and when it is dissolved pour over tho
meat; this will be ready to use t'.v next
day afte r it is prepared: tbeeggstnay bo
omitted if desired. IVtroit Free 1'iess.
In oyster stew or any thing where
one wishes to use the liquor let it come
to a boi! mi a.s to take e'f the souin.
I Never boil ou-rs, as it toughens them,
I hiniply let them cotn to a boiling point.
llbhouid simply boil around the edge.