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J Ailta ILAWi. WILLIAMS A. M.,
Preflaent.
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favorite, bold b. dr?Z...
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Proprietor.
miriam.
Tim Romance of HeaMeiili Hal
Bv Man-da L. Crocker.
CoPTmiaarz, 1x0.
I fancy Miriam Percival Fairfax ia one of
theae, and so I work away with needle and
gray and black xephyr as if 1 m:ide my liv
ing by my endeavors in this line, aud glance
up about every tenth stiU-U over my glasses
to note any chauge in the occupant of the
deep, easy chair.
I bear another rustle of the letter, and
look up to flud Uer doubling it over ber
finger and looking at die with such a re
lieved, sir et expression tUut I agaiu let the
vrords slip from my tonpuethat rise: "-Lure
is transforming you. Miriam, from a sad
faced, revengeful Percival to a bright,
beautiful woman."
"Hush !'' she said, with a smile. 'Would
you not like to read Allan's letter There is
nothing in it that you need not know, and
siuceyou have beeu so faithful and thoueht
f ul and true, why, It is your due only your
due."
she offers me the missive. I take my
chair and go over and sit down beside her,
and she lays the open letter in my lap. I
udjust my glasses better, lay aside my cro
cheting and read as Allan Percival has
written:
"Miriam, my love, trie unexpected meet
ing with a friend of yours in tbe park at Heuih
erleigh gives me in opportun ly of sending you
a letter. The great burden oi my life Is. dear
one. whether you love me, as I desire with my
hc:le soul, or not. I remember ot giving you
my address when I visited you at the Rest,'
i ut yuu have not written to me as yet The
love born in the dark days ot thread nn the val
ley ot death la not to be put aside eas ly, and I
: r.ist beg of you, dearest, to say ir yon have
vh.mged your mltid, or if you have by our long
s liarnilou fouud that you love me even a 1. tile.
I was poor whea we par.ed, but 1 am now
n independent circumstances, having fallen
heir to landed proj.e: ty In ar:d near Trouviile
.'rom my motiier s family. I toll you this, not
because I niciely wish 1o speak of my a:llj
er.c but it m:iy br that you tlunl; I am tun it
mi of your wealth, though I can Uar.Uv see wny
you could Imag.i.e a l'erc val dissembling.
"If you have found that you can love mo, oh :
M r am, darhap, bid me cou-e to you. If not,
.seep the lockei 1 g.ive you at the Rest' as the
gift of only a relative. I remain yours.
-AU.AS PERCIVAI."
"I must answer it," she said, when I had
finished. '-Allan wi.l be so .iisHj..,mud if
I do not. He is noble and true, us you said."
she goes on to say, "and I liud, after such a
.on s separation, that 1 can never be happy
-.vitliout him."
Then that Is the problem she has been
trying to solve all these months of separa
tionwhether she c..uid forget her aneuUrv
for the dead cuough to be luippy with te
living. She d.wsu't say thw, but I divide it
to be the case, nevertheless. Well, she has
solved it.sitling here in the n int. r s sun
shine, and the rose will bloom where the
rue hath grown, for love cau never forret
his own.
"I never have shown vnu h. f,rr
tioced in the letter,'-' she says -.viTh a sin.le;
"though, of course, you caugi.t sight of it
during my Uuess. Ye, trie face iuside,"
she alds, with a faint flush.
Drawing the locket from her boeoui. alo
uncia-sps the chain which I had restored
her neck while she was asit-ep in the first
s age ot convalescence, aud touches the
s.-cret spring as I had done in those days of
uncertainty, aud again ilan Fercival'a
face beams up to mine.
"He la very handsome there," I sav,
"but I believe he is handsomer over in
England."
She smiles at the compliment, and I con
tinue. A finer looking gentleman than
Allan Percival was when I saw hiin lat
would be hard to find; well-dressed, court! v
and kind."
She smiles again and slips tho locket
back in Its resting-place with a sigh of con
tent "I must write to him iniuirxiiately,"
she says, caressing the letter, aud looking
up for an affirmative, as I supioe.
"Yes, certainly," and I bring her writing
materials, and ouce more step out of her
xj,ctum auK-tomr of thought. I am confi
dent that Ailan Perrival wUl receive the
answer which he desires and I am content.
A letter has coma to me from over the
aea; a letter with a big black seal, and I
read with swimming evea ana sinking
heart that Peggy is dead.
Poor xggy. who wished so much to see
"the face of her young misthress" ouce
more, has left the shores of time without
even that boon being granted. Aticil has
gone back to Ireland to end his davs, which
can not be many, among his relations, and
Heatherleiga is desolate now of even ally
ing sound.
Miriam reads the letter dictated by old
Aucil befee he left the Hall with a strange,
far-away ex. cs-n creeping into her face.
"Well, we ail have die," she savs,
handing me the black-bordereu missive, and
- j- J -
rVv 1m c, '-.'
AC
DRAWING TUB LOCKET FROM UCK Iloal.M.
her fa-e takes on such a deathly pallor that
I an alarmed. She seems turning to elne,
and there is tbe same old hauuting look in
her eyes of a year ago.
"Miriam !- i exclaim in alarm, having an
impression, somehow, that 1 must call" Ler
back from somewhere whither she was
drifting.
"lion t be alarmed," she savs, i awuig a
deep, paiuful breath aud looking at me as if
I were a dozen miles awav instead of so
many foet- -It Is or.fj sudden, so sudden
lor me," and she turns awav to hide her
stony face. There is something about her
words and manner whica tolls me plainly
that it ia not tbe news of Peggy's death
alone which affocU Mir.am so Strangely.
There i,ucn M n,, of wor1Ics-d(
apair in every action and look that I feel
aj very heart stand atilt in terror
and taking her lu my arms. Kho release,
herself gently and alt. down in the nearel!
chair wun that terrible look sUU on her
"It U nothing." .he .ays, finally, after
suenoe which aeem, to me age "So'tin"
ee tlr"1..1 had ni" J thit
etter to-dav. that .n
.n"A d"ffmr' " drew up another chair
out' ,Vk.- ? -ulLte:
. " , "UJo never do to allow the
coincident of a bad dream andhatTt'ter
dreim " TnenSWem1' " d4ieJ W
m IS A TU111U WHOM Til TRUTH
EBENSBURG. PA.,
"Certainly I wish to if yon care to tell it ;
but dreama are nothing. They never come
true."
"I had a dream once which came true,"
he says, looking at me with the horror of
a certainty of doom in ber eyea. "A dreain
of death just before my marriage with
Arthur, and it came true.'"'
She shuddered and was silent. I could
not gainsay that, but I would pailiate this
vision if she would let me, I thought.
"And I dreamed last night that Pec try
came Into my room and that I was UL
Mending over xne unlU her cap ru flies
touched my face, she said : 'Minum, at last
I have found you ! but only to bid you a
long good-bye; such as all those yon love
must aay before their time, just such a
good-bye as that, ilinam,' and then she
went out, shutting the door quietly, just as
Pecgy would."
Miriam's eyea dilated with a horrible
dread, and she continued: I only wish I
were not impressed with the truth of it.
But the letter coming to-day seems to tell
me that Pejrgv, in spirit, warned me of sor
row in store for me soou."
"We. I," I 6ay, can tctuwrt that there
is nothing in dreams, but I don't believe tuut
Pvggy had Buy reference to Allan Percival
whatever. IShe, even iu your dit-aui, ooubi
less had reference to only the past, with
which she was acquainted. She never
knew of your love for Allan, and could not
have meant hija."
Miriam hew me, but she does not be
lieve as I do, tor she sits with cold fingers
locked tightly together and gazes into the
future, anticipating the death of one whom
she has learned to love better than life it
self. CHAPTER XSYL
Allan Percival sat in Lis hired apartments
at Xo. 22 Rue de St. Helene, Trouviile.
Trouviile across the river, not the grand
sweep of bright beach dipping gently down
into the bay this side.
"So she has written to her solicitors con
cerninfrthe Hcatherleigh estate, aud desires
them to dispose of it. with the exoeprinn of
a few things in the Hall, for which she will
aeud her cousin, AlUio Percival, shortl-,''
reading from a newly-arrived letter.
"Weil, let me see. AVliut is it she wants
unearthed from that rured ruin, any
way?" and he draws forth a slip of paper
from the letter. "Oh, yes; Ler mother s
jewels, to be fouud where 6he couceaicd
them before her flight from Heathericigh,
behind the third row of volumes on the
horary shelves. 'Behind the third row at
the left-hand end I will find a secret panel ;
slide it to the iil.t hand and bring alii
find in the little recess," " reading ironi the
slip. "Then there is more in that secret
cupboard than Lady Percival's jewels,
judeing from this," "he said, meditatively.'
"Well, whatever i there, I will get.
"What a life she Las led, to be sure, dear
g.ri! Bjt after thisearth shall blossom out
a paradise for my darling," he added, with
cmot ion.
Then he fell into a reverie, and .lipping
the letter into his des-k he sat gazing out of
the window, oblivious of every thing around
him; regardless of everv tiling er.-..r.tincr
v. . . ... " .
own speculations, ii the chain
Of
ll.oucht traced i y his busy brain bad
resolved into words, they would have
been
read
owe; mug ii. e ine i. mowing:
'I don't won. ier Mi- .r.i H , -. . . .
: . ..... ju faVtAUblUSei
I foot in Heatherleigh Hall again! What a lot
""rrv uu own entailed on the un
fortunate ones of tne Percival house, liod 1
if I only Lad lived to thrust a sword up to
the Lilt in the heart of that depravod an
cestor before he could have uttered that
ma'.edi.-TKin that has cursea the lives of my
nearest and dearest !
"Poor, dear love ! and she bids me come to
her. Happy niau that I am! Strange,
wasn't it, that she shouai come to me first
and nurse me through that terrible illness I
And I loved her passionately before she had
been there two hours; but she thought it
an infatuation or hallucination of the sick
room. And, too, her heart was sore over
her husband's death, and .he waa in no
mood to listen to me.
"Well, I was a fool to imagine she might,
but I had always led such a lonely life, even
before my parents died the curse was on
them, too, and 1 existed in its shadow aiso
and after that, I was lonelier that ever be
fore. I was p.mr, too, then ; and there is no
knowing what she may have thought of my
importune love making. Xo. I did not
consider, for the very reason that I was
madly in love with my beautiful cousin. 1
never thought of any thing else. But it
was the love of my life, as no one knew bet
ter than myself, and now, after years of
separation, I am called ; and I am goiug to
her, my love, my life, and see will be very
happy. But I must go to Heatherleigh
first. Armed with my letter of introduc
tion I will see her solicitors, and then go to
the Hull for her.
"I am glad I am here to go; she must be
spared the pain, the sadness of this visit,
und I wi.l bring the jewels and whatever
else she has hidden behind the panel. Mir
iam was crafty; cunning, wasn't she, to
think of all this in the midst of so much
else. To be sure, what a sly little lovel
Lave!''
And he started up with a smile on his
handsome face to find it nearly dark.
where tinkles the pretTy u..cf r.ucia."
This rollicking wate. ing-p!ace, TrouVUie,
seems to-oay noisierthan ever to the steady
blood of tha Percival as he gazes down on
the Parisian-stamped throng.
Well, his estates hai been disposed of
also, and he was goiug over the sea, away
from it all. And beyond the ocean surges
they, he and Miriam, would begin life anew.
He had a little business yet with Lis
bankers in London, and this errand of Mir
iam's, and then, ah! then, away.
Looking ton .1 Ir ha .a.,n.AMA.t -i -
stairs, humming softly to himself an old
English sowg. while his thoughts were try
in tolocaiea pretty cottage somewhere
near Bay View; or was the cottage itself
all the Bay View there was? He would
shortly know, for Miriam was there, and
he should sail in a fortnight if nothing
happened.
The solicitors having Miriam a financial
affairs in charge were waiting to see him,
and Allan Percival bad no trouble ia as
suring them tuat he waa no fraud.
Barring the letters of introduction, it
wou'd not have been a bard task to have
convinced the gray-haired attorney that he
was a Percival, at least, for that portly eld
eentleman looked him over critically and
then said : " hy, my line fellow, you are
the p.ctureot your father, ALaa Percival!
I knew him when he and I were young,
and a fine gentleman he was, too. But he
married your mother against the will of
Lia august father, and that ended the
money business with Lim,in form of inherit
ance, at least. But 1 judge your finances
are in ship-shape," he added, shrewdly,
glancing at Allan again.
"Your cousin is a sort of curious-minded
lady," began the solicitor in another strain;
"for it waa some months before she al
lowed us to find her. She has a world of
animosity somewhere in her soul toward
those old ancestral halls for some reason "
"Moat likely," answered Aaian, ratner
evasively.
"Well, if .he Las I auppose it is reaily no
business of ours," rejoined the barrister;
"but it's a fine old place, or was some year,
airo before vour aunt T i.
death; and it look, mighty atraneetome
- j jur cuuein suouiu cuoose a home on
the other side of the water aud rid herself
of Heatherleigh. But then every thing you
do not understand is strange until you find
out iu mystery, and then every thing is
easily understood."
After this most logical speech tbe old man
dipped Lis pen in his ink and wrote aome
thiug on a slip of paper. Handing it to Al
lan te a;J, jocosely: There'. vourjas-
MAUI VU&, AX9 ALL
ARB lUTH BMIDK-
FRIDAY. APRIL 25. IS90.
word, friend of ours." Then gravely: "It
seems to me that I am with your father, my
boy; you are so much like what be used to
be when I knew him. So he is dead ! Well !
well ! we all must die."
Then some one claimed Lis attention, and -he
must go. After having bidden the old at
torney a friendly good-bye, Allan drifted
out and mingled with the steady-going
throng of the world'a metropolis, for Lou-
l. I rT-Je" l-V,U I
. - , lit : i .1 a
x I, 1
"I KNEW HIM WELL; bO BE IS KEADj"
don isn't England no more than it is any
thiug else, that is, in make-up. From every
nation ou earth almost they gather, gather,
gather und affiliate, and no one feela
abriHttl, either.
Allan Percival felt as much "abroad,"
perhaps, as any one in Rotten Row, for he
seemed present only in the flesh as Le
tb.rea.ied the motley crowd.
"Business will afl be settled up to-morrow,"
he said, as he lighted a cigarette in
the seclusion of hi. lodging-bouse, "and
then for my jewel's jewel.. But let me
see," be said, fumbling in Lia pockets.
"Where is that slip the garrulous old fel
low gave me, aud what i. it, anyway i I
haven't thought of it since he gave it to me
until tuis blessed moment.
"By the way," continued Allan, search
ing for the paper, "he thought I was the
counterpart of my unfortunate father.
Well, I have no desire to be, only in feat
ure, for he was undeniably handsome.
Poor father!" and he sighed audiblv.
"There it ia now," he ejaculated, drawing
forth the long-aoughtrfor slip from the
diary in which he had placed it for safe
keeping aud had so aoon forgotten. "Oh I
I must present thi. to the jolly old Ban
croft, and -obtain the keja and a guide.' As
if I needed 4a guide' to explore Heather
leigh! That isn't it, however. I need a
fellow to keep an eye on me while I ex
plore. I understand It. Ah! yes. Then
the smiling old squire has the keeping of
the Hall, eh! 'i remember of having beard
that he was, or would have been, a staunch
fneud of my uncle. Sir Rupert ., ir tuI
curious old curmudgeon would Lave stooped
to recognize his betters,"
A balerul glow crej.t into the fine eyea,
and the cigarette waa tossed into the open
grate spitefully.
"I am afraid I am not so much the child
of my mother a I have always imagined,''
he resumed, as if in apology to Lis better
self, "f ir I feel as Miriam must have ffclt
when she talked to me of the KaH when I
was ill. How well I remember the flash of
her beautiful eyes as she rehearsed to me
how Sir Rupert waved ber off from his
presence. Away ia the cold world he sent
her in her sorrow! No wonder she even
wishes to sunder every tie binding ber to
the roof that sheltered him."'
He walked back and forth the length of
the little apartment, savagely, restlessly.
It seemed that the spirit of the Pereivals
Lad given Allan a fresh baptism of the
rankling hate, which could carry its victim,
into tbe desperate on abort notice.
"I don't know," he ground through bi.
set teeth, and he shivered ; "I don't know
but that the evil brooding in the accursed
halls of our ancestors roaches out for its
victims even here, for it seems to me that
the nearer I get to Heatherleigh the more
unlike myself I become."
He paused before the diminutive mirror
over against the window and surveyed him
self for some minutes in silence. Then he
went back to the mantel and, resting bi.
elbow on the corner of it, tried to con
trol his hatred of the dead. The pitiful
tale, of cruel, angry treatment told him by
his father aa enacted toward himself by
Leon Percival, Lis father, rushed hotly
across Lis mind; and the cruelty of Sir
Rupert to his beloved dared him to forget
them, or to remember them kiudly.
The anery flush he had notlced so plainly
in the mirror surged up to bis noble brow
und his soul burned for revenge. But they
were dead all of the moledietive ones -and
were, perhaps, getting their dues, while he,
Allan Percival, was standing there givmp
vent to the hpirit which had dragged them
down. Ah! this would never do, his soul
wb'spered, waraingly. No; this givini?
way to the vanity of useless wrath would
never be ir to be dallied with. By a power
ful effort he choked down the rising anath
ema and betook himself to assorting some
papers he had brought with him from Trou-
!le
Seated at the tasit, con.
tents of a heavy leat her-bound portfolio, he
bent eagerly to his Lack in order to over
come tiie tuinuit within. A sign of relief
escaped him. "I urn glad," he said, with a
tremor iu his voice, "that my mother was a
mild, sweevsouled woman, and that I par
take of her nature Rreatly, else how should
I ever come through it all with unstained
Lands.
"But, after all," he continued, while Lis
face paled with sorrowful emotion, "after
au i niu iiui w wrpei toat i am a Percival!
and that if I should be able to change my
name a thousand times, the blood tooud
tell !"
He looked for a moment aa if he would be
glad to slip from his identity, even though
he might evolve a mere slave.
"If when Leon Percival in Lia wrath dis
inherited my father he had only taken from
him the arrogance, the senseless, passion
ate spirit, and the unforgiving, relentless
soul of the house, what a blessing his disin
heritance would have been ! But it was only
tbe property and tne honor of being named
as one of them that he missed, that ia all
"Oh! I am glad," he exclaimed, tri
umphantly, "that 1 haven't farthing, no
not afaithi .g of the Percival wealth!''
Helooaed up as he finished his exultant
sentence aud caught sight of his face in the
tell tale mirror. Then he laughed softly to
himseit. "Psnawi" .am no . - ..
- ------ "-i iue evu
feeling Lad ebbed out its last tidal wave,
and he was left in possession cf his sweet
mother's nature to which he so often re
ferred with fondest pride.
Three days after we leave Allan Percival
at Lis lodging in London we hnd him
standing in the library, the diinlv-lighted,
ghostly-looking library of Heatherleigh.
He was alone; the good natu red, portly
squire was poking about the gallery on the
second floor, imaginiug Le could read the
soul by the i ountenance; and so was very
busy reveling and romancing among the
portraits. H had no idea that the Land
some, well-dre6sed cockney, as he chose to
mentally dub the fellow down-stairs, was a
scion of the ancestral line be was viewing.
"No," Squire Bancroft was saying to him
self, "that's a young strip of ha barrister
the solicitors 'ave sent down 'ere to Lin
spect the books hand take ba list of them,
hi reckon, so Li won't bother 'im. Hi will
just hen joy myself hup 'ere. Land kill two
birJs witn one stone by looking the pictures
hover w'ile Va taking 'ia ninventory."
So the easy-natured squire turned the
portraits this way and that to get sufficient
1-oUt, and adjusted tliC heavy turtaiua cu
JJLU TJ
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wmm
81. SO and
their dusty bras, rings to suit himself, and
persuaded his speculative soul that it was
having a holiday treat.
Down In the- dim semi-twilight of "the
room of the books" stood Allan, saying in
an undertone: "To the left-hand end ot the
shelves, and the third row. Ah! now I
have it," and after removing several vol
umes he placed his hand on the panel indi
cated in her letter.
"To the right, now," and Le gave the
panel a shove in the direction named by
Miriam, and it slid back noiselessly, but
sending up a cloud of dust nevertheless.
"By Jove!" Allan ejaculated, stepping
back and brushing the dust from his face
and- eyes, "it is worth a ransom to be
smothered in this way."
Then he listened to reassure himself that
Bancroft was not coming now at the su
preme moment to be inquisitive and vex
hi in with words and looks of distrustful
questioning,' perhaps.
No, the squire was not coming; doubtless
be would not, as Allau Lad announced his
intention of ovcrhaul'ngthe dozens of dusty
volumes, tome of them aDi-ieut and curi .us
ly bound" and others of later date. "Wh:it a
place for an old book-worm of a fellow!"
ejaculated Allan, elbowirg the ancient tome
at his right, as he thrust his band into tho
recess in the wall, after having satisfied
himself that Bancroft was not coming.
The first thing Lis Land touched he drew
forth. It proved to be the - long-hidden
casket containing Lady Percival's jewels.
Brushing the dust from the elegant cover
he opened it for a moment in order that he
might know what he rcallv did have. Dia
monds; diamonds scintillating even in the
dim light told him Le had tbe required
jewels. Shutting the casket ho discovered
the letters L. P. engraven in the Center of
the cover.
"Aunt Percival," he murmured. "Ohl I
feel so strange in this awful place, where
sweet Lady Percival died ; from where my
father tied, and from whose doors my dar
ling was driven iu her widow's weeds 1 tiod
be merciful, I wish I was out of this!"
Once more he put his hand into tbe recess
and renewed the search. Three small boxes
and silver drinking cups next rewarded his
endeavors. These he deposited in various
p- ckets without examining them and again
he searched the recess.
The fanuly plate, by Jove !" And out it
came from the remote corner of the cup
board. Silver, silver, silver! And here was
a ridule he could not solve. How couid this
little place hold all this ! He tried the other
side of the aperture, and to his astonish
ment a panel moved easily back, revealing
a capacious recess, and the "corner" he
thought he bad reached was not a "corner,"
only a sort of division.
It's deuced lucky I brought my travel
ing case, or else how should I sinuggie all
this away from Heatherleighf Egad! I feci
like a thief!"
Having stowed all the valuables away in
hi large valise, Le shut up the recess and
replaced the books he had removed.
"I believe I will go upstairs now and see
what Las become of tbe squire," .mused
Allan, looking about him.
But the Squire was coming down. Allan
beard him on the stairs, and forthwith he
began to be deeply interested in a yellow
paced volume, for whose contents he didn't
care a half penny.
"The books are quite LInteresting, I
should think,"' said Bancroft, peeping in
and seeing the young barrister deeply en
gaged, as he thought, in reading.
"Oh! yes;" Allan made answer, with a
yawn, "interesting enough, but I'm deuced
tired of them, and, as I Lave taken the titles
-osA hi ni
HE TII1U..-.T ntS HAND INTO THE APERTURE.
Of some and selected others for which they
sect me, I guess we may as well go, that
is, if you have no further business in this
horrid place "'
"'Orrii place! Why, this his the wl-ry-place
to dream hof romances bv tho 'our,
sir. Our tastes differ, to be sure. Now, hi
couid stay 'ere for ba week."
"Lord!" ejaculated Allan, in horror. "I
should be a raving maniac in half that
time "'
"Umph!'' and the jolly squire looked at
him in amaze. Then he said : "Books packed,
hisupposef" and at the same time eveing
tLe traveling case keenly.
' "y-".BnSWered Alian. prevaricating.
CHAPTER xjrVIr ---
Squire Bancroft had not been so long in
the gallery for nothing. He had almost
wept over the fine portrait of the voungest
son in the reversed row, Allan PercivaL
last child of Leon Percival, the austere, as
he was known.
And now, on coming out into the hall,
this young sprig of a Londoner put him so
much in mind of the picture of the high
spirited youth be used to know that he
stopped short to think:
"Hi feel some'ow has hif ,' he mused
and then taking his gaze from the travel
ing bag he acted on the impulse of the mo
ment. "Look 'ere, young friend," said he, touch
ing Allan on the shoulder as they stepped
out into tne suusnme. "Paraon me, Dut hi
can't 'elp but see that you resemble so
much one portrait bin this gallery hup
stairs. His hit possible Li ham haddress
mg a Percival f Can bit be that vou hare the
son hof Halian Percival, so long hago dis
inherited solely because e 'ad sense
henough to marry ba sensible woman"'
The squire's first sentence sent a sus
picious impression with its curious articu
lation, and his tap on Allan's shoulder
seemed to augur no good to the contents of
the case he carried. Lut the compound
-iowuu wuicn iouowea the eccentric old
feUow's prelude puc those fast-rising fears
of detection to flight, and substituted a
choking sensation of oppressive wrong in
their stead.
Allan looked up. "You know me, then, by
my resemblance to my father," he said,
with a sad attempt at a smile. "I am the
only son of that Allan Percival in fact,
the only child living, and that is why
Miriam Percival Fairfax and her solicitors
trust me on this errand to tho Hail.
The present owner of Heatherleigh is
my cousin, Mr. Bancroft, and I am com
missioned tw the Hail by her implicit or
ders," " 'Pon my soul 1 'pon my soul !" exclaimed
the squire, grasping Allan's hand. "'Pon
my soul. Hi thought tho world hof your
father, my boy; ha hif 'e were my hown
brother." And the impulsive Bancroft
flourished his hand kerchief and blew his
nose with the sound of a trumpet. "Then
hit's your father's picture upstairs; w'y
don't you go hup hand get hit!"'
Allan shuddered. "Do not ask me to go
upstairs and into that room." he answered,
turuiiiij faiut at He ivita, uud tucrui .
L Vif
postage per year in advance.
NUMBER 13.
face with his Land, as if to shut out even
the bitter memories.
'Ho! Hi see," rejoined the squire, "you
said this 'orrid plaec," and he put his arms
akimbo. "Hi see! Hi see!" he cut inued,
"you dread hit Lou your father s haccoutit !
Forgive me, my boy; Hi didn't thiuk f Hi
know the sad story hof your father's being
kicked hout; 'card hof 'is death, too, b it
didn't 'ear that 'e left ha son. Well! well !''
For some minutes the old squire stood
looking affectionately at Allan and think
ing, then he placed his hand kindly on the
young man's arm and said: "Don't you
want your father's portrait, my b y Hif
you do, w'y. Id will be glad to go hup there
hafter hit for you."
Allan nodded in tho aflirma'ive. He
could not sprnk. A feeling of utter lone
liness was ere. ping out of he shad w s
and wraip:n.' Lis sou! in its mserah!e in
fluence. Up there, in the dark, ghost! v
p:a e, his fath-V picture Lung -with its
fuc? to the wall, he had beeu told a thou
sand tunes, because he had been cast out
and now, after three and a haif decades of
gloom and disgrace, it was to be brought
down and given into the hands of the son,
the child of his mesalliance.
Allan heard the squire go up the length
Of the shadowy sta.rcase, heard him tread
ing the corridors, as one hears things in a
strange, indistinct dream.
The sunshine stole down through tho
tufted elms, the noisy rooks chattered and
scolded high up above the ancient gables
and the April airs went whispering bv, bjit
Allan heard them not. Ho was listening
attentively to a voice sounding down tho
aisles of the by -gone, and he heard it say:
"Curses on that old Hall, that sent me
adrift; curses, 1 say!" and it was the voice
of his father.
And in connection with this maledictive
sentence he heard a sweet, soft voice, and
it said in a deprecating tone: "Allan!
Allan !' And if was the voice of his gentle
lady mother.
But Squire Bancroft interrupted this
communion of spirits akin, and broke
Allan's painful reverie by saying: "Ere hit
his." At the same time he wiped a sus
pu-ious moisture from his old eyes and
locked the great doors in silence.
Allan Percival left Heatherleigh as one
in a dreain. The lone, desolate avenue,
. down which his darlinp had passed alone in
her grief did not seem real to him. TL
clanging of the great gates soundnd afar off
and even the hum of tbe carriage wheels
on the echoing drive beyond came to his
ear as unnatural and deailened. He
thought of it, and remembered Miriam's
horror of the place.
He paused at Hedge I'laro, the squire's
lovely cottage, and letting him out witn
many warm adieus, drove mechanically on
toward the city.
Hastings came in view, and he drew
a
sigh oi relief. The shimmer of the sea
bo
yond irave him a new impetus o.,
smiled. It won't be &n .- rv . ...
no
he said, waking up, "until Tshall see her,
my own."
He consulted Lis watch. "I have time to
get every thing attended to in my cure and
reach London to-morrow ; then a iinal in- j
terview Willi my bankers there, a hi h'tlu-good-bye
to a few friends, and I n: off 01 1
reai hernus waters yonder."
"Back asfain !' Alian ejaculated, ns
tlnew open the door of l.:s lod ;it:s. m o
entered with Ins precious burdens. "V." ..-!:.
I'm blest if I'm not g ad the aff..:r is v. .i
ingup. hat a great iKal grows out of i
little, sometimes, to be sure,"" tie continued,
settling himself comfortably in his chair I '
the tabic and emptying his pockets of tin
Hcathei-leigb find. "If Iliad not met that
old lady in the park that blustering autvumi
day at year, I presume 1 should not have
been there aeain t Lis time.
'1 guess I had b-tter shut the door and
insert the key, lest I have auditors."
With this timely conclusion he fastened the
door, and. returning to the table, spread out
the contents of the three dusty little boxes
on the yreen chintz cover.
To be CatiiiHcd.
SUSPENSION BRIDGES.
low an Kdiuburich I'rofeior Illustrated
Their I tllily.
For centuries suspension bridgr-s have
boon built, sometimes of chains, somi
times of ropes, these lattf-r often
made from tbe bark of trees; although
iron suspensions are of comparatively
recent times. One of the highest en
gineering authorities of the United
.States thus briefly states that "tho
oconomy of metal in a suspension liridiro.
under tho avorayo circumstances of its
.Ltainablo dc-pth, is from eiie-f urtii to
.'to-half of that in a tubuli.r i r s-.ir.ple
.:rdor-bridjr of ccjual 'r ni'th and
isidity." Tho si:i,,-.l rope l.:-:df-s in
i'eru and in Central A-ua arr n:or; l v t w
opc-s hung silo by side across son:
pace) sought to Ik spanned; then a kind
- platform is laid on thiso rop.-s, and
;h inverted bow or d:p is such tUat
nan or Least 11133- cross. The suspm
ion bridge, as we have it, is composed
f two or moro chains, and from these
huins a level platform is hung by sus
pension rods; the chains are generally
secured to c-iiher side of the chasm
crossed by what is known as anchor
age, by pissing over piers. Tho chains
used to construct these suspension
!ridges are w ire .rops or chains com
posed of links. As already intimated,
the cost of the suspension bridge i
much less than that of many other kinds
of large bridg-es, berauso of tho amount
of material required. Tho late Prof
lenkin, of the University of Edinburgh,
"Jius clearly illustrates this: A man
aiight cross a chasm of 100 feet hanging
to a steel wire 0.21 inches in diameter
dipping 10 feet; tho weight of the wire
would bo 12.75 pounds. A urought-iron
beam of rectangular section, threo times
as deep as it is broad, would have to be
about 27 inches deep and inches broad
to carry him and its own weight- It
would weigh 87,300 pounds.' Trains do
:iot as a rule cross suspension bridges at
a high rate of speed, and unless other
wise strongly fastened so as to over
come lateral and other oscillation, the
dangers are considerable. Engineers
'iave, however, so thoroughly studied
those and all other matters in connec
tion with bridge-building' that theso
,Teat structures aro now made with a
view of meeting all such strains and
jontingencies. Some of the best-known
iuspension bridges in the world Lave
oecn the Brooklyn bridge, tho bridge
over the Ohio at Cincinnati, the Sus
pension at Niagara, the chain suspen
sion at Menai Strait, at Fribourg,
Switzerland, and at IVsth over the Dan
ube. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Native "Yes, sir, wo arc to have
one of tho finest health resorts in the
world right here. Wo have every ad
vantage and invalids from all part of
me worm win soon le oonmif,' here to 1
cured." Visitor ' Ah, indeed? What
is that immense tract of ground over
yonder several hundred acres I should
say?" Xative "That, sir, is to bo used
as our cemetery." America.
The New York booksellers report
that of tho expensive oooks having the
largest sales, Burke's "Peerage" almost
head the list- Nearly every fashion
able family ia that city Las ono copy of
it, Ec-twuboucdicg n coaU aboui tl-
t Advertiwi
Tna lanreand reliable circulation 01 the Cxm
aaia Fa ant an eummendt tt to tbe favo vol
deration of advertiser, wr ore larori lll own.
verted at tbe rollowinr low rates:
1 moo, a time.
1 " month.
1 " months.......
I I year
S a months...
I 1 year.
t months..... .........
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8
eol'a 6 months
' 6 months......
U - 1 year
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Bnslnecs Items. flrt Insertion loe. per lice : waoh
rahseqoent insertion b. per line.
Administrator s and Lxecator'i Nr Jjcs ..... j 60
Andltor's fsotlcea .... w,
Slrav and similar Nulloer ..... ......... 60
fW Mrtol J umt or procrrtlini et any corporation
or ocierv, . -J rmmiiKsriani drrurnrd to can . f f en
turn 10 r , matter oj limUtd or tndieufaeJ tntrit
mu( bt mu jot at adverturmmti.
Jos Piutim of all klnda neatle ar,1Tt-
ondy exacted at lowest price. lion 't you forire
A CURIOUS ROMANCE.
The Mran- Itit of I amity History Re
cently 1 neartlir-d in llo-ton.
A strango bit of family history was
whispered u m.- tho other day. Yeats
ago pr tty Miss Adams, of Boston, and
cousin of John Oiincy Adams, fell in
love with a fascinating young fellow
named lie Camp. Direit descent from
the great Earl of Douglas did not recon
cile Miss Adams parents to the idea of
their daughter marrying Li.ti. But lovo
is stronger than bars and liolts and they
found a way to moot.
A n.arriago followd, wl.ich, arrange
to say, prov d a liat t y or ". ,1;t yir-i. Do
Camp was entirely cat off In.- ) or faui-
3!y. Mr. and Mrs. lie Camo 1; vi-1 in
Baltinioif. which v a fan her from Bos
ton then than fi.nn Europe now. J-'o' r
(hildreti were Ihu-ii. two su:s and two
daughters. When the eld.-st was only
eleven years old both parents died arid
the orphans were talo n l.y the relatives
of Mr. lie ( an, p and t'.ieir n.oi her's his
tory wa-; forgotten, if ,, ! known. Theso
eriildr.-n grew up and married and ono
daughter. Mr. .lohn Hancock, U In i
in Washington u-day. AU stio has
ever known of her mother was that she
belonged to the old Adams family.
1 hether she had aunts or uncies she
had never heard.
CSeven charming dauh tors bave grown
up in Mrs. Hancock's homo and when
they are all together no gayer house
hold can l.e found. The eldest daugh
ter is the wife of Governor Morriam. of
Minnesota: another the wife of Lieu
tenant Hare. Seventh Cavalry U. S. A.,
and a third married Captain Eugene
Griffon, of the Engine r Corps. Re
cently Captain GrifTr-n resigned from the
army to accept a position in the Thomson-Houston
Electric Light and Rail
road Company, and -.vent to live in Bos
ton. Baying a visit to ,ne of The old fam
ilies of the Hub. Mrs. GrirtVn casually
mentioned that her grandmother was an
Adams, of Boston, and cousin of John
Juin -y Adams. In a few days Miss
Adaiii. an old lady of ni n. ty-f.nir voars,
sent for Mrs. Griffon, and it was soon
discovered that Mrs. Gri Sen's grand
mother was the old lady's sist. r, of
whom she had never heard since tho
days of the runaway marriage. Mrs.
Hancock at once went to s 0 her aunt
and learn a1'Ut her mother's early life.
As tiie old la '.y reiiieriilH-red the lonely
yci.rs which siie had spent without
knowing-and enjoying t!;o socirtv and
lose of thoso who were tho nearest arid
would have lieen the dearest, she could
not refrain from weeping. Each daugh
ter of Mrs. Ilanc.-k has I teen, to s-e the
old lady and the few" years that n av yet
lit spared her she lop. -, t-. p.i-s with
some one of the f:uoi!.
Miss Adams, though so . M. tins r
pain d h r s.-i-ciid sight ai.J c:iti r-ad
without glasses. She is as nctive men
tally and as intei-cMcd in all the topic.
of the times as fifty years ago. Mrs.
Baker, of Covington. K.v . another aunt
of Mrs. Hancock, is still ir g at ninei v
years. Mrs. Baker has no children, and
her niece. Mrs. Ilan.-irk. ui'l inherit her
ample property. The Voungot ard
on1, v unmarried daughter of Mrs. II n
Coek lx-ars the historic name of Abigail
Adams. The author. Thomas Bailey
Aidric h, lias also proved to b a cousin
of Mrs. Hancock. Truth is stranger
than fiction is every day proved. A'ash
ington Cor. Philadelphia Tirnes.
ANTIQUITY OF DOLLS.
An Kxiu!itc I.lttlo linage (ane.1 lu Oak
li.uad in a Kt.iii.u -nifi.
The ot.h.-r day I went into a store on
Stat' street where toys constitute the
bulk of the stock. The mall at tho doll
department, although he had ron sell
ing dolls until I fancied ho looked baby
ish "twenty-five years in this busi
ness." ho said had not wearii-d of it. "1
do not Know wnen tho world was with
out dolls." he remarked. "I have not
had time to look it. ut), but as far as 1113
opport unity has permit ted I Lave dis
covered that. very i.ati. n on eart ii Lad
dolls. The. d.-maiei for thorn tio-v is ;k
great as w hen 1 lir.it, w. nt, into the usi
nes. "
A day or two later, curious v enough.
I found an article in one of the irr.ga
zines containing an neocitnt of the
opening of a eollin in Home. It had
boon discovered ill excavating. Tlie
coflin was marble. How many hundred
years since it was buried? The name
of tho dead was deciphered and from tho
formation of tho letters and tho bas-relief
on tho lid it was concluded that the
woman for it was a woman lived at
tho lieginning of tho third century after
Christ. Sho was not ono of tlio nobility,
and the name on the Bireophagus
showed that her family was Greek.
Tho surgeon who took out the skeleton
and arranged it gives tho opinion that
the woman was about seventeen yearn
of ago at her death. AVhen the coffin
was opened J hox was discovered, in
which were a numtx-i ci toilet articles
still in a state, of preservation;, a couple
of fine combs; a small disk of pulisnoxl
steel; a small silver box, probably for
cosmetics; a hairpin, six inches long,
made of three pieces of amber A re
markable discovery was the preserva
tion of nijTtle leaves a wreath with a
silver clasp that had fallen from the
head. There was no traeo of tho feat
ures, of course, but tho teeth woro
fine and regular. A ring an engage
ment ring (?) with a man's name en
graved thereon, was found near the
skeleton hand. On each tide of tho
Lead were gold ear-rings, with drops ot
pearls. Mingled in a heap with tho
vertebnu of the neck and backbone
there were a gold necklace, woven as a
chain, with thirty-seven pendants ot
green jasper, and a large brooch, with
an intaglio in amethyst, representing
the fight of a griffin and a der. Near
the left shoulder was lying an exiuisito
little doll carved in oak.
This, if there was nothing else, would
establish tho antiquity of tho doll. Chi
cago Tribune.
The History of Itutter.
Butter, which is almost indispensable,
nowadays, was almost unknown to the
ancients. Herodotus is tho earliest
writer to mention it, Tho Spartans
used butter, but as an ointment, and
l'lutarch tells how the wife of Deiotor
ous once received a visit from a Spartan
lady whoso presence was intolerable
lx'cause she was 6meared with butter.
Tho Greeks learned of butter from the
Scythians, and the Germans showed tho
Romans how it was made. Tho Kotuans,
however, did not use it for food, but for
anointing their bodies. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
In York County, l'a., a party of
tramps recently emptied a water tank
'ind coavtri'. l it into a lecu'oom.