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. DR. 'HOFF.ER,
DENTIST. --. OFFICE, Front Street next don,
10 R. Williams' Drug Store : between Locust and
Walnut streets,Columbia, Pa. Apr.
H M. NORTH,
A TTORNET ,AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Ci Catumbtn..Pa.
caec .. F romptlymade,i n Laneng.leyand Yuri
jeunuel,
Columbia, Miry 4,1850.
ride in sunshine or in So now,
dear one, farewell, and may God bless you;"
and springing into the saddle, the good
knight waved a last adieu, and trotted away
down the long avenue.
Ills young wife's blue eyes followed his
retreating figure with a wistful gaze, until
he halted at the great gate, and' passing
through, was hidden from her view; then
slowly turning, she remounted the stone
steps that led up to the door of the A-hurst
manor house. The gloomy red brick walls
seemed to frown upon her as she entered,
the stair.ed- - glass window in the hall threw
a purple tint upon her face, and made it al
most ghastly, and the oak floor gave back a
hollow echo to her trend. Just then a door
at the further end of the ha/1 was softly
opened, and .Marston, the old butler, ad
vanced toward her, Old he was in service,
!or ho had lived for more than thirty years
at Ashurst manor—at first the page and
play-fellow, then the confidential servant
end friend of his master, Sir Richard; yet
nut old in years, fur lie wee under fifty, his
black hair was still untouched with gray.
and there were few wrinkles in hie hard,
keen face. lle stopped near Lady Court
hope, glanced quickly at her, hesitated a
moment, and then said, in a respectful, con
strained tone—" Surely, my lady, Sir Rich-
Comer Second lboeu-t
ard will not ride to Chester on such a day
cod
C olu. Dee. 6'02. Oppotne Odd Fellow,' I lull. RS this?"•
IL B, ESSICK,
ATTORNEY ASD DEMUR, AT jam
. Qul.l'Mitl ~ ~.1
"Cotton is King."
ANOTHER advance in the prier or rattan. (move
quently cotton goods have ha upward leudenry !
We have juvt returned from the city with another
supply of elieop , t!iroc., &c, a:
the old prices. All catty cn. ' .rtheitvd.
H.C. e '
Celumbia. July 5 i Adjmt.. Vim*.
RAISINS.
AFULL supply or 120.1.ios—Serilleas nod Lnyi.r—
will be rourii.l u t tile Cot, of frontnod Maori .is
Nov. 2e.'62. HENRY $11.71 - 1m NJ.'
JUST itIICEINTED
AVD for ruila. by the liarr , l or larger gum/lit let., 1011
barrels Monongahela Whisky. al
A irpriL,D.* Warolloti.e,•
Cola. &lay 11. MI.. Canal Ilari
For Sale at a Bargain
im choice of Two Fire and Burglar Proof Sareg—
He rri,l g" or -Uhler? , Patent; Ako. a Mundy
Horan. and a firei-ialeCurriage and Ilarneat. Call a
the toolo of
11. C. FOMDVAISMITII.
Cola. May 17, 1F62. salpi mug 11. Ulla
HO! FOR CHRISTMAS!
A . Ch o i ce B u ij eg mon t .sea; the best in the marked
STEA CY & IJOWEErs'.
Cole. Dec 6. I 562. Cor.2d and I.oeu.t
CLOAKING CLOTH
.BEAUTIFCL Block CIPIII. PUillIbIC for lodlot cloaks
STFACSk BOWERS,
LIQIIMS.
WE bare received a Supply Of
Pure ::randy, Olu R,e Whisky,
Old Port
which we offer (or ruse Mt:down:al purpose..
(MAY &CO.
Cola. July 0, 'Ol. Golden Monne Drug Sore
ALa egr S.Room •nt or p, utrr, delai»e, drill +irking*
in rime IMO for U. BiIUNER.
RtrrtiEß EDDY'S Note Holders juoi roeoieori of
.1) Jan. 3, VM32 BRUNERS
N6LISI4 m u d Ataoriean pic ilea. freo gropes and
1J gum dropl 111,1.3 gem memos, coseauntly nu fond at
Jan 3, 1r62 BRUNE:WS
l OEM.IOLN (NFC.—..Tois. F.. Hoover's
1 ilk'. with the er..puratlolllo Wet. cilia be Will a t
Jan. 3. ItV2. H F. BBUNER.'S.
T-T
OUSEKEEPER SI Fo r pure white, richly
embossed, new et)ler while grooile, ten. dus
tier. and :cidet *stmt.& low prises purshwer. should
t to examine our stock Lehr° porchwung else
w nere• IL C. I , Os•DEIVSMI
Feb. 23. Adjoining the !Junk.
ltf RS. WINSLOW'S Soothing Syrup can be
obt.h.d w I L.I A N:S", LOCUM.
CURBEELEES Oragaes and Apples, at
11. R. HETI , Mrs,
Caw Der. I Vit. ("or. Thad and Limon Ktw
'WALL PA.P
WE have he balance of marmot - r (3000 piece.) nice
VT arranged in our Lower Store Room, ready for in
spection. I'ureb•tpers can SAVE 30 PER CENT. in
papering their houses by calling soon nt the old stand
of 11. C. FONDER:WITH,
• Coln. March 8,1802. Adjoining the Rank.
WOOLEN 'HOSE.
IXTE: nave lame lot of knit 1-2 Hose. which we
r evs:i for leap, Ilion coo run boy the yarn
you
& 1101 k gms,
Ntrner Serond and Lod ..ts
Der. 6. IMJ.. Callum bin, Pn
ZICP tIY R. GOODS.
OPk Q A Gat". S Oboe, tilearrx. Senrre. ece
Choice good* i desirable eo.or. tiara to-day et
11A
Cush More. Mai Stand.
Nov. 8,112
Remoiral.
THE salweriberAna removed his Ovate-roomlo the
worn formerly neCupied by Fry & flagman, LO
COFT STRUM °MUM Tug BANC. Where he will Coi.-
linue his Forwarding, Cdnuni•pion, Coal and Whole
vale Reoduce and Granary Ousines4 in all its branches.
Alford mock of Salt, Bodoni Planter, &C., always
onAkand.
April 40E62. D. F. AFPOLD.
;, „GEORGE J .
WiIOLESALE and Retail Riad and Cake
Aake . r.-,,Coostaut on hand a-rarhsy of Cakes
.00mmoustouatoutiesoion: Graeiroto: Soda. Nv 11 " Perot{
• uodliuust Biscuiti CouleeLoewy, of every debeription
it., %iwo • " •' • LOCUST ST . RIXT,
Dec. 3,, , 54 lietiretui the Ra n k and Frank lin House.
liDiES WHO STUDY ECONOMY will till
l to their advantage to rad and examine our n
Ann well ieleeted mock, berorepu rcliasing claewhe
rorwi.listanding the great advance to price of goo
we atm mill aide to offer many thaw at old rmes.
and toe emir/aced of What we sop •
STEAM.' lc BOWERS.
0ct..25, - • Opposite Odd Fellow. , Hell, CoMmida.
;? PA'T'ENT MEDICINES.
4:LE. the standard Preparation's, such as
Jaynes Expectorant. A heritti re,Sanative Pills,lke
Harry'ertieophroal.Kennedy"s Wedges I Discovery
Tobias , Arenett a .1 Hostetter's :gamic)* Sn
leiNiVi•harl' a ji seutsfini,Jka.,..4.e s to be had at tit
Drug Store 0 .44 -WILLICALS . Locus: 01
Vat PIKSERWIC CIDIta.--A Fresh lot of
_s.;. sulphate or Lime busier% been received by
Dec 6 ~` 6 l.y• F. wit.unite..Leeeqt
•••-•• • : WALL PAPER. •
Jhasd• epeortmen a Lt l r_
ire Nallli
W l laper which We are sehhaicit! osr
!ow - prices . lid. will lw your hut_ to
70.,
"menet btailer..llVV'- Nibeic4mtiii.
00-IWeiri rtople's Coal %%yes
.CIDERFORMIACE PIES, '
J3.A Kezinß eszin iotic( /Minya mmd While &lei siti . :_b±i;
- . Ciptera - kellaletr --
N°""fillt J 1,1" /V. 7: ROMER.
142, 1 89 d I.lsticqOztret4.
frig ,14
ages" -1 41 .0 1 M to SOCCIMIL O 64.O OIB .
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a s ',lxa' Tel tlidevirr L )t$ "VS
griutitits.
Trapped.
11 So
"There is a storm gathering yonder over
the Beacon Ilill ; the air is heavy with thun
der. Surely, Richard, it were better even
now to let your journey rest until to-mor
row."
The tall, bronzed knight, standing, boot
ed and spurred, with his hand on his horse's
mane, turned to look with a merry smile on
the fait, anxious face of the lady by his
side.
" And if the storm should come, do you
think, my sweet wife, that Dick Courthope
has never ridden through wind and rain be.
fore, or that, fur fear of a wetting, I could
break my pledge to meet Phillip Orme this
night in Chester? No, no. Only let me
find you watching for me here at noon to
morrow, with those same pink cheeks and
bright eyes, and I shall reek little whether
The lady looked up as though surprised
at his addressing her. •• Yes," she so id,
he has just started. Ile laughs at the
weather, but I"
"There will be little cause to laugh if the
storm comes, if the river is swollen," Mar
ston exclaimed abruptly.. "You will see
him back yet my lady, ere night."
" Nay, lie must needs be in Chester tbio
evening," Ludy Courthope made answer,
as, stilling a sigh, she passed on to the draw
ing room.
The butler looked aftor her. "She would
have us believe she Cares for him, forsooth.
lie believes it. lie has only eyes and
thoughts fur her; old friends, old times, are
all forgotten now. Once he would hove told
me about this Chester journey, but now that
waxen doll hears all his plane, and he hardly
designs to speak of them to me. But I have
learned all I care to know—Sir Richard
must be in Chester this night."
In the long, low drawing-room, the twi
light had already set in, though it was but
four o'clock on a November afternoon; the
huge fire had burned low, and the heap of
glowing faggots shed a weird light on the
mirrors and pictures on the walls, while the
high-back chairs and carved tables oast
strange, uncouth shadows all around, as the
lady made her way to the cushioned win
dow-seat, and gazed out on the stormy sky.
"Ile rides fast ; his horse is sure-footed; the
distance is not great," she murmured to
herself. " Why is this dread upon me, this
terrible foreboding of some coming evil?"
She looked back into the 'darkening room,
and started as a half-burnied log fell 'With
a crash upon the hearth. A longing cable
over her to hear again her busbend's blithe'
voice, to see his fond glance, to have bin)
there beside her; and !hen gradually her
thoughts wandered away from this sombre
old manidott to another, far away at Kens
ington, alive with gay young voices, smiling
faces, and where her voice, her face, bad,
only eight months since, been the geyest
and the brightest; for shebed been a cher
ished daughter of that house until Sir Rich-'
and Couethope wooed and won her, and
brought her here to lie mistress of' hie ChM
shire hOme. Tenderly she recalled the
younger brothers and sisters, the loving par- ,
ente'of her happy maiden day., and won
dered if theyyettnissed her., and might per-'
baps be even apeskiag,of her then; till all
at once her fancy took another turn, she felt
as though herfund remembrances were tree
son to the absent husband, who was far dear
er to her than any, of the merry party. She
would shake off ibis strange , sadness which
bad crept upon her. lVith a sudden impulse
she sprang up, stirred the glowing emberi
into a- blaze, and sitting -down beside her
harpsichord, began a low, soft air ; then her
mood changed, and the fall •notes of 'some
martial tune rang out iota the room. Once
she ;seamed whets Marston entered, bearing
the tell,: silver eandlestiok, and.. as the mu
sic died : array. she heard thVbasting of the.
raia,against lbw casement, and the heeling
of the wind among 'ltheizene., 4,l:oilmen
'ob. listeaad, limn ' s tun fukgweie , ttseekedithe
keystegtnia...ll,The tetorbs:,bew dannre
11414'11:4ttnrals. 41araton ,wherapoks: T &to
' c- • !,
bad thought him gone, but he was standing
close behind her chair. "Sir Richard can
never pass Craven Ford to-nigbt," he went
" What will he do?" and she looked round
with startled eyes.
" Ho may make for borne, but I.fear, my
lady; an I had your leave, I would ride out
to meet him with a lantern. The night is
black as pitch. and one false step by the
cliff-path would be death." He spoke low.
but there was a strange eagerness in his
tone and in hie face.
"Go, pray, go!" she exclaimed, her voice
trembling with anxiety; " and yet—might
you not send Stephen in your stead ?" She
knew not why she asked that question, - she
only knew that some vague feeling prumpt
ed it.
Marston's fece darkened. "He is a stran
ger to the country, while I bare lived here
from my childhood. • He does not even know
the road, while I have ridden along it hun
dreds of times by night and day. But be it
as you will, my lady."
"Go yourself," she once more repeated ;
" lose nbt a moment. Heaven send you may
be there before Sir Richard!"
The man turned silently to obey hor or
ders, but as he reached the door he looked
round, and for an instant his eye met he'rs-L.
only for en instant; but there was some
thing in that one glance so peduliar, so sin
ister, that she almost shuddered. %Ere she
could recover her first shock, ere she could
speak or think, he was gone. What did it
mean? She had long known that lie bore
her no good will, that he regarded her as an
intruder in her husband's house, and that
he bitterly resented the stern rebukes, and
even threats, with which his master had vis•
ited his occasional disrespect to her. She
had known this long, bat never had this dis
like been written so plainly in his face ati
now. Could he be plotting harm? Should
she follow him, and countermand his going?
And then else smiled at ber own nameless
terrors. For thirty years Marston had ser
ved Sir Richard faithfully—surely be would
not now be false to him. . That cliff-path
might indeed be feared, but not the old and
trusted servitint. So she listened till, in less
than half an hour, she heard his horse's
boots crashing on the gravel road. She did
not hear something else—she did not hear
his muttered words, as lie glanced up at the
lighted windows of the drawing-room: "She
would have stopped me had she dared, but
she cannot stop me now. There will be a
heavy reckoning this night for the scorn she
has made Sir Richard heap upon me," and
his teeth were ground with something like
a cu rse.
Lady Courthope, sitting thoughtfully be
side the fire, her eyes fired upon the leaping
flames, her hands lying idle in her lap, was
loft undisturbed, till nearly two hears later
Stephen came to tell her supper waited.—
She asked him as she rose if the storm still
raged without. "It has. passed, and the
sky is clear." She went to the window and
drew aside, the curtain. The dark clouds
were gone, and in their stead the moon shone
bright on wood and hill. Marston's journey
would be needless, Sir Richard wuuld be
safe now. She heaved a deep sigh of xelief,
and with a light step went her way to the
supper-room.
The evening wore away; the great clock
over the stables had long since struck nine,
and the hands were nearing ten, when Lady
Courthope, throwing—a. cover over the em
broidery which had occupied her since sup
per, reared to her own chamber for the
night. It was a large, lofty room in the
west wing of the building. remote from the
staircase, and at the further end of a long
corridor. which opened by side-doors into
several unused rooms. But the young bride
had obosenit.rather than any.other, for she
knew her husband had lived in it and loved
it, and that long ago it had been his mother's
room. The high mantel -piece with its curi
ous carvings, the.,ceiliog decorated with
strang4 paintings of nymphs and cupids,
the antique furniture, and the tall canopied
bedstead, gave a triaint and sombre aspect
to the chamber; but to-night the fire roared
and crackled on the hearth, and dashed
on the yellow demask draperies, and the
candles burning on the dressing-table lit up
every.corner. As Lady Courthope entered,
her maid came forward from the drier' on
the opposite side of the room, which led in:
to a small, dressing-room.
• " Have you teen wilting long. Hester 7"
the lady exclaimed, noting the girl's weary
eyes. " You look sadly tired."
" I haie . just come in, my lady. . Anne
and I have been in the work-room all the
evening, and 'as - that makes my head ache
so." , -
"Poor girl 17 said her roistress.pityingly;
"you have been more used to milking cows
than stooping over needlerwork.. But cheat.
up, nester. and it will Seen) more easy in
time. Have the others gone to bed?" ,
"All but Stephen, My lady; Ibeard him
cross the hall just now.",
" Tell him be need not keep watch fur Sir
Richard. He is, I trust, ere now safe in
Chester. He mast have forded the river
while it was yet passable."
"Dr it the strewn were swollen, my lady,
be had
.btst to ride down to the olOtonel
bridge below fstber•s boas.," the girl said ,
quietly. •
" The bridge—ileard of no blidge 1" , oil
claimed: Lady °mut/160. , • •
the old priory—soistterof Vireo
sailooroaad lasibo; bot Slr Rio/tord kiretre
it; welL" .7
1 • / • 7n ...I,
OEM
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO UREA!' AS READING, NOR:ANT PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2,7, 18
/lEEE
"And Marston had forgotten it," said her
mistress, musingly.
"Ile said nothing of the ford," Hester an
swered ; "he only said that he was going
to ride after Sir Richard."
" ILs has not come back ?" Lady Court
hope asked abruptly.
"Oh ! no, my lady; he told us that if he
did not meet Sir Richard; he should stay at
the Golden Horn till morning." •
"I gave hiM no such leave;" and :here
was surprise and resentment in Lady Court
hope's tone. A long silence followed, while
the maid moved softly to and fro, assisting
her mistress tdundress;till, as she brought
the taffeta dressing-gown and velvet slippers,
Lady Cuurthope said kindly—" That will do;
can brush my own hair for this night.—
Now go, and sleep off your headache."
The maid lingered awhile, but eta second
bidding she withdrew, thankful, to be re
leased. .Lady Courthope followed, to se
cure the door; then returning, she drew an
arm-chair close to the'fire, and leaning back
in it began, to unfasten !lir shining braids
of hair. With her fingers moving dreamily
among the golden tresses, as they fell around
her lovely face, eher sat thinking 'of many
things; she thought of her husband, the
husband who seemed yet closer to her heart
for that very difference of age which had
made many marvel 'at the marriage; she
thought of his tender indulgence toward her
faults, of his almoit .fatherly care, of his
sympathy in all her pains and pleasures,
and yet of the manly respect and trust with
which he treated her—of, the perfect confi
dence which he, the man of forty-fire, show
ed in the wife more than twenty years
younger than himself. And then ehe pic
tured the coming years, and the time when
his hair should be white, and his now up
right figure tient, and when she in turn
should show her' love and
,gratitude by
her unwearied care—when. she should
forestall his every wish, and malts' his de
clining age so happy, that he ehoulnaver
regret his youth; and when too—aod bets,
her cheek - flushed at the thought—young
children, bearing in their faces a mingled
likeness to them both, might perchance be
atout, thorn, making the house; so quiet
now, ring with laughter from morn tonight;
and as the picture rose before her she
yearned to lay her head upon her husband's
breast and whisper it to him.
It was so strange to be • here, far from him.
If she could but leave this lonely, silent
room, and mount her horse, and gallop
through the darkness to that inn at Chester.
That vague dread was coming back to her
again. The fire was dying down, the room
seemed darker, and a cold chill crept, over
her frame. The dread grew. Tbe• ivory
brush upon her •knee slid down, and fell
with a dull, heavy sound upon the floor; she
stooped hastily to roach it, but mishit raised
her face, all veiled by her long, drooping
hair, she saw, away by the window in the
farthest corner of the room, a bony, hand
grasping the fringed edge of the damask cur
taio, ad a white, eager face peering from
1 behind it, intently watching her. One in
stunt and the' curtain . fell softly, silently,
and that face was gone. But she bad seen
it, an she knew it. Not six boors ago that
same OA of• hatredond revenge had been
turned upon her, and with a sickening heart
she retognized the fierce eyes, the lowering
brows,and knew at 'lasi what that look
meant. She did 'not start or cry. Her
pulses ttrobbed wildly, her very blood wee
chilled; but she sat on calmly, quietly.—
She hail trembled at the bare thought of
peril to her husband, but now, in
.her own 1
fearful conger, she was brave and steadfast.
Her icyhands still, toyed with her bright
hair, he' eyes were beat vacantly upon the
dying cabers, and there was no outward
sign of he tumult within; and yet she knew
and unlerstood all. Marston •was there
close byber. His night journey had been
but a fiat to hide his :deadly purpinie and
to screer himself, tie had stolen back in
the darkest, and bidden there to wait for I
her, and—uturder.ber. And be might mut , i
der her. Here alone in this looked room;
how coud she escape him? if she fled, if
she couh even gain the gallery outside, it
would wail her little. • Long, long before
she couldpass these deserted rooms, before
her voicccould summon any to her aid, he
would be;uport her, his angers citliers.hroat.
And that there came across her' a strange
memory f bow one simmer day she bed'
'seen bin standing on the garden terrace
twisting a hie hands a piece of .rope—how,
be wood it .round and round until the
strained totes were stiff and rigid, and how
then his iott fingers had beets' bent for one
more eta and when the last turn was
given, thatope was left hanging idly on hie
arm. A trans° thing to recall at emelt a
time as tie, stranger still that she should
almost ehdder in recalling it: What, ,if
rising frontier Flair, she were to go straight
to that wide*, and drawing back the cur
confrcit hint there, and in her . bus- .
band's, in itattooter".a name, appeal to hint
fur pity? At, no; _that name from her lips
'would bat iflamo —:
, his jealousy and hate.
Sbe raised ter eyes, and they rested on
something bight and glittering, something
which justtllnaeeined a friend; for there,
above tife'.`ctrei:piece,'within' reach of
her hand.'"hukher husband's repie'r. , She
might seise Viand with one wild dash, stab
her enemy ei he could, free Maiself from
fhb'. coneastot:fahy; ,hot her woman's
iohl shrank ficw.thictereid:evea in this her'
• 're extreinia. In. :Own upward ,gigues
soother tboapt bad come listo•ber
her dressing rooral The door stood open,
not ten paces from her. Once locked in
there—but, alas! there was neither bolt nor
bar, and the key turned on the outside.—
Iler heart almost sank within her. Already
she seemed to bear stealthy steps upon the
door, behind, around her, to feel hot breath
upon her cheek; and still she sat on quietly.
Was there no escape far her! Once again
her eyes fell on the open door of the dress
iog•room.
There are moments in life when every
power of the mind is unnaturally strained,
and when ideas and plans, which at another
time might be the work of weary hours, are
formed in one short instant. Such a mo
ment came to Lady Courthope now. As
she looked at the dressing room door and
the key on the outside, a scheme flashed
across her, bringing back the life-blood to
her cheek, sending fresh hope to her heart.
If she could but decoy him into that roam—
decoy him as she has seen birds and dogs
decoyed by some tempting bait. She has a
bait. He has come for his rerange, but she
knows there is another passion strong in
him, and that passiunis avarice. Often has
she soon his eyes brighten at the touch of
gold; often Sir Richard laughingly said that
the one fault of his old and laithful servant
was the love of money; and now, if through
that love she can beguile bim first to the
dressing-room, she may yet be saved. The
part before her was hard and perilous, but
she could trust herself to play it. She knew
that if her nerves once foiled, her doom was
sealed, but the brave young heart did not
quail. Slowly and deliberately she fastened
up h'er bait, then rising from her seat, threw
fresh logs upin the fire, and crossing the
room, laid her brush upon the dressing-table.
Some books were lying' there; she took up
one of them, turned the 'leaves cringes*,
then throwing it down, ezelaimed in a low
tone—" Too tired to reed, and yet not tired
enough for sleep; I wish the night were
over." She yawned wearily, waited a mo
ment, as though in doubt, then mattering—
the by, these °metals," took a'bunela'
of 'aeys from the table, and' wont toward a
small cimony cabinet inlaid with silver, which
stood bestl9 the fire-place: Tier voibebed
not faltered. Wa tone could have betrayed
that she had sects a at crouching figure; and,
that her words were •inaken for those listen
ing ears; and now she 'eaust 'constrain her
limbs to calm, slow motet/teats, to bear out
the deception.
She unlocked the cabinet, and Itam• one
corner drew out a small satin wood box;
--herjewel box; laying it on the floor beSide
her, she stooped to-arrange two other boxes
which she had displaced, and then fastening
the cabinet, returned to the dressing-table,
and lifted one of the lighted candlesticki.—
With the box in one hand, and the candle.
stick and keys in the other, she advanced
toward the dressing-room door. Just as
she reached it, a board behind her creaked
sharply and rudden/y, and her heart stood
still. Was he fulloviing her, tempted too
soon by the costly prize? Was the moment
come? No; all was again still and silent as
the grace. She went on, on to the further
end of the long, narrow dressing-room, leav
ing the door still set wide. She put the
jewel-box and candlestick upon the table;
she stood where her every movement might
be seen from the dark corner. where he was
hiding, and then unfastening the box, she
laid out the various trays, and spread the
glittering trinkets all around her. One by I
one she lifted them, holding them close to I
the light, moving them to and fro, so that
the precious stones might sparkle in the
blaze, and then carefully polishing them,
put them, back. , Fur nearly half an hour
she stood trifling now with one, now with
another, her fingers busied in rubbing and
arranging, her ear strained fur any sound,
her heart leaping as the flickering candle
threw sudden shadows on the walls; and
still there was no movement in the dint
chamber beyond. • She ntust return there
now, ,for she could stand • no longer, her
streogth seemed ebbing, and that forced
composure was too terrible to last, For
one half instant she paused to gather breath,
then, with a weary Sigh, She laid aside the
bracelet she was holding, and raising her
candle, moved toward the bedroom. On the
threshold she stopped, retreated a step or
two, and seemed to hesitate. It she had
I seen 'how at' that instant the hand behind
this curtain was tightening its grasp upon
the knife, and the crouchingform was milt
ing ready, fur a spring—if she bad seen this,
even her courage might have failed; but she
did not see it, and she played out the play.
Murmuring ie a low, steady tone, "No mat
ter fur to-night," she came into her cham
ber, leaving the jewels scattered about the
table, and the door standing opoo. And
now theArap was set, and she might rest
and watch.
flashily eztinguisbingthe lights, she drew
aside the . had.purtains, and lay down. There
was a strange repose after that long and
fearful self restraint in lying motionless io
the fitful firelight, her aching limbs stretch.
ed out, her weary head resting on the pillow
—a strange repose,. even though he was so
near her. The minutes passed away, the
deep tones of the clock straok out twelve,
and still all was quiet, save for the click of
the embers oaths hearth, and the distant
baying °film doge in the court-yard. With
closed eyer, drawing deep breath, as though
asleep, she lay listening. It seemed as if
she bad lain there many bonze; when at last
there Was a faintatir in that corner. lls
was totnint 'mat now. ' She dared 'sot' look
11,50, PER YEAR IN :ADVANE; 0,00 IF NOIN A V . ANEW
or move but she heard—she heard the dull
fall of the curtain, the stealthy, cautious
footsteps on the floor. Was'he going to the
dressing-room? No—Heaven help her—he
was coming to her bed. The steps came on,
nearer, nearer; something brushed against
the bed clothes, then stopped close beside
her. liar eyes were closed, her breath still
came softly through liar parted lips, but
within that statue-like' form there was a
human soul Praying in mortal anguish for
pardon for herielf, and comfort for her wid
owed husband. A pause—and then another
slight movement. He was bending over
her ; his baud was pressing the pillow ; then
something sharp and cold was laid across
her throat. The last pang bad come, and
she had no power now to move or cry. Oae
moment mortt, and she would be 'at peace.
But the moment passed, - and she still lived.
Another moment and that cold pressure wits
gone. His breath was . no longer on her
face, yet he' was still there; she felt him
stirring; she kneiv that lie was watching
her. Long he watched, than, muttering
low: "My band shakes ; ' I'll wait a while,"
he turned away. She heard him turn, she
heard his footsteps slowly receding from the
bed, but the sound brought no relief; she
was past that ; she had felt the death-pangs,
and she almost longed- that the knife had
done its work, and brought her release from
that long torture; but the'end had not come
yet. lie was going to the dressing-room.
Once, twice he stopped, as though listening,
then he went on again; and now. hb.was
moving something on the dressing table.—
There was a faint rattle, a dead pause, then
again that stealthy tread, she strove to open
her eyes, but they seemed sealed, and it
needed a convulsive effort to unclose then-,
and she saw him.
The room was very dark now, but by the
faint glimmer of the fire, she could just dis
cern the door-way of the dressing-room and
the figure standing within it. The trap had
taken—the jewels had lured him. Ile turn
ed his head, and her lids fell instantly,
though .she.lay hidden in. the deep shadow
,of the heavy , bedstead. When she looked
again, he was standing where she had stood
an hour ago. There was light in the dress
ing-room, for be held:a blazing match, and
a candle burned upon the table by his side.
She could see him plainly now, his tall,
square form, his long arms, but not his face,
fur his back was toward her. Casting away
the burning match, he bent over the table,
and softly .swept the jewels toward him.—
This was her time. It would be but the work
of two minutes for him to gather them, and
return to her. She knew in those two min
utes lay her only chance, the chance for
which she had so longed. But she seemed
epoll•bound. That frightful moment when
the steel had touched her neck had paralyz
ed het- powers, and an unspeakable horror
was upon her. She struggled with that her
ror ; she thought of her husband, of all to
whom her life was precious, and with one
inward prayer for strength, for courage, she
slipped noiselessly on to the fluor. Ho had'
not heard her; his head was still bent ; his
fingers were still busy with the jewels.—
Barefooted, her eyes fixed upon his figure,
she stole on, softly groping her way toward
the door, past the end of the bed, by the
dressing-table; she was elose upon it now,
her hand was stretched out to grasp the
handle--there were but two more steps to
take, when her foot struck with a dull send
against en unnoticed stool, and she stum
bled; she recovered hers e lf instantly; but
faint as the noise was, his ear bad caught
it, and he turned and. saw her. Fur one,
moment they stood face to face gazing upon
each other, than they both made for the door.
She was the nearer of the two, and she was
there first; she had hold of it; she pushed
it to, but ere she could turn the key, hie fin
gers were upon the other handle. It was a
struggle for life and death, a struggle be
tween a strong man and a desperate woman.
It could not last long. Inch by inoh the
door was yielding to his pressure, when
gathering all her strength fur one last effort, '
with a power beyoni bet own, sho.forcedjt
borne. It closed ; the key rattled round
the look, and with a wild, hoarse scream
I she fell back upon the Boor. She was still
conscious; •she heard him beating on the
strong oak panels in his vain fury; she
beard his passionate imprecation! ; .and af
ter a while other sounds, too, reached her
ear—hurrying feet in the gallery, many
voices outside her door. That piercing cry
had roused erery sleeper in the house, and
they were all gathered there now, entreat
ing admittance; she rose, she tottered across
the room, and let them in ; and as they came
around her, gazing horror stricken at her
wild eyes, her blanched lips, she panted out
her tale, ever pointing to that inner door;
then laying her bead on Ileater'e shoulder,
and moaning out: "0, husband, save me!"
swooned away.
It was still early, on the morning of the
self-same day, r when Sir Richard, followed
by a groom, galloped up the Beech Avenue.
The white autumn mist hung like a shroud
over the park, the golden leaves fell in show
ers around hint, but he noted them not, as
with spur and whip he urged on bis flag
ging steed. Me ruddy. face was pale as
death—his eyes were fixed on the walls of
his house, her honse—his teeth were set in
dread anxiety, for be knew all. They bad
sent to summon him, and since he left Ches
ter, be bad not ones drawn rein. He was
here at last, at hie own door, and throwing
himself or his .esitansted borse,:he flung
the reins to his servant, sod spring vp the
[WHOLE NlTlAl3_,Eltitiq:
stepS. No wife was there. to:Weleotne him_
AU was still sod quiet. 'lVithont—thedewy
grass, the red sun strugglitig "thrones the
mist, the fulling leiVes. LWithin—the dark
old hall, the - servants Badly watching for
him, and low sounds of weeping. He look.
1 ed from one to another, then his parched.
tongue sltrivliforil - ed the words i - " Where
is she?"' They led him to the room where
she was lying; but when he knelt beside ,
.
her, and pressed his quivering lips` upon her ,
1 fevered brow, she only greeted him with a:
wild' laugh, and gazing at him vaenntly',l:
began 'again her miserable rambling talk of
emeralds and keys, lonely rooms and'ilif- r- '
tering knives. For a while 'he !ingeied,''''
looking down - upon her heggard fate, softly
stroking her tangled hair, then upside to
endure it longer, hurried away. They want-, I
ed him elsewhere, fur Marston.was still-in..
the house, and had asked to see him.. .44.,
Sir Richard shook his head ; he dared not
trust himself just now near that manß:let
them carry him away far frona.bis sight.-- -7
' There was nothing fresh. to hear ; for Mars-, E,
ton had already told all—how his first die
, like had deepened into deadly'-hatred, and
how finding that Sir Richard woold'beab- •
sent, he had resolved to wreak' his hatred,
enrich himself, and flee; heti; feigdieg tilat ` t
night journey, and leaving his blikeibinli ;
three miles off, he had returned unieen . to
the house. He had thought to do the deecl.::
and then escaping with what; treasinliiii.
might find, be far upon his way to London
before the morning broke. Ilia horse ryas„
fleet; the servants thought him at ;
and long before suspicion could have turned ,
upon him, be would have been safe. Dog
gedly and calmly he spoke of -all this, and
now bade them bring Sir Diehard there tot,
hear what his neglect and harehness.lad
brought about. They carried cbitu,bound
hand and foot .to Chester, where, three
months later,.dogged and calm as
was sentenced to life-long exile. 31any , n
days went by, and still Sir Diehard,' over
watching by his wife, met only those vacant ,
eyes, hoard only that weary, ceaseless rout:
tering. Al length she knew hims--at length,
.when weeks had come and gone, she came
from her 'sick chamber, and leaning - on his
arm, 'crept down to thedrawirig room. 'Shei"
bad last left that room-a bright-haired - bride, -
radiant with health and belautyt 'she - eider: •
od it again gray-haired - and
Wing at every sound, clinging to' her
band's arm for protection and - support. And
when years had pEssed away; dnd the -- rbees'
bad returned to her cheelis,lhe sperkletti
her eyes.;—and when the Alit.' cdildreti she
had dreamed of;clustering - round her knee,
looked up into her face and marveled t ar"
those silvery locks; then she wotild
them with fund words and tender' - kisses,
but never spoke to them about that night-='-''
never again trod that gallery, never'
.
entered that room.
A &snots'' CONTEST.--TWO gentlemen
of high 'birth, the ones Spaniard 'and the
other a German, having rendered Maximil
ian II many services, they each for"recien
pease, demanded his natural daughter:lle
lens in marriage. The prince, who •enter-
I tained an equal respect for them both, could' '
not give either the preference; and; after - '
much delay, told them that from 'claims
they both had to his attention and regard
he could not giro his consent for either of
them to marry his daughter, and they must
decide it by their Own prowess and address.
' but as be did not wish to risk the leriS of
either, or both, by suffering them to tight
with offensive weapons, be had "ordered
large beg to be brought, and he who inter'
successful enough to put his rival'
should obtain his daughter. This =strange
combat between two gentlemen' was' in the -1
presence of the whole imperial court; and -4 !
lasted half an hour.' At length
lard Yielded to the German, - Andre - Elhard,. l
Baron of Tetheid, who, when he got birii`
into the bag, took him on his back nod
placed him at the Emperor's feet, and on
the following day married the beautifil l
Helena.
PENNSYLVANIANS IN ' "
the history of this war is written, KentnelY
will be as greatly in arrears of gratitude to
the Keystone State as to' any bf: her other
sisters, for its assistance has been as goner- '
ous and hearty as it wan prompt. The
names of Negley, bturnbaugh. Wytikoop. •,1
Williams, Jordan, Brawn, and other malt_ f
ted from no invidious motive, will alicays:,,
be remembered in our Comtionwealtb,
their gallant services. Their cOrninaudg.„
were among the first called ta.the State.by
the General government fur its defence, and ,
there is hardly a county from die Big Sandy
to the Mississippi, or from the Ohio to our, „
Southern border, in which they have not, ,
visited and performed effective work. Among,
the more recent arrivals has been tbo Oat.
Pennsylvania regiment, under command of
Col. Curtin. The alma says it is one of
the best drilled regiments it has seen, and."
won golden opinions from the Parisians for'
its orderly and good conduct during its , a
sojourn in, their midst.—Louiseille.Jostritat: 4
Barre reading the puffs on graveetoneir,
we can only hope the dead' are bat spoiled
by growl flattery.
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for your victuals, but are famished with
vonaidoo tick. ' '
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