Tsai Tea SteDlol.o. 'lltstatert to vim T u t ees' , Wenizg 111011Z.1114:1V ktitseoi, The Dollen par ananin.l2o Ywiw . ADVISIrrg ag Or i IMOV II"IiNIVI" Muted at naninempititais* nra cases per lias for intbsesphoet •"" special MOSS • 111111114 , ' D o ti's, WM be assiltiS Union Mile Isar each insertiso. d 9 fiii ldl etr ''al ieseelstiehs coesionaleatioss of MA* Of illandlla and notarise ISerrissien inkileetbs. swentiklekte Item are &mid triosorins!nimi ,•i • 1 Mar; stick 3 atm R ~column, ............ .St 0111' sep to Si Si •One Mune tf r-4-40 rid );,.tray. Cantons. Lost 11l Irolnel. and ether Mown hematite. Rot eontoollniTs2Mais. thaw teeshit t , or law ' Sec Administrator's and tiseutors ?Wks.. $ 00 twitter'. *MOW .... •• • • • II /Me rwoneis Cud". five Wee. woe put • . ...... 05 gen-tants sad others. adttotleills buelnees• .W hetasted 522 per sacs ogi I, 034 00 ,„ moms. maned eseheively.to-their Ondoessi witiarh reviler" of treldedy drifter. . mtverthang In all ere. ezetedve ofiabiiMp. t. ,, n to the "Rpm JOSI PROW° el crew kW& halal* Ind Tistejr. colors. dons with nestnees and &sod . 412912114 lomat. Cards. itionShieSs. Billbeeds. Otalleneentm.liht; el every .artery and style. prhsted at the shortest The WOMB Mee is well supplied with ynarr Presses. a rood salostroiSioy synr type„ and is the Plumy' bale ass Waco:tea In the most attune manner sell st the lowest rates. 'Matti rgvAlumsLir twat ' 1=11241 CAMIX. Tv R A.YSN'ILLE MILLS ! J.! the r uhserher. hating purchased the halterretne VIPs and reetted the Pune In good order. Is new r ivnared to do good work. and to glwe verse & NMI& tertian. • M. 3. PRMTCHET. Ledlarsedle. Sept. 22. 1862.-17 p RICE LIST-CASCADE MUMS. Th.t gue'dy Winter Wheat Flour tol cwt.. 5‘ 5005 00 'fr.! rins , dl - Rye Flour V 1 cwt. 3 50 ..--n V, ,t and Rye and Corn - reed 2 25 (sir mares allowed to &lakes. ~.mm grinding usually dew at once. a• the (*- oily of the mill to angle:tent for a lure meant of H. B. niranest Canaptown. July 12, laki9. . • 73 \ TENT 11TVT ALTO WHITE winf: CLOTHES TlNES—Warranted not te w,ar. tare. corrode prialltre the time! fabrics. IN -Tar v. up and ready for use. The smaller -Ito.* the ivast Wert it. It will last for 20 to 50 ro.ba but three casts per font. tam now r ,•pared to put the, wire and migrant es aatisfaction co pay. if not Callad upon at vnu? boners. ad. Jr.', or call at Marshall C. It-mbars. pfarAtram store. L. DUTCHER Meet. Towanda. R LaICKSMITFIING ! 103 3 Ifail livonc completed my new brick shop. near my on Malu-stroet I aninow tr ....pared to do in all its branches. ` - Particular attnntinn paid XGi Imn% and edoe tools. Having anent many in thin community. In this bus.sess. I trim* .•nil be a pnfticent imsrantre of my remising a libel , .'mount of the public pateonase. HENRY ESIRMWDIE...„ 14.vav1A. Nov. 3. 1803.2tf . v f YERSBURG MILLS! The ambserihera are now doing Litigations In their ':n, oi the BEST QUALITY at the Matwawcza M!1.1.5. Wheat, Rye. and Buckwheat Floor. and Feed con. .;antic on hand for wile at market este*. • aii.o a lann , quarddy of (MOUND PLASTER of inmenne finality from the old Yannam nem. Ifyireburg. Pee. 20.'09. SUER ic TROST. XT F. NV 'DYEING ESTABLISH ... MENT. 11”. aubwriber take,. thin method of informing the ;maple at Towiri,la and iiclnity that he has- opened . iryong Establishmtat to Col. lizals Dow build- NO, ICA MAII STREET ,oppnoitt 1,11. Patton's'. and that be to now we parrd to do all wart In Ma line. inches CLEANING .nd COLORING ladies' and• gentlemen's Muments. /C , .. In the neatest manner and en the mod Oive me a rail and elan:due my art.• HENRY REDDING. Sept. 14f.t• BIiADFORff COUNTY REAL ESTATE AGMtI'Y 11. B. 3i , KEIN, REAL. ESTATE AGVEST .N;0.1.. Farms. Mill Prupertlea. CAT and Town et. t.r otrie. Part.ek having property for sale will and it to their .snts,e hy learnig a description ( 1 1, the same. with at this agency, as parte* are constantly 1.. r tarsus. he. U. B. McILE.IIII, IMEMESME MIMES HE UNDERSIGNED HAVE T er , ...ned a Rutting House in Totem:ids. under the "see F. MASON k CO. They ere prepared to draw Ella of Each age. and ...-ollertiona in New York. Philadelphia. and all i-ttoria of thn Unitod Staten. as also England. an.l France. To loin money. receive deposit+. 1t• • . to a tivni , :al Ranking brusinewa. M.nn wan .ne.of - the late firm of Laporte. M .ti Nen. of Towanda. Pa.. and lila knowledge of n. bu.torn. men of Bradford and adjoining countiee •. I Ilavlng been in the banking business for about f.: , -en year.. make this house • desirable one through i.“ ti to make coneetions. 0. F. MASON. Oet. 1. rm. A. 0. MASON. RioKs POR FARMERS AND STOCK BREEDF2f, 1% , ,,m•1 ruhunee of the AMERICAN' STOCK JOVE `:AI. IFA9 containing 324 large douhih column r • ••,•, ;011i poAtate paid for -.n.1 A omnArs of the American Stock Journal for 1+41.). containing 384 pages sent post pal., Put 150 rumrmsn'a Manual. sent) post paid for 33 is 11 ,,, ..emaria 1140011, 21 !lreeedcr•e Manual. •. Ps I'. try Breeder'• Manual The whole five Mannala vent poet paid to cam ad. dere. far $1 %gents wanted, to whom liberal iadorementa will 1.. ollien•d. Adders. N. P. BOYER Publishers, lanc9.3na Parkeatrarit, Cheater Co.. Pa. I\TEW FALL & WINTER GOODS ,Il MRS. E.J. PIERCE, )r..1 rvturued fracg.tiew York with • titst-clasa ...,k t manut'r GOODS ' c , l4.totlug of the titre* imported styles of H \1 A, BONNETS, RIBBONS, kr. kc wt.. n onid respertfully 'invite the ladles of Tovran. 1.1 and vicat:ty to give her • call before purchasing ••!•• •••vitert;. - Work done In neat and fashionable style nn short notice. airßooms over 11. E. Rosen 'oil Store. opposite Powell's, Towards. Pa. , -I.tentitt r 3n. 1869. • VFW FIRM! 1: ti" G OODS AND LOW PRICES! AT mommeroN. PA TIL & HOLLON, m °ramie* and Protiaione. Demo Ni,oloinot. Kerosene 00. Lamps. Chimney., Dyf stuffs. Plain. 0111, Yarulall. Yankee l..ba.•cc, cigars and Snuff. Pont Wines and :luor, the beet quillty . . far medicinal purpose" .t sold at the very lowest prio4s. Pre stn 'npt:"m• rarrfully compounded at all bouts of the .11.! taght. (AV° as a call. TRACY k ROLLON nr.4-v.n. Pa.. JULIC 74. 180-17. (111EAP PASSAGE FROM OR TO IRELAND OR ENGLAND. • LINK or , TTEAKARITII VIVM OS TO ,WELN*TOWN OS LITZEPOOL. lillinteB Old Black Star Line" of UV. r4 „ l....t...mtlirtit every week. I.me of Packete trims or to London, .ta Ll m tmlee a month. il , m.ttalwen to England. Ireland and Ekotland pay , ~./ ‘.• , Irth-ular., apply to Williams t (*Rion, Bra...FAay, !ie.,' York. or 0. F. MASON k CO.. Banker*, Towanda, Pa. =EI C r ` S. PECK, ATTLLWRIGHT Nlicarnst. Towanda. Pa. Milli bunt t Engines and Donets set In We best , U , 11 , !r I would call the attention of mill memento NEW VORTEX WATER *HER . s 'nth Loa all the demands of a tact-clue tootteri of omstrurties-aeoWslality.grest streanith rlt„,sta. dot - clop:mg the greatest amount of power for v..t, ua j easily repaired. running under backwater ton no &trauma, to power eseept dimbuttlimi'M head. nolo:nog no alteration to mW frames or addl• hut to fl•atne. will run under low bead, and made of .I,orot opacity. These wheels will be turnimbed than one-half the cost of any other timbal's/ sh—i is market. and Warranted to perform all that t. r...t.me,1 for them. These wheels will be made for 44, em wth or without men, on abort notice, of the best Iron to market. rm. full I.l.4enists address ormiqutes of then:tam O. 8. PECK. Towanda. Pa. P.s.—Tbese wheels eon be seen In operation at Horton & Wells' 11111. Towanda twp. Tba wh,...12 are wholly composed Mims as DOW sods. isn Dllr4 GENUINE IMPORTED NORWAY OATS. ' , AUPLES SDiT TREE T . ) FARXEBS. I rum 100 to 130 bushes grown to the acre.— (nom to to 43 pounds to the bushel. nib 'se , tat tweit grown ou evei7 euiety of moth Sod fo •t.:te of the Uuion. with the ',mod parreet woe- gra:n le very large. plump and handsome. Das a :”InUkable thin husk. and ripens either thin the c.l3:unl vanities. • Tie ..tratr 9 bright, clear, stout and lot liable to A ree ; -)l 4 t . scrivetly deer: of tusk sad Row* two Ito to • bore both Vie-White and MA Norway. both J . , kilns piloe and egttaily productive. W. sal send one quart of the abuse oats to etim.e postpaid tor.sl 00 T roans post paid.' 09 p,k e ut by express or trislalit, 300 Half bush -l. 20 pounds, I OD Out bushel. 40 pignuts. 10 00 C%rrloN.—tn, We wish it distinctly naderatolid rut this is not a Wait oats. weights* 211 to 1g rand in Nees England. and sold wider the vise of N. - essay but iniported seed, every bushel resres. 1,,.1t0 wiligh 40 fb. or the money retarded. ha:holes of both kind• sent tree for fora Wee-eclat ""zoli• Also circulars and test a:tonal& Address all N. P. 11017.11 Jr CO.. Jault.tu, Parkelbury,Chester Co.. Pa. . SHTON SALT PUT lIP :IN 4 A isle or anal/ fractal*. so V . ~~i .. g EEO fO': JUU :1 4 . • 111- & ? A.L.VOECD CLAUNKAA Tl F.4ENaittaillware i t i: . - VOLUME XXX. PEXIMIIMI. =X. JAMES WOOD, ATTORNILT AI4ID CovimunsPa._ . a ;,1‘ • • . • • DDWARD OVERTON, he., AT many AS L.R. TOlrlidA. P.. MOS tamed, occinged b 7 C. Adam 'e9. tzEOlittE - 11 - MONTANTE, AT- N-A TO EM A? LAW. 0800-420Z0W Or Main and Mao Strosb. • • • • Porkies Dg Mora AJ.:.r-EVIt; -ATTORNEY , AT •L. Tomada. Pa. Mb* over the Ba• lteep. south of timi Ward Haws. and moat!' the Court Hansa. acre L. R ATTORNEY AT LAW. TOWANDA. South side of Mem= Yew nuke sP seam. Dec. I. •10-4ort•- - L •` • W K THOMPSON. ATTORNEY • AT Law. Towanda, Pi. Of with W. C. !WPM Bw., Wo. 5 kick WM. AU business es trusted to his cane will be promptly attended to. - July I. 151 A. H. CAHNOCHAN, ATTOR • NET of taw =et Attorney Ur 'arse. ford Comfy). Troy. Pa. one tea& and prompt.. 17 remitted. Alb 16. 419—tf. TOHN N. CALLOF .A.TTORNEY fp,- AT Law. Towanda, PL Pa:l2mhz attention gtv. en to Orphans' Court btudtwow Coareparinli and Collections. ellir Mace at the Reinder and Ream det'a ram south ortha C.siart buss. • Dee. 1, Mt. IatENJ. AI. PECK: ATTORNEY ar Law. Towanda, Pia All business entesuded to Witmer. will receive prom, tallanidon. Oeias to the oboe lately occupied by Norm A Morrow. *oath of Ward House. ap stairs. • Jay 111. xparti•cint & MORROW, ATTOR- A.. L. NEts.xt L*w. Towanda. Pa. The undersigned haring associstad thenweirse together to the practice of Law. offer their professional seniors to the pablie. ULTMFS mem P. D. MORROW. March 11. 166 E • JOHN W. MIX, ATTORNEY AT Law. Towed,. Bradford Co.. Ps • GENERAL EGIBRANCE AGENT. Particular atication paid to Collections and Orpheus.' Court business. Oilloe—Mercuea New Mock. north aide Public Square: *MI. PS% B. McKEA N, ATTORNEY A.A. • AND CODNAYLLON AT LAW, Towanda, Pa. Par. Ocular attention paid to business In the Orphans' Court. July 20:138. T. DAMES, ATTORNEY AT • LAW. Towanda, Pa. Caw with Wm. Wat• tins. Esq. Particular attention paid to Orphans' Court business and settlement of &oodenta' estates. mr B. KELLY, DENTIST. OF • sr* over Wickham4 Black's..T6wands, P. Particider attention is rolled to dinuosing as a base for Artifkisl Teeth. Raving used this material for the pant four years. Inn confidently recommend it as being far superior to Rubber. Please call and ex amine speclniens. sar Chkkroforin ellsuirtistenxi when desired. may 20..61. DR.' IL WESTON, DENTIST.- Jur Mee in Patton 'a Block. OVer oOrd'S Dam and Chemical nom Jan 1. 169. B. JOHNSON, PHYSICIAN T• asn Stitozott. Towanda. Pa. Moe with W. B. golly: over Wickham t mask. Bealdence at the Means ilana.. am 16. '6B. T1R.,11. A. BARTLETT, Phrician and Mow.. Bum Ruiz, Bradford Cautity, Pa. OftMe at reaideuce formerly occupied by Dr. Ely. ang.10.1a5031 DR.ST E 'YENS, over Baow-ss (late ooszo Drug Store, Pation's Block. in offices Lately occupied in Dr. Ma= and Dr. Weston. 1149. . D. BEACH, M. D., PhyNiciun AA. and Surron. Towanda. Pa. Particular anti.. boo paid to ail ( Th rottle Diseases. and Distaste of Females. Office It his residence on Mato at.. two doors east of Dr. Drafts. u0v.11,6!. DOCTOR 0. LEWIS, A GRADIET ate of theeollog4 of . .. Physician, and Burgeorii," New York city, Class'lB434, gives exeinsive attention to the practice of his profession. Oftlon and residence on the eastern slope of Orwell Hill, adjoining Henry Hare's. An 14.'69.• B. CAMP, INSURANCE • Ankwr.—Cblhoe formerly occuplud by Mercur .k Morrow. oue door wouth of Ward Mouse. July 22, Is6i. LEWIS RHEBEIN, Faxhionable Tailor. Room over Aspinwall's State. TOWILIS. Ps. oct 5. 69. FOWLER & CO., REAL ES • Tsrs•Dr-usnis. No. 70 Washington Street. op. Posit. Opera HOW.. Chien . .. 111. Real qtr pur chased and sold. investments made and nomey loan- R. FOWLER. April 21. 1882. 8. LIND. $1 re p B. HOLLETT, MONROETON, • Pa.. agent for the Hubbard Mower. Empire Drill. Ithaca Wheel - Rake. and Broadmat Sower for owing Mater and all kinds of Grain. Send for dr ...laws to B. B. Hort.arr, Bonroeton. Bradford Co.. Pa. . June 14.'69—1y. TISIR WORK OF ALL KINDS, such aa SWITCHES, CURLS. BRAIDS. FRU, ETTS. ke., made in the bead manner and latest style, at the Ward Mame Barber Shop. Tenn* reasonable. Towanda, Dec. I. 1869, FRANCIS E. POST, i I r ;E:TER, Towanda. Pa.. wi th ten years e oe. la con fident he can give the beat ea • 'faction Painting. Graining. Stab:dug. Glazing. • . ring. k• . IkS.. Particular attention • • to jo • • ing in the cunnti7. aprA 9. I& JOHN DUNFEE. BLACKSJIITH. MONROETON. PA., paya parttetdar attention to L - oning Buggies. Wagons, tileighe. &s. Tire set and repairing done co abort notice. Work and charges guaranteed satisfactory. . 12.15.69. OH YES ! OH YES!-AUCTION A. E. MOE, Liorns•tt Askiiunr, All calls promptly attended to and aattsfactlon guaranteed. Call or address. A. B. Sloe, Monrootoui Bradford county, Pa. oct-26. 69. WiNT SUPPLIED ! The subamiber bens leave to inform Mediu...on of Towanda. that he is sow' prepared to PILE SAWS, SHARPEN AND REPAIR SCISSORS, lina do other Jobs In that line, on abort notice. JOSEPH MARSHALL Orders may be left at the store of Marshall Broil. & Co. dec.! -3w pATENTs! J. N. DErrER, Solicitor of Patent,: 73 nactAD STREET. WAVERLY. N. Y Prepares drawings, irpecifications and all papers required in making and properly conducting Appli cations for PATIO . = 10 the USITIZD trams and Fog mole Cocirranm No miasma to miscraczaertm CASES Ver. X 0 ATZOILZINY'R TEE TO .7AT CrClc PATZ2Ie OBTAINED. Sept) IL ISCA-tf O 'W. STEVENS, Cf UNTY 'SUR • rims. Camptoina. Brad* ad Co.. la. Thank ful to his many employers far p..t patronage. would respectfully inform the citizen, of Bradford County that be is prepared to do any work in his line of bud ness that may be entrusted to him. Those having disputed lines would dq well to have their property accurately surveyed beTore allowing themselves to reel aggrieved by their neighbors. All work warrant ed correct, so far as the nature of the cam will per mit. All unpatetited lands attended to as soon as warrants are obtained. 0. W. BTEMNS. Feb. 24. 180-11. Hotels. • W4RD HOUSE, TOWANDA, PA. On )Bain Street. near the Court House. C. T. SMITH. Proprietor. Oet. 11. 1866. , ELWELL HOUSE, TOWANDA, JOIN C. wthios Saving leased this Souse. is now ready to &COOMUIm date the travelling puLlic. Napalm isorerpeuse wfll be spared to give satisfaction to these who may give him a can. • firltorth aide of the public square, east of Mar ear's sew block. 141:3151:ERFIRLD CREEK Ho- TEL PETER LAND/LESSER, Having purchased and thoroughly retitled this old and well-known stud. formerly kept by Sheriff Grif fis. at the month of Rummeetield Creek le ready to give good solommodatlons and satisfactory treatment to all who mill favarldra with a ell. Dee. 23. 181111—tf. VfEANS HOUSE, TOWANDA, .1,91 /cranaw t Boteros. 'proprietors. 'This popular Hotel having treenithormighly tiled and re paired. and furnished thrwrighoullwith new and ele gant Furniture. will be open fari the reeeption of guests, on SATVIDAT. KAT I, 18811, liettleivense nor pains has been awed to reader*" Howe a model hotel in all its arrangetitruta. A superior quality Old Burton Ale. for invalids. Mad twined.. April W. 1889. TEMPERANCE HOTELt—Sitart te4 ou the nortleseet edam of Matti and Ell& beth streets. opposite Dryad's College Factory. The tederiggifid Wise reeently Waled Ids well. blown 'boarding-house with good iin.o&V.oris. would respectfully Intim ibe Wade that be is torw preperad the med llbenll to to motive gasses sad heathers upon rms. Jurymen and others, attesdlsgconzt leer/Ted any it to limir adesstept4lo Apiteasise the Tern pumas Hoed. II MINN. Peeps. no. 1% 1 sliko-alsIL e. D. PIMPS . .. ..' . ;,i. - i'i ' ', ..r,!`.>. i" - ti , `. ,6 1 , 3'..; —!.....': ) 3:,:::. ' l =i.'.: '.'i ... e , -. ' , l:i i'• • ~, ! ;i., --i ..." •. , 4k ... •f 1.'..k1'i , f , .'. ';', t , tia 1,1 • '.1"; two, •; • - The Revert int dead la the Vinod.. • ' The mea4riwa ire diesiand lose; • For ander the truipbri Ibis* and midst . "There leaned a tante ekne, ~ Obi there tuider the sablitrites— • . For the houghs are shaken bare . The clay ia dampen her hidden eyes, And chill on hew Tellow heir. - Her into hands ield senate,: Idy beautiful teeth asleep; Inds front aortae and ale and loss, r • • And never again to *cep. Serene. and - forever at rest, While the stoma above her rave; • My heart lies broken and dead inlay breast, As the clods that cover her grave. • ;' LOST IN THE 'POSVOFFIOE. The will lay upon the counter be fore me, and my eyes were riveted upon the large cover which. contained it, and which bore the inscription, "R: Grey, Esq., Mitre Buildings, The Temple, .London." 'Within it lay Kate's destiny and .mine. Whether we were - to be married or not, before out hair was gray, -was the secret wrapped up,in its folds. To go back to the beginning. My father had been the junior partner in the old bank of Fletcher & Shindy, of 'Thornbury, which had come to grief' after an honorable and old-fashioned manner, paying off all its debt, ac eordin& to the customs of forty years. ago, at ex pense of 'the firm, who thereupon became poor men. My father had many friends, and in those timed, when political influence had its,finfter in the bestowal of all pub lic'ofeces worth having, the members ofjour Tory borough had little diffi culty in procuring for the ex-banker the 'office of Postmaster, they vacant. The bank offices, occupying the grOund floor of our residence, were altered somewhat 'to snit the new ptirposes .to which they were put. The public business room became a sort of outer office, and my father's priVate apartment the stamping and sorting place for the letters. The upper portion of the partition wall was thrown - down, but left at suffic ient height to screen the inner room from the observation of any peron iu the outer one:' , . yet it was open enough to make every word audible in either part, unless intentionally spoken in a whisper. In the course of a few years my father appointed me his head clerk, upon the promo tion of the previous clerk to an office of his own; and 'our united salaries amounted to LlOO a year, besides the numerous perquisites, which at that time of day fell to the share of the Postmaster, such as' . private letter bags, and the postage 'upon local let ters. We had two under-clefks, and the 'duties were light; very different from what tney have since become, us I. am told. .The penny postage had only just come in; postage stamps were still an institution of the future, and money orders had been a recog nized branch of the establishment no more than two years. Only four years before the stamp duty on nexis , papers had been 31d apiece, and the wildest Whig had not yet dreamed 0. a penny paper. There were hours in our post office when our two sub ordinates were more than sufficient for all the work of the place, and my father's liost was little else than a sinecure. One of the borouglinien who- had been most active in procuring. this comfortable berth for us, was a - - -old• cronl) 4 of my father's—both of 'hem were Masons, and both dabblers in chemistry—and Nlso the wealthiest man in the whole neighborhood. Hv was a bachelor; and continued to live' very much in the simple and inex pensive style he had'been used to in poorer days. His money bad grown by lucky speculations and careful economy. A good number of his kindred lived about the town, ad moderately well off, and more or loss successful in life, except the brother next eldest to himself, who, having. entered the Church, end gained no higher promotion in it than a poor curacy in his native town, with an in come of 4100 a year. Old Lawrence treated him with a kind of fretful, ir ritable brotherliness, which was but poorly plastered over by a yearly gift, grudgingly given, of another hundred., .need, scarcely say that all the kindred were specially affec tionate to old Lawrence. His niece, Kate Lawrence, the cu rate's daughter, was—well! I shall not try to describe what she was, ex cept by saying that I was in love with her, and had been ever since I had first se,ru her in Church, listen ing with a beaming and loving face, to her father preaching one of his prosiest sermons. Everybody knew I was in love with Hattie, for I made no secret of it; nd Hattie was just as simple and frankly in love with me, and made no secret of it either. Yet I am not sure I had ever asked her in so many` word's, if she would be my wife;! but we were tacitly, without plOge or promise given, en gaged to marry one another as soon as fickle, fortune -would permit it. When - that would be . the most pro phetic soul could notdoretell; forma - lavish household expenditure at home which had notbeen materially reduc ed upon the failure of roe bank,,swal lowed'up the united income of my father and myself; while my three sisters were portionless, did notseem in a fair way to make eligible settle- Tents,. There was only one chance, a distant one—when old Lawrence died, would he leave Katie or her fa ther any portion of his accumulated wealth? Six or seven years had passed with out any brighteningof our prospects, when quite unexpectedly, one morn ing old Lawrence s housekeeper msh ed in with the. news that she had found her master dead in bed. Only the night before he and my Anther had been trying some chemical - ex periments, and the shock to the lat ter was so violent that he wasiinsen- Bible for some time; and • cohtinited speechless after his consciousness bad apparently returned. Of course, my mother and sisters were in great agi tation. and it was ab hour or two be- - WM! FOLSCUO ...Ll. ~ _ ~.~ .r.tt kski :et• 3:4 btAO telecteb tap. EMI = 1221 ~~~~ ~°~ 4 : ' forel.eould leave - them, afterWaist !Leg to get myfather.tubed and send. ing for i doctor. As SOolliaS I could however, I hastened to the poor mil. tan , ' old Man's house. ' The streets,' were alliWeommotion; and thewhole ,tower seemed , - in a fever of 'cariosity concerning the 'sudden - event, and what might result ',from- it. In the house itself found 'every :one of the' relatives who lived in the -town, . eluding two younger-brothers and a =Tied sister of the deceased; 'and by the side of the -dead mane eat Ka tie's father. genuine tears of sorrow blinding his eyes. - - The excitement, once awakened, did not seem likely to shnnher again fill curiosity was- sitisfied. It was 'plain that the old' twin - had died from natural causes; but aa soon as the town was assured of that, 'the ques tion upon every tongue was, "has he made a - will?" or, "How has he left his money ?"' *as myself devoured by anxiety, of which I was.- half ashamed. If he had died intestate Katie's father, as heir-in-law, would come•into possession of • the lauded property and into a fourth part; of his personality, which would •be no insignificant windfall in itself. It was & subject which might well thrust itself upon me, in spite of my father's serious Attack, which seemed not un like a stroke of paralasys. During the course of the afternoon old Lawrence's solicitor, Mr. &ape, was announced, and I went to speak to him; He requested to see my fa ther, with a very impatient tone and expression of countenance. "It is impossible," I answered, "quite impossible; he can't see any one. He has not spoken since this morning, when he heard of the sud den death of his old friend. Arnold is apprehensive of paralasye. Is it anything I can do ?" "No, no," replied Mr. ≊ "your father is one of the executors of Mr. Lawrence's will, and I have brought it here with me, to consult with him stout it. The other'is Gray, of the Temple. , Under these circumstances I Suppose I must forward it to him; and perhaps it is best; it must be proved at Canterbury, and Ihe can see to it at once." "Why at Canterbmf?" t asked; eagerly. - , "Because there is landed property in three difierent dioceses,' , he atir swered; "I'll send it to Gray by to night's mail." "Well, my father Can do nothing," ' I said, *ondering all the time wheth er Mr. Snape knew what 'were the provisions of the will, so momentous to Katie and me. ' There was a will, however; that far MIS certain. A kind of 'wild hope, which had been kindled in my brew t was quite quenched by the visit from Mr. Snape. I felt myself sinking in to a gisomy depression, which afi peered exceedingly ominous to me e For three or four hours I brooded thspondingly over the fast that there was a will, scarcely allowing myself to cherish a particle of hope that Ka- Ha was provided for in it; for how often does a rich man leave his mon ey to the poorest of his kindred ? I bad nothing else to occupy my mind. My mother and'sisters sat weeping in my father's darkened and silent room. All the windows in our house had the curtains drawn. At 'last it occurred to me that this was the last day of September, rind that the mon ey order account, which was made up quarterly, ought to be balanced and sent up to London by the night's -mail. Glad of anything to work at, I went down stairs to the inner office found the necessary forms, and set myself steadily to the task. • I had just completed it, and folded tip my balance-sheet, when Ileard a footstep and voice in the outer office; both loud, and of a kind to arrest at tention. They belonged to one of Snapp's clerk's, who had come in to post his master's letter. "Look here," he said; "I was to see you take this one straight in to Mr. Slaney; it's on no account to be left here with ordinary letters. It's old Lawrence's will, I guess. By George! 1 only wish that my name was inside of-it.' , It was brought in to me immedi ately, and placed before . me on the ceunter. I did not touch it, but there it lay, a long narrow packet, not, ovet large or bulky, yet contain ing the whole of Katie's future and mine. I cannot say how long I sat before it, fascinated, perfectly spellbound; my eyes riveted upon it as if they could . see through the thick cover land read the momentous lines witli in. I never touched it with my fin ger even. I felt as if I no more dare do that than I would have dared to tease and arouse some deadly ser-: pent. • I am conscious, however, that net the shadow of an idea of opening it ever crossed my mind. 4t last I Melt a warm, smooth little hand laid uriern mine, and Katie's voice whisp- . e‘red close to my ear: ,"What is it yo 're staring at, Harry' r' There was, of course, an entrance into this inner office from the house; pd Katie had stolen in several times fore, when I was alone, and had al ways spoken in the lowest of whis pers, lest the clerks in the office be yond should overhear her; yet I start ed nervously at the sound of her voice and the touch of hei band, and she was oblige d , to repeat her ques tions before I seemed to comprehend. "That is your uncle's will," I an swered. • Her eyes met mine, and there was a strangelook in than, such as I had never seen before; an uneasy, trouble, some, almost sly expression, She had been crying pntil they were red, and appeared smaller than usual un der their swolen lids. Ble dropped h pe er re 7elids hurriedly, and then whin "If "if there bra been no will ?" I answered her as if that. were a question, but afterwards it Occurred to me that it was but an 'involuntary utterance of her wish. "Your father would have been an heir-at-law, Katie," I replied; "and you a great heiress." As. I was %making sn. alarmed and hurried voice • called loudly for me from the interior of the houee- r e voice so uigent, and strung to such a pitch of terror, that it drove every thought of evezything else out of my MET . . . . •-: =', . ...;-;'..,:, I ~., • - ,:f - .•,,-; tLi -, ~.. t'. - :' :,-,- - ' - '...-ft . " . r.r.: -"" - : i .3 . • - .. ! . , . . TOWANDA '-'' ; ; ADFOMCOUNrI.; , PAii,MARCHIO . ' 187V - . 6 'r'.,-v--':'''""'''',''''''''''''' •7 . . *am' -t w o three -bounds 'lluungUP 74r 4 / 11 4 - ragiatc , EAY fatt,, , a's whevo: every . nue Iv* in confusion and dismay . ,SOue of his attack OFUe : . faeliPeeFeu ; Win , theeff9llie!i 0 0 0 4‘ A friend - . ships and son, existed between bitn - and,me;-i "'WY Pletle:frie4dehii4 : _wkioi:" 'awn- with my:growth, from bey hood.; To lose him him" : would _ bo to lose my life. I did not give a thought-la my official duties; the (IneeleU was nothing to me; and during . the Uhole of : that long night I never left 'my lather's side. The next morning he wasprououn ced to be out. of immediate danger, thoughhe'-continued speechless; and seemed scarcely conscious of ~our presence. By dint of persevering en treaty my mother -persuaded Inc to go, and lie down, when I fell i to one of those utter and awfid jethargiee, deeper and. mote :death-an than skiv e which now and then seem to come to _obliterate any, bipression stamped too:deeply upon the brain: When I awoke felt calm and strong again. Katie was in the house, and she and my sister lavished, upon me those, trivia feminine attentions so inexpressibly soothing •after any great emotion, when one is suffering from the languor which usually fol lows it. When the hour for making up the mail arrived, I went down into' .the office, and made some, slight ries as to how the clefts had man aged the work the .eveuing before. They had been late, of course; but"' the mailcoachthixe was no railway near • Thornbnry thei—had waited for them to complete their evening's dispatch, and they believed that everything had. gone ;as well. as usual.. - - :". 1 i•:.1 - 4.---!..''-:',.!, 5.7 ' . ' . its' , r,'-',%l::ii A f : . , ‘ , "4 if • •-',. a! ~,AloArozaso or: orroroumor...llllollCAST (11LUMILL;4,- But the return mail proved that everything had not gone off as 'well as usual. Onr mail, leaving Thorn bury at 8 P. M., reached the London office about noon the nextiday; and the return mail not quitting London until about 8 p'clock of the following morning, threw the arrival of the answers to correspondence to the fourth morning. On the fourth day after old Lawrence's death, to the serious inconvenience of all parties, there appeared no reply to Mr. Snape's communication to Mr. Grey, which had been enclosed with the will, and in which he desired to be immediately aNnainted with any instructions left by the deceased in regard to his. funeral. The nest London mail was waited for, hilt there was still no letter; and then the interment necessarily took place, while the solicitor addressed a second communication to the executor. - I waited ilith the keenest anxiety, the arrival of Mr. Grey or his reply, .and all the town-.was on tip-toe of 'expectation. The relatives did noth ing but meet one another and dis euss the will in all its possibilities. There was a wistful look about Katie's face. It was nine days now since old Lawrence's death, but the wonder instead of dying out, was growing greater every day. Why did not the executor come to satisfy the general curiosity, and set the general mind at ease? The mail-bags .reached Thorubury about midn ight, i and were ordinarily deposited In the office to await the appointed • hour for opening them at seven in the morning, which was considered quite early enough for the accommodation of the public. But upon this occa sion Mr Swipe spent the evening with me, and when the mail arrived, he and I went down alone into the quiet office, whae I. picked out the London bag , oneued it, took out the bundles of letterm, ran my eager fin gers and 'eyes over them until I came to the one I was in search of, and handed.it over to the lawyer. -; There was a dead silence in the hour and place; only the clockjick ing off the seconds as evenly as if nothing was happening,. I watched Mr. tinape's face hungrily, as if it would reflect and disclose what he was reving. The letter wets brief, but he read it over twice. It seemed a very long pause of suspense to me, yet I suppose three minutes had "Hele y scarc pad. says be has never heard of old Lawrence's death!", exclaimed Mr. Swipe at length; "he knows nothing about his will—has never received it!" "Never received it!" I repeated, "not received it! But I could take my oath it went from this office." "Did you see it go into the bag yourself?" asked Mr. Snaps. • I hesitated a minute or two, for that deep, lethargic sleep 1 spoke of had dimmed my recollections of that night. I relnember it was the night I had left the two under desks to do all the work alone, while I was watching beside my father; but, I recalled also the exact spot where I had left the - will on the counter, reared up against the folded money. order account, which had been duly acknowledged. If one had gone safely, why not the other? • "No," I answered after a long pause; - "I took it in and left it here on the Counter; but the clerks did the work that evening: It would be impossible for them to overlook it. Besides, We should have found it the next day if -it had been. left behind, and I should certainly have informed you of the irregulaiitY. No. It must have gone from here." So said the elder clerk when we questioned him in the morning. He Would not positively swear to it, be eause they had been hurried and flurried over their work; but he was quite sure it must have gone, if it had been on the 'punter as I des cribed. other' clerk, - who had taken it in, and knew -it to be old Lawrence's will, had not made up the London bag, or would have taken special notice of it, and would i have-been able to swear td; it. Still bath of them were very positive that it bad not been left behind; though it might- have got into the wrong bag, and then miasma: "I'll go np to London by to-night's until," said Mr.' Snape. Nothini could be more significant of 'the importers ce of the document; for a journey to Loudon by enach: occupying sixteen hours at the swift est, was not undertaken for a trifle. PEN #: '?!..14 - 1.• i MESE MEM M The 1 41 1 004' wi ichhad beim 4 0 Togi': ing me Was DOW ` to ii keen er point; butteathlifrAnislaiiiiia' I keep the -affair Attieti an long as possible, and I said nothing about it . .to any, one, my tattier being still to -ill to have it confided to„hins, As for the tieing runner; rigid men; 'there their telling tides out of selicial, after being onto moiled -to keep. it' :49 thenuselves for the present. , But the anxiety. Iliad suffered fore was security itself coinpiired with my' consternation and 'disquietude when returned, - accompa niedAiy, Mr. Grey; who asserted that he:had seen nothing-ihatever of the packet Which, had been posted in Our office. There wee not the'shadow of a doubt of that last circumstance: The clerk who received it, and, my self, were' compelled to admit that it had teen safely deposited with us, but no trace "of it could be found be yond that Both Snaps and Grey had been to the general post-officeto make inquiries there, but nothing was known of it.. T he whole onus of the disappearance rested upon our office and the three persons within it. It was simply impossible to keep the mysterious loss of old Lawrence's will - any longer a secret. - The 'rela tives were ready to pull air. Grey to pieces as soon as lie showed his face in thelown. Was it not shameful, scandalous, that a fortnight hid al ready dragged by, and no one knew how a quarter of a million of money —for rumors said the old man's wealth was no' lef;s—had been be queathed ? With real reluctance Grey made known...the facts. There had - been ,a will ; he and the poet master were executors ; it hid been posted for him on the night after old Lawrence's death; and nothing more was known about it. The excitement in the town was tenfold, a hundred fold greater now than on the occasion of the testator's sudden death. Our post-office was beseiced, and the clerks plied with questions, while I kept myself sly out of sight in the inner office, brood ing in perplexity over the singular occurrence. I Could arrive at no other conclusion than that the • pack= et must have slipped into a wrong bag, and so been missent. Of course . . there were worrying inquiries made by the London authorities, to . which I could give no other reply than this supposition. The Affair was of such importance that official circulars were dispatched to most of the offices in the kingdom, requiring any informa tion concerning any tuissent letters ; and in the course of a few weeks a handsome reward was offered ,for the discovery of the missing document. About five weeks after old Law rence's death I received a summons to present myself before the surveyor of flip district,. a Mr. Talbot, who liv ed sixteen miles or so from Thorn bury. He, too, was an old friend of our family, and -had assisted in ob taining the post-ofrce for my father. He was one of those jovial, courteous old g entlemen of a past' generation, who liked to make his own and every one's life as easy and agreeable as possible, and - who had somewhat of an aristocratic contempt for the ex acting public—far less exacting then than now. I received a cordial greet ing from him, was set down to s good dinner, and forbidden to speak Of business until he began, which he did over our wine. " Now, Harry, just tell me all about it, as shortlyas possible," Antd Talbot ; and I obeyed him. " But this is a deuce of a Mess!" be exclaimed, when I. had finished ; " the will must be found, Erie. The authorities insist upon it, and I will not answer for the consequences if there is much longer delay. Do Yen know what yonr townsfolk ftre say ing, ins boy ?" His manner had changed from con sternation to anger, and then into compassion, al. he spoke ; but I only looked into his friendly face and shook my head in reply. " They say just this," he continued, "neither more nor less—that the will is in your possession. . They say you are going to marry Parson Lawrence's , only daughter, and by keeping back the'will you expect him to come in possession of all the property." " I should be a fool if I did," I an swered, stammering ; for this phase of my position had not failed to oc cur to me. " A confounded fool," he added, chile ; " the estate will be thrown in to Chaucer 7, and the lawyers will get the best pickings out of it. Come; Harry, we are old friends ; I knew you when you were a baby, and your father and mother years before. You might tell me anything, my boy." " Thank you," I cried, grasping his offered hand ; " but I have nothing more to tell. I swear I know noth ing more about the will than you do." " Could anybody else knoiv of its being in your °See besides you and your clerls?" asked Mr. Talhot. Strange to say—so strange that I mai-egad at it myself—until that mo mentinhere, ther forgOtten, , or it had been kept back`from recurring to my memory, that 4atie hid been with me when my mothers z}ggniaed voice, alined to me. Like ' ROWS' vivid revelation made by a flash of light ning, lurid and blinding, came baek the position iu which we stood, and the last words I had uttered. The events which had followed had been so hurried and engrossing; the sleep succeeding to Ahem so exhausting, that the impression must have been for the time almost obliterated. It returned all.the keener uow, and my pulse stood still, and my heart sank heavily. Katie had been there ; Ha tie bad semi - her uncle's will ; I had left her behind, me lathe office alone. I- answered incoherently, stammer ed, contradicted myself, and at last, for almost the only , time in my life, fairly burst into team - Never did , a poor, weak wretch appear more guil ty than • I did. My friendl=for he was truly my friend---nrged me, im plored of me, in yain, to 'confess all, and make hick the confident of my temptaiiiiin and my fault; he gave it no harsher a nate. - It was impossi ble for me toted a suspiision , nrxm little; though as I came to think quietly over it in ,iuy bedroom+, -I stayed all night at M. Talbot's--Ii Could not banish from mo the dread " . :; . '- -, : , ' 1 ,6• -1;; ,, f :'.: i..i is . •,,,,,i, : -:.;"--- fi...),-;ik.xii-: } ~ +-. - .. mingisingdiathere lir the :solution ofillet43 l fterY.snysilf flint it'flist would nothingbat ffrriCinitPeitY, had , changed: Int&-shaine atbk.teritr upon hieing the consequences of Ur action ;• and that eletrAsy Inuktoadejt-more im ixosAl4o, fp! ,her , to • own .her Thenzetarnad 'powerfully to :Me. the fascination the mere sight of the will hidikeircised over me, and the .con- des • which had rushed to -my brain 110 sat staring at it. A tenth part of such a temptation, -I was to argue, would be too' strong for the curiosity of a woman the most deep'y. interested in its contents. Yet /cote was so good, so simple-minded, so religious; should I be forced to lose my ran in her ? No ; I could not believe her capable of a dishoa, arable and criminal , action.. Yet where, then, was the will ? It will he readily . credited that I did .not sleep that night, and that I was haggard and miserable-looking in the morning. The hairveyor made a last _effort to gain my confidence, and my agitated reserim produced upon lum that I was guilty. The last sentence he uttered, with unit= anal sternness, was to the effect that, unless the will was speedily found there was no hope of my retaining my office, even if my father kept his, being shielded by his dangerous ill ness atthe time. • I rode homeward, wretched enough, and found Snape awaiting my return. Mr. Grey had gone back to London, after. staying no more than. a few days in Thornbur g . •• "Nothing discovered yet?" said Snape. • • . • ' " Nothing," I answered despond ingly, "If there was, you'd have no need to come to me. I should be on ly too glad to let you know." "It beats everything in my profes sional experience," he continued. . "!.That's no satisfaction to me,'".. I said,:in a testy tone; "the question . is, what is to be done if the will does not-turn up at all?". _• • " The very question all the rela tives are asking," replied Snape. "Mr.. Lawrence drew the will - up_; gave imp° hint of its - contents, and has left no copy. We are every one of us utterly in the dark as to his in tentions. We cannot proceed as if he had died intestate ;' all the world knows he..did not ; and no one has a legal right Co toich, a penn2; of his. lifoliertY•" - ` Will it be thrown.into chancery?" I asked. " There will be nothing else for' it, if-the will is not found," he said; " and, to let you into a secret which concerns you, some of the relatives are talking of a prosecution against you. But, I ask them, -what proof have you that Mr. Henry Slaney has. abstracted this document? The ab straction of any letter or packet frOM ,the post-office is felony, such letter or packet being the property of the Postmaster General during its tran sit, and ,the penalty is penal servitude or transportation. But how can the felony be proved ? There may be good grounds for suspicion, strong presumptive evidence—his own ad mission Of having received the docu ment, and a sufficient motive ; but there is no positive proof, unless it 'was found in'his possession, or in the possession of some individual who could only have received it:from him." "It is a pleasant position to be in s 7 said I, biting my nails viciously, which is no habit of mine, but which seem ed to come 'naturally to me in these circumstances. " If the will could only be found," answered Ur. Snape, with a provok ing'significant tone, "all might he smothered over even now." • "If it could only be found," I said, over and. over •again to myselL As soon as the solicitor was gone, I went up stairs to my mother's usual sit ting room. My father had that morn ing been pronounced well enough' to leave his room fora few hours, and lie was sitting-In an• easy chair near the, fire, with a faint smile upon his sunken face, which grew slionger whenhe saw me, and 4 --forced a smile to my . own lips. " All going ou well down stairs, Harry ?" he said. " Why not ?" I-answered evasively ; " why not? The work is simple enough?' ' He was easily satisfied about that, but not so easily about myself. What had I been over to Mr. Talbot about? What made me look:so pale and anx ious? Was there any • coldness be- , tween Katie and me? . " She is a girl after my own heart," said my father warmly, " a perfect treasure. Don't you let her slip through your fingers, Harry. By the by, now we are alone; tell me how poor Lawrence made his will, and what he has done for Katie—some thing handsome, I hope? Your moth er would not let me speak •of it, for fear of,excitement." I hesitated for a moment, but so briefly that he'did not notice it. " The will cannot be found," I said. " Not found!" he repeated. "Yes," I continued, hurriedly, "but every search is being made for- it. Snape is positiVe that there was a will executed a few months ago, but all he knows of its contents is that you and Mr. Grey are the executors." " Poor Lau-mike I" sighed my fath er. " Do you .think.they have search ed his , laboratory well? It is not un likely-he would depo_sit — it there, in his cabinet. Tell them to leave, no corner tinsearched in the laboratol.'' I promised to do so„ and : made haste to get itway: In the drawing room I found. Katie, in her, mourning dress and bonnet, come in to go a wa king with my Sisters, who luckily had just started off before her arri - She advanced to meet me, with both her hands stretched out.. and with . her. usual frank, pleasant, calm smile upon ber face. There was no one there,. and I stooped down to kiss her, feeling myself an unhappy, guil ty wretch; as if I were the culprit, and .nnworthy . to lay my lids upon her Smooth, fair forehead, which grew , rosy with inyldis. " Hairy I" she murmured, in a tone of. remonstrance. "I am so miserable, Katie," said I; and on the instant I resolved to. lay before - her my positiou r —to exam er ate it, even ;.to paint it in the black est colors ; and then to make it plain .1,48144=P;ei Annum In. 041,4.44r4int'e50... lEEE t)q* fne)bfklr- IMO !if - . :.'1 e.,..te; , ,; , , ';'.e.. 0 5 - , , .' ~ ~,,...i ',.,',,,j MEM NUMBER 42. to her that, could the will be found, all: might yet be explained away, and smoothed ovei, without any public exppoossar I did` raj , best, and - tic. qiiitted myself's° well that she shed torrcnts of .tears, her head resting upon :my - shoulder ;- but net ble did ohe utter which in the ahght est degree hinted or betrayed that' she bad any knowledge of . the miss ing ' - • "Katie," I said, when :I bad ex hausted ninny eloquence, "von un derstand that no one now will come into liossetmion of your uncle's - prop erty?' - No one 1" she Asied, lilting up her head, and looking earnestly in-any face.. " I thought if there was no will my father would • haie everything. Yon said' he Was heir-at-la*, - and I should be a great heiress: It Will not Signify if you do lose your situation, Harry. I shall have enough for us both' ; and if every -one in the world thought yon guilty, I should know you were innocent . ." , •" But, it will be thrown into chan cery, instead of coining to anybody," I said, a cold. hard .feefing toward her creeping oVer.kne. • "But chancery 'could do nothing after all but give the landed property to 'my father , -she persisted ' • "there ,ciai be no nearer heir , and if the will is lost, it is the same as there being no chincery has: any sense," she added, half gaily. Very heavy indeed grew my heart. I attempted again to impress upon her the position iu which her father, herself, and all the relatives stood ; hut she either could not understand it or would not believe it. If it came to the worst, sh a answered, they Would 'Oll. agree to some arrangement for the division of the property, and her father, being the eldest, and the heir-at-law, would receive the largest share. She would be air heiress, and why should I fret myself about a pai r try place in the post-office ? I could not, for the very life of me, - look her in the face and say : "Katie, is it liossible you - were overteinpted and took the will?" Yet I could not 'shake oft the growing conviction that this waathe truth. • idespair of con veying to you the hundiedth part of the maddening conflict of my feelings during the next few weeks. My love for' Kate Lasirence, my disappoint ment: my strong desire to believe her innocent, my pity for her, my close vigilance upon every word and glance Which fell from her, my terror lest the truth should become knoWn to any one else_ There could be no sus picion of her in any heart but mine, which loved 'her so truly,_ and was willing to endure mistrust, cold looks,. and angry insinuations, for her sake, yet which eveiv day was growing colder towards her, and more full of seyere judgments upon her crime: 4pectation was dying away in the town, and hope.was almost.dead with at me. . It was not possible to keep the,.,se- Cret any longer front my father, when he became able to attend till/mine/is. A London surveyor, accompanied by. a detective, cane down to investigate the matter thOroOghly ; but they could learn no snore than was already generally kne/wn. It was a severe trouble to my father, and serious consequences threatened him iu spite Of his plea of sudden and dangerous illness. The fact that he was one of the executors told against him I with the•strangeri who were appointed to hivestigate the affaig.;- for they ap, paired to argue that ho might have taken possession of the will, though it Was illegal to ,do' so after it had once been posted, and for some rea - sou or - other suppressed it. throwing the onus of the loss upon the post office. When nothing could be discovered . by the surveyor or detective, old Lawrence's relatives held a family meeting to consult upon what - was to be done, But it waa'...not very - clear, what the law would permit them to do in such circumstances ; and there WAR not one of them who would not have agreed, to proceed as if he had died intestate.. Every lawyer! in Thornbury had given.. some opinion, and received a fee for it, upon the point ; but nothing was clear and certain. • - • Those were the most miserable three mouths that ever passed over my head. The changed faces of my townsmen, the suspicion attaching to me, and the near prospect , of igno miniously losing niy post, were hard to bear. But the deepening convic tion of Katie'sguilt,i and my gradu ally decreasing love for her, were in comparably harder. She did not fail to feel the coldness and distrust of my manner, and, being a girl of spir it, she did not fail to mark the change by a corresponding change . in her self. I pondered over so& questions as these : "Hoc was the will miule?" and " What had-she done with it ?" Had she destroyed it? br was-it, still in existence, to be discovered, per haps, at some future day, towork . a just judgment upon her? 'How ever it might be, I knew that my Ka tie was lost to me forever ; yet not for worlds would I throw upon' her the suspicion which weighed so heav ily upon me. The last day of the year came. There had been a semi-official letter in the morning from Mr. Talbot, in timating that the people of Thorn bury were dissatisfied at my retain• ing an important and confidential place in the post-office, and that their complaints wore about to be noticed from headquarters.' My father only partially recovered, was very low, and my mother and sisters cried a. inter vals during the day. I found my self, as utival;• in the Office about the same hour in the evening - tas when olft-Lawrence's will was brought in and laid before me on the counter, just as I had finished and folded up the qttarteity. 'money-order account. Another :quarter was ended, and I said, with some ,bitterness= of tone, '" that there could be no objection to me making up the account once again." The forms upon whicli they were drawn o ut 'were kept iii a small drawer in the counter, and I found them packed , rather tightly, having evidently been pushed in in some haste and coo - fusion.' The drawer 'would only open with_a short jerk, and-aa I gave it, I head a sound of something filling behind, while the drawer 4;1414,1)0i „A5y41444,z1 atoorittetiettirlistid —you Will luvre-glibuted-elready— therelli-LisivitoWit, wilWook inerprecho7. as it, bad, dose . . lay on the ct:ounter before me, di : 'E4. Mitre.,l*ild in th;The Temple, London." _ _ I gave , a great about, _which ,made my 'father epring -up' f rom hie , and fell down on my knees lotion the 'emptY *here - ther — dintwer - had Wei, scare* able to stretch out my hind How - it bad got there was pleln'inumh - to me: , j 1 had left _it-lying/among the f. forms, which were not unEke it in Idler and size, and :this -,elerka com ing in to their hurried and untteemi tomed work; had_clearedthe counter after a. summary Milan, by -sweep ing them all away togetheo, in the drawer beneath; which was used for -no other purpose and never opened eseept on the last dap': of Xarch, tkuic,.Septembtic and ft , mber. It had been'lying there all! the, while, under my hand ascore of, times a day, while Thad been suffering one of the bitterest conflicts a man can 'suffer for it. - ' ::f: ~. When :I looked ?mind; with the will In mytrembling hind, • there stood my father and the . two clerk's from the 'auto' office, who had:rushed in on heiring my shout, while through the door which -they had left open a lucky unit of-the.publia surveyed the scene. . - " Old Lawrence's I..gasped. and the unit immediately darted in to the streets tb proclaim the dineov• . - Almost before I could recover in %- voice, which sounded choked and un natural in my own mrs, or had riSen from my knees and picked up the fallen drawer, the outer office was , iu- Vaded . by a crowd of (melted and ani haus inquirers, some of whom press ed into our sanctum, and began shalt, big hands with me in 'the frenzy of good will and congratulation, which now and then breaks out among the sympathizing public. " ' , Old Lawrence's relatives *ere not long behind their townspeople.; they came in agitated - numbers, Katie and her. lather among them, with - Mr. Grey, who bad been spending his - Christnias at Thoniburx„ She look ed pale, and my heartlanote 'me for my babe, treacherous, insane suspi cions of her. She neither glanced* me or spoke to me, -and when irl father invited all the relativerand Mi. Suape to go,into the home, she pass ed nie, 218 I stood humbly at the door, with averted head and a half-digni fied carriage. . . 1 . As both Grey and Snape were pies -1 out, it was unanimously opted -that lllthe Will should be opened and read upon the spot. Several, persons, with no immediate interest in it, liad made . eir way into our. drawing-room. and - us nobody seemed inclined to turn them out, alai, remained, stand ing against- tho.firo:place, and watch ing steadfastly far sonic glance from liati&'s eve.• - , Mr. Suave ,opetied the sharply, and started. off at reading, With none 1 -14 his .professional deliberation and delay, but as if he .was as eager to get' at its contents usany person present. It was a short document, and did not take many minutes- to TOO it. ,The property was worth about ,t70,0(m, ..E.30,900 of which was left in legacie-: to old Lawrence's brother and sister . midi the residue bequeathed to thy testator's _ beloved neice, Caliarine Lawrence, on the sole conditibn that she -married Henry 8/Ailey, the son •of hip -old friend, George Slaney. PostmaSter of Thornbury. If other wise it was to- be - divided equally among his brothers and sister. All that followed may, easily be s ,, ue sell' I had to make a thousand protestations of my love, and imploi. Katie again-and again to consent to be my wife—a thing which. We bad both taken for granted years before old Lawrence's Will was in - thO . -post office. Ify situation remained nily own, until she relented, which she did' not do Until, by my father's ad - vice, I confessed to her the reason wliich had caused my change of man ner toward her -; the _ painful suspi cions which had thrust _themselves upon me, and the bitter sorrow had produced. We were married l e..t last,- to the concealed disappointment and chagrin of her affectionate rela tives ; and I ceased to be among .the number of post-office clerks-. THE LION is HIS OLD AGE.-- - -When a young lion reaches the age, of two years, he is able to pull down a horse or an ox, and so he continues to grow and in increase, in strength till he reaches hig eighth year, when his tal ons, teeth and mane are perfects and he grows no more. For twenty years after he arrives at maturity, his tal ons and fangs show no signs of de cay, but after. that he grows feeble, his teeth fail him, and he grows cub bish. lie is no longer a match for the' tremenduous buffalo; he prowls around the cattle, crawls'and snatch es a lamb or" a kid just as he did when he set out with his 'strength, nearly thirty years before. A woman or a child at, night shares the same fate. His strength and sight now decline more and more, till the mighty lion grows lean and mangy, and creole about from plebe& pkce, eat ing any offal he can pickup, and de spising not even so small an animal as the field - mouse, and he starves and dies, or is fallen on ,and slaugh tered by a few cowardly hyenas, or is discovered unable to pore, beneath a . tree, and knocked in head by song. Wandering Inffir. Go Two. "Young rnaui-Itio you be ileve in a future state?" "In course I does; and What's more, I intend to enter into it as socn, as Betsey gets her wedding thlgs ready.". "You mistake me; - do you believe in a future siateL of rewards and tam:. ishmentsr • . "31_ost," asiuredlyi if I should cat mug,* with red-headed woman,' should expect my hat- indented by the first broomstick she could lay her hands on." "Go to, young man, you arc incor rigible.- Go to." • - "Go to! If it wasn't -for the law agin bigarr-blessed if I wouldn't:go sa dozen . ut who upposed, deacon, that a man of your years would give such advice to a'person just starting_ in .life?" Ai almost obsolete beverage in the Booth—the cotton gin. A LATTLE girl lost in London streets, on being questioned as ,to her tareutags and place of birth, rep lied that she isms the •• eh ild of sin" And was born in wrath." Josa Ihumos says : "The laiml is a larger turd than the gum or turkey. It has two legs to walk with and two more to_kieb with, and it wares its wings on the aide of the head." A FRESCII girl asked the priest the other day, " - Why is it, father, that we ask every day for our daily bread instead °tasking it. for a week, W =bath or a yearn "Why, you hula goose, to hay° It fresh. to be wirer was the re. Or.
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