2 Stye mc0, Neu) Blootnficltr, )l IK V. The Lost Will. K Story or Old Tlrglnlo. ; ; J , coxcludkd. ' 1)EItHAPS FRIEND COX saw it on my face and thought It had better.be brokeu abruptly, . ...... "Thee comes to say thnl tho will is lost, friend John?''' she said. " " "1 rHrWlo savOf, looking in the fire, avoiding h11 eyes. "Gone. Sholter, aa proxy for Mainuel Pierse, takes possession orthc plant afions to-morrow. " And the HMipHt?'' cried Hester, start- '"K"l- . " They are all to bo transferred to the place in Georgia." "Sold?" , . " No; not immediately.'' The girl burst into tears, pacing the floor. " My own peoplo I They were kind to me when no one else was kind not even my own mother 1 Old Maumer ! that nursed me in her arms ! They shall not go ! They shall not 1" "Can nothing be done?" said Friend Cox, half-crying. " Nothing ! I proposed taking the house servants oft Shelter's hands; but he would, not," . , '! Hoster forgets her own loss," she said in a whisper. " I do not," the girl stopped. " It is unjust. God knows I feel that ! I am no meek saint. But I can help myself. What can they do my poor people 1 You think mo silly, perhaps; hut they were all I had to love for years !" her face growing crim son as she looked at Rob. A silence followed. Hob loaned his head on tho window-pane. The girl paced to and fro, controlling herself. " Hester," aaid the Quaker, at last, "I see but one hope for thy house people. It nay bo that, in time, this man Picrse will relent, and dispose of them to me or friend John hero. Then it will all be right.. Thou art my child now, thee knows?" "Except my sharo in her," I said. Hester was near the old lady. She turn ed impulsively ami threw her arms about her. "You know I thank you both !" Her voice was clear enough now. "But, listen to me. I have made up my mind. My Father, nor his daughter, ever took back a promise, and I have made one in my heart to my people. I can not be dependent on you on any one. I will earn my own bread, Friend Cox, and, after a time, I'll buy them back." Friend Cox smiled and smoothed her hair. But I saw tho fashion in which the girl's lips closed, and knew she would keep her word. Bob Johns pushed away the curtain and .finin tin to tho! hearth. I don't think he remembered that I or the old lady were there: ho saw, spoke to Hester only. "Do you know what I think of myself, Hetty?" ho Baid in a tone whose bitterness seemed to come scalding out of his heart. " Do you sco mo standing here a man of twenty-five ignorant, penniless years, and chances squandered 1 when I ought to have been strong to help you and these wretched souls? Squandered 1 God help mo 1" He covered his face with his hands. Sho put hers trembling on his shoulder. "I've a strong arm yet, and u strong will !" he broke out, catching the little hand. " Yon work 1 Never 1 if there is any trace of man hood left in me 1 1 can dig if nothing better! Hotty 1 Hetty I Make a man of me ! Let me work for you I Uivoyoursulf tome now! You shall see me other than the idle wretch I have been. (July believe in me believe in me!" " I do I always did, Robert, You shall work for mo. But not together. Let us try our . strength first. Let me do some thing for my people." The girl's strength .was giving way. She grew pale trembling. "Come, child," said Friend Cox, "thee has bornu enough. To-morrow we will talk this matter over," and led her from the room. Bob Johns and I soon after took our leave. Friend Cox had upbraided me witli too lux a manner in dealing with young people. I thought this a good time to reform. So as we rode down the avenue, I began in a tone calculated in itself to carry conviction. " Young man, you might have been pre pared for this. I have warned you of the helpless, ineflicicnt thing you were making of yourself, time and again, but to no pur pose. A more stitl'-necked, hardened youth in following his own idle fancies never fell under my control., "What can I do now ?" " Well, Uncle John," said Boh, turning his face with u miserable smile, "you might as well just call mo ' Bob' again, and let me work out my own salvation. Little Hetty's tears have preached more to me to night than all your counsel." " Bob, you're a roprobato," I answered. " However, we'll try and have you admitted next mouth, and I can throw a good deul in your way the first term." Somehow I had no doubt of Rob's earn estness and perseverance, nor was I disap pointed. He " took hold," as the Pennsyl vaulans say, of work and study, gave up wine and cards with scarcely an effort. Af ter all, a man must have stimulant.' Bob had found the purestearthly strength-giver t he hope of working for a heart that loved him. She did love him, little Hetty. Loved blra enough to work at her task cheerfully' trustfully. She worked hard, no shrinking or make believe. ' She was employed as a teacher in Richmond, and a good thorough little teacher she made by-the-way. Friend Cox would not give her up altogether, so kept her with her; and every dollar the girl owned was laid up for the one great purpose, to bring back her " people-' to their old hoTm;"- "' - -. Years passed.. Strange enough, you think, that twe tree, honestly loving hearts should be kept apart for years by the want of dollars and cents. Yet I have known such things happen more than once in nov cU, if not in real life. ' Now comes the unusual part of my story. Immediately after the projierty passed into the hands of Samuel Pierse and his agent, the negroes were sent, as I liefore stated, to Georgia, and the house offered for rent. An Alabamian planter and his family took it, who were spending the winter In Rich mond. He leased it, he informed me, for two years. I was surprised, therefore, when I met him in the reading-room of one of the hotels a month after and learneil that he had removed to town. "The house was unpleasant." Very soon after another tenant occupied it; but only for a few weeks. ' Another followed,' and another. Strango stories began to be bruited about of noises and lights unnatural, and not to be accounted for by any rational theory. The negroes talked; the white tenants themselves, half-ashamed, whispered mys teriously, said it was nothing, but present ly decamped. Hholter was in despair. Sa tan himself was in the house, he said. Other people said it was only the ghost of old Picrse. ' To make a long story short, things went from bad to worse, until tho house was utterly deserted a year after Pierse's death. ' So it stood for about live years. In the meantime Bob Johns had been gradually taking his placo among the rcliablo thor ough members of the Virginia bar. I helped him to practice, of course; so did Brady; so did everybody. But he helped himself most. Earnest, eager, throwing himself into every cause as if the cause were his own, and gainingevery day a deep er, more subtle knowledge of the science of jurisprudence, Bob Johns bade fair to rank among: our highest jurists. He came to me one day,' as I was leaving the office, and leaned over tho back of my chair in his old loyish way. " Uncle Page," for he had a fashion of calling me this when any thing touched him, " uucle Page wish me joy!" I looked up and said, "Hester has re lented?" " Not altogether. She will bo my 'wife; but she will persist in helping me bring back the servants. God knows when we will be able to accomplish it. Hetty had a scrawl from undo Joe, hist week, that would touch your heart. We'll have to struggle hard enough, but we'll get on, I don't fear." Neither did I, looking in his face. Tho wedding I learned was to !e in a month. It so happened, that very night, that I was riding out past the Pierse plan tation. I called Pine up to mo as we reach ed the house. 'I thought, Pine," I said, "that house was vacant now ?" " So 'tis, Mars' John. Lord save us, see dat light indent winders?" ' " Cortainly. Sholter must have a tenant in it." "Not a tenant. Do house am haunted, dom ignorant niggers sny. No truf in dat, ov course." " Very well, Pino, suppose yon ride up and see about the light. It only would be right to givo Sholter notice if tho house is tenanted by vagrants. The furniture is there just as Pierse left it." Pine turned a sickly yellow. "Mars' Sholter's no friend of mine. Guess I'll not go if maister'll 'xcuse me." Thore never was a more arrant coward, I well know than Pine. His horso kept in advance of mine a few paces out to tho country house where I was going to dine Coming home, I was jrtined by Brady. Wo jogged along together, slowly, for the road was muddy. Arriving near the Pierse house, I perceived the light again, and pointed it out to him. Brady was a young man, reckloss, and, to be honest, excited by our host's champagne. "They say that house is haunted, Mr. Page," he said; "did you know? May I never die if I don't go up and have a bout with old Pierso's ghost !" He turned his horso to tho roadside, hitched him to the fence and began to cross tho field. "Come back, Fred," I cried. But he would not. " Well then, I'm with you," I said, and followed, determined to see it out. What would tho junior members of my law-school have said if they had seen me lumbering over a stubble-field at midnight in search of a ghost? However, they did not see it, and impelled by some boyish whim breaking out under my gray hairs, I pushed on, followod by Pine, his teeth chattering. " Gor-a-mlghty," he said, "old Mars' is done 'cracked I Hope he'll pay for dis In his gouty too I" We reached the house ' at last. Brady scrambled up the )iorch and jieepcd In the windows. ' "Old Pierse has met withjcongenlal com pany, if bis ghost is about," ho whispered, coming down. "Though I thought the woman led him such a termagant dance a he wouldn't cat to repeat." ,' ' " What woman, Brady ?" -, J ' v "The mulatto don't you recollect? that he kept as housekeeper, and who ruled the old wretch with a rod of iron." Impossible.- He sold her a year before he died to a Louisana trader." "tf! he' did," Mars' John," 'said Pine, taking courage, when he found the conversa tion was reasonably un-diabolic, "she corned back, Ole Kit you mean ?. Fore old Tit ' i;-.! ..i ' : . t - 1 .1 I lersu uieu snw was uaiigui rouiiu mio swamps, they say, an I heard got in an saw him once when none knowed it but Jake. After the rumpus bout dat box he wor feared to tell." The same thought struck us all. Pine, forgetting his fears and rheumatism, climb ed up and peeped in. " It's Kit," he said, descending. " She's sittin' iu style there." " Mr. Page said Brady, "will you ride into town and bring out a couplo of police men ? I will bo bettor able to keep watch if she have any accomplices." An hour after Kit and a big strapping hoy, her son, were safe in custody. The boy was recognized as Beefsteak Jim, a notori ous thief in the neighborhood. Under cover of the reputation of the house as haunted, the woman had now occupied it for years unharmed. ' Whilo the magistrate was committing them to jail, Brady and I held a short con sultation in my ollice, determining on what course to pursue with the woman, to ascer tain if sho were an accomplice of Sholter in destroying tho will. Early the next morning wo went to her cell. She was an old negro, with high cheek bones and sallow eyes denoting Indian blood, mid more than Indian crafti ness. " BcIVmo the death of your Master Pierse," I said, (assuming the asKcrtant scheme for extracting evidence), "you got into his chamber alone, and terrified him into confessing that bis will was made and hid in a box under the mattress. You car ried tho box oil' and concealed yourself and it souiewhero in the house, until after tho funeral was over." I saw by the woman's face I had guessed correctly, and despite her oaths and curses persisted, threatening her with tho utmost punishment of tho law if she refused to confess. . Aided by Brady and tho magistrate, I succeeded in eliciting the truth. Sho had not acted as Sholter's agent. We had wronged him there. Part ly to rcvengo herself on Hester for having caused her dismissal, partly to ensure tho house as her own hiding-place, sho had de vised and carried out the plan. Under tho granaries there was a secret cellar, commu nicating with tho house by a passage iu the wall. In this cellar, of which she only was cognizant, sho hiul concealed herself, and ly means ol tho liiuucn passage had pro duced tho unnatural lights and noises that had brought upon tho house tho name of "uncanny." . " But the box ?" said I, eagerly. " What will you givo me if I tell you?" she demanded, her heady eyes sharpening. "Lilierty, and a pass to Ohio," I 're plied. -" I couldn't burn or break it," she said, moodily. " I tried, ' Lord knows. It's there in the cellar." It was there safe enough; and when we opened the rusty lock with the key which I had always retained, there lay the yellow paper that gave Hester Wray her own again. For reasons that we had, our discovery was kept a secret from every one but Shol ter, and Friend Cox, who, for tho first time in her life, I suppose, liecamo a partner in a conspiracy. It was a busy month for Brady, and Pine, and mo. However, our work was accomplished in time. Tho wed ding night arrived, clear and starlit, A quiet wedding, Voing at tho . house of a friend, yet full of deep content. Little Hester's cheeks wero paler, it might be, than five years before; but the grave smilo in her eyes was more constant and pure. As for Bob, he had worked long years for his Rachel, you saw the marks of that on his face; but you saw, too, that Rachel sat islled tho innermost want of his soul. So we had a happy, holy wedding; one which, I doubted not, tho God of the orphan girl could smile on and bless. , , When it was over, when the tears and good wishes were past, and the supjier- tablo (ah ! what cooks these Friends have !) attended to, I joined the group where the brido and groom stood. , " You aro going to tho North for your bridal tour?" I asked. . . "To Canada. Yes, uncle Page," said Hester, blushingly claiming share in Bob's relationship. . "I have a favor to ask you. It's ten o'clock now, and tho tiain you travel in leaves at twelve. Let me carry you oft" to pay a visit." "Isn't it a littlo unreasonable?" said Bob, glancing at the wondering faces. "Not a hit. Thee must go thee must go," hurried out Friend Cox. She and Brady entered the carriage with us, leaving her husband to explain. When we drove in tho gates of the Pierse planta tion, little Hetty begnn to tremble. " Why do wo come here?" she asked. "It hurts me - to remember my people, and to night---" " ' I t , 1 ' 1$ - 1 1 hurried Iter .out of the carriage as it Stopped. "Oqly some friends,? I said, who want to wish you Joy, Hester.', i ' She stopped; some quick thought flashed Over her face, and, In ber old impetuous way, she sprang up the steps and opened the door. ;.... The lighted hall was crowded with black faces bright with joy. We heard a tumult of laughter, apd shouts,' and weeping. "Uncle Page, this is" your doing," said Bob, "No Canada now; this is better." , . I pointed to the hall table where lay the abestos box. ' Hester needed it but little. "Oh 1 Maumer ll of you," she sobbed, "thank God ! You are all here to-night.'.' Old uncle Joe held her by the hand. " Hush 1" he said, in a busky voice, kneel ing down. " Let us give thanks , unto de name ob de Lord !" One of Mr. Lincoln's Merciful Jtst.. ,, . Col. Forney tells the following iu the Washington Sunday " Chronicle,", among his interesting " Anocdotes of Public Men:" " While I was secretary . of the Senate there was scarcely an hour during any day that I was not called upon to help some body who had friends or kindred in the army, or had business in the departments, or was anxious to get some poor follow out of the Old Capitol Prison. These constant appeals were incessant demands upon the time of a very busy man,butalabor of love, and I am clad to remember that 1 never undertook it reluctantly. One day an ener getic lady called on me to take her to the President and aid her to get a private sol dier pardoned, who had been sentenced to death for desertion, and was to be shot the very next morning. We were much press ed in the Senate, and she had to . wait a long time before I could accompany her to tho White House. It was in the afternoon when we got there, and the Cabinet was still in session. I sent in my namo for M Lincoln, and ho camo out evidently in pro found thought and full of some great sub jeet. I stated the object - of our call, and leaving the lady in one of the ante-cham bers, returned to the Senate which hud not yet adjourned. The case has made a deep impression on me, but 1 forgot it in the ex citement of the debato and the work of my office, until perhaps near IU o'clock that night, when my female-friend came rushing into my room, radiont with delight, with the pardon in her hand. " I have been up there over since," she said. "Tho Cabinet adjonrnod, and I set waiting for tho Pres ident to come out and tell me the fate of my poor soldier, whoso caso I placed in' his hand after you left; but I waited in vain- there was no Mr. Lincoln. So I thought I would go up to the chamber of his Cabi net and knock. I did so; and, as there was no answer, I opened it and passed in, and there was tho worn President asleep, with his head on the table resting on his arms, and my boy's pardon at his side. I quietly waked him, blessed him for his good deed, aim came to ecu you the glorious news. You havo helped mo to save a human life." This is the material if not for solemn his tory at least for those better lessons which speak to ns from tho lives of tho just and purci 1 . . A Singular Case. Iu the Summer of 18(10, in liuzomo Val ley, Pa., Mark Wilson and Miss Wallaco, a lovely girl of eighteen, had hoeu engaged for some mouths, when she suddenly jilted him, and without explanation forhado him to enter her house. Wilson plunged into dissipation, and rapidly lost his character, his business, and his small means. He was frequently heard, with fevered energy, to lay his ruin at her door, and vowed revenge with tho most determined hitterness. Shortly after he made preparations to leave for Europe, hut before doing so by somo means persuaded the girl to take a drive with him. Ho gave out at tho livery stable that he was going to an occasional picnic resort, in a wild gorge among the neighbor ing hills. 'Neither of them returned, and days after tho body of the girl, stabbed to death with a pocket knife, swoin to as Wilson' was found iu tlio turbid water of a brook that threaded " Picnio Gorge," Bhowas buried in an agony of sorrow, by her loving parents, ami tho day after tho fuueial Mrs. Wilson, nee Miss Wallace, re turned from New York with her newly- wedded husband. 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