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ELL ; is that atl ?"
" Is that all ?' repeated the as
tonished man ; leaping to his feet. " Pray,
sir, isn't thnt enough ?"
"No, sir, it isn't ;" rejoined the other.
Yotir story is false. The property was
duly delivered to my sister and myself, and
we have the deed of it. My father was
perfectly honorable. And now you wretch
ed vagabond, I'll .take your case into my
own hands. If my father is afraid to turn
you out of the house ; I am nftt. I
warn you not to let me put eyes on you in
his house again ; if you do you must suffer
the consequences. I warn you further to
leave this town withiu twenty-four hours,
or I'll make it hot for you. And I advise
you now to show me your greatest amount
of speed in getting out of this office, and if
it is not fast enough to satisfy me, I am in
tho mode to accelerate it. Start now ?"
Bewildered as he was, the importunate
lecturer was not too much so, to act at
once upon tho latter advice. He was in
the street before ho knew it ; and walked
without knowing whither until he came to
a hotel, into which he stepped, throw him
self into a scat aud began to collect his
thoughts.
He was not tho man to bo long in doing
this, and he mado a plan very quick. lie
did not dare to go noar Mr. Lawton's for
fear of meeting Geoige ; so he wrote a note
explaining his situation, and warning Mr.
Lawton to keep his son in check, or devel
opments would be mado at once. Having
despatched the note he sat down to think
over the matter calmly, saying to himself:
' How could I have been so deceived in
that matter 1 It's unaccountable, but
can't be helped I I should feel rather dis
pirit od if I did not know my otlior infor
mation to bo correct. Ah, ha 1 1 hold that
over the whole of them. My timo will
come yet." "
Upon receiving the note Mr. Lawton
went immediately to his son's office, and
George repeated his experience with Mr.
Stuart with considerable indignation. His
father listened quietly and then said :
I have also a story to tell, Goorgo,
which 1 ought to havo confessed long ago ;
but it is not too late now, and I hope in
season to makjp restitution.".
Mr. Lawton then related to his astonished
sou the history of tlie disowned daughter,
in substance tho same as Mr. Stuart had
said, and ho continued :
" It is all true, George ; I havo done very
wrong in this matter ; but how this man
Stuart knows of it all, I cannot imagine ;
we must take steps at once and prevent
him doing mischief, and do what is right
by the poor woman. 1 have long since re
pented of my unjust, wicked action ; but
the load is off my conscience now, and I
will see justice done if it takes every cent I
possess, and I have to go to the poor-houso
in her place. What is tho first step to
take ?"
George was very thoughtful for sot
time. At length he said :
" This can all be mode right. I think
can see the way clear through it all. Let
us first go together at onco and see the
woman." -
As the went neither spoko a word,
George was busy with thinking how to
manage Mr. Stuart, and so save the credit
of his family. He reasoned that the man
had, in some unaccountable way, got hold
of these stories, and was intending' to extort
money to keep quiet; but the lawyer quick
ly saw that this could be kept up indef
initely, uulcss-eome means was found at
once to circumvent him. Pondering this
in his mind,they arrived at the alms-house,
The object of their visit was mado
known, and they were admitted into the
presence of the unfortunate woman. After
her divorce, while living among strangers,
she had adopted the name of Mrs. Crayton,
and was known by it here. In her younger
days she must have been possessed of more
than ordinary beauty ; and, notwithstand
ing her careworn face, unmistakable traces
of it still remained. She was a small wo
man, barely up to tlie medium height, and
her form was shrunkeu from sorrow and
sniveling. Thick, heavy hair, still fell
about her shoulders, and although her ap
pearance was very singular, it was calcula
ted to inspire pity.
She knew Mr. Lawton, aud at once turn
ed away from him ; but he wont up to her
gently, and said :
Mrs. Crayton, I have come to do you
justice, and to ask you to forgive, as far
as you can, my wicked course."
" You expect to impose still further upon
the crazy woman, I suppose. What is
now ?" inquired the woman, in a sarcastic
tone.
"My poor woman, do not say that. Try
and be reasonable with me, now. I am
willing to make amends for my false rep
resentations as to your soundness of mind.
You have been greatly wronged iu many
ways. I ask you to leave this place, and
come to my house, where tho property loft
you by your father who forgave you before
he died, shall be restored to you."
" Oh, do I dream ?" exclaimed tho poor
woman, clasping hor hands over her head.
" No ; I guess not !" exclaimed a sneer
ing, yet wavering voice ; and every one
turned about and met the small, piercing
eyes of Mr. ' Stuart, peeping In at the door.
.The woman started, looked at him an in
stant, and then with a loud cry t 1 Reu
ben why are you here?" she sank almost
insensiblo to the floor.
At the sound of that cry,' Mr. Stuart
jumped as if he had been struck. ' He
pressed both hands to bis head, his eyes
started wildly, and he gasped for breath.
Mr. Lawton and his son looked at him In
amazement ; and well they might. The
man ws no longer the same ; tho expres
sion of his face had entirely changed ; its
hard, contemptuous look had given place to
one of extreme, mildness, and the 'cold
keenness of the eyes had been changed
to a gentle graze. But he was in a state of
the most utter bowildormcnt. Ho looked
about him aud said :
" Where am I? What is this place?"
The two gentlemen in turn were as much
bewildered, and thought tho man insane,
so the superintendent was summoned. Mr.
Stuart continued to ask questions, and was
beginning to grow quite wild, seeming pos
sessed all the time to get rear Mrs. Cray-
ton ; but he was hold back, and a physician
called iu quickly. A long aud careful ex
amination was mado upou the strange
patient, lie scorned to recognize no one
about him ; never remembered having seen
Mr. Lawton beforo J did not know whore he
then was or how ho came there. He made
inquiries for unknown persons, and kept
rcpeatodly asking to be allowed to speak to
his wife. When asked who his wife was
he pointed to tho room whoro be had seen
Mrs. Crayton.
The physician at length expressed Jiis
opinion, which was : That, for an unknown
space of time, Mr. Stuart had been out of
his right mind, from some cause also tin
known ; that tho spell under which ho had
been, had been suddenly broken by some
agency with which ho had not come in con
tact during the time of his insanity. That
agency seemed to be Mrs. Crayton, whom
he affirmed to be his divorced wife, and
whose scream of recogniton had recalled
him to himself.
The woman upou being questioned ad
milted that he was onco her husbaud, and
that tho last time sho had seen him was in
the court-room years befote, when the di
vorce was granted, at which time his whole
manner and appearance seemed to chango
at onco, so that many questioned whether
he was not mad.
The case was explained to Mr. Stuart,
and he was assured of the kind by feeling
of all toward him. Ho Blowly recovered
his self-possession, but was like a stranger
in a strange laud. The ,very last thing he
remembered was being in tho court-room,
and it seemed but a moment ago that ho
was there ; all the intervening time was
a blank.
A week later tho scene at Mr. Lawton's
house was a very interesting one. Mr.
Stuart was still there, but how changed !
Ho was almost the reverse of what he had
been before tidy in personal appearance,
good-natured and gentle, with a winning
smile and pleasant voice. One would not
have known him. Mrs. Crayton, too, had
changed. And what a pretty woman she
was t The light had come back to her eye,
the rose to her cheeks, and years seemed
to have rolled from her brow during one
short week. Sho was now standing with
her arm resting on her former husband,
and both having promised to forgive and
forget, and to livo happily in the future,
were about to be re-united in marriage.
The whole story soon leaked out as Buch
stories will, and great was the sensation
made thereby. The lecturer was forgiven
when the circumstances were mado known,
and his lecture no longer treasured up
against him.
All the family kept the secret of Mr.
Lawton's wrong-doings to themselves ; and
although the alms-house superintendent
suspected something wrong, yet ho could
never get hold of any facts to prove it, aud
so said nothing. But Mr. Lawton had
lcarued a lesson, which he never forgot,
and he tried to aton e in many ways during
his lifo. He could not but reflect upon the
strange freak of the crazy man, and how
very much he had said iu his lecture
which was true, which applied to himself,
although probably not one in the hall at
the time suspected it. And he reasoned
with himself :
'How far can this apply to others? How
little we know of men and their inner lives!
How little we dream of the way some of
our respected men havo mado their money,
and how little we realize their unhappiuoss
iu its possession, because of the anxiety
which continually haunts them, lest dis
covery overtake and ruin them 1"
Thus ends this narrative. It only re
mains to say that at lust accounts Ella
Jarvis was making frantio efforts to havo
everything ready for hor wedding-day,
which was near at hand. George Lawton
had a bride be might well be proud of, and
he richly deserved her. Miss Flora still
went along lu her old way, very disdainful
of everything and every body, except a
few special friends, and as she did not
propose to make an "ordinary match," or
marry any " common" man, the prospects
were excellent or her to live on in single
blessedness, and see hor friends gradually
leave her, one after another, for happy
homos of their own.
Ills Own Detective.
OLD Jacob Britzer kept the village store
in Bucksport. : We say th -village
store because it was the largest, and, In
fact the only store of any consequence in
the place. Like all country store keepers,
Jacob kept for sale dry and moist goods of
every description, and both village and
suburban gossips mado his place their cen
tre and tilting ground. To this the trader
did not object, because he was himself of a
social turn, and because these hangers on
were all customers. Occasionally Jacob
missed certain articles from his shelves and
counters which he knew had not been sold,
and he could only imagine that they had
been stolen. This . thing oontinuod for
more than a year, and Britzer with all his
watching, was nnable to detect ' the thief.
There were several whom he deemed
capable of the deed, but bo could not fix
the crime upon either of them.
At length, on Monday morning, Jacob
Britzer entered his Btore ; amipon remov
ing the heavy wooden shutters from the
windows he discovered that the large glass
top show case, near the main entrance,
had been robbed of nearly all its contents.
At least three hundred dollars' worth of
fancy goods had been stolen a large
amount for the country store kcepor to
lose. Jacob had locked up his store on
Saturday night, and had not visited it since
until now, nor had tho keys been out of
his keeping. For a brief space he was
thunder struck then, for an other brief
space, he collected his thoughts, and re
flected. His course of action was resolved
upon. His flrst decided movement was to
lock the door by which he had entered and
draw the curtains over the windows. Next
he replenished the show-case from a fresh
stock he chanced to have on hand, making
it look as neatly as it looked on Saturday
evening that not even his clerk was
likely to dotect any ' change. Thus the
matter, so far as he. and his store were1
concerned, was locked Tn his own breast,
and so he meant to keep it. Having ascer
tained that the thief had gained entrance
by a rear cellar window, and having so
covered the tracks of tho guilty one that
his clerk would not observe them, ho open
ed his store, and prepared for businoss.
Half an hour later the clork came, and de
tected nothing out of the wuy. (This
clork wo may remark was Jacob's own
son).
The day passed customers came and
went as usual the gossips chatted over
their beer aud cheese, while old Jacob was
attentive and affable, never betraying by
words or sign that anything had happened
amiss. In tho evening Peter Hawks came
in. This Peter Hawks was a farmer, own
ing quite a place near tho outskirts of tlie
village, who had of late been loading a lifo
rather aimless aud thriftless. It had been
Peter's custom to spend a good part of the
day in tho store, but on Monday he had not
put iu an appearance until after tea ; and
even when he did come he failed to talk
with his usual volubility, but remained for
the most part silent, watching what others
had to say.
At length the hour grew late, and ono by
one tlie gossips dropped away until Peter
was left alone by Jacob and his son. The
solitary customer arose from his chair and
after a littlo nervous hesitation ho ap
proached the storekeeper with,
" Ah, Jacob, that was quite a loss you
met with. Have you any idea who did it?"
" Who did what ? asked Jacob, dropping
the piece of cloth which he was folding and
looking, up.
" Who robbed your show-case last night?"
"Yes," answered Jacob, with stern
promptness "I know exactly who did it?"
"Eh, who?
" You did it?
" Me 1" gasped Peter, quivoringly.
"Aye you did it. I know you did it
and thus far the secret is entirely between
you and me. You are the only other living
nan besides myself who knows that I have
been robbed at all !
And then Jacob went on to explain to
his customer how he had managed to de
tect the thief. Petor Hawks was forced to
own up ; aud in consideration of his return
ing the goods last stolon, and paying for
those stolen on previous occasions, and
also promising to steal no more, he was let
off. But he did not remain much longer
in Bucksport. Having settled with Jacob
Britzer, he made all haste to sell his farm
aud remove to parts whero his short
comings were not known.
tW A Greon Buy (Mich.) clork, who
had a miud for logic applied it to a farmer
with advantage, thus: Farmer "Got any
cowbells?" Clerk "Yes; stop this way."
Farmer " Those are too small; haven't
you any larger?" Clerk "No sir; the
large ones are all sold." Itusticus started
off and got as far as the door when the
clerk called him back. " Look hero, 'stran
ger; take one of these small bells for your
cow and you won't have half the trouble
in finding her, for when you hear her bell
you will know that she can't be fur off."
The logic was Irresistible, and the farmer
bought the bell.
t3T Good expands and wars with evil all
over the earth, first to contract and impris
on, and finally to destroy it.
SUNDAY READING.
On Marriage To the Young Men.
The true girl has to be sought for. She
does not parade herself as show-good. She
is not fashionable. , Generally she is not
rich. But Oh I what a heart she has when
you And her ! so large, so pure, and so
kind, and so womanly I When you see it
you wonder if those showy things outside
were really women ! If you gain her love,
your two thousand are a million. She will
not ask you for a carringo or a flrsfc-olass
house. She'll wear simple dresses, . and
turn them when necessary, thotioh vulirar
magnificence frowns, on her economy. She
will keep everything neat and nice in your
sky-parlor, and givo you such' a welcome
when you come homo that you'll think your
higher than ever. She'll entertain tine
friends on a dollar, and astonish you with
tlie new thought, how little happiness de
pends on money I She will make you love
home (if you don't you're a brute), and
teach you how to pity, while you scorn, a
poor fashionable that thinks itself rich, and
vainly tries to think itself happy.
Now do not, I pray you, say, any more,
" I can't afford to marry." Go llnd the
true woman, and you can ! Throw away
that cigar, burn up that switch cane, be
sensible yourself, and Beek your wife iu a
sensible way. , ' '
How far we See.
Ilerschel was of tho opinion that with
the telescope ho used in those researches
in the hoavons, which immortalized his
name iu the annals of science, he could
penetrate four hundred and ninety-seven
times further than Sirius, assumed to be so
far distant that tho sun is near at hand in
comparison. While exploring with that
instrument, 110,000 stars flitted by the ob
ject glass in a quarter of an hour, that sub
tended only an anglo of 15 degrees. So all
the worlds are moving rapidly lu space.
Beckoning from tlie limited zone thus in
spected, tlie wholo celostial region could bo
examined by giving time enough to the en
terprise ; and, judging from a few sections
only within tho scope of assisted vision, ,
more than 5,000,000 of fixed stars might bo
reasonably supposed to be recognizable,
and could be seen with modern improved
instruments. But more are beyond, and
when Mr. Clark, the self-made astronomer
of Cambridgo, Massachusetts, and tho
most progressive telescope manufacturer
known to scientists, has completed his
great work, far more amazing discoveries
will probably be made in the firmament.
t3?" What a blessed day is Sunday to the
weary man who necessarily catches but
brief glimpses of borne during the toiling
week, who is off in tho morning while tho
littlo eyes are still closed in slumber, not
back at night till they are again sealed in
Bleep I What would he know of the very
children for whom ho toils, were it not for
the blessed, breathing respite of Sunday ?
What honoHt workingman's child will ever
forget this day, when, clean and neat, it is
his privilege to climb papa's knee, and hang
about his neck, and toll him the - news
which goes to make up his narrow littlo
world? Narrow, did wo say? We recall
the word, for it widens out into the bound
less ocean of eternity. Sunday for the
workingman's children ! So would we have
it a day hallowed by sweet, pure, borne
influences, when the little band, quite com
plete shall rest from labor, and love shall
write it down the blessed day of all the
seven. '
A Mother's Influence.
A man finds he cannot make his way in
the world without honesty and industry ;
so that, although his father's example may
do much, he has to depend upon his own
exertions ; he must work, he must be hon
est, or he cannot attain to any enviablo
rank. But the tender soothings of a moth
er, her sympathy, her devotedness, her for
giving temper all this sinks deep in a
child's heart ; and lot him wander ever so
wide, lot him err, or let him lead a life of
virtue, tho remembrance of all this comes
like a holy calm over his heart, and he
weeps that he has offended hor, or he re
joices that he has listened to her disinter
ested, gentle admonition.
When the brethren of Joseph had
cast him into the pit, they beheld a com
pany of Ishmaelitcs coming from Gileod,
"with their camels bearing spices, aud
balm, and myrrh, going down to Egypt."
To-day the caravans of Syria do the same
thing, travel the same road, carry tho
same articlos of trade, and their sharp
eyed leaders aro as ready for a bargain,
whether iu a precious stone or a slave-boy,
Odd enough it is too, bow cheaply across
tho desert freight is borne. A camel load is
about 700 pounds avoirdupois, and is taken
from Bagdad to Aleppo, a distance of six
hundred miles, for twenty dollars in gold.
tST At tlie Troy Conference session at
Saratoga, Itev. Dr. Wentworth gavo a
reason why the Baptist Chinch is like a
beaver's hut : " There is only one cntranon
to it, and that is under water I"
tUTThe mother's yearning, that com
pletest type of the lifo iu an, other life
which la the essence of real human love,
feels the presence of the chcrishod child
even in the base, degradod man.