Ijc Sums,. Neti) Bloomftefo $a. Edith Grantly's Hero. CONCLUDED. . T I MIERE seemed no valid reason why Miss Edith Grantloy sliould feci an noyed at any questioning one might choose to make concerning the affair hinted at In her soliloquy. Simply told 'it was as fol lows : The train npon which she had been a passenger had met wilji one of thoso ac cidents winch tiro of quito common occur rence. Something about one of the wheels gave way, and, ns the train chanced to be passing a curve, the cars was thrown from the' track, and some of them badly dc molished,aud a largo number of the passen gers more or loss injured, though none it was thought fatally. The shock had stun ned Edith for a moment, and thero was now a faint discoloration on her arm and in tlio edge of her hair just rIkwo the temple, and both places wore still very tender. , It would seein the most natural thing in the world that she should mention this accident the first thing upon meeting her friends, the more especially as she had been expected the day previous, and one after another had mndo comments on her disap pointing them. She made some careless evasive answer, but was very careful to say nothing of the accident, which had been the real cause of the delay. And because a gentleman sitting opposite her had the miRfottuno to havo his arm broken, by holding it with admirablo coolness and presence of mind over her head when the side of the car was steven in, was certainly no reason why she she should bo so reticent about the matter. It would seem the more reason why she shoujd mention tlio cir cumstances, not only as showing her own naiTow escape from probablo death, but ns revealing the bravery and chivalry of this stranger. It seemed almost ungrateful, this Strang silenctv and wa, 0),y ftnftl,icl, proof of wliatatt utisolvablo enigma is a ffoinnn's heart. Mrs. Gvaiitlcy, according to appointment, went to drivo with the Mordaunts after tea. The Mordaunts were dashy sort or people, lived luxuriously, tliesKed in the most elegant manner, and kept up a styty quite astonishing to ordinary people, as wore a great majority of the dwellers iu Carleton. But if the Mordaunts had no peer, they had plenty of imitators in all the different stratus of Carleton society ; people who with incomes less than one twentieth of that of the Mordaunts, strove to ape their stylo and extravagance, weak ly fancying people could not see through the shallow, device, and that they might thus climb the social ladder, Thero was another ' class who were more admirers than imitators, and to this class belonged Mrs. Grantloy. Now one may object to being aped and imitated, but who, ever heard of ono's disliking to be admired? You and I, dear reader, perfect as wo are" in other respects, have undeniably a spice of this common weakness about us. Don't we feel better and happier to our very mar row when we Jlnd that some one likes and admires us ? You know we do ; and you know also that this liking and admiration kindles a little glow of grateful feeling in our own bearts,audwefeclasortof instinct ive tenderness toward them which wo do not toward others. I am at a loss whether to accredit it to art or artlessness on the part of Mrs. Grant ley, the way in which she bad revealed to the Mordaunts her admiration of them. ' Enough that it hod been revealed most un equivocally, and that in grateful return the Mordaunts patronized the pretty, ah-y, volatile Anna Grantley, very much to her gratification, and to the envy of her neigh- . bors. Edijh was sitting in the long pleasant drawing room. The faint mooulight, struggling with the crimson tints of sunset, fell through the long window in waves of pale rosy silver light, giving a soft mellow .atmosphere to the room, and bringing out in soft relief the finely-cut and daintly-eol- : ored faces of Alice and Effle Grantley as , they rested, one on either shoulder of their older sister. , Near the window, but with . his face in shadow, sat Mr. Grantloy. There was a faint air of nervousness about him, though he talked easily and lightly, even gayly at times. Suddenly be sprang away . from the window, with a half uttered im precatlon on bis lips, and strode hastily out at an opposite door. ', "It's mamma and the Mordaunts," said Alice, looking out. " Papa dislike them, I think." f There waa the sudden sound of gay voioes, interspersed with little ripples of light laughter, and then the whole party came into the house. There as Mr, Mordaunt, a brilliant fascinating man, with easy society manners, and a certain natural galluutry which women instinctively like in men. Mrs. Mordaunt, a little dignified ' a little supercilious," and a good doal affect ed. Mrs. Angea, Mrs. Mordant's sister, lady of considerable beauty and well edu i eated and thirty-three. And. in add! ' tion to all these, Mr.' Pudley Sinclair Edith greeted them all with quiet solfpos. session, but ' with a half-resentful fueling toward them in bar heart, for had they not driven her father away f And there were reasons why she wished to keep hiin homo just now. It was a weak vanity that assured Edith Grantley of Dudley Sinclair's Interest In her. Onoe she was rather favorably in clined to accept the attentions he offered, but now she shrank from them, and was so cold and distant that hor mother scolded and cried, and came near being ill over it, after he bad gone. " You are the most stubborn, heartless girl I evor saw," she ,aid, between . her sobs. " Your father is in some sort of troublo, I knowj or Vancouver, who is a regular vulture, would hot ba hovering about the place as he is. Now hero is Sin clair, handsomo, wealthy, of a good family, and in love With your very shadow, as any one can seo, and you are as short and as cold as if you wore a princess, with a half a dozen of kingdoms at your command. You've no feeling for your father, as much as you protend to care for him, or jou would bco how easy it would bo for you to help him. It's easy enough to make pro fessions, hut that wont savo the farm. I never could hold up my head again in so ciety if this placo had to be sold for debt. What would such people as the Mordaunts care for us then?" . " As much as they do now," Edith an swered, quietly. , " And all our furnituro and clothing," sho went on, weakly J " poople would talk if I dressed half decent, though I don't know why I should give up my clothes ; it's about all the comfort I havo now. And that reminds me, Mrs. Mordaunt says I can have my pearl silk made with an ac commodation train to loop up, you know and then it will do for tho sticct as well as for an evening dress. Laura Swift has got one made so. It is wine-color velours, oud is very stylish looking. You may bo sure sho willdress uow." In this way sho ran on urjtil Etlith could 1 t. - , .1 : I'uuuiu ib iiu lunger, ami nrvvt un? a woarf ' .over her acnct ytcut out and paced up and down tho piazza till she heard her go to her room. Then sho paused and listen ed, the anxious beating of her heart sound ing like tho trnmp.tl amp of tin army in her cars. How hushed and still everything seemed! The moon, just slipping behind tho pines, cast a ghostly line of shadows over tho up land and the river, and a faint pale miHt hovered and trembled over the meadows, and faded away in vague purple glooms where it touched the forest. Edith shiv ered nervously, though ordinarily sho was a stranger to nerves. I have a theory that no one but a woman really knows tho depth the terrible depth of meaning there is in that one word waiting 1 To sit through long O Heaven, how long 1 hours of silence, with terror and pain, and nameless foreboding pulling fiercely at tho heart ; to start and listen to fancy all dreadful things and still to sit and wait ! By-and-by Edith heard a faint uncertain step then a voice then moro steps, and then, as, springing to the window, sho leaned forward and listened, to these words, slowly and fearfully distinct : " Curse you, Rick Saunders ! It is you who have wrought my ruin I see it now. With your assumption of friendliness, with your accursed pretence of innocence, and ignorance, and honesty, you led me on where a confessed villain would have had no chance. And now it's all gone the last chance lost !" . . Well, yes, squiro, I caloulate Anna Stanly aint a great sight better off to-night than if she'd married your father's hired man, instead of his son. I don't mind telling you since we're on tho subject, that I have been a looking forward to this time something over twenty years. Not that she is of much account, anyway ; but when Rick Saunders is slighted or trod on, ho never forgets it. Good-night, and pleas ant dreams." , A muttered oath and a mocking laugh broke through the stillness, blending to gether in strange accord. Another mo ment and Edith was at her father's side, and Rick Saunders waa slouching off through the darkness, saying over and over to himself : "There's no chance no chance I . Van oouver wont tako it now, and it'll have to be sold for debt sold sold 1" In her daiutly furnished bed chamber, Anna Grantley slept in unbroken repose, the faint stain of tears on ber soft pink and white cheeks, which still retained the freshness and fairness of youth. In another chamber still, Effle and Alice, their dim pled arras over their beads, and a tangle of chestnut curls shading the snow of the delicate ruffled pillows, slept the sweot un troublod sleep of careless childhood. But of the two who sat through the weary night in the long drawing-room below, what shall I say ? In few lives does there ever come such hours of hopelessness and suffering as came to Charles Grantley that May night. By degrees he told Edith all the story. Her mother had been first engaged to this Saundeis. She came to Carleton with him, with the understand ing that she would be bis wife when he got employment. 1 Instead, she , bad left him almost ttefore he got employment. Some time aftorwards he met and married her, not knowing until a week before bis marriage that she had ever been engaged to Saun ders. It struck him rather, unpleasantly, and he was not very careful perhaps of the words he used to his father's laborer. At any rate, Saunders had remembered them twenty-two years. It had been ton years since he had first sat at the gaming-table with Rick Saunders. At llrnt he was in different ; gradually he got quietly inter ested, then absorbingly so, and from that it rapidly developed into the passion which had ruined him. For it was ruin hopeless, utiavoidablo ruin. This last night's work had sealed it, and Rick Saunders had urged him to tho venture against his own hotter judgment Meadow Farm, sold at that hour, could hot begin to pay his indebted ness, and thero was no hope or chanco left for its redemption. Edith heard all tho bitter painful story almost in silence, save for the few words of pity and sympathy spoken in low gontlo tones in tho ear of the despairing man. By-and-by, when tho first ngony of tho thought had exhausted itself, sho said, quietly, in a decided voice : " I am going to see Ross Athertou. Ho is your own cousin, and ablo to buy twenty Meadow Farms if ho pleases. lie can buy the placo and not feel it, and thus secure mother and the children from being turned into tho street. It will not be like a stran gor's owning it, for bo must let us remain hero. 1 shall toll him'all this, and " "Be laughed at for your pains," inter rupted Grantley, shortly. "I toll you, Edith, it will do no good, and only Bubject you to humiliation. I've not Been Ross since ho was a boy, and what do you sun poBo ho cares for our troubles aud disgraces? He is vcry rigid in his principles, too, I havo heard, and will havo littlo sympathy for tho weakness through which I have been ruined' " One may have sympathy for tho simior while hating tho sin," sho returned, gently; and at least it will do no hurt to ask him. It is not charity, only a very great favor, nnd with all his wealth, Ross Atherton may need favors from his fellows some day. At least, I Bhall be in Dudley before another night, and I do not mean to fail. A shelter and a homo must first ho secured tor tliem; after that vou ond I will go to work and pay what other debts the sale- of the farm does not. Of course, we shall pay hint rent whilo it is in his hands." It was a dull lowering day, with slight dashos of lain at intervals, aud when Edith Grantley stepped into tho station at Dud ley, at about four o'clock in the afternoou, it was raining hard. She was weary with her one hundred and thirty miles of travel, but she felt that sho could not afford the dollar a hackman asked to take her to Mr. Atherton's, a milo and a half away. So she sat and waited for it to slack raining, looking out through the dingy pane at the dripping eaves, and reading, absently, the names of some score or so of ambitious travellers who had scratched their names on the sashes. By-and-by the rain sud denly ceascd.and the sun shone out through a rift in the clouds. She had already ob tained tho necessary directions, and now she lost no time in setting out on her walk. She was ooirsclouBof a vague unreal feeling as if sho wore walking iu a dream. The strange town, and the stranger errand upon which she had come, filled her with a sense of bewilderment. She half paused at the corner of the street, trying to recall tho direction the station master had given her. A carriage was coming, and she resolved to ask the way, for she was too tired to afford to make a mistake. The gentleman was driving slowly,and she turned to speak to him, but a sudden surprise chained her tongue, and sent the red blood to hor face in a torrent. And so the gentleman spoke first. My travelling companion, I believe," be said, with easy cordiality. Siie recovered herself instantly, bowed, and looking at the arm in the sling, said: "And you are ablo to be out bo soon?" . " I am just going in," he replied, smil ing. " Or rather, , I have just reached town ; my home is in Dudley." " Doubtless, then, you can inform me if I should go this way to reach Mr. Ross Atherton's" " " Yes, and 1 can do better still. I go that way, and cau take you along, if you will honor me." ' Edith half hesitated, but another shower was already beginning to fall, which aided ber at once in hor decision. A small boy who was driving, sprang out at a word from the gentleman, who took the reins iu his left band. " The horse is very gentle, and will go home without guiding," he replied to Edith's remonstrances against depriving him of a driver.' . " Wore you ever at Dudley before. Miss Grantley ? you see I have learned your name," lie added, smiling. " I never was J I do not even know Mr. Athertou, although lie is my cousin." " Your cousin ?" he asked, facing around abruptly. " Certainly or rather my father's cous in. Why, is there anything about him wrong or or disagreeable ? . Do not bo afraid to tell me. I should consider it a favor if you would just tell me what sort of a man he is, and if you think I shall bo apt to like him." "I hope so," he replied with a curious look iu his face. "How does he look?" she asked, hor heart sinking a little at the way ber com- paidon spoke of hor cousin. "That is a genuine woman's question," ho answered, evasively, coloring slightly. "By the way, there is Ross Atherton's house now ;" pointing with his whip to a a pretty stono-colorcd villa, half hiddon in the greenery that surrounded It. " It's charming, isn't it?"' Edith cried, with kindling eyes. ' v , " Perhaps I should be considered a prejudiced judge, though I am very glad you like it. There is a good doal In first impressions ; don't you think so?" Something in hef companion's look aud tone brought the color to Edith's check, but she did not look up again, for she felt his eyes on her face. So, to relievo her own embarrassment, she said : "Do not go out of your way for me pray." " O no, I am going to Atherton's my self," he replied, carelessly. " Are you ?" sho asked, with such evi dent gladness, that he leaned ovor and look ed in her face, his own a little triumphant. "Why, do you think you can manage to liko your cousin Ross just a littlo?" A sudden suspicion shot through her brain. " You you aro not ho !" sho cried, breathlessly. " I am Ross, and I can safely say I never was ashamed to aeknowledga the fact be fore. And now permit me to bid you a hundred welcomes to my home." And ho assisted her ont,despite her remonstrances. " I'm only sorry I cannot give you tho right hand of welcome," he said. " You gave that in my behalf tho other day," she answorcd, quickly, a sudden tremulonsncss in her voice, "And I'd give them both to-day. Come, como into the houso," he added, turning quickly nnd almost abruptly. And so she followed him in. Three days afterward, Edith Grantley alightcd again from tho train nt Carleton station. John Irvin and Bess did not await her coming this time, but I do not think she noticed it. Tho gentleman who ac companied her evidently engrossed hor at tention largely. Ho was pale, and looked as if he had much hotter b??n a.t horn.9, but lie was very self-willed, and would come. i " I'll, stoy at Meadow Farm until I get well, nnd you shall nurso me," ho said, laughing, when Edith tried to dissuade him- from tho journey, foaiing it would make him ill. , That night Rick Saundors suffered the greatest disappointment of hislifo. Charles Grantley paid every dollar he owed in Carleton, and Meadow Farm was not to bo sold for debt. After mora than twenty years of waiting and plotting, to- bo cheat ed out of his revenge in this cavalier man ner, was enough to make one angry, cer tainly, and was, itt least, some slight ex cuse for tlio hard words he indulged in so unstintedly. But his power to harm Charles Grantley was lost forever, both by word and deed. Mrs. Grantley nover knew how near sho had como to being homeless, now how it happened that Edith took that sudden journey to Dudley. Sho was so wholly ab sorbed those thrco days sho was absent, in the " pearl-colored silk" and "accommo dation truin," that she had little leisure for other thoughts. But she did learn of the railway romance, and know that irr some way her husband's cousin hod assisted him, though to what extent she did not even guess. But Charles Grantley knew and ap preciated his cousin's generosity with pain ful keenness. , ' " I never expect to be able to repay you, Ross," he suid, with emotion; "leastwise the kindness of the deed." " Nonsense! There was no generosity about it ; I was tho most thoroughly selfish follow in existence," Ross returned, laugh ing and coloring. " Of course I'd like to stand well before her, and that is why I did it, depend upon it 1" ' But tho warm grasp he gave his cousin's hand, and the misty look in his eyes, belied the lightness of his words. " God bless you, Ross Athertou 1" Mr, Grantley said, brokenly. He has blessed mo a thousand times mora than I deserve, already, iu giving me her love my sweet Edith." 1 Did you want me, Ross ?" asked Edith, eoming Into the room just then, and catch. ing the sound of her name. " Want you, my darling 1 Haven't I been telling you every day for a month how much I wanted you?" he asked, gayly; " and now I must tell it all over again?" Which, though apparently unnecessary, ho straightway proceeded to do. Bather Remarkable. The Tennessee papers record the follow ing: About three weeks ago a lady 06 years of age, and living near Zion's Church, on White's creek, gave birth to a child. Both mother and child are doing well, the child, a girl, being the very picture of health.' The lady in question is the moth or of several daughters, all of whom were married coveral years ago ; and before this' new departure, had the happy privl lego of puying ber attentions to numerous grandchildren. This is certainly a very remarkable case, aud we doubt if the medical records show a similar one any where. The fortunate father is about the same ago us his wife. All we have to say, is bully for Zion's Church and White's creek, and may the mother and father live long and prosper, and enjoy many suui blessings. , Porry County Bank ! Nportslor, .Iu n Kin & Co. rpHE undersign d. having formed a Hanking An JL soclation under the aliuve name and style, are now ready to do a tleneral Hanking business at their new Banking Home, on Centre Square, OPPOSITE TUB CO VJl T IIO VSW, NEW ' BLOOMFIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back om demand. We discount notes for a period of hat over fiO days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. . , " ; ' On time Deposits, Ave per cent, for any time over four months ; and for four months four per cent." We are well provided with all and every facility fordoing a Hanking Business; and knowing, and for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored forth want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we hav have determined to supplythewant;andthis being the first Bank ever established in Perry county, we hope we will be sustained iu our efforts, by all tb business men, farmers aud mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. Sponsleb, Bloomfteld, Terry county, Pa. B. V. Junkin, " " " WM. II. Mii.leb, Carlisle, officers: W. A. 8PON8LEU, Prertdent. William Wn.i.is, CwMer New BloomncId,3 5 ly ISTEW YORK CON TIN ENT AL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STJllCTL Y M VTUAL, I AnwetH, H0,O.-ii ,;01.)-.-5 SSUESalithe new forms of Policies, and pre Bents as favorable terms as any company iu the United mutes. Thirtv ftnvs' trr.iee nllowed on eaeh navment. And tho policy held good during that time. Policies issued by this Company are non-forfeit- ore. No extra oharges are made for traveling permits. Pol lev-holders share in the annual nrotitsof the Company, and have a voice iu the elections aud management oi me company. No policy or medical feecharged. L. If. FROST, PrenMent. M. B. Winkoop, Vice l'res't. J. P. Rogers, Bcc'y. j. r. JiA ivm. General Agtmd, No . 6 North Third Street, 42'.)yl College Block, HarrlsburR, Pa. LOOK OUT! I would respectively Inform my frlMUIH that I In tend calling upou lliem with a supply uf goods. f my OWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting of CASSIMEKS, CA8SINETS, FLANNELS. (Plain and bar'd) OAltPKTH, Acc. to exchange for wool or sell for oanh. J. M. IIIXLElt. Centiie Woolen Factohx. 8,17,4m, Bloom field Academy l Spring Semlon Betiln Monday, April Uh, 187V THIS school Is designed to do a classical and normal institute of the first grade. Htudeuts are prepared thoroughly for any college lu the' lancf. Tliese desiriug to be teachers receive a thor ough normal drill on all studies taught in the pub lic schools. All others are carried forward In the higher academic studies and on completion of course receive ourtiilcale of graduation. Kicellent boarding Is provided In the building, of the institution and tlie school Is pleasantly lo cated. The working foroe Is as follows : : Rev. JOHN E1M1AII. A. M.. Principal, Teacher of Classic and Advanced studies. . A. M. MARKEL, M. R. . Teacbe of English Studies. . Wsi a LIFE. Teaeherof Music, Painting and Drawing.. Miss E. M. MOltHOW, Teacatr of Preparatory Department, Prof. J. B. FUCKING! EH, Teacher of J'emuauahip.' - For further Information, address Principal.. rcU WM. GKIKU, Proprietor,. 710tf New Bloomtleld, Perry oo., Ta.. CLARK'S 1'V UK I'KHSIAN IiiMcct Powder, For the destruction of all kinds of Insects, viz:: ROACHES BEU BUdU, ANTS. Ki.KAS, MOTHS, SiC, J. Also,. I n sects on Animals, Fowls, Tlanls.&o - AHK FOR -fc ULAKK'S INSBUT fOWDKli. Warranted, pure. - Prlee 2f t'enf)jier Bottle. For sale by F.. Murtimct, New lilciownelcl, Pa, . f do2" li w WSWtMilC"lHMWI
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