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More , thatptwo.i‘yoare;haye-, : B!apBe& since the com,-' • ; illationwbf'i‘<'t[ttlB 'Ddi'rlt.» /••(Since, then. done 'llttlo 'wo'rthy bf _ .sermon, 'ip,tbeithia,. guize.of; qct'iom.'There », is- ay atrbhg'chince that'« A- HouaetC Let ”, ■ i H?&Uiy^9M ;^e*jpen”of-th'e , '.gteat'and genial ’atpry.jwas.-jio . little in hia manner tkat nobody was surprised 'at learning; /after -it bad been republished 6ennanj’. . ,as';sJoK* M, a f bjrb, Siat! *ftSgisf,tjieß'c^.Okables EiSOSIiEy. J <> The ««f Travellers’Tiiiea, 1,1 in a preceding yCarjwefo Tory much in the* - ; “ AfterJDark ? ’iwore c!alnieii)yjflrn,Kifi Con-; 'i.iS3, whoBB “Doad Seorot ”■ ij one of-the' moat Im'fireisivo stories of modern times; We - fhnciy, jtSlfiin imnii’-. taler. ,S here is some family likenessbetween the manhOT tintwhich.Hhff ;M*nchestoV cierfc makea'nhofFer'dfiriarriageftniTdmXjinkiti-. - _;^!^^^gly r i,'add!;efBed„ jkC .i.Oreeyy.;ri:We; J tracef%;reE*inhlance,/too i be-. ; tween, "thf 'atdry Qf/the 'DwarfVin-rihiaiheK . story, : '^ikl:“dertalit > ' BhoW raen’a ’expofiCn<ieBrSi l e'‘l r elSied, in « Tho old - Cnrlqsity Shop.” Onthbwhold, Wdstron'giy; • IncUaelTO “ A Honso, to Let?’ 1 f» Boz f f>achooi>- andidelwer. it as inch toonr i ■ -readers.] 'V'^ >/■ ' otUwz.i ..j-'.s-.a : ■ ,-, j > * '- v r,l? i S‘y 1 OVBB TUB WAT. V .‘* :rhadheenltylng"at :Tunbridge Wells' arid* V ' tetfyeara.-when my • ?*iaiat&!iain49dis&a«hFMpih J Ms ’profession, ; iifo'/ ‘■'’ofW'feTSfitffipng/WffiS^wbidft-.'ifi^s^oble and priflcelygamebelbre Short vftu’heard- if ’ !^aald'f o'-tnCynne diyi l ' as >h'e 4 Mf-feeilng tdy ' poise on the-SCtnai sofaVhich my poor'doAr ' £ Jtn6’-t('btied't)efore l hei l splne canie on. ‘’faSfd Ibid hfer'Oh'nbbard'idr-' flfteeh i! mdrith»f at" :V a''atrotcKi^tliemost , 'nprfi;ht'%omanlhit F eyJr lived—mid to. me, “.Wbatwe want, m'a’Am.is \ l ; ~ r gracious, -DO6- ~ tor Towers !”;.says I; qui te startled at the many ' for he waa sp .christened himself: “ don’t talk asifyonwptejtjUoding,to.;-people's names; .-••butsaywhatyoujMans»to,>. ~w«r ♦ •' r./;! Ec c tbat,we,wantfa. littlechabge of air and scene.|J - - .-/.Ble ssibem&n i-.’ said I: ‘Cdoeshomeitt - we or met ; , _i ~ if • - /tsr«limeAn;yon; ma’am ” > it •,{% Sector: Towers!’’: . . zv. I- aiid:fs<‘Why-idonEt».yoO:get>intoji:hablt! pf expressing yotrrSMf wtcaightfofwafd "srfflsssttfwß ofKiSfelAna? * <• (f f, ■ vTowera laOghdd; as he generally when ho has fldgetted nte Into" any of my impa-. tient of my states, asJi caJlthem *.-gw«*a then-heihegan»-Tr st«y, jumpiy*-*, j .■ Tone ms am Tone, ia ! all yOn-reqnire i” •A.Heappoaled.te^rrottlepwhodHsbthencamein • T-*irfth'"the^.cdahscnttlej-lo'okiDgji'' inShis^dice , -• blact anlt. MlkO 'an amiable 'man s pntttng ’ en 1 coalaAom motives of befleyolcnde: -.!«.■»**{... r • -rTrottW ?(Whom” , l s? alway# :i caU“’ffly'-Tigjh't hind) hag'-been ih mynprylce tato anrl tblity yearg. 'HS bntdred tty-sbiylce;;fdr-aWajf from England.. He ii • the' hest' of the moat reapectabld of men, b'nt ppjaionatdd.' What yon tfant; ma’ath;’viays- Tifottle, ’■ imakihg'mp the--’fire'-fin ihls jqhiotl/iifd^kilfal T!^ K bhrating 1 - pxtifcjiqgiilp'gy';‘jl nsCo*. in'a conspi 1‘ i j^y'agalrist*me, ao' I sappdsa; ybu must do. ''^%hafyon i l!ke%ltli niej ahd.take me to'Eon-. .'7'';ddnfora r ohango' f • ' ’’’ ,IV For .‘abifiej.weeks'’Tbwera had : ' Kinfed fat 7EbndomiM bpttse'qnently I 'tv&a’pi'epafed hjr, T'Wm.' : Wfien we had got td this p'ofnt'tvo got. .on ao Cxpcditionaly that Trottle was packed, roff - to", tondoninext day bntionepto flnd soine ■- / aort of .place for/mo to lay my troublesome 6ld "• head in; -ww's* .vxs , y.f*-stf t s.'tli3v 7 . J.s ! , K - 4 'TrottlC oamehack/ tome at tho Wella arter s With’aoconnts'of’ eeharm-: l ''‘ihgfd»de , fßAVconld(-.be't4kob'f(>r/Six l moijths Ceriairi. ’frith liberty to riSeif-'oA ; th6‘earne fermiffei' aiiCtlfer';eS ; , tlnd which really did '■* affordhyety a’Cdomttibdatiofi thatf-I wanted’, - ■• “Oonld yoh really find no faalt at all in the room*,Trottle??; lsaaked.'him...->,' S . ■ ' .»!* “Mot a Blngle. one, ma’am., -Theyare ex?, “iatactly gnitablesto ayptii. jThere lanotafanlt (it ■■■: themirThereißbutonefanitontaldeofthem.’-’ i “ And-wbat ! B'that ?” tot-, ut'.tvr ?- ! u - -« «'They afe o})po3ite a Honso to Lot/? ' !. , “ O ! ? ’;ltaaid; considerlngof it. v.«Eht : la thafarfeha-rerygroatobjeatton?” t ... -’- ' ; ‘“l ;think itTtfy duty to mentlonritp-nia’am.- It is a dull/pbiect,to.ilook at.i Otherwise, I tjraai so greatly plcased wlth, tho lodglng that I shonld haye cfoM with the terms at once,; as 1 - I had jrdtir authoriw.toido;”, .... *n■ •> ! • -3 ?. Trottle ttiinkirtgSo‘ higblyof- the place, In ray interest, I wlshed not to disappoint him. r. ; ;.C(HM«|tibttly^Mtd'ie•">?'. '.Vk' i ! - : - « The empty Honao may lot,-perhaps;’! | • r -5 hP> thMao{,;;. ! Bald .Trottle, shaking ' hii hoad With declsloii < it /wori’t/let’. jlt never doeg'letlmafain.M-.rs/iV ' » - 'i .. ' s ’*fiM& , eyh»el l ‘ Why’notJ” 1 " ff U .■=.•!> 1 « Kpbpdf lmpTys,‘;hjafa'(n.*'/Ml; i 'linvo' to i monlton l*i won’tlef 1” “ How-long has this unfortunate’■■ House been tp<letvintbenam«of. fortune 7” said 'l. « Ever so long,! ’ said Trbttle. « Years,” . /‘ls it in rains 7”"" j . ; ,, ■ ’ if gooiiMtSali’dtit’of repait, ma’am, but. .... it’a fiotia/ains ” ~„■*£ s v*“ i ,t ; ; y; ibSiSiibrt.oAtWs liU4fu.es?, W -1 ' itbib'ti&tjdsy lihad-a.palrof poat-horseß ' /'PUVtb Uiy-eliaH'it-i-foi'j X'n'evor trarerby'raU-i ■ ?rdilw&yS;excepttn»t ! they , Fcanie..'in -when I; ; W/Ukj9; i to theaf f that they -it I haa—and so I. Kehtjhppiyesurj.withATrbitle, • ini'tfie'nmiMoJ t 6 lo"ok’ai thc/inaido of this . this‘same ' >' —v I .y;, ■>* v.; ,/;/ I ■ : : t . t-i v'Ahjl sayj'llwent and saw for myself.'.. The’ . lJirasaareltaTouidi v ' bejliecanso Trottla is thebest juclgtipfcom j - fort ilsks6ar.,r,!!rha : . empty.hbaaesWM, an cye ■; i' 'wrh/jtnd'tbat'l yyeta sate" itwduld b‘o,too, for 1 ? thing. ! agaihst,tao,oth<!r,:f hogooiagoinst the i the ’ victory. mttflifi 'MrcStHtafes/ of ?! ♦ djf4w. t ttp ah.pgree;’ ■ ment, whloh hiflyoung! man jabbered ovor so , tead JtdrbUne that I didn’t /' dudertSahdrbn'e wor(l ! bt .iit/e4o(ipt f thy :own a.v'<fcSame>idi4shfntdiyithat/ondi:l?,Bignedrit, : and • -/ '-i 'tMS^W , y44TOy;oia'6(m6's, , ,bag , and^aggage, -v' .{up to todoh^iii;.v4yV/rt.:'^i J '4L-' : V“;' ,: i; • ' ->..wT ,j’ojf*tliOCBtaf;idohtfcr6n! shj;t arranged to .. -,,; t \b4.v»^jpU\p^t;.the'imßt.; i :i maae; this . t '_^ : >.arraDfeepentfvno.t. : a gOpd aealito dske icareof ii/tha way of my . • and also ol a * ‘hew Stove in the'fiall to air the housje'in my '., iYrf : > aßBßncO,vwhich'3appeared'to me .ealchlathd to ■ ihiirst i bjit, likpwisdthocauso il then, •« ‘‘l'/fha/rhSt-l’fcaiJ'ifather aiPiiilanderer. -limedn, ’rfsa?-’<bl*/i^j^^ : ijhow;tMt!tnaid>the Welia of atf, ■ ts6ni; that ?i^f^lMTO^SAfMttil6?]h^hki#laeoi»thatil< ** r/-' % ■'l- * '»%bi 't'f-’J-' • y r f. £-.) i4i;i' i tl n-‘< * .1 '■< • \ "ft to become .so afte? nlne-and-twentj years nest March. - - •r{- It was. tho fifth r pf .November whoa I, first breakfasted..lnimy,-new,..rooms,- The Guys were going, about Sn the brown fog, like mag nified monsters> ofinsocta in table-beer,- and there-was a,Guy resting- on tho doorsteps ,of tha Sonse to'Let, I'pat on my glasses, partly to see how the'boys were ploased with what -I sent them out by. Peggy,- and 1 partly to make . mra tbit she didn't approach too near the n ’dicnlofls’object which, ■;of Course, was full-of skV-recketa; and might go otF into bangs at aiiy mbment: •In this- way it -happened' that the first time I ever looked- at -the House to Le'f, aftef I 'because''its opposite neighbor, I had my glasses on. And this might not have happonod onco iu fifty tiines, for' my sight is-iincommnn]}- gnbd for my time of life! and I wear glasses; ikf little as I can, forfoar of : sgoiling.'it,/; I ' T kiiew already that;, it was 'a ten-roomed hijuse;'.yery difty, and ' mnoh dilapidated j .that,',the"area-rails w.epb rbsty. and' .pealing away, and that two or three of thorn. wore .wanting,, or- half.wanting; that there were brolten .pafiea of. glass’ Jn the ..windows, and blotches of' mud' 0n... other, .'.panes, .whiohi the beys, had-thrown at them; .that . there Was., .quite, a collection of stonos-in the area,also. proceeding from, thosa .Young Misohiefii'i that 'there, . were., games’ chalked on .a the,; pavement- before - the, House, and likenesses- of- ghosts ohafitoilaon., the ..street? door; that,the windows -wore all. darkened bn rotting: old blinds, .or Bhntte’rspor both; that the bills « To Let,” had curled .up, as if the fiatrip' alr of tiloplace had given them cramps; l or .had droppad dbwn into comers, as-If'they wereno more; :I had seen all •this on'my first visit,' and I had: remarked to Trottle,’ that the -lower -part .bf-the black j board about terms was split :away j -that the .' rest Had''become illegible!,’ and 1 that the very 'stone' of tho' door-stops was broken across.' Notwithstanding, I sat at my break fast table oil' that please'to ‘Remember the illtp 1 ofNdyomber morning, “staring* at the House through my.gl asses, as it ,I had never looked’at it before..' . ... “ AlTat oncer-Sntlie first-floor window on my right-down in a lo.w corner, at a hole in a blind or a shutter—r. fennel ‘that ,1 was lock ing’ at’a” BeereHEye.' The reflection of my, flre mayhave tohehed i t. ahd "made it shine-; b’ntVr sawft shine and vanish,.: "The eye might; have,seen me, op it might nbt-ifiave,seen, me,'sitting,there in the glow of my'jflre—you cah,tako; which prpb’abjl(ty you prefer,.without: offencer-.but „ something .struck through my frame, os if. the sparkle of this eyoibad , been , electric; andbad flashed straight ;at-' me. It Had such- an effect upon mo, that I.could not remain by .myself, and I •rang for Flobbins, -and invented some little, jobsfor her, to keep har'in the room. -. After, my.-breakfast; was. cleared away, ;I eat.in the 'same place, wlthimy glaasesaen, moving my bead,; now so,: and- now. so,-, trying whether, with the shiningsof my: fire and the flaws in the window-glass, I could reproduce any sparkle seeming to'be np there, that-jras like tho.. sparkle of-an eye; butJio, I; could .make nothing: like it-: I .conld-rnake. ripples and crooked lines [in the front -of-the HotisatoLet, and ' I could;’even twist'ono' windowup and loop’-’, another;-lint T'.could make do ' eye, - nor anything: like; ah' eye.: - So,’l con vinced "myself that I rosily Had seen an eye. Well, to - be mrsl could not. gat rid of the im pression of*th!a ojo, and it-troubled me and trou bled mei Until it -wss almost a torment. I don’t tbiot I- was previously 'inclined to concern my .head, tttlich; aTOUt ithfc opposite house;' but, after .Ihis' ejfc'myj he«d,‘was full of. the House; and I ithoughtpriitUe else.thpntjia Hopse; and I thought nflHUa else, than; the houso. aml I watched the hou*e, and I bilked about theh'ouse, and I d'oamtd '6f. the House.- -Tn'aU this,.l.fully believe now, : there. was a good. ProvideSoo - ■ -But-yowwill judge •for youmelf about that, fey;»nd-hy.- ? My landtord .wM.a butlorf who.’bkd married! a kept House longer thab a oqnple ofveara. and thry knew no more stout the Jlouso to Let than I did, . Norther could 'I find out spything conoerntog-it Smoag the' frades-'pCopie of ofhorwiso; r fnHh6r t S sn what Trottle,-KM 'told isVtofiwv.. -It had toed B|SSMBSSS*»»|t- aAorrtr* ti{at vygl -TfoeraVpresonfttlong/ J loiS?sd n : \ liglitj'iu' wv'tHibWiWintor, fogi’in'lhb' ,1)1 aok Svln tor ld the whlteVinter Bn6w,'th«* Hotise was equally oh tty nflad:.; I Bavo hoards as everybody • elee-.baSf of a splnt hanntiog, a bnase; bat I •have had myqwp of a boaw’s ■ haunting a srtnt}. for that Hon*e,Kai;med ; mtbe. . ' In all thatJnionth’f tjmo; I-a<rver/#w anyone go into tto-Hottatf, no? oomo out'Of tbe-Eoaftc Ttny plane eometiniea, ini’’ the or tbe g!finmer"of tha mpraing r\bftV IjbOjpr Bftw It ddher Tgot ho relief . baviDgmy ntirlalw drawn'wbnn it 4ftme on . dirk, "abntiing'but tbe'houieV'THe Bye then begin .to. phiiioinwy fire.;' - * I ' . iram should say at once, without the same, I ara an old maid ; on!y IhVt'l&m older thati the pbrese would express. Tbetime waswhen Ihiid my love trouble, batitiaJongandlonstTigOrHewftßkiUed at sea (dear Heaven zest bis blessed bead !),.wben I w&a twen ty- flve'i £1 baye rtlnfy llfefsinqe ever-I can re* been deej>ly_fond of children. I have , always felt snob alnVe for them, that l b&ve had' toy sorronfuTand finfat times,' when There fanofed -fioniet Mog' iniist' hfeve* gone wrtnig in toy life— . wnne'lbingmust have been tamed aside from its ' original intention E I-should have been itbe.proud .and ;bappy>mother of many children,, ond a. food ;,o]d. grandmother this day.l have BoqninQWH'better in the,.cheerfulness and con-, tentmept'thaj Qod blessed me with and given mp abiyjdant;r«aBoh'f!>r;,"and yeC I have had>to dry uiy eyeseyen tben^when' I have of i handsome; bright-eyed, CattrleyV and the trust he meant to Cheer me wt|h my youngest brother; and •he went to’lndia’ He mafriea'thero, end cent bis ■ gentlb- 1 to mo to be .confined, and ehe:w&3 to guback to him, and tho baby was to he, left , with me, and.l.was to bring,lt np. It never, be- \ lopgedto this Hfe<; ,Ifc took Its silent place Among ■ Ine otheflnbUents in 'myjtbry that might have been, but never were. I bad hardly Hmo to whis perJto <hef •ipeadmy own !”orßhe; to. ana war, Ashes gashes,-dust to ,dost !. 0 lay it on my, .breost.ond comfort Charley when she had gripe, to, seek,Ke> f ,baby aV.’Oar Saviour’s foet , I went’ ,to.Charlejt>nd I fold'him'there was nothing left bat mej and I lived with Charley. 1 oaf there, severely earn. 7 He'was a man of fifty, whfeh he fell'asleep'io my'arms: His faoe had chatiffed tube almosto!d and & HttTe stern ; bat, It softened, and softened when £ laid it,down that I mightrory and pray beside it; and, when I ' looked afitfor the last Ume. it was my dear, un troabifd, handsome, youthful Charley of long •ago.' '.~l,was gQiogop to, tell that the loneliness.of the, House ,io Let brought bnok all these recollec tions, r and that they’had'-qalto pierced my heart one bvenidg. whWoßiobbins. opening the door and docking very muoh as if she wanted to laugh hat tbooght better said: » - - “ Mr-:Jabes.Jarber,>ma'am \l’ . , . ' IJpon'wbioh' Mr. Jarber ambled in his usual absurd way; saying: ; . - fi S3phonfsbftf ,f - ” "Which I : am obliged to confess is my name, A pretty one and propbr one enough when it .was given to me: hat; a’good many years oat of date now,-?ami'.always sounding particularly high flown and comical from his llpa. So I said, sharply: - “Though It i 8 Sijphonisba, Jarbeiyyou are not obliged to mention.it, that./- ace.” v Ipreply?to the iWiouloua man ,pnt-tho tips of; my (five iright band fingers to bis llys. aud aud agalD, with aa aggravating acoont Ad .the third ,wuable‘f% ; . - W6pW?ba * r 7;" I jlori’t bum Jompy, beoansa 1 can’t abide the’amei lof bilj and' wax' candles belonged to .my day.l hope the oonvenient situation of one of. my toll old candies ticks on thetableat my elbow .will be my exenso for saying, that if he did that would chop his toes with it. (I am sorry to Add thftf when I told him so; I knew his toes to be'tender ) 7 But, really, at my time of life aDd at ’Jarbor'fl, it is too mnoh of a good thing 'There is-' an orchestra still, standing in the open ait- at tbe'WeUSj before which,-in the. presence of a throng of fine company, I have walked a minuet with Jarber. But, there is a bouse stilt standing, itt whichTrhave worn a pinafore,- and had a tooth drawn,by fastening a' thread to the tooth and the door-handle* And away from - the door. Atid howfhould I look now, at my years, in a pinafore, or having & door for,my dentist? •Besides, Jarber always Was more or less an ab* snrd / man. He.was sweetly droszed, and bennti fuUy perfamed f and many girls of my day would have given .their,ears for him; though l »m bound to add that' he never oired a fig for them, o*..their advance/either, and that ho was .very to me . For, he not only proposed tome before my love'happiness ended in sorrow, but afterwards too: hot once, nor 1 yet twice; 'nor will we : Bhy how many times. However many thoy werc/or however few’ they were, the, last timehe pald ine that compliment,was immediate- Ijr after be had presented me with a digestive dinner-pUI stnok on the point of a pin. And I said on that ocoasion, laughing heartily, “Now, Jarber, if yon don’t knew that two people whoso united ages'would mhfce about ahnnaren and fifty, bavagot to’be old, I do: and I beg to swallow this nonsense in the form or this .pill/’ (which I look W thl spot), .“and I request to hear no more rof it/ 1 Atter that, he conducted himself pretty well. 'Hewas always a. little fqueezed man* was Jarber, r in-litilo.sprigged, waistcoats; and be had always ; lit,tle legs apd-ft liftle and a little voice, and : little roundabout ways., long’ns lean remem ’ ber bim He was always goibgj llttlo errbnds for : people) and carrying little gossip.. At this present time when he. called me “ Sopnontzba!” he had . iftTittle old.fashioned lodging io that new neigh borhood of mloe. Ihad.not seen him for two or three years, but I bad hoard that he still went out .with a. little perspective-glass and stood on door* 1 slept! iti Saint James’S street, to see tbonobilUy.go to’Cotmrnnd went Id hi» litde cloak and goloshes : ■outride-'Witiis’H rooms'to see them go to Alin&ok’s; - andcanght-the frlghtfollest colds, and got himself ; trodden upon by : cqaohmeu and,linkmen,.until he : went home to his landlady a mass ot braises, and bepnraed for a month . H ‘Jarberibofcoff hls little far-collared cloak, and sat down opposite c;e, .with his little cane ana , ha' .us’-have no -more' Bophouisbaing, if. Wtf'plefae; Jarber,” I; said/ '“vail mo SaTah.‘ How do you:do? hte pretty well.” . ; “Thank you. And yoa?”/8itfd Jarbor. lamas wollas-an eld woman oan oxpeot to be.” - • * / - -jarber was'.beginning: . .. - . “ Bay not old* Bophon ” but I looked at tho oandlestioki andhe Jeft off; prefefiding not to have said'anything. * ' . > • “Jam infirm, of, course,” I flaid, “ and so'are -you. Let us both be, thankful it’s no worse.” « “Islt'’possible that-you look worried?” said Jarber. . - “Itla very possible. I have no doubt it Is the fact.” 1 ' “And what has worried my Soph;—, soft hearted friend/* said Jarbor. , “Something not easy, I suppose, to compre hend.,. I emworried to death.by a House to Let, over the Way.” ■ ’ • J«ber went-with his little tip-toe step to the window-ourtains, peeped out, and looked round at ino., ‘ ‘ . “Tea,” said I, in answer: “ that house.” After, peeping, out again,. Jarber came back to his-chair with a tender'a»K and asked,: How does it worry you, S—arah?” , “It ism mvstery to me/* said I. “Of course every house is a'mystery,,'more or thibg that I don’t oaro to aiention,” (for truly thp Eye was.so slight a thing .to. mention that I was more .than half ashamod of. it,) made that Houbo so 'mysterious to me, and has so fixed it in mymindjtbat I h&vo had.no peace for a month I foroseo that I shall have;no peace, either, until: Trottlo comes to me; next-Monday.” - ■ “ 'I mf£ht have mentioned' beforcthat there is a long-standing j&alonsy 'between Trottle and Jar ber ; and that there is never any lost befcweep those,’two.'.’; J, ** .’ ’,, ‘- ‘ Trottle,” rpetulantly repeated, Jarber,. with a. little,flourish of his cane. “ howis ; Trottle to re store the lost peace of Barah?” ■ ' “Ho -will ’ exert hiriiself to find out some thing About tbd House ' I have fallen into: that state about, it, that I really mast disoOver by some means or other, good,or.bad,, fair or.foul. how:and why-it is that that House remains To Lot** ■;, < .* ” ; “ And why, Trottle ? Why not/? putting his lit tle bat to'hU hoaft; :u why not, Jarber?”. • “.To tell yon the truth, I have'never thought of Jarbor in the matter. • And n6w Ido think of Jar ber, through your having the suggest him—for .whioh 1 am; really andr truly, obliged to you-r-I don’t think he coula do H ” ' ’ “Sarah!”. “I think it would bejoo much-for you, Jar ber.” - - -• “Sarah!” ■' ' , “There , would be ooming and going, and fetch ing and carrying, Jarber, and you might oatoh cold” . - . . =. “ Sarah ! . What oan bo dobo by Trottle,'can be done by mo. - I am on. terms of acquaintance, with every person o? reap.>n*»bUity in 'this parish' 1 aih intimate at tho Oireulating Library; Tcon- 1 verse daily with-the Assessed’"Taxes * I lodge" with the Water Kate . I knpwthe Medioal Man IJouoge habitually at,the HcuSe Agent’s. I dine with, the Churohwardena -I- move to the Gnar- M dians Trottle! A pefit on in the sphere of a do moitio, and to.raUy_uoknown toeociety,!” ■ .“Don’t be wartOj Jarbor/ ,Iu mentioning?Trot tle,! have naturally relied on my Rigbt Hand, 4 who wppld;tako any trouble to even a whim of his < old-mistress’s ' But, if you oan.-find , out anything, to help tovunravel tbeinyaterYjof this vHouw to Let, I shall fully »s maoh obliged to, yen aa-if there'was hew a-Trottlo in iho land,”! ; ' Jarber rose.abd; put on bis 5 little oloak. A cou ple,of.fieree’.brajM Ilona held.it tight-round bis lit tle-throat'; but a oouple of the mildest hares might have done, that,, I* am sure.. “ Sarah,”-he said; “ I go, - Expect me on Monday evening, tbe sixth, when porhope you will give me a cup of tea-may X-Ask for no gteen? Adieu!*'’ * Thiswas on a Thursday; the Second of Peoom ber/.When I xefleotfid.tbat Trottle J would come baok.cn Monday, too', I had my.misgivings as to the, difficulty, of keeping the two powers from open warfare, and indeed X was more uneasy, than I quite like to confess.' However, the empty House swallowed up that- thought next -morning, wit swallowed up most other thoughts n6w, and the House quite preyed upon me all that day, and all the Saturday. , ' . ’ . | It Whs p yexy wet Sunday.; raining and blowing fropa morning .to .night, When the bells rang for afternoon; church, they seemed to ring .‘in the oommotion of thb poddies as well as in the wind, and'they sounded‘very .lottd and dismal indeed, and'tbestreets looked very dipmal indeed, arid the House looked dlflmallest of all- V ; ’ ' I waß'reading my, pray eh near tb» light, and .my Are was glowtog.iu tbe darkening.window* glah,;,wheny looking up/as I prayed for'the. fa thorless’children .and widows"and all’who ware desolate and; Oppressed, Eje again It passed in a moment, as it had.done before; bit, -thi; time, I.waß’-inwardly more .convinced that I had seen it -' v'- ---j u a . •! ■ ■ Well/to bo sure, lAW a night that nlgbt! •Whenever I"oldsed-my own. eyes,'lt was to,see eyes. , ’HCjct/mdrriibgV at” 1 an unreasonably .and I el^ulq^a^BfttdjbnLfopt^arr^lljQddyanitnno^^ had told me all about*the Wells, X told him all about, the House,- He listened with as great in terest and attention as I could possibly wish,-un til I oame to Jabes Jarber; when he cooled in an instant, and became opinionated. - 1 • ? “HowV Trottle,*' I said, pretending not ,to notice, “ when Mr.' Jarber oomes back this evening, we most all lay our heads together.” r '“I should h&Tdly think that would be wanted, ma am ; Mr. Jarber’s bead is surely equal to any . determined not. to notice,.! said again thatjre must all lay our heads together. - “ Whatever you order, ma’am, shall be obeyed.. Still,' it cannot -be • doubted, I Mr Jarber's head Is equal, if not superior, to any pressure that oan be brougbfto bear upon it ” This was provoking! and his way. wheq heoa too in and out all through the day, of pretendii'g not to see the House to Let, was moro provoking However, being quite resolved not to notico,l gave no sign whatever that I did notioe.- But, when -evening oau\g, and he showed in Jarber, and, when Jarber wouldn’t be helped off with hts cloak, and poked his cane into onne chair-backs, and .china ornaments, and his own eye, In trying to un olasp-hts brazen lions (if hitnself, (wblob ! bo couldn’t do, after all,) I could have shaken them both. . *. * ; As it was, .I only Bhook the tea pot, and mado the tea. Jarberhadbriughtfromunderbiaoloak a roll of paper, with which he had triumphantly pointed over the way, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father appearing to the late Mr. Kemble, and which he had laid on the table. / . “.A,discovery ?” said I, pointing to it, when he was sealed, and-had got his tea-cup—‘‘Don’t go, . “The first of a-ssries of discoveries,” answored Jarber. “ Aoeount of a* former tenant, compiled Irom the Water*Rate, and HedlcalMan.” “ Don’t ! gb, 4i Trottle,’V I repeated; for, I'saw mm making imperceptibly 'to the door. . Begging - y our pardon, ma’am,, I might ,be in Mr Jarber’away??' Jarber' looked that he ’deoidedly thought ho mfgbt-bel I relieved myself with a good angry, eroskj aftd's&ld—always'deterrained not to notlco: • “ Have the goodness lo slf down, if you please, Tronic. I wish yon to hear this.” Trottle bowed in the* stiffest manner, and took the remotest chair ho 1 could find. Even that, he moved close to the draught from the keyhole of the door • ' “Firstly.” Jarber began, After sipping Ms tea, would my Scphon—” ■ “ Bogin ag'jin, .Jarber,” said I. “Would you,bo muoh surprised, If this House .to Let should turn out to be the property of a re lation of your own V’' “Ishould indeed be v<>ry much surprised.” “Then it belongs to your first cousin (I learn, bv the way, that he is ill at this time) George Forloy.” ‘ Then, that is a bad beginning. I eannot deny <bat George Forley stands in the re lation of first oousln to me; but I bo’dno communication with him. . George Forley has been a hard, bitter, stony father to a ohild now dend. George Forley was mostlmplaoable and unrelent ing to ene of his two daughters who made a poor marriage. George Forley brought all the weight of his hand te bear as heavily against thatorushed thing as he brought it to bear lightly, fayoringly, and advantageously upon her sistor’, who made a rioh marriage- I hope that, with the measure' George Forloy metod, it may not be measured out to him again. I will-give George Forley no worse wish ” i . I was strong upon tho subject, ana I could not kOop the tears out of my eyes; for that young girl’s was a cruel story, and I had dropped many a tear over it before. . 1 ■ ■ “ThekoueehelDgGeorgeForley’B,’'saidl. “is almost enough to account for there being a Fate upon it, if Fate there is Is there anything about George Forley in those sheets of paper? ” “Notaword.” “I am glad to hear it Please to read on. Trottle, why don’t you come nearer? Why do you sit mortifying yourselfin those Arotio regions? Come nearer/’ v “Thank you, ma’am; I am quite near enough to,Mr Jarber.” Jarber rounded btsohftir, to get Ms.baek fall to my opinionated friend and servant, and, beginning to read tossed the words at him over his (Jabez Jarber’s) own ear and shoulder. Be read what follows; THE MANCHESTER MARRIAGE. Mr. and Mrs. Openshnwcame from Manchester to London, and took the House To Let. He bad been, what b called in Lancashire, a Salesman for a largo manufacturing firm, who wero extending their business, and opening a warehouse in Lon don ; where Mr. Openehaw was now to superintend tho business. He rather enjoyed the change of re sidence: having a kind of ourioslty about Lon don, wuioh he had never yet been ablo to gra .tify in his brief visits to tho metropolis. At the same time he had an odd, shrewd, contempt f«>r the inhabitants; whom ho hnd always piotured to himself as fine, lazy people; oaring nothing but for fashion and aristocracy, and lounging away their days in'Bond Sreet, and suoh places; mining good English, and.ready in their turn to desplso him asaproviooial. The hours that the men of busi ness kept in tho city vandalized him too; aoou*- tomed os he was to the early dinners of Manchester folk, and the consequently far longer evenings. Still, he was pleased to go to London; (hough he would .-not for the world hive confessed it, . even -to himself, and always spoke of tbo step to his friendß as one demanded af him »by the interests of his employers, and sweetened to him by a considerable inoronsa of salary. His salary indeed wa* so liberal that he might have been justified In taking a muoh larger. Houbo than this ono. had he not thought hitmelf bound to set an example to Londoners of how little a Manchester man of business cares for show*- Inside, however, bo furnished the House with an unusual degree of oomfdrt/ and, in the winter time, he insisted on keeping up as largo fires as tbe grates woujd allow, in every room where the temperature was tho least ohiliy. , Moreover, his northern sense of hospitality was such, that, if he were at home, he oould hardly suffer a visitor to leave the hohae without folding meat and drink up>n him. Every servant in the house was well wam.d, and kindly treated; for their ?I \i f T r * ■< f k iT* ri > * »•' r ♦ 1 * s t*! #'i)i S_ i . PHILADEI.PHIA, THIIRSDAY. DECEMBER 30. 1858. master aoornad all'petty saving In that oondaoecFfo comfort; while ho amused him»olf by following out. all his aoouetomed habiti an*} ipdi*, vldual ways in defiance of what any of hU;ueigh bors might think. ’ * r ' A ' ' Els wife was a pretty, gentle woman, of&uifca* bio age Bud oharaotor. Tie was forty‘twp, she thirty,*five. ..He waa load and decided-; fine soft and yielding. * They had two children; or rather, I should say,' she had two; for the elder, ft gfri of eleven, was Mrs. Openshaw’s child by Franjt-Wil* sm hor firßt husband. Tho younger was boy; Edwin, who could just prattle, and tewbom his father'dolighted to speak in tho broad«t and most unintelligible Lancashire'dfaleof, in oijjdorto keep up what he oalled the true Saxon aooegri. ■ Mrs Openthaw’s ObrUtiau-name was AHC.e, and her first’husband had been hor own,couslfs She was the orphan- nfeoe of a sea-oaptain in>. Liver* pool; w quiet, grave littleoroature, of greftjiper sonal' attraction when sho was fifteen or sixteen, with regularfeatures and a bloomingoomplyXion. But she was vory shy, and. believed nerffel£3tq, bo very stupid and awkward; and.wad scolded by hor aunt, hor owpunole’s, seoqnd-trife. So, when hor cousin, Frank Wilson, oa'mbfvQ.me from a long'absence at stiaj ftnd first was kuS.and protective to - her; -Beoondly,' thirdly, desperately in Jove with her* she gird!# knew hdw to he grateful enough .to js true, she would have preferred bis remaiinlg in tho first orseoond.stages of behavior f'for JqgSrfd ■ lent love puzzled and frightened her. Henfu&lc neither helped nor. hindered the loTQwpPjr though it Was under his flSrojjjj'es Frank’s step-mother bad suoh , ‘& VMiable tburpeiPj, that uierb.waS'no knowing whether what she ipso d, one day she'would like the next, or not, AHongth ,phe went to each extremes of or.ogjness, thatrSifte was only too glad to shut her eyes and rush b|hsly at the' ohanee of escape from domestic. tyranny offered* her by a marriage with her cousin sn»a, liking him,better thsn any one^in tho worMex oapt her uncle (who was at this .time at wont off one morning and whs married t01d 111 .,. her only bridesmaid,being the housemaid .dfeher aunt's. The consequence was. that Frank KmfhiB‘ ! wife went into lodgings, and Mrs. Wilson rejtmsd to seo them, and lurned away Norah, the. w&qi* hearted housemaid, whom' they 1 aecordlnglyrtook 1 into thbireervloe. When Captain Wilson from his voyage; he was veiycordial wUuothe young coupto. und spent many an evening afcsieir lodgings smoking his pipe and sipping bis g|og; bat he told them that, for quietness 1 eako, herald' not ask them to his own house; for .bis wifewas, bitter agaift't them. They were not very unhappy abiutthia ' * * Tho seed of future unhappiness lay tathjj in Frank’s vehement, passionate disposition. W&iob lod him to resent bis wife’s shyness and want of demonstration as failures in conjugal duty.Vffc was already tormenting himself, and her, too,’jtb a allgh tor degree, by apprehensions and imaginations of what might befal her*during his approaching absence at sea.'. At last ho went to his fathefcfrha urged him to insist upon Alice’s being onoo flfbfe received under his roof; the more especially, as there was now, a prospect of her confinement while her husband iras away on his voyage. Captain Wilson wav, os he himself expressed it, “ breaking up,” and unwilling to undergo the.excitement o? a scene; yet be folfr that what his son saidw&s tiue. Soho went to his wife.. And before Frank wentto Rea he had fho comfort of seeing hiawifelnstalfedfn heroldlUtle garret In his fatbet’ahouse. ’Comte placediberjn the:one best.spare *ssop beyond Mrs. Wilson’s powers of submission* 6r generosity. , " . »* ’ . The woT' t part about dt, hoWeVef, Vw'thafc She fatybfbl NoranTiad’to be dismissed. r fldr place ftS housemaid had boon filled tip j.and," bfflH rigf, she had forfeited Mrs. Wilson’s gqoddpjrran forever. She comforted her young, master: tMJd mistress by pleasant propheoies of the time.wfon they'would have u household-of their otrnrwf which, fn whatever service she might -bo inj&e meantjmo, she should be sure to farm part. Al' moßt the last action Frank WNshh did.beforOSdt ting sail, was going with Alice to see Norah d&e more at her mother’s house. And thenhewfnfc away • ,Vl i Alice’s father-in-law new more and more feeble ,as winter advanced.' Sho was of great uso toj6bx step piothor ih horsing and amusing him;'atid, although there was anxiety enough In tho.ho&ln* hold, thcro was perhaps more Of peace than tbfre' had been for years; for Mrs, Wilson had bob* bad heart, end was softened by the proaoh of death to one whom she loved, and touched. byihe lonely o<mditi«c of the young peeling her first confinement In her busbandV&* pence. To this relenting mond No rah owed-tjih permission to come and nnrseAliee whon her baby was born, and to remain to Attend on <JAbt#p Wilson. . .Before one letter had been received from Frafit who had wiled for the East Indies' imd China),Btf father died. Alien, was always glad to jretyemfreg that he had held bar baby in hie, arms, andkisSbd and bleßSed.it> before his death. After thatj/and, the consequent examination into the etptb ofchlr affairs, it was found that ho bad Wft far lesB.y*o porty had been led by his styte of lfr it»g to Jmßgtne; and. what money there wmcV** all settled upon bis wife, hnd at' her diapoSiU'|lfi«r -another voyage or two, would be captain Mean while he had left her some hundreds (all his 'ahv iogs) in tho bank. " It become time for Alice to hear from her hus>- hand. One letter from the Capo she had already received. The next was to announce, his arriyn* In India. As week hfter'week passed over, and an intelligence of 'the ship’s arrival reached the offioa of the owners, and the oaptaln’s wife was in the same stato of ignorant suspense as Atioo bewelf, her foars grew moat oppressive. At length the day came when, in reply to her inquiry af the Shipping Office, they told her that the owners had given up hope, of ever hearing more of the Betsy* Jane, and had sent In their claim upon tbo under writers. Nqw that ho was gone forever, she first felt a yearning, longing tovo for the kind cousin, the dear friend, the sympathising protector, whom she should never *re again—first Jolt a passionate desire' to show him his child, whom she hod hitherto ra ther oraved to have all to own sole possession Hvr grief wag, boweverj noiseless and quiet—rather to the scandal of Mrs. .Wilson, who bewailed her step-son as if be and she had always lived together.io porfeot harmony, and who evi dently thought it her duty to burst Into fresh tears at overy strange face she saw; dwelling on this poor young widow’s dosolato state, ana the helplessness of tbo fatherless ohild/with an uno* tlon, as if she liked the excitement of the sorrow* ful story. So passed away the first days of Alice’s widow hood. By and-by things subsided into their natu ral and tranquil course But, as if this young : oreature was always, to be in some heavy trouble, 1 her ewe-lamb began to be ailing, pining, and pick* ly. The oMid’s mysterious illness turnod out to be some affrotion of tho spine' likely to affeot health, but not to shorten life—at least, so tho doc tors said- But tbo.long.-dreary suffering of one whom a mother loves as Alice loved her only ohild,- is hard lo look forward to. Ooly Norab guessed what Alloo suffered; no ono hut God know. > And so it fell out that when Mrs Wilson, the el der, ouno to her ono day in violent distress, occa sioned by a very material diminution in the v&luo of the property that her husband Had left her—a di minution which made her income barely .enough to support herself, much less Alice—tho lat’er oould hardly understand how anything which did not touch health or life could onuee such grief; and she received the Intelligence with irritating oomposuro. But irhen, that afternoon, tho little sick ohild was brought In, and the grandmother— who after all loved it well—began a fresh moan over her losses to Us unconscious ears—laying how she hod planned to consult this or that dootor, and to give it this or that comfort or luxury in after years, but that now all chance of this had pasted away—Alice’s heart was touohed, and she drew near to Mrs. Wilson with unwonted oaresso?, and, in a sprit not unlike to that of Ruth, entreated, that come what would, they might remain togeth er. After muoh diBoUBBlon In succeeding days, it was arranged that Mrs. Wilson should take a' house in Manchester, furnishing it partly wittr what furniture'she had, and providing the rest with Alice’s remaining two hundred pounds. Mrs Wils r n was herself-a Manchester woman, and namrally longed to return to her native town. Some connexions of her own.at that time required lodgings, for which they wore willing to pay pretty handsomely. Alice undertook the active superin tendence and superior work of the household Norab, willing, faithful Norab, offered to cook,, scour, do anything in short, so that she might but* remain vyith them. - Tho plan succeeded For some years their first lodgers remained with them, and nil went smooth ly—with the one pad exception Y,f the little girl’s inoroaelng deformity. How that mother loved that ohild is not for. word s to tell! Then came a break of inisfortnno. Their ledg ers left, and no one suocceded to them. After rotne months they had to remove to a smaller home; and Alice’s tender confidence was torn by the idea that ’sho ought not to be a burden to her mother in-law, but ought to go out and seek hor own mnln tenauoo And toavo her ohild! The thought crime like the sweeping boom of a funeral bell ovor her heart. By-and-by Mr Opensbaw name to lodge with them He had started inlifo as the errand boy and sweeper-out of a warebome; had struggled up through all ho grades of employment in the plnoe, figh'ing-.his way through the hard striving Man chester. life with strong pushing energy of elm rearer- . Every spare moment of time bad been sternly gives ap to eeif-toaohing. He was a capi tal accountant, hgood French and German scho lar, a kton, far-seeing tradesman, understand ing markets and the bearing of ovonts, bo<h near and distant, on trade ; and yet, with euoh vivid attention to present details, that I do not think he ever saw a group of flower* In the fields without thinking whether their colors would, or would not, form harmonious contrasts in the coming spring muslins, and prints. He went to debating societies, and threw himself with all his heart and soul Into politics, esteeming, it must be owned, overy man a fool or a knave who differed from him, and overthrowing his op ponents rather by the loud strength of Ms lan guage than tho calm strength of his logio. Tbero wus something of the Ynnkoo in all Ibis Indeed, his theory r«n parallel to tho famous Yankee mot to, “England flogs creation, and flogs England.” Such a man, as may be fancied, had had no time for fulling in love, or any tuoh non sense. At tho age when most young mon go through their courting and matrimony, he hAd not the uieaus of keeping a wife, and was far too prac tical to think of having ono. And now that he was in easy circumstances, a rising man, he con sidered women almost as inoutnbranoeß to tho world, with whom a man hnd better have as little to do As poeslblo. Bis first impression of Alice was indistinct, and he did not care enough about her to make i* distinct. “ A pretty yea-nay kind of woman,” would have boon his desoript on of her, if ho had been pushed into a oornor. He was rather afraid, in tho beginning,, that her quiet ways arose from a Hstlessness and laziness of onnr* actor, whloh would have been exceedingly dis cordant fohisuotiv*, enoruetio nature Bu>, when he found out the punctuality with whloh his wishes were attended to, and hor work waßdono; wheohe was oftllod in the morning at the very stroke of the clock, his shaving-water scalding hot,, his fire bright* his ooffee made exactly as his peouli&r fanoy dictated, (for he was a man who had his theory ■abodt everything, based upon what .he know of soiopoe, and often petfcotly original)—then he be gan-to-think': not that AHoe had.any peculiar • merit r but that lie had'got into remarkably good lodgings ; his restlessness.wore- away, and he be* gando consider himself as almost settled for life in-thom., * Mr. Openshaw had been too busy,,all his life; to be.introepeotivO; He did not know that be had any.tenderness in his nature; -and if ho had bo*, oome coubolous of its abstract existence, be would have oonsidored it as a manifestation of disease in some part of hid nature. But he was decoyed into pity unawproe j and pity led on to tenderness. That little, .helpless .child—always carried about by-one of the three busy women of the "house, or Blso patiohtl.y threading colored beads in the ohair from whioh, by no effort of its own> oould it over move; the great, grave bine eyes, full of serious, not unoheerful expression, giving to the small, deli* catd faoe a look beyond its years; the soft, plain* tivo voice, dropping oat but few words, so unlike the continual prattle of aohlld—caught Mr. Open* shaw’s attonUon.dn spile of hiinself. One day— he half .seprned himself for doing so—he out short his dinner*hour to go in search of some toy whiob should take the place of those eternal beads. r I forgot what he bought} but, when he gave tbepro sent (which he took care to do in a short, abrupt manner, and when no one was by to see him) he -waa almost thrilled.by the dash of delight which came over that child's fade, and could not help ell! •through that afwrppim.gg*)ag<ty eVahd over again the picture left buhls memory; by the bright effeofc; of .unexpected joy on ‘‘Wheh bq placed by room' fire; ‘atfdf even more careful afc tenwh'paldtb his fandies than ’Was;habitual'in those model .lodgings. .When -Alioe bad taken the* last isf his, tea-ihioga away—she, had. beeh 'silent as usual till thop—she Jtood fo&ah instant with the- doof in her. hand. look ed as if he' werf dsep in hia book, thoagh?lh jfafljt be did-nbt teea-llno;* but' was - fcho-Wpman;. would be gone; and 1 not malMA® palaver of gratitude. " But she'only saldY^s^Jt; i‘lain very, mush obliged to yOtt. Slr 'Thank 1 , you very .much,” and was "gone,, even 'beforeV-he oodldsend hex away with. a w{ There,'my good' woman, that’s enough• - ; - Bor some time longer he took Ao’ apparent notice of the child. Hp byeohaidened his heart Into dis regarding hersaddcuflaßhofoolor'andHttre timid smile of recognition,'when heVsawhet byohance. But. after allj this could not last forever; and, having a second time/given way..4o tender ness” thero was no relapse Tbo insidious enemy having thus entered his ’heart, in . the guise of compassion child/'soon assumed the more dangerous form 1 of interest In' the mother. He was'aware of ,thW ohange or feeling, dospi&ed himself for it, struggled witn it; hay ip-' tornally yielded to it and cherished it, long before' he suffered the Slightest expression of it, by word, action, or Jock, to etoape him.' He watobed Aliqe'a to her stepmother; the love whs on she had inspired in the’rough Nora, (rough ened by the wear and tear of'sorrow and but above all, ho saw (he wild, deefs/pa'feslonate affection existing betwoen.herßBd4ierobild''Thery. spoke little to any ope else, or when any one else, was by; but, when alopg together tbey talked and. munfaUred, and Cpoedj pndebattered eo 66ntinualiy that Mr. Openshaw first Wondered what they oould' find to say toe'aoh other/dnd next baoame irrita-i j tod because they weie always ao grave, and silent, with him. :AJI this time, he was perpetually de* l vising .email new pleasures for ;the ohild.-Hia thought* ran, in a perttaaolouS way. upon the d 6 -: isolate life'beftrshbr fund often he’oame back* from bis day’s york'- loaded with (be very thirig Alice had been lodging fair, bat had not been able, to'procure. One time it was little bhairior draw ing the little sufferer along the streets, and many an evening that ensuing summer:Mr* OpenehnW drew her along himself, regardless of the remark* • of his acquaintances. *Ono day in autumn he pfrt down his newspaper,' as Alice came do with the breakfast, and said, In as indifferent a voioa as he oould asiume: ■» ' fi - ' r~.. -- ' j u Mrs. Frank, is there any reason why we' two 5 should not put up out together?” Altoo stood, sttU In perplex«d, wonder. What aid bemoan?. had resumed.the fading of his nowspaper, as if he dlffnot expechahy answer.; 'so, she found alienee hersbfost coarse, and went on quietly arranging (bis breakfast without another word paesingbetneen them, 1 Just oshe was leaV* ing the house, to go to th& warehouse aa usurtl, ho turned back abd put hts head, into the bright,,neat, tidy, kitchen; wbero all the women breakfasted in the morning: - ‘'.Ton’ll think of what I said* Mrs. Frank” (this' was her name with the lodgers,) and let me have your opinion upon it to-night.” - ’ AUoe was thankful that her -mother and Norah wore top busy talking together to attend much ltd .this speech. ’ She determined not to think about' it at all through the day; and, of. course, the effort hot to thinx,made her "think all the more. At might she sent up Norah with his tea. Bat Mr. Opeusbaw almost knocked Norah dowa as she was /going > out at tho door, by pushing* past her apd OHllingout “Mrs. Frank!” in animpationtvoiee. -jttholopofthefitairf • IfeAJipe.wont up, iatber>than seem.to have affixed (*" Mrs. Frank,” he said. ** what answer ? ‘Don’t make It too long; for I have lots of office Work to get through to-night.” ' . j. . 4 ‘l hardly know, what you meant, Sir,” Bald truthful Alice. “ Well! I should have thought you might have gues«*d. You’re not new at this sort of work, nndT am. However, I’ll make It plain this time. Will you have mo to be thy wedded husband, and serve mo, and love me, end honor me, and all that eort of thing? Became, if you will, X will do na much by you, and be » father to your child—and that’s more than Is put in the prayor-book Now, I'm a man of my word; and wbat I Say, I feel; and what I promise, I’ll do. Now, for your an* ewer ! ” % ; Alioo was silent-. Ho began to make tho tea, as If her reply was a matter of perfect indiifcrenoe to him ; but, us soon as that was dono, ho beoame impatient. “ Well?” said ho , ‘‘How long, sir, may I have to think over it ? ” “Three minutes!” (looking at his watch). “ You’ve had two already—that makes five. Be a seneiblo woman, say Yes, and sit down to tea with me, and we’li talk it ovor together; for, after tea, I, shall bo busy; say No” (he hesitated a moment to try and keep his voice in the same tone,) and I shan’t say another word about it, but pay up a year’s rent for my rooms to-morrow, and l?e off. Time’s up! Yes or no ? ” If you please, sir, you have been so good to litiio AHsio—” *• There, sit down comfortably by mo on tho sofa, and let us have our tea togotner. I om glad to find you are as good and sensible as X took you for ” And this was Alioo WUspn’a second wooing Mr Open«haw’s will was too strong, and his cir cumstances too goxl, for him iocnrry-all be* fore him- He settled Mr?; Wilson in a comfortable house of her own, and made her Quito indepsnd out of lodgors. Tho little that Alice said with re* gard to future plans was in Norab’a behalf. “ No,” said Mr Openshaw. “ Norah shall take core of the old lady as long as sho livos; and, af* ter that, she shall either come and lire with us, or, if sbo like) it better, she shall .have a provision for life—for your sake, missus. No one who has been good to you or the child shall go unrewarded. But even the little one will be better for some fresh stuff about her. Get hor a bright, sensible girl as a nurse: one who won’t go rubbing her with oalf’a foot. jolly as Norah doo*; wustlDg ga-)d stuff out side thiit ought to go in, but will follow doctors’ directions; whiob, as you must see pretty dearly by this titno, Norah won’t; because they give tho pour Little wench pain. Now, I’m not above be ing nesh for other folks myself. £ can stand a good blow, and never ohange color; but, set me in the operating-nom in the infirmary, and'l turn as stok as a girl Yet, if noed were, t would bold the little wenoh on my knees whllo she screeched With pain, if it were to do hor poor back good. Nay, nay, wonoh 2 keep your white looks for the time when it oomes—l dou t say it ever will. But this I know. Norah will spare tho child and ohent the dootorjf she onn. Now, I say. give the bairn a year or two’s ohanoo, and then, when the pack of doctors haro done their boat—and, maybe, the old lady has gone—we’U have Norah back, or do better for her ” Tho psok of doctors could do no good to Ihtle Ailslo She was beyond their power. But hor father (for ao he insisted on being called, and also un Alioe’s no longer retaining the appellation of mama, but becoming henceforwavd mother) by hie heulthy cheerfulness of mnnner, bis uloar deoision of purpose, his odd turns and quirks of humor, added to his real strong love for tne helplosß little gfrl infused a new elomont of brightness and con fidepoo into horllfd"; and,'although her baok re mained tho same, her general health was strength ened, and Alice—never going beyond a smilo her* self—had,tho ploasare of seoin 4 her child taught to laugh. As for Alloe’s own life, it was happier than it had ovor been. Mr. Openshaw required no demon stration, no expressionsof affection from hor. In deed, those would rather havo disgns'od him. Alice could love deeply, but could not talk about it. Tho perpetual requirement of loving words, looks, and oare-ses, and mifioonstrmng their ab sence into absence of love, had been tho groat trial of her former married life Now, all went on 010-tr and straight, under the guidanoe of herhusbaud’s' strong sense, warm hoart and pow erful will. Year by year their worldly prosperity increased, At Mrs Wilson’s death. Norah oamo biok to them, as nurse to the newly-born little Edwin; iito wbloh post sho was not installed without a pretty strong oration on tho part of tho proud and happy father; who declared that if ho found out tha* Norah ovor tried to screen tho boy by a falsehood, or to mako him nesh either in body or mind, sho should go that very day. Norah and Mr. Openshaw were not on tho most thoroughly cordial terms; noithorof them fully recognising or appreciating the other's best quali ties. 'Lhls was tho previous history of tho Lancashire family who had now romoved to London, and had come to oooupy tho Houso Thoy had been there about a year, when Mr Openshaw suddenly informed his wife that ho had determined to heal long-standing fouds, and had asked his undo and aunt Chadwick to ooaio and p iy them a visit aud seo London, Mrs Open shaw had nover soon this uncle and aunt of her husband's. Years before Bhe had married him, there had been a quarrel. All sho know was, that Mr Chadwick was a small manufacturer in a country, town in South Lancashire Sho was ex tremely pleased that the broach was to bo healed, and began making preparations to render their vißit-ploasant.’ They arrived at last. Going to seo London was such an event to them, that Mrs. Chadwiok had mndo all new linon fresh for tho occasion—from night-cops downwards; and, as for gowns, rib* bona, and collars, she might havo been going into tho wilds of Canada, whero never a shop is, so largo was hor stock A fortnight before the day of nor departure for London she had formally called to t>.ko leave of all hor acquaintances; say log she should need all tho intermediate time for packing up. It was like a second wedding in her •imagluation, and, to oomplote tho resemblance which an entirely Pew wardrobe made between tho two events, her husband brought her baok from Manchester, on the last market day bofore they set off, a gorgeous pearl and amethyst brooch, t* j y* 5 •- \ t saying, “ Luanda should'see that Lancashire folks knew a ha'ndftome thing when they saw it.” . For somo -tipie after Mr and Mrs. Chadwick arrived at tHo Opcnshaws’, there was no opportu-' nity for wearing this brooch; but' at length they obtained an order.to see Buckingham Palooe, and the spirit of loyalty demanded that Mrs. Ohadwtok Bbou}d woar Her best olothes In visiting the abode;* ? of her sovereign.' Oa her return, .she-hastily ohanged herdreas; for Mr Ogensbaw; had planned that they should go to Bichmoad, drink tea,' and return by moonlight.’ 1 Accordingly 1 , about five o’clock, Mr. and Mrs; Openshaw and Mr. and Mrs. Chadwiok set oft.' The : housemaid and cook sate below, Norah hardly knew whero.- She was always engrossed in ■ the nursery, in tending her.two children, and in 1 sitting by the restless, till she fell asleep. By-and-bye, the housemaid Betsy tapped gently, at the door. Norah went to hor, and they spoke in whispers. “ Nurse! there’s some one down wants you.” * ‘1 “Wants me! Who is it?” j “A gentleman—” • j “A gentleman? Nonsense!” ] “ Well! a man, then, and he asks for yor t ana he rung at the front door-bell, and has .talked into the dining-room.” - } “You shout* never Have let him,” exolaimed Norah, '‘master and misses out—” ■ ‘ “ I did not want him to come in; but, when he haird yga liM&liM*; he walked puttee. suddal. i firet - end said: jTeli-h«».K> Otone aTKr'apfe&k'. to me. ’ There ls ,he gaS lighted In Jmd Bupporis all set out,” - « the spoons!” exolaimed Nor rah, the hbuaemaid’a fear into woTdtf/and preparing to leave the room, first, Tiowevbr, glv- Jng.q look to.Ailrip, sleeping soundly and calmly, ; :oown*Btftira';kh9, went,- Snowy' ;feiirs stirring inhor howm.Before dining! .room, she provided herself.With’a candle.auci; with f ■ Uifl her hand,'she,dent in. 1 looking round her'ld ■. darkneESfor-her; visiter- .’ "* ’ * 1 t < He war standing ' up, 1 holding by the table ssorahand he'looked at each other; gradual .recognition Coming into their eyes. . ’> - Norah?” at length He asked. - < • “ Who Are -you?” _asked JSrorqh', - with the *H ar P tonos of alarm and incredulity «I don’; know you:” trying by. futile; words of diabolic; to do away with the terrible fact before her. ' “Am I so ohanged?” he-said, pathetioallyi “I daresay I am. But, Norah,-tell me!” hi breathed hard, where is my wife ? Is sho—is sh 1 alive?” ... ; - ' He' cam© nearer,to Norah; and wouldhave taken her hand; but sbabioked ayvay from hlm/tookf- Ing at Him nil the time tylth staring eyes/aa if ho were some horrible objbot." Yet he was a* hand some, bronzed, good-lobklng fellow; with beard and moustache, giving him- a foreign-looking osj* peot; but his eyes! there was no mistaking .those eager, beautiful eyes—the very same that Norah had watched not half-an-hour ago, till sleep stole softly over,them. s | Tell me, Norah—l cad hear it—l have feared it so Often, Is she dead?” Norah still kepi silence. u She is dead-!”. Ho hung on Norahp words and looks, os if for confirmation or contra diction. * j • ‘' “ What sHatl X do ?” groaood Norah. “0, sir! 1 why dfdyou come? how did .yon-flail me out"? where have you been ? We .thought yo t .dead, we did, indeed!’! She poured out words an 1 questions to gain time; as If time would help he:. “ Norah! auswerme this question straight/by yes or no—ls my wife dead?’* * \ ' --- “No, she'is not!”' said Norah, slowly an 1, heavily. , . , , , , , . ’ ‘ f v “o,.whatq, relief! Bid she receive" my letters" Bit 'pefrhapS - you don’t knbw. Why -did* yoa leave her? Where Is she? 0,-Norsk, tell me a 1 quiokiy! 1 * - . r < - “Mr< Frank!”, ;said. Norah, at'last, .aimo t driven to bay by her terror test her mistress should; return at any .moment; and find him there—unab e to consider what’was best to he done or &ald tushltig at something decisive, becaiiae She. eon d not endnre her'present state r -Mr- Franki e never heard a line from you, and the ahip-bwbe a •said yon Had gone down, you and every one els We thought yon were dead, if ever man w«, and poor Miss Alioo and her little sick, he! i* less oaUdd -0, _ sir, 1 yon* mdit guess' it,” oried the poor oreature at last, bursting out iuio a pa 1- sionate fit .of crying, “ for indeed £ odnnot tell* ft. Bat it was.no one’s fault. God help nS fill this' nittht!” • ' ' ' T -Norahhod sate down. She:.trembled too much., to stand . He took her hands in his.- He squeezed them bard, as if by physical pressure‘the truth could be wrong out. f t , “Norah! ”Ihl3 time, his tone was oslm, stsc nant as despair. “ She has married again !”> T, Norah Bbook her head sadly. The grasp slowiy The man had tainted. I . There was brandy iu-the room. Norah’forced some drcpß laid Mr. Frank’s month, chafed'His Hands; ana—when mere animal life returned,- ne*! fere the mind poured’- in Ats flood of and thoughts—she lifted him up, and rested uis heafl. be* jtaeea. . Then aho ppt' a few crumby of bread token from* the. soaked in lnto his mouth'; - Suddenly no, .'•fewbtt . Where' is she? Tell mo this ins tan t. Ji a look 80 -wild, ao mad, so desperate, that Norih foil horself to be in bodllv danger; but her time of droad had gone by. She had been afraid to tell him the truth, and then she had been aoowara." Now, her wits were sharpened by the ronge of his desperate state.. lie must loave the bouse Sho would pity him afterwards; but now she must rather command and upbraid; for he must leaye thaboußObeforehormla rc?sramehome. -Thatone necessity atoed dear before bor. f “She is not here; that is enough for you to know. Nor oan I flay . exactly where she is” (which was true to the letter if not to the spirit) “Go away, and toll me where to find you to morrow, and I will tell you all; My master ahd mistress may come back at any minuto, and then what' would become of me with a strange man’in the house?” 1 Suoii an argumo&t was too pretty to touch his exoited mind. > “I don’t oaro for your master and mistress. t lf your master is a man, he must feel for me—poor shlpwreoked sailor that I am—kept for yenrs a prisoner amongst savages, always, alwavs, always thinking of my wife and my homo—dreaming,of her by night, talking to her —though she conldpot hear—by day. I loved her more than all heaven and earth put togethor. Tell me where she instant, you wre olied woman, who solved over her wickedness to hor, as you do to me ” Theclook struok ten. DeßpoT&te' positions re quire desporate remedies. “ If you will leave the house now, I will oome to you to-morrow, and tell you all. What is more, you shall seo your child now. She lies sleeping upstairs. 0, sir, you have aohlld, you do nor. know that as yet—a little weakly girl—with jost a Heart and soul beyond her years' We have reared her upwUb suohearo. We watched her, for we thought for many a yoarshemightdieany day, and we tended her, and no hard thing has come near her, and no rough word has ever been said.’to hsr. And now yon come and will take her life into your hand, and will crush it Strangers to hor have been kind to her; but her.own father—Mr Frank, I am her nurse, aud I Idve her, and I teed her, and I would do anything for her that I oould- Her mother’s heart beata.as her’a beats; and, if she suffers a pain, her mother trembles nil over. If she is happy, it is her mother that smiles and is glad. If she is growing 'stronger, her mother is healthy; if she dwindles, her mother languishes. If she dies—well, ( doh’t know : it. is not every one oan lie down and die when they wish it. Come up-stairs, Mr Frank, and soe your ohild. Seeing her wifi do good to your poor heart. Then go avay, in God’s name, just this one night—to-morrow, if need be, you oan do anything—kill us all if you will, or show ? ourself a groat, grand man, whom God will bless or ever and ever. Como, Mr Frank, the look! of d stooping child U sure to give peaoe.” - She led him up-stairs; at first almost helping his steps, till they oatne near the nursery dour She had almost forgotten the existenoe of little dwin. It struck upon her with affright as the shuded light fell upon the other cot; hut she skilfully threw that corner of the room into darkness, and tot the light fall on the stoop ing Ailsie.' The ohild had thrown down the coverings, and hor doformlty, os she lay with her back to them, wns plainly visible through her alight night-gown. Her little face, de prlved of the lustre of her eyes looked wan and pii’ohcil, and had a pathetic expression in it. even as she slept. The poor father looked and looked with hungry, wistful.eyes, into which the big tears oame swelling up slowly, and dropped heavily down, as he stood trembling and shaking nil over; Norah wns angry at herself for growng impatient of tho length of time that long-linger ing gazo lasted Sho thought that she waited for full hdf an hour boforo Frank stirrod. And then—ipste&d o going'away—he sank down on his knees by the bedside, and Imried his face in the olothes Little Ailslo stirred uneasily No rah pulled him up in terror She oould afford no more time even for prayer in her extremity of fear; far surely the next moment would bring her mistress home. She took him foroibly by the arm ; but. as ho was going, his eye lighted on the other bed; he stoppod. Intelligenceoauje bock into his faco. His bands olenebta. “ Hi* ohild ?” bo a*ked. “ Hor ohild,” topliod Norah, “ God watches over him,” said sho Instinctively; for Frank’s looks oxcited her fears, and sho needed to remind her self of the Protector of the helpless. “God has not watohed over me,” ho said, In despair, his thoughts apparently recoiling on hie own desolate, doaerted stato But Norah had no time for pity To morrow she would be nsobra passionate »s hor heart prompted. At length she guided him down stulrs, and shut tho outer door, and boltod it—ns if by bolts to keep out faots. Then sho went baok into the dining-room, and ef faced all traces of his presence as far as she could She went up-s’uira to tbo nuraory and sate there, her head on hor hand, thinking wbat wan to come ot nil this misery- It seemed to her very tong before ihoy dirt return ; yet it was hardly eloven o’clock. She heard tho loud, hearty Lancashire voices on the stairs; and for the first, time, sho understood tho contrast of the desohiion ef tho P 'or man who had so lately gono lorth in lonely despair. It almost put her ou ; nf patienoe to see Mrs Opensbnw oomo 10, calmly smiling, handsomely dressed, happy, easy, to r quiro aftrr hor children • “ Bid AUsie go to stoop oomforiably ?” she whis pered to Norah. “ Yofl ” Her mother bent over her, looking at hor slum bers with the soft oyrs of love. How little she dreamed who had looked on her last! Then sho wont to Edwin, with porhapa toss wistful anxiety In heroountonanoo, but more of pride. Sho took off her things, to go down to supper. Norah saw hor no more that night. B.sido tho door into the passage, the sleeping nursery opened oat of Mr. and Mrs Openshaw*a room, in order that they might have the children moro immediately under their own eyes. Early tho uoxt j-uinmer morning Mrs Oponßhaw was awakened by Ailsie’s startled call of ** Mother ’ iuotnor!” Sho sprang up, put ou hor dresring gown, nud weut to hor child; Ailsie was only alf awake, and in a not uncommon stato of terror. “Who was he, mother? Tollme!” “ Who, my darling ? No one is here. You have 'two:':cjej>ts. been dreaming, love. "Waken up finite. .-'See,-it'i« broad daylight..” "- -j - . , “ Yea,” said Ailsie, dooming- round her ; then clinging to her mother, said,’ “ bat a mail was hero in the night, mother^”;? “ Nonsense, JJttlo goofio. .Nozoanhas ever come near you!” , .... “ Yes, he did; ’He stood there. .Tost byNorab. f ““J 1 * halt and a beard; And he knelt down mmw » n. 9 P/^ y6ra ; • Norah knows he was here* W b&a .S“ y > 88 Mra, Oponshaw shook ®" “J 8 * j n amllio* inorednlity.) •*•.. . < :• r. r Vi I **k.Norah when ehe’ comes,” eaid Mra.Oponshaw, eoothingly. “Bat we won’t SILI 7 .;”". 8 ' abot “ Mm now. It Je not-five o otook, it 18 too earfy for yon to get up. Shall I fetoh you a book and read to you V 7. F - * me, mother,” said the child, J Jll D A t fw her i p .°, Mra. Op’enshaw aat <m the bedside talking to AUsle, and telling her of what tbeyhad done at Richmond the evoninz before until the little girl’s eyes slowly Lsed7a ß T She once more fell asleep. . ’ ... ‘ “‘What was the matter?” asked Mr. Openshaw. whig wife returned to bed.-, * 1 ~, Ailsie, wakeqed up In a fright, with tome ato ry of a man' having boon in' the room to say his prayers—a dream, I suppose. V And.no more was said at the, time. f Mra. Openahaw tad almost* forgotten the Whole affair when she Seven o’Ctook^But; ■ J' Hold,your. tongue; AllsU! Jes-me*diearm>BO °f im tei neyerlefcmeteor youtelllfcat story agatnl” Ailsietieghn'tobry; * Mr-*Qponshaw opened the door ofoommfanica t*°n before his wife oonld say a word. ,- . ; • come hotel 11 " * *•*- ,j ' ' The-nurse stood aHfce door/dehant; • Shkper-* oeired she- hadbeen heard, bdtjho,wMd.e*peretel . P oa t let you speak in.that manner to AUsie again,” he said stormy, and shut tfid dboft r Norah was • infinitely refleved ! ;?fi>i dreaded some questioning; ; and.aHMo.bUme fo* sharp speaking was what .she could wellhear.'if oross-exammarten wallet alone.- ' “ ’ • Down stairs they went, Mr. Openshaw; carrying -AUsie ;,the sturdy Edwin owning stopbystem right foot foremost, always holding hiVmotherVhand; Eaoh child was placed in a obatr by the WeakfWfci, table t and then Mr. ahchHfs l .Openßh&w. stood gether at tho window, awaiting their.visiters’-ap-i pearanoe.and making plans for the“day.~ TheH was a pause: ' Suddenly Mr. Opeushaw turned to Aflsie, and said :-. r y- . i\ - t ..... j “ "What a iittlo goosy somebody is with her •l r 5 a % waking up row, tired mother in the mid? jUj *o'6 night with a story ofa men being in thd , j c ’ I J m sure I,saw him,” said Aifsiei half opring. “ I don't want to makeNbralTan ?y ;■ but I was not asleep, for all she' I was! had boon asleep—and l awakened up quite wide hwake, though I was So frightened.' X kept r my ‘byCs nearly shut, add’l saw the mah ; fihitepliini A great brown m&u with :aibeard. jHe-jsatdhli ?v aye And then he at Edwin,/And then .Norah took,him by?the arm and‘led ’hxiA away, after they had whispered bit’togethetiul J little . Womap musbbe reasonable,? 'M l ,y^^^F. eilt . liaw » f wllo W4B always.patient' with AHrfo “.There was no' mau ,ih y the-'‘ hodsb last night at all. ' N 6 man' dCmeainto the bottseas yos know, if you tbink ; ,muoh: less , goes up info the nursery. .^Bubaometlmes'we.dream.spmethihgh&s happened, and tho."dream is so like reaHty.thai .Ba*jiln4«riitwijn#ta<a,«Mfi! , i ii’drAUiii, rbegineingtoery. *?■•(-• \ ‘ \ y - then r Mr. end, Xfrs f ’ ObadWiok^Ctme^owii' lodkthg grave ahddiscompoSCd; : Aildmlhghrtft? fasti time they were sllenfoand ■ A°° a *® the breakfosUhipgswere.Uken. away, and the children had. been carried”Ui>*g\airt, MV.'Chad wick begantin’au to? inquire Tf-his ;ceriain;thaS t aU-b* fservanm were honest; for, . that. Mrs.. Qhadwiok bad that faornihg misled a veryvaluable ,J lm&ot£ which she bed worutho day before *. Shexsmetri bor®“ taking-it came-home, feed* Bpokinghafiv Palace. Mr. Obenahaw’s face corf j what it was be ; fore he had known his wife and her ohildy.Hb fang the bell even before his unole had done speaking. It wasunsweredby the housemaids j ?“Mery, waaapyoue here lsst night while wp .wer^away? l * - v ... ‘ - * ' ~s- f , '“*Aman',sir,o’amotoflppaWto s Kdrah: *•[ speak to Norah! -%itoW4*hVn “flow lent. ; did he stay.?” v . : , Xt , . f t .f. spre J can’t'tell, Hr. about nine. I went up to l nl mC nuif sery, aud she oame dotm:torspeak, to hsur; :jBlm jet him out, Bir. She wiU know.who how long he stayed.” ‘ r ' * v 1 . f- 1 r \ She waltod a moment’ to'beftsked twy- mosß, questions, but she yf ns.pot,-,strjshe *#ut 1 ,A minute afterwards Openshaw made though h© were 1 going outof thVrobih; but’ hir wlf/ laffl, horhiindduhtearUi pvf !>, &j>i •. T : • ‘ 9° not Spoak -Xmaat spolk to her. You must know,? 1 said he, turning to his unole and aunt,my sue has an old servant, asTaithfuj as ever wbmt o was, I do believe, as far as love at tl e same time, who. docrnot/alwUYg speak' truth, sa. even the missus'must allow. Now, my-notion is, that this Norah' of ours Has been come over by rome good-for-nothing oh&p (for she’s at the tinde o’life when they say women pray for husbandsh -1 any, goid Lord, any/) and nas let him into our. house, and,the chap has' made' off with your brooch, and m’appeu many another thing beside. It’s; only saying that is. soft-hearted* add does not stick at a white lie—that’s all, mlssua It was ourious to' noHoe how his tone, his his whole face changed as he spoke to'hlS wife; but he was tho resolute man through alt. She knew better than to 'oppose bim j so she went dp stairs, android Norah her master wanted to spe<jk to her, and that she would take care of the.chjl dren in the meanwhile. * No rah rose to go without a word. Her thoughts were these j “ If they tear toe to pieces they shall sever know through me He may come—and then just Lord have tnoroy upon us atl; for seme of us are dead folk to a certainty. But he shall do it; not me" , “ You may fanoy, now, her look of determination as she faced her master atone in the dining-room; Ur and Mrs Qhadwtok bavins left the affair in their nephew’s hands, seeing that he took it pp wtthsnoh vehemence' * “ Norab ! Who was that man that came to my hoa«e lest n'ghe?*’ ! “Man, sirT” As if infinitely surprised ; but'it was only to gain time. “ Yea ; the man whom Mary let in ; whom she went up-stairs to the nursery to tell you about; whom you oame down to speak to; the same ohap, Imakeno doubt, whom vou took into the nursery to have your talk out with’; whom AUsfo saw, and afterwards dreamed about; thinking, poor wenoh 1 she saw him say his prayers, when nothing, I’ll be bound, was farther from his thoughts; who took Mrs. Ohodwick’s brooch, value ten pounds Now, Norah 1 Don’t go off! I am assure as that my name’s Thorns Openshaw, that you know nothing of this robbery Bat I do think you’ve been imposed on, and that’s the truth. Some good-for nothing ohap has boeQ making pp to you, and you’ve boen just like all other and have turned a soft place In jour heart to him ; and be oame a-lovyering, and yon bpd him up in the nursery, and he made use of bis op portunities, and made off with a few things on fits wav down ! . Gome, now, Norah; it’s no blame ’to you, only you must not be such a fool again J Tell us.” be continued, u what name he gave yqu, Norah 7 I’ll be bound it was not the right one; but it will bo a oiue for the police.’ - > Norah drew herself up “You may ask that question, and taunt me with my being single, and with my credulity, as you will, Mister Openshßtv. You’ll get no answer from me- As for the brooch, and the story of theft and burglary; if any frlehd ever came to see me (whloh I defy you to prove, and deny.) he’d be just as much above doing such a thing as yourself, Mr Openshaw, and more fro, too; for I’m not at all sure as everything you halve is rightly onme by, or would be yours long, if every man bad his own.” She meant, of oourse, bis wife; but be understood her to refer to his pro perty in goods and ohattels. , ] “Now, my good woman,” said he, "I’ll just tell you truly, 1 never trusted you out and out; but my wife liked you, and I thought you had many a good point abont you If yon onoe begins to gauoo me, I’U have the polioo to you. and get but the truth in a ooutt of justice, if you’ll not tell it mo quietly and civilly hero Now, the best thing you can do is quietlv ?o tell me who the fellow is. Look here! auiun comes to ray house; asks ror you; you take l.iui up-stairs, a valuable brooohjis missing next day; we kntw that you, and Mary, and cook, are honest; but you refuse, to toll ;us who the man is. Indeed, ynu’.ve told one.lie al ready about him, saying no one was here last night. Now, I just put it to you, what do you tbink a policeman would sav to this, or a magis trate ? A magistrate would toon make you tell the truth, my good woman ” ' “There’s never the creator* born that shopld it out of me,” said Norah. “Not unless I ohooFO to tell ” “ i’ve a great mind to see,” said Mr. Open«h*w,_ growing angry at the dofianoe. Then checking' himself, he thought before he spoke again: ] “Norah. lor jour missus's sake I don’t want to go to ex*remi ieB. Be a sensible woman, If you oan. 'lt’s no great disgrace, after nil,-to have been taken in. I ask you enoe more—’*B a friend —who was this man whom joa let into my house lastnight?” ’ t No answer. He repeated the question in an Im patient tone Still no answer Norab’s Hpawqr* set in determination not to speak “Then there is but one thing to bo done. 1 shall send for a policem-in.” , ! • “You will not,” su’d Norah; starting forwards. “You shall not, sir! N*» policeman shall touch mo I know nothing of the brooob, bu> I hutvr this: ever since I was four and twenty I have thought more of your wile than of mysolf; ever since I saw her. a poor molherles-girl put upon in her house, 1 have thought more of serving her than of serving myself! 1 have cared for her and hor child, as nobody over cured tor me I don’t onst any blame on y.iu, sir, but I say it’s ill giving up one’s life to any one; for, at the end, they will turn round upon you, and forsake you* Why doe*'not rnv mi*'U« corao herself to suspect met ■ Maybe she i 3 gone for the police? But I don’t stay boro, oither for polioe. or magistrate, or master. You’re an unluoky lot I believe there’s n our?o on vou I’ll leave you this very day. Yes! I’H leavo that poor Ailsie, too. I will! No good will ever ooine to you!” Mr. Openshaw was utterly astonished at this speech; most of whioh was completely unintelh fible to him, «a may easily be tupposed. Before e could mtke up his mind whaC to say. or what to do, Norah had lefc ibo room. I do not tbink he had ever really intended to send for the police to ibis old servant of his wile a; for he had never forauiomonr doubted hot porfeot ho nesty. But ho had intended to ownpcl her to fell him who the nnn was, and in this he was‘baffled. Ho was, consequently, much irritated.. Ho re turned to his uQoie and aunt in a state of grea annoyance and perplexity, and told -them he could get nothing out ef the woman; that some KOTICK TO niHUSPOIIOKNIi. CorrwjioeilifflitJ for ll tnnPnin£'> willpltjje but la mlna the following rnieg: j , XTarr eommnhlejtim mart be aaxmpulaa hftha "V?* °*writer. In order to injure eareetneje ja “•.‘ypogTJpij, tat one 'eide.'of thetteetjhouW tie written.apoi*, 1 *'' '' ■ 1 We etall be greatly. obliged to (enttemea in Penn- JJlrenU and others total for contribution! giring tie tnrrentasweottoedejr in' their, partieoiar loeelitlea, the resources of the surrounding eonhtiy; the increase of population, or any. Information that nfli be'lnterest* to the general reader, •• SfQa^safssjr&'as and -Sal® S*e hoo« ia passionate h "‘ e . u T> T | i . ! lif o . l i a raapioioua ’” said "Mr, Chadwick would “ wMoh an hoMst <• Ton don’t Know Norai, nnol«! sh» U nana T iHJVkV* dM? i! y h .°rt*t boiuo; suspected 0, X wish X had seen I- baa spoken to her ttyfielf. ' She would hay’s told'ine' anythin? ,f Alice.wrunghfir hands. -•'/ ' J - 5 ‘ . “Imuat'cprifesa,” continued Mr; Chadwick to hie nephew, in a lower voice, “ I can’t make yon out. ♦hn U i.iH w « *? j Word *Bd a blow, and ©ftenest no blow first; and now, when there is every'- cause rorsjisptojon, you just do nought Your missus Is a ■ womM > 1 grant; but she may hare been we l! M otb 9 r ®>lk, I suppose.. If you *™ ‘“»4 f or the polios, I shall.!’, .. ~ r well ’’ replied Mr.' Opeßshaw,-surlily. I v°p a °jssr Norah. She won’t clear herself,-as hands°of ,f Only iS’my h!S2Hr-i , / o T\ nm *® r « the woman herself- is g!? , i{s?y,irko fa » sore way. I tellyou unole ’” ‘ ctß0 «> to* Mrl-’Chad wlobj.euddsu.ly add Sharply, after his eye-had ft}, len' on Alfos.s ,itan,i tearful; anxious face; «I’ll | bSy my°4alM:iks? yo^t<sl O polios,afteraH.v I’u i ! 'Out ill noth are Norab Suspected, and^my missus plaghed.v.TJore’a fof you.-™ > -n; llsaDdhissflfbloftthe room‘,'Mf:--.Ghadwiok toarfnj? and then sald te Els »lft^<<#oi- dlliTom’*heroios. I’m just ~ P° Ijoe- station ’ an d made a State mentof thd olfse.’- He waS grad So- by the im- FJStew !Tb«VtheiW4eT!(>e aeaiast-'Ndrah seemed tomShe,Tho tneOhlf agreolln hisopinion; and Steps, were to 'hOVWtoedfnrtiily itaken bo -.did tut where.sW as they soggest ed, H_bu had gohe at ooec to themau who, to* all an peartnoe, was her- lovW , Wfietf Hr.: Chad wick SJS k o '? ‘ h “y ]».<™R tod her out,:- they smiled, Bpads, • and spoke ofmysteMous’hut infallible-ways,and means- Boa returned to his nephewis house with a Terymemfortsbleopinion of k l?.u n <?? gaQlty ’ w.as met bi’blr wife with'- a 'master; I’totoned my hroooh{lt whs-just sticking by Ha pin In the iounoe of my brown silk that I womyesterday.;- I.took it off in a hurry, rwa«d%sk t 6 tfaf StaaonS hSpin'g ■& be' ih time te rtop the polios. frojp. learaMng for HorahU-Buto toteettve wM on the errand. ' I® W * iBW-irftt «e>ttrkin ol the 1 fearful secret,-slid had h*rd!v slept through. *}>f ° , *toto‘ i lUnklng whabmusbbedone; - Bpon ithls.terrible statept inlod hadßome .Allsla’a ques- • |tsas!i&sgj*isisis »sMs<»istowl J ieafld|',®eWfe«S r Kftfiftrse, her. Tntbai turns? ahb'W&ald' ijof stay. •?if J ,rBB *«fi^w'%aa T cftar 3 ab*fit.> She wsuld nht evense* thebbTMrw«afca*n, for>ftar it anonld weaken Bl® Mr. Trank's return to‘claim his wife. ,-£hwoould not tell whot remedy.lthßre was for a rorrow so tremendous, for her to &t&yrtzKwitaeae, ~Th* de coming event was a -rtottt thomimolonadtreeted agsinsthsri not,dated, to.do yjJPing xne.paat nlgntßirTear of eiceitlng. wonder in idfei name in^he/foißAthaf m VotflAteW? Lon don altageth*? ana-hefako bdntf f» ve town of Liverpool;/-Bfiil3nt?n her pocket for her purwaratedreW? neartheßoston-fquare ttathm with this intention. She ha4>lef« it ai home. I Her poor still ahd weU r as I ?P?i .$%• Sadieniy the thonkor fla-hed jnto her mlnd that afidfi'ifi oclt poor Mr ’Prink She had *beeii"uatdfy’kind” *o him -the night before, though her heart had bled Bhe;fememberedhls’ttlllhgther, as she inquired ToVhfg addresvv ahnostas sbehtd qmahedrmm ent of ihadoor/of some hotel In ' a fStrect not far dia* tanfc from iEaßtop:Bquare. ,; shaj^rent— she pitied binj-.. In her present, state she felt herself unfit to counsel, or restrain,'or,assist, br 'do anghfe else bat sympathise and weep - The people of the ina safa-euch « person had rived only the daybefore; -had gone'ont soon his arrival, leaving his luggage in their care; but had nevereome hack ; Norah asked for leave to sit down 'and await the gentleman's retnrn. .'The landlady, pretty secure Jn the deposit of lot ■gag© against anjrprobable Inlnry, showed her into a Toom. and quiotly locked the door on the'ohtside. Norahwas.utterly. worn put, and fell asleep—a shivering, Starting, uneasy which lasfod ; for hours. ; : S 1 Tho' detective', mgknwhile, hsd come ap with her some time before r&e entered the hotel, into'which he followed her. Asking tha'landlady to. detain her for on hour or soi without giving any reason beyond showing his authority,' (which made the landlady applaud herself a good deal for having looked her in,) he went back to the police-starion to report hid proceedings. He-oould hove" taken .her direotly ; bat bis objeot if possible, to trace ont the man who to havo.com* mined the robbery. Then he beard of the discov ery of the brooch, and consequently did not site to return. . - Norab slept till even the summer.evening began to oloso in. Then up Some on* was at tb* door. It would he Mr .Frank; and she dizsUy pushed back her ruffled gray hair, which had fallen over her eyes, and stood looking to see-him . Instead, there oame in Mr. Openshnwand a policeman - 1: This is Norah Kennedy,” said Mr. Dpesshsw. “0, sir,’? said Norah. “I did not-touch the brooch; indeed I did not. 0, sir, I cannot live to bo thought so badly of;” and, very siok and faint, she suddenly sank down on the ground. To her surprise, Mr Openshaw raised her up very tenderly. Even the polioeman helped to lay her on thesofa; .and* at Mx. Oprnsbaw’s desire, be wont for some wine and sandwiches; for tfaepoor, gaunt woman lay there almost as if dead with weariness and exhaustion. - , “Norah!” said Mr. Openshaw, in his .kindest .voioe, “the brooch is found. It was hanging to Mrs. Chadwick’s gown I beg your pardon. Most truly I beg your pardon, for having troubled yon about it. My wife is almost broken-hearted. Fat, Norah—or, stay, first drink this glass of wine,” said he, liftk&her head,, pouring a little down her throat **** As she drank, she remembered where she was. and who she was waiting for. She srddenly pushed Mr Openshiw&way, saying. “0, sir,'you must go. You* must not stop a minute. If he comes b&ok he will kill you.” “ Alas, Norah! Ido not know who ‘ he* is. But someone is gone awav who will never oome hack : some one who knew you, and whom I am afraid you oared for ” “ I don’t understand yon, sir,” said Norah.-her master’s kind and sorrowful manner bewildering her yet more than his words. The polioeman naa left the room at Mr. Openshaw’s desire/ and they two were alone. a “ You know what I mean, when I say some one is gone who will never oome back. I mean that he is dead!” ' “ Who?” said Norah. trembling ell over. “ A poor man has been found in the Thames this morning, drowned. ” “Bid he drown himself?” asked. Norah, solemnly. “God only knows,” replied Mr. Openshawj in the same tone. “ Your name and address at 'our house, were found in his pocket: tha% and-his gurse, were the only, things, tha’ were found upon im lam sorry to say it, my poor Norah,-but youato required to go and identify him.”, ‘ “ To what ?” asked Norah. “To say who it is. It is always done, in order that some reason may be discovered for the sui cide—if suicide it was. I make no' doubt he was the man who oame to see you at- our bouse last night. It is .very ?pd I know.” He made pauses between eaoh Tittle clause, in order to try and bring baok her senses, which ho feared were wandering—so wild and sad whs her look “ Muster Openshaw,” said she, at lbat, “ I’ve a dreadful secret to tell you—only yon mast never breathe It to any one. and you aod I must bide it away f*ir ever. I thought to have done it all by my«o!f, bat, I see I omnot. Yon ( poor man— yoa ! the dead, drowned creature, is, I fear, Mr. -tny mi-tress’ first husband.!” Mr Openshaw eat down as if shot He did not speak ; but, after a while, he signed Norah to go oo “He came to 'tno the other night—when— G\d be th inked—yon were all away at Ri<*h mond. He asked mo il bis wife was d*ad or alive I was a brute, and. thought more of your all ovming home. than of his sore trial; I snoke out sharp, and Sxid -he was inurrie i again, and very content and heppv ; I-all bu-'tarnedhim away; and now he lies dead and cold!” “ God forgive.mo!” said Mr Opcmhaw. “ Go>i fnTgivo us all 1” said Norah. “ You poor man needs forgiveness perhaps less th-ut «py on* among us. He had bten nmong the s.iv.-tres —shipwrecked—l know not. whnt —and be nad written letters whioh had never reached my poor missus ” “ He s.tw his child!” “ He saw her—yes! I took him up, to give his thoughts aneth^rsiart: for I believed he wmgrdrg mad on my hsnd* I name tn him hor»», os I more than talf-promised. My mind misgave me, when I beard be had never come ta. 0, sir! it mast be him!” M/. Openshaw rang tho bell. ■ Norah wna almost toojmucb stnnnod to wonder what, be did- He for writing materials, wrote a letter, and then said to Norah: “ I am writing *n Alice, to say I Bh.ill b? nna* void »bly absent fur a f«*w day s ; that I have found you; that you ate well, and send ht*r your.loTe, and will come home to-m'.>rr*w. You must go with me to the Polioe Court; you muse identify the body; I will pay high to keep names and details out of the papers ” 1 But where are you going, sir?” Ho did not ai.swor her directly. Then he said : “Norab! T go with you, a’d look on tbe face of The mat\ whom I have so injured—unwit tiugly, it, U true; but it seems to me as if I bad killed him. I will lay his h*ad in tho grave, hs if he were my only bruiher; and how he-muse have bsted mu ! I oannotgo home to till all that I can do for him is done. Then Igo with a dreadful secret on my mind. I shall never speak
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