ADVERTISING Tufts. at. 1 mu. Smog, 6 tn.. 1 vr. 1.50 '1.75 3.50 6.00 10.00 3,00 3.53 5.50 10.00 16.00 4.53 I 5.101 600 15.00 20.00 1.10 12.10) 51 00 35.00 .10,1 5.p 11. :1 , 24 n0 , .11 60 .9):(11 1101.111 Professional Cardssi.<l9 der iitte per year. Administrator's ditlAtaittOr * aNaltee'. City Notices, 3) centW per One pit ii.ortioth 15 neut. - per line each nubnrquenl luserllOn. Ton lines agate conettlutoa scisre:. WILLS & IREDELL, Pu. Ono Square, . Two Squares Three Squares Six Squares, . Quarter Column Half Column . (Inc Column =I Dtp Geobo. NO LIE WILL EVER APPEAR HERE A great many advertising lies are told now-a-days. do wide-spread bar this evil become, Mat' tbe 1 , 111/11C ore be ginning to low confidence in the advertisements of even upright, honorable merchant, We pledge ourselves that no Ile shall creep It here. Whatever we propose to sell, Dud trill ice cell. WlllllOl,, see propose to do, That trill reeds. We want, we intend to deserve, nod me infendto huge the entire confidence of Oils entire eimunnity. Thus, briefly, we rank a our bow to the geed people 41 Lehigh nod Nerthltllll,6lllC ties. Now- for business. BUY CHEAP ! SELL CHEAP ! AND DON'T DE AFRAID TO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW IT, in llee of oar mottoes. Ire shell click le• nceosant war upon the ROTTEN CREDIT 'SYSTEM, that snakes housed people pay for the Dry floods that rdffuro wear, la another principle upon which we do bush nose. We shall stick to thal,,p, Remember, then, we buy for cash and no mod 'ell for rwsh. DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES! TIIE NEW YORK FOSTERS ARE COMING... NEW YORK DRY GOODS ARE COMING. - NEW YORE PRICES ARE COMING. MAKE WA Y 'OR THILyI Our pecoo here are to he an low no at our three New York City starer—as low an at our store in Troy, N. low ax nt our otore Iu Newark, N. d.—an tow no at our morn In Fort Wayne, Indiana. We retail nearly a million dollars worth of (try Goods yearly. We can buy on this account inunenso lots, mini Ho are atoll roubit4l to sell our uuodu lean than other merchants bill, their, We propose to re- Vol utionixe the Allentown Dry floods trade—to crush out With pricer—to donuts,' with the rotten credit 'system, and to soli you ninny anode for about half the prices now be ing I•lkargi'd by "slow obillinre • merchants. 1'111.4 'donor, WO Alin open MONDAY. APRIL 12111. Look out for a grand nods. Look out for the cheapest goods ever seen is: your city. Ftwelisl bargain. Will be offered .os that day. Many goods will be sold nt coot. Among oilier bargain's; these: Splendid Yard Wide ...lin, 12 cents; Best Merrimack Presto, cents; Ihindsome Fringed Towels, cents; Large Linen :lank's., $1 Ni per dories; Wide Table Links, 50 cent's, hold in town at SO can a; Coates . Best Spool Colton 7 cede, field in town at la cans; Double Width Alpacas :l7 crate, sold in town at al cent, Ittnataaber, then, that on MONDAY, APRIL, 12th will be opened at NO. 19 EAST HAMILTON STREET, )pponlir the Reformed Lothetan Church. F O.S T E S ONE PRICE NEW YORK CITY STORE air;-Iy FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! 110! HAVE YOU HEARD TILE NEWS 0, NO ! 0, NO ! NOT SO ! The Corner Store will othere Can't sell cheerier (luau SCHREIBER BROS NO. 10 L'AST HAMILTON ST. ==l GOOD GOODS CHEAP PRICES Let vs hare Peace, In other word, go to Schreiber Pro's for DRY ~ GOODS. Hear ye : Take notice old and Voting, male and female , rlell'and poor, lugh and low, bond and free, all are entn mound to appear to render a good and vali d roamon why they thould not purchaav their FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DRESS GOODS HE I BER BROS A failure to appear aunt aunwer Is a forfeit of ISO to yuttr porket. But Nye cull your atteation to our atoortuiont of BLACK DRESS SILKS, all qualltlcr,, PLA:N SILKS, en color*: IRISH POPLINS, FRENCH POPLINS, ALPACCAS, PLAIN AND STRIPED MOIIAIRS SIIAWI.S! SHAW 1.. m! The very largest assortment of show It that we hat opened—ell the new styles. Ladles Sackings of all kinds, both plain and figured, at all prices. Balmoral Skirt,, the cheapest ever brought to Allentown. DOMESTIC GOODS, such as bleached nod unbleached sheeting 11111111110 , , bleached and unbleached shooting tick • lug cotton and linen table diaper, gingham., checks uud calicoes, as low no the lowest. Marseilles quilts and cotton hovers of all descriptions. Our 'dock of Mourning Goode In /inch endless variety that it would be Impossibly to enumerate. We would respectfully Invite attention to the fact we ore determined not to be undersold, and will sell cheaper than any ,tabllsionont ht Allentown. Ladles of Allen town and adjoining counties you are paying too touch for ylotr goods. Study )our interest,and make up your mind, owl go to Schreiber, pro', for Inagains in dry goods. W e have Marked our goods down and propose to do a conk hosiness. our motto In "A nimble penny is better than a slowshilling." A call In all witusk—you will leans satkflod. Yours respectfully. . mar 17.'111 SCHREIBER BROTHERS. IMPORTANT TO BUYERS O} DRY GOODS THE " BEE HIVE," rnE POPULAR DRY GOODS STORE 920 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Far nutuy yeurN couditelt 6 4 n. the PARIS CLOAK AND MANTILLA HMPORIUM J. W. PROCTOR & CO., Will otter the comltt.easett at POPULAR PRIORS FOR CASH. nu eutirely New Stork of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS Including Spring aunt Summer Dress Hoods, in tine Inegoni variety. Mark and Colored Silks, Limon and Embroideries, Linenn, White tioodo, and Doneetiro, Hosiery. HiOres of all Undo, Mourning Drown Hoods., CLOAKS, SACHUES, he.,in thin department an unrivalled usworituont, at prison front 65 upward, SHAWLS OF ALL KINDS, lucludlog Lama Laca Cloaks, SarqurA and Polots, a • Krioll.l other good. adapted to Popular Trade, wL will tie sold at ECONOMICAL PRICES tVo redpectfully relicit an examluatien. Our priced are marked io pink, figured—nu duct J. IV. PROCTOR & CO., T 11 E " BEE. II 1 V E , C --- ) NO. 920 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA QM= A L M . i NTOWN SAVINGS INSTIITII- (Organized under State Charter in ISO:i, ) Money received on Deposit, and 6 per cent. Interest lowed fur one year. For shorter periods special rates tr be paid. • =! Banking lloune-11ABIlLTON STREET. mid-way b tween the Court lion.. and American Hotel, oppoatto mid Allentown. Pa. WILLIAM 11. AlNEY,President JACOIII. DILLINOEM, Cashier. Chart. 9 limb Chrlatiark Prot:. (fames Probst: Ss:lntel Pete 11" j 111 At.ar.-- r um 31 'Or VOL. XXIII (FRON T uwarimm' MY CTUNI'S STORI IV.-CIIOOSE FOR YOURSELF While Chum had been telling stories instead of rending composition I had amused myself with taking notes in short-hand. I wrote out these notes at toy lensure, and presented him with the manuscript. He grasped my hand and said not a word. There you are," said 1. You can semi our manuscript now, and save your stand- mg. " You're a glorious fellow," said he. " And I take back all the disrespectful things I've said about your old inkstand." The apology is perfectly satisfactory," said I, for whom he really meant it. " Now sit down and tell me your story for next month, and we will have UM written out he forehand. After that, Chum, you must write your ow n.'' This WM{ the way I came to report Chum's MEI composition' day he marched in with nil his papers ; and when he was called on he rose with veritable manuscript to read from, instead of•hlnnk sheets. " There seems to have been some mistake," o said, by way of preface, "about our subject this month. I observe that the other mem bers of the class have written on various sub jects. I have taken the one designated by you, Sir." " By me !" exclaimed the Professor. Yes, Sir ;as I understood you. My sub ect Choose for Yourself.' " OLD Mn. KaElm, having made his will in such a way as to bother the dear kin who begged him to make it, ty back contented in s bed, and after lingering helpless a short nie, suddenly died. Ilis widow occupied the seclusion of her mourning in endeavoring to decide whether she would continue a widow and enjoy the three millions, or accept some husband and lose the three millions. Mr. Krebb's brother occupied himself in wishing the widow i would marry somebody straight way, and n wondering how soon it'would do to offer his own hand, and thus citdeavor to secure the fortune between them upon the best terms for himself that she might grant. Soon after the old man made his will Mary Cairnes, the pretty Irish girl, who had been called in as a witness to the execution of the instrument, went home to spend a few hours with her invalid brother. When I say "home'' I mean a snug lodging on the fourth floor of a retired tenement in the upper part of the town, where Stephen Iderprise and his sister Susan had their little apartments. The four sat all the evening in Stephen and Susle's.sitting room. Susie was sewing. Ste phen, as usual, was at work over his books, for he had always kept up his love for reading, although daily engrossed in his trade. Mary spent the evening in sewing for her brother, occasionally pausing to tell Stephen the mean- ing of some French phrase-she having brought sonic acquaintance with that language from the Continent, where she bad once spent a sea son in the service of an English faintly—or to tell him of sonic English or Irish town she had been in.' The convalescent brother retired early, and leaving his door ajar, asked Mary to sing him to sleep, as she hail often done since she had come to him. She sang, in a sweet voice, some quaint native songs, which put him soon to sleep, but quite waked up Stephen, who had begun to grow sleepy over his books. Mary then prepared to return. " I must go back to my palace now," she said, gayly " Oh ! how short an evening is when there is only one in a week I It will he a long week till I see these dear walls again." " Well' find you something better to do yet," said Stephen. " Why, you could teach! Hero you've been teaching me half the evening. Why couldn't she teach, Susie ?" " Not in this country, I fear," said Mary. " It would not be what they'd expect. I'm awkward enough where I am now. Every thing is strange, so strange, here." Stephen insisted on escorting Mary back to the residence of his late uncle. She was a brave girl, and declared herself quite able to go alone, but when they were fairly in the street she was so timid that she hardly could muster courage to take the arm which he of fered her. What an inconsistent, boasting, fearful little' heart—to brave the world, and then to be 'afraid of Stephen, only Stephen. And then, after she had taken the arm, there was another difficulty worse than the first. It was so very silent. It was not one of your noisy streets, full of bustle and distraction. On the contrary, it was a quiet, retired way, rather lonely to walk through alone. But Stephen marched along andsaid never a word ; and it got to be very silent indeed. Oh, for a noise, if it were only a cart ; something to in troduce a subject, no matter what I Mary kept her eyes on the ground, just as if it was necessary to do so on a bright moon light night and on a good pavement ! At last it seemed to the eyes which • were looking down as if they were being looked at in turn by other eyes that were a little above. • Now that, of course, is very embarrassing. And the case becomes still more embarrassing sometimes. For observe, that when one's face is half averted it is difficult to see the eyes that are thus half curtained by . the eyelids ; you munt.lean forward a little to do so ; and then, if the eyes should look up just at that moment, if the fair curtains should be sudden ly parted, and the inhabitant within look out upon you, you would feel caught, as it were. Wouldn't you, now I" • Conic, be frank about it. Wouldn't you feel a little as if you had been peering in at souse casement, and the fair inmate had appeared within and detected you attempting to spy out the contents of her bou- • doir ? Very well ; then you know how Stephen felt when Mary looked up. Now I am not able to state any reason why one pair of innocent eyes may not look at an other pair of innocent eyes without you anti I spending a whole page upon the phenomenon, j go further, and say that I am unable to de fine the process by which, one' pair of eyes knows that the other pair of eyes is looking in —is not merely casting a casual glance upon the casement, as it were, and thinking, per haps, of nothing at all, but actually looking in. Now this is a more important question than it seems to be, for I have a theory which may explain It. In accordance with what I have read In 'scientific works of the purely mechan ical, chemical, and electifical constitution of man, I have conjectured that when two pairs of eyes thui meet so that f the axes of vision of each precisely coincide,Pas they must do in the act of looking in, dc'Zi• have two rays of light proceeding in opposite directions in precisely the same path ; and these rays—whether un dulatory or corpuscular makes no difference to my theory—these rays must agitate and per turb each other in a manner quite peculiar to the precise conjunction In which they meet, John D Stiles, ?nada C Samuel. Lbicb ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, ApRIL7, 1869 and it is not strange that a ray of light, per turbed or agitated in a peculiar manner, should, when impinging upon the retina, affect the nerves of vision In a peculiar manner, and produce interior effects in the cerebral convo lutions of the most peculiar character. If man be such a perfect, admirable machine, this theory can easily be tested by asimple ex periment, which I mean to try. A pair of glass eyes should be taken, and placed so as to east their rays of reflection precisely in the sanie path as the axis• of vision of some sus ceptible young person. If it should be found that a pair of glass eyes, ori better still, two little round mirrors, under the proper condi tions of position and light, should produce the same peculiar excitement of . the retina, and awaken in the mind the tenderest emotions, then amy theory will he'established ; and we shall, moreover, have a triumphant confirma tion of the mechanical, chemical, and electri cal theory of human nature. Now when one is caught looking in at win dows, it is very proper to make an apology ; and the best apology is to have an errand, or to pretend to have one, which is sometimes better still. So Stephen spoke But he did not speak very boldly, either. Ile said, "I should like to know what you were thinking about, Mary ?" What a foolish question ! And under such circumstances, too. To pretend thatthai was what he was "looking In at the window" for ! If that was what he wanted, why didn't he ask her at the outset in a straightforward way, instead of looking at her rosy face and droop ing eyelids for whole minutes at a time with out saying a word ? " Couldn't you tell me, Mary ?" he added, gently, after waiting for a reply. Now why should lie say " Mary ?" Be cause, mind you, nobody else was near ; and if lie had not, she still would have understood that she was addressed. But " Mary" is a very pretty name, and it sounded very pretti ly as he said it. " I was thinking," said Mary, " I-1 was thinking that—that you did not come to your uncle's •house. I • was wondering why you did not go to see your aunt now." "I never went there but once, when Mr. Krebb was living," Veturned the young man. " I was not welcome. Ile was very busy with his money, and he did not want to see us. That's a good reason, is it not t They never cared for us. I don't suppose that my aunt knows that we are in New York. " That was a good reason," replied the girl. "But nom? Now he is gone, and his poor wife is left alone. She has a great many ac quaintances, but I don't think she has many friends. It's a very large house, but it's near ly all shut up, dark and deserted. When I think how kind you were to my brother when he was in trouble, yes, and to me too, when I came all alone and destitute to take care of him—you see I was wondering why you did not go to comfort your aunt: " Do you think I ought to go ?" "I did not say that. I said I was wonder. ing why you did not." "I said I would not. I skid I would never enter the house again—never. But Susie says we ought to go." "Then I think so too," said Mary, looking up with a frank smile straight into the eyes that had embarrassed her before. Stephen left his companion at the basement door of the great house, and bade her good night. The next day with Susie he rang at the front-door, and was shown into the parlor. Mrs. Krebb received them with unexpected cordiality. After sonic time spent in conver sation about the death of Mr. Krebb,. and in recalling reminiscences of the days when Ste phen and his sister had been her pupils, Mrs: Krebb led the conversation to the subject of the will, and astonished her young rehitives by explaining its provisions. " That's a singular will," said Stephen. " Yes," said Mrs. Krebb ; "his brother terposed and induced him to change his origi nal intentions. I think It was all owing to his interference." " It was quite unnecessary to mention my name in it," said Stephen. " Perhaps you may not know that a short time ago, in pursu ance of my mother's dying request, I offered Mr. Krebb the amount she had received from him, with interest. I did not expect he would rcceiyo it; but he did. If it had pleased him to return that amount to me I should have' thought it very just ; but I never shall claim anything else." Mrs. Krebb's eyes sparkled at the idea of Stephen's so readily disavowing any expecta tions under the will, and she replied, " In deed, Iliat shall be repaid. It would be very generous in you to be satistled with what I am sure is no more than justice. , Mr. Krebb was so business-like in all his ways. But I am sure he Meant no unkindness." "No," replied Stephen, "I did not mean to ask even that. It would have been very well for him to have provided for it ; but he did not ; so let us say no more about it." This seemed to close this subject of conver sation. They talked afterward of Mr. Krebb's illness; and Mrs. Krebb inquired, With much kindness (manner, into their circumstances, and Stephen's prospects in business. Here he was quite at home ; and from his enthusiastic accounts of his work, and his hopes of advance ment, one would hardly have inferred that he liad just stripped himself of the last dollar of his savings to repay the uncle. Mrs. Krebb made very warm offers of 68sist ance and friendship to the young people, for which Stephen thanked her, while Susie look ed around upon the grand parlor, with its paintings and its piano, and wished the will had been a little different, as it might have been just 45 well as not. •" No, thank you," said Stephen, after Mrs. Krebb had said that they must be friends, and had offered to lend him money for his business. "I thank you; hut I could not borrow. I had better work my own way, and note too fast." "And is there nothing I can do for you said the • woman with three millions to the youth with nothing. SuSic .fancied that she became perhaps it little more earnest in offer- , ing as Stephen became more distinct in de clining. " Yee, ma'am ; there is one thing. Could you give Mary Cairnes two evenings out „in the week 4" " Mary Cairnes I my waitress I are you a friend of hers t" Stephen blushed, and Susie interposed. " Yea, auntie-4f. I may call you so. You see, her brother is one of Stephen's workmen, and be was badly hurt, and Stephen was tak ing care of him when Mary came out from Ire land to nurse him. They bave been very un fortunate. And she has only the one evening to see him. Ile is better now, but she needs more time to care for him." "Yes, she shall ha e two evenings a week, or three, if Susie asklit," replied Mrs. Krebb, smiling. • So they came away. " I should like to live in that house," said Susie. " I never saw any thing so finely furnished. Such a library, too, for you, Ste phen, in the back-parlor. "I'm sorry to hear you say so, ',:iiiiid-Stephon. "I don't want it. Well have one of our own one of these days." " But what a will !" said Susie. " I can't think of your working so hard without wish ing that his brother was—was dead, and auntie was married again. It's positively wicked, I know ; but I can't help it." "Then don't think of it," said Stephen. " We'll not go there again." " Why couldn't he have divided his proper ty, and made us all happy, instead of tantiliz- Mg every body with it ?" " What right has any man, Susie, after lie is dead and gone, to control what Is left in the living r, world, amid ought to be at the disposal of the It was his own, Stephen, to do with as he pleased "Yes, Susie, while he lived ; but it is not his now. And we don't know what would please him now. Selfishness perpetuate itself; but if it pleases him now to look back from an other world, and see how he has tied the,handa and entangled the happiness of living, active people for yCars to. come—for a lifetime—if that pleases him now, he must be among the bad." " Oh, Stephen, don't talk so !" " Yes, Susie ; it may have been his will when he made it, but I don't believe it's his will now. It's a vicious will. Wliy should the law give a dead man arms to reach back from another world and hold on with an un changeable grip to the possessions he left be hind, and . ought to have relinquished here? Why should he have the power to hold on to its will when he no longer has the power to change it r " If he hind divided his property it would have united us all," said Susie ; " but he has forbidden the division, and we are all divided instead." " Yes," said Stephen. " Money earned is a clear property, but money bequeathed is like treasure•trove—the finders never agree. Mere uck makes friends quarrel. Here, now, is a happy family ! Mrs. Krebb wishes Mr. Harry would die, and Mr. Harry wishes Mrs. Krebb would get married ; and both of them bate us, I dare say, because if we were not in exis tence they would have fared better. And we wish them both to forf e it the property, and begin to despise the memory of the old man wim left it. The law is wrong that permits his old skeleton to stand for years in the fam- y circle, directing whin we shall do and wha I'hcNiiorst of it is, we can't .we shall not do help ill-feeling. It is irresistible. It would cost us three milliOns to feel like Christians." "We will feel like Christians," said Susie, putting her little foot with emphasis on the pavement ; " and I wish our names were not mentifted in the will." " I am glad to hear you say so," said Ste phen ; "and now let us forget it all." If you think that Stephen. was unnaturally philosophical in this you are quite correct, and he half thought so himself. Ills mind did not long hold to the resolution he had just formed. He soon began to see more of the other side of the question, and the more real and tangible the great fortune seemed as lie thought of it, le more vexatious seenual the freak that ha debarred his sister and himself from their law ful and immediate share in his uncle's estate He shortly came to the conclusion that, al though he would not care for himself, it was his duty as toward Susie to assert some claim, if any were sustainable. He was in this mood when old Mr. Harry Krebb called upon him to endeavor to enlist his co-operation in the event of a lawsuit. Mr. Krebb gave such an account of the circum stances under which the will was made, and of the old man's weakness and eccentricity, and of the legal opinions he had obtained to the effect that the will itself was void on this account, that he induced Stephen to consent to join him in bringing an action to set the will aside. In giving this muscat Stephen was, per Imps, actuated more by the desire of protecting his sister's rights than of asserting his own ; and he Made it a condition that he should not be called on to give a day of time or adollar of money to the litigation. Mr. Harry was much pleased to secure thus the entire man agement of the case to himself; and Stephen wont through the formality of making oath to the bill of complaint, in which It was alleged that lie was informed and believed that the testator was not of sound mind and memory, and was not capable of making a will. Mr. Harry's lawyer, who attended to administer the °nth, congratulated the young man upon being a plaintiff in one of the greatest lawsuits of the age ; and, if the truth were told, Ste phen, with all his appearance, of Indifference, felt as if he had taken another step upon the ladder of life when he saw his name affixed to the papers in Krebb against Krebb, and thought of the possible consequences of such an act. As for Susie, she was at first more pained at the idea of combining to prosecute her aunt than pleased at the hope of success; but she soon reconciled herself to the position of a plaintiff, and wondered how soon they would go to the court and hear the verdict. - As for Mary, imagine how glad she was to get two evenings a week with her brother. When Subic toll her of the brilliant contin gencies which opened before them tears ofjoy . tilled her eyes, which always beamed with gratitude upon those ' who had befriended her brother. But Stephen thenceforward found her less social and commuricative than before, and more impatient than ever that her brother should be able to move. Old Barry Krebb, armed with his bill of complaint, and the appropriate writ or process to commence the great snit of Krebb against Krebb, went one fine day to Call upon his sister in-law.r Ile determined that sit . should be either his wife or his defendant, an he resolv ed 3,,, to press a suit in one sense or the other. To mak; a sure thing of I, the cru ty old fel low was prepared to thleaten as 'ell as to , coax. Mr. Harry dined at his club, and spent au hour over his wine in meditating on the policy he should pursue in conversing with the widow. The deep fellow got so deep that when he rose to go and seek Mrs. -Krchb he was full of love and law In a strange mixture. At first belted been uncertain whether it were wiser to threaten first and offer afterward, or to offer first and threaten afterward. This difficulty disappeared as he got on with his Wine, and lie soon found the most opposite sentiments comfortably pimmingled. In the fullness of anticipated triumph he said to him self, as he swaggered °lug toward her house, "Sink or swim, marry ensue, bride or defend ant, kisses or costs, by heaven I'll have my share of the mono I" On this swelling wave ofexulting resolution tilts brave but poor 'overarm floated Into the ~~~~~~~. I= presence of the widowed millionaire. "What does this fellow want?" thought Mrs. Krebb, as Mr. Harry swayed across the room, kissed her hand, and made as if he would sink on one knee before her. " Dearest Margaret," said he, " I have come to avow my heart, and to propose a happy set tlement of all our differences, to declare the sentiments with which your beauty and worth —your worth, I mean personal worth, I do not allude to property—have inspired me." The horror with which the lady drew back from him glimmered dimly into the excited mind of the lover, and admonished him that he was getting on too fast. " Yes, dearest one—for so I must call you, and I know you will not forbid me till you have" heard me. Yes ! I have come to tell you of the dilemma in which you stand, and to offer myself to deliver you, if you will accept " Yes, dearest, there is n combination—there is a lawsuit about to be commenced, to set aside the very extraordinary will your late husband made. lam informed and believe, as deponent saith, that it was fraudulent and void." • • " Who says that ?" said Mrs. Erebh, indig nantly. " How dare you ?" "Deponent saith," responded the old with a shrewd look. " It's only the language of the law, my dear ; the law talks very bad, sometimes ; and the worst of it is that what the judge asks the witness must tell. I was in the room when the will was made. It will not Ue my fault - if I am made to appear against your interests." Mrs. Krebb was silent. Your late husband,'' continued the brother " has condemned you to be a widow, and left you to tight your battles alone. I can set you free in the sweet bonds of matrimony. You would not lose any thing by uniting your for tunes with mine. , Together we could defy any opposition." " I do not believe a word of it," said the widow. "There is no one but yourself to In terfere with Inc. The Merprises are content. What do you want ? What do you mean to d Ah my dear Margaret, I must either agree with you or agree with the rest of the family. I must either stand by the will or yield it up. I come to you to propose that—to propose— yes, in short, to propose—that's it. if you will have me, I am yours ; and we can easily arrange details about the property on equatable terms. But otherwise I must go against the will and set it aside. In other words, my dear, I come with a ring in one hand and a writ in the other, and you must choose for yourself." Mrs. Krebb broke into a merry laugh, dur ing which her odd suitor stood rather sheep ishly awaiting her answer. She was divided between indignation and a sense of the ludi crous, and she half laughed, half scowled. r ber reply : "Show me the writ and show me the ring, and I will choose very soon." " There's the writ," said Mr. Harry, reluc tantly drawing it out. " I haven't any ring here." Never mind the ring to-night," responded the lady. "Leave me now, and 1 will give you my answer to-morrow, atter I have read this." "I can not leave it. I must take it with me.' ' "No ! If you want my answer leave it, and I will respond to your proposal tomiorrow. And now good-night, Harry,'' shettdded, look ing' at him with momentary toleration, and' °tiering her hand. She led him to the door and shut him out into the hall. She heard him groping for hi hat and stick, for though the hall was lighte his eyes were hazy , and at last he close( outer door, and his•uncertain feet 4se ndc the front steps. " It seems to me that your story is rather long," interposed the Professor, rapping on his desk to enforce the interruption. "'lle hour is up." Let hint go on," said the boys, in a gen eral chorus. "It is rather long," said Chum, .gravely, "or rather it was, but it is getting shorter every minute." Ilm I" ejaculated the Professor. "It is time for me to go," looking at his watch "Any of the class can go who wish to. Can't you tell us Ina fes.,words how it ends? It's a pity to leave it tlPfre." In a few minutes 1 can, Sir," responded Chum. "The Death and Marriage column, you know, is always a short one." . " Well I well ! Go on. You may as well read it all while you're about it." Nobody moved to leave the class-room ; and we all settled ourselves to hear the conclusion. Chum resumed his reading • WE left old Mr. Harry descending the steps of the Krebb mansion. On his way home the half-tipsy man was run over in the street, and did not live to , receive au answer to the di lemma which he had proposed to the widow. ,The decease of this dashing old beau was lamented only by his creditors—those faithful friends who hold that while thercyli:iliniTre is hope, and who never say die unleAtrtlie'v can get their money by saying it. Thee'd - -for many such friends he had—mdurned his un timely end. Mrs. Krebb felt unspeakably re lieved, and even Stephen and Susie thought with satisfaction that one obstacle was removed. It will not be expected that one who is not yet even a bachelor of arts should be able ade quately to describe the play of those tender emotions which undergraduates are presumed never to naive experienced. I must thereti,re say bluntly, as a parrot would blurt it out, not knowing what it means, that Stephen was in love with Thomas's pretty sister, and .Mary has since as good as acknowledged that if it had not been for the bugbear of a fortune hang ing over his head they would have made a match of it straightway. But she, blushing girl, had her own ideas about station in life, and keeping her own place: and while she pet hops confessed to herself that she liked Ste phen poor, and even Stephen as a !easter n orkman, she was quite disconcerted by the thought of Stephen as a millionaire. Stephen himself was not long in conjecturing her heart. It would be a very charming narrative, were I callable of tracing it, to describe the courtship of this poor-young-possible-rich man. Living in his garret, working at his trade, thinking himself prospered when the end of a month left a few dollars surplus; and triumphing in Mary's genial congratulations thereat, and yet in his poverty hampered with a capricious pos. sibility*f a fortune which threatened to break all the prospects of his love. lie found he could not get on either with his work or his hive unless he resolutely foreswore all such expectations, and kept himself doggedly in the hard path of self-reliance. So ho refused to•continue the snit against the will when it was suspended by Mr. liarry's death, and declared himself quite indifferent to the matter. I. will not say but that 'after he felt himself' quite secure in the affections of his modest Mary he intended to make a new attempt to Mini the fortune ; but meanwhile lie stuck V. 'il to his work; and after some objection he con eneed that Mary should, for a time at least, tontinb at service. • . It wtsyluring this it •riod, while Stephen was buililig etlett n t e u a t ir, not knowing i \ whethe theywould turn ) cottagesor eff aces, tli t a strange gentleman_capsd at the great m 'on of Mrs. Krebb and lake& for her. M try • t saw hint as he passed up stairs, _thought's le had seen hint before. He had I) ntht rit 'et weather-browned face, was veil 4.,) • 0:1 )., had the bearing of a Wiwi er. dr. .. 0 ): ,li xno recognition of him 1. • • ',di 4, . . 'ti apparition aroused reminiscences itf. '- •oyage, and the Move ments of the oce li Neither of the servants heard him go away , whether he made a long call or a short one they could not tell. A. day or two afterward Mrs. Krebb went away alone in her carriage, and came home late in the ' afternoon. 't he coachman said she went to. the railroad station, and required him to await her return ; he did not see any one meet her. The next clay someone westward to enter the house and pass lip stairs. Mrs. Krebb said nothing to the servants of any visitor, and their curiosity was appealed to strongly by the cir cumstances. . .. It is a very curious feeling, that—the dim consciousness that something unknown is going on in the very circle of your own boos , Id. The sense of being on the outside 0 • secrc penetrates the calmest mind, and quickens the perceptions of all the senses. Servants live in this continual condition, and it is not to be al leged against them as a sin, if the retina of the eye dons become sensitive in side spots, so that what happens in a corner forces itself upon them ; or if the drum of the ear grows ticklish, and takes notice, like that of the factory oper ative, of the least variation in sound from the ordinary monotony of routine. Nor is there any more exciting phase of this feeling than that which is aroused by the conviction that Somebody is in the house. Somebody! Treads . come to be as well known as tones of voice. A tremor of the floor is either understood as plainly as a doorbell, or It makes you hold your breatil'and say, "It sounds as it Bow bad , k i l ere in the house I" 1' belief began to prevail below stairs in Mrs. rebb's mansion. But in proportion as the subject grew interesting to the cook and the coachman, it grew disagreeable to Mary Cairnes, who hail less fancy for footfalls and keyholes and circumstantial evidence of 'scan dals. She resolved, after a few days of these suspicions, to leave the house, and went up stairs to avow Mir determination to her em ployer, and ask for a recommendation. Mrs. Krebb had the best of reasons for acceding. to this request without inquiry or objection, and gave her leave to go immediately. She opened her port-folio, and taking a scrap of paper, wrote her a good character, paid her in full and bade her good-by. Mary, surprised and greatly relieved to be thus easily dismissed, left her first service, hoping that it might be her last. When Stephen came home in the evc listened to the story in silence. The ac of the other servants, which Mary repeat answer to his inquiries, after she had given reason of her leaving, raised in his mind t conjecture that there had been a clandesth marriage. Stephen asked for the recommeet dation which Mrs. Krebb had given her. " What are you going to do, Stephen ?" asked his sister. \, "I don't know, Susie. If it is a scandal in high life we've nothing to do with it. If Mrs. Krebb is married again, as it seems she ought , to be, we have something to say." As he folded up the paper some words pen cited on the back caught his eye. They seem ed to be, "Train for Hastings at 10 o'clock." Ile asked Mary who wrote that, but she did not know. It had not been written since she had the paper. Mrs. Krebb took the paper from among other loose pieces in her port-folift. She 'thought it Was not Mrs. Krebh's own, handwriting. kJ Stephen resolved to follow up this clew. The next day he went to the IhnlSon River station, and found there was a train for Hast ings at the time named. Ile took it, and alight ed in that town an hour after. The only qu lion for Ml', said he, is, has there been a w ding? By inquiries at the residence r t tic' clergyman or the town re found 'that n re day on which Mrs. Kr .bb' had been i sen a te , f couple had, called to sk or the cle gyinan but that he was ou of town at the me, a they had gone a* y without giving any dress. The vague description given Any t the personal appearance of tbtt lady'washartll enough to identify her positi'vtly; but the cif, cumstance was sufficient-foriltephen, and lie resolved to call on Mrs. Krebb and ask her tr question bluntly. Although the young net had felt little ii), dined to regard the contingent-f‘ossibility of his succeeding to the fortune so long as it was a mere possibility, he was not inclined now t subunit to any deception. " I told her," sr rd he to lamseitt" that I would ..ntiv aim I 1- more of his "'money than my own that I hail paid him, but I will not allow her to defraud Susie, nor me either. She shall acknowledge --...._ the truth to me herself." i"--tr servants' conjectures proved to be sr tic ie that there was, in fact, "Somehoity.i the nose." Somebody sat anfrtulketlW . ' Mrs. Krebb iu her sitting-irrinit..— i Somebody came without its being known \ went away, and went without its hr /cell known that lie had come. Stephen, resolved to penetrate this my. called upon his'aunt, and was shown ins ..- presence. After an awkward pause hesaid, btu " Well, ma'am, I have • se to ask you if are married again." • ...,,, Mrs. Krebb, inst td Of, conlnsion at the di uovkr,vf smiled, "I con •ss," \•• ...mat thefe are sonic circuit' tutees • It Ir would tend to excuse such a spiel men bur part. But I tun surprised that you •tu t think me capable - 01' taking such a step ndestinely." "I am not con ,e.n. - _ itya.mesasive answer, Madam. Answer .'ti res or no,'llsy plEiise, and do not misimli ne." " I will normis zi , you • ' bu •to a nswer to either yes or , 'don would mislead yon:".' I do no understant you, ma'am." " Well, t ten, let me isk you a cluestion. Supposing that I am ma rigid again, w, at do you propo e to do ' ?" This question, put in a q u irritated the youmr " It is enough circumstantial et Ode that you art do not deny it, ! be false. If you no'matter. Iki " Well, wbat " I will telly' I do, sit prop marriage lintel Susie's'and mint however I migli I consider that I your part, such to assert - vit . rig. Periurps yet is the question ex bymeans of tgatu... ; but you have already burnished me with a sufficient answer to your claim." " What do you mean ?" " You have already informed . me that you disavowed any expectations under the will." " What if- I did ? It was in conversation. I thought so then. But I have changed my mind." . . "You forget. 1 have it in writing that you are prepared to prove the will void. You made oath to it, I believe. It is too late for you to make any claim under the will." So saying she drew from her port-folio the papers which,Mr. Harry had left with her. .Stephen was silenced. Ile had nothing to say. Ile knew that he could not assert his rights without a lawsuit, ot'whish he had a great hor ror ; and he saw now that his adversary had the means'of a defence or the shoW of a defence which he had not anticipated. lie thought the easiest way out.of it was to cut the knot in a way consistent both with his sense of his sister's rights and his own independence. " I am not disposed," he replied, " to mak( litigation. I will tell you what IW I / '. Whatever I have said or done I will unin en , But that shall not prejudice Susie. Yo' sh • surrender to her one-half of the estate ' tut any controversy, and we will waive all /Mawr claim, marriage or no marriage." • .••' " Please.put the terms in wripng, that they may be understood definitely ; and I must show them to my adviser before I offer it as a proposal binding on me." . . Who was 'the adviser? Stephen did not know, unless it might be her legal adviser, until Mrs. Krebb took the paper lie had written at her request and left the room, asking him to wait. Then it became apparent to Stephen that Mrs. Krebb's adVlser was " Somebody in the house." Mrs. Krebb came back smiling, "My ad viser does not approve/Of the terms," said she. " They are too liberfil." Stephentn\ ,.. llis hat, and Moved to leave the _vomit. " Stay !" said she : "too liberal on your part, I mean. lie says that I ought to relin quish more than half. To keep half would be scarcely just. For if there is no marriage you are entitled to nothing ; and there is a mar riage,l think Susie 'WOW oin Bali: i t ith ,44 1 4 half t h e estate for herself d nothi g t o ).,11, " What do your the, ?" ••••: te phen, who began t el II ' t leV•el. • A pe not gifYed, certain! not xperien d - ,, u u),. negotiations. cut, • Iv \ 7 . - , st. '" propose thatyou and Susie Ghoul'. : .• . two-thirds oft the estate, and waive all f tl,e claim in case of my.marriage. Suppogn. sr' #,-----. -- ' .. c ------ 7----- \ _ fr plain E 13311 ®. En velop. PIM,To.. vise, etc. NO. 14 .t have al, int you y • a. thi thin . t ot\ t'l l rather agree amicably upon that than recot , the whole by a lawsuit," said Stephen, fra kly., " Then you entertain the proposal ?". asked Mrs. Krebb. " Yes, certainly. I will consider it. I can not answer finally now." " I have a reason for proposing to reserve one-third which I think will be perfectly sat isfactory to you when you know it." " Perhaps so," said Stephen, dryly ; "but I can't calculate the value of your mysteries.. I must go on known facts." " Very well. You will consider the matter." "Yes." " And we will come and see you to-morrow evening, and see if it is agreed on—if you will allow us." The last words, and the cordial tone in which they were uttered by a handsome woman, , vereame Stephen's pride. " You will find its young birds in a very tumble nest," said he,. as. he gave his address. Vt. is the fourth floor, the door on. the right. would be more suitable for me to come here, II would rather do so. . abut you forget Susie. And then we oee Susie in her own hothe." is it wit is to come with you, lid Ste hen; with something of 'ith w licit he had commenced IMME ." And wity 1 as tile ey Di the co re'relaion?--- -- " : will see," aid Mrs. Krebb. i/i l ar adviser, suppose?" • ,7 replied e, laughing, "my adviser, , or t e present." "A d I presume it will be proper for me to have iy adviser there too ?" "C rtainly, if you wish," she replied, look in him, in her turn, with an inquisitive air. • phen laughed, internally saying to him sel Sie shall find I can, matte a mystery As wet a she can. And he added : " Then my a;;:l i it e • • ,ill certainly be there, unless, indeed, s o ... 41,,s to be present." ;,.:41 . Wh0 !s she?" But Stephen was ~--7 :‘, the questibn, and left his s , . vhat sort of a female lawyer '' 1 - f6i• a legal adviser. \ Mw felt that his fortune s-fir t act was the extrava . - ricl but simple ring, which , - Vary's finger as a pledge ge ' She mildly reproved . ndthritt, but mingled such iii:,. : agents with her chidings ha i one it ~_ain in a minute. I M • . Krebl , proposal before j ylidly app •: •ed it ; • 'bilk he did :on" h r inter i!d visit, bet'huse he t e eceived j j the most simple and vay. or did', e say a word of the n t — ,lary, /' er than to tell her d git his- 5.t. and last secret front he al nil ,! 'illy conceal a few hours. at ,7 I calmly,' seeing that he I , (grave, half smiling—set a ?ll' a lips that quite excused hint ''ilenee upon the topic. d evening Stephen was sit.- .l circle making an Ainsuccess ad louitto them. ' plcn,''. tonight,criectol)soni e-r Susie,yo il s o " 1 read hear a noise. If it were one would 'think you_ is in site house." • it was Opened by Ste itered, leaning on the blunt, gentleman, who blunt, frank, kindly' ing he unto , n 1 in ,the him t ''. , - 1'; verrawtic . bit . .hat he Nv m ' Stephqn la' , Susle,," . w tr. not Me v \Oahe not r 1 v lile Ba li t of leirtk \ er, whltti , LN r3:,1i10 , d ik It lliegl'Bl, s( t f: e l l ' t • II 00 4, ' 1 r a t cute( r ad „--1 4 • a tall a d about hi ph ~ ar, Csf r t tid he, with a loutiCa , .,, 1 ,tle home. Nay, I see id this is Stephen, is it ? • mr inuarlti , . l in a mo, rprised and unresisting hand egrip of a weather-beaten list. bat ! don't you remember me ? Alt, look I Well, well! I deserve it , At here's k•," said he, turning hiMself tow; d her rdrial=ing out his arms 9E , if be heSitaited ' --first ° while his eyes filled with er Lotting imagt. and overflowed in two li le it ii lunation poi its of tender feeling o his le ' ts. " Here s Susie ; :what does th sister , ' Ni, •, Stephen I' exclaimed the ; gitated knne!" an l , she rushed 1 to the 31 trete!: arms that net her half-wit). It is my other,'! said Stephen, in his ter-of-fact wa , the !,text moment the rm lt utter-of-fact embracing, .w tile Susie hung on their eii indiseniMpated necks putting in a kiss here and there tib.R. hazard. Itut none of them were lest, Susie—Aster de I Mrs. Krebbkstoo on one side, alternately I laughing andring at this scene. -On the other side sto Mary, with her work in her hand, just as he had risen to leave the room, but transfixct with astonishment at this strange recognition f a fact: familiar to herself. As -soon fig'sh recovered herself she took her buft nd to cause him to rise to leave.the roou with her. But Etiennesaid to Stephen, "D 9 not let her - go ;" and Stephen called her ood-evening l" s 'oy to you!, a' ready it 111 ,Step 11, my KT' clog covered N i l icr secret„,, This," said ?Ars. Krebh, coining forward Etienne and taking him by the arm—" this is my adviser." /"And this," said Stephen, drawing Mary to him with one hand, and holding her at his side with the other arm around her—" this is my adviser." f course Diary looked up in blank astonish- INIM= LIM pro Yqii mnd • sa d Stephen, , f,crl,l-be-rtfyadviser." • • 4,4%en," said Etienne, " I acknowledge you are oven with. me.. I intended to surpnee you, but you have anticipated me." •"I remember your brother," said Mary, speakipg for the first time. " lie saved us from shipwreck. I must thank him, which I did not do when I left him." "No," said the captain, for such Etienne of course was. "My (log rat away with volt ; and, to tell the truth, I don't 'dame biol. ° , • The captain took hold of Mary's hands. and looked into her deep blue eyes. Ills right hand felt the ring upon the significant finger" and Mary felt him roll it back and forth as he leaned forward and kissed her brow. " I've no need to wish (you joy, Stephen," said he. " You have it all here • and it' money eon do you any gnod von' shall ; ffilve that too. When 1 came to NM' 'York last voyage a happy fate brought me to Margaret again. She de , tided to offer you half! the estate and go with me ; but I told tier it ought to be two-thirds at least. I don't want more, for I've got enough ; von might take it all and not hurt me. We've been up to Margaret's old home and made all the arrangements for the wedding, which is to lie very quiet,•for I'm a sort of truant, and nobody knows me ; and it's to be next week. So it's all arranged, and it's only for you to say if it's agreeable to you, and what we shall do with the big estate ?" • ' are, Mary," said . Stephen, "y ou see how it is ; t • • fropose to divide the estate into wee sha . just as it would have been if Etiafireinu come back before Uncle Krebb they,ask us if we approve of the „ 4intt h.' ‘P„ .. ! . or Mary lashed at Stephen's blunt Way of maki 1 o appear the arbiter of her late employer fortune and fate, Slie could only look up and timidly 'say " You must choose for yourself, Stephen. lam quite too happy as it is." " She says;" said Stephen, good-naturedly, "that we must choose for. ourselves f, of course that involves being pleased with each other's choice. As to the estate, give me enough to set up in business for, myself, and to give Thomas here a start, and•BUßie must have the rest of what you don't take." "No you don't, Stephen," said Etienne, maliciously. "If you don't take your third I'll never consent to your choice. So now, Mary, make hint come to terms. And what is more, you must give up' business and take care of the estate for us all. That will be enough occupation for you, for we are going abroad, and I can't attend to it ; and I dare Bay Susie will make.you her banket too."- • In due tithe the Weddings took place. They all went up to flutings to the captain's wed ding, which took place there ; but Stepheninsisted on being married in fe same little sitting-room Where his VOWBhad been pledged in poverty, and Mary quite agreed with him in beginning modestly his new career. now And •wisp, on on me .re Chum closed his paper and sat down. , uzz of satisfaction ran through the class, they •gan to rise, DELL, ~ ' 3ob Viinterfs; TON STREET, 11 V, PA 'DESIGNS, LATEST STYLES rcl lam Vapor Books,Conall ' School Balalogoes. 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