UL
BY S. J. ROW.
BEHI3TO A SOn.
I like to creep away into corners and ride
myself with the fold of a curtain, or half
open door, or behind one of the great paint
ed fire screens, or in tbe shadow of the tal
lest furniture. There I have odd little fan
cies all to myaelf.aod wish things and dream
things that nobody kn twi anything a' Oat.
For I am diffcreut from all the rest ; my
parents are tall and handsome, and Louise
is the prettiest girl I ev-r saw. Then my
brother Harry, who was killed in the Indian
mutiny, was like a rince in a fairy atorv,
to brave and beautiful. But 1 ! I am small
and feeble. I cannot ran or wrestle, and
there is something growing on my shoul
ders which keeps me from walking straight,
and they call me deformed. I shall never
grow any more ; (strangers think me nine or
ten years old, but when I count the years
from the date in tbe family Bible, 1 find I
am sixteen. People always speak kindly to
me, with a great kindness in their eyes, and
once in a while I pity myself, but not often..
I like to be this queer little figure. Louise
it like the lovely ladies iu legends and bal
lads, ard I am like tbe imps and d warts;
wheu I read about them I look at myself in
the ti'irror, aud make grimaces, and whirl
over on oue hand and then on the other, till
Louise looks distressed and begs me to stop.
Being what I am, of course I dou't olteu go
anywhere, except in summer when we leave
town ; and nobody makes me do anything ;
so I roam all over the house, and read, and
lie with my eyes open for day dreams, and
am merry aud happy almost all the lime.
I wish I were only six inches high, what
fun I would have in "the world ! Then v when
we are In the country I could ride on the
bird's tacks, and dowu in the woods I could
sit astride of the great Iuh toad'stools and
drink from acorn cups or by the sea shore
I fancy I could launch a nautilus aud sail
away like any grim lettle sprite. However,
to be four feet high has it) advantages.
When Harry was wounded and lay in the
hospital, kuowing that he muit die, he
wrote a long letter to my father and mother,
full of grief and comfort, too ; and he told
them a thing which surprised them greatly.
How he was engaged to marry a girl in a
town in which they had bee i quartered. How
K.rcclund lively she was and how dunolate
the would be now, and he wanted them to
send tor her and love her like a daughter. I
dapped myhauda at that. I like to have
people do things to inUrest me, and the
idea of poor Harry having fallen in love !
For I know very well what love is ; I have
ri-sd the "Fairy Queen" all through and a
great many romances. And sometime ago
I began a sly watch over Louise, on account
of a certain Philip Rayburn coming to the
Louse very often.
But about Harry's lady love. My mother
does not like strangers very well, but Ceing
for Harry's sake uiu Jca i.i Terence and fa the.'
urged the plan. As for Louise, it seemed
as if she could not be eager enough for the
coming of this Miss Emily Grey, she was
so determined to cherish and love her. For
my jiart, as home is all the real world there
is tor me, I like to have as many characters
in it as possible. So when I heard Emily
Grey was coming to Enjflaud we invited her
to itay with us.
She would not come at once. She was
l:!u!d, it seemed ; or perhaps, Harry being
dead, she would rather avoid hid household.
But Louise pleaded for her, and wrote her
a great many loving letters, and at last Em
ily came.
Emily came. The first evening they
Irought her into the parlor, I was lying un
der the table with my head on a hassock,
thinking a'nmt the Old Man of the Sea in
the Arabian Nights, and wishing I had
been one of the genii of those days. But
when Emily entered, I forgot everything
else, and peered out from uuder the table
cover at he. What a dainty little lady sh?
wr ; so pale aud slight, she made ir?e thiuk
of frail, flutterins. yellow butterflies; partly
1 suppose, because of her yellow carls,
which tell all over her shoulders when Lou
ise took away her bat and shawL Her eyes
were wide and pale and blue, her cheeks
were colorless, aud she had a frightened,
deprecating way of lookiug up, even after
my stately mamma bad embraced htr. But
Louise kept about her, aud cheered her,
and talked to her, till she began to look
brighter. Louise was so different, such a
darling "nut brown mayde," with, honest
dark eyes and rosy checks, and lips always
reJy to smile, Louise is my beauty.
My father and mother went out after a
while, and Louise still talked to her guest,
"bile 1 lay very contentedly on the floor, all
curled up just where I could see all that
passed without turning my head. Louise
went to an rtayere at the other end of the
roin to get a little picture of Harry, and I
Hly kept watch of Emily. That moment
be interested me ; her wide, pale eyes nar
rowed snd grew intense, she cast a qnick,
furtive glance after Louise, and around the
room, curving her little white neck, and a
trance, briqht smile flitted over her lip. I
thoaght instantly of Coleridge's Geraldine
with the evil eye, and just for , fuu I lifted
the table cover and put my head aud shoul
ders out so that she could see me. I am
afraid I grinned at ber. - She shrieked and
Song her hands before her face. Louise came
running back and asked what frightened
her.
"Oh !" she whispered, "such a dreadful
face peered at me from under the table f
There it la again" And she shuddered.'
"Charles Pr exclaimed Louise, looking
around, "come out," yon naughty boy, end
peak toMiaa Grey. It's only my brother
Ufcarfo, ear pet. He is full of freak a One
never knows where he is." 1
Emily Grey looked at me like the saddest
and sweetest little creature that ever lived,
as I went up to her, and she reached out
her small white hand to me, and said in a
low musical voice, "So this is dear Charlie.
I have heard of him. - We will be friends,
won't we?";
"Will you tell me stories T' I asked. She
langhed merrily.
"Yes, heaps of theta, child.".
"Did yon lore Harry?" I asked again.
She shivered at that and looked implor
ingly at Louise.
"Charlie, you are unkind," said Louise,
reproachfoly.
"Well, then, I won't ask her if she loved
Harry. I'll go off and read my book of
hobjroblins;"
' "O no! don't be vexed, Charlie." said
Emily, with great sweetness. "Stay by me
and I will tell you a story."" So I stopped,
and she told me a senseless story of two
girl's who wetit to shod. When I saw it
wasn't going to amount to anything, I start
ed to leave her.
"I don't like that," I said, "I like witch
stories. "
"Ah 1" she replied, smiling, "perhaps
this will be better." And then she told me
a story of an old witch who had a throne
down in the slime of the sea, with a string of
bones aronnd her neck, and a toad perched
on each shoulder. And ttris witch bought
souls and gave people power over hearts in
exchange.
"That was a good story I" I said at the
end.
"And now, dear Charlie, go to bed,"
Louise directed. So I kissed my pretty
sister's hand and glided off.
Emily very soon learned to be perfectly at
home with us. She seemed to wind her
self around the hearts "6F my father and
mother and as for Louise, Louise would
have walked over burning ploughshares to
do her service. I liked her abotst half the
time aud the other half I telt like teasing
her. She would grow so white flfid terrified
when I sprang out at her from behind cur
tains or doors. More than ever I wished
that I had fairy powers, to cTi'a'rVge my sell
into all sorts of aha a tiny flea to hop
into he: e ir,a yellow suake to twine myself in
her cui U,a mouse to run over her pillow, or a u
e'.f in her de-k to opeu her letters 1 She was
such an absurd coward. But being four
feet high and not a fairy, I could only find
my wicked pleasure in annoying ber by con
stant surveilanoe and sudden starts. She
seemed afraid to be angry with me and nev
er exposed me.k Perhaps her conscience
Biudj her uneasy, tor my tleir in:iocent
hearted Louise never was frightened or ter
rified by. her dwarf Charlie's tricks.
O, slender, willowy Emily, yellow haired
Emily, my brother's darling ! why were you
not all Louise dreamed you, pure hcaitcd
a id true, sorrowing and loving ? My father
treated her as another daughter and de
clared she should never leave us ; my moth
er gradually came, to consult her exquisite
taste in all little matters which Louise form
erly decided. And al last they even insist
ed on her putting off the badge of her fidcl
ity to Harry, -her mourning, desuite the
sad little shake of ber head iu remember
a uce.
''She shall not make a nun of herself !"
exclaimed my father.
"My heart will be in mourning all the
time," she whispered to Louise, aud Louise
kissed her.
Spring came, and oar mother commenced
house cleaning on a grand scale ; every
room was visited, scoured and painted, and
the furniture rearranged. How she made
the servan's fly about ! Every one wished
it well at an end ; every one but me ; I
found too much fun in it. I rolled over iu
mattrasses, made nests to curl myself up iu
anionic heaps of blankets, reveled in hidden
relics brought to light, perched myself on
cupboard shelves, read Gulliver's Travels
undisturbed in the pantry by ajar of sweet
meat-t, and a d s :n timji nearly tripped up
our tortly butler as he was carrying loaded
tnj s up stairs. Whan the raid extended
to the sitting rooms, I found unanticipated
pleasure. The statuettes of bronze and mar
ble bad always looked at each other so un
moved from their different corners that it
provoked mi. I had read somewhere in
a German story of a bouse where the
China figures of a shepherdess and a chimney-sweep
made love to each other when no
one was in tbe room, and finally ran off to
gether. I was always hoping something of
tbe kind would happen in our art collection,
and now, when all the costs and fiigures
were set down in a crowd on the great center
table it really seemed as if they could not
keep silence. ' At night, when every one
bad gone to their rooms, a whim seized me
to creep softly down stairs and peep into the
drawing room to see what was going on a-
mong the bronzes and marbles. The moon
light lay across tbe table, and Clytie un
changed never breathed or moved, though
a bronze Pan made mute music on his pipes
before her as motionless as she. Faust did
not kiss Marguerite ; and Mercury poiw.nl
on one toe.did not catch at the chance to sub
stitute the other foot. Altogether the as
semblage was a failure. Have the fairies,
then, never yet crossed the ocean from Ger
many 1
There was a low bum of voices in the
kitchen below ; so disappointed in my miracle-seeking,
I thought I would slip down
tain mad see what was going on so late.
The butler, cook and the chambermaid each
Mood, candle in band, lingering over some
dispute. ' .
"Well,lestways,"aid the butler, "Mies
Emily bare a very aweet manner.and that's,
all I know." .
CLEARFIELD,
"She have her own way, that's what she
have," said the' cook.
"Hutri!" interrupted Kitty, "she makes
cold chllla run over me. She's winding
'era all aboWt ber two litde fingers, and she
has the evil eye for certain. Mind you. she
brings no good!"
Next morning as I met Emily on the stair
case,' I stopped her and looked straight up'
&'t h'elf .fa'ce.
"W hate the matter now, Charlie ?" she
asked, with a toss of her yellow curls.
"I want to see your eyes; please look at
me".
"What for?" rH6 demanded, without
meeting my glance.'
"Kitty says you have the evil eye for cer
tain. What does she mean Emily?" I
asked miscevoas'y.
"I should tn?nk, Charlie, you" miflit
know by this time that what servats mean
is not of the slijjL'tesd importance." And
she moved htfugTiMly by aie. ,
A week after Kitty was dismissed. Lou
ise pleaded for in vain. She had lived
j with us for six yh.MS. ifod I SsEcd my moth
er1 what fault she had comniit'ed.
"Emily has discovered her in some dis
honesty," aMYfct sLld, qmct. "I don't
know what I should do without Emily."
Evidently Emily was quite usurping Lou
ise's place, but Lou didu'tseem to mind,
and loved her just as well One day I asked
Lou if she waan'4 jealous. She blushed
brightly, and siftl with' a shy smile, "Why,
Charlie, if I should ever be leaving home,
you know, I should feel so much better to
have my place filled, so that they would uot
miss me !"
"I should niiss'you! I should miss you !"
I exdaitnecF,clingin(f to her and half crying.
She bent down and kissed me.
"My darling boy, do you think I should
not take you with me? We will never be
parted, Charlie. I couIJ cot bear any one
fo'talfe my ploce in your heart 1"
f s tip pose when she spoke of leaving
home, she was thiuking of Philip Kayburn,
for I had heard several little hints and whis
pers lately, which' made me pretty sure that
some things wer(T settled between them';'
and he cante to tbe house oftendrthan ever.
When the reception rooms were all ar
ranged again, my mother disposed of the
furniture differently, moving chairs, tables
and sofas to quite different positions, Emily
advising her. Oue great, richly carved
sofa, with a high antique back, she insisted
should be placed traversely across a corner.
"It looks so much caster than to have it
stiff and straight by the side of the wall,"
she said. I chuckled to' myself, for I fore
saw a rare hiding place; which might remain
unsuspected for a Idbg time if I were care
ful, and the ucjf't chance I had, when no one
was in the room, I collected a' few things in
that corner for private delectation. I put
the softest hassock there, nfd a Scotch plaid
to lie on. one of ray little chloroform"' bottles
which I keep to smell at when I am nervous
and some of my favorite books. Or course
I could not read in there, heft just the lay
ing of my hand or check on a volume brings
its contents all into my mind. Such a snug
little triangle as I made of it, shaded and
secluded entirely by the high back of au
eient carving, aud the only- light that could
i each me there must crawl along the carpet,
under the damask and fringe. It was very
satisfactory, and all my own secret.
Emily began to be invited everywhere ;
under mama's chaperonagc society received
her with open arms ; bouquets and cards of
iuvilation kept our little waitress doing duty
at all hours, and gentlemen made ealls of an
evening, inquiring especially for 51iss Grey.
My mother scolded her for receiving them
so cooly ; but, despite the coldness, Emily
infused some namilesa charm iuto her man
ner which made them call again aud again.
It was during these days that Louise and
Philip had a falling out ; why, I do not
know,but some trouble there evidently was.
Loui e grew sad and constrained, but made
no coufidaut of any one unless it was Emily.
I would have cut my right hand off at any
time to serve Louise, but she never asked
me to serve her.
One day I heard her say to Emily, "You
must see him when he comes this afternoon.
I can net. Aud O make him understand
that I never could have written those dread
ful letters, and tell him that I cannot see
him till he has faith in mc again. It would
break my heart to see distrust in his eyes.
0 Emily!" And my bonnie Louise bowed
her head and wept.
It cut me to the heart, and I was so help
less to aid her ! For the first time in my
life I regretted my peculiar physique, for
other brothers were expected to defend their
sisters, and did it ; but what could I, a poor
dwarf, do to bold, athletic, handsome Philip
Kayburn ? I felt very iguominious,nd crept
away to my corner and my chloroform be
hind the sofa for consolation, and there fell
asleep in my misery.
I awoke suddenly at last, hearing voices.
1 am always on the alert, and never startled
into making a noise, so I lay perfectly still
and quiet to hear what was going on. Emily
Grey was talking to Philip Rayburn in her
characteristic, low, sweet voice, and I imag
ine just how her lovely pale face looked with
its groat, sad blue eyes, and her yellow curls
floating over ber shoulders.
"It puzzles me ," she said, hesitatingly ;
"I cannot bear to believe that Louise wrote
them and yet what can I believe, Mr.
Rayburn ? O do not say you are sure of ber
guilt 1"
"Miss Grey," eakl Philip Sternly, "your
affection- must not mislead you. Tbe letters
were sent from this house, and the writing is
undeniably that of Lotfise. She is afraid to
i meet the oue she baa so deceived and in
PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1870.
jured. Do not let your kind heart excuse
ber too far, Miss Grey."
Emily's voice tremble J as she replied, "O
Mr. Rayburn, I cannot bear it I To deceive
you you who aw so true and noble. She
could not, indeed she could not."
Philip spoke in softer tones. "You pity
roe, Emily? The world is not all false,
then."
A moment's silence ensued. O, if I could
only have peeped out at them unseen, for I
certainly believe that Emily bent her grace
ful head over Philip's hand and wept upon
it- I was fierce with indignation, but per
fectly collected. Perhaps the dwarf could
help his darling after all.
Presently Philip rose to go.
"I suppose, then, weshall not see you any
ihok?" murmured Emily, plaintively. How
I hated that false, plaintive murmur.
"Hardly again," he said gloomily. "And
yet, Emily, I shall not wish to lose your
friendship. In ten days I shall call and in
quire for you and give into your hands the
letters which 1 have received from Louise,
and you can return them to her."
Then he went. As the street door closed
after biui Emily threw herself down upon
ths sofa, and with her face in xhe pillows
muttered very low, "1 love him, and I shall
wiq him now. And yet, and yet, bis heart
will never be really mine. O, cruel fate !
Why wis Louise ever born to spoil the only
love I care for?"
And she writhed upon the sofa in her ma
lice.till she seemed to me like some creature
of oldfii time possess! by a demon within,
which raved and tore. I lay hidden away in
my corner, thinking deeply, with a volume
pressed to t3V cheek.
What was Emily plotting against my sis
ter? I began to believe her capable of any
Borgia scheme and resolved to spy upon her
unremittingly and luil her where I could.
How low I breathed, lest she, so near me,
should, catch a sountf.' Twilight shadows
crept into the room at length and in them
she floated away and I presently emerged
from my lurking plirce. How I wished I
were an invisible gnome to chase her and
haun her and find out all her dark deeds !
But I had to content myself with smearing
phosphorus til oiei E?7 face and' meeting
her with' a horrible grin in the unlighted up
per hall when she came out at the ringing
of the tea bell. It did my very heart good
to see the white terror in her face as she
crouched back in a corner to escape me. I
had appointed myself a Nemesis to punish
her, but she' did not know1 that. .
I had noticed that when Emily went out
to walk alone without naming her destina
tion", she was always absent three or four
hours. And the next day bringing an occa
sion of this kind, as soon ns she was safely
down the steps I went straight to her room
and looked all about it. The white bed,
dainty and pure, the drooping curtains, the
flowers, the books, were all correct and maid
enly enough, but I was a detective for the
nonce, and passed them carelessly by. A
mall desk table fastened my attention ; I
attempted to lifi the lid: but in vain ; it was
locked. Still, the key, with' a blue ribbon
attached, rested in the key hole, and I tried
to 'JiiWi'it to uolbck the deskV bill Would
not move the wards did not fit. The key
eviSlfrAIy was not put there to help prying
fingers.. The nest thing to do was to find
the r?g'Y ey, and to that end I glanced cu
riously shout. The recent reading of some
of Kdrfsr Poe's strange and analytical sto
ries sharpened my perceptions to paitifuf
keenrcss. f threw irsyself down in Emily s
easy chair.and leaned my head back in a po
sition 1 teZofiif seen her adopt. Then 1
narrowed my eyes and compressed my lips
as she did when thoughtful, thinking that
so, perhaps, iny miud might momentarily
take the turn of hers, and give me soine in
sight into the mode oFconeealuient she would
be likely to practice. With my head thus
thrown back. my eyes naturally fell upon the
cornice above the window curtains, and I
distinctly saw, half hid by a projecting gil
ded grape leaf, a bit of blue ribbon. Still
keeping my features after Emily's fashion,
the thought suggested itself to me how cat
ural it would be to put blue ribbon on each
of the two keys, that a spectator may never
know that more than one was used. Full of
excitement I sprafiglfroni the chair, and ta
king the long gas lighting rod which hung
in the corner, I reached up and dislodged
the bit of blue ribbon. As I expected, a key
fell with it to the floor. . V? ith trembliug
fingers I tried it in the lock, it turned easily,
and I lifted tbe lid. That way at last I dis
covered Emily's treachery. There on sheets
of paper were words and sentences.carefu'.Iy
written and rewritten dozens of times, in
evident imitation of my water's hsnd. Clev
erly done too. I looked them over hastily,
and found beneath copies of two letters pur
porting to be from Louise to Philip Rayburn.
I read them in a sort of delirious glee, for
now I held the clue to the whole labariuth in
my hand. But what base letters ! In them
Louise was made to avow hef- falseness to
Philip to confess that she never really lov
ed him that al? had been a pretty farce to
conceal her passion for another, that remorse
had seized her, and a determination to he
honest at length ; so now these letters beg
ged him to set her free and keep her secret.
A shallow plot indeed, which few straight
forward words between the two would have
set right at once ;' but Louise was proud and
Philip pitiless. Emily hazarded much, and
had so far won, depending on pride and pit
ilcssnesa. Then the handwriting t It would
have deceived my own parents; but 1 I,
the cunning dwarf had fathomed the whole
and held the proofs in my band. Then came
the question what to do with- them. If 1
took them away with me, she would" discov
er the loss at once, and take- measure ac
cordingly. Was the hour arrived for expo- !
sure? I thought not. 1 determined to
leave the papers, trusting that fatuitoui
blindness which so often IMdfa criminals to
retain the damning proof of their guilt. The
justice of romances suggested itself to my
mind ; you know the true wilHs always bid
den somewhere undestroyed, the fatal letter
always found, the deed or certificate lost for
years, but not forever, and I felt rare these
letters would wait for me. Was I not the
servant of Nemesis? So I re-locked the
desk, lifted the true key with its bit of blue
ribbon to its hiding place again, and placed
the false key in the lock. Then I crept away
to think it all over.
In the hall I met my sweet, sad Louise,
with that new look of desolateness its' her
face. I.ki"sed my hand to her. She stop
ped instantly, aud winding her dear arms
about my neck said.sotily, "You will always
love me, won't you, Charlie?"
"Yes, I will, and every one else shall too,"
I answered stoutly, at which her smile was
sadder than tears could have been, and pass
ed on.
You may be very sure I kept close watch
of the yellow-haired Emily during the days
which followed. Many a lone revery of hers
had me for a spectator, peering through a
key holo or the crack of a door, or with one
eye bent on her from behind a curtain. I
knew her reveries meant mischief. One
afternoou my vigilance had its reward. My
mother asked Emily if she would get her
some silk when she went out, and Emily
answered sweetly, "I thought I should uot
go out this afternoon ; I have a headache ;
but rather than disappoint you "
Of course my mother interrupted her with
an assurance that she should not think of
letting her go. A little after I asked, just
to sec what she would say, "Will you buy
me a little ivory skull this afternoon, Emily,
if I give you the money? There's a man
down an alley two streets off who carves such
things."
"I'm not going out, Charlie," she said
shortly.
Under these circumstances I thought best
to be on guard in the drawing room, so I
went quietly down, climbed over tbe back of
the antique sofa, and so down into my lurk
ing place. There, with that horrible, fas
cinating book, "Frankenstein," uuder my
head, I lay dreaming and waiting. Pres
ently the door bell rang, and Philip came,
inquiring for Emily, only Emily. I heard
her quick step on the staircase, and she gli
ded into his arms could it be that it was
iuto his amis? A subtle instinct told me it
was so. Philip's voice was changed from
the old light toncs,and there was no tender
ness in it, though he called her 'Marling."
"Here is the package," he said, "which I
wish you to return to Louise with my for
giveness. She will soou tee her beartless
ness has uot destroyed my happiness !"' aud
he laughed bitterly.
"Dear Philip I" murmured Emily's false,
sweet Tciee.
"Euiiry, you are the only true woman I
know' after alt My life shall be devoted to
you."
"And fou love mc, Thilip ?" she atked
longingly.' .. .
"You know my love's not worth' much ;
such as it is now you may have it, Emily,"
and his tones were reckless. "Let us have
it over at ogee. Can you be r5ady to-night
i.1 eleven ?i' , , -
"es," she answered breathlessly.
"I will have a' carriage here at that hoar.
When the clock strikes you" mast come down
all ready. You will find me there and I will
carry you awaj' n't 6'nce. A pleasant surprise
to Louise to-morrow morning to find her
lover so easily consoled! Shlhsrfly knows
how frequently we have ei'et."
"Do not rtarry mc only from pique!"
said Emily, with a touch of sadness which
was real, I think.
"I simply ask you, will .you marry me,
Emily?" was all his ah'ser; aud Emily
said "Yes," without hesitation.
I did not want to come out and denounce
them theu and there ; I had a better plan ;
so Philip went at last, no wiser than he came,
and Emily fled to her room full of her plots :
while I climbed out of my ambush, and lay-
down as any one else might on the- sofa,
thinking my own thoughts. I wanted those
letters now, quick, too how could I secure
them ? I could think of no opportunity till
tea time,' unless fortune favored. Fortune
did favor about an hour after, for a young
lady in silk and velvet came to call on Emily.
As the servant hesitated, not having receiv
ed instructions, I called 6m from the draw
ing room, "Emily is at home ; she is up in
her room. I'll call her."
So the young lady swept in and took a
scat. In high glee I went up to Emily's
room and rapped pn the door.
"Emily, there's Flora Mi Flimsey down in
the drawing room to see you."
"Tell her I'm not a4 home, Charlie."
"0, but I can't, Emily ; I have already
told ber you were up stairs, and 1 would
call you." i
"Then I sirppose I must go down!" she
said, in'a tone of vexation, and came out,
carefully closing and lorking the door after
ber." So mseb. the better! I knew another
way la resrch her room by going .through
my mother's, and my mother bad goce her
self for her silk, so there was no danger of
being waylaid. Tbis plan succeeded, and 1
stepped boldly into the pretty chamber,
where a subtle perfume of htl otrope perva
ded tneair- Emily had laid out all her
dresses on the bod, and ber trunk was open.
I wondered.if she would have the effrontery
to send for it some time. But my. business
was with letters, not dresses, so I sought the
little desk table : the true key was in the
lolk ibis time, and in a moment I possessed
h myself of the fatal document How for
tunate that Flora came just at that time, for
it. might be that Emily was about unlocking
the desk to destroy the papers.' My heart
beat fast with excitement as tlcft the room
again, by trVe same way that 1 entered, and
hastened to my own little den.a flight above,
bolting my door after me.
..Then I sat down and wrote a letter to
Philip Rayburn, telling him all I had heard
and all I had done, enclosing the shwts of
paper as proofk I felt very manly at last,
so to vindicate my sister's truth, and it made
me smile to be able to write that I expected
him to apologize fully to Louise, and after
that never to darken ourdoors again. I fin
ished the letter, sealed it, coaxed the butler
to deliver it at once iuto Mr. Rayburn's
hands, and bad. ten miuutes to compose my
self before EuriTy politely attended-' her vis
itor to the door. Then she flew up to her
room sgain.
My spirits ran so high I could hardly keep
from shouting my secret aloud. I found
Louise sitting lonesoniely in her chamber,
like ''Mariana in the moated,"" and I kissed
her hand again andagain'.telling her I would
do everything right, while she looked at me
half frightened and wholly puzzled. Then I
imitated an Iudian war-whoop' ct Emily's
key hole, and as it grew darker 1 lay iu wait
for her behind au open door, and .sprang out
at her when at last I heard her gliding step.
I liked to hear her shriek and shudder. At
tea she was pale and thoughtful, while my
father and mother and Louise giew kind
er than ever, heaping her plate with delica
cies, and delighting to pet her. But I took
no trouble to pass her anything but straw
berry jam, which I knew she hated
The night was clear there were stars iu
the heavens. Alter tea we all went into the
parlor ; Emily played, and sang, and chatted,
with now aud then a restless glance at the
clock on the mantlepiecc. At ten she said
she would retire, and bade us all good night.
That was a signal Lr a general departing, and
before long I was going up stairs noisily, so
that Emily might hear me and think all
were out of her way at last- But no sooner
had I slammed my door than I turned agar i
and crept down, stairs quieter than any
mouse, past all sleeping rooms, down to the
diuing room, and there I waited". in'(f he dark.
I always liked to stay iri the dark7, imagin
ing grotesque creatures in every corner un
seen, and there I lav on the . sotf very con
tentedly, hearing the cToca ilci anil my
heart beat. - i . .
At last I became cohscibus, by some in
stinct finer thau hearing, that Emily was
coming down from her room. The clock
chimed" eleven and' I ISiaW to fe'ar my 51ot
would fail, for why was there no word from
Philip? How softly Emily glided down.Iike
some impalpable presence ! She stood hes
itating an iustant oh' th'6 Tower stair, when
the door bell rang a' peal which' startled all
the sleeper's. .
I ran out with a shout. Emily would have
fled from me, but I caught her baud and
dragged her to the door, which I opened.
There stood Philip Raybcrrn.his eyes ablaze
with fierce indignation', grasping the fatal
letters in his hand. He held them up before
Emily, compelling her to recognize their
meaning, then casting them at her feet with
a gesture of utter scorn ( he strode into the
parlor, drawing me with him.'
I was proud then, as I collected all my
four feet high dignity, aud called him to ac
count. He did not notice my manner though,
he was too full of wralh and grief and con
trite love. I almost .beffan to pity him at
last!,' but remembered that would never do,
' so I told him that I accepted his apologies,
but he nius? never insult c by his presence
agaiu. That moment Louise came in hur
riedly, looking terrified and perplexed.
"Where is Emily, Charlie? 'Who rang
the bell, and why is the door open? O,
Philip!"
"I will go and fiud Emily," I said. "I
will leave you with Mr. Kayburn. He has a
confessijn to make to yon, Louise, and after
that you will forbid him the house."
E:iii!y was not to be found ; I hunted for
her above and below ,but she was gone. The
ball-door still stood open. She had fled away
with her guilty conscience under the keen
eyed stars. So l went back to the parlor
without her; Louise and Philip were at the
door.
"I will come carfy to morrow," he said,
smiling brightly, and Louise smiled brightly
too.
"What! have you not forbidden him the
house?" I exclaimed.
"No, Charlie, that I cannot do." And
with an astonishing lack of spirit she let him
fold her iu his arm".
I have decided to hsfv-i nothing " more to
do with my sister's love affairs or the family
dignity. My little part was played, and now
I will h ide away behind the curtain with my
dreams of fairies and ells.
The young man who has been traveling
about lately and jumping off t he train to kiss
his sister and their apologizing when he
fmind Via mistake, has become converted,
nd will lead a differont life. He tried the
thing on at New Haven the other day, when
the damsel raised her veil, and said : TjoI
ly, masaa, what you bout, dar?"
The human race is divided into two claat
es those who go ahead and do something,
and those who sit still and inquire "Why
wasn't it done the ether way?"
Love in tbe Indian language, is, "Schim
lendamowitchiewagin." It moa be quite
an undertaking to tell a squaw yau love ber.
Love w better than a pew of apootaolej.to
make everything seem greater, which I aeew
through iu-
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guiur guxrtonj.'
4 W. WALTERS. ATTcnsar a Law,'
Jl. Cloarff eld. Pa. Ofliea in the Conrt Hoih.
IT ALTER BAKKETT, Attorney atI.aw.cW
T field. Pa. - Slay 13. 1803.
Tf. W.iiRAliAM.Dealerin Pry-Goods, Oroee
li rie, Hardware, (jaeeDware. Woodenwar4,
FruTinlooa. te., Maraet Street. C'Uarield. fa.
DAVID . NIVLrXii.Detler In Dry Qoodi.
Ladies' Faney 5oods. Hat and Cap. Boot,
-'.C s""j jtre. Clearfield. Pa. aepl 5
f ERRELL e'IOLKU, De,ierliB Marmara
LfJ. and mannfactareni or Tin , and Sheet-iron
tare. Second Street. Clearfield. Fa. Juhe "6t.
HP. S A'UG'rlE. Watch and Clock Maer. and
. dealer in Watefaei, Jewelry, Ac. Room ia
Graham' row, Marketatreet. Not. It.
IT BCCHEK SWOOPE. Attorney at Law.Clear-
XX. neia, ra. n:e mHraham a Uo
fo.urdoo-1
wrrl f Graham A Uojrnton'i (tore.
Xor.lO.
J B MEN ALLY, Attorneyat Law. Clearfield
. Pa. 1'rioticei in Clearfield and adjoin-'ng
wunties. Office in new brick building ef J.Bojn
t n, 2d etreot. one door loath of Lanieh'f Hotel.
1. attend prompt It to all Leiral business antrait-
ed to bin care in Clearfield and adjoining coun
ties. Office on Market street. July 17, 1867.
rpUOMAS II. FOKCET. Dealsr in Sijaar ted
J SawedLumher, Drr-Goodn.Queeneware, Gro
ceries. Flour. Grain. Feed, Bacon, o , ., Or,
hamton. ClearEeld connty. Pa. Oct.lt.
TP. KRATZ&R. Dealer in Dry -Goods! Clothing
. Hardware. . Qaeensware,. Groceries. Pro1
iojis. etc Marlot Street, neatly opposite the
Court Hons. Clearfield. Pa. Jane. 18C.S.
HRTSWICK A IRWIN. Dealers in Draji,
Medloinea..Paints.,0.ils.Ftationary. Perfume,
rj . Fancy, Goods, Notions, lo.,ata..(arkt street,
Clearfield. Va Deo. , 1865.
(i KR4TZER k SON, dealers' in Dry Goods,
. Clothing. Hardware. Oneensware. Grace
rias, Prorisions, Ae., Second Street Clesifisld,
Pj ' Dec 27.186S.
JOHN Gl'ELICH. Manufacturer of all kinds of
Cabinet-ware. Market street.Clearfield, Pa
lie slsomU ap order Coffina-onshort notice, ana
itteuds funerals trliji a bears. AprlO.'SS.
I It'UARD MOSSOt, Dealer in Foreign and Da
IV mestie Dry Goods. Groceries. Flour. Bacon,
Liquors. As. Room, on Market street, a few door
west ol Journal Offic. Clearfield, Pa. Apr27.
TT" A I.I4A C 5 A FIELDING. ATTuBXEtt Lw
f CleariUid. Pa. Office in res.denee of W. A,
Wallace Leiral hosines ofall Kinds. attended to
with promptness and fidelity. JJan.S,'7-yp
WM, A. WiL'.ACE. rtlANK riBLDISfl)
IT W.S.HlTiL Arroaaav.AT Law, Clearfield,
ITli
IX. r...wiii aftend m-nmptlj fjt -bonne an-
trusted to hi care., Ofiee on second floor of new
building adjoining County Natioual Baas:. and
nearly opposite the Court Hous. June 36, '69
yf'CULLOUGU KREBS, ATTQa'x BTS-AT-1.AW,
lYX Clearfield, Pa- ,Al).egalabosines prompt'
ly attended to. Consultations in English or Gst
man. , Oot-X7, 186.
t. j. n'criLOpoa. p. 1.. mil.
I FREDERICK LEITZISGEA, Manufacturer ef
: all kindsof jtpne-warey Clsrfield.Pa. Or
dsrmolici ted wholesale or retail Ilealaokeep.
on hand and for sal an assortment of osrthen
wr. f hisawa saanafaotnra. Jan. 1. ISA
XT M. HOOVER.Wholesaleand Retail Dealer ia
i e TOBACCO. ClOA&S AND SyPFP. A
large assortment of pipes, cigar eases. o., con
stantly on. hand. Two door East of the P
Office, Clearfield, Pa. May 19, '69.
"1TTESTERN HOTEL. Clearfield, Pa This
iV well known hotel, near the t oart House. -is
worthy the patronage of the public. Tba labia
will be supplied with the best in the market Tba
best of liquors kept. JOHN DOUGHERTY.
JOHN H. FL Lf OUD, .Attorney at Law. Clear
field. Pa . Office, on Market Street, over
Hartswick A Irwin' Vf.it Store. Prompt attention
given to lit secqringofitaajntj claims, Ac, and to
all legal business. Sfarch 27, 1867.
A I T Holl X , M. D., Phtsician ant
Surgeon, bavin? located at Kylertown,
Pa., offers bis professional services to tbe aiti
sens oi that place and ticinity. lep.2V-ly
w. a. ARUsTRosa. : : : : ; mitLUH
ARMSTR ONG LINN, AttobnetS'AT-Law.
Willismrport. Lrcominsj Omntr. Pa. Ali
legal bu!l:nen ent.u.Ie.l to thcui Hill "be carefully
and promptly attended to. Aug 4,'C9-6m.
Waft
AI.CKRT. A BKO'S .Dealers in Dry Goods.
roreries.Uardware. Queens ware. Floor Ba
con, etc... Woodland. Clearfield oonnty. Pa. Also
extensire dealers iu all kinds of sawed lumber
shingles, and square timber. Order solicited.
Woodland. Pa., Ang. 19th. 1SB3
DR J. P. BDRCITFI ELD Lata Surgeon oi the
83d Reg't Penn'a Vols., baring returned
from the army, offers bis professional services to
the citizens of Clearfield and vicinity. Profes
sional calls promptly attend ad to. Office on
South-East corner of 3d and ilarket Street.
Oct. 4. 1K65 6wf.
GUriVEYOIt. Tbe undersigned offera
,J Ha services to the public, as a Surveyor.
Ue may be found at his residence in Lawiei.ce
township, when not engaged ; or addressed by
letter at Clearfield, Penn B.
March fith. !867.-tf. J 4MES MITCHELL.
JEFFERSON L I T Z, M. P.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Having located st Osceola. Pa , offers hi profes
sional srrrwes to the people of that place and sur
rounding country. All ealls promptly attended
to. Office and residence on Curtin Street, former
ly occupied by Dr. Kline. May 19, '69
J.
K. .B U T T. O R' F' 3
PHOTOGRAPH OALLERT.
MARKET HTBEET, CLEARFIELD, FES'a.
Negatives matfe in cloudy a well as in lar
westher. Constantly en hand a geod assortment
of Frames. Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic Views.
Frames, from any style of moulding, mads to
order. (dee. 3.'6e-jy. l--ti
rpilOMAS W. MOORE, Land Surveyor
and Couveyancef. ' Havirt: recently lo
cated in the Borough of Lumber City, and return
somed the practice of Land Surveying, respect
fully tender hi professional services Ut tbe own
ers and speculator in land in Clearfield and ad-
joing coantiea Deads or Conveyance neatly ex
ecuted. Umca ana rasiasnoa one- a oar Utst ef
Kirk d-Spencer Store
Lumber City. April 14, 1864 ly. '
w
AltACE
WALTERS,
Real Estate Agist ab Coxvetakcebi,
Clearfield, Pa
Real eslafe bought and sold, title examined.
taxes paid, conveyance prepared, and mswran-
ce tasen.
Office in new building, nearly opposite Court
ouse. - IJaa 187t.
House.
WM. a. WALLACE
j. nils WALTsaa.
QOLDIERS' BOUNTIES. A reccuthill
ha iaed both Houneaof Con(rrea,aud
signed by the Preside I, giving seMiers sktsa
listed prior to 21d Jly. lBi, served ana year or
sTnre and were hooovaWy disokafjeat.a .oeaty
ss-Boantis and Pans ion oalleetec by far
tkoaaantitlad to them.
WALTER BARRETT, Atfy at Law.
Aug. lath, 1866. Clearfield, Pa-
DKTED FRUIT, at reduced prices at
MayH.' unttfinr.
WOOL WASTED 100.60 pounds wool want
ed, for which thabiaheet market priee will
be paid, by P K AJ ZX..
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