r r B F. SCHWEIER, THE OOISTITUTIOI THE TJSIOI AJTD THJ EHOECEiTEIT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOI, XXXIX. MIFFUNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY.' PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 15, 1SS5. NO. 29. 5 ,Y I-N UUll'C wm- mamma. to til window!" .'rieJ little Fi.a JaY iVii ' ,nk ll"lkeu,:, Vb a".tb.-.v ilr.uk ti.ts iy u; -tbbiaaiui. .jj.ttrrn-11'i:"; TU5 rAir- oVr them tMriuiuijf, KiTin i: ihi;ai:kassim;. "YiiU i-rita!n! d,m't look lit to walk m'jl'sa.a ttte Doctor authonta- ..V., a- I Coli.e to t hink of it. I lare I Jon t," J answered in woe-begoue iir.-tn.emli hci.tliv mum as possiuie. flirtrwili ' I f"'1 literally "done ul ..... 1 1 it 1 .ts u,ni:v on my legs from BK.riiii.it till i"'-. -lerry- i,ttU It. lint, a fellows gun jjriutt I'.v ari-iJi-ni aii'l tmpties itself lum. " lieu vou aie lourteeu Wiles n;4iirveHliere and have to get the lc;.ou holuc by a process of drying Hid nisl.iug which takes about four tojl-aflel nil tliis. 1 say, I think 1 ..slot fM'-' '" feeling pretty wnl u-ed up. It taJ certainly been au awful Uav. jtr, was uiy chum. And now I was ti:t:w luJe'riy's aim chair, in his own iirrsin"kii'n-",,,"i' 1411,1 a403 the Pu:r. t'nuiik'h ttie h.i!t-..peued door, ltvuid re the d"l whne Jerry lay SO StJ, so iiuhkr himself. I as sit!i;ikr so quietly a',1 by myself it thdusk that when the D.M-tor en tered tlir room he did hot at hist kuow 1 a tlirie. He was not the Nether Bail IVflor, but a young new Doctor Faiihuline ! name w ho had only just o-'Lir m to my neighborhood. For iLe i m'U he did uol know Who 1 MS.iid s'.alleJ 111 SUpliae when Uiy nhfk vice iii.iuiied out of the daik- DoS -Will l,e lr.e, U1I..1?" "Eli? Vhafr"said the doctor.strik atiiuaMi and applying it to a candle ,Uie uiaiihepiece, Ttieu he gazed, appaielttly lu some fcli'iiisLuieiit, at my six ft-et of uiuscu ai liiiuianil) s; retched limply out across iLe hearth-rug. I'm Ual Sim-ley of Nether Hall," I Hid, 111 explanation. "Uli! Ah! A friend of Mr. Castle llai's?'' in.ii.lrd, by way of answer. Hu b he?" 1 asked aguiu. "Will ttllVt?" "He is badly hutt, but, as far as I aii ire not dangerously." Iahu.i:-t laughed aloud in the excess of n.? lehef at these tidings. 'He'll U- all right he has a consti tution of cast-ironl" I cried enthusi ktiuiily. 1 g'.aticed at Doctor Fairholuie by the light of the candle; be was au undeni itly tiiidruine young fellow, not much er thirty, I should think, broad iouMcreJ, and dark, with bright clever t. "ReU, do ," I continued, "I don't ilk I need wait any longer; because i ussgo home, and I have to walk ten mis." "Must vou go Lome to-night?" he J. UuJJrd ra'.her dismally. "Tbe jKwr uld mother makes such a joint of it," 1 answered. "Vou see I'B the only toy the has reared out of itt, and fur her not to know where I ns ill night wuuld frmhten her to JttUi, 1 htlieve. 1 cau't stay here, eier;itwnuM I adding to Grace's SiMlle." "Yes; It w.mld be a shame to trouble If Caatltuiaine's," be answered Sfcurtiiriiiiy. "That is 1 supiose ou are going stay all nialit?" I asked suddenly. "J!i. yes 1 shall sit up with Mr. (.'sUeiiidiDr.'." "la that case th.-u I should be only a "ilidrance. I'll walk Lome, rest a bit, UJdilVroVtr rally to kuow I10W the lji uidchap 13," I said, pulling niy ritliri ean!y out of the arm- Mr. c'a-tleinaiiie lre;s no horses? t!n.atl I,H.-tor Faiiholme. 1 iliuok my head. "Wou't run t,, it I'.uir 1 .1.1 Jerrv!" him be- passage Castle- UWd !ikr t.. I, iv 'a hmk at. "flgo, "I said wistfully.- led the u a 1 ac loss the ' the su-k ro.uu. Gia. il as Sitting by the brd, ber usu bright face pair with crying. She " wia eauie over to me, whisperiuu choked voice - 1 Lave tievri thanked you projieily for bringing him home." Jeai old fellow! I could hardly i as than that, (..racie," I answered, f'hl culd ht'Je hand between uiy o peat paws. "Don't grieve too j V whisiwed reassurmgly ; "the :fl0r She'll be all right; and I'll -'oer with the mother lirst thing yiiu inoruina." ThiUik mi, 11. 1 m 1 "'ere he lav so very pale J iu that it seemed hard at first to "'ethat the great, strong, joyful. lu?)aat soul h.,1 ,.,, f ' 'should Lav 1,1-.1 ..,1.: ... ,.;. ..... CO11LI . 11 1 111. uuii j with the doctor in the room t(.t' race; so 1 mutely rubbed ah aw"'st llls ,;4lm- like a fool Ms . rttrf v,-r, till the water in mv dlSairt.rol Ti.or. . the r,krfll, al, , fe!c.lied my llal au(I wtmtv r-J"il'ed thedm-torand Grace ViaJV 1 to Uave a Kreat deal 10 Silv wtf'-ftl;i:-).',siiddeiily cried IMc Vwleuiaine, "1 'fatf." iMy l"uuhani is still at HI fai? u- "" S"lnS fo remain bete 'itit ''ll.vou dome the honor iooc, UJ:," l" 0 home to my ffefa? iUli,i l"Ti'' ' m' aL'hiug swol fiiess ! a,Var' ll,41l cried out iu "It ' el 1 "esitated. r4m vlUles'1 f;,r out of the way! think of? K"d; but "lJeed 1 coul,! W"' I1""nsel There is the .-"4nc it I 4iZ , e 1"t'"' Wl the iyui T'u!5l"nf- "I shall be uf it. KUJ lf you will avail yourself 0Bi hSU!il1" staitrU Ul. doubtless aitia, 7 drains. Ue had been ifort., . .I"1 ot the harvest- x6kd T. tu:,ulwo "ours. rnr,H 2 1 lut a delichtful i.Ast. .f -"uiwoii lhera was a slight movement, a sound as of some one yawning: then a small golden head dropped coiiiidiugly ou my shoulder.aud a isleepy voice remarked You have kept me waiting a loug time, Frank." Absolute MiuaKemeut bereft me ol ?l-ech. I never moved only looked dowu out of the corner of my eye at the soft little mass of hair showing unite plainly iu the moonlight. "Io you hear, Frank? I've been fast asleep. "I "in very sorry really!" stammer ed 1, w ith an lusaue feeling that 1 must say something. "Are we going home, Frank?" "Yes yes that is I'm sure you'll e.vcuse me " I'p started the head from my shoul der. A small astonished tace and two wild tl.i-diiug eyes weie turned full up ou uiy guilty countenance; lhu, before 1 cm 1,1 move or seak she let down the w in. low of the brougham and called to I lie coachman to stop. Quick as light ning, she juiiied out, and stood iu the moonlit road a small sleuder figure with a loug cioa half covering a light summer dress, two white lists clenched at her sides, and eyes looking well, woie than daggers bowie-knives and st i letups, at least at me. There was nothing for it but to jump out too. As 1 dil so, she went back a step or two, as if recoiling even then. Embarrassed as 1 was, I noticed how gracefully she did it. "Upon my word, I beg your pardon! 1 really do, by JoVeP "Aud you dare to speak to me, you daie to " She paused a minute, her indignation literally choking her. Then she turned to the coachman "Waters, how on earth did this person get into the brougham?" "With your permission," I said rather haughtily, 1 believe "I will tell my own story. Doctor Fairholme is compelled to stay up all night with my friend. Mr. C'astlemaiue, who is very ill. He knew that I had teu miles to walk, aud kindly offered me his brougham to gj home in." "It was inexcusable." "It was," 1 rejoined lmperturbably; "it w as most inexcusable of him not to meution that there was a lady in the carriage. II. id 1 known it I should never have intruded. And now, hav ing explained my presence here, I will hasten to relievo you of my company." 1 was quite astounded at the dignity which I infused intomy manner. I held 01 -en the carriage door. "Will you resume your seat? You need not be afraid of walking past me," 1 added, as she drew back once more aud hesitated au instant. She tossed her small head a little de fiantly. Womanlike, she would not own herself mistaken. Without a word she took her seat iu the brougham aud allowed me to fasten the door. "Drive on," said I to the coachman; and the horse started once more. I was very, very tired 1 began to realize now how tired as 1 drairged my sore feet to a milestoue at the side of the road and sat down thereon. 1 listend to the sound of the dear ling wheels. How long a sound lasts in the dead stillness of a summer night I could almost have declared that those w heels were approaching, not receding. The sound certainly was louder. I raided my tired head; the brougham was returning! As it stopped I rose to my feet The window was let down, aud a little bare baud was stretched out to me. "Will you get into the brougham, Mr. ? I think 1 was very rude; I shall lie only too pleased to drive you home, if you will forget the way 1 spoke." "I am sure I don't wonder at your being angry; you must have been sur prised," "I was; but please getiu." I did not hesitate I was so "done up." She made me sit beside her; and 1 was only too content to be once more in that comfortable nest, with a chance of getting home again by midnight. For a short space of time we were as mute as two fishes. Certainly it was a very queer position. A young lady and a young man who had never been in troduced to each other were staring In the dark for a ten mile Vide side by side in a brougham. Presently the pretty little head was slowly turned for the purjio.se of taking a furtive survey of me. Somehow I telt exceedingly shy at the thought of such auordeaL 1 shut my eyes and reteuded to be asleep, feeling all the time that the other pair of eyes large aud bright, I knew, though 1 did not see their color were takiug stock of me with interest. My companion did not move from her nest in the corner; but ber eyes were, I kuow, fixed upon me as she asked "Are you a great friend of Mr. Cas tlemain's?" "Yes, I supose I am," I answered "we were at school together." "Indeed! Do you live near here?" "Yes, at Nether Hall. My name is Shirlev." "Oh!" a great deal of surprise in fused into that "Oh!" "You are Mr. Shirley of Nether Hall?" "Yes, 1 believe so." "Was it your wife who left cards on Frank last week?" "No my mother. I haven 1 a wife I'm not married." "1 think," she remarked, after a pause, -"that Miss Castlemaiu is very pretty; I saw her in church on Sunday-" . , , "Were you in church on !unday I never saw youl" "I think I saw you, though; I kuow you by your hair." I laughed. Jerry was always chaf fing me about my ridiculous hair; so I did not mind. But, as the thought of Jerry again rushed across my Drain, it seemed to shut out everything else. I should be so fearfully lonely without him! "I do feel sorry for you," said the sympathetic little voice. "Don't trouble to talk If you would rather be quiet," "It is no trouble to talk to you," 1 answered promptly: but 1 dont seem to be able to think or talk about anything but poorOerard just now," "Talk tome about him then tell me how the accident happened." Thus encouraged, I launched out, aud told her all about it; I gave her an account of our shooting, our riding, our yachting, and all the fun we had together. Gradually she sat up out of her corner to listen. Perhaps she saw that I was a gentleman, and that she was quite safe in my company. She listened eagerly, with lips parted and eyes which looked deep and dark as two wells in the moonlight. After that we relapsed Into silence until the carriage stoptied at the lodge gates. "Now I shall intrude upon you no longer," I said, as I rose and held out my hand. "Good-toye, and thank you very much for so kindly giving me a lift" She put a shy .warm little baud out of the rugs, aud it felt strangely pleas aut to hold iu my own capacious paw. I wished it had been the left; I did so w aut to kuow whether she wore a wedding-ring. "Good-bye," she responded. "I do hope your friend will be much better to-morrow. And I 1 hope you will forget my rudeness. " "Please don't say another word about that," 1 broke iu hastily. "The fault was mine, if auy one's; aud I have had such a pleasaut drive. May 1 bring my mother to call upou you?" "Oh, yes, if you likel Good night, Mr. Shirley!" 'Good night. Miss V I could not finish; I did not even know if she was Miss or Mrs. The cania je door shut, and she was ta.euav. ly quickly from me, while I walked to the house think iug to my shame, be it confessed more of her than of poor old Jerry. I could not of course be smitten with a girl whom I had knowu ouly for au hour a girl too who wore her hair aesthetically short aud wavy a fashion I always strongly condemneJ. How often had praised Grace Castlemaine's silkeu dark plaits, and warned her against "fringes and other innovations of modern culture." Yet G race had never had the power to stir iu me the queer feeling I experi enced as I stood gazing idly down the road along which Doctor Fairholme's brougham had disappeared. Gerard was better. My heart was full of praise aud thaukfgiviug as I walked briskly along in the sunshine, with my dog at my heels, ou my way to the Laburnums the Laburnums was where Doctor Fairholme lived. I had driven my mother over to the Castle uiaiues' early in the morning, and we found Gerard so much better that the doctor said he would go home aud rest a bit; and presently my mother and Grace wauted a message something about medicine taken to him; and, with wonderful alacrity, I volunteered to go. "Of course she is his sister she is too young to be married," I said to my self. "Besides, if Fairholme is a mar ried man. I call it beastly the way he behaves to Grade. I shall make it a point to find out; but of course she'll be out. Women always are out when you want them to be in; and rice versa." So thinking, I strolled up the lane to the Laburnums, pushed open the wicket gate, walked up the pretty winding path which led to the house.aud caught sight of a s'im girlish figure training the roses up the porch. Yes; it was she! She was iu white. If girls only kuew how nice they look white, I believe they would always wear It. But I suppose it is expensive at least Grace always says so. My uu known was looking full at me. Her dress was of some soft material, and she wore an amber sash; her hair was ruffled by the wind, aud her arms were raised to twine up the . tendrils of the rows. " Vby was it that my first feel ing was one of disappointment? 1 could not tell. To begin with, she seemed rather taller than 1 had imagined her to be, also older. On the previous night I should have guessed her to be eigh teen; now she looked two or three and twenty; and her eyes, which somehow I had guessed to be only deep, not dark were dark brown, almost black, 'in point of fact. However, she was sur prisingly pretty, graceful as a willow, and with a very pretty arm and hand. I raised my hat with a half smile, hop ing for a gleam of recognition. There was none. "I hope," quoth I. "that you don't feel auy the worse for your long drive last night?" ''Oh, no," said she, as if suddenly recollecting herself "that is, you are Mr. Shirley?" ''Yes. I have brought a message for your for Doctor Fairholme, and I am very pleased to be so fortunate as to tihd you at home." She made me a little bow. I suppose with her foot ou her own threshold, she felt secure; certainly her manner was more conddent than it had been on the proceeding night She tossed her irardeuiug-scissors into a basket aud untied her apron. "1 am veiy pleased to see you Mr. Shirley wont you come into the draw ing-room? 1 as, we bad quite an ad venture last night had we not?" She laughed brightly. Her laugh and her voice was quite unchauged by the transion from moonlight to sun light, Krect and handsome, she led the way iuto a tiny cosy little drawing room from which the sunlight was al most excluded. It was sweet with the fragrance of roses, my teet sank noise lessly into the carpet, and the big wick er chair into which she motioned me was the most comfortable I ever sat in. I sat, feeling awkward and shy; she, on the contrary, was perfectly coolmd I could not help thinking, rather amus ed. I made a few remarks, to which she replied appropriately and demurely; then she made a few remarks, to which I answered blunderingly and at random aud iu a few minutes 1 rose to go. She held out her hand to me, standing the while by a tall prit-Dieu chair on which ! her left hand rested. Quick as thought I glauced down at.iL Yes the third linger was encircled by a plain thick band of gold protected by a pearl hoop! She was married. "Good-bye," I falUred. "You will remember to give my message to the doctor, Mrs. is it Mrs. Fairholme?" She bowed a smiling acquiescence; and I found myself once mere out In the sunshine' with Roswal at my heels. What a different place the world seemed! I felt like a man just waken ed from a delicious dream! Who would have thought that one drive in the dark together would have been enough to so thoroughly upset me me, Hal Shirley, who bad lived six-and-tweuty irrespon sible years without having been once lu love? And now I had fallen despe rately in love with another man's wifel It was preposterous; the idea must be forcibly put out of my great stupid head! Fortunately Jerry was too ill - for me to confide in him, I must keep it quiet. But was not the doctor attempting to make love to Gracle? The idea made me tingle with indignation. I half looked on her as my property, and I was certain that that infamous doctor was attempting to flirt with her. And with such a creature for bis wife too. I arrived at Jerry's in a state of fer ment . , . "Did ycu go to the Laburnums, Hal?" asked my mother, who is fond of Jerry and dearly loves nursing, and w nom I found installed, much to Gra cies lelief, in the sick-room. "Yes 1 1 weal to the Laburnums. I saw Fairholme's wife," I said with a much nonchalance as I could assume. G racie could- not rei-tiaiu the excla mal:oa that 10s ) to her lips. "His wife? 1 did not kuow he was married." "Oh, yes," returned my mother com posedly, there is a Mrs. Fairholme, 1 kuow. I saw G racie change color; aud iu a minute sue went out ofthe room. 1 was tramping home to Nether Hall thinking of Grace's pale face, and was walking in a narrow laue. followed by all the dogs, when I caught sight of a girlish figure standing ou the top of the steep bank, busy struggling with a spray of gleaming crimson bryony ber ries which she was trying to wrest from the hedge. At sound of our approach ing steis mine aud the dogs' she turned her head. 1 knew her of course at once the short guldeu hair uuJer a broad-briiuiued bat, the white dress, the tan-leather wrinkly gloves up above the elbow above all, t'e deep shadowy eyes and absolutely irresistible mouth; it was Mrs. Fairholme. Iu an instant she had seen me, and sprang dowu the bank iuto the road. I think she was going to ask me to tear away the bryony spray lor her; she stood with her rigLt hand extended, the whole power of her brilliant eyes turned ou me. And 1? What did 1 do? I felt that my owu safety lay 111 flight. 1 raL-ed my hat, bowed st 1 Illy, ignoring the outstretched hand, and walked on, leaving her stan ding pausing, half bewildered for the iustaut, and 1 stalked ou, never once looking back, aud arrived at home so abominably cross that my mother was quite astonished, because, though I cer tainly have a good many faults, I am uot usually a bad tempered fellow. "Hal," said my mother, "If I were you, I would run up to London for a week to the Vargraves'." The Vargraves' were my cousins. There was a whole houseful or them jolly girls enough. They lived in one of the Bays water squares aud were al ways having dances aud dinner-parties. "What should I go there for?" de manded I Irritably. "Why .your Aunt Vargrave has writ ten ever so many times to say that they have seeu nothiug of you aud 1 think you want a change; vou've been fret ting yourself ill about Gerard" Castle maine." "I'm not iU." "Well, out of spirits. A week at the Vargraves' would set you up. Y'ou are so mod without Gerard, aud I'm sure he would gladly spare you. I think," added my mother archly, "that your cousins are beginning to grow jealous of Grace." "Pooh! They needn't." "Are you sure, Hal?" "Quite sure. I say, mother, I don't waut to go to London." But all the time it was borne in upon me that it would be better for me to go away for a little time. So at last I settled down to leave home. It was a very stormy day when I star ted for town. - it 19 atoul m ttm Iiuuts run from us to London, aud I set out by a train leaving at four, which was due at the terminus about nine. The station-master who had reserved me a first-class smoking compartment, re marked to me as he locked ine in "It's going to be a regular October gale, Mr. Shirley, sir." " "All right, Dobson," I answered; "I don't expect the train will be blown oS the metals." "No, sir. How's Mr. Castleiuaine, sir?" "Oh, coming on finely! We shall have him on horseback by the first meet or the Nether Hall bounds." "That's well, sir;" and touching his hat, Dobson went off. Suddenly my attention was attrac ted to a gentleman standing by a car riage window and talking to a lady in side. They were about six compart ments beyoud me; aud 1 saw at once that they were Mr. and Mrs. Fairholme. So they were going on the same train with me! Just then the station-bell sounded, aud the train began to move. Doctor Fairholme stood back waving his hand aud smiling. He had eviden tly been seeing bis wife off aud I was in the same tiaiu with the woman I was going to Ioudon to escape! At the first big station where we stopped I could not resist the temptation of getting out aud walking up au4 down with my cigai, sendiug side-glauces at the window where she sat. On again past hedges aud fields, meadows aud orchards regular Ku glish midland scenery. Another slop! There was au awful crash, aud 1 was violently burled across the carriage and back again ou to the door. 1 felt a stinging, Winding gust of sleety rain ou my face and heard a fearful grind ing crashing sound iningled with screams, shouts, aud grans. My com partment seemed pretty well wrecked. It was jammed into no particular shape aud the rain was entering through the shattered window. Through this hole I managed to wriggle, and came out on such a scene of horror as I pray I may never see agaiu. 1 sent up a silent thauksgiviug for my own safety, and then 1 thought of Mrs. Fairholme. Frantically 1 rushed, to her carriage. It was empty they had lifted out the passengers. I ran a!ong the bank, heedless of rain and wind, my one idea being to find her. Presently I saw a small dark figure of a woman, hatless and dishevelled, seated alone on a pile of planks. Her handkerchief was held to one side of her face she was motion less. I rushed towards her, and ' she half turned as I bent over her. "Oh," she said falteringly, lifting a sheet white face to mine, "Mr. Shirley! Thank heaven I" "You are hurt?" I asked, trying to control my voice to speak quietly. She bowed her head in answer. She could not speak; her lips were blue and quivering with pain. "Your head?" 1 said as I substituted my handkerchief for her own which was soaked with blood. "No that Is nothing. My oh, my side!" with a gasp and sob of agony. "I'll take you to the station," said I rising hastily. "Oh, don't go away, Mr, Shirley, for Heaven's sake!" "I'm only going to get something to protect you from this fearful rain; I shall not be gone one minute. Wait for me!" I darted back to the wreck of my carriage, and succeeded in dragging out my thick gray rug. 1 returned to ber; she could hardly speak; I think the fright had been too much for her. I wrapped her in the rug and simply lifted her In my arms like a baby. I could hear her quick sobbing breath close to my ear. The tears were run ning down my owa Mliet ""CSr k was such untold agony ta see bv Ju?er. f carried her to the station. It was a little miserable place, and the waiting rooui and even the station-master's own roms were already full of ghastly suf ferers. I could not let her be there iu that stilling unhealthy air. "Where is the nearest house?" 1 ask ed of a porter. "There's a farm house a quarter of a mile on straight along the road," he said. "They'd take you in there." What was I to do? How could I eairy her a quarter of a mile? Suppose I weie to drop down exhausted? She might die of exposure! But 1 could not keep her here among all these poor wreUhes. Sue faltered out somethiug about be ing such a weight, aud implored me to leave her and go ou alone. 1 laughed gently and bade her not talk, ouly tell me if I hurt her bruised side. I stag gered ou. It was almost dark. I was stiff and bruised from my own knock ing ubout, and the heavy wind blinded me contiuua'ly. By the greatest mercy we met a cart, aud the mail lu it prov ed to be the farmer from the very farm we weie bound for. It was a tiny place, with no accom modation; but the kitchen was clean, aud the farmer's wife, a very old wo niau. made Mrs. Fairholme lie on the black horsehair sofa, bathed her head, plastered up her cuts, with my assis tance, gave her a mess of gruel, aud covered her up warmly. She dared uot put her to lied, as she cried aud moan ed dreadfully if her side was touched; and 1 saw that the ouly thing to be done was to walk to the town two miles fart bet ou and get a d.ictor. She seemed terrified at the idea of my leaving her; but I did not kuow what else to do. The old farmer however calmly told me that I should have my walk for nothing; there was but one doctorUa the town, and he was certain to hava been fetched to the station by thistlq&e. "Coold one telegraph from the town?" I asked. No: there was nothing to be done but wait till the morning. I reflected that the nevrs of the accident would reach home as soon as any telegram, and I felt certain that Frank Fairholme would come 0 by the first train he could. At UsU, what with fatigue aud the hot fire aftur the exposure to rain and cold, I fell asleep in my uucomfoi table wood en chair. When I awoke, the first streaks of dawn were creeping in through the window. I sat up with a start. Surely the love and agony aud horror of the past uitfht were all a dream I should wake in my comfortable smoking car riage or in my room at the Vargraves'! No; I was still sitting, cramped, stiff, aud acheiug, ou the wooden chair, aud oposite to me was Mrs. Fairholme. The old woman had gone to call her husliand to get the cart ready to drive me to the station. We were alone to gether, and Mrs. Fairholme's deep eyes were wide open and fixed on me. 1 started up aud walked to the window, feeliug that I was "a perfect objec" af'eri- yelling night, -As I stood ...r.i. ..e't-T finowit through tujr uukti locks, I beard steps behind me. She had risen, and crossed the room with evi dent difficulty. "Mr. Shirley " "Oh, please lie down!" was my ele gant rejoinder, as though I were sjieak ing to an ordinary stranger. "But I waut to thauk you so so much for saving me " "It was nothing," I said with a help less feeling of despair. "It was a great kindness; aud I am better. 1 think I am ouly badly bruis ed and shaken. Oh, do let me thank you!" Her left hand was laid over mine. Where was the wedding ring? ItcoulJ not surely have fallen off during the accident! Just then something in the d-ep eyes made my heart give a sudden throb. Carried away by au impulse 1 could uot explain, 1 threw my aim round her and turned ber head full agaiust Uie light of the early sunrise. Her eyss were gray deep gray, they had been brown that morning ou the porch I could swear it! "Tell me," I said with trembling voice, while she looked up at me half fearfully "who are you? Tell me quickly!" "1 ain Ethel Fairholme." "Are you married? Are you Fair holme's wife?" "Married? Xo; I'm his sister!" My senses seemed to reel; but still I could not understand. "But I saw you that day iu the porch when I came to call; you wore a weddiug-iiug and had brown eyes! ' "It was uot I whom you siw. I never knew you had ever been lu the house. Oh" with a sudden ' look of comprehension "it was Mabel you sa !"' "Who is Mabel?" "My sister. She is married to our eousiu Grautley Fairholme. He is a sailor, and, now that he is away ou a voyage, Mabel keeps house for Frank aud me." "Then he your brother is not married?" "On. no. Frank is not married! Mr. Shirley!" this was a dt-licate hint for me to withdraw my arm, which was round her all this time. "One more question," I pleaded. "It was you, was it not that I drove home in the brougham?" She laughed softly, a little saucily too. "Was it I or Mabel?" she asked. "It was you," I answered rapturous ly. "Oh, my little darling Ethel, how happy you have made me! Last night everything seemed darkness; but to-day everything seems light! Your Frank will marry Gracie " "Are you not engaged to Miss Cas tleinaine?" she broke in. "I? No not a bit of it!" Oh. poor Frank! How delighted he will be! He thought you must be, as she has been so cold to him lately. Are you Bure you are not at least iu love with her?" Quite sure," I answered. The tun had risen by this time aud was shining on my little Ethel's tired sweet face and aureole of golden hair. The old farmer was leading round the cart to take me to the station. In the next room we heard his wife rattling the pots and pans. "Quite sure," I repeated, as, won dering at my own boldness, I took the dainty cheeks between my two hands and gazed into the perfect face. "I was uot in love with any one at all; 1 was just a lifeless fellow, with no object in the world but to amuse myself, until " . "Until what?" 1 "Until I took a certain drive in Doc tor Fairholme's brougham. " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is Muuta CrutJt Across the beautiful bay from the city an hour or such a matter is the famous lie d'lf, on which is the famous State prison which Dumas made famous by his immortal romance of Monte Criato. Everybody knows the founda tion of the novel. Eduiuud Dantes, a young master of a vessel sailing from Marseilles aud betrothed to Mercedes, falls iuto a trap laid by a powerful lover of the girl, aud is accused of conveying letters from the mperor Napoleon, then confined at Elba, to his partisans at Marseilles. He is entirely innocent, but bis accuser is powerful iu the gov ernment, and poor Dantes is toru from the arms of his love and hurried to the Castle d'lf. The young sailor was immured here for years, and had given up all hoie of ever again seeing the outside world, when one day he was surprised to hear a scratching noise ou the other side of the wall of his duu geou. He answered it, aud found that it came from an old abbe who had also been coufiued iu the prison for years, aud who was digging a hole through the wall, not knowing or caring what the irsult might be. A few days suf ficed to widen the aperture so that they could converse, and the result was the abbe, who was well nigh gone with years, coutlded to D.iutes the secret of the Isle of Monte Cristo. near Naples, where fabulous wealth was concealed. The abbe immediately expired, and Dautes determined to make a b ,1,1 stroke for lilierty. The custom was to envelop dead bodies in a sack and throw them over the precipice into the sea at night. Dautes pulled the corpse of the dead ahbe iuto his cell through the oieuing and enveloped himself in the sack, secreting a knife about bis person. The two soldiers came at the proier hour, curried the supposed Abbe, but really the living Dantes, to the preci pice aud threw it over. The moment he struck the water Dautes liberated himself with his knife aud swam to a rock in the neighborhood there are pleuty of them and escaped by a mir acle. As every w here else, the people now iu charge of the islaud and the disused prison have made the most of the celeb rity that Dumas' great' work gave the place. They have selected two duu geous as the identical ones occupied by the ahbe and Dautes! They dug-the hole libetweeu them, and you are shown the cells aud the opeuiug as though the great novel was a historical fact in stead of the revelation of the most wonderful romancer France has yet produced. However, it might have happened ; the islaud is simply a rock iu the sea, its summit crowned with a prison as borjible as one could imagine. There are cells below cells. There are duu geous into which the rays of the blessed sun never peneliate. There are others through which all the light there ever is is what may come through a narrow slit iu the thick walls, aud it is situated so, that escape any other way Uiau that svrfitej by Diiroas wouil be Iwpos. sibie. As it was used as a pricou of state during the old regime, and by the He public afterwards, a great many trage dies have taken place within its walls, which still show mementoes. Mira beau was coufiued here for a loug time, a brother of the King of Holland was was here for twenty years, till death re lieved him, "detained," as the records say, "by request of the king." The brother was probably troublesome, aud kings were iu the habit of obliging each other in this way. He was safe euongh here. Now It is entirely unused, the place being iu the guardiauship of a dozen invalid soldiers aud au old woiuad with a handsome daughter, who make a living by exhibiting the place aud re tailing the lies that others have invent ed. They have cut the great story of Dumas dowu to a very fine point, aud they have photographs of the good old abbe and Dautes, aud au eugraving of the escape, all of which you are urged to purchase. Whether you invest iu illustrations of the fertile bralu of Du mas or uot, you must drink a bottle of very bad wine or beer, aud you must likewise disburse a franc or two for their services. This, however, is the best use the hoary old record of crime was ever put to. U11 Oil Cloth M4a. The palette of the artist who paints the bright figures upon oil cloth is a! rouud revolving table, about teu feet iu diameter, with checks of red, yellow, brown and other colors in a row around the edge. The artist's brush is a block eighteen inches square. There may be seven colors iu the pattern. If so, he uses seven blocks. Bound whisks the big circular palette, down presses the block, "thump, thump, thump," goes the iron mallet, aud the ochre aud the vermillion are impressed ou the burlap. The fouudatiou of the goods is burlap made of jute. All of it. is Imported from Duudee, Scotland. It is a coarse, gauzy, substance. You can easily see through it. Its first treatmeut is starch ing. It runs ever twenty -two steam drums, aud is thoroughly impregnated with the pioca. Then the ground paint-is put ou a brown or perhaps a tan color. The best goods receive seven coats of paiut. After each coat, the cloth goes through flnnrintr Tnaj'hlne. which works the ! paint in and smooths it. Then the prin ters take the cloth and stamp tne ugures on it. The printer stands before a table on which the cloth is laid. Each color is put on separately. . A block contain ing the lines for all the red used in the pattern is laid on the thin bed of paiut on .the revolving palette, above descri bed, and then carefully stamped on the cloth. The first impression leaves the j skeleton of the figure. I When the artist has turned his palette around once, all the six or seven colors have been stamped on the piece, aud the patterns appears in its entirety. Then the cloth Is moved forward and the pro cess Is repeated for another row of figures. The blocks are made of rock maple. Printing is an operation that requires nicety of touch and experience The printers are paid by the piece. A go d man can print three 3 yard pieces in a day. After having teen priuted, the cloth goes to the "bakery," where i It is hardened by being dried on racks in a hot room. I he next process is varnishing and the last is trimming. It is six or eight weeks after the burlap is starched before It is well hardened aud packed for shipment. A St Lns woman bung out a sign reading: "Eminently respectable rooms to rent," and they remained empty lor some months. Nobody wanted anything above fair to medium. Trawektnc a ISotf. Thestage coach was little better than a huge covered box mounted ou springs. It had neither glass windows, nor door, nor steps, nor closed sides. The roof was upheld by eight posts which rose from the body of the vehicle, aud the body was commonly breast-high, trom the top were hung curtains of leather, to be drawn up when the day was fine, and let down and buttoned wheu rainy and cold. Within were four seats. Without was the baggage. Fourteen pounds of luggage were allowed to be carried free by each passenger. But if his portmanteau or his brass-uail-stud-ded hair trunk weighed more, he paid for it at the same rate per mile as he paid for himself. I'nder no circum stances, however, could he permitted to take with him on the journey more than one hundred and fifty pounds. Wheu the baggage had been all weighed aud strapped ou the coach, wheu the horses had been attached and the way bill made out, the eleven passengers were summoned, and clambormg to their leits through the frout of the stage, sat iown with their faces toward the dri ver's seat. Ou routes where uo compe- :itiou existed progress was slow, aud the :he travelers were subjected to ali mau uer of extortiou ami abuse. "Brutality, aegligeuee, aud filching," says oue, "are as naturally expected by people iccustomed to traveling in America as 1 mouth, a uose and two eyes are look Hi for iu a man's face." Another set ut one day iu March, I'M, to go from Freuchtowu to New Castle, on the Delaware. Seventeen miles separated .he two towns, a distance which he leclares, a good healthy man could have massed over in four hours and a-haif. The stage coach took six. When it anally reached New Castle it was hign 0011, he tide was making, the wind was fair, and the boat for Philadelphia was ready at the wharf. Yet he was detained an hour and a-half, "that the innkeeper might scrub the pas:'ngers aut of the price of a dinner." Dinner )ver, the boat set sail and run up the river to within two miles of Gloucester Poiut, There wind, aud tide failing, the vessel dropped anchor for the uighL Some assengers, anxious to go ou by laud, where forced to pay 1 alf a dollar each to lie rowed to the shoie. At one in the morning, the tide again turned. But the master was drunk, aud wheu se could be made to understand w hat was said, the tide was again ebbing, and the boat aground. Evening came tiefore the craft reached Philadelphia. The passengers wers forty -eight hours m board. Another came from New York by stage aud by water, lie was iluiost shipwrecked in the bay, lost some of his baggage at Auiboy, was nearly left by the couth, and passed tweuty hours going sixteen miles ou the Delaware. The captain was drunk. The boot three times collided with ves sels coming up the river. A gentleman set out iu February to make the trip from Philadelphia to Baltimore. Just leyiid Havre de Grace the axle bruL?. A cart w fain-ii mI ifie passengers dtiveu to the uext stage-inn. There a new coach was obtained, which, in the evening overset in a wood. Toward daylight the whole party, iu the midst of a shower of raiu aud snow, found shelter and breakfast at a miserable house three miles from Baltimore. But the host would not suffer oue of them to dry his clothes by the kitchen stove. When an editor iu the towu was asked to publish an account of their trip he refused. The owners of the coach-line might, he said, hinder the circulation of his newspaper, loadd to the vexation of such delays "The Apostolic Assem bly of the State of Delaware" had fcrbiddeu stage coaches to cross their "hand's breadth of territory ou the Sabbath. The wol-t bit of road 111 the country seems to have been between Elk ton, in Maryland, aud the Susque hanna Fen . There the ruts were so deep that, as the w heels were about to enter oue, the driver would call upon the passengers to lean out of the oppo site side of the coach, to prevent the vehicle beingloverturued. "Now, gentle men," he would say. "to the right." "Now gentlemen, to the left." Yet auother traveler had quitted Philadelphia for .e York. All went smoothly till the coach drew near to the town of Brunswick. There one of a rival line was overtaken, and a race began. At Elizabethtowu a young woman, well mounted, rode up behind the coach and attempted to pass. In au instant half the men ou the stage began to revile her most shamefully, raised a great shout, frightened her horse, and all but unseated her. She, indeed ventured . to expostulete. But be was quickly silenced by the question, "What! suffer anybody to take the road of us?" At New York three of the pas sengers found lodgings in a single room at an inn. The custom was a general one; and of all customs was the most offensive to foreigners. No such tlmig, it was said, was ever seeu in the British Isles. There evry decent person not ouly had a bed, but even a room to him self, aud, if he were so minded, might lock his door. Iu America, however, the traveler sat dow n at the table of his landlord, slept iu the first bed he found empty, or, if all were taken, lay down ou oue beside its occupant w ithout so much as asking leave, or caring who the sleeper might lie. If he demauded clean sheets, he was looked upon as an aristo crat aud charged well for the trouble he gave; for the bedclothes were changed at stated times, aud not to suit the whims of travelers. CliMiQK Looilon Tuwr. The Tower of LouJou is locked up every night at eleven o'clock. As the clock strikes that hour the yeoman por ter, clothed in a long red cloak, bear lug a huge bunch of keys and accompa nied by a warder carrying a lauteru, stands at the frout of the main guard house and calls out, "Escort Keys." The sergeant of the guard and five or six men then turn out and follow him to the outer gate, each sentry challeng ing as they pass with. "Who goes there?" the answer, "Keys." The gates being carefully locked and barred, the procession returns, the sentries ex acting the same explanation au 1 receiv ing the same answer as befoi e. Arriv ing once more at the front of the main guard-house, the sentry gives a loud stamp with his foot and asks,- "Who goes there?" "Keys." "Whose keys?" "Queen Victoria's keys." "Advance, Queen Victoria's keys, and all's well." The yeoman porter then calls out "God bless Queen Victoria!" to which' the guard responds, "Amen." The officer orders, "Present arms," and kisses the hilt of his sword, and the yeoman por ter then marches alone across the parade and deposits the keys in the lieutenant's lodging. SEWS IX BRIEF. Goethe has no living male descen dant. In Boston it costs -'5 42 to educate a child. Patti has a suit of sables costing JlU.IXJO. Ireland is to have a second electric railway. Three Georgia weeklies are edited by ladies. Southern prisons contain 12,000 convicts. Idaho w ill build a capitol at a cost of ??),0u0. Camels sometimes live to the age of louyeais. Drivers iu Paris are vry cruel to their horses. Incendiarism appears to be on the increase. Minneapolis charges il.i.lXl for a circus license. Fully i.OuO Mormons settled la Arizona last year. A gas well is l,2ix feet down through Milan, O. There's good slethlug yet in the Michigan woods. Louis XI V-'s throue has been sold at auction for i.'i0. As many'as i't fire engine attend a large fire in Ixiudou. Leather wheels are ina.leiu Prince for railway carriages. I.ast year 3X!,02t,oOO oue cent pos tal cards were issued. The wheat crop of Italy amounted to 1U,000,UUO bushels. A wholesale dog poisoning is in progress in Richmond, Ind. Burning charcoal is a leading in dustry iu North Alabama. New York is suffering with au epi demic of amateur theatricals. Omaha. Neb., claims to be the best paved city m the L'uited States. Graut will get better now. One of his doctors has gone to Europe. A gypsy dance was a brilliant feat ure of the Kimieiis iu Baltimme. The number of Colleges iu the United States is set dowu at .'fTil. Dr. Glenn, the California wheat king, is said to be worth SJ,UUU,0UO. Paper is now used iu the manufac ture of ie.id pencils instead of cedar. Garmany contemplates a gr and ex hib.tion of German industry iu ls53. Many white people patroulze the Chinese theatres 111 Catlforniaa cities. Maik Twain's "reading" tour is said to have netted him nearly $j0,0OU. No more "slugging" matches are to be permitted in Stockton, Califor nia. Vienna ha ten times as many doc tors in proportion to population as Lou Jou. The manufacture of broom coru toothpicks is a growing Kansas industry- . ... - An uoer m- IJ.iaai bas Uwu ui&Je for a copyright of General Gordon's dU ary. A Leetouia, O., citizen is convales cing from having been walked ou by a mule. It is said that William II. Vauder bilt has not used tobaaco fo thirty years. The interest bearing national debt of Great Britain iu l-?4 was t j,20u. 0u3,0u0. In 1S84 6),uoo,0oi gallons of water were used iu extinguishing fires iu Loudon. It is stated that Queu Victoria has arranged to visit Ireland next autumn. A statue of Gai field, to be erected at San Francisco, has bee cast at Nu remberg. Steel nails are destined to super sede the use of the oidinary nail in a few years. A natuial ice cave is. repotted to exist o miles east of tall Kivei Valley in California. The electric light is to be used ou all trains runuuig through the St.Goth- ard tunnel. Out of ihe vwrd "incomprehensi bility" a Connecticut lady made 2,2ii different words. Earthquakes iu North Japan are more numerous and severe in winter than in summer. The manufacture of artiiicial ivory from bones aud scraps of sheepskin is a new industry. The Earl of Selkirk, who died very rich lately, left a year's salary to all employed ou his estate. Extensive forest tires are raging la Cainptoti, N. II.. aud much piue lum ber has been destroyed. Russian exports to England amount to over one million pounds for the first quarter of lSrfo. Even iu Dakota the farmers are growing tired or grain farming and advocate mixed husbandry. Youths under 20 years of age are) uot permitted to carry dangerous wea pons under Nevada's laws. The stealing of a whole saloon out fit was the offense with which a uaa was rec.-utly charged iu Fittsbuig. Rowdyism ou tiie river Thames 1st decreasing, owing to the employment of an increased 1 iiinlicr of police boats. Oue of the best I.atin and Greek scholars in Athens, Ga., Is working for seventy cents per day sodding soma land. A steamboat propelled by a kero sene engine has been licensed to run ou the St. John s river and other Florid waters. A street railway (probably the only International one in the world) connects; Paso del Norte, Mex., with El Paso, Texas. Natural gas has been discovered iu Xagasema-gori, Chin ken. Japan. Ex periments made showed that it burned brightly. A pair of English sparrows hava built their nest within the glass shade of one cf the electric lights in Bridge port, Conn. English hansom cabs have been in troduced Into St. Ixiuis, and are ex pected to revolutionize the transit busi ness of that city. A convict recently pardoned from the San Quentin (Cal) prison is repor ted to have fallen heir to three quarters of a million dollars. Numerous works by Leonardo da Vinci are in the possession of the Ital ian goverument,and are to be published at the State's expense. Females wof? this year ail the prizes given by the University of Mississippi, which only a comparatively snort tuna ago opepM its doors to the gentler sex.
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