El StiltlS OF Al) ERTISING Ono Sqoaro one insertion, • For each subsequent insertion.. For No extant. Advertisements, Leg.' Notices lirotbs• hi . ..al Cards withoutpapeY, Obituary Not ...is an (Jo nmuntcs don. rul ti ug o [mate sot pri vet. interests ab.ne, 10 cents par line. lUQ PRINPI , aI.—Our Job Prlntlng Office Is the argest a-id most c ouplets establishment In the y. Four good Presses, and a general variety of material suited for plain and Fancy work of every iln t, co shies us to do Job Printing at the she. test notice, lad nn the 111,9 L reasonable terms. Persons in wan it Lillis, B sinks, or anything In the Jobbing •sill Cal it no their interest to give us a call. 0110111 -11`DV111fltiCill. U S. GOVERNMENT PrOSldellt, ANDREW JOHNSON, VICO PI osl.lunt, S Fo•Tra, Secretary of Stu te—W 51. lI.SEWARD, So rotary of Interior— lAS II 4111,N, ,SoerAEllr, of Treasury—Mum 'LILLOCU, Secretary 0 I War— I owls 11. STINToN, gueretury of Navy—Gun:oN Po,t Mastor Clut.eral— \NM DENNISON. ...ortoy Oenural—.l OMR S. SPEED. lldaf J ustlce of the Lint' u I Statos—SALMoN P. CHASE. STATE GOVERNMENT. • 00,,,,rnor—ANuitt.w G. CL S..cre ,try of atate--ELt SLIFER, Surveyor Gent.ral— I . Bonn, tiCnr 110110 , 31-1(41.AC Z;LF.NKER, St:. trot: lanai-al—Ws. M. MEREDITH. tjutant General—A L Itosaut, State Treasurer—MESHY D. :MonnE. ChiolJu tke of tho Supreme Court—GEo. W.Woon WARD COUNTY OFFICERS. It GT:l'mm. Judgt..—Gon. coodin, Urn II ugh 'Atuart Dl:truct A torney--.1. w. 1).01110143u. 111ot:try—Samuel 'Ahlretnati CI ,r/4 nn f• It•o trier— Cornman Ruaister—Con W. North Cu,o ty Treasurer—llenry S. Ritter. Cor tnor huith County Contittlasioners—ilenry Karns, lob N 'ny. titeholl Suporintend.dnt of Pont. If; u.e—llenry Snyder. • Phygielan to .loll—Ur, W. W. Daly. Physician 0 Poor flange—Dr. IV W. Dale. BOROUGH OFFICERS Chief . 11urgess—.1..1,, t'a mpUcll I=l Town , 'ouncll—P.ast 11-1.1—.1. II D. Gillelen, An dre, B. i¢lrr, l leo. I. Phis. U. 11, , lier, Barnet Hoffman. It ert n a rd— A I rot John Ilia s, "tobt M 11Iark, S. 0. Hillman (ht, .‘I nasonlialnulor • Borough Treasure, , Dint i(i n. 1110) Coustnblo!, Erna:tutu!Sw.tr.z, 0:11(1 Constables. Earl Ward, Andrew 31arill,.''Wo,t nat d. James Wid nor Assessor—n - 011am Nnaker. M= liiilrew Kerr, Ward Cieleetorx—East Ward. Jae, h ilood, ear West A aril, II II %lilliarns Street Cointnlsqlsia. r. Patrick Madden Joi Ica; of Chu l'ea,e— insler, David Smith, Abrai Nllchael Holcomb Lamp Lighters—Alex. Meek, Levi Albert. ciiul CIII;~ First l'reslq terian Chuffrh, sorthrvesl angle of (len tre Square. Rev C./.ls•a) I'. .—z 4 ervlees every Sunday 11,ning at 11 u'el..c.k, A J. and 1 O'CiOCK P. M. Secoti I Preeoyleriali Chun 1,. rirtner id romtl l over nod Pomfret Itreele Rev. .loon Pastor yowlers rmunu•nrr at II o'eloe', A \I • and 7 o'e/ork I'. NI. St..hohn'a Epia,a,pal) northeast angle of Centre , quaru. Itev. Y toter , a.ttl ti Nl. I:ulish Lutheran Chnn 11, Iletirer.l. between )leln stet Loulhnr streets bev ~.11. 1 ,Ipre,er. Pastel. t..4,- Ylee. at II ...eleek A AI., and n!.:, 'clod: 11. M. lier Lil JAI itel.•ruvevi Church, Luitilur.„ !Jelvvve.., 11115 nvor xn 1 Pitt si roots. 11,.. S,stiliol Philips, Past,' ortio at. 11 51111 5; n'olorli I' 11. )1 .; it Chu,h (first rharg, 1 corner of 'lu lu situ Pitt. chII.11:1S 11. Pastor. SVISIC , , It !I :I . l'l, I A. )1.. and 7 o'clock I' )1. E C 1111,1 1 .4 11.1 1,11,1 rhar_e,) Rev ; 4 . I, :I•l‘lt . l.,llll . :tilury NI F. ChUrrh :0 I o'clock N. NI., aad 2 )I. Church ut 64.1,11 . .'tTe 1 :south kCest ,s)r 01 11 est t ., t Hee 13. H lieek, 1 . 2t,t0 . Set, 'l, at 11 a, m..:1,1 nl th,l iv Church Ihunfrut near Eagt;it Past, rvrry ()their :sub MEE ,pers ut :t P. I=l3 , 70,11\11 Ci corner f Pomfret arid tlaltt - .1 ~trattts. Itev U rrilty, Cast., Serb ha, at 1 (o'clock P. 101. ‘V hen v1131140s in t nro nrwessnry the rot), iwrg. s are 1 1 , n..tif3 us. EMI , ICIINBoN CULLEU4 14v I7ur iuc :11..1111tusutt, D. D. Presid u. luta Dn.,. of r ti Sri unro. ,1,1,11, A. pr..ft,sor to Natural S'i.•uru the ‘I u...• Roy. Wlitiatit I, 13..,,.11. .1 %I ("rook tlortn in LAugatteos. li nay' I) Ilillto,ii, A. NI., Probe nor of NlAl,lo.mat John IC Staym in, A , Prolesse. of the bath. and French Languages. I-I in .lanes LL D , Prelessor of Law. Iter Ilenry C. C11,411)11, A. 11 Principal of the Grammar rch no 1. John flood, Assist:lid in the Grammar F.cloitil TIIE ,N 1 Commits - nt.'s t 'Cho Itoctor, NN ttr lens rind Vestrymen of lotion (Mutat t nrlislu Th., Rev. F. Clem. en •tssl . tlllll TrOtlSUrer. NIrF bum It t-nnoy.l. lumps! Miss \. E. Donltcr-n , I ,Fto octor in Mtn., ttagss \I ins 1.. L obster. I ttstructor inn and V,cal ti Oslo Mrs NI. V Ege. Tuncltet of Minus Vt.. F.. lira! :MI 115111,15.1 of, I suing nod Pointing. Iton Plit•lps, Lect met on I.l.toution and Psychol- BOARD OF sell()01, DIRECTORS o.lrlllll ro. Presoleut. James 11 rotator', It C. Woodward, floury e‘istium. Ilumerich, Saet'y ..1 W. rret..uror, John aphAr. 'les-roger. Meet no the let Moodar ot each Month nt h o'clorlc A. . at Eday.ttioll 11311. CORPORA (lONS CVILLISLE NI( —Pre , liletit, le. Mler' son; Hugslet. lelle,r, L A. •nuth null M • A. Cox; Nlo,setiget. ; Dirretors. U. M C. Wociiiivarti. John D. Ilor gas, luhu Stuart. jr.. Henry Sidles Wooilliuru..l. Flair N krl 1 . •1 Sh.—Vrovldd.ll. Samuel Ilepburn Ca tiler. Jos C Ihdrer, Abner C. Brind.e, 11es se ger, Jesse Brawn Win liar, .14.1111 Dunlap. hich'd IVoods, John C. Dunlap, :vane Brenneman, John S. Sterrett, Snail 11-Tburn, Directors. CI.I , IIIe.IILANO VAI.LLV It kILItioAD COItPIA V.—President, Frederick Watt, :. , ecrutar and Tteasurur, Edward 31. di Hie: stipetinte.alent.'o. N. Lull l'esavngo trains three times a day Carlisle Aeconium at lon Ev.itwvrd, leitVoB Carlkle u 55 A. 31., arriving at Car lisle 520 I'. 11. Through trains EvstwArd,lo.ll.l A. 11. and 2 12, P. NI. West ward at 11.27, A. NI., end 2.59 P. 11. C UILIf3I.E. (3 AS AND W Al Ell COMPA NY.—President. Lem uel Todd; Treasurer, A. L. Spon.ler; superintuf. en, lieorge Wise: Directors, F. Watts, Wtn. Al. liestenit E. NI. Biddle, Henry Saxton. It. C. Woodward, .I.'W. Patton, K. .ardner and D. 9, Croft. SOCIETIES Cumberland :its! Lodge No. 197, A. Y. M. meeKtel Marlon Ilan on the Sad and 4th Tuesdays of 9:very month. St John's Lhasa Nu. 2SO A. Y. M, , Meets 3d Thurs day of each month, at Marion Hall. Carlisle Lodge No. UI I. it of O. F Meets Nionday evening, at 'I rout's building Letort Lodge No. tl3, I. U nt CI T. 21Nap every Thursday evening in It heem's lAlll, Bcl story, FIRE COMPANIES,' The Union Fire Company trn• orgaolzad In 1789. Home, in Louther between l'ittand Hanover. The Cumberland Fire Comnary was Instituted Feb 18, 18011. [louse In Badford,"tutwoon Maln and Fund frat. The Good Will Firo Company was Instituted In March, 1855. House in Pomfret. mar Hanover The Empire [look and Ladder Company wastes tu tee in 1859 (louse In Pitt. near Maln. RATES OF POSTAGE Postage on all lettors.of gnu half ounce weight or under.'t cents pre wild. POstagA on the [JERALD within the County, free. Within the State 18 cents por annum. To any part of the Untied States, 26 cents Postage on all Iran ale it mers. 2 cents per ounce. Advertised lettere to bo charged with coat of advertising. MRS. R. A. SMITH'S Photographs, Ambrotypes, lvorytypee Beautiful'Albums Beautiful Framesl Albums far Lndlos and (lanthanum Albums f r Mbsqs. rt , d for Children Pocket - Albania for Soldiers and Cis'liana! Choicest Albania! Prettiest Albania! Cheapest Albums! FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS I , Froth and Now froni Now York and Philadelphia • Alarkete. I . ...you int.Satieraotory Pibturee and ' F vv polite attention call at Mrs. It. A. Stulth'S Photo graphic Gallery, South East orner bt Ilanover.Street and Market Square, opposite the Court House and Post Office, Ctrliele, Pa.. Mrs. It. A. Smith well known as Mrs. Ii A:Reynolds, and so well known as a Daguerrean Artist, gives per attention , to Ladies and Gentlemen visiting her Gallery, and having the best of Artiste' and, polite at tendants can safely promise that in no other Gallery can those who favor her with a call get pictures supu -1 for to hers, not even In New York or Yhiludelpilla, or most. with took- kind and prompt attention. . Ambrotypes inserted In Rings. Lockets ' Breast Pins, &o. Perfect copies Daguerrotypes and Ambrotypen made of decease'( friends.. Where copies ate defaced, II plcture4. ty still be had. either for triunes r for cards. All 11,7 4 ,1t1ven preserved otto year and orders by mail or othervriSepromptly attended to. - • December -23, likl-b—tf DR. WIU. H. COOK, 130MOHQPATHIC 'PHYSICIAN, Surgeqn and" ~Accpuchon - ()ITIOE at residence in Pitt street, adjoining the Methodist Church.. • J:s 1• 864 .• . • $1 OD DO 215 00 4 00 7 00 VOL. 65. RHEEM & WEAELEY, Editors & Proprietors A TALE OF TITE SC A RBOROUGH I don't know why there should be something pleasantly suggestive about a staircase ; but there is. A nice wide staircase, on whose carpet your foot makes no sound, and against whose bal ustrade you might have leaned some hot night years ago, talking,•with a fan or a boquet in your hand, and a companion in gossamer listening to you: Perhaps your words meant very little indeed in reality; but the chances were that they would be heard .again in dreams when you were faraway. and remembered them no inure. You couldn't help putting into them more than you felt; time and place and surroundings were to blame flu- that, not you. And it was -.so stifling in the crowded rooms up therembove People thronged and jostled caeh other without mercy ; whilst here and there was space and qiiiet, pleasantly broken by the dis tant music ; and you could talk of the parting which might be for ever, and lower your voice. and fin• the moment half persuade yourself that here was . your fate. Thus you might have stood, as my. friend Captain Halph Gahm' is standing to-night on that friendly staircase. look ing down upon the thick carpet under his feet, and won .ering. with a vague sense of irresponsibility, what he shall say next, and what will conic of it. Mr - Gal o n i s b u t a c , ,entry ; , quire. and his captaincy is simply a y emnany cavalry affair; but he has a baronetcy in pro:, peel, and there is nothing countrified about hint. lie had been everywhere. and seen everphing. Ile is—or was,— a little tired ot the London season. A while hair or two might be seen prema turely gli!-tening in his hdaek, close cut lock -4, and no one would suspect the wealth of' strength and muscle in that arm which is trifling rather languidly with a lady's bminet of Imthouse flowers. - Lady Julia always leaves town hefore m , ust is over then r said Halton, just raising- his eyes to his companion's face. •\ nd this year she goes —North. I believe it will be Filey or Scarborough. )Thu know both places, of eintr , e = 'l'm ashamed to say no. I he in to think a man should see something of his own country before randding'over others. I'm sure you agree with me don't know. I shall he glad to get away frinn town; and mantilla like , going early. 111 take my thiwers eow, Mr. ton ; We hail better go hark ; they will wonder what h heCOIIIO Or lOC.' • Let them,' said li,rll h . Consider that it's all over fur Inc,' he added, rather incoherently, • and to look forward to no more meeting; like this, Miss Ten neat. What an nrld ihin, 2 it seems for people to conic into almost every-day can tact for a time, and then go their sepa rate ways and forget each other. Ito you know it's a little hard upon a fellow ?' Miss Tennent gave him a quick, puz zled glance, and laughed. • But I don't see why we shouldn't meet again sometimes. I suppose you'll be here when all the world is here, .).1r (;alton ?' No, I'm a rover. My cousin--you've heard of hint, I think; they call him the count—lays forcible hands on me and carries me off whither he will. He has sonic mad plan about Africa in his bead Never mind that, however. You say you are glad to get away to the corm try. Miss 'ferment. I don't think you'd like the country all the year round.' `Perhaps not,' said the young lady, dryly. • I've an idea, nevertheless, that I should hove made a very good farmer's daughter. But I'm not likely to try the country ; it wouldn't suit mamma ' MEI When the captain spoke next, they were Moving on into the-ball-room, and he still held the flowers. wish you'd give me one,' he said. ' 1)o. I'm not a sentimental man, but should like one of these. I'll jts. an augury that we shall meet again.' 4 %t And then a gentleman came up to claim Miss Tennent, and Ralph's chance was over. He stood a little while watch ing her, moodily. so absorbed in his own thoughts,, that he started when a voice at hie elbow accosted him familittrly ' Hipped, Galton ? Or— let me whis per it—caught at last -Poor old boy l I did think you were fire-proof A man ought to be, by Jove! in such au atmos phere as this. But Lady Jhliti doesn't do the thing badly, considering how poor they area 'Poor!', repeated Ralph, speculatively ~Pinched, very : and three daughters to get offilier hands. Look at her. Up• on niy word, I've a sort of admiralion for these indefatigable women. And has been handsome, too.' Now Mr Galion experienced a.sbnaa tion of delight ,at these "remarks. He hardly knew why, for a very little time ago be might probably haVe made them himself. He shook off the unwelcome critic, and passed on. He bad a great mind to alter his plans. He was ac- 'countable to no one,•he thought, p.their disnially. He was alciiie'leiliC''world, and his' own master;' what would. 4 mat • , . 40, -• i..c • . - ) iatfelltrtitinO, SEASON CHAPTER I. ON A STA IRCAS F; ter to anybody where he went or what he did ? More people in that room who knew him nodded to each other, and murmur ed that the captain with caught at last ; but inasmuch as these kept their opin ions quiet, they did not hurt him. Lady Julia herself had not been unmindful of him, nor of the little tableau on the taircase. It was true that she had three daughters, and, - was a care-worn, hard worked woman. Moreover, this one, Itive lyn, was the youngest, and as her Mother considered, the most -hopeless of the three. The poor lady thought of the baronetcy in prospect, and sighed out a great sigh of mingled hope and despair. They were" so very poor, and it was so difficult to keep up appearances and live like the rest of the world. And these ttt. homes,' which of course she must give for her daughters' sakes, did pull so heavily upon her lean purse. The annual visit to the sea side, too, was an indispensable outlay-. She could not be in London . when all the wo Id was rushing away from it. But here, too, that hard neces sity Tor economy had to be considered ; and when some kindly adviser went into raptures over Searffin-ough, and assumed that of course the fashionable south was the only part to be thought of', Lady Julia smiled a ghastly smile, and said that she dared not try it—the air was too relax ing thr the girls. Iler medical man had positively ordered the North Cliff. In deed, Lady •Julia herself needed bracing. She knew in her secret heart that this evening. from which she had hoped so much, utut.t be reckoned a failure, so far as the affairs of her youngest daughter wereconcertied. Evelyn might,' said her ladyship, with bitter irritation ; the game was in her own hands; I know she might have brought this tardy captain to the point ; and he will be Sir lialph—not that a baronet is much; but then lie is rich. I almost wish we were nut going away.' If Lady Julia could have known the thoughts which perplexed the brain of the country siluire that night, what a brilliant ray would have shot across her gloomy regrets and forebodimrs.. CHAPTER II 'l'll E COUNT 11L.MONSTIIA'rES I don't onden•tand thee, lialphomio Tall: of the attractions of this place— old to we ! Sitar! Will you.:-Inolie!' The :-.quire turned in his seat and took the offered eirar. • I like the place,' lie said; 'it's fresh; and you needn't have come; nobody , wanted you, that I know of'.' 'Flue gentleman of the case, a black-haired fellow, with a fine unim,-,tache. and a would-be Italian air ~lamt him, shrugged his shoulders slight ly, and puneturn.d the end of his cigar preparatory to lighting it. When this was necomplislued, he threw a glance over flue bay. far above which the two were lounging on an iron scat innonst the shrubs and flowers. Ile slurred over ;he shoals of white sails in the distance with :-erene contempt; they were prolw- Hy only in:-ignificant trading ve,sels; and then he came back to the pier and the little packet which- had got up its steam, and was scudding away Ibr Filep As to me, it matters little. I am rywhere, and everything, except sta tionary. But, Ralph°, think ,of Ischia and Bane. To us who have stood on Xiberio and seen the sunlight shine on Napoli and its blue bay ; on Alamfi; on —but what signifies talking? As little, as these Sicilians understand the admi. ration of the forestieri, which, neverthe less, they trade upon, can I comprehend this mad rush to a bleak northern rock and its chilly waters, unless ' IA ell, count, unless ? Suppose I were tired of wandering in foreign lands?: Non capito ' • Speak English, Dick, and don't pre tend}' said the countriAquire, brusquely. I shall not indulge you with that ficti tipus count any longer. It has got so habittial, that people will actually begin o tAelirve the scapegrace of his family a roil live count.' You are so energetic,' remonstrated the, count, feeblyk, 'so very English. Se riously, Ralpho, you introduced me last night to tt.Lady Julia something—forget what. A rather lean woman, you know, with daughters; one of them like a cap riote girl, only not so handsome. • There can be no attraction in that quarter, eh ?' Seriously, Dia,' retorted Ralph ; - wish. you would . become: a respectable member of society. Give •up the want derer, and settle down—marry, if any one will have you.' The count took his cigar from his lips? in speculative amazement A laic° inin, I possess a bare compe tency fir one. Look at me. Are these hands to work ? Is this restless soul to be still ? No, no, the fool • marries and settles down; the great hearted man trav els. Ile enlarges his experience; he learns front the wide open hook of human nature; he become's a god in his know ledge of good and evil; he is able to move men like puppets to - his • And then ?' said Ralph, with an, odd sert• of. pity in his tone;". and then he grows Old, antl-his friends; . if he haS made any, which is doubtful, fall' 'away,,,and his knowledge turns to bitterness, and7--' Carlisle, Pa., Friday, October 20, 1865 Ah, bab ! my good fellow, no croak. ing : commonplace. The best of life is but intoxication. Come, we will settle the Burton and Sprite controversy next. We will have a go at the Victoria Ny anza. Let us go at once, and give up the capriote ;i llalph,' said the count more earnestly, ' don't you know that you are a catch in the matrimonial Market-place? The lean woman knows it, my Pius Ene as. I have spoken. If this goes on, I shall feel compelled, as your cousin and fidus Achates, to win the young lady's affections myself, and stive you. h's. distressing .to think of, I know—a blight ed young heart—consumption, an early grave—but the fare ?' Captain Galton's lace flushed an angry red ; then lie broke into a laugh; for what use to be angry with the count ? Dick, you are an insufferable puppy, and worse But we have been friends. Don't force me to quarrel with you ' 'Who, I ? I - quarrel ? Ny dear boy, what for ? I. haven't the energy in we. By the way, en garde; cigars down.' The two gentlemen rose, and the wan dering count, Richard Calton, familiarly Dick, stood for a moment as a French man would stand with his hat in his hand, in the vain expectation of being told to return it to its natural position. Lady J ulia scarcely saw him. For Ralph her sweetest smile, her most cordial hand shake; for Ralph at first a charming flow of animated trifles, and then a slight ex pression of regret in answer to his polite inquiries after the two absent. daughters. Dear Evelyn wa not quite well, and Crace had remained indoors with her; but it was nothing; it N) ; uld pass .fff.— Most pi obttAy they should all enjoy to gether the eMing promenade at the Spa Delightful, was it not ? All the pleasure of lhe sea air combined with the attrac tions of' a concert room r. Calton would excuse Lady Julia now ; she was really obliged to pass on The count. looking after her ladyship, twinkled his Hick eyes as lie selected a fresh cigar, and said aloud. •Been, very keen. Never mind, Ralph°. We have been fellow-travellers too long to lie sep arated You will yet traverse with me the bo g s Of t - ganda, and stand euraptur ed on the shores of the mighty lake.' -Ralph never -heard- a word -he was lookim down into the short grass under Lis loot with a lazy half-smile on his lips. that told his cousin welhenough where his thoughts had wandered. Richard Halton sat back on the iron seat, and smoked sulkily. •It never shall be, if I can help it,' said this pntleman to himself 'ls my life to be mulcted of half' its lux urics for a dark faced ;41 with a gaunt mantilla ? No, Ralph° Lnio, I can L afford to lo,e thee. Pleasant company and a long purse—no, no ! CIL11"I'Ell 111 TIIE (ILIAII.1)'S WALTZ • Lady Julia :..at in the amphitheatre under the colonnade \yell screened from any draught A slim gentleman with 6 an olive complexion had secured this seat I'm- her, and Tie had been talking to her fur sonic time: one low languid voice amidst the general buzz, distinct only to the ear for which it was intended Lady du ia's eyes had wandered to the little pavilion wherein the band was stationed, and her •attention,, to all appearance, was fixed upon the rows of gas jets running round it ; the glittering chandelier and the musicians themselves. No one would have guessed, except, perhaps, her com panion, the suppressed anxiety which was hidden - under her smile as she list ened to the conversation of the slim gen tleman beside her. 'He was always an excitable fellow,' proceeded the latter, gently. A v6y good fellow indeed, very ; my nearest friend, in fact, as well as my cousin; but a confirmed rover, I fear, like myself, by this time.. You know how much we all become the creatures of habit.' I suppose so,' said Lady Julia, still smiling. 'But habits may be broken, you know.' o ,The oount shook his head 4 It might have been better, as you ob served just now, Lady Julia, if my cousin had settled down-early in life and become a steady counuy squire; bin that is all over now; it is too late. lam firmly con vinced that Ralph will never marry. As for , me; there - are no social considerations to 'affect my movements. • Lonely men, Lady Julia, naturally Seek to create fur themselves interests and pursuits in place of those which are denied to them. These may be but as paste to the diamond, I cannot say. I fancy in Ralph's positidn I might -have been different, yet you see how it is with him ; and after all, what a fins generous .follow- he is I Forgive me, however; it must seem egotistical in . me to parade my friood before you. ' Don't say so, Mr. Dalton. lam a believer in friendship. The world scam:- ly does justice to it.' A slight smile.purled the count's bleak' moustache, but he did not answer, for just then the 'Guards' Waltz'; struck np, and 'Lady Julia began to'spealy of the music.' Et' fell softly on other ears b.esides.those. of the'poor haragsed lady, jf indeed there Was any. softnele..in it- to .tier . ansinae. ' You remember where we heard that last,' said Captain Gabon; 'and the flow er you gave me. I said I'd keep it as an augury, and you' see we have met again. Miss 7 ennent, have I done something to offend you ?' He asked this with a sudden accession of bravery, for he had been disappointed This Was not the young lady who had stood with him on the staircase, but a chilly likeness of her. Ralph did not know why, but as he recoiled from the freezing politeness of her greeting, an angry, uneasy suspicion darted into his "mind, with the count for its object It was soon banished, howevc;r." ' As he asked that bold qiiestion, Ralph, leaning over the wall with his face seaward, was dimly conscious of all the surroundings, which: as part of a whole, seemed to come be tween driin and the answer. He saw the lights spring up in the little fishing smacks out on the bay,and heard the gentle slush of the water agains the wall as he leaned over it. Behind him there was a moving of chairs under the colonnade, and the buzz of a thousand voices, as the tulip bed of human beings sauntered in two distinct streams up and down; and, over all, mingling with other sounds and soft cuing them, the music of the • Guards' Waltz.' ,Ile waited patiently for Evelyn's answer, but it did not come. And all at once this pour foolish emptily squire felt his heart leap into his throat, and his pulses stand still at the light touch of a gloved hand on his arm He knew the next moment thtt, the action was uncon scions, and she was not thinking of him Gralton,' said Evelyn,' look there ' The moon had conic out from behind a cloud, at d threw down one long line of rippling glory to the edge of the bay. A fishingboat bloke the line ; a mass of black with silver light upon They could almost see the firm of' the fisherman stand . out in relief against the black shadow of his boat, and his red light shone like a watchfire in the whity'r radi anre. of the moonbeams. Ralph did look at all this. and from it he turned to his companion. • How small it makes one feel, doesn't tt ?: said Evelyn ; and what. a pour affdir all this ,qts and glitter behind us seems I wonder what the fisherman nut (here thinks of the quiet night, and the silver on his face. S'otiiing, perhaps. I should like to change places with him for five MEE= Mr. Gahm] did not answer. lie could not take his eves from her free, it was so changed. All the coldness was gone out 01 it, all the stiffness and propriety which had so irritated and disappointed him. Arid yet 't was with a little bang of re _gra that he tick nowl dged to himself how far away he was, individually, flout her th..ughts, and how little he had to do with the change. Fur the moment, he was simply one out of the mass of human beingS a sort of abstract comprehension to which her own insiinetively appealed Look round,' she went on, and listen. Thousands of lives, and every life a story ; who knows how hard some of those stories are? And then, hear the perpetual hush of the sea as its creeps up the shore. I've read that somew..ere ;us thou g h a pitiful patient hush" were all that, could be said to every struggling soul in its sorrow. But they won't be patient for all tl at. It. wakes one want to 'comfort people. I've an insane desire at times to break away over the rubicon and see if my hand can bind up no wound before I die ' You are thinking of Florence Night ingale?' ' Yes, I am, and of such as she was. Not that I could ever follow their steps. I rise no further than wisheseraptynnu profitless.' ' You are so young,' said the captain, uneasily. ' When you know a little more of the world—' The. world broke in Evelyn, with some bitterness. ' What world, Mr. Gal ton 7 you forget that this is my third sea son. NO ! I don't think I Want to know more of l the world.' The captain's next venture was a quo tation from a poem, and it was a blunder. She turned upon him with a quick return to the old manner. I halo poetry..; I never could bear it. Mr. Galton, I am disposed to hate you, too, for having been a listener to my ravings just now. Don't let us play the ridicu lous any, More, please. I shall go and find mamma.' . They turned towards the crowded am phitheatre, Evelyn leading the way,seem ingly. indifferent as to whether Ralph follciWcd or not. As for him, the light dazzled his eyes, the braying chorus whjoh haesuceeded the ' Guards' Waltz' deaf ened him, and he was vexed. Perhaps' Miss Tennent . knew this, and•repented little : At'arg rate, he found himself all at once face to face with her, and heard her voice saying, with something of ap peal in it, Galton, some day, if mamma can get over the 'dread of the Water, we Willgolor the sail you' spoke of., Good night . She held 'out her hand to him , and then, went-awtiy. Ralph had: a gliwps.of the count's figure rising to follow, him as he, turnenoleavo,the promenade. --He had Msert of indistinct consciousness that ail 'artriwas thiuSt‘-.,tfireUgh . ovni, that he owes. led amongst winding 1 , Lt tt it (I • paths, shritbs, and grottoes, while° the distant music mingled oddly wit)?. the flex*. ceasing tramp over the bridge, and the red spark of Richard Galton's cigar flashed before him from time to time, as the count took it from his lips to tell some fresh anecdote of Lady Julia's pow ers of finesse. But the captain knew all this very vaguely indeed, and only roused himself with,a-start when his cousin stood suddenly before him in the path and bar red his progress. You are-bad company amico, and go,' said the count. He bent forward a little as he spoke, and his small black eyes gleamed into Ralph's with an ex pression of intnnse misphief. ' Have a care of the eapriote,lpbo tnio. There's an ugly story that she was engaged to some poor fellow, and has jilt ed hiw for a greater match. You and I know that the Lady Julia would manage this, don't we ? A clever woman, very. A rivederti.' CHAPTER IV. ON THE CASTLE CLIFF There was a concert in the Assembly Rooms at the Spa, and the promenade was thinner than usual. Captain Galton sauntered about amongst the flowers up above, trying to make up his mind. He had a cigar in his mouth, and every now and then the red spark at the end would go out while he stopped to smile down into the turf at his feet, like a modern Narcissus, only the image that he saw there was nut his own. And at times, something troubled this image—a too mentary cloud only, which just darkened it to his eyes and then vanished. It was the speech which Richard Galton had made some nights ago when he parted flow his cousin in disgust at his lack of 'attention. Not that Ralph believed it. Ile thrust the idea from him with supreme scorn when it obtruded itself upon his brighter dreams. But the thing was, it would obtrud,. itself. He couldn't for. get it He haled the possibility that gossip should dare to take Evelyn's name upon his lips and slander it. For it Such a thing as that of which the count had spoken were true, she could be no love of his. But it was not true; he had but to call up her thee as he saw it at-times,- open and frank, - and beautiftil; exceedingly to him, and the doubt fled away vanquished. Some day, he thought, he to igh t tell her this idle story and laugh at it with her. They had met very often in these last few days, and the count, gazing on the sort of mental paralysis which had seized his cousin, so far as the outer world was concerned, sl rugged his shoulders with a moody ' e seiolto,' and almost. des;atired lie did not know that even now fare was about to play a single stroke in his favour. Captain Galton suddenly flung away his cigar and start ed at a quick paeo . to walk up the Castl e Cliff. Ile ha I been idle all day, and he wanted a good st ff climb, and space and solitude to think it all over once again. Ile passed the one armed sailor with his miniature ship. not stopping to talk as he usually did, but pressing on as though he had some object to gain in reaching the ruins beflrre him at a given moment. Ile stood on the broad summit of the chill and .leaned back against the iron railings, with his hat off, and the wind blowing fresh about his head. Again be saw the lights begin to spring up in-the fishing.boats on the bay, and the moon come out, from a 'cloud and shine down upon them as it had done when Fvelyn touched arm to. make him look. He was. thinkine9f hp'', of the count's words, which did so haunt hi,tn, and of a possi ble future, when he turned his head and saw a figure coming from amongst the ruins in front of him. An odd feeling of wieti§iness began to steal over the captain.' ' He had no time to wonder what it meant, for the figure came on hastily. It was a man, hatless like himself, but with a face that looked haggardand-wild' in the moonlight, and with bloodshot eyes that seemed to see only one spot in all the waste of water far away below the cliff. Curtain Galton was a brave man, but there was something in this wild figure and its mad rush towards the iroix rail ing—all that separated from the precipice beyond—which Made him draw his breath sharply, with a vawiese,nsation of terror-- not altogether for himself It flashed upori him suddenly that the man was about to throw himself over, • There was no time to think. Instinctively, Ralph started from his leaning posture and stood between him and the railings: 'Are you, mad ?' shouted Ralph: Stop!' There was a single violent word in answer, and RalphGaltori saw rhe stranger flag up his arms and Spring forwards on one' side of him, The 'next moment the two had grappled with each other. Ralph felt the hot breath on his cheek, and the two arum close round him like a vice; but the country squire had been too well trained to be tuktin by surprise, ,For a few seconds he stood his. ground firmly, and then all at once the man's-grasp re laxed.; his arms dropped heavily, and he, stood.back axaring qt his opponent with expression of rage and hatred: The moon' shone full on ; the tiro faces; Ralph's a little:rialer than usual i • but steady and composed; the . staling rs. haggard and gaunt, with dark hollows under bis eyes, TERMS:--$2,00 Advahoe, or $2,50 within the yedi.' and a quiver of suppressed passion about his lips. ' You I' he cried out at; lastiraising his hand and Fhakingit at the captain. I knew it would be so ; A fit meeting. You miserable, cowardly villian I I wish I had a piitol that I might shoot you like a dog. I swear -I would do it, if they hanged me for it.' Ho went a little nearer and peered up into Ralph's face of amazement with a fierce sneer. I saw you with her last night,' he said between his teeth. ' Oh, it was rleasant ! honeyed moments, were they not ? Just so she used to smile on me before you came and bought her with your pitiful money. You poor dupe, you fan cy she cares fur you. I tell you it's a lie. She loves me—me, a poor devil of a younger son who had nothing but his love to give, and eo she sells herself to you. No, I'll not punish you; the pun ishment is enough. Fool ! you may take her to your home, but her soul is mine to all eternity. Captain Dalton stood stunned and helpless as this strange flow of words fell from the man's lips. The dark ruins and the g, ass, and the distant light, all danced before his eyes in one confused mass, and the only thought that stood out clear before him was this : Richard Galton's tale was true. He never stopped to reason about it. The terrible earnest and reality which burnt this man's vfords into his heart left no room for mistrust or hope. A little while the two stood there facing each other, and then the reaction which follows such stormy passions as his came upon the stranger, and he staggerd to the railings and sank into a sitting posture with his forehead in ,his hands. 'Why did you stop me ?' he said. 'lt's cool down there, and my head is on fire. I'm quiet enough now , the devil is gone out of me. Leave me to myself, if you 'are a wise man.' Ralph was silent a moment, and then he bent his white face down close to the hands which looked so cold and bony in the moonlight. • 'As you are a man,' he said, in a low voice, 'as you shall answer for every word spoke!) here, was she your promised wife?' I swear it.' `And she—threw you over forme ?' 'For your money, you fool. Go, I tell you, while I am quiet, and free me from this devilish torment Hush ! who's that ?' Ralph started back, for a hand was put on hi artn drawing him away, and a third voice broke the spell, which tempted him still to question. I didn't mean to be a listener,' said the count, gently, but come away now ' Like a wan in a dream, Ralph tuned and went down the hill with his cousin. lie hardly knew, indeed, where he was going or what it was that happened; he only felt that terrible, dead weight of op pression ; of something in tha back-ground which he must think over by-and-by when he should be able fur it; that shrink ing of the soul from such an examination, which comes upon us with SUM heavy end unlocked for blow. Half way down the hill the hand o❑ his arm grew heavi er with a momentary pressure, and the count spoke, a novel gentleness in his tone. ' Poor old boy l' he said, Pm sorry.' Ralph turned with a sudden bitter and unaccountable irritation, and shook him MT. 'Leave me to myself, Dick. I don't want pity, and there are. times when a man can't brook being worried. The count walked,on, and Ralph, lean ing against the wall, watched the round balls of light far away on the promenade, and heard. once more faintly the music of the ' Guards' Waltz;' Was sheamongst that dim throng of moving figures? Only last night they had talked together be side the sea wall :rard a dull sense, of If -contempt came over him as he remem bered his own happinegs at being near , her. With a common spirit of self-tor ment Ralph left his position and went to walk up and down amongst the gay peo ple on the promenade. He would go over it nll again; he would call back the dream which had made that place of bus tle and glitter so sweet a paradise to him; he even sought out the exact spot where Evelyn had stood listening to him the nig& before.' oried out Ralph, with a silent, inward cry. It was all, he could say or think. The word was stamped upon, everything he saw, in his bitterness.— False—to her lover, to him, and to her self; false and mercenary. 'Like the rest of the world,' ho said aloud, turning from the sea; 'l've done with it.' ' Some one lookertrfr into his fade as . ionished, but he did not care. Whtki were appearances .to him ? *hat wua• life—what anything? , ' • 'Dick,' said the captain, coming bud. delay upon,his cousin that night. 'let us go. Lady Julia must have` a farbviell card, and then for Egypt, 'or4 Panama : California, or the Catacombs; but the farther 'away the better. never . sec Old .England again.' • CHAPI'4Ii; V. E scacotho.' : 0 ' ' Never again; - Away from it' ,01 and forget it. What was this , foolish dreatrV of a few weeks . that it should wreckla life like hist Captain Galton Walked up and down ,the platform, glancingaimlesslyin to the carriages , of the 'train. that stood waiting its time. Not thatheoared about choosing his seat; but he was restless and miserable, impatient to be off; and he could not stand as the count did, to all appearance absorbed in the conversa tion which was going on briskly between the station-master and some of the pas sengers. Chancing to look at his cousin, 'however, Mr. Galton's attention was caught by the expieesion of his face; it had a strangely. eager .look ; nostrils were dilated and the thin lips compressed. Ralph's eyes rested upon him with a lan guid wonder, and when he looked up and saw them he started and went hurriedly to meet his cousin. NO, 42. 'Not there,' ho said, al9iply, as the captain paused. 'Take the next, Ralph; we shall have it to ourselves.' Again Ralph looked up at him wonder ing. The gentlemen to whose conversa tion Richard Galton had been listening had chosen the, carriage -before which' he stoocl,,but in 'a - general way the count liked to have fellow-travellers.. A fit of perverseness seized the country squire. 'This is as good as any other,' he said, getting in. 'lt doesn't matter to us about being alone.' The count, biting his moustache as he followed, muttered once more between his teeth soiolto,' and threw himself bank upon the cushions. The other occupants of the carriage continued their talk, but Ralph was staring vacantly into the flat expanse of heath and moorland through which the train had begun to move, and he paid no attention to them. All at once, however, a sentence caught his ear, and made him turn away from the win dow. 'They think he must have thrown him self from the Castle cliff. A one-artued sailor that stand.4' at the gate begging saw just such" a figure go up the cliff late in the evening.' Then Ralph leaned forward and asked a question. `Yes I wonder you didn't hear of it,' was the reply. 'The whole town was talking of it when we came away He was a lunatic, you see, and had managed to get away from his keeper soinehow. 7 — A fishing-smack brought in the body early this morning.' Ralph shot a glance "at' his cousin, but the count's eyes were closed, and he seemed to be asleep. 'it's a romantic story too,' proceeded the gentleman 'The poor young fellow was engaged to be married, and the lady threw him over for a rich merchant.— They say he had been mad ever since, always searching for his rival, and imag ining every stranger that came in con tact with him to be the man 71yioaptiiin!shands were pressciitight ly into each other, and he spoke again slowly 'And—the lady 'Oh, she has been married some time. The daughter of an Irish peer— poor, of course, so it was best fur her. This young fellow was only reading for the bar. I forget the naate-IVarrenne or Warrington, I think.' Again Ralph glanced at his cousin, and he saw that the sleep was sham, and the count was furtively watching him out of the half-closed eyes. An angry spot came into Captain Galton's cheeks, and he turned again to the flat land-cape, think rig with desperate impatience what a wad fool he had been His fellow passengers talked on, but he heard noth ing wore. The count watching him, saw puce l or twice suppressed qui% er about his lips which boded. he tnought, no good to himself, and Richard Gallon sighed, fur he had done a mean trick to nu pun P• ose When they reached York, the captain sprang out with an impatient •At last ;' and on the platform he turued to his cousin. 'Dick, you have played me false.— You knrw all this and never told me.' The count shrugged his shoulders. I only knew this morning. You were half cured, amico; why should I inter fere to bring back the disease ?' 'Our ways are different liencefoith, l said Ralph,- briefly. He walked a few steps down the plat form, and then, hesitated. The same im pulse must haye moved the two men ; for when he paused and looked back he saw that the count had mopped also and was looking after him with an unusual wist fulness in his face. Ralph went backend held out his hand. can forgive you, Dick, sooner than my own rash credulity. We may never meet again, and it won't do to part like this.' 'You're a good fellow,' said the count, with an odd mixture of pride and humil ity; 'and I wish yqu all the happiness that I would have, kept from you if I could—that is, if it is happiness, which Isloubt And so good bye, old fellow. You'll hearfrom th Nyanza yet.' 'CAD° back with me,' said Ralph, with sudden compassion. The count shook his head. ' He knew that ho was not wanted ; and the life that ho saw stretched out before his cousin would not suit him. He was one of that restless tribe to be met with occasionally scattered here an'd there about the conti nent or the remoter corners of the world; at home in all. scenes, yet never at rest; be will wander from place to place a soli tary man, until age or disease comes on, and he creeps away, sink and frightened, to some wayside inn, to die amongst strangers, alone' as he has lived. But Ralph had little' thought to spare' for the wandering count. His ,Ettind, which had been so wavering when'he took that walk up the Castle cliff,• Wavered no longer. ,floknew now what this chance - that. he baa Inearly flutrg , away was to him. And'Undorlhe lamps on the pro menade he told 'Evelyn Tennent the story. 'of his ettootifiteir, and another story, as old as the hills,iAalways dew. And I think it would hait,idone even the count's im passive, heart good to 'See the radiant look which beamed on Lady Julia's poor tired face as shosat 'under the enlonnade that night and knew that the future' baronet was .won,,:in spite of ull those - ab'surdly ,401santioiddas with whinh daughter had been wont,to drive .the poci', 144 to despair. Than eomes ,the Nntioo.:6 al Ani hem, and the bustle `greateelhati ever,, then, the, nrittneetide' is 'deserted, Ihe lights are ,out; and ,nothing ~ but the 'perpetnal Inish Of - the, Watts, 'the: Ii
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers