ERIE WEEKLY OBSERVER
mit E, PUB LISHERS.
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CLEVELAND & ERIE B. R-
IikantRAININIRINEMIN
tai after MoOda7 , brarth MI, 146; Psaseoger Trains wilLron
F.A....4TWAgyr,
Leave Cleveland for Kris at 0:00 all., r u. and 10 00 r a
The 0:00 a 111 train will stop at all way station except Wickliffe.
Mentor, Perry, moonlit and Saybrook. The 10:04 r tram
will stop at Ashtabula, Conneaut and Girard only
The i onnevit traan will bare Cleveland at r a. and stop al
all Wai Stations.
I,,rarn Fspresa
4 1111 !nave rrie / or Cleveland at 17. r M
stopping at Utrs , l, lug(leld, Kingirtlle, Ashtabula, Genet, and
l'atust II i•• no t
Nli‘ht Express will leave, Erie for Cleveland at 3.30 • C., llul
Thin 1 , 1-50 A. and Day Exprea• 2.30 r ■
The 3:30 A. A. train will atop at Girard, Connesat, Ashtabula and
I'm...vide only "h• 10 SO A. a train will ati.p at .h tlor
kept paybrook. Unionville, Perry, Mentor and Wicirlil•
Th. 2.30 r Y, train will atop at Girard, Conneaut, Arlitsiol• an.
Painerrilir Poly.
The I onneatit train will leave Conneaut at 7 1.5 ♦. K.,antl lan!. at
all V., ,ta.I4,DS.
All of the th r owiti,th train. rata, Weatwaed tonneet at Claire Land
with trainii for Toledo, t pica o, Columbus, Cincinnati, &c., ke
the through trams going Eastward connect at Dunkirk
nth the V Y. k E. IL It, and at BOW* with those
il.rk t antral and buffalo and Now Yuri City Raitrotala.
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!Larch 2s, 1957. tf-27 , Su Vt.
1866.
Buffalo & Erie Railroad.
PIC Mill A ILIKANGAXENT.
W and after Monday, May 1, Trains will lea.. F.rw sa f " W 2
1 99 A M , Night I.:scream, atopping at North F.ast,
Dunkirk, rivlrrr Curia, eounrrting at Dunkirk nut
Nodal° with Morrung Exprvas Trsatio for New York
0 au A 11, War Espnew., stopping at all alatioria, r oaa,..ettn g rt
Dunkirk and Buffiaio with W.r Traina Eaat
P 11, EN pn.n. Mail stopping at all Vail Qtation• a n d ,n
tiectlog at Dunkirk and Diablo with Larry... Train.
(4, N.. York
6 6.1 P Lizhtuityr Expresa,•t North East, Wowtasid, Pu •kir,
anA •iikerereek, roonvetang at Dunkirk ar. I
with Express Truing. for New York.
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RING Ah'RANGEMENT
Trains run through to Wheeling & Pittsburg.
r: a nd after Woodsy, Marrh 9th, 13:.7, trams run
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INSURANCE COMPANY,
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ARE now doing 'minima. on the Mutual plan. tio• .n
-gored a partiripation In the pniflto of the (741111rIltlf, withont
haltshtr heyonil the prvinium aid
ofum the Lakes and ('anal innured on the Trio.: laiocald.
terms lAA.CS will he liberally and promptly adjiiiited
Fireniik, on toorehandute, huildin,ni aryl other property, in
town or country, for a limited term permanently
DIRECTORS.
Joseph II .al, Jame. Hand,
Theophituo Paulding, John I'.
Ititeirt Barton, John Garr..-it,
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I.verrenor iiarnuel Edward*,
llenri Pared /I utarey,
I I,•-ie. Kelley. home R. Darla,
IfdMm :well, William Hat,
lir S. Thomas, lir R. M. Ruston,
Spenert.
vrg Yawn*, ?relit
R. n tow S Soc'y
AppLacatlon con .0e motto to
J. KELLOGG, EA* Aire t
prtl 4 NV.
Fire!! Fire!!!
TITS
G 0 TO G. A. BENNETT, Insurance Wks. corner of 4 tate
and Firth street, Wrial,F• Block up stairs and set your
property r swans'. He represents the following rellial•le ompa-
MERi'IIANT" , FIRE ANII wAR..mr. TN:lulu:icy COMPANY
of .1 •IpLia. A a thur wed Capital $400,000 mil
LAS 1,4J0
V AEA ERR UNION IN 4 rRANCE CONPA,NY, Athens, Brut
ford Capital IPUu,nUu. All paid up and securely invested
Rat:ems lan as security loth. Insured lull permit,
Fru., Der 13, ISMS. G. A_ BEN FTT, Ae
JOE' B. BOGERT,
lIdPoETER AND DEALER IN FOREIGN AND DORESTIr
HARDWARE, a
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CIZTTIAMIR , Y,
•;,, Fig PEARL STREET and No. 56 STONE STREET,
NEW YORK. 3n-11
PARICE - R, GRAY 6:DAYII3,
REAL ESTATE BROKERS; LAND, DOUR-
ANCE AND GENERAL AGENTIi,
Cassell MUM mad *Wu Mi. lawn.
PARKER de DOYLE, PARKER et. GRAY
nank.ru, IMpainv in Exchange, I 1111.1 A la, and Wel Israte
AN! , LAND .14,ENT:i, hholiE Ii =5,
Cliaelosi, ....lowa. . .1 ewa.
Seine and enter Vacant land* In Western and North Weirtern lo
hump, and Pre—emption. In Nebraska Ter'y
for resident. and non-rowidenta, Pay Tate., kc.
M. T. DAVIS, Attorney at Lasediai:Netary R 11..% Pilloatz C y
REFER 741 Don. John Galicaith. and ill B Lowry,
D Derriekson and /I 1.. Richmond, }wife. Relation,. lion. M
Trout, .itaron, and Samuel itnntherton, Nat.rtord, Pa., Dr. C
and Connelli, Rork Maud, 111 1,47
J. J. imirrivEntyLwat --- A - G --- Eter.
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EPRESEN T IN fo
G the llowing reliable Coil
ompaniet,
.ET.VA FIRE IN sCRANCE CO.VPi.YY,
Of Ilartf..rd, Conn. • - • apttal PO O , OOO
CO-V.llO % WEAL TH FIRE MAR/,TW ITsrire vCE CO,
it,m.t.rt, Venn., - Capital Saw,...Jo.
PE % FLl'.4‘l4 FIRE A YD VAR/YE LYS CRA.%
liti•ours, Pa., - - - • Capital $390,000.
,ETNA I.IIE INQURANCE COMPANY,
11.0.f.,rd, Cann , - Capital sl:ol,onri
Ran •in .ash u In. as wearily to tiwt lowered will permit. fit
in P... 1 (Aft BUIMICZ
Erie. April IN, lablt 49
The InsuranceforTolntiiid Conntey !
Tx Erie County Mutual lnyuranys I ompany enntinues to
invite lesuranne ..w etery description of property in Town 111.1
I •t as low rate. as are romistent ..th remelt,. Iliske are
d,,,y4„1 .nto two elamess, cu . the Farmer's. in yr hien nothing but
farm propgity and dwelllnya 00 fret or noor emu ezpowiim, are
toured, and the Commercial. in whirh all kind of property are
irmum-d. The fund. in either department are not liable for Comes in
the other;
taah Insurance made in either Department at the usual
Pt rates
DIRECTORS.
James r Marshall, I. M. Tlbbalii, WM. F Riederneeh..
PF. Burt.... John Ziesinprly. J. II " 4 14.rrrtt.
I' Keller. Thew. Mnarbesal, Jamb Ilanis.a,
clears.. A. }.11.0, T. Babbitt, WM. H. Bays,
Alfred King.
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Ja..11110 C. Il•statit.u.i., Pribst. JowA Gryst own, See
eIIASSJ/0 M. TIIIIALIA, Irma.
Ogee, riser J. R. litarratt's, Cbeapalda. Il
Erie, Jame 21, 115.5,11. _
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BLAZE 'S BONNET ROOMS.
Wll.l, b. itirs•lting emery Irrek. ferns Nevi York, Smarm
and the F.aahrrs la...tort. lame ampplies nt
• STRAW ASP tANCY GnODS,
er ihr Sara hisprrtatirsaa This Met atylea sod at priors that drfy
Serb. Oct. 26, Ib 4. T. M. BLAYK.
CANAL MILL ERIE, PAL
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rt.ouß °mem, MILI-FW), BRAN. 4C.. 4C
nob paid tar all kinds of Gala. Ifd
isliand ;Spirit. iiirpraisraTa, by Um horiel arta qassi.
IA bars tr• *sit ',ambi t ion.% hp
Jan. 7. I$M , CARTE% b PIRO.
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GOOD amortmosta an Mods ii rod Tip,god at amid 4 01
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John Teller, Jr
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Far not at Berths Bun woo high,
While evened the wind aad Upped thorns/1—
We new a soae-whit.butteelly
thtncing bet.re the fitful rate,
Par out at OM
The little stranger, elan had toot
Ilia wet, of danger nothing knew;
...tiled awhile upon the mad,
then nattered o'er the water' blue;
Far out at ame.
A 1..,,.. there gleamed the cloudless AY.
Beneath, the Immediate oases awes
Beigre..n them deemed the batteray;
TL. In thin rear Beene;
Far oat at sea.
Away he eped ill shimmering glee!
Dim, indistinct—now eiwo—neinirone,
Ni t rht comes, with wind and raitt—and be
\ al.re a ill donee before the UOllll--
Flr oat at ewe.
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dice unlike hie 'nate% I 1" ..n;
Perhaps not Wallet, nor worse mend:
Awl he hatli kit, and known and sees,
A la rE...r !item:lJ hop.—thourb lost,
Far out at sea.
o'hoict Illiscellang.
TII E DEAD SECRET.
CUAPEEI XII.
I Plot Airaimat ere 14eeret
Toward. tho elo4r ,•f the Peening, on the day
after Mr Orridge's interview with Mrs. Norbury,
the I►rrtid fart roach, running through Cornwall
es far a 4 Truro, set down three inside passengers
at the door of tho bonking-office, on arriving at
ita destination Two a these passengers were
an of 1 sreot letnao and his daughter; the third was
Mrs. JA:'
The fither and (laughter collected their lug
gage, and entered the hotel; die outside passengers
branched off in different directions with as little
delay ns p Mrs Jazeph alone stood irre.
so!ute on the pavement, and seemed uncertain
what she should do next. When the coachman
good wituredly endeavored to assist her in arriv.
iug at ade -' 'n of some kind, by asking whether
he c-1(1 I •1 • :(1,) thing to help her, she started,
and 1..-Ic, (I h t 111111 suspiciously; then, appearing
to ree ii.. t lo , r(o•lf, thanked him for his kindness,
and inquilc 1, with a c Infusion of words and a
hesitation of manner which appeared very ex
tra,,r(linary in the coachmen's eyes, whether she
!nigh' I ..!lowed to leave her trunk at the book
ing •(- I tile while, until she could return
and eat! f r it again
Rec._ p-rinis.ion to leave her trunk as long
os sh,• please], she crossed over the principal
street ..f the t. wn, ascended the pavement on the
opposite .111 I walked down the first turning
she came t entering the bye street to
which t l ., Turning lid, she glanced back, satiafied
her.ett that nobody was following or watching
1, , r, ha.., nr l ~ n a kw yards, and stopped again
st a AID i • h.p , 1 ....‘.,ted to the sale of book cases,
c a, N. TIC b. le., had writieg desks After
tir,t k.ng up at the letters painted over the
r-- •-cIIMANN. CABINET MAKER, !Lc —she
pi; p. in stinp winckw A ...ditty aged
inAt), w. , li a. •; t eat behind the counter
p r w . tracker. nil nodding brisk
ly at reg.thr if.tert al.. a• if he were hunitning
u two ; k. 1 I;g t' it with h i . he a d
S. , .11. r• it/ the shop, Mrs. Jazeph
oloo,c t'. f, r uttd walked in.
- to aa- tn•ide, she became aware
that the cloerlul MTh I.ehicol the counter was
ic cp,tig low 1,..1 tn a tuu, of his own humming,
I,‘ to a I.lr, I l.y a niusiegl box. The
c. , %r nrgio .t• trnm a parlor behind the
o, air 111 , 1.1 was playing was the
I ly 1;1'6," nf Mono
" 'I , 131piehtuanti kt loaner' asked Mrs
Jaz
Ye!, oil: on, - said the cheerful man, point
ing with it to - war,i , the door that led into
"Tl,e anvirers for him When•
rMr 11u.rhruann's t>,,x k playing, Mr. Bußch•
in..lin It ( 11,4 fir if from it Did you
•.. til.Caui7"
•• If uobody with him.''
" Oh, on, h. i. quite alone Shall I give any
nano?"
Mra Jaz ph opined her lips to answer, hesitat
ed, and said nothing. The sbopman, with a
quicker delicacy of perception that might have
bern ezpoeted from him, judging by outward
appeatanei s. did not repeat the question, but
opened the or at once, and admitted the visitor,
t o the pre4eurc. of )1r llusebmann
The shop parlor was a Very small room, with
an odd three.cornered look about it. with a bright
gr.en piper on the walls, with • large dried flab
in a Ow*. CaPt• over the fireplace, with two meers
chaum pipes hanging together on the wall oppo•
site, and with a nest round table placed as
accurately am possible in the middle of the door.
On the table were tea.things, bread, butter, a pot
of jam, and a inu4ical box in a quaint, old'
fashioned ram.; and by the aide of the table sat
a little. r faced. white-hrired, simple - looking
old wan, sr)), %tatted up, when the door was open
wit h an appearance of extreme con-resins, and
touched the step of the musical box so that it
might cots° playing when it came to the end o
the air.
" lviy to speak with you, sir," said the
the rrul ,h-rtign "That is Mr Itnsehmann,
ma'atn," in a low tone, seeing Mrs
Jazop!, s•4.p iu apparent uncertainty on entering
the 01.'0r.
Wtll please In take a sea t, ma ' am r
said ?dr Bu-chmann, when the shopman had
e lc..ed the It.or and gone back to his counter.—
" Exouse the music; it will stop directly." He
spok.• these words to a foreign accent, but with
perfu et 4 flu ,, ney.
tlr- Joseph loi.ked at him earnestly while be
was a :drissing her, and advanced a step or two
before slin said anything. "Am Iso changed?"
she a.livd softly "so sadly, rhanged, Uncle
Jo'rrl'!"
"licit ill' Himmel! it's Sarah Leeson:" cried
the old Marl, running Up to hie Tilsit(lr as nimbly
as if he was a boy again, taking both her hands,
and her with an odd brisk tenderness on
the ch. Although his nice was not at all
above t h.. average height of woman, Uncle Joseph
was short that he bad to raise himself on tip
toe t rf..rm the ceremony of embracing her.
T. , think of Sarah coming at last!" he raid,
p 11,,r into w chair "After all these years
awl %. .., In think of Sarah Leeson coming to
PP.' l isle J.••••ph gain!"
"Sarah still, but not Sarah Leeson," said Mrs
Joseph, pressing her thin, trembling hands firmly
togethf.r an.l lc.king , town nn the floor while
she Fr , ke.
• Ah! married!" Raid Mr Itiocitmane, gaily
"Married. , f e..orae Tell we all about ,our
ho-hand Sirah
" Ile i- .14..1 Deed, and forgiven." She
murmured the Iset. (ht.,' words in • ',Wolper to
ber.elf.
" .1h: I am sorry f r you: I ppoke la) suddra•
ly. did I art. my Auld?" Raid the old Irma.,
4 .Nevur m.n.i: No, no; I don't mean that-1
Wed let ea talk of somethisi else. Yoe will
have a bit of bread and jam, wallet you, Sarah?
-,raviabing rwapberry jam tlid-lister is your
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mouth. Some tea, then? So, so, she will have
some tea to be sure And we won't talk of your
troubles—at least., not just yet. You look very
pale, Sarah, very mach older than you ought so
look—no, I don't man that; I don't mean to be
rude It was your voice I knew you by, my
child—your voice that your poor Max always
said would have made your fortune if you would
have learnt to sing. Here's his preuy music
boa going still. Don't look en down hearted—
don't, pray! Do listen a little to the minim you
remember the box?—my brother Max's hoe—
Why, bow you look! Have you forgotten the
box that the divine Monad gave to my brother
with his own hand, when Mix was a boy in the
music school at Vienna? Listen! I have set it
going again It's•e song they call 'Bud, Ilstti;'
it's a song in an opera of 31ozart's Ab, brand.
full beautiful! your bade Max said that all
music was comprehended in that one song. I
know nothing about music, but I have my heart
and my ears, and they tell me that Max woo
right."
Speaking these words with abundant gestieula•
tion and amazing volubility, Mr Busehmann
poured out a cup of tea for his nieed, sti rre d i t
carefully, and, patting her on the shoulder, beg
ged that she would make him happy by drinking
it all up directly. As he cam.: close to her to
press this request, he discovered that, the tears
were in her eyes, and that she was trying to take
her handkerchief from her pocket without being
observed.
" Don't mind me," she said, seeing the old
man's face sadden es he looked at her; "and
don't think me forgetful or ungrateful, Uncle
Joseph. I remember the box—l remember
everything that you used to tale an injerest in,
when I was younger and happier than Prn now.
When I last saw you, I came to you in - trouble;
and I come to you in trouble once more. I seems
neglectful in me nevtr to have written to you for
so many years past; but my life has been a very
sad one, and I thought I had no right to lay the
burden of my sorrow on other shoulders than my
own"
Uncle Joseph shook his head at these last
words, and touched the stop of the musical box.
"Mozart shall wait a little," hu said, gravely,
"till I have told you something Sarah, hear
what I say, and drink your and own to me
whetlit r 1 mp, Ak the truth of al* What did I,
Joseph Bust.thaiann, tell you, whet' you first came
to mo in wuble, fourteen, tiftetn, tai more: six
teen years ago, in this town, and to this satue
house? 1 s.td thou, what I say again, noii:
Sarah's sorrow is my sorrow, and Sarah's joy is
iy joy; and if any man asks me reasons fur that,
I have three to give him."
Ile stopped to stir up his oven's toa for the
second time, and to draw her attention to it, by
tapping witu the spoon on the edge of the cup
"Three rests n-, lie resumed. "First, you
are toy sister'schild—soinc of her flesh and hlcsA,
and some of mine, therefore, also Seeoud, my
sistcr t in) hr.,' her, and, , me mysslt, we
owe to your essul English father—all A little
wo r d that mean- mach, and may said again
and again—ail Your father's friends cry •Fie'
Agatha Bu-ehmaon is poor, Agatha liusebinann
is foreigu! lint your ratio r loves the root Ger
MAO girl, and be niarri, s tier in , rite ~ f their
'Fie, tie: Y'oir father's fi!.'nfla er) 'Fie!' again;
Agatha liuschtnann 11:11, a 1011.i4:.! n r,
gabbles to tis ab i n ' Mozart, and who cannot make
to his p 1111111 1,, ,. salt Your r- - 4- :
1. IA- h; . .4. I Ilk. I.;- I ntrtll t
him peoph to each; and wli•I I hate pinehPs of
salt in toy kitchen, t hi- p ,ridg- shall hate
,if -,:t, too' Vow f •r's (riot] Is cry
'Pie" for the • , ,it I ton A.!,thi Huselon tun
has another blether, a huh. 'supid - head,' aho
to the othor'. gabble can ouly listen and sty
'Amen' Send hies tr,...tiog; for the love of
Ilearen, shut up all th.• doers and scud •stuped
head' trotting, at lit-t! Your Libor says,
'Stupid head' has his wilt his Lau he C. 11.1
cut, p 1p hint a little at
the starting; and, after, he shah help himself.—
They are all gone now but me! Your father,
your mother, and Uncle Max—they are all gone:
'Stupid head' alone remains to remember and to
be grateful—to take Sarah' sorrow for his sorrow,
and Sarah's joy for his yoy "
He stopped again, to blow a -peck "f du.t off
the musical box tits niece end ,, aecred to s p ea k,
but he held up his baud, and shook hi= forefinger
at her warningly
‘• No," he said. "It is yet my business to
talk, and your business t.. dl4& tea !Jaye I
not my third reason still? Ah! you look away
from me; you know my third. reason, before I
say a word. When I, in my turn, marry, and
my wife dies, and leaves we alone with little Jo
sepb, and when the buy falls sick, who comes
then, so pretty, so neat, with the bright young
eyes, and the handy so tender and light? Who
helps me with little Joseph by night and by day?
Who makes a pillow for him on her arm when
his head is weary? Wit, holds this box patiently
at his ear?—yes! this box, that the hand of Mo.
fart has touched—who holds it closer, closer al
ways, whoa little Joseph's sense grows dull, and
he moans for the friendly music that he has
known from a baby, the friendly music that be
can now so hardly, hardly hear? Who kneels
down by uncle Joseph when his heart is break
ing, and says 'O6, hush! The boy has gone
where the better music plays, where the sickness
shall never waste or the sorrow touch him more!'
Wbo? Ab, Sarah; you cannot forget the long
ago! When the trouble is better, and the burden
is heavy, it is cruelty to Uncle Joseph to keep
ewer it is kindeas to him to some here."
The remlleettoni that the old man had called
up found their way tenderly to Sarah's heart.—
She c(mld not answer him; sbe"eould only hold
out her band Uncle Jo , eph bent down, with a
quaint, affectionate. gallantry, and kissed it; then
stepped back again to bie place by the musical,
box "Come!" he said, patting it cheerfully,
"we will gay no more for a while. Mozart's box,
Max's box, little Joseph's box, you shall talk to
us again"'
Hacinq put the tiny machinery in motion, be
sat down by the table, and remained silent until
the air had been played over twice. Then, ob
serving that his niece seemed calmer, he spoke
to bee once more
" You are in trouble, Sarah," he said, quietly.
"You tell me that, and I see it_is true in your
face. Are you grieving for your husband?"
" I grieved that I ever met him," she answer.
ed. "I grieved that I ever married him. Now
that he is dead, I cannot grieve—l can only for
give him "
" Forgive hie How you loulc , S ara h, w hen
you pay that! Tell m , —"
"Uncle Joseph ! I have told you that my
husband is d.'sd, and.that I have forgiven him
"You have forgiven h:m ? He was hard and
cruel with you, theu ? I see; I see. Thisis the
end, Sarah—but the beginning? Is the begin
nieig that you loved him ?"
!ler pale cheeks flushed ; and she turned her.
head aside "It i+ - hard and bumbling to conies.
it," she murmured, without raiaingter eyes I;
"but you force the truth froth me, elm . I had
en love to give to my husband—no 'lore to give
to any man."
"And y. t, von married hire I Wait I it I
tint for tee to blame. It i• for use to Sod oat,
not the bed, i.nt the gootl. Tat, yea}, Labatt
ay to the married him SOMAS vas pxn.
sad br:ples., she married him ahem site should
hate come to Uncle Jeeeph. instead. I shall say
that to myself, sad I shall pith, but I shall** as
asre." • .. , • .
SAnth half reached her hand out to the old
man again—then suddenly pushed her chair back
and changed the position in which she was sit.
ting "It is true that I was poor," she said,
looking about her in confusion, and speaking
with difficulty. "But you are so good and sv
kiad, I cannot accept the cumin that your for
bearance makes for me I did not marry him
because I was poor, but—" She stopped,
clasped her hands together, and pushed her chair
back still further from the tale.
"So! eo!" said the old man, noticing her con
fusion. "We will talk about it no more."
"I had no excuse of love: I had no excuse of
poverty," sbe said, with a sodden burst of bit
terness and despair "Uncle Joseph, I married
him because I was too weak to persist in saying
No! The curse of weakness and fear has follow
ed me all the days of my life! I said No to him
twice. 06, uncle, if I could only have said it
for the third time! But he followed me, be
frightened nip, he took away from me all the lit
tle will of idy own that I bad He made me
speak as he wished me to speak, and go where
he wished me to go. No, no, no—don't come
to me, uncle; don't say anything. He iv gone;
ho is dead! Oh, if I could only go away and
hide somewhere! All people's eyes seem to look
through me. My heart has been weary ever
since I was a young woman; and all these long,
long, years, it has never got any rest. Hum,:
the man in the shop—l forgot the man 111 the
sh y. He will hear us: let us talk in a whisper.
What made me break out so? I'm always wrong
Oh, me! I'm wrong when I speak; I'm wrong
when I say nothing: wherever I g.) and whatev.
er I do, I'm not like other people, I seem never
to have grown up in my ( mind since 1 was a lit •
tle child Hark! the maii in the shop is moving:
has be heard me? Oh, Uncle Joseph: do you
think he has heard me?"
Looking hardly less startled than his niece,
Uncle Joseph assured her that the door was sol
id, that the tuan's place in the shop was at some
distance from it, and that it was impossible, even
if he heard voices in the parlor, that he could
distinguish any words that were spoken in it.
"You are sure of that?" she whispered, hur
riedly. "Yes, yes, 3ou are sure of that, or you
would not have told me AO, w.uld youT We
may go on talkinging now. Not about my mar
red life: that is buried and past. Say that I had
some years of 140rr. , w and suffering, which I de.
served—say that I had other years of quiet,
when f was living in service, with tuash:r. and
mistresses who were often kind to me whrn my
fellow servants were nNt—say just feat much
about my life, and it is saying enough The
trouble that I am in now, the tr.•uhl • that brinrs
me to you, goes back further than the years we
have been talking ahout—goes hack, back, back,
l'ocle .Joseph, to th, dist an t day when wig I t.t
met "
'Goes hack all through the aixteen yelra:' ex
claimed the old man, ineredulouAly. Gots,
hick, Sarah, oven t•t the Lug Ago*:
'Even to that time Uncle, y• n retnetul.Pr
where I was living, and what hid happened t.
ruf. , , whet] ---
•Wheu yOll came 11,r, In ptrret: When yea
laked me to hide you? That way tit , -atme we, k
Sarah, when )our miatres. died--)our reag
whq lived away wcat, in the 01 , 1 ifoii:e You
were frightened, then,—pale and f r ightened ac
I see you now."
..:‘,ry one tne: People :ire alway.
qtartog 411, f../ t. „„ .1,. . 0 „ r , "
was, always pitying me for being ill
Sating these words with a sudden fretfu'ne-s,
Rh.• lifted the teacup try - her side to her lip.,
drained it of its contents nt a draught, and pu-b
ed it aeons the table to hi. filled again. 'I have
oome all over thirsty and hot,' slic whispered
'More tea, Uncle Joseph—more tea '
i 4 cold,' said the old man 'Wait till I
a..k for hot water '
'No! . she exclaimed, stopping him as he was
about to rise 'Give it me cold: I like it cold.
Let nobody else come in—l can't .peak if any
body else comes in.' She drew her chair elo'e
to her uncle's and went on: 'You have not for.
gotten bow frightened I was, in that bygon^
time—do you remember why I was frightened?"
"Yon were afraid of being followed—that was
it, Sarah. I grow old, bat my memory keeps
young You were Ofraid of your master, afraid
of his sending servants after you You had run
away; you bad spoken no word to anybody;
and you spoke little—ah! very, very little—even
to Uncle Joseph, even to me.'
told you,' said Sarah, dropping her voice
to an faint a whisper that the old man could
barely hear her—'l told you that my mistress
bad left me a secret on her death-bed—a secret
in a letter, which I was to give to my master
I told you I had hidden the letter, because I
could not bring myself to deliver it, because I
would rather die a thousand times over than be
questioned about what I knew of it I told you
s-i much I know. Did I tell you no more? Did
I not say that my mistress made me take an oath
on the Bible? Uncle! are there candles in the
room? Are there candles that we can light
without disturbing anybody, without calling any
body in here?'
'There are candles and a matchbox in my cup.
board," answered Uncle Joseph. 'But look out
of the window, Sarah It is otfly twilight—it is
not dark yet.'
'Not outside; but it is dark here.'
'Where?'
'ln that corner Let us have the candles I
don't like the darkness when it gathers in corners
and creeps along wills.'
Uncle Joieph looked all round the room, in
quiringly; and !, mile kl to himself as he took two
candles from the cupboard and lighted them.
'You are like the children,' he said, playfully,
while he pulled down the window blind' 'You
are afraid of the dark.'
Sarah di I not appear to Lear him. Her eyes
were fixed on the caner of the room which she
had pointed out the ailment before. When be
resumed his place by her side, she never looked
round, hut laid her hand on his arm, and said to
him suddenly:
'Uncle: do you believe that the dead oan come
b ac k to this world, and follow the living viery ,
where, and see what they do in it?'
The old man started. 'Sarah!' he said, 'why
do you talk so? Why do you ask me such a
question?' '
'Are there lonely hours,' she went on, still
Dever looking away from the corner, still never
looking away from the corner, still not seeming
to heir him, 'when you are sometimes frighten.
ed without knowing why —frightened all over in
an instant, from head to foot? Tell me, uncle,
have you ever felt the coldsteal round and round
the roots of your hair, and crawl bit by bit down
your track? I have felt that, even in the sum
mer. I have been out of doors, alone on a wide
heath, in the beat and brightness of noon, mad
hive felt as it chilly-fingers were touching me—
chilly, damp, softly creeping fingers. It s a y s in
the New Testament that the dead came nut of
their graves, and went into the holy city. The
den& Have they rested, rested, a l wa y s res t e d
far ever, since that timer
Ussie Joseph's simple naive reeoiled in be-,
wilderment from the dark and paring speculations
to which his niece's questions IQ. Wi t h out
saying s word, he tried to draw away the ens
which she stil held; but the(ooly result of the
effort was to asks her tighten her grasp, and
bend forward In her °hair so as to look closer
ssilkinto the sorest of the Nes.
llkpWalrus
was dying,' do ,said, guy Eds
.(1 -- i -
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tress was very wear her grave, when she made
me take my oath on the. Bible. She made me
.wear never to destroy the letter; mad I did not
'wain it. She made me swear not to take it
sway with me, if I left the bones; and I did not
rake it away. She would have made me swear
for the third time, to give it to my master, bat
death was too quick for her---death stepped her
from fasteaing that third oath on my oonseiewee.
But she threatened me, uncle, with the deed
dampness on her forehead, and the dead white•
nen on her eheeke—she threatened to come to
me from the other world, if I thwarted her, and
I hare thwarted her!'
She stopped, suddenly removed her hand from
the old man's arm, and made a strange gesture
with it towards the part of the nous on which
tier eyes remained fixed. 'Rest, rest, rest,' she
whispered under her breath. 'Li my muter
slice pow? Rest, till the drowned rise! Tell him
the S4"6.et when the sea gives up her dead.'
'Sarah! Sarah! you are changed, you are
you frighten me!' cried Uncle Joseph, starting
to his feet.
She turned round slowly, and looked at hint
with her eyes void of all expression—with eyes
that seemed to be staring through him vacantly
at something beyond.
'Gott im Himmel! what does she seer He
looked round as the exclamation escaped him.—
•Ssrab: what is it? Are you ill? Are you
dreaming with your eyes open?'
He took her by both arms and shook her. At
the instant when she felt the touch of his hands
•he started violently and trembled all over.—
Their natural expression flew book into her eyes
with the rapidity of a flash of light. Without
4aying a word she hastily resumed her mat ind
began stirring the cold tea round and round in
her cop, round and round so fast that the liquid
, tverflowed into the 11611041 T.
'Come! she gets more like herself,' said Uncle
Joseph, watching her.
'More like myself,' she repeated, vacantly.
SO: so? said the old man, trying to soothe
her. 'You are ill—what the English odl, out
of sort They are good doctors here. Wait
ttil to-morrow, you shall bare the best.'
I want no doctors. Don't. speak of doctors.
I can't bear them: they took at me with such
curious eyes; they are always prying into me, ss
If they wanted to Ind out so sething. !list
have w- been stopping for' I lad so much to
say; and we seem to have bees stopping just
when we ought to have been going on. lam in
grief and terror again about the Secret—'
'No more of that!' pleaded the old man. 'No
lucre to-night, at least"
'Why no:?'
'Because you will be ill again with talking
atinut it Yuu will be looking into that corner,
and dreaming with your eyes open. You are too
y..., yea, Sarah, you are too ill.'
.1 in not ill! Oh, why does everybody keep
tolling me that I am ill! • Let me talk about it,
uncle I have come to talk about it: I can't rest
till I have told you.'
She spoke with a changing color and an em.
barrassed manner, now apparently oonscious for
'li e first time that she had allowed words and ao.
tions to escape her which it would have been
more prudent to base restrained.
'Don't notice me again,' she said, with her
soft voice and her gentle, pleading manner.—
.1) , n't notice me if I talk or look as I ought not.
I,se myself sometimes, without knowing it; and
Rll TlAlta ED Teel f lust now. It means moth
tog, t uc l eJ osepb; notnnag inoeeu.
En. Favoring thus to reassure the old man she
again altered the position of her chair co as to
place her back toward' the part of the room to
which her face had been hitherto turned.
'Well, well, it is good to bear that!' said Uncle
Joseph: 'but speak no more about the past time,
for fear you should lose yourself again.`. Let us
bear about what is now Yes, yes, give me my
way Leave the Long Ago to me, and take you
the present time. I can go back through the
sixt et' ycary *4 well as you can. Ail! you doubt
it? Hear me tell you what happened when we
I 'At met—hear me prove myself in three words:
You•leati•e your place at the old house—you run
away here—you stop in biding with me, while
your master and his servants are bunting after
you—you start off, when your road is clear, to
work for your living, as far away from Cornwall
as you can get—l beg and:pray'you to stop with
me, but you are afraid of your muter, and away
you go. There! that is the wbole.atory of your
trouble the last time you came to this house.—
Leave it so; and tell me what is the cause of
your trouble now.'
'The part cause of my trouble, Uncle Joseph,
and the present Ofinle of my trouble are themes.
The Secret---'
'What! you will go back to that?'
'1 moat gm back to it.'
'Aod why?'
'Became the Secret is written in a letter—'
'Yes; sad what of that?'
'And the letter is in danger of being dissever.
rd. It is, uncle—it is! Sixteen years it has
laid hidden; and now, after all that long time, the
dreadful chance of its being dragged to light has
come like a judgment The one person in all
the world who ought never to set eyes on that
letter, ig the very person who is most likely to
find it!'
'So'. ro: Are yon very certain, Filarski? How
do you know it?'
'I know it from her *wit Ups. Chases brought
us tlyetlier--'
'ts? u..,? What do you 1143111 by us?'
'I mean—unele, you remember that Captain
Troverton was my master whoa I Used st Perth
geniis Tower!'
had forgotten bis name. 'But, no 'batter—
y on.' _ _
'Whew I left my place, bliss Treverton was a
little girl of five years old. Eibe is a married
woman now--so beautiful, DO clever, sub a
sweet, youthful, happy face! And sbe has a child
ay lovely as herself. Oil, uncle, if you could see
her! I would give so much if you could only
see her!
Ureic. Joseph kissed his hand and shrugged
his shoulder; expressing, by the first action, hom
age to the lady's beauty, and, by the second,
resignation under the misfortune of not being
able to seo her. 'Well, well,' he said, pkilosoph
bully, 'put this shining woman by, anti Ist us
go on,'
'Her name is Frankland now,' said Barak.—
'A prettier name than Treverton, a saßeh pret
tier name, I think. Her husband is fond of her;
lam sure he is. How can he have any heartat
all, and not be fond of hear'
'So! so:' exclaimed Unele Joseph, lokg airy
much perplexed. 'Good, if be is hod at
her—
verp good. But what labyrinth ire we pill*
into now? Wherefore all this about a hashaad
and a wife? My word of hosor, Illaralt;but your
explanation explains notiting-e-it osly softens my
brain."
must speak of her and of Mr. /noir
uncle. Porthgenna Tower belongs to her hus
band now; and they are both going to live there.'
'AL! we are getting heck into the straight reed
it la.t.'
"They are going to lira is the yeti hessoilist
holds the Secret ; they are going to sepsis that
very part of it where the letter is hidden. She
will go into the old rocs s—l hosed her my se
she will seszeh about is this to mow her ass
riosity ; workmen will slier than est, sad she
will stand by, is her idle boars, leoltiog es."
"Bat she suspects =thin%bellows" r
«Ciodlarbid Om */1114"..
B. F. SLOAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER 48,
"And there are many rlottis in the house ?
Asti the letter in which the Secret is written is
hidden in one of the tunny roomer Why should
she hit on that one'"
"13ecamie I always say the 'song thing I be.
Brine I always get frighterked and lose myself at
the wrong time ! The letter is hidden in a room
milled the Myrtle Room, and I was foolish enough,
weak enough,ersied enough, to warn ber agaitiet
going into it."
"Ah, Sarah Sarah ! that was a mistake In.
deed."
"I islet tell whit possessed me—l seemed to
lase my senses when I beard her talking so in •
noeently of amosiog herself by searching through
the old rooma, and when I th•-ught of what she
might find there It wac g , tr:ng en towards
night, too ; the horrible damns~ was gathering
in the corners and creepin. , a! ing the walls; and
I didn't dare light the eanllts for fear sheshould
nee how anxious and frighten,,l I was in my face.
And when I did light tbun it was worse. Oh,
I don't know how I did it ! I don't know why .
I did it! I could haws horn my tongue out for
saying the wordq, and y. t I lltd them. Other
people can think for the ; r pr..)ple can
act for the best; oilier h iv, Lail a heavy
weight on their mind-, au.l :14% C not dropped
tinder it as I have Help me, uncle, for the
sake of old times when we were happy—help me
with a word of advice :"
"I will help you; I lie lip you, Sarah
No, no, no—you must 10. k s forlorn ; you
must not look at me with thos.• crying eyes.—
Come ! I will advice t6t3 minute—but say in
what, only say in what."
"Have I not told you ?"
"No; you have not toll me a word yet "
"I will tell you uow—'' e
She paused, looked away distrn.tful:y towards
the door leading into the 'hop, listened a little,
and resumed : "I am not at the end of my jour
ney yet, Uncle Joseph—l ant hero on my way
to Porthgenna Tower—on my way to the Myrtle
Room—on my way, atop l,y st,p, to the place
where the letter lies hid. I dare not destroy it;
Idare not remove it; but, run what risk I may,
must take it out cf the Ayrtic Room."
Unole Joseph said nothto.t, but he shook his
head despondingly.
"I must," she repeated, "lrfore Mrs. Frank
!mad gets to Porthgenna, [ nitt-t take that letter
out of the Myrtle Room. Trosro are places in
the old house where I may hoe it nfzlin—plaers
that she would Dever think of—place 4 that she
would never notice. On l y let me get it out of
the one room that she is sure to search to, and I
know where to hide it from her and from every
one for ever."
Uncle Joseph rf fleeted, and shook head
again—then said : -One vr-rd, Sarah: do , v
Frankland know which is th- lyrtie Ronal?"
"I did my best to destroy all trace of that
name when I bill the letter , I and believe
she does not liut she may find .Iy—remember
the words I was crazed enough to 1 - elk , they
will set her seeking for the 31y rtk ; they
aro sure to do that "
"And if she finds ? And if she FCCe the
letter ?"
"It will cam misery to innoeent people ; it
will bring death to me D ,n't push your chair
from me, uncle ! It is not shameful thath I
speak of. The worst injury I have bona is in
jury to myself; the worst i. ath I have to fear
is the death that release. a worn•out spirit and
cures a broken heart "
m..
"I ask tor no seeret, Kirsh, that 14 not yourimi
give. It is all dark to me—very dark, very con
fused. I look away from it ; I look only towards
you. Not with doubt, my child, but with pit',
and with sorrow, too—g-rrow ever went
near that house of l'orthi:rnna.--• rrow that you
are now going to it again "
"I have no choice, unok, lut g.) If every
step on the road to I' .rtbg ,, nr, t to , k ire hearer
and nearer to my death. I tr,u-i tr, ad t linow•
jug what I know, I eiti't F!. , , —env very heath
won't come freely—till I hay- cot that I, ;ter out
of the Myrtle Room II wto d It, Uuc'e
Joseph, bow to d) it, with .ut h ink
without being diseovire,l by inn}, , !c—that is
what I would almost give my !.r.‘ to know !
You are a man ; yon are older arid than I
am ; no living ereaturo ev, r you for help
in vain—help me now! my ion , ' in all the
world, help me a little with a Icor I , advice
Uncle Joseph ro-c from and folded
his arms resolutely, and I , ! id, ee full in
the face.
"You will go ?" he said it may,
you will go? Say, fir the 1.1,t. time, Sarah—is
it yes, or no ?"
"Yes ! For the last time, I pay, Yes "
"Good. And you will go coon
"I must go to-morrow. I Jr not waste a
single day ; hours even icily 1.- r.r. Li .u. for any
thing I can tell."
"You promise me, my child, that the biding
of this Secret does good, and that t he finding of
it will do harm ?"
"Ii it was the last word I kiwi to speak in this
world, I would say Yes !"
"You promise me also that y , n want nothing
but to take the letter net of Ih • Nlvrtle
and put it away somewhere 1.1-e '
"Nothing but that."
"And it is yours to take and yours to put ?
No person has a better right to touch it than
you?"
"Now that my master is deaf!, no person."
"Good. You hive given the my resolution
I have done, Sit you there. Sarah; wonder,
if you like, but say w.thing \Vuh these
wosds, Uncle Joseph steppe(' lightly to tbe door
leading into the shop, opr.ti , tl it, and called to
the man behind the counter
"Samuel, my friend," he said, "t•.-morrow I
go a little ways into the country a ith my Deice,
who is this lady, bere. Yon keep shop and take
orders, and be just aa careful a 4 you always are,
till I get back. If anybody comes and asks for
Mr. Busehmann, say he Is gone a hale ways is-.
to the country, and will be back in a f. w days.
That 'is all. Shut up the •hop, Samuel, my
friend, for the night ; and go to your supper. I
wish yon good appetite, nice victuals, and sound
sleep.'
•
Before Samuel could thank his master the door
was abut-stasis. Before Sarah could say a word,
Uncle Joseph's hand was on her lips, and Uncle
Joseph's handkerchief was wiping away the
tears that were now falling fast from her eyes.
"I will base no more talking, and no more
crying," said the old man "I am a German,
and I glory in the obstinacy of six Englishmen,
all rolled into oue. To-night you •leep bere,to•
morrow we talk again of all 111,4 You want me
to help you with a word of advice. I will help
you with myself, which is Futter than advite,
and I say no more till I fetch my pipe down from
the wall there, and ask him to make me think.
I smoke and think to.night—l talk and do to.
morrow. And you, you go up to bed; you,take
Uncle Max's music box in your band, and you
let Mosart sing the cradle song before you go to
sleep. Yes, yes, my child, there is always court
fort is Illloisrt—better comfort than in crying
Why cry so much ? that is there to cry about
or to think about ? Is it so great a wonder that
I will sot let my sister's child go alone to make
rinantame in the dark ? I said Sarah's !wow
um my sorrow, tad Sarah's joy my joy; and
now, if Awe is no way of escape—if it most lo
dised be dean--I also say : Sarah's risk to mor
ns, is Uncle Joseph's risk tomorrow too."
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