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1 , \ N & It)ORE, PUBLISHERS.
ilI 1 . N1i4"2 , 8
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i: E RIE OBSERVER GRAY .11; ivANRAse,
• Woof:tau tiaracsaa, and dealer* in West ladle Goode, Powder,
, cl ap 1: EERY SATT7RDAY II I' shot, Cape, Safety Fuse, Tobacco, t igen, I,sh, oil, lac., lee., No
f , pt IL, 7. Benuell BIOCIL BtAte street, Erie. Pe.
r eLOtN AND M. M. 30100KR, 1 l-l-Gnel 17. r•IIJLAIt,
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KRISINDTT, BARR Jr CO.
':. , ,L
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e - , , — tii;Eß .It STATE AND FIFTH srs I !so , l' , lt - ' , Drit•, Wholerkal and Retell Deal •in Sto.ee, Hullos-
Warr ke., :gate sweet, L* . Pa.
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tt , E, 1 1LO A N • Deillt•r. N. A. Lt' 7 .
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1 ATTOLTIT • r LAW, Oak, Del , hea...• Cult Boy e e,
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Erie, Pa. ._
~, i• ••.- ' ,a a!ranco, or within 3 months, $1 60. tf 1 - - --
J. W. DOUGL.VIS,
~,1.......* charged
ng to par ..tttits the year, the will An ' lwwWY " I L ' w -441 " nelwnwwd to new negllinl wwwt of Stara
~,,,, •-ver •
~
,L.
aces
,lent ~ ,, ,,t with a
proper
ode , tar
co ,. , wtrest, , in tb- north side of the Park, over Clerk k Metcalf Is Ea
, change Abe 33
!IRS" I.)E ADTIRTVRNO• -- - -
JOSRPH RICRENI.4(III, Jr.
r:r erne wart or lees =the a Kura. AM 11•XrIACITRZ1 0 , Bocts and Stwe, an,! Wholeaale and Ret a ,l
de n i e r ,n Oak and Hetill , eck 'Lisle Lowther, l'otineb and American
- week., S 75 One *Rare 3 months 13 alti .
100 ona . 6 ~ 6 (63 0 elf Aktria, Merroeco, Liaises, Ittarhuts, Kipa and Splits, Thread
...• - 126 Ore •• o - 674 ? laces
Cords,., Leel„, tai telltin ol . Glilmins. Kiewnth.. Haninierri,
?lacers wasps leek., Pegs, Nall', kr. Angina. Block, State
.„
,•„-.. • rear, chengeable at pleasure, $8 street, Erie, Pa.
, ...- = ,, kiii, K. 6 meths, $9, ii months, $ll 60. 1 . ___ __ _ _ .
I ' J. F. ENDWNING. _
, „mi.,. ,ear, up, , 6 mon th s. &30 3 A fl , •.f at I,w •iiii Jewrir ror tag Praes Wrfl raetteet n
~,, I
, c eereral I oUrtA of Este County, and Klve pivmpt and faithful
i, ---o- . .0 the Busmen, throctorelt • attention to all leorinose potrugt.4 to his band', either ea an
15 per annum
Attorue. or Magistlate. pr ~ a 1,..., is Empire Sloe*, corner of
.• .1 f ,r n Card. over Ms, and ander melt., $.7
state and Fifth at , Erie„ 60
s _ ..: .rta, notices 10 mats a hag.
. ..,..- ....e Col:spear and other ootsces, laillthe abort CANA,L 7- BEILL 13, BRIE, — PA.
JAVIER Di. JACK NON Who/ wale and Iketan llarrinketerwe of
. , , ochres raw:drily, treqewist changes to their FLOUR CORN. Rift.A. 4 NILL-FRED, RRil.., IC, *C
t- nan•• a• , •
Ruts •,,, tie 5.,0 wed two wound, paper, satiated, kir lie Cash paid for all kinds of rain 2ri
v e, the ..h.,,,.., will be LII proportion, and the
n.
L ..
I.
. be '
steal. cenlnell to the legitimate tontine. Pe.rk Hall.
7 t , , , ,,:: rn- ? „.,„. 1 . ,. t•-arment adrrwtilerlanlts Iwnwlr. l 4 LA at. E aroteotairoohous Hall fur t'oncerta,Lect4ren,ahLl Fob
Iti.: af 1r v rears' itty.”-t‘.le3 will be ;r e l e n t ed " l lf' A'l lir 4... tilv ,r
..... , fll pet cent -.1,1 se mode on all except tern. i fh, stacks •,:- (,0, , L , a r l m tii .:: l : 1 , F r Al d
, 1 / 4 t n c i : l :' , o . t v
,t,heo. Park ,i.i:,7...qu:r:r,,,,t,
freemen:a, ii Len tald in &drum, : Peons
INESS DIRECTORY. ; ---
JA3115781 LYTLE.
, . r ,,, s r • cent.,, oet..lpitst by James Slll, Eel , 1 - t - s
a
&Um: ~e, Liwt ~.,, ~. '. .dari..al between the Rred 1
~.
J OwEPH w CLARK. , I
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0E N B B 0
B. 0B R T 2050
Ede,
24. rt
71'.
" Ti " fif: t LER TN ronros A xi) ' DONI‘: 4 IIe
lIIPOETER A V
HARD'WAR
—AND—
E,
__crfa'l.4P,Ft."'l7",
, , r ~.stn J 1.,t1e I
t No 39 PE kilt , Ti lt and Ve !IA ST , .:\ E MEET.
I . lit fFt LO CLOIEHLNIii ISTOklf, I NEVI' YORK. In-41
I.
„.... e . - - an,: ilsnalactiuor in prat ,CuLty Rawly 1 --_,_--
,I,•ntiemen .. furnishing Goods. Au 7, Browns I
~, ..nest, r rm. P.
)
P. A. HECKER,
nod Prop woos, l Began, ke T..,
-„.e treat, Chesplied, Erie, Pa. 47
WILLIAM TMORNTIJ,II,
s Deeds, Ariemen—t Bends sad
is , s.curately and es.refully drawn. lace en
Jss Sterrett, Grneery Store Erie, Ps.
tllYVlliilk BAN V
..,ea. rrorlecon• t ilttducr. Pork. Ptah, deft, Groan,
.
. •...1444, Nth ktrooms, ?silk %V I,odeq 111" w
a., ter h. Pliant low. No. 4 Wright a
• -•-- t, 4 4 ~ r s above the Poet Office, Kew, Ps 41
FYILSK dn WA.R.IIB.X.
- n‘h•Jaiiy. N^4. Anoorican Mock. ( otter
- -14 an la.. Prin“ Dal l'atloo of Ow Coined Staten an•l
i•,•,••••••.4 pr•••11.i•tl7 nowittod. Boak Note n,
a.LJ • • I.tervot pud on tune deposits -
• e ml., land Wnrroots bought. sold and loured
••••••• .s r r'l 3J
J. 4. t.
Dealer in Mr.t and Dry t;r..neri.-n,
IN I 41..taralir Frutt, VVooliori. Vi'll
, 1., , alt, that, Sant, Pow r, hot,
opposite th.• Itre.l
MEE
I=
BUM 1 a. SI•CONIILIKY, _
...11/14 . A merinn Marllguw•Et4 Cutlery
• vs 6 Stei:No 3 Nore6 Vimulke, Kt.
I. STOILEg.
•i ,s Ylt ,k I O. Jetasers, maid Retail Dealers in ever , . .3...
••.. iloulest,e ihr Caryeting, IS,
V. 53, 'tale street, earn, of Fifth, Erie, I's
Vital. BEKIME 411 c DiCKINP.O7.4I,
uttuLo-partm•npfp, would resiret full,' offer their
we, so the cittsetaa of Eno sad vainit.% F.apt.
. Ihe given to otntetties
P.TAKM. & P.% VSE,
.1114411., MCYCY. YTY , Doelern in ( J•h.
• Ito and floater Public Duck, eiLid •Ukto
=I
r•ito[1111, Erie. P. Internet
'light Drilla, t.heeks and Aped.. u
• J. Warrant% bought and end Colleetiona
• 4. cities in the United States tu•,noy re
• ~• .• reepoustbility 11
DR. J. L. STEWAII.T. -
• • Qrsogo% Oillce k
"" - . 1 14.10 too timresatk. •traria ki.emdents,
• •or oast of gadirrnis
VV. 11.11,',111310k1C,
true elhoarclitit, J.h.►ow, i r C.
, tirrs of Foreact. .na thittwinc,tory hood.,
Warren •.r
Li , I, ,cuit3—, ('Ratio A: 4 .llltPlitkr.,
33 l•►t►x A. ztArltios..lol
TIBRALS, ILVIZS 41.- CO.,
DI:ALS/US Hnancv and Maple I)rr
.4. Clottet, No. 1 Brnlro'm Binek, En..
OAGILL 6-. CO.,
' , mete, conttuhr their other to Beetr's Block
•rth side of the Puhltc Square, ere prepert.l t
Puortr with all other operator% to pru•re, e.tuo
accurlnue t., it. quality awl real s‘tie
ALLEN A• EK1111:.
pace—“fhce in %ea Block corner o' Peach
• '3 , llte 'Aquae*, Erte Pa.
E. H. AISELL,
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•aceeeeor fe Witham #1 &issrmas,
ti. •r, :4quare, between the Reed noose lied
I•. -tun. taken in the Lest Inv le of U.. gal an..!
lEEE
I . IIOIIAS K. AL STUN, .
/wit j lhe,tres d O. Lowsu Ce.,,
watchell, Jewelry, Silver NA.,41110. Ilue,ca! In
*Stares, Lampe and Fancy (loud.,
ROGIntB 4r. KENNEDY.
`socesoort to Cadlioell slug Beamdt.)
: • sTIII DelLiOnl liordooro, Civekery, Gloorwar,
\ and 12 Impleit Bloc/s, oorsar of Ftith Lod
Lne, Pa 1 33
1 Eery. tin',
LIDDE:LL, KYPLER, dir. CO.,
• ~ heuoe, Ruling Strut' Boilers, ViuLlt Doom.
Lou &La fuels of AlLiictiloary %ad Fancy LW.
M. CHAPIN,
T DLYT I if—OglC, LE the AI9IIIIC/1.11 Elk.ck
Mare street and the Public ,quare up
resew:able, sad all work • Arran te.
:s4 D FOOD & CO,
-c•, .sauk Now*, Certificates of Deposit, ,Fr•
, far IV. ctt..ra constantly I'vr sale qtr.
~un..re, Erie
It ItlIN STUJI. RT,
• • "tr Fifth street, a kw- do Lart • :
• -•... -•reet • one door Emit 41 the r,ln
1401.1 TH at: STEWART,
1 " 1.. Ca. i“-a. r in Fancy and "q&ple Dry , •oods at.n
HOY/. sod brawn a Howl
(.IiOE(.E H. CUTLER.,
' • ' , I. Lne, County. I's Collertions sr
. t o with promptness sod dAspstch
( IKTIH £ BROTHER,
•. Pat:, 0.:6
• - Reid House, E..ry., I's.
JOHN P.AWEEN
Ottoo iu liestty'• Building, up-Main
JOIN IIEALII: 0 4 dc CO.,
,ameelon Slerchante, deniers In foal, Flour
Sail, line of Upper Lake Summers, I'uhll.
tillSOltti 11 J. MORTON,
Contrnintion Merchant, Public Pn
fish, f lour and Planter
. tt. VVILIGHT 414: CO,
, r, and Dealers In Hold and !hirer Coln, nnsnr
...,,- Warrants and Certinsatos of Lrepont.
Mn ',rortnetpal elites in the Union, and all parts n
' r sale , lea, Brattr's Budding% in tbr room
grattr k t orb, an, Nrortb std. of Park
I. I' HA , LItT, t E Groanpoor
T. It. BLAKE,
r'7 . V. A holt...ale •nd Itntall l'lnnlrr In Fornicn •ne
.—n, ArMetal no.ers, Ribbons, ,111.. Lim...,
•'" ' non, Yo 0 1 fiee•l's Block, Matt stre.4. Frio..
,____2_ .____ ' •••••ntlon run to 11rdrrn.
„, tl 4:111t1 ek CLAIM,
•- 1 1 1•11,1 {lll D•allte• le and 1M1X , 110.1
• /WA, Tobacco, Frult, halt, , hl, and AIt...HA .
•,- V 4 7 Bose/all Bloct, Stale .tr,t Erte,
=I
JOUN W. A YILKI4.
•/) , 1 Katmai [Nader La all kinds of I. an,.
wilfor and Dunn( Chaff rs, Vri 4 K•
W.G. IIIECAMP,
J H. t4llplll/1012 II Bookstore. Per.
+ME% c. IiAIII4IIIALL,
u p own in Tammany Hall Ana Laing
33 Fria,
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. F . HRALIVV,
, • oeze,n IPMfI Farms, Leery Dealer, Trtie•r
-.onto otlery hill *erne:. to the pUbliC gr'li
Ana: Lenehne, where he will b. ght.l to
Horse lo the ...t W f 'MALEY,
=I
HU.I. RILLASLD SALOON.
trta. gra Fifth Stn..% and tho Park
_ _
J. J. LINTK.
.• MN :ably Illagaam... Chomp Publica
A.• \ evrapapers, Goid Pons, Cutlen ,
A.
Hoed N. laie
I. W. 01.1,11 It (11..
"" Wholenale and R.t.h &ale,'" In Well nod Os
qualit•. the elteeneeet sod b ee t er.a .11 n..
+••met nenr Peach. Frl..
•nr-Ttn ir •athr for , f m nr rneehankni
r' 1111ILIT
% 1 1 e MINIM It
4 sou'..tur.r. sqtsh, Dt.tes sod flitnds, Pesch st
br Huth Jon,'
-
• k. curacßll.l..
III•i i4.lkie, 14.ut.1e Reetided Whi in , h•
no , h .rt
WI
—‘,„ Lami.
-"R AT Tr —nek e Northei r t Cor n .. n(
MEE
( LUCK a ntf•DWO4,--
Asee••••• 14 R• 01•11 Herr.%)
ito•af, i a L.y. -tug s , )l6 diellarr. Pate* 0014
Hovoliaa, N0V....y. rho 54 . 4 4,4 red
"`h. '4 RA.4 A. a:
:At
I. • 11/11b11131.
ERIE - - 'WEEKLY -- .OBSERVER
CLEVELAND & ERIE R. R.
ging_MIRIPINAPIPMME
ON nod after March 24, 14.37, 1'h.4414.-r Trams xlll r./11
.• invrg, viz.—
Legate ClPrelso.l fur f!.rbe at 6:00 ►. n., 3 rj r• ■ /144 10:1141 I X
110. 11. train Intil stop at all way stations .au.•pt
W-atop • Peen, Unionville and Saybrook. i 4. 10:00 P. s., tr.o
will atop at PaineertllN Aantsbola, Conneaut ►no Girard only.
MIMIMEMINIII
11, sew," 1 vprt w lea, n.• for ClPTeland n• 12 15 P. ?t
. 0, 01 pk,, inrard. I:en... and
6 4:1 , t •• A 1.1 for tlevela.td at 3t7 t tt.
, E e rr. 23n
,a 1 /. onnraut, %silt nnr
run. on 1.1. nt.l, t y tram at all
11.1. say 1•rn..1. P. 1,7, Yinntnn an..
TI.. 210 I, .1- 1 , at ..krani, 4 vrtan•ant, 4.61.0..a1ni a an..
1 . ..ae5., unly
The( uofl*Mlt tra'u will leititi ronneeet et 7 15. w ,and atop /I
all Way z+Latioua.
All of thr th,rota,h tram. gning Walotararti •-onnart at Cleveland
aotitrsin• h t rac,., Polualhus, Cinrstmatt, kr., kr,
Azl alb 11.• 11tnntth tr.sita Nqtri,l at lk, rh
%W. t‘o• N 1 k F it R In.! Ptcaffsl., with thime I N,
Crutr‘. and Rug:al,' ant \as t ork (Its
Wk.. a C. A. F..R It
Marc h
1857.
Butialo '
mu.' allow Monda3, Idarrh Pammenger Trains wsll bale Cri•
J a. folios
I 4A A 400 raprrax, Plopping at Wt•ottt....let, Dunkirk,
,i. , r rrerik, c. , nnoTtlng Pt nunkukt and liorfalo
Nl.,niing Truno for York
I=l
6 . War Exprvka, wtoppin.; at all stations., eonnPrttny at
lkonki•k and railaln wri. War Trains test
12. JAI , /lad sr.. , , , ping at Qtattlrins and cnn
n.cflri Ivonkirk and BufSkio with E Nprraa Trxino
ft, Nes. York.
Pv , Coirinnat. aprrat, stopping at Westfield, Dunkirk
and StLrrrcrr. k, ronnetttag at D.arilark and Hulfalo
with Expre** Traila for Now York.
JAA G PAT,II6
MEHIPM=IIMMI
IMEZEM
cuyiiill & MEE MIMI IN
SPH/N6 , ARRA .VG EMEN T
Trains run through to Wheeling & Pittsburg..
0. and aft, rl4 • rela y s Ut. 'Mu. t 7, • rat. run tits..., ,urt
NC* t. r t , rt ' • tt,
A M I' '• 11
Z. 14
d
81:1
BEE
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12 16 6
12 .31 c 3c ,
12 11 t, ♦•
12 4.4
EMI
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2.5 ,3 w
"RAIN , I r
Amry
TT.
J, at. Brn.lo• , p. , rt
4 Pot ., k 44.1
k, 11, It Rua!, Hun.
10 24 8-( Lagran go.
!Gob.: d ! . .0' St. n hen•ille
W`MlffilEM
MEI
is t , 6 6 1. 3
I-. 3 1 t 4'
ESE
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.4 4
Tram 1•►•.6 \•w / hal►dNpbu 74S • at I v r►t h
K►~.~-
bur, A•,..,• A I ita.arri at 10 nn.•tint a lla Tr„.r•
;;41 Matti i trw, i . I .. , 4;.e44;.1, 4411.1 N 1,4114;
11ey5...1 AI I 4. ; a-nral of Thalia fr;.;;; t .44w4;4441441,
lapel WI,• • tn._ Aa, n.••Lurp at 'I. 4.5 / ■ Arr spa at rh,, r
at 4 t 0• and tlade ph k a al )r p x
tirnr. le•vtland and VV.:Abort sl
1
c. nrn•r• at ritivvorz with Pvtonxrlvar
• liar-..t.,.•:, Floi.‘drlpLoot, lial'tlN•r«, No w Vbrk •b4l
tth tr,.•'t, nn.l Induan. 1...11,4.4 f.
1 f• and I ,nrinrati
A II P kind,* an.l , /1.1.t0 ItAtirr,.ti for rutni.pr
dn , a.t, 0,1 and 1 4 10, -, ,
,L .to
A 4 ,•h thr "hon and Plancl
f r Ruff ,1,,. F • ald `s. ‘t 1 , rk T
k mod, Itmtrrii ,, ft, i .at. nit, Ka( kIl
ors ttkee, Ikl,ll and ti. • • r •
rr ha.. 1 , 1 'he (V9ce nn tlie also at
al, rho principal Tick. 11111r.s or the I anon, c„,„surettnirPottif,
Isr AA .ow a, 41 any other houte
'uyerintkn.fßot*. Offr P R. R . ', I
t. t, lay. 1, Mn-rh C, 1447
=PLEB, 1100TH & CO.
V 3 PERRY 111. O. IL St OF , 41). MI. \ 711, and , 11g,
I IL. Hare Jul ti rn0..1 fr.•en th. , 2,0 otry and
• , lt , •t• •n4l st. • + r lial. l
au •. • ::•.• • P•o'.'•
MUM
rroch 3rier,n , 4,
w,..'
, at mete,
t I I
I. ad 1140 ,
11,,,k t ..eimert.,
k nrese
Junnette,
("mimes,
I hater
GROCERIES.
•uraro—lt row n , 'termed,
...urtr Finns.. 1ta1....,
• I' ,•,
ieu k launN, a :1 enimi,
ottork,
:r,,• n foin,:.
141.1•4 IluAsku
0 11U11A
il,klOZ
, 11,1. n.
OEM
Teas—W.3a and tart o,
Rio. Ears 0.4 L...rtir• ( - ode*. .50.14.
ts... -1 wto, a al.
IMMEI2I
T\l•le 1 i• len
Ho n.,
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Men r fr p r (AV Pont•, Ladies 11n Bootee%
Calf
" warm. " Gaitors,
Ros • R..nt• and qhnf.s, Wow* Mn acd fait Elootms,
hi.dr•-• I lieary rhn.i, 11111, x Imo ,41anta.
HATS AND CAPS.
Hem . 6oe Cass*mere Huts, Mee s ('loth Cam
Sols Wool fists,
Plush bound to Cloth Caps,
MILLINERY GOODS.
Bonnet Satins, All .1,a,.•., Bennet Frauses,
French Whiskor Blond,
Como ( l •own LUANG
Nam ~ t osor Bonnet., flushes.
ha,. eo•ametate•l a b•w the ♦rtrrb keep: but the
fart r• •e k 0.4, tin. 4.t . rood/ nip',
11,..114:1 In • hunily.
firms. call and examtshe oar stock trnablo to show roods
rw Country Pro4Lses Lira to • tetialip., for 'shirk the Islgkirst
notrlrt priers soli br Mowed.
tr, Jsootarr 31 , 18+57.
Bs l ash Pala ra'
sertibatat. Window. i'earh, Rcirsitare, Hearth, Oral* Blase, Hat,
i'li.th, Tanners, Ilasterent, Paper 1 LanAera, all can be had chair at
tl.- liras :tame et CARTER it. BRO.
rep. Jour 7, 1 tia.
_
FLCHDRING! ORU!G!
UTA hrit t g.l3, 2 =ll` 4l " dl t l hm iz sad w t o m n r d to, c o rcni .;
aide at oar Maine Hill karma lb drat
r , . • r , h IagCARTER it NALI.P.ItY.
- - _
To all whoa it may
_Conan.
A LI. moons who haow throrloomihodototot to tbe .• hare*"
j . A . either toy Note or Rook /teem" any ae that rakes pay
tn.et Isola& ea or berets the lest day of • • their maim or
oatmea be hitt with • Issaakas of Ike addiseldae.
Xplh M. • 14,. RANA t CO.
1 1 -* wourrilb—Aeouee • et citemaesta la
d gar Cared llama, at J. JO Aso/ 4. RAO'S.
11 I iAV
LAST W ARL,
WR 4 TWAIII)
NOTTI NG H AM
Sn't.
1857
Erie Railroad.
'! _ . L.,_ ,•i_ !
AUMME K A RHANGEMENT
IL N. 111:OWN, Suy't
TIDET.I It I. E
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••r.
}Ca a La_
111
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lin, .
1110 , r
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=Ell
IMMO
Rollo {a
CET
Ye , I". Creek
‘,V..11x, I,i/A
Lt.erpofkl
.Fruittrp Ferry
Mit=
b , -
TI:mOAttAY% Aj IiILANCIi
COS E,C I lONS
ND, Mil
bill GiinDS
r=l!=!
HARDWARE
A 1.“,
Sbo•eb,
IMO
*elect cfottrp.
Thu a a ample eons, "tie true„
• And male lite thew are simor atm
And yet well try wed sesiter *NOB
cur livelier, full of chance Lod chomp.
tid ch►um, you know, is never purr •
: And 'twowe a doetrine new and strange
That places high are most assure
And thou Rh the tickle god sway wade,
•
Arid yield the sceptre and the crown,
flu only fora little while;
Then ft goes up and A goes down.
noict Misctlian4.
THE DEAD SECRET.
Tr,tvelling from London to Porthgenna, Mr.
and Mr, Frankland had stopped on the ninth of
May, at the West Winston station. On the
eleventh of June they left it again, to continue
their journey to (' wrnwail. On the twelfth, af
, ter resting a night upon the road, they arrived,
toward th, , evening, st l'ortbgenna Tower.
Thi re hail been iitorm and rain all the morn
ing; it hart lulled toward the afternoon; and, at
the hour when they reached the house, the wind
bad dropped, a thick, white fog hid the sea from
view, and sudden showers fell drearily from time
to tine• over the sodden land Not even a soli
tart' idler from the village was banging about
the wept terrace, as the carriage containing Mr.
and Mrs Frankhind, the baby, and the two set
vents who were with them,droveuptotbehouse
No ono was waiting with the door open to receive
the tray• lers; fir all hope of their arriving on
that iIA) had been given up, and the ceaseless
thundering of the surf, as the stormy sea surged
in on the beach beneath, drowned the roll of the
earruig , wheels over the teirsee road The dri
ver was obliged to leave seat, and ring at the
Lell (N.l a,lmittanee A minute or more elapsed
before Ile. door was opened With the rain fat
ling sulleu and steady on the roof of the carriage,
wit h th,. raw ,l ate pees s of the atmosphere pene
trating through all e•rcerings and defenses, with
the Looming of th, surf eounding threateningly
near in 1., .1. hie itiseurity of the fog, the young
couple waited for admission to their own home,
as strsngtrs might harp- waited who bad called
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ter and trt , .tr svn .ru the servant+ would have
welcomed wt , h the proper coogr•tnistions on any
other i.erioi;oh, wore now received with the prop.
4.r apologo+ in+teads Mr. Munder, Mrs. Pen
treat h, itetae. aud Mr Frankland's man, all
crowded to g , ther :o the hall, and all begged par
don contusedly f,4r not ba s ing been ready at the
door, whet, the carriage drove up. The appear
ance a the baby changed the conventional ezen
-es ‘ , l the housekeeper and the maid into eon
vetithmal expressions of admiration; but themes
remaiutd grave and gloomy. and spoke of the
miserable weather apologetically, u if the rain
and the fog had been of their making. The
reacon f I h4-:r pers:stency in dwelling on this
4, 4;c itear topic, came out while Mr. and Mrs.
Ftunklauti ware being conducted up the west
,lair case The storm of the morning bad been
fats! to liar. f the Porthgenua fishermen, who
had been lo.t with them boat at ACC and whose
de n . he had tln.wo the whole village into mourn
tog The tit rtants had done_ nothing but talk of
the catastrophe t ver since the intelligence of it
bad remihtti ILI en, early in the afternoon; and
Mr Munder now thought it his duty to explain
that the tatseuc« of the villagers, on the occasion
o f th e a rri va l of , his master and mistress, IMP
entirely attributable to the effect produced among
the hate community by the wreck the fishing
boat Under any le++ lamentable circumstances
the west terrace would have ken crowded, and
the apptaranee of the carriage would have been
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"Lenny, I almost wish we had waited a little
longer. before we came here," whispered Rosa.-
m on 4. nervously pressing her 'husband's arm.—
' It 1. , vet., dreary and disheartening to return
t asy fir-r borne on ~ tich a day as this.—
Th •t. , ry of tli- poor fishermen is a sad story,
I„ v , , TO weleome me back with to the place of
my lortli Let us send the first thing to mor
row m ruing, and see what We can do for the
po. r .11 women and children. I shall
not (Fe! easy in my mind, after bearing that
story, till we have thine something to comfort
thew
I trlio 3 , ,u will approve of the repairs, ma'.
am sail the housekeeper, pointing to the stair
ease which led to the second story
"The repairs?" said Rosamond, absently
'.Repairs'. I never bear the word now, without
thinking of the north rooms, and of the plans we
devised for getting my poor dear father to live
in them Mrs. Pentreath, I have a hat of
queationa to ask you and Mr. blunder, about all
the extraordinary things that, happened when
that mysterious lady and that ineom. prehensibl e
fen igner came to see the house., But tell me
firs.—this is the west front, I suppose—how
far ba, here, from the north rooms? I mean,
bow long would it take us to get to them, if
we wanted to go now to that part of the
houerr
"Oh. dear me, ma'am, slot five minutes"' an
w erf d Mrs. Pentreath
"Not fire minutes!" repented Rossmond, whis.
perior to her husband spin. "Do you bear
that. Leong' In five minutes we might be in
the Myrtle Room!"
"Yet," aid Mr Freehand, emiliog , " ie our
retie°, ewe of igoormee, we arei r eel as
far from it, ne if we were at West ingot
'
"I can't thhik that, Lenity. It may be oily
my fancy, but now we are oU the spa, I feel as
if we bat drive, the mystery lute its last hiding
place We are aetually its the bosun that bolds
the secret: and limiting will persuade tee that
we are not half way already toward Bodin it
oat. But don't let es sop es this esW Lod
hag. iltitielt - vfy are ire 19 go war ,
Going Up and Coning Dews.
• puzeb or two of good advice.
Then listen, pompons friends, and leers
Never to bowel of mats renown,
For Fortuto , s w heel la on tM tarn,
Ord some go up, and some co down.
W. know a rut amount of stocks
A oast amount a prole inariuvo.
Hul Fate dos picked no may took;
We wouldn't Mu to warrant yours
Reowokrr, thee, and norm opium
The one whom hand as hard sad aroma;
For lor La likely to go up,
nd you ore Likely to go down
Aust.Lae thing you will aye*,
(the truth my be , as wutleentimmado
That M.:4,454 &clammy,"
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Ntay oeet the Intl* ones to drown. •
Yet limb..a all, both groat and =NW.
ire g gup and coming down.
Thts world for you and roe. eny &Wad,
!let La ...methane more than pounds wad WIC*
Th.n lot me hnn ldy reconimend
A id , lo ur of summon wow
Thu. hay all pride of place ima.le,
An.: have s awe on whom you trown.
For four von'll woe him roue up,
When 3 nu are oaf) , going down
I=l
CHAPTER XIX.
tyPeesteltlei the Perellpire
$1 50 A MR, IN ADVANCE.
E, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY .23, 1857,
"This way, ma'am," said Mr. Maeda, seis
ing the first opportunity of placing himself in
prominent position. "There is a fire in the
drawing room. Will you allow me the honor
of leading and oonductialyol4 Sir, to the apart
meet in question?" he added, officiously stretch
ing ens his baud to Mr. Fnutiland.-
"Oerstioly note' interposed Itemise:id, sharp
ly. Site had noticed with ber usual quickness
of obeervrtioa, that Mr. Mustier wanted the
delicacy of feeling which ought to have restrain ,
ed him from staring euriourd, at his blind mas
ter, in her presence; end she was unfavorably
disposed toward him in coneequesee. "Where'
ever the apartment in question may happen to
be," she continued, with satirical emphasis, "I
will lead Mr. lhanklaad to it, if you please. If
you want to make yourself useful, you had bet
ter go on before us, and open . the door."
Outwardly crestfallen but Inwardly indignant
Mr. Munder led the way to „the drawing room.
The Are burned brightly, the oldlaahlened fur.
niture displayed itself to the most picturesque
advantage, the paper on the walls looked com
fortably mellow, the carpet, faded as it was, felt
soft and warm underfoot. Rosamond led her
husband to as easy chair by the flriaide, and be
gan to feel at home for the first time.
"This looks really comfortiThle," she said.—
"When we have shut out that dreary white fog,
and the candles are lit, and the tea is on the ta
ble, we shall have nothing' is the 'mid to cont.
plain of. Yon enjoy this nice warm atmosphere,
claret you, Lenny? There is apiano in the room,
my dear: I tan play to you ja the evening at
Porthgenna, just as I used in London. Nurse,
sit down and make yourself and the baby as
comfortable at you can. Before we take our
bonnets off, I mast go away with firs. Pentreatb,
and see about the bedrooms. What is your
same, you very rosy,good natured looking girl?
Betsey, is it? Well then, Betsey, suppose you
go down and get the tea; and we shall like you
all the better, if you can contrive to bring us up
some cold meat with h." Giving her orders in
those good hnmord terms, and not noticing that
her husband looked a little uneasy while she
was talking so familiarly to a servant, Rosamond
left the room in company with Mrs. Peotreath.
When she returned, her face and manner were
altered: she looked and spoke seriously and
quietly
"I hope I bare arranged everything for the
beat, Lenny," she said. "The airest end lar
gest room, Mrs. Pentreath tells me, is the room
in which my mother died. But I thought we
had better not make use of that: I felt as if it
chilled and maddened me, only to look at it.—
Farther on, along the passage, there is a room
that was my nursery. I almost fancied, when
Mrs. Pentreath told me she had heard I used to
sleep there, that I remembered the pretty little
arched door-way leading into the second room—
the night nursery it used to be called in former
days. I have ordered the fire to be lit there,
and the beds to be made There is a third room
on the right hand, which communicates with
the day nursery. I think we might manage to
establish ourselves very comfortably in the three
rooms—if you felt no objection—though they
are not so large or so grandly furnished as the
company bed rooms. I will change the arrange
ment if you like—bet the brine look, rather
lonesome and dreary, just sit first—end my
heart warms to the old nursery—and I think we
alight at least try it, to begin with—don't you,
Lenny?"
Mr. Frankland was quite of his wife's spin
ion, and was ready to accede to any domestic ar
rangements that she might think fit to make
While he was assuring her of this, the tea came
u p ; an d th e sight of it helped to restore Rosa
mond to her usual spirits. When the m ea l wee
over, she occupied herself in seeing the behy
comfortably established for the night in the
room on the right hand which oommunicated
with the day nursery. That maternal duty per.
formed, she came back to her bultband in the
drawing room; and the oonyersation between
them tuned —as it almost always turned, now,
when they were alone—on the two perplexing
subjects of Mrs Jaseph and the Myrtle Room
"I wish it was not night," said Rosam on d
"I should like to begin exploring at once Mind,
Lenny, you must be with me is all my investi
gations I lend you my eyes, and you give me
your advice. You mast never lose patience, and
never tell me that yowean be of no use I look
to y ou t o keep up my courage, as well as to help
me with advice. Bo* Ido wish we were start
ing cn our voysprof discovery at this innmen.l.
Bat we may make inquiries at any rate," she
continued ringing the bell. "Let us have the
housekeeper and the steward up; and try if we
esn't make them tell us something more than
they told as in their letter "
The bell was answered by Betsey. RAsarnond
desired that Mr Mender and Mrs Pentreath
might be sent op stain. Betsey, having heard
Mrs Frankland express her intention rtf ques
tinning the honsekeepor and the steward, guess
ed why they were wanted, and smiled mysteri
onslv
"Did you see any thing of those strange vi=i
ton w h o b e h ave d B O oddly?" asked Rosamond,
detecting the smile. ~Y es. lam sure you did.
Tell ns what you saw. We want to hear every
thing that bappened—every thing, down to the
smallest trifle."
Appealed to in these direct terms, Betaey,
contrived, with Much circumlocution and confu
sion, to relate what her own personal experience
had been of the,proceeclinga of Mrs. Jazeph ■od
her foreign companion. When abe bad done.
Roaamoud stopped her on her way to the door,
by asking this question:
"Yon say the lady was found in t fainting St
at the top of the stairs. Have you any notion,
Betsey, why she fainted"
The servant hesitated.
"Coale! come!" said &seta and. "Yon
have some notion, I can see. Tell us what it
"I'm afraid yon will be and with me ma'am,'
said Betsey; expressing embarrassment by draw
ing lines slowly with her forefinger 011 a table at
her aide.
"Nonsense! I shall only be angry with you if
you won't speak. Why do you think the lady
fainted?"
Betsey drew a very long line with her embar
rassed forefinger, wiped it afterward on per apron
and answerel:
"I think sbe fiddled, if you please, ma'am,
bemuse she see the ghost "
"The :ghost! What! is there a ghost in the
house? Len_cy, here is a romance that we sever
expected. What sort of ghost is it? Let us
bare the whole story." •
The whole story, as Betsey told it„wu not of
a nature to afford her bearers any ezfreordinary
information, or to keep them vary long is sus
pense. Tb- ghost was a lady, who had bees at
a remote period the wife of one of the ovum" of
Porthgenna Tower, and who had boss guilty of
deceiving blr husband insoF--
ereee saksows.
She bad bees entntsed in to walk
de
about the north rooms, u 1 gas ever the walls
of them held together. She had long curling
light brown hair, and very white teeth, and a
dimple in each obeek, and was altogether
beautiful" to look at. Her appcoaeh was
heralded to any aortal mestere who was mem
estate enough to fall is her way, by the blowing
of a cold wind; sad sabody who had. ones felt .
that triad 11114 the sliglitass chases of ewer feel
ing mars win.. it vat ail Dewy k.sw
about the ghost; sad it was la hi!,.isuion
enough to freeze a person's blood only to think
of it.
Rosamond smiled, then looked grave again.—
"I wish you could have told us a little more,"
she said. "But, asyou can not, we must try
Mrs. Pentreath and Mr. Munder, next. Send
them up here, if you please, Betsey, as soon as
you get down stairs."
The examination of the housekuppr and the
steward led to no result whatever. Nothing more
than they had already oommuniested in their
letter to Mrs. Frankland could be extracted from
either of them. Mr. Munder's dominant idea
was, that the foreigner had entered the doors of
Porthgenna Tower with felonious ideas on the
subject of the family plate. Mrs. Pentresth
concurred in that opinion, and mentioned, in eon•
section with it, her own private impression that
the lady in the quiet dress was an unfortunate
person who had escaped from a madhouse. As
to giving a word of advice, or suggesting a plan
for solving the mystery, neither the housekeeper
nor the steward appeared to think that the ren
dering of any assistance of that sort lay at all
within their province. They took tbeir own
practical view of the suspicilius conduct of the
two strangers, and no mortal power could per
nada them to look an inch beyond it.
"Oh, the stupidity, the provoking, impene
trable, pretentious stupidity of those two pen
plat." exclaimed Itcieunond, when she and 1. , r
husband were alone again. "No help, Lenny
to be hoped for from either of them. We have
nothing to trust to now but the examination of
the house to-morrow; and that resource may
fail us, like all the rest. What can actor
Chennery be about? Why did we not hear
from him before we left West Winston yester
day?"
"Patience, Rosamond, patience. We shall
see what the poet brings to-morrow."
"Pray don't talk about patience, dear My
stock of that virtue was never a very large one.
and it was all exhausted ten days ago at least
Oh, the weeks and weeks I have been vainly
asking myself that one question, Why should
Mrs Joseph warn me againet going into thv
Myrtle Room? Is she afraid of my discovering
a crime? or afraid of my tumbling through the
floor? What did she want to do in the roo m
when she made that attempt to get into it?—
Why, in the name of wonder, should she
knotruhmething about this house that I. never
knew, that my father never knew, that nobody
else'—"
"Rosamond!" cried Mr Frankland, maidenly
ebanging color, and starting in his chair "I
think I can guess who Mrs. Joseph
"Good gracious, Lenny' What do you
mean?"
"Something in "thane last words of yours
started the idea in my mind the instant you
spoke. Do you remember, when we were stay.
ing at St. Swithin's on Sea, and talking about
the chances for and against our prevailing no
your father to live with us here—do you remem
ber. Rosamond, telling me at that time of e. r
tain upleasant associations which he had with
the house, and mentioning among them the mys
terious disappearnbe of a servant on the morn.
ing of your mother's death"
Rosamond turned pale at tly. question
"Row came we never to think of that before"
the said.
"You told me," pursued Mr. Prinkland. "that
this servant left a strange letter behind her, in
which she confessed that your m , ther had charg
ed her with the duty of telling a secret to your
father —a secret that she was afraid to divulge,
and that she was afraid of being questioned
about. lam right, am I not, in stating those
two reasons as the reasons she gave for her lir,:
appearance?"
"Quite right."
' , And your fattier never beard of hrr scan?"
"Nover!"
"It is s bold guess to make. Rosamond; but
the impression is stratig on my mind that, on
the clay when Mrs Joseph came into your room
at West Winston, you and that servant met, and
she knew it!"
"And the secret, dear—tbe secret she was
afraid to tell my father?"
"Nast bp in Some Wiy connected with the
Myrtle Rnotn."
Rosamond said nothing in answer, She rose
from her chair, and began to walk agitatedly
up and down the rry , • Rearing the rustle of
her dress: Leonard c led bet to him, and, tak
iog her hand, laid s fingers on her Tull., and
i
then lifted them f a moment to her chei.k
"I wish I had aited until t morrow tryrr,-
ing before I told you my idea about Mrs ,L i sph."
he said. "I have agitated yu t , no purpose
whatever, and have speiled your chance of a good
night's rest "
"Nn. nn! nothing of kin.l Oh, Lcnny,
how this guess of yours d. the . the
fearful, )Irenthle.s intermit harp in traeina
that woman. and in finding nu the Myrtle Rnoco•
Dn ,nu think—"
"I have done with thinking, for the night, my
dear; and ynn mnst have (Pule with it ton We
have maid more then enough about Nlrn J o ze r l)
already Change the suhject, and I will talk of
anything elne you plea-e "
k not so easy to change the .object," .aid
Rosamond, pouting. and moving away to walk
up and down the room again
"Then let us change the place. aril trii.ke it
easier that wsy. I know you think me th e m .
provokingly obstinate man in the world, but
there is reason in my obstinacy, and you will
seksowledge as much when you Stake to-morrow
ramming refreshed by a good n;it'A's rest Ct. l nP,
let us give our anxieties a holiday. Tall, me
into one of the other ronms, and let roe try
if I can guess what it is like by touching the
furniture "
The reference to his blindness which the !wit
words contained brought Rosin-mid t" hiia ride
in • moment. "You always know beat," she
said putting her arm round his neck and kksinc
him. "I was looking cross, love, a mir-te aim
but the clouds are all gone now. Nk.'e will change
the scene. and explore some other room, as you
propose "
She paused, her eyes suddenly sparkled, her
color rose, and she smiled to herself, as if some
new fancy bad that instant crossed her mind.
"Lenny, I will take you where you shall touch
a very remarkable piece of furniture indeed,"
she resumed, leading him to the door while she
"(dm. "We will see if you can tell me at once
what it is like. Yon must not be impatient,
mind; and you must pronaisis to touch nothing
till you feel me guiding your hand."
She drew him after her along the paatilge,
( the door of the room in which the baby
:
17 1 een put to bed, made a sign to the tiurse to
be silent, and, leading Leonard up to the cot,
guided his hand down gently, so as to let the
tips of his lingers touch the child's cheek.
"There, Sir:" she cried, her face beaming
with happiness as she saw the sudden flash of
surprise and pleasure which changed her hus
band's naturally quiet, Imbdued expression in an
instant. "What do you say to that piece rt fur.
allure? Is it a chair, or a table? Or is it the
meet precious thing in all the house, in all Corn
wall, in all England, in all the world? Kiss it,
and see which it is—a bust of a baby by a mulct ,
tor, or a living cherub by your wirer' She turn
ed, laughing, to the Duna: " Hannah , you look
so serious that I am sure you must be hungry.
Have had your supper yet?" The woman
smfl / sad accused tbst she had arranged to
to dolt* stilts, s soes as vie of the serpents
could relieve her in taking bare of the child.—
"Go at ones," said Rosamond. "I will stop hers
and look _after the baby. Get your supper, and
come back again in half as hour."
When the nurse had left the room, Rosamond
placed a chair for Leonard by the side of the eot
and seated herself on a low stool at his knees.—
Her variable disposition seemed to change again
when she did this; her foes grew thoughtful, her
eyes softened, as they tuned now on her hes •
band, now on the bed in w hich the child was
sleeping by his side. After a minute or two of
silence she toot one of his hands, placed it on
his knee, and laid her cheek gently down on it.
"Lenny," she said, rather sadly, "I wonder
whether we are any of us capable of feeling per ,
feet happiness in this world?"
"What makes you ask that question, my
dear?"
"I fancy that I could feel perfect huppineee,
and yet—"
"And yet what?"
"And yet it seems as if, with all my blemings,
that biessiag was never likely to be granted to
we. I should be perfectly happy now, but for
one little thing. I snpe you can't guess what
that ltule thing i'?"
"I would rather you told me, Roaamood."
"Ever pipet nur child wax bore, love, I have
had a little. aching at 'he heart---especially when
w.• are all tLree I., k ietber,aa we are now—a little
~,r 71,1, that I cau't gore put away from me, on
yo u r ace.•uot "
-On my account! Litt up your bead, Ross
mond, arA come nearer to me. I feel some
thing ma my band which tells me that you are
crying."
She rose directly, and laid her fare close to
his. "My own love," she said, clasping her
arms fast round. "My own heart's darling, you
have never seen our child."
"Yes, Rosamond, I sae him with your eyes."
Oh, Lenny! I tell you every thing I can
—1 do my best to lighten the acne!, cruel dark
ness that shuts you out from that lovely little
face lying so close to you! But eau I tell you
low he 1.,0ka when he first begins to take notice?
can I tell you all the tbouewd pretty things be
will do when he first tries to walk? God has
been very merciful to us; but oh, bow nail
more heavily the sense of your affliction weighs
on me, now when I am more to you titan your
wife, now when I menthe mother of you ebild!"
" And yet that affliction ought to weigh light
ly on your Fpirita, Rossmond; for you have made
it weigh lightly on mine."
Have I' Really and truly, have I? It is
ling noble to live for, Lenny, if I can live
for that! It is some comfort to hear you say, is
' you .aid just now, that you see with my eyes.—
They shall always serve you—oh, always! al•
wayst—as faithfully as if they were your own
The veriest trifle of a visible thing that nook
at with any interest you shall as good as look at,
too I might have bad my own little harmless
.eerets, dear, with another husband, but, with
you, to have even so much as a thought is secret,
seems like taking the basest, the cruelest advant
, age of your blindness Ido love you so, Lenny!
I am sn much fonder of you now than I was
when we were -first married—l never thought I
should be, but I am. You are so much hand
somer to me, so much cleverer to am, soak more
' prvcionA to me in every way. Bet las always
telling you that, am I not? Do yougat tired of
hearing me' No? Are mi , s p ;zre of that? Vary,
very, very sure?" She i and looked at
him earnestly, with a stosile on h er lips, and the
tears still glistening in lier eyes. Just then the
child stirred a little in his sot, and drew litg
attention away. She arranged the bed-elot
over him, watched him in silence for a little
while, then sat down again on the stool at Leonard's
feet. "Baby has turned his face quite. round
toward you now," she said. "Shall I tell you
exactly how he looks, and what his bed is like,
and how the room is furnished?"
Without waiting for an answer, she began to
describe the child's appearance and position with
the marvelous minuteness of a s,ran's obeer.
vatinn. While she proceeded, hellOdlastio spirits
recovered themselves, and its naturally bright,
happy exprepiion reappeared on her face. By
the time the nurse returned to her post, Roes
tuowl was talking with all her accustomed sin
city, and amusing Ater husband with all her
accustomed success
When they went back to the drawing-room.
the opened the piano, and sat down to play. "I
roust give you your usual evening concert,Lenny,"
-he said, "or I shall be talking spin on the for
bidden subject of the Myrtle Room."
She played some of Mr. Frankland's favorite
with a certain union of feeling and fanci:
fulne.s in her execution of the music, which
seemed to Mend the charm of her own disposition
with the charm of the melodies which sprang in
to lifo under her touch. After playing through
the aura she could remember moat easily, she end
d the Last Waltz of Weber. It was Leon.
errs favorite, and it was always reserved on
that account to grace the close of the evening's
performance
She lingered lonizer than usual over the last
pl•+intive note• of the waltz, the■ suddenly left
the piano, and hftstonoil across the room to the
Frp rOgro
' N IP. 111h01 much colder within the
.he .aid, kneeling down on
"inl! h , r (see and hands over the
' r • IT
EMI
11,0. 0 9- rerurrp.,l Lenard. "I don't feel
any eliang,.
Perhaps I have caught cold," said Roes
tn,,ud .•Or perhaps," she added, laughing t.ther
unea-ilv, 'the wind that goes before the ghostly
lady of the north rooms has been blowing over
rne I certainly felt something like a sudden
chill• Lenny, while I was playing the last notes
of Weber."
N o roeirge, Rosamond. You are oier•fatign
cd and over -excited. Tell your maid to make
Ton some hot wine and water, and lose no time
in getting to bed."
Rnsamood cowered closer over the fire. "It's
lucky that I am not superstitions," she said,
"or I might fancy that I was predestined t• see
the ghost."
CHAPTER XX.
gamines Is IM Brisk.
Tint first night at Porthgenna passed without
the slightest noise or interruption of any kind.
No ghost, or dream of a ghost, disturbed the
soundness of Rosamond's slumbers. She woke
in her usual spirits and-her usual health, and was
out in the weal garden before breakfast.
The sky was cloudy and the wind wand Ant
capriciously to all the points ofj the imeopens.—
In the course of her walk, Ruansoad met with
the gardener, and asked him what he thought
abut the weather. The man replied that it
might rain again before noon, but that, unless he
was very much nalMiX e it wee going to turn to
heat in the course next four-and-twenty
hours.
" Pray did you ever hear of a room os the
north side of our old house called the Illptle
Room?" inquired Rosamond. She had resolved,
on thing that morning, not to lore a abeam et
making the all-important diseoro7 for west of
asking question. of every body is the neighbor:
hood; and she bilges With the gardsmer word
ingl.
" y I
never beard tell of it, ma'am" said the
man. "But ifs I likely seas enough, eoseidei.
ing how the myrtles* grow in Giese parts."
" Are there any myrtles gamin at the math
B. F. ROAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER 2.
ride of the house" asked Rosamond, alma
with the idea of treeing the mysterious roes by
searchiag for it outside the building instead of
inside. "I mesa ekes to the walls," she added,
seeing the visa look puzzled, "ender the windows,
you kinewr'
" I sever see any thing under the windows,
in my time, but weeds and rubbish," replied the
gard eJest tner.
hen the breakfast bell rang. Renamed
returned to the hems, determining to explore the
north garden, and, if she found any relic of
bed of myrtles, to mark the window shove it,
sad to have the room which that window lighted
opened immediately. She ,confided this new
scheme to her husband. He eomplieseated hue
on her ingenuity, bat confessed that be bad so
peat hope of any diseoveries being made out of
doors after whet the gardener had said about the
weeds and rubbish.
As goon as breakfast wee over Rosamond nag
the bell to order the gardener to be in sanesdasee,
and to my that the keys of the north reuse salad
be wanted. The munsons was answered by NS.
Fnmklaad's servant, who brought up with hies
the morning's supplies of letters which the poste
man had just delivered. Rosamond turned them
over eagerly, pounced on one with an each's*.
tion of delight, and said to her husband—"Tbe
Long Beckley postmark! News from the vinery
at last!"
She opened the letter and ran her eye over it,
then suddenly dropped it in her lap with her fees
all in a glow. "Lenny!" she exclaimed, "there
is news here that is positively enough to turn
one's heed. I declare the vicar's letter has quite
taken Tavel sty breath!"
"Read it," said Mr. Freaklead, "pray read
it at ones."
Rosamond complied with the request io a very
faltering, unsteady voice Doctor Cheotiery be
gan his letter by announcing that his aliplication
to Aadrew Trevertos had remained unanswered;
but he added that it bad, nevertheless, produced
results whieh,no one could possibly have antici
pated. For information on the subject of those
moults, be referred Mr and Mrs Frankland to a
copy subjoined of a cocumur.leation marked
private, which he had received from his man of
beam sae in London. The communication con
tained a detailed report of an interview which
had taken place between Mr. Trevertun's servant
and the messenger who bad nailed fur an answer
to Doctor Chennery's letter It described the
circumstances (as coolly related by Shrowl him
self) ender which the copy of the plan of the
north rooms bad been made, and it announced
the copyist's readiness to part with the document
for tbet consideration of a five pound note. In a
postscript it was further stated that the messenger
had seen the transcribed plan, and bad ascertain
ed that it really exhibited the positions of dams,
stair eases, and rooms, with the names attached
to them, and that it presented the appearasee—
as far as Internal evidence went—of being fairly,
copied a genuine original
Resuming his own letter, Doctor • Chennery
proceeded to say that he must now leave it entire.
i and Mrs Frankland to decide what
course they ought to adopt. He had already
compromised himself a little in his own estima
tion,
by assuming a character which really did
not belong to him, when he made his application
to Andrew Trevertoo; and he felt that be could
7 illeture no further in the affair, either
ryZ i rnmisg an opinion or giving any advice,
now that it had assumed such a totally new as
pect. He fell quite sure that his young friends
would arrive at the wise and the rignt decision,
after they had maturely considered the matter in
all its bearings. In that couvietiuo, he had in
structed his man of business not to stir in the
affair until he bad heard from Mr. Frankland,
and to be guided entirely by any directions which
that gentleman might give.
" birections!" exclaimed Rosamond, crum
pling up the letter in a high state of excitement
an soon as she had read to the end of it. "All
the directions we may have to give may be writ.
ten in a minute and read in a second! What in
the world does the vicar mean by talking about
mature consideration? Of course," cried Rosa
mond, looking, womanlike, Ntr sight on to the
purpeire she had in view, without we ill:kg a tb night
on the means by which it was to be achieved—
"Of course we give the man his five pound note
and get the plan by return of post!"
Mr. Frankland shook his head, gravely, "Quite
impossible," he said. "If you think for a um
went, my dear, you will pun ly see that it is out
of thi question to traffic with a servant fur ins
formation that has been surrtptitiou,ly obtained
from his masteri library "
"Oh, dear! dear: don't say that!" pleaded
Rosamond, looking quite aghast at the view her
husband took of the matter. "What harm are
we doing, if we give the mau Lis five pounds?
He has only made a copy of the plau. He has
not stoles soy chit g."
" He has stoleu itifuroasuou, accurthog to my
idea of it," said Leousrd.
"Well, bat if he has," yerststel
. Risatwotta,
"what harm does it du to his tuahter? lu my
opinion his master deserve. t h:sve t inform'
anon stolen, for nor lis , sit,g h J t !re .o moo
politeness to send it to th, vi,l.sr We mu•tlase
the plan--Oh, Lenny, d,o'i akt pair bead,
please!—we must ba%e it, ) ,, u know w e Le us t ;—.
What is the use of being sciupulous with an pld
wretch (I must call ham -o, , hough he is any
nook) who won't couture, to the commonest
usages of society? You can't d, al with him—
and I am sure the vicar w, uid sdy so, if he was
here—as you would with rtvtlrc d people, Jr 4 petit
pie in their senses, which every hod ) says be is
net What use is the plan of the no-a, roou.s
to him? And, besides, if it 1- o' au) u.-e, be
has got the original; so his tut: rwatiou is not
stolen, after all, because b.; has got it the whole
titre—has he not, dear?"
" Rosamond: Itosawitidt - saol LLunard, ttmih
ing at his wife's traosoveut sophistries, "you
are trying t 3 reason like a Jesuit "
" I don't care who I reason like, love, as long
as I get the plan."
Me. Freakland still shook his his head. Find.
ing her arguments of no avail, Rosewood wisely
resorted tie the immemorial weapon of her sax—
Persuasion ; using it at such eLse quarters sad
to snob good purports, that she finally Aron her
husband's reluctant consent to a species of com
promise which granted her leave to give diree.
tions for purebasin the copied plan, on one eon:
dition. This eon dition was, that they should
send beck the plan to Mr. Treverton as soon as
it had served their purpose, making .a full ae•
knowledgement to-him of he manner in which
it had been obtained, and pleading in justification
of the proceeding his own want of courtesy in
withholding information of no consequence in it
self, which any ope else in his pace would have
communicated as a matter of course. ItUamond
tried bard to obtain the withdrawal, or modifies-
Lion, of this condition; but her husband's ern.
sitive pride was not to be touched, on that point,
with impunity, even by tier light band. "1
hive done too much violence already fo my own
convictions," be said, " and I will now do no
more. If we are to degrade ourselves by deal.
lag with this servant, let ns at least prevent him
from claiming Ins secomplices. Write in my
name, Rosamond, to Doctor akenue47's man of
hasiasea, and say fiat we sreeiliiing to purchase
the Inosonled , en the condition thew I
condition he will of 110111111
plies bake the servant in the plainest peals
Was."
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