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Grand is the leisure of the earth ;

cook, Mrs. Gwynne, an old and faithful follower of the family; witt Parks the ‘black, who bad come over with me from

She gives her happy myriads birth, And after harvest fears no dearth,

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‘into the trusted domestic.

1 must say a few words about this re- markable personage. I have ro idea of his crigia, or where my father had picked him

Dread is the leisure up above,

The while He sits, whose name is L ve, Aud waits, 2s Noah did, the dove,

To wit if she would fly to him.

of him.

He waits for us while, houseless things . . - of appearance, such as the woolly head, jet We beat about with bruised wings, os cs a : ns , black complexion, thick lips, with brilliant. On the dark floods and water-springs, ; : , » | . ; d * ; ly white teeth, he bad nothing of the accent, | 1 otherwise skould. Ihe ruined world, the desolate sea ;

With opeu wiadows from the prime, All night, all day, he wuits sublime, ; . : reared in Great Britain. Le professed the ' Protestant religion, which, as all the other Servants were Roman Catholics, made him, | joined with his color, an object of half fear, ‘half dislike. My aunt came soon to regard | him with the highest esteem, and trusted him implicitly. He acted as butler and coach- | man, and superintended in general all mat-

ters within and without; in fact, was a sort Of major domo in aunt Osborne's establish.

Until the fulness of the time

Decreed from his eternity

Where is ovk leisure? Give us rest!

Where is the quiet we posse ssed?

We must have had it ouce—were blest With peace, whose phantoms yet entice.

Sorely the mother of mankind

Longed for the gardens left behind ;

For we still prove some yearning blind,

and was a special favourite of mine; the|

One day I well remember, Mrs. Osborne had gone out to pay a distant visit, and | wouls not be back, she told me, till late. Parks, of course, had driven the carriage.

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Susan |had undertaken to do all the work during the cook’s illness, so as to obviate the ne- cessity of any temporary hand being em- ployed, as my aunt disliked new people

up. but I have heard he thought very highly | about ber in the servant line; so that the While he had all the negro stamp| housemaid and myself were the only occu-

| pants of the house, I had a very bad cold, and was unable to accompany my aunt, as It was near the end of

and spoke English with as clear and correet| the day, a dull, gloomy one in the month of an intonation as though he had been born and | November.

I was standing closeto the win- dow reading, trying to catch the last rem- nant of the waning light, and deeply ab- sorbed in my book. I was suddenly startled from my pursuit by adark shadow from the outside quite blocking up the window [ gazed in terror, apd saw a wan on the grass-plot just under the casement, looking earnestly in. All the front wiodows were low, reaching to the ground. The book dropped from my hand as I hastily retreat-

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J ‘ : , eared very much for Parks; as a child, 1} He made a motion to me with his band, put

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CHAPTER I,

faintest hint to a house that you have been in any way warned,

‘I am your well wisher,

‘ Pray burn this.’

‘Well,’ asked Aunt Osborne, what do you think of that 2’

‘why, if I were you, I'd go, bag and bag- gage, into lodgings in M—— to-morrow, and I'd put everything worth twopence in the bank, under Mr. Gregory’s care. I} shan’t have an easy moment here now, and | the long dreary nights coming on,’

‘Ob, nonsense!’ replied Mrs. Osborne, ‘I am not a bit afraid of any one out here.

shall certainly see to-morrow, though, about lodging the plate and some other mat- ters ip the bank, oaly I mustn’t say a word to Parks—he would be quite offended.’

‘What on earth,’ 1 said, ‘can Father Malichi mean by danger from a quarter that we don't expect. Isn’t that what he says?’ and I glanced again at the note.

‘I suppose he means that it is the White. boys will attack us for money, though we haven't arms. Indeed, I heard the other day, I now remember, that they did break into one or two houses near Vork, for money alone ; they want it, 1 suppose, to help out their shocking projects; any way, I'll con- sult Mr. Gregory in the morning about the

when soon the turn in the avenue hid him |from view. Susan remained with me for a

single servant in your back, as though to see if we were still there, bursting into tears. 1 cautiously watched

Parks’ countenance during this stormy scene. | At first he seemed frightened, but that soon

‘Think of it?’ I exclaimed io horror, | and that I was sure I’d dream of him that

| while descanting on the cheapness and excel-| yielded to am expression of peut up fury that lence of the articles which she had bought. | horrified me by itsviolence ; before nor since I gave little heed to her encomiums, uneasy |! never saw anything so fiendish. A wild thoughts about that man were running in| gleam shot from his eyes, and they glared my mind, and I told the housemaid that i | likea cat’s in the dark ; large drops gathered, did not at all like his way or appearance,|on his dark forehead, his heaving chest emitted gasps like the ominous growling of an angry beast, while his white teeth were passed: I had a kind of luncheon dinner, | pressed down into the thick under lip until and remained after it sitting by the fire in| the blood came. I[ thought at the moment the twilight in a dreamy doze, for my cold | that he would have done some fearful deed was oppressive. When Susan lit the candles on the spot. 1 had heard of his once before and drew the curtains, stirred up the fire, | being similarly excited, and that those who and made the room comfortable, I took the | witnessed it said, ‘they wouldn't like to small candle that she had, to get some work have a hand in aggravating blacky ;"’ but I upstairs. At the top of the last flight, and | had no idea of the reality. rte near the door of my aunt's room, there was| I doubt if any one noticed the infuriated a sort of arched recess, where cloaks and | aspect of the man but myself, for aunt, rising other stray articles of that description were | from her chair (she had her back to Parks), hung; and asl reached the landing I was) led Susan forcibly from the room, and so attracted by the motion of one of these, a| hindered any further scene, Jarks never cloak I believe it was. I thought, I remem-| uttered a syllable; he turned to the side- ber, that the lobby window must be open, | board, and nervously fidgetted with the forks and that a breeze from it shook the garment. | 4nd spoons, while 1 could hear him grinding [ turned to see, and then, at a loss to under-| his teeth in evident suppressed rage, in a stand what it could be, I was about to move | way that sent a thrill through me from head into the recess itself to examine more closely, | to toot, and | felt as if I breathed more freely when I became rooted to thd spot, on obsery- | When he left the apartment.

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Having engaged an experience

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and Price. |

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most exquisite poem, one of our party, a while he occasionally relaxed, for my bene-

sprightly young girl, a cousin of mine, re-| fit, from his uniform staid and sober de-

peating the opening lines— | portment (for tall, and full in form as he

* My hair is gray, but not with years;

In a single night, ee . ‘ . A

| Aamen’s have grown from sudden fears’. mitations of the blacks’ broken patois and

‘I wonder,’ she asked, ‘if anybody’s hair | pecesnnentiae _ Sein Smee 20 ier ° ° ¢ ¢ re iy re » i ‘ ez

ever turned white from fear? I don’t be. | Vellously excelled. But it was as I passed

We had been reading “ The Prisoner of | to submit to sundry ablutions on his face,|L recognised, to my surprise, the Roman had finished that|tosee if I could at all wash him white,| Catholic priest of the parish, aperson | bad

| several times met upon the road, and who always seemed very civil. I bad heard too ‘that he was a man greatly beloved by the

| grew older, he was a very model of servant- poor of bis own flock. Somewhat reassured, | \ike propriety), and enchanted me with im-| yet still nervous and excited, and curious to

know the object of this unusual and late eall, I hastened to the door ia obedience to his sigo. When I opened it he seemed

lieve it. Gracious! anything so horrible as to | @ riper years that I someway got to dis-| disappointed, as in the dusky twilight he effect that sudden change would kill my out.|/*® Parks. His manner, though always! bad evidently mistaken me for my aunt.

right. I feel my bair bristling this minute | respectful, was often moody and repellant ;

‘Is Mrs. Osborne in? he asked in a low,

at the thought.’ j and probably Susan the housemaid’s posi- | hurried voice.

laughed, but making no reply, she tive hatred of him. which she took no turned to me,

‘I declare, Maggie, now I think of it,| ‘O° feeling.

One unfavourable phase of his

‘No, Sir,’ I replied; ‘ but I am expect-

trouble to conceal, way have strengthened | ing her every moment,’

*Oh, indeed!’ and then he stood on the

your hair is as white as snow, and has bees, | “2#Pacter Susan constantly harped on—his| step as if in thought for a minute. * Who

as long as ever [ remember you. May be ae eeeeee you saw a ghost, or something dreadful that made it so. : say,’ she continued, looking round the party | would say.

with a malicious twinkle iu her laughing | His wages were very liberal, aud I knew eye, ‘that you are just now too young to be | Were drawn to the day, and lodged in the |

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* The old black screw; he’d boil his mo- | You know 1 don’t mean to| ther to make candles of the tallow!’ she the housemaid ; Mrs. Gwyaue is in the hos- | pital.’

else is ia the house ?’ he asked abruptly. ‘No one just now,’ I said, * but Susan,

‘Yes, I know she is; just as well, per- haps. Look, young lady,’ he resumed, * get

gray; but let me see, [ think it is ten years bank, for L had heard auut remark - this /me a bit of paper and L'il rte the message since we came from India, and that Letirst| #0!ts aad the bousemaid often dwelt with | L want to leave for Mrs. Usborne, and be

met my sober cousin Mag, and positively | trrstetiog on all - |

. »pekly .all} ne ciel yest thea you were as white as you are to-day, | weekly allowauce, and the meanness of his|

he'd squeeze out of his | quick please.’

‘If you’ll come this way,’ I replied, ¢ 1'll

aud I quite remember, as a lictle child, at | ¥*)S» be Said, to save a halfpenny. We | get it for you,’ and he followed me into the i ‘ ie » St] ' . oe ° > t g Dry Goods, Fancy Goods and Grocer es, that time wondering that you did'nt wear had one other servant, an outside man, who | sitting-room A sheet of letter paper was |

a wig.’ :

‘L have been gray,’ I replied quietly, | stables, and occasionally worked in the)

‘since I was seventeen years of age.’ | gardea, with @ belper uoder him. 2 ge.

* You don’t mean to teli us so!’ * Well|

| did up the horses, teok care of tae yard and | lying ov the table.

* Here, this will do,’ and he took it up, and tearing it across, folded ove half of it

. . ' , : ’ At the time with which I am just now] into the form of a note. ‘IL bave a pencil,

now !' aud some such expressions, broke from | coneerned, a middle-aged person of the he said, aod taking a book in his hand as a

nearly the entire group simultaneously. * Come now, like a dear, good Maggie as} post of half stableman, balf gardner, and ; |lived with his old mother in a small gate-

you are,’ exclaimed my cousin, who had is

j} name ot Brien—Timothy Brien—held this | Support for the note, he went up to the win-

dow, and with his eye close to the paper to get the full benefit of the last gleam of light,

troduced the topic, seating herself suddenly house that was one of the eutrances to| 2@ wrote a tew lines rapidly, standing with

on a stool at my feet, and clasping me round | Blackwater Lodge ; for comparatively small | bis back to me; he then turned round and the knees, ‘tell us all about it, What} as Was the resideuce, it commanded two ap-| said in the same sharp, quick tones that he

was it? How did it happen?

| proaches, the one, at the termination of | ad employed from the first, ‘1 must seal

° } ta ° @ , ‘ 1 2 We were a pleasant party that evening | which the gardner always lived, was gener- this ; oan you make me outa bit of wax! [ was on a Visit at the time with my cousins jally called the Laurel Walk, and led more l supplied him at once, and twisting up the

>| who lived in a pretty place in Devoushire. Just then ‘twas winter, and we were gatber-

and from the house.

| directly to the town; the other, though un- remainder of the sheet of fe pee into a | by - peer eed but she pro- provided with the appendage of a lodga,/ watea, he lit it at the fire; * hold this a mo-| mised that she would be home as early as

| per for him, and as its transient glare fel|

So ta ; ed round the fire, and bad been, as I have | formed the more frequent carriage-way to| ment, if you please.’ I held the burning pa-

said, listening to one of our number who read out Lord Byrou’s poem, The ques- | Ss

i that bad long slumbered, and ealled back | nearly at the foot of tse liwa. Through the

days that, for the most part, were bright | trees that skirted the entire grounds adfin.- |

As I have already said, the situation of | upon his features while he sealed the note,

tion thus put to me, and the topic that| my auut’s residence was most beautiful, the | { observed that his usually ruddy and good

tarted it, awoke a train of troubled thought | picturesque and far-famed Blackwater ran | humored face had an anxious, care-Worn as- , ° |

pect, and that be appeared pale and thio: as he looked up and caught my eye curious-

. . > " , » we . ’ ¢ m1) snd happy, save for one terrible episode | tageous openings had been made that af-|!y fixed on him, * Take care,’ said he, * you'll

| thet meade . x] | forded exquisite views of mountain, i, | gers ; that made me shudder as it was forced | forded exquisite views of mountain, wood _buro your fingers

. = te ° © ott » wa . ae . i with more thao ordinary vividness upon my |and richly cuitivated level country, while |

push. ; . , ‘Come, Mag, don’t go to sleep; how) and from it branched off two other walks or did your hair get gray? Did it grow so| passages, one to the back premises of the naturally 2?” | residence, the other to the gardens ; in fact, ‘No.’ I answered at length, * it did not. | it was as agreeable a retrevt as could well '{ could answer your first inquiry in the | 4ave been found, sequestered enough for al!

affirmative, aod tell you that #¢ és quite| convenient privacy, yet sufficiently near a)

true ; great fear can eflect the warvei!lous | very fair town to prevent oue feeling lonely. /alteration, and that iv a very short time.’ About the period of which I write, when

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| subdued, half-frightened voice that I was| south of [reland was ina flame of disaffee- again importuoed to tell them what had/tion, The Whiteboys, as they were called happened Some one proposed to put out with us, elsewhere the Terryalts, were en- | the lamp.but my cousin, who had laid her rolled and organized in alarming numbers. /head in my lap to listen, starting up, ex-|[ remember often seeing tem, on light \claimed, ‘ For mercy’s sake don’t; 1'm in nights, from the upper wivdows, with white ‘a tremor already. [ couldn't stay io the bands round their bats, that gave them the ark. It must be an awful business this.’ | a pearance of a troop of mourners at a fu-

I told them, then and there, that one pas-| neral, marching with military precision

jafter, while it was still fresh upon my mind) tg q small wood, where they were in the L committed it to paper, as 1 thought it! habit.of holding an almost nightly rendez |might possibly interest others too, and [| youz. A general impression was abroad

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/recollection. 1 remained musing and |ook-| immediately arouod the house the planting | flung it unceremoniously on the carpet, ex- }ing into the fire for a few minutes, uutil my | Was thick aud tastefully arranged. | : ne r fs 2 ost -

f, | restless cousiu roused me up by an energetic Lauref Walk, which was a favourite pro-|

The tiuguishing it with the heel of his boot.

‘You kuow who I am, I suppose?’ he

| menade, was to the left of the residence, | enquird.

* Yes,’ [ replied, ‘ Father Malichi.’

‘ Well,’ said he, sinking his voice into an ominous whisper; ‘be sure to give that note into Mrs. Osborne’s own hand; she's your aunt, | believe ?

‘ Yes.’

‘And, young lady,’ he continued, ‘ 171] take it as a favor if you'll not mention to any ooe, Susaa, the maid, or any one else, this visit of mine, and tell Mrs. Osborne the same.’

I promised him on the word of a lady that [ would not.

‘Thauk you—good night,’ and dragging his hat that he had not, ducing his short stay, removed at al] from bis head, dowa | over his brows, and wrapping the long camlet cloak that he wore closely around him, he strode out at the door, down the

——|sage trom my past life; and a few days| along a valley not far distant, and filing off |

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Laurel Walk, and was soon lost in the dark- ness. I remained standing in the room af- ter | had closed the hall-door, frightened and perplexed at his mysterious visit, and wonderiog what the sealed note for my aunt

whole matter, and whether it might not be well to have a gun ora pistol, or something or other for Parks, in case anything should happen ; and by the way, Maggie, ! promis- ed to take Mrs. Gregory for a drive to-mor- row, and said that we'd have an early din. ner with them after, and he told me that he would come home with us in the evening if we were at all afraid. IL hope your cold will be well enough, and we can then settle about this business: possibly it might be better to move into the town for the winter. { must take care, though, and not betray the trust tbat poor Father Malichi haz so kindly reposed in us; I declare it was a very good thing for him to do, more than I should have expectéd.’ Aad so saying she threw his note into the fice.

* Why theo,’ I rejoined, ‘ I’d almost wish he had kept his letter to himself, be has terrified me so with it.’

Various conjectures and plans were ex- pressed and discussed that evening; at one time we thought ef going to Father Malichi the next day and questioning him more closely, but then abandoned the idea as it might implicate bim, and be a bad return | for the favour he bad shown. I also suc- | ceeded in diverting my aunt from the inten- tion she had half adopted of confidentially disclosing tue purport of the priest's letter, and how it reached her, to Mr. Gregory when consulting him as to what prudeut steps we ought to take, for I maintained that would be a breach of faith, and it would answer quite as well to impute our apprehensions to the restless state of things in the country ; and to this aunt ultimately agreed,

CHAPTER If,

The next day, my cold was too heavy to think of venturing out. Aunt Osborne wanted to forego her intention of remaining to dinner; I insisted, however,on her abiding

possible, She left the room after bieak-

fast, as she wished to go to the hospital to

take some things to Mrs. Gwynne, and bad

other places to eall at before going to the

Gregory's at the Bank. The earlier part

of the morning [ employed myself writing,

and then settled down at my favourite seat

in the window that nearly faced the Laurel | Walk, over the same book I had been read-

ing ou the preceding day. Susan sometimes

came into jook after the fire. or to talk with

me a little, as she said she was afraid |

might be lonely, and on one of these

oceasions as she stood by my chair— ‘Oh! Miss Maggie,’ she exclaimed, * if | here iso’t Mike the pedler coming up the

walk, No, tisa’t Mike,’ she added, as she looked out more closely, * but ‘tis a pedler,

anyhow, and [’m in sich a way fur a comb

for the back of my head.’

Poor Susan had a regular penchant for

pediers ; sue’d rather buy from one of these

itinerant hawkers, and pay perhaps a great

deal more, than at any shop in the town.

[ objected strongly to a strange man at

such times being at all encouraged about

the place, especially in Mrs. Osborne’s ab- sence ; but the servant pleaded so hard, and

said that she might be able make a bargain

with the fellow, for an old shawl she bad to

dispose of, that I could not find it in my

heart to refuse her. I insisted, however,

that he should come to the front door, as I

would not hear of any stragylers being ad-

mitted into the back-yard or kitchen.

Meanwhile, the man had advanced slowly with his pack towards the house ; he seemed

to me to be more tardy in his movements

ing quite distinctly the outline of a figure draped in a dark heavy wrapper of Mrs. Os- borne’s; it seemed to me as if he must have hurriedly tolded it around him, probably on hearing my step, for it was clumsily ma- naged. One fovt projected, quite uncovered, and | at once recognised a peculiar kind of boot that | had noticed on the pedler when in the hall in the day. I know not how 1 kept from instantly betraying the startling discovery by aloud scream ; my heart leaped to my throat, but [ gained sufficient com- mand over myself to pass on into my room, and after a moment's delay, returning, | went down with as little appearance of haste as I could manage, though with a creeping shudder, as 1 passed by the spot where the robber was hidden. Near the foot of the stairs [ met Susan coming up. Laying my | hand on her arm, I whispered :

‘Come with me.’

‘ Unfortunately, my pale face so alarmed her that in a loud voice she cried, ‘ Lord! Miss Maggie, what is it?’

Instantly there was a rustling sound over- head, and a man’s step. I had but time to shriek out, ‘The pedier is apstairs; run, Susan, run!’ and flinging down the eandle, | flew to the front door, opened it, and dash- ing out in the darkness, rushed with frantic speed down the Laurel Walk, to get assist- ance from the lodge. I had not advanced half-a-dozen yards before 1 heard the heavy tread, with its crunching sound, on the gravel of the avenue, in, as I conjectured, rapid pursuit; this augmenting peril Jed me, of course, to strain every energy to the utmost ia pressing on, and [ soon bad the satisfac- tion of hearing my pursuer dart into the plan- tations, for the noise of the branches being broken and pushed aside conveyed to me this welcome assurance. Possibly, as I after- wards thought, he never meant to foliow me, nor knew at all which way I had gone, for the night was intensely dark, but may have been ouly concerned in effesting his escape after be had been detected. 1 found Brien, the gardener, at the gate lodge, and another workman with him, and brought them back as rapidly as possible to the house, for } fel‘ anxious about poor Susan, knowing the fright she must be in. We discovered her shut up in the coal vault, half dead with fear. Mrs. Osborne's arrival in the midst of our conster- nation was a relief to all, and nothing could equal my aunt’s distress when she learned wiat had happened and the alarm to which we had been subjected. Even Parks looked grave and uneasy, and himself that evening suggested the propriety of removing from the house anything that might be a bait to plun- derers. { could see that Aunt Osborne was relieved from somo concern at this proposi- tion emanating from the butler himself; she had arranged, she told me in the course of the evening, to convey all our valuables of every kind to Mr. Gregory; and it was a great comfort, she said, that Parks bad now adyised the same, for it made all matters smooth. .We both eencluded that the at- tempt made by this pretended pedler was what Father Malichi meant in his private warning ; and terrified as | had been by the trying adventure that bad just occurred, | went to bed more at ease that night, as the | vague alarm which the priest’s letter had | excited was now to a great degree set at) rest; and | was farther eonanled by finding | that my aunt was more disposed tu the ar rangement that | had for some time urged— the moving into the town for the winter months. The next day proved one of deter- mined, ceaseless wet. We had intended carrying the lodgement to be made with Mr. Gregory into M—— that morning, but as well from the weather as at Parks’ sugges- tion, it was deferred till the succeeding day. It would be well, he said, to give all the silver a thorough cleaning before it was laid by, and he could do that in a few hours easily.

Notwithstanding the heavy rain, Parks re- paired to M to give the authorities a des- cription of the pedler (which he first got accurately from me and Susan), and to try | and ascertain if he had any others connected | with him, for he strenuously maintained that | the fellow wasn’t single handed in whatever | be was after, but must be one ofa gang. 1t} was mid-day before the butler returned, and | when he did he called at once for Susan, to | tell her that he had met a messenger on his |

z 4 By Hy me eee ™ SOURS Ogg RB. reagan sae) sit Ati ta ae cee jfele that L might perhaps more readily | that we were about to have a recurreuce of ‘sights diehueh, itieh < haneh Geaatend-of

|banish the unpleasant memories evoked, | the terrible days of 98, and our small town | : , a PRING FOODS )that wandered now with such disturbing (it had at all times a company of soldiers | ©*Tisge-wheels advancing, and t quickly y force through my brain, once I had put the statioued there) was strongly garrisoned. Of | threw off the timidity and abstraction 1 was CHEAP FOR CASH!

whole thiog down in black aud white. I attacks upon neighbouring mansious we con-

way from her home (it was about five miles | distant, at the foot of a neighbouring moun- | tain), with the intelligense that her mother | wea dying—* A’most off,’ he said, ‘ Susy, she | was, and that she implored you, for the love |

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than the apparent weight of his load would have warranted ; bat probably, [ thought, he has travelled some great distance. As he came to the window and touched his hat civilly, he looked, L fancied, weary. [| 0f God, to go to her, not to lose a moment,

met Aunt Osborne as if nothing bad oe- inform hie friends and the public

anil /sure my countenance would betray, and I ci FY ASZARD would respectfully

generally that be HAS JUST RECEIVED a large |

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am not going to write a regular autobio-

tinually heard; but as in every instance |

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| sonal history only in so far as it may be necessary to illustrate the incident 1 am | relating :-—

I was the only child of an officer, and 'was born in India, and seemed so tender a plant that the physicians at once ordered me to be taken to Europe, as the oaly chance for saving my lile. bave heard, was distracted at the uecessity

My mother, |)

comprising all the articles required for a general | 3 imposed, the more so as she could not prising * req 'tbus imp

where such were known to be, we felt wore

|equavimity than might have beeu supposed, veonsidering there was so much disturbance aroucd us.

_ keep a pop-gun iu the house,’ aunt would say, ‘and what need we mind?’

She never allowed even a servant to have fire-arms of any kind, declaring that she thought it the safest way.

‘Sure every body knows that we don't!

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Lowest Prices for Cash.

_ rartntontns May By Oa ts JOHN BELL, Mierehant "LDailor,

QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN. ee NOTICE. R. E. C. NEWBERY is hereby

authorized to collect amounts die me for professional attendance, &c, aud give receipts in

‘accompany me, for my father was at the sure, such precautions taken as at the pe- time in indifferent health, and it was impos-| riod were uoiversally adopted, strong iron

‘sible for ber to leave him, aud au applica- | bars fixed outside to al] the lower windows, ‘tion that he made for permission, as an in-| and 380 close that, as Parks observed, ‘a | valid, to return was refused ; consequeutly | mouse could not get in or out,’ and those ‘there was nothing for it but to send me) gave our habitation very much the appear- home under as careful an escort as could be | ance of a jail; and, besides, new and wore

procured, and this was provided for in the | substantial interval fastenings were procur- | person of my own nurse, who had been for |ed for the back and front doors; and to,

a long time @ servant io my mother’s family, | these aunt Osborne triumphantly pointed |

while as care-taker of both, a young mav | when remonstrated with on our lonely posi- |

accompanied us, a black, of the name of | tion, aud reminded, moreover, that she was |

Parks. | well known to be wealthy, and possessed of |

My destination was with my aunt, Mrs. |a large quantity of plate aud jewels of great |

Osborne, who was a widow in very inde-| value, aud that in these troubled days des- | least apprehend ; you will understand that 2

pendent circumstances, and my father's ouly | peradoes of every description were going sister.

river of the same name, and that was situ-| the cupidity of the rebels, might o

ated just outside, little more than a mile less be by no means ao improbable Thing.

distant from the romantic and beautiful | Quce or twice aunt thought of lodging the your closest silence; act, but don’t speak ;

raphy, and will therefore refer to my per-' these were for arms, aad only attempted | curred. I kept the note safely, and did

jnot tell her about it until we were alone jafter dinner. I theu gave it, mentioning | the circumstances uuder which it had beeo entrusted to mie, as well as the accompany- ing caution of sileace in regard to the writer. My aunt seemed considerably sur- prised at what [ told her, and hastily open- ed the strange missive; [ noticed that she ‘looked paiued and perplexed as she read it,

We had. to be #84 holding the paper for several minutes

in her hand, she continued gazing in silence |into the fire.

* Do you know the contents of this ?’ she asked at length, pointing to the note.

. : for bis word was she was just on the binges.’ | : m sane Siem. fhe, hall dene, ant.oees | The announcement of this sad impending | ™y “unt, laughing; * however, if we go to

catastrophe affected the poor girl, as may be | supposed, with the greates; surrow; the house resounded with her sobs and moans. |