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THE WOMAN WITH ONE

THE SURGEON'S STi RY.

Medical Students are generally wild, reck- leas and dissipated. was neither. The discretion of old age seemed to have come suddenly upon me. I shared my comrades studies, but refused to mingle in their orgies, for 1 bad determined to retain my strong nerves and unshaken head tothe last. Never- theless | was a general favourite, and formed many friendships among the giddy band, which lasted long after they had become grayheaded men. There was one among the number whose name was Robert Redlaw—a gay, handsome boy he #as, fullof fun and frolic, and terribly addicted to practical jokes; but, nevertheless, kind hearted and generous to @ fault, for be would have given his last penny to any one that seemed in need of it. To the living he was all tender- nes; to the wounded wretch at the hospital his hand was as soft as any woman's; and | have seén his eyes fill with tears while he inflicted necessary pain, bat to the dead he ecemed hearticss—a lifeless body beiag of no more value, in his eyes, than the trunk of a dead tree.

*Woald you value your old violin-case ?” he would say when any one remonstrated with him on the subject. *The strings bro- ken—nay, the instrument destroyed — of what value is that which was but formed for its protection. For my pari when my soul has taken Might, 1 care not what you do with this compilation of flesh and bones which row contains it.’ And upon this principle he seemed to act involuntarily.

One night—ob ! how well L remember it— a co'd black evening in mid winter I sat alone beside my fire absorbed in meditation. The book [ had been reading lay beside me on the table. and my candle burned low in the socket, for it was nearly one o'clock, although I had not yet retired. Suddenly I was aroused by a load ringing of my dvor-bell, aad « sound of sand thrown against my win- dow from without, and lighting another taper descended and opeosed the door.

There, apon the steps stood Robert Red!aw ond four other felluw students, all the worse for liqnor, and all in boisterous spirits. *Let us in old fellow,’ cried Robert, ‘we want to tell you of our lark. By George! we've made a night of it, such punch as we've been having at Tom P —'s while you have been moping over your musty books. You must go with us next time.’

There was no use of remoustrance and one by one, my unexpected visitors mounted the stairs, and took their places arouod my fire- side. ‘Tsay, Bub frightened us a while ago,’ be- gan one of them after a temporary silence.

*How ?" I asked.

‘How ?? laughed Bob, ‘why with this.’— And without another word or preface, he drew a folded ‘kerchief from his pocket, and unfolding it, exhibited a human band.

‘Bob, where did this come from ?” LT asked, involuntarily drawing back a step or two.

‘He took it from a grave which the rain had washed open,” answered a tall young fellaw turning away with a shudder. ‘Cut it off with my knife ag coolly as he might a bit of wood, although L'il swear sigh or ecream, ov all of them together, came from the body when he first laid his finger upon it.’

‘Bob !" laughed Robert Redlaw, ‘your ven- triloquist tricks can never impose upon me. I tovk the little hand in spite of them. and shall keep it. A pretty creature it must have belonged te. Look at the almond slaped-nails, Greystock.’

saw a face looking at me fror: the window yonder, and that a tall woman's figure dress- ed in white, and having only one band—the left one was gone—stood upon the parapet of the next roof, and waved her arms towards me. Such a mad idea, you know, for there is seareely a foot-hold upon it for a monkey, let alone a woman.’

‘ But these fancies have left you now,’ | said.

* Yes, I hope they have,’ replied Robert. ‘I have suffered from no optical delusion for two days, but | do wish that terrible groan- ing could be puta stop to. night, but T cannot persuade myself that it is the work of imagination, yet no one in the

house i#ill, and my landlady will not con-| fess that she has ever heard the slightest |

noise. Greysteck, it must bea terrible thing to be insane.’

‘Put such fancies oat of your mind, Ro- bert,’ I said. ‘The truth is, you have been feverish, and the remembrance of your silly

piece of work with that hand has acted upon |

your mind and caused these apparitions. Take my advice, my dear fellow, and abstain ‘rom the punch bowl and wine cup; they wili lead any one into committing foolish, if not Pieplant actions. Come, let us go into

the open air to-day ; I will devote myself to | all the time she has been mad. She has not | different t

you, and we will see what a country walk will do to the exorcising of these fancies.’ Robert assented to my proposition, and we set off together. At first he was more seri- ous than usual, but as the day passed on, | 'saw with delight that his spirits were once | wore resuming their wonted tone. The rich

| colour eame back to his dark cheek, bis eyes | from the dissecting room, and has been wild | the moment they felt themselves strong enough | don, he will fiad it rather more difficult to reach [ I have not been able to keep her | the two women would have disappeared. The

beamed with their wonted brightness. ghost seer was gone, and the careless boy stood once more beside me. I rejoiced in the happy change, as a mother might in the re- turning smiles of her ailing infant, and at

dusk we returned to the city, as happy a pair |when she had the jar in her arms and was | | bringing it away. God help her! she would | were sent fur such articles, because they were | of damage to ourselves. If the enemy can afford |

as you would wish to meet.

‘Now, Bob,’ I said, when we had dined, | not harm any one; give her to me, and let | wanted, he resisted their removal.” Worse than | keep up the war by operations of this sort, it is | this:—“ He also applied to see their Majesties the mathematically certain tuat we can afford to suffer two Empresses separately; and, when admitted our part of the programme without trouble.

‘we will finish this evening at the theatre, and banish those gloomy fancies even more effectually among the lights and music.’

‘Gloomy thoughts!’ laughed my friend, ‘Lam in high spirits to-night, and feel ut- tetly ashamed of my ghostly stories. Come, if you are ready, | am.’

We went out into the hall as he spoke,

and my hand was upon the jock of the door, | liandiwork. She killed him. Her presence | not, perhaps, wonder that uncomplimeutary per- | mary manner on the peninsula in June. It does

when Robert suddenly exelaimed :

‘I had nearly forgotten my gloves and handkerchief; Dinah,’ and he beckoned to the little black waitress. ‘ Dinah, ran up and bring them to me. My gloves are upon the table, and you will find a handkerchiet in oue of the bureau drawers, which is un-

locked.’

I hear it every |

The |

, 2 ner — . a HAND, closer to me, placed his hand upon my shoul- figure crossed the siil and stepped softly in. | engaged in the matter.” ’ 7 . ’ . . ‘ . . ' -

der, ‘Don’t mention it to the other fellows.’ | lt was that of a woman, dressed in white gar- | Privee of T and his colleaguca, being incapable of

he said; * but L absolutely imagined that | ments, and I saw as she crept stealthily to- | pacific counsels, could propose nething but that

‘ward me, that one hand was gone. This was no fancy, if spirits ever came to mortal |} man one stood before me now. The apparition advanced, and so did I. Horror gave me courage, and I grappled with lit. Lheld itin a firm, anshrinking grasp, ‘and found that it was solid as a thing of flesh , and blood, and that it moaned and trembled jasin terror, Should L eall foraid? The | thing, living or dead, had killed my poor young friend) No fevered imagination con- jured up the form and face, which he be- lieved was of the other world. Here it was powerless in my hands, and L would exercise }itor die. While I stood irreso ute. the light ofa taper gleamed out from the darkness, and [ saw a man standing by the open sash. tle lookud upon the bed, and the still thing beneath its snowyfeovering, upon me, and the being I grappled with, and then whispered : | ‘Por God’s sake, don’t hart her, sir! She does not know what she is doing; she has lost her senses !’

‘Who and what is this being?’ I asked ; ‘and why does she come to the chamber of |death at this silent hour? You must tell me

fur she is already a murderess?" ‘She is my wife,’ said the man, ‘we have lived in the same house for ten years, and

/had her senses since her only child was | burned to death in the same fire in which she ‘lost herhand. She was always fond of peep- ‘ing through this window, and I bad not the | heart to hinder her. But one night she saw \the doctor, poor fellow, doing something | with a hand, which, I suppose he had brought

ever since. |from the window, or even from this room ; for you see she thought the hand was her |}own, and wanted it back. Three times I have |followed her and brought her back—once

| us take her away.’

I let the wretched creature go, and he took | her about the waist very tenderly.

*Do you know what she has done ?’ I asked. |} ‘No,’ repliedtheman. ‘Tomy knowledge | | she has done notwing.’ | ‘Nothing! Is that nothing?’ I asked, | ‘pointing to the white couch. *That is her)

| (rightened him to death.’ ‘I hope not sir,’ said the man.

‘Take her away from my sight. Ob! why did | not learn this in time ?’ |

‘Why did L tarry on the roadside while my | dwelling was in flames, and my wife and ‘child enveloped in their midst?) Why is this

a — ——— —— _—

They complain that the | But that entire army will be there in is path,!to Mr. Seward, with a view to prevent similar whatever may happen in other quarters, and the | acts of destruction in other ports.—I am, Sir, time when it is attacked can hardly make the; your most obedient servant,

the Bnglish Envoys should be decoyed inte their | difference between victory and defeat. “E. HaMMOND. power and made prisoners; and they add what is} Next in the grand round we find the expedition) “F. A. Clint, Esqr., &c.”

very important as a testimony of the opinion now | of Burnside, w hich, it seems, is to strike at the seca nie

| rising in China, for this is addressed to the three hun- | seaboard towns of North Carolina and cut off our :

dred mitlions,—* Hence a breach of faith towards | railroad line between Norfolk and Petersburg and| Wat Tuk American OUTRAGE Has Cost the foreign nations.” The Expresses go on to| Charleston. This seeins to be the pet naval expe- | Us.—It is a grave and lamentabte fact that Eng-

dition of the Yankees, from which they are expeect- | land will have to pay increased taxation in this ing greater results than from all others. So large | Ye#T 1862, to the extent of at least four millions an armameut, and so numerous a bedy of troops | Of money, merely beeause Mr. Adams was not inay indeed embarrass our cause in Eastern North | empowered to say, a month ago:—* If you wish | from the eold of the elimate—they omit, with all Carolina; but it is quite certain that, if the South-| 1% the prisoners shall be returned to you.” So \the decency of extreme civilization, mention of | ern people had been-allowed to choose the desti-| !ong as this was not said the quarrel was not other too notorious eauses—the “ sacred person” | nation of this expedition for the enemy, they | ¢aded. The Government papers at Washington jlanguished, and at last “he ascended upon the | would have designated the very ove which the all talked of a “ protracted negotiation,” and there dragon to be a guest on high.” Then, “ clasping | enemy himsclf has selected. can be no doubt now, that if England had not ) the ground, we cried to Heaven, and within we The coast of North Carolina from Nerfolk to|@rmed, but had mesely remonstrated, nothing | felt as thongh a fire was burning. Looking back, | Wilmington, with its sand islands, shifting inlets | more than a “* protracted negotiation” would have | We bethought us of the iniquity of the Prince of | resulted, and Messrs. Slidell and Mason would land the others in the concealment of truth, and if | glades, its cauebrakes and cyprus bogs, stretching | have remained in_ their prisons. Nor can this | was our wish to punish their guilt with severity.” | out for miles to the right and left of riverchannels, broad fact be hidden from view, by all Mr. | The plain English of this is that the two women | constitute the most delightful Cretan labyrinth for Seward’s verbosity, that the Washington Govern- very righteously abhorred the immediate creatures | the coufusion and envelopement of an enemy to | _— knew just as well on the Ist of Dec., 1861. lof the late Emperor, who had kept him in a con- | be found the world over. bead they do how, that the seizure was illegal avd jtinual state of filthy, sensual sloth, and had go-| By incans of his vessels of shallow draft he may | indefensible, And yet, knowing this, they eare- | verned in his name; and that they now united to | penetrate through the jungle and reaeh the firm | tully kept silence as to reparation, until 48 hours

| get rid of them. Holding the little Emperor, aud , and more elevated inland; bat his safety in that | ere would have seen them involved in a war Speaking through him, they ordered these hated | |

j say, that when the Emperor found that peace liad | | beeu made, he desired to return to his capital, but | the traitors who were about him would not per- limit him to dose. Frem antguish of mind, and

and shallow sounds, its dismal swamps and ever- |

case would be put toa very great peril. If he | with England, and an English fleet surrounding

Ministers to prepare und iasuean edict appointing | masses his troops we ean mass ours likewise, and New York. It was this guiltysilence which com- | the Dowager Empress Regeut. The Prince of 1 | tight him successively inland,or confine him inglo- pelled England to pregnte for the worst, and to and his confederates ohjeetad, produced a forged | riously to the narrow channels of the river. expend so much money in that preparation as decree purporting te have been signed or dictated | If he seatters his forces, he puts itinour power | Will raise our next year’s taxation. by the late Emperor, and issued a deeree entirely | to attack and beat them in detail, If be cut our an ———iPe———- rom that proposed to them by the Em- | raiiroad connection with Charleston, that does not i A on oO . presses. This created an open breach. The Im- ruin us; for we shall soon have a better line under eee: a, ne Pee perial ladies complain that the conduct of the cabal) way far in the interior beyond his reach. His | ; ’ - fe Be, sy Tee “~~ ; : : ’ : : .. cee ae for the loss of the Prince Consort, continue to fill now became disrespectful to them, esdecially that | scheme it seems is to get into the rear of Norfolk | aan pen a loa a at Ye ae a ; . : | columns of the ‘Gazette.’ The provincial journals j of Su-Shun, to whom the people of China gener: | by shallow beats through the Dismal Swamp | sepest; without cessing setiiitines antitnd ally attributed all the vices of the deceased Mon-| Canal, aud to destroy the railroad bridge at Wel- Fg i, tan a = ant aiieineenn a jarch. It was evidently a critical moment. Su-| dou. The natural defences of Norfolk from the es of Ce amen said.“ I generally Shun and the Prince of I and the old war party | Albemarle Sound, are almost perfeet, requiring tate 7 shins ‘wale, aoe Caer - y 5. & aa a. ninwt » ae >Y 2 gliw ih ine ol eae 6 6 om col. Stain, t . yo . of the last reign were playing for the Empire, and | but the slightest assistanee of art ; and as to Wei any publie meeting; but on this occasion I was anxious to join my friends and neighbours, the in-

Prince of Kung, whom they had already by their | forged decree excluded from the Council of Re- | | geacy, would have followed. In a reeapitulation |of the crimes of Su-Shun it is urged that he was | even uncivil to the Empresses. “He took upon | him to use the Imperial vessels, and when order:

|to their presence, showed by his language that |

| his object was to produce a qarrel between them, | of McClellan. as, while he flattered cach lady to her face, be | crush out the rebellion and to restore the Union.” |

disparaged the other.” Fer ence the cunning | courtier failed. ‘The two shrewd and suspicious | women compared notes. Each told the other | what Su-Shan had said agaibat her, and we need |

son afterwards enjoyed the single pre-eminence ot | a public execution.

timation of the real state of affairs, and was en- | | couraged to make a journey to Zehol, the Tartar | | palace where all these intrigues were taking place. | At this interview everything seems to have been

The little darkey started with alacrity ; but | woman once so good and beautiful, a sense-|spraneed. The Eimpresses set forth with the in-

while he waited for her returu, a terrible scream sounded through the house, and she came running down again,without the articie for which she had been despatched.

*Oh de gh yst! de ‘Dar’s a ghost in Redlaw’s room

‘ What do you mean ?’ ejaculated Robert : ind ‘ What do you mean?’ was reiterated by the landlady and her boarders, as they flocked to the scene of action.

ghost "

less maniac?’ said the strange man sadly. \*It was God's will, sir, and we cannot alter lit. Good night, May he comfort you.’

| And thus speaking, be led the wretched

the sloping roof, with the soft, caressing

1 . . | kindness of alover, while I, sinking to the | = (

| three great delinquents, Su-Shan, the Prince , floor, gave way to a wild and bitter burst ot irse great delinquents, Su-Shan, the Prince of L |

grief. Enough !

My tale is done. Ina lonely

taunt Kimperor, and in his name decree after de- | cree was fulminated. The Great Council was | called together. The Empresses went before ii and denouneed the forgery of the deeree of Hien-

she sereamed, woman through the window, and away over | Fung, and the disloyal conduct of Su-Shun. The

people hated the old favourites, and stood by the | Empresses. An linperial detree removed the | and Pwan-hwa, trom their places and hereditary |

and fanded them ever to the Grand | But the Enipresses are anxious |

dignities ;

Council tor trial.

‘[ went after der han’kerchief to Massa | graveyard, far from the city’s bustle, a white | to have it known that ia ali further proceedings it

tedlaw’s room,’ gasped Dinah, ‘and L tell stone marks the grave of Robert Redlaw, the | was the Grand Couneii, and net they, who acted.

yer de bresged tratt, der was a woman all in| victim of one of the strangest cvincidences | When they did interfere, it was eutirely on the |

de middle a’de room. holding up a jar, and in dat jar der was a hand, and de woman she hadn't only one hersel, for 1 seen her jest as plain as daylight. Tru as I'm alive it was a ghost.’

{ snatched the candlestick from Dinah’s The

which ever yet has been recorded in the | book of tate.

leanings from late Papers.

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side of mmerey. The Grand Council condemned these traitors to a slow and ignominious death, meaning by that, to be tied to a evoss and sliced gradually to death. The Empresses think they may omit the slicing part of the seutence:—* As an act of grace, theretere, we command that Ts’ai- yuein and Twan-hwa_ be directed (dit., have an

| outfit, it will not inflict a hundred thousand dollars

Prinee Kung, who had been | tucky. ‘Ispeak the truth,’I muttered bitterly. | kept at a distinee by the old eabal—tor they used | feeble on the evast of Mississippi to require any the name of the Empress Dowager, and acted by | definite steps against him there us yet. We have authority of their forged decree—now received in- | scotched the suake at Beaufort.

it than to burn the bridge when there.

On the whole, it may be predicted in safety, in advance, that the damage done to us from thisex- peditioh, is not likely to reach one-fourth the cost of the expedition itself to the enemy. ‘The chances ure, that for every million of expenditure in its

i This } Buruside expedition completes the grand design | lle is now entirely ready “ to)

= . nn! The chances of success are against him.

We have seotched the snake on the Potomac ; | we did the same thing before winter set in in| Western Virginia. We did it in the most sum- | not yet appear that we have not done it in Ken- The movements of the serpent are too

Burnside is the last coil of the reptile, and if we

| out these kingdoms, but are also universal abroad.

j useful undertakings.

| more you willregret me.’

habitants of Twickenham—for the regrets which have been awakened by the sudden decease of the late Prince Consort are not only general through-

The great blow which has struck your Queen has been felt everywhere. Here the late Prince was known to be free trom party ties or class preju- dices—to be the most unostentatious, wise, and sagacious adyiser of the Crown, the spirited, en- lightened, and successful promoter of all good and Abroad also it is well es- tablished that his influence and great faculties have always been used to help the cause of peace, liberty and civilization. The best and most pepu- lar of our French Kings, Henry 1V., said one day, in one of his public addresses, ‘When I am no

Marrimoniat Sratistics.—-The Beaton Courter says that some industrious mathe- matician has caleulated the ities of matrimony at different ages, which exhibit results of rather a startling character. In the first two quinquen al periods, twenty to twenty-five, and twenty-five to thirty, the

| probabili i Pp ty of a widower marrying ina year is nearly three times as great us that of »

bachelor. At thirty it is nearly four times

(as great, from thirty to forty- it ie five

| times as t, and it increases, until at

sixty the chances of a widower marrying in

a year are eleven times as great as that of =

_bachelor. It isa little curious to remark

from this table how confirmed either class becomes in its condition of life—how little

likely after m few years is a bachelor to break through his habits and a solitary con- dition ; and, on the other hand, how readily

in proportion does a husband contract a

second marriage, whe has been prematurely

deprived of his first wife. After the age of thirty, the probability of a bachelor marryingin a year diminishes in a most rapid ratio. The probability at thirty-five isnot much more than half that of thirty, and nearly the same proportion exists be- tween each quinqvennial period afterwarda.

SS Awrnican Consvuis.—The Quebee Chronicle, in noticing the recent Soul noe,

nouncements of Secretary Seward, in re

to the spy system established in these Co- lonies through American Consols, says :— ‘At the time when these appointments were made, and these two Consuls arrived in Quebec, we heard a variety of statements that they were intended to act in a ** con- fidential’’ capacity. We took no notice of these reports, but Mr. Seward himself now confirms them. It will be recollected that Mr. Ashmun was sent himself at the begin- ving of last year, for a similar purpose, but recalled (according to Mr. Seward’s own de- claration) because of a remonstrance through Lord Lyons, that it was not considered court- eous tothe British authorities to employ any one here asa sort of spy. While quite willing to bear testimony to the high personal character of the Consul at Quebee, and to believe that he is above adding to his com- mercial duties those of a political detective, we are sorry to find that Mr. Seward has been indiscreet enough toeay thata duty was expected of him which no high-minded

The thing happened as he had predicted; his great popularity began after his death. Well, the late Prince might have said | the same thing. (Hear, bear.) Personally this | good and illustrious man has always givep me so many proofs of his friendship that I have looked upon his death asene of my own family’s bereave- ments; and your Queen has always shown to me

gentleman would like to fulfil.”

A Beavtirut Ficvrer.—How beautiful is the following, and bow happy must be the heart that can see these beauties and under- stand them :—

“Why is it that the rainbow and the clouds come over us with a beauty that ie

'as of large flocks of sheep and ether annuals.

so much kindness that I could not neglect any oc- casion of conveying to her the sincere expression of my devotion aud gratitude. (Hear.) May the sympathy which is felt for her Majesty be, it not a consolation, at least some alleviatton of her sorrow! May she find, in the unanimous senti- nents of regret for her late husband—of devotion for her own person, additional strength for the fulfilment of her great duties! May God bless her and her children! May her reign be yetlong, peaceful, and prosperous! (ilear, hear.) —_-- —-—-o->o—_——_——-

Tur AUSTRIAN ARMY AND Navy.—The Aus- trian Gazette contains an announeemen the effect that of the countries of Europe Austria is the one that has it least ir its power to reduce its urmy, however onerous the burden imposed there- ever.”” by on the finances of the empire. The Danubian | , a ube Gazette makes a similar declaration with regard| gyieide ig one of the “* specialties’* of the to the Austrian maritime foree. The latter jour-| p . : val declares that the increase of the navy is indis- et ee as > Al) peusable, as the fleet serves for the defence ot the ssnantensinihh ai ar ehe a alin the counties north of San Francisco, even the} the threatened Austrian poenemeen. ss No one, hi d ¢, 43 eh t li £ Th 2

| says that journal, “ can saut their eyes to the diffi- | 41m¢ band in that pecuharity. cir names were Kenrick ; the gentleman had squandered

‘ounties of Napa, : s ma, had suffered badly. | : 7 o : : . " ni siden we — are =. Spm : b me 7 culties of the present financial situation; but that had squan agli ge od pr @88) is not a reason for endangering the very existence | a fortane of $100.000, and with his mistress

can cripple and destroy hin there our troubles may be setdown as over; forthe enemy’s treasury is pow bankrupt, and without some great and brilliant suceess, which will pet him in possession of cotion, this war will break down in a few mouths. We have no apprehensions from Burn- side; but a promptaad vigorous rally of our peo- | pie against this taverite enterprise of the enemy will carry dismay aud despair tu the heart of the North.

not of earth, and then pass away and leave us to muse on their faded loveliness? Why is it that the stars which bold their nightly festival around the midnight throne are placed above the reach of our limited facul- ties, forever mocking us with their una SS glory? And why is it that ight forms of human beauty are

to our view and taken from us, leaving a thousand streams of affection to flow in Alpine torrents upon the heart? There isa realm where the rainbow never fades !-— where the beautiful beinge that pass befere us like meteors will stay in our presence for-

pitting nace tap isinaisibills

LATEST FROM TIE PACIFIC COAST.

The accounts from California and Oregon say that the floods had been equally severe in both States, and that the financial eitect in California may efiect Eastern capitalists.

Wiue in Oregoa large quantities of grain and most oi Che mills iv the Stale had been swept away, the calamities in California are seemingly more | distressing, involving losses of human lite, as well |

found himself in Naples without funds. So they decided to drown themeelves, and climbed over the low walis of the public gar- dens of the Villa Reale, where a semi-cir-

| bridges, dams, flumes », Severely iyjuring the | ‘ ; : ; a ; aud wailing atoms ‘a ceunkee = of the State itself by endeavouring to reduce the sd oe ss seal in a vreat ons cana in comealll . | budget too much, sinee the question of the navy is et Ae = MALYSVENC, | 4 vital one for Austria, if she wishes to preserve

Sacramento, &e. | . ” , » rank of a great power. One account says the flood “drowned Sacra- | the rank of a g P 3 ndintaslttnensiiiiadicte

*\ woman's hand,’ I said, ‘and, oh, Bob, there is a wedding ring upon the finger!’

‘So there is,’ said the boy, leaning across the table, ‘so there is. Strange that I did not

trembling fingers and rushed up stairs. ‘HINA | order bestowed on them) to put an end to them apartment was empty, and the window upon Caps. selves; and that eur commands to this effect be the roof closed. I opened the cupboasd door | yscenpaNcy OF PRINCE KUNG—EXECUTION OF | conveyed to them by Hwa-Fung, Prinee of Su, and looked in. There stood the glass jar in ONE OF THE OVERTHROWN MINISTERS, AND | and Miecn-San, President ‘of the Board of Punish- which the hand was preserved, on arefiote! THE OTHERS ALLOWED TO KILL THEMSELVES.

iments, who are to proceed without delay to the

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notice it before. Home, gentlemen, Grey- stock is in a serious mood—let us leave him.’ and wrapping his strange prize once more ip the "kerchicf, my wild friend and his com- trades departed.

I spent the night in restless dreams, in all of which that pale little hand which had beew laid before me, played a conspicuous part. and arose at daylight unrefreshed and disspirited. While ! was patting the finish- ing touches on my toilet, some one rapped at my door, and on my calling ‘come in,’ open- edand entered. It was Bob.

‘llow do you do, my dear fellow?’ he said. ‘Lhope you feel better than 1 do. For my part I never passed so restlessa night. Some one in the house, or next door kept up a con- toual moaning, and the strange pait of it Was that when I arose to listen, fearing that fms one was ill or dying, the sound ceased, until 1 once more placed my head upon the pillow, when they were resumed more loudly than before. At one time I thought the other fellows were trying to frighten me about the hand, but there was no chance of that. You remember my little pet hand, Greysiocn ? I have it bottled in spirits im a Private cupboard, where my jaundress, who onee faintd at the sightof a skeleton, will bever be alarmed by it.

He spoke merrily, but there was something shout him different from his usual manner, Ithought, as we went out to breakfast to- gether. It wasa foggy morning and the streets were very dreary. There were but few people abroad, but as we turned @ corser, ‘we came face to face with a woman whose dead was bent upon her bosom, and who was moaning bitterly. She wore no bonnet, and was dres-ed in white, but the mud and rain had drenched and drabbled her until she was,

& pitiable object to behuld. I paused and) soke to her. ‘What is the matter?’ I asked. ‘CanI)

au a to help you?’ Asi spoke, the woman raised her eyes, tad showed me a face, the beautiful features of which were of ashen pallor; then without “peaking, held both her arms towards me. pon the left there wasno hand. In my as- Heishment, | stepped aside, and. as I did 80, ‘ie white-rubed figure glided past me, and ‘stished in the fog. In vain we looked for She was goue beyond our sight or bear- ; ‘That is strange,’ I said, turning to Robert. | llow miserable the poor creature looked.’ | nd my poor friend, turning from mea theek of ashy paleness, muttered between his eth; ‘The left hand, too. Good heavens ! te left hand !° We breakfasted together, but throughout tho meal Robert Redlaw was utterly unlike imse f, No merry jests passed his lips, no @) rang out upon the air, and, every now ps “a, himeyes fixed themselves on va- fol = “8 those of one whose thoughts are *Y 4re prone todo. As for myself, I

sncned, Stangely jow-spirited and ab-

Fora week Rething of my time I weat to Ing by the m

it he turne

Subsequent to that day I saw friend, but at the end of that call apon him. Bob was stand vod oo [ entered his room, : ward me, and came forward Greet hands outstretched. * My dear you t should he said, +1 am so glad to see You had uld have come afver you to-day, if ined th hot found your way here. Do you ‘en atl have been ill since we met last ?’ oo — ae = that,” I replied. a emely ult’ continued Robert. ‘I 1 ® cold that night in the damp grave- | it; bel; and have been feverish and delirious. eheve f would not passsuch another week, |

‘ Gegaock, for all the diamonds of Goleonda.’

% Moment, and then, drawing |

dear reader?

‘gil,and the tears trickled slowly down my

ecrner of the shelf.

and disturbed, I eclused the door. As I did

| so, @ low wailing moan, distinct, despairing, ‘and horrible, broke upon my ear; and with

the blood ruaning cold within my veins, 1 descended to the hall once more.

Robert sat upon a chair, his pale face hid- den in beth arms. I touched him upon the shoulder, and found that he was senseless. At first | thought he was dead.

For four weeks Robert Redlaw trembled on

‘the margin of the grave, and we, his com-

rades,watehed over him with sad foreboding,

for the excitement which he had undergone |

had developed a heart disease, which might at any moment prove fatal. ever, the danger seemed to grow less immi-

‘neat, and although yet weak, he seemed to

be upon the high road to recovery.

All that time I had never left him day or night. Study had been thrown aside, and business abandoned — all earthly interest seemed centered in the dying friend beside | whose pillow | watched anxiously. When} the happy hour of convalescence came,I could | have wept for joy.

One day I had been sitting beside Robert, | reading from the old book to which he loved to listen until the twilight fell, and the room | grew so dark that I could not see the words. | Then my friend said to me, ‘Lay down beside | me, Greystock, and rest a little while ; you) must be weary,’ and in my happy confidence of his safety, Ll obeyed, and had searcely flung myself upon the pillow ere slumber overtook me. How longl siept I know not, but 1} was awakened by a low moan, and lifting | my head saw Robert sitting upright through | the window.

‘Bob, dear Bob?’ the matter ?’

‘I committed sacrilege,’ moaned my friend, | ‘and this is my punishment. Robert she has been here again. ‘Put your arm about me, and let me die upon your shoulder.’ |

[ ejaculated, ‘what is |

Horrow-stricken, I supported him upon my public opinion. The anxiety of great personages | | breast, called to God for aid, and prayed for | to set themselves right. with the world at large is |

one smile, for one more word !rem those pale lips, but all in vain. The voice was hushed | forever, the eyes grew glassy, the cold hand | stiffened in my own, and the white moonlight fell upon a dead man’s face, as 1 passed my

| last kiss upon bis lips. Have you ever watched beside the dead, |

Do you know what it is to see a form which once was full cf life and mirth lie like a marble block before you? All sweet emotivas frozen within its sunken eyes, and those changeful and well-loved expres- sions which charmed you so in life settling | into that fixed and rigid smile which, even in its beauty, seems to forbid your gaze and tell you that your past, in what lies there, is blotted out forever. Ob, if you know the | grief of such a seene, I need not tell what I! fel: as the hours of the next sad night sped on toward the morning.

Lis wateh lay on the mantlepiece, ticking as | busily as ever. Ob! how strange it seemed, to think its master’s hand would never rest upon it more? I looked upon it; the hands were pointing to the hour of three — the | night was over, and the miserable day was close at hand. { turned away and walked toward the window. I was alone, for | would not permit another to share that vi-

cheeks as I pacePthe floor.

Just then, | heard once more that low me- lancholy moan, apparently just without the casement, and starting back held my treath tolsten. By the faint light of a shaded taper upon the table [ saw the window open. It wasa Freach window and turned upon its binges like a door, and, ae it unfolded, a,