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CHAPTER LVIUIL. (Continued. )

Mrs Undercliff turned to Helen, and said: ‘Have you brought hina nothing at all, no handwritings—in your bag?’

Then Helen sighed again. ‘I have no handwritings except Mr. Penfold’s; but I have two printed reports of the trial.’

‘Printed reports,’ said the expert, ‘they are no use tome. Ah! here is an outline I took of the prisoner during the trial. You can read faces; tell the lady whether he was guilty or not,’ and he handed the profile to his mother with an ironical look; not that he doubted her proficiency in the rival art of reading faces, but that he donbt- ed the existence of the art.

Mrs. Undercliff took the profile, and, col- oring slightly, said to Miss Rolleston: ‘It is living faces I profess to read; there I can see the movement of the eyes and other things that my son here has not studied.’ Then she scrutinized the profile. ‘It is a very handsome face,’ said she.

The expert chuckled. ‘There’s a woman’s judgment,’ said he. ‘Handsome! the fellow 1 got transported for life down at Exeter was an Adonis, and forged wills, bonds, and powers of attorney by the dozen,’

‘There’s something noble about his face,’ said Undereliff, ignoring the interruption, ‘and yet something simple. I think him more likely to be a cat’s-paw than a felon. Having delivered this with a certain modest dignity, she laid the profile on the counter before Helen.

The expert had a wonderful eye and hand; it was a good thing for society he had elected to be a gamekeeper instead of poacher, detector of forgery instead of

forger. No photograph was ever truer than hig, outline. Helen started, and bowed her head over the sketch to

conceal the strong and various emotions that swelled at sight of the portrait of her martyr. In vain, if the eyes were hidden, the tender bosom heaved, the graceful body quivered, and the tears fell fast upon the counter.

Mrs. Undercliff was womanly enough, though she looked like the late Lord Thur- low in petticoats; and she instantly aided the girl to hide her beating heart from the map, though that man was her son. She distracted his attention. ‘Give me all your notes, Ned,’ said she, ‘and let me see whether I can make something of them; but first perhaps Miss Rolleston will empty Go back to your work a moment, for I know you have enough to do.’

The expert was secretely glatl to be re- leased from a case in which there were no materials; and so Helen escaped unobserved except by one of her own sex. She saw directly what Mrs. Undercliff had done for her, and lifted her sweet eyes, thick with tears, to thankher. Mrs. Undercliff smiled maternally, and next these two ladies did a stroke of business in the twinkling of an eye, and without a word spoken, whereof anon. Helen being once more composed, Mrs. Undercliff took up the prayer book, and asked her with some curiosity what could be in that.

‘Oh,’ said Helen, ‘only some writing of Mr. Penfold. Mr. Undercliff does not want to see that; he is already sure that Robert Penfold never wrote that wicked thing.’

‘Yes, but I should like to see some more of his handwriting, for all that,’ said the expert looking up.

‘But itis only in pencil.’

‘Never mind; you need not fear I shall alter my opinion.’

Helen colored high. ‘Yon are right; and I should disgrace my good cause by with- holling anything from your inspection. There, sir.’ And she opened the prayer book and laid Cooper’s dying words before the expert. He glanced over them with an eye like a bird, and compared them with his notes.

‘Yes,’ said he, ‘that is Robert Penfold’s writing; and I say again that hand never wrote the forged note.’

‘Let me see that,’ said Mrs. Under- cliffe.

‘Oh, yes,’ said Helen, rather irresolute- ly; ‘but you look into the things as well as the writing, and I promised papa—’

‘Can’t you trust me? said Mrs. Under- cliffe, turning suddenly cold and a little suspicious.

‘Oh, yes, madam; and indeed I have ngthing to reproach myself with. But my papa is anxious. However, lam sure you are my friend; and all I ask is that you will never mention to a soul what you read there.’

‘I promise that,’ said the elder lady, and instantly benther black brows upon the writing, And, as she did so, Helen ob- served her countenance rise, as a face is very apt todo when its owner enters on congenial work.

‘You would have made a great mistake to keep this from me,’ said she, gravely. Then she pondered profoundly; then she turned to her son and said, ‘Why, Edward, this is the very young lady who was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean, and cast on a desolate island. We have all read about you in the papers, miss; and I felt for you, for one, but, of course, not as I do now I have seen you. You mustlet me go into this with you.’

‘Ah, if you would” said Helen. ‘Qh, madam, I have gone through tortures already for want of somebody of my own sex to keep mein countenance! Oh, if you could have seen how I have been re- ceived, with what cold looks, and some- times with impertinent stares, before | could even penetrate into the region of those cold looks and petty formalities ! Any miserable straw was excuse enough to stop me on my errand of justice and mercy and gratitude.’

‘ Gratitude ?

‘Oh, yes, madam. The papers have only

told you that I was shipwrecked and cast ‘away. They don’t teil ~you that Robert ‘Penfold warned me the ship was to be | destroyed, and I disbelieved and affronted |him in return, and he never reproached me, not even by alook. And we were in a boat with the sailors all starved — not hungry; starved—and mad with thirst, and yet in his own agony he hid something for me to eat. All his thought, all his fear, was forme. Such things are not done in those yreat extremities of the poor, vulger, suffering body, except by angels in whom the soul rises above the flesh. And he is such an angel. I have had a knife lifted over me to kill me, madam—yes; and again it was he who saved me. I owe my life to him on the island over and over again; and in return, 1 have promised to give him back his honor, that he values far more than life, as all such noble spirits do. Ah, my poor martyr, how feebly J plead your cause! Qh, help me! pray help me ! All is so dark, and 1 so weak, so weak.” Again the loving eyes streamed; and this time not an eye was dry in the little shop.

The expert flung down his tracing with something between a groan and a curse, ‘Who can do that drudgery,’ he cried, ‘whilst the poor young lady—Mother, you take it in hand; find me some material, though it is no bigger thar a fly’s foot; give me butaclue no thicker than a spider's web, and I'll follow it throvgh the whole labyrinth. But you see I’m impotent; there’s no basis forme. It is a case for you. It wants a shrewd, sagacious body that can read facts and faces; and—I won't jest any more, Miss Rolleston, for you are deeply in earnest. Well, then, she really is a woman with a wonderful insight into facts and faces. She has got a way of read- ing them as [ read handwriting; and she must have taken a great fancy to you, for as arule she never does us the honor to meddle.’

‘Have you taken a fancy to me, madam said Helen, modestly and tenderly, yet half archily.

‘That I have,’ said the other. ‘Those eyes of yours went straight into my heart last night, or 1 should not be here this morning. That is partly owing to my own eyes being so dark, and yours the lovelicst hazel. It is twenty years since eyes like yours have gazed into mine. Diamonds are not half so rare, nor a tenth part so lovely, to my fancy.’ She turned her head away, melted probably by some tender reminis- cence. It was only for a moment. She turned around again, and said quietly: ‘Yes Ned, I should like to try what can do; I think you said these are reports of his trial. I'll begin by reading them.’

She read them both very slowly and care- fully, and her face grew like a judge’s, and Helen watched each shade of expression with deep anxiety.

That powerful countenance showed alacrity and hope at first; then doubt and difficulty, and at last dejection. Helen’s heart turned cold, and for the first time she began to despair. For now a shrewd per- son, with a plain prejudice in her favor and Robert's, was staggered by the simple facts of the trial.

(To be continued. ) ”-_-_-oerroe—eneese es - —-

Walking Five Thousand Miles.

THE HORRIBLE MARCH OF EXILED RUSSIANS.

No less than 165,000 human beings have been transported to Siberia during the past ten years—a very high figure of criminality indeed, for a population numbering 72,- 000,000, if all exiles were ‘‘criminals.” Less than one-half of them, however, cross- ed the Ural in accordance with the sentence

of the courts. The others were thrown inte Siberia without having seen any judges, by simple order

of the administrative, or in accordance with resolutions taken by their communes— nearly always under the pressure of the omnipotent local autborities. Out of the 151,184 exiles who crossed the Ural dur- ing the years 1867 to 1876, no less than 78,676 belonging to the last category. The remaining were condemned by courts; 18,582 to hard labor, and 54,316 to be settled in Siberia, mostly for life, with or without loss of all their civil rights, Twenty years ago the exiles traversed on foot all the distance between Moscow and the place to which they were dispatched. They had thus to walk something like 4,700 miles in order to reach the hard labor colonies of Transbaikalia, and 5,200 miles to reach Yakutsk. Nearly a two years walk for the former and two years and a half for the second. Some ameliora- tion has been introduced since. After having been gathered from all parts of Russia at Moscow or at Nijne-Novgorod they are transported now by a steamer to Perm, by mail to Ekaterinburg, in car- riages to Tumen, and again by steamer to Tomsk, Thus, according to a recent Eng- lish book on exile in Siberia, they have to walk ‘‘only the distance to Tomsk.” In plain figures, this trifling distance means 2,065 miles to Kara, something like a nine months’ foot journey, If the prisoner be sent to Yakutsk he has ‘‘only” 1,840 miles to walk and the Russian Govern- ment having discovered that Yakutsk is a place still too near St. Petersburg, are sending them now to Verkhoyansk and Nijni Kolynish (in the neighborhood of Nordenskjold’s wintering station), and a distance of 1,500 miles must be added to the former ‘‘trifling” distance and we have again the magic figure of 4,500 miles—or two years’ walk—reconstituted in full.— Prince Krapoikine in the Nineteenth Century.

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five of these has got the length of writing hi wn name. In I880 fifty-three out of the seventy-six senators, and 272 out of the 325 representatives of the American people were

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