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Footprints onthe sands of Time ;— perhaps another, iling o’er lif main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

} t that hts, tna

*s solemn

Seeing shal) take heart again Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any a | Still achieving, still pur suing

Learn to labor and to wal.

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LONG MOSS

CHAPTER XIU

| She released her arms and fell forward, weeping. A sudden, relieved the tension of her brain.

an infant. He

violent gush of tears She was now passive as difficulty in lifting her,and seating her

the window-seat by his side, his

| surrounding her. While she lay, weeping i | sobbing on his bosom, ‘ark and stormy

thoughts swept through it. All his own dreams of happiness were fled with hers. Che tlow that severed her from Marcus inust sunder the bond that bound him to This would be the rhen his friendship, his ardent, dis-

friendship ;

Katy. inevitable re~

uit. what a

interested, trusting

leep, deep, irremediable wound it had re Never more could he trust in hu- man virtue or truth. Never ip his heart in the heart of another.

ceived !

more garne? His

ot southern blood boiled at the thought of

passive endurance of the most ungallantin- The was unworthy to

sult. Peliam was right. son of a ferryman and mate with them,or any honourably descend

Then

overseer

ed individuals led him. that letter? he grasped it as the drowning tbat floats on the stream.

He seized hold of this doubt,

man the twig

Suddenly, as if emo

tion, the expression of Florence’s counten-

ty @ simultaneous

ance changed, exclaimed, Marcus

‘Brother!’ she ‘Let me | think moment. Wariand ! Jan he be the man who has thus cruelly. ight throught the heart ? Brother,

one

pitilessly cut me! (his cannot be his handwrighting never did.

he never wrote it. I know he

How could I believe him guilty of such a I have done him injustice.

| know

| cowardly blow ? | Oh! I bave greatly wronged him; { feel I have.’ tier countenance lighted up gloriously as she spoke. I do

incapable of

believe you are right.

this

* Fiorence ; Wark Whe togethe

ighter and purer, | feel with you, the im-

ind is baseness.

r, during which his character grew

found no} on |

. ’ rms stiii

‘ould be indeed have written |

,

2f wild frolics of writing |

| } } | }

| Was a mere C

rei

PRINCE EDWARD ESLAND,

CO lie. i BS de RE

MONDAY

Se

feelings towards

mind the ré inism of thought. By a

public

public act of vengeance, he would only blazon the affur to the world, and make his sister's name a byword, to be bandied from

lip to lip with mockery and reproach. Blood

would not effect the impression. It would only give ita more hideous

‘Yes to himeelf right. be avenged der he looks down

fiare. , muttered he

and this is one upon us, | worshipped him as if he were some eastern

It is no wone

another: *! Liberty of

she is

There are some wrongs that cannot | when we have |

upon her.

divinity. Graciaus, Florence !’ he exclaim ed, walking backwards and forwards, like | ia caged lion, ‘I wouid pive Wood Liwn pe all the lawns in creation, if | owned them, thit i had never abetted you in your those foolish letters,

and stil more do | mourn your infatuation

in assuming that romantic and unheard,of

| disguise,

| for not proving a better guardian to your | through, which she scarcely | 5 - } -

reckless youth

gant and presumptuous; we have forgot- ten our own selfrespect.’

‘Do not say we, George,’ said Florence ina tone of deep and touching humility.

me be

ind mine al Most bitterly have I

‘ Mine alone is the folly: the punishment. res pented for my girlish forwardness ; hild then, a cre Alas! I am still the same

sature of impuls. and passion. impulsive, impassionate being, untaug

| experience and undisciplined by reason.’

| ness,

Master experience

i } { } | i | j

| |

'

| j |

sudden doubt start- |

| imprudent girl that I am.

n I think of the years we have passed | | not caution y

! possibility of bis having committed an act |

like this.

him. Where are his letters? Let us com-

pare the handwriting, word with word, let | ter with letter. If it b- forgery, I can de~ tect it at once.’

With an eager hand, Florence opened her precious rosewood cabinet, and drew forth the packet, bound with a cerulean She shivered as she handed it to

with

ribbon, him, and her touch was like contact ice.

‘ Wait one moment, brother,’ this is an awful moment. in doubt. Doubt! how I desire myselt for the word.

she cried ;

| waver.’ Delaval, impatiently snatched a letter ; from the parcel, unfolded it by the side of

and carefully compared them word with word | letter with letter. Florence leaned over |

| his shoulder, bending her head lower and

darker, as the irresiste

growing darker and ible conviction forced itself upon her, that they were written by the same hand. De- laval raised his eyes one moment to hers)

stern, yet burning glance.

‘No, this is no forgery,’ he cried. circumstances to which this letter refers are known only to him, Patterson, and myself Even if the characters did not prove it with fidelity, the contents would be suf-

such

| ficient.

|on this very subject. Here are the very |

versed with him. I never breathed it to another human being. repeat the same to Patterson. these are my own words, and this is his own hand- And, look Florence, the self-same

Yes;

writing.

it. He got it at the North. We visited | the paper mill together where it was made | and both of us ordered some with our in- itials pressed on the corner of the sheet. Florence, he is a villian. a doubt is swept away.

He is a@ most con- summate villian.’

recall my own rash words. ed his naked heart to another not to me. I, I have done the whole. his delicacy, alienated his affection, and with my own hand destroyed his love. And yet, she added, with a kindling counten- ance, ‘ how dare he attempt to transfer me to another? How dure he insult me so coldly, so deliberately? This I never, nev- er can forgive.’

{ | While Florence was speaking, the truth | of what she had previously said came forc-

ibly into the mind of Velaval. This was a

private letter, not intended for their per- rusal; it was the expression of one man's

words I myself uttered the last time I con- |

I requested him to |

| have outraged |

We have the power to vindicate |

| no one else in the

}

Leave me stil] | self in darkness as with a mantle. | knew not when night came on, for Dela- |

My faith in him shall not |

| Lewis was absent ona visit to a

‘Experience !’ cried Delaval with bi

but I never could dis- cover his merits. lle warns us of the past but we know that already; His |

I want

imp throw: ill its rays backward the fut

Cicero!’

a guide for ure; and such a Delaval threw himself on the windowseat

and ende:voured to compose his thoughts ind deliberate op the course he must adopt

Che only way was for Florence to retur

ht by

n the }

|

| } }

I ought to be shot this moment,

We have made him arro-

’

but I}

} | j } }

tter. | into the open

} ‘Moralists boast of the great world | | yore returned to its former

}in her bosom.

j {

‘ Pepe f | f future? Shade of |

' } }

' '

letters of Marcus with every memorial of his |

false love. with a haughty and po itive re- jection, without any allusion to the disgr \

ful letter which had providentially reve z ed his modest

character. gentle,

true Sut moty

loving Katy!

sweet,

j tachment;

| -} |

}

‘ow could |

tie tear her fron his heart—that warm.noble

generous heart, where she was so sacredly The sister of that

would

enshrined ed brother His !

as that pertumed blue.sbound packet was

false, reject- never consent to be letters would be returned

wife. just

ibout to be; the rings with which he had the had clasped round her snowy arms —they

encircled her fair fingers bracelets he

would all come back, mocking him with the memory of his past happiness, the thought Wood Lawn would

of his brightest hopes.

| had thought would remain on her finger

|

| emit

henceforth be a desert to him, the whole |

world a wilderness ‘You are unhappy, brother;

you so,’ said Florence, taking his hand in

both of hers, and laying her cheek gently upon it me. J

this on myself. I feel late.’

Delaval drew her closer to him. She had been rash and imprudent that before; but he could not er he: now. lire a love, too intense a compassion,

He felt too deep a tendernes

~at thus in silence—she weary and exhaust-

| ed by her passion and her tears, thankful, | be half of the Opposition,

ia her abandonment and delu-ion, th. t one

friend was left to -ywpathise with and care and accepted with gr

for her, one breast on which she could pil

low her aching head and solace her wound- ed heart.

‘You had better go to your ence,’ said he gathering up her dishevelied hair and smoothing it back from her shou! ‘Some one

ders might come in.

lie down. Your bead must ache. I need

yu not to reveal the cause of

your agitation, to betray ‘." ‘Thank you for the by it,’ said she, with a sudden flish of spirit and thank you for your tenderness, your

You have too much pride

» warning ; I will profit

sympathy, and your promise too—dear dear

oh ! how [ love you for it!

world to love but you

George now, for I cared but for one besides,’ she

added in a low voice as she ment, Alone in self on the bed, and drawing the fringed curtains closely around her,

She

val had told Letty not to have her dist Mrs. friend —a

as she was ill and wanted nosupper.

| fortunate circumstance for Florence and the

lower, her lately illumined countenanance |

and she read the same conviction in that |

| ‘The |

|

the crumpled paper he held in in his hand | mystery of her grief.

‘Is that you, Letty ?’ asked she, hearing | footsteps entering, and perceiving the

glimmer of a light through the curtains. ‘ Yes, Miss F.orence, it’s me, shall [ bring | your supper?’

‘No; come here Letty.’ down the light, and came softly toward the | bed, peeping through the curtains.

‘Letty,’ said Florence, ho'ding out her | hand, ‘I spoke crossly to you, I did not know what I was saying; you must forget it.’

‘Oh Miss Florence,

| had no business to stick my ugly nose in | your matters, any way—that I hain’t. |

I knew that he was to address him |

}

}

paper, too, with his cyphers stamped upon | letting them drip over her black

wish I pull out my tongue, I do—saucy old | | thing. :

‘Undress me Letty, and let me sleep, You don’t know how sick 1 am.’

Tenderly, as if she was fondling an infant,

night’s repose, which she fe:red would not visit her pillow her rich, tangled, tear-moistened Iccks, | fingers, in blacker, shining curls.

‘Thank you,’ said Florence, suffering her |

| head to fall languidly on the pillow. ‘That

| is soothing. Every shadow of | Letty. | again.

He has reveals | | distance remained perfectly still. It has the torrent’s smooths |

|

| she cried out,

You are a good creature,

L will try never to be cross to you %? ox . ae

Don’t say anything.

Letty placed the lamp in the chimney,

‘ No,’ she replied, with bloodless lips, ‘ 1| where it could not shine on the face of her |

young mistress, and seating herself at a

too was still. ness after it has dashed over the rocks-- the lull of the tempest after its fury is spent. She slept—but it was not rest. Every now and then she would start up with a faint scream, look wildly around ker,

close her eyes and fall back again.

that letter !’ Letty sat in herskaded corner, and pon- dered these things in her heart,’

|

She is not to blame ; Lonly am. Rash, | | have brought it now when it is too |

| } }

| the neck of Rosa, } | ite gem.

nis |

'

'

| ~

i tere wane} ler task was finished; the few decisive

«| and shuddered ‘You must not give up Katy for | 7

He had told ber ance,

| sigh and pine, for an ingrate, unworthy

| her

sz RIS

her tuilette. Though her head throbbed

almost to ed her tires

lation of her

bursting, she allio

womin to twist the wild undu

tre-ses around her finge’s, as she was wont |

to do, When she looked in the glass and saw her pallid cheek and altered connten she blushed,

, and

ance, indignant at her own

the life came back to her cheek and eye. Delaval met her at the | door of the breakfact room with a brotherly | kiss

weakness

Iie was rejoiced to see her look so | much like herself, and his own stern. joy, less countenance brightened as he grzed But after the first greeting was over, and she believed heraelf unnoticed, ie remarked the gradual subsiding of her spirit. The colour all went away from her |

cheek

and she sat with weeping lashes, |

that threw a deeper pallor on her pensive |

fuce, ‘Come and take a ride on horseback with

me, sister,’ said he when the breakfast was |

j }

touched. 1}

unt to show you what wonders I have done

on the plantation since [ have taken the

reins in my owa hand. ‘That fine jaunt

had with Arnold’s negroes was an excels

nt apprenticesh Pp for me. They thought [ was a jewel of a master.’

appreciated her brother’s mo- She

She would |

Florence tive, and gladly accompanied him. wanted to get away from herself. have gone to the world’s end if she could luuve reached it. It

was astonishing how

ner life came back to her, when she went | air on a light-footed pony. |

spirit that sustained her of |

Phe hau zhty dwelling-place She would not weep, and

{a woman's generous, self. rgetting love. She

though al

uncalculating, would rend him from her heart, \l of the quivering nem-

were torn away with the image it en- shrined.

She had one task to perform which she lreaded

mementoes of

but would not defer. To gather

ill the her ill-directed at.~

to return his letters und pledges to destroy the faded flowers she |} She took from her finger a ruby ring, the token of

ot love; had been treasuring as holy relics. his plighted faith, and drew through it the golden chain which he had passed round The ruby was her favour, [ts glowing hue heightened the iark splendour of her beauty, ippropriate emblem of love.

looked for

and was an Now, as she } the last time on a pledge she |

9} even under the dark coffin-lid, it seemed to

a bleeding radiance, and she could al- }

most fancy ut t owed its crimson tint to drops

of blood. he letters she would not read. |

lest a Daal of pages so fraught with

fascination should soften her purpose, and |

untit her for the stern duty before her

words written; the packet sealed directed

ind ready to be sent. Ther she sat down at the blank before her.

OFS eo) CC eee

;at a later | Turkey is reserved, | saving the point of honor. ' in fact toa formal renunciation of the old

| them with the sword.

| when he acquiesced in the abrogation by

| fairest

| earth,

| tans advocate annexation to England,

FEBRUARY 7, 1876.

1873; he has marred the neice of an Earl,

he is uderately rich, he is accomplished, he knows the routine of official duties, and he has given as little evidence of fitness for the great post to which he is now called as the late Lord Mayo himself; whenee, probably, Mr. Disraeli’s belief that he will achieve an equally remarkable success. It is just possible that the Prime Minister's love of paradox has led him astray. two men could be more alike than Lord Mayo, with his robust, slow-minded, com- mon sense, and the versatile man of the world who is known in literature as Meredith, and in diplomacy as a brilliant failure. As he has tailed in Europe, which more

Owen

he knows thoroughly, nothing is likely than that he should succeed in India, of which he krows nothing. > —- - + eo

THE EASTERN QUE STION. lus latest telegram on the Eastern ques- tion is to the effect that the British Cabinet | to Count Andrassy’s note

has assented

which, under the name of reform, dethrones the dominant race and dissolves the Otto Ar stage and in conjunction with apparently by way of This

man Empire, ght to consider details

amounts

| policy of England on the E:stern question

land an abandonment of Turkey to a r fate.

; No doubt it is in that point of view that

the decision of the British Cabinet is con

lemned by a certain portion of the press including the Morning Post, whieh in for- mer days was Lord Palmerston’s personal But it is

organ. easier to find fault with

‘ the action of the Government than to show

that it could have taken any other course Turkish and what is more to

The insurrection in the Province- is evidently spreading, ' the purpose, it is clear enough that Austria and Russia have made up their minds if their proposals are resisted to give effect to fiow can England with barely troops to garrison her own shores attempt to throw herself across the path of two great military powers on the Continent? It is true that the present Government and their party held different language when in Opposition, and that they | are doing a sort of penance for the cons

|tumely they heaped upon Mr Gladstone

by Russia of the Treaty of Paris, a stroke | of fate which he was equally powerless to | So the book ot Turkish history is |

It contains some stirring pages of

arrest.

closed.

| nothing but the annals of a conquering

' horde, corrupted but never civilized, and which has for four centuries cursed with some of}

barrenness, darkness and misery,

and most famous regions of the | the Western Provinces; a party of the Cre- | and

| it seems as though the programme of the | late Czar for the disposal of the Sick Man's

deol : : } property might be carried out to the latter THE PEOPLES ANSWER. oes Tae and the inutility of the Crimean war mark. | , . cd s ed by the severest irony of fate. — Zoronto lum victory at North Renfrew cannot | N alion. cert iinly be exaggerated as to its impor te i

It was probably as straight a fight |

| between the two parties as has ever been |

too en- | Phey |

wrapped her- |

don't say that. 1!

room, Flor- .

(-o and | |

fought. The electors had the advantage

at issue discussed and by Dr. Tupper on and

bound to say that the issue was presented

of having the questions

by the first Minister

we are | ‘eat frankness :—‘‘ We vind

are here toxnight,”’ said Mr. McKenzie, in achburg | Dr.

being

his speech at Bre

“ and

Tupper a distinguished | of the Conservative party, I the the Government—to ‘discuss in your presence the great public be

which

myself—he leader

“leader of reform

‘questions of the day, and it will for ‘you to judge in the coming contest,

‘ of the gr

at political parties has the best ‘right o: is the bes ‘the a And as if | to localise the issue more directly. the first |

tqu lified to administer ffiirs of the Dominion,”

Minister entered into an elaborate defence |

'of his railway policy, dwelling especially

| upon the fact that this policy | have through which the railway is to run,

left the apart. |

her own room, she threw her. |

}

|

urbed, | Kenzie would to-day give something

would ma

county of Renfrew, and apparently concious of the strength and the c

terially benefit the

then,

of his appeal certainty of its suc-

cess, he said :--‘ I have placed before you ‘fully and fairly the policy of the Governs

ment inregard to the railway, and upon | ‘the merits of this policy I ask the electors ‘to

pronounce approval

We

by voting for | no doubt Mr. Mc- if he | could but withdraw this bold submission | of his policy to the arbitrament of the }

‘ Murray.” have

| people of North Renfrew. Taking the issue as placed before the electors by |

| himself,

| approval.

The negro put |

|

stands condem- ned as unfit to govern the country, and his |

his Government

is pronounced to be unworthy of | Two hundred and ten of a ma- jority for White, is the crushing answer to |}

policy

the Premier's appeal. We await anxiously to see it accounted for upon some other

| hypothesis than the influence of Ultramon-~ tanism:— Montreal Gazette.

_-_om +

INDIA’S VICEROY.

Loudon Letter in New York Tribune.

Lord Northbrook has shown ability in but not ability of the highest or} a very high kind, He is a good |

, India, even of a

/man of business, laborious, occupying him- | self far too much with details, and withs |

out ¢

Letty prepared her young mistress for the | away without leaving a mark on the great | 'an entire change from soft, succulent food

She combed and brushed |

|

| lyre in his eal and

/ many and has dwelt everywhere excepting | in the land of his birth—if indeed England

Florence |

| when his uncie, then Sir Henry Bulwer,

‘rapidly and finishing his subordinate career

Once | ‘the letter—oh! Marcus— |

, matic service, embassador excepted, though

capacity for great things. He will go}

Empire he has ruled for four years.

Lord Lytton, who is to succeed him, has been pretty much everything in the diplo-

He was born with a. | mouth, a mimic some brains in his | head, Of all Englishmen he is the one of the | least English. He was educated in Ger- |

he is not yet 45. silver-gilt spocn in his

be the land of his birth. There may be people yet living in Washington who re- member him, for he was attache of the

British Legation there, before he was 18,

was Minister. He has since served in | most of the capitals of Europe, rising |

as Secretary of Legation in two years in Paris, whence he went to Lisbon, in com- pany with our friend Mr. Moran, as En- | voy. He had been personally popular, his

name had become known in literature, his