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THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH. CHAPTER VIII. Ulric was now aware that he was on the

| brink of the most imminent danger. He | perceived clearly that Wilkins had been

ome

the way, and bitterly did he now repent not having paid more attention to old Martin’s warnings and entreaties. The instinct of selfspreservation prompted him to rush upon Captain de Silva and his peox ple, and, if possible, to save himself by fight. One look, however, at the broad shoulders and stout figure of de Silva, and upon the powerful arms of the sailors who menacingly surrounded him on every side, immediately convinced him that nothing could be effected by force. He looked hastily around, and observed «a window which seemed to look towards the street, and it was not guarded by the sailors. He summoned all his presence of mind, and tried first to gain a little time, and quietly, and without being noticed, to approach the window, and then on the first favorable opportunity, to rush through it.

The consternation which the first dis- covery of treachery caused to Ulric, gave place to thoughtfu’ reflection. He re- | seated himeelf quietly, and forcing a smile | on his reluctant lips, said coldly—

‘It is a bad joke which you are playing me Mr. Wilkins. Probably this captain is an old friend of yours, and so, to punish me for my discourtesy towards him, you try to alarm me. But let us have done with joking! Isincerely ask the captain’s pardon; #0 let there be ar end of this joke. To your health, senor !’

‘Bravo!’ exclaimed De Silva; ‘ that pleases me well!’ He touched glasses with Ulric till the goblets rang again. ‘I see already that we shall be very good friends. [I keep, however, to this—that you must come with me on board ship, that is no joke; but if you are only a cheerful companion half ef the way it shall not go ill with you, and perhaps you may bless your good fortune, which made you asailor against your will. It is a merry life we lead on the sea! sometimes rain, sometimes sunshine—so we have a plea- sant variety, which makes the good doubly agreeable when it does come. Yes, I have long wanted a lad like you to keep my accounts, and such matters ; sol am very glad that you take the thing so cooly.’

Ulric, who knew that his only hope of escape was to keep his feelings closely concealed in his own breast, cast a look of contempt upon Wilkins, and then answer- ed the captain with a cheerful countenance. But, nevertheless, he kept a watchful eye on all, and waited for the moment which seemed to promise success to his scheme. The sailors had all, except five or six who guarded the door, taken their places again at the table. The cunning Mendoza had risen to fetch wine for the carousing party. Wilkins avoided the scornful and indignant glance of Ulric, and was watching the dif- ferent groups of sailors; and Captain de Silva alone appeared to notice Ulric, who now seemed to have resigned himself to his destiny.

Near the window stood an open chest of cigars; Ulric got up and went towards it.

‘Where are you going?’ exclimed the captain, seizing him by the arm.

‘Only to get a cigar,’ returned Ulric, quietly.

‘Oh, very well! be tired of my company. also.’

Ulric approached the window with slow steps, and rummaged about among the cigars with one| hand, and with the other pushed the bolt of the window aside, All went on smoothly, and it only remained for him to throw open the window, and then to spring up and dash through the opening.

‘What are you about there so long, youngster?’ exclaimed the captain im: patiently, and he seemed inclined to start up and approach the window; but Ulric promptly bethought himself, and inter< posed to prevent him.

‘ They are all good for nothing, captain! Look for them yourself,’ he said, bringing the small chest of cigars towards the table. Suddenly he stumbled, purposely, over 4 chair, and reeled forwards, and tried to hold fast by the table. By this mancuvre the cigar box fell from his hand, and all the cigars were ‘in a moment scattered about the room.

*How clumsy you are,’ exclaimed the captain. ‘Collect the cigars again, my boys, and mind you do not keep any.’

The sailors commenced picking up the cigars; Wilkins and the captain stooped down to help them, aud Ulric breathing quickly, and rejoiced at the success of his

| thought you might Bring me one

moments unobserved. He did not delay ‘availing himself of the opportunity. With one spring he reached the window, and throwing it open jumped upon the window- will, and, flexible »s an eel, descended !nto the street.

Ashe sprang forward he heard the cry ‘He has escaped !

employed by Schleicher to take him out of |

contrivance, saw that he was for a few.

After him!’ and a . coarse oath from Captain de Silva rang on

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moment to lose. or he would again fall in-~ to the hands of the kidnappers.

The window was higher than he thought | is an unworthy man. What is his name ?’

and therefore, after the spring, he had fallen on the ground; he rose immediately, and ran as fast as he could.

_ dense, that nothing could be distinguished. A gleam of light came from Mendoza’s tavern; but it immediately disappeared

again, and the rising tumult was suddenly | succeeded by the deepest stillness. A sharp ear might distinguish the hasty foot- ‘steps of one solitary being which. in the | stillness of might, were heard at a distance. | Was it Ulric who was flying from his pur. | suers, or was ita benighted wanderer seeks | ing the sheiter of his own roof? Who can tell? The shades of night covered the

The dark -

ness had, in the meantime, become so |

;lam convinced, rather die than utter a

}earth, and no human eye could pierce | through its darkneas.

CHAPTER 1X, if we before doubted whether Ulric had escaped from his pursurers, that doubt, as | it now appears, can entirely be removed.

One day, about a year after Ulric’s de- parture for Valparaiso, Schleicher appeared at Mr. Breitenbach’s with a sorrowful and dejected countenance, at the moment when Mr. Breitenbach was talking with old Mar- | tin about his beloved fosterson in America.

Mr. Britenbach hastened to his nephew but when he observed the disturbed ex= pression of his countenance, he looked anxiously towards Martin shoo’ his head, and muttered—

‘ Still no news from my dear boy. I see jt already nephew! 1 would give all I have in the world to know what has hap- pened to him!’

‘ Humph! nothing has happened to him,’ replied Schleicher. and he looked compass sionately at Mr. Brietenbach; nothing has befallen him that I am aware of ; but—’

The old gentleman listened. Ha! you have news then trom my boy,’ he cried. | ‘Tell me immediately! Why do you des | lay ?’

‘Alas, my dear uncle,’ replied Schleicher, in a melancholy tone, ‘ I would rather con - ceal from you what I have heard of the— the dear boy! But you know, uncle, in- gratitude is always the reward of kindness | in this world; and I[— | unfortunately |

trusted Ulric with too much money. He has cheated me of large sums _ that, how- ever, is a secondary consideration’ But

that the unhappy youth should have so shamefully deceived my dear uncle, who loved him so tenderly, who overwhelmed him with benefits,and regarded him as a son—that he should have so shamefully | deceived this affectionate and good fosters | father, and returned all his kindness with ingratitude, this is the most distressing | part of the ousiness. The loss of the | money can be got over; but the ingrati- tude, the abominable faisehood, the mean hypocrisy, which has so long deceived us all—it is that which fills my soul with sors | row ! that the boy should repay his love so uns)

And how it must pain my dear uncle

worthily !

Mr. Breitenbach became pale at these | words of his nephew, and old Martin trernbled like an aspen leaf.

‘ But what has really happened ? anxious- | ly enquired Mr. Preitenbach, as he seated himself in his arm-chair, to save himself from’sinking on the ground, so sadly had | the unexpected news shaken him. ‘ What has Ulric done which is wicked? Nephew, nephew, you will not surely deceive your | old uncle! Speak at once! I will know | all—ali, without reserve.

What news has |

come to your ears of my fostersson, Ulric?

But speak the truth, nephew, — that I ads | vise you. Mr.Schleicher opened his eyes in such well- feigned astonishment, that his uncle could

suppose him capable of deceit.

‘My dear uncle,’ he said, ‘ how can you think that 1 would strain my conscience by a lie? No far be it from me to do so Take this letter, and read what has plung: ed me also in extreme distress; but ask me not again whether I speak the truth or not. Oh how painful it is to be suspects ed !’

Mr. Breitenbach did not pay much ats tention to the complaints of his nephew, but hastily took the letter from him, and ran his eye over the contents.

‘ Alas, alas, it is true ! he exclaimed mourniuliy, and the hand which held the letter, fell powerless to his side. ‘Old Martin, let us pray God to take us soon, hence, for | see now that truth and honesty are not to be found on this earth. Oh, Ulric, Ulric why hast theu wounded my heart so deeply?’

‘ Put what, then, has happened? Shall I not hear it ?’ cried old Martin. ‘ What has befallen him.’

‘Well,’ answered Schleicher, with a soft voice, but with a look in which Martin esrly deiected a glance of malicious pleasure, ‘he has merely led a dissipated life in Val- paraiso, and defrauded his master and fos- ter-father of the sum of ten thousand dol- lars, and, according to all appearance, he has taken flight on board an English ship. I should think that all this was enough to alienate an affectionate heart like that of my dear uncle, from the misguided and unworthy boy.’

‘ Stop, if you please,’ said Martin’ inter- rupting Schleicher ; ‘ if your letter asserts a thousand times over that our darling boy is becoming worthless and dishonest, then 1 may say and maintain it is not true! Either your correspondents has deceived you, Mr. Schleicher, or there is something concealed which time alone can ciear up. Ulric was such a thoreughly good and hon~ ourable youth, that I would venture a world upon his truth and integrity !’

‘ Appearances deceive !—say you not s0. my dear Martin ?’ returned Schleicher ma- liciously. ‘And in this case your proverb has become truth. Yes, Ulric indeed seem» ed an excellent young man; but scarcely was he removed from surveillance, then he yielded to the first temptation which met him. Thus old Martin, appearances have in truth, deceived !

‘We will hope that this is false! ex~- claimed old Martin. ‘Appearances may be against the poor youth, but truth tri. umphs! We will wait and see what comes | to light. What your correspondent writes is nothing but a string of falsehoods. I know the darling boy! No one knows him as well as I do; and shall they make me believe that, in the short space of a few weeks, he is become @ Villian? It is utters ly impossible, Mr. Schleicher! And you, dear Mr. Breitenbach, lift up your head.

' whose pleasure and whose glory it is to

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| exerted on us through his Colonial imitators

himin his absence. Your correspondent

‘Wilkins,dear Martin !’ replied Schleicher very softly. ‘ Wilkins—a particular good and pious young young man whom | could not suspect of the least untruth, who would

falsehood. I am not myself more upright than this respected and worthy young man- But nevertheless,’ added Schleicher. with a_ very sinister smile, ‘ you, dear Nr. Martin do not know my yourg friend, and [ am not, therefore, surprised that you do not at once give credit to his report; but if he does not speak the truth, how comes it, then, that this wicked boy gives no account of himself? Why does he not return from Valparaiso, since he has long ago settled the business with Mr, Acosta? LHe could have been here three months since, if he cared so much to return to Hamburg! How can you explain to me, Martin, how it hap« pens that all these circumstances exactly coincide with the news which my worthy friend Mr. Wilkins has communicated to me? Ulric neither comes nor writes, be- cause he is afraid of punishment. That is

AMINER.

would pay off the rogue who has blackened ship, this wantof certainty of destination

is an objection, and lowers the value of fes male labor, though women fancy that the difference of wages is due to the unjust privilege of sex. In nursing the sick,women are of course supreme; but nursing the sick isa melancholy vocation. and those en- gaged in it seem to require some spiritual support such as is afforded by sisterhoods, which if the Gospel is true, may surely be mantained otf Gospel principles without being turned into engines of superstition,

The Saturday Review suggests commerce as a sphere in which there is not the siight. est reason for doubting that women might succeed, Commerce is a wide term. We can hardly fancy a lady operating in the Gold Room of New York, or even filling the place of the late able and formidable Prasident of the Bank of Montreal In quieter and less contentious kinds of coms merce there certainly seems no reason why asensibleand industrious woman should not hold her own. But then commerce requires capital: and an unmarried lady with capital, even though its amount were small, would probably choose to live at peace, and find some womanly exployment

the reason we neither hear from, nor see him! A man must be blind indeed who does not plainly see this. My revered uncle,’ added Schleicher, addressing him~ self to’Mr. Breitenbach, ‘ we will make an- other effort to investigate the matter thoroughly. Write yourselfto Mr. Acosta, in whom you can confide. Inquire from him concerning Ulric, and then see whether we may cherish the hope of again pressing the youth as an innoccent person to our, bosoms. Ah! how it troubles me that the misguided lad has fallen into evil ways. But, alas, all coincides too exactly ; and we have been most abominably deceived by the serpent which we have fostered in our bos~ soms !’

for her time rather than to plunge into commercial speculation. Gardening, which the Saturday Review also suggests, if pur- sued ona large scale and witha view to profit in a branch of commerce, and res quires capital like the other branches. The Reviewer is evidently considering the case ef gentlewomen not that of women of the laboring class, and he cannot intend that gentlewomen would earn their bread by working in gardens, where, from the want of strength they are inferior to men

Teaching in schools on the other hand, is a pursuit in which the success of women has been more decided on this continent than the English reviewer seems to be a-

To be continued.

WORK FOR WOMEN,

We borrow the title from a paper in the Saturday Review, sounding an omnious note of alarm, for which happily there is far less cause in this country than in England, but which will not be without an echo even here. In England, where the fashion is set by millionaires, and by millionaires

spend, the cost of living for ail who have a social position to mantain has become per: fectly enormous. Marriage consequently grows more and more formidable : the very expense of the ceremony itself, with all its presents and paraphernalia, is enough to frighten poverty from the threshold. Clubs, the asylums of celibacy, are rising in rapid succession, and are cursed as the causes of an evil which in point of fact they do not cause, but rather mitigate, by substituting a.decent and reputable mode of living for the nocturnal vagabondage and debauchery of the young bachelors of former days.

women are left unmarried and without anybody to support them, pining in want, and in that which is even more trying than want, the mental misery of an aimless and barren life. In Canada, we “have not | come to this. But thanks parily to the! social influence of the English millionaire,

we have come to a point at which it is well to look round and consider what an un- | married lady without a home is going to}

We regard the question, we confess, from the Conservative point of view, being con- vinced that sex, whether created by Pro- vidence or generated by Darwinian selec- tion, isa landmark not to be removed ; that it runs through the mental and moral as well as the physical frame ; and that to bid women be men, and the cumpetitors of men in male callings,is to lead them misere ably astray. While the difference between male and female exists, women will possess, and they will lack qualities which men have. Wisdom enjoins them, if they are to enter the labour market, to bring their strong point into play, not dash their weak~ ness full against the strength of man, who, in obedience to the sentiment formed by long habits, might be forebearing at first but as soon as he found himself pressed, and the subsistance of his wife and children imperilled, would put forth his superior | force and reduce his feeble antagonist to starvation or to helotage. We cut off at! once those callings in which male muscle is required nowithstanding the occasional | appearance of a giantess. We cut off the| callings in which the male kind of courage | is required, notwithstanding the occasional appearance of a lusus nature, in the shape of a female soldier or sailor, and the singu- lar depravation effected in the case ofa nunber of women, little removed from their compatriots the female gorillas, by the essentric policy of the King of Dahomey We cut off also the callings in which male steadiness of nerve is required, and of which watch-making is said to be one. There is another class of employments, | such as surveying, engineering, and the

line in schools for boys above a certain age can hardly be entrusted to female hands. | The reviewer speaks of the train of deco-

/as we said at the outset, the continuance | ‘ ; ! in behalf of the natives of Central Africa,

ware, though the maintoinance of discip-

rative arts, such as China~painting and en- graving, which in England minister to the taastes of a sumptous civilization. These are but just beginning to exist here ; but their importance will increase in time, and the empleyment they afford is well suited for women. The music trade would seem to afford a good opening; though here again it seems the question of muscle in some degree obtrudes it self, piano-tuning | requiring great strength of wriet. Female couriers might find work among the tour- ists of Europe, but there is none for either male or female couriers here. Literature in Canada isa field covered with stumps, where only a few lean creatures of either sex pick up a bare subsistence. Dress~ making on the other hand is evidently in request ; the Second Empire has elevated it to the dignity of an art, nay the first of arts ; and it our Canadian ladies, in taking to it, would only exercise their own taste and judgment, and give us a sensible and pretty Canadian Costume, instead of a dowdy Paris under elied skies, they would render a real service to the community. For an English lady, bred with fine notions, the milliner’ shop might perhaps be rather a come-down. Here we have «t least this great advantage that, though extremes are eccentric, and some measures of fitness must be observed, with us no honest labour isa degredation, If with the English la- dies, of whom the /er/ew speaks, the diffis culty is a social one, as we suspect in many cases it is, the way out of it is emigration.

Afterall, the prospect is limited. ‘In no employment,”’ Siturday Reriac, “will Isdies succeed until they cease to be mere y amateurs’’; and unless a woman has absolutely renounced marri- age and maternity, and this ata very early period of life, it is difficult for her to be more than an amateur in any employment but that of wife and a mother. In ordinary times, atall events, her most valuable ac-

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It is reported that the Pope is again in a weak state, and under treatment of his physicians.

The British Admiralty is directing at- tention to the importance of affording means whereby all seamen in the service muy be taught to swim.

A despatch from Berlin says the Prussian Government intends to ignore the letter of sympathy addressed by the Roman Catholic Bishops of Great Britain to those of Germany.

The latest a centennial celebra- tion is at Por , Me., in commemoration of a tight between a boat's crew of a British schooner and a party of militia in 1785, near the present site of Fort Preble, and it is proposed to incorporate in the celebra- tion the bi-centennial anniversary of a battle between whites and Indians on the same spot in 1675.

A great Cresbyterian Conference is to te held in London, in July next. The movement among the different bodies of the Presbyterians in favor of Union is general. There are according to Dr. Mac- Cosh, forty-eight distinct Presbyterian Churches.. Forty of these have taken steps towards Union and will, it appears, be re- presented in the conference soon to meet in the British capital.

Great victories are reported by Don Car- los forces, under the command of Saballo, over the Spanish Government troops at Breda Le Vida and Santo Coloma, The latter place is in the Province of Barcelona, The enemy numbered 4,000. They iost five chief officers in the first engagement, and 350 men in that at Santo Coloma. Ans other great victory for Carlists under Cas- lilo is reported from Aragon. The (overns ment troops are said to have lost all their artillery snd many prisoners. The Alfons sist General DeLatre was killed.

If we may believe the reports in the English journals, the secret of making glass tough has at last been discovered, and a new era of unbreakable lamp chimneys and other once fragile ware, will secon see in. Mr. Francois de la Bastie,a French Engineer, after years of inquiry, has found that glass heated to a certain temperature, and passed for a moment through a prepar- ed oil also heated, loses its brittleness, becoming so tough that an 8oz iron weight falling on a thin piece from a distance ot tour feet, only bounded oft. Thin watch. glasses, or plates thrown across a room against a wall ~fell spinning on the floor. When, however, the glass does break, it breaks all at once into atoms, and the glazier’s diamond makes no impression on it. It can, however, be cut with the wheel, and some simple method of cutting will speedily be devised, when the glass may be used fur the commonest as well as the most elaborate purposes. As yet the new invention has not been introduced into public use. It is said that it will be first tried in stained-glass windows; but if it is at all equal to what it is represented, and that the price is not too high, it must soon drive the psesent article out of the market for many purposes at all events.

Kiserse 1x Cutna.--It is a singular fact that the custom of kissing is altogether un- known in China. The Chinese, indeed, have no word or term expresing love °s we understand the terder passion. An Am- erican navy Officer, voyaging Chinaward, narrates an amusing experience of the ig- norance of the Chinese maidens of the science of kissing. Wishing to complete a conquest he had made ofa young mei jiu (beautiful lady), he invited her—using the English words—to give hima kiss, Find- ing her comprehension of his request some~ what obscure, he suited the action to the word and took a delicious kiss. The girl ran away into another room thoroughly a! - armed, exclaiming, ‘‘ Terrible man-eater ! I shall be devoured.’ But in a moment, finding herself uninjured by the salute, she returned to his side, saying, **! would like to learn more of your strange rite. Kee-es me !’’ He knew it wasn't right, but he kept instructing her in the rite of “Ke e-es me” untilshe knew how to doit like a native Yankee girl, and, after all that she suggest~ ed a second course by remarking, ‘‘Ke e-es me, some more seen jin mee-lee-kee !” (An- lice American), and the lesson went on until her mamma's voice rudely awakened them from their delicious dream.

Tas Westainster Review for April, 1875’ has been received from the Leonard Scott Publishing Co., “o. 41 Barclay Street, N.

quirements, even in a money point of view, will be those which conduce to cheapness | of living and to the comfort ofa home. If; she has not ahome of her own, her best | chance of usefulness and happiness will in many cases be found in assisting a relative

or friend who has, not asa servant but as | an associate ; which again our social tolers | ance in this country will enable her to do | without real loss of position. We assume.

of the present state of things, with men and women, childern and family life. If it is true that we are approaching, in the evo-~ lution of the race, the point at which sex, and it seems infancy also will disappear, and society be reduced to a number of perfectly equipolent and perfectly indes pendent individuals, without the exigencies or the bond of family no doubt the future a familiar things in store.— Toronto svation.

The Mennonite marriage ceremony aps pears to be an adequate preparation for the trials which are frequently asserted to characterize married life. The first weds ding celebrated in this country among the sect occurred recently in Barton County, Nebraska. The day was Easter Sunday. Thé bride and groom entered the place of worship entirely unattended. and took

superintendence of mines, demanding, if) seats in front of the pulpit. The sermon not the exertion of strong muscle, a good | Jasted hn hour and three quarters, and the deal of physical energy and endurance, Prceggon nce ng oe half an Te vs of these also must be set aside, though field- | a ae eee . . } : ; surveying, we understand, is taught to) pyricry The Brooklyn scandal triai has |

ladies at Vassar College. But there are |

also some employments at first sight purely | has been worked for some time—religious. respectable perjury. After the witnesses

intellectual, yet into which sex enters as a h a ! discriminating influence. As gallantry is ea _ eae ee ee Pn out of place here, we will avow our be- a. < cate: Mrs Moulton . 7 j ; wre. , ief that women, as arule, will never make member of a most respectable family and a l , | : Pp i geod lawyers; while to their appearance regu at partaker of the sacrament of the |

: ' _| Lord’s Supper, at the communion table ot | in court advocates there is the the strong: | Plymouth Church—after these pious and

est objections, apart even from our tradis | respectable people, and others of more or | tional sense of decency, since unless the | lees pious sepeeey. and eee ‘piety, had sworn positively to a long string | oan a. a Pf esntiens - Beecher, the ceilings the influence of her sex upon jurymen | pastor of Plymouth and chosen instrument opposing counsel could hardly fail tointer- | O¢ the Lord for the conversion of,thousande, fera with the objects of public justice. The | and other pious and respectable witnesses, field of Medicine is more open, iadies | es e stand pops ee pre- ; .| vious testimony was , a mass of perjur cannot be surgeons ; hardly oan? rt thus ceamilg proving that one - the sidering the strength of wrist required ; other of these sets of sanctified and aristo- | nor would they like the life of a country | cratic witnesses swore false for the purpose | doctor, with its harass, its hardships, and | of supporting a base accusatioa or conceal- |