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“pretty little aunt Janet! To be sure, father, ‘no doubt, for the dance, or the moonlight difficult to breathe, you understand, well—he's you and I must not stand in her way a mo- walk, but she’s had no training at all, or| got himself to thank for it.”

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the last time. I gave the rascal fair warning.’ | ‘Do you mean to dismiss Roliins ?’

| ‘No, for 1 have dismissed him. He goes out | of this house the moment he’s had bis supper. | | would’nt turn adog away hungry, but [| do abhor cruelty to animals, and I will not | ‘have a man about my stable that will misuse | |a single creature there is in it, let alone such | maguificent fellows as Brave and Hero.’ ‘Itis an abominable thing, traly,

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xel.ation as they have received this afternoon, It was done out of pure deviltry. The man is | ‘tu lof that mean, cruel spirit that delixhts in | tormenting anything, aud every thing that| | happens to be in one’s power. I know, very well, what he has been about, In the first place he hag been drinking, and then he tried | to put the horses through some wretched trick or other of bis own devising, and to which the | sensible ereatures had no idea of submitting ; |} #0 he gave vent to bisirritation, and his na- | tural inclination, by breaking up his whip— jand not that only — over their defenceless heads.’ * Well, I dare say it is best that he should | BOs and yet I had half hoped you would give him another chence.?

*Yes, and give Brave and Hero ial chance t» shrink and quiver under his merei less tlows! No Sreve! I have done well by that scoundrel, aud would have done well by him, unpromising jail-bird that he was, but

| generosity and forebearance are thrown away ou such pocple. My mistake was in not dis. missing him betore, for this isn’t his first of- fence. <A cruel man is never to be trusted | vught never to be trusted ; and mind you, it is | | the sameevil io kind, if not in degree, to have ‘low, vicious characters dealing with our hum , o'e friends of the barn and stabl>, as with our | children at home and sehooi.’ | A week or two later we find our friends, | Ph lip Hort -o and his son Stephen sitting be- fore a glowing fire, made welcome by the jcoulness of the autumn nizhis, that at thie )season Often follow days of deep blue sbries j and atmosphere of almost summer's warmth |It would seem that the owner of the finest | farm in all the region round about, the maste | of a substanta!ly-built, and tastefully-furnish- ed home, the father of a wel -edueated youn, man of generous and unselfish nature, and free | from every taint of vce; such a man itseems lif any, Ought to sit in serene enjoyment of his fireside such a night as this when the hard la- |bor of the year has ended, and the brilliant /harvest-moon shines down upon well-fll-d | granary and barn, while, on every hand, the jeye meets tokens of that abundance that cer | tainly goes to fur te substantiate the farmers claim to superior independence, For, in ali | his dealings with neighbors and fellow-towns-

'men, Philip Horton has shown himself no

| grasping, avaricious man, caring only for th | fulness of his own purse, but kindly consider- | ate toward the poor who needed consideration. }aud just and manly with those who stood on | hig own pecuniary level. Yet, as he sits in |his wide arm-chair, extending his slippered | feet to woo the grateful warmth, and lunching |daintily off a Flemish Beanty pear, he is, by ino means, the picture of content with all | things. | ‘Steve!’ | ‘Yes father,’ returned the young man | brightly, looking wp from a similar occupation on the other side of the hearth. | *A pretty pass this is, we’re coming to!’ | ‘What, sir?’ | ‘I wish you’dwakenp. I say we’re coming ‘toa ‘Never was broader awake in my life, sir. What's the matter ?” ‘Matter! You’l find out one of these mornings when you do wake up in easnest,and can’t find a shirt fit to put on; and come

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|empty grate, and yesterday’s clutter, and go ‘out into the kitchen where you shall seek diligently for the signs of breaktast, and shal! | find none!’

¢ Ay! all this and more, unless, like a true man, you rouse yourself and come to the |reycue. You fancy yourself awake. Where jare your eyes, and your ears, and what are ‘you thinking about, generally? Because a | pretty girl of eightzen, who was as good and unselfish as she was pretty, said ‘no,’ on a

man every hour in the day, and ever day in

|the week; etill we shall certainly be able to “manage some way, with our faithful Lucinda to the fore.’

At this juncture, Philip Horton caught up the tongs, punched the coals excitedly, and then turned to his son with a queer mixture of triumph and dispair in his countenance,

‘Young man, if you flatter yourself that you've got any such reliable anchor to wind’- ard as our faithful Lucinda, you're mightily mistaken, let metell you. I grant you we might get on quite comfortably with such ser- vice as Lucinda’s, trained under Janet’s eye, as she has been, lo! these many years; but unluckily, yourg Joe Moore has an eye to comfort, too, the last night, my blushing dam- sel seeks an audience of Miss Janet, and sta‘nmeringly informs her astonished and des- pairing mistress, that she and Joe haye made up their minds to set up their own wigwam about Thunkegiving-time.’

‘So soon as that ??

* Precisely ; 80 soon asthat. Feel just like having Thanksgiving, to-morrow? Thought you would, when you heard the news. Steve! I°ll tell you what it is. It’s a clear case for a homceopathist, if ever there wae one. Similia similibus curantur, M atrimony it is that stabs our domestic peace, and matrimony it must be that will heal the wound,’

Then there fell a long silence between the two men, during which the younger built up the fire carefully, putting on another stick and then gazing with a faraway look into the leaping flames. Evidently his thoughts were not all of a disagreeable character, notwith- standing the somewhat unwelcome communi cation that had been made, for a smile, now and again, lighted up his handsome face, and, altogether, he had the air of one determined to submit gracefully to the inevitable. By

and by he roused himself and turned to the

other, with @ courteous gesture,

‘Try another beauty, father? Here's a fine spec'mer. I don’t belic ye you made the best cho:e2 possible, the other time,’

‘Coniound itall, Steve! What do you mean, taking the words out of my mouth, im thet way ?’

¢T, sir?’

‘Yes, yousir. That’s precisely what I've been wanting to say to you this ha!f hour.’

‘Me, father! Why, I’m very w7'l satisfied with my sel-ction,’

‘] dare say, I dare say. But I am not. By io means, Steve, by po means,’

‘Why, father,’ returned the young man, laughing a little nervously, * the sel:ction of a pear is not, after all, a matter of so great im- portance.’

* Nonsense, Steve! You know very well, what I mean ; that the Beauty in your hand, is not, in the least, the beauty I refer to.’

And the young man laughed no longer, but schooled his lips to a silence which be feared it would be difficult to maintain.

‘The best ehoice possible !’ repeated the elder, his broad expanse of forehead drawing up into ominous wrinkles as he spoke, ¢ You certainly have not made the best choice pos- sible, Stephen.’

‘Sir,’ replied the young man, respectfully but firmly, ‘you are touchi g upon a subject, the discussion of which had best be omitted between us. I shell aot forget that you are my father, but I must insist that this is a mat- ter in which the right of choice belongs to myself, alone.’

‘To a certain degree you are right, Steve ; but since you are my boy (a good boy, too, you have always been to me, 1 wil] say that for you) and since you and I do not propose to go our seperate ways just yet, it seems to me when I see you on the point of making an unsuitable choice in the most :mportant mat- ter in the worll—Zounds! Steve, I feel as if I had something to gay in the matter, and had a right to say it, too. IJ want you to marry ; in fact you must marry, unless you want every- thing in-doors to go to the—destruction—for Frauk Frazer sha!l have Janet, whether she will or no, and if I go without my favorite padding to the end of the chapter—bat all our future comfort depends on your getting the right kind of a wife. It there’s a man on earth that needs a good, smart, dependable, wide-awake woman, it’s a farmer. I’ve work- ed hard, young man, in my day, and feela pardouable pride in saying that every one of these broad acres, board, brick and stone in this pleasant house, I owe to the labor of my head aud hands, and to the thrift and care that have always been exercised in-doors, As for you, you have hed privileges that I would have given my right arm for, when I was a

momentous occasion when she wanted to say |‘ yes,’ for the sole and simple reason that she | could aot find it in her tender heart to desert wailing, motherless

boy, and I’m glad and proud to see that the

}eollege has not spoiled you for the farm

Now underetand, Steve; I’m not such an old

| : collar awry, or with none at all, and forget.

ting to scrub off the ink-stains from her pretty ‘fore-finger; salting our tea, peppering our jam,and with her absent-mindedness, jeopardiz- ing our health and peace generally, Now, I like @ good poem, myself, as well ae anybody. In short, I respect power, of whatever kind it may be; but I presume that even you are | not so infatuated as to fancy Miss Deane a genius! And the power that is wanting in her poetry, is probably wanting in her character throughout. No, Steve, there is more energy in that wide-awake Nettie Se- wall’s little finger, than in a dozen editions of the blue-eyed little creature that has so be- witched you; and, in my opinion, of all characteristics in man or woman, there is non? quite so indispensabl> as energy.”

Mr. Horton rose hastily from his chair, strode half a dozen times up and down the room, and then seated himself to breast the tide of remonstrance and reproach that be supposed would follow,

But much to the astonishment of the im- petuous old gentleman, his son cal vly anewer. ed:

‘ Is that all, sir? I believe I have kept my word, aud have only to say that I prefer taking my chance of salted tea and peppered jam from the hands of Ruby Deane,tu the ministrations of the energetic Nettie,”

It was early evening of a chil] and gloomy November day, The clouds hung heavy and threatening, as they had hung for hours, or days, for that matter, as if ouly a slight re- duction of temperatare was necessary to con- dense their misty contents into a drenching rain, Not a pleasant prospect for belated travellers, but especially dreary for a young lady who, without escort, has something more than six miles of lonely road before her, to say nothing of the rather discrderly streets of a bO'sy manufacturing town to traverse after- ward, before she can reach her quiet lodgings,

‘* Dear me, how dark it is, and how thought- iess | have been, Miss Ruby, to keep you here 30 lite! Tam afraid my trouble has made me selfish,” and the speaker, a sad-faced wo. nan, peeved anxious'y uy and down the black road with a wistiul look. “If Johnny were ovly here to go with you! I don't see what does keep him so long. Hadn't you better stay a'l night, Miss Ruby? It +s so far.”

“Oh, no, Mrs, Brooks. And don’t trouble about me. Indeed I am not in the least afraid. You know lam quite used to going alone, and I dc not mind the distance.”

“I know, but it don’t seem safe. Still I ought not to say a word to discourage you, if itean’t be helred. Well, good night, dear, and God bless you.”

** Good night,” echoed a clear, sweet voice, and, in a moment, the slight form was swel- lowed up in darkness.

Ruby Deane went forward with a light tread and by no means heavy heart, for she had come from a mission of kindness, and was hastening home to congerial work, She woull, no doubt, have preferred the pleasant moonlight, or the light of stars ; yet, possibly, she felt a lit 2 safer in the darkness after all. And as for companions, why she had her thoughts, and they were not ignoble, and her fangies, which were not unlovely, So, with quick step, and calmly beating heart, she went on, picturing, by and by, the cheery little room that awaited ber, and the probable st. ter, thiek and white, save for its heavy black address, that would smile up at her from her table. Besides she had grown more ae- customed to the darkness, which really seemed to have lessened about her.

She had thus accomplished neaily one mile of her lonesome welk, without meeting a single pedestrian, when, suddenly, as she reached a certain point where the road was wooded on both sides, she heard the sound of voices, The speakers were yet at some distance, but, being unusually keen-sighted, she presently made out that they were advancing toward her, and something in their appearance inspired her with a swift impulse to avoid a meeting which was inevitable ifshe went on, Ina moment she had concealed herself behind a huge tree

a few feet from the road, and waited, with | suspended breath, for the etrangers to pass. The darkness was so great and her movements | had been so quick and noiseless, that she had |felt quite eure she had mot been observed ; ‘but her confidence changed into alarm, as the

mén, instead of passing, came slowly to a

halt directly opposite the tree behind which she had secreted herself. Her heart throbbed painfully, and a fervent prayer went silently up for protection; but she knew, in a few moments, thai she herself had nothing to do ) with the men’s movements, They had simply

of no use, as there was no operator in Heathe- | ville—the home of the Hortons. A horse P But who would trust a horse, on such a night as this, to unaccustomed hands? And what if she could procure no conveyance? For suddenly, she remembered that, yesterday and to-day, the great fair at O » fifteen miles distant from Northport, had been held, and that seemingly, every horse and every species of carriage had been forced into eer- viee. Failing here, all would be lost. She dared not risk the delay. One way there was, however. She could risk herself, She could trast her foet. She was a good walker, and it conld no. be mech more than eight o’clock, Ten miles. The evil men were be« yond sight and hearing now. Thank God for that! She had never walked faster than four miles an hour, and that in broad day ; st ll, if that villain really meant to delay his wicked work till midnight, or near it, it was possible she might reach Heathsville in season to put @ stop to its very beginning Should she try 1?) The way was long and dark, and indescribally dreary, but it seemed the surest. Yes, she woull try it, and, retracing her steps for about a quarter of a mile, she took a road leading toward the south, aud, with an earnest prayer that she might not be hurrying on to meet the ter:ible vision of fire, she walked on bravely, again, into the darkness,

« Does it rain, yet, Phillip?” asked Janet Horton, as her brother came in, on this same zlcomy evening, from a final visit to his favorite span.

‘ Weill, no, Jenny; 1 rather think it’s lightened up a little, though it’s dark enough now, in all conscience. But we shan’t get auy rain to-night; the wind’s bauling round in shore. It does beat all—’

A quick ring at the door at this moment» cu: short the unfinished seutence.

* Bless me!’ said the old gentleman as he cowfortably seated himself in his arm-chair, end thrust his feet into bie handsome slippers. ‘It can't be that barrel ef cranberries, that I ordered, coming at this time of night, can it ?*

* How [ite is it?

‘Half past ten, keep ’em waitinz.’

The young man, laying down the book he was reading, hurried to the door with a half convection that he would presently behold a rough teamster or so, with a barrel of crau- berries for a compamon. Instead of that——

‘Good heavens] Ruby! dear Ruby! Come int What has happened? And you all alone!”

Fora moment the slender form drooped, unresisting, upon the protecting arm that drew the weary gii], at once, into the shelter of the hal! ; but after the first instant of weak- ness, Ruby Deane stood erect, and, though her white cheeks made her name for the time, a misnomer, eke spoke clearly, and as rapidly as her quick-coming breata would allow —

‘ That man—Rollins—means to set fire te your bui)linge—tcenight— Watch! I found it out, and—hurried as fast—ae I could, In the villige<- I mct—my covsin—the sheriff —

and tald him—of the danger. He will be here—with a man—presently. Ob, I am se | glad, so glad f am not—too late!’

| The word ‘fire’ reached Philip Horton in his arm-chair, and brought him into the hall with the agility of @ man of thirty—

‘What —what— what's al! this? Miss Deane? Fire? What does it mean, Stephen?’

‘It means sir,’ replied his son, with an ex- ul'ant little flash m his voice, as, having ten- derly committed the exhausted girl to the gentle hands fo nunt Janet, he turned to ans- wer bis father, ‘it means that to the brave, prompt spirit ot Ruby Deane it will probably be owing, that to-morrow mornirg will find |us with a roof over our heads. That reverge- ful rascal Rollins means to burn us out, to- night. In some way Ruby has gamed a knowledge of bis intenton, and has fouad her way to us, alone, in «Jl this darkness, taking care, Moreover, to Summon assistance on the road.”

‘ By Jupiter! Stewe, and that is the girl J thought as helpless as a baby ?’

‘Exactly, sir, but it won't do to stand here talking. We've got a little important business to attend to, first.’

‘J declare—it don’t seem puesible—that scoundrel—I'm quite bewildered’—and, for a few moments,the old gentleman darted about, | {rom one room to another, with great rapidity, but accomplishing little, unable fully to be- lieve in the reality of any danger, and yet as | much excited as if he quite believed it. | Tae event proved the alarm by no means unnecessary. A few moments after the quiet ‘arrival of the officers, the lights were ex- |tirguished and stillness settled down upon the

Anyhow, Steve, don’t

; IN Jrackers tS i oless, puany, g foolas to want you to marry an ignorant ; h ogee :

3 ana om ci : UNDRED Batter Crackers St Stephen, , |& certain helpless, puany » mot Meuechehd on Shuagh all teil oitinel taille

iM stock and to arrive. Wili be Sold Cheap. | These Biscuits and Crackers are of the best | ree father, do you suppose it is her bounder | you; neither do I want your wife to slave : P MT deine eee incendiary dogheless W. A. WEEKS & Uo., description, and can confidently be recom | NOTICE. duty, after she has loveingly ministered to the herself to death as my poor wife did before| She still stood trembling, though greatly Fe- | rejoicing ia the thick darkuess that he fancied

i Sept. 18, 1871. Queen Street. |» ended to the public, and are warranted to | >

“YEXHE Notes issued by the MERCHANTS’ jafoengens baby for the space of — | Our better ~~ agus . butI do — | Lcaktedaine catia ica cena pay” Orders from the Couutry promptly at- ‘Tl BANK will be redeemed at the Bank | years, and filled his home with continual fres "| against your bringing home ® woman, well- Se aan Lees 7 : tended to, ? 'Counter until the Decimal Curreney Act ness and prettiness, to go on ministering thus meaning enough, no doubt, but who, from when the pun o amiliar name JOHN QUIRK. | comes into operation, at the rate of six shil- |, 14, ond of her existence? Especially, when | pure inefliciency, will fritter away the hard- every sense into alertness, : ee

Charlottetown, Oct. 16, 1871. — | tinge and two a. ot la big, handsome fellow, who didn’t like the earned substance of years of toil, and, in the ‘ Where’s Rollins to-night ? He'd ought Le You sly-boote,’ said Philip Horton, bring- ages Wanted | Dated 2d Nov. i871, ' “in ‘no,’ and didu’t waut anybody else’s ‘ ~~ ~ will aapeene you with disappointment een he ees ae aod is mess PAR ~ pli va aes on | : . ack, bronzed, and bearded, and and regret. ell, he’s go a little job of his own 0 at- shoulder, as be spole, as the wo gentlemen bh APPRRSEIS, fer te ay mony ag ‘geome lover for the hoon so. The speaker paused a moment, as if expect- tend to.’ stood together, a few moments that night be- Se ee oar : a gee, ree aie sia tiewee: } JOHN long withheld?’ ing from his listener, approbation or dissent; ‘What's that?’ fore going totheir rooms. ‘* Why on earth

een Tain a keowlodge of Shipwork, L Ae SEE oo vers tue 50, docenand, ‘ Brave! And that is Colonel Frazer! but as the young man made no effort to im- ‘Why, you see, he has‘nt squared up hie | dido’t you defend that litle woman, when FROM EW FOUND LAND ‘and the general trade of Blackemith. Apply are hereby required to make immediate pay- | We}], sir, I didn't hold the key to the past as prove bis opportunity, the father, after an- account, yet, with old Hlortoe for sending you heard me slandering her 30 outrageously?? =s Os to oe a poeten | scat aod any persons having legal oar ds you did, bat I was brillant enough to think, other vigorous punching of the coals, went on: him off on the doublequick the time he under *I preferred that Raby should be ber own

Pure (od Liver Oil Ste ; a 1871 . * | against the estate are required to furnish their the first time I suw them together, what a “* OF course you know I have nothing to took to play the deuse with that No. ] span defence. I kuew very well that she would be, ' | Charlottetewn, Aug. 21, say against Ruby Deane, asa lady. A pretty, o’ his; and if the old pepper-pot wakes up, whenever you came to know her,’ was the

: ' idersigued.

— \aeeounts duly attested, to the undersigne die etal nates De ould make

i ae a a aoe Sark Sta al Leanna mae. ie c+ a? ing little wife aunt Jenny would m ’ ; ; Sania :

Fresh, nbn or aaa - ‘a CH \P PRINTING DONE AT THE) J.B. BOURKE, Executor | him, if she were only a marrying woman! My | blue-eyed little girl—a charming companion, about midnight, to-night, aud finds it a little smiling answer. oa alosvVe . =

rent d so effectually cover bis retreat, wae : ee the n be imported. woul y ,

be perrer and cHEAPER than ca P | Surprised * in the very act,’ and promptly de-

aroused |jivered over to the safe ecstody of the Jaw.

| | ;

PONCEAY ! And Analine I apa

in atl Colors, at

. WM. R. WATSON’S. _ Sept. 18, 1871.

EXECUTOR’S NOTICE.

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‘FIC 3 Sept. 18, 1871. « EXANINER” OFFICE. Nov. 20 mn