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A Weekly Hournal of

Holitics, Hitevature, and Alews,

7 “"Phis is true Liberty, when EP'reeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”’---Euripides. Ss Vol. VEIL Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, August 10, 1863. New Series.---Vo, 36.

FOR SALE,

ity a 3 { = Ts? pleasantly

’ situated and well

tinished DWELLING HOUSE and PRE-

j MISES. now in the occupation of DR, INGLES, in / at

the Conanon of Charlottetown, at the entrance of the Stant Peter's Road, and opposite to the residence of Lemur. C. Owen, Esquire,—the

4 \ | + | . 4 prope rty tf the late John, Egan — partic uiifs off

Wholesale and Retail. applicatior to

Aue SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR DANIEL BRENAN, ) Executors

Hew 8

SALE, at bis Store in SUMMERSIDE, the and ving GOODS, Wholesuie and Retail. ata small RICHARD REDDIN, ) Trustees advance ot hrat cost, f Charlottetuwn, August 3, 1363 is] & Vin 100 Bbis, PFLOUK neornerreny ——

25 Boxes Honeydew TOBACCO, IMPROVED

Y eush vo! approved ereail

w) Chests and hulf-chests TEA,

18) sles SOLE. LEATHER, FREEHOLD FARMS a0 D BUCKETS, KOR SALE. 50 Nurjurn, Clin om, Waterloo and Premium | (VEE subscriber offers SEVERAL VA.

1OOK STOVES LUABLE IMPROVED FARMS FORSALE,

~) Boxes CANDLES situated on Township Ne. 3), viz 2% Do SOAP, PWO FAKMS containing 48 end 60 acres each, Suear, Water Soda and Ovater Crackers; Cheese, and located on the South Wiltshire Road, and within Brown Sagar, Window Glass, Seythes. Sneuths eight miles of the city These Paris are in a cou sud Liitles; Hay Kahkes and Forks, Shovels, Nar state of cultivation, with Dwelling Houses, Barns, row and Broad Axes, Ad Mats and Caps in Water, &c., on the premises

Variely Chuirs, Bedsteads Liulies’ and Misses ALSO, 100 acres, situated on the ‘Tryon Road,

v MOOP SAINTS with yood Buildings, a well of water, and good JOUN ANDREW McDONALD improvements Summerside, duly 19, 1863 ral lam AND ALSO, several other improved FARMS,

deonthe West River, with good

beautifally situat

' a ra y Yr > 7 uprovements also c HEAL SIDE S TOR E. ALL THESE PROPERTIES are in a flourishing seftiement, willl abundance of Hard and Soft Wood,

r y ‘ < fe ’ j itt ter , f the «ity. ¢ uvewie yy 4 4 and within ten miles of the city, and couvenient to é ¢ Wd : : X i 2 7 shipping places, and obtaining advantages in the FFVHE SUBSCRIBER begs to inform | way of rea mannre, &e., seldonr met with. the Public that he has on sale a few Casks of Possession t0 any of the above farms can be given tuitbediautely, if rr juired

For further particulars apply to

WM. DOUSE

Clhariottetown.

Hills & Underwood's VINEGAR.

The following

Kehllibe less

wertilicate will testify to i . April 20, 1863 uf

3 wk FOR SALE,

BENJ. DAV LES.

July Wth, 1863. Gin

I hereby certify that the Vinegar prepare Thy an *EYAE HOUSE and FARM belonging to improved process of f ntation from Malt by i Gail ¥ plditie onthe Mal ioe aaa fesers Hills & Underwood, of No h and Lon ET ee ee Ge vee mee er sree, : , 7 - ~ . ta ; ' ad “ al ie Z a and within 12 tuile of Ch nrivtletown fhe HOUSE ”, Posseases the taste and arowsa of the fine : he te , Vw lite Wine Y ime war ot Kru we Ml beis 4 free ae a © ae vet pe ' and the from the giaten present in all Vinewars manulac vas nnnee as a oT L rom or avout tared iw the old way, it is not liuble to become | “>tY four ucres. The ee eee decomposed by keeping or to cause disorder in weak House and premises together, with oe a o e . stomuchs ic’ ° sno Sulphu rother mitierul suid Lois as he may want, also the CROP on the oa oe ee ee eon oe On nee Her . ' vs mply t Acids, sach as coutaininat« all the ordinary Afult Far this year, if re pared A } a a Vinegurs thet sited Kinugd fae ed tical eer a JON MORRIS. at : ae | soe "a ¥ — une &. 186° 2 nearly 20 per cent im pare Malt Acid than the Vine _Char! ittetown, June 8, | on lors on ger on sale ip Loudon not manufacture! on this eXcellentsvstem. A Vineyartiius perfectly aciditied z hold F rm fo s le nist be far mere Wuelesowe, grateful and mild than ease a r a ' ‘ ordina baif iermented Vitriel holding Vi . oan " gure, and preferable to much even of the prerended |" °O be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, at + me prefers eb even of the retended : ae alle fon ail iain the Colomal Building, in Charlottetown, on Wine Vineva F rune w 118 commonly) oe ' than the aertmonious Acid distiiled PUESDAY, the Lith day Of August next, at tl weed, Haveures t i ti the wenuine hear of 12 o'elo k,n n, by virtue of a power ot ANDREW URE Sale contained in au Iudenture of Mortgayve dated a. UO. F. B.S. &c, Profess of Chemistry and | the 27th day of June, 1861, and made between Ber hualtflen! Cheuia. i m. 24 Bloomsbury u@rd Shannon of Township 35, farmer, and John Souure. Sth Sete er. 1850 “ Shannon of the sume place, mail carrier, of the one é : : oa etl ~ | part, and dun Kuight of Souris, merchant, of the Fl ur! Fl ! Flour! other purt, uli tue auexpired terw of 99 years 0 oul menutl med itt a cert tt lease frou Reeder k Charles , " ' Melonald to the suid Heruard Shannon, and wade eS) FUST RECELVED trom New the 2th day of November, 184i) of au cud to that rx e } } } wil on ¢ tract of land situate in Bedford Parish, in Queen _ 7 a a oo ‘ EV, CePte irene y oulue worth side of St. Peter's e - . . . # ane de 300 Bbis. Extra and Supeifine bowl, wi ‘ ct gion Kast, seventv-one chains; thene est, one ce FLOUR, ures Novt live chains and tive links thence ‘ 7 erth one degree; East, seven chains and thirty 100 Bbis. Pastry FLOUR. Eeuein, coun Comets: Sty, See. CEES I WARKANTED aud Sfie liukes ane oe Hou 1. dexrce : M. LOWDEN. mcveuty one chains aid eighiy-rix Huks to May 21, is Penke's Building at hae pe i a i a are a . ‘ ¥ - ee nds in the oevapation of James k a | a! in t pation « anes fe. { Stoves ! Stoves! Stoves! icin ici the ke oy Rows Pee’ lund, ou the South by sun rond, and on the Wes j UST RECEIVED by Schodtier “EMILY,” " tw jands in the occupation ef James Brossngh, cor . trom ALNANY DIRECT, at DODD'S tu ia, bw estiniati tifty-two acres, a litte mo Beitcn. arto re. or be an “ th e apurichances thereu » belongi om , 2 « bik MS—2o per cen f the purchase monucy t 600 = j oO ¥ Es ‘ he paklon the aay of Sule, und the remainder o1 i “ry of the eed among which are the celebrated Magician, Black | “CU °°" rt Deed

‘ ' } +} Seine tha ee Gain For further particulars apply te the Subseriber or Dianwnd, aad Unua Coal Covoking Stoves } Solicitor 7

is Soticite

DODD & ROGERS. Dated at Souris, this idth July, 1863 June 22, 1863. isl Gw. j JUUN KNIGH! . - CHARLES PaLmeR, Solicitor {July 13

oe am lici

re‘tiky Regular Trader Clipper | = ns 4 SHORE FARM, at Kildare Capes,

Brig “URANUS,” 196 to revister, A l at Liovd's A. Medios on Lot Three. coutais ing 100 acres of LAND,

41.0, Master, will s rom LONDON 70 of whiel are mageml state of cultivation, fenced tor this Port on 10th 5 ptember For ofi juto eight acre fichis, and the remainder eoveres Freight OF Passave apply in Lond Pircaias | with Hardwood and Fencing. The Maiv Roud & Sess, oY Corubill ; at Charlottetown to the an-) roys through the Farm, and it has a front of teu dersivhed ; D As. oe 5. DAVIES. chains on the Gulf Shore, where abundance of duly 27, 1563 Jw Sea Manure can be obtained

-_ — - ——- The DBuildines ure nearly new — DWELLING 4 » > ‘> OUSE uv 2>; a FRAME BAR ) « 3: : LIVERPOOL TRADER, HOUst #20500 PHAME BARN 40» 30; LOG BARN of about the sume size, and a sual]

wo: faviiiiy A I Awerican Clipper FISH HOUSE at the shore argue * PRIORESS,” 561 Part of the Purchase Mor ey can remain on the tone reyiate ' Jawes aap. Maater, | pretuises Ap lication for further partic ulars to be will sail fron LEVER POOL for "de to Mr. Thomas Mountain ou the premises,

CHAKLOTTETOWN, on Satarday, 0 & GEORGE W. HOWLAN,

the oth day of September next For Freight oi Alberton, March 9, 1863. Isl

p Leasehold Farm for Sale.

l’ussaye. enquire of Mesara. J seph z ope eS se. frafford Chambers, Liverpool; John Yeo, Esqr., SOR SALE the Lesserorn Inrenese HUNDRED ACRES

Port Hill; or of the su OF LAND, situate two wiles from Southport, in

STEAMER “HEATHER BELL.” tut 4% iruntinz the Sea shores Go uevec ure cleaved

Tiel JAS. C. POPE. Charlottetown, July 27, 1863 OF ONE

s ai is ; . +. nN + wnd iu a high state of cultivation, and is well

Ped ‘ue Steamer * HEATHER fenced,—the remainder js covered with hard and

- ~ # BELL, W.C. Bourke, Master, soft wood. There are six acres limed, and fifty

will, wntil further notice, leave Char- | seven barrels in composit ready for the spring, and

lottetown every TUESDAY morniuy, at half-past | five or «ix hundred louds of Manure in the yard. seven o'clock, for SUMMERSIDE and SHEDIAC; SEA MANUKE can be had withiau about three sod will returuto Charlottetown the follow ing day, quarters of a mile from the farm. There are about calling at Sammerside on her way dewn eight acres prepared for wheat. On the farm isa Por Freight or Passage, apply on boardat Reddin’s DWELLING HOUSE 30 by 26 feet, and a Dairy Wharf, or at Summerside w Mr. Muycer, Tele-| 14 by 10 feet, stoned to the bottom; also a new graph Otiice BAKN, 50 by 27 te et, all double-boarded and a place Jane 15, 163 r for Cattle underneath. A Horse SABLE 25 by 20 feet, double-hoarded Also Sheep Houses and Shed,

nen ‘ .

36 by 20 feet. There are on the premises a never Paints, Oils, and Tron, fuiling Spring of Water, and a quarry of zood land YR SALE CHEAP by stone. The lease is for 999 years, Rent one

é 7 nia \ illing per acre.

1 JAMES DUNCAN & 00, |, )/DE Per nere ur

Lhe above furm is under erop, aud will be sold Chalottetown, July 6, L563

‘ to suit the purchaser with or without the crop. Wool! Wool!!

‘Texms—Uve half of the purchase money to be

mpue highest price given in CASH for any quantity of WOOL by GEORGE W

Charlottetown, “th June, 1863

LABRADOR HERRINGS. VEviikK UNDERSIGNED has in Siore a

wat of choice Labrador Herrings for sale. . so ae 5 S. CAKVELL. - FREEHOLD LAND, on Lot 8, in Prince County, a good part of whieb is cnltivated, will be

—————— sold cheap, on application, at Summerside, to the

. several years on ood security For farther particulars apply to the Subscriber. PEIER ROBERTSON. July 27, 1865.

Ieveechold Tand FOR SALE.

GARDINER.

March 2, 1863 Om

F 0 R S A L E ; MRS. JOHANNA O'CONNOR.

T the Srore of Mr. Huan Monacuan, — April ls, 1865. Me - Qi en Breet, the following— su Whiskey, Kum, Wine, Gin & Brandy; Tea, Suvar, Molasses, Tobacco and Sole Leather

ow her—

Lor Sale or to Tet, WELL FINISHED DWELLING

ALa- HOUSE and STORE, with a good Granary of that house until Sir Richard Courtbope miles round, maybe ; but Sir Richard knows | decoy bim as she has secn birds and dogs

os . : decoyed by some tempting bait. She has a! the ‘ \nd Marston bad forgotten it,’ said her) bait. He bas come for his revenge, but she ‘knows there is avother passion strong in . Ofien bas ‘maiden-days, and wondered if they yet miss- | SWered ; ‘he only said that be was going to she seen his eyes brighten at the touch of |gold; often bas Sir Richard laughingly ‘He bas not come back?’ Lady Court-| said that the ove fault of his old and faithful servant was the love of money ; and now, ‘O vo, my dady; be told us that if he if through that love she can beguile him absent husband, who was far dearer to her did not meet Sir Richard, he should stay at first to the dressing-room, she may yet be jsaved. Tbe part before her was hard and

perilous, but she could trust herself to play ce, tor his back was tursed towards her. it. She knew that if ber verve once failed, Casting away the burnt match, he bent 4° sold by the wovlstaplers to each other.

her doom was sealed, but the brave youug | over the table, and softly swept the jewels | heart did not quail. Slowly and deliberately | she fastened up her hair, then rising from fj but the work of two minutes for him to is Slbs. heavier at Belfast than at Gork. A her seat, threw fresh logs upon the fire, and |gather all togeiber, and re'urn to her, She man might live by seiling coal at a less price crossing the room, laid ber brush upon the’ <uew that in (bose two minutes lay her only per ton than he paid for it at the pit mouth. Some books were lying | chance, the chance for which she had so 4 toa of coal at the pit mouth ygries from there; she took up one of them, turned the leaves carelessly, then throwing it down, frightful mome rt when the steel had touched exclaimed in a low tone: ‘Too tired to read, per neck bad paralysed ber powers, and 40 jn fissex, 42 in Suffolk. We

and Stable, in an-excelleut business stand, at the Head of St. Peter's Bay. Apply to Andrew A. McDowald. Georgetown, or on Lie premises to JOUN PARKER, Head St. Peter's Bay, 16th April, 1803 uf

"EO Lich. ve LET, and possession given immediately, the COTTAGE and GARDEN frouting on Evuston-street, occupied by F. W. Ifates, Esqr. Rent low, pay- able quarterly. For further particulars please

apply le W . . LOKD,

30 bbls. CORNMEAL, and 800 barrels FLOUR.

All of whieh will be sold for the lowest prices. duly 5, 13808 Sen

" HOM(@OPATHIC COCOA. PREPARED sed HOMCEOPATHIC

COCOA, No. | Browa and Chocolate, Filberts and Walnuts, Prunes and Raisins, Water Crackers and Pilot Bread, i Mazena and Corn Stareh,

} : , Charlottetown, June 8th, 1863. Lime Juice and Flavoring Essences, Salt. in creeks, baskets, boxes & bays

W. RB. WATSON. NEW HOTEL.

City Deng Store, July 20, 1863. ae ® ap eiiiant FLOUR IN STORE | THE MANSION HOUSE.

rare BLOUR "(YUE SUBSCRIBER — late of the

300 BBLS. EXTRA STATE K LOUR “Terrace House’ —bus leased the large build (Choice Brand) ing on the corner of Pownal & King Streets, in

20) Bhle DO. | I. this City, and has had it remodelled and put ia per 40 ble Extra Superfine Dv. sear: | feet order for a HOTEL Me solicits the patronage mud dail y expected, 200 Barrels FINE vt his tnends and ihe travelling publi to the

To arrive,

FLAGL R < “MANSION HOUSE,” which is conveniently Jane &, 1363 tf J. 8. CARVELL. situated for travellers on either basiness or pleasure, ~ - nn being near the Steamboat lauding, Bank, and Kead

Molasses and Sugar. ing Room.

PHYHE SUBSCRIBER HAS IN STORE Hil EDMUND MAW EY, Proprietor, i? Hhids. CLIENPU GOS MOLASSES, “hoice. Ch. Town, P. &. L., June i, 1863. oi i

O Hida. MUSCUVADG bo. Ww ANTED Zhe 4 ;

20 lids. SUGAR, choice For sale cheapest in market ee ; " yy June 8, 1863 uf J. 8. CARVELL. VESSEL of about 3500 Tons Register. Cocca ea -_ to luad Bireh at Gurssono, NS., tora Port in Britain Apply tu D. McDonatn, Esq , New

Siielisiisiaaieimanmmaiil ce ta 1,000,000 SHINGLES. Apis ty D. McDosatn, Ee , : : : roy Glasgow, N3B., W. Wersi, hsq., Chariotietown, ox pur undersigned has in Store PINE 4, 1),0 mubscriber ut Autiouish. ;

aud CRVAK SHINGLES, for sale low JOHN BOYD. Antigonish, N.S., July 6, 1863 Sin

Jae 3, i562, dite J.3. VARVELL.

* He may make for home, but I fear, my _. | lady; an’ I bad your leave, | would ride out to meet him with a lantern. The night is black as pitch, and one false ste> by the cliff-path would be death.’ He spoke low, |but there was # strange ‘eagerness in his | tone and in his fave, ‘Go, pray go!’ she exclaimed, her voice trembling with anxiety; ‘and yet—might That always from the rough witd shrunk aside, you not send Stephen in your stead ?” She Strays now whe re waters and where winds are calm, | knew not why she asked that question, she

| LITERATURE,

SNR RAR AR IRIN RRS SNORE R ON Ore

IN HEAVEN.

The sweetest, pretticat, and most modest flower hat the warm sunshine ever loved to yreet, Was plac ked away iu its fall-b} ominy hour,

To muke the very air of heaven more sweet. }

The whitest, daintiest, tenderest little lamb,

And the eternal hills are beautitied. only knew that some Vague feeling prompted | it. ‘he noblest. loftiest tvpe of wom: 00K . Che nob] t, I ¢ VI f womanhood, Marston’s facé darkened. ‘ He is al With the immortals now hath found her place ;

’ | stranger to the country, while I have lived here from my childhood. He does not even | know the road, while I have ridden along it | hundreds of times by night and day. But ibe it as you will, my lady.’ | ‘Go yourself,’ sue once more repeated ;

‘lose not a momeut. Heaven send you may

. le os \be there before Sir Richard

LADY COURTHOPE’S TRAP. | The man turned silently to obey her ‘ PP a | orders, but as he reached the door he looked

‘There is a storm gatheriag yonder over | round, aud for an instant his eye met hers— the Beacon Hill; the air is heavy with only for an instant; but there was some- thunder. Surely, Richard, it were better thing in that ouce glace 80 peculiar, so even now to let your journey rest until to-| sinister, that she almost shuddered. Ere morrow.’ , ; she could recover her first shock, ere she | The tall, bronzed knight, standing booted | gjyig speak or think, be was gone. What and spurred, with hig hand on his horse’s| gig jt wean? She had long kuown that he

[think the very angels must have stood

And wondered at the sweetness of her face.

And IT believe that my own soul, set free, Cuerringly throughgheaven to her's will go: 7 * 7 Becanse I know she cannot seem to me

Levelier and purer than she was below.

mane, turged to look with a merry smile in| pore her no good-will, that he regarded ber |

} ps . id ie : s « ’ ‘the fair, auxious face of the lady by his| 4. an intruder in her husband’s house, and side. ‘that he bitterly résented the stern rebukes,

} ‘And ifthe storm should come, do YOu | and even threats, with which his master had |

| think, my sweet wife, that Dick Courthope | visited his occasional disrespcet to her. She }has never ridden through wind and rain be- had known this loug, but never bad his dis- fore, or that, for fear of a wetting, L eould like been written so plainly in his face as now. break my pledge to meet Philip Orme this Could be be plotting harm ? Should she follow night in Chester? No, no, Qaly les me him, aud countermand bis going? Aud then find you watching for me here at noon to- again she smiled at her nameless terrors. For morrow, with those same pink cheeks and thirty years Marston bad served Sir Richard bright eyes, and shall reck little whether | fuithtully—surely he would not now be {alse ride iv sunshine or in shower. So now, to him. ‘The ciiff-path might indeed be dear one, farewell, and may God bless you ;’ feared, but not the old and trusted servant. and springing into the saddle, the good Xo she listened till, im less than balf an hour, kuight wWaveu a last adieu, aad trotted “Way che heard his horge’s hoofs crashing on the | down the long avenue. _ |gravel road. She did not hear something |

His young wife's blue eyes followed his | else ; she did not hear his muttered words,

be halted at the great iron gates, aud pass- | the drawing room; * She would have stop- jug through, was hiddeo from her view; ped me bad sbe daped, but she canpot stop | | theu slowly turning, she remouated the plone! ne naw: “Peeve ell bea heavy reckoning as that led up to the door of Ashurst ¢yis night for the scorn she has made Sir | Manor-house. The gloomy red-brick walls Pichard heap upon me,’ and his teeth were seemed to frown upon her as she entered, ground with something like a curse. the stained-glass window in the hall threw a Lady Courthepe, sitting thoaghtfelly -be-| . . i 4 , > purple tint upon her face, and made it al- de — fire icons ans om oe Peeper ede : ot we 7 ae e hr ur eyes : vap- wost ghastly, and the oak floor gave back a uaGednen teed tied tuted a teeth m hollow echo to her tread. Just then, a door, "© ~ ag hee oe P, nh. the Gicthee cud. dt tie. boll. oses onic left undisturbed, ull nearly two hours t : 2 ule 3 / ’ . aa > | later Stephen canie to tell ber supper wait- opened, and Marston, the old butiler, ad-| “i oe ee ) cervion | a. She asked him as she rose if the storm vanced towards her. Old he was in Sorvios, | if cved will r oh} iit Mone! ' . . | Oe aget le ; ss ; tov be had lived for more than thirty years. | dy ae é = eS a gb e at ee ‘ee ee tT eg Vt lady, au es sear. e wen i a maar, > — ot, Sree, eee the window and drew aside the curtain. | paytcilow, then the confidential servant and The dark cloud 2 daa oe re ae ae be dark cloudg were gone, and in their the friend of his master, SirnRichard.; yet) *"* : Gas SS j an old in genre, for he was rae sc fifty on stead the moda shone bright On wood and all a, aaa "t id with prey, | DlJ. Marston's journey would be needless, ee ee ena Sir Richard would be safe now. She heaved and tiere were few wrinkles in his hard | Boon tad a dutch a Wihs i b keen face. {le stopped near Lady Court-|* C°°P *80, and with # hight step weat ber iit * lis alte ‘kly at her. hesitated »| 8y %© the supper-room, bope, Hianced Guickiy at fier, uesitated a 1 ctealaen en one tin oneeh alonk womwedt, and then said in a respeeiful but! 7 ae “1 tg aie i oe sonstraine 2- +*Qorely > lady. Sip O¥er the siabies had long since struck nine, | constrained fone 2 Surely, wy lady, Su idipdeahaial einen wearing ton; when Lady livchard wii) uot ride to Chester on suca a ae : day as this? Courthope, throwing a cover over the em- The Iady looked up as though surprised Ae lr Ptr eee, 7 at his addressing her. ‘ Yes,’ she said, * he fe oo oF oat | He lauvina at the weather, 2480t Lt was a large loity room in the ii " west wing of the building, remote from the | h ifthe *#'rease, and at the further end of a long! corridor which opeaed by side-doors iato se- veral unused rooms. But the young bride | bad chosen it ratber than any other, for she | knew ber husband had lived in it and loved | it, and that Jong ago it had been his mo- ther’s room, ‘The high mantlepiece with its. . . “¥ - ; curious carvings, the ceiling decorated with The butler looked after her. ‘She Stf#g* paintings of nymphs and Cupids, would have us believe sbe cares for him, 2¢ antique furnitufe, and the tall canopied | . : . bedstead, gave a quaint and sombre aspect | \forsooth, He believesit. He has only eyes! “a 4 : ; : - a ¥ ey . |to the chaieber; but to-night the fire roared ‘and thoughts for her; old friends, old times, ne d flashed are all forgotien now. Ouce he would have | 2¥° SF ledon the hearth, an es ? - : | the yellow damask draperies, and the candles told me about this Chester journey, but now taille ‘enti, Aiasiataaeh atin eoane | that waxeo doll bears all his plans, and . 2 P J

has just started, but 1——’

*Tuere will be little cause to Jaug storm comes, if the river is swollen,’ Mars- ton exclaimed abruptly. ‘You will see him back yet, my lady, ere night.’

* Nay, he mast seeds be in Chester this evening,’ Lady Courthope made answer, as, stifling @ sigh, she passed on to the drawing-room.

‘that look meant.

for that very difference of age which had’ ing figure, and that her words were spoken groping her way made many marvel at the marriage; she for those listening ears, and now she wust end of the bed, thought of his tender indulgence towards | constrain ber limbs to calm, elow movements | was close upon it her faults, of his almost fatherly care, of bis | to bear out the deception. sympathy in all ber pains and pleasures,

" nana eae rs

towards the door, past the by the dressing-tuble; she now, her hand was stretch.

. /ed out to grasp it—there were but two more | She unlocked the cabinet, and from one Steps to take, when her fot struck with «

rand yet of the manly respect and trust with | coryer drew out a small gatin-wood box— | dull sound against an unnoticed stool, and

‘which he treated her—of the perfect confi- dence with which he, the man of forty-five, showed in the wife more than twenty years younger than himself. And then she pic- tured the coming years, and the time when his hair should be white, aud his now up-

right figure bent, aod when she in turn jand keys in the other, she advanced towards | ‘wo, and she was there first; she had hold er) the dressing-room door, Just as she reached |of it; she pushed it to, but ere she could

should show her love and gratitude by h uDwearied care—when she should forestal]

his every wish, and make his declining 4ge suddenly, and her heart stood stil. Was bandie. It was a struggle so happy, that he should never regret his he fi}!

youth ; and when too—and her cheek flashed at the thought—young children, bearing in their faces a mingled likeness to them both,

house, so quiet now, ring with laughter

|might perchance be about them, making the long arrow d

her jewel box ; laying it on the foor beside She stumbled; she recovered herself in- | her, she stooped to arrange two other boxes |stantly; but faint as the noise was, his car | Which she bad displaced, and then fastening had caught it, and he turned and saw her, | the cabinet, returned te t%e dressing table, | “Or One moment they stood face to face jand lifted one of the lighted candlesticks. | Baaing upon each other, then they bob wade | With the box in one hand, the candlestick |for the door, She was the nearer of the

\it, @ board behiud her creaked sharply and ture the key, his fingers were ™ the other, life and

lowing her, tempted too sooa by the Jeath, a struggle between a strong man and costly prize ? Was the moment come? No; % desperate woman. It could not lust long. ‘all was again still and silent ag the grave, | loch by inch the door was yielding to his _She went on, on to the further end of the | pressure, when gathering all ber strength ressing-roow, leaving the door !0r one last effort, with a power bevond here

still set wide, She put the jewel-box and Wn, she forced it home. {t closed ; the

from morg to night; aod as that picture | candlestick upon a table; she stood where | Key rattied round in the lock, and with a

rose before her, she yearned to lay her head upon her husbaud’s breast, aud whisper it | to him,

It was so strange to be here. far from him. | If she co but leave this lonely, silent room, and mount her horse, and gallop | through the darkness to that ian at Chester. That vague dread was coming back to her again. ‘T'he fire was dying down, the room )seemed darker, and a cold chill crept over her frame. The dread grew. ‘The ivory

‘brush upon her knee slid down, and fel! with a dull, heavy sound upon the fluor ; she

| stooped hastily to reach it, but as she raised

ner face, all veiled by her long drooping hair, she saw, away by the winlow in the furthest corner of the room, a bony hand graspidy the friaged edge of the damask curtain, and a white eager face peering from behind it intently watehiag her. Que in-

stant and the curtain fell to again softly, silently, and that face was goue. But she

had seen it, and she knew it. Not six hours ago, that same look of hatred and re- venge had been turped upon her, and with a

Pina so ; | sinking heart she recoguised the fierce eyes, ~ Fetreating Ggure with a wistful gaze, until) ao pe glanced up at the Jighted window of | . . ,

the lowering brow’, aud kuew at last what She did not start or ery. Her pulses throbhed wildly, her very blood was chiiled ; but she sat on calmly, quietly. She had trembled at the bare thouzht of

peril to ber husband, but now in her own

tearful danger she was brave aud steadfast, ber icy hands still toyed with her bright hair, her eyes were bent vacantly upon the (lying embers, and there was no outward sign

i of the tumult within ; and yet she knew and

understood all. Marston was there close by ber. His night journey bad been but a feint to hide his deadly purpose aod to sereen himself, tie had stolen back in the dark- ness, and hiddea there to wait for her, and —wurder ber, And he might murder her. Here alone in this locked room, how eould she escape him? If she fled, if she could eveu gain the gallery outside, it would avail her little. Long, long before she could pass those deserted rooms, before her voice could summon any ove to her aid, be would be upon her, his fiogérs at her throat. And then there came across her a strange memory of bow one summer day she had seen him stand- ing on the garden terrace, twisting in his hands a piece of rope—how he had wound it round and round unti] the sr.ined fib#@s were stiff and rigid, and how thea his iron fiagers bad been bent or one more effort, and when the last turn was given, the rope was left hanging idly on hisarm. A strange thing. to recail at such a time as this, stranger still that she would almost shudder in recalling it. What, if rising from her chair, she were to go straight to that win- dow, and drawing back the curtain, confront him there, aud in ber hasband’s, in his mas- ter’s name, appeal to him for pity? Ah, no; that name from her lips would but ia- flame his jealousy and hate. She raised her eyes, and they rested on something bright and glittering, something which just then almost seemed a friend ; for there above the

bandly deigne to speak of them to me;. Bei corner. As Lady Oourthope entered, her | chimney-piece, within reach of her hand,

L have learned all [ care to know—Sir) ‘ ; Richard must be in Chester this night.’ jPosite side of the room which led into a)

rae In the long, low drawing-room, the twi. | all dressing-room. light had already set in, though it was bat)

)}maid came forward from a door on the op-| hung her husband’s rapier, She might

seize it, and, with one wild dash, stab her

| enemy ere he could free himself from those | peace. ‘Have you been waiting long, Hester?” | concealing folds; but her woman's soul |

four o'clock on a November afternoon; the the lady exclaimed, noting the girl's weary /shrank from that deed even in this her dire

huge fire had burred low,and heaps of glowing eyes. * You look sadly tired.’ )fagots shed a weird light oa the mirrors and b pictures on the walls, while the high-backed Annie and L have teen in the workroom all

chairs and carved tables cast strange, un-| ‘he evening, and ’tis that makes my bead paces from her. Once locked in there—but, | muttering low: ‘My hand shakes; I'll

eaha ’ couth shadows all round, as the lady made. ache so. her way to the cushioned window-seat, and |

fast; his horse is sure footed; the distance ‘han stooping over needlework.

'* Why is this dread upon me, this terrible time. Have the others gone to rest ?? ,

foreboding of some coming evil? She)‘ All out Stephen, my lady; L heard him looked back into the darkening room, aad cross the hall Just now. e 'started as a balt-burved log fell with a erash ‘ Tell him he veed not keep watch for Sir

upon the hearth. A longing came over her Hichard. He is, L trust, ere now safe in) power of the mind is unnaturally strained,

to hear again her husbana’s blithe voiee, to Chester. He must have forded the river

NIFTY ACRES of VA LUABLE see bis fond giance, to have him there be- while it wes yet passable.’ | P , a ‘Or if the stream were swellen, my formed in one short instant. Such a moment dead pause, then again that stealthy tread, \¢°¢#med of, clustering round ber knve,

side her; and then gradually her thoughts

‘ Poor girl!’ said ber mistress pityingly ; key turned on the outside, s suzed out on the stormy sky. ‘He rides ‘Yu have been more used to milking cows most sank within her. Already she seemed ceding from the bed, but the sound brought | 2¢F Sick chamber, and leaning on bis aru, \6 But cheer | to hear stealthy steps upon the floor, bebind, | yo relief; she was past that; she had telt | °@Pt down to the drawing-room. She had

extremity. In that upward glance, another

‘I have but just come in, my Jady. | thought had come into her mind—ber dress-

ing-room! The door stood open, not ten

‘alas! there was neither bolt nor bar, and the Her heart al-

V ool mt paid down, andthe remainder may rewain for | jg po¢ great,’ she murmured to berself. | Pp, Hester, and it will seem more easy iw around her, to fee! hot breath upon her |

|cheek ; and still sho sat on quietly. Was

her every movement might be seen from the | Wild hoarse scream she fell back upon the dark corner where he was hiding, and then floor. She was still conscious ; she heard junfastening the box, she laid out the bit beating on the strong oak panels in his |various treys, and spread the glittering | Vain tury; she heard his passionate impre- (trinkets ali round her. Que by one she |cations; and after a while other sounds, lifted them, holding them elose to the light, |t00, reached her ear—burrying feet in the | moving them to and fro, so that the precious | gallery, many voices outside her door, That |stones might sparkle in the blaze, aud then | piercing ery had a: oused every sleeper in jcuretully polishing them, put them back, | the house, and they were all g«thered there |For nearly half an hour she stood trifling "OW, entreating admittance; she rose, she | Wow with one, now with another, her fiagers | tottered across the room, and let them in; busied in fubbing and arranging, her ear and ay they came around her, gazing bor. strained for any sound, her heart leaping |ror-stricken at her wild eyes, her blanched

j

as the flickering candle threw sudden | lips, she panted out her tale, ever pointing

shadows on the walls; and still there was | t0 that inuer door; thea laying her head ou. *

00 movement in the dim chamber beyond, | fester's shoulder, aud mowning out: *Q* She must return there now, for she could | husband, save me!” swouned away.

stand no longer; her knees would scarcely, Lt was early, on the morning of the self- |Support her; her strength seemed ebbing, | same day, when Sir Richard, followed bya and that forced composure was too terrible groom, gallopped up the beechavenue. The to iast. For one half instant she paused to white autamnu mist bung like a shrouwl over gather breath, then, with a weary sigh, she | the park, the golden leaves fell in showers laid aside the bracelet she was holding, and around him, but he noted them not, as with | taising her candle, moved towards the bed- | spur and whip he urged ov his fla ging room. Qa the threshold she stopped, re-| steed. His ruddy face Was as pele as death | treated a step or two, and’seewed to hesitate, | —his teeth were set in dread anxiety, for Lf she had seen bow at that instant the band he kuew all. T hey had sent to summon behind the curtain was tightening its grasp him, and since he left Chester he bad vot upou the kuife it beld, aud the crouching once drawn rein. THe was here at last, at ‘orm was makirg ready for a spring—if she bis own door, and throwing biwself off bis had seen this, even her courage might have exhausted horse, he flung the reins to his failed, but she did not see it, aud she played servant, and sprang up the steps. No wife out the play. Murmuring in a low steady was there to welcome him. All was still tone: * No matter for to-night,’ she came on aud quiet. Without--the dewy grass, the into ber chamber,leaving the jewels scattered red sun struggling through the mist, the about the table, aad the door standing open. | falling leaves. Within—the dark old halt, And now the trap was set, aud she might the servants sadly watching for him, the low rest aud watch. | sounds of weeping. He looked from one ta [astily extinguishiog the lights, she drew (another, then bis parched fongue slowly aside the bed-eurtains, and iaydown. There formed the words: * Where is she #” They was a strange repose after that loug and | !ed him to the room where she was lying; fearful self-restraint in lying motiouless in | but when he kneit beside her, and pressed the fitful firelight,her aching limbs stretched ‘his Tene lipe apes her fevered brow, she out, Ler weary head resting on the pillaw— | Brecved bhe'with s wild tag; and geting a sirange repose even though Ae was so near #* him vacanily, began again her miserable ber. ‘The minutes passed away, the deep | fatubling talk of emeralds aud keys, lonely tones of the clock struck out twelve, and | 00ms and gitttering kuives. For a while still all was quiet, save for the click of the | l!gered, leoking down upon her hag- ewbers 00 the Learth, and the distant baying jgard face, softly stroking her tangled hair, of the dogs iu the courtyard. With closed | "eo unable to endure it longer hurried eyes, drawivg deep breath, as though asleep, | “*47- They wanted him elsewhere, for she lay listening. It seemed as if she had | aston was still in the house, and had lain there many hours, when at last there |*8ked to see him. But Sir Richard shook was a faint stir in that corner. fe was| 28 head; he dared fot trust himself just coming out vow. She dared not look or | 808 near that man; let them carry him move, but she heard — she heard the duii /2”¥ ‘ar from bis sight. There wis uothing fall of the curtain, the stealthy, cautious | 'TeS4 [0 bear, for Marston had already told footsteps on the floor. Was he going to | #!!—how his firat dislike had deepened into the dressiug-room # ~No—Heaven help ber | deadly batred, and how, fiudiag that Sve —be was coming to her bed. The steps | Richard would be abseat, ihe had resolved cauie Ou, Nearer, nearer ; something brushed |‘? wreak his hatred, enrich himself, and _agaipst the bed-clothes, then stopped close | flee ; how, feigning that night-journey, aud behind ber. Her eyes were closed, her | ‘eaving his horse some three miles off, he breath still came softly through her parted | "#4 returaed unseen to the house, He bad lips, but within that statue-like form there | thought to-do the deed, and then escaping Was a hu.nan soul praying in mortal anguish | with what treasure he might find, be far for pardon for herself, and comfort for her YP" bis way to London before the morn widowed husband. A pause—then another '"8 breke. His horse was fleet ; the ser- ‘slight movement, He was bending over | #'* thought him at Chester ; and long be- ber; his hand was pressing the pillow ; then | fore suspicion could have turned upon bim, ‘something eold aud sharp was lightly laid %@ Would bave been safe. Dozgedly and across her throat. The last pang had come, °#!™ly he spoke of all this, and now bade and she had no power now to move or ery. them bring Sir Richard there to hear what One momeut more, and she would be at | "!8 Begiect and harshuess had brought But the moment passed, and she | *00Ut. They carried him boaud hand ond still lived. Another moment, aud that cold |!00t to Chester, where, three months later, |pressure was gone, His breath was no “88d aud calm as ever, he was sentenced \louger on her face, yet he was still tuere ; life-long exile. Many days went by, she felt him stirring; she knew that be was 24 Still Sir Richard, ever watebing by his |watehing her. Long be watched; then, “!. met only those vacant eyes, heard only that weary, ceaseless muttering. At