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A few doors West of the Catholic Cathedral.

TERYS OF Tem Shillings per annum, in advance} or

Twelre shillings when not paid in advance,

POSTERS AND HANDBILLS PRINTED AT THIS OFFICE.

AMEND THM o9 IVOraY RIPTIOIM:

'UNION HOUSE

hvac iS ae Lacs ube UNION HOUSE! 1 1 4s, Hurrah for the Railroad! | YENHE Subscriber thankfal to his friends | and customers generally, for their patron- age since his commencement in business in | Charlottetown, and in| soliciting a continuance of the same, begs | leave to inform the publi that he has refitted |

Cash Assets - - - - = $1,600,000.

Grants everything desirable in

LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE| ON THE MOST FAVORABLE TERMS.

* Accident Departmont.

Tg HE Travellers’ Insurance Company, in its

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CLUBBING RATES.

E will send the “* Examiner” for 1871, |

and any one of the following period- and hopes to morit a share of Publie Patronage

“eals at the annexed rates, payable im ad- @ance:

If you want to be in the business part of | life, as well as accidents by travel. Charlottetown, stay at the UNION HOUSE. |

Accident Department, is a General Accident |

ha ] t ' » ¢ Ck ¥ RT ; | . up the Union House at a LARGE COST in-| Tusnrance Company, grautiny policies of Insurance | : 7 side and out, and is now prepared to accom- | against Death or wholly Disabling Injury by Ac-| Man they found out in a field, after walk- modate the

j cident te men of all trades, professions, and oceu- pations, at rates within the reach of all. It in- | eures against accidents by machinery, accideuts }from the use of tools and implements, accidents | ithat ooeur in the usual and lawful avocations a

TRAVELLING PUBLIC,

. * * ° } General Accident Policies are written for aterm | Of one to twelve months each, and insure a sum of

American Agricultaiist 60 18 O'T ; Mcopgr :

4 tlsstic Monthly , £ ° Terms Mcperates. | $500 to $10,009 against Death by Accidewt, and $3 |

’ ; to $50 weekly indemnity for wholly dieubling in- !

e ee L } fo § j } holly d win-! —— s Magazine, v A FIRST CLASS BARBER s SHGP j jury by aecident, no. to exceed twenty-six weeks yalany GC) in connection with the Hotel, where you wil] | fer apy one accident, at an anweal coat of $5 to | §'ack wood's Magazine, 0 Tapeh $'0 per thousand for occupations net specially

Dublin Unversity Magazine,

Londen Review, 2 .

Dublis do 5 ® Ediaburgh de, 0) Westminster do, v North Britiah do,

North Americag do 1 0}

belieel otal hal nn el wists WewOMMEDMOKKwW OC OhuUNE

jalways find the Barber at his post.

{fitted up in good style, seeond to none in the! j 0} Provinces, where you can get Oysters d ne up in -

: : ; bazardous, Hazardous risks taken at higher rates rection with tke above Hotel is an aaa " re rf i ! Life Department. In its Life Department, the Travellers grants ll Life and Endowme it Policies, embracing the | best features of the best compawies, buat without | the complications or the uncertuinties or the note |

OYSTER SALOON,

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First Class Style.

Every Saturday, Iilustrated | ysten 2 cance rather th: " : J.a ’ ed, 0 : ’ i - __ | System. It sells Insurance rather than futare Appleten’s Journal, do, Q | at a time up to Ll o’clock, p. m., Sundays | “¢ dividends.” Its contract is u plain one, its secu- | Harper's Weekly, g | CXeepte j rity isample and unquestioned, aud its rates cf | , ane ©. r = wemirva are exceedioxly iow. It prefers to do Sadeueney dian -ated Newspaper a i CHOIC u LIQUOS | aan on a cash basis, and thas ai its policy- | Koston Piiot —_— Pi of all kinds, the very best in the market, ard | holders advantages not attuiuabie under the credit New York I a 0 attentive waiters alwaysinattendance, Come | YSteus . do W. on g ouel Come all! But don't get off the track oC Re ee el eckiv, . 5 : ‘| plan. do Herald, 0 JOHN S. OPNEILL. j{ Ali policies non-furfeitable. Its ten, fifteen and do Tribune, 0) Union House, Ch’town, f tweuty on policies “ be ee ae a ° World, 0! . "7 ments, at the option of the insuraut 11s lealure M “y 1, As71. sm is Original with this Compary.

We can supply any of the English, American, er Colvnial Publicativns, at the lowest cash

rates P. R. BOWERS.

Business Cards. |

Go to W. A. Meeks & Co, for Cheap Goods,

C A R D . JAMES BEAIRSTO, MN. D.,

Physician & Surgeon, = OFFICE AND RBSIDENGE:

WES. DEWAR’S, KING STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND. _May 15, 1871. i. a. p. b. tf WILLAM JAMES HENLEY,

AUCTIONEER, GeneralBroker, Accountant AND

COMMISSION AGENT, CENTRAL STREET, Summerside, - P.-E. Island. ly. COLFORD BROs.,

Importers avd Dealers in rr YO TOBACCO, ISAR3, and Smokers Articles, EE ey gom< te May 1, A871. ly HENRY J. GAFFNEY, M.D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, | OFFICE IN North American Hotel, KENT STREET. Charlottetown, Aug 3, 1870. MR, A. SMYTHE; PROFESSOR OF MUSIC,

Mas Removed his Academy to Water St,, {Opposite the late Telegraph Vilice.)

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CARVELL BRGTHERS, AUCTIONEERS,

Commission Merchants, AND GENERAL AGENTS, BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET, Charlottetown, P. E. island

A. MecNELLL, @eading Foom Proprietor, COLUMBO MZRELAME

AND AUCTIONEER. CHARLOTTETOWN. Mareh 21, in70 lyr

WILLIAM DODD,

Commission Merchant and AUCTIONEER QUEEN SQUARE, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND

H. HASZARD-

Commission Merchant, GENERAL AGENT,

AND AUCTIONEER Uppe. Queen Street, Charlottetowa, P.E. I. N. B.—Orders from abroad, and the country wage. one tattention.

AGENCY OFFICE!

HE SUBSCRIBER will attend to all or T ‘ders for the Selling, letting, purchasing, Houses, Business 3 both in City and

leasing &c., of Dwellin Establishments, and | Counsry.

'The Old Stand, West Corner of Queen

fy ‘GENUINE DRUGS & CHEMICALS,

| PATENT MEDICINES, PERFUMERY,

| The whole of which will be sold at a emall ad

Bell- Hanger, Gan aud Tin- Sait,

and asks for acontinuance of the same. keepSconstanty on hand

TINWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS

will be punctually attended to.

Cheapest Markets, intended for House Builders, gueh as

Gas Fitting, Water Closets,

!Orders in | NESS will be attended to with Despatch

iees The Travellers’ furnish everything desirable in | either Lite or Accident Insurance. It has issued | | 215 000 general aecident policies und Paid Four- | teen Thousand Claims for death or injury by ac- | cideut; the amount thus returned to policy holders | averaging about Seveu Hundred Dollars a Day for | ea working day daring the past seven years. a oe al , n its Life department it has written 11,300 po By Steamer City of Cork from ENGLAND. | liciess and its tow Rate Cash Plan is neadils Beigantive James from MONTREAL, growing in favor with Ure insuring public. ‘i and other recent arrivals, the undersigved , re as completed hie imp orttivns fur the wiser, onsisting of

Apothecaries’ Hall,

Square,

ESTABLISHED, 1810.

Example of Life Rates.

The holder of a policy for $4000 will pay an an jnual premium of $70 20, which will cost ia most jolhercompanies very uearly $90 Leuce the as- i * * ‘4 i |} sured can secure in the Travellers a Life Policy | Dye Stuffs, Va nishes, Paints, for over $0000 for the same aunual premiuur ves | : ’ | charged by other companies tor only $i000, and}

Oils, Col OS, Ae. the ineurance take effect from dafe of potiey with- jout waiting for bonus additions, which ure uncer- | }tcin, and at best require the to have a| | yuarantee of life fur a uumwber of years in order to | |

assed TULLET ARTICLES, &e., &e,

TLallsee

Malifax Board of References: | Hon. W. A Henry, Mayor.

ance on cost, Special attention, by an experienced hand, to

he preparation by day and wight of Physicians A. Uniacke, Faq | Custos.

| prescriptions aud private recipes. S. Tobin, ey , &x Mayor | T. DESBRISAY, N. Clark, Esq., Clk, Peace. G. Tay jor, Exg., Sup. N.S. R. i

James Seott, ksq., Merchant. | LE. W. Chipman, Esq , do N. Wickwire, M. D., Me lical Referee. | |

Charlottetown, Jan. 2, 171.

A. HERMANS,

Ww. Canada Board of Beferences: C. J. Brydges, Esq., Manaying Director Grand | Trank Kailway, Montreal : : | W.K. Muir, General superintendent Great West- | eru Railroad, Hamilton :

Hon L. Holton, late Minister of Finance, Montre

t Hon. Alexander Campbell, Crown Lands, Kingstex.

Hon. W. M. McMaster, M. L. C., Firm McMaster |

& Nephews, Merchants, Toronto. |

William Workman, Esq., President City ra

Montreal.

Hugh Allen, Esq., Firm Hagh & Andrew Allen,

~Geueral Merchants and Agents Montreal

Ocean Steamship Company, Montrea’.

J.L- Beandry, Esq , Mayor of Montreal,

Edwin Atwater, Esq, Firm E. Atwater & Co., Merchants and President Citizens’ Iisuraice Co., Moutrea!

Henry Starnes, Esq., Montreal.

James Jclinson, » Esq , Exhilitien, London.

Applications for Life or Accident Insurance are |

respectiuily solicited. |

Dorchester Steet, (Next to ** Examiner” Olfice.)

EGS toretarn histhanks to the genera! public forthe liberal patronage extended 0 him since hiscommencement in business,

He

A nest Asoritment of Manager Ontario Bank

Ex-President Provincia) |

&ec., XC., &c. ALL ORDERS in the above BUSINESS

Having lately made large purchases in the Office in VcLeod's Buildings,

No. i14 Hollis Street, Halifax. 3m.

Bell Pittings, &., &c.,

Iam prepared to SELL THEM at RATES AS LOW AS CAN BE HAD IN THE CITY, d will fit them up in a good workmanlike style

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CUTLERY,

To a generous public, | would say, that all THIS BRANCH OF MY BUSI

A Lotof First Class WATiLL.R COOLERS or band, SAYER’S CRYSTAL BLUE, Sold Cheaper than ever. fuly 12, 1869)

Goto W. A. Weeks & Co. for Cheap Goods,

Queen Street Warehouse. ARRIVAL OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS!

[HE Subscribers beg leave tu anncunce to their friends and customers, that their

AT THE

LONDON HOUSE

Tons assorted Cut and Wrought NAILS.

Tons assorted BAR IRON.

Tons Blister, Cast, and pring STEEL.

Boxes Tin Plates, assorted sizes.

Bundles Sheet Iron.

Sets Plough Metals.

Dozens Prime Nash’s Scythes.

Dozens assorted Shovels, Spades, and Hoes.

Dozens Cross Cut & Hand Saws.

Dozens Knives and Forks.

&., &., &. CHEAP FOR CASH!

SIMON DAVIES & CO.

21st June, 1871.

ROOFING GQRAVSS, For Sale!

Ase” | WM. KOUGHAN Queen’s Wharf, t

May 8, 1871. Carriage Builders

Spring Importations

are now arfiving, and in the course of a few days will be compete, consisting of a large | and varied assortment of

FASHIONABLE 4ND FANCY

DRY GOODS,

Groceries, Iron, Ironmongery, &c.

The above Stock bas been carefully select- ed in the Britieh market by one of the firm conversant in the trade, which enables us to recommend it as well worthy of attention,

it comprises 25 cases, 10 Bnles, 17 packages, and 4 parcels Fancy Goods, Cottons, Ready- made Clothes, of the latest Lon- don cut, Hats, Caps, with a

LOT OF CARPETS!

4 bales new styles in ROUM PAPER, 3 boxes Gunpowder, 67 packages GROCERIES, consisting of B. Vitrivl, E. Salts, Saltpetre. Alum, Cudbear, Carbonate Soda, Soda Crystal, Whiting, Patty, Table Salt, Cas-

Parties wishin * to dispase of or purchase Property of any description, to let or lease | Houses, Stores “c , will please apply by let- ter stating particulars. |

s@r SECREOY, when required, strictly |

bserved. ee A, McNEILL. | ‘Exchange Buildings, Gh’town,

‘ Mey 15, 187.

ANDBILLS & POSTER | H Printed at this Office.

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tor Oil, Indigo, Vinegar, Sugar, Raisins, &e.

39 kages TEA, &e., 64 bags NAILS, &e., f60 bese Iron, Ten bundles Spring Steel, &c., with many other articles.

The above GOUDS are offered at a small ad- yance over cost and charges, WHULLE-

SALE er RETAIL.

par TERMS CASH. £8

DAVIES & SON. Sig

WILL FIND AT THE “City Hardware Store,”’

POKES, Rima, Carriage Bands, Dasher “ Leather, Enumetled Daek aud Drill, Malable Castings, Bolts aud Nuts, Pateut Axeis, and every

other article in their line.

fe" As we have the Agency of the ghove articles, we will guarantee to sellata lower rate than they cau be purchased elsewhere

BOURKE, GILLAN & Co,

May 1$, 1871.

J. D. WELLS. |

General Agent for Maritime Provinces. |

HARDWARE

A Splendid Assortment

Aug. 22, 1870 '

CHAPTER Il{—Continued.

‘lL hope Captain Griffiths is quite well ?

‘Quite, thank you,’ returned Lavra,

‘1’m sure he mast find Ireland dreedful- ly dull, and the accounts are so shocking too of all the murders and horrid things they do,’

Indeed !’

‘O yes, Did you see to-day about the |

ing over L don’: know how many mountains, covered with eabbages, and tracked by the

dreadful blood on his shves through two mirutes pass? Still the same everlasting will leave in ten minutes, You can see me How long it seems! Willitnever | to the hou-e, and then I aen yours forever !” | and scattering their contents, till the tables

rivers ’

‘I don’t read the newspapers ’ interrupt- ed Laura distantly,

* I’ve so often wished to know you, Mrs, Griffiths,’ recommenced Evy, after an awk- ward pause; ‘it seems so stupid that we should not be friends, when I’ve known your husband so long, and was such friends with him ever so long ago ; of course, before he knew you, [ mean. Do you know I was guite jealousy when [ heard he was going to | be married—wasn’t it naughty.

‘Very,’ said Laura with.a slight sneer. |

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‘Because I really thought — only, of | course, it was very stupid of me to think anything about it—but then nobody could | belp living him, and thinking just a littie| about it; aud Kvy gaveasigh and blushed

* We thought you were never going to ap- | pear again,’ she continued after avother | pause. ‘I declare you’ve been quite like a} nun since Captain Griffiibs left —O dear, | what » bad wife [shall be. J’m sure 1} couldu’t stop in if my busband went away) for ever so long.’

* | suppose not,’ sneered Laura.

‘Bat then, I’m so different to other girls | —at least, so every Ove te‘ls me—I sup-!

that of course; be says things sonicely, But |

you know that much better than me, don’t’ flung invitatingly u

you ?’said Kvy forgetting ber grammar. Lau-| ra turned away angrily; anda sudden jul) '

wae heard fer and wide, much to her con- | fusion and Laura’s disgust,

Once up-s'airs Evy, who had felt rather | badly treated on the whole during diuner, |

! soon recovered her spirits, and held court }on the fender stuol wish some of ber dear-| (hick and husky, ‘this ¢ lest frends,

‘What were you chatting about, Evy, | dowr-stairs ? they asked in a chorus, ‘Chattering indeed, [’d iike to hear any | one chatter with thar Mr, Parker—why he’s | a perfect muff dar; end Mrs. Griffiths was |

| so cross, I couldn’t get a word out cf ber | g

either.’ ‘1 thought you didu’t know her,’ said | the girl, ‘We only bow when we meet, you know; |

l. i : : Commissioner of | '¥t then L kaow ber husband, aud that’s as) GQ Lay, | good as know ng her,’

~ *A good deal better,’ sighed another. | a CHAPTER IV.

Out of Loura's very ceariness had grown a@calm, deceitful ewough to the outs:de werld; and s*e had schooled herse!f te the captain’s visits with such effect, that, save for a slight constraint between them, they might bave been living th se early days again, when Laura’s tatting was al! suffi- cient in bis mind,

And were these two deceived? It would be bard toanswer for theman, Judged by his manner and appearenc>, the storm of the other night bad passed bim by, and leit him cool aud unruffld as of o}d; and he weuld chat with Laura by the hour—save for a queer sparkle in his eye at times—the same y8 ever; and it his voice was atr fle duil, it was plain to see the dullsess was but momentary, and cost him but an effort to put by. And so the world laughed and chatted with the captain, and went round in its old old way, elbowing Laura into its train till sbe jauybed and chatted too; and the blind old world trotied on right merrily thinking, in its eouecit, all was smooth again,

Yet Laura was not deceive?, For all she laughed and chatted of old, she saw bencath the mask of pleasent words that other mun —waiting and watching for his opportaniry —the mao she left beneath the gat-!amp not many Dights ago, She knew that what she dreaded, yet sought for, was but dé'ey-, ed—was lurking ready when the time shou d cone—the time whose coming she bad pleaded aguwinst once—the time she would never plead aga'nstagain, And this was ber cons'raint—this her dread, She

| 1 dou’t think | am!

}fiom you the deep earnest hape that waits on your every look, and hangs on your | last night and went off again with some one| was there.

| for enswer,

red to gaze again at that queenly figure, and strange eager face.

‘ Are you looking for any one?’ asked the baronet,

*No; Ono! IT was thioking how well

every one !ooks,’

‘I thought so too, until Mrs. Griffiths

‘appeared,’

‘ What ! compliments already, Sir George! You forget what old married people we are,’

Still the captain did not appear.

* Oh, if be does not come!’ thonght Laura, starting herself withthe vehemence of ber wish, and half fearing she had uttered it aloud,

* One o’clock ;’ she looked at her tiny |

waya tripped past

halo of delight thrown round her by the’

devotion of the moustache by her side. that,

/nade the little Jady shine forth in a loveli-,

ness that was all ber own, and the corridor rang again and egain with ber peaiing) laugh of vietory, As long as she was ip

him, There wasasmall! 1i’s a lie, ma’am!a cursed lie!”

shout- ed Charlie, * and {7} strengle the first who dares repeat it!’ and he dashed off, leavia Mrs. Biessington Smirbson in a semi torpi state of terror and amazement,

When he reached his poor desolate home, he showered such a peal of knocks against

sight. Leura’s eyes never left her; they fol-| the door as filled every window in the street lowed every motion through the leaves, with with faces, and brought up the servants ia a wicked expression vot plewsant to look a bunch to open it, ‘Speak! you grinning upon. Then, as the voices died away in | apes!’ What do you know! Where is my the distance, she seemed to slowly unbend; | wife! What have they done with her? ber arms d:opprd, her fingers relaxed their | No lies now! Don’t you see I am desper- bold, the fire died out of her eyes, and with/are! I want my wife! Where is she # a sigh of pain and relief, she turned to the Then,without waiting for their answer, which captain. ,indeed, their fright rendered impossible,

‘Jobo!’ she said, dropping the words

be ran up-stairs, and began turning over his

|watch ; ‘in another hour I ean go;’ and from ber one by one, as if measuring them, | lost wile’s things —pulting out the drawers,

ebe shrank back among the cushions, as ifs I will go with you! Wha ever there is, tumbling over the neatly folded dresses

to hide herself from sight,

waliz! be over? flow the moze of figures twine | feverish ! Only five minutes gone! And, a sad, aching pain sets down like a cloud) upou ber, and heats an echo to the beart- | ache below. ‘I was afraid I had missed you,’ said a) well-kuown voice at ber side. * You are! not unwell, | hope? you look so pale.’ ‘No, e'e answered with a shudder—ao.’ | How cold it seems!) Have you been here long ? *L have oniy just eome in: the ‘trap’ roke down half-way, and made me late

Are you vot daneing ?”

‘As you please.’ She was like a child efore him now.

A moment, and be had crossed his great |

heart.

‘Come, Jobn!” she said, gently freeing | herse'f; ‘what is to be done must be done at once. Io five minutes I will meet you! in the outer drawing-room. See! the dance | is over, and we shail be observed, lRe-| member, in five minu‘es!’ and she pushed | aside the heavy foliage, and was gone.

Lady Heleon’s regrets were profound | when Laura came to bid ber adicu; but a} ecnveuient headache, which, indeed, ol pot a together inconsistent with her flushed face, changed regrets in'o sywpathy, and Laura was able to slip away comparatively unnoticed Jn the corridor, Uaptain Chem-

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He ied ber away, and then joined the| ents was waitirg.

throng in the centre of the roow. But} Laura was tired, and, after a few turns usk-| ed to sit down, and s® they etrolled away to | fiud a cooler place, Lt was a long corridor | with a rush of air lifting the heavy braneb-)

,es that closed arouud the open winduws— | i dim with the light of coloured lanteras ; the ' pentleman, accompanied by a closely veied

air drowsy with the odour of the orange trees ond the splash of a fountain, Through |

tea = * the open doors floated the distant mnsic and | just in time. po 2 ee fir a compliment, for Cap-' the bum of voices. All elee was sill and | | tain Grif bs told me so too, only not like! sient,

There was a crimson fauteui! in the! window near them, with great cushions | pon it, avd a thick tra-| cery of orange leaves in front

‘We have just twenty minutes to catch

the train io,’ he said, speaking low.

‘I shell be ready at my door in ten! Good-night! she said aloud, end the broug- ham drove off inte the darkness,

Just os the early mail was starting, #

lady, hurried on to the platform.

‘Look sharp, sir!’ cried a porter; ‘only Any luggaye ?

‘None! Put me ina carriage by my- self!’ and the porter’s band made a quick motion towards his waiseoat pocket. A slamming of doers, a shrill whistle, the deep throb of the engine, and the train passed

How slow the to be done, do it as quickly 2s you can! I holding up the trinkets that Jay ag she had

unloosed tiem, out-turning the pretty cases,

and floor was covered with them, Thea

/and circle pss! ! And the air, how hot and arms round ber, and pressed ber to his his eye fell on a paper, folded like a letter;

he opened it, and read—bis own tetter!

‘1’m in a deuce of a serape, aod want you to help me out of it. The worst of it is that there is a gir! in the case, aod she bas regularly Jet me in”

There was no need of further question- ing; all his furious words were fied, and the c'oud might cresp ov, ite ehadows no longér uaderfined. He knew it all,

lt was as if @ grave bad opened to sqal- low up his hope, bis love. his life He was like aman standing on some dreary waste, ‘be waste of home laid low—arouod bim

desolation, and far back over the distant —

wilds, the faintly gleaming land of life, that once was all bis own, now gone for ever‘! No; not forever, In his heart rose up a thought, and grew and grew till it seta fixed purpose, strong and steady. Amidst all tbe ruin of his hopes, with all ber mem- ores scattered around bim, with all his lead of sorrow fresh end full upon him, the pur- pose grew and gathered, driving back the otber cloud. and filling bis heart witha boly

calm, that calm of an honest heart, of a loy- —

al man, ‘| have driven her to this, This is my doings, avd 1 must iead her back,’

He put the things again én their place ten-

derly, and smoothed the tumbled dresses as

fi Rug ‘Shall we sit a jutie? beatked; and, slowly out of the station, carrying with ir, 4 She be longed for was s il) witbia it, and fal ing over the table, poor Kvy’s semtence without waiting her assent, be /ed ber to the | at deast, two hiavy bearts, and widening |

seat,

An icy dread crept over her, deadening | «!l sense und will, us she sat duwe, for she) kvew the dreaded time had come.

* Laura!’ he saids and his voice grew) angot xo on’ {(c- dee! 1 give 1g that mau

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bizht must chose between us. ail—friends, honour, everytbir holds most dear and sacred—for you! will riek ali—everything fur you! All, that a man can give | give!’ * And the woman, is it nothing that she | ves? s2id Laura, in a tone bo low, 60 fal-| tering, that, but for ber 'ooks he would pot | bave caught the words, ‘Herseli—-she gives herself; and who’ n claim a greater right—her husband?) a, pul away such poor convention-|

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|alit.es, fitied on'y for the poor loveless souls | came back

xbout us. Surely leve ke mine is not to! be meted by such poor measure! For a few rash words uttered, would you condemn | yourself to drag along a life fettered by a man you cannot love? Would yeu cas: |

every word ?”

* Dare all? What have [ not already dared? Am | not perjured friend and cow-| ard already? Is it nothing to have cast off! all the ties of these years—the thoughts tbat wake a man better than the brutes— the training ef a lifetime spent among men whose very life is bound with that which | have broken! Can it be litile, the love that hasdone this? Cen such be aught but truth! And yor ask mé if t.can dare ?”

For an instant he paused, as if waiting but none came; save for the} heaving of her breast, she might bave beep of stove, so motionless she sat.

His eyes were blazing with a wild, rest- less fire, as he drew her, ail unrcsistiog, to- waids biw, aod Jaid her ball-pillowed ov bis heart—steaiing his strong right arm around her in all the paroxysm of bis eagerness.

‘Laura!’ he whispered, and he shook as | w th ao ague fit—* Laura! will you be mine? The mail leaves im au hone, It is but a word, a look and the worst is over! ‘To-! morrow, we shal be far hence, where nv} une necd know, to live together—-to love) toge.ber—to die together—away from the | cold world, alone with ourselves. and our great love! Laura! you can’t, you won’t say no! Look up, my own, and tell me that you love me! and for that love, wi!

eased herselt against it as with armor, and was aoove all things particu'ar lest their talking should drilt any way from the com- mon track —staying her visitors or ber maid ‘with countless excuses, to hedge her b their presence from this thing she feared, But the words had been spoken--were the | fences ever so high, their mewory would | leap over—was the armour Dever s0 stout. | their reco:lections would pierce through ; | aud she knew it.

‘You will be at Lady Helleon’s? he Was saying. | ‘Ab! bow well she knew it. | ‘Yes, IL suppose { must.’ she answered |

listlessly, ‘ Her balls are so good, and every one is sure to be there,’ But ber thoughts were far away beyond the ball and the people—oat on the dark | | wilds that lay on that far side she had yet

the best kind of Roofing to travel; and the captain seeing her si- a man in low earnest talk, then another peal |

lence, and half guessing its cause, took bis | leave, | Itwas splendid ball, The great ball of Elstrode never looked to more perfection than it did on that night; aud the Lady of E strode never wore radient as se welcom- ed her guests in the blazing gallery beyond, , Bright eyes, rustling dresses, trailing exo- tics all were there, flooded with a thousand lights, and perfumed with the breath of lovely wemen, | lLawra had arrived late, later than useal, ‘and ber eyes wandered restlessly round the crowded rooms with au eager hope that he might not be there. She was leaning on the arm of ber host, decked in all the defiance .of ber beauty, and many Surned as they pas-

‘ing in the very breath that spcke to him ;

do all this? The burning words rained from his |'ps; his ho: breath swept across her cheek—nearer and nearer he drew her hali-tarned head, crushing the daintily yioved fingers in his, and gazing on ber silent beaury. :

He best his head, and listened for bis fate, A slight breath stole across his brow |

|—was it a sound, or his own mad heart)

beating the requiew of ail bis hopes,

The words came distant and low, floating | on the heavy air, rather than bora of buman voice, ‘I dure not—no, [ cannot. Ob, | do not ask me!’

With a wi'd shudder, he listened, drink-} a co'd dew broke out on his forehead—the room—orange trees—all seemed dissolved | in some shadowy mist—theo came voices, | merry ringing words, sow nearer, now the, rustie of a womau’s dress, the deep toves of of quickly uttered words,

What was it that so startled Laura? The chosen seat was darkencd by the

‘brenches, and all but biddeo by a curtain’

—her secret, at least, would pass unlearned ; yet che springs from her lover’s arms, aud bending eagerly forward, peers through the curtain~—one hand upon it, the other stretched out in a queenly gesture of re- straint; her head throwa hack, ber teeth set fast. With a blinding sense of feilure heavy on him, Ciemen's guzes om the sud- den change; then he sces the gause. Toere was no mistaking that laugh, challecging the very echoes, or the toss of showering curls, as little Evylva James, radient in ber fantastic beauty, and quaiot, piquant

express rattled into the station,

,son, and was for passing her with a bow, |

the breach between a betrayed home and a man’s honour with every revo.ution of its} wheels. |

Aud so they went!

Not many hours afterwards, the ‘down One of} the first passengers to jump out was Charlie, his cherry face alla glow in its nest of furs and trave'livg. Ten minu‘es later he was at the house in Waterloo Terace. Bardly noticing the puzzied expression on the servant’s face, he pushed past her, and flung open the drawing room door ; then, finding it deserted, left it swinzing wide, and tried the dining-room, with like suecess Then be stamped up stairs, and they heard nis footsteps across the bed room, awd into) the little dressing-room beyond. Then be

| 9} ;

*Where’s Mrs, Griffiths? Where’s my wife ? he called from the landing-place,

The servants were huddled in a groupe in the ball, but none were anxious to uns- were him,

‘ Misaus came home after the ball, sir,

? Thus wuch said |

else, 1 didn’: see bis fave. hobest sympathy.

‘His face! heavens! whatis this you're | keeping from me? Mrs, Griffithis, | say— my wife,—where is she? Dues she live here stil] ?

‘O yes, sir,’ repeated all in chorus.

‘Teen, where is she? Fools! can’t you speak ?

‘She went out late Jast night, sir, and hasn’t come back !”

‘Gone out—gone out! did she leave ?

‘She said we needn’t wait up for her, sir, a8 she wou!dn’t be home all aight.’

There wasa dull feeling creeping into Charlie’s hevrt, that would not be said pay —a feeling of something all wrong. an un- defined scme'hing—like w black shadow se’. ting upon him—whiech he could not shuke off.

‘Has Captain O.ements been here?’ he asked,

*O yes, sir, most days; indeed, Mary said ’\was the captain that fetched missus

away’ ‘

What message

y ‘etched Laura away! be thought? what is it at a'l! Somebody ill, perhaps, and a sudden summons, But Clements ! well he’s a good fellow, aud L asked him to look afer her!’

So be put on his hat again, and leaving drections about his luggage, tramped off to

pressed the preity jewe!s to bis lipsand thea |

ot forth to fiad her, ‘You wust keep the fires up. be said in leaving, and bave the ‘ea things laid. draw

we

ihe table near the fire; the oights are ould —

now, and its bitter travelling in them, And Mary, se the room is tidy—her room, ups s'airs. 1’m rough, and my hands dou’é fold as yours do, und the things are tum- bied; she must not find them go. D’you bear, Mary? He was thinking of her coming that never came,

Once again 1m the train, past the fiying hedg. -1ows, and the snugly-lying homesteads —puast the troopmg labourers, whistling their way home in the shortening day—past towns 1cddening in the gas-lighte, and moors lands lying cold amongst the chalk-dowas, and soo ihe Great City, ever the halting. place of the fugitive, the refage ef the 400d and of the evil.

Rut she he saugbt was not there,

He traced them ou wards toa pleasant town, nestling in the bosom of the big west-country hills. warm and sbeltered from the cruel east, and far away from the toil and turmoil of the outer world. Another stretch of rail, and he _ It was e pleasant town, with long lines of streets climbing the billeides, and

* Aud you—eao you dare al! this for m:?’| Laura’s maid, bolder than the rest in her |>t!ght rows of shops decked in all their : | Christinas finery, aud a grand old monks’ bold ,

in ite centre, yray and mulhoued, with quaint gargoyles, and saintly figures peering from the corners, and deep toned bells that chimed the hours cheerily as they sped. But Charlie heeded i¢ not, Yo him the streets were etapty, for him no Christmas tide was deck ing and the bells chimed on unheard, or spelt out only— Laura! For two days he searehed. On the third he found them. without the subarbs—backed by a giant hill,

shutting out the town, with a pleasant view »

over the tow-lying meadows across the river to the biz beach-woods beyoud. The wafter

was for showmg him up, but Charlie would *,'

be alone, so the man pointed out the door, and left him. Foran instant, he stood with his hand. upon it; then he opened it, and wentin. She was sitting, watebing through the window, with her back towards him.

‘Laura!’ ;

She started with ascream, ‘Charlie!’

*Yes, Charlie, your busbaud!’ and ke cross- ed towards her.

‘Keep buck ! Don'ttouch me! Oh have pity! 1 dare not, dare not look at you!’ and she motioned him back with her poor pitiable hands, and sunk sobbing in the chair,

4Ji'g Charlie, your own susband, You'll forgive bim, won't you, Laura? asl forgive you. Youll leave this foolish way, We were sohappy one*. We shall be eo Lappy, Laurel, dear!’ He tried to lift her to him ; but she shrunk away, and clasped her tace tightly in her hands,