^ONE OP |THE BOYS." I regretwhich for my own I care as little nervous alarm, to find him lying, white passedit around the beast's neck, and to change of domici^. Lajrfft ondacted as I regard the tiuthfulness of it, and^ still, on the lounge. In the held on not only till he had choked back to my own town in aisgrace, under as BT GBORQB Z. BAGLB3. panic that emergencies always are sure to him off, but until Reeves was ready to the escort of two gendarmes, but, feeling' Mr. Trevelyan here interrupted him create in nervous, loving people, Mrs. pay hisrdebt. myself to have been dishonored by these This bite was a bad on| Lower the curtains Jack, softly, by a sadden blow of his fist on the Santelle breathlessly ordered her one to heal. proceedings, I managed to evade the And light up the chandelier i 5 table. servant-maid to run for a physician. Stir up the fire, there, lightly, vigilance of my guardians'aM left the **A party of six were hog hunting in Now draw to my bedside heroine "You dare tell meyou, a hired teacher Runrun to Dr. Winter's, Annie as place. Three days afterward Fwas again the Yenrit Hills, when the shikaree was something to say at parting, in this house, that I am a liarthat fast as you can, and tell him Mr. Santelle arrested in ilontaubwi^Bvisible' & vagrant, witfh sent to tell of a tiger. Dismounting and The shadows are stealing nigh, means no! is dying. If he's not in, go to Tremaine out money, andwith taking our guns, we climbed the steep Miss So bow your head while I whisper, a Santelle did not make the smallest attempt Hoaranybodyonly some one must support. hill-side by a cattle track. My horse And list to me ere I die. 9 to interrupt the tide of passion, but come at once! Hurry, Annie!" had fallen with me in the morning, and "You are alrea^yiware Fowl"|uffered Prop up the pillows Jack, gently: there was something in his eyes that made being quite lame, I could not keep pace And faithful, zealous Annie tore wildly myself to be tried anc[J condemned by a Then give me your nana in mine, the gentleman pause suddenly, and then with the rest. 1 round to find Dr. Winter out, Dr. Tremaine court-martial as a Communist rather No chmk of ghtteiing glasses, Santelle went on, quietly as before with out and Dr. Hoar out. No flowing of amber wine Before I knew what was going on, several than bring disgrace on my famriy by revealing that unnatural quiet that precedes terrible I've got a few words to say, lad, "What be I goin' toJdoJabout,itandhim shots were fired some- sixty or seven my true name. The reason why 'Bout the times we two have seen, tempests. layin' as white as the piller, and the missus ty yards toward me. Bullets whistled I keep silence no longer is that the life A When, filling the crystal goblets, "There is no need to introduce the crazy? I don't know. Ma'am, can round, and a leopard was springing down I have been leading forthepasj: two years W cliank to woman, our queen^ lady's name again I simply say I have you tell me where there'll be another doc- the path before me. Taking it altogeth has become simply unendurable." Ah, many a night old fellow, never paid her any attention beyond that tor?' er, it struck me the situation was not a On receipt of this^strange-letter an inquiry As, the time flew swift along, which is due to a lady from a gentleman safe one, so, stepping off the path, I dropped It was a sweet, thoughtful face Annie was set on loot* which .resulted in We'ye flooded the air with laughter, that I should pay an Empress of the blood down behind a rock, allowing the had seen, and stopped to question the fully corroborating its statements. The And hlled the houis with song. beast to pass close to me, while some royal if the occasion required it, or any owner ofa daintily-dressed lady, with We've pledged our friends and our sweethe unfortunate man was at nee biought more bullets knocked up the stones behind other woman. You have seen fit to misconstrue, aits, darkest, saddest eyes Annie had ever back to Fiance, and on the 7th of November, We'\e diank to our true love's eyes, him. and from the moment you branded seen. She smiled brightly. 1877, appeared before military tribunal To the blue, the black, and the hazel, me unfit for the position of tutor to "Can I be of any use? If you are in "Pull him out!" says one. We placed No 3, which, after hearing the evidence, Till staisfaded from the skies. your sons, however false the accusation search of a physician, and can find none ourselves as each thought best, and showered ordered the late Papal Zouave to was, you ceased to be my employer. Mr. Wefrvio have roamed home together you are looking for, you can take me I down rocks upon the great miik bush be set at liberty. But, notwithstanding Full many a mom, my lad, Trevelyan, there is no need to prolong know something about medicine." that covered him judicial proof ot this poor fellow's innocence Shoutmg tile echoing chorus, this interview." Annie's eyes were a sight to behold. My place was just over him. After a f the charges brought against him, Roystenng, reckless, and glad. Always big, greenish blue, and bulging, We've tasted life's sweets together, considerable time, out he came a* the He bowed with the cold, polished ease he now finds himself, by a curious provision We've drank of its springs of joy, they grew bigger, more greenish blue.and foot of the rocks, ioarig savagely and of a society-usaged man, and went leisurely in the laws Franc:e, in a very But, Jack, the curtain is falling, more bulging. sprang up a rock some ten feet highr from the library to his room with awkward position. He has been found to I'm dying to-night, my boy. "You, miss! The likes of you be able get at a man standing there as he was that same compression of his handsome not guilty, but his conviction must remain to cure him?" within, a foot of the man's leg my bullet I lived while I lived foi pleasure. lips, but with the fire in his blue eyes against him uoSil Louis Thomas- has I filled my cup to the brim, The lady had stepped into lmpfoaeton struck him through the lungs, rolling him giving place to a bitter, dreary woe. been anesied and convicted fo ihe acts Nor thought of the solemn shadows, beside a soruce-looking boy. ^T^ back, but not before his blood had spurted above mentioned. It will not be till "To think she is the first woman I The specters and phantoms grim "Shall Tgo, or not?" all weir the spell-struck man. then that tke court can 'annul the sentence ever met who could quicken my pulses That Avaited beyond my vision, Annie gave her a despairing look. of 1872 and furnish Mr. Edward With this mortal wound in him harried by a glance of her bright, beautiful eyes That cluster around me now, That touch with their sable pinions "It's a man sick, missyou'd not ease, Bizore with a clean set of papers,.Cev, to reach several of the- party, but and I am insulted beoause I dare converse Mj aching and fevered brow. nor be afraidup at Eglantine place-." Boston Advcsiiser. sank at last with some ten or twelve holes with herI, a tutor on a salary, A silvery laugh fiom the chaiming little through his beautiful spotted! skin. He she a darling of tate and fortune!" !'ei true to the ties that bound us, rosebud mouth as she gave the boy Old friend, ou alone are here was a very fine specimen of a leopard. Down in the library where Santelle A Maa Without ipxriosity. Of all who joined us in revel the orderEglaotine place. The man who was neaily caught thanked had left him, Mr. Trevelyan paced to and To watch 'mid the shadows drear. A stranger talked into the office this 'Neither atraid nor ashamed. I'll seewhat me very gratefully for sav-iag him. tro. Beyond gay voices are ringing, aborning, and, peering into the door of I can do for your master." Fiightenedf though he had beea, he now "The insolent, independent puppy, And eyes gleam JOYOUS and bright, OTsr sanctum, fixed his eyes on the bald She nodded pleasantly, and the ponissand rather boasted of the foamy bloods spots on Say, Jack,do they know I'm dying with his face like a god's and his manner spot on our.head, andsaidi~ Heie in my chamber to night?" phaeton dashesL off. his black skin. the manner of a Prince. It is time he Early met^ eh? It's an awful sad And so it was ordered by the powersthat took his conge from Trevelyan Park when As freely the red TOO bubbles sight to seeca young\man bald-headed be that when thie charming, beautiful he bids fair to be a formidable rival to my And loams the crj &tal glass, Freneli Justice. "Very sad," we replied,, pushing oui lady saw Raymoad Santelle raving in Do they give a thought, I wonder, son Rupeit in Ida Veldt'sJfevor. I am I"* pencil vigorously, and without looking up To me as thehouis pass delirium, and made such a commonsense not blind I'm not a fool Mtave seen the On the 19th ot June, 1872, thepeiice cjf Do they think, 'mid sparkling bumpers fiora, the writing of a 'heaj leader on diagnosis of the caser and gave such practical girl's magnificent eyes look at him with tile town of Montaoban, in France,airesl Of old Bourbon and old Rye, 'The Comparative Influence of Rifle advice to be followed till Mrs. Santelle's a light in them I'd willingly give a check ed as a vagrant a* young man of good ad That I'm lm the shadow, Teass on M^odera-civilizaticnJ* on which physician should arrive to take for a thousand to see in them when she Do they toast me as I die diiess, respectably attired, and who, al we were engage^at the imkl charge, in a glow of enthusiasm, Mis.Santelle laughs with my boy." though bearing, none of theexterml char Wjll they miss me at banquet, "Ues," retained the yisit3rr begged her to call and see the sick "though And just within one of the deep, dusky Kstensties of a seainjp, declined to affon Jack9 Will they miss me, think you sad, it's no disgrace. 'A "bajif head, sir, man occasionally. With very unwarranted, recesses of the library, hidden by Hewing any mfoimation as to his antecedents And upontke old time faded is a sign of bram-jjowei you never see a uncalled-for blushes the lady back9 silken drapery, as fair a girl as evei Will their eyes look kindly The unknown prisoner would give Both bald beaded fool." Why, just look ai] my "Idr" Will they thmk of when we gathered she said she wasagreed to do so, lived, with lustrous dark eyes all aglow, ing, but his name, whhj he declared In the moonlight on the hills, headl" and day after day the phaeton stood for and cheeks as pink as morning-glory, be Lewis Thomas, bat peisistently re Dunking red wine and catawba, He removed his Sat.,, and his head was an hour at the door of No Eglantine stood quiet and breathless until 3r. fused to give tiie police any clew at. Caieless, thoughtless of life's ills? as barj of hair as a steam-boilgjs place,, and Mrs. Santelle and she were Trevelyan had left the room. to what his family was where he oamq fighting a haad -to-hand fight with Azrael "A bald-headed man was sent to the Ah, well, 'tn-Ob fleeting pleasure, "The grand, gloiious fellow! Why he's froro, or what had- beea his previous life for Raymond's sake, until one day Aunt insane asylum from this country last Ihe AMiie and the itogMng eyes, a Piince in disguise! I wondeiI wonder It happened curiously enough, just then Amy eaught me girl in* her asms and month,"" we said, dropping our oyes again The blue, the black, the ha/el ifO dear, of course it is only chivalious that in turning ovei the leaves of the official Whei the luring love-lights 1 ise kissed her aifeently. on the writing before us.. courtesy Mr. Santelle ieels, and I identification lists,, which aie peri Tor ou, old chum, tney are waiting, "Wall,, there's.$exoejjfions Wt every **Tc* think wou have saved hisa, under won't be a fool if he has got the most odic^lly sent to the different depaitmenti From me they have flown away, iule,'' he replied God's.Goodness! Miss Ide, caa I ever Ihe nights on the gleaming hilltops heavenly smile and the handsomest eyes by the Minister oflthe Interioi, the pub Thea-he got up and went outr into the Have gore from my life foi aye' thank you eno-agh' If you only knew I ever saw, but I'll see him again before lie prosecutor of the town of Montaubai compceing-room, anddooked-over a compositor's how much I love youand so will beeu thinking Jack, old fellow, he leaves, and discovered that the psesence of Loui I'1 shoulder at piece of copy. my boy when he knows how a&uch he Thomas, of whom.aofuither descriptioi But Ida Veldt did not see him again lhat my chv\s have gone to waste, "Strangers not allowed to read copy'" owes you." That mj revels and irousings was given, was niEoh desired before, in before he left Tievelyan Park, for Santelle sung oat the foremaa from the other end Weie the fruit ol pampeied taste Consciousness had 1 etuamed to the sick military tribunals to answer sundiy charg did not remain over one train, and of the loom. u. Through all the 3 earb that have faded man, and aunt Amy had told him as soon es of being prominently concerned wit' when Ida leturned fiom her gallop over w^hytS,kfea'd TMg copy I never have known a caie, "Oh,J didn't as she daied, of Idehev sweet tender the doings of the GOmimme. Our sg the breezy counti roads, with her cheeks Anil no\v as the death gloom gatheis, don't even caie for t^e originalr" skill, her devotion, her brave, relentless answeronl rant, who had sriven-this name, was the 1 glowing, her hair wind-blown over her I uui't remember a prayer. iger "I was stiaH ed tho persistent war with his illness, hea patieace, her upon incontinently foi warded to Paris i face like a mist of spun gold, and her I'\eleo nursing the hollow beauties, trying to compute Low many of these pity, until Raymond with. a smile on his be turned ovei to the coart-maitial, bronze, daik eyes eloquent with the I,ve cherished the fleeting JOJ s, types it would takevfo manufacture an pale haaasome face, asked, why Ide had foie which he was jtrraigaed in the latl strange, half-sweet, half sad thoughts she Mj life has been spent in seeking accomufc of a first-clasorhorse-race." not been, to see him since- his convalescence part oi^July, 1872. bli3& that burdens and cloys, could not understand, Eaymond Santelle Thenslie- wentover to a stone a/uiltyieked Aunt Amy told him that Ide had Pasthonois seem stiangely bairen was separated from her, by fate and the Do you answer to the same of Jjoisi up a stiekful of Of good in my clouded sight, Ftyrce that the devil had assuied her that her piesence might distuib railroad, so many miles that ever to meet Thomas-2" asked tke- Colonel presiding And, Jack, the futuie looks misty set down for a momelr^f the patient atfirst,frafcshe would see again seemed of even less likely probability "I do." And dark as I die to night. "Lockout! thisja^t a bakery'" cried him before long. than the finding of a needle in a Ycwtdecline to give the court a^r the deval. uiw Remember, sometimes, old fellow, Aftes the first rally Raymond went on haystack]! !fe fuither mfoimation as to your (past li! "Who said it was?" 1 Our friendship when I am dead, toward health and strength with rapid your family or VOUP residence?" When the bnght-hued birds of summei "Well, you weretrying to*juiahe 'pi,' 'V strides, until Miss Ide, with glowing I do." Smgsweetlj above my head, "But, Raymond, there is no use in you( answered the devil. i have'clared3herdintention cheek an strangely lighted eyes, deof You'll think of our days together, Bu* you acknowledge that you seiva i tins: so obstinate about it! You bein "Well,, that's all rigM. I don*ibelieve seeing Mm again, Of rollicking times now past, under the Commune, and to have signo I fever, and your eyes are as glassy as a in strangers going inrkx -a place aad making But Jack, don't "tie" to their glamour, and one lovely afternoon* Mirs. Santelle your name to sundiy requisitions fsr cat's in a dark cellararn't they, Mrs. The shadows fall lound at last. themselves perfectly at hbrhe. If I showed her into- the dainty invalid chamber. supplies^as an employ of one of the Santelle?" was a oaupenter for instance,' 'and had a Little thiaking the accomplishment Pi op up the pillows, Jack, gently, paitments established by the Centriil Harry Livingston reached out to take kit of tools, "I' wuuldrrtf 'want paaple to of an unwritten romance had come, little Then give me vour hand in mine, Committee of the insurgents?" Raymond Santelle's hand to feel the be earning foolingjaroand and slieing off No chink of glittering glasses, thinking throbbing, irregular pulse. I do.' And I take upon myself tJ i Noflowing of amber wine, their fingers witi} my^jsels^pj^fW^thing Well, Raymond reached out his hand, 'Don't be a fool, Harry! I tell you 1 entire responsibility of my acts as suchf "We've tasted life's sweets togethei, of that sort." ^tyl^ ^4^', *H and the girl took it with a strange shyness We've diank at its spnngs of joy, ahovo, words am not sickat least beyond a trifling Louis-Thomas was thereupon convictaa sarymg^-tfil1 While he was very unusual in her evdwary manner. But, Jack, the curtain is falling, coldalthough I won't be responsible for and sentenced to be transported for li 'e he had his hands' on -ftie cylinder of the I'm dying, to night,my boy. an attack of brain fever if you and Aunt to the penal colony in New Caledoni s, proof press, and*wjwpwjhmg it backward "I am glad to see you looking better, Amy don't quit coddling me." whithea he embarked on the 14th f and forward, making at noise tgi&t was Mr. Santelle." June, 1873, in a Government transport. "You see how it is, Mr. Livingston, I The Edict of Fate. plung'ng "The Comparative Influence of "Ida! Miss Veldt! Is it possible? Oh, Two years afterwasd in the month of can't do anything with him. He's been Rifle-Teams on MoaferniGiyilfzation" into can it be true? Miss Veldt, do you know libiary in Mr. Trevelyan's qjegant May, 1875, the governor of the penal colony just that contrary ever since he came a hopeless muddle. Wrf&idg Wi4 out of in my delirium I constantly thought you aforesaid received from one of the home the other night with a chill, and I residence was one of the pleas%rtments the question while this^iejidjwattpresent were with me? And you wereyou convicts, Edward Mzore, a'well-writtah coaxed him to take a ht lemonade." imaginable, and on so abandoned the heavy leader, and, were!" but voluminous document which contain The little bright-eyed old lady looked \ummer morning seemed the straightening up in ou ohair!Qlied him She smiled, then frowned demurely, ed some interesting and curious disclo$ures. anxiously from her boy's flushed face to Ite coolness, shade and fradark with her pretty fingers on his wrist. Livingston's half-earnest, half-mischievous green carpet that fool man,"rhe said in substancej "I cannot permit you tobecome excited one. "I am the ike a sheet of emerald Why, Mr. Santelle. Yes, I, Ida Veldt, who abbreviated "He always was headstrong,you know. "wh) under the name of Louis Thorns^ reen silk curtains and only twV days agol a. stemgeS- eame in my name on the impulse of the Don't you remember how disagreeably was condemned by court-martial No. 18 the gleaming marite here 3nd\picked up Ibfle of ,QHR Gathng moment, when I saw who my patient was mulish he was when he came home from to transportatios) for having been concerned and gold cali- guns. OX course hejdidflftfksiow it was because I Trevelyan Park, a couple of years ago, in the Commune. Louis Thomas of shelves from loaded arid the'Cpmttogav-edecent burial His face was flushing up with perfect and refused to go into society at all, even is not my name it never was my name to such fragments j&'hip as the devil joy. ^,b when he had come into the snug little noar did I ever know anyone of thatnamfc. and the birds managed K^-jpj&fe Wnrand the office. "Because what, Miss Veldt?"^ legacy his grandmother leftMm?" During the events of the Commune I wis nival of song Hera, boy, show^hjl^gejitlemon one of She blushed like a wild rose.'j^ Santelle turned frowningiy to Livingston. 50 leagues from Paris. The reason why theGatlings'.V There was a pleading look in her eyes I assumed the responsibility of acts doae so peace- The devil rolled faifw&rdl a, large castinniro as she looked into his. He closed both "If you knew how it annoyed me' to with Mr. by another, and suffered myself to he de cylinder, used'forw ajm of his hands over one of hers. hear you talk as he convicted under the name which dad nbt J.Q^^ f-or the/vpjpessl.s visitor and our "And I as your lover, forbid you to refuse Harry arose promptly, lapghing^ ith one belong to me, I will now proceed to dib- commenced baddag^'towaud the door, to answer any question I ask, MiIda, "All right, I'll call again when you are entral close. saving as he went: was it because you loved me? Tell in better humor, Ray. Mr|$. Santelle,you non No, thank ye^ i fjere ia onea "I was at one time in the Poatmcal me it was, my darling?" promised to show me your" pelargoniums, -4fect sel^en,i nw, that I do pride,, nf Zouaves, from which I was honorably And we presume she did, since nevet I think?" i there ain't a particle curiosi discharged. 1 belong to a thoroughly were patient and physician on such ait The conservatory door had barely composition. ^BesMesS k#^ W 0$ respectable family in the south of France, fectionately intimate terms as were Mis? 0 closed en their heels whn Livingston's 1 Gatling guns: the- sew and my mother, if still living, oaght to Veldt and Raymond Santelle after that*,, levity vanished. that man who makes the Gaftbigf guns be a person of independent means, residing in the halcyon days when they two agre "Mrs. Santelle, Ray is a much sicker Sfreed mother whtifmsBd to ddpFwaihing." in a small house in the ceighbojN that upon the story of thetr lives had] an than you have any idea of. Can't He backed out of th|oSoe^attd started hood of Cahors. During the war wife been written, from time immemorial, iu see the terrible state of irritation he 1 the\ off after the meaner of *man who is in a Germany, I served in the Eighth Battalion word "Kismet." come to? Crossness and Raymond hurrv. But *Tae CompNftKeibifluence of rifles, which was attached to the army possible, as you know, and if you of R'ifle-Teams on Mpdft .Civilization,"flLliterarof of the Loire, under the command of Gen. Spiiefillness of the Leopard. '-& ttte my advice and send lor a docay locked at' fn, d'Aurelles de Paladines. I was in the save him a sickness, perhaps The leopard has the reputation, among effort, was a to^lTOCj3&n-4g$tnever battles of Coulmiers and Patry, and was Send for Dr. Tremaine or Dr. hunters in India, of being more savage in living printigladden^peeye|i& taken prisoner in a skirmish near Ven"ome an admiring tell which ever one takes the and spiteful than the tiger. He dies world. '*It's fy ffi wastltoasket. on the 4th of December, 1870. I ou and I have so often imRay game, and fights to the* last. A correspondent Austin {KcvfyBteiem* as carried to Prussia, and confined in a has some trouble on of a London journal, who lived irison at Erfurth, where I remained five many years in India, relates the following lonths. It was not until the end of May fine) about tw?h & ^w%i'f auo^utwa 5ptf ^old Santelle was in a condition incident of his leopard hunting: 871 that I finally reached my own couhand on the stoveite a stfiW ev [pless alarm after Mr. Livrone. Reeves and his shikaree, Gunnoo, regained my mother's house nekr ter let this^mecto^a IteallWfciftfrttottSbil),. and thea turn ^ff.th^atf ad,ovr agtin.* It had never occured found A leopard in the hills. On being taSta ahors. 1 P*&n With co*d water scaW as ^"WPw Ray was threatened with wounded, he charged home, fixed his "Being the only son of widow I wks equal quantities of milk aid water, enough upper thigh clawing his Reeves1 Ise than an influenza, and teeth in eiemptfrom further service, and, nbt cover, anAt&icken with fttur, add two welL^ ston was actually hinting at legs, and shaking furiously. Reeves told heaten Sgge and a piece W butter the siz* wishing to be a burdea lo my mother,] I an egg nTMB aaftkea'a a|tfSnpper dish, his shikaree to help him while he battered She flew back to Ray's ca\ne to Paris in seareh of employment the beast's head. He was a very I sitting-roomthings had wMch I soon found. But to my astoij When my iriends rifc down, I powerful man, very good with the gloves Ray since he had come isHment and dismay, one fine day tvrtf and Allowed on. Thefcen onthehiJI-side but the leopard shook him as if the blows fsand a yeardetermined policemen came to house and awesteg poutfkd to araviae wB*e the taikQU& were nothing. jtor must be sent for and aej because, as they said, I had omitted the wanted. She Went in, Atllfttfe sMkaree.taking off his turban I to cbmply with ti reguiations Regard A^ws(gj$gnpi