^Jjtft* "T^ |l'jy.'"' 1 trJlt tttflffSyfiin' r""'" 'r/-MfrVc*~,~- g*^^yT-^'U"v-7"*'?v p*T~ the young man, placing a purse in the AEG MERR1LLES. THE TALISMAN. es of that extraordinary garment, the full who drop in to see the doyes of Brajazet hand that lay upon his. 'I will accompany W^aTancheou!066"w completion of which seemed like anight-" plunge into the -cofirY lim an Jtfrom Mtos Stebbins' Life of Charlotte Oushman.] A tove Romance from the Yg*eneli. you until we are out of sight of this ly miracle, so homogeneous did~-sheTAnd of dusky, irnpurpled sn^w, It was in consequence of Mrs. Cnippendale's Cerberus.'" it become Ivhen^braughtUn cbntacr|so of itiagain.,a winged cloud ofsmoke. At It as midnight, and a bride of rare illness that she was called upon on "Why, I iremembered the girl!" exclaimed completely, as she got it on, dad she ejiter the mosque on Friday^ iji#I ^distribution beauty was seated within a luxurious the, very day of the performance to assume tne#per8onatiidlnrof Meg and%lve: de la Tour. into of bread?,to dogs, and fhei*hungr boudoir of the gay city, the capital of the part. Study, dress, etc., had her own behind. She was always particular "And I also know the man?" fellows come from all pattspof thfffeitylto to be an inspiration of the moment. She France. A dainty femme de dhambre had L' .'j* "I do. It was no other than myself." and perfect in heiwraakerup^anc*! get their portion. h* nad never especially noticed the part as but just left the apartment when Frederic "True. As we passed beneath one of would h,ave been for an audience of a ii 11 j'iwtfsH it bad been heretofore performed, there de laTour, the young husband in question, the street lamps, I saw your face, and its dozen as for one of thousands^ jtVt times, was not, probably, much to atract her, entered. every feature became impressed upon my with so much wear and tear some pari of but as she stood at the side scene, book Madame de la Tour was seated near an mind. You had saved my lifeperhaps tho cost^ne would- need renewal the hand, awaiting her moment of entrance, Good-bye! Ah'mef "TJil.wo^s iSfe^Atd, open wood fire, the folds ot a beautiful even my honorand I had reason to reher stockings, for example, woulwould wear out, As balls that toll for spirits fled. ear caught the dialogue going of trouble come robe de chambre of light soft texture member you." end- and then no Good-bve forewarns the goal is neared,-*^ upon the stage between two of the thrown around her. 9 And yet good-byes are lightly saidi 'i. "To remember?" in preparing another pair, that the exact gypsies, in which one says to the other, a The farewell falls fromS laugjung-lipg-'i*J*/*spi.pstsoundV/'liuovan "My darling," exclaimed de la Tour, int ct ag and dirt shouM.beattained. "Indeed, yes. You little thought that e*A-CWrears though our live ldlvscafchtb^ were alluding to her, Megwhy, she is no that "I could not come before." As he spoke the woman to whom you gave alms and This she achieved by her own hand, by longer what she was, she doats," etc., evidently he threw himself on hiskness before her. protection would become Lady Melville, And yearswere seas saUe^swiftiyround. immersing them in a peculiar dye which giving the impression that she is "Our friends have just gone?" inquired and was your future wife." she had prepared from different ingredients ao longer to be feared or respected that Good-bye! Ah me! The w6fds'a/efraught his listener. "This does indeed seem like a dream," not generally known to the regular she is no longer in her right mind. With With Vanished hopes an& brokfm ties', "Yes and I am with you." replied de la Tour. dyers. During all the .early period ot With lessons all too rudely taught. these words a vivid flash of insight struck "Do not kneel, Frederic there is room And angry clouds in summer skies. "To you but to me it is a reality." thethe performance of this pait, when it upon her brain she saw and felt by for you on this couch/' continued Madame From heart to heart the words should pass "And you, so beautiful, so truly lovely, was used more as an operetta than a powerful dramatic instinet with which When friendlv hands clasped closely lie de la Tour. begged in the open street?" drama, it was the custom., for the dramatic she was endowed the whole meaning and For swiftly runs the fatal glass, good-bv'eJ1*''' "No, let me remain thus. II seems as "Once, and once only." personae to sing a finale after the intention of the character and no doubt And surely comes the last i if I must be dreaming that all this happiness "I did not see your face. death to Meg. The interval gave Miss rrom that moment it became what it *0 A cannot be real that you are not "No, for it was covered with a heavy Cushman an oportunity to wash the.paint i ,*i never ceased to be. a powerful, original Parson Swope's Yacation. indeed mine to love and cherish. I cannot veil. On the following dayone, in fact, from her face and remove the head-dress and consistent conception in her mind. She remove my eyes from your dear face, that I regarded as one of the happiest in and gray hair of Meg, so that when she was gave herself with her usual concentrated When our church decided that Parson dreading that you will vanish from my my lifean old lady, in whom I had recalledas she always wasshe came energy of purpose to this conception, Swope should have a vacation and money view." fortunately inspired confidence and some before the audienee her own sweet, smiling, and flashed at once upon the stage in the to travel on, the people, without a dissenting "Be very sure that I do not propose to interest engaged me as her seamstress. pleasant self. The contrast between startling, weird and terrible manner voice, said it was a compliment paid vanish," responded Madame de la Tour. My gayety returned. From the service I the wild, weird, intense face of Meg and which we all so wed rememeber. On to a worthy man and a Christian. said "Yesterday I was the widow of Lord have named I was raised,to the position the genial aspect of the actress was a this occasion it so astonished and confounded so, too. The Parson had been with us two Melville, and to-day I am Louise de la of companion and confidential friend. veritable sensation, which it was a pity Mr. Braham, little accustomed years, and at steady work the only vacation Tour. You see, strange as it may all One day I was presented to an acquaintance to lose when afterward the musical finale heretofore to sucn manifestations, that he he had during that' time was the seem, you do not dream." of my patroness, Lord Melville. He was omitted, and the piece ,c6ncluded went to her after the play to express his few days during which his wife's mother Fiederic de la Tour had good reason was a man of about sixty, tall, thin, but with death of Meg. surprise and his admiration. lay speechless from sickness. We felt to suppose that a fairy had been meddling of dignified' bearing. "I had not thought that I had done =r- that the good man needed rest from his with his affairs. Within a few months TheGerman Onion Market, anything remarkable," she says, "and 'Mademoiselle,' he said, addressing labors, and the sheep thought that the past he had enjoyed a streak ot inexplicable when the knock came at my dressingroom me, 'I know your history, will you marry wolves of sin wouldn't dovpur them if good fortune. He had become rich I am sure you can not guess what sort door, and I heard Braham's voice, me?' the shepherd did go abroad. and happy beyond his fondest hopes. of a thing a Zwiebel-markt is. The word my first thought was, 'Now what have I Marry you?' I questioned, much surprised. One atternoon, while returning from his means onion-market, and I will tell you Therefore ^e-^the.V^ou'ncil of the done? He is surely displeased with me office, he was, in the Rue St. Honore, accosted about one which I saw in German city. churchmet to* decide about the vacation. about something,' for in those days I was 'Yes. I have an immense estate, by a lady, who was driving in a I was awakened very early one October The parson was not present. inonly the 'utility actress,' and had no which I ao not wish my nephew to magnificent equipage. morning by the rumble of Heavy carts under Elder Jones said that the parson would prestige of position to carry me through, herit. My health is delicate and mv lite "Monsieur! Monsieur!" she called. my window, and drawing aside the like to inspect the missionary fields imagine my gratification when Mr. Brahamk lonely. If I can credit all I have been The footman had lowered the steps, curtain, I looked upon the great square amog the Sandwich Islands i" i said, 'Missthe Cushman.veritablecome I have to told, you are good and pure. Will you and motioned to de la Tour to enter the han you for most sensa all alive with a busy crowd of men, "No, you don't get him there!" said become Lady Melville?' carnage. Astonished beyond measure women and children. There were huge Deacon Uutter. "Send him trlerer~and tion I have experienced for a long time. "I loved you, Frederic, who Knew not he mechanically obeyed. canvas covered carts, drawn by oxen see him^come hpme eaten up by^themlungodly give you my word, when I turned and oi my existence. I loved you although I "I have received your letter, monsieur," great lumbering wagons, with a horse and saw vou in that first scene I felt a cold beAthehsJ Stnd$him. to |T,ur$^y." had seen you but once. I could not forget, continued the lady, in a charmingly musical cow, or a pair of droll little donkeys, chill run all over me. Where have you "And let the Cossacks slay him?" cried and there was something in my heart voice. harnessed together dogs and goats were learned to do anything like that?' Jones, in turn. "Not one cent of mine and soul that told me we would meet tackled to small wagons that rattled along "A letter from me, madame?" responded sends Brother Swope into the jaws of From this time the part of Meg grew again, that our lives would run in the selfsame over the cobble stones, while the drivers' Frederick, in a tone of surprise. death." and strengthened, retaining always its cunent how, I knew not, and yet I whips were cracking like hundreds of "Yes did you not, write tome?" I suggested that a tour Jhrough ^ng perfect unity and consistency, until it felt sure. When I looked at Lord Melville torpedoes, and every cart,large and small* "Never, madame, to my knowledge," and would rest the parson bocame what it was, an absolute jewel of and saw his resolute expression of face, I were heaped with onions. was the respectful rejoinder. diamatic arta standing comment and Can he go by land?" inquired Elder feared he simply wished to marry me in "You will kindly excuse me, monsieur," Where did they all conie font, for it contradiction of the oft-repeated assertion SqHiggs. order to carry this revenge. continued the lady. "I have made an was barely sunrise then? While eating that the public must and will have variety. "His persuasions weie redoubled. I absurd mistake, and my only excuse is breakfast, which I tqols^ .an^Jiour garjier "Then I object I Not a dollar ot mine The public must and will have excellence, knew that his years were many, and that that you so greatly resemble a friend of toothan usual that morning, I asked my sends him ,u,pjon the ragjtngji ocean,,|l I when it gets it cannot have it my fortune would be great. I thought of tliouttm mine that I mistook you for him. Great landlady abouW and ^she'told,me that 4eto! would sooner send bam*' cftr repeated. The true heart of human you and how I could benefit you did I but heavens!" she added, much confused, it was Zioiebel^markt, and would continue miles by land then across the sea. Buy ity responds always to truth, and lecognizes possess wealth, and at length I yielded "what must you think of me? And yet three or four days. "It is really the season him a railroad ticket tc culcutta or Australia the absolute ideal, which is only the consentI became Lady Melville." the resemblance is so striking." when the harvest is gathered, and the but don't send his precious, body real in its highest manifestation, and "How strange it all seems," replied de Ere the lady had completed her explanation farmers come to town to sell their country to ssa." thrills as one string when the master-hand Tour. the carriage had been driven produce but instead of making it a mere "There's the Adiion5ack." touches it. If theatrical people could "Yes, deal love, as you have said, like into the courtyard of a magnificent stupid time of traffic, they turn it into a Where he'll get to hunting deer and o*:"y once recognize this and act upon it, some fairytale. I, poor, fuendless orphan, hotel. Frederic, of course, offered his grand holidav. The town puts on itsfishing, gambling, A cook-fighting, and w' at might not the theatie become? A became the wife of one of England's hand to assist his companion to alight. gala attire, the shops are bright with all every thing else that's bad-,, Lwould send book might well be written on this sublect, richest peers."' I would explain further, monsieur," manner of glittering things street musicians him to Chicago at once." $ 4 taking the part of Meg as its text "Happy Lord Melville!" exclamed continued the stranger. I am lady draw around them crowds of happy Brother Webb here mildly suggested and its illustration. Frederic "he had the power to enrich Melville." peasants, who stand and listen in openmouthed that he was whilom a citizen ofe Chicago,didn' Meg behind the scenes was quite as renmkable you." delight Punch and Judy shows, i De la Tour bowed. By the beauty of to which Squiggs replied that as before them. It was a study "He was happy," continued Madame dancing bears, trained bears, trained dogs the speaker he was positively dazzled, care if he would die there. I moved my for an artist, and has been so to many, De la Tour, "and never regretted his and talking birds, are all to be found in and accepted with delight an invitation chair to a spot between tne brethern, and to v, itness the process of preperation for choice. He knew that I had seen you ents or booths at every corner. So, you to call. suggested as a compromise that we this notable characterthe "make-up as before our marriage." tee, it is not by any means made up engive My name is Frederic de la Tour," he the parson liberty to explore, the tbey call it in the parlance of the theatre lfh S "Youtold him?' tirely of onions said I am only a struggling artist." White mountains. a" regular systematic and thoroughly As I walked through the streets I found The singular meeting described had "Yes, all. It was not until after my "No, sir!" Taylor said, fiercely. 1 artistic performance, wrought out with that there were all sorts ot vegetables, such resulted, as has been said, in the marriage marriage, Frederic, that I again saw you, know a preacher who went there, and fell the same instinctive knowledge which as we see in our markets at home at Thanksgiving of de la Tour. and although we soon learned to read and broke his leg I would send Brother was so manifest in all she did. Miss time but an air of beauty was given each others hearts, our lips were silent. Come and sit beside me," continued Swope to the South." Cushman." a distinguished lady artist, to the whole by the tasteful arrangement Lord Melville was wealthy beyond my Madame de la Tour. I have something This seemed to strike the council favorably, once said to her, as she wonderingly of the various ai tides. Bright yellow wildest expectations. He could not to say, but cannot speak while you remain and the particular place was canvased'. w&'ched the process whereby the wierd carrots, with their delicate fol'age, spend his income, and with that wisdom kneeling. It is quite a story, and i I h?g grew out ot the pleasant and genial t". contrasted with white cauliflower and the peculiar to him he realized that while must be told to you." lineaments of the actress, how do you "New Orleans," suggested Taylor. crisp, curling leaves of the red cabbage the difference in our ages rendered love Froderic obeyed. know where to put in those shadows and "Bad as Chicago!" snapped Squiggs, turnips, large and small,'were arranged impossible, gratitude would attach me to Once upon a time," continued Louise. make those lines wnich so accurately with a glance a(t Webb. in fantastic heaps, their green leaves still him. Three months after our marriage I knew you would tell me some give the effect of age?" I don't know" "If you send him South I'll leave the bright: and strings ot shining onions Lord Melville died, leaving me all hewas fairy story," exclaimed the young husband the answer I only/eei where they church'." said Jones. "My mother-m law were piled on the ground in gigantic pyramids, possessed, and I resolved never to marry but while you speak it is music.*' ought to come." And in fact the process is a ranting Baptist down there, and she'd a great deal taller than any man. again, unless I could espouse the one man Nay, listen to me, my friend- Once was like the painting of a face of an old want to come home with hint." who had always held my heart:" The peasants take great delight in this upon a time there was a young girl born Dutch master, full of delicate and subtle "Then he don't travel to the' Sandwich "And you won the love of that man?" holiday season. Whole families come together, of paients who had once been rich. At manipulations, and yet so adapted fc Islands with my money 1" Taylor returned. "Without his knowing me to be thethe and camp out during the night the age of fifteen she was brought to necessities of space and light that its "Nor to Europe with mine!" beggar woman his kindness had protect- just beyond the city limits, returning Paris by her father, who found that at effect was only enhanced, not weakened, "Nor to Turkey!" ed," rejoined Louis de la Tour, extending each morning before sunrise to their places Lyons he was gaining but little money wnen subjected to them. "Nor to the mountains!'? her band. "You remember," continued of sale. The largest collections of fruit For four years that father struggled valiantly I came to the rescue by suggesting Everybody will remember this vision the speaker, "that I refused the purse?" and vegetables are left under the care of against adversity, but finally illness that we vote the money, and Jet the -parson ot age, glowing with purp*se, instinct "Yes you accepted but one com." a guard at night, but the smaller wares, seized him. To be brief, dear Fredrick, travel where he pleag&U ',J J: wi*h fidelity, inspired with devotion even "Only one, and at the time I was almost such as poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, nuts, he died in a hospital, and soon the Jones refused tp subscribe, as he might unto deathstrong yet weak, full of the starving. grapes, etc are packed into the same carts pool mother followed, and the young og South, Taylor walked out mad because contrasts of matter and spirit, subordinated "But it procured you food?" which brought them to town, and carried girl was left alone. Had there been a they wouldn't send him down there and even in all material manifestations "No," replied Madame de la Tour, unclasping off by their owners to the place of their faiiy in the story I relate, she certa'nly but five dollars was raised. to tne master conception. It is "terrible." a ruby necklace that encircled encampmentGolden Hours. would have appeared, but there was How far will that take him?" asked "It is lovely." says another "It melts her white throat. To this necklace hung none The girl was in Paris without Webb. my heart." "She is a witch," says a third, The Dove's Mosque. an exquisite medallion. relatives, without friends, and crippled It wouldn't get him a square meal "iiom the crown of her head to the tips by debts which she had no means to pay. "See, dear Frederick, I did not part in Ohieagbj" said Sqhiggs. of her toes." Look at that attitude! the In the city of Stamboul the Dove's She sought work, but obtained none. 1. with my treasure." Or abed at Long Branch.''*" very limbs express and typify a life of Mosque, or the Mosque of Brajazet II., Vice extended her arms but there exist As she spoke she touched a spring and We came to privation of hardship of suffering. Hear has a special charm. The court, entered ra dead-lock. Word had sduls whose instincts are so honest they disclosed'the com. gone forth that the parsOn waa to have a that laugh! it tnrills one with the superna*tiral by gates elaborately decorated in arabesque, 6*5 shrink from even the thought, and can "It is the one I gave you!" exclaimed, vacation, furnished with traveling money,*"* emphasis of a spirit more than a is exceedingly beautiful. In the remain paxient even while suffering. de la Tour. ^'J and it wsis too'late to recede. human creature. Then, again, listen to center is a marble fountain under a Time passed. At length every cent "Yes." For three mortal hours we wrestled the 3ott, tender, loving tones of the voice, canopy and sheltered by & cluster of was gone, and for twenty-four hours no "And you retained it?" with the ponderous subject. Every place as with the tremulousness of age it trees." As you enter the*court yb'u hear particle of food passed her lips. 0! Frederic, "I would sooner have parted with life 5* on the majp^waacqMultedfaife and every croons over the boy the songs of his infancy, the roar of wings, and for a moment the you who have never known hunger I showed it to a baker, and asked him thing coneWed.i At -one moment we or changes to ringing notes of air is darkened with the suddenTflight of and misery, cannot understand the suffering to trust me. He did so, and on the following were about to "send the parson to ecstatic joy, as she sees awakening in his myriads of doves., These brrd.s, the .offspring I might picture, cannot know the day I was able to pay for the food Canada at another he was almost looked mmd the dim remembrance she is seeking of a pair purchased from a poor pain endured when forced to beg, and his kindness permitted me to" eat." for Cuba Alternating thus between to evoke. woman by Sultan Bajazet and presented yet to implor alms the girl was compelled. "Do vou remember the day I met Lady antagonistic temperatures, the parson was to the mosque, are as sacred as was the The costume ot Megis another subject At dark one evening she crept forth Melville?*j kept for a long time. 'If grew late. The ibbsofold. Av on which much of interest might be written grave and.^rjev.erendr fellow from her lodgings the night was cold "Yes, my dear it was the happiest of clock struck eleven. Mrs. .Jones came with^Jinge^i:urJ^uSrt&."ui)der 'Jhe how it gradually grew, as all artis ic and rainy. In her desperation she accosted my life. I knew you, but you "did. not and took her husband home, and Squiggs cloister and sells grain to the faithful things must,trom,the strangest materials a young man, who halted, searched recognize me." qujckiy followed., and the fickle. The former feed the fAt, laefcLifye Ther a oit picked up here^ another there "Surely there has been a fairy in my relief.4 his pockets, and then threw her a coin. fun.himself came to our doves 'for, chanty, thfeJlatferT for seemingly a mass of incoherent rags and life," replied de la Tour, thoughtfully. The stranger did not even deign to touch smile Of joy and recognition upon his While the fountain is knee-deep with taiters, but full of method, and meaning Why Becauso you say so?"w -s face. He looked like a person ready to swaiming birds and the trees^.^logged her hand the look of misery and distress every scrap of it put together with reference when you sa me first I wa 4 offended his eye. At this instant climb the golden stair. with them and all the eaves of the cloister ,3*1 3 WoVi to antecedent experiencesthewind, "Biethren,4' he- said, sweetly, only a poor, struggling painter: but from gend'arme perceived the girl. lined, and even the galleries of the I the storm, the' out-door life of hardship, the'time of our meeting the tide changed, tliank swu: a thptusajidf timesrn lender minarets not unvisited by the9e nd 'Come,' he said. 'I arrest you for beg the tossing and tempering it had receiyed and prosperity visited me." feathered dervishes,,you,throw handful ipfeiZlnrrJbe, iMRm&fiMy me. through its long wanderings and which sing. You will follow me to the lock Would you know the name of thetc of wheat' into the court, and like a thunder-clound me. There is rest theresweet rest for an artist's eye is beyond price, seemingly despair1"al fairy?'' the whole tribe swoops upon 'and My wife's'motheY^sMckW tgam a bundle of rags, and yet a royal "At these wordsV^JTof evr speak "It was you, Louise!" exclaimed, wiMTn, you with the rush and roar cf a storm| the'physician says-she garment, for the truly queenly character wrung from the lips of the unfortunate Frederic joyfully. You bought my They crowd onet another and^ieap themselves of the old gypsy ennobled every thread of woman, Quicklv the young man interposea. picture?"s fogether-and-stanet h-their heads it How many of' those who felt this jj^ ^pgf in their eagerness to get ,a morsal of Many of them, and have won your qvtaity in the wearer noticed how the cation at homjejirh^ wig/were eager to This young questionl gir Come,n is a acquaintance, he continued grain. In a moment Som'C mre enters the love?" give him far from its burnble^recmete. battered head-dress was arranged in vague mine}nI of know her there is no begS^nS court, and Jhe, birds ^takeu^ight, stirring Yes, my heart my very soul." *n and shadowy semblance- 'to a crown, the the wind in^he%fofetef ,ai|658lling the air^ Frederic de la Tour took the gbM gnarled and* twisted branch she carried The favorite, ^h^^ement^rmg New addressing the trembling--woman, 'it is with soitfleatihgdownrirtufbaned graybear'I pieceand, pressed it to his lips. To that su&gesting the emblem of command? Yofk js^, fh^atPof gold supporting a time you were at home. Do not fear it same""tUofJlCBBGU.hei itU Xl VJ MB Xipo. i luov near- by sells ?q^e#a*ndTjferJuipjes! solitaftemarnrjnd, but a saphire and '6hresemer Much and great has been the wonder bi gold owed happiness and was only a mistake on the part of this fortune. ald', ^i^dniblnte of W& and there is^aiso the fe" of those who saw the dress off her person, fate good guardian of the public peace.' is sometimes usedX* tThree-pearl^' 'jBink, how she ever contrived to get into it no twho cries "Sherbet," and crashes his bra "While I am the fairy," continued "Leaning on the arm of the stranger white, and cmam-^olor, are sometimes set earthly creature, but herself and Sallie. 'zen cups till they ring likelymbalg, Louise, "it is yon my dear love, who Hand -"the girl walked on. there are loungers from dawn to dark i together for engagement rings. gave me the precious talisman." Ikiew the mysterious expa nd entranp- ,"'Do not fear,madenaoiselle,'whispered if- -st JS*j&^**2&ditXM!>li *wJ MhigW^'ilVfi