Cornell Bout bong. you had toothache when I left this morning. one arm, while the old villager seized Maud started as though they had stung The watcher beneath the trees saw him And here have I been at Epsom the other, "donotgol~h, do not go! her her hasty temper in arms immediately. vanish saw Maud's gloved hand pressed Balanced we sit in our six-oared shell all day, with the jolliest lol o' fellers You will be lost!" to her heart, as though to still its beaming. 1 oils of the brain, lor an hour, farewell! ever got together in one drag, and won a Not 11 It I do feel it the least shaky By what right do you venture to Then he marveled for a moment whether Ourb is no bark the storm to brave, poto'monly, afld had no end of a jolly I will return at once. Let me go." And ciitcise my friendship, sir?" She hides no buffet of foaming wave sight were playing him false, for a white time, and I did think I should find some But when our lake is a minor true he shook ot Ecroa's grasp, while the old You shall give me the right," he reoincd, figure glidtd towaids him through the Of its hills bo green and its blues bo blue, thing cheerful and jolly to greet a feller man still held him. hotly," or from this day I will moonlight, heedless of the dew that Or when the breeze that mirror breaks when I got home. And there you are "You will not find it shakey at all never willingly touch vour hand nor see oaked flowing robes and satin slippers. And outward tosses its silver flakes, toothache again! I do call it hard upon until you step into the gulf itself," cried your face. Friendship! what is that beside Oh, then, to the beat of her ashen wings, "GeraM!" it cried. a fellerpaecious hard."Punch. ']p Like a bud o'er the air-clear deep she the old man. Oh, do not go, m'sieu. such love as mine? Choose between He drew her into the shadow, f* it springs Think of young madam, if anything them, Maud: his friendship or my love, i)4 "Say goou-by to me, Maud." There Oars pulled and feathered and dipped in time were to go wiong with you!" I will never ask you again." Make measure sweet as a poet's rjme, was a queer tremor in the voice-. Rest. "Tut, it is all nonsense!" cried Ralph, Make music sweet as our sweet bells' chime. This desperate earnestness almost 'Good-by?" she asked, wonderingly. ove, give me one of thy dear hands to hold. as, with a resolute shake, he freed him frightened her Nevertheless she made *'I leave England to-m irrow. Will ycu Take thou my tired head upon thy breast self. Then, amid the cries of the people, a mocking eurtsey. In open sky, on lake and land. not bid me good-by, my lost darhng?' i) sing me that sweet song we love of old, he strode quickly to the very centre of Live spir ts of health for bi ain, heart, hand. Love may desolate and grieve you, *-*Jr The dear soft song about our little nest. Captain Hall appeared in the doorway And the waving oar hath a wand-like spell the treacherous sand. There he paused knew the song before the nest was ours Love may 6tay awhile and leave you, at that moment, searching with great as"- To win them hither where'er they dwell We fang the song when first the nest we and turned towards them. Friendship's truth will ne'er deceive you," tonishment for his partner but they Now for a spuit your sinews brace, found Well!" he cried, in the tone of a conquer, she quoted. Then he fairlv turned his were happily unconscious ot the fact, for Just think of the laurel that crowns the 1 ace, We loved the song in happy after-hours, "what of the shivering sand now? For when our brows with the bay are back for some seconds, that she might When peace came to us, and content profound. two bare arms were around Gerald's'neck It has not swallowed me up yet, and. twined not see the pained working ot his features. and a sweet vcice was whispering: Gay ft-tes are plenty and fair maids kind. Then sing the olden song to me to-night, But perhaps it prefers natives to strang- He was pale to the very lips when at "Lovelove will you not stay^ for my Full hard with one muscle, one heart, one While I, reclining on thy faithful breast. ers." length he did look, in silence offering his sake?" will, See happy visions in the frail firelight. "Oh, mi'sieu, do not mock, and you hand. Silently she laid her own in it. For pure accord is perfect skill. So it came to pass, that "Gerald Sorthwich, And my whole soul is satisfied with rest. near vour last!" caied the old villager. Oars pulled and feathered &nd dipped in time Better than all our bv-gone dreams of bliss,' The agony in his eyes subdued her what tea-trader, China," remained a myth' "God has guided your feet to where vou Are deep content and rest secure at this. Make measure sweet as a poet's ryme, was a woman's weak petulance in comparison onlv. i Make music sweet as our sweet bells' chime. ***$-$ i are. Pray to Him that he may guide with this? Francis 0' Connor tnlthaca Democrat. den sum- you back again." go1 Whattnoughwe missed love's "For the last time," said Gerald Sorthwick. Garibaldi's Home. mer time. "Oh, I will return as I came," he replied He bowed low over the white The Shivering Sand. His Autumn fruits were ripe when we had i but when he looked for his footmarks fingers, and kissed them: then walked leave Caprera is a small, narrow island he found them here,' there, and away. She heard a horse's hoofs presently, To enter joy's wide vineyard in our prime, a great rock in fact, with a few I, In the district of Morbihan, on the a furious galop. everywha re, as if the surface had shifted a1 Good guerdon for our waiting to receive. patches of soil here and there- -of about Love gave us no frail pledge of Summer flowers, i south coast of Brittany, clustered close to in all directions. The lodge-keeper touched his hat as twenty-two miles in circuit and three to "Do not move, mi'sieu! oh,do not move a sandy beach the houses of the little Gerald rode up, and he saw with surprise But side by side we reap the harvest-field four in widthseperated from the northernmost fishing-village of Morlaix. It was an out until you have a rope round you 1" cried there were great tears on the old man's Now siae by side we pass the winter hours, point of Sardiniaas Valentiais the old man, as a villager began coiling And day by day new blessings are revealed. rugged cheeks. of the world and old world place, with from the coast of Kerryby a strip of The heyday of our youth, its roseate glow, one for a throw. "If God has given you "What is the matter Williams?" old world habits, customs, and beliefs sea some two and a halt miles across. It Its nigh desires and cravings manifold, a firm footing, stand on it till vou get re- "Have you nnt heard, sir? 1 thought Behind it rose a range of the hills, which was once well known to the British sailor, The raptures and delight ot long ago. lief." you knew from the rate you came, and the sheltered it from the noath-eastern blasts Have passed but we have truer joys to for it lies clore to the Maddalena one of "Tush!" cried Ralph to himself, "what look of your face." and made it, to the very few people of tne hold. Nelson's stat'ons in the Mediterranean. a laughing-stock I shall make of myself, Sins: me the dear old song about the nest, "Nonowhat is it?" world who knew it, a perfect little 1 he only habitations are a few shepherds' Our blessed home our little ark of rest. if, after coming here to prove them fools, Williams whispered a few words. heaven of rest in winter. huts and Garibaldi's house, situated on I let them drag me back like a bullock. Indeed in winter there was sunshine at Gerald swayed to and fro in the saddle, the western side, about three-quarters of And if this spot is firm, so must the rest aDd would have fallen, out that the old Gerald Soathwick. Tea-Trader, China. Morlaix when there were fog and storm a mile on the higher ground. It is a onestoried be." man supported him. at Ustiant and on the northern coast and building, i e., a ground floor only, As he spoke he made two quick steps "Strange news!" said Captain Hall to a H. H. if ever a storm did blow home into 'he divided into seven plain, unadorned toward the people but the secom seemed friend that night. "Old Sorthwick is little bay, it seemed as if tired before rooms a kitchen, with appliances any A long stretch of velvet lawn, bathed as if made in water, and he strove to ruined and has shot himself.' reaching there and only came to lie small farmer's wife in England would in delicious golden sunshine. Pour people stagger back "Nonsense, man he is as rich as Croesus down upon the hill-sides in peace. Not consider very insufficient a dining-room finishing a game of lawn-tennis, and It was too late! Next moment, while he "Yes fabulously so, that is, he mortgaged that the people of Moilaix knew nothing with a plain deal taole, large enough, as many looking on with a kind of lazy threw up his arms and uttered a wild every acre years ago, and bought of storms for they weie a bold lace, and however to accommodate a party of twenty-five interest. On either hand shady shruboeiies, sharp cry, he found himself drawn down Turkish bonds that -counts for his large in their fishing schoonors and smacks a little storeroom three oedrooms bordered with brilliant flowerbeds into the sand as if by some irrisistible income. They have just stopped payment, they would ciossthe wide Atlantic itself for his children and any friends who may at the end of the lawn a little power beneath. you know, and other speculations have to pick up treasures off the coast ot land upon the island, and his own bedchamber brook in Ihe distance the long sweep of turned out much worse. The young cock His cry was answered by one from Edna, bleak Newfoundland. and study combined a goodsized the Cotswolds. will crow less loudly now, will he not? who, bursting from the crowd of room with two windows (one to the To this village, on a winter fai from "Fifteen," counts Captain Hall, triumphantly, And an evil light gleamed in the sperker'3 women who would have held her back, east, the other to the south), a carpetless fifty years ago, a couple came to live who as a vicious stroke of Gerald blue eyes. dashed towards him. boarded floor like the deck of a ship, and gave the villagers great cause for gossip. Sorthwick's racket drives the ball beyond Silvery moonlight flooding a faim A moment sue halted what seemed whitewashed walls. They were young, and seemed as if but bounds. Gerald has played badly house, and an unusually large garden appertaining firm footing, and held out her hands to newly married he had but passed into throughout, almost in silence, with a thereto. Up and "down the ward him. And then as she saw that he Its chief articles of furniture are a manhood, while girlhood yet lmgeicd grave lace and compressed lips. It does graveled walk paces Gerald Sorthwick, scai cely took notice of her, but sank yet plain, roomy iron bedstead, four on her face. not matter, for hisjpartner, Maud Conway, moodily smoking a fragrant cigar. On lower, she gave a low cry, like that of a common chairs, a simple writing-table, At first the villagers acted shyly towards has exchanged with Captain Hall enougn the air is borne a sound as of an irregular oiid in pain, and with three steps was Dy an old-fashioned chest of drawers, and a, the couple. "They were towns- merry badinage for a dozen people. The bass solo, varied by the occasional squeak his side, and wildly trying to drag him shower-bath. Everything of- the most fo'ks," said the old people, "and they will young lady is nettled now at an ignominious of shriller stringed instruments from his living grave. ordinary kind, but there is no affection only laugh at oui old ways and stoiies." defeat. It denotes that half a mile off, in the of Spartan simplicity, and in striking This only tor a moment. Next instant After a time however, ''young madam," 'I could wish you victor in a better little town of Sorthwick, an archery ball contrast the modest aspect of the place sbe too, felt herself dragged downdown as the people called her, managed to get contested fight, Captain Hall." is*being held. The committee, in view are a number of things scattered about. into the heart of the cruel sand. Her into their good graces and, this bein? of his father's recent death and his own "It is my highest ambition, Miss Con- On the bed a splendid counterpane of bieath grew faint, an attempt to cry out done, it was not long until their wildest social ruin, had decided not to send the way." There was nothing in the words, white cashmere, most exquisitely embroidered again failed her, an in what s,eemed a legends, darkest superstitions, and most customary remainder but Gerald, with a but the meaning, tone, and a low bow for him in silk by tue ladies of mere pulse-beat of time sbe felt heiself pathetic tales of loss or salvation on the poor man's morbid*sensitiveness, misinterprets gave them point. Maud bit her lips, and Milan and standing in one corner, as as if buried deep in the bowels of the rasing sea were poured into her ears. the kindness. With an impatient Gerald threw down the racket, his face carelessly placed as if they were a bundle earth. These stories, as she heard them, she movement, expressive of disgust, tosses a little sterner than before. She turned of sticks, are several swoids of honor, "Mother of Heavens! they are both retailed in the eais of her companion away the halt-smoked cigar. It alights on to him, an angry glittering the violet with Damascus blades and hilts of geld 'I lost I" cried the old dame. ''But it is well Pi'h a childlike belief at which he often the soft turf of a small croquet-gioma eyes: set with gems, presented to him by hisfellow for Morlaix. The shivering sand will laughed, but was oftoner thoughtful. and lies smoking. Then, with a curious "Your play has been wretched, Mr. countrymen ot Nice, Rome, and trouble us no more!" Tcey are a noble race, Edna, for all smile, he crosses and picks it up carefully. 8 jrthwick it was never worse. For the other cities but what he prizes far more As the old woman spoke, the last VJStige 'their poveity,'' he said one daythe last uture we dissolve partneiship. is a box of tools for cultiviting and ingt afting ot the devoted couple disappeared day ot the year, indeed as they walked "I had forgotten myself," he mutters: "Can we? can we, Maud?" He speaks vines sent him by some friend in England. beneath the sand. Then, while the people out on the beach bathed in sunshine. "the last ot the box, and a brand I am meaningly now, and it seems strange her Flung over the back of one of the uttered an "Amen" to the old woman's "Jj like to hear their stsnes of adventure, not likely to taste yet awhile name can come with such tender inflection chairs is a handsome poncho of a rich prophecy, the shivering sand itself for chey have the tiue ling in them but So, with the cigar between his teeth, he from so hard and firm a mouth. white material lined with red, the gift of began to sink, and in less than halt a minute of/the old legends and the supers ition are passed through the gate, and across green a distinguished Milanese lady* Hung 'Maud' to my friends, sir, 'Miss Conway' had entirely vanished, while the sea. too much foi me." meadowland toward the town. asrainst the wall are a telescope and a to you." as if boiling violently, rushed in where "Well, but, Ralph," she leplied, "the The music grows distinct as he ap binocular, both presents from Eng'anl. He leaves her, and saunters into the it had been. old legends may be true for all we know proaches. shrubbery, following a little winding These were used byhim in the campaign "It is very pitiful, very pitiful! mut and look how many of their superstitions I think I am wise," he reflects bit path until it reaches the brook. Then of 1860: and on his writing-table, together tered the old man who had tried to argue ceme true." terly. he throws himself at full length upon the with a volume of Plutarch and some with Ralph "but he was headstrong, and "Nonsense,dear," he said, with a laugh To-morrow by this time I shall have soft moss, and thinks bitter things of the works on mathematics, lies a book of harbor would have his way, And sheah! poor as he drew her aim closer in his. "Look left the old life quite behind me. Gerald girl who has befooled him. Halt an hour plans given to him years ago at a young madam. I would give a thousand how many of them aie made false eveiy Sorthwick, tea-trade*-, Cuina. Vague, ater there is a ru3tle among the boughs moment of need by the captain of an francs to see her alive and well again." day of their lives There is theii great that, and it is about all I know but I and he sees her in the act of retreating. English ship in the port of Canton, On As the old man said this he turned and story of the shivering sand that claims shall be better out there. The old positions, "I am sorry I disturbed your slumbers, the floor by his side theie is a tiger-skin gazed out upon the sea with a yearning ,i its victim eveiy year. Why it lias disappeared habits, instinct, reminiscences, Mr. Sorthwiok. I thought you were to step upon: above the head of the bed* look. All at once he started. entirely, and this year, at any would be so many dead weights in gone." hangs his mother's port: ait, and at theside "The bodies do you see them?" he cried rate, it has had no victim. England," "You distuib my life, Maud, waking is a stand on which lie a revolver wildly, as he pointed to a spot in the bay i' "Perhaps its time is up, like other evil A wealthy tradesman passes him, and and sleeping. Come here." and a dagger. This dagger is another about a hundred yards out. "The sea )j things that are not to continue forever,' touches his hat. Gerald acknowledges He spoke with such command, she instinctively record of his wife. She always wore it has robbed them fiom the sand and to replied Edna: "or perhaps the sacrifice the couitesy with that market politeness obeyed, but her whole soul hanging from her waist and after her thrown them up again. A boat! a boat!" that was to conquer it has been made which has ever won him populartiy with rose in rebellion. It was a novel experience death, during the retreat from Rome in Instantly a boat fiom the schooner "What sacrifice?" Jisked Ralph. his social inferiors, but the incident to the spoiled and petted beauty. 1849, Garibaldi continued to carry it in alongside was run out, and the old man "Why, the people say that whenever a re-awakens latent eynicism. lemenibrance of her, until he lost it He pointed to a low, rustic seat, and and three others leaping in, pushed off victim is swallowed up. and some one from his side during the fight at Caserta she took it. As though to measure How long would that last?" he wonders. for the snot where the bodies were just who loves him leaps after him, the sand on the 1st of October, 1860. It was rbund,. strength, they look into each other's faces Formerly it meant you are my disappearing again. will become solid or disappear forever." however, by a Calabrese, who restored it his pale, determined hers passionate, patron, ten times richer than I. Now it Scarcely had they reached this place "A. pleasant cure for trie mischief, and to the General, since then its place hasbeen resentful. Then Gerald turns his head should be for me to doff the hat in greet- when the two fair heads appeared above one not likely soon to be carried out," by bis bedside. Unless the General away, lest resolution should fail. His ing." the water. Next moment they were laughed Ralph, "but"as they drew near rings his bell no one is permitted toenter tone i& low, but full of fierce, suppressed The cigar burns close to his lips he seized by strong hands, and one at a to a crowd of people gathered under the his room, with the exception only energy: spits it out and hesitates. time lifted into the boat. Then this was lee of a half-beached schooner''but ot his son Menotti. "You have not played with my love for "1 must see her face, once,'" he groans rowed back quickly to the beach, the what are the people all so solemn for this months, Maud, without learning what it "my vow notwithstanding," and as the bodies taken ashore, and with very little On the walls of the dining-room hang morning?" is. It comes between me and all other church clock strikes ten he stands in the hope of success, every effort tried to restore some water-colors representing episodes Before she could answer him they were chance of happiness black shadow of some trees, looking life. in the Montevidean war of independence, saluted by the people, who did, indeed, across a bowling-green at the great doors He pauses a few seconds, wherein she Presently, to the wild joy of every one, a photograph of an incident in the siege look solemn, as if some evil luck had ot the Assemb'y Rooms, to which heated plucks a wild-flower, and picks it to young madam moved one arm and from of Venice in 1849, and in one corner a happened to them. couples come from time to time to inhale pieces. Sweet and pensive she looks between her lips came a sort of sighing Brazilian lance carried by one of his "What is wrong to-day, my friends?" the soft, pure air, and oerhaps draw inspiration now, and unwontedly thoughtful but breathing. The same moment Ralph favorite troops in South America. Outside asked Ralph, as he glanced from face to from the moonlight. At length his eyes are on the distant hills. shivered all over, and his eyes half opened. the door of his room is a Mexican face. "You look as if going to a funeral." he sees her, leaning on Captain Hall's "from time to time, when I would saddle, with stirups of silver made in the "Oh, the sandthe shivering sand, arm, and laughing gaily. have spoken, you silenced me, and I "Saved! saved!" shouted the crowd, form of reversed crowns. This was a m'sieu," replied one of the oldest "it has thought it girlish coyness. You made A bitter imprecation rises to his lips, while the women went down on their present from a Mexican friend, and is a reappeared and so surely as has it will me believe yon cared, Maud." but he suppresses it. "Are you content knees in the sand and wept with joy. record of the battle of Melazzo. It wa have its victim before night!" now, stupid?" he asks himself. Jf only he would look now, and see f^^& After a little more exertion, and when when he used it there that part of one of "Ah, where is the sand? I should like how the girls mobile features answer the A bird twitters on a bough near him, the signs of life had become quite certain, the stirrups was shot away bv a cannonball. to see it!" cried Ralph, eagerly. sorrowful wail in his voice! But he does and by force of subtle association, in the two victims were removed to Then the old man who had spoken not. strange mockery, the recollection comes their own home, where in due time they A little to the north of the cottage pointed out to him a bare, flat piece of "I saw you flirting continually, but it how he had once startled Maud by a perwasfect became thoroughly alive again. stands one of those portiable iron habitations beach, with sand as smooth as a table, was your nature, and I did not mind, for imitation of her dove's cooing it In a week they were both out and about for colonial use sent to Garibaldi and with a glisten upon it as if covered 1 thought you gave me more. So you when they were most friendly, before again, the only difference being that they from England. Its four little rooms and ever so thinly with water. fooled me as you fooled otheis." Captain Hall advent. were a little paler than before, and that kitchen are occupied by Bassi, his secretary, i "That the shivering sand!" cried Ralph, "Fortune-hunters, all of them," she "It shall be your signal when you Ralph had become less certain that what and opposite to it is the mill where i half-laughing. "Why, I walked across it broke in. want me, and I am talking to disagreeable he had formerly cdled superstitions were the flour for the General's family and yesterday, and it was as firm as a road- ''Possibly," and his proud head was people," she had said. He wondered altogether without foundations. household is ground. The household, way." thrown back a little. I am free from whether she would remember the incident, i however, is not numerous. It numbers "And yet it is now as soft and treacherous that imputation. Rich as you are, Miss and a wish grew upon him to try Strange to say, the shivering sand never but three personsan old soldier, a Venetian as the sea itself," replied the old Conway, the Sorthwicks of Sourthwick the experiment. appeared again but in the place where emigrant, who acts as the General'sorderly, man. are richer." They had ceasad talking, Maud and it had been, there is now a steep-edged and serves for love, not for It was true, as she knew well. Gen- I "Why how do you know that? Have her partner, and were gazing straight pool, where boats and smacks lie as in a money another man who cooks, and a I any of you tried it?" eral Sorthwick, the elder, had the reputation toward him but there was safety in the dock. To show their gratitude to the two woman to do the washing and tidying-up~ "Tried it*" cried several of the men, of being the wealthiest landowner shadow, he knew. victims who had rid them of the evil The guests at Caprera are required tomake in a breath. "We are not mad!" in the country, and he was the only son. ''Coo^o-o!' A soft note, thrice repeated. thing, the villagers had a painting of their own beds. *r & "There is no need to try it," said the I is time the farce were ended, he Ralph's sinking executed, and hung in old man who had first spoken. It has continued. I have been too long the willing He saw Maud start violently, and their little town hall, where it hangs to been tried, too often, and my eyes never Sir Charles Nugent, of Saddington Hall, in |f slave of your caprice. It is not fitting tremble. Captain Hall thought it was this day, the glory and pride of the good deceived me whenever it appears." England, has gone into bankruptcy. His as- *$::, the woman I honor above all the world with cold. folks of Morlaix. Well, well, I w.ll try it," cried Ralph, Bets are $100 and bis liabilities $60,000. He has should be on terms ot free and easy intimacy "The night air is too ehill," he said *m 1 with a resolute shake of his head, as he lost $300,000, nearly his whole fortune, on the with such a man as Captain "let us return." Enter young husband, who throws turf, and had hard luck in other matters. Sir dropped Edna's arm and moved toward Hall." "No, I cannot leave the moonlight himself into a chair, and exclaims, F. Farqnhar. who owed Mm $45,000, died withoutpaying the dangerous spot. A contemptious curl of the lip emphasized but you may fetch .my wrapper, if you ",Wnat! toothache again, Maria? I do him and left no estate/ No, no!" cried Edna, as she grasped the words. will be so good.''^ call that hard upon a feller. Why vm$^m^m&i^v& TMSSssps i^^sM^^^l