^'^JW*J*W mmmmmmm C^rwP^ ?rW^vi W*Wf*%0W?Wi a ffl&W THE f)OTH&fff better* thaw all Charlie wa to be Jfttlerson1 And never returned.^ His fay^gto^ to have to be busy,,t be Abyssibiai* 'Women. Her sweet eyes seemed to smile at me there! I ought to have said before was brought up by hisguardians nntU moving. I felt quietly sitting still Romance is rare- in Abyssinia. as I fell asleep^ jthat Charlie was the one I loved bet'ter news came of his lather's death,, and., wxraldsDoanimpossibflity. loouLiinot When a girl has-reached the age of 8 5 rromMiss Braddon's "MistlStbe Bongh.| How long fremained! so I have' no than all the world, better even he,hticame heir to the property. Ah even:think. Those wordSy/'ThfrHeeia or she isconsidered to be in the mat idea but I was awakened by what |We were a merry party, gathered! than my owp dear father for Charlie my dear, that blow killed thepoor has orders to sail," seemed to, deaden rimonial masket. If she owns a fen appeared ton he- footsteps passing Carruthers, and I wjere engaged, and sther One bright Winter's morning lady anyhow, it destroyed peoplreasond her everything else, and to render every through myrroomt and the feeling as cattle or some other desirable proper* after her death sai were to De^mamed in about a year's and1 ^undthe^reakfasttablet Eyertoii, other idea a blank. Charlie was to go if some one were- stooping- over me. ^f .typa boy withhalf her wealth generally 4 time. whoever slept in that room had a with us as far as London, and aiterwardto Closer and y* close*,, and then a cold {range. ^^%*S S proposes to her father for her, and I was not quite 20 years ofage, and warning before they died, or before join his ship at the port whence breath riassed across my face, and I a bargain is. driven over her quite as ||A long, low, wainsco*ted room, with he was a few.years older and a Lieutenant the death of any one they cared for. she was to sail. distinctly heard my name murmured, ifashe had no more sentiment in hei sp bay windows, looking out on a on board H. M. S. Hecla. I don't know what they saw* but I can not describe our partrtngrthough and then aiquiek, low, gasping sigh. than a cow, which doubtless is ofter Charlie had gone to spend a week lootn velvety lawn which sloped footsteps were often heard, I've been it is now so many years ago,, it is the Surely it was Charlie's voice! the case. The engagement lasts usu with his father and mother in Scotland, told, though I can't say I was ever one event in my life I dare- not dwell padually away to, and was bounded My heart*stood still but I sat up in ally, threeor four months. Though and was to join us at Everton frightened by anything myself.'" upon. bed and listened^ and again 1 heard a splendid avenue of chestnuts the gioom often sees his prospective Grange. So Nurse Alison finished her story, He went, and I saw the vessel gradually that voice* calling- me, but the tones father-in-law, he never lays eyes upop iding to the lodge gates. One bright morning, therefore, my which certainly made some impression recede from my sight,, as I stood were lower and more indistinct. I the bride- unless he can bribe father and I left London on our way [Although the trees had lost their on me, and gave a srt of eerie with my father on the pier^and watched was not dreaming. some female friend to allow him a to Berkshire. It was very cold, but sensation for a time, and as I passed liag and the ground was covered the cold mists of an early February Once more my name was uttered in stolen glance. The bride-to-be may previously the clear, piercing air only sent the the Red Room during the next week morning gather round the departing a stifled whisper, as of some one struggling idthSUoar frost, everything looked have romped with her intend young blood dancing through my or two, I confess to feeling-a dread of ship like a thick white shroud, and for breath, so close that it seemed fcheemil and comfortable and redolent veins, until I felt I must sing for very ed for years,but she would run scream looking behind me, and of rather hide the huge masts and spars from in nty very ear, and thenall was Jf genuine old English hospitality, joy, and I was almost sorry when our mg away if:he were now to appear be quickening my steps, as I thought f my aching eyes. Then nayfather took still. journey drew to a close, and, driving fore her.. In some parts of the country from the fat robin, now poor pale Beatrice Austen, and her me home. Oh God! Those awful moments,, up the chestnut avenue, we saw the the superstition is rife that any young, sad life ended in such a fearful And so I lived*on in the old daily mass of fluff and feathers, never-to be forgotten! I tried to call lights in the Grange windows, sparkling woman-leaving her father's house between manner. Still, as I said before, the routine of life living as so many others out, but could not to pray, but m? Ivho was lazily perched outside on like myriads of fireflies, through the times of betrothal and mar poor old room had been so famiar to have to do.as if it were in a dream tongaewas unable to foi the words. phe deep ledge of the window, having the Winter twilight. me in my childish days that I soon riage will be bitten by a snake. As th and devouring with eager haste all the I struggled to cry out with all my pegaled himself sufficiently on his daily again got the better of my terrors, wedding day draws near the girl is It was such a dear, cozy old house, shipping news, to see whether the Hecla streagth, and then, I suppose, I fainted. andto return to the commencement washed^an event so rare as to call leal of bread-crumbs, to the interior partly built in the latter years of was mentioned- My patience was of my storyI had become so for special note in a pond, where a Charles the Second's reign, but added at length rewarded, and then when Watson,, my aunt's maid was beside the room, the fire blazing in the completely indifferent to aE the horror to, spoiled and improved by succeeding the long expected letter from Charlie 'cert&m saint's day is celebrated foi me when I recovered, bathing my ride, old-fashioned grate, before which of nurse's legend that, as I have generations of the Austen family. made its appearance, I felt as if the being, the epoch of the sole annua! forehead with eau de cologne, and trying \he old house-dog stretched himself, already said, I was the first to propose It was built of grey stone, and was world was nothing to me, and my ablution of most of the inhabitants, to revive me by every meansdn myself as an occupant of the md occaslonallyftsumnioned up suffi3ient long and low, with mullioned windows heart went up in gratitude to God for hes power. "Miss Nelllie, daar," and a dass or bower of green branches ghost's domains, when Christmas time and solid looking chimneys. having preserved him. energy to rub his nose with his she said, as soon as I was able over a frame of stakes is erected. Ir Drought us all once more together at My uncle always kept both house I paid a visit to the Grange again tot understand her, "why did not thifa a great feast is given on the day forepaw while my aunt's bright face Everton Grange. I felt no fear, no and grounds in perfect order, which during the Summer after Charlie's departure, you tell me you were ill" before? I before the marriage. All the hungry teamed on all as she poured out the dread of evil. My happiness, I suppose, prevented that dreary "moated and again occupied the Red heard you walking across the room idlers round about strive by hook ot helped to throw a glamor over cea, and at times joined in our lively grange" look so many old places acquire Room. It was called my room now, about half an hour ago but as I by crook to get in, and, squatting everything in fact I was very young if they are at all left out of repair. latter. and even the servants had got to look thought you were only sitting up later dawn on the ground, they gorge them" and very much in love. Wehad many One wing alone could be said to upon it with far less awethan formerly.. than usual, I did not come to-you until selves with the quh ering raw meat o happy parties during those few short We were, I remember, busily discussthe look at all ghostly, and this wing contained I had, in fact, broken the spell. I heard you scream." the cow that has nist been killed and weeksweeks so full of perfect bliss arrival of certain guests who the so-called "haunted" or red When I left I promised to repeat my Then I knew it was no fancy of mine. with other Abyssinian delicacies. The and the Red Room at night looked ere expected in the course of the folowing room. It was in fact the oldest part visit at Christmas. But ah! how different Watson had also heard the footsteps. distinguished guests bless the bnde, cheerful and unghostly enough, with a fortnight to visit the Grange, of the building, and its faded, timestained that Christmas gathering would A film seemed to close over my eyes putting their hands upon her head and bright fire and candles lightning up its nd the conversation turned on a walls had witnessed the appear to the last! and again I fainted. getting them well greased for the pains. old red-painted walls and faded hangings, ct which then appeared trivial births and deaths of many generations News had arrived in the Spring that Shall I ever forget that dismal morning, Meanwhile a similar feast is given while a group of merry girlsmyself h. Who was to occupy the "Red of the Austen family. It was the Hecla was not to return to England or, indeed, the week&that followed in the groom's abode, and next morn the merriest of the partychattered used as my play-room when as a child until the following year, in November weeks-of silent misery and the bitter ing he starts out with his friends and and laughed in orthodox girlish Put me there, Aunt Eleanor," I I came to spend part of my holidays or December nearly eighteen anguish of suspense? Reason with fashion, as we discussed the pleasure from six to twelve arkees, or bridesmen. said "no one has a better right to my at the Grange, and my toys, I remember, months before I could see my darling. myself as I would, I felt convinced of the preceding days, and formed They rig themselves up in all old play room than I have myself and were always kept in a certain "Will the time never go by?" I used something had happened*some terrible plans and made arrangements for other the plumage they can possibly borrow, [you know I was never afraid of bogies deep closet near the old-fashioned fireplace. to cry in my impatience as if my longing misfortune was impending. My pleasures in the future. or ghosts, witches or warlocks so it and, on approaching the bride's bjruse, And oh! with what glee I used and wearying could make the hand dear father, my uncle- and Aunt Austen is not likely I shall begin now." fire off their guns and have a sort oi to rush up the stairs to my favorite of time's great clock move faster. My all tried to persuade me it was only We used to have such dances, too, sham fight with a view, perharefi, to room, and still more favoiite closet, only comfort was in my dear one's letters, My uncle looked up from his paper a dream.' I knew better, and I re and the rafters of the old Grange and commence overhauling my treasures, allay the groom's nervousness. When which were always with me, and and gave me an approving smile as I fused to be comforted. would ring with the tread of many especially examining my dolls, the happy man has taken the seat oi which I literally knew by heart. said these words. I knew he held in feet and the laughter of many voices. Earnestly I prayed to have strength to see that they were in good health, honor the bridal bower his ismde is great contempt all foolish fears refEleanor,the Then, better than all, were the quiet Summer waned into Autumn, Autumn and grace given me to bear whatever and had been well cared for during brought in, wrapped up in a cloth al arding world of spirits but Aunt talks Charlie and I often had together to Winter then to Spring and trial was in store for me. And those my absence. most like a mummy and placed upon I thought, seemed rather especially during the precious hour, Snmmer again and the joyful news prayers did strengthen my heart, for a stool. Then the groom is asked il grave, and she hesitated for a moment the hour before the dinner-bell rang, came at last. when the news came at length, and I made little histories and romances before she answered. he wishes to marry the woman before when we generally contrived to meet Charlie's ship might be expected they told me the Hecla had gone down, lor myself out of my dolls and other "Well, Nellie dear, like you, I am no in my aunt's little sitting-room. There, him they crook their fingers together, about the end of December so early and all her crew had perished in sight toys in fact, I loved them with the eliever inor, at any rate, I have no free from fear of all intruders, we under the cloth, or, perhaps kibs one in the month I went to spend a fortnight of land, on the very night of my supposed love of an imaginative child who, dread of ghosts and when I first came would'build such dazzling "castles in another,and, after any priest or eldei at the Grange, intending to return dream, the bitterness of death from being brought up with no brothers here I often slept in that room without the air," and arrange such plans for the present has givensomesageadvice, the to town a week before the Hecla for me had passed, and I never shed a or sisters, and few companions of her being frightened or having my rest uture,for those happy days in store for was due. I had been there about a marriage settlement of^vhat each is tc tear. own age,had made a little world for herself disturbed by supernatural visitors. us which we had promised to share week, and was counting the days in a bring is finally settled upon, the last amongher wooden playmates. My My heart was withered within me. People in former times have complained, together. state of feverish happiness as they but not the least important part ol baby cousins I felt were far less clever I only prayed God to let me die, to let and the servants, as you passed slowly but surely by, and the the ceremony. Such are the civil mar I can see him now. my own dear love, than my dolls, and a certain Miss me go to him whose last thoughts I know, are always talking about it, so period of my happiness grew nearer the one figure standing out so bright riaees, lightly entered into and as Elizabeth, a doll who occupied the knew had been of me, whose last I have never liked to offer the room and nearer. and clear among the misty shadesgetting hghtlv broken^ highest shelf in my cupboard, and who breath I knew had gasped my name. to any visitor. Indeed it is some dimmer now as the years go on It was my birthday, I remember, rejoiced in a broken nose and various But God in his mercy knew best. years since we have had the house so of those I knew and loved at that and in a day or two. after I was to other defects, I believe I considered far He let me live live, I hope to be less full as to require it." Bill Nye's Nephew William. happy time. leave for town. We had a merry party superior to the whole of the human selfish, less wrapped up in human love, "Well, now, auntie, the case is altered. I can seehimoh, so plainly!standing assembled to celebrate the event, and race. than I had been before. The immediate neighborhood of the I really wish to sleep there, and by my chair Aunt Eleanor's little many were the presents I received, Baptopilas mines, in Old Mexico, made And so now I am waiting for another From these familiar associations the we shall be such a large party. You room his handsome head,with it's and many were the good wishes showered celebrated by Shepherd's connection meeting, which, unlike the last, I room lost all its terror for me, and wi'Ai absolutely want my present short wavy curls, looking golden in upon me that evening as they all with them as manager, has just been know is sure to. come. Then, "out of though I constantly heard the servants apljjtment for some old dowager or the flashes of the firelight as he bends drank my health at supper in the old the depths" of this world's trouble my the scene of a very important and talking about the "ghost," and other so let me have my own way, toward me while I listen with a full dining-room. spirit will go to join him Hove so well, rich strike ot gold ore. It is in the though none of them with the exception and I will try at any rate to exist in heart to his glowing words, as he pictures where there is no parting, where "the "Ah, Nellie, dear," said Uncle Austen, San Francisco mine, the southern of the old nurse would venture the 'ghost's quarters.' our happiness in the years that weary are at rest." "we must make the most of you extremity of the state of Chihuahua, near it after sundown, I did not mind are to come. "Very well, dear," said my aunt now, for it is the last Christmas you eight miles southeast of Guasapares, going there at all hours and as my "it shall be as you wish "and she added, will spend as Miss Charteris, so" we He was so good, so brave and true the ancient mining camp, wheie the aunt and uncle very wisely took (or at His O wn Stitches. laughing, as she rose to leave the had better say good-by to you now far too good for me, I often thought wealthy Becerra Brothers, of that any rate pretended to take) no heed room, "For the present, at any rate, forever in that character." and then I would wonder what he saw Chief-Justice Mansfield said to a of tfhe superstition, I very soon began state, own the famed Santa Rita group you may consider yourself mistress in me to make him love me so much. to look upon the Red Room very much How often since then have I recalled of mines. Mr. William P. Nye is the friend, who, having been appointed of the ghost's domain." "It is but a plain face," I used to in the same light as I did any other those wordswords said in jest, but name of the newly made capitalist, Governor of a West India island, complained '*Nellie, how can you be so foolish?" say to myself at times when I looked li^rt of the house. which were to become so fraught with and he is a nephew of the great humorist that he would have to sit as said my con'sin Edith, as soon as the in the glass but, then, Charlie did not terrible meaning! of the same name. Tw years ago I made nurse Alison tell me its history a judge^ "Decide according to your door had closed on her mother and think me plain, so what did I care? Nye passed through El Paso on a At any rate, they were true one night about a year previous the children, and Sir John having common-sense, but don't give your And so the days wore on until the words the Nellie Charteris of that prospecting tour through Mexico and to the commencement of this story, to attend to some magisterial business reasons for I have noticed your judgment time was at last fixed for the breaking night they indeed said good-by to forever. located himself near Guasapares, when I was paying my usual visit to in the neighboring town, we found up of our party, and for our return to is generaly right, but your reasons which is just southeast of Batopilas, the Grange. ourselves left to our own devices. town. the camp where "Boss" Shepherd has My aunt followed me up stairs, as are usualy wrong." Mr. Webster "Well, Miss Nellie," began the old "I never say much before mamma," been operating so successfully for some I know my heart sank within me was her custom, in order that we once, in conversation, went further woman, as I sat on a low stool at her continued Edith, "because she only years. Nye soon opened up a new when I said good-bye to' the friends might have one of our usual than Lord Mansfield. He insisted laughs and tells me not to be superstitious and relations with whom I had spent discovery, which he called the San tions before retiring tor the night. that a witness might give valuable testimony, but do give up the idea of going so many happy hours and when the Francisco mine, a favorite name in We talked longer that night than we to that horrid part of the house, and yet be unable to support yu last morning" actually came, and I that land where "Pan shos" abound. had ever done before. I had so much a rd share my room instead." it by a good reason. In support of looked with a loving fondness round In a very few months the lucky prospector to tell of my future plans and the about it. Sir John and My Lady 'My dear Edith," I replied, "my my dear old room, whose red walls found himself in possession of his assertion, he told this anecdote: hopes I expected so soon to be fulfilled. don't like it mentioned before them, mind is quite made up besides, I and queer corners had become so dear a bonanza, for with shallow depths he In a case of great importance, a tailor, as it makes them 'timorsem'-like have now a character for bravery to to me, and were so filled with happy succeeded in raisins: free gold oie? that "How comfortable it all looks," she whose evidence would decide the after dark. My grandmother she used uphold and to tell you the truth, the memories, I felt so completely and so would assay from $1,000 to $40,000 remarked, as at length she arose from verdict, affirmed that he had made often to tell the tale how Sir Robert Bpirit of adventure has so completely unaccountably miserable that I had to the ton. The miner thus found her chair. "You have certainly 'laid the coat, which had been produced in Austen brought home a young wife seized upon me that I actually feel to take myself seriously to task for himself in a dangerous predicament, theghost,'Nellie dear, and we ought to court, for the prisoner. The prisoner's from 'foreign parts.' She remembered quite a longing to take possession of what I then considered morbid feelings. for he was alont* .u a foreign country bemuchobhged to you." counsel tried to create a doubt seeing them when she was a child. my new abode." with a fortune in nis hand. He daily as to the identity of the coat, and Then we wished each other goodnight, He was a middle-aged man, she said, My cousin used every endeavor to persuade mistrusted that borne wretch might We were all sitting round the asked the tailor how he knew it was and she left the room. After the with lines across his brow, and me to giveupmypurpose,but in take his life to grasp his gold. He employed breakfast-table on 1 hat morning, the the same coat. door had closed upon my aunt, I still dark bushy eyebrows, which he had a rain. Ilistened,itistruetoallher arguents last we were to spend at the Grange, four Mexican miners, two of "Why, I know it by my stitches, of sat dreamily gazing into the fire. My way of knitting together while he was but being very young.high-spiritid,and for at any rate another twelvemonth, whom he had learned {to trust, and course." spirits appeared suddenly to sink, and speaking. She, poor lady, was a delicate-looking Ifear rather wilful,I was determined when Charlie entered. I, who knew so two more who were strangers and ated I felt strangely cold, as if I had just "Are your stitches longer than those little fairy-like thing to show myself no coward by well every expression of his face, saw strangely. With this help he managed heard some terrible of other tailors?" barely your age, my dear, when he news. I tried to leeping in the haunted room. by the deep, dark look of his blue to sift out some "ore" and grind rouse myself by walking up and down "Oh, no first brought her here. Everything [Beforei I proceed further with my eyes, and the nervous contraction of it on a Mexican "metate," which consists the room. I even laughed, and tried "Are they shorter?" went smooth enough at first but he ory suppose 1 ought to give my his lips, as he tried to smile and make of two lava stones. Thus, when to hum a tune to shake off, as I hoped, "No, not a bit shorter." was a moody, ill-tempered man, jealous eaders a glance at my dramatis peronae. some apology for being so late, that the ore was pulveii/ed, by washing it my unaccountable nervous feelings "Anything peculiar about them?" of everything she set her eyes on. something had happened. he procured his gold dust and concealed but it was no good. My laugh sounded "I don believe there is." Her mother forced the poor soul to First, as to myself, Eleanor, or as I it daily under his rustic bunk, However, he took his accustomed forced and unnatural, and the song I "How dare you, then, swear that marry Sir Robert, I've been told, and as usually called, "Nellie," CharterI {aughednext )lace to me and talked and which was made of poles and "Colorado suddenly recognized as one Charlie was they are yours?" she had already given her heart away can hardly imagine now that I apparently in his usual feathers." always whistling the last time we were The witness was silent for a moment, to some Italian nobleman. Anyhow, the same Nellie Charteristhe manner until breakfast was over together, and somehow that made me and then, throwing up his hands, he Sir Robert led her an awful lite, and Last August, while Nye was sleeping ght-hearted merry girl of more than then he drew me into Aunt Eleanor's even more dismal. Then I took out exclaimed, after her boy was born she just pined in his cabin, near bis faithful peon, forty years ago. sitting-room, our dear old trystingplace, his letters which never before failed to "Mercy on us' As if I did't know away like a shadow. Then one night Manuel, a Mexican, who had worked It seems rather as if I was writing throwing his arms around me, give me comfort. my own stitches!" (they had some words together, i for him since he first found ore with he history of a dear friend, of one and straining me with passionate The jury believed him, and his testimony I believe, not long before) she "I shall soon see him he will behere which to pay him, he heaid a noise, ong since dead. And, indeed, force to his heart, he said, in a voice convicted the prisoner. tried to escape through the little in less than a fortnight," I kept on uch is the case the Nellie Charteris of and quick as a flash he grasped his so husky I hardly recognized it: Mr. Webster insisted the jury was glass door which led into the repeating to myself. But somehow navy six-shooler. which was beside hose days is deadhas been dead "Nellie, my own darling, you must right, and said, "The fact is, we continually garden. Some said the young Italian the sense of the words did not seem him. Hardly had he secured it when any, many yejh's and it is but a be brave the Hecla has orders to sail build our judgment upon details lord was to meet her, and they had to enter my brain. he discovered bending over him a hadow of that bright face, but the immediately." too fine for distinct cognizance. planned to go away together. Anyhow, human form with raised arm, in the aded resemblance of those laughing Then I arose and went to the window. I could not speak my heart was too And these nice shades are trustworthy, Sir Robertwhom every one I drew aside the heavy crimson hand of which was a glistening knife. azel eyes I now see when I look in the full so I only put my head on his though we can give no good account thought was away from homeit curtains and looked out. He fired twice in quick succession and la8S and wonder tomyself. "Did the shoulder, and sobbed, while he kissed of them." seems, had his suspicions, for he followed killed the would-be assassin. Manuel, ivents I am now about to relate ever The moon was just at the full, and me and soothed me as a mother does and stopped her just as she was too, rushed out and fired at the two eally happen to me and can it be the ground sparkled with snow, while her child. going down the pathway by the waterfall A King's Kiss Worth 20. other robbers killing one of them, but ossible for one person to live as it the trees stretched their gaunt, snowladen "It will only be a short voyage, that leads to the park. The servants allowing the third to escape. The next ere a double life." branches toward the sky, like daning," he murmured, "and then I Sometimes Edward IV. applied, personally, heard the sound of a struggle, morning Nye went to town, eight miles frozen skeletons in some wild German My mother died when I was but a shall be with you again, and we shall to the rich for aid sometimes and a dull, heavy noise like a blow legend. distant, and save himself up to the ild, leaving no other children, and nevermore be separated, for you will and when they came running to see by letters, and sometimes by means authorities, who, taking him prisoner, om the time I left school I kept house AH the earth looked so calm and be my very own, my dear little wife." what had happened they found My of Commissioners, in the manner used and, with a jury and an escort, my father, who was a barrister. still, bathed in the soft veil of moonlight, I tried to cheer up and be brave, but Lady lying on the bed in the Red Room in former times for the tallages on the proceeded to the scene of the slaughter. hen he went on circuit, or was obgedfor and yet my heart was throbbing it was no use the idea of losing him looking so white and death-like, and tenants of demesne. The first method any other reason to leave Nye says every Mexican looked against my breast, and I alone felt even for a year or six monthsto her husband kneeling beside her chafing is amusingly illustrated in the case ol angrily at him along the route, ome, I used to go and stay with my out of harmony with nature, and know he was far away where I could her hands. He only said their the benevolent widow of the well and he expected every minute to be jaunt and her husband at their house without peace. not go to himseemed to me more mistress had had a fall and they saw known story. Edward, one of the shot because he killed a native. On Berkshire. I waited, heedless of the cold, until i than I could bear, and in spite of my by his face they dared to ask no more handsomest men of the age until worn arriving at his cabin the crowd recognized My dear Aunt 'Eleanor had been a I heard the bell of the little village earnest endeavor the tears would, questions. out by debauchery, was, moreover, a other to me in all but name ever in the dead man. who lay on the church strike the quarter to 12, the come, and even his voice seemed to She never spoke a word of sense particluar favorite with the ladies iince I could remember. She was my floor still clutching the knife with chimes vibrating in the calm, still air. have lost the power to rouse me from again, poor dear, but was quite mad I" and this rich widow, when he asked ther's youngest sister, and remained which ne had intended to killa desperado Then those happy Christmas words: the feeling of despair which made my till the day of her death, which happened her for a benevolence, gave him 20 in, our house after my mother's death whom the law soughtand, "Glory be to God on high and on heart turn cold within me. Charlie a year or two later. In that down at once, saying: By my troth, il Sir John Austen took her away not waiting to see the other corpse, earth peace, good will to men," came himself was completely overcome at room she was kept, and up and down niake another home as bright and for thy lovely countenance thou shalt each and every one, Judge, ltnesses, into my heart with the chime of the last, and then, womanlike, I became she used to walk, whispering to herself appy as she had made ours. have even 20." The King, who had jurors and escort, becan to embrace bells, and I turned from the window, the consoler and when our sometimes in English, but oftener "looked for scarce half that sum, the prisoner in Mexican fashion and It was a week after Christmas Day and kneeling beside my bed prayed carriage came to the door, and in Italian, and looking over her shoulder thanked her, andlovinglie kissed her," congratulate him upon his heroic act. 'when I received a summons from her earnestlymore earnestly even than I felt inactivity to be no longer endurable, from time to time in a sudden, gaining her heart and purse, for sh The other dead man was of the same tto join a party of cousins who were usualfor the safety of the one I loved we were both more resigned scared way, as if some one was following ilk. Since that time Nye has had no all going to the Grange for some Christmas doubled the benevolence, paying another best on earth, and more hopeful as regarded the ^V| her and then she would walk a festivities. trouble, but has arranged a good sale 20, either "because she esteem Hay awake some time, "watching future than either of us had thought great deal quicker, until at last her of his property to a Chicago and ed the kiss of a King so precious a I was going to .my second home. The the firelight flickering on the walls, possible when the sad news first struck I strength gave way, and she would Cleveland syndicate, to whom he has jewele," or "because the flavor of his weather was real Christmas weather. and lingering more especially, it appeared our hearts like the dismal toll of some sleep From sheer exhaustion. There she shipped, via Guaymas, 300 pounds ot breath did so comfort her stomach." Thpre were dances and other amusements to me, on my dear mother's funeral be\V remained, and there she ended her sad ore torthe purpose_of a test. Dowell's Histoty of Taxation, without end in prospect, and picture, which hung opposite my bed. I was glad we had to travel on that life. Then Sir Robert left England tftf