IS; LIGHT. Lord, send ns Thy light, Not only ta the darkest night. But in the shadowy, dim twilight. Wherein my strained and aching sight Can scarce distinguish wrong from right-* - Then send Thy light. Teach me to rrav. Not on y in the morning gray, Or when the moonbeam's silver ray Falls on me—but at high noon to-day When pleasure beckons mo away, Teach mo to pray. - London Spectator. SCARLET FORTUNE. , 1IY H. HERMAN. CHAPTER V—Continued. They loitered along until tlioy reached Clarldge’s hotel. Thoro Lord Clevo took leave of Mr. Quenthclm. There was, of course, the earl’s town house, in Berkeley Squaro, whore Horbert might have stopped, but the place had been shut up since the death of its provious owner, and the Hon. Miss Chauncoy, Herbert’s old est lister, who had looked upon her self as the head of the family, did not think the place fit to receive its present ownor, without somo tidying j and brushing up. Tho young man had, therefore, taken up his tempor ary quarters at Claridgo’s, glad by this means to escape tho host of in quisitivo callors, who kept the knocker and bell at Horkoley Squaro in continual movement. Lucy was sitting at the window of tho private sitting room, which Lord Clove hod engaged for her separate use, when Herbert entered. Her budding girlish beauty had expanded and blossomed into a womanly loveli ness which could not fail to be re marKable. Charming, truthful nature was writ all over that beautoous face ’—Cod’s fairest image as He had creatod it. The deep eyes wore elo quent with tenderness ano truth; tho downy dimpled cheekB, redolent with graceful delicacy. There was just a little ponsive sadness hovering over it all, but faintly perceptible at in tervals, when tho big eyes were not attracted by another gaze, and which seemed to come out in splt.o of Itself. The, lithe and round figure was draped in the‘simplest of gowns —homely, grayish woollen stuff, summer though It was, and tho young lady had the courage to despise the absurd edict of fashion, which in those days imposed, upon the fair sex the ordeal of wearing crinolines. uum viovu MttU lulu xur. 1 thelm, Lucy had lived with the young man whose life she had Baved on the prairios all these years, and the earl had spoken the absolute truth when he had said that they had lived together as brother and sister. Her father and oousin had ren dered her no further assistance than carrying the wounded man to a tem porary place of shelter, in a tumble down and disused trapper's hut, on the further side of an incline on the opposite side of the gulch, and on a spur of the mountains, totally dis tinct from that on which both Mao lane's and Ashland's cabins were situated. By these means, and by Lucy’s silence, thoy wore sure of obtaining, at least, sufficient breath ing time to secure a largo amount of gold, and to be able to tly East, before the avenging arm of the rough border law could reach them. Not very far from the broken down-trap per’s hut lived, in solitary retire ment, an old Sioux half-breed, named Makasapa, who, like everybody else in that country, would have died to help Lucy. The old man spoke barely any English at all, although his father had been a rough and ready Scotch trapper, who, somehow or other, years and years before, had spent a few hunting seasons among the Dakotahs, and had disappeared without the least further enquiry \ about the fate of his wife and child. But Lucy wa% fully conversant with most of the Indian dialects of the surrounding tribes, and had no diffi culty in obtaining the old, half breed’s skilled assistance in tho dress . ing of Herbert’s wounds, and also in securing bis secrecy on tho subjeot. Weeks passed thus, and the girl barely left her charge for a moment. When the wounds began to heal, and tho dickering life became stronger, when consciousness returned and tho danger of accusation grow more threatening, the Maolanes paid hur ried visits to tho hut, with ghastly pale faces, enquiiing about the pa tient’s condition, and with hard-set teeth vowing that they would finish their job if the wounded man’s otiuuuu (JUUiU IlUb CJU OO" taincd. They had struck a groat lode of gold in the meanwhile, and had stored away a big pile of the precious metal ready for sudden flight Again and again Lucy stood determinedly in front of the man, who already owed her his life; over and over again she dared and defied her savage rel atives. She went even so far as to order them out of the hut at the pistol's mouth. 'Little by little, the Maclanes came to accept the danger of the situation, and to prepare for all eventualities. They had buried Dick Ashland in an out-of-the-way spot, where no body would have thought to look for him. They removed all traces of bloodshed from the gulch bottom, and burned their own gore-stained i clothes Thu3 they entertained the _ hope, by desperate impudence, to be able to brazen the matter out. until they could retire and disappear in tho great thriving East Great was their amazement, and equally great their relief, when Her bert, on recovering, recognized neither of them, nor Lucy; when he seemed to wake, as from a dream, in .which all the reminiscence of tha bloody fray was swallowed up; when in fact, all memory of that terrible night and of all persons and places, seemed to be gone from the young man's mind. They looked at one an other in grim and half-frightened stare, as if the roliof which had burst upon them was too sure to bo real. But the hours and the days drow on, ana Iiorbort’s condition re mained tho same. In fact, at that time, loss of memory was absolute; acts of the morning were obliterated bjj the events of tho afternoon, and tho poor young follow could not carry his recollection from one day to the next. This surprising dispersal of thoir fears changed tho plans of the Maclanes, and they urgod Lucy to re turn to the parental cabin, and to ! share the immenso and newly-found wealth. But the girl was Arm. She' would not again live with her guilty fathorand cousin. She would rather die a hundred times, than touch a red speck of their blood-stained gold. She would leavo her rblatlvos to ex plain tho circumstances as best they might, but she would move far away from them and devote her life to the caro and recovery of the man whom they had so dastardly assailed and injured. She gathorod up her be longings, and those bequeathed to her by her dead mother, and having i pursundodMakasapa to join his for- j tunes to hers, tho two set out with their now fairly recovering patient, to the prairies north of tho South Platte, where Makasapa soon found them a homo with some friendly Sioux. • As Herbert becamo stronger, his membry ot actual occurrences im proved and he was able to remember events of the days and weeks as they swept by, but tho past, even as near as his residence and recovery in the mountains, was gone. To all his questions concerning himself, both Lucy and Makasapa gave evasive answers, and, as the enquiries fa tigued him, and seemed to distress the girl, ho did not continue them. As his health and strongth returned it brought back his impulsive, hot hearted disposition, and, as was only natural under the circumstances, ho fell head over ears in love with the beautiful girl who was so good to him. But Lucy knew how to tame her admiror into ta$it submission, and Herbertat last resigned himself into living with her as a brother would with a dearly beloved sister. She loved him with the purest de votion a woman’s heart is capable of, and just because her love was so pure, she, the daughter of an assas sin, resolutely refused inseparably to link her name with that of an honest man. She would be his loving friend, his tender sister, his dog if need be; but she would never have her hus band awa