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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1893)
tke siaux coot mmi I. i. mom. rreprtator HARRISON, KEBRA8KA NEBRASKA NEWS. Dozens of farmers in Holt county have been nearly bankrupted by the late prairie firea. 'f. J. Hill of Fillmore narrowly escaped death last week from being thrown from a bucking broncho. Fairbury is troubled with fire bugs and the. citizen have guns set for them in case they can be identified. The people of Hebron have closed the contract with the King Tress Drill company, for the establishing of a fac tory at Hebron. Battle Creek has a cow that gave birth to one calf on Wednesday morn ing and about four days thereafter gave birth to another. Frontier county is working hard fot an industrial home, to be located at Stockville. The land has been donated and part of the money raised. The expert who has just completed the examination of the records of Daw son county, will report more than one official who has "overdrawn his ac count. "Tuck" Thayer and bis wife ot Greeley who were divorced about four years ago met some time ago, went through a second courtship and were married again. The millinery establishment of Miss Olive Ballard at Liberty was totally destroyed by fire. The fire originated from the friction of scrubbing her car-' pet with gasoline. Charles Campbell of Palmyra was found dead in his harness shop last week. He was highly respected but addicted to drink to which cause his ileath is assigned. Greely Center citizens are gunning after fire-bugs. Two or three incen diary fires are about all they can stand und if the bugs are caught fire water won't save them. Sherman county has reached that state of civilization that attracts the travelling grocer sharp. The North western is trying to redeem the people from their clutches however. Jack Daulton and Willis Palmer were worKing on a swing pisuorm in Gothenburg, audwheu the rope broke the men tumbled a distance of fifteen feet. Palmer was badly injured. The Wisner Chronicle mentions a prize fight near that place in which one ot the principals left the ring with a broken arm and allowed the other fel low to walk off with 1130 gate receipts. Chadron bartely 'missed another shoot ing; scrap last week. A colored man . and Caucasian were the principals thia lime, but no damage aside from the ex plosion of a revolver resulted from the melee. . A broad-shouldered thief entered the town of Atkinson and carried off two breaking plows belonging to John Htewart, A stationary engine is no . safe when modern Samsons take to stealing. John Riley was convicted of burglary of a store at Dubois last January and sentenced by Judge Bush to confine ment in the penitentiary at hard labor for four years. Riley is 21 years old His parent a lire at Kansas City. Fred Nevotny, the Sheridan county school district treasurer who refused to settle his delinquency when his suc cessor was elected, has been found guilty of embezzefment and will pay a line of $340 and wear "streaked" breeches for a while. Indications are that the Nebraska Conference Epworth League conven tion which meets in York May 16 to 18, will be largely attended and of wonder ful power. Nearly every chapter in the conference will send its full quota of delegates. General Secretary ch II will be there. ' A man by the name of Smith in veigled the people of Davenport into the belief that he was lusting after Nebraska land. - - He made two or three first -class purchases, in his mind, board-' ed two weeks at a Grst-class hotel free of charge and theu departed the realm And the citizena do say that Smith waa demented. What doubt there remained in the minds o( the people in regard to ttu' fruit having '-nipped In the bud" war entirely dispelled the other morning when they saw . the leaves and blos soms of their trees wilting in the sun There was a splendid prospect tor w good crop until the recent cold snap. Swanton Record. A- colored gentleman named Bell, who clerked In a livery stable at Goth enburg, took on a cargo of fire water and painted the town. In the midst of his jamboire be shot at an inoffensive fellow citizen and then skipped lor parts unknown, telling his wife before going that be had murdered a man. The snot did no worse damage than to spoil a good bat A small boy of Sheldon, went gunn ing for geese, with the blunderbus full to the muzzle, and what in the devil became of the pieces, it just now some what of a puzzle. He took deadly aim! at the king of the flock, and rattle-te-bong went the gun. The hunter fouuu SMtntoff f it bat the stock, and some Mack Slid blue marts for Ms fun. '; Aaumber of (,'us ert, from all parti sf as eesmtry, art to found a colony in tiartoa County, Oitgea. Tuy have sec aees ever halt ef water. wSJUpSX to BTBlt tssse, v km Attempt t Umi OlMttaae. . Lonlon. April 29. -The Pall Mall Gazette contains a sensational articlr under big head lines, declaring that an attempt was made to shoot Gladstone at midnight as he was walking through St. James park on his way heme. Many inquiries have' been received from various parts of the country as tr the accuracy of the report Its truth fulness is credited. A man is now under arrest on the charge of firing a revolver in a public thoroughfare. When arrested he was found to have a pocketbook containing entries de tailing the recent movements of Glad stone. His object is unknown. Glad stone was going home frooj dinner when the revolver was fired, but saw nothing of the occurrence. When the shooter was arrainged in the police court the testimony elicited seemed to indicate that he tried to shoot a policeman. His notebook contained a mass of ravings againist Irish home rule and sugges tions that the murder of Gladstone would be justifiable. GREAT FEAR FOR IflS SAFETY. Notwiths'andlng the statements that Gladstone was in no danger of being shot and that no importance was at tached to the affair, there is a growing suspicion that Gladstone is nearer im minent danger than his friends are will sag to admit The man under arrest is named Willi am Townsend. He is thirty-eight years old and a resident of Sheffield. The officer who arrested him saw him mount the steps ot (i lad tone's residence shortly after Gladstone en tered. AVhen the policeman ordered him to descend he fired at him and desperately resisted arrest. Townsend says the discharge of the revolver was accidenal. The following is from his notebook: "The Irish home rule bill passed se cond reading by a full majority, in- oluding Saunders. Talking does not convert Now is the time for action. I might willfully murder you. Would nothing of the kind be justified? Now, to prove it, what says' Sir Henry James? See Gladstone's speech. What ;ays Saunders ? The magistrate instructed the jailor t. guard the prisoner with the utmost care. Heuvjr Failure Sioux City, la., April 29. Thurs day devblopmekts in the financial situa tion here included the failure of the Union Stock Yards company and of Ed. Haakinson. secretary of the com pany and a member of the syndicate that controlled the collapsed companies. Haakiuson's assignment was to E. B. Spalding and was made without pre ference. On Tuesday he made an as signment of certain special credits and some transfers of property. The gen eral assignment covers the balance of his property, which was large. His private affairs were in the best of con dition and he would have no trouble but for bis indorsement of larr amounts of paper for the syndicate, which was floated in the east through the Union Loan and Trust company. No schedules of assets and liabilities were filled with the assignment, as they will not be ready for a day or two. At 4:45 Thursday afternoon the most important failure of the series as affect ing local interests was announced when A. L. Stetson, a stockholder in the Union Stock Yards company, made and application before Judge Gaynor in the district court for the appoint ment of a receiver. The court ap pointed H. P. Chesley, manager of the yards, as receiver, fixing his bond at 120,000. The stock yards company had a considerable floating debt which was placed through the ; Union Loan and Trust company. When that company became em harassed some stock yards paper went to protest. An effort was made to raise money and save the stock yards company, but it failed. The ap plication for a receiver alleges that the oiticers have issued its negotiable paper in excess of the amount of indebtdness it was authorized to carry; aUo that, attachments were threatened and a re ceivership was necessary to protect the stockholders. -' Lou Two Mil Hub Franc. Paris April 29. The bleach works at Eplnal, in the department of the Mosges, have been destroyed by fire, the damage amounting to 2,000,000 francs. Lilt of Fit tilt let. Guthrie, O. T., April 29. The list of fatalities by the cyclones of Tuesday night grows larger each hour. In the devastated district near Norman thirty four bodies have been prepared for burial. Several raoie were found yesterday morning and half a score of people are still missing. : A hundred and fifty people were injured, six or eight of whom will die. Near Purcell eleven people all members of the Catholic congregation, are dead. At the town ot Case the storm swept away nearly every building and eight people were killed. At Langston two are dead, two dying and twelve Injured. East of there two families, numbering fire and sit members, respectively, 1 perished, and in the extreme eastern part of rayne county It is oeuevea that nearly a score were killed. 7 be full list of the dead will surely aggre gate one hundred, the injured live times mat numoer, ana. tne loss or property will foot up nearly 91,000,000 Tho LkiMbir RieriM. Ais, April 29. The danger of a protracted dispute between the senate and the chamber of deputies has been averted by the action of the committee of the chamber of deputies in agreeing to iterate the liquor tax proposals r., Jaebodget and in adopting the scat4 of the senate for the taxation ef 4 .lings oa tlie bonne. The eaats flthe conflict between the two chae. xs is thus removed end it Is ex pects! that harmony will be etrtrreiy lavwWaWWWQe TarrlkU UaatrMtloa. Oklahoma Citt, O. T, April 28. Two distinct cyclones, a terrible hall sterai and a waterspout combined o' wreck awful destruction in the newly built towns in Oklahoma It is reported that sixty-two human lives were sacrificed. It is positive that forty were killed, while several were fatally and scores seriously injured. Orders for thirty-one coffins have been received neie at Norman and supplies were telegraphed for from other points. NORMAN SUFFERS. The brunt of the storm laid upon th.- prosperous little town of Norman on the Santa Fe railroad, twenty mi.es south. nt that point thirty-one people were killed, dozens injured and the town almost completelv destroyed. The people are frenzied and cannot give any estimate of the loss, and know no' hing except to care for the dead and injured. Further on the villages of Downs iml Keokuk Falls were nearly devastated and scores of people in jured fatally and otherwise. 'J he first signs of impending danger were seen late in the afternoon in a pall black cloud overshadowing the northwest for miles around. At J-30 o'clock the roonstor swooped down on the town of Moore. Houses with precious lives were caught up and carried before the angry torrent great trees were twisted up and barns, fences snd everything in its path were laid low. Passing along for eight miles, it struck the town of Norman, where the lamage was repeated, and then went n to Downs and Keokuk Falls and through Pottawattamie county, where thousands of dollars' worth of property was demolished. TEN LIVES CRUSHED OUT. The house of Johu O'Connor, near Moore, was destroyed and John UConnor and his wife and three .hildren, and live neighbors who (ought shelter in the building,,, were ;rushed to death. The name nouse oi inim Hank was torn to nieces and he was killed, while others of the family were badly injured three ot me ihildren and Mrs. Hanks fatally. The home of Henry iyer was ue Tiolished and five people badly injured. East of the stricken town iwo men tnd two women were killed. Around Norman, after iho cyclone, a fearful Hailstorm started in, ana aiwr iv violent rainstorm. Would-be rescuers :ould hear the pitiful cries of unfortu nates and here and there located im prisoned victims, but help in most iases was out of the question, and leveral of the unfonuiiaies were coin gelled to lay buried beneath the debris f their homes. Men and women and liiirirpn hv the score spent the dismal flight in thel rain in an endeaver to Ind loved ones. WORK OF RESCUE. A unnn as it was light enough men f t quickly to work and commenced lie rescue. Poor victims wnu uu been imprisoned an nigm- weic tarelnlly carried to improvised hospitals. Hut lew saved; more than wrhr they had on their nacus. neip iCThtmrintr towns soon arrived tnd before nightfall something like comfort was provided. Everything, however, is in confusion, and it will be Impossible to eaiu a correct list oi i ne lasualities. Lb.-n.Ken Del. g . Hhcii Washington. Washington April a nw i'i,.i... .i.Laiimi selected to com- Uliciuiim u, jriete the negotiations for the Cherokee Strip nave arnvea. I'yclune Horror. MnniiF O. T. ADril 28. -Further re ports of the cyclone near here multiply '.lie horrors. The latest, estimate is liwt thirty-six people were killed ana mntv.nva injured. One hundred and twenty-five persons are left in destitute ircumstausea ana uuriy-six nuum were awept away. HAD AMPLE WARM NO. ThA most damage was done in the vicinity of Norman, in the western and' rentral portions of the country, it was ihont 5:20 n. m. that the people of Purcell, a town in the Chickasaw na tion, fifteen, miles southwest or nere, noticed a dark cloud overhanging the liieii iesan to send down i loots like a car o , root. Several per I ins observed the lormationof these clouds through a field glass, l'oints rniectinir from the jjlouda, slowly as-. sumeda cylindrical from, then a con ical, which very much resemwea grew, funnels, out of the ends of which de struction poured. Their course was from aouthwea. to norineasi, aim i first they moved alowly, but seemed to gain force and rapidity as the points touched the earth. Passing northward and slightly to the east it crossed the South Canadian -river about midway between Purcell and Norman. Here it atruck the thickly settled portion of this country and only missed this town by about "one mile. By this cyclone four persons were killed and several injured. Seven dwelling houses and two school houses were de stroyed, besides machinery and stock and numeroua outbuildinga, fenoea and barns. . Iowa G. A. B. OBhii. Kbokuk. la., April .-The second day of the Iowa department encamp ment ot the grand army of ths republic Was devoted wholly to business.' Pail ScbaUerSacCity was sleeted department mmamiarf Thomas Bell of Fairfield, senior vlce-eouimaisder.L. & &Trouss, West Mitchell, junior vlee-eommaadsr, and Rev. O. K. Hoover, Davenport, etaptala. The next eaeempment will be held at Council Bluffs. Ifi Iras Jk0 LADY MAJENDIE CH AFTER V. Continued. "Did wy son make any purchases at Ulontyre?" she asked. "Yes: be bought Heaver aim Kaven, the two retrievers." "How long did you stay there?" "Till the thirtieth of that month; when Ewan returned, he said there were (tucsts at D'lnmonaigh." Lady Grisel sat thinking. "How old is vour child?" she said, suddenly. "Five months old." "What is her name?" "Margaret UrUelda." 4 A momentary flash of emotion naed over Lady Grisel's face as she heard wt 1 own name. "This Is vain talk after all," she said. "Give me the papers." j Assunta held out the roll, labeled, and bound with its' green ribbon. She felt very faint, as though the room whirled round and round. "No hand but yours should open it," she said. "Ewan trusted you, l.adv Gr'sel, as be never could ti ust another. '' Then she sat back watching the papers that held her fate, with clasped hands and blanched lips. Angus rose sudduntlv and put his hand 011 the packet; he bent down, and ex amined it closely. "That Is without doubt mv brother's seal," he said. "That Is quite right;" and he slipped the ring from bis linger and placed it. over the impression of the seal. Lady Grisel was about to open it, when once more he stopped her. "Would it not be wiser and more just to this ladv." he said, "(bat there should te independent witnesses to this trans action?" Assunta bowed her head she could scarcely speak. I.adv Grisel seemed struck with what he said, and prayod Master Malcolm to ring tho bell, ft seemed as if the minutes wero hours that elapsed before the butler and house keeper and Lady Grisel s own woman stood together In a line, adding to the strangeness of the scene. Lady Grisel's voice did not falter as she explained shortly "It is said that tbo laird was married, and that this ladv is his wife. In proof of this she has put into my bands these papers to be examined before witnesses;" and she read the labels aloud, "So great was the silence, that all started when the seal cracked and gave way; and sluwlv Lady Grisel unwound the green ribbon. One by one the labels unloosed, fluttered to the ground; with a loud rustle the paper unrolled. One glance of her eye was enough they were blank paper. Still Lady Grisel turned them from side to side, and backward and forward. The Minister started up: a faint smile had come over the faces of the impartial spectators, and Angus gave a low, jarring laugh. Assunta bad sat still with her head turned aside, and saw not the strange looks they were casting at her; but at the sound of the laugh she turned and rose to her feet. Not yet did the cruel truth force itself on Her belief; she spoke not, but went down on her knees on the ground, and scanned every sheet of the paper up and down, inside and out all was white and bis nk. Then she sprang to her feet with gleaming eyes; pushing back the clustering hair, and leaning against the wall, she stood with panting breath, as stands a noble young stag at bay. At first no one spoke, but Master Mal colm stole gently to ber side, and, would she have allowed It, would have drawn her hand through his arm. Angus broke silence at last "You see, .mother," he said, "we were wise to invite witnesses to attest these most binding proofs. You can go now," he said to the butler and the women; but Lady Grfsel bade them stay, and she ad vanced a few steps toward Assunta, holding out her hand. "Let all hear what I say," she said; "had 1 not seen these with mv own eyes," and she pointed to the papers, "I could not have believed that son of mine could have been so base a villain." "It is not so!" cried Assunta. "It Is a He! some one has deceived me! You, his mother, who knew well what he was, toll me it Is not true! believe the evi dence of your own heart! Ewan never deceived me! there has been some treach ery hern! O God! how shall I prove mv husband's truth?" Her words came forth with panting breath,' ' and she pressed her hands on her heart, to control the violence ot its beating. . As Lady Grisel watched her, a burning flush of shams came over her face shame for her son; she held out her hand again, and hot tears rose to her eyes. "What can I do for you'"' she said. "Would to Heaven I had died ere I had seen this day!" Assunta seized ber hand tightly In both ber own, which were burning, and she looked into Lady Grisel's face with a wild, Imploring look. "You are kind to me now," she cried. "Why have you changed to me? why do you look at me like that?" and she flung Sway the hand she held, and raising ber arms, the cried "I awear-by the God above us! by my dead husband! by all we hold sacred in Heaven or earth, that I am Ewan Mac asossch's wife!" " One by one the servants had stolen away; Ancua had again sunk Into bis chair, and waa looking on very white, ateasg bla quivering lips with one hand. The Minister laid bis hand on Aaaunta's shoulder. 'Coma with me," he said. "I am coming." she answered: and kneeling down, she gathered together all the papers and wound tha rilbuns and labels round them. "These are all the justice that is for me," she said, and turned to the door. With swift steps Lady Grisel followed her caught her gown. "Korgivc," she said faintly. Assunta's wbolo face changed to an expression of deadly terror. "Forgive!" she cried; "you ak me to forgive! Then it must be true! and lie has been false to me! false as hell itself! and I am undone!" and she turned and fled from the house fled alone the road as if terror and anguish had lent ln-r wings. "Oh. follow her! follow her. Master Malcolm!" cried Lady Grisel. "All that I can I will do for her and her child: you will bo their friend?" As the Minister went out, Lady Grisel bent her head and wept more bitter tears than she had done pver the bury ing of her first-born son. When Master Malcolm reached home, he found Kerenhappuch wailing lor him at the door. "So he's deceived the puirlass, Master Malcolm!" she cried; "I couldna liae be lieved that siccan a bonny lad could hae so black and fause a heart. Mie's daft wi' the news, puir body." The Minister shook nis head hoitow full. "I take it, it was a' a pretense, Minister the marriage and a'?" "Ay, Iluppie, never was woman so cruelly deceived. What is she doing now'" "She sits by the fire and doesna move, and she neither greets nor manes; her wits are clear pane." "Poor soul-rpoor soul!" and the Min ister went up to pray. He held it best to pray first and strive to comfort bv-and-by. But in tbo night, when all were asleep, Assunta took her child in ber arms and arose; she put I read in her pocket, and wrapped a plaid round the child and lied. Down the highroad she walked, and au unnatural strength seemed to bear her up. For about ten yards the highroad hung over the loch. Assunta looked down into Its quiet waters, so still and deep and she clasped her child and thought of the rest, of the peace, under the cold water escape for both from this cruel world; but the child opened her eye? and As sunta moaned and went on her way. Some miles further on tho road she would wait for the coach which would bear her thence, never to come back never, never more. CHAITKK VI. The snow bad fallen' thick and fast, and all the ground round the manse lay under a white unbroken sheet. The manse stood at the brow of a hill, bleak and very cold without, but It was so warmly thatched that It was comfort able enough within. The path which led up to the door bad not been swept, and the deep snow impeded Lady Grisel's steps as she mounted the hill. Iter face had grown older and more careworn dur ing the two months that had elapsed since Ewan's death, and her eyes would often look fixed and troubled. The Minister was sitting in his little room when Lady Grisel camo in. Ho placed a chair for her by the low peat lire and helped to remove her fur cloak. "I am still very unhappy, my old friend,'' she began. "Ah! the loss of such a son, Lady Grisel." She waved ber hand. "That was God's will, Master Malcolm," she said, "and must be borne; it is about Assunta that I have come to you," and 'Jic (ears started to her eyes. - She was silent for one moment, then raising herself, she said "I am anxious about that poor girl." "Have you heard from her, Lady Grisel?" "Alas, nol it is not likely that she would write to me, after what she said to yon in Edinburgh. You are sure of her address?" "Quite sure; when I traced hr there, she promised always to let me know where she was." "Is she still in Edinburgh?" . "No, she has gone to Londoi.." "To London! alone!" exclaimed Lady Grisel. "She would not listen to me," he an swered. "Her one only wish and hope was to hide herself away from all who had ever known or seen her." "Had she money. Master Malcolm?" "She had some, but she would not tell ms how much; It is useless to ask ber to accept It, Ladv Grisel she will not." Lady Grisel hesitated for a moment, then she put her hand lightly on the Minister's arm and said "I hardly llko to propose It, to you, but you are her only friend." "Would you have me f jllow her to Lon don?" said the Minister. "I would; we know how utterly frlend iess she is; if she will not accept tho money, there are a thousand wavs In which wo may help her still. You could find employment, fictitious employment from me if you will, to be doubly paid; but this can only be done when you are there, when you sco whether she bo driven to great straits or not" Master Malcolm put out his hand and shook Lady Grisel's without a word. When she rose to go. she said, softly "When will you start, Minister?" "To-morrow by daybreak, 1 will take the Strathiuan mall." CHAFTKK VII. There was a thick fog In London when Master Malcolm arrived, and it seemed to him that nothing could be more dreary. He put up at a little old fashioned hotel to which he had been di rected by a fellow-traveler a hotel smelling strongly of beer and bad to bacco. He ate a badly-cooked meal placed on a small slate table In the common room, and then asked the careless, whistling waiter bow far It was to Loam street. The man declared It to be at least half so hour's drive Id a cab; and when asked by Master Malcolm If a cab would bo verv expensive, lauguea ruaeiy 111 o- wering. and went out 10 tell His friends the eood joke. . Tho cab was p:ocumi, tbo Minister being anxious to begin his work at once, though he was very weary from having tmv.-ltd all through the night The cab rattled on, over the stones. It seemed a long and weary timo before it slupix'd and the man opened the door. Master Malcolm's heart I eat as be rang the bell. He had to vfait some tlme;be fre it was answered by a very shabby--looking woman, who looked sharply at him as if to iuiiirc his business. When asked whether Mrs. Carrol was V there 1 for that was the name ioor As sunta had assumed) the landlady In formed him that she was gone-had not, in fact, staved there more than a fort night. Th" woman invited Master Mal colm in. and sitting down opposite to him said she would answer anything he ohoie to ask, for she bad taken a fancy to tho poor young lady, and would be only too glad to hear of her welfare. Sho had been very 111 there tbo landlady said delirious in her mind at first, and then so weak that she could not set foot to the ground; and before she was well enough to do so. she had insisted upon goimr, for she had to pay the doctor's bill and her lodging, and she could no longer afford such lodgings, "which tbey are verv good, though 1 says it that shouldn't," said the woman. "She kissed me. she did," sho con tinued, rubbing her e,yes with tho corner of her pocket-hand Kerchief, "and thanked me for all tho trouble I had lii-en at with the baby on my hands. Sho was a dear young lady." "Hut can vou tell 1110 where she Is gone?'' said the poor Minister, "Yes, 1 think 1 could: but I must think. It wa liill a took her box in a barrow, and whether it was 8or whether it wasti, 1 am not sure; but a repcetablo street it was, and the lodging was kopt by the cousin of Mrs. Smith (that's our bakerl, a;id sho married into the np holstming line, and took a nice house, and lets it cheaper than I can do, being a widow; and sin went there, I am sure, because I know that Hill took her box; whether it is 8 or 0 1 can't say." "And the street?" "Deal street; it is a poor neighbor hood, but respectable." "Had she any means of making her own Iielihood?"--aslicd tho Minister, anxiously. Sho taught Miss Smith, leastways she was to have taught her, French and Italian, for live shillings a-week; but what with her going away, and what with her illness, that Leginlng were not gone on with, thai I know ot." Master Malcolm thanked ttie woman for her kindness, and went, out again In'o tho wet street, for the fog bad now changed into a thick, drizzling rain. "To Deal street." he said; and the cab man mounted, with much grumbling. Into his seat, and tucked bis horse-cloth tighter round his knees. They tried No: 8 Inst, then No. 9; Mrs. Carrol was not known at. either house. The cabman advised trying 18 or 19, both fruitlessly; at last, in despair, they tried 2S, and this time wero so far sue- cesscssfnl that they found that Mrs. Carrol had been there. The Minister shivered as he saw tho dirty, poverty-stricken 1 mk of the place. The landlady, an aggressive-looking wo man, with her black iiair twisted Into curl-papers, parlor, a small room, with a huge-patterned drab paper and two vases muslin. She began talking at once, "If you're the friends, sir, you ought to look after her bettor that s all lean say. Here sho comes, that weak and ill, as I thought sho would have died on my hands; but when I asked my rent, she up and paid me a week l.i advance, which, as she had no reference, is customary, and " But the Miniser cut short her endless flow of talk, asking "Can you tell me ber present address?" "Indeed and I cannot;whlch Undoubt ful whether any one hereabouts can, for no one notices where them goes as have paid up every penny t hey owes, for a real lady sho was." 'Why did she leave you?'1 asked tho minister, bis heart sinking very low. "Well," began tho woman, twisting up her apron, "she was a deal of troutle, and the baby was a handful, just begun with Its teething." "You sent her away?" "Xo not that exa. tly: but I put on sixpence for the child, and Its fresh milk came to tenpence." "So it was want of money drove her away," said the Minister. Ho could hardly speak for sorrow and indignation ho shook the dust off his feet as he crossed tho threshold of the woman's house. Where should he go next? how should he pursue his Inquiries? He had no re sources but to confide to the cabman that ho was In search of a lady who could not be found. They went to all tho petty tradesmen near, consulted cabmen who might have remembered carrying a lady, and her , child and box, soinnwhero; but all In vain. Assunta was lost !u this huge Lon don wildernesss. At last, weary and disheartened. Mas ter Malcolm returned to his hotel. The lommon room was now full of men, talk ing and smoking, and be made hia way up to his own room. He, sat thinking gloomily, when an Idea suddenly flashed across him. As sunta had promised always to send him her address; that sho had delayed writ ing from Heal street might be accounted for by the fact that sho remained there so short a time; but in all probability a letter was walling for him now at his own manse, in tho very north of Scot land, tolling him where sho was, perhaps that she had already arrived at utmost need." Master Malcolm sat down and wrote at oneo to Kerenhappuch deflrlng her to forward his letters, should thoro bo any; and bitter were his regrets when ho considered that at least six days must clapso before lie could hope for an an swer. He thought that no time during the wuolo course of his life bad seemed so long as the next week, for it was seven days before the answer came; he-had no occupation but wandering about the streets, or reading the papers. The letter arrived at last Master" Malcolm was right in his conjecture. Who had written to him, and as he read her letter, his hoartdlod within him. "Mv only friend." she wrote, "sorrow has broken my pride; I am changed now. send me money, for 1 know not where to turn! Toll Lady Grisel that I accept her offer-It Is for Kwan's child. I am very HI, so III that I can scarcely sec to write, but they are very kind to me and to baby Send he-" the letter broke oft abruptly, and the direction was wrttten In a stranee hand. I TO BK COimxUED,