l anrjcowa, fniium
HAUISON,
NEBRASKA
Om tae !itrMMt Caseeaa Beeerd
Indinapolis, Ind. Auf. 35 Bridget
Csrgast, an inmate of the centriil
Ul for the insane, who ha been
jaetaep for nearly three ye an, has awak
ened and la dying. Her case ia one of
the moat remarkable in the history of
the practice in thia country, and has
bean the subject of investigation and
examination by physicians. She was
admitted to the central hospital in Sep
tember, 1890. In February, 1891, she
fell into a cataleptic slumber that has
lasted uninterruptedly until last Thurs
day. When admitted she was twenty
six rears old. She was first treated at
8t. Vincent's hospital, where she was
listless and would scarcely talk with
any one. After her remoral to the in
sane hospital she took food for a short
time. After she went into the stupor
she had to be fed by a nasal tube and
by thia means since then. Dr. Frank
Bay has given her from sixty to ninety
ounces of milk daily. A few days
ago signet or. dissolution appeared in
rapid emaciation, and when the patient
awakened last Thursday she was
literally reduced to skin and bones.
Since that time she has grown weaker
and weaker, and her physician stated
Wednesday night that abe was not
likely to lire until morning. The case
will go into the medical books as one
of the strangest on record.
A eeaM'VKila ValcVf o.
Chicago, Aug. 25. A sensation was
caused by the sudden wholesale indict
ments of gamblers at the instance of
f State's Attorney Kern. Eighty -seven
indictments were found.
Among those indicted are a number
bouse keepers in the city. T he sudden
ectlTity at the state's attorney's office
Is said to hare been caused by the
large number of complaints preferred
by strangers, who came to visit the
fair, that they have been robbed in
gambling houses.
In an interview in a local paper
Mayor Carter Harrison, while express
ing the hope that the action of the
grand jury may result in something
further, aays he is decidedly skeptical
as to the practicability of any scheme
lot suppressing gamming in great
cities.
Killed HlnueUla JalL
Stbqtofikld, Mo., Aug, 25. F. O.
Lane, the son of a money broker of
Longvlew, Tex., arrived here about
ten days ago, with his wife. About
two months ago his father was robbed
of ftCVOOO in cash and his three sons
were suspected, one being subsequent
ly arrested at Little Bock. F. O. Lane
here and suspicion was aroused. The
Texas officers were notified and as a
result he was arrested last night and
locked up. He was allowed to retain
what he said was abottle of medicine.
'This morning he was found dead in
his cell from morphine , which the bot
tle had contained. Lane was prosecu
ting attorney for Gregg county, Texas.
FrtneaBlmrck eealooe.
London, Aug. 25. Prince Bismark
has made another speech, this time at
Klsslngton, to a party of admirers who
Went there to see him. He made some
jvery caustic comments on the policy of
.the government and said he observed
jat the recent conference of the finance
ministers of the several states at Frank
fort the president's chair was occupied
by the secretary of the imperial treas
ury who is a subordinate bureaucrat.
Thls, he declared, was unconstitutional
The emperor and chancellor are only
exective officers of the bundesrath and
reichstag, and neither of them has a
right to attempt more than to publish
the laws enacted by those bodies. The
constitution bad cost hard work and
lives enough and it made him anxious
to see it meddled with.
The Times published a dispatch from
Berlin, severely commenting upon
what it terms Bismarck's attempts to
excite the individual diets against the
new regime, and attributing Bismarck's
outbursts to the bitter jealousy he feels
In finding that Germany does so well
without him.
The Make of Kdrabare a Belt-Bins' Oer
n Prince.
Berlin, Aug. 25. Duke Ernest of
Sexecobnrg, and Gotha died last night
In his castle at Reinbardsbrunno. The
lake was childless and the throne now
falls to the Duke of Edinburg, second
ion of Victors and her late consort
Prince Albert, who waa a brother of
Duke Earnest. The Duke of Edin
burg thus becoming a reigning Ger
aum prince.
The Duke of Edinburg, who has
teen for some time In Germany, pro
sseded to Cobnrg today and took the
oath of allegiance to the constitution,
to pi suae of Emperor Williams and
B the ministers. .
It ia understood that the of Duke Edln
JMfg wfll abdicate In favor of Prince
AMI? pw vi w amma prince, on nis
ItcrStrjt Um ago of twtsty-one.
ATaraoart an saplsfcs tkoaoole seedi
r
f
n;rJt:2ir presses and sell them
"1 C sBMofaeture of Prustk
Lrl too om fcwsbe! oi
Jrl ? tzM of
The Strip 1 Im Opeaeoi.
Washington-. Aug. 24. The pres
ident has issued a proclamation open
ing the Cherokee Strip at the h of 12
noon central randard time, on oatur
day, September 16.
iiow that the president's proclama
tion opening the Outlet has been issued
(he work of construction land office
buildings and making other prepara
tions will be pushed with vigor. Con
tracts tor tour building?, one eacn at
Enid, Woodward, Perry and Alva,
have already been let. Army tents
will be used for the nine booths. Wells
have also been ordered sunk at tach of
these places and other accommodations
for the public arranged for. Secretary
Smith has now under consideration a
number of applications of parties for
permission to enter the Outlet before
the day set for the opening in order to
establish stories of various kinds.
. The question of townsite reservations
was uot finally disposed of until shortly
before the proclamation was sent to
the president. It was learned a scheme
was on foot to take advantage of the
law authorizing allotments in severalty
to the Indians to settle them upon
lands adjoining townsifes. To prevent
the consummation of this scheme Sec
retary Smith, after eleven of tlte allot
ments had been made changed three of
the easternmost townBites to points
some distance from the original
lacation.
Tea Thousand In Attendadce.
Motnt Geetna, Pa., Aug. 24 -Additional
crowds arrived to attend the
national encampment of the farmers
alliance. Governor Pattison of Peun
sylvanna, who came to inspect the
National guard rifle practice, mingled
with the farmers and visited the various
exhibits. Hen Terrell of Texas, lecturer
of the alliance, made an addrjjsis,
vocat.ing the limited ownership of land
and the government control of tele
graph and transportation lines. There
Is but one hope for the people of the
nation, he said. They must destroy
every' vestige of paternalism in it.
Money would be just as good made of
paper as gold. The value of the dollar
should be regulated entirely by the
number and demand. The ideal money
system is tbe demonetization of gold
and silver. The true science of money
demanded that it should be made of
any article that has no value, such as
paper, as money that will pass in any
country will rob us of our circulation.
The farmers alliance is standing up for
the demonetization of gold and silver
and is striking at the root of the
question.
C. A. Powers of Indiana made an
argument in favor of unlimited coin
age. Ignatius Donnelly, who was on
the program failed to appear.
A large meeting was held in tbe au
ditorium. The principle speaker waa
Captain C. A. Poers of Indiana. He
concluded his remarks by saying:
"Sophistics of scheming politicians and
liars do not meet tbe question and they
connot answer our arguments. The
people are getting aroused and are be
ginning to read and think for them
selves, and a great and mighty popular
wave is now rolling over the country
that will culminate in peace and pros
perity to the nation. When the
farmers unite themselves on the people's
side in fraternity and brotherhood, then
the people will rule this land and har
mony will prevail."
General Weaver of Iowa and Hon.
Lafe Pence of Colorado will make ad
dresses tomorrow.
AboutjI'J xX) persons passed through
the gates today.
China Dosen't Like It.
Cleveland, Aug. 24. A gentlemen
of this city has just received from a
friend in Tien Tsin, China, a letter
stating that -United States Consul
William Bowman, who left that city a
iliort time ago for the United States,
carried with him a message from Vice
roy Li Hung Chang to President Cleve
land. The gentlemau who sends the
information does not tell how he ob
tained a copy of the message, but he
vouches for its authenticity. . It is as
follows:
Report of an interview between the
viceroy Li Hung Chang, and United
States Consul Bowman, held June 29
1893:
The viceroy, ' Li Hung Chang, re
quested Consul Bowman on his return
to the United States to call upon Presi
dent Cleveland and state to him:
First Thar the viceroy, Li Hung
Chang, appreciates the good intention,
of the president and secretary of state
and thanks them for their efforts to
ncure kind and just treatment for the
Chinese residents in the United States.
Second That Viceroy Li Hung
Chang feels keenly the unfriendly na
ture and injustice of the Greary law.
Third-That China will take no ac
tion thereon until the next session of
the United State) eon cress. In the hnna
that the Greary law wUl be modified or
repealed.
Fourth That if the next con ureas de
cides to enforce the law, China will at
once retaliate; friendly relations be
tween tbe two countries will be broken
Dff and laws will be enacted looking to
ward tbe exclusion of Americans from
China.
Fifth That meantime instructions
have been issued to all Chinese officials
to take especial care to protect all
American citizens living in China from
violence.
Hole Renominated.
Dbs Moines, la., Aug. 24. The
democratic state convention yesterday
afternoon by raising vote, which waa
intirely unanimous, and with chafes
wl ch were many times repeated, for
the third time placed Horace Boles la
aominatoon for governor. Tbe report
the previous night that be would not
refuse was all that was needed to is
Rre for him the honor, In the face of
letter of two weeks ago opposing
third term and expressing a dstermin-
to retire to private life.
Tfca Big Caal Strike
London, Aug. 21. The situation in
South Wales owing to theooal strike is
net imj roved. Great military and po
lice cautions nave been taken. Over
700 infantry have left Plymouth for
Rhondda valley and 500 others will
proceed to protect the eolleries and
working miners. The desperate meas
ures which the men are taking in order
to coerce the coal mine owners were
shown when a body of strikers en
deavored to stop work in tbe colliery
.which supplies the Pont-y-Prid gas
Works in order to put the town in dark-
pass, ihe district has tbe appearance
of being in a state of siege. Sentinels
are stationed around the colteriea In
order to announce tbe approach of
tne strikers to the troons. Police rre
guarding the collieries, of which less
than twenty out of 240 are now work
ing, me working collieries are chiefly
in the Ebbelvale district and tbe strik
ers announce their intention of march
ing there 50.000 strong to stop the
wore, it is estimated that the men al
ready have lost 300.000 in wares, while
tbe output of the collieries, which nor
mally is 23,000.000 tons, has fallen to
2,000,000 tons. In Midlands, where
nearly half a million miners are strik
ing, a more peaceful situation prevails.
i ue scarcity of coal is causing great
inconvenience araonir the tinolatera
and Scotch Irou masters.
A Terrible Ktoi m.
Somekville, N. J. Aug. 21 A de
structive cyclone, accompanied by a
hail storm, the like of which Ims not
been known in the history of New Jer
sey, swept over his section of the
country, destroying houses and barns,
uprooting trees and laying acres of
cornfields low. The path of the cv-
3dr-Uma TiioTrtJout halfa"mile in width.
and its extent was from the Blue
Ridge range to the Orange mountains,
northeast from here. It traveled about
five miles before it seemed to waste its
fury. There is not .a house in this
town of 5,000 inhabitants that .was not
damaged more or less, and the loss on
crops io this vicinity will probably
reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A riuokr Boy.
St. Louis, Aug 21. A Globe Demo
crat special from Middletop, Conn.,
says: Twelve-year-old John Treadwell
who walked nearly the whole distance
from Lincoln, Neb., to Hlggonum,
four miles south of this city, Is in a
precarious condition, and it is feared
the hardships the little fellow under
went while covering the 2,000 miles
will prove fatal. Dr. Bloomlleld said
be had little hope that the boy w,uld
recover. He is terribly emaciated and
his mind is almost a blank as to the
details of his travels, but enough In
formation has been obtained to know
that he had a frightful experience.
Hungry, foot-sore and weary he
reached tbe home of his uncle, Bradley
Treadwell, and when be knew he was
again among friends, fell unconsclcu
on tbe doorstep. The house has been
thronged with visitors, and much in
terest is felt In tbe boy, who after the
death of his mother journeyed for 120
days to go to friends. During the time
he lived on charity.
An Atrocloue Murder,
Medford, Wis., Aug. 21 An atro
cious murder was committed at Per1
klnstown, a small village west of here,
last night. The victim was a fallen
woman who lives alone in a shanty
about half a mile from the village and
about a mile from the logging camp
operated by O. Darwin. When found
her body was covered with knife wounds
thirty-nine in number. The leftside of
her throat was cut, the large arteries
being severed, and her face was hacked
and slashed in a frightful manner. The
woman's true name is Kouematm and
her home is Schoneld, Wis. A man,
uame unknown, was arrested for the
crime and is now in jail here. Ilia
oloihes are bloody.
- In the Cherokee Strip.
Wichita, Kas., Ang,21 From pri
vate sources it was learned that con
tracts were let at Guthrie for the build
ing of the four land offices of the Cher
okee strip. They are located as follows:
At Perry, on tbe Santa Fe road, at Enid,
on the Rock Island, and at Alva and
Woodward, on the Pan Handle exten
sion of the Southern Kansas. The con
tracts for these buildings stipulate that
they must be ready for occupancy by
September 14, and it is stated that the
apening will occur September IB, al
though an effort is being made to change
tbe date until Monday, the 18th. En
gineers will begin next Tuesday the
work of making corners for the land
office townsltes.
Killed by a Blaak Cartridge.
Pobtlbnd, Ore., Aug. 21. Charles
E. Nelson, a young bookeeper, died
here yesterday afternoon ms the result
if a wound in the back received from
a charge -from a blank cartridge in a
sham battle. Nelson was second lieu
tenant in his militia company and was
charging tbe gatllng gun of the enemy,
after the plans of the Welden railroad
raids in tbe civil war. The firing was
promiscuous and it is not known who
11 red the fatal shot.
Memphis, Tknn., Aug. 21. Six
masked men stopped a passenger train
on the Mississippi Vail' y branch of the
Illinois Central railroad yesterday
morning and held up Deputy United
States Marshal Stockton. They took
his prisoner, Charles Tall, a colored
'mafl faAIM 4 Waa Otaeiln aawul atltA kl A a
(usmi. uvui a saw is sain ssiiu aiiuij UIUI 19
death. He was chained to tbe seat,
pat they took seat and all. Talt bad
murdered bis employer, a farmer
named 0. O. Poets, last September,
and had just been captured.
-JFiS THE
.LADY MAJENDIE
CHAPTER XXIX.
Lady Norton and the Lovels lingered
on at Fountainebleau. The weather
was charming with all the fresh
sweetness of the air of France, and
Andrew daily gainedstrengtb. Jaques
joined them for a few days, and to
talk to him seemed to do the old man
real and lastinor eood. Poor Jaques!
always covering strong feelings with
uncouth reserve, no one know how he
missed the ever-ready sympathy poor
TCannin had alwavs i?iven him. He
obeying and forestalling his every
wish. It was a great grief to bira that
he had been unable to oaer- t-r. To
summons to Badfeld; but he naa neen
wandering in Spain in pursuit of old
Spanish specimens of bookbinding,
and his estimate of his own import
ance was so very low that he seldom
left his address. Jaques was obliged
to return to England after a very few
days at Fontainebleau, for all Andrew's
affairs had long been under his super
intendence, and they required his pres
ence. Perdita made friends with Miss Grey,
a gentle delicate girl of rather a sen
timental low-pitched tone of mind, that
suited just now with Perdita 's feelings:
and they enjoyed lorng rambles in the
forest, and sitting in their little garden
in the warm air.
To every one's surprise, one day
Jaques suddenly reappeared; he looked
anxious and distrait, and. demanded to
see Mr. Lovel alone. The two girls
wentout into the garden, and Jaques
sat down by the old man, who was
somewhat tremulous and nervous, at
the suddenness of his arrival.
Jaques with some solemnity un
folded a "Times" which he took from
his traveling-bag, and laying it on the
table said
"I belive this advertisement has ref
erence to. us."
Andrew took up the paper, but his
hand shook.
"Read it, . Jaques," he said; and
Jaques read, while a choking feeling in
his throat made his voice sound strange
and harsh.
"Andrew Fairdon, once bookseller in
Edgar street, Soho, and Anne his wife,
are requested to communicate with
Messrs. Short, Browning & , Short, of
Lincoln's Inn. Circumstances relating
to the birth of their adopted child wiU
prove, on application to above, greatly
to her advantage."
Jaques laid the paper down. An
drew covered his face with his hands.
"I am to lose the child," he said, in
a weak, broken voice.
"No, nothing can take her love from
you," said Jaques. "But this must to
inquired into; it will remove all ob
stacles to her marriage."
"Obstacles!" exclaimed Andrew;
"what do you mean? Of course it must
be inquired into," ho said, rather pet
tishly, "and I must be on the spot to
do it. I will go with you to London,
Jaques." . .
, "And leave the ladies here?"
"Yes; if Lady Norton will have Per
dita. I will tell hor, but I will not
have the child disturbed; do you hear?"
"No," said Jaques, sadly; "she will
know soon enough."
Accordingly, Mr. Lovel and Jaques
set off by themselves, leaving Perdita,
greatly wondering and disturbed at
their mysterious proceedings.
About a week passed, then Lady
Norton told Perdita that she had heard
from Mr. Lovel, and that she was going
to take her and Miss Grey to London.
Perdita was bewildered, but she
packed up her things, and with regret
they bad adieu to lovely, sunny Fon
tainblean gave their last handful of
bread to the old carp, and started
homeward.
They had to leave Paris very early
to catch the tidal train, and it was
nearly 7 o'clock before, dusty and
weary, they reached tneir destination,
Thomas' Hotel, in Bekeley Square.
Andrew and Jaiques were there to
receive them. Andrew looked far bet
ter and more animated. The necessity
for exertion had done him good. He
had secured a sitting-room for Perdita,
and there, holding her hand, with
tears in his eyes, told her ' that papers
had been found, and that the stain that
during all these long yeaVs had rested
on her motheVs name was wiped away
forever.
"They claim you, my child," said
Andrew, his voice faltering: "You are
no longer all my own."
Here he thoroughly broke down; but
Dita, kneeling by his side, repeated
over and over again that no name, no
new relations, could ever make her
love her adopted father Was.
"How pleased mammle would hare'
been!" she said, her tears overflowing
when she thought of the dear one who
had never let her want a mother's ten
derest love. '
Andrew told her all he knew that
the papers had been found in a secret
drawer of a bureau that was originally
in Ewan Mscmoneoh's room, and it was
generally supposed that he had placed
them there for additional safety.
"Your uncle has behaved most hand
somely, Perdita," he said. "His one
wish and that of Lady Grisel his
mother, is to see you in full poesesslOB
of your own as soon as possible. To
morrow ho is coming here! anxious to
haw one interview with you before ho
leavaa England. His wife's death has
shattsrsahlm," said he, feelingly.
Perdita lay long awake that night,
her mind in "a whirl of thought.
The next morning she bad scarcely
finished breakfast before Angus Mac
monach arrived.
"Your uncle. Perdita." said Andrew,
rather pompously. And he left them
alone together.
Angus was dressed in deep mourn
ing, and bis face was pale and hag
gard. "You have been told?" he said,
abruptly and sitting down in front of
Perdita, he pushed the damp hair lm'k
from his brow.
"Yes," she said gently; "and I am
very glad. It is untold joy to know
that I may honor my father's memory
as I do my mother's: but," she added,
putting out her hand and touching his,
"the money is nothing to me. 1 can
not bear that you should leave l)un
monaigb. I am grieved for you: and
you have been so noble, so generous,
m thus geekingme out."
"Hush!" he cried. "Stop! you do not
know what you pay." There was such
a sound of acute pain in his voice that
Perdita started: he suddenly bent for
ward "Can you keep a secret?" he
said hoarsely
"Yes," she answered. He rose and
'walaed thrice ilpufiu uOVTu, t"rnwV
denly flinging himself into a chair he
began: '
"Ewan and I were nearly of un age,
and people say that two such brothers
are generally inseparable. It was
never so with us; the nurses used to
say, this child is his father's own, and
this his mother's. Fortune . plays
strange tricks, if I had been the eldest,
he the youngerson,neitherwould have
suffered as we did. My father never
cared for me, my mother idolized mo.
Ewan would have loved me if I had
willed it so; but I saw that I, the
cleverer one, with better intellect and
stronger powers, was hedged in.crushed
on every side for want of that wealth
he valued so little. There are mo
ments (and this is one) in which men
speak their thoughts straight out. I
knew myself to possess the stronger
mind and intellect. I envied his race
beauty, his attractiveness, the in
fluence he possessed overothers, which
in my hands would have been a tower
of strength, and in his was only a means
of attaching personal love. I inn er
tried to curb my jealousy, and it Ikj
carae the strongest passion of my life.
"Then came a day on which once
more my hopes were raised. Do not
shrink back! human nature is complex.
I swear I did not desire my brother's
death, but he was dying, and I did
desire the power that would come to
me.
"It was near, in my very hand; and,
mark you, I was unjustly used by for
tune. I was given faculties that I
could never develop, hopes never to be
fulfilled, visions never to be grasped.
Good heavens! the bitterness of that
moment is engraven on my brain. ' All
shattered in moment, I Know that I
waa again what .1 had been before
that that woman was my brother's wife,
that child his lawful heir."
"You knew it?" Perdita recoild
from him.
"Listen; despise me as vou will, but
hear me. to the end. It was night, my
mother was asleep, not a creature stir
ring in the house, no human being
shared the tumult of my soul.no prayer
forme was going up to Heaven, and I
had to tight the fight alone with a
tempter who called to his aid every
jealous thought, every devil that had
triumphed in my soul since I had grown
to hate my brother. I rose up and
piced my room. It was a wonderful
moonlit night there was light for my
purpose. I crossed the loch: the key's
l'tted; I took the papers from old Mal
colm's caro, and filled the packet with
blank paper, sealed it with this, my
brother's signet-ring, and home."
Perdita lent back in her chair her
face covered with her hands. lie went
on
"I never destroyed the papers, re
member! I would not have done that."
The man's warped nature always dwelt
on this as on a meri',; his voice became
hoarse. "They came with their proofs,
and I had to sit there, and see her heart
break before my eyes: but I bore it I
had strength then, it is gone now. And
since I have seen you, I see again her
haunting eyes, appealing first, then
wild with terrible despair. She went
away hide your face; do not look at
me she went away. I wrote to her
unknown to all. I sent her a hundred,
then two hundred pounds. It never
reached her, for before then she was
dead; she died of a broken heart. If
shjad lived I do not know I might
have righted her; but she died, leaving
a nameless pauper child."
Perdita sprang from her chair and
stood looking at him with dilated eyes
and panting breath. He breathed hard,
and with a sudden change of voice
went on.
"Years passed, and I suppose that I
must have forgotten her, but I was not
happy. Not in all my life have I been
what the world calls happy; I have
been haunted by the past: the reason
ing of years never laid the specter of
remorse, and when I had schooled my
life to a calu and even level, now ana
then would come over me a cold ner
vous shiver, an agony of fear, and it
was long before I was myself again.
Years passed you know the rest."
Perdita was trembling from head to
foot. t , ,
"I hsd an idle dream that a young
sweet wife would lull these thoughts to
rest. I thought, believe me, I thought
Indeed that roy brother's child was
dead. I taught myself to be certain
that it was so. I brought her home
to Dunmonaigh, my little wifo, and
then I prayed. I asked God to let me
love her. " and let her sweet nature
often the coldness of my heart. I
out i naa not maae restitution,
mjmr was oenieur- .
softly laid hor hand upon his
arm, .
"You know Mabel," ho went on;
"you know what eke was -bow save el
aad young, asd gay! Yon eaa nasi
her Image, with nr soft hair aas Iker
loving eyes. Who could see her SJH
not love her! And yet I was have SBal
harab to her. Too longte'-f-auppneawd,
I dreaded emotion. I dared not gtre
rein to my feeling, whether of joy or
hope or love. I waa cold to h'T. I del
not even love her then, for a bnrrier
seemed to keep ua apart. She did not
understand me, and I dreaded lest she
should. I prayed than, but ray prayer
wasdenied."
He paused, panting, then wentosu
"Then then, you know, she found
those papers; and oh God! the dis
covery killed her. My mother uttered
words that never will leave my mem
ory "First Assunta, now ManeL' I
was shooting on Benichon, and they
bid me come home, and I was too late;
not one word not one. My God was e
Nemes'. I have not known one mo
ment's reft since my wife died."
Angus covered his face with his
hands, and wept with the awful over
whelming grief of a strong man
crushed. Perdita, terrified and in sore
trouble, knew not what to do, but
gently stroked his knee.
Presently he raised his bead, and,
took her hand in both of his. "I have
but one hope in life now," he said,
"and that is, that you, in their names
and your own, will forgive mo."
"I do I forgive you, as I hope to be
forgiven; and in my father's and my
mother's names I pray God to forgive
you freely."
He pressed her hand to his lips, then
rose up.
"Good-by," he said "I am going
abroad; perhaps I may never return
again. You will take care of my
mother, will you not?"
"I will indeed. '
"And try to be to her whatshe was "
"I will try."
He looked at her very wistfully.
"Perdita.," he said, "you loved Mabel;
you knew her very well; tell me, was
she very unhappy?"
Perdita could not speak, the tears
r'.sed ivsri her cu&a!:.,. Sue hid only
had one little heart-broken note trta
Mabel; telling her that marriage was a
sad and miserable tbiii. Angus looked
at her fixedly.
"Do not answer me," he said, "only
say good-bye; I must go."
Once more he kissed her hand, and
left the room.
Perdita sat down; she was utterly be
wildered by all that had passed, and
strove to collect her thoughts. Her
whole mind4ieing intent on the one
subject, and did not hear a rapid loot
cross the room, and did not look up UU
Edward Norton stood before her. In
one moment sho was sobbing oh his
breast. All, all had passed away this
terrible story of guilt and sorrow
and bereavement and a new and
boundless heaven of ioy was opening
before her. To he life's end Perdita
Macmonach faithfully kept the un
happy Angus' secret.
The next morning Perdita was taken
to Lady Ar mine's Sous.; to see Lady
Grisel.
It was a very sad meeting at iirst; all
the black dresses and sad faces brought
poor pretty Mabel vividly to PerdiSa's
mind. In spite of the new bright joT
that seemed to transform her.she couM
not suppress her tears when Lady Orlsel
took her in her arms and kissed her. .
Those tears won the lonely woman's4
heart at once. She had felt as if she
could never love another fair young
girl as he had loved her daughter-in-law,
she felt almost jealous of a youth
and beauty that might try to rival
Mabel in her love.-- But she found not
a rival but a fellow-mourner, who had
known Mabel, and whom Mabel bad
often spoken of as "so beautiful and so
charming."
Then came a new sense of possession,
for at once the mother's eye caught
the strong resemblance to her hand
some son. The fair brow, the curve of
lip and chin all brought Ewan to her
mind so much, that it scorned as if she
would never weary of tracing every
line in Perdita 's face.
Lady Grisel was anxious t hat the two
weddings should be soon before the
winter came. They mur;t he very quiet,
and take place in London.
The lawyers demanded at least six
weeks to arrange I'ei dit.t 's celebrated
settlements; and vl.c.i lain waa to be
done, Andrew tol.t . , vn views for
the future. He' absolutely refused to
return to Sulford. Ho nald he could
never bear the placo wit hout his wife,
and ho could only be thnkful that now
his duty need not compel him to go
there. He would live in London with
Jaques. The estate should he absolutely
settled on Perdita and her husband.
On a cold brilliant day in the first
days of November all signs of mouring
were put aside, and Margaret Mac
monach and Mildred Grethard were
married.
There were anxious loving prayers
going up to God all day: smiles for the
present, and tears for the past.
On Mable's grave Angus has caused
a stone of marble, white, and pure as
driven snow, to be placed, and on It, in
small letters carveay -
MABKI. lfAOHONACH
Aged 4 yf.r .
AND BK : IN' A --r '
"WeepyeDot for the dead, , oliinr Iwmoan him ;
But weep iot tat him iu o u nv.y ; fur be
Basil return no mure n-r ue native eonu-
- try."
THE KN3.
A Sharp (Question Is Die Rfihep. " '
When Bishop Whifctkor was in Can
delaria, Nov., he took a stroll , in the
outskirts,. of the camp with a party of
ladies and godly gentl ;:nan. A man
was seen laboriously turning a windlass
which hoisted from a shaft a bucket
filled with rock. The only thing re
markable about the man at the wind
lass was bis hat, the crown of which
was cut clean off, allowing the hot sun
to pour down npeh a perfectly bald
head, some waggish friends having
recommended this arrangement as sure
to produce a crop of hair. The Bishop
and his party stood watching the man
toiling aad grunting at his heavy labor
for several minutes, aad the kind
hearted olasMrymaa spoke up with oen
cern, and sail:
" My friend, why dont you cover up
your head? This hot sun will afloat
your brain."
"Brain, is tt" oried the man, as ho
gave , the windlass , another heavily.
dreaking revolution, "BegOb, aa'tfl
had any brains d'ye tWnkTd bo hem
DuUin' ns thk bonkatf" . .
The Bishop aadhis party hastily an
tind as the gentlanm at the HSOm
Stwi-oaaoo m eiLisas, aetwoea I
i a very ateoci war. his am
mn who hM been Tkmb, like :
wimoui &r".
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