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CHAPTER XIV. Continued.
The death of Robert Blakely, and
the new position of the several per
sonages connected with the story,
might remove the obstacles that for
merly lay in the way of such a reve
lation. But, on the other hand, had
not Wieland intimated that his, Char
les's, then only supposed birth was an
insuperable barrier between him and
Blanche? If such were the case if
Wieland obstinately preserved his se
cret, aud Blanche could never be his
wife why, then let all go let Helen's
son hold his possessions, while he
would leave England never to return
to It, but, In the active duties of a sol
diers life, seek for oblivion of, the
past. '.V
Hence his concealment from 'the
solicitor of iho important evidence af
forded by Helen's late diabolical con
duct toward him to have told the
story of which would have Involved a
full account of his first diacovery of
the seoret entrance to his mother's
ohamber of what he had found
there; and these things, again,
would have led to the story of the un
detected crime, aud of tho suspected
man, andjie could not endure the
thoughts of reviving these suspicious
against Blanche's father.
His wiser course would undoubted
ly have been to delay all legal pro
ceedings until he had fully determin
ed upon his future course of action,
rather than to have taken these half
measures, and it was more in compli
ance with Deerbrook's urging than
with liis own after-thought, that he
had don 9 so.
A woman was slaudfng at the door
of the lodging-house when he arrived,
who, in answer to his Inquiry for Mr.
Wieland, told him that he had better
go up-stairs, aud knock at the room
door facing him on the second Moor.
Nothing could have suited him better
as he had some apprehensions wheth
er, upon eending.up his name, an in
terview might not be refused him.
To his hesitating knock a voice,
that set his heart throbbing, answer
ed, 'Come in !'
He turned the handle of tho lock,
and entered.
Blanche was in the room, alone.
Her back was toward him ; she was
busy copying music, and did not turn
round until he had stood there sever
al seconds. The color rushed into her
pensive face as she saw who the visit
or wa.
1 thought it was the landlady,' she
said confusedly, and then stopped un
able to aay another word.
I trust I am not an intrusive visit
or, Miss Wieland?' he said, with a
touch of sadness in his tone.
Oh, no!' she cried, eagerly, and
stopped again for a moment, before
she added, 'My father has gone with
Mr. Kaufman down to the City. I
expect him back soon.; will you sit
down and wait?"
He had never taken his eyes off her
from the moment he had entered the
room. She could, feel those dark,
fiery orbs, although she had not dared
to raise her glance. He thought she
looked even paler and thinner than
when they had last met.
He took the proffered seat. The
situation was an equally embarrass
ing one to both parties.
'Pray do not let me interrupt your
occupation,' he said, seeing her still
stand irresolutely by her chair.
'Oh, thank you ! it is of no immedi
ate importance,' she answered,
playing with her pen in embarrass
ed manner.
'I hope your father's health is im
proving with this tine weather.'
'He is still very feeble,' she replied,
sadly.
'I am Tery grieved to hear it.'
'And the least exoitement or an
noyance most seriously afFects him.'
To Charles's acuto sensitiveness
these words sounded full of meaning.
'I trust my visit will have no such
result,' he said, in a tone whoso bit
terness he tried in vain to control.
'Oh ! I did not mean that,' she ans
wered, hastily.
'Perhaps it is the last time I shall
ever see him.'
She looked up anxiously.
'I have come to make ous more ap
peal to him.'
Her ej-es fell and the color mounted
to her face again.
'And should it fail I shall leave
England forever. '
'Forever!' she eohoed in spite of
herself.
'Yes. Abroad I have friends ; here
I have none nothing except bitter
memories.'
'You had friends once, and fled
from them cast them off,' she ans
wered warmly.
'Oh, I know the fault is mine that
I have only myself to blame, and that
the happiness of my whole life was
wrecked upon the madness of one
boyish act. I speak this in no bitter
ness, Blanche. I acknowledge the
justnees of my punishment, though I
cannot help bemoaning it.'
'We have all our crosses to bear in
this life,7 she said, sighing.
Would to heaven,' he cried fervent
ly, 'that yours were a lighter one. To
see you happier would lighten the
weight of mine.'
She did not answer, but drew fig
ures with her pen on a sheet of blot
ting paper.
He watched her face, which looked
cold and passive, until his blood be
BEOWNVILLE, NEBRASKA,
gan to rebel against what he believed
to be her calm indifference.
The cross has borne hardly upon
you Blanche, he went on. 'It has
crushed out all your old nature, and
left nothing of the Blanche that I
knew five years ago.'
'You, also, are much ohanged,' she
answered, quietly.
For the worst, do you think ?' he
a3ked, eagerly.
I did not say that,' she replied,
blushing, and perceiving the embar
rassing position into which her hasty
words had placed her.
I am ohanged. I was then a silly
boy. I am now a man ; and yet I
would give a twelvemonth of my life
to bring back one day of that old time
when we were all in all to each other,
and I possessed your love. Has all
memory and all sympathy with those
days passed out of your life'? They
are to me my realization of heaven,
for I can conceive no happiness be
yond.' His voice trembled as he spoke; but
she still went ou drawing figures up
on the blotting paper, and gave no
sign.
'You were then warm, impae3ioned,
full of impulse, full of heart. It is
that image I shall cherish in my
memory in the years to come not the
cold, changed image of to-day.'
Still no answer.
'Can you not speak one word ? he
cried, losing ail control over himself.
'Are you transformed to marble?'
'What would you have me say ?' she
exclaimed, looking up ; and now the
spell being broken, tho words came
forth warm and impetuous. 'Would
you have mo tell you that I still love
you have never ceased to love shall
never cease to love you while I have
life? What would this serve? Only
to increase your misery to raise up
hopes that can never be fulfilled. My
father has in the most solemn man
ner impressed upon me that our union
is impossible. Why it is so, I know
not ; but I feel assured that his rea
sons must be powerful indeed when
he sets them against the happiness of
of any human being. Whatever
they be, I know they are not selfish
one3, and you ought to know the
same. Be assured it is only of us that
he thinks while putting what you
fancy to be a cruel prohibition upon
our happiness. You say I am cold,
changed. Would you have me other
wise? Would it prove my love for
you, in the face of its hopelessness, to
be warm, animated to bo Blanche of
the old days when no shadow had fal
en upon it when the whole world
lay before us bright aud unreal as it is
in the pages of Tasso and Spenser,
that wo used to read together? All
that bright, ideal world has faded
long ago, and Ihave.lived for years
now in the cold, dark, real world. I
am changed ; but I am not heartlesa
oil, no, I am not heartless !'
Her tears were flowing fast as she
spoke another moment and they
were flowing upon her lover's breast.
'Forgive me dearest; you'have well
reproved my cruel thoughtless words!'
he cried. 'AH is not so hopeless as
you imagine!' he said a few moments
afterwards, as thay sat side by side,
he clasping her hand closety in his.
'All depends, however, upon my com
ing interview with your father, in
which
'Hush! he is coming!' she said,
starting away, and composing herself
as well as sho was able.
Immediately afterwards, Wieland,
accompanied by Kaufman, came into
the room. He looked very pale and
feeble, and exhausted even with his
walk form the cab, which had
brought him up to the door. A shad
ow fell upon his face as he saw Charl
es ; bat Kaufman warmly greeted the
young man, for whom he had cocelv-
ed a great liking.
When xou have recovered a little
from your fatigue, Mr. Wieland,' said
Charles, 'will you grant me a few
minutes' conversation?'
Kaufman, taking the hint, did not
prolong his stay beyond a few minut
es; and, after having given her fath
er some refreshments, Blanche went
to her own room, and left the two
men together.
'My visit is an unpleascnt one,'
Baid Charles; 'and only the most im
portant reasons would have induced
me to Intrude upon you against your
will.'
'It is not that your presence dis
pleases me it grieves me!" answered
Wieland gently.
'Since I was here last, I have heard
most important news,' Charles con
tinued. 'Robert Blakely is dead, and
I have undoubted proofs of being his
eon.'
'Robert Blakely dead?' cried Wie
land, alternately flushing and turn
ing deadly pale, and trembling with
excitement. 'Are you sure of that?
You are not deceiving me?'
'He has been dead more than a
twelvemonth, an the estates "are In
the hands of another.
'Of whom?'
Charles hesitated for n moment be
fore he replied, 'It appears that he
married Miss Helen Deerbrook in
Florence of course the marriage Is
illegal, but she has contrived that
her sou should inherit the estate.'
'Helen Deerbrook married Robert
Blakely!' he exclaimed wondering
ly. 'Can it be possible? No, no;
you must be dreaming?
'It i9 true, sir, I assure you.'
'It is too horrible to believe!' he
said, shuddering. 'And you come to
tell me this news ?' he went on dream
ily. 'You could not' have more amaz
ed me!'
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THUBSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1876.
'To tell you the news, sir, and to
ask whether it contains any thing that
will unseal your lips upon the one
mystery that still remains unravelled
my mother's death !'
In one sense, my lip3 are unsealed,'
answered Wieland, thoughtfully, af
ter a silence of several minutes' dura
tion. I can speak now, but should
I?'
'Let me implore you to heed no
overstrained scruples,' entreated
Charles.
'Were it told you would wish it un
told again. It is a dark and terrible
story! Be warned, and rest in igno
rance of it,' replied Wieland solemn
ly. Impossible! The happiness or
niisery,of my life depends upon its so
lution TThatever it may be, its
knowledge could not render me more
wretched than will its denial.'
I must have time to think,' said
Wieland, after another pause ; 'return
here at the same time to-morrow, and
you shall know all. There, I promise
you.'
Charles eagerly grasped his band.
But you must leave me now ; I am
fatigued with my journey,' hosaid re
turning the young man's pressure,
and sighing deeply.
There was something of his old af
fectionate gentleness iu the tone of
his voice, that made the young man's
heart beat with vigorous hope.
Blanche's chamber was next to the
sitting-room ; sho was standing at the
door as he came out.
'Hope, dearest hope!' he whisper
ed, catching her in his arms ; 'the
olouds are dispersing. I return at
this time to-morrow. Fear not; all
will bo well yet.'
He trod upon another earth breath
ed another atmosphere was a being
of another world, as bestrode joyful
ly home. But there importaut news
awaited him.
Deerbrook, who had bpen watching
for him at.the kitchen. window, rush
ed npstairs to meet him in a flurried,
excited manner.
'Look here!' he cried, thrusting a
telegram into his hand, before he
could pa3s the door-way ; 'we must
return te Blakely at once!'
The telegram was from Mrs. Gan
dy, and bore these words: 'Mr. Rob
ert has been found murdered ; come
back at once!'
'Great heavens!' cried Charles ; and
he almostr-staggered under tho sud
deness of the terrible news.
LW-KJUae at otwe ;- t,here.is a
train in an. hour from Shorditch !'
cried Deerbrook excitedly.
Charles thought of his appointment
next day with Wielaud, and would
have hesitated, ,lut Deerbrook, arous
ed for 6 n oa . from his imperturable
coolness, impetuously hurried him
away.
'Not an instant must be wasted!' he
cried. 'Everj'thing now depends up
on the promptitude of our actions.'
'Another delay murmured Charles.
'Is this ray8tery,.never to be solved?'
But nevertheless, the importance of
his presence at Blakely was not to be
denied.
A cab conveyed them to the station,
and in another hour they were whirl
ed along as fast as the Great Eastern
was capable of traveling, on the road
to Norwich.
CHAPTER XV.
A TEP.RIBXE JUDGMENT.
Great was the consternation at
Blakely that day, for young Robert
had been found murdered in the
wood, oft the Pridham road, by some
boys gathering sticks. They had
given the alarm at the nearest cot
tage, and brought the cottager with
them to show the horrid thing they
had found. He at once recognized
the body and posted off" to Blakely.
Mrs. Gandy was tho first who was
made acquainted with tho ghastly
news, and stopped the man from car
rying it to the Hall.
She was not a seusitive.or a sympa
thizing woman, as tho reader well
knows, but it gave her a great shock.
Who is to tell herV was the first
thought that flashed upon her. 'What
an awful judgment! was thesecond ;
for an i;-tant a dreadful suspicion
darted across her mind. 'Had the
two brothers met, and No, that
was not possible : Charles had taken
the direct road ; and besides, his un
cle was with him. But how came
Robert in that place? The coachman
had deposited him safely in the Nor
wich hotel.
'You must be mistaken, she cried,
turning to the man; 'Mr. Blakely
was driven to Norwich, where he was
going to take tho train to London
yesterday afternoon. It can't be him ;
he wouldn't have any business on the
Pridham road.'
'Well, missus, I've worked on the
estate ever since the young Squire
came,' replied the man, and I ought
to know 'un by this time. However,
the body '11 be brought here directly,
and then you can see for yourself.'
Ana a lew moments afterwards a
small cart, the top covered with pota
to-sacks, drew slowly up to the gate.
And then two men took out of it a
heap of stained clothes, out of which
hung a livid, blood-besmeared head.
They bore it into the lodge. One
glance revealed to Mrs. Gandy the
truth of the messenger's words. It
was laid upon the sofa, and a white
sheet was fetched from above and put
over it, and the men were sent away
again.
'I shall have to break the news to
her, I suppose,' muttered Mrs. Gan
dy. ' At that moment a sudden thought
struck her. She ran to the gate, and
called back the man belonging to the
cart.
'Will you go to Norwich for me,'
she asked, 'and take a letter to the
telegraph office ?'
'What office ?' asked the man.
I will write It down for you, and
you can ask when you get to Norwich.
Go there aud back in three hours, and
I'll give you five shillings.
'Give us hold, missus'; I'll do It!'
cried the man, waking out of his stu
pidity at the mention of such a sum
for three hours' work.
She ran back Into the lodge, wrote
out the message, put It into an envel
ope directed to the 'Telegraph Office,
Norwich.' gave the messenger two
shillings to pay for It, and saw him
lash the miserable donkey into a gal
lop, and rattle up the road.
Then, with a white, troubled coun
tenance, she walked slowly up the
drive to perform her dreadful task.
The footman, who was standing at
the door, and who informed her that
Mrs. Blakely was in her boudoir, was
struck with the pallorand strange ex
pression of her countenance; and it
was soon whispered among the serv
ants that Mrs. Gaudy was closeted
with the mistress and that something
was wrong. They were ever on the
watch now for the strange and the
extraordinary.
Having communicated his news,
the footman strolled back to the hall
again, in the hope of hearing or see
ing something that might give him a
clue to 'what was up now,' as be
phrased It.
Ho had not returned to his post
many minutes before a wild shriek
thrilled through his ears, followed the
next moment by the sound of a door
dashed open, hurrying footsteps, and
the voices of two women one in en
treaty, one in lamentation.
'Stop, stop, madam, for heaven's
Bake!' cried one.
'My boy my child! where is he?'
shrieked the other.
Down the etaira, with her wild,
burning eyes almoststarting from her
head, with frantio haste, past the af
frighted footman, and out at the door
rusiied the grief-stricken mother
and after her, trying in vain to stop
her, came Mrs. Gandy.
'Whatever is the matter?' asked
James, as the lodge-keeper, perceiv
ing the nselessness of the pursuit, tot
tered and sank trembling upon a
chair.
'Give me some water!' she gasped.
He ran and fetched her a, tumbler
of water.
'The young Squire is brought home
murdered!' fjheanswared, as soon as
her trembling lips could frame the
words.
Through the great house, from top
to bottom, as though it had been
whispered by a hundred tongues, and
echoed back by a hundred others, ran
the terrible news, blanching every
cheek, and striking fear to orery
heart.
The servants huddled together in
awe-stricken groups like birds before
a thunder-storm. Into the gardens,
and the fields, and the cottages, and
the roads, flew the dreadful fact, ap
palling the boldest as well as the most
timid ; aud soon about the lodge-gate
gathered a crowd of men, women, and
children, speaking in awe-stricken
whispers, straining their eyes toward
one spot with the fascination of ter
ror, and listening frith chilled hearts
to the shrieks aud sobs of the wretch
ed parent.
Within was a piteous spectacle,
Heien, her gray hair tangled about
her face, as she had clutched in her
anguish., clasping the dead body in
her embrace, aud besmearing her face
with its dark stagnant gore.
In vain Mrs. Gandy and the lady's
maid endeavored to draw her away ;
she fought and struggled like a mani
ac, hugging the lifeless clay still clos
er to her breast at every effort made to
separate her from it.
Suddenly springing up, with the
face and gesture of an Ate, she cried,
'Who has done this deed ? Where is
the destroyer? Bring him to mo
give him into my hands!'
The women shrank back terrified
before her furious looks and clutching
hands.
'It is not known who's done it,' be
gan Mr3. Gandy, faintly.
What!' shrieked the Fury. 'My
child lies massacred there, and the
guilty wretch not captured, and you,
all of you,' and she ran to the door,
and looked out upon the crowd, who
fell baok with scared looks at the
fiendish face, 'all of you stand there
like stocks and stones, never seeking
him, while, my darling's-blood cries
out for vengeance ! Awa3T with yo u !
A hundred pounds a thousand all
I possess, to the man who brings me
this monster!'
Away fled the crowd, like a flock of
vultures who scent carrion in the air.
They thought not of the madness of
the words of the impossible task they
proposed to themselves; they thought
only of the promised gold ! Ah, could
they but clutch it! And tkat thought
converted every" man, woman, and
child into human bloodhounds on the
instant.
Back to her mangled love went the
wretched mother.
Is it for this I have toiled, and
schemed, and sinned steeped my
soul in crime sold myself to Satan
to see you, my beautiful, my darling,
cut off iu the flower of your youth,
and by such a fateP she cried.
The butler and the lady's maid, who
were in the room, exchanged glances.
The mystery to all was, how Robert
Blakely had come to be found in the
YOL. 2L-IT0. 23.
Pridham road. Helen knew not
where he had been found she never
asked the question ;her grief was tco
overwhelming for questions.
During the day news was brought
that a horse, with the shattejwl rem
ains of some conveyance still clinging
to him, had been found, terribly mu
tilated, in a by-laue, a few miles from
the Hall.
When, in the next morning's pa
pers, thestable-keeperfrom whom the
trap had been hired, and who had, in
the meantime been using every means
to discover what had become of it and
the hirer when he read the account
of the murder and the finding"of the
horse, he came over to Blakely, and
identified the dead man as the one
who had taken away the vehiclennd
the horse as the one that he had har
nessed for him.
But this only served to heighten the
mystery.
The police, stimulated by the fabu
lous rewards offered by Helen, were
using unusual exertions to discover
the murderer. The hue and cry was
raised over tho whole couutrj, and
every suspicious-looking person dog
ged and watched, or Imprisoned as
vagabonds, in the hope of some proof
turning up against them.
There was only one person who
could have thrown a light apou Rob
ert Blakely's presence in the Pridham
road, and she was silent.
As we have recorded in a former
chapter, upon hearing the shriek, and
seeing the running horse dash past
her, Carry had fled back to Blakely.
When she left the farm, all were in
bed except her father, who, as usual,
was iu Norwich, whence he was short
ly to bring a second Mrs. Lee. She
had left the door upon the latch, and
found it so when she returned.
Thus she got back to her own room
without any person discovering her
escapade. But during the whole night
she suffered an agony of terror. She
could not shake otf the impression
that something dreadful had happen
ed, and yet at the same time she felt
intensely thankful that her proposed
flight had been interrupted.
But when, next morning, one of
the maids brought the news to the
dairy that Mr. Blakely had been
found dead, aud was brought to the
lodge in a cart, she fell down iu a
state of insensibility.
Amidst the terror and confusion
that prevailed, the circumstance was
scarcely noticed ; but Carry did not
leave-herrbed for several days, and
when at last she was able to be about
tho farm again, looked only the ghost
of her former self.
But to return to tho day on which
we opened this chapter.
No persuasion could induce Helen
to leave the corpse of her son. or take
any refreshment beyond a little bran
dy. With her own hands sho laid out
the body, aud washed it, and clothed
it in its last gear. She would allow
no other hands save her own to touch
It. Then, as though the fountain of
her tears were dried up, she sat down
calmly beside it, staring at it from out
of the dark, cavernous sockets of her
e3"es, rigid and motionless, giving no
other sign of life than an occasional
hard, dry sob.
Mrs. Gandy towards evening began
to watch for the arrival of Charles.
Should ho enter the lodge suddenly,
and come face to face with Helen In
her present state of mind, the shock
might be fatal to her. So she passed
the latter part of the evening wander
ing about between the gate and the
drive, which indeed she much prefer
red to being alone with that awful wo
man and the dead man, for Gandy
had gone up to tho Hall early in the
day.
But accident frustrated her precau
tions, and brought about the event
that for hours she had been endeav
oring to prevent.
About ten o'clock she heard Helen's
voice calling upon her name. She
went into the lodge, and was desired
by her mistress logo to the Hall, and
order an eider-down quilt and a mat
tress to be brought down to her.
Very unwillingly Mrs. Gandy obey
ed the order.
She was scarcely out of hearing,
when a cab drove up to the gate, out
of which jumped Charles and Deer
brook. The gate was unfortunately
ajar, Mrs. Gandy having extended
her walk occasionally into the road to
lookout for any conveyance approach
ing in the distance, and when sum
moned by her mistress, sho had for
gotten to close it.
Having paid the cabman, they hur
ried into the grounds, Charles first,
and without pausingfora moment, he
lifted the latch of the lodge door ; but
he did not advance farther than the
threshold.
In a second his eyes took in the
whole scene the corpse lying beneath
she white sheet, the mother watching
by its side. He motioned back Deer
brook with his hand, and would have
retreated himself, but at that monient
Helen turned her head, and her eyes
fell full upon the face of him whom
she believed had by this time perish
ed of hunger, and whose avenging
spectre she now fancied had come to
exult over this awful retribution.
Without uttering a sound, 3he rose
up'from her chair not as if by a nat
ural action, but as if lifted by some
mechanical power her eyea dilating
until they seemed ready to burst from
their sockets. Their unearthly gaze
rooted him to the spot; he could not
stir. She gasped as though trying to
speak, pointed to the body, burst into
a fit of wild laughter, and -fell sense
less. J' TO DE CONTINUED.
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF TIIEC6USTY
Address of the Colored men of Louis!-'
ana to the People of tho Conntry.
New Orleans. Nov. 19, 187G.
To the People of the United States,
We, the colored people, are but a
simple folk, plain and unlettered, but
nevertheless we hope we shall be un
drestood. We desire plainly and brief
ly to relate the actual political condi
tion of our race in Louisiana, aud to ask
the just people of the North to render
us that moral aid and protection which
our peculiar situation requires. The
goverment clothed us with the vari
ous duties offAmericau citizenship,
among which was to vote, which fact
has so Incensed tho Southern Demo
crats against us that they murder our
people and outrage their families after
such beastly modes that we dare not
relate them even In our unlettered
manner. We aro unable to cope with
the white man without that baokiug
and moral aid which the Northern
people have go studiously withheld
from us since the war. The most of
us have been slaves and driven liko
beasts all our younger days, and tho
terror inspired by the white slave
driver from our infancy up has roadd
us fear the white man and know and
believe that we are not his equal in
combat. The use of firearms wan
denied us until after the war, and we
feel our inferioritj In their use whllo
confronted with the heavily armed,
swaggering Democrats. Thus when
the issue is reduced to one of armeii
hostility, as it has been during thii
Presidential canvnss in Louisiana, our
numerical strength counts for naught
against, the regularly organized, armed
and drilled White League Democracy
of the State. Their murders are moro
gentlemanly and humane than the
other outrages (some of which must be
nameles") which they have and are at
this da j inflicting upon our people.
Tho whipping of colored Republicans
who know how to read and write has
been carried to such r.n excess that the
recital of these enormities would
scarce be believed. Of tho signers to
this appeal two have been whipped for
refusing. to vote the Democartic ticket
at this Preesidential election. Ono of
these, stripped naked and whipped,
is covered with welts and gashes' from
his head to his bet la, aud escaped frum
his fiendish tormentors through a
United States military oscorL Tho
other was taken from his cabin on tho
night beforo tho Presidential election,
at midnight, and stripped, and whip
ped by a dozen or moro white men,
each taking turns as they become tired
sometimes three or four whipping at a
time, until his fiuger-nails and two
fingers were whipped off. He wa3
then left fainting and alone upon the
ground. Next morning thesameDem
ocraio 'bulldozers' marched him to the
polls, the victim so s(iff and sore that
every movement jf tho body iu en
deavoring to drag its slow length
along caused the most excruciating
agony and they compelled him to put
iu the ballot-box a.Deniocratlc Tildeil
ticket with tho bleeding stumps of
fingers their gonerou3 ohivalry had
yet left him. These outrages were
not committed by the insignificant
Democrats, but their leader is a prac
ticing physician In the parish, and
his assisting bulldozers are sons of
what they call' the first families.
Thousands of colored people have been
subjected to these outrages at every
election for attempting to exercise tho
right of freemen in the State of Lou
isiana. It seems as if thegovernmenc
and the people of the North had
turned a deaf ear upon us and forgot
ten us. We do not ask broad or mon
ey. These we have the muscle and
Industry to produce, but we do ask
an anesurance from the people of tho
North that some method shall be
provided for our security in the exer
oise of our rights as American freo-
men. faAMUEL Estellb,
Ezekiel Glover,
Aaron McKenzie,
his'
Geo. Washington, X
mark.
And others.
How to Read Shakespeare.
A3 to the play for which it te best
for a young reader of Shakespeare to
begin, Ishouid not hesitate to say that
the first play in most editions, "Tho
Tempest," is as good as any, although
it is among the last productions of his
latest years as a dramatic author. Itn
charming atory, Its striking and clear
characterization, its simple construc
tion and it3 exuulbite, although not
Involved or too finely wrought, poetry,
make it a creation that no one capable
of pleasure from literary art can fail to
drink jn with delight. If not this,
"As You Like It" might first be taken
up; then "The Merchant of Venieo"
and "Much Ado About Nothing."
To these "Romeo and Juliet" mi"ht
well succeed, after which a return to
the comedies would be advisable,
among which the reader could not now
well go astray, except that I should
recommend that 'All's Well that Ends
Well,' 'The Winter's Tale' aud
Measure for Measure' should bo kept
until; the last. and. indeed, until tho
reader shall have made father ac
quaintance with the tragedies, and
reau ai lease two of the hitorie tuo
First and Second Parts of 'King Henry
IV.' To these it would be well to
pass from 'The Merrr Wives of Wind
sor,' because of Fnislaff, whose hu
mor apppars in its lowest (vet highl
form in The Merry Wives".' and in
it hichest in the 'Second Part of
Henry IV.' The reader cannot now
well ro astray; but I should advie
that tlm Roman and Grecian plays
should be left until the last. 'Trollus
and Cressida' heintr read lat or all.
Eichard Grant White, in Galaxy.
An Iowa Judsce says that a man may
legally kiss his hired girl if he can
swear hs thought it was his wife