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5 o THE ADVERTISER ADYERTISEE . -x. Fisnorm. - " hacker. FAIRBROTEIEIi & KACEEE. Publishers sad. Proprietor. Published EvaryT&srsdy HoraiBg AT BSOWimiU, JOHKAKA. 2?tarteners & Proprietor. AJJTBIZ.TISIXG KATES. OWtMk.MIME .5f . sea 184 tack. Mr -sor f Om lacfc. per Maib . naca:nlilWaiiltalt. gen TEK.31, IN ADVANCE rv ropy. cayow ! opy. ! otfc t& SISO XKa--iUL.'f at -- -thn-.-Jirnrr. X OO ir?. - '-."" nKSfc ernec,, a vm y i -opy. thsae 50! -. . . . .-,Mfa. SO- n n i.iht i aeaisBMse be paid ( rr ao-aaee. J6f Xo papergea in iwiiii niiifin ESTBI.I5K2D 1S56. i Oldest Paper ia t.e State. J ; KROWNYILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1377. VOll. 21. NO. 40. i&mCIAL PAPER OF TjrECeESTT RE1BING XATTER OX ETEBYPAGE . AT &' Ha J ! m&z&zj; '&3 ' r ' vs- n vr w mm? -s v w- w e-3 Nsr t r n w ? ? f 3n r - -a.- -x - , ir r i Se. ,., - ' "f0 e-- - - 'B(rS6al .,, jKV-qtfMnMh W. iVm. B WHSr r I u "- i mmbm i i i i i i i i . n i i i i Tr i i - - - - - - n -1 flT-- PEOZESSIGi'AL CARDS. A , OSBORX. ATTORNEY AT ATT. r-ituW.T. IU3BK. BlWlflk, 3Ta. S. T. L. ?CHICK, ATTOR5ET ATXAW. riv i . LuiLHrtiiHiw tii Of-1 axt r t Osrfc's -we. Cezt .eBdh KeteaAa- J 5. STULL, "Attorney and Counselor at. "Law, J H. BROADY, Attmr3r onil Oontiselor at Law, c. cipvm Jb. W. THOMAS, ITTJIRVKV AT LAW ,7ir.n nat 1Mb CTcrSkatsa Jeefcrsre. .-.rwriH.. - TT" T. BOGES, A"ttroey aud CoHniolor atLsw. vy. : Pi,i ut awe n new wyganMjhiof --cstadrohbiakr. ' niCMBt K Rrowir'U.NA. S. HOLLADAY, ! plfIdan, Surgeon and Otetrlclan. J altS of whMb were to receive ID J gide fey g() c .a-gjjjju; rS?Sa1ttbertT , J ;am"iaected by blood, so far removed in ,faSt.WotS?eSj"y. the father and daughter whose, 1 vista of heads craned them- - - . HT WATHEWS I .J ! ..- ( "pirrSICIAy A3TD StECEOX. oflfe. in csty Bwg twe-.a Ifeia street, Brwxa- DAT. CLINE, cf T FASHIXAItIr. L dtjtfl iJU M1WX, -K.rtJii.ii f y i , rsTOM won mk ton4r. mi ati mr strings m carriages sent uy toeir own TP'SSlTXymm'1' ers, many of whom had" never been - - J even on speaking terms with Sir T W. GIBSON, J Hugh, formed a part of the prooes- W rt aOH tOCKrtlBSiHitlMWWmpifcBilWi!tt x r: I"ffN. Mate rvi ; 50. T. I 3 "1Z A XI P!r- ' 1731 - Jl3-Ol LJ .Pi li . MMrrtawr ud IeUT a ; C3 j I I Zr. if p f w S3 in i 1 3" ; 5" ! jairvniiexs, srxisiioB.xiy ncii. a.a. 1 - - -r - -m -rr l p 3t apatTLnc dan e short notion. Tb ee trai?fi Kwvemnz OU gleicg for preeerrtac H- G-4 3iain St.. SrovrnvIUe, Ifeb. HTTBDAS-T'S PCDV 9 DO UHT & hi STORE. Second door east of Post OiSee. KROTTXTiXX.E, NEBRASKA. if FeOTMI Main Street. n ,f JS Up 8tirs over witcnerlv & ilO-t: smitn-a Barbershop. , BROtrXITLLS, XEBRASKA Intake everv size or style of ptetore e-1 lreL Life-size photographs a specialty ( F.vprr paiBf taken to rfve pleasing and be- ( COmlBg pOSUlOHB. jxmk: ; r A ff 11 i-m fir i 4 4 a 3 t .-TBjSGL' i t AWN' 1 lit n ofiiLLnll S'XH.ST CZjASS "WOH.SI j it passed, more flowers were thrown ! ing over the great eveut of the day as allowed to leave y Eallery. A fall aseort- ' from children's hands some of them ! they heaped up the logs (they usual men: of PICll BE FRAMES of allrtyles ,, mUp- nf Unmanitv irhom dor- I Iv burned wood in nrimeval Drisev smi7TadtOBM!K. AiDL JBS. lAJTStXB COIXEED PICTUEES, ane many other SLSAS2J& CBHAHHKIS PCS TEZPAH iijQs, Persons wishing PnotocrHph work done in the best style, at lowest prices, should not iall to caC aad see tor themselves. P. HL SOOK. JL- IROIBjISOIsj 3- f X6 IrA1 .IS 00TS AND SKO CCSTOX WOBK 3ULAJOE TO OIOEIS. Bepairiagaeatlydoae. NoieXainstrset, BrT7at Leeps a. I all line oi LUESOTJS COXSTAXTLV X)S HAIv. 5 5 la ,"Ai. -v 3i ' i g i Wm -' lii "V'rflifertaK"'Jjy --t. r .f J t: IGf t:?fci BrSiT 1 ImktA k hk II 1 l( n n B ul n fa UlllJfiulilliliU' f BOB. &malt3trct,BK0WXTlLliE,iEi.imbre than half that vast crowd, THE ; L$ I 52 UlSI la OB TVlio Till.Sa.'ee Her'?' CHAPTER XXV. TirE DOCELE PTJKERAI.. The day for the double funeral had arrived, and Mr. Crump's bcast oon- cermng me great wremuuj waa ""'j . i. . ..- vritbouta gooa lounaauon. Messrs. Hatband, Tressles, and Serewby. the eminent London firm, ' proved worthy of themselves and the !&ceasion. Death bad rarely, indeed ' J never in mose p&ris, rvui pompous "-i- i The long procession, blaekenfng the ' suuhine. wound its slow way from; .uu-iiiuc, Yvu.iu o j '"e - "---. tbeAbfcey to the Ab&ey unurcn, me sad fate uati excileo tne ptv or tne -, i whole country side. . Vf rvn)T7wl fKa TTnTiftrArf fan- ! .1 ULMIJ VtiV bUl l tUHI I-1 fe frwAJ ; an try appear to take pert in the sad ; solemnity, but for miles round the! ' . . . r . ( ; far mers poured in. on horse or afoot. 1 . . e ... , , .. ' j" j- . . tv ji i roads leadmg into Drtpsey, and long, l- .la.-.-. , .. ,. , r unnAtara VkaMtfla n.i c(rAa rt tnir I ' eyes, dragged ifc3 sinw length alon , Bet if respect was shown -cr 1 .1. .u , ; Hugh, tHe svmpthy was nil for Ger-; to est,- ( rpiA l-ifj tl2 tho imiha unAM I Hers was tbe , ia 4i.. -j mmj 110U auiav uiatu every lip; for her tbe pitying tears flowed from the eys of the woaiea, ; and o fted bedewed tberoorker cheeks i tbe men, and surely what Sate i ecu Id be sstWer or more ao&erving of i pity? ; A ftTer uuitmeAy nipped or! TLtk, ! -irT4Kai s eroel frost, even before ite , beitetv had fully opened upon tbe world. An exquisite piece of girl-; hood, whose inuoeenee and goodness all knew, and whose ripening into womaahood all had iretehed with a proud delight; lor Gertrude's whole I life had been passed at Dripsey and . ! Wentworth, and the villagers knew ... , " . t . ,. rf , , . . . .. w tenor of the oliureh, at eacu medita- O . her, and loved berae a something be- . .... mi . i . .t. t - live step "setting their wot uoon some J- longiag, so to speak, to them a being i ,. 4 ., .. - , . CD l , ... . , .. , , reverend historv ; ' others proclaim in , whoee rare gifts and loveheess had a . . . " ' , - ii i .1 - , . -. .ialad the yirtses, or wbkner tbe siesta! claim to thetr adawratteasad v - -" . s - - hoiaage; snd the yog nwscrees, ' who had grown up amour them, had . . ' Iwon c miioh lvIntrtii hv trHe eimnU -.. rr l " j 1 ' eM-ves of death, ' emerge with a shud peasnt5 as sir Hugh ws feared, and ! , .. ' , "? . . ... w i .1 tum- "L j j j ' der- &s though tbe odor of mortality her brother Philip bated or depsed. i ... , f . .. mt .- . ... .,; . T , .u still ching about Ehem. Tlien, in time Tbe spendthrift mljondon, the free 1 ., ... , . , . . , the storm drew nearer, and the war- f ' . , ; sovereign to a nsymarKei waiter, sbq tells him to lay it out in soap, or pays five pounds for a bouquet, to be "left at the stage-door," is ever a hard aud unfeeling landlord to tbe tenantry he squeezes through his agents in the country. Many a "sold-up" farmer's ; bones have rattled in the dice-box, , . ' and many a card lncautiousiv turned ,,.. " . uv l&it ibci vuu" ;;cuiK;uiflU ie focf ' ri-TT frnnFtAmen J c "" 1 necessitated more vxeoroud turns ofj, the screw on struggling farmers and &n already famishing peasantry. The inhabitants of Dripsey Bridge and Wentworth dreaded tbe time when Philip would stand in his r-.i i r i .i.t t j J , master. That time had cotne, but in each honest heart there was no thought but of their "young lady" passed awavno thought but of Gertrude. - Her coSn was covered with wreaths it.j . J .- c I - ,-t truue herself had nursed upon her knee ; and along the path over which the sleek black horses bore their light fair load, rough hands, but ten der hearts, had worked all night and morning ; and from the park gates, to j all tbe demons ef the air seemed hold ! the gales of the Abbey Church, ' ing revei up among the wind-torn j greenleaves and flowers were spread. cloods. i The church, the gray old church, ! Nevertheless, light streamed from a i was all alive with rlowe. Even the I hundred latticed windows, telling of grim old warriors, on their beds of! sculptured stone, showed lese grim, covered over as tbey were, from bel met to pointed toe, with floral treas- ures from without. The only objec- tor and he pet in bis protest private ' ly was Mr. Crump, i "If the firm it was his happiness to ; represent prided itself ob anything, it prided itself upon being artistic ! Nature, sir, is one thing, and art an- 1 other; and we go in for art." But good Mr. Crump was hypes- i critical. There was enough of the upholstery art, in all conscience, to gladden his soul, and make tbe great COUCOUrse of people assembled OQ the v errcworin property open tueir e es t wim wonuer, ana utier eiacuisuojs of ad imi ration and awe. Velvets, silks, and gleaming metal; prancing horses, blaek as night with a whole forest of waving feathera, making Death itself seem rich and brave, as at each trained step of tbe noble steeds, they tossed their sable splendors in the san. The sun ! Ah I there was the one great disappointment of the day. Beautiful it shone forth when the! and .windows were hermetically seal great procession left the Abbey gates, ed to keep it nut, wes toddling thro' and, like some huge, black snake, j tbe Abbey churchyard, with the in . took its mejestlc way towards the old tention of taking the shortest way church ; but as it neared that ancient ! across the park to gain her own snug pile, the clouds gathered and gather- ed, Ending an added gloom, a far more awful grandeur to man's pagen- try. The weatherwise, which meant weatherwise, which meant 'prophesied an awful night; Tsrhile t Mrs. Bleek, "who wa3 early ct the , church, wrung her thin hands and ' whl3pered to her cronies that it was ever thus when a Wentworth died. The church was crowded. Many were there who had never before probably entered a sacred edifice ; but nt among that number was decorous Mrs Prudence, silent and tearful, neither clever Doctor Malyon, who, seated in the great Wentworth pew, listened with a critical ear to the peal ieg notes of the organ, while he gaz- ed reverently in his hat. Pale and Eilent, a figure of stone, Sir Philip sat beside him, and listen ed, with a shuddering emotion, to the service, which was interrupted with : many a sob ; the good old rector him-1 Krpfcfnr ,Wn fn th.wfw Uw.t . WW.. -... w ., , .v. wV to bend his kindly head, though not , i i. j t - i.t coursed each other down hi3 cheeks. " "-" w -. w w.w. . m-mmm-m A smttt for tears, those two coffins. . . . , . selves forward, beneath mouldering R, wn. . ftW, rn Mff.ll n ' glimpse of where the "dear young J '. ' struggling against the sombre black- , , e ness of the approaching storm, pour- ed in his beams, atiutervais,! through f. -.,' , jt .K JL iuu icat p&iaicu viuujs ui luc tiii- cient church, they fell upon the cof fins, and glorified tbem with color and light. And while the good rector read the ..nMn service of our Church - . , . within its walls, a great concourse stood listening, and waiting without - ...uB, ... .-...... standing, most of the men uacovered, cr a grown graves. Tbe service over, the new Baronet j ig among tbe first to hurry out, head bent, utee still more livid, more like that of a corpse, and eyes cast upon the earth. Poor gentleman I who could have espeeted the blow would have struck I so deep? j "Earth to earth ! Ashes to ashes ! JDust to dust!" The dread words are ppoken ; the great doors of tbe vaults, so rarely opened, are Sung wide and si! is over. The vest assemblage disperses grad- 1 tafllltr ZZrtrna liuvarfnir nVwnf ttwA ivi- ' . . . . awav. rtiose wto navp neoen6Ai into the vaults, those 'monumental fare of the heavens commenced, hur rying the last of the loiterers home- ward, and pouring down torrents of ! hail and drifting rain. j Mr Crump, the cermony more than ! satisfactorily "performed," entertains I a few newly made friends to a choice 1 miiio ninnpr mt rnu --- t-tt - r. v"-t." t?..i ? -a. j.i l t "n . ... . ,. .. .. . where life is reasserting itself, and as . , . . . . , .. the stormy night rushes down, the Anlr rUtn tKaf ctmKA!v?ac rlAttth 1 , -. i , , - r r. i n. n n n b r 3 a r - - i. kn r i r c w r ki r l US. V1U 1.UU1CU --" wi i.e.. looking quility'' amidst the driving storm, a heap of crumbling stones above the buried dead. CHAPTER XXVI. XRS. BEEEK MAKES A ICHT OF IT. A wild night! A night ub paralleled in the memory of even that extraordinary personage, tbe oldest inhabitant. All Dripsey Bridge and Wentworth, tho ci-tor r.?ll-0a tvoro inilnnn tnlfc - -- x- - r . on the hearth The streets were deserted, swept bare by the fierce blast, and flooded by the ceaseless rain. The storm of tbe day bad become a tempest, and life and warmth within, of pleasant sooial intercourse when gossips hob- nob over tbe fire, and not only the "eup that cheers," but the foaming ; flagon or steaming glass, goes round The "Arms' wr3 crammed from roof to basement. Sleeping rooms for the time being, were transformed into sitting-rooms, and these crowded with thirsty guests blowing clouds of rank i tobbaoco smoke, tossing down heavy drinks, and inhaling, amidst Homer ic laughter and thickening talk, an atmosphere the quality of which may be best judged by the fact that of sev eral cages of canaries, not one of these pretty occupants was found alive in the morning. The day of moarning had become a I night of drinking and feasting, and in a haze of drink and smoke the si lent dead were for the nonce forgot ten. A wild night ; yet, of all the people in the world, poor Mrs. Bleek was abroad in it. Yes, that always amiable and al ways mystified lady, when the storm was at its very worst, and all doors room at the Abbey. If the truth must be told, the good old creature was somewhat gone in liquor, and this was how it came about. Mrs. BleekJs heart was as tender as her brain was weak. Ever ready to receive and retain the saddest impres- sions, the sudden death of her young mistress had, as she herself expressed it, "putanother ten years upon ner." ''I'm not," sbe added, "one of your die-earfy's, for common stuffs oftenest last the longest ; but I shall never be the woman J. was. JNot that I was ever worth much oh, no, far fromit-l though striving to do my duty in that station in which it has pleased God to call me. But to think that a creetur so full of life and beauty should have been called away, and sueh a bag of useless bones as Mary Bleek allowed to remain, quite throws me!" The double funeral over, the old housekeeper, her eyes red with con- stant weeninsr. had made her way to . tJ- one 3Irs. Jones, an old crony living near the lodge". At Mrs. Jones's she had met with other old cronies, and there given way to hysteria, and, in their sympathizing ears, unlocked the floodgates of her grief. The aged ladies, all born and bred on the Wentworth estates, made no endeavor to console their friend ; on the contrary, after the fashion of their class, they agreed with all she said, deepening the shadow here and there, till on horror's head horrors accumu lated to that extent, that no wonder rem was added to the tea. "The on"i ly thing in sucii matters,' aia inra. Jones, "to tie up the nerves and squensh the feel'n's" Night was very far advanced, "nearly at odds with the morning," when old Mary Bleek took her soli- tary way homeward. Companion- . - - r- ship sbe had -none ; all the male sex t were down in the village, feasting at j the expense of the eminent Srm so worthily represented by Mr. Crump ; and s for her cronies of tbe opposite sex, not one was under sixty, with nothing active about them but their tongues, which, as if lo make up for Oinerrawnenciee, seejneti gmeu prepetual motion. So tbe housekeep- er took her way through the storm, .t j-- t iri s 1 ' refusing, with persistent obstinacy, to f l&Ke we main rowi, out oent upon saving a mile, by the short cut thro' She ebnrebytrd. "I'm not afeard," sbe said, in ans wer to her friends' expostulation, "of churchyards ; ghosts won't barm a poor body like me, who, goodness knows, before the world's a year old- er, may ne a imogMr sso as one oi ' i ?.!- ,t . tfl em." fcesesS'J ed Mrs. Jones. "Weather, Martha" (Mrs. Jones's name was Martha) "has nothing to do with supernatcrals. They don't regard It. Indeed," and here the housekeeper added n little more rum to her tea, "it is believed as they pre fers it rumbustious." It was "rumbustious" this night, in all conscience: for, while she spowe, me w.au came .our.ug auu l- T- - -I ? l .1 tne aoiiHge, tearing ai ma lusiuueu roof as if .seeking to tear it off, and wrenching, with a burglar's hand, at each barred and bolted casement. "Don't go up to the Abbey to-night dear, urged kind Mrs. Jones. "Or,ifmy nf peelers looking on, than do you must go, at least wait for John ; can't be long." Mrs. Bleek waited, being prevailed upon to lake just a "ieetie" more rum without tea ; but John Jones nsver came, nor did he oorae till morning was far advanced, and then he was j brought from the "Arms' in a wheel-! barrow. I It was past midnight when Mary I Bleek, lantern in band, pushed open the churchyard gate, and came dream ily stumbling along among the graves. For once in her life the aged woman has all unconsciously, diverged from the path of strict sobriety, for her tea had grown gradually weaker, and the infusion of rum stronger. Yet to the Abbey sbe would go that night. She had left the whole house hold in confusion. She knew her duty, and at every hazard would per form it. And so the half-blind, half-deaf, but in all other respects worthy old lady, armed with a lighted lantern and a huge umbrella, boldly made tracks for the Abbey. Sbe had not gone far before a treach erous gust of wir-d, creeping behind her, blew out her light; and then a fierce, bullying blast, tore the umbrel la from her feeble grasp, and carried it far away to a distant horsepond. Twice she hesitated. Should she return? No; as sbe had truly said,, the entire household at the Abbey was in confusion, and it was her place and duty toset it in order. Like brave Martin Luther, when threaten ed with assassination at Worms, ccme what may, she "would on !" Pelted by the pittiless storm, her clothes so many water-soaked rags clinging to Ler shrinking figure, and impeding her movements, the pcror old soul pushed forward, still grasp ing the extinguished lantern, and keeping a frightened gaze around her. A churchyard by night, while a storm is raging, is not an exhilarating object of contemplation, especially when the tall, spectral trees are bend ing like willow wands around you. and the hurrying clouds descend low er, as though they would wrap the whole world in a pall of death. Mary Bleek was not only supersti tious, but, so her friends said, when talking among themselves, she stood on the brink of the spirit world her self; a filmy old creature, who, at any hour, might pass away like the early morning mist. A strange old woman, whose humble thread of life Fate had ;tvoven into therich embroidery of the i "Wentworth loom, and which, if torn j sway, would be utterly destroyed, I She musiLgo home ; and her home, j for sixty-five years, had been Went- , worm Auoey. Utterly exhausted at last, she sat herself down to rest a few moments, under the sheltering bows of "a yew tree a yew tree, broad and vast, whose roots struck deep down among the bones of men. Wet and shivering, she drew her thick shawl around her, leaning back against the huge tree trunk, and pro tected by the outspread of the mighty branches from the rain. Was she asleep ? Only a.partial sleep. Nevertheless, ivuitu uu..ug ... uwtwuutu &.u, jand-unclesfcth.9 dark branches of- the yew tree, she saw a vision. And thlslis whatshesaw, or thought she saw. : CHAPTER XXVII. AVKAfi! 3R3. 25LEEK SAV. For the better understanding of what we shall still call Mrs. Bieek's dream, it is necessary to go back a lit tle, and, the author being obaiscient, peep at a'strange'scene going on in those vast .and dreary receptacles for the dead, the vaults beneath the Ab bey Church. An open coffin, with four men andj a woman grouped about it. rpwo af the men hod ianternst j wnose iglt streams down upon tHe I paie and exquisitely beautiful faoe of ja shrouded figure which the coffin j COntains. j The feateies are those of Gertrude j Wentwifrtu. The woman standing at the Boffin's foot is Diana Rock wood. Near to her, and for once silent, fa her husband. At the h.ead of the eofSn, and peer ing curiously down into the waxen face, is Dr. Malyon ; while the bearer of the second lantern (Roekwood hoid3 the .first), is the hunchback, Benjaaiia Hk-H. Just with:in lhe eie ytltt aIMj Ieanin?: upap an iron ter u,e forfca man, Powder Blue, who?e ruffianly visage beirijys an emotion bat rarely seen there. They aH speak In whispers; ot that they have any fears of being overheard. On such a night, and in such a place, intrusion is impoib!e. "It looks terribly like death !' said MfS rjta wKh a sbudder. She addjEsased thii doeier, who, the oury-tnorQ -!: l'u of the party, smilingly replied, "True, my dear madam quite true; but appearanees in this, as In very many other coses, are deeeitful. You will remember, if I may illustrate a fact by a fiation, the sad work ap pearances made in that celebrated af fair of Cqpulet vermg Montague. The pulse of Ufa, however feebly it may i beat, is ts surely here as in your.-elf. " " H&ve VQB opened the Other coffin?' end the doctor turned to the man Bradley, still heavily lounging on his crowbar. "Yes".. (sulkily) ; "and I'd "rather crack a drzen cribs, with a whote ar this kind of thing over again ! It's worse than robbin' a sbureh !' "Ha, ha!" ohuckled the doctor. "It does ine good to bear you express yourself in the way you do, Mr. ;T,H, mh rpsrM1f n Udvp for the institutions of your country is, to say the least, de-ligbtfulj Now," be continued, turning briskly to Benja min Darknoll, and at the same time consulting his watch by the light of the Iatter's lantern, "the exchange must be -made at once, as the carriage must have arrived by thra time, and we have not a moment to lose. May I crave your assistance, my dear mad- am 9 Tenderly very tenderly a tender ness owing half ii origin to fear the lithe and graceful form of Gertrude Wentworth was lifted from its ghast ly couch, and immediately enshroud ed in a large cloak by Mrs. Roekwood, whose nerve, after the doctor's, ap peared to be the least shaken of this strange company. "It's a wonderful likeness!' said the doctor, again peering down into Rose Ayliffe's faee. "In death, I should say, still more remarkable than in life. Ah! Sir Hugh was a gay man in his time." The remark was repented of as soon as uttered, for-the proud faee of Diana Roekwood deepened to a dark red, and her eyes flashed with a well, If a look could kill, there would have been there and then an end to tbe doctor. The lodge-keeper, ever quiet and watchful, came to the rescue. "Most such likenesses are acciden tal," he said. "This must have been purely so, for, till within the last few years, Rose Ayliffe was a stranger to this place!" While speaking they had placed the girlish figure of fjjertrude, now shrouded in the cloak, upon s, sort of stone bench, the head reclining upon Mrs. Rockwood's shoulder, the eyes dosed sealed, a3 it still seemed, in the awful sleep of death. Malyon, who had drawn a small phial from his pocket, poured a por tion of its contents upon a handker chief, which handkerchief he passed to Mrs. Eockwood, together with the phial, which he carefully recorked. "Apply the moistened handkerchief to the nostrils at intervals see! There there!" he added, gleefully; "you perceive, already a change slight; but, to the "experienced eye, a change that Is perceptible.' "j. see no cnange, -aiu xfiuuu Bockwood, in a harsh cold voice;! "and I feel no pulse. To me, the girl j is dead so peacefully dead," she ad-l ded with a weary sigh, "that it seems almost a pity to awaken her. Such J there is nothing like frankness on all quiet is only to be found in the tomb. sMes. It clears away the cobwebs, Here her husband's voice brake in. don't you see?' his words, as usual, when he address- j Before Darknoti oocW reply, if re ed his wife, accompanied with a sneer j ply he intended, to thfe very oetepok- "Yes, quiet is a difficult thing to command in this noisy, pushing, brawling, work-a-day world, and the holy bonds of matrimony h&ve not been found particularly conducive to its acquirement. ISow, I place my i trust Implicitly in the doctor." Malyon still busy with the pale, recumbent figure, laughed gently, as one who would say you cannot do better or otherwise, and the lawyer went on. "Balm and his wife must be wait ing in the carriage, by this time. You accompany them, Doctor, do you not? Malyon nodded impatieatly, for now he never, even for a moment, re moved his eyes from the fixed faee of Gertrude Wentworth, nor took his fingers from her pulse. "And the other body," asked Roek wood, in a whisper, to tbe old lodge keeper. "I mean the body" (correct ing himself quickly), "is that pre pared for its change of abiding plaee? Benjamin Darknoll glanced signi ficantly towards Gertrude. "First remove her, the rest you may leave to me. Bose AylitFe will sleep none the worse for resting under! Gertrude Wentworth's eoffia-plate." He stopped suddenly, and laid one hand, with & frightened gesture, on Rockwood's arm, while, with the oth er, he pointed to where Mrs. Rock wood was seated, supporting Ger trude; the latter still ncrrowly watehed by the doctor. It was a strange scene a terrible one the figures of the conspirators imperfectly illuminated by the light, and casting ghostly shadows on the humid wails, while the dark sod si lent corridors of death stretched far away to the right and left. Roekwood started, then flaag off tbe old man's skeleton grip impa tiently. "What's tbe matter. Daddy? Don't go mad here, whatever you do !" She moved I I saw her move V said the lodge-keeper, in a trebHng voice. 'See see! She lives!' There was a pause, after wfcieh he added, "The one great error in our calculations, I fancy.' -ZjAMSttrtmnriwt&- uppm euMa;r.-ffX4 ..- r . . aa - I L, , .,. :,.. , kilt: SBUIC jum tunc, nunc ucitnci ic- moved their eyes from the figure on the bench. 'Without her what pow er have we? Philip is as ungrateful as he is cowardly; and such men are only to be governed by their feare.' 'Ever hard upon Philip, muttered the old man, with a flash of anger, which, however, he immediately re pressed. 'However, I grant that in some things his nature is weak, and I have grieved to discover it; but then he is young, and yoeth is mostly sel fish, and always thoughtless." 'Bah ! Philip can be as obstinate as a mule and as cruel as a tigerjupon occasion. It is superstition old world fancies which lead bins to shrink before those ties of kindred, which mora sensible men ignore- Saving tbe one thing, be made but little seru ple about the rest. Sir Philip Went worth will prove hard in the mouth, and must have both bit and bridle. He won't starve for a matter of senti- ment. He ongki to beeome a great! man, for he has neither heart, nor, as a natural consequence, gratitude. Yes, yes,' said Darknoll, eagerly, in the bluntness of his devotion feil- ing to perceive the lawyer's sneer;; 'Philip should become a great man, and make a gnat marriage, adding estate to estate. Money breeds mon ey ; and" with a deprecatory glanee at tbe lawyer 'you know, Mafcaew, that wiil be better for all of us.' 'Yes, the Doctor has not deceived us! said Roekwood, who, perceiving that Old Bengy had mounted bis hob by, took but little heed of what he said. 'The girl lives ; and I for one would have had nothing to do with the bosinese bad I not believed in Malyon s skill, and his asanrcnee that it could not be otherwise. If the other coffin should Le opened be bent bis head till bis Up nearly touched the lodge-keeper's ear 'what ( tben ?' 'It wiil not be opened,' said tbe old man. 'Few inquiries are made af ter the poor as -to their wbeseebottts, and you are forgotten before tbe spi der can spin his web over your epi tapti. For the rest, there is no fear of after recognition, lou nave seen what nature has already done, and death's band will do the rest.' 'Just so! A month, or two. or three, and Rose Ayliffe is to all In tents and purposes Gertrude Went worth. I doubt if the resurrection angel would know tbe difference If there be a resurrection angel ; though for my part ' ... The old man drew back froas him with a shudder. 'You are a bad man, Mot hew I a xery Dad man !T xiockwood laugned notiouaJy, one with a laugh that .sounded out of place, as its echo cams beck to them from the labyrinth of vaults around.1, 'Well, Daddy, perhaps I am, looked at through your puritanical spectacles but the line is so thin, in reality, that divides bad from good, that I don't care if I sometimes pass it. Come, come ! We are playing a bold ( game, each with a different motive. Yours, I grant you, Is the more nn- l selfish one. Tkafij our affair S imnc means an extension of my banking account, and a considerable extension too, I can tell von I In sueh matters 1 i as these, where the risks are ejai, j en declaration on the part of his aoo- i m-law, both were sum mooed by a gesture to the skle of the Dootor. whose large feee wore an air tri- J oKph, while he rubbed hfe haads brwkly togetner. according to his habit when greatly pleased. 'Eureka!' be said, add ceding His fellow conspirators in a low but ae- Lred voiee; 'we have seeeeeded! One is apt lo be a Httde nereme at first, you know, in sueh delicate ex periments a tbeso, and I can now confess that I was just a little afraid myself. The quality and properties of the drug I was assured of. but tbe present case, a most interesting oe to me as a professional man, was en vironed in dtSlettities, and. in point of met, was a matter for experimeat tbe experiment has proved a suc cess. My friend (to Darkaol!), b&ve you that ease bottle about you ? The bottle was produced, .and the Doctor, greatly refreshed, went on. 'It sow remains for us to get her out of this place a quickly as possible. I shall aeeompany her and my worthy relatives to liadlestraw. As for Ibe rearrangement of matters down hers, our highly respectable friend (a bow to Darkaol!, 'with your athletic pro itffe' ( ood in the direction of Pow der Bine), 'bare taken that upon themselves, ami I'll trouble you ibr that bottle again. Everything is proeperoes thoroughly prosperoes! 'Make haste !' urged Roekwood, as tK Tlowrc ockm4 Inv 3lTsm RMlr. ' j . . J -v. v. , ,.' , .. ' wood, adjusted tbe heavy folds of the lnir hnnt CZrtriAfL Wctniwikrf W' I , .... .-, . . no longer inanimate form. 'Should her eyes open upon this place?' 'Have no fear,' replied tbe Doctor. . .. . ,. . .. . . ...3 im i. ... r....? ;: m-b r . . m l u mvs ka caw wg azsv3, suu ''yawing over his shoulder. 'Tbe body i re stored to life, as I promised ; but tbe mind ah !' with an expressive glanee around 'thai is quite another affair. A silence followed thk spsceb, bro ken only by tbe guarded movements j of tbe men, as they moved to and j iro, guaing now in, now out oi me eiscle of light, spirits of evil render ing still more ghastly the ghastly pre eroets of tbe vaults. J.0Bri8tt-sm3at&EaipfrWJ& I lightning flashing at intervals,, aad Mrs. Bleek where we left her, thor oughly dazed in what sbe herself would term her 'intellectuals,' and cowering for shelter under the huge funeral-looking tree. A noise of wheels hoard approach ing, In each lull of the storm, causes her to turn her heed, and wonder J vaguely, as people wonder under the influence of a dreara. Nearer sad nearer tbe wheels ap proaoh, till the noise eases at tbe very gates of the churchyard. A carriage at such an hour and in sueh a place ! Yet a carriage it was, and Mrs. Bleek dreamily wondered. Tben a light rose up, as if out of the earth, and flickering over tbe graves, played against tbe old church wall. Could she believe her eyes, dim as they were from age, blinded as they were by the driving rain? Across Lhe light moved several shadows, each rising as it were from the earth, from, as it seemed to her, beneath tne old euureh itself from tbe Abbey vaults. A small side door, studded with nails, and clamped with iron a door bo reij sed, as the old lady knew full well appeared to be open, aad figure after figure emerged, each east ing its shadow on the wall. What were these phaatorae, rising as it were from tbe tomb? Should sbe scream ? To what purpose in that lonely place? Should ebe run towards tbe place where . sbe had heard tbe carriage wheels ? Poor old soul ! scarcely able even to sepport herself on her legs, rieketty at tne best of times, and more tbna shaky now, sbe bad only strength to draw herself np for snpport against the dark trunk of tbe tree, and misti ly dream on. . . One, two, three. Too: CVC ngnreS, and one a woman's-she eonnted! mow on rct win aoer.'i, trsmoiiBg with fear tbe while, her whole mind or rather what was left to ber of that at all times hazy commodity filled with a feeling of in teste dreed. Were tbey robbers of tbe dead, or were tbey tbe dean themselves, who came flickering abont among tbe graves at such an boor and in see a night? The wind blew ae tpaa bbura 1U teak ; The rattling sbow'rs rose on the blast: Tfeespeedy glenaas the darkness swattoWtf ; Land, deep, and tong, the thaadar baPdw d ; That night, a ctMd miht nnderaeaad Tbe deli had business on hU hand." The lights had danced np aad down, hither and thither, throwing long weird shadows among the too be and hillocks which were everywhere around. 'Corpse-lights I' she rncrraared, ! shutting bar eyes first for a moment. then opening them with a ahudder. j It was a struggle between curiosity ; and fear, and for Mr3. Bleek was a woman curiosity conquered. 'One! two! three! four! five!1 shea sgala counted ; then, with a start, j 'sis!7 Yes, another figure was there, wrap ped In a thick horseman's jaloak a figure that was carried in thearms of j two of the others, sad evidently that ' of a woman. As moved by some instinctive feel- ing of curiosity ovpr-mastering her terror, the eW woman crept a Mttla forward. Sbe had a great experience in the spraatral world bad made it her sum!; iaftet but she had never beard of scoots who walkad about carxyfng each other. A Qmph. of BentaiBs, and a cry from Mrs. Bteok a low cry. almost iaaudl- We, but a cry of horror a3 astonish eC A ghost, indeed ! for as the fierce wind tore -at tbe folds -of tbe mantle, tosota tbem for a moment aside, sbef saw. or dreamt she saw, the face of GrtaadeWeaffcwortJn Sbe reewatbered no more, but that I sbe was lying among the wetigras3 upon her old htaiern, which the weight of her body In falling had saa-3hed flat, aad that the hunchbacks of the lodge, tbe white-baked and siiTery-yaieed terror of bar Mfe, was bdiuiiDg over her. 'What he said. my good Mrs. Bleek, 'you have lad a bad faN, J see: It is ill walking among graves at out tinte of life, espeeiaHy at so late an howr of tbe Bight. Cocae, I will sea you home. Don't be afraid ; you're a little overcome, Isse. Ah, yes ! we support our grief ae we create our gai ety! Focgetfolaeas Is always what we seek. Thera ! oh your feet again, with a Urnfee or two. bt otherwise sjsad and firm. H&?e no fear,' and his silvery volee beeaeac more mu ste al in its tone ; 'U U mp &iy totals eora ojro(.r lO BK GNCOK115&.3 The Eaglfeh are going wWd ovee Aaneriea beef ad nttUtecu Of lata years these Items of the Br Mo 'a bHt J . . HU MiB Hav htith saw cirtTHOvw iwt- the majority of people ; and fcbeefibtta . .... . . . . . to import raUkit.aaet aad beef from l & mil IS I Jat aM.4&xa 4.aal knaf ftm - , ., . ... v t farwrft. have Jutted either e befog hpniaes down or give stfefeetin ia Ameriaae beef aad raetr faMrasxetly meet the seed of the bor isfiiieiy way. Tbey reach Eaglaad in nplnnrtirt cinnriltinn . nni sell from-kr a pound for biU to Ski a pound ims eboiee pieeee, which fa 2d or 3d lass than tbe prices of tbe home article. ! Cnnnobsenrt declare that Anverteaa beef and mutton bear evidences of ba ins; better fed. The preas is m rhp- sodiee. aad sanaa mention the- sub-: heat wfcbanS qfeisglons framirglfr and Diekeas. Tbe trade U growfag very large, 70 tons sometimes arriv ing at Liverpool in one day. It sells immediately, and te new marketed In London. Liverpool, Xaaonnster Shef field. Birmingham, Notttenam, and maay other towns. A Silver City (Nev.) yog lady, who has a paction forpretitytfbabFesto. a tittle four-year-old angel wne a braa new sister : T say, bub woa'fr yee give me yoer baby sister? I love little Debtee.' Young hopeful : 'No. I teat!1 Yonng lady (winking at har-youTJg, man) : 'Wbj, soanys, why wontyou g'eyur baby to cm V . Hopefsl findignaatiy)c Fy sbert&V 'tarve to death ; your dress opens be- hind. Painfel iitenee Per tbe next fifteen minutes. One of tbe boys of tbe town wrote to his girl and askad hr to gn wittr him to tbeaksHng rin. Tbe ans.we: eatne back: I should like very much to go with yon lo tbe rink to-night, not I b&ve WV BIUCH tfKUlJB. Tbeyeengman thinks sbe. nff ar eel a seSkfent escose. Atehmon Patriot. Tbe rank, fieby taste, soasatknes. fotttMl la wild docks may be removed by by parboiling tbem pcavinns to masting with a peeled carrot placed inside. Tbb will absorb tbe bad taste. Wbece tbe dressing- ie to be-seosn&aa. with anions, fsna a onion instead of tba carrot. So it was passed.. Ebns it was pass ed. Gkmrim-.JomrmoL So it seems. So we ass encbred. Tbns we are ewebred. And nw we I all 'pace.' 2f. O Tome. . nL- .;.. mtAn nam Tra-ggq. wara T . J2r. Does Bradley wear a 2. IS? Coma and Cameron have 2tM6K men wbe will now beeomoJsbtaiag rod agents. 2f. T. Graphic We do noE believe in immortality becanse we have proved It, hot we-.are forever trying to prove ft necaese we believe it. A Cenaeetfont deb&tiag society fc asking. Ie it wrong to ebeet a law yer r Perhaps net, but it isn't ene tomarv. A Kentucky debating seetety baa been dfeeesetog the question ;. Whfch. s the bottom, of a back wbeei cake? A. down-east paper sews thera- is &, mg beat that is ef no-more, use than a, boiled carrot hng hi a boot-Iejit . w; "--When a deg Spitz, he mayiie coc-f sidexed mad," remarked somebody this morning. That's whelp pet. Sixteen ble-lbrnaoeeare in op;a i tties at Hae daemon eeppdt urines aiTiemtmii h ta. mipnyjiMjneJLW