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Dry Geo CROCKER! &E00ERIE3, U arc all full and complete; all of MIL! April 10, 1S72,1-tf KAPf-y AT THE WELL-) PROCLAIM in tones of Thin that now have on hand l"<?r tiouably low prices, in fact, most A CHOICE, RARE j READY - i?J Very chefvp and of the very late roue are "all the go" in America 1'hey liave also, HATS, CAPS, EO0I OSNAB arid everything.else, which the i Even the most economical perso actly '"suited to their mind." April 17, 2372, 1-tf ZSTG- 4 or Our Country friends, may not A FULL LII Bacon always the b Flour of vari< Syrup All of which we will sell fit < Feb. 14,1372, 13?tf Spring Stock idjnvitenll to call and examine llie same, feeling oth as to quality and price. AjtjcLdJ&j&ih >rc and better goods in tlieir linu than we have go variety ui' SUMMER DRESS GOODS, mid specially call their attention. ire have on hnjid many articles that will contribute 77 JLL UP" in the eicy Z-bIzILO I Granite a nge. NOW OPENING OUR Goods uever kept by us before?sucli as nil fno T.ofael Sfvlos L Cl/11 UJULls JLLZjL- JWkJ %J mvj ies', Misses and Gents' Shoes, v/i F8. TIES, COLLARS and CUFFS Endless Variety. 7 Goods, Ladies' and Misses' Hats rimmed, Flowers and Ribbons, a Fresh Supply of unfecticnaries, Id Eavanna Cigars, Election of Family Groceries, i many things we cannot mention. i public that their STOCK is now IZST STORE it is LARGE, VARIED AXD COMPLETE, their SS <Or<OiO>CiS? i and Embroideries, I DEPARTMENTS COMPRISES 5s, larflware, Esots, Slioss, Sals, (Mini, r AND GLASS WAEE, which will bo sold LOW on a C'ASII BASIS. iER & ROBERTSON. lN & SKLARZ, >7*TA?r?TfcT rmftTWJT flAHVTTm muwh usim uumim, ulcr to all tho World and the "rest of mankind' the present Sl'ItiNt; SEASON, at most uuques demoralizingly ruinous rates. VND ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF st styles which prevail in all the Courts of Eu !S AND SHOES, DOMESTICS, UEGS, DRY GOODS, Host fastidious and cultivated taste could desire, u in allof Abbeville, can find bargains just ex ell &> Co., tANITE RANGE. all of them know, that we keep IE OF GROCERIES, est, dus grades, and Molasses, Lard in Bbls. a^d Cans, Sugar of several qualities. Coffee, Bice, Salt, &c. :he lowest market prices. There is no Death. There is no death ! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore ; And bright in Heaven's jewelled crown, j They shine lor evermore. ! There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer flowers ! To golden grain or mellow fruit, | Or rainbow-tinted flowers. The granite rocks disorganize, And feed the hungry moss they bear; The forest leaves drink daily lilo From out the viewless air. There is no death! The leaves may fall, And flowers may fade and pass away; They only wait through wintry hours The coining of May-day. There is no death! An angel form Walks over the earth with silent tread And bears our best-loved things away, And then we call them "dead." He leaves our hearts all desolate, He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers; liaiis]uaiuvu unv uiiod. uuvj uu n Adorn immortal bovvers. Tlie hirdlike voice, whose joyous tones Make glad theso scenes of sin and strife, Sings now an everlasting song Around the tree of life. Where'er he sees a smile too bright, Or heart too pure for taint and vice, lie bears i j to that world of light, To dwell in paradise. Born unto that undying life, They leave us but to come again ; With joy we welcome them the same, Except their sin and puin. And ever near us, though unseen, HM.fl /lonr iminnrtnl cnirifc ti . For all the boundless universe Is life?there is uo dead. From Appleton's Journal. Miss IflWs Sister-Mat. A STORY IN SIX CHAPTERS. BY THE AUTHOR OF "VALERIE AYL AIEii," "ilOUTON HOUSE," "MABEL LEE," ETC. CHAPTER VI. It may bo imagined that, witli thoughts such as these for her com nnrilnriu Afr-5 Iriifinvliv \vn? lit.f.lfi die. posed for sleep. In fact, she still paced her chamber long after the other inmates of the house were wrapped in quiet slumber?long after even JUose's whito lids had sui.k over her violet eyes. It was well on to ward two o'clock when, at last, she suddenly stopped and made an impa linnf in>clpi>n .^."Things seem fantastic and unreal at night," she said. "Somehow, they aro always magnified, und events 01* feelings of really small*importance assume gigantic proportions when viewed at such a time. I know per fectly well that all these absurd scru ples on the one hand, these old, senti mental recollections on tin other, will fade into absolute insignificance to-morrow morning. Therefore, why shohuld I torment myself with them? Has the surprise of the day unstrung me? Am 1 mad that I don't sec. not only what 1 could, but what I must, do V" Sho walked abruptly across the floor, and drew back a curtain from one of the windows?a window look ing out over the garden and toward the Devcroux Aousc. The fragrant stillness of the starlit summer-night seemed to come to her like a soft ca ress; there was not tho faintest gleam of light anywhere, not tho faintest sound of moving life?only the per fume of the flowers, the brightness of the stars, a.id the dark outline of the stately root'cutting against tho stcel bluo sky. As she stood quite motion less, she heard a clock, far away in the heart of the silent town, striking two; and at that moment, almost as if the stroke had been a signal, a wild glare of flame burst forth from the hitherto dark and silont Devereux House. For an instant, Alice stood petri fied, absolutely doubting the evidence of her senses, and chained to the spot uy biiuur umuzuuiuut,' uui uus inuci/iuu did not last more than an instant. She was a woman of rare coolncss and prcseuco ot mind, and alio real ized at once that, owing to the lateness of the hour, the flames were likely to make fatal headway before any one was roused in the quiet neighborhood. She could seo that the fire had burst forth in the kitchen wing of the house, if the alarm was given im mediately, therefore, it might be ]jos | bible to save the main building. She sprung from the window, and, running I hastily down the corridor on which i her chamber opened, sho was boon thundering vigorously at Colonel Iu glesby's door. "What's the matter? Who tho deuce is that?" cried a startled voice within. "Tt. i? T A lino I" &V>r? unawor/xl ! "Mr. Devereux's bouse is on fire! The alarm ought to be given at once I Oh, sir, pray?pray get up!" Colonel Itglesby needed no further adjuration. She heard him say, "The devil!" and mako one spring to the floor. "I'll be thore in a minute," ho answered. "House tho servants, Al ice! Sond somebody to lenoek 'cm up over there. Whero did tho fire burst out? lias no alarm been given ?" "I have not heard a sound," sho replied. "Thero are never any police men in this part of the town, and everybody seoms asleep. Tho glare must waken them soon, however." "Is tho firo serious ?" "Very serious, 1 should think." She waited to say no more, but hast ened back to her own room to seo how matters were progressing. Even in theso few minutes, tho firo had gained considerably; but tho house itself was yet wrapped in utter still ncss. A Euddcn, horrible fear came over her. What if one of the trage dies so rife in these days of terror had been perpetrated ? What if the household hud been murdered, and the house fired to eonecal tho crime? Anything seems possible in a moment of panic, especially if that panic comes at night. Iler heart seemed to stand still for a minute; then a sudden flood of resolution came to her. She turned, left the room, ran down-stairs ?thinking, even in this moment of supreme excitement, that it was for tunato she had not undressed?and, groping her way through tho dark house, managed to unbar ono of the dining-room windows, and let herself i-nto tho garden. The whole thing occupied such a short epaco of timo that she saw scarcely any chango in state of affairs when sho'stepped out into tho open air. She did not stop to wonder at tho quietness which still brooded over every thing, nor to ad miro the effect of the flames so vividly thrown into relief against tho deep purple sky. She sped swiftly down one of tho paths which led to the gato opening into the Dovcreux grounds. It was as she reached this, and laid her hand on the familiar latch, that tho fir?t cry of "Fire 1" rang out in the street; and, tho next moment, the deep tones of the alarm bell begun to sound. "Thank God!" she said?but still she held on her way, knowing that succor could not come for sometime, and that meanwhile the.fire might render tho escape of those within difficult, if not dangerous. Quickly she sped across the flower-beds, quick ly through tho hedges and under the drooping vines laden with odorous blossoms, quickly across tho lawn damp with clinging dew, quicrfl)' up the broad stone steps icto tho portico. Then seizing tho bell-handle, she pulled it violently again and again. Still, no sound answered?though she /" / *n 1/1 liA'.ti* if fin Jnnr f?ir fivrrm* t,vsU?v> UV.I. XV " " ' 'J ' Good Heavens ! what can be the matter!" she thought, turning round to sec if no rescue waa at hand. As she looked, she saw a man come dashing hurriedly over the lawn to ward her. The front gates were still fastened, so that ho had evidently leaped the palings. As he sprang'np the steps, and they stood fiice to face in the bright glow, she saw that it was Konnon. "Laurence!" she cried. "Alice!" said lie?in tho tone of one overwhelmed with surprise. lint the next instant be remembered himself and drew back stiffly. "I beg pardon, Mrs. Inglcsb3T. 1 was surprised to sco you hero; but I supposo that, like myself, you wish to rouso the inmates. Is it possible no body is awake yet ?" "Nobody has stirred," sho an swered. "It seems to me exceedingly strange! I am very glad you have come. I saw the fire first," she went on, quickly, "my room is on this side ?I left ni3r father-in-law dressing? and?and?oil. pray ring the bell!" This confused speech did not sound vnrv in noli lilrn flin Rt,;it.i>lv Mr. Tn<rlns by, but in truth lvennori's dark eyes were reading her face so keenly, and she was so well aware that he was wondering how she came to be awake and dressed at such an hour of the night, that her usual self-possession quite forsook her. "Iling the bell!" sho repeated, sharply, as ho still stood looking at her. "Surely they must wake after awhile!" Peal after peal at the bell, knock after knock on the door producing 110 effect, Kennon shruir^ed his shoulders. "Devcrcux always sicj>t liko one of the suven champions of Christendom," ho said, "and it is evident his servants share the peculiarity. If you'll stay here, Mrs. Iuglesby, I'll go round and try to get into the house another way. This really does begin to look serious!'' "Surely the fire-company will be here soon," said she, anxiously?very anxiously, he thought. ' The alarm has just been given," ne answered. x uey are noi niteiy 10 bo here very soon. I ain afraid the old house will certainly go." "Oh, what a shame?what a pity !" "Quito a pity!" said he, philosophi cally. "J?ow are you going to get in?" she asked, as ho turned away. ' I shall break a window of tho con Bcrvatory," he answered, coolly. Then ho walked o(F, but when he reachedrho conservatory, ho found, much to his surprise, that she had followed him. "If you have no objection, 1 will go . in, too," she said. "I can wako the nr.. T\ nui v ..iu to, iviiiiu j \ju x yursu jlli'. j^UVUX" CUX." "Ave 3Tou afraid to trust me with him ?" asked he, with a sudden bitter tono in his voico, a sudden arigry flush in his cyo. "I havo not taken a de gree in assassination yet." "You know better than that," she answered, haughtily. "Mr. Devereux is no more to me than any other ac quaintance whose lifo I desiro to oavo ?no more than one of his servants. But if the house is doomed, I may be ahle to save a few valuables; and sineo there is nobody else to do it, I feci it right to go in." "I feel it right to tell you that there's risk in it." "Scarcely just yet, I think." lie glanced up at tho roof which was already beginning to blaze in several places?shrugged his shoul ders again?smashed a window, clim bed in, and opcncdva door for her. Together they entered tho house,'and soon found their way to tho upper regions. While Kennon went to wako his cousin, Alice roused tho startled servants, who scarcely waited to throw on their clothes before they flud in wild alarm. Then suddenly, as if by raagic, tho grounds became thronged with poo plo, tho engines of the fire-company came up at a gallop, and began to play upon tho roof, adventurous spirits thronged tho house, tossing the costly furnituro recklessly out of tho win dows and injuring far moro than they saved. Others again, camo to pilfer, tho flames rushed steadily on, tho pcoplo talked, tho engines played, tho [lowers stared at tho light of tho great conflagration, or wither ?d away beneath its fierce heat?a scene of wild pandemonium replaced tho odor ous quiet of the summer night. In the midst of this, Devercux UWiUO UUBLliy UjJ LU XV.C11UUU, WUUBIUUU on the outskirts of tho crowd, talk ing to Roso Inglesby. It struck them both, as he approached, that he looked Bingularly pale and agitated, even for a man whoso house was burning down. "Kennon," he said, hastily, "do you know where Mrs. Inglesby is? Have you heard?have you soen her any whero ?" "Mrs. Inglesby!" Kennon repeated, starting, and growing so pale that tho pallor of the other face was, by contrast, insignificant and natural. "My God?ho 1 Is she missing?" "I can't find her," tho other an swerod, "and one of tho servants says something about seeing her in the library. But sho can't have been bo foolish?so mad?as to stay there until'now. Perhaps sho has gono K A rt\ n \1 ?tja Tnrfln^lw /In t?Aii L?nnm9" livjuiv. a'iioo jlijivquj ? uu j vu auv/u i "I am suro she has not gone homo, Mr. Bevereux," Eoso answered, tremb ling with a sudden, vague fear. The two men looked at each olhor. In all their lives neither of them ever forgot that horrible, sickening mo ment. "Did you leave her in tho house ?" Devercux sharply asked. "I left her for you to bring out," Kennon as sharply answered. It was easy, then, to soo Low the thing occurred. Dcvereux had not heard of her presenco in tho house when ho hastily left it. Kennon had quitted it even before that, thinking A ? _ P. J ... /I . .1 1 _ / iiuce biuc unuer mo guaruiaiismp or tho man she had been so eager to save. She, on her part, had lingered in the library until escape was cut off by tho flames. "What are wo to do?" Dcvcreux asked, in the midst of tho awful, hushed panic which seized them. "You may do what you like," said Konnon. fiercely, "/am going after her. Ho turned quickly toward tho bouse, but Hose caught liis arm. At that moment she forgot every thing ?her-sister-in-law, Dovereux, maid enly reserve, every thing but I ho fear that he would rush madly into dan gor. "0 Mr. Kcnnon," she cried, "don't ?don't bo rash ! Perhaps Alice has gone home!" Kcnnon answered nothing ; ho only brushed her aside as if she had been a butterfly, and went on his way. Of what ensued ho had never more than a vaguo remembrance. lEo rec ollected mounting a fireman's ladder to tho library-window?that samo window at which Alice had stood a lew nights before, thinking ol bun? and climbing into tho room already full of dense, black smoke. Uut all this was singularly confused ; nothing was clear, until lie found himself kneeling over a half-suffocated and unconscious woman on tho sward below. Even in her unconsciousness, however, she did not relax her clasp of a small picture which she held. Strangely enough, it was the en graving which had hung over Devcr eux's writing-table. How brightly and joyously the next morning broko over the black ened ruin of' the once stately Dever eux House! How gayly the birds sang among the roses, how softly tho shadows flickered over tho green turf! How little any thing in Nature seem ed to reck of tho destruction which had been wrought between tho set ting and rising of the sun 1 ' And it would bo all the same if it had been a human life instead of a house 1" thought Alice Inglesby, as sho rose and stood at tho same win dow wboro sho had been standing when the flames broko forth the night before. Her attack of unconscious ness had been very slight?for sho was not a woman prono to fainting fits?and, thanks to a superb consti tution, had loft no ill effects beyond a little languor and paleness. Thcro might have been more, however, if sho had not been 'kept up" just then wont. During her vigil of tho dawn, she had taken a rcsolvo which had been lacking in her vigil of the night. Somehow, light had come to her, as well as to tho world. Things which had been cofiicting beforo, seemed thoroughly harmonious now. Stand ing there in the bright sun-light, her future life showed itself in a new as pect. Every thing within her was so changed, that tho whole outsido world seemed cnangcd also. Should sho ever forgot the look in Kennon's eyes, whon sho oponed her own on his face, there on the turf last night? It had gone straighter to her heart than if ho had pleaded with all tho passion ato eloquence that over stirred a hu man tonguo, And here let it be said that, being a woman of sense, and not a sentimental fool of any ago (for sentimental folly is not limited to six teen), sho did not for a moment think of attaching tho least importance to tiio mere fact of his having, in ro mantic parlance, "saved her life." Sho know perfectly well that he would have dono the samo good oflico quite as willingly for tho cook or the cham bermaid. It was that look iu his eyes which haunted lier?which seem ed to beckon her on to the perpetra tion of the rankest act of folly ever perpetrated by a "woman of tho world." Then the thought of Eoso and of Harry?tho two strangely mingled? came back to her as they had come tho night before. She seemed to see tho fair, roso-bud beauty of tho girl, and to feel tho same pang of absolute ly painful pity which she had felt tho night before, when she saw her fall ing into tho toils of tho adventurer, who avowedly wooed her only for her fortune. Yefc tho night before she ! had steeled her heart and said, "Where is tho remedy ?" Kow she seemed to seo tho remedy. "My life docs not matter," she said aioua. "i nave only mysen to con sider; and, therefore, why sboald I consider at all ? Nobody can bo in jured or aggrieved if I throw myself away; while Roso?ah ! it is different with her. She has a mother's heart to bo broken. Poor, foolish child! she has even a heart of hor own to suffer I?and how it would suffer when sho learned the trutn! How little sho will thank mo for such considera tion ; she added, with a short laugh; "and yet?if she only knew it?how infinitesimal is the heartache or two she will suffer now, to the ocean of anguish I will sparo her I Am I mad, I wonder?" sh^went on, walking to tho mirror and looking at herself. "I should ccrtaiuly have- said so yes terday. But to-day I feel inclined to act before sanity comes back." Mrs. Inglesby, senior, who, liko all tho rest of tho .household, felt singu larly restless and unsettled after the night ol adventure, had wandered into tho garden, and was blankly sur veying tho smoking ruins . which marked tho place where tho house had so lately stood, wnen, to nev amazement, Alice advanced from one of the dining-room windows toward her. "ily dear, you up?" she cried, aghast. ' . . "Thanks, yes, I have quito recover ed," Alico answered. Then, hasten ing on to cut short the remonstrance she felt to bo impending: "I saw you from my window, and I harried down at once, bccause I thought I could not find a better opportunity ior speaking to you?in confidence, if you have no objection." Of coarse, Mrs. Inglcsby Lad no objection, and only a few words wcro nccccsary to put matters on a confi dential footing between them. The mother's heart was too sorely anx ious not to bo glad of any counsellor, much more of any helper; and Alice with tho quiet composure of one certain of her own power. Before very long, Mrs. Inglcsby'a worst anx iety was relieved, and her worst fears allayed. .. "Find somo cxcusc for detaining Rose, this morning, from her usual walk," said Alice, "and I will guaran tee that Laurence Keunon shall never trouble her again-" 'But?but, my dear, how will you manage it ?" Mrs. Inglcsby cried. //XT !_ .1 1 T ,.1^1! IN UVUI UU UU X1UW X BlJilll IllUrlJUgW it," the other answered. "I promise to accomplish it?that is ail. You will hear the result before long," she added, as she turned toward the house; "and I hope you will be a lit tle sorry when I say that it will prob ably force mo to leave you." "But?Mr. Devercux ?" exclaimed the elder lad}*, who now began to have an inkling of the truth. ' Iloso will console Mr Devercux, I dare say," Alicc answered, quietly. And then she walked away. It would be hard to say how deep ly Eoso was cha^ririod when her mother made an absolute demand for '-tier presence that morning, and when she found that, without betraying an undue anxiety for her usual walk, she must submit to remain at home. Prudcnce, for o ico, carried the day. She submitted with a very bad grace, consoling herself with tho thought that Kennon was again safely domi ciled in Northorpe, and that opportu nities for seeing him were many. So, although it is to bo fearod that Mrs. luglesby did not have a very amiable companion, sho still carried her point, and tho field was Iclt clear lor AJico. At tho hour when Roso was in tho usual habit of going out, Alico came duwn-3tairs, and left tho house. As she descended tho front steps, sho met a servant ascending them with a letter in his hand, and, when ho touch ed his cap and extended it, she saw that it wirs addressed to herself. In a second, her heart gave a great leap. Tho writing told her at onco that it was from Dovercux, and sho must needs havo been dull beyond tho measure of ordinary dulness, if sho had not at onco divined tho nature of its contents. For a moment sho ' 1 1- .1! _i. il.. 1^^ SIOOU Him, looiiing au uiu cuvuiup us it lay in her hand?thinking, perhaps, how hard it was to fight against fate. She had thought to put temptation aside, and here it met her at the very threshold of her new determination. She had thought it would bo easier to ignoro the rich prize which chanco had thrown into hor life than to abso lutely nervo horself to tho point of rejecting it j yet hero it was in her hand, and acceptance or rejection was now a matter of necessity. She II . x ? _? t - in At ^ | wouiu noi nave ueun a woman, u uio J temptation had not been groat?so i great that sho dared not trust herself to consider it, that sho dared not en ter tho houso to answer that letter while still freo to answer it sho choso. After a minute, sho turned to tho ser vant. "I am just going out," sho said. "I cannot stop to read this now. Tell Mr. Peveroux that 1 will send an an swer as soon as I return." The man bowed and departed with this consolatory message. Turning hastily in the opposite direction, Alice wont her way toward tho square in which Hose usually took her morning walk, and where sho was sure of meeting ICennon, When she entered, sbo strolled up and down the paths laid out so trim ly between paths of green sward; but no sign of Kennon appeared. Several nui'ses were sitting round tho foun tain that played in tho centre of the square; children wore trundling hoops up and down tho walks ; ono or two men were resting on shady .benches, reading morning papers; and a pair of school-girls strolled past, with their heads bont over thoir French grammars. For a short time, Alice was puzzled by Kennon's absence from tho tryst; but then sho remem bered that 6bo was early, and, choos ing a walk which was uninvaded, she sat down on a bench to wait. Wait ing is, at all times, tiresome work; and, being in a state of excitoment, she found it moro than usually tire some this morning. So her hand soon found its way to her pocket, and brought forth Devercux's letter. Having brought it forth, the next step was to open and read it. She had read it twice, and her face was still bent over the page, when a ring ing step on the gravel-path mado her look up just as Aennon's shadow, fell over her. Ho looked astonished?as, indeed, there was good reason that ho should bo. - . "I am glad to see you so entirely recovered/' ho said, stopping bofOre her, but speaking very frigidly. "I feared that the results of your adven ture last night might provo very, se rious." "It might have proved serious to some people," she answered. "Forr tunately for me, however, I do not feel a nervous shock very much; and' there was little else in 'that. If yon had been ten minutes later, though?", "You might.have, been beyond re covery/' said he, coolly finishing her sentence as she paused.1' He was on' his guard now, and not- oven into bis eyes flickered? any thing moro ..than the quietest courtesy. "It was very horrible," said she, in a low voice. "I never knew before what suffocation meant; but the denso smoko quite overpowei*ed me, and I supposo I must havo been iri sensiblo for some time beforo you came." "Why did you go there ?" ho asked, unablo to repress his curiosity on that point. "There were some very fino: pic tures there," she answered.- "I want ed to save somo of them. After .all, i hnwflvw T rlirl nnfc Riirwanri in Hoinrr so."" v ! Then there was a paaso. Kcnnon 1 was still standing bcforo her, but he now made a movement as if ho wOu'ld f have bowed and passed on ; only jnst ' then she looked up and spoke quickly 1 ?with tho manner of one who . had ' nerved herself to an effort. j "I believe you havo an appointment ! with - Rose," she said. "Sho is nofe hero?will not be here this morning,. If you do not object, however, I should 1 like to say a few words to you." She pointed to a vacant place on \ tho bench beside hor, and, after a 1 slight hesitation, lioanon sat down. "I coufess I do not undeastand?" 1 he began; but she interrupted him. ' "You do not understand what 1 brought mo here ? That is very like- * lyj but, if you will be patient a mo ment, you shall hear. Wo aro old ' friends" and I wish to ask your advice. ] Will you read that ?" i She held Povercux's letter toward s him, and, with increased surprise, he ?.j received it. lie gave a start as sopn ' as ho saw the opening words, but he did not raiso his eyes, and, as ho road it, sho watched him keenly. He hold his faco under tolerably good control, but sho had onco known its least weather-sign, aud her eyes were not likely to dcecivo her now. Yet, when ho finished, Le looked up and spoke with more passion and less bittornoss than she had expected. "Well," said ho, ' toll mo now the meaning of this. You did not use to be orucl for the mere sake of cruelty, and I am loath to think that you have leaned to find pleasure in tho inflicti^r of pain. Yet your motive IVJk Y iUV <M ivwwui y uwuiwki mo. Do you want mo to go and cut ' this man's throat," ho wont on, with I ill-restrained vehamence, "that you J show mo, tho words 'of Iovo with ] which he offers you my inheritance?" < "I told you what I want," sho an- J swerod. "I want your advice." < ' My advico? I can givo it to you 1 in two words?marry him. lie is rich, and ho is a fool?marry him!" ''lie is not a fool," sho said, with something liko indignation in her | voice, '-lie is a man of whoso love - any woman might bo proud?whom ' any woman might well learn to love. That letter"?she pointed to it as sho ] spoko?"has touched mo moro than I can say. Only a fiuo naturo and a 1.1- f A. 11 1 !li 1 genuo uuart uuuiu uavu wriuen sucu - words as thoso." "Marry him, then I?for God's sake, i marry him I" Sho rose from her seat, and took a { turn down the walk?t,hen eamo back and stood before him, tho flickering; shadows falling softly over her reso lute face and earnest oyos. "Laurence," she said, "do you re membor yesterday ??do you remem ber telling mo that Fate had brought us together onco more, and that wo should not throw away our last hope of happiness ? Is yesterday to-day with you ? Think for a moment, and then tell mo?can you say that now?" In a moment ho understood her, and ho, too, rose to his feet. They faced each other steadily in tho golden ?? - f nnlight before he pointed to Dove cos's letter. "I say it now as Isald it then," ho :* nswered. "Bat, with this before mc, am constrained to add?don't let. 10 stand in your.wayThere is the j ath to fortune?take it now, as yon ook it before." 3 ' "You are unjust I" she crfed, pas ionatoly. "It was no path to fortuno hat I took before. A'nd if I'-ta^o itff" low it will only bo because by such . rords as iheso you prove to me that 7.' lose Inglesby's heiress-ship is more- >-[ 0 you than l am." ' Her shaft struck' home. Advert-; urerthough?bo WSs; RStftfoViftd ^ till enough wf honor bud :' aft to feel it. " A dark red flush surged ivcr his face, and, fetcpfliner forward a cw feet, be caught her bands. ^ "Tell mo what you mean?*' ho de nanded, almost roughly. "I am.dull it reading riddles, and this hasgTown >eyond my comprehension. . Why iave you comehere??why'have you iho.wed me that letter ??why do you ipeak.to me like this? You k?ow ,hat Hose Inglosby is nothing to mo,, md that yon?aro everything Do rou mean thatiyou are willing to givo lp him for met" <. . TTfl nnintftd nn/?n rnnw +< ? tl?n laita* ??? WMVW MAWAV VV WUV *VIMV& ?now lying on tho ground at his :f eet?and Alice's gaze followed tho '<'* ;esture half sadly. Stooping, as if by i sadden impulse, she lifted the open, jheet of paper,'gently, fblded it, and aid it aside On the bench. Th6b. Bh'd>:'{ mrned back to Kennon, and* held, out ler hand. ' f "Just'that way I put him out of ray ife-" shci said. "If you wish to lako ' ne,! hero .I am.": ) ?o:> u:li \ ; m>:ti At this point vour story .cnd3, ,; At. , ihirpoint the sister-in-law, w^p "had' mtercd MiBs. IngtesbyV life; and 't 2h an god. its whole current and wean- < nar. want'oat of .-it apain: and lafiUi, ^ W ?# " - I _ .W ?## V' J . ?< , ^ :or a brief space, at le^t-rrnpt Jittlo )f desolation behind iSel*, "Of*'cotf'r&ej':l fto^e was tod' proad-' to <h6b Ifceptyiand sharply >the Alow ifrtfrre &$? raftered. many a sharp - pang, .ajiu s. netHnatt^Ha' dreary1 tjorfiJht \ a t even slightly healed;1 .Can Wf.W0Shu>, Jer at.thia ? The gii? had. "not given,, r lier heart unasked, as sojno girls do, * ind therefore 6heha&ndtin:currc& a the legitimate penalty- of? fidlly.- - nad merely , jsuffer^ jife&obe :W<?*<Jw she had merely fallen, into a^s.naro which might have entrapped an older'* ind wiser' wdmari: j' and,-''instead of1* waking slowly, and with- a ?ickening ?i isonsciousness otf"too late" to this v, knowledge, it was forced Gil "her "by" ane sharp stroke. It may be said that &?o had-causo for gratftudo in.i learning the truth so soon. No doubt , she had, and no doubt she felt this i fl i! . ' v? > * % ! ' Deiore very long j uuir av nrsc?woir, suffering is apt tO'-mttkb even .Uypa wisest unreasonably ^nd it, was not?v strange that at first sho only. felt tJUp r joro bitterness .of affection pasted and trust betrayed. 'She was very^oarijjy ? fiowever; and theyotmg rally quieklyrfi rom oven the deepest,,J>lowa. Aflfr?,, i while, her parents.t.ook her abroadL.f md then Alice's'<]5rOp^ccy''<A^dsfftl8!,' While travelling they met rDev6rifeux* ii ivhOT-whethor to solace ,his- disap pointment, or to improve his mind? liorl oIqa loft. VnrhViftrrvA *R.non tVinn<vhf. fa"" that he improved on acquaintance rory dccidodly;'and, when she re turned to America, he accompanied lier. The latest news from Nortliorpo [eaves no doubt but that' lhey will soon bo married. And Alice? "\Ycll-*-Alico is not un happy. In tho first place, she is mar ried to a man whom she loves, and, n the second place, fehe ia:married ^to - i man who lovps rheifc .$&obo ttfo . acts would enable iier to Dear mueb, f eho had much to bear,, whidh, in: :ruth,' has not been tho case; Med of Kenton's sjUimp do ;not rfcform sud lenly; but thore ie at least reasonable ground for hoping 'tha't'witli him tho worst is over, and that'he will never ling himself quite as rccklessly against public opinion in tho future ap in tho past.. Let what will come, however, ais wife has girdcd'up herself to bear f.! .<ind. if crentloDesa..a!id courtice. J- ?v?j -- O / ? a / ind deyotion can save hin), ,he jnay . pot bo tared. With all',the, troubles ,hat have encompassed her, it is not probable that Mrs. Kennoh has-evOr'* regretted her choice. JFrom the first 5I10 realized how inadequate Hose's itrength would have proved for the burden laid on her; how terrible on' aoth sides would havo been tho mar. riago which hor intervention alono prevented. Feeling this, sho is're jomposed; but-it is doubtful whether Miss Inglesby ever has known,- op jvor will know, all that sho owes to ier sister-in-law. . ' THE END. Sold Out.?The following interest ' Ling announcement appears in.vthe L\e\v xoric. woria 01 jjjne sjnp, uauer tho. head of auction sales;; By A. E Muller, P. ft Wiikins & Co? Office No. 7 Pino street, SATURDAY, Jtreo 29, A.t 12 o'clock, p. mJ, at tho" Exchange Sales Room, Ko. Ill Broadway, , [By ordor of H. R., Kimpton, Esq.) All tho right, title, interest1 and ostato "Which Joseph' Crews. tho 20th of May, 1870i,..i)VFng, ryuo-.: CW01IU1 oi mw WftW viilo and Columbia Eailroad po'mpa ny )$outh Caroliriii,j tffon^ifnct! 'an?F hold by the Greenville arid Colombia Railroad partnership, Baid. 6tock. be in<' about 50.000shares. Terms cash. Great thoughts belorig ;'onfy'and ' truly to him whoso mind can'hold them. No matter who first put thcin in words, if they come to a soul and fill it they belong to it whether they floated on the voice of others or on the wings of silence and the eight.