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Moiise on {Mars! pcnod the lower comparttnent wm Marvelous Result* THE MYSTERY OF THE ALDERSk ST WAKDEM. CHAPTER XIL I went to my room very quietly tn fear of wakin;'. i. It was a cal*i nijtht. but as 1 ■ u. id the room my camll.) went HUu -‘.Jy out, and 1 fan cied I heard a t> ^lit sound of a human breath biowinsf it. The room wa? very dar'< for the lire was out and not a ray of moonli,'V. <■■ uld penetrate the tight ly closed (binds. I was somewmat frightened and began a timid search for the matches on the ruantlo piece, and in passing my hand over the vari ous articles thereon I knocked over a china ornament, which fell into the fireplace. Just as this happened I heard a noise beKnd the screen and turning was in time . j see the dim out- j line of a figure pass out of the room through the still open door. I was faint with fear and could not move foi a few moments. Then I searched further for tlio matches without suc cess. It was out of the qi cstion to think of disrobing without a light, sol determined to conquer my fears and go down stairs ana procure matchei which, I reflected, I should be sure to find in the kitchen. So I groped nu way down the back staircase, where] had never been before and opened ■ closet door. The moment I did so 1 beard a sound on the floor which I knew was the rush of myriads of black beetles, and as I would rathor face a dozen people than feel under my foot the “scrunch” of one black beetle 1 shut the door quickly. The only thing left for me was to grope my way through the passages to we hall where I knew the exact posi tion of the match box w..ich stood the hall tabic. Having go' -.afely to the bottom of the staircase without seeing or hearing any thing, I was creeping along the passage when I caught the first faint sounds of voices. I stopped, then went on again softly, while tne sounds be came plainer, I found that they proceeded from Mr. Raynor's study, the door of which I had to pass. I dis covered by the thin thred of light it let out upon the passage that this door was ajar, at the same moment that] recognized Sarah’s voice. 8 j was speaking in a low sullen tone, and, as I drew nearer, I was arrested hall igainst my will by words which seemed op tne intention of reading" the two notet i , , _ I had received from Mr. Reade, and 1 From a letter * itten by Rev. discovered that the last one, the om;J. Gunoerman, of Dimondale, that liad come with the cigar box on Mich , w« are permitted to make ! * 1 '“»<> r ‘r “s takn it! . t ;on m recommending Dr. King’ it was Sarah then whom I had ror I New Db Co very, as the reHUlte phsed in my apartment that eveningl were ahroftt marvelous iu ino ohe had taken the letter from my desk i cu8e 0 f my wife. Wbile I and probably show n it to htr. Hs on case of my wife. While 1 was on some pretense of bavbg%icffl | P^tor of the Baptist Churcht a np” to prove to him that I was oanr- i J unction she was brough- hig on a olandestine oorrespondenM down with Pueunv > ia succeedt with Mr. Laurence Reade, wuh whoM ing La Grippe. T ' ib'le parox handwriting he was familiar. I wai annoyed and disgusted beyond mea» tire. I could have forgiven her foi every thing but the loss of my precious letter. I shed some tears at the Toss of it and wondered whether she would era] restore iL Then I went to bed, very tired and very unhappy; and at last 1 fell asleep with my bands clasping the note thal Sarah could not get at, which I wor* in the case round my neck. Perhaps the excitement and the agi tation of the evening had caused my sleep to bo lighter than usual. At any rate I was awakened by a very sljght noise indeed, so slight that I thought 11 must have been the work of my nerv ous fancy; and my sleepy eyes wer* closing again, when I suddenly becams conscious that there was a light in ths room not that of the rising sun. Fully awake now, and cold all ovsi with thir, new fright, I saw by the flick, eringon the ceiling that the tight must come from a candle behind the screen] I saw that it was being carried forward Into the room, and then I closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep. My fingers were still clinging to the littli ease; but they were wet and clammy with horror. Was it Sarah P What was she going to do now? To pal back my letter? I did not dare to look. I lay there listening so intently thal I could hear, or fancy I heard, each •oft step tai en by the intruder. Then they stopped; and from the effect ol the flickering light through my closed eyelids I guessed that the candle was being raised to throw its light on my face. Still I had seli-coramand enough to lie quite still and to imitate the long- drawn breathing of a sleeping person. But then my heart seemed to stand still, fur licit in.i ngnt coming and 1 heard the faint sound of Ing figure growing plainer, until tha a mov- mg li light ’ P la was flashed within a foot of my face. 1 could not nave moved then, i was half paralyzed. Then I noticed a S’ 1 , nursery herself. Governs indeedl” liUd V6ry *P<* “Is that all you have * . say?" said Mr. Ravner, very low, b», a his coldest, most cutting tone. “That’s—that’s all I have to say,*’ scM Sarah, with a choking sound in nci Voice. The woman was evidently unhappy; I aim • t pitied her. “Then the matter is easily settled. You can go.” “I can go! I go! Do you know what you’re saying? Do you think you could replace me as easily as you can such as her?” ’ “Tin t is my affair. You wi hcdmo to choose between the services of an underpaid governess and those of an overpaid servant I have chosen.” “Overpaid! My services overpaid! My services cun’’ ‘•j overpaid!’’ she hissed out. “As long us yon joined discretion to your other undoubted good qualities, I paid you according to that estimate. Now that you let yourself he swayed beyond ad hounds of prudence by trifling feelings of jealousy and spite like a foolish girl, your value runs down to that level. You are no longer a girl, Sarah, and your position is changed in many ways since then, in most for the better. If you cannot ao eept the change quietly, you had bets ter go.” And you would let me go—for % pew-comer?” said ths woman passlote T can not think of sending away any member of my household for the caprice of any other member of it, how ever valuable a servant she may haw been—” “May have been—may have been! My work is not over yet, and, if I don’t work for you, I’ll work against TOO,” •he broke out in a fury. “I’ll—’ *• Not so fast, not so fast,” said hs •lowly. “You will find that up-hill work when you have to deal with me, Sarah Gooch." - He spoke in the hard tone I h>d heard him use once or twice before—* tone which always made me shudder. Then his voice changed suddenly to • genial, almost caressing tone. “ Now do you think you will bo ah’s to get on without mo as well as I can without you?" There was a pause. Then I beard Sarah burst it o sobs and low pursions ate cries for pity, for forgiveness. “ Why are you so ham? How can you have the heart to talk like that about my services, as if I was too old for anything but money bargains? That chit, that Christie girl, that you J iut before me, will never serve you iko I've done.” “The services of a governess are not the same as those of a servant. That is enough about Miss Christie, Sarah.” “Enough and welcome ah''it the little flirt —a creature that ki eps dia monds from one man in her desk, and wears round her neck a letter from an other > hieh she kisses on the alyl Oh, I’ve seen her, the little— the bedclothes. Still I did not move. I had formed • sort of plan in those deadly two min utes, which seemed like two hours, when the light was coming nearer and nearer to ray face. The hand crept softly up, and slipped under the bed clothes close to my chin, till it touched my lingers clutching the little leathern case. It tried to disengage the n but my clasp of my treasure was lit . grim death, ii. ni the hand was sof.ly with drawn. I heard the drawing of • cork, I smelt the faint jemefl'more strongl r, and a handkerchief wet -, i;h , , . . , .some in. .ening, suffocating stuff was c'turch, and, pausing long thrown lightly over my face. j fore the tablet, the old lady Then l tnrted up with a shout _ lu’J t and terolngss my lungs could give, tore the handkerchief mom pm wee, and confronted fUwih, who tar* uaek, her dark face livid with anger, but without uttering a sound. In hci hand she held a little bottle. I tried with a spring to. dash it from her grasp, but she was too quick for me, aud, with a step back against the screen, she held it out of my reach. Then the screen fell down with a loud crash. My at tention was distracted from the woman to it for one moment, and in that mo ment she made another spring at my peck. But then there was a sound out side which had as many terrors for hei as her own hard voice had for me. ’ I* was Mr. Rayner, calling sharply auc sternly: “Sarah, come out here!” She started; then her face grew sul len and she stood like a rock befon me. Again Mr. Rayner called: “Sarah, dro you hear me? Comt here!” And, as if a spell had been cast upoi her which it was vain for her to figh' against, she went slowly out of th< room, and I was left alone. I sp-ung from the bed, locked th< door and fell down against it in tin dark aud cold in a passion of hysterica sobs that I could not restrain. TUer they died away, and I felt my limbi grow numb and st ff; bull had nol power to move, and thought I must b( dying. Then I heard a fall at the bottom o the stairs and a woman's cry, and im mediately after a voice outside rouse* Lto bk conniinKD.J ysms of coughing would las hours with littlo interruption and it seemed as if she cout i not survive them. A friend rle cm-nended Dr. Kind’s Ness Dscovory; it was quick in iis work and highly satis factory tn results.” Trial bottles free at Dr.J. A. Royd’s Drug Btoie. “It’s all right, he said, pati ently. “Go into politics and run for office if you want to. But remember one thing, the cartoonists ’ll be after you as soon as you’re a candidate.” “I don’t care.” “And they’ll put your picture in the paper with your bn ’out of curl and your hat on cr Hik ed.” “Do you think they would do that?” she inquired, apprehen sively. “Of course. And they’ll make your Paris gowns look like ten cent calico, and say that your sealskin coat is imita tion.” “William,” she said, after a thoughtful pause, “I guess I’ll stay just right here and make h o*m e happy.”—Washington Star. No one in ordinary health need become bald or gray, if he will follow sensible treatment. V/o advise cleanliness of the scalp and the use of Hall’s Hair Renewer. A i -»•*- -W - -- ' A pood story, illustrative of the pi os- to nat .re on which art makes no impression, is told by the New York Evangelist: Iu the “monument room” at Trin ity church ii the large marMe tablet i’: memory of the j£;te r ’ishop-Hobart. It is a h.T r *i. - ief representing the hi -hop—a portrait—in the agony of deatn, sinking into the arms of an al legorical female figure, presum ably intended for the Angel of Death. It is s me! i at an aged couple from the rural districts were being shown about the imreb and, pausing long be re marked to h«r husband a ~0RJ C <0\L, hard and 1 wood of all kind*, may be sent me by teiep! the office ‘ of the Dari Manufacturing Company,’ they may he given to the drivpr of rnv wagon. - J. L. EDWARDS. Nov. 21—tf. Clerk’s Sales. ST A TE OF SO U.TU CAROLINA. Cout iy of Darlington. IN COMMOH PLMAft* Francis .T. Pelzer, vs. Z. R. Mixon and b hum Galloway. Ju hr ment for Foreclosure. Pursuai.r to a Judgment for Foreclos ure made In the above stated case, 1 will offer for sale in front of the court house in Darlington county, on the first Monday in Jan. next, the following described real estate: All th.t certain tractor pared of land containing one hundred acre*, more or less, and bounded on the north by lands of Z. R. Mixon, on the east by lands of John F. Atkinson, sonth by lands of William Richardson and west by estate leads of Jcese Gil bert: and also all that other tract of land containing forty (40) acres, more or less, bounded north by estate lands of Jesse Gilbert, east by lands of R. H. A. Grantham, south hy lands of Z. R. Mixon and west by estate lands of ■Jesse Gilbert. Terms of sale, one-half cash, bal ance in one year, secured by the bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the premises sold. Purchaser to pay for all necessary papers. W. ALBERT PARROTT, Dec. 14,1895. Clerk. A NEW BUGGY and a uice new set of harness Il ia: >si ■v a ■ Non - sni-.l Mr. I’nvncr sharp ' It is mo Four Big Successes. ly. “And what if she d business of initio.” I In;:'-! him rise hn-iily from his chair and walk across the room; and i fli J p.iiit like a hare. Trembling and panting, found my way to the hall table, took out of tho box there half a dozen matches a.i’i crept guiltily miserably upstairs. How Mr Ray- ners, "'ood opinion of me would have sunk had he discovered me. listen ing to tho conversation. I cried with shame and remorse ns l shut my self in my room and lighted my candle. I did not feel a bit frightened ’ now. I, forgot oven to turn tho key in ths lock. When I considered collectedly whal I had heard 1 no longer doubted thal Sarah was the at .o iant of Mrs Ray nor, cud that win sue spoke, of work ing against Mr Ravner she meant tt publish far and wide tho secret he had so carefully kept—that ho had a wift tottering on the verge oi insanity. 1 saw how strong tho woman’s passioni were and how deep was her devotion to her master, and began to understand that it was hard for her to see so many acts of consideration showered upon n new-comer which she could not front the nature of her position expect And I tried to forgive her, but I hoped sht would go away all the same. As I rose from my chair I saw that my desk had been moved. I opened It and looked in the top compartment which was where I kept? Mr. Rayner’i present It.was in tttS CM& _ AJUffl.-! Having the needed merit to more than make good all the advertising claimed for them, the following four remedies have reached a phenomenal sale. Dr. King’s New Discovery, for consul;u i >’ion, Coughs and Colds, each uottle guaranteed—Elec tric Bitters, the great remedy for Liver, Stomach and Kid neys. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and Dr, King’s New Life Pills, which •>re a perfect pill. All these remedies are guaranteed to do just what is claimed for them and the dealer whose name is attached herewith will be glad to tell you more of them. Sold at Dr j. A. Boyd’s Drug Store That’s good likeness of the bishop, out—” regarding the angelic personage attentively—“it’s a very poor one of Mrs. Hobart. I knew her well, and she didn’t look like that.” Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and LaGrippe when Lax ative Bromo Quinine will cure you in one day. Does not pro. duce the ringing in the head like Sulphate of Quinine. Put up in tablets convenient for tak ing. Guaranteed to cure, or money r» .fund id. Price, 25 cents. For ^alo by 0. B. Davis. ANIMAL MECHANICS. The first wearer of armor was the crab. The first shovel was the nose of the shovel fish. The human eye is a perfect camera obscura. The first adobe’houaea were built by the swallows. The v first tunnel ever made was exca vated by tha mole. The armadillo was the first wearer of plate armor. The arm and its muscles form the most approved style of lever. A bird which builds a hanging nest never selects a dead or insecure twig. The spring trap is constructed on the principle of the jaws of a shark or dol phin. The water snail has a gelatinous rope which he can lengthen or shorten at uleasure. e, and to arrive, the of CARRIAGES. wagons and 'HARNESS I huY t had for ten years. Call and -tNamine before buying. 0. W. HEWITT. iu life: 31 . —:0: — Mrs. Noment b«f* to her siucsre thanks and gratitude for tho very generous, and highly support accorded to her in uanoe of the Fire Insurance department of her late husband’• basinets:—With much satisfaction, she calls attention the prompt and liberal settlements, which hare been experienced hy thoee having sustained loss under policies is sued through her Agency,—sad as shs represente only first-clast, high grade Companies she feels assured of aeon tinuance of these valuable business ad' vantages, as connected withtranaactions hrough her Agency; sad therefore takes great pleasure in Teqneatlag continuance *f like generous support. 6.1 HACKER & M, Manufacturers —•OF— Hours, Sasb, Bilims. MIOXJX.3D IITcis —AND- Building Material. ESTABLISHED 1842 CHARLESTON, 8. 0. April, 2018»8-y This space is the property of So. Simple. Nine time! out of ten ■whenwe are out of sorts- our trou bles can be removed by that re liable old medicine. the popular grocers, whose new advertise- Adams—What are you ;ead- inu? Brown—It is very useful hook for t! • -i' who don’t know ! j to swim. ill w so?” • if you fall overboard,all you have to do is to turn to page 57 and read the directions, and you are safe ”—Standard. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns, and all Skis Eruptions, aud positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents E ar box. For sale at Dr. J. A. oyd’s drugstore. Brown’s Iron Bitters, which for more than 20 years has been curing many people of Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Ma laria, Impure Blood, Neural gia, Headache, Liver and Kid ney troubles. It’s the peculiar combination of iron, the great strength-giver, with selected vegetable remedies of true value that makes Brown’s Iron Bitters so good for strengthen ing and purifying the system. It is specially g<x>d for women and children—it makes them strong and rosy. Brum’S iron Bitters Is pleasant to take, and It will not atatn the teeth nor caaae constipation. St c the orosaed redlines mm tie wr.ipper. Oar book, “How to Uva a Hun<l"coYcara,’!JaUo ail aboat it; Irsa fee fc. stamp. • <0 BaawnCuaMTCJU. Co, gM-mscm, Mat That’s our buinese. est and of genuine Dongola, toe, button shoes for now worth that at „ UND FOB SALE. OTS AND PARCELS OF LAND ■ for sale by the Darlington Land Improvement Company, who will sell on terms one-third cash, balance to suit purchaser, lots of i acre to SO acres, lo cated where desired on our property. Our lands are good farming lands for all kinds of crops, as well as being loca ted in or near our town. AU persons desiring to purchase will please call on the undersigned, who will afford every facility to purchasers to examine our property. We believe we offer rare in ducements for investors. J. J. WARD, Pres. A Trees., D. L. L Co. Oct. 81—tm. Judicial Sale. STATE OF 8001SCAROLINA. County of Darlington. By virtue of a Decretal Order leaning out of the Circuit Court of Ommon Pleas in Chancery, I willsell at pub lie vendue at the door of the court house of the County of Darlington on the first Monday In Jannnry.lEfifi, between the hoars of eleren o’clock in the forenoon and live o’clock in the afternoon the property deacrib. ed below. W. A Carrigan vs. M. J. Outlaw. Tract No. 1, containing one hundred (100) acres, more or less, bounded north by land of M. J. Outlaw; east by tract No. 2 of Outlaw lands, south by public road leading from Darling ton Court House to Kelly’s Bridge on Lynches River; west by road known as the Gilbert MiU Road. Tract No. 2. containing one hun dred, twenty and one half (1201) acres, more or less, bounded north by land of M. J. Outlaw: east by land of R. iegars and B. L. Outlaw; south by abUc road leading from Darlington tourt House to Kelly’a Bridge on Lynches River; west by tract No. 1 of Outlaw lands: conveyed to M. J. Out law by F. W. Kerchner. Tract No 8, containing two iiun dred (200) acres, more or less, bounded north by estate lands of Robert Kel ly; east by lands of a. Weinberg and J. E. King; south by land of J. E. King and public road leading from Dar lington Court House to Kelly’s Bridge ou T.vnches River, and west by lai of B. L. Outlaw: conveyed to X. J. Outlaw bv J- N. Garner,Cl’k-of Court, 8rd Dec., ’7#. 1 Terms of sale one-half cash, balance on a credit of one year, with interest, secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay for necessary papers. R. K. CHARLES. Master. J. P. McNeill, Esq., Plaintiff's Attorney. m Oar line of $8-00 Shoe* for men i* ever, as we took more pains wlM| before, and succeeded in getting ever handled. In speaking of our ms mm HAND-SI ; for ladies and gentlemen, it is 1 comment, as we have sole Shoes for Ladies and. hand-sewed Shoes for fall line of Children’s Goods, Tranks, Valieee, We are also sole agents far Iks tlssaDees hum;' t .ill appear in IMIS, IlSt. our next issue. CiM Wrt ill til litis undertaken, and satisfaction guaranteed JNHH SISKROE’S m/mm ■ . The THE RILEY, : -c ...MSI Our 1 foreign oederaaral financial facilities, 1 >ck. Wugivej or dealer, oeption of < oe^pts and give t to have 1 rates, for* «d that wa t c. %