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^^fe^j^y- . *P*n* MO*_ "Be Jost and Fear not-Let all the Ends thoo Alms't at, be thy Connery's, thy God's and Troth's." ~ ' ' - Tm^?k . ," 7 ~ " '"^^^^1 ? "^^./S.^i^tt** *' " RTTM'PTF.'D a n mmro-nAv K -mpnTm/r-rnn-n sortir : ~~-^TT^^~?^t? " TX&XS: . Two Bo??ars per ananm-ia md vance. SPfe'vA*- ova IT i ea ira ?TS. . . ??* Sgware, ?xst insertion-09 /.Oaa-tracts for three months, or longer will ?a- aasde at reduced rates. ~ Alt comutirateations which snbserre prirate ?lawasai aaTTIiirnnrir 1 forasadvert?weuts, ?huter mam?? settees of? Pllflfel ^ - , GROCERIES, . AND ^^^^?d;:;Goods ^^-"'0&??iaea caH, nexrdeor ?orth of Monaghan's. IM Banwell, 6a. and be your ow% KEELS, li i SLINGS AND ARROWS ff Br BTJ?H CONWAY: j ?vthor of batted Back?- "I>*rfr **A Fam?y Affair? Ste. CHAPTER V. "THAT IT SHOULD COM TO Tm" i . Wejreached to-ru oa th? Monday night and slept at an hotel. Thursday morning we were towart for the eontinear. Besides Ad intervie w WK Eustace Grant, there were many business matters to which I was bound to atte nd. I bad to see my own solic? itor, *?i give- him instructions about tba Caettiemont i?hich I wished to make on :MoIa ; I bad afc to make my witt, a matter which t?it?l now i bad neglected; so that the Tuesda y and 'Wednesday promised to be tuHy occtipied. Viola ?ko wished to 5ya vfcit to her old friend, Miss Rossiter. ie prim spinster would never forgive her if she passed through town without calling. JB^J??jk<X^ ;psesB* me to accompany her. Terhapa,'"in the present changed and unex? pected state of affairs, she had mach to say to ber old friend which could not well be said in my pr?senos. So I suggested she should go alone, to her ead bom? sp?zad an hour with her friend and meet me at Mr. Monk's at 12 o'clock. Jh tba meantime I would go to my own aoHcxtor*? and MITT ange my business, 'tte pnrpor t of which I did not make known to my wife. ? I hired a private brougham for ber, placed her in it and stood1 at tte win? dow saying alien. It was the first time since our marriage that we had been parted for an hoar. :it was, ^moreover, her twenty first birthday, and on har hand was a ri ng winch I had Jose given; ber-a ring the " tame of which had startled her, for she had not yet realms! what it was to be a rich !mankw)ife,:. .; ;l A was the first time wc had parted far an . hour. J ' As I wished, her good-by I remembered that my own business would take some time. **If I am not very punctual, yon won't miad waitictgP I said. . ." ? s "No, I shaQ Uko lt Eustace wffl be there, and I hare so much to say to him so much to ask him. - Don' t harry; Julian." ~ I fancie! that Viola wished tos? Ens- ~ -t?^^aSTa???^ order to j persuade him, as she bad triel to"perliu?4?~ me, that we bal only to know more of each | other to bo like brothers. She could not ! understand the gulf between two men who lore th? sarne^ woraan. I thought it was weil she should see mm. He would maka ] ciear to h?r the impossibility ; of. anything ' like friendship ead ^ting between us. ... Jost asl was about to~ bid tho coachman driva onm^Icwked ai; ma with A little pout. "I knew its meanixtg. I pawed my head through the carriage .window. My shoul? ders insured strict privacy. Then alight kiss fell upon my Hps. and a word of love passed between us. I linger on tbese triTial evidences of affection, it -win soon be seen why. I watched the carriage which held all I loved join m in the broad stream of tramo. Iben I lighted my cigar, and, tte happie st man i? England; talked over to my solic? itor's. . ' My business too*, even longer 'than I ex? pected it would. 'lhere',was mach to dis? cos. What stock eoald be settled as it stood -what should be ssld out-who were to b3 trustee?-what waa to happen m the event of V.oU'a death: was she Ho have power of appointment or nott All sort? of questions ilka this heit to be ventilated. The conse? quence was that whoa I glanced at my watch I fooni it iras nearly 1 o'clock, I told my solicitor 1? mast defer giving in? set uetiow fur my trill until to-morrow. I jnmpod into a cab and drove to lincoln's lan Fields, Sb. Sn, ready-to make the full eat apologies fer my nnpanctuality. I went up stairs, :!ound Mr. Monk's offies, and s^nt my name in to him by hu dark. I was invited to enter bis private room. Mr. ' Monk was busy with some papers. "Yea wfi? find your friends in tte nexb room, Mr. Loraine, ' he said. "I wfli Join yon in a moment." ' . The ' clerk opened a . green baize door, through wh'eh I passed, and fotrai myself in another offioe. in it, however, were no sigas of Vioia and Grant; I returned to Mr. Monk, and told tim they were not tterac- ' * "Then they must have grown tired ; of waiting for yon, encl have gone for a stroll. There is a door which opens into the pat sage. Ko doubt they went that way. Toa mast sit down and take your torn at wait? ing; Mr. Loraine,'' I waited half an boor, then determined to go-in search of them. It was impossible they had gono to lode for me; so I went down mto the street and asked tte driver ot the brougham it-Is had ?eon tte lady. : 4iYe*v sir; she wenJT by about an beor ago with a tall gentleman." ?.Which wayr - **I don't know, sir. I saw them hal a cab and drive off. I dicin'fc notice ht which di? rection they went" Why in the world should they have taken a cab, when the brougham waa at tte douri- ? I was very cross at the thought of Viola's '. driving about London in a cab witt Eustace ! Girant; but, as the brougham was st?li wait- j mg at Ka 36, it was (dear that they meant to return. After an, the best thing I could do was to wait. Ai; yet, not a thought of the truth had ventured to invade my brain. j , So T wai tel on the pavement outside Mr. Mock's office for at least an boor longer. SriR -no sign of my wife. _ I grew nervous md anxious. Surely some accident must have happened-something that obbged her to go straight to the-; hotel. But even then Grant would have coma to let me know it Bait not a thought cf the dreadful truth I But where could she te? I Jumped into the braham, and. drove to the hotel No; Mri loraine was not there. "Tnrbve to..Miss^ossiier2s^ Viola ha-? been there ianthe. mcrnjng, but had lett .boat 11:30 o'clock. I did not see Miss Ros Cter, who, X was sorry to bear, was iU in bsd... ASA last resource, I drove to Grant's boase and asked for lum. Hs was out Had. not bean home -since tba morning. ?uite uncertain; when he would return .. It was, now past 8 o clock. Anxious and mnoyei, I could do nothing but go back' to ibe hotel and wait my wife's return. St?? ; lot a tbcught of the truth. . I spent tte r^t of the afternoon and even ng passing from the hotel to Miss Rossiters, (rom" there fo Gtanf g lodgings, and from 3ranf s lodgings back to the hotel Only kt one of these three places could I hope ta Sad tidings of Viola, 2fepeatedly as I had saflfid, it was not unta- nearly ll o'clock ^I^onirf'Eastace'GiantathcTOe. But by now I was in a different mood. BtnJ} Tbe'Wamed for saytrqr that this long ut?Tmexplainedab?eno? of Vo.a'sia com jnay; it 533 med, with Gi-ant, brought a bor? die dread; which I searoely dared te waatfae to my*?l/? Tho news that Grant sas at last at home lifted a weight from my Mart He would be able to tell me when lad where he partie* with Viola. Ko doubt *;*0&a message fer ftx which would clear tp everything. Bat ?ithough Mr. G rant was at. home, fc#?er>rai*iniftrt? he would sea ?^4o*rfgttV -^madeiro jxmunen t on au denial I simply forc?d thwdoor open, tod,pattin* the fr%htaaed secant aside. .; sitting room in which Grant had; on th J night when I first' mat bim, interrogate: ? ma. li was empty. I thre w myself int? . a chair, and waited anti! some one. mad< s mr presen cs known to the man whcml wai bent npou seeing; Ko doubt he heard the noise of my forcibh entrance. In a minute the fold in? door, which, as is often the case in lodgings divided the sitting-room from the bed-room opened, and Eustace Grant appeared. Ai be did so I caught a glimpse of the bed room from which he emerged. An opez portmanteau, apparently half pac'iod, wat lying on the bed, and there ware other evi dances of preparation for a. journey. \ ? Grant advanced toward me, "but he mad? no pretense of greeting ma He neither offered his ban i nor baie me good evening. I roso and f acyi hint Be was paie, almost ghastly pale. Hil brows were bent, and a slight twitch of the nostril told me he was suffering from some great, though suppressed, emotion. Hs looked at me haughtily and angrily; but whatsoever he had wherewith to reproach himself, there was neither fear nor triumph in his ga20. I looked at him and wondered bat I felt certain that he knew all about Viola's absence. . Still, as that absence mi?ht erven now be ' eatisfac torily explained, -1 resolved . that I ' would n ot, by evincing premature dis trust or suspicion," let 'tafe man triumph over The . So 1 spoke withforced composure:' .. s "*fMr. Grant, I hare "missed my 'wife somewhere. Gan '? you give me tidings of -' herr .' .\ ' . ; : "I cannot,* he replied^ colily; ;. r ; -, o G ''Where did you Dart with her? You left Kr. Monk's with her in a cab. Where did you leave herr . - ^n - 0'*i casu ot tell you, MK Loraina* ''Do youxmean that you are ignorant j ot ? ber whereabouts?7 >.. - ' "You have had my aus wet"....... .5, - ~A ? My hlood boileV "You mean you will: . not, dare not tell me, you utter v^it?aP 1 * 'cried. "4*I win know, or T will kilt your * Th J table was between us,. or I should have sprung at his throat : ; VI care: nothing for your threats; Mr. Lc . raine," he sail, with, galling contempt. ^Wlasrav?r Mm^ Ix^^ be; she is there of her own .tree choice." . ' > -tShe- ai here-in this house with your I ?claimed..- . ^Lo?k for her-search: every cupboard .: and cranny. I will ring^ you shall be con? ducted over the whole building. '. Make it c pabhc property that you are a jealous hus? band looking for a faithle-is wife. Ko; that ':shall not be done, for her sake. : Wherever aha ?, she is not here.'' He spoke aa if expecting nie to believe him. Strange to say, I did believe bim The - thought that bis house ' would be the la^t ..place is, which he would hide Viola from my ' search, no doubt conduced tb' this be? llet ' Ric now I could no longer doubt the horrible truth. This man, by some develish craft, had; torn my wife from me-had taken away the woman who, a few boura ago, pressed a Judas1 kiss on ray lips, even as abe was go?k; to m^et her lover.- > Stay! perhaps he had killed her. Such , things have been done before, now by men who fail to win' the woman they lore. Fer* i haps bo had decoyed her away, and; was de? taining her against her will Eren.'now she might be longini for me to come^nd free her^ All these thoughts whirled through'my i>rain, and . rfcr a moment unmanned m~ I ' sank upon a chair, cold and trembling in '-^r^-gah^^Graut stood bke a statue until - Jr?covored myse&^_ ?'?' ? . "You vfllainF IgaspoarS&yfl*fcggg: I witt seo heri Tall me wberolib? isl* * ~ ' ~ ~ lie leaned forward. He looked at me sternly. .' ' " ' "I?sbe?rl-Jksai?j mi libr ea Voice! "In tbi? room I seid to yon, 'Take her; and make her happy. ' ' Have you done sor I laughed wildly. "If being willing to shed one's blood.for her can make a. false woman happy, she should have baan happy. Does she expect to find bliss in a hie of shame with youf His eyes blazed. "You bad better gol * - te said. "Go at oncer I laughs 1 mockingly. Kow that I had lost aU hope; now. that my one desire was vengeance I could speak, calmly. ' "1 shall stay nere," T said, "nntfl you leave to join her. I shall follow and be with you. Sorely a bridegroom 'can claim ; tba right of bidding his bride Godspeed! Here I stay." For replf Grant rang the belL "Leave tba front door and this door wide open," he said to the servant; "then go out of the way.n He came toward me. I started to my feet, and struck fair and full at hi* white, set- ieee. He parried &3 fierce Wow, and in a momea t his arms wera around me. Although physical strength is an accident, or at the roost aa inherltan ce, bo man likes to confess that another is immeasurably bis superior in muscular power. ~; SJ it is with feelings of keen annoy ance that I um obliged to relate the res ult of that hand-to-hand struggle. I was strong,, and had measured my strength with many, but never wnh such a man. as thia The moment we closed I felt that I should be conquered ; that right does not always grain tba victory. Grant's arms were like bars of iron, the girth of ms chest almost abnormal;, moreover,-he- stood two inch9.*_talbr_than I did. Had . I bean told that any man could have lifted me from my feet, carried .me through two open doors, and finally thrown me staggering : into the center of the roadway, I should have laughed the idea to seora. Bat Eus? tace Grant did all this, and shut and bolted the outer door before-I could-recover my? self. - Mad ? with . the rage of defeat, I grasped tho railings and panted for breath. I cursad Eustace Grant. I cursed my faithless wife. I cursed myself and my im poten oe. -Buch was my state that, could" I have obtamei a pistol, I would have waited, on that door? step and shot the mau who had betrayed me, as soon asbe emerged from bia placer of safety-shot him deal without compunc? tion. Ker waa - my - mind ; any way soothed by hearing the window thrown up, and see? ing my bat tossed out.' contemptuously^ I was fain to stoop and pick it up, ia order to save myself from becoming an object of curiosity to passersby. What was Ito do? My mind at present could ody grasp ono fact-that Grant had, by some diabolical means, induced Viola to leave me and' give herself to him. For a while my course seemed limited to one issue: I must wait here, outside his house, until at last he came forth. Then I must dog. his footsteps until they led me to the faithless woman who had ruined my Ufo and brought me to shame. I groaned at the thought of what little mere than twelve boars hied done. 'Thia mouing I was tte happiest man in England; to-night I waff tba most miserable I _ 8o, for hours I walked; up and down m front of the house bich held the traitor. I saw the light extinguished. Oace or twice I saw the blind drawn aside, and guessed that Grant wa? looking out to see if I had - left my pojt. Ko, you traitor i yon villain 1 ? am still there, and shall be there until you como out. Then I will dog you to the bitter end. The hours went by, the dawn began to break. Still-au object of curiosity, if not suspicion, to tho policeman-I kept my post, and should hare kept it for hours longer, had it noe all at once occurred to ? me that so long as twas there so long would Grant remain where be was. I-must meet j craft with craft. Kevertbeless, I must , perforce Wp watch unt?hl could find some one to whom the task might be deputed. , At 7 o'clock I was able to gam admission ? to an oid-faehioaed family* and commerc al ] inn which stood some short distance off. , Sba bay window of the coffee rOdm com- j mandad a view of Grant's house.. Here I ( seated myself, and, having obtained a Lon- ] don directory, wrote and dispatched' a letter t to a well-known private detective, request? ing that a clever, trustworthy man might , at ones be seat ta me Then, from the win- j dow of the hotel, I resumed my watch. j ait . o'clock the man whom I had sum- j moued arrived I told him what to da He \ was to wait until he saw Grant depart. He j < was to follow bim, and, having ascertained j , bis destmatioui was to. telegraph to me at \ once. ThanXJaft theacoursad spot; went back to my hotel, and tried to sleep. j As I entered the room Which Viola and II had occupied I could almost persuade my- J 4 fsjftfc* vi bt? drw^? the event* of tbe J j .last twenty-four hours. All her personal effects were as she left them; ber gloves, her brushes, her toilet indispensables were nil there. Even her watch she hal left behind her. She broke the spring at the seaside, and there was no time to get it re? paired before we started for the continent; besides, I bad: intended baying ber a new ene in Paris. To-morrow-yes, to-morrow would be Thursday-to-morrow we had proposed crossing to France. Heavens! what ced lt all meant - Sleep, with my mind in. this whirl, was -unattainable. Later in the day, more for something to do than in pursuance of any hope, I went to Vida's oki home and asked if she had been there to-day. - Ko, not pince yesterday morning, lina the servant rather wondered at, as Miss Rossiter was very Ol; two doctors were with her now. In my present frame of mini I cared nothing for the old lady's Hines.*; but I knew that tba motive which kept Viola from her side when suffering, must be a strong one. Ye', little a woman who ] could leave her husband, as she had left I me, would reek for the ailments of a fmndl j Curies on her false, fair fa eel The hours passed somehow. At 3 o'clock a telegraphic message was brought me. I tore it open. It was sent from Folkestone, ? and ran so: "Followed him here. He left by B-u lcgne boat Was joined on pier by lady. Tan, closely veiled, fair hair. Wore costly ring of diamonds. Seemed ill and upset Bid not' follow to Franco, having no m> = struetions to leave England." - ! . The. last, the very last hope was gonai : Viola and Eustace Grant had fl jd together 11 j ground my teeth. I bit my lips m til the blood came. I. cursed the detective's stupidity at not having followed them, if needs, bs, half over the world. Surelv I bad gi v m the fool ample instr nc tion<! For the future, T would- trust no one bot myself I threw a few things into a portmanteau; I rang for a time tabla -Was there a train I . could catch-was there a steamer which crossed to-night?. Perhaps, at B. ulogne, I might get .once- more on the track of the ! fugitives. -Bat before I had solved the donbt about : trains and steamers, I had changed my j mind. Why should I follow} Lit them go, < and my curse go with them.' I will not take, ? at present, one step in pursuit I will have ! vengeance, bat vengeance by waiting will j bethe more complete. S iel she mart love this man madly,, even as I lcv.xi her, or she would not. have done this thing, fie, too, most love her. L>t. my silence, my quiet, ness, lull thom into false security. L>t them dream their dream of happiness, even as I dreamed mine. Then I will find them and strike I For I swore that sooner or later, I by fair means or. foul, Eustace Grant should j die by my bani 1 CHAPTER Vi. ? CLEW. I hate the task of describing what manner of life I led during the next two years. I hate the memory of everything connected with that time. I wish it could bo blotted ont from my mind. Two years which hold no action, no thought of my own to which Lean look back with any pleasure. I must write of that wretched time, but I wfll make its record as short as possible. 1 Nevertheless, I will be candid, and show : myself in as bal a light as truth compels. Ido not.snek to excuse,myself by saying that many another in my place would .have - acted as I acted. ' I hope-there are few in S the-world who'have passel through euch grief and shaine as mine. ? ^ -^-* ftT?li^^tot?r^ ' n mnrnmit losing leight of tW vengeance which I meant to take on the traitor, Eustace Grant, I sat myself the ;task of forgetting the fal? woman who had fiel from my sids. I Towed I would destroy the love I bore her, and leam to look upon her with scorn and contempt, as the basest of her sex lr the thought of suing for a divorce entered my head I banished it at once. I cared not to resum? my freedom. So long as I was bound to one woman there was no chanca of my being ca joled and deceived by an ether, if ever I could be fool enough to love and trust another woman as I had loved and trusted Viola. Beiides, I shrank from the exposure; I shrank from the thought of being made a public langhin? stock, as aman whose wife left him a fortnight after ber marriage. Ko; I would teach myself to scorn, loathe, forget her-that was all. But how to forget? If. I cursed her by day I dreamed of her by night Then she came tome,, sweet and pure as I thought her on tte day when Imada her my wife, I saw her soft eyes, her graceful form; I beard har fresh young loving voies, and in my dreamt was happy, for. I could never dream evil of her. But again and again, when I awoke, and remembered what she now was, Isobb d as few strong men permit themselves to sob, and then only in the dead of night , when none can hear or see them. I would : forget! -I swore I would forget! So, in search of forgo t? ni?ees, I plunged into a whirl of fierce dissipation. I became to ell appearance. tte most reckless of a reckless set I gambled for large sums. I. lost or won thousands at a sitting; yet only proved to myself that I was as indifferent; to money as I was to everything else save the loss of Viola. Curiously enough, I did not rum myself at tte 'gaming tabla. On tte whole, I won largely, and so constantl y that my luck, became a byword. My lue*! I smiled bitterly as. men spoke of me as "lucky Loraine." . :, I tried in every way to force the memory of J ; Viola from my mind. For a while-I blush tb say' so-I drank to excess; perhaps I hoped te kill myself. In these and other unworthy ways I passed half the year. Then caine the reaction-the loathing bf sall-the disgust of the Ufe I was leading. I sickened at the sight of my boon com? panions. Evervthing was waar. <?**?; cotb lng brought tte flush of exc?teme::t to my cheek or carriel an for a /moment away from my grief. Suddenly I turned mv back upon all ray parsa~t?' I went down to Herstal Abbey,, which was now at my disposal; and, with as supreme a contempt Cor mankind as ever, ray predec asor felt, I buried myself even ai he had done. Andr - people around said tba': eccen? tricity- ran in. families, and that yoong Mr. Loraine was foliow.ng in his father* ttepi . But why daring these months bad I not sou rht the excitement of revenging myself opon the man who had wronged nu! Whv had I not kept my mw of killing him when his dream of jo/ wai at its height? Simply because I knew not where to look for him. . Be and bis no less guilty companion had left no trace behind them-no clew tba: night be foll owe I until it brought me fee J to face with them I had made inquine*, md inquiries were still bain? made on ray behalf; but as yet I had not discovers i Grrantfs hiding place. Ha seemed to be u sian with, so far ai I could ascertain, no ? friends or connections. Mis3 Ros-iter, with whom it is possible ho or Viola might have \ JorrcsDondod, died two days after the elope- j neut. Her brother I found, but he could ? rive me no intelligence. Mr. Monk, the PO- ( licitor, acting, ho said, on instruction!:, re? fused to give me any. So I could do noth? ing but grind my teeth and long for the i jour when my path might once more CTOJS ^ Eustace Grant's. I was fatalist enough to j believe tbat, sooner or later, this must hap jen. . . , I lived on in the dreary solitule of He>> j . ital Abbey. Each day found me more , cynical and misanthropical: but each day j [ renewed my vow of vengeance. Its ac- j ?inplisbment was. the only thing in life to , trhich I could look forward When Grant ay dead at my feet Ufe for me wonld be at ^ m end. So the months passed. It the orig- ! } hal Julian Loraine could have seen me as I ] at hour after hour brooding in bis chair, , ] ie would have thought the son of his adop- j ^ ion well worthy of. his choice. < j So the long months passed Sprin?, som- j t ner, autumn, winter came and went mak- , ng little diiferenca to me. Once or twice I . ^ forced myself to quit my seclusion and pay i visit to London or Paris in the nope of ; j hiding distraction and forgetfulness. My } efforts evaded nothing, and I returned to J hy homo, more moody and miserable than t Rhen I left it ; j I had, for tte sake of occupation^ per- j ?j formed a task until now postponed ' ,;t Twent through my reputed father* letters J :y md private papers. I found nothing that j j a ahy way bor?upon myself, except a . * ....- ...'. .... .. -.' .' -"-"?". ? written account of the shipwreck and ray birth on the barren rock. It was signed by tho narrator. Although the existence of this papar mado no difference to ma, I put it away under lock and kay. Yet, for ail I 7 .put it away under lode and key. caral, thc whole worll might know that Julian Loraine was not my father. Such trivial things as accidents of birth war* now matters of indifference to ms. The other papers I burned. I ?id not read one-half of them. They clearly showed what manner of man was Julian Loraine before he bought Borstal Abbey and settle! down to the Ufa of a recluse. Hy life, I told myself, was spoiled-spoiled by a worran's treachery 1 Aad yet 1 could not bring myself to hate her. No-lei the truth be known-I loved her even now-loved her, although she was living in shame wich my enemy. I hungered, I craved for a sight of her face. The touch of her hand would have thrilled ma as of old Although 1 told myself that were she at my feet praying for pardon, I would spurn her and cist her from ra?, I knew that I Had. I knew that if Viola came to me-if my eyes ones more met hers-I should throw all manhood's pride io the winds, and-such was the strength of my passion-take this faithless woman to my beare snl hold har tn ere un* til, as I told myself bitterly, some fresh lover robbed me aga!a. Sud being my true feelinr,' p'etnre my emotion whin, one mornin y; I io un i a letta r lying on my table-a letter adirossel to me in VioU's haudwritia;! I tore it open w th a cry of delight; I pressed it to my lips. Had not her fingers touched it? Then I read It wai but one line: "If you knew all, you might forgive? "If 1 knew alli" "What more was there to know? I knew that sha bad left me without a word or a sign of warning; that she had fled, accompanied by a man who had loved her passionate!? long before I ever set eyes upon her; that ta ey were, somewhere or other, hidden from pursuit; Heaven 1 what more could I wish to know. "Forgive 1" Yes-shame on my weakness for saying so-I could forgive. I could do more; I could persuade myself that th's strong- willed man had forced her to fly with Mn-, perhaps half against her wish. I contd believe that she was unhappy, t ?at she was penitent, that she 1i ved me stilL I could io more than ?orgivs, I could take her-I should bo force! to take her-again to my haart; even to trust her, and be proudK of her glorious, beau?y. Yes, I could do ti is -after I had seen Eustace Grant lying life? less at my f.>et. Weak os 1 was, it could aot be until than! Where-was; bel Where was she? Wera they together?. I turned again to the ."etter. It gaveme no information a* to the wri r?abonU 'Jfhe^pape? W?I ??torgwQope were plain; the latter bore the London postmark. It was creased, which to d me it h cd been sent under cover to be posted in London.' Sent to whom? The receipt of this scrap of poper worked a groat change io m ?. if I had ever been approaching that state in which a man accepts tba inevitable, it lifted ma out of it. It spurred me on to moke fresh exertions to discover the retreat of the fugitives. That letter-the letter written by her-I carried next my heart day and night False as my wife had been to me, I loved her; and there were times when I recalled her sweat face, anl marveled how evil could have lurked teaeath such a mask. I left Herstal Abbey and took up mv quarters in town. There I should be ready to start on the moment I heard where Grant was to ha found. Bat somehow, I was beginning to think, that our meeting would be brought about by pure chanca. London is the place where all chance meet? ings occur. There are few Englishman who do no; visit tba capital, either at shorter or longer intervals. * Something must bring Grant there; so I waited and boped. Chance, pure chance, brought about what I longed for, but not in the way I ex? pected I did not stumble across my foe is the street; I did not hear a chance mention of his name and so hit upon soma one waa knaw Mm. I found Eustace Grant in this wise: This year a book, which at onca toot the public's fancy immensely, mad J its appear? ance. It was but a novel, yet a work the depth and research of which, combined with its pptLos and humor, arrested all readers' attention. People were curious to know who was the author. Tbe title page bore ono of those n*unes which yt rik i every one as being a nom d? plume. Perhaps the book was not the less read because a certain amcua t of mystery was kept up as to who bad really written it Sometimes, not often, since that crushing blow had ?alien upon mo. I read what hap? pened to come in my way. This particular book was one which erma in my way. I began to read it, and am bound to say that the opening chapters were wnttei by so masterly a band that I at once expiries ced som? th m g of iba general interest which ?he tale had called forth. But before I had read it half through, my interest and ex? citement were such as no author h-^s by his merits ever awakened in any reader. I gave a fierce cry of triumph. I threw the book from me as if it were a repine. I Lad found Eustace Grant: For one chapter of that boo'c containad an account of the hero's journeying through a part of Switzerland, and the account was the savi.e as Grant had given his auditors on tho i-ight when I first met him, and beted and mistrusted him. Several of the most amusing and out-of-the-way incidents which be then relate 1, and which wero sufficiently droll and strange to impress themselves on my memory, were in ihese pages once more narrated. Eustace Grant was the author of the successful book. I thanked my memory, which had ra a SJ coud j brought hR8 od von tunes back to my mind; I and memory brought back more than this. lt brought back Viola, listening with smiles on her face to her guardian's (as she called him) amusing recital It brought back the days when I wooed her; tho day when I told her my love; tho day wheu she was mine, as I thought forever; the day, the hlac'c day, when she fiel-when for boors and hours I waited and would not be heve the trulh. It brought bock the last two wretched years of my life. It brought back all of which Eustace Grant had robbed me, end I laughed the lau/,b of a do vii when I thought the time was at baud * hen he should pay me for his act I trod bis book nuder my foot. Hy po? inte, wbo could write of Loner, virtue and truth, yet act as he hal act jd! Weil, hts time bas come at last ! Eut now to find him-to know where I must go, to stand face to face with him! The next morning 1 calle i on thc publish - ?rs of the book. I told them I hal reason Tor believing that its author was an old friend of mine. Would they tell mo his right name? [ ? They could not They believed he wrote i < ruder a pseudonym; but they knew bim by io other. I asked if they could show me a letter of his. Cerfciinly. A letter wa3 landed me. I placed it side Ly sida with the letter which Grant had written me just aeforo my marriage, and whicu I had for arahtely preserved. I compared the hand? writing; i hen returned the author's letter o the publishers. . "Thank you," I said. "I find I am mis? taken. My friend is not such a fortunate han as I hoped to fin 1 him? Then 1 went ny way. Mistaken f Noy I was not mis aken ; but I feared lett, iu writing to Grant Ms publishers might mention the fact of ny having made these inquiries. No; every loubt was now ?et at re?t The t.. o letters vere written by fbe s?m? man-written by Eustace Grant A3 Hooded at the. second letter, i had impressed the address upon my memory. It wa) dated from St Saur?n, a placo which, apon inquiry, I touad was little more than a fishing Tillage on the west coast of Brittany. They bad not fled very far then! The nearer the betterl Every hoar which must pass before Eustace Grant and I meet will be grudged by m\ In forty-eight hours we may be face to face! That evening I left London. My prepar? ations for the journey were soon made. Among them was included the purchase of a pair of double-barrele 1 breech-loading pistols, which carried heavy bullet? and were warran ted to shoot straight as a line. 1 had already learned that ina band to hand struggle my foo was my superior. I laughed as my fingers closed lovingly on the han dla of the weapon which placed us on an equality. Bo 1 xtarted to end Eustace Grant's dream as auddenly ar he had ended mine! fTOBBCONTIKOKO.] MAKING MEN TALLER. HOW TWO SERGEANTS WHO WERE SHORT GREW IN LENGTH. A Fhyslfltan'a Advice Concerning a Maa Who Had Failed to Keach tho Height Standard-Th? Physi? ological Keaaooa. [Brooklyn Union.] "Talking about Sergeant--,* said Commissioner Reeve, "reminds me of how I got him on the force by stretching him in length three-quarters of an inch. That sounds .queer, but it is a fact; nevertheless. It was in the time of the Metropolitan po? lice, and he wanted to get on. He went to New York, and I went along. He went through all right until h 3 came to height, and he fell below the standard three-quar? ter* of an inch. I ielt very much east down about it for be was a friend of mina, and I was very anxious that be shoal 1 get on the force. A physician with whom I was acquainted happened to be there at the time, and he a?ked me if I was. inter? ested in tlie man who had failed to reach the height standard I told him I was.0 "That's all right," ?aid he, TU tell yon bow to fix that" THE PHYSICIAN'S SUGGESTION. "Of course, I didn't believe it could be done, except by some trickery, but J thought I would ?sten to what he had to say, any way. He told me to get an order for remeasurement, which I did with bis assistance, the applicant for the position to be measured again the folio win; day 'Kow,' aaid he, when wa had got the order, 'you take your man to some hotel near here, give him a warm bath, and^put him to bed. Make bim stay in bpi until to-morrow morning: about an hour before the time for bim Cb be measured again, and tell him to sleep all the while, if he can. I' ho does this be will be three-quartan of an in ch taller, and come up to the stan?lar i' "I didn't know what to think abo at the suggestion. My medical friend was given to joking, but I thought ha hyf ^ fun. However, I was anxi ms-JMfc, ju? man should get on the '^^ffirTwiii will? ing to try anything.l/fuhim what the physician hadjajj^gg^ h9 agree4 to do 3a ling be appeared, sad when he was measured he not only came up to the standard but was a little above it We were both as much surprised as gratified, and whan I spoke to the doctor about it be said: 'Well, I told you sa* Then I was curious to know bow it was that such a thing could be done, an 1 asked him. THE REASON WHY. "Ha explained that every one of the nu? merous joints in tba human frame was sup? plied with a natural oil. When a man has walked a good deal or gone through much exertion of any kind in a day the oil is used up and the joints come "close together. The difference this would make if mere was but a single joint would be very little, but when there are so many it reduc?s the height in some casai as much as an inch at the end of a day's work. Leta man take a warm bath and long? restf ul sleep, the joints will be re? supplied with oil, and the consequence is be will be taller. You may not believe this, but it is a fact." 1 believe it," said one of the listening ser? geants, "because I did the same thing my? self I was three-eighths of an inch below, the standard, and I heard of the plan that you. tail ot I went to a hotel in Kew York, took a bath, and slept twelve hours. Then I got an order for remeasurement, claimlag, that I did not have a fair show the flr*t tima. To my aurari*. I just earns up to the standard,, being three-eighiha of aa inch taller than I was the day before. I got my appointment, and Fm on the toroa now." Ex-Minuter Lew Wallam* [Indianapolis Sentinel] It will probably soon transpire that Gen. Wallace has returned to Constantinople in response to a cable dispatch from the sultan of Turkey. It i3 well known that during his recent residence as United State? minister at the court of the sultan be not only formed an intimate personal friendship with that monarch, but was honored with his confidence to such aa extent that he he came bis counselor in important public affairs. It may be that the chief purpose of his pre eat mission is to give his aid in the pending negotiations for peace; but his servic-js will be in still more urgent demand in case of their failure. . Should there be an eastern war, which now seems inevitable, Gan. Wallace will no doubt be tendered a high position ic the sultan's service, and it it not at all unlikely that he will bs commander-in-chief of the Turkish armies. Such aa event would be in perfect consonance with his pa-t career, which has been, brilliant and dramatic in all its ?pisodes; A Trick of the Trade. [Harper's Bazar.] Grocer (to new boy) - Sou must tell peo? ple that we are very busy, James, whether we are or not They like to buy of a firm that they think does a large trade. Kew boy-All right, sir. Grocer (i little later) - Didn't old Mrs. Benson want anything, jame-.! Kew boy-Yes, sir; she wanted a couple o' mackerel an' ten pounds o' brown sugar, an' I told her we was so bu-y we didn't know which way to turn, an' so she said she was in a hurry, an' she'd get 'om round the corner. _ Made Seasick by a Look? [Chicago Herald.] "I have traveled a go>l deal in n\y Hm\n ? remarked an elderly man. "I have been in railway accident*, explo ions, battles, the craters of volcan oe -, Kansas cyclones and African simeon.-, bat never, na never, did I ha VJ my breath knocked ont of me and my menses ? completely daz?l as they were s few minutes a-a" "How dni it bappenr "Why, I gave the sleepinj-car porter a jaarter and asked for 15 cents chaugel The look ho gave me made me seasick." A ?T7 Sect of Ascetics, [New Tort: Tribune.] Ot founding many sect* there is?uo evi. The mest lateiy rep r.'e i hat its habitat in 3e'<9arabia, an l is fen-1 wu aa "The Nest for 3odly Pe; pla" Its member* dig graves is ?heir gardens, or in tue earth* floor? of their ?ttages, and He ttero:n until almost fam jhed. Th ls they do "co commune wi th God, 5onfe?s their sins and ixtmlne their past i ve v' and they declare that at such times ?bey "see saints and devfK" A Curlooa Highland Cnaton?? IChtcago Herald^ The highlanders of Scotland have a carious iustom of never referring to- the departed is dead. They mention them as having hifted their abode, or as having gone where bey are better ont If called upon to speak Lire elly of some person. Who ha? died they all him the non-la^t?ng or the non-eador ag oas; - Ex>Pre??dent Arthur says be did not save ^ ? cont of tba $300,000 he raoaivad a> salary 8 ?hilo pTesi lent. ?t In tho college at Yauitton. D. ..TL, there hr r strip of slate blackboard 2&> fret lo ag. STOCK RAISING. Remarks of H H. Thomas Before the Sumter Agricultural Associa? tion. Mr. President: I sincerely regret that Mr. Brough ton, who was appointed to report on Stock Raising, is.not present; regret it, be? cause I wished to hear from one who bas made this important industry the stotly of his life. I have not been engaged in thia holi? ness more than a couple of years, and then only as an adjunct to my fanning operations, and ?rn entirely unprepared to make a report on this subject ; but a few weeks ago, baring to make a report for the Agricultural Der. partaient, I had occasion to refer to my books and I found that on the 1st day of January I bad 45 cows. They cost me$450, including a full blood ball calf. On the 1st day of No? vember, I had my money back; I hate more cows than I started with, and a few days ago refused an offer of $1,200 for my herd. I am very much averse to telling about m'y stock business, because 1 see before rae ? good many gentlemen whom I have stuck in cow trades. The worse case of the kind was when I bought a scrub cow from a gentleman present for $8 and after keeping ber a year I refused sn offer of $125 for her. I bare scrubs, grades and fall blooded cows, and the best cow I have got is a scrub. If I were a Tan kee machine agent I would tell you that I bare a lot of most wonderful j machines at home. They gather grass, pea? vines, corn, stalk and ali, oats, cotton seed, ?c., and after gathering, they grind these crops, mixing therewith every single ingredi ent contained and also just the right quantity of saline matter to make this mixture the most complete and best plant food in the world This machine is unlike that of ray friend | orer there from Wedgefield. He charges toil j for grinding your cotton seed ; he bas an ear gineer and a fireman, keeps two males, a wagon and a driver hauling fuel toron bis machine, and each year bas a' big bill for re- j pairs. Wy machine gathers its own foe!, needs neither engineer nor fireman, for it rans itself, and instead of charging toll, will pay' you from 25 to 50 per cent, for the privilege of grinding, and coals not accent ' for repairs. Then if you keep 'roy machine well greased, being a combination machine, it will manu? facture, while-it. ie grinding,-12 other ma? chines tn 15 years and each one at good; as it? self. 'Unlike ab' old" mower"or leapeVrwhen their days of usefulness are orer-they are thrown by the roadside a perfectly useless thing, there is oo ?ess about my machine. When it has grown old in your seme*-you can eat it, can make shoes out of its bide, .guano out of its bones, combs out of ita horns and glue out of its hoots. .Gentlemen I have these wonderful - machines for sale abel it; would.give me great pleasure to stick some more of you in a cow trade. What Our Editors Say; Carolina Spartan. The common people of South Caro? lina are coming to the front io politics. The Bourbons do not believe it, but they will hate tho scales removed from their eyes one of these days. In the good sense, the justice, the integrity of ? our people is the hope of the State. They are a little slow about starting, bot they are pretty sure. Bourbons may laugh at "three for a quarter" pol? iticians, the petitions of humble people, asking for the removal of unjust things and the grumbling of the rural editors, bot behind all this is the power of the common people that- will be felt one of these days even in South Carolina. - - Greenville New*. The story comes from Colombia i county, Georgia, where Robert Jones, who distinguished himself by extermi? nating the Pr?esley family in Edgefield, was reared, tbat Jones baa been long subject to fits of insanity. All Jones bas to do, therefore, is to hare nts.cage removed to Abbeville and borrow Fer? guson's petit mal th co ry. If Mr. Jones will do this we sbaH congratulate bim' io advance on bia vindication. : Spartanbvrg Harald. Recently tbe King of Ser via con cl od? ed to purchase cheap fame by giving tbe Bulgarian* a thrashing. He hasn't done it. " On the "other hand Prince Alexander has come off a conqueror, and achieved a splendid fame. Instead of a scorned, snubbed and depreciated princeling, he is approved a natural leader and sovereign.. He cannot now be reckoned outin any settlement which tbe Powers may make of the affair. By pursuing the Servians across tbe border he has gained the full advantage of bis access in a war wantonly forced upon; bim. The bragging King Milan wili j pay for big hardihood with bis throne, and the greedy Servians will be assess? ed all tbe damages. It is as fine an ex? ample of retributive justice aa war often affords. <~ A Brave Matt Battling for the Bight. Aiken Recorder. Ex-Senator T. J. Counts,, the leader of the Prohibitionists of Barnwell County, is making a gallant . fight against the grog shop party, that should trio for bim tbe love and admiration of all good .citizens. He has borne mach und may baye much mote to bear ; bot we bave faith in the courage, endur? ance and wisdom of our noble friend, md oar temperance friends of Barnwell ?nay safely trust to bis readership. Our Baptist and Methodist friends of Barn? well, wh o haye stood by bim so mao - "ully in thc past should draw close iroond bim at this critical juncture, ind hold up his'han&:t white' bravely muling for "God and Home and Na? ive Land." Let pa ience, vigila tee and courage ye the watchword. The conflict is ir" .epressible. No human force can ar? rest the inarch of the temperance army. Une rum power must be pulverised; he law must be enforced j our. women md children protected ; and_..onT Joung. nen redeemed from the blighting cors? >f the liquor traffic: This can be donev md by the help of Godf if we are tr??: o corie! yea,: ii will bexlone/ V The Winyfeh Bay Water. System. Georgetoxcn Enquirer.- , . - Cot. L. P. Miller, io his capacity as be representative of Georgetown in tlie no vernen t for obtaining congressional lid for the. improvement *of .orin rivera od harbors, bas visited .Columbia, }heraw, Camden, ',. fenuettsyille and )ai lingt?n, and in each of th ese placer it ba's succeeded hi af ?ifthrg aWac^vV ate rest-in the subject.;He left again , esterday forStfmter *??Columbia, nd. will endeavor to stimulate|?|j?|||? her the sentiment Ob t?o?s :oe?muttVH iee -\ -,....y v f-f"^Si^^WB Tbe t?ifo?&fc adoj? t?fedif" jsens'. xueeliog in CaiadoOr-r composed of M^t^pwte?ttOTB^ eac&cou?ty.- rW*? hope~<h%t:*h<e: co on ties iirtereste/i j tn ?JJf??i loi? oo ttne:m--vf^!^^ ample s?t by Keroh?F> ?ewwSS^i^^^S through bet . ?omntttt?e^'W Congres* asking^ apprgp^atu^: Winy ah Bay watet., s^atem^* cd by5 a care?of?jp showing the importauee au? of. thc- norKx Ta^eeoueb *od-tborough-. v^U$m^ - ti otis there should bo aeleefed county two progressive and r ettisena to take cbo^e4>f the We wooldj ala? dsoggd* 4t coo n ties that inasmuch aa Uria ia ter io mixtix?jlw^;^ ested with GeOrjgeto^^^ proper*for them % \VKH?^A of presenting jJbe--e>ifl?>j>? Congress. ~ .U^;1ie^^^^ a comm?tt??e ^ aay^onr ^^t^ county to^teod toe;??wKnigj m ittee oo^rttera ^aoo* f?tfi&? ingtoa and orge ?ier mstteT-?] ten tion Georgetown . in raising such a fund gtet^*< nnjnst to .??ijmw^^S^ borden of atoovinieoi^b?! for 44ierbenefit^f defer?: braced within: rfi^^H^^^^^ system which centres^ m Tf. tofdr BeJ^ "' "' '" ' r . -.'.-'V ?'^'i :. The cancos ?f .Senate^*** resentativee- whitby ba* Li?v:-m^fM^ week excited the.mirth ofr^ome?^MwS papers, is. entitled to tho rapetit ,4ip| coin tn eodatio'n of aT? ; JoonT ?^*?*^ Whatever" they may" a^?p^s?:*)r^a^ to accomplish, their object s is :^tto**? worthy. What.there baa been.;o^e?^ tionable br in the last ridiculous vi ' action of this Wy tVlnri^gi seor The declared objeet of *be'*e?e??^ is economy ; end - refom. .?Wla?thil^ anything can:^Jh>n^ia^^^^^ bj a caners, whicjrjjoffi,^ by regular legislative fol can come of a tbordi?b m^?at?gawi tion aotf study of the :wboir oaebia*r| i of tyState government, noviuttt^^g is carried on. xFd ?lWi./^^tl??S^ legislators1 1er ?ororiwt?wf and effort? to acquire it,arc to be^ammew^ ; ed, and cannot but re?oit in flUmg the*; for a moro Ik?^to^j?^?MSiS?^^Q charg? of tfieTT ctu^ thitt time the caneo? ?h?? &}jt&ifc?% abb*of recommend noe'iwty )??l?o scheme of retreoehment/hift b h?de?? good work io enlightening ita membecr open several important pointe. ?lany good men from b^'? SwSEsg and House hare attended^^3tit?mtm?jZ ing?, aod Vehopeio^M>OjM^^^gB ed. : The newspapers ^ma^j^Tglj^j^ the people will give their hearty afe^ preval to any proper effort at ??f?s economical government, ^iSeWef^tft^ effort be pot forth in a: ?anew br in tii . Legiaia??te. ' : : y&*< -. Mrs. Newall, of/SaftT^?. ;tf^^^ a lecture in ^timere^renen^^i^^^^ account ot ,her-observati^^ life. ' She said^atjtforo^njaoj is A tnr^8 rible solid pyramul, " with iJbbn ' T*jt?^0 as the apex. It is a'ttoron^j"'cfpl^^ toed, treasonable ^ilieo"-" wl^i*^^ scheme to overthrow theUnited ;?abSafc^| gotemment* ^%fM^^^^m The Mormons boast that, m *mo*t?y:% 'years i^ym^W^^kM^B^m White Hooser They teach the child w that toe:Sarioar*aa? p^ga?^^sii^*f5 that Martha and Mary fete hi? . pli*^^ wives ; that John Taylor U thew ptelsi^^ dent ; and their children .obIy..a^f:_lj?^V^ United States government as a thing^S;^ scorn; ^?e:Mc?nioM^&t^ dred missionaries, e&iar?? tt?'^roel^^g The speaker described * book- hy Jjt&Mg non, giving an accoabt jrf his: r?safert?^?4 ary .tabor' in thei^Sandwich. Island^|^ Mormon ism's cree'd is "made ' ^''"??tB?p^Q Tts MMOaydear a^^a&e^ m edan ism , its do?tri? es of ;tran?^s?5?:5g tion .and the .inferiority of .wwea..-#?|f|^ system fro?n Judaism. ?Sjfetn^Sj:^!?^^^? religions,-women. tho greater^?^^3 aod sufferer. Accordtog to "Mortn?sV?^^ ism i^^M^pl^^^^^^^l^^^H unless the man to whom she hat. feftf^ sealed lifts the white veil pTaoed her face at boriai and^bispera^^fl^^^^ The Mormon women" aro notonfy of ?w^i ^ lower order of mind,hot some aro of high Jnte^mce^ of the Lext-door-ncighhoy of tho^ip^?^^g was raised aod 'edoca?ei?'?n* Bb^sWV^?^'^ the last wife ^aealed1in1 ^olin^'?;Ta^^^p waa an English woman?of vwble hirp^g The piresthood is the most terrible poWr>^ sud that the .governments can not tood^^g There are now ^0,000 Morm?^m#^^ West, and a large numoef ?^tt?P?^^ over the wwntry. v^--.^-^^^ 3 Our Exchange*. Tbo'Deetssbef ' skae wilt hare a description by GUbert) ?. Si/A., of the ey^t^ng bf tb%l t>f PcrryvUle, accompanied by a colored iaap. 'bowing accorately the petition of th? Var: frrisions cf the;arn^^-TbxP saree number ' the magasine wti! coata?o ?. RT. H. Swallow,? S. A , ^tf tb^?t Stursberg, wb ich ia al iccorate map. 'Hugh ^.'^rh'e^ ?r&t?rti*; %Mf.W^ the december nurn ber of the Ssut?^^ ur?nterestmg ?Hogtrated article ou reatlon:of the Cotton Gin. . ^ 4v^ggm An old intiuwte'friend o! niine' ?'Parker^ 3air Batoam. 1 hwva-used. it W^eaT^;ri?o# :outd not do without ?t. h h?*s stopprd ?ry . lair from fal Yif?g. resto red it* naluV^'blai? ^?er and rtfiodiy cleansed it f?^.danilr?*:f.i ?isaPearT Aneaon,; St^Ma^?o^ ^^1^ ^?lege,Baimpor?,-S? hkrl one dosen ^?^?f^a^t^?^^^^?