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The Old Booking-Chklr. Mr grindiiiothorsat iu tliti nld rockiiiR cliair flluiiili6 wiiH uol iiiv KrauduiDlhor ilion). And liBr jii>rl littlo Itce wu bowitchiugly fair As bhf iHiitjhtMl a duOaiu'u to uinn ! H*r BUubouiLl tliiiU'rud liku bijuion iUcUiiig, ilur hftir w«.o0(srnd Irno gu tlia lircnM; â-²nd Skfly I w««ii dd my gnndiuulbar linK UudoriiMlb ttiuw old gaul'd spiito treex. My KrandfathoT ro<lc througli tbu whiM orchard And UlthHred bis roan to a tro« ; He'd a will pci«ir<l«r'd wiu on lii« allly yoanf; pate, And hisb taaaol'd boola to bin liu»« ! From ihu piuk apple blonsuma tbat over him buui;. Ho brusb'd off the daw wUb bit bat; 1'it\ he canie to Um place wbiue therociklug-chair And my luorry youDg grandmother lat. The kingcup and daisy bloomed round tii thoir prtde, And boea of tbtur sweetneae did eip ; But m> graDdlatbiir bluab'd and my grandtatbor ait; fid, Ae bp flickd ofT their boaiii with IiIh wliip ; My granny ube bummed her a cunning old songâ€" " Tamt Heart Nyvor Won Ijadyo Fair !" &o bM woiid and be prayed, and before very long There sat two Iu that old rocking-cbalr â€"J. O. Jiremian in TempU Jinr. ESTELLE'S INFATUATION : A NOVEL. CUAI'TER XX. TIIK SlIIFHBErK. Goaa ! Gone like a stone in the w»t«r, like the path of a bird ia the air. Gone, »ii j no trace left by whioh to track her, no olew by which to lind her. Had the earth opened and awaliowed her ap, or had a fiery chariot taken her to heaven, she could not have disappeared more wholly from the world, nor completely have «fiaoed her path. Bhe had gone, and no one < oald aay when, nor where, nor bow, nor whether ahe had been taken by force or had ijooo of her own free-will â€" whether ehe had been oompanionad or alone. When Anthony came home rather late from hia magisteral dnties at tbat distant town, be foaod hia honsuhold in conater- nation. Mra. Uarford, they aaid, had i^ono for a walk before lanoheon and had not returned. No one bad seen her aava the nuret, who, aa ahe pisjed the window, oall(3 1 into the inner room by the cry of the itwaKii:t{ child, aanxht a climpae of her yonnii Diidtruea atanding on the upper ter- f.i-.r, aa if lookini; at the view oeyond. When ahe repassed with the child Mrs. Harford was not thvro. Have for tbia rapid glimpae, which told nothing, no one ehe knaw of her movements. The Kardonora and workpiiople were at dinner ; none of the aervantu w>>re aboat , for the moment the place was deserted, and wilnosa there waa none. Hbe had disappeared aa if ahe had aank into the central fire, or had evaporated like a dew-drop into spico. No aearch, however careful, which Anthony instituted, cam* on the footprints of hia loat love. He knew nothing of the return of Charlie Uaborn, to Kngland, nor that he had aoddenly I fi Kingshouse; atill leas tbat he had voiu > to Tborborf{hâ€" called by tnyaterioua eunimona which left the door open for all possibilitiea of intrif{ue and romanceâ€" nor that Mra. Latimer'a nephew had dropped down from the doudaon a viait to his old aunt. Who waa to toll him all this? lie had no uanual correapoudcnta at Kin^ja. house, and Mra. Clanricarde had been aa oaroful not to mention the fact of Charlie's return iu her letters to Kstello us ahe was now to iijnore it in her answering' telu|{rams to Anthony. And even if he had known of hia return, he would not have connected it with Estellu'd strange diaappearamse. lie would not have suspected her of Uifjlit with her old lover. That ahe could have deserted him, her child, her place, her honorable name of wifo, her fair fame amonf{ women, for a girlish fancy that could never have jnatitied itself by a serioua union, and the very existence of which he had almost for- (;otl«n -no; hu would have needed over- whelming proof before ha could have believed her capable of this dis^raoe â€" ehe whose faults were surely not those of nn- hridled passion or oareleaanaas of her duties •ud contempt of moral deoenciea. He thought and feared -that ahe mi^ht have killed heraelt in aome tit of insanity fol- lowin)! on the duller depression of her days. However muuh he tried to tinbi against it, deep down iu his heart ho knew she was not happy. His raarria){e waa not a â- uccesa. He had made heroic attempts to blind himself tu the truth, and force bim- •elf to belit'vn a lie. He had not succeeded. TIu had staked his all, and lost. And ahe had not deserted him fur another. There was eomu â- â€¢xplanation to thia deadly mystery which would leave her as apotleas SLS his love would have herâ€" aa nature had made her. ])y denTeea he ceased to think that she had died, Hho had ^'one, and ^one of her own free-will, lint aome day she would come back. The mother's inatinct would bring her, and the wife's love would reawaken. Homo day ahe would utand before him, druopin^i, pontient, sweet and humble in her beaiity. Ho would welcome her aa the wintered earth weloomea the younx aprint!, and love her the more for the pain bIid had made him undergo. And thinking thia, one day he opened her desk for love to touch what she bad touched, and there he came upon a hoard of girlish treasures -of withered leaves •nd faded Mowers ; a look of hair ; a ring ; • photograph ; some letters all religionaly kept as eaored relics em blamed in perfumed paper -with dates and sorape of poetry ; •nd everywhere the initiala " ().," or the full uanis " Charlie," " Charlea Osborne," or •' ray beloved," or " my darling." Then Anthony Uarford took hia revolver from the drawer where ho alwaya kept it, looked to the loading, and thrust it into hia packet. Hlie should not suffer ; but »ha should die. Her beauty should bo unde- faoed, hut she should no longer live to work ruin on men. Hu knew where to find her heart ; and his own after. His revolver was trnstwortby, and had been already bapti/.ed. Meanwhile: Kstello lived closely hidden be. hind thennrtainsat Mra liatimer'a.To out- aiders, the house had changed in nothing, •ave that a young man, known to be Mrs. liatimor'a nephew, waa oooagionally seen going out and coming in. Kslolle waa grateful for the asylnm that Mary and her mistress gave her. She reso- lutely forgot all that waa not Charlie. Her husband, her cliild, her parents, her whole ^xiatenoa of those past bitter years, and all tha waa oatside him, she put away from her aa we pat away the memory of our fever dreams. Bhe knew nothing of repentance, nothing of regret ; and remorse would have been an inlldelity of whiah shs waa incapable. Charlie waa hers by the prusotiptive right ot love and time : and she hkd but gone back to her own and left the unlawful circamitanoea of the intervaL Of all those cironmstances her ohild was tha only sacred spot, the only holy tie. And whan the aoand of its tender voice suddenly broke in on the eara we cannot atop, and its little bands aeemed to wander over her face, and its clear and wondering eyes to look into faera, ahe would fling herself round Charlie's neck, and drown the remembrance of tbat thing whioh had been part ot her very life in dojds of carossiug words whioh be rolled back on her in sweet and fall replies. For husband she had no pity, no thought of even moderate regret. Bhe looked on him aa the executioner who bad first deceived and then tortured her. It was only the child whose memory haanted her ; and when that haunting reproachful little apeotre rose aa from a murdered bad before lier eyes, she did what she could to harden her heart by remembering that her child was also his â€" and that part which was hia deserved no love from her. So the time passed till the sammer had gone and the winter waa at band ; then Charlie's health broke aa once before, and the only chance of saving his life was by taking him to some warmer climate where he might live in the son and forget the cold winds of the north. Meanwhile they had had one or two scares, as once, when Anthony Uarford came suddenly to the bouse, and Eitelle had just time to rash up the stairs, carry- ing her work with her. lie heard the 'froa frou " of her dress aa it awept the atairs, bat he waa not enlightened. No myatery of eubtle aympathy told him who it waa. It waa the swish of a woman's gown and the harrying patter of a woman's feetâ€" in all probability the servant's â€" fleeing aa for dear life itaelf for a clean apron or a smarter cap. Ho waa not a man to naturally note much of the waya or doinga of aervant-maida ; bat thia rapid dight of the gaunt woman who aerved hia tenant Btruck him aa odd ; and why did he think of it BO much? It was strange how those aoanda vexed hia imagination, oppressed though he waa with that load of unspoken sorrow and unrealizad suspicion I Hu paid Mrs. Latimer a long visit this day, and it seemed to her, acting her part -to Mary, vigilant and anxioaa, the sen- tinel under arms, the pilot never taking his eyes from the horizon â€" to Katelle, up- ataira in her bedroom, with the door ajar to hear the qaioker and keener â€" to Charlie by her bi le unarmed, but feeling that for her he would either alay or be alainâ€" it eeenied to them all as if ho would never go. And, truth to say, to Anthony himself there waa a Htrangi. and namelesa power of at- traction which kept him in that darkened, H'. tliiig room talking to a half-imbecile old invalid, he did not know why, bat coald not withstand. At last, however, he went. And when he left the house be stopped and stood in the middle of the street looking at it curiously, and tor a moment aeemed about to re enter. Another time a police- man came, looking at the aoared inmates as if bristling with warrants for their ap- prehenaion- He waa only charged with a meesag.i from the sanitary board relative to traps and overllows. and hia viait paaaed HH innojriotHty hii Anthony's. All these scares and feara were now at an ond. Kuorvtly, as thuy had come, un- observed of all, Bu secretly they withdrew â€" the fuifilivii wife and her ubildhood's lover; and no one knew the time, manner, or direction, nor who they were who took the midnight train to London and thence to thu Continent, eo i^leverly wore all things managed and all traces obliterated. They were aulliciunlly furnished with money from what lUiarli'i had aaved and what Kstello had re(S<!ived from htm. The old lady, ton, presami on thuui a 8abaianti.>l gift, aii<l altuiiuthur they made np a puree more than enough for their immediate wanta. And then they ptsaed away into apace ; and Anthony, who had brushed by their hiding i>laca unawares, bad no warn ing to tell him of the distance now between Kstello and himself, aa he had had none to tell him of her oloae neighborhood. Change of name; unbrokon reticence on all their afTairs, tlieir relations, their home status their original roots ; living to themaelvos wholly and mixing up with no one; by these means the two escaped all chance of detection and gave no cause for saspicion. They Wvire simply like any other people â€" a beautiful young married couple to be met with on the sunny days in the lonely places of the Uiviera-known tothepost-ofliceand their landlady ns;M .and Madame Charles- pitied aa well as admired by all who saw themâ€" for he looked ixi if he were what people call " struck for death," and ahe iisd a strange eiprussiun iu her face as of one who was doomed and fated. Only Mrs. (Manrioarde had her Biispicions, and oidy Mary and Mrs. Latimer knew the truth. Kut neither mother nor maid hinted tt Munl of wliat the one thought and the other knew to Anthony Harford, eating out his heart in lonily angiieh at Thrift. At KingnhriusH it gradually got to be known that Mr. Charles Osborne had gone to Thorbergh and young Mrs. Harford had left her huxband simultaneously. Tha news went round in a whisper, that aoon deepened into an audible voice enough, but Anthony at Thrift heard no echo, and knew nothing ot what waa common property to many. He had by now given up the search for hia lost love. HOOK THIRD. CHArTKR I. IIV rilK Ml«.t HIIOllU. Annette 7 Yoa do not regret yoar fatal eiep ? " " You silly boy I " answered his compan- ion, with an embarrassed little laugh. It would be anpoliie to call it a giggle. " Bat tell mo, do you ? I begin to think yoa do. Tall me, my pretty birdie, do you regret it." â- ' How can you be w silly ! Yes, then, I do. There, now I " was the reply. "Now yoa muat do penance," returned the yoang man ; and after aome sonniing among the dry twigs and loosening atonea, a few curionsly stilled " don'ts," and aa cariously obeckered laughter, the penance was dnly performed, and peace waa re-establiabed between the contending parties. " I wish mother was here to keep you in order," said the] girl as she settled her bat, wbiob had got a little awry daring the passge at arms. " Do yoa? " was the answer. " I cannot say that I do, maoh aa I love the old lady." " Old I Meddy I " said Annette, in a tone of reproach. " Why, she ia not fifty yet. Tbat ia one of the funny thinga at Kingahoaae â€" none of the dowagers are old. Even the countess is not what you mi^ht call old, and she is the most ancient of them all." " No ; I grant yoa they are a fine set ot matrons," said Meddy. " Upon my word, the last time I saw yoar apeoial love, Mrs. Clanricarde, she looked about thirty. Bhe ia a wonderful getup, I mast say." " Oh I bat aha painta and dyea, and doea all tbat," aaid the bride, who four dayaagowas Anne Aspline, and now was Mrs Medlioott. " Bo no wonder she looks young, made ap as ahe ia, I wonder what has become ot tbat dreadful Mra. Harford ? " ahe added, after a pause. " Fancy any well-brougbt-ap girl leaving her husband and little baby for another man, and auch a man as that dawdling, affected, good. tor- nothing Mr. Oaborne I It is really too dread- ful 1 Bach an awful shame I " " Dut it ia not quite aure tbat she left. V'oa know it was thought she waa killed," aaid the former curate of Kinga- hoaae, now a fall rector on hia own acoount. A gentle kind of deprecation waa iu hij voice. " You ace, no trace of her has ever been found, and all tbat we can aay is bat surmise." " They both disappeared at the same time, and of course they went away together," returned Anne, a little doggedly. I he Clanrioardes were the reddestof all the red rags in her mental atore-oloaet. Good- natured to every one elae, to them ahe waa implacable. " We all know bow madly ia miaerable in the hell whioh they would have aaid, when living, love would make a heaven. And tbeae two young people, who also bad lost all that makes life honorable among men for the love that been denied them, and the faith ot which they bad been cheated, were no more happy than were Francesca and Paolo, when Dante fell aa fall the dead for pity ot their story. The Nemeaia we cannot escape, tlee as fast as we will, was creeping ap to them daily nearer and nearer. They had Love aa their bigh-prieit, truly, bat Death waa to bo the avenger ; and now they both, at leaat fer the moment, realized the dishonor wbiob sarrounded them as things were, and which would close still more oloaly arsand Eatelle when he had gone. " I have been a brate. I have been awfully aelfiab," said Charlie, auddunly breaking the alienee which bad been so sloqiiant between them. " I was carried away by the passion, the despair of the moment ; but I should have had more self-control ; I shoald have resisted you and myself loo." Hash I " aaid Eatelle, called back to heraelf as his only, and not aa any other's to bold disdain. " I oannot bear you to aay that, Charlie. I would rather be with yoa thac be the queen of the world. Do yoa think I care for what aach a silly, weak-minded girl aa Anne Aspline aay a 7 Do yoa think the blame ot each a creature aa that toaohes my love for yoa ? " " Yoar devotion does not make ma leaa a selfish brate," aaid Charlie, tears in hia eyea and voica. Bhe shook hia hand and carried it to her lips. ' When I complain then blame yourself," ahe anawered, with infioite grace and tendemeas. But when I am dead, Eatelle, who will you have then to love and care for you, to protect yoa, to make your life tolerable to yoa V Then you will find oat to your sorrow all that you have loat for me, my poor unselfish darling ; and I shall know il in heaven, and be anhappy ia vain." I shall want no one," she said. " If yoa die, Charlie, I shall die too. So that need not trouble you here or ia heaven. There ia no one I bhoald care to live for â€" no one whose love 1 would value if 1 bad not yoa. No one I " She slightly xbivered as she siid thia. The image of the ohild she bad left abandoned to the care of a hired nurse whoHs temper and heart she scarcely could gOEHH, and certainly did not know, sjemed to form itnelf before her from the creasing threads of the radiant atmosphereâ€" like a love with each other they were, and how cloudy shape just there within her graap Vaiaila \^»*aA Ka* >«>__;>..» ».^*U • I. . 4 tin* ..U» nUn» !.»_ A..ns >w..l nn4 tU.. kUin. Two young people were sitting on a bennli facing the aea and under the shadow of the ilex-trees. They were sitting hand in hand close together, radiant with the gk>Bsy happiness proper to a bride and bridegroom satislied with each other and themselves. He was gallant, tender, caressing and ahe was a little shy, a little illy, and, aa it might bu, surpristil, abashed.and fluttered by her own sensa- tions. The two on the bench, in their tarn, were sitting close together hand in hand. Baid the good looking young bridegroom on the heap of stones, with his clean- shaven face save fur the delicate tnuatache, which he oaresaud lovingly, " And yoa really think this batter than Kingshouae, Estelle hated her marriage with that awful bear--I don't blame bar for that ! â€" and how Mra. Clanricarde mana^uvred the whole thing, and put that advertisement in the paper, and all that. So how could it end but aa it has 7 " " Assuredly logic and aei]uential reaaon- ing do not make part of my wife'a mental furniture," thought Mr. Medlicott, while he caressed his mustache with one hand and held hers with the other. " Tell me, Annette, bo aaid, suddenly ; " did that Harford man ever make love to you." " 1 don't know about making love," said Anne, with a girlish laugh. " He wanted to marry me, it that's what you call mak- ing love I " " The soonndred I how dare he I " cried the bridegroom, with atTected indignation. " I shall have to break bia bead for that ! " " If yoa intend to break the heads of all who liked me you will have eooagh to do, sir," Hsid Anne, bridling. •Confess, littlo wretch â€" 'excellent wretch!'" aaiil Mr. Medlioott. "How many .' Who 7 Tell me, that 1 may make a note ot them all, and paniah thum aa their presumption deserves. Begin the roll call Lord Kustace ?" â-  Well, yea ; Lord Eustace liked mo very maoh," said .\une, bravely. " I waa aUvuva exceedingly careful, though, not to give him any enooaragement, for 1 did not care about him pereonally, and I had no fancy to be the wife of an earl who had not enough money to keep up hia title with, ^<i I always cold-shouldered him, poor l.i'uv ! And so 1 did Mr. Osborne, who at one liino waa very sweet on me. I could have got him from Kstellu Clanricarde, if I liked. Hut I always despised him, and would never have anything to aay to iiim." " I'erhapa that monater of the money- hags, that gnome of the minca, Mr. Btagg, looked at you with thoae calf 'a eyea of his, and presumed to think you fascinating and delightful ~aa you are ?" continued the gallant bridegroom, going on with hia interrogatory. • Ho I " eaid Anne, with something like a scream. " No, indeeil ! 1 would have made him remember it to the last day ot his life, if ho had I No. Lady Elizabeth may take him, now that Estelle (Jlanri- oarde cannot have him. He is rich enough tu buy even Lady Elizabeth if he likes." " I suppose nowthat o'd Btagg is dead, he has an enormous iuoome=- " said Mr. Medlioott. " Knormoas I " oontinned his wife. " I don't know how many thousands a year I What a shame that such a creature should be so rich, and others so far his auporiors eo poor I " Hut I fancy the poor monster ia not a bad monster at I.eart," aaid the apologetic bridegroom. " lie is queer, but ia a good fellow when you get at him." On whioh the two went off into the lovers' paradise of babble, silliness, and mutual llattcry ; and the listeners on the bench facing the sea got up and slowly walked back on the natrow moantain-path by which they had come. 'I'liey walked nn in silence, aa they had sat, hearing all that had been poared forth by the former somewhat over iliadained antagonist. Eatelle's pale cheeks were paler still ; Charlie's had yet a deeper flush. They ware so entirely all iu all to each otherâ€" eo shut oat from tha world and aooietyâ€" they had, as it wore, forgotten the existence of those who knew their story. Love, whioh had united them, had also been their high- priest ; and to neither her nor him was it aa if they were living in or defying the laws. The ain had been her marriage, not now iu their love, and her husband had nn righteous cause ot grief against her in that ehe bad left him. Bhe alone had the right to complain in that he had ever taken her. This waa their normal state of feelingâ€" tha child lying as a secret, unnamed kind oftterror between themâ€" bnt when they beard the talk of Anne and her hasband I they realized to the full the position in whioh they stood as the world saw it and judged of it. Never. separated, ever loving, they too were' itut xhe shut her eyes and put the thing resolutely away, and felt aa if ehe bad killed aometbing tender and beautiful, aa she always did when thia thought poasessed her, thia image appeared, and ahe would not reoeiveit. Her tenderu(^is waa in vain, at leaat for the moment. Charlie ^ould not be comforted. Hia conacienoe waa aroused, and not all her aaaurancea could lull it to sleep. Death waa upon him, and be knew it. After thia unintentional eavaadroppiog, a certain namelers aometbing came over both Eatelle and Charlie. It was not that they loved each other leaa, but they were even more unhappy than beforeâ€" and anhappy in a different way. Something besides sorrow of that all too certaiu separation ^aa on themâ€" aometbing that atung him, and that made her aa it were timid and in one senae reaerved. They had lived in the fool'a paradise of love, and had forgotten the world without. Now Anne Aaplioe's worda had bronght them back to the uoiiaoiouanesa cf the life that waa beyond and without their own, and to the lawa they had broken. CU.i.PTEB II, THK KINiiKB UK SIOIIN. The laat three days had been sultry and oppressive. Horses were either restive or sullen, and when they did not plunge and kick, they jibbed and refused to go. Those who knew thete signs looked anxions, as men foreseeing a catastrophe. All nature aeemed diatreased. On the third day all those aigna had increaaed in intenaity. And then uame the moment. Strange noissa were heard in the earth like underground thuuder- inga, or tha mutlled roar of an imprisoned creature in wrath and pain. The solid earth quivered and rooked. Hoaaea fell into heapa ot rains as if pounded into dust. Hera and there the earth opened and engulpbed fielda and farma and orcharda whore it waa riven aaander ; while over all the tumult aroae the voice of human agony, going np to the pitileaa heaven in one great cry ot fear and pain that waa half a reproach to the Force which hart and half a prayer to the Power which ooald aava. It was a time of univeraal wailing, and there waa not a family whioh had not loat in love or in gear â€" and almoat all had loat in both. Down on the aeaboard, where the atrangera from far-o0 landa congregated, things were bad, bat not ao bad aa higher up the hilla. Here there waa, on the whole, more fear than damage. Hotels ahook and cracked, bnl did not fall ; and the invalida who had come here for the aunahino of the sweet South suffered more from terror and exposure than from actual bodily hurt. Among these were " two young lovera lately wed "â€"Anne Aapliua and her husband, Mr. Medlioott. Bitting there in tha garden, Anns and her husband together, Mr. Medlioott aoon ^'athered around him a small aulienca of those who attended the English church regularly on the Sundays, and went as regularly to Monto Carlo all thu other days of the week. It waa quite a triumph for the handsome yoang clergyman with his mili:ary air. His diaooarae betokeaed ao many valuable <iaalitieaâ€" preaenoe of mind, physcial courage, sublime faith, aoientiflo knowledge, and that intimate ac(|uaintanue with the Divine Will whioh enduea man with ambassadorial functions ; all these were manifest in the young clergyman's harangue, and made their mark aooordingly . Spiritual assurance and pratioal experience together worked a miracle of mental heal- iog on these distracted folk. Men began to laugh and pretty women to giggle, while a few of the more oourageoaa kind atole back into the hotel to adorn themselves aa usual, and to make aure of their valnablea, left open to pilferers in the haate of the moment. And while thoy were all dispersed in this wise there oame two more shocks aa voilent as the first had been, and the whole scene of terror and distraction was onaoted anew. Ttaeaa reourrent shocks finished the ruin of the apper villages to the plains and seaboard. A little later Anneand her husband were sitting in the same place as before, in the garden facing the aea, aurrounded by the same admiring audience. Ha waa at one of the moat moving paaaagea of hia eztra-offioial thanksgiving whan a hired carriage drove through the gat« and np to the botis3 door. It contained a young man and woman with a very slender amoont of luggage, and as small a stock of health. He, indeed, waa djicg; she, as evidently fragile and broken-hearted, bad yet a strangely resolute look in her gentle face, giving the impression of one keeping up by force of will for a special reason and a definite termâ€" and then 7 They were among those whose habitation had been wrecked by the earthquake, and they had been the whole day foodleaa, helpleaa, strained, unable to find a conveyance to take them down to the botela on the aea- ahore, and with but little left of their modeat poaseaaiona- They had acaroe enough, indeed, for currents needs ; and what money they bad was baried in the ruins. Still they muat liveâ€" and there was alwaya that old friend and her rather myaterioua miatreaa to fall back on. The landlord of the hotel, who had lost tally have of hia gaeeta, waa glad enoagh to aee this new arrival, unpromising as it looked. He took ia the situation at a glanoe ; bat these EogUsh milorda have inexhaaatibia auppliea in their own oouatry, and a day's accident ia not a life'a disaster. He waa welcoming the yoang people with bia beat manner when tha group in the garden broke np. It was to come in to dress for uibU d'hote. Last of all the streaming little crowds, aa it were, filtering through the door, came Mr. and Mra. Medlicott. Aa they passed through the doorway into the hall|they stood face to face with the new arrivals- Charlie, pale and half fainting, was aitting on the hall aettee, coughing in the intervals of returning conaciousneaa. Estelle waa beaide him, holding hia head agaiuat her breast. The clean and well-regalated aoal of Anne revolted at thia rampant impro- priety. Uer whole being cried out ahame and repudiation. She felt it to be impossible to atop under the same roof with theae hardened ainnera â€" tbeae unmar- ried lovera who bore their iniquity ao nnblnahingly. All the pride tbat she had herself had in her lawful wedded state seemed to sink iutu mire, to fall to the base level of thia illegal union. No sen.sa of pity at rred the white aoal of the once pare maiden, and now no leas pare, becaaae the anlawful wife. She, Anns Aspline, uaually so <]aiet, so unob- trusive, so uudemonatraiive, left her husband'a side, and with the air and manner of an in lignant pythoneEs, point- ing to the two aitting there in their miaery, said o the landlord, in a loud voice, "If you take these two anmarried people into your bouse, I and my husband will leave it." Had a thunder-bolt fallen, or another earthquake shaken the house, the conster- nation of all aEsamoled would not have been greater. " They are not married," ahe repeated, " and that woman baa left her husband and child." A murmur of reproach ran through the Engliah. The native servanta, however, looked at one another with a abrug that said : " What of that? Monsieur is dying, and madame ia beautiful I " Ouly one Engliah peraon ventured on oompassion. Thia was a woman no longer yoang in years, but still young in heart, and she went ap to Charlie and Estelle. and ignoring what had been aaid by Mrs. Medlicott, asked them with infinite kiud- neaa if ahe could be ot any usa to them ; and what they would do ? where would they go ? For the hotel-kee[)9r, driven to the neoeasity ot choice, had, wiaely for himself, determined too keep the two who already had done his bous^i some good, and whose departure would probably draw others too away, aud had told the^e poor young new- comers, without too great expenditure ol courtesy, that they must leave now on the instant â€" ho would not give them rooms. " There are other hotela," siid Eitelle, with all her old (|u:et dignity. .She neither failed nor blenched. Thia amall spite of the former cook's daughter fell from her aa aometbing atterlly animpor. tant. Side by aide with her darliog'a atate, what mattered it, or aught else ? She was only eorry that ahe had to go forth to find another plaoe. He was too fatigued already. But even that maat be borne, and bravely. " Your poor gentleman looka too ill for much exertion," aaid the lady. " I woald not stay here with that woman it I ooald," said Charlie, with a aick man'a petalanoe. " Come, Estelle, lot ua get out of thia plaoe. It ia peatilential, with that creature here I " Ha apoke too feebly to beheard bsyoni thoae immediately beside him; and both .•\uneand her husband loat the words whie'-, had they been heard, would have added fuel tu the already raging tlames. Kindly helpet by the porters, to whom the maater made a Sign, and accompanied by tha lady who had spoken to them, a certain Miss EUistone, the two poor banished and outraged exiUs- theae desoendanta ot the peooaut pair who ate the forbidden trait â€" went alowly out into the chill dusk of the dying day to seek for an asylum where there waa no Anne Aspline to douounoe them, and where their oertificate of marriage waa not aaked tor. All through that weary night there sounded in Eatelle's ears the murmur ot virtuous abhorrence and the rustling as of the drawing away of skirta which had greeted the damning announcement that she was no wifeâ€" a fai^hlesa wife aud an unnatural mother â€" and that the man she loved aud lived with waa not her huaband, but a fraud and a diagrace from whom, aa from her, all honeat women aud honorable men did well to shrink. (To bo Continued). A Londoi. surgeon, in a daring llight of imagination, aaya that business men who occupy oflioea above the third story get flighty after a few yeara, and in default of a change become mildly insane. A North Carolina man visiting in Brook- Ivn laat Sunday went to Plymouth Church " just to bear Beeober and judge for him- aelf-" He may have judged for bimaelf, but it ia doubtful if he heard Beeober. Madisonville, Kv-, is the seat of a great reform. An ordinance there forbids brass bandn from meeting " for the purpose of learning new i»ieoea ot music within ilOO feet of a dwelling-house."