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A Modera Mlnerra. Hbe w&Jt do<ip iu ov'ry HcLoiice 'Death tho bqd, lU, lodx'd 'twM tiin>â€" I'Uilololv. (>«i>liJt(y, Ciauuia&y, Pljutoiuali')' - Hat 'twu tbi' M<14Mt ot^iry to «t>Dt*M, Hh« coulil uuc (eir k buuuu u^ft drtMl tibe woQl'l ipcuil A day or two npua % rbyiue, (What a bisb uM tiiii«!> Thnmodea. i:podeB, I'lxmu, rroftiiB. Lyrii.-a. J'yrrhica- l)nt av rv tiuio ibc went a tliiiiK to Imy, Bhe aurair wonld be rbeated on tbe sly t Kv'ry latiqtiago ovet writt<-n sho would try, (Sbo could apAak. ub my!' lllyrian, IlHirinti, liubralc.Cbaldalc. Indiau, African - Uutwheii. >-» Kwdi. bnr <''>t>kitiit I ro«all, Tin bound to atat«: hht; could u>>\ cook at all ! Aod I ' i)b. I don't count lir luucb, you buu. I>o not. pray, mind uifF â€" WandiTiuK. pondorinji. Kliakic^, quakiug. ToiliuK. inoilJUK - I ba\o to .tiok to bur tbrouKb thick auJ thin. 1 v<" niani*! bor -that "wberu the jokf comes iu. ESTELLE'S INFAItATWN A NOVEL. " Th' time I have taken two Btepa forward and fallen back one. The next time I ihall make three and fall back none, thoiijjht l.ady Elizabeth, she too breathioi; mure freely becaase of the hope uhe had that ahe tould win poor Katelle'n foruiveneaa when tho day of her orde«l should crime After tbid llrat and only braeli that had over been between the two, Anthony and Lady Kli -ibeth were yet oftener together and etui moru and more to each other than before. The old dayn at Kin^thbouae eeemed to have been tracelated into theao new condition '< at Thorbergh ; but had there been the amalleat approach to tlirting or levity on either aide, Mrr. Bmythe Smith woald have taken tbe alarm, and there wuald probably have been a little t^cunu of romonstrance or a falae exctue for departara. Bat there was iiothint; to agitate tbe moat sensitive pradery. Lady Eli/.a- beth was );ratef ul to her hoit«iN for her tra9t. KaowinK what ahe did. and having that ulterior object ever bt fore bereyea, ahe b*ld by her friendahip with Anthony an the last hope of salvation poor Kstelle was likely to have. It was a heavy harden, however, to know what sbu did ami keep it back from tbe one moat intereated. If abe could bat bring bim to a milder frame of mind ahe would tell him. Ue ou^ht to divorce bii ponr errioi( wife, to aet her free to marr/ Charlie. If only ahe coald inllaenoe him to this better and more magnaoimoaa coartu 'â-  Meanwhile she made herself almost neoesaary to his existence , and the power was waxing secretly and anknown to himself, as the roots of the flowers â- welled beneath the sod. and the sap in tbe trj( ' rose ever higher. And »h a further clamp and rivet, Kstelle'a little two- yearold boy had ' taken to " l.ady Kliza- betb, and wh' ri he .-.aw her would aniile to bar and bold out bin little hands, and make much of her when ahe took bim in her arms. " Voa aos we all love you, Lady Kliza- betb." said Anthony one day. in hia half- bitter and halfacrioua way. " My boy, my do){, and ovi'ii I. who, io your eyes, am not 80 good ai either." CHAI'TEU V. l.N' Mhi: M.^iTKK.S.S. Mcaii'A'hile liitelle's cup of misery was fullâ€" so full that aurely there was no room for more! In tbe earthijaake she and Charlie had lost all they poasessed, save the clothes in which they esoa[nd and .siioh loose silver aa chanced to bo in their pocketa. Alone, and cut off from thuir pait, disgraced where they were, pannileaa, tvaa there a lower deep '/ .\9 thoir only chanoe, they wrote to Mary, whom now they know to have been the anonymoua aender of thoae sporadic Btippliea . whose other secret also they knew. ]. telle was thus doubly bound to this coarse, vulgar car of cheatery and deception . lor they knew her guilt and Hhe knew theirs, and neither dared to betray tbe other. But Mary and her uiother had the whip band, and know it. But wb< n Kstelle wrote to them, giving •n account of the eartbijuake and their loiBos, and asking for help, mother and daughter consulted together in adverse njood enough, and pronouiioed it a shame for grand folk like those to oome upon poor people like them. " Uu they think we are made of money ?" asked Mrs. Latimer, shrewiahly. " II they do, they'll have to find out their mistake," said Mary, grimly. Ho much of grace, however, had they as to remit Charlie Osborne a very small pittance, just to meet the most proaaing wants of the moniontâ€" sending therewith â-  cart and disagreeable letter fall of oovert insolence, aaying that it was impossible for them to aatibfy those constant and exorbitant deiiiauda â€" and that really Mrs. Harford moat apply to her own people, who wore better able to keep her than they. I'oor folk like them had enongh to do to keep their riwn heads over water. I'erhapa no trial had been greater te these two desolate creatures than waa this letlur, with its meagre remittance so relDOtantly sent, its inaoienc a so slightly veiled. Ii was a terrible moment. Kven that when Anne had marked them with tbe brand of shame wa.i leaa terrible than this , for this included the ssme confession of ahame, and more beaidoa. Then Kstelle made np her mftud. It waa • trial, but it waa not a hazard. f)he know tbe man, and felt sure that she could truat liim. llo waa good and unseltish, and be bad once loved hor. Now that he waa rich bo would help her ; even though helping lier meant helping the man who had stood between them. Her cheeks burned as with fire ; her hands wore oold aa marble , her heart throbbed with hope and fear and ilie shame of dov^ ncast pride all in one ; but it had to he done. Caleb Stao^ was her laat chance, failing a direct appeal to Anthonyâ€" or one yet mors direct, to death and (iod t Bst the loving oling to life, however missrabis they may be, if they can but live together, The dust of dead joys ie better than the peace of eiarnal sleep, If only they can hold each other's hand and forget their wretljh- {'dness in a kias. When things are at their eatreme It ia time enoagh veluntarily to die. While they love tbsy are nevsr at this extreme ; aad Katelle, who knew that her beloved waa now dying, would not have haatened that iovitabla hour, no, not by one moment of coveted time. Wherefore abe took hor ooarago in both handaâ€" wrote the story of bar diatwss and denudation to Oalub Btagg, and spoke qaite uatarally of •â-  Mr. • Mborne " and of his state of health, and of lier having joined him to look after him. She had, however, to add the slight change of name, and how they were known here at their hotel as " Mr. and Mrs. Charles," which gave a somewhat ditlerent complexion to the pure philan- thropy of looking after her old friend and playmate, fallen into such a condition of health as demanded a competent nurse. Tbo lirst answer came by telegram. By return of post a auhatantial remittance waa the second : and Katelle had not miacakulatod. This sandy-haired, snub nosed, ungainly omad'haun was truly tho bit of human gold she had believed him to be ; tbe bump between tho banchback'a shoulders was, then, the sheath wherein were folded the angel's wings ; and Love, pare, uiiaelQsh Love, once more vindiuated Its right te be held as the god of the world and the great centre of all life that ia worth living. The day was warm and bright, and the place waa at its lovelieat. Sea and aky were of tbe same deep blae. and both were aa tranijuil aa twin children sleeping face to face. It waa a day which moved tho world to love and laugther â€" wherein the thrill of life waa as strong aa the sunshine and as passionate as the nightingale's song â€" as sweet as the soent of roses and orange llowers â€" aa divine as the kindly goda who rule the destinies of the fortunate and happy. It seemed impossible to be even ill at case on such a day. Aod yet what grief was in that chamber looking to the sea and across to the far distant landâ€" what dread in the present '. what terror of tho future! The supreme moment had come at last, and poor, weak, handsome Charlie Odborne waa at the end of all hia failures and at the outavt of hia great journey. Ue had lived to his laat moment, and he had now to reaign himrielf to the inevitable parting from the woman whoK life his love had rained and whom hia death would leave deaolate and deatroyed. Ue half hoped, indeed, that ahe would not conaent to live after him â€" that she would die either by force of nature or by the act cf her own froe-will. He acarcely thought she could live, and he hidden away from her in the narrow grave. It seemed sacrilegious â€" almoet criminal. For all the wise tender- ness and larger oatlook which death brings to the dying, poor Charlie could not rise quite above that egotism which bad been the ruling passion of his life. And yet be was not a bad fellow, taken any way. Ue was weak to bis own liusires, eell imlul^ent to his own fancies, ai.d he haM that fatal artixtic temperament which cannot live or lio goo<l work nnlertbe strain of eel f control. Ue muit be tra<ileil like a child in the arms of love, an<i ful like fableil fairiea on the mojt gracions foo I (f heaven. And what was good for bim as an artiat was good for him all through. Uia egotiam was so far temjiertd and excused ; but it had wrought infinite mischief, take it how ane wooM Ue was l.ving now ijuito still, breathing with extreme difficult) , hia rws fjr tho moat part shot ; hot every now and then he opened them on Kstelle sitting motion leas an>l silent b> his bedside. It was painful to him to speak. He had neither breath nor etrength for articulation. .Sud Isniv the life that was ebbing slowly awas tlowa<l back with tranaient strength. and tho lire that was dying lowu hla/.ed up anew with power and hri|fhlne»s " Vou must write to Lady Kli/.abtth,' he aai I to Kstelle. " If you can, reconcile yourself with your hnabai d and get him to make yon an allowance. ll was like some one else spoaking, ami Katelle <|iiivurt<l with a superstitious kind of drra I. It wan so unlike Charlie to think of means and measures to plan or to foresee I What Btrange revelaliors and stranger metamorphoses were boat. 1 up with this ilrea I passage .' Was tho eoul tranaformcil before the lindy oeas< I to hold it ' " 1 will, if you wish it, Charlie, " she answered. " Lady Kli/Abetli will be \our friend, " hecontinned. " Now that 1 am going, yoa want Nome one to befriend you.' " I will obey you. darling," she said, softly. A little smile broke over his wasted features. "Always tho same,' he said. "The sweetest and the beet on earth I ' She kissed his hand lying in hers, and then he closed his eyes and spoke no more. Ilia breathing grew fainter and fainter- more interrupted, more labored. There waa a nuriona look of general collapse about the whole fose uf me body, and the hand in hers was limp and lifeleea. Through the partially unclosed lids she saw that the eyes wore turned, and over the face and brow broke out the clammy sweats of death. The open lip4 were as fall of pain as tho lips of the Mednsa in her agony ; and then came that hoarse rattle in the throat which told of the supreme moment. Kstelle rose to her feet and bent over the body of her dying Ibver. Hhc neither rang nor sailed for the luip or the companinn ship of hor kind. Alone, aa alio had lived with hina, so would she be when he dUd, and no stranger should desocrate the aoli- tade of thoir love. With straining eyes and a heart that ihrobbod aa it it would barst within her bosom, ahe atood there watching till the last faint breath was drawn, and the life she had l^ived batter than her own had sobbed itself away into notbingnesa and death. Bhe knew when it oame, and bent over wiih parted lipa laid uloae to hia to roceivo that laat breath. She gathered it like a careas. It waa like hia Very soul entering forever into her body â€" hia last touch, hia laat word Iâ€" then darkness and a vagna sense of falling oatne over her. She hoard aothli>g ; she know nothing. That knock at the dsor -that harmed tread of a maa'a entering feetâ€" that uoioe all were lost to her, while a strong arm oaiight her as abe fell, and a voice whisp^ed sojtiy : " Ah, my queenly laas, but tlAia'sl oome to a bad paaa I ttr>d h(Ja thee, aa 1 will I" CHAl'Tmi VI. uin conrdhTKH. " Ood tenspera the wlpd to tbe shorn lamb." fiometimos; m>t always. The t«mpering to KstelU, for inatanoe, was of the al||;ktatit ijuality, so far aa ahe herself was seaoerned that essential Hhe wliiob {ell and saffenad. Ueli^, however, dead to all but her own saCfering, she tcarce reoogni/.ed the benefits showered on her by Caleb btagg, but look them as we take the tlowerH of tho gorse on the commoa when we are wandering, foot-sore, faint and weary, oar way lost, oar direction nnknowD, the darkness of the ni^t settling down. Yet Caleb waa cf ase to Estelleâ€" of as much aae and of a like kind as the nails and joints which hold tbe coffin planka to- gether. Ue took all the trouble off her hands and let her indulge her grief an- cheoked. This waa tbe best thing be could llo for her; and ahe had a vague percep- tion of ilH valae. lie was no more obtra sive than an intelligent machine ; and KKtelle, with the unconacioas aelQahnees of grief, treated him with little more tboaght than if he had been a machine. Do we feel grateful to the naila and joints of the oofil'in planka, without which, however, our dear dead woald be in aorry plight enoagh '.' They hold the cof&n together, and keep the beloved safe from marauding boaata and birds of prey. But do we love them for that? Could she then love tho man who arranged tbe details for Charlie's funeral, and so aeparated her from him forever ? The fatal day had come ami gone, and Estelle was now alone in the world, so far as her own conaoiouaneaa of companionship went. .She had almoat forgotten her child ; her hasbsiid had ceaaed to exist; her father ami mother were aa dead worlds, and ber whole past life at Kingahonsa was a void. She had bat one thought one sentiment â€" her lost Love, and the bleak blaokneau of life withoat him. The spasm of something that was almost shame, which Anne's aoorn had awakeneil, had gone into notbingaess. Had abe been asked, ahe would have planted her pride on her union with Charlie, and her shame woald have gone to her marriage with Anthony. The one which tho vt'orld diidainod and thelawoondemned was pure ; the other, which men called a sacrament, was impure. Bo she thought and fell, aod Caleb was not the man to try to convince her of wrong reasoning. But her state alarmed bim. This blank and motionless despair was as a sickness he waa unable to anderatand or cure. Had she wept or bewailed herself, had ahe been irritable in her grief ami peeviah in her Borrow, he would have known hia way bet ter ; bat to be so still and silent and patient and lifeless waa something beyond hia ken, and he waa frightened in propor- tion to Ilia ignorance. She bad fallen into tbe aame atate as that which bail come on ber after ahe had married Anthony, aave that ahe bad not that point of horror aod ptrsonal ahrinking which bad then been ber active cross^ and which she had pat all her energy into concealing from tho man whom she never felt to be aaght but her purchaser and tyrant. To Caleb she waa as indifferent as if he had been a trained dog walking on its hind legs, but as gentle as she was indifferent. Sometimes she wonld stop the carriage and ask Caleb to get her such and such a flower that ahe saw by the way-side. ' Charlie will like that," Hhe would sty ; and when the flower waa laid on his grave ahe saemed tu feel a < ertain pleaaare, and over her poor pale face wonld steal a faint aad amile, aa if anawering back one from him there in tho dark grave beneath her feel. Once she startled Caleb by saying, with unoooscioas parody of a more famoua re- daplication : " 1 think no woman's lover but mine died twice. Once before I mar- ried him, and once after." " It baa been a sore trial for yea," aaid Caleb, not knowing what else to say, and, by the way, not knowing what to call her. This, in Its degree, waa a trial to him, accustomed aa he was, like all people of hia condition, to bring in the name of the per- son to whom he was speaking at every turn- It seemed to nim so bald and un- civil not to give Kstelle aome kind of dis tinotive name. He could scarcely " bring hia tongue " to call her Mra. Cbarlf », and he would not wound ber by calling ber Mra. Uarford. When he did atumble over a deri^uation at all, it was Iha former, foi he would rather wound bis own oonsoience than her feelings. " Vea," said Kstelle, " (iod has been very hard to me â€" very cruel. I wonder why .'" " Thoae whom Ho loveth Ue chaateneth," said Caleb, in a low voice. " Becauae Uc lovea you, Mra. Charlea." " And therefore killed my darling twice. I do not call that love," ahe anawered, and sank again into silence, from which Caleb did not dare to try and rousa her. It waa natural that tho whole atory ehould have excited a great interoat in the Kugliah colony, both rooted and nomadic, which found itaelf on the ahores of tbij enchanting sea. Its mixture of pathos and criminality gave a pleasant savor to goaaip ; and pity, tonched with condemnation, made a mora interesting state of mind than one sentiment alone ooald have pro- dnoed. To this was now added curioaity. Who waa thia man who had come to take possession of thij sorely wounded Impropriety '/ He was not her hna- baud, evidently aol a relation, and at evidently not a aorvant. Ho was too re- spectful for the one, too familiar for the other ; also he was not up to her height socially ; yet ho had the command of money to a fabuloas exionl. "The young English clergyman and hia wife, who might have aolved the mystery, had left the place ; and conjecture oihauated itself in vain. Bhe more beautiful and more desolate than Ariadne herself, and he the luoerest looking god that ever leaped from a car, steam-driven or panther-drawn, what chain could bind them together '? ll waa not love, aad it waa not bloo<i ; and (Oaght to have yoa would understand me,' the world ia not i]niek to recognize the uu aelflah heroiam of devotiAi. If nothing was known here, all waa patent at Kingahonse, and the bad, black newa flew about tho place aa fast as if car- ried en bats' wings in the twilight. It made the staple of oonveraalion, and waa ' the shafoe and the hnrning " of the hoar. Not content with having left her own law. ful husband for one man, thla exoeedinuW improper peraon, this Mrs. Uaiford, Ind itiveigled anoftier. And aach another ! The golden calf, the boti of bis oountv, waa ber Tatoat aaotitloe ; and he, the fool that he waa, did not aee how ahe waA making use of hirn, and how ahe was treating him ^s a mere IpoAtool or hoarth-rog I It waa real^ too ehamefal, look at it as one woald : Kho was past praying fos, of coarse. Bho was lost for time and eternity, saving a miracle of grace io snatdh her fi\>m those eternal Urea ahe no richly deserved. But ke, though he was a born idiot, all but qaalifled for Earliwood, be waa too good and simple minded to be made the victim of an artful intrigante who deatroyed men's Uvea as cruelly aa if they bad been a acrificsi offered up to Moloch. Kingshooae waxsd fiero« in its virtaa at thia time. No Je<r ever scraped bis floors and walla with more zeal at Paaaover to make sure that no forbidden acrap of leaven lutked therein than did the whole society of Eatelle'a old home repudiate her and her miadeeda. No one dared to sympathize with her sorrow for fear of seeming to condone her sin, and tbe general verdict waa : " .She deservea all she got ;" and â- ' She broaght it all on her- self, the hussy I" Mra. Clanricarde had to bear more taunta and sneers and cold shoulders and tossed up beads than her pride well knew how to endure ; and that foolish George was crestfallen to a degree he had never been, even when be had most severely burned his fingers in the fire of the Hoana. And when that foolish (ieerge wept, and said that natare was stronger even than morality, his wife metaphorically bit off his head, and told him he was an atheist, and ahe woald hear no more of his blasphemy. She even went so far aa to say : " That miserable girl or nie, George. If you go to ber, you leave me forever. Beaidea, where, if yoo please, is the money to go with '.' I'ou have taken care that we shall never have a five poand note to spare from our creditors. How are yoa to go Let that hideous young man bear the harden. He baa plenty of money. And when Mr. Harford divorces her he will marry her ; and so she will not have to starve which is as mach as she can exjpect and more than she deserves." To yaoh a pass of hardness like to the nether millstone had large social ambition, personal pride, and perpetaal poverty brought the mother's heart, which under more favorable conditions would have been soft and loving enough. Of Mra. Aspline, too, it m as i be sorrow- fully said that, on this matter of Eatelle'a diagrace, ahe disclosed the one black spot in her otherwise roae-red heart. Bhe was for the moat part a kind old thing generoua-natured old Cookey ; bat Ibis was one pull that wrenched her good-natare asunder, and let tbe little stream of gall trickle forth. The contrast to be made between snow-white Anne, under tbe hallowing intlaenoe o the matrimonial sacrament, and thia besmirched Eatelle, nietber wife nor widow, waa too strong to be reaiated. Bhe muat show Mrs. Clanri- carde her dieilain. And she diil. Things at Mentone oontinaed pretty much aa they bad been ever aince poor Cliarlie'a death. Eatelle's intellect seemed benumbed, and showed no signs of rewak- ening. One day she and Caleb were sitting by the grave, where ahe na«.>l to paaa aome time of every <lay. She used to aay she waa " going to Charlie, when ahe made her friend nndsrstan<l she wanted to go to the cemetery, and imagination aapplied something almost like reality. Charlie was always alive to her. Suddenly she looked ap into Caleb's face. " I aappose the world ibinka I ilid wrong .' Anne Aspline aaid so,' aha said, asking a ijuestion by the\iDdeotian of her viiioe. " I suppose so," aaid honest Caleb, ancomfortably . How he wiahed that he couM have repudfkted tbe idea, and have shoaled, " No ' " to all the four ijaarters of heaven '. Bat even though it was Kstelle who bad done it, for a married woman to leave her haaband and live with another man was a long way beyond the limits of flie morally permissible. "And did yoa do yoa.'" ahe aaked aKain. He writhed in spirit. Abstractedly, yes. The act had been profoundly immoral ; but hia waa not the hand to hart that already 'o cruelly woaniled dove. Aad what mattereil it what be thooght .' Who waa he, ta lay down a law or preaume to find fault with such as ahe .' " I would never blame aaght yoa did, Mrs. Charles. Yon know what yon do, I reckon." he answered, hambly. "But yon think I did wrong all the same," ahe persisted, with the obttinaoy of a aick mind. " It woulil have been an ill thing iu any one elae," ho retarned " 1 ilon't see the difTerenoe," ahe said. " I am no better than another. Ue was; bat 1 am not." "Why di you talk of it • " said Caleb. " I'leaae don't, Mrs. Charles. Yoa did what yoa'il a minil to do, and so let it bide." " 1 did what I ought to have done," aaid Katelle, with a curioua emphasis. " They had all deceived me all made me oommitthat first sin. This was no lio, the other waa. This waa only puttiag things straight again." " That should comfort you to thiok of," said Caleb, his eyes caul down. " But now I have one wish only one," she continued. " 1 want Mr. Harford to livorce me. Then I will be marrie<l to Charlie by the Charch before I die." " Good Lord ! " crieil Caleb, aghast. " Mrs. Harford- Mrs. Charlesâ€" oh, my ilear lady, what ever is it yoa are saying I Do think a bit 1 How can yoa be married to bim and him a-lying here '.' " Oh yea, they will. 1 am sore 1 can," was her reply. " He ianot dead, yon know. Only hia boily is deail, bat hia acul is alive, and I can be married to thatâ€" my soul to his before I die -ami then we ahall be all right when we meet in heaven." Lord aakoa ! " aaid Caleb. " Did ever any one hear the like '.' " If yoa had as mach faith aa yon answered Estslle ; "and," again looking hiai full in the face, " you would synspalhize with me and uphohl me." I will ophold yoa, Mra. Charlea, in all an>l aught yoa wish tod3," said Caleb, with passionate solemnity. â- 'â-  Bat this ia aaob an idea ! I don't well see how it can be. 1 iloabt it ever a clergyman would be got to do it." " We Till see," said EstAle. " And I intend to write Mr. Harford and ask him. Ue wiH not rofase. He knowa that 1 am not hia wife now, and never was. 1 waa only hia married slavs. My mother sdld me tfnd he bought me ; and 1 owe him no more Iban any other slave owes her master.'' And not to mueh, indeed ! " " It :,oa gel him to divorce yon, it will be anather big talk," said Caleb. ' Folks have talked enongh at present ; I'd be main sorry to give them imie to set their teeth on ! " " Would yo« like me tc go back to Mr. Harford ? " ahe asked, a little haagbtily. " Nay that would I not," he azMwered. with his heart in hia good, honest, homely- face. " What I woald Ilka beat of all ia that you should have some lady friend. like Lady Elizabeth, to come and bear yoa company, Mrs. Charles ; and that yoa'd just let me go on aa I am, looking after you and seeing that you want for naught. Bat I want no more clatter and no more worry to you. And if 1 were yoa I'd leave Mr. Harlord alone antil we see bow- things turn of themselves." " It is not fair," ahe answered. " £ owe it to my darling's memory to get rid of thia hated name, which I suppose ia legally mine. Do you know, Mr. Stagg. I had almost forgotten it. For all these months that I have been with Charlie I never remembered that I was not legally bis wife till that dreadful girl reminded me. And then I forgot it again when ha went from me. It is only quite lately that I have thought of it, and that I want so much to get rid of Mr. Harford, and to be bis, my darling's wholly and entirely." " ll ia a sweet thought, ami like yoar- aelf, Mra. Charles," said poor Caleb, in terrible perplexity bow to meet this thought which was so insane, though the mind in which it was born was saner in this than in Eome other things. " But I thiok U wants considering. Ami if you'll be guidtd be me, you'll wail until yoa are • little stronger before you put yourself about again. Will you let me write to Lady Elizabeth '.> That would be the wisest thing to do. If she ooald oome here for a bit, that woald be aboat tbe beat job we could get throagb." " Yes," said Estelle. " Write to her. She was always good to him, and he liked her. //' would bia pleased for me to have her here. Yea, do write. Let ua go home," ahe added, feverishly. " Let as go home at once, and do you write at once." " I'll go forthe trap," said Caleb, bend- ing to her mood as tbe shadow follows the substanoe. " We ahall be in time for the post, I dare aay, and she'll have tbe letter the dav after to-morrow." ' Dear, dear Lady Elizabeth ! " cried Eatelle, to whom thia new tboaght bad give a new impulse. " Ob, if ahe waa bat here ! She woald help me I thd would comfort me I " (To b« Continued). How to Drink Tea. Ae commonly prepared, tea is so bitter and disagreeable that tbe addition of milk becomes almost neoesaary to make it pala- table. Bat to put milk or cream into properly prepared tea ia to commit an unpardonable gastronomic aoleciam, not only for the fanciful reasona that a chemi- cal compound resnlti from the mixtara rtsambliug the basis of leather, but that tbe basia of milk disguises tbe pecaliar aroma of tea, and makes one kind taste almost txactly like another, very much in tbe aame way aa French cooka aometimes apoil the natural flavor of fish with their eternal sauces, till yoa are unable to tell whether you are eating salmon or shark, catfish or dogfiah. Sugar, on the other hand, may and shonld be added to tea. For it makes the taste of tbe tea more agreeable without in tbe least interfering with its fragrance. Milk and tea soon become very insipid to the sense of those who have aocastcmed tbemaelvea to drink plain tea. Moreover there ia a apecial enjoyment to be derived from each kind of tea ; and bow actually the aenae of amell can be educated io the art of diacrimi eating teas ia shown iu tbe case of professional tea taatera, who can distinguish not only tbe uoautry and the locality where the leavea were grown, but the year and seaaon, and even tbe ahip that broaght them notxjm the ocean. â€" C'onUmptirary Heview. ^ . Tui LAFE Dii. J. (t. HoLiAKu, the emi- nent writer and physician, wrote and published in Scribner'a MagaEine : "Ilia a fact that many of tbe best proprietary medicines of the day are more euooeeeful than many physicians, and most of thorn are firat discovered and uaed in aoiaal medical practice. When, however, any shrewd parson knowing their virtue, fore- seeing their popularity, secures and adver- titea them, then, in tbe opiaion of the bigoted, all virtue went oat of them." The late Dr. Dio Lewis, in apeaking of War- ner'a Safe Cure, aaya : " If I found myself the victim of a acrioua kidney trouble, I would uae your preparation." Dr. K, A. Gann, M. D., author of "Gann's New Improved Handbook ef Hygiene and Do- meslio Medicine," aays : " I am willing to acknowledge and commend thus frankly tbe value of Warner's Safe Cure." The celebrated Dr. Thompson, of the Univer- sity of the city of New Y'ork, says : •• More adalls are carried off by ohroaic kidney disease than by any other malady except couaumption." First Lady of the Laud. " la it proper to speak of Mrs. Harriaon aa the first lady of the land?" That depends. If our oorreupondent has a wife, she should be the firat lady of the land to him. If he has no wife, hia mother ahould be the firat lady, and if he has no mother either, then his oldest sister. It he is an anmarried orphan, without sisters, be may be right in looking to the wife cf the Presi- dent as the first lady of the land, bat any day he may meet some other lady who will change his opinion and her name. â€" /far*- Six T»ll Britliihan. At the presentation of Sir Julian Paanoe- fote to tho President on Friday, tho Blue Parlor of the While House sheltered some very striking-looking men. Paancefote ia 6 feet iiiohws in height, hia Beoretariea of Legation, Edwards and Herbert, are more than feet each, and the other Kngliah- tn«Mi present were almoat as tall. Walker Blaiue eatiraated that tbfi aggregate height of the six Britiahera waS 37 feet.â€" i'AiJa- delphiii Ledger. To \Hat«Tpraer Hammoeka. Hammocks that are allowed to ha»g oat most of the time are soon rdtted by the aotion dt tbe weatlvr. II is said that they may be made " waterproof " by immersing in boiling linseed Oil, and leaving them in it tor a day or two. Then with a cloth rnb off all tbe oil possible, and wlien the itetting is dried it wil last maoh longer Ifaan it otherwise would. A oorrqspondent of Nature reports hav Ing cnplared a moinaito iu Belfast, ItelMid on Maroh 39kh. S.