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11 Waarlneu. O Itttlo f«et tt.»t Huch long Team Mu«t waujer ou through Lopes md f oari, MuBt Hcbe and blecil benoitli your load ; I, nearer to the waygldo inn, Where loll Bliall ceaae and rest begin, V nearer to the waygldo inn, •lere loll Bliall ceaae and ri „. Am weary tLiukiug ol your road. O little bands ! that, weak or Btrong, llaro atlll to serve or rule boIodh. Have still BO louK to kIvo or a<k ; I. who BO iiiucli with book and pen llare tolled amoni; my fellow men. Am weary, thinking of your task I O little heartB ! that throb and l)eat With Buch imiialient, fevorleli li.at. Huoh llniitlesi and strong desires . Jr.i ." "'*' "" '""* ^" glowed and burood. With passioua into aabcs turned, Now covers and conceals ita flroa. O little Bouls ! as pure and white And cf)Bialliuo aa rays of light Direct Ireui heaven, tbolraourco divine, itefraoted throtiRli the mist of years, How re<l uiv Heltiun >-nu appiMirH. How lurid looks turn soul of nunc ! Ali-Fowfrful Woinau, What cannot woman do for liooj or evil ? Bhe la the worst and best of Imiiiau kindâ€" Klther an auKil or a vury devil Botir and btllixurent, orralnilv sweet inclined, Aa wife and mother she can make homo heaven Or brint; upon It BQlferinK and bli({litâ€" By diBpOBition kind and temper oven. Or bosom full of bitlorneBB ami apite. The Bweotost, (jraDdoHtobjoot in cnalion la a good woman lu hor proper spiiere. Winn ins the ardent love and ajiprobation Of loyal husband and of children dear. Karucst in her work, devout, DntirinRâ€" JCver striving sumr now bliea to plan- To no great name but that of wife aspiriagâ€" The orowuiuK glory (iod vouchsafed to man. And then, per contra, there in no one living More to be censured, dreailed and deBjiised Than a bad woman, conBiaM trouble givint; To those wli.i should by bur he idolized. Splenetic, sour, cruel and seditiiias, C'areleaa of homo, and fond ot rout and hall. Wilful, injprovident, couBciencelesa and vicious. The friend ot no one and the curae of all. ESTELLE'S INFATOiiTiON : A NOVEL. CHAPTKK XI. TIU rltKCIOCS UAI.MS. " I heard yon say you wanted to apoak *o nif, Mrs. Mecllicott," said Lady Eliza- batb, Willi perfect comjioaure. " Von spoke BO that wo coald hear all yon said, as I preaamo yon intended we Ehould. And 1 heard this. What is it you want to say to me ? " Anne was taken aback. Between her new diKiiiiy as a married woaian, makin;} her Buperiur to Lady Klizaboth in her state of anlhd^L'd maidenhood, and her natural veneration for tho urandyonox lady of her old home between this natural veneration and her mjral reprobation of Lady Kli/a- betb'a cansortint; witbEatelle, she was tor a moment in a chaotic couilition, and did not rjaite know what to do. She wished to bo at ones respcutful to the carl's daughter and severe to tho asdociatu of sinnerK, mindful of the cliiima of rank while npholdn))^ tlioae of molality ; and the combinaiioa waa ditCuuU. " I am en sorry to see you with that dreadful person, La.iy Elizabeth ; so sorry to hear )ou say 'we,'" then aaid Anne, taking a heavier into the deptba, " What person V Mrs. Uarfonl or Mr. BtaxK ?" askoi the Uay. " lioih, " said Anno. •• Why ? " L«'iv Eli/.ab th asked thid aj trancinilly fUB II lirtlello had nuver broken hur marriage VOWu, and Caleb .Stat<i{, tho minor's sob, were ihe Homo Hocretary at thu least. " Why'.' (Ih. Lady Eli/,»both, how can you ask such a ihiun '. " cried Anno, rouiiad out of feor by tho etreufjth of hor an^jer. " Vonâ€" you that wo all look up to at Kiiihh houMo you to be Bittiu« thoro liko an eijual with a fallen woman and the common man who supporiH her I And then you >i»y ' why .' ' whon a person liko myself objeots." •' That you are froo from Imr special â- in I Ituow," said Lady Klizabuth, gently. '•_ IJutaroyou BO froo from .if; sin. MrH. Med- lioott, timt you can alTord to bo ho severe ',' There jx not only ono kind of ovil in tho world ; them are many kinda. Which of lis i:< free from thorn all .' " •• Uy Coor^je, no ' " muttered Mr. Mod- li'ott, fori;<itiin)4 his OrdorH and reraembor- ifi,.' hiK Varsity dayx. "Oh, L»dy Elizabeth!" oriod Anno «i<ain, unutterably shocked, and not having lienrdher litinband ; â-  do yon clssa running away from your luiahand and child, and livinj! under a false name with another man as his wifr. a sin no worao than tollin)^ a littlo falseh., id now and then, or being a littlo cross I).- I'tzy, or illnaturod, or any- thing likn th»; / It isdroa.lfol! Whore Hhall wo all conio to if wo make no more diatinr, ion than thia? " " Wa should oome to more charity than we have now," Lady Eliz»huth answered. " Laxity, yon moan," put in Anne warmly. " No, Christian charity," was tho reHpons). " That poor girl thero is snarcoly herself. Iler grief has louohed tho flnonesa of hur intcUeot, and she ia suarnoly rospoii- â- ible for what sho says or does, (iannot you fiiiJ some kind of pity for a life so wastii.l, HO wreokod, so unhappy .' " •' No," Haid Anne. " Hhn dusorvea it all, and morH We have no right to plly such wicked (iH.ipIo aa «ho an I Mr. ( Liborne, for all that he ia dead. Thoy doaervo to die. Thoyounlit I 1 dio, orgonnd, or Bomothing, and not live to n>'t a had e.vainplH to others, and to b(i pitied and maila much of, as if thoy had doim nothing to bu aaliuuiod of." " la tliia tho Chriatiuuiiy you teach, Mr. Medlioott ' " aakod Liidy Elizabiitli, turning to Anno'u niicoinfortabUi huaband, Btauding there in tho trimmer's diatrisj, wiahing to roatrain liia AnntUe'a riido testify int;, yet not wialiing to fail tho â- evero dignity of his cloth. " It ia alwaya dilliiuilt to rooonoilo Ohriatiaii charity with Christian purity," he said, smoothly. Who felt that dilBcully more acutely than ho 'i' "Our Lord pardoned ainnurs," was liady Elizahsth'u commentary. •' Ilcoaase Ho was our Lord, and had tho right and tho power. Hut wo frail, fallible mortala are dilTorent. Wo niuat hold the standard of purity liii^h, and keep tho light of the lamp undiiiimed. Wo muat not he too pitifid to tho ainiiora leat we should forgot to hato tho aiu. ' To oondemn cards and pardon the ahariior,' you know, ia absurd, Lady I'^liitabeth, But this ia tho danger of too great lenionoy â€" tmi groat compaaaiou for tho ovil doer." Thix hn said m hia uiiufoaaion of faith for Aiine'a sakr, not deeming it wise In bo loss exacting for ptirlly than his yniiiig wife, having always h:iforo him tho drnad ot weakening those bonds of reetndnt which man losen for their pleaiore oat . of the borne, and draw tight for their eocarity within it " Yet the very lite and apirit of the goapols ia charity ; and the Apoitlea too taught the aame sweet truth," said Lady Elizabeth. " Not to women who run away from their hnsbands with other men, and leave their children to be brought ap anyhow by strangers," persisted Anne, coming back to ber point aa a cat comes back to the moase- bolc. " If Mrs. Harford had wanted to leave her buKband â€" and that would have been wicked enough when once she had married himâ€" she need not have gone of! with Mr. Usborne. If she did not love the man she married, sho coald at least have kept herself correct," she added, with unanaweriible justice. " I do not defend Estelle'a action, bat we mast remember the whole circumstance before we oan judge it rightly," Lady Elizabeth anawered. " She had loved Charlie Osborne all ber lite. She was in- daced to marry Mr. IXarford only after she had been deceived by a false report of hia death ; and when she saw her old lover again she went away with him on the apar of tho moment not after thoogbt and deliberation. It waa not like loving a stranger after marriage. It waa more like going back to her own." "Then," said Anne, hotly, "you hold that u girl is jaatilied in going back to her own, aa yoa call it -that is, in leaving her husband for her first love if he happena to crosa her path, la that what yoa mean to say. Lady Elizabeth .' 1 can scarcely be- lieve it of yoaâ€" }oa, ot all people in the world I" " I do not quite say that," waa the qaiet reply. " You have overstated me, Mrs. Medlicott. I only eicuae poor Eatelle somewhat, not only because ot her lo:ig and deep-rooted attach- ment, but becaaaasho had been, aa it were, betrayed imo her marriage with a man she did not love. And it seemed more natural to her to give ber lite to Mr. Odborne, the man she did love." " All this is dreadrul I " cried Anne, aghast. " And her marriage vowa to go for nothing I Whatever she folt sho should have borne it. Had she not vowed that she would ? " We are frail creatnrcH und.;r temp- tation," said Lady IClizabeth. And we should be frailer if anoh principles aa theae were accepted," cried :Vone. "That I ahould have lived to hear auob awful aentimcnta from Lady Eliza- beth Inchbold ! It ia fcartal ! And the eartbi|aako hero so lately ! I wonder have the courage. Lady Elizabeth â-  wonder you are not atraid I '' She waa sincerely stirred. White Cross on her broast ; evil-doers was as a black acrosH its virgin purity. Tears stood in her china blue eyesâ€" genuine tears of genuine diatrtH]. That tho sweet lady ot Kings house should advocate la.\ity in these matters waa a apeciea cf blaephemy which terrified and overcame her. She had always looked up to Lady Eli/kbeth with so much reverence, if her practical ilemoc- raoy had at times somewhat revolted her. But, now, wh.'u ahe waa not only conaort- ing with ainncre, but speaking gently of that fallen oroaturo, and even exouaing her and making light cf tho heinouaness of her sin, Anirj felt aa if ahe muat choose between man and (iodâ€" human respect and divine guidance. "Some day you will come to a belter knowledge," nho said, with ipiivering lipa. " I will pray that you do." " Perhapa some day, taaght by the leeaon of auffering in tho world, you will think with moâ€" gently of Binnere," aaid Lady Elizabeth in reply. 'â-  I hope never ! ' said Anno, with fervor. " Hut you can at all ovonta refrain from saying harah thinga that she oan hear. You rotnomber the bruiaed reed and tho smok- ing Uax I " said Lady Elizabeth. " She is very, very sadâ€" her mind is a little unhingedâ€" will you not spare her thia pain, this indignity '.' " " If sho were in a proper frame of mind, and truly repentant, 1 would," Anno answered. " Hut alio ia not, and she ou>(ht to bo mude to see her sin as it is. She ia not really mad, I suppose ? Bhe oan pray, oan sho not '! and (Iod can give Uia grace evon to an idiot, if Me will ! " " Then let (Iod judge her. We have only to BOoiho and help her," Lady Eliza- beth replied, as aho turned away and went buck to EHtello. " What hna she been saying to yon ? What havo yon bet n talking about all thia time I " were Eatelloa two ijueatioiia, pat rapidly and toveriahly on her friond'a return. " Nothing of coiieequonoo, " said Lady Elizabeth. " Wo had a great deal to talk about that meant nothing and endeil in nothing." " A bitter, black hearted rigmaror, that's what aho ia ! " muttered Caleb tu himaolf, dialing at his own inability to help and avoiigu i'Utolle by telling Mrn. Modlicott what ho thought ot her. Not lit to huM a caiidlo to her, isn't she, and ahe daring to drag hor over tho coals liko| that you : I She wore the and charity to stain thrown Lady Elizabeth. " My beat anawer i?, â-  I am here to care tor yoo and help yoa to get qaite well.' " " But that dreadful girl who hatea me so much has aaid sach dreadful thinga ! " aaid Eatelle. " Forget them, dear. While yoa have Buch frienda as i^r. Btagg and myself, let the rest go. ' " And my darling, who never leaves me!" said Eatelle, softly, looking ap into the blae vault above, where she did really and honestly believe Charlie, as a spirit, waa hovering, having postponed his entrance into hia inheritaccj ot heaven to be near her. " And Mr. Harford, who wiahea you only well," aaid Lady Elizibetfa, tentatively. " Ob," waa the weary reaponae, " do not talk of him. He ia nothing to m'>, and I want to forget him. I have only one wish â€" that he will divorce me ; and then I shall be all Charlie'b â€" all â€" all hiaâ€" body, soul, and name ! " " And be ot no more value than a bit ot mouse-ear obickweed," thoDght Caleb Btagg to himself. " And that queenly lass to havo given herself away for a man not fit to tie her very shoe-string ! Matty me ! the pity of it all I " After this rude blow, however, Estelle'a mind went back to ita clouded state, and ahe lost more than she bad ever foand of clearoecH and aelt-conacioasneas. Charlie had died sooner than n^ed have been from the same c*qu3 ; and Anne bad, indeed, vindicated the claims ot stern justice and righteoua retribution. And now it had come Eatelle's turn, and ber fibre proved no tougher than ber dead lover'a. Not all Lady Elizabeth's loving care, not all Caleb's bumble devotion, counteracted the shock of Anne's acorn. Bhe passed whole days by Charlie's grave, and obstinately refused to go anywhere else. Anthony was Ktill unable to move, and Mrs. Clanricarde would not come ; and Lady Elizabeth had to be strong enough for the place, however painful itK circumstances and onerous ita datiea. The nurse hired to share the anxieties of the moment was worse than useless. Estclle would not have her near her, and her very presence made the poor girl so violent that she waa perforce put into the backgrounil. while Lady Elizabeth's maid was a timid young woman who had nervea of her own, and waa afraid of her own ehadow. Thus the aweet Lily of Kingahouae had it all in her handi and on her ehouldera ; and aometimea she witbed that she could divide tbt^ burden with an- other. One day »ho had a more than imubI strain. It waa hot and atrilling and ahe fell aaleep by Estslle. lying on her bed near her an>l holding her hand in hers. When she awoke she found herself alone. Estelle had crept away with that wonderful cunn- ing of tho partially insane, and stolen from the house unseen ot any. Caleb happened to bo out of the way at the moment, and the coast waa therefore clear. There waa hot running and feverish excitementâ€" messengera were sent off in various direc- tions â€" and a considerable atir was made in the hotel â€" when Eatelle reappeared, as from a walk, bright-eyeil. ihi.lieJ, briak. alert ; far more so tMuauae more feverish than ahe ever waa in her best days, and no more liko an invalid than Lady Elizabeth her self. When gently acolded by Lady Eliza- beth, and asked where aho had been and why aho had given them all thia trouble andan.\iety, aho laughed in a buoyant way. and aaid alio had boon oat for a little walk ; the d\y waa aj tine, and she had a longing to bo alone. Ko tho usuapade paased with out more notice being taken of it, and l.ady Elizabeth did not know what it was that hor charge held hidden in her breast â€" eumething whii'h every now and then aho touched aa if to reaaauro heraolf it waa there, and eafe in her own po^s^aaion. CHAITEH Xll. now TUKV MEl ASH lAlUKII. One of the dift'u'ulties of the prcaent poaition waa Eatello'a obatinate refusal to leave Montono, where ("harliu waa baried, auil where hia apirit alill lived. There waa no doubt that ahe ought to be taken away. Tho oulv chanoo ot mental rehabilitation waa HI chango ot aoenu and diversion of thought ; but who lould inaist when she eo paaaionately and ao tenipoatuoualy refused '.' Lady Elizabeth had neither the uervo nor tho power to carry a ahouting and proteating maniac to the atatiun ; and it sho had not, then certainly had Caleb evon \tx^ than she. Loft alone and not thwarted, Eatello w*si|uiet enough, it nut always amenable to control, but to bo taken forcibly away would have roused into active mania what waa now that dulled aad brooding condition known technically aa " niolancholia." Anthony could not oome for yet awhile, and Mrs. Clauricardo would not, till certain toilette arrangomenta were cumploted. Lady Elizabeth confiased that Eatelle waa in perfect phyaiual health, which waa ao tar a relief. If her nund had gono a little antray, it would come right in tinie, and there waa nothing to tear. Ever since that lirat (falae) announooment of (/harlio'a (loath aho had been warped and Btraiuod ; but sho had done no harm to heraolf or any other, and would not now. .\ few daya Sho wanta coaling horaolf, that i muro or Uai did not aiguity, and a perfect dooH alio ! " iquipmont did. So tho mother contented "I know why Anno Aaplino hates mo li.raolt with a few lettera full ot futile ex- HO mnoh, â-  then aaid Eatelle, after a pauae. „„»eB to Lady Elizab* tb. and waited until " It la beoauae m.iUur would not viait her oloaka and bonneta and gowna ahould them; and now tl-iit alio la propirly ' ba aont homo tit U. wear. married, ami 1 wa.s not, aho ia glad to I Hut Esteilo did not want her at all. Her inault nio. It is very jimple." I ono cry to Lady Kliz»bt.th waa: " K-ep my "Yea," aaid Lady Elizabeth, almoat mother away, Ideao I Sho would aend mo scared by the unwonted lucidity of her , mad if Bhe came 1 Bhe waa too wicked to poor fnond'H wotda. my darling 1 1 will never a. e hor again." • Hut 1 do not caro," oontinued Eatelle, I Meaiiivhile, Anthonv'a broken bone was •for I did only what waa right. It waa i healing apace, and would soon be well iny duty to Charlie when ho wanted luo, enough for him to take tho journey with I did (luilc right. Did I not, I a,io oaro and precautiona. And, after all, , . ,, , , '"''" ''â-º>''' '° hiavo bo waa the proper peiaon to come and Ihritt, which I alwaya hatmi -oh, how I m»ko arrangomeut-i. Ho was tho very ono and como to tho 1 who had leLial antlmritv In antâ€" the hated that and I wont Lit HO duar '.' I I alwaya hat>Hi--oh, how I place! and como to the ] who had legar authority to actâ€" the only Uiviera with my poor darling when ho „„e who could diapoao ot thia poor wrecked wanted me, wna I not '.' " I ijfo, or aay what hIiouM bo done with this "Wo will not iliHouaa that now, doar," , more than widow and less than wife, aaid Lady Hlizaboth, woakly trartioking ' [t waa ono of Eatelle's bad daya, when with hor oonHoionoe for love's sake. lUo working of hor brain waa ovon more "Hut I want to discuss ill" aaid than nanally impeded. Sho vias lying in ' And I bed, having refusod to got np; and waa in that alato of ajmi unconaciouaneSH so well known to the watohera by theae mournful bedeidtH. Her ty.^a wore oloaed, and sho waa silont and iinpaaaivo. Whilo alio waa atanding there, hor main deairo at thia moniont being that Ealello ahould roiHe heraolf enough to take eome soup, Lady Elizabeth hiard the omnibus I'latelle, with a ohild'a wilfulnoaa. I want you to toll me, yea or no. Old 1 do wrong to go wi'h Charlie when ho wanted ino V I was engaged to him long before I over aaw Mr. Harford ; and when I know that hn vraa alive and hn aaid 1 waa to go to him, of courao I did. What olae oould I do'.'â€" and why should I not'.' And I did what waa right, did 1 not'.'" "Whilher I think yon did right or from the station clatter through tho gates overcome it. "One word, wioiig ia nothing to either ot ub," said and draw up at tho hotel door. Then s'lo " tell me that you are glad heard a voice abe knew only too well, and a strange baiting loaud, like and yet onlike a human atep, which came up the stairs and atopped at the door ot their aaloo. A moment after, Anthony Harford, on cratches, at ambled into the room into which Eatelle'a bedroom opened, to find only Caleb sitting rather in the ahadow, listening for any aound that might aeem to ask hia assistance, while apparently occu- pied in varifying certain flowers got that morning in hia early walk before Estelle hail stirred or Lady Elizabeth wai visible. When .\nthony came in, he started ap In mingled trepidation and yet relief. Now that qaeenly Itsa would be lost to him, and his daya would be as daya nitboat aon or sky, bat Lady Elizabeth would be relieved from the anxiety which was beginning to tell on her rather heavily. How Estelle would bear this meeting remained to be aeen. He hoped macb.but be feared mora. Had he had the ordering of things, and she could have been content, he woald have liked to carry her away to some distant place where no one ehonld see her more, or to have the care ot her here at Mentone with the fall consent of all belonging to her. He knew, he said to himself, that be could manage her. It he might do so he would, and ooulil make ber almost happy. But hia doing as be would was only absolute sub- misjion to every wish or fancy of hers and to manage her was merely to adore her and obey ber. White, wan, and lean, Anthony waa but the shadow of bis former self. He looked as if be had been drained by some vampire ot all his blood, as it the day ot his final reckoning had come. But hia changed appearance was due more to mental distress than physical discomfort, and the anguish of the moment waa in pain of this meeting and tho doubt of himself that it included. But this fellow, this creatare, this usurper, roused the man's pride and passion, and, so far. did bim good. " Who are yon, and what are you doing here ? " he asked, haughtily, speaking to Caleb as to a dog. " I am Caleb Btagg, from Eingahoose. and I am here to help Lady Elizabeth look after Mrs. Harford." said Caleb, with a quiet patience that waa in ita own way dignity. 'â-  Where is she '.' " returned Anthony, still ap'-aking in the same rnde, rough way. For, indeed, it wounded him sore to see this man here where be should have been, and would, now that the villain who had wrought all thia evil was dead, had it not been fur this untoward accident. ' n yonder." said Caleb, pointing to ad^ortbat atood ajar. " Lidy Elizabeth ia there with bar." There was but one She for both these men. ao unlike as they were and with such different claims ; and for all ber grandeur and goodness and charm and self-devotion the aweet Lily ot Kingahouse w:i3 bat the salellita where this other was the central star. ts'.elle, with bee eyea still shot and her lips drawn close, seemed to hear and know nothing. Lady Elizabeth, her nerves Strang and ber senses all intensified, heard and knew all. It waa as if ahe were in the room and saw as well aa heard â€" Anthony's impatience, juat touching oi: brutality ; Caleb's self control, that rose into dignity. She came through the doorway, laying her finger on her lip, and aa she turned, Eatelle opened h'.T eyea wide with a strange and ah ! tor tho lost beauty ot inicd which goes with tho health of the brain !â€" vicious aniilc. and touched something that waa in the thick coils of her hair. Then ahe cloaed her eyes again and lay aa still as before. " Speak eottly, said Lady Elizabeth making no more formal greeting. â- â€¢ She is easily startled." " Let me see hor," eaid Anthony, hia brow drawn low, hia lipa pressed close. " I will not frighten her." Lady Elizabeth, moving softly, went into the room, and Anthony prepared to follow her. But his crutches felt sharply on the uucarpeted door, and he slopped, with an angry exclamation. " Let mo help you, Mr. Harford, sir, " aaid honest Caleb, coming f jrwarj with all hia kindly nature rouaed to be ot service to a fellow. man, but, above all, to be of ser vice to one who loved her. " Lean on me for this aide, and maybe one stick will be enough for the other. It will make teaa clatter." " Tlianka, yes," said Anthony, with by no means effuaive gratitude for the service rendered. Man like, he waa totally with- out gratitude for email services ot tempor- ary usefulness. Large ones ho would pay back with hia life, if need be. But to lean on Caleb's shoulder did not soften his heart to the ungainly interloper who had taken the place that ahould have been bis , and ho wont on iuto the room where Eatelle was lying, rautelv cursing his fate and all humanity with the patsion and injustice of hia unregencrate kind. Aa they came up to the bodsido ai:d looked at that poor beautiful wreckâ€" a more sorrowful victim of lovo than ever waa Ophelia â€" Caleb felt the strong man leaning on hira quiver like an aspen leafo in tho wind ; but he made no open demonstration. He neither groaned nor wept, nor yet apoko. He only trembled with the euppreaaed emotion of apafsiouata man used to control expression, and lightly laid his hand on hers. Then Eatelle, opening her eyea wide, lixed them on the faces of the two men standing by the side of her bad .\nthony in tho full light and ('aleb in tho shadow â€" and aa she looked she shrieked and covered hor face in her hands. " Eatelle, dear, do you know me?" said Anthony, very gently, bending over her; but ahe only shuddered and moaned, shut- ting out the eight aa something too painful, too torriblo to bo borne. "Will you not speak to lue, Eatelle? liearoat ! are yon afraid of mo .' There ia nothing to foar ! l>arling, apeak to me. Oh, my love ! look at mo enoa more with those dear eyea and tell me you do not hate mo 1" Ho aaid all thia at intervals, eottly, his passion, hia despair ot entreaty, rising as the time went by and she still hid her face and moaned. "One word, my Eatelle!" continued Anthony, who, by now, had lost all memory of her sin and of his own anger and dark resolves whoso heart had gono back to her again with all its former integrity cf love and who determinod that, oome what might, he would lake her in his hand before the world, and rehabilitato her by hia love, lie waa man enough to face tho world and he pleaded ; 1 have come, and that yon will go back with me to Thrift and yoor child ! " He forcibly took, her hand from her fac»â€" that long, soft^ perfnmed hand â€" and carried it to his lipa. " Oh, my darling! will you not speak to- me one word ! " he said, with a sob. " Not one look to the man who loves yon ! " Then Eatelle nncovered ber face and looked at him with sadden gentleneea. " Poor Anthony, do net cry," ahe aaid, simply. He kissed ber hand again. Jud^e and criminalâ€" it waa the judge who sued and the criminal who granted. aL''?:''' " But I have found you now, and we will be happy together again," he said, hia very aool in hia voice. She shuddered visibly, ami looked ap- pealingly at Lady Elizabeth. Her one conscious thought waa to stay here, where Charlie's grave held Charlie's heart, and was the altar where sbe worshipped. " Do you want to see yonr boy ?" then asked Anthony ; " your httle aon ? He has grown now, Estelle ; he ia a big boy,, and remembers you. We teach him (o speak ot you â€" to ask after you. Ho haa not forgotten you. Do you not wish to see him again ?" " No," sighed Eatelle. " He waa yoars, not mine. He ia better witbca; me." Tears gathered into Anthony's eyes. Hera were dry. If ahe coald have wept, she would have been saved. â- ' How can a child be better without its mother ?" he said, tenderly. " How much better ha will be with you, you mean, my darlirg '. How we are all longing tor yoa again ! " Again she ehaddered. " Ask Anne Aspliue," she said. (To b« Continuedi. Latest ScottUh >'ews. Majjr Vernor Carter baa been selected tor the command ot the Second Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Hi^hlandera. There is now a likelihood that Kev. Jchn Robertson, Stonehaven, will be ncaoi- moasly chosen for the McCrie-Koxburgh Charch, Edinburgh. At FairUe, Wigtownshire, the other day a hen, after hatching several cbickena, died ; thereupon a cat took charge ot the brood, and haa since been their jealcos guardian. R?v. Jamea R. Grant, pariah minister of Buittle, died after a very brief illnesa on 8th May. He hod been out walking en the previous day. Mr. Grant was over !^0 years of age, and had been for 14 years miniiter ot the parish. An old landmark in the drapery business ot Lilas^ow will soon disappear. The great establuhment ot Thomas Chalmers A Co., Trongate. will put on a new face and look as gay aa poaaible in the guise ot a People's Coffee Palace. \Vm. Dickson, one ot the two surviving members ot I'talasbiels Ancient Wcavera' Corporation, died the other day. aged ti7 years. The I'loddcn flag now b«c-omes the property cf the laat satvivor, Mr. James B. Brown, Viewfleld. By a carriage accident in Nottingham Mrs. Michie, wife of Dr. Mtohir, waa ao in- jured that she died on the lOih May. rhe ti'aeen and the Princess I'rederica of Han- over were present at the wcdciiig of Mrs. Michie at Balmoral during the Jubilee week. What are known over a large pa t of Scotland as " Dixon's blazes ' were aeon on the right of the ('.tb May for the laat ti.'-je. The proprietors have reaolved to utilize the furnace amoko in the maimtacture of gaj, tor reheating tar, ammonia and other rea: dual product J ot tho coal, and the tlanica which illamiualcd the midnight akiej of (.'â- laagow will now paaa iuto gaa tlues, inatead of into the air aa formerly , A Flea for the DeuoiulimtUiri'i. The best men in every congregationâ€" the men who work bet'., train th-ir fatniliea beat, pay most, nmko most sicrticea, at- tend publio worship and prayer meeting most regularly, and are moat indueutial for good in the community- are, without tx- coption, the men most attached to the dootorines and polity of their own churches. This is true ot every denon.iua- tion. The men who have most iufluenoe in the rommonity, the men who have most influence in ether churches are invariably Ihe men who work best on their own de- nominational lines. Uver against thia nn- doabted tad pat the other undoubted fact that tho man who never h»s any intlneace for good in his own church i r in any other is the rounder who gashes about union. Denomiuationalism cannot bo such a bad thing if it produces the beet men we have. â€" Kwsiniian in t'urniJit iVi-sft^fmjn. Dr. T. IIkma.n liiiKHMKi;. an eminent Gor- man authority, s»ya: " Consuaiptiou is always due to deficient uutritiou cf the lunga, caused by bad blood." At the Brompton Hospital for cousuniptivi s, Lou- don, Eng , a statement haa been publii<hed that 62 per cent, ot the pattenta of that institution have unauepectod kidney dis- order. This explains why the proptieiors of Warner's Safe Cure cl«iiii that they have received many testuuoMiala nhi.-h they have not publiahed, bfoaus-j of the inoredulity with which they would be re oeived were it claimed that Warner's Safe Cure cares oonsumption. Dui tho fact ia that it your kiilueya be cured and put in a healthy condition they expe-l the urij acid and poisonous waate matter, and prevent the irritation ot the delicate subitaiuva of the lunga, thereby removing the lauae. When tho effect is removed the aymptoni of kidney disease, which ia called oonaump- tion, disappeara, and with it the irritation which caused it. A IHutl-Head lio(. Col. Shanly is tho owner ot a dog cf which an interesting tale ia told, but the veracity of whioh cannot be vouched tor. It has a habit ot leaving tho Colonel's resi- dence ou Piccadilly street about noon each day and waiting at the corner of Uichmond street tor a street car, when it hopj on and rides as tar as l>unda8, from where it runs down to its master's ofhoe in the County building. After waiting around there for an hour or so it once more takes the car fcr home.â€" I.oniiixi t'Tte I'reu. I ' |1 « 1 « American (in London atore) I wish to bay a pair of auapendera. Shop keeper â€" Never heard cf auoh a thing, air. Amort- oanâ€" Isn't this a gentleman's furnishing store? Shop keeperâ€" No, eir; this is a haberdaahery and dresa supply shop, air. American retires staggered.