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 L\ taOLDEA BOABS. CHAPTER XXII.â€" Co-NTi.N-UED. S .e lo-.ktd at me iu a fr\:;ht=nsd irreao- lute V cy, and then alio foiin^J with her Lps rath' r ttian spoke the words. '• Yc-s â€" rather co'd â€" cow." 'Wouldn't you be more comfortable in one of the rooms up-stairs while the fogs last?" J insinuated shyly. Bat I saw that her breath was betji^ning to come fast, and the fiint pink to tinge her chef k '3 it did when she was excited. "Di 1 ony one tell you to ^ay tl'a' to me " she ri '.:•-â-  :r a T^hi-p^r. "1 told Mr. Hiyner, when I wrote, that we had a slight fog here on Tuesday night, and this morning I had a letter saying that he thought it was bad for you to sleep oa the ground-floor when the mists had begun to rise high, and tha" he had told Sxrah to prepare the large front spare-room for you." Instead of looking grateful for this proof of her husband's thoughtfulness, she became agitated, and at last her agitation grew al- most uncontrollable she trembled and clu.ng to the bars inside the window, an'"' I saw ttat her forehead was wet with thi, effect of fcome strong emotioii â€" it looked like fear. "At lait â€" at 'ast I have been here too long," she gasped. I thought that the effect on her nervou.s temperament of making her leave the room against htr will would outwei/:h anv phypi- cal gccd the charge might do her. The wild look was coming into Ler eyes which I had seen there twice before, and I was afraid of her being seized with a paroxyHm while I stood there ou the.other side of the barred window, powerlj*S8 to help her bO I said geLtiyâ€" 'Of course Mr. Riyner would not wish you to ^o if you did not wish it." Bu" she shook her head, and, putting h^r face i etween the bars to be closer to me, she said, in a low broken voiea â€" '• Do you know what his wishes mean when Sri'dh carries them out " 1 stood I'joking at her, appalled. Her terrci was so real that it infectea me, and fcr the moment I almost shared the poor lady's mad belief that there was a conspiiaay against her. Bat her next words restored me to my senses. "Ar3 you aga'nst me too " she asked pitccr::]y. "1 alvrays thought you were but then you we're kind to my childâ€" and I don't know, I don't know whom to trust " ' You n:ay tiust me, dear Mrs. Eayner, ini.eeil," said I earnestly, '"I would not jiave 'uagostt'i your IfaviL" your room it I tl-.Gught ii v-'culd cause you no much pain. lr,..itd I (lid not know you were so iimch atticheu to it." ;e • hudikred. Tliere w£s a pause, dur- ir;_' Miiich ih" stand at nie aterniy and â- :' a;iji;;iigly But I had no cause to fear her no'.i.- ,r;ia i.'ves, so I returiicd her gz3, and â- J." J,'f' â- -' ji" J." ^ady (a'rp.er. •â- .^li^s Chiiatif," h;:id the at 'ast, in a vvii.-per, "you ii:iv.-M;.ihieii(;c in this house, 'i'-^ii;: (v;:;'Tt w):ni ll-iidee was i'l you made ^.i.i:; ";icy you. It I may trust ou, give II rj t';.;.j, j f of â€" t;-jt uii Oil- day's respite. I. :t n:c ;-il;iy in my own room till â€" to-mor- row.' tier V'.ic. rank till I could hardly catch the l"3t weria. 'â- I will try," said I coftly. "And, oh, Mr.-!. K»yi:er, shall I tell Sam to take the dead leaves ;i-vay in a wheelbirrow I am sure it can't be wholesome to have them so cl(i=fi to y^uf window." '"No, no, leave t'rem â€" never mind," said she i^urriedly. "You must be in the water. \\,u will catch cold. Go â€" Heaven bltss yon " She shut down t?he window in a frighten- ed way, £nd disappeared into the room. I tou'd iiot see in, for the window-sill wa.s so lie eight or ten inches above my head. I turned and splashed my way back, with my teeth chattering, to the house, and changed iny^wct shoea and stockings, half crying for pity for the poi r, helpless, forlorn lady for whjm I could do so little. At tea time she came into the dining-room, aid, as Saraii was there, I practised the in- nocent deception of pretending not to have .seen her before that day. I thought it bet- ter tha' the lynx-eyed guardian should not discover that I had found a way of commu- •^ iciting privately with her unlucky charge. St 1 Kaid again at tea-time that I had hart a letter from Mr. Riyner, andthithe thought that on Saturday she had better move into spare room. "Saturday " interrupted Sa-ah sharply. ' Yes," sa-d I, rather frightened at telling SI. ch a story. "Do you think jou would like to go to-morrow, c r would you rather go to-night, Mrs. llayner V I asked gently. "To-morrow," said she, with a steady look '.â- â-  â- â- if'h i took aa an acknowledgment and I Lrted to i^arah. "I. V. ill answer for it to Mr. Rayner, if there has Iven any mistake," I said, as mo- de.stiy as I cnuld, for it was an awkward thiuL; to Lave to give orders before the mis- tres of t! e bouse, however tottering her rea- SLii might be. "'iiy well, miss," said S^rah, to my sur- pri-^e. Fjr the second time my use of Mr. Ray- ner's name had acted like a charm and I wondered how this womai, who bad dared so much to cut me off from communication with Liurence, could camly submit to re- ceive orders from me. After tea, Mrs. Rayner in her turn sur- prised me by a warning which seemed to sho v keen observation. She came and stood by me at the fire-place while Sirah was clearing the table, aid once, while the latter was for a moment out of the room, br.athed softly into my ear, without turning her head. "Take care â€" she bates you, and she is dangerous." I glanced up quickly but Sarah was al- reidy ba:k in the room, and Mrs. Rayner's face was aa impassive a] ever. I v^ai so much used to living in fear of Sarah that the warning did not make any particular impreauon upon me, and I went to bed neither more nor less afraid of her machinations than usual. I woke up in the night without being coe- scicus of any cause for doing so. 1 had started at once into full wakefalnesa, and I saw that Haidee was sleeping quietly, and that the tire was still aligtit, but had burnt low and I thought I would replenish it. Then, as 1 raised myself on my elbow. I thou^.ht I heard a sound, too faint to be ca'led a noise, outside the door. So I kept quite still and listened intently. I heard nothing for some time, then again a mnffled noise as of something being abufflsd softly from one stair to another, then again no Bonnd. The tarret staircase was uncarpet- ed i*- ^â- ~aI rncsbting yo'ished, hut the bees- wax .1 a i worn off long since and had not been renewed. I got oat of bed softly, lighted my candle by putting a match to the dying fire to avoid the noise of striking it, creptto the door, and literally put my ear to the keyhole. And, after a few moments, I hoard the tame soft sbufiling again. It mittht be Nap, Mr. Riyner's retriever, try- ing to find a stair softer than the rest to lie upon yet they were surely too narrow for him to make the attempt. "Whoever or whatever it was seemed to be making it way dow n by very slow degrees, until it seemed that it must be about six or '^even stairs from the top. I screwed up n y -..'ourage and resolved to give the intrud- er, human or other v. ise, a fright. All the locks were kept in good condition at the Alders, and there was not such a thing as a creaking door in the place. I turned the key with ut the least noise, then the handle, and flung open the door, stanping my foot and brandishing the candle. I heard Haidee scream I had forgotten her. My plan succeeded only too well. A figure which had been crouching on the s'a'rs sprang up. It was Sirah. Before I had time to do more than recog- nise the savage frightened face, her foot slipped, aad, with a piercing cry, she fell backward down the stairs. The staircase had one turn. I, trembling at the door, saw her long thin hands clutching and struggling to save herself at the corner but she had fallen, and I heard a heavy thud, and then a groan. She had fallen headlong to the bottom. For one second I leaned against the \^all unable to move then, trembling ao that I could scarcely find the top stair, I stepped forward to go down. But on the second stair my foot suddenly slipped, and, if I had not been going very slowly because of my agitation, I must have fallen. Od the next stair I slipped again ou the next to that, putting out my foot very cautiously, I found a string fastened acioss. With a sudden suspicion, I sat down with- out advancing farther, and slid my hand along the stair. It was slippery so were the others. Tne turret stairjase was dark even by day if I had been running down- stairs at my usual pa3e, nothing could have saved me. It was a trap set by Sarah, if not for getting rid of me altogether, at least fcr seriously injuring me. She was greas- ing the stairs one by one when I had heard her in her alarm a' my sudden appearanco, she had sprung up, her foot had s'ipped on the greasy plate below which she had Keen using, aud she had fallen herself a victim to the trap she had laid for me. And, as the horrible truth broke upon me, 1 heard an- other eroan aui a murmur I could not dis- tifEuish. Sick at hear!' aud for the moment almost as helpless as she, I crawled down the stairs, wounering and fearing what spectacle would meet my eyes at the bottom. CHAPTER XXIII. All the stairs below where Sarah had slipped were safe and in their usua,l state. At the bottom, an almost senseless heap, lay Sit ah, with one arm twisted under her and her head in a pool of blood. She was moan- ing, with closed eyee, and did not know me when her eyes opened and she stared round her. The nois3 of her tall had by this time brought out Jane from the distant nursery and she lan for the cook, who was an older and more experienced woman, and who in- deed proved useful in this emergency. It was pa^t midnight but, late as it was, I was obliged to send Jane into the village for Sam, to tell him to take one of the horses and lide as fast as he could to Beaconsburgh for the doctor. Meanwhile the cook declar- ed her belief that one of Sarah's arms were broken, for she fainted when it was touched; and then, having discovered that the blood was flowing from a great gash at the back of her head, she bound it up as well as she coulil to stop the bleeding. Tnen I ran down-stairs for some brandy, which we put to her lips from to time, but in vain tried to make her swallow. And then we sat in the cold, in the dim light of a candle, both of us crouched on the fl jor, the cook supporting the wounded Moman against her knee, I a little way behind, lest she should recover full consciousness and know me. It was a ghastly thing to be sitting there with that horrid stain on the floor within a few feet, listening to the feeble moans of the wretched woman whom we hardly expected to live until help came, holding our breath when for a few moments the moaning ceas- ed, I thinking of the awful retribution her malice had brought down on her, not daring to speak to tell her I forgave her, lest my voice should have some terrible effect upon her wandering mind. And so we sat shiver- ing not with cold alone, until the frcnt-door bell sounded through the silent house, and â- lane, who had not dared to come up stairs again since she went to send off Sam, open- ed the door, and we heard the doctor's heavy tread on the stairs. It was Doctor Lowe. Ha called first for more light. Jane brought a lamp, and he signed me to bid her to go away. Aftsr asking me whether I was hysterical, and hearing me answer "Xo," he told me to hold the lamp while he made his examination. He ta'd afterwards that I had strong nerves bat nothing but fear of him kept; me steady at my post, as, with averted head, I heard the sharp little cries the wounded woman gave two or three times. The cook had been right the arm that lay under Sarah was broken the Doctor could not tell yet whether her spine was not injured too. He cut cff her long black hair and strapped up her head, which had received a gash which might affect the brain, he said and he set and bandaired the broken arm. Then we brought a mattress, and very carefully lift- ed her on to it, carried her to her room, and put her en the bed. "Who is going to sit up with her?" asked be. "I will," said I, but added doubtfully, "if " "If what " said the D:ctor, taming upon me sharply. I drew him a little apart and said â€" "Doctor Lowe, do you think the sight of any one she disliked very much would be bad for her 7" He looked at me very keenly as he an- swered â€" "No. She won't be able to recognize anybody but I warn yon she will bo rest- less. How did the accident happen ' "She fell down stairs." 'The staircase leads to your room, doesn't it How came she to be there at this time of night Why don't you tell me the troth, and save me the trouble of making stupid guesses " T toll him the truth, ani bis only com- ment was â€" ' 'And don't you think the moral of that is that you should leave this place as soon as possible " "I sha'nt stay here long," Eaid I, smiling, and thinking of Liurence. 'Oh, ycu think that young fellow at the Hall is going to marry you " 'Yes." 'Well, I tfcll you frankly, I wouldn't take a wife from this house." 'Bat then you wouldn't take a wife from anywhere, Doctor L?we. If you did, you would think more of the eirl than of the plac« she came from, just as Laurance doss." "You ha.-e a sharp little tongue. I pity Laurence when he comes home late." He asked after Haidee but I could not let him see her, as the staircase was not yet ready; so, after giving me instructions about the treatment of Sarah, he left the house. Tnere was a fire already in her room, fcr she was by no means the ill- used creature she liked to think herself. 1 seated myself in a chair beside it, prepared to watch until morning, when the cook had promised to take my place. Before long the patient be- gan to grow restless, as the Doctor had pre- dicted she turned her head from side to side, tried to raise her broken arm, which had been set and bandaged tightly down, mattering and mianing incoherently. Pres- ently she was quite quiet, and I hoped she had gone to sleep. I think I must have dtzjd myself for a few minutes, when I was startled into full wakefulness by a low hoars J cry of "Jim." She had managed to move her head so that her great black eyes, glittering now with fever, were fixed full upon me and my heart beat fast, for I though she must know me. But she repeated, still staring at meâ€" "Jim!" Then she added in a whisper, "They are after you, Jim It's about the cheque. You must be off to-night. Go to the old place. I'll put 'em off, and I'll let you know." Then more mutterings and exclantations, and before long she began again to speak co- herently â€" "It's too risky, Jim. I'll do it, if you want me to but it's putting yourself in danger as well as me. All right, I'll pass it." Tiien she broke out passionately â€" "Id's an ill thing you're going to do, .Tames Woo^fall. What do you want of a lady for a wife Her money's none so much, and, as for her pretty face, it's the face of a f jol. I'm twice the woman to look at that she is, and I'm only twenty-five and I've stuck to you through thick and thin. Why don't you marry me, Jim " And it flashed across me, as she went on addressing to rae reproaches, coaxings, en- coura;:;ement, and defiance, that she was living over again some long-past passages in her life â€" passages, I could not but gather, of a V y questionable character. For it was p.'a'n tiiat this Jim, or James Woolfall, who occupied all her thoughts, had been a very bad man indeed, and that Sarah had assisted him in everyvfay in his wicked deeds. "Dan't go for that, -lames," sho said once imploringly. "It'll be a lifer if they can catch you and they've had their eye on you lately. There's many a safer way of getting money than that." Another pause, and then cama a speech which chilled me with horror. "Dead men tell no tales, -I m," said she, in another fearful whisper. "It's easy done, and it's safer. What's an old man's life that you're so shy of touching him You've done many a riskier thing. Why do you always turn coward at that " 1 could scarcely sit and watch this woman- fiend after that. I seemed to see murder in her fierce fiery eyes ani I shuddered even as I moistened her dry lips and touched her burning forehead. She rambled on in the same style, mentioning other names I had never heard, and not a word of me or Mr. and Mrs. Rayner, or even of Tom Parkes, until she broke out angrily â€" "Jim's mad about that little Christie girl, Tom, and he says he'll marry her in spite of everything, and I've got to bring it about," she hissed between her teeth. What awful confusion in her mind was there to connect me with her criminal lover of years before? Thcrd suddenly woke up in my mind the remembrance of the evening when, hidden in my " nest," I had over- heard a conversation between her aud Mr. Rayner's mysterious visitor, who had after- wards turned out to be Mr. Carruther's man- servant, and I remembered that she had then expressed jealousy of some man called •'.Jim." Was it the same man How was it that he never appeared I hod thought at the time that she must mean Tom P.irkes, and that the woman she was jealous of was Jane but, on the whole, she got on well with Jane; and the only person in the h.:,u3e against whom her animosity took any seri- ous form was myself. Ani nowsh) fancied this ".Tim" wanted to mat ry me â€" and I had nuver even seen him 1 S'le was rambling again into the p eseut, though, for the next speech that caught my attention was â€" "It's a good weight Tom â€" Jim might have lent you a hand. Ths water's deep in the cellar but it won't hurt the jewels, and^he plate'll clean. Come on." ^^'a8 it the Denham Court robbery that was oa her mind now 1 held my breath while she went on â€" "Tom, that sneaking Ciristie girl's got wind of it somehow. Jim's that gone on her he won't listen to me and, if I don't pre- vent it, she'll be his ruin." Again that strange confusion of my name with that of the unknown Jim 1 My brain seemed to be cretting as much confused as her own. I held tightly to the arms of my chair as I listened to her ravings, as if in a futile attempt to steady body and mind. I was mad to discover who this Jamaa Wood- fall was, and I left my chair, and drew, as fascinated, nearer to the bed as she said "Take care, Jim. Y^ou risk too much. There must be some thief -taker in the world clever enough to recognise the forger James WoodfaiU in jewel-robber " At that moment, while I listened with pulses beating high and eager eyes for the name, the door opened, and the sick wo- man, distracted by the noise, cried, "What's that " It was the cook come to take my place. Bat the reaction from the high-pressure ten- sion of my nerves during the last few hour« was too much for me. I fell fainting to the floor. The next morning I awoke late, with a headache and an unpleasant feeling of hav- ing gone through some horrible adventure. I told Haidee, who had been very much alartoed, poor Uttle thing, by my antioa st the door when I frightened Sarah, and by the noise of her faU, a much modified stoir of the whole ooourrence, and then mta^ down th« stairs ve-y cautiously bat Jane, instructed by the cook, bad air ady rtmcved the grease and made them la'e again. Bat I never again went down those sta'rs at night-time without a shudder. I telegraphed to Mr. Rayner to inform him of the accident, without, of course, men- tioning the cause, as soon as the Doctor s early visit was ovirâ€" he said she w*b suff^^r ing frjm Ir lin fever, and ought to have a r^gulbr nnrie. 1 rjceiv6d a telegram from Mr. Riyntr beff r3 dinner time â€" "Am much dislrissed about accident. Give her ever/ c:rs. Have sent off an ex- perienced nnrse a'rjady." And by the afteraoon train she arrived â€" a silent, middle-aged woman, the very sight of whom inspired rjspsct, wh'c'a in my case amounted to awe. The 1 right in the night had made Haidee rathir fevfTiSh again, so that I thought it better to delay her coming down-sta'n yet another day. Bat she got up and sat by the fire in my room, and I sat with her during a sreat part of the day. Just before dinner we heari a light unaccustcmsd step on the stair J and a knock at the door, and Mrs. Rayni r came in. Seeing her in the full light of my four w-ndows, I was shocked by the change in her since I had 'irst come to the A'derj, little mcrj than two months befcra. Her cheeks weri so wan sni hollow, her eyes so sunken in their sockets, and her lips so drawn and livid that I seemed to be look- ing at the face of a dead woman. She made little reference to the previous night's ad- venture, only saying â€" 'I hear Sarah is ill. I had to go in search of my breakfast myself this moraing. I hope she is better." But the look on her worn face of rjlief from a hated burden belied h( r wcrJs. She had not dared even to visit her child while that harpy was about. I was scrry Sarah's illness had been caused by me but 1 could not feel much sympathy with her her wan- dering speeches of the night before had shown her real crael, vindictive self too plainly. When we were called to dinner, which Mrj. Rayner said she would have with me to-day, I went down firit, in order to leave her with h( r child fe r a few minutes. At the foot of the turrjt stairs, where a mat had been put to hide the 1 races of the horrible stain, 1 founi the elfish Mona, as dirty as usual, playing with a Ifcrge bunch of keys â€" Sarah's housekeeping keys. I thought they would be safer in my care than in Mona's so 1 took them frjm her, nor withont a struggle and many tearless screams and howls on her part. I did not come into much contact with this young person now, as, when neither Mr. ner Mrs. Rayner ap- peared at meals, she had hers in the nursery with Jane, which she much prefeirid, as it did not entail so much washing and combing. 1 thought to myself how much annoyed t'arah would be if she knew her keys were in my possession but I was glad I had found them when, later in th day. after tea, .lane came to me and said Mij. Saunder-i, the nurse, could not drink the draught as from the cask, and wanted some bottled stout. "And cook says, 'What shall we do?" miss. She's making such a fuss about it." '•Where is the bottled stout kept, Jiue?" said I, thinking of my keys. "It's either in the cellar, miss â€" but Mr. Riyner keeps the key of that â€" or else in Sarah's store cupboard." '•That is in the left wing, isn't it?" â€" "Yes. miss." â- "tr/ well, Jane. I have found Sirah's keys so I will look in tnere and see if I eaa find any," said I, I did not much like taking this task upon myself but it would not do to offend the nurse and I thought it better to venture in- t Sarah's domain myself thaa to trust the duty to J ane. "Oh, and, if you please, Miss Christie, could you gel us out candles and some moist sugar Pney are in thi ri I know, for Sarah went to Beac^nsbuiih f ir them yesterday." 1 said I would and, lighting a candle, I rather nervously palled open the heavy door of the left wing aud entered that mysterious part of the house sacred to Mrs. Rayner. Oh, how cold it was as the door closed le- hind me 1 was growing nervous after the adventures I had had lately, and I did not like the mutil'.d thud of that doOr as it swung to after me The store room was the tiis: door on the right, I knew; and I trembl- ingly tried the keys until I came to the one which opened it, 1 shivered. It was colder than eve-r in there, a great bare room, with shelves aad cupboards, and old hampers and boxes, and odds and ends of lumber. I could not help thinking how angry Sarah would be if she knew I was in the room, where no member of the household but her- self ever ventured, and which had theiefore grown into an importance it did not deserve, for it was a very ordinarjr apartment, and the cupboard I first opened, in search of candles and moist sugar, was a ve ry ordin- ary apartment, with the usual stere of jams and pickle jars and household stores of all kinds, except, of course, I thought angrily, as I shivered again with the cold, the candles and moist sugar of which I was in search. I opened another cupboard, I seBrjhed on the open shelves, but could not find either of the things I wanted. (to be continued.) A Large English Orchard. 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PoLson'a Ni;,,,., cures flatulency, chills, apesm?, and tram "' Nerviline cures tromptly the worst cl^" neuralgria, toothache, lumbaijo. and tci.t^^**" Nerviline is death toull pain, whciher p nal internal or local. ^^«r Nerviline may be tested at the smuU co-t • cents. Buy at once a ten rent bot'leof "' line, the great pain remedy. Sold at drurjiJl' ., â-  ±1 llP flgrt er /\ to $4,00.0 on marriase, l-^^ ^I^OXJ k Gentlemen. Apply immediatelv p Cubby, J.P„ Sec.-Treaa London, Ont., AKeuts,j„j^. SHORTHAND. ^^ifSi^ tem, by practical phonographer. Kcnd for tirmc •'" plan to FRANK YEIGH. 262 .Sherbuurnf St. TorontJ" WAGGON SHOP AND HOUSE~F0F sale. D'ing a good busintsa. Situattilii best farming country in Ontauo terms tasy N. A. TOM, Blacksmith. Solina, f)nt. THE WIZARD^ CB^ cffi^*' f which ne the n*Bie ^^ ^^ to^^tion.8ndinadi Apply.-, COMMON SKNSE SIiLL YiiU:Mpf ANT, Fiske's "Common senst" Brace, Xo Rtr, " on pants or shoulders. Requires .vo imttux, ,,n t' pants. Sent to any address, by mail, on rec-iii; of ,,2' 75c. FISKE and Co. 277 King St. AVest, Turonto. WAN TED.- THE ADDRESS OF every reailer of this jiaiii-r whr, vnuM jj^ salary of $15.00 a week for canvassing the must pore* lar, useful; and easy stlline snhsc-iplinn l,.jok eie, m' lished. Address A. C. JACKSON and Co., 95 King v-' East, Toronto. BEAVER S. S. LINE â- WEEKLY BETWEEN ' CA.LLING AT ' OUEENSTOWN AND BELFAST For owest mtftH and all nartiVular^ Hnplvto H- E. MURRAY, ""^i^^^l^' i Is a perfect srem, equb 1 to an imported French Corset; fits like a Kloveto the figure: very styi. ish, elegant in anpearance, and approved o( by the most fastidious. Manufactured only by THE CBOMPTON CORSET CO. 78 YORK STREET, TORONTO. F. E. DIXOWCO. BlanuraclnrerH of Star Eivet Leather Belting! 70 Kini{ Ktreet, East, Toronto. Larere double Drivin Belts a specialty, bend or Prico Lisi-j and Discounts. Five Cknts and jrt-t » sampk copy of TiUTii, tl.t- li-st S- paye Weekly .Mat'^-'ine I'ul ait ed. .See th« big list of boo-: given FiiEi; to inch y- arly r.:- scribcr and cl\ililii-j-. S KR.tN'i; WIL8(J\, 3.; .V ?,o Adrl.iide St., West, Toronto, Canada. Allan Line Royal Mail Steamships. Sailing during winter from Portland cv.ry Th-irsia-. and Halifax every Satunhiy to Livi-rpuol.-;uj'i m .-uunr- froni t^uebecevi-ry Saturd,iy to Livi-rjiool. callih.;at I. â- : donderry to land mails and ijas.'^ent'ir.* f. ir Hcotlai:' ,i: â-  Ireland. Also fnim Baltimore via Halifa.v and St .Tolji- N. F.. to Liveri)ool fortnightly during sninni. r mmir.- The steamers of the Glasgow linv.' .sail â- luring wiii:-- between Portland and Glasgow, ami Bo.ston ;iiid (Jla.-^.iot alternately; and during summer betwi-cn l.Huln-c a;:! Glasgow and Boston aud Glasgow every week. For freignt, passage, or other, informatior. apply to A. Schumacher Co., naUiniore;S Canard Co., Halifax Shea Co, St. Johns. N. F. ;Wm. Thomson Co., St. John.N. B; Allan Co, Chlcag'o Leve Alden, New York U. Bourlier, Toronto Allans, Rae Co Quebec H. A. Allan, Portland, Boston, Mon- treal. Dominion Line of Steamships. Running in connection with the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. SailinR from Quebec every Saturday during the summer months, and from Portland every Thtirsday during the winter ths. PORTLAND TO LIVERPOOL. ToroBto. Mar. «:. I Monlreai, Ap\. K. nomtnlon, .* pi. «. ♦ ort^on, pi. "4. *HarnU. A pi. 10. Ontario, Ma.v. 1. i Kates of passage Cabin, Quebec to LiverooDi $50, $60, $65, $80 return, $90. $108, $117. fl44, according to steamer and berth. Intermediate, $40. Steerage, $24. The saloons and staterooms In steamers marked thus: are amidships, where but little motion is felt, and no cattle or sheep are carried on them. For further particu lars apply to any Grand Trunk Railway Af?ent, or local agents of the Company, or to DAVID TOKRAKCE t CO., General Asents. Montreal MARRIAGE AID a:ssociation.i $5], 0.0 PAID OX MARRIAGES Over $100,000 Paid in Benefits to Date. ISSUE IN 1883. OVER $2,000,000. B The only Company in Canada that has paid a claim USBOUBTED SEClRITr. Premiums small. Address, Agents Wanted. f":nVd'^T.'t".r."'"' 01 â- was ii W. B. WEBBKi;, Secretary. Hamilton Mutual Marriage Endowment As'd, INCORPORATED. HEAD OFFICE. LONDON. CM. â€" lisue* Certifloates from $136 to 83,000. puynble o" marriage, at following rates. Â¥or $500, or half Oertin- cate, *4; (luarterly dues in advance, $0.75. ForJl.O* Certificate, $6 quarterly due« in advance. $1.00. For 82,0OU Certificate, 810; quarterly dues in advance, $-C^ For $3,000 Certificate, $16 quarterly dues in a.lvanci, $3.00. A perotntage of the Fee* applied tow:irds a re serve Fund. The only cash payments rKiuir.d at tbf time ol making application for a certiticat* Tbere- mbinder of the liability is made up of assessunnts sttnf rate of $1.60 on each $1,000 upon the marriage of mem bers, 12 ahseesments made the first year payal'liiQ*"' terly, which upon the preient large membershii' secure the payment of a number of Endowments, and a ^^i* and reliable investment for young people. Send for By Laws, and full particulars to wTj. IMLACU, Secretar.f London, Ont. scooo 8oIdln ilMonlbs! BUY ONLY THE Walter Woods HlHILTO?r, OST. his '^Tr« clance to disc '^^ItireJiy much X^e'aTc-^ -\ :f6 aodsbe-^nadirti with her head tied ir T,flred from neuralg "own to a meal, of wr toasted herring were Kit I WBb most strucl Jp^arance. It was '^„nt ot the comm wa» not Ol 1" humanity. "-^ Bniartly buiU, and. att wou'd have presentee pearance. As oroinar nably have passea a.i decidedly was not so n torttd into an lusolon cisioned s- en.ink; y. h stare ot surprise, ' sbire?" he tenra-kcd bullying anddtti.i.' i woman, who seinei him, began to crj m ,.£S You are p. ecu doubt and more borr} shire, who is always g bet ber oti tnivehng. the whole lot of yoi take her with you. ' When we had exaii of the bouse and euiei i-marked to my ccmp; surprised at tindin without his coat, hviu Woo and what is he 't thoroueh- paced a raca] a day's marching," we tiinly was surprised ti be had left the neighbi I should have suppose, glad to do so, considt escape he had of bein penal servitude, prob woman you just now in the atfair 1 am all u( she was more to be pi the share she took in i She thould have knc the ffcUow. and she o mother. It was a ijuc Naturally I was curi( its queemecs consisted effect. "Wtll, tbe tri "if 1 knew ail the c should only spoil it by There is only one inai properly, aud that is rather, 1 should say, I the dirty shirt-sleeves There is not mue h of r( he contHiaed, Uughi ohaia-.ttrs who pliye.i it. You have seen .^ wife. Their crufe.iei who, for macy years, a fcly fortune- teller, bi kept out ot the way s. hero of the tale 1= a f. keeps a generalstore ii I a few minutes walk f i ' a desire to he a- the st you to the chandlery s and he'll relate it rta i will understand it b. made acquainted with led up to it. "The el andlery bus was not always in th sent proprietor. Ic Ij sin whose name 1 for her Mrs. Ingledew. Hamshire's wife is hei her assisting in the bi It was a valuable con. the good-will and leas £700 probably, and it stool in the neighbo course, that the niece ' continue the business dew died. It seems 1 ' etood at all events, 1 lived thereabout â€" by tell you anything as t he seems to have been his wits without re criminality. He was smartly dressed, ha. being good-looking, a prudence, and on tne i he formed the doaig -Mirtha â€" the nieceâ€" with a view to niarr; into the comfortable i M-s, lajledew must iitr. And she, li B'.mpleton she is, liste bim, though she care the oli lady, her auu still lai a vixenish t one thing more thaa o'ljected to it was M l^nttha; didn't preve s'itution seemea to 1: aid Mister Hatr.shir good a thina; in hai secure it without de'a the niece, and they not so quietly, howe lady, who was bed somehow hiard of offended that she mad the old one, in which the legatee, aad see object than to incrcE relavive's disappoint I ^»th a 8u all except 1 property, ,nc!nJir.;r t Pist-middlo-agtd ba( ^upied a room in ti 'laimiesj individual jP^nsirnpiidhim sin ^ome govern mm; I Mentioned Nv as that J^e furniture asitst [^^^P^mises, and tb thtm rent free f "months after the auo ^appened about a mc £„^"°^ need nc J^tte was furious wh fnrf*^ ^^* dispose ea«« nervous pi '\£Mi3'