THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

A NARROW ESCAPE.

These simple words, and the manner in which they were spoken, produced a greater effect than could have been imagined. The words and bearing were not those of a guilty man. The magis trates were deeply impressed. Most of them were acquainted with Thursfield, and could not bring themselves to believe him guilty. Still from the weight of evidence they had no choice but to com mit him, unless the statements made by the prosecution could be disproved or explained. In this perplexity the magis trates retired for consultation. On com ing back into court, they announced that in the hope of obtaining further and more direct evidence, they had decided to adjourn the case for two days. Mean while —so they advised him—the prisoner should consult his friends, and seek legal assistance, and if a further adjournment would enable him to clear himself, it should be granted. So the court broke up. As the prisoner was removed he cast a hasty glance around, as if seeking for a face he hoped, yet dreaded, to see. It was upon Ettie that his thoughts were fixed ; but Ettie was not there. The shock had been too great for her. For some hours it was feared that she would never regain consciousness. Late in the day she revived ; snd then her first cry was for George. Feeble as she was, the poor girl would have gone to him, and stood by his side in the crowded court; but the wiser councils of her friends prevented such a dangerous exposure. They would have hindered her even from communi cating with her lover ; but on this Ettie was resolved. And so, as George Thurs field stepped down from the bar, there was. thrust into his hand a little note. He opened it and read— George,—They will not let me come to you; but if all others fail, I am faithful to you. Your true and laving Wife —Eti ie. He raised the paper to his lips with a smile of hope and triumph; and then passed put, with a load lifted from his heart. CHAPTER V—DAY-BREAK. By nightfall, Ettie had recovered strength and courage. Hearing what had occurred in court, her first act was to seek an interview with her lover ; but this was forbidden, only a lawyer being allowed admission to the prisoner. Without delay, Ettie despatched a messenger to the nearest town, with instructions to bring back with him one Mr Burroughs. Then, after another fruitless effort to gain access to George, she returned, heart broken, to Stanton Holm ; and sat there, in the little parlor, alone, for in her great calamity she thought it better to put aside the well-meant but intolerable consola tions her gossips had to offer. She sat there, late into the night, refusing com fort, neither eating nor sleeping, her eyes dry and tearless, her whole being ab sorbed in the dim consciousness of what seemed a ghastly dream. When, from time to time, an old and faithful servant stole into the room, Ettie never lifted his head, nor spoke, save to ask two questions— “ Any news of George ? ” and, “ Has Lawyer Burroughs come 1 ” Then, the answers being always “ No,” she sank back again into stupor, only moaning now and then, and fro, as if in acute pain. So the night passed. When morning broke—grey, cold, and misty—Ettie sank for a while into a troubled sleep, from which she was awakened by the entrance of the servant with a letter. In her blank misery she could scarcely trace the words, written in a straggling hand, and blurred here and there as if by careless haste:— I can tell something (it ran) of importance to George Thursfield. Please attend to this, or else it will be to late. * ‘ Who brought this note ?” asked Ettie. The servant said it was a man—a stranger ; by his dress a fisherman or a sailor, she could hardly tell which. After a moment’s hesitation, Ettie directed the bearer of the note to be admitted. He entered, and remained standing in the shadow by the doorway, until the servant had left the room. Then he came forward, removed his slouched hat, and stepped out into the light, dis closing the hateful form of Eller ton. Ettie sprang towards the window, as if to callj for assistance ; but Ellerton, too quick for her, drew her “back, and placed his hand upon her mouth. “ Listen to me Ettie,” he said. “ I will not harm you, and if you will let me, I am ready to help you. I can do so, and I will. Of course,” he added, “ upon con ditions.” This with a short fierce laugh. His words and manner alike fascinated her. Besides, she thought, he may have something to tell. So she listened. Eller ton went on— “ Ettie, you care for the life of George Thursfield?” “More than for my own,” she answerd. “Well, then, it is in your power to save him. As- the case stands now, he must he convicted, and if convicted, he dies. They are sure to hang the murderer of an exciseman. ” The girl shrank back, and hid her face in her outstretched hands, as if to exclude some horrid vision. Then,-with sudden impulse, she spoke, looking keenly at him— “ You know he is no murderer, Richard Ellerton. None know -it better than you ; ” A spasm of mingled rage and terror shot over the man’s face, and blanched it • for a second into death-like whiteness. Recovering by an effort, he said doggedly, “I know nothing but what was said in court, and that only by hearsay. Bu. that was enough to hang your lovert Now I tell you that, with my help, you can save his life.” “ How V’ she asked. “That,” he said with a dry laugh, “ is my secret. Before I tell you, we must make a bargain. I must be rewarded. ” “ Well, then, the conditions ?” He paused a moment before replying. Then lifting his head, and looking her straight and eagerly in the face, he said — “ The conditions are that, Thursfield saved—and saved he shall be —you give him up for ever, and marry me.” Conquering her disgust, Ettie replied calmly— “lf I consent, how can you save George!” “ Suppose," he said—drawing closer to her, and laying his hand upon her arm, she shudderin at the touch—“ suppose a rescue! ” “ That,” she said with quiet scorn, “would not clear his name; and a good name is worth more than life.” “Well then” he answered quickly, “ suppose the evidence could be explained . away snd suspicion could be shifted to ' another person ? ” “ George would never consent to gain his life by the sacrifice of the innocent.” He uttered an exclamation of impa tience. Then, as if in his eagerness hurried beyond caution —“ Suppose the murdered man—” _ . , A sudden thought struck upon Ettie s mind with the force of life and hope. Her eyes sparkled, she advanced a step, echoing his words— “ Yes, suppose the murdered man ? Noting the change, Ellerton relapsed sullen caution — ■ “ Give' 1 me your’promise, before I say another- -word. Swear that if Thursfield is freed' r you will become my wife ! ” ■ --- -“ Never,” She cried, “ a thousand times Sr- I would rather die with him, and grave, than link my

name with yours. No, Richard Ellerton, your device is too shallow. You may deceive yourself, you cannot deceive me. Go ! ” —she pointed towards the door— “Go! life at your hands and with you would be the greatest misery that could befall a human creature. ” With a curse and a movement as if he would have struck her, Richard Ellerton quitted the room, and the house. From an upper window she watched him, wildly beating the air, stagger through the gar den, then down the pathway to the beach, and so along the bay, turning at each few yards, to note if he were followed or observed. Then the strange glad light came once more into Ettie’s eyes, and her form di lated with an indescribable air |of triumph. “ Yes,” she cried, half dreaming, half aloud. “George may be saved, but not by a sacrifice worse than death ” CHAPTER VI —IT GROWS LIGHTER. Lawyer Burroughs came, and had a long interview with his client ; but could promise little hope, at least immediately. The case was full of mystery; baffiing even his keenness. From the prison he went up to Stanton Holm, and saw Ettie, bidding her prepare for the committal of her lover. The assizes he said would not be held for three months, and between now and then some clue to the mystery might be discovered. But for the present he saw no chance of help. “He must never be committed for trial,” Ettie said. “Indeed he shall not.” The keen old lawyer glanced at her with alarmed surprise, believing her brain to be affected ; but struck with her tone and look, he dismissed his first impression, and bade her speak" to him with unre serve. Then Ettie told him something that had passed through her mind, at which the lawyer smiled faintly, and shook his head as if in doubt. Next, he listened with quickening belief, and at last yielding full credence to her views, he put full confidence in her plans. The result of the conference, which will appear hereafter, was that Lawyer Bur roughs sent off two special messengers, with instructions to ride as if life and death depended on their speed. By nightfall, strolling on the beach, the lawyer .chatted quite pleasantly to three or four strangers, who civilly wished him, “ good evening; ” and before turning back to the inn, he noted, with a quiet smile, that a fishing smack, driven there possibly by stress of weather had an chored in the bay. The next morning was that appointed for the sitting of the magistrates. It was looked upon as a merely formal proceed ing, for no one—not even Thursfield him self - doubted that the prisoner must be committed. Yet, notwithstanding this, the court was densely filled. The circum stances attending the imputed crime were so strangely dramatic, and the interest felt in the prisoner was so great, that the whole country seemed to have come to gether in the justice-room at Stanton. So dense, indeed, was the crowd, that no room in the place would hold them, and numbers gathered outside, discussing the probabilities of guilt or innocence. There were few who did not wish to believe the latter ; but there were fewer still who felt themselves able to resist the proofs of Thursfield’s guilt. Those who were fortunate enough to get into the court enjoyed a series of “ sensations.” First, there was the en trance of Lawyer Burroughs, with a clerk carrying his red bag, well stuffed with law-books and papers. Then "the magis trates came in by a side door, and took their seats. Next, after a solemn pause, the prisoner was brought up, looking— poor fellow—as if three day’s imprison ment had added ten years to his age. As he stepped, closely guarded, into the little deck, Thursfield cast one glance, and only one, around the court. Those who saw it, knew that he was looking for Ettie Stanton, and the sob with which he turned away, on finding that Ettie was not present, was echoed in many breasts, in which, in ordinary times, sympathy was a rare emotion. After a few minutes the [proceedings began, and Thursfield was called upon for his defence. This, of course, "was under taken by Lawyer Burroughs, who seemed to have but one object—to lengthen the hearing as much as possible. First he insisted upon having the evidence read over. This conceded, he took a nu m^er of objections, thus provoking long argu ments between himself and the magis trates and their clerk. Then he com mented minutely upon each fact recorded, trying to explain them away one by one, and laying great stress upon the circum stantial nature of the evidence as render ing it inconclusive. When he had travelled over the whole case, he begun again, and endeavoured to cast new light upon it; but only, as it seemed, with the effect of wearying the justices, the audience, and even the prisoner, who leant across and spoke to him, begging that the speech might be closed, and the committal made out.

“It is useless,” George faintly whis pered, “ to contend any longer, I cannot endure this protracted trial.” “Patience,” whispered Mr. Burroughs in reply. “I know what lam doing. Patience and (this he said with great sig nificance) patience and hope ! ” Then with an anxious glance towards the door of the court, to which, indeed, he had looked eagerly a dozen times in the course of his address, the lawyer went on once more. Presently he stopped and listened, as his ear detected a murmur in the crowd outside. Then there was a quick movement; then a sudden still ness. A woman’s figure appeared at the doorway, and made its way up the middle of the court, the people instinctively moved back to give room. A thrill of sympathy and expectation ran through the assembly, for the figure was that of Ettie Stanton 1

Pale, yet composed, with a strange light in her eyes, and a singular air of triumph in her whole bearing, the girl advanced to Mr. Burroughs, and whis pered a sentence in his ear. Then she moved proudly, like a queen, to the side of the dock, and put her hand in that of George Thursfield, who clasped it, and passionately raised it to his lips. During this remarkable scene a deep silence prevailed in court, the spectators holding their breath with expectation, not unmingled with awe. [to be continued.!

CHTSPA’S LETTER.

“ I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains. ” —Longfellow. (From Ashburton Herald, June 19.) Mr. Bullock does a blow now and again when his key note is “ Ashburton.” He never loses a chance to sing the town ship’s praises, and those paeans of his are heard at a great distance sometimes. They have his last one at Taranaki, through the telephone apparently of the Ashburton press, for your namesake the Taranaki Herald fancies he discovers just the least bit of inaccuracy in Mr. Bullock’s melody. Mr. Bullock piped up thusly at the last gas meeting—that Ashburton was the only township in the colony that had been lit with gas within five years of the town ship’s birth. The Taranaki man reads without his spectacles, and he is wrong headed enough to fancy our Thomas loves the Gas-Company better than the town ship which it lights, and that Thomas was “gassing” about the Company and not about Ashburton. So, . shooting in the dark, the Taranaki man misses the mark. Me tells us that Thomas does not know Taranaki history enough, and that before he cracks up a company

like ours he should learn what has been clone in Taranaki, where the Company was making gas and lighting the township within two years of the Company's forma mation. Thomas’s company is ahead of that even, great as Mr. Taranaki Herald may think the achievement—but my friend Shott was fleeing from the Taranaki township away back in the “ sixties,” long before Ashburton had been gridironed. A diabolical Ashburtonian of my ac quaintance—not an intimate acquaintance, he’s too unlovely—says there are two cures he knows of. One is for Irish dis content and the other is for the Maori difficulty, and he fondly cherishes both as the regenerating agencies that ought to be brought into play for the benefit of Great Britain in the first instance and of New Zealand in the second. To cure Irish discontent he would tow the prettiest island under the sun into the broad Atlantic and scuttle it. That’s not a new idea, but its carrying out will be a good deal newer when we hear of it. Evidently he doesn’t know the “Celtic Race” so well as the poetically gifted Bard O’Reilly, nor as your humble servant, who has a lump as large as a hen’s egg on the back of his head —a souvenir of a faction fight. The second idea is not novel either, but it would be more effective. He would lay bags of sugar and flour, each sack well dosed with arsenic, within tempting view of the Maoris, and let them imagine they were stealing them. By and by, with a continuance of this baiting, the untutored savage would soon migrate to the happy hunting grounds, where Admitted to that equal sky His faithful dog would bear hirn company. I don’t know that my acquaintance has been distributing his regenerative ideas amongst the people of Ashburton ; .and that some genius or other, finding it im possible to tackle such a huge job as tow ing out Ireland to the middle of the At lantic and scuttling the Green Isle, tries a modified form of the other suggestion, and goes for the Ashburton dogs by the more homely and more easily got at medium of bread and butter. I can’t get at the reason any man can have for taking the dangerous course some fool or other has gone in for in spreading poisoned baits about the streets, seeing that only good dogs have suffered. He seems to forget that well-fed mongrels— and mongrels are mostly all well-fed—are quite above bread and butter, and won’t go it nohow, and the result is that sensible, well-trained dogs, who have to work for their living, have to pay the penalty of a hurried giving way to appetite. I have been asked by many broad-shouldered fellows to say that im mediately on the culprit being found out he will be treated to a ducking in the Ashburton river, at the end of rope made from the best New Zealand flax, and your humble servant is to have the honor of heading the procession that will escort him to his bath. There is nothing like a cold bath for bringing a disordered brain back to reason, just as the whip is in valuable for the cure of cowardly wicked ness. At the close of the recent Supreme Court sittings at Timaru, Mr. Malet, the Judge’s private secretary, was literally besieged by unfortunate individuals who had been summoned as jurors and were now claiming their pay. “Go to the Clerk,” said the secretary to some of the anxious ones when they applied to him. “ We have been to the Clerk, and its no good.” was the reply. Some further dis cussionensued, and at length the secre tary testily remarked, “ Well, you can go to the Devil, then” —“And that’s just the reason why we came to you,” was the ready reply. Judge Johnston is celebrated for dry humor, and at the recent criminal sitting of the Supreme Court at Timaru it will be remembered the Wairaate arson case was heard. Mr. O’Meagher (of Oaraaru) appeared as one of the Counsel for Clark and his wife who were subsequently acquitted. In addressing the jury for the defence the learned counsel remarked, “ a great deal has been made by the pro secution, gentlemen, of the fact that my client, Clark, had written under several different signatures to the various insur ance offices with which he had transac tions. But sometimes it has been shown he wrote as Charles Henderson Clark, sometimes as C. H. Clark, while some times again he dropped the H, and became simply C. Clark —but what of that, gentlemen ? ” “ Oh, there was nothing in that,” remarked his Honoi’, “I have known many people who dropped their H’s.” Chisfa.

A DISGRACEFUL EXHIBITION.

One of the most disgraceful exhibitions ever witnessed in the States was given re cently in the Chamber street Presbyterian Church, Boston, when two clergymen. Revs. J. P. Stoddard and D. P. Rathbun, of lowa, undertook to expose Masonry. The object of the exposures was to break up the order by divulging the secrets. They say that Masonry is organised infi delity, and in the interest of religion they seek its overthrow. Both of the gentle men claim to be Masons, and they an nounced their intention to hold up the rites and ceremonies to ridicule. The forms and oaths necessary to taking the first degree were illustrated by the exposers. They were assisted by eight or ten persons, and were all attired in Masonic .regalia. The pulpit served as a lodge-room, three large lighted candles being arranged in a row in front, and the Senior and Junior Wardens, Grand Worshipful Master, and other officers, in the persons of clergymen and others, being seated behind and on the sides. The “ candi date,” an individual whose skin had apparently not seen soap and water for many days, was about an hour and a half in passing through the ordeal, and as the “ceremony” developed the scene became disgraceful, and many ladies left, the remaining spectators also be coming restless. The “ candidate,” while' taking the degree, was dressed, according to the “exposers,” in the cus tomary manner, but this was simply dis gusting, as , his only garments were an old blue flannel undershirt and white under drawers, the left leg of which was rolled up to the knee. Over his eyes was a green shade, such as is worn at night by the working staff of a newspaper office. Here, barefooted, with one leg bared and only partially clad, the candidate received his instructions from the various grand officers, and then came the adrainistrationof the various oaths. An immense crowd filled the building, and during the performance of the disgusting farce the wildest confusion prevailed. Hymn-books were pelted at the performers by the people in building, while a large force of roughs and street loafers stood on the sidewalks and pelted snowballs into the building. Captain Ford, of the third precinct police, fearing a riot, tried to put a stop to the exhibition, but it kept on for half an hour, while a storm of hisses and in dignant yells greeted every word of the speakers. Ex-chief of police, Damrell, made a speech in which he freely and forcibly de nounced the two rev. exposers, and vyas loudly applauded, the spectators cheering loudly at the several points made. He claimed to belong to the same denomination as Mr. Rathbun, and asserted that the Con ference that would recognise him as a minister of Christ’s gospel ought to bow its head in shaihe. The police broke up the meeting about half-past ten. It was the intention of the two ministers to re main in Boston for a week, and continue their exposures, but they changed their minds and left next day. The minister who gave the use of his church for such purposes is stoutly-abused by all classes.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street,- Ashburton, ■ Tuesday, June 29, 1880. ( . .j 4 <,i 14 ■ i



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Business Notices.- i f * isteissii mm tf-ar THIS ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD BE CAREFULLY READ AND ‘‘RE-Xj MEMBERED BY EVERYONE?' TERESTED IN FENCING, .I HE PATENT OVAL - \ SAMSON FENCE WIRE] Has now been before the public for four years, and during that time 5,000 TONS HAVE. BEEN SOLD „ Giving very great satisfaction, in proof of J which we hold numerous testimonials from well-known colonists ; and the -deniand is daily increasing to such an extent, -that numerous spurious imitations have lately been introduced in the various markets of Australia and New Zealand, for the sole purpose of damaging the reputation of the Patent Oval Samson Wire. The Samson Wire By using the Patent Oval Fence Wire you get a better and cheaper fence than any other, and the best proofs are the imitations already referred to. comprehensive circular as to its advantages, with numerous testimonials from well-known colonists, will be posted to any address on application. The state Forests of Victoria are fenced with the Patent Oval Samson Fence Wire; the one at Dookie is, without doubt, the best Wire Fence in Australia, and people come from great distances to see it. PRICES -GREATLY REDUCED. The public, when purchasing, are there fore cautioned to see that each coil bearjg a tin tally thus : 9 PATENT OVAL SAMSON WIRE, in oval ; And the Patentee’s Tally ot Trade Mark MB R IN PADLOCK. Manufactured by the Whitecross Wire Company, Warrington, England. Was patented and introduced four years ago in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand ; and the principal claim set fourth was itsfceingmade Oval to prevent fraud. Yet, in the face of these patents, firms—many of respeoaltry standing—have, for the sake of a paltry commission, lent themselves to the intro duction of various spurious imitations, which render them liable to actions at law, and annoyance and disappointment to the We would point out to intending pur chasers that any person erecting Oval Wire Fences, other than the Patent Oval Sam son, renders himself liable for damages. The Patent Acts on this point are very explicit; therefore, after this notice no excuse can be made. Wehave had instances brought undercut notice where scmepersonshave been so un principled as to mix the Spurious Oval Wire amongst the Patent Oval Samson in order to make a sale, and damage the the reputation of the genuine article. We have a great aversion to take legal proceedings in this matter, but shall be compelled to, in self-defence, unless these practices are at once stopped. i* ADDRESS M Lean Bros. & Rigo, IMPORTER , 69 ELIZABETH STREET, MELBOURNE TRADE MARK I M B R IN PADLOCK. We undertake through our agents, to deliver the Patent Oval Samson Wire at any port in Australia or New Zealand, ither direct from England or Melbourne. Inquiries by telegram promptly answered. REWARD.—Fencers throughout the Colonies who can give information as to the erection of Oval Wire Fences, other than the Patent Oval Samson Wire, will find it to their advantage to communicate with Messrs. M’Lean Brothers and Rigg, 69 fElizabeth Street Melbourne. ; TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. FO R S A L E. One Second-hand Double. Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds, &c., complete. This machine has been replaced by a Double Royal Wharfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine formerly used for printing the “Herald ” and “ Guardian,” for.hand or steampower. Can be seen and all par ticulars obtained at our office. For a Country Office this Machine 1 suits admirably, as it can easily he turned < by hand, for which we have fitted a fly-# wheel and handle. Prick £7O . WEEKS & DIXON