KILDEE; Or, The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of " The Bayou Bride/ " The

Fugitive Bride," &c.

CHAPTER XXVI.

People in general called Heathcliff cold. Society ladies who had tried to entice him to dinner-parties spoke of him as a " mere money-making machine," political cliques that had failed in their eflorts to us e him characterised him as a " hard-headed i cuss," enthusiastic spinsters whom he had treated brusquely when they urged him to contribute to refurnish the church altar and draping the pulpit in sky-blue, to match the colour of the young minister's eves, voted him a stingy curmudgeon. But you would not find this verdict en dorsed in the poor quarter of the town, or by the better labouring class. They would tell you that Heathcliff was an inflexible business man, strict in his dealings, exact ing the fair day's work for the fail- day s wages, frowning sternly upon dissipation, ami laziness; but they would tell you that when sickness or accident brought want into their homes, the trouble was often lightened by the money and even the personal attendance of the so called haughty mill-owner. But it was seldom that Heathcliffs inter est and sympathy had been so stirred for anyone as for the girl he had found upon Aphrodite Island. Such a friendless young creature, so earnest and simple, so child like, yet with a certain dignity and practi cal wisdom that the mayor thought very quaint. There was no common blood in her veins ; he felt .sure of thi6, and one of hia reasons for wishing to find Mrs Gonzalis was to try and get from her the secret of the girl's parentage.. This was in his mind when he hurried to the depot leaving Mme. Jean's fruit shop.' It wanted but half an hour to eight. Two trains for different roads were under the great turtle-shaped dome of the lighted depot waiting to have their engines attached. Heathcliff went into the ticket office and drew the young agent aside. ' : Dyke," he said, " have you sold a ticket in the last hour to a lady, unattended ; graceful, slender shape ; dressed in black ; a brunette; very handsome though faded, and wearing a veil ?" " Yes, I sold a through ticket to St. Loui3 to just such a woman about half an hour ago. Shouldn't remember, maybe, only she hadn't money to pay for the ticket in full and wanted me to take a ring—turquoise 1 think, she said—for the rest. Of course 1 didn't, though the ring was worth more, I expect, than the balance. She went off and realised on it somehow, I reckon, for she came back and bought the ticket. She is in the car next the tleeper; I

saw her go in." • Heathcliffmade his way to the car, and walking through it soon discovered the object of his quest. The evening was very warm, sho had thrown hor veil back, and leaned against the open window, seeming faint or "fatigued. A white, weird beam from tho electric illumination outside struck across her face. Heathcliff stopped and looked at her for a second. This was the face that had nearly crushed his life when that life was in its early bloom. Cruelly changed, but lovely still ! He stepped neartohor, still unnoticed, and bent over :

" Zulimea !" She started and turned a wild, frightened look upon him. "'Her' hand went at once to her heart. "Is it you?" she panted. "How you startled me ! I thought—l mean, I was not expecting to seeyoK. ,, " Nor desiring to see me," he said, seat ing himself by her. " No: why should I ? I do not desire any thing that makes me look back. I live only for the day. And we aro never glad to see ono we have wronged." " I have forgiven the wrong you did me, Zulimee. It was a hard blow at first, but it did me good in one way. It destroyed crude illusions and cooled my boyish blood. I owe my worldly success to it in a measure. 'From thefurnaceand the sledge blows of that trial my soft iron came out

steel/ . ~ "I am glad if any good came out of evil. JBufc no thanks were due to me. The deed was one of the many I don't like to think over. I, a woman, ripened by fiery ex periences, set myself to winning a boy's fresh heart through mere feverish restless ness and desire to drown reflection. Bub God knows I never meant ifc to go so far. I never thought ib could hurt you as ib did ; 1 never dreamed yon could care for me so,

yrm were .such a boy." " Love ripens a boy's heart fast enough— particularly a romantic, inexperienced boy such as I was. And you were co lovely !

Do you remember it is just twelve years yesterday since I saw you first —that sum mer afternoon when I walked in the woods on the Orran River, wrapped in a dream, that was broken by the gallop of a runaway horse. In another moment I saw you clinging to the oak limb you had grasped when your horse ran under it—hanging there by your white arms in a cloud of loosened hair. How beautiful you were !" " For God's sake don't recall ib. Don't recall anything. That beauty was my curse. But for it I might be sitting to night by a happy hearth, instead of going out under the shadow of darkness, where I don't know, nor care—a wretch, forsaken of God and man, with not oae tie nor one hope on earth."

Her low tones were tense with feeling, they went to Heathcliff s heart. He was moved to say: " Znlimee, you have a near tie. Your son—the child you once spoke of to me, and •wept so—your child lives." "You have seen him?" She asked, breathlessly. " Yes ; you remember that on that bitter day when you told me you had only played with me, you said you had no love to give, it was all crushed out, and there was nothing but a wild longing for your child that had been taken away from you. You gave me then all the clue you had as to ■what had been done with your child. I followed up that clue—l found the boy at last in good hands—but you had disap peared. A few years later, the boy also disappeared. I lost sight of him until not two years ago, when I met him face to face and knew him by his likeness to you.-- After circumstances confirmed me. He lives, you can see him to-night—this hour."

"Ah—He is here?" Her breath came ehort; her hand clutched her heart. "Is he well ?-—is he happy!" "He is in full health—buoyant, ambi tious. Men predict his 3uccess. Yγ ill you see him ?" " I_will—not see him now—nor ever."

"Why?" "Can you ask? Do yon not Jed why I cannot see my boy—and have him— blush for his mother ?" Her featui-es quivered convulsively; then, as the tears came, she said, softly, "My sweet boy—my beautiful! Oh, I was innocent when I last held him in my arms !" She wrung her thin, • ungloved hands to gether and looked at Heatheliff with burn ing eyes. "Ira Heathcliff, why did you come here to torment me ? Was this all you sought

me for ? Only to recall that past I try to trample upon and bury out of sight! Talk of something else. I thought, when you came, you wanted to ask me about that island affair. Toll me, have you taken the girl away from there f' "Yes; she is with good people who will care for her." "Thank Heaven for that! Oh. I wronged that poor child ! Would to God I could make reparation !" " Will you tell me about her ? She is not your child, I know. How did you come by .her? Who arc her parents? .

"I cannot toll you." "You will not make her that much amends ?"

"1 cannot, 1 tell you. Fear keeps me from it — feur stronger than tho fear of death. In my last hour i will tell whose child she is—not till then. ,. The train began to move. Heathc'iifi flung the package of fruit and the flower* he had"bought at Mm. Jean's into Zulimee's lap ; he wrung her hot, slender hand, and left her. She buried her burning face in the cool flowers ; a piece of paper touched her cheek; she drew it out and held it toward the lamp. It was a bank-note for five hundred dollars. She burst into tears. " Oh, I wish he had not given it," sho said to herself. "It hurts me to take money from him. Hβ was so true and grand, even as a boy—and I did him such a cruel wrong."

CHAPTER XXVII

While the train that bore the beautiful, miserable woman away from the sea-side city was rushing on in darkness over marsh and lagoon and cypress swamp, the boy who had Zulimee's midnight eyes, and low brow shadowed by rings of black hair, sat at his familiar post - the window of the dilapidated building he had rented to for ward his investigations into the Red House mystery. He sat in the darkness — he never lighted v lamp, or allowed any sign of occupation to be seen about the house— and looked across the intervening space over the tops of the olive and magno lia trees, to the window of that room which he called the penetralia of the .Sphinx. He could see bub the window, the other was hidden by foliage—and the blinds of this were most often closed-always in the day. Sometimes, however, they were open, and a white curtain fell across the window in their stead. On this curtain he had more

than once seen the shadow of that graceful shape. One night lie had watched her putting up her hair; had seen the shapely bare arms lifting and twisting the mass of long tresses which he fancied were dark gold in colour.

Sometimes he had found the window open, but the room unlighted, and had heard the mysterious mistress of the sanctum talking to her birds and trilling little snatches of song to encourage them to sing. "Fancy that deformed hag possessing such a voice," he said, as> he listened to the delicious sweetness of the note*.

The pursuit of this shadowy enigma became intensely fascinating to the young reporter. No Romeo anticipating an inter view with his Juliet, no enthusiast in astro nomy on the verge of solving a celestial problem ever looked forward to the coming of night more anxiously than did this youth ful attache of "The Rattier." Ho did hia day's work with feverish energy as one under the influence of a strong stimulant; he swallowed the ioed tea and toast that constituted his scant wuppcr and hurried to his post of observation—taking every pre caution not to be seen.

The mysterious Sphinx began to exercise a strange influence upon hia imagination. He pictured her to himself. His fancy filled out the suggestion of the shadow on the curtain with round, glowing limbs, with warm tinted, palpitating; flesh. Ho ima gined the colour of her eyes to bo soft purple —tho hue of the Mediterranean. The throat whence issued those exquisite notes he knew must be soft and round. He could fancy it throbbing like a. white bird's when she sang. Once, he dreamed of her, and he felt angry with himself because he had not the artist's power to put that dream image into colours. He had it in his mind when he sat with General Moi.tcalm on the back porch that shaded that gentleman* study. . They had smoked for some time in silence. Hazard's thoughts wero with his Myatery of the Red House, but he had almost ceused to associate her with tho Montcalm murder and the reward, and he almost started when the general said : "Have you made any progress in that detective business, Hazard ?" " I—l can hardly say, sir. I have taken some steps that may or may not prove im portant." "Have you got hold of anything like a clue to the whereabouts of that woman ?"

" I may have k strong, sure clue, or it may possibly turn out none at all. I have not yet followed it up." " What hinders you V" " I am waiting further developments. There is a house I want searched, but I have hardly grounds yeb to demand a warrant for such a proceeding." " You think Laura Monbcalm may be con cealed in that house'/"

"I do. I suspect that she has been in this city all the while—that she has been harboured by a man of wealth arid high standing." " Not Carleon, then V

"No, altogether a different person — a man known and respected all over the whole State."

; ' You amaze me. This must be a chimera of your brain, my boy. Who is the man ?" "I woukl rather not tell you now. I will wait until I am sure of my game. But this is no fancy, believe me. It is grounded on singular and suspicious circumstances. General, let me _ ask you a few questions, and don't infer anything from them, please. They may have a Bearing on the matter in hand, or they may not. How long has old Miss Fauet, the deformed occupant of the Red House, been living in Wallporb?" " About seven or eight years, I believe. Heathcliff bought the Red House property for her after old Glynn, who built it, drowned himself in his bath-tub. He had strangled his young wife in that same house, everybody believes, though the family doctor reported heart disease as the cause of her sudden death. Miss Faust flitted here in the night, like a bat (she is as ugly as any vampire), and took up her abode in the gloomy old mansion. She has never left it but once, that I know of—when she went to Europe for a shorb time. Once I saw her riding with Heathcliff, veiled and muffled up. She wears a veil in the house as well as out, so sensitive is she to her disfigurement—an enormous nose and a purple mark covering one side of her face. They say she is nob only ugly as a fiend, but has the temper of one ; is soured against the world, though she gives to charitable purposes sometimes generously enough—through Heathcliff. He is her lawyer and business agent. Nobody enters her house but he, not even & doctor. She believes in thecold-water cure and practices it on herself. "*

" You say she has been away ones since she settled at the Red House—that sho went to Europe on a short visit ?" " Yes ; she has a brother living in Ger many at their old family caetle on the Rhine ; Heatheliff told me. They had been estranged, and she was very angry with him, but he wrote while on his death-bed begging her to come to him ; and she went. She did not expect to return, and gave HeathclilT directions to rent or sell the Red House, but lo and behold ! she was back again in two months' time—returned, as she had gone—in the night." " When was it she returned V

" Why, let me see — about two years ago."

"Two years a°o? The murder of your brother occurred about that time, did it "°" Yes, but what the mischief has Miss Faust to do with the murder '! " Pardon me," said Hazard, smiling and tossing his lxUf-smoked cigar over the balustrade, " and let me go on with my questions. Was there no one beside hie wife, who might be suspected of killing Captain Montcalm-no one who might have had a motive for the murder i «• I don't know, and it don r, mutter; no body but his wife did do the deed-, that ia clear asnoontlay. Thcgold-mounted stiletto sho wore that day, us on or nament, was found in his heart There was no one in the house but them selves at the time he was lulled, bhc had disobeyed him that day-gone with a fast party over to Carleon'a ser.-ir.lio on Aphrodite Island He was deeply incensed, as he ought to have been. He denounced her, and she stabbed him. Then she coolly packed up her jewels and other valuables and left the house, stepping into the stream of blood that had run across the hall from the body of her husband lying in the library, and leaving her loot-prints m blood as she passed out. As she opened the door she came face to face with her maid, and the girl's escort, who were returning from a wedding. She started, then hurried by them. In her haste she caught her veil on the girl's shoulder and both of the parties had a full view of her face in the bright moonlight. Sho has never, so far as known, been seen since." "Yes," returned Hazard. "Sho was seen that same night entering Heathchn c yard." ~ " Oh, that turned out all a mistake. " Did it •> Well, perhaps so, but perhaps not. The fellow who testified to it, and afterward talked and acted in a way to bring discredit on his own testimony, is a peculiar character. He is superstitious about tes tifying in a case of life and death, but well, no matter-I have talked with him; he did not suspect me of being interested, and he told me a great deal more than was o-ot out of him at the inquest; and--! be lieve he told me all. But to my questions. You are sure there was no one in the house at the time the murder occurred but the wife and husband V—where was the man who had brought Laura Montcalm from the island — her husband's confidential clerk-her own old friend and adopted brother, as well as guardian ?" "Whom do you mean—David Holt? Why, he had been taken desperately ill ; was found in his room at my brother's warehouse next morning out of his head with fever. He never did recover his senses. It was a mouth before lie was able to leave his bed ; then his mind was gone. His friends took him away, and, I believe, sent him to an asylum, whero ho died, as I heard." "He didn't die. He got out of the asylum and wandered off. He was harm less, and as he had no money or rich kin, they made no great exertion to find him, I have made pretty extensive inquiries after him, but without success as yet, ' " What do you want with him ':'' " Why, who knows but ho may have been a witness to the murder? Who knows how that sudden bruin trouble was brought on ''. It came tho same night of the tragedy. He was the last person seen with Laura Mont calm."

•'A lady and hor husband, living near my brother, testified to seeing Holt leave Mrs Montcalm's at tho door, and go away in the direction of the warehouse.'

"He may have returned. He may have witnessed the murder ; he may now, even in bin imbecile condition, retain some vague impression of it, and be led to something that would throw light upon it." "What do you want with more light? Every fool knows who did the murder. All we want is to find that female fiend - Laura Montcalm. That is the busi ness I confided to you. Stick to the matter in hand, my boy. Never mind collateral circumstances. If we find that woman she is sure to hang. Wβ need no more evi dence than we have already. There is enough to put a rope round her neck." Hazard shuddered ; the general saw it, " You think me vindictive, Hazard," he said. "lam in this matter. I loved my brother as son and friend as well as brother. I was much older than ho, and had had charge of him in his boyhood. Ho wan a splendid fellow when he first grew up — handsome as a prince, generous, bravo, gifted. Ho got into a scrapo in Mexico with a woman, that cams near making a cynic of him and an exile from his coTintry ; but he was coming out from that shadow. I looked to him to. sustain the family name; to retrieve tho mistakes of his youth and go down to the grave with honours, leaving mi heir to our name. There is none now. I have no son. Do you wonder that I hate the murderer of ray brother ? I can never rest content until she has received the punishment she de serves—woman though she be."'

" And most fair, they tell sue.'

"Aye, beautiful as Clytcmnestra, and as fiendish. I can't talk of her coolly. Follow up that clew if you have one ; unearth her and bring her to punishment, and I am your debtor for life." Stern as Cato's looked the genemVs Roman features m> he sat, his head thrown back on the violet lining of the chair, his deep-set eyes gazing out into the gathering gloom. Hazard thought of the old warrior's lurid look and his fierce speech tonight, as ho sat in.the empty, cobwebbed upper room of the old rookery he had rented that he might keep watch on the Red House through the window behind which he sat. The window opposite was uri lighted. The moon was shining high in the heavens, and its rays silvered the leaves of the olive and magnolia-trees. One of these beams touched the windows of the Sphinx's boudoir. " If she should come to the window as she did once when the room was dark, and stand where the light falls, I could see her," Hazard thought, and he waited, opera-glass in hand.

She did come. She came and stood by the window; the outlines of her lovely ghape were visible. Presently she seated herself in the low embrasure of the window, and leaned her head against the side-frame. She was dressed in a filmy white stuff; the moonlight glimmered here and there over her figure—over her waist, her arms, her shoulders, her full white throat even. Only her facs and her head were in shadow.

Sitting there she began to sing. Her song was in a minor key ; plainly she was afraid lest a tone of it should reach the street. But across the narrow spaoe of moonlit darkness and stillness, Hazard could hear every note and word of the gyppy love-song:

JSara, the moon has left the sky; We want the shining of thine eyo. Come, oh! come; Lot those eyes of thine Pour light into mine. As the bright stars gleam on some dark stream, Come, oh! come.

Zara. there's sorrow in the sea; We want thy voice's melody- Come, oh 1 conic. Let its music free Float out to me As the wild wind sings to the lone harp-strings. Come—

The Bong ceased abruptly. " Ah, you are here at last; you are late," said the voice that had sung, as the figure started up from the window. The next instant the curtain dropped ; but Hazard saw a tall man's shape outlined upon the curtain.

"It is Heatheliff!" cried the boy. "1 would know thafc square-shoudered, mili tary shadow anywhere. Curse him ! what does he want with two beautiful women ? And beautiful that Mystery is. I could swear it by that shape, that voice, that lovely throat. That neck to havo a rope knotted about it ? Horrible ! But it must

if my suspicion.') are true ; and I am almost ready to stake my life upon it that they are. Ira Hctithcliff, the Damocles sword hangs over you. A search warrant shall bring your dark secret to light. Then away goes your Sunday-school reputa tion, away go your political pros pects, away goes your marriage with Honor Montcalm. You will never lord it in the executive mansion ; more likely you will preside over a cell in yonder gaol. Your hour will bo over, mine will begin to strike. Let Montcalm take his .seat "as governor, and I am sure of advancement—sure of the baud of that proud beauty who scorns me

now."

(To be Continued.)

We notice that Messrs Hallcnstein Bros, and Co., the Zealand Clothing Fac tory, 158 and 160, Queen-street, are as usual early to tho front in displaying , the new goods for the coming season. Every de partment has been extensively replenished with the most fashionable and useful styles in boys', youths', and men's clothing and outfitting. Boys' school suits are specially selected to meet the times, being cheap and durable. Wo recommend an early visit. — [A DVT.]

THE AUCKLAND' EVENING STAR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1887,

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Business Notices. BY COMMUNICATING WITH US, the above VANS will bo in attendance at TRATN. STTIP, or wherovcr wanted, to reooivc FURNITURE or other Croods, which will be forwarded as instructed, or (if required) stored ' and insured for any term. ON SALE, Tanpiri, Westporfc, and Newcastle Coal Firewood, Charcoal, Ceke i Bricks, Lime, Sand Pipes, Slates, Tanks Fencing of all kinds. W. AND G. WINSTONE, CUSTOMS-STREET. Iron Curved for Verandas (ANY tfATI-JfißK) SHOKTEST NOTICE. I George μ^caul Manufacturing Plumber, ! AND ! IMPORTER OP ALL, TRADE REQUISITES ! WELLESLEY STREET EAST I (oppoaite New Library), and BROWN & DAVtf STREETS. I'HAMSS, HAS FOR SALE— : 200 Corrngatfd Galvanized Tanks (assorted) 000 Colonial Ovens (all sizes) CO.OOO feet Lead Edge liidge Cap (all sizes) - 50,000 feet O.G. Spontincr (all sizer) 50,000 feet IJownpipee (all sizes) , 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pipes (all sizes) Lead-head Nails, Lead Washers, Portable Ovens, Furnace Frames, Copper Boilers, l etc., etc., etc. 5 Awarded Three First Prizes for above lines, at • Auckland Agricultural Show. largest and beet selection of Gas Globes In ■ Auckland. ' As G. McCAUL iis a direct Importer for cash, he Iβ In a position to supply the trade at the lowest remunerative prices. Liberal discounts to the trade. Country Order* punctually attended to. GEORGI MccAUL, Manufacturing Pinmber, and Importer of all l'rade Requisites, Wellesley-st. East (opposite Mew Library), and Brown and Davy-streets, Thames. TO Wholesale Buyers, Boardinghouise keepers, &c—2slb*s Good Candles, 8s Sfl; 401bs Best Crystal Sugar, 9e 9d: 1 cwt Box Soap, 9s 6d; 111b Box Tea. 15s; ISack Best Potatoes, 58 6d: 1 Dozen Good Jams, sa; 2001b Sack Good Flour, 20a; a Good Sugar, 2d perlb, at EARLE AND MONTGOjWKRJTS BTO3* V E, Karangahape Road. Q.LED HILL'S DERATED WATER AND CORDIAL FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST (Late Siiaelaxd's). - -\ . O N Uw M E N T S ITALIAN AND MARBLES, AND AUEKDKEN CWIANiTE, HEAD STONKS IN MARBLE AND STONK. Ikon Tomb Railings at Moderate Pkjces, Prices and Designs sent post-free. Country ordere carefully packed. TAIT BROTHERS, Monumental Works, Corner of Rutland and Lome streets (near Queen-street Junction), Auckland. /"\RION. r\RION. QRION. WHJIT IS IT? HOLROYD AND LONGBOTTOM, GENERAL WOOD TURNERS. Albert-street, Auckland, opposite Y.M-C.A, Rooms. Bandsaw Cuttings, Carvinga, Architravea, and Fretwork done at Lowest Rates. Table, Chair, and Sofa Legs, Bed Posts, Drawer Stumps, etc., always in stock. BILLIARD BALLS RE-TURNED AND STAINED. A Trial is itespectt'ully Solicited. HOME-MADE BREAD, CAKES, SCONES, HOP BEER, &c, easily made by using CROOK'S AMERICAN DRIED YEAST. Cheaper and more desirable than Baking Powder. It should be sold in every cbuntry store, used in every country home. Full direc tions on each packet. Sample packets by pp3t, 3d. from J. T. JOHNS, Seymour-street, Pon sonby, Auckland. Wholesale Agcnta-L. D. NATHAN & Co. p C. HAN.S EN, • Ha-.ine takea over the Shop lately occupied by A. H. Morris, in KARANGAHAPE ROAD. Wishes, to acquaint his patrons and Mends that he Will still carry on the PAINTING AND GLAZING BUSINESS In all its Branches. /GROUND LIME! GROUND LIME For Sale, SOUTHGAT.B'S SIAHURANGI HYDRAULIC GROUND ROCHE LIME „ In any quantity, for Concrete Paths, Floors. Cellars, etc. Next to stone-flagging it if jm ri vailed fordurabilityandhard-settingqualities. For tanks and other wet work it is a first-class material. B. KEANE, SOLE AGENT, CUSTOMS-STREET, j' wL ? ? ACcfeToS U J#U R RER, Wyndham-street. BOOKS, insurance aud Mining Register Books Specially Ruled and Bound. Music. Magazines, Public Libraries, and Sunday School Books Well Bound. Bakers' Special Ruled Day Books, Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books BAND AWD CHOIR* MUSIC N~O W yo all men fchab Wolfe's SoflN-AFPS has no rival as a Stimulant.



1 THE z J'l ft 1 Having pwchaj ,• / ■ | The largest and best ,< 7 1 - 1 • Series — W;.^^ YOU "CAN'T AFPOED housekeeper to-use .<.. ™ mißa P?e»i!| M BVESm Al I SOAP. It is a simple but useful article. I to use it are still more simple, miuSi 1 useful.*-' --.f.. " ■ •* 1/ vSE Q'Mi'V 1 You may haveheard of it 4'TtfbOSiim I TIMES without using it 0?TOE. : U wiiU , reverse the position and < , t, ■ ] < ~- mjt USE IT ONCE 1 You xraiae it to others a THQL'SiSD M have spent hundreds of 'wmediii El convincing the ■women of New 2Sealiint fts ■■ their labour can be groatJy lighten^'' > X ~ B URNS'S Al SOAP > (the World ItcH ■ v Cleaxsjeii »;> but| have fallensiiortojmji* X c hitionif Ihavefailedto v CONVINCJE TOU, F , ' > WHOLESALE AGENT- I !■ A. BUCHANAN I 1 CUSTOMS STREET. EASI | ~ Rifle Ripib ' , K nd t , EEVOLTEK3. BEYOL7MJ Hβ GUNPOWDER! ,Bjoi j Shot, Cap*, Cartridw. : '*»; Wire Oartrtcqes, I|! lef "■ : AMMUNITION »* Of BvKBTf ■ DBQflfflW ■ .'jfe Fishing Tackle, Catteqr, Firewa:ki*4 BnUi< > . ..>;■ '^"liil 1 "' " -'' '■, ~ V;: " ';: ' ^: s | P^nc D . BVITT, GUNMAN, j to, ' 5j , 1. opnuuy, ; l; el! ' r Mathematical asp to®*- Hlornie ; Instrument istW^ atwats in Stock- . ' d : Bpten ■ ; Jowß £2S ■*"»*■ *IH Settlera , . Settlers' An id&Bsto™ &aA ■B^. Also. Steam andEieecw , ■ jWi* >i OPPOSiT E THKPC^.|^ Apply Hkch^cs- K^ U | | a a t S Sui«. , fc 703 ' I