THE MYSTERY OF HADDON'S FERRY.

By E. D. E. N. Southavorth.

CHAPTER VII. THE FERRY-MAN'S RETURN. O, lay thy hand in mine, dear I I'm growing old! , But time hath brought no sign, dear, That hearts grow cold. 'Tis long, long since your sweet love Made life divine, But age onrioheth true love, Like noblo Avino! Gerald Massey.

We must return to Gertrude, Avhom Aye left alone in the old ferry-house Avaiting through the dreary hours that precede the dawn, Avaiting anxiously for the appearance of her grandfather.

Long she sat there after her eccentric i •vest had lefther. ,_-,■« ' She was gtartled'at length by the striking j f the clock. It struck four. A shiver passed through her sensitive \ rame, as from the chill of somo approach ng'ivil. ' '", '. , ' .;■ i Sne arose, went and opened tho lront > loor and looked out. The house faced the east. She looked across tho deep and narrow iver, to the dark and froAvning precipices in the other side. * , The dawn was just reddening over their ledar-plumed summits. She glanced towards thp little land ng. It was deserted. Thero was not a living soul to be seom Che party who had been shouting " boat 1 or the last tAvo hours had evidently riven up, and gone off in discourage aent.. -'. . ... ,- -• ■ "They have gone down to the next erry: thab is fall seAen miles off. The ioor young man got clear away ! I wonder ioav he fell into trouble ■!*- and, oh ! I ronder what keeps my dear grandfather so ong ?" she added, anxiously, as she turned ier head to the lefb and looked up the AVind ng bridle-path that led through the moun ain-pass, and up to the elevated natural ilateau called Hill Top. . , The rain-storm of the preceding night iad swollen all the mountaia-streams, that iow dashed down the rocks Avith fearful _ocity, tumbling at last in the Wilde. ?he wind had torn and broken the eyer ;reen trees that clothed the mountain side, hd a thunderbolt had stricken doAvn a ;igantic pine that grew at the foot of the Ireeipice, and noAv lay across the beach, a alien monarch of the Avilderness. While Gertrude was still gazing on this leA-astation, her grandfather suddenly stood ieside her. She started slightly and looked at him rith a loav exclamation of surprise. He seemed to have aged full ten years ' ince she had seen him the night, previous, lis face was pale, his brow corrugated, his ' yes sunken. "Dear grand! lam so alad to see you iack at last," she exclaimed ;" then groAving ;raver," she inquired: "Our neighbour, Jeneral Slaughter ?" " Gone," answered the old man, reverent- - y, raising his broad-brimmed hat. " ' Gone !' " echoed the girl, solemnly. Gabriel Haddon boAved his silver grey tead in silence, and theh~- - '-'■ '< - " Are you up so early, my little True, or mve you been watching through the right ?" he kindly asked. ,'•-' ---" I have been up all night, dear grand. And you, too, have lost your rest, I fear." "I have not been at ease, child." • • ; _ .. "I am sorry for that. But come in and lie down. I will get you a cup of coffee iirectly," she urged, affectionately taking his hand. - ; '-'; -.'•' -vl ; '■•'•' ---" Yes, we will go in ; but Jess can get, my coffee. I Avant you. I want' to talk with you," sighed the old man, turning with her toward the house. - : ~ • . "Jess has not yet returned, grandpa," she'explained, as they entered bhe door., I " What! And' you. have ; been' • quite alone all night? I suppose that is the reason why you did not go to bed," said Gabriel Haddon, as he sank.-- exhausted into his own easy-chair by the window. "No, dear grandpa, I did not go to bed,: riot because I was alone, but because I had company," ansvVered Gertrude, with a smile.'----'- ---: -'-•-■ •"'..••• '"• •;.;'"' -'-' i. " Company V echoed the-ferry-man. ■- ■' ti "Yes, grand, a traveller who came down to the steps on the other side of ..the river and called for the boat, I weritarid brought him across. He stayed until the storm waa over* and went away; about an hour' ago. And there is something about it which I am afraid you will not like. He wa_ soaking wet through and through. I lent him a suit of ..-your clothes, and he Avpre them away, leaving his own and sixty'dollars in money to pay for yours—about .three times as much 'la's they are worth, • dear grand ; arid, indeed, T could not help his leaving so much.; he would, do it. But you knoAV you can save it, and> when you 'see him again you can make, him take it back.' Can you aot?" ... . . ■>~:'. "', - ' '*'' "' "Yes, my dear,'? the ferry iman answered,' mechanically/ /He scarcely heard or ;under-l stood the, question. ;He.;:did j not', .inquire' the-name or,-,age or ._. description ofcthei stranger, who ,had: spent tlie night I alone with his grand-daughter in the ferry-house. In his deep abstraction and i absorption in some other hidden subject, he seemed not to have real_ed.;,that,,,there was .anything anusual in the occurrence.. ."..;! -..- i j y^-rii "; "Now if you will lie down and rest, dear grand, I'will, go .arid, make:y6ur'"coffee," said Gertrude, stooping and tendgriy kiss ing his forehead-before leaving the room. -I She passed into the adjoining kitchen. Gertrude took her pail "arid passed out into the yard and through the back gate to the side of' the precipice,' whence from a fissure in the rocks-sprang a little fountain of crystal water./ i; ■■ fpp° -'■>■''_' , She filled her pail at this spring and re-, turned to the house'to fill her .tea-kettle. - As she entered the kitchen, hoAvever, the towering black form ef Jessie Bell met»he.. vision. -- '-"•'"" ;. »"' ■'"-' ' - " Oh, Aunt Jess, I'm so glad you have come home. Grandfather has returned very, tired. I think he-vvas up all night with General Slaughter," said Gertrude.'! j ."Yes, chile, likely he.-Avas.' That ole sinner is gone at last! Yes ! 'In the midst of death'we are in life.'; " Here to-morrow, and gone to-day,' as the saying is.'- , "yVell, hopes he'sv better off," dough! ■_-'do _bts t;it:' Dunno how- old marse ever could a forgibbed - that ole.rip all he .done.to him. 'Spose we must S all. forgibi dough, ef Aye wants to be forgibben. Well, I'd" forgib, too, if I was pelled to do-it;. but:'deed, I'd warit-tO have him punished, good 'fore ever'/'forgib' him - 'deed me. ' Whatsoever a man reap that also shall he sow ,'•" exclaimed old ;Jess, as she took off her long sun-bonnet and hung it up, and then set about getting the breakfast.'' " !'-";,'-:' '-.-";:'■;.,-'r-i.;: Mr; ... " What -time did the old general pass away, Aunt Jess ?" inquired Gertrude, who, with her-sleeves-rolled up and he. dress pinned back; was busily engaged break' ing eggs into a pan to makeari omelet. " What time-dodebbil come to fetch'de. Die raff, you mean ?—you hear dat last orful big clap o' thunder and blaze o' lightnin'! like del_sbdaylhad come and the y'ethhad, bustedupin flames?" ~:, ■'~-.'. ',;...., . '.'Yes; L should think Thought to;" said Gertrude, with a reminiscence of the river scene on. the preceding i^ight.., " Well, honey} he'went; right, off in that clap «o':ithuhder~deed,:he'.did-which if. dere,wasany doubt, which a.way he vvent, dat'might'settle it." r" ""-" lk'" "'"' "'' j " Oh, Aunt Jess! .Poor General "Slaughter !" said Gertrude, deprecatingly. " What you say poor Gen'al Slaughter «r ? What call you go 3 to pity he 1" shwply

demanded old Jess, as she sat doAvn in a y chair and took a pan of batter on her lap sc to beat tor waffles. ,«-.'!• _ '•'Oh Aunt Jess! Poor man! He, is d gone now. Nobody has a good Avord for a him. We ought not to speak ill o» hu?j b now he cannot ansAver for himself!' said f< Gertrude, pitifully. ' . _-■_~, ? " Better say poor granddaddy. Better b say dat. You dunno what he done to old marse, I reckon," retorted old Jess, vi ciously beating the batter, y. "No Ido not. What did he do ?" 11 "Ax'ole marse-do dat. Ax old marse. f I ain't got no call to tell you. You ax ole r marse what turned his hair grey in one r week. Axhimdo-i. Ax him why ho never got married. Ax him dot/ ' No, you better 5 not ask him neither, come to nnk ob it r (. ' Least mended, soonest said,' for you may c Ihurt his feelin's, you knoAV. But as to f forgibbin' dat ole Slaughter, dat ole sassin, c dat ole kidnapper, ole pirate, old cut- 1 throat—l jes' as leab forgib de debbil- \ dere ?"' exclaimed Jess, beating and bang- s ing co furiously that the batter flew. " Aunt Je3S, I know that my dear grand-. ( father: has forgiven him, and has consoled his dying hour.* He could bear no malice f against a dying man," said Gertrude, j _t_ivglv« * " Well, den, I kin ; and I'm glad as dore's somefin'T kin do as ole marse can't. .1 kin i bear malice, and I won't forgib him " less 1 . knowed be Avas well-punished; Ef he Avas j punished good, den mebbyT might forgib 1 him—'deed mo. 'Spects de debbil will get 1 me for my onforgibbon sperrit. Can t help 1 itefhe do. ' Whab'can't bo 'dured must - be cured.' But do Avust bb goin' to de debbil Avould be do bad company it fetches one into. Noav, ef I avis tago to de debbil, I should have to 'sociato long 0' Genal Slaughter and sich, for I's dead surb lies gone acre—'deed he." ; ; ' : ' '' Gertrude turned away with a sigh, took a tablo cloth from the drawer of the dresser, and Avent. into the parlour to set the table. 1 There'sho'saw her grandfather still re clining in the'elbow-chair by tho Avindow. "Well, dear grand,'l thought you 5 had gone in to lie doAvn until breakfast Avas ready," she said} taking his 'hand, which hung languidly Jdown by'his side, and gazing tenderly in his face. '' "I forgot, mv dear; I forgot," he breathed, m painful abstraction. "Won't you'liedoAvnrioAV? There will be still ten or fifteen minutes for you to rest before it is put upon the table," she urged, with affectionate solicitude. "No matter, my dear. I shall do very well as I am. Do not mind me, Gertrude," said Gabriel Haddon, in a tone of kind decision that ended the littlo controversy. lria few moments the morning meal Avas laid upon the table. ' ' : The sun, which had been above the horizon some minutes, now appeared over the top of the eastern mountain, sending Ms beams across the river and through the AviudoAv into "tho humble parlour of the ferry-house, beaming on the Avhite cloth and flashing on the metal coffee-pot and cutlery. ; , . ' "Come, dear grand, a strong cup ot coffee will do you good," said Gertrude, placing his chair at the table and taking her own seat behind the tray. Gabriel Haddon sat down, asked bless ing, and then took and drank the cup of coffee sho had poured out for him, and ate a part of an omelet and a part of a Avaflle— 1 all in a mechanical and abstracted manner, as if he Avere scarcely conscious of what ne Avas doing. ~..-., , While he Ava3 still at breakfast tbe sound of horses'feet were heard galloping up to the gates, Avhere they seemed to stop. ,;In a feAV moments swift steps were heard ap proaching-the house, and a rap sounded on; th^jfront door. , . .. ._ The ferry : mari arose, and opened to the visitor—a messenger from Hill Top Hall., . ".Ah, Saturn, my man, is this you ? You are. wanting the. boat of course,' said, theferry:man. ,',-"; '";, ■' ' -.''. '._.. '■'■ , . "Yes, marster, if you please. lam go ing to Wildeville to fetch the undertaker, . and would like you to put riie, across, immediate,, if'possible," replied the mes -1 senger ■'", '. ... * • Certainly, my man ; I Avill go this mo , ment," said the ferry-man. p, ( - U> ;.i . ...And without returning,to the room he [ took liis"hat from the nail and walked down I ito the boat-house, followed'by the riegro. ' .Meantime, Gertrude, assisted by old Jese, cleared; aAvay thotable and put the .room in [ order. '.". ■. ",<;.., ,'"i ,".'■*,' P. ..-,"'.'.„. - ---L-'- ---i , At.tl«_,end' of half an hour the ferry-man returned." The little piece of routine work seemed to have broken the spell that bound ! him-; brought him to..himself.'" ' ~ r He found the' sitting-room i,n perfect order 5 and his granddaughter seated at her little , Avork-sband, diligently;sewing. '" What are you, making, child ?" ,he in • , quired, seating himself in his easy-chair' by , the front"window. ~,''.,,",./ ,' „,'... i'<> I '~.,"" Maklrig.nothing, dear grand ; only ,put i ting hew enffs on^your shht-sleeyes," Bhe: ■ answered, hbiding up her Avorkl" j . rtf Pu,t,.ib;.up, |my little. True,,'and-draw ~ your chair here.close to mine...., 1^ must talk , to you," said'Gabriel,Haddoh; gravely. M .--.-- ' ...'■■ Gertrudefblded,tlieshirtahddreAyherchair , to the]o]d!-mai-ls,'side.' "..' They formed, a;fine t picture as'.'th'ey^sa&there.'by the' vine-shaded. : , iwindoAV,; the majestic, reverend-looking old • 'nian,fclotheol iii^^hia.clean,"home-spun suit,: j ,r^cliningin his .elbow-chair}'his fihe, old face I, "framed in by his,long, flowing, .silver .hair. j and beards seeming like' some prophet or I patriarch of old ;' arid'the /maiden dn her simple,home;dress,o.f blue.and White,' seated \ on a low chair at his feet, her hands clasped b upon-his knee; h(|r'silky,|dark hair rippling r back from her.beautiful, clear, pale:face # ' her soft, dark eyesTraised r ; evereritly to 1 his. ' .. .„ 'CHATTER VIII. ;; ■•; ;;':; -- '..'.". p' \'THE,bLD,_'ERRY,-^IAN's"STORY.,- ' ~.,'.;,' j. Aweary lot Was thine, fa}r maid, , ■•'. :.l ■■■! A weary lot was thine,;? v ~ > b To pluck the thorn thy hrow to braid, S '"' '■' ' Andpress the rue for wine, • '-. ij. -1, ori. ■:■-: .-), ; .jlTairmai-lrotviA Attoh x - And press the rue for wine! . - riiiv/ 1. ~,,, ',".,. ( (1 , ; '. , Sir Walter Scott. ;,! "Listen to me, my little True;" said the old ferry-^ai^joyn^y^!;"L'toid you; did I ,I : npt,. that every great cmis^inniy long life had, by. some unaccountable coincidence,' 3 occurred on the fifteenth day of July,and at [' intervals of fifteen years ?'- ,:rr ,>-;)

'.'Yes dear, grand," ; "'I told you, also, that last night,.'being the fifteenth.of Jiily^.arid, just fifteen;' years' the last .important, event in -my life, was another critical epoch, and that, bjrin-' lerehce drawn frorii all precedents, as well asby the foreboding o'f:»my own prophetic soulj-I expected another crisis." ha'e , T" i fV You diddndeedj:grandpa;'" c :;■ d a '■ .' !l ..-"'My child, the:crisis ;came, evert darker, more terrible, mora agonising than, I could; have foreshadowed."iiirf tiar,) ;';:,•-, - /•'Oh, grandpa dm Now. 0 Heaven forbid", that any - evil should; have come to: you, or should threaten you in your oldiage,":said Gertrude, in-a -tone of the deepest sym pathy,,, f ,,«« r .--._.->, •'.,-, ~..v.t , .„,..5 i ,.„'. :' " ' "Amen, my child, for !your sake even more than 'my""own. But that you," in'ay understand'whatrhas happened, my dear; I' must refer'to^my own', early life;'') I . | -\\ Yes,, tell, me about yourself, dear grandpa. T have so longed to knoAV all; aboiit you,";she murmured," as she'itook his .hand in! her own and caressed it; tenderly-^ ----.."people "tell , so.-..-many..tales of you, grand ;■ hut "all are good—hone evil," ■' -' : : "And -vvhat do' they',,say of the old man, ;my r little. > for the subject of a'heighborhbbd gossip is often lasted hear it.; But I. can guess they call me a,1 lunatic, among: other' things, my a i^di^l^\WM smile". 5 1' 'G'ertrude'wa's;pleased to see even 'so grave a smile on his sad lips, and she hastened to reply: " No, no; I never heard of anyone saying that of you, dear grand. Some people call

you a saint, and some a prophet, and some a t seer. Many speak vaguely of a great mis- c -fortune that you suffered in your young t days and a great sacrifice that you made, and others describe how, in one short week, 1 by the black magic of sorrow, the young 1 ferryman's golden hair had turned to c silver. Oh, dear, dear grandpa, could'this f have been true ?" I " Not very far from true, my chilcL t . " Tell me all about it, dear grandpa, 1 Open your heart to me for once. Not in { idle curiosity I ask you, dearest, but in af- ( fection and sympathy,"murmured Gertrude, 1 raising her tender dark eyes to the old 1 man's face. '' " I know it, my little True. I know ] your faithful heart as I knoAV my own. - Child, I have lived all my life in this j cottage, working in the garden and plying ; ferry-boats. You may judge that my 1 career has not been a very eventful ope; ; indeed,it has been a very monotonous one, : with the exception of three striking epi- 1 sodes." .. ' "Ah, but those episodes 1" murmured Gertrude. , ; " Yes, those episodes !" continued the ferry-man. "Well, my child, to begin with my natal day, I was born on the fifteenth of July, sixty years ago." " Yes, of course, I knoAV that, dear, said the maiden, quietly. , "I was the sole surviving child of a family of seven boys and girls. I grew to be a very studious lad, fonder ot books than of the garden or the ferry-boats, and my father, pleased at the turn my mind was taking, sent me to the village-school at Wildeville, and bought--me all tho books I Avanted. Thia accounts, Gertrude, for my being a littlo better read than some of my wealthier neighbours," added tho old man, with a slight smile. . "Grandpa, everybody about here thinks you are A'cry learned." , ,-_ , ',' I knoAV. enough to' feel sure that 1 am very 'ignorant, my child. But to resume. On the fifteenth of July, and my fifteenth birthday, the first great sorrow of niy life fell on me." My father, "a hale, vigorous man, of fifty^hve, was drowned while crossing the ferry ;iri a stormy' betAveen mid night and morning, thus leaving my mother to the care of his only son. " On that dark day, my dear Gertrude, I really seemed to have passed abruptly from boyhood to manhood, Avith no interval of youth between. On that day I laid aside my studenb's habits, and took up tho burden of lifo for good. ' On that eventful day, also, I found a pure white lily," added the old man, breathing the last word 3in loav, tender, sorroAvful tones. ; " A white lily?" echoed Gertrude, softly. "Lily Vale, the granddaughter of General Slaughter, and the heiress of Hill Top Hall and Forest Lodge. Shobad lost both her parents in her earliest infancy, and Avas then tho ward as well as the heiress of her ' grandfather.... Sho. was just six years old wheu I first saw her, and the loveliest vision of beauty that ever blessed the eyes of man. She came down to the ferry that day, like a littlo princess, attended by her retinue hor governess, her maid and her footman to have a i-oav on the river before the sun should grow too hot. For the morning after the storm Avas very calm and pleasant.", .., ---" Was she so very beautiful, dear grand? 1 What Avas she like ?" " The loveliest blonde, with tho fairest complexion, the clearest blue eyes, and the lightest, brightest hair you ever saw ; it Avas .ilver in the sunshine and golden in the shade. This radiant hah Avas a halo of ' glory around hor face and form. This 1 heavenly vision of a child, clothed in Avhite raiment, and adorned with Avild flowers she '; had gathered on her way, came that day into the dark house of death, bringing light 1 and life with-her. She,did not see the gloom at first; she ran to me so joyously, ' saying: . _:, . 1. "' Are you the ferry-man ? Grand-pa says, will you please get the boat and take • us for a row on" the river thia morning?' It 1 is my birthday, and I am to have a party , this evening and have all the little girls and - boys. Will you come, too, and dance ? ' "As she asked thia with pretty little - lady-like grace, she looked at, me and smiled; but when sho saAV my grieved face 3 and tearful eyes—for I had been weeping > liko any woman over my dead father-her tone changed, and sho said: " ' '■ , ■;■«.<' Oh, what is the matter ? Dont cry ! 1 Oh, don't cry 1' And she put her little fair hands up and drew-my face down to hers, 1 and laid her soft cheek against rqine. t •'I had always loved children, and the 1 tenderness of this lovely little one touched fmy heart, and opened again the fountain of f my boyish tears, and 1 Avept freely, but, 3 somehow, not so bitterly as before. The child was greatly distressed. She gave her • self up to the task of comforting mc. She i smoothed my hair and patted my face with her tiny fair hands. She pressed her rose - bud lips to mine. Sho drew my head down c aipon her sweet,.' little, pitying bosom. There was no. fear, no; bashfuhiess, no , solf-. r consciousness. -Instead, all.-pity,. tender fi ness, and an angel's freedom in self-for getfulness. - ■'•-- ■■■■■ -■ . '■„ -""' ■ r ; "Meanwhile, from the very beginning ol 3 this little interview her attendants had f ol- I- loAVed her into this room,, and had been I silently'beckoned ■by myt t afflicted mobher >: and conducted into the chamber, which,is a howmy own,-but where then lay tne re r mains of my poor droAvried father. She r showed them the' body," and. told them of, r the fatal accident as a sufficient reasou why 1 herson'couldinot'golout in the pleasure -1 boat that-day. • '■ '■■'■■-.■ ., .' i,-M\ .. ? "Whenthey returned to this room the •5 governess'tiold her little charge that they • must all go back 'home, 0 l m «]My:docile' little angel made no ppposi ' tion,'"tittered no complaint, but. kissed me and'beggfed me not to cry any more and she Avould come to see me veryjoften arid bring "me all;her,',books,to read, and her : White kitten, : and her, canary .bird,,if they ' could'-do-me-any. good. ". So she left me, ' still wondering;at' the cause of my distress, fbr I - could:, not then, bring;,. myself to, 1 tell 1 that bright little creature; any thing about 6 death,5 especially.'as I understood death at i that-period ofmy-life..-- ■-.(.,.. .'.!..,; , "'■' ' 1 ■ " Two days.after.this we laid the body of c. my father in the old Red Saudstone church ', yard, where you have seen his;grave. t ■'■-«' I'succeeded :to the little property arid" '" tP the management >;the ferry. 'My mother' was -legally, and., nominally my - guardian; but l was really and ..'practically' g her.; 'for T ran the ibusiness. as well asmy I father had done in his best days. k,K • ' ' '"My little angel kept her word with me. I She came doAvn. every fane day to have a tow II Avith me on the river. Shewasaccomhahied c by her governess}-and.sometimes by.her " maid; arid always'attended-by her footriian: v I cannot tell1 yoii'hoAvr strangely and deeply • " she became attached to,,me : or,how religi' d; ously'l adored-her, even from ~her Oh'ild i: hood.' -:' ' v' in '"-'■-'■' '•'■»•'■ ■':■:■'■ ,••..' . .',',!

" ""She:;grew in goodness and beauty'as she, grew in stature and -strength. , She; be came at once the' idol and the slave of her grandfather,'1 who cherished and guarded her Avith a -jealous, ;watchful love, and pride that made him both her worshipper and her

tyrant.' 'Hb would not part with her even to send1 hereto a boarding-school,, and as there ;was no day-school suitable, to her Avithin reach> he procured teachers, to come arid live'ih the diouse..i.At one, tiihe} I

knoAV, there was, besides her accomplished governess,- a professor .of .ancient'^1 and modern languages ■ and. a'prbfesspr^of vocal arid ihstrumental music, to whom he;paid large salaries for the-monopoly of their professional services.. "If Lily was the idol of that selfish,.,and furious old'man,; Avhat; was .she torn ? Whiit i«(»s:she?'.:;Ah,. whatjWas.she noil I cannot tell-you-iio words could tell you. If I should exhaust all terms of endearment, I should fail to express the faintest ;ldea of all that she was to me - the delight of my eyes, tho star ot my fate, the angel-of my life. She was all these, and infinitely more

than these. She Avas the eternal life of my eternal life in the Lord. She was, and is all this to me. ■ " You Avill wonder, my child, how tnat haughty, domineering old man should ever have permitted his cherished idol to come down and take her daily recreation in my ferry-boat. ' My dear, it was because his pride was so towering, and so superhuman, that he looked down upon all men beneath him in the rank as. scarcely human. He re garded the young ferryman, when he deigned, think of him at all, as a useful brute, who could row her ferry-boat, but as no whit better or higher or nearer to her than the pony that dreAV her phaeton. Thus there never came a day when General Slaughter discovered that his granddaughter was growing up to be a young lady, and that it Avas time to put a stop to her childish intimacy with the young' ferry-man. He would have thought as soon of putting a stop to her acquaint ance with the other beast of burden—her saddle-horse! - ... "Neither did my mother, with all her woman's wit, ever discover the oneness of the love and life betAveen us. She, too, was affected by the traditions of the neigh bourhood, the prejudices of rank. She looked up to General Slaughter's heiress as so immeasurably elevated above _me that no sentiment warmer, than gracious condescension, on her part, and grateful respect on mine, could over draAV us nearer to.each other. . ~ . ■ "My Lily's attendants were blinded by the, same delusion. We Avero too infinitely far apart in all respects of rank, training, education, Avealth, . for prudence to take cognisance of our intimacy. Don't, you see, my dear, thab all the parties concerned, except our two selves, considered only ex ternal circumstances, and left our own souls out of the question ? A fatal mistake they 1' afterwards considered it; , but it really could have made no difference, except in this short earthly life, if they had separ ated us from the first; for Aye were, and we are, one for ever. j 1 "I cannot tell you at what period, we learned that avc lived for. each other., Ido riot know when our mutual affection-began, if indeed it "ever had a beginning in this loAver sphere, when the child and the youth met for the first time as if they had been life-long friends. Onr ' love developed, harmoniously and beautifully. Wo under stood each other so thoroughly, Aye sym pathised Avith-eaeh other so perfectly, that there never seemed a moment Avhen ib was necessary for either to speak to tho other of love. , , . " Years passed ; the child developed in to a young woman ; her governess married and Avent to another home ; her professional masters soon after left bhe neighbourhood ; even her maid ceased to follow her in :her walks as whon she was a little girl. All her habits were changed but ono her daily visits bo bhe Ferry. She rode down every day, attended by Herschel, her white haired groom. , "The old man, who could,-notbear the water, 1 would wait on the shore, in charge of the horses, Avhile we rode alone together for many an hour on the river. Indeed.our rows Avere only subject to be shortened by one circumstance. If the ferry-horn blew on either side of the river it was my bounden duty to obey its summons ;. so_ on such occasions I always rowed my Lily back to the ferry-house, and proceeded to wait oh my customer. " I was of good, marriageable ago, and my mother was in the decline of life, and having no other cbddren, she Avas anxious that I should select a young girl from my own rank in society, and make her my wife. She wanted female companionship ab home, and female help in the management of her household affairs. When this came to my Lily's cars it grieved her spirit for several days, until ono morning, while Aye were out rowing together, she said to me': .* j "Gabriel, will you not tell your mother ?' '<' Tell her what, Lily ?' I asked,"in some

Surprise. ,■~ ,-. • . J. "'.About ourselves. Do you noV think she ought to knoAv ?' «•' Lily, Ido not understand you, dear ! '"Your mother told me, on Monday that .as Iliad as much influence over younsaqueen over a subject, she wished .that I would per suade you to marry'arid settle. She said that you could marry any girl of your OAvn rank in the neighbourhood.. She said that she had often told you so herself. lioav, ought we not to tell her f .-,.-.• ..•-.■■ " ' Dearest, dearest, Lily, Avhat ought we to tell her?' j ~' tat Why, about ourselves. Toll her that Aye belong to each otlier and neither of us would over think of marrying anybody else. It would be so great a sin and Avould so ruin our lives.' J j " I could bave fallen at her feet and wor shipped her for the SAveetness, the purity, tho seJf-forgetfulness. and the , devotion re vealed in her words; but I ansAvered very calmly : * ' "■"* ,r' May I tell her that, dearest Lily, ?' V 'Yes, if you please. ,Do you not think she ought ,to know it ?.'-; Tell her you are Avaitirig for me until I shall bo tAventy-one, '.and -my own mistress, Avhen , you Avill marrys me. Tell her you.cannot, /marry until.' thah time, .^because until., .then 1,,..be10ng..t0 ~my - grandfather, : and' you cannot take me , t without his leave,, which we";are both; sure die. avouW never give.' .Y/o-i !•.";■ i ■'..' -'- :,- own .White Lily,-1 will tell her all.' '.„f,, -': 'u'^hiui Hi riHiitiuv n \ j.. jjj ■^Gertrude,,, this- was the| first occasion upon which .either of J .u5.,.-ever, : spoke i ..of marriage} and.then.Aye spoke of it as .oil something that had been understood! and settled between' its,Vearsi before. ' I do not think another-word was exchanged) be tween us on that .or..any. other subject,.as long"as we r-ehfained on the "river.,,*' Indeed, ib" often 'happened' -fihaii 'we fsat together for hours in satisfied silence} < scarcely j exf changing a word.- T took, her back at sun set,-and,she-went hoirie : .as lisualj attended by her aged .groom. n ,. j. • •" That evening, after 'tea, when \my mother/and myself Avere alone together, ,and as she; as, usual, commenced^ to speak to me of the expediency of my immediate, marriage, I took the opportunity of telling her about my long tacit engagement to Lily Vale. .":■"!,'" »: .v-/ f'■ -'/.:':' f;p. i".',,.. ■'■•■'? My '■ poor mother 1 she' thought'' 11 had taken leave of my senses. At first she could riot-speak fqrconsberriatibn. ; Then she told me 1 vas raving mad 1 to.think'of such an impossible thing ; that if General Slaughter had the faintest suspicion of my crazy pre sumption he ;Avoiild shoot me down like.a mad dog whenever arid" wherever he Avould find me: ! She implored "me to? promise her never to see or speak to Lily Vale ag|airi. (.' ;! ' "I could not1 proriiisethat; butTdid tell her thai Lily aridT "intended to' Avaitluntil Lily should be twenty-ehe years old; and her.OAVii' mistress';- 'before we 'should jtalk further of'marriage, fpp!' j'." . ;/, !> ! Pp ; •> '*<\<^hat is:four 'years*hff'yeh','.said my mother, exultirigly. :;' In that time you and 'your yottiig,-- lady-' will have" recovered;' your right senses' and'the old man will have died,' she added.'-'•'.'" .';•!'!', i' f 1. .''..'.',-'.'" '-..- ''" My r,'dear> mother was mistaken. ,'Fouiv years passed, <and neither T hor my young lady had recovered, pur right senses, for the simple reason that vv° had.never lost them ; norhadtheoldman Jied;'" - :1 -' " , ...

"I hadjhowever^pJbved the'iriteiwal by improvirig,myself. I lad^a's Ijtold you, ,'a 'passionatelove.of fleaning, .and spent all -my spare-money in thepurchase. of books and my spare moments in theirperusal; but from the hour, in whici, 1 had ! first met my little ansel I Avas inspind to a -greater diligence in self r education; and:-from the day on Avhich she prpmised, a?i soon'as ;she shoiild become of age, to be ny -vvife.T was possessed Avith' a "burning zed to imak'e myself in all respects worthy , to. be her. husband.!, I spared no expense o x labour^to effect;this u-object.'" I*-'cOuld'-cibt enter college, but I studied most diligently at horiie.

"So three happy years and mort than

half of the fourth passed away in perfect Pe "Time went on till the first week in April, in the fourth spring, when an Easter party assembled at Hill Top Hall. This party consisted of about a dozen ladies and gentlemen, and they had come to stay some W__l_S i "It seems that it was the admiring and respectful attention paid by the gentlemen of the company to the young lady• ot the house that first aroused General Slaughter to the consciousness that his grand-chiia had.grown up to be a young woman, ot lull marriageable age, whose eligible establish ment in life was quite desirable. "Among the guests of the house was a certain Captain Dulany, a cavalry officer_ot handsome persoli and cultivated mind, iie was, also, by the death of his elder brother the sole heir to one of the largest estates in the valley. In age, personal graces, wealth, rank and birth, he was considered an equal and most eligible match for the lovely heiress of Hill Top Hall, hoy/ever unacceptable as a husband he might be to Lily Vale. , .. "He Avould willingly haA'e wooed the young maiden, but she had sensitiveness enough to perceive his intentions from the verylirst, and delicate tact sufficient, with out wounding his self-love, to prevent his too near approach to her. In this manner she sought to save him from the mortifica tion of a refusal. He was, hoAvever, too much in earnest to be baffled in this way. Ho sought an interview with General Slaughter, and formally proposed for the hand ol the heiress. " The general, flattered by this apparent deference to his authority, graciously fa- A'oured the suitor, and directed his grand daughter to accept Captain Dulany as her betrothed husband. "Then Lily, from a sense of honour, no less than from the urgent necessity, spoke out freely. She told her grandfather that she could not marry Captain Dulany, be cause she could never love him as a husband, even if her heart and hand had not long been pledged to some one else. ' "The cunning despot acted with con suirimate seli-control and diplomacy. [ He concealed his astonishment and indigna tion, under a mask of mildness and modera tion, and asked her to tell him Avho that somebody else might be, and Avhether he was not young Coombes, or Forbes, or Perry, naming several other youths of her acquaintance in the neighbourhood. But when she shook her head and smiled, and told him her bebrothed was nob one of these, but was the young ferry-man, Gabriel Haddon, his ill-suppressed indigna tion burst forth in violence; his mry knew no bounds. Tho abuse my delicate Lily had to bear from that ruthless tyrant beggars all description. He treated her with a brutality that would have been cruel even to the most rebellious of criminals in our State prisons; and that was little less than the massacre of the sensitive maiden exposed to it. Oh Imy blue-eyed child ! All this passed long, long ago, and you have been comforted these many years. Yet, when I recall your martyrdom now, my heart breaks and bleeds afresh. "He beat her, Gertrude ! The savage monster beat that delicate child ! Dragged her by the hair of her head to the door of her own chamber, and threw her in with such Adolence that she fell heavilly down on the floor. There he locked her in and left her, stunned and insensible and Avithout help ; and he went down stairs cursing and swearing that' That should teach her how to disgrace her family by keeping company Avith ioav lived ferry-men !" The servants Avho heard him storming through the house that morning quickly got out of his way, and huddled together to ask each other, in hurried Avhispers, vcbat their young lady could have done to throvv their old master into such a furious passion. "Meanwhile, through all that terrible day and night, my Lily,a close prisoner, lay where she had been hurled, broken, bruised, unconscious, and uncared for, on the floor of her own bed-chamber."

[To be Continued.']

LATTER-DAY PROVERBS.

PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY.

£100 v.

13s 6d.

TnE Waterbury Watch will keep mean time or apparent time, Greenwich or Hono lulu, Sidereal or Solar; in fact any time except tram time, Avhich passes all under standing.

Why should I give £5 or £10 for a Avatch thab has to be perpetually undergonig re pairs, and at the best of times cannot be re lied on, when I can buy a perfectly reliable, stong, and handsome Waterbury Watch for I3s"6d?' - —- •;■- ■■ •"• ;

The Waterbury Watch is cheap because it contains less mechanisnv than any other, andean be repaired at less cost. But it goes 60 minutes to the hour regularly all the time ; that's why the factory has to be enlarged arid the agencies extended. ; ■.

■" As far-as the Waterbury is concerned, I can give you my testimonial in a few words.. The longer I wear the> "watch the better I like it; It is always true to time."—7 Edward- Kennedy,' Managor Berrima Colliery. ■' ■■' '' > i ::

Parents,1 teach your children to" be in tirho." As soon as your boy cari' read the time of day, give him' a watch '; teach him ■how to take care of it and always be in time. '; No need to'biiy'a costly one.; \ The Waterbury is ' the very best watch for the purpose} and will always keep the boy on time. ' ,[: '• [. "" ' "■- -' ' "

(The- Waterbury- Watch Company don't claim to give you an 18-carat Gold Chrono meter Avith your name engraved on it; and a Gold Chain'to harig it on, for 13. 6di But they do claimto give you a strong, accurate; durable timekeeper for the money} and don't you forget it. ' -

The Waterbury Watch is cheap} simple, strong} durable, massive, and exact. The easels plain nickel, wearing equal, to silver, and the movement is guaranteed to keep time, ifusedAvith ordinary bare} equal to the'hest English Avhtches, and better'than any of the cheap' ones. " ..:■-.

The1 Waterbury would not,be theeheapest watch1 in the'world.'-if"■ it could not be re paired cheaply when required. The Com pany 'undertakes, this"'responsibility; at'; a nominal cost, never exceeding 2s \6d. '■

' The .Waterbury Watch is a keyless stem winder,- 1 unequalled in 'the "'■ vrovld- for ac curacy, reliability,: and the' strength and beauty of its finish. Tt is'sold everywhere for 13s 6d. '- " : "-■ "

Price, 13s 6d. ' Post free, 14s 3d.

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Auckland.

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The demand ' for the great American 1 remedy, Hop; Bitters, in this part of tbo! world has become so great that the Hop Bitters Com- Pp'Py. whose headquarters are at Bochester, 'NeAV York, U.S A:," have been compelled, to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge or Mr M. H. Van Bergh, a gentleman of several years experience AVith this^Company and tho trade may, be assured "of receiAdng... goods equal to the "-parent house, and tho most courteous treatment. The Hop Bitters Com pany have establishments at London, Paris, AntAverp, Belgium, Breda, Holland, and Toronto, and their American Bitters are pro bably the best known medicine in the world.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR. WEDNESDAY, MM 15> 1887,

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BEECHAM'S PILLS. -'• : ;1 Are 'a__itf|atiy i <i^-*:j&_ \tri"Ja-^jS^''- :;'tKoi_m_j's,fji;ii a fi ,J&.'JVs><f~^N^a^'.r;jWort^;6l.C(|to- 1 . fj_*t/r ■- =-Nl Box-foriJilMMßid '_?4h/"r. \_*\' rierroris; afeoMeni, ' f^iTi ' ''' "''* \ 'P>\ 'siitih'_rwfiia|and itt-l —.on ■*» ' jHI'-dm'asa,:fnffii___' 'Iv 31, P I'li'LiSi "/'P?| swellingaJfiflealsi ri i"^!-- '' /to/-dizzinessand-iw, '■'-! ttr^V- ~—~"mm~~ JFil gineES,'„cold:j__, ' 'Rwjir.' .' -/4?/ -ushinls'irlje-,, \vJyV . loss, of-'appetiis, ,:-- i :':' -Bhor_essotlia_V• -:.;.- /tV_s' 'i^iS^S^ ..;:-c'pstiyena_,;BCiiiyj^ ,-;,. .lotfltießontfießK^.,' #^-m ■■' '•-' rii'ii.tiirjfi'e.'ifcf^: ■^^_a..'- ■--'• -;-'- frig.tfdlpffiSDs,' ---: and all nervous and treinblirigs:e_ations,'4iS? 11 ---. first dose will give relief in 20 n-imt^^-JHnaJto; , flctiori, for they haTe'done. it in'thdus'ands'of cases, Ji-_Jve^--_ffer(rir_te_nestly__^it_ii_i_y_MlW -j these Pills, and they will be acknowledged to to ■ ,-■ WORTH; A: GUINEA- A. .BOX j ■ For females of au ages these;Pillsare_iv_a_, 1 ; _a;a few doses of them carry o.EaUjgMSshtomn,:. i ■ open ah c>)3-tructip_s, and:"bri_g._bqnt^attijjai_ ■ . 'required. No'.-emalesßhb_d'b'e .-muioiff-H - 'is -.o^medieifierto 'beiffoim. fbPBp__ .BESOHA—'S-PIIiLS for re^yj^f^SPhpafrj tion or irrogularity of,.the system. ~JJ'ite_.' 'accordi-g to the directions giveit^hJttlwt • thoy will soon restore female, of allag^B-tqW-- j and robust: health..; ~• i-.;„; [fxrAi. •fC-iToft:.'- Por a weak stomach, impaired disorders of the liver," they act'l_e' IDLSfy,', ™; a few doses-will be found to wortwbndeMnpiMl-) most important organs of the hnman _u_iae. " They strengthen 'theTwholefm—cnlar/.Bnta,'; restore ffie "long 'lost 'complesiori, bring back tv, keen edge of appetite and arouse into action ym , .the ROSEBUD of health the whole,physiofl4*neraj :of Jthe,: human : frame.*'; " These .art "EA-ffCS -..; i : • 'admitted by thousands* embracirig a_: oWsms o£ - ;-society; -.and'one o£;t_e.best:.gnKa_te.es'itp — -.! nervo_and.deb_tetedr_),.Beß'elmm_ l ,-^ ! ifi'Ta. ' the largest sals of anypatent medicine inrneijon^. As a remedy for Coughs mgener£_iAsth__,--3" ''' eultSyiri'Breathing,1 Shortness of Breath, Tighfaiesa and Oppression of the Ohe-t,V\%eez_ig,fto','ftfiS9 . Pills stand unriTalled; and anyone labqimJHjTinder ■ ariy l 'Bf;"the abovercoinplaints _eelroiilyir_ we:: ,;_io_ to prove that they-.are ihe.besteve^ofitodw . f , the public for Asthmatic.andCo—nmptiveCpngl-. 'Hoarseness, and Oppression.' of "tM ; Mest. xto -'epe-dily remo've'that sense of bppressionanddffl-1 culty of breathing which _ight_yylflep_W';'*J; - patient of rest. Theygive almost instant r|lief una ' ' 'comfort'tb'thbse-afficfed-'-m^ :' .'ing -and.'when^noglect^'fdangeroMJetmplaiiite.., ■ let: any, person troubled:.with-,any.;of^tt^.-twra; complaiit's'give BEs6ri__ J.''ob¥_E''-BM i ap?«i.., ':- .The; most violent Corighwill in a short tm » - iremovad.-:' - --- : ■>■' *—'-"*- .-' -pf '" : ' o_cMoir.r-Thß ipubUc'-.aie.freqnestediW'iiO'1 ™ that tha.wordß,''Bß_oH_M!s,Pinis,-'^,t;Aw^i ■; Rre'on the GoTerhmeiit Staihp'affixed to,eacU-OX,. ''6fth9>Pills.' H-_flt',_.,they:_»'_,f6rgi_^:..-^.^ ---i • 'r.Prepared,only and-.soldiWholesalo.-naretail vj ". the .proprietor,- T. Beecham,,Chen_t,;Sfc ]& m> ''li_ricas_r9, "England, in boxes, at .ls-JjO,)-""*, "- 2s.'9d. 'each;— Sold by alliD"r_ggSts {antt-Pate_r, iledieine Dealers throughout the ColoniesMj. , ~, 'JS.B.tFull .directio_-.are giyen. ; Tn^i e«* w*l.- --vrO'TICE OF 11E510VA_, ■ " MR. T. TRAFEORD, ~ ".''. s'u r'g.e o isr■ Td^. %i\k% ■ ;- Desires to-intormhis ; central''offices:s'Queen : StoET,. :W»* . wf ytgasggg!_ , DE NTJTSTBY. Me. A. L. SMITH, , SURGEON DENTISTS OSBORNE' HOUSE, ..- 't- • 'orncrbf , . ,'. : ' ' WELLESLKY AKD HOBSON STBEKT3, - healing-,aloinsawaywi_t_e._icouvo .being-monthswithouUeotb.-..,- -_ r ..M f v-j -__ ; OTHER; DENTIST^ ; B :;mp9^. v&sto?%r -. ' rr r! n ra naS3_e:liO-3e.-''-.-i. _, > ." _. ..., ppxpz^^^^^T^^ N.8.-Traps lent to CJ^ W- .; :,,,. ~j_ '. arejbehige^e^^ , '.'_.' <''Brett.:AucKtoa,^--- tfeeu .streeh d . - Pictorial *S[District, New^a scription of the Provincial _■ t0 Wot L ■...■■.,.. ::, :,.. ~:, : . .