THE MYSTERY OF HADDON'S FERRY.

By E. D. E. N. Southwokth.

CHAPTER XXXIX

XEABBK AST) DEABEH

My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never n c:. . • „ And has that thought boon shared by tuee t Ah, no ; that smiling c)jeck Proves more unchanging love for me Thau laboured words can speak. T. 11. BAYI-Y.

The horseman drew up at the carriage door and touched his hat.

" la anything the matter, Boyk'ins ?" in quired Colonel Fitzgerald, while Gertrude 'ooked eagerly on.

"No, Marse Colonel, not a thing : only Miss Patricia sent me arter you, poshas'e, to fetch this yer bag and this note to Alias Gertrude," said tlieman, detaching a large black travelling-bag from the pummel of the saddle and handing it into the carriage, and then drawing a small blue envelope from his vest pocket and delivering it to the little lady. Colonel Fitzgerald stowed away the bag, and Gertrude opened her note, while Boy kins stood by, hat in hand. Patricia's note ran thus :

The Rectory, Tuesday Afternoon

My Poor, Dear, Dsc'iathed Little Gektie : After you had gone off in that wild way, and 1 had time to come to my senses. I remembered 1 hat you would require some changes of clothing and other necessaries o£ life, which neither you nor your captor had once thought of. So I have packed a bag to despatch it by Boykins. I hope he will overtake you before the stage-coach loaves Wildcville. NTow, you two harum-scarum children, take heed to the good counsel of one who is wiser, if not older, than yourselves. . Take care of yourselves. Keep your hair combed, and your faces washed, and your shoes Tied. He polite to all your fellow-travellers ;be ever ready to lend them a book, your news paper, your penknife, or anything they may need, except your hair-brushes; don't lend your hair-brushea, whatever you do ; as lor lending your tooth-brushes, that is a mere matter of taste. Finally, don't, quarrel; for, "children, yon should never let such angry passions rise. Your litt'o hands were never made to tear each other's eyes." I have been writing: this while Boykins has been putting the saddle on Gerald's horse, which fortunately was left here: Cor if my messenger had to ride the rector* cob he would never overtake you. Kere he comes ;so now I must stop. Receive my benediction. Patricia Fitzgerald.

"Any answer, Miss?1

inquired the

man. " No answer, thank you,Boyknie, except this —give my grateful love to Miss Patricia, and add thai. 1 will write toiler from Wash ington," replied Gertrude, as she re-folded her letter and dropped it into her pocket. Boykins bowed,"touched his hat, turned his horse's head, and galloped off. The carriage drove on, and in about twenty minutes entered Wikleville.

W'ildevillo was one of those picturesque mountain towns so frequently to bo found in Wesb Virginia. It was built on the east hank of the Wilde river, under the shadow of Eagle Roosb Ridge. It consisted mainly of one street, which was also a one-sided street, as the houses were all built with their backs to the mountain And their faces to the water. A few scattered cottages were also perched like crows' nesta Avherever they could iind a lodgment on the skle of the mountain. The hotel, known as the " Antlers," with its stables and offices, occupied a position about midway down the village street. The court-house, the country gaol and the alms-house were at the south end of the town.

As the carriage stopped, several negro servants started up from their lounging positions in front of thy house, and ran to tender their services.

Ono took the horsed' heads; another opened the carriage door ; a third let down the steps. Gerald Fitzgerald alighted, handed out lis companion, drew her arm within his own, and led her into the bouse, at the door of which ho was met by the polite, old fashioned landlord, who stared a little at seeing a bride who was not Geraldine Fitz gerald, but who quickly recovered himself, and bowing profoundly, said : "I am proud to see you, Colonel Fitz gerald, and I beg to Qffer my sincere good wishes to yourself and Mrs Fitzgerald." " I thank you, sir, for myself and Mrs Fitzgerald," 'replied the bridegroom, very courteously. ■: Will you do mo the honour" to walk into the parlour ':" inquired the landlord, with a polite wave of his hand towards the open door on the left-hand side of the en trance hall.

Colonel Fitzgerald bowed assent, and led Gertrude into a neat sitting-rooi.u, with whitewashed walls, white-curtained win dows, waxed pine floor, and flowered, chintz-covered easy-chairs and sofas, and plain cherry-wood stands and tables. " Shall I have the honour of serving you with refreshments, Colonel Fitzgerald ?" in quired the landlord. " Thanks, no, Mr Eastup : but be good enough to tell me how long it will be be fore the stage-coach for Washington stops here ?" " Well, sir. in from aooufc fifteen to thirty minutes. It is now half-past four. It is due at five ; but it is never regular." '' Thanks. That will do, Mr Eastup."

The landlord bowed and withdrew. " Will you mind staying here for a few moments alone, my child, while I go out to do a little errand in the village ?"

" Oh, no, sir ; not ac all," said Gertrude, cheerfully. " Sir ?" repeated Colonel Fitzgerald, play " I shall nob mind staying here alone ior a few moments—Gerald," she said, amend ing her speech. And again her meek, lovely face flushed with light and colour. "That is right," he safd, and stooped and kissed the "sweet lips that had uttered

his name,

And considering he did not love his little bride, I think he was rather fond of kissing her.

" Now Gertrude, as I go out I will speak to Eastup, and tell him not to let you be annoyed by the intrusion of strangers," said lie, as he turned to leave the room.

" Oh, but I do nob mind strangers at all, and it would be a pity to keep people out of a room they have a light to enter, like the public parlour of the hotel," said £Ger tru.de.

'' Nevertheless, I shall tell him. I will s»*4i have you subjected to the gaze of vil lage groups," replied Colonel Fitzgerald, With a shrug of his shoulders. " She wants delicacy, wants refinement, poor child! But what can I expect?" he added, men telly, and with a deep sigh, as he left the room.

He was mistaken. In Gertrude's pure spirit there was no want of true delicacy and refinement; but there was a total absence of pride and egotism. She was keenly sensitive. She perceived the slight change in her husband's tone, in his look, in his manner. She felt that she tad displeased him by her words, but she cou2d not understand how, or why. How, indeed, should a spirit as meek as here understand the scornful hauteur of the " Summit Fitzgeralds ?" No, she could not comprehend, but she could deeply feel, and her heart sickened and fainted under the impression of her husband's displeasure. She Shivered with cold, not only from the ohill air of the late September afternoon in the mountains, but also from a strange nervousness ; and the square Paisley shawl she wore was but a thin protection against toe weather of the hour and the season.

She knew she had no wanner wrap in the bag she had brought from the ferry, ami she shivered and thought of the coming night journey through the mountains. But not loiig did that thought occupy her mind ; it gave place to the deeper dis turbance she felt in wondering why her simple words hod so annoyed her husband,' and though she continued to shiver with cold, she could think of nothing but bis displeasure. In a few moments, however, he re-entered the parlour, bringing in his hands a big parcel, which he laid upon the table and proceeded to unwrap, displaying a large silver-grey fahawl of' the finest Shetland wool. Gertrude watched him, knowing that it was in Leaded for herself, even before ho doubled it corner-wise, and laid it over her shoulders, and folded ib across her breast, saying', a3 be did so : " 1 am an awkward lady's maid, love ; so if I make a mistake, you must correct it do you hear ?" " On, thank yon so much, Gerald. You are so very kind to think of getting this for me," she murmured, as she adjusted her soft, warm wrap, with a smile of perfect appreciation. " Kind—/ kind ? Never say that of me, Gertrude. lam not kind—Heaven forgive me ! —least of all am I kind to you. But I knew that you would need a warm shawl for your night journey across the mountains. And here," he added, going back to the table, and taking up a tleecy white hood. " put this in your bag, to replace your hut when you grow tired on the journey and want to lie back in your seat and sleep." " And yet you say you are not kind to me, Gerald ?"*sho softly inquired, as she re ceived the gift and looked gratefully up into his face.

"No, little Gertrude, nob kind to you. I wish I were," he repeated with a sigh. Every trace of displeasure and annoyance had disappeared from his countenance. *' Gerald," she began, in a low hesitating voice—" Gerald, just now, were you really offended with me ?"

" • Otfended ' with you, child?— Certainly not. Who could ever bo offended with you 1 and why should you fancy that I was ?' ho inquired, gravely. " Oh, because, I thought you looked so." " When, Gertrude?" " When I said i did not mind strangers." "0 ! and you noticed that ? Well, dear, I was just a little annoyed at the thought of-no matter, dear child. 1 could not be offended with you."

" Herald," she said plaintively, " you see Ido not know much , but I want to do light, and to please you more than any thing else in the world. Will you always tell Hie it' I do wrong, so that I may correct myself';"

" Perhaps, little Gertrude ; but you will do nothing- wrong ; whatever else you do you will not do wrpng. And now, sweet little wife, here comes the stage-coach, and here comes a man to tell us it is ready," he added, as he drew her arm within his own and led her out into the hall.

The man took up Gertrude's two bags and followed them.

"Can you tell me if the trunk I sent from the Summit has arrived yet ?" in quired Colonel Fitzgerald of the porter. "Yes, sir; and it has been pub in the boob of the stago, :1 answered the man, as he went to the waiting coach and officiously opened the door. Gerald Fitzgerald handed his brido in, and seated her on the back seat, taking his place at her side. There was but one other passenger —a tall woman muffled up in a long black cloak, the hood of which was drawn over her head, while her face was completely hidden be hind a thick black veil.

On leaving the town, the stage-coach also left the river-bank, taking the old turnpike road, leading eastward, through a rugged raVine, with the "Eagle Roosb Ridgo" on the north, and the bristling precipice of-the " Hog's Back " on the south. The short autumn afternoon soon closed in, and the sun went down, leaving the passengers inside the coach in botal dark ness.

On the other side of the mountain-pass the coach stopped at an old-fashioned post house, called Underbridge, to leave and take the mail, and to change horses. Here three passengers, all gentlemen, got in. Then the coach went on.

The road went downward now, toward the valley ; but not by any regular descent, for many roads and many ravines lay across it. Sometimes the old stage-coach crawled at a snail's pace up a steep" mountain-side, gained the top and then whirled down the other side, bounding and rebounding as it went, and threatening at every jump to pitcli its body over the horses' heads. On such occasions (ierald Fitzgerald would hold his little fellow-traveller very closely andin-mlyuntiitherushing, tumbling coach reached the baseof the mountain in safety.

Once, after an unusually terrific downward flight, he piessed her to his side and inquired in a low tone: "Does this frighten yon, my child?" " Oh, no, indeed ; not at all." "I should think it would. Why does it not ?" 4' Because your arm is around me, Gerald," she murmured, nestling to his side with the innocent confidence of a child. Indeed, in many respects Gertrude was like a child.

Gerald Fitzgerald could not answer. He sighed heavily, and he folded her shawl more carefully around her and told her to exchange the little straw hat she wore for the woollen hood he had got for her; for the autumn night was cold among the mountains.

They were now creeping up another as cent, and the slow motion of the coach en abled her to open her travelling bag and get at her hood with ease. As soon as she took off her hat, Colonel Fitzgerald picked it up and hung it to a strap from the roof of the coach, and Gertrude tied the vyoollen hood over her head and under her chin.

" Now lean back and you will rest well,"

he said

At the foot of this mountain the stage driver blew his horn, drove slowly on, drew tip, and stopped. Red lights gleamed out from the black darkness —some stationary, some moving. The first camo from the windows of the post-house of Cedar Cliff. The second came from the lanterns of the hostlers, as they led from the stables the fresh horses that were brought to relieve the jaded beasts attached to the stage-coach. Here the three passengers who had got in the coach at Underbridge left it, and entered a private carriage that seemed to be waiting for them. Colonel Fitzgerald bent to Gertrude, and whispered : " Would you like to como out and go into the house for a few moments? There are women in attendance, for the conveni ence of lady passengers. It mighb refresh you to walk about for a little while."

" No, thanks ;I am very comfortable. I would rather not leave my seat, if you please," answered Gertrude.

"But you will not have another op portunity of stopping until we reach Fritsburg, where we breakfast," urged the colonel.

y I will get out if you wish me to do so ; but really I am very comfortable here," replied Gertrude.

•; Then stay where you are, child, of course," said Colonel Fitzgerald. "But I must leave you for a little while. You will not be afraid ?"

" Oh, no ! I was never afraid of any thing in my life !" she answered, brightly. "Stop a moment. You. 'were never afraid of anything in your life ?' " "No, never I." " How was that ?"

"My grandfather taught me that nothing could hurt me bub sin. So long as I kept myself from sin I should be safe.

For the last thing that could happen to me in this world vnnld be the death ot my body; and death ia never to bo teared - rather, indeed, if it were tho Lord s will, to be desired." „ " Do you desire death, Gertrude .' "Oh, no, no, no, no! Not now that I am to live with you. Onco I did, when I thought I should never wee you again, but not now. I did not mean that, t only meant to tell you what grandfather taught me, and how" I never feared anything on this earth, because of the lovely We beyond

"Was that the reason why you were so brave in crossing the Wilde at night, in v thunder-storm, to bring passengers over the ferry?" inquired Colonel i ltzgerald, wistfully. , _ "Perhaps so. Ido not know. I never thought about it. Of course,when the call came and there was no one else to answer it, I had to go." „ " According to your own sense or duty.

"Yes, Gerald." "So you are not afraid to remain alone in the coach while I go into the post house?" •' Why, no, indeed ! What could possi bly harm me here ? I should bo the most pitiable of cowards to bo afraid to stay alono in a coach, with so many people within call, even if there were a possibility of dan-

"'"Very well, child. So be it. Only I know many ladies are ' naturally born to fear,'" said Colonel Fitzgerald, smiling. Then adding, " I will return in a few min utes," he left the coach, and walked over and entered the post-house. The place was a post-ofiice and reading room as well.

Ho went straight to the reading-room, and took up a Washington paper, which, though twenty-four bourn old, was new to him.

He turned with anxiety to the report of a criminal trial then in progress, and read with avidity all the details. He was still reading, when the warning sound of the stage-horn was heard, with the cry of: " Ale aboard !"

He then rushed to the bar, took nothing for himself, but thinking of the shivering girl in the coich, he ordered a hot port-wine sangaree,and waited impatiently until it was prepared. Then he paid for both sangaree and glass, took himself to the coach and entered with it carefully, just as the horses started.

CHAPTER XL,

GONE ! LOST I

Confusion dwelt in every face And fear in every Leart

Spectator,

" I have brought you some hob spiced wine to warm you, my child," he said, as he took his seat, with the glass in his hand. There was no answer.

It was as dark as Erebus in the inside of the coach, and he could nob see an inch before him. "Put oufc your hand, Gertrude, that^l may take it, before I put the glass into it.' There was no answer. "She has fallen asleep! Do you hear mo, Gertrude ?" he asked, in a louder voice. No answer. "Gertrude!" he cried, feelinn- about on the back seat. All was vacant there. "Geutkudk !" he called again, steadying the glass, as well as he could, while he leaned over and felt all abo.it in the dark ness inside the coach. Ib was all vacant. He was the only pas senger ! Then ho opened a window, threw the glass of spiced wine out upon the ground, and shouted to the stage-driver to stop. But the horses wore going at such a fear ful rate that he could not at first make his voice heard.

He shouted again, with all the strength of his powerful lungs : " Stop ! Stop ! There is a passenger left behind ! My wife if left behind !"

The stage-driver pulled up, swearing : "We are behind time now! What's

up ?" " My wife is left behind."

" The deuce !'

" How far are we from Cedar Cliff?" " About half a mile, and we are behind time, sir. 1 couldn't atop nor go back for the President's wife of the United States.'.'

" Then you must let me out immediately. I must walk back 1" exclaimed Colonel Fitzgerald. The stage-driver, witli a muttered oath, got off his seat and came around to the door, bringing ono of the box lanterns in his hands.

" Better take a good look inside first, sir. She may have dropped asleep in a corner somewheres," ho said, as he handed the lantern to the passenger. Colonel Fitzgerald took the light and carefully inspected the interior of the coach, nob with any expectation of finding Gertrude there, however.

Her little btraw hat was still hanging where he had placed it. Her two travel ling-bags were still on the seat. Even her pocket-handkerchief was there; but not herself.

"Of course she is not here! I knew that quite well before I stopped the coach. She has been left behind at the post-house," said Colonel Fitzgerald, impatiently.

"But how could such a thing have happened, sir ?" "I do not know. I must get out and go back," answered Gerald Fitzgerald, loading himself with Gertrude's effects, and step ping from the coach to the roadside. "And about your trunk, sir? Shall I take ib off?"

" No; take it on to Washington. We shall go on by the next coach."

"All right, sir. I am sorry I cannot stop or go back for you: but I daren't do it, sir, if you was the President of the United States.

" Of course I do not expect you to do such a thing."

" Good-night, sir," said the stage driver, cracking his whip. "Good-night," returned Colonel Fitz-

gerald. The driver started his horses and drove eastward.

The colonel turned his steps back west ward and walked down to the post-house.

"What a reckless little idiot she is, to be sure, to have left the sta<?e-coach to wander about alone ! Why in the demon could she not have come out with me, when I invited and even urged her to do so ? But no, from some caprice or other, she must wait until I was out of sight and then creep out alone and get left behind ! I shall have some trouble to civilise my little savage!" growled Gerald Fitzgerald, as he hurried along the dark turnpike leading back to the post-house. The place was already qtesed up, and not a glimmer of light could be seen. A pack of watch-dogs burst up, barking in full chorus, as he came to the door.

He spoke to them kindly, but was in some danger of being tub upon, when a window was opened, and a head thrust out, and an authoritative voice first called the dogs to order, and then demanded : " Who are you, and what the demon do you want here at this hour of the night ?" "1 am a passenger by the stage-coach that left here about twenty minutes'ago, and I have come back for my wife who has been left behind here. Come down and open the door," answered Colonel Fitz gerald.

" Beg pardon, sir ! I really didn't know who it was; couldn't see in the dark. I will come dosvn directly. But I reckon you are mistaken about the lady being here. There is no one staying here to-nio-hb but the family,' said the master of tho house, as he took his head in and closed the window.

Gerald Fitzgerald's heat sanls under a vague foreboding of evil.

If Gertrude was not in the post-house, whom noulfl she be '.'

Meantime the man came down iri hi

shirt-sleeves, with a tallow candle stuck in a brass candio-stick, hold in his hand, and opened the door.

" You say the lady is not hero ?" anxiously inquired Colonel Fitzgerald, " Yes, sir, I said so. She is not here, sir, I assure you. There is no one staying here to-night except ths family," replied the man with tho-candle.

"Pray excuse ms, but I am almost cer tain that she is here. She must be here ! Where else should she— could she possibly bo ? Will you have the goodness to inquire among the women of the family.:: requested Colonel Fitzgerald, growing more anxious o'.'ciy moment.

" Certainly, sir ; though I don't, think it will bo of any use ; but I will do it, of course. Who is the lady, if you please, sir, and what might bo her name." "She is my wii'o — Mrs Fitzgerald. While I waa looking over the papers in the reading-room she must have left her seat in the coach and come into the house, for when I went back and took my seat, and lei> tho coaoh start, supposing her to be there, I scon discovered her absence. She had been left behind. Pray make the neces sary inquiries in the house, will you ?" "Yes,sir. Do come in and sit down,while I go and wake up the women," said the man, as he led tho way into the now deserted reading - room, lighted another candle and placed it on the table. Colonel Fitzgerald sank into a seat, and dropped the travelling-bags ho had brought from the coach at his feet on the floor.

"This is perfectly intolerable!" he ex claimed aloud, rising, and beginning to

walk up and down the room in his vexation. "If she is not in this house, as Simpkins says she is not, then she must certainly have wandered ofl'alono into the garden, or the shrubbery, or the forest, and lost her self—who knows where ? At midnight in a wilderness like this ! She is not only without any sense of fear, bub without any .sense of decorum as well. But, after all, what can be expected of a weak girl, who at a moment's notice could .accept an offer of marriage made in an hour of madness ? Yet she seems a lovely little being, too."

While Colonel Fitzgerald was tormenting himself with these thoughts, the door opened, and Mrs Simpkins and her two grown daughters entered the reading-room, their faces brimful of excitement and cariosity.

" Did you expect to find your lady here, sir ? There has been no lady entered this house to night, .sir, I could take my oath. Do tell me all about it, and maybe 1 might be able to put yon on the right track, sir," said Mrs Simpkins.

Colonel Fitzgerald repeated to her all be knew, or rather, all lie did not know, about the disappearance of his wife.

" I never heard of snob a thing in all the days 01 my life," said Mrs Simpkins, while her tWO daughters, Becky and Saily, stared with their eyes and mouths wide open.

"Can you suggest anything?" inquired Colonel Fitzgerald, whose anxiety was now rising to extreme alarm.

" Indeed I can't, unless the lady might have gone into some of the rooms without anyone seeing of her ; and she might have fainted dead away, and be lying there now. 'Tuint likely, I must say ; but, anyway, it. ia possible, and it ean'b do no harm to sarchthe house, if you would like to have it done," said the landlady.

They searched well every nook and cranny in the house, but no lady was to be found in it.

Then the landlord took Ins guest through the back door of the house, through the back yard, through the garden, through the orchard, through the cornfield, and finally to the edga of the woods, where two log cabins .stood side by side in the midst of their little cabbage gardens, but no sign of the missing girl had been seen.

They searched the corn-field through and through, but no sign of the lost girl could be found.

"I don't f-ce, sir, that anything more can be done to-night," said the landlord, as thoy retraced their steps towards the house. '■ You will have to take a bed with us, sir, and resume your search by daylight to-

morrow."

" Xo," said Colonel Fitzgerald firmly, " I cannot retire and give up the search to night, leaving the fate of my wife in un certainty, leaving herself unsheltered, un protected, wandering about in a strange neighbourhood at midnight, exposed to— unutterable dangers ! I cannot !' " But what the mischief can you do, sir?" inquired the host..

i; i must go into the forest surrounding this place, and search and call. I may nob find her, most probably I shall not, but I must spend the night in looking for her, if necessary. I will lake your lantern, if you will be so kind as to lend it to me.!'

" Are you determined to go, sir ? :> "Fully.''

"Of course, then, you must have the lantern. But come in and have a drink before you start out on that wild goose chase 1"

"Thanks. I never drink. But do not let me keep you out in tho night air." said the colonel, who was impatient to be oft'on his unpromising expedition.

" Hold on, sir ! Lion't be in such a hurry. I have just thought of something. Have you got anything belonging to the lady ?" "Two tiayelling-bags, answered the colonel, pointing to them as they lay on the floor.

"I don't mean anything liko them. I mean something that she had worn or carried about her person."

" Yes, there is her little straw hat, and there is her pocket-handkerchief."

" They will do! Now, I will tell yon what. We will take a certain dog that I have in my possession, carry it to the spot where the stage-coach stood, when she must have left it, show it the handkerchief and hat, let it get a good sniff at them to get scent, then set it on the trail, and it will run her down in an hour !"

" What! hunt a lady with a lionnd! a hound that would terrify her to death, even if ifc did nob tear her to pieces !" in dignantly exclaimed Gerald Fitzgerald;

" Bless you, no, sir ! I'm not talking about hounds ! I'm talking about my wife's little Skye-terrier, Nelly, who has a nose as keen as a sleuth-hound, with a temper as gentle as a lamb's. Nelly would not frighten a baby, I assure you, sir."

"I beg your pardon ! And very grate fully I accept your offer. By all means let us try Nelly's powers," said the Colonel, as he went and gathered up the hat and the handkerchief belonging to Gertrude.

Ab this moment the landlady and her daughter re-entered the reading-room. At the landlord's request she soon brought the little, brown, curly-haired Skye-temerj which she set down upon the floor.

" Come, Nelly," said the master, as he went to the door where Colonel Fitzgerald impatiently awaited him.

The little dog bustled up eagerly and ran after her master. The two men walked to the spot where the stage coach had stood when Gertrude must have left it.

"Now leb me have that hat and hand kerchief. She'll smell-em, and then she'U scent out the very spot on which the lady alighted, and so she will trace her to where she is now," said the landlord, as he took the hat and handkerchief from Colonel Fitzgerald, and held them to the little dog's nose, saying:

" Seek, i\ Telly, seek!"

The little creature looked up intelli gently, wagged her tail, and went smelling all over the spot, until in a few minutes she gave a yelp of delight. She had struck the trail, and slowly and carefully she followed it, the two men walking a short distance behind him. Keeping her nose close to the ground, Nelly went up the turnpike a little way in the direction from which the stage had come. Then, after sniffing about for a few

moments, still keeping her nose to the ground, uhe struck into a by-patb, and uenfc toward the belt of woods. " i felt sure she would go there," said Colonel Fitzgerald, as he followed. " 1 feel sure that she will go on to the right (.nick," added the landlord, con fidently, as he hastened his footsteps, for little Nelly was now trotting along very briskly. They followed her closely, and presenely entered thick woods by a narrow, grass jjvown path, along winch Nelly was scent ing1 industriously. After a walk of a quarter of a mile into the forest, they entered a small, green glade, through which ran a little rill of clear water. Here Nelly stopped and nosed around in a circle, and then looked up utterly baffled. " Good dog ! Seek ! Seek ! ;> cried the landlord. But Nelly wagged, and looked up in help less distress. " Put her across the stream. She may recover the trail there," suggested Colonel Fitzgerald. The landlord took her up, and threw her gently across the water, encouraging her with cries of: " Good dog ! Good dog ! Seek ! Seek !" But Nelly only wagged her tail and looked up in distress. Colonel Fitzgerald sprang across the water, and began to examine the ground. Presently, he exclaimed : " There are traces of wheels here. This is an old road." " Aye, so it is," said the landlord. "It is the old charcoal-burner's road. But it has been out of use so many years, I had forgotten all about it." At this moment, Nelly, who had been posing industriously about among the dry leaves on the ground, gave a joyful bark, and bounded forward with something in her mouth, which she brought and laid at her master's feet. Mr Simpkins picked it up, looked at ib, and with a'significant glance, handed it to Colonel Fitzgerald. lilt is my wife's glove," exclaimed the latter. But now the behaviour of Nelly again attracted attention. She was nosing about in the most agitated manner, and suddenly wagging her tail, she trotted off down the | old road, keeping her nose close to the ground. ''Come along, Colonel! She has recovered the trail!" cried Simpkins. (To bo Continued.)

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Medical. M"V medical experience satisfies me that . Wolfe's Schnapps is an excellent Stimulant. IT EATING'S LOZBisGES. V Oldest and Best Cough Remedy. K EATING'S LOZENGES. Oldest and Best Couch Remedy. K EATING'S LOZENGES. Oldest and Best Cough Remedy. If BEATING'S LOZENGES. J JOk. Oldest and Best Cough Remedy. ■|>' EATING'S LOZENGES. Jl\_ Oldest and Besi Coujrh Remedy K EATING'S LOZENGES. Oldest and Best Cough Remedy ¥£■ EATING'S LOZENGES. J _Ol_ Oldest and Best Cough Remedy TZ-EATING'S LOZENGES. Ji!V Oldest and Best Cough Remedy. ir EATING'S LOZENGES. V JOl. Oldest anrl Best Couch Remedy. K EATING'S LOZENGES. Oldest and Best Cough Remedy. KEATIM;: S LOZENGES. " Any Doctor will tell you ' there is no better Cough Medicine than KEATING'S LOZENGES. One gives relief; if you suiler from cough try them but once ; they will cure and they will not injure voui* health; they contain only the pia-e^t drugs, skilfully compounded. Sold every where in small tins. KEATING'S WORM TABLETS, A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEET, both in appearance and taste, furnishing a most agreeablo method of administering the onlY certain remedy for INTESTINAL or THREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly safe and mild pre paration, and is especially adapted for Children —Sold in" tins by all Chemists. PItOFIUKTOR. THOMAS KKATING, Loxdox Export Chemist and Druppist. A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. BEECHAIW'S PILLS 01**^ Are admitted by /fs, Q«« J\ thousands to ba &r *>* f~~^*'&&\ worth a Guinea a g<x*f/ \T "«\ Box for bilious and #*&/ V>P\ ncrToua disorders, J->'s /• \ ■*■*'» SU3a a3 T''>uil, and «'iw TiATWfcrnP \~'p\ Pain in the stomach, : | / IIA.I JCiN 1 \ I sick headache, gid -B^l mqb b if- HI llinsss. fulness and iHI I S^ISbLSBi /«*J swelling after meals, - \ " v «i\ I*tw § dizzinos3 and drow [^L\ —»••"-— /*V/ sinoss, cold chills, AV?>X S*>y/ loss ot cPPetite, I Bhortness of breath, f(&>\ —>%r' costivencss, scurvr o*Sof***^ blotches on the skin, »h\ disturbed sleep, frightful dreams, and all narvous and trarablhig sensations, &o. The llrsfc doso will give relief in 20 minutes. This is no fiction, for they have dona it in thousands of oases, E very au ffcrer is oarnestly invited to try ono box of these Pills, and they -will bo acknowledged to ha WORTH A GUINEA A BOX. For females of all ages these Pills are invaluable, ns a few doses of them carry off all gross humours, open all obstructions, and bring about all that is required. No females should be without them. ; Thoro ia no medicine to ba found to equal BUECHAM'S PILLS for removing any obstruc tion or irregularity of the system. If taken according to the directions given with each box thoy will soon restore females of all ages to sound and robust health. For a woak stomach, impaired digestion, and all " disorders of the liver, thoy act like " MAGIC " and ' a few dose 3 will be found to work wondors upon the most important organs of the human machine Iney strengthen the whole musoular system' restore the long lost complexion, bring back tha k, ea?,?, d? a of a PPotite and arouse into action with the ROSEBUD o? health the whole physical eneiSy of the human frame. These are "PACTS" admitted by thousands embracing all classes of society; and one of the best guarantees to the nervpus and debilitated is, Beecham's Pills hnro the largest sala of any patent medicine in the world BEECHAM'S MAGIC COUGH PILLS As a remedy for Coughs in ganaral,Asthma Diffi. cultyiu Breathing, Shortness of Breath, Tirhtnew and Oppression of the Che 3 t, Wheozmg ifS Pills stand unrivalled; and anyone labouWimder any of tae above complaintß need only trY Onn Box to prove that they ara the best over offwad to tho pubho for Asthmatic and Consumptive cShs = Hoarsenoss and Oppression of the Chest. C speedily xemove that sense of oppression and diffi culty of breathing which nightly deprive th» - .patient of rest. They give almost inWtSf aid " comfort to taoso afliictod with the above distreas mg and, when negleoted, dangerous complaint Let any person troublea with any of «»§&« c cwaplaints give Bbbchak'b Covas. Phlsb trial I ramoveT Vl°laUt C°Ugli !? a "^Sbe I C^ lojr>~Tha.?üblio ara requested to notim I that the words "IBbecham's Pills, St. Helens » > we on the Government Stamp affixed to S, P of the PiUs. If not on they afeTforger^ ■** B°X & Prepared only and sold wholesale and retail hv tf.B.-Full directions are given vrith each bos. § KN 0 W ye all men that Wolfe's f- Schnapps has no rival as a Stimulant. 5 CHOOSE for yourself. An Extra Pair of C Trousers or a Watorbury Watch with a'lu&^sf 81 ' mov' victoriastv



Watches. rjIHE CORRECT TIME! WITHIN REACH OF ALL. TEN YEARS AGO STEWART DAWSON & Co., Liverpool, Struck the keynote of sound commercial trad ing by opening the portals of their Factory to the actual consumers, THE GENERAL PUB LIC, thus sweeping away at one blow the exor bitant profits of the 3/Licld.leman and Retail Dealor. The resullfi attendant on this, the only real and beneficial system of trading with ad vantage to the buyer, has been An Unqualified Success, Unprecedented in the annals of English Watch making. jtST REAT) THIS. Just to hand, ex s.s. Kaikoura, a Large Stock Of GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY,Iatest fashions. These Goods having left Liverpool on the Ist June last, our Customers can depend on them being quite new, and are no part of Bank rupt's Stock, or old fashioned Jewellery, to be disposed of at any price., The readers are invited to call aDd inspect tho Goods. Every article guaranteed, and marked lowest possible OTice. as usual with S.D. & Co no 1 k Q —a.U. ana uo. s wen-known English gCiO i-Oa silver Hunting Levers. OA -I X c —S. D. and Co.'s English Silver 3&1 * XOa Hunting Levers, chron. balance, extra jewelled. Worch£B Bs. r>r -I n c — S. D. and Co.'s new Excelsior ? -3&O xUo plate English Levers. The Model Watch, well worth £10 10s. on -j Kq—S. D. and Co.'s Ladies' English Sil- SJO ifJO ver Hunters. Will last alifetime. O£ i fTo—S. D. and Co.'b Superb Hunting 3J\3 xoa chronograph Levers, worth £1U 10; or Crystal Glass, £5 15s. JC?fi 1 fla—•=• I), and Co.'s Silver Keyless 3&O lUb Huntiilg Lever, value for £10 10s. Open face, £510s. -P1 loa—The wonderful Sterling Silver 301 loa Defiance Hunter, worth £o 103. ODen face, £17s 6d. ■PR 1 Ha—S. D. and Co.'s Official Railway 3-*^ xvo English Keyless Lever, unequalled at £10103. £1210s, £15 10s, £18 10s, c X")k—S.D. and Co.'s Superb 1 -carat « SC/-'J Gold English Lever and Half Chronometers, never equalled under 40 per cent more. £,0 IOS & 3^/ IUS La dies' IS-carat Gold Keyless Watches, porfectgems, worth £1010s. 10s & 10s & £U 10s —S.D. & Co.'s Ladies 18-carat Gold English Levers. Save at least 50 per cent, by purchasing from the makers. /*ll IDo *■ /l 9 1 O«~in Silver, worth £11 IUS & £14 LVS £30 and /*O7 «r /" Q A 18-carat Gold, worth £60. S.D Xi~' Z> OXJ and Co.'s New Patent Eng lish Double Chronographs, with indepen dent start, stop, and fly back minute and second hands. For quality and accuracy never equalled at any price. Obtained Prize Medal Inventions Exhibition last year. Special pamphlet on this watch, post free, for2d stamp. EVERY WATCH FULLY GUARANTEED. Sterling Silver Hall-marked Alberts, 9s 6d, 12s 6d, 14s Gd, and Iss6d, Newest Patterns, atnearly Half usual price. The WEALEMEFNA, in sterling Silver, 12s6d. By simply passing it over surface the exact distance of .feet and inches is recorded on the Dial. Also, forms a splendid appendage for the Albert. GOLD ALBKRTS, Ladies' and Gent's Newest Styles, Wholesale Prices, all illustrated in Pamphlet CANNOT BE EQUALLED. R AIRS. Note. REPAIRS. Wanted Known, Best Watch Glasses fitted, 3d each. Charges for Watch Repairs—no matter what • maker or v.'hero bought—equally cheap. Ar rangements made to turn out 150 repairs per week. All Watches cleaned are guaranteed at Stewart Dawson and Co.'s Great English Watch Exhibition, 94, Queen-street. Call and receive gratis a copy of ouc Splendid New Illustrated Watch and Jewellery Pamphlet, and read full par ticulars and most wondcrfultestimonials, FOR REAL VALUE VISIT STEWART DAWSON & CO.'S GREAT ENGLISH WATCH EXHIBITION, 94-QUEEN-STREET-91 (Opposite Wyndham-street), Auckland. Furniture. > AT C. O. BEOWN'S, Cook and Hobson Streets. 4.NY PAIR OFFER ACCEPTED For Balance of Stock. j Still a Large Quantity of Firstclass J PHOLSTERY AND Jo URNITURE j; FOR SALE. £ I have instructed Mr E. Letdox to sell c Balance of Stock by Public Auction on 'l October 10. 5 I C. C. B SOWN ' 1 COOK AND HOBSON STREETS. j S . s Tailoring. g _ EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS S h \s to •^Sr H I a 50« 563. 60a. gW = 1 § 65^ 70s. . 758. > t=d _ 1 8 80a. 85s. 90a. §g | — • Pi 1 5 H. ROBINSON, Tailor, X * N^S. CORNER OF /^^ Ci \^* I GREY STREETS. | %y * EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS



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