A Heart's Bitterness.

B? BERTHA M. CLAY,

Author of "For Anothor'a Sin," "A Fair

Mystery," &c,

CHAPTEK XLTII.

" V lIOBK.BIiK VOLCANO OF JEALOUS IIAGE ' Loso Leigh could hardly have told why lio had summoned Adam to go with him o-i that terriblo night journey. Ho scarcely coaid have told why ha want at all. Why not lot t'nc man drag tho Tool for Wiloox— a half-witted tenant—and litid what they would find — and await whatever fato would bring? But in spite of his deeply fallen nature there- wore remnants of pool blood and a certain lion-like spirit in Norman Loigh. Ho would not be taken in a trap, nor coworing in bid ing • if ho must bo mot by some horriblo accusation he would go half-way to tho meeting himself] and stand boldly up to ruinous revelation?, he would meet them ; if deadly suspicions pointed at him, ho would defend himsolf. Indeed, after tho firat chock, thero was almost a sense of rc'iof in having this haunting secrei, brought to the light of day. Still ho could not go alone, to what ho might moot at tho Towers —one heart was ho knew true and faithful, one face would still turn faithfully to him—that of old Adam Moreland. So, in a longing for companionship and fealty, Lord Leigh took with him that humb'u frieiid. It was grey morning when they arrived at the Towers, and roused the slumbering household.

" There was no need to havo you come, my lord," said the steward. "It was only i> matter of dragging tho Pool, and I thought you should know. "You are par ticnlar as to such things. Wileox disap peared, and his mother will havo it ho'n drowned in tho Pool."

" I will go and superintend it," said Lord Lei^h, coldly. " I have always from a boy had a strange fancy for knowing what is in the bottom of the Pool."

The dew was still drenching tho tender young leaves and the groat pale, fragrant blo:m of the primroses, when the party from tho Towers went to see the dragging ot the Black Pool. There was one little level space of turf near tho water, bc-ide tho Earl's Folly, and tho coroner's man said : " We'll lay the body here, when wo got

There Korman Leigh planted himself, where the bod? would be laid at his feet. But whose body and what a sight would it be for him ?

Back and forth, over the Pool, rowed the boats, dragging this way and that, until the pun was high.

" There' 3 naught hero, eir," shouted the men.

" There must be pome deep, un?ounda.blc hole that the drags do not reach," said Lord La;gh to the coroner's man.

" I don't see why we should think a body is there at all," said the man. "It is only Widow Wilcox's whim, eir".

" No body in there j" said Lord Leigh, slowly. "None?"

" Quite sure there's none, my lord."

" Did you thiuk there waa a body in there, master?" cried old Adam, pressing forward. "I think? No, certainly not,"said Leigh, and fell forward senseless.

They carried him into the Earl's Folly and laid him on the couch. Then as Ad-ira loosened his lord's clothing he found a re volver, all barrels "loaded ready to his hand. The old man looked at it a little, then hurled it through the window far out into the Pool.

It was leter in the day when Leigh asked for " what had basn in his breast."

"It is under tho water, master. What

" No doubt it is what it will como to. Bat never mind that now, Adam. I feel better. Let us get to London. It was all nonsense to coma up here."

A load was oil' Leigh's heart. The Pool had no tales to tell, no dead man, no dangerous papers. The man had disap pearcd as strangely as he came. If Helen Hop 3 would also disappear, Lord Leigh would be at peace. But the very day he returned to London, Violet, calling at tho house of her Aunt- Ainslie, mot the younger girls going out with a new governess—a treisure, Mrs Ainalio said.

That governess wa3—Helen Hope !

Lady Burton gave her ball—thoy called it tho Rose Ball, long after, from the wonderful profusion of those queenly flowers with which the entire house was graced. At the centra of the reception-room, to re ceive the guests, Edna Haviland stood be side Lady Burton. Tho girl was silent, majestic, snowy, under the chandelier, and at the very first glimpse struck one breath less by her beauty. "She is as one of tho ancient goddesses come down to men !" whispered the Mar quis of Alworth to Violet, near whom he stood. " She is the Louvre Venus in soft, responeive flesh and blood ; the pure Diana stayed in some moonlight stillne=s. Oh, bountiful—oh, beautiful calm !"

" You ore poetic," laughed Violot.

Someway, the praiaes of the marciuis tilled iier with delight. "She is fit thame for poetry." replied the marquis. " Others fsel it, lam pure. Look at Keith; do not hi 3 eyes speak a poem as they rest on her ?" Vioiet knew »he ought to rejoice if that wore sn ; but alas and alas ! she could not. Poor child !

Bur. it was not at the balla that Edna Haviland shone most serenely ;it was at Lady Burton's musical Eoiree. Music was a passion both with Lady Burton and her son. The guests they invitod at that for tunate occasion just filled the reception riorns. The svhito silk portiers, with their original borders, were lonce.i back, all the inside doors being removed, and drawing room 5, music room, and conservatory weru thrown into one. Tho rooms were trimmed in similax, passion-flower?, and white mi.« torio. An air of dolicute retinemont, of Joints'-, culture, porviided the wholo gather in™ But tho iaton^e delight of the hour J.ane whoa, after choice professional talent hud Doen in requisition, jßilua Havilund took her place beaida the piano to sing. Sienor Batti, the pianist, bitd played ouco with her, and ho touched the keys noftly nnd rovorontly, as if ho dreaded to interfere with tho louse tone oi that noble contralto voice. Edna stood right royaliy by the in strument : fhe sane as a bird Binge, without effort or thought of effect, or of self, rapt in bar music into realms of subUmo delight, whnre she carried those who heard her. Violet listened entranced. Oh, what did not such n matoblesa creature deserve? Surely sha wu worthy of the love of Ken sroth. And how bsippy she would make him! H.iwhe listened, entranced, to her gone 1 \ res. yes ; she must tear this foolish, gelSsb shrinking from her heart, and wish these two to be crowned with God c bast b'.essinir—mutual love. And what felt and thought Norman I eigb aB ho sat besida this dainty little rrmnteas in pink crcpo, with her pearly shoulders, her changeful cheeks, her rings of silken bum n hair, and her wreut.is 01 >-o ?v2 repß myrtle? Little did he dream of her hWden pain, her depths of woe her troidly heights of Bolf-abognatjon. But he knew in himself the horrible volcano of rag,. .and jealous agony, of rebuffed lovo, ot deadly hate for every man on whom Jidnaa bMmly eves looked with WhV.ebo in cruel rlestiny waited hapless who wH carry olfhis prize, which ho hod or.cn-rejocted V fie curbed himself a thon fi"»- SToar friend! Miss Haviland ifl makiu™ a Brest thin X of her fir.-t mm, he 'aid. H«vaKoiy. to Violet *0,-ct day at breskfaßt. •• AS theujeu are mad over her. Alworth seems to fcava serious inteotionf,, and 1 linliovo Ltdy Barton is bane on .her «o; Lord "" I think she would Zibe iha match, and duo? further it." . ~ '■ And you think she will take one of tho iwo ?" demanded Lei"h. , " Yes, no doubt," said Violet; then she

crucified hor own rebel spirit, and added : '■ And a= sho lives at Lady Burton's 1 think Lord Keith must be quite sure to win her."

It was a doath-knell to Loigh. I' totuicd to drive him mad.

Violet had no!, only her own hidden piin to bear now, but, ;ho vagaries, the savage word*, tho eeowling looks of hor husband. Thero was no ono to whom Am could spnak. How did she pometimoi lock horsolf alone in hor boudoir, and (ling herself on her face on her couch, nnd <:ry :

" Oh, why must I live For missry ? Wlm< have I rloue to ba scorned, and liated, and taunted ". Ho tears my heart from me—ho rondj it into frapjmun^s .md trauipl^s t'io;n unrfor hi 3 fesfc ; ai.d ;,r-t, I evinnt die !"

if she h'i;l had a muthei'.s bosom uhoreon to wo -p ho wons ; if she had children to cheer her by their innocent. care=?es, find croa'.c for her a futuie, that eho mijiit find ht:r own vanished hnppinos? in making them happy, and a now sunshine beaming on her in their love, s'io ;nij:ht hava bean stromier to b?ar up against h.r sorrows. But in silonee, olone, hpr agony unsus pected, no oiu: kno-vir.K tho cruel boks and words, the icy oo'.dne:=>s, all rhe fatal biUernoss of hor heart, Vinlet, Countess of Leigh, moved on to moot the crisia of hor fato.

CHAPTER XLIV

" 3IEKT JIK OK I MILL IU-IN VOL-." anil hoipi'ul than tho now pivcriltH L-f the Ainslies. Mrs Ainelio said blio wus h " per foot treasure." Anna bad B protty Hitio voice, which hor mot liar loved to have her exhibit, at, small asueinblirs, an.) Helen Hmn taught her how to make tho most of it, in tho newest Kongo. In dressing fortableaux or choosing costumes for fancy drees bulls, tho (jovorucsa showed tho greatest' taste and ingunuiiy.

As her custom was. Mm Aiinlio talked freely to Helon, anrl MUa Hope rat won in possession of all tho f ict.s conccruini: the

unexpected belle of the eeason, Aliss llavi land. Tho shicvd governo.".-' »Uo so ingvu tiated herself with Anna and Flora, lliat only a very little questioning «a j needed to induce them to lay biro their thought* to her, and to make tIV) v/shrsl confidenca'.

Mrs AiusliG had soon exp.>.-ud to. Holer, hor own secret chagrin that both Lard Keith and the Marquis of Alworth wore enamoured of the fair Edna.

" She will certainly marry ono of thorn. Of cour?o it would bo tho marquis, for if ho will oiler hiimolf whit girl would refuso him ?"

A wild light of joy leaped into Helen n averted eyes, for if Ednn married, then all thought of her love must pass from Norman Leigh, and to whom in tho bitterness of his hor.rt should ho tuin, but to hor who so loved him •>. Almost daily she he-ird something of Edna's triumphs, and she took a certain V>ii-:wnro in considering how thc-e triumphs, the homage of all about her, must gnaw the heart of Leigh, " It will end in his hating her ; he never could bear the least sight or rivalry," said Helen to herself. But how -,va« the unfortunate young wifo of Lei"h holding herself? From Mrs Ainslie" Helen could only he-.r that the

•'dear countess was tho happiest, most favoured, and most prudent of women." Tho girls, with youth's keen intuitions, and their"fresh gaze unblindcd by a fatal love of puld and sate, sa-.v deeper, and from them Ho'ten drew other information.

" No, I don't believe mv cousin is h-jppy," said Autia. " She used to be the brightest, happiest little creature ; hor face dhiTpiing all tlw time, and a roguish look in her eyea ; »nd now it nearly malice nno cry to look at her she is so pathetic, her Byr» look ready tn run nver in te.irs." " Doe? her husband cure fcr her—does ho neglect htr ?" " 1 think ho neglects her shamefully, pouted Anna. "If I married a man who WHS no more devoted to me, I would break my heart. He scowls and u»e3 ii hard tc.no, and t-he seems to tremble and shrink away." „ " Doss she iove anyone else, think '.' " No, of coirso not, nor lie either, lie in ?'H if title," suggested iTolen bitterly. "And then, mother and father, and Lady Montreesor urged her endlessly to take him," added Flora. " Ono thins; i* sure," said Anna. ' I never will bo persuaded into marrying without re:U love." Helen learnt to her eurpriso Hint Edna and Violot were ardent frii-nds; that Keith and Violet were only ordinary ac quaintances, and iliit Violot was blamed by hor aunt for fnvonrinf: and sddinß a j match between Keith arid hor favourite Edna. ~ "I think she might lor>k nearer home, said Anna frankly." -'I "hould like dearly to have Flora Lady Keith. I've other views for myself." Tho three younaer Ainelios about this time had taken a wonderful fancy for their cousin Vio'.et, and for making calls on her early, before the day of fashionnblo life hud begun. They supposed this a fpontaneous notion on their part, but in reality it was craftily opened and kept up by tho gover ned. . The first morning they found Violet breakfasting: in bed. Leigh had been at the House of Peers late, nnd flept at hi-* club Violet had been at a great cru?h at the Counters of Norfolk'?, and felt singularly wearied and depressc!. When shn heard that her throe little cousins had called, she had them eomo up. _ "I fear wo intrude,"said Helen, quietly ; "but they would come ; and their lives are ■ovsry quifltand duil." " Oh, Violet-, what a lovely ronm, and what splendid rose hangings lor your bed ! How pretty you look against nil those lace pillows with that laon.) night gown and pink ribbon?! Why, do you know that your nipht-dress is of the e&mo lace and cimbrie aa my boat frock 2" " And what a lovely silver nen^r, and what too lovely little dishes?—all Chinese, and every one different! Oh, how chnrminsr it must be to have yonr breakfast in bed, out of such things 1" Thus Ko. '2 " We have to ris6 at quarter after seven, and set only porridge and milU and buttered bread," said the youngear, of Mrs Ainsho s idols, a plump dolly, doing fins credit to " I'm so jrtad you brought them," said Violot, turning her 60ft. tender eyes to Helen. "Sit down, and lot them talk. They are so artless, ami I think they love me." " Love yon ! Why, Violet, wa lore you to death !" And tho three juvenile? pro cipitated themeelvPS on their cousin, to the icopardy of silver and Chinese waro, and kissed hor hands and hair and her little soft nock. Helen Hops slid into a chair closo by Violet's pillow, and, pome way, in a few minutes, had taken the tender, confidential tone of old friendship. Aided by the smiles and prattling voices of the junior?, the breakfast went b' ttcr. Tho broiled pigeon and wafer bread and tea were finished, and the children examined all the little gold spoons, and the gold-lined juss. and their accommodating governess did not sco when Kate filled their pockets with bon-bons. They must be anxious to come again : and, as Helen Hope coolly told hersolf, looking at their robust growth, "it would take a deal of anything to hurt them." , Agn"in and again they came, and as soon ns the children went to the conservatory with Kate for flowers, or to the house keeper's room for unusual treats of con serves, Violet and Helen fell into conversa tion and Helen discovered that \ tolefc tmd a rooted antipathy to a certain Miss Ambrose, and had no idea at all that Edna llaviland had anything in common with that object of her irritation—also «ho found that Violet was very unhappy, and believed herself failing in health, and wanted to die, and would not send for a phypician, nor let any one know her wretched feelings. Violet avoided her liuoband's naffiß. and would make no com plaints, but in Helen's skilful hands Violet was plastic as wax, and it did not need direct or conscious revelations to mp*e Helen aware of all that wretched domestic history—the coldness, the disappointment, the heartache. , , *' Ml I w*nt," eaid Violet, " is to be out of fne world, lam co lonesome—so low ppirilod. ,1 m&i.T to keep up as long as I can, to ro ono ehall know how miwtrahlo I am, and I shall wear out by degrees, »nd

when I go bad; to Leigh Towers, 1 will just fade" away in a d cline, a=i my mother did Qnnlly. 1 thall not hold nut, ko long. Probably" I am unt so Btrong a-> cho wai». I wish 1 liould ho buried by her. under thn roses at Ain^li:: chnrciiynrd : but 1 must bo buried in tho-o faarinl cold vaults at Leigh Towers. Still, it doesn't much matter." ■ Thus Violet spoke when in tho pecrecy of her own room ah,i wan beguiled into conti dontial talk by tha wily Helen. Perhaps thi= c-xiiropsi.-m of bur troubles relieved lior, for sho'was of a conndinu n-ituro. When »bo went out, the air, oxßitement, hpr very fr,!«i!ity, bri-ipi-.- htful llu^hoi to her cheok and brightnei<9 to her eye.-!, made her locik well and nlieorful t" tho carnle-H ob-orvor. Lndy Burton and Edna saw d'op'r, but they did not know all-not; all that was ponred nut to Helen, iov the socret abfia" Kenneth gave Violet s certain rotiefnoa concerning her married life, ro Lady Kur tm, imrl asfara-i eha knew, Edna was ai mnet a stranger to Leigh, and sho could not complain, Ko far as she i:oi:td Violet was sti ivinL' to do her duty to tho hitter end

Mra Ainslio, sparing no nffort to make thi firrt seieon of her Hear girla a sucopss.

K »vo, among other entortainmonts, v fancy ball, Helen Hopo was as Mrs Ain?lie'a right hand in arranging costumes and ■jocoratione, though of course it novor entered tha stood lady* hoad thut her

gotrornesa mijrlit lon« to h*vo other part in ir, than thns serving. Having norvod, in df'd, until all was dono, and tho young ladioß dressed, Ho!o» declared herself dying with headaelio, and retreating to her own room, locked herself in. She know nil the dresses that wero to bo umumed by the cuosts belonging to tho family, and Lord Leigh 'vas tiikinjr tho congenial elianujt.v, of Francos tbo First, of France, while Koi neth Keith was to bo Bayard, tho »puli>-i" chev.ilier, Edna the Lily Maid ol Aatulu, and Violet. Juliet When nearly all tho guests worn gathered. how could hostess or guests know. Hint, a tall. oloaiMit figure, dressed for Kendo's " Vollow Masque." had not coma in at thu guests' entrance, but hn'l stolon down from tho upper regions of the houso —wa>, in fact, tho govorne?s, Helen Hope? Korman Leigh kimw her well enough, as her voieo fell on his ear.

" Norman, I must, I will poo you alone !" " In Heaven's miino ! how came you hero ':"

" Kevsr mint?. I shall bo on Friday night at Lady Norfolk's ' Fern Fantiwie,' and I will see you in tho cjn.-orvatory. Wear this on your shoulder, and meet me, or I will ruin you."

Sho handed him n tiny box, and vvsut away,

CHAPTER XL.V,

The trinket which (.h-lon Hopa left in Korman Lci«h'a h.md \va« a lunnr-uioth, mailo cf peu-1 nnd i-ilvor, a pretty trillu enough He stood looking lit it in tho pri vacy of tho win.low einbra-ure, whuro she had'found him, Ib was quite open to him to refuso her appoint me:ir.; ho hai! told hor on tho Seine briil<,'o that ho would never meet hor again : ha could absent himself from tho " forn fant-isb," or. by not wear ing tho poarl ornnmont, lose hiiusolf in tho crowd of similar masques which would there be assembled

But Leigh had a linen, abnormal Braving for excitement. liolon's mad adoration flattered his pride, and his curio-ity was strongly oxcited to learn how she had come ameng Mis Ain«lie's guesta, and how she couid be of the "mail exclusive company of the CounUss cf Norfolk. Tho Counters of Norfolk waa a women of givaf. geniue, kind heart and lofty roputii tion :"* she was nl.-o given to tho most extravagant whims - had always! somo new mania of the hour, and was royally lavi.-h in expenditure For three yc»r* ferns had been the greit pa-sion of tho Counter of Norfolk. "~ Hor fernery had become cole bratcd in all England'-we may s:iy in tho world —for *!ia reboivod ne'<-- forus from lha fur quarters of tho globe, and botmiislfl came from many lands to study hor treu

onT^HafHlnßteß never gave but two groat these was expected to be a thcmo'of" wonder and helpless envy and admiration. She ban discovered an entirely new variety of i\l,' for thi^i season, and called it a " fern "fantti'-io." Her puestHworechoicaly seloctcil, and not too many to destroy •'ho impression of tho oocusion, tho rooms were entirely trimmed with fern?, night blooming corous, ami a cream and choao'Jtte blossom, called " tho beauty of tho night." Tiny lamps were arranged through the foltago and along tho ceiling to reprocont stars, while a globe of serenely shaded light lent a soft, generous refulgence, liko tho beams of the moon."

The £UCHts wero all oxpected to wear fancy coftumos ropresentin" things of tho night, or doop woods—tho green and bronzo of feron, and t'.o silver tisyuus like: moon lictht, u:id tho whito creatures that flit in stsrrv i-ilenca.

A hidden band of stringed instrumonts discoursed a mus^ic like tho chorus of sum mer nights, lifted in strongth and sweet-

To this entertainment Anna Ainslie had received a card through intercession of Violet, who was a great favonrite with tho countwe. But Anna hud also received in vitation to a party given by Captain Gore's sister, with whom she had forme-J a close uc qi-.aintance. This slid had collided to Helen, and Holen had arranged thatehoher self should claim Mrs Wntpon's invitation, and that, leaving the houFB together, she and Anna ?hpu!d privatoly change costumes and H;i!en should pnr.-onar.e Anna at the "fern fantasia," Waving Anna free to co to Mrs Watson. A* Anna had marrellous trifb fur convcrsin™ in monosyllables, the ex chango mittht bo fairly easy.

It was thus that in a green domino, with mossy-brown trimmings, Helen Hope ar rived at the Countess of Norfolk's under chaporonafio of Violet, who, on enter ing tho carriage, had innocently re marked :

" Why, Anna ! how tall and slender that plain domino makes you look, and what "an immense time you kopt the carriage."

"Yes." said softly the voico of the sup positions Anna. Norman Leigh was also in the carriage, sulking in fine mrner. Hi* presence thrilled nnd fired the mad heart of the infatuated Helen Hopo. For him life was a spasm of fury, as whorever ho went he expected to ecu Edna attended by devoted cavaliers, from whom ho, tho husband of Violot, must bo excluded.

Merry and charming masques filled tho splondid reception rooms of tho Countess of Norfolk. Night, Titania, Sleep, Dreams, all tho fflrn varieties, Endymioi, Diana, OLeron, Pu=k, Orion ; but, stateliest and loveliest of ali, was Edna Haviland as Luna. She was In a robe and veil of diaphanous tissue, with silver threads ; it was looped with stars, and sown with tiny crystal drops like dew. To look at her was to remember the song of the romance lay, " Her eyes are softer than sleep." On each shoulder her delicate, mjuty vail was caught by a pearl and silver lunnr moth.

Violet Leigh was Titania, and a sweet fair queen she was. Lord Leigh was in a plain domino of greon volvot, with silver dotp, representing a South American forn — on his shoulder was tho lunar moHi.

There were many dominoes of silver and brown, such US Anna Ain^lie had chosen.

Early in tho overling Leieh attached him self to th.) train that followed Edna, for, as she woie no mask, all knew her, and a crowd pret-°od about her. " We arc matched by fate to-night, fair Luna," Baid Leigh, "tho same emblem rests on tho shoulder of us both."

"That is curious," ?aid Edna. "I thought no one else had such ornaments. My uncle had thee made for me when he was in Genoa, and I pare one away."

" Let us wander into the conservatory and hear the new music prepared for the evening, ' the Song of the Nightingale.1 I bslieve that is Tom Tower as the Arctic Owl, and little Ensipn Blunt as the Screech Owl, and well suited " ." Andycui are Lord T,ei«ii, by your voice,' paid Edna.'ijo they stood on the threshold of tiie conservatory. "Thank you for remfiuiberiny- anything about me," said Leich. " I do not wi=h to romuraber anything unkind about you, lam sure. I left Roue Lodge very angry at you, but) nuw that I

havo met your wife, and lovo her with all my h sort, I cannot bo vor.r sn«my."

'■ Will you ba my friond !" eagerly.

aeked Leigh

" i tell you h.mei,(:!y. Norman," euid Edua, "1 «;:i bo yoi:r friond, just as you show voui^ri; -.orthy of friendship, by makitiß voiif wifo happy. Was thoro over n uweotor-lookiny creatrre than sho is now, as t.ho (jneen ot iairy-lnmi ?" " Whil enough : but, you know you are tho bright particulai star of the wiiolo oven i,l<T "

7l Yon know that H wai always one of my I lni"cr I ntn in aociatv tho more I weary of I thorn. You havo hesii Ui,.«.d and polite, and j a« I wish you to b» nince I entered your I soc'iil rirclf, Lord Lei^:i, nrrJ ] :i:n willing j ti lot by-(.'ontu p?risli, :m\ b.< Iriflnd?, if j ynur lov'oly little wife i?tho coutro and bond of nr.r friend-hip " "Tell ms," hurst, out >.u.,;h, "do you ! mv.n to marry ':'' "Thoqiio9fiotiianot.il fji. unc; but in tim-i, no doubt, I (.hall imrry " . : Tho Mnrquio of A'worth DBin up, and remintled tho lovoly Luna '.V,l p!io wan to dance with him. Many of ihsmwry »uostß were now in fho ball-r-.iom. Str.iu-s'svalfKeH took th» r«'ara of liio soft nooturnfi!>, find Lord Leigh, with wiatti in '■. is heart,strolled farther into thn ■:•:>[..-eiva'.ny. There, in tho gro?n dopt.hs of almost t.ronic rin;iiicfs. h!s rovt-riy -.v:is n.lurrnutod by o domino o! grocn >i!k v.i.th moss-brawn fringe). " Kortnan, you h.ivn como fo mo ! Ara vnu le.innng at 1.-ist tint firm heart of all tho world i.- true and f-iithfuJ, ono woman would dio for vou-iir.ds h nveii only in your prcsotioe!" "Icama—lam ourioin Ut.lon. to k:iow ynur open .•Ofiimu to mio'i Holent circles nf this nnd tlie rout nh Mr* Aii;s!ieV. ll.ivo yon, too. inhuri'''(la fortune, and bocomo a laiv of fashion T "As Krlmi \\m !: I had, remember, your.- would ba tho uyti in ihiwa gay s-eno-i that it.,1 !noU 'vouid (>L'nk, yourn would bo tho one void 1 nhonlii hwvr. 1 "hnnld not ]m>!< yon .-w slip doe?, with that cold, calm cmilp. and nuv k yon with my lovers. 1 cannot tall yoa how 1 nanw hero. 1 came to tolly.Mi thai; I am ulnviyd true, and in lonolinos-i you can fmu to mo." " Rut why conwiUfr uih lonely V" " I know things that you do not. Edna h pr.ipaiing to marry. In a U^v months «ho will have secured" a title, as fho has al ways schemed to do. And in that fow months you "ill bo a widower." Uii-h started. '• What nro yun saving, girl?" " Blind creature ! do you not -eothatvour wifo is fading Ivforc your eyes? Then, Nonnau. yon will ba fioo ! Then will you turn to mo? K> number my faith, my adoration,; that I ot all women live you most—would live to pleaso your slightest whim. Tull mo, when you are free, will you marry me?" " No, I will not," ?aid Leigh, shaking oil' her hand from lih arm and muttering nn oath. •' I don't believe what, you say. My wife is well enough, well as over sho was. And if it did happen that fho died, and I nould not i_-ot tho ono being in all tbo world that I care for—Edna—then make up your mind that I will marry in my own rank, and have an heir who has no blot on his an cestry.7' Helen turned and hid hor faco ill tho thick fronds of. a fern, and moaned n do eolato, wild moan of a wounded creature hiding to die : " Oh, Norman. Norman !"

" Look you, ti,iri ! 1 beliove, on my li/t; if 1 even hinted that 1 would marry you in the event 1 was loft frcu, you were quito equal to poisoning my poor little countess. I may be a bad man—lam ; but Heaven know? there ore some depths in vnur nature far lower than I lind in inino."

" S'io would need no help from mo'" cried Helen. " -She ia dying fast enough ; .-he goes day by diy steadily to htir doom. And you won't .-ra it, and you taunt mo. Fool f Wrni.eh ' I will briiiß you to my level, mark my words I"

[To hi Continued.)

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NoTiilNi! i- 1 so olenrly apparent to tho intelligent obforvcr ofmodorn society as the many deception-* and tho falao glitter which it uoitaiiif. Thoru uro social circles into which one may enter whero tho falsa and decoptivo iin.ii no place, bnt those arc in the lninoiity. Qlunce at the avnraj;e society of today, and there 13 but little in it that is really what one supposes it to bo. How ofton is it that wo find man and women currying imprcpaiona of wealth and station far boyond their ronl income! Dignity is found to be only pretension, rolinctnont an artificial rloes. and intelli gence but a verbal display. White eatin drcafos aro worn where the plainest muslin is ecarcoly witliin tho wearer's incoma; broadcloth whero the simplest suit, if hon estly paid for, would almost bo a draft upon the revenue received. Flowers ate worn in profusion, jowellory loaned, and carriages hired by those to whom tho acquirement of the necassitios of daily lifo is a struggle Society, instead of being made a gieat compact designed to promote tho good of men and woman, is ufod only as a cunning contrivance to pa'm off unreal virtue?, and give to the unsophisticated wrong and injurious mipre«"ion=. Host anil hostess eha're in the general deception with their guests, although nrither is con-cious of the other's deceit. Tho china nn the table of tho hostess is admired .and its possession envied by her p,ii3St, while thf> former in r.-:urn is driven to a muddori ing inward jealousy at the gorgeous garments of her guevt. Tho guest knows not that, tho china is lowed, the hostess is ignorant of tho unpaid bill of the circs maker. The furniture, heuvy prrtiurcs and expensive dracieriefl »ro examined with admiration, and so fixed becomes thn attention of the L'ueat upon the em bellishments of the home of the hostess that no room is left in tho mind for a Riippicion of a plan of purchase commonly known aR the "instalment." The young man, with only a cursory knovv'edae of the cost of female apparel, regards what is only inexpensive eilk or satin as the riehost goods the market affords. The young lady, in turn, silently calculates her chaperone's income by tho flowers he sends, tho liveried carriage in which he escorts her to tho re ception, and tho full dross suit in which he is arrayed. Her untrained mind knows not tho existence of placos where a lunch muy bo had by a modoit indulgence in bovorage, and establishments whore cloth ing is sold for a night.

Through the Niagara Rapids.

One of the men who wont through the Niagara whirlpool rapids in a barrel some weeks ago has repeated tho trip in tho same craft, accompanied by a young woman named SarSie Allan. The trip was very severe, but the occupants of the barrel es ciped injury. The girl wan very sea-sick when taken out and considerably bruised. Before starting her companion made a bet of five dollars that she would scream before the trin was over, but she won the bet.

Beauregard at Grant's Tomb.

A PitETTv picture, with ft world of moaning in it, was presented at Riverside Park, New York. A grey-moustached man of medium hoight, dressed in dark and genteel clothes, was standing in front of General Grant's tomb. He looked for several moments at the plain brick tomb, tbs only monument New York can afford for the great dead, and then spoke to the policeman who stands guard in placo of the soldiers who have been withdrawn.

The visitor carried a small bunch of violets in his hand, and wore a email rose bud in the lapel of his coat. The policeman granted him the privilege) to walk up to the tomb, and the stranger tenderly pluced hia violets on the grave. He turned to walk away, but stopped, and removing the rosebud, bsnt his head over it and placed it with the violets.

It was an incident which occurs every day, but the story told is one of buried enmity, of forgetfulnesa, of peace and brotherly love. The stranger was General G. T". Beauregard, of Louisiana. The ex- Confoderale coramandsr gtivo his tribute of respect and love to his conquoror, and with moist cyee walked away.

UNKNOWN.

A NUJUiEit of minor eircomstenoos cor.tri bato to blind us to tho inliuenca of l-'ariv : A long ptrics of successful wart, waged against France ; her inefVecUial and shabby defonco against tho German invasion ; tbo crimes of tho Commune : the readings with which fho upsets her rnlorn, and, when she has overturned them, plr.coa herself under f ho heal of tho firm adventure- who will stop niton employed by literary in on »' d slalop men when upending of Paris provoke, too, critical hostility. This pen! imeni Umo lorn, dalinrr from tho Involution. Refoni (hat time, Paris catno in fur kicks »? well .»■< hnlfpwa "All that I «'c and hciir," v-'ii;:-.- r.oj«o:in tn a friend, " out rage? and rovoltn me. I am leinptiid to look vn Paris hs n caver" of ti>igand~-, of whom every traveller, in turn, is thu victim." Voltftiro, for a great part of his lit-, was n

vohiuturv exile in (ii-Tininy ami :>i;!.-r:d. Ljuis XV. had n roiid cut, caller] the Kun rie ia KuVolte, to avoid p-UM.ig through Pal Uon hi? way to Versailles Thoro «no .Hirer way to ruin tlio ropu.tnt.inn of a rival than to overpraiseMm-appMMtdin;* which nt. (men sits friendly hewers Jgiuri*!; him Paris |-,a> danvig' d her rotmtution fur inoiv, fatally tlmn if nho liiui left others the f.i-k

praiiso. Tho Parisian, n« a rule, in v nun of tii-to and n-'linomcDf. lie him an exquisite

sense of thu propartimi of thine but ho, for instance, known rev

n funeral eul.gium without u-miWAux hi- hourow. lie In* an crs™onf.»i timidity, ho far iv being the r,',jj«fc n<

totally to doscrt him. ?'ari- to tlio I *,ii-i-I:it> is not :i fiibjccß of investigation, but an object u( voiii-'-iition—something snore.', iw were tho oMKreek mid Roman citizens to th:j Aryans. lier follies ami misfortin-R have only maiio her mom do:p'v lov .1. The English fniilu at the «/« NuprJ<-oi,nn as t'i thu tutu-o "f I'.ips, bombus'ic am) yol practical. "I iiitonrl," remirkod the Empc.rnr, " that l!io French Empire shall liec.'iin.j the mother country of Europe. All thu lungs must hv.-o lnrge pilao-s for their J.vn u.-o in Paris, mid on the corona ti in o! tha Emperor nf the French come to Paris arl jjrnco by thoir profenco that imposing naremony." Wo f.rcfct now how nearly that prophecy wa« fullillod. Heine toll- ii 3Hi it " ii blasphemous Fronehin m is a more plo-iMnp ohjcot in ths sight of 00-I than » pmvina EnKlinhmao." "Pmfc," writes Hugo, "express Franco, and Franco tho universe. When Coil wishes ilin: an idem thouir] ponotrato the globe-, He places it in thu mind of n Frenchman." This apostle of Ports tn tho Gentile*', in his "Nupnloon tho Little," thus apocryphaliy describes the entry of tho allied troops into Purin after Waterloo. Thn quotation is rather lout,', but it is illustrative of the deification of I'uria by French literary men. "Thu Prussians cntorcd Pari« with their lances raised Tho Uussiuns

entered L'aiiß Tho Enclish entered L'aria. . . . Tho moment, howovor, thoy had crossed tho threshold of the eity-the moment the hoofs of their horses had runt! upon its stones, Englishmen, Austrian*, Prussians, Russians—and all of them in a word —on entering Paris, beliclil in its walls, its buildings and its people, some thing predestined — something venerable and auaust. Thoy all felt a lioly sentiment of respect for the eacrcd city. They all felt that they had before thorn, not the city of one peculiar pooplo, hut the cify of tho wholo human raoo, They nil lowored tho swords they had raised." And, speak in" in tho samo work of the French Tri bune, Hugo says. "When once a principle had boon drawn from it? confinement and liberated, the French Tribune throw it on the world, armed it from head to foot, paying, ' t;° ;' ard t0 tho>o wl'° n"korf it ' Who art (her. '.'' it answered, 'I nm the truth ;' nnc to those who nsk-d it, • Whence comoat thon ?' it answered, ' I como from Franco.1" How diflorent is mil own treatment of London ! What ;i small placuthiit rity occupies in our i-:-*^-;^ w ~o\r«%lo oral, rtnoins ' \Vft h^-VQ, "0 noveTi^stio.'itinu'"' limilrn, n» IviU-.e, Sup, Hugo did of Pari*. No Villons -No Bor .-inr'crti. Kuppy, perhaps, 1° thoci'y whoso life ia anchronMed and unsung ! Tho noli tic.'il opinion of London which moans tho opinion of tho London clubs—is only etudieii for the purpose of ascertaining what i= not tho opinion of tho country. Yet, <-!espite oia- neglect of our capital, wo should be in difjnant if it was asserted that Pari* was n greater and more influential nity than London, A material peoplo, we prefer a warehouse of goods to a storehouse of ideas. Wo contrast, with complacent sati.-fnetion, our own Titanic capital, stilt crowing, vast in size, popula tion and wealth, with the comparatively dwnrfich and stationary nspectH of Palis, with its wealth in its s-hop windows—a pi^my of cheap H!er ie?9 compared to a monster of wealthy Industry, So (nr I have endeavoured to piint out a faw of tho rlitiiculties that lio in tho way of our Englishman when ho considers tho claims of Paris to bo considered a great city. To recapitulate them. The general influence of the theory of evolution exercised through tho medium of modern historians, denying tho effects of external agencies— cities amnng tho number; the in tensely aristooratieal spirit running through even our poorest claeees, the result of our peculiar form of govern ment ; tho rivalry so loug oxiating between France and England ; tho humiliations of Franco by Germany and the Commune ; tho exaggerated language in which Frenchman spoils of Paris ; the slight influence that London exercise* over the provinces —a fact that leads u» to think no capital at. tho pro fent day is rhe framor of European, or even of national, opinion. It would bo an inter esting tack to traco the ideas and manners that have taken their rleo in Paris and spread onward over England and Europe. Though some of the facts may be questioned, and tho roasoning ho thought faulty, some good end will ba gained it readers ara induced to otudy, free from prejudice, the doings of a people, near us, locally, but distant fro"n us in its history, forms of government, and surface of its social life. Ah Mr Jourdain dis covered, late in life, that ho had been talk ing prose all his !ifo without knowing it, so it will bo found that, politically at any rate, we havo boon unconsciously talking tho language of I'aiix.

His Honeymoon.

Thk coloured female cook of a family living

at the South end caws upstairs tha other afternoon, and, twisting, up the corners of her apron with considerable embarrass-

ment, said to her mistress : —

" You see, miesis, I thought it mought be bes' to be tellin' you dat—clut I done get married las' week."

" Ah, indeed ! And what is your name now, Hannah '!"

" Mis' Williams, ma'am. You poo, my husban' he am a cook, too. Ho am what dey calls a sheft in a hotel." " A chef, oh V That's very nice. And do you expect to leave us directly, Han nah?'

"Not d'reckly,' mum. I'll stay wid yo for de present. You see, mv hueban' he's done gone to New York an' Washington on his honeymoon, and it'll be nigh onto six weeks befo' ho comes back."

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UP IN A BALLOON.

A Strange Story.

Tub disappearance of tho famous inventor of aerostatic machines, Frederick A. Cower, wiio made a groat stir in I'uri? about two years ago, is a elory with exceeding ro mantic feature?. Sir Gowor first ititro duciid him?.■•!£ tn the Prerrh puhlio in con nection with Professor IJoH's fcelephono. By means of it iiH mode a fioueider.-iblo for tune. Just at that time French inventors veto engaged, unrier tho liberal auspices of Government, in endeavouring; to demon strate that balloons could easily ha

s'cerad in mid-air and made to go in a direction opn^itc to that o£ tho wind. fiower laid claim to a far m:re craeticable contrivancg than theirs for effecting tho same ohjectp, und tho Paris newspapers gave him it good deal of attention Ho rnavod in tho most disliriiiui-hej society,

nnd his wife. Mile. Fordiea, the American priuia donna, obtained flittering treat ment at the banca of the French critics. : Thoir union, however, was not a happy on(3, and (Jower devoted himself to his inventions with increasing ardor. He at length caused a monetcr billosn to ' bo constructed and annom!Ce'i that ho would a»cond in it from Uieppo He had already performed a number of srmilar feats. This time, however, the bvdluon disap poured from sifjht ami rfovar was seen tifjo of it that was evi.r found beine the : iviclior car, which was pic-liod up by a pass- , ins! voseol. Thu daring inventor was sup poiod,° like Jcqius, lo huvo met with a liori'iblo death. Now oinos, however, .tlio astounding jcquol. Gower i-< said to be. living in India. Ha is the favourite of a native princces, tho centro of ci |^ay and brilliant society, and < prcsumahly, »s ail lucky adventurers ate in tho happy Orient, tho possessor of a bplon di<l pa'.aco. Tlio narrative, had ii, beon taken out of the almo.-t inexhaustible bud ,'O of Scheherazade, could not have had .-i FtrouKer eoasoning of tho m.irvolloua. Sull, it is not withcut parallel. Somo thirty year? ajj;o n. tolerably wall known ociur vani'ind suddenly from the American ctage. No one knew of his fate. A party ot Blobo-trottorc, within the past decade, were travelling through the Japanese ielo», when they snot with a misfortune which disabled some nf their number. They were conducted to the palaco of a preat prince whore magnificence and popularity were lauderi to tha skies by all of tho natives around about. Ho had no less than eleven wivo», and his wealth was ir,calculable. HU palace and the surrounding ground's constituted a delicious miniature Eden. His puepts woro enchanted by every thing they saw and henrd. What, then, wap their surprise when they beheld in their host, despite hi« .fapanese costume und manners, a Caucasian, and an Anjjlo- Saxon at that! What was their greater surprise when one of their p.irty distinctly vecoynisod in him tho actor who had vanished and left no trace behind! It proved really to ba ho, so tho story goo?, :ind hu finally confessed to the fact. He had tired, lie said, of tho hum-drum civili aation of. the Wo 4 and had quietly made his et-nape to what actually seemed at that period liko another world. Tho chronicler i-< silent as to whether ho was previously married or not. If so, and if that circum stance had anything to do with his disap pearing, ho evidently foil out of the frying pan into tho h'ro. By his peculiar talents ho had easily gained tho favour of some of tho preat men of Japan, and had Jbcen straightway adopted m one of their caste, a stroke of fortune which implied, it ap peared, his becoming as much marriod as they were. It would, of oourno, be gratuitous to sup poho that Mr Gower'.-! balloon ascension was, a3 tho boys fay, " all in my eye," and that it was a clever ruse to get. away from tho oppressive exactions of our Wcstorn civilisation. But if it ho true tltat ho is now in India, und that tho mj'stery of the l'ulloon still remains unexplained, the world at larpre moy eafely enough take tho liborty oi forming its' own cor.eluston.-i. Ko on'o will bo likely to oinin) that ho m.'idf the neriiil voyage from Dieppe to Calcutta , clinging to the ruptured royios of tho ba'i » 1 -•_„ 7 m („,.,„„ t.hfil'o1'I— --, "••■"•« «.n in a billoon " ni'iy become '.neroiy 'he pj] iu lar way of phrasing it when one speaks f it a strange d:sipptaaneo, ft clever elopouient or a (light to Canada or Honolulu. >

NUMOROUS.

Oni; of tho peculiarities of a lately-de ceased Now York lawyor, whoso scale of fees ranged from 10 cents to 81, was that ho never wore a shirt. This was doing much better than lawyers who did not loava a cliont, ono.

It ien't always be3t to call thing? by their right n.-imos. A young gentleman called a, coach dog a Dalmatian hound, and was iu formed by hhjiancee that, if ho could not refrain from profanity in her presence they must henceforth be strangers.

An acquaintance of Blobb's much given to travelling at onetime of his life, and now devoted to gardening, recently replied aa follows to a suitor for hi^ daughter's hand : — " Ushant Havre, Yew llavant Anemone. Havana';'' Blobb's friend will coma to a bad end, won't he :

Circumstantial Evidence — Edwin: "I've just foKni! a bho; in my bit of tho pa'.-t ---ridge!" Angelina: "How odd 1 So have I. Toor thing—they've had ta shoot it twico !"

"Weak but "VVillinI."—Woman : "If I f?ivo you something to eat, will you saw a little wood ?" Tramp : " No, mum ; I'm too weak to caw wood. I'm not Inzy, jost weak, but I'm willin' to do what I can. You givo mo n good dinner, an1 I'll fit out in the cornfield for a ecarcrow while I'm eut.in'it."

An Omon.— A superstitious eabscriber, fays one of our exchanges, who found a spider in his paper wonts to know if it is considered, a had omen. Nothing of the kind. The spider was merely looking over tho columns of the paper to see who was not advertising, so that it could spin its web across his sbopdoor and be free from dis turbance. •' Oh, tell me where is fancy bred V Sho asked, and jrottins bolder, She laid her darling little hr«d Ititrht down upon my shuuldur. And T. with no.more poetry in My »nui than in .1 Quakers. Ju'iili. ■.! with idiotic Ki-in, •• You'll find it at the baker's." Some peoplo iroagino that Mark Twnin is exceedingly smart We knew him when ho j was grinding platitudes for tho "Virginia: Entorprieo," and ho was a notoriously la/y grinder. Ho would sit at hia editorial table for hours drumming on a cracks:! guitar, while the compositors were waiting for copy, and when reminded of his duty by the foreman, would say, "This working between meals is killing me!" And he was the healthiest man in the territory.

In a police court, recently, when a man wns about to be tried for assault and battery he brought forward his boy, tan years old, os a witness. The justice asked the lad if he knew the nature of an oath, and the boy said his father had explained it. " What did he say?" asked the justice. "He said," replied the boy, "that if I didn't swear that the other fellow struok first he'd tan the whole hide off my back." He wasn't used in the witness-box.

A Nigger's Prescription.—A gentleman in Virginia, when exerting himself one day, felt a sudden ppin, and fearing some inter nal injury, aent for a negro living on the plantation, who made pretensions to medical skill, to prescribe for him. The negro, having sagely investigated the case, prepared and administered a dose with the utmost confidence of a speedy cure. No relief being obtained, however, a regular physician was sent for, who, on arriving, inquired of the negro what he had given. Sambo promptly responded, " Rosin and alum, sir I" "What did you give them for?" continued the doctor. " Why," repliod Sambo, " de alum to draw departs togeddor, and de rosin to soder 'em."

Mrs De Blank : " Susan, go to the store and get some lnare buttons like these. Such a time as I do have trying to keep this family in buttons." Mrs De Lank : "My family is larger than yours, but I have no such troubls. I can't use half the buttons my hueband brings home." " Brings homo ?" " Yes ; he's a deacon, you know, and has charge of ihe contribution box,"

TEE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY '2, 1887.

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Cimcuai fimiriiiK huijroi-.; have J]ju the hi-sl [iliyfiiciniw; SoAP 05 cts . COTICUBA INSOLVENT, $1.00. have spent hundreds of dollars, and sot no relief Wh o i raa i o Agents, New South Wales, R. To»0» until 1 used tho CUTlcon*. Kk.mkdies, which s- Co Sydney; Victoria, Velton Grimwadc ft Co., have cured me, and left my eXtii and blood as Melbourne; South Australia, A. M. Bickford Si pure as a. child's. Send to auy wholesale druggist Sons Adelaide; Queonsland, Elliott Bros. & C 0.,. named in the opposite coluno, for "How to Cure Brißbano; New a ca land, N. Z. Drug Co., Auck- Bkin and Blood Diseases," land and Dunedin. Ok Address wan Stamp, Prepared by the K. Towns & Co., Tsew Soutb. Wales. Potter Drng& Chemical Co., Boston, U. S. A TANGYES, LIMITED, 119, BATHURST-ST., SYDNEY, KEEP THE LARGEST STOCK IN AUSTRALIA OF ALL KINDS OF ENGINES, BOILERS, PUMPS, AND LIFTING MACHINERY, And respectfully request intending Buyers to forward particulars of their requirements before ordering. 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