THE MYSTERY OF HADDON'S FERRY.

By E. D: E. N. SotiTflwotmr:

CHAPTER XITI. "THROUGH NIGHT, TO LIGHT." 1 Oh. hearts tliat nevor cease to yearn! Oh, brimming tears that ne'er are dried! The dead, though they depart, return; As though they ne'er had> died. The living are tho only dead ; Tlie dead live-nevei'more to did'; ■ And often when we mourn them fled; They never were sdnigtr. ' ANONYMOUS. " The next few weeks were a perfect blank to me—a temporary annihilation of memory thought and feeling, , until one dark hour, whether of the day, I know not,-or of the night; I know' not, when T. reburned-to' a, vague, obscure sense of misery, which could nob be called consciousness, for. I knew nob whab had- .happened- to mci or even where I was, or who I was, or whether I had ever lived before; whether I-really lived now, or would ever live,at all..

" My mother often bent over' me, in ten der solicitude;; but hen sweet old face seoined only a part of my being and- my suffering, no more, nor less.

" Next 1 began to dream .that I was something left of a man; who had been; cleft in, two, and had his heart torn out, which' seemed to account for all the weakness, misevy and helplessness of the condition in< which I found myself. Gradually my brain cleared and my nerves strengthened—so gradually that there: was :io shock! jOf sud denly i-ecovered leasou, remembered be reavement, or revived vengeance. .: .Igrew conscious that I was Gabriel Haddon, thunder-smitten by the death of his wife— that was all,- and that was enough. " My convalescence was so slow, my mind and body were so weak, that-1 suffered no acute accession of sorrow or anger, even ■when I clearly-knew how much cause I had for both. My state was a night of heavy, dull and dark despair,, traversed by the forked lightning of a burning and consum ing wrath only when I vividly recalled the bloody,part- taken by Hiram Slaughter in the tragedy of my shout married life. " I brooded over the wrongs* agony and early death of my Lily, until the spirit of dire revenge took such possession of my heart that I wished to live only to wreak a terrible vengeance upon her destroyer, but I kept these tires of the abyss deeply covered in my soul until I should be strong Enough to send them- forth on their mission of wrath and destruction. "As soon as I was able to speak of tho subject, 1 asked, my mother to tell me all she knew about Lily's illness and death. She could tell me very little that I did not know already. Lily, she .said, had died very suddenly at . the Henrico Hotel in Richmond, on the fifteenth of July, and her remains had been brought home and de posited in the family Vault ab Hill Top Hall.. Immediately .after the funeral, General Slaughter and his household had gone to Europe for an absence of indefinite length. , "I told my mother then of the celestial vision I had seen in ; my prison cell of Lily in.her angel beauty on the very, morning and ab the very hour of her death. "My mother was sGi'uck by> bhecoinciT iebce; but she, assured me that At. was only a dream. I know cbet'ter ; bufi I did .apt-'argue thei, point.- • I only secretly wished* with all my soul, that I could see my heavenly angel again. Ah,- vain as piration.!. How could I see her when my soul was full of dire hate ; and longihg for vengeance? A gulf wide as that which separated Dives and Lazarus divided me from Lily then., ;.'.,. i, ... ;-.._■ ■'■ " Later in.the summer", when I was jttsfc able to creep out, I: wont up to Hill Top Hall on a pilgrimage to the vault that con tained the remains of my, Lily. I' knew where to find ib, in the crypt, under the little half-ruined chapeLibelonging to the Hill Top Manor. Bab tho dron door of the vault was mortaredi up astif mover- to be re opened again, p ufii-ialcqoq ■•■ iia went on to the hall td make inquiries about Lily, but the house- was shut up, deserted: and desolate. I knew it would be useless .to go to,; see ;OxtorH General Slaughter's.overseer,; forhe was his master's tool, but I went to the negroes' quarters, and succeeded .in finding old Horschel, Lily's grey-haired groom: The'ancienb man, deemed too innrm for further service, , had.been, like a useless- old horse, 'turned out to. grass,' or, in other words, he was left alone in his rude stone hub; to support him self.by raising- a few vegetables in his little garden,, arid keeping a few , -'fowls and a

pig.-.'.v ' - ■ ■ ■'> ■ ■': •"' jl '■ !!1 ■ ii The old negro wepfr like a child at the sight r o r fj me, for that α-evived all his Sorrow ful memories of his lovely young mistress, and for-sonie little time teai's and sobs were the only greeting he could give me. 6bi aiked him if he knew'the cause of his young lady'sdeath/ Yes,'he knevy it, "he said;, but Miss Lily was. her mind; or she never .would have , done what she did. " Shuddering: 'with- the apprehension of some new horcory laskedhinr what Lily did... --■ ■ ■ n - ;•. - ! . [ -/ -r ■ ■; . , '' lAirid' as'well as Ke could, for" the swelling of his chest and the "clTokiiTg of his voice, he related 1 alOie;k"new or understood-concern ing my Lily's agony and death. I perceived that he did not know, 'or eyeii suspect, half bhe,horrible truth as I knew, it, when; I was enabled , to put together his narrative and Lily's owfi story.,of "the practices against her health and reason which had driven her to'a secret flight from SUI Top Hall alone, through jthe. terrors, of a mountain, pass, in a mfdHight storm.. , . \ . . f ; The story told,by. the broken-hearted old'servaht, amid choking sobs'and blinding tearsj was this, which Ijtnust; give in my own words. ■- 01 <Xi ; ... 1 ' When General Slaughter had. regained possession of ( his. ward, ,I,iiy, '■"Vale,.. he brought her' straight, to IJill Tpp,. Hall, vvliere she arrived so ill tliat she had. to be. pn.£ to bed and placed un'ier. the care of a physician^.'.'She ..had,"a-, long and terrible illness, as we have already heard.. ;■; • ; '). As soon as she recovered sufficiently to be! able,/ to travel,' .liowever, | General SI an α-her took her away on an extended tour.; He took also HeracJt*K the old groom,,, Jedj' his'vailet^'andXetty,, the young,lady!s,old to the Virginia Springs, taking, after.,, anpthe.r,, unKPtKey-'fiad..visited; all .the most-cele- brated medipihiil.wixt'ers iff Ah 6. mountains and valleys of the Old-Dominion. But Lily did not imßsgye.-wealth. ( - ; per-bßautiful blopm was.gone.for ev.eif; , sJje.rQmained ,.as, pale as her tlower .nainesalce. " In' Oc'tbfeef, "when; .the. ■ season, at the summer resorts was:6vei-{ ! .tlie party went to. New York, where, a few weeks later, they were joined, by, Captaini-Bulany-; -He re newed ' his" addresses to Miss , -¥ale, received them "as a statiie or an idiot iijight. have done, ; without .rfepelling, without ac cepting, without even: noticing them by. word or glance: '>"• ~' ■'■"■. ■ ll _ 1 ;;. , ' ,^, ;.:,;-.' V ; ' "The suitor was amazed, perplexed, oja. gusted.iand.fmally withdrew, his suit,' and counselled the young lady's guardian to call in medida'Padvlce: ; ~ : '' ■ i ""-. ;/.;_;■■ :..: y-,r : " General. Slaughter 7,gave ,yent, to. his 'and mortification in a torrent of pro fanity, and then sent for a phy&ieian. " After ;the -doctor had "seen his patient, ho came t put of, her a look of dia- : may "which ' even-professional self-control could not opnceal,and. , he l .calledfoi-General Slaughter, ) \w,ith. whom closeted in- a private Interview for a'good hour. '■','^:][^ ) "After the "doctor had gone, ( an ;gar?hv quake fairly shobk, /tlie, Jiouse: glaugWer stormed 4 upiftDJti down thg.whol^

Ten'gth drills siu'fc of apaftmenfs, fi'om MTss Bill's be'lrobYh', ( wHch itete atoneeVidy fa. his* .own smoking. den v which, was.at the ofiher, cursing, and blasting anti-burning everybody, in it in all their jriemßers, from Lily's Slue :'eyesV, to his ow.n.' lights ancUliverJ jßub. as tli is ' happened to. Be a New. York liot.el,. tip the- ntiftSy' df r the- irietropolis , a'fi'd , :iiob Hill Top- HitlL mi bh'o' Wildur liess; the old. fury: was , soon inberrupbsd iii his favourite pastime by a friendly, -vhiifc from the clerk,, who canie to warn hiiri tt»f she danger of an imfricridly Visib froth' bhc xslioe if fchis noise slioiildoontiniie. Under : these circumstances tho aristocratic mffiaiti :was amenable l to-reason, and quiotied him iself , down- to' a succession* of' deep growls 'like tho muttering thunder with which » stbi'm goes offi | ; "Thy next diiy he engaged passage , for himself arid' party on board the Poland : ocean stseamc'r; from New York to Liver pool; And 1 iii ten days thereafter they saile'di Old- Slaughter, by way ofi asking ft blessing on- the voyage, cursing , himself and : his household, rind' hoping that the' ship 'ihigKtJ blow up or founder before it reached "mid-ocean; " Tife steamer, however, with alt on. 'board, reached' Liverpool m ; Sdfdty: Front , Liverpool General Slaughter, with'his ward : and : tsheir hurried'up bo London. They reathed this- greatest city : of' the world'about iilW middle of December; the dreariest time , of the , year. " Here the oM despot took apartments , ih a first-class hotel, and left Lily in the soli tude of her own rooih, attended' drily by her old maid Lebty; while lie enjoyed himself in going around and seeing all the- wonders of antiquity,, art; arid science, iiv which the gre'ab 'city is so rich. Bub he , only went to public places. He "never made or received 1 a ca11 , , , even althoiigh he was well ac quainted '.vifcli tlie American' minister, and witli several EhgTishftien of rank. , w.horn he had met in diplomatic circles-in Washing ton. "He kept his -party in London tmtif after Christmas, mbififi the 1 gteot holiday of the year pass, without notice, and then early in Jamiaiy her took Lily and her old maid Letty away in it cab, saying Rβ. was going to place them in a private boarding liouso. And the next day he sob oubfor Paris, taking his men-servants with him. He spent it few weeks'comfortably in the French capital, and then returned to_ Lon don ih February to witness the opening of Parliament by the queen. "He took lodgings in another - hotel miles away from the hrsb one ho had Occu pied, coming to London; ttnd then he did not bring Lily back ; but his course" of life was very different from what it had been when he had Lily with him. He made calls and received thorn. Ho gave dinners, and lie dined out. He' went to theatres, and even to balls, and led, as far as in him lay, the lifo of an old beau and a man of fashion. But where was Lily all this time ? -

"Her faithful' blci servant did not know, and if hff ventured to inquire his. ruffian master blastediiim in all his members, up and down, from feet to crown* and Sent him away in dumb dismay. "About the first of .April, General Slaughter ordered' his servants to jjack up to go back to America, arid On the night before they left London he brought Lily back—the whitest phantom, so the. old ser vant said, that ever was seen. Tho old : maid, Letty, was in a'ttphdanqe upon her;. but Letty was absolutely dumb ip relation, to tlie manner of life they had been leading in thatprlvate boarding-house. They went down tb Liverpool' and embarked in the Erin, which sailed on the seventh of April, and reached New York on the twenty-nr3t. ifi New York they, were met,and joined by Captain l}u'lany, who accompanied them to Richmond.. ' "'The, whole party took rooms at the Heririco' House, where they remained from the first of May until the fatal fifteenth of June. , ~ ~ ""* " And here' commenced the strange con duct oil the part of Lily, whujh. her old servant ascribed to a, disordered mind, but which T knew to be the .effects of the deadly drug administered id' stupefy her senses. , w ■■•..: "Captain Bulany for the third time re newed his addresses to her, and on tliis occasion. she submitted tp .them. Her old servant,; who was in, the sqcrets of her former. marriage, could only look on _ in airiazempnt, until hecamo'tp the, conclusion 'that her mind was deranged , . " The fifteenth of July, Lily's, twenty secbnd birthday, was set for the wedding, which was to be privately solemnised m, .the bride's apartments at the Henrico House. "■.'.. ■ ';..,;,.,.■■ -■ . j - ' " As-Lily was utterly t in<japable qf super intending, her o.wn wedding outfit, a fashionable modiste, was called in by General Slaughter to take charge of the trousseau, which. wa,s to be very elegant, and abundant, as., it had been decided between General. Slaughter;, and Captain Dulany .thajb, immediately after the cere mony, the. newly-married pair should.set but on a tour through the various, fashion able resorts of the North. "During all those arrangements, the visits of the bridegroom-elect, the discus sions about, travels; settlements, and future residence ; choosing of goods, ipatternsand jewellery, and the, trying oil of dre"s'sfes, mantles, and hats, 'Lily remained as white, still and unconscious of all that was going onas" if she had. been a corpse.' <■ - <\ "You wih wonder that Captain Bulany, or any man, shoitld' have wished, oV even consented, to marry such an apathetic bride; but the old servant thought that thb cap. : taiii was talked into it by the geheral, and also , influenced ;by the great fortune, of the youno- lady. However that might be, the marriage was a settled purpose that Was to be fulfilled on the morning, ofLily's : fciVleflty secohd. birthday. >•■•'-- . : "Oil the evening of• the iourteeTith of ,july everything was iri fettdilieSS fdl" the wedding, the breakfast and the journey, even to the' packing \\p of all the' bride's wardrobe, with 'the exception of "titer wed ding-dress'and travelling-dress ; as Letty, • who had been hard at work all day complet ing the task, told her fellow-servants that night'at tea.' . ..•■.■'. "Alter tea, however, arrived the fashiph; able modiste with the ' bridal veil, and wreath. She expressed her desire then to be shown to ' Mjss Lily's ' room. The old ser varit'Hbrschel conducted her to ' the 1 dpb.r. She Went in,' and after greeting- the bride ariddisplaying t\\6 veil and the wredth, she expressed' a j wish'that .' Miss Lily.should try on her WeddiWg dress, for the; last time, ,td see whether"' it wWsieally/a'perfect fit. of whfeth'er it; tieedfed ; any- flight .alteration, fch'afc. '■c6uld'.be : ma4.e-therij ' ' ' ,• "";;; : ; ' ;. '. '" : £ily, ; .'fair , 'arid still 'as : an. alabaster imajgef fetifr&iefi; In all hef ! Taijidjil ''i&lfes l'i/jii White satin itMned dEve^ :: 'i&pe <? v f r ' 'dress' and Bruisels lace veil' and orattge flowfe? wreatlii and to be led to the glass tb, seethe effect:"., ' .'.' , . '.'. ~ "She surveyedhev reflect'M image in the ■prirror, arid for' the a wan sinlie flitted like a hibohbeatn over her white face; ' theii Letty took up the casket of jewel's, the bridal preseht of Ckptain Sulany, and selected from theset'a 'spien'did^nejcklace_of large opals set.in diamonds, she at-' ; tetapted' to' clasp' arQuhd her yoUng lady's nedk ; but with : a shudder • aild. suppressed shriek Lily pushed it, away,".knd dropped half fainting into her dressihg-chair. . •' "Then they would hkv6 taken off her dress; but she th'6m ; all away, f 'with her hands.' Letty and to her th&t it was Clßven o'efofek, aild the dressmaker ,wa.nted to ga .home. But Lily: 'tobt nb notice.. 'She seettied too miht tb ahsSve'V, miichtoo faint to stand , up and be undressed,; Then Letty whispbred; tb the dressmdker that ''sHe ; rtfeed not wait,, that ■$,er?_elf,— undress; her mistress

fc Bβ very particular iii handling the rich j'and delicate robe, laces and' flowers',' took leave arid went away. Letty, left alone in attendance iipoti Kef mistress, waited for 'some sign from Lily to commence her .services. The lady gave no sign, bub sat . like a veiled statue. Letty approached at, ■length, arid asked Miss Lily if she might" nob'help her todisrobo ; bub bhe phantom like white- hand flew up in deprecation of being disturbed, and then fell helpless by her side. " Lebby- recoiled, and, being very tired > with her day's packing, sab down ;in a low seat in the farthest of the room, to wait the' summons of her mistress. ' "There, after a while, she fell asleep, with her back in the corner of the walls. I She slept, as negroes sleep, very soundly, 1 or, as they express it, like fche dead. She slept until she was aroused by a load' knock ing at the door, and the voice of an hotel v-alber bawling bhat it was seven o'clock !{that being the hour at which he had been |- directed'to rouse the whole party on this ' det'tined wedding day), Letby sprang up, stre-tched herself, collected her faculties, . arid hastened to her young mistress, wonder ing, as she afterward said, whebhor Miss . Lily Jhad fallen asleep in her chair and i slept all night, as she herself had dono, i "Yes, apparently Lily had slepb bhere i all nigkvt. Sne sat' in the same attitude in which Lebty had left her, motionless as a : veiled" sixabiie. •- '' Letty called her softly. 1 "There was no answer. ' " She drilled lpudly. 1 " Still nil answer. "Letty herit fonvard-, arid peeped into I her. face, ar*l took her hand, but instantly 1 dropped that hand again with a shriek, :and a t succession of shrieks, that quickly 'brought all within hearing to the room. :©6nenil Slaughter, who came among, the and caught a glimpse of the bridal i figure in the. chair, pushed everyone else aside with much more rudeneae than con ' sideration, and lurried to his wurd. " There sat tM beautiful outward form of Lily, clothed in magnificeat bridal array, but, empty, dead and cold. Lily herself had passed o\it hours before. (" She had visited me in my cell at one o'clock bhat morning, a3l have told you ) " There were wild lamentations among her negro servants. That raco do not suppres* their grief fot anybody or any thing on any grievous occasion. There was horror and woe even in the savage bosom -qf Hiram. Slaughter. They could see ib on his face, though he opened not his mouth except to give an order that a physician should be called. . " The physician, who arrived in haste, made an examination of the body, and pro nounced that ib had been dead for five or six hours. After a short conversation with General Slaughter, he decided that death had ensued from softening of the brain, of some months' continuance, and he gave a certificate accordingly. This' prevented whab General Slaughter termed tho useless distress of a coroner's inquest. •'The-wedding was turned to a 'funeral. And as soon as the proper arrangements could be made* the remains of Lily Vale were conveyed to Hill Top Manor, and ] laid in the family vault under the chapel. , ■ ''General Slaughter bad only waited to i see the iron door mortared up,.and then attended only by his yalet, ho had again . left Hill Top Hall for New York, en route for Europe, . . ' "Such was the ; story bold to me by old ': Herschel. I thanked him, and I: knew that Lily had been true to me, through the change called death, and waited me in the higher life."

CHAPTER XIV.

"we lose ourselves in liqiit." Yeß,Hopo may whisper with the dead By bending forward, where they are; But Memory, with a backward tread, ■ Communes With them afar. Th' 6 joys We lose arc bot forecast, And we shall find them all onoe niore; ■ - Wβ look behind us for tho past, i' But k>! 'tis all before! Anonymous. "I Went home. Oh, how I loathed with all my soul General Slaughter and all his proud, demoniac race ! How 1 longed to exterminate them !. What maledictions I called down upon them. , "That mood of mind lasted all through the sere autumn and the frozen winter of my unutterable woe. Wheite and wliat is hell, Gertrude ? Why, iti is \ere beside us, , and too of ton within us. We -yield to the evil passions of hate, revenge, Or som6 other form of subtle and intense selfishness, and lo ! we are in hell; and hell in us. Wβ suffer the torments of the damned. Never shrink from my strong language, child. It is not as strong as tho fact underlying it. I suffered more from the fiery passion of hate and the unsated desire for revenge than from bereavement and sorrow. And yet I wondered why all my midnight prayers, aspirations, longing to see once again a vision of my Lily, were never answered. I did not know that '' I could iiot find her in my evil sphere, even though I sought her many days with tears. , I began tb regard my vision as a hallucina tion, a- dream, a more coincidence, as my mother had called it. Ah ! we *Will not believe, though one should xise from the dead,' unless, perhaps, another and another could rise {visibly) every day to keep alive bur faith. But to return. " All through the sere autumn and the Irozen winter I remained in the pit; but .With the spring a blessed change came over my spirit as over the earth. All nature had not a more glorious resurrection than had my own'soul.' f ■ '' If happened in this way. I hadalways been ah attendant on the Sabbath Services of the Old Red Sandstone; Church, but I had never gone there during th& week. My pool , toother, however, was ft devotee. She attended all theservioes of the , church—the weekly services hitherto alone; but this year, through her many troubles, she" had sunk into age and infirmity, and I had to go' With her to take" care of her.- • : I ; "'lt was Holy Week—the week preceding Easter- Sunday. ' -' ■ "There were services, every evenings when the lessons read from the Scriptures were the chapters treating of our Lord's life during the last few days preceding His cfueifixioii, when His few devoted bhildr'eh drew neare"r ; fco i Him; went to and fro with Him on the dusty road between Bethany and Jerusalem, in andout with Hini through the gates of ; the city, the doors' of the te,mple; the houses of his friends; sat down with Hint at 1 the last eilpper, went,forth with Hitii to the garden of GethsetnanS, fol lowed -Hini to the, tribunal of Pilate, and finely lay dowft in th'i at His bleeding , feet on awful Calvary*- ■■, - . : . .. .■ '" Oh, let us touch this story the deepest reverential love— story so old, but eternally new; so familiar, yet so awful. I had heard : it:froro inyr childhood up, yet now I listened 'as if-I'had never be foi-e had it entered deeper than my outward ear and natural intelligence. , , r .. , " I.hadb~eeh christened, confirmed in the  churchi and I had even, communed at Lord's supper,, and had beeri aChristian in faith and ih'p'ractic'e from my. youth up, yet never had I received the truth of the Lord's divine iov6 in my soiil as I received it then when we lived over with Him again those last fewawfui days of His earthly life; And what, subdued me most waa, the ma, jestic meekness in that pivirie love. It bowed down all my human pride, and selfishness, and self.assertion; And then arid I put away all thoughts of ,wrath arid vengeance, to make room for the Lord's love and meekness.... . » . "On the next Easter Sunday my soul also .had- a. resurrection f lo^ l - the, death of selfishness to. the life o.t divine leye, .. X cquTd"see" W Lily'in. heaveh, now!, by this lig[ht of tank.j ; I; did not need .ft yisioh of

night to show her to me. "And then when I, no longer in the anguish of doubt and impatience, invoked her presence, then when I was calm aad trusting, I found my angel again." " Found your angel again !" breathed Gertrude, in awe. "Yes," murmured the old man,, bowing !ijs head in reverence. " It was one riidrh ing early in May. I awoke at dawn of day. It was too early to rise, yet I did not want to go to sleep again ; so I lay and watched the brightening of the eastern horizon above the mountains beyond the river, where the sun was soon to rise in glory, and I thought it like the brightening of Truth and Love, of Light arid Joy, over the whole world at the coming of the Lord. " When my eyes were tired with gazing through the uncurtained window, I closed them, arid lay in a reverie until a soft light appeared before me, that dilated until it disclosed within it the lovely form of my arie'el Lily, clothed in shining raiment, her fair brow wreathed with lilies, her bright hair, eilver in the sunshine, and golden in the shade, flowing like a mantle of light around her, her face radiant with still joy. The glory of her presence illumined all the scene around her, find showed her standing in a garden of suj er.ial beauty, filled with flowers, shrubs and trees, arboi'S, lakes, fountains", such as were never seen in this sub-world; in comparison to which the grandest and most beautiful scenery on this poor earth are but rude charcoal sketches, rough clay models. " While I gazed in a rhapsody that almost suspended animation-, the heavenly vision melted away, and I sank into a dreamless sleep. "I was awakened by the sun's , rays streaming in through the open window and shining on my face. "lawoke with only a confused memory of my vision, but as I tried to recall it it came back distinctly to my mind, and filled me with joy. , " As soon as I was dressed I went down stairs, and met my mother at breakfast. I told her of the vision that had passed be fore rae in the dawn of- day. I: " She begged to assure me that it was a ■dreamand nothing more. " / knew that my spiritual eyes had been ,opened into heaven." " But, grandpa,- how very wonderful!" Said Gertrude. "My little True, as I said before, every thing is wonderful, or nothing is!" re plied the mystic, reverently bowing his ,head. " Did you ever see her again ?" ; "Yes, many times from that day to this ; but only when my natural eyes have been closed, and my spiritual eyes opened. Often in the early morning, when I first awake, I shut my eyes that I may see her : and I al most always do see her. Often, also, in the silent night, when I am sleepless from anxiety, 1 heor her sweet voice speak to me ;—only one word— * Gabriel,' but in a tone of eitch inelfable tenderness, love, hope, that all my cares are soothed away, and my troubled thoughts rest in ' a great calm,' as did the stormy waves at the divine man date, 'Peace, be still.' Sometimes, when my head has ached, 1 have felt the soft touch of her hand, light as the fall of a rose leaf, on my brow, and the pain has dissolved away beneath it. But when I have felt that healing touch, I have neither seen her lovely form nor heard her sweet voice." Gertrude gazed at the speaker with troubled eyes, as she thought of the many rumours she had beard from the neighbours reflecting on the old man's sanity, and she began to fear these rumors might have some foundation in fact. Meantime the mystic continued.: " My child, she is always near me, I know, even when I neither see, hear nor feel her presence. She is in heaven, and yet she is with me. That is a mystery, unless we can understand it through the text, 'The kingdom, oi heaven is within you.' Sometimes I think when she passed through the ' gblderi "gates' I got a glimpse of the glory within, that has never ceased to light up my lonely life. Once the future state was with me a matter of weak faith arid faint hope ; now it is the intense, substantial reality — the glorious, joyous, immortal reality—of which this life is a distorted shadow. " Her so-called death was my birth. I, too, had passed from death to life. I no longer cherished even tho merest resent ment against the man whose'eruel tyranny had cub off her young earthly life, and broken my- own heart. Anger, desire of revenge, every form' of selfishness passed away from me then,for ever, as I hope. I have lived in peace and chanty with all mankind. " Even when, the following Christmas, General Slaughter came back to Hill Top Hall, and filled the house with a boisterous party of men from the city, who gambled, drank, and caroused around the sacred shrine of my Lily's mortal remains, it did not disturb my peace. " Indeed, I never saw General Slaughter at that time. He avoided this ferry, and rode miles out of his way to the lower ferry whenever he found it necessary to cross the river. In fact, my little True, I never saw his face again until 1 saw it on his death bed last night. " My life passed on, year after year, very monotonously, until tho fifteenth anniver sary.of Lily's departure brought the third great crisis, in my own history. 1 ' Here the ferry-man paused, and fell into a reverie that lasted until his eyes fell Upon the expectant face of the young girl seated at his feet. " You are a gatient child, my little Truda; so how id re.warcl you. It was just fifteen years after fiiy ""lily went to heaven that my dear old mother passed away, at the ripe old. age of eighty years. She went off so peacefully, so happily, that I almost envied h.er. release. *' That iiighb some of our kind neigh bours came '.to' watch beside the body, which, with the impress left by the parting spirit upon its calm and noble features, lay in this room as if in a deep, delicious sleep. " Contrary to custom, I chose to sit among the watchers,' and I sat there until a late hour. There was a storm' brewing then ; such a storm it proved to be as never had been seen in these parts before, and has never been forgotten since. Then none of us imagined that it was going to be more than the usual thunderstorm in the moun tains, which is always bad enough, to be sure. But I thought of my boats, which had been forgotten and neglected all day long, on account of my mother's departure, and which would be in danger of being carried off; should there be any considerable freshet in the river, such as usually follows aithunder-stqrmjn these mountains. ; "1 took my hat and umbrella and opened the front door to sally out into the night, but I was brought to a stand for a moment by the aspect of the sky. __ !" Such a sky I never saw Before or since. I(j was nighty and it should have been dark, but it was not; for though there was neither ir|oon nor star tobe seen, there was a murky, lifrjd, sulphurous vapour, as if from the re flection , of uriseeri fifes: -while above tlie Eagle Roost Eidgej on the other side of the river, was piled up 4<*d heaving up a moun tain of the blackest, heaviest, densest cloud that I ever had seen. " I gazed for a moment and then hurried down to the boat-houses to secure my -little fleet) before dshe tempest should burst. About half.-a-dozen little skiffs were drawn up high and dry upon the , sands. With hard labour I got them one by one into the boat-house, and. had chained; up all except the last when I heard a shout from the other side of the river— ".'.Boat!' : : ......- '.'At that moment, the storm burst with a flash of . lightning, lighting up all the sdene; which was swallowed the next instant in total darkness; while a crash of thunder as if a.planet had'burst in mid-air, shook the- Very mountains tg their foundation,

and a deluge of rain fell, as though all tlie ' windows of heaven ' had been opened at once and the world was to be drowned in another flood. " When the thunder had ceased to roll and tumble down from the zenith to the horizon like the fragment of an exploded earth, and nothing louder than the pouring rain could be heard, I seized the speaking trumpet that hung up in the..boat-house, pub it to my lip and shouted across bhe water: T-1 ' . " 'No boat could live on the Wilde in rvuch a night as this ! It would be more tftan our lives are worth to attempt to cross. Take shelter in the ferry-house on your side, and wait until the storm is over —then I will come for you. , " ' You're right!' answered the voice from the other side. "Bubbhe sound was instantly followed by a second vivid flash of lightning, in which the whole landscape suddenly blazed up as with a conflagration, and then sank into total darkness, while another crash ot thunder shook the heavens and the earth ; and the rain fell in torrerits. " I lighbed my largest lantern, and hung ib to the window of the boat-house, as a friendly beacon to the waiting travellers on the obhor side. Then I wrapped my cloak aboub me, book my little lantern in my hand, arid returned through' the storm to the house. "I secured all the doors and windows; then changed my drenched clothing, and went and stit down with the watchers m the peaceful room of death. " What a contrast that sweet calm bo the wild tumult) without ! My spirit found re pose. " But all around the house—all bhrough the mountains and the forests—up and down the rivers—all. through that terrible night raged the most tremendous and des tructive storni that was ever seen, heard of, or read of. All night long the lightning blazed and bla2ed as if it would have set the world on fire. The thunder rolled and crashed as if it would have ground this mighty earth to powder. The rain poured as if ib'would again have drowned the whole human race.

" I thought with pangs of anxiety about the waiting travellers on the other side. _ 1 hoped that they might be safely sheltered in the little ferry-house under Eagle Roost Ridge. But good wishes were all that ; I could give tnem. I could no more have attempted to cross the Wilde in sueh_ a night as that, with any chance of sucqessin reaching the other side, than I could nave tried to cross a lake of fire with any hope of doing it. "The awful war of the elements con tinued. "Added to the howling of the wind, the rolling of the thunder, and tho reverberat ing echoes of the mountain passes, we're now heard another sound more rilled with fear and horror than those of wind and thunder. " It was the angry roaring of the Hurry and the Whirl, now raised to the volume and force of cataracts, and tumbling down the mountain-side, carrying destruction and death in their course. " The quiet watchers by the quiet sleeper in the peaceful room now began to mutter prayers between their pale lips, for even the women knew as well as I did what that voice of, the Whirl and the Hurry meant. They knew it meant an inundation of the valley. . . ■ "At length toward morning the light ning and the thunder ceased, but the rain still fell in floods, and the angry roar of the raging waters filled the air. "Fortunately, the homes of all these kindly neighbor women who weFe watching with me were situated higher up on the mountain and entirely out of danger from the waters. I reminded them of this fact, and assured them their houses, families, and goods would be quite safe from the flood. . "One of them thanked the Lord that this was so ; but they all shuddered. " I knew then that they were thinking of danger to this house ; and I hastened to as sure them that I thought weY "also, were far enough from the river to be secure, especially as there was a rise of about fifty feet from tho water's edge to the house, and as in rid previous rise of the river had the water ever reached us. " The woman who had spoken before now breathed a prayer that we might Continue to dwell in safety; but, as before, all shud dered. "Meanwhile, the tremendous roar of the falling waters continued. • "At last I went to the door and looked out. < Nothing whatever could be seen but a universe of blackness. And nothing could be heard but the tremendous roar of the waters overpowering all other sounds. "It was all unutterably horrible-night, thick darkness, and the roar of an approach ing inundation—how near us, none could' see, how soon to overwhelm us in sudden death, who could tell ? Like Ajax, I prayed ' for .light only to see the foeman's face.' "I shut the door and returned to my seat among the watchers. •'The clock on the mantel-shelf struck three, and I said to myself that the day would soon dawn, and show us the real amount of danger done, and the danger to be dreaded. ]"I sat and listened to the awful roaring of the waters, and waited for the coming day until a low, half-suppressed shriek from one of the women startled me. . ' j'r & l£m ced at her horror-stricken face and trom that to the object at which she was pointing. ," A J i ne of creeping in under the door Lven while I gazed, the line crept steadily on, and became a pool. I started up, for I knew theri that the ixuxdatiox WAS UPON US.

(To be Continued.)

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A. Weird to the Medical Professior , Itls not ffonekljyknqwn that-CoooaEssSnceis more closoly allied tomiik than any other animal orvegetable BuDstanco. and as it oontaiSsdl ! the elements indispensable for the growth and development of tho body, and can always be presented in a. fluid Wit is, next to,mil£ %vl ferable to any other natural substance as an article for intent aliment. Owing to the srpit millc in our large towns, this article should receive the careful attention of medical men Considering also that a great proportion of the mixtures, sold as . Cocoa are adulterated with starches and other substances thatlbwlr their value as food, especially in their nitnlenous ': ~ •■ -: 'Genuine Milk dried. . Cadbury's TTftt . O1 Cocoa Essence". jDaseinv.i 35 . " d?| Sugar and Starch.. 37 ■' " tkl Theobromine .. o "' '" '" o* |Ash' ..■ ..... . .;.;:. J yim S Jeul Ca^bUry ' S COCOa EsSeiice d see that j Lookfor the words " Freeziricj Comrmriv " on the margin of the pats ; shll the centre. No other reliab]e.^-(Aivi ) V'i*£» »»accp Un tof their, ■Kf'-'-jJ . r. :W. Perkins, M R C <? MiJ, T. TRAFPORD : . SUR&EON DENTIST K^ov^a^eid , s^^ tiia * central offices wt5 eet . to m °re W a yte's,BooielK^oslWyndh^ r f Mr '-



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ffs ~\ , 1% Vlsrt ■i| ,-; UOBSON-STREBr. „ v' easiest possible way. Ure in t^j of 20s and upwards; • 8 w ™ng) on all parcels ? INSPECTIoJINVITED. ■ Tramoars pass the door. ■ ■' ■ "•" : . ' ; '■ mO prove its absolve'' fcVutV § [ Gβ ■*-;.;. fulness, call at the' i; ~M\ ®* BON MARCHE, p' ; Where they are holding their Hair- |*|i § ; gTOCK-TAKINa;;v| : : £LEARANCE '"gitiig"; >w And practically giving. Goods- td PJ n- : ' _a\rey, asunder :-..•■ . ! S3- : m Dress.Fabrics, 5Jd, worth Is- 8d- pS;» f«S|ae>st as; , + 3s ' 2s 6d, : worth is9d /- OS ItaJ Ladies'and ChU'dren'sV : ffrj ,Ulsters,.JackQt3,and>- iingly'-r, fed? Jerseys . 4 chfap; rvrv „. Umbrellas . J ,[ rSi x , (JJ Bonnets, 6d, worth is 9dll : ' lf;t H^- Ztl Hatß w orth,2alWto'os , ; aha Trimmed Millinory.: at one-third- fHr -.■TO-- v'"-■- ■••;;•, , W'- r ' -g A warehouseman's Stock of Birds, v ffitf" fcfi »i and Feathers:; ,-"o Mi Also, Tan Eid and Swede, : Glqtes weiKi T , BELOW PRICES." , HH. ~Genuine; Bargains in all ' wi' piaj "- '.' Bepartments. ';;.-...:■. UJ.^ TJI 20s BUNDLES REMNANTS for 10s: W : ; W ; - A STYLISH DRESS'MAIiE : 'V 'ujj ij -; '. ; FOR 12S to' ■:;■ ;. ; ~;}] ;(*■!?.., BON MAECHE, . '7/) -r.;\ <:-rj'.v, 'P.<r\''U'v 1 'un ,'2? ;■■'■■ (Three floors fflSnTWen6s%j--3f.Ei> u< xwn Goods ia Men's, Ynftths' »i»cl - .fiLOTHINGI H AT S !^O' ; HOSIERY 1 SHIBT3! A)| w; li Ir e^er y i>sparianenfij;t ; Iwi contains some ... ~":'j ■Br S PECIALLY C™; I Whioh can only te secured by .j^h] ■.. .? ; ■■..•-..- :' ; *; ..•' 'r- ; "■"' i;n ' '■''' i ; . s "', .' ',V '- --' .. [..•.■,•.'' W' of the late Thomas Short are .prepared:.. to olfer for a short time only'the; choice of ■ largest stock in Auckland ot Blankets, V.U&, - Flannels, and M-Woollen : Goods a jreat , discount. Blankets, froifl 4s from 58 6d each; filter from Flannels.(guaranteed.all .wqoDifrofflioQ. A, few. Eiderdown Quilts at cost price. ; . "■• TiyrUFFSI '' MUFFS MUFFS! . CRINOLINES ijGRINdIiINES; ;i " CRINOLINES :?". r-- •■;' ,:: *' AT P. PA V I S:O N'S BABY LINEN & LADIES' ; UN'd'e'bLiNES l ; ; WAREHOUSE. 180-MUFFSto" be solf at the followlielgjt prices :-Black Astrachan Muißj atl%UM.orffl| Is ild ■; Oold Black and Fancy BaUn Muffs at y  -2s 6d; worth 6s Gd; Cold Plush tod R at 2s lid, worth 8a 6d; Cold Plush -MtUB »,,»... ■'"■ Splendid Assortment of ~ i NEW BABY Lltf'EN;-- Mei-ino Pelisses, from 2s lid t£3os; CloaH . 456dt025 3 ; Robes, 3s 6d to 2ps; N^ht.and Day- Go'wns,'is 6d to 63 6d; Infants' Hoods, Jtofttf BonneW.2s.6dtol6s6d; Merino FrocksttMto ;; : ; ssod- Flannels, Short and Long Slips bgnarM... -~■< Bte Shirts and Bands. Waterproof! Sheeft , Napkins, Aprons, and Bibs., A large variety t». choosefrom at the very lowest prices. ; ._„, : NO. 9, JUNCTION QUEEN & GREY S S, ,^ QUITS to.orderfrom : 503, ) >3 pair of Trousers for notfcwsoTJ'feW , * - Tailor, : >..