KILDEE;

The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "Tho

Fugitive Bride," &c\

CHAPTER XLVII

THE night was still and starlit. There was no moon. Had there been, its white radiance would have paled in the red glare of the torches that lib the largo central square of Wallporb.

The square was surging with people, white and black, men "and boys, with a. sprinkling of women. And near the tall j monumental shaft that rose ill the centre ot j the square there were a number of carriages containing ladies and their escorra. Near to the monument the speaker's stand had j been erected. Behind it Iloated a _ ilag | bearing the symbols of the state ; on either side of it flared immense red torches on tall, narrow stands. A band of musicians, seated on the granite pedestal of the: monument, played lively airs on their j glittering instruments, while the people. gathered. . * When the city clock had struck eight the crowd began to shout and huzza for their different candidates. A bluff-looking j man in grey mounted tho stand and mado a speech in eulogy of Norton. That trained and wily politician was then called for, and i made a witty little speech of live minutes. ! He seemed disposed to speak longer, but j there were shouts in tho crowd for Heath- i Cliff. It was known that the occasion was j i his : the meeting had been gotten up j chiefly by his friends, and .since his losses by the tire, the tide of sympathy had run strongly in hi* favour. "Heathcliff! Heathcliff!" roared the crowd, and the Mayor of WaUporfc ascended the rostrum. Ho wa« very palo ; his arm was stfil in a cling, and a red sear branded his forehead, showing where it had coire in contact with a burning beam. But Ins manner was as quiet and self-controlled as ever, and his voice, as it went out over tho throng, had that deep, weighty utterance that commands .silence and inspires trust. He briciiy explained his views upon the question of labour and capital—views which had been so grossly misrepresented. His setting forth of the respective rights erf employer and labourer was impartial and dispassionate, and so forcible and simple that the most obtuse could not fail to understand; He said ho had never before spoken in public of himself. There had seemed no need. huh of lus life — all its best years- Imd been spent among them ac a mere y»nth—poor, un known, with but one friend in the city — his mother. Thoro Had been some years of etrugglo; Ui-.-n ' !t - » atl become oble to buy a small i«icrest in the machine shop which ho afterward owned. Ho saved money and bought real «wtuto, which he sold when it increased in value, (..radiuilly ho had engaged in enterprises requiring him to employ a number of hands. .Many of these men wero present. it anyone of them could Pay that ho anyone known to him had not received fair wages for fair work, let him speak. If any one could say that lid had been wronged or mistreated, or discharged unless for per sistent misconduct or neglect of work, lot him speak. If any who hnd ever been in his employ could soy that lie had been ill or in distress and had let his wants be known without receiving assistance, let him speak. il To the pause that followed there, \v;%s ifjilence. Ko voico was- raised in contra assertion. • .". '''. Heathcliff resumed. He said that in cteal •. ing fairly, justly and humanely by his employes, a lnan did only what plain duty required of him." He deserved no credit for it, 'and it was foolish, egotism to speak of its unless forced to do co by being mis represented. At this point, Honor Montcalm threw back the luce veil slio hud worn, and listened with an agitation she could hardly control. Hho sat with her friend Mrs Blair in a dose carriage drawn up in tho shadow of a tree. Colonel Blair, who had, come with them, had got out of the carriage bo speak to friends in the crowd. Honor had come expecting, yet dreading to hear Heatliclitl"denounce tho underhand methods which certain unscrupulous spirits hud used in conducting the campaign on her father's side. She trembled lest she should hear that father's high name publicly lowered by being connected with these dishonest methods. Since the burning of his factory there had been a strong reaction among the masses in Heathcliffa favour. It was felt that ho had been wronged. Tho scales had fallen from the eyes of many who had been blinded by the specious representations of young Hall and his confreres. There was a sup pressed feeling that injustice hnd been done to a man whom the city and the stato at large owed much, and it needed but a touch" of inflammatory eloquenco from Heathcliff to make this burst out in open indignation. But no such tone came from Heath cliff, and Honor drew a deep breath of relief as she listened, while her heart beat with admiration of the man who forbore to use the means of retaliation which were ready to his hand. Did he forbear for her sake? Honor thought not so. The motive which might have endeared him to some women would have detracted from him in the eyes of this woman who put honour above love. It was the magnanimity of the man, she said to herself, which made him forbear to ex pose one who, though now an opponent, had once been a friend. Heathcliff did not allude to the charge which had been flaunted by " The Rattler " that ho had turned off a number of his factory hands because he believed they would not vote for him. Ho refuted the charge, however, by showing plainly the necessity which had caused him to restrict operations at his mills during this almost panic summer. Other factories in this and neighbouring states had closed doors for months. He showed by figures that he had run his mills at a loss to himself. When it became necessary to reduce the number of hands, it had not been done by drawing lots as some of the men had wished, because this had not appeared to him perfectly fair. It seemed better to dismiss those who were best able to do without the money their work at the mills might bring. He had made strict inquiry into the circumstances of tho hands before he had dismissed any. . When he spoke of the burning of the fact ory it was only to regret it, less as a Joss of property than as a loss of what had been a pride and an object of keen interest to him, and, as he believed, of profit and pride to the city. It was gone. The place where it stood was now a blank vacancy—a blot upon the city's prosperity. But it should not remain long so. The building, as was well known, had been hardly half covered by insurance. Its loss had crippled him severely, but it had not wholly dis abled him. i" The Rattler " had declared him on the brink of bankruptcy.) Friendly capitalists had stretched out their hands to him, and the factory v/ould be rebuilt. Work would soon be begun upon it. Applause and cries of " When ? When ?" rang , throughout the crowd. '•Not next moath, nor next week," he answered. "To-morrow at sunrise? the first blows will bo struck toward rebuild ing the destroyed factory. In a very few months tho wUv of busy wheels will again be heard in factory Kow."

Deafening shouts of applause went-up from the crowd. Heatlicliff's factory had been the pride of the city. Its destruction had been a state loss ; the announcement that it would be rebuilt and by its former owner, whom all feared was hopelessly dis abled in business, was a cause for public gratulation. What he promised all kne.w would 1)0 performed. Tho applause con tinued after h« left, the stand, and when a sturdy, plainly-dressed man appeared on the platform and ib was understood that he was an advocate of Heathcliff, he was greeted with cheers. He was recognised us a master machinist, once a citizen of Wallport, but now living in an adjoining state—a worthy and reliable man. Ho said he had never spoken in public before in his life, but he had seen the tricks employed by tho opposition to injure Heathcliff, and he wanted to add his testimony to what the mayor had beon obliged to say in his vindi cation. Hβ was not now in Heathclin s employ, but for ten years he had worked in his machine-shop, and nover once, ho could honestly say, had he been treated other than squarely. Once tho boss had spoken to him in a quick harsh way, but he came and. apologised for it as man to man. Onoe he had been discharged, but it was for drunkenness. It was in the days when he had loved whisky too well. In the sickly summer of 76, when his family were down with fever, Heathcliffhad visited and helped them as he had tho sick folks in Factory Row this summer where the dengue was bo bad. He had done one thing that showed the mnn more than any other act, " It came to my ears," said the machinist, "by accident. It's known to most of you that the man who is now in #aol for firing ! Heathcliff s mill had been discharged from his employ for repeated misconduct, and that ho made his wife quit out of spite, and I made it his business to abuse Heathclif! at ! every street corner ; but it is not known ex ! Copt to somo fow folks at the Kow that the mayor, has supported tins mr»n"s i family all the summer, and every bit of i bread they had put in their month, every shoe they had put on their feet, came from him. AVrite that down on the credit side of the man you try to call a heartless ■ money-grinder," .said the old machinist as I he put his hat on his head and turned to go. J "There's lots of things like it I could tell i you, but I have said enough." ! "No, no, go on," shouted tho crowd. I " Heathciiff ! 'Hurrah for Heathelifl! Oo i on."

But another figure had appeared on the stand — a lithe, youthful figure — a dark palely - glowing face, eyes that Bashed half-raockingly over the crowd, it was tho first time the dashing boy speaker had ever failed to be greeted with applause when he appeared, but now there were no cheers. He was known to be tho bitterest bounder of Heathcliff. " The Rattier " hud every morning been filled with his vonomed attacks. And Heathcliff jw«t now was up borne on the iicklo wave ot popular favour. There were a few hisses and loud cries of " Down, Hall; go on, old man. Hoathcliff for ever !" He threw up his handsome head do fiantly. There came a eecond'a pause ; then, high and cleaiywitU its daring, inoek iti"- note, rang tho bugle voice of the boy : :, I shall s>peak about Heathcliff. it i» why 1 am here." The old man stepped down. Tho young Alcibiaden threw back his curls with a toss of hie handsome head and looked over the expectant crowd : " I come to speak of Heathcliff," ho said, << but—l come to bury your L-resar, nob to praise him. I come to bury him ill a sepulchre of infamy from which there is no resurrection ! Never .shall ho wear tho crown of state-he, the hypocrite, the pol troon, the eriuiipul !" Tlio words cub sharp and cle.nr through the silence. A shock ran over the crowd : then hisses and cries of " Liar, slanderer !" .filled the air. Bub again tang the bugle voice : " I come prepared to prove tho charge I make! i hurl'ifc in the teeth of the arch hypocrite standing there, and he dare not deny ib! Fellow - citizens, under the whitest of sheepskins thoro bun walked tlio blackest of wolves amongst yon—a man who under the guise of high morality, the model official, the patriotic citizen, tlio spotless, the pattern Christian—has out raged the laws of morality and the lawe ofliis land. Listen, and yon si.all hear: "Two years a«o this city was. thrown into commotion by the murder of one of her best citizens, Captain Montcalm, a brave ox-soldier, and the brother of our gallanb general, was stabbed in his own home by tlio hand of his wife. The woman disappeared, Sho packed her jewels and other, valuables, »ho stepped across tho pool of her husband's blood, into tho night and tiio streets of Walipoi't, and there sho disappeared as utterly as though tho earth had opened and swallowed her. Li vain the city was searched from end tp end ; tho trains, the outbound vessels, lv vain the telegraph - wires Hashed the woman's eriine arid the description of hor person across the Continent. In vain rewards wero offered and trained detectives pub upon the scent; LftiH'fl Alonlonhn was nob found. It has come to be believed that sho drowned herself on the night of the murder. But she did nob drown herself. Sho did not leave tho city. She has re mainod here ounpingly hidden by her lover —a man whom no ono dared to suspect. She remained here, harboured as hifi mis tress, by an arch-hypocrite—the chief ofli cial of the city, bound by his oath of office to protect that city's interests. Aye! Laura Montcalm —the husband-slayer—has, for two years, been harboured in this city by his honor, the Mayor of Wallport."

Had a bolt of deafening thunder fell from the starlighted sky, it could not have more startled and electrified the people. For a moment, a silence as of the death-chamber fell upon the assembly, The murmurs rose and swelled: voices began to vociferate :

"False! Slander! Prove it! Where is your proof ? Your proof !" Hazard made a step forward and pointed to Heathcliff.

"Proof?" he cried. "There ifc is! There, in that white face ; there, in those blanched lips ; there, in those guilty eyes 1 Look at the man! What other proof is needed? Bub you shall have other proof. I)o you see your sheriff yonder? He has just arrested and placed under guard, his prisoner, Laura Montcalm, the murderess? She sits at this moment with the irons on her wrists, stripped of the disguise in which she had eluded justice. For this model mayor and would-be governor has not only been accessory to capital crime by harbouring a criminal, but lie has been guilty in stealing tho personality of a woman who died two years since in a foreign land, and in it wrapping the criminal ho wished to hide from justice. In this dis guise she has sat by his side in your theatre ; by his side in his carriage as it rolled through your streets. Fellow - citizens, the daring imposition js scarcely creditable, but it is true ! For two years Laura Mont calm has lived among you as Miss Faust— the deformed woman of the Red House 1" ' The last charm had been cast into tho oaJdron. Commotion and wild confusion ensued, The crowd surged like tho waves of a storm-lashed ocean, Opposing utter. ances clashed against each other. There were a few shouts for Heathcliff—a few cries of "A lie! A hatched-up campaign Uo }" But these were drowned in hisses and vooifepafctonp fif "Hypocrite!" " Villain J" Down with him (' * ■ Away with him to gaol!" "Contess it ordenyib!" " Make him deny it or own it!" "tip with you, and Own' it, or prove ib a lie !" JM \vhffl> flt length, tho mayor's well known form arose, nob upon the speaker's wtftijfli bat upon the steps of the monument, a hush fell upon the assembly, He was pale as the. background of granite stone against which he stood, The piirnpd scar across his faco showed lurid purple in the torch-light. Twice ho essayed

to gpeak, bvit strong emotion choked his utterance. At length he conquered it. Strong and full, but with a vibrating tremor of feeling , , rang his voice: " Fellow-citizens,- what you have heard is true ! I have concealed Laura Montcalm for two years from the pursuing law which had such overwhelming evidence against lier. I , did it for two reasons. First — Laura Montcalm i« innocent of .murder— as innocent as the whitesb-soule'd child. Secondly—tho claim of nature—of kindred, of blood—demanded that I should protect her. Laura Montcalm is my sister." A loud, clear laugh of derision—Hazard's laugh—was tho comment. "Oh, white innocence! Oh, new-found relationship," cried, his mocking, voice. "Innocence that we arc asked to believe in tho fuee of the most damning facts. Rela tionship that nobody ever heard of in sill these years ! Oh ! most romantic .1 Had she a strawberry mark upon her arm, my honor able mayor ? Too thin, your excellency. Wo are not all fools, my good Sunday school superintendent." "Too thin!" echoed the crowd. "We are nob such fools as to accept your word for ib !"

The strongly - excited crowd surged toward the monument. In the lead were a dozen roughs, half drunk and reckless. Their controlling instinct was to pull down all that was above them. They saw now a chance to strike ono who seemed to bo down—the under dog in the tight, and they hastened to obey this savage instinct, yelling, "Down with him!" "The Sunday-school hypocrite!" "The goody-good, villain!' "Tho people's oppressor!" " The greedy monopolist!" " Down with him !"

They gathered ferocity as they yelled and pushed. Their blood-shot eyes darted venomous determination. The police seemed cowed. The few who appeared on the scene appeared powerless to uasert their authority over that tierce, drunken crew, armed with sticks and atones.

On they pressed to the monument. Heathelifl'atood there—his agitation (which had not been for himself) wholly subdued ; hia form erect, his face pale yet masterful. They flung themselves against him. He parried one blow and then another with his light walkine-cane, wielded by bis one sound arm. A red-faced giant raised his heavy bludgeon with what seemed mur derous intent, but a voice—a woman's voice—arrested the blow. He stopped and stared in stupid wonder in the direction whence the voice came.

In that direction there had beon a counter stir. Tlio crowd hud fallen back in con fusion. A pair of strong, black horses, urged by furious lashing .at tho driver's hands, broke a passage through the throng. They were reined up beside the monument. The door of tho carriage to which they were attached burst open, nnd a woman stotxl on tho step—tall, white-clad, death pale. "Cowards!" cried her high, sustained voico. " A score of you falling upon one disabled man ! Citizens, will you permit a fellow-man to be killed before your eyes in this way ?"

As blio spoke, a stone hurled by some reckless hand struck tho mayor on the forehead. Tho blood spurted ; tho man staggered back against tlio .stone pillar. Again the girl's voico rnng out, with a thrill of anguish sounding through it. " Hero ! For God's sake, bring him here. My purse of gold to those who will bring him hero."

Even in that moment of excited brute instinct, tho word gold was a charm. Strong arms seized Ira Heathcliff and bore his half-insensible form to tho carriage. He was placed on tho scat; the black horses onco more forced their way through the crowd, while Hazard Hall uttered a fierce oath.

"By nil the devils !" he cried. "It is Honor Morjtcahn, She has compromised herself for ever."

(To be Continued.)

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER i, 188fr

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Business Notices. Iron Curved for "Verandas (ANY PATTERN) SHORTEST NOTICE. George m°caul Manufacturing Plumber, AND IMPORTER OP ALL TRADE REQUISITES WELLESLEY STREET EAST (opposite New Library), and . BROWN & DAVY STREETS. THAMES. HAS FOR SALE— 200 Corrugated Galvanized Tanks (assorted) 600 Colonial Ovens (all sizes) 60,000 feet Lead Edge Ridjre Cap (all sizes) ■ 60 000 feet O.G. Spouting (all size?) 50,000 feet Downpipes (all sizes) 50,000 feet Galvauized Water Pipw (all slice) Lead-head Nails. Lead Washers, Portable Ovens, Furnace Frames, Copper Boilers, etc., etc., etc. Awarded Three First Prizes for above llnee, at Auckland Agricultural Show. Largest and best selection of Gas Globes In Auckland. As Q. McCAUL js a direct Importer for cash, ho is in a position to supply the trade at the lowest remunerative prices. Liberal discounts to the trade. Country Orders punctually attended to. GEORGE McCAUL, Marnifactnrfnj? Plumber, and Importer of all Vrade Requisites, Wollasley-st. East (opposite Hew Library), and Brown and Davy-street*, Thames. HOME JEWEL WASHING MACHINE IT WASHES EVERYTHING, from LACK 1-0 A COALSACK; CLEANS TKOUSERS without wetting a finger or knocking off a button. It does away with wet feet, pains in the arraa, back, and breast, and does a big day's washing in two hours. V HOME till JEWEL T^ \y#illil) $^vT HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS, M. M. LEVY, SOLE. AGENT, ALBERT HOTEL. isigY |B 'jtSSSh A FEW DOORS HIGHER UP THE STREET, And wishes to notify to all customers and the public that he intends to confine himself to the supply of ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF TTPHOLSTERY ORK, Including BEDDING, &c, &c. SPECIAL LINES: SPRING MATTRESSES in Hair, Kapok, Flax, and Flock ORDINARY MATTRESSES in Hair, Kapok', .Flax, Flock, and Feathers SUITES in Utrecht Velvet, f apestry, Leather, and Haircloth OCCASIONALCHAIRS in Variety of Coverings C. C. ~b »■<>»». HOBSON-STREET. J. BUTCHER,] [J. GROOM T OCAL INDUSTRY. Everyone interested in the prosperity of Axickland should purchase OCALLY-MADE SHIRTS AND UNDER CLOTHING, And not imported goois. See that your drapdr supplies you with the best articles, which are made by THE SHIRT AND UNDERCLOTHING MANUFACTURING CO., GREAT NORTH ROAD Established 1859. GEE & POTTER, COACHBUILDERS, ' LORNE AND RUTLANLI-STRBETS. Coaches, Carriages, "Waggonettes, Buggies, Pony Carriages, Carts. Drays, and every de scription of v chicles kept in stock, or built to order. The trade supplied. N.B.—Traps lent to customers whilst repairs arc being executed. ' 'CJYMONDS STREET BOOT FACTORY. Jo T. B. HEATH, : Being about to remove to his New Shop and Factory, will continue for a fortnight Specia Clearing Sales of his valuable and varied stoojj of Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's Boots and Shoes for Cash Only. , _ , J XT O W D B N, o JLJL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, QUEEN-STREET. Has now convenience for making and repair ing of Jewellery and for the repairs of every doscrlptlon of Watches, Chronometers. &c, See. and to further Increase his repairing and manu facturing department, ho ia disposing of the remainder of his PIANOS at and under coat. Persona having old gold J owcllery can have it made up into now and fashionable articles to order, and all the better class of watches and ehronorcotorarccctvo Ms personal supervision. Itotherhaiu3' Gonuino English. Ij3 ver ■< in stock. WXrnock brothers, Established 1862 mTTTJint)Q SOAP AND CANDLB MANUFACTURERS.- COX'S CREEK, AUCKLAND. Manuittcmrera of the Celebrated Kxtract oi Soap, Disintectant Powder, First Prize Yellow Blue Mottled, Double Crown, Economic, and Household, Carbolic, and other Medians-ana Toilet Soaps, made from tho purest oM allows, & Officea-DURHAM-STREET, Auckland. N. 8- Cash Purchasers ot Tallowy Wool, Sheepskins, and Bones. ______r- Gift for Home friends is J Brett's Aticldand Almanac, containing* : Kctorial Representation of ewiption of the Provincial Distriot, New Guide to Hot Lake, &C &c



Having pur c i, M ea the »i« • Th 9 largest land best stock in a , • choose^-wr^igpti he UjfiOT W-TUK MAwSf 48,f1,, ? , »»l ■ YOU CAS',,T AFFORD housekeeper to use wnmnpng evW]r BUENS'S . SQAPi: It is a simple but useful .artiole.'Thoaewhnfin to U3e It are still more simple, and wiSt ueeittl, **''■; p".' »r. —:xv You may have heard:of if a THOPSAim TIMES without using it ONCE. ' If you wm reverse the position and :TJSEITOieE J OU rTS iU V^ 3o i<; t0 otheiß * -THOUSAND' IIMJiS.—I have spent hundreds of convincing the women of Sew «ealaal m their labour can be greatly lightened bi'wM' BURNS'S Al SOAP (THE Wo&D RENOfli Cleaxser!), butl have fallen short oil my w bition if I have failed to CONVINCE IOU. /* f3 /Jj f* *, ,r" ■;„ &Men! i WHOLESALE AGENT- ' ! A. BUCHANAN. CUSTOMS STREET EASt .jji DG AR ASD JQftl DYERS, ESTABLISHED 1864. Still Dtixg to Live and Livins to fti Ladies' and Gentlemen's Wearing AIW : Cloned, Renewed, or Dredanycolour. Dw«t Curtains or Table Covers Cleaned, Reneww o Dyed. Feathers aha Gloves* CleaneWd MA \ any shade. Laceorotber Curtains Bleaohedcr Dypd, EDGAR, Dpi, WELLESLEY-STRIBT EAIiT, ASP HIC»' ? MOND, COX'S CREEK. i TP E A C 0 OJ. c ' OPTICIAN. MATHEHATIOAL AND NAUTIOArjKSIBOM^; ■. . ;,■ Makes, ,1 •■•-■ •- . ,_ ; SHORTU.N^-STREEX. Always in Stock- _ v Mmmsx Drawing Instruinen? S » Blntftc[eJ Magic Lanterns and|Ude|, mn t3 just Received- SetOarsTdesco&.POweM^^ SettS&idßarome^rtrongana^ Alsfs^apdEleotroWotorWor^M^ and Ste amers * '■:' '--l. ' ■ ' : y , ! Instrumentsofeverykii^P 81^ GROUND LIMB For tanks and . Acoonsi' hope RowJe.