KILDEE.

die Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "Tho

Fugitive Bride," &c.

CHAPTER XXV.—Continued.

Mayor He.\::hctj3t studied Kildee's face well during the row from the island to the main shore. The result of that study and the pathos of her simply told tale stirred in terest and sympathy in his breast.

They reached the landing just as the sun—a great red globe—dropped behind the roofs and steeples of Wallport. The mayor dismissed the two officers who had accompanied him, with thanks for their services and a request to meet him in the office next day, when it would be decided what should be done in the affair at Aphro dite Island. Then he turned to Kildee:

" What will you do ?" ho asked of her. "I will thank you from my heart for your kindness, and say good-bye," she answered, holding out her hand. He took it and felt that it tremble I. Her little face was quite pale. The noisy, motley, elbowing, careless crowd on the levee made her courage falter. This was the world in which she was to push her way to a place. .She held fast hold of St. Peter with one hand : behind her walked a boy with her little trunk. The mayor had no intention of leaving her unprotected. He drew her hand through his arm. '• My carriage is waiting for me close by," ho said. "Let me put you down at the j dace you wish to go to." "I have no place in my mind. lam strange to this city. I have no friend here." " Shall I take you to the house of some good lady friend of mine; or to my own house-I have a pleasant house-keeper— unbil you can look about you and decide whab you will do, or write to your friends ?" She shook her head. "I don't know" where they are ; and I have no money to go to thorn. No, Mr "Heathcliff; I would like to go to work to earn my living. I would like to go at

once."

He smiled at her earnestness and at the business-like look on her face. "At once ?" he repeated looking toward the sunset sky. " The night cometh when no man can work," he quoted ; " nor little woman cither. What kind of work would you like ?" " Any I can do. I cannot do anything that requires culture. I can read pretty well, and I write a good plain hand, and I know enough of figures to cast up simple accounts, that is all. But I can sew, and trim, and make pastry and cook it, and I can do housework aud nurse the sick-"' " Why, you are accomplished, after all," said the mayor smiling. " I think we can find you a place. There is a nice old lady of my acquaintance who keeps a little fruit and flower shop. Her husband is a kind hearted, erochety old fellow; ho raises flowers and rabbits in a tiny square of garden nob much bigger than a bed-quilt, back of the shop. They sleep above the shop, and tho place up there looks attractive from the outside, with its balcony and bird-cages aud flowering plants. A day or two ago, l\la;lamc Jean told mo her rheu matism made it so bad for her to stand, that she must give up her business or get an assistant. I advised her to get a good, smart girl to help her, and sho shrugged her plump .shoulders, and said girls, both good and smart, were scarce as blackberries in December." "I am afraid she will nob think I am

that rare combination," Kildee said,

" We'll risk it," tlie mayor answered, and he called to the coachman and bade

him drive to Mme. Jean's fruib shop on Main-street.

Kildee looked oub of the window, seeing the city sights in brilliant panorama as the carriage bowled over the well-paved streets, yet.scarcely noting what she saw* for her thoughts were busy with other things. Suddenly sho turned to Heathclifl., ■ ie . There's. Sb. Peter," she said; "my pocir comrade here ; what will be clone with hitr» ? Where has lie been staying ?" "■. Part of the time ab bhe Charity Home in this city. I carried him to that institu tion. But they tell mo he will nob stay there—strays off every day, usually to the wharf." '. • .

<! He would stray away from me," Kildee

said. "He was restless because he was looking for me. If I could obtain this place at tlie fruit shop, would ib be possible, bo get St. Peter in there too ? He is harmless and lie eats very little; he plays beautifully, and'Zach, the marmoset, turns somersaults and dances, lb would attract custom to the shop, wotdd it not?" " I think so," the mayor said, inwardly smiling at her earnestness and simplicity. "Yes; I. fancy that St. Peter's accomplish ments,, topped by Zaclrs, would prove.a drawing card." He said to himself that if Mme. Jean did nob regard ib in that light, he would privately pay the daft fiddler's board at her,establishment and St. Peter's indepen dent little guardian would be none the wiser.

"•Here we are," he'said at length, as the carriage stopped. Kildee looked oub and saw' two large shop-windows already lighted up, displaying prettily-arranged fruits and candy jars, interspersed with pots of flowering plants. She had a glimpse of a lighted interior, with a tinted paper on the-wall, well-filled shelves and hanging baskets arid bird-cages. Kildee made St. Peter understand that he must wait outsido the door while she went wibh bhe mayor inside. "'That is Madame Jean," Heathcliff said? as they stopped just across the threshold, beside the cage of a pair of lovely Jamaica sparrows. He pointed to a short, plump old lady, in a lilac-flowered muslin with, wide sleeves looped up, a fresh complexion and crisp grey curls. She was arranging cut flowers in a basket for a, customer who was standing impatiently watching the process. A tiny, shaggy black spaniel wibh an old solemn face, grey-whiskered and one-eyed, sat on the counter gravely eyeing his mistress's proceedings. Mme. Jean was evidently hurried and nervous. Her little plump hands made awkward movements; the flower stems were refractory, the foliage and vine-sprays rebellious.

" Angeline," called a plaintive voice from within. "Am I not to have any tea ? This toast is choking me." Tlie stem of a superb Marechal Neil rose snapped off short in Mme. Jean's hand. She gave .% quick movement, and evidently a rheumatic twinge assailed hei', for she bit her lip and her rosy colour ebbed. She pushed flowers and baskets from her. "Ib is onpossib' to fill your ordare, sir," _he said. "We have no flower-baskets to day." "But you promised, and I have been waiting all this while. This is a nice way to serve an old customer." She waved her hands outward aIJ d made a mock bow. " You are at libertee io tak your custom otter wayi monsieur," she said. "I wish she would let me arrange the Bowers," Kildee said in an undertone to the layor. He stepped forward, holding her" hand,

"Good evening, Madame Jean. Can I get some purple figs for my cream this evening ? Not now ; presently when yon are at leisure. I want to try once more to make friends with Hugo, this most digni fied of dogs. Meantime, 1 have a little friend here who thinks that she can make that basket look all right. Will you let her try, while you go and give your good husband his tea ?"

The Dutch-doll face lighted up. "Ah, my friend, you are good—always good. Tee leetle one's all try her hand at tee basket, reeb welcome." She bowed, smiling, and went into the inner room. Kildee'took the basket and began the work of arranging the flowers in it. Heathcliff wabched her defb ringers in terweaving flower-stems, adjusting sprays and twisting vines aboub the basket handle. The impatient customer began to look well pleased as he saw bhe basket grow ing inbo a thing of beauty. "Docs it come to you by instinct, this sorb of thing, as nest-building comes to a jenny wren ?" asked the mayor when the last graceful sprays of smilax were added to the mass of bloom and fragrance. " I have done this often and often, said Kildee. " Fixed baskets, you know, to be sent to us on the stage." "As complimentary homages from an admiring audience," Heathcliff said. She nodded, then looked up and caught his quizzical smile, and blushed. "It was by way of advertisement,' she said. " Papa Professor said it was all square, and he wouldn't do anything that was not fair."

Mme. Jean came from the inner room just as the tall young man received las basket, and was saying to Kildee : " Here's the old lady's two dollars, and a quarter over, which you have a right bo pocket, my little maid. It's the prettiest basket I've ever seen." "The flowers were so lovely," Kildee said, disclaimingly. She put the money into Mme. Jean, hand, shaking her head, smiling, bub iirm, when bhab lady insisbed on her accepting a silver half-dollar. " Ah, if one could get une petite, so nice and handee, to asseesb in tee shop !" said madame.

" The petite is at your service, Madame Jean," returned the mayor. " Behold in me the fairy godfather who brings you the treasure you so much coveted —a treasure, scarce, you declared, as Christmas berriefp — a good and smart girl to help you." "Ah!" Mme. Jean became instantly critical. She put on her gold - rimmed glasses and inspected the girl as sho was wont to do the fruit she bought of the wholesale dealer, spying for specks and braises. "She look ver' tendre, deelicate, ehe said. "But she looks healthy and she looks good, and she is smart, as you have seen," said the mayor, quite diverted. " Looks weel tell lie, Monsieur le Maii'e ; looks weel tell lie," said the little fat doll, sententiously. Then she added: "We s'all see how Hugo likes her. Hugo haf more sense as men. Here, Hugo." She put the fluffy black morsel on the counter and said to him :

" Hugo, ees Ma'm'selle — w'ac sail I say ?" " Kildee," said the mayor. " Keeldee? Ah, tees Americaine name? Hugo, s'all Ma'm'selle Keoldeo bo friends weot us 2"

Tlie namesake of the great poet cocked his head on one side and scrutinised Kildeo A look of grave suspician was in his ono eye. Kildee could not help smiling. Hugo drew himself up as she thought to intimate that ho was not to be biased in his judgment by such cajolery; at length his expression re laxed in its severity ; he held out his paw ; Kildeo shook it, laughing. " Hugo approves of her," said Heathcliff, who had enjoyed the little Frenchwoman's test.

Mme. Jean nodded and signified her in dorsement of Hugo's opinion by patting Kildeo's shoulder. Mine. Jean's husband now came in, a little dark person with olive skin, crinkled with line wrinkles, keen black eyes, and curly iron-grey hair. He wore a red-flowered dressing-gown and a_ black velvet cap with n tarnished tassel. Kildee's love of the picturesque was gratified by his looks*. .She thought the two a quaint and charming pair. The mayor presented Kildee to M. Jean, and madamo informed iiim that she thought of taking the girl as assistant, and that Hugo had shown himself satisfied with her.

St. Peter, meanwhile, tired of standing outsido with his back apjainsfc the wall teased by his.usual torments, tlie boys, had taken his seat on the door-step and now began to play. i .• "Hist!" said M. Joan, holding up his hand. " Tat ees music."

Sb. Peter was playing a lively waltz, and the people, began to gather in front of the door to listen. Kildee, anxious to show oft her gave a little, low whistle, and Zach, who had been peeping from his hiding-place in the saint's shirt-bosom, popped out and began to dance. The crowd in front of the door thickened; M. Jean clapped his hands in delight. "I like to hire tee fellow to play for me." he said.

"He would bring tee people," said practical madame, preparing to answer a demand for candy and peanuts from boys who wished to see the marmoset cat. '

" He is an old friend of Kildee's," said the mayor; " and insists on staying where sho does. He is half-witted, but harmless as a child. Could you find a cuddy hole for him to sleep in ?" , * ' Certainement," assured monsieur. "We weel tak 'em, we weel tak bof all tree. Come r here, petite ; wat can you do ?" , "lean make flower-baskets and sell oranges, monsieur." " Ah, tat is in madamo's line. You like to teend roses and peenks, eh ?" " Dearly, monsieur." "You can sing?" . ... "Pretty well/ "Anddanco,?" "Ah, yes !" . , "And make tea *i"

" I can do that best of all."

" Tres Men! You do for meeexact. She weel mek bee old folks merry, eh ! Ange line ?"

" It is not better to be merry," said the doll didactically, but she smiled kindly at Kildee, as she filled numerous brown paper bags with fruit and candy for the customers St. Peter's music had enticed into the shop. "And now for my figs and oranges," said Heathcliff.

While she was putting them up, she asked :

" Haf la petite any people—relation. ?"

"None, she is alone in the World. She has become separated, through no fault of hers, from the friends who brought her up." " She is bout so old as Rosie woi;ld haf been—-ma pauvre Rosie," said Mmc Jean, her eyes growing web as she looked at the _irl who Avas talking to delighted M. Jean. " She might haf Rosie's room ; nobody haf sleep tere since Rosie taken away. Monsieur le Maire, I weel tak tee leetle one ; mais I can pay her but three or four dollar a week and her board."

" Very well; I care more for getting her a home and occupation than anything else. And about her old frieftd. bhe old musician. If you can give him lodging and food, I will see bhab you are paid for ib." " Ib is all reeb, Monsieur le Maire," said madame, nodding until her littlo grey curls quivered. " You are' regularly installed hero if you wish it, little maid," said the mayor, turn ing to Kildee. " And now," he added, to cut short her thanks, " You shall have your heart's desire—' work ab once.' Come, sell me the prettiest bouquet you can pick out."

To be Continued*

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J GOO DW I N COX, © DENTAL SURGEON, 118, Queen-street, A.M.P. Society _ Building . Auckland, A M. CARTE R, SURGEON DENTIST (By Examination) (Late five years with E. Cox and Son), May be Consulted at his Residence, GARRETT'S BUILDINGS, Karangahape Road (near lod of Howo-streot). CHARGES MODERATE. GAS ADMINISTERED. SCIENTIFIC DRESS-CUTTING. MISS BEWS, Sole Agent in Auckland and neighbourhood for tho London S.D.C. Associa tion, will re-open -'.asses at the Temperance Hall, Otahuhu, on SATURDAY", Bth October. Circulars and particulars from Mrs Pikett, at the Hall. Classes at Bradford-street, Parnell, on Tues day and Thursday afternoons. toMmim Rpa mm tJt® M FGSES



Furniture. AT C. C. BROWN'S, Cook and Hobson Streets. ANY FAIR OFFER ACCEPTED For Balance of Stock. Still a Lakoe Quantity of Firstclass Upholstery and I urniture FOR SALE. I have instructed Mr E. Leydon to sell Balance of Stock by Public Auction on October 10. C. C. B R0 ™' COOK AND HOBSON STREETS. TaiJoriug. [ EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS /&. | TAILOR I <j\ ""I , . *y to __• [g- MEASURE. H ig a 50* 555. 60s. § g t) g 70s. 758. H & 8 80s. Sss. 90b. § 3 fe _ ___________ 2 £ H. ROBINSON, Tailok,Jr * ' f_ N%S. CORNER OP ySSS 2 • m Cook & Grey S N*y" | grey streets. | EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS \ Business Notices. : HOME JEWEL WASHING MACHINE IT WASHES EVERYTHING, from LACE TO A COALSACK; CLEANS TROUSERS without wetting a finger or knocking olf a button. It docs away with wet feet, pains in tho arms, I back, and breast, and does a big day's washing in two hours. \"h<3ME|l_l JEWEL /^ JVC HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS. M. M. LEVY, ' SOLE AGENT, ALBERT HOTEL. ALEXANDER TTARVEY, ALBERT-STREET ... (Corner of Durham-street), i Direct Importer and Manufacturer of All Kinds of Dairy Utessils, Tin, Iron, and Copper Work. DAIRY FACTORIES AND CREAMERIES SUPPLIED WITH ALL REQUISITES. Estimates Given. HEAD - QUARTERS FOR JAM TINS, HONEY TINS, BUTTER TINS, Etc, TVTO Bankruptcy, no Burglary, no Fire > ■ JJSI but the choice of two things—an Extra ; Pair of Trousers or a Watcrbury Watch.—J. H. Dalton, Tailor, Victoria-street East. limD GA R AND fi 0., • "" dyers, established 1861. • Still Dying to Live and Living to Dye. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Wearing Apparel • Cleaned, Renewed, or Dyed any colour. Damask Curtains o& Table Covers Cleaned, Renewed.or - Dyed. Feathers and Gloves Cleaned and Dyed . any shade. Lace or other Curtains Bleached or t Dyed. EDGAR, Dyer, : WELLESLEY-STREET EAST, AND RICH MOND. COX'S CREEK. J_uftj.fi STANTON, Undertaker, Victoria-street West (near Foley's, Grocer, Hobson:Streot). Funerals conducted on the lowest possible charges. Grave fences ereoted. WAR NOCK BROTHERS, Established 1862 SOAP AND CANDLE MANUFACTURERS. COX'S CREEK, AUCKLAND. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Extract of Soap, Disinfectant Powder, First Prize Yellow Blue Mottled, Double Crown, Economic, and Household, Carbolic, and other Medicin„l and Toilet Soaps, made from tho purest Of Tallows, &c. Offlces-DURHAM-STREET, AuoklanaY N.B. — Cash Purchasers of Tallow. Wool, Sheepskins, and Bones. OA PH__TO_fS, BUGGIES, WAGGONETTES AND TWO WHEELERS, AT LOWEST PRICES. The Cheapest and Best ever offered to the Auckland public. COUSINS AND ATKIN, ELLIOTT-STREET. HE Best Gift for Horn© friends is Brett's Auckland Almanac,, containing a Pictorial Representation of Queen-street, De scription of the Provincial District, New Guide to Hot Lake, etc., &c.



Business Notices. BY COMMUNICATING WITH US, the above VANS will be in attendance „t TRAIN. SHIP, or wherever wanted, to receive FURNITURE or other Goods, which will be forwarded as instructed, or (if required) Btored and insured for any term. ON SALE, Taupiri, Westporb, and Newcastle Coal Firewood, Charcoal, Coke Bricks, Lime, Sand Pipes, Slates, Tanks Fencing of all kinds. W. AND G, WINSTONE, CUSTOMS-STREET. Iron Curved for Verandas (ANY PATTERN) SHORTEST NOTICE. ! George mccaul Manufacturing Plumber, AND IMPORTER OF ALL TRADE REQUISITES WELLESLEY STREET EAST (opposite New Library), and BROWN & DAVY STREETS, THAMES, HAS FOB SALE— : 200 Corrugated Galvanized Tanks (araorted) 500 Colonial Ovens (all sizes) CO.OOO feet Lead Edge Ridge Cap (all sizes) - 60,000 feet O.G. Spouting (all slzer) , 50,000 feet Downpipes (all sizes) , 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pipes (all sizes) Lead-head Nails, Lead Washers, Portable Ovens, Furnace Frames, Copper Boilers, , etc., etc., etc. I Awarded Three First Prizes for above lines, at • Auckland Agricultural Show. Largest and best selection of Gas Globes In ■ Auckland. ; As G. McCAUL ia a direct Importer for cash, he 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, Manufacturing Plumber, and Importer ot all Trade Requisites, Wellesley-st. East (opposite Slew Library), and Brown and Davy-streets, Thames. TO Wholesale Buyers, Boardinghouse keepers, &c—2slbs Good Candles, 8s 9d; 401bs Best Crystal Sugar, 9s 9d; 1 cwt Box/Soap, 9s 6d; 111b Box Tea, 15s; ISack Best Potatoes. 5s 6d; 1 Dozen Good Jams, 6s; 2001b Sack Good Flour, 20s; a Good SugJvr, 2d per lb, at ,j EARLE AND MONTGOMERY'S _TOR_V Karangahape Road. (JLEDHiLL'S iGRATED WATER AND CORDIAL FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST {Late Shab__nd'sj. iyr ONU.MENTS ' ITALIAN AND VERMONT MARBLES, AND ABERDEEN GRANITE. HEAD STONES IN MARBLE AND STONE. Iron Tomb Railings at Moderate Prices. Prices and Designs sent post-free. Country orders carefully packed. TAIT BROTHERS, Monumental Works, Corner of Rutland and Lome streets (near Queen-street Junction), Auckland. ■■'■;_■ QRION. i QRION. /\RION. WHAT IS IT? OLROYD AND LONGBOTTOM, GENERAIJ WOOD TURNERS, : Albert-street, Auckland, opposite V.M.C.A. ' Rooms. 1 Bandsaw Cuttings, Carvings, Architraves, and Fretwork done at Lowest Rates. Table, Chair, and Sofa Legs, Bed Posts, Drawer Stumps, etc., always in stock. BILLIARD BALLS RE-TURNED AND STAINED. A Trial is RespeotCuliy Solicited, HOME-MADE BREAD, CAKES, SCONES, HOP BEER, &c„ easily made bynsing CROOK'S AMERICAN DRIED YEAST. Cheaper and more desirable than Baking Powder. It should be sold in every country store, used in every country home. Full direc tions on each packet. Sample packets by post, 3d, from J. T. JOHNS, Seymour-street, Pon sonby, Auckland. _•_._'■■■'' Wholesale Agents-L. P. NATHAN & Co. ifi C. HANS EN, i \J • Having taken over the Shop lately occupied by A. JL Moßßis, in KARANGAHAPE ROAD, Wishes to acquaint his patrons and friends that he will still carry on the PAINTING AND GLAZING BUSINESS ! In all its Branches. fi R O U N D L I M E! GROUND LIME Foil SAI.E, SOUTHGATE'S .. MAHURANGI HYDRAULIC GROUND ROCHE LIME m _, _^ In any quantity, for Concrete Paths, Floors. Cellars, etc. Next to stone-flagging it isinn rivalledfordurabilityandhard-settingqualities. For tanks and other wet work it is a first-class material. B. KEANE.~SOLE- AGENT, CUSTOMS-STREET. W L i V s ' 1 -Jssraa _asi_{_w. Wyndham-stbeet,. MERCHANTS-aCCOUNT BOOKS Insurance and Mining Register Books Speciauy Ruled and Bound. Music, Magazines, Public Libraries, and Sunday School Books Well Bound. Bakers' Special Ruled Day Books, Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books 1 BAND AND CHOIR MUSIC BOOKS RPLgD KNOW ye all men that,Woiarp's SchnaP-8 -as no rival as a Stimulant*



THE m ™'zm I Having purchased the »w I C^AR S ,M^^ ; | The largest and-best stock*.,. ' I 1 Deliveries " I TOU~CAN'T - AFFORD |. study true ECONOITOyS*i»«H Al SOAP. The effort homes of New Zealand m_rtMJS_W tfc BTJRNS'S Al SOAP. Itiaaßimple but useful article. .ftofeto to use it are still more simple, and nS _ useful, .! . " \.\mffm Hi "In in I Ii You may have heard of it a THOijlivn TIMES' without' using it ONCE", mfSm reverse the position and USE IT 01(1 You will praise it to .others a m TIMES.—I have Bpent hundreds of vwikti' 11 convincing the wo&iefr of "New ! _a__H 88 I their labour can be greatly lightened tons™ Hi BURNS'S Al SOAP (run Worm Renowvq „ I CißANsEß!),but!have I 'Men^6„lifB ,I HS l bition if I have failed to B CONVINCE TOU' I > i WHOLESALE AGENT- I A. BUCHANAN, 1 ' gusto __sl :S T Btaaasndhyfr 1 5 fi'tiistfr*, <£uff';' '■■'.' -i'V'titm ■ fiUTLH BISK- H ' REVOLVERS: E_VP_V_E3 | Shot, Cap*, Ctatdim »* I WIBE C_BTED)GE3, _a_HW» i»__»W AMMUNITION ' '.Ob;.. Event. : Dbscbs-ho?, Kahing Tackle, Cntlery, gwrafofo " D.EVITT, i EX I, T- i» EA, C 0 I • : "-OPTICIAN,'.,... II ' Mathematical and,Na*** 1 I, ■ . _«_**sb '^ KE "' eEE t. I ■ B*** J ~» ; Sic Lanternstad »*&&fc |i Steam ■ Settlers' *" .Hi Se I - opposi^^ t I =^l US ****** I X? • -QUANTA I Apply MECHANICS BA n , I AH C HEB --5 I I I