klseea on her forehead IIpa, and ehaeka,
bl* words of devotion In her ear, and the
soft summer sky smiling down upon her
Alas, It was a dream from which she was
auakeuej by the thought of one serosa the
sea, whose place she had usurped, aud
this it was which brought the grieved ex
BV
pression to her face as she answered
MRS. M A R Y J . H O L M E S
mournfully ;
"1 did want you. Guy, when I fo rg o t,
t a « . " "TW Eattua Orykaaa " ”
•a «w ntiNtda’ ' Laa« I I r n . "
M ia U w tiw k ." '' Uaprw ta t Saaakia«.
but uow -oh, Guy Lucy Atherstone!”
With a gesture of impatience Guy was
about to answer, when something in the
heavy fall of the little hand from hia
shoulder alarmed him, and lifting up the
C H A P T E R X I X . — (Continued.)
lips made the tears start, and brought a drooping head, he saw that Maddy had
He was very pale, and the freat sweat thought of Guy, uiakiug her ask, “ If he fainted. Then back across the meadow
lAii 1 I
; ir*Tfi'y 7 ~“'
drops atood on his forehead aud under was at the funeral."
Guy bore her to the cottage, where Flora,
ALCOHOL 3 I* UK CUNT.
his white hair, but Maddy wiped them
“ No,” Jessie said; “ mother wanted to just returned from a neighbor's, whither
AYcjetablr Pirpararlon for As
away and listened with a breaking heart write and tell hint, but we don't know she had gone upon au errand, was look
slrailaiùiÇihefWantlIi-v'uü
while the aged disciple almost home told whore he ia.”
iug for her in much affright.
ling die Stonata and Howls of
her o f the peace, the joy, that shone
And this was all Maddy could recall of
Up agaiu into her little chamber Mad'
around hia pathway to the tomb, aud of the days succeeding the night of her last dy was carried anti laid upon the bed,
the ererlastiug arm bearing him so gently watch at her grandfather's side, uutll one which she never left until the golden
I n f a n t s , ' T i i / l d k f n
over Jordan. Then he talked o f hersetf, balmy August afternoon, when ou the harvest sheaves were gathered iu. and ths
blessing her for all she had been to him, Ilonedale h>Us there lay that smoky haze hot September sun was ripening the fruits
Promotes DigMlkmUrnfU
telling her bow happy she bad made his »0 like the autumn time hurrying on of autumn.
But now she had s new
ness and Rra< .Contains on to
life since she came home to stay, and apace, and when through her open win nurse, a constant attendant, who during
Opium.Morphine norMnoal.
how for a time he had ached so with fear dow stole the fragrance of the later the day seldom left her except to talk
lest she should choose to go back and summer flowers. Then, as If waking from with and amuse Uncle Joseph, mourning
N o t N a r c o t ic .
leave him to a stranger. “ But my darling an ordinary sleep, she woke suddenly to below because no one sang to him or no
stayed with her old grandpa. She’ll nev consciousness, and staring
M + n fM ik a H iim m a
about
the ticed him as Maddy used to do. He had
er be sorry for it, never. I ’ve tried you room, wondered if it were as late as the not been sent to the as>lum. as Maddy
sometimes, I know, for old folks ain’t western sun would indicate, and how she feared, hut by way of red vittg Flora had
like young: but I ’m sorry, Maddy, and came to sleep so long. For a while ahe been takeu to Farmer Green's, where he
6
you'll forget it when I ’ m gone, darling lay thinking, and as she thought, a sad was so homesick and discontented that at
Maddy, precious child” ; and the trem scene came back to her. a night when her Guy's instigation be was suff red to re
bling hand rested caressingly on her bow hot hands had been enfolded In those of turn to the cottage, crying like a little
ed head as grandpa went on to speak o f the dead, aud that dead her grandfather. child when the «»Id familiar *i>ot
was
his affairs, his little property which was Maddy sank upon the bed, moaning to reached, kissing his armchair, the cook
Aperfrr! Remedy forCrnnflf*
hers after the mortgage to Mr. Guy was herself, “ Yes, grandpa is dead.
I re stove, the tongs, Mrs. Noah, and Flora,
Mon, Sour Stomarh.ntarrtwi
paid.
“ I'v e kept up the interest," he member now. But U nde Joseph, where and timidly offering to kiss the Imrd Gov
Worms X'onvulskms Jevrrislt
said, “ but r could never get him to take ia he? l'« n he. too. have died without ernor himself as he persisted in calling
ness and LOSS OF SLEEP.
any of the principal. I don't know why my knowledge?” and she looked around Guy, who declined the honor.
he is so good to me. Tell him, Maddy. in vain for the lunatic, not a trace of
Guy had passed through several states
Pac Sinak Signa nr* of
how I thanked and blessed him just be whom was to be found. His room was of mind during the interval in which ws
fore I died; tell him bow I used to pray in perfect order, as was everything about have seen so little of him. Furious at
5 T
for him every day that he might choose the house, showing that Flora was still one time, and reckless as to consequences,
NEW
YORK.
the better part. And he will— I'm sure the domestic goddess, while Maddy also he had determined to break with Iaicy
A t b m o n t lis o W ' ?
he will, some day. He hasn't been here detected various things which ahe recog
and marry Maddy, in spite of everybody ;
of late, and though my old eyes are dim. I nized as having come from
Aikenside. then, as a sense of honor came over him,
can see that your step has got slow, and Who sent them? Did Guy, and had he he resolved to forget Maddy. if possible,
your face whiter by many shades, since he been there, too, while she was sick? The and marry Lucy at once. It was in this
Guaranteed uiufcr
stayed away. Maddy, child, the dead tell thought brought a throb o f joy to Maddy's last mood, and while roaming over ths
no secrets, and I shall soon be dead. Tell heart, but it soon passed away as she be weatern country, whither after his ban
Exact Copy o f Wrapper.
m
» M M ar.
VMS anv .
tne, then, what it is between you two. gan again to wonder if Unde Joseph, too, ishment he had gone, that he wrote to
I>oes my girl love Mr. Guy?”
bad died, and where Flora was. It was Lucy a strange kind of letter, saying he
“ Oh, grandpa ! grandpa !” Maddy moan not far to the Ilonedale burying ground, had waited for her long enough, and,
ed, laying her head beside his own on the Maddy could see the headstone* from sick or well, he should claim her the com
pillow.
where she sat gleaming through the Au ing autumn. T o this letter Lucy had re
H Ip p o p k a cr.
Am l l t fr m r d lu Him .
I t would be a relief to talk with some gust sunlight ; could discern her mother's, sponded quickly, sweetly reproving Guy
Hlppophagv being In low w ater li
“ Some |MH»plo," remarked the demur
one of that terrible pain, which grew- and knew that two freah mounds at least for his impatience, softly hinting that
th e «« later daya, somebody has set him allxor, "never his -m to tie uround whe*
worse every day ; of that intense longing were made beside It. But were there
tterly he had been quite as culpable as
just for one sight of the beloved on e: three?
Was U nde Joseph there?
By herself in the matter of deferring theii a clf to alww what an exceedingly re wanted.”
o f Guy, still absent from Aikenside, wan stealing across the meadow in the rear union and appointing the wedding (lay spectable history attaches to the prac
"W e ll,” reJoln «l tlie moral tier. “ M It
dering nobody knew w here; and so Mad o f the house the distance to the grave for December.
A fter this was settled tice. Among the ancients, e*|>eclally In tietter to be absent when w auled thai
dy told the whole story, while the dying yard was shortened more than half, and Guy felt better, though the old sore spot Chins, eating horse flesh was general, to 1 m > present when you are not w a n t
man listened to her, and smoothing her could not be more than the eighth part of in his heart, where Maddy Clyde had •nd It was only killed In Europe by n
cd."
silken hair, tried to comfort her.
a mile. She could walk so far, she knew. been, was very sore still, and sometimes Papal dsw-ree o f G regory II I ., though
“ The worst is not over yet.” he said. The fresh air would do her good, and it required all his powers of self-control why horse flesh should have (teen In
C u r ia » » A boat 1».
“ Guy will offer to make you his wife, sac hunting up ber long unused bat. the im to keep from writing to Lucy and asking
Mamma Go to sleep now or the got*
terdicted doea not apis-ar. It was only
rificing Lucy for you, and if he does, patient girl started, stopping once or to be released from an engagement so irk
the fam ine caused by Napoleon's In Una w ill get you. >
what will you do?”
twice to rest as a dizzy faintness came some as his had become. Neglecting tc vaslon that revive«! the practice In G er
Robbie— W ill they come right In her»
Maddy’s heart leaped up Into her throat over her, and then continued on until the answer Agnes' letter» when he first left
many. where It has survied ever since. a fter tne?
and for a moment prevented her from an 8pot she sought was reached.
Three home, she did not know where he was un
Mamma— Yes, they w ill Inti«*«!.
swering, for the thought of Guy’s really graves, one old and sunken, ooe made til a short time before, when she wrote — London Globe.
ItobM«»— Then I'll at ay awake, 'cause
offering to make her his wife, to shield when last winter's snow was on the hills, apprising him of grandpa » death and
.V « H er ta a lt.
I want to see what goblins look like.—
her from evil, to enfold her in his tender the other fresh and new. That was a l l ; Maddy’s severe illness.
This brought
Torn— Th e avernge woman seems to
Philadelphia Press.
love, made her giddy with joy. But it Unde Joseph was not there, and vague him, while Maddy's Involuntary outburst
lead an aimless life.
could not b e ; she answered through her terror entered Maddy’s heart lest he had when she met him in the graveyard,
Jack—-W e ll, It's her m isfortune rath
No T lm r fo r T r lf lla « .
tea rs:
been taken back to the asylum.
hanged the whole current of his inten er than her fau lt that she Is unable to
“
Hands
u p !" commanded the footpad
“ I shall tell him no.”
I w ill get him out,” ahe said; “ I will tions.
I >et what would
come. Maddy
throw straight.
“ Get out o' my way !” thundered tho
“ God bless my M addy! She will tell take care of him.
I should die with
lyde should be his wife, and a* such h«
other man. scowling at him and striding
him no for Lucy’s sake, and God will nothing to d o ; and I promised grand
watched over her, nursing her back to
M » 4 » r a , a r V o l at A ll.
on. “ I hain't got no tin»# te fool with
bring it right at last,” the old man whis pa------”
life, and by his manner effectually silenc-
G«*offrey— Could you be happy In • you.
I'm doin' a ninety mile walkin'
pered. his voice growing very faint and
She could get no farther, for the rush
all remark, so that the neighbor» modest little cottage, darling?
stunt.”
tremulous. “ She w ill tell him no,” he of memories which came over her. and whispered among themselves what Mad
Gwendolen— Not unless It is one of
kept repeating, until, rousing up to great seating herself upon the ground close to dy’s prospects were, and, as w*a* quit»
those levely dee a ms in <-oocrete. dear.—
T h e «■ lin in g I» r 1 1 1 ■ h e r.
er consciousness, he spoke of Uncle Jo the new grave, she laid her face upon it, natural, were a little more attentive to
Chicago Tribune.
The cold, self-contained B ritisher I»
seph, and asked what Maddy would do and sobbed piteously ;
the future lady of Aikenside. I ’oor Mad
mostly a dreadful fiction, and In situa
with him ; would she send him back to the
Oh, grandpa. I ’m so lonely without dy ! it was a terrible trial which await-
T h a t Judicial D edalon .
tions that accru to him at all emotional
asylum, or care for him there?
“ He you a ll; I almost wish I was lying here her, but it must be met. and so with pray
It ends «lomestir war* and strifes.
he grow s as stilflly weepful os any m at
w ill be happier here,” he said, “ but it is in the quiet yard.”
ers and tears she fortified herself to
Fraud iaun, 'twill hold you. insvhe.
asking too much of a young girl like you.
ine«» miss.— Sydney (N . 8. W.> Bulle
It Is yeur business, not your wife's,
Then a storm o f tears ensued, after meet it, while Gu.v. the devoted lover,
He may live for years.”
tin.
hung
over
her.
never
guessing
of
all
that
T
o
walk
the
floor
with
baby.
which Maddy grew calm, and with her
“ I do not know, grandpa.
I hope I
head still bent down, did not hear the was passing in her mind, or how, when
may do right. I think I shall keep Uncle
rapid step approaching, the manly step he was out of sight, the lips he had long
Joseph with me,” Maddy replied, a shud
oming down the grassy road, coming past ed so much to kiss, but never had siu<«
der creeping over her as she thought of
the marble tombstones, on to where that that day in the graveyard, quivered with
living out all her youth and possibly
wasted figure was crouching upon the anguish as they asked for strength to do
middle age wi;h a lunatic.
ground. There it stopped, and in a half right. Oh, how Maddy did love the man
But her grandfather's whispered bless whisper called, “ Maddy ! Maddy !”
she must give up, and how often went up
ings brought comfort with them, and a
Then, indeed, she started, and lifting the wailing cry. “ Help me. la th er, to do
calm quiet fell upon her as she sat there up ber head, saw before her Guy Rem my duty, and give me. too. a greater^ in
listening to the words of prayer, and ington. For a moment she regarded him clination to do it than I now imssess.”
catching now and then her own name intently, while he said to her, oh, so
Maddy's heart did fail her sometimes
MtMBCR OSTHC FAMILY.
and that of Guy’s.
nd she might have yielded to the tempta
kindly, so pityingly :
wert. a o v a . w o m e n , m i s s e s a n d c h i l d r e n .
" I am drowsy, Maddy. Watch while
Poor child, you h a v e suffered so much, tion. hut for Lucy’* letter, full of cuget
• W. L Dommfmm mm ham a m f weHa a w e s ^ a
sms ' s > 3 .0 0 , 0 3 .0 0 a n d 0 8 .0 0 ahaa a • •
I sleep. Perhaps I ’ll never wake again.” and I never knew of it till a few days
nticipations o f the happy time when
th a n a n y a M e m a n u ta a tu ra r In fh a _
grandpa said, and clasping Maddy’s hands ago.”
she and Guy should never part again
m aH dT^b m ia a a m th a y h o ld t h a l a ^ i |
ra t
ammma. t n h a tta r, s r » * r fo s g e e , a n d
Sometimes," she wrote, “ there comet
he fell away to sleep, while Maddy kept
Maddy stretched her hands toward him,
('olor
• mam a t s r e a f e r a alum th a n mny a th a r
¿forfeit
her watch beside him, herself falling moaning o a t ;
aver me a dark foreboding o f evil a feat
~
i m thm a ro rld to da y.
(itti
Into a troubled sleep, from which she was
^Xr/h«ifr/|f.
Oh. Guy, Guy, where have you been, that I shall miss the cup now within my
aroused by a clammy hand pressing on when I wanted you so much?”
reach ; hut I pray the bad feeling away.
IV« ftat»«titMt*.
_ _ ; part of tbt world. Ilio*»
her forehead, and Uncle Joseph’s voice,
am sure there is no living being who will
Maddy did not know what she was say
44L A R , llr o r k iu M , M a m .
which said; “ Wake, my child. There's ing. or half comprehend the effect It had came between us to break my heart, and
been a guest here while you slumbered.” on Guy. who forgot everything save that as I know* God doeth all things well, 1
and be pointed to the rigid features o f the she wanted him, had missed him. had trust Him wholly, and cease to doubt.
newly dead.
turned to him in her trouble, and it was
It was well the letter came when It
not in his nature to resist her appeal. did. as it helped Maddy to meet the houl
Q u a lit y
With a spring he was at her side, and she so much dreaded, and which earn«
t ; *
chapter xx.
O f the days which followed, Maddy lifting her in his arms, seated himself at last on an afternoon when Mrs. Noah
had no distinct consciousness. She only upon her mother's grave; then straining had gone to Aikenside, and Flora had
knew that other hands than hers cared her tightly to his bosom, he kissed her gone on an errand to a neighbor's, two
for the dead, that in the little parlor a again and again. Hot, burning, passion miles away, thus leaving fitly free* to tell
stiff, white figure lay. that neighboring ate'kisses they were, which took from hi« story, the old. old story, yet always
women stole in, treading on tiptoe, and Maddy all thp power of resistance, even new to him who tells it and her who lid»
speaking in hushed voice* as they con had she wished it, which she did not. Too tens—story which, as Guy told it. sitting
E v e r y d a y in e v e r y y e a r th a t c o m e s , m o r e h o u s e
sulted, not her, but Mrs. Noah, who had weak to reason, or see the harm, if harm by Maddy's side, with her hands in Lis.
come at once, and cared for her and hers there were, in being loved by Guy, she thrilled her through and through, making
w i v e s a r e g iv in g u p t h e ir e x o r b it a n t p r ic e d B a k in g
so kindly. That she lay all day in her abandoned herself for a brief interval the sweat drops start out around her Iii>»
P o w d e r s a n d t u r n in g t o K C , th e h o n e s t a n d re lia b le ,
own room, where tlie summer breeze blew to the bliss of knowing that she was be
nd underneath her hair —story which
w h i c h h a s s t o o d s o w e l l th o t e s t o f y e a r s .
T h e y are
softly through the window, bringing the loved, and of hearing him tell her so.
made Guy himself pant nervously and
perfume o f summer flowers, the sound of
“ Darling Maddy,” he said, “ I went tremble like a leaf so earnestly he told
fin d in g o u t th a t
a tolling bell, of grinding wheels, the away because you sent me, but now I
how long lie had loved her, of the pic
notes of a low, sad hymn, sung in falter have come back, and nothing shall part us ture withheld, the jealousy he felt each
ing tones and of many feet moving from again. You are mine; I claim you here time the doctor named her, the selfish Joy
the door. Then friendly faces looked in at your mother's grave. Precious Maddy, he experienced when he heard the doctot
upon her, asking how she felt, and whis- I did not know of all this till three days was refused ; told o f his growring dissatis
ering ominously to each other as ahe an ago, when Agnes' letter found me almost faction with his engagement, his frequent
iOUNCESl
at the Rocky Mountains. I wi
' had resolves to break It, his final decision,
swered :
come
before,
now
that
I
know
you
want
which that scene in the graveyard had
“ Very w e ll; is grandpa getting better?”
c o s t s o n e t h ir d th e p r ic e o f p o w d e r a n y
Then Mrs. Noah sat with her for a ed me. Say that again, Maddy. Tell me reversed, and then asked if she would not
w h e r e n e a r K C q u a lit y , a n d m a k e s
be his— not doubtfully, hut confidently
time, fanning her with a palm-leaf fan that you missed me."
He was smoothing her hair now, as eagerly, as if sure o f her answer.
b e t t e r , p u r e r , m o r e h e a lt h fu l b a k in g .
and brushing the flies away. Then Flora
upon his
came up with a man whom they called her head still lay pillowed
( T o be continued.)
“ Doctor,” and who gave her sundry little breast, so he could not see the spasm of
pills and powders dissolved in water, af pain which contorted her features as he
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ter which they all went out and left her thus appealed to her. H a lf bewildered,
w
ritten
on oyster shells, bricks, t ile «
a!?»«. I
there with Jessie, who had been crying, Maddy could not at first make out wheth
and whose soft little hands felt so cool er it were a blissful dream or a reality, bones. Ivory, lead, Iron, sheepskin aud
palm leavsa.
m Wer hot head, and whose kisses on her her lying there la Gujr'a anna with hia
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