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/ [For The Sunny South.! THE DREAMER. BY NYMVEBELL. Long years ago a rosy child Lay idly on the garden grass Beneath a summer evening sky, And watched the white cloud-army pass. And of their strange, fantastic forms. Her busy brain, with fancy rife, Built gorgeous “ castles in the air Bright visions of her future life. How fair the unknown “ Future" seemed; How rich in beauty, love and light: A flowery summer without end— A day to which should come no night. “ My present life is tame and dull, But in that distant golden day, All will be beautiful,” she thought; And dreamed the idle hours away. * ie> * * * # To-day a pale-faced woman sits And gazes on the summer sky; The same blue ether smiles above— The same white clouds are marching by. And—have the visions been fulfilled That crowded once her childish brain ?— The years to which she forward looked, Brought joy and gladness in their train? Alasl cold Disappointment’s breath Has blown her summer flowers away, And dark Misfortune's lowering cloud Has turned to night her golden day.” “ Your life has proved a barren waste— Then why, persistent Dreamer—why Still upward turns that haggard face, Still gleams with hope that sunken eye ?” " My childhood's dreams were sweet and fair, But sweeter still and fairer far My hopes to-day, for they are fixed Upon one bright and fadeless Star. “Through every sorrow of my life, That ‘ Star ’ has shone divine and clear; Has Heav’nward charmed each withered hope. And formed a rainbow of each tear. *' And still, with ever-steady glow, The * Star ' shines on and lights the way To that fair unknown Future Land, ■Where yet shall dawn my * golden day.’ ” allure him into just such a place. Several hours “ What does he mean ?” asked Jerome Camp- Beppo has discovered this same poisonous corn- having now elapsed since Ticino’s departure, he bell, thoroughly mystified. “And who is he? pound, but has for it a different antidote. Ido was awaiting his return, and had begun to grow Does the grave yield up its dead ? Can a man not believe it. This antidote must be placed in impatient, when Ticino came in sight. Dr. who has been laid away under the green turf, the mouth when this little sack is broken. Campbell turned to meet him. There was a as I can swear, whose grave has never been “ Xumber six, is for the unborn. Anticipated grave look upon the Italian’s face which boded broken into, as I well know, be restored to life ■ heirs, by the aid of this, may safely be disposed no good to Jerome Campbell’s plans. Fright- again? By all the powers above and powers ! of. and be no future bother to needy relatives, ened at the thought of failure, the villain hur- below, I swear that it cannot be. Norman Ha ! ha ! ha ! I shall be .Norman Wheeler’s fain ried the Italian into a secret place, and there demanded to know the worst. “My luck has been bad,” answered Ticino, “but by no fault of mine.” “ Explain,” said Jerome, excitedly. “ The signor must be patient,” said, the Ital ian. “All is not lost. I promised you that I would allure your enemy to a secure prison. I carried a note to him, which stated that if he would follow the bearer he would be conducted to his lost bride. Wheeler robbed me of my father; he is dead, and that is all there is of it. This fellow who pretends to so much interest in my affairs is a knave.” | and treacherous at heart, she would be laughed at for “a foolish little woman,”so great was her lover-husband’s faith in outward appearance and profession. I So she kept her suspicions to herself. ' But Joseph Wheeler was a riddle to the shrewd wife, even after she had read the strange and un accountable tcill tckich had run through several gene- ily physician, and my science belongs to his rations. brother Joseph.” She had already learned that a good state of He carefully closed the lid of the box, and feeling never existed between the two brothers, returned it to a secret compartment of the and she now thought it strange that Joseph trunk. Wheeler should become brotherly and affection ate so suddenly. CHAPTER XXII. One thing struck her as slightly mysterious: Day had been gone for some hours. Ticino Joseph Wheeler’s anxiety for Jerome Campbells had waited for Dr. Campbell in the gloomy 1 return was greater than Norman’s. So far as shadows of St. Peter’s a considerable time be- she could learn from her husband, there never The Italian was curious to know had been much affection between the two. Could it be that there was collusion for evil between CHAPTER XXI. It was but an hour after Norman’s departure for America, when Dr. Jerome Campbell en tered the residence of Mr. Chauncy, and an- ____________ nounced his return from Florence. The young He at first hesitated, and doctor had a careworn appearance and a gravity j fore he came, seemed suspicious of a trap being set for him.” of features which signified that his journey had what step would next be taken by his employer. 1 * Trap set ?” interrupted Jerome. * ‘ Suspects ° Whom? Me?” To all these interrogations Ticino answered. , c o ; **-i-**- ■ - — --o -—- — i -- ,, • „ _ , , , “I do not know. He is afraid of some one, , terance to her suspicions. j was Ticino puzzled. In case Dr. Campbell j troubled her; and the more thought she ga\ tuc but whom I did not hear him say.” ! “Doctor, your appearance indicates that you should elect to go alone, it was true he could j matter, the less reasonable her surmises seemed. Jerome’s face was blank. Ticino evidentlv i have traveled night and day.” j follow him to America; but would it be worth j “What object could it be to either of them ! had failed, and Norman had at last opened his i “You speak truly,” replied Jerome, wearily, his while to follow him? Or had he not better j she asked herself, “to unite them in conspiracy the man for whom he and with sadness. “I have had neither sleep j “ do for him ” here,where he could effect his pur- against an innocent man? Besides they have squandered gold had been brought to nought. He now understood the lynt the mysterious (For The Sunny South.) VICTIMS OF HATE; — OB,— • The Mysterious Will. BY GEO. H. POWERS, Author of “The Purchased Bridegroom," "False," “The Poor Student,” “ Which will we Marry,” “The Bigamist,” “The Mysterious Stranger,” etc., etc. and besides, she had no proof that Dr. Camp bell really was the false and treacherous person she instinctively believed him to be. Moreover, eyes to the treachery of had done so much. “Go on,” said Dr. Campbell. “Let me hear | the worst now.” “He was suspicious,’’ continued Ticino, “and plied me with questions which I refused to ! answer.” ! “Did he speak of me?” again interrupted ! Jerome. “No, signor,” said Ticino. “He talked of a | secret enemy, and declared that this was his | work to get him into his power. At last he de- j cided to go; and so we started in a cabriolet. ■ All went along smoothly until we approached | the region of Monte Carno, where we were set | upon by the brigands, and lie was captured. I | escaped by the merest accident, and am here to j tell you of it.” { “ Why were you taking him to Monte Carno ?” demanded Jerome. “Because there is a subterranean passage ] there unknown to any human being but myself. ; I discovered it by accident. It is the safest ; place to put an enemy, if you want him out of I your way. It is the place where I intended to | put him, and it is where I have his wife con- : fined.” “Why did you think of imprisoning both in the same place?” asked Jerome. “For a very simple reason,” answered Ticino. . "Nature has divided the cavern into numerous j stranger had given him. It was with the great compartments; it is undiscoverable and secure, j est difficulty that he controlled his chagrin If the signor should desire to see his captives j and disappointment sufficiently to deter Mr. frequently they would have been near together, Chauncy from suspecting the truth. But he thus saving him much travel.” | did do so with such cunning that Mr. Chauncy The Italian uttered these words with a cun- | thought he was agitated only at the thought of ning smile, his eyes gleaming maliciously, but j his friend’s danger, and with sympathy for him all unseen by Jerome. | in his release. When he had calmed himself “You are right, Ticino,” said Dr. Campbell, | sufficiently he said: at last. “Perhaps it is as well as it is. It will j “This is joyful intelligence; it almost over- be a long time before the brigands release him, ; powers me. Where may I find my happy friend ‘ and your fair daughter ?” “You are an hour too late,” replied Mr. Chauncy; “ they are now on their way to Amer ica.” “ Gone to America?” cried Jerome. “Their departure was very sudden, was it not?” • He was amazed and fearfully disconcerted. Had his friend discovered the truth, and taken this mean-1 ito rid himself of a traitor? Borman’s uncle is worse,” explained Mr. and they telegraphed for him to tly. In an hour after he received the feiegrai-lft was curthe way.” “Did my friend leave no word for me, Mr. Chauncv?” asked Jerome. “He did." “What was it? I know that he could not have forgotten me.” “Oh ! no; he thought of you all the time, and the last request he made of me was to tell nor rest since leaving Rome, and much worse, : pose more securely, and with trusty confeder- t not met for many years.” did not succeed; I have failed.” j ates to assist him ? Joseph Vi heeler s desire for Jerome Campbell s “Failed!” exclaimed Mr. Chauncy. “You | “I could soon put it out of his power to speedy return was a source of considerable grat- have failed ! Ah! yes; but you have heard ?” i work any more harm to that young fellow and ; ification to Norman, who thought that he saw “Heard?” his fair-faced bride,” said Ticino, drawing a in it a reconciliation all around. It was now Jerome’s turn to exclaim. He sharp stiletto from beneath his long cloak, and | In the years long gone by, there seemed to wondered if the man had gone crazy, or had he examining its edge with a vindictive expression, exist a feeling of bitter animosity between Jo- really “heard” of his treachery. In spite of i “This would soon settle the debt I owe the seph Wheeler and Jerome Campbell, and now his self-control, Jerome grew pale and trem- ■ accursed family,” he continued; “but I do not ; Joseph’s evident desire that Jerome would return bled; but he managed to ask, with an intona- ! think the time has come as yet.” j to America led our hero to hope that a reconci- tion of surprise: * In a few moments, Dr. Campbell stood beside | liation would speedily take place. _ “Heard what?” him, and drawing him further into the shadow Surely Jerome could not hold out against such “That Candice has been discovered,” said j of the mighty building, held with him a low a change of heart as had taken place in his ad- Mr. Chauncy. ! and rapid conversation, whose purport was that Jerome was struck dumb with amazement. | Ticino should accompany Dr. Campbell to Amer- “Discovered? No !” i ica, and be on hand to help him carry out any “ It is even so. But I will tell you all about j scheme against Norman that might suggest it- it, and then you will be more surprised than 1 self to his mind. Guilt shrinks from working you now are.” j out its dark purposes alone, and courts defeat Thereupon Mr. Chauncy related what had ; by seeking allies. Jerome believed that the taken place since he had last seen Jerome. J Italian hated Norman from some secret grudge, When he came to the account of Norman’s cap- i and that he would prove his best accomplice, ture by the brigands, his incarceration in the j And the wily Italian did all he could to foster cave where Candice had been imprisoned, and j this belief, and spoke of the young American their subsequent release bythe masked stranger, j with the bitterness of intense malignity. Dr. Campbell’s excitement was intense. Here, At a late hour in the afternoon of the next at one fell blow, his villainous plot and his j day, Dr. Campbell and Ticino started on their will it not, Ticino ?” “ The signor says truly. A very large ransom money will be demanded and expected. If he fails to raise that, then they will murder him. The signor will be able, I think, to make the time for raising the ransom a very long one,” and Ticino smiled knowingly. The suggestion pleased Jerome, who said: “ Again you are right, Ticino. It is a much better thing than it appeared to me. Indeed, I CHAPTER XIX.-Continued. Arriving at Liverpool, Norman remembered that he had left no money to bear the expenses of his friend’s journey to America. Generous as ever, he sent Mr. Chauncy a telegram, re- ^ questing him to advance Jerome five hundred am 0 f opinion that it is much better than , Chauncy dollars immediately upon his return from Flor- j my own course WO uld have been.” ence. This was a death-blow to the hopes of i “Certainly,” said Ticino; “your friend will Candice, who had fervently trusted that Jerome j name you to negotiate with the robbers.” would never return to America. Yet she still j “Yes,” replied Jerome, “ they will negotiate refrained from warning her husband against with me for the ransom. I will get the amount him. She feared he would not believe her— from his uncle, and add a little to it, if—they would think her suspicious and ill-natured; will kill him. ' journey. The second day thereafter, they ar rived at Liverpool, and soon after secured pas- versary; and, at the first opportunity Norman had, he expressed this opinion to his brother, and congratulated him upon bringing about so desirable a state of feeling. Norman’s account of his adventures in Italy excited his brother considerably. Candice’s eyes were upon him as they conversed. This man, who had purchased Jerome Camp bell, knew exactly to whose hands to ascribe the painting adventure, but he was in some doubt as to the abduction of Candice. He was unable to see in what manner it was calculated to fur ther the scheme concocted between them. Norman’s marriage affected Joseph Wheeler strangely. For several years he had subsisted upon the thought that such an event would nev- sage in the Queen Victoria, an English vessel, j er take place. He had presumed much upon bound for the port of New York. Six days out Campbell’s ability to remove his brother from from Liverpool, a terrible storm came up. It j his path, in order that he might succeed to his lasted all day, and night set in upon a tumultu- ! uncle’s estate; but since the failure of his own ous sea. Thus far the good old ship had borne I health, his feelings had changed considerably. the tempest nobly, but now she gave signs of weakness. Before midnight she was a wreck, and sank from sight, with nearly all that were on board. Dr. Campbell and Ticino succeeded in getting away from the doomed vessel before she sank, upon a floating spar. Astride of this, they set out upon a voyage across the terrible deep. Morning came, and the winds and waves gave way. Night came on, but there was no sign of land or vessel upon that terrible deep. By this The beauty and sweetness of his brother’s wife had also wrought upon him, and had caused him to relax much of his hatred. Yet, he did not forgive Norman his good fortune, for he coveted that for his son. But he determined to abandon the diabolical purposes in which he was assisted by Jerome Campbell, and leave fate to work the estate into his son’s hands. As far as he was concerned, he had an abund- dance for the few years that would bo allotted to him upon earth; and if Oakley would but ob- Ticino was hardened, but Dr. Campbell’s words repelled even him. He shuddered in spite _ .of himself, although a smile twitched at the you to follow him immediately, as he could not she had solemnlv promised Jerome Campbell to . corners of his lips; and in his evil eye there , bear the separation.” say nothing to Norman that would be to his j was a glance which said: j With these words, Dr. Campbell’s worst fears prejudice. ' j “Jerome Campbell, you mistake in your cal- j passed away, but his disappointment wa^bitter, They set sail from Liverpool in the steamship | culations; your own time will surely come, land he inwardly cursed his luck. He plead Boston, bound for New York, Norman happy in j allc } you will find me as cruel and pitiless as j fatigue and illness and retired, promising to the possession of his bride and in the feeling | yourself. Go on with your scheming. I will ; call again before leaving for America, of relief from the burden of mysterious danger j a id you, but I will see to it that no one suffers j He was furiously angry with Ticino, and thal had hung over him. Their first afternoon \ very seriously at your hands; and when my j when he met him soon afterward, he caught his at sea was pleasant, and the happy pair sat j time comes, you will fall into my trap. I know i arm and glared at him savagely, upon the deck and watched the forest of sails | that you have not done with me; at all events, I j “ You have deceived me; you are a traitor, skirting the English shore, as it faded into the have not done with you. Whithersoever you and I was a fool to trust you !” dim distance. As they arose to return to the cabin. Candice beheld a gentleman standing a short distance away, whose eyes were fastened upon Norman with a fixed, sinister stare. “ Who is that man?” whispered Candice to her husband. Norman glanced toward the stranger, and then go, I shall follow, meeting plan with counter plan, and scheme with counter-scheme until your day of reckoning.” “Have I had time to make a journey to Flor ence yet, Ticino?” suddenly asked Jerome. “Yes, signor, if you traveled in haste.” “Then I think that I will report myself to started, and grasped the arm of his wife for sup- j Norman and his wife’s parents, announcing my port, his face lived, and his eves unnaturally j trip unsuccessful! ha! ha!” wild. The stranger smiled at Norman’s extra- j The villain laughed, and Ticino joined with ordinary emotion, but made no comment. Fi- j him. nallv. Norman calmed himself sufficiently to ask: j “ You will meet me here after the sun has “Who are you, sir?” - gone down, will you, Ticino, and arrange fur- “My name is Roe—Richard Roe,” was the | ther, if necessary ?’’said Dr. Campbell, polite answer. “ The signor may expect me.” “You will excuse my question,” still gazing I “And, Ticino, soon after I reach the mansion upon him strangely. “ Your face is very much of the Chauncys, do you report there and an- like one I once knew, but who has been under nounce Norman’s capture by the brigands; but the sod these many years.” , don’t seem to recognize me.” “Certainly, certainly, sir,” and the stranger j “ The signor will find me as discreet as ever.” bowed and betook himself to another part of j “Well, then, farewell for the present. Here is pay for what you have done.” The wily Italian’s face, was a study, so full was it of utter amazemeut and injured inno cence. He protested that he was entirely igno rant of Jerome’s meaning, and finally succeeded in making his Jupe believe that he spoke the truth. Dr. Campbell then told him what had happened, and Ticino swore roundly over the frustration of his hopes, and cursed the masked stranger, whom he vowed he would find out and pay for all the trouble and disappointment he had caused. Jerome left him after appointing to meet him that night at the old place of meet ing- As Dr. Campbell walked away, his thoughts were in a tumult. “Is his uncle really ill.” he said to himself, “or is it a ruse of Joseph Wheeler’s to nerve me to the vengeance I have sworn? Well, I have failed, and what will Joseph say? For years I have struggled and plotted, and am no nearer success than at first. Ah ! if I had not loved Candice Chauncy, before to-day Norman would time the lone and ill-starred voyagers were serve proper policy, it might turn out that he nearly famished with hunger and thirst. They would become a great favorite with his brother, hoped for the morning, and thought it would j It was very hard for Joseph Wheeler to reason bring them in sight of land, or passing vessel. | this way with anything like calmness. At times, They were doomed to disappointment. At j it was difficult for him to forgive his brother; noon, their eyes were bloodshot, and their j and he often wondered for how long a period faces and limbs were swollen. They had changed [ this state of feelings would last, their positions upon the spar^ an d sat staring at | But the most difficult question to bfl- consi- each other in terrible despair. In Ticino’s mouth f dered was the effect it would have upo3^&5v-< was his stiletto, while Jerome Campbell carried Campbell. Hence, his anxiety for his speedy his little box of poisons beneath his vest; and arrival, for he wanted it settled one way or the with murder in their glances and despair in j other at once. And yet, while he was anxious their hearts, unaccompanied with a single feel- f or hjs co-conspirator’s coming, he could but iug of remorse, these worthies drifted on farther 1 dread it, for who could say that he would not from shore, with death looking them boldly in i cause him to forego his present half repentance ? their faces! | And even should he remain steadfast in his — ; present state, would not Dr. Campbell insist on CHAPTER XXIII. | carrying out the scheme to ruin Norman ? It On the thirteenth day from Liverpool the bri- -was not alone his hatred that had brought about dal pair reached the house of Norman Wheeler’s j this conspiracy. Jerome Campbell hated Nor- uncle, situated in the Central part of the State man Wheeler himself, and with a hatred full of of New York. Their voyage across the Atlantic ! malignancy; although Joseph Wheeler did not had been pleasant. They had met none of the j guess the cause. Yet, more to this selfish man storms common upon the great deep at that | than all else, was the consideration that Jerome season of the year, and though considerably I Campbell might demand the price of Norman’s travel-worn, they enjoyed that rare blessing, j destruction if the scheme was abandoned, insist- good health. | ing that it was a contract, and that the fifty Joseph Wheeler’s dispatch to Norman was not thousand dollars should.be his, as he was ready surreptitious, as Jerome Campbell had half sur- j to perform his part of the same, mised. It was a sad reality, and three days be- , This was terrible to Joseph Wheeler, and fore Norman’s arrival they had laid his uncle in ; ar0 used all the hellish passions of his weak na- the vault of Oakdale Cemetery, after a short but j [ ure _ Rather than sacrifice the fifty thousand severe illness. His last words were blessings | [ ] 0 n arg) h e W ouid agree to persecute his brother upon the head of his beloved nephew, whose , unrelentingly, and if Jerome insisted on being absence from his bedside was his only lament. ' p a j[[ hjg price, he could comply, but not until In his great grief, it was pleasant to know that his uncle had remembered him kindly to the last, just as his friendship for him through life had been of the warmest and most steadfast character. The feeling of animosity toward Norman Norman Wheeler was cold in his grave, and the Wheeler estate had passed into his possession. This was his expressed determination, and he further decided that when the vast possessions of several generations of the Wheelers, once passed into his control, he would have no the ship. “What frightened you so, darling?” asked [ “It is best,” said Jerome, “ to be liberal with | have swung from the highest gibbet in Rome. Candice. I these fellows; you will lose nothing by it in the j But in my fever of passion for her, I lost sight “His face.” replied Norman, shudderingly. (end. How fortunate,” he continued, as he ; of everything else, and he defeated my plan by “ It is the face of the dead. He’is so like \ strode toward the Chauncys’, “ that I thought to j finding the painting, and returning it.” Jerome Campbell’s father.” have Ticino report Norman’s capture. I think | Dr. Campbell went to his room in the hotel, “ Why should that disturb you, Norman?” ; that with the money we can raise for his release, ; and having double-locked the door,took from his “Because—I will tell you some time, dearest, with what I can raise to keep him there, Joseph trunk a small malachite box that he opened with He was a very bad man; I saw him commit a Wheeler may soon step into Norman’s place. I a curious gold key attached to his watch-chain; crime, and my testimony—oh ! how like Je- j wonder what those villainous brigands will de- j then he took from the box a number of vials rome’s father !” he cried, breaking off suddenly. , mand in addition to the sum raised for his ran- 1 closely stopped, and laid them one by one on “This is why Jerome has been my protoge. But som, to keep him in confinement until he dies, j the table before him. Their contents were the I will tell you the story at some future time.” | and submit his mind and person to the rack ! result of many years study and research, and of • and scourge during the balance of his miserable | repeated experiments in the laboratory. Not CHAPTER XX. j days,” and he paused to think for a moment, to j only had he ransacked chemistry for known Dr. Campbell still wore his disguise, and j 8 loat over the idea. “ The more I consider it, j combinations and elements, but he had sought allowed Norman and the Cbauncvs to believe : the better am I pleased that he did escape, for > information Irom other sources. In his inter- that he was pursuing his journey to and from 1 *t necessary, lean get Ticino to unite with the 1 course with the Indians of America, with the Florence. Whatever doubts be may Lave here- band, and take my vengeance into bis own j Spaniards of Mexico, with tbe Bedouins of tbe tofore entertained regarding Ticino’s fidelity to ; hands. Ha ! continued Jerome, who had now i Arabian ueserts, and the herb gatherers, of him were all removed, and he now had implicit thrown aside his disguise, “there is the man Italy, he had learned many secrets regarding faith in the dark-faced Italian. Thus far. his who resembles my father. Who is he? He j his favorite study of poisons, had gathered schemes against Norman since his marriage had w tints to speak to me.” j many hints which were added to his wonderful been apparently as sucoessful as he could have A few more steps brought him to the spot i knowledgeof chemistry, and helped him to per- wished. Candice was his captive, and was con- w here the fined in a place so obscure and unknown that the possibilities of her release or escape were few. If he should fail in making Norman his prisoner, he could still retain Candice in foreign clime where his betrayed friend could never discover them. Even this would have been a terrible revenge upon Norman Wheeler, but not such as he had vowed to have at any hazard. Norman’s removal from Joseph Wheeler’s path was but a portion of his marked out re venge. The desire for the accomplishment of his plans was very much increased by theprom- which Joseph Wheeler seemed to have borne in i squeamish conscience about the mysterious will, his breast during all the years past and gone j w hich almost a score of forefathers had handed had apparently departed. His reception of the down. It had always been held as a sacred in young heir and his bride was brotherly; and J strument of writing by the Wheelers, but he over the newly made grave of their deceased ■ would destroy its provisions by legislative enact- relative, they wept together. What change was ment, could he get the matter once before the this which had come over Joseph Wheeler, and ; state Assembly. It had never been sacred in what did it portend? His health was very fee- i f a ther’s eye, was not sacred in his, and never ble. From a strong and healthy man, he had j should be. If the will was old and strange, it dwindled down to a mere shadow. But pros- W as, for all that, cruel and unjust, pects of dissolution certainly had not softened ( T0 be continued. ) his heart, for he had written to Jerome Camp bell, at Rome, that he was still determined in , ~~ , his vengeance. This letter had been written The American madien, far more than her English not more than three months previously, yet j sister, dislikes low life in fiction, and it is not by there was a positive change in the writer’s de- \ any means an uncommon thing to hear your would- meanor toward his brother. In fact, Joseph be fashionable dame remark, “I can’t endure Dick- Wheeler treated Norman with such considers- ens; he writes about such common people.” As tion and address that our hero was astounded. Mrs. Hamilton intended to introduce us to the so- “Our uncle’s death has thawed his icy heart,” ciety of dukes and princes, countesses and people said he. “ Thank God ! from this day we shall of that kind, might it not have been as well, seeing be brothers in heart as well as name.” '■ that her story deals principally with hearts, had Joseph Wheeler’s son was absent when Nor- g |i e christened it “Cracked in many places,” or man and his bride arrived, but in two or three “Cemented with many tears.” The author is, we days he returned, and Norman was speedily understand, a native American writer, but her made acquainted with the young man who had 8 tory is intended to be purely descriptive of English been scarcely more than a boy when he had !ife aboard. We are led to suppose that she has seen him last. adopted English character mainly for the purpose Now he was a man in years and stature. 0 f introducing a countess, a duke, and two or three His education was fair; he had enjoyed the ad- 0 tber swell titles, because the people, divested of vantages of the best schools in his native State, their rHnki wolll(i have done duty equally well and had stored his mind with much useful know- - - — ledge. Norman was much pleased with bis nephew, ! indeed better, as Americans. The author would also have avoided making so strikingly un-English a peroration'as the following: “When the warm weather came he was indeed better, but in that land where they no more say I am sick.” When it is remembered that to English ears the word sick” applies exclusively to the action produced mysterious stranger was standing, feet those fatal combinations which he now sur- ‘ What now ? ’demanded Jerome. veyed. As he handled them he muttered to “Not much, only you have failed again, I himself: see,” was the answer. “Alas ! I fear that you “Xumber one, will send a person to eternity Oakley Wheeler. His appearance was prepos- ~~ never will revenge your father's death. That i in a second: and here is its only antidote. sessing, his manners'modest and Tefined, and confinement until'she^would be glad to "accede do 8 of an Italian has betrayed you.” ! “Xumber two, is a poison that is so slow in its he appeared altogether snch a person as you to everv wish of his heart. He would compel “What do you mean?” cried the astonished ; effects, and so subtle, that it cannot be detect- would feel like recommending to a family of in- 1.;™- „ m ) w ben bi« schemes were , Jerome. i ed, even upon chemical analysis at a post mortem j nocent daughters, to a ladies’ sewing circle, or , -cr— . - —: r— accomplished, he would bear her away to some Tlle stranger looked at him wonderingly, and examination. This is its antidote, and it may | as a model to a yonng man of unfixed prin- | by nat . u J’® or an emetic (he ridiculousness of the - -- - .... - - • - - - | exclaimed: be given up to the hour of death, and save the cfples. In brief he was such an individual as ldea Wld be apparent. She would also have escaped “ Oh ! you have not heard? Wait, then,” and sufferer’s life. would prove very attractive to a person of Nor- the mistake of speaking of Bryanstone square, he moved away. “ Xumber three, is a poison that has no known : man’s unsuspicious, confiding nature. London, as a fashionable neighborhood. If we Jerome seized him by the arm. antidote. It must he used only in particular | The disparity in their years was not very great, j remember aright Thackeray, in one of his novels, “Hold!” he commanded. “Who are you, j cases, when you desire to put a fellow safely out Norman was twenty-nine and Oakley nineteen, makes it a rather shabby-genteel sort of place, and why do you take such an interest in my of tbe way. It is the best in such case, because In fact, so well pleased was Norman with his On page 21 she makes Mr. Oarnegie a Scotchman; affairs ?” ’ no suspicions physician can stay its effect. | nephew, that when he assumed control of his on page 50, “a haughty Englishman.” In one “ I am a friend of your dead father’s,” was I This is the poison I gave the meddlesome Ital- dead ancle’s estate he offered Oakley a home he- place Fitzhaven is a frank and genial young Scot; _ _ tbe answer. “A near friend,” he continued ian who had a knowledge of my secret. neath his roof. in another he is a duke. No Scotch duke could ise of reward for among bis other faults with emphasis. “Iam a branch of the great Xumber four, is a solution for wall-paper. If Concerning his affection for his nephew, Can- j ev er recognize himself Fitzhaven. The Macspurtle Jerome was avaricious. Fifty thousand dollars Wheeler family, and am one of the victims of I desire to rid myself of an enemy, a few drops dice said not a word. Without the firmness of j or the duke of Achnasneeshin might have passed was a comfortable fortune for a man in his cir- its mysterious Will. I do not love the accursed of this sprinkled above his head, on the wall of her husband, and timid and shrinking in nature, muste r, but the blood of a jacobite could never cumstances. It was a sum that would rentier name, and I want it to go down to destruction, his sleeping apartment, and the rising sun will she had a more subtle judgment of human cha- stand a Fitzhaven. The leading faults of this novel him sufficients independent to support Candice Now you know why I am interested in your shine upon the corpse of my enemy. racter. She saw that her husband s heart had are a love 0 f sensational episode, sudden action in the style of 'living she had been accustomed “Xumber jive is a perfume, whose incense is gone out to the youth, but like a wise woman she aaJ high . flovvn< i anguage . to The stranger would not pause to pass another 1 deadly. It will send a church full of sinners held her peace. He was now certain that Norman was an in- * word with Jerome, hut moved quickly away, as to their Master in five seconds. Its antidote is j She well knew that should she suggest to our M „ mate of a Diace both secure and undiscovered though he were afraid to trust himself to sav this wax, which so much resembles a piece of I hero that his nephew s pleasant ways and exact It is estimated that fully 200.000 head of Texas Ticino had positively declared that he would more ' glass. It is said that an Italian by the name of ; demeanor were assumed, and that he was base , catt.e will be pastured in Kansas this summer. INSTINCT PRINT