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SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1899.
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
NEWS NOTES.
A phosphate plant is being: erected at
Floral 'City. Fla.
A 50-ton guano factory is being erected
at Gadsden, Ala.
Natchitoches, Fa.—Crop behind, but
faimers working in earnest.
The Velasco Terminal railroad is build
ing wharves at Velasco. Texas.
The Shelbyville. Tenn.. wool carding
plant has commenced operations.
Millie.in, Brazos county, Tex.—Cotton
will be late. Prospects are for abundant
crop.
The Mills Manufacturing company, of
Greenville. S. will add 20,000 spindles
to its mill.
A Michigan syndicate has purchased 60.-
0o0 acres of pine lands near Leesville,
Vernon Parish, La.
A canning factory with a capacity of
20.000 cases is under construction at
French Broad. Tenn.
The Chatham Manufacturing company
lias doubled the capacity of their woolen
mill at Elkin. N. C.
Chicago parties tire erecting a cannery
at Brunswick. Ga.. to condense and to
can oysters and shrimp.
The output in the .Inplin. Mo., district
last week was 101325.957 pounds zinc and
SIT,015 pounds of lead.
A 60-ton cottonseed oil mill is being
erected at Celeste. Texas, the company
have a capital stock of $40,000.
The Eufala Cotton mills, of Eufala,
Ala., have decided to Enlarge their mills,
adding 12 500 spindles and 100 looms.
The Georgia Southern and Florida rail
way tue constructing 300 new freight cats
at their shops at Macon. Ga.
Large deposits of phosphate rock has
boon discovered within the corporate lim
its of Bartow. Polk county. Florida.
The Tennessee Copper company has
hccit incorporated for the development
of copper and other mines. Capital. $5.-
UOO.Ouu.
Contracts have been signed for the
erection of a silk mill at Roanoke Junc
tion. N. C. The main building will be
built of brick and be 315x76 feet.
The Coolcmee Cotton mills now being
erected at Jerusalem. N. C.. will contain
23.000 spindles and S0O looms. The main
building will be 101x122 feet.
. The Pascagoula canning company has
been incorporated with a capital of $50.-
000 to erect and operate a cannery at
Pascagoula. Miss.
The Sterling Gold Mining company, cap
ital stock $500,000. has been incorporated to
develop gold mines in Montgomery coun
ty. North Carolina.
The Sawyer A- Austin Lumber company-
of Wisconsin, has purchased 100.000 acres
of timber lands situated between Pine
Bluff and Benton. Ark.
The Freeman party have purchased
several thousand acres of pine lands near
Georgetown. S. ('.. arid are erecting a
sawmill with a daily capacity of 150.000
feet.
The Union Lumber company has pur
chased 50.00" acres of timber lands on the
line of the Tifton. Thomasville and GuP
railway and is negotiating for 25.000 aeres
additional.
John Weir, a New York city capitalist,
has secured a twelve months' option on
till the mining lands of the Clinton, Tenn.,
zinc works. The price agreed upon is
$190,000 cash.
Tlie Atlantic Lumber company has pur
chased the Payne Cochran company’s,
tract of timber land in Bradford county.
Florida, which it is estimated will cut 50,-
000.000 feet of timber.
Saw mill men from Tullahoma. Tenn..
have purchased a large tract of poplar
timber land near Srottsboro. Ala., and
will erect a large band saw mill to saw up'
the timber.
The Tilghman Lumber company is
erecting a saw mill plant at Georgetown.
S. C., to have a daily capacity of 100.000
feet of'lumber. This company will manu
facture sap pine exclusively.
The Atlantic Coast Lumber company, of
Norfolk. Va.. has acquired 600.000.000 feet
of standing timber on the Atlantic coast
between Norfolk. Va., and Charleston, S.
C., and will erect mills at once.
The Georgetown Lumber company, of
Alexandria. I.a., has erected a saw mill
with a daily capacity of 50.000 feet, at
Georgetown. La., and, will develop their
purchase of 25.000 acres of timber land.
Philadelphia parties have purchased 50.-
00" acres of timber lands near Charleston.
S. C.. and will erect a plant with a daily
capacity of 80.000 feet dressed lumber pet-
day. An extensive site for a new mill has
The Trion Manufacturing company, of
Trion Factory. Ga.. has given contracts
for the erection of its new mill to accom
modate 25.000 spindles and 750 looms In
addition to their present mill.
The Merchants' and Miners' Transpor
tation company give complimentary ex
cursions to Old Point Comfort to all their
passengers holding first class tickets from
Baltimore to or via Boston or Providence.
The Union Lumber company, having se
cured 75.000 acres of timber land in Col
quitt county. Georgia, will at once begin
to build the Tifton. Thomasville and Gulf
railway, between Tifton and Thomasville,
Ga.
Philadelphia parties have purchased
several thousand acres of virgin timber
lands near Shady Valley. Tenn., and will
develop same as soon as the Virginia and
Southwestern railway, now being built
to ibis section, reaches them.
It is stated that 100.000 people in North
Carolina are directly supported by the
cotton mills alone, and the aggregate
paid in wages per year is $56,700,490. All of
this property bears its full share of the
state, county, school and other taxes.
The Seaboard Air Line, which lias suc
cessfully inaugurated traveling libraries
for the benefit of the people along its
system, has received a check for $1.00"
from Andrew Carnegie in appreciation
of its efforts.
"Through Scotland by the Caledonian
railway." a finely illustrated and enter
taining book of 150 pages, published by
the Caledonian railway, of Scotland, will
be sent free to any one sending 3 cents in
postage to C. \V. Peek. Atlanta. Ga.
The Tutwiler Coal ant} Iron company
has purchased the Vanderbilt furnace
property at Birmingham. Ala., as also
several tracts of coal and iron lands, and
are repairing the furnace preparatory to
blowing it in and developing their pur
chases.
The Nashville abattoir which is operat
ed in connection with an ice plant and
fertilizer factory. j< now in full operation,
and has a daily capacity of 150 head of
cattle, 500 hogs and 250 sheep, and also
making 20 tons, o',ice and 10 tolrs-’-of fertil
izer daily.
Baltimore parties are erecting a slag
cement mill at Birmingham, Ala. The
buildings will include slag crush mills,
compounding houses, storage houses, dy
namo. boiler, engine, houses, etc., costing
over $75,000 and will he operated by the
Birmingham Cement Co.
The Fidelity International company. *if
Philadelphia, with a capital of $2,000,0(10,
will erect two large mills at Norfolk, Va..
for the manufacture of antiseptic fiber
mattresses, pads, felts and yarns. Also
cottonseed oil products under special pat
ents and will employ over 70" hands.
The Sheffield Rolling Mill company has
its plant now in full operation, and art-
arranging to increase the capacity to 75
tons finished Iron and 60.000 pounds rail
road spikes daily. They will also erect
and operate a plant to manufacture their
own spike ki-gs.
The Riverdiile Cotton mills of West
Point. Ga., have decided to jilac*- 35.000
spindles and l.ttOO looms in their new
buildings at West Point. The main build
ing will be four stories of brick and 500x
150 feet on the ground. A feature of the
new mill will be a cotton opening room.
The Georgia Northern Railroad com
pany has recently let the contract for
grading twenty-three miles of roadbed
from the northern line of Colquitt coun
ty to a junction with the Savannah, Flor
ida ahd Western railway, near Albany,
Ga. Twelve miles of this extension tra
verses a heavily timbered section of coun
try and th“ remaining eleven miles a
highly productive agricultural country.
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the state of Georgia, not excepting that
of some of the richest gold mines in the
northern part of the state. The fiber of
the asbestos taken from the Sail moun
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as that taken Irom the famous mines of
Canada, and when worked on a large
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Nothing is scarcer than a tine grade of
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cheaper or less useful than a poor grade,
and it is regarded as certain that Georgia
has ail asbestos deposit which may prove
some day as valuable and productive as
the famous deposits of Canada.
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THE BOSS’ MYSTERY.
BY H. C. HORNADY.
The Boss is a man of ideas, lit- is full
of ’em.
"I have an idea.” he said one morning,
“that there's something wrong with
somebody or other down on R street -
little house on the right as you go west,
between Lincoln and Lilliput." He bit
the end off of a cigar, lit it and began to
puff in a contemplative way.
I said nothing.
"I can't make it out.” he resumed;
"woman sits at an cast window. and
gazes all the time—’way off yonder, you
know: doesn’t see anybody that passes;
seems to see something over about Cuba
or somewhere.”
The Boss picked up the morning paper,
anil laid it down again.
1 blew my nose.
“Never see her anywhere else.” he con
tinued. musingly—“framed in that win
dow.” The Boss stopped suddenly as
though he was half inclined to be sorry
that he had begun the story.
"Old or young?" I ventured to inquire.
The Boss looked at me reproachfully.
“Oil. of course.” I put in. hurriedly,
“couldn't be otherwise. Don't know why
1 asked such a question.”
"Now. I'll tell you what.” lie said with
sudden energy, "if 1 had time, I’d inves
tigate this thing. There’s a story in it.
or I don't know the material when I see
it.”
The Boss got up and left the room.
I also got up.
I took my hat arid went out.
Anyone unacquainted with the Ross and
his "ways" would naturally suppose that
he went out for the purpose of setting
about solving the mystery of the lady at
the window, but I knew that he went out
to get a glass of something around the
corner, and. incidetntally. to give me a
chance to go and solve the mysterv mv-
S-!f.
I solved all the Boss’ mysteries—and
they were many—whenever they got solv
ed at all. which was not often. The Boss
never was known to solve a mystery, but
lie was eternally finding one that ought
to be solved, because he had no doubt it
would “make a good story.” And who
will deny that the Boss was close up ro
the truth—much closer than he thought?
Life is a vast mystery, and each atom of
humanity is a little sub-mystery of its
own. But there are mysteries and other
mysteries.
When 1 go in to solve one of the Boss'
mysteries I take it leisurely. I don't like
to be precipitate. Some men would have
walked straight up to the lady in the win
dow and asked what she meant by sitting
there looking at Cuba or something, j
am more delicate than that.
The first step 1 took toward solving the
Boss' mystery was characteristic of me.
i went around another corner and had a
glass of something, myself. I stood a few
moments talking casually to the barten
der. .Yhile thus engaged my attention
was drawn to a customer who had enter
ed and called for a cocktail. While the
bartender prepared the drink. I inspected
the customer closely. He was tall and
straight, but seemed to be bowed down by
something. ‘ You’ve see ihose sort of
men. haven't you? His face was hag
gard. There was something wild and
strange'in his deep eyes. He drank his
cocktail with great zest and went out.
The man interested me strangely. I
can't precisely say why. But there was
something in his manner that made me
walk out after him.
lie was* another Mystery, and I was a
Mystery Chaser!
I followed the man for half ail hour.
He paid no attention to me whatever
(conduct always sure to arouse the indig
nation of the astute detective), but kept
steadily on bis way. Suddenly be stopped
and entered a little house on B street. Be
ing a born detective, I also stopped, and
stood gazing very hard at the house.
Finding in a few minutes that I could
not see through the walls, 1 naturally
glanced at the windows.
But a mere glance did not satisfy me,
for upon easting my eyes upward 1 be
held a vision that was startling..
A lady was seated at a window looking
at Cuba or somewhere!
I had scarcely noticed in what part of
town I had been drawn by my self-ap
pointed conductor, but now 1 looked about
me with interest.
I! street—no doubt about that—and
there's Lincoln, and yonder’s Lilliput—
no doubt about these, either. Incredible
as it may seem to the man who knows
what a detective is. i was unquestionably
right up against the Boss' mystery. J
was surprised, myself.
The lady was looking, as the Boss had
told me. very far away. She had evi
dently seen neither myself or the man
who had entered the house. I waited
where 1 was. determined to ascertain
what effect the arrival of the man might
have on the lady at the window. For a
long time 1 looked at the window, but
the lady did not move or change her po
sition in the least. That far-away look
deepened if anything, and I read a wist
ful sadness in her eyes that smote my
heart. My heart gets smoted in nearly all
the Boss' eases, but 1 was particularly
smoted at this time. I felt a reckless de
sire to do something for the lady—to
punch somebody's head for her, or any
little thing like that. The longer I look
ed at her. the more intense became this
feeling. Finally it got too much for me.
J went up to the front door and knocked!
Looking at this procedure on my part
from the calm standpoint of the critic
and accuser now as 1 write this experi
ence. I find myself wondering tliai I
knocked at that door. What business had
1 there? Oh. yes. ihe Boss' business; 1
nearly forgot that.
In a moment the door was opened—and
1 stood in the presence of my “pipe!"
Wliat 1 would have said'is another mys
tery to me now, (I'll run it down some
day), as I think river this matter. Pos
sibly I would have asked if Mr. Jones
lived there, and being informed that Mr.
Jones lived three doors below, would have
backed down the steps and departed. But
I was not given any time to speak. The
strange man almost pulled me into the
hall and motioned me to a seat. He look
ed more nervous and excited than before.'
His manner was hectic. 1 took the seat,
mechanically. I was somewhat dazed. 1
do not mind acknowledging that much,
now that it’s all over.
The stranger regarded me with an ap
pealing. an almost helpless look. This
encouraged me. .
I m glad you've come "he whispered,
hoarsely.
‘‘Thank you,” I replied, wondering how
Ihe devil I d get out of this; "Cm glad,
too."
"I knew you would be,” he said, grate
fully; •qit least.” apologetically. "I hoped
) ou would be. You cannot know how it
lias been with me all this time. She
doesn't know, thank God. I wonder if
file cares.” The man relapsed into an
oblivious state and was speaking to
himself more than to me. But he looked
up quickly.
“Does she care?” he asked, grasping my
arm convulsively.
"Yes. she does.” I replied.
“Thank God! She hasn't forgotten me,
you sav?”
"I didn't say. Bill, but there's narry a
forget on her part.”
"Is il possible that she loves me still?
—And yet, great God. how could I doubt
il? He bowed bis head and wept. There
is something grand in ihe weeping of a
strong man. And yet pitiful. The kind of
pity a man would feel on seeing a great
mountain shaken by an earthquake.
"Yes. she loves you yet.” I said softly,
“hankers after you all the time; can’t
fleeii; can't eat: lonesome; sick.”
The man groaned.
"Wliat did you do it for?” I asked, be
ginning to get indignant as I thought of
the lady at the window.
”1 can’t explain—can’t explain." he mur
mured. hoarsely: "but tell me." he raised
his head and looked with piteous pleading
in his eyes, "what has become of him?'
“Him! Oh. lie's all right: you needn't
worry about him: I'll fix him.”
"Have you seen him lately?” he in
quired. nervously.
"Saw him last week,” I replied at a
venture.
"How did he look?”
I scratched my head reflectively. "About
as usual. 1 said, finally. That was a
safe tack.
"Yes. 1 know; but has all this trouble
told oil liiin much? How does lie stand
it?”
"Doesn’t seem to care a continental! I
said, shortly. What the devil could a man
sa y ?
“The infernal brute! 1 thought so.
Come in here a minute.”
We went into the little parlor.
I was beginning to get tired of this bus
iness. 1 wanted to go away—to Cuba or*
somewhere.
The man took a small photograph al
bum from the centre table, turned over
a few leaves, and handed it to me, indi
cating a picture.
"Do you know who that is?” he asked,
giving me a queer smile.
I scrutinized tlie. photograph closely.
' "No. can’t say that I know him.”
"I hardly thought you would: and yet
it was taken only two years ago." He
wa'ked to a mirror and contemplated his
reflection critically.
My heart gave a great jump.
“Great Scott!" i exclaimed, "not you!"
“The same." lie replied, sadly; "just
thinR of it. old man—two years ago! Look
at that bright eye. that ruddy cheek, that
contented, jovial smile. Look at it! Then
look at me! Only two years!”
"Impossible!” 1 exclaimed.
"Perfectly true." he said, sadly, "just
think of it, old man—but- of course you
are aware of the fact.”
“Don't know a damn—I mean yes. of
course, sad affair."
"You cannot know how sad," he said,
drearily, "and of course you have not feit
kindly toward me, but that was because
you did not know the whole story.”
I did feel a little sore about it." I
assented, “but I am ready to hear anj
explanation ,you wish to make."
A look of anguish crept into his eyes—
ill-" same helpless, hopeless look 1 had
ol i- rved once before.
" < xpif.Jn nothing, iv'-ioing. mj dps
are sealed. Lool> again upon that picture,
and again at me!" He got up and walked
wildly up and down the room. “There is
- the evidence ol’ my sorrow, my torture,
my almost madness! There is my justi
fication—the living, breathing witness of
rny blamelessness! Do you think a man
would voluntarily murder himself like
that? No: if he longed for death. lie
would seek speedier and more merciful
means. Think of the condition that
would produce so great a change! Think
of tile mental condition a man must be
in to work a metamorphosis like that?
Why. Sam. 1 have been in hell!”
"Maybe you have." 1 said, "but where
has she been all this time. She hasn’t
been there with you. has she?"
"She riiay: I think very probably she
litis: she loved me." He groaned.
And after a little pause he said: "And
you t-dl me she loves me still?"
"She does: nodoubt of it." 1 replied—and
added to myself, "i wish to the Lord she
didn't."
"I've been alraid to go ta her; meant
to go up at once, but my courage failed.
It looks so bad. this apparent desertion.
1 felt she would scorn me."
"Then you didn't desert her willingly?"
"By till the demons. No! 1 had to go!”
"All right, old boy," I said, cheerfully,
"if that's the case, and I don't mind say
ing that I believe it is; in fact know it
is from what I've see of you. then let's
get down to business. Hay. up there!” I
yelled, sticking my head in the hall,
"come out of that, won't you? Gent
down here wants to see you!"
I am perfectly aware that this was a
most insane proceeding on my part—a
proceeding, in fact, that was bound to
create alarm and needless excitement.
Looking at it calmly and dispassionately
now as ! sit in the Boss' ortice, I can
but realize that I might have been more
delicate, but at that time 1 figured care
lessly and rather spontaneously. But
wasn't I a detective? And hasn't a de
tective got the right to alarm people? Of
course.
“Oil. 1 say, up there!" f yelled, in a
great voice, up the stairway, "ain't you
go'nter come out of that? Gee whizz!
And two gents down here waiting for ”
"Stop that noise, you blasted idiot:
you'll scare her to death!” remonstrated
the strange man, catching me by the
arm.
1 pushed him back into the parlor, and
at that moment the “lady of the win
dow" appeared, pale and agitated, at the
head of the stairs.
"Beg pardon, madam,” 1 said, bowing,
"but he didn't mean it. at all: on my hon
or he didn't: all a mistake: come to life;
all tore to pieces, though; you wouldn't
know him: old and l'eeblenow: gray hairs:
bad shape: you ought to just see him!
Never meant anything about it at all:
all a mistake; queer story, too: unwrit
ten. though: can't tell it. either; bad
wreck, ma'am, shadow of former self:
come back now: all the same: it’s all off.
you know. I meant—but say now, don't
faint up there; wait. I'll help you down:
awfully changed though: prepare for
shock: all right after a while, though, too:
brace up in a week or so: faithful and
true just the same!"
The foregoing is what I think l said as
I walked up the stairway. To the best
of my recollection, those are the most
important remarks I made at the time.
When I reached the lady, she had start
ed. very gently to meet me half way.
headforemost. 1 caught her in my arms
as she keeled over. She was a light bur
den. I brought her down stairs and laid
her on a lounge, while his Nobs—1 mean
the stranger—knelt beside her and kissed
her on the brow and begged her to give
him back her love.
It occurred to me that the thing then
to do was to give the lady back her life.
1 jerked open a few things, dashed out
for water, dashed it over her face, dash
ed out again, dashed down the street to
a saloon, dashed a dollar on the counter,
asked for a pint of wisky dashed quick!
got it. dashed baek to the house, anri
found her thin white arms about the neck
of the Jags—I mean the stranger—her
head on his breast, and sobbing away on
his vest. 1 dashed something from my
eyes—cobweb. I think—lot's of 'em in that
part of town.
"It's all right, Sam.” said the man.
looking up at me with a tender smile.
“So I see. hut my name isn't Sam—not
be ii sam flight!”
"You are not Sam Springer?” he asked,
with an incredulous look.
"Never heard of Spring Sammer,” I re
plied. in indignant tones.
"Mamie, isn't this Sam?”
The lady raised a beautiful face to me.
God! how beautiful it seemetl to me!
That light on it. You know.
"No. he is not Sam. 1 have never
seen him until today. He is very wel
come. though;" and she smiled.
Her thin white arms were still around
the stranger's neck. It maddened me. L
seized a heavy chair and—sat down.
»»****<•
1 am sometimes a visitor at the home of
Mr. and Airs. Strong—a most welcome
one. 1 urn certain. Air. Strong has grown
young again. He looks like that picture
now.
The Boss says Airs. Strong looks young
er than when he first saw her at the win
dow. He and I were talking about the
Strongs the other day, and 1 cannot imag
ine why such a question come into his
head, but lie looked up at me suddenly
and said:
"By the way. Jimmy, what was that
mystery, anyhow?"
1 said I would tell him when I found out
from Mr. Strong—and that's all I can say
to you. dear reader.
Strong can tell you.
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SEEKING THE BRIGHT SIDE.
"I like to see a man make the best of
things. There's Frisbie. for instance.
That man never complains. You know he
moved about a week ago, don't you?"
"Yes: got a tine house very cheap, 1
believe.”
"That's what lie did, but as it turned
ont he would have set up an awful hol
low if he were constituted as most men
are. Of course, ymi remember how his
hearing was almost destroyed because
of the premature explosion of a toy
cannon last Fourth of July? Well, just
after his family had got comfortably
settled he found that a newly organized
brass band was using a vacant room
three doors away as a place in which to
practice twice a week.”
"That's tough."
"Yes. but Frisbie's going around
smiling and congratulating himself on
the fact that he nail lost his hearing,
and is saving *10 a month on his rent
on account of it. 1 tell you. I’m begin
ning to believe this world is nleasant or
otherwise, just as a person tries to look
at it."
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LOST MAN’S LANE.
(Continued frgm Page Two.)
hour of waiting was not likely to prove
wholly unprofitable.
“You see, ” the good woman went on.
with a relish for the marvelous that
stood me in good stead, “there is an old
tradition of that road connected with
a carriage. Years ago, before any of us
were born and the house where you are
was a gathering place for all the gay
young bloods of the county, a young
man came up from New l 7 ork to visit
Mr. Knollys. I do not mean the father
or even the grandfather of the folks you
are visiting, ma’am. He was great
grandfather to Lucetta, and a very fine
gentleman if you can trust the pictures
that are left of him. But my story has
not to do with him. He had a daughter
at that time, a widow of great and
sparkling attractions, and though she
was older than the young man I have
mentioned every one thought it would
be a match, she was so handsome and
such an heiress.
“But he failed to pay his court, to
her, and though he was handsome him
self and made a fool of more than one
girl in the town every one thought he
would go as he had come, a free hearted
bachelor, wheu suddenly one night a
horse and carriage were found lacking
from the srables, and he was found lack
ing, too, and, what was worse, theyouug
widow’s daughter, a chit who was bare
ly 15 and without a hundredth part of
the beauty of her mother. Love and an
elopement only could account for this,
for in those days young ladies did not
ride with gentlemen in the evening for
pleasure, and when it came to the old
gentleman’s ears, and, what was worse,
came to the mother’s, there was a com
motion in that house the echoes of
which some say have never died out.
Though the pipers were playing and the
fiddles were squeaking in the grent
room where they used to dance the night
away, Mrs. Knollys, with her white bro
cade tucked up about her waist, stood
with her hand on the great front door,
waiting for the horse upon which she
was determined to follow him. The fa
ther, who was a man of 80 years, stood
by her side. He was too old to ride him
self, but be never sought to hold her
back, though the jewels were tumbling
from her hair and the moon had van
ished from the highway.
“ ‘I will bring her back or die, ’ the
passionate beauty exclaimed, and not a
lip there said her nay. for they saw
what no man or woman had been able
to see up to that moment, that her very
life and soul were wrapped np in the
man who had stolen away her daughter
and that it would be death in life for
her to live with the knowledge that she
had given him a wife of her blood who
was not herself.
“Shrill went the pipes, squeak and
hnm went the fiddles, but the sound
that waS sweetest to her was the pound
of the horse’s hoofs on the road in front.
That was music to her indeed, and as
soon as she heard it 6he bestowed one
wild kiss on her father and bounded
from the house. An instant and she was
gone. One flash of her white robe at the
gate, then all was dark on the highway,
and only the old father stood in that
wide open door, Availing, as vowed
he would wait, till his daughter rc-
i turned.
j “8he had not gone alone. A faithful
j groom was behind her, and from him
was learned the conclusion of that
I quest. For an hour and a half they rode;
j then they came upon a chapel in the
mountains in which Aver© burning mi-
| wonted lights. At the sight the lady
drew rein and almost fell from her
horse into the arms of her lackey. ‘A
marriage,’ she murmured, ‘a mar
riage. ’ and pointed to a carriage stand-
; ing in the shadow of a wide spreading
j tree. It was their family carriage. How
| Avell she knew it. Rousing herself, she
made for the chapel door. ‘I will stop
it,’ she cried. ‘1 am her mother, and I
have the right.’ But the lackey drew
her back by her rich Avhite dress.
•Look!’ he cried, pointing in at one of
I the Avindows, and she looked. The man
she loved stood before the altar Avith
her daughter. He Avas looking in that
daughter’s face, and his look showed a
passionate devotion. It went like a dag
ger to her heart. Crushing her hands
against her face, she wailed out some
fearful protest; then she dashed toward
the door Avith ‘Stop! Stop!’ on her
lips. But the faithful lackey at her side
drew her back once more. ‘Listen !’ was
uoav bis word, and she listened. The
minister Avhoso form she had failed to
| see in her first- hurried look was utter-
j ing his benediction. She had come too
la Theyouug coapie were.-'married.
I “Her servant said, for so the tradi
tion survives, that when she saAV this
she greAv calm as Avalking doath in an
instant. Making her way into the chap
el she stood ready tit. the door to greet
tinm as they issued forth, and Avhcn
they saAV her there, saw the rich bedrag
gled robe and the gleam of jewels on a
neck she had not even stopped to envel
op in more than the veil from her hair,
he seemed to see what he had done and
stopped the bride, Avho in her confusion
would have fled baek t-o the altar whero
she had just been made a wife.
‘Kneel!’ he cried. ‘Kneel, Amarynth!
Only thus can we ask pardon of cur
mother. ’ But at that word, that word
which seemed to push her a million
miles away from these two beings, as ho
but two hours before had been the dear
est- beings on earth to her. the unhappy
woman gave a cry and fled from their
presence. ‘Go! Go!’ were her parting
words. ‘As yon have chosen, continue.
But let no tongue call me mother!
Henceforth I am mother to no one. ’
“They found her lying on the grass
outside. As she could no longer sustain
beraelf on a horse, they put her into the
carriage, gave the reins to her devoted
lackey and themselves rode off on horse
back. One man, the fellow who had
driven them to that place, said that the
clock struck 12 from the chapel tower
as the carriage turned away and began
its rapid journey home. That may be. so
and it may be not. We only know that
its apparition enters Lost Man’s lane at
nearly 1, always at nearly 1, the hour
at which the real carriage came back
and stopped before Mr. Knollys’ gate.
And now for the worst. Miss Butter-
worth. When the old gentleman went
down to the carriage from the door,
where be had stood without movement
ever since she started after the lovers,
it was to find the lackey in front and
his daughter sitting all alone in the car
riage. But the soil on the white brocad
ed folds of her white dress Avae no longer
that of mud only. She had stabbed her
self to the heart Avith a bodkin she wore
in her hair, and it was a corpse which
the faithful negro had been driving
down the highways that night.”
I am not a sentimental Avornan, but
this story as thus told gave me a thrill I
do not know as I really regret experi-
j eneing.
“What was this unhappy mother’s
j name?” I asked.
“ Lucetta, ” was the unexpected and
none too reassuring answer.
(To Be Continued.!
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