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Two Rokpk.
, i{e leaves whh each ft flower,
I,l ' wiiPii passion work iH done,
. hearts are turnings dimly
th, we,,,<-r„ n.
when some e.ve #ca*e buck fondly. ,
" 1(! name with dull tears wet
The white rone of remembrance,
The red rose of regret.
luA vou. my warm heart’s idol,
viv iove, my jov, my soul!
.. ..whom all else was lavished
r V n( l life a biottei scroll.
Memory opens her churchyard
■ I hove come claim ns debt
Th, pale rose of remembrance,
( ', r dark rose of regret?
~, r i who hasten gladly
Towards the netting sun ;
„■ whom Life held one passion,
hut tie fought and won,
j,,ft two broken flowers
' Vn ,l both with salt tears wet,) •
w hite rose of remembrance,
-j he red rose of retfret.
New Orleans Picayune.
HIPER.
BY WALTER BESANT.
.'v peak. i>ka.h (xtHi/*—l told them
. t | ,-uijd not. indeed, read all. but that
j Vi . ()U (] rend t hem what 1 could, and thin
w . :> beautiful beginning. in order that
j g ul'i. know at the outset, so thought
t a In- was. and for fear of my being anx
the [loint. that lie loved me still.
, IY , ; (1 never forgotten me “My dear.
ri- It is now six years since I bade
j. o; ; ; revve.ll at your garden gate and
: upon my journey to Ijondou.
y, rnr i : her bus doubtless told you how 1
j. r ,. .. . h myself and with what kindness
j . ivecived me lam very sure that you
iK.t forgotten me. and I hope that
vou '.rid rejoice to hear of my good for
tan Hope, indeed' Could he not be
gliir ‘I have no doubt, also, that ho
luit’i informed you of the strange good
fort :no which befell me after tie left me
at the East India company’s house, of
k whi i I told him by letter and special
m or. to whom 1 gave, to insure
. mid safe delivery, one shilling.”
(But it would appear that this messenger
broke '.is word and took the shilling, but
did nothing foi it—a common thief, who
d t .s' 0.l to bo hanged, like many an-,
otiici i o more wicked than himself Oh!
wii.u punishment too great for this breach
ot trust, small as it seemed! See. now
what a world of trouble was mused by
that little theft.) “It was truly by special
providence that, while Mr Silvertop
talked with me. the great captain who
won the Battle of Plassy should have
been standing near and should have over
heard what passed When I was bidden
go my wavs for a foolish boy (because I
did not wish to be a writer) and waste his
time no longer, 1 was much cast down, for
now 1 began to fear that I must, like the
most of mankind, take what was assigned
to me by providence rather than what I
should like And I could plainly see that
there remained only one choice for me;
namely, I must return to the hated rule
of my cousin v/ho would keep me as a
plowboy as long as he could, or I must be
take mo to the task of sweeping out and
serving a shop And yet, what shop? But
who would employ mo? Therefore I hung
my head and stood irresolute without the
company’s house Now presently the
gentleman whom 1 had seen within came
forth with another onicer, brave in scar
let He saw mo standing sadly beside the
posts, and inspired lay that hoblo gener-
Losity which has always distinguished this
'great mail, he clapped his hand upon my
shoulder
“‘So.' ke^ said, ‘you are the lad who i
loves a sword hotter than a peri? *
*li '.t please your honor, ’ I replied.
“ 'A sworn means peril to Life and limb,’
he said sternly, he who goes a-fighting' in ;
India must at hard fate, rough sleep- j
iny, iude k - Ho must be ever on
the watch against treachery Ho must
meet duplicity with equal cunning. lie 1
must obey blindly, he must never ask
why; if ho is sent to die like a rat in a
hole, he r r go without muimur or
question Wlmt* vou think —do you?— j
that to carry a sword is to flaunt a scarlet |
coat before the ladies of St. James?”
“ ‘Kay, sir, with respect 1 have read
tha U o; s.ddu ,-s I would v\ 51 iagly
tuke the and :;grr for the sake of the honor,
But alas! i must stay at home and sweep ,
a shop. ’
What is thy birth, boy?'
I t i that, and satisfied him on i
in. Inking the reason of my j
%dt m ! .':• h i trust that 1 was no more
than truthful Then he said
‘1 fua l.tjvd Clive, and paused as if to !
know w i.i.-aie:* f had heard of him.
'Hu t... ho sure ! was astonished, but ;
i q T v do.", eu my hat uud made him my '
best c untry bred bow
‘My lord.' 1 said, ‘we have heard,
even m Northumberland, of Plassy
‘Coed! I went to India as a writer —
k a miserable rrK.il driving writer Think
rof that Wliat one man has done another
fimy do Now, boy, 1 sail this day for
L> liThere will be more fighting, a
g it den! more fighting If you please
y i shall go as a cadet with me But
t I r. is no time to hesitate. I sail this
flay Choose between the shop sweeping
ami tiie musket. You will fight in the
tanks at first, but if you behave well the
sword will come after Choose —peace
and money scraping at home like these
etaug faced fat citizens.’ ho swept his
band with lordly contempt, 'or fighting
Paul poverty, and perhaps death abroad.
Choose. ’
‘1 humbly thank your lordship,’ I
6 aid. 1 will follow you if you will conde
scend to take mo.’
"Then ho bade me go straight to Lime-
Louse Pool, where I should find the ship
at anchor I was to take a note to the
Purser, who would give me an outfit.
"Thus, my dear Drusilla, did I find my
fortune and sail to foreign parts under as
brave and great a captain as this country
ever see.
"Our voyage lasted eleven months.
There were 300 raw recruits ou board,
Mostly kidnaped or inveigled under false
pretenses by crimps and the scoundrels of
upping When they were first paraded
tucy were as beggarly looking a lot as you
%v °uld wish to see—ragged, dirty, imvti-
n °us and foul mouthed. Yet in a couple
°* months, by daily drill, by good food
an ‘i sea air, by moderate rations of rum,
by sound flogging, by the continual dis
npline of the boatswain’s rope’s end and
l bo sergeant’s rattan, the regimental sup
bTjack and the ship’s cat-o’-nine-tail*,
they became as promising soldiers as one
would wish. As for me, 1 stood with
them in the drill and did my best. Of
course I could not expect his lordship to
notice so humble a cadet as myself, but
one evening, when we were near the end
of our voyage, he sent for me and gave
me a glass of wine, and kindly bade me
be patient and of good cheer, because, he
said, young gentlemen of merit and cour
age would be sure to find opportunities
for distinction. ”
Raljph then went on to describe the life
of a Soldier in India, and to tell me—but
this I leave out for fear of being tedious—
how he received his commission and how
he got promotion It is sufficient to say
that at the time he wrote, after six years
of service, he held the commission of a
captai n Nor was that all He had been
able to render such signal service to a
certain rajah, that this prince, who was
not ungrateful, and hoped, besides, fo*
more such service*.. look him one day into
his treasure house and bade him help him
self to all if he pleased
“My dear.” he continued, “I knew not
that the world contained so much troas
ure Yet this rajah is but a petty prince,
and his wealth is as nothing compared
with that of many others. There were
diamonds in bags, uncut, whose worth I
knew not, and diamonds in rings, sword
hamf'es and women’s gauds, there were
rubies, emeralds, sapphires, turquoises,
opals and all kinds of precious stories
strung rudely on common string as if they
were but pebbles There were also gold
and silver vessels of all kinds, and there
were casks full of gold coins I took
out a handful I saw that many of them
were ancient, with Greek characters, per
haps left in this country by that great
soldier Alexander When I had surveyed
these wonders 1 thanked him and said
that ! should not presume to take so
much as a single gold coin from his treas
ure, but that if it should please his high
ness to offer me a present I should accept
it with gratitude, provided it was not too
costly lie laughed at these words, and
when we came away 1 was so loaded with
gold that I fancied myself already a rich
man
“Since this event it hath pleased Lord
Clive to issue an order which prohibits
officers from accepting henceforth any
presents at all from the native princes. I
cannot but feel grateful that the order
was not issued before.my own good for
tune. Doubtless hi excellency hath good
reasons for this order, which places the
military service at a disadvantage com
pared with the writers, who have great
opportunities of making fortunes; and I
cannot but think that it is a more noble
thing to win a fortune at the point of the
sword than by such arts as are da£y prac
ticed by the writers and civil servants of
the company There are many English
men. and many Frenchmen as well —but
we are driving them out of the country—
who have become rich in the military
service of the Indian princes; yet I shall
not exchange my present masters so long
as the merchants —who think nothing of
glory or of this country, yet a great deal
of their dividends —perceive that it is for
their safety, as we I* as for their credit, to
extend their power, and 1 have a reason
able hope that the good fortune which
hath hitherto attended me may continue,
so that I may return to my native coun
try. If only in my old age, amply pro
vided As regards the climate. I have as
yet experienced no great inconvenience
from the heat. The natives have learned
to fear an Englishman, rather than to
love him. which is. methinks. the thing we
should most desire when we have to rule
over people as ignorant of the Christian
virtuos, although not barbarous, like the
naked blacks, but a most Ingenious, dex
terous and skillful people, and of subtle
intellect, yet slothful of body, lovers of
rest, deceivers regardless of truth, for
ever scheming plots and contriving sub
tleties. and more cruel to prisoners than
the Spanish Inquisition. The best among
them are followers of Mohammed, who
make faithful servants and good soldiers.
It is a country where the ambition and
jealousy of princes are continually causing
fresh wars to be undertaken, and where a
European may lead a life of adventure to
his heart’s content.”
I was reading, as I have said, this letter
aloud in presence of tnv two faithful
friend!” ' Now when I spoke of the drill
on board, and the sergeant’s rattan, and
the regimental supplejack, the fugleman
drew himself upright and shouldered the
garden spade, because there was no pike
at hand, and when 1 read of the bo's’n’o
rope’s end. and the ship’s cat-o*-nine-toils.
Sailor Nan cocked her hat and stood with
feet apart and hands upon her hips, and
began, but in a whisper, to murmur
strange sea oaths; and when I read the
account of the tight in which Ralph’s
courage saved this grateful rajah —it was
a most, dreadful battle, in which hundreds
of brave fellows and treacherous Hindoos
were killed, so that to read it made one’s
heart cease to beat—the fugleman, car
ried beyoud himseV, executed capers with
Executed capers the spade.
the spade which signified little to my ig
norant eyes, but which were, I beli-ve,
the movements with which the trained
soldier attacks with the bayonet, and the
old sailor with a mop stick cut down her
thousands, mighty curses rolling softly
from her lips like distant thunder.
If the beginning of the letter was de
lightful, judge how beautiful was the
end.
*‘l have now, my dear, told you all that
concerns myself I suppose yon have
long since left W ark worth and gone to
live with your parents, to whom I beg to
convey my respects and best wishes If.
among your rich friends and the gayeties
of the fashion—the ’gayeties!’ —you
have found lovers (as to be sure you must)
and a husband, or one whom you have
distinguished with vour favor and re
gard. you will remember that I shall
ever be to you as a brother, for. lover or
brother. I can never cease to love”
“A good lad!” said the fugleman.
"As ever trod the deck!” said the sailor.
“Go on. Miss Drnsy
“And I am sure that vou have grown up
as tall and as beautiful as an angel.”
“She has.” said the fugleman.
“Taller, ye lubber.” said the sailor,
“and more beautiful an angel than ever I
clapped eyes on. nor never a Peg nor a
Poll at Sheemess or Deptford or the Com
mon Hard to show a candle alongside of
her What’s even a lrigate in full sail
compared with a lovely woman?"
This enthusiasm for the loveliness of
her own sex (unusual in old women), I put
down to her naval experiences, and famil
iarity with sailor talk, and went on
quickly; because, ir Ralph loved to flatter
me. I ought not to let these people follow
Ins example. An angel! But men are so.
They cannot give enough, they lavish
their praises, as they lavish the very
fruits of their labors, upon the women
they love. We women, measure our gifts
—except to our boys. I pass over, there
fore. the fond words of a lover about blue
eyes and curly hair, and nymphs in cool
grots, and soft smiles mid other imaginary
gifts and graces, all of which my listeners
applauded, nodding their heads. Gh! he
could say what lie pleased, he could imag
ine all the perfections, so that- he con
tinued to tell me, as he did in this letter,
how he thought of me dally, and loved me
always mere and more.
“As for the address of this letter.” he
so,id, “1 know not where in London or
elsewhere your father may now reside;
therefore I forward it to tile care of the
fugleman, with request that he will send
it to you at the earliest opportunity, and
by a safe hand. Will you. in return, in
form him of my continued esteem and
friendship?”
“ ‘Esteem and friendship,’ ” repeated
the fugleman. “This from a captain!
Was ever such a boy?”
“And if you find an opportunity, tell
Sailor Nan that half her fortune has come
true. ”
She replied that at her time of life it
was odd if she couldn’t tell the fortune of
a boy, and as for the present cruise, it
was bound to be a fair weather voyage.
Finally, my brave lover begged mo to
write to him and tell him all that had
happened since his departure, and sub
scribed himself, with much love, Ralph
Embleton.
When we had read the letter twice,
which took us all the afternoon, and cost
me three hours’ sewing, we took counsel
together. First they were both for tell
ing it about the town, and having a bon
fire, with the ringing of the church bells
in a triple bob major, but I was of opinion
that it would be best to keep our own
counsel for awhile. Therefore I bound
them both to secrecy and silence. I would
let Mathew alone and watch. He should
not know anything, not even that Ralph
was jdive and prosperous; and had I kept
this resolution, because my two friends
were loyal and secret as the grave, it
would have been better in the end. fe- us
all. and much better for Mathew. But,
as the wise man said. “Death and Life are
in the power of the tongue.”
CHAPTER VII.
MATHEW’S FRIEND).Y OFFER.
This letter made me, from one of the
most unhappy of girls, the most joyous.
The immediate prospect of poverty —fur
the dame declined daily—the hard work
which began at daylight and ended at
bedtime, the certain knowledge that Ma
thew was not satisfied with a simple re
IT.sal —these things, which had before
filled my mind with terror, now appeared
like the imaginary specters of the night,
which cease to alarm when the day has
dawned. To me.it was more than the
dawn of day; it was the uprising of &
glorious sun of love and hope. Ralph
loved me. Ralph was well, prosperous and
in high esteem. Ralph was already
wealthy; Ralph would come, and ilt
things would #•.> well, w’i term’ migir
happen at the moment. Yet this I could
not tell to any. Mathew was not to know;
my poor old grandmother was too ,>lb n *w,
and too failing of mind and body, to cars
for earthly things; rfiy father had clean
forgotten the boy; my mother would not.
greatly care to know; nor would it soothe
her anxieties to feel that we had a pro the
tor separated from us by the rolling seas
and by a voyage of ten months or more.
What good would bo his far off treasures
to us, she would have asked, when wimt
we want is boot for the pot. and bread f r
the board? As for my father’s madness,
it increased every day, so that now our
cottage was a palace indeed, every meal
was a banquet, and the small beer of my
brewing was champagne, port, Malaga, cr
Imperial Tckay. But Mathew was too
much with him, and it made me uneasy
to .observe Low he complimented my
father cn his wied&n. his resolution and
his wonderful success.
“In ail respects, madam.” he said to my
mother, “I find your husband most sensi
ble and full oi sound judgment. 1 have
taken his counsel of late in many private
matters of importance.”
“Then the Lord help you!” said my
mother, sharply.
“What if he dees exaggerate his private
fortune?” Mathew went on. “It is a fail
ing with many persons concerned in
traded’
“If you mean this in kindness, sir,”
said my mother, “I thank you humbly for
your good opinion of .my poor, distraught
husband. If you mean it in mockery, you
are a most cruel man. ”
“Indeed, madam,” he replied, bowing,
“pray believe that I mean it in kindness.”
Ho had no kindness at all in his nature.
He designed these words to cover his in
iquitous purpose.
So he continued to come and go, and to
walk with my father In the garden, and
whatever wild things my father said he
would accept gravely as if they were in
deed words of wisdom , No ono except
myself suspected him of sinister designs,
and my father disclosed to him the whole
prodigious extent of his madness, so that
I could have cried with shame ami bu
miliatiou. Mathew knowing well, as all
the world knew by this time, that he was
little better than the poorest in the
parish
“The world, sir." the poor gentle
man would say with a lofty air. “has
yet to learn how great a benefactor
a simple Loudon citizen may be There
have been many benefactors 1 ocknowl
edge their greatness But wait, sir,
until my will is opened and read To
you. friend Mathew. ! have bequeathed a
poor £IO.OO0 —no more ”
“Oh. sir!” He bowed and spread his
hands. “This is indeed goodness
“It is the duty of a rich citizen to dis
cover merit and reward it—the plain duty.
I am a London citizen, and .am perhaps
more proud of this position than becomes
a Christian The bulk of my fortune I
have left to my daughter, whom 1 design
in marriage for some great nobleman.
But I have not forgot tea the poor of my
native parish. Mathew—no, no, and you
will find, when my will is read, that,
sebools, hospitals, marriage portions for
the girls, and apprentice money for the
boys, will attest my remembrance of this
place. ”
“Sir,” said Mathew, with a grin of con
tent, “you will be a benefactor indeed."
Now, before i answered Ralph's letter,
which 1 kept for more than a month in
my bosom, reading it every day when l
could snatch a moment. Mathew came to
me, and after a little preamble, of which
1 am going to tell you, reopened the dis
tasteful subject of courtship. I was in
the garden, gathering herbs for a mint
julep, when I saw him standing at the
garden gate. He looked so jocund, he
smiled so pleasantly, and he wore so self
satisfied an air. that I was quite certain
some evil thing had happened
“Drusilla." he said. “I have heard cer
tain intelligence. You may depend upon
; its truth, which is confirmed in every par
i ticular I think that you should be t.ho
first to hear of it. sad though it be, yet
what I could net but expect.”
“1 suppose,” I said with a laugh, be
cause 1 knew that he was about to invent
some wicked falsehood, “I suppose you
have got something to tell me about
Ralph, whom your cruel conduct, drove
out into the world?”
“Nay,” he replied, looking darkly, yet
with a smile, “you may say what you
please; you cannot offend me. I have just
cotnc from Alnwick, where I sold four fat
beasts At the inn 1 fell in with a stroll
ing player, and talked with him over a
glass about his wandering life. Presently
I asked him whether he had seen any
where upon his travels, especially in
places where actors like himself, with
profligates and thieves resort, such a lad
as Ralph. It is wonderful to relate that
ho remembered seeing the boy at a place
called Grantham. It was about six or
seven years ago. The reprobate lad was
making love —to a young actress. When
my informant came across the party again
Ralph had left them.”
At first I concluded that this wns sheer
fabrication, but afterward gleaned that it
was to a certain extent true; that is. that
Ralph had made the acquaintance of the
actress and her family on his way to Lon
don; but there was no love making How
could there be. when lie was already in
love witji me? And what follows was
pure and clumsy invention.
“Ho wandered about with them playing
and acting.” Mathew went on, “tor four
or five years. Then he deserted them, or
was turned out in disgrace—it matt rs
not which —and, I am ashamed to say
but he looked delighted—“took to iko
road, where he is now known everywhere
as Black Ralph or Bloody Ralph. ”
“Are you quite sure of what you say?”
‘ ‘As sure as 1 am that he will be hanged
as soon as he i3 caught. ”
I know not by what reasons flat hew
persuaded himself, if indeed he did per
suade himself, that Black Ralph, who was
a notorious highwayman about this time,
and practiced his wicked calling on the
York road, was Ralph Embieton. Yet lie
made so certain of it that ho told—under
strict promise of secrecy—the barber, who i
told everybody, also under promise of 1
secrecy, and it was noised abroad that the 1
distinction of giving birth to the most ,
bloodthirsty villain in England belonged :
to Waris worth, and many people advised •
Mathew to go armed and to provide his l
house with a loaned blunderbuss, a bull
dog and a for/ man traps, because his
cousin would probably visit him with in
tent to murder as well as rob.
“I suppose,” Mathew went on to me, j
“that yen will now give up thinking of
that young vag bond. A pretty girl like i
you should throw your thoughts higher.
Why. though your father’s a beggar, as
on- may say”-
“He is not a beggar so long as my grand
mother lives.”
“Perhaps that will not be much longer,”
ho replied with an ugly grin. “Now.
Drasilla. listen to me. You know that
I’ve set my fancy upon you. I've been
waiting just till you grew up, and then i
for—for one or two little things to ripen ;
which have now ripened and turned out j
pretty well. How that everything is
ready, there is no reason to wait any i
longer. Ralph being a highwayman and
certain to be hanged”
“Then, Mathew,” I replied. “I will wait
until Ro is hanged, and then you can talk
to me again if. you like. Now, go away,
and leave mo to my work. ”
Ho went away for the time, and next
morning his sister Barbara came. She
was at ‘first mysterious about sudden
changes of fortune, unexpected reverses,
and the judgments of angered heaven.
These things i did not then consider as
pertaining to myself, because I knew not
bow I had especially angered Leaven,
more, that is, than thoughtless youth
may do at any time, and yet obtain for
giveness by daily prayer. She also added
a certain exhortation to kiss the rod.
which I pass over. Then she launched
into praises of her brother. He wa,s most
industrious, she said; up early and to
work before daybreak; he was full of re
ligion, which surprised me very much to
hear, he was thrifty and had already
saved a large sum of money —this. I found
afterward, was false; he could provide a
comfortable home, and liappy, indeed.
she added, would be the woman on whom
bis choice should fall. Added to this that
he was no longer young and scatter j
brained, but arrived at the sober age of i
three or four-and-thirty; and that ;
Mathew's wife would have the advantage
of her own society, help, example and
admonition.
1 told her that Mathew had got his
answer, and that I thought it hard that a
woman could not be Supposed to know her
own mind in so important a matter.
“\Vhat is your answer, then?” she
asked.
“1 will t-aik to Mathew on the subject
again,” l replied, “when Ralph is hanged,
since this is a thing which both you and
he desire so vehemently.’*
Two days afterward Mathew himself
met me as l was on my way to the castle.
He begged me to give him another hear
ing. and. as 1 could not refuse so simple a
thing. 1 led him by the path below the
castle to the bank of the river, where he
could talk at bis ease and unheard.
First it was the same story. Would I
forget the young villain and marry him?
ile was so much in love wires me, that ho
would not say sis some men—not so rich,
mind you, as himself —would say, that I
might go hang myself in my garters for
aught he cared. lie would torgivo nsy
disrespect and impudence; he would for
get the past altogether; people should see
that he was of a truly noble aiid forgiving
disposition; he would give me another
chance, so great was his generosity. cry
well. then. v\ ould I marry him?
I replied very gravely, that he had al
ready received his answer. When Ralph
was hanged, and not before, I would listen
to him. Then 1 asked him seriously why
he thought so meanly of me as to try this
trumped up story about play actors and
highwaymen upon me, and reminded him
of what a truly wicked disposition ho
must be. thus to glory and delight in the
supposed wickedness of his cousin, whose
guardian lie had been, and whose lands he
now occupied
He grew angry at this plain speaking,
and began to swear, as is the v/ont of
such men. If kindness would net move
me, he said, something eisc should bo
tried. I thought 1 was free and independ
ent of him, did I? I should see what
[lower was in his hands, and what mis
chief he could do me. I was young and
imprudent. It chafed me to hear that he,
and such a man as he, could do me harm
—as if the meanest wretch who ever lived
cannot do harm—and I told him what I
ought to have kept a secret, that so long
as Ralph lived I should not want a pro
tector. and that, so far from his being a
highwayman, 1 knew' certainly that lie
•vas a prosperous gentleman, already held
in great honor, and respected by all.
He was so staggered by this intelli
gence that I thought he was going to
have some kind of fit. Consider how
much it meant to him; he would certainly
have to give up the mill, and to render a
strict account of all his doings; he would
be reduced to the station of a poor small
farmer; he would be robbed of his re
venge; and he would bo convicted as a
slanderer and caluminous person, if that
mattered aught.
First he blustered and threatened. I
dared, did l, to reproach him; very good,
1 should see what things he could do; I
should laugh the other side of ray mouth.
Did 1 refuse this oiler? Very well, then.
I should find out what his displeasure
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meant. And. perhaps, before long. I
y hoiiid be sorry for tho Insult 1 liaci of
f.-red him and the proposal I had refused.
Ho then hung away, becoming at this j
„ point Y.poeckkvs, and indeed* ho looked go j
aug. y that 1 was afraid he would have
thrown me into the stream.
1 went, home, mad said nothing*to any
body about the business; but. 1 was
troubled in my mind, and greatly afraid
that the man would do some dreadful mis
chief if lie could.
Well, he came again a third time to me.
It was three, days later. If I was dis
quieted. I could see that he was more so.
His red cheeks were become pale, and his
eyes wcv red. He was rp.net in his man
ner, and hold out 1 is hand.
| LH'llbiiiit. ’ he said., “I was wrong the
: other day.' You won’t marry mo? \ cry
; well, then. Never mind; some one else
! will, if l want. What matters one wo
man mere than another, if you come to
think about it? What hurt me most
wasn't your refusal, which I don't care for
I not one brass farthing but. yon saying
| that r* wanted Italph to go bad. That
j was cruel to such a cousin and guardian
! r.s 1 was to that boy."
I •‘Well, Mathew," I said, “if I was
| wrong, 1 pray you to forgive me."
“1 should like to know, on the contrary,
that he was lscorning a credit to his fam
ily I sav," he added, "I should like to
kn, • it. if you can assure me of tho
fact."
••Then you may depend upon the truth
of my statement, Mathew," f said. “lie
is already a credit to your family.”
“How joyful a thing this is!”- He
folded his hands and raised his eyes hypo
critically to heaven. “It shows that the
| many corrections I gave him produced
their effect. 1 was a throwing of the
bread upon the waters. After many
days, as one may say, it hath come back
to me."
He spoke with a sweetness which did
not deceive me.
“And this prosperity, Drusilla. Who
told you of it?"
“That I must not say."
“Where, in what place, is the boy?”
“That I shall not tell you.”
“How is he employed, then?”
“1 must r.av nothing. Mathew. Do not
ask me. It is very certain that Ralph is
alive, and that he is prospering. I shall
answer no more questions.”
“I will ask other people then. ”
“It is of no use,” I said hurriedly.
“There is no one knows except me.” This
was not true, but at the moment 1 was
thinking of my mother, who certainly did
not know.
“No one knows except you?” he re
peated. “That is strange indeed. ”
“It is very strange.”
“And how long,” he went on, “is the
mystery to be kept up?”
“As long,” I replied, “as your cousin
pleases. ”
Then liis sweetness left him, and he fell
again into a madness of wrath. Ho went
away, however, when he found that I
would tell him nothing.
TO HE CONTINUED.
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