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WITIi A ROSE IN HER HAIR. By the AuVtor oj cc My Sweet Self," The Time of Asking," At. Notwithstanding its unmistakably poor furniture its faded and worn Turkey carpct. the pattern of which was stamped out past all recognition of the original design, and the presence of the heterogenous, untidy litter of juvenile properties scattered around, the old school-room at Tower House had a pleasant, homely look, in admirable keeping with the aspect of ita occu" pants on such a bleak January afternoon. The bright fire, leaping up and crackling in the ample, old- fashioned fireplace, sent forth a ruddy glow which was reflected from the pretty maroon and white tea-service upon the table. A brass kettle sang melodiously upon the hob, in concert with the purri g of a magnificent Persian cat, which reclined luxuriously upon the hearth- rug. The furniture was composed of odds and ends— hardly two chairs being alike—all antique, and all more or less rickety, whilst a high, shining, old. fashioned brass fender surrounded the hearth. The wind whistled drearily through the leafless tranches of the trees on the lawn without; the rain beat in fitful gusta against the windows, and sent a shiver through the slight frame of a delicate.looking little boy of about eight years, who sat in the lap of a young lady on one side of the blazing fire. The other occupants of the room were two girls, aged respectively eleven and thirteen, who, in attitudes more suggestive of comfort than elegance, reclined, the younger upon the hearth-rug in company with the cat, the other in a wicker-work arm-chair. That was a lovely story, Mias Lester, about Una the Lion,' but I would rather hear the one about "Prince Pettitoes and the Princess Pearlina, eaid the boy, in the querulous tones of a sickly and petted 0hi1d. Well, Bertie, my pet, I'll tell you a story after tea —there is hardly time for it now." "Oh, dear, I'm so sorry chimed in Katie from the hearthrug. "I have to learn my verbs then, and I'm sure to be listening to the story instead." Stick your fingers in your ears," suggested Sibyl. Surely," she continued, as the grating of carriage wheels was heard on the gravel outside, mamma and Mabel are not going out on such a miserable evening as this 1" Yes," add Katie. Don't you know they are going to dine at Wych Abbey this evening, and are going afterwards to Mrs. Dallas's party?" "More simpletons they, then!" exclaimed Sibyl, tossing back a mass of brown curls from a good. humoured, plain face. I'd rather atay at home on such aa evening and tell stories. We're twice as com- fortable here—aren't we, Miss Lester 1" I am glad you think so, dear." Don't admire your taste, Sibyl," said Katie, pull- iug the cat's ears as she spoke. I should like to go out to parties and dinners, and to wear beautiful dresses like Mabel's. Oh, Miss Lester, did you see the dress Mabel is going to wear this evening ?" "No, indeed, Katie—I wish you would not think quite so much about these things." But, Miss Lester, it is really delicious!" she ex. claimed, in an animated voice. Delicious!" repeated Sibyl in a slightly contemptu- ous tone. Was it good to eat ?" 11 Sibyl,hov? ridiculous you are The drees is all little folds of white crepe lisse over white silk, and it's all trimmed with the loveliest pale blush-roses. It is per- fectly exquisite!" And Katie sat up on the hearth-rug and clasped her little hands rapturously. I think I can now account for your not having learned your verbs," the governess, quietly. Katie, I am sorry to see a little girl like you so fond of finery." Katie sprang from the hearth-rug—like all impul. sive children, she was impatient under reproof more- over, her vanity, which pervaded every detail of her little life, led her to wish for everyone's good opinion. Putting her arms around Miss Lester's neck, she said, coaxingly Come, don't be vexed with me I hate you to be angry with me. I promise to learn my verbs quickly after tea." As Katie spoke the schoolroom door was opened and a servant entered bearing a large shallow basket' filled with rare hofc-houae flowers. There were delicate trembling ferns, forced roses, and gardenias, sprays of glowiog crimson blossoms, and delicately-tinted green leaves varied with dark, glossy sprays of myrtle. Placing the basket upon the table, the servant pro- ceeded to light the lamp, saying, aa she did so "If you please, Miss Lester, missus says will you make up two bouquets for her and Miss Yiner ? Thomas has gone to Somers Town, and there is no one else to do it." A dark fhsh passed over Everil Lester's face as she replied, coldly Leave the flowers, Jane, and tell your mistress I will arrange them." The children clustered around her as she sat down to what at any other time would have been a congenial task. Had" MrEl. or Miss Viner requested her to make up the bouquets, she would have cheerfully done so at onco it was the manner of the message which galled her, not the fact of her being requested to arrange the flowerR. Deftly her slight, tapering fingers arranged the fragilo blossoms. Artistically she blended the various hues, and quickly produced two bouquets which would have borne comparison with any from the most fashion- able florist's. Not unlike a flower was Everil Lester herself. Her small, exquisitely-moulded, girlish figure was set off to advantage by her tightly-fitting black velveteen dress, with its gleams of snowy lace at the throat d wrists. Her face was of the Fgyptian type, small and oval, with .1 rich, clear olive skin, underneath which the warm blood mantled on lips and cheeks. Long-lashed, almond- shaped, blue-gray eyes flashed restlessly in their large orbits, denoting a temperament at once proud, passion* ate, and loving. Soft, silky hair waved away from her broad, low, Clytie-like brow, a few babyish-looking curls strayed down upon her forehead, whilst the re. maining portion was gathered up in a huge, careless knot at the top of her head, whence it fell in a cascade of natural ringlets. Such was Everil Lester, aged 19, governess to the children of Josiah Viner, Esq., some- time Liverpool merchant, but now of the Tower House, Loamshire. Scarcely had she completed her unwilling task when a. great rustling in the passage without and a loud rattling of the door handle proclaimed the approach of a more illustrious personage than Jane. The door was thrown open in an impressive manner,and there entered Mrs. Josiah Viner, the legal mistress of Everil Lester's services. She was a large, vulgar-looking, middle-aged woman, showily and expensively dressed. Accompanied by her eldest daughter Mabel, she advanced uncere- moniously to where Everil sat, and, taking up tho bouquets, looked at them critically. Mabel was an undeniably handsome girl, tall and dignified-looking, with blue eyes and golden hair. Glancing rather scornfully at the tastefully arranged bouquets—which she could no more have arranged than she could have eaten them—she said.with a super- cilious elevation of her handsome eyebrows Mamma, it is not possible that either of them can be intended for me J" Why not, my dear 1" asked her mother, with an unctuous smile upon her rubicund countenance. "Certainly," she continued, ignoring Everil, whom she did not deign to thank for the trouble she had taken, they are not as well arranged as if Thomas had done them; but we must take what we can get." You had better make up another bouquet for me," said Mabel, calmly, addressing herself to Everil. My dress, as vou ought to have known, is White, with pale pink trimmings, and you have stupidly given me deep crimson roses and scarlet geraniums. Make it all of white flowers if you have no pint It was but one of the many insults which Mabel Viner heaped daily upon her younger sisters' gover. ness. Everil's deep passionate eyes flashed, aa with quiet dignity she rose from the table and re- Excuse me, Miss Viner—I do not quite understand what you mean by saying I ought to have known about your dress. I am not your maid. I obliged you by making up the bouquet for you since you are dissatisfied with it, you had better arrange one yourself to suit your own taste." There was a dead silence for a minute. The younger girls who felt no love for their cold, handsome sister, nor very much affection for their vacillating, passion, ate, and overbearing mother, instinctively took the part of the gentle, loving Everil, who was at once then- governess and beloved companion. "Mamma, do I understand that the governess re- fuses to arrange the flowers for me ?" asked Mabel, a supercilious sneer curving her mouth. TTnon my word, I think she does!" exclaimed Mrs. Viner. "Miss Lester, is it possible you mean to dis. °b,e'^e8^refrarned Everil, quietly, although her eyes flashed,'and secretly clinching her pretty hands in her efforts to keep herself calm. Every insult in the power oI these two cold Tulgar- minded women had they heaped upon the head of the defenceless girl whose sole offence was that she was pretty, attentive, and a universal fovounte "And how dare you" cned the enraged woman. "You, a governess, little better than an upper servant, to disobey Miss Viner P" „ « jt is unfortunate that you should have said all this before my pupils," was the quietly scornful reply. « You can hardly expect them to obey and respect any one whom their mother treats disrespectfully." « Well mamma, I think we may leave after that last brilliant flight of imagination put in Mabel with a ■neering little laugh. U We shall be late for dinner if we stop to listen to a governess s heroua. I will take the flowers, just as they are. The Howard girls are sure to notioe the contrast, and when I tell them the story it will afford them a good laugh. pome, mamma," and, so saying, Mabel Yiner swept from the ^^Well, are you going to make an apology to Miss Viner and IV said Mrs. Viner, regardless of grammar. « If you refuse to apologise, you will leave at the end of the week without your quarter's salary. I have a right to retain it, as you will be dismissed without a character because of your impertinence. Also, I wish you to see that the children go to bed at half-past eight to-night. They were up so late last evening at Mrs. Smyther's children's party that I wish them to go to bed early. Good night, my darlings I" And, after kissing her children, who passively and silently submitted to the embrace, Mrs. Viner followed in the. wake of her eldest daughter. Everil Lester stood on the hearth-rug, her large eyes flashing and her pretty, sensitive, red-lipped mouth quivering with suppressed emotion. The child- ren sat or stood around, silent and constrained. At length warm-hearted Sibyl, coming forward and putting her arc s around her governess, kissod her softly, and exclaimed, impulsively— Miss Lester, darling, never mind that disagreeable old Mabel. Why need you care for her! And, as for mamma, she ought to be ashamed of herself." "Sibyl," said Everil, in a peremptory tone, "you must not speak in that way of either your mother or your sister. No matter how they sceak to me, yott t must be respectful to them. Any difference or opinion that may exist between them and me is of no conse- quent to you." "13 ut it w, Miss Lc?ter," continued the impulsive and affectionate girl. "I can't bear to hear them speak to you in that way. You are a lady. I heard Harry Hurst tay so the other day when he was here. He said that he knew your father and mother, and that your father was a clergyman and your mother a lady. There, naw, don't be vexed with me," she concluded, coaxingly, as a vivid flush passed over Everil's face and neck. "If you wish me not to be vexed with you, you must not speak so of your mother. Come, now latus have tea." Dui ins; the meal Everil tried to forget her annoy- ance. She was too just to visit upon the children committed to her charge the ill-conduct of their mother and sister. After tea Katie, to her intense delight, was absolved from the French verbs, and they all sat cosily around the pleasant fire whilst Everil related the promised stories. Berli, who had for flowers the passionate love so often observed in a sickly child, had gathered up the remains of the obnoxious blossoms which had caused so much strife, and sat with them in his delicate little hands. As Everil concluded the "true and reliable" hi story of Prince Pettitoes and the beautiful Princess Pearlina," Bertie climbed into her lap, saying solemnly, in his childish manner Miss Lester, that was a lovely story; I am going to put this nice rose in your hair for telling it to us and suiting the action to the word, he placed the rose amongst the fluffy coils of Everil's wavy, eilky black hair. Humouring the child's fancy, she smiled, and allowed the flower to remain there. Presently a maid appeared, saying it was time for them to go to bed. Unwillingly they obeyed, and, saying" Good night" to their governess, left her alone with her thoughts. Everil had been sitting in the school-room all day, with the exception of the short interval when she had gone down to luncheon, at which time the children dined. She felt lonely and nervous, and longed for some change of scene. She knew Mr. and Mrs. Viner and their daughter had left the house; so, reflecting that she could not be in any one's way were she to go to ,the drawing-room, she descended thither with a rose in her hair." As Everil had expected, the drawing-room was un. tenanted. It was a long, rather low, medieval-looking apartment, with a great, wide-tiled hearth as large aa a small closet. Bright braes dogs stood on either side, and a large, white fleecy rug lay in front of the fire- plaoe. A partially turned-down lamp stood on a side- table, doing little more service than that of making darkness visible. Drawing a low chair up to the hearth, Everil stirred the almost dying fire and gazed into it. And, as she sat looking, she saw not the cold, dead, gray embers, nor the occasional little flashes of light, but a cheerless lodging in a northern London suburb, tenanted by a pale, consumptive-looking girl and a handsome, faded, elderly woman—Everil's mother, and her delicate, be- loved sister Marjorie, to obtain some comforts for whom Everil endured the insolence of Mrs. Viner and Mabel for the sake of the forty pounds a year which she was grudgingly paid. The tears forced themselves into Everil's lustrous eyes as she thought over the details of her last inter- view with Mrs. Viner. Her pride rebelled against any longer enduring the daily insults which she received but then again she thought of Marjorie, and the many comforts which she was enabled to procure with the money she saved for her sister out of her salary. The battle was a hard one, but she was a girl possessed of plenty of common sense, and before hastily coming to a decision, she dispassionately thought out her case. She balanced fairly the advantages and disadvantages of her position. She was constantly being insulted by Mrs. Viner and her eldest daughter, even in the pre- sence of visitors—most of whom were of the same calibre as their hostess. On the other hand, her pupils were docile and very much attached to her, and her salary was certain. Were she to leave Mrs. Viner's without any recommendation, she might have a diffi. culty in again procuring a situation—and she knew how badly money was wanted by the delicate sister a.nd widowed mother in the suburban London lodg- ing. Nevertheless it was hard to bear. She felt the years of her young life were slipping away from her without a ray of the brightness which she yearned for, ever lighting them. The spirit truly was willing but the flesh was weak; and Everil Lester, as the remembrance of Mabel Viner's taunts rushed across her mind, do. cided uoon leaving her situation. ° What beautiful flowers, Miss Viner How sweet the delicate perfume of the gardenia is And how tastefully they are arranged," said Harry Hurst, en. deavouring to find conversation for the rathsr insipid Mabal Yiner during thcmauvcÛs quart d' hcure before dinner. You arc very good to say so," was the reply, given with a radiant smile—for was not Harry Hurst the proprietor of Hurstfield, Handsome, only seven and twenty, ar d with a yearly income which it took five figures to set down ? Thpy are exquisite," he declared, bending his hand- some bearded face over them and inhaling their per- fume. That ring of scarlet geraniums makes such a capital contrast with the wax-like white flowers." "Oh, Mabel, darling, do tell Mr. Hurst about the governess!" exclaimed Clara Howard, a girl of the gushing''order, who had been listening to the en. comiums of Harry Hurst, whose expression of well-bred boredom was rapidly exchanged for one of intelligent interest, unobserved, however, by the ladies. "Yes, tell me all about it, Miss Viner," said he, seating himself beside her, with a well-acted gesture of indifference. It is almost too absurd to be believed," she drawled, as she superciliously eyed the despised bouquet. I desired the governess to arrange seme flowers for me. and, in8telld flf minding what she W31 about, and in* quiring wh&t colour I was to wear, she made up the bouquet of the first flowers that came to her hand, so that I have pink on my dress and scarlet geraniums in my hand!" Ie Excessively provoking," came from between the bearded lips beside her, whilst Harry Hurst gazed at the flowers with a sympathetic look in his eyes which mightily flattered his companion. But that is not the best part of it," chimed in Clara. Howard. Mabel, tell the remainder of the story." Pray tell it me, Miss Viner; I assure you I feel quite interested'in—your flowers." And as Harry Hurst spoke he took :the bouquet iD his hand and luxuitously inhaled the perfume. From the other side of the room Mrs. Viner looked on, well pleased at his seeming attention to her daughter; and sundry others of the guests decided that Mabel Viner and Harry Hurst were flirting in a most scandalous manner. Of course I desired her to make up another bou- quet," said Mabel, continuing her story, and—will you believe it 1-8he absolutely refused to do so. Then when mamma spoke to her for her impertinence, she had the audacity to tell her she required to be treated with respect. Oh, it really was refreshing." And Mabel laughed her silvery,malicious little laugh, in which Clara Howard joined. Well, what was the end of it.1" inquired Harry, evidently-as his companion declded- enjoying the story. Oh mamma has told her that unless she apologizes by to-morrow morning she must leave—without a character or her wages either—for her impertinence Such conduct is unbearable. Don't yon think so, Mr. Hurst ?" asked Clara. tl Decidedly," was the prompt and sphinx-like reply. Mabel," said Clara, is it true that Mr. Morgan, the curate, is in love with your governess ?" I believe she is in love with him," was the ill-bred and unwomanly reply for when mamma said she would not have himmakingexcusea to see the governess, and told her she allowed no followers, we had quite a scene." A few minutes afterwards Harry Hurst offered his arm to Mabel Viner, and conducted her to the dining, room whence two hours later he managed to slip away unobserved, and drove off rapidly in his dogcart along the bleak country roads m the direction of Tower House. Arrived at the lodge-gates, he gave the horse into the charge of his servant, and walked through the grounds to the house. The gravel grated harshly beneath his firm, quick tread, as he half hesitated at the step he was about to take. Two years before—during her father's lifetime- Harry Hurst had met Everil Lester at the house of a mutual friend-had met her and loved her; but, ere his love had been avowed, Bne had been recalled frcm her visit to attend her father's death-bed, and he, by a curious coincidence, to attend that of his mother. Their mutual friends had left the country, and thus it was that he had lost sight of Everil until six months prior, when, with a strange thrill of happiness, he had recognised her in Mrs. Viner's pew in church. Everil also had recognised Harry Hurst. During the weary time which had elapsed since her father's death she had often thought of the pleasant, hand. some fellow whom she had learned to leve so well. But she was a proud woman as well as a loving one; and as the months passed on, and she heard nothing of him, she tried to persuade herself that his intentions had not really meant anything, and bravely set about her life's work, hoping thereby to stifle the hunger in her heart. Upon the rare occasions when she had met Harry Hurst at Tower House, she fcad treated him with a reserve calculated to chill the Advances of a more impulsive man. As Harry Hurst walked up the avenue, he remem. bered vividly the evening he had last twen her before her father's death; words of love—which some unto, ward disturbance had obliged him to leave unsaid- trembling on his lips. He remembered her very dress; in his mind's eye she stood before him, her slight, rounded figure set off to advantage by a tightly-fitting black velveteen robe, and "with a rose in her Mabel Viner's unfeeling story had goaded hltn almost to madness. Her allusion to the curate, Mr. Morgan, fully aroused his half-awakened suspicious that the little man had cast admiring eyes upon EvenL He felt all the old love in his heart revive, and he told himself that he could not let Everil go without an eflort to gain her for himself. — „ And thus it came to pass that Hairy Hurst was so pre-occupied with his thoughts of the past and his doubts about the future that he nearly upset a man at the comer of the shrubbery path.. Hallo he exclaimed. "The night is so dark, and the wixid is blowing so, I did not hear you. I beg your pardon, whoever you are. "Nooffene sir—it's only me, sir, replied the voice of Mrs. Viner's butler. The family is out, sir." "I know that," said Harry, recognising the speaker, who had been an old servant of his during his boyish days. Morgan, you're the very man I want. Is Miss Lester engaged?" "No sir''responded the man, with alacrity. "Miss Lcster Ú in the drawing-room." "Then just go back and quietly open the hall door for me. I want to see her—she is an old friend of mine and as Harry spoke he placed a liberal douceur in Morgan's hand. — The Bum obeyed, and ill ? tew minutes mare Harry I arsi entered the drawing-room unannouncecT, whera sit Lester, at tired as he had last seen her, and "witi a rose in Ler hair." ( &jvs. Viner is cut. dining," said she, coldly, after t1 a formal palliations had passed between them. "I am aware of it," he replied, as he stood leaning with his elbow on the mantelpiece, and looking down at hot from his goodly height. Tht re was an awkward silence for a minute, and then Everil said Mr. and MLs Yiner are out also." Of that I am also cognizant," was the dry re- sponse. "Inave taken advantage of their absence to come and see you." A gai\], there was a silence. Everil eat very still, gazing at tho dying embers, whilst a crimson flush dyed face, n< ck, and ears. Presently, however, calling her womanly pride to the rescue, ehe remarked, with a pitiful assumption of indifference: I am very happy to see you and have an oppor- tunity of saying good-bye, as I leave Mrs. Yiner to- morrow, probably." Indeed May I ask why ?" "I can no longer endure her or her daughter's immlts," she exclaimed, raising her flashing eyes. "Heaven knows I don't wish to be selfish, and to throw aside the chance of assisting my mother and sister, Lut I cannot suffer Mrs. Viner's cruelty any longerand Everil Lester, unable to restrain her overwrought feelings, bent her head in her hands and wept bitterly. In a moment Harry Hurst was on his knees beside the weeping girl, his arm around her, whilst his lips repeated the old, old story." It was luncheon-time at Tower House. Mafe, Viner, in a charming costume of dark and light bh:" silk and cashmere, was smiling upon Harry Hurst, who had most opportunely dropped in. He seemed rather odd and dUtra.it in his manner—a circumstance which did not, however, at all discourage hi3 fair companion. With beaming smiles, and in an animated tone, she recounted to him the further iniquity of the governess in refusing to make an apology that morning. "Really," said Mrs. Viner, C,the insolence of people of that c)as is simply outrageous. I look upon you ai one of the family, Mr. Hurst, so I don't mind reading to you the note that impertinent young person wrote to me this morning and, taking a letter from her pocket, the indignant lady read: Tower House, Tuesday Morning. Madam,—After due consideration, I have come to the conclusion that, in order to avoid any further annoyance, it will be the better plan for me to leave Tower House, which I purpose doing by the 8 30 train this afternoon. I am, Madam, Yours faithfully, EVEEIL FLORENCE I ESTER/ A very good riddance, don't you think so f" said Mabel, addressing Harry Hurst. I do, upon Miss Lester's part. Ladies," he con- tinued, rising, I have to inform you that Miss Lester has so far honoured me as to consent to be my wife; and as he spoke he rang the bell. What do you mean ?" acked Mabel, in a tone of astonishment. Without immediately replying, Harry Hurst turned to the servant who appeared in answer to the summons of the bell, and said: Will you be good enough to see if Miss Lester is ready ? Tell her," he added, looking at his watch, that my carriage will be here in five minutes to tako. her to the railway station." As he spoke Everil entered the room, attired for the journey. Drawing her hand within his arm, Harry Hurst confronted the two chagrined and amazed women and said, in a quietly exultant tone: I had had my doubts as to whether this lady would honour me with her hand, and felt a diffidence in preferring my wishes. However, Miss Viner"—here he .dntedly addressed himself to Mabel—"your very tandid acknowledgment of your infamous treatment of Miss Lester yesterday svening quite decided me, and, as soon as it was practicable, I left Mrs. Howard's, and, coming here, asked her to share the home I would hare offered to her two years ago, had not cir- cumsta.nces occurred to hinder my doing eo. Ladies, for the first and last time, let me present o yo i the future mistress of Hurstfield;" and, so sajiup, Harry Hurst left the room, half-supporting to the carriage the trembling girl en his arm. Nearly two years have passed away, and a merry party is assembled at Hurstfield. There are old friends here. In a comfortable easy-chair at the side of the fire sits Everil's invalid sister her mother is opposite whilst upon handsome Harry Hurst's knee climbs a fragile-looking boy, who is none other than Bertie Viner. Death and poverty have been rife at the Tower House, and the proud, insolent, friendless Mabel Viner, after the death of her father and mother, has been glad to accept euch a post as Everil once filled. With a heart overflowing with that charity which covereth a multitude of sins, Everil has taken to her luxurious home poor little Bertie and warm-hearted Sibyl, who were ever favourites with hersr If and Harry, until something can be dene for them. Sibyl, a fine, well-grown giil, with the same clear, honest eves a3 of yore, superintends the tea table, whilst Everil sits beside her fond, happy husband, not with a rose in her hair," but with a rosebud babe upon her knee—another Everil, for whom her mother daily prays that there may be meted out to her child the same measure of happiness which has been mercifully granted to her.

LUDICROUS SCENE IN A CHURCH. While a certain didpe, Rays the Stirling Journal, was oofiieiating in a church not a hundredmiles from Gartmore on the evening of Sunday last, a very amusing scene oc- curred. His object on special occasions is to warn his hearers against the wicked machinations of the Evil One. Reverting to his favourite theme, suddenly a large window blind and feller behind the pulpit lost its hold, and fell right over the preacher, completely con- cealing him for a time. Thiar brought the discourse to an abrupt termination. In its descent the roller smashed a number of the panes, and the peculiar noise of the falling glass, following in quick succession the enshroud- ing of the preacher, added panic to his already terrified condition. Ignorant of the cause of the ridiculous hurly-burly, he thought, as he had exceeded in his denunciations the bounds of discretion, his Satanic Majesty had arrived in person to take him to task for slander and abusive language, having caught him in the act. Seeing that defiance was impossible, he called out, I'm gone," and with one bound cleared the pulpit, never stopping till he reached the extreme corner of the church. Some of his hearers were struck with terror, while others, unable to repress their feelinga burst into laughter.

"A WEST-END AGAPEMONE." It is the sacerdotalism which culminates in the cot) fessional, says May fair, that the normal Englishman and to some extent, tho normal Englishwoman, objects to There is a strong anti-poke -your-nose-into-other peopled business feeling, a decided my-house-is-my-castle trait oJ character, about the British public which renders the perpetual interference of a fussy gentleman in petti- coats and a biretta, with nothing particular to do.infinitely annoying. John Bull thirsts to shut up such irritating persons in any way or any place that comes first to hand but only in the same contemptuous fidgety way that he flicks off a bluebottle. There are, of course, some alarmists who take a more serious view of the pre- valent sscerdotalism than any which would lead us to compare the Anglican priest to the harmless unne- cessary bluebottle and it is true that every now and again a bit of new evidence crops up which does arouse our misgivings as to the intentions of those aesthetic and apparently harmless gentlemen in the protracted ooat- tails and eccentric head-gear. A document of this kind is now being circulated sub rosd among the female population of a Western suburb by the youthful vicar who has "cure of souls" in that parish. On the outside of the tiny code is an artistically drawn vesica containing a bundle of lilies, with the motto S. Maria on a scroll. These, it is to be presumed, represent symbolically the lily maids of that particular pastor's flock. The title of this aesthetically adorned document is "Rules of the Society of the Love of Jesus." Now, some of these rules are not a little curious. The members —all females be -it observed, with the exception of that reverend Jack among the maidens, the vicar— cc consist of two orders (1) Members, who muafc be com- municants not under sixteen or over thirty years of age (2) Associates, who-must have been baptised, and not under fourteen years of age." This exclusion of elderly females is very noticeable, and must, one would think greatly contribute to make the ways of the society those of pleasantness and peace. Members and Associates are by Rule VIL expected to attend their parish church at least once every Sunday, and at other times when possible; to receive the Holy Communion together on the fourth Sunday of each month, at 7 or 8 o'clock [a.m. of course], as well as on the great Festivals, and especially on 11 Saints' Day, November 1st," Rule VIII. is comprehensive, and embraces, among other stipulations, the following Every membtr shall undertake the obligation to dress simply and modestly to abstain from all extravagance to set aside a definite portion of money to be devoted under ordinary circumstances (thus italicised in the original) to the service of God, and the good of the poor. To abstain from all improper places of amusement, and ungodly companions. To avoid all curiosity abont what is evil or wrong, and never to read anything which could not be shewn to the Vicar or Lady Warden, Never "—this mark- ing a climax—" of free choice, to attend any place of worship not in communion with the Church of England." It is by no means irrelevant to mention that the particular suburb in question is greatly addicted to rinking and it becomes a question, soluble only by the personal opinions of the Vicar, as to whether a rinkia C improper," and rinkers godless. The subui b possesses also an exceedingly fashionable "Roman" church, and there can be no sort of doubt that it is to this particular opposition shop the last clause of comprehensive Rule VIII. is meant to apply. There are, however, happily no rules without ex- ceptions, and a degree of elasticity is given to the previous somewhat Draconian regulations by the circumstanoe of Rule X. giving a dispensing power to the Vicar. A dis- pensation with regard to any of these rales can be granted solely by the Vicar." He is, in fact, a pretty full-fledged Popeling in his particularly ooiy suburban parish. Now, it does seem incredible that any man com- missioned by his bishop with the care of a large London parish can be so supremely silly as to send a. document of this kind flying about his parish, turning the heads of silly girls, and infuriating their male belongings against himself and the order to which he belongs. Only a very few of the stronger sex—male or female—will be able to rise so far superior to prejudice as to believe that nothing worse than silliness is involved. What a loophole is given for scandal when every old maid in the parish, by her exclusion from the Society of the Love of Jesus on account of age, has a dircct grievance against that remark- able corporation!

The Prinee of Wales, says the London correspondent of a Scotch paper, is a great traveller. I hear that in 1878 he will probably make a journey more extensive than any he has yet undertaken. It hag for gome time been the desire of his Royal Highness to visit the Australian and NewZealand dependencies of the Empire. He contemplated at one time setting out on the journey at the end of the present year, but this idea has been aban- doned. The intention of visiting the Australian colonies has not, however, been relinquished, and it is probable, 1 hear, that in the end of 1878 H.It.H will leave England for a considerable tour in the most distant and flourishing of her Majesty's dominions. The Princess of Wales will, it is expected, acoompany her husband, and the visit will be one of more than ordinary brilliancy and interest. The Rcyal party after leaving New Zealand will proceed to America* and return home thxoivh the United

Bights of Reproduction Reserved. THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT, THE MARCH UPOX NEWPORT AND THE LETTERS OF ZEPHANIA11 WILLIAMS- IT is an old man's story now, that of the rising of the Chartist riot in Monmoutlushire. The middle-aged folk of the present day were little folk in pinafores then, and can only have a glimmering recollection of the trouble and excitement of that long-gone-by time. But away down among the hills in Monmouthshire, when gossips meet at evening over their pipes and glasses, the memories or the rising are revived now and then, and the elders delight to recount to the youngsters quaint little- anec- I dotes connected therewith. It was an exciting time in the West: a time of fear and trembling for all of the well-to-do classes, and those who had chattels to lose. The Chartists are coming was a cry that Pent terror to the hearts of young and old in f°tk in the towns kept their horses saddled at nights in their stables, and hanged up their hats and overcoats, bonnets, and shawls within reach of H',clr,. heads, ready for immediate flight. What the Chartists really wanted many did not know. The name was enough in it-elf in many minds to sngget plunder, rapine, and murder. The Men from the Hills," employed in the ironworks or collieries, were loo .ceil upon as lawless barbarians, who would stop at nothing. And of a truth, they nrre wild in their ways, given to kicking one another to death in their quarrels. In the town of Pontypool, "The Bloody Field" was the scene of many a free fight, the turning of a cup upside down in a public-house, or the flinging up of a cap in the air, being sufficient to infl19!.ne the passions of a mob and set them struggling like infuriated tigers. Woe to the poor wretch who happened to be on the ground when the cry was raised, "Give him Morgan Prothero." Morgan Prothero was a Pontypool handi- craftsman, who made boots that were peculiarly heavy, and armed with formidable nails. These boots were in great request as weapons for kicking purposes. Places are tinted out where poor fellows were brutally depriv ed of life by these means, a score sometimes joining in the attack on one. At Blackwood, a few miles further up among "the Hills," the man who dared to work contrary to the whim of the rec-t was visited by a ganj; called "The Scotchers," disguised, and with blackened faces, blowing horns, and led by a fellow called "The Bull." Woe to the visited. His furniture was smashed and his life was in danger. The Scotchers once shot a poor woman whose husband had eseaped their vengeance. She fell dead among her children, and one of the murderers, who was accidentally wounded by the burst- ing of a gun barrel, narrowly escaped being buried alive by his companions, alongside the woman, to pre- vent detection. Another time these horrible fellows dragged a man down his stairs, laid his legs across a block, and coolly broke them with a poker in the presence of his wife and family. No wonder was it that there was great dread of a mob of men of whom such things were related. Happily the manners and customs of the Monmouthshire miners and forgemen have greatly improved since those days. The" people's Charter" was drawn up in 1838. It demanded the concession of six points. These were manhood suffrage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, annual Parliaments, no property qualification for members, and payment of members for their services. These points were set forth in a petition bearing 1,200,000 signatures, presented to the House of Commons by Mr Attwood, in June, 1839 and the rejec- tion of a motion that the petition should be referred to a Select Committee led to many disturbances in the Mid- land counties, and a serious riot in Birmingham. These were quelled, and the Attorney-General publicly de- clared that Chartism was extinct. He did not know what was smouldering down among those hills in Mon- mouthshire. There, John Frost, linen-draper, ex-Mayor of Newport, Zephaniah Williams, the landlord of the Royal Oak at Abervstruth, and William Jones, a watchmaker, who kept the Bristol beerhouse, in George-street, Pontypool, were plotting and planning, and fanning the popular passions. Not that these Monmouthshire men had hard timcs to complain of. Wages were with them at a high rate in those days. But they had got hold of the idea that Mob ought to be Master, and were bent on carrying it out. Under pretence of a mere trades union, called The Working Men's Association," the malcontents met once a-week at the public-house, paid in penny con tributions,and swore the downfall of the Constitution and the pretty little bauble on the top," meaning the Queen. A beerhouse at Pontnewynydd, kept by John Llewellin, was one of the head-quarters of this association. Public meetings were Irdd in the summer in the Bloody Field and other places in Pontypool. The speeches at these meetings were of a most violent and exciting character. At one of them a Mr Town- send, after addressing a crowd from the window of the King's Head, in Crane-street, wound up by saying :—"I will now introduce to you Mr Henry Vincent, who will pour it out to you like rum and millc." Vincent then followed, and in the course of his speeeh attacked the tradespeople: "Who pays for the silk dresses on their wives' hacks?" he exclaimed, "Why, the working men I should like to see the grass grow' before their doors These words are well remembered by those who were present. Enlivened by such addresses as these the time passed on. A procession of some 700 or 800 Chartists marched on Whit Monday from Pontypool to Blackwood, where the Coach and Horses, kept by Richard Pugh, was the rallying point. The summer passed; a "Convention" (a committee of 40 persons appointed to watch the presentation of the great petition) was dissolved in September, and the country shared the Attorney-General's opinion that quiet was permanently restored. Not so. "The Working Men's Association" continued to meet regularly, though the greatest secresy was ob- served as to its proceedings. Some vague rumours of a proposed rising obtained circulation, and special con- stables were sworn in. But the conspirators kept their plans to themselves. A woman, however, got hold of the secret. This was Betty Dore, who kept the turn- pike at Risca.. Some of her relatives took part in the movement, though it is a remarkable fact that, as a rule, the Risca men and the Irish workmen abstained from doing so. October was nearly at its close, the last Sunday had come; and Betty prophetically announced that in the next week more people would pass through her gate than had ever passed through it before. With that hint sha stopped. The "rising" was actually fixed to take place on the following Sunday, the 3rd of November. The plan was to march into Newport and seize that town at midnight, break down the bridge, and prevent the passage of the Welsh mail, the non-arrival of which at Birmingham was to be the signal for a general rising of the Chartists throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. Frost was to lead the division from Blackwood, and, at a place called the Cefn, near Newport, to meet a division of 5,000, led by Zephaniah Williams, and a division of 2,000 from Pontypool, led by Jones. On the march, every ten men were to be under a "captain." The rising cry was, "Roll up! Roll up' The password on the road was "Beans." If the person accosted answered "Well," he was recognised as a Chartist but if not, Ills life was in danger, for "he was no friend of theirs, and they might do what they liked with him." At the turnpike gate the gatekeeper was to be saluted with, "Well is well, and all is well," and they were then to be permitted to pass through. Wea- pons of all kinds—guns, pikes, cleavers, scythes, anything that came to hand, were stowed away in readiness to be seized at a moment's notice. And the conspirators waited for the memorable Sunday. It came at last, accompanied by rain of the heaviest kind. Notwithstanding the adverse weather, the leaders determined to carry out their plans. Suddenly, as the shades of evening closed in, the Chartists filled the streets of the villages above Pontypool, and the air rang with their cry, "Roll up Roll up Those able-bodied men who had not joined their ranks were seized as they sat at their evening meals, or as they came from chapel, or as they were starting to work on the "night turns," and were forced to take pike in hand and march with them. At Abersychan the rioters actually entered the Wesley an Chapel and dragged out men who had gone there to wor- ship. Bad luck to him whose curiosity induced to stand to see what was going on. He was pressed" in spite of all remonstrances, and those who were seen attempting to escape across the fields were followed with gun-shots. Many persons hur. ried from their homes to avoid being pressed, and sought shelter in odd places. At Abersychan the mob forced their way into the house of Mr James Walkinshaw. He with Mr Wood and Mr Brown, had retreated to the' mountain, and hidden themselves for the night in a hollow that had been cut in a rick of oats and lucky was it that he was away, for the Chartists searched even the bed- room where Mrs Walkinshaw lay ill. Mr Robert Richards and Mr John Parsons were in quest of a hiding place, when they came to a barn, on the floor of which a quantity of straw was thrown. One suggested that they should creep under the straw, but this was negatived, and they went off to a wood. Not long had they turned away, when a labourer who had concealed himself by lying along on top of one of the beams in the barn saw the Chartists enter, and probe the straw with fierce lunges of their pikes. While Messrs Richards and Parsons lay concealed in the shadow of the wood, they could see light moving about, and heard guns being fired off, and doors broken in by the Chartists. At Risca, one Job Carney got into a hollow yew tree, and had just clambered up amid the boughs, when he felt a hand laid on his leg. "0 Lord, they have got me," he roared; "Have mercy, gentlemen Chartists, mercy." The hand was not that of a Chartist, but belonged to another fugitive, who soothed his terror, and, getting up into the boughs to him, became his companion in their uncomfortable quarters all night. j Among those who were pressed at Blackwood was an old man named Israel Firman. He had the reputation of being a sorcerer, and got his living by telling fortunes and practising as a quack doctor. Over 90 years of age, ( tall, gaunt, and of weird appearance, his long grey hair tossed in disorder, and his black eyes glittering like coals < of fire; this man gave damaging testimony against several rioters when, in the subsequent proceedings, he was put into the witness-box, and his singular aspect ] and bearing created quite a sensation in court. Ahout six o'clock on Sunday evening the Pontypool i folks became aware of great crowds passing through their streets, all hurrying on towards Newport. Aghast! one < told the other that the Chartists were really "up" at £ last. It was thought that an attack would be made on the police-court and station-house. These were J combined in a building called the Clock House, which occupied the site of the present Town- hall. To defend this the special constables were quickly called together, and armed with guns and weapons of all sorts. The od pensioners were also posted within the building with guns in their hands. Can you shoot ?" asked the late Dr Phillips, a magistrate who was then looked upon as "the king of Pontypool." Well," was the answer of Mr John Pliilpot, I once shot a snipe." "Oh, if you shot a snipe, you can shoot ] a Chartist," said the doctor, and he placed in the hands of Mr Philpot a very queer-looking weapon. But Mr Philpot shirked the gun, and went and sat up during the night with his employer, Mr Matthews, a solicitor, in his office, in great perturbation lest the rioters should break in and seize a large sum of money which lay there. In the upper room at the Clock House some of the special constables were posted, and had with them fire balls, locally called "blue balls," which were to be lighted and thrown out among the assailants to enable the defenders to take better aim. Mr Alexander proposed to load with duck shot, but Dr Lawrence got quite angry about the "brutality "of such a course, and loudly insisted on loading with ball, as a more humane proceeding, and no doubt it would have been more effectual. In the wall on the other side of the Clock House there was, and is, a doorway, leading past the site of the now demolished "Spiteful House" (socalled because it had been occupied by an irascible Irish gentleman named Stoughton, who was at loggerheads with his stepson, the late Mr Capel IIanbury Leigh, and used to play him tricks by turning off the water from his forge), and by a back way to the Park-house: and it was resolved that by that doorway relief should be sent down to the Park-house (where armed defenders were concealed) should it be required, The squire, Mr Capel Hanbury Leigh, had, by his affa- bility and kindness, endeared himself to the people, and had really nothing to fear, for the saying of the Char- tists was that "if they got the victory they would give him a dry stall." Some have suppposed that this ex- pression meant that they would force him to work under- ground as a collier, but this is a mistake. "A dry stall" in a pit means" a ood place," and the Squire was to have a good place in the new form of government. For- tunately no attack was made by the rioters in Pontypool. The efficiency of the weapons of the defenders may be guessed from the fact that when they were next day dis- charged in the adjacent field all missed fire. (To be continued.)

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They were annoyed at their father requesting them to call on Elizabeth, and though they yielded to his wish, they were pleased to have the opportunity of telling her what their penetration induced tuem to believe would be painful to her, and during their visit dear name w is. very often on their lips. Yea, she was dear now, for in a few days wns be not to become their brother's wife ? Their brother's wife, the future Lady Tyrell, was, of course, rather an aoiportunt personage, in their eyes, and so they aecor- .¡y began to love her before-hand. Si,e is no lovely, and Jasper íil sn devoted," Kai 1 Matilda Tyrell, her placid eyes fixed ou Elizabeth's chang- ing face the while. it is quite a love match," chimed in Fannie. "Of course, dasper might have married better in a world- 11 point of view, but he is so deeply attached to her, that lie is sure to be happy." Elizabeth made no answer to this. She did not say t: I liOpe so," or "I trust so," but she sat pale, with her hands tightly clasped, and a great throbbing and 1mring pain in her heart. It wanted but a few days now, and yet Jasper hail not come to say farewell—to tnlce the last kits from the lips that he WHS to see no more "We start toumorrow," said .Miss Tyrell. "I ish that Papa could have gone too, but poor mamma's health is so very uncertain." I heard that she was worse," answered Elizabeth. She is we; kjr, the doctors say," said Miss Tyrell, ■" and l'apa therefore says that we cannot all leave her; and as dear Eva naturally wishes her new sisters-in-law to he her brides-maids, we decided that Papa had better remain at home, though I am sure he regrets that he can- not be present at Jasper's wedding." He has sent her su"h lovely diamond ear-rings," said Fannie Tyrell. I declare I felt quite envious of them." And she gave a little laugh. So Elizabeth knew all about it, and had to sit still and listen while these girls went on with their insipid talk. Not insipid to Elizabeth though, for each idle word they Uttered added a pang to her already breaking heart. The Misses Tyrell paid their visit to Elizabeth on Monday, the 27th, aud on Tuesday, the 28th, they had arranged to start for Hazelhurst, being expected to arrive there the same day as the Dean. And Jasper joins us on the 29th," said Miss Tyrell, with a smile, and Thurs- day, the 30th, is the wedding-day." Thus Elizabeth knew that if Jasper ;meHllt to keep his promise and come to say good-bye, he could only come on the 28th, and with a sick feeling of despair, she wait- ed and watched for him through the day. It was blinding storm of wind and rain one of those days of autumn which give us warning of the coming winter, and Elizabeth stood hour after hour by the rain- beaten pones; watching the flowers dashed to the ground, the tall holly-hocks levelled, and their yellow and rose- coloured blossoms befouled in-the wet soil. The pink leaves of the last fragile roses of summer, came floating past the windows, and th3 trees shook their branches with melancholy moans. It was a dismal day, in fact, but it suited better the mood of the watcher than the sunshine would have done, for all hope was crushed now out of Elizabeth's heart. Patient and gentle in general, to-day she could not even bear to hear her cousins' voices, and under the ex- cuse of a severe head-aohe, she had asked to be left quite alone. She was very wretched. She had tried to do right, but peace had not come to her; and she felt again and again as she had done in London, that her burden Was greater than she could bear. Slowly the day dragged on its weary length, and still Jasper came not! Reader, have you ever counted the hours, the half-hours, the minutes even, in times of in- tolerable suspense ? Tick, tick, tick, went on the clock in the hall, throbbing went on. Elizabeth's beating pas- sionate heart. Then the night came, and the mysterious dusky mantle from on high, fell on the earth, but still DO Jaspee. "He will not cumo," said Elizabeth, half-aloud, with a sort of wail of despair, and she covered her face for she could watch no more. What did she expect from this last farewell—this last sad parting? Nothing, nothing, and yet that Jasper had failed to keep his tryst, seemed to adi inexpressible sharpness to her sorrow, and with an exceeding bitter cry," she turned away. But even M she did so, she had a quick step on the gravel below, and the next moment the house door bell rang; and as Elizabeth went hastily to the door of the room, Jasper Tyrell, wet and travel-stained, was admit- ted by a servant into the hall. Then Elizabeth went forward and took his hand. "Jome in here," she said, and she led him into the breakfast-room that she had just left, which was dimly lighted by a fire burning low and red in the grate and Jasper followed her, closing the door behind them, and they two were alone. "\Vell, I have come," he said, and he put his arm round her, and Elizabeth's head fell upon his breast. It is such a storm," she whispered, thinking, woman- like, even then of his comforts, and you are wet and Weary, Jasper. It is no matter," he said, but I have come a long Way—for this—" But let us draw a veil over this last parting, for there are scenes, are there not, of which it is too painful to write or to read ? Not many words passed between these two—what words could pass—for there was no comfort &or hope, either to give or to take ? To Elizabeth it was tfiore bitter than death, more cruel than the grave and after Jasper has pressed his last kiss on her cold lips, and left her, she fell on her knees, covering her face, and crying out in the extreme anguish of her soul. Oh God, take us," she cried, God take us both— for I cannot bear the pain CHAPTER XXXIX.—THK WEDDING DAY. The Misses Tyrell arrived at Hazelhurst on the 28th, in perfect safety and comfort, for the Dean had despatch- ed one of his own carriages a few days previously, to his brother's residence, as he was not partial to hired con- veyances," he informed his sister-in-law; and this car- riage was accordingly waiting for the sisters on their arrival at the railway station nearest to Hazelhurst. The Major also came to meet them, and they were Welcomed with great cordiality when they reached the pillage by Mrs. Dalziel, and with sweet smiles by the « "ride-elect. Eva was nervous and excited, but she tried *low to lorget all her fears and doubts of the week he- tore. Jasper was to come to-morrow—when she was is wife he would tell her all his troubles," thought the Joung girl; and so the last few days Eva's heart had §rown light again, and she looked very happy and pretty she Ifissed her futpre sisters-in-law. The Dean arrived the same day by a later train, and e- lmug-My but courteous oldman exerted himself to \e agreeable to the Misses Tyrell. They were not a title shocked, however, at the style of the house, though was larger than the one they had inhabited before Aeir father succeeded his cousin Sir Henry, and became ►"•OBriefcor of Wendell Hall. Mrs. Dalziel was also a •tfctje startlmj, but they had come determined to make the best of the situation, and they accordingly did so; and the dinner which had cost Mrs. Dalziel much men- tal anxiety before-hand, passed off very satisfactorily. Mrs. Dalziel had engaged a professional cook when she Was in town for a week, not daring to trust her ordinary domestic's culinary powers at such a time of festivity; and to her great relief this person knew her duty, and suc- cessfully performed it. The Dsan even condescended to compliment his sister-in-law on her soup, and gave her the most sincere pleasure by doing so. "You ha ve-flr ranged eveiything very we 11, considering," said the great man, and Mrs. Dalziel was charmed by the compliment. The Major, however, looked rather rueful When these arrangements were mentioned, and he had pertainly good reason for doing so, as Mrs. Dalziel had insisted on his vacating the comfortable bedroom where "e had reposed for twenty years, to make room for her Visitors. ■ Well,niy dear," he said, as I luckily have but three daughters, remember I shall only do this twice more?' And so he meekly resigned himself, shaving at a minute glass that had hitherto done duty in the children's room, •nd putting up as best he might with all other incon- veniences. On the following morning-the morning of the 29th, the day that Jasper Tyrell was expected to arrive at Hazelhurst, the Dean proposed to take the ladies out for a drive before lunch, to see some of the neighbour- hood, and the Misses Tyrell were very glad to go. Eva a *ew ^nes from Jasper, on the morning of ter that he had ar- OA?L Hazelhurst by dinner-time on Wednes- ,y, tne th, and fluttered and nervous the girl awaited her bridegroom's arrival. All the morning, when the Tyrells were out with her vncle, was spent in packing her dresses, in preparation tor the bridal tour. After lunch, the three girls sat patting and and laughing together; and then at Matilda ♦ yrell's proposal, went out for a little stroll in the vil- until it was time for them to drive to the station 1\0 meet Jasper. How strange it seemed to Eva, as she went down the U(Ti ftr. 8^ree^> where she had lived since she was a tie child, to tldnk that before to-morrow at this time ab6 would be far away from it, and that her new life j 0 i ^ave then begun Dull as this village was, it was er homo, and the girl looked with her sweet wistful ye8 around her, with a strange timidity and humility In her heart. Was she worthy of Jasper ? she was think- and then she gave a little gentle smile. I must ¥7 to be worthy," she resolved; and with such tender noughts, she wiled away the afternoon, while the yrells talked and planned about visits, garden parties, a-hd all sorts of gaieties, that, must take place when she *ud Jasper came to Wendell. She did not go with' his sisters to the station to meet her lover, but after chatting a little while with her step- toother, went upstairs to dress for dinner, before his ^riyul. She remembered a certain dress that he had *f!'»'red before their engagement had taflen place, and sweet modest blushes she donned it now. Then ben she was dressed, she went down into the drawing- room and presently she heard the carriage drive up and top before the house dosr, and the neat minute the two yrellB girls came together hastily into the room. Fancy I Jasper has not come," said Matilda. «Is it cot annoying ? He must have missed the train—I never •mew anything so vexing* Eva did not speak. She was so much disappointed, hat for a moment she could not; and then after Fannie Ayrell had made some stupid remark, she said hesita- tingly and nervously— Can he come to-night ?" That's the worst of it," replied Matilda" he can't come now until the night train, and won't reach the sta- tion here, they told us there, until about two o'clock in the morning. I can't imagine how he could do such a 8tU,Pld thing—so unlike Jasper." Eva felt very cold and sick. She sat down and turned 4|)ale that the Tyrells were almost alarmed. «,' Pon't be so put out about it, you dear child," said jjfatilda, going up to her and kissing her. "Ah, Miss Va> we must' tell Jasper that you nearly fainted be- Rti8e he had missed the train!" But Eva could not jest about it. It was so strange *d unaccountable, she thought; and presently when r». Dalziel came in and heard the news, she added to *e girl's agitation. hope nothing can have happened," she said, "no *ccident i "Madam," said the Dean, sharply, who had over- !d this inopportune remark, you amaze me What fCldent can have happened, but the very common acci- a '°sing a train ? If anything nad happened, do you for foment suppose it would not have been telegraphed to in at once No, Miss Eva will have to wait until two the morning to see her lover, that is all." th even her uncle's consoling words did not bring did C°'our to Eva's pale face. She could not touch, ft°t evenjpretend to touch, the well-cooked dinner ill*' Jra8 Present?y spread before her, and her evident and uneasiness unconsciously affected the others, aesg Dean alone preserving his wonted sarcastic calm- hir LadirR'" he said to Miss Tyrell, are wonderful crea- rreaf' Their imaginative and creative powers are so i>lea«' for them to invent is one of the greatest easUrc8 in their existence. I account for the enormeus toti ] female writers that we rejoice in now-a-days, ih nely to this propensity. You all love fiction better fact." *VerlU^ my dear ^C!in>" said Mrs. Dalziel, who had got rebuke before dinner by this time, "do allow us to have quicker instincts than you gen- matters of feeling, now?—I always seem to H misfortune# A charming gift, doubtless, my dear sistcr-In-Iaw,' replied the Dean, but one trying to all but the pos- sessor. Though I fear it will be painful to you, pray suppress your prognostications for the future." I only know, Dean, before little Anna had scarlatina, I dreamt—" So did I) my good madam, last night," interrupted the Dean, but I will not record my midnight experi- ences. Eva, I have two little commissions which I wish you to excute for me in Paris but as they are both pre- sents for ladies, I must whisper what I want in your Yery well, uncle Ralph," said Eva, in a low tone, but not all her uncle's well-meant attempts could scare her fears away. When the Ll"Ji(.s returned to the drawing-room, her restlessness was painful to see. She took up a book and laid it down; she went hither and thither; she looked through the window-blinds, and answered vaguely, al- most M if she did not understand the kindly meant at- tempts that were made to distract her attention from her absorbing thought. When the Major came into the drawing-room, he went up to her and laid his hand on her shoulder. I have ordered Johnnie," he said, (this was their own boy) to have the pony chaise at the station to meet the two train, for I fully expect Tyrell will come down by that; and I dare not venture to tell your uncle's coachman to go in the middle of the night." And the Major gave a kind, little reassuring smile to his daughter. Thank you, Papa," answered Eva, and she looked piteously into her father's face. My little girl," said the Major, don't get nervous. If anything had happened to Tyrell, we should have heard by this time—your uncle is quite right thera. Come Eva, come and play a game of besique with your old dad for the last time, for a long, long time, eh ?" The poor child complied with her father's requt.^ but the Major had not the heart to ask her to play a second game. She could not, indeed, remember what she was doing. She started at imaginary rings at the door bll. She was thinking all the while, Oh! what has become of Jasper ?—what can have happened to him ?—what shall I do ?" She did not attempt to go to bed, though she made a pretence of doing so, retiring to her room when the other ladies went to theirs, only, however, to hold a dreary vigil there. She heard one o'clock strike, and then counted the minutes by the pretty jewelled watch that Jasper had given her, until it was thirty minutes past. It took about half-an-hour to drive to the station, and a few minutes after the half hour, she heard the pony chaise shrt, which was going to meet Jasper. The Major (though he did not tell his daughter so) went in it, and minute after minute, Eva waited and listened on. The quarter chimed in the hall clock below, and then slowly, slowly, the next fifteen minutes passed away. Then two struck, and then came another half hour of almost in- tolerable suspense, and then with a start and half cry, she heard the sound of the wheels of the pony chaise again. She could not contain her anxiety this time, but ran down to the house door, only to reach it as the Major entered it alone. Papa—" broke from Eva's white lips. He has not come, dear, it is very odd," said the Major, trying to speak reassuringly. But there is a train from the South passes at eight—and Horrocks, the station-master, you know, thinks that he is sure to come by that. Don't look so white, darling, it will be all right yet." Eva made no reply to this, but sat down with almost a moan, in one of the hall chairs. Other anxious lis- teners too had heard the pony chaise return, for Mrl" Dalziel, in her dressing-gown, now appeared upon tne scene. What," she said, has he not come ?" But her band gave her a warning glance to say no more. "Come, little Eva, get to bed," went on the kind Major, who felt, indeed, anything but easy in his own mind. What will Tyrell say when he comes in the morning, if he sees such a pale face ?" Come, darling, to bed," said Mrs. Dalziel, and she put her arm round Eva's waist, and led the poor girl upstairs. Mamma," said Eva, when she got to her own room, in an awe-struck whisper, something has happened— something is happening to Jasper now—" If so, darling, we must try to bear it," said Mrs. Dalziel, who could not resist a homily. I always told you, did I not, loe not to set your affections entirely on any earthly thing ?" But with an impatient gesture, Eva pushed her step-mother away. Leave me alone, Mamma, don't talk to me, please," she said, I cannot bear it now." "Well, my dear love, good-night, then," said Mrs. Dalziel. And she kissed her step-daughter, retiring to her own room, where she relieved her mind by uttering the most gloomy apprehensions to)he unhappy Major. Depend upon it, Henry," she said, he has either committed suicide or been murdered; most likely, when I reflect, murdered by some woman, for we know what these officers are." Thank you, my dear," meekly put in the Major, even amid his own secret alarm. I do not say all, Henry," said Mrs. Dalziel. "I hope, I pray, I trust, that I did not marry a profligate; but what can we tell—what do we know of the antecedents of Jasper Tyrell ?—depend upon it, there is some woman in the case." If I thought," said the Major, energetically, putting on his white cotton night-cap, and with some of his bro- ther's war-like spirit sparkling in his eyes, that this ellow means to behave badly to the child, I would, yes, bv jove I would shoot him like a dog." And he flung off his night-cap again in his wrath. Is that cbristiau-like, Henry ?" answered Mrs. Dal- ziel. Should yuu forget that you have other children —and must I, need I remind you, a devoted wife! Oh! Henry," she went on, embracing the irate Major, ifthis unhappy man is lying foully murderel-" believe it," interrupted the Major, believe if he's done anything he's bolted. Remember very well when the 18th were in Ireland in '57, Jackson of ours got entangled with a girl, and the day was fixed and every- thing, and he bolted-off to Australia, I believe—we never heard of him anymore." But, Henry, entangled-what word is that I hear ? Did our child—I call her our child, although she was born before I saw you—still ours by love, although her mother was another woman. Did our child then en- tangle this young man, I ask you that p" Nonsense," replied the Major, in a rage, don't pull a fellow up like that at every word he utters! You know well enough what I meap, but I'm not going to talk apy more to-night—But I say," added the Major, waxing furious, as he pulled the blankets over his nose, I say, if he's behaved badly to the child, he shall re- pent it, that's all!" While this matrimonial discussion was going on be- tween the Major and his wife, Eva. was lying quite pros- trate on her bed. She was parted from Jasper—she was not going to be a bride or his wife now. The poor child lay there tearless, cold and shuddering, and as tbe morn- iug hours wore on, she fell into an uneasy slumber, only, however, to be recalled to sad reality by hearing the sound of carriage wheels once more start for the station. The Major, in fact, ordered the pony chaise to he ready again at half-past seven o'clock, and such was his anxiety on his young daughter's account, that he was up and prepared long before the hour to drive to the station The eight o'clock train from the South came in, but no Jasper Tyrell was among the travellers, and the Major accordingly, before he left the station, telegraphed to the Langbam Hotel, where he knew that Jasper had been staying last in town. He telegraphed both to Jas- per and to the Manager of the Hotel, and then in a most unhappy mood returned to Hazelhurst. As he neared his own home, he saw Eva's pale face watching hmi from the window, and his wife also was gazing anxiously out, waiting for his.return. He threw the reins to the boy, and ran at once to Eva's room, who turned round a face so white and ghastly to greet him that the Major fairly broke down. "My darling," he said, folding his little girl in his arms, "he has not come, but I have telgraphed. In a couple of hours we shall hear some news at least. Keep up your heart, my darling—if this scoundrel has behaved badly to you, you have a father to avenge your wrongs." « He h88 DOt .Shaved badly, Papa, said Eva, in a sharp changed voice. «I think he is dead And she also gave way, sobbing and weeping as if her heart Would break in her father's arms. The next few hours were very miserable ones. Matil- da and Fannie Tyrell cried too, and Mrs. Daleiel was in a most distracted state of mind. The Dean tried to be hopeful, and conduct himself with the composure that a high church dignitary should (according to his ideas) under any circumstances of life; but the proud old man's hands trembled a little as he pretended to eat a good breakfast, and his tongue had lost some of its usual sharpness as he endeavoured in various ways to account for Jasper s absence. At ten o'clock (the hour fixed for the marriage) a tele- gram arrived for the Major, from the Manager of the La"SMr. Tyrell had left in time to catch the mid-day train north," the Manager telegraphed, "on the morn. ing of the 28th, since then the Manager had heard no- thing, and received no directions from Mr. Tyrell." The wedding guests looked'at each other blankly, after reading this. Eva, exhausted with weeping, said no word, but shivered and shuddered, listening as if in a dream to the consoling worda that fell trembling from the lip' of those around her. The Dean was the first to rouse hiBiself, saying almost calmly— Henry, order the carriage. I will go to the station, and tel;graph to Sir John Tyrell. Young ladies," (this was to Matilda and Fannie Tyrell) have you any mes- saae for your father?" a onIy faltered Matilda. « That we are aU very anxious," said the Dean, and in a few minute.8 he had started in his own carriage for the station, sending from thence a very pressing message to Sir John, But all the day passed, and no answer came. Not one word from Sir John; not one word from Jasper Tyrell, on the day that was to have been his wedding day. (To be continued.)