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TBIPLE SEHSET. 8TJXDAF MOBJOKG, JAN. 5, 1880. i A DEAD LIFB i THE "llOBIJEnAH'S HEIR. llVXIilAUJLU JV.KU.ai.

Duauai. C1IAPTEBV. JX THE. DEATH CHA.MBKR. nwi w.

a MM, ttfTWTk i V' Lady Tnetford did not like the meek and enbmiasiTe froverness, bat the chil iren and the rest' of the household did. Sir Ropert and little May took to her at Vf once her gentle voice, her tender smile emed to "win its way to their eapricious ''C favor, and befors the end of the first veek she had more influence oyer them than toother and nurse toeether. The subdued and eentle governess had the love of all at 7 Thetford Towpts, except its mistress, from Mrs. Milliard, the stately housekeeper, down. She was so court eons andeonsiderate, so anxious to civinz trouble.

Above all. that tixed expression of settled sadness on her rale lace made its way to every Heart, bhe had fall charge of the children now: they took their meals with her. and she had them in her keeping the best part of the day an office that was no sinecure. When they were with their nurse, or my lady, the governess sat alone east parlor, looking out dreamily at the summer landscape, with. her own brooding thoughts One evening, when she had been at Thetford Towers over a fortnight.

Mrs. Hilliard coming in; found her sitting dreamily by herself, neither reading nor i working. The children were in the drawing room, and her duties were over for the day. 1 am afraid yon don't make yourself 1 ai home here." said the good natured "you stay too much alone, ana isn i goou ior young people line. i.

von." "1 am used to solitude," replied the governess, with a smile that ended in a si and I have grown to tike it. Will you take a seat "No," said Mrs. Hilliard. I heard von say the other day yon would like to go over the house so, as I have a couple of hours' leisure, will show it to you DOW." The iroverness rose eazerlv. I have been waiting to see it so she said, out 1 feared to give croubJe by asking.

It is very good of yoa to think of me, dear Mrs. gBe jgjj much used to people think i in or ner," renectea tne housekeeper, or Bhe wouldn't be so gjatefnl for trifles." "Let me Bee, aloua: you have seen the xirawing room and the library. and that is except your own apartments. WelL come this way I'll show you the old south wing. Through long corridors, up wide, i black, slippery staircases, into vast, un used rooms, where ghostly echoes and darkness had it all to themselves, Mrs.

Hilliard led the governess. These apartments have been unused since before the late Sir Noel's time," said Mrs. Hilliard his father kept them fall in the season and at Christ mas time. Sir Noel's death, my lady has shut herself up, and received no company, and gone nowhere, bhe be ginning to go out more of late than she has aone ever since his death." Mrs. Hilliard was not looking at the governess, or she nugnt have been sur prised at the nervous restlessness and agitation of her manner, as she listened to these very commonplace remarks.

"JLady Thetford was very much at tached to her husband. then?" Mrs. IVeymore said, her voice tremulous. 1 "Ah, that she was! She must have been, for his death nearlv killed her. It was sudden enough aadahoc king enoagh, goodness I shall never forget that, dreadfor night.

This is the old Lanqueftting hall, Mrs. the largest and dreariest room in the Mrs. Weymore, trembling very much, either with cold or that unaccountable nervousness of hers, hardly looked round at the vast wilderness of a room. You were with the late Sir Noel, then, when he died 4 Yes; until my lady came. Ah, it was a dreadful thing I He had taken her to a 1) a 11.

and ridin home hia horse threw him. We sent for the doctor and my lady at and when she came in, all white and scared like, he sent us out of the room. He was as calm and sensible as you or one. but he seemed to have some thing on his mind. My lady was ehnt up vniu una xur aooni uiree nours, ana then we went In Dr.

Gale and ine. I shall never forget that sad sight JPoor Sir Noel was dead, and she was kneeling beside him in hi ball dress, like some hody turned to touc. I spoke to her. anp she looked up tt and then fell back in my arms in a fainting tit. Are you cold, Mrs.

Weymore, that you shake sot" Noyes it is this desolate room. I think," tha answered, hardly "It is desolate. Come, 111 show you the billiard room, and then we'll go up stairs to the room. Sir Noel died Everything remains just as it was no one has ever slept there since. If you, only knew, Mrs.

Weymore, what a Bad time it was; but you do know, poor dear you have lost a husband yourself." The governess flung up her hands before her face with a suppressed bod, so full of anguish that the housekeeper started at her aghast, Almost as qui ly she recovered herself again." Don't mind me," she said, in a chok ing voice I can't help it. You don't know what I suffered what I still solfer. Oh, pray, don't mind me Certainly not. "25ar said Mrs. IlilL'1.

tlW inwardly the gover was a very odd person, indeed. Ttey looked at the billiard room, where the. tables stood, dusty and dia used, and the balls lay idly by '1 don't know when it will be used again," said Mrs. Hilliard perhaps. not until Sir Knpert grows up.

There Sivas a tiAneTowfillng her voice when I thought he would never live to be as old and strong as he is now. He was the puniest baby, Mrs. Weymore, you ever looked at nobody thought he would livei and that would have been a you know, for the Thetford estate would have gone over to a distant branch of the familv, as it would, too, if Sir Rupert had been a girl." She went upstairs to the inhabited part of the building, followed by Mrs. vVeymore, who seemed to grow more and more agitated with every word, the honsekeeper said. "This is Sir Noel's room." said Mrs.

RilAiard in an awestruck whisoer, as if, tLe dead man still lay there. ever enters here but me." She unlocked it as she spoke, and went Mrs. We vinore followed with a face frightened pallor that struck even the ood gracious me, Mrs. Weymore," v. i is the matter You are as pale as a i 1.

Are you afraid to enter a room re ft a on has died iTKAiue. a re ic rai. 11 hUO VA, (A A nn accountable moved. 'i i housfckec i ajLiced at Lcr suspi a. a.v., suKiucb!) 13 the i t.j iiiivj a iiifci, or el the can't have known Sir Noel in his lifetime.

Of course not." They left the chamber after eursorv glance around Mrs. Weymore never advancing beyond the threshold. She had not spoken, and that white pallor made her face ghastly still. I'll eHsiw vAn Trta fiiAfnM" unr said Mra. Killiard and then.

I believe. yon. will have seen all that is worth see log ai lueiium She led the wavto ahalf litrhted room. wainscotted and antique like all the rest, where long rows of dead, and gone Thetford 8 looked down from the carved HULLO. XilClU nClQ KiUKUUI AAA U1UUA, countesses in ruftles.

and powder and lace bishops, miter on head and crozier in hand, and judges in gown and wig. There were ladies in pointed stomachers and jeweled fans, with the 'waists: of thir dresses under their arms, but all fair and handsome, and unmistakably alike, Last of all the long array, tnere wa Sir Noel, a fair haired, handsome youth of twenty, with a smile on his race, and a happy radiance in his blue eyes, and by his aide, dark and haughty and beautiiul, was my lady in her bridal riTipr in not a handsomer face among them all than my said Mrs. Hilliard. with pride. You ought to have seen her when fcir oei nrst orougnc ner home.

She was the most beautiful creature I ever looked at. Ah. it was such a pity he was killed. I suppose they'll be having Sir Rupert's taken next and hung beside her. He don't look much like the Thetfords; he's his mother ovn a Yandeleur.

dark and If Mrs. Wevmore made any the house keener did not catch it. She was standing, with her face averted, hardly looking at the. portraits, and was the lirrt tn leave the nicture srallerv. There were a few more rooms to be seen a drawing room suite, now closed and disused, an ancient library, with a wonderful stained window, and a vast uchoinir recention room.

But it was all over at last, and Mrs. Hilliard, with her kevs. trotted cheerfully on. and Mrs. Wevmore was left to solitude and her own 'thonchts once more.

A strange person, certainly, one lockea the door and fell down on her knees by the bedside, sobbing until her whole form was'convnlsed. Oh. whv did I come here 7 Why did I come here came passionately with tne wild storm ox sobs. 1 mignc nave know how it would be. Nearlv nine rears nine long, long years, and not to have forgotten yet!" CHAPTER VL OFF FOB J.03CD02I.

Very slowly, very monotonously went life at rnetiora I owers. me only no tiOa! ble chanze was that mv lady went rather more into society, and a greater number of visitors came to the manor. There had been a children's party on the occasion or sir linnert eicntn Dirtnaay. end Mrs. Wevmore had nlayed for the little people to dance and my lady had cast on ner enronio gioom, ana ueen handsome and hannv as of old.

There had been a dinner party later an unprecedented event now ac i net ford Towers and the weeds, worn so had been discarded, and in dia monds ana DiacK veiveirjuaay rnetiora had been beautiful, and stately, and gracious as a vonng queen. No one knew the reason of the sudden chancre, but they accepted the fact just as they found it, and set it down, perhaps, to woman's cannce. So, slowly, the summer passed autamn came and went, and it was ueceraoer, and the ninth anniversary of Sir Noel sudden death. r. A sloomv day wet and Dieaeiy cold.

The wind, sweemnff over the ancrrv sea surged and roared through the skeleton trees: the rain lashed the windows in rattling gusts and the leaden sky hung low and frowning over the drenched ana drearv eartn. A diHmn.1 dav verv like that other. nine years ago, that had been bir JNoel In Ladv Thetf ord's bondoir a bngnt fire blazed. Pale blue curtains of satin damask shnt out the winter prospect, and the softest and richest of bright caroets nnsned everv loot I all. before the nre.

on a little taoie, my lady's breakfast temptingly stood: the saver oia ana anamt tne rare annaue porcelain sparkling in the ruddy fire light. An easy chair, carved and gilded, and cushioned in azure velvet, stood by he table, and near my lady's plate lay tne letters and papers the morning's post had brought. A tovof a iock on tne low mar Die mantel chimed musically as Bhe entered. In her dainty morning neglige, with her dark hair rippling and falling low on her neck, she looked verv younsr and fair and graceful. Behind ner came her maid, a blooming English girl, who took on tne covers and poured out tne conee.

Jbady xnettora same languidly into tne azure velvet depths of her chair and took no her letters. There were three one a note from her man of business, one an Invitation to a dinnerparty, and the third a big, official looking document, with a huee seal and no end of nost marks. The languid eves suddenly liehted: the pale cheeks flushed as she took it eacrerlv ut. It was a letter from India from Mr. Everard.

Ladv Thetford Binned her chocolate BUUiWIU AAVA IVbiGl AEUIUV1J A UAA. AAUA slippeied feet on the shining fender, i it was a ion letter and sne read.it over slowly, twice, three times, before she laid it down. She finished her break takt Ler maid to remoY the serv'ire, "and rj back in her chair, with her deep, dark eTeauSSU dxeamll7. on the she fell into ft reverie of other days far gone. The lover of her girlhood came back to her from over the sea.

He was lying at her feet once more in tne long summer oays, unaex.ine lavi wavincr trees of her sdrldhood's home. Ah, how happy, how happy she had been in those bygone days, before Sir Noel Thetford had come, with his wealth tJ hj; Hfle, to tempt ber from her love and truth. Eleven struck, twelve, from the musical clock on the mantel, and still she sat, living in the past. Outside the wintry storm1 raged on; the rain clambered against the curtained glass, and the wind sighed among the trees. With a long sigh she awoke from her dream, and mechanically took up a news paper the first of the little heap.

a Vain," she thought worse than yaiB, dreams now with my own hand I threw backLlhe heart that loved me; of tnyown. free will I resigned the man I loved, rind now the old love, that I thought would die out of my new life, is stronger than ever and it is nine years OO Iftti'" it She tried ti "wrench her thoughts away and fix them on the newspaper. In vain; her eyes wandered aimlessly over the closely printed columns her mind was in India with Stanley Ever ard. i All at once she started, uttered a sud den sharp cry, and grasped the paper; with dilated eyes and whitening cheeks. At the top of a column of personal' advertisements was one which hor strained eyes literal ly devoured.

If Mr. Vy kin who ten tears 'ago left a male infant in charge of Mrs. Martha Brand, wishes to keep that child out of the workhouse, he will eall within the next live days, 17 Waddington street, Lambeth." Again, again and again Lady Thetford read this apparently uninteresting advertisement. Slowly the paper dropped into her lap, and she Bat staling blankly into the fire. "At last!" she thought, "at last it has come.

I fancied all danger was over that death perhaps, had forestalled me and now, after all these years, I am sum ned to keep my broken promise." 1 ie hue of death had settled on her Jf ace she sat cold and rigid, staring with tJiat WaDk' llicd' gaza into the fire. Ceaselessly beat the rain wilder grew the December day steadily the moments wore on, and still she sat in that fixed trance. The ormolu clock struck the Bound aroused her at last. I she said, setting her teeth, I will! My boy shall not lose his birthright, come what may. She rose and rang the bell very pale, but quite calm.

maid answered the summons. "Elisa," she asked, what hour does the afternoon train leave Gos nort for London Eliza started did hot know. I but would ascertain. In, five minutes she was back. "At half past three my.

lady; and another at seven." Lady Thetford glanced at the clock it was a quarter past two. "Tell William to have the carriage at the door at a quarter past three, and do you pack my clressirg case, and the few things I shall need for two or three days' absence, am going to juonaon." Eliza stood for a moment onite petri fied. In all the nine years of ner service under her. no such order as this had ever been received. To go to London at a moment's notice she, who rarely went beyond her own park gates I Turning away, not quite certain that her ears had not deceived her, her mis tress' voice arrested her.

Send Mrs. Weymore to me, and do vou lose no time in nackinir no. Mrs. Wevmore appeared. She had some instructions to give concerning the children dunns her absence, then tne governess was dismissed, and she was acain alone.

Through the wind and rain of the wintry storm. Lady Thetford was driven to i a i w. a 2 tue station in lime caixu iu iiraiu to the metroDolis. She was unattended. with no message to anv one.

onlv saving she would be back in three days at the laruiesL. i In that dull household, where so few events ever disturbed the stagnant auiet. this sudden ionrnev nrodnced an indescribable sensation. could have taken her to London at a moment's notice Some nrsrent reason it must have been to force her out of the gloomy seclusion in which she had buried herself since her husband's death. But, discuss it as they may.

they could come no nearer the heart of the mystery. CHAPTER VII. A MYSTKRIOC8 VISITOR. Ihe rainy December day closed in a rainier night. Another day dawned on the world, sunless and chilly and over cast Still.

It dawned on London' in murk v. yel low fog, on sloppy, muddy streets in gloom and dreariness, and raw eastern wind in the denselv nonulated streets of the district of Xjambeth, where pov erty huddled in talL gaunt buildings, the dismal light stole murkily and slowly over the crowded, filthy, street and nurlieus. v. In a small upper room of a large dilap idated house this bad December morning, a painter stood at his easel. The room was bare, and cold and com fortless the extreme; the painter was middle aired, small, brown and shriv eled, and verv much out at elbows.

The dull. gJay light fell full on his work no inspiration of genius by any means only the portrait, coarsely colored, of a fat, well to do butchers daughter round tne corner. The man was Joseph Legard. scene painter to one of the minor theatres, who eked out his scanty income by painting portraits when ne could get them to paint. He was as fond of his art as anv of the great old masters' but he had only one attribute in common for his family was large, and Mr.

Legard xuuxiu i itn nLtimuuuy bignb ui, uiueea, to make do in enas meet. He stood over his work this dull morn ing, however, in his tireless room, with a cneerxui Drown race, wnist.iing a tune. In the adjoining he could hear his A A 1 A .1 wiie voice raisea snriuv. ana tne cnes of half a dozen Legards. He was used to it.

and it did not dis turb mm; and he painted and whistled cheerily, touchimr no the butcher's daughter's snub nose, and fat cheeks and double chin, until light footsteps came runnum up stairs. ana tne door was finng wide oy an impetuous hand. A boy of ten. or thereabouts, came in a bright eved. fair haired lad.

with a handsome. resolute face, and eves of cloudless. Sax blue. An, unyr saia tne scene painter, turning round and nodding good humor Fve been expectinsr von. What doyorf think of Miss Jenkins The bov looked at the picture with the glance of an embryo connoisseur.

It's as like her as two peas, Joe or would be if her hair was a little redder. and her nose a little thicker, and the freckles were plainer. But it looks like her as it is." "Well, yon see Guy," said the painter, going on witn Miss Jenkins left eye row, "it don't do to make 'em too true people don't like it they pay their money and they expect to take it out in good looks. And now, any news this morning, Guy The bov leaned azainst the window and looked out into the dingy 6treet, his bright young face growing gloomy and. overcast.

No," he said, moodily; "there is no news, except that Phil Dark ui.tr was drunk last night, and savage a a mad Log this morning and that's no Insure." And nobody's come about the adver tisement in the Times "No, and never will. Its ail xmrnbmr what granny says about my belonging to anybody rich if I did, they'd have seen after me long ago. Phil says my mother was a housemaid, and my father a valet and they were only i too glad to get me off their hands. yking was a valet, granny says she knows and it's not likely he'll turn up after all these years. I don't care.

I'd rather go tQ ine workhouse I'd rather BtorTe in the etfeerS than live another week with PhU Darking." The blue eyes filled with tears, and he dashed them pasnonetelv away. The painter looked up with a distressed face. Has he been beating you again, Govt" A It's i nomatter he's ttranny and Ellen are sorry, tod d6 what they can but that's nothing. 1 wish I had never been born," It is hard," said the fainter, compassionately, "but kedpno heart, Guy if the worst comes, hy, you can stop here and take pothick with the rest not that that's much better than starvation. You can take 'to my business shortly now: and ystill make a better scene painter 'than ever JL You've got it in you." "Doyou really think so, Joe cried the boy, wjth sparkling eyes.

"Do you I'd 'rather be an artist than a king Halloo!" 1 He stopped short in surprise, staring out of the window. Legard looked. Up the dirty street came a handsome cab. and stopped at their own door. The driver alighted, made some inquiry, then opened tne cab door, and a lady stepped lightly out on the kerbstone a lady tall and stately, dressed in black, and closely veiled.

"Now, who can this visitor be for said Legard. People in this neighborhood ain't in the habit of having morning calls made on them in cabs. She's coming up stairs." "He held the door open, listening. The lady ascended the flight of stairs, stopped on the landing, and inquired of some one for Mrs. Martha Brand." For Granny exclaimed the boy.

"Joe, I shouldn't wonder if it was some one about that advertisement, after all." "Neither should said "There! she's gone in. be sent for directly, Guy." Yes. the lady had gone in. She had. encountered the landing, a sickly" young woman, with a baby in her arms, who caa started at tne name sue ouired for.

'Mrs. Martha Brandt that's mother, walk xn this way, II you piease, She onened a door, and ushered the vailed lady in a small, close room, poorly iurmsnea. over a smoldering nre. mena ing stockings, sat an old woman, who, notwithstanding the extreme shabbiness and poverty oi her dress, lifted a paeas ftnt lntellicent old ana. a lady to see you, said the young woman, nusmng ner xretrui oaoy, and lookinsr cnrionsl at the vailed face.

Bnt the lady mode no attempt to raise tne envious screen, not even wnen jvits. Martha Brand sot dropping a re spectful little servant's courtesy, placing a chair. and It was a very thick vail ah impene A 1 1 A A I A ixauie exueia, ana notning oouiu ue tu covered of the face behind it but that it was fixed sale. She sank into the xeat, her face turned to the old woman behind. that sable screen.

CHAPTER Vin. cur. You are Mrs. Brand The voice was refined and patrican. It would have told she was a lady, even if the rich garments sho wore did not.

"Yes, ma'am your ladyship; Martha Brand." "And you inserted that advertisement a rr. i i a in Lilts i. Junes rvgaruiug a cuiiu xeib in vour care, ten years ago Mother and daughter and stared at the speaker. It was addressed to Mr. Vvkine.

who left the child in your charge by which. I infer, you are not aware that he has left En eland "Left England, has het" said Mrs. Brand. More shame for him, never to Ut me know, or leave a farthing to sup port tne boy." "I am inclined to believe it was not his fault." said the clear, patrician voice. He left England suddenly, and against Lis will; and I have reason to think he will never return.

Hut there are others interested more interested than he could possibly be in the child, who remain, and who are willing to take him off your hands. But first, why is it you are so anxious, after keeping nun all these years, to get nd of him 1" "well, you see, your ladyship," replied Martha Brand, it is not me, nor likewise jtaien there, who is my daugh ter. We'd keep the lad and welcome. and share the last crust we had with him, as we often have or we're very poor people; but you see, Ellen, shes warned now, and her husband never could bear Guv that's what we call him. your ladyship Guy, which is Mr.

Vy kinirs own orders. Pnil I Jar kinc ner husband never did like him somehow. and when he gets drunk, saving your ladyship's pr unmerciful. presence, he beats him most And now we're coin to America to New York where Phil's got a orotner, and work is better; ana he wont take Guy. So, your ladyship, I thoutzbt I'd trv once more before we de serted him, and put that advertisement the Times, which I very glad I did.

if it will brinsr the poor lad anv friends." There was a moment's pause then the lady asked, tnougnuouy And when do you leave for New York "The day after to morrow, ma'am and a. long journey it isiorapoor old uwiy aJjloiiaO. "Didyou.livehere when Mr. Vyking left the ehild with you in this neighborhood Not in this neighborhood, nor in Lon don at alL your ladyship. It was Low dean, in Berkshire, and my husband was alive at the time.

I had just lost my baoy, ana tne landlady ox tne inn recom mended me. do he brought it, and paid me thirty sovereigns, and promised me thirty more every twelvemonth, and told me to call it Guy yking and that was the last 1 ever saw oz nim." And the infant's mother!" said the lady, her voice changing perceptibly; do you know any thing ox her But very little." said Martha Brand. shaking her head. I never set eves on her. although she was ill at the inn for upward of three weeks.

But Mrs. Vine, the landlady, she saw her. twice; and Bhe told me what a pretty young creeter she was and a lady, if there ever was a lady yet." "Then the child was born in Berk shire how was "WelLvour ladyship, it was an acci tfent, seeing as how the carriage broke oown witn ju. yking ana tne iaay, a dnvingf urious to catch the last London train. The lady was so much hurted that she had to be carried to the inn, and went auite out of her head, ravine and dangerous like.

Mr. Vyking had the landlady to wait upon her until he could telegraph to London for a nurse, which one came down next day and took charge of her. The baby wasn't two days old when he brought it to me and the poor young mother was areaorui low. and out of her head all the time. Mr.

Vvkinor and the nurse were all that saw her, and the doctor, of course; but she didn't die, as the doctor thought she would, but got ana before she came right to her Mr. vyking paid the and told him ha needn't come back. Ana then, a little more wan a Gev9 nlk. 'ttfaf Iiaw lifll Anriiv oil A. A.VSA WUfjllH Hi a VUVJ IWA JAVA A.

TA hj sly and secret like and what they told her about her poor baby I don't know. I always thought there was something oreaaiui wrong about tne, wnoio And this Mr. Vvkinar was he the child's father the woman's husband!" Msrtha Brand looked sharply at the epeakcif as if she suspected Uhe could 14 swer that question besL Nobody knew, bui CTSrybody thought bo. I've of the opinion, mv seUV that Guy's father and mother were gentlefolks, and I always shall be." i uoea the boy know his own story Yes, your, ladyship all I've told you." Whera he I Bhould UKe to eee him." lira. Brand's dan crh ter.

all this time hushing her baby, Btarted up. I'U etch hiin. He its upstairs in Le gard'a." left the room and ran upstairs The painter. Legard, wa still touching up Miss Jenkins, and the bright haired boy stood watching the progress of that work of art. i "Guy! Guy!" she cried, breathlessly come down etairs at once.

You're wanted." "Who wants me, Ellen A lady, dressed in tho most elegant and expensive manner a real lady, Guy; and she has come about that advertisement, and she wants to see you." What is she like, Mrs. Darking inquired the painter; "young or old "Young, I should think'; but she hides her face behind a thick veil, as if she didn't want to be known. Come, Guy." She hurried the lad down stairs and into their little room. The veiled lady still Bat talking to the old woman, her back to the dim daylight, and that disgusting veil still down. She turned slightly at their entrance, and looked at the boy through it.

Guy stood in the middle of the floor, his fearless blue eyes fixed on the hidden face. Could he have seen it, he might have started at tho grayish pallor which overspread it at sight of nim, So like I so like!" the lady was murmuring between her set teeth. "It terrible it is marvelous!" "This is Guy. your said Martha Brand. I've done what I could for him for the last ten years, and I'm almost as sorry to part with him as if he were my own.

Is your ladyship going to take him away with you now 1 "No," said her ladyship, sharply, "I have no such intention. Have you no neighbor or friend who would be willing to take and brinir him up, if well paid for the trouble This time the money will be paid withonfrfail." "There's Legard," cried the boy, of at of A. 20, of est St at at of 63 at J. at a A ril.go to Legard's be with Joe than anv wh Am I'd rather It's a neighbor that lives up stairs." murmured Martha, in explanation. "He always took to Guy, and Guy to him, in a way that's wonderful.

He's a very decent man, your lady ship a painter for A theatre; and Guy takes kindly to the business, and would like to be one himself. If you doirV want to take away me ooy, you comma leave nim in better "I am glad to hear it. Can I see the man "I'll fetch cried Gny, and ran out of the room. i Two minutes later came Mr. Lesrard.

in paper cap and shirt sleeves, bowing very low to xne grana, DiacK rooea laay, ana oniy too aeiigntea to 6 trine a oar eain. The lady offered liberally Mr. Legard closed with the offer at once. You will clothe him better, and you will educate mm, ana give mm your name. I wish him to drop that of Vvkintr.

The same amount I give you now will be 6ent you this time every year, if you ehange your residence in the meantime, or wish to communicate with me in any occurrence of consequence, you can ad dress Aiadame Ada, umce, moauu" She rose as she spoke, stately and tall, and motioned Mr. Legard to withdraw. The painter gathered up the money she jaia on tne tame ana oowea niniseir, with a radiant face, ont of the room. "As for turninto old Martha and taking out of her purse a roll of crisp Bank of England notes, I think this will pay you for the trouble you naa. witn tne ooy during tne last ten years.

No thanks, you have earned the monev." She moved to the door, made a sliehlt proud gesture with her gloved hand in farewell, took a last look at the golden haired, blue eyed, handsome boy and was gone. A moment later and her cab rattled out of the murkv street, and the trio were alone, staring at one another and at the bulky roll of notes. "I should think it was a dream, only for this," murmured old Martha, looking at tne roll witn glistening eves. A great lady a great lady, surely, liuy. shouldn't wonder if that was your mother." to be Zoooek's Coaffb Elixir for it safe and pleasant to take.

Althonsh manv are rredlsDosed to Ions trouDies irom Dirui. vet even saca mar es cape consumption, or other pulmonary or Dronemai disease, 11 due care ana watennu nees be observed, and all exciting causes are prompriy eaxea as tney arise, ic is in these eases Ir. Jayne's Expectorant exer cises its most benenctal effects, and has produced the laraesc proportion of Its cures. Besides promptly removing coughs and colds, which, when left to themselves, are the immediate causes of tubercalous de velopment, this standard remedy allays any Inflammation which may exist, and by pro moting easy expectoration, clean sea tne longs of the substances which elog them up, and wbleh rapidly destroy when suffered to remain. I Bosbach Natural Mineral Water supplied toH.

B.H. the Grand Duke of Hesse Atarai stadt. Mr, Gladstone's recent speeches in Soot land are to be printed in Gaelio. Use Lvona's Korwesian Cod liver On plain or with lime it is the best. Goon I.tviKa.

The secret of irood llvioir is of vaat Importance to all mankind. food liver knows this but when the liver is then take Rosadalis, the great BoutUern Bemedy, and Mott's Liver Pills. They are sure to restore you to health. Save vour llttla ones from atouo bv nataiie Harrison's Cough Speclfle. The small boy never wishes he was twins except when two different Sunday seaooi Christmas trees are being held up the same evening.

Every family should use Parole whisky. Asr IuposTaUit Pebsokai. Item. Charles 8. Prentice, of Toledo, went to Paris and thence to mrland.

to lie treated for Britcht's disease, and after tbebeetpbyslclans of both' ooHntries had done what they could for hbn. ftve op in aespair asa returnea to Amenca to cue. nere ne reoeivea runner treanuenx from other skillful physicians without benefit, and while listlessly lingering in pain and antra lull." he savs. heard of the Safe Kid ney and Liver Cure, took it, and was completely nred in a few weeks, fie rive cir cumstantial details of his painful experience ana asronisnine on re. in a lontr letter to H.

Warner A which will be forwarded on application. Stop your hair frem fallinir ont bvnsi(ic Hall's Vejre table Sicilian Hair Benewar. a sure prevention, a Tour physician will recommend T.votk' Norwegian joax.iyer cm. rur nTBC cxaBB afwiri ooeimiaonAi saui on 1 jt. J.

west, aorta screes, opposite Square. i. Genuine Texas red rust proof tar sale in lot to suit, by J. T. Gibbons Co.

grain dealers, corner Poydras and Peters. Mi WATCBXESB. For thirty five years the matehless preparation known as Dr. Uavli's Com po and By run of Wild Cherry, and Tal has been nsed by many familiea in this and other cities whenever a remedy was needed for conga, colds, cons amotion, etc. with un failing success.

It la sold at all drug store at tl per bottle, six bottles for $5. At whole ..1. I A A.I.... A "A Hart Geo. Finlay wholesale I IaVODS'S Cod Liver Oil In thA but and pumtpreparation of its kind.

DIED. 8ALOMON On ennday, January 18, 1880, at half past 1 o'clock. A. MAHIE AIMJCK FAZEXDE, beloved wife of Ijewis F. Salomon, Secd 28 years.

10 months and 10 days. FOI.EY On Sonday. January 18, 1880, MAR OAEET GRANT, wife of Wm. Foley, a native the Connty Antrim, Ireland, sed about 70 years, and a resident of this city for forty years, vy CNEIXI On Sunday eveninr, January 18th o'clock, P. JOHN O'NEIaCaL, afred 40 years, a native of Kenmare, Connty Kerry, Ireland, and a resident of this city, fox the past J.5 years.

'v GRAHAM On Sunday, Jmury 11, 1830. at tke residence ef Major John H. IJent, Cave Prrinr. of typhoid fever, ANN IK ES. TKLlZk GBASAaUV in her 2 1st year, daaghter Smuel I Graham, of Pinewood, Hickman county, Tenn.

BKIIXY On Tuesday morning, Jam. 10 1880, at 10 o'clock, CATHKBINE FITZ PETER, wife of John Belli ared 31 years, a native of Kings connty, Ireland, a resident of this city for 13 years. PITFIELD On Tuesday January 20, at 2 O'clock, P. after a lingering illness, OLIVER P1TFIELD, sged 70 years, for the put fifty years a resident of Mobile and Uiis city. MoCOGUE On Tuesday evening, January 1880.

at 10 minutes past 7 o'clock, BRIDGET HOY, wife of Daniel McCogue, aged 43 years, a native of county Clare, Ireland. BRADY On Tuesday evening, January 20, 1880, at a quarter past 6 o'clock. ROBERT DRADY, infant son of Annie E. Gorman and MJcbaei Drady, aged 1 year and 3 months. CO LXI N8 At Franklin, I.S., Jannary 15tb." merabranons croup, LOU COL.U.N 8, yoaug daughter of John Collins and Kizcie XcKay, aged 3 years and 8 months.

WHITESIDK At twenty mtentes past 7 o'clock. P. Jannary 21. 1880, Mrs. a.

C. WHITESIDE. GEBEIaIN Wednesday, Jannary 21, 1880, at "3:20 P. EIAZA PURCELIa, a native of Gibraltar, Spain, wife ef Jos. Gebelin, of St, James parish.

s' KEAY On Greenwood Plantation, parish of Plaquemines, morning, January 21, half past 8 o'clock. nan past o'ciocK, a. alu KMOHSS KKAY, aged 32 years. INNEBAKITY On Thursday, Jan. 22.

1880, 8 A. Mrs. FANNY WEMY89 JOHN. BTON, daughter of the late Dr. tmei Johnston Edinburgh, Scotland, and relict of the bite Dr.

John F. Inneranty, of Mobile, Ala, tn the year of ROrxSERS On Thursday, January 22, 1880, 7:15, A TIIaIaIE youngest daughter ol G. and Marie F. Bodgers. WEIaDON On Thursday, Jaaoary 22, 1880, 12 o'clock, JOHN WEIaDON, aged 42 years, native of county Meath, Ireland, and a resident of this city for the last twenty eight years.

BALL On Thursday, January 22, 1880. at 4 SIMON BALL, aged 67 years, a native of county Dublin. Ireland, and a resident of this city for SO years. eagerly. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID TjCss of Appetite, Bowels costive, Piin In he Henri, withadull sensation in the back part.

Pain under the Bhoulderbiada, full sees after eating, with a oU inclination ta exertion of body or mind. Irritability of temper. Low spirits, with a feeling of hr.r ing neglected some duty. Weariness, 2iz giness. gluttvering at tile Heart, DoIaS bo fore the eyes.

Yellow Skin. Headachs generally over the right eye, Heetlcssness withfitnil dreams, highly colored Urine, 17 THESE "WAimTNGa ARE UXTaZHSIlD, SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED. TUTT'8 FILLS wre especially adapted ach cases one dose effects sach cfaansa ml leeuns as to astonutii tne Bunerer. CONST1P.AT10M. Only with regalarity of the bowels can perfect neaxtn ne enjoyed ix corwiwuon is of recent date, a ainrfe doe of TUTT' 3 FILLS will anffire.

but if it baa become habliaal. ona pill ahonld be taken every night, gradually leoa ng the free nen cj of the dose uu til a repular Azi ly Pr. I. Guy Lewi, tnlton, Ark. says 1 After a practice of 85 years, I pronounce HIT'S piiXS the best anti buiioaa mecadiAe ever ap I have had Dyspepsisw Weak Stomach and Kervoaenees.

I never find uvy lnedicine to. do me po mnch good tut TUTT'iS PI 18. Theyexe as good represented. Office 35 iJfnrrny Street New York. TUTTS FATll DYE.

GaAT Hatb or Whihsers chaiAired to Gi ofrrr BIaACX by a singie appliciition c( this I) te. It uo. puts a Natural Color, sets lasttrbtanotreslr, nd 19 111 lUrmLBM prirvg water. 8ol4 by Uxvaciata, or Snt Dyaxvie on receipt oi Office 35 Murray New York. The Stomach Is Btrenctlkeqed, the liver reg alateL the bowela put in proper order, tne Dlooa ennenea ana pnxlned, ana tne nervons system rendered tranqail sod vicoroas by this inestimable family medicine and sat a nard scainst disease, which is moreover.

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