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A A A Romance of Canada, “
jhe
NORMAS L. sUSHO,
wand Vandermeer sf
Vol. VIII. {
NEW YORK, MAY 2, 1881:
Butea aevording to At of Congres inthe year 11, by BORMAN Te MUNRO. nthe oflee of he Lirartan of Congres, at Washtnoton, D. Gatco the Post Ofte, New York Second Cass Mater
43200 Pan axwow mt Aneance, |
$1.30 ror six woxTHs,
No. 898
‘Vera.
Wary hair of chestont hue,
1e8—80 laughing, 160,
Bich cherry ips, possrsed by few
And shell-like ears, so bea
das v ‘vera.
[hope that this set
Farmore tian
Tam sure should most aby be
wih Vers
irl may be
‘As immortal as 8
Oh, beauty exqui
ooh Soneht sn divnes
e love that still thrills
Tig ome bene Pea cea.
‘storm hurries by;
le-star of hope,
eof
‘There are vires of ‘as
in the lives that we live:
od 8
AS tne depart
Bus the toe of all low
is my mother's for me,
BY T. W. HANSHEW.
Author of “ Marco, the Street-Singer;” “ For Mother's Sake; “ The H
otNo Man's Wifes" Strangers to the Graves" ©The Li
Witness,” Etc., Ete,
| A suurny summer day. ‘Thesky inthe wast Waa | and A
fluslied with rose and purple; an amber mist
like a veil over, the land, as though the radiant
h showered impalpable gold-dust, and the sun
ofn-sky, and. the ony
be an orr.inous scowl plastered
it, from its very, base. up to the rows of
stick up from the mor-
‘they dumably eter det
on their fair, Theautlful faces,
hey
trast) The The elder, Novella Melrose,
Tostrous eyes, shaded by heavy. silken
olive coven ‘and great,
rown hair, Her
ber junior, perfect type o ote
Her’ or compat gees
‘ink and whites b her
wells of viol
rays that fall upon her,
nd bears on her eal ‘ul
most childish noceee
ois a something i Vera St
that tellsane, child . sh he i
her a wo
"Two letors Iny upon tho gas
so letters penned by aiffesent bens, at
link between those han
The buulaing which this uninviting wall eae
i rounds is just as scowling and severe as the , wavy tr
itself.
tuceoed front seems to bear the stamp of
tern dignity and inn umaculate virtue w
aleaf, not a flower dec! @ square court “yard
fr om “the abighly: polished brazen lions that a,
tall ir
elike gre
| very petites
u
e
he,
1 tho" form of an slophants
head, and hich vines over a heavy steel
in the center of the dingy doo
The hota 1 rises Niorethe others pear, in a series
om moinents Vera sa
she
¥ feel the unconitortable way in which
\d are doing their very best
tosave themselves trons “toppling down bebind
that mysterious wall, above which, strange 10 SY,
one can see the tops of trees, far” enough away,
after that, will-you?”
sum
is religiouely'closed during the: wonthe of: Jul
igus
fp goes down lower and lower in the weet:
Innes of Fed and £0) Parry agai
¢ both very lovely, but in singular con-| him,
° . is but eighteen | «Op,
arsof age; sh ne sis tall and symmetrical, with ‘dark, his wife on ‘October,
Jashves, at | awn i
esses of dark
companion, who is two years
beautiful blonde,
elicate mingling |
tee bine, her bar ine Hight as ‘the sun- | Yi
cap it all 9
with her eyes cast
looked up sieny and said:
Le
ried? 1 suppose: 308 aufully nice. Specs, thats conte up to Toron!
the stories end. but it does seem so | met
T suppose you won't wear short dresses tt Nel and Care mar
he is
aiainal Other as Long. as we live, Oh
john’s face | would only remain!
suffering would make
nthem—|. The
id yet the | each other dearly.
nds these child-women never
| sober, like some people,
I like to langh sometimes,
anl—ob, Vella! {€ Neil should die, and you open &
icra, ‘and looking out over the long garden,
“ e's awfully dull and dry.as-dust here, and if
amma cam Instead of ae week,
shouidne t be soney to 0, 1
(Say, Vella,” witha muded brighten.
don’t things hi in real life just
asny dg in otorien! Woe papa a'a widower so
wer never wjunrrel like the ether girs, But"—
with 9 sigh" these things never happen when
you want now manne will never
evo nee
That must be jolly” Vera asserted,
merry twinkle in ber OF course you love
vette don't your”
course!” Novella replied, “fam to
‘on know, Then we all a
, wail_never. ne ver
again” responded Vera, her eyes. dimming at the
R Oh, Vella, L wish we could only: be
together always! One more reek and vacation
Will be, here, and then”—with a in
Volto we shall never besehool gitis again, bat
9 out into the world, and, maybe, never see each
“hate ‘this
slay’ hore forever: sf you
lace, but I cou
A sob stirred her bosom and Sho let her head
iroop until it rested on Novella’s shoulder.
rospect was not a happy one, for they loved
Novelia smoothed back the waves of ganiy ae
m taco, and kissed her ten
her if she wen
hou and spend the
‘the Woodlands wit ie a
mn tay
brightened up at
the whole year.”
ect | 01
MIRIAM HURRIED FORWARD AND SANK ON HER KNEES BEFORE HIM, “‘OH, WALTER, BE MERCIFUL,” SHE MOANED.
St.John, your bi
awry and your aye are red,
ir aiid garments are shockin;
Son wilt une.
Haig ‘had chy itt, tho two girls de-
nded to the supper-table.
The mical over, Site, read a chapter from the
Bible to them, allowed them to study until. nine
lock, aud then dismissed her Pupils from the
Seeing them accompanied to their dormi-
es by her chief assistant,
The fe lanips were put out and darkness and allence
room,
ries
Jia oliill whispers
‘Madelon!”
Well, what is it?" replied @ voice from the
ero0M,
‘would be no fear of dntrasion trom
sits, ¢. Stephanie, orany ofber “eats,” aa they had
ai
“tee ‘sue, cold light of the moon came quiver-
‘in through the diamond panes of the windows
pet
silver across the dingy
The young ladies arose and dressed themselves,
and then gathered In knot around si Mtadclon, who
road window, shuffling the cards’ in
fysterious way that seat a thrall of awe. to. the
hearts of everyone.
Vella’ fist shes thoelda.
and Madelon
window-ledge.
Cut them into nine piles,” she'said, softly
Novella compli, while the others drew near
liste ened breathlessly for the first w
‘Madelon took a card from each rile fand spread
them out.
“: You're in Jove with a dark man who loves you
passionately in return,” she whispered, ani
Einpped her hands soy. “A light woman will
ere will be a thread of
mystery ‘woven into your life, but you will, hava
many friends. You “will be rich to the end of
your days and love the dark man until you
Now make a wish and choose a card.”
A chorus of oh, bow nica!” greeted thisdecree,
Vera,
laced the. cards upon the. broad
nd
id
die,
Vera} 5)
Madelon took-up the cards and
spread them out.
“You. will lov:
and
e dar
‘a durk woman,” she
said. Thode ie trouble and suffering
tty form, with bosom full, upon every card. A dark shadow
any ely hands, a8 sort ae oot wil fall over your life and—oh, good,
gracious, Veet here is blood, a prison,
and trouble—
trouble all'the way
through!”
‘A chorus of “ greeted this,
Ohsf”
and Vera, pale and trembling, wade &
wish and’ drew
card,
Sixteen summers Madelon tered, little ory and
Bure ae se has rose,
Of puri Lea eee ose, extending the ace of clubs!
A Mother's Love. ra littl, impatient ory
— and dashed the cards upon the fl
“The mean, “spiteful Shing!” | ‘she
id Frcished ould,
sai harp!
always be Novels
cause her any
“But yeu il Pa will—the cards
say sor” chorus ialf a dozen voices.
A fig for rds!” Vera said,
snappisbly, believe a thing
the: Madelon
str nnd and uover
the cai
“Tdon't
: 8 re
ingrmon itt er Bink’ ribbon, the day sester-
raided allver and gold; ‘a8 Vi Jon Chevoux,
is.as young as the morn, 5
a iesbeauty ‘voted ou're just as mea as mean can be,
ah as tho violet
‘That's just kissing the sky, youll only take all the bad luck back
“Fthe. girls had, by this
turned to their separate a
Vora spoke, Madelon lifted her
head and replied sleepil
just the same. I had
nothing to do with it.
that spoke through the cards, Vee.”
Vera's li
write, cold mae Galling softly
ee Vera,” Novella
‘stall Jor | eae ypu The ‘ma shook be head.
t, yet, i'm not
con md rested her forehead
seals the diamond. panes of
"Te ight rvept, silently by, and
waking day found her the
yandow wan her face white and
said, sad
ever tell the ‘rath ”
quivered as she
"and ber voice
CHAPTER IT.
7. boarding'school, don’t ever be such an old fogy as| stand that you are expected torectify these things |,
Granny Dupont will you?” SY | before'you appeut at te table to st ven ‘your mother i ere, and Nell, t0,
eau I u u as . Novella promised, in a somewhat serious wa) The two girls ‘drew sup from their 6 “me 8 to the Woodlands, Do burr
. that shoukl sucha. calumity:ax- Vern suggested | cosey, LtGie nook “and moved slowly toward the may and bathe your ex es; they loo
ever overtake her, she would run her establish- | house, atully ve and ewan Lunch will be ready at
ment ‘on a totally different play from the one] |“ Thate that old cat” Vera saidspitefully, when | OP, Ne and w jour after.”
adupted in ‘Mite. Stephanie. bey were, eee nd iile.'s hearing, and Novella's |, Vera turned awa nd said 801
A STORY OF CANADA. Vera utared lito sigh of relief at this, n- ove thing about wishing she could diet fr the mene
Ory of the ace of clubs had not quite f
You will understand there has been a biatus,
and the week of waiting bas gone
Vera bathed her eves, adjusted pled
dress and wen the stairs beside Novella,
“DoT took “it rene Vella!” she said, as they
hed the lower landing. woulda’t have
I mean, Mr. Gresham, (or amust call bin
introduced.) seg
. thy mama isa widow: now if this was & novel:| reigned suprame over the “a 4 that nate, we are going to be 2 be Introd r cent) neg
. they'd meet and get married and you and I wot hen the foots! assist cease: Tei ne
CHAPTER I. of the term to take his or her charge home sje bertisters wouldht wel Think we were meant | to echo upon the topeot tiara bs Vera raised ied eater both he great, aarkward ay gone
THE DECREE OF THE CARDS. religiously’ close i? isters, use we are always together and | her little, golden head from her pillow and called your husband, an
t_she was looking her
best, pushed open the door of the recention-room,
gad then, forget the lady-like conduct
Mile. Stephanie ba
her Bat feross ‘ber ‘omething
ig Vera
mt to my compan:
king up, saw 0 dark d, darks
haired, hundeome fellow” of vane ‘staring
dlirectly at
She
red extravagantly, and Neil Gresharn
the comers of iis dark mustache twit ching with
* smile, inclined his head and put forth fe band
9 touch that of the fairy litle creature
mali and blue ribk
Not flush rose to the girl's cheek as their
ands im et anda a strange somethin; mo she could
aed define ray ber’ whole being, whil
resham grew ghastl ner 9
werk 8 bhi ly pale and neither “spoke 4
wr one brief moment they till,
as thoagh .o spell held them, a ne one 0 ‘the en,
‘on her way tou sang ‘softly ag
the “aco thee
ain are your locks, good Roderick Gray,
‘ot bolt nor bar kee ove awa *
bend your head to its
ay,
ong uttered something they had
re startled at finding, they
A Beautiful Outcast,” commences this week,
hv pa, other exd ott the iy
ne spiked summit of the wall, Mt in drummin,
wrt dow with a slepy bine vehi “the gaat ‘ea rot the re er rea Howall, iver | Vig chess Ts ho folly and all of fan, | “Wella and fare going’to leave tin a week; can't) Mls: Stephanie ae ine sarin de ene whe
ald spires and stuccoed of Quebec—a city | § tio among Cie Jung | OF he always sad and quied like mammat” ret tell o our fo tarts for th in time” Caught sight of hee mother alle beard ee eee
of the past; a city ages eri ages behind the fash- oud ines two ook “ladies have quietly taken Novel Ha toyed with her father’s letter and look- Yes, "eat s. ¢ whispers | with a whoop that would have made a red Indian
jon, vv, ‘Of course, is the axle upon which wie up their station, far away from all their compan- irom the bess, ‘d'Nridelon waa forced to turn green with envy, and threw herself into her
revolves) and today i in the red-gold glory |i),5 who rove over the rolling stretch of grass, or i is always 8 quiet ” she *reptied softly, “Do ssene » while Noveila hurried to Neil and allowed
oC tte anti sum, quaint old Quebec is Tike & pie play at battledore with no sound to accompany | you know, Ver heard him laugh in all] | Madelon Chevoux was a French girl, the seape-| iim to kiss her darkly-beautiful forehead.
ture touched with living color’ and torn from the | Fredy ‘spore save the thud of the shi watle cock as ie | my, is, Prim—she's our housekeeper, | 87868 of tie School, and looked pon Py. rer Allie. Stephanie, who sat by the window, uttered
Volume of the days gone past; the days forgotten strikes upon tho parchment, for Mile, Stephanie You know says to hasnt smiled ico manna companions as something ‘not far short of a] 4 Bute, despairing “Oh?” and arose with her lips
lend? mealiows mofiing quiveso vulgar aslagating ied: That was when ittle bit of a chil tin ht line and her eyes fastened
‘Tho hum of lif rises from the b busy streets the | Dupont talking to pass Gute to vulgar ag laughing Shi.wont on a visit to New York and died there,| Se bad managed tosmuggle in a p' ards | Yoru ine Nglatice that said as plainly as 80 ea
tramp of footsteps echoes an: the | gr youd taking to pass over the wall of, precincts, | and ‘was old enough, papa sent, mie here, | and two oF three absorbingly into resting novels:| words: Zhis after all mt .
tall, gray, gloomy wall, but no Hight of ‘the world hese young ladies are under her care, she will teil) and ier nave been ever since. a only see him mew all the officers stationed at Quebec, and ‘Irs. St. John drew the little nile to her
beyond greets those whom this frowning barrier | yoy, and At is her duty to return them to their once every summer, when he comes up from the on the most desperate flirtations right | bosom, kissed her, put her atideang thee te a .
shins out from the glitter and vainrglorious show bom 2 and not hoydew jei meon'my return home, He never Under Mile. Stephanie's Nery nose; was the cham: ionate sob, caught Novella in her
of the unknown sphere withor ut The Isto reall spothin Saye ‘more, than «da lay and then he goes back | pion of her school-mates: told fortunes, broke the issed her a dozen times, with a wild,
ewan vat, ooned with ivy | mame whe gic taken ye en 2 aE | again, and I have to wait until vacation before 1 Tules twenty times a day and wasan heiress in ber t furious intensity, while ie. Biephanie,
mes tered wie ich, those | Juno roses seem to have no.eyes forthe Sslen| seals im once 1 more. Ande witha fush of erin Seats from her bed, donned a loose wrap- | Sef Sime cae
Intho fair green countsy-lands, On the cot | Vlemsures of tele schoolmates, and it does not
Sof greenmarsits gray surface, | Pleasures of their nates, = wat Foca all to ourselves. and slid the bott of the door into its socket 80] ""yirs. Se. John put She girl from ber and das
Pr
w
and wi Grow back sun jet their hands drop,
pon the point of ‘nakinga reply, when the oh ‘aly eo I the flush ow
however, to prevent anyone usin, them as Novella "shook her head and smik jue ap and Novella, smiling ever her good fortune, drew | the li a
nigans of reaching the ou ne world. © ‘Married, ladies never dot” she sid, im a some- ite iskly and Mlle, Stepba nie. stepped card, \ ae redder the man trembled, and the flus
sound comes forth from this gloomy old -dramatic was he sunlit place. You will get your wish,” Madelon said ou} A pau: ni sham,
building, but. yet within its walla are Sonfined no wa sighed a hitele and looked “ Young. jadioa” she sai. with a singutar. rasp-| wil yong foreign lands ae bo Ghee tovevers® toavold ea 4 Neil Gresham, eager
Ness Ugh tx bundred young: indies whose ages | “And, You, won't. be Vel Moone any: more, |ing tone, “the sipper bell has sonndea futy ‘ten " Novella stepped buck, and Vera, hopeful o€ her| Sy to meet Miss St, John, I have
. range from ten to twen 8, confined is tho [but Mrs, Noil Gresham, a respectal ie “married / minutes ago. | Ob Mh e me by retiring to the house} own fortune, because Novella’s bad been so bright, | heard so tnuch of ber trout Miss ‘Melrose that I
* for, beyond their duly rambles Moma Volla’—atter is phuso—wh-do they | without delay. don't approve of uch scence ay| etepped forward and eut she cards, feel as though I hal known her always,”
‘ den sit i iby that gloomy old walks nat one doce aimays put eapectable before tarred mjamat|th, Youre boch to lave me in awonk und f] “And ag though the shadow af fate’ tecrible do-| Good gracious Neil Novella broke fn, “You
hanie Dupont allow to quit the pension sefully prin and sedate,” Tdon'e think | wish you to oboy ay all orders with auriet decorum as | ere fur ahis bright stl bent ie being was | never called me Miss Melrose that ts,”
ae ane guadian cosas ad the peat [Tahal ever misery, L mover could Be a i] tong as you remain in this establishment, Miss| ulready felt, a dead hush fell upon t 2
with'a blush, "since wo have been engaged.”