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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 18, by NORMAN L. MUNRO, tn the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. ©, (Fntered at the Post Optce, New Fork, ax Seoond Class Matter)
Vol. VIII.
{ NORMAN 1. MUNRO,
Wand 16 Vandewater St. f
NEW YORK, MAY 80, 1881.
$3.00 Pen axnuM Iv Apvaxce,
BU FOR SIX MONTHS,
$1.
} No. 899
In the Twilight.
Hane I watch the anset beauty,
pen doo:
Seated by the 0}
And my Died does wander back-
the © happy days of yore;
Gathering wild flowers in the mead-
Happy | inour childish way,
‘When the darkness gathered round
How Toved the little fairy,
can neve!
Beneath the daisies,
in yonder shady dell
Bowe me ies be
But it seems th
Others, too, havé
Dear ones that I
[As the angels do the fair.
But they lie beneath the daisies,
zephy
Where the
flowers
“ AndT
ow alone I
And all nature seemed so stil,
tage back
rs had passed
red in the wildwood,
At the closing of the day.
Iden beauty,
In that shining elfin elime,
ers, too, have crossed the river,
Gone beyond this world of care,
‘Sy
love ‘to wander thither,
At the gentle twilight hours,
wander onward
in to leosen,
joatman plies the oar,
Ishall gladly cross the river,
For they'll meet me on the shore.
ty
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‘a
I in) iD it
a iz
i Nyt anes
r tell;
loved and cher-
the
The Bride of the Tomb;
R,
-LANCELOT DARLING'S BETROTHED.
Liy lay perfectly still, but quite sleepless for
more t Span two hours, Dating that ne she heard
roan
orninan sink the chain,
rand mi
She roso and ooo a
trap-door, and gazed dewn into the gloomy pit
Atl was blackness and darkness, but the
ing sounds
below.
before,
prinding stair.
the stairs i
At the
that she
rth
Elamal rosin its walls festooned with cobwebs, its
took up
_Eresently she stood at the foot of
further end was wow
could scarcely
Yaneed and tried the! tee ere yielded her touch
By Mrs. Alex. MeVeigh Miller.
Digncled lips, 1) Has he married yor
forbid.” ejaculated her’ vis
strong mig shiver of disgust, 1 ant a poo
accom] by
At len {oh thei
more. frequents eho "determined
Je poor suifering creature,
carpet, slid, back the
has'stolen me away
his. wife. I wi
cried passionate!
“You do not
beside her.
“No, I “hate him! But who are your”
her
never, never
Y
love him,” said the
avoxo more distinctly than
1¢ lamp in her hand,
the mind it was ‘vient Eull barued cle
ge-way. wrecked fra
‘Tam Fanny Colville,
and bitter tone
inp. Lily” ad-
wie posible "cried Lily, w
ie found herself in an empt “Tea on toler
he is trying to force into a marriage wit
He from my. ieiendy and dp
keeping me pocked up ere until I consesit fo be
e
Tam’ Havok Cole
ried to him four years
roman, shuddering ag the name writhed over. her
‘tor’ with a
F girl whom
do so!” shi
poor frame
asked Lily,
the poor creature whose
arly in her
was the answer in a low | les
jaw ful
ago.’
ent start,
cold flooring! formed of solid stone. “My nd w weed of may” said poor Fanny,
Asahe looked about by the dim light. of the | her dork eves burning lik couls He stole mie
Jamp she 6a another door, and resolutely advan: |a rom my friends, lady, but 1 went
ing’ she caught the knob and suring it opens [ willingly: becavse T Towed hitnyts, Lloved him
Rother instant and she had stepped. across the | thent “Ife married me and Thid away the corti
|eate e good minister’ gavi We traveled
threshold and stood in the
It was an empty, cobwel
its Shae irae consisting
Stone. loo
in all her speculation
prisoner Lily had not imagined abt a areadfal and left me,
a ty. :
A long avy iron 3
fastened to this staples “Ab en Opponite end it was | [tifleate the minister ‘tad given me.
mg leathern belt w ie
Je presence of the mystery. e
bed room like the frst, | for a year oF 30, anid Lived rey haps
ofa narrow cot-bed. | wearied of me and br her
88 driven into he {our marriage ceremany
chain wa:
rund about the | fool, I kne
it ne ful Jength on | up ‘the paper f
soon moran tor De,
the mysterious and bi raved an pyore at me, then
fe ir
to mie, and Two
e of the
iy. Then be
He fold
‘wo had
asa farce_—that
| not been lawfully married—be demand the car
lw
ie
Tittle child that
I kept it hidden away
went
ed the Leverets to kill me aed
ihe reality. Th ore! Jay © the poo 1@ | the child also when ryt hour should a: .
, its tat ny ‘day eame—my child roa. health
Knees its claw-ike ands int SUE ete boy. They took yy from me and said that It
The limbs presented the appeara vith | died. 1 ‘knew they had killed it. , But. they were
Parchment like skin d drawn tightly over them. it merciful enough to kill me, They drove me
Maseosot long, bs chair, tangled and unkempt, Imad with their cruelty, I became a. raving, dane
or thi con and fierce, dark cbained me
strayed 0}
eyes, sunken ab
erous maniac for awhile, and they
1 ftom. their hollow dog.
Here I have remained
lown here, like a
oxen sunk oe shriveled simply to skiniand bong, [nearly towo years, fed un a scanty supply of bread
the checks fallen i, the temples hollow, the purpié| and water. ” You hat they give me for a
lips dra om the glistening teeth. | week's subsistence,” said she, pointing to a halt.
Tl is drendil creature stopped its ron “erie | enten Joaf of bread and a jug of water, both upon
at Lily’ "ce, and crouching intoa frightened | the floo
fed out sabmissively Lily Tooke nd shuddered.
AMV usb, X will bush! Do not beat me 3 Doce y ‘Your husband ever come to see you?” she
saint
oe Poor ereature, I will not harm you,” answered Xo, no; he Ehinks me dend—he paid old Peter
Leveret to murder me, ‘at theyare slow ly starv-
Lily gently.
@ stood
the
lamp in her shan
her lovely face and
ture, turned suddenty
fate voice amit h
sion of avre in
“Are youan an
soul; Lama wrong
“No,
prisoner Hike yourse
other on
Lily came forw
nde
toot ot the bed, an set her iam on ‘tine floor,
“Of whom are
“Of Harold Col
ng of his victims?” queried the living
neki
ivi
her grea We}
elt the asked abraptiy.
ft, hallo readtul deos have been comm
X sappy | Look down into tine pits tay
ed and unhappy | len pointed toa trapdoor venr the
self”
Lilypushied ib aside and looked d
She cloved it ied]
t of the pit.
on Tee jothing,” she sai rat,
une itis Hight, ead F ni
mu speaking?” she. should come whe
ille, ¥o be sure,” suid. the poor | see horrible, grinulng Melons thes.
seit on the
me a long
breath pain-
itted he
center of the room, hi olaing the | ing me to death instead of thrusting ® knife into
ne hand Pislighagteaming my heart, And Ia ig, it takes
hair, ‘The poor crear | while to die? :
Sethe tound of her com: |” She paused & moment, catching her
looked at her wit ‘an ex" fully, then continu
com
ight hand has been lifted often,
iron staple.
down, but saw
t and folding her | only thick darkness, while a 9 nojsome smell rushed
them sometimes, They are the only companions j to see!
= Te
fae i G wy
The passionate cry was heard by the quartette, Lily, with her wild, white ‘ace, stood before them in the doorway.
poor Fanny Colville again. Long betore
tail
Thave,” she cetoanced the fairs abe could Hear the sound
s_ Poor Fanny, T wish you could eronpe out of Jot the ¥ nas the poor woman, tossed
this horrible plage, | Would you like to do so? atlessly on her pain, Her wild eyes
“Ohi! go much,” said the fiving, skeleton, elasp- hte slndly at the ‘young giri’s entrance.
ing her bony hunds: "have dear friends ar! thought 1 said
from here whom I love so pathetically.
Know nothing of my whereabouts, "How gladiy|"""T darex not come earlier,” Lily answered,
they would welcome mo back.” relating the cause of her detention,
y case is the same,” said Lily, mournfully. | Old Haides isa flond,” said Fanny, briefly and
I have tried to escape, but was near Josing iy | comprehensively.
life through falling inte the clutelies of the U Phin e been tevolving fn my mind a plan of
hound they Keep here. am going to try | escape for us both,” said Lily, proceeding to de-
again, Fanny, and I will try to help you out of tail at to her eager listener,
your ie
imploring
speak, sel
than two years until til you came
replied Li
jee will tise
ve heart—1 will come agi
row sn if nothing happer
piss,” said
night,
STimust 0, mow,”
afraid old
Keep up a brav
appier for your comin;
to-morrow nigh
solituso. once sore
beaming star, bad pene
an d into Fann;
She ve gl fe’ to her fee
She ay aa HL night, thinking feverishly of} Of course there is,” answ ope She was outaide of that shorrbl pristn veut Fade
ing bright air-castles of the slight hint of escape | {8lly. “Tho plan youspoke ors quite "feasts as locked in, and could not purse her, old Peter
au wth neown out. e P®! for you. Put it into operation ax soon at ors infor several Hourh. Sine had thet
jily, too, tossed on a feverish bed which bio.” t feel almost asst of your success, Then Stach tine ein ‘advance of them. Only a few mil
gentle fe stuigher'n refused to visit with its’ benign in-| #8000 8 you have tod your story to a lay her and ber loved home. Surely,
Fronce beer heween oak indignati 1 ile her father, tall pia mine also, and entreat surely with the start sh had I, she could, aistanes
heart a t against Harold Colville and rete, | 7nd oat Tite aealice out here to arrest the her cheng and reneh the n of rest for which
Mak Bh neetbod how bie a the wet “Certainly, I could do that,” said Lily, brighten-]" Sie ran on and on, her brain reeling, her heart
of whieh her would-be suitor was capable, the ing, that wuld bo ihe better plan after abi—but | beating glmost t0 suffocation, the perspiration
Wickedness of Haidee and Peter appeared more | 0H Lea to leave you here alone, poor | running dow acs in streams,
dreadful than before,’ No. wonder iit oo found | SU), in your wretchedness.” Who can tell webat| Shee exhaustion ‘aused her to slacken
her tossing on a
of pail
racked ed by a a nervous hel
went,
ind seht Dostor Prats joetent who prescribed a
sedative and eft her sleeping heavily and pro-
ly.
xi.
Late in the evening she awoke, feeling
her long sleep. ’ Her
‘as quite gone, and Hailes found her. sitting
ye cal
and refreshed by
ne
i like.
ly. “Ta
tight, now,
and I shali
row
The > rounegte tod c up her Jamp and went away, |
ne in her dreadful
trated ts, gloomy dune
y Colville
0 the next mornis
ard she
re
Meade
pe ch ms here
the unfortunate, crea
ture, seizing Lyte Hand and Kissing it, 1
expect you
lacerated heart.
Colville came tO.
ill,
ested.
che
But Fanny sighed and looked down af her
skeleton limbs and the heavy chain,
1d do for you, but not for me,
veak, ‘It is along way from here
‘We have no money—we should have
to walk several miles to your father’s house, You
see I know the distance came bere in in daylight
Teauld tell you the way to wasted
Tinbs would hot carry me @ nile. T shuld only
fall by the say, and ‘@ hinderance to you.”
Lily sighed ‘as ber clear-headed companion
ius ronsated the dificuities in theit was,
“Thad forgotten your exceeding weakness in
the ardor of iny hopes,” said she.
Besides,” continued Fanny, «look
nothing witly which to cut th
ir cannot get away from
” she
3
am
Cau I, then, do nothing to help you, my poor
ereaturel cried Lily, in reat dis ods 3 she nave
how futile was the plan sl io had pr
eon,
may happen ere relief can reach you? Perb:
{his slow starvation may finish its dreadful work
anon.
ing,
er fear,” was the hopeful reply. I have
subsinted' like fais fon two long years,et I feel
the flame of lite all brightly burning in
wasted fran hink ou, I cannot endure
a few more ini Sentient t'when yau have
given me such nt”
Her eyes were brightly burning in her was
|tace, atid her parched lips tried: to. smile. She
Fook ber yuisitor’s ttle white
bony
inthe armechair when sh ith supper, her own members and looked at it
‘Sho drank'a cup of ten ate n few rmouthtal of in fond advaisaton,
food, (and declared herself much be “You are a beautiful girl” she said. “ Ah,
Haidee, however, brought in her ki ting and pers| would you believe that | was Once ® pretty girl,
tinacionsly sat out the gvening wither’ witha ma that Tam young ‘till but hte eldey has
intention, ‘no doubt, of listening for sounds from
their effect on her captive.
no groans, broke the stiliness.
at baad dawned | 5
below and marking
But no son
Fanny Colville, in the ne
upon her, had Fetrained «
gnderies that
She w:
Visitor oft of the night bef
ail day from
hope th:
tive since the night she had incarcerated Lily im
her new lodging.
to the dungeon except through tl
this room,
now
her waite or tha
er ot of her power.
‘Ile, You | room, telling her york
‘Y¥pu would | Nero loose in the
T look at a alioet wsldnigt
luded that “the captive. had
ae
relief at the last thought that she lott, Lily's} to
that old tena confidence,
In fact there w: yas no entrance
‘Haideo had she iher'a woods rations |
bade her to abstain | ali the while that she ran a great risk ih rem At jas little hon
rae for her, she | ing, Yet stint Gswilling to leave. the unhappy wo- | house, wetanlings apart f om ‘he “others ie
obeyed | mah who showed such pitiful pleasure in seeing | pe fn and sar an wudenly woman sitting at
lath bad at last, renored /once more the friendly face of a human being, |the open door sewing on a Coarse garment,
with @ fecling, of | But she was forced toe at Teva having listened | singing ithly at her task, “She opened tho g
of Fanny's life, and exchanged a like | and.
it before Lily ventu
sunlly g! her “aes waite
as impatiently \aiting for the returwef her
ore. 9 were y
Hades bad not visited the poor chained, cop. | black ha
perhaps, for
tron and
turely.
T am only twenty, though | a
‘starvation have made mie prema-
stonishment sho felt, for in-
face, the curves and lines
of Hesh stricken out of it ty ‘the sharp pangs of
starvation, had indeed no m
ss of
‘whether:
thick for those of age, bu
strenkes silver threads,
Hadotd ‘earvile 3 wretch ed victim retained now no
r in | trace of either youth or beauty.
Lily remained with her several hours, feoling
not see you again, Fanny,” she
said,
rea [tor 1 may nuke’ the attempt tomorrow: I
hand caressingly | but
be sev
fore.
loor 8
ceived
The 0
fone
tly
Sue
deat ti
betore
shin
time,
old Pe
tired
eral hours | before
way to the city.”
“Bit down and stay with mo,
am afraid Tf
strangely.”
Ten, fifteen minutes elapsed, then the patient
said, faintly:
“ Haidee, for the lore of Han
glass of wine! Perh
fdeering nd and Vgaiieation ce cmy hen
ain
removed the
the lock. As she paused to remov
i
and despair on realizing her situation.
Ing dhdok'and taut beneath “the Tepid pica:pat
ber smal, stppered feet pa Pas
her pao, an Tooke behind er atthe Tonely strate
ot road over which her
he rapid rate with which she
On and on she went through the bistering sun-
these ering things. She
glad refrai ‘ich
great physical weakters on nd
. It seemed to her at last that bours had passet /
ince sho had set. forth on. her rurney, carefully.
felomn tome ivectons Fanny Colville had given
he houses and Jo 2 Rand nearer
tore ether. She w a reing we great
errand to Doctor Pratt
must bs made in the di
in
ly if I succeed
Hn'eseaping, 1 shall vo ho time in
having you liberated, and your guilty
captors brought to Puinhshayent.”
| jay God Relp you.” said the
prisoner, fervently. «Twill pray for
your sucess.”
And with a sigh ised th
jooked Hoinaly er the
@ form as it glided a
be waiting for her there.
Foom was vacant of all iat
presen
r, broken by many fitful
land sang Troubled dreams,
| She awakened only when the summer
laun was shining high in the heavens,
| Hatdee was waiting w ith her breakfast,
| and seemed even more petulant than
me to me you require more
|sleep than anyone I
ly. After sleeping ‘i \ day
| yesterday, you cannot even get
for your Breakfast this morn
ing
esterday,” retorted
bu
gl mored
am feeling ill and
weary this morning. This warm wea-
ther “and close coufinement begin
|tell on my beaith sole. Pesliaps 1
| m pe y through the wel-
| quick reply.
| Vear much more vn 7a bare had to
stand yet, my fine
She went out and “aid not return
until noon, Her prisoner lay dressed
Dea with Hushed and) burning,
peck and, strangely anna eyes.
moment, ‘The suffering aspect of the
captive reassured her. Sue was evi-
{dently i.
} pal will for Doctor
tt,” said che, enw jing the room in
[ieee but not foe vo lock the
“Thave resent old © for the doc:
tor," said she, returning: but it may
9 returns, It is a long
then, Haidee, I
hen’ I feel so
wine! may relies the wd
wrung open—but at iat instade
f dexteroug push that sent,
ier, into, ther hall Sinramed a
and ran why Jown the
ter door was fastened, but the key wa
hear the old woman's iriensied. shriek
wy iron gate, and ran wildly down the
country road, the afternoon sui» beating
down oti her unprotected head, the dust tye
CHAPTER XIL
was free! that bappy thought
ras free, she v
me in Lily’s hi
swinging
* dehausted natu
Fo could ‘mot hola “ous at
had begm
Her
bead ached, the hi
matter—s!
was free, That was the
her bounding heart kept
happy sve could not realize her
to wi
‘She was
She began to be atraid the the onl moet
ter Leveret return is home after his
of water?” said she gently, ©
‘it ‘on Yee'me come in and rest, and have 7
"e
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