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4 Entered accordina to Aot of Congress, in the year 1890, by NORMAN L. MUNRO, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.
©. [Entered at the Post Oftce, New York, as Second Class Hatter)
i Vol. VIII.
1 ORHAN F st0,
Wand Wo Vandewaver St f
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 1, 1880.
No. 869
$9990 Pap annem oe Aoranes. |
A Miracle.
‘Smm sits there through the Jong,
sweet hours,
And sees the garden gayewith flow:
‘Aad white the yelio, athe ‘in
the sweetbrier on the
in her silver trent
‘ie aged woman wits a
And as she dreams, the years xo
bac
Like Wanderers o'er @ timesworn
track,
And he is with her who has been
So long the heavenly country in:
Ts with wears hin speak,
‘And feels is Lisves on ter cheek:
Sometimes adown the garden-wars.
They w: in the siinmer days
Of ong and long go they went,
And sive is full of love's content,
White, as of old, he smiles on her,
His eyes his heart's interpreter.
She smells the sweetbrier by the
Kate,
And dreatsthe summer night grows
‘enchanted land
They linger, Ul tho ‘moos White
hand
Uplitts in warning, and at this
He leaves her with a lover's kiss,
noisy mirth
apna earth:
east,
babs hy he
mother's heart to rest.
Be thinks no arier masts ewest
‘As that of little, busy feet,
Again the cide, at her kn
‘Thee ps ‘Over dreamil
I
nights
The years Ike nuns, their beads
And yet her children grow not old.
Qh, dreamer. liv
and
th
And sc he haunted many mes
For you—you have your youth agai.
_ » Treasures. _
A rape note—a tock of halr—
A flower with
ATittte locker lying there
Tu long-forgoiten nook,
‘Tele, all these
"To those w
Forme they brinen rolten dream
Of long, long years ago.
seen,
an
Ob, tle treasures, a
hi Hilist memories you rales
‘ YoU whiiper of what might have
‘You sing of long-past days.
0:
- || HILDA’S TWIN BABIES:
\ THE RUTLEDGE MYSTERY.
. / W. I. JAM
MES,
“Heller's Pupil
: iu 1 iImaker's Daughter;" “ Rosalie Tremaine;*
‘ Author off the Satine ee eee ety of Kilraese
é dor
. CHAPTER I. sg ftutledge, went aia {an aaticining, room, and
: RED, he no held in bisurmsa sleeping
7g A TERRIBLE D) 1° This face was pale, aud he was trembling:
“HARK! is aon a groan?” wil h exe
. <No—all is veil, Hush—listent” As he crossed the room towards the door lend:
ine scene wns inva root of one of those massive ine Soe rei tune doctor thresh rise betre
houses which avenue. The characters
were two men, One was named Lawrence Rut- |e cx, pane and yflect”
Ferg and wae abut thirty years old: “the otber| sea Nellected in no other
was Doctor Robert Dukin, a physician in good | Tinn at in after years
Peper Sy more—no more!
nN
en Listened. intently. Then the doctor oo
started from his chai wd commenced to ws
nervously up snd down
ool God!” h wexeainy
oF linging the doctor aside, be ‘rushed from the
“Ub.the whl hall saiza bo went aud enter:
‘and elegantly furuished room, the door
ot SuIneh stout open
a terrible slved is this W
. OU] wonait, girlish in appearance, fai:
\; in draws near par as see e ia if denaly pate, was sleepiiz on the bed,
4 . and her side were ao as
~ | utled ig sneered, ddoked thedetor straight standing by the bedsite.
. in ae ey ‘Rutledge approached the bed and looked ot the
“Draw out, if lease,” he said. But re- anne
I ember viet give you fhe cle Tee peardead oF | ny “ “Leave * ‘mo alone with her,” he said to the
| Eylier goon with this plot
q Sancta and socially.
Twill wae it."
sd the door,
withdraw and be ruin “She wentout ot the room and close:
a
th
Ru
eight "ee ty ‘iaving ae eventecn, Beconta
wit iacyey Rutledge, Lawrence Rut-
some would have been | jedgw’s brother, ths after the "ene
“Yer appearatten was reflued, | Harvey waited for Burene ‘on busin he shi
hive in which be sailed went down and ‘Vall the fen.
ow, ce called herself Mrs. Wil- fengery were supposed to be lost,
permanent nurse in| the rest. ,
tin house, ‘We pass over Hilda's anj hich was dee
. UX ginnes of communication passed betoween her | and terrible, for. she ine he her husband. truly
and Rutledge, and gen she eckoned to thedoctor | Lawrence Rutletge had been very kind to. mee
and was folluwed from the room by him, sad she trusted hita fully and believed iu bina im
ve wa alone ‘edge lost. much of his] plicith
he door opened and a woman enma in. | She
or a
‘sh was eniployed ‘as
i idl walked exe ively np and dewn the Lawrence un edge stood looking down upon
“| caine aif an bone Doctor Drain retarned. [vera ho slept, and wh looked, hoster
! otvtails vo the ground,” he anuounced. itNoone " ie nboy orgirl Thala
“Our Ps
“Rat whyt™ ay arm AIT ntante Took alike anit fe were
“She has given birth to. twin moto Ui features of these
Excellent! that is the bette or Aisti
” two sleey ing children | ¥
still, What are} have never ished in this darkened
room.
vin this house
Ltake the boy or girlot those
neither the doctor nor the nurse
this ehilt 1
knows whether
hold in my arnis to replace the o
that shall take ts boy or girl. ‘They shall find
ir”
P aint suiuinister the opiate.”
fatal.”
0
ed fn a for minutes, and as he
ere a boy and gir, th
is face, sai
they now sete it ie the boy or irl that has
is
@ same as now. shall
‘Then, by all that Ivalue holy, you. hall never be his wife.
jarvey among | we:
Cee SE
‘ ask
Vs tf ae Ay
ony
Tbs i
the interview with him which
we have just recorded, she was
joined land, who offered ber
alked on
mbt
to strike wie the iron was hot
he made id to propose
that very «
we aid "2, Ih thomostapprored
er would
nod
not exactly
what he ‘The proposal
Seemed to pain Laura,
eT love Roland, only as
a brother, said,’ Indeed,
i have always scemed as a
ther to me.”
«But you've never seemed tike
to me, 1 tell you, Laura,
fay darling, that 1 love you det
yotediy, and 1 al Fo dstyncted
ME you don't
Roland's tone was tragic, a
tone leas intererted would i
ved ridlculousy- but
eit her, slight experience wt
hom ure, believed every
ord he ‘uttered. She did not
Jove him, it is true, butshe loved
no one else better, and sh
pathized with ery deeply
“Give me until to morrow,”
she said.
“Lwill, And until that time,
my own love, I shall be
i
host ‘rremeaiabi \dinneter’
would bring upon
joing.
Laura seperated from Roland
erseif Ly 30
ihe house a nt into
Conservatory ro she eat
down to think it r
sho was certain, tins Roland,
ved hel ‘and was
ssionately,
Ieginming fo believe that ite see
terly regard she hind for cae as
toon was she to, iece'
took one of the infants and put in its place
the eat ho et i his a
ne,” he whispered, and hurries el back to
the room where he ad Tele the doctor waiting.
“Which child bare zo ou taken?” asked the doctor,
quickly,
TiStuse to say
Inthe ame at ‘Heaven, what is your object in
doing this fe hing?”
«That is my, ieee a Tel learry my secret
to theg © world will thi ebildren
upstats, ‘Meeping by Hilda's side, Liilda’s. twin
fen
“Af least tell mo who tho ebgngeling—the ebild
you substituted for Hi
“No! the wrot Tonga child shail a
and all, save me, the mysteriuua clangeling, and
ic you ro over tempted to disclose wint 1 have
how ean yo which of Hilda’s twin
i you this—
for the ey it ing than for Hilda's real child.”
‘The doctor 1e more effort
‘Tell me what you. are going to do’ with the
child you F hoa in Your arms,” bourged. “* Wha
fs to be its
“That, tons Tahal aiwaye keep lock ing ow
bean! No n ear ailever know
‘he one twin Labies
wel T hold mn my erm ich I now take
from his house ‘and its nother to return no
more
Farbidding the doctor to follow him, he left the
"A moment later the sound of wheels was heard
ant a earriage drove rapidly away.
_(iie Hilda skepé on, unconsclons of the fearful
¥y which bad been trate at her very
Tile, aad of the interipot who siumbered ther
CHAPTER IL
““Tpox't know about that, Uncle Lawrence, Of
my good, but you see
"Te: girl biuched and hesitated.
Jnimed the middl
ie fn think t quite love Roland.” :
{1 like tim, you know, aa a brother, Just ax
Hike you 8 ‘ , although you're ouly by
«Dut hele my fon, and consequently only your
cousin, ey brother, Nelson off on some wild
fa fmagine, is ‘moment. Now
ie here, Voural navon'tT always boca kd 89
"fore tt
mothers vane tes
You have heen my
Ind more thane falor” tS
Then you ought to know that what I propose
I believe to be fe pone oon. Do you love any
orn man than Roland?
sit—t prefer Roland to any man I know.
Bate isnot sich an affection as T should like to
You are mine, all mine, and none shall stand between us.”
the house, for I have some business with your
motor.”
* ‘
‘The two infants who were mipposed | Ly all peo-
Heexcept three =the doctor, the Hures and. Taw:
rence Tntledee— to be Hilda's twin. babies, trove
and pros Hilda named the girl Laura and
oy Nelso
Asti events of their infancy would not inter-
est auler, we have passed ove
tmedintely muoseeding. the nia
rence Rutledgesubstituted the mysterious ch
ling for Hitda’s child, and introduce Laura
Nes Ison as young gent thea and young lady.
rence, Rutledge, still trusted imp icitly by
Bilin who had no Fnowledge of the great wrong
that was perpetrated ow the sho oft ie Uirth of
her twin babies, vial been appoint andi
Laura and Nelso
Hie bad the management of all their. propert
and olso of Hilda's, wiio seldom. entered ‘into the
allest business transaction without consulting
him, and she invariably followed his advice to the
letter.
Taura and Nelson grow up together as brother
and Their characters and
tively aiesiniilary so much so thut ieawae often
marked ‘that it was astonishing. that a. brother
and should not have a siugie trait in com-
mon.
Aus Wilbur, the murse Heed with, the family, |
mm equal than as a
rence Rutledge
aura was Hi
frightfully angry, ‘ola h
her businers, aid sary
on wis
thelnuree never again recurred
Dr. Dakin was no wiser thn she, “ad altiough
be. knew that one of the tu ius w t Hilda's
Shad he couta mot for tho lite ch
was the true and which the false,
The only person in the world who could have
told was Lawrence Rutledge; and bey. for p
poses of his own, kept the secret carefully locked
in his own breast
oft for Hilde, sh believed both of the children
to be ber own, ‘and never dreamed that she was
at, her own child
teil er wteter Neko or
i. Bu became
of
suffering’ around the wo rid,
Laura aud Nelson ware now twenty years old
She sien: i he min necular
I Hilda th rty-eight, Sosa beanti i"
looking less than ber age by a good five years,
least,
Mrs.
Wilbur, the wurea, wey, ansible as
Philosopher and wily ns a serpent. Sie had en
gested i fully galing. Hide’s affectionn, that
mu
Taw renee Ritiaie, also now of miridie age, had
Rolan jook care should often
-a's society.
throw ich IN baure’
wns tom:
subject he
this chapter.
Mr. Rutledge had al
Treimuine, who was
wwas broaching to her
Bie waa very wealthy, and as we introd
wee her,
Seton
ates were enn | Sor RY
Once she hat To temerity le hh Lave. |
changelin
I] pai or ab tha wonton roaming Homeless aud | eu re
and, plunged Inte” the. leepest
depths of misery and despair!
Laura was aroused from her reverie by tho en:
trance of a ‘who came in hurriedly, followed
Nelson
“No, xclaimed
Nelsin, *Yous! Tipped a away in the | grove, wie
dou't go ot rid of me again until you at ly.
ot to sa:
Beegay ite “then,” said Claudia, folding ber arms
and nd looking a at bin sauell
ra was concealed fi y the branches
en Nelson's next
worry riveted ber to the spo
fe you, Clawtiat™ ne exclaimed.
you asset jy—I love you better than myrifes
ped down upon one Knee. ver
Cathie Warat from Claudia *
You leamted that at
the last piay yo I aaw together Tere’
very say hero fuowed to his 1
v aa sounded well 01
af
g
2
a
Hen and euilen, He was
is pride wos
ying. on her word, be rushed
ighed “Cinudin, “ How foolicht
the ach act sonnets, ‘when they're lave struck
Wer tmoney-atruck, asim not certain inter Une cre
with Nelson, for ‘he Knows Tha rich beirese. Bue
Si nice-iooking,
at else shi ‘woud have said, e carbon ait
aa, ae inaudible to Latira, for it
an
Latina went pte her
looking young and venti.
ful inspite f her eight ani thirty years, snt by
the open window, gazing abstractedly upon the
scenery outside,
rence. Rutledge had been speaking to ber,
nul the eubject of his conversation wus’ Ulu
ween his son and her daughter,
pails wens very litte acenxtomed to think for
self, Lawreiice Rutledge had maute inselt 99
Necemary to her that she invarinbly fallow bis
pe Judgment to dictate her ¢ q
et
v nN to
character they well kuew, aud who woul
to make her linppy.
lausible reasoning. as this, Hilt was
led to Ineligee. thes, Laure happiness be
sgeured by, ‘iving her‘ Roland a
Mr. exe fluence to
Unt it eure bo ‘any great objec!
stipulnted, “of course aiewill betree
Roland. ‘There must be no coercion,
jaughter too well for that.”
~ My dear Hilda, I don't wish you to command.
Only tell her your ese
_ Hikia promised to do thi. never snepecting the
re that was being set by Rut sr bad
innlly left the rooin when Laura enter
Hilde broached tie sulifect and bron an the
arguments #he-could think of
to it
Tiove my
‘upon
Itis ogee Ten not stay and Took pon | been taken? Then if my part in ‘this matter is feel forthe man Ini to marry. Sua Psiting at Hilda's coantry house, asalko were |anawered affectionately and dutiful but ke
hor face. “Mra. Wilbur will report wien all 16] ever dincovered, Isa all have Hilda at, my merey ee Psbaw! you tove bit already, and don't know | Mv. Ruth ant ‘allowed ur morning to consider I
\ and can make 1ce sho | it, loves yonto distraction, and you will Nelson waspaving marked attentions to Clandia, Mot ‘morning. Hillda and Lawrence Ravlnize
we ha bay ceased speaking when the nurse| earns that both tie twina that shall remain are! make him tue most miserable nf men if you refnse | and it was contlently whispered Uhet It seals ts waiting in the library to receive her answer,
uN not her own, sho will give ail she has iu the world ‘him, There he comes now, wth Chm and Ne Nek amaten, doubting what ie would be. Lauracarie it,
oune,” abe’ said, and disappeared. to know which is her obihd.” son, You had better join’ them win When Laura left Rutledge, at the conclusion of |Jooking as if sue bi sleepless
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