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BY DR. HORATIO W. NELSON,
. ACTHOR OF “LADY CLACDINE; OR, TIE DOCULE MARRIAGE”
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“And whither wil you go
“Pando me! T dannee ell ont Nor is it ;
necessary you shoald Koow? It is better, a
we are 1o meet o more, you shoald forget me : ‘
taid ia broken al with a fearfully
What do yon propoce to do”
“To sire YD everything to my father’s eredi- > \
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Leaving the party in the boat in chase of th
brigantine upon the Thames, we will now follow
After an anxious and rapid walk, during which
: he saw the glare, of the bluelighis, he arrived
about three in the moming at the door, to fed "
‘pea, and the servants gathered in the hall in
What meant his? What bas happened
. Where is Lady Ishel?” he asked, not knowing
\ what ee news he was to expect, and trembling
“Yoa will know where she will go! . Never de-
vert her!” Take de gold for ber use. When she
bas foand a retreat communicate it eecretly to me, .
For the present she must follow her own wishes, i
Bo futhfl to ber, and to mo fa informing me {
i where you go, and you sball be rewarded with the '
curred, and whero your lady is!” largest wedding portion ever @ GonsbeareFord :
Tt was dreadful mews my lord—I mean, sir Jas brought wo) her husband.” \
Viliess—and she couldn't bear it” ‘The maiden’s eyes sparkled, and a baht ‘eile
enone ‘drowning himselt2” oct ‘THE REVOLT OF EARL. CONYBEARE'S HOUSEHOLD. ae basic ber oath she made Captsin Vil-
“Drowned himself?” rej ‘ed Captain Const stood gaaing oman
eB aghast all bis Tears a ead Captain Con lady alt distraught! ‘As for me, I cate not IFT) while otters said he was not, ‘The tollkeeper| «I will go, Sir Villire There tsnot a servant] ris omy Basing rent tod wc wa tat
ever get mine, and If T do, YI give every fur~| could not say for certainty, as it was not his Jef in the place. ‘They every one got atthe plate| io speak with refaruing couscioumess he once
“HA little gitl came but a little while ago ana | thing int to my lady's hand, for, Heaven have pity | watch at that hour, and ho only got Htfrom ano-| and lped themselves to what they pleased for | oP opts ner tue ea ‘upon the lipe, and do- - cP
brought thonews. It was writ on this bit of pu | om He tet marhap comet fel the ned fi ther Bat yas the tollman' apresion that he | their wages and exaped, threatening to Kill me if| parted from the room. As be teaghed the etree, 44S
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moral 1," a by tho Hit of to Dal er ik lon, wth Boot in one Baad and |" Ha! any Tady—any vvoman been here to ia- ry ‘nt shuaa manifesting te devi in Tend wat eos or Gas eee gk ahead te 5
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ward into the hall among the half-dozen servants" “Yes—half aa hour or so ago. Sho seemed | medical man, ‘I kaow not what todo myset, She | Ch bet guide to London Bridge. be
who were dicaniag the eraals which bed tant | ka amasing distress daapbier, Delis ora mite?” | arms lamantbto fom cxtoment and igus Shs, 20 bad 0% proceeded many steps before oe
to mn mea | Pired, and their own chances for «Yaa child—e Hite sicl—with hee?” has a ealred more than dhe can bear.” which kad =, ny che note ,
. street, but which, little afterwards, Eva concluded | 0W8 in the general ruin of the noble be ou ‘tn “Tbethink me ras” ‘ono. Tara better!” she murmured sofly. | cotloped past him, But as he did not ee
f she would take that night, especially after having | Which they °y wore hirelings |, Which way aa ‘they go?” « stay with me, Sir Villiers! You are very good! | be tok no notice of him
witeessed such “Dan? wish se weg ant bythe aippers on Fatbiak, on atheist bike © they went back again j| Thal son bo well? Tam strongnow. The wort | yardshis own reidenes. ‘The memenger the next
felt no desire to ente m 3 ® | didn’t notice *em particular over.” i ‘ ext :
dg fae es oes “ae thou she eal rest o’ ye? It's dead I heara the masther is, an’ “ Stopd” murmured Sir Villiers, as bo turned me event verified her few moments zine “ey nina pacientes Ses ‘fe
to the house, hoping she might ‘| divil a hoporth left to crass a man’s chin wid, If] away for further and more intelligent information. | she sut ap. She honed a a at and leaning | which he bore to Bethe, and without e word
Piet to lay hee her a {t's the wages yoes be tallsin’ about, it’s my own itn wae now nearly day-break, following that event. oe her fait ‘a few seconds | mounted his horse, and at the speed he came ‘nith
P” said Captain Villiers, | Pm afther havin.” fal night in which the varied scenes of our story | in silence. vier et iy her ‘eae and held her | his reward in his eye) returaed in the direction of
after porting the note put did he drown him-| “Go!” cried Bettie. “Go away with you all, | have been enacted. It broke upon Captain Court- | hand. | Coneybeare-Ford, fo Yeport the ascomplitmest of
ae you heartless wretches! Yoa stare at ‘Tim, and| ney upon London Bridge; it broke upon lords] | Dearest Teabel, donot ake, this blow | yi ‘errand to the earl in B -
“The child says she “oma him,” continued | marvel at his unfeeling words, but yours are as Eelingtoo and Beresfor prisoners in {te bout of the | heavily!” iB pa te
Beitie, “and saw him jump of London Bridge 0 are your hearts. I despise every one | French police on the way di “Tcan not but mourn! and suck death 2” -
i that cannot shed a tear for the poor cal, and feel hase of the brigantine commanded “He may yet have Deo res CHAPTER :
“ iI for my lady t” Foy ; it broke upon the Earl of Conybeare stand-| . “No, ghee ol Lean ot bores Upon getting ‘THE BCOTCHMAN AND PAUL
“Lady Isabel took her's with den “But who's to pay ust" asked halt a dézen | ing with Lord Neaglo in the garden, beforo the | to the bridge how know not I heard the young} The morning that dawned upon the eventfix,
‘where ‘voices, oprecatory yet very ae a. dungeon of. the chateau, within which they had | girl’s one erie I saw whence he had taken | night which embraces the scenes recorded in the .
op tee a roe matron gone it to show| . “You must wait and sce. Perhaps the ens] ia| just concealed the plundered jewels, ‘nd fastone | the fatal apt T looked dowa-—down the far do- foregoing chapters, Tighted up the little tap-room Soe
er the place, She would go, Sir Villiers, . We | not drowned, or perhaps if he ‘evertng isn’t | up Hinchcliff, to face death in a horrid form; it | scent into the roaring and wild waters, as they | of the “Sack Inn ;” and the first rays of the sun . boo
eoulda’t keep her back, Don't be angry with us| lost’ . broke upon the old Frenchman Simon, brother of | rashed through the he arch Tt waa impesiblo Be | shining level along the river, fell upon the roagh 4
; Tam not angry with anybody,” ho answered, | . ““Oh—well, well,” mattered the porter . {he murdered Therese, in a cell at Newinto 5 it| honld have been face of a man within, fast asleep, stretched on one : f
with a groan of anguish. “How did Lady Isabel | “Oc, thia it’s wait w rill, and ” upon Robert Murray, the rioter, and suitor | _ “ Yet, dear ear Isabel itis is poser” of the wooden settles. ‘The door sot yet open od
nn : “Ita best not to be in a hurry, after all,” said on wat Rove, in the gaol of Conybeare; it broke | “Would he not thea have como to me! Tt is] o the street, though Botany Bay Panl, mine host, Sg
“On foot? tent the chambermaid. upon Wild Rowe herself, dawning through the | many houra since he took that fatal leap, aad if he | had the moment before, witha lazy and halesleepy me
“On fut ?? MLdon't care vowel you ate or not; now. Tf iow white cartain of the inn window, as io was | were alive he would be here-—for he loved me, Si ai, like one who had been up lateand Kad nat got
She’ ran as fast as she could, sr,” said William, | things are be one of you—will stay | dreaming of the handsome young constable who | Villie his full amount of sleep, just onbolied and . i
“gnd L called after her, and told her T would get aaa longer hers thea Teas help it, Lady Isabel | had #0 chivalrously taken het part when the roagh Thee inst wonts were spoken with the profound | opéned the ebutter on tho Waterside, through vet
all get a new set of servants, . She and my lord | bailiff's son, Robert, had so coarsely entreated her | est feeling. which came the firet mornin, . $
i hetsalive shall know all your unfeeling con- | mear the village fousitain the evening before. “It| Pray, dearest Imbel, where ave you been #0 “A las moray thie ater uc foggy ai :
“Poor Label! ‘This will kill her! What a| duct—that they shall. Go down to tho kitchea, | dawned that day upon all the airing scenes of ong have sought you everywhere, and have bem mecTing thie ier such ofogay night” woh os
cruel tet “What sulen and tere intelgeee| =r one of you. « I despise such lov, mean, hate- | London, which the sctting sun had interrupted, | suffered greatly hy your long abseace. And then ey oasiomers t Ica za log your cet
ten bya father's band, that he mediates sel | il people, tat bave no moro heart than T can | and whic, by the morning light ouce more were | to behold your retin in such a sate! What tne eae leat hight with the we to Jf
See, aad has beggaved his noble daughter! | hold in my thimble whea it is oa my Sger ”, | renewed, again to be suspended by sleep, and again | happened route up honest folk afer bara, coma chek a te to
"These reflctions pased momentarily through | Partly from policy, parily from shame, the do- | be resumed ; and so on with each tay revolution “ Nothing, but that in every dock ‘along the | morning, Wea reagea Fe should sleep oft
the mind of Sir Villiers Courtaey, while emotions | mestics slowly withdrew to their own precincts | of the eartb, till time shall be no longer. Verily | shore for a great ways I sought for my father's tip, man”
of mingled pity and indignation, filed his soul. !eaving Bettio alone in the ball. It was now al- | are the labors and decd of men of more value in | corpse. Mon mocked—men laughed! Tvvascalled | "Here Paul shook hima roughly by the ehoulder,
‘eceraining the direlion taken by Lady Isabel, | Most dawn of day. With tears in er eyed ehe | the eyes of Tnfnity, than thowe of the ants in their |erazed—and I fear Twas! Dut Tam now eslm!| for men in his las are not fumed or astey oF
he fllomed in aca which th pore bind Tor | Closed the front door, and returned to Lady Isabel's | underground cities! As the ain shone brightly | Dut our poor hearts are not mado to bear up un-
Wim aftr aber del. toon Heese Icokedatoun upoa tke atjeets | ono foro on that great ant-hill, London town, | broken under such a heavy allliction! How at
il como 619, Det, ad familiar to he Relonging to ber young and noble | Viliery slowly retrac 1 i
‘old wraed—thees | misiess—here a glove, there a bracelot—on the | falls esac for frther tidings of Lady Lael, | Tome? home! Alas T bave no hone more!”
toilet a vase of flowers, upon the stand her watch. tora her abode. He entertained a faint hope | She covered her face with her hands and then hot
ned my | She saw that she ad’ Iefe everything—even her | that dhe might have returnod thither afler having | tears. trickled dowa from. between her Siagera
Tord haa lost everything at cards, it’s an awfwy | PU, going out only with her bat and shaw. ved het! father’s euicide. He found no one to | across the back of her hands, "Villiers tenderly re-
gst” : “She will come back again,” ehe said, in that tase anoyed them, bri
tone of voice that implies a previous doubt of the “Your mistres?” he fllored. Ts she hero?” ‘ou have still a ome! All Thare ie your
ow asserted. “She will certainly come| _ “No, Sir Villiers! Have you aot found her?” wy nother shall mother, noble and
| back, if she finds that her father is drowned. But| “No—no! She must have—' isabel! Tt will be the bi hoprieet day of life to see you
bere the Words she uttered ‘Nothing here ienow mine’ | | Ob, don'tanyit--don't sy Chat te ba drowned yo presiding ion!”
Villiers had dropped upon the floor. <isheld ‘ae | as be Wenb ont mate me feel she may not come | hersel “Sir Villiers,” che said, ising her face and
‘sor more hold her head up!” nan, but leare everything here tothe law: TT know not what to say!” looking him steadily in his eyes, and speaking
“Ab, bat the captain will marry her. * I over | But will not. Iwill gather up everything, and | At this moment a female Sure seiled, and tot- | calmly but firmly ; “it may nover be. This hape
heard ‘all that to-night,” eid one of the maids | if she docs not come back, I will take tm my tering, came near the steps. Bettio, ater a mo- | pines is not for me! What am I this moment?
ey are real 1 he is rich aa Prince | uncle Will's, at the Conybeare Arms, and keep | ment’s scrati tiny at tho soiled 1 apparel xclaimed, | The child of a suicid ‘@ gamester driven to
them for her, if I ever behold her again. I would | with a shrick of joy, ru: t her— i
tres is foo proud to have im | have gone wih her to London Bridge if she Da “It is Lady Isabel: pon
now,” said’ Bat ung ber bead Shed not Bol got amay out of sightso soon. ‘Aeaven keep] Sir Vilier upon scing heralso recognized, but || «Isabel, this is bitter language to my devoted
zi ess to be ang man’s wife.” er from danger, and Let me ly my epee ‘upon het | with Aifficulty, in the distroased and soiled appenr- | love, though you mean it not, This is the oppor-
we,herself penn the,” said aa the porter, | ea ae again aiice ofthe fowale, the graceful form of Isabel He | tus y for my love to show its truth and strength.
Tosing suddenly his for aah now that tho| Bettie now proceeded to gather tho jewelry | was at her side in “a moment, and only in time to | Let not pride—” “Take a ay Sea a bair of the dog will
money wish sta ed it with the puree, and more elegeat articles of the | eupport her for no sooner did she perecive them | " “Itis not pride—oh, no! butdaty! ‘There is @ | care zo eyo blues!
Take that, idiot ee acatnined Bette, Sepping toilet, and the drawer which belonged to Lady Is-| near her than hor limbs gave way, and she aunk | stain upon my name! Let me not communicate es, a dog ha’ tit me, Paul; but a dog wi’
him smartly on the check, “This is no way to/ abel especially those things \ i i
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“Gone? Whither? Bettie, explain! You seem
to have your senses!” he cried to the young femme
de chambre. “Ia few words tell me what has oc-
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meanwhile the day da MTho ea arose, and | the marble steps and into the ball, closing the door | noble"mother despise met Would ot the world | meant fo kill met "Baca weateiare yaked me up.
as becomes neither Sir Villiars fumed, nor did any tidings | to bar out all intrusion and idle curiosity. ‘They | censure you for marrying th T found all ai ud acing it was long past mid-
added aloud, “if vel eet ‘ae wages, come of Lady conveyed her to her own room, and laid her pon a | Earl Conybeare! for that name will soon be infa~ night, T came
‘owed me now for the last quarter, and on erin Sir Villars = Courtney, upon Jeong i search of | sofa. Villiers's heart was full, and tearscame in | mous enough oa the dongue of scandal without | Yes; a8 a Jord—and hammered aay
° % don Bridge, his eyes as bee removed veil showed her counte- | other orl wa I tier rind ‘e Tet you in of boot you
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shot oye! pp fo tonight. Ta like to ‘ wets Loe, Indeed om bao‘ of the tll | nabee as pole as elsimter, and Tiaed with ths |" Lady Teint!” he sd pasionately, “1 cane am! fr oka %
ke oa, Sel monep peng abs p off the wane traces of the deep euffering the bad gone through, | not les ve you without the authority to protect | at Saran of the rack, and aaw more lefk th:
thang about your gai 1 the world is tine rihe sight into the Tiver, by some aan, but | Go-orealuer send forthe physician,” he exid | goat I kuow you have resolution, courage and | thet wre neater bette, and I believe
in trouble and woe, a deat va “he shoes, and my some said he picked up by a paaing Beal to Bettie, pride, and may bear up under this blow forawbile; have been asleep ever sinc:
