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r DAVIS « ELVERSON,}8. W. Cor, FIGHT $3.00 PER af, r ‘
VOL. Y. Publisherae 7} Sand LOCUST bie FERMS,( IN ADVANCE, NO. 46.
A LEGEND OF $1, DENNIS. tng through the hall nto the kitehen, he felt
about dark fora candle, finding one
x s BY FH, STAUFFER, on the mantel, as he bad expected to, bis .
i aunt being a methodical old woman, priding
j Where the altar rose dim, with no thought of f opor Shaving pl e for every thi
and everything in its ”
Upon the cold stones she knell ¢ lit the candle bar ralked Lightly P
{ Her voice was low, and her face was aglow, stairs to his room, undressing for
4 ‘With the worshipfulness she felt, murvly and complacently as or ‘tari ily. ve
ne Sife of siv and depravit had ‘hardened ‘him
. . rm she saw—she trembled wit pare, become
Ander the priestly palms.
4 Higr heart wasaticed by the words she heard,
id er face grew white as the dead!
al “Nover this stole can mask my soul
rol” Whieh beats but, O Agnes, !
. No sotema rite shail drop its dark night
Between my belov'’d one and me!”
.
- t ' Ina rain of tears, in a tremor of fears,
She uplsted het snowy hands,
Janson Churck returned to his bed to
H wed red and the bright flush sleep far iuto the already breakiog day.
Far! under the braided bands!
CHAPTER IL.
Agroanand a sigh, a heart-weary ry
A memory that could not forget But Sleepy Davy did not run far. He
‘The lamps burnt low, 8c: ce brights the glow stopped under a clump of trees, on the ope
{ Of lips that passlonutely m met i
ft
‘he eve wore ames and thei boron face
in glare;
| tt” Whore was Van Leest,
t nd where was nun Agnes, the fair?
os.
T
{Entered according to Ac. of Congress, In oe ‘ .
year 1868, by Davis & Elverson, in the Gales ot “MERCY ON ME! If IT AINT FATINA, THE PHANTOM OF THE MINE! at ip! T didn’t
i: the Cleric of the District Couit of the United face, but kuow him agin dy, iat
ot Sylvania jd OF the Faster District of Ve Looking at him ‘as he stood there in he Coming toa sluwn of trees amid which a} will haunt me less. s\ tend find thep'T not wee coiled ting on his finger.
a dim fight, daintily attired, his fee neither | Jo ow ro sentTed, be ted is know 9 es fet on that. Toapect
NA TE ED: finshed nor pall Tcarcumvented yin’ off dumb. I
e FATINA THE DEFORMED; that the guilt of murder rested on his sou g. no eep-vuiced dog seed him put that thing inio the bucket and
my oR, “‘T must have i nothing of, smation e deed to me ope my ugly work is | lower it down ; and I wasn't so far off as I
* to himself, almoscself-flatteringly. ‘ Not ee bt the ‘crouching, creeping Ja a fone now.’? didn’t kno! asa girl, nor so ‘sleepy’
spot of blood Chu Janson Church stood still for a second, | neither, as Tcouldn’s guess who it were, for
. THE PHANTOM OF THE MINE I to pa P itte dingy window to the east was | looking down into the gaping throat of the | nobody’ has sick hair but Elt Margery.
- Conscience? only breast high. “He softly raised the sash cate ‘and feeling. for once some twinges of | | Was so Kilt? She didn’t stir, What
breath and peered tn. onscience. He shook hi wiped the | did he put ber Suto the pit for? She didn’t
By F. H, STAUFFER, only man I evei moonlight was resting upon El¢ Mar. {iron rust ei i wit Mshaiduereey luarm im, nor nobody else, 1 kao it
dom hus been cheaply purchased “ gory’ ‘3 pinched fsco—that is, upon as much siniled, aeardoniealty. then took two strides | is fire- damp down there, whe! i be ead ioe
AUTHOR oF He looked athis wateh, otteced it, and re-| of it as was visibie through the Jong, wiry, | forwar nd himselr face to face Sou B Jor in’, Margery alters ikea me, and
ad a - fwrned it to hi¢ pocket with horrid compo- | je-black coils of hair nestling around it. witness ny tie secon crime er. She would of to me in the
the ie of oe Grane Ba er hands were somewhat talon-like, but | ‘The intruder was a stont, powertully buiit | gloamin’, or waken ne wre oY slep in the
ir of Elmivood
sure
a Ts mldny fnt—the hourin vig Bhosts the fingers were finely 19)
Cromer Burnet :? ‘an
the arms | boy of Minetero—-David Pauleon. by bame, \ Erase, wi der ches Mienen noe teay- snes rin
. \ Sk -piliow we ad,t} bese saore famntiia vy. } erent sa ¢ the Yafrfes i the dell
Ci of the Mit The feetor aes moore’ “he mits oF | Rul soalpeorscute: jSie itt how heres Ho wartonticsed’ a Mostoon wok Papen | kaa ‘ef ier, at midnight, She never called
. Abernthney °*" < Only @ ot “ono crime followed 80 ‘ter ing, as was | as simple-minded, bu greatdeal | me Sleepy Davy. It was ailers Master
7» Bille While,”” ete: ete, * closely apo: the hoc anor ‘and Tswene | ee wont Poor, Tieatected “hing? ‘She tad more shrewd, Taotherly w wit than fhe world. Davy, or honest Davy Pauls no. She must
2 . . it goes rie sho never | no snowy white gown to wear, no loved one | gave him credit for, and ho was.atrue, Kind: | be got out of thn¢ hole at ouce, I xint the
” ~ fanned ‘me. Tt is not my vi dictiveness er a fond good night. { hearted follow besides fo leavo her there, aud know it; it
- YOM APTER 1. tnit makes me eraed the necessity for Pebation, adi ser, had Bi hea ths 2 was a sort of ebore-boy inthe neighbor- | would trouble mo mightily. But howam T
safety, Rising up from hie dead body, 1] face, porsed the ey hood, and was generatiy liked for his iuoftoa. 1 can’t pull her up, though
‘I feel ike a fend)’ Not on account of saw BIC Margery standing opposite to the, ty wien sive ways and his willingnessto oblige. Was Tli ran over to Philip Au-
the deed I haye just committed, but nu joking into my face, sue on one side and I ae was ‘sound asteep, torgetting that food | there a letter to post, the stage to be stopped, know what to do—and he'll
count of the apathy wit it} on the other, I thought she was a ghost !| had not passed her ups that day—that her | the doctor to be brought, or somebody wanted
zrthe scarcely perceptible snanner in which | T felt chilled, and yet the sweat stood upon | god-father lind beaten her brota tally—that she | to go go there, or to do this ordo| "Sleepy Davy s 1D & brisk trot,
it affects me, My nerves are not i me in drops, tid geen one man murder another in cold | that—who was as batdy and as ready to go, | grasping bis felt ‘hat tently in_his bands,
Ido not glance unea: “in God's name, Janson Church, what | blood upon the or or do the same, as*SI avy tHe was | panting with epea mouth, and leaping he
I have an appetite, nd 1 Know thae T shall have you done ! she asker Janson Chac ‘hed her, the sweet pic- | rather quick m Ins movements, his patrony- | rocks a1 ay.
sleep soundly ! “She knew me, though T.wore a crape-| ture bringing tometbiag of kindliness into | mic having come from the drowsy mammer in the Aubrey” mansion, wae the
“What business had he to taunt me with | mask. [ saw my danger. my frenzy | lus face, which was at once swept away by | which he peered at you from under his shaggy | ominons growl of the house-dog by a simply
that nowlatge,¢ to follow me from place to | struck at her with my ienifo.” She nvorted | the memory of the erraud upon winch he bad | brows, oken wor a beat loudly against the
place, to hold my fair fame and name und der | the thrast and fled, feet ns the wind. " The | come. Janson Church felt eafo from recognition | door with his: ‘lncled nd. A window in
his thom, to cross any path i fe fook out his handxerchiof, emptied the | because 1 asked ai reely know! was raised, fund’ voice
moor, and alone ? i. vial of chloratorm upon it, and reaching in, | to the lad. dl:
e as much at re the saturated rag to the cluid's nostrils | | ** Thedevil's imps areall abrond toenight 1" | (f Who is there 2”
Wet monet them find out who did it, it Next he thrust in biy omer arm and dragged | he mattered, nnder his breath. "How “Me,” replied Dav;
they ean, | Tshall not tel them.» out ber senseless form. She seemed but as | did this feliow see? . Ho looks like» dumb Who is there 7" was aske ed again
he speaker close-knit, short-set 8 feather fm hls stron ag Bras one at best, 'T mast sound him” Then dis-| "Sleepy Davy Pauison, sit, Don't yon
man of about twenty-eight years, thoug! au He bove her to his horse, which he untied quickly, barshiy:] know my votee? Philp ‘tabres, vr God's
his deep-set eyes and frowning brow * Ugh | the thought of her glaring, terror- | and mounted. He mule every movement sake come down at onco | 8 been @
titae ium seem at least adecadoof years sicko _o7e9 and abrill piping voice makes | with -dehberate precision, letsuraly ridtog ng, murder done !"” °
older. an aml she | away, leaving the clearing to his right. “ What 1s your name ?”” he window was closed, and in a litle
His face was an intellectual one, but its : Ina dark, abrupt bend iu the road he again | _* Sleepy Davy, if it please you, sir. Were | while Philip Aubrey stood under the door of
‘expression was sinister, the pose of bis Hips i
gainst | tied his horse, and agai appiying the drug | you goin’ down the shalt? 1 wa ide" t, if] the porch, light im hand. He was a tall,
hard and cra a : “
nt the gleam in his ey to the git'o nostri, he struck: up a qarew they do say as there's money the: muscular, tinety-formed man, in the prime
restless and ‘atatrusttan His attfre wa ber with Lim up| © Going down the shaft? You" re a fool, | ot life, with a high, white forehead, with
elegant, so mach $0 as to verge ittto-foppish mbored, a wicked, ‘Iseernmied boy. row eyes that glowed with kindness, wil
boss, while his movements were those of a ¥
; hank you, if you Plenwo, sn,” giving | an honest east of countenance which at the
man who fee’ n the high opinion he ag the suinrnit brought | his sandy vopluot a tag “ they | first glance made one almost say : ‘Iw
entertains. for bi is name was Jan. him to the ian “of the deserted tmuo. "A |allers eails me, "Do you ‘now wiav's dows | rast my bonor—my. life—everything—in
gon Chnrch, and be was a lawyer by profes. rootless hut or two, piles of surfa es, | there? (lowering his voico to @ whisper) | that man's hands.”
sion, practicing in th ee | rotten derrick with the gags yet dangling | Witches !_ Yes, siree—witcles, witches / Pye | What is it?" asked Mr. Aubrey, Sxing
On the night in aunestion he stood within laced ‘bis hands to tus row thought: | to lt, a shattered boiler, the debris of an eu | gee "em." Sleepy Davy’s heated aud
one of the upper rooms of a house belonging | fully for a few moments, then a hight broke “ What brought you here 2” asked Janson
to him, a few miles out of the city. He was | over his ‘ace, ‘and he talked to hiniself iu a
Church, more fiercely than before, ry" in the pit, sir 1
an ‘Wninarried mav, but as he allowed an | whisper. Wel—I dunno, I was over the hill she fall in?”
elderly aunt of his to occupy the house rent | He fastened on his cutis, ted his eravat, after Dostor Cams_-boiavas how Me Hor I said as how it was a
ee, he occasionally made it his temporary | and pat on his vest and From a side fh pa te her down the shat
homey especialy ‘te bagi g his addresses | pocket im. the utter he deow ont a smal nis to have it orfull. I
0 prot y Asheott, wh h vial, half filled with a colorless tiquid. eas how y
pang. ite suit x Hc “This is chlor iy eis in the web." te
hearted to give him an abrupt dismissal shed—the Elf's cottage is close by—the 0: I Janson boy's face $
‘The room made m i mfort, | aliai® of tho old mine is dark and deep !| not quite so oiandvned ae that t, na judg: | more closely than ever and asked : a
and was a fair index to the general dilapita- | That's disposing of ber in an Epitome || ing frow this night's experience, when you got here?” :
ted condition of t se. hats a ornibie pun, 100 born horrible T have known Tae en aint © Doin’ 1 just come. | been dream Ae
was warped and uncarpote imtenti to long-chave stopped to iat | rere standin” tite thutterin yourhand’ehiet Whieb 0 i
low and dingy, unplastered and checkered jor Iangh, more like a hideous cliucklo, ighway—bave takev heron over the bate, t wou't bring the witches | I dunno, Muster Aubrey; I mayn’t be strong- ‘ A,
with heavy timbers; the windows, two in| broke from his lips. He put S caried nov a few mosst- No, minded, but this know, that if you'll bring ‘
number and small in size, were a bis poeket again, and threw thebloody. water Ashvott for me, performing her {er sia tin one of your witches had you | ont the Blessed Book, I'll lay my hands on 7
ebwebs and half-urtains of soiled nankeen | in the basin among some dust in the ereaky errands promptly, and keeping her own coun: | on her | Leave here atonce. Forward, i and swear by it, dudar the moonlight, to .
nold cupboard was built in one side of | cupboart, He took up the newspaper upon | sel. usiness had she to be ‘peekin* | ma: rd I've said.”
the wall, and the door of it was ajar, swing- | which he had deposited his cuffs and cravat, | about ‘niee ho wan't wants 1 to came | AS. “Janson Chureh spoke he advanced, and ‘pup Aubrey could not gainsay the lad’s
ing on one hinge, In the opposite wall was | and wrapped it around the bottle, down the | upon me ugly work ? | pointed his boy, who, with acry | earnestness ; he felt assured in his own mind
a false fireplace, on the dingy mantel of | sides of which the tallow had melted. pro. | Ihave it now; 1 Tether downta ke bucket } and a frightened took, took to hie heels. that the story wan Se, His brow clouded,
which stood a broken pitcher and a few dusty | fusoly : then went down a flight of | and seni vie chain after her. He laughed at the log’s mudden flight, and | and be said to binaelt
porter bottles. stairs, and entered the room usually aliotted | Heliited the mseusibleform into the bucket, | feeling secure in his disguise, leisurely re- |“ ‘Why should anybody seek to. harm Ef
erammmaad tallow candle, Centon gueea ‘the | to Litn, Ta shape and. structure st was as | which he drow over the edge, gradualiy low: | traced his steps. He supposed that Sleepy She's so quaint, 80 quiet, so
ment. comfortless as the ut was better and | ering it with the windlas, Phe chain ereaked | Davy had not seen the crime he bad attemp- Ione Matter her etysy style. I thought mo
Janson tensively furnished. ‘There was no | startlingly in the night air, aud he cast his| ted, and had been too much frightened: to | everybody liked her t
from his hands in a cupboard nor dingy fire-place—the floor was | eyes uneasily around him. re-visit that locality for weeks. Then be said aloud to Sleopy Day “
small, clerkly, effeminate hands, ern carpeted and the walls lng with pictures. mit he was niasked, and a clond obseured | When he came to where his horsewastied, | ‘It wasn’t old Welsh, her god-taiher, was
0 small for’ his rook: erchivf out of a drawer, aud | the moon, Bats flitted to aud fro, owls | he loosened him, mounted him, and roe of ite?
with a coiled-serpent stl tanto bis poe jooted, seraggy bushes crouched, ‘and tall breaking into abr trot when he om Xo
diamond on oi ward Janson Church | trees threw their dusky arms upward. At/| the hig excitement of hie might “ Did you kaow the man?”
Tinen eufts, with was riding aiong an i ‘broken rond, over a | last he heard a faint thag—the Ducket bad | adventure lraving worn away, he. fell Never a bit, He was veiled."
tons, were lying stretch of clearing. ‘moon ad rigon ; | touched the bottom, three hundred feet be- and almost congratulated, hime Phi lip Aubrey could no! mile,
dirty ledge of whieh he had fi e had a ‘awe “the rape pent i face, | Jo ly wher me in view of his thought the matter be; look i
oY ‘A rich sik neck-tie anda pair | and rode along 0 wi 3 ot, Sj _ a to suspicious, — | /
newspaper. pair | an g Iwisurely, not wishing to Tean't cut at scala down on her, | Ts] residence, Did bi attack you?”
of sviled kid gloves were lying beside the attract any attention to Smacle by the clat- | must weigh a ton, almost! It would crush | After stabling his horse he tried the front | ‘1fe drew a pistol on me and ordered me
uss. of boo! to atoms, Let oe starve to death, She | door of the house, and found it open. Pass-
away, aud I went. He had a kind of coax-
a