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. VOL. XXVIIL ROBERT BONNER, {SNb gravest, «=©6 SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1872 TERMS. te iorsen”- NO, 14. =
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DO YOUR BEST. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONORESS, IX THE YEAR 1672, RY ROMERT BONNER, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIRRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WARITXOTOX, six hours from this time; possibly sooner than
atu Duns. ,
that. No skillean save him.”
‘Do whatever ‘And the daughter? Se will live, but ina
atever good yo aT 7 TF aie
Show you are no ‘eeoveling mans
ce tect ree a et
; : state of 6 jocy—i
aM hist fa try | ana t Her skull is inary aud the is enfforing .
ad 0 Sor aud fear ko bak ‘ ‘ ‘rom. congestion of ty the ee 285 Dut in time ehe sho
ably will, regain complete col
‘K for sue
. Eiforew dueioe ai i through 4 f Tee Ne SEO ay rey
' ‘With o ful auece a ra : Li alibi ah in Ape ab vi AS Blake, simon ‘2 hens Ihe
. § el my Yh eee ing eyes fixed firmly upon of the mi .
oot tment ety st d oo the rae tempting. eal een ghanzed .
Now color, but he on OW LC head reply,
Work for virtue ba ai tae The seats of the rattlesnake:
seemed to dwell a Those Tayless eyes, and
af AM around ave forves grand cool as Dr. ually Sw felt as if
ACES a ‘Your hand, speltbound ue ‘them,
bo
2 yout mnderstand
“Aud now 2 re ay eplin te five ny
he
ree
not trempilog in the wa!
Save work on wile is day
bor more tla
Do. est
Let the carping ones deride,”
‘Saud font oer by virtua, fi
And His caro it shall
‘Do your best!
—
en may sneer, oat et ghem trowns
ior lives al
Hflvsteive for hone erowa—
Do ___Deyour vest!
“Tt will be i enongh of accomplishment
Mrs. Blake, provided. Hester ean, siccessfally
of her sister,” said Macon, after
. "THE RIVAI RIVAL SIST SISTERS.
UY,
"THE “WHITE,
ETO.
?
Sn oruents’ thonght. yey are a yey
ter woman, I must say, bt
toring on. tered ‘ground, and Methe i ‘impos
rected, we should all three fare
rad
aie would 1 not be even suspected as long as
We are true to each “other,” she said, a litte
Inpatently. “The chitdiood of Heater was
passed on the plantation, and al! the people
there are as familiar, to ollec petto ion as te
that of her sister. Este elle. re spe vnearly
the whole of her life in hn her
aunt and the friende of her faniily iu the
South are, not likely to tities detw
i it lacked ex he two no
wae an occasional metalle H whieh = S ates” ‘aia the “part ass
a re, 7 7 fe
pe have atforciod s key to NT ot} POCTOR MACON’S FIRST VISIT TO RS. BLAKE AND DAUGHTER AFTER THE RAILROAD CASUALTY. ri} have no donbt inyself on that score, Mra
As Dr, Macon drew near the eottnge, he sav |
tho Tish of the lamp shining from the open
windows, and heard Hester singing to her
- mother. She ‘waa a brilliant performer on the
piano, and h nid clear
on
. at cen too nntgh under Ber sway to detect if.
oeincon soft ws cloned the fet and moved
ay Prove more than a match for him, in spite of | checks and panting breath, ‘The geeret they | the interests of her ae rere, to. bo! # bs
om all he can do.” had thought so sate was bis, and the first Mrs. Blake had jira es Mt ee,
is boli By thie timo Macon was To the room, and | questions that occurred to thom were, what / enon; . of daughter, and expressed hin sat
3 at he cet obtalu aviow onthe M a her cumbent ‘posi- | uso w roll id he mnie Of it, aud how Jar did his | honor or conseionee oul ‘stand tn fete ‘way | he had resisted her eutreaties to accompany:
shterior. Ae . Blake lay: upon s sofa with her tion, looking’ thay haa ever seen tes es of e i is there not a anger
ade but, She ste
hi
arm thrown pw: rd, to her eyes from uit sony oer ‘accepted the chall lenge he had her daughter, if anything was to. ined | deed, that they may come hither the
the Tighe of the lamp} and Heater, in her rose. t gven .p, Doctor; | thrown oad she presently spoke "as | to the lattor in the ebaructer of his aftanced | Hear of the acciteu tay. dove thiog
bred Fibbons, sat ae the but L felt certain ‘hat you would be here coolly $a] he bad do She wasa worn who thought quick- | You popes’ will be im nplish.’
th sof th ing was over. My at Hf Thad consented to become your wife, |]y and acted promptly; and while that little | “Yes, if they comes ine "torr wl "hoe de
ef ght whieh, fle Wiled awa iv tho time with mins Be et that Tam the ahuehiorol seene was enacting between the two young thats Nave ke rb ny ell informed of
tered hrough the lamp s ade of ground glass pe ot fo few enjoyments of my lifer it people, shi, had 7am idly revolved tan everything concern ‘the ‘Landry Tamily.
fell upon | her brilliant fice and graceful form | bee nervous to-uiglits but as Davi Mea childs a os | fo hr end hie and A know thas sr herve, we can do what .
‘imo; Let at aufiee | daualitor, aint conceived ania of ett ray, is an,invalid, conned ‘
10 looked i med Saul, she has 8 ace to is da
ee vat this tlovable creatite should not spied her skilifal 1 neo pe fone our position. It is portuy of her subtle baie aud imbittered almost constantly to her sofa, ai railro:
in to me that Ishalt know joumey would be al
ing fc
asi
She mnotjoned him fo. seat on the sofa, and
“Suildenie sho arose, and turning to her after taking it he glanced curiously from | wha mht 7
mgther, asked ater to danghter, and sa and Tam rea ny aoa nt} the Sexier langhter
leop, mother? Tam so restless | "™"'You ‘seem ve ‘of the old Hobrew | to-night, if i eas tan SSLam not likely tastand in the way of Hes- | and atte
that Lean play no'lopger. I hope, You have | narratives, Mira. Bl Fagen Whatdo Sou think of Macon adinired aud appreciated the self-| ter’s aggrandizement, Sys, Blake, Make clear | she would hot be aye tod
had piusie enous ne evenin: the story of Hagar? By the way, I believe | possession that ed ber in sneh amo- | tome the thought tat is in your mind: and | the twocand se cau. be arranged. 80 that a
Blake indolent lomoved treearm, and | {2 mone he recognized ine something Kindrod | fet hor make ie eqtally, clear to me that, as meting a II not soon take place.”
with’ a strange glitt ‘ter in herfathomiess black She ra rived hier *s ves to his with a defiantex- | to hinse self, a ‘and he | took, her hand aud pressed the | basi and of her ch ce, Ta share the} “But how is that separation to b
exe, replied pression, and it tenderly, ag be you, Teter tor hitd Twill go with lished, madam Sr. Murray pill naturals
“Play, al march, Hester, for| Pee "ay namo ie Hagar, and T was named | “Your have the somaue of a heroine, Hester, Four heartand havd, “How absorbing and | Jy expect her nieee to return after her
pomertulis the assion with whieh Hl i
spire think T have seovel i
_ dion, after weighing her words a moment,
wh
somethin, ng. ‘tell A me meth at the honr I have 80 after the mother of that’ man whose. hand for you thee not. inched ‘from speaking ths
Jong yearned for approaches. I believe that | wag raised against that of every other 1 pain ful as it must hav
1 have a famiiar apieit that qbisrers, tome | Rave thought 0 great deal about the fate of | Whaet have learn ed toda takes to
oceasi foreshadowing which is | namesake, and I thi ae she could hardly gee ia my, feclings t x
goon to, ote to pass. The n with whom | have evad decree t rly as over, ‘and. Twiethe
J associated when ‘ehind had mi many supersti- | into the ono ‘had narersy non awe madone ‘you with fortune oF net, you will
tions, and in spite of my education, I am not | her, and He "rent His angel to minister to her eal be te) en bein in the x orld that_my
entirely free fcom them; Tbeliore that I shall | and Her oon in their dive extremity: th
good canse to sing a song of tri- | Bef,
vel
proved tomight. ‘You may
er io every posite manver if you will o only
prove tome that I may placo equal trst i
‘Sits, Blake exchanged a rapid glance with
ompanion of my lite. “Tt Mer peas whieh
rhe could Foply, Hester Yanporionsly | not novessary for you gong gon ‘Fone father to: ast make hitn ours at all hazards, or
mph as 3 Debora ‘had, whien she rejoiced VET | gai night, for he will be under the inttuence of an wall turn against is
the doom of Sise: This is no time to disenss the Ishmaelite— | opiate. In the morning his mind will Be clear, *SFrcon had again taken {be hand of Hester Murray by the @ morning mail, stating to her
Tester feuy' Teplied, as she rosnméd her that can come afterward, if it je absolutely ne- | and he wit then set ettle wat i J to be eons for | in his own. and. Mrs. Blake pressed her own | tab his infari on that his
seat at the piano and struck into a brilliant | cessary.. ‘Tell me about the pe hat wore | you, T came dither & 1” my s long and. tudor ges ‘over them a¢ she ime daughter, t pong ‘etunnied and "bruised, is in .
march wonnded by that railroad accia coany | again asie you to become my wifes” ressivel attendance npon him, an jt is hie w ah that
“L think yon would have little cause to! of them ki led t F a little whil y mother ne’ had partially withdrawn Wee hand from Takis action the bond between you, and | she will not, troub! a bernelt to nd mt .
rejoice if snch a fate overtook mon pire | feared that a friend we are expecting was on .. In spite of of the earnest and disintereste ed I pled word, my son, that within afew | to him. A Simic mist. be. se .
before 2 my ‘Claims upon him are definitely | the train, “bi inckily @ letter came that set meng he thu r her, mnt} Heater, shall become your wife, if you | to Mra, Mary 3) meer, stepecion, the fay
ng of an
(0 vit
th
ail your ‘Toubis: Asie, physica
Me Landry, you Thust send a note to Sirs.
er 3 Tepul om Sa ‘her ‘art’ thatesbe | ait accomplish that to which I that I am sure
Macon distinetly heard the words of both, | "Noone was killed ; about trent nty persons | contd n rol ut when she looked into | elear isons ” wel a
ond be smiled as be thonghit how. Tieonselous | wong bruseed an serateheds awd there way & Rineyenthere wi man expression which | | “And 1? iid Heater, with her softest amile, Tredntereated in iar wal diag tog a at rest,
eakers Ww rere 0 ‘the hold he had pained few broken limbs. But trout the Pasrengers told hor that her, "ntoe was at his mercy, | “give you the assurance tbat in that time. it and uo one will come here té interfere with
ver fhe ‘ow hours ete dangeronely hurts one of the ere would be no ay for her if | will Tearn to love, xouaa you denerre. My CS
Singing to en om n the, tidings ict 8 other “But she is ant a greased the and pee offered, nehed by what bus But i" Landry must, die, and then hi
would Gontiem her Desmonitiony | oR eae {rom conenoston of the bran Sty sl mag fo Vill gaia time,” she thou se, went | Beat forniglt, and 1 feel that Thave not hithe frie inquire into the deception prac
£ 1] he had but, one alternative to o! our | pyri ring her ‘through, but it will bea hard strag- | ‘fool Tin & ta the ‘top of his vent, and thas see | erto done justice to the strength and purity of Teed ‘upon them as to his condition, and pro
and as iny wife, or Nagrave to your an nother. ale, 0 will come ont user in the desperate | yonr affection for me ably. Miscover aL”
Nght paged: throgeh. his minds aod he always exaggerate tho] game wa are plavingy x fend confidinely upon his Kes diag and if be aid not all
alge FS thought pagsed through his mind, and he ange, tam to you tay havo greater credit tor ote Jeid the hand. she had taken from him bei Ng her ii
¢ tat -~ stool quite Stilp toying to regain perfect self- | the eure,” said Hester lightly. “I a wn, and its touch thniled through proximity ‘fo hisown that li
? 1 i Po he made his presence known. | forthe poor man. Dil you fi findout is overs nerve; she looked up into ita fa ith tha an ica | fem. Hers ret turned the Pressure,
: - Hie panties ed the window, and | a, iat of lh ia exe an ae = and eal vse ia elevated into a heaven of bliss by this | Vi
- told me his name, anc oun} hay ve ts an re estate ‘Ou AS eon .
seats Esfear that Dr. Magon isin nd the your ed iy y ceotouon choparot bie iy chartch Ma-
those,
iit
mpleted, father’s
friends in Mio character of hee sinter: stating
mary. | OT have placed the seal upon my promise | that it was lis last reauest that slo soul
yout know ray mother’s se- | and now I am Teady to listen to such develop: | with ‘him herself, and seo him Mae
the 2 0, Mra Blak her mother, OF course she will promise to
{have we hh to say,” lied, “and we | return as that solemn duty is per-
terveif down aid gonealt soberly Yo. | formed ; but she will be able to find many ex-
|e he} for what, we will have todo must be cures for, ot Keeping her word.
nly: weighed rfectly nuderstond before | |“ But, it, the farmn—how are we
astepis taken. nse Hist go cua aie to devsive Bowe aunt His’
Mi er. Hester, Wl you despre. re not {he most. gene
‘pight. Tr ws 8 Lon her, I ‘eon ‘almost have sworn that elie is | srous of men, io ‘wom shrink from m:
rosa wnyfortanate, poopie One twin ing me, now
wee. on. n,"this afternvon,, cry of sha yudaen pain issned from
T avipte Fs Heh oeeHpjed that he) the 2 i oF Ma Sine we Ete
fonnit ik imyossiuig Yo kek anh wy [to at are Boon sent hither to summon as
"Pay oul fing tn to. igjtyon Whar any to the deathbed of the friend we we tin
Tiss Mac meats yw came Te on that train, hen
Siachetowand tie windey, Sand Lam hero Pe fo.me that ho,wotld mot leave Cape ‘wife :
i a tell you much more ther you expect to | Ma, ny till Fo morro th vig TR timate Ut tne too, . » a really, 4
year.” _ mé that he was on bas lay into our han Mr. Brown : 4
; POY Sie uttered A little shriek, anderied ont: | way,toNew Tork with hig doranger intend | Yet you have allowed mo to dezote my. | ea nr aro nel as asin Po for se = qaust have ne | fas sold hie rhaee. aul thie ery sree be and .
d 1 you startled me long har ing to leave her there and retttrn hére, whe hea self to You for two years, Hest That pro- | take a Took throngh fhe sands at I have | hiswife were to have netout Wert, to join ason
‘ oa been Ot there, Dr Bacon? Tes hardly | PA eaeare Mey hens his 4earfal manner. Dation should be long enon to, prove tive | [28.8 look thronuh th abut those for | who lives: In Ole, th @ bran sho purchased :
\ ‘Ee f0 advance on one in ‘so Atealthy @man- | spoke of yon danghter, Mrs: Bhakecand ex: | wortiof my affections ‘and if you have yet to | winch itis intended.” he farma does not, intend to i?
- ressed a strohg desire t os ne and ‘speak with | Jearn to love me, the less in be best eo: gonnea . Macon understood that as well as she immediately, and I am sure thet fe will, ‘te
Pardon mo, my fairest, if X have done | fer; but He ex] prosely said that sox were not| after you are my owD cl cherished and darling | did hesent forte eae enongh to com. | glad 4 tenant in mrself till, he does
yerong it ng a fow moments fo listen to on any account to pent ned to approach | wife.’ . hi sontething 0 of the plot » she 9 was abou | tT wil a Jeave im y own, ine, ‘and 0
fhe shiering etree ad Lees bim., Joana Bigher to prepare Hester to goto| | He spoke with @ fire and earnestness she | to reveal to him. He went Here 0 rake chars of Estelle Landry, vith
sera ‘and I a1 m pert arly fond hin mn at ag early & hour to-inorrow morning as | had not believed in ve natnre, pnd for the gait. of the 2 house, and ret urnod ar ai ‘thet re- yar Sviatan ce, the plan can be carried into
of martial possi! moment she was touched by’ ity bnt , eft ne as Tn,
most non-pombatants are,” she ‘Mra, Blake tnrned fercely upon him, and} shrank as mach as ever from the thonght es | Pot ae safe so fat as outsiders Were effect, and th sick ge he lee with spo as my
an i va
re
“Yess : r from “a eat ‘nwgbren 6 snddenly stricken down by
ied, With D ant sneer, ray core fa, | aston Vnenedinte nto Sick eee Poncerne ‘i
Bal ot throne the warden, Tho ball done PEDid he tell vo hy he wished to seo Hes-| Cape iy an a ea lin the, eweet bond: A minnte later Hester eame in longing, a fers feanible enongh.”" said Macon
to hear er you: age to whicl he liad so long yielded, waa the re STtllur and his wife are snoring in cone: rt,| slowiys “andl atont chatit ia a nreat temp
Shout those poor people” Hor d away anddenly, as if all roblem y but h ion. d here,
foetal fhe goorn in bes voice and sig- | power of amen had failed.” Pimeo thes ys se moment by sayings nok ote | hard ie kee an guihe aut Pe en Tne acne ee oF ae
Uy Replied: iad contempt for non saivee felt that he waa miaster of the fed, inlgistrango, shard voi : Rot often heard. The key wa he
nick inion between “ There i:
combatants, ‘eet ests ee MMe Ds old ‘me nothing, save that daueher a tert acon, nach jut ue ut unlock * gaia betore we're: ied Sir Bink, eather Bmpatienty ud
oa «ch eume hero Kis eet i ently related to in, and has | in few montia whe eaii become sour wire | Sa ¥." And now Laniyeads| Rate the tervien: Fou do not yee uuneratand >
¢lainis on ‘8 provision that basnot vet | under such brilliant ausp 3
Intention of OF tak taee np the eatgels in itches me ‘trunk, containing the cette: pag 3 ‘forthe de vices ans pe ly | t to o explain The. pian ‘to which I referred iat ita extent. ee ane. Me, Landry's
a jour ord er oe tor, At apy rat te, pe jay Tuont The. had Prepared ‘for her, was destroyed word to this, if you Seat oth listen foand She igned to Macon to resnme the seat be- | owners of two large sugur plantations, on
Dave fold me. tigrene dntontions, sini at | wane arming of the bawage, cary and be be eget yme- Hester Landry, with hal a | side heron the sofa, and Hoster drew up an | which are at ieast five hundred slaves. Their
one ie fe muen th at" even gomething OT | What ‘bie i oa seers He danbter,he | Winniog than Heater Blake with fe yen Sree 4n front of her and placed herself | incpme for a single year would be considered
“To hear is to obey. ity a; 1 Tay titerally carry them 0 ns | sa read yow aright, ¥« og are not abi Mrs, Blake began: Fill claim, and share with yon after she is
response, made with s dog ty way dey explas ition a . Bir. re man to refuse ‘OUF assistance in ag San divine my antecedents, Doctor firmly, settted in her now po ’ :
fe Thad never venterea' saree of an arity li hing c gin of vor Cthice tothe position which |T will acthcalanen thee kee taees ‘dng, | Hester had listened to
ter, wo was quiek-witted as he tres thonght: 08, OF Nant belongs to her, asthe eldest daughter | Hester shall tell you all that 1 have sniiered, silence, but 3 oe the Ie a inter |%
‘ emit comme mas chon: a | of her father's ho and prove to. you that I have the right to ‘and the iat va sudden wealth that
cone of a
inndorstoot von rebels, | charwe for hetrewen if wt meee be abared wil
there is no Lope of hin recovery from the iu- De Blacon. No pity for | that helpleen sinter
0 has received 1” 8 to be given ov
‘ou, madasi Hfe wil dio within thirty | eles of her hotles, srose ia hee Kearke "Sl
m Mrs.
fe ave ton cane a srnntertind te rian i manele at her ome Lis spectacles, | avenge myself upon the man froma whom yon
is be,
If the man was not eo mane es |e Solicitnde concerning Heeeate OTs OF his | shrewd enovgh to ante {lint she wont | Hh
‘The two women listened to hiss with paling | plan of action occurred to F through which
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