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THE MASTER OF THE MINE.
By Robert Bncbtmn.
CHAPTER XXXin. FACE TO FACE.
Once inside the room, I looked keenly about me, to discover who the odcupants might be. I could see only two—George Redruth and his moth/er. The old lady, looking very white and stately in her robe black velvek her snowy hair neatly arranged urjider some black lace, sat bolt upright in a quaint oak chair, working at some fancy work. Near to her was her son, lounging carelessly ih a low easy chair, with his legs crossed, and an open book upon his knee. He certainly looked very handsome in his spotless clothes and snowy linen and I wondered little that his mother's eyes rested upon him with such a look of affection, or that poor Annie was tempted beyond her strength when she saw that o&ndsome face smiling upon her, and heard those lips whisper so lovingly in her ear. George Redruth was not a man who bore upon his person the Impress of his soul. He had a fair lace and a specious manner and any Stranger looking at him would have believed him utterly incapable of cru•ltv or wrong doing.
My unceremonious entry startled
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mother and son. They both looked at me with an expression which was by no means amiable, i'hey both asked what my business Was there that night.
Before speaking, I looked again •round the room. I wished to ascertain if Madeline was there. Apparently, she was not. Then I looked at the old lady, and hesitated again. iA.fter all, she was his mother, and she loved him. Where was the use of giving he pain? So I turned to him and said as quietly as I could: "My business is with you, sir. What I have to say had better be said to you alone."
He moved uneasily in his seat, and darted at me from under his brows a look of bitter hatred. I thought his face grew very pale, but he made an effort to preserve his good manner. "You are very mysterious." he replied, "but since you have thought it worth your while to force your way upon us as you have done, you had better say your say and
He looked into my face again, and something he saw there convinced hiixi of the truth of my words. He rose, and, throwing his book aside, said, come out on the terrace and speak there."
He made a movement forward, and about to follow him, when there 3r,s-)wother interruption'almost "^unexpected kind. Old BWs. ,±ledruth rose and, making a stately motion with her hand, said: 'G eorge, you will stay here."
She was very white, and her hands were twitching nervously. Seeing this, Redruth stepped forward with a look of deep anexiety on his face. "Mother," don't agitate yourself, for Gcd's sake! Let me go with him jfor a moment." But this she refused to do. "You shall not leave, George," she answered, If hie means to insult you, let him do so 'before your mother's •lace."
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amazed me, and I cried: "I iisult him? You don't know what you are saying when you talk jfco me like that. I have returned to taiy home to obtain justice to force a -bitter wrong t6 be rightee. am iherefor that how."
It was now George Redruth's turn 'to be agitated Turning on me a face livid witn terror, he said: "My mother is not well. Leave the house I imolpre you, or God knows how this interview will end!"
This I refused to do. "Whateverhappens," I said, "no blame can be attached to me. I am willing, to speak to you alone, but §peak I mean to before I leave tjiis house to-night. Tell !me—is it true, that in two days you propose to wed Miss Graham?
He was'about to answer me, but "his mother interrupted him. "Yes." she replied "it is true. •Now, sir, what have you to say?" "This 'that your son had better •think well before he goes to lead that lady to the alter because he knows •as well as I .that marriage can never be."
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"George, ^vhat does he mean?" ,the old lady, gazing from, one to another in "tt-eiTiblihg agita^ioii.' "For 'God's salc'e mother keep calm!" said George RedriAtll,who was tiArnself terribly agitated then he •turned a,gajn,v to me. "Trelawney, Heave the, ^jrtsp'," hes said,, "If you you have anything to say to .me, seek ^me agam my 'mother, is ill, and a scene sudh'&S tliis promises to be will kill her!" I "F told you I was willing to speak to you alonej'' I said
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"You had better be careful," I replied. "Once more I warn you—what jpou nave to hear had better be heard by you alone!"
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c-wii't bs, other folk must hear. I am here to-d«y to ask for justice you 'best know why and for whom' Do ..^you mean. to doit?" .. lie hesitated, for a moment then ho safd, glaftdih^'nervously about him: "Y(!,u'speak in riddles," which I fail tb' tiii&itetaind.'' 1 "You hajl best try," I returned, ir- '. beyond '•meas.ure,. by the strange. coldness of His manner.'
You know you have done a wrong— do yTou mean to right it?" 1 By this time he had .apparently nade uphis mind as to his course of (conduct, for he replied, with that 'tame cold sneer upon his lips: "Again I,tell you, I fall to underittand vou," '"TLeat will m»ke
clear. I Am speaking of the woman whose heart you have broken and whose life you have destroyed. In the name of my cousin, Annie Pendragon, I refuse to allow this marriage to go onl"
I expected to see him cower before this blow, but I was mistaken, he was evidently prepared for anything I might say. "My good man," he said cooly, "you are raving, or worse. You take, I know, a very tender interest in Miss Graham's welfare and think, I presume, that anything you may be pleased to state will be believed by her, and you will thus be able to degrade me in her eyes. But you are mistaken. Both Miss Graham and my mother know me too well to believe one word of what you say!"
I must confess that the perfect frankness of his manner succeeded for a moment in putting me at a isadvantage. I could hardly bring myself to believe that he was lying, yet it must be so. "Do vou deny," I said "the story which have heard from my cousin's lips?" 'What your cousin may or may not have told you is no concern of mine. What is she to me. "She is your wife." I returned.
Still he retained his cold, impassive manner but the old lady looked at him with troubled eyes. It was nothing to her that he had broken a^heart or wrecked a home. According to her, the labox*er was like the beast of burden—born to bear his load uncomplainingly, and to be trampled in the dust, if necessary, at his master's feet. But the fear that her darling had been made to link himself to one beneath him was terrible to her. "George," she cried imploringly, "what does he mean?"
He shook his head, but I replied: 'I mean, madam, that it was your son, and none other, who brought all the trouble to our home. Through him, and him alone, murder has been done, and simple, trusting hearts have been broken. He came with his specious, smiling face and lying tongue, and wrought the ruin of as good a lass as ever breathed. Finding her to be geod and pure, he heaped falsehood upon falsehood until he got her in his power then, cowaz'd that he was, he told her of the trap into which she had fallen, and left her to the mercy of a merciless world. Cowardly treacherous cur as he is, he has betrayed one woman, but he does not betray another. Let him go to the altar with Miss Graham and, so sure as he stands living before me now, I will denounce him before them all." "Xou villain! do you mean to threaten me?" exclaimed Rudruth, losiig for the first time some of his selfj-command. "And if I do," I returned, "I don't threaten what I can't perform. My cousin has been silent hitherto, because she wished to spare you she has returned good for evil, cruelty with kindness but now that she has spoken—now that I know the truth—I am determined that she shall receive justice. Do you think that she alone is to suffer—that she must stand alone in her shame, to be pointed at by every honest woman? I say again she is your wife if not by the laws of man, at least in the sight of God and so long as she lives you shall not wed another woman!"
I paused and looked at' him his face was quite livid. He pointed to the door. "Leave this house!" he cried "or by heaven I'll have you handed over to the police." "I refuse to stir," I replied, "until I have your answer. It is in your power to partially retrieve the past by doing one act of justice. Villian as you have been, bitterly as she has been made to suffer, I believe my poor cousin loves you still. Make that mock ceremony a true one, take her to you as your honored wife it is but justice it is what I ask in her name." "George!" cried the old lady, clinging to him in terror but he only smiled, and said: "Don't agitate yourself, mother the man is raving!' "I have given you your last chance," I said. "Do you persist in your refusal to listen to me?" "Hear me, Trelawny," he said. "The story you have fixed upon me is one tissue of lies. If you say it is not, bring your witnesses to prove it if you can riot do so, your fabrication falls to the ground. I know nothing of your cousin, and I am not to be driven through fear into marriage with a peasant girl of light character. "Good God!" I cried, "what do you mean?"
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"This: that your cousin, whose moral character is well known, will not retrieve her deeds by vamping up this story against me. Women of her class are given to lying*: she seems no exception to the rulel' "Coward and liar!" I exclaimed. Utterly beside myself, I raised my clenched fist, and should have struck him to the ground. There was a shriek, arid a heavy thud upon the floor. Terrified and heart-sick? I drew back, and gazed with wild eyes upon the figure of the old lady, which lay apparently lifeless at my feet. For a moment I feared my clenched fist had fallen upon her, and laid her' low but I was soon reassured.. She _had been over-excited with the interview, and the fear that I was going to strike her son had deprived her of consciousness. In a moment a woman's figure was beside her, kneeling on the floor, and bending forward with tender solicitude over the wrinkled face. It was Madeline. Where she had oome from I coyld not tell she seemed to have arisen like a
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but quite composed, and sful seemedj utterly unconscious of toy presence save the one—that of the old woman. With tender hands she smoothed back the grey hair she dipped her fingers in the bowl of water which George Redruth held, and drew them across the wrinkled brow, she pressed her warm red lips to the white cheek, and mumured gently, "Aunt, dear aunt, open your eyes it is Madeline!"
For a time the old lady lay motionless—I standing by, unable to move hand or foot, but feeling nothing but pity for her. Suddenly she stirred slightly and heaved a sigh then Madeline raised her eyes and fixed them upon mv face. "Will you go, please?" she said, ''for her sake. If she wakes and sees you it will be terrible.",
That was enough I was to obey her wish: so utterly weary and heartbroken, I left the house.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
A LAST FAREWELL.
In a strange, bewildered state of mind I left Redruth House, but instead of going straight back to the cottage, I took a turn across the moor, I knew if I returned to tne cottage in my present state of agitation I should betray myself I must think matters over and come to some definite decision as to my movements in the future. There was no time to be lost in two days the wedding would take place—therefore my course of action must be mapped out.
The tone which Redruth had chosen to adopt had nonplussed me for never for one moment did I take into consideration the fact that he might deny all knowledge of my cousin. Yet now I saw that by so doing he might gain considerable advantage. He had called upon me to prove the truth of my statement how could I do so? For myself, I had been willing enough to accept Annie's version of the story as the true one, but it seemed that that was not enough. For proofs—how could I obtain them? Johnson, the prime mover in the affair, was dead of the man who performed the marriage ceremony, Annie had no knowledge whatever, and even had it been otherwise, it would have taken time to discover him and I had no I time, since the marriage was to take! place in two days. Yes it was clerr that my story must rely for its acceptance upon the word of my cousin and if he chose to proceed and dispute that word, it was equally clear it could not be substantiated., [To be Continued.]
Transportation from Panama In '49. April Century. We paid our money and went on board the vessel, which was anchored three miles from ^shor^^ y?e found a promiscuous crowd from every nation under heaven, the predominating type being that of the American rough. The deck was so densely packed with men from stem to stern that we could scarcely move. Many were prostrate with sickness, or supported by friends, or lying in hammocks swung along the side rigging. All day long this crowd of men were seething, swaying, quarreling, and cursing. No food was provided, and hunger and thirst gave an edge to the bad passions of the mob. The captain, a United States naval officer, had not assumed command because he was shut off from his men by the chaotic crowd. At length, towards evening, he stood on the quarter-deck, and shouted above the angry mutters and jargon of the crowd that the deck must be cleared for his men so that they could raise anchor. I had conferred with a few of the more respectable looking passengers, and we had concluded that there were more men aboard than our contract stipulated for, so we replied to the captain that the anchor could not be raised until we had had a count. The effort to get the men in order and to set them in motion so that they could pass around in line required two or three hours, but was at last accomplished, and the result showed four hundred and forty persons on board besides the sailors. This attempt of the consignee to increase his enormous profits dishonestly at the risk and discomfort of the passengers excited a torrent of indignation. Inflammatory speeches were made, and a committee was appointed to visit the consignee arid adjust the matter. About one hundred men left for the shore in boats that the natives had in waiting about the vessel, and those who remained agreed to keep the ship at anchor until they should return.
Beds of Viirious Natives. In the tropics men sleep in ham mocks or upon mats of grass. The East Indian unrolls his light, portable charpoy or mattress, which in the maWiirig is again rolled together and carried a^vay. by him. The!Japenese lie upon mattijig with a stiff, uncomfortable wooden neck rest. The Chinese use low bedsteads, often elabo.rately carved, and supporting pnly mats pr coverlids. A peculiarity of the German bed is its shortness besides that, it often consists in part of a large down-pillow or upper m'attress, which spreads over the person, and usually answers the purpose of all the other ordinary bed clothing combined. In England the old fourposted bedstead is still the pride of the nation, but the iron or br^ss bedstead is fast beconiing universal. The English beds are the largest beds in the world. The ancient Greeks and Romans had their beds supported on frames, but not flat like ours.. The Egyptians had a couch of a peculiar shape, more like an oldfashioned easy-chair with hollow hAAk and feat.
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
Hopewell 19 hopeful of a boom. Greenfie! is organizing a ball club. Anderson carpenters are on a strike. Laporte is taking rank as a horse market
The Lafayette striking tinners are still out. No county in the State ha9 escaped the ravages of la grippe.
Another flowing oil well has been struck in the Portland field. Sheep killing dogs are causing loss to Harrison county farmers.
Another big producing oil well has been struck near Hartford City. Arthur Palmore, of Hillsboro, was kicked to death by a horse.
Herbert Bruce, of Columbu9, is thirteen years old, but weighs 216 pounds. The great religious revival at Vincennes has closed, with over 500 accessions.
Indiana coal operators have decided to resist the eight-hour day movement. The general store of Frank Hough, at Auburn, was wrecked by fire loss $8,900.
Terre Haute is trying to supplant Peoria in the Indiana-Michigan Base Ball League. The Clay county F. M. B. A. has passed resolutions condemning the fee and salary bill.
John Dunning, of Valpara claims to be the oldest peace justice he State at the age of eighty-nine.
Prof. J. W. Stottz, who mysteriously disappeared from Mitchell in October last, has been traced to DeLeon, Tex.
There will be a competitive examination at Tipton, May 1, for appointment as cadet at the Annapolis Naval Academy.
President Ethelbert D. Warfield, of Miama University, has accepted the call to the presidency of Lafayette College, tendered him last month.
A vicious rain attacked Hon. Lee McDaniel, of Rush county, fracturing several ribs. Mr. McDaniol is enfeebled by disease and was unable to defend himself.
The child of Reuben Heinie, near Huntington, was attacked by a bull dog and dangerously bitten. The dog had to be killed before he would loosen his hold.
J. M. Hervey, of Montgomery county, while in the act of addressing the Farmers' Alliance, was stricken with paralysis, and will not recover. He is aged seventy.
Johnny Helvey, grandson of ^Reuben Helvey, of Kelso, was attacked by a bird dog, which bit and mangled his flesh, and broke his thigh. The child was fatally hurt. "Hammer and needle parties" are the latest fads in country towns. Gentlemen are put to work sewing on buttons, and ladies driving nails, and prizes are given to the most successful workers.
Twenty students in the Huntington high school were suspended because tliey persisted in stopping at the town pump for a drink of water. However, the school commissioners reinstated them.
Louis J. Weicliman, of Anderson, was a room-mate of John Harrison Sturrett, one jf the conspirators in the assasination of President Lincoln, and in the trial ho was in important witness for the government.
William Wallace, postmaster, a distinguished and honored citizen of IndianapoJs, died in that city on the 9th. He was ilso a prominent Odd Fellow and has for many years been Trustee of Grand Lodge.
The general store of Frank Carter, at Hadley, was plundered by thieves and sev-' ral hundred dollars' worth of merchanlise was carted away. Four weeks ago he safe in his store was "blown" by burglars.
Charles Alius, who was stabbed by Dan Brusher at Newburg, last week, is dying, ind, realizing the fact, he sent for Brushr, took his hand and forgave him. Both nen were'drinking at the time of thft affray.
Wm. Benbow, of Anderson, while hunt"ng, shot a vicious dog belonging to Wm. Dain. The latter revenged the killing with ais shot gun, the contents of his gun strikng Benbow in the face and breast, and Winding him in one eye.
A special from Pleasanton says: Whil0 workmen were boring a well in the Odd Fellows' cemetery here on the 14th, and were at a depth of about a hundred feet, they came upon a strong flow of natural ?as. It was ignited and burned steadily In a pillar some ten feet high. It has been extinguished and relighted several times1 rhe supply shows no signs of exhaustion.
A teiTiilc explosion occurred at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Lebanon Manufacturing Company's establishment at Lebanon. Wm. Cambell, ex-county recorder, who was acting as engineer for a !ew days was instantly killed, the top of his head and one arm being blown off. Wm. Stewart, one of the members of the firm, wa9 fatally injured, being scalded Dver one-third of his body, and his leg broken and eyesight destroyed!. A nail was extracted that had entered' his head through the eye to the length of three inches. The works were demolished, the flying debris landing two hundred yards away. The boiler plowed itself into the ground two hundred feet distant. Low water is given as the cause sf the explosion.
Charles Clements, a young man twentycjght years of age living at Cliesterville, a country village five miles east of Milan, was killed in a most peculiar manner Thursday evening. He was driving a spirited horse in a road-cart and when about a mile from home he fell in an epileptic seizure, with his head in the left wheel of the cart. The h6rse took fright arid ran away, dashing his brains out on the spokes of the wheel. His body was dragged into the wheel and literally crushed to a jelly. Finally the wheel broke and the body was pitched out into the road, where it was found by his father a short time afterwards, he having instituted a search as soon as the horse arrived home. Thedeceased met with a similar accident when a boy arid had apart of his skull removec( and a silver plate put in its place. Since ihen ho has been subject to epileptic fits. I
Ten thousand of the striking weavers of Bradford, England, attempted to hold a public iiieeting, and the police and military were summoned to disperse them. Man were Wand*
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