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LOVE OR MONEY;

on,

A PERILOUS SECRET.

Author of

nv chaui.es uk a nr, “Put Yourself in His

etc., etc., etc.

Place,”

"An, miss,” said the old man. “God bless \«)u; you feel for us. I'm not on the old man's side, miss; I'm on Mr. Walter's side in this as I was in the other business, but now I see my poor old master lying pale and still, not long for this world. 1 do begin to blame myself. I never t bought that be would have taken it all to heart like this. Rut, there, tlie only thing now is to bring them together before be goes. We don't know bis address, miss; we don’t know wbatcountrj he is in. He sent aline to Miss Clifford a month agofrom I)over, but that is all: but. in course, be writes to you—thiit stands to reason; you'll give me bis address, miss, won’t you? and we shall all bless you.” Mary turned pale, and the tears streamed down her eyes. “Ob, sir,” said she. “I'd give the world if I could tell you. 1 know who you are; my poor Walter has often spoken of you to me, Mr. Raker. One word from you would have been enough: 1 would lun e done anything for you that I could. Hut be hns never written to me at all. I am as much deserted as any of >011.and I have felt it as deeply as any father can, but never have I felt it as now. What! The father to die, and his son's band not in his; no look of love and forgiveness to pass between them as the poor old man leaves this world, its ambitions and its quarrels, and perhaps sees for the first time bow small they all are compared with the love "f those that love us. and the peace of God.” Then this ardent girl stretched out both her hands. "O God, if my frivolous life lias been innocent. don't let me be thecause of this horrible thing; don’t let the father die without comfort, nor the son without forgiveness, for a miserable girl who has come between them and meant no

harm.”

This eloquent burst quite overpowered poor old John Raker. lie dropped into a chair. Ids white bead sank upon bis bosom, he sobbed and trembled, and for the first time showed bis age. “What on earth is the matter?” said Mr. Hartley’s voice, as cold as an icicle, at the door. Mary sprang toward him impetuously. “On, papa, she cried, “Colonel Clifford is dying, and we don't know where Walter is; we can't know.” “Wait a lit; le,” said Hart ley. in some agitation. “M\ letters have just come in, and I thought I saw a foreign postmark.” He slipped back into the nail, brought in several letters, selected one, and gave it to Mary. “This is for you, from Marseilles.” He then retiredto his study, and without the least agitation or the least loss of time returned withabook of telegraph forms. Meanwhile Mary tore the letter open, and read it eagerly to John Raker. “Gkanii Hotf.l Noaii.les, I .Mauskii.U's, M.iy lit. ( “My Own Dear Lovk,—1 have vowed that 1 will not write auaiu to tempt you to amtliiu.: you think wront; but it looks like ouarre’.liiig to hide my address from you. Only I do Peg of you, as the only kindness you can do me now. never let it he known by any living creature atClifford Hall. “Yours till death, Walter.” Mr. Bartley entered with the telegraph forms, and said to Mary, sharply, "Now where is he?” Mary Eold him. “Well, write him a telegram. It shall

r.as-

good time to pay yotir visit to Mrs. “Oh, papa, how good of you! but it's twenty miles. I believe, to where she is

staying at the lakes.”

“No, no,” said Mr. Bartley; “she's staying with her sister Gilbert; quite

within a drive.”

“Are you sure, papa?”

“Quite sure, my dear; she wrote to me yesterday about her little pension; the

quarter is just due.”

“What! do you allow her a pension?" “Certainly, my dear, or rather I pay her little stipend as before: how surprised you look. Mary! Why, I'm not like that old Colonel, intolerant of oilier people's views, when they advance them civilly. That woman helped me to save your life in a very great danger, and for many >e" I she lias been as careful as a inot rind we are not. so to say. at dagger drawn about Walter Clifford. Why, 1 onh demanded a little prudence and patience both from you and from her. Now tell me. Is there proper accommodation for you in

Mrs. Gilbert's house?”

“Oli yes, papa; it is a farm-house now, but it was a grand place. There's a beautiful spare room with an oriel-win-

dow.”

“Well. then, you secure that, and write to-day to have a blazing lire, and the bed properly aired as well as the sheets, and you shall go to-morro 1 - ' 1 the four-wheel; and vou can take her her little stipend in a letter.” This sudden kindness and provision for her health and happiness Idled Mary's heart to overliowing. and her gratitude gushed forth upon Mr. Bartley's neck. The old fox blandly absorbed it, and took the opportunity to say, “Of course it is understood that matters are to go no further between you and Walter Clifford. Oh. I don't mean that you are to make him unhappy, or drive him to despair; only insist upon his being patient like yourself. Everything comes sooneror later to those that

can wait.”

“Oh. uapa.” cried Mary, “you've said more to comfort me than Mrs. Easton or anybody can; bull feel the change will cfo >ie good. I am oh, so grateful!” So Mary wrote her letter, and went to Mrs. Easton next day. After the usual embraces, she gave .Sirs. Easton the letter, and was duly installed in the state bedroom. She wrote to Julia Clifford to say where she was. and that was her wav of letting Walter Clifford know. Walter himself arrived at Clifford Hall next day, worn, anxious, and remorseful, anil was shown at once to his father's bedside. The Colonel gave him

a wasted hand, and said:

“Dear boy, I thought you’d come. We've had our last quarrel, Walter.” Walter burst into tears over his father's hand, and nothingwas said between them about their temporary estrange-

ment.

The first thing Walter did was to get two professional nurses from Derby, and secure bis fattier constant attention night and day, and. above all, nourishment at all hours of the night when the patient would take it. On the afternoon after his arrival the Colonel fell into a sound sleep. Then Walter ordered his horse, and in less tin.a an hour was at Mis. Gilbert's place. CHAPTER XI. THE KNOT CUT—ANOTHER TIED. The farm-house the Gilberts occupied bad been a family mansion of great antiquitv with a moat around it. It was held during the civil war by a stout royalist, who armed and garrisoned it after a fashion with his ow n servants. This had a different effect to what lie intended. It drew the attention of one of Cromwell's generals, and hedispatehed a party with cannon and petards to reduce the place, whilst he marched on to join Cromwell in enterprises of more

be at the railway in half an hour, at Marseilles theoretically in one

practically in four.” Mary sat down and

hour,

wrote her tele-

gram; “Bray come to Clifford Hall.

Your father Is dangerously ill.” “Show it to me,” said Bartley. And

on perusing it: "A woman's telegram. Don’t frighten him too much; leave

him the option to come or stay.” He tore it up. and said, “Now write a

business telegram, and make sure of

the thing you want.”

“Come home directly—your father is

dying.”

Old Baker started np. “God bless you, sij-.” says be, “and God bless you. miss, and make you bappy one day. I'll take it myself, as my trap is at the door. He bustled out, and Ins carriage drove

away at a great rate.

Mr. Hartley went quietly to bis study to business without another word, and Mary leaned hack a little exhausted by the scene, but a smile almost of happiness came and tarried on her sweet race

heads summoned the place. The royalist, to show his respect fortheirauthority. made Ids kitchen wench squeak a defiance from an upper window, from which she bolted with great rapidity as soon as slip had tints represented the valor of the establishment, and when next seen it was in the cellar, wedged in between two barrels of beer. The men went at it hammer and tongs, and in twenty-four hours a good many can-non-balls traversed the building,a great many stuck in the walls like plums in a Christmas pudding, the doors were blown in with petards, and the principal (Plunders, with a few wounded Romidheads, were carried off to Cromwell himself; whilst the house itself was tired, and blazed away merrily. Cromwell threatened the royalist gentleman with death for defending an untenable place. “I didn't know it was untenable,”said I the gentleman. “Dow could I till I had

tried?”

You bad the fate of fortified places

own ruins.

triumphantly at the Hall, and not without vanity, for he was proud of his I good jugdment in going to Mary Bart-'

lev.

To the old housekeeper, a most sn-1 perior wooiiui of t<is own age. and al most a lady be «n'd something rather I remarkable which he was carefulnot to bestow on the young wags in the ser-! vants’hall: “Mrs. Milton,” says he, “1 am an old man, and have knocked about at home and abitiad and seen a deal of

The gentleman turned pale and his lips quivered, but he said, "Well. Mr. Cromwell, I've fought for my royal master according to mv lights, ami f

can die tor him.”

"Vou shall, sir,” said Mr. Cromwell. About next morning Mr. Cromwell, who had often a cool lit after a h"t one, and was a very big man, take him altogether, gave a different order. “The fool thought lie was doing his duty;

turn him loose.”

life, hut I 've seen something to-day that

1 never saw before.” 1 rni „ !• 1 • , • , v v loon surelv and wlnf ev t ud 1 . the fool in question was so proud of ' 60 ’ ana " llat 1 " a3 , bis battered house that he left it stand-

ing there, bullets and all. and built him

c.ud

that?

“I've seen nn angel pew to God.

I have seen God an-vver her.”

From that day Marv had two stout

partisans in Clifford Hall.

Mr. Bartley's views about Mary now began to waver. It occurred to him that should Colonel Clifford die and Walt< r inherit Ids estates lie could easily come totermswith the young man so

a House elsewhere.

King Charles the Second had not landed a month before he made him a baronet, and one tenant after another occupied a portion of the old mansion. Two state-rooms were roofed and furnished with the relics of the entire mansion, and these two rooms the present

. baronet's surveyor occupied at rare in-

rassionatelv devoted to his daughter. * ,,|V!l l s } v hen lie was inspecting the large lie laid only to say: “I can make noal- properties connected with the baronet's

lowance at present, but I will settle my I eH i?te.

whole fortune upon Marv and her chil- I Mary Hartley now occupied these two dren after mv death, if vou ll make a rpoms. connected hv folding-doors, and moderate settlement at present.” and fihe sat pensive in the oriel-window of Walter would certainly tall into this, J l . er . bedroom. ^ oung ladies cling to and not demand accounts from M:irv's oeilmoms. especially when they trustee. So now he would have po'si- 1 il, c pretty and airy. Suddenly she beard live!) encouraged Marv in her attach- 1 ** yeuirj and pattci of a horse s hoof, ment, hut one thing held him back a 1 l i , ' 1 i! , ‘ , ‘ 'll 1 -d the side of the liquse. She little; he had learned bv accident that , .' J| i • ( ' , l Hom the window and stood pantthe last entail of Clifford Hall and the U1 K the iqiddleof the room, (’henext dependent estnles dnted two ffPiuTR- inmute .'iis. Kjistoii entered t hesitt iptr. tions hack, so that the entail expired room all in a Mutter, and beckoned her.

with Colonel Clifford, and this hail en- ..'I* 'h’W to her. abled the Colonel to sell some of the He is here.

I thought he would he.”

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estates, and elearlv gavehim powernow to leave <llifford Hall away from his son. Now the people who had begun to fetch and carry tales between the tv,. .*i,>■ >..,\ ,,'ui Inin (>i Hi,* law vel s recent visits toClifford Hall.and he had

had

sent for tla* lawyer to niter bis will and disinherit, in whole or part, Lis absent and rebellions son. All this taken together made Mr. Hartley resolve lobe j Kinder to Mary in her love affair than he had ever been, but still to be guard-

ed and cautious.

“Mary, my dear,” said be, “I am sure you'll be on thorns till this young man cone's, Jionye. perhaps ,now would be a

“Will you meet him down-stairs?”

“No, here.”

Mrs. Easton acquiesced, rapidly closed the folding-doors', a:;:!v;< at out.living, “Try and calm vourself. Miss Mary.” Miss Mary tried to obey her. but Walter rushed In impetuously, pale worn, agitated, yet enraptured at the first sight of her, and Mary threw herself round his neck in a moment, and he clasped her Muttering bosomtohfcibeating Iii^rt, and this was the natural i nsult of the restraint they had put upon a passionate affection; for w hat says the dramatist Destouches, improving i Horace, so that in En'/Ljud his

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mortal line is given to AToLere: ”CM»se? If iniflb * /. it Yfvirnt nil ythp." The next thing was, they held each other at arm’s-len»;th, and mourned over each other. “Oh, mv poor Mary, how illyou look!" “Oh. my poor Walter, how'pale and worn!" “It's all in\ fault.” said Marv. “No; it's all mine,” said Walter. And so they blamed themselves, and grieved over each other,and vowed that come what might they would never part again. Hut, lo and behold! Walter went on from that to say: “And that we may never part again let ils marry at once, and put oir happiness out of the reach of accidents.” “What!” said Mary. “Defy your father upon his d>ing bed!” . “(JJi no.” said Walter, “that I could not do. I mean marry secri ily. and announce it after Ids decease, if I am to lose him.” “And why not wait till after his decease?” sain Mary. “Recause, then, the laws of society would compel us to wait six months, and in that six months some infernal obstacle or other would be sure to o t cur, and another would be sure to follow. I uni a great deal older than you, and I see that whoever procrastinates happiness, risks it; and whoever shillyshallies with ii deserves to lose it, and generally does.” Where young ladies are concerned, logic does not carry all before it. and so Mary opposed all 'maimer of feminine sentiments, and ended by saying she could not do such a thing. Then Walter began to he mortified and angry; then she cmminglv shifted the responsibility, and said she would consult Mrs. Easton. “Then consult her in my presence,” said Walter. Mary had not bargained for that: slio had intended to secure Mrs. Easton on her side and then take her opinion. However, ns Walter's proposal was fair, she called Mrs. Easton, and they put the case to her. and asked her to give her candid opinion. Mrs. Easton, however, took alarm at the gravity of the proposal, and told them both she knew tilings that were unknown to both of them, and it was not so easy for her to advise. “Well, but,” said Walter, "if you know more than we do. you are the very person that can advise. All I know is that if we are not married now, I shall have to wait six months at least, and if I stay here Mr. Hartley ami l shall quarrel, and he will refuse me Mary; and if I go abroad again 1 shall get knocked on the head, or else Mary will pine away again, and Hartley will send her to Madeira, and we shall lose our happiness. as all shilly-shallying fools do.” Mrs. Easton made no reply to this, though she listened attentively to it. She walked to the window and thought quietly to herself; then she came hack again and sat down, and after a pause she said, very gravely, “Knowing all I know, and seeing all 1 see, I advise you two to marry at once by special license, and keep it secret from every one who knows you—but myself—till a proper time comes to reveal it; audit's borne in upon me that that time will come before long, even if Colonel Clifford should not die this bout, which everybody says he will.” “Oh, nurse.” said Mary faintly, “I little thought that you’d lie against me.” “Against you, Miss Mary!” said Mrs. Easton, with much feeling. “I admire Mr. Walter very much, as any woman must with eyes in her head, and I love him for loving of you so truly, and like a man, for it does not become a man to shilly-shalfv, but I never saw him till be a man. but you are the child I nursed, and prayed over, and trembled for in sickness, and rejoiced over in health, and left a good master because I saw he did not love you so well as 1 did.” These words went to Mary's heart, and she Mew to her nurse, and hung weeping round her neck. Her tears made the manly but tender-hearted Walter give a sort of gulp. Marv heard it, and put her white hand out to him. He threw himself upon his knees, and kissed it devotedly, and thecoy girl was won. From this hour Walter gave her no breathing-time; he easily talked over old Haker. and got him to excuse his short absence; he turned hishunters into roadstors. and rode them very hard; he got the special license; lie squared a clergyman at the head of the lake, who was an old friend of his and fond of fees,and in three days after her consent, Mary and Mrs. Easton drove a fourwheeled carriage Walter had lent them to the little hotel at the lakes. Walter had galloped over at eleven o'clock, and the) al! three took a little walk together." Walter Clifford and Mary Hartley returned from that walk nam and wife.

CHAPTER XII. THE CLANDESTINE M A ItRT ACE. "Walter Clifford and Mary '-at at a late breakfast in a little inn that looked upon a lake, which appeared to tin m more loveiy than the lake of Thun ,,, of Lucerne. He beamed steadily tit her with triumphant rapture: she stole looks nt him of wonder, admiration, and the deepest love. As they had nothing now to argue about, they only spoke a few words at a time, bin these were ail musical with love. To them, as we dramatists say, entered Mrs. Easton with signs of 1 "gry. “Miss Mary—” said she. “Mrs. Marv,” suggested Walter, meekly. Mrs. Mary blew him a kiss. “Ay, ay.” said Mrs. Easton, smiling. “Of course you «ill both hate me. but I have come to take vou home, Mistress Marv.” “Home!” said Mary; “why. this feels like home.” “No doubt,” .'■aid Mrs. Easton, “but, for all that, in half an hour we must start.” The married couple remonstrated with one accord, but Mrs. Ete-toi, eras firm. “I dreamed,” says she, “that we were all found out—and that's a warning. Mr. Walter, you know that you'll In lui.-.-.cd at Clifford ilaii, und didn t ought to leav e your father another day. And you. Miss Mary, do but think what a weight IJinve taken upon my shoulders. and don't put off coming home, for I am almost shaking with anxiety, and for sure and certain my dream it was a warning, and there's something in the wind.” They were both so indebted to this good woman that they looked at each other piteously, but' agreed. Walter tang the. bell, and oideieu the fourwheeler and his own nag. “Mary, one little walk in the sweet garden.” “Yes, dear." said Mary, and in another moment they were walking in the garden, intertwined like the ivy and the oak, and purring over their present delights and glowing prospects. In the mean time Mrs. Easton packed tin their things: Walter's were enrolled in a light rug witli straps, which went uDon his saddle. Tlgg. 'ett the lit-

tle fnn.'Mary driving. When they had gone about two miles they came to cross-roods. “Please pull un." said Mrs. Easton; then turning to Walter, who was riding ridiculously close to Mary's whip hand, “Isn't that the way to Clifford Hall?” “It's one way,” said he; “hut 1 don't mean to go that way. How can I? It’s only three miles mure round by your house.” “Nurse,” said Mary, appealingly. “Ay. av, poor things,” said Mrs. Easton. "Well. well, don't loiter, anyway. I shall not be my own woman again till we’re safe at the farm.” So they drove briskly on,and in about an hour more thev got to a long hill, whence they could see the Gilberts' farm. “There, nurse,” said Mary, pouting a little, “now i hope you’re content, for we have got safe home, and he and I shall not have a happy day together again.” “Oh yes. you will, and many liappv years,” said Mrs. Easton. “Well, yes, l don’t feel so fidgety now.” “Oh!” cried Mary, all of a sudden. “Why, there’s our gray mare coming down the hill with the dog-cart! Who's that driving her? It's not papa. I declare it’s Mr. Hope, come home safe and sound. Dear Mr. Hope! Oh, now ni> happiness is perfect!” "Mr. Hope!” screamed Mrs. Easton. ‘Drive faster, for Heaven's sake! Turn your horse, sir and gallop aw ay from us as hard as you can!” “Well. but. Mrs. Easton-—"objected Walter. Mrs. Easton stood up in the carriage. “Man alive!" she screamed, “you know nothing, and 1 know a deal; begone, or you are no friend of mine; you'll make me curse the hour that I interfered.” “Go, darling.” said Mary, kindly, and so decidedly that he turned his'horse directly, gave her one look of love and disappointment, and galloped away. Mary looked pale and angry,' and drove bn in sullen silence. Mrs. Easton was too agitated to mind her angry looks. She kept wiping the perspiration from her Imiw with her nanokerchief, and speaking in broken sentences: “If we could only get there first—fool not to teach my sister iier lesson before we went, she’s sucit a simpleton!—can’t you drive faster?” “Why. nurse,” said Mary, “don’t he so afraid of Mr. Hope. It's not him I'm afraid of; it's papa.’ "You don't know what you're talking about, child. Mr. Hartley is easily blinded: T won't tell you why. It isn't so with Mr. Hope. Oh. if I could only get in to have one word with my simple sister before be turns her Inside out!” This question was soon derided. Hope drove tip to the door whilst Marv and Mrs. Easton were still somedistaiiee off and hidden by a turn intlieroad. When they emerged again into sight of the farm they just caught sight of Hope’s back, and Mrs. Gilbert ciirtesving to him and ushering him into the house. “Drive into thestahle-yanl.”said Mrs. Easton, faintly. “He mustn't see your traveling basket, anyway.” She told the servant to put the horse into the stable immediately, and the basket into the brew-house.' Then she hurried Mary up the hack stairs to tier room, and went with a heating heart to find Mr. Hope and her sister. Mrs. Gilbert.though a simple and unguarded woman, could read faces like the rest, and she saw tit once that her sister was very much nut bv this visit of Mr. Hope, and wanted to know what had passed between her and him. This set the poor woman all in a Hotter for fear she should have said something injudicious, and thereupon she prepared to find out. if possible, what she ought to have said. “\\ hat! Mr. Hope!” said Mrs. Easton. “Well, Mary will be glad. And have yon been long borne, sir?” "Came last night,” said Hope. “She hasn't been well, I hear. What is the matter?" And he looked very anxious. “Well, sir.” said Mrs. Easton, very guardedly, “she certainly gave me ii fright w hen she came here. She looked quite pale; but whether it was that she wanted a change—but whatever it was, it couldn’t be very serious. You shall judge for yourself. Sister, go to Miss Mary's room, and tell her.” Mis. Easton, in giving this instruction, frowned at her sister as much as to say, “Now don’t speak, but go.” When she was gone, the next thing was to find out if the woman had made any foolish admission to Mr. Hope; so she waited for him. She had not long to wait. Hope said; “I hardly expected to see you; your sister said you were from home.” “Well, sir.” said Mrs. Easton, “we were not so far far off. hut wedid come home a little sooner than we intended, and I am rare glad we did, for Miss Mary wouldn't have missed you for all tin* eieii's in the county.” W ith that she made an excuse, and left him. Slip found her sister in Mary's room; they were comparing notes. “Now.” said she to Mrs. Gilbert, “vou tel! me oven’ word you said to M;. Hope about Miss Alary and me.” “Well. I said you were not at home, and that is every word; he didn't give me time to sa\ any more for questioning of her health." "That's luekv.” said Mrs. Easton dryly. “Thank Heaven, there's no harm done; he shan’t see the carriage.” “Dear me, nurse,” said Mary,“all this tirro Cm lor,‘ring to -ec him,” “Well, you shall see him, if you won't own to having been a night from home.” Mary promised, and went eagerly to Mr. Hope. It did not come natural to her to be afraid of him, and she was impatient for the day to come wlien she might tell the whole story. The reception he gave her was not of a Latino to discourage this feeling; his pale facetor he had been very ill—flushed at sight of her, his eyes poured affection upon her. and he held out both hands to her. "This the pale girl they frightened me about!” said be. “Why, you're like the roses in July.” “That’s partly with seeing of you. sir.” said Mrs. Easton, quietly following, “but we do take some credit i* <>ursevles so; for Miss Mary «•/,s rather pale when she came here a week ago; but. la, young folks want a change now and then." “Nurse,” said Mary, “I really w.l. not weu, and you have done wonders for me. and 1 hope vow won’t think me ungratefilLbut I mwit no home with Mr.l lono.” CONTINUED NEXT WEEK Why Hood's Wins. Presidev ..incoln said, “You cannot fool the people a second time.” They are too quick to recognize real merit or lack of it. and cling only to thnae things which they find to be what is claimed for them. It is espccial'.y gratifying that the sale of Hood's .Sarsaparilla increases most rapidly in those sections where it ia heat known. The inference is plain. Hood's Sarsaparilla has proved that it possesses genuine merit. It maintains a high standard, which others cannot even approach. It is the people’s favorite blood-purifying and building up medicine, and is more popular this year than ever before. All this because Hood's Cures,

To Prison for Life. Chicaoo, Jan. 2V.—Luke Dolney, who some time ago confessed killing hia l wife, was sentenced by Judge Freemail to the penitentiary for the term of hia natural life. Dropped Head. Marshalltown, la., Jan. 30.—Jams L. •Williams, president of the City ns tional bank here, dropped dead on th^ way home to dinner. Swept by Kluuif*. 13atii, Me., Jan 29.—A lar^e portiod of the business section of this city wa laid in ruins by tire yesterday. Los 8700,000

The poker Rame is something of a larlj Therefore, the lark is something of a gam| bird. Recommends it for whooping-cough. Mij John H. Ogden, Ashville, N. C, writes: have used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup in family foi six years and can cheerfully re| commend it as one of the best remedies 1 cvti used. Have also tried it for whooping-cougl with the best results.” Grave-diggers do a great deal of work tha| is beneath them. The political orators are carrying every] thing be forum. Vandalia Line Excursions. To South, Southenet and Southwei will run various dates from now until June fith, 1894, inclusive, one fare round trip. Call on or address any Vandalia Line Agent and ask for information contained in circular No. 327 of January 20tn, 1894. 4m39 Highest price paid for hides, pelts and tallow by Vanoleave & Son. Utf For sale, a first-class piano. Call at office of Smiley & Neil'. tf37

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.Heeling of tlic Hoard of Free Turnpllie IMrcetnrN. The Board of Free Turnpike Dir'Ctors of Putnam County. State of Indiana, will meet at the olfloe of the County Auditor, in the Court House, in the city ol Ureeucastle, Putnam County, state of Indiana, on SATURDAY, THE 24th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1894, . To transact all business that may come before them requiring the attention ot said Board of Free Turnpike Directors . J. F. MULIIOLtf, Clerk of Board, Indianfijiolis, Decatur «{'• Sprinffjicld Hailtcai/ Company. Tt , uutee , u Sale. Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment duly rendered and entered by the Superior Court of the county of Marion, in the Stale of Indiana, at a regular term of a lid Court, held on the twenty-third day of J une, layi, in a certain suit then pending in said Court, wherein we, the undersigned, B. A. Sands and it. B. F. Peirce, trustees, were plaintiffs, and the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railway Company and' others, were defendants; and also in pursuance of a certain order, duly made and entered in the same Court in the same suit, on the twentythird day of January, 1KM; and also by virtue of. and under the power mid authority vested in us, the said Benjemin Ayraor Sands and Robert B. F. Peirce, as substituted i rustees under a certain indenture of mortgage, bearing date the 31st day of December, in the year 1«75, made by the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Hallway Company to Janies Eraotl and John J. Crane, us trustees, we, the undersigned, substituted trustees under the said mortgage in the place and stead of said Emott and Crane, and the special masters in pursuance of the terms of me uforesuid judgment, will expose for sale at public unction, to the highest bidder, on Thursday, the tenth day of May, ism, ut twelve o’clock, at the New York Beal Estate Salesroom, number 111 Broadway, in the City of New York, at the auction stand of Smith A Hyan, all the railroad's estate, real and personal, corporate rights and franchisee, and premises conveyed und transferred by the said hereinabove mentioned mortgage, or intended so to be, that is to say, the lino of railway formerly of the Indianapolis, ,Decatur A Springfield Railway Company, described in such mortgage as follows: All and singular its railroad or railway const ructed or to lo be constructed in the States of Indiana and Illinois, and being then known • and designated us the Indianapolis, Decatur * J .V Springfield Hallway ,and furmeriy known si and designated as the Indiana and Illinois h Central Railway), us the saine was then con- 1 st ructed or thereafter should be constructed, | extending from the City of Indianapolis, Stub' of Indiana, to t he City of Decatur, State of Illinois, to constitute, when completed, a continuous lineof railroad one hundred and fifty-two miles in length; and also all the real estate owned by said company, wherever the same might be situated, und all branches, extensions, sidings and turnouts of the said railway then belonging to, or which might th»‘rf»nfG‘r bp pojiMrurt.pd Bcquircil by it ' between Indianapolis and Decatur a« afore^ said, ami ail lands, right of way, rails, bridges, , tracks, wharves, fences, viaducts, culverts, houses, workshops, machinery, stations, offices, depots, depot grounds, engine houses. S| buildings, improvements, tenements and , hereditaments then owned or thereafter to 1 be acquired by the said railway company, its successors or assigns, for the construction, operation and management of the said railroad between Indianapolis and Decatur ns aforesaid, and all the rolling stock, locomotives, tenders, cars and equipments, machinery, tools, implements and materials and ail and singular the personal property of every kind, nature and description belong ng to the said Indianapolis, Decatur A Sprisgneld Railway Companv, and then or thereaf er in use or intended n r use upon the sud raiVroad, or in connection with the properequip- * ment and operation of the same; *»nd also all and singular the corporate rights, powers, privileges ntoi franchises of the said Indianapolis, Decatur & Hpringfield Railw ay Company, then owned and possessed or which might be thereafter acquired for the construction, munteuance and operation of said railroad, or connected with or relating ‘o the same; and nV'oall streets, w,»js, niieys, passuges, waters, water courses, easements, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever, unto any of the mortgaged premises and estates belonging and appertaining or to belong and to upe< rt en. and the reversion und r* \\ r*i.>ns , remainder and remainders, rents, isssuevmd ', profits thcreol, and all the estate, right tie s . interest, claim and demand of every tin- n' - ! .. uuc whatsoever ot tne said Indianap ;is, Decatur and hpringfield Railway Coinpl'iy, as well nt law as in equity, of, in "and to " same and eveyr part and parcel thereof. The suscccul bidder will ne required 1 (to pay un account ol the purchase price, nt [ lime of sale, the sum of fifty thousand doll, in cash, and the sale will he subject to J terms and conditions of the uforesuid iu I ment. ' Dated January 26, IRM. BENJAMIN AYMAR SANDS, ROBERT. B. F. PEIRCE, Trustees and Special Maste' Platt & Bowers, i. Augustus L. Mahon, • fa Attorn/ys for Trustees. I 1 ®* J m/