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Hope's countenance flushed with ■delight. and Mrs. Eastonsaw ina moment tluit Mary's atTection was eo-ojieratin.tr with her prudence. "1 thought that would be her tirst word, sir.” said she. “Why, of course you will. miss. There, don't you take any trouble; we'll pack up your things and put them in thedogeart: but you must eat a morsel, both of you, before you go. There's a beautiful niece of beef in the pot. not ovorsalteu. and some mealy potatoes and suet dumpling:;. You sit down and have your chat, whilst Polly and I get

everything ready for von.”

Then Mary asked Mr. Hope so many questions with such eager nlTectionthat he had no time to ask her any, and then she volunteered the home news, es-

him you was gone upto London to fetch a doctor.” Walter grasped John Baker's hand. “God bless you, old man,” said he. “for taking that on your conscience! Well, you sha’n't have yourself to reproach tor my fault. 1 know a first-class gout doctor in London; he lias cured it my re than once. I'll wire him down this minute; you'll despatch the message, and I'll go to my fatlier.” The message was sent, and when the Colonel awoke from an uneasy slumber he saw his son at the foot of the lied.

ga/.ing piteously at him.

"My near boy.” said he, faintly, and

peeially of Colonel Clifford's condition, and then she blushed and asked him if

he had siiid anythingto her father about

Walter Clifford.

“Not much,” said Mr. Hope. “You are very young, Mary, and it's not for me to interfere, and "I won't interfere. But if you want my opinion, why, I admire the young man extremely.' 1 always liked him; he is a straightforward, upright, manly, good-hearted chap, and has lots of plain good sense—Heaven

knows where he got it!"

This eulogy was interrupted by Mary putting a w hite hand and a peffect nose upon Hope's shoulder, and kissing the

cloth thereon.

held out a wasted hand. Walter was pricked to the heart at this greeting; not a remonstrance at his absence. “I fear you missed me, father,” said

he, sadly.

“That 1 have.” said the old man; “but I dare sue you didn't forget me. though

you weren't by my side.'*

The liigh-niimied old soldier said no more, and put no questions, but confided in his son's affection, and awaited the result of it. From that hour Walter Clifford nursed his fatlier day and night. Dr. (kirner arrived next day. He examined the patient, and put a great many questions as to the history and progress of the disorder up to that date, and inquired in particular w hat was the length of time the !its generally endured. Here he found them all rather hazy. “Ah,” said he. “patients are seldom able to assist their medical adviser with precise inforniationon this point, yet it's verj important. Well, canyon tell me how long this attack

has lasted V”

They told him that within a day or

two.” ’

“Then now.” said lie. “the most important question of all: What day did the pain leave Ids extrem^'ics?” The patient and John Baker had to compare notes to answer this question, | and they made it out to beabout twenty

halfVadly—for he 1> knew"that alMnid-1 .‘ 'Len he ought to beasdeadas a her-dle-aged men must now be second— rlI, R; whispered the doctor. “have I found the way to your heart?” I After tins he began to walk the room

You always knew that. Mr. Hope," said Mary, softly: “especially since my

escapade in that horrid brook.”

Their affectionate chat was interrupted by a stout servant laying a snowy cloth, and after her sailed in Mrs. Gilbert. w ith a red face, and pride unconcealed and just iliable, carry ing a grand dish <M smoking hot boiled beef, set in a very flower lied, so to speak, of carrots, turnips, and suet dumplings; the servant followed with a brown basin, almost iis big as a ewer, filled with mealy potatoes, whose jackets hung by ii thread. Around this feast the whole party soon collected, and none of them sighed for Russian soups or French ragouts; for the fact is that under the title of boiled beef there exist two tilings, one of which, without any great impropriety. might he called junk; but this was the powdered beef of our ancestors, a huge piece jusi slightly salted in the house itself, so that the generous juice remained in it, hut the piquant slices, with the mealy potatoes, made a delightful combination. The glasses were tilled w ith home-brewed ale, sparkling and clear and golden as the finest Madeira. They all ate manfully, stimulated by the genial hostess. Even Mary outshone all her former efforts, and although she couldn't satisfy Mrs. Gilbert, she declared she had never eaten so iiaicli in all her life. This set good Mrs. Gilbert's cheeks all aglow with

simple, honest satisfaction.

Hope drove Mary home in the dogcart. He was a happy man,hut she could hardly lx* called ;i happy woman. She was warm and cold by turns. She had got her friend hack, and that was a comfort, hut she was not treating him with eonlidenee; indeed she was passively deceiving him. and that chilled her: but (then it would not be for long, and that comforted her; and yet even when the day should come for the great doors of Clifford Hall to fly open to her, would not a sad. reproachful look from dear Mr. Hope somewhat embitter her cup of happiness? Deceit, and even reticence. did not come so natural to her as they do to many women; she was not weak, and she was frank, though very

modest.

Mr. Hartley met them at the door, and owing to Hope’s presence, was more demonstrative than usual. lie seemed much pleased at Mary's return, and delighted at her appearance. “Well.” said he, "I am glad 1 sent you away for a week. We have all missed you, my dear, but the change has - 1 you up again. I never saw you look better. Now you are well, we must try and keep you well.”

We must leave the render to imagine the mixed feelings with which Mrs. Widle: Clifford laid her head upon the pilhos (hat night, and we undertake to say that the female readers, at all events, will supply this blank in our narrative much better than we could, though wo were to till a chapter with that subject alone.

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Passion is a terrible enemy to mere affection. Walter Clifford loved his father dearly, yet for twenty-four hours he had almost’forgotten him. But the moment he turned his horse's head toward Clifford I (all, uneasiness and something very like remorse began to seize him. Suppose his father had asked for him, and wondered where lie was, and felt himself deserted and abandoned in his dying moments. He spurred his horse to n gallop, and soon reached Clifford Hall. As be was afraid to go straight to his fiitlier's room, he went at once'to old Baker, and said, in an agitated voice: “One word. John—is he alive?” “Yes. sir. lie is,” said John, gravely, and rather sternly. “Has he asked for me?” “More than once or twice, sir.” \V alter sank into a chair, and covered his face with ids hands. This softened the old servant, whose manner til! then had been sullen and grim. “You need not fret. Mr. Walter.” said lie; "it's all right. In course I know where you have been." Walter looked up alarmed. “I mean in a general way.” said the old man. “You have been a-courting of an angel. I know her, sir. and I hope to be her servant some day: and if you wrs to mnrrv anvhnt her. I'd leave service altogether, and so would Khoda Milion; but. Mr. Walter, sir, there's a time for everything: I hope you’ll forgive me tor saying so. However, you are here now, and I was wide-awake, and I have made it all right, sir.” “That's impossible,” said Walter. “How could you make it right with my poor dear fattier, in Ids last moments he felt himself neglected.” “But hedidn't feel himself neglected." “I don't understand you,” said Walter. “Well, sir,” said old Baker, “I'm an old servant, and I've done my duty to fatlier and son according to my lights; I told 1dm a lie.” “A lie, John!” said Walter. “A thundering lie," said John, rather aggressively. "I don’t know as I ever told a (treater lie in all my life. I told

and meditate, with his hands behind

him.

' Open those top windows,” said he. “New draw the screen, and give his lung.’ a chance: no draughts must blow upon him. vou know.” Then he drew Walter asiae. "im you want to know the truth? Well. then. Ids life hangs ifn a thread. The gout is creeping upward. and will inevitably kill him if wo can't get it down. Nothing but heroic remedies will do that, and it's i ree to live against them. What do you say?” "I dare not—I dare not. Fray put the question to him." “1 will,” said the doctor; and accordingly he did put it to him with a good deal of feeling and gentleness, and the answer rather surprised him. Weak as he was. Colonel Clifford’s dull eye flashed, and lie half raised himself oh his elbow. “What a question to put to a soldier!” said he. "Why, let us fight, to he sure. 1 thought it was twenty to one—five to three? I have often won the rubber with live to tlnee against me.” Ah!” said Dr. Garner, “these are the

patients Hint give the doctor a chance.” Then lie turned to Baker. “Have you

any good champagne ui the house—not sweet, and not too dry. and full of fire?” “Irroy's Carte d'Or,” suggested the patient, entering into the business with a certain feeble alacrity that showed his gout had not always been unconnected

witli imprudence in diet.

Baker was sent for therhampange. It was brought and opened, and the patient drank some of it fizzing. When he had drunk what he could, his eyes

twinkled, and lie said;

“That’s a hair of a dog that lias often

bitten me."

The wine soon got into his weakened

head, and he dropped asleep.

“Another draught when he wakes.” said the doctor, “but from a fresh bot-

tle.”

“We'll finish this one to your health in the servants’ hall,” said honest John Baker. Dr. Garner stayed there all night, keeping up the patient's strength with eggs and brandv, and everything, in short, except medicine; and he also administered champagne, but at much longer intervals. At one o'clock the next day the patient gave a dismal groan; Walter and the others started up in alarm. “Good!” said the uoetor,calmly; “now I'll go to bed. Call me if there's ;wiy fresh symptom." At six o clock old Bilker burst In the room: “Sir. sir, behave swore at me twice. The Lord be praised!” "Excellent!” said the doctor. “Now tell me what disagrees with him most after champagne?” "Why Green Chartreuse, to he sure," src.i 'Mil kiq“Then give him a table-spoonful." said the doct»>r. “Get me some hot water." "Which first?” inquired Baker. “The patient, to be sure,” said Dr. Garner. Soon after this the doctor stood by his patient's side, and found him wri'hing. and, to tell the truth, he was iis.’ig had language occasionally, though he evidently tried not to. Dr. Garner looked at his watch. "I think there's time to catch the evening train.” “Why," said Walter “surely you would not desert us; this is the crisis, is it sot?'’ “It's something more than that.” said the doctor; “the disease knows its old place; it has gone hack to the foot like a shot; and if you can keep it there, the patient will live, he's not the sort of patient that strikes his colors while there's a bastion left to defend.” These words pleased the old Colonel so that he waved a feeble hand above his head, then groaned most dismally, ami ground liisleeih loaMiid profanity. The doctor, with exquisite gentleness, drew the clothes off his feet, and sent for a lot of fleecy cotton or wool, and warned them alt not to touch the bed. nor even to approach the lower part of it. and then he once more proposed to leave, and gave his reasons. “Now, look here, you know, I have lone my part, and if I give vou special instructions to the nurses, they can do the rest. I'm rather dear, and why should you waste your money?" Deal!" said Walter, warmly, you're as cheap as dirt, and as good as'gold, and the very sight of you is a comfort tons. There's a fust, train alien; I'll drive you to the station after breakfast myself. Your fees—they are nothing to us. We love him. and we are the happiest house in Christendom; we, that were the saddest.” “Well," said the doctor, “you north countrymen are hearty people. I'll stay till to-morrow moniiiig—indeed. I'll stay till the afternoon, for my London day will lie lost anyway.” He stayed accordingly till three o’clock, left his patient out of all present danger, and advised Waller especially against allowing colchieum to lie administrated to him until his strength bad recovered. " There is no medicinal cure for pout.”

said he; “pain is a mere symptom, and colchieum soothes that pain, not by affecting tin* disease, hut liv stilling the action of the heart. Well, if you still the action of that heart there.you'll kill him as surely as if you stilled it with a pistol bullet. Knockoff Ids champagne in three or four days, and wheel him into the sun as soon as you can v ith safety, fill his lungs with oxygen, and keep all worry and disputes and mental anxiety from him, if you can. Don't contradict him for a month to come.” The Colonel had a terrible bout of it so far as pain was concerned, but after about a fortnight the paroxysms intermitted. Hie appetite increased. Everybody was his nurse; everybody, including Julia Clifford, humored him; Percy Fitzroy was never mentioned, and Hie name of Bartley religiously avoided. The Colonel had got a fright, and was more prudent in’ uis diet, and always hi the open air. Walter left him only at odd times, when lie could hope to get a hasty word with Mary, and tell herliowtliingswere going, and do all that man could ih> to keep her heart up. and reconcile her to the present situation. Returning from ids wife one da$. a fid leaving her depressed by their galling situation, though she was never peevish, but very sad and thoughtful, he found Ids father and JuHa Clifford in the library. Julia had been writing letters for him; she gave Walter a deprecatory look, as much as to say. “What I am doing is by compulsion, and you won’t like it." Colonel Clifford didn't leave Hie young man in anv doubt about the matter. He said; "Walter, you heard me speak of Bell, the counsel who leads this circuit. I was once so fortunate as to do him a good turn, and he lias not forgotten it; he will sleep liere tlm day after to-morrow, and lie will go over that blackguard’s lease; la* lias been In plenty of mining cases. I have got a sort of half opinion ont of him already; lie thinks it contrary to the equity of contracts that minerals should pass imder a farm lease where the surface of tin' soil is a just equivalent to theyearlv payment: but the old fox won't sneak positively till he lias read every syllable of the lease. However, it standslo reason that it's a Gambit comes from a man who is all fraud; but thunk God I am myself again.” He started up erect as a dart. “I'll have him off my lands; I'll drag him out of the bowels of the earth, him and all his clan.” Witli this and other threats of the same character he inarched ont of the room, striking the floor hard with ids stick as he went, and left Julia Clifford amazed, and Walter Clifford aghast, at ids vindictive fury.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE SERPENT LET LOOSE.

Walter Clifford was so distressed at this outlnu'st, and the prospect of actual 'itigatiun between bis fatlier and his sweetheart's father, that Julia Clifford pitied him, and, after thinking a little, said she would stop it for the present. She then sat down, and in five minutes Hie docile pen of a female letter-writer produced an ingratiating composition impossible to resist. She apologized for her apparent insincerity, but would be candid, and confide the’whole truth to Mr. Bell. Then she told him that Colonel Clifford "had only just been saved from death by a miracle,'and a relapse was expected in ease of any great excitement or irritation, such its a doubtful lawsuit with a gentlemar* lie disliked would certainly cause. The proposed litigation was./or foWows reasons, most distressing to his son and successor, Walter Clifford, and would Mr. Bell be so very kind as to put tin* question off as long as possible by any means lie

thought proper?”

Walter was grateful, and said. “What a comfort to have a lady on one’s side!” “I would rather have'a gentleman on

mine,” said Julia, laughing.

Mr. Bell wrote a discreet reply. lie would wait tifi the Assizes six weeks’ delay—and then wrote to the Colonel, postponing his visit. This lie did, and

promised to look 1111 cases meantime.

But these two allie

Our tide hitherto has been raiher"sluggish; hut it is in narrative as it isin nature. when two streams unite their forces the current becomes broader and st ronger. Leonard Monekton was sent to Fentonville, and after some years transferred to Fort land. In both’places he played the game of an old hand; always kept his temper and carnied everybody, especiallv the chaplain and the turnkeys. These last he treated as his only masters; and if thev gave him short weight in bread or meat, catch him making matters worse by appealing to the governor! Toward the end of this time at I’entonville lie had some thought of suicide, but Ids spirits revived at Fortland. where lie was cheered by the conversation ofotliervillains. Theirname was legion; but as he never met one of them again, except Ben Burnley, all those miscreants are happily irrelevant. And the reader need not fear an introduction to them, unless lie sliould find himself garroted in some dark street or suburb, or Ids home rifled some dark and windy night. As for Ben Burnley, lie was from the North country, imprisoned for conspiracy and manslaughter in an attack upon ndu-union miners. Toward the end of Ids time lie made an

attack upon a warder, and got live years more. Then Monekton showed him lie

was a fool, and explained to him ids own plan of conduct, and bade him observe how popular lie was witli tlio warders, and reaped all the favor they

dared to show him.

“He treated me like a deg,” said the

man, sullenly.

"1 saw it,” said Leonard “Ami if I had burn you I would have said nothing, but waited till my time was out, and then watched for iiim till lie got ids day out, and settled his hash. That is the way for your sort. As for me. killing is a poor revenge: it is too soon over. Do you think I don't mean to be revenged on that skunk Bartley, ami aoovj all on that scoundrel Hope, who planted the swag in m> pockets, and let me into tliis hole for fourteen years?” Then, w itli all his self-command, he burst into a torrent of curses, and his pale face was ghastly with hate.and his eyes glared with demoniac lire, for hell

raged in his heart.

Just then a warder approached, audio Burnley's surprise, who did not see him coming. Monekton said, gently: “And

therefore, my poor fellow, do just eon-

li

ies not only baffled

their irascible chief; they also humored him to the full. They never mentioned the nameof Bartley, and they kept Ferey Fitzroy out of sight in spite of his remonstrances, and, in a word, they made tigs Colonel’s life so smooth that lie thought lie was going to have his own way in everything, and he improved in healtli and spirits; for you know it is an old saying, “Always get your own wav, and you'll never die in a"pet.” And then wlint was still a tottering situation was kept mi its legs by the sweet character and gentle temper of

Mary Bartley.

We have already mentioned that she was supciior to most women in toe habit of close attention to whatevershe undertook. This was the real key to her facility in languages,history, music, drawing, and calisthenics, as her professor called female gymnastics. The flexible creature's limhs were in secret steel. Stic could go thirty feet up a slack rope hand over hand with wonilerfifi case and grace, and hang by one hand for ten minutes to kiss the otlier to her triends, ni the very day shevas surprised intoeonsentingto marry Walter secretly stie sat dow n to Hie Marriage Serv'.ce and learned it all by heart directly, arid understood most of it. By this means she realized that now she had another man to obey as well as her father. So now. when Walter pressed her for secret meetings, she said, submissively, "Oh yes, it you insist.” She even remarked that she concluded clandestine meetings were the natural consequence of a clandest ine marriage. She used to meet her husband in the day when she could, and often for five minutes under the moon. And she even promised to spend two or three day.-> with hiii! at the lakes if a ..afe opportunity sliould occur. But for that she stipulated that Mr. Hope must be

absent.

Walter asked her why siie was more afraid of Mr. Hope than of her father. Her eyes seemed to look inward dimly. and at first she said she didn't know. But after pondering the matter a little she said. “Because lie watches me more closely than papa, and that is because—

You won’t tell anylxxiy?”

“No.”

“Not a soul, upon your hor.oi ?" “Not a soifl. dearest, upon my honor.” “Well, then, because he loves me

more.”

“Oh, come!” said Walter, incredulous-

ly.

But Mary would neither resign her opinion nor pursue a subject which

puzzled and grieved her.

We have now indicated the peaceful tenor of things in Derbyshire for a period of some months. We shall have to show by-and-by that elements of discord were accumulating under the surface; but at present we must leave Derbyshire, and deal very briefly with another tissue of events, beginning years ago, and runningto adate three months, at least, ahead of Colonel Clifford's recovery. The reader will have no reason ty regret .Uns apparent interruption.

shier that you have broken the law. and the warders are only doing their duty and earning their bread, and if you were a warder to-morrow, you'd have to do

just what they do.”

“Ay,” said the warder, in passing, “you may lecture the bloke.but you will not make a silk purse out of ii sow's

eai

That was tme. hut nevertheless the smooth villain Mmickton obtained a great ascendency over this rough, shockheaded ruffian Burnley, and lie got into no more scrapes. He finished his two sentences, and left before Monekton. Tliis precious pair revealed to each other certain passages in their beautiful lives. Moncktnn's were only lialfconlidences, but Burnley told Monekton he had been concerned with others in a burglary at Stockton, and also in the deilth of an overseer in amine in Wales, and gave the particulars witli a sort or quaking gusto, and washing his hands nervously in the tainted air all the time. To he sure the overseer laid earned Ids fate; he had himself been guilty of a crime—Jie had been true to his employ-

er.

The grateful Burnley left Portland at last, and promised faithfully to send word to a certain friend of Monckton’s, in London, where lie was, and what he was doing. Meantime lie begged ids way northward from Portland, for the southern provinces were a dead letter

to him.

'Moncktnn's wife wrote to him as often as the lull's of Hie jail permitted, and her letters were full of affection, and of hope that their separation would lie shortened. She went into all thedetails of her life, and it was now a credi-

table one.

practically in Germany; and Lucy was not only a good scholar, and almost a linguist, hut excellent at all needlework. and, better still, could cut dresses and other garments in the best possible style. After one or two inferior places, she got a situation with an English countess; and from that time she was passed as a treasure from one member of the aristocracy to another, and received high stipends, and presents of at least equal value. Being a German, she put by money, and let her husband know it. But in the seventh year of her enforced widowhood her letters began to undergo subtle changes, one aft-

er another.

First there were little exhibitions of impatience. Then there were signs of

languor and a diminution of gush.

1 Then ihcre were stronger prulestiv*

lions of affection than ever.

Then there were mixed witli these protestations queries whether the truest

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March U, 1S91, for roads in the following townships: Jackson, Franklin, Russell, Clin-f ton. Monroe, Floyd and Greeucustle; and up| to one o’clock p. m. of Friday, March 16, 1894,1

for roads in the following townships: Madi-«

son, Warren, Marion, Jefferson and Clove.-, dale; said contracts to be let in sections as! now laid out; bids to be made for so much per day of ten hours for team and driver, and

so much per day for single hand. Bids to be i f lip ('li‘rk i»f at hiu nfficAi

filed with the Clerk of the Board at his otficeJT In Greenoaatle. |

JOHN 8. NEWOENT, t JOHN l> HART. S

J. F. Mclboi.n, SAMUEL FARMER, . “ Clerk of Hoard. Commissioners. This the 8th day of February* 1894. 3t44

Inriienmpolis, beratin' ,f- Spring- ', jiehl Kailirai/ Company. Trustee's Saty.

Notice is hereby given that in pursuance] of a judgment duly rendered anVl entered by J the Superior Court of the county of Marion, | ; in the State of Indiana, at a regular term ofy

said C »urt, held on the twenty+third day ofl June, 1891, in a certain suit them pending in * said Court, wherein we, the undersigned, B. jl A. Sands and R. B. F. Peirce, trustees, wereli plaintiffs, and the Indianapolis! Decatur & ||

lltP, and It Was now ;i erudi- SpriugHeld Railway Company ihnd others, ii YoilIP' women ai*petlm*att*(l I were defendants; and also in pursuance of a|i G,and Luov was ^yn^-^o^M^the^reL^ o^^rtwen^l

third day ot January, 1894; and also by vir-fl tue of, and under tne power anfi authority il ested in us, the »aid Benjampn a > mar :

rci. jisi mmi I'wt i r 111 «><i fl

Sands and Robert B. F. Peirce, as substituted} trustees under a certain indenture’ of mort-H

gage, bearing date the 31st day of Diecember, in the year 1875, made i y the IndiWnapolis, ; Decatur Ap Springlield Railway Coulipany to| James Emott and John J. Crane, as tnusteesJ h,- the undersigned substituted trn^ie®| der the said mortgage in the place ana

stead of said Emott and Crane,’ and tho special masters in pursuance of the terms or the aforesaid judgment, will expose for salt at public auction, to the highest bidder, on Thursday, the tenth day of May, 1894, at twelve o’clock, at the New York Real Estate

affection was not that which provided Then in the eighth jearof Moiirk

for the interests of the beloved person.

ton's imprisonment she added to remarks of the above kind certain confessions that she was worn out with anxieties. and felt her lonelycondition: that vouth and beauty did not last forever; that she had let slip opportunities of doing herself substantial service, and him tot*, if he could look at tilings as coolly now as V,» used to: and she began

to think she had done wrong.

This line once adopted was never given up, though it was accompanied once or twice with passionate expressions of regret at the vanity of longcherished hopes. Then came a letter or two more in which the fair writer desenbed herself as torn tliis way and tjpt way, and not knowing wind to d<> io» the best, and inveighed against

Fate.

Then came a long silence. Then v aim a .slan t letter imploring him. if he loved her as she loved iiim, to try and forget lier, except as one who would always watch over his interests, and weep for him in secret. "Crocodile!” said Monekton. with a

cold sneer.

All this showed him it was 'Ids interest not to lose his hold on her. So fie always wrote to her in a hi autil'ii] strain of faith, affei •;ion. and constancy. But this pait of the comedy was cut short bv the lad- disrontimi'mr tb< -or-

and conecalitig hernddreos

for years.

“Ah!” said Monekton, “she wants to cure me. That cock won t light, my

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Salesroom, number ill Broadway, in the City' of New York, at the auction stand of Smyth -V Ryan, all the railroad’s estate, real arid personal, corporate rights and franchises, and premises conveyed and transferred by

the said hereinabove mentioned mortgage *»r intended so to be, that is to say. the iin

.«• r o | way forni#*r!y <«f th»* Ind'ananolD D«catur A Springtiefd Railway Company, d«l scribed in such mortgage as follows: 'j All and singular its railroad or*railway cc^f J structed or to to he constructed in the StatehJ of Indiana and Illinois, ami being then kuowil and designated as the Indianapolis, Decatur] Springfield Railway ami formerly knowrJ and designated us the Indiana and Illinoi4 Central Bailway , as the same was then coni structed or thereafter should be constructed}L extending from the City of Indianapolit-IH .state of Indiana, to the City of Decatur. Stailgj oi iiltLiuin, lu coii.-xtituLe, wbcii completed, . ' continuous line of railroad one hundred and fifty-two miles in length; and also all the real estate owned bj said company, wherever the same might be situated, and all branches, exl tensions, sidings and turnouts of the saiJ t-uiluiui- f Li - n 1 • i >1 o i it or t.. .--.l.-rtW

railway then IjclunKiug to, or which mig thereafter be conXructed or acquired hy

between Indianapolis and Decatur as a-for|, said, and all lands, righto! way, rails, bndgel tracks, wharves, fences, viaducts, culvert! h'Hi.es, work-imps, machinery, stations, oa fires, depots, depot grounds, engine housed buildings, Improvements, tenements and hereditaments then owned or thereafter til be acquired by the said railway company, it* successors or assigns, for the construction]! operation ami management of the said rail’! rqad between Indianapolis and Decatur as! aforesaid, and all the rolling stock, !ocomo4 Uvea, tenders, ears and equipments, machhar ery, I ols, In plemi land materials and and singular the personal property of cvers kind, nature and description belonging tl the said Indianapolis, Decatur Jt Springnel/] Railway t oinpany, and then or thereafter f use or intended for use upon the s,id rall-l road, or in connection with the proper equip-1 ment and operation of the same; and also aill

and singular the corporate rights, powers, privileges and franchises of the said Indianapolis. Decatur & Springfield Railway Company, then owned and posseeeed or which might be thereafter acquired for the construction, mantenauee and operation of said

railroad, or connected with or relating to the same; and also nil streets, ways, alleys, passages, waters, water courses, casements, rights, tihort !-•, priv-lrg--- hrrcdlt-iiieiitS and appurtenances whatsoever, unto any ol]

the mortgaged premises and estates belong |

pertain, and the reversion and reverslc^js! remainder and remainders, rents, tissues nr J profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title' interest, claim and demand of everv kit ' “ nature whatsoever of the said Indiana Decatur and Springfield Railway Com as well at law as in equity, of, in'and ti same and every part and parcel.thereof. The successful bidder wHl be requin pay on a'count of the purchase price, atime of sale the sum of fifty thousaud dollar) in cash, am', the sale will be subject terms and conditions of the aforesu ment. Dated January 26, 1891. HEN J A M I N AYMAR 8A1 ROBERT B. F. PEIRCE, ' Trustees and Special M Platt & Bow Kits, Auountus L. Mason, Attorneys for Trustees.