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A MARRIAGE AT SEA,

W. CLARK RUSSELL.

CHAPTER I. '-SLr-. Y dendy-rigged ya«h». th# l\ f\ Spitfire, of twenty-six tons, /V\ ,n Boulogne harbor, hid- / Y A, den in the midnight shadow / of the wall agalnat which y Bhe floated. It was a breathlees night, dark despite the wide spread of cloudles sky that was brilliant with stars. It was hard upon the hour of midnight, and low down where we lay we heard but dimly the sounds of such life as was still abroad in the Boulogne streets Ahead of us loomed the shadow of adouble-funnelled steamer,—au Inky dye of scarcely determinable proportions upon the black and silent waters of the harbor. The Capecure pier made a faint, phantom-like liue of gloom as it ran seawards on our le f t, with here and there a lump of shadow denoting some collier fast to the skelet n timbers. W 0 were waiting for the hour of midnight to strike, and our ears were strained. “ What noise Is that?” I exclaimed. "The dip of sweeps, sir,” answered my captain, Aaron Oaudel; some smack a-coming along,—ay, there she is." And be shadowlly jointed to a (lark square hcaj) betwixt the piers, softly approaching to the Impulse of her long oars. “ How Is your plug now, Caudal?” said I, In a low voice, sending a glance up at the dark edge of the harbor wall above us. where stood the motionless figure of a (louanur, with a button or two of his uniform faintly glimmering to the gleam of a lamp near him. Right for the Job, elr,—right as your honor could desire It. There's but one consideration which ain't like a feeling of eartluty ; and that, I must say, cobsarns the dawg." " Smother the dog! But you are right. We must leave our boots iu the ditch." ” Ain't there plenty of grass, sir?” said he. " I hops so ; but a fathom of gravel will so crunch under such hoofs ae yours that the very dead burled beneath might turn In their cofilns, let alone a live dog, wide awake from the end of his beastly cold snout to the tip of his tail. Does the ladder chafe you?" *' No, sir. Makes me feel a bit aeth-matlc-llke, and if them dunters get a sight of me they'll reckon I've visited the Continent to make a show of myself,” he exclaimed, with a low deep soa laugh, whilst he epread his hands upon his breast, around which, under cover of a large, loose, long pea-coat, he had colled a length of rope-ladder with two Iron hooks at one end of it which made a hump under either shoulder-blade. There was no other way, however, of conveying the ladder ashore. In the band It would Instantly have challenged attention, and a bag would have been equa«y an object of curiosity to the two or three eustom-housn phantoms flitting about in triangulr.r-shaped trousers and shako-like head-gear. "There goes midnight, sir!" cried Caudel. Aa I listened to the chimes a sudden fit of excitement set me trembling. "Are ye there, Job?" called my captain. " Ay, sir," resnonded a voice from the bows of the yacht. "Jim?" “ Here, sir,” answered a second voice out of the dark:.css forward. " Dick?" "Here, sir.” ’T— ~ “Bobby?" “Here, sir,’” responded the sqneaVy note of a boy. " Lay aft, all you ship's company, sud don't make no noise,” growled Caudel. I looked up ; the figure of the douanter had vanished. The three men and the boy came sneaking out of the yacht's bead. “ Now, what ye’ve got to do,” said Caudel, “ Is to keep awake. You'll see all ready for hoisting and gitting away the hlnstant Mr. Barclay and me arrives aboard. You onderstand that?" “ It s good English, cnp'n," said one of the sailors. “No skylarking, mind. You're a-llst-ening, Bobby?” “ Ay, sir." "You'll Just go quietly to work and •oe all clear, and then t:.rn to and loaf ahou( In the shadow.—Now, Mr. Barclay, sir, if you're ready I am.” “ Have you tl e little bull's-eye 1b your pocket?" said I. H*< felt, and answered yea. “ Matches?" " Two boxes." “Stop a minute," said I, and I descended into the cabin to read my darling's letter for the last time, that I might make surp of fill th8 details of our romantic plot ere embarking on as harebrained an adventure an was ever attempted by a lover an i his sweetheart. The cabin-lamp burned brightly. I see the little Interior now, and myself standing upright under the skylight which found me room for my stature, for I was six feet high. My heart was beating fast, and my bauds trembled ae i Ufeid my sweetheart’s letter to the light. I had read it twenty times before, but my nervoiji excitement obliged me to go through it once more for the last time, as I have said, to make sure. The handwriting was girlish; how could It be otherwise, seeing that the swoet writer was not yet eighteen? The letter consisted of four sheets, and on one of them was verv cleverly drawn, la pen and Ink, a tall, long, uarrow, oldfashioned chateau, with some shrubbery in front of It, a short length of wall, then a tall hedge with an arrow pointing at It, under which was written, " Here Is the hole.” Under another arrow, indloatlng a big squire door to the right of the house, where a second short length of wall was sketched in, were written the words, “ Here is the dog." Other arrows—quite a flight of them, Indeed, causing the sketch to resemble a weather-chart — pointed to windows, doors, a little balcony, and so forth, and against them were written, "Ma'in'•elle's room," "The German governess's room," “ Four girls sleep here,"—with oihei hints of a liko kind. I put the letter In my pocket and went on deck. " Where are you, Caudel?" “ Here, sir," cried a shadow In the starboard gangway. “ Let us start,” said I; there is half an hours walk before us, and, though the agreed time Is one, there is u great deal to bo done when we arrive.” We said little until we had cleared the Rue do I’Ec’j and were marching up the broad Gran 1 Rue, with the church of St. Nicholas soaring in a dusky mass out of Uiu market-place, and the few lights of the wide main street rising in fitful twinklings to the shadow of the rampart rfclls. A mounted gendarme passed; V.0 otroko of bin horse's hoofs sounded hollow In the broad thoroughfare and accentuated tbs deserted appearance of the street, | "I shan't be sorry when we're there," '

•aid Caudel. “ This bere ladder makes my coat feel a terrible tight fit. I suppose It'll be the first Job of the sort ye was ever engaged In, sir?" “ The first," aaid I, “and the last too, believe me. It is nervous work. I would rather have to deni with an armed burglar than with an elopement.” "And I don't suppose the young lady feels extray comfortable, either." he exclaimed. “Let me eea; I’ve got to be right In my latitude and longltvde, or we shall be finding ourselves nsbore. It s for us to make the slgunl, ain't it,

sir?"

‘'Yea," said I, puffing, for the road was steep and we were walking rapidly. " F rst of all, you'd have to prepare the lodder. You haven't forgotten the rungs, I hope?” referring to t hr»e brass pieces to keep the rope extended, contrivances which had been made to my order, resembling stair-rods w.th forks and an arrangement of screws by which they could be disconnect 'd into pieces convenient for the |>ocket. “They’re here, sir," he exclaimed, tlajijiing his breast. “ Well, we proceed thus. The bull'seye must be cautiously lighted and darkened. We have then to steal noiselessly to abreast of the window on the left of the house and flash the Unteru. This will be answered by the young lady atrikng a match at the window.” "Won't the si rapin'? of the luolfer be heard?" Inquired t'audel. " No. Miss Uellaseys writes to mo that no one sleeps within several corridors of that room." " Well, an 1 then I think ye »ald, sir,” observed Ouudel, "that the young lady'll slip out onto the balcony and lower away a small length of line to which this here ladder,” he said giving his breast a thump, " is to bo bent on, she hauling of It up?’ “Quite right," g«ld I. “You must ^elp her tqdesceud, whilst I hold tLeladder taut at the foot of it. No fear of the roji s break lug, I hope?” "Lord love ee," he cried heartily, “ It’s braud-new ratline-stuff, strong enough to hoist the main-mast out of a first-rats." By tr.la time we hod gained the top of the Grande Rue. Before us stretched an open apace dark with lines of trees; at long Intervals the gleam of an oil lamp dotted that space of gloom ; on our right lay the dusky mass of the rampart walls, the yawning gate-way dully Illuminated by the trembling flame of a lantern Into a picture which carried the imagination back into heroic times, when elopements were exceedingly common. when gallant knights were to be met with galloping away with women of beauty and distinction olinglng to them, when the mid'^g;ht air was vocal with guitars, urd nearly every other darkling lattice framed some sweet, pale, listening face. " Which’U be the road, sir?" broke in Caudel * tempestuous voice. I had explored the district that afternoon, had observed all that was neceseery, and discovered that the safest if not the shortest way to the Rue de Maquetra, where my sweetheart Grace Beliassys was at school, lay through the Haute Ville, or Upper Town, as the Eng'ish called It. The streets were utterly deserted ; not ao much as a cat stirred. One motionless figure we passed, hard by the cathedral—a policonmu or gendarme—he might have been a statue. " Foreigners is a queer lot," exclaimed Caudel. "I duuuo as I should much relish living between them walls. How mueb farther off is It, sir?" " About ten minutes." said I. “ A blooming walk, Mr. Barclay, sir, begging your j.ardon. Wouldn't it have been as well if you'd have ordered a feebacre to stand by rsady to Jump aboard " A fee what?" said I. " What's the French for a cab, sir?” "Oh! I see what you mean. No. A carriage mr.kes a noise ; and then there is the cabman to bo left behind to toll all that he knows. ' Caudel grunted an assent, and we strided onward In silence. A few minutes walk brought us to the grounds belonging to the house, which were divided from the lane by a thick hedge. We came to a stand and listened, staring our hardest with all our eyes. The house wax in blackness ; the line of the roof ran la a clear sweep of luk against the stars, and not the faintest sound came from it or Its grounds, save the delicate tinkling murmur of a fountain playing somewhere among the shrubbery In front. “ Where'll be the dawg?" exclaimed Caudel, In a hoarse whisper " Behind the wall there,” I answered, —" yonder where the great square door is. Hark 1 Did not that sound like the rattle of a chain?" We listened; then said I,— “Let us make for the hole In the hedge. I have Its bearings." We crept soundlessly past the house, treading the verdure that lay In dark streaks upon the glimmering ground of this little-frequented lane. “One bell, sir,” said Caudel, “It’s about time we turned to, and no mistake. Lord, how I’m a-perspirlng I yet it ben't ao hot, neither. Which side of the house do the lady descend from?" " From this side." I answered. “ Weil clenr of the dawg. anyhow,” said he, " and that's a good Job." " Here's the hole," I cried, with ray voice shrill beyond recognition of my own hearing through the nervous excitement I labored under. We squeezed larougu and found ourselves iu a sort of kitchen garden, as I might imagine from the aspect of the shadowy vegetation; It seemed to run i'1'ar to the very walls of the house on this side In dwarf bushes aud low ridged growths. ” Here’ll be a path, I hope," growled Caudel. "What am I a-treading on? C e b be £e 7 They crackle worse nor gravel, Mr. Barclay. " Clear yourself of the rope-ladder, and then I’ll smother you in your big pea-coat whilst you light thu lamp," sal 1 I. “ Lot us keep well In the shadow of the hedge. Who knows what eyes may bo star-gazing yom'erV" "With a seaman's alacrity, Caudel slipped off his immens) coat, and in a few moments had unwound the length of ladder from his body. Ho wore a colored flannel shirt: I had dreaded to uud him ilsuriug In whit tu-j.ol Ha dropped the ladder to the ground, and the iron hooks clanked ns they fell together. I hissed a sea blessing at him through my teeth. “ Have you no wicks in those tallowcandle lingers? Hush 1 Stand motion-

less."

As I spoke, the dog began to bark. That It was the dog belonging to the house I could swear. The Sound, nevertheless proceeded from the direction of the jaid in which my sweetheart told me tne dog was chained, ihe drep ami melancholy note was like that of a blood-hound giving tongue. " He'll be a wooper, sir. Big as a pony, sir, if hia voice don't belie him,” said Caudel, fetching a deep breath. " I was once bit by a dawg " He was about to spin a yarn.

“For heaven's saae, now. bear a hanu and get your bull’s-eye alight," I angrily whispered, at the same moment snatching up his coat and so holding It as effectually to screen his figure from the

house.

Feeling over the coat, he pulled out the little bull’a-eye lamp and a box of matches, and, catching with oceanic dexterity the (lame of ti e luclfer in the hollow of his hands, he kindle ' the wick, and I Immediately closjd th# lantern with itti glass eclipsed. “Pick up that ladder,—by the hooka; see they don't clank ; crouch low ; make a bush of yourself, us I do, and come along," said I. Foot by foo. we groped our way towards the tall thin shadow of the house through the cabbages, snd presently a dved at the edge of the sward; and now we had to wait until the clock struck one. This side of the house lay so black against the fine, clear, starry dusk of the sky that It was Impossible to see the outlines of the windows In It. I could manage, however, to trace faintly the line of the balcony. My heart beat fast as I thought that even now my darling might be standing at the window peering through It, waiting for the signal flash. Caudel was thinking of her too : “The young lady, begging of your pardon, sir, must be a gal of uncommon spirit, Mr. Barclay." " She loves me, Caudel, and love is the most animating of spirits, my friend." " I dorn't doubt It, sir. What room’U It be that she’s to come out of?" "The dining-room,—a big deserted apartment where the girls take their meals." " Tain’t her bedroom, then?" "No. She Is to steal dressed from her bedroom to the »nll*-a-manger ” "The Sally what, sir?" " No matter, no matter,” I answered. “ It's uncommon queer," he persisted, “to feel one's self In u country where one's language ain't spoke. The weary soil don t seem natural. As to the language itself, burst me if I can understand how a man masters it.” The convent clock struck one. " Now," said I, " stand by." I held up the lamp, and so turned the darkened part as to produce two flashes. A moment after, a tiny flame showed and vanished above the balcony "My brave darling!" I exclaimed. “ Have you the ladder in your hand?” " Ay, sir." " Mind these counfounded hooks don't

clink.”

We stepped across the sward and stood under the balcony. “Grace, my darling, Is that you!” I called, in a low voice. "Yes, Herbert. Oh, please be quick. I am fancying I hear foot-steps. My heart Is scarcely beating for fright.” I could Just discern the outline of her figure as sue leaned over the balcony and see the whits of her face vaguo as a

fancy.

" My dsrllng, lower the line to pull the ladder up with. Very softly, my pet; there are iron hooks which make a

noise."

Iu a few moments she called, “I have

lowered the line."

I felt about with my hand and grasped the end of it,—a piece 'of twine, but strong enough to support the ladder. The deep blood-hound-liko baying of the dog recommenced, and at the same time I heard the sound of footsteps in the

lane.

"Hist! Not astir,—not a whisper," I breathed out. It was the staggering step of a drunken m-n. lie broke mcudllnly into a song when Immediately abreast of us, ceased bis noise suddenly, and hailed. This was a little p-ssoge of agony, I can assure you. The dog continuou to utter Its sullen, d* ep-thruRtcd nark in single strokes like the beat of a bell. Prosemly there wus a sound ns of the scrambling and scrunching of feet, followed by the m'se of a lurching tread ; the man fell to drunkenly s nglng to himself again, and so pavsed up the lane. C iu del fastened the end of the twine to the ladder, and then grunted out, "All ready for hoisting." “Grace, my sweet," I whispered, “do you heur me?” “Distinctly, dearest; but I am eo frightened 1" " Full up this ladder so'tly, and hook the irons on to the rim of the balcony." “ Blast the dawg !” growled Caudel. "It is hooked, Herbert.” “ All right. Caudel s'.7lng off upon the end of it,—t-'st It, and then aloft with you, for mercy's siko!" The three metal rings held the ropes bravely stretched out. The seaman sprang, and the ladder held as though it had been the shrouds of a man-of-war. “Now Caudel, you arc a seaman, you must do the rest " said I. He had removed his boots, and mounting with a cat like agility, gained the balcony then, taking my sweetheart In his arms, ho lifted her over the rail and lowered her down with his powerful arms until her little feet were half way down the ladder. She utterad one or t#o faint exclamations, but was happily too frightened to cry out. “Now, Mr. Barclay," hoarsely whispered Caudel, “you kiteh hold of her. sir” I grasped the ladder wi^b one hand and passed my hand around her waist; my statue made tne f<vi* ac essy cce, thus j homing ner to me I sprang oaon.iheu for an Instant strained her to my heart with a whisper of joy, gratitude and encouragement “You nre as brave us younre true and swcot Grace “Oh, Herbert 1" she panted. "I can think of nothing. I am very wicked, and feel horribly fi -htened;" "Mr. Barclay" softly called Caudel from the balcony, ' what's lo Le dime with this hero ladder.” "Let it be, let It be," I answered. “Bear a hand, Caudel, and come down.” He was along side of us in s trice,pulling on his boots. I held ray daiir.ng's buna, and the three of us made for the hole in the hedge with all possible speed There ecemed little doubt from the persistency of the creature's deep delivery that It scented mischief going forward despite Its ksnnel standing some considerable distance away on the other side of the bouse. I glanced back as Caudel was squeezing through the bole, but the building showed as an ImpenatrnMo shadow against the winkimr brilliance of tho sky hovering over and past It, rich with radiance In places of metoric dust; no light glsamed ; the, night hush, deep as death, was upon the chateau. In a few moments my captain and I had carefully handed Grace through the hole and got her safe In the lane, aud off we started, keeping well lu the deep gloom cast by the convent wall, walking swiftly, yet noiselessly, and scarcely fetching our breath till we were clear off the lane, with the broad glimmering 8t. Omer read running in s rise upon our

left.

THE CZAR'S LAST GIFT.

An Instance of the Thoughtfolnees of Alexander. The late czar of Russia may have pursued a mistaken and somewhat cruel government policy, but in his domestic relations ho was all thoughtfulness and affection, says a foreign exchange. It is told that last summer tho czar and empress visited a great shop in 8t. Petersburg to buy jewels for their son’s future bride. .The empress greatly admired a beautiful bracelet, and told the czar that she wished to possess it. On their return one of the serious attacks to which ho was subject came upon him, and the empress forgot the bracelet. The czar died, and to the empress ' in the early days of her widowhood came, November 14, the first birthday she must pass alone. On her other birthdays the czar had been wont to place a bouquet in the morning room of the empivss. Inside the flowers was I always found some rich, rare gift, chosen months beforehand. Tho | einjjrcss had avoided the room as too i full of painful memories, but this morni ing, the morning of his wedding day, j Nicholas requested his mother logo j there as a favor to him. The first thing she saw was the bouquet in the usual I place, aud inside the flowers was a case, fastened and sealed by the czar’s own hands. It contained the bracelet. Ho had ordered it on the same day that the empress saw it, and on his deathbed had given instructions for tho birthday gift, bidding his son to be near to comfort her when she received it.

CLOTHES MADE OF V/COD.

One of tho Things Which tho Future Will Probably Drlng Forth. Time was when references to a “wooden overcoat” were understood as the irreverent equivalent of Pleasuring a'man for a coflin, but it would seem that suits of clothes made of wood in^v soon be aa accomplished fact. The writer, says the Edinburgh Scotsman, is indebted to a merchant of the city of cloth—Leeds—for a glimpse of samples of a species of cloth, and also of a sort of cotton, made wholly out of wood fiber, these two woven pieces having all the appearance of attractive articles of their own kind. Both these novel textile fabrics are the result of prolonged experiments with pinewood and spruce, which have been ingeniously torn to pieces in the first instance and then bleached by an elaborate chemical process. ^Yfter chemical treatment in many ways the wood becomes a soft, white pulp, which is run through perforated plates, tho resulting threads being dried by a steaming process. These threads can be woven, and the material is susceptible of taking readily any sort of dye. The fabric can he made at an astonishingly cheap cost; it looks well aud has a certain amount of strength (experiments in this eotme jtion are now being carried out), and its appearance on the market, sooner or later, is absolutely certain, especially in the form of imitation cotton.

AS5IST NATURE a little now and then in removing offending matter from the stomach and bowels and you thereby avoid a multitude of distressing derangements and diseases, and will have less frequent need of your doctor’s service. OLall known agents for this purpose, Dr. Fierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the best. Once ux'd, the) arc nlviats i u favor. Their secondary effect is to keep the bowels open and regular, not to further coustipatc, as is the case with ether piiis. II'. nc?, their great popularity with sufferers front habitual con: ttpation. piles aud their attendant disconf.nt and manifold derangements. The ‘ Pellets” are purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition cf the system. No care is required while using them: they do not interfere with the diet, habits or occupation, and produce no pain, grilling or shock to the system. They act in a mild, easy and natural way and there is no reaction afterward. Their help lasts. The Pellets cure biliousness, sick and bilious headache, dizziness, costiveness, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, cr dyspepsia, windy belchings, “heartburn,” pain and distress after eating, and kindred derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels. In proof of their superior excellence, it can be truthfully said, that they are always adopted as a household remedy after the first trial. Put up in sealed, glass vials, therefore always fresh and reliable. One little " Pellet" is a laxative, two are mildy cathartic. As a “dinner pill,” to promote digestion, or to relieve distress from overeating, take one after dinner. They are tiny, sugar-coated granules; any child will readily Lake them. Accept no substitute that may be recommended to be “just as good.” It may be y/lrrfor Hir dealer, because of paying him i better profit, but he is not the one who needs help. Lord Kelvin maintains that the earth is one hundred million years old.

[to be continued.]

The fact that Hood's Sarsapgr’lla, once fairly tried, becomes the favorite spring medicine, speaks volumes tor its excellence and merit.

HOW FISH ASCEND. Oxygen Necessary to Make Them Rise Obtained from Their Own lllnod. A (furious physiological discovery has been made in the Laj.t year by Prof. Bohr, of Copenhagen, in regard to the mode of storage by which a fish accumulates so much oxygen in the air I that distends the swimming or air bladder. The air contained therein has a percentage of oxygen that may rise to as much as eighty-five, an amount in excess of the percentage .in atmospheric air. Prof. Ilohr tapped the air bladders of codfish and drew off the gas by means of a trocar and airtight syringe. The gas had fifty-two per cent, of oxygen. In a few hours the air bladdef was refilled, apparently by a process o! secretion of gas from the blood in tin capillaries on the wall of the bladder. In one experiment the gas thus secreted had eighty per cent, of oxygen. When the nerves connected with the organ were severed, tho secretion ceased and the organ was n^t refilled. It thus appears that when a fish descends to a great depth, and his body is reduced in size by increased pressure of the water about him, he is able to attain his former size and rise by secreting the gas he needs and not by absorbing the water. Support is thus given to the theory that the gaseous exchanges that occur in the lungs of animals are not purely physical. BUYING SNOW. A W ild Western Idea of New York Dinner Decorations. What to do with the snow is always a mystery in New York city, says a western paper, hut a portion of the commodity finds buyers at tolerably fair prices. Tho passion for making a snowman is strong in the breasts of all hoys, but when snow falls in diminutive modicums, as it does in the metropolis, the youths have hard work to get enough for even a snowball. Papas who can afford it have been giving Cue carters a fair price for llicir cartloads. In the few little gardens of New York an occasional snow man has been challenging the admiration of neighborhoods. Some carters have even been ringing doorbells where they knew children lived and offering to leave their ablen wares for a consideration. The police are very watchful for these fellows, however, for it is a misdemeanor to empty a wagonload of snow in a New York street. It is not unusual for snow to be heaped up at a dinner table on some silver tray or other, with roses and other flowers arranged about it. A Furiosity of IIiinEnrian Divorce. A farmer was arrested in a village in Hungary for firing two shots through the window of an inn at his wife and | her father. Fortunately his aim was bad. On being asked his reason for the attempt he stated that ho had already had nine wives, who had all consented, at his request, to-be divorced. 11 is tenth and present wife, however, acting on the “injudicious advice” of her father, refused, and consequently ho felt an-

noyed.

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