Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1888 — Page 1

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Govraxzss. "Asif abil's Rivau" CHAPTER XLVL oscx aoaht. ONE morning, about a fortnight after Biddulph had dispatched his tele, gram to Jock Fraser, in a private 6itting-roora in the Fifth-avenue lotel, Jfew York, two gentlemen were talking and speculating rather anxiously aiut his expected arrival there. These two were Biddulph and Dalton; the latter bavin? just returned from a risit to Malcolm Eraser's sick-room. MI don't think that poor young fellow looks so well this morning," said Dalton, in his calm way, approaching the couch where Biddulph was lying, which was placed close to one of the windows ot the room, out of which Biddulph had been gazing vaguely on the gardens in Madisonequate, and on the fountain playing in the xnist. I "Well," said Biddulph, turning sharply ronnd. "Unless his father and mother make haste, I doubt very much that they will see Lim alive," continued Dalton. "I don't like his looks, and he seems -ery weak." The doctors will not have seen him yet, I suppose?" asked Bidiulph, anxiously. :"If tney do not come in half an hour, wo bad best send for Dr. lister, Dalton. What does the nurse say?" "She says that he is very restless, and that he is pining to see his mother." "Poor boy I it's a sad case." , "Yes," and then Dalton retired into a 1 corner of the room, and, drawing a kev from his pocket, unlocked a box which (was standing there, and stood paring con,'JempIatively at the treasures it contained. ' These were bis geolojrical specimens, lend were more interesting in Dalton's eight than the young life which he deemed drawing near a close. He took out a piece 'of a petrified stump, once part of a great tree, now apparently transformed into solid quartz, and examined it with profound attention, and then carried it acrosa to Biddulph's couch. "The petrified stamp from which I chipped this," he said, "was 63ven feet in diameter, and was standing erect in tha eoil, where it seemingly once grew." Bat Biddulph failed "to show any interest. "I am anxiona about Malcolm Fraser," he said, after glancing one moment at the petrifaction in Dalton's hand; "I think I should like to see him." "My dear Biddulph, you know Dr. Lester said you were to niovo about as little as possible : and Peeing the poor fellow can do him no pood." "Still begrm Biddulph, restlessly. Bat at this moment a waiter rapped at the room door and brought in a card and handed it to Biddulph. He glanced at it and gave a quick exclamation. "It is Mr. Fraser, Dalton Mr. Fraser of Airdiinn! Ther have arrived, then. Is there a lady with this gentleman?" he inquired of the waiter. "There arc two ladle, sir," answered the waiter "English ladies." "Two! Ah, to be sure, the poor fellow's mother and sister. Will von go to them. Dalton, and explain Yiow my broken leg prevents mv going to receive them? And then take them to Malcolm Fraser's room and don't tell them you know quite how really ill he is." "I shall go at once," answered Dalton ; but before doinar so he carefully deposited his petrified stump back to its place in his box of treasures, and locked it, and pocketed the key. Then he went to receive "Mr. and Mr. Fraser, and Biddulph was left alone. He felt not a little excited and upset, knowing how terrible wonld be the shock to the fond mother to Fee her handsome, etalwart yonnr son transformed into a hopeless cripple. For Malcolm Frapr had never recovered the nse of his lower limbs, and would never walk a sten nsrain on earth, all the doctors had told Bidduloh. "Poor Mrs. Fraer!" he thon?ht comE assionntely, and hp siched. Rfddnloh imself was also ereatlv chanced, for his face was pale and hazard, and his hair had prown sliehtly prav at the temples, and altogether he looked an altered man. lie had, in truth, suffered Wrihlv from the laceration of the flesh by the broken bones of his leg, when he had drnecpd himself to seek water to save Malcolm Fraser from perishin? by thirst. He used crutches when he left his couch, and his lee was still in splints; and he had grown thin and ten years oMer looking than when he hnd first stood hv Nora Stewart's aide amid the Scottish hill3. Perhaps aqnarter of an hour passed, and then Dalton acrnin opened the room do r, and Biddulph looked eacerly toward him. ""UU." he asked, "have you taken them to his room ?" "Yes," answered Dalton, with a oniet smile; "and now I am brinjrin a visitor to se you. There is a yonns? lady outside in thV corridor hr re, who wishes to see you Mis Stewart." "Mis Stewart!" repeated Bidduloh.and his nale face jrrew 'paler, and then flushed. "Where is she where " he i here," said Dalton. still smilin?, opening the room door a little wider: and then, pale, too. and deeply asritated, Nora appeared, and with falterinc steps drew near Biddulph's conch, who half rose, holding ont both bands. "Yon did not rToect to see me," said Jfora, nervously, with heavine hret and downcast eves. "I T cam with Mr. and Mrs. FrasT to see poor Malcolm. I I thouffht I should come and speak to you, rbile ther first see him." "I shalf go and see after some refreshments," remarked Dalton, considerately and be disappeared, and then Nora lifted her eye, and looked in Biddulph's chanped face. She pave a half-cry, and drew a little nearer to him. "Oh. James." she sstd, clasping his hand with both her trembling on, "you, too, are very ill I I am glad I came." "I am mnch better," answered Biddulph, who was deeply moved. "I have a broken leg, you know, and have pone throngh a lot of pain ; you see me greatly chanred T dare sav?' "Yes," she said, looking at Mm, with her dark evs full of the old tenderness; "and von did not tell me." "I thought it was bet not to worrv voti more than I could help." said Biddulph, trying to smile, "poor Malcolm Fraser' condition was enough ill-news at once." "Is he any better, do you think?" Biddulph shook his head. "He will never be any better, Nora," he (aid ea&ly. "I am glad that bis father and

mother have arrived; ha wished to see them so much, poor fellow; but I fear it will not be for lone." 4Toor Malcolm 1" "It's a terrible business; I feel so much for his mother." "It has been dreadful to be with her ßinco the no v.s came ; but aftc r your telegram arrived Lo has cherished great hone." "lie was better when I sent that than he is now; I fear there is little hope now." "And and it was an accident ?" asked Nora, tremblingly. "An accident amonsr the precipices in the valley of the Yellowstone river. Malcolm Fraser got a tremendous fall there, and injured his spinu so badly that

it was supposed ne was going to cue. "And you heard of it?" inquired N ora, with more continence. "Yes," answered Biddulph, briefly ; "I was staying at the same place." "And you have been very kind to him," said Norä, again raising her dark eyes to his. "I have done what I could, of course, but it is not much. He has seen several of the leading doctors here, and their verdict is not reassuring." Nora sighed, and then there was a minute or two of embarrassed silence. These two, who had thought of each other almost every moment oi time since they had parted, now felt that a stran-re new fueling of shyness had grown up between them. They could not forget the past, in the chill present; and presently Biddulph sighed also, and abruptly turned away his head. "I have quite a gay view from here, a3 you see," he said trying to speak indifferently. "Yes." But two waiters happily at this instant came to their relief. Dalton had ordered lunch for the travelers to bo brouzht up to Bidduiph's sitting-room, thinking that unüer the circumstances both Mr. and Mrs. Fraser would prelerthisto the public tahie. And a few minutes later, he also entered, and in his placid way began to t.i!k to Nora of New York, comparing it with the other American cities through which they had journeyed. While they were talk in?, Jock Fraser came into the room, and went straight up to Biddulph, and warmly shook his hand. "I do not know how to thank -ou enough, Mr. Biddulph," he said, in a voice husky with. emotion, "for your great kindness to our poor boy." "Do not speak of it, Mr. Fraser," answered Biddulph ; "any one under the circumstances would have done what they could. I low do yon think he looks?" Poor Jock sliehtly slook his head. His honest brown eves were red-rimmed, and his face showed all the traces of recent tears. He had, in truth, fairly broken down at the touching meeting between the mother and son ; tor when -drs. Jock, tremb'inz, agitated to such a decree that her limbs seemed almost to refuse their oflice, had tir;t entered Malcolm's room, he had stretched out his arms uth a kind of crv. "Mother!" The next moment she was beside him, had him clapped to hex breast, and was passionately kiting the white lace, which e iCjh:id last sucix fco healthful and so brown. "My Malcolm mr best-loved," she murmured; "at la.st I see you again!" The intense yearning love that was expressed in these words was very pathetic. Neither spoke aain for a moment or two, and then Malcolm, looking fondly at his mother's face, iaid simply "1 am so plad you have come, mother and you, father;" and he held out his hand to Jock Fraser, who clasped it with his stalwart grasp, and then looked at his boy's changed faco with a smothered sigh. Malcolm had always been handsome, the pride and darling "of the two who now frtood looking at him, with chill dread in their hearts; and he was handsome still. Almost a beautiful face this, with regular features, curling chestnut hair, and bhie eyes which once had bcren bold and smiling, but were now unutterably sad. For he knew lying there in his young manhoodthat, in this life, he would walk no more. He was hopelessly paralyzed, and unable to move any part ot his body below the waist. It was a melancholy sight even to an indifferent stranger; but to the mother on whoso breast ha had slept when a little babo, it was the very rending of her heart-strings. "I hoped so much that von would come," said Malcolm, putting his hand in hers. "Come!" ehe echoed. "Mv darling, I would have gone to the worfd's end to look once more on your dear face I" And again she passionately kissed him, and he felt her hot tears upon his cheek. No wonder that Jock Fraser turned away with dim eyes and quivering lips, and "went to the window o: the room, aud stood looking out on the animated 6cene beyond, thinking all the while of the wrecked hopes that had come to so sad a close. Then, presently, he heard Malcolm speak to his mother of Biddulph. "You roust thank him," he said ; "I I misunderstood him hut for him I should have never seen vou again, mother." "Bnt how did your accident happen, my darling?" asked Mrs Jock, in a low, anxious tone; and a deep blush rose on Malcolm's white face as 6he made the inquiry. "I slipped my foot on the verge of one of the tremendous precipices out there," he answered, "and fell down an immense : bight and and Mr. Biddulph found me; and that is how his leg was Drosen, trying to get to me and, since, he has been very kind." Mrs. Jock did not speak, as she listened to Malcolm's somewhat lame account of how be came bv his iniuries. which he ' and Biddulph had agreed mutually to tell, ! so as to spare the poor father and mother the a;ony of hearing the truth. It was Biddulph who had proposed this justihable deception, as he knew well he would doubly add to Mr. and Mrs. Fraaer's grief to learn the story of the awful struggle for life which had taken place between them, and which had ended in such terrible retribution for Malcolm. "Then Biddulph abnolutely broke his leg in trying to get to you, my boy?" Eaid Jock Fraser, from the window. "Yes," answered Malcolm, hntkily. But at this moment Malcolm's nurse, who had left the room when the father end mother entered it, came back, and brought a message from Mr. Biddulph, to tell Mr. and Mrs. Fraser that lunch waa ready for them in his sitting-room. But Mrs. Jock refused to leave her son. "I shall be your nurse, now, my dear," the said with infinite tenderness, as her eyes rented on Malcolm's face; and he emiled, and Jock Fraser left them tofther, going to Biddulph's room, and hanking bim warmly when he got there for his kindness to his son. "Have you told him I am here yet?" kcd Nora, in a low tone of Jock, before they sat duwn to Inneh. "Not yet, dear," he answered; "the mcther will tell him by-and-bye. You must prepare yourself for a sad change, Nora; and Jack gave a heavy sigh. Mr. Dalton, however, was cue cfthoso

happily-constituted people who take everything calmly. He quietly ignored the evident agiiation of the rest of the party, and talked sensibly and wed on many subject, and Biddulph was thankful for tho presence of this well-read strammer; it made things easier tor them all. And after lunch was over, Nora rose and retireJ t her own room, and, to Biddulph's surpritse and secret disappointment, did not reappear the whole of the day. But as he lay on his couch by the window, longing, yet half dreading again to look on tho sweet, familiar face, which he had seen many times in his dreams 6ince they lat parted, ho little thought that Nora was giving away in secret to the bitterest tears, caused by the great change in his own appearance, and his but too evident ill-health. It had been a shock and a surprise almost too great for words, when she had first lifted her eyes to h:s face, and read there tho w'gns of weakness, weariness, and pain. he had tried to hide it from him; but no sooner was sho alone thaa the pent-up anxiety and fear in her own heart quite overwhelmed her, and it was some timo before sho could recover her composure. When she did so, her eyelids were red and bwollen, and her face stained with tears. Then a message was brought to her from Mrs. Jock, to ask her to jo to see Malcolm Fraser, to whom his mother had now broken tho intelligence that Nora was in the sauie hotel, and the news had greatly excited the young invalid. Nora bathed her eyes, and went to this painful interview with a sinking heart. And the sight of Malcolm's white face, his deep emotion, ami the knowledge of his pitiable condition, so moved her, that agr.i a tears rushed unbidden into her eyes, and sho could only ialterout a few broken words. "You are better?" she said, holding his thin hand fast in her trembling one. Malcolm sighed, and fixed his eyes wistfully on her face, but spoko no word. "His mother will take care of him now," said Mrs. Jock, who was standing near, watching half jeaiouly this sad meeting. "Yes7 said .Malcolm, half bitterly, half tenderly, "I have my mother now ; the will not chango to me, Nora;" and Nora undertood the covert reproach, though, in truth, the poor boy's own feelings had always mislead him as to hers. CHAPTER XLVIL ONE BRIET MOMENT. It was indeed a very sorrowful interview this, and it was a relief to Nora when it was over, and when the mutely reproachful eyes of both were no longer fixed upon her face. She went back to her own room, and sat wearily down, wondering whether she had done right to come, and whether her presence had not given fresh pain to tho young man, on whoso features the gray shadow of death so plainly lay. But she was near Biddulph at least, and he was ill and sad and she must try to help him, Nora presently reflected; and the old dream of the faithful friendship that was to take the place of the lost love stole back to her mind. "I said once that I should bo his bev-t friend aid comforter. " he thought tenderly; "and now, whn be is so changed. I can surely be this he will not, I think, wish to leave me now." Yet 6he did not see him again during the day of their first meeting after their long separation, bhe made that convenient womanly excuse, a headache, for not reappearing at dinner, and remained in her room during the rest of the evening, though the kindly Jock came twice to her door to inquire after her. But the next morning Nora rose refreshed, and hid fettled in her mind how she should for the future regard BidJulph. A lout 12 o'clock he was lying on his couch y the window alone, having just had an interview with his doctor, when a little rap came to his f itting-room door, and a moment later Nora Stewirt entered, smiling and fair, and held out her hand to him in a frank and friendly fashion, without (apparently) any of the embarrasssment and emotion of the previous dav. "How are you7' she said. "Are you going out?" he asked, looking at her hat, without answering her query. "I was going to ask you the 6ame question," smiled Nora, "You go out in a bath-chair, sometimes, do you not? It is a fine morning, and I have been wondering if you will go out now, and, in that case, if you like, I shall go with you." A blush passed quickly over Biddulph's face. "I should like very much," he said; "but my going out is such a formidable aflair. I am not allowed even to limp downstairs on my crutches, you know; I have to be carried in the chair. You would not like to be bored w ith such an incubu3." "Oh yes, I should. Do, please, come ; I want to go out, and tho air will do you good." "Mr. Dalton will take you about and show you the sights, I am sure." Nora gave a little shrug of her pretty shoulders. "Mr. Dalton is too learned for me," she said, "and I should rather go with you." The consequences of this conversation were that, half an hour later, Biddulph, in his invalid chair, was sitting beneath one of the trees in the gardens of Madison square, with Nora standing by his side. And they were talking together as familiar friends; talking as those talk between whoso minds there is that subtle bond which comes unsought. This link makes common themes seem bright and fresh, and Biddulph was smiling, and Nora looking animated and handsome under her white sunshade a different Nora, in truth, to the gentle, pensive woman sne had been during his absence. Yet they were saying Dothing particularly brilliant, and were merely commenting on the people passing around them. And, presently, Biddulph one more mentioned Dalton. "You will like him better when you know morecf him," he said; "his manner is cold, but I owe him so much, that 1 am naturally prejudiced in his favor." "What do you owe him?" asked Nora, quickly. For a moment Biddulph hesitated, remembering Nora knew nothing of his terrible sufferings in the ravine; then he said quietly "Ho has been very kind to me since my accident, and also to poor Malcolm Fraser." "I shall try to like him, then but hero he actually is!" For at "that moment, Mr. Dalton, who was passing through the garden on his way to the hotel, had caught sight of Biddulph in his chair, and at once made bis way toward him. rGood morning, Miss Stewart," be said, doffing his hat. "Well, Biddulph, I am glad to see you out ; this is as itshould bo." "Miss Stewart has persuaded me to make an exhibition of myself, as you perceive," answered Biddulph. smilingly. "You see how sensitive a man's vanity Is, BfifTS Stewart," said Dalton, also smiling. "Now, I have rarely been ablo to induce Mr. Biddulph to do what is really most essential to his recovery; and as I look upon his lite with a sort oi god-

fatherly feeling. I am naturally anxious to see him get well." "Do vou mean because you have nursed him sinco his accident?" asked Nora. "I mean that when I found Mr. Biddulph in one of the ravines of the valley of the Yellowstone river, thnt the vital spark was about as nearly extinguished as it ever was in mortal man." "You never told me this," said Nora, looking at Biddulph, whilo a little quiver passed over her face. "Yes it was so," continued Dalton. "I am not emotional, but I must confess I almost gave up hopo when my eyes first fell on your white, nay, ghastly face, Biddulph." He looked twenty years older. Mks Stewart, and for a moment or two I almost failed to recognize my traveling companion." "Dou't talk about it," said Biddulph, quickly; "it's like a horrid nightmare, best forgotten. Do look at that eccentric hat, Miss Stewart there, on that pretty, fair girl I" He thus changed the conversation ; but for a few minutes afterward Nora looked very pale and grave. Then she tried to shake o'J her feeling of depression, and talked brightly to Biddulph and Dalton, until they returned to the hotel för lunch. Jock Frazer joined them at this meal, but Mrs. Jock still refused to leave her son. "I want to read to him this afternoon," said Nora to Jock Fraser, "and then Jeanie w ill lie down and have a reet." "Thank you, my dear," answered Jock ; and, after lunch was over, ho took Nora to Male ra'8 room, who smiled and held out his hand as she went in. "He looks better this moruing, don't you think, Nora?"6aid Mrs. Jock, anxiously. "Yee," answered Nora, with faltering tongue. For as the bright sun-rays fell on tho pallid young face, on tho "damp brow, and bright, restless, sunken eyes, Nora saw only too p'ainlv that for Malcolm Fraser there would be no improvement upon earth. Bat how could she tell this to the fond mother? Mrs. Jock had had a bed made up in the dresjing-room, and grudged every moment when her eyes could not rest on the b3loved face. But Nora persuaded her to lie down, and then began reading to pcor Malcolm, who lay very still, except when his cough disturbed him. Nora had chosen a sensational story of adventures by sea and land, such as, in his young days, Malcolm Fraser used to love, and by-and-by she paused and asked him how he liked it. "I have not been listening to the story, I think, Nora," ho answered, with his wan smile, "but to your voice." "Would you rather, then, that I iust talked to you, do r Malcom7" the asked, gentlv laving her book down on the bed. "I think I should like that best," he said. "Is mother asleep?" he asked, a moment later; and Nora rose softly, and looked through the dressing-room door. "Yes, fast tsleep, she whispcrod, when she went back to Malcolm's bed. "Poor mother!" he muttered. "Nora," and he stretched out this thin hand and took hers. "I won't pet better, you know, and I want you to he very kind to mother after I am gone." "Oh, Malcolm!" "I hoped I riiht p.'k better once," be went on wistfully; "though to lie like a useless log all" my life .seems almost worse than death at least, since 1 have seen you again." "Don't talk thus, please, Malcolm." "It doesn't matter much when I am going to die, you know," he auswered, with a little break in his voice. "Do you remember, when I went away that night at Rossmore, that I said if I lived I should seo you n;rain ? We did not expect it would be like this, did we?" "No, indeed." "I meant to po back to see you, if it cost mo mv life, for you were more to me than lite but you knew this very well." "You pain me so much by saying these things, Malcolm." "I won't any more, then ; only, I want you to understand. I want, I suppose, to make you think of me a little more kindlv after I am dead." "I do think of you most kindly," and she took one of his restless, twitching hands, and held it in her own. "Because you don't know all, perhaps. Nora, fchut the dressing-room door very gently, so as not to wake mother. I've got something to tell you something she must never hear." Nora 6ilently obeyed his request, and then went back to his 6ide, and again took his hand. "I don't like to die without you knowing the truth," began Malcolm. "Some day Biddulph will tell you. and I should rather you heard it trom me and and knew something of what 1 felt." "What have you to tell me, dear Malcolm?" "Nora, when I heard yon were going to marrv Biddulph, I was like a man posbeese'd with an evil spirit, I thinkl I waundered about the city here until I could stand it no longer, and then I determined to blow out my brains, and end it ail." "But why go back to this now?" "Because" I want you to understand for my father and mother's sake Biddulph and I agreed not to tell the truth; but I kuow you will hear it; as I said, I should rather you heard it from me." "Then vou and Mr. Biddulph fought, Malcolm?"" asked Nora, in a lower tone, growing verv pale. "I meant him to fight, but he would not. 1 followed him from place to place, alter I heard that bis wife had cast up again; and I was determined to fasten a quarrel on him, and to avenge the insult he had cast upon you ' "I cannot stay to listen to all this, Malcolm, interrupted Nora, rising, and trying to draw away her hand. But he held it fast. "I won't trouble you long," he said, "so have a little patience with me now, Nora. I want you to understand how I was wild with misery, or I never should have acted as I did. Perhaps Biddulph did not mean to deceive you. but I thought at least that he did, and so I followed him, as I told you, from place to place; and at tast we met, and I wanted him to fight. I had brought my revolver, and I meant that only one of us should live and that would have been best 1" "And what happened?" asked Nora, with pale, parted lips. "He would not fight; and I pointed my revolver at him, and he 6truek it out of my band, and sent it rolling down into the ravine below the cliff on which we were standing. Then I grew mad with rage, and said he should fo.low it; and we had a fearful struggle, and it ended in our both falling together over the clitT; and this is how " Nora gave a kind of cry, r.nd covered tier fftcc "Oh, Malcolm, this is too dreadful I" "We lay there all night together " went on Malcolm; and then, suddenly, Nora grasped Ids wrist with a sudden gesture. She was sitting by the side of the bed, opposite tho dressing-room door, and as Malcolm proceeded with his terrible story, Nora perceived that the dressingroom door was being cautiously opened, and that Mrs Fraser was standing there lieteainj to Malcolm' words.

"I shall go on with the book agnin

now, ' eaid Nora hastily, again previa f .Malcolm s wrist, "Where were wof have lost tha place, I think." By thii time Malcolm understood; he turned his head, and also saw his mother; but sho shrank back as he did so, and Nora commenced reading again, though the words presented nothing to her mind, for she was thinking all the time of that dreadful fall among the hills. A quarter of an hour later Jock Fraser came into tho room, and Nora was thus at liberty to lay aside her book, and take leave of Malcolm. "Come again to-morrow, Nora," he said, as she parted with him; and she promised, stooping over him and kissing his damp brow beforo che went away. "Poor, poor boy." phe said to Jock, who followed her out of the room, as he did not wish Malcolm to hear a few words he had to say to her. Jock shook his head sadly in reply. "My dear," he said in a low tone tho next moment, "I've promised Biddulph that we shall dine with him this evening at 8 o'clock. Will you do this ?" "Yes, Jock." "To-morrow we will begin dining downstairs at one of the public tables, but Biddulph made such a point of it tonight'' "1 shall meet you at this room atS, then," answered " Nora; and then she turned away, going to her own bedroom, her heart full of the news 6he had just listened to. How nobly Biddulph had acted, she thought, and her cheeks flushed, and her breath came short. He had borne this terrible pain; been at death's door, Mr. Dalton had said, and yzt tried to screen the poor, rash bov, who had caused it all, in his foolish, jealous rage I Biddulph not unnaturally bcemed a hero in Nora's eyes at this moment, and, when, an hour or so later, she entered his sitting-room, dressed in a white gown for dinner, he lifted bis gray eyes to her face and smiled his welcome. che went up to his couch, and stood taikinjr to him; and, with that wondrous silent know ledge of each other's feelings which lay between these two, Biddulph understood that Nora knew something she had not known when he had laatseen her. He read this in tho down-cast dewy eyes, just as he had read in the morning that sho meant to be his faithful friend, and to help and cheer him through life's dull mill. And so sweet had this thought been to him that Biddulph's face had brightened, and the little things that had worried and wearied him before Nora had arrived at New York, now appeared easy and pleasant to his mind. Mr. Dalton even had his mild joke on tho improvement which had taken place in Biddulph's appearance; for, after looking at him attentively for a moment or two through his spectacles, he turned to Nora with a 6mile. "I believo it is the fashion nowadays," he said, "for you young ladies to take out diplomas as doctor? and physicians, is it not? If I might venture to express such an opinion, 1 ttm quite sure that vou, Miss Stewart, would excel in tho art of healing; Mr. Biddulph is a changed man since you came." Nora laughed softly and blushed, but Ciddu'ph blushed and frowned. "Mr. Biddulph is an old and intimate friend of mine," she said, "and I am glad vou think I shall bo able to do him some good." "It always does a man good," replied Dalton, sententious, "to fand a charming woman interested in his welfare." And again ho smiled, thinking, poor man, he had made a most judicious and appropriate remark 1 Then Jock Fnser cirao in, with a pad face, and tha little party sat down to dinner Biddulph, however, dining at a small table of his own placed near his couch, by the window, as he had ßtrict orders from his doctor to keep, if possible, in a recumbent position. And presently, while Dalton and Jock Fraser went on with their wine, Nora rose from the table, went to the window near which Biddulph lav, and 6tond looking out silently at the brilliantly lighted scene below. The room was almost dark, in the fast gathering twilight, but Biddulph could just see her delicate profile, and in a little while he heard her sigh softly. "What are you thinking of?" he asked in a low tone. Theu she turned her charming face, and looked at him w ith a smiie. "Perhaps I was not thinking at all," she eaid. "Oh, yes, you were I" "Our thoughts are 6trango things alwavs active." '"Yes, we each hold ceaseless inward council; we judge, we condemn, sometimes we pardon all in thought" "And all the time we arc often smiling and talking nonsense, too!" "We naturally do not tell every one what we think you would not tell mo just now, you know." "I was thinking," eaid Nora, almost in a whisper, landing her head nearer his, "of something I have heard to-day something about vou, James." "What have you heard?" "Of of what you have kept secret for poor Malcolm's sake." "And he told you?" "He told me. Oh, James, it was too terrible 1" "Poor boy! he should not have told you!" "He said his father and mother must never know. I I do not know how to thank you to tell you what I feel " Her voice faltered and broke as she whispered the last few words, and an instant later his hand ftola into hers, and they both were silent Disjointed sentences from the two at the table fell on their ears, but thev seemed like far-away murmurs. Jock Fraser was a good listener, and occasionally such words, in Dalton's calm tone, as "lignite beds," "deciduous leaves," and so on, reached them ; but they passed like empty sounds. Below were the brilliant lights and 6tir of the great city, but of these Biddulph and Nora took" no heed. In that brief moment the world and the things of it were forgotten, and, with quickened breath and beating hearts, they lived alone. To be continued next verk.) Frying the Fat Out of the South. The Mills bill rcducei the present republican dnty oa raw sugar for our refineries 35 per cent., or 7 mills on every pound. Thirtj-fire per cent, of the fat is fried out of the sugar planter, and Louisiana loses oa her little crop $1.-100,000. The Mills bill reduces tie present republican duty on rice 20 per cent, and on rice meal 25 per cent, frying this fat out of South Carolina and Georgia, the gulf State losing $00,000. And every republicau newtpap r and howler is shouting that the Mills bill puts up the duty on sugar to 08 per cent, and on rice to 100 per ceut.; that "the South is in the saddle." If there are any decent newspapers or honest men in the republican party let them come out DOW. When the republican voters discover how they are being lied to by their editors and orators there will be trouble. T. . WlilfiOJr,

EFFECTS OF FREE QUININE.

DIRE PREDICTIONS COMETO NAUGHT. Tb Feopl Get Qnlnlne Chrnpffr, Our 3Iin a Cxc tarers Prod ure Jloro ot It, and Employes Get llijher M'agfS Than lUXor the Tax vram Taken OR. To the Bditor Sir: Having read the article of Mr. Hart of Martinsville, and also your editorial in last Saturday's issue of Tna Sentinel concerning the removal of the tari Hon sulphate of quinine, I waslcd to submit the followingbref history of the removal of the duty on that article in 1S79. In July of that year, congress was led (deypite tho protests of tho only two manufacturing companies of America, Powers & YVeightmaa and Rosengarten k Son, that they would be compelled to "close their works," to "shut down," to "reduce tho wages of their employes," "couldn't compete with foreign pauper labor" in the manufacture of quinine, and so on, ad naustam, the same as we hear it from republican monopolists today) to remove the 20 percent, ad valorem tax then existing and place quintne on tha freo list. This tax had been kept on for many years, because of the cry of Powers x Weightman and Boscmgarten & Son, to "protect" their infant "industry." This combino of American manufacturers of quinine, thus having a monopoly of tho American market for this article, owing to th? exclusion of foreign quinine by that 20 per cent, tariff, kept the price so'high that thousands of sick poor people were unable to obtain quinine. At that tinw these two were tho only manufacturers of quinine in Amer ica, and employed 500 men and women, manufacturing, in round figures, about three million ouuees annually, paying their employes on an average "31.47$ per dav. from 1871 to 1S7A "For the last five years. 1S74-S, under the ad valorem duty of 2U per cent., the importations of eulphato of quinine amounted to 106,475 ounces an average of 39,295 ounces yearly, and tho averago price was $2.83 per ounce." St. Louia Musical Brief for September, 1SSS. The duty was removed. Foreign quinine began tocome In. And it is interests ing, at this particular stage of the discussion of the tariti" question, to review, statistically, the eflectsof the removal oi that duty on quinine, and to contemplate the benefits derived by the public And if it has proven beneficial in this one instance, why may uot repeal or reduction prove beneficial in many others, or especially as to the necessaries of life ? If "protection" did not "protect" in this instance, why should it in any other like industry ? That it di J not, we will clearly show further on. "In 1879, the year in which the duty was abolished, tha importations amoanted to 228,34$ ounces; and for the remainder of that vear the manufacturers of tlvs country Powers t Weichmanand Koseacarten & Son undertook to buy all the foreign quinine that came in. They tried to "bull the marxet, to "corner" on quinine, and, therefore, stopped manufacturing it at home, and succeeded for the remainder of the year on keeping the prico up to $:U0 per ounce. They made much ado about the failure of legislation to reduce the price to the consumer, and to get before tho people that they had surmised correctly when thev prophesied that they would bo compelled to close their manufactories. But their kicking against the pricks ppeedilv weakened." St. Louis ZleJical Brief for September, ISSS. In the month of April, 1SS0, both Powers & Weightman and Rosengarten &. Son started up their works and resumed tho manufacture of quinine, after having failed to "corner" the market, beside having on hand an enormouä amount of foreign quinine purchased in trying to "force" the market. They paid throughout 1SS0 the same average wages that they paid during 1874-9, and ran full time, thus contradicting fairly and squarely their assertion of the previous year. And, now, in addition to these two factories other manufacturers began to engage in the manufacture of quinine, including M. S. Kessen & Bobbins, Keasbey &. Mattison, and the New York quinine and chemical company. The duty was removed in lS79and Gve factories have been steadily engaged in the manufacture of quinine t-ince ISS1, under "free" quinine, employing 1,170 men and women from lRSl-7j as against 500 from 1871-'.), and paying the averago wages of SI. 53 from 17SI-7 as against $1.47$ from 1874-9, with quinine more than two-thirds cheaper to the consumer. These are statistical facts, gathered from the custom house records, and the statistics of labor from 1871 to 1?S7, inclusive; and all this in the face of va3t importations, duty free. "For the five years next after the sulphate of quinine was put upon the free list, 1SS0-4, the importations were, rcspectivelv, 416,778, 4OS,S07, 794,495, 1,055,754, 1,203,934; total, 3,939,850 ounces, and the average price paid per ounce $2.10. For the turee years, 18S5-7, the importations have been, respectively, l,3;0,12j, l,251,55i, 2, ISO, 157; total, 4.S21.839 ounces, and the average price 73J cents per ounce." Tlu Sanitarian. Here we have more than twice as many concerns engaged in tho manufacture of Suinine from 18S4 to 18S7 manufacturing ve times the amount of quinine with an import -tion of moro than fifty time as much foreign "pauper made, ' "free" quinine to compete with m the market employing more than twice as many hands, and paying better wages (for not a word has been said or a line written charging otherwise) under free, unprotected quinine, than under a tariff of 20 per cent, ad valorem, from 1871 to 18S9, and quinine more thin twothirds cheaperto the consumer. Who got the "benefit" of the "protection?" "And vet these same would-be monopolists of 178, who would, for their own interest, increase the fever rate and the burdens of the sick, are now engaged in an effort to make it appear that the repeal of the duty of 20 per cent, which was obtained previous to July, 1879, has had nothing to do with the decrease of the price while at the Ratne time it has not reduced the wages of those engaged in manufacturing it but that the effect is wholly due to (the collateral benefit of abolishing the duty) tho increased culture of the cinchona tree." 274? Sanitarian. F. G. Thornton, M. D. Knightsville, Ind., Sept. 3. MORE EVIDENCE. Another Correspond ttnt on the Kesoltf of tb Free Quinine. To the EniTon Sir: On the question of the tariff on sulphate of quinine, would you allow me to say a few words? I was a member of the ftate legislature in the session ol 1879-0, and had the honor to offer the joint resolution in the house of representatives requesting our representative, in congress to urge tho re-

peal of the tax on sulphate of quinine, its salts, iodine, resub'imed and mofphina and its ea!t., as the house records of thai session will show. As I have been hand ling Peruvian or cinchona bark and quinine for thirty-five years, I know something of its history. Messrs. Powers & Weigbtmau commenced the manufacture of chemical products ia Philadelphia at a very early day. They discovered a process for obtaining quinin from barks, whieh et once placed them ia advance of all other chcnvstJ in America, and within a few years were among Ihm greatest manufacturers of quinine in th world. The early discovery of the medical properties of this m .1 and its superiority over tho crude powdered bnrk, at once convinced them of the necessity of enlarging their facilities for its manufacture. They placed agents in South America to buy up the bark and ship it to them. This gave them a great adv-mtage, and b judicious advertising they placed their products upon the market in advance of ell others. There wa.s no cheap or "pauper" labor hei e or in KurojK that could compete with or affect them in this great trade. The mmimcture of quinine was done only by the science of chemistry, and practical, well-ini'ormed che mint's, whose skill commanded the highest wegei and hence shielded them from poverty. To this day there are no foreign paupert engaged in m.iking this great medicine. The bark, from which quinine is raa l was put on t!ie free bet, which gace aa impetus to i: manufacture by other chemists in this couutrv, but Power ci Weightman, as well as others, derived a benefit from tree barks, and continued to bold the trade against all comers. Freo raw material and a high tariff on tha product of the barks t-hut out foreign competition, whilst the superior facilities possessed by Powers iv. Weighting) for tho production of quinine enabled tbtin to undersell home coimetition and hold the trade ol the United' States. The price of quinin was on a descending suile, and before th tariff was removed in 1S79 it bad fallen from $9 to SI per ounce in ten years, thi too before au ounce . of furein quinine" had been boM in this country. Tha market for quinine beco'iie unsteady owing to tha increased demand for it, as well as a slight in'luence exerte I by small manufacturers. As the summer advanced malaria diseases increased and physicians began to prefer quinine to the crude bark in their practice. Powers it Weightmaa also took advantage of the autumnal de-'-mand for quinine and entered into a contract with the wholesale druggist throughout tho United States to furuish them with quinine aft' a fixed price for tho entire year, provided they made their pur chases in February and March, which they did, anil after that quinine advanced, in price with the t-eason, to uit the c prico or cuoid ity of the lordly manufacturer. Indianians must remeinler tbs sliding seale ia the priee of thiit drug from 1So5 to 18.s0. The sales ot sulphate ct quinine during 1S7S and 17'J (just biforo the removal of tha tariff) in twenty states of the Uuion, amounted to i."2.JOC ounces in each year, at a price cot lesjf than ?-'.50 per ounce. All t!ii. or nearly all this, vast gum of money went into the pockets of Messrs. Powers & Weightman, who firmly held the m-arket of twenty states against all competitors. This is a. fair sample of a protected industry. Tha tariff on quinine and its salts (for thcra are several) placed the company in an impregnable position in the market, and its own prices prevailed. The more sickness there was the more suffering the people endured, and the more money flowed into the coffers of Powers tfc Weightman. Thus upon ths misfortunes of th teopl9 the manufacturer cl quin ine, under ths brorxd eetris of the outspread winps of tha government two men among millions built u rol.isMl fort, pics. But as soon as the tariff was removed, home aad foreign competition reduced the price mnl tha manufacture of quinine is carried on ia this country more extensively than bef ore The eople are enabled to buy threa ounces ot quinine with the money thej formerly paid for one ounce. With this plain view ot" the effects of high protection, it seemsthat no rational, unprejudiced mind could support it. J .wix M. Confer, iL IX TPmouth, Ind., Sept. 3. A HEAVY FAILURE

With a Tragic Side to It A Chicago Jüan Downfall. CniCAOO, Sept 4. C. C. IToHftn. a weUfcnnvvn f uriiitiir rlriir at '."4 U"Mi.h-iir m.ide a confession ol judgment this nioruirig, 1 crfiratiiis $Ji,nO: His li.ntiilitie nre csiiMuted ul from ., OQ to .;. u: his aett at SOo.lKHJ to $7(M"". The creditors we chietiy residents of tliia citr. Kir. Million was not at hi p!.i? of bnsinetS an I is sai'l to be ,Jaii?eru-.'y ill. There is a t-niric nie to the failure. Just after the murder of Millionaire Snell Mr. Ilolton's youngest son pnrehued a revolver en, I constitntfil himself niIu atehman for Lis father's hoiive. One morning, n the boy and his broilier were gfttinjj up. the lad pointed his revolver a his hro'her, Miyin, Uus'.iiuc!r: "Vou are a h;irjl;ir, und I'll klmnt tou." Tho weajion wa disi'lmrired, iriving the elder eon s wound, from which he died a fe days later. The son thtinccid-nd.T kill.d w:n Mr. Ilolton's chief business asioriRle, t!ie cshi? r and a&ifV Elit bookkeeper ol the e.-uMUhmetit From the simrk of this lr.i,edy Mr. rioltcn never recovered. He l st interest in hi bui ness which su.lered in consequence. Frota this dejection his friends were unable to rouso liita. heilig that the business was steaJÜT losing money, the principal creditors took measures to sure thenxdven, which resulted in the proceedings of to-day. THE VERMONT ELECTION. Trie Returns Coming In Slowly The Bejmb licnn Ticket Fleeted. BcnuxoTON, Vt., Sept. 4. An nnnsnally larjre vote lw been polled in this city. Reforts from the country towns point to ths uruest vote ever cast in the state. Returns from the slate election re coming in slowly, but the reports from diiierent counties indicate a majority of W) for Ibllinghaui (rep.X lor Poveruor, over MuirtleS" (dorn.) and öeeley nniA Although Home republican leider i claim as hi'h as Conzressinen .tewart and Grout are reelected" by increased majorities. The republicans gain a state senator in Frnnklin county, mating the state eeinte solidly republican. There are also republican pains in the house of representatives. Returns from different cout tie show republican fjnins of from 1(0 to 40G and ulthonn some towns show g.dns io tha prohibition vote, there are indication of a net Iom iu the state, owinj to the Met that that Hon. W. P. Diilinehatn is a trti advocate of temperance principles. A Narrow Ksrnpe. WixcnnsTER. Sept. S. Special. The reri dene and consents of James Ldwards oe&fl HunUTil e. were totally destroyed by tire lal night. Mr. FdwanU and a small child wer sleeping up stairs and barely ear-aped with theii lives. liaising a window, with the child in his arms, Mr. Fd wards jumped out, but was badly burned and bruised. He succeeded in arou&iuj the family below and trot them out safely. Tho Arkansas Flection. Lrrn.K Rock, Ark., Sept. 4. Complete and Incom unpiete returns front over forty counties da cot cl tail ire the result foreshadowed io List . night's dispatches. Few counties have roported officially, but enough is known to shoir 1 that the democratic state ticket has an I. creased majority over that oC 1600, when it wax 1 tevta ihousiuid iae Lundmi.

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