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THE EARL'S DILEMMA. . , , .. BY THE AUTHOR OF "ASHLEY." , . A rather good-looking man of four or fivc-ancUwen-ty was sti-olhng one morning in the park attached to a fine mansion. At a distance he -might possibly have been taken for a game-keeper; he wore a velveteen coat, and his boots were muddy; but a nearer approach would have have done away with the impression for his eunously fine shirt-front and highly-finished chain, passed across it, bespoke him of a higher station. How high, the pocket-handkerchief migh have decided, as he jerked it from his pocket, for ft bore an carl's coronet. ' ' . ' 1 .. He held a fishing rod in his hand; he had been by the pond for an hour, but the fish did not seem inclined to bite, and he grew impatient and left He carried the rod in its separate pieces, too careless or indolent to put them one inside the other, and ho splashed along in a brown study, little heeding where ho put his feet " ! The brown study did not appear to be a pleasant one, for when he came to the ha-ha he flung himself down on it with an ungacious movement, and a still more ungracious expletive. He began beating the wall with the end of the fishing rod, and broke it ' "That's the time of day ! that's the way you use your fishing rods, is it 1" cried a free, pleasing voice from a little distance. "I wouldn't mind being appointed fishing-tackle purveyor to your earlship." The new comer was an active little man. some vears older than the earl, his features thin, and his eyes dark and luminous. He had been a college friend, a close friend, of the earl's years ago, and was now paying him a visit at his new inheritance, having arrived the previous day. ' He came up, and leaned his arms on the wall. It was 1 homas Carr. - ! ' "What is the matter, Hartledon V ' ' : : "Not much," returned Lord Hartledon. "Where are you off to?" ! "1 made an end of my letters, and came out to look for you. But don't say there's not much the matter, for there is. I can read vou through, as readilv as I used to do at Oxford." "I wish you could, then, and do for me what vou used to do there. I'm in a mess." ; , . "Well, I have cot vou out of manv a one. Let mo know it" The earl switched away; taking for the sport another joint of the fishing rod. "There are some things one does not like to talk of of, Carr, and you can do me no good in this." "to you were wont to say, vet it generally turned out that I did you good, and cleared you from your dilemma. And I don't understand your 'not liking to speak of things to me. Wherefore?" . ".Because 1 shall prove myself a regular full." ' "Never mind, I have heard queer things from j'ou in mv time. 1 ire away." "Ol'.r-tmnl V. cnnftiaciTiff in vrM la IiVa nnnfiunni, trt one's second self," deliberated Lord Hartledon. " No one but you, Car, ever had my good at heart." . "As I had it then, so I have it now, Elster. Hang your title, Hartledon; I can't get into it." "l say liang it, too, returned his lordship; "I wish I had never come into it. But for poor Hart's death, I should not have got into this scrape." '(Come, what is it?" "I have been such an idiot as to make an offer to two women or let two think I am going to marry them, and how to get out of it I don't know. I can't marry them both." . "I imagine not," quietly replied Mr. Carr. "The one But you knew about Miss Ashton; I forgot that" "I knew you were engaged to Dr. Ashton's daughter." . . , "I have been engaged to her ever since I was one or two-and-twenty. And I am sure I loved her with all my" the earl seemed to hesitate tor a strong word "might and main; and do still. . But I have managed to get into mischief elswhere." ,.' "AVhat sort of Mischief?" ', " '.'The worst sort, for. it's on the square, and there can be no slipping out of it Poor Edward died, you know, in August, and not long after that misfortunes never come alone low fever broke out in the neighborhood, and it crept into Dr. Ashton's. I went to the rectory just the same, and should have continued to go; what did I care for low fever ? it was not likely to touch me; but the Countess Dowager found out that I went " ' "Why does the Countess of Kirton stay with you so long ?" interrupted Thomas Carr. "She has been here ever since vour brother died." "Before it I don't know why she stays; likes her quarters, I expect; she makes a great merit of it, and says I ought to feel under eternal obligations to her and Maude for sacrificing their time to a solitary man and his household. But you should have heard the uproar she made upon discovering I had been to the rectory. , She sent for a barrel of lime and a barrel of vinegar, and had my room fumigated and my clothes burnt." "The foolish old creature 1" "Every individual thing I had worn that day, even to the hat. The best of it was, I pointed out by mistake the wrong coat, and the real one is in my wardrobe now. I shall show it her some day. She had a bonfire made of them in the stable yard, and she and Lady Maude went out to look at it Then she reproached me with holding her life and her daughter's dirt cheap, to go and do my best to bring the fever home to them; and she wormed out a promise that I would not visit the rectory, as long as the fever was in it." , ; : . , -,.. "Which you gave ?" "She wormed it out of me, I tell you; and for thirteen lasting weeks afterward, I never saw or spoke to Anne. Three of the rectory servants had the fever, and one of them died, and the last to take it was Mrs. Ashton. Anne made herself head nurse, and never went beyond the gardens the whole time; she did not even come to church, and I did not se her." . "Well ? go on, Percival." r ' "Well, how does that proverb run about idleness being the root of all evil ? During those weeks I was an idle man, wretchedly bored; and I got into a flirtation with Lady Maude. She began it, Carr, I protest she did ; and I joined in it from sheer idleness, to kill time. But you know how one gets led on in those things or I do, if you, you cautious fellow don't and we both dipped into it pretty deepI know I did on my side, and Maude did not check me." . . . . v "How deep ?" interrupted Thomas Carr. "As deep as I well could, short of committing myself by words, of saying, Will you be my wife ? You see, the ill luck of it was, those two and I being alone in the house. ' When I would propose to invite friends, the Countess Dowager reproached me with forgetting the recent death of my brother. I had to send for you on the sly : did you notice their surprise yesterday when you arrived ? So I and Maude had nothing to do Dut entertain each, other, for the Dowager ch'efly kept herself up-stairs till evening: she had a cold, she said, and was afraid of the fever." " Tush 1 sounded from the throat of Thomas Carr. "And you, Hartledon, made love to the Lady Maude." "I did; as fast as my tongue could make it," answered Lord Hartledon; contriving to push the broken point of the fishing rod through his costly handkerchief. 'But I only did it for amusement; I had no intention nf her supplanting Anne Ashton. Now, Carr, you are looking as you used to look at Oxford, get your brow smooth again. You just shut yourself up with &

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. fascinating girl for a few months, and see if you wouldn't find yourself in an entanglement, proof against them as you think you are." ' '' '" ) -v "As I am obliged to be, Hartledon. , It is notimproDable; it I laid myself out to the temptation. But I should take care not to do so; and there's where you ' were wrong." ' ' . i - - ' "How was I to help it? ' They were staying in my house, my guests; I could not turn them out" : . "Why couldn't they leave as the rest of the visitors did, when the unfortunate accident overtook your . brother 1" ' ' . ' . '.. ' 'There is a relationship between ns, some sort of cousinship, and the Countess Dowager remained on ; the strength of it , A precious merit she makes of it, too." ., "Then you should have gone away yourself, Perci"But I foresaw no dangor. I was secure from my engagement to Anne Ashton. I did not care for Lady Maude then; never thought of her at all, except as one who had been in love with my brother." '' "Was she in love with him!" quickly asked Mr. Carr. ' . l t , i. "I used to think it, but Hartledon wauld never have it tliat it was so. ' I hinted it to Maude one day lately, when she offended me, and she turned red and. white : with indignation, and said she wished he could rise from his grave and refute me. Poor fellow ! I wish he could rise from it" - .' "No man is so liable to fall into temptation as he who prides himself on his security." "There's no time to moralize," interrupted Lord Hartledon; "it is hard upon luncheon time, and I have -promised to ride with Maude afterward. ' It will be awful work for me, between her and Anne." -' ;''So I should think," returned Mr. Carr, .'with a twinkle in his bright eye. "The ass between two bun--dles of hay was nothing to it" - "He was not an ass at all, compared with what I am," gloomily assented the earl. "' "I don't defend you. All you can do is toward away by gradual degrees from Lady Maude. 1 Begin at once, this very day. There is no actual entanglement, and " ' ' . " Stop a bit," interrupted Lord Hartledon, twisting the rod into circles, " I had not come to the climax. One ill starred day, when it was pouring cats and dogs, and I could not get out, I chalenged Maude to a game at billiards. Maude lost. I said she should pay me, and put my arm around her waist and snatched a kiss I can't go on if you scowl so; Carr; there's no par ticular harm in kissing a girl, and they don't dislike it, for all their show of fighting. Upon lifting up my face, there stood the countess dowager. I believe she must have been at the keyhole." " Not improbable," said Mr. Carr, significantly. ' ; : "'Oh, you two dear turtle doves,' cried she, in a great ecstasy; 'ah Hartledon, you have made me so happyl I have seen for some weeks what you were thinking of. There's nobody living that I'd confide that dear child to but yourself; you shall have her, and my blessing shall be upon you both.' ' : , " Carr," continued the earl. " I was struck dumb. All the absurdity of the thing rose up before me. I was confused, and could not utter a word. ' Her ladyship had possessed herself of my hand and Maude's, and was linking them together; and the other hand was lifted p on high over our heads, the symbol, I suppose, of the blessing. A man with more moral courage might have spoken out; have acknowledged the shame and the folly of his conduct and apologised. I could not." " You never had the slightest snark of moral cour-i age," returned Mr. Carr, in a pained tone. "What did you say ?" - - " Nothing. There's the worst of it I neither denied the dowager's assumption, nor confirmed it Of course I cannot now." . , . " When was this?" .' ' , " In January. And now it's April." -; " And how have things gone on since ? How do you stand with them?" . " Things have gone on as they did before; and I stand engaged to Maude, in her mother's opinion; perhaps in hers; never having said, myself, one word to support the engagement." . . " Only continued to 'make love and 'snatch a kiss,"' sarcastically rejoined Mr. Carr. . " Once in the way. AVhat is a chap lo do exposed to the witchery of a pretty girl ?" . , . . " Oh, Percival 1 You are worse than I thought for. Where was Miss Ashton ?" ' " Circumstances have been against me," said the earl, in a sullen tone. " In January, when Mr. Ash-; ton was well enough, the doctor got leave from the bishop, and the family and servants went to the seaside, while the rectory was turned inside ont it wanted it, I should imagine, worse than my room did. They come home in a few days, and what on earih I ihall do, I don't know. I might make sail to some remote tract of land unknown to missionaries, and convert myself into a savage, where I should never be found or recognised. I don't know anything else that I can do." " Does Miss Ashton know of all this?" ' " Of course she does not Or do you think she would continue to write to me?" 1 . " Lord Hartledon 1" exclaimed Mr. Carr, in a startled tone. Lord Hartledon whistled softly to conceal his annoyance. " Is it possible that -ou are carrying on a correspondence by letter with Miss Ashton, and your lovemaking with Lady Maude?" .. Lord Hartledon nodded assent, looking more and more ashamed of himself. . , "And you call yourself a peer of the realm 1 Why, you are the greatest humbug " " That's enough; no need to sum it up. I have been a flat, I know; but what's to be done ?" 1 " Lord Hartledon, I think I must leave you to-day. Your conduct has been inexcusable." "Don't 'Lord Hartledon' me: I won't stand it. Carr." . . ,, .... " What do you wish to say?" " It you begin a string of reproaches that will last till night, will that mend matters? I am conscious of possessing but one true friend in the world, and that's yourself, and you must stand by me." ;. " I was your friend; but I believed you to be a man of honor." . . . :., i : ; " So I am, cried the earl, lifting his hat, aud dashing his hair from his brow, t " I did not go into this deliberately; I never meant to do wrong; I was drawn into it unawares, bit by bit" ' . . " You correspond: with Miss Ashton, while you "If you go to the rights of the thing, it is Miss Ashton I ought to correspond with," said the earl, stopping Mr. Carr's words. " In January, when I heard they were going to the sea coast, I ran the risk of a second burning and fumigation from the dowager, and went to the rectory. Anne was cool; I know she was thinking that no fever would have kept her so long from me; but I laid the blame where it was due, on Lady Kirtan's fears, and we squared matters np and agreed to correspond, as was usual during our absences. A week afterward occured the catastrophe in the billird room." " May I ask which of the young ladies it is that you really care tor . ."Anne I think." "You think!" ... " I believe my heart is hers; but Maude has managed to creap into a corner of it. She is very lovely, very facinating; and then look how we have been thrown together: she has been present, Anne

absent And you know, CaiT Serum est cavendi tempus in mediis malis." . a "I know nothing of the sort," angrily resiionded Mr. Carr. , " Is it Lady Maude that you intend to

marry f" . , . " JSo Anne Ashton. lhe difficulty is, how I am to get clear of Maude." . , " And of the formidable Countess Dowasrcr. You must tell Maude the truth." . " Impossible Carr. I miaht have done it once, but the thing has gone on so long. The Dowager would eat me up. ' " Let her try at it I should speak to Lady Mamie alone, and put her upon her generosity to release you. Tell her you presumed ujion your cousinship, and confess that you have long been engaged to marry Miss Ashton." ' She knows that; they have both known it all along, j My brother was the first to tell them, before hedied." . ..:',.. :; .. ' : " They knew it?" inquired Mr. Carr. believina he had not heard correctly. " Certainly. Ihere has been no secret made of my engagement to Anne. 'AH the world knowB of that" " J lien thoiifrh I do not defend or excuse imu your breaking with Lady Maude may be nioi-e pardonable. They are poor are they not, this Dowarer Kirton and Lady Maude?" 1 " 1 oor as Job. Hard up, I think. i " " Then they are annlinz for the broad lands of Hartledon. I see it all. You have been a victim to earl liuntinp;." " There yon are wrono Carr. '' I can't answer for the Dowager, one way or the other but Maude is the most disinterested " I . i i- i ,i " Of course, eirls on the look-out for establishments always are. Have it as you like." He spoke in a tone of ridicule, and the earl iumped down, and led the way home. JLIiere was no doubt that the .barloi Hartledon had got himself into a very serious predicament. His great fault was irresolution, (jood-natured, careless and sensitive, he had an invincible repugnance to say No; face to face, indeed he could not say it. Thomas arr accused him ot being totally destitute of moral courage, and his brother,- the late earl had once remarked to the Lady Maude that, so easily was he led, one with a strong will might sway him any way. Both were right, and Percival, Lord Hartledon, was as a very reed in the hands of the wary Countess Dowager ot Kirton. Let the reader judge, then, whether it was likely that he, with his timorous disposition and vacillating mind, would speak to Lady Maude in the manner advised by Thomas Carr.: .; ., AREA D Y L A W Y E R Mr. Sergeant "Vaughan, as a barrister, occasionally performed some generous actions. Several years airo. while on his way to the Chelmford assizes, he went with an intelligent and pleasant fellow-traveler on the coach. The Sergeant, who was on such occasions very fond of what he used to call a little agreeable chat with any talkative person he chanced to meet, soon drew his traveling companion into a lively conversation with him. Having always had a sparkling of Yankee curiosity, he generally contrived to worm out, by a process imperceptible to the party himself, what he wished to learn regarding him. On the occasion alluded to, Mr. Vaughan was not long in ascertaininfr from his companion that he also was going to Chelmsford as sizes, winch were to be held on the following day. "As a jurvman.no doubt t said Mr. Vauohan, on learning the fact itself. ' : " No, sir, not as a juryman," said the other. " Oh, as a witness, I should have said." " Not as a witness, either ; I wish it was as pleas ant as that." -; ; . " Oh, I see how it is, you are the prosecutor in some case which is painful to your feelings. However, such things will happen ; there is no help tor them. ' " You are still wrong in your conjecture, sir ; I am going to pay away money for a relative who has a case in tne asizes. ....... " Ah, that's it 1 Very unpleasant certainly, to pay money," observed the learned Seargent. " It is, indeed, tor those who have little to spare. observed the. other. . ' ' " Well, but I hope it is not to any serious amount." " Why, the magnitude of the sum, you know, de pends on the resources of the party who has to make the payment . . ' " Very true ; certainly, very true," said Mr. Ser geant Vaughan. "The. sum is 100, which, to one of my limited means, is a very large one, indeed." " Oh, but perhaps 3'ou expect to be repaid in some way or other again ? " " Ihat s very uncertain I it depends entirely on whether my relative who has just taken a public house there succeeds in business or not." ,. " Well, it' certainly is a hard case," observed Mr. Sergeant Vaughan, with a serious and emphatic air. " Aye, you would say so if you only knew it all." "Indeed 1 , Are there any peculiar circumstances in the case ?" , " There are indeed," answered the other, with some thing between a sigh and a groan. . " Is the matter a secret r inquired Mr. Sergeant Vaughan, his curiosity being now wound up to no ordinary pitch. ' " Not m the least, said the other. " 1 will tell you the story if you do not think it tiresome," he added. " I am all anxiety to hear it, said the learned gen tleman. " AVell, then," said the other, "about six weeks since, a respectable corn dealer in London, when on his way to Chelmsford, met on the coach, with two persons who were perfect strangers to him. The strangers soon enteretWnto conversation with hiin, and having learned the object of his visit to Chelmsford, said that they were also going there on a precisely similar errand, namely, to make some purchases of corn. After some further conversation together, it was suggested by one of the parties that it would be much better for all three if they could come to an understanding together, as to what amount of purchase they should make, and under what particular circumstances these purchases should be made; for.it they wiyit into the market slap dash, and without any understanding together, the result would be that in so small a place as Chelmsford they would raise the prices; whereas, by operating slowly and in concert, that would be avoid ed. The second party pretended to approve highly of the suggestion, and turther proposed, in order to show that neither had the start of each other ; that they should deposit the same amount of money in the hands of the respectable landlord of the principal inn ; taking care that they did so in the presence of witnesses, and that special instructions should be given to the land lord not to give np a tarthingto either, until all three returned together to receive the whole; adding that if he did he would be held responsible. I lie London merchant, knowing the landlord of the inn to be a man of undoubted respectability, at once assented to the proposal, and each of the three parties accordingly placed in his hands, under the circumstances stated, 250, making 750 in all." " Well," observed Sergeant Vaughan, " well, vou certainly do interest me in your singular story. And what was the result ?" " Why this that scarcely had the three parties left the inn a minute, when one ot the two strangers came running back, and said that on a second thought they had all came to the conclusion that it would be better to make their purchases as early in the day as possible,

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and that consequently the other two had desired him to return and get the money." ; ' And the landlord gave hiin the whole sum at once ?' interposed Mr. Sergeant Vaughan. , . " He did, indeed ; unfortunately for himself and me," answered the other. " And what followed ?" inquired the learned geutletleman eagerly. , . , , - - - " AVhy, the other stranger and the London merchant returned in about an hour after, and demanded their money." " When the landlord of course told them he had given it to the other ?" , " Ho did." " On which, I suppose, they bring an action against the landlord?"- . ,;. ; - - " Precisely so ; and seeing that defence was useless, inasmuch as he delivered up the money to one when his instructions were peremptory not to deliver it until all three were present, my friend is to allow the action to go undefended. The money must be paid the sharper for both strangers, as the event proved, were sharpers and also the London merchant." And you really have made up your mind to pay " Oh, certainly, because there is no help for it" " I am a barrister, I am Mr. Sergeant Vaughan, and I will defend the case gratuitously." The other tendered him a thousand thanks for his intended kindness, but expressed his apprehensions -that all efforts at defence would be perfectly useless. " We shall see," said the Sergeant significantly, "we shall tee." You and your friend the landlord will call on me this evening at 8 o'clock, to arrange for the defence to-morrow." . . . To-morrow came, and the case was duly called on. The poor inn-keeper acting on the advice of Mr. Vaughan, but not perceiving in what way he could be benefitted by it, defended the case. ' Everything proceeded so favorable for the prosecution for some time, that, though every person in the court deeply sympathized with the unfortunate landlord, they saw no possibility of any other result than a verdict against him. Mr. Sergeant Vaughan, when the case for the prosecution was closed, rose and said I' Now, gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the evidence adduced. You have seen it proved, by unexceptionable witnesses, that the defendant received the most positive instructions from all three not to deliver the money, or any part of it, to either of the parties except in the presence of all. Gentlemen, my client has got the money in his possession, and is ready to give it np when all the three parties come to demand it. Let the absent party be brought to his house, in company with the other two, and every one will have his money returned to him." ' The defence was equally ingenious and complete. The jury looked as amazed at each other as it some new world had burst on their astonished gaze ; so did all the spectators in court The verdict was, of course, for the defendant It is unnecessary to add that the two who had absconded with the money never returned, and consequently the poor landlord had never to pay a farthing of the amount

Curiosities in Crystals. The wind is from the northeast, an ashen gray scud sweeps close overhead, the general exclamation is, " it feels like snow." Soon the flakes begin to descend ; at first leisurely and few; then swifter; and finally faster, faster. , Before an hour, the earth is covered with a white mantle, composed of millions on millions of little crystals, each as perfect of its kind as a diamond, and each in itself, if you will only look, as beautiiul. Take up one. It melts in hand your ; it is gone. See that other, on the very top of a snow-drift, glistening, gem-like, in the sunshine.. A while ago, it was vapor, floating in the sky; before that, it was a drop of sea-water ; to-morrow it will be fluid again, and mingling with the ocean. . Examine its shape. It is like a tiny star, cut in Carrara marble. " Yet sculptor, nor even lapidist, coidd ever' rival it. No marble is fine-enough to fabricate it. What subtle power in nature has made this snow-flake1 so different in appearance from the rain-drop, yet substantially the same ? The very boys in a telegraph office will tell you it was magnetism. Yes I it is this, as yet almost unknown agent, the motive power by which we send "lightning" messages to our friends, which helps to crystallize alike the diamond at the bottom of the mine, and the snow-flake high up in the heavens. ' .The whole subject of crystals is beautiful beyond imagination. It is crystallization and crystallization alone, which draws the line between the diamond that ' flashes on a lady's finger and the charcoal that smuts a kitchen maid. . Sandstone and granite, limestone and marble have their essential dillerences in crystalliza-. tion. One has been formed in the laboratory of nature, by the slow deposit of matter held in solution in primeval seas, the other by particle on particle, also hold in solution, arranging itself in the precision of soldiers at a review. 1 No architect ever built more regularly than nature, when constructing even the smallest crys--. tal. Plants and animals grow by excessive developments; increase by assimilation through chemical changes ; but crystals are equally perfect in their earliest stages, and enlarge only by accretion. Yet crystals, like all other created things, die in time. Mines abound with skeletons of crystals. Crystals differ in shape as the microscope reveals almost as much as plants themselves. Yet the same substances always crystallize in the same forms, at least under the same conditions, so that we may say there are tribes and races of crystals, with typhical shapes, exactly as of men. ; Crystallization is found through all nature. There is not a substance which, when allowed the free movement of its particles, does not exhibit a frequency to crystalize. Water, at a low temperature, crystallizes into ice. Metals, slowly cooled after melting, crystallize. The gases, evanescent as they may seem, may be made so artificially cold as to crystallize. Ourchil-,. dren eat crystallized sugar, under the name of rock candy, and we ourselves use it in the loaf, crystallized in another form. What is glass but a crystal ? The ( sizes of crystals vary infinitely. There are crystals too small to be recognized, except under a microscope ; ' and there is one at Milan, weighing nearly nine hun- ' dred pounds. The White Mountains of New Hampshire are a vast aggregation of crystals. The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is an enormous musuem of . crystals. As yet,, however, with all our knowledge, we are comparatively ignorant of the laws of crystalli- , zation. Under them we see atom arrange itself by atom, in mystic, myriad forms ; we discover, also that not only magnetism, but light and heat exercise an influence in crystallization ; but there onr information substantially stops. The science of crystallization is almost a sealed book. Its mightiest curiosities still lie, like the virgin islands of the Pacific, before the day of ' Cook, awaiting the perseverance of some fortunate ex- ' plorer. Selected. , Success not Always Happiness. We often see an old, weather beaten man, who never had any sue- ' cess in his life, who always knew more, and accomplished less than his associates, who took the quartz and dirt of the enterprise, while they took the gold ; and yet, in old age he is the happier man all his life long he was the happier man 1 He has a sum of hope, , and they of desire and greed ; and amidst all this misfortune, and these mysterious providences, he has had that within him which rose up and carried his head above all troubles, and upon their world-wide waters r bore him up like the old ark upon the deluge. It was the deluge that gave not the ark. .

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