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’ 1 ; EYRE'S ACQUITTAL. ' BY HELEN B. MATHERS. 1 .) e T i J I)A.RT E:o-; ;'A ! L U] e 5 B OHAPTER 1. : And let me wring your heart, for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff. T . o Cofhe et ) . “The remote village of Lovel was one ’after?oon electrified by news of the. death of its Squire, ‘and the intimation. that his body might be expected to arrive befere night, under the care of his friend, Lord Lovel. : ' In gess than ay hour Mr. E{rb’s”grave‘, was being dug beside thatof the woman. whose lover and husband he had been, . and of whose murder he was secretly believed to be guilty; though if he had' killed _her, it had been for love—becaise, though he eould endure to see her die, he could not brook the sight of himself degraded in her eyes, or, ‘as others said, know himself supplanted. in her love by his friend. . e had never been accused of the crime, nor even fot some time suspected of it, and this was‘ partly due to the fact that at his instigation a woman. -named Clarke - had. been tried for the murder, -and, by 'citcumstantial evi-. dence, so nearly convicted, that her ac(}uittal wag indignantly declared by the, t 'udges to be a gross miscarriage ot jus-: ice. ; I i - But_some . extraordinary disclguxes made by Mr. Eyre in the.course Of the trial had, in the eyes. of many of those present, reversed the Kosition of accuser and accused; while the ruthless lifting by his own hand of the curtain that had screened his inner life’ appalled the i:uzvrs, who. in one scathing d-ﬂash of ight saw him "-_striypedi naked of his worldly robes, and he ag the man that 1(1 rod and his own hegrt had long known im. - g v

+le stood before them ' a man who for years had been at the mercy of a secret sin; himself the fatal moving power out, of which had 'sprung three successive tragedies of .unspeakable gnthos and horror, ugon which he gazed impassive and unsubdued—lless repentant of his misdeeds than' callously bold in vaunting them—casting aside like a wornout glove the honorable life he had ‘worn irrthose years when he had

Built God a church, and laughed His word * to scorn, : { and by his“inhumanity rather than his sins,-eutting himself off fromall sympathy with his kind. =~ | & . As betrayer and deserter of the woman Clarke in her youth, and remorseless bringer to justice of ther only friend for the murder of his unacknowledged chicd (privately exerting his great influence to hang her)—as| the man who first robbed his best friend of his sweetheart, then filched his good name and wore it before the world--as the assassin who‘att:emgted Hester Clarke’s life because he had an hourly dread lest she should tell Mrs, Eyre the truth—as.the accuser of that unhappy woman of his

wife’s murder—and as magistrate committin% her to jail while yet his child’s cor%se lay warm upon her knee—thus, bit by bit, his character during tt};e trial painfed itself to the shrinking ‘beholders’ gaze, till all felt. themselves in the presance of a man~ whose hand would not ghrink from any deed to which his:

iron will impelled Tiim. | o From that day the secret conyiction Erew and strengthened that Mr. Egre ad himiself‘ been the murderer of the wife he had "so passionately loyed, the most popular reason assigned being a violént jealousy of Lord Lovel, culminatin% in a fit of madness, in which e slew her. : iy g ~ But those who were best: acquainted with Mr. Eyre’s haughty ‘and intlexible ‘character, said that hé never needed to know jealousy, and felt none; but that the compilications of his position with regard to Hester Clarke [becoming ui-bearable=-and father than see his wife endure those miseries that the knowledge of his sin must cost her, he badeut the knot of his aifliculties and - her life .with a single blow, and so secured ig-n({);-:mce to her for ever. i : ; © fOthers fienied the murder to have . been onewf either jealousy or {)ride, declaring it to be one of simple greed, committed for the sake of the magnificent diamonﬁs’ she had worpithat night, and which weére found’'missing wxilen she was discpvered stabbed to the héart, - but breathing yet, in her chair. 'Strong suspicion had at the time attached itsélf to the gard*rﬁler, who was seized on a ladder, placed dgainst her .window, within'a few moments of the.

|deed, and- whose infatuation for Mr. Eyre’s French nurse was said to be powerful enough to precipitate him into crime for her sake, . = | : “Give me diamonds like Madam’s, and I will marry you,” she had said to him not half an heur before tlie murder; and the diamonds had disappeared, and the gardener been caught almost red‘handed, yet Mr.'Eyre had refused for one mobment to believe in the man’s guilt, all his energies being bent to the conyiction of the woman Clarke; and hefore setting out on that lehgthened journey, that extended to three years, he had the man and maid married jn his

. Pbresence, and left them established in sole chax&;e of the Red,llall, with- certain funds to be disposed of according to.his directions. Aind, though keenly watched. by the village, the oddlyimatched pair had given rise to no sus{;icion, and gradually people ceased to elieve in their guilt. -/ = . , Of Mr. Eyre nothing was known. He and Lord Lovel had ﬁome abroad within a few da:,iys of each other and were conje¢tured to be together, but as both . Freserved an unbroken silence, sending - home neither word nor s gmf_ their existence, the first positiye néws that had reached the village being contained in 7+ the telegram that announced the speedy arrival of ]ivin{,r and dead. : And those who gathered round to see the digging of Mr. E'yre~’€ grave, whispered that the real secretof Mrs. Eyre’s ~death would never be kndwn now, Since . the kély to it was for ever locked within the cold heart of the.maft whom she . alone had so . passionately loved, while all other men and women feared him.

. CHAPTER 11. : ‘‘Seems like yesterday I were digging her grave,” said the sexton, jerking his heaﬁ.rtowarﬂ the mnarrow, green mound where Madcap Eyre lay with her child on her breast, and I'd sooner ha’ dug his the gﬁst;f. + « I misdoubt me if the dat#sies and crocuses ’ll ever spring as ‘free above his,; as they do out. o’ her pretftfy head—God bless her!” - . - “If he’d been a Foor, man he’d lie at the eross roads with a stake through his heart,” said Nancy of the Mill, who stood with arms a-kimbo. “Lord! to think that she died as happy—like a baby in its mother’s arms—'tis said she felt so safe-like, she didn’t even Kkiss him before . . . and he’ll never get near enough for her to kiss him now—God

A’mighty ’ud never stand,it.” . - “I never thowt he’d 'a died till he’d ‘swun;ir somebody or ’'nother for her,” said the blacksmith; “to see his I;;rave a-digging, seems like g story broke off - short-like in its middle—t’other world / gets the end o’t, and neither they norus ' lig abit the wiser,” . .| ¢ o “Love begins all things Jand death ends ’ern,”’ said the grave ig;ier, senten- - 'tiously; ‘*half *the 'sin' in the world’s - born of the tasteio’ a icherry IIF. and a ‘gentle eye’ll sink many a/soul ag has kept the commandments from his youth up—’twas a most ;»oWerful true love as turned th’ Squire from an honest man, < to a black-hearted sinner.”? | “He give hilf sowl for her,” said a sad- - faced womah who :?ggdiry “and he ~ couldn’t-do more for her if 'twas ever so—he knew that if ever she comed to know , ahout IHester _%e .and. %g -drow. [ d,”’t would 3&' Ve 0 said that . & oﬁ e J]ﬁ. ‘said et o 00l el and niver knowed she'd been mur —she went .80 qﬂlf:g' after she’d come qu,‘lqﬁthe‘chlotot%gfr;ne”.p,m aNas : lere’s a man for you ed Nancy, * lifting up her 35 ‘.bifso bp‘ul}e dzi stab her through jealousy, to hide beside her all & igh that night, hom}% the handkercher to her mouth, and r -regtinﬁ?he,rcoma to herself one blessed "; “ ]Tn’mﬁ‘ :,:'»,',- )h;_,. "wz m'f 3¢ "she. dies, “tis murder and, 1 Squire looks up and aez, ‘What thent .0 ‘I)Ol’d, . ’P:““‘ 0. i ; It minds eller,” said a vile "Whose rusty L swwept his hoels, “He m o wite

for jealousy; but there was no knite or chloroform there, only pillows.”” Ja ““The master had no call to be jéalous,” said Sally Genge, who had just {,oined the group; *“she never loved but im,.and he knowed it.”” * . ‘ “And what a pair they made,” said the fravediggef, resting on his spade, ‘5O lightsome, spirity, and beautifull She’d walk beside master, but dance along side of t’other—seems like as if they two ought to lyin’ here side by sid . .. he left his heart wi’ her the ‘da.)? we laid the mool above her. : . e ‘“She were well loved,” said the sexton’s wife, softly; ‘‘and for her sake the two men loved one another. 'Twas grand to see ’em standing shoulder to shoulder at th’ ’sizes—'twas the only speck o’ vartue in' master’s character when he umn’ said ’twas he, an’: not the young d, as had brought Hester Clagxe to shame—seemin’ asif he didn’t vally the wurld's opinion a groat, so long as she never heard the whisper o’t.” “%le-\\:as ever of a murderish sort of mind,” said the pedagogue, shaking his his head—*~’twas greatiy;in my mind when he set.’ out so quick after Lord Lovel, that revensze was at the bottom; for, though a man may kill his wife for love. he mostly kills her lover for hate.” “Very bookish talk!” said the sexton, disparagingly; ‘‘some more leaymgs of Otheller, I s'pose; but them as sits down to write books is mostly pore ereatures, and nat’rally the folks they sét struttin? on the page is like theirselves .. . they ain’t true to human natur’; an” if youw ticket a man,wi’ a deadly sin, an’ exBect him- to act accordin’, ten to one ut he’ll bust out with a bit o’. vartue as’ll make you feel. as if you'd never knowed its right color before ... . an’ if the master slew her as he lov’d best of all upon earth, ’tis ten to one ’twas for some reason as never entered intg) YOurOmeller’s or any of them durnmies’ leads.”’ e e i

“Dummies!” ejaculated the pedagogue, furious at this insult to the creatfures of his- own discovery—ergo his own; but a push from one of the crowd 'near’ly precipitating him into the open igrave compelled him to take an awkward leap backward, in the course of which his head met _a tombstone that made him think of Othello with disgust ot aweek. oG S

The cause of the catastrophe was Job who came to the very edge and looked down with bitter hatred at the yawnme ehasm. ¢ ; L “Dig it deep,” he said; ‘*he’s been the curse of the place this man¥a year, and there’s no knowing where his sins may sprout u;l) again—but please God we've doné with bastardg. and murders now—a bad man,” cried Job, strikin% his foot against the crumb’ing earth; “he spoilt my little MastergF'rank’s life, and made him carry on his shoulders a sin that wasn’t hig'n, and spcaks up the ‘truth too late, for shenever knowed it ... there’s 'naught but hemlock ’ll grow here, though them two sweet ‘soulg laid aloniside might save. him . . . but, thank God, he’s dead, and my little Master Frank’s above-ground!” - His old voice ceased in a triumphant quaver as he turned from the grave to the dwindlin%egroufp of villagers, for the shart November afternoon closing ‘in and a chilly mist was rising in spectrai shapes about the mnearer tombstones, and gathering more closely about the little %roup,. formed a wall that shut out all objects beyond. A ' “ Ayl said thesexton, looking down, “pbutil’d rather to' day was to-morrer, and we’d got him here. Th’ Squire were never, warsted in anything yet,an? it seems s’prisin’ that he should be throwed in his first wrastle, so to speak, wi’ death. . . . Imostly.gets a blink o’ the dead face in its coffin whiles ll’'m diggin’ its grave, but somehow I can’t see the masters.” g ; ‘“You shall' within the hour,” said Job, briskly; “‘and now I must be hastenin’ biack or the body’ll be there afore me, and my lictle Master Frank’ll be exi)ectin”———'- A AWhat-was it that froze the words on his lilps? Whose was this tall shape that loomed gigantic through the mist, and from which after one shuddering g.ance all fell-away, clutching at” each other like drowning creatures in a sinking ship? , Job standing erect, the vigor of-youth rekindled in his veins, withered and grew old, 'as, with a lightning conviction of the truth, he stammere(f, * My master—where is my master?”’ Mr. Eyre looked down at the half-veiled chasm at his feet. St

- *llis frave is':\-lregxdy dug,” he said. “and you have received” my laessage. Ie lies at the housé yonder.” =

“Ilis grave?” repeated Job, slowly and stupidly; ‘‘his grave . . . but he’s alive —the message was fromhim . .. ’twas your body he was bringing . . his din‘ner’s preparing, and his chair’s. set. . . My little Frank,” he sobbed, “my dear, dear little Master Frank —then ~seized Mr. Eyre’s arm and shook him like a reed; *‘did you kill him as you Kkilled your wife?”’ he shrieked. i

““He was killed in battle abroad,” said Mr. Eyre, and his voice, hollow and ‘worn, rhight have heen a ghost’s, ‘‘lle had been an hour dead when I found him. I laid him in his coffin and brought him straight home. ‘The message must haye blundered on its way.”? : But Job did not hear . . . by the side of that empty grave his faithful old heart broke, and, palsied and tottering, he had cre{)t away home to where, for the first, last time, his little Master Erank was waiting to receive him: CIIAPTER TII. , *And so you duz my’ grave with a will, my friend,” said~ Mr. Eyre, looking keenly at the gravedigger, “‘and I've disappointed you; butit sha’n’t be love’s labor Jost. . Lord Lovel loved my wife —and she him—and there’s room for me on-the otheér side. And they shall have .no moniment, and no® stained 'Fl'ass yonder; but only the flowers they oth- loved, with the sun = shinin through them—and thére ’ll be no brief‘ to grow out of either breast, but only rose, And so {ou thought I killed mg wife?”” he added, turning: abruptly t the terrified villagers, who b&fan 3) smart under a more wholesome fear of hira in the flesh than in the spirit. il "*“Nay, sir,” said the sexton’s wl% courtesying, ‘“’tis not for poor folksli we to judge our .master; ““th’ old mai did but prate ot ‘'what he’s caught uB from his betters.” § {

- “Good God!” eried Mr. Eyre, like a man violently awakened from a dream, “is it possible?”’ then ‘stooped and plucked a daisy from her grave. “Poor, poor Madcap!” he said, so, low that none might hear him, ““and * is that all my love hath brought thee?” Then, shrouding himself in his black cloalk, the mist swallowed him ug front the frightened gazers’ eyes, an ‘was géne. “'Tis well that Frank lies yonder, nyot 1,” he said aloud as he crossed the churchyard, ‘‘since that’s the popular idea. I’ll have to ' disprove it if only for her sake—as if the sweet soul could ‘have loved her murderer—and -though I've thought of most things; I never thought of that, though clearly some fool did—most likely Busby—and set the countr{; farm-yard in a'cackle, be«cause its chief goose- had laid another egg. But she can’t héarthem, and she’s ‘happy; and Frank’s found her by now; and he loves her too. well to tell her the secret he wouldn't tell me. What was it?” hie cried aloud, and standing still in the darkness. “Three years I've lost _in hunting forit, and meanwhile the wotn’l,an’s'escaped me. - But I'll find her -yet. 1o i : As he climbed the familiar hill to his home; he thought of how often: those: two bright Ymmg_cfeatures now sound in death below had trod it beside him; and - once he drew back, as though })llysically unable to face the em t&' louse, across whose threshold his Madcap would never dance to meet him #n more. e entered the courtyard, : ng mechanically turned to that wing of the ‘house in which her chamber lay, and from the force of habit looked up as if he would have distinguished her window through the darkness. But what was this? ' A clear light burned within, and as he paused below, his foot struck against aladder placed azainst the y ,a;ll}. Good God! he thouiht' has it stood here since that night? And then he remembered that it was the very d‘aiy .and ‘month of the year upon which she had been murdered. e He had thought it unnatural that Hester should climb the ladder u lesz; ‘with sinister int,ent:jty,et he foundhis foo on the first rung before he was f @ @ ‘and/as he rose, step Bg step, put. himgelf in her place, and in the lighted: room above seemed to see Madcap, asleep and unconscious of her doom. * _As his head and shoulders rose above. 'thciiaigi ﬁtllling ,thaigi;;dow from: lintel n 18 SaW 1t was .unshutter-. ﬁ and ajar, while through the ﬁ d. ‘EM before him he once more beheld he diamonds that he had last seen on %%wife’a neck when he left her in the drawing-room below with Lord Lovel, 4T ‘rather have the right to wear. gﬁ@gmgy than own the Anest, farm. ously with the jewels she wore, ag did

her. personal beauty with the sordid Plamnqss of the man who stood at some ittle distance from her, his features expressing a atnagxd ‘admiration that strug-, gle%(thh an almost abject terror, : " “¥ou're just: doited to- deck y’rself wi’ ’em,” he said sullenly. A“M’agpen but they’ll hang the two on us yet.” ‘“There’s only we two in the "house,” she said; “*the child’s as_leeggdand every doer locked, and master’s body’s at the Towers by now. - There’s none likely to come nigh us to-night. Sit down, you fool,” she added, as she turned herself this way and that before the mirror, “did ever you see fireflies give dut such a shine as you?” s I Stk © ““Sit me ‘down-here?” he said, looking not at his soiled fustian, but at, the middle of the room, his eyes fixed as if he saw there some fearsome: sight, “seems like as I see her now as I seen ‘her that night gittin’ in her white gown, and the red blood gurglin’ out’—as though involuntarily. his earth-stained hang lifted itself, and pointed to where his eyes dwelt—*"'l were mad to let mysel’ be dragged here this night; and that poor soul—innocent of all save peesin’,’ and almost hanged for our sin—l'd ha confessed all afore I saw her swinging. An’ all for naught but to see you wi’ a halt?’r of diamonds round your aveazle

‘Pig handsomer than many alady’s,” said the woman, slowly, as one whom a thought has struck; “why should I go with the‘?oor fool at ali?” she muttered, half aloud; *‘in Paris I might wear ’em, and——"’ “ “see mo murder there,” Mr. Eyre had once exclaimed, gazing at the gardener’s features; but as Josephine’s half-dropped words reached the man’s ears.and he strode forward, his- master knew that his study had béen superficial and that Deneath yon boorish exterior might Jurk unsuspected possibilitigs.of crime.” . . . e B

180 you'd like to give me the go-by,” said ng%es with a_ bitter curse, as he crushed the woman’s white arm in his coarse hand; ‘‘just you try it,”” and he’ breathed hard “and ~thick; “if so be as I’ve sold my sowl for Ylou, I’ll git m]y penny’s- worth, an’ where I'go you'll follor. I allus knew you aag a bad lot, but Ivour first fancy mand¥ be the last, for I’ll kill the pair o’ ye. I've half the mind to tear ’em off yer body this night an’ ’fess to-the truth——"’ ; The woman laughed as she put her free arm ahout his neck and kissed him —her beauty held him in bondage Xet. In the lower; ranks of life it is seldom that a man ill-uses his handsome mate 50 long as she is true to him. : “Didn’t I promise to love you if you could give mediamonds like madame’s,”’ she said, sickening at the contrast of their two faces,in the glass, ‘‘and I've worn them once. To-night we’ll unf)gck them from:their settings, and hide them for the last time.” “We maun bide ‘awhile afore we makes a move,” said Digig s, who had relapsed into his usual |stolid self; ‘“m’appen the neebors’ll keep their eyes open yet awhile.” - 3 . | “They’ve given over suspecting long ago,” said Josephine, ‘*folks that dress tliremselves in woolen must be virtuous -—and poverty’s a grand cloak to bide one’s sins under.” AL ¢ .| She was flaunting backward and forvard before the mirror now, and be-. ii)nd her lay the pure, simple backround of x\%ﬁdcap’s chamber, arranged. Just as she had left it when she had ignorantly started on her last long journey without fatewell kiss or word to..the husband and children, she so passionately loved.. g : There stood her white bed, and beside it the table that held her Bible, Prayerbook, and portrait of her husband alone and her two boys together; néar them lay the broken: toy that her boy had dropped when he had paid her his last visit, and. wept at leaving her, not knowing how soon he would share with her that sleep which knows no waking. . . . Yonder, too, was the cabinet of which one unlocked drawer held a secret that defied Mr. Eyre, while by its side the easy-chair stood in which Madcap. had been ‘‘twinn’d of her sweet life’”” unknowing. . . . . On the borders of -the half light Digges hovered fearful to remain, as to depart, alone, his round eyes resting on aanything rather than his wife. ~All at once the blackness of the windows attracted Josephine’s attention; it would Imake a longer looking-glass than the fone in which she gazed, and she approached it, seeing but night beyond, for Mr. Eyre covered his face with his mantle as she advanced, so that she saw the jewels flashing like sun rays upon an inky pool. : __But’ as she looked, some horrible, lightning impression of gazing at dark against dark seized her; involuntarily* she pressed: nearer, and’ as the heavy mantle slipped, and Mr. Eyre’s eyes met hers through the glass, his features menacing and stern, pale and haggard as a man now risen from the tom%), icy terror congealed the very blood in her: veins, and slew in her the power to ery out—to_ stir. Ignorant and superstitious, she never doubted that this was her dead; master in his cere-clothes, come to confront her with the witnesses to her crime upon her body .. and reason tottered, but was not averthrown, till, dashing the casement wide, he stretched his arm and seized her . .. then her wits fled, and even as Mr. Eyre knew it, and saw the chamber door open, and Digges 'gone, he knew that once more the secret of Madcap's death had escaped him.

CHAPTER IV. . e Mr. Eyre cursed himself for a melodramatic fool as he let the woman go, and hasten®ed to regain jearth; knowing that there were but two exits from the Red ITall, by one or the other of which Digges was certain to effect his escapz. But the pitch darkness aided the fugitive, and when he dropped noiselessly from the nursery window, Mr. EX_re. griml{ watching a hundred yards distant, heard nothing, but was so. certain cf his having got off that he yasted no ‘time in searching the house, but descended to the village, where he had the curious misfortune to be mistaken at every other 'step for his own ghost. The story of his appearance 'in the churchyard was not yet fully circulated through the glace, and many believed his body to be then reposing at the Towers, so that-some hinderance to.the search for Digges was unavoidable. ' “Saye your cackles,” he'said at last, sternly, .“and search for this man throughout every yard of the village—a hundred pounds to him who seizes and brings him to me alive; but let no one enter the Red Hall,” he added, as he mounted the horse that he had himself hastily;saddled, and set out at full - log for Marmiton. : Vithin five minutes the whole population of the village was abroad, some with lanterns, others with hastily made and kindled brands, whose light thely Hung on outhouses, and startled fowlcotes, beating each foot of field and wood, and even’ climbiuito the steeg cliff:that rose sheer behind the Re Ilall, in one upper window of . which a light -shone, temf:tm% the seekers to pursue their search within, ~ ° . But none dare withstand their master’s commands—he had returned grimmer and more terrible than he departed; but surely not the’'guilty man they had supposed, as his search for ng%res, and a few hasty words he had let fall pointed to a discovery on his part that the ga{dener and his wife were the criminals. : 0 ;

But when, half an hour later, Mr. Eyre rode through the village, accoinpanied by mounted constables, mapy were the seekers who volunteered #to accompany them to the hall, only to be ‘perenmptorily refused. Mr. Eyre’s keen glance at once discerned that no trace. ‘of Digges had been found; and, without pausing to-make inquiry, he and those with him rode on to the house, where an entrance was effected by breaking a window. ; Beiis 4

~ But for thfz"gardener’s fatal error in leaving the ladder against the wall no one could possibléy'have surprised the “woman that night; and those who followed Mr. Eyre uttered a cry of amazejent 'as,;»aus‘in{z on the threshold of what had been his ' wife’s chamber, he .made a sign to them to look in. Before the ﬁlass sat Josephine, laughing softly to herself .and :plaiygng with the diamonds that now im the idiot’s kingdqm were--her own—to be worn: without fear, and gloated oyer to her .heart’s content. For the first time in her life she was ha%gy—ay, and to the last'day ‘of it,' for Mr. Eyre never allowed them tobe taken from hervduring . that: long ‘and ‘weary :time throug which he waited patiently fmztib@;mck- | er of X%ason that\;muld cﬁc;g its light upon the manner. of:. 8 en o ... “The man’s_not '5 %, saig‘,, . one of '{he donstables Who. bad bear GATefusy watehing her.. “If she'd ‘only sto!ep,‘ the 'ilfamonds, the:shiock of seeing you wouldn’t have driven her mad. ﬁ'ost‘ likely she committed the niurder, after Mrs. Egre"s maid had®left this room for thenight, and went back to the nursery ust before Hester Olarke, mounting the ladder through curiosity, discovered what had happened, and shirieked

50 as to r:&se the house.” ° ‘When asked if the men could search the house, tlﬁa assemn%ed.' ( hb\lt gﬁdhilzot :Vo-n -company them, though Wwi 8 ownL,huxs.,he chked Josgphine in a room -whenecs egress ~mesibte, ‘having --pmhv;uslyfgbeed. ad and water withn ‘Teach. . RS il : . The happﬁéidiot went_willingly, but cried when he took the lxﬁllitangy till she fell asleep, hugging the diamonds in her arms. e e . He then returned to his wife’s chamber, and sat down just within, not stirring" till he' heard a‘pproachfn;g’ ste%s, ~when he rose, and, standing on the threshold, asked the chief constable ifhe had discovered anything? == = . “Nothing, Sir—leastways only a child, _all alone, and sound asleep, Sir.” | B ’ ¢ { CHAPTER V. = Mr. Eyre locked and barred the hall - door upon the searchers, then returned to his wife’s bedroom, and, closing the window, deew the curtains before it. Here the murderer had stood—What, Digges? From here he must have. seen her asleep in the chair that stood midway between bed and window, beside it the diamonds whose wicked shine in a dullard’s eyes might have lit the way to an unprincipled, covetous worhan beyond . . . but the gardener Digges? - , Drogping the curtain, Mr. Kyre advanced as though he were acting a part —how easy to aim one blow at yon sleeping shape—to seize the diamonds and escape by the .open window—to hide them and return, dragged by the miserable power of the victim'over its destroyer—to enconnter Hester Clarke hurrying from the sight upon whichshe had privily looked—to seize, and fasten ‘the guilt upon her, she keeping silence throughout her trial, knowing that a word would save her! Digges, gxe murderer . . mechanically he turned to a cabinet that stood near him, and opened a certain drawer—then brought the light, and stood looking down fixedly 01;31 dim outline traced upon the wood within. ¥ :

Here the knife had lain that was afterward found in Hester Clarke’s possession; but who had placed it there, and dld' the sameé hand remove it? He lifted his own, and, as one who makes an experiment, stretched it toward the cabinet; his will making imperious question of his mind, as though.he would wrest from it some seeret tilat had been acquired against his knowledge, and must be forced to yield up to his command. But force of will would not unbar that hidden chamber of his soul, locked even . against himself, whos2 keys he had lost. and his friend found. =

“God forgiveyou!” Frank had written, when he had left Mr. Eyre’s sigk bed to set out on hijs journey. ‘‘lknow the truth.”’ i i 5 The truth . . . unless brain, ear, and eye mocked Mr. Efrre to-night, he knew that the clew held in Frank’s dead hand, out yonder, was worthless; that the mystery of Madcap’s death was forever solved, and himself the sport of an illusion that had m=ade the opportunity of a clown. e - i

Hester innocent—for the gardener’s overheard words cleared her of guilt—and he, that poor worm, that clod, guilty. A fierce sense of the meanness of the instrument that had compassed 50 great crime alone moved Mr. iljij,zre’s soul as, in that silent chamber, he realized his own bitter, black mistake. - Come with me now to the storming of the trenches before Sevastopol—see a sunny-haired young feilow leading hismen on ... see him struck bya cannon-ball and reel from his saddle, while his followers trample him beneath theri feet as they rush onward to vietory . . . see’how, amid a'storm of shot. and shell, a man rushes forward, and, lifting that yet warm body up, bears it away to a place of safety, where he tears aside the scarlet coat, only to find that the heart beneath isstill—the heart t(;ihat;,c }lllvolds the lost clew to Madcap’s eath! i

“Silent, with closed lii)s, unconscious of bravery,” so young that his mother in heaven could not have forgotten his likeness, yet, the soldier lay—beaten in the fight, but with a cleam of victory ning athwart his wide open blueeyes amd shattered features that, to one who loved him, might have seemed more nobly -beautiful than the ‘glance that had “been his in life, - Yet as enemy rather than friend, Mr. Eyre lifted that lifeless body, and gently laid it down. ‘He and the man Dbefore him had been comrades, sworn to one cause, and it had been no part of Mr.. Eyre’s scheme that either should die before it was won. No pity for that gallant fate stirred him—no memory of how he had loved his friend, and stolen his Madcap from him softened his heart; only a bleak and a bitter rage filled ' his: soul that, after three long years of pursuit, in which he had wasted the whole forces of his brain and body, he had at last gom&a up with the pursued to End him—ead. - !

“He should have been shot through the heart as a deserter, not buried as a hero,” Mr. Eyre thought, as he folded his cloak aecr6Bs Frank and left him alone in the rude hut, while he himself went. to search for those proofs of Lord Lovel’s identity that he must/take with him to leovel when he bore the body home for burial. i He carried his. life in his hand that night, but, as if he. had been Belial’s self, no harm touched him,and day was breaking when he found Frauk’s Colonel—dying—but ablesto recognize Mr. Eyre as an old friend, and to answer his questions about Frank. ; Lord Lovel had joined quite recently, aéld seeméd to court death. lle had confided to him, a few days previously, a packet of papersthat he desired might be sent to Mr. Eyre it he fell. These papers were on the dying man’s body at that moment, and as Mr. Eyre drew them from above his heart, a fierce throb of hope animated himj; for here, Ferhaps, Frank, though dead, spoke to lim the truth. e

As-he tore them open, the dying man suddenly cried out,” Has any one seen Methuen? ' Take care there’s no mistake . . . their own mothers couldn’t tell” . . . then died, with the unfinished sentence on his lips. < A withered bunch %f flowers ... a faded ribbon . . . a pale photograph of a girl’s face made out of sunshine . . . half-a-dozen lettersjw_ritten in childish letters, and signed¢_“your little sweetheart, Madcap” . . . one or two notes, of whieh the ink was fresher, and the tone sedater, with the name of “‘E{lre” added to that of ‘“Madcap”. ... these and no more. .. 2

Not a word (to his friend—not a syllable to call back the awful burden he had laid upon him .., and as, later, Mr. Eyre stood lookin(gl down upon that shroud 'd clay, he could have spurned if; with his foot in loathing. " When the rude cofin iad been made readfy, Mr. Eyre and his dead man set out for-home, his mind a sullen blank, that last stage of the -impotent rebel lion against God that had for three years consumed him. ‘. In Frank’s name, he tele;{raphed to Lovel news of his own death, certain that Josephine would. immediately communicate the news to Hester, so that “he would probably find the two,women together on his arrival. Nomatter what hidden clew Frank had held, in hissoul Mr. Eyre knew IHester Clarke to be guilty; and it was with the implacable etermination to convict her yet, that he had approached his house that night, .expecting'D to find her within it, And on_ his very: threshold he had been.met by this sordid reading of the tragedy; a mere clew to which had made him a wanderer on the face of the earth for three long. years.a clew that had made him put even Hester aside as one to be dealt with later, and now if Digges or Josephine were guilty—if—but what waste of ime to speculate, when | by that hour of the following day the man would be in the hands of justice, and probably his confession made. -But as a.side-thought will sweep a man out of the track of sober fact, and bid tragedy itself pause while he dallies with a folly, so Mr. Eyre’smind started off at 'a tangent to Madcap, and rested there, just ‘as 4 mariner in drowning looks up to the patch of blue above him., So the 'darkened chamber, the white ‘ehair, receded from Mr. Eyre's eyes, ; ianf;i :ln th?lxr .plac% he . saw an 10%%-&%; oned gardeu, and a young girlstepping backwgaljd down a la(idfr,. as, almus, she counted the plums on the garden-wall. J;hAnun he sawﬂthe‘ same young shape (but three months older) sittin: bmga, neath 'Szh vgxffe gllm?:e of a mﬁmff‘ﬁﬁm 108’gq%; wére no {)gler tha&) her cheeks, till /& step on the turf made her turn, and ‘the next moment two gentle arms; arms that trembled, but did not doubt, were round his neck. . . A t,r{‘st-ing-eplace. (six hourslater), to which a B{oung .:{mmin a white gown came stealing—. 1 her world&g ?edsf tied n?in her’ quket handkerchief, abnd Fo hing in fe to keexhar_ warm but her lover’s arms. , . A hurried gﬁﬂage,‘at which dn old friend of the bride’s assisted, and e ek ik RIS 8 : m a lan in love with nﬁuf,mmm% Joathing onthe pleasures he had found in sin,

And_these arms held her fast and safe through those six short, happy Kears—-a&, and made to her so sure a eaven that dreamlessly she had sunk t her last rest in them, knowing neithfer fear nor ?am,bo lo%da_.g they were closed about her—yea, even in the moment of death "knew. no pang, but qamlled it the happiest moment of her e. 3 : z S She had been happy to the last—exultantl¥ in that lonely chamber. Mr, Eyre lifted his brows to Heaven, and cried aloud, that no matter what 'his suffering, sin, and shame might be, she had never suffered. e Suddenly he rose, and stretching. out his hands toward yon empty bed, called wildly and passionately, ** Madcap!” The starved cry rang: throuxgx the silent house as, pierced though all his armory of pride %y that hvm%( thought of her, the strong man awakened for the first time to ﬁxe full desolation 'of his miserablelot. @ s

Hark! what was fhat? A movement rather than a sound that stole through the empty place . . . then a faint stir as of something thatapproached waveririgly and with many halts, till gradual‘l{‘the faint, pattering sound_asof a child’s bare feet upon polished boards drew nearer and nearer, till, on the threshold of Madcap’s. chamber, they R‘aused_ as though in fear or :doubt. Tnrough the fierce wrestle of his bodily ‘weakness with the power that crushed him, these footsteps sounded but faintg, nor when a gentle hand pushed the oor open, and a little shape stood on the threshold, did he move or turn, till, feeling something approach him, he tore his hand from his eyes, and angrily pointed to the door. i o e ‘Who was it that dared intrude on him thus? He looked, but at first saw nothin(fig; then downward, and saw close be;i ¢ him a ‘child no higher than his nee. 3

“Go!” he said, once more lifting his hand in the fierce festure of dismissal that Madcap’s. children had so invariably obeyed. ‘Bui the harsh look that sped like a blow, fell faltering, for what was this? . S aEwt el M -

Did he not know this face by heart—its hys—'—th‘e very sunshine of its glance, ay. the very dimples in lips and cheeks —the same bright hair that had so often curled about his head . . . this could not be Josephine's child? ' Unconsciously he sank to his knees, she looking at him earnestly, then, wjth one of those angelic instincts of pity that will move a little child’s heart to the comprehension of a tragedy it cannot know, and with no fear of that terrible face above her, she lifted a dimpled hand to his neck, and left it there. *‘ls’oo miserbul?”’ she said in her tender little voice, then finding something in his face that satisfied her, put her other arm round his neck, and gave him that first, best, purest gift earth can afford—a child’s unbidden kiss. He received it as if he were stone. . . How long ago was it since anyone had kissed him? Then, putting her from him so harshlg that any but a child would have been startled into the belief that he was angry, cried. ““What is your name?” “I’se Madcap,” she said, and laughed aloud in the desolate chamber . . . and then Mr. Eyre knew how betwixt him and God had passed the shield of a little child. 5 3

Here was Madcap’s message to him from the grave—sent to him in his darkest, loneliest hour; herein his gras was that divinest link between God ang man—the hand of # little child.

Here, in the very moment that life had:practically come to a full .top, was a heart put into it. . = Ay! but through which to suffer, to be made to- remember dead sins . . . thoughl he knew it not, was not here his punishment, the instrument by which his stubbotn soul was to be brought to submission? - No such thought touched him as he bowed his head ' on the little innocent breast that took him with all its sins upon it, and, neither questioning, nor doubtingy knew only that he was in’ trouble, and that e was her friend. “Can’t find Jocy ngwhere,” she said, shaking the bright head that rested on Mr. Eyre’s raven locks, ‘“‘and I don’t like being left all by my lone self—has 00’ come to stop?”’ she added,/suddenly. 3 “YES!H X @ £ . “What's 00’ name?”

“I am your father.” : ~ “Ol no,” said the child, looking at him’ with grave, lovely eyes—*''Daddy’s dead—Jocy said s¢ this aftermoon—they’re going to put him in the cold, cold pit to-morrow—poor Daddy!”’ - She shivered a little as she said it, as if chill or afraid; and; as though it had been his Madcap’s body that his own carelessness had Put in danger, Mr. Eyre lifted the child, and, wrapping her in his cloak, carried her to the bed, and 13id her downatpon it s = o e s

She fell asleep soon, with her hand in his and arshower of bright hifir falling over both ... and so th¢ morning found them . . . a child wrapped in a man’s gray cloak, and a man who slept with his arm thrown/ around her, as thou¥h, even in his slumbers, he might watch over the one treasure that, in the shipwreck of his life, had been cast.up from the very deeps at his feet. : [To be Continued]) :

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HEALTH AND HOME. ‘ PORT CEHESTER, N. Y. | . Circulation 63,000, - -~ Edited by W. H. Hale. M. D, This is a large eight page, forty column, monthly paper, and. is devoted to evorything pertaining to Health and Home, Mar 'riagé, Social Science, Domestic Médicin.e, Sc'ien(;é;_-Li“,tel;atmfe;; Art, Economy, Cookery, Hints on {;Hea..lth‘, Dletlcs.and everyl realm of Mode‘m._Scienée that' tends to Improveh¢alth,pré--7 " vent disease, i)uljify morals, and inake’ home happy i i ’Subseripﬁion‘,l’rieeéo Cents Per Year. Address— - 'DR.W.H. HALE,. .. PRI - Health and Home, dlem, 0 Timadaa | iDem ChostenyN, ¥

_ The;'hndét;iest linoof ‘1 Ready-Made CLOTHING '%:ver shown in ginls ;uark'eg.; ?l‘heir V Merchant Tailoring ' DEPARTMENT Is filled with the lavest styles of Foreign 1 and Domestie o CASSIMERES AND WORSTEDS |For Suitings and Pantings. *Also a fall b e gs}sortgvment.qr : L ‘ HATS 3 CAPS. lGents’ Furnishing Goods ; i &c;c &e-- &c- “. 3 +

Rail Road Directory. ail Road Directory. hch. Southern Rail Road. Onand after November 18, 1883, trains will leav | S stations as follows: 5 | W ‘N.Y. | GOING EAST. [Atlantic J “Express.. l Stations. | press, | SBBLAM. ,\fvennss.OßlCAßO. <. 1 508 D = | ~RATpmi Mﬁols " . 20T oGI gGoshen .l . 948 L) 122 -|e.ce.Millersburg. ... eet 21135 eT S T drtiees o | 4048 L .. 147 sefeees c WAWBKR. Coousifoaiiiimirenas | 2108 e o Brtmeteld L L 211 e+|esse.. Kendallville,..|.. 1054 ... ..284 ..1......Watet10b.._....’..11zz §osi ] SO 18 o S TRelbdes Lt S Am G | m‘ _—cxucngo__‘G'MEx-| GOT 4 fic Bx- | . press Stations. . l _press.. . ..«1087am;.[......T01ed0.g.......'.v’.'.1l oTpm - 32T Waterloon il 1B ol 154 ...l ~ Kenda11vi11e.....;..222 .| ....x...‘.........!......8rimﬁe1d......;'. vesedoneseriiitiiide VAWK coss ooy fonmecanionin | 230 pm... ......Liﬁ0nier......... SOO et evm Al L el T w 302 erealveno. Goshen. o s 881 L wB2 . Elkharts. oL 1862 0 L kS Ay J..+..Chicag0.:.....:..1..7T 51 .“.; Way Freights, going west, pass Ligonier at | 837 am and about 2®Bpm. =~ .7 " ‘ ~Way. Freight going east passes Ligonier at | 958amandat820pm. - ; £ * Atlantic and Pacific Bxpress train leaves daily | both ‘ways, . B : I P, P. WRIGHT, Gen'l Supt, Cleveland, 0. - S W.P. JOHNSON, Gen’l Pass. Ag't, Chicago, Tlls, | F. J. ELLERMAN, Agent, Ligonier, Ind; =~ - | T T e e e . . i Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich.R. R Time table, taking efiect June, 1883, | SOUTH. > NORTH. | No. 4..| No. 2. |AStations,L! No, 1, | No. 3. | 230 pm|ll 10 pm[lndignapolis | 525 ami]l 10 am 1240 | 945 pm Anderson J,,1 650 pmi2 50 pm 1215 & |.916 -’.Alexandria.-]v’:ls 117 1128 am| 824 -.-Marion.. [ 801 204 1644 | 789 |, Wabnsh..| 847 = 852 1003 641 {N. Manchestr| 929 387 921 553 - Warsaw .. th]Z 42 rm 854 522 ---Milford... ;1040 454 1 834 518 New Pariu.]lea’i *GI4 ! 8.27 455 N ?cn... iin‘O'f ‘b2 805am| 434 pm|L, Elkhart:A /1130 ;° 543 pm 722 [ 852 i . Ni1e5.....|1173pm:6 26 pm | 630 am| 300 PM Bentou Harbr) 105 pm 715 pm 1000 pm ‘ 800 1.. Chicago..:] 7?‘_' 700 am | Through coaches will be run on'4rains Nos, 8 and .4 between’ Elkhart and Indianapolis. Through coaehes betiveen Benton Harbor and | Indianapolis, on trains at the Harbor 6,:30 a,m. and 7:15 p. m.—on other trains ecars are changed at Union Depot, Anderson. Trains leave Union Depot, Indianapolis, via _B’ee Line, NORMAN BECKLEY.Geén. Man.

wnmsumcqumnﬁu WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THIS COUNTRY WILL SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP THAT THE : 4 ,3\:217.7?)\/»‘ SRS X it—/’:“ | i 2B ey W !]/ 2l 7 e TR TS A [ S g‘_/v',%x- J l 05 N ) 5} ¥ol PRO B S ‘*} pifE o 'V ig ‘v-‘r.- i g\\'%q 18 £ 8 ‘ ) :\,Ny_\.;"(. A RP AP ,\.“ RPN o € pamiedts ,a‘\ B ||"L.l.):‘:§ x o s G " l\ o g S BN ¢ "4 —.\l:_(A‘_- Z P ) 2} i 1810 N 2w TN ;{;Eﬁ‘ et 3 dﬂ\?’ A .r A i ' WN}Lt b ’!g.,.,:... N fzf-‘ (3 r R R 2 i N S s L R “A © Ky QY ANt Tt e xs3R S o ! (hedualting, \OBIme 00l -2 G Eid A e IR RSN L o N\ RS AR g N L ST ) ERSEIIIRRYY, 19877 ¥vs i KNI ERBERR N/ | 1 N POt eM N e Akt Llotarage s ~Q~A 522 E A AN —eg S PN }‘ I i e Rl ~r,./}l‘-'.'&r K %Im§s§§~&.\a\., , S e S S e N L ey P\ C ? ‘¥ ’ CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R’Y By the central position of its line, connects the Bast and the West. by the shortest route, and carries passengers. without echange of cars, between Chicago and Kansas City, Council Bluffs, Leavenworth, Atchison, Minneapolis and St. Paul. It . connects in Union Degow with all the principal ! lines of road hetween the- Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. Its equipment is unrivaled and magnifieent.‘beln%conéposed of Most Comfortable and Beautiful Day Coaches, Magnificent Horton Reclining Chair Cars, Pullinan's Prettiest Palace Sleeph{s Cars, and the Best Line of Dining Cars in the World, Three Trains between Chicago and Missouri River Points, Two Trains between Chi= cago nnd‘Min_neapolisvand St. Paul, via the Famous » “ALBERT LEA ROUTE.” A New and Direet Line, via Seneca and Kanka%;c, has recently been opened between Riclimond, rfolk, Ncwi)ort News.{:hatmuooga, Atlanta, Augiista, Nashville, Louisville, Lexington, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Lafayette, and Omaha, Minneap-olis-and Bt. Paul and intermediate points. TAI_X Through Passengers Travel on Fast Express lalns. - ! “Licketa for sale at all principal Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada. . : -Baggage checked through and rates of fare al~ | ways 1;15 low as competitors that offer less advn,i—‘ | tages/ : | For detailed information,get the Mapsand Fold= | ers of the i | GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE 1 At your necrest Ticket Office, or address | R. R. CABLE, . E.ST. JOHN, + ~Vice-Pres. & Gen'l M'g'r, Gen'l Tkt. & Pass. Aghy, CHICACO. 3 o

. g 39 for the working class., Send 10 ?tvs, ) : for postage, and we will mail yon free, a roy:ﬁ. valuable box of sam--4§ ple goods that will put you in’the | way of making more money in a few days than you ever, thought | {mssible at any business. Capital not requiredyg> We will start you, You can work all the time or in'spare time only, The work is universally | g\daﬁuted to both sexes young and old. Youcan | easily earn from. 50 cts. to $5 cvery evening, | That all who want work may test the business, | we make this uergmmllqled ofter; to all who are | not well satisfied we will send ?1 to pay for the tro üble of writing to us. Full-particulars, di- : rections, etc., sent free, Fortunes will be made by those who give their whole time to the work. Great ‘success ‘absolutely sure. Don’t delay. | Start Bow. Address STINSON & Co., Portland | Maine, © . : } b ; ~84-ly.. |

THE DINGEE & CONARD CO'S _:, BEAUTIFUL EVER«-BLOOMI[NG . s SR IR aseet (o ‘DY a Noy ¥ Ry A R et Riflrom . BeR | MR, B Ere “g_-‘_:sg, Al RILE R H 2B e b @ ‘B B NEEY % S O SPLENDID VARIETIES B wilavea your cmmﬁ i ione Bt Dok o fol 12 forg2. 19 for 33, %\"4}-%(‘lQ.'!fe!'y(\ﬁ“x:'l: i 26 * 4. 85 ‘" .Ba| postpaidtoall poiuis - 75 “ (0. (30 “ 13. 3 ; IVE AWA YRR WE G Y i A more Roses than most establishments grow, and are - the only concern making a SPECIAL Business (())f Rao&es. .‘\“lx_!{ Largze l[l?u#-sfp:_l{oscsulouc‘. ur: New Guide, ¢ complete Treatise g on the Rose,lo p;;,‘cle_z;anl.’y z’ilu.s(r:z«';:l,ae‘ntFß E :_’;:; THE DINGEE & CCNARD CO. Bose Growers,, WeustGreve,ChesterUo. Pa R g : L .'f.“.- 5:"':":\ AR "Br&“g" T ? { ; iR, R, VL SRS LR 2N Sy S W R = i ERSUTIES Y N 'y\{‘;\;??égf ) "»’-‘jm Ay J& ooy B PB% 5 o Ty RSk et 1o g e : { AT e ?4-1 A R T s :!Ffi» -1 Pl . 3 _T}' l“;‘i;?;é %E?.% R% % _ﬁ{f*‘i-}_s o RS i r Ca N % o - S "i:i & k_,ég = e G FACTS RECARDIT NG 't : R SN Ha Ay’ I T . Dn Hartar’s 10 <0 " Ttwill purify and enrich the BLOOD, rogulifcs the LIVER=nd KIDNEYS, and RESTORK ThE HEALTH snd VIGOR ¢f YOUTH! Inall thoso _-diseases requiring acertainand efiicien TONIC, . especiaily I))‘sg¢-pslu.\\'mxtof Appetite. Indigestion, Lack ot Strength, €te.. 18 use Is marked witlpimmediate umf“'ou(lcm.ul results. . Bones, museles and nerves reeeive new force. Eulivens 3 the mind and supplies Brain Powcr. 2 LAD!ES sultering from all complaints: | g xlf’{e“““"“' to their sex will find iy DR, HARTER'S TRON TONTC g cafe tand Speedy. cure. It gives a clear and healthy complexion. The strenpest testimoiy to, the value of D, S HARTER’S TRON TONIC is that frequent attempls at counterfeiting haye only added to the popuiar - - Lty ol the original. If you earnestly desire health Qo not experiment—get the ORIGINAL AND BLST # Send your gddress to The Dr. H Med.Co, : €SL‘Louls. Mo Tor our * DREANE OGRS Y L ['ull of strange and useful informution, free. DR. HARTER'S IRON TONIC IS FOR. SALE BY ALL ° DirUGGISTS AND DEALERS EVERYWHERE: : . O ANV g [ AN AN v e WEAKNESS & IMPOTENCY {H L. ST Harris Remedy 00. Prop’s, St. Louis o, ; *Asto the suceess of your medicine, this 1 know, Where:s six months ago, I was weik; lean and stoop-shouldered, with aspirations, but no inward force to execute them, whose nights. were sgant in tossing ﬁ:gd;oﬂing uapon 8 sleepless bed, whose days were haunted 'by meluncholy reveries or blighted by headache: 1 say wheress shat was the case thén. Now, rﬁ:euu of your mosi nwllm%m%mlmseu a AN—-emtﬁercng: weight 175 Ibs sp io'lgood that T whistle i the house A snd shout out of doors, In fichz of augmt.he $B.OO sinks nto insigaificance. Iwish I might be able to benefit lewd x doluded young men by noomgundtns your remedy.’; . The original letter from which the above isan axtract, IN} geveral hundred others expressing: similar opinions,in eq‘ually'su,'onﬁ terms.are on file . wd will be shown to any one calling at our ofliccs #ho shows. that his interest in the matter arises urely from a desire to guard against lmpqsmvogv ; HARRIS nmsnv,,co.mm CHEMISTS, ‘Market and Bth ¢ BT, LOouls, MO. dne Month's freatment 83, 4wo monthy $5, three montin 7. TR R N mteuo;'x?gv&a%uéx N MNTLH Q:\Pmi- idents o 1 the U. 8, ‘} 1% s Thelargest,handsomest best % i I.\ ey ‘Qvet'{ sold,ror ‘mmﬂ il 1 § jtwice ourprice, The'm&t 7 B mense o A TR gent people tit. 4 one canbecomea suc- © B W SDeciomes RREE. . £f< F i o RO HOMETREATMENT 5 ey, eL | P Ot Nervous and SeminalDe= - | * GURE YOURSELF! Recipos Eadice for e Treaimont. | Baye :f?i{“r:éuv»h' @3,@;:“»:, Que %}mﬂ“ 2 : 'ackage of Remedies FRI Address - s }:,rﬁpé‘ giﬁ“‘j ¢ %'thz, Kee §r:'}:7-zgr¢f bk AL P S S R R B T ~. ."ﬁ r; '] %Tﬁuﬁu r;m‘}“,, B PR oy LR ey L% o’B Noxapa ..;t\‘ A R e e I YORMK. . vt o Mg i oB Lo vt Dol oB oo R S o e SEIETD A