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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

J2T DJSBT.

tasking hmrt *»4 faes Tt»e drt)Wr 0M Jlc starts at (badow k*t titty b«

The otMadec of men h« The OK*

of man tojJutu*-.

HeAirentt Uw^biram^rtBi, And fein Uwdmdfttl dttu. Beware oTdftbt Ones to, you'll be

A al*ve fo*eveim*t*.

If eraitt Uewpta you, Uumder "Sol" Aiul »bow ft to the door. Cold water and atrim of

bread

Accept it like man and swear III sevt? run la kbt!"

{FrotaUpptoeotft Ms* /.mi-

On the Rocks:

A MOMANCBOFA U8A»LELAKJUL

BY KATS BUXABn. fl

,-,-v-.

Elizabeth Mi in tbe narrow stern of the canoe, looking dr&amilv into the west,

mystery behind. the warm tints died out of tbe sky and the moonlight strengthened, tbe ghosts that haunted the fiver Mtole ont—white wreaths of mist that twirled in ever-changing oir cles over its surface, and danced a phantom waltz upon tbe smooth dark water. Tbe ragged cedars ofthe banks vanished in tneir vapory embraces as the mists wreathed about their topmost twigs or crawled, like airy serpents, from bough to bough.

Wa have ootne into another world,"' thought Elizabeth as she drank in (he beauty of the moonlight, the wreathing ailver'mista*, the glistening leaves, the solomn blackness of the water, and the whole indescribable charm of the scene. And ber dreamy eyes strayed from the figure of the guide, sitting dark and silent as an Indian in the prow, to fkll with a sadden shock of vague surprise upon the young man at her ftset, serenely smoking a precautionary cigar, with his arm round the hound's wc-nder neck.

A strange revulsion of feeling thrilled her heart as she caught the glance of his smiling, confident eyes. A vogue impolite or resistance and rebellion seemed to shake her soul—resistance and rebellion against what she scarcely knew.

She had indeed drifted into another world, nor could she account to herself for the waywardness of her mood.J Her past life suddenly rose before her eyes a distinct reality, which for the first time she recognised In all its subtle relations to ber future. A young girl of thoroughly healthy nature, with a sense of life and bounding eiHiipr in every vein, suddenly transported 5 the fres life of tbe wilderness, she felt ilka the Arabian prince** who was Wafted la «ae night to iheafittpodM. She bad been noarlv two months among the woods mttl hilis and Bryan had only joined hef thnse day* before. Not even the familiar fitoes of the pa*** ofold Mahd* With wfeootahe bad traveled Into the wilderness had been sble to preserve around ber an atmosphere of home. The free fresh life in the open air, with the wttttrieof ordinary existence swepf away, and a new social scale wherein tba most perfect physique stood

&dnh«r and h^Xfllfe. %mm whose breadth she looked

a .teaijer he«^," most exaspetu

thought her lover as he watehed her (fixed itself a^i

the yellow.lily-pads, beloved of the deer, (unsuspected

surfhee of the river, anti then discuupear- U^^^^^snakw^^lwuMwS

her former self

with a new eawaeioasitss*. Most of its baver known sash momentst, when we aoemed to aee o*r «*i livss snd ibose wit before ns in

to older

Ik" Kifcle? I* ftlj-ftii

it mint bveonlmed. bat of short, slight Agon, nticelr Uikt Una XSUsabeih herself his lUbt Mr md drooping moustache ftdtrng to adft toy element of power to the refiteniant expressed by whole par»o««i*J touDflii Hb mm ey» and the warm clasp of his hand told of truth, courage, arid stymwaby, but a lasy grace,* languid elegaitee^waa the Ant noticeable thing about hire,. He was the flower of a ivm«ad olviiisaUoa, representative of ita highest culture, ar-

and drMR and nmniiCr would have rained OM gentleman and substituted the prig, ElTsabatbV life had so intimately interwoven with Ids alnce their childhood that they |»d lipwhop im an engagement, as naturally as some children frow .up ipto a pro /afclnit ifSatwth's**!^ it must said, for the romantic litfle maiden was greatly given to musings over her destiny,. «UHl Bad arranged for heraelf no such humdrum affair as a marriage %it| man W"»* *»w.

tbe paddle with which she had be«n£iy-, etonn. «»d life upeide 4ow» if what I aaidl You came here 9 party of ing to steer drooping idly from her a twinkle. She eyiau hoped, i" hM in I cultlrstel people, with your minds engrasp. She made a proUy picture enough I nooent soul, that ho Wtnim nave an sw-1 ricl»ed and vour perceptions quickened aa she sat there, the rich bkwm of her ftil bistety. Itwas a stern and gloomy and yon are nstnrmlly impressed with comptexkm deepened by the rwidy being, isite »jms»ter liaitd tl» beauty of thescenery and the poetic light that bronzed her dark-brown hair and Inspire her with dewHOustromufslgde of all around you. 1 agree with 1 «.# .. ne has to put up disoomlbrt, end I

and brought out the slender grace of her of admiring swe, that she thought she Mrs. TTiomton that one youthfhl figure In bold relief against the wanted. {with a great deal of dt sky. Her cl- .u* gray eyee, wide open and innocent aoft child'% b«l a dreamy looking loOiily over the unt»Baciot»|ofa rough Ufe to be, in the long run softness In them now, heightened^ ftyj Brj'an who had ojfi'udod her. and whfM» 1 ennobling, the long sweep of the black lashes. "All idfe was ©onsdwace and

ss. "ah idle grace seemed

from the center of the boat, where he I wa* a was curling up with f&e Mirge-eaated, or pliilMopher, melaat'holy dag whose duty ft wssto posdhie develooftiant of tbe htmian anl* I brave and track the aeer. In the bow of the book inal. lie had tlw light and Kraoeful oil and keen-sighted pulling easily with tbe pivoted oan^ sat strength, witV somewhat of the profile

nothing more. It Was a lovely scene into which those arrowy boats were floating. The lake I speculations as to his provable lay nearly all behind them, warm with with the lost Dauphin. Elisabeth tbe last glow of tbe sunset. The woods! rather vaguely at these pleasantries bo think about (he pl,.^ ...,

Bryan

mountains, the sharp saw-teeth of the duties of right belonged, and "the I friend like you." K11®

uiacH. »iiu vim ucoiv u» mo

as the snowy crests and ridges of the ashes crumble and Hall away. Strange forms come out among the brilliant masses in the central fire—eyes of lurid light, ruddy serpent* that curl over in

gttle

raceful curves to fall In and be lost, fountains of blue flame that babble up like minaturo geysers and are gone again, while the knots and knobs of the raU»5» flash brighter than rubies.

Rouiid fhiPcenter of attraction the merry party Were grouped, the bright colors of tbe ladies' dresses giving a picturesque and gypsy-like character to the scene, which was furthermore heightened by the elnster of guides seated at a little distance smoking the pipe of peace while stretched in the broadest glow lay tbe melancholy hound and chased imaginary deer, convulsive starts and

of his dreams. Was there ever such a life as this?" exclaimed Bella Thornton, with the enthusiasm of youth antf light spirits—"to be all day long In the open sir, among sucb magnificent scenery, and then In the evening to lie before the fire and watch those level* marks!' "She reffers to you and me. Bryan," **T am fuii surprised: I have been expecting some such tribute of admiration. Our poses are not classic, St is true, but then how unstudied!" and Fred rondlycontemplated his muddy boots, raised to a evel with his eyes, as lie lay before the fire. "The life wouldn't bo so bad." said Mrs. Thornton (rather too elderly and ft&tldfous a utatrdh for Cstnp life,) "if it were possible to be, clean—and to eat—, and to sleep," she added reflectively as the various inwmvenfencee of the situation rose before her eyes.

MYon

noirml tbeir real relatieiw to each other, as a traveler ascending a mountain suddenly tea and soup all out of the same tin ctip turns and realises all the ground be has and I couM wish tbst we badn't forgotbeen over ton the wpnom, one sfoon for five la

It is like our Hilt, Bryan, thh Hv«r." rether short alldWah^#.^ murmured Elisabeth dreamily. "W

ir,,

on aUaeat in the dartt,snd ®be« all ing!" tr^ned her husband, "when you once the moon shines *wa tipoa us live in tfw woods-" and we umm to see vpiytMag to a ne* You must do as the woodena do,** jrav.** "track in Fred. "And I'm snre, my

Brvan laughed ti|^ittv, i» test, he dear aunt, thst y&u ea« have nothing to wasanMMd ai this sudden moralising aay about your bad, for Bryan and I from his little lady-love, this grave as- took all the sticks out of the ladies' side «in!-:«ofa philosophy he thwMht ofthe camp this morning, and putln k.UK

iron jjiava te*n $ gather bed hi it, yet, auntie dear." aaid Eliza"vwl a freshness and strength there Is in tbe air I and what a .new lilto ire seem to haw! When I think of our

there,

and woods and waterihlla, and of the health a»d vigor that amona them, it sfeenp to me that we Should never leave this earn p. Whstesn we tm so beautiful as that fire In town "Yea, and then to l» spared all tbe trouble of dressingf" said Bella reflectaflbctod ively.wbo lettos'at home than any of her set

The existence we lead hers is a purely animal existence, and would inefitabiy brutalize us if we pursued it very long,1' ''(ph. do you call us brutes?" exclaim-

.. ,, 'Id Bella, with a scandalised expression: known fmm Mj'kcKk), nil of whom all] «*We have been here nearly two months her friends appruv«4, ^he bsd leanings you fcnow."

towanl the tnysttirisns sr^[ ierriflo, and dear Bella," answered Bryan aeeretly intended to biei SWIHW b^r sud- t%*ha was wont to assume a fkthorly tone den i^ukfion maoiue wiperb aiullrresis-1 ln talking to all young girts)" mat is tible hero, who was to take her heart by I such an awfullv feminine way of taking

As aiH sath) the ^boat anddtoftiried, I oonfeiw that I cannot beliove tho effect

1 to her at tikis moment: sting bar aha^aeted gaae

lining the indented shores were fart they seemed to her somehow to trespass beosuse it is his business What sort of I the pntri. Graat heads of purple asclepi- she sa gathering the darkness into their fra- upon very personal ground, and to be companion would he make for either of j88 nodded in the breese, and long starry way.

had atfivlkL to whdm

such

Kestigoue range cutting jagged outlines Prince** modestly withdrew still further 1 Bryan joined good-humoredly in the I ,n PP011

herself resenting

existence

lie ehange. Her love /or Bryan was great log for the fire, he asked him what

fi»r

Ibeneath the

appeared to tempt the explorers on. not realise how entirely it had permeat- fidgeted and "didn't knOw Tliey hsti hardly entered the inlet when I ed and coleml her whole inner life. She I

through a gap in tbe eastern crest of the missed the help of Nelson's strong arm, I said Bryan. "Don't you like mountains snonflthe Ail) moon, lending (sure foot, qui«ik eyo, and found Bryan I than the other?" anew enchantment to the scene. The awkward and careless. When she *e-f Wal," said

quivering beams.threw delicate waver* proved him—somewhat pettishly, it I lower lake Ing bridges across the river, and turned must be conffssed—he look her sover-1 but then this

Wel1

spares Sdl Sb^anw^tS rtireiT^e 1 an_expressive black sky, ana the glowing heart of the

was

ungrateful woman rejoined

bar husband, a big. burly, fresh-looking man, with an aspeet of well-being thst made it a comfort to look at him. What can vou say about eating after that dinner f" B«f soup, broilod trout, broiled pork. l»rolled chicken, raspbenrnr pie, raad and butter, cheese, doughnuts,

R»h, pooh, my d««r Thst* noth-

be«»» than IMB*. abort afoot #fflrt*h balsam boUghs."

I®,(«th eras hnri by 11* hkurfi.and My Asarhvrf, ft^s toy iprlvato I i. wavft ihit -rrnm-.n- .thattfecr bal are changed w«* poab:1-'^ i'' rf-' ii#tokin

»gv .1 ngtfae

fu»t 1 kii.nfMm Ti*h-.%: -tlMt, af-v?Mnf moTf iwf Wthelli^inpi'

a" wi a- he t» moKBtegX m*%«i lagr lain'

and said could

TERP.E HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

more elaborate tol«t. -v ¥1 SffFSe

For iny pert*" *w Bryan*

with Ttnu^Bon— jgrt^nfty yearn of Europe than a cycle of

proachfully.

"Look at

seemed to find the occupation very in- a*?"™ H?**

BryarTlooked at her for a moment in °lale ®h,eei °LTtter

his scrutiny, but she still did not look "^1

dd in a low tone, so that she alone

^^h^'e vou talked so then said Ian1

Elizabeth. "What right have you to °°ming

good thing i« the World^ you thlnk?

forirot

was not calculated sensibilities and I think sen the warm an the truth .. I have oflfcndea yet»,.an conscious ftf any

nteht.for

OOU^I you want I am going to bed." As If la despair of Suddenly, Bryan, who had boon en Well, I confo&^liet toitoids w«dL" a succeasfUl cllumx to ber Indignation, gsged in an earnest dispute with Mr. said Mrs. Thornton, "but it would be] she retreated from the field with flushed Thornton leasanter not to have one's water and cheeks and shining eyes,Bella following missed Elisabeth wonderingly in the rear. looking hurriedly

letimrsUw: 6iv«ii*the.btn&to{i«ime of your J«H*MI1 sharpness of vWei^siy d«arboy.M

Well" replied Frsd. with Oiat deliolitftii eeofiaenee which has its fttltaet buDon between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, "I must say I don't consider women sueh difficult conundrums as some people pretend they are. Of course there's a imdiiHtmbitlini, you know. 'Hiere'B Bella, for instance

s'dV-'-.^ smi of what she wants or what shedoesnt wsnt tUl she ehoocea to tell you. Ami then there's Elisabeth

In a minute, you know,"

or two Vollowed, full of inerrv voices, j©d jnoi^ than"his ih^}^I*'beautv to^St I take even^your excei^ionasati instance. I brakai, with their spreading fronds, put your foot in that there crack, and The clear tones ran through the gathjust far enough away to 1)0 voices and him apart from his fellows. Bella Here is amart acknowledged to betbejwaved high above their heads. Here I lijjaulyou ap."

times, fbf the word wis given to return alone can know.

Thornton called hint "the Prince." and I best possible type of his class bow much the air was heavy with the scent of Elizabeth grasped the welcome hand the message for the loved one in heaven, smuwd herself and her jparty by wild (do yon suppose he knew or felt of the I inauve-linted orchids, and the rank vog-1 £^th all her strength, and tried to put which the lover vainly endeavors to

birds fell occasionally upon the atten" I ty*of a youngprineess to whom service! ®*id Mr. Thornton with a laugh. "When °f the lower lako. I "Now. do jest as I say,'• ordered Nel-J the tree-tops and were gone. Of such tlve ear, mingled with the gentle plash is ihmiHar, ana repaid him by an ever- it comes to a question of desert islands, our party embarked once more, son, in that tone of. authority that com- intangible vapor ber troubles seemed to of the little waves upon the pebbly increasing dependence upon thatservioe. 11 would rather have a guide forac land slipped through the long winding mands obedience and conquers fear, have been made, and as the last notes shore. Behhid the wooasrtise the great Now

I laugh, and turning to Nolsotr, who bad I ^onie swiftjoloods liad come up,^^tho sun he struck^it a mighty blow to^prove tho hand nestled into his, that eagerly roagainst the Sky, and repeating them-1 into the background. selves in the dear water far below. And Elizabeth found

see.™0"

AS the beat approached the southern 1 the eiiange. Her love /or Bryan was I great log for the fire, he asked him what wiy". seemea weu given to tnose gloomy 1 arm, and hold on by the sapling: 111 clasp of love and friendship a tender,. end of the lake, and went hSssin^tbrmigh like an underground ritel", leading an bethought of the two Ausable lakes,] shores. _0u either ^side, as they looked I keep hersteady.

and all nfbtiled by their sharp little surface of her consciousness. It was so much abashed at being questioned be-1 rpountaln-cliffe, allseamed and scarred I of her fellow creatures, hesitated and I hillsides after the morning mists have teeth, a narrow winding river suddenly I blended writh ajl her past that she did fore

many "city folks/' colored and

Oh, bntyou must have some notion

looking very serious about something." J*19

ory.lo suffuse the air. ft nn" I dunno as I had anything pertickler I tance. Tlw high and narrow wal s, the hands, suffering all the tprtures thai a U«*elam paper,

?".8aid

Bryan to Elizabeth with I

rnou"ta*f1

spikes

time and tem

t,ie

teresting. I .And yet at the further end of this des-J They met his with no of resentwith

la.kff

,?nd

hear. "My darling, do you know suddenly, ujxm them In all her loveli- self, dear.'

8unny

doWn

onw

d«^

iret vour

breakfast? I nave noticed that all you

wHrhetfc neftphrnrft

Tfrrv

with

nia»

wa"»

an embryo Josquin. JdUiier,' if you hovered upon tlie brink of the precipice Tft

domredlv Dushimr little sticks into a I melancholy. It seemed" a mountain-! "Elizabeth turned to meet hina 1rheas

W.,. I ,V*"nd

I es

w?er^]b-

And

up. lie leaned over to her on his elbow Party toiled up the steep gorge that El zabeth, can you ever forgive me?"

tead? to,tho

XahsliJtara tt lafci reot here and turn iM»* white birrh^" she added with* smile intended to be enoooraging, but which strnck Byran se so pitifaY tllat be groaned aload. lliere she hnnff VpM the tee of the great din her feet .apona l^dge no wider than her shoe, her hands clutehittgtite stessof a little Mveh tree, ftrto»Mi»Utod«ii ototm than help her to prvmrrre her beliMoe, while fifty feet below her ro*re$ the brook over

Brvan baitlty began to clamber towwd her, but his e^tement, toMther with a natural tendency to disnnesn.

as^serene and asstraJghtfoiwanl 'as a soon overcame him. ilis"head whiried pretty ira tercarrier wi& thoother, and Biill-pond anybody can make her out his^aet^ werooonfBsed, the rmr of the I irtooped down to kiss her. There was deafened his ears, fire flashed no mistaking tbst supple strength, tbrt

my"bot h. «,,t

tWnk Fll go to'jed." [broad let»sabottt haK war op the oUff Efisab^^Trnddenly sUrt' back from the And siiettoe aettlsd «ver the oeuuprand1completely upset by that physical weak- window, while a burning blush swept allwss quiet on "Paradise" lake. jnesa which sometimes cmtqueca the] over her fen and flushed!ven the deft-

The next morning dawned bright and b»v«si spirits, suiting them to such eato «arvea of her neck, ss, oorered with beautiful, and everybody was astir be- tortures ofsluune and suffering as they I IndetetilMd]* 11 miiim A-hia Mitwwi.wm ,, i,., 1 I

toga, |sol, I to sing. Elisabeth seemed to have recovered] Kli»l»tb k»kedkwu at him, and a "Oh, here's Elisabeth," cried Bella: her mental balance in the sweet morn-1 little sigh fluttered wearily from her now we'll have it! Elisabeth, do Ing air, and was kind and gracious as lips. It went to Bryan's heart like an please get Bryan to sing: he's as cross ever, though there was a wistful ques- arrow, arid he shook himself together Is a bear about it." doning in her eyes occasionally, as she for one more desperate eflbrt. But be-j "Will yon sing, Bryan, for me V' Chatted gayly with Bryan, that implied foro be had time to take the first step I asked?Elizabeth, with a certaiu hesitatS -restlessn^S not yet quite appeased. I kelson came bounding past him like a ing tremor in her votes that inspired With the quick revulsion of a generous panther, the stones rattling down under Bryan with a new hope. For, sensitive

Oh, Bryan !M exclaimed Elisabeth re*1 *»&ur«, she seemed to be doing her best bis eager footsteps. to every change in JBHzabeth's looks

these men here lfPW»ke up for her harshness of the idghtl "Hold on there—I'm coming!" he and tones, and tilled with angry remorse r-look at Nelson, for instance." sheadd- W,nd Bwan eagerly accepted tbe shotted as he Climbed swiftly up tbe| for his share in the adventure of the 1

ro5if8'

"Yes, and Iwwtfraeefttl and politel" shady depths of woodland, where they with weariness and fear. brate In her voice as she spoke, and in a few moments he was on a rock when she had seated herself upon the stepsjustsbove him, and he fblt tbe eneouragement of her presence, he began

RU* "IHl^ w*1* wMuit «uv«uviv»q* uku «uu vuii i.i »uvii| vane 111 in vi ujj uunu 1

panion than a mere philosopher and (channel, among the dead wood that I and there aint a mite harm goto to died away upon the trembling air, un»,.

water

I just tiien come up to them bearing a I overcast, and the name of Purga-1 truth of the assertion— ^andtlieuon uiy eeived it, and as she felt the earnest

I ®nd which he liked best. Nelson, very down the narrow lake, towered greatl Elizabeth, unused to making & ladder I soul, as the sunshine settles upon the

co^®r"

lift of his eyebrows of the clouds, made up a picture of was impatient to be on the move, did he But1 Elizabeth did not answer: she dreary oppressive grandeur and rejoin the party.

the upper end of tho lake so I come to yer. Put your foot on my xaee der cover of the darkness she crept

^yon to those gloomy I arm, and bold on by the sapling: 111

I .n

last, —it a jestaa steady as that rock —and softly down to her lover's sida Her

t^e, ey^'

rocky sides, and descended so steeply I muscles never quivering "beneath her Can earn from *10 to (KOa week, canvassing^ ..I—. i_i._ i.-j __ safonpon I for the BnturUay Kveuiog Mail ond its ®hea up charming Chromos. See prospectus in another column, and send for circular of in-^*

water, tinged with the leaden color shouted repeated by Mr. Thornton, who

sailed across the dis* I on. the ?oeks, h& face buried in his can earn a lew doUais, and introduce a ,•

ipest, mixed with the rough I Self-contempt, jealousy, despair and 5, Chromo take debris of rocks and trees carried down longing raged like a teinpeqt in his| Send for circular of instructions. Slides, and the deep and gloomy look I heart, and not until he heard his name

aD.du',gazc1liut^shadecle/ir

P^dii the love- mqnt in their steady depths only

silence. Her face flushed a little under Naiad of thisregion so full of beau- ft look of compassion and pitifiil sweet- can employ their leisure

call that poor man up and draw liim out K01^8 Vver hundred foot in height. On nate that Nelson came, for I could not circular of instruction*. *J St to laugh at him? Is poetry the onlv

the milky blossoms of the Honsto- derly along the rough stones of

lingering late in the cool and dewy brook but, although she accepted

denendontupon I shadows of the vine. On the other" side, help with a quiet suiiie, thore was ever with the money, six dollar* also giving the your daily bread," she continued with a re the cliffe is one sheer straight the same far-away look in her eye, that pictures to each of the three subscribers, scornful little laugh: "and for my part 11

think it is as beautiful and poetic to broad veil of water tUat smrcely hides 1 Astlioy canjo out upon tho lnkoagain beautiful work of art without coating think about our duty, as Nelsondld, as "10 seams and fissures of the rock be-! tho clouus had swept away andthe

—about anythhur^else," aheended ah* I neath.and at certain hours ofthe day^j was shining brightfy. The granite slides! ruptly, with a snanicfiaced blush at her catchesa rainbow as It strlkosupon the high uponthe mountains sparkled like Get Both Chromos. own eloquence. graat boulder at its foot. Higher up, diamonds, tho shimmering birches glisr1

rtf »n 1 where the narrow walls of the gfen m^t I ten^d in t^e fre^i breeze tiMtcrispe(f the] Any person wishing to secure at'once gnauonT" ^!fd layan calmly. "I am d»oote a white aud_ Img^upiia stream waters of the lonely lake^ and Pnrga both of our new premium Chromos can do di not aware that I have advanced an tniliarly vicious proposition. I

simply" asserted thatthls mode of life cannot rival the myriad charms of uiat and took the rough semblance of a road «end the paper for one

sorry if St seemed to Elizabeth that she could confused sensatiens hair-formed amquite uiw jftever tire of watching its infinite vario- feelings that perplexed her. She was so. ty. The green and mossy glen, the rich indignant with her _own tndccisioii,

Make [real color ofthe rocks, the pure crystal j1?1- own aoo|^'t «wt exactly

choose." above, the rush and roar of tne upper I disturb her mind.^ Her tender conThere was something In the quiet la-1 fitll, tho tencler sweetness of the misty science upbraided her for ncklcnesa and illness of Bryan's tone that stung EUsa- air, wrought upon hsr like a spell. Un-1 luditferenoe.for wavering In her foith, beth to theSqulck. Moreover, no wofi notlced,^she stole away from the others, for harsh and_ ancharttoble judgments, man can endure to hear the Object of her 1 who were sected at a fiivorable point of for unwomanly insend WUty to the love temporary admiration named alighting-1 view below, and began to climb

to mtawinderstand me," site erffed deeper-j head, she went higher and higher, never] Nelson had come into her mind, frot ately. "I cannot toll you Jtcowit notns [looking back or down. The exercise was 1 haughtiness, but from very innoYou exhilarating, and Uie climb presented I cence, she had never put him, even in me, this moddng tone Of Irbucs. are never In earnest you seem to care just enough difficulties to indie an im- imagination, upon ttto same level with only for pleasure, and I really think I— petuous spirit to perserere. Bryan. He was not a man to her fee

Bryan's nature was Sir too aW®«4 to he her fluttering artery high up on the Adirondack peaks, trembling and ruffled by thin little outburst, hut si- opposite cliff. He darted up the brook though he made iarfe allowances for the until he stood just beneath her,and callIncompreheMU^emsa the. MX* be 1 «d her gently, for fear of startling her nevertheless pondered perplexed over and causing her to lose her precarious his final cigar, wondering bow much the footing. ostensible cause of dispute really had 1 I^Uasbeth turned her head and looked tSo with Elizabeth's present moodL- ftel down at him, her cheek bright with exhad learnt from past experience the vsl- citement, but a troubled look dawning uable lesson that a woman's actions are] in her eyes that belied tbe fkint smile rarely, if ever, the result of their s»ps*-j w|tli which aha tried hard to reassure ent cause.

*s 7 »r lovw.

"FmV'aald Brysn at last, as the tin- Elizabeth, my darling, oome down gmrituKsweelnesa of thejtaal cigaroould Uterei you are enough to frighten anybe no lonfer prohmged^ Skly todeatb. Oome down, directly!" opinion o? the mysterious subjwt, w/v| ««I can't, Bryan," said Elizabeth in n»an?

Young men of your ym.m hsriej srmaewhataBStecKh'tones, "tho last rock usually a ftep&neea^ifr^^ that I «tepped on has Mien down, and I fund of lnfoSmatlriii|wa tbe wcftjfcthii can't get up any higher, because the cliff il*Hi«»Strif* ll£{hsugsoverso much jw topic that we rever just hers* think

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as our mws wbi^ smo^ him to the very soul.

I^nbow Cascade, slie burat lie whispered »r never can forgivomy-J

pools and cloudy "depths, I in her tone. You couldn't help It If Are wanted to add that of canvassing for

from at»P and narrow you were dizzy. But it Was very fortu- The Mail. Liberal commissi****. 8end for

side the iron-stained rocks, of a rich have held there much longer. I think I] .. itiHilnr'

russet rise in stera and ledger am tired now," faltered Elizabeth, asUi An Extra ChrOmtWfeYee.

andwoul5 you be much bettor satisfied ^^ed wltfcjmoss and tufted ferns of she at retched out her hand. Bryan If he went into raptures over the sunrise ^oriohest green, bright here and there eagerly seized it and supported her ten- ••wUl^ae«^dO« of«»^proin the mornlns and

the

foU® the Rainbow Cascade, a thin, I seemed to hold hi 111 at a distance. Almost any one can in this way secure this

sun

that forms the brook below, but with all I tory seemed nearer akin to Paradise. so by subscribing for Tha Mall two years in VE the greater rush and fury of its leap it Once more they plunged into the wood^ advance, paying UH 94 therefor, or we will send the paper for one year and both Chromo* for the sum of 13, or we will

to foster the poetic Ithi"™d wavering veil of xvatpr. that In leadlug towwxS Keene. mos mounted for th« every bewitching form that fhlllngwa- A11 this time Etteabeth was vainly (_lwlmounted to an a a he iv in to a a he he a beautiftll. {to find her way out of the labyrinth of handsomely framed ln wtjlnnt and gilt for

nd iwths ^ow. the gre^whitorclouds"that|disdainful of her lover's weakness, and printed at Terra Haute, Ind^ Into every

an8ry

the

ly, even by the permanent possessor of {steep mcks opposite the &11. Their step-1 verse spirit refold to accept the chasher heart. jSke formation tempted her on, ana, tening, and cliafod at the bonds it wpre. "Brvan, I think you are determined confident in her sure toot and

Steady

a guide, one of a class of beings erestod for a special end. Confronted with

to "the height of the faU.' anew Ideal of manllness. which a# yet »beth from (So group, ana I fthe hftd not hot fcewi w«» Uk«

,, —rriedlv romid.cauihTsight of I a magnetic needle upon one of the very

thrown off ha"balaiice by the oj rough ore beneath it, but true to Ma extorts to point still to ita pole-star. Upon this unsettled mood, when all tne earnestneas of her nature was roused in the effort to wive ita own perplexities, the light words of lteyan, prompted by the very serenity of bio temperament, had struck with ajar, and Elizabeth uneMMAomtf resented his want of lisrmony with hereof. 'jn^ were v^ry fine-drawn troubles, these fctptexities of Elizabeth's, you aay, but iliey Were fiery real ones to her, poor child ami loomed np formidably in the narrow drele of her experietice» So that Kite

ainsand the dear western sky. where one JhiRtetar tmnbled in the bine. Up brook njar bv cam« Isors the rosnafiftietflly naj^ed daugtter] of the houacjbesrhitt a,heavy pafl o^.wate through the gathering twilight. The uncertain light lent a grace to the firm and rrsinded Jpa^ saa softened the ouU likes of her eemewhat tMery features. With her light braided hair she suggested Qnteben burning fhm tfaTI?untain. As Elisabeth's %agtie sense rested up^n hers tall figure strode swiftly eat from tbe shadow of the house, and seising the heavy pail with one hand, gently embraced the yielding wsist

before his ejreei bis knees gave way be- careless periSction ofmoWmeiiu iu down uponprettypteture enough then why did

throogh the lower lake, or "Pumatoiy Brvan," aaid Elisab«th~«nd this I to have shown upon her doubting heart, toward the regions made classic bythf Itinie there was was a pleading tone inland unhesitating pen of Murray. Mrs. I her voice that drove him frantic—"arei

'rb(»"»ton had hsd enough of the genu-1 yon ooming to help me? I am getting she must fly,'she ran down "stains and ine wilderness, and desired to descend so tired! I don't think I can stand here sought refuge from herselt amonsr the Party the piazsa. Itoymn sat upm neas of Martin's and Paul Smith's to} "God forgivetne, my dsrUng, I cannot I ttie lowest step, parrying the cntrt-atiM to you I" cried Bryan almost with a ofthe eager group who were urginff him

the

iiidescribabie oonftision, she hid her flice in her hands? Anew dawn seemed

by a certain oppressive from which she felt that

of the eager group

II lulimbeth heard him, and her eyee in that doubt Ail poise between hope and all grew bright and the color came back in- deepair which is itself desperation. But

its vaaety of scenery,changing from eool I to the cbt*ek. that wss fast growing pale I now a oertain tftntftrnA«H seemed to vi-

morning, he had been spending the day

Biumenthal's beautiful song of Trie

M6S8&^|6t"

ering darkness as the song described

said. "I never shall get up in that golden portal. And as Bryan threw his whole soul into the words he sang, the Look out there, then!" cried Nelson, message, with all its passionate pleadcomprehended tbe situation at ing, its tender urgency, was borne and swinging down by the straight to the heart of her he loved, and but tough sapling, he stood be- Elizabeth felt her doubts and perplexiher in an instant, still clasping the [ties dissolving like the morning mists a a a

through

.. {peace fell once more upon Elizabeth's

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SUKKI leaning upon her win(Aat evening with dewy eyes as

ahe gaaed out toward the purple mount-

that that weakens should so

that had so "ert8."Cr Per"

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