Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 September 1878 — Page 2

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*A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. TMBRE HAUTE. SEPTEMBER 14,1878

"••\A WORD TO THE WI8&

Love balled a little maid, Romping through the raeado-v Heedless In the

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Soornful of the shadow. tome with me," whispered he

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Listen, sweet, te love and reason.'1 By ana by," she mocked reply, Love's not in season."

Tears went—years me, Light nixed with shadow JJOVC met'the maid again Dreaming through the meadow. Not so coy," urged the boy, List in time to love and reason. By and by," she mnsed reply

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Hears went—years came, light changed to shadow Love *aw the maid again, Waiting in the meadow. Pass no more, my dream is o'er,!I I can listen now to reason—" Keep thee coy," whimpered the boy,

Love's quite ont of season."

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CHAPTER I.

'Dart, Maitland, Dart & Co.' So the name stood upon the great brass plate and In these names bad the business of the bank been prudently and profitably conducted for as many years as the majority of the inhabitants of Hiahborough could recall.

Trade panics bad laid waste many another long established firm bankruptcy had swooped unexpectedly upon many a bouse where wealth bad seemed as limitless as here but the bankof Messrs. Dart, Maitland, Dart A Co, held its bead above all treacherous waters, and stood unmoved and utterly secure after the heaviest gales bad passed.

The name of the firm was a passport of trust and reliance, as well as a prompt introduction to the first society of tne country and the present representatives were these: Maurice Dart, the senior partner, a handsome man of fifty-three years, who imagined the wishes, the weaknesses, and the hopes peculiar to other men could not move him now and Walter Maitland, both in appearance and manner a strong contrast to his senior partner. Though but ten yeara yonnger, he looked nearer thirty than forty, and the frankness of his blue eyes, ana the gay words so prompt upon his Hps, seemed doubly frank and gay, contrasted with bis senior's reticence and gravity. The third partner was one in name alone. His father's death bad left him a rich share in the bank, but his only Intercourse with it was the polite periodical acknowledgement of its having swept away the debts, which were the worst.enemies he had had to fight since be had first entered the army.

About the 'Co/ there was, of course, that vagueness which is inseparable from the cognomen. In the outer world It was supposed that an unlimited number of people bad invested their.savings or their patrimony on purpose to. be considered 'of the firm.' But among the olerks only one oase was known with certainty. Ho was neither the oldest „nor tha moat experienced, though the meet cheerful, perhaps, and tne most

Industrious* tie bad deposited in the flrm the sum which his father, through a forty years' course of valued and profitable managership, hal accumulated to bequeath to him and so, being enabled to draw what doubled his salary as clerk, Tom Leslie looked upon himself as a partner of no mean onler, bat bnlltlofty castles for a time when his namushould stand upon the brass plate otherwise than as 'Co.* Cheerfully and constantly he ereoted these edifices but to attempt to lay their foundations on tom»ftrma, either by saving or speculating, never eutered Tom's nead. With ltls mother—a little Old lady, as hopefbl and cheerful, and trustful as he was himself—Tom lived in a pretty white cottage beyond the town and here be bad flowers all the year round, and birds, that sang fn ti\e gloomiest weather, anda piano on which be was no Mean performer. And as regularly aa Sunday morning came around, Tom, taking bis bat, would say, in the most aatural -manner: •I: think we should like a couple of the younge? fellows out to dinner to-mor-aow—shouldn't we, mother? Their salaried are not like mine and things are deaf, you say.'

True, their salaries were not like his, btrt then he would not have the small, Irlght mother denied any comfort he «eaid think of and so there was never •no penny of Tom's salary left when the year was up.

Once or twice Mrs. Leslie woola^inMre ruefully whero her son ploked up the dinnerless olerks whom be delighted in bring home to supper—or, as he airways called it, 'to a little music.' But ]Mr gonial hospitality was, after all, as wsomptas his, and so, though she kept lie auouuuto, there waa, aa I said, never a penuy of Tom's salary left when the year was np. •He thinks that that £400 a year of his laa king's revenue,' thought Mrs. Leslie one Saturday nioriilng, watching her am nros* th* road, drop bis gift into the expectant band of the crossing sweeper, and turn at the corner to nod to her, 'He* will soon expect me to adopt a few

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tuon wuoso salaries atW loss than' If he had but inherited his fotherHr saving nature!'

She tried to regret this dolefully, but aftur all she tx.uld not help the warmth of perfect satisfaction filling her eyes.

Even h|s practical, father bad rejoiced that his nature was his mother's from Hie time that nature began to assert itself in llttl*(Fom—'LittleToro* then to Ms parental "Little Tom Leslie' afterward, among his school fellows, 'JUttle l*salIo' now junong his fellow olerks.

On tbis particular .Saturday morning, as he walked to. the bank, Tom loitered a little in one street—a quiet etreet of handsome private houses, before one of vrhlcb stood a oouple ot cabs piled with box««.

Tom watted long enough to be sore that the oaba were nothing but luggage. Then be walked briskly on, and, entering tbe bank excitedly, told Jha fellow •larks of tbe arrival of thdUbolonel'a honeebold and for tally five.minutes forgot, In hla excitement, to aid Lis ~o»nal genial invitation lor the morrow's vdinner.

When the coming of tbe regiment had "been discussed, and Turn's pleasant invitation accepted, be turned to his desk, not to loiter again throughout tbe day. an boar afterward, Mr. Dart drove np and with a quiet 'good morning,' paseed through tbe bank to his own private

^Here, presently, Mir.MalUand Jota?* shim, and, standing before the fire, discussed the various items of town news— among them, of course, tbe arrival of tbe regiment. 'Colonel Oonynghatn hu only one 'ijdaugbtar. We moat help to introduce

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Young Dart having once belonged to tbe regiment, gives H, as it were, a1 claim upon us.'

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'The colonel's daughter will need bnt little introduction,' remarked Marice Dart quietly.

CHAPTER Ilf§

•Dart, Maitland, Dart A CO.' Tbe names stood unaltered njpontbe great plate yet—except the Bleeping partner, away ii India now—each one represented by that sign wss perfectly sware that a great alteration had been growing in himself ever since Colonel Conyngham and bis daughter had lived in Highborough.

Tbe strong bank walls no longer limited his hope and ambition. Beyond then-stood revealed a home of love, and sunshine, and ease, brightly possible, and in this future the only mission of the. good old bsnk was to furnish the home with luxury.

It was a winter night. The bank win dows were bolted and barred, the great books were locked in tbe trusty safes, and.the manager was asleep np stairs, with- tbe blunderbuss beside his bed. But in bis brilliantly lighted drawing room at home, the senior partner sat alone—a striking looking man in his evening dress, with the -hot house flowers fading in his coat. Tbe room had been filled with guests up to this time, but now Mr. Dart sat alone before the fire, buried in thought.which deepened minute by minute, until the door opened, and Walter Maitland re-entered the room wbich'he bad so lately left, ftMcould not help coming back,' be said, beginning hurriedly to speak, as if tbe wdras forced themselves from him in bis nervous bsste. 'There is one thing about whffeh I must speak to you io-night—about which I have wanted to speak to you for a long time. I feel'— he was leaning against the chimney piece opposite bis friend, and- looking with intense scrutiny in his quiet faco— •that I have been dreaming a dream which a word of yours could at this mo ment dispel. Tell me if a greater kindness than your silence, though the kindness is sure to be the motive of that. Tell me at once, Dart. It cannot be very pleasant to you to see my anxiety. You are far too good a fellow to feel pleasure in that.' •What am I to tell you?' inquired Maurice Dart, without meeting his com panion's eyes. •Surely, you know. I said to myself When I met Isabel here in your house to-nigbt, I would find out if my fears were well grounded and if I could not discover, I would a9k you for the truth before I left. Dart, end this wearing Suspense on me. It has been growing through all these months side by side with my love, and has become unbearableat last.'

Maurice raised his head now, and met his companion's anxious, questioning eyes. •1 am glad you have spoken, Maitland,' he said. 'I have guessed at your anxiety, while I have felt my own. and 1 have often wished to -break the silence we have held on tbis .one point. I fancied you bad something to tell me. I fancied ao but now when I saw you re enter tbe room.' 'Indeed, no.' exclaimed Walter, with bis usual frankness. 'I wish to heaven I bad. I wish I dared to say that Isabel bad given me some encouragement—at least enough to make me even hope. I could not ask her to—to love me while 1 felt that you knew bow useless it would toe' 'I do not know,' returned Dart—his words sounding very slowly after Walter's eagerness yet all bis self command failing to bide their new ring of hope.' •Isabel has never beard a single word of love from me. She is gentle and kind, and willing always but I cannot read beyond.' •To me, too, she is bright and pleasant always,' said Maitland, restlessly, 'and I can discover nothing moire. I fancied you cbtild nut bae out of one phase of this uncertainty.' •And yon are very glad to find I cannot,' said tbe elder partner.

And then their eyes mot, with a smile which was strangely wistful for such strong and manly faces. 'Dart,' said Maitland, 'you are the elder man—the richer—the better, too. You shall speak first. Do it as soon as you can.* •Seniority has no olaim in such a case as this,' said the, senior partner.: 'We can wait,'

I can watt no longer,' put in the yonnger man impatiently. 'Anything will be better than thia suspense. Why on earth should we wait Isabel knows us both thoroughly now. She knows we are both too old for tbis love of ours to be anything but deeply earnest. She knows enougn of us and our positions to make ber decision easy to tier. So let us know the worst—or. best. You have the right to speak first.' •I will not take it,' said Mr. Dart, speaking more quiokly than he had yet done. 'Let us write. Let us write—together.'

A few minutes' silence, while Walter thought this over—leaning his head on tbe arm wbioh rested on the chimney pieoe. 'Let that be decided,' urged Maurice.

We will write to-morrow. Let her receive tbe two letters together. Promise me that your letter ahall be ready for to-morrow's post.'

CHAPTER III.

The flrr roared and cracked in tbe private room at the bank, but neither of tbe partnem bad arrived. •I never knew blm so lateJ remarked Tom Leslie, as if. finishing aloud a pus ding oonlecture. •Who? Old DartV

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•Mr. Dart—yas.' •Leslie fetila it incumbent Apon him to uphold the dignity of hia partners,' put in another clerk. 'Hia breast swella proudly with bia fellow feeling.' •What an Idle set you are this morn ingl' remarked Tom, turning from bis desk with a quick, kindly smile which made hla face so pleasant to look upon. •As soon as I am the senior partner. I shall give you all a sweeping, dismissal.'

The listeners laughed, enjoying the abautdltyof the idea .and one or two questioned him, with mock anxiety, as to the treat he Intended to stand them on tbe ocoasion.

Through all the lankier Tom pursued bis work, and Dart noticed this when he entered tbe bank, and tftough ii was but very curtly he answered Tom's qalet greeting, vet before be reached the inner door be turned and spoke to him. /. •Cool outside, Leslie. Keep up good fine this morning. 'It la hard,* be muttered to himeeir, Ho pass him without a word.'

Then Mr. Dart 1st tbe spring door does behind him, and, sitting down ia hla offlee chair, ieiuned on one arm only —as very calm men do when they are U1 at ease, aa well aa tired.

He va sitting so, looking moodily down Into the fire, when Mr. Maitlana entered tbe room. The senior partner did not turn to greet him, ana even when Walter stood upon the rug beside him be did not venture to meet his eyes. •Maurice.' began tbe yonnger man, *1 aoppoee I may congratulate you.* It

words. as was hia custom: 'She has refused me, Maitland 'Refused you!'

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Mr. Dart returned quietly to his writing. Mr. Maitland arose from Ids seat and moved to the fire, turning bis back to Tom. Before: the eyes of both the partners there hovered a face which had led them, too, to "dream of a possible wedding day—dreams from which th'ey had so lately been awakened.

It would be hard, with these memories rising before them, to talk to their favorite clerk of his good fortune yet it waa not in Walter Mainland's generous nature tp let any selfish fueling prevent him. 'Indeed, Leslie,' be said, 'E am Surprised but very glad, of course, to hear it. I prognosticate every happiness for your Wife. Of course I cannot do so for you until I know who'She is.' •You know her well, gentlemen,' said Tom, flushing. 'Her father, Colonel Conyngbam, is my mother's cousin. We have rarely visited Ahem* ^except when they were alone, because—at my., mother's cottiage,"of course-r-we could .not entertain their guests. We have always been ss old friends and relatives should be and I have always loved Isabel, But it was necessary for "us to wait a little. Though it would'b£ difficult for you to* whom realize tbeiact, gentleman, a marriage loved, is an expensive debt—' ... •You can go, Leslie,' remarked, Mr. Dart, without raising bis bead. •And the holiday,-air?* •Take your holiday when you choose only don't make a fuss about it.' •And *is there nothing mote you intended to say to me, Mr. Maitland?' in? quired Tom. •I should say,' remarked Walter,-with a jealous anger in bis eye, 'it is an irreparable mistake yon are making to marry on your own income, unless you bad chosen a wife in your own position and used to such a life as your mother's.' •My mother's life was such a Ufo as Isabel's, at Isabel's age,' said Tom. and id-

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Tbe clerk left the room, closing the door quietly behind him. •They must have bad harassing letters this morning,' he said to himaelf, trying to account for the partners' impatience. •They have a good deal of anxiety which we aubordlnateaare spared.'

And thinking this be toqkbiaaeatand wrote away more diligently than ever, while his fellow clerks wondered over his mood.

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•Leslie ought to go.' .*• These were the words which at last broke tbe silence of tbe room wh!6h Tom bad left. 'Yea.' iy .fe-:i-

Then the da^'a work went oh "to Its close, and the partner's, separating on tbe bank steps, went their several ways thinking very longingly of one to whom both bad been faithful Tbis was the first nigbt for many months which either bad spent witbont these bright, vagu** dreams of wbat his home might be with Isabel at ita head and their hearts were filled with resentment against the winner of ihepnij wbldh they bad coveted. •Yon knew thia morning that ahe was to marry some one else why should your thoughta be harder, now that yria know who baa won ber?'

So a voice aeemed arguing with tbem, but below all the angry thoughta surged one. 'For him to be the one to (tain her— he, a peld seryant in the bank !',

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follow von are and what—wbat a wife Since we met yeaterday morning, I•! andImust be prompted before tho first von have won' have grown to fed quite certain of one ofJanuary, or it would be^aold. A glance of surprise

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face, and then Mr. Dart spolte in a few ity been very long, bnt it aeemed so. ib1

Walter repeated the words, though not. incredulously. Only truth, he anew, could possibly have weighted them so sadly. •She has refused me, too,' he eaid, gloomily. 'She has never cared for me but as a friend—simply and only aa friend..' .'I

and gave me plenty Of opportunity for thought and what I have grown to feel 8areoI is this: Isbalijaeveir marry now." •Nor I,' replied Maurice, meaning it as men do not often mean the phrase, even though they utter it as firmly. •I—fancied not Now we are both wealthy men, Dart,' continued Walter, bravely and gently, 'and this wealth we ax .offered a.d«y or two ago to Isabel Conyngbanr. YouguMfc what Iain going:

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that she bad already given her love elBewfcere. twas trying, when you came in, to prepare myself to tell you, "I rejoice in your happiness, Maitland," and now you—you come and say the same to me.'

Buried in one long, sad thought, the partners in the good old firm satin their allent room, while the work and pleasnre of tbe world went on without. But the day's duties had to be gone through, and they were not the men to sbun them selfishly. •I suppose we bad better settle with Leslie about Ma holiday,' remarked Mr. Maitland, that afternoon, sending to summon Tom to the partners' room. 'He will lose every glimpse of summer if he waits any longer.' *He should, not have postponed, hia holiday be had hia choice. Well, Is~ lie, when do you wish tostartr inquired the senior parteer,- when Tom entered the room. 'You said about the middle of October, I believe* and itliia la the twentieth.' •Thank you, Mr. Dart, but if it would make no difference, I would rather take my holiday from the twenty-ninth of this month.' •Then I hope you are going on a Visit,' remarked Walter Maitland, pleasantly •for November days are not the pleaaantest for a tourist.' •I am not going' on a tour, sir.' Tom hesitated only a moment then both of his listeners were conscious of a new earnestness in his voicte 'I should like to tell you, gentlemen, why I want my holiday then. The twenty-ninth is to be my wedding day.''

Tne senior partner looked up slowly, qUesUoningly. A thought which bad been haunting him all night made tbe full meaning of these words quite plain to him'. 'Tea, I see you have felt this,' resumed Walter, quietly, 'just as I have felt it. I see, that my words only came as an ending to your thought. I understand how itput itself to you. Leslie has invested all bis father'a savings—all his patrimony,: as one may say—in our bank, and Spends his whole days here conscientiously, most tr'ustworthiiy. Ail be draws for this cannot keep a house which we—you and I—.like, to picture aa Isabel's home.. And then. his mother baa to be provided for. You think, Dart, that it would not hurt us, and conla not make any difference to Captain Dart, who. baa no voice in any bank matters—if Leslie bad power to draw what would keep them more comfortably. In short—in short, old fellow, you would make bim an equal partner with me.*. 'With ourselves,' said Mr.Dart—shortly,* 'with ourselves, you mean? If we were all equal partners.' •Let us discuss it this afternoon. Think over it till then, Maurice,' put in Walter, feeling that the senior partner should have time to make biS decision •we will talk it over again.'

Tbe discussion was duly held that afternoon, in the partners' private room then Tom was summoned to hear the result of it. Though not a long interview, it was one impossible to describe —for how could any words show the utter failure of Mr. Dart's efforts to maintain his grave reserve through Tom's extravagant, boyish, humble, proud, ridiculous gratitude? Or describe Walter Mainland's persistent (though always disregarded) assurance this,' as

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Dart had decided to make this arrangement, he was very glad to accede to it? And, after that interview, who could repeat the limitless promises Tom made to his fellow clerks when lie told them of his marriage? Or tell how he reached

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blm face to face, when, after bis •bolldAys.' he first reached the heavy, familiar doors of the Highborough bank— 'Dart, Maitland, Dart & Leslie,j 'Cp.' was no more.

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bank? Her eyes,are open to the folly of what she is doing, eb?' •Sbe knows everything, sir,' rejoined Tom, his eyes much parzled, and a little angry 'ana ahe does not call it tolly •You can go.'

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ties, has tle right to purchase that land from the Govtenimentat any time before it ia brought into market, at one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre. But if be doea not buy it before the day of sale, it is sold at auction! to the highest bidder.

Mr. Strader bad three children, Harry, bis eldest* Polly and little Jiintnie. All the money that the father could make by farming in summer and trapping in winter, he spent in improving bis claim. As tbe land waa not likely to be advertised for sale for some years, be did not think it necessary to make any provision for buying it at once. Bnt Mr. strader was taken suddenly ill and died, and tbe burden bf paying for the claim and Supporting tbe family, came upon Harry, then only seventeen years of age. Not wholly upon Harry either, for, from tbe time her fat herd led, Polly, who was just hi teen, resolved to abare every urden with her brother. She Waa stronger than many boys of ber age, and bad always been fond of out•door ille. In fact, she was wbat yon would call a tom boy, brinr.fal of life, festlees and energetic.- Sbe bad already learned to paddle a canoe, and aa the prairie chickena would come into the yard, fbe had become an adept with tbe shot gun. Tbe neighbors used to »y Sbe was too wild, that she never would be good for anything*

But within a week after her father died, she bad takent hoe and gone into tbe field by the aide of Harry. All through the botdaya sbe did ber part and the winter drew on, sbe practiced with tbe rifle until sbe could shoot about aa well as her brother. And through tbe long cold months sbe tied on her «»ow shoeaaa regularly as Harry did bia, and by dint of helping ber brother, ajtid taking lessons from bim, sbe learned all tbe craft of tbe trapper. She knew the habits of muskrat, mink aikl otter aa well aa any man in the region. Harry used to make her face grow red, aometlmes, by declaring that ana waa a "glorious g*rl."

When Mir. Dart reaped tbe bank-next morning, worn and harassed afte* hts aleepleaa night, he found that Maitland, contrary to hia. usual custom, had arrived before him. Though tbe two frienda greeted each other as uaual* moat unusual silence settled preeently upon ^E^ntnatlythe svntor partner, making an effort, remhrked on the eoldnese of tha weather, and bia companion, putting dosna a letter which be held, answered leisurely. But his pleasant blue ayea wera itatless and rather dim, and t£o moment the anawar waa given tha pai^blaUaoea wrapped them goth onca mfm- would find her, waa mo ^Fbr an honr theolllce dock had ticked meTKfeaoc^edineultivatiBg ^t 'aS^K .ofoin the qtdettteaa. when Walter portion of thelaad that waahroj«»and garr^ and of ttg.todiaafe, aho Maitland roaeafo^ynom hla chair, fenced in ami away aa to grt a totora- wleheaforw Al* tte vma the Timea' unfolded In hia hand! bleoop. But dnring tbe summer there thatwereso nearber. Fw Utongntna Sd lSunjTtbe paSfST«maa3 calStfc aadnewa that Harry waa wolf skin lsof Uttleqr no value for tha atoot] upon tbe rug ^aide hia friend, wounded, and must lie for a long time for who bad jost r»-«fctered from tbe bank, in tbe iK»pit*l, and then, pertaps. be Verv nnUv be bad laid bis hand upon discharged, on account of hia disability lap robea. And mnrobwng row we hSK'saboulder toA) further eerrfce. To add to their waa on the leeward aide of the wolvw,

Dart old friend! 'want to speak a distress, came tbe startling intelligence *be dug away tb^now atoMemT^ 1 few words to you in great earned new. that the land was brought into market, burrow and looked out. Then growing

There wis a merchant, five miles away, by the name of Van Dyke, who bought fnra of tbe aetttera, and sold tbem provisions. An utterly mean man,

there was lie advantage to be taken that Van Dykii did" not take. He was delighted to hear that the land in the neighborhood was to be sold, for he was perfectly satisfied that the widow Strader oould not raise tbe two hundred dollars necessary to purchase her land, and be chuckled aa bo thought of tbe pwsj&ot ot buying it at the Government aale, and thus getting all the improvements for nothing. Indeed, it waa shrewdly suspected that, as Van Dyke had some influence with officers ot tbe land office, he bad something to do with the bringing of the land into the market'atso early a .day for, as' he was a money lender and a speculator, there were many Waye in which a land sale would be to bis advantage.

Polly applied to Mr. Van Dyke for a loan on a "mortgage on the land, but was refused. Hoping against hope, Bhe went to work to raise all the money she oould very early in the foil. Leaving her mother and little Jimmie to secure the crops- she- commenced to trap. She started out at daylight every morning, and was a picture for a painter as she pushed off ner canoe. Her long hair lay on ber shoulders, her head was covered with a regular trapper's cap, made of wolf akin, with tho wolfs tail banging down behind. She had been pretty successful, but at the prices offered by Mr. Van Dyke, she had nothing like enough to buy the land. Polly was very high spirited, and she vowed that Van Dyke Bhould .not have a single skin that she captured. In vain be assured her that the price be offered her was the highest that could be paid. "Mr. Van Dyke, you have not money enough to buy my furs."

At last came the news that Harry was about to start for home. He had been discharged, and was scarcely able to walk but at any rate it was a comfort to know that he was coming home again. It was nirtr the middle of November, but tbe sky was yet clear, and tbe prairies, seared with the frost, looked like fields of: gold beneath the autumn Sky. And every night, the prairie tires made the sky glow in every direction. Polly had made a careful account of her resources, and said that at least she had enough, to buy the forty acres on which the house and the principal part of the improvements were. Thfrt. was one consolation, at any rate. They would not be without a home, if they did have to lose the meadow and timber land that they prised so highly. One morning

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home in half his usual time, and put his as she was rhmiing bullets and filling arms around his mother, with his eyes up her powder horn,. Mr. van Dyke full of tears—just as if he had been thir- came in and handed her a letter, saying: teen instead of thirtv? •'»'This

'I am verv verv erateful. Tom,' she "I am oblige^ to you, Mr. Van Dyke, said, appealing to blm with tears thick

npbtr her lashes 'but I would rather not have anpr-ormy furs. talk about it—yet* Let me have time to Well, you might let mebavethat think of it I Quick to understand her wish, and delicate in carrying it out, Tom left Isabel, delighted that bis news had' moved ber so, yet wondering over it a little, KSTSSKpartoera one

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black fox, anyhow, as a personal favorI want to send it to my brother. I've taken a fancy to K. It ain't worth more than live dollars, but I'll give you ten."

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Dyke, I believe that I told you that you couldn't have any of my peltries." ••WeltMiss Sirsder, you'll be sorry some dsy that you didn't oblige me,'' be said, as he left tbe door.

When Polly opened tbe letter, all ber hopes we're dashed to the ground. It was from Harry. He was very ill at St. Paul, and begged Polly to oome to blm, otherwise he thought he should die. ••Well,"said Polly, "if we must give up all hopes of buying the farm, or even forty acres, I suppose we'll have to. It'll take a good part of what 1 have to

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Isabel has known what my mother'a. abound in MipneaoU lived Mr. Henry life is for many a year past. Wonld I Strader, Polly 's father. 'He bad emla a a •I presume, then, that Miss Oonyngham knows tbe extent of your income/ asked Maitland, witb compreseed lips

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rated Arom Pennsylvania in 1856, and made a "claim" on tbe finest quar-ter-section of land within a circuit of ten miles. According to tbe ''pre-emption laws" tbe person who settles on unoccu

Harry home, and it'll take more a week to go and come, and New Year isn't far off. Every day is precious. But we'must save Harry's life, for the poor fellow will get well if we once get him home."

And so, without regarding her mother'a warning that there was a storm brewing, she started ont in her danoe to go down tha lake to get a team with which to go for Harry. Her own waa an ox team, and to go in tbeatage was costly, and besides Harry oouldn atahd tbe day and night riding in the atage, for the distance waa a hundred ana forty miles. Sbe hired a team for a trip to St. Paul. Sbe could not get It until the Monday following, and ao ahe wrote a letter to Harry, telling him that sbe waa coming, and then started to paddle around the shore and look at her traps. When she bad got to a place which she and H*rry had called Rocky Harbor, on tbe oppoeite side of tbe lake, abe found a dead deer, partly eaten by wolves, and knowing the wolves would return after dark, she set several trsps for tbem. Then she hastened back to ber canoe, for it was now late, and there oould be no doubt that tbe November storms with which the winter almost begins in that climate, were now at hand.

But before she could set foot in ber canoe the stdrm came, and in an instant tbe air was so filled witb snow tbataa object twenty feet away was In visible. It took but a moment for Polly to appreciate ber situation. To paddle across tbe lake in such a storm was out of tbe question. The Wind wss coming up, and it would be alike impossible' to cosst around tbe shore. Besides it was a great distance, and ice would begin to form before She could get half way. There

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bolder, sbe crept out to a clump of little bushes jiear by, through which shet oould plainly see them. For by this time it had ceased snowing, and the1 moon was shining, though the wind still blew. Sbe leveled her gun at them two or three limes |ef»re she could get courage enough to fire. At the first shot she killed one, and the pack scattered a little, but the smell of tbe fresh blood of the dead wolf brought them back again. Several, times ahe fired with like success. But one of the wolves in moving round, caught sight of her. When a wolf, shea any living object ha immediately endeavors to get to tne ieeward of it, In order to teil by the Bcenfr what it is. A wolf depends on his nose in shell matters, ana not altogether uponhMeyes. Tbis one when he oought sight of POlly, Commenced to make a circle in order to get where his nose would inform him what kiud of an animal she was. Crowding the ball down quickly she fired just time to keep tee wolf from finding her out, and calling tho ret* of the pack with his howl. The. wolf rolled over in the snow.

Another oneoame near running right on her, but she fired in time to save herself. But this last fright alarmed her so that she did not fire again until she had climbed a tree. From, this point she kept up afire upon them till daylight, when they left. As tbe result of the night's work, Polly found that she bad killed nineteen wolves, and frozen one of her fingers almost off. Two of the wolves had been torn by tbe others, but there were seventeen tolerably good skins.

Before she dared undertake to skin them, she found it necessary to have a fire to keep her hands from reeling. By whittling thin-bass-wood shavings from her canoe paddle, and taking cotton from her clothing, sbe was able to start a fire by striking a percussion cap in the midst of a bunch of ootton with a little powder soattered through it. It took her till noob to take the skins from the wolves, aud by the middle of tbe afternoon the severe,cold had frozen the lake in tbe narrowest part, so that she ventured to cross. In order to take her wolf skins across, she was obliged to make a little sledge of tho crotch of a small tree. Of course thore had been great distress at homo on account of her absence, and great was the joy at her return.

On the next Monday sho put her furs on a .sled and started to St. Paul. When she got to Mankato sbe took a load of' wheat for St. Paul, getting a good roiind price for hauling It. Arriving in the city, her first care,was to find Harry and to cheer him up, which she did most effectually. He said her merry laugh was better than all the medicine In the world. She told Harry that if Bhe oould get a load back she thought her furs would- be sufficient to pay for forty acres, and the other One hundred and tweuiy they would have to let 'old Van Dye,' as she called blm, have. 'And so you've turned teamster, have Vou. little woodcbuck?' said llarry, raising himself up in bed. 'Anything to save you and the old home, Harry.', .1

That day she sold her furs. What was her surprise to find that the rare and beautiful silver-black fox was worth, riot ten dollsfe, but sixty-five. For tbe average .value of blaok or silver-gray, Skins is fifty dollars, and bors

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uncomonly fine one. And then, too, the extraordinary demand for minks bad oarried them,up.to three times the price offered by, Van Dyke, and oven her. musk rats were worth twice what be had offered, and she got well paid for heF wolfskins. And to'this Harry's baok pay, that. be had just reoeiypd*. ?yas) added, and there was more thah enough to enter the whole Claim! Wliefa Pbfly got home sbe did not tell any of her' neighbors that sho had stopped at tho. land office of St. Peter, on ber way back, and entered the claim. And Van Dyke, who did not kndw that she bad taken a load both waya, nor bow many furs she had, came over to see Harry, who wj»s4 now able to walk about, •Mr. Strader,'said he,'I suppose yori wilt be able to preempt forty acres of tbis, and I mean to bny tbe other throe forties. Your sister has been a little, saucy, but I want to oblige you. and If you'll let me buy in this forty with the house on, I don't mind paying you alittle something to start you on anew claim.' •I couldn't make such an arrangement air,'said Harry. •Wby?' said Van Dyke. 'Because my sister, whom you tried to swindle, entered the whole claim on her way back from St. Paul. And now, sir, there Is tbe door!'

And tbe crestfallen "land-abark" left,} rat Has Made Haypjr-Lwei 61 lbs. PBATTVXLUS, Ala., July 20th, 1878. BOTANIC MBD. CO., Buffalo, N. Y.:

Oenttenum-About three months ago I oomnienoed using your "Anti-Fat at which time my weight waa 219 ponnda. By following vour directions carefully, I have succeeded In reducing my weight to 158 pouuds. Tbia is sll very satisfactory and pleaaant but just previous to my commencing tbe use of .your medicine, I bad purchased two suits of fine olotbes at a high price, and find, to my dismay, that tbey are entirely hseless to me now. When I put ©no Of my ooata on, my frienda tell me it looks like a coffee sack on a bean pole, and when I

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of tbe lake, flejr only course waa to atay where abe was. Her apirit snnk for a moment, but ahe daahed away tbe team that came up from a desolate heart, and set about making the best of it. She found a large log lying in a ravine. Dragging ber canoe from tbe water, she laid it npt-ide down parallel with the log, st»ui fciiree feet away from It. Sbe then cut broah and laid across tbem, to form a root Creeping under tbia shelter, sbe waa soon buried be* neath two feet of snow and ao felt sore of not freezing. There la no better protection from cold than tha snow.

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ut the nanta on—well description fails, object in writing la to ascertain whether yon have not, in connection with your medicine business, an establishment where your patrons, similarly situated, could exchange tbeee useless garments for others that would fit. 1 tbink you ought to have something of the kind, aa it would be an Inducement to many to use tbe Anti-Fat, who now object to uaing it, in consequence of tbe loaa. tbey wonld sustain in throwing aside valuable garments. Just turn tbis matter over to your mind. A "Clothing Exchange" is wbat you wsrat Irt connection with yoor Antl Fat business*

Yours truly, GEOKGE BOlt D. zsss=zssss±=ss25 as*. f1 it at? rCllfMrs ialtillwsi In tbe core of Fever and Agua this remedy displaya extraordinary pqwers. property used, no esse can reaist It. and other diaeasea of an intermittent character, Including that- mo»t distreesing disaaae, Periodical Heuraiffia, have wen found to yield, with equal certainty, to ita influence. It eradicate* all malaria from the system, givea tone and vigor to tha whole body, and prevents disease from beoomming aeated. Try CUFfokd'S FjhBurces it is sure, safe and speedy In US action. Yon will never regretbnying tbe first bottle, aad you will nave diacovsrod a frleiftd yon cannot afford to loae. J- C.

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Baekleal Amies Salve. The BJBSTSaxnriln tha world for Cots, Bruiaaa, Sorea, Ulcere, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Handa, Chilblains, Corns, and all kinds of Skin Eruptiona. Tbia Salve Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every case or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by GULICK & BEKRY, Terre Haute. (j#8 8m)