Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 July 1880 — Page 2

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Of coarse it was a sin. For Mm to stick a pin in the chair Where hU parent often sat, Bat he he aldnt think of '-hat-

Didn't care,

On the cushion soft and fat Lay his father's^ and ay hat,

And oeJcnaw -ngMw^ That he'd never stop to look For the tiny, pointed hook .%

Sticking through.

So behind the lounge be got, For he thought he'a rather not Be around

Judgment sound.

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After walking a few mllee I saw the hazy glow that bangs at night over a large olty. I had never been in Maryland. I had no money, and felt faint for want of food but I knew that Baltimore wall a sort of outwork to the South

had better steer clear of any men I met, as most of those who favored the Confederate oause had gone already Into the Southern army.

At Point Lookout I had observed several letters direoted

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some* of our

prisoners directed to Mies Fanny Lewis, 184 Reade Street, Baltimore. As I walked on I kept on repeating this address over and over. I had no idea who Miss Fanny Lewis was, nor, for that matter, had my irlends at Point Lookout, though they were in the habit of addressing her, according to the prison etiquette, as "My dear Cousin." They only knew she was a charitable lady who sent boxes of good food and cast off clothing to the prisoners, while they in return made rings for her out of tbeir coat buttons, and Inlaid tbem with mother of pearl cut from their shirt studs.

I entered Baltimore toward the east, and presuming on the universality of that great law, 'westward the course of fashion takes It way,' I walked on until I found myself, about half past nine o'elook, in what seemed a fashionable quarter of the city. Presently I reached a ohurcb— a Roman Catholic church, I presumed, from the cross upon its front— and I observed that several ladles who cauie out of it had prayer books with silt crosses in their bands. I knew well enough that the Roman Catholic population of Baltimore was Southern to a woman, and almost to a man. I followed these ladies, and contrived to atop them without frightening them. 1 conclude they felt I was a gentleman by my address, and were not Influenced by the olothes philosophy. I asked tbem to tell me the way to Reade street. They gave me clear but brief directions. I

rained

my hat and walked on, striking

into shadow whenever I could, and fearing the glance of a policeman. 1 made my way to Reade street, and pulled the bell of 184. It was a house standing in a garden a little back from the street, and an alley ran along one side of the lot. An Irish servant girl answered my summons. That was a good omen. Irish servant girls were all sympathisers in their way. •Can 1 see Miss Fanny Lewis for a moment?' •No Miss Fanny's sent off—gone away. The master is come home. Maybe our other Miss Fanny would do for ye.' •lit me see Aer,'I said.

She opened the door of A tort of library or aide fitting room, turned up the gas, cad left me there. I looked at my torn clothe*, my browned bands, my haggard face, and unsboru beard and hair for there was a large mirror over the flre place. As I stood waiting. I wondered what impression I should produce on that other Ml** Fanny when she came.

Presently the door opened. A small blonde woman entered. She was about twenty-five, with a very pleasant taue. She looked as frightenea as I felt myaeif to be. dating the door carefully, she Otme up close to me, without a word. «Who are you abe said, trembling. «Madatn,' I answered, I am Msjctr Dangerfleld, of the Confederate service. 1 know Miss Fanny Lewis to be a lady TO9 good to oar poor tallows at Point look out. I know nobody in Baltimore. I oome to ask your advice and protection.' And I told her my story. •Oh!' abe cried, 'I am the wroi

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expected to aee my aiater-1 have ran yourself into the greatest danger. My husband, Colonel Lewis, hsanust received a staff appointment hem, under the major generalcommand Ing in Baltimore. He doe* not allow ine to have anything to do with treason or disaffocUen. He Is a Federal officer.' «I beg your pardon, madam/ I said, taking my bat 'I wtUjRaway at once.' "No. no,' she cried wildly, running to the window as the ball rang^'It's too late 1 hear my husband. That's htm on horseback, with his orderly. He baa oolv been in Baltimore a few boom, and

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When the parent raised the bat ?*a And upon the pin points* t— „,

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Tben be heard his fathers step. And another, bnt be kept Like a mouse. The new parson, sure as flue, Moved into the place of late,

Boulato rouse.

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Host from chair removed his hat,1

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Bade htm seat himself in that, And he did. From inspired lips there fell Earnest words and curdling yell

All unhid.

Now that boy has lost his vim,' And a seat that Just salts him Must be soft, And he wears a weary frown, bat you'll note he don't sit down, very otU

Harpers Magazine—Jaly.

CLOSE QUARTERS

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"You're hiding rebels in the house Wi'outthe leaveo' me."

-Scottish Ballad.

I am a Georgia gentleman, and served the South during those four crucial years which one side calls 'our late struggle for independence,' and the other stigmatizes as the 'rebellion.' In a skirmish belore Fredericksburg I was tftUen prisoner, and was sent North with a squ*d ot fellow misfortunates to Point Lookout. Thence, after a while, a namber of us were transferred to Fort Delaware* During the journey, while the train was running a slack speed, about fifteen miles from Baltimore, I managed to jump off of it. 1 took the leap literally in the dark, not knowing where I was going to land, for It was growing dusk, and the day was the 2d of February. There was snow upoa the ground, and I •Upped upon the ground, and I slipped npon the track, rolling over and over until I brought up in a snow drift below a steep embankment, and saw the lights of the receding engine flashing round a ourve in the road. As soon as 1 could rally ray wits, I gathered myself upt and turned my face toward Baltimore.

away South belore he

there—quick!' she added

a man's She opened an ired a eort of lar It had no window, kind of fancy latti the partition that

sounded in the ball, ir, and en-. ^.rsilwlrooifci twas lighted bfA worjtiat thetopof ded it from the

sitting room. Besidde-tfee jd oor which! jMt$etedf It bad two them both, and The place was a tMed as a store cl it, and trunks, and

I poflly tried

ittaem fastened, of anteroom, now [tJfkd shelves in caaes, broken

articles of furniture, linen laid op in lavender, and ladies' dresses hung on pegs. It was lighted by fcglimtoer of gas from the sitting roodi. 'My darling Fanwtliaaid a voice and I heard kisses—kisses as natural as if the man bad been a Southerner, and not a blood thirsty Yank, whom I was bonnd to hate, to injure, and despise. •Why, what's the matter, love?' I beard btm ssy to her. 'Have yoa had a cbill You are trembling all over. Yon look—I don't know how you look. What is it, my sweet Fan 'Nothing. Wbat could it ber she answered bnt I knew, from the tremble in ber voice, that she wsa unused to deceiving her colonel. I think, too, that be probably perceived that something lay concealed under ber 'nothing/ for be did not press her. to say more. He sst down, and I think he drew her toward him. •This is comfortable/ be said. 'This is home. This is better than campaigning. I have bad a worrying day. Ciaypole' (I judged that was his predecessor) 'has left everything in disorder in his department, and that business of Fanny's has annoyed me beyond measure. It lays me open to suspicion, and I have had local politicians at me about it all day. How Fanny could have been so indiscreet, so unmindful of what was due to my position She seems to have been forever doing something that hovered, to say the least of it, upon the verge of

Fanny, you have

treason. I hope, bad nothing to do with her 'No, no, Indeed!' cried his wife, ve hemently, with an accent of sincerity. 'I have always been so very careful, because—' Here she came to a sudden pause. I suppose the recollection that she bad Major Dangerfleld, of the Confederate servioe, hidden in her store closet, broke unpleassntly, upon her. She added, in a lower tone, ana with a different accent, 'I would not compromise you for the world.' 'I wish Fanny had had the same consideration. GeneralS told me he was very sorry to have to send ber through the lines, but tbat it had been absolutely necessary. A little more, and she would have got herself into the Old Capitol prison. The Union politicians of this place have a keen scent for disaffection. It seems a policeman has been detailed for some time past to watch this house, and they had a string of charges as long as my arm against her. Dear! dear! If women only would stick fast to women's work, and leave rebellion and politics alone!' 'I don't think Fanny meant any barm/ said the wife, timidly. 'She used to send things to the prisoners, but then that wait allowed. She used to get lots of letters but I don't know tbat she did anything worse.' 'That is. she did not tell you all she did/ said the oolonel. 'Well, so far, I am obliged to her, for if half I bear is true, she was steeped in petty treason. Most of it was foolish nonsense—ho good to the oause she wanted to serve. Her Imprudence has made my own position here a very delicate one. I have written to the oomsaanders of ail the prisons not to forward to her any letters tbat may pass through their bands, and if any do arrive, you had better burn tbem without reading tbem, unless you know the handwriting.'

Here oame a loud ring at the front door. The colonel and his wife moved instantly apart, and a man came into the room. 'Good evening, colonel. Good evening, madam. I called to tell you, colonel, tbat there's a dangerous character at large in Baltimore—a rebel agent on sercet service—and the provost marshal has given strict orders to secure him. If they catch him, they will hang him— sure. He has been traveling as a spy all through our Northern dtles, and is now on his way baok to the South with important papers and Information. It was thought he might have come here to inquire about Miss Fanny. Has any such person been bere, Mrs. Lewis?' 'No, sir,' said the inexperienced equivocator, with a tremble in her tone. 'Have you had no stranger here this evening persisted the visitor,

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The answer was inaudible. ... 'One word with y6u Aalde, oolonel,' be said, as he rose to go, drawing Colonel Lewis outside the parlor door into the passage. *1 don't want to be disagreeable to Mrs. Lewis, but (this between ourselves) the policeman on tbls beat says be saw a man answering the description come in this evening at your front door. I tell you because you would not like a domiciliary visit from the provost marshal.' 'Thank you, thank you. But I am sure you are mistaken. Mrs. Lewis )s lady of unspotted ioyslty. If there be anything wrong, it is the servants who are concerned.' 'Colonel Lewis,' said the visitor, in a stage whisper, 't don't like to destroy your confidence In Mrs. Lewis, but the

as was lighted in your parlor before the were down, and the policeman saw him with Mrs. Lewis standing on the hearth rug. I hope you'll find it all as right as you expect, I'm sure.'

The colonel walked to the front door with bis visitor, and came back into the sitting room. I knew that he was thinking, 'There Is no way of exit from this room by the door tbat I came in by or the closet. She has the man in toere.' 'Tbeee local politicians are both low bred and impertinent/ be said, as he came back to ber. 'There would not be a man with a good coat on bis baok at large in Baltimore, if all their denunciations were listened to. Fanny, he thinks ill of yon. He thinks you would compromise your husband. He says there is a policeman watohlng our front doer.' •Oh, Arthur/ ertod poor Fanny, 'Hove you no dearly. Indeed I do, and perhaps vou will not believe roe! Oh, why did— 'Did he say tbat would be sure to bang that man—tbat spy—If they arrested him?' •Yes, and moet justly. A spy deserves no mercy.' 'Ob! bat Arthur, think of Andre.' •Well, Andre baa no right to complain. It was the tele of war. It was the stern dntv of Washington.' •Yea, dear, everybody am sot bot, Arthur. I have never been able to love Washington since I read tbat story. And tbe men who gave him up—all women always hate them.' •This is childishness, my dear wife. Would yon rather have bad West Faint taken by tbe British. Arnold triumphant and rewarded, Washington condemned as the traitor?' •No,

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arms one day, when our hired man to me, all bloody, with his axe in his band ray mother mtwt be kUlea.jad heads of ffieotll: gov* hinf #Ine-HRle up even new Sometimes rem*mber faow ortietl was

little yellow It\ seema something like murder.' 'Fanny, this is mo foolish/ said her husband. 'I know it, I know it,' she replied. 'But I really believe I should lose my reason if I hsd to do the same thing over ain.' r? a £'h •Fanny/ he said, sttfemly, 'foa fbrget yourself. I must remember my duty, whatever yoa do.7- -x^r-

After tbls there was silence between them. At length the husband sidd: 'I bave along report to write to-nigMU Fanny, and some accounts to cast up. 1 must sit up very late. My poor wife, go to bed.' 'Yes, dear/ she answered, submissively. I beard keys jingling in ber key basket as she moved across the floor. 'No, Fanny,' said her husband, stopping her 'I may want something&om tbe cellar. Leave me your keys.' 'You will kill yourself with hard work. Let us both go, love.' 'No, no/ said tbe colonel. 'Go yourself you bave a headache/ 'No, Arthur/ she aaswe^. 'If ygu sit up, I will stay too.' •It is of no use, Fanny.'*' •Still, I will stay here.' 'If I am going to sit up,' said tbe colonel, 'I want my slippers.' 'Let me get tbem,' she cried, eagerly. 'Sit down.' 'No, I'll get tbem myself. They are in the closet! I know. Is it locked? No, I see that it is door.'

The colonel drew back. Poor Fanny perhaps fancied I had mysteriously disappeared.

They took the slippers frtau the floor, and went into tbe sitting room* There I beard ber coaxing him to go to bed but there seemed some hardening of her husband's heart toward her, which obilled her pretty persuasions. 'Fanny/ ne said at last, 'if you intist on sitting np wlth.me, go and get some an Inkstand from yourcham-

There was no resisting this request, which he made like a command. She must sgain bave made a movement to pick up her key basket, and he must again bave checked her, for she exclaimed, "Ob! I forgot I beg your pardon/ and left tbe room.

The moment she was gone, I heard him rattle the keys. He put one or more of them into bis pocket, I heard, too. a click, as if be were fagaged in oooking bis revolver. Then he remarked aloud: 'The store room has no window. I bave him safe. He must stay there until morning. If a brave man, be will keep quiet. Only a coward would take advantage of

her.'

He pulled out bis watch. 'Half-past twelve,' he said, as Fanny came back again. What agony she must have felt as she left me without protection, and her husband exposed to my attaok If I were armed! 'Here is paper and ink/ she said, 'Now go to bed, darling.' 'No, love I will sit np here/ and she took her place upon the sofa.

Meantime no words can adequately depict the discomforts of ray situation. I knew perfectly well that the colonel knew where I was, and that in good time he was going to dispose of me. I quite agreed with blm tbat gratitude to Mrs. Lewis required me to keep still. I also knew tbat whatever plan he might be laying for my capture, was to be done in such away as to spare his wife as much as possible. I tbought that for her sake I had better let him work it his own way. I only trusted I should be able to prove to the provost marshal that I was Major Dangerfleld, and not the secret agent I was supposed to be. Meantime my physical sufferings wete almost unbearable. In tbe empty Saratoga trunk my position waa inexpressibly cramped and painful. I was perfectly conscious tbat the slightest noise I made woald be beard by the husband and wife in tbe sitting room, and I was unwilling to disturb any hope the latter might entertain tbat I was gone. My plan was to wait till she was out of tbe way, and then place myaeif at the disposal of her hnshand.

Meantime a solemn silence seemed to settle on tbe house, and all tbe neighborhood. My nerves had become so excited that I could with difficulty keep myself from uttering involuntary cries. Hour after hour I beard tbe deep cathedral bell. Had it not been for tbe hope 1 entertained, in common with tbe colonel, of saving Fanny's feelings from a shock, and her wifehood from suspicion I should bave come forth at once, and bave made an end of my misery. Sometimes, as all aroHnd me seemed so still, I fancied th«t tbe married pair had quitted tbe sitting room. But I felt that if I trif to leave tbe house, watched as I knew it to be, my capture on ber door step would compromise ber loyalty. lime moved like eternity. At last tbe morning market wagons began moving, and tbe dawn came peeping into my retreat. There waa another violent pull at the street door belt I heard the colonel rouse himself to answer it. I beard Fanny start to ber feet, while a coarse voice sailed out loudly In tbe Mcnjg?: •What! np by peep of day, colonel?* •Tew I had a report to write op. Claypole has left everything in disorder.' 1 thought I'd 1st yoa know, oolonel, that that apy we ware talking of Is* night Is now la tbe bands of the marshal. I was mistaken about his being seen aboat this place. Tbe police sot on the track of him last evening, ana took him at that nest of secession, Mrs. Charles Garey'a.'

coarse not,' she sobbed.

«Ob, Arthur, when I was a child our cat bad four yellow kittens. They lived under tbe porch, and were very wild. Bot one of tbem trusted me. aad ased to come oat to me, and I was holding It in

tbe street door closed upon this visitor, I beard Fanny giveasnppresoed sob. 'Then 1m

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TJSRRE HAUTE SaxuKIAY EVENING MAIL.

said

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cut off the _j%\andVl it. iwiice jiigbt and tbat poor

not tbe key is in tbe

He laid bis band upon the door handle of my place of confinement. For half a moment he hesitated to turn it. I beard Fanny sob. I think she caught him by tbe arm. •Let me go, Fauny/ be said, impatiently. 'I must. You bad better go away.'

He threw the door Wide open. The gaslight streamed in from the sitting room. She rallied all her atrengtb, ana came in after him.

Nothing met their eyes but the dresses, tbe shelves, the rows of pickles and preserves, the broken furniture, the trunks, tbe linen in lavender. But standing opposite the door, with its hinges toward them, they may have seen a large Saratoga trunk, marked on the side, in big white letters, "Miss FANNY LSWIS." Its lid was not quite closed, the clasp having caught upon tbe rim.

not—Atsif said hsr hus

band, careless of grammar at that supreme moment of reconciliation. *No, no/ she cri^d. 'He said he wss a poor jHtsoner who bad jumped off tbe

lI^Poor

little Fanny! brave little Fnl'

said ber husband, and I guessed, though I could not see. bow be was comforting bar. 'btttMswalwniito yoa not to

pbW'WHH"tigHoh. Henceforward leave lfWone sewnly. You must be one with the, dear wpK and such thiaware not allowable iOour position. Now* go iud call Bridget^ ana tell her to get bonkfast. I must get to the office earljL Bd, Fanny/ he added, 'tell her to slip gjfwn the alley tbe first thine, and tell Williams, who owns the dray, that whflb be has harnessed up his horse for his day's work, I wish him to back up to our aide door. I am determined to get rid of everything that belongs to my sister Fanny. I'll send her trunk away. I'll elear tbe bonse of treason and succeeslon. Tell Bridget tbat aay sf). tosy be a warning to her, love.'

In half an hour Bridget announoed the dray. 'Send in my orderly/ said the colonel, 'and see if you can see anything, Around the corner, of the policeman.'

As Bridget was executing this order, tbe colonel entered the store-room, snd closed the spring-lock of the trunk lid. 'Have you tbe key to Fanny's trunk, my dear?'

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'I don't know.' 'Give it to me/ he said, decidedly. 'Since your man is not the spy, I share your treason for this onoe, that henceforth you may alwavs side with me. Ha! policeman,' be added, as he threw open tbe outer door of tne store-room, which opened on the alley, 'will yon help the drayman and my orderly to get this trunk of my sister's on tbe dray? She has been sent South, as you know, and I decline to keep her things. Yes, undred as you way always with ladies.'

By this time I was hoisted on the dray. 'NoW, Williams,' said the colonel to the drayman, 'carry this trunk to "Mrs. Legrand's. She Is a friend of my sister's and a very Secesh lady. She will no doubt know what to do with it. Take the key, and desire ber to open it the moment it arrives. She must find tbe way to send it to Miss Fanny If she thinks it necessary.' 'All right, 8ah,' cried the voice of the negro drayman.

Ifainted, I suppose for tbe want of air, and knew no more till I found myfcelf surrounded by Southern ladies in the back parlor of a house well known for Southern sythpsthies and hospitality. I told my name and story, only omittim the adventures of the night Ii Lewis's store-room. 'But how on earth did you get here in Fanny Lewis's trunk? The drayman left the trunk and kev, with a message tbat the trunk should be unlocked immediately.' 'Ab, ladies.' I cried,*'it is too dangerous a secret. I dare not breath it into tbe ear of any of you.' 'But we know all kinds of dangerous secrets/ pouted one fair lady. 'I have no doubt you do, and all Dixie knows tbat you keep tbem but this one you must not ask me.' 'I declare I believe that Colonel Lewis himself had something to do with it.' 'On my honor, ladies, I never saw Colonel Lewis in my lite. What does be look like, anyhow?

Igbt in Colonel

about six years later, when I was Introauced to Colonel Lewis on Pennsylvania Avenue. Hetookmeto his bouse in Georgetown, where I met both the Fannies. It is no disparagement to Mrs. Lewis, nor is it base ingratitude, to say tbatl love tbe Southern Fanny best, for she has been my wife five years, and Colonel Lewis is my brother-in-law.

The Railroad Bridge,

About three years ago my sailor friend, Harry Moordale, went as passenger in tbe ship Tempest, bound to Havre at wblch port he arrived in due course of time. Among other passengers there was a beautiful Swiss girl, whose name Harry learned was Mary JLorme. Her step was like a roe's, her teeth were as white as the rim of a daisy, her voice resembled the tinkling bell, and she had purple-black hair that fell in rippling masses below ber waist. My friend baa ventnredonce or twice to address tbe maiden, and her timid, modest, half frightened manner seemed to repel an intimate acquaintance. She had informed the young man, however, that she had been to New York to assist a female cousin engaged in the dry goods business that, soon after her arrival tbere, her relative bad died, largely in debt, whereupon Mary baa concluded to return home to her father. Who, in spite of a severe illness bad, in accordance with an agreement by letter, oome to Dijon with the old family ooach to wait for her. Having learned this mnch, Harry took a great interest in the girl, and felt almost bound to act the knight for one in her lonely, defenseless oondition. When the boat which, among other passengers, contained her ana him, strnck tbe lsnding, Harry politely offered to carry tbe fair one's carpetbag, which, containing besides her clothing snob articles as flower-lines for hosiery, etc., etc., was very heavy. She thanked him with ber usual sweet smile, jast raising tbe long lashes of her soft eyes, revealing both orbs glistening like diamonds. He took the bag ana tbe young couple entered the dillgenoe which was to carry tbem to Parte. There tbey finally arrived, ten minutea too late for that day's train. They were informed, however, that there wss another trrin at a station fifteen miles distant, preparing to start in five hours. 'Is there no conveyance to tbe place?' queried Harry,

He was answered In tbe negative by tbe polite official. 'I must go on!' exclaimed Mary. 'My father, I am afraid, la very sick. I must see him as soon as I can.' •Ffteen miles is a long distance to wslk,' said Harry. •Not for me/ answered Mary, amillog. •The Swiss, you know, are great walkers. I bave been brought np to it almost from infancy.*

Aa ber soft pleading eyea seemed to ssy, 'Yen must go witn ma/ Harry could not resist tbe appeal. Tbey started, moving along tbe railroad, for tbere waa no otber way. Whenever tbey eune to a log or a rut Harry woald extend his hand and assist his pretty companion when, with smile and a shake of the head, she woald leap over the obstruction aa nimbly aaa fawn. They bad proceeded ten miles when tbey ssw the son go down behind a range of bine hills In tbe distance. Tbe two were moving along a high bridge raised npon piles aboat 200 »et from the earth, which, beneath it, waa rocky and Inundated have and there by foaming torrenta. Ahead of them the travelers netosived that for a dllanns of aboat f(X yarda there were no cross planks between tbe —tut Therefore, in order to ti this space, Mary and her com must walk npon the track, nately, the track waa not very broad, yet a person ot steady balanca, ca|nMe of maintaining fate self poaseaaion in spite of tbe yawning abyss on each side nf Mm, wrfght occasionally derive support from tbel*am|»9}e«M0atwa*d Several Inches beyond each sldeofthe track, which waa riveted upon it. Frail support this, however, with tfaoee jagged

rooks, aOlfibiit below, ready to receive theunfbrttpate adventurer who make thiHgbt««t ^Atestepl,should

•We had better tbrn aidpt/ said he* 'Are you afraidt* she inqnlred. Then, as his cheek glowed hotljM-'For my sake I .meanP •For your sake? Yes.*

Mary.smiled. 'I bave been on the Alps/ she said, 'following those who hunted on the icy ruins of precipices for tbe chamois why should I shrink now?'

Still Harry hesitated. A rail was dif ferent from the edge of a precipice, and the young man fancied he oonla already hear Mary's piercing shriek—could already aee her form cleaving the air headlong toward those dangerous rocks beneath.

Meanwhile twilight was gathering the crimson hues on the sky were melting away in shadows. The travelers, if intending to attempt the perilous crossing, had better do so now while light remained.

So said Mary, and ber glance was firm, her cheek unbleached as she spoke. 'Let me go alone,' she oontlnued 'then, if anything should happen to me, you will not feel responsible. Go* however, I must, for perhaps my father lies dying. If so I will see him before he breathes his last!' 'Come, then,' said Harry. 'Keep bold of my jacket to support yourself as we go. Ill should stumble, however, do not hesitate to let go of me. Otherwise, you too, will be dragged down?'

Mary silently nodded her head in token of assent, and the two started. Tbey kept on slowly,, carefully, and steadily, until a sudden heavy gust of wind made the girl reel. She stopped and while endeavoring to recover her balance, she saw the dark rock far below, and thrilled with terror. Over, over, over—further and further She pressed her lipe tightly together. She made one last superlative effort, still trying to recover her balance. An inob further and that balance were lost, and she precipitated upon those jagged rocks 200 feet beneath. Now, however, she raised ber left arm, and that saved her. She slowly regained her upright position, and they continued tbeir courseHarry unable, without certain destruction, to turn bis head, and ignorant of his companion's late narrow escape ipa: They haa only accomplished about h'alf their perilous walk when the gloom of night gathered ronnd tbem. Tbey must traverse the rest of the way in darkness! 'Steadily,' whispered Harry, encouragingly. 'For Heaven's sake don't falter now!'

She answored him firmly, 'I will n6t/ and tightened her bold upon his jacket. At tbat moment tbey felt tbe rail quiver beneath them—a strange, humming noise was heard. It grew louder every moment, until suddenly agleam like that of a bloodshot eye was seen bursting through the darknees ahead of them. 'The locomotive!' gasped Mfcry. 'Oh, what can we do now!'

She was right. It was tbe train bound to Paris, Sweeping along at full speed* breathing thunder, .Steam, and flre. Nearer and nearer it oame, roaring and rattling, with its whistle soreaming. Tbe rail now shook so much that the travelers could scarcely keep 'their balance. Wbat matter whether tbey did or not? Wbat power could save tbem now? They were apparently doomed to certain destruction with tbat fearful train fast sweeping toward them! On, on—nearer! nearer! Heaven! It was soon less than three miles distant! Tbe young people stood still. Eaoh could bear tbe beating of the other's heart for Mary's arms were around Harry's waist. Ahead of tbem an approaching locomotive on each side of tbem a yawning abyss their only support a slender rail. All hope died from tbeir hearts. 'We must prepare!' gasped tbe girl. 'We must die? God help usf' 'Ob!' murmured Harry, suddenly, 'if I only had a rope, I might possibly do something to save us!' 'A rope! Thank Heaven! tbere is one in my carpetbag—a line upon which my cousin used to bang her hosiery!'

As quickly as the situation would permit Harry unslung from his neck the carpetbag, and opening it, took out the ropie, which was quite long and about as thick as a clothes line. One end of this be fastened around Mary's breast, just beneath the armpits tbe other end, by carefully stooping npon bis knees, he contrived to reach through and fasten in one of tbe holes between the timber and tbe rail. The train was now less than a mile distant! Inpne minute it would reach the apot occupied by the imperiled travelers. On it oame booming alocg, while tbe rails shook as if going to pieces. Steam, thunder, flre and smoke! *God help as!' screamed Mary.

The next moment sbefelt a sudden jerk and beoame aware tbat abe was dangling In midair beneath the rail. Her heart almost leaped to her throat. long dark object awept above ber, crashing, rattling thundering. It was tbe train! 'AH right!' said an encouraging voice, as tbe cars disappeared in tbe darkness. 'Thank God!' She looked up and saw Harry climbing to the upper part of tbe rope. He swnng himself quickly to tbe rail and carefully drew her up. Then, with the help of the rope, tbe two were enabled to walk the rest of tbe rails with more eaae than before. Soon tbey were out of all danger, when, with streaming eyes, Mary fell on her knees and thanked God for her and ber companion's preeervation. They reached the Dijon train in good time, and subsequently arrived at Mary's place of destination in ssfety. Tbe girl found her father dying but be lived long enough to give ber his parting blessing. Harry, now feeliog tbat abe needed a protector, more than ever, proposed, after remaining six weeks at Dijon, to make b«r his wife. She consented tbey were married be brought his bride to tbe United States tbey sre now living, happy and contented, in a pleasant home near Harlem, N. Y., within bearing of the steam trains. Need I add that they never hear the thunder noise of tbe approaching cars without thinking of tbat nigbt of peril on the rail?

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READ THE BELLOWING. HALL or REPRESENTATIVES, INDIANAPOLIS, lad., Feb. 16,1871. DR. J. H. BROWN—We nave used your "Brown's Expectorant" and take pleasure In saying that it is the best medicine for coughs colds, hoarseness, and cheerfully reoommend it to all who may be troubled with Throat and Lung affections.

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