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x btu 3 | Oh adamitel srt +H v. HAM, Deputy Clerk of the Crown | is ' far" ER is 4 be Ho pvad waibeg] tk RT G4 : Ti LE dagl 7 z z Thaesselboes ion) " { (TRIAS en _ AND.N "Estria a generally evorss the ONTAR) ~ YOLIL, No. 28.) Lain A oy i - OM {red fa don inion fa.47 ~ PORT PERRY, THURSDAY Ea RIO' ADVERTISER cond (IRUBLISHED Every LHURSDAY Morning ai So ar orion' 10 lo WS NEW BOTLDING; QU] INP. rela] the 3 ria Lota elec TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Ten lines and under--3 insertions... Above ten lines, 1st-insertion per | . Each ph hye ent. insertion... 2s apes 02 3 Pi ional and business Cards, six lines and r, $6 per annum, $3 for six months. Pro 'six to ten lines, §8 per an- num, if KJ Merchawts and others can contract for a certain space, with the" privilige of having new mattée inse at, the end of every Aree months, on favorable (erms. XJ Displayed Ad: ertisements are meas- ured by a scale of solid Bruvier, and charg- ed accordipgly. wa ALR ¥3-\Adverifséments sent without written instrughiotis will be inserted until forbidden and ped for full time. ! X3-N$ casual Adverfisements inserted unless paid for in advande. Merchants will be expected to pay quasterly. . 3 Qrders for discontinging advertise- ments must be in writing, Bo tins: blisher will not be resp b hy |. JOB DEPARTMENT. Because of out increased finsilities Pamph. lets, Hand Bills, Posters, 'Programmes, Bill Heads, Blank Fo, Circulars, Check Books, Business Cards, Receipt Books, Ball Cards, &e., &¢,, of 'every style and color, can be'executed more promptly; and at low= er prieps than at 'any other establishment in the oouaty, " ned E. MUNDY, Editor and Publisher. P Business Directory. Ai BURNHAM," Judge of the County and Surrogate Courts, Office at the Court House. L ELSON. G, REYNOLDS, Sheriff, -- Office, at the Court House. 1 WwW PAXTON, Jr., Treasurer. Office, at the Court House. as | J HAM PERRY, Registrar, Office on o Brock St. 1 Joux sus, Engineer. Office, at the Court House. 1 AS. HOLDEN, Official Assignee. = Office in McMillan's Block, Brock St. 1 H .MACDONELL, Clerk of the Peace and County Solicitor, '. + 1 "and Pleas; Clerk of County Court and Registrar of the Snrrogate Court. . Office at the Court House. a | ik & COCHRANE, Barristers, Attornies, Conveyancers and Notaries Public, &¢ Prince Albert, office opposite the Town Hall. Port Perry, office in Bige- low's Block. 4 8, H Co 1 W. M. Cocarase, Co. Crown Atty. Port Perry. J HAMER GREENWOOD, Attorney-at- eo «Law, Solicitor in Chancery, Notary Public; Convegancer, &c., Whitby, Rooms next to the Registry office, Brock st. 1 R J. WILSON, Barrister, Attorney-at- o Law, Solicitor in Ch VEEN or PORT PERRY, C. W., | pu 1) 2 " 3 " Ct hE Pr re=fi the above, estahlishmen 2nd dhi loc of the Politteal So- fo, uv liiny Subic will fd it te be i "| mobt. | $ ; aw £100, 08 HAM PERRY, Esq, Warden --P. 0. o. Add (2 in odin "BROCK 'ST.! WRITBY. L C.' DAWES, 'Proprietor. eri 24 FORT FERRY. |. "N.SINCLAIR, ~~ ~ PROPRIETOR, So [VIE Subscriber bogs to: tate that having p) rortable hom |' Good Stabling, attentive Ostlors, and t constantly supphed rs of the cho! ode. | Parties wishing to enjoy a day or two of Fishing or hunting on Lake Scugog ean and Fishing Tackle. { Cet ' N. SINCLAIR. Port Perry, August 8, 1866. a , ONTARIO HOTEL! THE RAILROAD HOUSE! It seems very queer, that whatever they say, ' hi f. r tha servigs of etx Supe. 2 A, EJ The Bat is s be' accommodated with: good boats |: aia 1 4 Faith | Women one'day,"' "ii Asil sat by my beautiful Bess ; _ Their meaning no mortal can Guba! I knew that she loved me by many a sign 2 late rid bee fe fio Wnatow i 5 ul ui ' 3 Conf oad WEF eran fi or "Tis the way 'with the f t they the express ; But I couldn't but t! t 1 "That a Noa PA ry 2 reg Bo Tasked her again, with my heart in. whirl, : And said; * Do nt answer me so) When twice in succession the mischiewons r Repeated that odious No 1" 1-tf. House of all Nations. PORT PERRY, OC. W.' yO. W, JOHN KIRSTEN 5» « PROPRIETOR: Fishing or shooting" parties for Lake Scugog will find at this house good boats, guns, and tackle. : - A new and commodious Hall has lately been built 'in ¢ommection with this House, 32 x 80 feet, called Port Perry Hall, and is open for Poljtical Meetings, Balls; Cou= "certs, or Shows. | The Bar is Avell supplied with choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. * Good Stabting and Allentive Ostlers. Port Perry. Aagust. 8, 1868, : 1-tf THE ROBSON HOUSE! (LATS soniPTURK'S HOTEL,) DUNDAS STREET WHITBY, Q. W. | GEORGE'ROBSON -.. Propribtor. fpae subscriber begs to announce that he has leased the building formerly known as 'Seripture's Hotel, for a term of years, and that he has now renovated and re-furnished thie building throughout. The the Post Office, and in the ceutre of the Town. The Railway Omnibus ealls at the Hotel, and the Stages for Uxbridge and Beaverton leave the door every morning. EJ, Careful ostlers always in attendance. ako. ROBSON. August 10, 1866. 1-tf. DR. JONES, ASSOCIATE CORONER - FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO, = Dassson Amn RR EE N. McCLINTON, #.D., Surgeon & Accouchenr, J Office & Residence--Sonya, Brock. FRY Ph; IEMPERANCE EXCHANGE EATING HOUSE! MANCHESTER. Good Accommodations for Travellers. Mzats at all hours of the day. Good Stabling and attentive Ostlers, * JAMES PARKIN, Proprietor. Manchester, Oct. 3rd, 866. 81 Bricks & Drain Tiles [YHE subscriber wishes to acquaint the Public with the fact that he has now on hand a large quantity of Bricks and Drain Tiles, at his Yard, in Port Perry, And is prepared to increase his operations to meet the increasing demand. The subscriber is also prepared to take Contracts for the furnishing and laying up f Bricks in houses, &c. i "77 JAMES GOOD. 3m Port Perry, Aug. 7, 1866, &c-- Office next to Registry office, Brock street, Whithy. * Fe E MAJOR, Liosxssp Avorionexm, for o. the. County of Ontario, Days for sales fixed, and Terms made known, at this office; ' H ALE SPRING, Licewszo Auctioneer for 'the Townships of Reach, Broek, Uxbridge and. 8cétt. Orders taken at this office, and days of sale appointed, i BURNHAM, Clerk of Third Division B14 ag Li Court, County of Ontario. ' i . s--Over J. Biglow's store, Port ery: ' i A Ib N £ tail x Liat TC ROWAL OANADIAN BANK! PORT PERRY AGENCY. JOSEPH BIGELOW, IAHBE dL Agel ir TTT i MARRIAGE: U My avtmoRirY, Issued at Port Pe ry. * OF¥IOB--At the Seugog House. L. ° HENRY CHARLES. =e T Land for Sale. 7'in the 9th Con.. Seugog, 200 #eres. This lotis wild land,aud of good and hat more ing 8] creek running n 'Algo part of Lot 3. "'JOSEPH BIGELOW Port Bary, 313 Atigust, 166. 1 wot vr EL Vers { f the Lot. | in the 3rd eo, Reach, NOT OFF THE TRACK! BUT RUNNING AT THE RATE OF $2 a doz. for Photographs, 25¢. Each for Lettergraphs ! ----ALSO---= WATCHES and CL OCKS, AND Jéwelry and Accordeons J3~ Repaired at J. A. CLARK'S Uxbridge, Oct. 20, 1866. 13-tf J. H. BACHE, Chemist & Druggist ! . PORT PERRY. Di sn ie E » Alcohol, Brasbes, Combs, Cosl O Hihinpe, Ghtameye; Burners: Won, OH, Toilet Soaps, Essences, 'PERFUMERY, TOBACCO, CIGARS, o PERFY] eh Fo ig i 'J.B. begs to citerss. Sat: ths realest BE wo Se purity hy A Si oh, Carell wo Saath, | Marsh § Trounce's old stand. J. H. BACHE. Po Perry, Oct.17, 1866. Bit] Photograph Oar, Brock 8t., Uxbridge. - MEDIOAL HALL! " There I" sho §aid, with & liugh, ® That is certainly plain; Fowal And your heating is not over-ni; { ce, | Or you woklda't have forced 'mé to say it EE "ie 1 For I think I have spoken it twice I "1 see!" | exclaimed, as I clasped: in my own The hand'of my beautiful Bess; "I now recollect ~what the grammar has shown-- Na Two negatives equal & «Yes 17 I Lady Audley's Secret. ! CHAPTER XXXI. . PHEBE'S PETITION. My lady had not wondered, she had not thought about the busiless at all. She had scarcely listened pu these commonplace details; why should she care for this low-born waiting woman's perils.and froubles? had she not her own terrors, her own soul-absorbing perplexities to nsurp exery thought of which her brain was capable, ? She did not make any remark upon that which poor Phebe had just told hier; she scarcely compreherided what had buen said, until some mo- ments 'after the girl had finished speaking, when the words assumed er fl meaning. a8 Soe Velde being heeded. ' Bugot in your beds,' 'said my lady at last. 'It would have been a good thing forme if that precious creature, "your husband, had been burnt in his bed before to night.' A vivid picture flasied upon her ag she spoke. . The pictare of that frail wooden tenement, the Castle Inn, reduced to a roofless chaos of lath and plaster, vomiting flames from its black mouth, and spitting blazing sparks upward towards' the cold night sky. She g ave a weary sigh as she dis- missed this image from her restless brain. She would be no better off even if this enemy should be for ever silenced. She had another aud far more dangerous foe--a foe who was not to be bribed or bought off, though she bad been as rich as an empress. 'Lil give you the money to send this bailiff away,' my lady said, after a pause, 'I must give you the last sovereign in my purse, but what of that? You know as well as I do that I dare not'refuse you." Lady Audley rose and took the lighted lamp from her writing-talile. The money is, in my dressing-room,' she said; 'I will go and fetch it.' 'Oh, my lady,' exclaimed Phoebe, suddenly, 'I forgot something; I was in such a way about this business that I quite forgot it. "Quite forgot what.' 'A letter that was given me to bring to you, my lady, just before 1 left home. ' What letter? i 'A letter from Mr. Avdley. He heard my husband mention "that I was coming down here, and he asked me to carry this ye Lady Audley set the lamp down upon the table nearest to her, and held out hér hand to receive the letter. Phaebe Marks conld scarce fail to obserye that the litle jewelled (hand, shook like a leat. 'Give it to me--give it to me,' she cried; 'let me see what more he has to say.' A : Lady Audley almost snatched the letter from Phosbe's hand in her wild impatience. She tore open the en- velope and flung it from her; she could scarcely unfold the sheet of ye- | note-paper in her eager excitement. The letter was very brief. It contained only these words: 4 'Should 'Mys. George Talboys really have survived the date of es 1 ded in t p deuth, | public prints, and upon. the tomb-| stone in. Ventnor churchyard, and. should she exist in the person of the! lady suspected and accused by 'the writer-of this, there can be no great. difficulty in finding some one 'able, and willing -to indentify her. Mrs. Barkamb, the .owner 'of North Cot- tages, Wildernsea, 'wotld rio 'doubt . Fo siddies 1 matted | Tuk mED LidHT iv THES . "My Tally crushed the Totfentie in or hand; "and flung it fom' into the Samed, 1 "If lio $6660 Lisfore me "ai ERR Sem-- Af Mins TE ys naps ss eS Wr Shea J y : 1 dll SLUR IT NY aid ws in Foal 1 "Ho 5 LA CL WT & iil Se Rs Rr DEN REE NE 0 ope Abid on - SHLEE 71 lol) Shira 18 4 " HER mete in 4 fits " Slat. 2. mi ae a) } ye } ai) Abvince. Era vo 8 lo wlanis ' erception. , Loh Hhg to, ln 2 util retaiding Ler! e's wrist, Iam' for my dondact;*b that, the: business t guiét, I think v this house retard 'to' it "without i seen by any living' ereature; Rou will do as I'tell you 4 Audley. impatiently; n "Hold of | I.could kill-him; slie mutt strange.io ward whisper, *1 Ji (it--I would do it!' She snafe 'the lamp and rushed into th ing 'room, e 'shat the " hind lier. | She could not ¢ nd witness oft her horrible. despa could endure nothing, neithe", nor her surroundings. a She paced up and down the dres ingroom in the silvery plight pondering upon, the: stran which she had received from Andley. She walked back wi furwards in' that 'monotone dering fof sofile time befor able tv steady her tl ht slice was hblé to bring the forces of her narrow intellec| upon the one all-important si the threat contained in'the bal letter, a: 4 ' He wiltdo it," she said, her set teeth<*lie will.do i get him inty 8 lunatic . asyly or unless--' She did not finish the the words. She did not even th the sentence ;- bot sume m unnatural palse in her heart to beat each syllable agal breast. " Tho thought was this; 0 it, unless some strange befalls him and silences ever.) She rose from before her dl table and took a dark volved ) and bonnet from the recess wardrobe, aud dressed he walking, The little brmulo the chimney-piece struck the after cleven while Lady Aud Snployed in née mbes. dr 7 20h pad room in which she had left Pho Marks. The inukeeper's wife was sitting before the low fender very much in the same attitude as that in which her Tate mistress had brooded 'over that lonely hearth carlier in the evening. .. Phoebe had replenished the fire, and had rcassumed her bonnet and shall. She was augious J] Fwho was only too apt to fall into some mischief in her absence. She looked up as Lady Audley entered the room, and uttered an exclamation of surprise at seeing her. late mis- tress in a walking costnme. ' My lady,' she cried, ' you are not going out to-night? ? ' Yes, I am, Phoebe,' Lady Audley answered, very quictly; 'I am going to Mount Stanning with you to sec this bailiff, and to pay and dismiss him myself' 'But, my lady, you forget what the time is; you can't go out at such an hour. ; Lady Audley did not answer. She stood, with ber finger resting lightly upon the handle of the bell medita- ting quietly. ' The stables are always locked, and the men in bed by ten o'clock,' she murmured, ' when we are at iome. It will make a terrible hub. bub to get a carriage ready; but yet, I dare say one of the servants could manage the matter quietly for me.' ' But why shoald you go | my lady?' cried Phebe Marky. 'To morrow would do quite as wil. Our landlord wonld take the may awa, if he had debt." Lady Audley 'took no ndice of this interruption. She went. hasiily into the dressing-ronm, and flog off her bonnet and cloak, and then re- turned to the boudoir, in her simple dinner costume, with het -carls your promise to scitle, the Y | brashed carelessly away frym her face. ; ' Now,' Phosbe Marks, li me,' she' said.' grasping bo confi- dante's wrist, and speaking ifa low catnest voice, but with a have set my mind upon goin, shall go. "You have aslo m and I have told' you. Iam in order that I may pay thi myself; and that I may see br self tLat the money I give is to the purpose for which . I There is nothing cut of the course of life in my doing am going to do what other in my position very often do. going to assist a favourite 'Bat it's getting on for o'clock, my'lady,' pleaded P 9 going mad. gl her [a | yawn even 'Fn hor mistress's fpresence; for the: Audley hounschold 1 Pee to get home to that brutal husband, | hath hr 5 F you mill wish me good ntly, when my maid Eo room, and you will suffer Tier' £6.8bow you out of the Yibuse, Youlill cross the courtyard awd wait, for me in the avenue upon lie other sige of the archway. It muy be half an fiour before I am' abl n'you, for] must not leave ny rool "til the servants hive alld jong to-bed, bat you may wait. for line paticutly, for come what may, 1 Bil join you! js» Phaabe Marks. styred at ler late istress in mute ilderment. She began to fear that my Judy was Tlie bell which Lady Audley rang Pas a ered by the smart ludy"s- mid who wore rose colenred ribbons o ad ack silk gowns, aud other opnments which were unknown to the humble people who sat below the in the good old days when '1#érvants wore linsey-woolsey. * wi "IT did not know that it sas so late, Martin,' said my lady, jin: that ntle tone which always won for the willing service of her infer haye been talking with Mrs: Marks and have let. the time 8lip'by me: 1 shan't want anything g-hight, so you may go to bad when ' hr please. ' tha onal you, my_ lady,' answered iel, who looked very sleepy, ad some difficulty in vepredsing usally kept very early hours. * I'd ' show Mrs. Marks out, my lady, 't 1" asked. the maid, ! before 1 «All the other servants have gone to bed, then, I suppose? ' Yes, my lady' Lady Andley laughed as she glanced at the timepiece. ' We have been terribly dissipated up here, Phebe,' she said. * Good- night. You may tell your husband that his rent shall be paid.' Thank you very moch my. lady, avd good-night," wurmured Phebe, as she backed out of the room, fol lowed by the lady's-maid. Lady Audley listened at tha door, waiting till the muffled sounds of their footsteps died away in the octagon chamber ard on the carpet- ed staircase. ¢ Martin sleeps at the top of the house,' she said, "half a mile away from this room. iu ten minutes I niay safely make my escape.' She went back into her dressing- room, and put on her cloak and bonnet for the sccond time, She stood by the low fender in her bou- doir, watching the minute band of the clock, and waiting till it should be time for her to leave the house in safety. 'I will wait ten mintes,' she said, ' pot a moment beyond, before I en- ter upbn my new peril, She listened to the wild roaring of the March wind, which seemed to haye risen with the stillness and darkness of the night. The hand slowly made its inevi- table way ta the figures which told that the ten minutes were past. It was exactiy a quarter to twelve when my lady togk her lamp in her hand, and stole softly from the room, Lady Audley crossed the library, and opemed the door of the break. fast-room which communicated with it. This latter appartment was one of the later additions to the Court. It was a simple, cheerful chamber, with brightly-papered walls and pretty maple furniture, and was more occupied by Alicia than any one else. The paraphernalia of that young lady's favourite pursuits were scattered about the room --drawing materials, nnfiished scraps of work, tangled skeins of silk, and all the tokens of a careless damsel's' pre- sence; while Miss Audley's picture-- a pratty crayon sketch of a rosy: faced hoyden in a riding-habit and 'I'hat--hnug over the quaint Wedg- wood ornaments on the chimney- piece. My lady looked upon these y- | familiar objects with scornful hatred flaming in her blue cyes. ' ' How glad she will be if any dis. | grace befalls mel' she thought; 'how she 'will rejoice if I am driven out of this house!' ; Lady Audley set the lamp upon a table near i feiace, and went to the window, She removed the iron bar and the light 'wooden shutter, Lat Bb ie, to pay, con- that tan leave %0 "Ewill do dying that yon wish, | Fi wa ir I we Bie elt oS e] J 7 SR te ) b pe library, ai tray her. She was, in the quadangle now, with, * that 'chill wind Swéoping against her, and swirling hér' ike garments round her "with a9 glrill rustling noide, Jike the whistljfig of a sharp Sosanaguiust the gails of a yacht. -She eofossed tlie qualrdng and looked back--Ilooked back for moment at the firelight gleaming between the rosy-tinted cartutng in| her boudoir, nud the dim gicam' of the lamp through the mujlioned-win- dows in thie room where Sir Michael Audley lay asleep. : *Ifeel as if1 were ruhnij g dway,'! she thought; '1 fecl as i I Iwas' gotten, Perlaps it would 'be wider in me to run away, to take this man's warning, and escape out / of his power for ever. If were to run away, and disappear as--as (George, Talboys. (isappeared, But where could T got" what would become' of | me? [Rave no money; my jewels are not worth 'a couple of hifndved potinds; now that I have got rid of the best part of them. What oa, Ido? I must go back to the pld life, |. the old, hard, cruel, wretched life-- | the life of poverty, and humiliation, and wexation, and discontent. I should have to go back and wear myself out iu that lang struggle, and die--as my mother died; per- Laps!' 4 My lady stood still for 'a moment on the smooth lawn between the quadranglé and the archway," with | her head*drooping upon ber bre: dobating this question in tie un: natural activity of her mind. Her attitude reflected the state of that mind--it expressed irresolution' and perplexity. Bat presently a sudden change came over her; she lifted her bead--lifted it with an action of defiance and determination, ' No, Mr. Robert Audley,' she said, aloud, in a Tow, cleat voice; , I will not go baok-~I will not go back. If the struggle between us is to bea duel to the deatlr, you shall not find me drop my weapon,' She walked with a firm and rapid step under the archway. As she passed under that massive arch, it scemed as if she dislippeared into some black gulf that had waited open to reccive her,. The stupid clock struck twelve, and the whole arch- way seemed to vibrate under its heavy strokes, as Lady Audley emerged upon the other side and and joined Phoebe Marks, who had waited for her late mistress very near the gateway of the Conrt. 'Now, Phebe,' she said, 'it is three miles fiom. here to Mount Stanning isn't it ¥' 'Yes, my lady,' " Then we can walk the distance in an hour aud a half.' Lady Audley had not stopped to' say this : she was walking quickly along the ayenue with her humble companioii by ber side. Fragile and delicate ns she was in appearance, she was a very good walker. She had been in the habit of taking long country rambles with Mr. Danvsou's children in her old days of depen: dence, and she thought very little of a distance of three miles. ' Your beantiful husband will sit up for you, I suppose, Phoebe ? she said, as they struck across an open field that was used as a short cut from Audley Court to the high road. ' Oh, yes, my lady; he's sure to sit up. . He'll be tg with the man, I dare say." "Theman | What man? ' The man that's in' possession, my lady. a ' Ab, to be sure,' said Lady Audley, indifferently. It wes strange that Phoebe's do- mestic troubles should scem so very far away from her 'thoughts at the time she was taking such an extra. ordinary step towards setting things right at the Castle Inn. The two women crossed the field and'turned into the high road. She did not speak again to, lier compan: ion until they were close upon the glimmering light at the top of the hill. One of these village lights, glaring redly through a crimson curtain, marked out the particular window behind which it was likely that Luke Marks sat nodding drow- sily over his liquor, and waiting for. the coming of his wife, Suid 10 gids pif ai added a ama = TSR EB) '3 iu wd 4 pi bor ino Wk A [| Ob yén, my Ni kirl to gethis room ready } g inthe ber, y sd intro d ing - : Ar or: "wad open; a "ad Dy 'the bratal langh er.ok Mr. | whisperod' Phosbel to hee bs burp ley esiladigen bars ahaa] my Jady, T soppose.sab | , © duigre sure he wis going bo 1" ore th : fr hid aley haslo 'the i: before I.) : N da JM band, and 'ber, a The r-of. ks as she crossed tlie threshold of thednn. | ol of 0 "CE Pi tell hint wonrele y, my lady, tregs. I know! he'll be tipsy." You ou wout be offerided, my lady, if - ie shollld say anything rude. You Know it cwusi't' my wish that you' 'should come. dein fg ' Yew, yes,, answered Lady Aud. ley, impatiently, I knpw-that, What should Fearé for bis radeuess? Let him say what be likes. Phebe Marks pushed open the par- for door, leaving my lady fn the bar, dead lose behind her, running away secrotly inthe: op | close behind her 'the night, to lose myself and be for- Lie ofa ud Luke sat with bis clumsy J stretched ont upon the -hearth. He = held a glass of gin-aud-wager in one | hand aud.the poker in the other. He had just, thrust tle poker into a great heap of black coals and was, shattering. them. to make » blaze, when his wife appeared npgn the, threshold of the room, 1 1,0, y He snatched. the t from between,the bars and wade a balf, drunken, half threatening mdtion wthit-as hesnw her, «os } "So you've condescended to :¢ome home at Inst, ma'am.) bes@aid; 'I thonght you was never gaming no more,' lo ,« He spoke in a thick 'and' drunken Yuice, and wus by 'no menns too 'intelligible. Ile wis steeped to the very lips in alchohol. His eyes were dim and watery; his hands were unsteady; his voice was choked and muffled with d LA brute ness, whem the few restraints which held liis ignorant, every-day 'bratali. ty in check were flung aside in the insolent recklessness of intoxication, 'I--I've been longer than 1 in. tended to'be, Luke,' Phebe answer- ed, in her most conciliatory manner; 'But I've seen my lady, and she's been very kind, and--and she'll settle this business for us.' 'She's been very kind, has she?" muttered Mr, Marks, with a drunken laugh; "thank her for nothing, I know the vally of her kindness, She'd be oncommon kind I dessay, if she warn't obligated to be it. The man in possession who had fullen into a maudlin and sem'- unconscions state of intoxication upon about a third of the liquor that Mr. Marks had consumed," ouly stared in a feeble wonderment at his host and hostess. He sat near the table. Indeed, he had hooked himself on to it with his elbows, as a safeguard against sliding under it and he was making imbecile attempts to light his pipe at the flame of a guttering tallow candle near him, ' My lady has promised to settle the business for 'us, Luke, Phabe repeated, without noticing Luke's remarks. She knew her husband's dogged nature well enough by this tinie to know that it was worse than useless to try to stop him from doing or saying anything which Lis own stubborn will led Lim todo or say. * My lady will settle it,' she said, and she's come down here to sce about it to-night' she added. . The poker dropped from the land- lord's hand, aud fell clattering amongst the cinders on the hearth. 'My Lady Audley come hers to- night I' he said. 'Yes, Luke." My lady appeared upon the thresh- hold of the door as Phebe spoke. 'Yes, Luke Marks, she said, have come to pay this man and send Lin about bis business. Lady Audley said these 'wordy in a strange semi-mechanical i very much as if she had learned the sentence by rote, and were repeating it without knowing what she said. Mr. Marks gave a discontented growl; and set his empty glass down upon the table with an impatient gesture, hn : ' You might have give the money to Phabe,' he said, * as well as have brought it yourself. We don't want no fine ladies up here, pryin' and pokin' their precious noses into everythink.' . 'Luke, Luke!' remonstrated Phce- ' be, 'when my lady has been sq | kindl, = . TO BR CONTINUED, ° RL BO SOOM Ha rT 20d Se _ ARI A AT